Offbeat Cover for July, 2010

July 2010 Contents

Cover Story

Bonerama: Bell of the Bar

Features

A New Suit: All Rights Reserved

Amy Trail of Pat O’Brien’s: Location, Location, Location

Behind the Bar: Mixologists’ Challenge

Drinking Songs: A Louisiana 12-Pack

Essence Festival 2010: Three Queens

Musician Bartenders: At Work, At Play

The Definition of a Jazz Nerd

BackTalk

Earth, Wind & Fire’s Verdine White

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Capdeville

Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. Hits the Spot at Royal China

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Charmaine Neville

Fresh

2-Cent Entertainment: Their 2-Cent

Montreal International Jazz Festival: Mardi Gras in July

Tales of the Cocktail: The ‘Tail’s Tale

The Help: Help Wanted

The Local Skank: Catch My Disease

Reviews

Bamboula 2000, We Got It Goin’ On (Bamboula Two Thousand Records)

Caddywhompus, Remainder (Community Records)

Conun Pappas, Jr., Oh, What A Feeling (Independent)

Cyril Neville, The Essential Cyril Neville 1994-2007 (MC Media)

Feufollet, En Couleurs (Feufollet)

Happy Talk Band, Starve a Fever (Piety Street Files & Archaic Media)

Holley Bendtsen and Amasa Miller, Our Songs (Threadhead Records)

Mary McBride, The Way Home (Bogan Records)

Michael Juan Nunez, American Electric (Parishline Records)

Nick Moss, Privileged (Blue Bella Records)

Rough Seven, Give Up Your Dreams (Upper Ninth Records)

Russell Batiste and Friends, Follow Your Dreams (Ruff Pup Records)

Seva Venet, Seva Venet Presents the Storyville Stringband of New Orleans (Independent)

The Holmes Brothers, Feed My Soul (Alligator Records)

The Other Planets, Hello Beams (Attention Spaniel Records)

Mojo Mouth

Getting Rid of the “Noise”?

Letters

July 2010 Letters