Mobile Reasserts Its Claim as the Birthplace of Mardi Gras
New signs and billboards installed across Mobile stake the city's historic claim as the true birthplace of Mardi Gras ahead of the season's first parades.
The Comic Cowboys: Inside Mobile’s Satirical Mardi Gras Tradition
For more than 130 years, Mobile Mardi Gras group the Comic Cowboys has used satirical signboards to poke fun at each year's biggest headlines.
Bay City Brass Band: Mobile’s Musical Ambassadors of Mardi Gras Took the GCEH Jazz Fest Stage
Mobile’s own Bay City Brass Band played the 7:30 p.m. slot in Bienville Square — with 351 Water Street as the rain location — for the Gulf Coast Ethnic &…