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The Von Braun Center Propst Arena was brimming Friday morning as leaders celebrated the top downtown Huntsville project, event and advocates of 2015. Yellowhammer Brewing and Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza took the coveted Downtown Huntsville, Inc. Project of the Year award, given annually to a business or an individual who brings innovation to […]

Last year’s inaugural Big Spring Crush Wine Festival – the first of its kind in Huntsville – was a sold-out affair. This year it’s becoming an annual Huntsville tradition, said Ashley Ryals, owner and chief creator Homegrown LLC, the organizer behind Big Spring Crush. It’ll be scheduled for the last Saturday in September each year. […]

There are two prerequisites to being a destination on the Beer Hop Craft Beer Trolley Tour – one, be located in Huntsville city limits and two, have a taproom. Of course, this automatically excludes Madison breweries like Rocket Republic and Blue Pants Brewery. So for Beer Hop’s first 2015 installment, set for April 30, creator Ashley […]

Out of the 42 American Wine Society certified wine judges living in the United States, four reside in the Huntsville area: Marjorie Ducote, Kristen Lindelow, Steve Young and Edwin Nunez. Add to that fact, last year Rocket City fine-dining spot Cotton Row was the lone Alabama restaurant to receive Wine Spectator magazine’s Best of Award […]

Those gigantic construction vehicles have been removed and the temporary chain-link fencing is being rearranged. And by Saturday afternoon, the lovely Big Spring International Park East will still be the site of Big Spring Crush, Huntsville first wine festival, which will offer 200 wines in a verdant outdoor setting under an array of illuminated tents. […]

It’s a little like taking a taxi – if a taxi held 35 people and the fare also included a sampling of killer beers at each place you stopped. Local beer lovers, meet Brew Hop, event planner Homegrown Huntsville’s craft-beer trolley tour debuting June 26. Local financial professional Rob Heard, a patron of Homegrown’s signature […]

You’ve probably heard of speed dating. How about speed dining? Homegrown Huntsville’s new Dine & Dash, a monthly event beginning in April, is all about sampling the menus of as many downtown Huntsville restaurants as possible in one night. “It’s called Dine & Dash for a reason; it’s going to be very fast-paced,” said Ashley […]