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SXSW Day 3: Good for New Orleans, or Good?
Late in the day, a friend responded to a tweet about sitting through a mediocre Brooklyn band waiting for a Generationals set, “Can’t get enough of NOLA bands in NOLA?” […]
SXSW Day 2: They Love Us, They Like Us
Thursday started at a party thrown by HBO’s Treme, and even without anyone from the production (the show’s still shooting) and really, music directly associated with the show – a […]
SXSW Day 1: Crowded in the Graveyard
The first sign that things have gone wrong – the goodie bag. For years, registrants at South by Southwest would be given a bag with art done by a musician […]
Donna’s On Rampart’s Music License Pulled By City
The new reincarnation of Donna’s Bar & Grill (renamed by new owners as Donna’s on Rampart) lost its license to present live music Monday. Donna Poniatowski and her husband Charlie Sims […]
Another Treme Teaser
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLp-bRkVgKI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Recently, Treme put out a short teaser for season two that included Juvenile in the faces that would appear in the season. Here’s a new teaser that shows a […]
Jazz Fest Preview: Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp and Cyndi Lauper
John Bon Jovi (Saturday, April 30) recently joined John Mellencamp (Sunday, May 1) on a porch, where they now wave their canes at the young whippersnappers. “Pull up your pants!” […]
Not a Wash
Last week’s police confrontation with the Krewe of Eris has been polarizing. When Jan Ramsey wrote criticizing the police for their heavy-handed tactics stopping the parade, commenters wrote to point […]
You Know Mardi Gras Is Over When…
… your dog finishes off a galette from the Boulangerie and you’re not that mad at the dog or sorry to see it go. That happened last night. A few […]
A Great Mardi Gras
Had a great Mardi Gras! I’ve done Frenchmen Street, Bourbon Street, Canal Street, St. Charles Avenue, even Metairie. But I like our house the best. We’re smack-dab in the middle […]
We’re Not Idol Material
American Idol continues tonight after ending last week by mowing down all three competitors from the region – Jordan Dorsey, Jovany Barreto and Lauren Turner. Dorsey was promising during the […]
