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A rite of passage is the changing of location for the annual “Meeting of the Minds,” the national gathering of members of Parrot Head clubs. For 28 years, it has met in New Orleans and then Key West. Not anymore. It will now meet on Alabama’s Gulf Coast in Gulf Shores.
The Mobile Big Band is Alabama’s version of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Band, only the music genres are different. In New Orleans, you hear Bourbon Street’s Dixieland jazz. In Mobile, you hear swing, big band, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller.
The newest Jimmy Buffett song (so far) has now been released posthumously. “University of Bourbon Street” was co-written by Buffett and Mobile native Will Kimbrough.
Imam operates a retail shop named “The Alabama Shop” at David Street No. 60 between the Christian Quarter and the Armenian Quarter in old Jerusalem. He was a student at the University of Alabama from 1985 to 1989. His brother in the United States is also a ‘Bama graduate.
Pete Riehm of Mobile has been named the new head of the citizen activist group, the Common Sense Campaign.
It will be an unusually early Saturday for paraders and parade watchers at Alabama’s homecoming.
This weekend’s homecoming at the University of Alabama will draw thousands of UA graduates home to see the many changes on campus, the pep rally, the crowning of the homecoming queen, the homecoming parade and the grand finale, the football game against Arkansas.
State Rep. Shane Stringer (R-Citronelle) says he will push legislation for public accountability in the state health department.
The University of Alabama kicks off its homecoming game Saturday against Arkansas at 11 a.m. Just a few minutes later, at 11:13 a.m. CT, an annular eclipse of the sun enters the continental United States on the Oregon coast.
Former State Sen. Roger Bedford died at his home in Tuscaloosa Wednesday following a battle with cancer.