Entertainment

OffBeat Magazine
From Blues To Rock To Country
Samantha Fish’s polished guitar work and engaging vocals are a force to be reckoned with.
4 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018

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Drums In The Bloodline
Weedie Braimah brings the African element to the music.
4 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018

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Bay Area On The Bayou
San Francisco-based musician and promoter Mitch Stein feels at home in New Orleans.
4 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018

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Do You Know What It Means?
Kermit Ruffins pays tribute to Louis Armstrong.
4 min |
Jazz Fest Bible 2018

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Serving Us Right
Ashley Roussel left the volleyball court for the kitchen.
6 min |
September 2017

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Second Lineage
Second Lineage
7 min |
September 2017

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Musical Landscapes
The Crooked Vines take risks and detours while remaining cohesive.
4 min |
September 2017

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A Utopian Environment
Stax Records employee Deanie Parker celebrates 60 years.
4 min |
September 2017

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Nathan Williams, Jr. of Lil' Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers
Nathan Williams, Jr. of Lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers
2 min |
June 2018

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Woodenhead Plans New Recording
Woodenhead Plans New Recording
2 min |
June 2018

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Femaissance Forges Activist Art
Granny panties and glitter-covered silicon chicken wings.
4 min |
June 2018

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Maggie Morgan/Manolito
Maggie Morgan/Manolito
2 min |
June 2018

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The Posies
The Posies
7 min |
June 2018

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Chief Of Chiefs
Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915-2001.
4 min |
May 2018

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Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons on taming that beast.
4 min |
May 2018

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We're Comin' for Ya!
Cha Wa creates a mashup of Mardi Gras Indian chants and brassy horns.
10+ min |
May 2018

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Calvin Johnson's Pres Hall Series
“One of his mantras that he would always say to me,” Calvin Johnson Jr. recalls of his uncle—the late, great jazzman Ralph Johnson—from Preservation Hall’s courtyard offices, “was, ‘The world is just waiting for that melody. Until you have it, shut up.’”
2 min |
April 2017

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Photographer Christopher Briscoe
My feet were blistered and aching after two weeks of nonstop walking through the French Quarter.
2 min |
April 2017

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Alynda Lee Segarra (of Hurray for the Riff Raff) talks back
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new studio record, The Navigator, is a narrative concept album telling the story of a character, Navita, who resembles Alynda. Navita Milagros Negrón grows up poor and vulnerable on urban streets, but empowered by love and community, she overcomes fear to lead her people.
9 min |
April 2017

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Big Bites of Street Culture
Photographer Michelle Elmore’s three new books.
4 min |
April 2017

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Keiko Komaki
Keiko Komaki: My Music
2 min |
December 2017

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Susan Cowsill's New Series
Echoes of Laurel Canyon
2 min |
December 2017

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In Memoriam
Wendell Albert Eugene (1923 - 2017)
2 min |
December 2017

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Tricky Repertoire
The Soul Rebels step out of the box
4 min |
December 2017

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Michael Pellera
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education:
4 min |
January 2018

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Anders Osborne
Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Musician):
4 min |
January 2018

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300 Songs For 300 Years
Louisiana roots.
5 min |
April 2018

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Renaissance Beats and Ritual Bars
Cavalier is out in the open.
4 min |
April 2018

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Bryson Downham/Toups South
Bryson Downham/Toups South
2 min |
April 2018

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Clarence Johnson III
Positive Vibrations HeartBeat Award (Culture Bearer):
4 min |