Tag: Life + Culture
Art Imitates the Arts
text and photos by Adrian Hoff
Storytelling
In the South we tell stories. The ones that we find most compelling, those that as children we begged to hear again...
The Showstoppers
Wild West Opera: “La Fanciulla Del West” Mobile Opera Beginning this season, Mobile Opera is offering what few companies have ever...
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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...
Our Catholic Forebearers
Catholics, perhaps more than any other local group, have a history and existence that is tightly woven together with that of...
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...
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...
Thinking Outside the Lunch Box
Andolyn Fitzgerald puts a great deal of time and effort into nourishing her children in both mind and body. The amazing mother of...
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...
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...