By Diane Mack

New Orleans, La. – International opera singer and New Orleans daughter, the late Shirley Verrett is being remembered in a special concert this weekend at Xavier University Recital Hall...Sunday, March 13th ...4PM. Free.

New Orleans, LA – This episode features an interview with Dr. Andre Perry. His new book about the problems facing New Orleans schools is called "The Garden Path: The Miseducation of A City." This interview was recorded before a live audience Feb. 27 at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, along with a performance by poet Chuck Perkins.

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, La. – Stormy skies hovered over much of Fat Tuesday. One carnival regular carried on, though. Pete Fountain donned a purple suit bedazzled with musical notes and symbols as he grabbed his clarinet for his 51st annual stroll to the French Quarter. The 81-year-old says there's a reason he continues the tradition.

""Fun, you know. And everybody has a good time. And, you, know, forget about yesterday."

Oeufs a la Bechamel

Serves 4

6 hard boiled eggs
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon sugar
4 green onions, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon flat leaf Italian parsley, chopped
Salt and pepper

By Fred Kasten

New Orleans – Today - on "The Sound of Books" - with Fred Kasten - New Orleans writer Thomas Jacobsen's new book "Traditional New Orleans Jazz: Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music"...

Thomas Jacobsen's signing for "Traditional New Orleans Jazz" at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe is Saturday, March 12, 2011 - at 7pm.

To find out more about Thomas Jacobsen and "Traditional New Orleans Jazz" - please click here .

By Eileen Fleming

By Ian McNulty

By Eileen Fleming

New Orleans, La. – Anne Rolfes of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade says 954 coastal residents were surveyed from July to October. She says nearly half of the people who believed they were exposed to crude oil or dispersants got sick.
The National Institutes of Health is launching a study of 55-thousand clean-up workers. But Rolfes says more needs to be done to help the sick.

"That is really a wonderful study. It's important. But it's just studying them and we need to treat people."

By Fred Kasten

New Orleans – Today - on "The Sound of Books" - with Fred Kasten - the recent novel by former Tulane University creative writing professor Josh Russell - "My Bright Midnight"...

To find out more about Josh Russell - and "My Bright Midnight" - please click here .