Tag: April 2015
Your Wish, Our Command
How about a mid-week feel-good to help you cruise the rest of the way to your weekend? Everyone loves a happy story, so here’s a quick one to...
Bald Eagle Bash, 04/18/15
The 6th Annual Bald Eagle Bash fundraiser for the Weeks Bay Foundation featured Gulf shrimp recipes from 13 local restaurants and live music by The Modern Eldorados.
Photos by Sherry...
Natural Selections: Cynoscion nebulous
With high numbers, good sizes and a fighting attitude, specks are a local angling favorite. Just in time for prime fishing season, learn more about the brackish...
Super Salads
1. WILD RICEÂ SALAD 3 (2.75-ounce) packages quick-cooking wild rice, cooked and cooled (I use Gourmet House.) 1/2 cup pecan pieces, toasted 1 cup dried cranberries 1/4...
First Cars
IÂ always assumed that the clandestine street racers I heard late at night originated from, or at least had connections with, the shade tree mechanic operations I passed...
The Fall of Mobile
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, on April 12, 1865, Confederate Mobile surrendered to Federal troops. The city’s strategic importance had already been neutralized...
Fairhope Brewery Co. Expands into Bottling
When I walk into the Taproom of the Fairhope Brewing Company on a Wednesday morning, Brian Kane is on the phone. He is sitting at the beautiful, ...
Ask McGehee
In 1920, all of America went dry as the federal government outlawed the manufacture, transportation or sale of alcoholic beverages. And almost immediately, a huge number of Americans...
Fields of Feasting
  ABOVE LEFT At the Nov. 9 Moveable Feast, lengthy tables are nestled among the certified organic blueberry bushes at Weeks Bay Plantation in Fairhope. Guests enjoyed five...
Hollywood Whodunit
There is nothing 16-year-old Alice won’t do to protect her sister, Annie. Despite the fact that the two have not spoken in more than four years. Despite the...
