Your Early Parade Forecast: The Full 2011 Mobile Mardi Gras Schedule
Mobile’s 2011 Carnival season ran from the first weekend of February through Fat Tuesday, March 8, with more than three dozen parades rolling through downtown — plus a pair of…
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell Brings Five Decades of Music to the Mobile Saenger Theatre
Leon Russell — the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee often called “The Master of Space and Time” — brought his legendary catalog to Mobile’s Saenger Theatre on…
Mobile Volunteers Built Oyster Reef for Coastal Restoration in 2011
A 2011 WKRG report covered volunteers building an oyster reef in Mobile as part of a coastal restoration effort.
Callaghan’s Irish Social Club: The Mobile Neighborhood Pub With a Worldwide Reputation
Tucked into a cluster of historic homes and early-20th-century cottages in Mobile’s Oakleigh Garden District sits Callaghan’s Irish Social Club — a boxy 1920s-era building that once housed a butcher…
Mod Mobilian TV Returns to Island Thyme for a Free Live Taping on Dauphin Street
Mod Mobilian TV, downtown Mobile’s homegrown variety show, returned to Island Thyme at 453 Dauphin St. for a live taping on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, starting at 8 p.m. —…
Lunatix & Co. Brings Wearable Art by Local Designers to Dauphin and Springhill
Downtown Mobile gained a one-of-a-kind retail destination in early 2011 with Lunatix & Co., a boutique at 662 Springhill Ave. near Dauphin Street that sells handmade, upcycled and wearable art…
LoDa’s 4th Saturday Event Replaces Canceled 3rd Saturday Art Night in Downtown Mobile
The monthly rhythm of art in downtown Mobile shifted in early 2011, when organizers officially canceled the 3rd Saturday evening art event that had been created as a companion to…
Blue Velvet Studio Hosts Mosaic-Painting Party During January ArtWalk on Dauphin Street
Blue Velvet Studio turned the cold snap of mid-January 2011 into a reason to pick up a paintbrush, inviting guests and local artists to a free mosaic-painting party during Mobile’s…
Fishbowl Records: How a Mobile Music Label Is Championing Local Artists
In a city brimming with musical talent, one independent label has carved out a unique niche by turning live performances into polished recordings that help local artists break through. Fishbowl…
Fishbowl Records: How a Mobile Music Label Is Championing Local Artists
Every music city has rooms where careers start, but few have an operation built specifically to capture what happens inside them. Fishbowl Records, the independent label co-founded by Mobile music…