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May 9, 2012
Live From Jazzfest: Family Affairs And Holding On To History In A Changing New Orleans
In the grandstand, away from the heat of the Fair Grounds—the horse-racing track that becomes a music stadium for each New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival—stood an exhibit of black-and-white photos that suggested much of the music going on outside. "Faces of Tremé," drawn from 30 years ... More >>
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
March 29, 2012
Dr. John Gets Locked Down With The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach
One recent trend in pop music has seen a number of old souls producing albums by the young at heart. Gospel goddess Mavis Staples's latest album, 2010's You Are Not Alone, was produced by Wilco wunderkind Jeff Tweedy; rockabilly vet Wanda Jackson's The Party Ain't Over, released in 2011, was oversee ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 21, 2012
'Lazerpop' w/ Rusty Lazer+Jim-E Stack
One recent trend in pop music has seen a number of old souls producing albums by the young at heart. Gospel goddess Mavis Staples's latest album, 2010's You Are Not Alone, was produced by Wilco wunderkind Jeff Tweedy; rockabilly vet Wanda Jackson's The Party Ain't Over, released in 2011, was oversee ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
Happy Hour at Billy Hurricane's
This Alphabet City watering hole is supposed to have a New Orleans motif, which apparently means lots of tinkering lights and a bartender in an elastic-looking, headband-sized dress.
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
LIVING HISTORY
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band  celebrates its gold anniversary
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
Eyehategod
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band  celebrates its gold anniversary
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
Wiz Khalifa+Snoop Dogg
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band  celebrates its gold anniversary
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
Allen Toussaint
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band  celebrates its gold anniversary
Blogs
September 6, 2011
New Orleans Greets Me In Style
Battle of New Orleans In honor of my trip to New Orleans to promote my book amidst the "Southern Decadence" weekend, Gambit weekly assigned Lauren LaBorde to interview me about my woozy yet stimulating experiences on Bourbon Street as well as on various red carpets around the globe. The resu ... More >>
Film
July 13, 2011
What a Tease: Foreshadowing to the Extreme in The Chameleon
Battle of New Orleans In honor of my trip to New Orleans to promote my book amidst the "Southern Decadence" weekend, Gambit weekly assigned Lauren LaBorde to interview me about my woozy yet stimulating experiences on Bourbon Street as well as on various red carpets around the globe. The resu ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
New York Is Dirty, But Not the Dirtiest
According to a ranking of America's dirtiest cities by Travel and Leisure magazine (thank you, Travel and Leisure), New York City is not at the very top of dirtiness in terms of cities that are dirty -- that honor goes to New Orleans. But fear not, New Yorkers, we're still in the top 10. We'r ... More >>
Film
May 18, 2011
Harry Shearer's The Big Uneasy: How N.O. Got So F'd Up
According to a ranking of America's dirtiest cities by Travel and Leisure magazine (thank you, Travel and Leisure), New York City is not at the very top of dirtiness in terms of cities that are dirty -- that honor goes to New Orleans. But fear not, New Yorkers, we're still in the top 10. We'r ... More >>
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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 >>
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April 4, 2011
Eater Is Spreading South
Like Michael White and Subway, Eater continues to demonstrate its insatiable appetite for world domination: the site has just announced it's expanding across the southern half of the country to New Orleans, Atlanta, and Dallas. Will any burg be left unturned? If pop-ups and artisanal grilled ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Is Marcel's Quantum Kitchen a Modernist Cuisine for the TV?; Hardee's and Carl's Jr. Add Turkey Burgers to Menu
The federal government is investing $60 million in three major studies on the effects of climate change on crops and forests. [BusinessWeek] Modernist Cuisine for TV? Syfy is debuting Marcel's Quantum Kitchen, a new show starring molecularly inclined Top Chef alum Marcel Vigneron. [Wired] A ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Q&A: Soul Singer Willie West On Jimi Hendrix, The Meters, Lousy Blaxploitation Flicks, And His Overabundance Of "Stage Gab"
"Like I'm supposed to just stand up there and sing and look mean and play music and not entertain people! I could not do that." Knocking 'em dead in 1966Back in the '60s, hanging around outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown, Jimi Hendrix took off the pink bandana he was wearing and pres ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Alan Richman Will Appear on Treme
Four years after he wrote a post-Katrina appraisal of New Orleans restaurants that angered the city's inhabitants almost as much as than the entire Bush administration, Alan Richman is returning to the scene of his crime, sort of. In an interview with Grub Street, the GQ critic mentioned tha ... More >>
Film
September 22, 2010
The Big Easy Indicts the Manmade Disasters of Katrina
Four years after he wrote a post-Katrina appraisal of New Orleans restaurants that angered the city's inhabitants almost as much as than the entire Bush administration, Alan Richman is returning to the scene of his crime, sort of. In an interview with Grub Street, the GQ critic mentioned tha ... More >>
Dining
August 18, 2010
Hardcore Southern Grub Meets Williamsburg Punk Bar at Honeychiles'
Four years after he wrote a post-Katrina appraisal of New Orleans restaurants that angered the city's inhabitants almost as much as than the entire Bush administration, Alan Richman is returning to the scene of his crime, sort of. In an interview with Grub Street, the GQ critic mentioned tha ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
So Just How Homophobic Is Rap In 2010?
