Recently, Antoinette K-Doe‘s daughter Betty Fox announced that she was closing the Mother-in-Law Lounge. She took up the task of keeping the bar on North Claiborne Avenue open after her mother died February 24—Fat Tuesday—last year. As those who attended one of Fox’s garage sales saw, the upstairs apartment remains in disarray and damaged since [...]
Tag Archives: Ernie K-Doe
Treme: My Pictures!
May 11, 2010 – 1:47 pm
[This is the first in a series of blog posts dealing with HBO's Treme. We get enough email with Treme-related stories that we've decided to run some of them, along with our own notes, thoughts and perspectives. Today's post comes courtesy of photographer Jef Jaisun] I’m not only loving the show, but this one had [...]
What Hall?
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
In recent months, the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame has been active, inducting Allen Toussaint, Benny Spellman and Ernie K-Doe at the Mother-in-Law Lounge, Louisiana LeRoux at the Voice of the Wetlands Festival, and Coco Robicheaux at the House of Blues. Where is the Hall of Fame? Online, at the moment. Initially created by Del [...]
Obituary: Antoinette K-Doe, The Mother-in-Law’s Mother
April 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
[Early Mardi Gras morning, Antoinette K-Doe passed away after a heart attack. Since editor Alex Rawls wrote about Antoinette and the Mother-in-Law Lounge in our January issue, we felt we’d already said much of what we wanted to say about her. Last issue, she spoke for herself, talking about cooking and being neighborly, so we [...]
A Nice Surprise
March 14, 2009 – 4:46 am
I was exploring Blip.fm, yet another networking device – this one allows you to send links to mp3s via Twitter and its own list – and found an extensive selection of Allen Toussaint on Warner Bros., much of which is hard to get otherwise right now. I haven’t further investigated the New Orleans-ness of [...]
Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: Antoinette K-Doe
January 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
On a recent Tuesday morning, OffBeat’s Elsa Hahne visited Antoinette K-Doe at the Mother-in-Law Lounge as she cooked gumbo, red beans, jambalaya, stewed turkey, stuffing and baked macaroni for a welcoming party for visiting musicians in town for a benefit for Sweet Home New Orleans. I was there at the end of the night when [...]
