This past winter break I traveled to Israel to have a firsthand educational experience in a land I had heard much about but didn’t understand.
I traveled with a group of 18 university students involved in their campus’ student media organizations with Project Interchange, a group that connects leaders and policymakers from around the world with Israel.
While almost […]

The 20th Annual New Orleans Film Festival featured locally shot “Welcome to Academia,” a bold film that reveals the behind-the-scenes drama and politics at a fictitious Ivy League school. Filmed on Tulane’s campus in 2007, the movie deals with the role of pure academic research at universities and whether school administrations really care about their […]

New York City-based band The Walkmen performed a variety of their songs from their five-album catalog to fans of their soul-rock style Sept. 30 at One Eyed Jacks.
No strangers to New Orleans, The Walkmen have played here several times in the past few years, paying tribute to the city that has so influenced their style […]

Four Hullabaloo staff members, Will Lee-Wagner, Derrick Toups, Mary Bernton and I, went to Howard-Tilton Memorial Library last week to search the archives fun retro ads to place in the first issue of our centennial volume. Had we known that we actually were going to rewrite Hullabaloo history, we would not have been content just […]

Record Club, a collaboration between Beck and a rotation of his musician friends, covered The Velvet Underground’s debut album The Velvet Underground and Nico in June. Beck fans can go to www.beck.com/record_club and watch distorted videos of Record Club playing songs like “There She Goes Again” and “Heroin.” Standout tracks include “Sunday Morning,” an almost […]