2009 Was a Big Year for New Music From Mobile Bay Artists
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 Releases New Self-Titled EP After New Orleans Recording Sessions
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…
Mobile Filmmakers Turn Out Zombie and Apocalypse Shorts for Local Film Scramble
A group of Mobile-area filmmakers spent five days racing to write, shoot and edit short films for a local contest known as the film scramble, with organizers handing out awards…
Mobile Gospel Rapper Paper Boy Talks New Album ‘News Flash’
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 Known as “Sheesh” to Debut Two-Person Show at Mobile’s Robertson Gallery
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…
New Book Revives 1930s Mobile Radio Broadcasts That Told Alabama’s History
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…
Mobile Novelist Thomas Lakeman on His New FBI Thriller and Updating Dracula for the Stage
Mobile author and playwright Thomas Lakeman has released “Broken Wing,” the third installment in his series of FBI thrillers following special agents Mike Yeager and Peggy Weaver, set in post-Katrina…
Fairhope Novelist Karen Bonvillain Debuts Gulf Coast Mystery “Who Was Benny Looter”
Baldwin County writer Karen Bonvillain has published her debut novel, “Who Was Benny Looter,” a mystery that opens with a body uncovered on the sand in Gulf Shores and follows…
Mobile Author Elizabeth Parker Collects the City’s Ghost Stories in “Haunted Mobile”
Mobile writer Elizabeth Parker has spent years tracking down the city’s ghost stories, and this fall her research is being published in a single volume, “Haunted Mobile,” through The History…
Fairhope Novelist C. Terry Cline on the Childhood Tragedy That Shaped 25 Years of Suspense Writing
Fairhope novelist C. Terry Cline Jr., whose suspense and crime novels have spanned decades, says the roots of his career trace back to a violent scene he witnessed as a…