Issue Articles — Features
Photo OP: Hanging Around in the French Quarter
Photographer Sébastien Chaillot snapped these pictures wandering around the French Quarter. He captured some of the sites you can see on almost any sunny day in the Quarter, from bands […]
Not Fade Away: Traditional Irish Music in New Orleans
As early as the late 18th century, Irish immigrants arrived in New Orleans, setting up shops and integrating into the city’s world-famous melting-pot culture. While much of the music that […]
Jazz Fest 2014 Top Fives
Brian Boyles Public Enemy: Probably the most popular band among my friends in 7th grade, I missed them when they came around with Anthrax. My buddy Jyp cut […]
Krewe of Red Beans & Rice Show Off Mardi Gras Costumes
Krewe of Red Beans & Rice parades with the Treme Brass Band from Port and Royal through the Marigny and Treme neighborhoods to the Backstreet Cultural Museum on Lundi Gras […]
How “Mardi Gras Mambo” Became an Unlikely Carnival Anthem
Down in New Orleans where the blues was born, It takes a cool cat to blow a horn On LaSalle and Rampart Street, the combos play with a mambo beat […]
Happy Mardi Gras 2014 from OffBeat Readers
In mid-February, we asked our readers to send us their best, worst, craziest, goofiest, most beautiful or most favorite Mardi Gras photos for a spread in our March 2014 issue. […]
Coming Home: New Orleans Trumpeter Christian Scott’s Roots Run Deep
Christian Scott, now also known as Christian aTunde Adjuah, left New Orleans as a teenager eager to experience the world and broaden his education and career. Having fulfilled much of […]
Truth Universal: Grinding and Rhyming
If you had the time and the patience, you could find everything you need to know about life inside Jim Russell Records on Magazine Street. Racks and shelves brim with […]
Indie Rockers Caddywhompus’ Two Man Army
Fierce punk. Skittish math rock. 1960s pop. Dreamy New Wave. This is a typical journey through a song from local indie duo Caddywhompus. The band’s abandonment of traditional song structures […]
Paul McCartney Goes to Mardi Gras
It’s Mardi Gras 1975 as Paul and Linda McCartney arrive in New Orleans to celebrate the New Year and record a new album—Venus & Mars—at Allen Toussaint’s Sea-Saint Studios. Just […]
