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Man assaults police officer in Wal-Mart skirmish Compiled by Jason Johnson It’s unclear if Singleton discharged his weapon during the robbery or at another time, but initial reports from A Mobile man remains in jail who police say struck police did not list the robbery as a shooting. an officer in the face after causing a disturbance at the According to Mobile County Metro Jail Records, Tillman’s Corner Wal-Mart over Memorial Day week- Singleton has recorded several previous charges in the end. area for drug-related issues and others for domestic According to police, 26-year-old Jacob Teofilo was violence. intoxicated when he arrived at the store on Rangeline Road in the late hours of May 27. Police arrest nine for prostitution After being asked to leave by a manager, Teofilo Mobile police made several arrests during a May 25 refused and police were eventually dispatched to the prostitution operation focusing on the Campground, Bot- location. As officers from the Mobile Police Department toms and Maysville neighborhoods. arrived on scene, Teofilo is said to have struck a female Several locations were searched after police say they officer in the face while being taken into custody. received complaints of prostitution activity along Martin Though the officer only sustained minor injuries, Teo- Luther King Jr. Avenue and Ann Street in midtown filo has since been charged with second-degree assault. Mobile. According to Mobile County Metro Jail records, As a result of the operation, two men and seven Teofilo has a laundry list of previous charges in the area women were arrested on 10 misdemeanor charges. dating back to his 18th birthday — including multiple Some of those arrested had previous charges for charges related to theft and drug possession. soliciting prostitution Mobile County, according to jail records. Local man charged after stealing cash, According to police, Jessica Mose, Siobhan Thomp- beer son, Janice Henderson, Alesia Robinson, Melissa Trotter, On May 26, Mobile police say a man entered a gas Anita Young,Tremaine Barron and Timothy Patt were station on Airport Boulevard, pulled a handgun on the charged with soliciting prostitution during the opera- cashier and then fled on foot with money and beer in tow. tions. Henderson also faced an additional charge from According to a police report, the incident occurred at unrelated misdemeanor warrant. the Circle K located at 6900 Airport Blvd., where a ca- Last week’s arrests mark the second prostitution shier said a male subject used a semi-automatic handgun operation the Mobile Police Department has undertaken to rob the store before fleeing westward on foot. in the last three months. On Tuesday, May 31, police identified that man as On March 16, narcotics and vice officers with the 31-year-old Solomon Singleton, who has since been MPD arrested 13 individuals at several hotels in the charged with two counts of first degree robbery, public Beltline area in an operation the focused on prostitution Photos/MCSO intoxication, disorderly conduct and discharging a fire- activities being organized through the classified-style arm within the city limits. website backpage.com. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JACOB TEOFILO, SOLOMON SINGLETON, JESSICA MOSE AND TIMOTHY PATT.

BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] wice-convicted murderer Carlos E. when he’s already been convicted twice. Kennedy was in court again last week “He has been sentenced to death, and he to face charges of indecent exposure has been sentenced to life without parole. after showing his genitals to a female Neither of those sentences can be efficiently Tcorrections officer at Mobile Metro Jail earlier or effectively carried out in Mobile County this month. Metro Jail,” Miller said. “He needs to serve Kennedy, who was convicted in 2013 for his time as reprimanded in a state peniten- killing Zoa White in her Spring Hill Avenue tiary. My family should not have to pass the home, successfully appealed to have his death jail every time we go through the tunnel and sentence overturned last year. In April, he know he is there.” represented himself in a retrial based on the According to Myles, the delay in transfer- same charges and evidence. ring Kennedy does cost local dollars, but she Despite calling no witnesses, presenting no said it’s the responsibility of the Alabama evidence and only speaking to answer direct Department of Corrections to move him to a questions, Kennedy dodged the death penalty state facility. in the retrial. While the second group of jurors “There are all kinds of reasons the state arrived at the same conclusion as those in has — either they don’t have room for him 2013 — that Kennedy raped and beat White or they’re waiting to group him with other to death with a claw hammer after breaking people they need to transport,” Myles said. into her home — eight of them didn’t feel he “We’re just sort of stuck with their timeline.” deserved to die for it. Bob Horton, a public information officer As a result, on May 5 Kennedy was sen- with the Department of Corrections, told tenced to life in prison without the possibility Lagniappe “a person sentenced to state prison of parole. is required to be transferred from a county jail However, the recent charges against Ken- within 30 days.” nedy suggest he exposed himself to a woman “ADOC received the court transcripts for tasked with guarding him only days after he Kennedy’s sentence on May 10,” Horton received the reduced sentence. wrote Lagniappe. “He will be transferred According to Lori Myles, a spokesperson from the Mobile County Jail to the Alabama with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, a Department of Corrections by June 10.” female corrections officer at Mobile Metro Though a transfer date is set, the new Jail reported Kennedy exposed himself to her charges could possibly extend Kennedy’s stay on May 8. in Mobile. He was in District Judge George “The majority of our corrections officers N. Hardesty Jr.’s courtroom May 26 for an are female,” Myles said. “In a perfect world, initial appearance on his indecent exposure you’d have female guards responsible for charge. female inmates and male guards responsible Hardesty did not grant bond in this particu- for male inmates, but that’s just not possible lar case on the basis that it would be supersed- with the staff we have currently.” ed by the life sentence Circuit Judge Charles According to Myles, it’s also not the first A. Graddick imposed on Kennedy earlier this time Kennedy has subjected female correc- month. A trial date on the new charge was tions officers to this type of behavior. also set for June 16 in Mobile District Court. According to jail investigators, Kennedy was cited for four similar incidents between Despite appealing his 2013 conviction March and November of 2012 while he was because he was prevented from acting as his awaiting his first trial for White’s murder. Pri- own attorney, Kennedy asked the court to ap- or to his arrest in the White case, jail records point a public defender to assist with his most show Kennedy was also charged in a separate recent charge. incident of indecent exposure in 2009. Local defense attorney Jason Darley, who The latest charge is the sixth time Ken- served as assistant counsel in Kennedy’s nedy has been reported as exposing himself in previous cases, was also selected to represent public or in custody. A Class-A misdemeanor, him during whatever court actions come from indecent exposure is typically handled in mu- his newest charge. nicipal court, but Kennedy landed in Mobile Though a misdemeanor conviction County District Court because it happened in couldn’t possibly add to a life sentence, it a county facility. would be up to the Mobile County District After sitting through two trials and seeking Attorney’s office to drop the charges against justice for more than half a decade, White’s fam- Kennedy. If they don’t, the trial will proceed ily was upset Kennedy even had the opportunity like any other. to commit another crime in Mobile County It’s possible the newest charges against when he was sentenced to serve a life sentence Kennedy could be brought up in an appeal of in a state prison less than a month ago. his second conviction, which he has a legal White’s daughter, Laurie Miller, told right to file through June 9, although state Lagniappe Kennedy shouldn’t continue to be court records as of May 31 show no attempts housed at the expense of the city and county to do so.

6 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BAYBRIEF | BUSINESS Navy dimisses captain over relationship with Austal exec BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] nternal reports from a 2012 U.S. Navy Riedel had agreed to eat dinner with Loving at investigation unsealed in March detail the Joey’s North Shore Grill in Gulf Shores that decisions that led a naval officer over the night because she had helped arrange his hotel Littoral Combat Ship program to be relieved accommodations, though by Loving’s own state- Iof his duty just days after a personal relationship ments she became purposefully intoxicated. with an executive assistant at Austal USA was To keep Loving from driving under the influ- discovered. ence of alcohol, the report says, Riedel offered Though the report from the Naval Sea Sys- her one of the two beds in his room, something tems Command inspector general is redacted, he would later call a “huge mistake.” Lagniappe was able to determine the identities “I made a very bad error in judgment in of some of those involved from news releases is- allowing [redacted] to spend the night in my sued by the Navy, descriptions contained within room. It was done solely out of the intention for the report itself and other publicly available her not to drive drunk,” Riedel said. “Nothing information. happened between the two of us.” The investigation centered on Capt. Jeffrey However, based on their statements, Riedel Riedel, who the Navy concluded held a “close and Loving shared a drink at the same hotel the personal, and potentially intimate, relationship” following night as well, though Loving claimed with Elizabeth Loving — the executive assistant to have stayed in a separate room with another to former Austal President Joe Rella. “friend” not identified in the report. According to the Navy, that relationship Other interviews conducted by the Navy “created the appearance of impropriety” because show Austal’s management was beginning to Riedel was tasked with overseeing the LCS get suspicious of the relationship around the program, which is worth billions to Austal. same time. While there were rumors of what The events covered in the report took place was going on, statements from Austal’s human in January 2012, when Riedel was in Mobile for resources employees detailed attempts to get the christening of a new vessel and other events more proof before bringing the issue to the related to the LCS program. Navy’s attention. In her comments to the Navy, Loving During the same week Riedel was visiting claimed it was Rella who encouraged her to get Mobile, Austal employees made an effort to close to Riedel — a claim Rella denied through- catch him and Loving together after hours — out the report. efforts that proved fruitful when their cars were “He was like, ‘We need to get on his good spotted in the parking lot of the Fairfield Inn in side. We need to be his friend.’ He’s like, ‘We Spanish Fort on more than one occasion. are in a lot of trouble here. We’ve got a lot going “It’s an inappropriate relationship whether on,’” Loving said of her conversations with Rella. they were sleeping together or not,” Rella told “[He said] ‘Book yourself into the hotel. Take investigators. “The fact that there’s a social every opportunity. Go for drinks. Go for dinner.’” familial relationship, where going out in public Loving claimed Rella had specifically asked where people might see my [executive as- her to get photos of Riedel in a compromising sistant] together with the program manager of situation, but told investigators all of her cor- a multibillion-dollar program is concerning. respondence with Rella related to that directive People could accuse me of dispatching her to do was handled verbally. that.” The report itself “did not uncover any evi- Two days after Loving and Riedel shared a dence to support this allegation,” but regard- hotel room in Daphne, Austal’s management less of the motivation, both Riedel and Loving confronted Loving. By the end of the week, admitted Loving soon began “throwing” herself she had signed a separation agreement with the at the visiting Navy captain both in person and company, though she maintained throughout the in hundreds of text messages and emails. investigation the entire ordeal was a “dog and “If you look at it, you’re going to know I pony show” disguising Rella’s plan to “get rid” threw myself at him, like, bad. Bad,” Loving of her. said in an telephone interview with Navy in- “It started coming together as a whole. You vestigators. “I mean, if he said, if he would say know what? He’s getting rid of me,” she said. something to me like, ‘It’s a sunny day,’ I would “I know so much, beyond the girlfriend, beyond turn it into something very sexual.” the numbers, beyond the false reports, beyond, One night at Veet’s, Riedel and Loving beyond, beyond, beyond. There’s so much I exchanged phone numbers, and according to the know, and how better to get rid of me and a Navy, records on Riedel’s government-issued [program manager] you hate? How much easier phone showed 579 text messages were exchanged is that, really?” with Loving by the time he returned to Mobile for When the Navy was made aware of the situ- an LCS program review two weeks later. ation days later, an investigation was launched Riedel and Loving both told investigators and though “there were concerns that sensitive it was an accident they wound up sharing a procurement information may have been com- Daphne hotel room on Jan. 24, 2012, though promised,” the report said no evidence suggests some interviewed in the report claimed Loving (Riedel) used his position to influence any had previously discussed a plan to stay with him contract decisions. during his return to Mobile. Riedel was relieved of his position three days “We didn’t have sex,” Loving told investiga- after the events described in this report and has tors. “I’m not saying that he didn’t flirt back. I since retired from the Navy. Rella resigned as didn’t say he wasn’t giddy — I’m not saying that. Austal’s president four months after the investi- I’m just saying I did not have sex with the man.” gation began and has since started an unrelated Based on his comments to investigators, company in Bay Minette.

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 7 BAYBRIEF | LAW Expungement law concerns sent to legislative committee BY ERIC MANN/REPORTER | [email protected]

labama’s 2014 law allowing citizens to apply for the the information they are already required by law to have. were removed from the website. According to the attorney, Hoyt’s expungement of certain court records and criminalizing AOC suggested the data may be available through the Alabama order included a condition that Caylor not republish the records. publication of those records could go before the House Law Enforcement Agency, so on May 16 Lagniappe requested that There was no time limit set on the order, because the attorney Judiciary Committee in the state’s next regular legislative data from ALEA. said the records had been removed prior to the May 3 hearing. Asession, according to one of the longest-tenured members of the On May 25, ALEA general counsel Michael W. Robinson denied Smith Jr. said the records were republished on the site the morning Mobile delegation. the request, saying the agency is not required by law to track ex- after the hearing, at which time he decided to seek a second charge Rep. Victor Gaston forwarded Lagniappe’s concerns about the pungement statistics and does not have a system in place that tracks and the warrant was issued. law to the committee after he became aware of issues related to the the information. “I am sure the records had been removed from the website prior law after Lagniappe co-publisher Rob Holbert voiced concerns to “It would be an undue, unnecessary and expensive burden on to the hearing because on April 28 my office received a telephone legislators in April. Among those concerns are that the law’s crimi- our agency to create a program to do this task,” Robinson’s letter call by a person identifying himself as John Caylor stating he nalization component represents an unconstitutional prior restraint said. wanted to leave a message for me that Scott’s records had been on freedom of speech. Lagniappe requested the records in order to accurately report removed from the website,” the attorney said. “We immediately “I don’t know whether the law is unconstitutional or constitu- on the expungement law. In March, investigative journalist John confirmed they were no longer on the website and did so again sev- tional, that’s up to the courts to decide, but I do think Lagniappe’s Caylor became the first known person in the state to be arrested on eral other times, including the morning of May 3. On the morning points are well made,” Gaston said. the misdemeanor charge of publishing the expunged court record of of May 4 I was notified that the records were again being published Gaston said the House Judiciary Committee is active and federal court clerk Thomas Scott Smith III, who had his 2001 arrest on Caylor’s website, which I confirmed myself.” competent, with representatives from both political parties. He for unlawful possession of a controlled substance expunged after Caylor was to turn himself over to police the following day, but stressed the recommendation does not guarantee the committee will the state’s law passed in 2014. told Lagniappe he fled the state for fear for his safety if he is jailed investigate and said it could take “a long, long time” before it is Smith III’s attorney, Thomas Smith Jr., said the publication of in Alabama. At press deadline, Caylor remains a fugitive. considered. the records on Caylor’s website represented a violation of his cli- Before and after the hearing, Caylor said he received phone calls “They consider every bill that is introduced and assigned to it,” ent’s privacy. The attorney, Smith III’s father, filed a civil complaint from a U.S. Marshal named Josh Devine asking him to remove Gaston said. “They look at the bills one at a time. They have a lot against Caylor in Baldwin County court but has since amended it Smith’s expunged records as well as records related to U.S. District of work and don’t just sit down and start talking about everything to a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit against Caylor and Court Judge Ginny Granade from his website. Smith III serves as right away.” insider-magazine.com. a clerk for Grenade. According to Caylor the calls from Devine Currently the law has led to one online investigative reporter “Caylor’s harm goes beyond the unlawful publishing of the stopped after he provided recordings of a person identifying himself being arrested and charged with a Class B misdemeanor, as well expunged records due to the way he maliciously used them and his as “Josh” pressuring him to remove the records and to turn himself as another charge against him that led the reporter to flee the state. outrageous lies,” Smith Jr. said. in to Daphne authorities. Lagniappe published a report about the Also, to date Lagniappe’s requests for the state’s expungement data At a hearing May 3, Caylor said he agreed to take the informa- recording and the federal marshal’s alleged involvement in a state have been denied. tion off the website until it could be determined whether Alabama’s misdemeanor case. On April 1, Lagniappe submitted a public records request to law is constitutional and does not create an illegal prior restraint by The Marshals Service Mobile office has not responded to the Administrative Office of Courts seeking expungement data the the government. Caylor claimed he worked all night after the hear- multiple requests for comment since May about its involvement office is required by law to provide to the Legislature. Lagniappe’s ing to have the records removed from his website. However, despite in Caylor’s case. When Devine was contacted directly about any request was denied when the AOC said it was unable to track the removing the materials from the site by mid-morning, Smith III possible involvement, he told the reporter to contact the service’s data in its state judicial information system program. The office filed another complaint and Daphne Municipal Judge Michael Hoyt public information office. The marshals are sworn to protect 94 offered to provide the total number of expungements granted since issued a warrant for his arrest. Hoyt declined to be interviewed, say- federal court districts and approximately 2,200 federal judges. The the law passed, but that request would have cost Lagniappe $500 ing he does not comment publicly on pending cases. marshals are also responsible for the protection of federal prosecu- for labor. AOC justified this as the cost of having people research Smith Jr. disputed Caylor’s version of exactly when the records tors, federal public defenders and other court employees.

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ASSISTANT MFRD CHIEF BILLY PAPPAS (WHITE SHIRT) POSES WITH MAYOR SANDY STIMPSON AND FOUR EMPLOYEES PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN LAST SUMMER.

obile has been without an official fire council agenda. chief for more than two years and “I’ll have to evaluate it once he puts his there has been no recent discussion name up there,” Richardson said, referring to the about promoting the man currently mayor. “I’m not saying anything until then.” Mdoing the job. Richardson also said he was unsure why the Mayor Sandy Stimpson initially appointed position has remained vacant for so long. Randy Smith in November 2013 to helm the “Only the mayor knows why he has not department, but rescinded the appointment in recommended a chief,” he said. “The admin- September 2014. Smith was never confirmed istration will act. I think he knows why he left by the Mobile City Council. this position vacant.” Since the change of course, Assistant Chief Councilman John Williams said he doesn’t Billy Pappas has assumed responsibility for care one way or the other if a chief is in place, leading the department. Pappas’ name has never as long as the department is running smoothly. appeared on the council agenda. He added Pappas has done an admirable job in Council President Gina Gregory said place- the interim. ment of Pappas’ name on the agenda would be “I have never opposed any of the mayor’s up to Stimpson. appointments,” Williams said. “I don’t foresee “It has not been placed on our agenda,” that happening now.” Gregory wrote in an email. “It would be some- But according to local firefighter union thing the mayor would do.” president Dewayne Patrick, the situation is Stimpson commended Pappas and other unfair to Pappas, who is doing the job as chief Mobile Fire-Rescue Department leaders during without the pay increase that would accompany last week’s State of the City address, but before a promotion. Tuesday’s council meeting said Pappas would “It’s not fair to him to take the responsibility not be nominated for confirmation. of the role and not be compensated,” Patrick “I’ve chosen not to put him up because I said. As assistant chief, Pappas earns a salary of don’t know if the votes are there,” Stimpson more than $106,000 per year. said. But Patrick said Stimpson’s delay is hurting Councilwoman Bess Rich, chairwoman of morale around the department. the council’s Public Safety Committee, said she “We need someone in that position to run would support Pappas if he moved to Mobile. the department,” he said. “We need a head City spokesman George Talbot confirmed Pap- figure. If you’re not going to fill the position, pas lives on the Eastern Shore. get rid of it.” Rich said having an acting chief is not the There was speculation by at least one coun- same as having a confirmed chief. cilor back in the summer of 2014 that Smith “I believe the criteria of having the safest didn’t have the support needed to gain con- city includes the fire department,” she said, firmation through a City Council vote. At the apparently taking a dig at one of Stimpson’s time, Williams called that a “shame” because campaign priorities. Smith was “immensely qualified.” Councilman Fred Richardson said he Smith filed a suit against the city claiming has “no problem” with Pappas, but said he reverse discrimination in 2006. Richardson wouldn’t discuss confirming the assistant chief was subpoenaed to testify as part of the lawsuit or anyone else until the name appeared on a before it was settled.

10 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BAYBRIEF | MOBILE COUNTY School closings draw ire of black communities BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected]

ust two days after the Mobile County Despite those and other threats of litigation, School Board voted 4-to-1 to close Battles gave no indication as to how those who Mae Eanes Middle School and move oppose the schools’ merger might move their its students to Williamson High School, efforts forward. Jone of the board members drew hundreds to a “There is a plan, but I didn’t come here community meeting protesting the controversial tonight to let them know what my plan is,” consolidation. Battles told the crowd. “I can’t stop a process On May 24, school officials finalized what that’s in transition, but what I can say is, the critics have called “an orchestrated plan” to people have a right to any kind of government close Mae Eanes. The decision was recently in- that they deserve.” cluded in the $2.5 million school improvement Prior to Thursday’s meeting at Mae Eanes, plan aimed at addressing the system’s 12 failing there were talks in the community of pushing schools, including Eanes and Williamson. for a city school system in Mobile, with many Next year students who would have been citing the recent independence from MCPSS in sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Eanes Saraland, Satsuma and Chickasaw. However, will join high school-aged students at William- there was no talk of moving those efforts for- son. Though those students will be housed in a ward when Battles took the mic at Mae Eanes. separate wing known as the Williamson Middle Any effort to start a system would also re- Grades Preparatory Academy, many parents — quire support from Mobile City Council mem- including several who spoke at last Thursday’s bers — none of whom attended the meeting meeting — are concerned about the wide range at Mae Eanes last Thursday. On social media, of ages at the combined school. some specifically targeted Councilman Fred Commissioner Robert Battles was the only Richardson, who was in a previously scheduled board member who opposed combining Mae community meeting at the time Battles and his Eanes and Williamson, and seemed to quickly supporters gathered at Mae Eanes. chalk up the decision up to “racism” on the While the news of the closing is fresh, the issues at Mae Eanes have bubbled under the surface for more than a year, after plans to use $7 million to reno- NEXT YEAR STUDENTS vate the middle school were shelved in favor of other projects at Citronelle WHO WOULD HAVE High School, Fournier-Chastang School, Murphy High School and the BEEN SIXTH-, SEVENTH- AND vacant Barton Academy. Murphy, which according to state EIGHTH-GRADERS AT EANES records has two times more black students than white students, became WILL JOIN HIGH SCHOOL-AGED a priority after a tornado struck the campus on Christmas Day in 2012 STUDENTS AT WILLIAMSON. — something Battles said even he would have supported at the time. “Murphy had a devastating tornado. Well, you know, if I was a part of his fellow board members and Mobile commissioner then, I would have voted to help County Public School System Superintendent Murphy too,” he said. “I wouldn’t [have] even Martha Peek. minded lending them $4 million, but give me Though the mood was tense on Thursday, my money back, though.” Battles said “raising hell” was not the way to Since the controversy of the “diverted funds” proceed. began, MCPSS released a breakdown of its con- “The purpose of this is for you, as citizens, struction allocations over the past 16 years for families and community members, to offer in- each of the school board’s five districts. put on the direction that we should go,” he said. With $131.5 million put toward construction “What I’d like to do tonight is to facilitate your projects since the year 2000, Battles’ District 3 participation and try to make a revolutionary schools are the second most funded on the list, change in the process of education.” just behind the $150 million put into District 4, Battles previously threatened to file a com- which is overseen by Commissioner Reginald plaint with the U.S. Department of Education Crenshaw. Those that received the least fund- over what he described as “racial disparities” ing for construction in the same period are the between majority-white schools and majority- districts of commissioners Don Stringfellow, black schools, the latter of which have seen William Foster and Douglas Harwell, which recent closings and consolidations. have received $57 million, $89 million and “African-Americans in this system — be- $125 million, respectively. cause of their race — are being disproportion- Others, including Battles, have suggested ately impacted by closing schools, and they’ve Mae Eanes was closed so the property could be been denied participation in programs and school sold to Airbus, though school officials said there activities related to federal funding,” Battles said is no truth to those rumors. Peek was not imme- after the May 24 vote to close Mae Eanes. diately available to comment by press deadline.

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 11 BAYBRIEF | FAIRHOPE Fly Creek protection remains a concern for some BY ERIC MANN/REPORTER | [email protected]

hile plans for the construction of an apartment complex Bay NEP said he expects funding for the project to be released were unable to secure the proper access and we could not com- along Fly Creek are in motion, the preservation and sometime this year. plete the sediment analysis. We hope that when the RESTORE protection of the creek remains a priority for a handful “The Fly Creek watershed assessment is on the RESTORE money comes down, we can get the proper access to look at sedi- of environmentalists, attorneys and even U.S. Rep. project list,” Herder said. “As soon as the money comes down, we ment in the creek.” WBradley Byrne. will get moving on it.” Meanwhile, attorney Adam Milam has filed an amended Last week during debate on the U.S. House of Representatives The Fly Creek Watershed Management Plan will likely be complaint against the city of Fairhope, Fairhope City Council, floor, Byrne — a Fairhope resident — encouraged the U.S. Army combined with similar projects at Yancey Branch and Gum Creek Fairhope Planning Commission, property owner Angelo A. Corps of Engineers to prioritize local projects such as the dredg- for an estimated $250,000, according to Herder, who said other Corte and developer Leaf River Group LLC to stop the planned ing of Mobile and Baldwin waterways like Fly Creek, Dog River RESTORE funds will be used to fund an invasive-species study at construction of the Retreat at Fairhope Village apartment develop- and Fowl River. Byrne said the waterways play a critical role in Three Mile Creek, among other projects. ment near the creek. tourism, commercial and recreational fishing, and shipbuilding in Previously, Mobile Bay NEP secured money to work on seven In April, Milam filed a complaint alleging the Fairhope City coastal Alabama. watershed management plans with funding from the National Fish Council’s April 11 approval of a change to the Fly Creek PUD Byrne said Fly Creek needs to be dredged to repair damages it and Wildlife Foundation in accordance with the terms of two plea to allow the development will adversely affect and damage the suffered during historic flooding in Mobile and Baldwin coun- agreements in criminal cases against BP and Transocean follow- creek. Milam represents Friends of Fly Creek LLC, an Alabama ties in April 2014. Byrne said he has heard numerous complaints ing the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in 2010. limited liability corporation with the stated goal of protecting and about sediment levels in the creek. Fly Creek is one of the smaller watersheds studied by MBNEP preserving Fly Creek. Four Fairhope residents — Laura Ann and “I hear from people all the time who are experiencing issues at just 29 to 30 square miles. By comparison, the Dog River Wa- Chip Shaw and Riley and Mitsy Murphy — live downstream from related to the depths at Fly Creek,” Byrne said. “I understand that tershed is roughly 100 square miles. the development and make up the Friends of Fly Creek group. the Army Corps of Engineers has limited resources, so I continue Herder said the management plans are comprehensive and The amended complaint cites Fairhope’s Comprehensive Plan, working with them to make clear that this project needs to be a analyze the watershed’s climate, geology, soils, streamflow and as well as the city’s red soil and land disturbance ordinances, as top priority. We made the similar argument with Perdido Pass health, and topography. The plan will also provide an analysis of examples of city regulations that should render the apartment down at the beach and were able to get that project taken care of. problems in the watershed and a cost analysis for addressing those development’s construction illegal. The complaint also cites Hopefully, by keeping the pressure on the Army Corps, we can issues. Without going into great detail, Herder acknowledged the city’s 2013 Fly Creek Watershed Restoration Project and get the issues with Fly Creek resolved as well.” MBNEP is aware of reports of damage to Fly Creek related to Fairhope’s 2015 low-impact development ordinance as further According to Byrne, smaller projects like the dredging of Fly development throughout the years. reasons the apartments should not be built. Creek are often overlooked when listed among larger projects “Anything that we can study scientifically is in these plans,” The complaint seeks to have the court declare the city’s ordi- with a broader reach. However, waterways like Fly Creek are vital Herder said. “We expect to be able to document whatever is nance allowing the development’s construction to be rendered null to the coastal economy. wrong in Fly Creek and we expect to be able to make recommen- and void in order to protect Fly Creek. It also seeks unspecified “While they may not include a major waterway, these projects dations on how to fix those problems. These management plans compensatory damages for the plaintiffs from the city of Fairhope. are vital to many of our local communities and have a significant are incredibly comprehensive.” “All that has happened is we are building our case and [filed] economic impact from commercial and recreational fishing, as According to Herder, Mobile Bay NEP attempted to perform a an amended complaint alleging substantive causes of action,” well as tourism in general,” Byrne said. sediment analysis at Fly Creek a few years ago but was unable to Milam said. “We look forward to bringing to light the illegal and The Mobile Bay National Estuary Program anticipates federal secure necessary access on private property along the creek. wrongful nature of the process involved in the city approving this funding from the RESTORE Act to complete its proposed Fly “There were a few property owners along the creek who would amended PUD.” Creek Watershed Management Plan. Tom Herder from Mobile not let us onto their property,” Herder said. “Because of that, we Milam said there will be a hearing on the complaint June 9.

12 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BAYBRIEF | MOBILE Groups continue to spar over Midtown Publix BY DALE LIESCH/REPORTER | [email protected]

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A 3.23-ACRE PARCEL OWNED BY FRED AND KRIS HAYEK AT THE INTERSECTION OF GREENO ROAD AND COUNTY ROAD 104 IN FAIRHOPE HAS BEEN REZONED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.

fter multiple meetings and three revi- the plans can’t be moved because of utilities, sions to site plans, the developer of a and Dukes says she understands that. She said proposed shopping center and a Mid- the parking lot in front of that particular building town advocacy group are still far apart could be removed and possibly replaced with a Aon plans for the former Augusta Evans School wider sidewalk, or more green space. property. “Our goal is to make things as pedestrian- At issue now, just a day ahead of a Planning and bike-friendly as possible,” Dukes said. Commission public hearing on the development One way to make the development more that would be anchored by a Publix, is the place- pedestrian- and bike-friendly would be to move ment of the center’s outparcel buildings and the all of the proposed shops in the plan closer to amount of parking. Florida Street or Old Shell Road, with a shared Casey Pipes, an attorney for developer John parking lot behind them. The current plans call Argo and MAB American Management, said for separate parking lots, which Dukes said is a plans have already been changed to reflect suburban style that has become common over neighbors’ concerns. For instance, he said, an the past 50 years but is increasingly falling out outparcel some had compared to a strip mall of favor. has been broken up into three smaller buildings, Dukes said Midtown Mobile Movement’s which are in line with a village concept; another suggestions fall in line with Map for Mobile, outparcel has been made smaller; and another while the developer’s plan does not. She added outparcel has been moved farther south and the suggestions are similar to what other com- closer to Florida Street. Pipes said changes were also made to hide more of the parking lot from munities nationwide are seeing in terms of street view. These changes included shifting the development. orientation of one of the outparcels to face Old “We just want what’s best for Mobile and Shell Road and “break up the big parking lot Midtown,” she said. “Once it’s built it will take feel,” he said. 40 years to change it. As long as we can get The most recent plan submitted to the city’s the buildings in the right place we can get that planning department includes parallel on-street streetscape that’s attractive … ” parking as well. Jon Gray, a spokesman for the developer, “We left a lot more landscaped area along the said the plan already calls for hundreds of linear north end of the site,” Pipes said. feet of sidewalks of varying widths. Green space on the site was increased to 26 Dukes suggested moving the three outparcel percent from 22 percent in the original draw- village concept west to the other side of the ings. The city only requires 12 percent green development, along Florida Street and farther space for a retail development, Pipes said. away from residential areas. Ashley Dukes, president of the Midtown “If they moved up the buildings they would Mobile Movement, said MAB American be farther away from people’s backyards,” she Management has only made small changes and said. “We want to see them move up as many of has avoided the “essential, crucial changes” the buildings as possible.” neighbors have called for. Gray said while Map for Mobile is a great “We’ve heard a lot of talk from the devel- plan, there are currently no ordinances on the oper, but haven’t seen a whole lot of action,” books to back it up. she said. The Mobile Planning Commission will host a Dukes said the developer could do more to public hearing on the development at 2 p.m. on move outparcels closer to the street and away Thursday, June 2, in the multi-purpose room of from residential areas nearby. One outparcel in Government Plaza.

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 13 BAYBRIEF | FAIRHOPE North Greeno Road commerical rezoning granted BY ERIC MANN/REPORTER | [email protected]

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A 3.23 ACRE PARCEL OWNED BY FRED AND KRIS HAYEK AT THE CORNER OF GREENO ROAD AND COUNTY ROAD 104 IN FAIRHOPE WAS RECENTLY REZONED FOR COMMERCIAL USE.

he northern entrance to the city of growth. He said Fairhope is a desirable place Fairhope will soon be commercialized to live, and the city’s population has more than after the Fairhope City Council ap- doubled in the last 25 years, but this growth proved a request from a property owner has made the Hayek property an undesirable Tseeking to rezone 3.23 acres on North Greeno place for a residential zoning designation. Road to a Planned Unit Development (PUD) “Growth is not a bad thing, but it is not to allow for the development of 27,000 square without consequences,” Tooker wrote. “One feet of commercial space with four 35-foot- consequence has been the impact of that high buildings and 111 parking spaces on the growth on Greeno Road. Twenty-five years parcel. ago, when Fred Hayek purchased his home on The property, owned by Fred and Kris Greeno Road, the state was just beginning to Hayek, is located on the east side of Greeno make the road two lanes. Now the road is four Road just north of Volanta Park. The prop- lanes, with accelerate and decelerate lanes and erty is currently the site of a single-family turn lanes on either side.” residence built in the 1970s. At the council’s Tooker’s letter suggested the growth in previous meeting in May, one resident who traffic and widening of Greeno Road made lives in the nearby Colonial Acres neighbor- Hayek’s property unlivable. hood expressed concern that the rezoning “I was unable to determine the traffic would open the door to further commercializa- volume on the road in 1991, but you can be tion of the area, but no one spoke in opposition certain it was significantly lower than the cur- at the May 27 meeting. rent volume of more than 22,000 cars per day The proposal received a favorable recom- at the average maximum speed exceeding 50 mendation from the Fairhope Planning Com- miles per hour,” Tooker wrote. “The increased mission last November. In April, councilors traffic near his home has made it unsuitable pulled the request from a meeting agenda and for a residential zoning. Individuals like Mr. asked the applicants to agree to stipulations to Hayek have been trapped by the changes ensure the development would not invite fast- which they could scarcely have predicted and food-style restaurants or a gas station. over which they had no control.” In support, Mobile-area architect Louis The request was approved with a 3-0 Tooker sent a letter to the City Council which vote, with Burrell, Councilman Kevin Boone Council President Jack Burrell read aloud. and Councilwoman Diana Brewer in favor. In the letter, Tooker said he has worked with Councilors Rich Mueller and Mike Ford were Fairhope officials and the Hayek family to not present at the meeting, which had been come to an agreement about the property. rescheduled because the council did not have Tooker cited the county’s rapid growth and a quorum at the regularly scheduled date of said Fairhope has been a major driver of that May 23.

t must be tough being County Commissioner nie Hudson Senior Center. She rolled out an nie and Merceria both continue fighting that Merceria Ludgood these days. Right now the economic impact study conducted by a group losing battle, wasting more and more money practically mute commissioner has the entire that looks to have skin in the game should the on lawyers in a fight they aren’t going to win. weight of the decision whether or not to fund complex come to fruition and has been totally Who knows what Ludgood will ulti- Ithe “Connieville” soccer complex/natatorium uninterested in discussing fine details such as mately decide. I’m sure she’s been able to resting upon her shoulders. how we can be sure soccer tournaments will get anything she wants out of Hudson for a Maybe that’s a great position of power actually choose Mobile over the formidable while now, but the rubber is about to meet the for her, or maybe she’s had to block fellow competition, or detailing how usage will be road. The idea of a successful Connie Hudson commish Connie Hudson’s phone number. split between tournaments and local leagues. Soccer and Swimming Complex is no doubt We wouldn’t know because she almost never There’s also been an attempt to have $40 intoxicating. You can almost taste that sweet talks to the media. But now that Hudson finally million of BP funding dedicated for this com- soccer tournament money flowing in. revealed funding plans, Ludgood is left as the plex, something I believe would be a gross But then there’s the downside. deciding vote on the three-person board that distortion of what that money should go for. The marketability study suggests within will either give a thumbs up or a thumbs down The questions as to how the site was select- four years the county could be seeing $11 to this massive project July 5. ed and why some owners are getting roughly million in additional tax revenue annually if We already know Commission President $10,000 more per acre than others is another the complex is built. And politically the reality Jerry Carl will give it the Upside Down Fonzie. still sitting out there, but Hudson doesn’t want is as long as it at least covers that $1 million a He’s very publicly questioned the wisdom of to talk about that. Instead, this past week she year nut, the ramifications won’t cripple any spending an estimated $40 million total for the sauntered into the commission meeting and future plans for Congress, the mayor’s office project. Just the first phase will land at over delivered a plan to fund the first phase of the or queen of lower Alabama. $20 million, with plenty more to come. Carl project with a $20 million bond issue paid for But so many of the projects we’ve taken thinks there are cheaper options for providing by redirecting $1 million a year in lodging tax on over the past 20 years still struggle. Hank adequate soccer facilities around the county. revenues. Aaron Stadium suffers from chronic EBS Hudson has poured her political blood into That proposal was met with raspberries all (empty bleachers syndrome), the cruise ship this project and it has become a rather quix- around from county workers and the Mobile terminal has certainly seen rough seas and otic mission for her to see it materialize in the Area Lodging Association, whose spokesman we’re still waiting to see if GulfQuest’s first- swamps near the conjunction of interstates 10 said Hudson hadn’t even bothered to talk with year attendance figures match expectations. and 65. them directly about this plan. As the MALA These are all good-to-great projects worthy of Her unseemly efforts to have Carl replaced is already unhappy with the way lodging tax support, but marketing studies have a way of in this election cycle by political crony Margie dollars are being spent, it’s unlikely they’ll be being wrong sometimes, and being wrong on a Wilcox was the manifestation of a longshot on Connie’s bandwagon. $20 million or $40 million project would be a hope to be rid of the one person who consis- Then there’s the matter of District Attorney big strain on county funds. tently voiced opposition to her grand plan. Ashley Rich having repeatedly won suits Let’s just hope when Ludgood does finally Hudson burned a lot of political capital in that against the county that will mean millions speak, she’ll make a decision that’s well con- effort. But despite going as far as campaigning more per year to going to fund her office. Con- sidered and not politically expedient. door-to-door and standing on the side of the road waving at motorists to defeat someone she would likely have to work with another four years, it fell flat, leaving Hudson leaning on THEGADFLY Ludgood to make her field of dreams a reality. The soccer complex looms larger as Hudson flails harder and harder while painting herself into a corner on this deal. It seems like almost every decision from the county has the shadow of the complex fall across it. Hudson, who was thin-skinned even in her naïve, fresh-from-the- political-womb City Council days, has become a full-on momma bear when her soccer complex cub is even perceived to be threatened. I know we’re not the only members of the local media who either get a call or a note from Connie or county spokesperson Nancy Johnson any time the complex is focused upon. Johnson let me know that despite several offers to have Hudson come meet with our editorial board and explain her vision and answer questions we might have, Madame Commissioner would not be speaking to Lagniappe because we are “unfair” regarding her pet project. It’s Hudson’s prerogative whether or not to speak with the local newspaper about the most expensive project currently on the books, but it does take a certain amount of chutzpah to have her minions call and complain about stories when they absolutely can’t be bothered for weeks to answer simple questions, such as who actually owns the land the county is about to buy for 3 million smackeroos. Cartoon/Laura Rasmussen I will say at this point I’m not personally terribly supportive of this project, simply In lieu of a confirmation vote expressing confidence in his life’s because Connie has treated it like she’s asking for $25,000 for a statue of herself at the Con- work, Assistant Fire Chief Billy Pappas accepts a consolation prize.

s I sat out on the west end of Dauphin consumption of Puss N Boots before engaging Island last weekend, celebrating the in any intense licking sessions. Memorial Day holiday, a feeling of immense gratitude swept over me. Puppy love AGratitude for all who served, allowing me and Not to be outdone by cat lovers “grooming” countless others to live freely in the greatest their cats, there is something for “dog people” country in the world. And I still say that with as well. And it may be even freakier than mak- great sincerity even during this sometimes hor- ing out with Fluffy. rifying election year that makes me doubt it for There is a recently released documentary a second — but despite all of that craziness, it done by a British TV station detailing the lives still is. of those who like to engage in “pup play.” Gratitude for being able to spend time with “‘Secret Life of the Human Pups’ is a sym- family and great friends. pathetic look at the world of pup play, a move- Gratitude for living on the Gulf Coast, where ment that grew out of the BDSM (Bondage I can jump in my car and be near any number Dominance Sadism Masochism) community of bays or beaches in an hour or two, and that and has exploded in the last 15 years as the in- my kids get to grow up enjoying life on these ternet made it easier to reach out to likeminded beautiful waters. people,” according to an article in The Guardian For the five to six hours we were “at sea,” about the documentary. It goes on to say these pleas to play Minecraft or watch the Hobby people “have an interest in dressing in leather, Kids TV channel on YouTube (don’t ask, just wear dog-like hoods, enjoy tactile interactions know it’s horrible) by my son were replaced like stomach rubbing or ear tickling, play with with hours of hermit crab collecting with his toys, eat out of bowls and are often in a rela- buddy, while my daughter played in the sand tionship with their human ‘handlers.’” and splashed around in the water, occasionally There are so many things I want to know but adding another crabby to their collection. (Note: don’t want to know about this. What happens no hermit crabs were harmed in the making of when there is an accident in the house? Do they these memories; all were released.) prefer Frontline or Advantix for their flea treat- And gratitude I didn’t feel the need to check ments? Is spaying and neutering recommended my own Twitter and Facebook feeds for a few (I sure hope so!)? And most importantly, can a glorious hours. It brought me back to a much sago palm be deadly to them (the other “news simpler time, the time of my youth — before story” clogging up my feed these days)? internet (B.I.), when you didn’t have to read passive-aggressive “Vaguebook” posts about The GoatMan cometh what “some people” — assumingly horrible — If domesticated animal living is not for you, are doing or have done, or have your own post no worries, you still have options. Last week, hijacked by your great Aunt Edna who makes the Washington Post had a story on a man who embarrassing comments or read about the last chose to live as a goat for six days and grazed 900 things Donald Trump said or the latest on with a herd in the Swiss Alps. The “goatman,” Hillary’s emails, and, most gloriously, I was Thomas Thwaites, wanted to “take a vacation grateful for having a few hours free of learning from being human” and had special prosthetics just how many disturbed people there are out in made so he could “gallop” around on all fours the world, and/or the products created for them. with his fellow goats. Though he did eat grass, And there are tons of them. it was recommended he pressure-cook it before Here are just a few of the latest I’ve learned consuming it. (Sounds dee-lish. I’m sure his about thanks to the interwebs … (enter this new goat friends were super jel.) column at your own risk; you will not be able to When asked if he thought he had formed a unread this). connection to his herd, he responded, “I think I made friends with a particular goat. We seemed Oh meow! to follow each other around as we grazed. There For all of the cat lovers out there, there is was a moment, though, where I looked up and now a way you can really love your cat. I mean saw I was in the middle of the herd, and every- REALLY love your kitty. It seems there is a one else had stopped chewing and was staring Kickstarter campaign for a new product called at me. It was like I’d inadvertently committed Lickibrush. some sort of goat faux pas.” According to the product’s site lickibrush. Um, like dressing up as a fake goat and com, “Cats groom each other as a form of social pressure-cooking grass? Is that the faux pas you bonding. There’s also evidence to suggest that are referring to? Just speculating. cats view and treat their human captors as large I guess it’s hard to escape being ridiculed, no cats. As a human, you’re left out of the intimate matter what kind of animal you are … or even licking ritual. At best, you have a one-sided pretend to be. Life is hard. licking relationship with your cat. We have designed LICKI brush to bring you and your Wow. Just wow. cat closer. By using LICKI with your cat on a I try to remind myself these “interesting regular basis, you’ll develop a more intimate people” have always existed, the internet just and bonded relationship, much like a mama cat brings them to our attention. And hey, maybe bonds with her young.” I am being too hard on them. I might decide to Finally a way to make the “licking relation- “take a vacation from being human” myself and ship” a two-way street … with your cat! Yay! go back down to Dauphin Island this weekend No word yet on whether Human Hairball and live as a hermit crab. My lounge chair will Remedy is also in the works but one can only act as my prosthetic shell. I will eat crushed hope. I look forward to seeing how many up Pringles and soggy sandwiches fed to me eyeballs are scratched out during this “bonding by visiting children. And I will pinch the hell process” and if this is only a “gateway” for their out of anyone who doesn’t toss me a beer fast “human captors” to use their real tongues. Ei- enough. Yeah, I think these people are onto ther way, I would suggest limiting your feline’s something. Sign me up!

ver the weekend, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson In our modern politics, the Libertarian effort has been nothing Take the last two presidential runs of former Rep. Ron Paul was nominated to be the Libertarian Party’s presidential but an intellectual exercise. Petersen’s statement demonstrates that. (R-Texas). If Paul had been elected president, his first week nominee at the party’s convention in Orlando, Florida It’s great to be for letting your freak flag fly, but it seems to be in office would have been very ambitious. On Monday, he (because nothing says drug legalization and abolishing the devoid of acknowledgment that is just not how American society would have eliminated the Department of Energy. On Tuesday, OFederal Reserve like Mouse Ears and Space Mountain). functions. There is a lot of interdependence within the United the Federal Reserve would be no more. On Wednesday, all U.S. This election cycle, voters are likely to give the Libertarian States, and for better or worse, the libertarian philosophy of gov- troops in foreign territories would be withdrawn. Thursday, the Party a second look amid recent calls — on both the Republican ernance doesn’t necessarily allow for that. Department of Education would go. On Friday, since it was such and Democratic sides — for a third option. Indeed it is an under- For example, take the U.S. economy. Roughly 33 percent of a busy week, government funding for NPR would be eliminated statement to say there is some distaste for both the presumptive before calling it weekend. Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and the likely While many adored Paul for his Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. rigid, principles-based governing Recent polling shows Johnson faring better than any third- FOR NOW, THE LIBERTARIANS PROBABLY philosophy, in practice it would party effort at this stage in the game since Ross Perot’s 1992 have sent the country into immedi- run, amassing double-digit percentages in two national polls AREN’T THE ALTERNATIVE TO TRUMP AND HILL- ate turmoil. It took 240 years for where he is head-to-head-to-head against Clinton and Trump. the country to get to this point. U.S. Should Johnson want to make the debate stage, he’ll have to ARY MANY ARE SEEKING. MOSTLY THE PROBLEMS WITH society can’t immediately hit the do a little bit better and get up to 15 percent of the vote nationally. reset button to go back to a purely But that’s not completely out of reach for the Libertarians, given THOSE TWO HAVE MORE TO DO WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT Founding Fathers-ish system. the vulnerabilities of the two major-party presidential candidates. That is why the key for Libertar- So with this need for a third candidate, is the Libertarian Party THEIR CHARACTER, AS IN TRUMP’S TEMPERAMENT AND ian Party is to preach incremental- ready for prime time? HILLARY’S HONESTY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS. ism, but there’s just no indication Johnson makes the case that the Libertarian Party embodies the it is a party or movement that is best of the Republican and Democratic parties and is worthy of willing to take the slow, methodical consideration this November. approach in politics. “Well really, Libertarians kind of represent the best of both par- its gross domestic product, which is the value of all the finished For now, the Libertarians probably aren’t the alternative to ties, at least what the parties are supposed to be about,” Johnson said goods and services produced within the country, consists of Trump and Hillary many are seeking. Mostly the problems with in an interview after winning the nomination. “Are Republicans sup- government spending. Libertarians would argue that’s way too those two have more to do with questions about their character, as posed to be about small government? Aren’t Democrats supposed to much and would look to immediately knock that down as much in Trump’s temperament and Hillary’s honesty and trustworthiness. be about civil liberties — people being able to make choices in their as possible. The theory is that spending is better done by private Johnson doesn’t bring anything to the table that presents an in- own lives as long as those choices don’t affect others?” individuals than the government. demand alternative. A campaign that places marijuana legalization Johnson has some work to do to prove today’s Libertarian In practice, however, you likely need government to spend toward the top of its “to-do list” will not necessarily woo voters Party isn’t too far outside of the mainstream. For example, take money on roads and bridges, military, law enforcement, delivering who desire candidates with better personality traits than the GOP the remarks of Austin Petersen, a candidate for the Libertarian the mail, etc. You don’t just need to better the bottom line of the and Democratic options. Party nod, at the party convention’s presidential debate: GDP, you need all these things to make society function properly. The former New Mexico governor likely will get more atten- “I believe in a world where gay married couples can defend Libertarian presidential candidates have struggled to find the right tion than any other Libertarian Party nominee in recent history. their marijuana fields with submachine guns,” Petersen said. balance to win over a significant portion of the electorate. But the answer is, no, he is not the one you were waiting for.

20 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 COMMENTARYTHE GRIOT’S CORNER Alabama prisons and democratic values BY KEN ROBINSON/CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ne of the most insightful and illuminating treatises ever Jan. 20, 2015, edition of The Economist titled “Jailhouse Nation” that positively benefits society, thereby reducing the chance of written about the United States and its democracy was observes, “With less than 5 percent of the world’s population, repeat criminal actions by an offender. penned by the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. Con- the United States holds roughly a quarter of its prisoners: more Almost $1 billion is a lot to spend on prisons, especially sidered one of the brightest minds of the 19th century, than 2.3 million people, including 1.6 million in state and federal without including more than adequate funding for multifaceted OTocqueville’s “Democracy in America” is ranked as one of the top prisons and over 700,000 in local jails and immigration pens. Per programs and policies throughout the criminal justice system must-read books for those studying or seeking to understand the head, the incarceration rate in the land of the free has risen seven- to keep prisoners from returning to the system. Recidivism, the fundamentals of American political life, and the nature and role of fold since the 1970s, and is now five times Britain’s, nine times tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior equality and individualism within our democratic system. Germany’s and 14 times Japan’s. At any one time, one American — especially criminal behavior — has shown to be increased by Yet the young French sociologist and political theorist, who adult in 35 is in prison, on parole or on probation. A third of incarceration in very large penal institutions. Large prisons have was only in his mid-20s when he traveled to the U.S. in 1831, African-American men can expect to be locked up at some point, also been shown to facilitate increased gang activity. came ostensibly to cover not its political system, but the young and one in nine black children has a parent behind bars.” According to Charlotte Morrison, a senior attorney at the nation’s penal system. For around nine months he journeyed Grappling with severe overcapacity and dysfunction, Ala- Equal Justice Initiative, “The crisis with [Alabama] prisons has to throughout the nation visiting prisons from Michigan to Louisi- bama’s prison system has become the poster child for penal do with culture and management; it’s not something that can be ana. His travels even took him through Mobile. system mismanagement. As Tocqueville noted almost 200 years solved by just building new prisons.” The infrastructure problems “On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Ap- ago, such a situation can have dire consequences for broader civil in Alabama prisons are very real, but the more critical and vital plication to France” was quickly published by Tocqueville and society. The simple adage of “locking up and throwing away the issues facing the Alabama corrections system are not going to be his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont, after returning to key” for every offender is rife with all type of ill and unintended met by just building mega prisons. France. The young French aristocrat had become concerned about consequences. Since 1977, changes in Alabama’s criminal statutes have this subject because during his time as an apprentice magistrate in Most likely desiring some type of “legislative win” that could caused the state’s prison inmate population to increase more than the Versailles Court, he saw the woeful and destructive effects of blunt the mounting focus and negative scrutiny he’s been receiv- 840 percent. As the population has skyrocketed, so has the cost. In an ill-conceived and managed penal system on broader society. ing for his very public moral transgressions, Gov. Robert Bentley being “tough on crime” we’ve been tough on ourselves, particu- Tocqueville observed how France’s penitentiary system basi- was zealous to get the $800 billion prison consolidation and con- larly fiscally, and the impact on communities socially through cally reinforced and perpetuated criminality, and the prisons struction bill through the Legislature. It died in the final minutes such a policy has been tough as well. ended up being nothing more than “crime schools.” It was a of the legislative session. A report issued by The Pew Charitable Trusts shows that for all system marked by dysfunction and managerial laxness. The main thrust of the bill is the building of four “mega-pris- our “toughness,” Alabama’s crime rate only dropped 19 percent Tocqueville believed the health, vitality and continuity of a ons,” which would address the overcrowding issue, but as we’ve between 1994 and 2012, topping only six other states. Our ap- civil society, to a large degree, is impacted by the state of its penal been able to see, the goal of prison is, or should be, not just the proach may have been tough, but it hasn’t proven very smart. system. A bad one can have bad effects for civil society. America’s housing of offenders, but the rehabilitation of them as well. Prison There’s a good chance the governor may call a special session system, he felt, had much insight to offer his European homeland. is, and should be, designed as punishment for crimes against to address the failure of the passage of the prison bill, among Flash forward 185 years. If Tocqueville were able to survey society, but also should be an instrument to help change negative other things. If so, let’s hope that if consensus is reached on this America’s penal system today, I don’t think he would have the behavior. issue, it’s on a wise and smart plan, not just an expedient one, or same assessment. Prison should be more than a warehouse; it should also be a one that scores political points. If not, as the past and history has Most today are aware of the woeful statistics. An article in the tool to help facilitate integration back into civil society in a way shown, it’s not just criminals who will pay a price, but all of us.

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 21 COMMENTARYTHE MONTGOMERY MINUTE The broken record of a busted speaker BY LEE HEDGEPETH/CONTRIBUTING WRITER

peaker of the House Mike Hubbard’s trial is well un- He couldn’t have been more right, in all the worst ways. was autographed by Hubbard on the first page. “This copy of derway. Hubbard, who gained his position in 2010, now Hubbard had argued continuously throughout the campaign ‘Storming the State House’ has been signed by the author,” the faces 23 felony counts of ethics violations, conviction that returning ethics to Montgomery was a top priority for the page read. Then, at the bottom in fine blue ink “M. Hubbard.” on any one of which could land the Auburn Republican Republicans. Odd, I thought, that someone would dump off a copy like this, Sbehind bars for two to 20 years. “We can pass tough ethics reform measures that will finally although even then Hubbard’s indictment was making waves in Hubbard’s legal battle began in October 2014 when he was in- put a stop to the embarrassing headlines and prevent public Montgomery. In any case, I shrugged it off, but bought the book dicted, and since then his image has gone from that of an electoral corruption before it occurs,” Hubbard told al.com before the for about $15. hero for the GOP — for whom he helped gain a majority in the election. Months later, I was in the same bookstore. Perusing the State House for the first time in over a century — to that of a po- Just after Hubbard and his new colleagues took their places in shelves, I found another copy of Hubbard’s book, and another, litical pariah: one who brings more stink than stature to the office. the new GOP majority, they held a special session to pass what both with the same first page, both with “M. Hubbard,” signed, Before Hubbard was in a position some consider the high- Hubbard again and again called “the toughest ethics laws in the only a little differently, in blue ink at the bottom. I thought est in Alabama politics, he was just a minority member of the nation,” making good on his campaign promise — until now. they may have been signed by staffers, or an autopen. Surely, Legislature’s lower chamber. First elected in 1998, Hubbard Today, more than half a decade later, the GOP’s now su- I thought, people weren’t throwing away signed copies of the originally came to hold significant power not in the State House, permajority in the Legislature hasn’t stemmed the flow of what speaker’s book. I flipped past the first page to see if the books but in the Republican Party itself, when he became chairman of Hubbard called “embarrassing headlines … and public corrup- even looked like they’d been opened more than once. the Alabama GOP. tion.” Instead, the headlines are more frequent and the public What I saw stunned me. In this position, Hubbard became a kingmaker, hand-picking corruption more apparent. Hubbard himself is the embarrassing, People aren’t just giving away copies of Hubbard’s book — friends, acquaintances and business associates to help in his plan now national, headline. and signature — for $10 and $15. They are giving away actual, to take advantage of the steady decline of Democrats in the state That fact — that Alabama’s fate in the national spotlight now handwritten messages from the then-newly elected speaker. by aggressively campaigning to institute a legislative majority in hinges on the unethical conduct of its political leadership — Both books, one of which sits in front of me, had special inscrip- Montgomery for the GOP — a strategy he called “Storming the seems to make Mike Hubbard’s future important to all Alabam- tions written by the speaker in the same fine blue ink. State House.” That effort, long-planned and swiftly executed, ians. Speaker Hubbard’s trial in the court of public opinion “For a great Alabama attorney,” this copy of Hubbard’s mani- was a huge success. reflects Alabama’s own self-evaluation: can we as a state hold festo has scribbled on its second page, mentioning the lawyer by After orchestrating a statewide campaign on issues such as our own accountable? name. “I hope you enjoy this story of an Alabama political plan bringing ethical leadership back to Goat Hill, Hubbard and his In my view, some already are. that worked. Keep the faith. Mike.” party successfully ousted the Democratic majority on Election Whether or not Hubbard is guilty of 23 felonies isn’t my call; That Alabama lawyer, it seems, may have enjoyed the begin- Day 2010. it’s the call of a jury in Lee County. Whether or not he’s an ethi- ning of the story — the beginning outlined in “Storming the Hubbard wrote about that day in his book on the 2010 elec- cal leader, though, is my call — and the call of all Alabamians. State House.” The ending, though — the one currently being toral takeover, “Storming the State House: The Campaign that And I think they’re making the right decision. written in a Lee County courthouse, the one with Mike Hubbard, Liberated Alabama from 136 Years of Democrat Rule.” Over a year ago, I was browsing in a popular used book- defendant, as its main character — is one the “great Alabama “It was a day that would fundamentally change the direction store when I happened upon a copy of Hubbard’s book on a attorney” doesn’t want a part of. That ending is just another sign of Alabama, and of my own life, forever,” he wrote. local history shelf. To my surprise, when I opened the book, it of the broken record of a busted speaker.

22 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 23 BUSINESSTHE REAL DEAL Open source workspaces rapidly on the rise in Mobile BY RON SIVAK/COLUMNIST | [email protected] ccording to Todd Greer, managing partner at Exchange Good Donuts is holding a grand opening June 2 for its new, Commercial real estate moves 202, arguably Mobile’s first bona fide coworking space, A new Birmingham-based Taziki’s Mediterranean Café is 1,000-square-foot site situated at 3170 Dauphin St. in the same there is a palpable buzz in the local business commu- opening its first location in South Alabama this month at 1539 shopping center as Greer’s Cash Saver. Located almost directly nity about this big-city co-op model. Mobile is in good U.S. Highway 98, Suite 201, in Daphne. The new site will mark behind Taco Bell, the popular confectionery will include a drive- company;A from 2010 to 2015, there’s been an estimated fivefold through. This is the second location opened by Texas native Sam the 14th Taziki’s franchise overall in Alabama. The floor plan is increase in the rise of coworking office spaces worldwide. Heng, who also owns the Lickin Good in Saraland, where he “We’ve seen insurance costs continue to skyrocket and more 3,095 square feet and will employ upwards of 50 local workers when fully staffed. The restaurant will also include outdoor patio resides with his family. contract labor used instead of full-time employees. Most recent estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics have indicated that seating. Local franchise owner Mark Hemby has expressed plans by 2020 at least 40 percent of the total U.S. workforce is going to to add at least two more Taziki eateries in the Mobile and Bald- The Peninsula of Mobile earns recognition Debi Foster, director of The Peninsula of Mobile, was recently be contingent workers not tethered to specific company,” Greer win county region within the next several years. said. “In that same time frame, about 50 percent of the workforce Paul Milazzo, State Farm insurance agent, has leased 1,250 presented with the 2016 “Group of the Year” award during the will be [made up] of Millennials who want a collaborative work square feet of office space at 440 Azalea Road in Mobile and is 18th annual Alabama Water Rally section of the National River environment.” expected to open in early July. Stirling Properties’ Angela McAr- Rally conference held downtown. She was joined at the event by Coworking has become so popular locally, in fact, there are thur worked for the property owner and Ann White-Spunner with board co-chairman Kathy Sanders and advisory board member an estimated five such spots dotting the Port City landscape less The McAleer-Tunstall Co. represented the tenant. Aven Warner. than a year after the Exchange threw open its doors last October. Physicians Health Solutions, a medical weight loss clinic, has “We are shocked and honored to receive this award from Greer feels the local market can sustain such rapid growth as long leased a 1,450-square-foot medical office at 6420 Hillcrest Park such a respected organization as the Alabama Rivers Alliance,” as each venue maintains a strong focus on its particular niche, Court, Suite A, in Mobile and is expected to open Aug. 1. McAr- Foster said. “We look at ourselves as an economic redevelopment otherwise oversaturation could occur. thur represented both the tenant and property owner. response for surrounding areas still suffering from the lingering One of these new spaces, slated for a mid-July kickoff on the The Alabama Department of Public Health recently leased a aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster,” ground floor of the Marine Street Lofts apartments, will be the 3,000-square-foot office space in Mobile at 3103 Airport Blvd. Located south of Interstate 10 in the southernmost part of Container Yard. Founded in partnership with Stacy Wellborn, and is now open. Stirling Properties leasing executive Jason Scott Mobile, The Peninsula is the section of Dauphin Island Parkway/ Johnny Gwin and local property developer Taylor Atchison, represented the property owner. State 163 bounded by Dog River on the south and west, to the this co-op site will be aimed at individuals just starting out as John Delchamps, associate broker with the Merrill P. Thomas east by Mobile Bay and a northernmost demarcation line defined entrepreneurs, as opposed to more established freelanceers or Co., represented the acquisition of two acres of commercial by The Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley, home of the North Ameri- businesses setting up shop downtown. property for $231,000 that will be located off Lakeside Drive for can headquarters for Airbus. “At Marine Street Lofts we were looking at ways to empower The 5-mile-long community of nearly 13,000 residents is our tenants by giving them choices. People today look at many a new company operational expansion. Robert Cook with Vallas crisscrossed by creeks and bayous, combined with estuaries and factors when contemplating a move into a new residence and Realty worked for the seller. marshes protecting Dog River, its tributaries and Mobile Bay. The want multiple options,” Atchison said. “Coworking gives our Mobile Bookseller, a 1,100-square-foot used book retailer habitat provides critical breeding grounds for a diverse population tenants a way to develop their own business ideas and/or even get located inside the Skyland Shopping Center at 3990 Govern- out of them if they realize the venture isn’t working out the way ment St., is under new ownership. LaGrange, Georgia-based of local wildlife. they’d hoped,” Melanie and Tom Durham recently purchased the 40-year-old Established in 2013, The Peninsula of Mobile was created with Listen to the inaugural Real Deal Podcast accompanying this West Mobile business and have invested more than $1,000 in the mission of working toward developing a cleaner environment story online for more insight into the facts behind the hype about cosmetic renovations. by educating the local community about sustaining the region’s coworking growth in the area. As reported last week by Lagniappe’s food critic, Lickin unique and varied biospheres.

Photos | wikimedia.org / flickr.com cannot for the life of me remember a time without bacon. We didn’t make much of a fuss about it, we just fried it up for breakfast. I’d have an occasional BLT when the Pork belly is simply uncooked, uncured bacon. Finding a slab and marinating it for tacos may prove to tomatoes came in. It was even a thing to crumble on a be a chore, but the results are well worth the effort. salad when you didn’t trust those odd bacon bits that came in a jar. You could certainly slice it raw and use it for thick-cut, ITruth is I trusted those weird things but never saw them uncured bacon. These slices work well on the grill and can THE MARINADE as a bacon substitute. I fancied them as more a handful of add a nice touch to a camping trip’s skillet on the open fire. 2 cups apple juice salt for a late-night snack. Certainly you’ve heard the Italians speak of pancetta. Some 2 cups root beer At some point pop culture changed to make a big deal prefer it braised with veggies while others love the crispy fried 2 tablespoons soy sauce out of bacon. Yes, just plain bacon. I get it. It’s great. But crackling. 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce for crying out loud, there is no need to berate vegetarians It is often difficult to find the big slab of pork belly in our lo- 1 cup brown sugar for abstinence, nor is there any reason to create social cal grocery stores, including the ones with fancier clientele, but 1/2 cup molasses media memes telling the world how much you love bacon. no one takes pork belly as seriously as Asians. Go ahead and 1 tablespoon ground ginger “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy bacon, which Google some recipes. You’ll find plenty of Chinese and Korean Salt and pepper is pretty much the same thing.” How many of those gems ideas. Therefore, in Mobile, when you can’t find pork belly on have you seen? your routine stops to our impressive list of giant chain stores, The most important part of this process is scoring the top of It got so popular to declare your allegiance to bacon — you must make your way to an Asian market. the pork belly. With a sharp blade, make a crisscross pattern in in a scary world of Lipitor and blood thinners, health be That’s where we picked up this beauty. Glazed with root the fatty top, taking care to not slice the meat. Reserve about damned — that the tragically hip (and oft ironically skinny) 3/4 cup of the marinade for the glaze, but choose a dish in got the memo that the rest of the carnivorous free world had which the pork belly will be well covered. Marinate for 6 hours always maintained a love affair with the salt-cured, cold- to overnight. smoked underside of the pig. Something had to change. YES, PORK BELLY BECAME THE Cook the pork belly in a baking dish at 375 degrees for three Bacon needed a repackaging. “Let us not profess our love for hours, covered tightly in aluminum foil with enough marinade the common bacon. Let us sing the praises of pork belly.” SUPERCOOL REPLACEMENT to cover the bottom half-inch of the meat. Check regularly to Yes, pork belly became the supercool replacement for make sure the liquid has not evaporated, adding small doses of bacon among the culinary elite. Want to turn a $3 pack of ba- FOR BACON AMONG THE CULINARY ELITE. warm water if needed. Remove from the oven and drain off any con into a real moneymaker? Change the name to pork belly. WANT TO TURN A $3 PACK OF BACON liquid; if you’d like you could use it to supplement the glaze. Yes, bacon comes from the same ticklish spot on ol’ Wilbur. For the glaze, heat the remaining marinade in a small Bacon is pork belly. So what’s the difference? INTO A REAL MONEYMAKER? CHANGE saucepan and bring to a simmer. In a small, bowl whisk in 2 Technically you could call bacon pork belly but, for clari- fication, there is generally a difference in preparation. Bacon THE NAME TO PORK BELLY. tablespoon of cornstarch into a quarter cup of water. Pour into refers to pork belly that has been cured and sliced, harken- the saucepan with mixture and stir constantly as you bring ing back to the days before modern refrigeration, when our up the heat. Try not to let it boil, but the higher the temp the quicker it will thicken. meats needed preservation and our oysters were only eaten beer, ginger and molasses, this recipe for tacos is bad to the Raise the oven temperature to 450 degrees. Glaze the pork raw in months that contain the letter “R.” boneless, making me proud to be a member (maybe not a card- and return to the oven fat side up as the root beer does its magic. When we say pork belly today we think of an unmolested carrying member) of the aforementioned hip food scene. Until We enjoyed this pork belly sliced on tacos with a mango piece of meat, straight from the pig to our preferred method recent years this two-word sub for bacon was only familiar to habanero slaw we purchased at the same Asian market, and I of cooking. Usually it comes as an entire slab that will be me as a futures and commodities trading term when Mortimer sliced after cooking. The telltale layer of fat lets you know and Randolph tried to dupe Winthorpe and Billy Ray Valen- will say I was not disappointed. On this day our pork belly did this is nothing like a tenderloin, but it will be worth the extra tine in “Trading Places.” Good to know my vocabulary (and much more than our usual bacon could do. statins and calories by the time all is said and done. perhaps tastes) are growing. But it’s all still bacon to me.

26 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 27 GULF COAST EXPLOREUM CAFE ($) SATORI COFFEEHOUSE ($) 9 Du Rhu Dr. S. • 341-3370 1248 Hillcrest St • 634-9820 Homemade soups & sandwiches Coffee, smoothies, lunch & beers. MAGHEE’S GRILL ON THE HILL ($-$$) 65 Government St • 208-6815 5460 Old Shell Rd. • 344-4575 Great lunch & dinner. FAR EASTERN FARE GUMBO SHACK($-$$) SERDA’S COFFEEHOUSE ($) 3607 Old Shell Rd. • 445-8700 BAMBOO BISTRO ($$) NOBLE SOUTH ($$) Asian Cuisine. Seafood and sandwiches Coffee, lunches, live music & gelato. 3662 Airport Blvd. • 378-5466 212 ½ Fairhope Ave • 928-4100 3 Royal St. S. • 415-3000 Local ingredients THE HOUSE ($-$$) STEVIE’S KITCHEN ($) 203 Dauphin St. • 690-6824 BAMBOO FUSION ($$) NOJA ($$-$$$) Asian Cuisine. Seafood, sandwiches, salads & soups. Sandwiches, soups, salads & more. 2400 Airport Blvd. • 307-5535 4513 Old Shell Rd. • 408-9622 41 West I-65 Service Rd. N Suite 150. Inventive & very fresh cuisine. $ UNDER THE HUNGRY OWL ($) THE SUNFLOWER CAFE ($) 6 N. Jackson St. • 433-0377 BAMBOO STEAKHOUSE ($$) $10/PERSON OSMAN’S RESTAURANT ($$) Sushi Bar. Burgers, flatbread pizza & seafood. Inside Virginia’s Health Food 650 Cody Rd. S • 300-8383 $$ 10-25/PERSON 7899 Cottage Hill Rd. • 340-2522 3055 A Dauphin St • 479-3200 Supreme European cuisine. $$$ OVER 25/PERSON JAMAICAN VIBE ($) TIN ROOF ($-$$) 2579 Halls Mill Rd. • 479-0006 BANGKOK THAI ($-$$) ROYAL SCAM ($$) Delicious, traditional Thai cuisine. Mind-blowing island food. Southern casual family dining 3821 Airport Blvd. • 344-9995 3700 Gov’t Blvd. Ste A • 602-1973 10800 US hwy 31 • 621-4995 Gumbo, Angus beef & bar. JERSEY MIKE’S ($) TP CROCKMIERS ($) 72. S. Royal St. • 432-SCAM (7226) BANZAI JAPANESE RESTAURANT ($$) RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE ($$$) Traditional sushi & lunch. COMPLETELY Authentic sub sandwiches American Restaurant & Bar 312 Schillinger Rd. • 633-9077 7449 Airport Blvd • 375-1820 250 Dauphin St. • 476-1890 Exceptional service & taste. COMFORTABLE JIMMY JOHN’S ($) THREE GEORGES CANDY SHOP ($) 271 Glenwood St. • 476-0516 BENJAS ($) ALL SPORTS BAR & GRILL ($) SAGE RESTAURANT ($$) Thai & Sushi Sandwiches, catering & delivery too. Light lunch with Southern flair. 5369 D Hwy 90 W • 661-5100 Classic hotdogs, gyros & milkshakes. 6920 Airport Blvd. • 414-5444, 9 Du Rhu Dr. • 226 Dauphin St. • 433-6725 Inside the Mobile Marriott. 3408 Pleasant Valley Rd • 345-9338 340-8694, 62 B Royal Street • 432-0360 TROPICAL SMOOTHIE ($) 3101 Airport Blvd. • 476-6400 CHARM ($-$$) AL’S HOTDOGS ($) JOE CAIN CAFÉ ($) SAISHO ($-$$) Thai kitchen and sushi bar Great smoothies, wraps & sandwiches. 960 Schillinger Rd. S • 660-4470 Classic hotdogs, gyros & milkshakes. Pizzas, sandwiches, cocktails. Du Rhu Dr. • 378-5648 570 Schillinger Road • Modern gastropub inspired by Japanese kitchen 4701 Airport Blvd. • 342-3243 26 N. Royal St. • 338-2000 634-3454 455 Dauphin St • 433-0376 CUISINE OF INDIA ($$) ATLANTA BREAD COMPANY ($-$$) JUDY’S PLACE ($-$$) UNCLE JIMMY’S DELICIOUS HOTDOGS ($) UNION ($$$) Lunch Buffet 3674 Airport Blvd. • 341-6171 Sandwiches, salads & more. Home cooking. Hotdogs. Premium steaks & burgers. 3680 Dauphin St. • 380-0444 4054 Government St. • 665-4557 2550 Dauphin Island Pkwy S. • 307-5328 659 Dauphin St. • 432-0300 GOLDEN BOWL ($) BAKE MY DAY ($) LODA BIER GARTEN ($) WAREHOUSE BAKERY & DONUTS ($) VON’S BISTRO ($-$$) Hibachi Grill & Asian Cuisine. 309 Bel Air Blvd • 470-8033 Old-fashioned southern bake shop Pub food and draft beers Coffee and donuts Seafood, Asian and American Cuisine 156 N. McGregor Ave • 219-7261 251 Dauphin St • 287-6871 759 Nichols Avenue, Fairhope • 928-7223 69 St. Michael St • 375-1113 HIBACHI 1 ($-$$) THE BLIND MULE ($) MAMA’S ($) WILD WING STATION ($) TAMARA’S DOWNTOWN ($$) Asian Cuisine. 2370 Hillcrest Rd. Unit B • 380-6062 Daily specials made from scratch. Slap your mama good home cooking. Wings. Casual fine dining. 57 N. Claiborne St. • 694-6853. 220 Dauphin St. • 432-6262 1500 Gov’t St. • 287-1526 104 N. Section St., Fairhope • 929-2219 KAI JAPANESE RESTAURANT ($-$$) BOB’S DINER ($) MARS HILL CAFE ($) YAK THE KATHMANDU KITCHEN THE TRELLIS ROOM ($$$) Asian Cuisine. 5045 Cottage Hill Rd. • 607-6454 Good old American cooking Great sandwiches, coffee & more. ($-$$) Contemporary Southern Cuisine 263 St. Francis St • 405-1497 1087 Downtowner Blvd. • 643-1611 Authentic foods from Himalayan region. Battle House Hotel, Royal St. • 338-5493 LIQUID ($$) CAFE 219 ($) MARY’S SOUTHERN COOKING ($) 3210 Dauphin St. • 287-0115 ZEA’S ($$) Amazing sushi & assortment of rolls. 661 Dauphin St. • 432-0109 Salads, sandwiches & potato salad. Southern Cooking. 400 Eastern Shore Center • 459-2862 Gourmet rotisserie. Prime rib & seafood. 219 Conti St. • 438-5234 3011 Springhill Ave. • 476-2232 4671 Airport Blvd. • 344-7414 RICE ASIAN GRILL & SUSHI BAR ($) CAMELLIA CAFÉ ($-$$$) MICHELI’S CAFE ($) Sushi Bar. 3964 Gov’t Blvd. • 378-8083 Contemporary southern fare. Café. 61 Section St., Fairhope • 928-4321 6358 Cottage Hill Rd. • 725-6917 ‘CUE A LITTLE VINO ROCK N ROLL SUSHI ($$) CAMMIE’S OLD DUTCH ($) MCSHARRY’S ($-$$) BACKYARD CAFE & BBQ ($) DOMKE MARKET Sushi Mobile’s classic ice cream spot. Home cookin’ like momma made. 273 S. McGregor Ave • 287-0555, Authentic Irish Pub 2804 Springhill Ave. • 473-4739 Wine, Beer, Gourmet foods, & more. 2511 Old Shell Rd. • 471-1710 101 N. Bancroft St • 990-5100 720 Schillinger Rd. S. Unit 8 • 287-1851 6345 Airport Blvd. • 287-0555, CARPE DIEM ($) MIKO’S ITALIAN ICE ($) BAR-B-QUING WITH MY HONEY ($$) FATHOMS LOUNGE 940 Industrial Pkwy • 308-2158 Deli foods, pastries & specialty drinks. BBQ, burgers, wings & seafood TASTE OF THAI ($$) Hotdogs Sandwiches & Cool Treats 19170 Hwy 43 Mt. Vernon. • 839-9927 A tapas restaurant, cocktails & live music. 4072 Old Shell Rd. • 304-0448 3371 Dauphin Island Pkwy • 300–4015 64 S. Water St. • 438-4000 Thai Cuisine. CHAT-A-WAY CAFE ($) MOMMA GOLDBERG’S DELI ($) BRICK PIT ($) 9091 US-90 Irvington • 957-1414 A favorite barbecue spot. POUR BABY TOKYO JAPANESE STEAK HOUSE ($$) Quiches & sandwiches. Sandwiches & Momma’s Love. Wine bar, craft beers & bistro 4366 Old Shell Rd. • 343-9889 3696 Airport Blvd. • 344-9500 5602 Old Shell 5456 Old Shell Rd. • 343-0001 Upscale sushi & hibachi. COTTON STATE BBQ ($) 6808 Airport Blvd. • 343-3555 364 Azalea Rd. • 343-6622 CHICKEN SALAD CHICK ($) Rd. • 287-6556 FIREHOUSE WINE BAR & SHOP Chicken Salad, Salad & Soup. MONTEGO’S ($-$$) Downtown Lunch WASABI SUSHI ($$) 101 N. Conception St. • 545-4682 Wine Shop. 2370 S. Hillcrest Rd. Unit R • 660-0501, Fresh Caribbean-style food & craft beer. Japanese cuisine. 5753 Old Shell Road • 408-3236, 6601 Airport Blvd. • 634-3445 225 Dauphin DICKEY’S BARBECUE PIT ($-$$) 216 St Francis St. • 421-2022 3654 Airport Blvd. S. C • 725-6078 1802 US Hwy 98 Suite F• 625-1092 Street • 375-1576 BBQ and more. RED OR WHITE PHO YEN ($) CHI-TOWN DAWGZ ($) MOSTLY MUFFINS ($) Jubilee Sq.Ctr. Hwy 90, Daphne • 210-2151 Wine Shop. Authentic Vietnamese cuisine. Chicago Style Eatery McGowin Park Ctr. Satchel Paige Dr. • 471-1050 323A De La Mare Ave, Fairhope • 990-0003 763 Holcombe Ave. • 478-5814 Muffins, coffee & wraps. 7721 Airport Blvd e100• 380-8957 1222 Hillcrest Rd. • 461-6599 105 Dauphin St. • 433-9855 1104 Dauphin St.. • 478-9494 DAUPHIN ST. CAFE ($) NEWK’S EXPRESS CAFE ($) DREAMLAND BBQ ($) ROYAL STREET TAVERN Hot Lunch, daily menu (Inside Via) Ribs, sandwiches & great sides. FROM THE DEPTHS Oven-baked sandwiches & more. 3314 Old Shell Rd. • 479-9898 Live music, martinis & dinner menu. 1717 Dauphin St. • 470-5231 252 Azalea Rd. • 341-3533, 1335 Satchel Page 26 N. Royal St. • 338-2000 BAUDEAN’S ($$) CREAM & SUGAR ($) Dr. Suite C. • 287-7356, 7440 Airport Blvd. • 633- MOE’S ORIGINAL BAR B QUE ($) Fried, grilled, steamed & always fresh. SOUTHERN NAPA 3300 River Rd. • 973-9070 Breakfast, lunch & Ice cream too. 0096, 30500 State Hwy 181 #132 • 625-6544 Barbeque & music. 351 George St. #B • 405-0003 Bayfront Park Dr., Daphne • 625-RIBS Bistro plates, craft beers and pantry. THE BLUEGILL ($-$$) PANINI PETE’S ($) 2304 Main St. • 375-2800 701 Springhill Ave. • 410-7427 A historic seafood dive w/ live music. 3775 D’ MICHAEL’S ($) Original sandwich and bake shop. 4672 Airport Blvd. • 300-8516 Philly cheese steaks, gyros & more. 42 ½ Section St., Fairhope • 929-0122 Hwy. 98 • 625-1998 7101-A Theodore Dawes Rd. • 653-2979 102 Dauphin St. • 405-0031 SAUCY Q BARBQUE ($) BONEFISH GRILL ($$) DELISH BAKERY AND EATERY ($) PAT’S DOWNTOWN GRILL ($) Award-winning BarBQue. FALAFEL? Eclectic dining & space. 1111 Gov’t Blvd. • 433-7427 6955 Airport Blvd. • 633-7196 Great desserts & hot lunch. Bar food SMOKEY DEMBO SMOKE HOUSE ($) TRY SOME HUMMUS 23 Upham St. • 473-6115 271 Dauphin St • 438-9585 7 SPICE ($-$$) BOUDREAUX’S CAJUN GRILL ($-$$) Smoke House DEW DROP INN ($) PDQ ($) Healthy, delicious Mediterranean food. Quality Cajun & New Orleans Cuisine. 3758 Dauphin Island Pkwy. • 473-1401 29249 US Highway 98 Daphne. • 621-1991 Classic burgers, hotdogs & setting. Chicken fingers, salad & sandwiches. 3762 Airport Blvd. • 725-1177 1808 Old Shell Rd. • 473-7872. 1165 University Blvd. • 202-0959 TILMO’S BBQ ($) CRAVIN CAJUN/DIP SEAFOOD($) Fast BBQ w/ Drive-Thru ABBA’S MEDITERRANEAN DUNKIN DONUTS ($) PITA PIT ($) CAFE ($-$$) Po-boys, salads & seafood. Donuts, coffee and sandwiches Pitas. 3249 Dauphin St. • 652-3508 1870 Dauphin Island Pkwy • 287-1168 1976 Michigan Ave • 442-4846, 211 Dauphin St. • 690-7482 BAY GOURMET ($$) Beef, lamb & seafood. ED’S SEAFOOD SHED ($$) 4356 Old Shell Rd. • 340-6464 3876 Airport Blvd • 219-7369, POLLMAN’S BAKERY ($) A premier caterer & cooking classes. Fried seafood served in hefty portions. 505 Schillinger Rd. S. • 442-4845, Bakery, sandwiches and more 1880-A Airport Blvd. • 450-9051 ISTANBUL GRILL ($) 3382 Hwy. 98 • 625-1947 29160 US Hwy 98 • 621-2228 750 S. Broad St • 438-1511, BRIQUETTES STEAKHOUSE ($-$$) Authentic Turkish & Mediterranean FELIX’S FISH CAMP ($$) E WING HOUSE ($) 4464 Old Shell Road • 342-8546, Grilled steaks, chicken & seafood. 3702 Airport Blvd. • 461-6901 Upscale dining with a view. Wings. 107 St. Francis St. Suite 102 • 438-2261 720A Schillinger Rd. S. S2. • 607-7200, 901 JERUSALEM CAFE ($-$$) 1420 Hwy. 98 • 626-6710 195 S University Suite H • 662-1829. QUEEN G’S CAFÉ ($) Montlimar Dr • 408-3133 Mobile’s oldest Middle Eastern cuisine. FISHERMAN’S LEGACY ($) FIREHOUSE SUBS ($) Down home cooking for lunch. CAFÉ 615 ($$-$$$) 5773 Airport Blvd. • 304-1155 Deli, market and catering. Hot subs, cold salads & catering. 2518 Old Shell Rd. • 471-3361 American fare with local ingredients. KAN ZAMAN ($-$$) 4380 Halls Mill Rd. • 665-2266 6300 Grelot Rd. • 631-3730 REGINA’S KITCHEN ($-$$) 615 Dauphin St. • 432-8434 Mediterranean food and hookah THE GRAND MARINER ($-$$) FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES ($) Sandwiches, subs and soups. CORNER 251 ($-$$) 326 Azalea Rd • 229-4206 Local seafood & produce. Burgers, milkshakes & fries 2056 Gov’t St. • 476-2777 High quality food and drinks 6036 Rock Point Rd. • 443-5700 4401 Old Shell Rd. • 447-2394, 4363 Airport ROLY POLY ($) 251 Government St • 460-3157 MEDITERRANEAN THE HARBOR ROOM ($-$$) Blvd. • 661-0071, 5319 Hwy 90 • 660-0071, SANDWICH COMPANY ($) Wraps & salads. DAUPHIN’S ($$-$$$) Unique seafood. 1225 Satchel Page Dr., E100 • 378-8768 3220 Dauphin St. • 479-2480 Great & quick. FOOSACKLY’S ($) High quality food with a view 64 S. Water St. • 438-4000 ROSIE’S GRILL ($-$$) 107 St. Francis St • 444-0200 274 Dauphin St. • 545-3161 HALF SHELL OYSTER HOUSE ($) Famous chicken fingers. Sandwiches, southwest fare, 7 days. 2502 Schillinger Rd. Ste. 2 • 725-0126 DUMBWAITER ($$-$$$) Seafood. 310 S. University Blvd. • 343-0047 2250 Airport 1203 Hwy 98 Ste. 3D, Daphne • 626-2440 Serving local seafood & produce 6890 US-90 (Daphne) • 621-2271 Blvd. • 479-2922 7641 Airport Blvd. • 607-7667 ROYAL KNIGHT ($) 167 Dauphin St. • 458-9573 MINT HOOKAH BISTRO ($) 3654 Airport Blvd. • 338-9350 LUCY B. GOODE ($$) 2558 Schillinger Rd. • 219-7761 Lunch & dinner. Kitchen on George ($-$$) Great Mediterranean food. 3249 Dauphin St. • 479-2000 3004 Gov’t Blvd • 287-1220 Contemporary American food. Gulf Coast cuisine, reinvented. 5951 Old Shell Rd. • 450-9191 th THE GALLEY ($) ROYAL STREET CAFE ($) 351A George & Savannah St. • 436-8890 OLLIE’S MEDITERRANEAN 200 E. 25 Ave., Gulf Shores • 967-5858 Open for lunch, inside Gulfquest Homemade lunch & breakfast. LEGACY BAR & GRILL ($$$) GRILL ($-$$) LULU’S ($$) 155 S. Water St • 436-8901 104 N. Royal St. • 434-0011 American, Seafood,Stekhouse. Mediterranean restaurant and hookah Live music & great seafood.

28 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 MUDBUGS AT THE LOOP ($) MANCIS ($) PAPA’S PLACE ($$) FUEGO ($-$$) Pan-Asian cuisine made in front of you. Cajun Kitchen & seafood market. Burgers. A Taste of Italy . BYOB. Outstanding Mexican cuisine. Highlights Sports Lounge at IP Casino 2005 Government St. • 478-9897 1715 Main St. • 375-0543 28691 U.S. Highway 98 • 626-1999 2066 Old Shell Rd. • 378-8621 Resort Spa ($) RALPH & KACOO’S ($-$$) MCSHARRY’S IRISH PUB ($) PINZONE’S ITALIAN DOWNTOWN ($$) HACIENDA SAN MIGUEL ($-$$) Brews & game on 65 screens. The Seafood Restaurant! Brilliant Reubens & Fish-N-Chips. Italian, catering, to-go. Taste of Mexico High Tide Café at IP Casino Resort Spa ($) 1595 Battleship Pkwy • 626-0045 101 N. Brancroft St. Fairhope • 990-5100 312 Fairhope Ave, Fairhope • 990-5535 880 Schillinger Rd. S. • 633-6122, Casual & relaxing, extensive menu. R&R SEAFOOD ($-$$) MUG SHOTS ($$) PINZONE’S ITALIAN VILLAGE ($$) 5805 US 90 • 653-9163 Laid-back eatery and fish market Bar & Grill. Authentic Italian dishes LOS ARCOS ($) BEAU RIVAGE: 1477 Battleship Pkwy. • 621-8366 6255 Airport Blvd. • 447-2514 312 Fairhope Ave, Fairhope • 990-5535 Quaint Mexican restaurant. 875 Beach Blvd. Biloxi • 888-952-2582 RIVER SHACK ($-$$) OLD 27 GRILL ($) RAVENITE ($) 5556 Old Shell Rd. • 345-7484 BR Prime at Beau Rivage ($$-$$$) Seafood, burgers & steaks. Burgers, dogs & 27 beers & wines. Pizza, Pasta, Salad & more LA COCINA ($) Fine dining establishment. 6120 Marina Dr., Dog River • 443-7318. 19992 Hwy.181 Old County Rd. Fairhope • 281-2663 102 N. Section St. • 929-2525 Authentic Mexican cuisine. Jia at Beau Rivage ($-$$) 4633 Airport Blvd. • 342-5553 Exotic cuisine. TIN TOP RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR ($$) LUCKY’S IRISH PUB ($) PIZZERIA DELFINA ($) Memphis Q at Beau Rivage ($) Seafood, Steaks, & extensive wine list. Irish pub fare & more. Pizza & Pasta MARIA BONITA AGAVE Memphis-style Q. 6232 Bon Secour Hwy County Rd. 10. • 949-5086 3692 Airport Blvd • 414-3000 107 Dauphin St. • 375-1644 BAR & GRILL ($-$$) Coast Restaurant at Beau Rivage ($) WINTZELL’S OYSTER HOUSE ($-$$) WEMOS ($) ROMA CAFE ($-$$) Mexican cuisine. Sports bar-style joint. Fresh seafood for over 75 years Wings, tenders, hotdogs & sandwiches. Pasta, salad and sandwiches. 3977 Gov’t Blvd. • 660-4970 605 Dauphin St. • 432-4605 312 Schillinger Rd. • 633-5877 7143 Airport Blvd. • 341-7217 TAQUERIA MEXICO ($-$$) 6700 Airport Blvd. • 341-1111, GRAND CASINO: ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL ($$) Authentic Mexican flavor. 280 Beach Blvd. Biloxi • 800-946-2946 1208 Shelton Beach Rd., Saraland • 442-3335, 3733 Airport Blvd. • 414-4496 805 S. Mobile St. • 929-2322 Italian. LB’s Steakhouse at Grand Casino ($$-$$$) MAMA MIA! Springdale Mall 3250 Airport Blvd. • 450-4556 Fine dining with steak & fine wine. BUCK’S PIZZA ($$) TAMARA’S BAR & GRILL ($) Cuu Long Super Pho at Grand Casino ($$) Delivery. Wings, po-boys, burgers. NO GAMBLING Asian noodle soups, bubble teas & more. IS THE GAME ON? 350 Dauphin St. • 431-9444 210 Eastern Shore Center, Hwy. 98 • 929-0002 ASHLAND MIDTOWN PUB ($-$$) CASINO FARE GAMBINO BROTHERS ($) TRATTORIA PIZZA & ITALIAN ($$) WIND CREEK CASINO: ISLAND VIEW: Pizzas, pastas, & calzones. Homemade pastas & sandwiches. 245-A Old Shell Rd. • 479-3278 Italian food & pizzas. 303 Poarch Rd. Atmore • 866-946-3360 3300 W. Beach Blvd. Biloxi • 877-774-8439 873 Hillcrest Ave. • 344-8115 11311 US HIghway 31 Spanish Fort• 375-0076 BUFFALO WILD WINGS ($) Fire at Wind Creek Casino & Hotel ($$-$$$) Emeril’s Gulf Coast Fish House at GAMBINO’S ITALIAN GRILL ($) UNCLE MADDIO’S PIZZA JOINT ($) Island View Casino ($$-$$$) Best wings & sporting events. Italian, Steaks & Seafood. Prime steaks, seafood & wine. 6341 Airport Blvd. • 378-5955 18 Laurel Ave. Fairhope • 990-0995 Homemade pizza & gourmet salads Grill at Wind Creek Casino & Hotel ($) Kick it up a notch. 7765 Airport Blvd. • 639-5010 C&G Grille at Island View Casino ($) BUTCH CASSIDY’S ($) Contemporary & old-fashioned favorites. GUIDO’S ($$) VIA EMILIA ($$) Large breakfast, lunch or dinner menu. Famous burgers, sandwiches & wings. Fresh cuisine nightly on menu. 60 N. Florida St. • 450-0690 1709 Main St., Daphne • 626-6082 Homemade pastas & pizzas made daily. HARD ROCK CASINO: BISHOP’S ($) 5901 Old Shell Rd. • 342-3677 PALACE CASINO: LA ROSSO ($$) 777 Beach Blvd.Biloxi • 877-877-6256 158 Howard Ave. Biloxi • 800-725-2239 A southern grill & bar. Comfort food. Vibe at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino ($-$$) 3673 Airport Blvd. • 344-2131 Wahoo’s Poolside Bar & Grill at Palace 1716 Main St. Ste. C, Daphne • 281-2982 OLÉ MI AMIGO! Fine surf, turf, atmosphere & cigars. Casino Resort ($-$$) CALLAGHAN’S IRISH SOCIAL CLUB ($) MACARONI GRILL ($$) AZTECAS ($-$$) Ruth’s Chris Steak House at Hard Rock Fresh seafood & more. Burgers & beer. Small plates, pizzas, pastas and wine Hotel & Casino ($$$) Mignon’s at Palace Casino Resort Taste of Mexico Exceptional servie & taste. 916 Charleston St. • 433-9374 3250 Airport Blvd. • 450-4556 5452 Hwy 90 W • 661-5509 ($$-$$$) Hard Rock Café at Hard Rock Hotel and Extraordinary wine, steaks & seafood. GULF COAST WINGS ($-$$) MELLOW MUSHROOM ($) CAFÉ DEL RIO ($-$$) Casino ($) Wings, beers and drinks Pies & awesome beer selection. Mouth watering Mexican food American fare & rockin’ memorabilia. 1850 Airport Blvd • 471-5520 2032 Airport Blvd. • 471-4700 Satisfaction at Hard Rock Hotel and TREASURE BAY: 5660 Old Shell Rd. • 380-1500 1175 Battleship Pkwy • 625-2722 HEROES SPORTS BAR & GRILLE ($) CINCO DE MAYO ($) Casino ($) 1980 Beach Blvd. Biloxi • 800-747-2839 Sandwiches & cold beer. NAVCO PIZZA ($$) Southern favorites & fresh-smoked meats. The Den at Treasure Bay Casino ($-$$) 273 Dauphin St. • 433-4376 Mexican cuisine Pizza, subs & pasta. 260 Azalea Rd. • 375-1095 Intimate & casual with daily specials. Hillcrest & Old Shell Rd. • 341-9464 1368 ½ Navco Rd.• 479-0066 IP CASINO: CQ at Treasure Bay Casino ($$-$$$) DAUPHIN ST. TAQUERIA ($) Elegant atmosphere & tantalizing entrees. HURRICAN GRILL & WINGS ($-$$) PICKLEFISH ($$) 850 Bayview Ave. Biloxi • 888-946-2847 Enchiladas, tacos, & authentic fare. Blu at Treasure Bay Casino ($) Wings, seafood, burgers and beer Pizza, sandwiches & salads. Tien at IP Casino Resort Spa ($-$$) 7721 Airport Blvd. Suite E-180 • 639-6832 5955 Old Shell Rd.• 344-9899 661 Dauphin St. • 432-2453 Lounge with cocktails & tapas menu. SEND LISTINGS TO [email protected]

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 29 CUISINEGRAND KREWE Fairhope Brewing embraces beer to go BY DAN MURPHY/CONTRIBUTING WRITER | [email protected]

FAIRHOPE BREWING CO. BREWER TIM HEATH DISPLAYS THE BREWERY’S CROWLER MACHINE, WHICH FILLS AND SEALS 32-OUNCE ALUMINUM CANS CUSTOMERS CAN PURCHASE ONSITE.

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hen the clock struck midnight on Tuesday, the folks at Heath: We wanted to have a wealth of variety, and we also designed intentionally for beer to make sure you get the best pos- Fairhope Brewing Co. were ready to usher in a new wanted to have some special stuff for Day 1, so if someone sible product to the consumer. era for the state’s taprooms: the era of beer to-go. wanted to take home a bottle on that first day, there’s bound to There are some nice things to be said about the 32-ounce size as Before June 1, you could enjoy any number of be something in that case that they like. We’re going to have well. It’s like the perfect size to share with one or two other people, Wbeers made at the Eastern Shore brewery, but you couldn’t take Port-Barrel-Aged Merry Widows Imperial Stout, our 51 Pale Ale and if you’re getting it filled 32 ounces at a time at the brewery, it any out the door. With the passage of the “growler law,” which al- that was aged in a tequila barrel, and then a new sour golden ale opens up the door for you to try and take home a couple more than lows breweries to sell up to 288 ounces of beer a day, that’s in the called Mavericks that was fermented with peaches and apricots. you maybe would if you had to get 64 ounces at a time. past. I spoke to Fairhope brewer Tim Heath before the law took Krewe: Why crowlers and not growlers? The downside is that it’s not reusable, but we will not be pass- effect to find out just what this means. Heath: We know people love their growlers, so it was prob- ing along the cost of the crowler to the consumer. It’s pretty insig- Grand Krewe: So, tell me: When June 1 hits, what changes ably the hardest decision we had to make, but just being able nificant in the larger scheme of things, so we felt like that was a can people expect at Fairhope Brewing Co.? to take aluminum to places where you can’t take glass, like the fair way to make up for not refilling reusable glass growlers. Tim Heath: Obviously, beer to-go is the big thing. Even beach, for instance, was a big thing for us. And with the sum- Krewe: So, if someone comes in with their favorite growler to though it’s been dubbed the “growler bill” in the media over the mer months upon us, we’re going to see a lot of people coming get refilled, they’re just out of luck? past couple of months, we made the decision to go with crowlers through either on their way to the beach or maybe on a rainy day Heath: Unfortunately at this time, it’s going to crowlers only. instead, which are 32-ounce aluminum cans. Also, it will allow us they pop up here in the taproom. We wanted to make sure we The fear is that if you make the one exception, then there’s a to sell six-packs and four-packs of our core beers, so we’ll have have a product they can take on any of their adventures. snowball effect. those available as well as a selection of large-format bottles — The other nice thing is that the crowler was designed by a Dan Murphy is a Certified Cicerone® and the founding some 500 mL stuff and some 22-ounce bombers — on June 1. brewery for breweries. Oskar Blues and their can manufacturer, brewer at Fairhope Brewing Co. Follow him on Instagram @ Krewe: Large-format bottles, huh? I’m intrigued. Tell me more. Ball, got together to design and fabricate the machine, so it was Grand_Krewe and on Twitter @Beer_Man_Dan.

CUISINETHE WORD OF MOUTH Fairhope Brewing Co. hosts Food for Thought BY ANDY MACDONALD/CUISINE EDITOR | [email protected]

o you think you can put together a team that has what it also have heard of its Summer Food Service, Afterschool Snack, some new vegetarian sandwiches added to their already carni- takes to smoke other local teams in a game of trivia? Can Backpack, Disaster Relief, Community Garden, Mobile Pan- vore-friendly menu. your team stomach a few pints of really fantastic beer? try, Produce Drop, Cooking Matters and SNAP (Supplemental The new Mediterranean flatbread comes with spinach, sliced Would your team be proud to contribute to a worthy cause? Nutrition Assistance Program) Outreach programs, all under this tomatoes and cucumber with feta cheese and tzatziki sauce. It’s DIf you answered yes to any or all of these questions, I have the United Way agency. pretty close to a gyro without the lamb. Another new and soon- event for you. Sunday, June 12, the Fairhope Brewing Co. will be Food will be sold at this event, and of course the beer is divine to-be favorite is the artichoke and spinach grilled cheese. Doesn’t hosting Food for Thought, a sort of Battle Royale of trivia pitting at Fairhope Brewing’s taproom, located at 914 Nichols Ave. in that sound good? It’s taking grilled cheese to the next level. brother against brother, turning friend to foe for three short hours, beautiful Fairhope. For more information about Feeding the Gulf Of course there’s still a fine selection of coffee and teas, and from 2-5 p.m. Coast visit www.feedingthegulfcoast.org or see Fairhope Brewing that familiar killer breakfast burrito has not left the building Teams of six or fewer are encouraged to sign up for $50 per Co. on social media and its website, www.fairhopebrewing.com. except in plenty of to-go boxes. You’ll always want to visit the team, seeking prizes worth the effort, with all proceeds benefiting popular spot, next to Kitchen on George, for a healthy dose of Feeding the Gulf Coast (formerly Bay Area Food Bank), which Cream and Sugar delights OGD with new menu items those ever-popular cake balls, currently featuring some really is currently serving a 24-county area spanning South Alabama, The Oakleigh Garden District is getting a little bit richer at the neat-looking graduation versions for our favorite seniors. South Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle. corner of George and Savannah. It seems Cream and Sugar Café Congratulations to all of our graduating classes, and espe- This organization stays busy, and last year alone distributed has some new sandwiches just in time for warmer weather. cially to Lucas, who is headed into middle school. You’ve made over 20 million pounds of food to more than 400 church pantries, Our little coffeehouse known for its cake balls and marvelous us all proud. soup kitchens and nonprofit organizations in our area. You may breakfast (including grits with gumbo) is upping the ante with Recycle!

30 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 31 COVERSTORY The high cost of dying: Counties show an uptick in indigent burials BY JASON JOHNSON AND ERIC MANN

HERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT CHANGE Edith Gray, assistant to Mobile County’s deputy administra- As coroner, Vinson said his office handled roughly 500 death along with the ebb and flow of the economy, like the tor, is tasked with vetting and managing those who apply for in- investigations last year, but only 12 of those cases involved an real estate market, governmental tax revenues and digent burials in Mobile County. She told Lagniappe there hasn’t unclaimed body or an indigent burial request. This year the office employment rates. historically been a set budget allocation for those services in the is on a similar pace, seeing six through May. However, one lesser-known byproduct of a down- county’s general fund because the costs often fluctuate. “In the event that we have an unclaimed body, we have to ward trend in personal wealth is the effect it can “You never know. Some counties have a budget for indigent go to the court to get a court order to cremate the body,” Vinson have on the number of individuals and families receiving public funding, but we don’t because it’s just such a moving target,” said. “The county has a contract with a local funeral home, which assistance for end-of-life services. Gray said. “The number per year has kind of always fluctuated will then cremate the remains. Those remains come to my office, TThough the term “public assistance” is instantly polarizing in up and down, but lately it’s been rising. I’m not sure why, though where I have to hold them for at least 180 days.” today’s political landscape, this particular government service it may just be because people are becoming more aware of the According to Vinson, after 180 days those remains can be dis- has been provided by Alabama counties since the 1800s — a program.” posed of, but they often are not on the chance someone eventu- charge placed on each county in the state code. According to the county, there were 149 indigent burials or ally comes forward as a relative. Vinson said there are currently “Upon the decease of any person having no estate and leav- cremations last year, compared to just 42 a decade earlier. In cremated remains in his office that “have been here well over ing no relatives in the county with the ability or estate adequate previous years, the National Association of Counties has reported 180 days.” to defray his necessary burial expenses, such necessary burial similar nationwide trends that hit record highs around 2011. The Baldwin County Commission has a contract with expenses are a charge upon the county in which such death shall In Mobile County, Gray said, most recipients of indigent Wolfe-Bayview Funeral Home for cremation and indigent burial take place,” it reads. burial funds are elderly members of the community who don’t services. Vinson said there is no charge to retrieve the remains of In short, if someone dies in a county — even if they’re just personally own property and have outlived most of their rela- an unclaimed body. passing through — the responsibility for burying the deceased tives. The vast majority are locals, though there are some excep- “If someone comes forward as a relative, I offer them the falls on the county commission if the person or their family lacks tions — like when a Romanian citizen died while visiting the cremated remains,” Vinson said. “I will release them to them.” the means to pay for those services. U.S. on a travel visa just a few years ago. The county will also provide indigent cremation services to Like areas across the country, Mobile and Baldwin counties “He had cancer, and from what they gathered at the morgue, those who cannot afford the high costs associated with a tradi- have both seen an increase in the number of people utilizing he had traveled here because he wanted to die in the United tional funeral and burial. Vinson’s office requests the Baldwin these programs in recent years, and with funeral costs rising and States,” Gray said. “In that case, the funeral home made a call to County Council on Aging qualify the family for an indigent the economy still on the mend, many believe those numbers are the Romanian Embassy to see if he had any next of kin listed, but cremation. going to continue going up. after two weeks, we ended up doing indigent cremation.” “Every case is different because everyone’s situation is dif- Baldwin County Coroner Stan Vinson told Lagniappe the The county pays $600 for indigent cremation and $900 for ferent,” Council on Aging Office Manager Beverly Johnson said. state of the economy often dictates the number of unclaimed an indigent burial — rates Gray says haven’t changed since the “The county will look to see what kind of assets the person’s bodies and indigent burial requests his office receives. Over 1990s. Currently, the family of the deceased is allowed to select immediate family has before making the determination.” the next few years, he’s expecting a rise in those cases due to which procedure is used, but if no family can be reached, the Baldwin County defines immediate family similarly to Mo- the economy and an influx of homeless persons in Mobile and county automatically uses the less costly option of cremation. bile, including a decedent’s mother, father, sibling or adult-aged Baldwin counties. According to Gray, there are several ways the county vets the child. If any of those relatives owns property in the county, the “We are seeing more and more homeless people here, and in applicants for indigent burial funding, though as the state law deceased may not qualify as indigent. In addition, Johnson said the unfortunate event that they die, it may be difficult to find a says, the only true requirement is that the deceased and their im- people who pass away in nursing homes will often have trusts next of kin,” Vinson said. “I expect many of those deaths to end mediate family own no property in Mobile County. built up that can cover the cost of a cremation. up being unclaimed or becoming indigent burials.” According to Gray, Mobile County defines immediate family As was the case in Mobile County, burials were proving far as a parent or legal guardian, a sibling or an adult-aged child. more costly than cremations, but the more pressing issue in Bald- When indigent status is applied for, those claims are verified win is space. In 2014, Baldwin County began only offering indi- Increased costs for families, counties by reviewing the deceased’s family history and local property gent cremations as the county cemetery in Foley began reaching According to the National Funeral Directors Association, the records. capacity — though some religious exceptions are still made. average cost of a burial in the United States is more than $7,000, However, Gray said she also works with other agencies that According to Johnson, the Council on Aging typically sees and those are base-level services — the funeral home, embalm- may have already documented a person’s indigent status, such roughly eight indigent cremation requests per year, but she said ing, visitation, a service, a hearse and a basic casket. as the Department of Human Resources and the Social Security “there does seem to be more coming in this year.” In just the last Compared to the $700 cost of similar services in 1968, Administration. week, the the council has received three. today’s prices are the result of a steady increase — uninterrupted “There’s people who do try to get away with it and say they The Baldwin coroner’s office is responsible for determining since the 1970s — that has consistently outpaced the inflation of don’t have property, while I’m looking at a deed,” Gray said. the cause and manner of death of a person who dies and is not the dollar. “Though our property searches only pertain to Mobile County, under medical care. All traumatic deaths such as murder, suicide, While the cost of indigent services are often much cheaper, because the code just states inside the county. So unfortunately, accidental, motor vehicle and drowning are required by law to be the rise in the cost of privately funded burials seems to have hap- if they happen to own a beach house in Gulf Shores, it can’t be reported to the coroner. pened in concert with an uptick in the number of people receiv- considered with regard to indigent burial.” While it hasn’t happened recently, Vinson said a body that ing public assistance for end-of-life services. is both unclaimed and unidentified would not be cremated, but In the past decade, Mobile County has recorded a 268 percent instead buried in one of the county’s lots in Foley or stored in its increase in the cost of its indigent burial program, with annual Indigent burials in Baldwin County refrigeration unit. allocations jumping from $30,529 in 2006 to $113,700 in 2013. Like population, the rate of indigent burials is higher on the “Once you cremate a body, everything that could identify the In the past two years, the cost has only dropped around a single western side of the bay, but Baldwin County is still required by person is gone,” Vinson said. “In the case of an unidentified percentage point. law to provide cremation and burial services for those who qualify.

32 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 body, we want to make sure that if one day a Serenity, Memorial Funeral Home and Aza- family member does pop up and ask to see the lea City Funeral Home and Crematory most body, we can do that for them.” frequently. However, she said others like Smalls Mortuary and Reese’s Funeral Home will oc- Increased costs for funeral homes casionally accept some indigent burials on a While counties are required to handle the “case-by-case basis.” burial of any person deemed indigent, the Noojin said it would be beneficial for a privately owned funeral homes facilitating those funeral home to take on both types of services so services are not. According to Gray, it isn’t hard any financial loss from burials could be offset by to find businesses that will provide cremations, gains from cremations, which are much cheaper but there are still “not many” that will take on to perform. He also said an increase in volume the cost of a traditional burial. could make the entire program more cost effec- Those that do have historically owned and tive for whatever funeral home ends up handling operated their own cemetery, like Serenity indigent services for Mobile County. Funeral Home, Crematory and Memorial Gar- “I wish every church and every family could dens. Gray said Radney Funeral Home has also take care of their own, but the government has performed burials in the past, though she added to step in when they can’t,” Noojin said. “I wish they recently got out of the program because it I could take them all for nothing, but if the coun- was no longer “cost effective.” ty is going to do this, everyone in this business Edward J. “Buddy” Noojin, president of SLG needs to stand up or let us that are responsible Group Inc., parent company of Serenity Funeral bidders do it.” Home, said even with basic preparations, burial However, Mobile County Public Affairs expenses often exceed the $900 a funeral home Director Nancy Johnson said not everyone’s would receive from the county. According to business model is the same as Noojin’s, adding Noojin, indigent burials at Serenity include a part of reason the county recently issued an RFP gravesite, a vault and a minimal casket, but do was “to get a lay of the land” and see what “the not include any type of service. various companies are willing and able to do.” With 400 acres of cemetery space and the fa- “Some of the companies will take some of cilities to provide burial and cremation services, the business and then not take others,” Johnson Serenity is in a better position than most to make said. “Meanwhile, we at the county have our providing indigent services more cost effective. own goals and objectives with this, which is However, even with reduced preparations and a to comply with the law and then to go a little higher volume, Noojin said the company often beyond that by offering a dignified service for loses money on indigent burials. the indigent while still being good stewards of “Of my gravesites, the least expensive is the tax dollar.” around $1,150. The state also requires me to Though there’s been no official change, pay into a perpetual care fund at around $150 Noojin also said Serenity has proposed the for that same site,” Noojin said. “So, we would county adopt a “more stringent” policy on be picking up the deceased, preparing for the providing the extra funding for burials — one burial, providing a casket, providing a vault, that would require a family to have a religious providing a grave space, paying the state $150 objection to cremation. and doing all the work for $900.” Though some denominations of Christianity Despite the concerns with cost, Noojin said oppose cremation, those that follow the Jewish Serenity doesn’t have plans to stop accepting faith as well as Muslims and Buddhists have indigent burials, adding the company has “a edicts against the practice. Noojin said it’s fine tendency to do the right thing, sometimes to our to recognize those religious requirements, but detriment.” covering the extra cost for the sake of preference “The founder of our organization left an edict seems unnecessary. in his trust, and one of the only things he asked “If you’re not going to pay for it, you really us to do was to guarantee the people of Mobile kind of have to have at least some sort of criteria County would have quality burial space,” he that you’re willing to set for the public interest,” said. “Until somebody way above my pay grade Noojin said. “The responsible party should be says stop, I’m going to continue to do that.” able to make the decision, and in this case, that’s Just recently, though, Mobile County request- the county.” ed proposals from several area funeral homes — Like Gray, Noojin said he has seen people including Serenity — to get a better idea of what who are appearing to take advantage of the all interested parties might charge for indigent system, though he still thinks the service is cremations, burials or a combination of both. something that’s needed. Though he wouldn’t comment on the specifics of “If some of those people would have got his bid, Noojin said a streamlined bidding process together and raised a few dollars, they could could help the program run more smoothly for have done this on their own,” Noojin said. “But, business owners and the county. in so many cases, the only family that’s left is an According to Gray, Mobile County has used elderly parent who has nothing.”

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 33 34 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BEST DIVE BAR BEST WINE BAR BEST WATERFRONT BAR NIGHTLIFE a) Hayley’s a) Domke Market a) Bluegill b) Royal Knight b) Firehouse Wine Bar b) Boudreaux’s c) Silverhorse Pub c) Pour Baby c) Flora-Bama Yacht Club BEST ALL AROUND BAR d) Red or White - Fairhope a) Alchemy Tavern d) The Garage d) Pirate’s Cove e) Red or White - Mobile b) Callaghan’s Irish Social Club e) Top of the Bay e) Sunset Pointe in Fairhope f) Southern Napa c) O’Daly’s Irish Pub f) Veet’s f) The River Shack d) Royal Street Tavern e) The Garage BEST E-SHO BAR BEST FANCY DRINK BAR BAR WHERE YOU ARE MOST LIKELY f) Tongue and Groove, Fairhope a) Bone & Barrel a) Bonefish Grill TO GET LUCKY b) Manci’s b) Crooked Martini a) Boo Radley’s c) Dauphin’s BEST BARTENDER c) McSharry’s Irish Pub b) Hayley’s d) The Merry Widow a) Adam Yunker - Royal Street Tavern d) Plow c) B-Bob’s e) Royal Street Tavern b) Akin Dunbar – The Battle House/Royal e) Tongue and Groove d) McSharry’s Irish Pub f) Tongue and Groove Street Tavern f) Top of the Bay e) O’Dalys c) Alex Daniels - Boo Radley’s/Brickyard f) The Garage d) Roy Clark – The Merry Widow BEST WEMO BAR BEST AFTER-HOURS BAR e) Randy Jennings - Sidecar Lounge/ The a) Cockeyed Charlie’s a) Alchemy Tavern BEST CRAWFISH BAR Noble South b) Boo Radley’s b) Crooked Martini a) Hayley’s f) Ricky Havens - Pour Baby c) Cockeyed Charlie’s c) Heroes USA d) Gabriel’s b) The Merry Widow d) Midnight Rodeo c) Silverhorse Pub BEST BARTENDERESS e) Hayley’s e) Pour Baby f) Top of the Bay d) LoDa Bier Garten a) Dana Hood - Royal Knight f) Tinder Box Cigar Lounge e) The Garage b) Lindsey Bembry – The Garage f) Silver Horse Pub c) Melanie Arnold - Tinder Box Cigar BEST HAPPY HOUR BAR BEST MIMO BAR Lounge a) Bonefish Grill d) Miranda Thomas - Bishop’s Southern a) Ashland Midtown Pub b) Café 615 BEST PLACE TO SHAKE YOUR BOOTY Tradition b) Fuego c) Royal Scam a) B-Bob’s e) Rachael Norris - Hayley’s c) Kimberly’s d) Royal Street Tavern b) Boo Radley’s f) Tasha Tupa - The Merry Widow d) Mellow Mushroom Midtown e) The Garage c) Midnight Rodeo e) Red or White f) Wintzell’s d) Saddle Up Saloon HOTTEST BARTENDER f) Silverhorse Pub e) Shenanigans a) Ricky Havens - Pour Baby BEST E-SHO HAPPY HOUR BAR f) The Brickyard b) Will Reid - Hayley’s BEST LODA BAR a) Baumhower’s c) Adam Yunker - Royal Street Tavern a) Alchemy Tavern b) California Dreaming BEST GAY BAR d) Austin Maynard - Island Wing b) Brickyard c) Fairways Indoor Golf Club a) B-Bob’s Company c) Hayley’s d) Gumbo Shack b) Gabriel’s e) Bubba Rollins - Bayhouse Pub d) LoDa Bier Garten e) McSharry’s Irish Pub c) Flip Side f) Ross Fuentes - Fisher’s Orange Beach e) O’Daly’s f) Top of the Bay d) Midtown Pub Marina f) OK Bike Shop BEST SPORTS BAR FAVORITE CRAFT BEER HOTTEST BARTENDERESS BEST SOMO BAR a) Heroes a) Abita Strawberry a) Carrie Baynes - Beef O’Brady’s a) Buccaneer Yacht Club b) Bishop’s Southern Tradition b) Abita Andygator b) Danielle Burgman - Gumbo Shack b) Fin’s c) Buffalo Wild Wings c) Fairhope Brewery Everyday Ale c) Gina Jo Previto - Veet’s c) Pelican Pub d) Baumhower’s d) Fairhope Brewery Judge Roy Bean d) Laura Gherardini - O’ Daly’s d) Pirates Bar and Grill Coffee Stout e) Lindsey Bembry –The Garage e) Joe Cain Cafe e) Rivershack e) Fairhope Take The Causeway IPA f) Manda Motes f) Fairways Indoor Golf Club f) Zebra Lounge f) Fat Tire BEST COLLEGE BAR BEST NEW BAR BEST BEACH BAR FAVORITE IMPORT BEER a) Boo Radley’s a) 5 Bar a) Flora-Bama a) Blue Moon b) Heroes USA b) Bone & Barrel b) Hangout b) Corona c) O’Daly’s c) The Merry Widow c) LuLu’s c) Dos Equis d) The Mystic d) Pink Pony d) Pat’s Downtown Bar and Grill d) Guinness e) Tinder Box Cigar Lounge e) Pirate’s Cove e) Picklefish e) Hoffbrau f) Tongue and Groove f) Stella Artois f) The Gulf f) Stir

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 35 BEST TAP BEER SELECTION BEST BUSHWACKER BEST HOOHA WAXER BEST TANNING SALON a) Alchemy Tavern a) Fins a) Amber Joy McLean – Medspa at the a) L.A. Bikini b) Buffalo Wild Wings b) Flora-Bama Yacht Club Park b) No Tan Lines c) Draft Picks c) Moe’s b) Anna Bishop – L.A. Bikini c) Palm Beach Tan d)LoDa Bier Garten d) Pirate’s Cove c) Bree Hamm – L.A. Bikini d) Semmes Tanning Salon e) Mellow Mushroom e) River Shack d) Crystal Quattrone - Primp e) Tiffany Tans f) Montego’s f) Tacky Jacks e) Elizabeth Spence – Tami’s Mask and f) Ultra Tanz Mirror FAVORITE CASINO BEST BAR TRIVIA f) Jessica - Wax’d Day Spa BEST HOOHA DOCTOR a) Beau Rivage a) Alchemy Tavern a) Dr. Amy McCoy b) Golden Nugget b) Buffalo Wild Wings BEST PLACE TO GET A MANI b) Dr. Glenn Gallaspy, III c) Hard Rock Casino c) Moe’s BBQ a) Brenda’s Nails c) Dr. Lauren Lambrecht d) OK Bike Shop b) Lily’s Nails d) Dr. Margaret McGrath d) Imperial Palace e) Rotolo’s c) Old Shell Road Nail and Spa e) Dr. Max Rogers e) Palace Casino f) The Blind Mule d) Royal Salon Day Spa f) Dr. Patton Morrison-Barton f) Wind Creek Casino e) Venetian Nail Spa BEST GENTLEMAN’S CLUB f) Vivian’s Nails BEST BOOB DOC BEST BAR BATHROOM a) The Candy Store a) Dr. Charles Dyas a) Alchemy Tavern b) Diamonds BEST PLACE TO GET A PEDI b) Dr. Christopher Park b) Fairhope Brewing Co. c) Cookies-N-Cream a) Hairageous Salon c) Dr. Stephen Sheppard c) LoDa Bier Garten b) Lily’s Nails d) Dr. Kitti Outlaw c) Old Shell Road Nail and Spa e) Dr. Randy Proffitt d) Royal Street Tavern aka the Tavern d) Orchid Day Spa f) Dr. Robert Bolling e) Tongue and Groove, Fairhope SHOPPING & SERVICES e) Spa at the Battlehouse f) Xcite BEST HAIRSTYLIST f) Venetian Nail Spa BEST FACELIFT DOC a) Dr. Charles Dyas BAR BATHROOM FROM HELL a) Courtney McDonald - Harlow b) Julia Liller – Salon West 5400 BEST ESTHETICIAN b) Dr. Christopher Park c) Dr. Henry Barber a) Hayley’s c) Julie Rhames - Harlow a) AmberJoy McLean - Medspa at the d) Dr. Kimberly Donnellan b) Royal Knight d) Rachel Humphrey – Studio Bliss Park c) Soul Kitchen b) Ashley Maynard - Battle House Spa e) Dr. Michael Lyons e) Tami Wiiliams – Tami’s Mask & Mirror f) Dr. Stephen Martin d) The Garage f) Whitney Vittor – Salon West 5400 c) Courtney Owens - Lyons Cosmetic & Laser Surgery Center BEST MARGARITA BEST SALON d) Crystal Quattrone - Primp BEST DERMATOLOGIST e) Jade Kittrell - Medspa at the Park a) Dr. Amy Morris a) Dauphin Street Taqueria a) Harlow Salon f) Elizabeth Spence - Tami’s Mask and b) Dr. Dena Howell b) Fuego b) Primp Mirror c) Dr. Kathryn Dempsey c) La Cocina c) Salon West 54 Hundred d) Dr. Ryan Ramagosa d) T. P. Crockmier’s d) Studio Bliss BEST DAY SPA e) Dr. Scott Van Loock f) Dr. Thomas Bender e) Taqueria Mexico e) Studio PH a) Aesthetics and Weightloss of Mobile f) Tongue & Groove f) Tami’s Mask & Mirror Studio b) Lyons Cosmetic and Laser Surgery BEST WEIGHT LOSS DOC Center BEST BLOODY MARY BEST BARBER a) Dr. Jonathan Campbell - Eastern Shore c) Medspa at the Park Medical Weight Loss a) Ashland Midtown Pub a) Dallas Jones Barber Shop d) NouVeau Salon and Day Spa b) Dr. Lawrence Carpenter - Aesthetics & b) Brick and Spoon b) Dean Sansom - Hillcrest Barber Shop e) Spa at the Battlehouse Weight Loss c) Cafe 615 c) Johnny Sullivan f) The Martin Center c) Dr. Michelle Jackson - Slim & Trim d) Hayley’s d) Mayo’s Barber Shop d) Dr. Ruth Shields – Healthy Weight 4 Me e) Kitchen on George e) Mike Edwards - Mike’s Barber Shop e) Drs. Quint Jardine and William Urquhart BEST MASSAGE THERAPIST - Medi Weightloss Clinic of Mobile f) LoDa Bier Garten f) Tillman’s Barber Shop a) Ginger Graf Dunaway - Quiet Mind f) Rejuvenate Alabama b) Hanna Boltz - Therapeutic Arts THE PERFECT MARTINI BEST MAKEUP ARTIST Massage and Bodywork BEST “DOC IN THE BOX” CLINIC a) Half Shell Oyster House a) Alexa Kiss - Salon West 5400 c) Heidi Pritchett - Above and Beyond a) Compass Urgent Care b) Royal Scam b) Alexandrea West Hot Yoga b) Eastern Shore Urgent Care c) Royal Street Tavern c) Courtney Matthews d) Jill McKinley - NouVeau c) Greater Mobile Urgent Care d) Ruth’s Chris d) Courtney McDonald - Harlow e) Rebecca Havard - Tami’s Mask & d) Hillcrest Urgent Care e) The Noble South e) Jackie Merlau - J. Merlau Make-up Mirror e) Immediate Care f) Tongue & Groove f) Sarah Morton - Salons by JC f) Roderick Gibbs f) Urgent Care by the Bay

36 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BEST BACK CRACKER BEST FLORIST BEST LAWYER TO KEEP YOU OUT OF BEST INVESTMENT BANKER/ (CHIROPRACTOR) a) All A Bloom PRISON (CRIMINAL) FINANCIAL PLANNER a) Dr. Cevin Cormier b) Belle Bouquet a) Art Powell a) Carl Dekle c) Elizabeth’s Garden b) Dr. Chris Corsentino b) Charlie Brown d) Sarah Beth’s Florist b) Grant Gibson c) Dr. Clarke Pradat e) Wildflowers c) Jeff Deen c) Jason Dabbs d) Dr. Justin Southall f) Zimlich the Florist d) John C. Williams d) Keith Woodham e) Dr. Ken Bishop e) Mikell Leland e) Katherine Arnold f) Dr. Mike Bucknell f) Ryan Mahtani BEST WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER f) Sid Harrell a) Chad Riley Photography BEST DENTIST BEST NEW CAR DEALER b) Jeff Tesney Photography BEST LAWYER TO SUE THE PANTS a) Dr. David Salter c) Joelle Rosen - Joelle Grace Photography a) Bay Chevrolet b) Dr. Donald Brown, Jr. OFF SOMEONE (TRIAL) b) BMW of Mobile d) John Rapier - Colonial Photography a) Cunningham Bounds c) Grelot Dental e) SLR photography c) Joe Bullard b) David J. Maloney d) Dr. James Whatley f) Wendy Wilson Photography d) Palmer’s Toyota e) Dr. Richard Noblet c) Dean Waite e) Springhill Toyota f) Dr. Ronald M Harrell f) U-J Chevrolet BEST YOGA STUDIO d) Greene & Phillips a) Above and Beyond Hot Yoga e) Kilborn, Roebuck & McDonald BEST GYM b) Fit Nest f) Long & Long BEST USED CAR DEALER a) Alabama Youth Sports Combine c) GLOW Yoga a) Hooney’s Auto Sales, Inc. b) Bodies by Cindy d) Soul Shine Yoga BEST REAL ESTATE FIRM b) Keith Kingan Classic Cars c) LCM Motors c) Fit Body Bootcamp e) Sterling Hot Yoga Works a) Bellator Real Estate d) MCD Motors, Inc. d) No Off Season f) Synergy Yoga and Pilates b) Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices e) Southbay Auto Sales, LLC e) Pro Health Cooper & Co. Inc., REALTORS f) Walley’s Auto Sales f) Rock Paper Fitness BEST YOGA INSTRUCTOR c) LLB&B a) Anna Percy - Sterling Hot Yoga Works b) Annette Porter-Ham – Synergy Yoga d) Roberts Brothers Inc. BEST CPA BEST PERSONAL TRAINER and Pilates e) Sam Winter a) Andy Cook a) Shoshana Treichel c) Michelle Ryan - Sterling Hot Yoga Works f) The Cummings Company b) BJ Gilbert b) Emily Powell d) Nikki Scozzafava - Soul Shine Yoga e) Renee Hoadley - Above and Beyond c) Frank Brown c) Braxton Gilbert Hot Yoga BEST REALTOR d) John Bedsole d) Cindy Ross f) Shoshana Treichel – Above and a) Angela Locklier e) Karen Simmons e) Josh Foster Beyond Hot Yoga b) Bixler Cunningham f) Ted Crabtree f) Kasey Smith c) Chris Clarke BEST MECHANIC AUTO SHOP d) Paul Carter BEST LANDSCAPER a) Bay Landscaping BEST VETERINARIAN a) Baehr’s Automotive e) Sam Winter b) Foreign & Domestic Auto Care b) Lawn Pro a) Dr. Roxy Leslie - Village Animal Clinic f) Sloane Parker c) Griffith Service Station c) Southern Style Landscape b) Dr. Carrie Deers - On The Spot Vet d) Mark McGugin Auto Repair d) Sprinklers & More Care e) Red’s Automotive BEST INSURANCE AGENT OR e) Turfmaster c) Dr. Christopher Boudreau - Boudreau f) Shane’s Automotive AGENCY f) Zack Orrell Animal Clinic a) Allison Horner - State Farm Insurance d) Dr. Jennifer Carney - Animal Hospital BEST CARWASH/DETAIL b) Bayside Insurance BEST CONTRACTOR/HOMEBUILDER of Mobile a) Bebo’s Car Wash c) Donna Gatlin - State Farm Insurance a) Bo Wilder Contracting, Inc. e) Dr. Mary Katherine Cross - Old Shell b) BMW of Mobile Detail Department d) Jonah Dismukes – Worthy Insurance b) Bryan Maisel Homes Road Animal Hospital c) Down South Detail Agency c) D. R. Horton f) Rehm Animal Clinic d) Rich’s Car Wash e) Makeda Nichols - State Farm d) Locklier Builders e) True Shine Car Wash and Auto Insurance e) Peyton Harvill/PH Company f) Ultra Carwash BEST PET GROOMER f) Paul Carter Agency f) RB Cunningham Builders a) Adorable Do’s BEST LAWYER IF YOUR SPOUSE IS A b) Dapper Dog Mobile Pet Grooming BEST MORTGAGE BROKER/FIRM BEST INTERIOR DESIGNER c) Glamour Paws Grooming HO (DIVORCE) a) Camille Wilkinson - Homeside Financial a) Alison Herlihy a) Trini Bryant Interiors d) Melanie Sleeman - Just Right Pet b) Craig Anderton – Bank of England b) Carter Law Firm b) Deb Chisholm Grooming c) Claude Boone c) Jim Dransfield, Advance Mortgage c) Augusta Tapia e) Michael Hance - Clippers Pet d) Gary Fillingim d) Mark Taylor - American Home Lending d) Pat O’ Neal Grooming e) Jerry Pilgrim e) Mortgage Team 1 e) Mary Jo Matranga f) Petco f) Tank Dasinger f) Regions Mortgage f) Randy Wilson

