Tag: July 2015
John S. Sledge Book Signing, 07/15/15
Mobile Bay, the History Museum of Mobile and Page & Jones hosted an evening with author John S. Sledge, celebrating his new book, "The Mobile River."
Bargain Beer Taste Test
Like all great enquiries, Mobile Bay magazine’s latest effort to enhance intentional living in our fair city using all the tools of scientific methodology required a visit to...
Rain Check
  Bienville Books (Photo by Major Adam Colbert), Copper Kettle Tea Bar (Photo by Matt Gates)  READ ON You can't really call yourself a Mobilian until you've spent an afternoon...
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Top 10 Tastes of Summer
There’s just something about this time of year. It’s the simplicity — the sheer joy of lazy days and old-fashioned fun. It’s about picking berries, catching crabs and fishing....
The Amazing Life of Phillip Fields
Every chair is occupied. Cheerful, hectic chatter fills the wood-paneled room, and cloudy skies peek through the large front windows. A white-haired man with kind eyes and...
Ask McGehee
Eugenia Levy Phillips, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, came to Mobile as a 16-year-old newlywed in 1836. She had married fellow South Carolinian Philip Phillips,...
Arrival
When I was 15, I told my father I wanted to work construction. He suggested I get in touch with Kenny Horton who lived about a mile down...
Fighting Chance
My self-defense experience started with seven pounds and a bad dream. I know where the seven pounds came from, but I’m not sure about the dream, ...
Sprouts du Jour
New South Brussels Sprouts at Dumbwaiter Restaurant  1. TASTE OF...
Shady Garden
What a hard summer it would be if you had to go through it without gingers. I guess you could do it, if you had to, ...