There's the food, the drama, and the music. And there's a major sexiness to New Orleans.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

This money doesn't go into the music fund and the drama fund. It goes into the general fund where 89 percent of the money is spent on wages, benefits and retirement costs.

I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music. The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band.

When you set aside all the emotion and hyperbole and drama surrounding this bill, it comes down to simple question. Are we or are we not all first-class citizens?