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Radio Diner
Date: December 14, 2006
Everette Maddox
Date: December 14, 2006
Nearly 18 years after his death in February
1989, Everette Maddox remains one of New Orleans' best-known and
best-loved poets. His literary legacy is examined in a new
anthology just out from Xavier University Press: Umpteen Ways
of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to
Everette Maddox. The collection is edited by poets Grace
Bauer and Julie Kane, who recently stopped by to talk about the
book with WWNO's Fred Kasten...
Allison Stewart
Date: December 13, 2006
New Orleans artist Allison Stewart has just opened a new
exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery on Julia Street. WWNO's
Jacqueline Bishop has the story...
Luz Maria Lopez
Date: December 6, 2006
New Orleans artist Luz Maria Lopez has opened a new exhibition at Lemieux
Galleries, and earlier this week stopped by our studios to talk with
WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop about the new work...
Andre Perry
Date: December 1, 2006
His own impending nuptials are on the mind today of commentator André
Perry...
Noche Flamenco
Date: December 1, 2006
The New Orleans Ballet Association presents one of the world's finest
flamenco companies, Noche Flamenca, tonight and tomorrow night at Tulane's
Dixon Hall, in their New Orleans premiere. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more...
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Radio Diner #1
Date: November 30, 2006
Today, we're introducing a new Thursday afternoon feature on WWNO: "The
Radio Diner," New Orleans area restaurant reviews from freelance writer
Troy Gilbert and chef Stacey Meyer...
Farrar Hudkins Commentary
Date: November 29, 2006
A "skillful" means of subverting prejudices of all sorts is what
commentator Farrar Hudkins proposes today...
Robert Smallwood Date: November 27, 2006
Tomorrow night is the 40th anniversary of Truman Capote's legendary
"Black and White Ball" at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Tomorrow night in
New Orleans two local not-for-profit organizations will throw a similar
ball to help raise money to provide affordable housing for Crescent City
writers. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...
Habitat for Humanity
Date: November 23, 2006
Last November, the New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity announced
ambitious plans to build a "Musicians' Village" -- a community of 75
single-family homes plus several duplexes designed for older musicians --
surrounding a performance and education center to be named for Ellis
Marsalis. Over the year Habitat acquired property for the Musicians'
Village in the Upper Ninth Ward, started construction, and got the first
group of homeowners moved into their new digs. Last Friday, scores of
volunteers came out for a special WWNO One-Day Build at the Musicians'
Village...
Chef Stacey Meyer and freelance writer Troy
Gilbert, both New Orleans natives, have been friends since high school.
Since Katrina they've been partners on a project they call "Chefs in
Exile"...
Harry Shearer
Date: November 20, 2006
Harry Shearer is a man of many voices and many hats: Actor, director,
comedian, artist, radio personality, musician, record producer, and most
recently novelist: he just published his first novel, "Not Enough
Indians." He typically splits his time between homes in New Orleans and
Los Angeles, but lately he's been on the road promoting the book, and
talking about his new role in the Christopher Guest film "For Your
Consideration." Shearer will be back in New Orleans tomorrow night to
host a special screening of the movie at Canal Place Cinema, with
proceeds to benefit the Tipitina's Foundation. WWNO's Fred Kasten
recently caught up with Harry Shearer via cell phone, while Shearer was
walking the streets of Manhattan in close proximity to a dog park...
Andre Perry
Date: November 17, 2006
Back in 1929, Blind Alfred Reed asked the question in song: "How can a
poor man stand such times and live?" Commentator André Perry says that's
still a good question -- especially in post-Katrina New Orleans...
Donald Miller
Date: November 15, 2006
Historian Donald Miller is one of a distinguished group
of scholars, authors, journalists, and veterans coming to New Orleans for
the International Conference on World War II at the National World War II
Museum. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...
Farrar Hudkins Commentary
Date: November 15, 2006
In the 1949 film "Knock On Any Door," actor John Derek summed up his
character's philosophy with the line "Live fast, die young, leave a
good-looking corpse." That's just about the direct opposite of the
approach commentator Farrar Hudkins takes...
