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Springtime in New Orleans means festival time with the French Quarter Festival (April 10-12) and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the end of the month. Roadtrippers will be well rewarded by checking out the Festival International de Louisiane April 21-26 in Lafayette (consult our cover story). Meanwhile, that old spare parts pot is [...]

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The Tags:: Abita Beer Open Blues Jam; Audubon Zoo; Charlie B's; Contemporary Arts Center; Doug MacCash; Festivals; JazzSearch; photography; Tribe Nunzio; WTUL

March 1st 1992

Take A Chaw on These Mardi Gras Tidbits

Get out your new suits, gang, ’cause Mardi Gras is just a few days away. But meanwhile, take a chaw from our latest batch of plugs… DIAMOND DATES DEPT… Just about the time this issue goes to press, the Grammy Awards will have been announced (we have more info on that in the Grapevine, our [...]

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The Tags:: Bayou Cabaret Theatre; Bon Jovi; CAC; Howlin' Wolf; Iguanas; Nick LaRocca; Royal Pendletons; SweetArts Ball; Tennessee Williams Festival

February 1st 1992

Dale’s Back, and He’s Ready to Plug Away

I could feel that ol’ Mardi Gras Mambo madness percolatin’ as soon as I got back to New Orleans…it should be building steam by the time you read this. Thanks to Curtis Cottrell for dishing out the plugs while I was cruising the old country selling Lydia Lunch tour goodies. Now let’s dip into the [...]

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The Tags:: Bridge Lounge; CAC; concerts; drummers; Kerry Brown; Krewe du Vieux; Le Petit Theatre; Remember When

November 1st 1991

Spare Parts November 1991

Well, it’s November in New Orleans and the turkeys are getting nervous. I’ll be spending Thanksgiving in Germany this year, on the road with Lydia Lunch, selling t-shirts and assorted products to the Lydiettes during her 22-city tour of the old countries. Meanwhile, I gotta lotta pluggin’ to do so away we go… YOU SHOULDA [...]

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The Tags:: Dale Ashmun; New Orleans; News

October 1st 1991

Spare Parts October 1991

Ahhh, October in New Orleans. The weather cools down, the gators shed their skin and those poor nutria keep getting smashed as they try to cross I-10. October is also home to my all-time favorite holiday…Halloween. Which brings us to our first category of notable events. TRICK OR TREAT DEPT.… Coven Party III will be [...]

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