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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Saturday, May 28, 2016
50 mind-blowing bars and New Orleans' music scene are focus of new travel books | Chicago Tribune
To say that music is everywhere in New Orleans is to state the obvious, but it still bears repeating. Indeed, author Michael Murphy reports there are more than 100 live-music venues in the Crescent City. He also notes that you can hear live music at a jazz brunch, in hotel lobbies, on dinner cruises and even in bowling alleys. Of course, music is heard in the city's many clubs, bars, dance halls and juke joints.
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Saturday, August 29, 2015
10 years later: UNCG professor's book documents Katrina recovery | News & Record
Ten years ago today, Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans. The Category 3 storm caused more than $100 billion worth of damage along the Gulf Coast, left 80 percent of the city under water and is blamed for the deaths of about 1,800 people in the region.
It remains the costliest storm to have hit the United States.
For six years, after the floodwaters receded, UNC-Greensboro professor Steve Kroll-Smith and two other sociologists interviewed dozens of residents of two New Orleans neighborhoods. Their new book, “Left to Chance,” documents the city’s long road to recovery through the eyes of those residents.
The book was personal for Kroll-Smith. Before coming to UNCG, he was a research professor at the University of New Orleans for about 10 years.
News & Record higher education reporter John Newsom talked earlier this week with Kroll-Smith at his office in Graham Hall. Here are some highlights of that conversation.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015
‘We’re Still Here Ya Bastards,’ by Roberta Brandes Gratz | NYTimes
Roberta Brandes Gratz is not concerned with the deep history of the city or its symbols. Early in “We’re Still Here Ya Bastards,” she writes, “I was not one of the millions who celebrated its music, food or rich diverse culture.” It’s a refreshing admission; too often enthusiasm for these aspects of the city verges on cloying romanticism. It’s the city’s density, its architecture, streetscape and potential that attract Gratz, an urbanist who has made New Orleans her second home.
Her subject is the resurgence of the city, through “old-fashioned volunteerism” and the determination of everyday people to prevail over dysfunction, corruption and contempt. An acolyte of Jane Jacobs, Gratz trails urban saviors, full of faith in the power and process of citizens organizing themselves against industry and government powers.
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Her subject is the resurgence of the city, through “old-fashioned volunteerism” and the determination of everyday people to prevail over dysfunction, corruption and contempt. An acolyte of Jane Jacobs, Gratz trails urban saviors, full of faith in the power and process of citizens organizing themselves against industry and government powers.
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How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
By Roberta Brandes Gratz
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina
After the Storm« traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Immediately after Katrina, and during the past nine years, its devastating consequences for the Golf region, New Orleans, and the American Nation have been negotiated in a growing number of cultural productions - among them Spike Lee's documentary film »When the Levees Broke«, David Simon and Eric Overmyer's TV series »Treme«, or Natasha Trethewey's poetry collection »Beyond Katrina«. This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on these and other negotiations of Hurricane Katrina and puts special emphasis on the intersections of the categories race and class
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10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina inspires multimedia novel
An "Elegy for the Lost City," written by a career musician about New Orleans, can't help but be jazzed up, jived, and funkified by the diverse assemblage of world-class players, homey hipsters, and denizens of the Deep South in this “down river Lake Woebegone,” so described in this pre-book release review by Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Playwright and Peabody Award Winner Willy Holtzman.“Elegy” is cast in the accents and attitudes of New AW-lins, where elongated vowels can take on a life of their own and real life characters like Dr. John and Harry Connick Jr. pop up amid the fictitious inhabitants of this deeply-rooted, dialect-rich place.
A pop culture countdown to the apocalypse with Hurricane Katrina as an allegory for what awaits us all, Goldstein’s “Ficto-Reality” novel is filled with tragic untimely losses mirroring the Storm’s holocaust. Edited by Michael Lydon, founding editor of Rolling Stone and dean of American rock journalists, “Elegy” is set among the music and restaurant worlds of New Orleans and spans the centuries in time-tripping style with the Crescent City as its epicenter. Lydon was enthralled by Goldstein’s “free-flowing prose, peppered with stinging humor,” describing it as “A book to be savored like a spicy crawfish bisque – read it, but be warned of this risk: you may soon feel an overwhelming urge to experience ‘N’awlins,’ not just through Goldstein’s eyes and ears, but by spending a few weeks there yourself.”
