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Skipping a Beat in New Orleans

I had been toying with the idea of going to Jazz Fest all winter, but I didn’t actually book the flight or buy the tickets until a month before the event. My friend, who still lives in New Orleans, offered to let me stay at her shotgun in the Irish Channel. So, I looked forward to a weekend filled with the good New Orleans music I’d been missing. I planned my music itinerary with the JamBase app on my phone: The Funky Meters at Tipitina’s on Friday, Galactic’s set at Jazz Fest on Saturday, and Dirty Dozen’s set at d.b.a. on Frenchmen to cap off the whole weekend. As it so happened, I didn’t see any of those bands. Not a single one. 

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Defining “Tetiquette”

laturley:

Guilty. We all are. How much time do you spend nose-deep in a digital screen of some kind that you forget to experience what’s happening right in front of your face?

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Online Lab Rats; The Lack of Authentic Voice on Millennials

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After listening to the cacophony of online op-eds on the Millennial generation, I’ve had just about enough. That isn’t to say that the information isn’t relevant to marketing and advertising—see: corporates in suites scratching their heads trying to create pithy Millennial marketing platforms.

Instead, what disturbs me is how my generation is being poked and prodded like online lab rats. Are they lazy? How obsessed with technology are they? How are they connecting to the real world? Shouting theorists flood online platforms with contradicting content on Millennials. One article establishes a fundamental truth and yet another dismisses it entirely.

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THE SCOOP: Looks like its Fourth Meal for life.

A great post on Millennials & their dreams that the future will be a lot like Taco Bells new Super Bowl spot “Viva Young”.

bbdointerns:

We Millennials all have dreams of what life is going to be like when we are old and wrinkly. We tell ourselves that we are not going to be like our grandparents and stick to the traditional boring golf and knitting stereotypes. That we will be the generation that has Drake, Kanye West and…

Believe it or not, Millennials aren’t all cold-hearted couch potatoes

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Somehow, the assumption has formed that Millennials are lazy, spoiled brats that don’t care about others (or something like that). In fact, almost 70% of American workers believe that Millennials are lazy when it comes to their jobs. Perhaps worse than that, the

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The evolution of the road trip

Imagine it: it’s 1960, and America is booming after the end of the war. Families are popping up left and right. Working conditions are improving. The Interstate Highway System is growing at a rapid pace. The logical next step? Take a family vacation, of course!

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