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Meet the 7 recipients— from Sweet Water to Vestavia Hills.

Chris Dupont is leaving the acclaimed Birmingham restaurant he founded 30 years ago to open his "last" restaurant in his hometown of New Orleans

Add another football classic to Legion Field this fall. The Morehouse University-Tuskegee annual game which began in 1902 and is the oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) rivalry in the nation, will be coming to “The Old Gray Lady” in Birmingham under a three-year agreement. The deal calls for the city to provide up to $500,000 per year in incentives and in-kind services to host the event. The game has traditionally been played in Columbus, Georgia but will be played in Birmingham Oct. 9, which is three weeks before the Oct. 30 Magic City Classic that features Alabama...

Alabama Rivers Alliance Hosts First-Ever Virtual Film Festival The Alabama Rivers Alliance is hosting its first virtual film festival Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Hosted by the Alabama Rivers Alliance, Energy Alabama, Waterkeepers Alabama and Flint River Conservation Association, tickets are $10 and the admission purchase includes a membership to the Alabama Rivers Alliance and Energy Alabama. Courtesy of a list from Bham Now, here are the films that will be featured during the festival: In Your Hands: Environmentally focused and beautifully soundtracked, this film pulls viewers in with colorful and...

Four months later, Lee Pantazis’s secret is out.  Last August, Pantazis, Gus’s Hot Dogs owner, let me in on a secret. He told me that once his business secured the appropriate permits, he was going to have a mural painted on his establishment’s blank eastern wall honoring civil rights hero John Lewis, an Alabama native who died July 17. For all the mural-seekers out there, the new mural is on 1915 4th Ave. North. The artist who painted the portrait and words of Lewis is Dewon Moton.  I met up with Lee and Dewon on to ask both of them about the new mural and its message.