Issue Articles
Jazz Fest Survival Guide 1991
Okay, so you think you’re ready to hit the Fair Grounds for your latest Jazz Fest experience. Locals know what it takes to enjoy the Fest. Unfortunately, we’ve seen many […]
Side Trips: Cajun Backroads
The highlight of my visit to the Cajun Mardi Gras celebration in the tiny town of Church Point this spring was a record hunting stop at the Sound Center Record […]
Feasting Beyond the Fest: The Soul (Food) of New Orleans
The best restaurants in New Orleans, be they Creole, Continental, Cajun or Down Home, all use the same pantry. They all reach into a box packed with peppers, smoked sausages […]
Hot Wax in Big Stacks: Tips from the Record Tent
Hot glass is more like it this year. Following market demand (being dragged behind it kicking and screaming is more like it), we have reduced the quantities of vinyl at […]
Exotique: OffBeat’s Guide to the Jazz Fest’s African & Latin Music
Sub-Saharan Africa is well represented, along with varied genres of music from the Diaspora and Caribbean. The first weekend’s highlights include one must-see, Thomas Mapfumo, and Loketo. Mapfumo emerged from […]
Jazz Art
In case you haven’t noticed, we live in a time and country where everyone is supposed to be a specialist—cosmetologist, urologist, dietician, mortician—you name it. In the U.S. of A. […]
Food Festing
While most people look forward to the music that the Jazz Fest provides, many people also are licking their chops at the prospect of devouring the “fest food” that’s available […]
Jazz Cats
New Orleans. The birthplace of jazz. But like all children must grow to leave the nest, so too has jazz all but left its mother city. It did not, however, […]
Club Scouting
Music die-hards with enough energy left after a long day at the Fair Grounds will want to check out New Orleans’ music clubs. Besides the many special events the clubs […]
Cajun Blue Plate Specials
“Give me a good round or seven steak with potato salad or rice dressing, that’s Cajun cooking. I got to have that blue plate!” Chef Sonny Prather, Enola Prudhomme’s Cajun […]
