The Backstreet Cultural Museum presents the 23rd annual All Saints' Day Commemoration on Tuesday, November 1 at Broadside (600 N. Broad St.). Free entry. This year's honorees include Big Chief Ray "Hatchet" Blazio of the Wild Apache, Big CHief Keelian "Dump" Boyd of the Young Maasai Hunters, Deborah "Big Red" Cotton, and Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas.
Lois Nelson Andrews, a New Orleans cultural icon who led countless processions as grand marshal of jazz funerals and second-line parades, has died. She was 69.