Tony Joe White has made a career out of being laconic, and his matter-of-fact delivery lent a homespun truthfulness to race relations in “Willie and Laura Mae Jones,” a subtle wink to “Polk Salad Annie” and a mournful quality to “Rainy Night in Georgia.” When he dueted with Shelby Lynne on “Can’t Go Back Home,” [...]
Non-profit organizations did as much as anyone to help the New Orleans music community recover. Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) formed in 2006, and it was the culmination of that effort, a needs-based organization that coordinated the resources of a number of non-profits to help get the city’s musicians and culture bearers—Mardi Gras Indians and [...]
Before During After speaks to the power of Hurricane Katrina, though not in the way it intends. Photographer Elizabeth Kleinveld had the provocative idea to document how Katrina affected people—in this case, photographers—by looking at the work they did before, during and after it. That means that there are only two or three Katrina-related photos [...]
“The other day at brunch I was expediting over at Mondo, and [sous chef] Paul [Chell] put something up in my window. I did a garnish on it and said, ‘Take a picture of that shit, my friend!’ He looked at me, and I was laughing. I liked that line.”
Chef Susan Spicer is referring to [...]
Donna’s closed last month. “We turned in our license,” said the club’s namesake, Donna Poniatowski. “When we went to city hall the lady told me, ‘Now there won’t be any live music on North Rampart Street.’” Poniatowski and husband Charlie Sims closed Donna’s because of the condition of the building. “It’s in horrible shape,” she [...]
Big History has yet to play a gig—it makes its live debut September 18 at Carrollton Station opening for Big Rock Candy Mountain—but musically and visually, this animated video by drummer Bret Bohnet for “All at Once” reflects a distinctive, mature artistic personality.
Evidently rapper Lil Wayne left the pantry well-stocked before he went to prison. In a recent interview with MTV News, Young Money’s Mack Maine revealed plans for two new Lil Wayne albums, one due out in September and one in November to coincide with his release from prison. According to MTV’s report:
“Tha Carter IV plans [...]
“Last week I was thinking if only we could bring bloggers to New Orleans to see it for themselves and a conference on what is happening,” blogger Scout Prime wrote in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “I think we’d see more posts on the Crescent City.” That wish came true as bloggers came [...]
In his last act as executive director of Sweet Home New Orleans, Jordan Hirsch declared, “This is a crisis.”
Hirsch is stepping down from leadership of the non-profit agency and will be replaced by Gabriela Hernandez, and Thursday afternoon at Galvez Restaurant in the French Quarter, he presented the results of Sweet Home New Orleans’ third [...]
Tonight, Harry Shearer will premiere his new documentary, The Big Uneasy, which goes inside the Army Corps of Engineers to look at the levee failures that led to the post-Katrina flooding. The show tonight at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is sold out, but it will also be shown Monday at 4:45 and 9:30 [...]
