Lawrence Specker
Reporter at Alabama Media Group
Veteran news and entertainment reporter for the Press-Register.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Lawrence Specker
There’s no sign over the entrance, there are five things on the menu, and the dining area doesn’t even feel like a building, it’s more like the space between two buildings. But people start showing up a few minutes before the place opens and half an hour later, it’s packed. Welcome to Cheeseburger Randy’s, a hip and fun little burger joint on a side street in Foley, a few miles from the beaches of Gulf Shores. Saying there are five things on the menu is kind of stretching it.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Lawrence Specker
Fans anticipating an emotional new Stephen King adaptation filmed in Alabama now have a trailer and an official release date that’s not all that far off. Expectations have been high – and details have been scarce -- since “The Life of Chuck” won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It’s not a typical King horror tale: The film is based on a novella in which the death of the title character seems to coincide with the end of the world.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Lawrence Specker
When a nightclub singer from Michigan visited Alabama in 1975, he had no idea he’d soon open a restaurant that would still be winning national-level recognition 50 years later. But here we are: Gambino’s Italian Grille in Fairhope, opened by Rick Gambino in May 1976, has carved out a unique place for itself.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Lawrence Specker
The town of Dauphin Island and its partners are proud to present 838 acres of barrier island as a haven for birds, sea turtles, beachcombers and anglers. Dogs, not so much. To look at it, little has changed for the long, low finger of sand stretching miles to the west of the inhabited part of the island: It is, as it was, an isolated and sparse landscape whose main charms for visitors are its sheer remoteness and the fishing along its shorelines.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Lawrence Specker
Visitors to the Alabama coast will find that the 2025 season provides at least one fresh place to enjoy a meal with a vantage of the picturesque waterways north of the Perdido Pass. Patrons dining at Barometer Waterfront Grille will enjoy a view from the shore of Terry Cove, looking south across Robinson Island and Bird Island to the pass, with the sweep of the bridge just visible over a marina full of boats in the foreground.
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