Month: June 2007

Got an email from Scott at Standard Deluxe – Sean Star Wars Tees & Big Fun this Sat. HOT KICKS . . . Smooth Summer Slow Down . . . from The Shop . . . Standard Deluxe here in Waverly Alabama . . . Join Us This Saturday Nite June 30 . . . Music in the Warehouse with Tony Brook & Friends and Big Fun with Wildman . . . It’s gonna be… Read More

Richard & Mary are taking a few days off and Eighth & Rail will close until next Friday. The return will have lots of music on the July Schedule. More on that later.

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on June 28, 2007. View the original page.

Main Street Farmer’s Market Tuesday at 3PM. It’s on Railroad Avenue between 8th & 9th Streets.

Tonight at the Summer Swing Series it’s Muse – 19th year on the Summer Swing Bandstand! Easy listening, vocal oriented acoustic soft rock played as only Muse can. 

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on June 26, 2007. View the original page.

Well, you know I’ve become Opelika thru and thru.  After getting a look at the flyer for the next season of the Opelika Arts Association, which looks to be a great season, I was disappointed to find the Association has changed the name to The Arts Association of East Alabama! What gives with that? I can understand what some might say is a good reason, but nope, not to me.  What’s next, East Alabama Center… Read More

Best Friend Kim recently said the Blog was getting Boring! Too much about what’s going around town I guess. But don’t fear, you’ll keep getting the Opelika stuff.  I guess I just have to do some more personal stuff. It’s Saturday Night , I’m working on a new way to cook wings! I guess by now, after all I’m 57, I should have mastered this. But that’s not the case. I’ve been cooking over the direct… Read More

Get turned on …to Lexi Street. by fusing elements of jazz, rock, sex and pop, Lexi Street and her band have created a sound that’s not emulative of anything you’ve heard before, yet somehow if will feel so familiar. It can only be the marvy hooks and the matchless melodies that make them such a bitchin’ band. “girl I used to be…” street & o’bryan’s freshman cd bends and curves to words that, for some… Read More

John Wadsworth , Opelika High School 9th grade boys basketball Coach and assistant for varsity boys since 2005, has been named the new head basketball coach for varsity boys.  Wadsworth replaces Mike Pugh who retired at the end of the school year to take over the basketball program at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Wadsworth , who is also a math teacher at OHS, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College (Hickory, NC) in… Read More

The Opelika High School Boy’s Basketball Team will host a seven-team Play Day on Wednesday, June 20th, beginning at 4:00 p.m. at Opelika High School. In addition to OHS, high school teams from Hanover, Penn. (Hanover High School), Woodstock, Ga. (Etowah High School), Oakridge, Tenn. (Oakridge High School), and Florida teams from Cape Coral (Mariner High School), Fort Myers (South Fort Myers High School), and Englewood (Lemon Bay High School) will play each other in… Read More

There was a crowd of folks at City Council for the Work & Regular Session.  Many of us there were to voice our comments about the proposed Historic District.  It only got a first reading this evening, with Councilwoman Jones wanting more information from those against the measure.  I spoke with her afterward and she said she really doesn’t like to suspend rules for a quick vote, when maybe not all the facts are known. … Read More

Jenny & Bryce came to town on Monday for lunch.  The Little Guy is nearly 9 months old. It was a good day.  

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on June 18, 2007. View the original page.