“At UNO [in the Jazz Studies Program] we are at the edge of trying to create completely new things,” Irvin Mayfield told an audience largely of creative writing students from Lusher High School and the New Orleans Center [...]

On Tuesday, November 19, 1946, at 6:23 p.m., I arrived, kicking and screaming, into this world -- so it seems appropriate that almost 65 years later, as I sit on the screened porch at Madewood perusing my Medicare [...]

Well, I took a little heat this week for my last post, which declared over-reliance on live performance “naive.” (For that column, click here; for a list of music resources, click here.) I don’t know if I’m ready [...]

Lakeview Harbor 911 Harrison Ave. (bet. Argonne Blvd. & Marshall Foch St.) New Orleans, LA 70124 504-486-4887 It's a football kind of weekend, so we bet that casual dining with plenty of big screen TVs is what most folk [...]

In moments of introspection, I sometimes wonder if Cecil Rhodes, founder of the Rhodes Scholarships, would consider running Madewood “doing the world’s work,” his encomium to the young men (and, now, women) who would benefit from his generosity. Generally, [...]

Young New Orleans dance students are more open – to new steps, movements, styles – than their peers in other parts of the country. I’ve heard this more than once recently from big names in the dance world, [...]