Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Fest Poetry Slam Draws Crowd to Museum of Mobile
The Museum of Mobile was alive with the rhythm and power of spoken word on the evening of August 4, 2011, as poets gathered for the poetry slam competition held…
Nodine Defense Points to Drug Theft in Baldwin Coroner’s Office
An attorney for Stephen Nodine demanded scrutiny of a theft of evidence drugs from the Baldwin County coroner's office, seeking to link it to the medications of Angel Downs as…
CMT’s ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ Reality Series Set to Film in Fairhope
The cable network CMT announced in June 2011 that it would bring a new reality dating series to the small coastal city of Fairhope, Alabama. The show, titled Sweet Home…
CMT’s ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ Reality Series Set to Film in Fairhope
Fairhope spent the summer of 2011 doubling as a television set. In June 2011, the cable network CMT announced that a new reality dating series, Sweet Home Alabama, would film…
Fairhope Author Terry Cline Channels the Sleeping Prophet in The Return of Edgar Cayce
Fairhope author Terry Cline has a new book out this month that resurrects one of Alabama’s strangest homegrown legends: Edgar Cayce, the Kentucky-born psychic whose early years included nearly a…
Hands Across the Sand Events Planned for Fairhope, Gulf Shores and Dauphin Island
Residents and visitors across coastal Alabama were invited to take part in the national Hands Across the Sand movement on Saturday, June 25, 2011, with simultaneous gatherings planned at three…
Hands Across the Sand Events Planned for Fairhope, Gulf Shores and Dauphin Island
On a June Saturday one year after the worst offshore oil disaster in American history, Alabamians were asked to do something deceptively simple: show up at their local beach, hold…
Harper Lee Documentary “Hey, Boo” Heads to Mobile’s Crescent Theater With Director Q&A
The Crescent Theater in downtown Mobile will devote a full week to one of the most talked-about literary documentaries in recent memory, screening Hey, Boo from June 10 through June…
Alabama House Takes Up Brewery Modernization Act Today: Where Local Reps Stand
The Alabama House of Representatives is expected to vote today on SB 192, the Brewery Modernization Act — and craft beer advocates are urging Mobile and Baldwin County residents to…
Hangout Fest 2011 Delivers on the Beach: Early Impressions From Gulf Shores
GULF SHORES, Ala. — As the second annual Hangout Music Festival wound down its final day on the white sand of Gulf Shores, one verdict was already clear among the…