In George Porter, Jr.’s attic studio, he has a laminated, yellowed page from the 1970s with a story on the Meters from a British music magazine hanging on his wall. He has an ad that Warner Brothers Records bought in Rolling Stone congratulating the Meters for being America’s Best Instrumental Band, and a cassette rack [...]
Tag Archives: Bourbon Street
YouTube du Jour: Stalley
December 20, 2011 – 12:03 am
Tonight, rapper Stalley performs at the Howlin Wolf. Although he hails from Cleveland, he worked with local director Brandan Odums/Bmike (nominated for a Best of the Beat Award for Best Music Video) for a tour through New Orleans in this video for his song “Babblin’”. Produced for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the video [...]
Police Horse Poppin’ on Bourbon Street: Video
December 16, 2011 – 1:42 pm
Dip, baby, dip / slide and move your hips —Glen David Andrews, Lil’ Rascals Brass Band’s “Knock with Me, Rock with Me” The latest local video making the viral rounds on social media? A mounted crowd-control police officer (a regular sight in the French Quarter) showing off his horse-riding skills by commanding his steed to [...]
Rotten, Really Rotten Apples
November 2, 2011 – 1:56 pm
You know that old idiom, “A rotten apple spoils the barrel”? We had a taste of that on Halloween night when two morons on Bourbon Street and Canal Street decided to take their personal fights to the street using guns. In the process, two people were shot dead, and eight others were injured. This happened in [...]
Freddie Mercury and Queen: A Night at the Fairmont
November 1, 2011 – 12:12 am
By the time Freddie Mercury arrived in his favorite American city for a sold-out 1978 Halloween night concert at Municipal Auditorium, Queen had already crossed that threshold from popular to international superstardom. A Night at the Opera, featuring Queen’s tour de force “Bohemian Rhapsody,” had seen to that just two years earlier. Moments before the [...]
Perle Noire
November 1, 2011 – 12:09 am
Photographer: Kaylin Idora This photo of Perle Noire, a burlesque performer, was taken one muggy Friday night in the lobby of the Royal Sonesta on Bourbon Street. Perle had just returned from performing in L.A. with Dita von Teese. We hadn’t seen each other in a few weeks so she invited me to [...]
Bring the Noise
September 21, 2011 – 11:02 am
In the wake of the bust of Bacchanal, supporters of live music in the city have portrayed government as being anti-live music. I don’t think that’s true in the sense that I don’t believe anyone on City Council or in government is actively hostile to live music. But it is passively hostile; government tends to [...]
September 2011 Letters
September 1, 2011 – 12:01 am
BIRTHDAY It was refreshing to read a researched article on 100-year-old Lionel Ferbos. I liked it so much I reprinted 200 copies and distributed them for his Palm Court birthday party. He deserves all this and more. Sorry he wasn’t on your July cover. —Sue Hall, New Orleans, LA FRENCHMEN VS. BOURBON As a professional [...]
Music = Noise?
August 24, 2011 – 1:43 pm
From the time that cities grew larger, there’s been a clash between residents and businesses who serve them. I suppose that’s one of the many reasons American suburbs developed. You live in one place; your business services are usually in a strip center, or suburban buildings away from homes, or a strip mall. Suburbs—because they [...]
