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Saints/Browns Preview: Hartley Needs to Get a Grip
WHEW! That felt good. Looked good, sounded good, it was good. See what a run game’ll do for a team? It helped a pretty pedestrian team like Tampa Bay roll […]
Digital Music and An Old Fart Like Me
Just had lunch with the OffBeat staff, and we had some interesting conversations about music that made me think about how things have changed so drastically over the past 10 […]
A Good Marc Bolan to You, Sir
During this year’s Ponderosa Stomp conference, Gloria (“Tainted Love”) Jones told interviewer Ann Powers that she had opened a music school in Africa in the name of Marc Bolan, her […]
Bill Hicks Day
Today, the three-CD/one-DVD/one download card Bill Hicks: The Essential Collection (Rykodisc) showed up on my desk and as I type, he’s describing Satan having his way with Jay Leno, the […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – Otis Taylor’s version of “Hey Joe” during the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival Saturday. Don Vappie played banjo with Taylor throughout the set and played a […]
Show Your Work at Jazz Fest
UPDATED Early birds, make some coffee. Tonight at midnight, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell will start taking applications from those who wish to show in […]
Saints at Tampa Bay Preview: Blindsided!
Didn’t see that coming. Actually, that’s not true. I did. I found myself reverting to the Saints fan I was up and until the Super Bowl win this February (that […]
Can Legalized Pot Save Louisiana?
A former colleague of mine sent me an interesting piece from the New York Times on a non-profit arts effort, put together by the same Life Is Art Collective who […]
“Spill” Litters NOMA
Updated Last night, Generic Art Solutions—Matt Vis and Tony Campbell—made a mess at NOMA. The Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art hosted “Spill,” a performance art piece […]
The House That Lenny Lived In
LuxuryHousesForSale.com is reporting that Lenny Kravitz has put his New Orleans home on the market. If you’ve got three-quarters of a mil laying around, you could move into his French […]
