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We are thrilled to announce the redesign of weldbham.com. One of Weld’s core tenets – a community blogging network – is finally accessible to everyone who reads and uses Weld for Birmingham....
View ArticleJoining Weld’s blogging community
Pretty spiffy, right? I certainly think so. Then again, I would; the old website has been my white whale for the last three months, an ungainly thing that wasn’t particularly handsome on the front end...
View ArticleWhy weldbham.com matters
Some people would have you believe that the Internet is killing print journalism. To be sure, it has become clear that as cyberspace expands, print often contracts. Still, at Weld we don’t view that...
View ArticleRewiring Weld: raising hope and realizing potential
Well, here we are, arriving at the place we’ve wanted — and needed — to be all along. It took a little time. It required trial and error, a good deal of patience and a fair, if fleeting, measure of...
View ArticleAdvancing on Birmingham
Corporations are not people, my friends. With apologies to Mitt Romney, that declaration is not intended to resurrect the long and bitter political season just ended. Indeed, this particular column is...
View ArticleWeld and CBS 42 continue Northern Beltline investigation
In tandem with CBS 42, Weld is investigating the progress of and controversy surrounding the Alabama Department of Transportation’s Northern Beltline project, a proposed multi-billion dollar highway to...
View ArticleWeld’s year in review
It’s been an eventful year for Weld to say the least, but it’s one that’s ended on a high note for our company. We’ve weathered some of the usual — and some unusual — obstacles that face any small...
View ArticleThe start of something big
What is the future of journalism? As with most questions, the answer you get depends upon whom you ask. And the truth is, nobody really knows. People do have ideas. As I hope you have discovered by...
View ArticleSponsoring No More Bull
For some time now, one of the great pleasures of my life has been the opportunity to sit down regularly over lunch or coffee with my friend, Sol Kimerling. As people who have known him for much longer...
View ArticleThe Tall Paul Awards
Weld Publisher Mark Kelly and attorney Emory Anthony were named the first two recipients of an award given Saturday morning by the Birmingham Black Radio Museum Project. Both Kelly and Anthony were...
View ArticleIntroducing the Weld Film Series
Back when I was still in high school, one of my few interactions with the city of Birmingham was driving up from Hoover to see classic movies at the Alabama Theatre every summer. Seeing David Lean’s...
View ArticleCelebrating summer
Out of all the seasons, summer is the easiest to romanticize from afar. The further you get away from it, as the leaves fade from autumnal splendor and the chill turns to a bitter and biting cold,...
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What to look for while watching The Graduate
On Thursday, June 6, you will have the opportunity to see The Graduate on the biggest silver screen in the South at the historic Alabama Theatre. This is a viewer’s guide to a few of the film’s...
View ArticleThe Why
The man on the phone was desperate. He was intense in his desire to make me understand the importance of what he was saying. He felt that someone needed to hear – someone in the media. So for more than...
View ArticleShelter from the storm
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. — Benjamin Franklin I am not one for self-congratulation. I’m...
View ArticleBringing young minds to Birmingham
Birmingham is in need of an identity, according to members of the panel at Tuesday night’s Issues and Ales discussion hosted by National Public Radio affiliate WBHM. As the beer and conversation flowed...
View ArticleCold and unexpected
Yesterday’s snowstorm caught most people in the area off guard. The result: kids and teachers stuck at school overnight; stranded motorists in their cars on freeways turned into parking lots; people...
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Putting the wheels on the bus
Butch Ferrell rides the buses in Birmingham almost every day. Photo by Cody Owens. “We have to change the perception of public transportation. Riding the bus does not make you poor,” Andre Davis said,...
View ArticleFighting the good fight
I have written previously in this space of my maternal grandfather, Floyd Pace. A carpenter by trade, he also farmed the several acres of Winston County hillside and hollow on which he and the love of...
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A new look for a new year
As we begin a new year, we are excited to share with you — our readers, supporters and partners — a new Weld logo. The revised logo captures the mission of Weld and we believe it will represent us...
View ArticleNonprofits in the Spotlight
Each year, Weld devotes one issue to nonprofit organizations drawing a focus on the part they play in the condition of Metro Birmingham’s current state, and the potential role they play in it’s future....
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Not an alt-weekly
Photo by Sam Prickett. Cover designs by Harrison Prince and Traci Edwards. Weld has been misidentified as an alternative weekly on several occasions. Sometimes people seem to have a hard time...
View ArticleThe First Five Years — and the Next
The articulate voice is more distracting than mere noise. —Seneca A few weeks ago — August 31, to be precise — marked five years since the very first edition of Weld hit the streets of Birmingham. I’ll...
View ArticleNo Predictions for 2017
Those who have knowledge don’t predict. Those who predict don’t have knowledge. — Lao Tzu Prognostication is a dicey affair. For the armchair clairvoyant, it’s really a no-win situation: Generally...
View ArticleIntroducing the Fourth Check
Journalism is a team sport. — Pete Hamill Where do you get your news? There’s a question that means something different than it did not so awfully long ago (as recently, even, as the summer of 2011,...
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The Local Solution
Photo by Ryan Scott. Heather Milam Nikolich and Mark Kelly believe in Birmingham, a city experiencing substantial growth after decades of stagnation, and one in which there are unique brands of growing...
View ArticleFree Public Service
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. — Winston Churchill I try not to stew...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers
My favorite writer, Birmingham’s own Walker Percy, once took a rather novel approach to fulfilling an obligation to provide an article for Esquire magazine: He interviewed himself. In a piece he titled...
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Birmingham’s Frequent Flyers
By Sam Prickett and Cody Owens An analysis of Birmingham city council agendas from Fiscal Year 2017 shows city officials — not including the mayor — have spent or been allocated over $300,000 in travel...
View ArticleWeld suspends publication
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 12, 2017 Contact: Mark Kelly, Publisher (205) 296-6651 mark@weldbham.com The management of Weld: Birmingham’s Newspaper has issued the following statement: As of July 13,...
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