Armstrong, Bechet, and Cake-Walking: 100-year anniversary
(February 8) To all you wonderful Super Bowl visitors, a word to the wise: If you leave this city with memories only of football and booze, without a fuller appreciation of […]
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(February 8) To all you wonderful Super Bowl visitors, a word to the wise: If you leave this city with memories only of football and booze, without a fuller appreciation of […]
By Quin Hillyer /
(Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 5) The hundreds of thousands of Super Bowl visitors to Louisiana already know they are coming to a cultural and entertainment mecca, but they […]
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(Feb. 1) Early 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Dorothy Gale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” though, said, “There’s no place like home.” Wolfe was wrong and […]
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(Jan. 27) This short article today about the first Super Bowl ever played in New Orleans brings back surprisingly vivid memories. Although I was not quite six years old, I […]
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ANNOUNCEMENT: As of today, I am no longer with the Washington Examiner. I am excited to announced that today I begin a new job as full-time member of the editorial […]
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(January 10) As the nation braces for another Trump administration and its likely emotional turmoil, please allow some thoughts on the civic duties both of the media and of the American citizenry. The media’s duty “informs” […]
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(Jan. 2) Before al Qaeda and ISIS, before the age of attacks at crowded celebrations such as the Boston Marathon or the prelude to a Sugar Bowl, the “dangers” at […]
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(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Dec. 31) It is easy for newspapers to pen dry remembrances of significant people who died in the past year, but harder and more important to […]
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(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Dec. 25) In a perilous world, consider that the famous first lines of the Gospel of John, those traditional Christmas verses, can offer something important to all of us, Christians and […]
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(From NOLA.com, Dec. 15) Alvin Edinburgh’s 90th birthday party last Sunday was a celebration both of a remarkable man and of the values he used to inspire generations of children. […]
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