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
Posted on 20 March 2011
Sims/Andrews Benefit at Boondocks Today Sun. 3/20 11am ’til This event has been co-ordinated to help the families of this mother and daughter who were tragically killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. The accident occurred @ Old Shell and University on Jan 5, 2011. Selma Sims was the Mother of 2 daughters Kathy Andrews [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 20 March 2011
15 Place shelter would move off Dauphin St. to a nice, new facility. But apparently nearby "residents" (all we see are crackhouses and slums) have asked Councilman Carroll to delay funding for the move. Continue Reading
Posted on 15 March 2011
We at Mod Mobilian are trying out a new feature here to take advantage of our exceptionally intelligent readership. We want to get your thoughts on the burning issues of the day. This one is serious, though future ones maybe not so much: Should NPR and PBS continue to receive public (i.e. taxpayer) funding? Recently the U.S. House [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 09 March 2011
Mod Mobilian gave a now-former reporter a seemingly easy task – to infiltrate the Joe Cain Procession and do a video interview with Joe Cain himself. We are sorry to report he failed miserably. Here was his excuse: “Well first off, I posed as a marcher with Les Chats Sauvages. I was making my way up to Joe Cain himself in the Pre-Parade [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 03 March 2011
Mod Mobilian was saddened to learn that Blues Legend Eddie Kirkland, age 87, died in a car accident on Sunday February 28. Kirkland performed the last show he’d ever play on Saturday at the Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin, Fla. On Sunday morning, a Greyhound bus hit Kirkland’s car in Crystal River, Fla. Kirkland was transported by helicopter [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 February 2011
2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival lineup scheduled for April 29 – May 1 and May 5 – 8. International Artists include: Arcade Fire, Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, Kid Rock, John Mellencamp, Wilco, Willie Nelson, The Strokes, Robert Plant, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Tom Jones, Jeff Beck, Sonny Rollins, John Legend & The Roots, The Avett Brothers, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 February 2011
It's what Mardi Gras is really all about. Continue Reading
Posted on 19 February 2011
Mobile’s moddest Mardi Gras organization the Conde Explorers rides tonight (after The Pharaohs). Kris Skoda and other Mods will be riding and filming from FLOAT 4. Yell (”Hey Skoda” or “Hey Mod Mobilian”) and ye shall receive our “special throws!” Continue Reading
Posted on 14 February 2011
Mobile County again makes the New York Times: Trying to Hold Down Blue Language on a Red-Letter Day CITRONELLE, Ala. — It’s shaping up to be a darn nice Valentine’s Day here in Mobile County. An optimistic band of middle school students hopes that for just one day no one in the county will curse. Perhaps people can [...] 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 11 February 2011
"In part, this is for me . . . more than just re-transforming what the CLA can do. To me it’s re-envisioning what a cultural organization can be in our times. I see the opportunity here for this to be a model and a blueprint. On some levels, if Mobile can do it, a whole slew of places can do it. I think this is the right time for Mobile. It makes sense for Mobile, it makes sense for the Gulf Coast." Continue Reading
Posted on 02 February 2011
Now that everyone's buzzing about the 2011 Hangout Fest roster, let's listen a little further down the lineup and see what Hanger-Outers have to look forward to... Continue Reading
Posted on 01 February 2011
A NEW PRELUDE TO MARDI GRAS 1st ANNUAL GCEH DAUPHIN ST. SECOND-LINE PARADE During Art Walk – Friday February 11, 2011 “An Everybody’s Parade” Strut, Dance, Mask and Wave Your Umbrellas To The Tunes of Mardi Gras Down Dauphin Street from Bienville to Cathedral Squares With Mobile’s Own Bay City Brass Band Prizes Awarded: Best Mardi Gras Dancers, Best Costume, Most Festive Decorated Umbrella Line-up: [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 31 January 2011
