My New Orleans
New Orleans’ Busiest Musical Ambassadors Find Frustration, Inspiration During Pandemic Year
04/01/2021
Arriona “Tank” Ball
After a lavish musical introduction by her backing band, Tarriona “Tank” Ball – lead singer of Tank and the Bangas – playfully danced onto the stage to perform her song “Spaceships” to a rocking crowd.
Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say the fans were mildly heaving, swaying, rolling, pitching and/or “yawing,” since they were perched on the deck of a giant cruise ship.
The date was Jan. 9, 2020. The setting was a performance on an ocean liner hosting the 18th edition of Jam Cruise, a floating musical festival that features fleet-fingered talent from all over the world – often with plenty of New Orleanians represented.
Martina Batan, New York art dealer consumed by a cold case, dies at 62
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Martina Batan, New York Art Dealer Consumed by a Cold Case, Dies at 62
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Living in a World in Which Nature Has Already Lost
Nathaniel Rich presents humanity’s war against nature in vivid detail, with nature nearly defeated. “It was a costly victory, however,” he writes. “The prize was civilizational collapse.”Credit.William Widmer for The New York Times
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By Dahr Jamail
SECOND NATURE
By Nathaniel Rich
On average, an American man puts 85 man-made chemicals into his body every day, while an American woman takes in nearly twice that amount.
Rich tourists pay top dollar for disaster tours to gawk at New Orleans’s Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, where the people who have remained struggle to survive.