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July 25, 2010

book celebrates, 'Krazy Kat' cartoons | NOLA.com

Krazy Kat, A Celebration of Sundays is a book-shelf must-have for anyone devoted to jazz-era expression. But beneath the quirky comedy of the antique cartoon, Herriman's real life story is a disquieting detour through the bad ol' days of American race relations that begins in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans | Book Review

The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans is not a Katrina story, it's a story of pre-Katrina in New Orleans.

For a long time, and especially since 9/11, Constance had been feeling claustrophobic in New York. We’d had two power blackouts downtown since 9/11, which served as reminders of how from one moment to the next you can be sucked from what you think of as your life into Disaster World. Constance had been wanting to go somewhere less vulnerable. So naturally we had gone someplace more vulnerable than Manhattan. I hadn’t quite realized that New Orleans was an island too.

By then I realized that moving to New Orleans was one of the stupidest things I had ever done.

Except for one thing. Despite the fact that we had to live in New Orleans, we were getting to live in New Orleans.

Prime Angus: Unique N'Awlins baby book | WVUE-TV Channel 8

...the owner of Party Basket, pointed out that this particular and cleverly-illustrated baby book, “NOLA Baby,” published by “Lil Squirts of New Orleans,” starts out normally enough: Mommy’s family, daddy’s family – all the way back to great-grandparents...

Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town: A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything | Book Review (Amazon)

Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than thirty-five years he’s written a weekly restaurant review, but he’s best known for a long-running, daily radio talk show devoted to New Orleans restaurants and cooking.

In Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town, Fitzmorris movingly describes the disappearance of New Orleans’s food culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its triumphant comeback—an essential element in the city’s recovery. He leads up to it with a recent history of New Orleans dining before the hurricane, from the Creole craze of the 1980s to the opening of restaurants by big-name chefs like Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse. Fitzmorris’s coverage of the heroic return of the city’s chefs after Katrina highlights the importance of local cooking traditions to a community. The book includes recipes for some of the dishes mentioned in the story, and numerous sidebars informed by Fitzmorris’s long career writing about this delicious city.

Susan Cowsill, Lighthouse review (Threadhead Records) | offBeat

Hurricane Katrina forced us all to reconsider the concept of home. On Lighthouse, Susan Cowsill’s longing for home ties the songs together, and the emotions tied to “home” are more complicated. On “ONOLA,” she gives up on the city...

Treme - Thoughts on Episode 3 | YatBazaar

... turning out to be some really, really good television. Here are my thoughts on ep 3

Abita Beer! the red-headed guy (does he have a name? I don't even know) who is friends with Davis brings over a six-pack of Abita Amber Lager. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth has taken place in the blogosphere over the amount of Bud and Bud Light consumed in the pilot, before, during, and after the second line...

New Orleans’ Café du Monde Coffee | Flagler College Gargoyle

Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

You can’t go to New Orleans without stopping by the notorious Café du Monde Coffee Stand on the French Quarter.

Crowds from around the world are drawn to the café for their famous beignets, a square doughnut topped with powdered sugar.

Cajun food has long enjoyed a complicated relationship with New Orleans cuisine | @BrettAndersonTP NOLA.com

New Orleans often seems to exist to be misunderstood by outsiders, and Cajun food — what it is, where to find it, what it tastes like — is a disorienting topic even to people who live here...

'Treme' premiere offers less blood, and way more music, than 'The Wire' | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times

We'd be willing to wager that at some point in the 10 episodes that make up this new show’s debut season, a New Orleans boogie woogie or bounce cut will accompany a murder, some hot sex or a new birth -- and not just the big metaphorical creation-story that opens up the series.

Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz - book review | AllAboutJazz.com

Covering over 100 years, Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz utilizes the extensive jazz photography collection of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection to produce a beautiful book of photos that tell the story of jazz in a way words alone cannot.

Jazz historian and WWOZ radio host Tom Morgan has assembled rare photographs and added text and captions that bring the photos to life as he tells the story of jazz in New Orleans in a way only a good historian and storyteller can do. The book contains some 200 pages of beautiful photographs with captions. They are arranged in time order in five chapters, each beginning with a one page description by Morgan of the era to follow.

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