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Three New Orleans bands strengthen their ties to the local music community by building new studios. New Orleans often raises a musician from his or her infancy, watching as music […]
Blues Bard of the Bywater: It’s nice to have Andy J. Forest around
Andy J. Forest enjoys his drive to work so much he wrote a song about it. “Bartender Friend,” the opening track on Forest’s great new album, Word Shadows & Ghost […]
Spreading Awareness: Tab Benoit’s Voice of the Wetlands re-educates while having fun.
It didn’t take a lot of people to turn Tab Benoit into an activist for wetlands preservation. In fact, it took very few people— which was exactly what he saw […]
Expanding Our View of the Blues
It seems that we may have gotten the blues all wrong. Instead of the taproot of American popular music, drawing on work songs, spirituals, and juke joint rhythms, the blues […]
October Blues
I’m going down to Louisiana Baby behind the sun Well you know I just found out My trouble’s just begun I’m going down to New Orleans Get me a mojo […]
Sound and Vision: New Orleans Film Festival
Born to Be Blue leads music films at New Orleans Film Festival. Over the course of 26 years, the New Orleans Film Festival has grown into one of the most […]
Reunited, and It Feels So Good: Continental Drifters
When word got around that the Continental Drifters were re-forming, the first question fans probably asked was: Which Continental Drifters? The beloved roots-pop collective that was a fixture in New […]
Baroque Baruch: The Franklin’s Chef Baruch Rabasa is doing Mexican brunch in the Marigny —with rich and ornate detail.
Last fall, Baruch Rabasa returned to his hometown of Mexico City to visit family. He’d recently given up his tenure as a private chef and, having helmed the kitchens at […]
Garden & Fun: New Orleans chefs look no further than your backyard for fresh ingredients
Sometimes the vacant lot next door, overgrown with weeds, turns into a beautiful garden. Not by itself, of course, but since nobody’s moved in and no houses are being built […]
Nouvelle Créole: Chef Nina Compton is reintroducing the city’s culture to itself
In a city where the term “Creole food” has become about as murky as its signature dish—gumbo—and its bastions—such as Galatoire’s and Antoine’s—are described as “classic” and “historic” (you could […]
