Subject: Birmingham (Alabama)

• Sometimes You Feel Like a Cult, Sometimes You Don't

  February 2, 2007

• Dark Ages

  June 12, 2007

• Soul to soul

  October 26, 1995

• Mouse

  April 4, 1996

• From Birmingham to D.C.: King's Chief of Staff to Talk Past and Present in Dallas Tonight

  Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, the first full-time executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King's chief of staff, is in Dallas tonight to speak at the Belo Mansion as part of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's Fourth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, during a Freedom Riders protest in May 1961, Walker was among the organizers of the March on Washington in '63 and a key figure behind the Birmingham Campaig

  January 19, 2009

• Playing Hardball

  July 4, 1996

• Bridging the gap

  August 15, 1996

• God and mammon

  November 7, 1996

• Pleasure chained

  December 11, 1997

• Close to the bone

  December 18, 1997

• Drag king

  May 28, 1998

• Tuna surprise

  July 23, 1998

• Enough is enough

  November 19, 1998

• Hope floats

  January 21, 1999

• Where He Belongs

  April 18, 2002

• Dallas Theater Center's Engrossing, Heretical Take on the Civil Rights Movement

  The Good Negro bares roots of a movement; in Oak Cliff, a bumpy ride in Leonard's Car; Mummy dearest for tweens

  October 23, 2008

• Beyond The March

  October 16, 2008

• Looking on the Bright Side

  May 24, 2007

• Greener Pastures

  Brightblack Morning Light packs its love for Southern soul into a California pipe

  July 13, 2006

• Taylor Hollingsworth

  Tragic City (Brash)

  February 2, 2006

• Road Rules

  The Deathray Davies remember a few of 500 shows

  January 6, 2005

• Truth Hurts

  Plus: Fish Out of Water; Bloody Minded

  December 23, 2004

• The Newy Factor

  How does someone who calls himself "Newdawg" compete with Dale Hansen? By not being Dale Hansen.

  December 23, 2004

• Together, We're Suspects

  Polyphonic Spree member unwittingly sets off bomb scare at DFW Airport

  August 12, 2004

• Bearing Witness

  Dallas civil servant Dale Long was there the day a bomb changed the civil rights landscape forever

  July 18, 2002

• Hope in Hell

  Cameron Park, Texas, is the poorest town in the U.S.A. But its residents say life has never been better.

  July 11, 2002

• Echoes of Hate

  Bobby Frank Cherry is one of the most notorious racist killers in American history. To Tom Cherry, he was just "Dad."

  June 20, 2002

• Unlocking the Gong

  A group of Falun Gong, the outlawed Chinese spiritual movement, travel from Dallas to D.C. on an urgent rescue mission, sending out righteous thoughts and cultivating Xing Xing along the way

  August 2, 2001

• The Last Laugh

  Willis Alan Ramsey's cult keeps growing, 28 years after cutting his first--and final?--record

  November 16, 2000

• The good neighbor

  Bombing suspect Bobby Frank Cherry's sordid past trailed him to the shores of Cedar Creek Lake

  May 25, 2000

• Fallen star

  How greed, incompetence, and allegations of fraud sank Dallas' FoodStar Restaurant Group

  January 6, 2000

• Hophead: Camping Out In The 'Broo-er's Festival' Tent At Bonnaroo

  Mark C. AustinHophead wasn't the only one thirsty for beer at Bonnaroo last weekend. Hophead spent a four-day weekend at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The music, comedy, people-watching and general chaos of the thing made for an outstanding trip. But one of the highlights was the accompanying "Broo-er's Festival," a biergarten featuring some 20 brewers ranging from tiny local outfits to Anheuser-Busch. As it turned out, two personal favorites from the bash are

  June 18, 2009

• Sitting On a Corner: Bronze Rosa Parks Finally Arrives at the West End DART Station

  Patrick MichelsWhen the music stops, there's only one seat open.Rosa Parks Plaza at DART's West End Station is still a noisy dust-covered construction site, but with help from sculptor Erik Blome, the corner at least has its centerpiece installed: a bronze statue of Parks on a bus seat, planted on a granite hill.The city had planned to open the plaza in February, but construction went slowly during a run of rainy days, according to an engineering consultant on site Thursday. Along with the Parks

  June 26, 2009

• Over The Weekend: Elvis Perkins in Dearland, A.A. Bondy at House of Blues' Cambridge Room

  Elvis Perkins in Dearland, A.A. BondyHouse of Blues' Cambridge RoomNovember 14, 2009Better than: Having to actually attend a New Orleans funeral to feel uplifted.Elvis Perkins in Dearland​I confess to be fond of brainy, melancholy music leavened with joy, and, I'm happy to say, that itch got scratched last night by Elvis Perkins in Dearland and opener A.A. Bondy in the Cambridge Room at the House of Blues on Saturday night.

  November 16, 2009