This weekend features two second lines, with the Lady Rollers parade scheduled for Saturday, December 17 to avoid conflicting with Christmas next Sunday. The Big Nine parade is in the regular Sunday second line slot, marching through the Upper and Lower Ninth Ward. Uptown, the Lady Rollers Social Aid & Pleasure Club’s 16th-annual parade starts [...]
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Lady Rollers and Big Nine Second Lines Roll Saturday and Sunday: Routes and Maps
December 16, 2011 – 3:43 pm
YouTube du Jour: The Cradle Is Rocking
September 27, 2011 – 12:16 pm
In 1968, a young filmmaker named Frank DeCola was paid as part of the United States Information Agency’s “Young Filmmakers Program” to direct The Cradle Is Rocking, a short documentary narrated by New Orleans jazz trumpeter Kid Sheik about his life playing New Orleans traditional jazz. For a long time only one copy of the [...]
Young Men Olympian Jr. Benevolent Association 2011 Second Line: Photos
September 26, 2011 – 5:53 pm
The Young Men Olympian Jr. Benevolent Association hosted its 127th-annual second line on Sunday, September 25 on an afternoon of perfect New Orleans weather. The parade, one of the biggest second lines of the season, wound its way from the Young Men Olympian Hall at 2101 South Liberty Street through Central City to the sound [...]
The Hot 8 Brass Band: Home in My Horn
August 1, 2011 – 12:16 am
The indelible image of the Hot 8 Brass Band at a Sunday afternoon second line parade is that of sousaphone player Bennie Pete and bass drummer Harry “Swamp Thing” Cook. We picture them pushing the band’s low end up and down Lasalle through Central City, out North Broad Street or A.P. Tureaud in the Seventh [...]
Uptown Swingers Second Line: Photo Slideshow
June 29, 2011 – 6:46 pm
Sunday, the Uptown Swingers Social Aid & Pleasure Club hosted the final second line of the 2010-2011 season. The parade started at 4620 Loyola Street, and moved through Uptown and Central City, disbanding at Tapp’s Bar on S. Rocheblave Street. The Uptown Swingers club was founded seven years ago by a former Young Men Olympians [...]
A Second Look at Second Lines
October 7, 2010 – 10:18 am
Last week, publisher Jan Ramsey’s column made me uneasy as it talked about the shooting that followed a second line near her house. She wrote, “while attending the second line on Dryades on Sunday afternoon, they heard the gunshots that inadvertently killed a two-year-old baby sitting in a car across from the church on First and [...]
Black Men of Labor Second Line: Photo Slideshow
September 7, 2010 – 2:35 pm
On Sunday, the 17th annual Black Men of Labor second line hit the streets, starting and ending at Sweet Lorraine’s with stops in the Treme and Seventh Ward along the way. Black Men of Labor is one of the biggest second lines of the fall, and was started in 1993 in honor of legendary local [...]
Krewe of OAK Mid-Summer Mardi Gras: Photos
September 1, 2010 – 1:46 pm
Hard facts of life: The tooth fairy isn’t real. We all die. Mardi Gras comes only once a year. That third one’s the most difficult to reconcile, which is why the Krewe of OAK hosts the Mid-Summer Mardi Gras at the end of Summer every year. It might not be the real thing, but it [...]
A Day in the Year
September 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
In the fall of 2004, writer/musician Ned Sublette got a fellowship from Tulane and moved from New York City to New Orleans. The product of his year here is The World that Made New Orleans, his2008 book examining the role of slavery in shaping New Orleans. Sublette immersed himself in the city’s culture—particularly its second [...]
Lil Rascals, We Shall Walk through the Streets of the City (Got Fire Music)
December 1, 1998 – 12:01 am
Until the rest of America gets hip to the astonishing comeback of the music of the streets of New Orleans, how can we ever hope to explain to them the awesome pleasure of a recording like this one? No star turns, nothing fancy, not even a categorical hook to hang the whole thing on. But [...]
