Issue Articles
Mo’ Bettah
OffBeat, when it started, was my vision of being able to use a medium to improve the music industry in New Orleans and Louisiana. I wanted it to be a […]
Privilege and Pleasure
I just got back from my travels: Los Angeles and Austin. Both are great places to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there, particularly Los Angeles: the weather is […]
Keeping the Faith
One thing Katrina taught us in New Orleans is that this city has a spiritual pull that is unbelievably strong. There are so many people whose homes, businesses—and families—were devastated. […]
Keepin’ It Real
Okay, so I’m flipping through channels, looking for something to entertain me before I go to work. I come across the movie Clueless, which I’ve seen umpty thousand times and […]
What a Year
I don’t know what happened to you this year, but here in my hometown, we’re still adjusting to the wreckage left behind by The Thing. Negatives: We lost a lot […]
Os Mutantes, Live at the Barbican Theater 2006 (Luaka Bop)
The musical rebellion represented by Brazil’s Tropicalia movement in the late 1960s wasn’t immediately obvious to me when I first heard Caetano Veloso, but it didn’t take a bossa nova […]
Happy Holidays
The OffBeat staff—myself, Joseph Irrera, Alex Rawls, Craig Guillot, Elena Reeves, Eric Broad, Sarah Lockwood and Richard Giraldi—wishes you all a very happy and blessed holiday season. Thank you all […]
All in a Generation’s Work
I never thought I’d still be cranking out OffBeat after an entire generation. I thought that I would have completed my work by now, that is, I thought that the […]
For the Love of Culture
Many Louisiana festivals isolate the elements of the state’s culture, taking music, food and art out of context. The truth we realize is that they’re interconnected, and CultureFest—which takes place […]
All That Jazz
Ah, fall in New Orleans. There ain’t nothin’ better—except maybe spring. But fall is so glorious here because it means that the weather finally starts to get tolerable again, and […]
