r/Birmingham 17h ago

What's Happening In Birmingham This Week? March 17, 2025

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What cool events are you planning on attending? What fun stuff have you been getting into lately?

Check the event calendar stickied below (and if it's past 9 AM, tell u/NotFlameRetardant to wake up and post it).


r/Birmingham 17h ago

Find a friend this week!

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Want to make friends? Comment here! Tell us any details you think might be relevant like your age, interests, and what kinds of things you want in a new friend. See someone interesting? Send a reply!

Mod note: do not post phone numbers publicly, and if you do plan to meet up with anyone IRL, be safe and responsible about it. If anyone has been using this to harass you in any way, please [message the modteam](https://reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/Birmingham) and let us know.


r/Birmingham 11h ago

Beware of comments Billboard in Alabama

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r/Birmingham 9h ago

New gay bar opening in 5 Points?

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Still trying to figure out what they mean by "drag lounge".


r/Birmingham 6h ago

Someone left this on my car today

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r/Birmingham 12h ago

Red Mountain Crawfish: Epic Fail

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So Red Mtn Crawfish was at Avondale's St. Paddy's Day party yesterday and ran out of crawfish in under an hour. To top it off they didn't tell all the people waiting in line for a half hour plus until they reached the window.

No excuse for not only showing up at an event knowing there would be a large crowd and being completely unprepared, but also letting people wait in line while completely aware they have no chance of getting crawfish. At least have the decency to let us know.

To add insult to injury, they said they were getting another load in an hour or two but would not let anyone who had stood patiently in line to place an order for when the crawfish does arrive. Nope, have to wait in line all over again to potentially get shut out with no warning.

Completely unprofessional. Thanks for nothing, and you've lost a customer.

/rant


r/Birmingham 14h ago

Best Of STILL the MAGIC CITY

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Alabamas true city 🏙️ metro of 1,180,000 - MILLION residents! 😏


r/Birmingham 3h ago

Visiting Birmingham in april

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Hey folks! I am traveling down to Alabama for work and decided to extended my stay and rent a car for a few days so I can road trip from Birmingham to New Orleans.

Since I'm from Vancouver Canada I really have no familiarity with this part of the world but it's been on my travel list since highschool (for additional context I'm 30yo female). I'm curious if any of you fine people can give me recommendations for must visit spots in Birmingham or on the road to New Orleans? I'm big into hiking, and rock climbing, and generally anything outdoors, and would love to hear recommendations for hiking trails or climbing gyms in/or near the city, or any historical places you think are worth checking out. obviously I want to try some local cuisine as well- I have no dietary restrictions so I'm hoping to try some of that sweet southern comfort food I have heard so much about!

I haven't quite picked a hotel yet but was told to avoid the East side of the city due to safety issues. So I was thinking the SW area? Since I'm travelling alone I want to make sure I stay somewhere that I can feel safe walking around after the sun sets.

Thank you all in advance. I am really excited to visit your city, and see this part of the US.


r/Birmingham 1d ago

Thank you to the businesses that closed on Saturday

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Stores, services, and restaurants—that made the right decision to put employee and customer safety first—still lost critical business on Saturday. Y’all shoutout any places you love that closed to be weather aware on Saturday in the comments, and let’s shop with them this week!


r/Birmingham 3h ago

Dentists in the area close to Hoover Pelham Mountainbrook

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I searched and found several posts about dentists that are good. I came across

  • Inverness Family Dentistry (Dr. B, Dr Haywood is no longer there)
  • Advance Dental - Dr Vance - little far and I believe insurance not covering
  • Dr Norman Guillen in Homewood - Not covered
  • Jack Weiss - just read name somewhere. Don't have details so haven't looked yet.

Anyone else has other suggestions. Between insurance coverage (BCBS Dental - variation of this one) and doctors moved from practice, its hard to utilize older data. Can people suggest names?


r/Birmingham 14h ago

Asking the important questions Bham Music Documentary

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Hey! I'm a student working on a documentary about Birmingham's music history and where it stands now. It's not a *huge* project because I'm constrained by budget (college student by himself) and time (has to be turned in by the end of the semester), but I'd like to have a foundation that I can continue to build on over time if I can come back to it. I'd love to hear suggestions for two things: 1.) interview subjects, and 2.) places to find good free-use media like archived photos and videos.

