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Johnny Adams
Date:  May 1, 1998
 
Vocalist Johnny Adams started out singing gospel music, then took a chance on secular music and turned to rhythm and blues. Since then, he's enjoyed a surprising career which began on a street corner, and which he say will continue as long as he can keep singing. He recently talked with WWNO's Fred Kasten about his latest CD, "The Verdict", and the way he likes to sing ...

Enrique Alferez, Part 1
Date:  May 16, 1994

Part one of a two-part chat with sculptor Enrique Alferez. He talks about his sculptor father, and emigrating to El Paso after being a Mexican Revolutionary.

Enrique Alferez, Part 2
Date:  June 28, 1994

Part two of a two-part chat with sculptor Enrique Alferez. He talks about what he did in Chicago, and how he supports his martini habit.

Mose Allison
Date:  June 14, 1995

Electricity and jukeboxes brought music to Mose Allison, but it cam so easily to him anyway -- he studied piano from age five and began composing while a teenager. From Sammy's Lounge to LSU and beyond, WWNO's Fred Kasten chats with Allison about music and more ...

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Louisiana Garden Journal: Bamboo
Date:  June 18, 2004

Louisiana, it turns out, has been one of the U.S.A.'s Moso Bamboo-growing hot spots for right at a hundred years, most recently on a pretty patch of Washington Parish about 90 minutes from New Orleans. WWNO's Jeannette Hardy has more, for today's "Bamboo" entry in the Louisiana Garden Journal...

Bill Barker/Thomas Jefferson
Date:  July 4, 2003

There is a direct connection between the Fourth of July and the Louisiana Purchase, as WWNO's Fred Kasten found out when he talked with Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, as channeled by Colonial Williamsburg actor Bill Barker ...

Danny Barker, Part 1
Date:  April 18, 1994

Part one of a three-part series examining the life and music of Danny Barker. He talks about growing up in New Iberia, his parents, and playing in his first band.

Danny Barker, Part 2
Date:  April 19, 1994

Part two of a three-part series examining the life and music of Danny Barker. He talks about looking for songs on Tin Pan Alley, trying to stay on top in New York, and playing with such jazz greats as Jelly Roll Morton and Charlie Parker.

Danny Barker, Part 3
Date:  April 20, 1994

Part three of a three-part series examining the life and music of Danny Barker. He talks about returning to New Orleans from New York City, starting his own band, and teaching the "old" style of Jazz.

Louisiana Artist:  Sculptor John Barnes, Jr.
Date:  September 01, 2004

Sculptor John Barnes, Jr. is a native of Bogalusa, and currently serves as the Chair of Visual Art at Dillard University, where he has taught since 1999. Barnes earned his B.F.A. at Southern University in Baton Rouge, and received an M.F.A. with an emphasis on sculpture from the Memphis College of Art. Mr. Barnes recently sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop to talk about his life as a "Louisiana Artist"... To view Barnes' work, click here

Writer John Barry won a lot of readers, critical acclaim, and awards, with his book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. His latest book also deals with a cataclysmic event: the worldwide flu epidemic of 1918. John Barry recently talked with WWNO's Fred Kasten about The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History...

Dave Bartholomew
Date:  April, 1998

WWNO's Fred Kasten has this profile of bandleader, composer, and trumpeter Dave Bartholomew ..

Louisiana Artist:  Ron Bechet
Date:  January 7, 2004

Artist and educator Ron Bechet is a native of New Orleans. He was educated at the University of New Orleans and Yale University, and currently serves chairman of the Department of Fine Arts at Xavier University. Ron Bechet recently talked with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop about his life as a "Louisiana Artist" ...

Louisiana Artist: Raine Bedsole
Date:  April 5, 2006

New Orleans artist Raine Bedsole grew up in Mobile and earned a BFA at Auburn University, and an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Bedsole is best known for her ephemeral figurative paintings and installations of three-dimensional mixed-media boats. Several weeks before Katrina forced her to temprarily relocate to Nashville, Raine Bedsole sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop to talk about her life as a Louisiana Artist...

Al Belletto
Date:  April 20, 1993

Paying for a musical education is difficult, but saxophonist Al Belletto found a way to do it: He played bebop at strip clubs. That and some more novel ideas are discussed with WWNO's Fred Kasten.

