| 单词 | Birmingham |
| 例句 | Since getting to Birmingham, Mom and Sam fight more than usual. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against “outsiders coming in.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’m reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham right now. My favorite book is Harriet the Spy.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It was September 15, 1963, 10:22 a.m., at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “That’s because the air is so clean here. This looks like the sky in Birmingham.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who first opened my eyes to the injustices that came with segregation and the inhumane treatment of black people in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They boarded a train in Birmingham, and the guards locked the doors of the cars to keep union organizers from getting to them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z We grew excited thinking about the march in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Is this just another day in the lives of black people in Birmingham? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This week they ’re making a roof for a cafe in a shopping centre in Birmingham. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So as we drove down 1-75 headed for Birmingham I felt pretty good. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, the bombings in Birmingham took on a new twist for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I remembered all the good times I’d had growing up in Birmingham—at home, in the community, and at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bombs exploded, and the city of Birmingham went on with business as usual. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Things in Birmingham certainly heated up when Dr. King arrived. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But she’s driving to Birmingham to join us today, for Thanksgiving. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And on some level, I expected a brand- new Birmingham—a friendlier and more accommodating Birmingham, where my children could experience the freedom that had been lacking for me as a child. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Their blood—the “blood of the innocents”— had spilled on the hands of Birmingham’s people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The spilled blood of these innocent girls may cause the whole citizenry of Birmingham to transform the negative extremes of a dark past into the positive extremes of a bright future. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One contingent in Birmingham seemed to make a serious effort to “leave the 1960s” and move forward to justice and equality for all citizens. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Are we going to have to leave Birmingham? Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Against threats of violence, the children marched peacefully down the streets of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Smith managed the public swimming pools in Leeds, Alabama, a small city about twenty miles east of downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She’d heard that many people were leaving Birmingham for the North, for the higher wages they said they could earn in northern cities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were white tanks filling Birmingham’s bustling streets. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And I realized that in a few seconds, the CSS Birmingham would be next. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When an embarrassed police department and Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, saw that they were losing the battle to youngsters, things started getting nasty. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z City officials would send out teams of crisis counselors to the Birmingham schools to talk with the students and help them cope with their confusion, anger, and grief. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I hung up the phone and said a silent prayer: Thank you, God, that I don’t live in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The bombings and terrorism in Birmingham intensified in the early 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Martin Luther King, Jr., had been confined to a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell since Good Friday, April 12, arrested in a fierce effort to integrate that city’s lunch counters and other facilities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t eat at the Birmingham Country Club, of course—people of color couldn’t. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He’s been my best friend since I moved to Birmingham, Texas. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was fifteen years after the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and fourteen years after the Civil Rights Act, but this Birmingham company still had an almost totally white workforce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If only you were concentrating as much on The Watsons Go to Birmingham as you were on that notebook of yours. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And I felt certain that things in Birmingham were finally changing for the better. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Why did I think racial problems here in Nashville would be any different from racial problems back in Birmingham? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They had to take a train north to Birmingham, which they reached by lunchtime, and then go south to Worcester, where they arrived in late afternoon. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years earlier, King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” published in newspapers around the world, had been greeted as an important defense of nonviolent resistance to unjust laws. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “You cannot be out this late in Birmingham,” he said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Your irresponsible and misguided actions have created in Birmingham and Alabama the atmosphere that has induced continued violence and now murder.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ever since my return to Birmingham, I’d sensed a tension between two opposing mind-sets. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I stared out the window, watching as the suburban sprawl surrounding Birmingham faded into the slow-sloping hills and fields of northern Alabama. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Some of Birmingham’s public facilities were now open to black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I guess he and the other Klan members planted the church bomb to explode on that Sunday as a threat to stop us from integrating the public all-white schools in Birmingham.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But a few years after World War II, several black families bought houses in a whites-only Birmingham community, and the racial lines became blurred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I always suspected that Daddy, as an “invisible” waiter, learned more at the Birmingham Country Club about Klan activities than he ever wanted to know. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t envisioned the same situation in Birmingham now for my own children to endure. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1996 Mr. Moore came to Birmingham and presented me with a personal copy of his book. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At Birmingham New Street station he missed a connection and the next train was canceled. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When the Birmingham jails filled up beyond legal capacity, the school buses delivered the arrested children to the Birmingham fairgrounds—the grounds where Kiddieland was located. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She pointed down the beach, to just below the sheep meadow, where a small boat had been run aground ... the other lifeboat from the CSS Birmingham. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Returning to Luling or Birmingham was never a consideration, as both his parents and aunt passed away while he was in college. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He often invited us to his house to swim, especially since Birmingham’s public pools forbade black youth from using them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know much about autumnlands, just that she was around his age and that she lived near Birmingham, Alabama. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In the United States, he’d put himself through two years of chiropractic school, and now ran a small office in Birmingham with a human skeleton he was still paying for in installments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was only two years earlier, in January of 1962, that Birmingham’s Bull Connor had refused to desegregate the city’s public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had expected Birmingham to look like cities I’d seen on television. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At meetings of the Female Society of Birmingham, women gathered in sewing circles to make bags decorated with abolitionist images, such as the one below. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “So that”—she points to a building across the street—“I believe is the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Dr. King, I whispered, who will help us keep striving for your dream—our dream—of Birmingham’s black and white children walking hand in hand? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The bombings in Birmingham began the year I was born, 1948. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At my home in Birmingham, I just felt like one of six kids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My children were now grown, and Jerome and I were still in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Around the same time, a federal appeals court judge, Robert Vance, was killed in Birmingham by a mail bomb. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Until that moment, I had not understood the depth of the volatility between blacks and whites in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After school Kirk worked part-time at Birmingham’s Greyhound bus station. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While many abolitionist groups favored a gradual approach to ending slavery, the women of Birmingham read and discussed Elizabeth Heyrick’s argument that all slaves must be freed at once. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Violence, bombs, and death permeated our lives in those Civil Rights days in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She handed it to me and I saw written on the cover in big, black letters, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Jerome told me we had two choices: we could move to Chicago or we could go to Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And in the shops we saw clothing that showed so much skin we couldn’t believe the women of Birmingham could wear it without freezing. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Wages in Birmingham were already twice as high as in Meridian. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The truth pushed him to fight for the rights of all Birmingham’s black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z White mobs attacked other groups of freedom riders at bus depots in Birmingham and Montgomery. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of the march, with more than nine hundred arrested children filling Birmingham’s jails, Dr. King held a mass church meeting. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Birmingham Middle has sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z One of fourteen children, my grandfather served as pastor of two churches south of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That is the most shocking greeting of all, because Birmingham is also known as the Johannesburg of America, the national bastion of apartheid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Birmingham was considered the most segregated city in the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His father worked at the Fairfield Works, a steel mill in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “If you want to open a bar, try Greektown. Or Birmingham.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wondered about the safety of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, the fearless Civil Rights advocate and the pastor of Birmingham’s Bethel Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If this tragedy had happened today instead of in 1963, Monday morning would have, no doubt, been set aside as an official day of mourning in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In that time, I had been in four hospitals—first in Mingora, then in Peshawar, then in Rawalpindi, and finally here in Birmingham—and traveled thousands of miles. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As a youth, I spent as much time in the church library as I could, especially since blacks weren’t allowed to use the Birmingham Public Library. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that the children’s march was the spark that finally resulted in changed hearts in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Opens to the Alabama part and circles Birmingham. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z His father was a wealthy banker in Birmingham; his mother was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the polymath poet and doctor, who was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When King started the 1956 Birmingham bus boycott, Moore had urged his friend to take the action nationwide, but King was not prepared to lead a mass movement at the time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I often tell people I was born in Birmingham, halfway in and halfway out of the South’s violent Civil Rights era. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair a la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Shortly after Dr. King came to Birmingham, I tested the signs for the first and only time in my youth. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With experience organizing Klan units in several Southern states, Stoner was as violent as Shelton, and would later be convicted in the 1958 dynamiting of a Birmingham, Alabama, church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I had a sneaking suspicion that one way or another I would not be spending another night aboard the CSS Birmingham. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But race riots, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and crime in general were on the rise in American cities, and Ginny and the Warden worried about their children’s safety in Birmingham. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And there matters rested for three years, while schools in progressive Durham remained as segregated as those in reactionary Birmingham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Even before I got in I could hear Momma saying that Birmingham wasn’t anything like what she remembered. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not die in the dives and dens of Birmingham, nor did they die discussing and listening to filthy jokes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Back in 1948, the year I was born, several black families had crossed the “color line” that separated white homes from black homes in the Smithfield area of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With my head held high, I walked to the Pizitz department store in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My parents moved to Birmingham when I was two years old, and there I came face-to-face with Jim Crow laws, which enforced segregation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Prior to that, Daddy had taught at Industrial High School, which later became A. H. Parker High School—the first high school in Birmingham built specifically for black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1975 Frank Sikora, a Birmingham newspaper reporter writing a story on the Montgomery bus boycott, thought he remembered there had been someone before Rosa Parks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z As a teenager, I didn’t realize the gravity of what had happened at the childrens march in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Daddy told us never to cross the railroad tracks that led into North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In protest, some 400 parents initiated a school boycott, on the day before the first Birmingham children’s march. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Dr. King called the Birmingham campaign Project C, with the C standing for “confrontation.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I liked the hustle and bustle of New York, compared with sleepy Birmingham. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He knew I belonged to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, but I didn’t tell him I had witnessed the 1963 bombing and the deaths of my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As Birmingham grew increasingly violent in the 1960s, Daddy’s list of nonnegotiable rules grew longer from year to year. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was homesick for the lush green hillsides of my valley, so Yma, who worked at the hospital, had arranged a trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Students from all over Birmingham joined my classmates and me as we walked to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and Kelly Ingram Park. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z James’s mother was a teacher, too, and his father was one of the few black doctors in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A month ago, I mailed out fifteen resumes to Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, and five other cities, and once again, New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I believe in johnny pumps and jump ropes, Malcolm and Martin, Buckeyes and Birmingham, writing and listening, bad words and good words— I believe in Brooklyn! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z With support from the city, as well as Birmingham’s black and white businesses, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute* opened its doors to the public in 1992. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As Ophie and her mother traveled from Atlanta to Washington, DC, on the Birmingham Special, Pennsy enfolding the wounded pair in the embrace of her passenger car seats, the dead took notice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Then I saw Birmingham firefighters dressed in fire-battling suits and helmets, holding giant hoses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The scene was reminiscent of Birmingham, only on a smaller scale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks earlier she had refused to accept a segregated seating pattern at a meeting of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z James’s family lived in another part of Birmingham, and James had a swimming pool in his backyard. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Your mom already called, Mr. Jay. You’re heading up to Birmingham.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Board of Education ruling to integrate the public schools, Shuttlesworth had driven to Birmingham’s Phillips High School with his two daughters in the car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On Good Friday, April 12, 1963, Dr. King himself was arrested and locked up in a Birmingham jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After I graduated, my mother and father encouraged me to come home to Birmingham and live with them until the baby was born. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He unfastened the makeshift saddle pack he’d made, which contained his tool kit and a couple of other things he'd salvaged from the Birmingham wreck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I was born in Birmingham and went back to Nigeria when I was six.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The day before, he had telegrammed President Kennedy and listed twenty different, racially motivated, unpunished actions taken by white men against black people in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Eventually it was decided that I would go to Dr. Javid’s own hospital in Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I guess he knew that if a white person hurt me or my brothers or sister, as a black man in Birmingham he couldn’t assume the law would do much about it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That Sunday evening Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wired President Kennedy from Atlanta, telling him he was going to Birmingham to plead with blacks to remain nonviolent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Do the white people of Leeds know that colored children from downtown Birmingham are splashing around in their swimming pool? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And I’m sure there was an angel in Birmingham when Grandma Sands wrapped her little arms around all of the Weird Watsons and said, “My fambly, my beautiful, beautiful fambly.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I felt then, at that time—and although I been sorry since—just 'bout like that fellow did down in Birmingham. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyes of the nation were on Birmingham, and I hoped someone would understand what we were trying to do, the message we were trying to send. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When we marched down the streets of Birmingham in 1963 for our legal rights, we did nothing, wrong. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That meant that if black people marched down the streets of Birmingham, they would be arrested. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But while I was in Birmingham watching Shrek and his talking donkey, my poor parents had been thousands of miles away, enduring their own terrible pain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I only stayed in Birmingham about two weeks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The CSS Birmingham captains quarters were about the size of a walk-in closet, but still much bigger than any other room on board. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Our new plan was for me to have the baby in Birmingham and finish school there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Bobby Cherry might have been behind bars, but he represented a network of evil and hatred in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After the children's march in the streets of downtown Birmingham, Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference drew heavy criticism for putting children in harm’s way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, heard about the upcoming protests, he obtained a court order forbidding the marches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This saddened me, and I wondered whether we’d made the right decision in moving back to Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This did not prepare me for the unique sort of heat that one encounters fifteen miles south of Birmingham, Alabama, at Culver Creek Preparatory School. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Little did I know that the loss of those girls was, ironically, the real beginning of hope for blacks and whites in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had earned a master’s degree in applied sciences, and he taught physics and chemistry during the weekdays at the all-black George Washington Carver High School in North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He decided he’d go to the nearby two-year college in Birmingham, Alabama. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He added that unless “immediate Federal steps are taken,” there will be “in Birmingham and Alabama the worst racial holocaust this Nation has ever seen.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The part of Birmingham, Alabama, I grew up in was so classconscious that a boyfriend broke up with me in ninth grade because my telephone exchange was not the socially obligatory 871 or 879. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Birmingham’s white society did not like outsiders coming into their city and taking a look around. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I got out in Birmingham and got something to eat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t mind so much when my older brothers walked with me down the streets of Birmingham or accompanied me to neighborhood parties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His strict rules were designed as an invisible form of protection for us, and in many ways they reflected Birmingham’s segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hunter, who had brought news of the North from Birmingham to Meridian, looked around. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He shared his dream with a group of black and white Birmingham citizens, who eagerly offered their support. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Being away from her in Birmingham gave me a chance to clear my head. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn’t adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Warden found enough sales work to afford to rent a house in Birmingham, manage the bills, and keep his family happy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Rather than fight the desegregation battle, Birmingham closed all its downtown city pools—both black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The prison is in a rural area northeast of Birmingham, where the Alabama terrain starts to turn rocky and mountainous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There are three elementary schools in Birmingham and only one middle school. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Jay had even called the Acclaim offices from his grandma’s house in Birmingham. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I called my biological mom in Birmingham and my uncle C. J. McNear. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Although there are several memorials to the deaths of these young people in other states, there has been no significant effort on the part of Birmingham and Alabama citizenry to remember these sacrifices appropriately.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The leaders gave us no definite date for the march on Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z September come and a church in Birmingham blows up into a million pieces, with four little colored girls inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes referred to as the “Wild Man from Birmingham,” Shuttlesworth has been described as an “unpolished, rabble-rousing Baptist preacher.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But pretty soon, he and G’ma are stopping to refuel the RV and to go number two—nobody wants to empty that from the tank—in Birmingham, Alabama. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Some fifteen years later—after I had grown up, gotten married, graduated from Fisk University, and had two daughters of my own—my family and I moved back to Birmingham to live. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He flew on to London, and reporters of the British Broadcasting Corporation took him on an interviewing tour in Smethwick, a town near Birmingham with a large colored population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he added, “Birmingham is not a dying city; it is dead.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Even Memorial Park on the south side closed its “all black” pool, so during the hot, steamy Birmingham summers, children had no place to swim. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With the furor over police repression in Birmingham simmering, and the flush of excitement generated by Malcolm X’s visit still lingering, the students pressed for immediate action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We have settled now into our Birmingham life. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even though she was due to fly back to Birmingham, Dr. Fiona stayed on and arranged to have me airlifted to another army hospital, this one in Rawalpindi. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One was addressed “Girl Shot in the Head, Birmingham.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It seemed like all of the fight was out of Byron and we’d only been in Birmingham for a couple of minutes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In some ways, I felt I had never left Birmingham and the church at all. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They lived in a beautiful brick house in Smithfield, an area of Birmingham better known as “Dynamite Hill” because of the routine Klan bombings there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Although Salisbury described accurately the terrorism that had become a normal way of life for me, my family, and my community, the article outraged Birmingham’s city leaders. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But somehow I had ended up in this place called Birmingham, in a room full of machines, with only the green teddy bear at my side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The images are reflections of courage—and of our hope for a better Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “No. Just me. Everybody else aboard the Birmingham ... well, I didn’t even know you guys made it out.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Mama became acquainted with a kindhearted white woman who worked at the Parisian Shoe Store in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell my parents this, though, so they could at least enjoy the chilly Birmingham sights without worrying. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z No other motel in Birmingham would allow black visitors to eat or sleep there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They made Birmingham look like a war zone! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I felt that, wherever black people committed themselves, in the Little Rocks and the Birminghams and other places, militantly disciplined Muslims should also be there—for all the world to see, and respect, and discuss. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy made sure we obeyed his rules, but I don’t remember his ever speaking about Birmingham’s Segregation Racial Ordinances, let alone bringing a copy into the house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bernard Lafayette, at right, stands with five other freedom riders at the closed door of a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Alabama, May 19, 1961. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z When Birmingham’s Phillips High School finally integrated in 1963, my brother Kirk enrolled as one of the school’s first black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I had been an active member of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, for as far back as I could remember. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I could just make out the name along the prow in moss- covered letters: CSS Birmingham. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t remember exactly how many safe lodging places were listed in Birmingham, but he’s sure he wouldn’t need more than one hand to count them. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was the first black church built in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies, during the social upheaval of freedom rides and cafeteria sit-ins and boycotts in Birmingham and marches on Selma, Odessa stood locked in time. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a seventh grade student at Finley Avenue Elementary School, Mr. A. G. Gaston held a spelling bee for Birmingham’s black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The doctor’s voice was still hard to hear, but he seemed to be saying I was in a place called Birmingham. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I had been back to Birmingham many times since then, but I’d never visited the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On a warm Good Friday morning, I walked out of a Birmingham jail with an innocent man who had been condemned on Alabama's death row for nearly thirty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs nor to the insidious gravity of the streets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In 1966, he left a steady sales job in Massachusetts and moved everyone to Birmingham, Alabama, because someone had told him, “Alabama is a sleeping giant.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When they changed trains in Birmingham for the last leg of the trip, they discovered what luxury they had been in through Kentucky and Tennessee, where the rest stops had all had colored toilets. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When she arrived at the auditorium with a friend, black educator Mary McLeod Bethune, she was told that blacks and whites were not allowed to sit together at public gatherings in Birmingham. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But I have no doubt that during the thirty years he worked there, he learned much about racist Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Darkness engulfed Birmingham, Alabama, on that tragic day of sorrow and shame. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z An old steel-producing city— often called the “Pittsburgh of the South”—Birmingham was crisscrossed with made-up racial lines. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Birmingham residents had once believed Klan bombs were meant only to intimidate people, not kill people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He believed discipline and rules were a must for children, especially young boys—and especially those growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I expressed to him my vision for the church and the needs I saw, and he helped me start a campaign in Birmingham to raise the money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So I could enroll as Claudette Austin and finish high school in Birmingham. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z That day we were swept up in the spirit of Dr. King’s dream—the dream of an undivided Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In it, David Lowe interviewed a leading attorney in Birmingham on the city’s race relations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mark Oliphant came to his rescue by inviting him to move to the University of Birmingham. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He wrote that Birmingham was a smoldering volcano of racial tension, “a community of fear.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then, when Christmas break came, I would tell the school I was sick and go to Birmingham and live with my birth mother and have the baby there. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z What path might I have walked if more opportunities had been available to me in Birmingham? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He wrote that he had a job with a garage in Birmingham. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She had spawned one son, Francis, who in Jean Louise’s opinion looked and behaved like a horse, and who long ago left Maycomb for the glories of selling insurance in Birmingham. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Zardari told us he had arranged for a job for my father in Birmingham. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Through the untiring efforts of Marjorie White, president of the Birmingham Historical Society, the church earned the national historic landmark status. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Less than a month later, we packed up and prepared to move to Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As an educator and a teacher, Dr. Brown loved history, and he somehow sensed that these records from the first black church in Birmingham would be significant someday. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then, last September, came the opportunity to talk with leaders of Birmingham's economic community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z White Birmingham saw itself as having no problems—in its view, things were moving along just fine. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I recalled his leadership as we marched down the streets of Birmingham that May in 1963, when the pressure from the firefighters’ water hose had torn off part of my hair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He waited tables at the elite, white-members-only Birmingham Country Club in prestigious Mountain Brook, a city with old money and deeply ingrained segregated ways. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Your aunt Dorothy lives in Birmingham. There’s a school for coloreds there. It's good too, according to your aunt.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My family was living in an apartment in a tall tower in Birmingham and visiting me every day. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z While the demonstration was mostly peaceful, a racially charged atmosphere now gripped the city, with more and more people wondering if Durham would be “the next Birmingham.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One night our family was out for a walk in the main shopping district in Birmingham. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The project was an outgrowth of the secret research Oliphant had been conducting at Birmingham. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, do you really understand why we’re sending Byron to Birmingham?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever my grandfather came to Birmingham, my bedroom became the guest room, and I gladly gave it up for him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For the first time Jerome became aware of how directly I had been engaged in Civil Rights activities in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “No way. Uh-uh. I like Birmingham. I like my friends. I’m not going anywhere! I’m not moving again!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Mom was close friends with Rosa’s brother, Sylvester, before she left Pine Level for Birmingham. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Hinton was wrongly convicted of two robbery-murders outside Birmingham after state forensic employees mistakenly concluded that a gun recovered from his mother's home had been used in the crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But in Birmingham, “private” had a different meaning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dr. King accepted Shuttlesworth’s invitation to come to Birmingham, a hotbed of racial violence—the city Dr. King called “the most segregated city in America.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Berte later told the Birmingham News, “We weren’t sure we could get the money. I think it’s a tremendous testimony to Birmingham—it speaks volumes about how far our city has come.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after the bombing, Reverend C. Herbert Oliver, an African-American pastor in Birmingham, typed out a page-long, single-spaced letter to his fellow members of the Inter-Citizens Committee. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is estimated that 95 percent of them come to Birmingham specifically to tour the Institute. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t want to make any real Birmingham stops, but...well, we gotta,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z I lived in a climate of relative security—if you don’t consider the Klan’s random bombings in my area—until more visible signs of unrest and change came to Birmingham in the early sixties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We went for walks in the brisk Birmingham air so I could get my strength back, but I tired quickly. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As it turned out, thousands of children had poured from the church that day and marched the streets of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We were taking a stand against his insistence on a segregated Birmingham—and against the status quo. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a warm, beautiful September day in Birmingham, Alabama—an ordinary busy Sunday morning at the Maull home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My husband, Jerome, and I and our two young daughters drove to the fairgrounds, and I introduced my children to Kiddieland, which like the rest of Birmingham, was technically no longer segregated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It's a last chance for the BE Festival, which showcases European and British work in Birmingham. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-07-06T14:44:00Z As "To Kill a Mockingbird" was arriving in theaters in Alabama in early 1963, Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor was directing the use of fire hoses and police dogs on civil rights activists. Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z There are plans for 30 additional hotels internationally over the next four years, from a Dream hotel in Belize to boutique-oriented Unscripted hotels in Birmingham, England, and Tulum, Mexico. Next for Dream: Boutique Hotels in Belize and Tulum 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The good news is that for the vast majority of people, this is eminently fixable, says Birmingham. A Better Marriage is Better for Your Health 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The history there, and in Selma and Birmingham and Memphis, was overpowering. Four women, four states, one inspiring Southern road trip 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Finally, BBC Birmingham and the Open University became partners in the project last year, providing me with the wonderful support, finance and facilities I needed to complete Destination Titan. Destination Titan: Mission impossible? 2011-04-08T16:21:00Z Mr. Lynch, originally from Ireland, was in Birmingham to see the group for the third time in the space of a week. Goodbye, for Good, to Black Sabbath 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Organizers say the exhibition is meant to encourage civil dialogue about inclusion and equality in Birmingham, once a flashpoint of conflict and violence in the civil rights movement. Ala. civil rights museum exhibiting lesbian photos 2012-03-29T21:03:12Z His mother, a single parent, had moved to Birmingham from Tupelo, Miss., when he was 12. My one black friend 2012-07-04T16:00:00Z The band was formed in Birmingham, England, at the end of 1978, and is still most often characterized as a reggae group. What Is the Deal with UB40? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z This Copenhagen looks like Birmingham, Manchester or Newcastle at their bleakest. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z “The way they recognize the, quite frankly, atrocities that have happened in their city is remarkable,” Ms. Graves said, mentioning the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute as an example. In Napa Valley, a Commitment to One Another, and to Showcasing Diversity 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z “I said, ‘I’d accept it if you said you were the best in Birmingham, but not America,’” her aunt said. An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z And Lauren, a journalism student from Birmingham, whom Clegg argued would only feel the full effect of tuition fees if she went on to become a hedge fund manager. Nick Clegg's radio phone-in: what's his policy on onesies? 2013-01-10T12:35:05Z When published in Life – his shots of the 1963 Birmingham riots took up 11 pages – Moore's photographs brought worldwide attention to the civil rights struggle. Charles Moore 2010-03-16T14:02:00Z Take off your shoes, move closer, and you can hear Birmingham at prayer, in this installation by James Webb. Fierce ? review 2011-03-24T21:30:02Z Namely, we moved across the country to his hometown, Birmingham, Ala., where the cost of living is more reasonable than in my native Boston. Motherlode Blog: A New Mom Is Downsized, but Not Down and Out 2013-04-25T18:55:03Z Birmingham will fight hard to hang on to its star conductor, but watch this space. LSO/Nelsons 2010-10-03T21:15:00Z Our bus to Birmingham, Ala., the next stop in the song, rolled in late at night. On the Path of Chuck Berry’s ‘Promised Land,’ Five Decades On 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Miles, 61, was born in Victoria, Tex., in 1956, but grew up with four older siblings in Bessemer, a small town 15 miles southwest of Birmingham. How a self-taught pastry chef in Alabama became one of the best in the nation 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Born in Birmingham, Munrow's essential early-music inspiration came when he was at studying English at Cambridge, and discovered a crumhorn hanging on the wall of a friend's room. Remembering David Munrow 2012-06-01T15:29:57Z In the car park of a soup kitchen not far from Birmingham Moor Street station, a vet and two veterinary nurses are examining a 10-year-old staffordshire bull terrier called Poochie. The pet project helping to get rough sleepers in the UK off the streets 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Spending so much time travelling the world, then returning to his flat in Birmingham, Nelsons is well placed to take a view on the benefits of Birmingham winning UK City of Culture. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Since his time at Birmingham, he had devoted energy to teaching adult education classes. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z In those days the money was in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool – and so Britain's regional city galleries ended up with vast collections of Pre-Raphaelite art that are often their most abundant and prominent exhibits. Why I've rediscovered Victorian art 2011-08-12T15:42:11Z His advent has injected new buzz into Birmingham's already vigorous musical life. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Birmingham describes his lively literary history as a "biography of 'Ulysses'" that "revisits a time when novelists tested the limits of the law and when novels were dangerous enough to be burned." Get ready to celebrate Bloomsday on June 16 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Q: This tour takes you to Birmingham, Ala., Charleston, S.C., and Atlanta with this tour. Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she’s cool 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Birmingham Royal Ballet's Cinderella Another new Cinderella, this one staying closer to the traditional fairytale. The best dance for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z Tomorrow's Birmingham date forms part of the excellent Supersonic Festival; look out there tonight for the fantastic Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. This week's new live music 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Part of the challenge in the beginning was to try and make Birmingham — which was a blank canvas at best before — cool. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Birmingham Rep continues to celebrate its centenary before moving to its newly developed theatre next to Birmingham Library in September. This week's new theatre 2013-03-09T06:00:16Z My friend who shared the recipe had stopped at a farmer's market on her way down from Birmingham, where she had a slice in the now-closed little café attached to the market. You won’t be able to stop making this perfect peach pie all summer 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The play was a commission by Birmingham Rep which would, under the auspices of the Barry Jackson Trust, tour schools and community centres as well as theatres. Why couldn't I quote Charlotte's Web on stage? 2011-03-03T16:30:56Z “Black Sabbath are part of the cultural identity of being in Birmingham,” said Pamela Pinski, 31, who lives and works in the area. Goodbye, for Good, to Black Sabbath 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z So Mr. Rattle, then the hotshot 30-something leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, took Mr. Harding under his wing. Can a Star Conductor Finally Make It Work in America? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He bought one of Holley’s works during the meeting in Birmingham — a mesmerizing assemblage alluding to the struggles of Black people, made from a mannequin and chains. Lonnie Holley’s Life of Perseverance, and Art of Transformation 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “My parents are Panamanian and I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.” A Kiss Before the Barristers’ Ball and Now They’ve Made it Legal 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z When Anna and Luke Evans bought their Birmingham cottage six years ago, the detached garage/guest house sealed the deal. Garage to Guest House 2012-08-30T18:20:09.703Z Based in Birmingham, Alabama, the troupe is rooted in Southern soul, but has never been afraid to stretch out and add in different textures and genres. Paul Janeway on the new St. Paul & the Broken Bones LP and “open wounds we didn’t know were t... 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s an unusual statement coming from a young conductor in demand, especially one whose current appointment — as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain — concludes this spring. A Conductor in Demand, and in Control 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Malala was subsequently flown to the UK for treatment, and now lives with her family in Birmingham, where she attends school. Malala Yousafzai's story to be made into a documentary 2013-07-16T12:52:13Z "Fox News apologizes for calling Birmingham 'beautiful'," wrote several Twitter users. Birmingham: Britain's new Mecca? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Episodes of The Archers are recorded at the BBC Mail Box in Birmingham In the early days, though, working on the show was nothing more than "an interesting little job". Happy birthday Archers 2010-12-31T08:10:33Z He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916, the eldest of three sons in a prosperous family of planters, lawyers, and politicians. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The tour starts in Guildford on 20 October with dates in Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester before finishing in London on 8 December. Noel Fielding announces UK solo tour 2014-03-04T10:25:56Z What happens in Birmingham does not stay in Birmingham. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., and attending Howard University, he studied tap, ballet, modern and Afro-Cuban dance. Executive Realness: 3 ‘Pose’ Stars on Dancing and Being Seen 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z He did get offers from the Tampa Tribune and the Birmingham News, but the $14,000-a-year cub reporter jobs wouldn’t allow travel on weekends. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Among the most frequently mentioned names are Susanna Malkki, 52, the chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, 35, who leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain. Top Orchestras Have No Female Conductors. Is Change Coming? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Its relationship with the citizens of Birmingham hasn't always been an easy one: at its opening, interviewees on Midlands Today creatively described its exterior as "spotty", or, alternatively, "sort-of bubbly". Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z In autumn 2006, I’d just returned from a year of travelling after getting a first in economics at the University of Birmingham. Experience: I broke my neck on a night out 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z They were Come Dancing dancers, the real thing, brought down from Newcastle, Cardiff and Birmingham. Fab furore: Is it time to re-evaluate the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour? 2012-09-25T17:33:00Z The racial wars, everything in Birmingham, Alabama, there's still people alive from that era. Music Monday/interview/concert preview: Yelawolf at Nectar 07/16/10 2010-07-12T16:00:00Z The church and its congregation are integral to the Birmingham community today, and welcome visitors from around the world for tours and events. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The chorus, as in Belfast and Birmingham, shone. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z Ambassador Pageant, hails from Birmingham, Ala., known for some of the bleaker chapters in African American history. Anecdotes from the African American Museum’s grand opening 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the UK and one of the best in the world. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z In earlier decades, there was a feeling that the relationship between him and orchestras in the capital didn't click in the same way it did in Birmingham. Why Rattle and the LSO would be a perfect match 2013-06-27T14:17:28Z A Waffle House restaurant in Birmingham, Ala., got some much-needed help last weekend when some customers filled in during a staffing mix-up. Waffle House customers help out after staffing mix-up 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Photograph: BBC Proms Everywhere you turn in Birmingham, banners and hoardings urge you to "Join the Big Conversation". Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z They called the programme - filmed in James Turner Street in the Winson Green area of Birmingham - a "fair and balanced observational documentary". Benefits Street prompts complaints 2014-01-08T12:55:22Z Rogueplay's Climbing the Walls, in Birmingham, sounds good too – combining performance and a climbing wall. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-07-15T16:05:12Z We only played out of London once, in Birmingham. Charlie Watts: 'Glastonbury? I don't want to do it' 2013-04-04T14:00:00Z “The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses,” by Kevin Birmingham, is an engrossing non-fiction account of how Joyce wrote “Ulysses” and how he managed, against near-impossible odds, to get it published. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Set at the edge of a clear, deep lake just north of Birmingham, the unassuming home of designer Richard Tubb and his partner, Danny Weaver, rises like a tree house from the shore. Lake House in the Trees 2013-06-17T05:20:04.363Z Mendelssohn's iconic oratorio, beloved of UK audiences since its Birmingham premiere in 1846, fell from critical favour with the passing of the Victorian era. Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z But founder Billy Wilson told the Birmingham Mail that Sunday's race would be the last of this incarnation, and that it was "time to reinvent it". Mud, toil, chills and sweat as English farm hosts last 'Tough Guy' race 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z He moved to a poor suburb of Birmingham, Ala., where he was raised by his grandmother. Nelsan Ellis, who played Lafayette Reynolds on 'True Blood,' is dead at 39 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Birmingham overtly stage-manages his chapters, often withholding key facts so that he can spring them on the reader with a theatrical flourish. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style The Birmingham, Alabama, native graduated from Princeton with a history degree, later enlisting in the Navy before eventually kick-starting a career as an actor. M.A.S.H. Star Wayne Rogers Dies at 82 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Raised in the rough West End neighborhood of Birmingham, he said he faced constant pressure to join a gang. Roy Wood Jr. Is Following in the Comedy Footsteps of Dick Gregory 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z From here follow the canal northwest through the heart of the new Birmingham, turning right at the big canal intersection, past innumerable old locks and tollhouses. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z In the 1960s, with the civil rights movement in full swing and news media paying attention, white America finally started to learn about racial violence: the fire hoses in Birmingham, the bombings, the assassinations. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Khan, who grew up in Birmingham, England, with a Pakistani father and Iranian mother, published “The Saffron Tales” in 2016, an Iranian cookbook tinged with the introspective notes of a memoir. A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Birmingham was a hotbed of the Industrial Revolution, a cityscape of soot and furnaces once described as “black by day and red by night.” 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z So, as the Rep sets off on a two-year, cross-city adventure while its current home is rebuilt, this one-off show created by the people of Birmingham celebrates the current theatre and people's memories of it. This week's new theatre 2011-01-08T00:06:25Z He was in Birmingham in 1963, when white supremacists dynamited a Baptist church and killed four young girls. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A piece by a prize-winning composer, inspired by a visit to an Arsenal football match 20 years ago, will premiere in Birmingham this weekend. Amateur choirs debut Arsenal piece 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z And then there is Hansberry’s dressing-down of Robert F. Kennedy, who as attorney general in 1963 invited her to a private gathering of “influential” blacks to discuss racial unrest in Birmingham. A New Biography of a Brilliant Playwright Who Died Too Young 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z One reason for its resurgent popularity is the binge factor, according to David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University and a frequent presenter of TV documentaries about unsolved murders. 'We're all car-crash snoopers now': the truth about the TV true-crime wave 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Swim Deep's City is Birmingham, and its grey arms are wrapped around this bittersweet hometown paean. Swim Deep, Stooshe, Britney Spears: this week's new tracks 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z Elegant and relaxed, their exterior style, honed by Birmingham landscape architect Jane Ross, hints “sit and visit; I’ll fetch you something cool to drink.” Outdoor Décor 2012-06-04T17:20:06.327Z “Clearly, the ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ was the most important written document of the civil rights era,” the scholar S. Jonathan Bass wrote in 2001. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The event took place at a cafe and home-goods store, General, in Birmingham. Their Essential Interest in Common Was Each Other 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z So the desert was the same kind of bleak isolation for these boys as Birmingham was for Black Sabbath and rainy, dark Seattle was for Nirvana. Kyuss: Kings of the stoner age 2011-03-25T10:00:04Z The century-long era of American music that began with Charles Ives and ended last year with the death of Elliott Carter was the focus of Oliver Knussen's latest appearance with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. BCMG/Knussen – review 2013-03-12T19:00:12Z It's a journey Pears has made himself, tramping in the footsteps of his own character like a "method writer" from the outskirts of Birmingham to the Welsh borders where his own grandfather used to live. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z In 1900, in a riverside town near Birmingham, England, a 14-year-old white girl who worked in vaudeville had a baby fathered by a fellow vaudevillian, a black American. Review: ‘Mabel Madness,’ a Singer’s 20th-Century Journey 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z I have a vivid memory of a group of students in Birmingham refusing to leave the theatre until we categorically told them whether what they'd just seen was postmodern or not. Death of The Author: how did my play fare in LA? 2011-03-07T17:31:16Z Anthony Hopkins will present his original classical music, including a new piece composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, at two UK concerts. Anthony Hopkins to unveil classical compositions in UK 2011-02-25T10:40:10Z From Birmingham, it took a day and a half to get onto the actual Great River Road. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z It is the first stage of a national exhibition, which also takes in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds. Sunderland hosts Perry tapestries 2013-06-28T18:33:00Z The sculptor Joe Minter in his front yard in Birmingham with his yard environment and artwork “African Village in America.” Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Back then, the twins found plenty to bemoan about their hometown: Birmingham, Ala., was politically conservative and even its seemingly utopian underground music scene was woefully sexist, leading her to reject her Southern identity. Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield Is Out of the Storm, Cleareyed 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z So I bailed on I Ching and, accepting that the law school application process would keep me in Birmingham for another year, I gave up on Chicago a la Derrick Rose’s knees. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z Born in Coventry in 1954 and raised in Birmingham, Child began writing in 1995 with a fury which combined creativity and financial necessity, after corporate restructuring at Granada Television left him without a job. Lee Child wins crime novel of the year award 2011-07-22T10:24:29Z Mr Birmingham describes the multiple court cases, the legal wrangles and the extraordinary lengths men and women went to in order to smuggle it into Britain and America. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Brabbins has been rehearsing the musicians in Cardiff while the 10 choirs have been preparing separately around the country, ahead of a huge choral rehearsal in Birmingham town hall. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z Other events followed, including in the English cities of Birmingham, Manchester and Brighton. Penguin Sex and Stolen Artifacts: Museum Tours Through a New Lens 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z “How the connection occurs between 1920s Birmingham and South Central, I don’t know,” Knight, 62, said. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z She then went to WEA college in Birmingham, where she met James at the start of the second world war. Joyce Robertson obituary 2013-05-19T11:56:05Z Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian In a sense, I owe Birmingham Rep everything: my parents met on the stage-door steps. David Edgar: Birmingham Rep and me 2013-02-12T19:12:01Z Over in the west midlands, two Birmingham music organisations are being "urged to share facilities and staff" in order to survive, says the Birmingham Post. The week in arts cuts: libraries, theatres, music and more 2011-01-21T17:00:11Z "He absolutely broke down and sobbed at the shops," Vaughan's mother, Jo, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the central English city of Birmingham. 'The old me is gone': Rise in transgender children in UK fuels identity fears 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z She started studying art at 15 and went away to college near Birmingham, England. Fighting Forgetting, With a Venice Biennale Win 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Stephen Gardner Birmingham was born May 28, 1929, in Hartford, Conn. His father was a lawyer. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Staged in Birmingham Museum And Art Gallery, the performance, called Symphony Of A Missing Room, invokes ghosts in a piece using blindfolds and headphones. This week's new theatre 2011-03-19T00:06:42Z On Aug. 3, his father retired as a supplies buyer at the Drummond Company, a coal mining business based in Birmingham, Ala. Emily Cole, Matthew Dover 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Coleman-Madison had just finished an interview with a Swedish television crew when we met in Kelly Ingram Park, a crucible of the civil rights movement in her home city of Birmingham. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In 2014, she flew to Birmingham, Ala., for a job; he moved to Columbus, Ohio, for law school. Bonding After a Broken Arm 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z In most of the ways that matter, Birmingham has produced an excellent work of consolidation, bringing together bits and pieces from scores of previous Joyce-related biographies and studies. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style Frankfurt Christmas Market, Birmingham The big mama of German Christmas markets celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The best Christmas markets in 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z I think the fact that Birmingham was a blank canvas helped because there were no preconceptions. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The other scheduled shows are in Birmingham, England, on Saturday, and at Lollapalooza in Chicago in August. ArtsBeat: Black Sabbath Drummer Says He'll Sit Out Reunion 2012-05-16T13:10:56Z Just last week they were honored with a music heritage plaque at the Hare & Hounds pub in Kings Heath, Birmingham, where the band first performed in 1979. ArtsBeat Blog: Despite Millions of Record Sales, UB40 Members Are Bankrupt 2011-10-18T15:30:28Z One of the most memorable moments in my life was when I was asked to open the Library of Birmingham, Europe’s largest new library. Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Smith was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and after several family moves in search of work, grew up in Portland, Maine – the Depression having closed the Alabama foundry where his father had worked. Johnny Smith obituary 2013-06-16T16:24:34Z They are preparing for a concert at a school in Yardley as part of a series in which the group – known internationally for developing new music – brings performances to less affluent parts of Birmingham. Public sector cuts: Music for the community put at risk 2011-03-25T09:30:00Z The difficulties faced by the girls of Asian heritage in Birmingham, torn between a conservative community and a wider secular society, are the most severe. Teenagers trade personal stories: 'It's great to find you are not alone' 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z In just under a couple of weeks' time, Birmingham Opera Company will stage a world premiere of this six-hour opera; it is the only Stockhausen work never to have been performed in its entirety. The last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off 2012-08-08T18:00:01Z She added that Indian cinema was becoming popular with non-Asian audiences and film-makers were appealing to those fans by choosing western locations like Birmingham. How did Bollywood reach Birmingham? 2013-06-28T05:20:36Z An undaunted Mr. Birmingham continued to churn out bestsellers, even when he could not get close to his subjects. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Another distributor in Birmingham, Ala., also expressed interest, and now Steele is making about 1,000 cases a year of the J.T. Just because you can age wine in bourbon barrels doesn’t mean you should 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian The Theatre Fever festival is in full swing with shows at venues around Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-15T16:55:48Z The Scotts followed the Longs’ lead when they moved to Birmingham, laying down roots in their new community by joining the local church. A New Life for an Old-School Couple 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z My traveling companion was a dear friend of mine named Sarah, a whip-smart Alabamian with close ties in Monroeville; as we drove we gossiped about Alabama politics and the newest construction projects in Birmingham. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The house vanished centuries ago but Birmingham Archaeology and volunteers are joining forces to recover any evidence left in the ground. Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden 2010-04-05T16:33:00Z The British artist and designer chronicles his life growing up in a devout Pashtun community in the red-light district of 1980s and 1990s Birmingham. Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Birmingham graduated in 1950 from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where he was an English major. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Next week I'm heading off to Liverpool for Jonathan Harvey's Canary, his first play for a while, and to Birmingham for Respect, a play that was banned in its native Germany. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-04-23T14:45:00Z I told her where I was from, which is Birmingham, Ala. I asked her, “Are you Jewish?” Date Lab: Yes, those first five minutes can be crucial 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z It was sung in Canada and in the village of Hagley, near Birmingham, England. A New Hymn for Charleston 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z As in Albany, city officials in Birmingham asked the courts for an injunction against protests and one was granted. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z His installation represents one of the last great “yard shows” in Alabama, said Emily Hanna, curator of the African and American collections at the Birmingham Museum of Art. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z Today, King’s 1963 “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” is viewed as an eloquent explanation of the aims and methods of the struggle against segregation. MLK was a disruptor: How Black Lives Matter carries on Martin Luther King’s legacy of effective activism 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, nearly 25 years old, made the gift of its tremendous precision and professionalism to Oliver Knussen and Simon Bainbridge, both 60, and Alexander Goehr, now 80. Proms matinee 4: BCMG/Collon – review 2012-08-20T17:11:17Z The Aug. 26 concert in Birmingham will be repeated the next night at the Proms in London for an audience of more than 5,000. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The show's call-in number is 866-WE-BE-BIG.Several callers said voting was light at polling places in Birmingham, the state's most populous city. Gingrich sees advantage to 'tag-team' effort against Romney 2012-03-13T14:06:00Z In April 1963, while jailed in Birmingham, Ala., the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter to eight white clergymen who had urged him to seek justice in the courts, not the streets. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The study was based on discussion groups and one to one interviews in Glasgow, Birmingham, Belfast, London, Cardiff and Slough. Don't mind your language: public relaxed over TV swearing 2010-06-09T21:00:00Z Now he is chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and one of the sought-after talents in the musical world. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Though my sense is that Williams is also recalling the 1974 IRA bomb attacks on Birmingham. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z Twenty staff support 150 volunteers across Birmingham – 56,000 people were helped last year. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z In the summer, they plan to move to Birmingham, Ala., and live together for the first time. So Many Phone Dates, Prayers and a Kiss at the Eiffel Tower 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It tied with Birmingham, Greesboro/Winston-Salem, and Northern New Jersey, as posting the second lowest increase. Apartment vacancy rate falls to decade low 2012-04-04T04:24:00Z Just as Bontecou finished her gutsy painting/sculpture hybrid, a young artist from outside Birmingham, Ala., was moving to New York. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Lucy Caldwell's Notes to Future Self, about a teenager facing up to her own mortality, is in preview at MAC in Birmingham. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-02-25T17:16:52Z With this volume of choreography, almost everyone in the company has an opportunity to dance, and Birmingham Royal Ballet are on fresh and buoyant form. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Aladdin – review 2013-02-18T11:49:51Z The three original members of the Birmingham reggae band, UB40, have announced they are reforming. UB40 reform to record new album 2014-01-17T08:20:35Z When Birmingham landscape designer Scott Glenn and his photographer wife, Laurey, invited guests to their home, an apology for the living room usually ensued. Real Life Redo: Home Office Makeover 2011-01-19T20:50:03.837Z Shelby is a racecourse hustler turned crime lord in interwar Birmingham: extremely violent, extremely determined and centrally defined by an absolute disregard for his own existence. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z "I've had a band throw a TV out of a hotel window in Birmingham because it was the classic rock'n'roll thing to do," says veteran tour manager Adam Lambert. Rock decor 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z September 1963 Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, kills four black girls and injures at least 14 people. Protests have long been a powerful way to bring about change 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z There's a host of goings-on throughout February, including a Homophobia Roadshow in Birmingham, Queer Film exhibition at the V&A and Lesbian Discussion Group in London. This week's new events 2013-01-26T06:00:16Z They kept an eye on me at my last visit to Wembley – Arsenal v Birmingham. 76 minutes with … John Lydon 2012-05-31T20:30:00Z Stritch, who also had Emmy-winning roles on the television shows "30 Rock" and "Law & Order," died at home in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of her native Detroit, from natural causes, her spokesman said. Elaine Stritch, salty star of Broadway, dies at 89 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “I remember, as a student, queuing up to go to murder trials in Birmingham at the crown court,” Berry says. Guilty pleasure: how Making a Murderer tapped into our weakness for true crime 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Before Ms. Stritch moved to Birmingham last year, she lived, famously, for many years at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. Elaine Stritch, Tart-Tongued Broadway Actress and Singer, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the sharpest critics, warned that the quaint lakeside city of 53,000 was on the verge of becoming known as the Birmingham or Selma of the 21st century. 2nd-degree murder charge for Zimmerman 2012-04-09T20:42:00Z It was King, he noted, who’d gone around to the pool halls of black Birmingham collecting knives, telling people to stay off the streets, to be nonviolent. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Instructors from Porsche Driving School in Birmingham, Alabama guided the participants through the driving opportunities, including a braking and slalom course and several laps around the tracks. Porsches, Helicopters and the Monticello Motor Club 2012-06-14T21:33:06Z Photograph: Lucy Brown Through a towering brick arch over Heath Mill Lane in the old Birmingham industrial district of Digbeth, someone has put their artistic talents to work on a lot of old car parts. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z That’s how Birmingham got the role of Thomas Rainwater on “Yellowstone,” the most watched show on cable. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z They’re The Choir With No Name, a choir for homeless people that started in Birmingham five years ago after being founded in London in 2009. One night on the streets: a portrait of homelessness in Britain 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Zain, who was in Birmingham for the eighth performance of a tour for the British charity Penny Appeal, is one of Islamic pop’s biggest stars. On Tour With an Islamic Pop Star Who Makes Fans Swoon 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The redevelopment will see the Rep sharing frontage, a foyer and several facilities with Birmingham's new library. The Birmingham Rep: the star machine 2013-02-12T19:00:02Z The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a museum that sits across the street from 16th Street Baptist. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Birmingham considers himself fortunate to have Sheridan, who also cast the actor in the film “Wind River,” in his corner. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z She was resident composer with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s, where she wrote several works for orchestra and chorus which were premiered by the then music director, Sir Simon Rattle. Weir named as Master of the Queen's Music 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Wagner Dream will be staged at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, on 6-7 June, with a performance in Birmingham on 12 June. Opera to revive dead Asian language 2013-05-10T11:56:53Z Earlier this year, Locke took these efforts one step further, by adapting an existing statue of Queen Victoria outside Birmingham City Council for a project with Ikon Gallery, a contemporary art space in the city. In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Students at Phillips Academy in Birmingham will be answering to Principal Steve Harvey on Thursday after the school won a contest sponsored by Harvey's morning radio show and General Mills. Comedian Harvey heads to Ala. principal's office 2012-01-21T19:51:13Z It sets out on tour from Mac in Birmingham on Tuesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-12T12:06:57Z Flying out from Birmingham Airport, the baton will first stop on the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus on Oct. Queen Elizabeth launches baton relay for Commonwealth Games 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Given the choice between joining the Birmingham Royal Ballet or moving to New York, he chose New York, encouraged by his father, the sculptor Frank Forster. An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Birmingham ably guides us through the first few decades of Dostoyevsky’s astonishing life, paying particular heed to his time amid reformist circles in St. Petersburg. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z From Tennessee to Birmingham, their captious free-for-all Suggests that I am riding on the Squabash Cannonball. Style Invitational Week 1287: Oldies for newsies — a song parody contest 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Margie Hand, a Caribbean specialist at the Birmingham, Ala.-based company Andavo, said that her clients and colleagues are still learning about it. How the Zika Virus Is Affecting Travel 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The anniversary hasn't been allowed to pass unnoticed, and the centrepiece of Birmingham's celebrations was this concert by the orchestra for whom the hall was built, the City of Birmingham Symphony. CBSO/Nelsons/Halsey/Terfel – review 2012-06-13T11:28:05Z Tina Newton, a consultant in the emergency department at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, said choking on grapes was a common issue. Lack of awareness of grape choking hazard puts children at risk, say doctors 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Rattle arrived from the City of Birmingham Symphony in England bent on bringing the world-renowned Berlin orchestra into the 21st century. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Sara Kenyon, professor in evidence-based maternity care at Birmingham University, said the death of six babies in the later pregnancy group represented an important clinical and statistical difference between the two groups of women. Post-term pregnancy research cancelled after six babies die 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z All dates are being rescheduled, and the 46-year-old singer's tour is now supposed to start next Tuesday in Birmingham, England. Whitney Houston postpones more European tour dates 2010-04-07T15:14:00Z Before taking the podium in Hartford, Mr. Winograd was the music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Alabama. Arthur Winograd, Hartford Symphony Music Director, Dies at 90 2010-04-28T02:53:00Z For more grown-up fun and games, Amy Lame's Unhappy Birthday stops off at MAC in Birmingham at the end of the week. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-01T16:29:00Z Having never conducted publicly, he won his post with the Birmingham orchestra after making a dazzling impression with it in a private concert and in a recording that same week. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z “Judas and the Black Messiah” will premiere Feb. 1 on the Festival’s digital platforms and at various drive-ins in locations like Birmingham, Alabama, Columbia, South Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. Sundance adds Coogler-produced ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Whitney Houston performing live in Birmingham Photograph: Carsten Windhorst/WENN.com Was the Whitney gig really that bad? Sleeve notes: Glastonbury 2010 unveils its lineup 2010-04-16T14:02:00Z Curator Jiang Jiehong, professor of Chinese art at Birmingham City University, explains how the country's new generation of artists are dealing with politics with a sense of humour. Britain's largest Chinese art exhibition 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Khan attended a Birmingham comprehensive, the same one Homeland's David Harewood went to, and studied maths at Cambridge. Much ado about Delhi: RSC's Indian Shakespeare 2012-08-01T07:01:00Z Now living in Birmingham, around 1825, he was caught once again by police for the same crime that first sent him to Australia. Joseph Lycett: From forger to artist 2013-10-11T16:13:16Z In response, Dr. King wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that defended nonviolent resistance to racism and argued there was a moral responsibility to defy unjust laws. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z It'll make you look at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in a different way. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-18T18:48:25Z From Black Sabbath to industrial techno’s Regis, Birmingham has cultivated its fair share of musical outliers, whose spirit is celebrated at this experimental music extravaganza. 10 of the best city music festivals in the UK 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In both cases, she was a first: as a woman on the Birmingham podium and as a female conductor with that storied label. A Conductor in Demand, and in Control 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The fact that no salesperson, no fireman, no policeman, no one of authority in downtown Birmingham was of color sent strong messages to black children like me. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z What that means on the ground is an 11% cut for regional orchestras such as the Hallé and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the same for London's full-scale orchestras. The cuts axe was a salami slicer after all - but it's only a stay of execution 2011-03-30T17:32:32Z Ms. Moss, 39, is a professor of theology at the University of Birmingham in England. Candida Moss, Justin Foa 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z A “lover's eye” on a brooch surrounded by split pearls, from about 1790, to be shown at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Antiques: Loving ?Lover?s Eyes? and Loving Cereal 2012-02-02T23:17:03Z “When he began that restaurant, he invested in African-Americans in and around Birmingham, and those investments from long ago are now yielding some national recognition.” An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Board of Education; she fought for Martin Luther King Jr.’s right to march in Birmingham. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z AM Wince your way through assorted graphic swabbings in the first of this new three-part fly-on-the-wall series focusing on two of the UK's busiest sexual health clinics: one in Birmingham, the other in London. TV highlights 11/04/2013 2013-04-11T06:00:08Z Ginny grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, to parents only a generation removed from growing their own peas and carrots. Fine, I’ll Drink More Water 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The tour ends in Birmingham on June 1. 2010-01-28T15:48:00Z A touted quarterback — he was the starter at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2006 and 2007 — he grew up with both black and white friends, and his musical interests developed accordingly. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z She cited her unconventional debut program in Birmingham last July, when she prepared excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” Birmingham Symphony Names Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Rising Star, as Its Next Conductor 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Finally, I drove to Birmingham Art Gallery, where, in a space in which I've seen Renaissance art, is a show chronicling 40 years of heavy-metal culture. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z I used to stay at David Edgar's house when we worked at Birmingham University together. Bryony Lavery play Thursday explores 7/7 attacks through eyes of passengers 2013-02-21T20:31:01Z In Glasgow and in the concert in Birmingham next month the Reich work will be his masterpiece, Music For 18 Musicians, one of the great achievements of minimalism in the 1970s. This week's new live music 2011-02-12T00:05:30Z The paintings are part of more than 70 works Hockney drew on an Apple iPad and iPhone, and will be displayed across screens in seven cities - London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle. Giant screens across UK bring David Hockney iPad drawings to life 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Do you think the show has changed how Birmingham is viewed? Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Dr. Lawson, 35, is the director of the biomaterials division and an assistant professor of clinical and community sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham school of dentistry. Rachel Friedman, Nathaniel Lawson 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z When I caught it at Birmingham's mac earlier this year the show was very much in development, but you could already see its potential. This week's new theatre 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z It narrowly had the better of Channel 5 docusoap Emergency Bikers, an "insight into the work of Birmingham's paramedic bikers and the Essex police bike squad", according to the Radio Times. TV ratings ? 8 December: The Apprentice bags 28% audience share 2010-12-09T12:35:00Z At the age of 15 they booked their first Ackleys show at a warehouse space in Birmingham called Cave9, the proprietor of which helped them release their first album and book their first tour. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z Certain People,” in particular, met with hostile reviews as critics questioned Mr. Birmingham’s conclusions and the premise of a white man writing about the inner workings of black society. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The show opens ahead of a two-year national tour that will take it to New York, Birmingham, Seattle and Washington, D.C. These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Smith was quoted by the Telegraph newspaper as telling a question and answer session at a trade show in Birmingham to promote her bakeware range. UK celebrity chef Delia Smith hangs up her TV apron 2013-02-05T18:03:22Z "We live in a modern age and people do all sorts of things before they settle down," said Keith Morley, 34, an engineer from Birmingham. UK royal bride's virginity no longer an issue 2011-04-08T11:18:08Z The best bargain is from Birmingham on Virgin, which this week was still selling returns to Edinburgh for £33. The Edinburgh festival on less than ?50 a day 2010-08-05T13:52:00Z Cuts are set to wipe out the entire arts budgets in Somerset and in the London borough of Barnet, as well as half of the arts funding in Birmingham. Regional theatre cuts attacked by cast of British stars 2011-03-13T00:05:57Z At Birmingham pubs, we played hard rock and tried to change the vibe. ‘What Does Paranoid Mean?’ The Story Behind the Black Sabbath Hit 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z After graduating, Wood returned to Birmingham to work as an urban morning show host. Roy Wood Jr. chooses his words 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Rattle maintains close ties to Birmingham, and Simon Halsey, the orchestra’s chorus director, is also the chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Choir. Music Review: Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Weltethos’ in England 2012-06-22T23:59:58Z You can’t find a major city in the continental U.S. farther away from Birmingham, Ala., than Seattle, but to Paul Janeway, the Northwest is a welcome respite on the road. St. Paul & the Broken Bones goes beyond soul, and beyond Alabama 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The Syracuse, N.Y., company serves about 65,000 subscribers in Bakersfield, as well as fast-growing Florida markets of Tampa and Orlando, and portions of Detroit, Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala. Charter Communications to buy Bright House Networks in $10.4-billion deal 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The list of the top 10 most visited sites contains only one attraction outside London, with the newly-built Library of Birmingham at number 10. British Museum tops UK visitor sites 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Foster informs his schtick-acting with pathos, and Birmingham quietly steals the movie as a biracial Native American/Mexican navigating an insane Caucasian world. Hell and High Water: why film-makers should keep it slow and simple 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He tried a murder case just last week in Birmingham, winning an acquittal of his client after jurors deliberated only about 20 minutes. Ala. attorney questions death penalty in new book 2012-01-27T19:50:09Z Despite all the hype and spin about the new building, Birmingham city council is currently keeping very, very quiet indeed about its plans for the 'ordinary' library users of Birmingham. Super library arrives as hundreds of others face closure 2011-02-06T20:13:20Z David Frank Friedman was born in Birmingham, Ala., on Dec. 24, 1923. David F. Friedman, Horror Film Pioneer, Dies at 87 2011-02-15T07:48:01Z Unable to return safely to Pakistan, Yousafzai enrolled in a school in Birmingham, England in March. Documentary to follow Pakistan's young education crusader Malala 2013-07-16T20:42:15Z This was only subscription program of the season for Grazintye-Tyla, last year named music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England. The real headliner of the concert: alphorns, blowing a whirlwind of dark emotion through Disney Hall 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He is an ally when it comes to casting Native actors, Birmingham said. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z “We’re still going to be investing more than £30 million in opera a year,” he said, highlighting boosts to regional organizations including the Birmingham Opera Company, English Touring Opera and Opera North. Britain’s Major Opera Companies Suffer in Arts Spending Shake-Up 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Birmingham’s brilliant study makes you realize how important owning this book, the physical book, has always been to people, maybe first and foremost because it told other people who they were. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The art curator Tessa Sidey, who has died from cancer aged 55, had a career inextricably linked to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, where she arrived as assistant keeper of prints and drawings in 1983. Tessa Sidey obituary 2011-02-24T18:44:20Z Phil associate conductor, was back at the Bowl, exactly one month before she begins her potentially historic tenure as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Tayla Malcolm, who goes by her first name, is an R&B singer from Birmingham, England, now also logging time in London. The Playlist: Metallica Flickers Back to Life, and Tayla Struts Into the Spotlight 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In evoking the process of publishing “Ulysses”, Mr Birmingham also offers an astute portrait of the book’s creator. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Half an hour later, we follow the GQT team as they broadcast live from Birmingham. World Cup Live 2010-06-18T05:45:00Z As a primarily Roma group in Birmingham, the Peakys are a departure from the usual pop culture gangsters. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “White people are astounded by Birmingham. Black people aren’t,” Baldwin says. “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But next year, liberated from Birmingham, he will take charge of almost half of Boston’s season. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “In view of this, the bureau disapproves at this time of the conference you recommend with the U.S. attorney and the solicitor for the 10th Judicial Circuit in Birmingham.” Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Cara, 28, from Birmingham, was doing an online squats challenge when she damaged her sciatic nerve. 'It's intoxicating – I became obsessed': has fitness gone too far? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The Birmingham Mail reports that "personal hygiene issues" accounted for three entries on the library's blacklist. British library bans stinky patrons 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z They were regulars on TV light entertainment shows including the Morecambe and Wise Show and were the resident band on the BBC1 series Saturday Night at the Mill, broadcast from Birmingham's Pebble Mill studios. Jazz trumpeter Kenny Ball dies aged 82 2013-03-07T12:41:14Z Eva, 17 from Birmingham, feels that “the complete variety of characters implies that everyone tackles personal issues differently.” 'It answered my weird questions': what do teens really think of Netflix's Sex Education? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The show opens ahead of a two-year national tour that will take it to New York, Birmingham, Seattle and Washington at the Phillips Collection. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Norris' effort is more circumscribed, tracing her father's ascent into manhood and his departure from Birmingham, Ala., for Minneapolis. 'The Grace of Silence': Michele Norris' memoir of unearthing family secrets 2010-09-30T20:39:00Z I remain eternally grateful to him for that night in Birmingham. Stewart Lee: The best performance I've ever seen 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z However, Tolkien contracted trench fever by October and was sent back to hospital in Birmingham. Hobbit author's WW1 revolver shown 2013-12-11T13:38:26Z Simon Rattle conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in this work, together with Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra Op 6 and Schumann's Symphony No 3 "Rhenish", in Birmingham and London last week. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z This week they are expected to meet with executives with Cobb Theatres, a Birmingham, Ala.-based chain with 20 theaters. U.S. steps up scrutiny of movie distribution 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z American bride Juanita McGowen and British groom Guy Snowdon, who met in the Midlands of Britain and reside in Birmingham, England, chose this patriotic day to marry at the Jefferson Memorial on the Mall. A Brit and an American celebrate July Fourth with a Jefferson Memorial wedding In Birmingham, meanwhile, jurors arrive to serve on the Vehicle Inquest Jury, a government panel charged with determining fault in fatal accidents involving autonomous vehicles. Review | An online warehouse gone rogue. Driverless cars, hijacked: Fiction that feels eerily possible. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The programme is one of the most varied offered by amateur companies in Birmingham. Unrestricted views: The Crescent theatre, Birmingham 2012-07-09T16:40:04Z I think it has given Birmingham an identity that perhaps it didn’t have, purely in the media. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z She was appointed visiting fellow in Birmingham University's history of art department. Tessa Sidey obituary 2011-02-24T18:44:20Z Crufts has outgrown all its previous homes, and is now held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Crufts uncovered: ‘Dog people look like hairdressers with very small clients’ 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z “Stand for Decency, Reject Roy Moore,” read the bold headline in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville, all part of Alabama Media Group. Perspective | A small-town Alabama newspaper takes a stand on Roy Moore. A very careful one. 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z And thus “The March,” a succinct and well-conceived documentary on Tuesday night on PBS, begins not in Washington, but in Birmingham, Ala., where violence against blacks was explosive in a very literal sense. Critic’s Notebook: PBS Documentary Explores a Civil Rights Triumph 2013-08-26T22:23:43Z After a brief opening montage showing the history of the Meyerses, a middle-class household in Birmingham, Ala., the movie alights on the five days before Christmas 2016. Review: ‘Almost Christmas,’ a Home-for-the-Holidays Comedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z "I hate it when people say Birmingham is apathetic" about film and culture, he says. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z He was hired at Birmingham University in 1968 as a lecturer and appointed a professor of literature at Leeds in 1983. Park Honan, a Biographer of Authors, Is Dead at 86 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z People Magazine, meanwhile, reported that Mr. Bankston, a train engineer, was killed when a train derailed at a portion of track in Birmingham. Former ‘Survivor’ show contestant killed in Alabama train accident 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Her father was an Anglo-Dutch artist who married into a devout Catholic Birmingham family. Lost Evelyn Waugh letters reveal thwarted love for 'bright young thing' 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z But although Mr. Bey made the series on-site in Birmingham itself, he turned to the past. Indelible Impressions From 3 Shows in Washington 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The music is traditionally based and very energetic, while the lyrics are in Pashto, giving Latif access to about 60 million speakers, though he lives in Birmingham these days. Readers recommend: songs about cricket – results 2013-07-25T14:52:05Z Its 1986 documentary essay “Handsworth Songs,” about riots that broke out the previous year in London and Birmingham, England, offered an insightful take on the complexities of race relations in Britain. An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z He brags that Birmingham is one of his biggest markets. Analysis | The rare fashion brand that’s beloved by the women of Trump world and not afraid to show it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was also one of the 12 books and is the only book I’ve read repeatedly as an adult. James B. Comey: By the Book 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z "The companies that are being cut are the ones that make Birmingham's cultural life unique – the kind of risky, contemporary, innovative companies that you need to keep the city forward-looking and dynamic," says Newbould. Birmingham cuts arts funding. Can audiences make up the difference? 2010-12-17T16:35:04Z Her most recent Rae Beast production, “Unearth Birmingham,” is more urgent: a response to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by members of the Ku Klux Klan. A Choreographer and Her Girls Retell a Tragedy Through Dance 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Although his Birmingham show is being billed as a retrospective, he is not keen on the subtitle. US photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the flow 2010-06-28T20:31:00Z Back in the 1940s, his father was "most upset", Mascord remembers, when he wangled a projectionist traineeship at Tyseley cinema, Birmingham. My wonderful life in cinema 2011-02-15T20:00:02Z Even Paul McCreesh, who conducted this account with massive forces, recreating those of the Birmingham launch, confesses to once hating Elijah; he now regards it as "a tremendous masterpiece". Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z Calhoun County, near the Georgia border, diverts pregnant women into a treatment program in Birmingham, too. Take a valium, lose your kid, go to jail 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z “Your grandfather would have known this song,” Fiona Wallace, of Birmingham, England, tells me. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Birmingham band get their trophy at a ceremony in London's Roundhouse on 14 November. Black Sabbath awarded rock honour 2013-08-09T10:52:49Z That's easy to say: the programme comes out of Birmingham, and I work in the city. Fans of The Archers should prepare for a shock, says Vanessa Whitburn 2010-12-13T07:03:00Z And a week later he conducts the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in a night that features the UK premiere of Interventions, Elliott Carter's latest piece for piano and orchestra. This week's new live music 2012-06-01T23:05:57Z They lost touch after the war but then my father was offered a job in Birmingham, where Elizabeth was living. The secret sister my father kept hidden 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z But is he worth £176, the going rate on Seatwave.com for two tickets to his Birmingham gigs? Brian Logan on comedians who spurn reviewers 2010-04-14T21:00:00Z “She triumphed spectacularly, to huge audience acclaim,” The Birmingham Post wrote. Birmingham Symphony Names Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Rising Star, as Its Next Conductor 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It is 25 years since Simon Rattle created Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as a sibling for the city's symphony orchestra. BCMG/Knussen – review 2012-10-02T17:12:31Z While there are "just under a dozen" Bollywood films made in Birmingham each year, Mr Sidhu said that is bound to increase. How did Bollywood reach Birmingham? 2013-06-28T05:20:36Z The study of societies embraces the long-lasting, fruitful collaborations of small groups such as the Lunar Society of Birmingham. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z This year, Birmingham is commemorating the 50th anniversary of that tragedy and some of the signature events of the civil rights era. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z Plant is the only holdover from the little-known blues act, which briefly rocked Birmingham in the late 1960s. Robert Plant to tour with new Band of Joy lineup 2010-03-29T09:58:00Z “Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights” is a valuable addition to the historical record of Alabama’s role as the battleground state of the civil rights revolution. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z At Oxford, and then at Birmingham, Coughlan developed a gift for comedy and, because she has always looked mind-bendingly young for her age, a knack for playing children. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Lee dealt more squarely with racial terror in “4 Little Girls,” his documentary on the 1963 deadly church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., by K.K.K. members and white segregationists. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The compliment will not be returned: the mayor will have left Birmingham before Mr Cameron addresses the party. Boris Johnson reminds Tories of what David Cameron has lost 2012-10-06T23:08:26Z Now in his mid-’80s, Mr. Armstrong, a barber in Birmingham, Ala., rejoices at having lived long enough to see the election of the first African-American president. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z As well as London, shows in Glasgow, Birmingham, Sheffield and Nottingham and Manchester will also be moved. Usher moves UK tour over family 2012-09-26T06:00:32Z Or, once being in Birmingham, to leave any faster than normal? 20 reasons to be cheerful in middle age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z But it is also symptomatic of a festival that seems anxiously to think Birmingham doesn't have many kicks at the can and wanted to cram everything in. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z Holland was raised in the small town of Shades Valley near Birmingham, Alabama. The Knick's Andre Holland: 'I don't want to be 'the black friend'' 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z A loose collective of arts groups called We Are Eastside is trying to turn Digbeth into Birmingham's "cultural playground", the same method that has been employed across England's old manufacturing bases. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z But he conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony at 19, made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic at 21 and signed his first recording contract with Virgin/EMI at 22. Prodigy Ages Into a Merely Young Conductor 2011-02-25T14:57:07Z Which is why, a quarter-century after its creation, it's still a perfect work for the high-flying Birmingham dancers. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z On Wednesday in Birmingham, spoke for his party. First world war: learning the right lessons from history 2012-10-11T21:43:43Z In his old age, failing in health, he made an astonishing return to the jewellery making of his early days in Birmingham. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z "The fact that it's never been done was very attractive," says Birmingham Opera Company artistic director Graham Vick. Helicopter opera set for take off 2012-08-17T16:48:16Z Deep in a leafy suburb of Birmingham lies a large storage facility. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Birmingham is reading a script so good he can barely believe it. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z At Don’s, bakers crank out tarts, molding pastry dough into individual tins with an ancient hand-operated tart press that was brought over from Birmingham, England. Where Has This Treat Been All Your Life? Canada 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z An official biography says Shadix was born in Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, and participated in local theater productions as a youth. 'Beetlejuice' actor Glenn Shadix dies in Alabama 2010-09-08T01:25:00Z Hundreds of Birmingham’s children defied orders against demonstrating, filling up the city’s jails. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z King helped coax out Bobby Kennedy’s better angels, especially with the 1963 protests in Birmingham that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Though the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is, naturally, taking the lead, Birmingham's anniversary Mahler cycle is being shared around, with several visiting orchestras making contributions. CBSO/Andris Nelsons ? review 2011-01-13T22:46:01Z Arcade Fire Birmingham arena Starts 8 December Box office: 0844 3388000 Then touring It's hardly surprising that Butler would endorse youthful protest. Arcade Fire ? review 2010-12-02T21:31:00Z “I am teaching my daughters how to look after themselves,” the woman from Birmingham, West Midlands, England said, The Sun reports. Mom defends spending over $1G a month at beauty salon with 3 daughters: 'We are fabulous' 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z For most people, places like Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester and London are. David Mitchell: Country dwellers moaning about high-speed trains is just selfish 2011-03-06T00:11:13Z Born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1955, Marshall was 8 when four local children were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the notorious 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z King chose Birmingham, Alabama, which he called the worst big city in race relations in the United States, as the place to do that. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z He recalled going to a soul radio station in Birmingham, Ala., for an interview when “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way” was beginning to break out. Lonnie Mack, guitarist and singer who influenced blues and rock acts, dies at 74 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z “Ruby and Ossie were by Malcolm’s side, they were with Dr. King in Birmingham, Selma, and the March on Washington, and never worried about the negative impact it might have on their careers.” Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist, dies at 91 Inside the Civil Rights Institute, I approach the exhibit that recreates King’s Birmingham jail cell where he wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z On view starting Thursday, it will travel on loan to venues in Birmingham, Seattle and Washington, D.C., through next fall. Jacob Lawrence Painting, Missing for Decades, Is Found by Met Visitor 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z There were protests and violence, and the production at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre was cancelled. Review: The Young and Ever Restless Tennessee Williams 2010-04-20T12:41:00Z It started with a radio station broadcast in Birmingham, Ala., WSGN. After 75 years of touring, the Blind Boys of Alabama are still reaping blessings 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z With luck that development takes them in the same direction, as it most certainly did when was with the City of Birmingham Symphony and both ended their partnership with enhanced reputations. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle Southbank- review 2011-02-23T00:28:17Z According to people I know from Birmingham, when they go abroad and they speak, instantly people mention “Peaky Blinders.” Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Her father, Dr. Eddie Woods Jr., is a dentist in private practice in Birmingham, where her mother, JeCynthia Woods, works as the office manager. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Drawn to Each Other’s Worlds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., he went by Sonny, and was recognized early on as a musical prodigy. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z “If he loses his effort to keep the Negroes nonviolent, the result could be disastrous — not only in Birmingham but all over the country.” Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Everybody else can commemorate the day by buying and reading Kevin Birmingham’s terrific new “biography” of Ulysses, “The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses.” 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The Berlin players simply give him a little more of what he asked for in Birmingham: more drive in the faster sections, wider dynamic range, more precise ensemble and more character to the various choirs. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z I went back to Birmingham to catch up with some friends. Experience: I broke my neck on a night out 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z New ways to think of spaces for education … Park View secondary school in Alum Rock, Birmingham. Birmingham's brilliant new schools – but could they be they last? 2013-01-22T19:00:01Z Julian, Birmingham Dear Julian, Right now sitting in a Costa on the M5 sounds like a dream holiday to me. Our grumpy elf answers your Christmas questions 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Then in “Birmingham Project,” in 2012, he turned to the past and brought it forward into the present. Indelible Impressions From 3 Shows in Washington 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He was born in 1929 in Birmingham, Ala. His parents divorced when he was 7 and after that he lived an itinerant life with his alcoholic father. A Biography of E.O. Wilson, the Scientist Who Foresaw Our Troubles 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Her debut tour began on Jan. 8 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and will end on March 28 in San Antonio, Texas. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Feb. 8-14: The Aces, Ella Mai and more 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z British clinics, which have taken consultancy rooms in Harley Street and in UK cities including Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham and Leeds, report record numbers of patients calling on their services. ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Like her brother and sister, Mvula ended up studying music full-time, juggling performances as the alto singer in her aunt's a cappella group, Black Voices, with three years at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z “We learned from Dr. King in Birmingham,” he said. Anti-war protesters rally in Grant Park 2012-05-20T17:27:00Z Al.com reports that the feminist band is set to perform July 11 at a music venue in Birmingham. Russian band to stage Planned Parenthood benefit in Alabama 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Although he’s the second-born brother, the ambitious Tommy quickly takes his place as head of the family upon returning home to Birmingham, in central England, after fighting in World War I. Saying Goodbye to Tommy Shelby, a Traumatized TV Antihero 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Lewis is today a Georgia congressman, but half a century ago, when the 6th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. was bombed, he was a prominent civil rights activist. Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for The Underground Railroad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, from 17 May until 1 September A Monumental ActThe first Act of Parliament to preserve Britain's architectural and historical landscape was passed a hundred years ago. Tate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space – the week in art 2013-05-10T16:56:47Z Andris Nelsons, for example, had never publicly conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England when he was named its music director in 2007. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Studying drama at Birmingham University, she won ITV's New Faces talent show in 1973, and became a regular novelty act on That's Life!. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z The dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Medicine and some faculty members bought it for $5,350 because of its psychiatric interest and connection to Wallace. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He eventually took Austin to see what homelessness looked like in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. 5-year-old superhero inspires communities to help those in need 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Now, food security advocates estimate that there are 70 cities across the country — including Birmingham, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Newark and Salt Lake City — that have enacted food-sharing bans. "Criminalizing the Samaritan": Why cities across the US are making it illegal to feed the homeless 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z In February, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded an award for the activist Angela Davis a few days after announcing it. Perspective | Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z They will then play dates in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester before finishing at London's O2 Arena on 31 May. Guns N' Roses announce UK tour 2012-02-27T09:57:13Z If the money is raised, the pieces are likely to end up in the Stoke Museum and the Birmingham Museum, where much of the original hoard is on show. Staffordshire Hoard grows as 81 further pieces declared treasure trove 2013-01-04T19:04:12Z Way before clubland eschewed overt melodies in favour of more minimal, electronic sounds, Birmingham boasted two of the UK's best multiple-roomed techno nights in House Of God and Atomic Jam. Clubs picks of the week 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z In July, more than 76,000 people applied for tickets to the first exclusive screening of the season five premiere held in Birmingham town hall. Peaky Blinders fever: from David Beckham-backed clothing to a two-day festival 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The compact, razor-sharp McKenna Birmingham performs a frenzied solo that shows Mr. Feld’s proclivity for interlocking movement; yet instead of creating a meditative whole, the repetitive phrases become enervating. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z By the time he left university and started teaching classics at Birmingham, this sort of high-spirited affectation had largely burned away. Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison 2010-06-05T08:05:00Z Born in Birmingham, Ala., Odetta grew up surrounded by the work songs of the Great Depression. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 'Odetta' honors singer, activist 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Raising the bar ... the Electric cinema in Birmingham comes complete with absinthe fountain. Cine-files: The Electric, Birmingham 2011-07-19T08:06:28Z The Crescent Theatre is now in its 80th year, making it one of the oldest theatre companies in Birmingham. Unrestricted views: The Crescent theatre, Birmingham 2012-07-09T16:40:04Z It is her response to the notorious events that in 2004 led to her play, Behzti, being withdrawn after mass Sikh protests outside, and even inside, Birmingham Rep. Theatre review | Behud (Beyond Belief) | Belgrade, Coventry | Michael Billington 2010-03-31T01:35:00Z As Birmingham shows, Dostoyevsky wasn’t the schematic storyteller his critics make him out to be, mapping out some grand ideologies and then deducing the details. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z But Birmingham never quite gets around to showing how Joyce’s suffering shaped his work. “The Most Dangerous Book”: When “Ulysses” was obscene 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z The success of “Our Crowd” allowed Mr. Birmingham to pursue writing full time. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The relay will go through 72 nations and territories of the Commonwealth over 294 days and will return to Birmingham for the opening ceremony on July 28. Queen Elizabeth launches baton relay for Commonwealth Games 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z So Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a vivid retelling of the months leading up to the three historic marches from Selma to Birmingham, carries a message that has lost none of its heroic, tragic relevance. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “Sword of Trust” is a comedic drama of paths, trends, and histories crisscrossing in and around a pawn shop in Birmingham, Alabama. “Sword of Trust,” Reviewed: A Mumblecore Comedy That Takes on the Pro-Confederate Right 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Here’s a room-size re-creation of the Birmingham jail cell that held Martin Luther King Jr., surrounded by six concrete Dobermans. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z She grew up in the suburbs of Birmingham, England, feeling like an outsider: a Black girl in a “predominantly white middle-class neighborhood,” she recalled. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is marking the centenary with a series of performances, featuring soloist Claire Booth. This week's new live music 2012-12-01T00:05:58Z Instead, the podium dancer offered a flashing, blinding sequence of Mirga moments, as she buoyantly rushes to the big one in Birmingham. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Singer Robert Plant on Tuesday told a packed courtroom he did not remember hanging out with Spirit, as the band's bass player testified, after a 1970 show at a club Plant frequented in Birmingham, England. Backstage pass to making of Led Zeppelin's epic 'Stairway' 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Gil Birmingham, who plays Thomas Rainwater and has been friends with Brings Plenty for several years, likes to tell the story of how the character Mo got his name on the show. Mo Brings Plenty Was About to Quit Acting. Then Came ‘Yellowstone.’ 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The Boston Symphony still shares its new leader with Birmingham, until his tenure there ends in June, and his American workload has been light thus far. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Embraces Tradition but Looks Ahead 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z As Birmingham points out, obscenity is still, to this day, illegal; we just don’t use the word to apply to masterpieces. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z When Mr. Kedem arrived in Birmingham, he was well received by Dr. Woods, who was playfully holding up a sign with Mr. Kedem’s name on it. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Drawn to Each Other’s Worlds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Does he really fear that the internationally renowned CBSO, its offshoot, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, its choirs and education programmes could face cuts? Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The film chronicles Tolkien’s early days as a young orphan in Birmingham, England, who bonds with three friends and forms a fellowship. What’s on TV Sunday: The Golden Globe Awards and ‘Tolkien’ 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z All Tom Hardy wants to do is drive from Birmingham to London. Ill-advised car journeys on film – ranked! 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Birmingham’s book is packed with such entertaining factoids. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style I live in the Midlands and the arena tour stops at Nottingham, Sheffield and Birmingham so there should be ways for me to get to see my kids and I'm not too worried about that. Sam Bailey: 'I'm thick skinned' says 2013 X Factor winner 2013-12-16T17:20:10Z It was fascinating for me to hear this modest and miraculous score after having attended the British premiere of Mr. Harvey’s “Weltethos,” an 85-minute oratorio, last summer, performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Music Review: Juilliard’s Focus! Festival at Alice Tully Hall 2013-01-27T21:14:09Z Birmingham is a recently minted Harvard PhD, and he simply could have been youthfully exuberant in transforming a sober dissertation into a somewhat flashy trade title. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style As Birmingham Royal Ballet's Black Swan, she is less vamp than exultant teenager, thrilled at her newfound sexual power and dispatching her fouettés with breathless, look-at-me excitement. Swan Lake – review 2012-10-13T23:06:25Z While Birmingham Stage Company don't exactly put on an explosive theatrical display, there's plenty to enjoy in this tale about children who must learn maturity, and parents who must learn to trust their children. The Firework-Maker's Daughter ? review 2011-01-09T22:00:03Z In 1963, he covered a riot and the police beating of black people in Birmingham, Alabama. ‘True Grit’ novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z "Drainage is more important than fertility when growing lilies," advises Birmingham gardener Weesie Smith. The Sweetest Lily 2010-05-19T18:12:00Z He and Eileen were let in free to an ABC cinema in Birmingham. My wonderful life in cinema 2011-02-15T20:00:02Z Ms. Grazinyte-Tyla takes up the post in Birmingham in September, succeeding Mr. Nelsons, who stepped down last summer. Birmingham Symphony Names Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Rising Star, as Its Next Conductor 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Janes, the clarinetist, said that in Birmingham, she knew every corner of the text, to the point where, “if all the singers went ill, she could do the whole concert and sing every part.” A Conductor in Demand, and in Control 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Cillian Murphy stars as a crime boss in 1920s Birmingham, where vile behavior abounds. What You Should Watch This Week: Spring Finales, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘The Americans’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The most important work in Alabama is happening south of Birmingham in the Black Belt. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Home of Metal Until 8 January 2012 Various venues, Birmingham and the Black Country More details No, it was the spinning label that captivated Titchner. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z Treasured is a little treat at MAC in Birmingham. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z The final event, a swift reaction to the recent riots in Britain, was a screening at Film Forum last week of “Handsworth Songs,” an essay film from 1986 inspired by civil unrest in Birmingham, England. Microcinemas Pack a Special Mission in a Small Space 2011-09-02T19:03:04Z Having already recorded her brief part, this time she will meet cast members at BBC Birmingham on 16 February before attending a reception hosted by the chairman of the BBC Michael Lyons. Archers addict Camilla makes Ambridge cameo 2011-02-02T19:29:39Z Woolcock recently made a film about gangs in Birmingham, which the police tried to prevent from being shown at the city's cinemas; she is now working on a film about homeless people in London. Penny Woolcock ? runaway success 2010-06-07T21:01:00Z Finally, if necessary, they would call on outsiders to descend on Birmingham from across the country . . . to cripple the city under the combined pressure of publicity, economic boycott, and the burden of overflowing jails.” Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Martin, who hailed from Birmingham, Ala., also crafted songs for several other film and Broadway musicals, including "Best Foot Forward," "Make a Wish," "High Spirits" and "Hooray for What!" 'Merry Little Christmas' songwriter Martin dies 2011-03-12T02:02:08Z Originally set up as an online folk archive of metal memorabilia, Home Of Metal is now a vast centrepiece exhibition in Birmingham, with other shows spread across various Black Country galleries. Home Of Metal: a history of the heavy in seven objects 2011-07-08T23:11:04Z Even as Davis walked onto her Birmingham stage to a standing ovation, Omar was batting off a call for her resignation from none other than President Trump. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z While you're in Birmingham, check out the many good things in the BE Festival of European theatre. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-29T15:43:54Z Turn to the grimy postwar Birmingham, England, of Steven Knight’s “Peaky Blinders.” Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It has since grown into what its artistic director, Catherine Burns, calls “a modern storytelling movement” that has inspired “tens of thousands of shows worldwide in places as diverse as Tajikistan, Antarctica, and Birmingham, Ala.” Stories of Wonder, Fear and Kindness From the Moth 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z His mother and one of her aunts grew up next door to each other in Birmingham. Amy Saul, Jason Mollengarden 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Sets and costumes were lent by the Birmingham Royal Ballet, with the second-act backdrop, a nocturnal forest, borrowed from Frederick Ashton’s “The Dream.” A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Many of Ito's rare and brilliant films, which were screened at the Flatpack film festival in Birmingham last weekend, use the same technique: shooting photographs and arranging them frame-by-frame to create the illusion of reality. Flatpack film festival turns spotlight on Takashi Ito 2010-04-01T15:00:00Z He won a scholarship to study French and physical education at Birmingham University before training for the stage at Rada. Geoffrey Hutchings obituary 2010-07-11T17:25:00Z The clubs didn't exist in Birmingham, and if they did exist, they were so dangerous that it just wasn't a do-able night out. The end of the Streets 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z An example of how our food system can be changed has been set out in the Birmingham Food System Strategy. Why taxing ‘junk food’ to tackle obesity isn’t as simple as it seems 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Harding eventually became an assistant in Birmingham and even lodged with the Rattles, who would feed him ham sandwiches, which were more or less all he ate at the time. Can a Star Conductor Finally Make It Work in America? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z At Birmingham, Tessa spent many hours showing stored works to individual visitors, and leading print-room sessions with students and art groups. Tessa Sidey obituary 2011-02-24T18:44:20Z He released an album of classical compositions, Composer, performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2011, which was well-received. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Instead it's Chelsea and Birmingham City who do battle for silverware live on Sky Sports 1 this Sunday. Catch-up TV Guide: From The Thick Of It to Blue Peter's Big Olympic Tour 2012-05-25T23:05:12Z Before directing at Chichester, Mr. Church was the artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theater and Salisbury Playhouse. Sydney Theater Company Names New Artistic Director 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z My barbecue odyssey started in Pell City, 30 miles east of Birmingham – Alabama’s biggest city. Alabama pit stops: 5 of the best gas station barbecue joints 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z There will be four performances, staged in Birmingham, on Aug. 22-25. Stockhausen opera premiere set in UK 2012-03-13T19:46:03Z But she noted that there is now a civil rights museum in Birmingham, as well as the new D.C. museum. Anecdotes from the African American Museum’s grand opening 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Of Horshack, Palillo once told an interviewer from the Birmingham News: “While I loved him, I really loved him, I didn’t want to do him forever.” Ron Palillo, of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’ Dies at 63 2012-08-14T18:01:31Z Birmingham Opera said it was “devastated to announce” that Vick, its artistic director, died Saturday. Opera director Graham Vick dies at 67 of COVID complications 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z A total of 13 people attended the events, and they concluded the ceremonies with a dinner on the outdoor patio of a Birmingham restaurant, Chez Fonfon. Their Essential Interest in Common Was Each Other 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z She later obtained a job with the Internal Revenue Service in Birmingham, Ala. Noticing that law degrees helped employees advance, she enrolled in night school to get one. Alice Lee, sister of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee, dies at 103 Born in Swansea, Wales in 1939, Davis began working as a musician while he was a student at the University of Birmingham. ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ rock star Spencer Davis dead at 81 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z I remember my late father taking myself and a good friend to Birmingham picture house to see the film, my first visit to a picture house. Thunderbirds guru Anderson dies 2012-12-27T09:57:48Z If David Bintley's new production of Cinderella for Birmingham Royal Ballet never quite rises to the choreographic heights of Ashton's, it reconciles music, theme and design much more successfully. Cinderella: Royal Ballet; Birmingham Royal Ballet ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z "The key word for the Iranians is resistance as in the Supreme Leader's declaration of a resistance economy," said Scott Lucas, a specialist on Iran at Birmingham University. The Review Show's move to BBC4: a typical piece of BBC cowardice 2013-02-26T15:41:12Z While honing his skills as music director in Birmingham, Mr. Nelsons has developed an even more prominent sideline as a guest conductor at the highest level. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Nine stereoscopic cameras will capture the movements of a dancer which will be projected onto a giant silver screen positioned above the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Embracing 3D 2011-03-31T07:53:21Z The original hoard was bought by Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent museums for £3.3m, which was divided between the amateur metal detector who found the pieces and the farmer who owned the land. Staffordshire hoard of treasures to be displayed in Birmingham gallery 2013-03-13T15:20:28Z More than 100 years ago, church volunteers in Birmingham, Alabama wanted to find a way to encourage people to attend weekday sermons during the 40 days of Lent. Hearty Lenten Lunch Recipes 2011-03-07T22:20:07.550Z More than a quarter of the coal coming out of Birmingham’s pits was then mined by prisoners. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Phil's associate conductor, was in Walt Disney Concert Hall for the first time since the Birmingham announcement to lead her first Green Umbrella concert. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Ok so not technically in costume, but the Colour Run has become a worldwide craze and with runs all over the UK, from Birmingham to Brighton, it is widely accessible. Fancy dress, covered in paint or stark naked – the best fun runs 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Born in Birmingham, Ms. Balshaw moved to Northampton as a child. Tate’s New Leader Has ‘Fresh Eyes and a Lot of Energy.’ Is That Enough? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, the community relocated to Alum Rock, a rundown district of Birmingham, when faced with a steep increase in rent on their east London home. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z A former Lehman banker who is now an employee of the Birmingham City Council in Britain, Mr. Cattell noticed that he was developing a spare tire around his waist when he turned 38 in August. Global Athlete: Hitting the Road to Get to Work, and Back 2011-10-07T15:39:07Z I grew up in Mountain Brook, a wealthy suburb outside of Birmingham, Alabama, and we had sororities in high school, breeding grounds for future University of Alabama students and pledges. "Bama Rush" reminded me of my own desperate need to belong 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z The Lowry, to 26 Sep Andrew Cross, Birmingham A series of colour photographs shows an apparently common English field as it passes from dawn to dusk. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z Then, 90 miles north in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of racist terrorism, killing four black girls on a Sunday in 1963. Rep. John Lewis on ‘Selma’ and the memories it brings to life 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The tour then continues until the following July, stopping off at major venues in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Dublin, among other cities. War Horse to be led out on UK and Irish tour 2012-10-02T11:49:14Z Say the names of those cities to yourself — Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery — and try not to conjure the mythic struggle for civil rights, the opposite of the prosperity gospel. