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Smoke-Free: A Breath of Fresh Air
There’s a new movement in town that has almost no opponents, and it’s driving smokers from their beloved bars and into the streets. The movement’s newest convert is d.b.a.; the […]
King Expressers at AllWays Lounge Tonight: Concert Preview
Tonight at AllWays Lounge, the Brooklyn-based Afro-pop band King Expressers play only their second show outside New York, having conquered their first “touring” show this past Saturday night at the […]
A Post-K Education
“The history of New Orleans in the wrenching aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can be telegraphed in one sentence. Politics failed, culture prevailed.” Jason Berry uses this thought to start “Memory […]
June 2009 Letters
MUSICAL MORONS Wow, I am dismayed to hear that the crowd booed Dr. John. I was not impressed that Bon Jovi was playing and was not interested in seeing him. […]
April 2009 Letters
EARLY & SMOKE FREE I took particular interest in Jim Markway’s letter to the editor in March’s issue discussing the lack of venues in the city and the low pay […]
Another Troubled Street
For the better part of a decade, Frenchmen Street has become the hot spot for locals and music savvy tourists tired of the gauntlet of identical strip clubs, T-shirt stores […]
Pat O’Brien’s: The Songs Remain the Same
On Halloween night, Pat O’Brien’s piano bar was packed with costumed quaffers getting wild and singing along drunkenly to everything from “Elvira” to “Rocket Man.” A guy dressed as an […]
Letters April 2006
A Valuable Lesson A big influence on my music career was former New Orleans Summer Pops conductor Milton Bush. He was my high school teacher for one year. He was/is […]
Katrina Blues
It is more than a little strange to be back in New Orleans on the first cool-ish night of autumn after the summer that would never end. That mustard gas […]
Around the Clock with Kermit Ruffins
“I have to light up the rainy day grill,” observes Kermit Ruffins on a cool, wet Wednesday morning in early April. “I love this weather,” the trumpeter and vocalists declares […]
