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
Posted on 10 April 2011
One of the most colorful sections of old Mobile has not survived the bloody tales of a wicked past. The scourge of some avenging God, so the story goes, in the form of fire razed the district, and a few years later, the long steel rails of a railroad were laid, blotting out forever the sins of its past. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 April 2011
Once the collection is accessed, for example, a person can go through the alphabet and find a last name... Continue Reading
Posted on 29 March 2011
Willis Garrett tells us about how they are reunited and it feels so good, and a little about new Mobile band, The Suzies... Continue Reading
Posted on 26 March 2011
The Santa Rosa Island Authority Board on Wednesday OK’d the concept and the placement of the memorial on the lawn at Casino Beach Continue Reading
Posted on 20 March 2011
Step into the Past on the Historic Homes Tour of Mobile – March 18 & 19, 2011 The 2011 Mobile Historic Homes Tour will feature some of Mobile’s most gracious homes and outstanding sacred spaces. This year’s tour takes visitors down Mobile’s most distinguished and historic thoroughfare, Government Street. Lined with century old oak trees, walking [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 March 2011
Join in the celebration Saturday March 19 11am-2pm in Chickasabogue Park Continue Reading
Posted on 11 March 2011
Sunday March 13 at Space 301 - "Once students understand the simplicity of the 8-limbs, I think they will have a better understanding of how the philosophy of yoga might marry with whatever spiritual or ethical path they have chosen for themselves." Continue Reading
Posted on 11 March 2011
"Screw 'changing the day and age.' I like the choices we have now, the freedoms we enjoy. I like the access of information, the enhanced communication. I like the availability of art, literature and music. Why would we want to lose that? Why would I want to return to a time before I could carry thousands of songs in my pocket on the same device that can give me breaking news and tell me bad weather is on the way? Without modern medicine, I would have been dead long ago." Continue Reading
Posted on 04 March 2011
No, there’s only one region of America with our blend of history, with both French and Spanish influences and a touch of Caribbean and Cuban spice. It starts in Mobile and runs westward until near Texas. This is the only portion of America that can lay claim to the word “Creole.” Continue Reading
Posted on 25 February 2011
Did you know a Mobilian wrote the first published blues song? Continue Reading
Posted on 23 February 2011
The End of Gadaffi and a FREE LIBYA --or-- more Genocide and the failure of the revolution? Continue Reading
Posted on 18 February 2011
This month will mark the 22nd Anniversary of the 1989 Miss USA Pageant. Have you been counting down the years, days and hours? No? Well, if you lived in Mobile and do happen to remember where you were on February 28, 1989, you might have been glued to CBS watching the pageant. That’s because it was [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 13 February 2011
Feb 21 (President's Day) 1pm at the Crescent Theater - Documentary "transcends the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy". " Continue Reading
Posted on 12 February 2011
Academy of Country Music Awards nominees were announced Monday at a press conference in Nashville. Continue Reading
Posted on 11 February 2011
"If you’re like the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), seeing those kind of corpse counts puts you in the mood to tie one on and bump your rump. They’re not like those sourpuss Yankees and scalawags in other parts of the United States planning solemn commemorations. No, this calls for celebration." Continue Reading
Posted on 10 February 2011
The King's Speech is in it's last week, then Made In Dagenham, the Theater Scramble Mobile screening, Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Illusionist Continue Reading
Posted on 04 February 2011
Kris Skoda leads the team into action for the 1st Comic Con in New Orleans - Video by Chris Adkins Continue Reading
Posted on 04 February 2011
"We roll our eyes when we see picket signs and ridicule activism from 'troublemakers.' Many of us would sign over most everything we had as long as diversions remained intact. 'I don’t care if they do away with jury trials as long as the Tide tees it up in September and we get off for Mardi Gras.'" Continue Reading
Posted on 01 February 2011
Author Wayne Greenhaw : Thurs Feb 3 - 5:30p - 7:00p at the Museum of Mobile Continue Reading
Posted on 01 February 2011
I am now on a mission and I will not rest until I find the very best purple, yellow and green iced coffee cake sold in the Greater Mobile area. I'm now seeking reader recommendations, so let's hear from you and make it snappy. Continue Reading
Posted on 28 January 2011
"The fact we’ve come this far, that our nation’s chief executive is a man who wouldn’t have enjoyed full rights in the American South during the year he was born but now resides on Pennsylvania Avenue means evolution is possible. But it’s up to us to forge that path." Continue Reading
Posted on 14 January 2011
"But I also see hope, something more than the eagerness of merchants to snatch money from a different-hued hand. There’s the lack of threats for voting, the quiet of night not torn by bomb blasts. In my youth, the sight of interracial lovers was calamitous and sure to stir uproar. While it might still conjure whispered hate, it doesn’t endanger lives." Continue Reading
