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The Showstoppers

Wild West Opera: “La Fanciulla Del West” Mobile Opera Beginning this season, Mobile Opera is offering what few companies have ever presented to their patrons –...

Bonjour, Mobile!

In the summer of 1977, Brigitte Devroute, a native of France, visited Mobile and met a young local, David McDonald. The following year he...

Our Catholic Forebearers

Catholics, perhaps more than any other local group, have a history and existence that is tightly woven together with that of the Bay area. Their story...

Swamp Writer: Kitchen Music

“I don’t know how someone can like the Delta so much, ” my wife says to me one day as I load my Stauter with gear. “I...

Houses of Fun

As a child, the closest I got to owning a playhouse was the green storage shed in my family’s wooded backyard. It housed enough snakes, in...

Spotlight on David Morris

David Morris, 32, is no stranger to the gridiron. As a former second-string QB for Ole Miss (1998 - 2002), Morris traveled with starter and...

Offbeat Academia

Summertime is over! It’s time for Pop-Tart breakfasts and school buses, for imaginary numbers and forgotten locker combinations. Reading, writing and ’rithmetic can give new meaning to “bored of...

Swamp Writer: My First Night in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta

In the spring of 1996 I was determined to rebuild an old camp in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Miles from any road, deep in the swamp, and...

Wonder Kids 2012

Marlin Brutkiewicz, 17, Will Glass, 17 • Olympic Trials Competitors How they spent their summer vacations Following a rigorous training schedule, in late June, the Mobile duo shared a pool with...

Ask McGehee: When was Government Plaza built, and how did that design ever get...

A Mobile County Courthouse had stood on the southwest corner of Government and Royal streets since 1822.  The fifth and last incarnation had been built in 1958, ...

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