The Great Bubble Project

Storyboard
Written By Ellis Anderson
 May 2025

Concerned about his Porshe’s paint job and stray bubbles in his cocktails, a new resident on the block tries to shut down a French Quarter bar’s bubble machine. On Sunday afternoon, the community rallied in a show of support – for the bar, of course.

- photos by Ellis Anderson

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Sunday afternoon, May 18, one group gathered at the Abbey Bar on Decatur Street for an informal parade to MRB’s, a few blocks away on St. Philip Street, the establishment with the offending bubble machine

A few came locked and loaded with plenty of ammo.

At MRB’s the marchers joined a jubilant crowd of other supporters.

Dreams do come true in New Orleans

180 Video of St. Philip Street

Ellis Anderson

Ellis Anderson first came to the French Quarter in 1978 as a young musician and writer.  Eventually, she also became a silversmith and represented local artists as owner of Quarter Moon Gallery, with locations in the Quarter and Bay St. Louis, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  

Her book about the Bay's Katrina experience, Under Surge, Under Siege, was published by University Press of Mississippi and won several awards, including the Eudora Welty Book Prize in 2010 and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011.  Under Surge, Under Siege was also short-listed as nonfiction finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Book Prize, Stanford University Libraries.

 In 2011, Anderson founded her first digital publication, the Shoofly Magazine and served as publisher from 2011 - 2022.  She established French Quarter Journal in 2019, where she currently serves as publisher and managing editor.

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