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The Magic City Poetry Festival returned on April 1 with a month-long series of literary events.

More movie studios are picking Alabama as a filming location.

Hallmark spent months in Birmingham working on the production of “Niama in Nashville.”

www.birminghamal.gov Area organizations with programs to help improve Birmingham, will soon receive funding from the city’s Building Opportunities for Lasting Development (BOLD) Grant Program. This program, led by the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO), provides financial support to organizations and agencies that are taking creative, evidence-based approaches to solving various community issues. Nearly $500,000 was allocated across four categories: Job Accessibility Scale-Up Technical Assistance for Minority-Owned, Women-Owned, & Disadvantaged Businesses Soc...

Buddy Palmer at Create Birmingham is an Alabama Bright Light By Karim Shamsi-Basha When economic development combines with the arts, the results can be staggering. Create Birmingham is one of those results. The agency is the only one of its kind in the South. Its mission is to be the economic development agency focused on supporting the arts including visual, performing, architecture, film, culinary and many more genres of the creative world. In other words, Create Birmingham is “the engine that fuels Birmingham’s renaissance,” Buddy Palmer said. He has been the president and CEO at Cre...