MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — This year’s Mardi Gras has been marked by several organizations celebrating major anniversaries. Joe Cain’s Merry Widows are 50 years old in 2024. Wearing black from their heads, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Cain’s Merry Widows, the iconic and spirited group that has enchanted audiences for five decades, is set to celebrate their golden anniversary on Sunday, February 11, 2024. Get ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Joe Cain’s Merry Widows are ready to put their claws up and fight over who exactly was his favorite. Cain’s Merry Widows, a women’s mystic society, celebrates Mardi Gras in a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — One of the most unique Mobile Mardi Gras traditions gets a huge sendoff. Hundreds of people crowded around the Church Street Cemetery for the arrival of Joe Cain’s Merry Widows.

Joe Cain has been dead for 120 years, but that will not stop Sue Ellen from claiming she was her beloved’s favorite. Zelda Cain will fire back, claiming she was the true apple in Joe’s eye. Others ...

After making something of a departure over the summer with a production of The Drowsy Chaperone and some evenings of Drag Queen Bingo, the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre returns to more traditional fare ...

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Michelle Williams didn’t know what to expect when she traveled more than an hour from her Washington County home to the Church Street Graveyard in downtown Mobile on Sunday. Despite a persistent rain ...