Hike for KaTreeNa
Date: November 13, 2006
Last spring, New Orleanian Monique Pilie hit the Appalachian Trail on what
she called "The Hike for KaTreeNa." WWNO's Fred Kasten picks up the story.
Dalt Wonk
Date: November 8, 2006
It turns out that those rumors of some seventy years' standing concerning the
death of Vaudeville and its naughty cousin burlesque have been somewhat
exaggerated. Witness the continuing popularity in New Orleans of the Tipitina's
French Quarter-based "Bustout Burlesque" show, which critic Dalt Wonk lays bare
in this review...
Ted Potter
Date: November 8, 2006
When former Contemporary Arts Center Executive Director Red Potter died
last week in Richmond, Virginia, he left behind a substantial legacy of
nurturing the careers of important contemporary artists in America, and
providing the public opportunities to view and learn about contemporary
art in the United States. Today, a fond remembrance of a life in the arts
well-lived, beginning with this brief elegy for Ted Potter from WWNO's
Jacqueline Bishop...
Andre Perry
Date: November 3, 2006
Two weeks ago, commentator André Perry issued a challenge to candidates to
Congress from Louisiana's second district to demonstrate a real commitment
to public schools by actually teaching a civics class at a New Orleans
high school. What happened as a result of that challenge? That's the topic
today for André Perry...
Katrina Ya Ya: Raphaelle O'Neil
Date: November 1, 2006
Today is All-Saints' Day, and the occasion of the final installment of our
long-running Katrina Ya Ya series of Wednesday afternoon commentaries.
Today's concluding segment comes from Raphaelle O'Neil...
Farrar Hudkins Commentator
Date: November 1, 2006
Are those who don't know history doomed to repeat it? Commentator Farrar
Hudkins isn't sure what to think...
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...
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Clarinet great Richard Stoltzman and his acclaimed pianist
son Peter John Stoltzman are in concert for the benefit of
the New Orleans Friends of Music and Tulane's Newcomb School
of Music tonight at 8:00 at Tulane's Dixon Hall. WWNO's Fred
Kasten has more...
Date: October 27, 2006
John Corigliano's Clarinet Concerto is part of the LPO's
"Festival of Living Composers." Earlier this week,
Corigliano stopped by the WWNO studios to talk about the
birth of his concerto...
New Orleans Ballet Association
Date: October 26, 2006
The New Orleans Ballet Association collaborates with the
widely-acclaimed Houston Ballet at Dixon Hall to begin this
season. WWNO's Fred Kasten has more...
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Date: October 26, 2006
This weekend the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates
its first "Festival of Living Composers" with a pair of
concerts at the Convention Center Theater. WWNO's Fred
Kasten has the story...
John Berry
Date: October 26, 2006
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...
Roy Marsden
Date: October 24, 2006
British actor and director Roy Marsden is best known to
American audiences for his television roles as Neil Burnside
in "The Sandbaggers" and detective Adam Dalgleish in the
television adaptations of the P.D. James novels. For the
last month Marsden has been in New Orleans, directing
rehearsals for a new play: "Macbeth at the Gates." Earlier
this week, Roy Marsden stopped by the WWNO studios to talk
with Fred Kasten about his life in the theater and "Macbeth
at the Gates"...
Zeidwig
Date: October 13, 2006
World-renowned concert pianist Zeidwig is billed as two
parts Beethoven, one part Victor Borge in the body of Buster
Keaton, and he'll be in town this weekend for two evenings
of entertainment that's guaranteed to provide a healthy does
of laughter post-Katrina...
Taylor-Bercier
Date: October 11, 2006
Two established New Orleans art dealers, Vickie Taylor
Basetti and Mark Bercier, have come together in recent weeks
to create a new gallery in the French Quarter: Taylor-Bercier
Fine Art. The pair recently stopped by to talk with WWNO's
Jacqueline Bishop about their plans for the new gallery...
Nick Mueller
Date: October 10, 2006
Part two of Fred Kasten's two-part conversation with Nick
Mueller, President and CEO of the National World War II
Museum. The museum has cast a huge vote of confidence in New
Orleans by moving full speed ahead with a
300-million-dollar, seven-year plan for expansion...
