Art for the Ages
October 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Ringo Starr passes his driver’s license test, and a Mobile art gallery turns museum. Fast-forward 50...
Ark of India
“To leave India, ” novelist Salman Rushdie wrote, “is to feel replete: Full of ideas, arguments, images, sounds, smells, faces, stories, ...
Natural Selections: Colaptes auratus
Whether it’s referring to a woodpecker, football chant or cocktail, the term “yellowhammer” is synonymous with the state of Alabama. Since becoming an official state emblem in...
7 Books We’re Reading this Fall
1. "Gone Girl"
By Gillian Flynn
On Amy and Nick Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick reports that Amy has gone missing. Police investigations target Nick as a suspect despite his pleas...
12 Fibs to Tell Tourists
1) Fort Condé is named for former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. The title was shortened to “Conde” because by the time motorists read the turn off...
Arts and Crafts
We didn’t have video games, and we didn’t watch much television growing up. I do recall black-and-white episodes of “Little House on the Prairie” on Sunday nights....
Dynamic Duo
Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron attract a lot of attention these days, as major participants in a revitalization of performance art, a medium popular in the 1960s....
Salute to our Sister Cities
A directional marker stands at Fort Condé with arrows pointing to faraway places. Each arrow represents a Mobile sister city, encouraging global thinking and begging the question: How are we...
Free Your Inner Artist
The Bay area features an exceptionally broad canvas of visual and performance arts offerings for all tastes and skill levels. Here, find 31 unintimidating ways to explore...
Rain Supreme
Last year, a young woman from Michigan interned where I work. Right before she left, I asked her what she thought of Mobile. “Pretty good, ” she...
