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This simple, yet undeniable summer staple comes courtesy of Salú Bistro and Bar as a feature on their July BBQ Menu. Salu's recipe reinvents the classic side dish with decadent pork belly, veal stock, and of course some brown sugar. The entree pairing of your choice is going t...
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What says funky hump day better than flaming drumsticks? Check out the Gap
Band (brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson) performing "Early In The
Morning" in 1982.
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Pauline "Queen Ree" Johnson has masked for 36 years. In 1977, her
brother, David "Lightning" Johnson, who was flag boy for the Wild Magnolias,
introduced her to "Lil Walter" Cook, Big Chief of the Creole Wild West gang.
Queen Ree sewed her first suit and made her Mardi Gr...
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Here's Little Freddie King with "Pauger Street Boogie", a song rooted in his
memories of the Last Chance Lounge. A cousin of Lightin' Hopkins, King was
born in McComb, MS but has been a New Orleanian since the age of 14. This
performance was recorded by the WWOZ video unit ...
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In this piece from NPR Music, rapper Kendrick Lamar, whose latest album, To
Pimp a Butterfly, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's albums chart earlier this
year, visits Brian Mooney's class at High Tech High School in North Bergen,
N.J. Lamar's work engages themes of blackness ...
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Essence Fest is returning to New Orleans this weekend, Friday, July 3 to
Sunday, July 5, with some of the top names in regional, national and
international black entertainment today. This year, locals Mystikal,
Dumpstaphunk, Tank & the Bangas, and Trombone Shorty & Orleans ...
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Anders Osborne and Luther Dickinson cover "Black Muddy River" from the
Grateful Dead's In The Dark album. This video is part of a series of Grateful
Dead covers called "Songs Of Their Own" produced by JamBase to pay tribute to
the the Grateful Dead’s influential original so...
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