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Happy (Late, Almost Over) Thanksgiving
Did HOB last night for the Project 2010 benefit. Music was great, but the closest thing I heard to a definitive mayoral candidacy was when Harry Shearer got up on […]
A Thanksgiving Memory
As we all hunker down for serious eating, drinking and football, here’s a quick Thanksgiving story with a lesson. On Thanksgiving night 1997, the Afghan Whigs played a remarkable show […]
Work as Play
On the first leg of my vacation flight – New Orleans to Houston – I finished Geeta Dayal’s Another Green World, her entry in Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series. As […]
Will Mayfield Run For Mayor?
Tonight’s the night. It may be the first time in my lifetime–probably in New Orleans history–that a local musician will run for mayor of the city. Anticipation is running high […]
Two for One
MTV made sure no viewers of The City were confused when they paired a scene with stylishly dressed young women walking down a catwalk with the Vettes’ “Walk Like Models.” […]
Shaft’s Long Shadow
Much the same way that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez mimicked 1970s B-movies in Grindhouse, the new Black Dynamite takes pains to evoke the classic blaxploitation film, down to the […]
Maybe Interweb Critics Were Right
If this is the best the blogosphere can muster as a critique of Christmas music, then maybe the luddites are on to something: I happened to tune in to a […]
Starstruck
In another blog post, I started thinking about Big Star, whose Keep an Eye on the Sky box set does nothing to address my thoughts on the band. As great […]
Grades, Stars and Treble Clefs
Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein’s NPR blog, Monitor Mix, ranges from really smart to uninteresting prompts for reader response. What comes up on your iPod? What song can change your […]
A New Orleans Tradition
This event has become so big it gets its own press release: Cash Money Records Co-CEOs and founders Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams have never forgotten their roots […]
