Bake sales for financial fixes have been a Southern go-to for decades, so Alabama’s culinary community is using it as a way of helping a favorite institution. The Birmingham Bake Sale at the Market at Pepper Place on Saturday is raising money for Jones Valley Teaching Farm. It’s the brainchild of this week’s featured chef at the market, Kristen Hall, […]

Those who ordered Rodney Scott’s barbecue at the Market at Pepper Place Memorial Day weekend may not have realized it was the James Beard Award-winning chef and Barbecue Hall of Fame semifinalist himself loading their cars with ribs and pulled pork. Scott would be more recognizable if not for the face mask – though it was well-branded with the Rodney Scott’s […]

Country music legend Alan Jackson will be performing two drive-in shows in Alabama next month where concert-goers will remain in spaces designated for their vehicle, similar to old-fashioned drive-in movie theaters. Jackson will perform in Cullman on June 5 and Fairhope on June 6. Tickets begin at $99.99 and go on sale May 27. Members […]

One Alabama high school is using social media to make every day Memorial Day. The Auburn High School Veterans Project uses its popular Facebook Page to highlight a Vietnam War veteran from Alabama every day – either on that service member’s birthday or on the day of their death. History teacher and the program’s director Blake Busbin said the Veterans […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin says he hopes churches in his city remain closed for the near future to protect against the transmission of the coronavirus. “Having physical church at the actual church grounds is very dangerous right now,” warned Woodfin during a recent interview with CNN. During the interview Woodfin brought up that “the largest, […]

It will be a different kind of Memorial Day for those who want to honor the men and women who died while defending the nation. With the COVID-19 pandemic still threatening, and the health risks of holding large gatherings continuing, many Memorial Day observances and ceremonies across the state have been canceled or postponed. The […]

Taylor Wilson, a 2019 ADA scholarship recipient, studies aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, plays soccer and volunteers each summer. Taylor Wilson turned 21 during the COVID-19 crisis, but that didn’t get her spirits down. Her family made sure to mark the occasion in their hometown of Panama City, Florida, with a […]

Tommy Merrick has spent his life looking for ways to serve others. As a youngster growing up in Prattville, his dream was to be a disk jockey. He loved music and, being an only child, his mother encouraged him to sing along to songs. His dad played a little guitar and his uncle was an […]

A Mobile man rescued an elderly woman from a burning apartment building on Wednesday. The blaze, and Quinn Parrish’s heroics, were first reported by MyNBC15. Parrish described the moments before rushing to his aged neighbor’s aid, saying, “I felt the heat on the side of my face, I felt the heat on my arm.” Video […]

A family in Montgomery that has seen nine of their 10 kids enter college by age 12 is set to produce a 19-year-old lawyer. Parents Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, a couple who live in Alabama’s capital city, have 10 kids. So far, nine of them have entered college by age 12. Their youngest is […]

Alabama’s historic DeSoto Caverns will reopen to visitors on Thursday, May 21. “[T]his closure for the Caverns was its first time in thousands of years not to be experienced by people,” said Desoto Caverns president Joy Sorensen about the recent COVID-19-induced shutdown. The family business that owns and runs DeSoto Caverns says their team coordinated […]

Chris Hodges, founding and senior pastor at Church of the Highlands, joined Micah McElveen recently to discuss the spiritual path forward during these uncertain times. According to McElveen, founder and CEO of Vapor Ministries, Church of the Highlands is his organization’s largest supporter. McElveen called Hodges a mentor and a friend. Referencing one of his […]

BhamStrong has launched a program to fight COVID-19 by providing Birmingham Strong Service Corps members to help staff local nonprofits performing relief services. In the BhamStrong Nonprofit Partnership, service corps members work under the supervision and direction of approved nonprofit organizations for two to eight weeks, while being paid a living wage by BhamStrong. BhamStrong’s mission is to empower workers […]

Brianna McAnnally, a woman from Sumiton, Alabama, has created a customer sticker pack of iconic Alabama locations during her COVID-19 quarantine downtime. McAnnally sells the stickers herself, via the website Etsy; one pack is $7 When not making stickers, McAnnally is normally a dance teacher at the Athletic Art Center in Jasper, while pursuing a […]

Cullen Stafford, an officer in the Birmingham Police Department, hopes to make a return to the force in 2021 after being shot multiple times in 2019 while responding to a robbery. Stafford’s updated recovery and initial shooting were both first reported by WBRC. The 36-year-old officer was gifted a t-shirt, signed by dozens of his […]

The Auburn Twitter-sphere is abuzz after an incoming professor admittedly posted his “first controversial tweet” as an Auburn University faculty member. Dr. Jesse A. Goldberg, PhD, according to his social media account, will be starting a new role as a “Lecturer of African American & American Literature and Composition in the English department at Auburn […]

Alabamians looking to buy local have a new tool at their disposal. Sweet Grown Alabama has launched a searchable database which members of the public can use to search for locally grown products in their area. “The mission of Sweet Grown Alabama is to connect farmers and families, and this database does just that,” said […]

The Archdiocese of Mobile is resuming public masses on Tuesday in light of Governor Kay Ivey’s amended safer-at-home order, but other Christian denominations are waiting a little longer. Ivey’s order removed the 10-person limit on gatherings, allowing houses of worship to legally resume on Monday, May 11. However, the governor urged each faith leader to […]

The coronavirus pandemic has brought on calls for the United States to rethink its relationship with the Chinese government. As government officials are taking up that cause, U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) explained that not everyone has always been skeptical of China and its practices, especially regarding human rights and its persecution of Christians under […]

Fred Rogers, who helped raise millions of American children over three decades as public television’s icon of kindness, offered the following advice for helping them – really, all of us – deal with disaster: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look […]

David Platt recently joined Vapor Ministries founder Micah McElveen on a video conference to discuss radical service during the time of a pandemic. Platt is a former pastor at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham and now pastors McLean Bible Church in Northern Virginia. His book, “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American […]

A Montgomery plumbing company is providing lunches to area healthcare workers as a way show its gratitude to them and to honor the legacy of its founder. “What the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers have done the past 2 months is nothing shy of extraordinary,” explained Will Imbusch of Bill Bradley Services in a recent […]

Not all superheroes wear capes – some wear masks. Instead of fighting felons, they battle truly deadly forces: COVID-19, cancer and other diseases or illnesses. Wanda Roden is a registered nurse with a passion for her patients and a desire to make the work shift brighter for her co-workers. When she’s not at work, Roden […]

The World Police and Fire Games Federation has awarded the 2025 World Police and Fire Games to Birmingham, officials announced Wednesday. “From the beginning, we were impressed by all that Birmingham has to offer,” said LC Collins, World Police and Fire Games president. “We believe that this city is the whole package – from its venues, infrastructure and history […]