One the world's early photojournalists chose to close out her extraordinary 70-year career in the French Quarter, in the company of bohemian artists like local photographer Joseph Woodson “Pops” Whitesell.
- by Frank Perez
This modern-day rendering by New Orleans artists Jim Blanchard depicts the James Muggah family's new and improved hotel on Isle Derniere. Never realized, construction on the expanded hotel was set to being at the close of the 1856 summer season. The Muggahs had contracted with the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans to manage the project and had collected a consortium of eager investors. Ironically, the hotel was to have been called The Trade Winds.
Hurricane Laura was the worst storm to hit Louisiana since the one that erased the Island of Derniere in 1856, when thirteen ancestors of the writer perished.
- by Bethany Ewald Bultman - illustrations courtesy Bethany Ewald Bultman
We follow Alessandrini's significant public works along the river and through the Quarter, then visit with the artist in his Howard Avenue studio.
- by Saskia Ozols - photos by Ellis Anderson
There's one thing New Orleanians look forward to during the depths of the summer doldrums: the incredible special menus at some of the city's best restaurants.
- by Kim Ranjbar
Stewart Butler portrait by Vince Santiago
Stewart Butler's biographer marks the March 2020 passing of this legendary New Orleans LGBT+ activist.
- by Frank Perez
Flexibility learned as pop-up chefs proves invaluable to restaurant owners Amarys and Jordan Herndon in Palm and Pine's first year.
- story by Kim Ranjbar
Philosophy and philanthropy drive the creative process of local artist and "universe kind of cat," Josh Wingerter.
-story by Reda Wigle - photos by Ellis Anderson
C. Morgan Babst, author of The Floating World, was the first author to be featured in the new Sunday Salon Series.
The literary salon tradition continues with an online twist, thanks to an innovative partnership between the Tennessee Williams Festival and the Beauregard-Keyes House.
- story by Christy Lorio
The corner of Dumaine and Bourbon streets, June 2020
In the 1900s, LGBT+ people from around the country were drawn to the French Quarter's shifting centers of queer gravity, which offered both a spicy nightlife scene and an evolving culture.
- by Frank Perez
On the 47th anniversary of an arson fire that killed 32 LGBT+ people in the French Quarter, the weather reflected the mood of the mourners.
photography by Andrew Simoneaux
Friday evening, much of New Orleans waited with bated breath in hopes the protest in the French Quarter would be peaceful. The rest of the city attended. Thousands rallied in front of Jackson Square in a remarkable show of solidarity against racism.
- by Ellis Anderson
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Jericho Brown. Photo by Brian Cornelius
The Louisiana writer opens up about his Pulitzer Prize win, the power of transformation and the moment he realized he was a poet.
- by Skye Jackson
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.
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
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
Minrose Gwin at Pass Books in Pass Christian, Mississippi, 2019.
The author shares her thoughts about her new award-winning novel, The Accidentals, her creative process, and her life as a Southern writer.
- interview by Harry Philpott
The state's former Secretary of Labor is now its Poet Laureate. In lieu of hearing Smith speak at the Tennessee Williams Fest this year, we offer this profound and insightful interview.
- by Skye Jackson
Tennessee Williams, 1965, photograph by Orlando Fernandez, Library of Congress
A look at the famous playwright's complex and lifelong relationship with the neighborhood where he brought "A Streetcar Named Desire" into being.
- by Richard Goodman
Altar to St. Joseph at the Beauregard-Keyes house on Chartres Street. photo courtesy B-KH
If you can't feast at a celebration this St. Joseph's Day, at least you can feast your eyes with a virtual visit to three different St. Joseph's altars in the Quarter. - story by Reda Wigle |
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