2023 Festivals Acadiens et Créoles [photo from Lafourche Parish]
Festivals Acadiens et Créoles is one of the finest jamborees in a state filled with the best parties in the entire US. Continue reading
2023 Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette
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Christopher Dorsey aka B.G Rapper of Hot Boys Released From Penitentiary
B.G has been released from prison. Here is the story of the Hot Boy rapper from an article I previously wrote:
Christopher Dorsey is now known as United States Federal Prisoner number 31969-034 but for a time he was high-flying Deep South rapper B.G aka Baby Gangsta, one of the biggest stars to ever wreck himself free from the firmament of the New Orleans rap scene. Continue reading
Field Report: 2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
2023 Mermaid Parade in New Orleans
It’s been two decades since the old Mermaid Lounge shuttered. How many wanton late nights did we spend in that barroom under the thrall of Egg Yolk Jubilee? Mermaid had its own subculture of freaks, line cooks, oddballs, stevedores, weirdos, and plain folks who didn’t know how to color inside the lines. Continue reading
A Revolution In The Kitchen: A Further History Of Swans Down Flour [1926-1956]
Willard Private Donation Library
In May of this year I drove from my home in New Orleans to Evansville, Indiana to research the Igleheart Brothers Swans Down flour archives at the Willard Private Donation Library. As we know, Levi, William and Asa Igleheart built their first flour mill on the banks of the Wabash and Erie Canal in Evansville in the 19th century. Continue reading
Tony’s Historical Parakeet Bar
Tony’s Historical Parakeet Bar
1966 Hope St, New Orleans, LA 70119
Charlie Gabriel’s 91st Birthday Party
Charlie Gabriel Birthday Party
Charlie Gabriel and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band will be celebrating Mr Charlie’s 91st birthday at Kermit’s Mother In Law Lounge Sunday July 9th, 2023.
4-6pm
No cover.
Barbecue plates for sale [hopefully Kermit will be manning the pits]
Field Report: Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed, legendary New Orleans Baby Doll and member of the sprawling Batiste family, recently passed away in her adopted home of Newport News, Virginia. She was 97 years old. This morning, Baby Doll troupes from across the city gathered to fete her in a celebratory second line.
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Here’s what we saw:
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Miriam Batiste Reed Funerary Second Line
Ruthie The Duck Girl Party In New Orleans
Ruthie The Duck Girl Party in New Orleans
It is unfathomable that Ruth Grace Moulon aka Ruthie the Duck Girl has been gone for 15 years.
Ms. Moulon had developed a measure of fame in the French Quarter of New Orleans for bar-hopping across the neighborhood on a pair of old-fashioned roller skates with her retinue of pet ducks quacking and waddling to keep up.
It nearly didn’t matter that Ruthie the Duck Girl generally wore a ratty old wedding dress or weathered fur coat as she made her rounds.
Ruth Grace Moulon died September 6th, 2008. She had evacuated to Baton Rouge for Hurricane Gustav and passed away at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.
On The Road With RL Reeves Jr: Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands
2023 Krewe Of Lafcadio Hearn Parade In New Orleans French Quarter
2023 Krewe of Lafcadio Hearn Parade in New Orleans French Quarter
After a two year break the Krewe of Lafcadio Hearn returns to New Orleans’ carnival. This is a small walking parade that begins and ends within the French Quarter. They only have one throw: wooden kitchen spoons.
Chef Leah Chase (RIP) gifted me one of these valuable tools when she reined over the krewe in 2017. “Use this to stir your gumbo baby,” she purred.
2023 Krewe Of Lafcadio Hearn Parade
Saturday February 18th
2pm
“Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here (New Orleans) in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
– Lafcadio Hearn, circa 1877