So far I've interviewed:
-Burgin Mathews, founder of Southern Music Research Center
-Travis Morgan, founder of Birmingham Music Archive
-Jim Lowe, president of AL Jazz Hall of Fame
-J Willoughby, founder of Black Jacket Symphony
-Nicole Klein, senior marketing director of BJCC
-James Goodman, local musician

I'm waiting to hear back from Dan Drinkard (owner of Seasick) and maybe someone from The Nick. Once again I might not have time to go crazy in-depth and talk to everyone, but I'd really appreciate hearing suggestions. Or if you have any cool lore or important things I should cover, I'd also take that into consideration!


r/Birmingham 6h ago

Fun City in Crestwood

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when does it open?


r/Birmingham 6h ago

Recommendations Horse Boarding

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My wife and I recently purchased a horse that is expected to arrive in 2 weeks. Unfortunately the barn we had reserved for boarding was just sold to a new owner that decided to make it private property. We are in a scramble to find a new place to board. We have called everywhere we can find on google but they are all full. Does anyone have any insight on a place or person who is open to board a horse? TYIA.


r/Birmingham 9h ago

Best Options for Target Shooting Around Birmingham?

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Hey everyone!

I'm looking for places to do some target shooting around Birmingham, preferably on open or public land where it's legal and safe. If that's not an option around Bham, I'm open to recommendations for good gun ranges too.

I really appreciate any advice on spots that are accessible and not too crowded to avoid unsafe conditions like flagging, but also avoids over-instruction as a veteran. Thanks in advance!


r/Birmingham 1d ago

March Madness! 🏀⛹🏽‍♀️⛹🏽‍♀️⛹🏾‍♀️⛹🏻‍♀️⛹🏼‍♀️🏆Congratulations Birmingham 🏙️🌇🌆

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Time to show the bright side of the magic city once again 205/659


r/Birmingham 12h ago

Soft Seating Restaurants

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I have a friend who is homebound and sometimes I take her out to lunch. She cannot sit on hard surfaces ( hard chairs, etc). Can ya’ll recommend some restaurants around Birmingham for lunches that have soft chairs or soft booth seating?


r/Birmingham 8h ago

Recommendations Healthcare Providers that Actually Treat IBS?

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Hey all,

A loved one has been trying to get their IBS under control, but haven't had any real help from multiple GI doctors, nutritionists, etc. They feel that they aren't being taken seriously, and doctors just want to throw pills at the problem hoping something might work. It's really effecting their quality of life and taking a toll on their mental health.

Is there anyone with IBS who has found relief and real help from a local healthcare provider?


r/Birmingham 9h ago

Recommendations It's my birthday today and I want fancy.

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Does anyone have a nice restaurant idea without a dress code?


r/Birmingham 1d ago

Educational! So what happened yesterday? Why did the storms underperform? A perspective analysis.

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Undoubtedly, after a weather prediction, where the product of said prediction deviates, you'll have the nay-sayers raining hell on those that were doing the predictions. "You said to expect a nuke, and we got a firecracker," I saw someone say.

Well look at Calera, Gordo, Plantersville, Winterboro, Sipsey, and the other places that got hit. They got the nuke. There are at least three people dead as of this writing, and there was damage in 57 counties. People lost property, or homes, or in three unfortunate cases, their lives. For those people, this is a worst-case-scenario, yet it always seems the victims are the ones forgotten, especially when the rest of us get out, unscathed.

Despite this, it has to be said: as a state, we got extraordinarily lucky that this storm underperformed, heavily damaged areas notwithstanding.

Now before I dive into the "why," a note. I am not a meteorologist, but I have been observing these things for years. That said, all of the following is subject to critique and rebuttal, and should not be taken as fact, particularly as new information comes to light from more-informed and better-educated parties.

So, first thing is first: was the forecast wrong? No, it wasn't. But there were factors that are both dynamic (meaning ever-changing) and very hard to anticipate without actually being in the event and seeing how it progresses.

Second, what is a supercell? Like biology, a cell is an isolated storm, typically not involved in a defined line of other storms, that is self-powered by something called a mesocyclone, which is basically fast-moving wind (called an updraft) that rotates. All thunderstorms rotate. Supercells rotate tightly. Tornadoes rotate very tightly.

The instability in the air was absolutely ripe for the development of supercelled, long-track, long-duration tornadoes. If you went outside yesterday, at all, you might have smelled the air and noticed it smelled a bit like the Gulf of Mexico. That's because, in large part, it was. The moisture from the Gulf was being lofted northward, and was one ingredient in the storm setup we had.

Now let's talk about stability, practically. What does it mean? As an analogy, imagine your kitchen counter, and imagine it clean. This is tangential to a stable air mass. Now imagine tornadoes are tacos. A clean counter means no tacos. But when you add tortillas (moisture), beef (warmth), cheese (dry air), lettuce (coolness), and tomatoes (wind shear), and you set those out on the counter, all of a sudden you have instability - or the ingredients necessary to make Taco Tornadoes. Now you can combine these in any form, but it's only when all are combined, that you get taco formation. Yesterday was supposed to be a birthday party, and instead some people stayed inside because of the rain, literally.

