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Organized Labor
While major festivals held the spotlight for the last several months, neighborhood activities pick up the slack in September. The month kicks off with the much-anticipated Black Men of Labor […]
Letters August 2004
IN OUR MIDST Congratulations again and again for being such a fine publication and right here in our midst. —Allen Toussaint, New Orleans, LA HONESTLY I’d like to take this […]
The Stooges: Sweet on the Street
The Stooges Brass Band hit it on the sweet spot when it dubbed its debut release It’s About Time. Folks on the street have been jumpin’ to the band’s hot […]
2003 Best of the Beat Award Winners
OffBeat’s ninth annual Best of the Beat awards honor Louisiana’s finest musicians, as nominated by their fellow musicians and music industry professionals with the final balloting determined by the public […]
Creole Everything
Handsome Moïse Viatorand his beautiful sister Alida, aged 22 and 19, respectively, were raised on the family farm in Eunice and home-schooled by their mother Deborah-Helen, an esteemed violin maker,and […]
2003 Redux, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
FIRST THURSDAY This year Jazz Fest expanded its program to include an eighth day of music. The opening Thursday concluded with a performance by native son Fats Domino on the […]
Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z
Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey. If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]
Dominating DJ Davis
Also check out this review of Davis Rogan’s album, The Once and Future DJ, that first caught Treme producer David Simon’s attention. DJ Davis Rogan is waiting, somewhat impatiently, in […]
Fifteen Years of OffBeat: 1988-2002
A trip through OffBeat’s back pages, or as Louis Armstrong once sang: “All that meat and no potatoes!” For those readers with scant knowledge of New Orleans music and Louisiana […]
Letters August 2002
LOUISIANA CONTENT Our city is entering an era in which the new mayor plans to encourage business and remove many of the hurdles reputedly placed in the way of those […]
