Issue Articles
Mojo Mouth: Changing Venues [August 2018]
It’s awfully interesting to observe the changes that have occurred in the music scene since OffBeat opened its doors in 1988. I’m a little concerned that the market for live […]
Making Music For A Living is Harder Than Ever
Playing music in New Orleans is hard work. Who wants to play for tips?
Laissez-Faire Not Always What We Need
More and more often, the issues you hear concerning music in New Orleans have to do with two things: the inability of the city to enforce regulations that are set […]
Frenchmen Street, Again
Frenchmen Street continues to develop as the alternative-to-Bourbon party street of New Orleans, but there are still no police in the area to make sure the partying is safe.
New Orleans: A Music City Like No Other
Greater New Orleans (GNO), Inc.—the organization that’s concerned with economic development in New Orleans—has issued a request for proposal for a consultant to study and recommend how our metro area […]
Education, yes!
Last week’s blog described the efforts that GNO, Inc. (economic development arm of the city) is taking to address music as an economic driver in the city. I am 150% […]
What Do We Want to be when we grow up?
What do we want to be when we grow up? How does New Orleans begin to capitalize on its music and actually become a bona fide music city? GNO, Inc., the econmic development arm of city government, is funding a study and has sent out an RFP to find out.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
I had the pleasure this week of speaking to a small class of teenaged musicians, led by local clarinetist Gregory Agid. Agid is the Artistic Director of the Second Line […]
Pick Up A Book, Put Down The Gun
I just polled the OffBeat staff to see how many of us are actually reading books these days. I’m relieved to say that almost all of our staff are big […]
A Modest Proposal
New Orleans summer doldrums are officially here. Hurricane season, too. As I write this, there’s a possible tropical storm brewing in the Gulf—or is it a subtropical depression? One never […]