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Birmingham's contribution to the opening night of the London 2012 cultural Olympiad was a UK premiere, given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its choruses under Edward Gardner. Weltethos – review 2012-06-22T16:10:32Z The design and costumes remained from the original Birmingham version. How we made The Snowman stage show 2012-12-17T18:02:55Z Matthew Darbyshire seems to be inviting visitors to take a plunge off the roof down a bright turquoise slide – actually an extraction duct from Birmingham Children's Hospital. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Dr. Charles Boyd, a plastic surgeon in Birmingham, Mich., is available to patients whenever they need him, but charges double for house calls or appointments at odd times. Skin Deep: Beauty House Calls in the Wee Hours 2010-11-18T05:20:00Z Her first major museum exhibition at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England in 2001 traveled to the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. Beatriz Milhazes Breaks the Circle 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The number of composers in the audience for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's concert to mark Oliver Knussen's 60th birthday was its own tribute to a pivotal figure in British contemporary music. BCMG/Knussen – review 2012-05-28T17:32:41Z The group then headed en masse to the Justice Department to see Bobby, who praised King for helping to quiet things down in Birmingham. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z McKinstry, who lives in Birmingham now and works at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, said she's glad to hear about it when survivors of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., received counseling. Bombing victim grateful for tragedy counseling 2013-01-05T22:46:04Z Those included a life-changing appointment in 1983 as the director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, which he joined at the invitation of Mr. Rattle, who was then the orchestra’s principal conductor. Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Lois is still traumatized by a bombing she witnessed in Birmingham in the 1970s, which killed her boyfriend. ‘Middle England,’ a Traditional Novel Set in Our Very Unconventional Times 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Judging from their enthusiastic reception, Ryder's support band the Twang, who come from Birmingham, may have drawn significant portions of the crowd. Shaun William Ryder ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:43Z This dude Charles Booth did his Victorian poverty maps in the capital, not in Birmingham or Edinburgh, and that provides a neat device. TV review: The Secret History of Our Streets 2012-06-20T21:01:01Z Mine – growing up in a Pakistani household in inner-city Birmingham – were different. Trail blazers: the Asian hiking group tackling Scotland's treks – and diversity | Nazia Parveen 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Over 10 years ago, I did a production called the Ramayana at the Birmingham Rep, which was massive at the time. Indhu Rubasingham: artistic director, Tricycle theatre – profile 2013-02-20T16:22:31Z March is a travel writer based in Birmingham, U.K. Why you should visit Luxembourg instead of Europe’s major capitals 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z “Extraordinary, Ordinary People” is instead an origins story, a minor-key memoir mostly about Ms. Rice’s upbringing in Birmingham, Ala., during the early years of the civil rights movement. Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z Yet she did take the job in Birmingham, which has a high profile and a reputation as a star-maker, with such recent music directors as Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons. A Conductor in Demand, and in Control 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z McKinstry was 15 years old when she survived the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where four girls were killed. Bombing victim grateful for tragedy counseling 2013-01-05T22:46:04Z Last week, a pregnant Birmingham woman was charged with manslaughter for the shooting of her fetus, while the woman who pulled the trigger went free. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z He just had his first major role, doing St Matthew's Passion on Good Friday in the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z That explosion in the church took place in Birmingham, but it was a catalyst. Director Ava DuVernay populates 'Selma' with real people and events 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It's free and on there until September 25th before going on tour to Dorchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and Bristol over the next two years. British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London 2011-07-19T05:48:00Z "Extraordinary, Ordinary People" is instead an origins story, a minor-key memoir mostly detailing Rice's upbringing in Birmingham, Ala., during the early years of the civil rights movement. 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z Hess cited the new book “Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal,” by Heather Widdows, a philosophy professor at the University of Birmingham, in England. The Ever-Escalating Demands of the Beauty Industry, and the World’s First Gym for Your Face 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’” by Kevin Birmingham: Joyce’s modernist masterpiece changed not only literature, but the legal history of censorship in America. Mid-year musts: The best of 2014 – so far 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z When the British artist Raye performed “Ice Cream Man.” during a January concert at the cavernous Utilita Arena in Birmingham, England, many of the young women in the audience began to cry. Raye, Tired of Music’s Waiting Game, Releases an Album at Last 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In the middle of rehearsals, we invited a group of kids into our rehearsal room; then later we asked an ad-hoc crowd in a Birmingham social club, so as to test what we were doing. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z Having taken a first degree at Birmingham, I reapplied to Oxford, as I was certain it would be ideally suited to an ambition that exceeded my talent. Strictly Ann by Ann Widdecombe – digested 2013-06-16T19:00:02Z It was valued at £3.3m and acquired jointly by Birmingham and the Potteries museums. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z The artwork, created in Banksy’s trademark stencilled graffiti style, appeared in Birmingham central England over the weekend. Banksy's flying reindeer highlight Christmas homeless plight 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z One song filtered images of "lots of little Osmonds everywhere" through Lawrence's memories of the IRA bombings in Birmingham. Denim: Britpop's less successful fabric 2010-10-21T20:40:00Z Are Andy Warhol’s 1964 “ Birmingham Race Riot” silk screens, with their news photos of police dogs attacking protesters, opportunistic or empathetic? Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z Alabama was where Bull Connor, the racist public safety commissioner of Birmingham, harassed civil rights advocates. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Despite Oxford being his home when The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were written, Ms De Boo says the link with Birmingham was made by Tolkien himself. Joining Tolkien's childhood walk 2013-06-18T07:37:30Z Among the winners, whose work will be exhibited in March at the National Exhibition Centre, in Birmingham, England, is the Chinese photographer Jiehao Su, whose project “Borderland” began as a response to his mother’s death. 30 Under 30 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The audition was at a dodgy nightclub in Birmingham; it smelled of chips and old beer, but there were people putting on glittery costumes, practising fire-breathing and doing Frank Spencer impressions in the toilet. Lenny Henry, comedian and actor – portrait of the artist 2013-06-04T15:59:12Z He was followed by Plant and Bonham, a young singer and drummer whom Page travelled up to Birmingham to scout. Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z For example, top-ranked Georgia played University of Alabama at Birmingham and Charleston Southern this season. Perspective | Just 4 teams make the College Football Playoff. Eight would make it better. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z He is its hero, and our sense of him is deepened immeasurably by Birmingham’s book. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Birmingham Museums lament the sale of their south Asian and Far Eastern metalwork in the 1950s as "an act of irrevocable rashness". Hands off our local museum collections 2011-01-14T18:30:38Z Mr. Birmingham might have been a captivating protagonist in one that dove deeper into reservation politics. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Mrs. Morris, 27, is a pharmacist at a Walmart in Savannah, Ga. She graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and received a Ph.D. in pharmacy from Auburn. Morgan Fancher, Owen Morris 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z These were some of the satirical visions on social media mocking a U.S. pundit on terrorism who told the U.S. television channel Fox News that Britain's second largest city, Birmingham, was "totally Muslim". Birmingham: Britain's new Mecca? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Hairspray will put a smile on your face at Birmingham Hippodrome. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z It's as if this lustrous piece of architecture has grown out of the shabby edifices surrounding it, and it's come to symbolise Birmingham's potential to develop further in culture and the arts. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z “Peaky Blinders” was born from the stories Mr. Knight heard about his father’s uncles, members of the real Peaky Blinders gang in Birmingham. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Many of the exhibitions and displays that she organised incorporated her own research and were accompanied by major catalogues, such as Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-54, mounted in 2001. Tessa Sidey obituary 2011-02-24T18:44:20Z After working as a radio host in Birmingham following college and continuing to do standup, Wood received his big break on “Late Show With David Letterman” in 2006. Roy Wood Jr. Is Following in the Comedy Footsteps of Dick Gregory 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Birmingham Repertory Theatre recorded the highest percentage with 53% of their live commissions by women. Women in theatre: how the '2:1 problem' breaks down 2012-12-10T19:30:01Z Goldfrapp then embark on a UK tour, launching at Birmingham Symphony Hall on 26 March. Goldfrapp tell tales in cinema project 2014-02-27T02:04:21Z Stand & Deliver was no less brilliant, but in a Birmingham suburb, one critic remained unimpressed. Reviewing the charts in 1981 – on stolen chip paper 2012-11-13T17:14:30Z He's showing everywhere from São Paulo to Ikon in Birmingham. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z He’d explained that he didn’t really fancy a trip to the CDC to look for the cure, and would rather take his family to Birmingham, Alabama. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode two recap – The Damned 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Gail Andrews, the director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, expresses a reverence for Mr. Minter’s work. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z On May 13, 1965, the special agent in charge in Birmingham said “the case was ripe for departmental action.” Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z It speaks of his decision not to march with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham in 1963, and of his unlikely friendship with the future Black Panther Party leader Stokely Carmichael. Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z We first met as teenagers when we went to the same church group in Birmingham. Experience: I got married aged 95 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham and Bradford are among the cities she will visit on her travels. Dawn French announces first solo tour 2014-02-26T09:39:18Z In 2002, the Birmingham News ran a report calling the Black Belt region, where Selma is located, “Alabama’s Third World.” Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Prokofiev took up French horn and piano before studying music at Birmingham and York universities. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z One of the musical scores for silent films discovered in Birmingham city council's music library. Musical scores for silent firms unearthed in Birmingham 2011-07-14T19:08:05Z Her words slow down and speed up, her Birmingham accent segues in and out, she talks clearly one moment, mumbles the next. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z It seems unlikely he will look for another long-term, ful-ltime post like the ones he has held in Birmingham and Berlin. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z At 30, she is now starting her second season as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Mirga meets an old master at Disney Hall 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “These are the emancipated slaves and farmers and steelworkers who made Birmingham: the muscle that built the ‘Magic City.’ ” House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z In the 1880s, the Black Patch was a thriving Romany community on the industrial edge of Birmingham. Was Charlie Chaplin a Gypsy? 2011-02-17T22:00:02Z “I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama,” he says. ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The rappers will play five dates across the country in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh from 11-15 June. Wu-Tang Clan returning for UK tour 2011-04-14T09:47:28Z Of Horshack, Palillo once told an interviewer from the Birmingham News: "While I loved him, I really loved him, I didn't want to do him forever." Ron Palillo, of 'Welcome Back, Kotter,' dies at 63 2012-08-14T17:56:08Z The exhibition features 150 works from the Birmingham Museum of Art, many never shown outside the United Kingdom. ‘Victorian Radicals’ SAM exhibition 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The Jack’s Family Restaurant, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is looking for people to nominate their “favorite southern grandparents” to become “Granfluencers.” Southern fast-food chain holding influencer contest for grandparents 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Glenn Shadix, best remembered for his portrayal of a portly, pretentious designer in the metaphysical comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his home in Birmingham. 'Beetlejuice' actor Glenn Shadix dies in Alabama 2010-09-08T01:25:00Z Mr. Lynd is currently working with a denim maker in Birmingham. Jeans, Made in the … U.K.? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z One of those for Birmingham is a lean, clean-shaven 31-year-old with high forehead, sharp cheekbones, aqua-clear eyes and a quiet manner. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z “The body,” Birmingham emphasizes, “was central to Joyce’s work because he was a captive of both its erotic pleasures and its intense pains.” Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style Johnson began to affix ruined objects to his abstract paintings in the aftermath of the notorious 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., a crime so awful that it galvanized the nation. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Newcastle and Sheffield both recognise the value of culture – and so does Birmingham, which is building a new library and home for Birmingham Rep that includes a new 300-seat studio. Newcastle: slashing your arts funding would be a shortcut to disaster 2012-11-23T13:33:48Z For this collaboration with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Knussen had constructed a programme that highlighted influences and offered comparisons. CBSO/Knussen; Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner – review 2012-06-19T16:37:30Z Mr. Iommi, who is 63, was one of the four working-class teenagers who founded Black Sabbath in Birmingham, England, in the late 1960s. ArtsBeat: Black Sabbath Guitarist to Undergo Treatment for Lymphoma 2012-01-09T20:58:27Z His father worked for The Birmingham News; his mother was a musician. David F. Friedman, Horror Film Pioneer, Dies at 87 2011-02-15T07:48:01Z But then it turned out that, in Birmingham 13 years ago, an earlier attempt had been made with pamphlets to educate the Pakistani community on the savage and real dangers of cousin marriage. Last week's TV 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z “I realized, from an innovation sense, that there was no vegan Indian cuisine so I thought this is a feasible concept,” said 19-year-old Muhaimen, a student at Birmingham University. From London's Brick Lane to Davos, veganism on the menu 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Everywhere in Britain was to become a "world-class place" – somewhere, presumably, along the lines of Birmingham's revamped Bull Ring or Las Vegas, Shanghai's Pudong district, or Sodom and Gomorrah. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Birmingham Rep is on the move, too, and will be performing across the city over the next two years; its production of the hip-hop graphic novel, The Rememberers, is at the AE Harris Factory. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-02-04T17:25:21Z Experts at the University of Birmingham say his death was entirely preventable and are calling for all babies to be supplemented from birth and for mandatory monitoring by GPs and other NHS staff. All babies should be given vitamin D from birth, say experts 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z At a recent performance in Birmingham, Grazinyte-Tyla upped the innocence ante with three boys. Mirga meets an old master at Disney Hall 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Bennett's latest play, People, will tour cities including Birmingham, Leicester and Leeds this autumn. Season revealed 2013-01-30T16:33:11Z Telling the story of Alabama through a scripted show, specifically the story of Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, that would be the perfect project for me because I know that's something that could ripple. "I need to host": Roy Wood Jr. talks "The Daily Show" and why late-night TV needs change 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Further down, it equates to a £41,000 cut for Birmingham Royal Ballet and a £12,500 cut for Manchester's Royal Exchange. Arts Council cuts: the full list of all 880 organisations affected - as a spreadsheet. Visualised 2010-06-18T14:09:00Z Downtown Birmingham may be interesting, but no one would say it’s beautiful. A Taste of History in the South, and a Hint of Home in New York 2010-09-08T03:00:00Z The show had its premiere in Birmingham in September, and tickets for that run and later performances in Plymouth and London sold out almost immediately. Black Sabbath Ballet Turns Up the Volume on a Varied London Season 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The ceremony was led by the groom’s sister at the Barn at Shady Lane, an events space on the outskirts of Birmingham, and was followed by a reception there. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Drawn to Each Other’s Worlds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But the current production of Moonfleece has deliberately toured to some of the country's most racially sensitive areas, passing through East London, Leicester, Birmingham, Bradford and Doncaster without protest. Folly of banning Moonfleece 2010-03-30T15:20:00Z A win at home to mid-table Birmingham could nudge them into the automatic promotion places just as we reach the season's pointy end. TV highlights 29/03/2013 2013-03-29T07:00:04Z London offers choice over chaos, but it only takes seeing every seat cover in the Birmingham NEC being thrown at Slipknot in 2002 to realise that, beyond the M25, they really know how to gig. Live music thrives outside the M25 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z He was just a kid then, born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1955. Kerry James Marshall’s Paintings Show What It Means to Be Black in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z My italics about the likelihood of prosecution underscore the remarkable backlash among Birmingham whites because of the heinous nature of the crime. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Her notable projects included Nancy Milford’s acclaimed biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, Stephen Birmingham’s popular social history “Our Crowd” and the novelization of “Love Story.” Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z This is why there are loads of movies about people who went to Cambridge and Oxford and Harvard and Yale, but very few about graduates of the University of Birmingham or Central Connecticut State. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z A residency with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra this season takes him to Birmingham monthly for performances of his orchestral works, old and new. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z The video attracted nearly 3 million views on Instagram in the first 24 hours, and created a buzz in Birmingham. Banksy's flying reindeer highlight Christmas homeless plight 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z In another picture, four protesters were silhouetted against a spray of water as they held hands to keep from being felled by fire hoses in Birmingham, Ala. Bob Adelman, Photographer Who Captured the Emotion of the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 85 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Six years later, reimagined and retitled, Tristan und Isolde has been performed in Switzerland and Germany and is about to go to Birmingham, before finishing up in London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday. Tristan und Isolde in widescreen 2010-09-21T20:29:00Z On Wednesday, news channels ran with a story about Whitney's "disastrous" start to her UK tour in Birmingham. Sleeve notes: Glastonbury 2010 unveils its lineup 2010-04-16T14:02:00Z Elaine Stritch, the Broadway musical theater actress who was best known for her salty personality and and star power even into old age, died Thursday in Birmingham at 89. Elaine Stritch, Great Dame of Broadway, Dead at 89 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z His documentary 4 Little Girls told the story of the Birmingham church bombing with its eerie parallels to the Charleston church shooting. Why BlacKkKlansman should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As almost nobody would guess at first glance, this building – which Birmingham council taxpayers were seeing for the first time in a computer-generated fly-through – is a library. Super library arrives as hundreds of others face closure 2011-02-06T20:13:20Z The international team includes scientists and archaeologists from Birmingham University, Bradford, St Andrews, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Virtual Archaeology in Austria, as well as teams from Germany, Norway and Sweden. Stonehenge twin discovered stone's throw away 2010-07-22T09:52:00Z In this self-critical exposé of white privilege, a Birmingham News columnist born at the height of the civil rights movement examines his roots in a line of Methodist preachers. New & Noteworthy, From Vivian Gornick’s Essays to No-Recipe Recipes 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Birmingham even cites the novel’s very first review in the London Observer — and it is surprisingly spot on: “ ‘Mr. James Joyce is a man of genius,’ Sisley Huddleston declared. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style Indeed, he was producer on Penny Woolcock's extraordinary documentary One Mile Away, about gang culture in Birmingham, which won the Michael Powell award at Edinburgh a year ago. Trailer Trash 2013-06-22T23:05:35Z He has not performed live in 34 years, after apparently being enraged by an out-of-tune trumpet at a Birmingham cabaret. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z Back in Birmingham, an old lady is dying. Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day; The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass – TV review 2013-03-27T07:00:21Z A puzzled email to one of the site administrators drew the response that whether I liked the look of the guys in Birmingham and Nebraska or not, they are my best matches and that’s that. My dating site matches seem absolutely random 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z After graduating from Thompson High School in 2008, he went to Birmingham Metro Master’s Commission, a local Bible college. The Little Wedding on the Deck 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z His first documentary for the NET series “At Issue,” in 1963, was about the aftermath of the church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four young girls. Morton Silverstein, Documentarian Who Explored Social Ills, Dies at 86 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Anyone encountering Peace's debut album after reading the blog buzz that led the Birmingham quartet to a major-label deal and their current hotly tipped status might be forgiven for feeling a little nonplussed. Peace: In Love – review 2013-03-21T15:29:01Z The plant is part of the Birmingham Northfield constituency – safe Labour territory for the last few years. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z They wanted to put Birmingham on the map, they found things easier to do and the people more accessible. How did Bollywood reach Birmingham? 2013-06-28T05:20:36Z Hamilton lives and works in Moseley, near Birmingham, but grew up in a remote house in the Scottish Highlands. Jo Hamilton 2011-07-09T23:05:39Z In Birmingham there was even a record label above one of the stores – Envy records – where recording artists would play. Treaure hunters 2010-04-16T07:42:00Z Among the groups to protest was the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, which sent a letter calling Davis’s support for BDS “very troubling as it targets the Jewish people exclusively.” Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z “He was entering the greatest phase of his career,” Birmingham writes, a period that would include “The Idiot,” “Demons” and “The Brothers Karamazov.” How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z This is something of a shame, as there are some wonderful parades and celebrations of Ireland's culture and diaspora to enjoy over the weekend, with Irish festivals already underway in Manchester and Birmingham. This week's new events 2013-03-15T17:27:46Z He describes the difference as a comparison between "my fantastic sauvignon blanc" in the Birmingham orchestra and the "fantastic red wine" in Berlin. Simon Rattle: Baton charge 2011-02-15T21:30:00Z Mr. Birmingham is excellent on how, while anti-vice crusaders wanted to ban “Ulysses” to protect what they considered to be tender female sensibilities, many of the book’s most important champions were women. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z I was thinking about what that kind of literary tradition meant to me, as someone whose mom was from the South Bronx, my father was from Birmingham. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The series was accused of negatively portraying benefits claimants in Birmingham's Winson Green area and generated hundreds of complaints. Benefits Street follow-up in pipeline 2014-04-16T09:23:31Z “I’m waiting for them to call out one of the other names,” she recalled during an interview here in Birmingham. An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z They’re now planning a second location in Birmingham, where Pihakis can oversee operations, and possibly in other spots, too, including New York City. How a small-town pitmaster turned a dying cuisine into the stuff of celebrity 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Would he perform with the Birmingham Royal Ballet? Carlos Acosta, Dance Star, to Lead Birmingham Royal Ballet 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He will play shows in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow. Prince announces UK arena tour 2014-04-30T14:48:00Z In the festival’s second season, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, based in Birmingham and conducted by Justin Brown, and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra of Alberta, conducted by William Eddins, will make their Carnegie Hall debuts. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Season six of "Peaky Blinders," which aired first on BBC One and now, finally, has graced the shores of Netflix, follows a family gang in Birmingham. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Robert Adams captures students protesting the enrollment of black pupils at West End High School in Birmingham, Alabama 1963. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z His monumental 1964 ink and charcoal drawing “Birmingham Totem” is a response to the bombing, the previous year, of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., in which four young black girls were killed. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “The idea is to work with a diverse range of voices from all over Birmingham,” said Ms. Philipsz, who is based in Berlin. Diverse Voices to Start Telling Time in Birmingham, England 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Prof Laura Piddock, director of Antibiotic Action and professor of microbiology at the University of Birmingham, said the evidence supported the serious concerns that antibiotic resistance would undermine many areas of medicine, including cancer treatment. Rising antibiotic resistance increasing risks of routine surgery – study 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In the forthcoming book “Perfect Me,” Heather Widdows, a philosophy professor at the University of Birmingham, England, convincingly argues that the pressures on women to appear thinner, younger and firmer are stronger than ever. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z When Mercury bought the Birmingham agency Caters News three years later, Blyth moved there, and eventually took over the running of the operation. Gavin Blyth obituary 2010-12-01T21:08:00Z In a multiple-screen installation titled Paradise: Real Time, Vega brings back his video evidence to Birmingham. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Four years ago, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group introduced David Sawer's Rumpelstiltskin, which he designated a ballet, but defied precise categorisation. The Lighthouse Keepers/Words and Music – review 2013-07-05T16:36:06Z Laura Piddock, a professor of microbiology at the University of Birmingham, was also cautiously optimistic. New antibiotics could be developed using fish slime, scientists say 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z The Lumineers' omnipresent hit "Ho Hey" is among the nominees for song of the year with Shovels & Ropes' "Birmingham," JD McPherson's "North Side Gal" and Thompson's "Good Things Happen to Bad People." Harris, Miller among Americana Awards top nominees 2013-05-14T20:34:22Z Hit period crime drama Peaky Blinders is returning to the BBC and sees the Shelby family attempt to expand their criminal empire south, from their home in Birmingham to London. Murphy returns as 'street fighting man' 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z For this year’s Fringe, Ms. Whitehill teamed up with Strictly Arts, a company based in Birmingham, England, to devise a crusading work of physical theater called “Freeman,” about the fragile mental health of black prisoners. At Edinburgh Fringe, a Spotlight on Mental Health 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z But she claims that Birmingham, because of its transient population, looks outwards rather than inwards and has an appetite for experiment, such as the work of the adventuruous Catalan, Calixto Bieito. The Birmingham Rep: the star machine 2013-02-12T19:00:02Z The 20 best-funded theatres also include the Birmingham Rep, which gained an extra auditorium when it moved into a refurbished building in 2013. The state of UK theatre: Boom or bust? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z For good eats, make the two-mile drive to downtown Birmingham Botanical Gardens where you can enjoy dinner at Dreamland BBQ on 14th Avenue South. Last-minute road trips to take in the South over Labor Day weekend 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Klang brought their Walden to Birmingham for the work's UK premiere, presented in collaboration with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, which supplied the string players. Walden – review 2012-06-25T17:20:42Z On Aug. 5, 2023, in Montgomery, Alabama, about 65 miles north of my hometown of Birmingham, the narrative of Alabama, in my opinion, changed through one single event. Damn right, I come from Alabama: The symbolic and historic importance of the Alabama Sweet Tea Party 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Other legal disputes involved a Southampton pub and a Birmingham cafe called , both of which he accused of copyright infringement. Cuckoo's Nest producer Zaentz dies 2014-01-06T11:34:31Z “There are only a few hundred of us space archaeologists,” said Dr. Parcak, 37, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she founded the Laboratory for Global Observation. Sarah Parcak to Use TED Prize Money for Crowdsourcing on Archaeological Sites 1461-05-15T05:00:00Z Environmental health officers visited the Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill in Birmingham earlier this year and awarded it a food hygiene rating of zero. How Marco Pierre White went from fine dining to a fine old mess 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The short-term measure ranks metros by periodic spikes in airborne particles, and Bakersfield, Calif.; Fresno, Calif.; Pittsburgh; Los Angeles; and Birmingham, Ala., were, by this measure, found to have the country's five worst. America's Most Polluted Cities 2010-04-28T14:00:00Z The statement referred to the Sept. 1 tweet from the Birmingham National Weather Service as “inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.” ‘This isn’t just a stupid story, it’s a big story’: An oral history of Sharpiegate 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The gardens are on the outskirts of Birmingham, a multiethnic city that is Britain’s second largest. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He also traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, as part of King's campaign to dismantle segregation in that city. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Birmingham Rep's Rachel Kavanaugh makes her swan song with Lucy Caldwell's new play, which heads out on tour after this premiere. This week's new theatre 2011-02-26T00:07:52Z Roger's Glastonbury appearance is part of a tour of Britain and Ireland that includes shows in Birmingham, Manchester, Dublin and Edinburgh, before a return to U.S. performances. Kenny Rogers may quit overseas tours after Glastonbury 2013-06-24T14:04:35Z These days most of the work Bond undertakes in his country of birth is with children – particularly the Birmingham youth group Big Brum Theatre. Edward Bond: 'The most obscene thing I've seen recently is Slumdog Millionaire' 2010-04-30T13:43:00Z Birmingham City Council posted an official response on its website. Birmingham: Britain's new Mecca? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z He’s tried once already, studying music and maths at Birmingham, but found that he was simply too famous for student life. 'It was madness': Game of Thrones stars on how it changed their lives 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Both thieves concealed the famous paintings for several years without being caught and both decided to return them: the Duke was deposited in the left-luggage office of New Street station in Birmingham. How Goya's Duke of Wellington was stolen 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z The first office park opened in Mountain Brook, Ala., an upper-class white suburb of Birmingham, in the early 1950s as commuters became uneasy with simmering racial tension in city centers. The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Birmingham says of her, “She wanted to give the world something more than pajamas and condensed milk.” Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: PA/PA Archive/Press Association Images The Cockney Rejects' 1980 performance at Birmingham's Cedar Club remains unnoted in the annals of rock history. Misunderstood or hateful? Oi!'s rise and fall 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z Police in Tuscumbia identified the man as Wesley Glenn Bost, of Birmingham, and said he climbed up into the ceiling after locking himself in the restaurant’s bathroom, according to WAAY, a news station. Man falls through Waffle House ceiling, shoves patrons in chaotic scene caught on camera 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z With a few months until sentencing, Wood got on a Greyhound back to Birmingham and showed up at the local comedy club’s open mic night. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Liverpool may have spawned the Beatles and Birmingham was the boiler-room of the industrial revolution, but Southall, a drab suburb on the western edge of London, has just as many cultural connotations – if you're Indian. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z Starkey said the gold, and its new homes in Birmingham and the Potteries, will literally redraw the map of Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire hoard saved by ?1.3m Heritage grant 2010-03-23T15:45:00Z The captain, who tried to run a Birmingham foundry after leaving the Royal Navy through poor health, was a high-handed man who clashed with fellow directors whom he openly despised, and lost his job. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z Exciting creative communities are thriving in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and elsewhere. Theatremakers, don't be coy ? blog about your work 2011-02-18T15:29:17Z He now teaches at the University of Birmingham, and wrote a book on choral conducting — in German. Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The Birmingham artist will create mixed-media art on canvas or wood panels according to your specifications. Real Life Redo: Den Do-Over 2010-11-19T16:21:00Z A graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire, Ms. Mvula spent some of her teenage years arranging for an a cappella group. Music Review: Laura Mvula at the Bowery Ballroom 2013-05-21T21:14:44Z It's curious the way that certain plays are popular in particular years, and Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger have a number of outings across the country this Christmas, including at the Crescent in Birmingham. This week's new theatre 2012-11-24T00:05:41Z “Lazuli Sky,” a new work by Will Tuckett for Birmingham Royal Ballet, is fluid, conventionally pretty and entirely ordinary. From Sadler’s Wells, a Sampler of British Dance 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z One example in Birmingham is the Rhododendron Walk, a secluded spot surrounded by a tall beech hedge and bursting with blooms. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In early-20th-century Birmingham, England, apparently, the term referred to peaked caps worn by gang members that had razor blades sewn into the seams. ‘Peaky Blinders’ Is a British Crime Drama 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Recent acquisitions include two paintings by the noted Scottish author and artist Alasdair Gray, and several studies by Bridget Riley that are on display in Birmingham and are drawing large crowds. Online gallery will open forgotten art to public view 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z Steve, a carpenter, and Nicky, a former solicitor, want to move out of Birmingham and make a fresh start in the country with her three obstreperous teenage children from a previous relationship. TV review: Love Thy Neighbour; Famous, Rich and In the Slums 2011-03-03T22:05:01Z The orchestra is a big world messenger for Birmingham. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z He is convinced that in the 1660s Lady Wilbraham quietly set up an architectural office near Birmingham and eventually designed 400 buildings. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z Food & Wine, the glossy, chef-focused food magazine, is moving to Birmingham, Ala., joining a stable of other publications owned by Time Inc. that includes Cooking Light and Southern Living. Food & Wine Magazine Will Leave New York for Alabama 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z “We go to gigs every week here, Manchester, Birmingham,” Graham Norris, 51, a fan of punk, said over a hot dog on the first day of the festival. Hey Ho, It’s Old: England Embraces Punk Rock 40 Years Later 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z On Thursday he conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the British premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s “Weltethos,” a triumphant performance of a major new work for chorus and orchestra by a leading composer. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z He recalled standing sheepishly at one drag bar in Birmingham at 3 a.m., sipping pints amid “seven-foot-tall drag queens whose cleavage came up to my face.” ?La Cage? Imports Douglas Hodge, a Pinter Regular 2010-04-14T15:24:00Z This is a puerile argument, says David Wilson, a professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, who was a psychological adviser to Big Brother before resigning, "very quickly when I realised what was involved". Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z It emerged that they had grown up within a mile of each other in Birmingham. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Q: I recently used part of a $721 ticket credit on American Airlines to book a flight from Fort Myers, Florida, to Birmingham, Alabama, to see my grandson perform with the Alabama Ballet. COVID-19 cancellation leads to refund dispute with American Airlines | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Jack was born in their local hospital in Birmingham with some intervention soon after Aideen was induced. ‘No one expects people with disabilities to have a family’ 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Rachel Kavanaugh at Birmingham Rep was off a few months later. Meet the new guard running British theatre 2013-02-17T20:30:01Z In this small piece, done in the aftermath of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, he did. Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Mile End will open in Birmingham, Ala., next month, part of an ambitious Southern expansion. The Jewish deli is having a moment in places where you’d least expect it 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z With her black hair and piercings, she doesn't look like a typical festival mogul, and indeed Supersonic – which runs every October at Birmingham's Custard Factory – is far from Reading or Glastonbury. Pop music's mavericks: 'I might install speakers in my jacket' 2011-07-28T20:59:01Z By the time my plane touched down in Birmingham, I had murdered that feeling and buried it under the decision to apply to law school. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z In 1998 she was a prime mover in the foundation of the Birmingham Society for Modern Art, which sought to raise awareness and appreciation of 20th-century art and architecture. Tessa Sidey obituary 2011-02-24T18:44:20Z The first big petrolhead event of the year comes to Birmingham with attractions for people in the trade and enthusiasts alike. This week's new events 2013-01-05T00:06:20Z About 100 people were at a meeting in Birmingham to "allow residents to respond" to the series depicting the city's James Turner Street. Workers 'cut' from C4 benefits show 2014-01-16T11:57:39Z Birmingham, with its enthusiastic embrace of urban sprawl, lapped them up. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z However, it is doubtful that Mr Hunt will be receiving any texted, honeyed endearments from his boss, David Cameron, as he prepares for the Conservative party conference that begins in Birmingham today. Hunt's views on abortion only add to David Cameron's woes 2012-10-06T23:06:53Z Andris Nelsons and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, continuing a Mahler cycle, gave two performances of his ninth symphony this week. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z “S-Town” begins by focusing on allegations of corruption — namely a murder cover-up — in the small, rural town of Woodstock, Alabama, about an hour outside Birmingham. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z They also gave Birmingham his steadiest gig to that point. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z They are making a movie about the life of the legendary German Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann, who is still best known for his part in the 1956 FA Cup Final against Birmingham City. From Nazi to football hero: the incredible story of Man City's Bert Trautmann 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Raised in England, in the Bournville village of Birmingham, she now lives in London, where you may find her at her favorite yoga studio. Felicity Jones on Becoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z One of the authors mentions the dreadful segregationist admissions policy imposed at the Birmingham Museum of Art in the 1950s and 1960s only allowing African Americans in one day per week. The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z After attending Birmingham Southern College, he headed for New York, where he began performing and doing musical and vocal arrangements on Broadway. Hugh Martin obituary 2011-03-14T18:25:05Z It's also scheduled to travel to Chicago, Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta in the future. Pa. exhibit showcases legendary black photographer 2011-11-27T22:31:04Z He played Brutus, Hamlet, Henry V and Macbeth at the Birmingham Rep, and in 1956 made his London debut in the Old Vic’s production of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. Albert Finney obituary 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Given the statistics, filming very premature infants in the neonatal unit at Birmingham Women's Hospital wasn't going to produce too many happy endings. TV review ? 23 Week Babies: The Price of Life; Jamie's Dream School; The Great British Food Revival 2011-03-09T22:00:00Z He first went to Birmingham in 2005 and, over several years, made return trips, conducting research and speaking to residents in a sustained effort to understand the long aftermath of that traumatic time. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Speaking at City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's HQ, at a fringe event at Conservative conference, she paid tribute to that city's role in her sentimental education. Maria Miller: the arts need to get better at asking, not just receiving 2012-10-08T16:07:42Z Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla’s appointment as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England made the front page of the London Times. Can 2016 really be called the year of the woman? Look to the arts world, and the answer is yes 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He it was because he did not want to be "involved in something where I'm derogatory about people from Birmingham". Skinner turned down Benefits Street 2014-01-14T12:31:44Z The Guardian interviewed Birmingham on the writer’s maladies and Birmingham’s extensive efforts to identify what they were. James Joyce likely had syphilis, new history of 'Ulysses' surmises 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z "Watt moved to a large house in Heathfield, outside Birmingham," says Ben Russell, the museum's curator of mechanical engineering. Watt's workshop at the Science Museum 2011-03-20T00:05:21Z He came from Nigeria to study at university in England but is now sleeping rough in Birmingham. One night on the streets: a portrait of homelessness in Britain 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The Woods continues at Mac in Birmingham, and I'm heading for Northampton and the Royal and Derngate tonight for The Years Between. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-02-11T17:51:37Z The young Latvian arrived in Birmingham on 31 August 2007; the following day he stood in front of the orchestra for the first time. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Bravo to London’s robust dance-going public, which has been packing houses at season openings in the last few weeks, culminating in the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s much talked-about Black Sabbath production. Black Sabbath Ballet Turns Up the Volume on a Varied London Season 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z In Birmingham itself, every one of the 40 branch libraries is under review, and major cuts are expected in staffing and the book budgets. Super library arrives as hundreds of others face closure 2011-02-06T20:13:20Z She found three orchestras to commission it — the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England. Bridge Records Holds Onto Its Niche, With a Very Firm Grip 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z After her death in 2005, my father moved into a residential home in Birmingham and faced the inevitable irritations of old age – unaided by his beloved pipe – with gentlemanly forbearance, humour and grace. Barrie Edgar obituary 2013-01-17T15:41:47Z Most important to Birmingham, it made people happy. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z That episode included the story of the Birmingham children's march , the main moral of that story being that children have long been on the forefront of major civil rights movements. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute Personalizes a Struggle The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute uses artifacts and renditions of scenes from the era to tell the story of a tense and tumultuous time in the city. Museums: Special Section: 2012-03-15T00:19:58Z In the last election cycle in Birmingham/Jefferson County, nine black women judges were elected. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Defeated in the Albany campaign of 1962, the commander King recoups and in the spring of 1963 wins the Battle of Birmingham. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “And there is a finished painting at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham,” England. Inside Art: Elevating a Nobody to Somebody 2011-03-24T21:45:14Z Welsh National Opera presents Richard Jones's new production in Cardiff and Birmingham, before bringing it to the Proms as a concert performance. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z Sally was born in Birmingham, where she attended King Edward VI high school for girls. Sally Morris obituary 2012-08-05T16:44:48Z She stepped off the fast track briefly when her father had a stroke, and in late 2004, she returned to Alabama and a corporate law job in Birmingham. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Lawrence was lynched in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1933 for reprimanding white children who threw rocks at her. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Birmingham was my home until I left for Los Angeles in 2007. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z She earned a degree in composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z But Matthews's concerto is a substantial work, its introspective refusal to do conventional concerto things seeming every bit as impressive here as it did at its Birmingham premiere last autumn. BBCSO/Knussen 2010-07-29T10:59:00Z Later, the whole world was watching as Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, sicced police dogs on peaceful protesters. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z I meet her at Spring Fair, an industry trade show in Birmingham where business seems to be booming – row after row of sellers showcase cards to potential retailers and brokers. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It's part of a sprawling season of exhibitions and events celebrating Birmingham and the Black Country as the birthplace of heavy metal. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z Nelsons has frequently confessed his cradle devotion to Wagner – the music that first inspired him as a child – memorably demonstrated in Birmingham performances of Lohengrin and Tristan. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z Veiled by a transparent nylon stocking, it shows a young Black man being attacked by a dog during civil rights protests in Birmingham. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Televised images of police turning fire hoses and dogs on demonstrators in Birmingham, Ala., had an instant effect on public opinion and national politics. Art Review: ?For All the World to See,? on Civil Rights Era 2010-05-20T21:48:00Z A post-college move to Birmingham, Ala., connected them and their families. A New Life for an Old-School Couple 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The David Klein Gallery, based in neighboring Birmingham, is set to do just that, debuting a branch next door to Aloft Detroit this spring. A Creative Renaissance Breathes New Life into Detroit 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The best story that’s told in Mr. Birmingham’s “The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’ ” however, may be that of the arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Though set in 1920s Birmingham, filming takes place in Liverpool; during shoots, Murphy moves away from his wife and two sons in Dublin and stays in a rented flat in the city. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z When Langrée took over in Cincinnati in 2013, he moved his family there based on advice he had heard from Simon Rattle about his time with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The show takes place in 1920s Birmingham, not London. What You Should Watch This Week: Spring Finales, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘The Americans’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He was at Birmingham Rep for the three parts of Henry VI, which transferred to the Old Vic in London in 1953. Alfred Burke obituary 2011-02-18T19:32:19Z The Skiers are unveiling the holdings for “The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection,” an exhibition that opens on Tuesday at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Antiques: Loving ?Lover?s Eyes? and Loving Cereal 2012-02-02T23:17:03Z On a tour of her Birmingham district office, there are thousands of brochures touting the new copper tubing facility going up in nearby Thomasville, which created 200 jobs. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Benefits Street, which featured the residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham, was a ratings hit for Channel 4 when it was broadcast in January. Ofcom: Benefits Street not in breach 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z In addition, Birmingham sometimes veers precipitously close to imagining what people must have been thinking. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style We were there to talk about a possible collaboration between the young people in his camp and schools all over the world: Limerick, Birmingham, Chicago, Newtown, Port Elizabeth, Tampico. How to be hopeful: Colum McCann on the broken violin that played in a refugee camp 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z For the moment, however, his heart is in Birmingham, where he took over in 2008. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Wonderfully candid, she explains how as she writes she becomes her characters, walking up and down muttering like Johnson, though she can't do a Birmingham accent. The Private Life of Pigs 2010-07-22T07:00:00Z Levingston’s account of Birmingham, which chronicles the city’s impact on each protagonist, is simply riveting. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Charles Small, chief executive of The Drum arts centre in Birmingham, the national centre for black British arts and culture, said the closure was a "great disappointment". 'It was just like a big play centre' 2013-08-10T02:16:41Z “They are endlessly demanding to be reassured that Birmingham is really on Mars.” “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z She also thinks back to Birmingham when she considers how to frame the great collections. At Sotheby’s, Elaine Whitmire is in charge of the Bunny Mellon estate He and his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra reached the Sixth and Seventh symphonies this week, with one concert left to go. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z Looking at 100 years of Birmingham's Electric cinema. This week's new films 2012-06-22T23:05:59Z This collapse of past into present triggered the Birmingham Project, which Bey first exhibited in 2013 in Birmingham, on the 50th anniversary of the bombing. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z But the Birmingham set costs one-fifth the price of the Berlin set and is well-played in its own right. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Before the season started, they went to the Edgbaston ground in Birmingham for coaching and conditioning, which involved squat thrusts, sprints and muscle flexes supervised by two county cricketers. The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by The Authors Cricket Club – review 2013-07-18T07:00:01Z “We hit it at the top and went down,” he said of Asia’s trajectory in an interview with The Birmingham Post in 1998. John Wetton, Rocker With King Crimson and Asia, Dies at 67 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Janet Lord, a professor at the University of Birmingham, recently showed that vaccinating people in the morning is more effective than doing so in the afternoon. How to boost your immune system to avoid colds and coronavirus 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z This difficult, distressing film sees science writer Adam Wishart travel to Birmingham, where he observes doctors dealing with these cases of "extreme prematurity". Great British Food Revival 2011-03-09T07:59:00Z This is familiar country structure — the road song — but an unleashed Mr. Brooks takes it from Nashville through Memphis and Muscle Shoals and maybe a Birmingham church. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z And while their store grows into something of a flagship for the new Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston remain cognizant of the Woodlawn that came before them. ‘Southern’ Is Not a Style 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Before the day’s end, one Brooklynite quoted from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.” Fur is under attack. It’s not going down without a fight. 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Condoleezza Rice’s autobiography is really good — it talks about how her parents in Birmingham wanted no part of the movement. Bakari Sellers wanted his memoir to spark tough talks about race. We’re already in the middle of a conflagration. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Four years ago, Birmingham banished them from its street signs to achieve a “consistent” standard and “help emergency services who rely on computerized databases and satellite navigation to find addresses quicker.” Not without our apostrophes! 2013-03-29T19:50:00Z Rattle will leave Berlin still at the height of his powers and with his reputation – rooted in his 18-year transformation of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the 1980s and 90s – burnished still further. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z Well, it's set in 1973: one year before the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six cases took the bloom off this harmless activity. Cemetery Junction: Film review 2010-04-15T11:30:00Z Raised and home-schooled by hippie parents in Birmingham, Alabama, they were actually trained as ballerinas before Allison ran off to join a religious cult. First sight: The Pierces 2010-10-26T21:59:00Z In our little village of Water Orton just outside Birmingham he had me climbing, jumping, stalking and hunting wild animals...that were of course, trees, branches, pots and bags of compost. Penelope Harper's top 10 great grandpa books 2012-06-19T10:41:26Z Went to see The Exorcist in 1973 with my older cousin and her college friends at the Alabama theater in downtown Birmingham. 'I was terrified!': you share stories of watching classic films on first release 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The band, which formed in 1968 and whose best-known tracks include “Iron Man,” “Paranoid” and “War Pigs,” played its final show in its native Birmingham, England, in February. What’s on TV Saturday: Black Sabbath’s Final Performance and ‘Arrival’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z As Gentry, an aspiring dancer from Birmingham, Ala., who became a mother of two and a community garden organizer, put it, “We’ve evolved but we haven’t really changed.” The Original ‘Real World’ Cast Reunites, Older but Still Not Polite 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z She is touring with the Birmingham, England, ensemble, now as its principal guest conductor. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Against all of this turmoil, Birmingham’s chapters on Lacenaire begin to feel like an intrusion, despite the vivid portrait. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z At both dates, in Birmingham on 23 July and in Cardiff on 24 July, Hopkins will introduce music he wrote for his own independently released films. Anthony Hopkins to unveil classical compositions in UK 2011-02-25T10:40:10Z "There will be tens of thousands of people there in person and around the world watching," said Andrea Taylor, president and chief executive of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. National black history museum could spur interest locally 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z She's referring mostly to her earlier days, to growing up in Birmingham, the middle child of a butcher mother and TV salesman father. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z But the city’s most vigorous kitchen tradition is the Balti, a Kashmiri curry imported and adapted by Birmingham’s South Asian communities. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z Her parents shielded her from Birmingham's pervasive racism, she writes, "by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence." 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z He studied industrial and interior design at Birmingham Central College of Art, where he won an internal scholarship for silversmithing, before progressing to the Royal College of Art in London to specialise in furniture design. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z This is one of the scenes featured in a new J R R Tolkien-inspired audio walk, created by Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Joining Tolkien's childhood walk 2013-06-18T07:37:30Z These stories were told to me when I was a kid by my parents because they grew up in Small Heath in Birmingham, and so they sort of experienced that world. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Instead, the brothers drew upon Alvin’s 30 years of cooking in Chinese restaurants in Birmingham, experimenting with various Western techniques and in some cases introducing slightly offbeat spices, like thyme and oregano. Restaurant Report: Char in Singapore 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Host Rick Edwards told the audience the debate would be postponed because of concerns expressed by the Birmingham mosque where the show was held. BBC Three show denies censorship 2014-03-14T15:26:39Z With a hugely successful operation on Church Street since 2009, the owners, Simon Jenner and Amir Belkhelladi, have opened a second front in their mission to bring London-style independent coffee houses to Birmingham. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z If you really want to see something beautiful, witness the overhaul in Birmingham. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr Khan is an amalgamation of several people, says Ray, from "intriguing" relatives to the neighbours he watched and did impressions of while growing up in 1970s Birmingham. Citizen Khan: an Asian sitcom star is born 2012-08-22T19:30:01Z The oldest is Dawoud Bey, 63, a Chicago-based photographer and educator whose portraits of communities include “Harlem Redux” and “The Birmingham Project.” MacArthur Foundation Names 2017 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The notebook has been shown in the United States once before, at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008. ArtsBeat: Leonardo da Vinci Notebook Coming to Smithsonian 2013-08-08T21:02:13Z Friedman was born in Birmingham, Ala. He spent much of his career in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. 'Blood Feast' B-movie producer David Friedman dies 2011-02-14T17:08:32Z “Every single time I write anything down about being a mom, or about my mom or other moms – I write it: ‘Mom,’ because that’s how we say it in Birmingham. The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The series is filmed in James Turner Street in the Winson Green area of Birmingham and the first episode was seen by 4.3 million viewers. Skinner turned down Benefits Street 2014-01-14T12:31:44Z But reps have to move on, and Birmingham was no exception. The Birmingham Rep: the star machine 2013-02-12T19:00:02Z He hoped to quell the Black people of my hometown, Birmingham, which was best described, for lack of a more appropriate metaphor, as a powder keg. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The band kick off their UK tour at London's Roundhouse on the same date, before moving on to Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham. Chic song to feature Elton and Miley 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The Sutton will go digital in April, the projector retired – one of the last pieces of the great Odeon chain in Birmingham to go. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z If you believe “We Are Alive,” then striking 1877 Maryland railroad workers rest alongside Birmingham civil rights agitators and also next to Mexican border crossers. Music: Pareles and Caramanica on Springsteen?s ?Wrecking Ball? 2012-03-02T21:32:35Z The world reacted, shamed the city and Birmingham took its first steps toward desegregation. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z He spent months in advance collaborating with a local Birmingham jeweler to design a pearl engagement ring. A Brit and an American celebrate July Fourth with a Jefferson Memorial wedding These are questions Britons in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and London may want to ask after this summer's bleak revelation that urban England is not in the rudest of social health. What can we learn from Italy's urban utopias? 2011-08-22T11:08:13Z As its contribution to the Britten centenary celebrations, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is touring a programme of his chamber music. Illuminating Britten – review 2013-04-16T17:04:24Z Her curator Ian Alteveer, for one, is focused on the art of Kerry James Marshall, a prominent figurative painter from Birmingham, Ala., whose work redresses the absence of black subjects in Western art. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The fourth of five brothers, and the first to be born in Britain, he grew up in inner-city Birmingham. Much ado about Delhi: RSC's Indian Shakespeare 2012-08-01T07:01:00Z The biggest news in the conducting world this year has been Los Angeles Philharmonic assistant conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla's appointment as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The Habit of Art heads into Birmingham Rep, and Dolly at the Curve in Leicester is a musical in which cloning meets country and western. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-09-24T14:48:00Z An Alabama native who divides her time between Birmingham, Ala., Los Angeles and New York, Bruno credits her foremothers for her inspiration. | Jordan Alexander 2011-03-14T15:43:42Z The UK leg of her tour begins in Birmingham on 26 April. Beyoncé bans press photographers from Mrs Carter world tour 2013-04-24T10:31:41Z In the early 1990s, Segerstrom’s acoustician, the late Russell Johnson, worked on a new hall in Birmingham, England, for Rattle when he was music director of the city’s orchestra. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Twenty years ago, Mascord was made redundant in Birmingham and so telephoned cinemas he remembered from holidays in the West Country. My wonderful life in cinema 2011-02-15T20:00:02Z The British singer and piano player was supposed to perform at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Arena. Elton John cancels Ala show, medical reasons cited 2013-03-15T20:07:11Z Both men really like this stylish, violent British crime drama set in post-World War I Birmingham. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z If you're in the centre of Leeds, Manchester, London, Birmingham or Liverpool at 6pm, the chances are you'll get to hear a Guerilla Orchestra striking up the Mission Impossible theme tune. Tom Service on Guerilla Orchestra 2010-12-08T21:45:00Z Mr. McPhee used a poem — Langston Hughes’s “Birmingham Sunday” — as a motif to bind disparate patches of musical and textual terrain. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z Mr. Birmingham’s books flew off the shelves and made him something of a celebrity in his own right, with appearances on Johnny Carson’s and Merv Griffin’s talk shows. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z At 10, he’s just arrived from Birmingham, England, and his first day at his new school leads to tension and taunts. ‘The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk,’ a One-Man Show 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance. Heavy Metal, on Pointe, in ‘Black Sabbath: The Ballet’ 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z After setting up a company in England’s second city, Birmingham, in 1987, he staged operas in nontraditional venues including factories, warehouses and nightclubs. Opera director Graham Vick dies at 67 of COVID complications 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Tony Bennett's UK tour begins on 24 June at the Birmingham Symphony Hall and also takes in Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and London. Tony Bennett: my greatest mistake 2012-06-15T22:01:33Z Luke Hansell, flying to Birmingham with his mother, said he arrived four hours early after reading warnings in news reports, then spent 90 minutes in the security queue. Heatwaves and airport queues make for holiday season from hell 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z At the time she was raising three children of her own in Birmingham, working all hours as a waitress and coping with the fallout from an abusive marriage. My 700,000 children 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z She dismissed the speculation as ridiculous and there was no evidence at her opening night in Birmingham that she was anything but engaged and happy to be on stage. Live review 2010-04-14T00:12:00Z “You are raising your weight against gravity. Even going slowly, it’s as intense as jogging,” says Dr Frank Eves, a senior research fellow in sport, exercise and rehabilitation sciences at the University of Birmingham. The perfect ways to get fit – in 20 seconds, an hour or six months 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Though the meeting began quietly, things heated up when Jerome asked about the government’s real role in Birmingham. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z “The Barber of Birmingham,” directed by Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday, is a stirring tribute to the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, black Southern activists like the film’s focal character, James Armstrong. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z Her English was better than most, and she was about to complete a PhD in biology before moving to Birmingham for work. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z This play, compiled by Hannah Vaughn, draws directly on Frank’s diary and on Dr. King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” illustrating the parallels in their lives. For Children Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The pigeon fancier for more than 40 years - known as Pigeon Pete to his friends - had trained his Birmingham Rollers to always return to a mobile base strapped to the back of his moped. Pigeons make music with whistles 2013-06-26T05:22:59Z Events: An impressive array, including standup comedy, tie-in screenings with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and a recent weekend horror festival. Cine-files: The Electric, Birmingham 2011-07-19T08:06:28Z For the Birmingham premiere, the 1,000 performers included nurses, teachers, manual labourers, lawyers, school children and a smattering of music students, plus many members of amateur choirs. Shouting, whispering, clapping - Lang's 'Crowd Out' has it all 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Friedman, 34, is a financial services litigation partner in Burr & Forman, a Birmingham law firm. Rachel Friedman, Nathaniel Lawson 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z He was presented with a replica of his star by the mayor of Birmingham, Mike Leddy. Homeland actor's Walk of Fame star 2013-07-26T01:01:20Z Charles Moore’s famous 1963 photos of Birmingham demonstrators under police assault are here. Art Review: ‘Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-03-21T01:34:12Z Ms. Bloomfield was a 28-year-old unknown from Birmingham, England, who had never been to the United States and never been in charge of a kitchen. April Bloomfield Breaks Her Silence About Harassment at Her Restaurants 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z This Could Happen To You, Birmingham Subtitled Ikon In The 1970s, this show charts the gallery's life from a kiosk in Birmingham's Bullring to its status as one of the best-known UK galleries outside London. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z The following year Turnage became an associate composer with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and collaborated on a series of acclaimed works with Rattle. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z At the bookstore, I listened as Jones read a poem about seeing a Ku Klux Klan uniform on display at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Poetry in a Time of Protest 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z To personalize history, parents should point out depictions of children in the museum, from the images of enslaved children to references to the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, Costello said. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Some of the injured Freedom Riders made it to Birmingham after being viciously attacked. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z And she will begin in Birmingham in the fall. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The director Nelson George tracks Mays’s experience growing up in Alabama and getting his start playing for the Birmingham Black Barons in the Negro Leagues, as well as his career in the big leagues. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Black Panther’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z In May 1963, in Birmingham, Ala., Dr. King organized the most brilliant civil disobedience campaigns of his career, when he brought more than a thousand black schoolchildren into the streets to demonstrate against segregation. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The target could only be the multicultural festival in Birmingham where the Chick Peas would be playing their hit, Biryani for Two. Digested read: Rip Tide by Stella Rimington 2011-07-18T20:00:09Z If Steven Knight’s world-conquering 1920s Birmingham gang saga can be adapted into a ballet it does not seem too much of a stretch to imagine a spin-off set in Chicago at the height of prohibition. Peaky Blinders take Chicago! Which British shows deserve a US spin-off? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Whether we were from Jackson, Memphis, Birmingham or Atlanta, they called us country. City Summer, Country Summer 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z The cavernous lobby will join the library to its neighbour, the Birmingham Rep theatre, with a single box office and reception desk for both. Super library arrives as hundreds of others face closure 2011-02-06T20:13:20Z People of other faiths also live in Birmingham. Birmingham: Britain's new Mecca? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z I remember Simpson telling me in 2002 that "at regular nights in London, Manchester, Birmingham, it's still unusual to see a black performer on the bill". Meet black comedy's trailblazers 2010-04-13T20:35:00Z There are few safer options for a good night out in Birmingham than the Rainbow on a regular weekend night. Clubs picks of the week 2011-08-05T23:08:46Z She grew up in King's Heath, Birmingham, – "the ghetto," she jokes – in a strict religious household where pop music was effectively banned. Ones to watch in 2013: Laura Mvula 2012-12-31T10:00:03Z Written and recorded in a week at the Crutchfield family’s Birmingham home, “American Weekend” is an audacious, sometimes harrowing record, a true open wound. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z The story is as follows: In response to the unrest in Birmingham, the attorney general called James Baldwin and other prominent Black people, and a few liberal white people, to meet with him quietly. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Police say dozens of youths, several carrying machetes, clashed at Vue’s Star City theater in Birmingham, central England, on Saturday. UK cinema chains pull gang-themed movie after brawl 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The city is in the final stages of creating a Small Business Task Force, with the goal of making Birmingham a hub for women and minority startups by 2020. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The original hoard was bought by Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent museums for £3.3m with a substantial grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and donations from all over the world. Staffordshire hoard site yields further 90 fragments 2012-12-18T13:31:06Z Olive, the BBC’s food magazine, recently startled British gourmands when it declared Birmingham, England’s second largest city, the United Kingdom’s “foodiest town,” ahead of London and Edinburgh. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z As a put-upon construction foreman grinding through a number of intense emotions on a long solo drive from Birmingham to London, Hardy grabs you and holds you until the credits roll. Ranking the accents of Tom Hardy: cockney, Welsh, or unintelligible? 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z At Birmingham's Moor Street station, the wonders of karaoke currently allow you to sing a duet with a soldier serving in the British army. Fierce ? review 2011-03-24T21:30:02Z The Mrs Carter Show world tour begins its British leg in Birmingham on 26 April. Beyoncé and Kings of Leon to headline V festival 2013-02-25T20:00:00Z “It was something I was really self-conscious about because people think that people with a Birmingham accent are quite stupid,” she says. The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Toad's about … Alan Bennett's The Wind in the Willows comes to the Crescent in Birmingham. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-23T16:10:31Z Working with a further collaborator at the University of Birmingham, the changes in multiple compounds were combined using artificial intelligence algorithm techniques to develop a mathematical equation to distinguish between ASD and healthy controls. New test can detect autism in children, scientists say 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z In 1963, a pivotal time in civil rights history, Marshall’s family moved from Birmingham to the Watts area of Los Angeles. For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Birmingham, a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard, appears fully formed in this, his first book. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z We think men are leaving Birmingham to form terrorists cells. Digested read: Rip Tide by Stella Rimington 2011-07-18T20:00:09Z While I may have over-announced my departure from Birmingham to New York, my return to Birmingham could not have been more understated. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z He also helped found the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham and served as its director from 1964 to 1973. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z Birmingham fell for her in a flash last summer and scheduled a special concert last month to be sure. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, the star conductor recently appointed to roles in Los Angeles and Birmingham, England, will make her New York City debut in an enticing prospect for baton watchers. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In this excerpt from the book, Margolick examines how the Birmingham campaign pushed the Kennedy administration to introduce its bill on civil rights. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Just before Christmas I sat thinking about Hans Selye and his GAS experiments in the audience in a seminar room at a conference centre in a leafy Birmingham suburb. Is there too much stress on stress? 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z There is something else that sounds rather tasty in Birmingham this week, too: Bawdyville at the Vaults next Wednesday offers a series of one-to-one performances, plus rollerskating. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-09-24T14:48:00Z In order to combat this, a scheme is afoot to draft in ex-military personnel to schools as "instructors", even if, as at one Birmingham comprehensive, they have to sit GCSEs themselves alongside pupils. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-28T08:00:02Z Talking at length during a visit to MOCA, he is easygoing but eloquent, recalling his neighborhood in Birmingham, Ala., where he was born in 1955, or about growing up black there and in Los Angeles. For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z She lives with her husband, Al Vreeland, in Birmingham, Ala., an hour and a half’s drive away, and spends part of each week in Fort Payne, staying in her childhood bedroom. In Alabama, New Life for the Onetime Sock Capital of the World 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z She grew up in Bournville, the model village south of Birmingham. Felicitations 2011-02-20T00:04:06Z Yes, I learned from Frank Stitt, who cooks in Birmingham, and he was perhaps Alabama's greatest chef. These quick-cooked collard greens offer a flavorful new way to enjoy a classic of southern cuisine 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z May Birmingham’s book bring legions of new readers its way. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Guggenheim spent two years filming Malala in Birmingham, England, where her family moved after the teenager was shot in 2012 by a Taliban hitman assigned to silence her for her outspoken advocacy of girls’ education. Documentarian Davis Guggenheim is a man with a mission (sort of) 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The new study, from the University of Birmingham, involved 3.5 million people, approximately 61,000 of whom developed coronary heart disease. No such thing as 'fat but fit', major study finds 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Nashville; Asheville, N.C.; and even Birmingham, Ala., he said, deserve consideration. 6 L.G.B.T.-Friendly Places to Visit 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But with an only-in-Britain tapestry of vividly multiethnic neighborhoods, a postindustrial urbanity that’s gentrifying before your eyes and a food scene that can’t be ignored, Birmingham is no longer simply flyover country. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z The new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” with the Birmingham symphony, will be directed by Hans Neuenfels, who is known for his radical productions. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z I happen to think a Native American trying to buy back the land that was stolen from his people, like Gil Birmingham’s tribal-leader character is doing on the show, is historically pretty progressive. ‘Yellowstone’ Proves There Is Still an Appetite for TV Westerns 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z After listening to Duke Ellington’s “Birmingham Breakdown,” Moran turned the sketch into a painting. Perspective | In Shaw, playing with the colors of jazz 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The production, presented in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in England and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, mixes marionette puppetry and British pantomime with an acting style that turns the characters into flesh-and-blood cartoons. '946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips': All's bouncy on the home front 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z My mother is from Birmingham, and she was a child around the time that the book took place. Alex Newell Finds Inspiration in Whitney Houston, Billy Porter and ‘Dreamgirls’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Over the years, he said at an Upper West Side cafe a few days later, he had watched others operate, including Robert Shaw, the great American choral conductor, who came to Birmingham several times. Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In the UK, parents at one Birmingham primary school reacted with fury in May 2019 after its headteacher decided to teach LGBT-inclusive sex education to its pupils, the majority of whom were from Muslim families. ‘If you’re going to watch porn, know it’s not real’: meet Britain's sex-positive influencers 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Birmingham Alabama's newest brewery sits on a quiet street in the Avondale neighborhood just east of downtown Birmingham. Alabama?s Best Pints 2012-04-18T14:50:06.280Z The singer had a whirlwind fortnight in the UK, being photographed in several nightclubs in between his concerts in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham and London. Justin Bieber - Growing up disgracefully? 2014-01-23T18:10:17Z It was British salt-cured meat, a favorite from Anthony’s Birmingham boyhood. Restaurant Report: Char in Singapore 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Certainly there is no shortage to choose from – in Jefferson County alone, home to the state capital, Birmingham, there are literally hundreds. Alabama murder mystery could be the new Serial 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z His father, a cabinet-maker, was delighted with his son's educational success and especially when he was admitted to read geography at Birmingham University in 1964. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z In protest, residents reenacted the nuptials at a Birmingham Methodist church, an effort to show the state and the nation that Alabama can accept change. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Mwaituka, 29, didn’t need to leave his Birmingham home to develop an appreciation for other cultures. The Little Wedding on the Deck 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Her most recent concert was on Thursday evening in Birmingham, England. Lady Gaga, citing pain, cancels 10 European shows on 'Joanne' tour 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z It was kept untouched for another century, even when the house in Birmingham changed hands. Science Museum recreates James Watt's workshop 2011-03-23T10:29:17Z As you read Birmingham’s book, you realize that the author of “Ulysses” was a sponge and a fop, feckless and irresponsible about money, prone to drunken binges and embarrassingly crude in his sexual enthusiasms. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style Look again at Millais's child beggars; the painting, by the way, is in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Victorian art, the sentimental poor ? and Cameron's Britain 2010-10-26T14:33:00Z In April 1956, during a national concert tour, Cole was attacked by several white men while he was onstage in Birmingham, in the middle of the show. | Hartford: Nat King Cole, Beyond the Music 2011-07-10T17:54:11Z Midlands residents might recognise the 21-year-old from her stint behind a cosmetics counter in a Birmingham department store. New band of the day ? No 963: RoxXxan 2011-02-08T17:00:15Z The move by Birmingham city council to cut arts spending by £2m continues to cause ructions, not least the decision to stop giving money to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group supporters rally against cuts 2010-12-21T22:40:00Z Last month, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute unceremoniously yanked the award — only to re-offer it 10 days later. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z My students often ask me, “Doc, what was it like to be twelve and black in Birmingham?” Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Conductor and composer Oliver Knussen, who has been involved with the ensemble for years, agrees: "It seems crazy for Birmingham's politicians to cut BCMG's funding in this draconian way," he said in a statement. Birmingham cuts arts funding. Can audiences make up the difference? 2010-12-17T16:35:04Z Emile Zola’s indictment of anti-Semitism — emblazoned with the charge “J’accuse!” — is a history-changing document, as is Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and, its own different way, Bill Gates’ Open Letter to Hobbyists. Open Letter Writers: Cut it out! 2014-04-01T18:48:00Z The Birmingham appointment is wonderful, if a little worrying, news. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z On Jan. 22, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, a young Lithuanian conductor seen as a rising star, announced she would leave her post as music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the end of the 2021-22 season. Scrapped Plans for London Concert Hall Sour Mood for U.K. Musicians 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “These dances were created largely, though not exclusively, by farmers,” said Rajinder Dudrah, a professor of cultural studies and creative industries at Birmingham City University in England. A Graceful Place Where Bhangra and Bollywood Meet 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z In “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” King applied the concept to race relations in America. Maurice S. Friedman, Biographer of Martin Buber, Dies at 90 2012-10-06T01:01:48Z He graduated with first-class honors from Coventry University in England and received a master’s degree in international money and banking from Birmingham University in England. First Came the Résumé, Then the Text 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z It will then continue to Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds. Perry tapestries gifted to nation 2012-11-30T13:12:39Z After studying at the Birmingham School of Law, she passed the bar examination in 1943. Alice Lee, sister of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee, dies at 103 Birmingham Royal Ballet’s “Nutcracker” is also a Wright production — this one from 1990 — and so it’s not surprising that it resembles its sister company’s version, although its aesthetic is quite different. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z Born in 1961 and brought up in Birmingham, Billingham's early exposure to crime fiction came via an eccentric maths teacher who read Sherlock Holmes stories to his class, and from 1970s TV cops. A life in writing: Mark Billingham 2012-08-03T21:55:08Z While they enjoyed the beauty of many of the destinations, it was Birmingham, Ala., that really surprised them as a favorite for its food and historical awareness. In Napa Valley, a Commitment to One Another, and to Showcasing Diversity 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z His best sources, Mr. Birmingham said, were elderly women who loved to talk about their friends and relatives. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Birmingham wrote more than 25 volumes in all. Stephen Birmingham, author of ‘Our Crowd,’ other bestsellers, dies at 86 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z A former contestant on the 2013 season of the reality show “Survivor” was killed Tuesday while working on a coal train outside Birmingham, Ala. Former ‘Survivor’ show contestant killed in Alabama train accident 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z In those same discussions, Kennedy warned of potential Birminghams everywhere, and not just in the South. Book excerpt: How Birmingham shaped MLK’s civil rights’ struggle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z By the time the Watsons made it to Birmingham, and that horrible bombing took place on the page, I was no longer a detached reader. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z She graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire with a degree in composition and performed at age 14 with the School Proms. Urban and classical to mix at Proms 2013-08-09T23:30:50Z The subject was a single traumatic event: the bombing, of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963. Indelible Impressions From 3 Shows in Washington 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “I can hear the bulldozer coming,” he said, alluding to the destruction of many yard environments, including Holley’s in 1997 after a battle with the Birmingham Airport Authority. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “It’s not representative of Birmingham and not even representative of the Jewish community in Birmingham.” Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Treasured – A Secret Journey, Birmingham The mac, previously known as Midland Arts Centre, has reopened its doors after a major redevelopment and it's playing host to Treasured, developed at Bradford's Theatre By The Mill. This week's new theatre 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z He learned how to make stadiums scream not as a stage performer, but as a quarterback at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Another country: Sam Hunt maps out Nashville’s bold new future Photo: PR As part of the project to reclaim Birmingham and the Black Country's musical heritage, a series of screenings hammering home just how important the genre is. This week's new film events 2011-08-26T23:06:09Z He couldn't understand what I said, because I had a Birmingham accent and I mumbled a bit, so he thought I was saying something far more interesting than I actually was. Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth 2011-08-29T20:30:01Z She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, near the end of the Second World War. An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Steel in Birmingham after he left the Army. WWII veteran celebrates 105th birthday with French Legion of Honor 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Stitt, who is white, came home and started something that would change the face of Birmingham. An Alabama Chef and Her Beloved Desserts Hit the Big Time 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Banksy, whose identity remains a secret, uses the site to authenticate murals after they are painted in public locations, most recently in the English cities of Bristol and Birmingham. Bathroom Banksy: Street-artist stays home for new lockdown work 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Birmingham, at the time among the most racially divided cities in the country, was not poised to greet the riders neutrally. Television Review: Voices From the Buses on the Road to Civil Rights 2011-05-15T22:04:53Z Contemplate the lines of its upside-down ziggurat while you can; construction on the £189 million replacement, the glittering Library of Birmingham, is expected to wrap up in 2013. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z Birmingham, the English city often identified as Britain’s most diverse, is going to use time to celebrate its variety of voices. Diverse Voices to Start Telling Time in Birmingham, England 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z He still lives in the family house that Dr. Martin Luther King stayed in during the Birmingham Campaign. A new guide leads travelers through U.S. civil rights history 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Director Chris Horner is using Bryony Lavery's version, which premiered at Birmingham Rep a few years back, and this is certainly a play that can stand any number of repeat viewings over time. This week's new theatre 2011-02-26T00:07:52Z Mountain Brook is more than just a bucolic name fit for an affluent suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. My life is a Bravo reality show: How “Jersey Belle” smooths over my hometown’s poisonous history 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Both men attended one of the better black high schools in Birmingham, Mr. Klein said. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z Discharged with exemplary conduct, he read English at King's College, Cambridge, and completed a master's degree at Birmingham University. Hilary Evans obituary 2011-08-16T16:54:05Z Burne-Jones worked his way out of his unhappy Birmingham childhood by study, arriving at Exeter College, Oxford at the same time as William Morris. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z Birmingham Central Library was a place where books were burned, not read; the National Theatre a nuclear power station; the British Library looked like a secret police academy. Prince Charles is not a dabbler – he's deeply committed. But he's naive 2013-05-02T14:30:02Z Her most recent concert was on Thursday evening in Birmingham, England. Lady Gaga, citing pain, cancels 10 European shows on 'Joanne' tour 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Anderson, who lives in Birmingham, about two hours away from his grandparents, said the sentimental note took him by surprise. Grandfather's note about family with free baseballs melts Twitter users' hearts: 'Cherish these times' 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z All eyes, that is, except the serious pale blue ones sitting across the lunch table in Birmingham. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! continues in fairytale mode at the Old Rep in Birmingham. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-15T14:03:42Z “They share a real love for the land, and an intent to keep the land the way it is,” said Birmingham, who when we spoke was preparing to fly to Montana to shoot Season 5. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Impatience was one of Dr. King’s great virtues: His “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was published as a pamphlet with the title “Why We Can’t Wait.” In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z DS The Citizens Advice Bureau in Birmingham is making 22 people redundant. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Founded to teach about human rights and the fight for equality during the days of racial segregation, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is introducing a new topic: Lesbian awareness in the South. Ala. civil rights museum exhibiting lesbian photos 2012-03-29T21:03:12Z It speaks of his decision not to march with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham in 1963 and of his unlikely friendship with future Black Panther Party leader Stokely Carmichael. 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z Taylor said he first saw Japan with his brother Nick at Barbarellas in Birmingham on their Obscure Alternatives tour. Mick Karn, bass player with '80s band Japan, dies 2011-01-05T18:59:08Z Bey turned his attention to this problem — which should haunt us all — in a body of work he called “The Birmingham Project.” Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z But before they get the band back together, Mr. Halsey has some choirs to conduct — in Berlin, Birmingham, Barcelona, London and Paris. Simon Halsey, Preaching to, and for, the Choir 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Tonight, we meet West Midlands paramedics, a Liverpool GP who takes patients others won't, and a Birmingham student warming up for a 16th sperm donation. TV highlights 14/05/2013 2013-05-14T06:00:03Z In prison, King would compose what is now known as “The Letter From Birmingham Jail” on napkins, toilet paper and in the margins of newspapers. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Mergers of PCTs, like the one ongoing in Birmingham, are likely, with job losses inevitable. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Her mother, who is retired, was the director of student support services for Birmingham City Schools. Jillian Bell, Stephen Wood 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z A second case was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 1963, in which four young girls were killed. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z His young listeners “should go into an empty room, he said, look into a mirror and stare into their own eyes for five minutes,” Birmingham writes. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Then he’ll stop at more than a dozen other fan conventions through the fall, from Las Vegas to Atlanta, Austin to Birmingham, U.K. Forever Captain Kirk: William Shatner opens up about “fandom frenzy” and 50 years of “Star Trek” 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z In Birmingham, Ian Talbot revives the farcical backstage comedy, Noises Off, which might be one of the funniest plays ever written. Theatre picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z The nuns have no financial help from the Diocese of Birmingham. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z His tour with NSG took him to London and Birmingham and Manchester alongside “mad big artists.” What Happens When You Get Famous Off One Song? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Her parents shielded her from Birmingham’s pervasive racism, she writes, “by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence.” Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z Birmingham Opera Company's latest site-specific project is a specially commissioned opera by Jonathan Dove, based upon Calderon's play. This week's cultural highlights: The Recruiting Officer and Picasso 2012-02-12T17:51:27Z He included it last month in his concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony, when his new position as that orchestra's chief guest conductor was announced. Lutos?awski: Concerto for Orchestra; Symphony No 3; Chain 3 2010-10-14T22:30:00Z When the Birmingham police arrived, Johnny Robinson and his crew dashed down 8th Alley North. The awakening of the American white mind 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z People commute to either Birmingham, with a metro area of 1.2 million residents, or to Tuscaloosa, where almost 40,000 students attend the University of Alabama. 'Pretty accurate': S-Towners are proud to be podcasted – except for a few things 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Eventually, Bunton sent an anonymous letter to the paper with a left-luggage ticket for Birmingham’s New Street railway station, where the portrait was found in a locker. Art thief's story The Duke steals limelight at Venice film festival 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The motion to seal the will from public view was filed Monday by a Birmingham law firm on behalf of Ms. Carter, acting as the estate’s trustee. Judge Seals Harper Lee’s Will From Public’s Scrutiny 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z DC Jackson's romantic comedy hits Edinburgh before heading for Birmingham Rep, Sheffield Crucible and the Bush in London. This week's new theatre 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z He listened as I provided context about historical photos of protests in Birmingham, where we live. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z A spokesperson for McDonald’s told The Birmingham Mail that the worker did the right thing by not touching the needle. Mom says McDonald's worker wouldn't clean up syringe in bathroom: 'I ain't touching or cleaning that' 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Six weeks before his confession, a left luggage label had been sent to the Daily Mirror and the painting recovered from the left luggage office at Birmingham New Street station. Revealed: 1961 Goya 'theft' from National Gallery was a family affair 2012-11-30T15:33:32Z The 42-year-old violinist was serving four months in Winson Green prison in Birmingham for breaking windows on London's Regent Street, and was on hunger strike. Suffragette autograph album illuminates movement's struggles 2012-12-06T14:30:00Z The opening was meant to feature the Britten requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from England, which premiered it in 1962, and its chorus, under its music director, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The UK premiere, given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on 19 June launched the nationwide arts festival London 2012. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z Given this treatment, the black community in Birmingham did respond to SCLC’s call to boycott downtown stores. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said Weller received hundreds of bets in "the space of about an hour and a half", saying that activity at their Birmingham branches was particularly fervent. Mercury prize: Paul Weller at centre of 'biggest turnaround in music betting for 40 years' 2010-09-06T12:08:00Z He was born in Birmingham, the son of a primary school headmaster. Peter Hardwick obituary 2013-02-28T11:49:32Z He told a Birmingham, Ala., radio station last week that the Deep South is “a bit of an away game” for him. AP: Rick Santorum wins Alabama 2012-03-14T02:19:00Z Many young readers may know the story of how 6-year-old Ruby Bridges helped integrate New Orleans schools, but fewer may have heard of Hendricks’s role in the Birmingham Children’s March. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Birmingham performs a service in so thoroughly reanimating this material. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But he is even more interested in what local people will make of it: "I want a lot of people in Birmingham to find it exciting." The last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off 2012-08-08T18:00:01Z Ask a Londoner about the city, and you’re likely to receive either the blankest of stares or an unkind rendition of Birmingham’s memorable accent. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z Birmingham base makes sense considering the region's role in the genesis of heavy metal – not that you hear a great deal of metal on Kerrang!, at least not during the daytime. A week listening to ? Kerrang! 2011-08-04T11:50:17Z Erin Shaw Street is a writer based in Birmingham, Ala. Her website is erinshawstreet.com. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Citizen Khan's comedy mostly takes place in the twin hubs of Mr Khan's life: the mosque and the family home in Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan: an Asian sitcom star is born 2012-08-22T19:30:01Z I went to New York during that time, and it was very hurtful to me for people not to realize what Birmingham was really like. Fannie Flagg's Birmingham 2010-10-27T21:31:00Z He worked at theaters in Bristol and Birmingham early in his career and dabbled in what he called “fringe agitprop.” Howard Davies, acclaimed director on London and New York stages, dies at 71 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The City of Birmingham Symphony is building up to its centenary in 2020 with a year-by-year survey of the music from the decade leading up to its founding. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2013-05-03T16:48:19Z He went from Birmingham to the Berlin Philharmonic, where he holds the most prestigious job in the profession. The L.A. Phil's mesmerizing Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla leaps to the Birmingham orchestra 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Best known for playing the tribal chairman Thomas Rainwater on the hit western “Yellowstone,” Birmingham, who is of Comanche heritage, has become one of the most visible Native actors on television. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z One of her final achievements, through the Art Fund International scheme, was to commission the German printmaker Christiane Baumgartner to create Ladywood, a major work about the urban landscape of Birmingham. Tessa Sidey obituary 2011-02-24T18:44:20Z Until the cover is printed, the factory won't press the record, and the first copies are being transported to Birmingham's record emporiums only this day. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z She had traveled to the museum from Birmingham., An extra patina of pride on African American Museum’s second day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, who recently became the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England, will conduct Sibelius, Ravel and Dvorak. The New York Philharmonic’s Fresh Start: A Season Spent at Home 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Gražinytė-Tyla designed her calendar this season so that it was dominated by “The Cunning Little Vixen” — both in concert, as in Birmingham, and staged, as in Munich. A Conductor in Demand, and in Control 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z He found Jennings lying in a hospital bed in Birmingham, bandaged from head to toe, only a hole for his mouth showing. Sculptor pays tribute to plastic surgery pioneer 2013-01-01T20:05:28Z Also in Birmingham, head to Midland Arts Centre for Only Wolves and Lions, which takes its title from the idea that only wolves and lions eat alone and we should share food, stories and ideas. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-07-12T16:03:25Z Birmingham is old enough to remember watching the likes of “Bonanza” and “Rawhide” during their first television runs in the ’60s. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Birmingham is not just the setting—it’s a supporting character, with the city’s glamorous past and sometimes complicated present helping to shape a group of women who share a strong bond of friendship. Fannie Flagg's Birmingham 2010-10-27T21:31:00Z After faculty members at Lawson State Community College in Birmingham heard about Harrison’s story on the local news, they offered him a full scholarship, as well as books. He opted to skip graduation and work a shift at Waffle House. His boss was not having it: ‘I was going to get him there no matter what’ 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z His father was a well-known local architect and his mother encouraged him to become a classical musician by sending him to study at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music from the age of five. Hugh Martin obituary 2011-03-14T18:25:05Z If that doesn't appeal but you're looking for an interactive experience, head to the newly reopened Mac in Birmingham, currently offering Treasured – an immersive journey for one from the Jane Packman Company. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-06-04T15:47:00Z Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian Citizens Advice in Birmingham has no money to provide an advice service from 1 April. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z It’s an important lesson, she says, as the girl from Birmingham works with some of the country’s wealthiest clients. At Sotheby’s, Elaine Whitmire is in charge of the Bunny Mellon estate Lay, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, played professionally in Cleveland in the mid-1950s before moving to Chicago, the record label said. Blues drummer Sam Lay dies at 86; played with Dylan, Waters 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Two students from an art college in Birmingham, who are involved in a study program with the Ikon Gallery there, were among a group of 11 who toured Winfield House last year. In London, Embassy Residence Is Showcase for American Art 2011-02-28T21:27:00Z I was very productive in this endeavor until finally, I was recalled to the minor leagues of careerlessness in my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z Cities like Birmingham are also introducing local lockdowns this week in an attempt to contain outbreaks. West End Shows Announce a Return, Even as U.K. Coronavirus Cases Rise 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The grant will help the “Marking Time” project expand its footprint on tour, she added, noting that she had recently helped install the exhibition in Birmingham. MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But we've already had a guy get in touch from Birmingham saying he wants to do this. Share the love: vinyl lending library opens in London 2013-07-01T14:57:01Z Ms. Stritch moved to Birmingham last year to be near family as she became increasingly frail from diabetes and a broken hip and memory loss. Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 This one, by the Scottish director David Mackenzie from a screenplay by Sheridan, stars Jeff Bridges as a Texas Ranger and Gil Birmingham as his deputy. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘CMT Artists of the Year’ and ‘Hell or High Water’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z If Mr Birmingham occasionally slips into academic jargon, at other moments he almost seems swept up in his own Joycean prose. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The favourite, though, could well be another young maestro whose career has prospered, like Rattle's, in Birmingham. Simon Rattle is to leave Berlin: what next for him and the Philharmoniker? 2013-01-10T16:20:19Z The presenter made his foray with an interview with David Cameron at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham. Evan Davis makes Newsnight debut 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z We'll be taking over venues across Birmingham, including pubs, galleries and warehouses, the town hall and the century-old Electric cinema, and we'll also be trundling all over the city thanks to the vintage mobile cinema. Forget Tribeca online: here's the virtual Flatpack festival 2011-03-23T17:29:08Z London, Birmingham and Coventry offered a new life, but the sense of unchosen exile haunted many emigrants. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z People of Birmingham are very lucky to have such a wonderful library. Malala Yousafzai: By the Book 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Matthews grew up between Birmingham, Ala., and Cincinnati in a family that exposed him to all kinds of music. Pink Siifu, a Shape-Shifting Musician With One Demand: Don’t Box Me In 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Liverpool was selected from a shortlist of seven cities that also included Glasgow, the runner-up, along with Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. Liverpool Will Host 2023 Eurovision Song Contest 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Tony Robinson has been giving a helping hand to train announcers on the Birmingham to London line, in a bid to liven up their in-journey patter. Seven days on stage 2012-05-18T14:06:15Z He visits Warwick Castle, the gardens at Blenheim, a library in York and the factories of Birmingham. ‘Letters of a Dead Man’: A travel guide like no other 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z BIRMINGHAM, England — High up in an attic overlooking a dense network of Victorian terraces in Birmingham’s historic jewelry quarter, the fledging watch company Struthers London has created an elegant design studio and workshop. Tradition and Edgy Design in a Young Watch Company 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z He received honorary degrees and appointments from many universities, including Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Turin, Ghana and California, and was also decorated by Portugal and Cape Verde for his services to their history. Basil Davidson obituary 2010-07-09T16:52:00Z Stevenson's criticisms appear in a brief, long-lost essay published Friday in The Strand Magazine, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich. that has published obscure texts by Mark Twain, Graham Greene and other famous authors. Long-lost essay by 'Dr. Jekyll' author published 2013-03-14T11:45:09Z The film “touched a nerve” with N.R.I.’s who were “navigating between two or three cultures,” Rajinder Dudrah, a professor at the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, explained in an interview. A Bollywood Favorite Is Remade for the Stage, Raising Eyebrows 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Think about Emmett, think about the four little girls in Birmingham, think about the fact that my father is 75 and I’m 35 and think about how many shared experiences we have. Bakari Sellers wanted his memoir to spark tough talks about race. We’re already in the middle of a conflagration. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Taylor also had every intention of performing with the Birmingham group that night for the first time in well over a decade. Andy Taylor on new solo album: "It's the beginning of something that I didn't think I'd have" 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z I know we have a bit of that here but, with respect to the people of Birmingham and Newcastle, being a Pashtun seems to mean even more than being a Brummie or a Geordie. Blood, Sweat and Luxuries, Afghan Star and Olympic Dreams 2010-04-20T23:05:00Z The most traditional showcase of the Birmingham ensemble’s sound under Gražinytė-Tyla was in Debussy’s “La Mer,” which closed the evening in a transparent interpretation that revealed the piece’s rich, subtly maximal orchestration. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “There’s a whole journey of sacrifices that you’re making in your life to keep following that road and be diligent with it and be persistent,” Birmingham said. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Now Birmingham looks around a sees a different, fuller landscape. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Routes, by Birmingham playwright Rachel De-lahay, is about six men aged 15 to 28, each with a different experience of immigration to Britain; Featherstone described it as "very witty, funny, clever and with extraordinary dynamism". Iron Lady writer to make her debut at Royal Court theatre 2013-07-08T15:21:15Z Derby Arboretum may be the most modest stop on Olmsted’s itinerary, an 11-acre neighborhood park surrounded by middle-class brick houses in the city of Derby, less than an hour’s drive north of Birmingham. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He spent two days learning the basics at Highlands’ headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., before Zoe opened for business. This Preacher Would Be Happy to Share Your Bowl of Açaí 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Kevin Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s “Ulysses” braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Between the 1960 election and the 1964 election, you have the Kennedy assassination, the March on Washington, and the police actions in Birmingham. Richard Nixon would be “drummed out” of GOP today as a liberal: “He passed as much social welfare legislation as Lyndon Johnson” 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z That is the view of Lee Benson, from Number 9 gallery in Birmingham, on the decision to close The Public arts centre in West Bromwich in November. 'It was just like a big play centre' 2013-08-10T02:16:41Z Hardy is Ivan Locke, a construction manager driving from Birmingham to London on a Friday night. My streaming gem: why you should watch Locke 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Instead they were part of a group of avant-garde musicians centred around Birmingham's Custard Factory arts complex who made edgy and occasionally difficult music by fusing old-fashioned analogue textures with modern digital recording techniques. Trish Keenan obituary 2011-01-17T15:27:31Z In his time with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sibelius was at the heart of Rattle's repertoire and his reputation. Rattle rehabilitates Sibelius in Germany 2010-05-21T15:36:00Z National Union of Journalists picket lines are planned outside BBC offices in London, Cardiff, Glasgow and Birmingham. BBC strike: Radio 4's Today show forced off air 2013-02-18T08:44:43Z After the war he directed productions at Stratford-on-Avon, Birmingham Repertory Theater, and the Old Vic in London, among other theaters. Michael Langham, Classical Theater Director, Dies at 91 2011-01-20T05:56:02Z This time it's conducted by Edward Gardner, with Rattle's former band, the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and its chorus. This week's new live music 2012-06-15T23:05:20Z Many of the cities north of Birmingham have a lot of empty housing, reflecting the Tories' institutional prejudice against the north. Home truths: architects tackle the housing crisis 2012-07-11T17:15:59Z "If this is the future of film, then we're all doomed," said Empire magazine in its review of Shank, while the Birmingham Post complained that the dialogue was "unintelligible". The lighter side of youth crime: urban film spoofs 2011-03-10T22:29:00Z She is a daughter of Linda A. Friedman and Douglas I. Friedman of Homewood, Ala. The bride’s father is the founder of Friedman Law Firm, which is in Birmingham. Rachel Friedman, Nathaniel Lawson 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Downtown Birmingham boasts designer shops one might find in New York’s SoHo, for example. “DETROIT”: Cleaning up the mess white people made or adding to it? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Two high points of this collection are Gregory’s 1963 speeches in Birmingham, where he spent four days in jail, and in Selma, where his pregnant wife was jailed. Dick Gregory, a Humorist With Many Passions and a Singular Gift 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z I just finished five concerts in Europe, in London, Birmingham and the Edinburgh Festival, then I went to Oslo, Norway. Ravi Shankar still making magic sitar music at 91 2011-09-23T19:38:53Z Her comeback tour in 2010 was marred by reviews claiming she was unfit to be onstage, and a clip of her sounding wobbly at gig in Birmingham was played on the TV news. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute doesn’t debate this, but it voiced other reservations: Davis, a longtime radical, didn’t disavow violence. Angela Davis is beloved, detested, misunderstood. What can a lifelong radical teach the resistance generation? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z A ship will be appearing in Victoria Square, Birmingham, at 10pm nightly from next Thursday 21 June as the outdoor spectacle The Voyage sets sail. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-15T10:58:30Z The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's late-night appearance was conducted by Ilan Volkov, taking over the programme that George Benjamin planned to conduct until he had to withdraw because of a death in his family. Proms 27 & 28: Hall?/Elder; BCMG/Volkov 2010-08-07T12:03:00Z The 33-year-old is currently recording a new album and plays the Legitimate Peaky Blinders festival in Digbeth, Birmingham on 14 September. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Gina was back at the mill by 8:30 the next morning, logging orders from store buyers and considering ideas for the next Little River line, which she develops with a designer in Birmingham. In Alabama, New Life for the Onetime Sock Capital of the World 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Cole was actually attacked in Birmingham, not Montgomery. In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z “I was trying to make something that reminded me of those drives from Birmingham to Cincinnati.” Pink Siifu, a Shape-Shifting Musician With One Demand: Don’t Box Me In 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Houston, 46, is expected to retake the stage on April 13 in Birmingham, England, and continue touring through June. Whitney Houston says drug use reports "ridiculous" 2010-04-08T00:15:00Z Significantly, a major reason that Elliott gives for not running – the incompatibility of artistic directorship with being a mother – was also mentioned by Rachel Kavanaugh when she resigned from Birmingham Rep citing family commitments. Hytner's National Theatre: who should run it next? 2013-04-11T10:39:49Z Speaking before a gig in Birmingham, singer Katy B agreed it was important ticket fraud was tackled. Promoters trial new ticket system 2011-05-17T05:22:22Z Birmingham, a tall, muscular and youthful 68, has been at this for a while, even if you’ve only noticed him recently. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Stritch, who won Emmys for roles on TV's "30 Rock" and "Law & Order," died in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of her native Detroit, from natural causes. Stage actress Elaine Stritch dies at age 89: spokesman 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It is to close in Birmingham, Sutton, south-west London, and in Greenwich, south-east London. Library campaigners plan court action over closures 2011-01-28T17:24:37Z This was a modest opening to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's new season, but a thoughtfully planned and rewarding one, including one significant premiere. Leonard/Hind/BCMG - review 2010-10-12T22:00:00Z His doctor suggested a change of air might help him, and in the early 2000s he swapped Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham for Ulverston. Meet the man living with Alzheimer’s who climbs the same mountain every day 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Britain has hosted the event eight times, most recently in 1998 in Birmingham. Liverpool Will Host 2023 Eurovision Song Contest 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The three bombers were all convicted on evidence from confidential interviews and wiretaps conducted by F.B.I. agents who were on the scene in Birmingham in the mid-60s. Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Both the dash and the semicolon are put to brilliant use in a page-and-a-half-long sentence from “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which Watson quotes in full. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The two men’s bags were also searched again by TSA agents in Birmingham. American Airlines crew ‘not comfortable’ with Muslim men on flight, they claim 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z “Not only do I have the best goal in West Birmingham, I have the only shaded basketball court in Alabama in the summer,” Wood said. Roy Wood Jr. Is Following in the Comedy Footsteps of Dick Gregory 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It arrived in Birmingham about an hour and 15 minutes later. Boarding pass security breach at Midway 2011-10-26T17:02:00Z The biggest loser of Birmingham city council's round of arts cuts announced earlier this week was the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Birmingham cuts arts funding. Can audiences make up the difference? 2010-12-17T16:35:04Z “His work is unpredictable, and it’s so soulful,” Birmingham said. Gil Birmingham Took the Road Less Traveled 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Both are funded by Arts Council England and, crucially, receive support from, respectively, Wandsworth and Birmingham City councils. In the complex ecosystem of British arts, weeds are as important as trees 2010-09-28T19:59:00Z Birmingham has had one of the most forward-looking cultural quarters in the country. Birmingham cuts arts funding. Can audiences make up the difference? 2010-12-17T16:35:04Z The gallery is scheduled to open in autumn 2014 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and will tell the history of the belligerent kingdom of 7th-century Mercia, and of the discovery of the hoard. Staffordshire hoard of treasures to be displayed in Birmingham gallery 2013-03-13T15:20:28Z After that, she studied with an art appraiser in Birmingham. At Sotheby’s, Elaine Whitmire is in charge of the Bunny Mellon estate As a teenager he studied piano at the conservatory there and performed as a soloist with the Birmingham Symphony, now the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. McNeil Robinson II, 72, Organist and Composer, Is Dead 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z In a Wednesday interview on Birmingham, Alabama's WBRC-TV news, Wyatt offered more detail about the seminars. Cosby plans speeches on sex assault, spokesman says 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z If you were heading to Birmingham carrying a major-label cheque book, it's not hard to see how you might end up at Peace's door. This week's new live music 2012-12-29T00:06:11Z With its Ancien Régime setting, its palatial choreography and music, Sleeping Beauty is the grandest ballet in the repertory; and in visual terms, Birmingham Royal Ballet's production remains the most magisterial I've seen. Sleeping Beauty 2010-04-21T20:45:00Z While in Birmingham, Mr. Rattle made outstanding discs of Mahler’s Second Symphony and the complete Sibelius for EMI. Berlin Philharmonic Goes to London in Simon Rattle Homecoming 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z He's trying to direct his troops in Birmingham and Albany and Chicago, and his extramarital relationships, and he's being monitored by Hoover and Sullivan, and the FBI. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z A feeling that Birmingham, the Fastest-Growing City in the South, was right on the verge of exploding into the biggest city in the world. Fannie Flagg's Birmingham 2010-10-27T21:31:00Z His criticism hits a personal note for me because my mum worked for the Race Relations Board, when she met my dad, who was central in the black power movement in Birmingham. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Twists in the tale … I Was a Rat! at Old Rep, Birmingham How do you celebrate your 100th birthday? I Was a Rat! – review 2013-02-17T13:49:00Z In this video, which celebrates, as Kiki says, “The Year of Magical Drinking,” the duo, in trashy old-age makeup, play originals and covers — “Boulder to Birmingham,” “The Rhythm Divine.” 7 Things to Do on Labor Day Weekend 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z He grew up in Birmingham, England, then traveled the world, eventually settling in New York in the mid-1980s for work. For This Couple, It’s Death Till They Part 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Gruber, a native of Birmingham, had recently returned from working overseas with the nonprofit organization International Relief and Development, which was at a Yemeni refugee camp. The Little Wedding on the Deck 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z "From that I deduce you were radicalised at the New Springfield Mosque in Birmingham." Digested read: Rip Tide by Stella Rimington 2011-07-18T20:00:09Z Birmingham, Alabamians revel, has become a hidden gem. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Last year at age 30, the Lithuanian Grazinyte-Tyla became the first female music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. A little Russian diplomacy saves the day at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z On a crisp April day, I drove from Birmingham to Bessemer, about 20 minutes to the southwest. Cultured Traveler: Driving the Juke Joint Trail 2013-05-17T18:45:50Z Actually, this young man walking out of A&E in Birmingham isn't the best advert for the NHS. Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day; The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass – TV review 2013-03-27T07:00:21Z From the moment she's introduced to the excited, anxious bakers, Hammond's smile and bright Birmingham lilt invite them to if not relax, at least remind them to have a good time. Turns out Alison Hammond is the zesty ingredient "The Great British Baking Show" has been missing 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z The four girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 loom large in Bubbly’s imagination and in the director Robert O’Hara’s pungent, often hilarious production. Review: ‘Bubbly Black Girl’ Lets a Smile Be Her Camouflage 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Entering each other’s orbit would indeed be difficult for Mr. Kedem, an Israeli-American living in Brooklyn, and Ms. Woods, an African-American from Birmingham, Ala., living in Manhattan, who was 10 years his junior. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Drawn to Each Other’s Worlds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z They put a bomb in a 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It's your last chance this weekend to catch the gorgeous family show I Was a Rat! at Birmingham Old Rep, but the show will tour to Nottingham Playhouse and the New Wolsey. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-03-01T13:56:37Z But last month, guitarist Tony Iommi was diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma and, to accommodate his treatment, the band moved from the United States to Birmingham in Britain to continue writing and recording. Black Sabbath drummer says may pull out of reunion 2012-02-03T14:31:04Z Amazingly, points out George Clark, a curator who put together Flatpack's Build Them in the Mind programme of short films, Birmingham still lacks a proper arthouse cinema. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z Her first culture job was as director of creative partnerships in Birmingham in 2002. Tate’s New Leader Has ‘Fresh Eyes and a Lot of Energy.’ Is That Enough? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z He was later seen being arrested for contravening an Asbo banning him from Birmingham city centre. Benefits Street prompts complaints 2014-01-08T12:55:22Z He exhibited, according to Birmingham, a combination of ruthlessness and vulnerability. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z He recorded many of these works about a decade ago with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and those accounts were full of bite and tension and drama. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z For jackin, poised as it is between underground and overground in Birmingham and Leeds, the question is how much bigger can it get while still maintaining what makes it so vital and fun? Jackin proves dance music is alive and bouncing – but mostly outside London 2013-05-28T15:51:00Z He was hardly a newcomer though, having already directed at Birmingham Rep, Theatr Clywd in Wales and the Royal Court in London. Profile: Rufus Norris 2013-10-15T10:42:36Z After much calling around, he placed it with a museum in Birmingham, Ala. Do Museums Need a Shopping Network for Art Donations? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z One of the best chances of this in Birmingham this weekend is at the Secret Summer Warehouse Party, held in a new, secretive city centre location. This week's new clubs 2011-08-26T23:06:02Z The schemes were public-private partnerships in cities and conurbations from Birmingham northwards, that involved the demolition and, in theory, replacement of housing in working-class areas. Anger surrounds demise of 1970s housing estate 2011-02-07T20:33:13Z |
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