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From Victorian Pair to Spare

12/21/2019

 
Domicile - December 2019
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If you're expecting Aunt Beulah's decor when you walk inside this historic home built in 1895, you'll be in for a big surprise. 

- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
 - photos by Ellis Anderson 


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The Most Eclectic and Perfect Molly’s At the Market

12/18/2019

 
Game Day - December 2019
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Krewe Joan of Arc 2020 Royalty Coronation

12/12/2019

 
Storyboard - December 2019
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Self-described as a "short, family-friendly parade — quirky, whimsical and spiritual," Joan of Arc's royalty for 2020 exemplify those qualities.  Catch their coronation in FQJ's photo essay. 

- by Ellis Anderson 


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It's Fruitcake Weather

12/11/2019

 
Quarter Notes - December 2019
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Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory possesses the power to make even contemporary readers summon up their own most-cherished holiday recollections. 

-by Rheta Grimsley Johnson


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Harry's on Sunny Chartres Street

12/8/2019

 
Game Day - December 2019
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The jubilant Harry's Corner bar crowd early in the Saints game against the 49ers.
A bright December afternoon, a nail-biting match-up, and a tile on the barroom floor is marking more than a mere memory.
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by Layth Sihan 
photos by Ellis Anderson


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Going to Pots in New Orleans

12/4/2019

 
It's a Living - December 2019
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Floyd (far left) and partner Frank Gagnard (far right), longtime art and theatre critic for the Times-Picayune, holding court at Pat O'Brien's. Photo courtesy Floyd McLamb
Floyd McLamb:  a sharecropper's child from North Carolina turned high-powered French Quarter businessman reflects on the "high cotton" days in the neighborhood. 

-by Andrew Cominelli 


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The Music Woman on the Steamboat Natchez

12/4/2019

 
Behind the Scenes - December 2019
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Few get to meet the woman who plays the most unusual - and loudest - instrument in New Orleans.  French Quarter Journal goes behind the scenes and up top of the Natchez to watch Debbie Fagnano in action. 

- story by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson 


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