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YouTube du Jour: Bill Baird and Echotone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ5qoL8g_w0[/youtube] Tonight, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will screen the movie Echotone at 8 p.m. The documentary deals with issues that are relevant here as it examines how economic […]
Ladies, Men, and Junior Buckjumpers Second Line: Photo Slideshow
This past Sunday, November 28, the Original New Orleans Ladies, Men and Junior Buckjumpers hosted their 2010 second line through Uptown, starting in Hollygrove and ending in Central City. Kermit […]
Lights Are On in the Roosevelt Lobby
When the Waldorf Astoria bought the Fairmont after Katrina and returned it to its more famous name—the Roosevelt—it also kept its long-standing tradition of elaborately lighting its lobby. Here is […]
YouTube du Jour: Insane Clown Posse
In what could either be the most brilliant or, ahem, insane club booking this month, shock rappers Insane Clown Posse will be performing at Republic tonight. After spending years as […]
OffBeat’s Louisiana Christmas Mix
In our December issue, editor Alex Rawls wrote about his favorite Louisiana Christmas songs. Here’s a mix of those songs and more. Merry Christmas from OffBeat.com—download the mix for free […]
Christmas Concerts Start Wednesday with Ronnie Kohl
As the weather finally decides to get cold, locals can get into the holiday spirit through holiday music. The annual Cathedral Concerts at St. Louis Cathedral feature local musicians performing […]
YouTube du Jour: Linnzi Zaorski
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ87dCuXSQo[/youtube] Tonight, jazz vocalist Linnzi Zaorski performs upstairs at Mimi’s in the Marigny. Here she is in 2009 singing “When I Get Low I Get High” at a Louisiana Music […]
New Nicholas Payton Mixtape
[Updated] In July, trumpeter Nicholas Payton told the Aspen Times about his upcoming album, Bitches: “‘Bitches,’ if I dare to categorize it, will be in the r&b, soul vein,” Payton […]
YouTube du Jour: Kid Ory
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj7QBukpA7E[/youtube] Tomorrow, our new issue hits the streets, and in it is a piece on Kid Ory by Hank Cherry. Here’s Kid Ory and his New Orleans Jazz Band in […]
Aaron Neville Married in New York Last Weekend
On Saturday, November 13, 2010, Aaron Neville married Sarah Friedman, a New York photographer, in an intimate ceremony in New York. They were engaged in October 2008. “I don’t know […]