Working with a professional chef can have its advantages. I get to ask Chef Robey all kinds of cooking questions and turn what use to be a rather dull meal at my house into something quiet wonderful. We would like to start featuring more of Chef Robey’s tips and tidbits, so once a week we will have a blog entry answering your cooking and kitchen questions for Chef Robey. Take advantage of this awesome opportunity and find out some kitchen secrets, great ways to spice up your food, what spices you should have in your kitchen, anything food related!

You can head on over to our facebook page, leave us a comment here or call your question in to Virginia at 205.939.5551.

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The concept of the Club is inclusive ~ all faculty members and senior staff (active and retired) from Birmingham’s higher education community are invited to join. Centrally located on Birmingham’s Southside, we see The Veranda on Highland as the perfect gathering place for a wide variety of “members-only” events, our very own University Club, where you will always be recognized, welcomed and comfortable, where you can network and meet and greet colleagues, new and old, from your institution and all of Birmingham’s excellent academic institutions. Whenever possible, the Veranda on Highland will be happy to accommodate University Club members for any occasion, from lunch with colleagues to a small, private family gathering.

The founding annual membership fee, if you join before December 31, 2011, is $100 for senior faculty and senior staff and $60 for junior faculty; thereafter, the fees are $125 and $85, respectively.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Richard Leigh has been an icon of the music world since his first hit, Crystal Gayle’s “I’ll Get Over You,” went to #1 on Billboard’s Country Chart in 1976.  Two years later he received his first Song of the Year award from the Country Music Association for “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” also recorded by Gayle.

To date, Leigh has made fourteen trips to the Top Ten and has written or co-written eight #1 singles, including “Somewhere In My Broken Heart” (voted 1991 Song of the Year by the Nashville Songwriter’s Association and “Best Country Song” by the Academy of Country Music Grammy Awards), and “The Greatest Man I Never Knew” (nominated at the 1993 Grammy Awards for “Best Country Song”).

In 1978, then Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton presented Leigh with The Key to the City.  In 1988 he was honored with a space on the NARAS Starwalk.  One of his greatest honors came in 1994, when his peers elected him into the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

Join us in welcoming this superb talent to Veranda on Highland. The cost is $75 per person for music and a three course dinner.  The bar will open at 5:30, with dinner at 6:30, and the concert at 8:00.  To make reservations, please speak with your server or contact

The Veranda on Highland at 939-5551.