Q&A: Painter Lauren Woods on Dreams, Dance and Mobile’s Art Scene
Painter Lauren Woods brought her exhibition Somewhere In Between to the Mobile Arts Council’s “Skinny” Gallery in December 2010, and sat down during the run of the show to talk…
Meet the 2010 Greater Mobile Arts Awards Honorees, From the Blind Mule to Wanda Sullivan
Mobile’s arts community took center stage this fall as the Greater Mobile Arts Awards prepared to honor six of the people and organizations that have shaped the city’s creative life.…
A Birmingham Congressman Kept Turning Up in Mobile, and Everyone Knew Why
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis delivered his 'false choices' speech to the Mobile Rotary Club, his second appearance in the city in about a month, as speculation grew about a 2010…
From a Morehouse Busboy to a Caddy Master at Spring Hill: More First Jobs
A legislator who bussed tables on the Atlanta graveyard shift, a minister who ran the caddy shack at Spring Hill College and a judge who picked cotton at $2.50 a…
Long Before the Primaries, Mobile’s Political Class Was Already Choosing Sides
With the 2008 field still forming, local officeholders, lawyers and pundits named their favorites. A state representative was co-chairing John McCain's Mobile County campaign; a famous oddsmaker had already called…
Keep the Fires Burning: A Mobile Family Memoir Reaches Its Close
The sixth and final chapter of Sister Marie Emilie's memoir carried the Walsh family from a Spring Hill summer in 1900 through loss, vocation and a sheaf of poems written…
A Mother’s Notes to a Son: An Election, a Wedding, and a Mobile Household in 2004
A collection of e-mails from a Mobile mother to her grown son captures the 2004 election season as it was lived in one Alabama household: gloom, gallows humor, wedding logistics…
Copeland Aims for a Sixth Term on the Mobile City Council, but a Firefighter May Challenge Him
Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland said in December 2004 he would seek a record sixth term in District 5, even as city firefighter Bryan T. Lee weighed his first…
St. Patrick’s Day, 1952: How a Mobile Sportswriter Wandered Into the Brokerage Business
The first installment of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile recalls a 31-year-old juggling three jobs who walked into a downtown brokerage office next door to the liquor store.