Four Delicious Days in New Orleans
Some say it’s the top food city in America. It’s certainly top tier. Though my choice as favorite restaurant might surprise you. Continue reading Four Delicious Days in New Orleans
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Hugh Laurie Gives Benaroya the New Orleans Blues
From the moment he strolled out onstage–no cane, unlike his House, M.D., character–Hugh Laurie had the Benaroya Hall audience firmly on his side, so it wasn’t really necessary, in a burst of Englishness, for him to soft-shoe over having the temerity to come before us to play music out of New Orleans’s history. (In another burst of Englishness, Laurie made this the first New Orleans blues concert I’d attended with a toast to the Queen in advance of her Diamond Jubilee.) Continue reading Hugh Laurie Gives Benaroya the New Orleans Blues
Hugh Laurie’s June Blues Concert is a Hot Ticket at Benaroya
Hugh Laurie: “I was not born in Alabama in the 1890s. You may as well know this now. I’ve never eaten grits, cropped a share, or ridden a boxcar. No gypsy woman said anything to my mother when I was born and there’s no hellhound on my trail, as far as I can judge. Let this record show that I am a white, middle-class Englishman, openly trespassing on the music and myth of the American south.” Continue reading Hugh Laurie’s June Blues Concert is a Hot Ticket at Benaroya
According to Kent Brockman, “It may not be perfect, but it’s the best government we have. For now.”
So one can only imagine what The Simpsons‘ news anchor would say about our government in the wake of Katrina. Luckily, Brockman’s alter ego Harry Shearer has done so, in his first foray into filmmaking, The Big Uneasy, still playing tonight and tomorrow at the Northwest Film Forum. Continue reading According to Kent Brockman, “It may not be perfect, but it’s the best government we have. For now.”