Posted on 31 March 2010
A Tour of the Alabama Music Box in Mobile, AL michalnicolas | MySpace Video Continue Reading
Posted on 31 March 2010
Yesterhouse, now called Carolina Hall, is a three level home in Spring Hill begun in 1832 and adapted from The Tower of Winds in ancient Greece. It was built in 1832 in a Federal style and later altered to a Greek Revival style. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 March 2010
Ike Johnson & Quintessence (Corey Johnson, Sean Worrell) perform at the Azalea Trail Food & Music Festival, March 27, 2010. Mobile jazz. www.myspace.com/quintessencejazz Continue Reading
Posted on 30 March 2010
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Posted on 30 March 2010
Prairie Love trailer from Dusty Bias on Vimeo. The series of independent films kicks off with a preview from 7 to 9 p.m. April 1 featuring three short works by Fairhope filmmaker Dusty Bias: “Destination: Lost,” “1 Phone, 2 Phone, 3 Phone, 4,” and “Four Corners.” Plus a trailer from Bias’ feature-length production “Prairie Love.” Starry Night [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 March 2010
see more of Chris’s art on youtube Continue Reading
Posted on 29 March 2010
Vote for local bands in the national Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands. Yes it takes 30 seconds to register but help these guys out: The Jackson Project Too Far From Amsterdam Continue Reading
Posted on 28 March 2010
On January 3-4, 1832 Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, and Gustave de Beaumont travelled through Mobile on their way around the U.S. An excerpt from de Tocqueville’s journal on that day and the next: Bad choices in little republics are partly accounted for by the fact that men of distinction do not canvass for honors [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 March 2010
hitchhiking hangabout and hot damn scandal member Stinky Pete performing at the Blind Mule video by erik roam corvin Continue Reading
Posted on 27 March 2010
On January 3, 1832 Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, and Gustave de Beaumont travelled through Mobile on their way around the U.S. An excerpt from de Tocqueville’s journal on that day: “The greatest merit of the government of the United States is that it is powerless and passive. In the actual state of things, in [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 March 2010
The inaugural Azalea Trail Food and Music Festival will be held March 27, immediately following the Azalea Trail Run. The run begins at 10 a.m. and the festivities continue until 2:00 p.m. in Spanish Plaza. Owner and promoter Michael Davis promises “jumpy things for the kids, great food and awesome music.” The music and food festival is [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 March 2010
Famed New Orleans bluesman Walter “Wolfman” Washington at the Shed 18-Mar-2010. National and regional blues acts come to West Mobile courtesy of The Shed. Video by GCBluesSoc. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 March 2010
Arts Alive! 2010 Film Scramble This scramble will recall the origins of filmmaking, and all the challenges that work presented. The competition will begin Friday, March 26, at 6 p.m. at HopJacks. Filmmakers can pick-up their rules and inspirational materials at this time. Then Sunday, March 28, at 6 p.m. teams will meet back at HopJacks [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 March 2010
April 3 at Alabama Music Box with Tornado Rider Wild Moccasins on Myspace Continue Reading
Posted on 25 March 2010
Ric McNaughton playing the SRV classic “Pride & Joy” Featuring the artistic dance of “Lovely Ladies Jammin’ on the Dancefloor” (Watch out Baklava!) At Burn Outs (Hwy 158 in Eight Mile/ Saraland) Video by JR Spicer Continue Reading
Posted on 24 March 2010
Mod Vowel wants to take a moment to apologize on the last couple of articles lacking in length. You see, I am working on something very important for your little mod eyes to read and it takes my focus away from this, for that I apologize. But something funny happened this week, Mod Vowel logged back [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 24 March 2010
“Expendable Limbs” Video by The New Space Monkeys “belly dancing antidepressants ruined emo music for these girls” Continue Reading
Posted on 24 March 2010
Blue Velvet Studio Saturday March 27, 2010 4-8 PM 709 Dauphin St. #2, Mobile, AL Black Light Exhibit * Second Showing * Final Night 2D, 3D, and Performance Art in Fluorescent Illumination Watch artist Ginger Woechan in action, painting in the dark! Artwork by Paul Averette, Suzette Callahan, Karen Cassidy, Jessica Chavez Price, Loran Chavez, Zach DePolo, Russ Gilder, Ardith [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 March 2010
BARRY MUNDAY premieres at the SXSW Film Festival 2010. The film stars Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloe Sevigny, Jean Smart, Malcolm McDowell, Cybill Shepherd & Billy Dee Williams. It is written & directed by Chris D’Arienzo and based on the book “Life is a Strange Place” by Baldwin County’s Frank Turner Hollon. Barry Munday, a [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 March 2010
Lil Greenwood & The Four Jacks – Grandpa Can Boogie Too (78) (1952 – Federal) www.lilgreenwood.net Continue Reading
Posted on 22 March 2010
Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed’s Tribute to Frank Sinatra with Pensacola’s “The Swinging Dick Tracys”. Monday, March 22, 6:30 p.m. Performance and jambalaya dinner. $7 for members. $10 for non-members. Cash bar available Gulf City Lodge, 601 State St. (downtown) – great place if you’ve never been there. Continue Reading
Posted on 22 March 2010
Friday March 19 at the Blind Mule Continue Reading
Posted on 22 March 2010
Even if you are not a baseball fan – you should listen to this podcast from “Stuff You Missed in History Class” about one of Mobile’s most interesting personas, the Alabama Reform School for Junvenile Negro Lawbreakers, the era of integration, how he used to call in the outfielders to make a point to his opponents and [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 March 2010
Nathan Alexander portrayed Jimi Hendrix for his Black History Month project at Wilmer Elementary. found on Jo Anne McKnight’s Points North Continue Reading
Posted on 21 March 2010
Tues March 16 Pick up their album here become a Facebook Fan here Continue Reading
Posted on 20 March 2010
The Duncans, Topher & Melody - “the real brother & sister band” – play Kansas at the Blind Mule White Stripes Screening. Video by brotherdallas Continue Reading
Posted on 20 March 2010
From Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III “I was conceived in the back seat of a Pontiac Tempest in Brewton, Alabama, and I first saw the light of this world in Opelika, Alabama. It was the morning of April 17, 1967. The year Woody Guthrie and Otis Redding died and the year of the summer [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 March 2010
Famed New Orleans bluesman will be at the Shed (Mobile) Saturday night 3/20. www.walterwolfmanwashington.com Here he is with Galactic and Trombone Shorty: Continue Reading
