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Bill Hicks Day
Today, the three-CD/one-DVD/one download card Bill Hicks: The Essential Collection (Rykodisc) showed up on my desk and as I type, he’s describing Satan having his way with Jay Leno, the […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – Otis Taylor’s version of “Hey Joe” during the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival Saturday. Don Vappie played banjo with Taylor throughout the set and played a […]
Show Your Work at Jazz Fest
UPDATED Early birds, make some coffee. Tonight at midnight, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell will start taking applications from those who wish to show in […]
Saints at Tampa Bay Preview: Blindsided!
Didn’t see that coming. Actually, that’s not true. I did. I found myself reverting to the Saints fan I was up and until the Super Bowl win this February (that […]
Can Legalized Pot Save Louisiana?
A former colleague of mine sent me an interesting piece from the New York Times on a non-profit arts effort, put together by the same Life Is Art Collective who […]
“Spill” Litters NOMA
Updated Last night, Generic Art Solutions—Matt Vis and Tony Campbell—made a mess at NOMA. The Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art hosted “Spill,” a performance art piece […]
The House That Lenny Lived In
LuxuryHousesForSale.com is reporting that Lenny Kravitz has put his New Orleans home on the market. If you’ve got three-quarters of a mil laying around, you could move into his French […]
Be Careful Out There
Yesterday I received a call warning me that a con artist that preys on the music community is working in New Orleans right now (A million wisecracks come to mind […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – At a time when Republicans want us to believe that illegal immigrants have the power to do more damage to the country than the captains of industry […]
Saints/Cardinal Preview: A Year That Makes Steelers Fans of us All
The glass half full/half empty sides of the same comment kept coming up after the Saints win over Carolina this week. On one side was “They’re a missed field goal […]
