Arc of Greater New Orleans, a local organization that provides employment to people with handicaps, announced that it collected 33 TONS of mardi gras beads for recycling this year. This reminds me of the fact that after each day’s parades during Carnival season (and sometimes there are as many as five per day), crews come […]
FoodMusicJustice Archive
About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
FoodMusicJustice
Last night in New Orleans
Caught this band – Da Truth Brass Band – playing on the corner on Frenchman street. When I remember to, I carry a $95 video camera, the size of a pack of cigarettes, with me and shoot interesting things I see Lumiere-style (one shot, no edit) If I find that I have...
Army Corps of Engineers: The root of all evil?
It’s not just New Orleans that’s abused by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Here’s a hair-raising story about the Corps maneuvering to silence community-based groups that protest its policies. The story involves a poorly managed toxic waste dump that includes nuclear...
Defend New Orleans videos
A good collection of videos about life in New Orleans as it’s being lived now: Click here: http://dnovideo.com/
Lafcadio Hearn said…
“It’s not an easy thing to describe one’s first impression of New Orleans: for while it actually resembles no other city upon the face of the earth, yet it recalls vague memories of a hundred cities. It owns suggestions of towns in Italy, and in Spain, cities in...
Thelonious Monk