Alex Rawls
Harold Battiste Stomps Tonight
The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation once again brings New Orleans’ music legends to the masses, this time with Ponderosa Stomp Fridays at the Cabildo. The series starts tonight at 5:30 with drinks, DJs spinning vintage vinyl, and the great Harold Battiste in conversation with OffBeat contributor David Kunian. The event is free.
Read moreWaiting for “Wait Wait”
Last night, NPR’s comedy news quiz, Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me, taped this week’s show at the Mahalia Jackson. When host Peter Sagal walked onstage, he was met with shouts of “Who Dat!,” to which he replied, “I bring a message from NPR. It’s ‘Who are those folks?’”
The edited show airs Saturday at 1o [...]
Clever I Guess
Weird promo dept.: Pop duo the Bird and Bee have recorded Interpreting the Masters Vol. 1: Hall and Oates, and I’ve enjoyed it far more than I ever liked Hall and Oates. The ’80s pop period was a little soft for me, and there was always a division of labor issue that was oddly perplexing: What exactly did John [...]
Read moreJan V. Ramsey
Can We Ever Change?
We learned an important lesson in the past few weeks in regards to the cover of our March issue.
As those of you who are old enough to remember, in 1972 George Carlin did a monologue on the “seven words you can never say on television.” Those were shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker [...]
More on OffBeat’s March Cover
In regards to OffBeat’s much-blogged and –talked about March cover:
We admit that we showed a terrible lack of judgment and insensitivity towards our readers who may have taken offense to a reference to the Billie Holiday song, which has become symbolic of racial injustice. Any reference—verbally or visually—to racial issues was never our intention, but [...]
Where Are The Memorials?
I wonder why there’s such an overall lack of appreciation for musical legends in New Orleans, which is the most musical city on earth. There’s such a deep love for our musical culture—not necessarily shared by the majority of the population of this city and state—that it seems a shame that we’re not honoring the [...]
Read moreElsa Hahne
Chicken
On our way up First Street the weekend before Mardi Gras, we ran into chickens promenading around a Garden District mansion. Today, I spotted chickens on Louisiana about a block from St. Charles. My good friend Jacqui has wanted chickens forever. She is supposedly a bit peeved now that another mutual friend of ours has [...]
Read moreTit for Lunch
Okay, not really tit. It’s probably spelled thit, but either way it’s the tit that puts the pork in the Vietnamese po-boy. After trying one made by the church ladies at the Tet Festival at Mary Queen of Vietnam Church in the East last weekend (it’s bad, but I guess you could say I had [...]
Read moreIf I Were Eve, I’d Like a Lime Leaf, Please!
This weekend, the seemingly impossible happened.
Read moreGenevieve Oxford
Special Promotional Post: Who Dat!
A promo post from 1st Lake Properties
Don’t you just love the New Orleans vernacular? If you were from the 9th Ward or maybe Chalmette, you might greet your buddy with Where Y’At?
On the lips of just about everyone you meet from Belle Chasse to Kenner is Who Dat? As in Who Dat say they gonna beat [...]
