Mobile and Baldwin County News
A downtown Mobile fixture since 1889, Demeranville Florist shut its doors on Memorial Day, ending a family business that began on Bienville Square and outlasted three centuries of the city's…
Common Sense Campaign counted 500 in Mobile and close to 600 in Daphne at Tax Day rallies, with events also in Evergreen, Brewton and Monroeville. The group says it topped…
The Common Sense Campaign will rally at Bienville Square and the Daphne Civic Center on April 15, while Sen. Richard Shelby marks the filing deadline with a call to end…
At The Blind Mule on North Claiborne Street, curator Zach Depolo has turned bar walls into rotating gallery space for emerging Mobile artists like Ryan Jetten, Sol Davis and Ashelea…
In a 2009 interview, Mobile painter Walter Simon discussed his training, influences and the Dauphin Street Hot Dog Gallery just as he prepared to open a new studio near Bienville…
The 2009 Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival wrapped up in downtown Mobile last week, and organizers say the annual event pulled off a strong showing despite a shoestring…
Watching Jimmy Buffett trade stories with David Letterman on national television is a reminder of something Mobile has been slow to act on: the city has yet to formally honor…
A bank taking space in the Athelstan Club, condominiums nearing completion on Dauphin Street and two buildings being restored on Bienville Square marked downtown Mobile's revival in spring 2008.
A downtown Mobile lunchroom in the 200 block of Dauphin Street drew steady praise in April 2008 for its fried chicken, its baked chicken and a banana pudding that stopped…
A historical WKRG report described how Baylinc bus riders from Fairhope, Daphne and Spanish Fort used transit to reach downtown Mobile as fuel prices climbed in 2008.