October 2021

Letter to a Fallen Poet

I found out local poet Thaddeus Conti, my high school friend Eddie’s uncle, died. He died a little over a week ago as I write this, shortly after Ida hit New Orleans. I don’t...

Derek

November 2020

The Show Goes On: AG Picks for the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival

In the grand tradition of Southern persistence, The New Orleans Film Festival presses on for its 31st year. Due to COVID-19, the festival will be held primarily online as well as...

Brandon Lattimore, Derek, Julia Engel, Marisa Clogher, Sarah Durn, Victoria Conway, William Archambeault

November 2020

REVIEWS

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Chris Conner, Danielle Dietze, Derek, Julia Engel, Kevin Barrios, Mary Beth Campbell, Raphael Helfand, Steven Melendez, Victoria Conway, William Archambeault

May 2020

REVIEWS

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Bill Heintz, Danielle Dietze, Derek, Holly Devon, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Tom Andes, Victoria Conway, William Archambeault

March 2020

Reviews

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Andru Okun, Derek, Jenn Attaway, Jon Kieran, Katie Sikora, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Robert Dean, Robert Landry

October 2019

Hot Set: AG Picks for the 2019 New Orleans Film Festival

With well over 200 films to choose from in this year’s New Orleans Film Festival—now entering its third decade!—you might feel overwhelmed by such a bounty of viewing...

Andru Okun, Brandon Lattimore, Coco Cruse, Derek, Elizabeth G., Jacqueline Davis, Jamilla H. Webb, Marisa Clogher, Nathan Tucker, William Archambeault

February 2016

Morrissey In Vegas and New Year’s Resolutions

It’s half past six in Las Vegas’s Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. At the little café, pens hover over 3×5 notecards. The assignment: “50 Goals for 2016.” Sam peeks...

Derek

March 2015

Best Fiends: Sharing Eyeliner and Garbage B-sides with Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females

Maybe it was Kathleen Hanna who once said the best way to express appreciation for a band is to give them something you’ve made. You know, the rule of reciprocity. Seeing...

Derek

February 2015

Would Candice Like This? A farewell to the Branch Manager of New Orleans DIY Punk

In her book Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott describes writing “presents” to loved ones. And although her recipients included a father dying of cancer and a terminally ill friend,...

Derek

February 2015

Bands Candice was in: A Retrospective

Bryan Funck referred to Candice as “one of the hardest working punks in New Orleans.” Perry calls her “the regional branch manager of DIY punk.” And both my old man and...

Derek

February 2015

Catharsis: Choose Your Heaven

In the mid-90s when I first began obsessing over hardcore, it still held a strong, exotic mysticism that was only informed by the few shows I was lucky enough to stumble upon, the...

Bryan Funck, Derek

December 2014

Slingshots, Anyone? : Looting and Mayhem in Oakland

Across trash-strewn streets, a collection of neighborhood dogs were beginning their nightly chorus. Footsteps shuffled under piss-yellow fluorescents, as the wails reached their...

Derek