You never know what you’re going to get nowadays when you accept an invitation to the theater. During this year’s New Orleans Giant Puppet Fest, I heard a story about a...
Cruising in his black Chevy Suburban down the flat, mostly empty stretch of Louisiana Highway 23 just past Belle Chasse in Plaquemines Parish, Maynard “Sandy” Sanders slid his...
I first had the opportunity to hear Serena Sojic-Borne speak at the “NO Anti-LGBT+ Bills! March of Visibility & Resistance” that began in front of City Hall prior to...
A century ago, you could hardly walk a block in New Orleans without hearing the sound of a piano. On crowded streets like Rampart, Basin, and Bourbon, a cacophony of piano keys...
Nearly a year and a half after a shipping container carrying 55-pound bags of pre-production plastic pellets fell off the container ship CMA CGM Bianca into the Mississippi River,...
God gave Noah the rainbow sign, ‘No more water, the fire next time!’ —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time It was close to midnight on New Year’s Eve 1972, and a body and...
“Just had my caffeine,” proclaims James Singleton as he tears into a speedy melodic series of thumps on his upright bass. A cool breeze from Bayou St. John blows onto his...
On Mardi Gras day of 2020 I drank and danced in a costumed crowd at the corner of Esplanade and Royal, cheering the Saint Anne parade as it rolled by, waiting to jump in with some...
