First image in your camera roll that makes you laugh out loud.

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Right now

Washington Square South right now

@melvingibbs.bsky.social right now at Public Records, Bklyn, performing “Geechee Reclamation.”

Po’ boys near me

<Narrator>: “Music is central to New Orleans’s brand.”

Bonus:

What town are we in? Hint: rhymes with New Orleans.

Pedrito Martínez!

Ricky Rodriguez, and /2

Right now at the Blue Note in NYC thru Sunday: Michel Camilo in trio with 1/

Postmambo is in New Orleans, at the Revolution Social and Pleasure Club second line.

Postmambo is in New Orleans, visiting with Spy Boy K-9 (Alphonse Feliciana) of the Golden Blades.

Postmambo is in New Orleans, where at the end of St. Joseph’s Night we encountered Big Chief Demond Melancon in his 2026 suit depicting the Amistad capture. Demond is one of two NOLA artists (along with Dawn DeDeaux) who will participate in the 2026 Venice Biennale.

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1/ Postmambo has left Veracruz . . .

Postmambo is in Mexico, at Mandinga Grande

Postmambo is at Villa Rica de Archidonia, where Cortés landed and dismantled his ships so that his men could not mutiny and flee. High winds today.

Postmambo is in Heróica Veracruz (its official name), founded by Cortés at the very beginning of Spanish colonization of mainland America. Sometimes written Heróic4 Veracruz to emphasize that it has borne the brunt of 4 invasions — 1 French, 1 Spanish, 2 US. Foto: Mariajosé Salmerón. /1

Postmambo is in Xalapa, at a backyard fandango with members of Son de Madera. (On the left: Ramón Gutiérrez.)

Postmambo is in Mexico City.

And on the south side of the Zócalo in Mexico City:

And here it is lit up, at the Zócalo in Mexico City.

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/2 Some signs from the march