New Orleans is famous for its music, but many outsiders find the city synonymous with only certain genres and styles. Flying under the radar of trendy press coverage of artists featured in HBO’s Treme and bounce on late night television, is a diverse and tight knit movement of young emerging artists with an intelligent world view and unique, genre-bending talent.

Today, The People Say Project closes its 2011 season at Maison, and Ed and Susan Poole talk Louisiana Film History in Chalmette. But once, Dartmouth College was chartered (1769), Bush claimed the presidency 36 days after Election Day (2000), Saddam Hussein was captured near his home town of Tikrit (2003). Taylor Swift turns 21! And a very happy birthday to 43 year-old Jamie Foxx, 53 year-old Steve Buscemi,  81 year-old Christopher Plummer, and 85 year-old Dick Van Dyke. Now check out today's celebrations:

July 3, when New York City opened the nation’s first savings bank (1819), the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, culminating with Pickett’s Charge (1863), when the Dow Jones published its first stock average (1884), when the New York Times mentioned AIDS for the first time, but not referring to the disease with the later assigned title (1981), Franz Kafka’s birth (1883) and Jim Morrison’s death. So go to Prague, or stay here for:

Hola Nola, and hola the first non-celebrity music mixtape in weeks. The original Hola Nola hop skip and jump is back to address the announcing of the cubes - the Jazzfest cubes, that is. The schedule is out for this year's fete at the Fair Grounds, and decisions must be made. The following playlist goes through my top two choices per day, and the sacrifices that will need to be made when circling (in pencil) the who/what/where from April 29th-May 8th.

The up-and-coming local rapper offers ten songs that inspire him.