Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of downtown Mobile from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Long before coffee shops became a fixture of nearly every American downtown, Mobile had one that locals considered without equal: Festorazzis Coffee Saloon, a Royal Street institution that opened in…
Long before Google Street View, an independent website called WalkaboutCity.com set out to let visitors “be there before you get there” in downtown Mobile, quietly building one of the earliest…
Mobile-bred hip hop artist Abstract Artimus returned to his hometown over the July 4th weekend in 2010, headlining a July 3 performance at Satori Coffee alongside the band Shield Your…
Tucked near Fort Conde in downtown Mobile, the Conde-Charlotte Museum House stands as one of the city’s most layered historic properties, with a past that stretches from the colonial era…
Beneath the moss-draped oaks of Church Street Cemetery in downtown Mobile lies the grave of Miguel Eslava, a Spanish colonial official who served as royal treasurer under the king of…
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…
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…
Mobile native Elizabet Elliott brought her New Zealand-honed conceptual art training home for a three-night, site-specific production blending installation, music, and performance at the Blind Mule in June 2010.
Space 301 in downtown Mobile hosted "Personal Interiors" in summer 2010, pairing paintings by married artists Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin with a photography and film collaboration by their sons,…
Behind mossy brick walls a few blocks from downtown Mobile lies Church Street Graveyard, where yellow fever epidemics of the 1800s filled the ground faster than headstones could be carved.