John Waters
Date: October 6, 2006
Filmmaker and art photographer John Waters has a new
exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Earlier today,
Waters stopped by to talk with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop
about his work and the new exhibition...
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Jim Brandt - Part One
Date: September 28, 2006
Saturday is election day in Louisiana -- with statewide races for
insurance commissioner and secretary of state -- a smattering of local
races and issues -- and 13 proposed amendments to Louisiana's constitution
-- making for a lengthy, complicated -- and very wordy ballot. To bet a
better picture of what the constitutional amendments propose -- WWNO's
Fred Kasten talked with Jim Brandt -- president of the Public Affairs
Council of Louisiana...
Farrar Hudkins Commentary
Date: September 27, 2006
Life, death, jazz funerals -- and the spirit of New Orleans -- those are
some of the things on the mind this morning of commentator Farrar Hudkins...
Dennis Scholl
Date: September 21, 2006
The Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University opens a new exhibition tonight:
"Breathing Time: Works from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection." Dennis
School and guest curator Gary Sangster will give a lecture at five, followed
by a reception from 6:00 to 8:00. Earlier today, WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop
spoke with Dennis Scholl about "Breathing Time"...
Dalt Wonk - "The Wool Gatherer"
Date: September 21, 2006
"The Wool Gatherer" continues its run at the Big Top Gallery and Performance
Space on Clio Street this weekend, and critic Dalt Wonk has this review...
Al Hermann
Date: September 19, 2006
Former president Bill Clinton has called New Orleans native Al Hermann "one
of America's foremost physicists, and an even better trombonist." In May of
2005, Al Hermann stopped by the WWNO studios to talk with Fred Kasten about
his twin careers and then new CD "The Jazz Trombone" which also features
Monroe, Louisiana-born trombonist Carl Fontana. That conversation was
scheduled to air in early September of 2005, but Katrina intervened. We're
pleased to be able to bring it to you now...
Walter Isaacson
Date: September 14, 2006
Walter Isaacson is a New Orleans native and vice-chairman of the Louisiana
Recovery Authority. He is president of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank
The Aspen Institute, and has served as chairmna and C.E.O. of CNN and Time
Magazine. Isaacson recently talked with WWNO's Fred Kasten about the work of
the Louisiana Recovery Authority.
Louisiana State Museum director David Kahn
Date: September 13, 2006
Back in May, the Louisiana State Museum system named David Kahn as its new
director. Kahn came to New Orleans following successful tenures with
historical societies in New York and Connecticut. A native New Yorker, Kahn
earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Art History from Columbia
University. He recently sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop to talk about
the Louisiana State Museum system and its ambitious plans for the future...
Katrina Ya Ya Project: Richard Ford
Date: September 13, 2006
Richard Ford is a novelist who lives in Maine and New Orleans.
Andre Perry
Date: September 8, 2006
Post-Katrina New Orleans has been an especially tough place to live for women
who head households, and that's what's on the mind today of commentator Dr.
Andre Perry...
Dalt Wonk Reviews Callie's Tally
Date: September 7, 2006
Southern Rep's world-premiere
production of "Callie's Tally" continues this weekend, and critic Dalt Wonk has
this review...
Storytelling at Diboll Gallery
Date: September 6, 2006
A new exhibition opens tomorrow evening at Loyola
University's Diboll Art Gallery -- an exhibition that would have opened last
year but for Katrina. Shortly before Katrina hit last year, WWNO's Jacqueline
Bishop spoke with Jeffrey Cook, Alexander Stolin, and curator Karoline Schleh
about "Storytelling: Retrospective Works by Jeffrey Cook and Alexander Stolin"...
William Guion has photographed the landscape and people of his native
Louisiana for more than 15 years...
Bob Marye
Date: September 5, 2006
Commentator Bob Marye is thankful for and appreciative of
all of the hard work put in by individual New Orleanians and
out-of-town volunteers towards recovery from hurricanes
Katrina and Rita, but he's also angry about the pace of
progress, and more than a little worried about the mindset
in the city...
Andre Perry
Date: September 1, 2006
With the school year underway at most area colleges and
universities, how do enrollment figures look? That's the
topic today for commentator Andre Perry...
