Blogs
The Baseball Project
Last night, my wife and I went to Zephyr Field, and if you think about what you’re watching, it’s easy to get romantic about baseball. Catching for the Z’s was Raul […]
More Food News
Last year, Chef Xavier Laurentino of Laurentino’s showed food editor Todd Price and I photos of the results of the molecular gastronomy workshop he attended in Barcelona with Stella’s Scott […]
The Chain – Take Two
Today I skipped into disc three of The Power of Negative Thinking by the Jesus and Mary Chain to check out the covers, some of which I knew (“Guitarman,” “Reverberation”) and […]
Are You Ready for a Throwdown?
The Food Network’s Throwdown with Bobby Flay came to New Orleans this spring, when Flay challenged Poppy Tooker to a gumbo throwdown. That show debuts Tuesday at 8 p.m., then […]
One More on Kidd
Here’s a final take on Kidd Jordan’s performance at New York’s Vision Festival, this one by Larry Blumenfeld: Kidd never let up, reveling in the company of favorite collaborators: veering […]
The Chain – Take One
I’ve been listening to the Jesus and Mary Chain’s new four-disc box of B-sides and rarities, The Power of Negative Thinking. I’m nowhere near in a place to make grand […]
Rock ‘n’ Roll Collectibles on Decatur St.?
Does anyone know how to get a hold of the person who used to run Rock ‘n’ Roll Collectibles on the 1400 block of Decatur Street?
Music in the Workplace
Last week, “The New Orleans Agena” included this story: BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com – – A Silicon Valley manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment has agreed to pay $168,000 to settle a racial harassment […]
This is Tom Jones
At Tom Jones’ show at the House of Blues Tuesday night, a bartender said security didn’t work as hard as they did that night when working heavy metal shows. They […]
Morning 40 meets Andre Williams
Cristina Black – who once wrote for OffBeat – has a piece in the new Village Voice about Morning 40 Federation’s Ryan Scully and the work that went in to producing […]