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 37 BEST HARDWARE STORE BEST CLOTHING BEST OUTDOORS STORE BEST BANK OR CREDIT UNION a) Springhill Ace Hardware CONSIGNMENT STORE a) Academy Sports and Outdoors a) Army Aviation Center Federal Credit Union a) Abigail’s Closet b) Alabama Outdoors b) BB&T b) Andrew’s Ace Hardware b) Back on the Rack c) Bass Pro Shop c) BBVA Compass c) Blankenship’s Universal Supply c) Hertha’s Mobile d) Field & Stream d) New Horizon Credit Union d) Dawes Hardware d) Plato’s Closet e) McCoy Outdoors e) Oakworth Capital Bank e) Rave Reviews f) Quint’s Sporting Goods f) Regions Bank e) Smith’s Hardware f) Yvonne’s Resale Boutique f) Fairhope True Value Hardware BEST LOCAL PHARMACY BEST THRIFT STORE BEST DEPARTMENT STORE a) Christopher Pharmacy a) America’s Thrift Store BEST PEST CONTROL a) Belk b) Family Pharmacy Care b) Curiosity Shop at Catholic Social Services a) Bugmaster b) Dillard’s c) McConaughey Drugs c) Goodwill b) Cook’s Pest Control c) J.C. Penney d) Midtown Pharmacy d) Open Doors Ministries Resale and Thrift Store c) Ensec Pest & Lawn d) Kohl’s e) Semmes Pharmacy e) Penelope’s Closet d) Kelly’s Pest Control e) Stein Mart f) Springhill Pharmacy f) Wilmer Hall Thrift Store e) Knockout Pest & Termite f) T.J. Maxx f) Semmes Pest Control BEST SHOE STORE BEST TATOO ARTIST/SHOP BEST ACCESSORIES /AFFORDABLE a) Dillard’s a) Sean Herman - The Bell Rose BEST PET STORE JEWELRY b) DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse b) Man O War Tattoo c) Eva’s Shoes c) Joe Garza - Tattoo Town a) B&B Pet Stop a) Avril Walker d) Shoe Station d) Greg Owens - Gold Tattoo and Design b) Bella and Bow’s Pet Boutique b) Christina Lynn’s e) Shoefly e) Exit 13 c) Blankenships’ Universal Supply c) Emmaleah Boutique f) The Gallery Shoe Boutique f) AJ Ludlow - The Bell Rose d) Pet Haven d) Francesca’s e) PetSmart e) Knot Just Beads f) Pet Supplies Plus f) Versona BEST GIFT SHOP a) A Little Shoppe KIDS BEST FINE JEWELRY b) Marcie N Me BEST ANTIQUE STORE c) Meggie B’s Gifts & More a) Antiques at the Loop a) Friedman’s Fine Jewelry d) Seasons Consignment, Crafts & Gifts BEST KIDS’ CLOTHING STORE-NEW b) BackFlash Antiques b) Zundel’s e) Treasures at GulfQuest a) Carters c) Cotton City Antique Mall c) Claude Moore Jeweler f) Urban Emporium b) GiGi & Jay’s d) Shop Around the Corner d) Goldsteins c) Kidz Klozet e) The Brothers Gallery e) Lou’s Fine Jewelry d) Little Monkey Toes f) To Arms Antiques f) Gold Art BEST HOME FURNISHINGS STORE e) The Holiday a) All Around The House f) Tiny Town BEST DRY CLEANERS b) Atchison Home BEST MEN’S CLOTHING STORE c) Designer Collection a) D & K Suit Discounters a) Gulf City Cleaners BEST KIDS’ CONSIGNMENT STORE d) J & J Furniture b) Dillard’s b) Jaguar Cleaners a) Carousel Kids e) Sarah B Atchison c) East Bay Clothiers c) Master Cleaners b) GiGi & Jay’s f) Woman in the Moon d) G. Harvell Men’s Clothier d) Paragon Dry Cleaners and Laundry c) Kidz Klozet d) Little Monkey Toes e) McCoy Outdoors e) Cottage & Springhill Cleaners e) The Holiday f) Metzger’s f) Waite’s Cleaners BEST FURNITURE CONSIGNMENT STORE f) Tiny Town BEST LINGERIE/NAUGHTY SHOP BEST HOME CLEANING SERVICE a) Antiques at the Loop a) Helping Hands- Michael Young b) Divine Consignment BEST KIDS’ ROOM FURNISHINGS a) Gift Spot a) Barrows b) NT Video b) Longleaf Chem-Dry c) High Cotton Consignments c) Maids a la Mode b) Just Baby Designs c) The Little Drawer d) Interiors Now d) Mandy’s Cleaning Service c) Polka Tot Designs d) Victoria’s Secret d) Rooms 2 Go Kids e) The Maids e) Kaglen’s Resale e) Siegel’s Baby’s Room f) Two Gals and a Mop f) Something Special Home Consignment BEST WOMEN’S BOUTIQUE f) White House Antiques a) Christina Lynn’s BEST STATIONERY STORE BEST VAPE SHOP b) Debra’s a) Cloud 9 Vapes BEST SUMMER CAMP a) Gwin’s Stationery a) Bayside Academy Summer Camp c) Lotus b) It’s Inviting! b) Deep South Vape Midtown c) Parlor Vapes b) Broadway Bound @ Brandy Brown Studio d) Metzger’s c) J.O. Acree Company, Inc. c) Camp Beckwith d) Paper Jubilee d) The Vapor Hut e) Polish Boutique d) Dayspring Baptist Church e) Soiree Signatures e) Vapor Dreamz e) Graham’s Elite Martial Arts f) Zeal Boutique f) Viv-Vah-Chey Designs f) Vapors f) Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center

38 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BEST DAYCARE BEST KID LOCAL ATTRACTION BEST PRIVATE SCHOOL MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR a) Cottage Hill Christian Academy a) Bellingrath Gardens and Home a) Cottage Hill Christian Academy a) Braxton Gilbert b) Christ United Methodist Church b) Eastern Shore Center Splash Pad b) McGill-Toolen Catholic High School b) Colton Bradford c) Dauphin Way Baptist CDC c) Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab c) Saint Paul’s Episcopal School c) Eric Kersten d) Nina Nicks Joseph CDC d) Gulf Coast Exploreum d) St Mary’s Catholic School d) Mike Scalese e) Spring Hill Baptist CDC e) GulfQuest National Maritime Museum f) Westminister Presbyterian Preschool e) St. Luke’s Epsicopal School e) Nick Rayburn f) USS Alabama Battleship f) UMS-Wright f) Ricky Havens BEST PRESCHOOL BEST DANCE STUDIO a) ABC Kindergarten a) CC Dance Studio and Company COOLEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELORETTE b) Azalea City Montessori b) Debbie’s School of Dance TEACHER a) Courtney McDonald c) Cottage Hill Christian Academy c) Mobile Ballet a) Bridget Goff Archer - O’ Rourke b) Emi Bencsath d) St. Paul’s EEC d) Sheffield School of the Dance Elementary e) St. Luke’s Episcopal School c) Faith Ann Lowe e) The Brandy Brown Studio b) Cathy Burdette - Council Traditional School f) Westminister Presbyterian Preschool d) Lindsey Stiegler f) Turning Pointe Dance Academy c) Laura Curtis - Castlen Elementary d) Keith Tardibuono -Davis Elementary e) Lizzy Williams BEST MOTHER’S DAY OUT BEST PEDIATRIC DENTIST e) Rhonda Frost - Allentown Elementary f) Mackenzie Harrell a) Ashland Place a) Dr. Gaines Thomas & Dr. Lauren Moore f) Samantha Laubenthal - Chickasaw b) Christ United Methodist Church b) Dr. Maureen Baldy Elementary School COOLEST NEIGHBORHOOD – c) Our Savior MDO c) Dr. Trey Fellers MOBILE d) Spring Hill Presbyterian MDO d) Dr. Kelly Jones COOLEST MIDDLE SCHOOL a) Delwood e) St. Ignatius Catholic MDO e) Dr. Stephen Greenleaf b) Jackson Heights f) St. Mary’s MDO TEACHER f) Dr. Marion B. McMurphy and Dr. Joel B. a) Amy McGowan -Clark Shaw Magnet c) Midtown Welford b) Danielle Taylor - Phillips Prep MOST KID - FRIENDLY RESTAURANT d) Oakleigh Garden District c) Donna Mackin - St. Paul’s e) Rosswood a) Bishop’s Southern Tradition BEST ORTHODONTIST d) Kathleen Tonder - Semmes Middle b) Chick-Fil-A f) Village of Spring Hill a) Dr. Brian Oliver e) Rosalie Hyatt - Grand Bay c) Chuck E. Cheese b) Dr. James Donaghey f) Tara Noel - Dunbar Magnet d) Hungry Owl c) Dr. Keith Harvey COOLEST NEIGHBORHOOD-ESHO e) Island Wing Company d) Dr. Rosalyn Salter, Hillcrest Orthodontics a) Fruit and Nut Fairhope f) Moe’s Southwest Grill COOLEST HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER e) Dr. Todd Bennett a) Gail Jones - St. Paul’s b) Lakewood f) Pickett Orthodontics b) Jeremiah Quattrone - Citronelle High School c) Malbis BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY PLACE c) Julie Albrecht - St. Paul’s d) Plantation Hills a) Dauphin Island BEST PEDIATRICIAN d) Nathan Adams - B. C. Rain High School e) Spanish Fort Estates Sea Lab’s Estuarium a) Dr. Alfred Shearer e) Sara LeCroy - Faith Academy f) Timber Creek b) GulfQuest b) Dr. Faye Roberts f) Wendy Barnes - Faith Academy c) House of Bounce c) Dr. Jennifer Adair d) Pete’s Party Castle BEST ANNUAL EVENT d) Dr. John Sands e) Pump It Up a) Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo e) Dr. Matthew Cepeda f) Spa Tea Da! CITY LIFE f) Dr. Nancy Wood b) Azalea Trail Run c) Dauphin Street Beer Festival BEST PARK/PLAYGROUND BEST MOBILIAN EVER BEST KID PHOTOGRAPHER a) E.O. Wilson d) Magic Christmas in Lights a) Daphne Centennial Park a) Clara Mellown Photography b) Eugene Walter e) Mardi Gras b) Fairhope Park b) Hannah Stinson Photography c) Frank W. Boykin c) Langan Municipal Park f) The Greater Gulf State Fair c) Janie Long Photography d) Hank Aaron d) Lavretta Park d) Laura Cantrell Photography e) Jimmy Buffett e) Medal of Honor Park BEST ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT e) Samantha Vickers Photography f) Joe Cain f) Spanish Fort Town Center Park f) Sheree Parker Photography a) Art Throwdown - Mobile Arts Council b) Junior League of Mobile Annual MOST KID-FRIENDLY BEST MOBILIAN RIGHT NOW a) Sean Hylton, Firefighter Fundraisers NEIGHBORHOOD BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL b) Mayor Sandy Stimpson c) Fuse Project Dragon Boat Race a) Village of Spring Hill a) Phillips Preparatory School c) Old Slac IV Mobile’s Ambassador d) Jake Peavy Foundation Charity Golf b) Sky Ranch b) E. R. Dickson Elementary School Wayne Dean Classic c) Rosswood c) Eichold Mertz Magnet School d) The Man About Town, Raymond e) Woofstock -Animal Rescue d) Ridgefield d) Mary B. Austin Elementary School Weinshenker e) Llanfair e) Old Shell Road Magnet e) Jake Peavy Foundation f) Jackson Heights f) Saraland City Schools f) Craig Roberts f) Little Black Dress – Ronald McDonald House

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 39 BEST PLACE TO HOLD A COOLEST CHURCH OR HOUSE OF COOLEST APARTMENT COMPLEX- BEST METAL/UNDERGROUND BAND RECEPTION/SPECIAL EVENT WORSHIP ESHO a) Black Titan a) Azalea Manor a) All Saints a) Audubon Park b) Curse the Flesh c) Dread b) Battle House Hotel b) City Hope b) Bay Breeze Apartments c) Dayspring Baptist d) Gathering of Vultures c) Exchange 202 c) The Vinings at Spanish Fort d) Harvest Church e) Silence Falls d) GulfQuest e) Pathway Church f) The Hitchhikers e) The Pillars of Mobile f) Westminster Presbyterian BEST MOVIE THEATER f) The Venue at Dawes a) Cobb Gulf Shores BEST BLUES BAND /ARTIST BEST SPIRITUAL LEADER b) Crescent Theater c) Premiere Cinema 14 - Spanish Fort a) Jamell Richardson BEST HOTEL a) David Mauldin d) Regal Cinemas Mobile 18 b) Johnny No a) The Grand Hotel b) Dr. Brett Burleson e) Wynnsong 16 c) Kristy Lee b) The Battle House Hotel and Spa c) Fr. John Lynes f) Gulf Coast Exploreum IMAX Theater d) Lisa Mills c) The Admiral Hotel d) Fr. Mark Neske e) Ric McNaughton Band d) Malaga Inn e) Joey Turman f) The Lizards e) Hampton Inn f) Pastor Chris Farley BEST LOCAL COMPANY TO WORK FOR f) Fort Conde Inn a) FTZ Corp. b) Gulf Distributing BEST CLUB TO SEE LIVE MUSIC BEST PLACE TO TAKE OUT-OF- a) Alchemy Tavern BEST HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND c) GulfQuest TOWNERS (ATTRACTION) d) Hargrove Engineers and Constructors b) Brickyard a) Baker High School a) Bellingrath Gardens and Home e) Premier Medical Group c) Callaghan’s b) Murphy High School b) Breakout Mobile f) Regions Bank d) O’Daly’s c) John L. LeFlore High School c) Estuarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab e) Soul Kitchen d) Davidson High School d) GulfQuest BEST BEACH RESORT/CONDO f) The Merry Widow e) McGill-Toolen Catholic High School e) Mobile Carnival Museum a) Caribe Resort f) Saraland High School f) USS Alabama Battleship b) Holiday Isle Dauphin Island BEST OUTDOOR BAR TO SEE LIVE MUSIC BEST MARDI GRAS PARADING c) Phoenix on the Bay BEST PLACE TO TAKE OUT-OF- d) Phoenix X a) Bluegill SOCIETY TOWNERS (RESTAURANT) e) The Beach Club b) Cafe Del Rio a) Crewe of Columbus a) Bluegill f) Turquoise Place c) Flora-Bama b) Infant Mystics b) Callaghan’s Irish Social Club d) Hangout c) Mystic Stripers Society c) Dauphin’s e) LuLu’s d) Mystics of Time d) Dumbwaiter f) The Frog Pond Blue Moon Farm e) Order of Polka Dots e) Felix’s Fish Camp MUSIC f) Comic Cowboys f) Wintzell’s BEST VENUE TO SEE LIVE MUSIC BEST LOCAL BAND (NON-BAR) BEST MARDI GRAS MARCHING BEST COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY a) Infant Richard and the Delta Stones a) IP Casino SOCIETY a) Spring Hill College b) Mother Mojo b) The Amphitheater at the Wharf c) Mulligan Brothers c) The Frog Pond Blue Moon Farm a) Dauphin Street Drunks b) University of Mobile d) The Listening Room b) Skeleton Krewe c) University of South Alabama d) Paw Paw’s Medicine Cabinet e) The Saenger Theatre c) Society of Bums e) The Underhill Family Orchestra f) Wind Creek Casino d) Wild Mauvillians BEST JUNIOR COLLEGE/TRADE/ f) Turbo Crab TECHNICAL SCHOOL BEST SOLO MUSICIAN BEST MARDI GRAS BALL a) ITT Tech BEST NEW LOCAL BAND a) Eric Erdman a) Infant Mystics b) Virginia College a) Bunch b) Gregg Fells b) Mystics of Time c) Blue Cliff Career College b) Coleman Mason Band c) Ross Newell c) Muscadine Bloodline c) Order of Polka Dots d) Faulkner State Community College d) Ryan Balthrop e) Bishop State Community College d) Philo e) Sarah Percy d) Crewe of Columbus e) Silence Falls f) Remington College f) Tim Kinsey e) Mystic Stripers Society f) The Lizards f) Fifty Funny Fellows COOLEST APARTMENT COMPLEX- BEST JAZZ MUSICIAN BEST COUNTRY BAND/PERFORMER BEST GOLF COURSE MOBILE a) Cary Laine a) Blake Nolte a) Azalea City Golf Course a) Village at Midtown b) Hannah McFarland b) Chip Herrington b) D’Iberville Apartments b) Fairways Indoor Golf Club c) Holli Mosley c) Gerry Gambino c) Marine Street Lofts c) Heron Lakes Country Club d) Justin Fobes d) Cypress Cove d) Last Call Rodeo d) Magnolia Grove e) Muscadine Bloodline e) Roman Street e) Mobile Country Club e) Hounds Run Apartments f) Tim Kinsey f) Theodore Arthur f) Spring Hill College f) Yester Oaks

40 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BEST HIP HOP ARTIST BEST PIANO PLAYER/KEYBOARDIST BEST MIXED MEDIA ARTIST a) Beamin a) Chris Spies a) Shawn Berdux EATS AND DRINKS b) Bianca Clarke b) Gene Murrell b) Matt Mateo Humphrey c) John Anthony c) Elijah McCreary c) Julie Rhames BEST OVERALL RESTAURANT d) Patrick Ramsey d) Jami Leigh Carter a) Dauphin’s d) Eterniti e) Scott Morlock e) Chris Cumbie b) Dumbwaiter e) Mr. 88 f) Andrew Ayers f) Amber Ivey Lane c) Felix’s Fish Camp d) Kitchen on George e) NoJa BEST MUSIC/RECORD STORE BEST DRAG QUEEN PERFORMER BEST ART GALLERY f) Osman’s a) Andy’s Music a) Champagne Munroe a) Amber Ivey Designs b) Bay Sound Records b) Jawakatema Davenport c) Dr. Music c) Miss Cie b) Artology BEST LOCALLY OWNED RESTAURANT d) Guitar Center d) Miss Loretta c) Ashland Art Gallery a) Ashland Midtown Pub e) Mobile Records e) Venus Shante DaVis d) Cathedral Square Gallery b) Butch Cassidy’s f) Zamareyah Dawn e) Innova Arts c) Dumbwaiter f) Spire d) NoJa BEST LOCAL RECORDING STUDIO e) The Noble South BEST DJ (MIXIN’, MASHIN’ UP a) Dauphin Street Sound BEST MUSEUM f) Von’s Bistro b) Greenhouse Music Studio KIND) a) DJ Blayze a) Gulf Coast Exploreum c) Grave Danger Productions b) GulfQuest Maritime Museum BEST NEW RESTAURANT – FINE DINING d) Studio H2O b) DJ Johnny Boy a) Dauphin’s c) DJ Lynch c) Historic Oakleigh House b) Saisho e) 88 Records d) DJ MBEZZLE d) History Museum of Mobile c) Von’s Bistro f) Fade Out Entertainment e) Tres Wiggins e) Mobile Carnival Museum f) Wermzer f) Mobile Museum of Art BEST NEW RESTAURANT – CASUAL BEST GUITAR PLAYER a) Bishop’s Southern Tradition a) Corky Hughes BEST AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL BEST THEATER GROUP b) Cafe Del Rio b) Hunter Baldwin a) 1065 Music Festival a) Chickasaw Community Theatre c) Five Bar b) Joe Jefferson Playhouse d) Pizzeria Delfina c) John Higdon b) Southsounds Music and Arts Festival e) The Bone & Barrel c) Hangout Festival d) Lee Yankie c) Mobile Theatre Guild f) The Galley at GulfQuest d) Dauphin Island Rodeo Weekend Music e) Phil Proctor d) Playhouse in the Park & Arts Festival e) Sunnyside Theatre f) Ric McNaughton BEST CHAIN RESTAURANT f) Theater 98 a) Bonefish Grill BEST AREA SINGER/VOICE b) Carrabba’s BEST PLAY OR PERFORMANCE OF c) Chick-fil-A a) Brock Cole ARTS d) Half Shell Oyster House b) Holli Mosley THE YEAR e) Mellow Mushroom a) Oklahoma! by CCT c) Laurie Anne Armour BEST LOCAL PAINTER f) Rock N Roll Sushi a) Amber Ivey Lane b) Avenue Q by JJP d) Symone French b) Ardith Goodwin c) Lion King Jr - Sunnyside e) Tim Kinsey BEST EASTERN SHORE RESTAURANT c) Brad Robertson d) Little Shop of Horrors - JJP a) Sunflower Cafe Fairhope f) Yo Jonesy d) Devlin Wilson e) The Colored Museum - MTG b) Old 27 Grill e) Julie Rhames f) Vanya, Sonia, Masha, & Spike - JJP c) Thyme By the Bay BEST AREA DRUMMER f) Noelle Goodson d) The Ravenite Pizzeria e) Dragonfly a) Aaron O’Brien BEST LOCAL ACTOR f) Rock N Roll Sushi b) Josh McNaughton BEST LOCAL SCULPTOR a) Brandon M. Caten c) David White a) April Livingston b) Brian Jackson BEST BEACH RESTAURANT d) John Milham b) Bruce Larsen c) Danielle Juzan a) Cobalt c) Casey Downing e) Tyler Goodwin d) Emily Ericson b) Cosmo’s d) Frank Ledbetter e) Lisa Costa c) Fishers at Orange Beach Marina f) Clay Bates e) Shawn Berdux f) Melanie Petithory d) FloraBama Yacht Club f) Zach DePolo e) Lulu’s BEST AREA BASSIST f) The Gulf BEST ARTS EVENT a) Ben Leininger BEST LOCAL GRAPHIC DESIGN ARTIST a) Art Throwdown by Mobile Arts Council BEST CHEF b) Brandon Whigham a) Amanda Prichard b) Art Walk LODA a) Allie Henderson - Battlehouse Hotel b) Andy Hayes c) Chris Boling c) Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival b) Chris Rainosek - The Noble South c) Carl Norman d) Christian Heiden d) MMoA Night Market c) Arwen Rice - Red or White d) Hadley Binion d) Gillian Clark - Kitchen on George e) Joshua Titford e) Katie Vogtner e) Mobile Opera Season e) Derek Day - Delish Bakery & Eatery f) Nick Normand f) Tripp Gustin f) Mobile Symphony Season f) Troy Kline - Sunflower Cafe

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 41 BEST ATMOSPHERE BEST DESSERT BEST WINE/GOURMET SHOP BEST BAKERY a) Dauphin’s a) Bake My Day a) Cottage Hill Package a) Bake My Day b) Kitchen on George b) Cream and Sugar Café b) Domke Market b) ellenJay Stylish Events & Sweets c) Firehouse Wine Bar c) NoJa c) Delish Desserts & Eatery c) Flour Girls d) Pour Baby d) Pour Baby d) Pollman’s d) Ruth’s Chris Steak House e) Red or White e) Red or White e) Sally’s Piece-A-Cake e) Sally’s Piece-of-Cake f) The Gulf f) Southern Napa f) Sugar Rush f) Simply Sweet Cupcake Boutique

MOST INNOVATIVE MENU BEST BEER SELECTION-RETAIL BEST WEDDING CAKES a) Dragonfly BEST RESTAURANT WINE LIST a) Bebo’s Springhill Market a) Cakes by Judi a) Dauphin’s b) Dumbwaiter b) Cottage Hill Package b) Couture Cakes b) Pour Baby c) Kitchen on George c) Domke Market c) Pollman’s c) Red or White d) Saisho d) Greer’s d) Sally’s Piece-a-Cake d) Ruth’s Chris Steak House e) The Sunflower Cafe - Fairhope e) Rouse’s e) Simply Sweet Cupcake Boutique e) The Trellis Room f) Von’s Bistro f) Whole Foods f) The Pastry Shop f) Union BEST OUTDOOR DINING BEST ANNUAL FOOD EVENT OR BEST CATERER BEST WINGS a) Boudreaux’s COOK-OFF a) Bay Gourmet a) Baumhower’s b) Ralph & Kacoo’s a) American Cancer Society Chili Cook Off b) Chris & Carla’s Catering b) Buffalo Wild Wings c) Sunset Pointe in Fairhope b) Bay Bites Food Truck Festival c) Chris Raley with Banana Docks c) Butch Cassidy’s d) The Gulf c) Dauphin Island Gumbo Festival Catering d) Heroes e) The River Shack d) Downtown Cajun Cook Off d) Georgia Rousso’s Catering e) Island Wing Company f) Thyme by the Bay e) Fairhope Rotary Steak Cook Off e) Naman’s Catering f) Moe’s BBQ f) Feeding the Gulf Coast’s Annual Chef f) Tyner’s Catering Challenge BEST SWEET TEA BEST CHICKEN FINGERS a) Bishop’s Southern Tradition BEST BURGER a) Bishop’s Southern Tradition b) Chick-fil-A BEST FOOD TRUCK a) Butch Cassidy’s b) Butch Cassidy’s c) Delish Bakery & Eatery a) Smokin’ Gringos b) Callaghan’s c) Foosackly’s d) Foosackly’s b) Von’s Bistro c) Five Guys d) PDQ e) McAlister’s c) Grits and Grub d) LoDa Bier Garten e) Raising Cane’s f) Spot of Tea d) Geaux Boy e) Mugshots Grill & Bar f) Zaxbys e) Will Hughes f) Old 27 Grill f) Bacon My Day BEST BISCUITS BEST ICE CREAM/YOGURT/GELATO a) Biscuit King – Fairhope BEST STEAK a) Cammie’s Old Dutch BEST GUMBO a) Briquettes Steakhouse b) Bob’s Downtown Diner b) Chill a) Cream & Sugar Cafe a) Longhorn Steak House c) Briquettes Steakhouse c) Cold Snap b) Felix’s Fish Camp b) Osman’s d) Dick Russell’s Bar-B-Q d) Frios c) Gumbo Shack c) Outback e) Popeyes e) Mr. Gene’s Beans d) Rosie’s Grill d) Ruth’s Chris f) Warehouse Bakery & Donuts f) Serda’s Coffee Shop e) The Seafood House e) Union f) Wintzell’s BEST HOME COOKIN’/SOUL FOOD BEST LUNCH SPOT BEST SEAFOOD a) Delish Bakery & Eatery a) Café 219 BEST PO BOY a) Bluegill b) Judy’s Place b) Chicken Salad Chick a) Boiling Pot b) Felix’s Fish Camp c) Mama’s on Dauphin c) Delish Desserts & Eatery b) Half Shell Oyster House c) Half Shell Oyster House d) Mary’s Southern Cooking d) Panini Pete’s c) Kraver’s d) Lighthouse Restaurant d) Market by the Bay e) R & R Seafood e) The Sugar Kettle Café e) Regina’s Kitchen f) Tropical Smoothie Café e) R & R Seafood f) Wintzell’s f) Time to Eat Country Diner f) The Galley at GulfQuest BEST EASTERN SHORE LUNCH SPOT BEST BRUNCH BEST SERVICE BEST SUSHI a) Dragonfly a) Ashland Midtown Pub a) Felix’s Fish Camp a) Bamboo Fusion b) Fuego b) Panini Pete’s b) The Blind Mule b) Chef Sake c) Cafe 615 c) NoJa c) Rosie’s Grill c) Fuji San d) Callaghan’s d) Ruth’s Chris Steak House d) The Sunflower Cafe Fairhope d) Liquid Sushi Lounge e) The Noble South e) Thyme by the Bay e) Master Joes, Fairhope e) Kitchen on George f) Von’s Bistro f) Warehouse Bakery & Donuts f) Rock N Roll Sushi f) Rosie’s Grill

42| LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 BEST ETHNIC RESTAURANT BEST GROCERY CHAIN BEST RAW OYSTERS FAVORITE RADIO STATION AM a) 7 Spice Grocery & Grill a) Costco a) Bluegill a) WTKD - 1480 b) Benjas Thai and Sushi b) Publix b) Felix’s Fish Camp b) WNTM - 710 c) Jerusalem Cafe c) Rouse’s c) Gumbo Shack c) WNGL Archangel Radio 1410 d) Super Target d) Half Shell Oyster House d) Mediterranean Sandwich Co. e) Walmart Neighborhood Market e) Ralph and Kacoo’s e) Ollie’s f) Winn-Dixie f) Wintzell’s BEST LOCAL DJ f) Yak Kathmandu Kitchen a) Gene Murrell - WZEW b) John Marty WABD BEST GOURMET GROCERY BEST TAKE AND BAKE c) Matt McCoy - 107.3 KISSFM BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT a) Domke Market a) Bay Gourmet d) Mystic Marge - WZEW a) La Cocina b) Food Pak b) Clark’s Kitchen e) Nick at Nite - WBLX b) Fuego c) Fresh Market c) Dream Dinners f) Pablo – WZEW c) Taqueria Mexico d) Olivella d) Papa Murphy’s d) San Miguel’s Hacienda e) Publix e) Rae’s Kitchen & Catering BEST DJ TEAM e) Los Rancheros f) Whole Foods f) The Bean & Bistro a) Dan & Shelby – WKSJ f) Cafe Del Rio b) Matt McCoy and Gossip Greg - 107.3 BEST PLACE TO GET LOCAL PRO- BEST CUPCAKE KISSFM BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT DUCE/FOODS-MOBILE a) ellenJay Stylish Events & Sweets c) Sean & Wayne – FM TALK106.5 a) Cousin Vinny’s/Guido’s b) Flour Girls d) TLC in the Morning - Tim & LeeAnn a) Lil Brian’s Produce c) Pollman’s Camp – WZEW – 92.1 b) Gambino’s b) Market on the Square d) Sally’s Piece-A-Cake c) Mirko’s c) Old Shell Market e) Simply Sweet Cupcake Boutique d) Pizzeria Delfina d) Saraland Produce f) Twist Cupcakes BEST MORNING SHOW/DJ e) Roma Cafe a) 95KSJ Breakfast Club - Dan & Shelby - WKSJ e) Ted & Nancy’s b) John in the Morning - WABD f) Via Emilia’ f) Victory Teaching Farm BEST SEAFOOD MARKET c) Mobile Mornings with Sean Sullivan a) Billy’s Bon Secour and Wayne Gardner – FM TALK b) Lad & Dad’s d) Opening Kickoff with Mark Heim and BEST PIZZA BEST PLACE TO GET LOCAL PRO- Lee Shirvanian - WNSP c) Market by the Bay a) Ashland Midtown Pub DUCE/FOODS-BALDWIN e) TLC in the Morning – WZEW b) Buck’s Pizza a) Allegri’s Farm Market d) Mudbugs at the Loop c) Mellow Mushroom b) Bee Natural Organic Farm e) Rouses f) Southern Fish & Oyster DJ WHOSE VOICE LEADS YOU TO d) Pizzeria Delfina c) Burris Farm Market BELIEVE YOU MAY WANT TO SEE e) Ravenite Pizzeria d) Fairhope Health Foods HIM NAKED f) Red or White e) Hazel’s Market BEST DRUNK FOOD a) Colton Bradford - 107.3 KISSFM a) Downtown Hot Dog Stand f) Windmill Market b) Gene Murrell - WZEW BEST COFFEE HOUSE b) Foosackly’s c) Krystal c) Gossip GREGG - 107.3 KISSFM a) Carpe Diem BEST BARBECUE RESTAURANT d) LoDa Bier Garten d) Matt McCoy - 107.3 KISSFM b) Cream and Sugar a) Brick Pit e) Mediterranean Sandwich Shop e) Shirtless Tony - WZEW c) Moka’s Coffee House b) Cotton State BBQ f) Waffle House f) Uncle Henry - WNTM d) Redbar Espresso & Market c) Dreamland e) Satori d) Meat Boss DJ WHOSE VOICE LEADS YOU TO f) Serda’s Coffee Company BEST HANGOVER FOOD e) Moe’s BBQ a) Ashland Midtown Pub BELIEVE YOU MAY WANT TO SEE f) Saucy Q b) Callaghan’s HER NAKED BEST EASTERN SHORE COFFEE- c) Foosackly’s a) Mystic Marge - WZEW BEST BARBECUE SAUCE d) Old 27 Grill b) Shelby Mitchell - WKSJ HOUSE e) Ravenite Pizzeria a) Brick Pit c) Jolene Roxbury - FM TALK 106.5 a) Latte Da f) Waffle House b) Mr. Gene’s Beans b) Cotton State BBQ d) LeeAnn Camp - WZEW c) Dick Russell’s c) Soul Caffeine e) Aly - TK 101 d) Dreamland d) The Coffee Loft e) Meat Boss MEDIA e) The Fairhope Coffee Company BEST TALK RADIO HOST/SHOW f) Moe’s BBQ a) Jolene Roxbury - FM TALK 106.5 b) Plain Gardening Bill Finch - FM Talk 106.5 BEST LOCAL GROCERY STORE BEST RIBS FAVORITE RADIO STATION FM c) Sean Sullivan and Wayne Gardner - a) Cain’s Piggly Wiggly a) Brick Pit a) FM Talk 106.5 FM Talk 106.5 b) Fairhope Health Foods b) Cotton State BBQ b) WABD - 97.5 d) Sip & Chew - Mike Bailey and Stuart c) Food 4 Less c) Dreamland BBQ c) WBLX 92.9 Reb Donald - FM Talk 106.5 d) Greer’s d) J Rogers BBQ d) WHIL-FM 91.3 e) Today’s Homeowner with Danny e) Old Shell Market e) Meat Boss e) WKSJ 94.9 Lipford - FM Talk 106.5 f) Virginia’s Health Foods f) Moe’s BBQ f) WZEW 92.1 f) Uncle Henry - WNTM

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 43 BEST SPORTS RADIO HOST/SHOW BEST WEEKEND TV NEWS TEAM FAVORITE GLOSSY MAGAZINE HARDEST-WORKING ELECTED a) John Raciatti Golf Show - WNSP a) WPMI 15 a) Access OFFICIAL-MOBILE COUNTY b) Dan Patrick Show - WNSP b) WKRG 5 b) Alabama a) Sheriff Sam Cochran c) WALA FOX 10 c) Exalte’ c) Opening Kickoff with Mark Heim and b) Judge George Hardesty Lee Shirvanian - WNSP d) Mobile Bay Monthly e) Mobile Bay Parents c) District Attorney Ashley Rich d) Paul Finebaum - FM Talk 106.5 HOTTEST LOCAL TV NEWSMAN a) Michael White - WALA f) Mobile Mask d) County Commissioner Merceria e) Sports Drive with Randy Kennedy and b) Michael Brannon - WALA Ludgood Creg Stephenson - WNSP c) Lee Peck - WALA FAVORITE LOCAL OR STATE WEB- e) County Commissioner Jerry Carl f) Tee Time on the Gulf Coast with Randy d) Jason Smith - WALA Burgan and Danny Spybey - FM TALK 106.5 e) Greg Peterson - WPMI SITE/BLOG f) County Commissioner Connie Hudson f) Darwin Singleton – WPMI a) Mobile Mask BEST LOCAL EVENING TV NEWSCAST b) Toulouse & Tonic HARDEST-WORKING ELECTED CITY a) WPMI 15 HOTTEST LOCAL TV NEWSWOMAN c) Alabama Reporter OFFICIAL-EASTERN SHORE b) WKRG 5 a) Kelly Foster - WPMI d) Yellowhammer News b) Devon Walsh - WKRG a) Dane Haygood, Daphne Mayor c) WALA FOX 10 e) Mod Mobilian c) Lenise Ligon - WALA b) Jack Burrell, Fairhope, Fairhope City d) Kelly Jones - WPMI f) Drick’s Rambling Café Council BEST LOCAL MORNING TV NEWS- e) Emily DeVoe - WKRG f) Devan Coffaro - WALA BEST LOCAL TV AD c) John Lake, Daphne City Council CAST a) David J. Maloney d) Kevin Boone, Fairhope City Council a) WPMI 15 FAVORITE LAGNIAPPE WRITER e) Mike McMillan, Spanish Fort Mayor b) WKRG 5 b) Joe Bullard a) Andy MacDonald, Cuisine c) WALA FOX 10 c) Mike Slocumb “Alabama Hammer” f) Tim Kant, Fairhope Mayor b) Dale Liesch, Reporter d) Mullinax with AJ McCarron c) Eric Mann, Reporter e) Roberts Brothers “It’s Happening” BEST ANCHOR d) Jason Johnson, Reporter HARDEST-WORKING ELECTED CITY f) Visit Mobile: Born to Celebrate a) Bob Grip - WALA e) Jeff Poor, Beltway Beat OFFICIAL-BALDWIN COUNTY b) Darwin Singleton - WPMI f) Kevin Lee, Artifice a) Sheriff Huey Hoss Mack c) Devon Walsh - WKRG b) County Commissioner Chris Elliott d) Greg Peterson - WPMI FAVORITE LAGNIAPPE COVER STORY POLITICOS c) County Commissioner Tucker Dorsey a) “A Deadly Mix” by Dale Liesch e) Mel Showers - WKRG d) Baldwin County School Board member b) “Bitter Pill” by Greenberry Taylor f) Sarah Wall - WALA c) “Diverse City” by Lagniappe Staff HARDEST-WORKING ELECTED OR Cecil Christenberry d) “Exposed” by Jason Johnson APPOINTED OFFICIAL – e) Baldwin County School Board member BEST METEOROLOGIST e) “Gloves Off” by Gabriel Tynes and David Cox a) Alan Sealls - WKRG Dale Liesch CITY OF MOBILE b) Chasity Byrd WALA f) “Restoration at Risk” by Dale Liesch a) Colby Cooper, Chief of Staff HARDEST-WORKING LOCAL STATE c) Jason Smith WALA b) Dianne Irby, Executive Director of LEGISLATOR d) John Nodar WKRG FAVORITE LAGNIAPPE COVER IMAGE Planning and Development e) Kelly Foster WPMI a) “Baldwin Takes Flight” by Laura a) Rep. Chris Pringle c) Jeff Carter, Executive Director f) Michael White WALA Rasmussen b) Rep. Margie Wilcox Bloomberg I-Team b) “Bitter Pill” by Dan Anderson c) Rep. Rusty Glover BEST TV INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER c) “Eviction Notice” by Dan Anderson d) Mayor Sandy Stimpson d) Rep.David Sessions a) Renee Dials - WALA d) “Exposed” by Dan Anderson e) Nathan Emmorey, Municpal Court e) Sen. Bill Hightower b) Peter Albrecht - WKRG e) “Rorschach” by Laura Rasmussen Administrator f) “Triple Trouble” by Laura Rasmussen f) Sen. Vivian Figures c) Emily DeVoe - WKRG f) Police Chief James Barber d) Katie Weis - WALA FAVORITE AL.COM CONTENT e) Christian Jennings - WPMI HARDEST-WORKING MOBILE CITY MOST ETHICALLY CHALLENGED f) Andrea Ramey - WPMI CREATOR COUNCIL PERSON STATE LEADER a) Ben Raines a) Gov. Robert Bentley b) J.D. Crowe a) Bess Rich BEST SPORTS COVERAGE c) John Archibald b) Gina Gregory b) Judge Roy Moore a) Lance Crawford - WPMI d) John Sharp c) Levon Manzie c) Speaker Mike Hubbard b) Michael Brannon - WALA e) Lawrence Specker c) Randy Patrick - WKRG f) Michelle Irvin

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enjamin Franklin’s pair of life certainties spark Lucas curtain is at 8 p.m. and the Sunday matinee is at 2 p.m. Robertson seemed natural and innate. Hnath’s “Death Tax” into existence on stage, showing Tickets are $15, $13 for students and group rates are Otis was strong and consistent but this scene stood out. Per- Bthere’s an unmentioned assurance to join the proverbial available. For more information, call 615-440-3767 or email haps it helped that no calls for lines interceded but it was hard pair. Unfortunately that other certainty would be “loquacious [email protected]. You can also find their to miss Robertson’s ability to truly inhabit her character and the Byoung playwrights.” Facebook page and follow a link for online sales. nuance she exhibited from beginning to end. Nothing seemed The story stems from a frail dowager’s belief her daughter has The technical rehearsal Artifice viewed ran closer to the two- self-conscious and both actors’ work in this scene was one of the designed a hastened demise to land a larger inheritance. The older hour mark but that was likely due to frequent calls for lines from better things Artifice has witnessed on a Mobile stage. woman shovels funds to her nursing home attendant to thwart any some of the cast. Hey, we said it was wordy in a couple of spots. For Johnson, the fourth scene involving a raw confrontation schemes and the tale of mirrored perspectives is afoot. Director Christopher Peck wants it pared to a roughly 90-minute between Todd and Tina was his high point. Even through called Its only flaw lies not in execution — the play is well worth run time by premiere. lines, his emotional focus was unfailing. It seemed the more the time — but in a few stretches that ask characters to stop ac- As it opens, the bed is occupied by Maxine, played by Jean intense Todd grew, the better Johnson became. tual conversation while one climbs a soapbox. It’s not abundant, Galloway — yes, the same Jean Galloway who headed the The last scene was easily Galloway’s best. She lifted the first just present. Mobile Arts Council for nearly two decades. As Ravyn Otis portion onto her shoulders and carried it with comedic aplomb Hnath’s 2012 work is the latest offering from Mobile’s most buzzes about the room as Maxine’s Haitian-born nurse, Tina, in welcome relief against much of the earlier drama. Peck said adventurous and fresh-faced theatrical group, Makalani Theatre the patient spins a yarn about a greedy daughter and a change in he relished that aspect as well. Ensemble. It’s the third production from the unit founded by estate tax allotments that takes place during the new year. She is Hnath’s play is often described as a black comedy, though then-University of South Alabama drama instructors Keone convinced her offspring has an evil nature and has recruited Tina a good deal of that aspect was underplayed here. Clips from Fuqua and Christopher Peck. to her cause. other versions show the subtle ways tiny variations of the same Each year has revealed growth. Their 2014 production of “I say murder, they say dementia,” Maxine complained. script with timing and mannerism can imbue more laughs, “Brilliant Traces” was a two-person affair set in a snowbound Tina mentions her own rocky background, a son left behind though some of it was bypassed here. Or perhaps it just es- wilderness cabin. in the islands and her desire to liberate him. After Maxine offers caped this viewer. In 2015, they staged the more layered “Art.” The three-man Tina nearly a quarter-million dollars to keep her alive past New Ultimately the heft of the work lies in the subtlety of work revealed the shifting dynamics of friendship over time as Year’s Eve, the nurse’s ethics take a backseat. perspective. Lines are launched in one scene, then echoed characters roamed a chic urban apartment. As the play continues, Tina interacts with a supervisor, Todd, in another by a new character with entirely different effect This new play increases the cast by one yet again, and splays who obviously bears unrequited feelings for her following a and meaning. Our perceptions of characters are shattered and out the interpersonal dynamics and lengthens the time span im- long-past coupling. Played by Howard Johnson, the boss dances rebuilt scene to scene. mensely. Rather than a pair or trio of acts, the story unfolds over on the thin ground between sexual harassment and complicity in And we see bits of ourselves in all of them. Forlorn lovers, five scenes. a scheme certainly unethical if not outright illegal. carriers of regret, misunderstood children, parents petrified by The black-box layout has changed from the in-the-round of When Tina finally meets with the daughter, played by Ashley abandonment and irrelevance, overwhelmed relatives, aging par- previous years to a thrust stage set-up, but it still seats about 50. Robertson, all previous dynamics disappear. Roles and motiva- ticipants in life’s absurdities, afraid to see it slip away no matter The stage dressing is minimal: a hospital bed on one side with a tions reverse, complications arise. how besieged we feel. desk and chair on the other. So does the dramatic quality. The third scene was easily the We’re all there in ways that feel haunting. In one way or “Death Tax” will run this weekend only, June 2-5. Evening apex of this night’s version, as the chemistry between Otis and another, Maxine awaits us all.

46 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 Native Mobile A RT S sculptor dies in crash GALLERY BY KEVIN LEE/ARTS EDITOR | [email protected]

culptor Joanna Campbell Blake, a Mobile native and Au- DJ Jamey Ward promises to deliver karaoke fit for Apollo Family Equality in Alabama.” burn University alumnus who helped create several major himself. There will be Bacchanalian drink specials for everyone Videographer Searcy and marketing manager McKeand, along Smonuments, died in a motorcycle wreck in Italy on May adorned in their best togas. with their 9-year-old son, filed a lawsuit last year challenging 22. Blake worked for Maryland-based Kaskey Studio Inc., where For more information, check out the event’s Facebook page. Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. In January 2015, Federal Sshe contributed to numerous large-scale projects, including the Judge Callie Granade ruled in their favor, touching off a battle in National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Classes added to MMoA summer curriculum probate courts across the state. Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Mobile Museum of Art has become a locus for learning in The event is free and guests are asked to bring their own Blake was on a trip to Italy celebrating her 39th birthday when Mobile, and new courses added to its summer curriculum feature lunch. Complimentary beverages will be provided. the multi-vehicle accident occurred. a pair of fun skills. One can enhance your digital presence while For more information on the Learning Lunch series, call the A 1995 Theodore High School graduate, Blake earned a bach- the other might prove handy in enhancing your physical sur- museum at 251-208-7510 to speak with Jennifer Fondren, curator elor’s in fine arts from Auburn in 1999. Though she began with roundings. Both classes are to be taught by Todd Duran, professor of education, or contact her by email at fondrenj@historymuseu- a concentration in painting, she discovered a gift for sculpture of art and design at Spring Hill College and Faulkner State Com- mofmobile.com. while in college. munity College. Blake returned to campus when she sculpted panels for the If you’re an admirer of Alexander Calder’s mobiles, learn how MMoA turns sound to written word College of Science and Mathematics Building and the Chemistry to make your own version of these delicately balanced wire and As part of the exhibition of Janet Cardiff’s “Forty-Part Motet,” and Biology Building. She also worked on the Pedestrian Portal metal sculptures using cans, wire and monofilament. Class takes the Mobile Museum of Art (4850 Museum Drive) is exploring the Project for her alma mater. place July 16 and 17, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost is $175 for nonmem- sound installation’s effect through usage of varied artistic media. Blake is survived by her husband, Ike Blake; her 5-year-old bers, $150 for members. This takes a turn toward the literary on Thursday, June 9, at 7 p.m. daughter, Myra; a brother, Alan Campbell; and her parents, Alan The other class is aimed at teaching participants how to use with “Reverberations.” and Joleen Campbell. traditional art techniques such as paint, chalk and collage along For the Thursday evening program in the facility’s Larkins with a smartphone or tablet to enhance social media posts and Auditorium, a group of local poets, playwrights and writers of JJP fundraiser takes to the sheets boost following. The class meets July 30 and 31, 10 a.m. to 2 nonfiction and fiction have been invited to “climb inside the music” The Joe Jefferson Players will premiere their latest musical p.m. Cost is $125 for non-members, $100 for members. and write in response, elaboration or in any way they are inspired. comedy, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” For information on registration, call 251-208-5205 or visit They will be assembled for a public reading of their work. June 10-26. However, they’re giving fans a chance to chip in on mobilemuseumofart.com. Writers scheduled include poet Vernon Fowlkes, local author the funds and fun with good, old-fashioned Roman hedonism Janet Nodar, playwright and author Thomas Perez, journalist right before the play opens. June Learning Lunch features marriage plaintiffs Lawrence Specker and Alabama Poet Laureate Emeritus Sue On June 3, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., The Merry Widow (51 The History Museum of Mobile’s latest Learning Lunch will Walker. Lagniappe arts editor Kevin Lee will moderate. S. Conception St.) will play host to a Toga Karaoke Party. All focus on a famous pair of locals who have made national news in A $10 donation is requested at the door. Beer and wine will be proceeds from the $5 cover charge benefit the historic playhouse the last few years. On Wednesday, June 8, at noon, Cari Searcy available by donation. in Midtown. and Kimberly McKeand will discuss their story in “Our Fight for For more information, call Elizabet Elliott at 251-208-5200.

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 47 MUSIC FEATURE

THE KRICKETS ALBUM RELEASE PARTY SUNDAY, JUNE 5, AT 7 P.M. CALLAGHAN’S IRISH SOCIAL CLUB, 916 CHARLESTON ST., WWW.CALLAGHANSIRISHSOCIALCLUB.COM TICKETS: $10 AT THE DOOR

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The Krickets are Melissa Bowman, Emily Stuckey, Callaghan’s hosts Lauren Spring and Katrina Kolb. Krickets album release BY STEPHEN CENTANNI/MUSIC EDITOR | [email protected]

“I don’t know if there’s a competition or some- by Stuckey but morphed into its final state after “He did not want us to sound produced and thing, or women just not getting along,” Bowman the group put it through a process they refer to as overproduced or lose this weird organic thing said. “I think most men would be like, ‘Oh god, “Krickifying.” going on,” Spring said. “We may not be the most it’s an all-girl band. Can you imagine what goes As they listened to each other’s respective polished musicians, but once we are together we on in that band?’ It’s nice to have girls who are songs, each member would imagine what could be can really create some magic. He recognized that willing to take a step back and not be in the lime- added to it. Ultimately, an individual’s composi- from the start.” light the whole time.”Spring and Bowman laid the tion would become a group effort, with each mem- The final cut of “Spanish Moss Sirens” proves groundwork for The Krickets, coming together ber filling any arrangement gaps that appeared. both the power of Tanner’s ear as well as the to perform a benefit for the Sacred Heart Cricket According to Spring, Kolb completed the musical power of The Krickets’ music. In a time where Fund. After spending so much time performing in mix by adding her bass “groove.” Americana has almost become cliché, The Krick- her husband’s band, Spring found the collabora- “It’s been amazing to me and very inspiring,” ets are revitalizing it. Throughout the album, the tion with Bowman to be new and exciting. Spring Spring said. “I had only written one of my songs group expertly balances both modern and classic cites Bowman’s attitude toward their duo to be when we came to the table for this album. Emily influences. “Guinevere” is a classic country ballad he power of music has pulled one of the most positive aspects of the pairing. had two of them written. Everybody has to try dif- highlighted by flawless harmonies. With its low- a quartet of women together Bowman created a safe environment for Spring from across the Gulf Coast. The to experiment in an unfamiliar musical capacity, which helped her evolve as a musician. Krickets’ lineup features Me- As they listened to each other’s respective songs, lissa Bowman of Panama City, “I just got so much out of it, because it was a T very safe place for me to be good or bad,” Spring Florida; Lauren Spring of Port each member would imagine what could be added said. “It didn’t matter. It was the joy of the har- St. Joe, Florida; Emily Stuckey mony and this platform where we could get better of Fairhope and Katrina Kolb of to it. Ultimately, an individual’s composition would and work at your craft. Her willingness to let me Mobile. All four have established get up there is awesome. If she hadn’t created become a group effort, with each member filling any reputations with their respec- such a safe environment for my fragile ego, it tive projects. Kolb is the bassist wouldn’t have worked.” arrangement gaps that appeared. for Mobile bluegrass masters As time passed, Spring and Bowman decided Fat Man Squeeze. Spring and to add to their ranks. Bowman was familiar with Stuckey are known for their solo Stuckey’s performances and recruited her string work. Bowman has earned expe- and harmonic talents to the lineup. Bowman also ferent parts. It’s been such a generous and giving end bass and steady organ, the haunting “Song rience performing alongside her brought on Kolb, whose bass added a new dynamic songwriting process, and you have these tools to of the Spanish Moss Sirens” is one of the most husband in the Bo Spring Band. to their sound. Stuckey says her participation in work with to hear what this song could be.” powerful songs on the album. “To and Fro” mixes The Krickets allowed her to journey into new musi- When they finished compiling and shaping down-home sounds with a modern drive and just In The Krickets, Kolb remains cal worlds that were both unfamiliar and glorious. songs, The Krickets decided to take the next step enough vocal reverb to provide a dreamlike vibe. a constant on her upright bass “When Melissa and I were playing together, I and traveled to Sun Drop Sound in Florence to While each song has its own personality, the while the rest of the group trade could harmonize,” Stuckey said. “I didn’t really record with producer/engineer Ben Tanner. In group collaboration is obvious — there’s an aural a variety of instruments, from know how to. When the three of us got together, addition to being a member of Alabama Shakes, bond that’s preserved from beginning to end. the fiddle to the mandolin. While it blended. Katrina adding the bass to keep the Tanner has established a reputation for being one With that said, The Krickets’ show at Cal- their mix of classic and modern groove and everything, that really was like, ‘Wow! of Alabama’s most sought-after producers. laghan’s may be one of the few times the public folk/Americana, highlighted by We got something special.’” He was the perfect match for The Krickets. will get to catchthe band until the fall. After Cal- beautiful harmonies, is ex- The quartet busied themselves creating songs Even though their vocals were overdubbed, Tan- laghan’s, The Krickets will open for The Mulligan tremely refreshing, this aspect for what would become their fittingly titled ner insisted the group maintain a raw sound, so Brothers in Santa Rosa Beach on Saturday, June is matched by their all-female album, “Spanish Moss Sirens.” The songwriters they performed the instrumental work live in the 11. Afterwards Stuckey will have to take a break lineup, a rarity on the Gulf of the group brought what Bowman describes studio. Tanner also recognized the power in num- for another big event, the birth of her child. How- as the “bones” of a song to their rehearsals. For bers when it came to their vocals, recording their ever, this will give The Krickets a few months to Coast. example, the song “Sweet Home” was composed harmonies as a group. plan their future.

48 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 49 Get weird ver the past century, novelty music has flourished. Comedic musicians such as Spike Jones and Stan BY STEPHEN CENTANNI/MUSIC EDITOR “The Man” Freberg specialized in musical parodies [email protected] of popular songs. Such icons inspired a young “Weird Al” Yankovic. While still in high school, he released his debut single, “Belvedere Cruisin’,” through the novelty-centric radio program “The Dr. Demento Show.” Yankovic had found his calling. As he entered California Polytechnic, Yankovic began to establish his “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC Oreputation as music history’s most prolific parody artist. Songs such as TUESDAY, JUNE 7, “My Bologna” (The Knack’s “My Sharona”) and “Another One Rides the WITH DOORS AT 6 P.M. Bus” (Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”) collected a cult following of novelty-philes. Yankovic jumped into the mainstream with his break-out hit SAENGER THEATRE, “Eat It” (Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”). 6 S. JOACHIM ST., In the following years, Yankovic proved no song was off limits with WWW.MOBILESAENGER.COM a plethora of comedic parodies from across musical genres. This success TICKETS: $36.50/$39.60/ allowed him to appear in numerous films and television shows, including “UHF” and “The Weird Al Show.” Fans of IFC’s “Comedy Bang! Bang!” $54.50/$269 can expect to see Yankovic taking over bandleader and co-host duties. (FOR THE MANDATORY CZAR Yankovic’s live performances are just as hilarious and entertaining as his EXPERIENCE), AVAILABLE AT music. This talented artist is known for multiple costume changes that can THE SAENGER BOX OFFICE AND sometimes include his fat suit from the video for “I’m Fat” (Michael Jack- son’s “I’m Bad”). For this “Mandatory World Tour,” Yankovic is adding to THROUGH TICKETMASTER his concert experience with the “Mandatory Czar VIP Experience.” This package includes exclusive seating, a meet and greet, a pre-show costume party with snacks, a cash bar and “Minister of Propaganda” DJ. In addition, VIPs will received merch such as a signed tour flag, a Yankovic-edited edi- Photo | Kyle Cassidy/wikimedia.org | “Weird Al” Yankovic tion of “MAD Magazine” and a souvenir lanyard.

BAND: ALBERT SIMPSON Gadsden’s Albert DATE: JUNE 2-3, Simpson at LuLu’s AT 5 P.M. DAILY VENUE: LUCY BUFFETT’S emorial Day weekend marked the beginning of the summer season on the Alabama Gulf Coast. LULU’S, For the next several months, the Gulf Shores/ Orange Beach area will be filled with tourists 200 E. 25TH AVE. and locals who soak up the sun and saltwater. Those wanting to accent their beach experience (GULF SHORES), with music should look no further than Albert WWW.LULUBUFFETT.COM Simpson’s performance at Lucy Buffett’s LuLu’s in Gulf Shores. This Gadsden native is a regular on the Gulf Coast music scene. Armed with TICKETS: FREE Ma guitar and numerous percussive instruments, Simpson may be a lone gunman on the stage but he puts on a big show, with musicianship and lyrical mastery. Simpson’s most recent effort, “Roll Your Mind,” is an excellent sample of this musician’s talent. Not only did he play all the instruments on the album, he also manned the co-production chair. Each song is noteworthy for its major focus on acoustic instruments. This truly Southern album mixes funk and blues, with fusion blasts on the guitar popping up here and there. Simpson’s music should bring a hot day at the beach to a perfect end. Photo | Frank Allen Sr./facebook.com/albert.simpson.96 | Albert Simpson

BAND: JASON BON- HAM’S LED ZEPPELIN Zeppelin revisted EXPERIENCE ed Zeppelin’s mix of blues and rock laid the roots for heavy metal and inspired a multitude of musi- DATE: SATURDAY, JUNE cians. Jason Bonham, son of the band’s late drummer, John Bonham, is keeping Zeppelin’s legacy and 4, AT 8 P.M. music alive with his “Led Zeppelin Experience.” VENUE: IP CASINO, RE- This multimedia show brings Zeppelin fans some of this legendary band’s greatest songs performed live. In SORT & SPA, 850 BAY- addition to admirable recreations of Zeppelin’s music, Bonham enhances VIEW AVE. (BILOXI), this experience with home movies featuring his late father. The perfor- Lmance reaches an apex with a rendition of “Moby Dick” that features a WWW.IPBILOXI.COM drum collaboration between Bonham and his father — he performs live, his father onscreen. TICKETS: $20-$35, Over the past couple of decades, rumors of a reunion have persisted — ideally consisting of the three surviving members with Jason Bonham on AVAILABLE THROUGH drums — but that has yet to happen … making this show a must for any TICKETMASTER Zeppelin fan. Photo | facebook.com | Jason Bonham

50 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 Gypsy punk crowd pleaser BY STEPHEN CENTANNI/MUSIC EDITOR | [email protected]

MUSIC Frank Turner, former vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, has released six RUNDOWN albums in a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band’s split in 2005. He is touring in support of his latest, “Positive Songs for Negative People.”

• Band: Gogol Bordello, Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, Walter Shreifels • Date: Monday, June 6, with doors at 7 p.m. • Venue: Soul Kitchen, 219 Dauphin St., www.soulkitchenmobile.com • Tickets: $30 advance/$35 day of show/$47.50 riser seats; available at Soul Kitchen, its website, Mellow Mushroom (both locations) or by calling 1-866-468-7630

oul Kitchen is giving the Azalea City an evening of music built on a foundation of exotic folk sounds from across the ocean. New York’s Gogol Bordello will serve as the evening’s headliner. With its trademark gypsy punk sound, this group Sis certain to be a crowd pleaser. Such a headliner deserves an equally charismatic opening act, and Frank Turner is just the guy to get the job done. Much like in the United States, many modern acts in Great Britain are laying their rock on a foundation of folk influences. With a legacy that includes time with the post-hardcore outfit Million Photo courtesy of Universal Music Group Dead, Turner embraces the folk sounds of his native England. His original sound melds both folk and tional. He describes “Tape Deck Heart” as a est reviews when it came out, but it sold not only this song but also one of the concepts rock influences with outstanding results. highly produced album with multiple layers, more than any other record,” Turner said. “In driving this album. For Turner, rock ‘n’ roll was changed forever containing songs that can be a little lengthy. reviews for the new one, everyone is [saying] “Part of the vibe of the new record is about when Bob Dylan traded his acoustic guitar for an He finds “Tape Deck Heart” both involved and ‘‘Tape Deck Heart’ was brilliant, but we’re turning over a new leaf and new beginnings,” electric. Since then, Turner has felt folk sounds can introspective. not sure about the new one,’ which makes me Turner explained. “It’s about trying to move been found in many rock compositions. For “Positive Songs for Negative People,” think, ‘Well, f*ck off, then!’” on from the difficult or dark times into some- “I think folk music is always there,” Turner said. Turner turned to his hardcore muses for While Turner’s hardcore background is thing more optimistic.” “I think the irony of popularity and fashionability inspiration. While this album reflects familiar definitely heard throughout “Positive Songs When it comes to his live show, Turner swings over it, but it never goes away. It’s just sounds, Turner has also peppered the album for Negative People,” his folk roots still finds inspiration in bands such as Sick of It All whether or not the people who write trendy music with the primal intensity of punk rock. This resonate. This can especially be seen with and Agnostic Front. Each performance has the are paying attention or not. Folk’s the unpinning of slight turn from the musical style of his previ- the album’s opener, “The Angel Islington.” energy of a punk rock show. However, he also everything in a way.” ous five releases has led to mixed reviews. Gentle string plucks run parallel to heartfelt sees performing in this way as an occupational Local radio has done a fine job introducing the However, Turner takes the negative with a lyrics as Turner takes his listeners to his home. hazard. At a recent show in Belgium, his city to Turner. The single “Recovery” from his grain of salt. He considers himself the best This song has been called his “love letter to stagediving antics caused an in-ear monitor 2013 release “Tape Deck Heart” has been embraced critic of his own music and is happy with the North London,” home to the paternal side of to shatter. Luckily, all of the plastic and metal by locals. When he arrives in Mobile, Turner will tracks on this album, which he calls “the best Turner’s family. Until moving to this section was removed from his head by a skilled local entertain his audience with cuts from his latest thing that I was able to do in that time and in of town, his life consisted of nonstop touring doctor. Turner says the live show is a chance album, “Positive Songs for Negative People.” This that place.” He also keeps in mind the critics’ and “couch surfing.” A few years ago, Turner for him to release everything upon his audi- sixth release from Turner is a profound contrast reaction to his last album. decided to take his life in a new direction by ence. If he has energy left at the end of the from his previous solo work, which was inten- “‘Tape Deck Heart’ didn’t get the great- settling in this part of town, giving birth to show, Turner feels he hasn’t given it his all.

