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SPECIALMartina McBride

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It's that wonderful time of the year again.

And our Go: Your good Times magazine team decided to start the season off early by having a little football game at Milton Frank Stadium. There was a lot of illegal touching, but Chris Welch, Jon Busdeker, Steve "The Matador" Campbell, Victoria Cumbow, Christie Vail and Laci Pruitt turned a simple game into a fun afternoon.

Yep, it's time to kick off the college, pro and fantasy football seasons, and Go: Your good Times magazine is ready to kick things off, too.

We've got a page inside Thursday's edition on Fantasy Football 101 for those looking for more information or ways to jump into this fall phenomenon.

We also tell you the best places to watch college and pro games, and in many cases, draft your fantasy football teams.

Do you have plans for dinner Sept. 17?

If not, and if you have a spare $32,000 and some considerable change, you can have the dinner of a lifetime at Le Grand Trianon at Versailles, outside Paris.

Viva Cuba [Cuba, 2005, Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti and Iraida Malberti Cabrera, Directors]

Watch the trailer below:

[Note: The film to be screened will have English subtitles]
"This award-winning film explores the bond of friendship, as the close relationship between two children living in Cuba is threatened by the class differences between their families."

The UAB Foreign Film Series begins tonight at 8 p.m. in the Hulsey Recital hall (on the first floor in the Hulsey Center next to the Alys Stephens Center), and admission is free!

Chuck's Fish will be sponsoring the event, and anyone who dines at Chuck's on the 26th or 27th will receive complimentary tickets to the film. Also, anyone who purchases walk up movie tickets at the Bama Theatre can later bring their ticket stub to recieve $5 off any food item at Chuck's. Other specials include Ladies' Night on Tuesday with half-priced drinks and $2 sushi rolls.

Patti Wheeler is hanging up her spurs after nearly three decades on Birmingham radio.

Wheeler, co-host of the long-running "Patti and Dollar Bill Morning Show" with Bill Lawson on country station 102.5 The Bull (WDXB-FM), plans to tell her listeners this morning that she is ready to retire. Her last day on the air will be Nov. 21.
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Ralph S. "Buddy" Palmer will be the next Executive Director of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham.

The 51-year-old Selma native, who has directed similar organizations in Lafayette, La., and Selma, will replace Kathy Yarbrough, who left the post in October to join Alabama Symphony's administrative staff. Ann McMillan has served as interim director.

"My mentors were artists who came of age in the 1960s, when art was about building neighborhoods and communities," he said from Lafayette, where he was preparing to move to Birmingham with his wife, Sarah. "My background is community-based art. It's that knowledge and background that I would like to bring to the organization."

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Performing 8/26 at Bottletree. John P. Strohm opens. Tickets $7.

Seriously though, can you imagine what kind of devotion to music that sort of move takes (for any band)? To make their story even sweeter though, the two also became a couple.