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 –...
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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...
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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, ...