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 51 AREACLUB LISTINGS Studio 5’4 Billiards Club Celtic Irish Pub [Pascagoula] [DOWNTOWN] 216 Dauphin St. | 725-0406 4130 Gov’t Blvd.|447-2132 4901 Chicot St. | 228-938-6800 Alchemy Tavern 7 S. Joachin St. | 441-7741 T.P. Crockmiers Cockeyed Charlies Ed’s Seafood Shed 250 Dauphin St. | 476-1890 6920 Airport Blvd.|725-1112 3382 Battleship Pkwy. | 625-1947 The Blind Mule 57 N. Claiborne St. | 694-6853 The Listening Room Crooked Martini Felix’s Fish Camp 78 St. Francis St.| 367-4599 7639 Cottage Hill Rd. #C |633-5555 1530 Battleship Pkwy. |626-6710 Boo Radley’s 276 Dauphin St. | 432-1996 Veet’s Flashback Club 66 S. Royal St.| 694-3090 10071 Airport Blvd.| 634-2239 Midnight Rodeo 7790 Tanner Rd. |639-2222 The Bar 352 St. Francis St. | 648-1596 Jag’s Sports Bar & Grill 5602 Old Shell Rd.| 725-1102 Mississippi Coast Coliseum [Biloxi] [MIDTOWN] 2350 Beach Blvd. |228-594-3700 The Brickyard 266 Dauphin St. | 473-4739 Ashland Midtown Pub Lucky Irish Pub & Grill 2453 Old Shell Rd.| 3692 Airport Blvd.| 414-3000 The End Zone Sports Bar 479-3278 [Mt. Vernon] 19170 Hwy 43. | 829-9227 Buck’s Pizza 350 Dauphin St. | 431-9444 Blues Tavern Mellow Mushroom 5660 Old Shell Rd. | 380-1500 The Oar House 2818 Gov’t Blvd. | 479-7621 [Dauphin Island] Callaghan’s Irish Social Club 1504 Bienville Blvd.| 861-4800 916 Charleston St. | 433-9374 Butch Cassidy’s Cafe Patches 60 N. Florida St. | 5100 Girby Rd.| 661-8028 450-0690 Original Oyster House Dauphin St. Blues Company 3733 Battleship Pkwy. | & Draft Picks Kimberly’s Midtown Bar Satori Coffee House 626-2188 2660 Old Shell Rd. | 5460 Old Shell Rd. | 344-4575 478-1477 Pelican Pub & Restaurant 564 Dauphin St. | 725-6429 [Dauphin Island] Firehouse Wine Bar Shop Mellow Mushroom Runway Billards 2032 Airport Blvd. |471-4700 8000 Airport Blvd. | 634-8006 1102 DeSoto Ave.| 861-7180 216 St. Francis St. | 421-2022 Gabriel’s Downtown Rear Pocket The Hungry Owl 7899 Cottage Hill | 633-4479 Pelican Reef Restaurant 2525 Emogene St. |476-0053 11799 Dauphin Island Pkwy. | 973-2670 55 S. Joachim St. | 432-4900 The Garage Royal Knight Restaurant Tinder Box 3004 Gov’t Blvd. |287-1220 1312 W I-65 Service Rd. S| 460-2597 Trader’s 9 S. Washington Ave. | 433-2223 4015 Battleship Pkwy | 626-5630 Hayley’s Downtown Silver Horse Pub Stir Mobile 151 S. Florida St. |478-7030 5821 Old Shell Rd., Ste. D | 342-9995 The Grand Mariner 278 Dauphin St. | 433-4970 6036 Rock Point Rd. | 443-5700 Joe Cain Café VFW Post 49 2528 Govt Blvd. | 471-9438 [EASTERN SHORE] The River Shack 26 N. Royal St. | 338-2000 6120 Marina Dr. S. | 443-7318 Liquid Bay House Pub [Daphne] 28850 Bayline Dr. | 626-0158 [THE BEACH] 661 Dauphin St. | 432-0109 Tin Top Loda Bier Garten Boudreaux’s Cajun Grill [Daphne] Flora-Bama 6232 Bon Secour Hwy. County Rd. 10 | 949-5086 29249 US Hwy. 98 | 621-1991 17401 Perdido Key Dr., | 850-492-0611 251 Dauphin St. | 287-6871 The Hangout Touch Down Tavern Mobile Civic Center Club 44 [Daphne] 5460 Inn Rd | 662-7543 28850 US 98, #100 | 445-8069 101 Gulf Ct. | 948-3030 401 Civic Center Dr. | 208-7261 Moe’s Original BBQ Gumbo Shack Live Bait VFW Post 7320 [Saraland] 212 Fairhope Ave. | 928-4100 24281 Perdido Beach Blvd. | 974-1612 244 Old Telegraph Rd. | 679-1188 701 Spring Hill Ave|410-7427 O’Daly’s Irish Pub Manci’s Antique Club [Daphne] Lulu’s at Homeport Marina 200 E. 25th Ave. | 251-967-LULU Whiskey Blues [Theodore] 1715 Main St. | 375-0543 5791 Swedetown Rd. | 633-1769 564 Dauphin St.|725-6429 OK Bicycle Shop McSharry’s [Fairhope] Pink Pony Pub [Gulf Shores] 101N Brancroft St. |990-5100 137 East Gulf Pl. | 978-6371 Zebra Lounge 661 Dauphin St. |432-2453 2343 Dauphin Island Pkwy. | 473-2997 Pat’s Downtown Grill Moe’s Original BBQ Pirate’s Cove [Elberta] [Daphne] 6600 County Rd. 95| 987-1224 271 Dauphin St. | 438-9585 [CASINOS] Riverview Plaza 6423 Bayfront Pk Dr.|625-7427 Tacky Jacks Old 27 Grill [Fairhope] [Orange Beach] 27206 Safe Harbor Dr, | Beau Rivage 981-4144 [Biloxi] (Fathoms Lounge) [Gulf Shores] 249 E. 24th Ave.| 948-8881 64 S. Water St.| 438-4000 19992 Hwy 181 | 281-2663 878 Beach Blvd.| 228-386-7111 Papa’s Pizza [Daphne] 1577 Alabama 180 | 968-8341 or 888-595-2534 Royal Scam The Handlebar [Pensacola] 72 S. Royal St.|432-SCAM (7226) 28850 US Hwy 98| 626-7662 Plow [Fairhope] Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 319 N. Tarragona St.| 434-9060 [Biloxi] Royal Street Tavern The Wharf 26 N. Royal St. | 338-2000 96 Plantation Pointe| 410-7569 777 Beach Blvd. | 228-374-ROCK (7625) Courtyard 311 [Orange Beach] Saenger Theatre 4985 Wharf Pkwy. | 224-1000 Harrah’s Hotel & Casino 6 S. Joachim St. | 208-5600 311 Fairhope Ave. | 928-2032 [New Orleans] Ravenite Pizzeria [Fairhope] Saddle Up Saloon [AROUND AND ABOUT] 228 Poydras St.| 504-533-6000 9 N Jackson St. | 285-4596 102 N. Section St. | 929-2525 Rosie’s Grill and Record Bar [Daphne] The Old Bama Barn [Theodore] Grand Casino Serda’s Coffee Company 11470-B Bellingrath Rd. | 973-0388 [Biloxi] 3 S. Royal St. | 415-3000 1203 U.S. 98 | 626-2440 280 Beach Blvd. | Windmill Market [Fairhope] 228-436-2946 Skyview Lounge Blue Gill Restaurant 3775 Battleship Pkwy. | 301 Gov’t St.| 694-0100 85 N. Bancroft St. | 517-5444 625-1998 IP Casino Resort & Spa [Biloxi] Soul Kitchen Bottoms Up 850 Bayview Ave. | 800-436-3000 219 Dauphin St. |433-5958 [WESTMOBILE] 2605 Halls Mill Rd. | 287-7781 Spot of Tea’s Jaggers All Sports Bar & Grill Briar Patch Wind Creek Casino 303 Poarch Rd., Atmore | 310 Dauphin St. | 375-6772 3408 Pleasant Valley Rd. | 345-9338 9371 Dauphin Island Pkwy. | 973-1120 866-946-3360

52 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 AREAMUSIC LISTINGS | June 2 - June 8 Eric Erdman, 1p// VooDoo Dillion Braxton, 1p// VooDoo Molly Thomas & The Rare Birds [THUR. JUNE 2] Hangout— Hangout— Manci’s— Gumbo, 7p Gumbo, 7p McSharry’s— Trad Irish Music, 6:30p Bluegill— Matt and Sherry Hard Rock (Center Bar) — Hard Rock (Center Bar) — Old 27 Grill— Barry Gibsin, 11:30a Blues Tavern— John Fleming Trio, 8:30p Supercharger, 9p Supercharger, 9p Pinzones— Ross Newell, 11a Callaghan’s— Phil Proctor IP Casino— Happy Together Tour, 8p Hard Rock (Live) — 38 Special, 8p Cockeyed Charlie’s— JJ, 10p Listening Room— Harrison McInnis IP Casino— Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin [MON. JUNE 6] Felix’s— Jeri Lulu’s— Albert Simpson, 5p Experience, 8p Felix’s— Grits N Pieces Hangout— David Chastang, 1p// Oliver’s Main Street Cigar Lounge— The Listening Room— Ruby and the Rogues Hangout— The Perry Wall, 6p Twist, 6p Memories, 8p Lulu’s— Three Bean Soup, 5p Lulu’s— Brent Burns, 5p Hard Rock (Center Bar) — Flying Manci’s— Leavin’ Bros Duo Manci’s— Modern Eldoradoes Saenger— “Weird Al” Yankovic Steinway Brothers McSharry’s— DJ Chi, 10p McSharry’s— DJ Carter, 10p Soul Kitchen— Gogol Bordello, Frank Lulu’s— Albert Simpson, 5p Moe’s BBQ (Daphne) — Charlie Wilson The Merry Widow— Hackensaw Boys, Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Walter McSharry’s— Kathy and Jeff, 7:30p Band, 8p 9p Schreifels, 8p Old 27 Grill— Songwriter’s Night, 6:30p Moe’s BBQ (Mobile) — Matt and Sherry Moe’s BBQ (Mobile) — Glass Joe, 6:30p Pinzones— Rebecca Barry and John Neese, 6:30p Pinzones— Brewfest: Eric Erdman, 1:30p// Cochran [TUE. JUNE 7] O’Daly’s— Gene Murrell, Tony Edwards Harrison McInnis, 3p/// Paw Paws Medicine Bluegill— Tim Kinsey and David White, 10p Cabinet, 5p//// Lisa Mills, 7p [FRI. JUNE 3] Butch Cassidy’s— Andy MacDonald Old 27 Grill— Whiskey Bridge, 6:30p Top of the Bay— 12 Sharp Cockeyed Charlie’s— Jordan Bramblett All Sports Bar & Billards— DJ Markie Pinzones— Brandon Bailey Tropics— Westside Players Duo, 7p Felix’s— Roger Fleshman Mark, 10p Tropics— Something Else, 7p Hangout— Wavelength, 6p Blind Mule— Deaf and Poor with Soul Kitchen— CBDB, Infant Richard and [SUN. JUNE 5] Lulu’s— Melissa Joiner, 5p Jaguarundi, 10p the Delta Stones, 10:30p Bluegill— Dale Drinkard, 12p// U.S. Band, 6p Saenger— Harry Connick Jr. – “That Bluegill— Dale Drinkard, 12p// Blind Dog Blues Tavern— Mark Welborn, 6p Would be Me” Mike, 6p [SAT. JUNE 4] Callaghan’s— The Crickets Blues Tavern— Jeff Jenson Band, 9p Bluegill— Lee Yankie, 12p// Fat Lincoln, 6p Ed’s Seafood Shed— Ross Newell [WED. JUNE 8 ] Callaghan’s— The Stolen Faces Blues Tavern— Woo Tones, 9p Felix’s— Bobby Butchka Blues Tavern— Art, 8p Cockeyed Charlie’s— Shea White & Cockeyed Charlie’s— Jordan Bramblett Hangout— Jay Williams, 1p// The Foxy Callaghan’s— Phil and Foster Friends, 10p Cowboys and Angels— Kick off Iguanas, 6p Felix’s— Bobby Butchka Ed’s Seafood Shed— Ross Newell and Summer: DJ, food and more, 11a Hard Rock (Center Bar) — Brent & Hangout— Ryan Balthrop and Friends, 6p John Cochran Ed’s Seafood Shed— Bobby Butchka Steve, 9p Lulu’s— Nikki Talley, 5p Felix’s— Grits N Pieces Felix’s— Blind Dog Mike Listening Room— The Rising Sons McSharry’s— Songwriters in the Garage— Red Field Garage— Whyte Caps Lulu’s— Blind Dog Mike & the Howlers, 5p Round, 7p SEND YOUR CLUB & MUSIC LISTINGS TO [email protected]

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 53 FILMTHE REEL WORLD Patchwork ‘Victor Frankenstein’ fails to deliver BY ASIA FREY/FILM CRITIC | [email protected]

ed astray by a promising pedigree, I looked Medicine, attracting the attention of a wealthy, powerful were clearly going for the feeling of the entertain- forward to “Victor Frankenstein.” Directed and extremely snide classmate who, with sinister speed ing Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies, but failed by Paul McGuigan, who directs television’s and enthusiasm, offers to bankroll the rest of their bad, to deliver the comic punch or physical bravado those AREA “Sherlock,” and starring James McAvoy, dangerous plans for what we can only assume are totally have. “Victor Frankenstein” was silly in an unwatch- THEATERS Daniel Craig and Andrew Scott (who plays altruistic reasons. able way. I’m all for making up backstory to carve an CARMIKE Moriarty on the aforementioned “Sher- And it is in the middle part of this silly film that extra movie out of something we already know, but this CINEMA’S lock,”) this film nevertheless most closely resembled story keeps going to its regular ending anyway, and is Wynnsong 16 Lthe “Frankenstein” tale in that it was itself a grotesque indescribably anticlimactic. 785 Schillinger monster of ill-fitting parts, sewn crudely together with THERE IS ONE MOMENT WHEN I must admit the set for the gothic castle where Fran- Rd. S. big, ugly seams. THIS FILM ACKNOWLEDGES kenstein’s monster is eventually created is classic and (251) 639-7373 Like Sherlock Holmes, Victor Frankenstein (James awesome. But they had to rush through the end because McAvoy) is portrayed as a brilliant egomaniac, and the “YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN,” IN WHICH we’d already watched a whole movie about Igor. Seeing film’s twist is that we also get to learn more about Igor VICTOR CORRECTS THE PRONUNCIATION the lightning crackle and snap, you can’t help but wish CRESCENT (Daniel Radcliffe). A pitiful but intelligent hunchback for a normal Frankenstein story, or just to watch one THEATER living a sad, undignified life in the circus, he is rescued OF HIS LAST NAME, LIKE GENE WILDER that’s already been made. And if we wanted to learn 208 Dauphin by Frankenstein when his natural talents for surgery DOES IN THE MEL BROOKS FILM. more about young Frankenstein, we’d all be much better Street are put to use saving the beautiful acrobat for whom he off watching “Young Frankenstein.” (251) 438-2005 pines (Jessica Brown Findlay). There is one moment when this film acknowledges As the men escape in an improbable action sequence the script really comes apart. Igor and Frankenstein’s “Young Frankenstein,” in which Victor corrects the shoehorned into the story a circus goon is killed, and relationship, which is the only thing that makes this pronunciation of his last name, like Gene Wilder does in HOLLYWOOD this puts detective and religious zealot Andrew Scott story different from a straight Frankenstein story, is the Mel Brooks film. It’s a glorious moment, and gives STADIUM 18 on the trail of our brilliant, short scientists and their completely inconsistent. They agree and disagree at the film a quickly extinguished glimmer of hope. The 1250 Satchel misbegotten plans to electrocute things back to life. random, and the weakness of the writing really shows whole film should have just gone for funny, because no Paige Dr. (251) 473-9655 Beginning with a gross monkey creature, Frankenstein in their scenes. one could take this seriously. and Igor demonstrate their work at the Royal College of I expected this to be silly in a light-horror way. They “Victor Frankenstein” is currently available to rent.

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54 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 Are ad blockers the next blow to media? BY ROB HOLBERT/MANAGING EDITOR | [email protected] MEDIA MEDIA FRENZY hough the technology has not yet become ubiquitous in The UTA study found that while print has declined among asked how the paper’s circulation issues would be handled with the United States, ad-blocking software is already costing 51 of the country’s largest daily newspapers, it is still by far the such a large decrease in staff, the former employee said the P-R’s media and other online advertising purveyors billions of more dominant generator of revenue and readership for those circulation has sunk so low that even with half the staff it would dollars in Asia and other “emerging” markets. newspapers. So yes, even 20 years into the digital revolution, the be no problem. TThe New York Times published a story Monday discussing study showed readers of these newspapers, at every age group, Lagniappe was unable to get comment from anyone with Ala- something that has certainly been — or should be — on the radar still overwhelmingly read the print version versus digital. bama Media Group. The Press-Register, as well as The Huntsville for any business that counts on online advertising to keep the From 2010 to 2014, digital newspaper advertising in this Times and Birmingham News, are all currently run by AMG. trains running. Right now, it says, one in five cell phone users country only rose from $3 billion to $3.5 billion. Even though However, it has been announced the Southeast Regional Media — 420 million people worldwide — are blocking advertising on print revenue dropped precipitously from $22.8 billion in 2010, Group will launch later this year and take in all of the Newhouse- it was still $16.4 billion four years later — almost five times as their cellular devices. The Times quotes information pulled from owned newspapers and websites in Alabama, Louisiana and much as digital — and generated about 80 percent of total ad a study conducted by digital advertising company PageFair, and Mississippi. revenue. Priori Data, a company that tracks smartphone applications. Former P-R publisher Ricky Mathews — who currently While only 4.3 million Americans — just 2.2 percent of When the chief executive of PageFair declares it’s “only a oversees Louisiana for the company — will be in charge of the smartphone users — currently engage ad blockers, the numbers matter of time until mobile blocking comes to the West,” it’s not SRMG. are much larger overseas. Right now, according to the study, 36 hard to imagine a looming problem for companies that have put percent of smartphone users in the Asia-Pacific region have ad all or most of their eggs in the digital basket. A couple of inter- blockers on their phones. In India and Indonesia, 66 percent of national cellphone companies are already toying with the idea of Eli returning to Alabama people use them. offering ad-blocking packages to consumers, something that, if it Former FOX10 sports anchor/reporter Simone Eli is headed This also doesn’t count another 200 million people worldwide proves popular, could even trigger lawsuits over “net neutrality” back to ‘Bama after a two-year stint at KPRC-TV in Houston. who have added ad-blocking software to their desktop computers. issues. Eli says the move is more personal than business, which is The article attributes the much higher percentage of ad- The bottom line, it seems, is that many people still don’t like why she’s leaving one of the nation’s largest markets to head blocker usage in other parts of the world to the fact that in those digital advertising, find it obtrusive and realize it makes load back to the Birmingham/Tuscaloosa area. markets people tend to use phones as their primary access to the times longer for those websites you just absolutely need to see “I’ve loved my time here and have created amazing relation- web. As more and more Americans follow suit, experts expect the right now. In this instant-gratification world, a few seconds is all ships with folks at KPRC, but I am moving to be happier person- use of ad blockers to rise. Last year the number of people using it takes for people to be turned off. ally and continue my sports broadcasting career in Alabama the technology worldwide almost doubled. But consumers have to realize that if ad blockers become the [Birmingham/Tuscaloosa area],” Eli told a Houston media blog- It should be pretty obvious why such technology presents a norm, their favorite news sites will eventually have to go behind ger last week. a paywall to survive. And that presents a whole other issue. real danger to media companies, the vast majority of which are Eli worked at WALA for a year before abruptly leaving the still trying desperately to find ways to make the effort put into station in June 2014. Prior to that she worked at Buckeye Cable their websites produce the kind of revenue they got from their Cuts at The Press-Register Sports Network. original platforms. Insiders are telling us that last week as much as half of the While she has not yet announced a new position, Eli told A University of Texas at Austin research paper earlier this year local circulation staff still remaining at The Press-Register was other Houston media she had received “a few job offers in the already has shown that the efforts of many of the country’s daily terminated. Birmingham-Tuscaloosa area” and is excited to be closer to newspapers to “go digital” over the past decade has fallen flat in One of those laid off tells Lagniappe management from the friends and family. many regards, and that’s without having to deal with ad blockers. New Orleans office showed up and commenced the firings. When CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Bowling pin wood 6. Stadium regulars 10. Flanders of fiction 14. “Manhattan” director 15. Buffalo’s lake 16. Having the skills 17. Ashcan School painter 18. Nits, eventually 19. Appaloosa’s relative 20. Puts under a spell 22. Partial prefix 23. Cereal container 24. Oscar-winner Hay- ward 25. Autocrat’s worry 29. Laryngeal woe 32. Still kicking 33. Cooler residents 37. Prop for Chaplin 38. Circuit-board wrecker 39. Energy field, of sorts 40. Tires out 42. Quell, as concerns 43. Stood up to 44. Atlas features 45. Extract metals by heating 6. Oscar’s “The Odd 33. Cordage fiber 48. Many chiliads Couple” pal 34. Game guide 49. Angel’s prop 7. Grand Canyon’s loc. 35. Shucks! 50. Acted like a control 8. Heading on Santa’s 36. Asserts freak list 38. Bag, zoologically 57. Again from the top 9. Doesn’t raise or fold 41. Chocolatier’s vessel 58. Quite excited 10. Wombats, bandi- 42. Mouseketeer notable 59. Embargo target coots, etc. 44. Charged particle 60. Green hue 11. Violas’ pit neighbors 45. Must, in a contract 61. Hardly captivating 12. Vicuna’s kin 46. Fervor 62. Pacific island 13. Bolshevik hero 47. Incense resin 63. Deposited, as eggs 21. Day care attendee 48. Figure skating figure 64. On the way, in a way 24. Hoagie 50. Artist’s light touches 65. Aromatic chemical 25. Hare vs. tortoise event 51. Wolfish look 26. Flair or gusto 52. Haunted house noise DOWN 27. It climbs the walls 53. Valentine’s Day deity 1. Brewer’s preparation 28. Caused a spill 54. Go on and on 2. Adversary’s antithesis 29. Felt deeply 55. Head start, say 3. Rainspout sound 30. Convoy components, 56. Diary opener 4. Pastrami preference often 5. Lend dignity or honor to 31. “Blood and Sand” cry ANSWERS ON PAGE 62

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SUMMER GARDEN WALK AT BELLINGRATH GARDENS AND HOME

JOIN BELLINGRATH’S HORTICULTURAL MANAGEMENT TEAM AT 10:30 A.M. ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, FOR A GUIDED TOUR OF THE GARDENS TO SEE OUR WONDERFUL SUMMER DISPLAYS, FLORAL BORDERS AND NEW ADDITIONS. THE EVENT IS THE FIRST OF OUR WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS SERIES AT BELLIN- GRATH IN JUNE AND JULY AND IS INCLUDED IN THE REGULAR GARDENS ADMISSION PRICE OF $13 FOR ADULTS AND $7.50 FOR AGES 5-12. (THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR BELLINGRATH MEMBERS OR FOR AGES 4 AND YOUNGER.) FOR DETAILS AND TO REGISTER, VISIT BELLINGRATH.ORG OR CALL 251-973-2217. Photo provided by Bellingrath Gardens

GENERAL INTEREST on Thursday evenings through July 9. For more information on sponsorship, Voter registration and photo ID drive The market will be set up behind the tickets and donation opportunities, Summer Garden Walk at Bellingrath In an effort to ensure eligible Alabama Fairhope Public Library on Bancroft contact the 100 Black Men of Gardens and Home citizens are able to vote, Alabama’s Street downtown and will feature Greater Mobile, 251-405-5500 or email Join Bellingrath’s horticultural Secretary of State John H. Merrill has local farmers, bakers, fresh Baldwin [email protected]. management team at 10:30 a.m. on asked members of the Legislature County produce, fresh-cut flowers, Wednesday, June 1, for a guided tour and all probate judges to provide local honey, plants, baked goods and Coastal Seafood Craze of the gardens to see our wonderful three separate and specific days of more. The library will hold story times On Friday, June 3, the Alabama summer displays, floral borders and the week, times and venues in their and children’s activities at 4 p.m. each Coastal Foundation will hold the 5th new additions. The event is the first respective jurisdictions where the Thursday at the market. For general annual Coastal Seafood Craze starting of our Wonderful Wednesdays series Secretary of State’s office may hold a information or for information about at 5 p.m. at the Hank Aaron Stadium at Bellingrath in June and July and drive for voter registration and issuance becoming a vendor, call 251-929-1466. Event Center (755 Bolling Brothers is included in the regular gardens of photo IDs. In Mobile County, the Blvd., Mobile). The event will go until admission price of $13 for adults and drive will be held Thursday, June 9, Market on the Square 7:05 p.m. when the first pitch is thrown $7.50 for ages 5-12. (There is no charge in two locations: 9 a.m. to noon at Market on the Square runs from 7:30 as part of ACF Night with the Mobile for Bellingrath members or for ages Connie Hudson West Mobile Regional a.m. to noon every Saturday through BayBears! The $25 tickets — which 4 and younger.) For details and to Senior Citizens Center, 3201 Hillcrest July 30 in Cathedral Square, downtown include delicious seafood, beverages register, visit bellingrath.org or call 251- Road; and from 2-5 p.m. at the North Mobile. This time of year you can buy and admission to the game — can 973-2217. Mobile Nursing and Rehab Facility, locally grown tomatoes, potatoes, be purchased through the ACF’s web 4525 St. Stephens Road, in Eight Mile. sweet corn, cantaloupes, watermelons, site (www.joinACF.org) or at the door. Kids Gulf Discovery Day For more information, residents can plants and flowers, as well as seafood, Children under 10 are admitted free. School is out and it’s time to enjoy a call 1-800-274-VOTE or go to www. baked goods, pastas, casseroles, pies, All proceeds from the event will help day of summertime fun for the whole alabamavoterid.com. handcrafted goods and much more. support the ACF’s education and family! Come to Bellingrath Gardens habitat restoration programs. and Home for Kids Gulf Discovery Day Get in the Game: Read Dauphin Island Boardwalk Talks from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Area teens are invited to participate Boardwalk Talks are held the first and Putting the Pub in Public Radio June 8. Children will learn about the in Daphne’s “Get in the Game: Read!” third Wednesday of each month at The 2nd annual Putting the Pub in wildlife and ecology of the Gulf Coast teen summer reading program, June 11:15 a.m. Come to the Estuarium Public Radio will be held Saturday, from a variety of organizations. The 6-30. Teens are invited to come to to participate in a dialog with the June 4, from 4-7 p.m. at Fairhope Environmental Studies Center will bring the library and read for prizes as well experts at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Brewing Co. The event is a fundraiser their Raptor Road Show to the Great as take part in special events offered 101 Bienville Blvd. The Northern Gulf benefiting Alabama Public Radio. Enjoy Lawn and children will get a chance throughout the month of June. Special Institute presents a series of informal the music of Eric Erdman, catering by to get a close look at raptors, owls and events will include a science workshop, conversations about all things scientific Beef O’Brady’s and great Fairhope other rehabilitated birds of prey. The two art workshops and a yoga class. in the Gulf of Mexico region. For more Brewing Co. beer and wine, with door Dauphin Island Sea Lab will educate Teens in grades 6-12 are invited to information or with questions, call 251- prizes from area merchants. APR will kids about the amazing and diverse register to attend these free events. 861-2141. receive $1 from each pint sold as life in Mobile Bay. Delta Safaris will offer Official kickoff will be Monday, June 6, well as proceeds from ticket sales. guided cruises along Fowl River at 9:30, at 10 a.m. at the Daphne Civic Center. FUNDRAISERS “Putting the Pub in Public Radio” is a For additional information call 251-621- great opportunity to support listener- 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m., 100 Black Men Gala weather permitting. Space is limited 2818, ext. 211. funded APR. Tickets are $25 in advance The 100 Black Men of Greater Mobile and $30 day of the event, and will and reservations are required for the Inc. will host its 16th annual gala cruise; to register, call 251-973-2217. The Steeple Open House include an event T-shirt and pint glass. The construction is finished, the lights Tuesday, June 7, at the Arthur R. Outlaw Tickets are available online at www. Convention Center. The organization National Cancer Survivors Day are back on, and The Steeple is open apr.org/pub or at Bayside Insurance, continues to bring awareness through An annual celebration for cancer for business! Come check out the Beef O’Brady’s, Express Employment its community involvement focusing survivors will be held Sunday, June 5, new and improved space! Enjoy live Professionals and at the door. For more on education, mentoring, economic at the Alabama Cruise Terminal, 201 entertainment and a drink as you information about Alabama Public development, and health and wellness. S. Water St., in Mobile. The free event, explore the newest venue in town! This Radio or this event, visit www.apr.org. This event raises scholarship funds sponsored by USA Mitchell Cancer event is FREE and open to the public for students who are transitioning Cajun Cornhole Classic Institute, will feature an exhibit of Tuesday, June 7, 5-7 p.m. The Steeple is from high school to the world of The 2nd annual Cajun Cornhole artwork created by cancer survivors at 251 St. Francis St. (Mobile). higher education. The 2016 keynote Classic tournament to raise money and curated by local artist B’Beth Summer outdoor farmer’s market speaker for the gala will be Avery for Springboard to Success will be Weldon. All cancer survivors and their The city of Fairhope hosts a summer Johnson, men’s head basketball Thursday, June 2, at 5:30 p.m. in guests are welcome. Parking is free. To outdoor farmer’s market from 3-6 p.m. coach at the University of Alabama. Cathedral Square. Twenty two-man RSVP call 251-445-8434.

