“That’s especially why we need to keep this going, to be an example and a model for the young girls coming up.”
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Essence Fest: When Is a Music Festival Not About Music?
New Orleans and the Essence Fest make sweet music together
Is Ani DiFranco’s Which Side Are You On? an OWS Rallying Cry?
To understand Ani DiFranco’s work as it stands now, it helps to know where she lives. The wandering feminist folkie veteran (we can call her that now, right?) has made her home in New Orleans over the past decade or so, and …
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Treme Watch: David Simon on Pity and Tourists
If you’re reading this, it means that I’m traveling on assignment right now and didn’t get around to doing a writeup of the second episode of Treme. Instead, you can use this thread to discuss the episode yourselves. (Nutshell: I thought it came together more tightly than the long, impressionistic pilot; Lambreaux’s confrontation with …
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Tuned In Architecture: New Orleans Edition
With some time on my hands before visiting the set of David Simon’s Treme (the reason I’m in New Orleans, along with the premiere screening of HBO’s The Pacific), I took my rental car and explored the city, which I’d been to several times, but not since Katrina.
Obviously the effects of Katrina were greatest in terms of lives lost and …
