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Missing Walter and Jesse
676 days ago
I've been waiting months for the return of Breaking Bad tonight on AMC and I plan to invite a bunch…
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A stunning new bridge
696 days ago
Took a little Sunday spin up to New Roads for lunch today, but the real reason for our trip was…
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A Summer Cold Snap in New Orleans
698 days ago
We had a freak cold snap here yesterday, temperatures plunging into the high 80s and low humidity. Perfect weather…
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"Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral?"
704 days ago
 A most charming companion met me for coffee the other day bringing news (from NPR, I think she said) about…
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Channeling Hiroshige in Treme
711 days ago
I must have made 100 views of the cupola of St. Augustine's in Treme last night. It's become a "project"…
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Morning Glories
712 days ago
Ah, the joys of walking to work in the Quarter. My office is in the heart of the Quarter,…
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Late Evening at Pontchartrain Beach
722 days ago
A group of Russian picknickers and a volleyball. By night, we learned, they play Gulag prisoner songs in clubs along…
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Literary Gents
725 days ago
Facing a Saturday night alone – no kids, no date, no plans – I was desperate for a book. In…
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River Watching
740 days ago
Large crowds along the levee this evening to see the Mississippi River in flood.To everyone's delight, the New Orleans Express…
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A Song for Today
742 days ago
Kirk Franklin's I Smile has made a big cross-over from the Christian/Gospel category to pop. For weeks now, it's…
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A Song for Today
742 days ago
Kirk Franklin's I Smile has made a big cross-over from the Christian/Gospel category to pop. For weeks now, it's…
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Geezer Fest
754 days ago
Has anyone else noticed the shockingly advanced age and decrepitude of most people attending the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage…
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New Orleans Online
754 days ago
10:17 AM, Galatoire's, Bourbon Street. It's the first day of JazzFest. Still, it's Friday and we're lining up -- proxies…
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My Dream Drug
762 days ago
Props to Pfizer Labs for developing a marvelous new pharmaceutical, Chantix. It has both curbed my on-again, off-again urge to…
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Palm Sunday Evening, Along the Cane River
766 days ago
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Palm Sunday Morning, Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
767 days ago
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Got Dem Busted Flat and Paid the Taxman Blues
768 days ago
That pathetic gurgling sound you hear is my bank account draining into the United States Treasury, pretty much to the…
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Friday Night Stag at Sydney's
774 days ago
Gaston Lachaise, Heroic Man, 1934 George Segal, Three Figures on Four Benches, 1979Elizabeth Frink, Riace Warriors I, II, III, IV, 1983-88Antoine…
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French Quarter Facade People
793 days ago
Philosophers, 500 block of Bienville A well-known Italian, 1000 block of Esplanade Our gods are jealous gods, 900 block of…
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Random Bloggy Goodness
796 days ago
Sorry there hasn't been much to see on Calliope Street lately, so please wander off this reservation and find great…