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Nine Lives - Hour-and-a-Half Anniversary Special
Date: August 29, 2006
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Michelle Leon fell in love with New Orleans over the past eight years
removating historic New Orleans homes...
Horne, Jed (Part
One)
Date: July 26, 2006
Part One of Fred Kasten's three-part conversation with author and
Times-Picayune metro editor Jed Horne, whose new book is called Breach of
Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City...
Farrar Hudkins commentary
Date: July 26, 2006
Did Katrina really change everything? That's the question at the
heart of this commentary from WWNO's Farrar Hudkins...
Andre Perry on Alternative Schools
Date: July 21, 2006
Alternative schools for troubled students
and their potential for administrative abuse are on the mind today of Andre
Perry ...
NO/AIDS Task Force post-Katrina
Date: July 18, 2006
Katrina all but wiped out
the health-care system in New Orleans, and raised big obstacles
for organizations providing services for people with chronic
diseases -- organizations such as the NO/AIDS Task Force. WWNO's
Fred Kasten has more...
Kelly Wilson lives in the Irish Channel in New Orleans, and teaches creative
writing and literature at Loyola University.
Andre Perry
Date: July 17, 2006
Hairstyles and law enforcement -- those are two of the things on commentator
André Perry's mind today...
Dalt Wonk
Date: July 14, 2006
Minicapelli Dinner Theatre continues its
production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf's Letter," and critic Dalt Wonk has
this review...
Ashley Kahn: The House that Trane Built
Date: July 14, 2006
Author Ashley Kahn talks with WWNO's Fred Kasten about his
new book about Impulse records, "The House that Trane Built."
Harold Battiste
Date: July 11, 2006
WWNO's Fred Kasten recently caught up with Harold
Battiste and talked to "Mister Batt" about his life in music...
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Katrina Ya-Ya
Date: June 21, 2006
Jeffrey Ehrenreich is an ethnographer who has lived and worked among numerous
indigenous peoples, and is currently professor of anthropology at the University
of New Orleans...
Sallie Ann Glassman is an award-winning artist, published author, shop owner,
and initiated priestess of Haitian voudou who conducts weekly public and private
ceremonies in her temple in New Orleans.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Date: January 10, 2006
August Wilson's drama "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" continues its run at the
Anthony Bean Theater this weekend, and critic Dalt Wonk has a review...
Michael Depp on Hurricane Preparedness
Date:
June 9, 2006
Just how prepared are you for this hurricane season? And
what might you face if New Orleans gets hits again? Those are two of the
questions on the mind today of writer and commentator Michael Depp...
Harold Battiste
Date: June 9, 2006
Sunday afternoon the Ashé Cultural Center will celebrate the generous
life and many accomplishments of Harold Battiste. WWNO's Fred Kasten
has more...
Tsunami Dance: Orpheus
Date: June 8, 2006
The New Orleans-based Tsunami Dance Company premieres
"Orpheus" tomorrow night at the Contemporary Arts Center. WWNO's Fred Kasten has
the story...
Louisiana Artist: Jessica Goldfinch
Date: June 7, 2006
Jessica Goldfinch is an object-oriented conceptual artist who received an
associate's degree in graphics and printing from Delgado Community College and
bachelor's degrees in Art and Sociology and an MFA in Art from the University of
New Orleans. Goldfinch recently talked to WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop about her
life as a Louisiana Artist...
John Clark teaches philosophy and environmental studies at Loyola University New
Orleans, and is an ecology and social justice activist.
Common Ground Medical Clinic
Date: June, 2006
The the immediate aftermath of Katrina, health care in New Orleans was scarce
for the insured, and virtually nonexistent for the uninsured. Then a grass-roots
effort began to change that, first on the West Bank and later in the Ninth Ward
and Kenner. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...
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Lee Barclay is proud to call New Orleans home for the past 14 years. She
currently divides her time between freelance writing and working to preserve New
Orleans' culture.
Dalt Wonk: South Pacific
Date: May 25, 2006
The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic "South
Pacific" continues its run at Rivertown Rep this weekend, and critic Dalt Wonk
has this review...
Michele Baker is a certified singer, dancer, performer, costumer, and
certified Yoga instructor who is currently living in New Orleans until she can
return to New Orleans.
