I received a $50 gift certificate to iTunes as a thank you for Jazz Fest hosting – do you know how awesome that is when I made a pact not to buy any new music this year and it was almost breaking me! I received a boar’s head skeleton from a friend who found it in the swamps – I’m a boar according to the Chinese horoscope – so it’s perfect. I received a jeweled…
For many of us toys are the gateway to imagination. They rekindle childhood, gifting us misplaced memories and sparkles of happiness. Over 20 local artists and several amazing performers have come together for NOLA’s first Toy Art Show! May 14th at the Candle Factory Doors open at 7pm, performances start at 8pm. *Sliding scale donation $5-10 goes to the performers.*( no one turned away) Children welcome. Acts include: Puppet show by: Mudlark theatre Troupe, Aerial…
We’re 18 days away from the beginning of Hurricane Season here in New Orleans and today, we’re watching the floodwaters cresting and the opening of the Morganza Floodway to head off a catastrophe. Take a deep breath in, then let it out. And if it weren’t unnerving enough to sit down here at the approach of hurricane season and know that it could go either way, and to think that our plan for a weekend…
So in 2004 during Mardi Gras, I was walking around the streets singing Who Shot The LaLa over and over and a little boy kept telling me to quit singing that song. But obviously the song stuck in his head so in 2005 when I bought the house on Moss Street his dad drove him by to look at it and he pronounced it first Rachel’s Writing House and then later changed it to Rachel’s…
The Cox Cable guys decided to come camp out at my house the last two days. Everyone wonders what is wrong with Rachel – her computer dies, her modem dies, her printer dies, her cellphone dies, her Blackberry dies, her camera dies, her email goes down, her web host goes MIA – it’s like I am in the digital world but the digital world is against me. Know what I mean? I really need to…
S0 dragging around after our post Jazz Fest blues, we’re all looking for some music. Lucky for us, we live in New Orleans, where it is a stone’s throw away (after all Bayou Boogaloo starts this coming weekend). Two friends who are musicians (one teaches kids drumming in schools) started a drumming circle that meets in Fortier Park on Thursdays at 6PM. We went yesterday before Tatjana returned from her trip and although Angie asked…
The Saints & Sinners Literary Festival is this weekend. I got a day pass for Saturday and will be checking out the poetry readings at the Bourbon Pub. There is a Toy Art Show on Saturday night at 4537 N. Robertson @ 7PM. Tin’s nanny is curating it and it promises to be worth a peek. There is a photography show at HomeSpace, 1128 St. Roch, starting at 6PM. Worth a stop. I’m sure there…
Ran into a neighbor at the grocery who says they did not clean their house after Jazz Fest because they can’t bear to think that it is over. A man came over and said he knew me, said he delivered bread to Ugelsich’s and other restaurants for three decades. Leidenheimer of course. He said that Ugelsich is going to open a restaurant again but this time no sandwiches, just plate lunches. The alligator gar in…
It’s just a fact that I cannot sit on the front porch without having a lot of stop bys. So last night when a friend was in from California and arrived, there were two friends/neighbors on the porch and another walking up. So I saddled my friend up with Tin and we fled to the Napoleon House where we could get a muffaleta and some quiet time. You can’t catch up in a mere couple…
When I think of my mom growing up I always think “glamour” – and Tatjana always called my mom a “stylish dog” – she had these lounge outfits that were out there, bold colors and designs. As I told someone, she was the mother who saw her daughter to the school bus in kitten heels and a boa. So I know I get my sense of style from her. A little daring and a lot…