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On Richard Sobol & Quarter Culture

4/20/2020

 
Acknowledgments - April 2020
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L to R: Richard Sobol, Darlene Fife, Robert Head, Annie Sobol and the Sobol's dogs, Max and Fanny in the late 1990s.

Darlene Fife, co-founder and editor of the 1960s French Quarter underground newspaper NOLA Express, looks back at the late Richard Sobol's defense of civil rights and Quarterites. 


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Fancy Footwork at the FQF

4/17/2020

 
Passing a Good Time - April 2020
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L. Jackson Square during French Quarter Festival 2019, and on Easter Sunday 2020. photos by Ellis Anderson

The traditional opening day for French Quarter Fest finds entertainment director Greg Schatz dancing with a very fickle future. 

by Nan Parati


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"Lafitte the Pirate" Turns 90

4/4/2020

 
Lit Life - April 2020
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Detail of Edward Suydam illustration of the Old Absinthe House from "Lafitte the Pirate" by Lyle Saxon.

​In 1930, French Quarter resident Lyle Saxon cooked up a savory gumbo of fact and fiction that's become a New Orleans classic. 

- by John Sledge


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