Issue Articles — Letters
Letters to the Editor, September 2019: Doreen Ketchens, Art Neville & more
Doreen Ketchens Very talented! I had the opportunity to have her as a neighbor in the 6th Ward. Her mom had a “Sweet Shop” on St. Phillip St. I’m thrilled […]
Letters to the Editor, August 2019
Dr. John Mac was holed up in a hotel room between gigs and asked me to come by, because he had dozens (or hundreds?) of his old demos loaded on […]
Letters to the Editor: Domenica, Mini Jazz Fest Bible & more
Real Italian in NOLA The following is in response to Michael Dominici’s restaurant review of Domenica, June 2019. I was happy to read OffBeat’s enthusiastic review of Domenica. It’s just […]
Letters to the Editor, June 2019: Where are the women?
Where are the women? The late-night Jazz Fest landscape is a monolith of the masculine: choice gigs stacked with marquee-worthy names, all with one thing in common: they’re 80 to […]
Letters to the Editor & Corrections, May 2019
Rolling Stones gather no moss Tradition and loyalty be damned, Jazz Fest tried to sell its fan-base down the river for an ill-conceived celebration. Alas, it didn’t work out. With genuine […]
Letters To The Editor, OffBeat Magazine April 2019
“Why can’t we, as residents of this city, have just ONE event for us? Isn’t that what French Quarter Festival started out to be?” —Carol Jo Black, Algiers, Louisiana […]
Letters to the Editor, OffBeat Magazine March 2019
“I need to tell you ‘natives’ just how important New Orleans is to the rest of the world. It gives us a modicum of hope that there is a place […]
Letters to the Editor, February 2019: Mardi Gras, GRAMMYs
Bloomington Mardi Gras I would like to give a gift subscription to my brother for Christmas. It is the only thing he wanted and needed. He has had a few […]
Letters to the Editor: GRAMMYs, Dave Bartholomew and more
“Remember Christopher Cross? He won the Album of the Year Grammy, instead of the other nominees: Glass Houses by Billy Joel, The Wall by Pink Floyd, Trilogy: Past Present Future […]
Letters to the Editor: GRAMMY ban, Caesar Vincent and more
The following letter is in response to Dan Willging’s feature article “Getting His Due” [October 2018] about the legacy of Caesar Vincent.—Ed. Caesar was my great-grandfather’s brother. He was known […]