Dalt Wonk: Kimberly Akimbo
Date: May 22, 2006
The regional premiere of "Kimberly Akimbo"
continues its run at the Southern Rep Theatre this weekend, and critic Dalt Wonk
has this review...
Fifth-generation New Orleans James Nolan is a widely-published poet,
essayist, fiction writer, and translator. He teaches at the Loyola Writing
Institute at Loyola University New Orleans.
CAC Surviving the Hurricane
Date:
May 17, 2006
The Contemporary Arts Center has just opened a new exhibition called "Surviving
the Hurricane." Artists Alan Gerson and Jessica Goldfinch and curator David
Rubin recently stopped by to talk with Jacqueline Bishop about the exhibition...
Holly Stell
Date: May 13, 2006
The young soprano Entertainment Weekly calls "the petite Pavarotti" makes
her Louisiana debut with the LPO tomorrow afternoon at Madewood Plantation.
WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...
Andre Perry
Date: May 12, 2006
It's dear old Mom who has the attention today
of commentator Andre Perry...
Kami Frank is proud to call New Orleans home. Her work has appeared in "Hip
Mama," "Deep South Mouth," and "Rag Cooperative."
David Parsons, founder of Parsons Dance Company
Date: May 10, 2006
New Orleans' Post-Katrina cultural
recovery continues tonight at Tulane's Dixon Hall, as the New Orleans Ballet
Association presents the first of two nights of performances by the
internationally acclaimed Parsons Dance Company. Parsons Dance Company founder
and choreographer David Parsons recently stopped by to talk with WWNO's Fred
Kasten about his company and their Crescent City performances...
Bobby Lounge
Date: May 6, 2006
Last year's JazzFest featured one of the
most star-studded lineups in the festival's history, but the
biggest buzz of the festival may have surrounded a virtually
unknown performer named Bobby Lounge. He's back again this year,
and WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...
Pres Kabacoff is a New Orleans native and CEO of Historic Restoration, Inc.,
an award-winning inner city revitalization company.
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Cornettist Connie Jones
Date: April 28, 2006
Cornettist Connie Jones got his
start in New Orleans music in the early 1950s, and he has been working steadily
ever since, playing with the Basin Street Six, Pete Fountain, and the Dukes of
Dixieland; and leading his own bands. Jones recently stopped by to talk with
WWNO's Fred Kasten about his life playing New Orleans jazz...
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde is an assistant professor at Xavier University, and
lives and writes in River Ridge, Louisiana.
Andre Perry: Why Wasn't I At the March?Date: April 10, 2006 The march on April first in support of voting rights for Katrina evacuees is the
topic today for commentator Dr. André Perry...
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...
Guitarist and singer/songwriter Anders Osborne moved to New Orleans from his
native Swededn in 1985. He has this afternoon's entry in our ongoing Katrina
Ya-Ya series of commentaries...
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Jose Torres Tama on Carnival
Date: February 27, 2006
The power and importance -- to New Orleanians -- of celebrating Carnival
(especially this year) is the topic today for commentator Jose Torres Tama...
Thelonius Monk, Jr.
Date: February 23, 2006
Thelonius Monk, Jr. is carrying on the legacy of his
composer/pianist father through his own career in music, and as
a key player (no pun intended) with the Thelonius Monk Institute
of Jazz. WWNO's Fred Kasten picks up the story...
Robert Siegel
Date: February 23, 2006
All Things Considered is coming to New Orleans just
in time for Carnival, with hosts Robert Siegel and Michele Norris set to
anchor the program from the Crescent City all next week. WWNO's Fred Kasten
recently talked with Siegel about the upcoming visit...
Today marks the beginning of the new series of commentaries to be heard each
Wednesday afternoon on WWNO, "The Katrina Ya Ya Project." Each essay is written
and read by a New Orleanian, and collectively the project aims to enumerate and
illuminate some of the most compelling reasons why the nation and the world have
a stake in rebuilding the Crescent City. In coming weeks you'll hear essays by
novelist Richard Ford, poets Valentine Pierce and Julie Kane, Voodoo priestess
Sallie Ann Glassman, and many others. Today's commentary comes from "Katrina Ya
Ya Project" coordinator Lee Barclay...
