Issue Articles
Local Color: Record Ron
Just about anyone who’s a fan of New Orleans music knows where to locate hard-to-find albums by the Nevilles or Irma Thomas or the Meters. For die-hard fans, a must-stop […]
Big Easy Blues
“It’s the home of the blues. This place here is the home, the foundation of jazz and blues.” It’s rather hard to contradict the 80-year-old dean of New Orleans blues, […]
Video Vistas: New Films on Video
Amidst the newest films on tape, such as Total Recall, I Love You to Death, and Stanley and Iris, come some rare gems that were not as accessible to theatrical […]
NewsBeat October 1990
Of note this month: the Louisiana Jazz Federation kicks off Jazz Awareness Month in October with events all month long, including performances at the Contemporary Arts Center, clubs around town, […]
Branford Marsalis Speaks His Mind, Part One
Branford Marsalis makes no bones about anything. Just 30 years old, the New Orleans native has accomplished a career peak that some artists wait decades for. His performance scrapbook includes […]
Fine Arts: Gallery-Goers Take to the Streets
Every autumn, this city’s art season starts over—this year it’s the evening of October 6 (and on view through the month)—with coordinated gallery openings, in which vast thousands of this […]
All Tied Up: Almodovar Almost Takes Off
“Nobody’s perfect,” as Joe E. Brown said to Jack Lemmon at the end of Some Like It Hot, meaning his sex. Boy, that’s true! I spent all month looking around […]
Ear to the Ground: The Levelers Tear Down the House
Band names often inspire nothing but indifference. Not so with New Orleans’ House Levelers. They are not the Housemartins, or the House of Lords, or Crowded House—they are the House […]
Jazz Art: Art and Music Converge
October marks the annual “rebirth” of New Orleans—in addition to the music scene cranking up with Jazz Awareness Month, the art season begins simultaneously. In this city, there has always […]
NewsBeat September 1990
All the news that’s fit to print…where have we heard that before? Unfortunately, it doesn’t apply in August in New Orleans. It’s just too damn hot to think, much less […]
