Every so often I get to hop up on the table and cause a little ruckus by kicking off the cutlery and breaking some dinnerware in the service of crowing about a can’t-miss, great show put on by artists from the misty lost days in my old home of New Orleans. Tonight is just such […]
Quintron and Miss Pussycat
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River Man
Aldous Huxley had a regular column in Esquire Magazine in the mid-1950s where he once observed, “The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.” He was revisiting the legacy of his novel A Brave New World during the […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, July 2
International Spanish folk touring act Sangre de Muerdago plays the Sanctuary tonight at 8 p.m. For a sliding scale fee of $10-$25, come enjoy the Galician-inspired sounds of the multi-instrumental acoustic act. On the Bywater side of St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans is a quirky little two-story building with — if memory serves — […]
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Bells, Banjos and Puppets
As I write this from my friend’s porch on a hot afternoon in the last week of June, my ears are met with the sweet sounds of summer. No, wait, that’s just a rooster mindlessly screaming in the yard while it pecks around in the dry dirt for snacks. Meanwhile, spreading around me with the […]