Blogs
No Mayor Mayfield
Yesterday the Associated Press reported that trumpeter Irvin Mayfield has decided not to run for mayor of New Orleans. When we first reported that he was going to run, we […]
Almost Perfect
Last night, the Superdome was the loudest I can remember for a prolonged period of time (nothing will ever seem as loud as the Dome was when Steve Gleason blocked […]
Spencer Wins!
Congratulations to Spencer Bohren. He recently won the International Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Education. The award will be presented in Memphis in January during the International […]
Black Monday
Countdown to kickoff – 10 hours, 45 minutes at the time of writing. Saints fans marked tonight’s game against the Patriots on their schedules at the beginning of the season, […]
Derrick Tabb – Hero?
[Note: Update in Comments] Did anybody see all of CNN’s Heroes program last night? Was a winner chosen? I see today online that Derrick Tabb is in the Top 10 […]
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 […]
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 […]
