Author/musician/teacher Michael Patrick Welch has co-written the alternative to typical guides to the Crescent City. New Orleans: An Underground Guide (UNO Press) covers places that he found vital to New Orleans life, which one would be hard-pressed to find in any other vacationers’ book. “In the average guidebooks, you don’t find thrift stores, record stores [...]
New Orleans musicians rarely reach Hollywood notoriety, and if they do, it still seems unusual to actually see a local artist on the silver screen. For Earthbound, a comedy starring Kate Hudson that was shot in New Orleans in March, Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk wrote and performed the soundtrack. Neville was tapped to write and [...]
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art has been adjusting to several significant changes since the start of the year. Following the retirement of Museum Director of 10 years J. Richard Gruber in December, two staffers have begun to share co-directing duties at the Ogden. While splitting museum-directing responsibilities may seem unusual, institutions in New York [...]
