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Making a truly great live rock and roll album is an enormous challenge, so difficult that they are a rarity. Waiting for Columbus is a consensus member of that very exclusive club. After two years of Covid-enforced silence, Little Feat has big plans for its return to the stage.  Hard on the heels of their November “By Request” tour, they are planning a March-April 2022 tour that will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the legendary Waiting for Columbus, replicating the album at every stop.

Floodgates opening for spring events in coastal Alabama Updated Mar 10, 2021; Posted Mar 03, 2021 Comedian Jermaine "Funnymaine" Johnson appears at the Mobile Saenger Theatre on March 5, 2021. (Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com)Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com Facebook Share Regardless of whether Gov. Kay Ivey opts to extend a mask mandate or to follow the lead of Texas and Mississippi in dropping it, one thing is clear: A thaw has come to coastal Alabama. The floodgates are open, with a steady stream of concerts, festivals and other public events on the books for March and April. Many ...

65 years later, Gordon Parks photos hit home in Mobile Updated Feb 02, 2021; Posted Feb 02, 2021 A sign that once marked the "Colored Entrance" to the Mobile Saenger Theatre sits amid a display of Gordon Parks photographs at the Mobile Museum of Art. The sign figures prominently in one of the images from 1956.Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com Facebook Share The worn wood of a rural classroom. The lush greens of a row crop and trees surrounding a quartet of people walking through a field. The fringe of twilight gloom around a walk-up ice-cream stand. The play of brightness and dark amid the...