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Wipe the Slobber off the Screen
A few quick thoughts after yesterday’s Packers-Cardinals track meet: -The Morning Line: Saints by seven. -Drew Brees had to be wearing a drool bucket yesterday after watching Aaron Rodgers throw for over 400 […]
Image Counts
I’m writing a review of the excellent new Galactic album at the moment, and it includes bounce artists Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia, Katey Red and Sissy Nobby. It’s ironic (to […]
Before it Was Trendy
Shaggy beards seem to be very in, but Steve Earle – who we saw yesterday on Frenchmen as part of the Treme shoot – has been rocking one for a […]
Treme’s Impact
Today Treme is shooting down Frenchmen Street from us. I walked down with a video camera, but there was nothing to shoot but a lot of cold people with headsets. […]
Shameless
In early November, we covered the proposed redevelopment of the Memorial Auditorium as CECI – the Center for Entertainment and Creative Industry. Reviewing what I wrote, I feel like I […]
Someone Finally Made the Corpse Lay Down
Today’s Times-Picayune reports that the Mid-City bonfire has been cancelled this year. As I wrote last year, everything good about the event died when the city got involved, but if […]
Still the Best
This has been a rough year for Lil Wayne, and the general disinterest that the tracks released from Rebirth makes it easy to think about him as in decline. But […]
Grinched!
I’m in the process of uploading a video I shot last night of my favorite Christmas lights in town – a couple of houses in Jefferson at the corner of […]
Perspective Counts
There’s an interesting conversation on the Jazz Fest forums talking about this year’s festival as an experiment: a year without BNAs – Big Name Acts. Anybody besides me suspect that […]
A Good, Nutty Theory
Yesterday, I found a good conspiracy theory regarding Amazon.com’s early release of Lil Wayne’s Rebirth, and I wish I could credit and quote my conspiracy theorist, but I can’t retrace […]
