Blogs
HBO Stands Behind Treme
During the shooting of the season finale, HBO renewed Treme for a third season. On Sunday, Dave Walker announced in The Times-Picayune that HBO has given David Simon and Eric […]
The Silence Wars
Last night’s Gillian Welch show at Tipitina’s left me wondering if I’d ever bother with an acoustic show in a club again. She was charmingly self-deprecating without having it seem […]
Last Night: Gillian Welch
Last night, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings played a sold-out show at Tipitina’s. Here’s the photographic evidence.
Louis and Patches
Last weekend was hot as hell, but a lot of fun: Satchmo SummerFest all weekend, the Club Strut on Frenchmen on Friday evening, White Linen Night, and the highlight of […]
Rice Behind Bars
You don’t have to go to a Chinese restaurant to find delicious fried rice. Instead of paying $8 to $12 for a plate of shrimp fried rice at a sit-down […]
A Little Urgency, Please
In her editorial this week, publisher Jan Ramsey advocated moving Satchmo SummerFest to Armstrong Park, which is a provocative idea. FQFI, the festival’s producers, would have to find a nearby […]
Caribbean Carry-Out
Although many think of New Orleans as the northernmost city of the Caribbean, there is a surprisingly small number of Caribbean restaurants in town. If you’ve got a hankering for […]
OffBeat on the Spot
We were as curious as everybody else was about Spotify, the online music service, and so far we’ve enjoyed hunting around the back corners of its music library to see […]
SatchmoFest Needs to Be in Armstrong Park
Back in 2000, 11 years ago, I was working with the Louisiana Office of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (known colloquially as “CRT”) to work on some projects involving Louisiana music. […]
Treme Down Under
One of the questions we’ve always asked about Treme is how it plays outside New Orleans. Season two is just starting in Australia: how does it play out of the […]
