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.
Temporal City Festival 2013 Invites Artists to Reimagine Downtown Mobile’s Abandoned Spaces
The Rumor Union, a Mobile-based arts collective, announced in January 2013 that it was seeking artists to participate in the third iteration of the Temporal City Festival, an event dedicated…
Mobile Arts Council’s John Chamblin painting sale ends Friday
The Mobile Arts Council is hosting a sale of paintings by John Chamblin at its galleries at 318 Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile. The sale closes Friday, March 2, and…
Woofstock Returns to Mobile’s Cathedral Square Sunday, Aiming to Set Fundraising Record
Mobile’s Animal Rescue Foundation will host the sixth annual Woofstock festival Sunday in Cathedral Square, a dog-centric fundraiser that has grown from a small neighborhood gathering into one of the…
South Alabama Film Festival to Reveal Full Lineup, Poster Winner at Art Walk
Organizers of the South Alabama Film Festival will unveil the complete schedule for the event’s second year this Friday during downtown Mobile’s Art Walk, marking the young festival’s first official…
Viral Video of Daphne Revival Attendee’s Claimed Healing Tops 140,000 Views
A video clip from a religious revival held at the Mobile Convention Center has drawn more than 140,000 views online, driven largely by a moment in which a Daphne church…
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…
Downtown Creative Wellness Foundation Awarded $2,000 Target Grant for Visiting Artist Series
The Downtown Creative Wellness Foundation (DCWF), a Mobile arts nonprofit associated with organizer Zach Depolo, has been awarded a $2,000 grant from Target to help fund its 2010-2011 Visiting Artist…
Hot Rod Power Tour Set to Roll Into Mobile for Two Days of Classic Cars
The nationally recognized Hot Rod Power Tour is set to close out its 2010 cross-country run with two free-to-attend stops in Mobile, cruising downtown on June 11 before parking at…
Atlanta Duo Brings Improvised Theremin-and-Lap-Steel Sound to Downtown Mobile’s Blind Mule
Atlanta improvisational duo Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel brought its genre-blurring, no-two-shows-alike sound to downtown Mobile's Blind Mule, pairing an instrument played without touch with a Southern slide-guitar tradition.