Mobile and Baldwin County News
On the leafy campus of one of Fairhope’s most historic schools, a summer experiment in mud, minnows, and confidence is quietly changing the way a group of Baldwin County children…
Every Gulf Coast resort has a good seat for the sunset. The Grand Hotel Golf Resort & Spa, the historic Marriott property on Point Clear, has something better: a ritual.…
The little shotgun-style building on McKenzie Street near the pedestrian overpass in downtown Foley doesn’t look like a landmark, but it is twice over. The structure that houses the Foley…
Donna Hill might be the only person in Fairhope who uses her Auburn home economics degree every single day, and she has the bakery to prove it. Cake by Donna,…
When Bryant Whelan arrived at the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope in 2017, the institution was beloved but stretched. The capital campaign had reached its final stretch, the mortgage…
When the city of Mobile announced that its aging Civic Center would come down — demolition hastened, memorably, by the January snowstorm — the biggest question wasn’t architectural. It belonged…
A small shop along a shady lane off Twin Beech Road in Fairhope is where Evans Davis is happiest — when he isn’t on a stage, that is. Other than…
Five acres of pastoral calm in the middle of a subdivision: that is the first surprise at Jordan Beech Farms and Venue in the Belforest area of Daphne. The second…
There is a T-shirt quote that reads, “I’m not being dramatic, I’m being theatrical” — and it might as well have been made for Emily Herring, the professional singer, actor,…
Downtown Mobile’s Debris Po-Boys & Drinks gives the city a direct line to the Louisiana po-boy tradition — and to the New Orleans institutions that built it. For anyone who…