molly peterson

Dear Paul Westerberg: Your song worked. I fell in love with this guy’s music long before he died today. Playing pool near the Panhandle, in San Francisco, in fact. I never travel far, without a little Big Star either. Assuming arguendo you still do. Also, thanks for being awesome, mostly. Sincerely, Molly Further reading: The Box Tops Big Star If he was from Venus, would he feed us with a spoon? If he was from Mars, wouldn’t that be cool?

The lower Ninth Ward & Holy Cross lost a strong advocate when Pam Dashiell died the other day. I knew Pam because I was a journalist in New Orleans after Katrina, and we all knew her. She was formidable, and Katy Reckdahl does a lovely job of honoring her. A month after the storm she was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with Lynn Neary, talking about the 9th Ward’s desire to come back home. A little later, she tried

Heather Booth and Jacob Brancasi are doing a genius little project. And what I like an awful lot about it is that you can do it with them. Open Sound New Orleans asks you – in what is a slightly evolving and definitely getting easier manner – to put a sound up from the city. Not a story; a sound. Raw and rough is how they like it. So I added a sound. It’s one I’m looking forward to hearing