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The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – Otis Taylor’s version of “Hey Joe” during the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival Saturday. Don Vappie played banjo with Taylor throughout the set and played a […]
“Spill” Litters NOMA
Updated Last night, Generic Art Solutions—Matt Vis and Tony Campbell—made a mess at NOMA. The Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art hosted “Spill,” a performance art piece […]
The House That Lenny Lived In
LuxuryHousesForSale.com is reporting that Lenny Kravitz has put his New Orleans home on the market. If you’ve got three-quarters of a mil laying around, you could move into his French […]
Be Careful Out There
Yesterday I received a call warning me that a con artist that preys on the music community is working in New Orleans right now (A million wisecracks come to mind […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – At a time when Republicans want us to believe that illegal immigrants have the power to do more damage to the country than the captains of industry […]
A Second Look at Second Lines
Last week, publisher Jan Ramsey’s column made me uneasy as it talked about the shooting that followed a second line near her house. She wrote, “while attending the second line on […]
The Ties that Bind
When the Major League Baseball owners withheld a nearly $8 million payment to the players’ union’s pension and benefit plan in 1994, it provoked the strike in 1994 and did […]
Back on the Bike
In 2008, Carrie Brownstein wrote a blog post for her NPR blog Monitor Mix expressing her hostility for her iPod’s shuffle feature: For one, most of us don’t like the […]
The Weekend’s Highlights
Friday – The New Orleans Bingo! Show had an unprecedented five “winnahs” and had to settle the tie with a Robot Dance-Off. Most contestants had sad robot dance moves, though […]
