Tag: Out & About
Mobile Spirits
Mobile has been many things to many people, but never a hotbed of temperance. In Colonial times, the home brew of choice was often a pale wine made from...
A Six Pack of Top 10s
David Bagwell's Top 10 Local Characters * A “character” is hard to define, but like Justice Potter Stewart explained obscenity, we know it when we...
Port City (Trivial) Pursuit – The Answers
1. Legend has it the Copeland outlaw gang buried ____________________ in water-proof kegs in Wragg Swamp, the name of the area where Bel Air Mall is located...
Port City (Trivial) Pursuit
1. Legend has it the Copeland outlaw gang buried ____________________ in water-proof kegs in Wragg Swamp, the name of the area where Bel Air Mall is located...
Yuletide Nights
Living on the Gulf Coast, we cannot always depend on the cool nip of autumn to signal the approach of the holidays. Instead, we take our...
Dishes of a Lifetime
Fried Mushrooms
Butch Cassidy’s Café
Mushrooms are no longer in the dark, because Butch Cassidy’s Café shines the light on the fungus among us. The restaurant serves up about 40 pounds...
Off the Menu
Shrimp sauce-covered steak sounds like music to the mouth, but don’t look for it on a menu. Like an album’s hidden bonus track, this entree is...
Walk Down Memory Midway
It’s autumn — one of those October days when I want to ride my bike over the leaves to hear the crackling sound. I want to race childlike...
Dauphin Island Revival
Dauphin Island is a land of piney woods, saltwater waves, a Civil War fort and zero Burger Kings. Here, there are no high-rise condos. In fact,...
Restaurant Review: Old 27 Grill
William Stitt is counting on 27 to be his lucky number. His new restaurant, Old 27 Grill, is on old County Road 27 (now state Highway 181)....