While looking for some throwback YouTube clips from New Orleans, we came across this gem: an introduction to the 1968 b-to-the-extreme movie The Monster and the Stripper a.k.a. The Exotic Ones, made by Nashville’s “first family of film”, the Ormonds. The movie’s about a swamp monster (played by rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef) captured by a [...]
Tag Archives: Bourbon Street
Nasimiyu Knows the Rules Aren’t Real
June 27, 2012 – 9:13 pm
Photo by Jason Albus. Nasimiyu stands sweating shoulder-to-shoulder in a mass of dancing strangers, bouncing to the triumphant rhythm of trumpets, trombones, sousaphones and stomping feet as a gang of brass musicians march down weathered streets. She waves her arms in the air, releases any pinned-up anxieties, and lets the collective beat pulse through her [...]
Festigals: A Fete for Females
June 20, 2012 – 3:58 pm
The all-women, all-pampering FestiGals is back at the Hotel Monteleone. The four-day festival kicks off on Thursday, June 21. This is a “one-of-a-kind series of events,” says FestiGals founder Diane Lyons. “CEOs, soccer moms, and retirees will unite to celebrate life, laughter, and womanhood…in a city where food, fun and fabulousness run rampart around every [...]
YouTube du Jour: Adventures in Mardi Gras
May 22, 2012 – 3:05 pm
As YouTube has moved towards curating more original content, the community video site has partnered with various producers to create original “channels”. One of these partners is Bonnaroo, who launched the Bonnaroo 365 channel just after Jazz Fest. Like the Bonnaroo Festival, it’s a mix of music, comedy, and other “good stuff”—the channel’s overriding theme. [...]
Kipori Woods, Blues Gone Wild (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
May 1, 2012 – 12:55 am
Last year I was walking down Bourbon Street on my way to meet a friend when I was stopped in my tracks by a distinctive blues guitar sound. I walked into the club and there was Kipori Woods delivering a sleek, flashy solo that stood out from the rote-copy-band music of Bourbon Street like a [...]
More Than Just Festivals and Sports
April 18, 2012 – 2:51 pm
This afternoon I was lucky enough to be able to leave the office and trek out to the Fair Grounds to take care of a little business. Oh what a gorgeous day! No clouds, cool temps, no humidity, sunshine and a breeze. It’s these days in New Orleans that not only make you glad you [...]
Bourbon Business Is Victim of Noise Issues
March 23, 2012 – 6:06 pm
Bourbon Heat, the bar at 711 Bourbon Street, was recently fined $500 for being a “public nuisance” based on complaints from neighbors about the club. Strict sanctions were handed down requiring the venue to keep its doors closed, not use speakers in its courtyard, and prohibiting barkers in the street. Doors and windows are also [...]
Let’s Just Shut Frenchmen Street Down
March 14, 2012 – 2:58 pm
Do you love music? Do you love Frenchmen Street? Your days of enjoying this only-in-New Orleans phenomenon of a live music street may soon be coming to an end. I wrote in my blog last week about the attempt by the city—which should be embracing Frenchmen Street as the current epicenter of local live music [...]
None of Us Can Hear Anymore
February 29, 2012 – 3:23 pm
With all the controversy surrounding the noise ordinances in New Orleans, and how changes in the ordinance will affect residents and businesses, very little attention has been paid to the people who are affected the most by loud noise or music: people who work in establishments who have music (or make “noise”), musicians, and the patrons [...]
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Award: George Porter, Jr.
January 1, 2012 – 12:13 am
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 [...]
