New Orleans Articles & Announcements

Recently, the Louisiana State senate passed a bill making colorful rocker Jay Chevalier's song "Come Back to Louisiana" the state's official hurricane recovery song.

When floodwaters inundated the basement of Tulane University's Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the extensive collection of audio and video recordings — many rare or irreplaceable — were entirely lost.

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra creative director Irvin Mayfield on the proposed National Jazz Center, a $715 million downtown development that stands to have a complex impact on the city's economy and culture. Interview by Eve and Alison.

With the shuttering of Charity Hospital, adequate and accessible health care for New Orleans' uninsured returning residents is in poor shape

WWOZ Street Talk reporter Alison Fensterstock sat down with playwright and activist Eve Ensler — creator of the Vagina Monologues and V-Day — to talk about her ongoing work with women in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Mayoral candidate Mitch Landrieu answers WWOZ Street Talk's questions on the cultural rebuilding of New Orleans, from financial support to music education to incentives for artists and others — like Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and Mardi Gras Indians — who are not paid professionals but add invaluably to the city's cultural mix.

Two leaders in New Orleans Latino community discuss how recent immigrant workers will impact the city's culture. Rudy Mills is a Honduran musician and director of InterFest, and Ariana Hall is executive director of CubaNola collective.

Since February, the Mardi Gras Service Corps has worked with more than 2,000 volunteers to gut houses, clean up neighborhoods, paint public schools and more.

This month they launch a new Family Match program: displaced families are assigned a small team of volunteers to help with the physical and logistical challenges of returning to New Orleans.

New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin answers WWOZ Street Talk's questions about his plans for the cultural rebuilding of the city — recorded at a Candidates' Forum on April 12, 2006.

We talk about music education, second lines, the Mayor's Office for Music and more. Nagin says the final report of the Bring New Orleans Back Cultural Committee reflects his plans.

Part of Mayor Ray Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission included a special Cultural Committee, made up of representatives from the worlds of music, visual art, cultural preservationists and others.