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Fruit of Your Labor
Cool, rainy days will soon be replaced by the hot, humid days of summer, and that means that summer fruits are starting to ripen. If you haven’t yet managed to…
Around The Neighborhoods
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How to Make a Decison About Shakespeare
We got a press release saying that the Shakespeare Festival was doing a performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night on Tuesday. But should we go? In hopes that it will be…
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How to Pick a Race
If you’re new to running, you might be considering your first race. A race gives you a deadline and a goal. The first goal might be just to finish and…
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Getting on the River
We take the Alabama River for granted. It runs through the middle of our beautiful city and throughout the existence of the city it has been an important resource. In…
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Billy Gardner: The MML Interview
Biscuits manager Billy Gardner is in his seventh year in Montgomery. Although he is not a loud and brash public figure, he is extremely familiar to Biscuits fans accustomed to…
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The Women of The Clean House
“There are things-big invisible things-that come unannounced-they walk in, and we have to give way.” - Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House Sarah Ruhl’s play, which is in rehearsal at the…
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Capri Kickstarter: DCI or Die
Editor’s Note: You have probably already seen several mentions of the new fund-raising campaign from The Capri. It has been covered in the newspaper. It has been all over the…
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Alabama Book Festival 2013
Once again, the eighth annual Alabama Book Festival will be at Old Alabama Town in historic downtown Montgomery on Saturday, April 20. The gates will open at 9 a.m. with…
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Street Fair Revival – Build a Car, Be a Vendor
On May 11, downtown Montgomery will once again see a massive gathering of vivacious vendors, performers and artists of all types in the second annual Montgomery Street Fair Revival, modeled…
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Spring Concert Series Announced
It’s warm out, the azaleas are in bloom, but now we really know it’s spring – the Cloverdale-Idlewild Association has announced the lineup for its 2013 Spring Concert series. Sundays…
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Getting Over Sleeping Beauty
Thanks to Hans Christian Anderson, the Grimm Brothers, and Disney, many of us have a negative opinion of anyone who spins. Well, rethink that folks – this is 2013, not…
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Running for Good
Pretty much every race out there has a charity connected to it. Montgomery has a fair share of them, from the Joy to Life’s annual Walk of Life, to the…
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Books and Dolls: A Local Artisan Crafts Beautiful Heroines
Lil lit chic is a locally owned business that creates handmade, one-of-a-kind dolls that are based on historic literary heroines. Mariah Reilly’s work can be found on etsy. You can…
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Danke Schön, Mille Beannacht, Blessings a Hundredfold
“I want to thank anyone who spends a part of their day creating, I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater,…
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Shane Gillis: The MML Interview
Editor’s Note: From time to time, Midtown Montgomery Living will conduct interviews with some of Montgomery’s more interesting residents. Today’s interview is with a Montgomery filmmaker, Shane Gillis, who is…
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Isaiah’s
Lunching in downtown Montgomery offers more choice than ever before: You can grab pizza at Sa Za, pimento cheese and eclectic Southern at Central, deep fried goodness at Wintzell’s, slow…
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Cabaret: A Conversation with Randy Foster
“It’s strange how people seem to belong to places-especially to places where they were not born…Somehow or other, life goes on in spite of everything.” -Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye To Berlin…
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Macbeth: ASF’s Leather and Spikes
Even though it was January, the warm weather reminded us of the last time we’d seen Macbeth out at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That time we’d been in the garden…
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Dexter Derby Reignited
There was once an event in downtown Montgomery that drew throngs of citizens to either Montgomery St or Dexter Ave. It united all ages to celebrate culture, camaraderie and engineering;…
Inside Midtown
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Old House Expo Month
For those of us die-hard Midtown Montgomery residents, the first Sunday afternoon in May of each year is permanently marked on our calendars for Old House Expo. The Expo was…
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Home Improvements: K-I-S-S (Part 1)
As 10 p.m. approached last Saturday, I was putting the finishing touches on the fresh paint in our back offices. (Yes, I do our painting. That’s the subject for another…
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When Life Closes a Window, It Opens a New Window
Almost everyone that has purchased an older home has — at some point — questioned the decision making of a previous owner. In our case, there’s a part of our 1930 house…
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The Rock House
Those of us who live in Midtown’s Garden District, Old Cloverdale or Cloverdale-Idlewild neighborhoods love “old house quirk.” We admire built-ins with glass paned windows, transoms, elaborate molding and period…
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So … How’s the Market?
