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...
I was eating lunch in my car today in front of St. Theresa of Avila Church at Coliseum Street and Erato in New Orleans when the sound of Christmas carols radiated from the bell tower. This Catholic place of worship is close to my office. I have...
I write a lot about Uptown New Orleans because that’s where I am most of the time. I don’t live there, but I have worked in the Lower Garden District for 13 years as of this past Wednesday, which has taught me how to park without getting...
I will begin with an Uptown report as I haven’t been downtown or to the French Quarter or anywhere else lately unless you count Interstate 10, which I don’t. I was in Metairie once but I wasn’t paying attention. I’m...
Today, I’m back at Coliseum Square Park in New Orleans, where I often spend lunch hours strolling the grounds, borrowing shade from live oaks, coveting surrounding mansions and trying not to look like a creep on a park bench. Across the...
A swath of longleaf pine, live oak and cape myrtle endures the ages in low-rolling hills across Southeast Louisiana just north of Interstate 10. This rural place of small farms, sleepy villages and two-lane roads feels nearly . . .
Yesterday, just south of St. Francisville, La., a highway sign pointing to Port Hudson State Historic Site caught our eyes and we doubled back to have a look, having learned long ago to trust serendipity . . .
If you get to St. Charles Tavern before daybreak, the overnight people are still here. Service workers who showed up after 2 a.m. and hospital staff in scrubs, who just ended their shifts, occupy noisy tables in the middle of the room. Older...
I’m sitting in St. Charles Tavern, pre-dawn, drinking coffee and listening to a mustachioed, 50ish guy dressed in a plaid shirt and a ball cap, deep of throat and shallow of content, loudly and with great passion explain to a young couple the...
5:30 p.m. Monday. Can’t get generator to run. Been working on it for two days. Hurricane coming tomorrow night. 6 p.m. Monday. We make last minute run to Home Depot. Will they still be open? Will they have any generators . . .
In the small, Southeast Louisiana town of Slidell, located on Lake Pontchartrain about 20 miles northeast of New Orleans, I discovered an Easter tradition unique to this region , , ,
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