Poetry by Sheryl St. Germain

Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell

Grifter’s Paradise

Nelson Algren’s A Walk on the Wild Side stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans

Listening to 300 Years of New Orleans Music: Playlist

Songs that inspired our tricentennial music issue

The Next Generation Considers the Next 300 Years

Tulane 2018 graduate Justin Gitelman spoke to members of the New Orleans music scene's next generation. Read what they had to say, and listen to his interview with NOCCA and Berklee grad Khris Royal.

High Society and the Myth of the Jazz Festival

Newport may not be Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden, but the film’s plot revolves around the myth of the festival as a way to turn sorrow to joy and bring the major players to romantic bliss

New Orleans Jazz Makes Room for All the Grooves

New Orleans has an unfair reputation as a city where the only jazz that people play is a century old

Echoing Your Voice: Trent Reznor’s New Orleans Sojourn Leaves a Mark

Reznor was damaged goods when he moved to New Orleans in 1995

Ha

The video for Juvenile's hit shows a community that was often ignored, despite the enormous contributions it was destined to make to popular music and culture in the United States

A-Maze-Ing: The Legacy of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly in New Orleans

Generations of black New Orleanians have made the band one of their favorites of all time

The Captain of Moving Crowds: DJ Captain Charles

Over thirty years, the DJ has impacted local music as much as traditional musical royalty

Child’s Play

Of all the choices that young people make, they almost never regret the music

Canal Street: A Hemispheric Boundary

That uptown–downtown negotiation wasn’t just a local one. It was tectonic: the two great cultural regions of the hemisphere were crunching into one another.

Turn Your Radio On

I was stopped at the light at Rampart and Canal the first time I heard Fats Domino sing “I was standing, I was standing on the corner of Rampart and Canal." This constituted an ultimate cosmic New Orleans moment.

Buona Sera

“Buona Sera” is New Orleans through and through, a song suffused with both poetry and party.

Fats, Fess,"Snag-A-Tooth Jeannie," the Meters and Bobby Marchan

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs

"Muskrat Ramble," "Blue Monday," Mahalia, Metal

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs

Bechet, Booker, K-Doe, "You Are My Sunshine"

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs.

Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello and a fan from Liverpool

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs.

Teen Photographers Embrace Louisiana's Equine Heritage

The photographs of the 3-C Cowgirls photography group are selected for display at the Paramount Room of Calcasieu Marine National Bank during the annual Spring Art Walk in Lake Charles

The Fantastical Imagery of SRAC's Christmas in the Sky

SRAC has been orchestrating this black-tie, glitzy, glamorous, internationally award-winning fundraiser every other year since 1996

Residential Genius

Louisiana Architecture Foundation, Hilliard Museum explore A. Hays Town homes

New Orleans Expatriates: Satchmo and Lil Wayne

People abandon their midwestern suburbs. They escape their very important northeastern jobs. They come to New Orleans for a taste of freedom represented, in part, by the artistic work of the greatest trumpet player who ever lived and the “greatest rapper alive.”

The “Tuba Fats” Riff

Anchored by the simple tuba part, melody after melody unfurls out of the trumpets, trombones, and saxophones. On the street, “Tuba Fats” can last for blocks.

I’ll Fly Away

The hymn “I’ll Fly Away” has long functioned as a signal of that transition from solemnity into celebration

Noise

It all became an aggressive gesture, a call into the night. We were still here.

"Liquor Pang” by Galactic ft. Morning 40 Federation

A contemporary blues with a seductive absence of regret.

"The Last Rose of Summer" at the French Opera House

Popular songs reached nineteenth-century New Orleanians from the opera stage.

Mia X: No Limit’s First Lady Shares the Sounds that Shaped Her

Jelly Roll's Blues

The final two songs Morton recorded that day suggest a vanished world of barrelhouse bards.

Listening to 300 Years of New Orleans Music

Editor's letter and table of contents

Ghosts of ’OZ

Tricentennial Exhibit Shows NOLA Love

An exhibition at the Cabildo celebrates the unique people, places, and things that have made New Orleans an extraordinary place for the last three hundred years

Southern Realities on Display in New Photography Exhibit

A new exhibition at Ogden samples the rich and diverse range of photography being practiced in the American South today

An Archival Collective Safeguards LGBT+ History

The Matrix of Creativity

Reading Tom Dent and renegotiating Black aesthetics in the new New Orleans

Is Louisiana in the South?

The varied lexicon of regional identity

Chroniclers of a Death (Incorrectly) Foretold

In 1968, two writers tussled over the fate of New Orleans jazz—and its festival

The Garrison Tactics

The New Orleans District Attorney reveled in the spotlight, hurling accusations against his enemies and using the media to advance his investigations.

Grifter's Paradise

Nelson Algren’s "A Walk on the Wild Side" stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans

Fishing for Answers

Charter captains debate the impacts of the Master Plan and the future of Louisiana's coast.