Huntsville Amphitheater leaders talk booking, food, Spinal Tap moment
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
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When bigger media outlets cover North Alabama music, it’s usually something to do with Muscle Shoals. Either the Shoals’ incredible studio legacy or stars today going there to record in search of that country-soul mojo. Grammy winning folk and rock musician Jason Isbell, a former Shoals resident, has also put major media outlets back on the case. Elsewhere in the region, several years ago Athens had a moment. The band Alabama Shakes’ rise to fame caused countless music fans outside the state to locate the city of Athens, Alabama on a map for the first time in their lives. There are other examples of North Alabama music pinging in a national media way in the last decade, but those are prime examples.
Mixed-use project with ‘big name’ retail planned for north Huntsville
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
A preliminary layout of the 14-acre mixed-use development planned for Memorial Parkway at Max Luther Drive in north Huntsville at the Feb. 25, 2021 city council meeting. (City of Huntsville)
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The city of Huntsville on Thursday night announced plans for a mixed-use development potentially attracting some “big name” retailers to a large vacant space along Memorial Parkway in north Huntsville that will also provide a new home for the Huntsville City Schools administration building.
The project also has the promise to give a further economic boost to north Huntsville after years of falling behind as other areas of the city saw dramatic growth.
Huntsville City Council offering school district $1M and free land for new site of central office
The new location is a multi-million dollar redevelopment in the works right now.
Posted: Feb 25, 2021 11:41 PM
Posted By: Alexis Scott
Huntsville City Schools central office could soon be relocated.
There s a proposal to move it from White Street to North Memorial Parkway at Max Luther Drive
Thursday night, Huntsville City council members heard a first reading of the proposal for the school district.
WAAY-31 has more information after speaking with city leaders about what taxpayers can expect.
It s 14-acres of land that we were told can be zoned for medical, retail and multi-family use.
Honoring the life of Dulcina DeBerry
Black History Month: Huntsville trailblazer who opened doors and turned pages for African Americans in the 1940s
Black History Month: Honoring the life of Dulcina DeBerry By Kellie Miller | February 11, 2021 at 5:56 PM CST - Updated February 12 at 8:52 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - In the 1900s, educational resources for African Americans were scarce. But Dulcina DeBerry, educator and librarian, worked hard to fight those inequities and eventually opened the first public library for African Americans in Madison County.
âShe was a very compassionate person. She was a scholar, she loved to learnâ¦and she was a problem solver,â said Shalis Worthy, Archivist at the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library.
Black-owned coffee shop brings buzz to North Huntsville
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Dark Side coffee shop owners Jarius Palmer, Devyn Keith and and Jaray Wilson, in Huntsville, Ala. (Courtesy photo)
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“Black people don’t drink coffee.”
The entrepreneurs behind Dark Side - a new coffee shop located in historically African-American North Huntsville - say they were given that (eyebrow-raising) advice 18 months or so ago, as they were getting started.
“And this is from very credible people,” says Devyn Keith, who in addition to being a Dark Side co-owner is Huntsville City Council president. “I think the problem for us was,” Keith, who is Black, continues, “we’ve proved that we liked the same things, in other parts of town.”