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First Signs of Trouble
After Monday’s blog post about CECI, one commenter responded: When two days after the announcement you get a double barrel assault from both the IG and James Gill blasting the […]
More on CECI
A few disconnected thoughts after yesterday’s press conference for the Center for Entertainment and Creative Arts (CECI): – It feels unkind to raise doubts about it because if it happens, […]
The New All-Purpose Everything
At lunch time, Dooky Chase’s was a circus. There were drummers out front and Lenny Kravitz, Irvin Mayfield and Mayor C. Ray Nagin inside. To make the scene properly surreal, […]
Municipal Auditorium Re-Do
In the 9/17/09 edition of OffBeat’s Weekly Beat e-newsletter, I recommended a combination of music and Mardi Gras: “Last week’s Weekly Beat poll showed that 49% of our readers think […]
Priorities
A hurricane is coming this way and the Saints going 8-0 is the headline in today’s Times-Picayune. As it should be. One of the pleasant discoveries yesterday – besides the […]
A Little Urgency
One stat that came out of the morning press conference at the National World War II Museum explains the urgency to open the new wing and subsequent expansions ASAP. Since […]
Get Off Your Butts and Protest, Please!
I put out a little teaser in today’s WB about a noise ordinance that’s going to be voted on by the New Orleans City Council on November 19, 2009. It […]
Hall Decking 101
The lineup for this year’s free Christmas concerts in the St. Louis Cathedral was announced this morning. The show start at 6 p.m. and, because of the venue, feature spirituals […]
Pairing Food and Wines…
…isn’t something I do that often, mainly because I guess I’m not a wine connoisseur. I know what I like, sort of. So last night I attended one of the […]
Missing the Point
Recently, I’ve received two new albums that are clearly inspired by the success of Girl Talk: Torn Up by E-603 and Brain Salad Surgery by DJ Quickie Mart. Both merge […]
