AltWeeklies Wire
The Louisiana Roots of Rise of the Guardiansnew
Will Coviello on the storytellers behind an Oscar-winning Shreveport startup
The Jindal Administration and "Deliberative Process"new
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's favorite excuse for ignoring public document requests.
Skrillexnew
Run into a dance crowd, yell "Skrillex" and shield yourself from projectile vomiting, shrieking teens and arms-flailing party bro howls. Follow it with the question, "What is dubstep?" and throw on a flak jacket for the barrage of opinions...
Gambit |
Staff |
10-22-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Toots and the Maytalsnew
Toots and the Maytals, we call them, but to the island of Jamaica, they were and always will be simply the Maytals: the rah-Jah Temptations of ska, reggay champions before there was reggae music, the most soulful and sensational vocal group to come out of the Caribbean in the 1960s. Led by the restive rasp of Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, the original trio (Hibbert, Henry "Raleigh" Gordon and Nathaniel "Jerry" Matthias) fell short of the stateside chart heights and pop-cultural impact of Bob Marley and the Wailers, though a handful of its Jamaican-record 31 No. 1 hits — chiefly "Sweet and Dandy," "54-46 (That's My Number)" and "Pressure Drop," all products of a fertile, rapid-fire recording period from 1968-70 — became ubiquitous cover selections and worldwide rocksteady standards...
Silversun Pickupsnew
A heavy downpour nearly canceled the Silversun Pickups' 2009 Voodoo performance. "We were in the bus, and we weren't sure if we were going to play because it was raining so hard," vocalist-guitarist Brian Aubert says...
Gambit |
Staff |
10-22-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Closure of Southeast Louisiana Hospitalnew
The politics and the human cost of closing southeast Louisiana's public mental hospital.
Tags: mental health
New Hope for New Orleans Food Trucksnew
A new push to streamline food truck regulations in New Orleans.
Gambit |
Kevin Allman and Alex Woodward |
10-15-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: New Orleans Food Trucks
Light Passenger Rail for New Orleans?new
On state Rep. Walt Leger's goal to bring light rail public transport to the Crescent City.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
10-09-2012 |
Transportation
Tags: New Orleans Light Rail
Single Sex or Coed Schooling?new
Megan Braden-Perry on the choices made by New Orleans schools when it comes to student gender.
Tags: gender
The Fight to Save The Times-Picayunenew
How New Orleanians came together in hopes of saving a paper that had no intention of being saved.
Tags: Newspaper, Times-Picayune
Chinquapin Records and Community Recordsnew
Alex Woodward on two New Orleans record collectives that are spreading the sound
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
09-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Upcoming releases
New Music, Coming Soonnew
Local releases of note heading your way this fall
Tags: fall, fall music preview
The Five Days of Isaacnew
Public officials stay on top of emergency preparations as the huge storm advances toward then stalls over Louisiana.
Tags: hurricane isaac
