Issue Articles
Eight is Enough
Many folks enter the Fair Grounds hungering for the holy trinity of Jazz Fest eats: crawfish bread, crawfish Monica and the cochon de lait po-boy. We’ll be prowling the vendors […]
Behind the Green Flap
It’s hot and you’re hungry. A five-minute wait for a cochon de lait po-boy or a bowl of crawfish Monica can seem like an hour when the band you want […]
Fest Focus: World Saxophone Group
By the mid-1970s, Hamiet Bluiett, Oliver Lake, David Murray and Julius Hemphill were well known on the avant-garde jazz scene. During a series of concerts in 1976 at Southern University […]
Dining Out: Mat and Naddie’s
Mat and Naddie’s nestles along the levee, just below the waters of the Mississippi. Only blocks from the bustle of Carrollton Avenue, it feels remote, like a roadhouse along a […]
The Countdown: Chef Scott Boswell
Scott Boswell is an ambitious man. Scott Boswell wants to be New Orleans’ top chef. And Boswell, the chef and owner of Stella and the soon to open Hoshi, knows […]
Alvin Batiste/Bob French, Marsalis Music Honors (Marsalis Music)
Branford Marsalis pays tribute to Bob French and Alvin Batiste, two of New Orleans’ best-known jazz musicians, on the latest releases in his “Honors Series.” The resulting albums are very […]
Dining Out: Café Amelie
Walking the French Quarter’s cramped streets, I sometimes glimpsed more expansive spaces. Beyond the clumps of tourists who seemed to have multiplied in recent months, private oases of fountains and […]
Dining Out: Tucker’s Tavern
Two guys jogged past me as I approached Tucker’s Tavern. They were getting a midday workout and I was headed to the home of the deep-fried burger. I felt guilty […]
Don’t Fear the Green Space
It’s seven o’clock at night in the Lower Ninth Ward. What is there to eat? “Nothing is open,” says Greta Gladney, 42, who founded the Renaissance Project in 2001 to […]
Dining Out: Dunbar’s
At Dunbar’s new location inside Loyola’s Broadway Activity Center, you’re not likely to see a meeting of officers from Zulu. And at the original location on Freret, I don’t remember […]
