Blogs
Starstruck
In another blog post, I started thinking about Big Star, whose Keep an Eye on the Sky box set does nothing to address my thoughts on the band. As great […]
Grades, Stars and Treble Clefs
Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein’s NPR blog, Monitor Mix, ranges from really smart to uninteresting prompts for reader response. What comes up on your iPod? What song can change your […]
A New Orleans Tradition
This event has become so big it gets its own press release: Cash Money Records Co-CEOs and founders Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams have never forgotten their roots […]
First Signs of Trouble
After Monday’s blog post about CECI, one commenter responded: When two days after the announcement you get a double barrel assault from both the IG and James Gill blasting the […]
More on CECI
A few disconnected thoughts after yesterday’s press conference for the Center for Entertainment and Creative Arts (CECI): – It feels unkind to raise doubts about it because if it happens, […]
The New All-Purpose Everything
At lunch time, Dooky Chase’s was a circus. There were drummers out front and Lenny Kravitz, Irvin Mayfield and Mayor C. Ray Nagin inside. To make the scene properly surreal, […]
Municipal Auditorium Re-Do
In the 9/17/09 edition of OffBeat’s Weekly Beat e-newsletter, I recommended a combination of music and Mardi Gras: “Last week’s Weekly Beat poll showed that 49% of our readers think […]
Priorities
A hurricane is coming this way and the Saints going 8-0 is the headline in today’s Times-Picayune. As it should be. One of the pleasant discoveries yesterday – besides the […]
A Little Urgency
One stat that came out of the morning press conference at the National World War II Museum explains the urgency to open the new wing and subsequent expansions ASAP. Since […]
Get Off Your Butts and Protest, Please!
I put out a little teaser in today’s WB about a noise ordinance that’s going to be voted on by the New Orleans City Council on November 19, 2009. It […]
