February 2021 STEAL THIS PLAN Ten months into the pandemic, we haven’t seen a recovery plan for New Orleans’ cultural community. So we started writing one ourselves. New Orleans’ cultural community is... MaCCNO
January 2021 INEQUITABLE ASSESSMENTS: Corporate Chains Get Surprise Tax Breaks While the Community Suffers The City of New Orleans is culturally rich and cash poor. While this has long been the case, the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns have made this... MaCCNO
November 2020 How a New Historic Marker Creates a Literal Link to White Supremacy in the French Quarter Nick LaRocca, who falsely claimed to be the inventor of Jazz, was a braggart and a racist, having once said his “contention is that the Negroes learned to play this rhythm and... MaCCNO
October 2020 Where does New Orleans’ Music Economy Go From Here? MaCCNO Program Coordinator Hannah Kreiger-Benson recently sat down with MaCCNO Board members “Big Sam” Williams (bandleader, Big Sam’s Funky Nation) and Nate “Suave”... MaCCNO
September 2020 Pedestrianize The French Quarter? Maybe. But Not Without Input From the Cultural Community. The French Quarter is, in some form or another, about 300 years old. It’s weathered fires, plagues, wars, and hurricanes. It has seen preservation and planning successes and... MaCCNO
August 2020 Five Months In, What Lessons Have We Learned To Help Our COVID Recovery? We’re almost five months into New Orleans’ COVID-19 shutdown, and the situation for the cultural community remains grim. Venues are shuttered for the foreseeable future, and... MaCCNO
July 2020 New Orleans Looks To Ban Facial Recognition Tech In February 2019, the Office of the Independent Police Monitor (OIPM) coordinated a tour of the city’s Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) for concerned criminal justice... MaCCNO, Members of the Eye On Surveillance Coalition (EOS)
May 2020 WHEN THE PANDEMIC ENDS, CAN WE FIX WHAT WAS ALREADY BROKEN? How do we address the now clearly exposed inequities in our cultural and tourism economies? Over the past two months, New Orleans has been hit especially hard by the COVID-19... MaCCNO
February 2020 HOW WOULD YOU INVEST $3.9 MILLION IN NEW ORLEANS CULTURE? Finally, some good news. In mid-January it was reported that—because of the forthcoming merger between New Orleans & Company and the New Orleans Tourism and Marketing... MaCCNO
December 2019 MACCNO Community, Not Bureaucracy, Should Determine the Rules For Outdoor Live Entertainment in New Orleans We’re in the last few weeks of Autumn here in New Orleans. After the... MaCCNO
October 2019 Tip the Band: The Economics of Tipping on Frenchmen Street Tipping is, for good or bad, a major part of the current way musicians make money, and it is usually under-discussed. Recently there has been some attention paid to tip-based... MaCCNO
