Tag: Entertainment
Waking Up the Ghosts
There are ghosts in jazz music. If you listen carefully, you can hear them, shaking off the cobwebs to tap their feet to an old tune. Sometimes you...
Catching up with Rebecca Roubion
It’s been more than two years since we last spoke with Mobile native and Nashville-based singer-songwriter Rebecca Roubion. From an appearance on NPR to the recent launch of her first full-length album, ...
What to See & Do in our Great City
Film & TV SEE IT Catch next year’s Oscar winners and best foreign flicks at the Fairhope Film Festival on Nov. 12 - 15. The four-day event...
Two-Part Harmony
The Birdcage Lounge at the Grand Hotel is still. Its thick windows muffle a morning thunderstorm moving in from the Bay. The only other sound is the light rustling...
The Mulligan Brothers
“When I die, my momma gets my soul.” Words so simple and sweet, not even the snarkiest critic could disagree. It’s with words like these that...
Top Tenor
On Oct. 24 and 26, when Gran Wilson performs the title role in Jules Massenet’s “Werther” with the Mobile Opera, he will share the role he has...
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, ...
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The Family Band
The dimly lit concert venue vibrates with energy from the audience. The sparse stage is awash with cyan and magenta hues. Just before performing their sophomore release, “Stories...
The Rebecca Diaries
Certain songs have a way of making a girl want to dance in a field of daisies and then sit for a spell, picking apart the flower while...
