Blogs
Damage Assessment
For me, the takeaway from Spike Lee’s If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise was that he was celebrating the people of New Orleans and the prickly, wily […]
Fear of Cheeseheads
In response to Kate Russell’s story on ATC’s Dear New Orleans benefit album, someone wrote: Too bad they could not get more NEW ORLEANS musicians. This is kinda carpetbagger,,,,,,,, Of […]
Post-Traumatic
Satellite view of “The Big One” Yesterday afternoon I was waiting for an appointment in an office, and a woman who was sitting next to me was complaining to her […]
We Have No One but Ourselves to Blame
We’re in the process of posting stories from back issues that were never online, and while doing so, we ran across 1990’s “Jazz Fest Survival Guide.” I won’t question the […]
Old Man Mellencamp
Tuesday, John Mellencamp called the Internet “the most dangerous thing invented since the Atomic bomb,” and railed against its impact on music, including mp3s. He said of remastered Beatles track: […]
Just Gimme Some Truth
When the Saints season opens in the Dome September 9, it looks like the Minnesota Vikings will have Brett Favre at quarterback, just as almost everybody in the free world […]
If God Is Willing…
Last night I saw excerpts from Spike Lee’s new documentary If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, his follow-up five years later, post-Katrina to When The Levees Broke. […]
The Morning Drive
On the way to work, I decided I’d thought far too long about the Hoodoo Gurus’ Purity of Essence (Hoodoo Gurus). The opening tracks – “Cracking Up,” “A Few Home […]
Uncle Lionel in Times Square
Tonight, Spike Lee’s new documentary If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise premieres at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, and it airs on HBO August […]
On the Road Again
North Louisiana native Tony Joe White has made a career out of being laconic, and his matter-of-fact delivery lent a homespun truthfulness to race relations in “Willie and Laura Mae […]
