Posted on 26 January 2012
Dan Anderson interviews Amanda Westendorf – Assistant Director of Education at the Gulf Coast Exploreum – about the exhibit “Megalodon – The Largest Shark That Ever Lived” opening January 28 at the Exploreum. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 December 2011
Other media outlets have their top stories…but none of them are like ours! 1) 2011 is the Year of Alabama Music Many great albums came out of Mobile (El Cantador, Grayson Capps, Ryan Balthrop, Underhill Family Orchestra, Lisa Mills) while at the same time almost every Birmingham band (with the return of Maria Taylor) produced outstanding [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 October 2011
"There's a new movement to Occupy Mordor, "Because one ring should not be allowed to rule them all." Continue Reading
Posted on 05 October 2011
Ghostland Observatory is a two piece electronic band from Austin with only one real thing on their agenda: to make you move. Continue Reading
Posted on 16 September 2011
See the first episode here and watch for new episodes every Wednesday at 9p on Jag-TV Continue Reading
Posted on 09 September 2011
will be rescheduled as early as possible in 2012 Continue Reading
Posted on 24 August 2011
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Posted on 23 August 2011
If OK’d, the festival would run May 18, 19 and 20 next year, but the City Council is still several weeks away from a vote on the permit. The festival reportedly brought approximately $30 million in revenue to the beach community, far exceeding best estimates. The sold-out event was credited in part for record-setting lodging revenues along [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 05 August 2011
THE GCEH JAZZ FEST HAS BEEN MOVED TO ITS RAIN LOCATION 351 WATER STREET Mobile, Alabama’s Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival has announced it’s headlining act for the 2011 GCEH Jazz Fest to be held next Saturday, August 6, 2011, 4:30-9pm 351 Water Street: “Big Chief” Donald Harrison Jr. of New Orleans who will be accompanied by [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 July 2011
3 Doors Down, Theory of a Deadman, Hinder and Top of the Orange... Please let the world know how you feel about this year's BayFest lineup in the comments section - BayFest 2011 is October 7, 8 and 9 in downtown Mobile. Continue Reading
Posted on 22 July 2011
"But the most harmful element is the violence. They get drunk or fall under the influence of other substances and the next thing you know, there are threats, shouts, punches, gunshots. It’s become so regular, it shocks no one anymore." Continue Reading
Posted on 21 July 2011
Mobile Mayor Sam Jones & Police Chief Tyrone Williams announced a multi-part Crime Initiative on Wednesday: 1) Juvenile Curfew: for under 18-years-old – 11pm on weekdays, 12am on weekends. 2) Increased police presence downtown 3) Turn the downtown surveillance cameras on 4) Tougher copper theft penalties 5) Indecent exposure ordinance: pants or skirts 4″ or more below the hips are [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 18 July 2011
A special guest column by TURK 301: I love where I live and where I spend most of my free time – but I don’t recognize my home anymore. Not feeling safe where you live is horrible. Watching something with so much potential be destroyed by vicious and dreadful outsiders is a very painful and now [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 July 2011
Mayor Sam Jones has proposed another loan for the QulfQuest “Container Ship Museum” that will cost $16.7 million in debt service, of which $3 million is new money needed to finish the project – in addition to the $25 million the City has already spent. The city has until July 20 to finalize the deal. The museum’s [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 06 July 2011
Some have contended that you might be a redneck if you buy your wedding dress at Wal-Mart, or take your wife to the Wal-Mart Snack Bar for your anniversary. But are you a redneck if you go to Wal-Mart or Target every week to buy your clothes and groceries? Mobilians from Oakleigh to Springhill to [...] 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 08 June 2011
Modmobilian Interviews Loretta Nall Loretta Nall is the founder of the United States Marijuana Party (USMJP) which calls for the legalization of cannabis. She was a write-in Libertarian candidate for governor of Alabama in 2006. Nall founded the USMJP in 2002. In 2005, she co-founded Alabamians for Caring Use, a medical marijuana advocacy/lobbying group. Nall is a [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2011
See below where Mobile and Baldwin Representatives stand and their contact info. See our previous post on why SB 192 – Brewery Modernization Act – is important for Alabama Craft Brewers and is also essential to ever having a brewery on Dauphin St. again. It will: Production Breweries Allowed to have tastings and samplings without ABC restriction on time [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 May 2011
Emily Hayes Interviews Noah Chandler of “Cullman Sense” on the April 27th Tornadoes 92ZEW / Modmobilian.com North Alabama Relief Drive www.cullmansense.com Continue Reading
Posted on 25 May 2011
Modmobilian.com checks out the Hangout Fest behind-the-scenes (OMG! Taylor Hicks!) and Skoda interviews Gregg Fells 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 04 May 2011
Free the Hops has called a “ceasefire” (?) in its Anheuser-Busch Distributor Boycott after it appears to have reached a compromise on a revised SB192 Brewery Modernization Act. Unfortunately that compromise would not allow brewpubs to sell their beer retail in stores – one of the main goals of the legislation. It was that point that the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 May 2011
This is a brief preliminary report – intended primarily for those who donated items – on the 92ZEW-Meyer-Hangout-Mod Mobilian North Alabama Relief Drive Sunday 5/1/2011. The definitive story of the relief drive will be told in a video being produced by Kris Skoda. The drive was organized and led by Emily Hayes. She and Kris were accompanied by Jordan [...] 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 29 April 2011
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Posted on 28 April 2011
Old Lady Hayes chats with Brooks Tipton about Colour Revolt, his screen printing business, Minnie Pearl and . . . Paula Cole? Continue Reading
Posted on 13 April 2011
Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate will speak in Point Clear May 3 Continue Reading
Posted on 30 March 2011
New Orleans’ Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. Dr. John, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14th. Many of his songs should sound familiar to Gulf Coasters, including “Right Place, Wrong Time” and “I Walk on Guilded Splinters” (Preview & download from Amazon): Amazon.com Widgets Some vintage “Night Tripper” videos to give you [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 March 2011
Mobile Baykeeper will host its Second Annual HopsFest Beer Festival featuring premium craft beers March 26, 2011 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. in Cathedral Square. Musical entertainment will be by Kathryn Scheldt & Friends, featuring Tom Morley, Debbie Hawkins and Miller & Lynn McPherson. This year’s feature breweries will include: Budweiser Busch Distributing Company Michelob Brewing Co Southern Tire Brewing [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 March 2011
"At one point I watched a doctor approach a shell of a woman in a wheelchair, laboring for every breath as if were her last. Her eyes were ringed and bleak, her face gaunt, her husband attentive. The man in the white coat told them in hushed tones there was no chance. It was too late for her." Continue Reading
