As Ellis Marsalis is often quoted (but never enough, really), “In other places culture comes down from on high. In New Orleans, it bubbles up from the streets.” And on these pockmarked and potholed streets run people who make the culture (whether it is music, art, dance, or the myriad other wild and unusual versions that make up New Orleans) or make the culture happen (the talent bookers, the club owners, the record-store proprietors, the social aid and pleasure...