Blogs
Always More Bob
At this point, it feels a little obsessive to scrutinize yet another Bob Dylan show. Still, it’s hard not to because there’s always something there worth thinking about afterwards, even […]
Banh Mi on a Budget
Banh mi, also known in New Orleans as Vietnamese po-boys, are among my absolute favorite foods. Luckily, they also are just about the cheapest thing you can find in the […]
Irony is a Bitter Taskmaster
[Updated] Saturday afternoon, my wife and friends and I heard a great song on BBC 6 and tried to figure out who it was? Adele? Duffy? At the end of […]
Tales of the Tales
Tales of the Cocktail routinely poses the question, “How much can you handle?” As a media member, I was handed a large empty bag and shown to a room where […]
Photos of the Day: Ben Sollee at Parish at House of Blues
Photographer Erika Goldring shot folk cellist Ben Sollee last night at the House of Blues’ Parish. Here are a couple of the highlights:
Detractors, Heal Thyself!: The New Orleans Healing Center
There are not many things that make me sit up and say “Wow!”, but today I was introduced to the brand-spanking-new Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue, and I have […]
Not So Chocolate Truffles at Creole Creamery
When we hear the word truffle used in the context of dessert, our brains automatically imagine chocolate truffles. I was recently thrown for a loop, though, when I heard of […]
Britney’s Crowd and Charisma Make the Show
Friday night’s Britney Spears show at the New Orleans Arena was weird in the way only famous people can be weird. Someone had the idea that the show should have […]
Pottermania—Catch It
Forget the sweltering heat outside. Put on your hand-knitted Gryffindor scarves and head to the nearest movie theater for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The last installment […]
Emmys Snub Treme
Television watchers are trying to figure out how Treme received no Emmy nominations in 2011. At HollywoodReporter.com, Tim Goodman went on at length about the oversight of the HBO drama […]
