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New Orleans food is great. That's not breaking news by any stretch. Everybody knows how famous New Orleans cooking is in the culinary world-the specific dishes created here, the historic or famous restaurants, the celebrity chefs. New Orleans cuisine is so renowned, in fact, that it often eclipses the culinary traditions of its metropolitan areas (New Orleans East, the Northshore, the River Parishes, and my stomping grounds, the Westbank). I...

It seems like people either love or hate country music these days, but no one can deny that the history of country music is boring. In Ken Burns' fantastic new documentary aptly titled Country Music, viewers are invited to look back all the way to early America when people who came from the world over were trying to keep some joyful semblance from home alive through music. The eight-episode documentary begins with the explanation that...

2017's It was a rarity in horror cinema: a film that truly cared about its characters and treated them as something more than cannon fodder. It: Chapter Two has the same affection for its leads, but its pacing is awkward and, like many sequels, it feels as if it is more of the same but with diminishing results.
Directed by Andy Muschietti, who also helmed the first installment, It: Chapter Two finds The Losers Club members...

Two or three years ago if you had asked who "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard" were to most fans of independent alternative music you probably wouldn't have gotten too far. But in that industry time is often your enemy and you have to capitalize on the momentum. I bring this up because when King Gizzard first cake to Nola, they rocked One Eyed Jacks out in front a soldier crowd. Last year they repeated that with another killer show...