Blogs
Inside the Food Booths
Food writer Todd A. Price passed me this story from New Orleans City Business on some of the costs of running a Jazz Fest food booth.
Louisiana 1927
Geoffrey Himes’ recent piece on Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927” appeared Sunday in the New York Times. The idea that it has become “Stagger Lee”-like in its ability to re-employed and […]
In the Mail
Periodically, CDs and such arrive that can’t be ignored, but for all the wrong reasons. Today a CD arrived from MASS, which is short for “Music, Architecture, Sight & Sound). […]
Jazz Fest Notebook Dump, Day 3
Sunday started with the low point of this year’s fest (aside from the rain): the Zac Brown Band, whose “Toes” promised an hour of Jimmy Buffett-like coastal rock free from […]
Jazz Fest Notebook Dump, day 2
Note: Yesterday I said I thought the version of “Bon Temps Roulet” performed by T Bone Burnett was by Clifton Chenier. I’m told it was originally by Clarence Garlow. So […]
Jazz Fest Notebook Dump, day 1
Jazz Fest started at the Figs, the all-female Lafayette string band, who wore great, retro, summer dresses. I saw them at the Ogden a few months back, where they played […]
Jazz Fest: Plant/Krauss preview
At the Bruce Springsteen set two years ago, a coupld of guys standing near me couldn’t believe that he wasn’t going to do his own songs, and even though the […]
Tribeca Film Festival
For readers in New York City: Faubourg Treme: the Untold Story of Black New Orleans, a recent documentary on the oldest African-American neighborhood in the city, screens at the Tribeca […]
President, Gang Leader or Enforcer?
Last night I heard a soundbite with Hillary Clinton reassuring Pennsylvania voters that she had their backs. Literally. “I’ve got your back; I’ve got all of your backs,” she said. […]
Get to Know Me
DVDs are stacking up like cord wood here, and a couple merit attention. I recently wrote about the Robyn Hitchcock retrospective and how, when it comes down to it, I […]