56 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS JUNE 2, 2016 - JUNE 8, 2016 teams will compete in a single- understanding of shore, sea and sky. For 5K run alongside scenic Mobile Bay, held at 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center elimination tournament with a $200 more information visit gulfquest.org or crossing the finish line at Fairhope Park. on Saturday, June 4, 8 a.m. till 2 p.m. cash prize awarded to the winning call 251-436-8901. Proceeds from the race benefit three There will be awards, lots of fair games team and downtown swag for the local nonprofit organizations: Mobile and concession stands. For more team with the Best Name and the “Colors of the Coast” Baykeeper, myTeam Triumph: Southern information please visit USAWesley.com/ Most Gusto! For more information or A call to artists, the annual “Colors Alabama, and Gulf Coast Area paddle. to register visit cajuncornholeclassic. of the Coast” is a juried art show Triathletes. The race is Saturday, June 4, eventbrite.com or call 251-434-8498. to be held in June, presented by at 7 a.m. To register or volunteer, please Mobile BayBears Cathedral Square Gallery and title visit www.thegrandman.com. Call The Mobile BayBears are back in ARTS sponsor Wintzell’s Oyster House, with 251-433-4229 or contact grandman@ action for a 20th season of MiLB awards totaling over $2,000. For more mobilebaykeeper.org for more Double-A baseball at Hank Aaron Night Market information and a prospectus, visit information. Stadium in Mobile. The BayBears finish a Mobile Museum of Art hosts a quarterly CSG’s Facebook page or the gallery. home stand against visiting Pensacola Night Market of wares by artists and Take-in is Saturday, June 4, from 11 a.m. YMCA Golf Classic Tournament June 3, followed by five away games artisans. Bring a keen eye for detail and to 6 p.m. For more information contact The YMCA of South Alabama invites against Biloxi. For more information or become known for the unique gifts Linda Tenhundfeld at [email protected] the communities of Mobile and tickets call 251-479-BEAR. you give. Be the envy of your friends or 251-533-8949. Baldwin counties to tee up for a good with rare, artful home décor. Support cause at its 7th annual Golf Classic Ballroom dance your local artists and join the party and Thursdays at MMoA Tournament on Friday, June 3, at Azalea Ballroom Dance Club hosts shopping fun with great food, drink and Every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. dances with live music the second and live music. The market is Thursday, June the Mobile Museum of Art offers free fourth Tuesday of every month from 2, 5-9 p.m. at MMoA, 4850 Museum admission to all visitors. Join MMoA 7-9:30 p.m., $10 admission. A dance Drive. each week to experience the museum class taught by professional instructors is in new and exciting ways throughout available prior to the dance from 6:30-7 MUSEUMS the year. No reservations are necessary. p.m. for a $10 fee. This event is BYOB, MMoA is at 4850 Museum Drive. coolers, snacks. Partner not necessary. “Every Object Has a Story” Beginners are welcome. At Via! The History Museum of Mobile is SPORTING EVENTS/ Health, Fitness & Enrichment Center, proud to announce its summer exhibit, ACTIVITIES 1717 Dauphin St. (Mobile). For more “Every Object Has a Story.” Museum information email Cindy Youngblood, staff members thoughtfully chose a Just for the Mud of It president, cyoungblood9278@gmail. collection of seldom-seen objects to Mobile Police Department’s SWAT com, call 251-623-9183 or visit www. showcase some of the unique treasures team will hold its annual Just for the azaleaballroomdanceclub.com. in the museum’s vault. These objects Mud of It run Saturday, June 4, at include items representing Mobile’s Irish dance lessons 7 a.m. Just for the Mud of It is an cultural, social, political and artistic Photo| www.milb.com The Maccrossan School of Irish Dance approximately 5K course filled with mud history. “Every Object Has a Story” will is offering beginner Irish dance lessons and obstacles. The course includes run through July. For more information every Saturday morning at the Azalea running, climbing walls, low-crawling TimberCreek Golf Course in Spanish about the exhibit contact Lori McDuffie, City Center for Performing Arts, 63 through pits, balance beams, a creek Fort. The tournament will follow a four- curator of collections, at atrockholdl@ Midtown Park E. (Mobile). Classes are run, water pits and lots of mud. The person scramble format, with check-in historymuseumofmobile.com or by available for ages 4 through adult. run will be held at Mobile Metro Firing beginning at 7:30 a.m. and a shotgun phone at 251-208-7420. Learn the beautiful art form of Irish Range, 12251 Tanner Williams Road. For start at 8:30 a.m. Registration is $100 per golfer and $400 per team, which dance with instruction in jig, reel, figure “Treasures of NOAA’s Ark” more information and to register, visit includes a light breakfast and lunch. and ceili dancing! For more details In GulfQuest’s first traveling exhibit, justforthemudofit.org. Proceeds will go toward the YMCA’s please contact Julie Ann Black at “Treasures of NOAA’s Ark,” visitors Publix Grandman Triathlon Campaign for Youth & Families, which [email protected] or will discover how NOAA charts seas, In its 12th year, the Grandman Triathlon is aimed at ensuring all children and call 228-239-2422. protects and conserves the nation’s has become one of Fairhope’s premier families, regardless of income, have marine resources and detects Ballroom dance annual events, attracting individual a chance to benefit from the YMCA’s potential hurricanes and tsunamis. The Moonlight Chasse Ballroom Dance and team racers of all ages and skill life-changing programs and services. By navigating a warehouse of crates Society hosts dances the first and third levels from around the Southeast and Interested participants can learn more containing historic artifacts, visitors will Monday of every month, with dancing beyond. Racers begin the race by and register online at www.ysal.org or get a glimpse of the groundbreaking from 7:00 until 9:30 p.m. Admission is jumping from the end of Fairhope Pier in person at any of the YMCA of South technologies developed by NOAA and $10. This event is BYOB and there is no into Mobile Bay and swimming one-third Alabama’s five branches. its early predecessors that have helped need to bring a partner. Beginners are of a mile to the shore. Following the save lives and expand our knowledge welcome. Fitzpen Place, 11247 State swim, racers bike 18 miles, beginning Paddle Skedaddle of the globe. The exhibit also highlights Highway 31 (Spanish Fort). For more up a steep hill before continuing Join USA Wesley Foundation for a past and present pioneers who information email Cassie Fishbein at through the quaint city of Fairhope. canoe and kayak paddle and a family made significant contributions to our [email protected]. Racers conclude the triathlon with a fun fair. The Paddle Skedaddle will be

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NIGHT MARKET

MOBILE MUSEUM OF ART HOSTS A QUARTERLY NIGHT MAR- KET OF WARES BY ARTISTS AND ARTISANS. BRING A KEEN EYE FOR DETAIL AND BECOME KNOWN FOR THE UNIQUE GIFTS YOU GIVE. BE THE ENVY OF YOUR FRIENDS WITH RARE, ARTFUL HOME DÉCOR. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ARTISTS AND JOIN THE PARTY AND SHOPPING FUN WITH GREAT FOOD, DRINK AND LIVE MUSIC. THE MARKET IS THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 5-9 P.M. AT MMOA, 4850 MUSEUM DRIVE.

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Bridge lessons is struggling with drug addiction, get Practice your speaking, listening and at Foley City Hall, 407 E. Laurel Ave. The Mobile Bridge Center offers free them the help they need. Call for a leadership skills in a friendly, relaxed Work sessions begin at 4 p.m. before bridge lessons each Tuesday beginning free brochure on the signs of addiction and supportive environment. Guests each regularly scheduled meeting. For at 6 p.m. at the Mobile Bridge Center, for all drugs. Narconon also offers free are welcome! Visit us on Facebook more information visit cityoffoley.org. 1510 University Blvd. Arrive a few screenings and referrals. Call 1-800-431- (facebook.com/EasternShoreTM) or Spanish Fort City Council minutes early to register. If you have 1754 or visit DrugAbuseSolution.com. email contact-8422@toastmastersclubs. The Spanish Fort City Council meets questions call the Bridge Center at 251- org. on the first and third Monday of each 666-2147 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Top Cats Toastmasters month at 6 p.m. at the Spanish Fort Top Cats Toastmasters meet every PUBLIC MEETINGS Community Center, 7361 Spanish Fort WORKSHOPS Monday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Blvd. Work sessions begin at 5 p.m. Red Lobster near the southeast corner Mobile City Council before each regularly scheduled meeting. For more information visit Adult Mental Health First Aid Training of Airport Boulevard and Azalea The Mobile City Council meets every Tuesday at Government Plaza, 205 cityofspanishfort.com. Similar to CPR/First Aid, Mental Health Road in Mobile. You can practice First Aid teaches individuals how Government St. Pre-council meeting your speaking and listening skills and begins at 9 a.m. in the first-floor Baldwin County Commission to help those experiencing mental learn to think on your feet in a relaxed, conference room; council meeting The Baldwin County Commission health challenges or crises. Members friendly atmosphere. Dues are $43 begins at 10:30 a.m. in the first-floor meets on the first and third Tuesday of of Lifelines Counseling Services will be twice a year, and lunch must be auditorium. For more information visit each month at 8:30 a.m. in the County training members of the Mobile and www.cityofmobile.org. Commission Chambers at the Baldwin purchased. Toastmasters International County Administration Building, 322 Baldwin county communities for FREE is a worldwide organization. For further Courthouse Square, Bay Minette. Work Mobile Planning Commission with meals on Saturday, June 4. Please information call 251-344-2938. sessions are the second and fourth The Mobile City Planning Commission Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. with the location arrive 7:30-8 a.m. for registration and meets the first and third Thursday in breakfast; class will begin at 8 a.m. Downtown Toastmasters rotating between the Baldwin County the Government Plaza auditorium, 205 Administration Building in Bay Minette, Certifications can only be awarded The Downtown Mobile Toastmasters Government St., at 2 p.m. For agendas, the Foley Satellite Courthouse, the to people who stay for the entire 8 Club 2815 hosts a weekly educational minutes, zoning information and more Fairhope Satellite Courthouse and the hours of class (approximate end time lunch meeting at T.P. Crockmiers (261 visit urban.cityofmobile.org. Baldwin County Central Annex Building is about 5:30 pm). We kindly ask you Dauphin St., Mobile), from noon until in Robertsdale. For more information Daphne City Council plan accordingly. The class will be held 1 p.m. on Tuesdays. Practice your visit baldwincountyal.gov. The Daphne City Council meets on the at University of South Alabama Student speaking, listening and leadership skills first and third Monday of each month Baldwin County Planning Commission Center, 350 Campus Drive, Room 205. in a relaxed, friendly environment. at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers The Baldwin County Planning If you have questions, contact Chalisse Lunch must be purchased. Our dues at Daphne City Hall, 1705 Main St. City Commission meets at 6 p.m. on the first Peltier, [email protected]. are $42 twice yearly. Toastmasters Council work sessions are the second Thursday of each month at the Baldwin International is a worldwide Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. County Central Annex, 22251 Palmer St., Robertsdale. For more information About Boating Safely organization. For more information call at City Hall. For more information visit daphneal.com. visit baldwincountyal.gov. A state-approved course on boating 251-404-3924. safety taught by U.S. Coast Guard Fairhope City Council Saraland City Council: Second and Auxiliary instructors will be held June Jubilee Toastmasters The Fairhope City Council meets on fourth Thursday, 6 p.m., 716 Saraland 25 and Aug. 6 at the Orange Beach Jubilee Toastmasters meet the second and fourth Monday of Blvd. S., 251-675-5103. Community Center (27235 Canal each Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to each month at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Fairhope City Hall, 161 N. Chickasaw City Council: Second and Road). The course meets Alabama’s 12:30 p.m at Homestead Village in fourth Tuesday, 7 p.m., 224 N. Craft Section St. City Council work sessions and most other states’ Boat Operator’s Fairhope, in the Camellia Room. You Highway, 251-452-6450. are held before each council meeting License requirement. Cost is $35 per can bring your lunch. We provide at 4:30 p.m. in the Delchamps Room Citronelle City Council: Second and student, textbook included, or $45 for a supportive and positive learning at City Hall. For more information visit two family members sharing a book. experience in which members fourth Thursday, 6:30 p.m., 19135 Main cofairhope.com. St., 251-866-7973. The cost also includes instructional are empowered to develop materials and lunch. For more communication and leadership skills. Fairhope Planning Commission Creola City Council: Second and fourth information or to register call 251-284- The meetings are open to anyone over The Fairhope Planning Commission Thursday, 6 p.m., 190 Dead Lake Road, 1461. 18 years of age. For more information meets on the first Monday of each #A, 251-675-8142. month at 5 p.m. in the City Council visit www.9032.toastmastersclubs.org. SELF-IMPROVEMENT Chambers at Fairhope City Hall, 161 Satsuma City Council: First and N. Section St. For more information visit third Tuesday, 6 p.m. (working), 7 Eastern Shore Toastmasters cofairhope.com. p.m. (regular session), 5464 Old Addiction counseling The Eastern Shore Toastmasters Club Highway 43, 251-675-1440. Narconon would like to remind families hosts a weekly meeting at Daphne Foley City Council the use of addicting drugs is on the United Methodist Church (2401 Main The Foley City Council meets on the Semmes City Council: First and rise. Take steps to protect your family St.), in the Community Life Center on first and third Monday of each month third Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., 7875 Moffett from drug use. If you know anyone who the second floor, 6-7 p.m. on Thursdays. at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers Road, 251-649-8811.

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58 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 STYLE Blogging FEATURE is the new black BY STEPHANIE MAY/CONTRIBUTING WRITER

hen you move 500 miles away from the city you called home for 27 years and return three years later, it can feel a bit like seeing an old flame again. You can’t really remember why you left, there are new surprises Waround every corner and the city itself is full of new adventures you have yet to explore. This is how I feel moving back to Mobile after spending a few years in the beautiful city of Tampa, where I owned a boutique and worked regularly with several local style bloggers. Smaller cities tend to be behind in the fashion trend cycle but Mobile has a reputable fashion scene since the launch of Mobile Fashion Week, a thriving boutique community and up-and-coming designer brands such as the Mermania swim line. It has been nearly a decade since the style blogging phenomenon first kicked off and after a great deal of blood, sweat, tears and ripped seams, style bloggers are now an accepted part of the fashion establishment. You’ll see them in the front rows at major fashion shows, land- ing prominent ad campaigns, starring on magazine covers and launching multimillion-dollar businesses. With so many potential possibilities in a fun side gig, I am fascinated by the fact that there are no known style, travel or fitness bloggers in Mobile. The competitive world of style blogging is beneficial to local boutiques, designer labels and even hotels. Social media itself is easy advertising when collaborating with bloggers with a local following, then tie in the daily readers on the blog websites and you have cross-promoted multiple times. Blogging has also become very important for small businesses. Local boutiques are now starting their own style blogs on the Photo courtesy of Stephanie May company’s website, which links all social media accounts and promotes interaction by potential customers. A business blog is a REGIONAL STYLE BLOGGERS SUCH AS KIRBY J. COX AND KRISTIN JONES HAVE CREATED UNIQUE ONLINE unique way to connect people to your brand, boost search engine optimization (SEO) and create opportunities for sharing. OUTLETS FOR THEIR HOBBIES. MANY BLOGGERS KEEP THE SITES AMATUER, BUT OTHERS FEATURE PRO- There are a few up-and-coming bloggers in Alabama who FESSIONAL DESIGNS AND GENERATE REVENUE. do a wonderful job of spotlighting their favorite shops, brands, restaurants, etc. Kirby J. Cox currently lives in Birmingham and is a style/travel blogger featuring outfit posts, favorite brands and “It is hard to say exactly how much time I spend on blogging yourself” sites such as Wordpress while others are spending good gorgeous travel photos from Spain and Ireland. You can find her because there are so many things that go into it. It is definitely a money to have their blogging websites built by professionals. at kirbyjoanna.com and on Instagram at @kirbyjoanna. I spoke full-time job,” Not all outfit posts are created equal. Listed below are my with Kirby and asked her to give me a little insight on why she is As with any hobby, it needs to be something you enjoy but personal favorite bloggers who stand out from the pack thanks passionate about blogging. if you are a local fashionista already posting your daily inspira- to their unique sartorial sense and sharp business acumen. These “There are a lot of things that I love about blogging, but I’d tions and outfits, it can’t hurt to try a new avenue. Kristin Jones, gals are a true inspiration for anyone who believes style is art and have to say my favorite is that it allows me to meet people from another Birmingham blogger, concentrates on fitness and the enjoys keeping up with the latest trends, not only in fashion but in all over the world and to be able to collaborate with them on many marathons she has finished around the country, from Walt the fashion business as well: projects,” she said. Disney World to the New York City Marathon. You can find her at • Julie Sarinana of SincerelyJules.com Networking with like-minded individuals is a perk for most BamaGirlRuns.com and on Instagram at @bamagirlruns. • Danielle Bernstein of WeWoreWhat.com people with a passion for writing, style, travel, health and so The people behind companies such as Independent Fashion • Helena Bordon of HelenaBordon.com many other topics but how much time does it take to start this as Bloggers (heartifb.com) have built successful businesses by offer- • Aimee Song of SongofStyle.com a new hobby? I asked Kirby how much time she estimates she ing online courses for beginners wanting to learn the latest trends in Follow along, get inspired and share your passion with Mo- spends monthly on blogging and the research that goes into each blogging, photography for social media and tips on how to increase bile. Whether it is style, fitness, food, art or travel — blogging is collaboration. traffic to your website. Many bloggers start with simple “do it a fun, creative outlet that will open new doors and introduce you

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 59 SPORTS Fuse Project reaches UPON FURTHER REVIEW capacity for 3rd annual Dragon Boat Festival BY J, MARK BRYANT/SPORTS WRITER | sports@lagniappe-

n 2014, the local nonprofit Fuse Project introduced Dragon Boat racing as a fundraiser. Now, just three years later, it has grown into one of the largest Hong Kong-style boat festivals in the United States. IThe third annual event is set for Saturday, June 11. After calling the Five Rivers Delta Resource Center home for previous races, the competition is floating down the Causeway to the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. “As we suspected, the move to the battleship has certainly allowed us to increase participation, from 41 teams last year to 72 teams for this year’s festival,” Adrienne Golden, Fuse Project executive director, said. “And we are thankful for all of the con- tinued support we are receiving from our volunteers, teams and sponsors.” Seventy-two is the maximum number of teams the Fuse Proj- ect can accommodate for the one-day festival. Each team consists of 20 paddlers, a drummer and an experienced person to steer. The 46-foot-long boats race for 250 meters. “If additional teams would like to participate in the festival, we will allow them to register as an alternate for race day,” Golden Photo | Courtesy of the Fuse Project said. “Therefore, if a previously registered team decides to drop out, we will allow the alternate team to step up and take their place.” WITH A NEW VENUE AT BATTLESHIP MEMORIAL PARK, THE FUSE PROJECT HAS RECRUITED A RECORD 72 Since forming in 2012, the Fuse Project has raised more than $300,000 to support numerous causes promoting health, fitness, TEAMS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS YEAR’S DRAGON BOAT RACES, SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 11. education and social responsibility of children in Mobile and Baldwin counties. This year, the group plans to refine its focus on projects that center on after-school programs for children along Children’s Cup Regatta set Put on your alligator shoes The seventh annual Children’s tCup Regatta is also scheduled The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Re- the Alabama Gulf Coast. sources will begin online registration for its 11th annual regulated “Our goal is to ensure that all kids have access to an after- for Saturday, June 11. The event, which takes place at Fairhope alligator hunts at 8 a.m. on Friday, June 3. Registration must be school program that increases their overall quality of life, and to Yacht Club, will benefit Gulf Coast patients who are treated at completed by 8 a.m. on July 12. foster a healthy family dynamic for the working parents and their Children’s of Alabama pediatric hospital in Birmingham. children,” Grant Zarzour, Fuse Project co-founder and chairman, A new addition to this year’s lineup is kayak races. A 1-mile A total of 260 Alligator Possession Tags will be spread among said. After reaching $151,000 in 2015, the Fuse Project aims to Fun Paddle will begin at 9 a.m. with a 2-mile competitive race four hunting zones. The fee to apply is $22, and individuals may raise more than $200,000 this year. following at 10 a.m. Canoes, as well as one- or two-person kay- register one time per zone. Hunters and their assistants must have On May 24, the Fuse Project hosted an award ceremony to aks, are welcome. Registration is $25 per boat. valid hunting licenses during the pursuit. Only Alabama residents and Alabama lifetime license holders honor 26 students who completed the After-School Initiative at Pil- The entry fee for Performance Handicap Racing Fleet, Ports- ages 16 and older may apply for tags. To register, visit www. lans Middle School. The project helped these Mobile County Public mouth, Rhodes 19 and Catalina 22 is $50 per boat. Youth Class School System students who were experiencing difficulty in adjust- outdooralabama.com/registration-instructions. entry fee is $25 per boat. All entry fees are tax deductible. ing to the structure of a normal school day. The program helped 23 There will be 150 tags in the Southwest Alabama Zone. This Guests are invited to watch the races for free beginning at students at Scarborough Middle School the previous year. includes private and public waters in Mobile and Baldwin coun- “We are thrilled at the success of the After-School Initiative,” 12:30 p.m. The Al’s Activity Area for children — named in honor ties, plus areas that lie east of U.S. 43 and south of U.S. 84 in Golden said. “Fuse Project invests in specific projects that directly of local Children’s patient Al Guarisco — opens at 4 p.m. and Clarke, Monroe and Washington counties. The hunt runs from 8 impact children’s lives, and this is a prime example. We are excited will feature a water slide, arts and crafts, games and a chance to p.m. Aug. 11 until 6 a.m. Aug. 14, and from 8 p.m. Aug. 18 to 6 to announce that we are finalizing our plans to fund this program paint with Fairhope artist Ricky Trione. Also planned are a silent a.m. Aug. 21. at a Baldwin County middle school for the 2016-2017 school year auction, barbecue plates, a cash bar and live music. The awards with the funds raised by this year’s Dragon Boat Festival.” ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. Golden points out the Dragon Boat Festival is a family-friend- Free fishing day Children’s of Alabama patients and their families are invited If you want something a little less adventurous, Alabama ly, alcohol-free event. There will be food trucks, a petting zoo, to attend. A few boats will be available to take former patients out residents will have the opportunity to fish for free in most public pony rides, a trackless train, a gyro gym and inflatable jumpers for to watch the races. Last year, Children’s treated more than 1,800 children, along with the usual exhibits at the battleship. waters on Saturday, June 11. The event is part of National Fishing patients from Mobile and Baldwin counties. “We are planning to have daytime fireworks as our ‘wow’ and Boating Week, which runs June 4-12. For more information, call 251-610-4969 and visit either give. event on race day,” Golden said. “We are expecting 7,500 people Free Fishing Day allows residents and nonresidents to fish to come out to our event that Saturday.” childrensal.org/regatta2016 or facebook.com/childrenscupregatta. without a license for a day in both salt and fresh waters. Anglers For additional information visit fusedragon.causevox.com or Day-of registration is available 9-10:30 a.m. at FYC, 101 Volanta can visit www.outdooralabama.com/where-fish-alabama to find send an email to [email protected]. Ave. in Fairhope. the closest fishing spots.

60 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 STYLE Pisces preserves pepperoni’s honor PORT CITY BY DR. ZODIAC/ASTROLOGY GUY PREMONITIONS GEMINI (5/21-6/21) — For your “30th” birthday this year, you sweeping Baldwin County, you’ll encourage your daughter to join money while simultaneously reducing, reusing and recycling, you and friends will decide to go skydiving at a local airport. You’ll the archery team at school. Things will go well and your daughter decide to offer the community a natural alternative to indigent arrive at the airport early, your veins pulsing with excitement, but will win many medals for accuracy in competitions across the burials and cremations. It may take years to catch on, but back- county. Next month when the gray aliens invade Gulf Shores on yard gardeners and factory farmers alike will eventually praise the nothing happens at first. You’ll wait hours and hours for your turn ® in a plane literally taped together and piloted by a man eating a July 4, your daughter will lead a rebellion against them. You’ll be benefits of your Corpse Compost , finding the decomposed remains $5 footlong. Feeling unsafe, you’ll swallow your fear and take the proud of her accomplishments, which will inspire a trilogy of young of human bodies are actually rich with nutrients and balanced with adult novels and a movie series starring Shailene Woodley. trace minerals. After a little work in the lab, you’ll also attempt to plunge because it’s less likely you’ll die from a freefall than from ® riding in the rickety plane. You’ll be relieved when you accomplish SCORPIO (10/23-11/21) — Despite negative critical reception market your eco-friendly Carcass Oil as a diesel alternative. the feat. and the low quality of previous X-Men films, you’ll take the family PISCES (2/19-3/20) — While the foreign nation of Georgia CANCER (6/22-7/22) — Next week, you’ll have nothing to to see “X-Men: Apocalypse” this weekend. You’ll be surprised wasn’t your first pick as ground zero in the meat revolution, you’ll do, so you and colleagues will bat around various goat puns for when, five minutes into the trailers, the actual apocalypse begins join the coming war between herbivores and carnivores nonethe- amusement. It’ll be udderly delightful to listen with sheer joy to when the film’s titular villain appears and slaughters all the empty less. Now that “extremists” wielding grilled meat and sausages your friends toss around the jokes in a very long email chain. A lot seats in the theater. Lucky for you, the villain’s gaudy, oversized have stormed a vegan café, the unrest across the globe will reach a of the puns will be cheesy, but they’ll be easy to digest. It’ll finally battle armor will prevent him from seeing your family and you’ll be tipping point — forcing you to choose sides in a conflict that pits behoove you to stop when a client calls needing a quote. After all, able to escape into a sold-out showing of “The Angry Birds Movie.” brother against less-masculine brother. As the sun rises, you’ll lead you won’t want to be the scapegoat if your company misses out on SAGITTARIUS (11/22-12/22) — Your summer wardrobe an angry mob into the heart of the city in a convoy of Oscar Mayer a sale. will include pastel shorts, bow ties and light sport coats after you wienermobiles. LEO (7/23-8/23) — Three months from next Wednesday, you’ll inadvertently attend a fashion show at the local police headquarters. ARIES (3/21-4/19) — After decades in darkness, the followers be the first to hear the news the two presumptive presidential Known as a “prep walk,” law enforcement’s intent was to deter of the Crimson Tide will rid themselves of the ultimate persecution candidates are actually robots. The news about Hillary Clinton and crime by shamelessly parading accused criminals in front of the as CBS Sportscaster Verne Lundquist reveals his plans to retire after Donald Trump will only confirm your suspicions about a secret news media, but no one could have predicted the fashion statement the 2016 college football season. Knowing they will soon see an anti-government cabal that, after years of trying with Ralph Nader the Circle K robber would make, having terrorized a cashier with a end to overtly biased and arguably violent comments like, “Ala- and Ross Perot, will finally get a leg up in the presidential election. croquet bat while wearing a sleek pair of loafers and matching belt. bama is not currently winning” and “Nick Saban MIGHT BE the You’ll watch as both candidates glitch out during a live MSNBC CAPRICORN (12/23-1/19) — A Saturday trip to the farmer’s best coach ever,” fans in the very near future may once again feel debate. Trump will just repeat the word “huge” over and over again market will devolve into a juvenile culinary quest after you happen safe allowing children to listen to televised broadcasts of the great- while Hillary just says “woman” repeatedly. upon an eggplant that strongly resembles the male sex organ. In- ness that is the Tide. VIRGO (8/24-9/22) — Inspired by a British researcher who lived spired, you’ll inspect each and every vegetable onsite in a sponta- TAURUS (4/20-5/20) — You’ll realize the true tragedy of as a goat for a week, you’ll follow your dream to live as an ape. neous mission to cook an anatomical ratatouille for an upcoming getting your significant other into video games this weekend, as Donning a gorilla costume, you’ll spend a week in the woods of dinner party. Your meal will come together after you find at least a you finally lose in a digitized domestic dispute for the ages. While Baldwin County. You’ll nearly starve to death because of the lack of half dozen tomatoes that look like butts and misshapen peppers that you’ll first feel a sense of pride at the depths of your despair, it bananas and bamboo in the wild, but a local zookeeper will rescue could easily pass for deformed heads. You’ll have to combine garlic will ultimately be drowned in the flood of rage that inevitably and rehabilitate you in the primate exhibit at the zoo. You’ll live a cloves and zucchini to get something resembling a foot with toes, consumes you. After hours in silence, you’ll realize the only logi- happy life until the day a mischievous toddler falls into the exhibit. but the breast onions will really firm up the entire recipe. cal solution is that your partner found some way to hack into the AQUARIUS (1/20-2/18) — In an attempt to save taxpayer system and cheat to secure the victory. I mean, they must have … LIBRA (9/23-10/22) — Jumping on the bandwagon of a craze right?

June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 61 Summertime, STYLE and the livin’ is beachy MOBILE MAGNIFIED BY BOOZIE BEER NUES/SOCIAL BUTTERFLY

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LOCAL INTERNET JOKESTERS MEMED IN DEFENSE OF THE UBIQUITOUS PUBLIC CRAWFISH BOIL AFTER THE MOBILE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT’S RECENT ENFORCEMENT THREATS.

weet, sweet summatime! Oh, how I have missed you! were able to fill in and had no problem doing so. With Memo- Now, we can’t forget about Dauphin Island, can we? DI was So glad you could make it back again this year. Boozie rial Day being the kickoff to summer, I would say we are off to hopping last weekend, too. Sand Island probably had as many would love to spend every day, all day with you, Sum- a pretty good start. boats as Robinson Island, and the public beach and The West mer, but I just don’t think I could handle it. I barely Over in Baldwin County — once you finally got there — End didn’t lack folks, either. Boozie thinks it’s safe to assume Ssurvived a three-day weekend with you, imagine if every day Boozie believes the party never really stopped after Hangout the beautiful weather had everyone out and about. was like the weekend, we would both be in some trouble. So the weekend before. One spy reported it took three hours to The “sunset capital of Alabama” had some people who were until we meet again — this weekend! — I’ll reminisce about get to OBA but it was all worth it because Flora-Bama was the really feeling the romantic vibe of the beach. One couple was the times we shared. place to be, as it was packed to the gills with people who love making out in the water and then somehow the lady’s knees to party. The next day the spies were off to Robinson Island ended up by her hubby’s ears. Boozie’s friends joked that he Cray-cray for crawfish and Pirate’s Cove; neither disappointed and both were crowded was ready to dive into summer. Another couple was spotted Lagniappe reported last week about the crackdown on free with, you guessed it, more people that liked to party. The spies making out, but they must have been nervous about deeper wa- crawfish boils at downtown bars. Since Boozie loves crawfish like to party so much that they forgot the juicy details from the ter so they stuck to knee-deep water to get in some smooches and beer, I hated to see the crawfish boils be pushed out. Of weekend. Shakin’ my head ... and butt grabs. Summer lovin’ is definitely in full swing. course, people took to the internet to express their rage and Saturday night, The Wharf was packed for Lee Brice, Tyler Another DI spy reported seeing some folks driving what ap- how they hate that Mobile is losing a springtime favorite. With Farr and Randy Rogers. My concert spies said even though peared to be a large cooler – yes, some sort of car made out of any good upset follows some pretty entertaining memes. Here Brice doesn’t dance they couldn’t help but sing along and a cooler. My spy said it appeared to be going about 30 mph too. are the two Boozie found most humorous. dance. The spies also said he chugged a tall boy while onstage. Driving on top of the influence? That’s my kind of concert and even my “Drinking Class.” My Beach, please spies also mentioned attire for the girls didn’t change much Well, kids, that’s all I’ve got this week. Just remember, From beach to beach, the Gulf was hoppin’ this past week- from Hangout; short jean shorts and cropped tops were still a whether rain or shine, dramatic or scandalous, or just some end. While Boozie can’t be in two places at once, the spies hit, but most traded in their flip-flops for cowboy boots. plain ol’ summer lovin’, I will be there. Ciao!

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