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YouTube du Jour: Hurricane Katrina
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1z_jpR7Cc[/youtube] Tonight, Witness: Katrina airs at 7 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel. The show collects harrowing videotape shot before, during and after Hurricane Katrina – footage that still seems […]
Donna’s Bar & Grill Closes
The last mainstay of live local music on North Rampart Street has closed its doors. Donna’s Bar & Grill, which has been the home of brass bands for almost 20 […]
YouTube du Jour: Mario Abney Quintet
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9RAkRIvU_0[/youtube] Tonight, the Mario Abney Quintet plays Snug Harbor. Here’s Abney in the jazz mecca Kettering, Ohio playing “Blessed” in what appears to be one of the least atmospheric gigs […]
St. Anna’s Up for Pepsi Grant
St. Anna’s Medical Mission (SAMM) is now a semi-finalist for a $50,000 Pepsi “Do Good for the Gulf” grant, a grant created to help Louisiana coastal communities affected by the […]
Spike Lee Documentary Premiere: Photo Slideshow
At the Mahalia Jackson Theatre on Tuesday, August 17, Spike Lee premiered If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, his new documentary about the five years of rebuilding […]
Lee Debuts “God …” in New Orleans
“We’re not really part of the United States,” WWL’s Garland Robinette says. “We’re like a rich Haiti.” That feeling of alienation is an undercurrent that runs through Spike Lee’s new […]
YouTube du Jour: Anais St. John
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CodEDodQXVk[/youtube] Tonight at 6 p.m., Anais St. John plays the Algiers Ferry Dock as part of the Wednesdays on the Point series. Here’s St. John in concert at Le Chat […]
YouTube du Jour: Phyllis Montana-Leblanc
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSjO1cVXLpU[/youtube] Phyllis Montana-Leblanc was so dynamic in Spike Lee’s four-part documentary on Katrina and its aftermath, When the Levees Broke, that he recommended her to David Simon for the role […]
New Orleans in the News: Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard, the photographer who captured archetypal images of jazz musicians, has died. His shots of artists in clubs, studios and stages helped form the public impressions of what jazz […]
YouTube du Jour: Harry Shearer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYWrUZ0HIQ[/youtube] On August 26, Harry Shearer will debut his new documentary, The Big Uneasy, at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art at 8:30 p.m. Here’s Shearer on MSNBC talking about […]
