Down the Stairs and Into the Scene: The Book Cellar Keeps Fairhope’s Easy Hours
Down the Stairs and Into the Scene: Fairhope’s Book Cellar Keeps Its Easy Hours Fairhope has no shortage of places to hear live music, but few rooms have the particular…
A Cork by Any Other Name: Le Bouchon Brings Wine-Bar Sophistication to Main Street Daphne
Ask the owner what “Le Bouchon” means and the answer doubles as a mission statement: in French, it is the stopper for a bottle, a cork. Since 2016, Tonya Garrett’s…
Thirty-Five Years of Two-Steps and Big Names: Inside Barnwell’s Lucky Horseshoe Saloon
The biggest smile Jeff DuBois is likely to crack comes when the dance floor at his Lucky Horseshoe Saloon is full — and on weekends lately, it usually is. The…
Big Earl and the Sexual Biscuits: The Flora-Bama’s Weekend Institution That Kids Get Asked to Leave
There are live music acts, and then there are institutions. Big Earl and the Sexual Biscuits fall firmly in the second category. For more than 27 years, the band has…
First Friday in Fairhope: Oysters at The Pearl, Art at The Lyons Share and a Night on the Town
On the first Friday of every month, downtown Fairhope throws its best party, and it doesn’t charge admission. First Friday Art Walk turns Fairhope Avenue and the streets around it…
Behind the Vault Door: 8 Reale, the Gulf Coast’s Speakeasy at The Wharf
There is a vault door in Orange Beach, and behind it, one of the most unusual bars on the Gulf Coast. 8 Reale, tucked behind the Frank & Company jewelry…
Bamboo Willie’s at 27: How a Beachside Bar Became Pensacola Beach’s Live Music Landmark
Every beach town has a bar or two that defines it — the place that stood through the hurricanes and the oil spills and the pandemics, where the sunburn is…
Pirates Cove: The Least Pretentious, Best Dive Beach Bar on the Alabama Coast
The sign warns you before you even park: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter. It may be the inscription at the entrance to Hell, but at Pirates Cove, the weathered…
Mobile Tiki Week Turned Downtown Into a Tropical Playground Once Again
When Roy Clark became a bartender, he didn’t think he’d have to do this much math. But there he was, calculating how to turn a recipe for one tiki cocktail…
New Year’s Eve 2015 in Mobile: Dining and Live Music to Ring In 2016
The final day of 2015 was a time for revelry and resolutions, and many Mobilians planned to spend it at the city’s independent businesses, whether in search of food or…