New Orleans-based Acme Oyster House zeroed in on Gulf Shores for a waterfront restaurant, while Publix declined a Midtown Mobile site and a Flora-Bama spinoff opened on Ole River.
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Coverage of midtown Mobile from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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After Years of Reporting and Rewriting, Curran’s Siegelman Book Heads for Mobile Shelves
Mobile reporter Eddie Curran said his long-awaited book on covering Gov. Don Siegelman’s administration is finished and will reach bookstores within weeks, with the first signings planned in Mobile and Baldwin counties.
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Scores, Snobs and Robert Parker: A Mobile Wine Merchant on What Wine Writing Is For
As the Burgundy authority Clive Coates prepared to attack the wine press by name, a Mobile wine shop manager offered a more complicated defense of Robert Parker, and a warning about the tyranny of the score.
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Rose Season Arrives in Mobile, and a Wine Buyer Makes His Annual Case for Pink
Rose wines reach the shelves in late spring and vanish by midsummer. In April 2008 a Mobile wine merchant explained how they are made, why they were long dismissed, and which French bottles to buy first.
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A Midtown Mobile Wine Merchant Calls the End of the Pinot Noir Era
Four years after the film Sideways rewrote American wine buying, the general manager of a midtown Mobile wine shop argued the Pinot Noir craze was fading and pointed drinkers toward what comes next.
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Republican Women Elect Officers as Mobile Opens a New Master Plan Process
A Mobile Republican women’s club installed new leadership, city planners opened neighborhood meetings on a downtown master plan, and a young minister launched a campaign for the state school board in Prichard.
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Congressman Jo Bonner to Headline Mobile GOP Gathering
First-term U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner was announced as guest speaker for Mobile’s Grand Old Party at a midtown restaurant, with free admission for members and a $10 charge for the general public.