
Birmingham, AL---Halloween just hit like a ton of Pixie Sticks. Hang on---here come the holidays......

We'll stop and breathe deeply now. Thousands of sports fans have just exited the city after two major events fell on the same weekend. The past weekend's AMP Energy 500 race at Talladega Superspeedway attracted more than 100,000 race enthusiasts from across the country......

Whoever said there's no such thing as a free lunch was just wrong. The Greater Birmingham Convention Visitors Bureau continues to target travelers on a budget, inviting guests to stay Friday and Saturday nights and get Sunday night free at participating hotels......

There's a lot to love in Birmingham, from well-known favorites to well-kept secrets. The Birmingham CVB wants to know your favorite place in the Birmingham area for dining, shopping, entertainment, coffee drinking, art buying or attending an event......

Now through December 3 visitors to McWane Science Center are in for a real treat with the showing of Where The Wild Things Are at the Imax Dome Theater......

It's not too soon to get your tickets for the annual holiday season treat, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, performed by the Alabama Ballet. Performances are scheduled for December 11-20 at Samford Wright Center......

We've let the whole year slip by without one mention of a great traditional event on Birmingham's entertainment schedule. That event is Trade Days at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, with the last weekend of trading set for November 14-15......

Birmingham's Red Mountain Park, one of the largest urban parks in the country, just got 49 acres larger in a land swap with U.S. Steel. When combined with Ruffner Mountain and the downtown Railroad Park, the additional land makes Birmingham a national leader in city green spaces......

Birmingham's Rickwood Field, the nation's oldest ballpark, was named in a current issue of Preservation Magazine as a national model for ballpark revitalization......

A feature story in The Birmingham News about the CVB's reunions workshop was a great attendance booster for the event late last month. More than 400 reunion planners turned out to visit with about 50 suppliers representing hotels, attractions, decorators, photographers and caterers......

Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau Tell us your favorite spots IN Birmingham! We are taking nominations for the 2010 IN guide online at www.inbirmingham.com
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Your online guide to the best spots in Birmingham, Alabama. - What's in? You tell us. With your help, we can tell the world about the great things Birmingham has to offer.

Nothing you are doing is too important to put down for just a minute to watch the approach of fall. Should we take a nationwide poll, no doubt fall would be the hands-down season winner. There's something romantic about October......

Moondance, square dance, tap dance or simply sit and soak in all the sights and sounds at the Vulcan AfterTunes Concert Series. Two performances in October are set to get underway under Vulcan, the largest cast iron statue in the world......

are on the entertainment schedule October 11 at the Birmingham Folk Festival at historic Avondale Park. The Folk Festival is a showcase for the burgeoning and vibrant folk scene both locally and regionally......








