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Bennie Pete Birthday Celebration at New Orleans Jazz Museum
“For over 20 years one of the most popular and visible funk-style brass bands in community parades and funerals has been the Hot 8 Brass Band. In 1996 sousaphone player Bennie Pete was instrumental in merging two former Fortier High School student groups, the High Steppers and the Looney Tunes Brass Bands, to form the Hot 8. The players grew up together and maintain strong, family-like bonds and regular membership. Most of them were born between 1975 and ’87 in a generation that grew up hearing mainly modern-style brass bands in community functions.”
I would hesitate to say how many times I’ve seen Hot 8 play live. In the neighborhood of 200 times I reckon.
Bennie Pete passed away in September of 2021. The Treme neighborhood funerary second line that honored him saw thousands of people take to the streets in waves of joy. That’s how we grieve in New Orleans.
Tomorrow, July 10th, 2025 at 6pm, Hot 8 Brass Band will perform a ‘heavenly birthday’ celebration for the big man. Hope to see y’all come out.
Bennie Pete Birthday Celebration at New Orleans Jazz Museum
Thursday, July 10, 2025
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
New Orleans Jazz Museum
400 Esplanade Ave.
New Orleans, LA
Corbin Kentucky Native Reveals Colonel Sanders Original Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe
RL Reeves Jr Recipe For Smoked Chicken Jambalaya With Andouille Sausage And Roasted Hatch Chiles
When July rolls around in the Cumberland Highlands of Eastern Kentucky it’s time to hit the strip mines with a big plastic jug, and go blackberry picking.
RL Reeves Jr Mexican Green Spaghetti Method
A hundred years later, brisket, a long-running warhorse in the Texas barbecue game, took on added verve when Bobby Mueller and his son John strapped a rocket to a steer’s ass and redefined what we thought of the old menu staple.
Yeah, we’d all been eating brisket since the FDR era but we’d never had it like this. Bobby and John are both deceased but before their passing Bobby told me that the barbecue he was serving would’ve been declared ‘over-cooked’ when he was on the come up.
2025 Scene Boosters Marching Club Second Line
The 2025 Scene Boosters Marching Club Second Line saw a few thousand people march through the historic Central City neighborhood of New Orleans 3rd Ward. This is what we saw:
Dynasties have been built. Rebellions have been quelled. Romances kindled. Reputations grown. Kingdoms overthrown.
Fortunes have been made.
The world of southern mayonnaise is as intriguing as any Tennessee Williams drama ever writ. Seismic rifts have jarred entire states over this fine emulsion.
Marie-Antoine Carême, the father of mayonnaise, emerged from the kitchens of 19th century France as a lion of haute cuisine.
Reflecting back on his life spent cooking over primitive, hot stoves he would exclaim: “Charcoal kills us, but what does it matter? The shorter the life, the greater the glory!”
Spoken like a true lover of mayonnaise.
Mexican Green Spaghetti party at Tamale House East in Austin, Texas
2025 marks Tamale House restaurant’s 67th summer serving Tex Mex to friends and neighbors in Austin, Texas.
Saturday June 14th, 2025 at 7pm the East Austin mainstay rolls out their brand new menu item: Green Spaghetti aka Espagueti verde.
All of the regular menu items like Texas-sized tamales, “best in the the city” fish tacos, chile con queso and frozen margaritas will be on offer as well.
Look forward to seeing y’all.
Terranova Brothers Superette
Terranova Brothers Superette marked their 100th anniversary today by closing their doors forever. The old butchery and small grocery store is no more. Their deli infamously authored the best muffaletta in the city and did so with verve by only making 10 on Saturday morning.
First come first serve.
We rolled by there bright and early to snag a pair but the butcher informed me that since it was their final day they decided to go out with a whimper instead of a bang and not make their signature sandwich one final time.
I wanted to roll him but instead wished him a happy retirement and quit the premises.