Blogs
The Shape of Things to Come
Traffic is bottlenecked on Decatur Street right now and likely will be for the rest of the week as crews erect a stage for the kickoff concert for the Saints […]
Tide and Talk
UPDATED: Saturday, the Howlin’ Wolf was full of tables, the better to support laptops operated by the bloggers present for Rising Tide 5, the bloggers’ conference focused on New Orleans’ […]
The Lessons Not Learned
To his credit, NBC’s Brian Williams on Meet the Press asked Wendell Pierce if racism and classicism played a role in the slow governmental response to the post-Katrina flooding, and […]
Voodoo Adds Electronica and More
Today the Voodoo Experience announced some additions to its musical lineup. The bill for the Halloween weekend festival in City Park headlined by Weezer, Muse, Ozzy Osbourne, MGMT and My […]
Damage Assessment
For me, the takeaway from Spike Lee’s If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise was that he was celebrating the people of New Orleans and the prickly, wily […]
Fear of Cheeseheads
In response to Kate Russell’s story on ATC’s Dear New Orleans benefit album, someone wrote: Too bad they could not get more NEW ORLEANS musicians. This is kinda carpetbagger,,,,,,,, Of […]
Post-Traumatic
Satellite view of “The Big One” Yesterday afternoon I was waiting for an appointment in an office, and a woman who was sitting next to me was complaining to her […]
We Have No One but Ourselves to Blame
We’re in the process of posting stories from back issues that were never online, and while doing so, we ran across 1990’s “Jazz Fest Survival Guide.” I won’t question the […]
Old Man Mellencamp
Tuesday, John Mellencamp called the Internet “the most dangerous thing invented since the Atomic bomb,” and railed against its impact on music, including mp3s. He said of remastered Beatles track: […]
Just Gimme Some Truth
When the Saints season opens in the Dome September 9, it looks like the Minnesota Vikings will have Brett Favre at quarterback, just as almost everybody in the free world […]