The familiar conceit of this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine article "Sissy Bounce: New Orleans's Gender-Bending Rap," goes something like this: There are some gay rappers in New Orleans. Rap's usually really homophobic. That's crazy, huh? Contrasting the apparently enlightened attitude ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Tales from Tales of the Cocktail: Strip Teasing, Midgets & Tattooed Vodka-Peddling Cats!
Vodka cats. Bartenders from all over have gathered in New Orleans this week for Tales of the Cocktail, an event not unlike sleep-away camp for the liquor industry. More than an exercise in endurance drinking, this cocktail convention is also a marketing marathon. Some of the more elaborate p ... More >>
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June 27, 2010
Susan Spicer, New Orleans Chef, Sticks It to British Petroleum
Famed New Orleans chef and cook book author Susan Spicer has filed a class action lawsuit against British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean, Ltd. Entered in New Orleans Federal Court, the suit asks for both compensatory and punitive damages - as yet unspecified -- for the harm that has r ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Ninth Ward Will Open Next Week in East Village; Cajun Boy Not Amused
New Orleans-themed bar Ninth Ward (180 2nd Avenue) will open sometime next week, serving Sazeracs, Abita beer, and eventually, Cajun snacks (that's the food of the country bayous, not the city). The partners on the project include Robert Morgan, one of the owners of Shoolbred's. In February, he told ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Live: Galactic (And Doug E. Fresh) Bring New Orleans To Brooklyn Bowl
Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 1, 2010
Galactic+Some Cat From Japan
Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 1, 2010
'Rocks Off Concert Cruises Presents Anders Osborne & Tab Benoit'
Intense bass warning. Galactic Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 4 If this was a scene from Treme, it'd play as farce: real New Orleans dudes playing real New Orleans music... in a snazzy, opulent, achingly hip Brooklyn bowling alley. We'd be mocked as clueless, unappreciative cultural tourists who woul ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
"Don't Sneeze on My Donut and Call it Frosting!"
That delicious saying is plucked from Mad Men star Bryan Batt's new book about his colorful New Orleans childhood, and it's instantly replaced "Don't write checks that your ass can't cash" as my favorite admonition. Got any other folksy sayings to share with the other kids?
