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All that jazz: New Orleans's proud son, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, gets three brand-new stages where he can blow his horn
Think jazz club, and you picture a dimly lit, smoke-filled basement with patrons standing shoulder to shoulder. On October 18, with the opening of Rose ......(Continue Reading) Neighborhood scarred by missing parents - children of prisoners in Treme, New Orleans
Parents in prison: far from an abstract problem Students attending Craig Elementary School in the New Orleans neighborhood of Treme, the site of many ......(Continue Reading)Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895. - book review
By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff University of Mississippi Press (Jackson, MS), 2002, ISBN 1578064996, 432 pages, hbk., $75.00 Out of Sight is the first ......(Continue Reading)New Orleans jazz funerals - history - Cover Story
Jazz funerals in New Orleans were known for their solemn yet exuberant atmosphere. In the 1970s, the traditions of walking and playing solemnly on the way to the burial site and then leaving in more c...(Continue Reading)A world of hurt: an NFL athletic trainer plays multiple roles—treater, healer, confidant, reader of the team pulse—and walks an uneasy line,
It is Monday morning in the training room of the New Orleans Saints, and Scottie Patton is fretting--and sweating. Seventy minutes earlier, Patton, the Saints' head athletic trainer, sent quarterba...(Continue Reading)
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