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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 spares so few of us, both justifying the Carnival indulgence that precedes it, and offering the spa...

‘It’s a sad, sad day’: Joe Cain Day traditions continue in Mobile during pandemic Updated Feb 15, 2021; Facebook Share Mayim Bloom walked over with a bouquet of dead roses in her hand and dropped them on a grave marker festooned with Mardi Gras beads and coins Sunday morning. She might not be one of Cain’s “Merry Widows,” but the 4-year-old did her part to keep the spirit of Joe Cain alive during the traditional day that honors the late Confederate solider. Cain, more than 150 years ago, is credited with reviving Mardi Gras in Mobile following the Civil War and he has been celebr...

When Mardi Gras was last canceled: World War II and the return of frivolity in 1946 Updated Feb 11, 2021; Posted Feb 11, 2021 A picture of the 1946 Kings Parade hangs on the wall at the Mobile Carnival Museum in downtown, Mobile, Ala. The parades during the 1946 Mardi Gras were the first to take place along the Alabama Gulf Coast since 1941. For four years, from 1942-1945, Mardi Gras events like parades were canceled due to World War II. The next time there was widespread cancellations during Mardi Gras in Mobile was in 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The original photo of this imag...

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net CADIN Walker, Serai Clarke and Khadin Evans shared the spotlight as the recipients of the most outstanding baseball and tennis Athletes of the Year at the Ed Armbrister Baseball and Southwest Tennis Clubs awards ceremony. The annual awards presentation took place on Saturday at the Fla-mingo Gardens Park to highlight the joint venture between Major Leaguer Ed Armbrister and ver-satile Mike Butler, who have been working hand-in-hand in shar-ing their expertise with aspiring young baseball and tennis players in the Carmichael Road area. The joint sporting bodies were l...

Amid COVID-19 uncertainty, hidden clockwork of Mardi Gras still turns Updated Dec 18, 2020; Posted Dec 18, 2020 A photo from the 2011 Mobile Carnival Association coronation, in which King Felix III Edward Dickson Williams III crowns Queen Lynn Wentworth Morrissette, shows some of the fanfare ahead for the MCA's 2021 king and queen. But due to COVID-19, the dates at which 2021 events will take place remain unknown.Chip English/AL.com Facebook Share For a few hours Friday afternoon in the Mobile Saenger Theatre, as a king and queen posed for official portraits in elaborate royal attire featu...