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Bayfest Gets 'Badass' with Kid Rock, Alabama and Others After 2 | LAGNIAPPE | July 17, 2014 - July 23, 2014 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• LAGNIAPPE WEEKLY July 17, 2014 – July 23, 2014 | www.lagniappemobile.com Ashley Trice BAY BRIEFS Co-publisher/Editor A conservation easement adds protection [email protected] to Dauphin Island’s diverse bird sanctuary. Rob Holbert Co-publisher/Managing Editor 6 [email protected] Steve Hall COMMENTARY Marketing/Sales Director Perhaps Mobile should seize on the [email protected] attactions it already has before creating Gabriel Tynes new ones. Assistant Managing Editor 12 [email protected] CUISINE Dale Liesch Reporter Clean out those Cool [email protected] Whip containers and Jason Johnson make yesterday’s Reporter 18 leftovers today’s [email protected] innovative meals. Alyson Stokes Web & Social Media Manager/Reporter [email protected] Kevin Lee CONTENTS Associate Editor/Arts Editor [email protected] Andy MacDonald Cuisine Editor [email protected] BUSINESS Stephen Centanni Music Editor Fresh fare coming with change [email protected] of ownership at local Captain D’s J. Mark Bryant franchise and The Pillars, reincarnated. Sports Writer 22 [email protected] Daniel Anderson Chief Photographer COVER [email protected] Prichard Mayor Troy Laura Rasmussen Ephriam and others Art Director speak about the city’s www.laurarasmussen.com past, present and future 24 Brooke Wilder Advertising Sales Executive as Mobile’s beleaguered [email protected] neighbor to the north tries Leigh Wright to move forward. Advertising Sales Executive [email protected] Beth Williams Advertising Sales Executive [email protected] Jeff Winter ARTS Advertising Sales Executive Artifice finds the essence of life in [email protected] artistic pursuit and things that make it Melissa Schwarz Editorial Assistant 26 all worthwhile. [email protected] Contributors: Asia Frey • Brian Holbert MUSIC Jeff Poor • Ron Sivak As The Doobie Brothers Susan Larsson • Ken Robinson Chelsea Archey prepare for a show On the Cover: Mayor Troy Ephriam at The Wharf with By Daniel Anderson Peter Frampton, the LAGNIAPPE (USPS 20) is published weekly, 52 issues a year, Volume 12, Issue 22, every legendary band is Thursday by Something, Extra Publishing, Inc. Entered at the Mobile Post Office, 250 St. getting the tribute Joseph St, Mobile, AL, 36601. treatment from some of Periodicals postage paid at Mobile Post Office, 250 St Joseph St., Mobile, AL 36601 country music’s biggest and other locations. stars. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to P.O. Box 3003 Mobile, AL 36652. Editorial, advertising and production offices are 30 located at 1102A Dauphin St. Mobile, AL 36604. Mailing address is P.O. Box 3003 Mobile, AL 36652. Phone: 251.450.4466 Fax 251.450.4498. Email: ashley- FILM [email protected] or [email protected] Acting in “The Selfish Giant” is almost LAGNIAPPE is printed at Walton Press, 402 too real for comfort and the effect is Mayfield Dr., Monroe, GA 30655. All letters sent to Lagniappe are considered to beautifully devastating. be intended for publication. 36 Member: Association of Alternative Newsweek- lies and Alternative Weeklies Network MEDIA All rights reserved. Something Extra Publishing, Inc. Nothing may be reprinted, photocopied or Alabama Media Reporter thinks the in any way reproduced without the expressed permission of the publishers. Speaker of the House should start Individuals may take one copy of the paper free of charge from area businesses, trying on stripes. racks or boxes. After that, papers are $3 per 37 issue. Removal of more than one copy from these points constitutes theft. Violators are subject to prosecution. SPORTS Help support Lagniappe Weekly by becoming a “Friend with Benefits.” Red snapper category adds spark to Scan this code for more info: 39 Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. STYLE It’s the closest thing to royalty as Alabama ever gets as AJ McCarron 46 weds Katherine Webb in a swaggy Orange Beach ceremony. LAGNIAPPE | July 17, 2014 - July 23, 2014 | 3 GOING POSTAL Not really a fan of Hidden Agenda, per se ... To the editor: of the wars we ever fought. Many are killed while undergoing a normal delivery! Hobby I really liked your “tongue on cheek” spoof Lobby wants no part of that and neither do I. of the geese problem at Langan Park (Hid- I like the truths and facts that Lagniappe den Agenda July 10, 2014). One comment gives its readers, especially in the Mobile however: in the top line of the second column, political arena, but you are dead wrong when you used the phrase “per say.” Which is a very you make fun of someones valid long-held reli- common misspelling of “per se.” gious beliefs, even if you disagree with them. Also shame on you for making unfair snide You also can’t take a stand against “Obam- “fun” of Hobby Lobby’s religious stance on not acare” then blast someone who has a legitimate paying for abortions