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The Dock is where boaters go to power down

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You don’t need an Evinrude to get to The Dock Bar & Grill, but you’ll certainly be coveting one once you get there. Named Best Boat Bar in this year’s Nappie Awards, The Dock is located at the Grand Mariner Marina & Restaurant on the banks of Dog River, directly beneath the restaurant’s overhang. To get there by land, you need to drive through a residential neighborhood off DIP, and then through a boat yard, where yachts and sailboats are undergoing repairs.
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Cane Brew built brand awareness by throwing its tea bags away

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You can create the best product in the world. But if you can’t get people to try it, you won’t make any customers. So, when Cane Brew Sweet Tea was looking to get its new, cold-steep sweet tea bags in as many hands as possible, they distributed them in a novel, very Mobile way: They threw thousands of them off Mardi Gras floats. kA 5:ClQ=ECQm%92E 3FD:?6DD 564:D:@? 2?5 G:C2= >2C<6E:?8 42>A2:8?
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Mardi Gras society emulates Dolly Parton

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As Dolly Parton says, “There’s a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.” Which is why The Mystic Dollys of Folly, winners of the 2026 Nappie Award for Best Mardi Gras Marching Society, aren’t just channeling the blonde bombshell’s looks for their eye-popping costumes — wigs, cleavage, fringe and rhinestones everywhere — they’re following her altruistic example. Since their founding in 2023, they have given away $14,000 to local charities. kAmp?5 |@3:=:2?D 42?’E 86E 6?@F89 @7 E96>] x?
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