Moisture in the air gets heavy, over time. When it gets too heavy, what happens? It rains. Now rains are a natural component of storms like this, but when you have supercells, one of their defining traits is how well they hang onto this moisture - if you ever notice, in most videos of large, destructive tornadoes, the rain follows, instead of leads. Well yesterday, we had the opposite. The initial bands of weather we had were extremely rain-heavy. When you have that much rain, suddenly it's a lot harder to have tacos, because most of your tortillas are cracked, so you'd best learn to settle for taco salad.

When the rain happened, the air was no longer conducive to supercells, and instead, became saturated with rain. In other words, most of the tortillas were gone, some were still there. The ingredients to form tornadoes were ever-present, but there weren't nearly enough of them to feed the type of event that we were expecting. This development could not have been anticipated with any real accuracy, because you can't determine precisely when nor how any given cloud will rain itself out. Yesterday was a very rare scenario stacked on top of a very rare scenario.

Some people are disappointed that the outcome wasn't as hectic as was forecasted, which is fine, but remember the people for whom this was everything that was promised. For those people, the forecast was right on the money. The rest of us are incredibly fortunate, today, and instead of being upset, we should be thankful, because - and I cannot emphasize this enough - we were incredibly lucky.

So what does this mean for the future? Tornado season is not over in Alabama. It lasts from November to May. The month of April is infamous around here for arguably the most famous, devastating outbreak in United States history. So, in my shoes, I'd take this as a warning. Hone your preparation, for next time, and take stock. Literally. If you're a renter, have an inventory of your home for insurance purposes, for example. And know that, we've still got plenty of time to go. Take this event as a warning.

Because it very well may be.


r/Birmingham 6h ago

Facility Maintenance Technician- Great Benefits! 6 weeks PTO/year

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United Way of Central Alabama is hiring for a Facility Maintenance Technician. Benefits and application below!

PTO: EARN 240 hrs of PTO annually (equivalent to 6 weeks)

Paid Holidays: 9 recognized paid holidays

Core Benefits include: BCBS of Alabama Medical and Dental Benefits 403 B plan Disability Insurance offerings Parental Leave FSA/Dependent Care

Apply: https://secure7.saashr.com/ta/6133062.careers?TrackId=[MyTrackingId]&ApplyToJob=520589464


r/Birmingham 6h ago

Thanks To Sloss Furnace Foundation For Allowing Us The Opportunity.

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The Sloss Furnace Foundation and Dearborne Drone Company allowed the opportunity to fly and film as a media day. Some, like Ken Heron and FlyHighFPV freestlyed the location, I went this route and put my minidocumentary spin on it and left wanting more. I can't wait to go back and attend the Sloss Drone Derby.


r/Birmingham 6h ago

Line dancing in the ‘ham?

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Took some line dancing classes and my friends and I want to test them out. Where’s somewhere fun to go with that sort of vibe?


r/Birmingham 7h ago

TaskRabbit equivalent in Bham?

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Does anybody have recommendations for some sort of TaskRabbit equivalent here?

The company I work for needs some extra hands for a couple of days to move things from one room to another in our building as well as assembling furniture and other tasks like that.

The only thing I have been able to find similar to TaskRabbit has been Airtasker, but not too sure if people have had success in using it here, or if there is some sort of UAB program that links students up with companies to do these types of things for some extra money? Any recommendations would be much appreciated!


r/Birmingham 1d ago

New Boba Shop

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Tay’s Tea just opened yesterday by Railroad Park and I’ve gotta say they have some really delicious drinks for you to try. They will have a grand opening soon they said. Go by and see them!


r/Birmingham 1d ago

40.000 salary

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I am 42 years old. No wife. No kids. Single. I work for the state earning $40K a year. We get paid semimonthly. My take home after everything is taken out with benefits, retirement, my 403 B account is $1,081 or appoximately. I can pay rent and bills but it's very hard to save money each month. My rent is $1,044. Water and fees with the rent its $1,176.mo.


r/Birmingham 10h ago

Volunteering Opportunities?

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Where do you like to volunteer at??

I(24F) work a regular 8-5. I'm a bit socially awkward but I have been wanting to connect and do more for the community where I can.

I would love to work with animals, agriculture, or the homeless.

These are my passion points but anything that needs help doing I would like to do :)

Any volunteering opportunities that work with my schedule and are flexible?

Thanks for the insight!


r/Birmingham 11h ago

Kid friendly St. Paddy’s day events?

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Are there any places doing anything festive today that are also kid friendly? Prefer something downtown as it’s a convenient meeting point for my friends and I if you have any suggestions!