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New Orleans Visitors Targeted
The New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation (NOTMC) presented the plan for its annual campaign yesterday to members of the hospitality industry. Its theme is “Follow Your NOLA” and it targets […]
Jazz Fest Is Over? Jimmy’s Keeps Trying.
Had a glorious second weekend at Jazz Fest—if you count Friday and Saturday. Thursday was too rainy and Friday too cold for my tastes, but I did go on Friday […]
Jazz Fest For The Gimped and Otherwise Infirm
I am handicapped, and I have limited use of my legs due to an automobile accident some 30 years ago. The older I get, the worse the pain. About 16 […]
Music Museum–At The Head of Canal Street?
For some years, the International Trade Mart skyscraper (known as the World Trade Center), in a prime location at the head of Canal Street that overlooks the Mississippi River, has […]
Texas is a lot more progressive
Sue Mobley, the Executive Director of Sweet Home New Orleans has written some thought-provoking letters, one of which I published in my blog last week, which was echoed in a […]
Ships vs. Hotels
I wasn’t alive in 1940, but in half a century perceptions, business orientations and city economies can surely change drastically. I can remember when I was a kid that New […]
Festivals, Festivals!
Did you know that New Orleans hosts 120 festivals annually that are attended by 3.6-million people? Wow. That’s a lotta music, food, culture and beer! New Orleans’ two biggest music […]
Noisy Parks?
Okay, so I’m out of town at SXSW, and I get this email from Leo Watermeier, who’s lived on North Rampart for some years and who maintains the antique rose […]
SXSW Magic
From the road…this is South by Southwest week, otherwise known, depending on how hip you are, as SXSW or “South By.” OffBeat has been a media co-sponsor of the event […]
Where Are The Blues?
Back in the mid-1990s, I was a total blues freak, and a bunch of my friends were too. To some extent, I still am. I suppose it’s characteristic of my […]
