Issue Articles
Five Questions with Peggy Scott Laborde, Captain of the Phunny Phorty Phellows
How would you describe the scene in 1878 when the Phunny Phorty Phellows first hit the streets on Mardi Gras? The original Phellows wore costumes of the silk-pajama style you […]
Have A Cigar
Shane Speal’s goal is simply stated: “I want to help make New Orleans home to the premier cigar box festival in the world.” A musician and historian hailed as “King […]
My Music: Dave Anderson
“I started on the trombone. My dad’s a trombone player—he was the bass trombone with the Cleveland Orchestra—and I’ve always liked that range. As a kid, I was listening to […]
Santa, Run
Mayor of the North Pole Bob Dautrieve—described by Running of the Santas spokesman Matt Willard as “a guy in his 80s who likes to party”—first witnessed the charitable celebration’s carousing […]
My Music: Corey Henry
I started out on drums, actually—I come from a family of drummers. My grandfather, Chester Jones, played in the Preservation Hall, and Benny Jones [drummer for the Treme and Dirty […]
Five Questions with Tom Piazza
Why does New Orleans matter? I wrote one nonfiction book [Why New Orleans Matters], one novel [City of Refuge], and three seasons of a TV show [HBO’s “Treme”] in an […]
Steve Earle & the Dukes
Who can forget seeing Steve Earle shot in the face on HBO’s “Treme”? That bone-chilling, art-imitating- local-life scene of the mugging-turned-murder of Earle’s character Harley Watt ended a two-season stint […]
Soundcheck: Five Questions with singer and sausage maker Vance Vaucresson
You’ve been working in the family business, Vaucresson’s Sausage Company, since the age of eight. What have you learned? Me and my older two brothers, what we learned was from […]
Drive-By Truckers
The impeccable quality of Drive-By Truckers’ artistic arc now spans 20-plus years. Their blistering two-night Tipitina’s stand the weekend of Katrina’s arrival is the stuff of local legend. And the […]
Ted Hefko and the Thousandaires, Distillations of the Blues (Independent)
The Wisconsin-bred Hefko, a graduate of the University of New Orleans’ Jazz Studies program, commands your attention with his latest album, Distillations of the Blues. Serving as executive producer, Hefko also […]
