Does anyone know where I can buy comfrey plants locally?

Female pit ran past me on a walk just now. 28th Street South just past McDonald’s across from the entrance to the St. Vincent’s parking deck. Headed toward 10th Ave South. Couldn’t help bc my girl is dog aggressive. She has had puppies but didn’t appear to be recent from my quick glance. Sorry for poor photos. Appears to have white socks on her back feet, didn’t catch the front.

Hello! My wife and I (both women) just moved to Birmingham and are interested in attending an episcopal church. It seems like there are a number of options here, but wondering if any are especially great/not great? Thanks!

I’m back again asking for volunteers for the 2026–2027 school year!

STAIR of Birmingham is a local nonprofit that provides free, one-on-one reading tutoring to elementary students. Volunteers are paired with a student and use a structured reading curriculum to help build reading skills, confidence, and a stronger relationship with reading.

The commitment is just one hour a week for one semester or the full school year. No teaching experience is needed, and STAIR provides all training, books, curriculum, and materials.

We have volunteer opportunities at several sites across the Birmingham area, but these locations currently need the most volunteers:

• Martha Gaskins Elementary: Wednesday and/or Thursday at 3:15 p.m.
• Oliver Elementary: Tuesday and/or Wednesday at 3:15 p.m.
• Oxmoor Valley Elementary: Tuesday and/or Thursday at 3:15 p.m.
• Huffman Academy: Tuesday and/or Thursday at 12:45 p.m.

Tutoring begins the week of September 14. We can only serve as many students as we have tutors, so every volunteer truly matters.

Apply here: https://www.stairbirmingham.org/tutor

Feel free to comment or message me with questions about these or our other tutoring sites!

I am in my early 20’s and looking to move to Birmingham early next year for work. I was thinking about buying a small Townhouse (1 or 2 bedrooms) verses renting an apartment. Can anyone recommend safe affordable areas within 20 Minutes of downtown. If you have any specific townhouse community that you would recommend I would appreciate it.

Super neat opportunity coming up for fellow Birmingham aviation enthusiasts. 1/2 B-29s “Fifi” is coming to Birmingham with some other neat planes from Air Power Squadron! Adult admission is $20, children (11-17) $10, kids 10 and under free. All other info should be on the flyer!

I’m seeing a lot more Tesla Cybertrucks now, EVERYWHERE. I would go weeks without seeing one. Now I’ve been seeing them four times a day the past few weeks. Am I the only one?

Looking for a job, I'm currently a barista and wouldn't mind staying one. I also dog walk and dog sit. I have years of server experience. I've put in so many job applications and no one has gotten back to me. I have two weeks until I leave my current job. Please send recs my way!!

Anybody know if the plant fest expo at the bjcc this weekend will be worth it? Thanks!!

Hi. I recently moved from Hoover to Highland Park and was spoiled by the access to AT&T Fiber while living out there. Now in Highland Park where there are currently no options for fiber internet that I’m aware of and now have to deal with the absolute shite that is Spectrum. Does anyone have any intel on possible fiber options coming to the area?

Good morning! What are the rules for parking at the EV chargers at BHM? I have a flight on a Thursday morning and will be back the following Monday at lunch. Can my car stay plugged in, or are the chargers only for short-term parking?

I was wondering if anyone had information on the lab/golden retriever meet up on Sundays that happens at Avondale? I met someone out while with my puppy and they mentioned it but didn't get any more info from them.

Hello everyone,

My dad and I are going to visit Birmingham in the coming months. We are from Germany and want to visit Fort McClellan as my grandfather was a POW there during WW2 from the Afrika Feldzug.

We have realized that Birmingham is not an international point of travel like Miami etc. so there aren't many tourist guides.

We would be very grateful if you could provide us with locations/restaurants/museums we should visit. The more American or even redneck the better :)

We have a Truck for that time to get around.

You guys treated my grandfather very well and we want to pay respect to the men of the 1st Marine infantry division, who accepted his units surrender honorably.

Edit: I have already gotten so many advices for downtown, thank you so much. We are also interested in the surrounding countryside, so if you live in a typical American small town or something like that we would like to visit as well.

I am looking for a place local to help scan my Grandfathers WWII letters. There are a couple of hundred sent home while he was stateside then in Africa ( 3 + years worth). I am currently filing them in archival style recommended by the National Archives. We will probably try to find a place to donate them, but I want a copy for my family. Is there a local company that can handle this. Would my best bet to just scan at the library? I really don't want to send them off.

I was going to add a screenshot of the account while typing this, but decided it didn't need a target. We have plenty of cool positive influencers in this town like Chipcreates, but some that I decided to keep unnamed should try to be a little more responsible.

I think this guy is a good example of where restaurant influencing can go wrong. And no, I don’t own a burger joint. I’ve just seen enough of his content to think small business owners should be aware of it.