Leonard Bernstein: Notes from a friend - Part One
Date:  November 9, 1992

Author Schuyler Chapin talks about Bernstein's family history and how they met at Columbia Records.

Leonard Bernstein:  Notes from a friend - Part Two
Date: November 10, 1992

Author Shuyler Chapin talks about Bernstein as an impresario and author, and Bernstein's bold vision to record all of Gustav Mahler's symphonies when Mahler was not yet in fashion.

Leonard Bernstein:  Notes from a friend - Part Three
Date:  November 11, 1992

Author Schuyer Chapin talks about his 30-year business relationship and friendship with the late master, Bernstein's trips to Israel, and the events which have surrounded him authoring his book about Leonard Bernstein.

New Orleans writer John Berry has published seven books, most recently his novel "Last of the Red Hot Poppas." He stopped by our studios not long ago to talk to Fred Kasten about his career as a writer...

Post-Katrina Commentary by Jacqueline Bishop
Date:  January 18, 2006

The Bring New Orleans Back Commission's Culture Committee has just issued its report on and plan for rebuilding cultural life and institutions in New Orleans. A key component of that rebuilding effort will be the visual arts community in the Crescent City. The allure of New Orleans (even now) for visual artists is at the heart of what's on the mind today of commentator Jacqueline Bishop...

Jacqueline Bishop
Date:  March 30, 2005

Each month on WWNO, New Orleans artist Jacqueline Bishop asks other area artists questions about their work for our award-winning series "Louisiana Artist." Today, though, with her own solo exhibition opening Saturday at the Arthur Rpger Gallery, the time has come for Jacqueline Bishop to talk a bit about her work, which she did recently with WWNO's Fred Kasten... click here to view Bishop's paintings

Jacqueline Bishop
Date:  January 21, 2004

Jacqueline Bishop is one of fifty artists showing work in the Contemporary Arts Center's major new exhibition "Birdspace." Much of the raw inspiration for Jacqueline Bishop's paintings and installations of the last dozen years, which often feature both bird imagery and orchids, comes from her frequent trips deep into the Amazonian Rain Forest in Brazil. WWNO's Fred Kasten went along on one such recent trip to record some of Bishop's rain forest experiences, observations, and recollections ...
To view Jacqueline Bishop's paintings, click here
 

New Orleans theatre troupe Mondo Bizarro is the co-hosty, along with the Crescent City's ArtSpot Productions, of the State of the Nation Art and Performance Festival at the C.A.C. this weekend. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more...

Ray Blount, Jr.:  Feet on the Street
Date:  May 13, 2005

Writer Roy Blount, Jr. has a new book out called Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...

Lindy Boggs
Part One   Part Two
Date:  May 30 & 31, 1995

Lindy Boggs -- former Congresswoman, activist, and author -- sits down with WWNO's Fred Kasten to talk about her remarkable life, which includes six decades of public service, and a little ballet ...

Art Author Eric Bookhardt
Date:  January 18, 2006

Eric Bookhardt writes about art for Gambit every week. Today, Bookhardt talk about art (and writing about it) with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop...

Douglas Bourgeois
Date: November 1, 2006

Douglas Bourgeois is one of Louisiana's most acclaimed contemporary artists. He'll open a new exhibition Saturday at the Arthur Roger Gallery on Julia street. WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop has the story...

Douglas Bourgeois
Date:  January 8, 2003

When the exhibition "Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art of Douglas Bourgeois" opens with a reception at the C.A.C. Saturday night, it will mark the beginning of a national tour for the 65 works covering 25 years of painting by Douglas Bourgeois. Organizer David Rubin hopes the show will lead to wider recognition for an artist Rubin calls "... one of Louisiana's best-kept secrets." Bourgeois first gained attention locally with his vivid depictions of such pop culture icons as Elvis, and was among a group of artists eventually known as "visionary imagists" who emerged in New Orleans in the 1970s, and whose work was exhibited by the late George Febres at his Galerie Jules LaForgue in the early 80s. Douglas Bourgeois recently talked with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop about his life as a "Louisiana Artist"...  To see more art by Douglas Bourgeois, click here