Issue Articles
Getting Rid of the “Noise”?
Last week, the New Orleans Police Department announced that they would enforce an ordinance on the books that prevents live music from being played on Bourbon Street from 8 p.m. […]
Memories and Opportunities
It’s so hard for me to believe that I will have been publishing OffBeat for almost 25 years. Damn! That’s a quarter of a century, a lot longer than many […]
Susan Cowsill, Lighthouse (Threadhead Records)
Hurricane Katrina forced us all to reconsider the concept of home. On Lighthouse, Susan Cowsill’s longing for home ties the songs together, and the emotions tied to “home” are more […]
Jazz Fest on Your iPhone
If you’d like to experience New Orleans and OffBeat all year long, any time you want, download the newest addition to our media family: our OffBeat Mobile app on your […]
Meet the Family
As I write, two weeks before the beginning of 2010 Jazz Fest, I’m watching crowds of people heading towards the French Quarter to enjoy French Quarter Fest. And in two […]
Supporting French Quarter Festivals, Inc.
It’s festival time in New Orleans! That’s not to say that we don’t have festivals all year long, but the springtime is special because the French Quarter Festival and Jazz […]
Kermit Ruffins Gets the “Real” Treatment
Last night, I went to see Kermit Ruffins and made an unpleasant discovery: The Real World has found Vaughan’s. MTV’s The Real World is one of the pioneering reality shows, one […]
Krewe of Eris, The Feasts of the Appetite of Eris (Domino Sound)
Krewe of Eris is an annual Mardi Gras marching parade, a swarm of costumed miscreants who meet in the Bywater and meander through the Upper Ninth Ward and the French […]
Reviving Music in the Quarter
I’m sitting here in my Frenchmen Street perch on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, working on this March issue. Frenchmen Street has calmed down a lot since yesterday, when there was […]
Gypsyphonic Disko, Nola-Phonic, Volume One (mixtape)
The talk of the town this last month has been unity. The overarching narrative of the Saints saga has been the way in which this Super Bowl season has brought […]
