New Orleans' Jazz Fest: Gospel, Gumbo and the Gulf Coast Spill

May 06, 2010

Louisiana's culture has survived Katrina, faulty levees, soil erosion and a host of other calamities. But will it survive corporate interests and homogenization? How long can it keep up?

New Orleans' Jazz Fest: NoLa Heritage—and Pearl Jam, Too

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival honors Louisiana culture. But in this post-Katrina world, it also mirrors the rifts and tensions about race and class that we find in the rest of the country.