“An Elegy for the Lost City” brings a post-modern interpretation to the calamitous events of Hurricane Katrina, where every neighborhood bears the scars of “dat’s not dere no more” and every corner turns on the memory at those who were taken, or still unable to return. Encompassing 300 years of history from D’Iberville to modern day DuFossats, “Elegy“ enters a diverse world of jazz, jambalaya and funk–Jesus, Jews and Buddhism. It’s hushpuppies, crawfish and kreplach, spirits in mystic visions, shape-shifting guides, imaginary friends, and past-life revelation; a spicy world where mystery abounds. In New Orleans’ first satellite outpost of St. Louis, the disparate families of “Elegy,” under the spell of cosmic confluence all share attendance at the most famous and unique event in baseball’s epic storied history, 1961’s “Miracle of the Foul Balls,” featuring Roberto Clemente’s World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates against the Cardinals.
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Friday, February 08, 2013
2013 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival offers plenty to entice | NOLA.com
This year's Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, running March 20-24, offers a typically sumptuous array of performances, panel discussions and intriguing presentations about Williams' life and work, plus various byways acknowledging New Orleans' singular influence on American culture – literary and otherwise.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
'Eat Drink Delta' explores the food and culture of the 'soul of the South' | NOLA.com
The Delta feels like a different state, harder around the edges, worn from a history of struggle and poverty, but prouder, too. It’s a place that’s a pilgrimage for blues music fans, food historians, cultural documentarians, and, in recent years, travelers drawn down by the shiny, stylized images of the area shown in glossy magazines such as Garden & Gun.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Legendary Locals of New Orleans an Arcadia book | nolalegends.com/
In 128 pages with approximately 140 to 230 photographs, this series takes a different approach and design to reveal the faces of pioneering citizens who have built and shaped communities large and small across the United States. Individuals featured will run the gamut from local politicians to high school coaches and athletes; from notorious personalities to beloved entertainers. While famous personalities will be documented, the true purpose of the series is to highlight the unsung local heroes and stories of humanity. Vintage images coupled with facts and anecdotes culled by expert local authors will reveal the character of the people, past and present, who make up the fabric of each community.–Arcadia
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
New Book Brings 'Foodie Monologues' of Local Notables | NOLA Defender
Meanwhile, Back at Cafe du Monde... compiles monologues from a show of the same name...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Anne Rice on return to New Orleans: 'I need to be with my characters' | NOLA.com
Anne Rice, the New Orleans-born master of macabre fiction, is ready to return to New Orleans after a seven-year absence that began just before Hurricane Katrina. Rice, who lives in Palm Desert, Calif., is looking for a small place in the French Quarter to allow her to regularly visit the Crescent City. Despite having lived at several New Orleans addresses, Rice has never had a home in the Vieux Carre.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
The Diane Tapes Reading Series @ Maple Street Book Shop at Bayou St. John | Gambit New Orleans
Ben Kopel and Anne Marie Rooney host the monthly reading series featuring Ben Pelhan, Lara Glenum and Kristin Sanders. 6 p.m.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Katherine Howe at Maple St. Book Shop August 25th
Set in 1915 Boston, The House of Velvet and Glass is the story of a young woman poised on the cusp of a tumultuous new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball.
