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- New Orleans notes
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: “We’re back.”
- Catie Curtis
Known in and outside the Boston folk-music community for her accessible, socially conscious songwriting and gorgeous voice, Catie Curtis returns here with her typical mix of insightful wit and pitch-perfect vocals.
- Storm tracks
All of Chris Hume’s films are created under the banner “Shoot and Run Productions,” and it’s more than just catchy. It’s also a guerilla film-making credo.
- The abysmal response to Katrina shows misguided priorities
The estimated $2.5 trillion to be spent by the US in Iraq would be better used to help our own suffering citizens.
- Quotes + numbers, January 20, 2006
“I made some mistakes.”
- Homecoming
A home is more than a structure, more than a safe place to lay your head. It’s community, continuity, and belonging.
- Shaping the Crescent
Even before Katrina wreaked its havoc on New Orleans, a popular T-shirt proclaimed the city “Third World and Proud of It,” and numerous more-literary types have long referred to it as the “northernmost Caribbean city.”
- Let the rabble eat cake
Isn't it comforting to know that Dubya II McCain’s top economic advisors are Phil Gramm and Carly Fiorina?
- Goin’ Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino
This packed two-disc set gathers all the usual suspects and more for a Tipitina’s Foundation project to rebuild Domino’s Ninth Ward neighborhood in New Orleans.
- James Blood Ulmer
This time Ulmer was in a brooding mood.
- Papa Grows Funk
The third studio album by this popular New Orleans funk/jam band is in a sense their first studio album.
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