MOJO Salutes Nina Simone Tonight at Gulf City Lodge
The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed closes out its November gathering with a Salute to Nina Simone tonight, November 22, at 6:30 p.m. at Gulf City Lodge, 601 State…
Downtown Mobile Alliance Takes Poinsettia Orders for December Delivery
The Downtown Mobile Alliance is taking orders for its annual holiday poinsettia sale, with plants priced at $16 each. The sale has become a fixture of the organization’s December calendar,…
‘Nowhere Boy’ Opens at the Crescent Theater with Live Blackjacks Sets
A Beatles double-dose arrives in downtown Mobile this weekend. Nowhere Boy, the biopic of John Lennon’s youth and his first band, the Quarrymen, opens Friday, November 19 at the Crescent…
Mobile Museum of Art Launches Museum Nights With First-Ever Theatre Scramble
The Mobile Museum of Art is opening its doors after hours this week for the debut of Museum Nights, a new recurring event series designed to bring a broader audience…
Final Qualifying Round Tonight in Serda’s Songwriters Competition
The second year of Serda’s Songwriters Competition wraps up its qualifying rounds tonight at Serda’s Coffee Company, 3 Royal Street in downtown Mobile. Over the first three Wednesdays of November,…
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…
Traveling Exhibit on Willard Psychiatric Center Patients Opens at Mobile Government Plaza
A free traveling exhibit exploring the lives of psychiatric patients institutionalized decades ago is on display at the Mobile Government Plaza atrium through Nov. 12, offering local residents a rare,…
Twenty-Five Years On, Mobile Weighs Whether Its Convention Center Delivered
A quarter century after Mobile bet its downtown revival on a waterfront convention center, business and civic figures offered a candid, divided verdict on whether the gamble paid off.
Mobile Musicians Band Together for Beatles Benefit Honoring Janet Pope at Alabama Music Box
Downtown Mobile’s Alabama Music Box turned into an all-Beatles songbook on October 7, 2010, as local musicians gathered for a benefit show supporting Janet Pope, a local mother battling cancer.…
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…