New Orleans area colleges and universities will play a
major role in the Crescent City's recovery from Katrina. This afternoon, meet
on of the key players in area higher education: Loyola University President
Father Kevin Wildes, who recently sat down with WWNO's Fred Kasten to talk
about his background and his expectations from Loyola...
Bill Hines, Part Two
Date: February 13, 2006
Next on All Things Considered, part two of Fred Kasten's
interview with New Orleans attorney and civic leader Bill Hines. Hines is
managing partner at Jones-Walker, and played a key role a few years ago in
bringing the Hornets to the Crescent City...
Bill Hines, Part One
Date: February 13, 2006
New Orleans attorney Bill Hines is managing partner at
Jones-Walker, one of the city's most prominent law firms. Bill Hines may be even
better known for his committed and energetic civic work, including successful
tenures with Metrovision and The United Way. Over the last decade or so, Bill
Hines has increasingly focused his civic work on New Orleans arts and culture,
currently serving as president of the Board for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra,
and board vice-chairman of the Arts Council of New Orleans. Hines recently sat
down with WWNO's Fred Kasten to talk about the importance of New Orleans arts
and culture to the Katrina recovery effort...
Win, Place, Show!
Date: February 12, 2006
It just might be the closest you'll come to "a day at the
races" this season in New Orleans: an evening at Le Chat Noir with Larry Beron,
Chris Champagne, and Ronnie Virgets for "Win, Place, Show!" WWNO's Fred Kasten
has more...
Christina Vella's new book
Date: February 10, 2006
Award-winning New Orleans historian Christina Vella has a new book out, and
she recently stopped by to talk about it with WWNO's red Kasten...
Andre Perry
Date: February 10, 2006
The education question "Top Ten"
for New Orleans' mayoral and city council candidates is what commentator André
Perry has today...
NOCCA/Riverfront After Katrina, Part Two
Date: February 9, 2006
This afternoon, part two of our
two-part report on the status of one of New Orleans' most
successful public schools, NOCCA|Riverfront, which is now back
in session at a seris of satellite campuses around the metro
area. Today's report begins with WWNO's Fred Kasten talking
about Katrina's impact (no pun intended) on the school with
NOCCA|Riverfront's communications director Brian Hammell...
Contemporary Arts Center
Date:
February 9, 2006
Tomorrow night, the Contemporary Arts Center
opens its first touring exhibition of art since Katrina --- a touring exhibition
that was actually Made In New Orleans. WWNO's Fred Kasten has the story...
NOCCA/Riverfront After Katrina, Part One
Date: February 8, 2006
Like most New Orleans schools, NOCCA|Riverfront took a big hit
from Katrina. The award-winning, nationally recognized arts high
school is bouncing back, though, with a full slate of courses
now underway at satellite campuses around the metro area, and
plans to return to its riverfront home at the end of May. This
afternoon, part one of a two-part report on NOCCA|Riverfront
post-Katrina, with an update on the school's visual arts
program. Our report begins with WWNO's Jacqueline Bishop talking
with NOCCA|Riverfront visual arts chair Mary Jane Parker...
Louisiana Artist: Stephen Paul Day
Date:
February 1, 2006
Artist Stephen Paul Day was born in Iowa, grew up in
Louisiana, earned degrees in sculpture and glass from LSU, and studied
printmaking in Paris. Stephen Paul Day recently sat down with WWNO's Jacqueline
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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...
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...
Andre Perry on the BNOBC
Date: January 16, 2006
What's in the Public Schools plan
just put forward by the Education Subcommittee of Mayor Nagin's "Bring New
Orleans Back Commission"? And how receptive will New Orleans parents be to the
plan? Those are the topics on commentator André Perry's mind today...
HNOC's Pricilla Lawrence
Date: January 11, 2006
New Orleans Musica da Camera 40th Anniversary
Date: January 10, 2006
The New Orleans Musica da Camera celebrates 40 years of early
music making in New Orleans with a concert this weekend. Musica
da Camera co-directors Thaïs St. Ju8lien and Milton Scheuermann,
Jr. recently sat down with WWNO's Fred Kasten to talk about the
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