Mobile and Baldwin County News
News from Mobile in Mobile County, Alabama.
The South Alabama Film Festival returned to downtown Mobile in November 2012 with a three-day celebration of independent and Southern cinema, spreading screenings, workshops and parties across several of the…
A new independent restaurant on Mobile’s Airport Boulevard is betting that diners want fine-dining craft without the stuffy label. RBS Chicken Shack opens its doors with the confidence of a…
A Mobile-area independent press has announced a pair of literary projects headed for shelves in the coming months, led by the first print edition of Janet Nodar’s story collection “Trumpet…
Live music returned to Dauphin Street on October 11, 2012, as Catt’s Avalon 360 celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting at 3:30 p.m. and a weekend of performances…
Twenty teams signed up for the sixth Mobile Bay Film Scramble, and 13 completed short films that screened at the Crescent on September 28 and 29, 2012. The attrition between…
Hurray for the Riff Raff brought its Acoustic Tour of Southern Listening Rooms to Mobile on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, with a stop at Catt’s Avalon 360. Fresh off a…
Mobile’s stand-up comedians have spent years without a room of their own, squeezed onto general open-mic bills between acoustic acts and performing for crowds more interested in their phones. A…
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears brought their blues-and-funk-fired rock to the Alabama Music Box in downtown Mobile on Friday, September 7, 2012. The Austin, Texas band arrived in the…
Cuisine of India, one of the few restaurants in the Mobile area devoted to Indian cuisine, has operated as a local staple for more than 15 years and recently came…
Bienville Books celebrated 10 years on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile in 2012, a milestone for an independent shop that opened Sept. 3, 2002, when the surrounding blocks still held…