Issue Articles
Dumb, and Why Not?
Austin has South by Southwest, which has grown to ginormous proportions. It used to be a small music business gathering with showcases; it now comprises film, interactive and music. Of […]
Is Jazz The Brand
As readers of OffBeat, OffBeat.com and the Weekly Beat know, New Orleans is a musical city. But—let’s say the CVB was going to use music to “brand” the city, what […]
What Could Be A Better Idea Than This?
For a long time, I thought that Louisiana wasn’t too innovative. We put all of our eggs in the oil revenue basket (we’ve certainly been on the skids since the […]
Mardi Gras on the skids?
Look at the photos on OffBeat.com. We have a tons of great Mardi Gras photos, both from local parades and from Courir de Mardi Gras, but it seemed to me, […]
Mardi Gras Madness
Are you ready? Weather’s gonna be good. No rain. Nice and warm. Put on your costumes (well, make them first; home-made is the best) and get your partying heels on […]
A common-sense approach to weed in New Orleans
Councilwoman Susan Guidry has guts. She introduced an ordinance in 2010 that allowed NOPD to issue summons for possession of marijuana, instead of a big fine and jail time. Since […]
Jam Cruise: A Festival Junkie’s Dream
There really is no place like Jam Cruise. Jam Cruise is essentially Jazz Fest on a boat. Or maybe it’s Mardi Gras on boat. Or Frenchmen Street on a […]
All Philosophical Assumptions Aside…
I find myself getting into a lot more philosophical discussions these days, with people I barely know. I’ve developed into quite a pontificator in my old age, but there’s some […]
Who’s Really The Winner?
Thursday, January 21 is our annual Best of The Beat Music Awards at Generations Hall. Every yer, I hear a fair amount of complaining because someone who “deserved” to be […]
Bring Back Those Gramophones
I do listen to NPR on our local station WWNO and I frequently access their website. NPR recently posted a feature about the New York Public Library’s making almost 200,000 […]