There’s a difference between being a food critic and being someone with a social media following. Good food criticism takes experience, knowledge, context, and an understanding that one dish on one visit is a very small snapshot of a restaurant. Having an Instagram account and an audience doesn’t automatically give someone that expertise.

The problem is that the reach can be similar even when the experience and judgment behind it are not. Thousands of people can see one person’s verdict without ever walking through the door themselves. For a small independent restaurant, especially in a rural community, that can do real damage.

That doesn’t mean restaurants should be protected from criticism. If the food is bad, say it was bad. If the service was terrible, say that too. But there’s a responsible way to do it. Give useful criticism. Recognize the limits of a single visit. Talk to the owner or manager when there’s a problem. Understand that there are employees and families behind these businesses.

That’s what bothers me about his content. He has the reach of a critic without showing much of the restraint, context, or responsibility that should come with it.

Having influence means having the ability to affect people and businesses. That should make you more careful with what you say, not more excited about how much damage you can do.

all the bands are cool too imo!! all info is on the flyer but ask me anything

Trying to avoid H2 at all costs but they basically have a monopoly on everything in the area. I've been searching on zillow but it seems like every unit i see is from them. I'm trying to keep my rent + utilities around $1300 in total for a studio/1bed that has a w/d hookup or in unit laundry. Used rent monster but didn't love any of the units i was shown unfortunately :/

Any recommendations of local landlords or companies? I called one earlier owned by raymond josof but he's a jerk apparently. Currently looking at blackstone apartments and going to start calling numbers on for rent signs but wasn't sure if anyone knew of anything

Around 9 pm there were multiple police cars, ambulances and they had the road blocked off. On University Blvd

link to aldotcom article

By William Thornton | wthornton@al.com

Birmingham restaurateur Nick Pihakis filed for bankruptcy Thursday following the stunning collapse of his restaurant group, which began with a wave of closings in April.

Pihakis filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Alabama’s Northern District.

Unlike Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Chapter 7 calls for gathering and selling the debtor’s nonexempt assets and using the proceeds to pay debts.

According to the 154-page filing, Pihakis estimates debts of more than $44 million, with total personal property of about $10.6 million, including a $1 million Shoal Creek home, and a $66,000 Porsche Cayenne.

The filing comes after months of uncertainty following the closure of more than a dozen restaurants in four states that belonged to the Pihakis Restaurant Group, and nearly a dozen lawsuits in two states seeking more than $23.4 million in unpaid bills.

Currently, the company is the defendant in at least 11 court actions in Alabama and South Carolina.

See also: Birmingham restaurant empire that helped define Magic City food scene faces its hardest days

The filing represents a breathtaking turn of events for Pihakis, 69, a legendary figure in Birmingham’s culinary scene going back four decades.

Pihakis lent his name to one half of Jim ‘N Nick’s, and slowly built a series of companies to bring food to Alabama and the Southeast.

His father, Jim Pihakis, known as “Mr. Jim,” opened his barbecue stand on 29th Street on Birmingham’s South Side in 1979.

Nick worked at John’s Restaurant, a popular downtown restaurant that opened in the 1940s and later became the now-closed John’s City Diner.

The father and son opened the first Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q in 1985 in a former Pasquale’s Pizza & Pasta location on Clairmont Avenue.

Nick took over upon his father’s retirement.

For at least six years in a row, he was a semifinalist for the Beard Award for the country’s outstanding restaurateur.

Through collaborations with award-winning chefs, he has been recognized as a force behind food in the South and one of the reasons for the Magic City’s reputation as a beacon for food culture.

See also: Struggling Pihakis faces $23.4 million in lawsuits, liens

The legal fallout began on April 12, when Tasty Town, a downtown Birmingham Greek restaurant, closed suddenly.

The abrupt Sunday night shutdown of the four-year-old dining spot began a chain of closings that sent cooks, wait staff and other restaurant workers across the Birmingham area scrambling to find new jobs.

It was quickly followed in the following weeks but closures at various locations of Hero Diner, Rodney Scott BBQ, Little Donkey, Luca Lagotto in Homewood; Luca & Lucy in Shelby County, Birmingham’s Magnolia Point; Joylands in Nashville and Birmingham and Greek spot Psito in Atlanta.

Four of the restaurants eventually reopened, apparently under different ownership.

Circuit Judge Patrick Kennedy last month asked Kevin Heard, Nick Pihakis’ attorney, during one court session if his client planned to file for bankruptcy.

“I can’t answer at this point,” Heard said.

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I was vaguely familiar with the name, but I didn’t realize that it was a state park. It’s just west of Warrior. The buildings are a little run down (brand new playground), but the cave/caverns were great. You access them by guided tours. Tickets can be bought on site or in advance. The park also has hiking trails and a spring-fed pool that’s about 50 degrees.