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Originally published November 9, 2018. Jude Acers was busy making sure the recently arrived participants who will compete in the Paul Morphy Memorial Chess Tournament were paired off to play countless, practice games. Two days of intense chess competitions awaited everyone. Jude admonished: you need the practice now! Not later […]
Originally published at JudeAcers.com July 15, 2015. By Dennis Fritzinger we were chess players once, and young; our songs are sung, our bells are rung. our names, that once tripped off the tongue, are now less than a heap of dung. while victory strews her wreaths among the present gen […]
Vote in the Offbeat “Best of the Beat” Music Awards for Jude Acers’ favorite New Orleans singer/songwriter, Lynn Drury. And keep an eye out: Lynn Drury’s new album, “High Tide,” is out April 5, 2024. She will have a release party at 8 p.m., April 13, at the Maple Leaf […]
JudeAcers.com encourages all readers to bookmark Zeitgeist Theater & Lounge’s website (www.zeitgeistnola.org) and check out its amazing array of programming. The next screening of “The Man in the Red Beret” will be at 5:45 p.m., Saturday, January 13, 2024, at the Abita Springs International Film Festival.
For more on McAuley, check out this Oral History interview with Jude Acers.
Originally published Oct 22, 2018 THE SOUNDS THAT ELECTRIFIED IN SYMPHONIC ROCK … your car just SHOOK … Yes, the haunting whispers of time … Even your grandmother was shocked/adored every moment … the immortal eight live in your car for all time: “ODE TO L.A”/THE RAVONETTES … so good […]
For the full article by Will Coviello, go here. P.S. A couple factual errors in the article: Acers graduated high school in Mandeville, not Kenner. And he was 6-years-old, not 4, when he mother perished in an airplane crash.
Doug MacCash and Scott Threlkeld of the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate visited the World Chess Table on Tuesday to report on Jude’s “Invaders 3” invitational chess tournament at 1018 Decatur St. from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Be sure to check out MacCash’s article and Threlkeld’s pics. From […]