Chris Rose is a columnist for The Times-Picayune, who underwent a metamorphosis from Britney-chronicler to Outraged Man of the City after the levees collapsed. Since then, he's been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and become a contributor to both PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Morning Edition, and his book of post-K essays, 1 dead in attic, has raised more than $25,000 for New Orleans musicians' charities.Today's Rose column is about the incredible sights and sounds of spring in the Crescent City, but it also has this intriguing mention:
Springtime in New Orleans is when and where the highbrow Tennessee Williams literary festival concludes with a contest to see who can scream "Stella!" the best in a dirty T-shirt, and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Festival in a local juke joint around the corner serves as a cultural counterpoint, seducing unsuspecting tourists into drunken singalongs to "16 Tons."A Tennessee Ernie Ford Festival? I am so there. But, Chris, which juke joint is it?
Fri., Mar. 30, 1 pm
"Southern Culture on the Skids?"
Panelists: Chris Rose, Mike Swindle, Helen Taylor, and Charles Wilson. Moderator: Joshua Clark.
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playwright Dr Larry Myers was a close friend of Tennessee Williams. He has attended the Tennessee Williams Festival but this year wants to be at the Tennessee ErnieFordFestival
"Tennessee Williams would LOVE THIS!!! SAYS MYERS
IN FACT THIS PROLIFIC INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNING DRAMASTIST IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF THE PLAYWRIGHTS SANCTUARY WHICH HELPS MSARGINALIZED AND DRAMATISTS WITH NO MONEY
In addition MYERS was DONALD TRUMP LOOKALIKE BY SPY MAGAZINE
BRAVOI BRAVO BRILLIANT QUICK MIND ON THAT ONE
THINK MOLIERE
MYERS COULD TELL IT ALL
HE S DEFINTELY A MAJOR PISSER AND ONE ON THE VERY INSIDE OF THIS FRACAS
REOPEN CASE VIA COPS FBI ETC
MYERS CREATED THE NEO TOULOUSE THEATER AND WLL BE PRODUCING IN NOLA
HE HASA TRAVELLING POP UP HAPPENING SHOW FOR RHEATER SPACES FOUND
WITH ACTORS ACTRESSES MASKED GLOVED SIX FEET APART READ HIS BOOK "AFRICA ASTAYS' AND NOTES FIR A POST NEO DARK AGES COVID THEATER
COMPARED TO GROTOWSKI WITH WHOM MYERS WORKED IN OITTSBURGFH WITH JUDITH MALINA
MYERS TREACED BEGGING OF LIVING THGEATER TO HUS BLOCK HAROLD NORSE HIS PAL TABLE TAPPING WITH MALINE MALINA HAT CEK GIRL IN BATR WITHY TENESSE AS WAITYER SCHOLARDE IGNORE CATH O LICK AND VOODOO ABT TOM WILLIAMA
BRAVO TRUTH AT LAST
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