A Welcome Chance to Be Silent in the Alabama Woods
I woke up at 4:15 am and was in a Jeep bumping over a dirt road by 5:30 am. I was joined by our guide Josh, Joe Estenes, a former police officer and hunter from Sarasota Florida, and riding shotgun, our favorite Shooter, Paul Shoul. We were headed to a […]
A Creative Chef Helps Put Birmingham Cuisine in the Spotlight
Last night we sampled the handiwork of a local legend in Birmingham. Chris Hastings spent years under the tutelage of Frank Stitt, one of the city’s top chefs and in 1995, he and his wife Idie opened the Hot Hot Fish Club, in a round building downtown. The elegant mood […]
Birmingham AL: An Unsung City that Owns its Past, Loves its Future
I love unsung cities that cry out for attention and deserve it. That’s been a favorite theme on GoNOMAD and again and again, we find stories that demonstrate examples of places that, once you scratch the surface, are full of interesting foods, people, and sites. We’ve spent a few days […]
ROLLLLL TIDE!! Sweet Home Alabama on the Speakers
Waiting for the Iron Bowl, All of Alabama Is Ready to Watch
It’s a sleepless night in Birmingham for many football fans…because tomorrow is the 75th Iron Bowl, as the National Champions Alabama meet their most hated rivals the Auburn Tigers in Tuscaloosa. Shoul and I will be there–but first we meet a family of Roll Tide tailgators to take in the […]
We’re ‘Bama Bound: First the Game, then Hunt the Game
Tomorrow, instead of joining my family in ceremonial eating, I shall be airborne, heading to Birmingham Alabama. I am going to spend the next five days in a dizzying display of manly arts—hunting f0r quail, hunting for whitetail deer, and taking in a museum full of thousands of motorcycles and […]
Plenty of Room in the Pews
It’s a tough time for believers, say believers. A story in Christianity Today described the problem of young people leaving the church. ” Other survey results have been grimmer. At the May 2009 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, top political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell presented research […]
Bob Dylan Never Tasted This Pizza
A story in today’s Gazette shows the terrible power of celebrity, and that like most of us, we believe it when somebody ‘famous’ wants something big. Matt Pilon wrote about a late night visit to Antonio’s Pizza in Amherst by a man wearing backstage credentials for the Bob Dylan show […]