Kula Yoga Community Brought Donation-Based Yoga to Mobile and Daphne
Riding the wave of interest generated by the movie Eat, Pray, Love, a new yoga venture launched across Mobile Bay in late summer 2010: Kula Yoga Community, with its first…
BP Donates $50,000 to Sponsor 2010 BayFest After Gulf Oil Spill
BP is putting up $50,000 to sponsor Mobile’s annual BayFest music festival, according to a local television station’s report, as the oil company looks to smooth over relations with a…
Two Mobile-Area Residents Named Finalists in National Nonprofit Grant Contest
Two Mobile-area residents are finalists in a national contest run by the Marion Institute that offers $1,000 in grant funding and a trip to the Connecting for Change Conference to…
Mobile Cat Who Lost All Four Legs Thrives Years After Emergency Amputation
MOBILE, Ala. — A cat named Kelly Anne is defying expectations in Mobile years after veterinarians performed a rare quadruple amputation to save her life. According to accounts of her…
Mobile Musician of the Month: Daryl Huffman Reflects on a Career That Started With The Versatiles
This month, South Alabama News looks back at the career of Mobile guitarist Daryl Huffman, whose musical roots trace back more than four decades to a local band called The…
South Alabama Film Festival Extended Its Entry Deadline Ahead of November’s Downtown Mobile Event
With the festival set for downtown Mobile on November 5-7, 2010, the South Alabama Film Festival gave filmmakers extra time: the deadline for shorts, music videos and student films moved…
Bayfest 2010 Ticket Sales Jump 50 Percent, Draw Buyers From Overseas
Online ticket sales for this year’s Bayfest are running roughly 50 percent ahead of last year’s pace, and the demand is coming from farther away than festival organizers expected. Buyers…
Mobile City Council Weighs Rewrite of Downtown Panhandling Rules
Mobile Moves to Rewrite Downtown Panhandling Rules Mobile city officials are moving forward with a rewrite of the ordinance governing panhandling in the downtown business district, following a Tuesday meeting…
Dauphin Island Sea Lab Director to Weigh In on Oil Spill Policy
George Crozier, longtime director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, was invited to deliver a talk examining how the 1990 Oil Pollution Act fared against the reality of the 2010…
Semmes Voters to Decide Whether to Become Mobile County’s 11th City
Residents of the west Mobile County community of Semmes were set to decide at the polls whether to incorporate as the county's 11th municipality, with organizers predicting a lopsided margin…