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Papa Roc’s Italian Restaurant
It’s easy to roll your eyes when someone talks about “branding” their small business, but our initial reaction to Papa Roc’s can offer a valuable lesson to anyone with some basic training in public relations and design — and can offer a different lesson to folks who might make the mistake of judging a book by […]
Tuskegee Day Trip
This is the story of how I came to be choking back tears while sitting in the trailer of an 18-wheeler on the landing strip of an airfield. I was technically on property owned by an economically-decimated municipality, but was adjacent to a federally-owned National Historic Site. The 18-wheeler was idling in the scorching July […]
New Neighbors in Old Houses
We are friends and neighbors here on North Lewis Street in historic Capitol Heights. We share potluck dinners, drinks on front porches, and cookouts on back decks. We look out for each other’s house, pets and, well, each other. So when Fred and Bobby delivered the news they were moving to Hazel Hedge, we were […]
Punk Rock Flea Market – Birmingham
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in cultural studies to understand that we’re all experiencing increased specialization and customization. People don’t want 500 television channels, they want to pick a la carte to consume only their favorite kinds of information. We prefer news to be tailored to meet our pre-existing ideological preferences. The Internet is accelerating […]
Language Is More Dangerous Than Fire
I once knew a woman who wanted to get a tattoo of a strange word on her wrist. The word? “Kimota!” The exclamation point is mandatory, because it’s the kind of word that is exclaimed in an old-fashioned comic book called “Marvelman.” The word, when uttered, caused a young journalist named Micky Moran to transform […]
Montgomery Film Festival VII
Longtime readers of Midtown Montgomery Living will know that we absolutely love going to the annual Montgomery Film Festival. We wrote about the second annual and the third annual, missed a few years for various reasons, and last night went to the sixth annual. Making a movie is still difficult, but certainly a lot easier […]
Veggie Entrees
A lot has changed in the four years since the Alabama Department of Tourism asked us to write a blog post about vegetarianism for their “Year of Alabama Food.” Since we authored that post back in 2012, a lot of Montgomery restaurants have closed, and several new ones have opened. And despite the end of […]
What To Do With the Rest of Your Spring
We’re past the midway point of April, and although there was a nice chill in the air this morning, we all know that the Death Heat™ is looming, turning a potentially lovely Alabama spring into a horrific science experiment. At that point, we will all either panic and scramble for air conditioning or trudge through […]
Montgomery Biscuits 2016
Anyone with experience baking knows that you have to pay attention, or else your biscuits could burn. In the world of minor league baseball, it could be tempting to take your eye off the Montgomery Biscuits — because there are so many interesting things happening with folks that are no longer directly part of the […]
Vintage Year
Like most reasonable folks, we reject labels like “foodies,” but we do greatly enjoy the experience of eating in a restaurant where a well-trained professional puts considerable amount of time and thought into preparing quality food, which is then brought to you by polite people. Sometimes, there’s wine involved. We aren’t wealthy enough to have […]
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