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Material world

Heidi Elnora Standridge Baker is a a small-town girl from the community of Sardis, Ala., who had a dream of making it big. She is well on her way if she has not made it there already. A fashion designer by trade and an entrepreneur by heart. Follow her journey, hear some stories, and pick up some tips along the way in her spot on b-metro.com.

Cherri Ellis

Cherri Ellis speaks her mind about topics great and small, downright sad and laugh out loud funny.

Glamour

Lee Ann Brown corrects a misconception about what glamour is and what it is not.. First, it’s not about age, or looks, or money, or your address. Glamour, is  a state of mind. Follow the steps to a glamorous life in the city, courtesy of Lee Ann.

Foodimentary

John-Bryan Hopkins checks in each month from the world of food. The Foodimentary Guy recently won a second consecutive Shorty Award, a recognition of the best in short (140 characters or less) real-time content via Twitter, in the Food category. For B-Metro, Hopkins focuses on the best new cookbooks.

Digital City

Andre Natta explores the city’s digital road map. Andre Natta is the creator of an exciting weekday web publication The Terminal that acts as a hub of information about all things Birmingham.

Style

Tracy Robinson knows style. For a fresh approach to traditional fashion consulting that caters to style conscious, budget-savvy, time constrained individuals, hope on over to chicmadesimple!

B Yourself

Birmingham Bombshells creator Angela Karen spends most of her time celebrating people of all ages by exposing their celebrity side through photography. Angela is also an ovarian cancer awareness advocate and host of the annual “A Picture of Health” event to benefit ovarian cancer research

Suitcase

B-Metro’s monthly travel column highlighting great destinations, both near and far.

Ask Micah

Micah Cargo has been handing out common-sense advice to the senseless for most of his life. Being brought up by a single mom and three wise old southern grandparents equipped Micah with the tools needed to get through life with a little humor, a little intelligence, and not a small amount of bitterness.

Hush Amanda

Amanda Oliver-Zaremba, a Birmingham native, learned quickly from several sleepless nights, zombie-esque mornings, wrestling matches with car seats in the sweltering Alabama August, and marathon diaper changes, that motherhood was a job that’d take more stamina than skill.

Sound Links

After decades of unabashed New Tunes fandom, Francis Hare is now convinced that pop music is on a lemming-like march to creative bankruptcy. This column allows you decide for yourself. Click on the link beneath each entry to automatically launch a free Rhapsody Playlist featuring the records reviewed.

Connections

A former recruiter in New York, Paget Pizitz moved back to her hometown of Birmingham where she became a certified and licensed matchmaker. She enjoys stale gas station candy, dressing her cat in nautical attire and dishing out unsolicited and wildly unedited relationship advic

In The Garden

Southern Living’s Charlie Thigpen took a deep breath and jumped, making a mid-career leap into The Gardener’s Gallery, a shop that is more than a garden center or art gallery. Here he brings advice and suggestions to B-Metro readers.

Hot Dish

Dan Monroe is a principal of Cayenne Creative, an advertising and branding agency located in downtown Birmingham. The Hot Dish is Cayenne Creative’s blog which offers a healhy serving of work, play and the pursuit of that which has fire.

Bailey’s Best Bets

Inspired by magazine publishing and fashion, Amy Bailey created the online magazine, My Scoop. For B-Metro, she finds Bailey’s Best Bets for our readers each month.

B well

April Jones is the voice of health and wellness for B-Metro magazine. She puts this same thing to practice daily running a facility called Silver Linings LLC, a healing arts center where hope and healing truly unite. April is a licensed massage and neuromuscular therapist, a master medical massage practitioner, a Vedic Thai Yoga therapist, a Level 1 Qi Gong Instructor and one of Birmingham’s pioneer Yoga instructor who believes her calling is to challenge, create, console, uplift, encourage, inspire, educate and empower others as they travel the road of healing.

Magic City Made

Laura Kate Whitney (@MagicCity_Mama) is a transplant who fell head over heels in love with the Magic City. This mother of two scribes about what the “Magic” is all about, where it came from, where it can be found, and who’s making it happen. For more of her musings, visit MagicCityMade.com. You can also follow her adventures on Twitter.