Tagged: Jack Hopke

When the visual media — TV and movies — bring you previews, they're essentially "teasers," extremely short snippets of quick-cut content designed to arouse your curiosity and interest and, sometimes, inflame certain passions. We're going to bring you some previews in the next half-hour, but ours will be extended, fact-based, informative and designed to arouse your curiosity and interest. We leave your passions up to you, here on All Things New Orleans.

We close out the first full week of summer with a mostly "summery" edition of All Things New Orleans. Four different personalities discuss the economy, the media, the entertainment scene, and WWNO's new programming.

Time to relax with this week's London Sunday Times crossword puzzle. You know, that cryptic exercise with seemingly nonsensical clues made of puns and anagrams. You're trying to figure out the answer to this clue: "The preacher eats pizza while watching a Russian ballerina and listening to a theatrical version of "I Get a Kick Out of You." The answer has 19 letters. Got it? It's All Things New Orleans.

It's time for the final spring edition of All Things New Orleans for 2012. On this week's program, we'll hear about the arts and hard news: a Texan visual artist, a French jazzman, and a disappearing local newspaper.

Time to answer the vital question, "How many festivals can one town sustain in one weekend?" Your guess is as good as ours on this week's All Things New Orleans.