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Fela Needs You to Complete Him

Felamania is gripping America – or maybe it just has the country in a loose, friendly grasp, but his albums are being reissued and the Broadway play Fela! continues in […]

Anselmo, Meet Shockey

At HousecoreRecords.com – the online home of Phil Anselmo’s label – he interviews  Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey. Among the revelations – “[Pantera] helped some people deal with their anger […]

Music or Bullets?

Had a visit this week from two young Nederlanders who had made a trip from Memphis to New Orleans on bicycles.  Both Leedert and Winifred are in their early thirties, […]

So Strange

It’s clearly been a dry summer in the Midwest, so much so that the Mississippi River is down almost 10 feet. It frustrates my dog when she wants to go […]

Handicapping the Hall

Yesterday, the nominees for this year’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced and I announced who I think should be in – Dr. John, Alice […]

The Road Goes on Forever

Today is so beautiful that I rode my bike to work from Uptown. Here’s the internal monologue as I rode with my iPod on shuffle. Y.F.O.C./Slippy Floor – the Fall: […]

The Value of Quirks

I’ve long contended that the worst art isn’t the most inept; it’s the most forgettable. The levels of craft may be worlds apart, but Ed Wood films are as entertaining […]

The Endless Whine

When I was on the Faculty Senate at Delgado, one thing I could count on every semester was dissatisfaction with parking. Regardless of the efforts made to improve parking for […]

Saints/Falcons Preview: Better Without a Dirtbike?

OUCH! That one hurt. Even without Reggie Bush’s broken leg, the 49ers’ game was a real kick in the hoo-has. The talking heads said that the defending Super Bowl champs […]

Fat City Gets Gentrified

I grew up in Jefferson Parish, and I worked there too. Back in the day, “Fat City” in Metairie was the nightlife district in da Parish, a hotbed of clubbing, […]