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Where Are The Memorials?
I wonder why there’s such an overall lack of appreciation for musical legends in New Orleans, which is the most musical city on earth. There’s such a deep love for […]
What is it About the Mother-in-Law?
You’d think the Mother-in-Law Lounge is on a tricky stretch of winding road considering that the building has been crashed into six times now. Most recently, it was hit Monday […]
Who Am I Now?
Sony Legacy will reissue Elvis Presley’s On Stage later this month, and the show documents his first live appearances in nine years in 1969 and 1970. Besides the constant pleasure provided […]
The Swede in the Machine
The news in Theresa Andersson’s Hummingbird, Go! and subsequent tours has been the batalion of pedals that allow her to create a band environment onstage on her own. But at last […]
Keeping New Orleans New Orleans
I grew up in New Orleans and in its environs, and have lived everywhere from Uptown, the Irish Channel, Downtown, Broadmoor and Central City, in addition to some of our […]
Tit for Lunch
Okay, not really tit. It’s probably spelled thit, but either way it’s the tit that puts the pork in the Vietnamese po-boy. After trying one made by the church ladies […]
Foolishness and Mayhem are Your Friends
On the Style Network’s Clean House, Niecey Nash routinely scolds families for their “foolishness and mayhem” – code for house clutter on such a high, pathological order that the families really […]
Generation M?
Nothing marginalizes you like acting as if Twitter, Facebook and apps require special geek knowledge to understand. First, these things are ridiculously easy to use as anyone who’s tried them […]
A Basic Question Answered
Why do some bands get attention and others don’t? One of the simplest things those who feel shunned can do is have a print quality photo (a jpg that’s 300 […]
The more things change…
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”…If you’re from New Orleans, you probably know what this means: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Over the […]
