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Today on Louisiana Considered, The New Orleans Opera follows the dream of a jazz icon with its debut of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. And Italian Mezzo-Soprano Mattea Musso returns to the Marigny Opera House for a concert performance of the Salve Regina.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn how Mardi Gras is celebrated across the border in Alabama. Plus, we continue our book ban conversation with a look at Louisiana’s history of censorship. And, we hear a remembrance of the recently deceased New Orleans actor, producer and director, Luis Q. Barroso.

New Orleans chefs Susan Spicer and Frank Brigtsen are both culinary icons. They are also back-to-back recipients of the coveted Ella Brennan Lifetime Achievement Award, presented each year by the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience. On this week's show, we sit down with both honorees – who each have culinary careers spanning over 40 years – to learn about their successes and the challenges they overcame to become the legends they are today.

On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us News of Crypto-Winter, News of a Smart World, News of the Godly, News of Bees, News of the Atom, News of the Olympic Movement, The Apologies of the Week, plus music from the late David Crosby.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we get an inside look at the new National Treasure TV series that takes place and was filmed in Baton Rouge. Plus, NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with two Louisianans fighting for financial compensation after being exonerated for crimes they did not commit.

Today on Louisiana Considered, New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia tells us about her new TV series coming this summer. Plus we hear about a new collection of music catered for those in need of healing. And we learn how healthcare staffing shortages are changing emergency care and ambulatory services.

Today on Louisiana Considered, author Matt Haines tells us all about his new king cake book for kids. Plus we visit the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience where children make challah king cake for Mardi Gras, and we catch up on this week’s political news with The Times-Picayune | The Advocate’s Stephanie Grace.

To write a cookbook, a good author will go to great lengths to perfect a recipe or understand a cuisine. On this week's show, we meet four food writers who are driven by a deep culinary curiosity. You may know Melissa Clark from her weekly column in the New York Times food section or from one of her 45-odd published cookbooks. Melissa joins us, as does Vicky Bennison, the creator of the YouTube sensation, Pasta Grannies.

On this Continuum you'll hear a special program devoted to the art of the recorder in early music presented by the legendary short-lived David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London.

Dr. Michael White is the beloved New Orleans clarinetist leading the Original Liberty Jazz Band. He's also a composer, musicologist, jazz historian, and professor at Xavier University. He's a leading authority and culture bearer of traditional jazz. He's performed globally, is heard on over 50 recordings, received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship. Although Michael has ancestors in traditional jazz, he started in classical music. He later joined the famed St. Augustine High School Marching 100, but it wasn't until his late teens that Michael first heard New Orleans jazz played live at the Jazz and Heritage Festival. He went on to play with Ernest “Doc” Paulin’s brass band, 1975, at a church parade, and in social club parades and jazz funerals. Then, with Danny Barker's Fairview Baptist Church marching band. He later worked with the Young Tuxedo Brass to Wynton Marsalis's band, among many. We'll hear some of that music and more from Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band.