Leyla McCalla

Music Review: New Orleans, Tradition, and Mingling the Trashy and the Transcendent

But dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.

Vari-Colored Songs was the sweetest boost anyone has given Langston Hughes in decades.

Thomas Garvey January 20, 2022 at 3:13 pm on Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently PessimisticWell, that's classic Gerald Peary right there.
Athar January 18, 2022 at 3:56 pm on Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in StrideThank you for your incisive comments on BEST AMERICAN POETRY OF 2021 which I have been plowing through and finding...
Peter Power January 18, 2022 at 1:14 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)I absolutely love OFSE, it really captures the intimacy that Nanci could bring to her stage performances. I thankfully had...
William Sr January 17, 2022 at 4:35 pm on Arts Remembrance: The Late Joe Cook and His Chance to Record “The Twist”Little Joe Cook was a dear close personal friend he was the greatest person I knew. I have many many...
Dean M Kuehn January 17, 2022 at 1:23 pm on Arts Remembrance: Film Critic Michael Wilmington — A MemoryI knew Michael too but as part of The Next Generation (1975-83). There's a lot more to tell as the...