A new book on the media coverage surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its effect on memory came out on April 1 entitled "Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina." The author, Bernie Cook, will be present for a release party and film screening at Cafe Istanbul on ... Read more

You're going to have a great time at Jazz Fest and the many after-fest events that happen around the city each day. The Fairgrounds are great but you're likely staying (or living) at least a couple miles away. With that in mind, we've compiled a quick rundown on getting to and... Read more

April in New Orleans means Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest and, inevitably, afternoon rain and thunderstorms. With Jazz Fest at the end of the month and reaching into May, there are occasional years it escapes our April showers but seven days of Festival means that chances a... Read more

Get a jump on Jazz Fest on the evening of Thursday, April 23 by taking it back to the very beginning. The Louisiana State Museum will be showing seven 16mm film reels from the first Jazz Fest in 1970 at the Old U.S. Mint. The reels feature Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson, P... Read more

Shorty Fest, a benefit concert for the Trombone Shorty Foundation's music education programs, happens at Generations Hall in the Warehouse District on Thursday, April 30. The evening will showcase emerging local talent with three stages of live music and a full headlining perf... Read more

A circa 1969 performance by a very young Jimmy Cliff of his reggae/gospel anthem "Many Rivers to Cross". You can see the man himself this Friday at Jazz Fest in Congo Square. And at 9p that day, you can see him starring in The Harder They Come, the 1972 film that made "Many... Read more

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This year's Record Store Day is happening on Saturday, April 18. Record Store Day is an annual celebration of the people who make up the world of the record store, including staff, customers, and artists, as they come together to recognize the unique culture of a record sto... Read more

In the video below, made in 1941, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) performs "Honeysuckle Rose," one of his best known compositions. It's an example of a "soundie," which are "three-minute American musical 16mm films, produced ... between 1940 and 1946, each containin... Read more