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March 31, 2010
This Week's Voice: David Simon's Treme, Erykah Badu, Usher, High Places, Jules Feiffer, Leaves of Grass, and More
New Orleans reborn. Illustration by Goni Montes.In this week's Village Voice, Larry Blumenfeld writes our cover story on David Simon's Treme and how the show can get New Orleans right, Rob Harvilla reviews Erykah Badu's newest, Rich Juzwiak takes on Usher, and Vijith Assar profiles the ex-NY ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
REBIRTH SPRINGS ETERNAL
The best funk band this side of the Mississippi, and the other
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Update: Greenpoint Locale for New Orleans Series Will Not Stand in for New Orleans
An HBO spokesman has helpfully informed us that the Greenpoint locations used for their upcoming Treme, about Katrina survivors in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, will not stand in for New Orleans -- though we had suggested otherwise. "The scenes being filmed in Greenpoint are actually scenes that are se ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2010
The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced
Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 19, 2010
'Freaks Ball X Presents Anders Osborne & the Black Hollies'
Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Cheeky Sandwiches: An Early Look at Beignets, Po' Boy
These beignets are actually only the size of silver dollars Cheeky Sandwiches, a New Orleans-style sandwich shop, opened several weeks ago on the Chinatown end of Orchard Street. The restaurant looks like a mini theme park--a white picket fence lines the front, and the windows are covered wit ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2009
A Movie About A Murdered "Gospel Sissy"
Filmmaker Leo Sacks just emailed me to describe a documentary he's doing about a New Orleans gospel-world scandal that's escaped too many people's radars. As he explained it:
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Interview: Eyehategod's Mike Williams on His Band's Return to CMJ, Illicit Chemicals, and What He's Saving For His Next Book
The New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod--a band of squirming, perpetual outsiders--have remained masters of miserablist metal for twenty years now. Dominated by weighty blues riffs, punctuated by bursts of hardcore, and anchored by lead singer Mike Williams' growl, the sound of the New Orle ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009
Galactic
The New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod--a band of squirming, perpetual outsiders--have remained masters of miserablist metal for twenty years now. Dominated by weighty blues riffs, punctuated by bursts of hardcore, and anchored by lead singer Mike Williams' growl, the sound of the New Orle ... More >>
Film
September 29, 2009
The Volunteer Impulse Is on Display in Katrina Doc After the Storm
The New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod--a band of squirming, perpetual outsiders--have remained masters of miserablist metal for twenty years now. Dominated by weighty blues riffs, punctuated by bursts of hardcore, and anchored by lead singer Mike Williams' growl, the sound of the New Orle ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 29, 2009
Bonerama
The New Orleans sludge legends Eyehategod--a band of squirming, perpetual outsiders--have remained masters of miserablist metal for twenty years now. Dominated by weighty blues riffs, punctuated by bursts of hardcore, and anchored by lead singer Mike Williams' growl, the sound of the New Orle ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2009
St. John Frizell Explains What Makes Muffuletta Muffuletta
NolaCuisine.comCertain things about muffuletta are open to interpretation. There's its spelling: "muffuletta" versus "muffaletta." And its pronunciation: muff-a-lotta versus muff-a-letta. But its bread? Most certainly not open to interpretation.
Voice Choices
July 22, 2009
Goatwhore+Abigail Williams
NolaCuisine.comCertain things about muffuletta are open to interpretation. There's its spelling: "muffuletta" versus "muffaletta." And its pronunciation: muff-a-lotta versus muff-a-letta. But its bread? Most certainly not open to interpretation.
Voice Choices
July 22, 2009
Marcus Roberts Trio
NolaCuisine.comCertain things about muffuletta are open to interpretation. There's its spelling: "muffuletta" versus "muffaletta." And its pronunciation: muff-a-lotta versus muff-a-letta. But its bread? Most certainly not open to interpretation.
Voice Choices
June 3, 2009
'Ropeadope 10th Anniversary Party'
NolaCuisine.comCertain things about muffuletta are open to interpretation. There's its spelling: "muffuletta" versus "muffaletta." And its pronunciation: muff-a-lotta versus muff-a-letta. But its bread? Most certainly not open to interpretation.
Theater
January 21, 2009
Architecting: Bold, Compelling, Collaborative, Long
NolaCuisine.comCertain things about muffuletta are open to interpretation. There's its spelling: "muffuletta" versus "muffaletta." And its pronunciation: muff-a-lotta versus muff-a-letta. But its bread? Most certainly not open to interpretation.
Blogs
December 24, 2008
Possibly 4th Street: Bonerama Christmas Special (SFW)
NolaCuisine.comCertain things about muffuletta are open to interpretation. There's its spelling: "muffuletta" versus "muffaletta." And its pronunciation: muff-a-lotta versus muff-a-letta. But its bread? Most certainly not open to interpretation.
Voice Choices
November 12, 2008
AFTER THE STORM
N'awlins art comes to New York
Dining
October 1, 2008
Chasing Muffuletta at Dive Bar, Delta Grill, and Bourbon Street
Going through hell to get a bite of the Big Easy
Music
August 27, 2008
New Orleans Still Struggles—In Song—With Katrina
Going through hell to get a bite of the Big Easy
Film
August 19, 2008
Katrina, Stark and Surreal, in Trouble the Water
Hard rain falls in this "old weird America" documentary on the disaster
Music
July 2, 2008
The Morning 40 Federation's 40 Ounces, Nine Lives
New Orleans hooligans and lost Chicago r&b star team up, barely survive
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