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Masked Observer bows at the crossroads of reverence and revelry Updated Feb 13, 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. Minutes into the golden hour of dusk, a lone figure slowly made her way along the perimeter of Mardi Gras Park, past the Carnival Museum’s perennial porch display and beyond the revitalized dens of the Mystics of Time and Infant Mystics. The solemn soul perambulated Church Street, Oakleigh and the Avenue, and beheld Mardi Gras visages erected by those whose hearts continue to strike Carnival’s communal beat, even if their feet, hands and voices cannot. ....
For Mobile beermaker, 2020’s upheavals made rebirth a complex brew Updated Jan 07, 2021; Posted Jan 07, 2021 Serda Brewing cofounder John Serda, left, has been working with gypsy brewer Simon Sothras, right, since early summer.Lawrence Specker | [email protected] Facebook Share “It was not,” agrees John Serda, straight-faced. Then the two crack up. In part it’s happy laughter, and with good reason: After a tough effort to reinvent itself, Serda Brewing is putting new beers on store shelves. There’s another note in there too: They’re laughing the way people do when they’ve been through an ordeal and think they can see the light at the end of the tunnel. ....