Finally Free: The State of Louisiana vs. Albert Woodfox

March 2016

Finally Free: The State of Louisiana vs. Albert Woodfox

The secret is out: we are men! But the blunt, open articulation of this secret has frightened the nation to death. —James Baldwin, “An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y....

Holly Devon

January 2016

A Transplant’s Guide to Bringing up Gentrification at Happy Hour

It’s four o’clock on a Wednesday at Sidney’s Saloon, and happy hour is in full swing. Like most afternoons, a loyal band of regulars has gathered to drink and unwind. They...

Holly Devon

January 2016

Aimée Argote of Des Ark: Waking Up Early

If you call up D.I.Y. punk veteran Aimée Argote on the telephone to ask about her music, it’s likely you’ll find yourself an hour in without having touched the subject. As a...

Holly Devon

November 2015

AG Report on Sexual Assault in New Orleans

At around three o’clock in the morning of October 3rd, after an ordinary night out, an Upper Ninth Ward resident and two of her male friends biked to her home on France Street,...

Holly Devon

October 2015

Reviews, October 2015

ANN PEEBLES GREATEST HITS (HI RECORDS/FAT POSSUM) With the Hi Rhythm Section backing her up, Ann Peebles released seven albums for Hi Records over the course of the 1970s. While...

Andrew Mullins III, Bill Heintz, Carl Elvers, Holly Devon, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman, Robert Landry

September 2015

Reviews, September 2015

Books KATRINA: AFTER THE FLOOD GARY RIVLIN (SIMON & SCHUSTER) Put Douglas Brinkley’s The Great Deluge (published in 2006) and Gary Rivlin’s Katrina side by side. Deluge,...

Andrew Mullins III, Holly Devon, Jenn Attaway, Joey Laura, Kelly McClure, Leigh Checkman

September 2015

True Orleans Film Festival: Celebrating the Art of Truth

The discovery of a severed foot after a storage unit auction, a warm-hearted but volatile French chef, and the redevelopment of New Orleans after Katrina were just a few of the...

Holly Devon