Good Day Alabama for February 16, 2012

Here is what you saw on Good Day Alabama for February 16, 2012:

ARIELLE LIVE - Arielle joined us from the Birmingham Home and Garden Show this week at the BJCC. It runs today from 11am until 9pm, tomorrow and Saturday from 10am until 9pm and on Sunday from 11am until 6pm. Check out exhibits, celebrities, and more! For more information, visit www.homeshowbirmingham.com.

JEH JEH LIVE - Jeh Jeh joined us from Briarwood Christian School where the Concert Choir performed music for us in honor of Black History Month.

CUBA PHOTOGRAPHER - Chip Cooper is an Alabama photographer. He recently returned from Cuba and has published a book of photography from his travels there. Chip Cooper was the former Director of Photography for the University of Alabama for 33 years and is now artist in residence in the Honors College, as well as a faculty member in Arts & Sciences. He received his BA from the University in 1972, followed by post-graduate work in photography. While working for the University of Alabama, he published the following books: Hunting: The Southern Tradition, Taylor Publishing, Dallas Texas; Alabama Memories, WH Smith, New York City; Silent in the Land & Common Threads, CKM Press, Tuscaloosa Alabama, Crimson: The University of Alabama, Booksmith Group, Nashville Tennessee}; and, most recently, Charlie Lucas, The Tin Man, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa Alabama. He recently had a photography exhibition in Havana, Cuba, and one in Alabama with Cuban photographer Nestor Marti entitled "Side by Side." They worked on his new book - Habana Veija, (Translation: Old Havana) which was just published by Alabama Press. For more information, visit www.chipcooper.com.

RUBEN STUDDARD - Ruben Studdard joined us to discuss American Idol, his new album - "Letters from Birmingham" - and single - "june 28th (I'm Single)", and what else he's up to these days. For more information, visit www.rubenstuddard.com.

PET OF THE WEEK - Laura Golden with the Greater Birmingham Humane Society introduced us to a pet today looking for a forever home! His/Her name is Sawyer. For more information on today's pet or others up for adoption, call (205) 942-1211 or visit www.gbhs.org.

Tomorrow on Good Day Alabama, we talk with the author of a new book to explain how you can use your brain to change your age! Jeh Jeh checks out the Jazz Cat Ball! Comedian Jon Reep joins us in the studio with a few laughs! And as always, we check out your business headlines, your entertainment news, and what's going on around town in the the Weekend Calendar! That and much more tomorrow on Good Day Alabama!