A New Yorker recently said to me, “New Orleans will never die. The food’s too good.”
I think he’s totally right … not that we don’t have great architecture, artists, music, businesses, and a lot of soul. And our chefs and their restaurants are popping up with honors, ideas and philanthropic...
Last month kicked-off various seasons: football, social, hunting and deb. On the social and cultural front, it started when NOMA flung open its doors for “Overture to the Cultural Season,” and since then it’s been a “dressy casual” or “dressy dressy” occasion after another. Folks are hoisting...
Read MoreRemember the excitement of the first days of the new school year, once after Labor Day, now mid-August? Two of the key questions asked were: “Where did you go this
summer?” and “What did you read?” And I wondered the same.
So, before the first deb party commenced or hurricane map got...
Summer has flown! Not that we aren’t still in the thick of it with White Linen and
Dirty Linen nights (Aug. 4 and 11, respectively) approaching, but it still seems like the dog days and nights have had their shares of howling successes.
One was the opening of the new exhibition space at...
If June is “sweet”—weddings, graduations, and such—May is feverishly festive, starting May Day, rolling thru Jazz Fest, “Sippin’ in Seersucker,” the New Orleans Food and Wine Experience, and moving toward “Juleps in June.”
Great guy Dalton Milton now has his own official day thanks to the...
Easter may have been gray and cold, but nothing banishes the good cheer that comes with pretty pastel bonnets, sweet little dresses and brightly colored eggs hidden in gardens vast and intimate.
Egg-stra Special
At the New Orleans Museum of Art, several hundred cute kids...
Last month, as some were recouping from Mardi Gras, a town crier began yelling, “The French are coming! The French are coming!” Rather than taking up arms, the city opened its arms to them, put more champagne on ice and kept celebrating.
But let’s back up to bubbly times in February before we...