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North Korea Nukes
No Child Left Behind: Year 4
The Pentecostal Century
From BSC to Saturn's Moon
Mental Health & Workplace Productivity

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News

| Birmingham -- Lou's Pub and Package Store is reopening today after its owner and namesake, Louis Zaden died at his home late last week. The place has been dark the past five days, yet regular customers have been holding court every afternoon and evening on its patio since the news of Lou's death broke. WBHM's Steve Chiotakis was one of those regulars who celebrated the life - and the cantankerous personality - of the man so many grew to love. More ...

| Birmingham -- Our weekly segment features The Birmingham News columnist John Archibald, discussing the city politic (and county and state politic too). Instead of being unplugged as he is in the newspaper, we offer him a bullhorn. Sort of. More ...

| Birmingham -- Each week we'll hear an update on political happenings in Birmingham and Jefferson County from Kyle Whitmire, staff writer and columnist for Birmingham Weekly. He joins WBHM's Andrew Yeager Wednesdays on All Things Considered. More ...

| Birmingham -- The Birmingham marketplace is connected by people who have to grapple with numbers and projections and spin. We try and slice through the psychobabble that can be business news with our occasional segment featuring the editor of the Birmingham Business Journal. More ...

| Birmingham -- As children at Glen Iris Elementary School in Birmingham head back to school Monday, their backpacks will most likely contain notebooks, pencils and...small laptops. The Glen Iris students are part of a pilot program for the new XO Laptops. Mayor Larry Langford plans on bringing them to other Birmingham city schools this coming year as part of the first large-scale XO Laptop program in America. Despite criticisms these computers are a waste of money and merely toys, the little machines are getting a positive response from educators. WBHM's Katie Turpen reports. More ...

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Tapestry

On the most recent Tapestry, the Bravo Arts Festival gets canceled. Also, how many songs can you name that were written for a book? And Red Mountain Theatre presents Tinyard Hill. Finally, tight harmonies and a major label debut from Birmingham band The Bridges. More...

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Wednesday night Opera

ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville

Glimmerglass Opera's jewel-like theater is the perfect venue for the crystalline textures and intimately-detailed vocals of Rossini's comic masterpiece. In short, it's the perfect place to hear why many consider Barber a nearly perfect operatic comedy.

NPR World of Opera airs Wednesday nights at 7 p.m.