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Crescent City

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Live From Jazzfest: New Orleans Celebrates Its Gift To The World

    Just as Kermit Ruffins sang "Sunny Side of the Street" with trumpet in hand, an early morning sun shone powerfully across North Rampart Street in New Orleans onto Congo Square. Two centuries ago, enslaved Africans and free people of color drummed and danced here each Sunday, exerting their right to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Live: Spaceghostpurrp Turns Raps Into Dubs And ASAP Rocky Has A Ball At Santos Party House

    ASAP Rocky w/ Spaceghostpurrp Santos Party House Thursday, September 8 Better than: The Santos Party House takeover of Saks 5th Avenue earlier that evening. (Apologies to Chris Bosh.) At 1:30 Friday morning—three and a half hours after the scheduled start time—Spaceghostpurrp emerged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Live: The Boogaloo! Party Keeps It Moving At Nublu

    ​Boogaloo! with Spanglish Fly, DJ Turmix Nublu Friday, July 8 Better than: Paying twice as much to watch the same crowd drink and not dance. It could have been a disaster—subway service to Loisaida was screwed up (again), it was raining, one of the club's turntables was on the fritz, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2011

    7 Walkers

    ​Boogaloo! with Spanglish Fly, DJ Turmix Nublu Friday, July 8 Better than: Paying twice as much to watch the same crowd drink and not dance. It could have been a disaster—subway service to Loisaida was screwed up (again), it was raining, one of the club's turntables was on the fritz, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    The Rebirth Brass Band Bring Their Brashness To Treme

    ​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2011

    Dr. John & the Lower 911+Marco Benevento

    ​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 29, 2010

    Joe Krown Trio+Khris Royal's Crescent Jam

    ​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

  • Film

    October 27, 2010

    Kristen Stewart Accomplishes Strange Personal Goal in Welcome to the Rileys

    ​During the first episode of HBO's Treme, members of the Rebirth Brass Band and the show's trombone-playing character Antoine Batiste end a jazz parade in front of a neighborhood bar owned by Batiste's ex-wife, LaDonna Batiste-Williams. The uncomfortable nature of their reunion is underscored ... More >>

  • Music

    October 20, 2010

    Kermit Ruffins Couldn't Be Happier

    Why the New Orleans icon is in no hurry to come to a city near you

  • Music

    June 1, 2010

    The Jazz Evangelism of Woody Allen

    Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2010

    Galactic+Some Cat From Japan

    Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    Bonerama

    Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms

  • Voice Choices

    November 12, 2008

    AFTER THE STORM

    N'awlins art comes to New York

  • Music

    August 27, 2008
  • Music

    August 12, 2008

    Irma Thomas Escapes Monotony

    N'awlins art comes to New York

  • Music

    May 30, 2006

    2006 Jazz Supplement Listings

    N'awlins art comes to New York

  • News

    February 21, 2006

    The Pre-Game Party

    From Spike Lee to Mexican 'storm catchers,' dry times in a new New Orleans

  • Film

    December 6, 2005

    'Happy Here and Now'

    From Spike Lee to Mexican 'storm catchers,' dry times in a new New Orleans

  • News

    December 6, 2005

    New Orleans Is Not Dying

    Even destroyed, we've got 10 times the charm of your Scottsdale

  • Music

    November 22, 2005

    Oh Didn't He Ramble

    Finally complete and unexpurgated, jazz's first composer and blowhard tells how it was done

  • NYC Life

    November 15, 2005

    . . . And to All Some Good Nights

    Festive fun that's both naughty and nice

  • Specials

    September 6, 2005

    Letters

    Festive fun that's both naughty and nice

  • News

    September 6, 2005

    Crude Manipulation

    In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

  • News

    August 30, 2005

    The Battle of New Orleans

    Nature 1, Man 0 in the fight to save the Crescent City

  • NYC Life

    May 4, 2004

    Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

    Nature 1, Man 0 in the fight to save the Crescent City

  • Music

    December 23, 2003

    Music

    Nature 1, Man 0 in the fight to save the Crescent City

  • Music

    August 5, 2003

    The Long Road Home

    The World’s Biggest Country Duo Risk Backlash With a Great Rock Album

  • NYC Life

    May 13, 2003

    Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

    The World’s Biggest Country Duo Risk Backlash With a Great Rock Album

  • News

    February 4, 2003

    Nightbirds

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Music

    June 5, 2001

    The Old Songster

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Dining

    November 21, 2000

    Dixie Dining in Northern Times Square

    (Blueprint for a Mixtape)

  • Music

    July 18, 2000

    Hot S**t for Teacher

    Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

  • Music

    May 16, 2000

    Music

    Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

  • Music

    November 23, 1999

    For the Love of Money

    Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

  • Music

    March 9, 1999

    Hard-Knock He-Men

    Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

  • Music

    September 8, 1998

    Swing, Kids!

    A Revival Tries To Make History of Its Own

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