The New Orleans Food Co-Op

Affordable, safe, healthy food. That's what the New Orleans Food Co-Op wants to bring to the corner of St. Roch and St. Claude Avenues. And they want you to help.
Music in this piece is by The Rebirth Brass Band and The Schatzy Band.

The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic is 10 years old!

For the last ten years, The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic has been providing ongoing medical and mental health care to some of our city's greatest assets: our musicians.
With music by Jo Cool Davis, Astral Project, The Soul Rebels, Roselyn & David, and The Rebirth Brass Band.

For more information on the clinic, go to http://www.neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/

The Woman Behind the Signs

Since 1985, Nan Parati has handmade every artist sign for Jazz Fest -- not to mention every craft sign and food price sign. Meet the woman whose artwork you already know, and whose handwriting just may make you feel like dancing.

NOCCA's Creative Writers

What happens when you take young folks who are passionate about language, and give them the time, space, and resources to write and read? Come find out. Sunday, April 6 at 3pm, NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts) will have a student reading featuring the department's seniors.

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation Award

When KIPP McDonough 15 started their new school year one year after Katrina, music teacher Kelvin Harrison had no instruments with which to teach. After he displays a little ingenuity and a lot of dedication, help comes from the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation...and they've brought more than just instruments.

Mardi Gras Indians

A short history of the Mardi Gras Indians music and remembrances of the Wild Magnolia's first recordings with Willie Tee and John Sinclair's thirty years of observing the tribe.

The Kid Camera Project

Its a rainy saturday morning in January at the Robinson home in the ninth ward but it feels a little like christmas as the kids gather around Aria Martin a volunteer from the Kid Camera Project. The kids are receiving their graduation cameras. They were the first participants of the program when it started as a plan to give kids something to do after the storm. They were given disposabe cameras and taught some basics about photagraphy and since then the program has grown to several other neighorhoods throughout New Orleans.

Live at Vaughn's: Stories From a Mexican Drug Smuggler

Its wednesday night at Vaughns and the place is packed, but tonight the smoky bywater bar is filled with an unfamiliar crowd. Dozens of law students from Maryland are drinking cold beer and eating barbeque before the show starts. But it is not Kermit Ruffins or Shamar Allen who will take the stage. Its Eppy Lopez, a former drug smuggler from a small border town in Texas. The students are volunteers who came to give free legal aid to the citizens of New Orleans and tonight they will hear Eppy tell stories about his 13 years in Louisiana state and fedaral prison. Eppy strolls up to the stage and makes the Microphone look like a toothpick as he adjusts it to his massive frame. But he is all smiles as recalls the artwork he created while incarcerated in Louisianna.