Tag: Birmingham News

Channel 19

Driving Miss Crazy shoots straight

Just how Birmingham News “Driver’s Side” traffic columnist Ginny MacDonald settled on the handle Driving Miss Crazy is something of a mystery. But like the friendship that evolved between the black chauffeur and the elderly Jewess in the film the handle plays on, the moniker smacks of a magnificent sense of humor. And that’s something […]

June 2, 2011

Channel 19

Having the cake and rolling it too

You may remember our reporting on the “Biggest tractor-trailer cake in the world” on the occasion of Iowa 80 Truckstop’s Walcott Truckers Jamboree’s big anniversary more than a year ago now — the confection, an 8-foot-long creation, still probably holds the title, but we’ve gotten word via the Birmingham News of another (pictured, by the […]

September 27, 2010