Also featuring:

• The Top 40 Louisiana albums of 2010
• Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Business Award: Johnny Palazzotto
• Best of the Beat Music Education Award: Derrick Tabb and Roots of Music
• Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: HBO's Treme
• Backtalk with Delfeayo Marsalis on his new album, Sweet Thunder
  
• A history of noise ordinances and the fight for street music in New Orleans
• Chinese drywall in the Musicians' Village
• Guerilla marketing amongst underground dining options
  
• The Gravy with Martin Krusche and his recipe for Vegetable Curry
  
• Review of Madrid, and Sasha Masakowski in the Spot at Boucherie