A Mobile dining critic on the road found the Big Easy Grill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a restaurant destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish and rebuilt next to a Piggly Wiggly.
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Macaroni Grill on Airport Boulevard: The Best of the Chains, With Reservations
A Sunday lunch after church at Macaroni Grill on Airport Boulevard produced a measured verdict in May 2008: better than most national chains in Mobile, but still trailing Carrabba’s.
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A New Saucy Q at Cottage Hill and Schillinger Gets a Polite, Qualified Nod
A Saturday errand run produced a barbecue review in May 2008: clean new dining room, adequate sandwiches, over-salted fries and an award-winning sauce that failed to impress one Mobile critic.
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Scores, Snobs and Robert Parker: A Mobile Wine Merchant on What Wine Writing Is For
As the Burgundy authority Clive Coates prepared to attack the wine press by name, a Mobile wine shop manager offered a more complicated defense of Robert Parker, and a warning about the tyranny of the score.
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Rose Season Arrives in Mobile, and a Wine Buyer Makes His Annual Case for Pink
Rose wines reach the shelves in late spring and vanish by midsummer. In April 2008 a Mobile wine merchant explained how they are made, why they were long dismissed, and which French bottles to buy first.
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Reggie Copeland, at 79, Says His Political Career Is Going to Overtime
Three years after calling his sixth campaign his last, Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland said in April 2008 he would seek a record seventh term, and talked up a soccer complex at Bates Field.
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Three Democrats, Two Tax Bills and a Question of Trust in the District 3 School Board Race
Appointed school commissioner Fleet Belle sought election in his own right in 2008, campaigning on trust between board and superintendent, while he and a rival turned up on the county’s delinquent tax list.
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Pipes Too Small, a $650,000 Overrun, and a Name City Hall Recognized
An engineering firm designed a Dauphin Street drainage project for 66-inch pipes when 72-inch pipes were needed. The error cost Mobile $650,000, and the firm’s principal had given to the mayor’s campaign.
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Banks, Condos and a Facelift on Bienville Square: Downtown Mobile’s Spring Ledger
A bank taking space in the Athelstan Club, condominiums nearing completion on Dauphin Street and two buildings being restored on Bienville Square marked downtown Mobile’s revival in spring 2008.
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‘Where’s Waldo?’ Alabama Republicans Dispute Whether Jill Simpson Was Ever a Player
As the Siegelman prosecution became a national controversy, Alabama Republicans mocked the idea that Jill Simpson, the operative at the center of it, had ever been a figure in state GOP circles.