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Handgun on hip, we walk through the French Quarter

Steve Maloney, OffBeat’s web editor, texted me a photo that his uncle took in the French Quarter on Tuesday. Note the handgun on this young man’s right hip. My jaw […]

Cheap Ain’t Dere No More

I guess I should be happy about what’s going on in New Orleans. Remember when Ed Blakely, Executive Director of Recovery Management for the City post-Katrina predicted a speedy recovery […]

Where do the brass bands go?

Jazz Fest is over; the nitrous hustlers have been busted on Frenchmen; let’s hope they stay away. Frenchmen Street is still crowded. As I write this, and for most of […]

What I Loved and Hated About Jazz Fest

Okay, Festival Productions people: don’t go nuts on me here. I’m not dissing the Jazz Fest this year. It was one of the better ones in memory: the lineup was […]