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A Very Violent New Orleans
Last weekend, Thanksgiving, was unfortunately a very violent holiday for New Orleans. Of course, an incident on Bourbon Street (where one man was killed and nine others wounded) dominated all […]
Giving thanks
It’s time to wish all our readers and our community a heartfelt thanks for supporting New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture. Of course, you enjoy and love our art, […]
A Lot To Be Thankful For
It’s such a cliché, but when one perceives what’s going on at this moment in time, all I can say is that I am so thankful to have my family […]
Happy Thanksgiving: A Big Freedia Animated GIF
Nothing says Thanksgiving like an animated GIF of Big Freedia and her dancers poppin in downtown New Orleans, taken from Freedia’s “Y’all Get Back Now” music video. Source: eatcasey.tumblr.com.
Thanks For All
We’ll be heading to the vast cultural wasteland—but a shopper’s and politician’s paradise—of Baton Rouge on Turkey Day to spend time with my siblings, their families and my mother. I’m […]
Too Soon?
This time every year, someone writes a blog post similar to this: But I was a bit shocked to hear Christmas music over the store intercom. A Christmas tune by […]
Give Those Thanks
I know you hear a lot of treacly stuff about giving thanks this Thursday, but it’s profoundly healing and kind to be able to thank those to whom you owe […]
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 […]
A New Orleans Tradition
This event has become so big it gets its own press release: Cash Money Records Co-CEOs and founders Ronald “Slim” Williams and Bryan “Birdman” Williams have never forgotten their roots […]
