Way out Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, past the NASA Michoud facility and past the Vietnamese grocers and cafes, you can turn north onto Highway 11 and cruise a few miles along Bayou Sauvage. This area is a federal wildlife refuge with...
Glittered shoes are distinctively New Orleans works of art. They are projects of love, given freely each year, handed downward by Mardi Gras float riders into a sea of parade-goers, an act intended to connect with a member of the crowd, waiting...
Last night from my hotel bed high above the Mississippi, as a thunderstorm worked overhead, I heard, no, not just heard, felt, ship captains lay on fog horns to warn of their passage ‘round the Mississippi River bend at New Orleans. Be warned . ...
I awoke this morning to a Mardi Gras wonderland, surrounded by bead bags in the process of being filled to the brim. Recycled cardboard boxes and a mountain of cellophane circulated under foot. The bags of secret Krewe of Muses wonders pictured...
General observation: Writers often sit down at a keyboard and come up with thoughts that had never occurred to them before. Their own words surprise them. Mardi Gras does that to people; it brings to the surface the weird and creative in whoever...
In the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, you can tell natives from visitors and newcomers by the way they act at parades. The fresh ones are the skinny, 5-foot, 10-inch-tall (most of them – it’s odd) white guys with short hair and...
I see all these links about who the Saints should draft or keep or pick up next year, but right now I don’t have a next year of football in my head. I haven’t looked at a single post about next year – not after the outrageous pass interference...
I am parked at the McDonald’s in Rayne, La., in the heart of Acadiana, under a clear, light blue sky, listening to Cajun French music on the radio, making my way east to Metairie, La., to attend a funeral. The deceased was an offshore engineer I...
Muses Bead Order Deadline Night – I enjoy this evening each year. In a few hours, the deadline will arrive for Krewe of Muses members to submit orders for beads and various other “throws” to toss from their floats in next year’s Muses Mardi...
I have been putting off this post for nearly a month, partly because I’ve been working through stages of grief and denial and partly because I didn’t want this writing to be overly sentimental. I have by now come to some degree of acceptance . ...
Tennessee Williams makes me wonder why I even try. I spent my lunch hour today at the Monteleone Hotel, buying tickets to this weekend’s Tennessee Williams Festival. One of the events is a play about the author’s terrible relationship...
1140 St. Charles Ave., Lower Garden District, New Orleans: This is where I work. I helped a co-worker paint these boards in February 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina. I have installed them every Carnival season since then to protect this...
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