Issue Articles
February 15 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
CELEBRATING CARNIVAL I’m sitting here on my couch, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, wanting so badly to be celebrating Carnival in New Orleans. I can’t thank your magazine enough for keeping me […]
January 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
PROLIFIC RUSH That has got to be a typo, 327 records! [Bobby Rush feature “Louisiana Homeboy,” October 2014] I went to his website and it stated that he had recorded […]
December 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
WEEKEND MUSICIAN I am what you call an OffBeat part-time weekend musician. With my percussion cowbell and CD player I love to go and stand outside of department stores and […]
November 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
TIM GREEN I first heard Tim Green play with Anders Osborne, where he added a dimension to the music which made it world-class rather than “merely” (tongue in cheek here) […]
October 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
THREE REGIONS, NOT RELIGIONS I want to point out ba mien means three regions, not three religions as printed in your September 2014 issue (“The Big Vietnam-Easy”). The three regions […]
September 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
HEARTBREAKING Thanks Shamarr for sharing your story [Video Interview: Shamarr Allen on his Encounter with State Troopers, July 31, 2014]. We saw Shamarr at the Ellis Marsalis Center yesterday—the same […]
August 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
BUFFA’S This is in response to the web post “Lawsuit Seeks to Silence Buffa’s Bar and Restaurant.” So sad to see certain individuals [Sidney Torres IV] try and dismantle what […]
July 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
PSYCHOBILLY I was in New Orleans last week and read your magazine. I love your city and, in lieu of a proper alt-weekly, your magazine is the best. However, there’s […]
June 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
UNBEARABLE While I recognize what having Bruce Springsteen at the festival did for the Fest, having some of his fans there was unbearable. We wanted to see Marc Broussard, Allen […]
May 2014 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
DUKES OF DIXIELAND Shame on you Brett and OffBeat… next time do your homework as this band has been sued for lying about their false claims to knowing Frank Assunto […]
