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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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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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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After the Reader’s Choice Awards Wrap Up at the Saenger, Mobile Hip-Hop Artist PBE Pluto Is Taking Over Soul Kitchen
Mobile hip-hop artist PBE Pluto headlines a Soul Kitchen concert July 17, timed to follow the Reader’s Choice Awards at the Saenger Theatre, with a lineup built around independent local acts.