Today, Uncle Lionel Batiste is honored with a second line and tribute at Sweet Lorraine's. It's also Friday the 13th, the prime day for Creepy Fest. Elsewhere, there's a  Bastille Day fireworks celebration, and the Southern Summer Comfort Book Tour reaches New Orleans. On this day in history, legendary traditional jazz clarinetist George Lewis was born in New Orleans (1900), blues guitarist Long John Hunter was born in Ringold, LA (1931), and swamp pop singer Joe Barry was born in Cut Off, LA (1939).

by Brad Rhines

This is not your father’s corporate shill.  At Scion A/V, the car company—a division of Toyota—latches on to music, art, and film, to prove they’re down with today’s young car buyers.  In addition to sponsoring art exhibitions and releasing records, a new video series features legendary hip-hop producer Prince Paul traveling the country (in a Scion, we presume) checking out local scenes. The most recent episode finds Paul in New Orleans, where he gets a crash-course in Bounce, with a little guidance from Big Freedia, Katey Red, and Rusty Lazer.

Between the tentacles of NOMA's newest exhibit with street artist Swoon, and the New Orleans Airlift. 

April 13th,  when the first elephant to grace the United States arrived from India (1796), the day of Butch Cassidy’s birth (1866), Samuel Beckett’s birth (1906), when Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in Lilies of the Field (1963), and when Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters (1997)…oh it was all so so simple then.

Unlike most days in this town, there’s a lot to do, so listen up: