Issue Articles — BackTalk
Chef John Besh
This month, Restaurant August celebrates its fifth anniversary. During those years, John Besh, the restaurant’s chef and now owner, became one of the city’s most celebrated chefs and a rising […]
Edward Anderson
Between semesters, there are few places as relaxing as building on a university campus. No students, no drama and easy parking—it’s a good environment for thinking. With no students, you […]
Mitch Landrieu
Cheerleader has to be a politician’s toughest role, and when you’re boosting local music, that means second-lining in a suit, often in contexts not conducive to second-lining. Louisiana Lieutenant Governor […]
Tom Morello, the Nightwatchman
“By day I’m an organizer and an activist, a guy who believes in rallying the troops and in standing up in an uncompromising way for social justice. The Nightwatchman believes […]
Billy Gibbons
“Get high everybody get high,” Billy Gibbons sang some 32 years ago when ZZ Top played New Orleans’ fabled music venue, The Warehouse, a night that was immortalized on the […]
R.I.P. Bob French (1938-2012) | BackTalk with Bob French (April 2007)
When Bob French starts talking, who knows where he’ll go or what he’ll say. Over the course of an hour-and-a-half, the New Orleans drummer and WWOZ radio personality told two […]
Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis
In early January, Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis came to town to do damage control. As the public faces of Habitat for Humanity’s Musicians’ Village, they appeared on WWOZ […]
Monk Boudreaux
Joseph “Big Chief Monk” Boudreaux of the Golden Eagles has been masking Indian since he was a teenager. His father, Raymond, was a member of the Creoles and the Wild […]
Craig Klein
Of all this year’s recipients of OffBeat’s Heartbeat Award, the Arabi Wrecking Krewe may have the most organic origins. Bonerama member Craig Klein’s house in Arabi was damaged by Hurricane […]
Hal Willner
“You pick your cast and you work with them.” One of the great ironies of the folk revival of the late 1950s is that one of its central texts emerged […]
