Posts Tagged ‘music’
I’m gone, up in Illinois now and already procrastinating all the cleaning/sorting/packing that needs to be done. Most of my stuff was packed by Friday so I could fully enjoy my last day. It started with one last run in Audubon Park and smoothies from my smoothie lady at Smoothie King. Then it was a [...]
When a musician dies in this town, he or she is sent off with a brass band and a parade. New Orleans knows how to put the fun in funeral. Michael Jackson had no direct ties to the city, but as the King of Pop, deserved his own parade. (And this is New Orleans, where [...]
I finally got out and had a real weekend. My college friend Monica who was in town for a bachelorette party. She invited me to tag along for lunch at John Besh’s Restaurant August. The service was solid and the meal was fabulous: to start, a salad with crawfish and citrus fruits and for the [...]
Alex and I had a splendid day at JazzFest yesterday. The sun was shining. There was a light breeze. We were able to drink free beer from a hospitality tent. We heard: Gina Brown & Anutha Level (Motown hits), Buckwheat Zydeco (zydeco), Treme Brass Band (brass), Roddie Romero and the Hub City All Stars (southern [...]
Before I could unpack on Sunday, I was whisked off to a wonderful place called JazzFest where the sun was shining, food stands offered at least 10 different crawfish dishes and cold Miller Lite reigned as the official festival beverage. The whole family went. The daughter of a family friend works for the lieutenant governor [...]
I turned in the first draft of my project today. 196 pages, which doesn’t include blog entries. Weekly field notes and transcribed interviews were single spaced. I’m going to need to plant a forest to cancel the bad karma from printing this thing. I backed up my entire Documents folder to the external hard drive. [...]
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