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Pop-up shop updates
Last week Carole King alerted us to the New South Maker’s Emporium, a pop-up shop full of goods by local artists. The folks at Helicity were kind enough to share some pictures from the store as well as a partial list of vendors here. If you haven’t stopped by, there’s still plenty of shopping time […]
New Holiday Shopping Adventures at the Pop Up
If you enjoyed Montgomery’s first attempt at new innovative retail—the Pop Up Shop, Tallapoosa Street Goods—you’re gonna love this year’s holiday Pop Up! The 2013 Tallapoosa Street location was in business for less than three weeks and sales totaled $11,000, with 33 artists selling goods from a week before Christmas to a little after New […]
Why You Should Go to ASU’s First Annual Inaugural Dance Concert Next Week!
Prepare for delight and amazement next week at the Tullibody Fine Arts Theater, when Alabama State’s brilliant new dance company will stage its inaugural performance. Dance can be a spectacular, breathtaking extravaganza, dozens of performers choreographed in wildly complex patterns of sound and movement, and dance can touch like chamber music, poignant and intimate. Whatever […]
Clybourne Park – A Review
Montgomery truly has a treasure in the Cloverdale Playhouse. It’s a gorgeously renovated theater with a visionary artistic director in Greg Thornton, generous volunteers, and impressive local talent. For those not familiar with Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, the play’s first act picks up shortly after the end of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun […]
Conservation Projects with Surprises at the Governor’s Mansion
Restoration of the public rooms of the Governor’s Mansion continues with the completion of two art conservation projects. Recently, First Lady Dianne Bentley presided over the unveiling of the newly conserved painting in the Mansion’s historic collection, Mountain Tops in Snow, painted by Thomas Moran in 1878 and donated to the Mansion in 1977. The […]
Art Out of Bounds
Three organizations Come Together for Benefit Art Show: Art Created by Men and Women in Prison or Re-entry Programs A first-time collaborative effort involving Aid to Inmate Mothers (AIM), Landmarks Foundation and Renascence Re-Entry Community is coming together in “Art Out of Bounds,” an art show and reception featuring works by the women of […]
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 Internet and social media sites. It has been relentlessly Facebooked and Tweeted and they run an ad for it before every Capri movie. In fact, […]
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 working on a full-length horror film. MML: We hear you’ve got a horror movie coming out. What can you tell us about the plot? Who’s […]
The Helmet Project
“We are a visually biased society, living in a time in which we can no longer believe in what we see” — Gary Chapman. Alabama artist Gary Chapman invited Barrett Bailey and Jon Cook Montgomery’s own High 5 Productions to help him with what he calls The Helmet Project. High 5 filmed and produced this […]
The Art Scene
It was so weird to see so many people out downtown on Dexter Avenue at night. Everyone you talked to on Saturday night would, at some point, mention this incongruity and talk about how great it was to have so many people out on Dexter at night. It was like participating in some sort of […]
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