According to the Pensacola News Journal: “Five Flags Tourism Group, which put on the inaugural bash on Pensacola Beach last year, threatened to move to another location after a Santa Rosa Island Authority committee refused its late request to move the festival up to Sept. 29-Oct. 2. The group initially reserved the Oct. 14-15 weekend for its [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 January 2011
What's happening where and when in Mobile's 2011 Mardi Gras Season Continue Reading
Posted on 24 January 2011
Mobile’s Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed presents the “Wheel of Jazz Jeopardy” tonight Monday 1/24 6:30pm at the Gulf City Lodge 601 State St. Carmen Brown will host the Gameshow-style Contest. There will be live music, food and more. Don’t Miss it! Continue Reading
Posted on 24 January 2011
Montgomery?? Really? Come on, Evergreen! Continue Reading
Posted on 20 January 2011
"Shockingly" this story about safety concerns at one of Mobile's major employers bringing in third world workers has not been covered by the Mobile media: FRONTLINE investigates ST Aerospace Mobile in Alabama... the investigation raises serious questions about the quality and experience of the workforce; the use of foreign workers with limited English proficiency; and the alleged use of unauthorized airline parts. One ST employee worries that the current system of maintenance and repair will end in "a smoking hole at the end of the runway." Continue Reading
Posted on 10 January 2011
The stench emanating from a group of Baldwin County politicians is unbearable... Continue Reading
Posted on 09 January 2011
Bob Riley and Ricky Mathews discuss EADS, the Oil Spill, and regionalism on Bloomberg Radio. Listen to it here or watch it here. Also: Riley Says Feinberg Stiffing Businesses With Gulf Claims “Riley said Kenneth Feinberg … has bankrupted small businesses on the coast by underpaying them and is abusing the power given him by President Barack Obama. Riley… said [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 January 2011
Support the Conde Explorers – Mobile’s Only Integrated Mardi Gras Krewe! As featured in the film ‘Order of Myths’. In 2005, The Conde Explorers became the first integrated Mardi Gras society to parade in downtown Mobile. The society currently has about a hundred members and welcomes men and women of all races. In addition to its [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 03 January 2011
Fifty percent think this ordinance goes too far and another 50 percent think it doesn’t go far enough,” said Councilman Rick Kingrea who sponsored the ordinance. “The one mutual agreement that they have is that 100 percent believe that if we don’t do what they want us to do it’s going to be the ruination of Fairhope." Continue Reading
Posted on 03 January 2011
A traveling exhibit inspired by the “CSI” television drama, the richest golf tournament in a generation, the 50th anniversary of “The Miracle Worker” and two original Civil War plays about Montgomery are among the top ten events selected by the Alabama Tourism Department for 2011... Continue Reading
Posted on 31 December 2010
YES! The Bay City Brass Band is playing at the NEW Tacky Jacks on the Causeway which opened Dec. 15th (Old Oysterella’s) for their big New Years Eve Party tonight! That is going to be a great opportunity to see Mobile’s FUNKIEST BAND at the Causeway’s newest restaurant. Bay City Brass at Mod Mobilian’s Birthday Party Continue Reading
Posted on 14 December 2010
Holli Mosley sings “Happy Birthday Mod Mobilian” You gotta vote for her daily in the CMT Country Strong Challenge until 12/16 – it takes 10 seconds. Continue Reading
Posted on 07 December 2010
"It’s probably going to irritate everybody, but I think we’re going to wind up proposing the original ordinance without any changes." Continue Reading
Posted on 28 November 2010
The North Baldwin Animal Shelter is a privately funded, “no kill” animal shelter which opened in June of 2010 in Bay Minette. The facility is than 7,000 square feet and sits on 5 acres on McMeans Avenue in Bay Minette. The shelter can accommodate healthy dogs and cats who are in the Bay Minette city limits. The animals [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 November 2010
"And the Europeans call these people savages?" What has happened to our local Native Americans - the MOWA Choctaws. A true story of heritage, race, money, and politics. Continue Reading
