Tiny Tot with a Trumpet
Tin was in the newspaper today with his trumpet and his game face.
Month: April 2011
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Identity
I ditched spin class at the last minute and Tin and I rode the bike to the French Quarter to see the Panorama Jazz Band, which is a klezmer band. I brought Tin’s trumpet and he loved getting down to the Trombone Hora. Gotta love it. A Jewish man was so enamored with Tin he kept taking his photo and wanted to pick Tin up and get in the photo with him – I warned…
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More Evan
Tuesday, 12 April: Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave. (8pm-11pm). Special Guest w/ John Rankin (guitar) SATURDAY, 16 APRIL: Ogden Museum, 925 Camp St. (8pm Concert). NOLA Art House Music’s “Dream Out Loud” Concert feat. new music by Matt Lemmler, Ed Anderson, & Evan Christopher SUNDAY, 17 April: Ogden Museum, 925 Camp St. (2pm Matinee). NOLA Art House Music’s “Dream Out Loud” Concert feat. new music by Matt Lemmler, Ed Anderson, & Evan Christopher Monday, 18 April: Chickie…
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Evan Christopher @ Chickie Wah Wah
Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road: 2nd Annual International Jam Session. Monday, April 11 starting at 8pm. Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St.) $10 Clarinetist Evan Christopher leads a band of New Orleans jazz masters including drummer Shannon Powell, guitarist Don Vappie, and bassis Kerry Lewis. Musicians from around the world are invited to to bring instruments to join this celebration of New Orleans jazz. As an added bonus, the great vocalist Topsy Chapman will likely stop by…
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Just like San Francisco
So as much as I am want to bitch about San Francisco and California sometimes you know how beautiful it is there and the cornucopia of all that awaits you. It’s just not home and that is what made it difficult to reside there. But when I moved back to New Orleans I continued to see my hair stylist there because I feared getting a New Orleans haircut. So when I found Scott Reynaud at…
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Once again Sensory Overload
We did a little festing yesterday, but today, we have music class and then an adult birthday party and tomorrow a kiddie birthday party and so I don’t know just how much festing the little man and I will get done this weekend. We may take the bike over and check it out as T prefers to be crowd-less. This morning as I came upstairs to check something out on my computer, the doorbell rang…
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The gift of smell
My Boston friend reminded me of the Happiness Project, which I haven’t checked out in a while and the message today is scent, smell, the luxuriousness of being overtaken by an intoxicating waft of heaven. I’ve been watching the butterflies cruise the airwaves in the backyard from the vantage point of my new writing table and yet, it’s the smell from the mock orange tree that bowled me over the other day. Heaven on Earth.
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The morphing family unit
After hanging door flyers for the Re-Bridge project, we all met back at Swirl and then T and I went over to the Fair Grinds to watch another film sponsored by the New Orleans Afrikan Film Fest, this one The Prodigal Sons, which was really so good that I wish it had a wider distribution so that you could see it too. There is a trailer on the NOA Fest site. It made me think…
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French Quarter Festival
Okay what do you say to the largest free music festival in the South and it’s in New Orleans? I say, yay! Meanwhile the weather is enchanting if not leaning towards skillet hot. Yesterday late afternoon Tin and I biked to the French Quarter to pick up my Jazz Fest Brass Pass and we passed a building that had been on fire since early morning on Rampart Street. When we got to the Quarter it…
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The Hummus Sexual
Michael Montlack The Hummus Sexual wears sandals but no Birkenstocks, knowing his wardrobe already too closely resembles Peppermint Patty’s.His vintage shirts: garage-sale bargains (not antique boutique rip-offs)— he prefers a loose thread or barely discernable stain to relieve his fear of being the first to spoil a garment older than he is. He diets not for a Fire Island physique but to stay fit for his next trekking adventure: some primarily lesbian tour company all…