#bham al

[nusagabham]

BIRMINGHAM! Techno is here at the legendary venue Sloss Furnaces all night long !! Don't miss the intro to our Takeover Series

Insane sets brought to you by @soul_smith13, @zaireharriss, johancore.hq and xenon_musicc

20 32nd ST N, Birmingham, AL, 35222 10pm - 3am

18+

THE TAKEOVER: TECHNO RAVE | Nu Saga | Sat, Jul 11, 2026 | Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark

Posh - Get tickets for THE TAKEOVER: TECHNO RAVE by Nu Saga - on Sat, Jul 11, 2026 - at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark

[bewaretheclairbear]

The courtyard at my favorite bar is full of overgrown vegetation and artfully arranged old junk.

[bewaretheclairbear]

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[bewaretheclairbear]

A local man has made it his life’s work to fill his yard with handwritten signs and decapitated mannequin heads and other detritus. You can feel the energy as soon as you turn into his street, a heavy force, dark and oily, that simultaneously repels and fascinates.

[mdjamzofficial]

Birmingham, Alabama is full of love, art, lgbtq+, and culture.

[bewaretheclairbear]

With every fall comes spring.

[bewaretheclairbear]

Behind the Redemptive Cycles bike shop.

[bewaretheclairbear]

There’s a young black man running for mayor of my city and he was saying all the right things about revitalizing inner-city working class neighborhoods like mine with sidewalks and parks and better street lights instead of dumping all the city’s money on the 3 up-and-coming gentrified areas, but then he lost me when he said we need more cops to increase public safety. All these cops are part of the problem. He thinks that having more police on the street will prevent crime or help with quicker response times, but some neighborhoods are actually over-policed and still crime-ridden, like over near the airport where the cops are actually letting a crack house stay in business because all the small arrests make money for the local criminal justice system. I have lived in 3 very different parts of this city and I feel the safest in my current home, even though it’s in the second worst area. Why? Because my neighborhood is stable, with very little turnover of residents. Most of my neighbors own their homes and the encroaching gentrification hasn't yet raised our property taxes enough to price us out. My neighbors are my greatest security system; they know who belongs here and who doesn't, who is a potential problem and who is not. The cops don't know who belongs here. They're as likely to draw their guns on the citizen who called them as on the criminal. Because my neighborhood is not over-policed, I don’t have to worry about cops with full combat gear and assault ruffles descending on the neighborhood whenever someone tries to rob the corner store. That day I ended up locking my doors against the cops, not against the robbers. Cops aren't the solution, especially when they've shown that they're not motivated by justice or public safety, at least not in black neighborhoods.