Redistricting has turned Rep. Shomari Figures’ Mobile-area congressional seat from a comfortable win into a toss-up, with internal polling showing him nearly tied with his Republican challenger.
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She Was a Reader’s Choice Award Finalist So Many Times It Felt Like Winning. This Year, Lydia Harsany Host Actually Won.
Mobile artist Lydia Harsany Host, a longtime Bishop State instructor and repeat Reader’s Choice Award finalist, won Best Portrait Artist in the 2026 Reader’s Choice Awards after years building Mobile’s arts community.
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An Artist Who Calls Himself ‘Grantham Unknown’ Left New Orleans Calling It ‘Spiritually Desolate.’ Mobile Gave Him His Light Back.
Self-taught artist Grantham Unknown left New Orleans calling its arts scene ‘spiritually desolate’ and found new footing in Mobile, where he now co-manages the Lupercalia Gallery on Dauphin Street.
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More Than 200 Vendors Will Pack the Mobile Convention Center for This Year’s Chamber Business Expo
Mobile Chamber’s Business Expo returns Aug. 20 at the Mobile Convention Center with more than 200 exhibitors, food and beverage samples, and $5 general admission for the public.
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He Moved to Mobile to Be a Ballet Dancer. Now He’s the City’s Best Local Filmmaker.
Israel Rodriguez moved to Mobile in 2018 to dance with Mobile Ballet and has since built a filmmaking career that earned him Best Local Filmmaker in the 2026 Reader’s Choice Awards.
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Pole Vaulters Will Compete in the Middle of a Closed-Off Downtown Mobile Street Now That World Athletics Has Signed Off
Mobile’s Dauphin Street Vault has been certified as a World Athletics Continental Tour Challenge competition, putting the downtown pole vault event on the world track and field calendar.
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She Moved to Mobile for ‘The Nutcracker’ and Never Left. Now She’s the City’s Best Arts Educator.
Katia Garza moved to Mobile in 2017 to help with Mobile Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ and stayed to build a dance-teaching career, winning Best Arts Educator in the 2026 Reader’s Choice Awards.
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No Tigers, No ‘Vicious Animal’ Branding: A West Mobile Jiu-Jitsu Academy Built Its Identity Around the Neighborhood Instead
West Mobile’s Gulf Coast Jiu-Jitsu Academy, founded by Corey Richardson more than a decade ago, won Best Martial Arts Studio in the 2026 Reader’s Choice Awards by building its identity around the community.
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Mobile’s Oldest LGBTQ+ Mardi Gras Society Just Won Its Seventh Best-Ball Award, and Members Say They Saw It Coming
Mobile’s Order of Osiris, the city’s oldest LGBTQ+ Mardi Gras mystical society, has won its seventh Reader’s Choice Award for Best Mardi Gras Ball since forming in 1981.
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USA Health Is Bringing a First-of-Its-Kind Medical Symposium to Downtown Mobile So MS Patients Stop Having to Travel for Answers
USA Health’s Department of Neurology will host a first-of-its-kind Neuroimmunology Symposium Aug. 13-15 in downtown Mobile, bringing specialized MS and autoimmune care resources to South Alabama.