B is out of town so I went with K instead for a bike ride – started off solo and met up with her at Landry’s and we rode around the Point and back. I took it easy today because last Sunday I had gotten heat stroke and was really quite sick because of it. Then this morning before setting out I read that heat stroke is pretty serious – that you can die as…
I haven’t been to MiMi’s since the place was held up at gunpoint late last summer (well if you don’t count two Mardi Gras stops). I was meeting a guy to interview him for the book I’m working on. The tapas are really good there (patatas bravas, tortilla espanola, artichokes, scallops on bed of red lentils, mushroom toast). We ordered a bottle of rose (rioja) and while I tried to engage the guy in telling…
The Times Picayune is coming Monday to interview me about the house – New Orleans Magazine was supposed to come on Friday but when they found out the TP had beat them to it, they passed. Whatyagonnado?
We all went and checked out the marketplace at the convention center for the Essence Festival – I found a gorgeous purple flowy top – the woman said she uses color as a healing tool and that this shade of purple was the most intense on the color chart – having the greatest effect. It’s cute and it heals – can’t beat that.
I’ve been talking to K lately because I called her after hearing she was back in town and so she came to my dinner party and I’m going to her dinner party – and well, we just kind of hit it off. I remember being at TL’s Jazz Fest party in ’06, which is where I met L, man of mystery, and he said: “You don’t know Downtown KB, everyone knows her.” And that stuck…
Was at Camellia Grill this morning having that delicious chili cheese omelete with grits and J said she was listening to this interview with Stone Phillips who was talking about interviewing his father. His dad had been a coach and he told him “life is like sports – the most important play is your next one.”
New Orleans is being overrun by smart, good looking, well dressed, mostly black, people who have come from all around to celebrate the Essence Festival. It touts itself as a music festival and the artist line up is quite impressive, but it’s way more than that. It is a festival that celebrates empowerment and its aim is to arm all who come with words of wisdom, tools for living, and general self improvement techniques to…
In the be careful what you wish for category, when I finally got the house renovation behind me and could put my eye completely on the ball, I wished that I could regain the passion I once had for covering media. Lately it has been such a balls in the air type situation – the media landscape is undergoing a massive upheavel while nothing is really happening – sort of weird. Like the prognosticators are…
Check out this video on You Tube – it is infectious – and Soko’s French accent is so groovy.
There is an underlying belief that the flood we had here in New Orleans was of biblical proportions and some would go so far as to say, it came to wash us clean. Floods and fires have a way of doing that. In California, the fires rage because the underbrush has grown too bushy and the natural barriers have been destroyed to accommodate urban sprawl (oh they all drive Priuses but believe you me, they’re…