RL Reeves Jr Historical Time Capsule: Evelyn’s Place in New Orleans French Quarter
Evelyn’s Place was located at 139 Chartres Street in the French Quarter. The building formerly hosted Stonehenge, a mariner’s bar that held a level of fame in the early 20th century.
2025 Sudan Social and Pleasure Second Line
Sudan Social and Pleasure have been rolling through Treme for over 40 years and some reckon they’re the best social and pleasure club in the entire 6th Ward. This past Sunday they took to the streets and brought their customary heat with some of the best dancers in the city gyrating and working it out on the hot blacktop. This is what we saw:
Rest In Peace Guitar Lightnin’ Lee
Lightnin’ Lee has left this world and we are bereft. The old New Orleans guitar legend is gone after thousands of gigs in Louisiana and beyond. How many nights did we spend at Melvin’s, Saturn Bar, Checkpoint Charlies, Mermaid Lounge, The Circle Bar, Vaughan’s Lounge and others grinding with strangers with Lee’s hypnotic boogie as the soundtrack?
William Frantz Elementary. 3811 North Galvez Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70117
“Their words written down are dirty, carefully and selectedly filthy. But there was something far worse here than dirt, a kind of frightening witches’ Sabbath. Here was no spontaneous cry of anger, of insane rage.
Perhaps that is what made me sick with weary nausea. Here was no principle good or bad, no direction. These blowzy women, with their little hats and their clippings, hungered for attention. They wanted to be admired. They simpered in happy, almost innocent triumph when they were applauded. Theirs was the demented cruelty of egocentric children, and somehow this made their insensate beastliness much more heart-breaking. These were not mothers, or even women. They were crazy actors playing to a crazy audience.”
Winners 58th Annual Original Terlingua International Frank X. Tolbert – Wick Fowler Memorial Championship. Chili Cookoff
We have a life long love of gators.
Perhaps this was brought on by old actioners like Alligator [screenplay by John Sayles], the incredible 80s film wherein a beastly, 36 foot long gator attacks a stretch limo and occasionally erupts out of the Chicago sewer system to devour unwary residents of the Windy City.
Swans Down Flour. May 31st, 1886.
When I tell the story of a brand with a history as long and vivid as Swans Down flour the tale must begin with the people behind it, and just as importantly the development of the marque.
Swans Down branding leans on imagery of softness and purity: swan down evokes feathers, lightness, delicacy—qualities desirable in cake baking.
2025 Frank X. Tolbert–Wick Fowler Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cook‑Off
Back in the 80s when I first started pilgrimaging to Terlingua for what we just called ‘The Wick’ the little dusty mining town was a mite different. There were zero airbnbs, you could buy a nice-sized plot of land for a couple thousand bucks and entering or leaving nearby Mexico was as simple as hopping on a raft or wading the Rio Grande.
2025 Krewe De Boo Halloween Parade
I had resigned myself to missing the 2025 edition of the Krewe de Boo Halloween parade as New Orleans was socked in with the first rain storm we’d had since August. Then, as life on the Gulf of Mexico often does, the clouds parted and the city was bathed in sweet sunshine. Time to motor up to the French Quarter for one of our town’s best parties of the years. This is what I saw
2025 Prince of Wales Social and Pleasure Second Line
The Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club was formed in 1928 and has hosted a second line roll through their 12th Ward neighborhood for nearly 100 years now. We took a 15 minute car ride uptown today to document their rolling street party. This is what we saw
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