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Kevin Lee: Will the real Mobile please stand up?

Posted on 03 February 2012

"It’s part of a big division here, every bit as relevant as the color line. Its kernel is this: Mobile was a cultural paradise until the hillbillies flooded in during the War." Continue Reading

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Dauphin Street Drunks Pub Crawl Preview (Dan Anderson Video)

Posted on 02 February 2012

This year the Dauphin Street Drunks, one of Mobile’s Joe Cain Procession marching crews, will hold the annual Peg Leg Pub Crawl on February 7, 2012 in downtown Mobile. Dressed as pirates, the crew will start at the Garage around 5p.m. and hit almost every bar downtown. The “DSDs” follow behind Chief Slacabamorinico’s coal cart along with fellow [...] Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Down to brass tacks

Posted on 02 December 2011

"It all comes down to a question of culture. What is your local culture like? What does it value? What does it seek? What does it prioritize?" Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Top of the holiday slide

Posted on 21 October 2011

"Long before our modern lifestyles, the autumn and winter was always when we drew closer together, when community was at its most evident and we saw the value in each other." Continue Reading

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Mobile’s Own Eugene Walter Lives Again with the Release of “The Happy Table”

Posted on 11 October 2011

from DIXIEDINING.COM Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Welcome to Mobius-town

Posted on 16 September 2011

“If they feel like the money is more important than the long-term well being of the area, that’s their fault. But I don’t see how a landlord could raise a stink about the homeless situation down here but then turn a blind eye to what’s been going on with Atlantis for years.” Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Terrible Tuesday, ten years gone

Posted on 09 September 2011

"In our minds, our moat has been breached. Not only by raiders bringing fire and death but by those who decimate our economy as well. The oceans mean little now." Continue Reading

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Alabama Law FTW

Posted on 23 August 2011

Positively ruining my plan to How At Ladies this weekend... Continue Reading

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MOJO Unveils New Website

Posted on 15 August 2011

MOJO hosts monthly Jazz Jambalayas - evenings of live jazz, great food, historic environs, fabulous people - with a bit of jazz history and information. Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee revisited: So Close, So Far Away

Posted on 12 August 2011

"Both towns have a working class background, hardscrabble histories built on the sweat of the docks. Both have dwelled in the shadows of bigger regional icons – Seattle and New Orleans – that encapsulate their respective region’s distinct cultural flair. " Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Video anniversary rings a little hollow

Posted on 05 August 2011

"The network founded as Music Television is now overrun with 'Jersey Shore,' 'The Hills' and other fare that makes perusing the back of a box of Captain Crunch read like Tolstoy and the Three Stooges sound like the Algonquin Round Table. " Continue Reading

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Featured, Film, History, Theatre

Saenger Summer Classic Film Series

Posted on 24 July 2011

Before dating and boys, before cars and cell phones, and before jobs and plans, there was a tradition between my mom and me. Each summer — well, the ones before it became excruciating to be in public with your parents — she and I would attend the Saenger Summer Classic Film Series. I remember seeing Gigi, [...] Continue Reading

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Environment, History, Sport

Entire Blue Angels Air Show in One Minute : WATCH VIDEO

Posted on 14 July 2011

The Pensacola News Journal produced this video of the Blue Angels' air show at Pensacola beach, breaking the entire show down into a video just over a minute long. Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Up the Hill, down the hole

Posted on 07 July 2011

"The end was near. At three o’ clock it would came to a close. All those years, all those dreams, snuffed." Continue Reading

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This Week in Mobile History: Dauphin Island Bridge Opens

Posted on 06 July 2011

From www.dauphinislandhistory.org: The $3.5 million dollar bridge opened to traffic on July 2, 1955 as part of the Gordon Persons Overseas Highway. Bruce Adkins, Dauphin Island, recalls, “I was about six and remember fishing on it when it was brand new with my grandmother and granddaddy. We fished there for years on many weekends. The bridge tender [...] Continue Reading

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The Battle of Mobile – The Revolutionary War Battle You Probably Never Heard Of

Posted on 04 July 2011

While Washington was on the Delaware and Franklin was in Paris, what was happening in Mobile? Who were James Willing and the 21-year-old Bernardo de Galvez? Who fought in the Battle of Mobile? Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Going forth in July

Posted on 01 July 2011

"America is supposed to be the exception to that, a pluralistic country built on a tradition of immigration. An American isn’t supposed to look a certain way or have a specific accent. We’re marked by one thing: fealty to the nation and the Constitution." Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Crime time

Posted on 24 June 2011

"The police force was eaten up with dysfunction even in those days. I had a buddy on the MPD then who told me stories about the divisions on the force, the black officers that hated the white officers and vice versa. My pal was a big white guy from up north so he fell between the cracks. Too light for the blacks in blue, not red enough for the rest.” Continue Reading

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“GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9″ Documents the Soul of the Deep South (WATCH TRAILER)

Posted on 24 June 2011

An elegiac contemplation of the price of progress in the Deep South and its heavy toll on nature, history and community. Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Welcoming Weiner

Posted on 10 June 2011

"So Tony, load up your digitized underpants and head south. We don’t care about your peccadilloes. We don’t even care about your secret past playing Screech on 'Saved by the Bell.'” Continue Reading

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THE COFFEE HOUSE Revisited (WATCH VIDEOS)

Posted on 09 June 2011

Back in the day, as they say, the Four Strong Winds Coffee House was the place to be. See who pops up in these archival videos... Continue Reading

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Spaced Out Summer at the Exploreum Begins

Posted on 03 June 2011

June 4 - Aug 28 Mon - Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM; Sat, 10 AM - 5 PM; Sun, noon - 5 PM Continue Reading

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Mobile Culture Wars: Do Creoles Exist? Treme, Bourdain and that GQ Jackass

Posted on 28 May 2011

It’s not often that you see something on TV that brings to mind Mobile’s Culture Wars. However, the second episode of this season of Treme did: Although Treme is about Mobile’s “big sister” (IT’S NOT “NEW OR-LE-ENZ”) several aspects apply to us as well. Part is the attitude of the Northeast (and the rest of the U.S.) towards the [...] Continue Reading

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Art, History, Literature, ModBlog

Kevin Lee: Does the Beat go on?

Posted on 20 May 2011

“They were ‘burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.’ They were outcasts, homosexuals, junkies, mental patients. They saw the world as it was, as it is, as it shall be. They cut through the shadows cast by pushers of flash, peddlers of the eternal, internal, infernal void.” Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Move over cowboy, here comes the capo

Posted on 06 May 2011

“Sure, Hassan, live in a cave, subsist on goat urine and beetle carcasses. It’s all for the glory of Allah.” Meanwhile, he’s chilled in a private compound in the Pakistani suburbs, roaming a garden, waited on hand and foot by his herd of wives and progeny. Everyone’s had that boss before…and we all hated him. Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Gadfly in the storm

Posted on 29 April 2011

"The inner South – Dixie Alley, they call it – gets ravaged by twisters in the spring, while the region’s edges are hacked by hurricanes during the summer and fall. How does that shape the regional identity and culture?... ...Does this make us gullible or tenacious, masochistic or resolute? Does it feed the fatalism that long hallmarked the Southern psyche? Or does it just make us fools?" Continue Reading

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Art, History, Music

Jazz Jambalaya : A Musical Journey with Albert Murray

Posted on 25 April 2011

A salute to Mobilian and author Albert Murray with an emphasis on the role jazz and blues played in his life and work; includes narrative segments, excerpts from Murray's writings and live musical performances by the Chris Saunders Quarte- Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed. Part of monthly series saluting significant figures in jazz (Fourth Mon, 6:30 PM) and a Southern Literary Trail event during Jazz Appreciation Month. Continue Reading

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Kevin Lee: Bye bye bayou

Posted on 17 April 2011

"The conundrum of settling there was that when they tamed it, they condemned it. Hemming in the Mississippi River stopped its tendency to meander or overflow its banks with regularity. It kept the alligators out of the pastures. But what they also stopped was a constant and necessary cycle." Continue Reading

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ART AFTER HOURS – presented by Mobile Arts Council and MOJO

Posted on 15 April 2011

Thurs April 21 5:30 to 7:00 Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month -and the end of your work day- with MOJO at the next Art After Hours: a free informal gathering open to everyone involved or interested in any of the arts. RSVP by Monday, April 18 if you plan to attend. Continue Reading

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Featured, History, Music

Mobile-born Jazz Violinist Billy Bang : Dead at 63

Posted on 14 April 2011

Born in Mobile, Co-founder of String Trio of New York and collaborator with Don Cherry, David Murray and other creative music notables. Continue Reading

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