Cuba Aid Caravan Brings Its Appeal to Mobile
Pastors for Peace routed its 22nd Friendshipment Caravan through Mobile, staging a rally against U.S. travel and trade restrictions on Cuba as part of a monthlong national tour.
Contractor Tilmon Brown Weighs a Run for Mobile Mayor
Mobile contractor and historic-preservation developer Tilmon Brown confirmed his interest in the mayor's office, saying he would form an exploratory committee by Labor Day.
Who Is the King of Mobile Bay? A Reader Debate Over the City’s Real Power Brokers
Plenty of names have been floated over the years for the title of “King of Mobile” — shorthand for whoever can make things happen in this city, or stop them,…
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…
Years On, Mobile Still Argues Over Whether the I-165 Expressway Was Worth It
With a new Mobile River bridge under discussion, longtime observers looked back at the bruising 1980s battle over an elevated downtown expressway and asked whether time had settled the question.
Crescent Theater Pairs a Local Cult Comedy With Hobo With A Shotgun and a Harper Lee Documentary
Downtown Mobile’s Crescent Theater stacked its late-June 2011 calendar with an unusually local-minded mix: a one-day-only screening of a homegrown supernatural comedy, a full week of the grindhouse revenge film…
Packed House at The Shed as Grayson Capps Celebrates The Lost Cause Minstrels Release
Grayson Capps marked the release of The Lost Cause Minstrels with a packed CD release party at The Shed in Mobile on June 14, 2011, an evening that doubled as…
Three Finalist Routes for I-10 Mobile River Bridge Stir Waterfront Worry
State highway planners narrowed 14 possible crossings of the Mobile River to just three, none of them the northern route favored by preservationists, reviving a fight that echoed the 1980s…