ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Bryan Council. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
There’s never been a neighborhood in Birmingham that’s gone through a more drastic transformation than Avondale.
A few years ago some people outside the community would have been afraid to get out of their cars. Continue reading Why a Birmingham man wants to be called ‘Elephant Man’
Birmingham’s been called the ‘city of perpetual promise.’
But that potential seems to elude us.
Destiny, however, has dealt us a hand and it’s up to us to grab it.
If we want to make our mark on the world then we must identify how we’re unique and how we can exploit that uniqueness. Continue reading Time for Birmingham to embrace our civil rights past
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Uma Srivastava. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Close your eyes and imagine a timid young 17-year-old girl entering “Malfunction Junction” with a car full of school supplies, boxes, and clothes.
She had never lived anywhere else but in her hometown of Meridian, MS,– population 39,000 people. Continue reading Timid Mississippi gal intrigued by Birmingham
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest bloggers are husband and wife Maury Shevin & Joyce Spielberger. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Having lived much of our lives outside of the City, why move into the City?
We’ve made our livings in the City of Birmingham, but so do many other non-residents.
So, what compelled us to want to make the City our home?
First, and foremost, we were done being in the suburban bubble. Continue reading Why we escaped the Mountain Brook bubble
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Megan Gagliardi. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Take one look at me and you’ll see a normal 24 year-old-girl standing before you.
Take another look and you’ll most likely notice a 9-inch scar running down my chest. It’s a constant reminder to me that I should never take anything for granted – not even the little things. It’s my battle scar showing others how hard I have fought for life.
Continue reading My Birmingham battle scar: How I fought for life
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Willie Chriesman. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
It’s hard to believe but it’s been 14 years since Ruben Studdard beat Clay Aiken to win Season 2 of American Idol.
Studdard, known as the ‘Velvet Teddy Bear,’ was memorable for his ‘205’ printed t-shirts.
Yes, a charismatic young man who grew up singing in church choirs around Birmingham and played football for Huffman High was singing the praises of Birmingham on national TV…and we loved him for it. Continue reading What Birmingham can learn from Ruben Studdard
The City of Birmingham could be the next Homewood.
Homewood is one of the most livable and popular cities in Alabama.
Young folks are flocking into Homewood.
Young folks also are flocking into Birmingham.
But Birmingham has a problem…
Continue reading Birmingham: the next Homewood?
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Nadav Raviv. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Over the past few years, I have gone through a period of awakening.
I have been on many adventures and taken many different paths, and funny enough, I ended up right back where I began, but only in the physical sense.
My name is Nadav and I am a child of a wonderful family in Mountain Brook. Continue reading Mtn. Brook man thunderstruck by fun and opportunities in Birmingham
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Tommy Mayfield . If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Birmingham is known as the Magic City because it sprang into existence, as if by magic, in the years following the Civil War.
In many respects, the story of our city’s unlikely beginning mirrors my own, which began while I was practicing law at Maynard Cooper & Gale.
My wife Ginger and I had a crazy idea. Continue reading Birmingham about to disrupt babysitting world
A good friend and I walk the Jemison Trail every week.
The Jemison Trail is a quiet peaceful path that winds along Shades Creek in Mountain Brook.
Recently we noticed a new walking bridge had been constructed along the trail.
I remarked that the bridge must have cost a lot of money. Continue reading Mountain Brook builds wall—demands Vestavia pay for it!