Jimmy Buffett and company have been working on a new album this month. Will Kimbrough writes:

I have been in St Barths since the 3rd, writing with Peter Mayer, Roger Guth and Jimmy Buffett. I think we have some good stuff going.

I think we helped Jimmy finish a couple of great songs for his next album. For our efforts, we had a few winter days in the sun at St Barths, eating French food, drinking French wine and sitting around like rock stars.

Read more from Will.

The Times-Picayune has an article on “Pardi Gras” in New Orleans:

Every January since 1998, a coalition of Jimmy Buffett’s “Parrothead” fans have gathered in the French Quarter for a long “Pardi Gras” weekend. They eat, drink and dance in celebration of the cheeseburger and margarita Buffett lifestyle.

So the ninth annual “Pardi Gras” kicked off Thursday and continues through Sunday. More than 600 celebrants from at least 24 states are expected.

Read the entire article here.

Steve Rose has written a review of the new Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Dunwoody, Georgia for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Read the review here.