Our @jakeclapp.bsky.social talked with Flag Boy Giz, Nate Cameron and other New Orleans culture barers about what they need from city government, and then asked candidates for the city council and mayor for what they'll do. The story includes their full responses www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

New Orleans mayoral candidates met at a culture-focused forum to talk about the city's cultural economy and their ideas to support artists, musicians and culture bearers. New Orleans needs more forums on the culture before Oct. 11. @gambitweekly.bsky.social www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

I spoke to Gambit about post-Katrina music education in New Orleans. It's a great piece by Kaylee Poche. www.nola.com/gambit/music...

A tradition like no other.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell Indicted By Federal Grand Jury www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

the two horsemen of calling their dad before winning a multiple choice trivia show

I guess the uber ad deal went limp

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

The 2025 New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal is now available on the ANTIGRAVITY website. antigravitymagazine.com/wp-content/u...

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

With Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans this week, I wrote about the state of affairs of the bar industry and how it’s a mirror of the broader society — and all the problems we’re facing in the US www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

@wadrewhawkins.bsky.social wrote about today's ICE raids, Latin America's banana plantations, and the history that connects them. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/frui...

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

We love @washingtonpost.com vertical video explainers of what’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Pentagon sends hurricane forecasters scrambling after suddenly announcing shutdown of key satellites The Department of Defense is abruptly shutting down a satellite program that meteorologists say is crucial to hurricane forecasting — just as what’s expected to be an “above-normal” Atlantic…

The ACLU's National Security Project director worries President Trump is 'writing himself a blank check' to use the military on civilians in other U.S. cities.

Anger and condemnation break out as families, attorneys and immigrant advocates react to a travel ban by the Trump Administration that stops or restricts people from 19 mostly African, Asian and Caribbean countries from entering the U.S.

WATCHMEN (2019)

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

Someone is hustling out at Jazz Fest. My Morning Jacket has even finished and the setlist is already online

Ok this weather is almost too nice. Perfect for the last day of Jazz Fest

HaSizzle got a star-studded set on Congo Square. 20 minutes and we’ve already seen Mia X, Kango Slimm, Pell, Alfred Banks, PoppyH, Flagboy Giz and 3DNa’tee. Raj Smoove on decks

If you’re Jazz Festin Friday or Saturday, Benin International Musical rocks, and they’re playing four sets. West African-rooted music charged up on rock and hip-hop. Some dance-punk thrown in

Really enjoyed interviewing my friend and former Times-Picayune colleague @mschleifstein.bsky.social for the latest installment of @veritenews.org's audio series on Hurricane Katrina: veritenews.org/2025/04/28/w...

I think people are going to notice prices shooting up whether they are labeled or not, quite honestly.

Holy Moly, I had no idea there was a photo of St Louis Cathedral from before 1850s rebuild; amazing photo

Jules Lion, who was born in Paris in 1810, came to New Orleans as a master lithographer. It was his mastery of daguerreotype, however, that caught the city’s attention.

complete batshit insanity

French-Moroccan trip Zar Electrik is so good. Wasn’t expecting a desert house set at 3 pm at Jazz Fest

El Dusty and the Homies rule. I want to see them at like 1 am at Rabbit Hole. Honestly wonder if they’ve ever played while it’s still sunny out

Shannon Powell had a heart attack and a stroke last August. He’s already back playing, and is as incredible as ever behind the kit with Herlin Riley, Jason Marsalis and Weedie Braimah

Columbian American artist Basqo Bim’s big, shady parasol was a hit at last year’s Jazz Fest. The Fest set up a new one next to the Economy Hall tent. It’s not as intricate, more shade structure than art piece @gambitweekly.bsky.social

One of the perks of coming in to Jazz Fest at the Sauvage entrance is you can usually hear something great walking past the gospel tent. The LB Landry Gospel Choir is unreal

“Expert hacks” i.e. we’ve never spoken to a working class person in our lives

In some big news for Louisiana music, The Rolling Stones lead off a tribute album to zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier also featuring Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal and a lot more. Album is out June 27, a couple days after Chenier's centennial. @gambitweekly.bsky.social www.nola.com/gambit/music...

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

New Orleans' Sports Drink releases comedy fest schedule ft. Sean Patton, Dulce Sloan, more www.nola.com/gambit/event...

Zony Mash Brewery, which during the pandemic emerged as a space for New Orleans creatives to safely strut their stuff for the community, will pull its last pint June 1 www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

LQQK for The Convenience in this week's @gambitweekly.bsky.social! Like Cartoon Vampires out Friday via @w1nspear.bsky.social www.nola.com/gambit/music...

The French Quarter Festival is back this week! Check out our comprehensive guide to the music, food and after fest shows by music writer extraordinaire @jakeclapp.bsky.social and the rest of our staff. www.nola.com/gambit/event...

An absolutely bonkers hour of TV. What a fucking trip. Dropout is maybe the best $6 I spend a month