Blogs
Baby I’m a Star
While filmmaker/writer/artist John Waters conducted a walk-through of his current show, “Catholic Sin,” at Arthur Roger Gallery on Saturday afternoon, I thought about Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust. The […]
Van Hunt: Thinning the Herd
Last night’s Van Hunt show at Tipitina’s presented easily the most uncompromising popular music I’ve heard since Sparks. He found his audience through his self-titled debut album that presented him […]
Nothing Pretty
His time in New Orleans was transitional for Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. In Pretty Hate Machine, Daphne Carr examines not the early days of the band but its impact […]
Lost in the Moment
Yesterday’s Saints game had more than its share of drama, from the amazing comeback to the emotional start of the game with Steve Gleason – showing the effects of ALS […]
Pearl Jam at Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center is showing Pearl Jam Twenty nightly at 9:30 p.m. through Thursday. The documentary film by Cameron Crowe includes previously unseen footage of the band over the […]
Bring the Noise
In the wake of the bust of Bacchanal, supporters of live music in the city have portrayed government as being anti-live music. I don’t think that’s true in the sense […]
Stax in the ’70s
Concord Records has been reissuing the Stax Records catalog since acquiring it in 2004, but if it’s releasing them in a systematic way, the system has eluded me. Nonetheless, I […]
Back to Bacchanal
[Updated] Recently, OffBeat publisher Jan Ramsey wrote about Bacchanal being raided and fined for, among other things, having live music when it wasn’t zoned for live music. This week, New […]
Ponderosa Stomp Needs Volunteers
The Ponderosa Stomp takes place September 15-17, and it’s looking for volunteers to help out with the Stomp itself at the Howlin’ Wolf, as well as at the Clandestine Celluloid […]
New from Piety: Faithfull and Laurie
Last year, Marianne Faithfull and actor Hugh Laurie (star of House) made pilgrimages to Piety Street Recording to cut albums, each with some measure of New Orleans beyond the studio […]