and IUD devices. IUD’s issue with its compliance demands, then takes do not prevent egg fertilization as do birth legal steps to amend them. They could have control pills. They are supposed to prevent just reduced all employees’ work hours to implantation thus causing a type of miscarriage less than 30 per week as others did. Then they each monthly cycle and when failing to accom- wouldn’t have to give any insurance benefits at plish that objective can cause multiple serious all. They did not do this. They kept the workers complications for the mother and the embryo. and fought against the unfair policies instead. Just because some things are legal does not make them “right.” We in the USA have Joy Burge, aborted more babies causing their deaths than Long time Lagniappe reader albeit an the number of deaths of the lost soldiers in all unhappy one today 367 dogs rescued after dogfighting ring takedown BY ALYSON STOKES/REPORTER | [email protected] n Alabama man recently pleaded Two violations reported in MPD guilty to organizing a dogfighting ring underage drinking operation and charging spectators admission to The Mobile Police Department’s Youth attend the gruesome matches, where Services Unit conducted an operation on July Aillegal gambling also took place. 12 to combat the sale of alcoholic beverages to According to the Federal Bureau of In- minors in the Mobile area, according to a July vestigation in a July 11 press release, Donnie 14 press release. Anderson, of Auburn, Ala., admitted in his plea Officials said 10 businesses were checked agreement to organizing and holding dogfights, with two shops receiving violations – the Shell mostly in the Auburn area, from 2009-2013. Service Station at 4786 Airport Blvd and the Anderson also admitted to charging entrance Circle K at 6900 Aiport Blvd – for selling fees between $100 and $150. He said dog own- alcohol to minors. ers and spectators would bet on the outcome of Recording no violations were: My Boys fights, where wagers on each fight could range Store at 750 Holcombe Ave., Fulton Grocery at from $20,000 to $200,000. 1288 Dauphin Island Parkway, Clark Exxon at The FBI said their Mobile Field Office re- 1600 Dauphin Island Parkway, Shell Service at ceived disturbing tips in 2011 about a possible 2000 Dauphin Island Parkway, ZTEC at 2206 high-stakes dogfighting and gambling ring Dauphin Island Parkway, D.I.P. Club Food based in Alabama that attracted participants MART at 817 Dauphin Island Parkway, Shell from several nearby states. As a result, the Service Station at 3660 Airport Blvd. and BP FBI opened an investigation in April 2011 that Circle K at 4659 Airport Blvd. eventually led to the takedown of Anderson’s operation. Arrest made in Cloverleaf homicide In August 2013, the investigation led to Mobile Police investigated a homicide after the indictment and arrest of 10 individuals on officers responded to the 1400 block of Clover- federal dogfighting and gambling charges. Nine leaf Circle South on Monday, July 14 at approxi- others have also pled guilty in the case thus far. mately 10:34 p.m., for a report of one shot. Law enforcement seized firearms, illegal According to officials, 19-year-old Selena Ed- drugs, drugs used to treat and train dogs and wards was found in the front yard of a residence more than $500,000 in cash in relation to the suffering from a single gunshot wound. The case. Mobile Fire-Rescue Department pronounced the The takedown also resulted in the rescue of victim dead at the scene. 367 dogs. The preliminary investigation identified the Furthermore, two FBI agents and a for- suspect as 24-year-old Raphiel Quinnie, who mer agent, in addition to an Auburn Police knew the victim. On July 15, Quinnie was ar- Department detective and the U.S. Attorney rested and charged with manslaughter in the case. and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle The investigation is ongoing. MPD asks if you District of Alabama, were all recently have any further information related to this crime recognized with an award from the Humane please call 251-208-7211. Society for their actions that led to the rescue of the mistreated canines. 4 | LAGNIAPPE | July 17, 2014 - July 23, 2014 LAGNIAPPE | July 17, 2014 - July 23, 2014 | 5 BAY BRIEFS BB A free man no more: Jockisch gets 10 years for enticement BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] nited States District Judge Callie commissioner, was arrested last November after Granade sentenced former Mobile traveling to meet a girl he believed to be 15 County Commissioner Freeman Jockisch years old. to 10 years in federal prison July 15, After have multiple documented conversa- Uthe minimum sentence for his conviction on at- tions through the “Causal Encounters” section tempting to lure a child for unlawful sex, which of Craigslist, Jockish believed he spoke to the a jury unanimously found Jockish guilty of in “girl” via telephone but was actually speaking April.
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