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MONDAY, JAN. 7 – SUNDAY, JAN. 13, 2013

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2013 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK CONFERENCE – The 2013 Economic Outlook Conference, presented by The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, will be Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa at the Convention Center. The UA center, CBER, is part of the Culverhouse College of Commerce. Leading experts on the U.S. and Alabama economies will review recent trends and discuss prospects for 2013. Conference registration and information is available online at http://cber.cba.ua.edu. Registration is limited and ends Jan. 9. The conference fee of $150 includes the Alabama Economic Outlook publication, conference materials and lunch. Contact: Carolyn Trent, ctrent@cba.ua.edu, 205/348-3589 or Bill Gerdes, bgerdes@cba.ua.edu, 205/348-8318.

REALIZING THE DREAM – The singing ensemble Take 6 and the Aeolians of Oakwood University will highlight the 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Realizing the Dream concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in the Concert Hall at The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Building. Tickets for the event are $15 and may be reserved by calling 205/348-7111. The concert is part of a weekend of events organized by West Alabama’s Martin Luther King Realizing the Dream Committee, including a banquet featuring Cynthia Tucker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist formerly with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Tucker is a native of Monroeville, Ala., and a graduate of Auburn University. She is the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. In addition to the concert, the Realizing the Dream Committee will recognize three West Alabamians at the banquet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at the Hotel Capstone. Tickets are $25 each and are available by calling 205/348-7111. Contact: Richard LeComte, media relations, rllecomte@ur.ua.edu, 205/348-3782

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UPDATED Jan. 8: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art exhibition “Straddled: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” originally scheduled to run through Jan. 18, has been canceled. Exhibition programming has been temporarily suspended.  Watch for an announcement of the gallery’s resumed exhibitions programming in the near future or visit http://art.ua.edu/site/galleries/sarah-moody-gallery-of-art/.