Jazz Outside the Box

NEW ORLEANS — It had been a while since I had popped down I-10 for a visit to “The Crescent City,” so when my sister Barbara and her husband Andy said they wanted to celebrate her birthday in NOLA during their visit from England I was totally on board. Andy and Barb had not been …

Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ combines pathos, humor in tale of politics and class

For the want of a National Insurance Card, a political career is lost. In a real-life tale that features high English political figures and bumbling assassins worthy of a Coen Brothers movie, “A Very British Scandal” tells the story of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe’s fall from grace after being accused of trying to kill …