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
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
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
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
Posted on 11 October 2011
from DIXIEDINING.COM Continue Reading
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
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
Posted on 23 August 2011
Positively ruining my plan to How At Ladies this weekend... Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
