I recently joined a group that was spearheaded by a neighbor that is working to restore the Magnolia and Dumaine bridges over the bayou. The Magnolia bridge is one of the oldest bridges in New Orleans (built circa 1850) and is perhaps one of my favorite things on the bayou. It needs a lot of work though! And soon we’ll be trying to raise awareness around the country to help ensure that this bridge is…
I feel as if menopause has turned me into a fat tick. I went to the doctor and she said I have gained one pound in the last two years. Now I know I am a fat tick, so she must be lying, right?
“Curing” gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people? Yep, there’s an app for that — unless we can convince Apple to get rid of it. A controversy is erupting around a new application for the iPhone that claims gay people can be “cured,” and that gay kids should be put through therapy to “fix” their sexual orientation. Believe it or not, Apple is providing Exodus International — an organization that promotes “conversion therapy” to try to brainwash…
I went to Bantings and to Harold’s – yes all in one day – both are nurseries that make you feel like you suddenly want to own a nursery or work in one or just buy up every single plant they have and plant them everywhere. There is something surreal about buying plants and making a garden when you have no earthly idea if they, you, whatever will be around but I guess it’s like…
We went to Le Petit Theatre last night to see A. R Gurney’s Love Letters performed by Patricia Clarkson and Bryan Batt. Our home grown celebrities came in to do a fundraiser for Le Petit which last year had to cancel its series on account of no funding. Welcome to the new economy. Not. It was a wonderful play and in particular in the hands of these two seasoned actors such a delight. We sat…
Thursday, March 24 (in 7 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes) Thursdays at Twilight Concert– Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher Open 5 ’til 8pm, Performance at 6pm Botanical Garden- Pavilion of the Two Sisters Two of New Orleans’ most intriguing traditional jazz musicians, pianist Tom McDermott and clarinetist Evan Christopher rank among the city’s most charismatic duos. New Orleans is a city with a rich musical heritage, and Tom McDermott is a pianist who has mastered…
A friend brought this poem to my attention after I had brought the poet to hers. Reciprocity – it is what we thrive on. THE 3:15 Not from the wrong side of, but right on the tracks, from the storybook land of the Boxcar Children, buttercups, milkweed leaning down long slopes of grass from our yard to rails and ties. Not poor, never poor, not wanting for meat or fruit, for light or heat, but…
A man threatens to blow up a bank with gumbo. Ah yes, it must be almost summertime in the great Gulf South.
Why we live here in New Orleans, but I would guess if you ask that question, or if you asked during the Federal Flood aftermath why New Orleans matters, then you have never had a smile from ear to ear on Fat Tuesday, you’ve never been up close and personal by a marching band in this city, and you have never known the unadulterated joy of music and food that pours out of this place.…
Okay right, today is a phenomenal day if not bordering on already hot like in growing into summer hot. But I stumbled up on an article written by Alex Rawls in Offbeat recently that I found disquieting if not downright alarming. And then today, I received an email with a link to another article about the broken NOPD. So let’s tally this, Silence is Violence sent out an email about a vigil for five teenagers…