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New Orleans Monuments Should Honor Music and Culture
New Orleans hit the national news as a result of the Mayor and City Council’s decision to take down four monuments: three statues of Confederate heroes, and one dedicated to a […]
Tank and the Bangas
Over 6,000 acts entered NPR’s 2017 Tiny Desk Contest, but when the 10 judges convened for a vote they landed on a unanimous winner: New Orleans’ own Tank and the […]
Marijuana Keeps Us Young
An old friend sent me an interesting article about the effects of marijuana. She’s been aware for some time that I’m a proponent of its legalization. Turns out that some […]
Free Speech Run Amok
If you don’t know about the current and impending removal of Confederate-related monuments in New Orleans, including Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and the Liberty monument (already removed […]
A Side Dish Rather Than The Entree
We asked our Weekly Beat readers about which bands they must see at the 2017 Jazz Fest , and of all the answers we received, less than half were interested […]
Fest Focus: Lake Street Dive
FRIDAY, MAY 5—GENTILLY STAGE, 2:05 P.M. Lake Street Dive has earned quite the following in recent years with a modern take on the old-school pop sounds of the ’50s and […]
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
There’s a real groundswell of change in the city of New Orleans. If, as a Jazz Fest lover, you’ve been here before, you can remember what the Fest was like […]
Partners in Jazz: Alia Shawkat’s unlikely collaboration with New Orleans Swamp Donkeys
FRIDAY, MAY 5—ECONOMY HALL TENT, 4:25 P.M. If you’re familiar with Alia Shawkat, there’s a good chance it’s because of her work on the new dark comedy Search Party […]
Zuckerberg’s Box
Shockingly, last week a deranged man posted a cold-blooded murder that he committed on Facebook. Millions saw the post. Facebook waited 23 minutes before they took the post down. Of […]
Stop Drinking and Driving: A Radical Proposal.
Lord knows, I have nothing against drinking–or recreational drugs, for that matter. It’s the social lubrication of our times. I’m sort of appalled at binge drinking, but what really gets […]
