Crescent City

Ms. Strange Love

Weekend Music: Carry On, Wayward Sons

Racket vs Racket Jr

Tonight: Big Sam's Funky Nation, Amplified Heat, Rudyard's Anniversary, Randy Rogers Band and More

Swamp Ghosts

Racial tensions still haunt Geno Delafose's Louisiana stomping ground

Doctor of All Trades

Racial tensions still haunt Geno Delafose's Louisiana stomping ground

The Whole Wide World: Toubab Krewe's Live at the Orange Peel

Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>

Fat Monday

Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>

Dish

Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>

Dish

Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>

Battlin' Beignets

Toubab Krewe Live at the Orange Peel (Upstream) www.toubabkrewe.com Listening to Toubab Krewe, you'd never guess that all its members hail not from the Western African nation of Mali, but from Asheville, N.C., where the band recorded its latest disc at the Orange Peel - the same venue where ... More >>

Closer to Home

Not all the best acts at the festival carry passports

Zydeco's Birthplace

Hint: It's where you're standing

Roast Beef and Fried Rice

Calliope's turns out authentic New Orleans food with an Asian twist

Really Good Sax

Calliope's turns out authentic New Orleans food with an Asian twist

Tap that Brass!

Calliope's turns out authentic New Orleans food with an Asian twist

Veggie Tales

An alternative to gasoline-based fuel gains traction in Houston

To NOLA, with Love

Musicians from far and wide are "Bringing Back the Big Easy"

My Darlin' New Orleans

What hath God wrought?

Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes

Thursday, May 5, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

The Radiators

Saturday, April 16, at Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak Drive, 713-862-3838.

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum

Christmas is the weirdest time of the year. Who better to musically document the season than John Waters?

Boxing the Rock

Six of the year's best multi-disc sets (and one of the worst)

Best Brunch

Brennan's

Stirred and Shaken

Brennan's Sazerac cocktail

Stirred and Shaken

Magnolia's Ramos gin fizz

Playbill

The Iguanas

Blackwater Southern

Suplecs

Best Beignets

Crescent City Beignets

The Radiators

Crescent City Beignets

Josh Neufeld

Josh Neufeld's Katrina comic isn't kid stuff

Soul Rebels Brass Band/Rebirth Brass Band

Josh Neufeld's Katrina comic isn't kid stuff

Blind Boys of Alabama

Josh Neufeld's Katrina comic isn't kid stuff

New Orleans Brass Band Invades Big Top Tomorrow

​In a late and welcome addition to the Big Top Lounge's calendar, tomorrow night finds the New Orleans Hustlers Brass Band making their Main Street debut. Fans of the Rebirth, Dirty Dozen or Hot 8 brass bands will dig these guys, most of whom settled here after Katrina but have played out more ... More >>

Live From ACL: Buckets of Rain, and a Bright Spot or Two

Photos by Chris GrayThis photo was NOT taken Saturday. Trust us.​ The streak is over. In eight years, Austin City Limits has seen plenty of days of unbearable heat, but hardly any rain. The most significant time was during Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' headlining 2006 set, but even that was m ... More >>

Beignets at The Big Mamou

​On a basic level, beignets are French doughnuts, pastries of deep-fried dough sprinkled with powdered sugar and served piping hot with a side of coffee. Much like free drinks and lottery tickets, they are impossible to turn down -- warm, sweet and crisp-golden. Yet despite their splendor, few ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants in Upper Kirby

​Let's leave aside a second some of the things we hate about the Upper Kirby district -- the bizarre desire to forge a connection with the U.K. based solely on sharing the same initials and installing anachronistic red phone booths on random street corners, the fact that Kirby itself is always ... More >>

A Gulf Coast Juneteenth

​Let's leave aside a second some of the things we hate about the Upper Kirby district -- the bizarre desire to forge a connection with the U.K. based solely on sharing the same initials and installing anachronistic red phone booths on random street corners, the fact that Kirby itself is always ... More >>

On the Road in New Orleans

Shrimp and grits from Surrey's.​With the economy in the dumps and airline companies being more annoying than ever, more and more people are choosing to spend their summer vacation at closer, drivable locales. One popular destination is the Crescent City. With its old-world charm, plethora of g ... More >>

Dr. John & the Lower 911

Shrimp and grits from Surrey's.​With the economy in the dumps and airline companies being more annoying than ever, more and more people are choosing to spend their summer vacation at closer, drivable locales. One popular destination is the Crescent City. With its old-world charm, plethora of g ... More >>

Jackson's Watering Hole's Sazerac

Shrimp and grits from Surrey's.​With the economy in the dumps and airline companies being more annoying than ever, more and more people are choosing to spend their summer vacation at closer, drivable locales. One popular destination is the Crescent City. With its old-world charm, plethora of g ... More >>

I Put A Spell On You: The Vixens And Visuals Of Voodoo Fest

Photos by Mark C. AustinMGMT: "Ruh Roh! Better play something off the first album!"​Village Voice Media dispatched Houston photographer Mark C. Austin to New Orleans this past weekend for the Voodoo Music Experience, the Crescent City's annual three-day Halloween engorgement of live music and ... More >>

Stirred & Shaken: Jackson's Watering Hole's Sazerac

Troy Fields​Heading into New Orleans on I-55, just before you cross the fourth-longest bridge in the world (and the second-longest in south Louisiana), you'll pass a couple remote restaurants/bars that for reasons I can't explain fit perfectly in the alluvial landscape. The exterior of NOLA-th ... More >>

Openings & Closings

Photo courtesy of AvaInside Ava Kitchen & Whiskey Bar​First things first, for anyone who might be heading out to Skewers (3991 Richmond, 713-599-1444) for its grand reopening: Don't. At least, not yet. The restaurant's PR team emailed us an explanation for the delay this week: Skewers is not ... More >>

Comment of the Day

​Katharine Shilcutt reported on which Houston restaurants have opened and which have closed, including three Cajun joints. Which led commenter Tim to reflect on Creole and Cajun, New Orleans and Lafayette: Forgive me for I am about to nitpick: 'Three separate Cajun places went to that big C ... More >>

Crescent City Beignets

​Sometimes, nothing satisfies quite like a plate full of hot dough, fat, and sugar. I'm speaking, of course, of beignets. When the mood strikes, these pillowy confections simply can't be replaced. People may try to ply you with Indian fry bread, funnel cakes, or perhaps even sopapillas. The pa ... More >>

Food Fight: Battle Beignets

Photo by Matthew DresdenChez Beignets II​A few years ago, when I spent a month getting around Houston entirely by public transit, I found myself checking out from Central Market one warm spring evening at 10 p.m. It had just rained, and the air was fresh and cool, and I didn't feel like waitin ... More >>

Top Five "Non-Bro" Sports Bars

thesegoto11.wordpress.comUpturned collar, one of the classic indicators you might be a bro​From the response I got to the question "What is your favorite 'non-dude / non-bro' or 'douchebag-free' place to watch sports in Houston?" on Facebook, it would seem that a sans-bro sports bar is somethi ... More >>

Ana Popovic

thesegoto11.wordpress.comUpturned collar, one of the classic indicators you might be a bro​From the response I got to the question "What is your favorite 'non-dude / non-bro' or 'douchebag-free' place to watch sports in Houston?" on Facebook, it would seem that a sans-bro sports bar is somethi ... More >>

Better Off

A '90s alt-rock band that has stuck together and even ended up in the black.