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Week two of Jazz Fest continues today, and even a cursory look at the schedule leaves me aching a bit: Mardi Gras Indians, Amanda Shaw, Soul Rebels, Elvis Costello. 

In order to, selfishly, bring myself a little closer to the Crescent City, today’s Story of the Day is a nonfiction piece from Nick Mainieri, taken from New Orleans online journal NOLAFugees.com. “Tonight The Coastline Is Quiet” is a brief, subtle work of nonfiction that will stick with you, much like the city and its music, long after you’ve gone:

“While I thought about this, a man screamed outside my bedroom window. 

I live in an old building, and walls and windows are almost of no consequence where sound is concerned. The man screamed again. Loud and filled with pain.”