Happy Birthday! Seems everyone, including this great country, is celebrating this month with cakes, candles and a good deal of cheer.
First and foremost let’s sing out for “America the Beautiful,” then, we can tip the chapeau to France, who celebrates Bastille Day and the birth of their...
We danced, sang, laughed, cried, welcomed back, sent forth and saluted so much already this year, June may feel positively tranquil.
Hayden and Paula Dunbar didn’t fly in from New York City for Jazz Fest. They came to join brother Lander, the newest auctioneer/appraiser at Matthew P....
It’s May. As we wrap up Jazz Fest, graduations, Mother’s Day and weddings are on tap, I ask you, “Is anyone tired yet?”
According to new editor Morgan Packard, the magazine photographed some 34 events in April excluding the Jazz, French Quarter and heaven knows how many other “fests,”...
The city’s alive with the sounds of music and it’s more than a run-up to the sensational 2008 line-up for Jazz Fest. There has been world-class music in the air all last month, from La Di Dah to Down ‘n’ Dirty.
The New Orleans Friends of Music is a small organization that brings big...
Mardi Gras seems light years away and yet, as I write, the last sequin has barely dropped. Just today I saw another flag of royalty removed from its flagpole. And wasn’t Johnny Koerner just the most exuberant Rex?
Many must be glad for Lent after the run we’ve had (particularly those of the...
Someone promise it won’t be like this next year? Even the hard-core need a rest! By the time you read this, the DebThanksHoliGras season will be over. All favs times of the Avenue set. But did we really need so many good things in the short span of eight weeks?
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A New Yorker recently said to me, “New Orleans will never die. The food’s too good.”
I think he’s totally right … not that we don’t have great architecture, artists, music, businesses, and a lot of soul. And our chefs and their restaurants are popping up with honors, ideas and philanthropic...
