Blogs
Treme: Fake Beer
When you see bar scenes on Treme, the patrons have bottles with near-beer, no matter what the label. A beer wrangler opens a few cases of real beer from a […]
Treme Wrap-Up: Coconuts and Shoes
[SPOILER ALERT] Jazz Fest may display the city’s finest talents, but Mardi Gras puts an essential characteristic of the city on display. David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s script for this […]
When You Assume …
David Simon sometimes seems a little defensive to me when writing or talking about how people consume television, but then I read some things people say about Treme and I […]
Music and Food: Passions That Sell
I can’t remember who said this to me, but I always thought it was ironic. A friend came to my house and noticed that I have a huge cookbook collection, […]
Where’s the Country?
Saturday, Luke Bryan added a verse and chorus of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” to his own “All My Friends Say,” complete with a credible, sledgehammer-heavy intro. It was something he said […]
Treme Wrap-Up: Musician, Know Thyself
[Spoiler Alert] After the first episode of Treme, someone on Twitter referred to Davis McAlary as the Jar Jar Binks of the show. The assessment’s brilliantly cold but wrong. Davis […]
Legal News: PBS and the Saints
Today at The Daily Kos, writer “Crashing Vor” wrote a blog post in support of PBS—Porter, Stoltz and Batiste—shining a little light on what little is in the public record […]
OffBeat Friday on Fox: Country, PBS, Big Sam & MNIJM
Every Friday, OffBeat editor Alex Rawls runs down the weekend’s highlights on the Fox 8 Morning News. This week, he talked with Jennifer Hale about Bayou Country Superfest, Save PBS […]
“Best of”–What’s It Good For? $$
Esquire Magazine just named its top bars in the country and several New Orleans watering holes made the cut. New Orleans was third in the number of bars in the […]
Rob Brown: Learning to Love his Trumpet
Like Wendell Pierce, Rob Brown is forced to act with a horn on Treme. Delmond Lambreaux is a jazz trumpeter; Brown isn’t. Like Pierce, he’s forced to look convincing as […]
