In my City Talk column last Sunday — Lecture emphasizes versatility, beauty in street design — I talked about the recent lecture at SCAD of Victor Dover, an expert on urbanism and co-author of the recently released Street Design: The…
Near the beginning of Lily Keber’s documentary Bayou Maharajah, which explores the life and times of famed pianist and composer James Booker, various interviewees share the stories they were told about how Booker lost his eye. Was Ringo Starr to…
My Unplugged column for Thursday’s Do is already online: New documentary explores life, legacy of pianist James Booker (Btw, our deadlines for Do are typically on Mondays, and the week’s stories and columns often begin appearing online before the print…
I was in New Orleans for a few days last week and traveled routinely on St. Charles Avenue. Cursory web searches didn’t turn up the date that St. Charles was first laid out, but it’s obviously a key connector that…
The first fatalities have been discovered in Plaquemines Parish, most of New Orleans is still without power, and many areas remain flooded.
Exactly 7 years ago tonight, Hurricane Katrina was gaining strength just off the Florida Keys.
They’re all from New Orleans. They have also all called for the Times-Picayune to be sold to an investor who pledges to continue printing the paper daily.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band performed two blazing hot sets at Live Wire Music Hall on Savannah’s River Street on Saturday night.
In preparation for takeover by the Nola Media Group, layoffs for half the newsroom employees at the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Sad news for the newspaper world today, and especially sad news for residents of New Orleans.
A number of years ago, I did what I could as a community columnist to stop the city of Savannah’s misguided ordinance change that excluded legal adults ages 18 to 20 from many live music shows. I’m not going to…
A couple of friends of mine were in New Orleans today. My sister, a geology professor of Tulane, drove them to the Lower Ninth Ward and other areas to show them how and where the levees failed. So NOLA was…
