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R&B Icons Play Westbank Benefit Sunday
The Ponderosa Stomp folks recently announced a benefit Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. for recent inductee into the Westbank Musicians Hall of Fame, Richard Banquer, who’s dealing with cancer. […]
Treme Soundtrack Track Listing
[UPDATE] Earlier, we received a list of songs on the upcoming soundtrack album for HBO’s Treme, but since then, we’ve been informed that the list we had was wrong. The […]
A Preview of Next Thursday?
Tonight’s Saints game is unlikely to tell us much about the team that will take the field against the Minnesota Vikings next Thursday night (beside who’ll back up the back-ups), […]
How Can You Explain New Orleans?
Have had a few people talk to me about my blog last week, about the Colorado gentleman who experienced some “effects” from Hurricane Katrina—the humidity went up. Of course we […]
The Shape of Things to Come
Traffic is bottlenecked on Decatur Street right now and likely will be for the rest of the week as crews erect a stage for the kickoff concert for the Saints […]
Tide and Talk
UPDATED: Saturday, the Howlin’ Wolf was full of tables, the better to support laptops operated by the bloggers present for Rising Tide 5, the bloggers’ conference focused on New Orleans’ […]
The Lessons Not Learned
To his credit, NBC’s Brian Williams on Meet the Press asked Wendell Pierce if racism and classicism played a role in the slow governmental response to the post-Katrina flooding, and […]
Voodoo Adds Electronica and More
Today the Voodoo Experience announced some additions to its musical lineup. The bill for the Halloween weekend festival in City Park headlined by Weezer, Muse, Ozzy Osbourne, MGMT and My […]
Damage Assessment
For me, the takeaway from Spike Lee’s If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise was that he was celebrating the people of New Orleans and the prickly, wily […]
Fear of Cheeseheads
In response to Kate Russell’s story on ATC’s Dear New Orleans benefit album, someone wrote: Too bad they could not get more NEW ORLEANS musicians. This is kinda carpetbagger,,,,,,,, Of […]
