A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927. Even before jazz, for most New Orleanians, music was not a luxury as it often is elsewhereâit was a necessity. Throughout the nineteenth century, diverse ethnic and racial groups â French, Spanish, and African, Italian, German, and Irish â found common cause in their love of music.
Edward Herrmann. Edward Herrmann -- perhaps best known for playing Richard Gilmore on  Gilmore Girls  -- died this morning in a hospital in New York. He was 71. Herrmann's family tells TMZ he had been battling brain cancer and had been in ICU for the last 3 1/2 weeks.
Matt Czuchry, who plays Logan Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls, took time out of his busy schedule last week to sit down for an interview with us at BuddyTV. Matt has appeared on a number of TV shows in guest roles, but is best known as Logan, the wealthy boyfriend of Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls.