Village a la Carte
VILLAGE A LA CARTE by Susan Swagler Photos by Emmie Arendall Mountain Brook has something to...
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Here’s Gianni
HEEEERE’S GIANNI! Gianni Respinto makes magic at his Homewood restaurants. by Barry Wise...
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Waffle House
Waffle House AnnouncesNew Wine List by Harold Chambliss sketch by Mma Knapp In an unexpected...
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From Trunk to Table
Cliff Spencer has the woodworking know-how. His wife Leigh handles the business operations. They collaborate on design. Together, they and their mighty team of six employees rescue hundreds of logs from the landfill and give them second life at Alabama Sawyer.
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Lauren Denton’s Glory Road
In her new book Glory Road, USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal bestselling authorLauren Denton brings readers a fresh new story featuring local Alabama culture, sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom. Each element of Glory Road highlights the authors’ own experiences living in Mobile and Homewood, Alabama, along with influences from family and friends.
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Winter Reading Guide
WINTER READING GUIDE Sometimes cold, dreary winter days call for snuggling up on the sofa with a...
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Dreams So Real
I’m in an undisclosed location (Sorry: No narcs) listening to six dudes who aren’t supposed to be in a rock band being the best rock band in the world—well, at least in a 30-mile radius—at 5 pm on a dreary football Sunday in January.
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Rock Star Dads
HOMEWOOD’S ROCK STAR DADS Portico Homewood writer Jim Fahy sat down with some of...
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Repairing the World
REPAIRING THE WORLD by Alec Harvey photos by Brit Huckabay Tikkun olam....
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Will the Circle be Unbroken
Dr. John Young, an orthopedic surgeon at Precision Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, is not at all the man I expected to meet when I agreed to write about him for Portico. Self-effacing and quick to spread the credit for his success around to his wife, his parents, his sisters and brothers, his colleagues, and his staff, he seems more like a priest than a surgeon.
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Ten Things I Learned: Don Cafaro
Ten things I learned from Don Cafaro, Mountain Brook Senior Arborist
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Ketcham & Company
With more than a decade of renovation experience under their belts and dozens of projects to their name, Jama and Geoffrey Ketcham got their start after successfully flipping a Homewood property in 2006.
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