From the opium dens of Boston’s Chinatown to the opulent salons of high society, from the back alleys of colonial Shanghai to the decks of the Titanic, The House of Velvet and Glass weaves together meticulous period detail, intoxicating romance, and a final shocking twist in a breathtaking novel that will thrill readers.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Words and Music literary festival organizers keep finding fresh ways to surprise New Orleans book lovers | NOLA.com
The organizers call it “Words & Music, a Literary Feast in New Orleans.” That expansive title is a pretty good fit for the annual festival, which brings hundreds of writers, editors, book agents and impassioned readers to the French Quarter for the next five days. For some, the festival might just as well be called “Words & Cocktails & Gumbo,” since New Orleans customs are a big part of its appeal...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
New Orleans cookbooks by John Besh, Peggy Scott Laborde and several others | NOLA.com
John Besh's second cookbook, subtitled "A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking," is the biggest local release of the season. Like his award-winning first cookbook, "My New Orleans," this one is coffee-table-size, beautifully illustrated with dozens of photos of Besh...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
ALA Annual 2011: Volunteers Help Rebuild New Orleans | School Library Journal
More than 220 American Library Association (ALA) volunteers from across the country gathered in New Orleans to help the city's rebuilding efforts. The scene was similar to that of five years ago, when ALA members joined forces to assistant residents of the Big Easy after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005…
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's tell-all memoir for sale on Amazon | NOLA.com
With the June 22 release date of former Mayor Ray Nagin's memoir approaching, the author appears to be cranking up his PR machine, engaging Texas-based Polite & Associates to advertise the work and on Monday releasing a third excerpt, this one focused on "unfettered disaster capitalism." Nagin makes his observations in an expert voice, though he offers no source for the volume and per-item prices he cites or the pyramidical workflow he posits. Similar schemes -- though not the particular cases Nagin describes -- were documented in 2005 by The Times-Picayune.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Some might say a bartender's life is boring, but Maureen Coughlin's tale is anything but | NOLA.com
New Orleans author Bill Loehfelm's new book just won't get out of my mind. And the reason is Maureen Coughlin, the character of the year. She's a 29-year-old barmaid at the Narrows, a semi-seedy, semi-romantic bar on Staten Island. She dresses in short black leather skirts and tight sweaters to bump up tips as she delivers drinks. Alone and emotionally on the edge, Maureen fights against becoming a "lifer" in the bars on the island -- or being a bitter old woman with seven cats...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
New Orleans and the culture of resistance | Art Threat
Author and community activist Jordan Flaherty explores culture, community and resistance in Floodlines, an inspiring read on Katrina and all the under-reported stories of social justice struggles in the years after the storm. Flaherty writes in a lyrical style, illustrating a deep connection to the arts, while also communicating the urgent realities facing the poor majority in New Orleans, a predominantly African-American city — realities that today have fallen far from the headline glare...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
New Orleans Jazz Fest's Congo Square new in books | NOLA.com
Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans
By Freddi Williams Evans (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, $20)
"The bloodlines of all important modern American music can be traced to Congo Square, " Wynton Marsalis says of the legendary place where African slaves and free people of color spent their Sundays for more than 100 years. "The defining history of this national landmark, " according to Marsalis, the book covers the music, dances, religious customs and marketing traditions followed here as well as in similar gathering places in the West Indies, "reflecting New Orleans' relationship with Caribbean countries and shedding light on its role in extending and perpetuating African music and dance in North America."
Freddi Williams Evanswill sign the book, with teaching resources including a timeline, maps and extensive endnotes and bibliography, Saturday, 4-5 p.m., Jazz Fest Book Tent. A reading at Octavia Books is May 3, 6 p.m.
By Freddi Williams Evans (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, $20)
"The bloodlines of all important modern American music can be traced to Congo Square, " Wynton Marsalis says of the legendary place where African slaves and free people of color spent their Sundays for more than 100 years. "The defining history of this national landmark, " according to Marsalis, the book covers the music, dances, religious customs and marketing traditions followed here as well as in similar gathering places in the West Indies, "reflecting New Orleans' relationship with Caribbean countries and shedding light on its role in extending and perpetuating African music and dance in North America."
Freddi Williams Evanswill sign the book, with teaching resources including a timeline, maps and extensive endnotes and bibliography, Saturday, 4-5 p.m., Jazz Fest Book Tent. A reading at Octavia Books is May 3, 6 p.m.
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