Great New Orleans jazz film starts streaming August 11
(August 5) Dr. Michael White, the traditional New Orleans jazz clarinetist, is a virtuoso at his craft. If a new documentary film called City of a Million Dreams receives as […]
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Explaining ‘Yardi Gras’ to a national audience
(Feb. 4) Not even a pandemic can contain the whimsically celebratory spirit of Mardi Gras. In Mobile, Alabama, where Mardi Gras in North America was born, and in New Orleans […]
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Belatedly celebrating Gambit’s 40th birthday
Note: This was published more than a month ago, but I forgot to post it here. Better late than never. — Quin My two years at Gambit, a full three […]
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Amid cold and virus, all that jazz
Note: If this tribute to New Orleans is behind a firewall, I urge you either to subscribe to the Washington Examiner, or to wait a few days and check again, […]
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Before Christmas, seeing hope
(Dec. 22) What the whole country is experiencing in these last days before Christmas has the same feel as what New Orleanians felt just before Christmas 15 years ago, less […]
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The NFL hit right notes in starting its draft
(April 24) For those of us who for weeks have been looking to the NFL draft as a desperately needed diversion from coronavirus news, Thursday’s opening minutes of the draft […]
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Drew and Brittany Brees, vs. virus, are real saints
(March 26) Once again, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is proving that good people who are good leaders do good things. He and his wife Brittany continue to be […]
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Of movies and (especially) Mardi Gras
Three pieces on current culture. For the full columns, follow the links embedded in the headlines. New Orleans Mardi Gras can be family-friendly fun (Feb. 27): A New Orleans native’s […]
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In NOLA, Rispone did worse than Duke
(Nov. 18) By now, plenty of analysts have pointed to the copious evidence that President Trump’s active participation in Louisiana’s gubernatorial race drove up Democratic turnout far more than Republican turnout. Trump clearly is politically toxic in […]
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Anti-Semitism rises with bizarre perversity
(Oct. 14) Last weekend [Oct. 13] I was struck by a stark juxtaposition between the Old Testament reading in Sunday’s Episcopalian lectionary and sad news of yet another series of anti-Semitic […]
