Wed April 23, 2003 - Southeast Edition
Cindy Riley
Developers with AIG Baker have recently transformed an outdated Birmingham, AL, mall into an open-air shopping center that includes a new theater, a Publix supermarket and space for numerous retail shops and restaurants. Construction on Vestavia Hills City Center began in 2001 and was recently completed on schedule.
Described as having an updated “main street” feel, the new mall features plenty of glass, fountains, meticulous landscaping and a light color palette. The design also is unique.
“There are three stories, but they are all at ground level,” said Project Developer John Whitson. “I realize that it sounds a little confusing, but it’s really quite simple. One level of shops follows the downward slope of the road that runs parallel to the current structure. The street on the other side is somewhat elevated, plus you have your center stores that face the main highway. And there is pull-up parking at every level
Carroll-born and Manning-raised Mary Swander, a former poet laureate of Iowa and a prolific playwright and author with international reach, has launched an increasingly popular podcast spotlighting a wide spectrum of rural life, from the farming she knows deeply to cultural and social life, much of it involving eastern Iowaâs Amish.
Mary Swander, a Manning native and the former poet laureate of Iowa, is making a foray into the podcasting world.
âAgArts From Horse and Buggy Landâ â available for free at podcast platforms like iTunes and Spotify â has featured pieces on drive-in rural church services, livestock auctions and an online implement dealership.
Nintendo Download: 24th December (North America)
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The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Switch eShop - Highlights
(Monster Couch, 29th Dec, $19.99) - In this relaxing strategy card game, the goal is to discover and attract the best birds to a network of wildlife preserves. Many of the 170 unique birds have powers that echo real life: hawks will hunt, pelicans will fish and geese will form a flock. Featuring both single-player and multiplayer modes for up to five players, WINGSPAN is based on the award winning, competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game.
Full Coverage of Visible Spectrum Accelerates Holographic Development Capabilities Metamaterial Inc. a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, today announced it has installed the world’s first C-WAVE GTRNIR tunable laser from HÜBNER Photonics . Laser light sources are core to holography, and the new system covers a significant gap in the green region, which would be costly and … Full Coverage of Visible Spectrum Accelerates Holographic Development Capabilities
Metamaterial Inc. (“Company” or “META”) (CSE: MMAT) a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, today announced it has installed the world’s first C-WAVE GTRNIR (green-to-rednear-infrared) tunable laser from HÜBNER Photonics . Laser light sources are core to holography, and the new system covers a significant gap in the green region, which would be costly and complex to address with alternative narrow bandwidth lasers. Together with two other tunab
The climatic pie fight from “Battle of the Century,” with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the middle of the action. Hal Roach Studios.
“The Battle of the Century,” Laurel and Hardy’s 1927 silent short film, famed for its epic pie-in-the-face fight sequence, quickly disappeared after its theatrical release.
The 20-minute, two-reel bit of comic relief in the latter days of the Roaring Twenties got left behind in the rush to talkies, as did most silent films. The last known surviving copy of its famed second reel was considered lost for good by the 1960s. It seemed to be a flickering bit of entertainment lost to time, disintegrating film stock and a too-late appreciation of an outdated art form. Slate magazine once described the missing second reel, containing most of the pie-fight sequence, as “one of the most deeply mourned lost treasures in film history.”