Anime and Comic Art Take Over Blue Velvet Studio During LoDa ArtWalk
Downtown Mobile’s Blue Velvet Studio traded its usual fare for capes, mechas and graphic novels on Friday, June 10, 2011, hosting an Anime & Comic Art Exhibit from 6 to…
Locally Produced Horror-Comedy The Night Shift Set for Alabama Premiere at Crescent Theater
A Mobile-based filmmaking group is bringing its debut feature film home for an Alabama premiere later this month. Fighting Owl Films will screen its supernatural adventure-comedy, The Night Shift, at…
Spaced Out Summer Takes Over the Gulf Coast Exploreum With Black Holes, NASA Imagery and Virtual Journeys
Downtown Mobile’s Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center has gone interstellar for the summer of 2011, packing Government Street’s science museum with a slate of space-themed exhibitions and theater shows running…
Mobile Brass Bands Unite for Benefit Concert Supporting Ailing Musician Charles Mason
Some of Mobile’s finest brass band musicians are coming together this weekend for a special benefit concert to support Charles Mason, the longtime local performer who founded Mobile’s Olympia Brass…
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…
Colombia’s Bomba Estéreo Brings Electro-Tropical Sound to Mobile’s Alabama Music Box
International touring acts don’t often route through Mobile — which made Bomba Estéreo’s stop at the Alabama Music Box a genuinely rare booking. The Bogotá band, one of South America’s…
Mobile Rock Band The Grey Releases ‘Myself Alive’ Music Video
Mobile-based rock band The Grey has released a new music video for their track “Myself Alive,” taken from their debut album Anatomy of Society. The video marks a significant step…
38 Years Ago This Week: Led Zeppelin Played Mobile
Amid the buzz over Mobile’s current original-music showcase Coastline Chronicles, it is worth pausing on an older anniversary: on May 13, 1973 — 38 years ago this week — Led…
Hayley’s Takes Top Honors at Third Annual Duel on Dauphin Crawfish Cookoff
The third annual “Duel on Dauphin” crawfish cookoff brought fierce competition and plenty of spice to downtown Mobile on Sunday, May 15, 2011, as eight of Dauphin Street’s favorite restaurants…