Sunday Funnies & Arts

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Just A Song: The Indigo Girls' "Love's Recovery"...

Stupid and Contagious: How Joan of Arc Felt...

Madam Miaow writes the "yellowface" is alive and well in British theatre:

Imagine, if you will, a return to ye olden days of the almost complete absence of actors of colour from TV, when white entertainers blacked up and sang songs about their dear old mammy and grinning piccaninnies chowed down on watermelon. The Arcola (the c is hard, not soft, in case you wondered) gives us a sort of menstrual minstrel show for 21st century theatregoers getting to grips with sexual politics, while race issues pass right over someone's head...

Life In New Orleans: Children's Hospital...

Roy's World: The musical evolution of "Wild Thing"...

Robert Frost's Banjo: "Ghazal 5/23"...

The Clever Pup: A recipe from Bob Dylan's mother...

Sunday Gospel Time: The Spotted Cat closes and the Treme Brass Band gives it a stylish send-off:

Wish I Was In New Orleans...

...sittin' on a candy stand. Thanks to the New Orleans News Ladder for inspiring today's blog!

If you lived in New Orleans, you could start out the morning at the Treme Creole Gumbo Festival and end up tonight on the 3rd annual Very Bad Santa Crawl. Not enough music from John Boutte, Paul Sanchez, and the Treme Brass Band? No prob -- head over to Tipitina's for the Cajun Zydeco Dance Festival.  

If you have Christmas shopping left undone, the Colton School's Holiday Affordable Art Bazaar has what you're looking for. 

To finish up your evening with a little dancing, leave the Santa Crawl for the Mid-City Lanes Rock'n'Bowl, where Big Sam's Funky Nation will hold court. Or if you'd rather hear some world class jazz, you can take the ferry to Algiers for Delfeayo Marsalis' 7 p.m. set at the Old Point and get back in plenty of time for the back end of the Santa Crawl. Le bon ton roulez indeed!...

The Treme Brass Band shows off the art of resistance, supporting a sit-in at St. Augustine's church. The church of the oldest black Catholic parish in the nation was slated for demolition until protesting parishioners successfully intervened.