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Serves four.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 onions, minced
1 green bell pepper, diced
3 cloves garli...
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Dear Listener,
What a year it has been so far. In January, WWOZ won an Offbeat magazine
“Best of the Beat Award” for favorite radio station in the New Orleans
area. Next came our Spring Membership Drive at the beginning of March, where
we heard from over two thousand folks...
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When KIPP McDonough 15 started their new school year one year after Katrina,
music teacher Kelvin Harrison had no instruments with which to teach.
After he displays a little ingenuity and a lot of dedication, help comes from
the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation . . . and they...
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A short history of the Mardi Gras Indians music and remembrances of the Wild
Magnolia's first recordings with Willie Tee and John Sinclair's 30 years of
observing the tribe.
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A Valentine From WWOZ
We thought about what WWOZ would be like without our wonderful listeners and
supporters. You are the reason we get out of bed to come into the studio on
cold and rainy mornings. You are the ones we think about when we sit down at
Jazz Fest to inter...
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It's a rainy Saturday morning in January at the Robinson home in the Ninth
Ward, but it feels a little like Christmas as the kids gather around Aria
Martin, a volunteer from the Kid Camera Project.
The kids are receiving their graduation cameras. They were the first
parti...
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It's Wednesday night at Vaughn's and the place is packed, but tonight the
smoky Bywater bar is filled with an unfamiliar crowd.
Dozens of law students from Maryland are drinking cold beer and eating
barbeque before the show starts. But it is not Kermit Ruffins or Shamar Al...
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When you live in New Orleans, you have to know a thing or two about
costuming. A handful of New Orleanians explain how it's done, what it means,
and why it's so darn important.
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Our Live Mardi Gras Coverage
WWOZ show hosts are out there enjoying Carnival 2008. Check out their blogs
to find out what parades and parties they are attending.
WWOZ will be riding in Zulu, so look out for the broadcast truck during the
parade and check back occasionally...
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Grammy Nominees For The 50th Grammy Awards
Consecutive Mondays in January — "Jazz from the Market" — from 4 until 7
p.m. New Orleans Time
Charles “Charlie B” Burchell will feature the music of the Grammy
nominees for the 50th Grammy Awards.
Tom Morgan’s Annual Mardi Gr...
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