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Masked Observer’s Mellow MoonPies celebrate a unique season Updated Feb 19, 2021; Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local scene. Friends, roamers, revelers, I beg your attention. There is plenty of room around the fractured Column of Life, for Folly and Death have whirled, and it’s now time for you to save the world. Just as you saved Mardi Gras. The Lenten season...

Masked Observer: Reveling in the light, banishing the gloom Updated Feb 17, 2021; Posted Feb 17, 2021 King Braxton Hicks spreads his mystic splendor at the Krewe de Palmetto block party in downtown Mobile on Feb. 13, 2021. Facebook Share Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local In the South, mamas always have the last word. It’s no wonder that for Mardi Gras to happ...

Masked Observer bows at the crossroads of reverence and revelry Updated Feb 13, 2021; Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local scene. Minutes into the golden hour of dusk, a lone figure slowly made her way along the perimeter of Mardi Gras Park, past the Carnival Museum’s perennial porch display and beyond the revitalized dens of the Mystics of Time and Infant Mystic...

The Incan hid the parade-less disappointment, choosing to extoll the virtues of the organization’s historical — and strategic — placement on the Mardi Gras calendar.

Masked Observer discovers mystic mythology on Dauphin Island Updated Feb 13, 2021; Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local scene. DAUPHIN ISLAND — As Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville strode down the avenue named for his brother last Saturday, he smiled. Not for all that his family’s legacy had bequeathed the people of southernmost Alabama, and the entire Gulf C...

Masked Observer strolls among marauders and Midtowners Updated Feb 13, 2021; Posted Feb 05, 2021 A house on Demouy Avenue in Midtown Mobile is seen during a recent Mardi Gras event featuring the Blow House Brass Band. Facebook Share Editor’s note: The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local “Every day takes figuring out all over again how to live.” When Dark Hallway said it from th...

If a MoonPie arcs through the darkness, and no one’s there to catch it, does it make a sound when it hits the street?