Blogs
Be Careful Out There
Yesterday I received a call warning me that a con artist that preys on the music community is working in New Orleans right now (A million wisecracks come to mind […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – At a time when Republicans want us to believe that illegal immigrants have the power to do more damage to the country than the captains of industry […]
A Second Look at Second Lines
Last week, publisher Jan Ramsey’s column made me uneasy as it talked about the shooting that followed a second line near her house. She wrote, “while attending the second line on […]
The Ties that Bind
When the Major League Baseball owners withheld a nearly $8 million payment to the players’ union’s pension and benefit plan in 1994, it provoked the strike in 1994 and did […]
Back on the Bike
In 2008, Carrie Brownstein wrote a blog post for her NPR blog Monitor Mix expressing her hostility for her iPod’s shuffle feature: For one, most of us don’t like the […]
The Weekend’s Highlights
Friday – The New Orleans Bingo! Show had an unprecedented five “winnahs” and had to settle the tie with a Robot Dance-Off. Most contestants had sad robot dance moves, though […]
Fela Needs You to Complete Him
Felamania is gripping America – or maybe it just has the country in a loose, friendly grasp, but his albums are being reissued and the Broadway play Fela! continues in […]
Anselmo, Meet Shockey
At HousecoreRecords.com – the online home of Phil Anselmo’s label – he interviews Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey. Among the revelations – “[Pantera] helped some people deal with their anger […]
So Strange
It’s clearly been a dry summer in the Midwest, so much so that the Mississippi River is down almost 10 feet. It frustrates my dog when she wants to go […]
