Mobile and Baldwin County News
Arts and culture news from Mobile, Baldwin County, and South Alabama, including local artists, exhibits, music, theater, and cultural events.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson returned to the region where his scientific career began this week for two public appearances tied to his latest book, a novel…
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, a nationwide observance created to highlight the history and living legacy of jazz. In Mobile, that history includes a musician whose name is far better…
MOBILE, Ala. — One of downtown Mobile’s most beloved pieces of public art is heading back to its longtime home. The Little Colt, a bronze statue gifted to Mobile by…
MOBILE, Ala. — The Demented Needle in Mobile hosted a collaborative art party Sunday night, turning a casual gathering into a live painting session that filled the shop with music…
Musicians across the Mobile Bay area closed out 2009 with an unusually deep run of new releases, spanning genres from folk and Americana to hip-hop, blues-rock and singer-songwriter pop. For…
Fairhope singer-songwriter Nick Gill has released a new, self-titled EP recorded in New Orleans, the latest step in a music career that started when he was a fifth-grader selling homemade…
A group of Mobile-area filmmakers spent five days racing to write, shoot and edit short films from scratch for a local contest known as the film scramble, with organizers handing…
Mobile hip-hop artist Paper Boy, born John Pendleton, released his debut full-length album, News Flash, in October, following it up with singles including “Get Up.” The Mobile-based rapper blends hip-hop…
Illustrator Caleb Morris, who works under the name Sheesh, will open a two-person exhibition at the Robertson Gallery in Mobile beginning December 11, showcasing new work influenced by 19th-century painters…
A newly published book, “Alabama History on the Air,” is bringing a forgotten piece of Mobile broadcasting history back into print, drawing on more than five dozen radio scripts that…