Whether I’m in line at the grocery or drugstore or at a breakfast downtown or at a charity function or wherever, the question I’m always asked remains the same: “So,…
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That Small Town Feeling
Mayor Strange recently said Montgomery was on track to become Alabama’s largest city. Evidently, we’re 4,000 people away from passing Birmingham, which is shrinking. Demographics aside, Montgomery does feel bigger…
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Real Estate: a Fair Weather Business
If you live anywhere near Midtown Montgomery, you know that the first five days of last week (through Wednesday) were abysmal! Rain, thunder, angry clouds and low light. Just downright…
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Frank Powell: The MML Interview
Since last May, we’ve had a relative looking to buy a house in Montgomery. This has meant we’ve gotten to see inside a bunch of houses over the last year…
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Finding a Door
The big news at the Henderson-Pell household in Capitol Heights is that the kitchen renovation is finished, and it is fabulous! Those of you who live in and love historic…
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Got Beams? Exploring Ceiling Options in Bungalows
Many of us who live in historic districts in Midtown have the good fortune of living in a bungalow. Whenever someone excitedly announces they have purchased a bungalow, my first…
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
As usual in Alabama, the holiday season was warmish, with most mornings on the warm side, and a few chilly dawn hours thrown in for fun. That made planning what…
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Christmas at the Governor’s Mansion
On Monday, the holiday spirit moved us. Well, to be fair, the promise of getting a look inside the Governor’s Mansion moved us. But we also can’t say no to…
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Capitol Heights by Candlelight: Toyland!
Hark! The Capitol Heights Civic Association extends an invitation to its annual neighborhood Christmas tour: Capitol Heights by Candlelight: Toyland! The yearly walking tour features homes in the historic neighborhood…
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Mortgage Interest Deduction Is Good for Us All
A lot has been written recently about the effect of possible regulatory changes on the residential real estate market. But none has greater potential to do great harm than the…
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Staging for fast sale
Some very sad circumstances recently put us in the position of having to sell a house in another state. Unfortunately, it was about 4,000 square feet and full of several…
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The New Bathroom, Part 2
You know the deal: Living in Midtown Montgomery often means living in homes that are historic. As such, we traffic in tales of domestic bliss, often involving home upkeep and…
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Late Fall Schedule
We’ve been doing Midtown Montgomery for a couple of years now, and we regularly talk about how much we enjoy the time of year both before and after Halloween. We’ve…
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I Live in Cloverdale…or Do I?
When the phone rang, I was sitting at my desk working on getting a home sold. The memory is as vivid as if it were yesterday. “I want to speak…
Midtown Life
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Pets
Have Fido Will Travel
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Cork Underfoot – Installing Engineered Cork
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Pets
Dog Allergies
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Pets in Disasters
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The Alabama Adventures of Walter & Wimbly
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Kids Eat Free
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Cutting the Cord: Why we Decided to Ditch Cable
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Historic Midtown
The New Bathroom
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River Dogs!
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Carole King
My Hundred Year House
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In Praise of Puppies and Those Who Love Them!
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Surprising Fare
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Fun
born Children’s Boutique
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Kate and Stephen
Cheryl and Thomas Upchurch: The MML Interview
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Why Historical Accuracy Matters
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Looking Inside Midtown
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Free Comic Book Day
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Summertime!
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