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
Harriette Prevatte in her Chartres Street studio, December 2019.
As she's closing her gallery and packing to move, Harriette Prevatte reflects on four decades spent as a working artist in the French Quarter.
- story and photos by Ellis Anderson
A trip to the new Sazerac House interactive museum and distillery leads to sampling the classic cocktail at five favorite French Quarter bars.
- story by Kim Ranjbar - photos by Ellis Anderson
From Tucks to Barkus to Mardi Gras day in the Quarter to the mounted police's traditional ride down Bourbon Street to end the Carnival season, photographer and French Quarter resident Andrew Simoneaux caught the energy.
For fifty years, a ceremony involving Vaseline and champagne has served as the official opening to the Mardi Gras weekend.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Jeff Semmerling, one of the original Mask Market artists, holds up a mirror for a masquerader. Photo by Jeremy D. Smith
On the weekend before Mardi Gras for the past 38 years, the French Market has hosted one of the most unusual art markets in the country. Meet a few of the makers behind it. - by Kirsten Reneau
This quirky canine parade that began in a French Quarter bar 27 years ago has become a favorite Mardi Gras fixture that benefits animal rescue groups.
- photography by Kerry Maloney
Visit with this creator of distinctive Carnival headdresses in her Bywater home and studio, where both colors and ideas are given free reign. - story by Harry Philpott - photos by Ellis Anderson and Harry Philpott
This miniature take-off on the city's mega-parades, titRəx, may be diminutive in size but participants go for satire in a very big way.
- photos by Kerry Maloney
The renowned and raucous punsters of Krewe du Vieux marched this year with "Erection 2020" as their general theme, which gave the sub-krewes infinite opportunities for fun. Followed seamlessly by krewedelusion, FQJ caught the grand show from a balcony at the corner of Royal and St. Ann. - photography by Kerry Maloney for French Quarter Journal
Boheme parade participants, bloggers Traveler Broads (Jessica Fender and the woman with the absinthe sugar spoon on her headdress, Kerry Maloney). The pair co-authored the popular 2020 Interactive Field Guide to Mardi Gras.
Krewe of Boheme, whose presiding regent is a green fairy representing absinthe, was made up of 18 sub-krewes in 2020. Marching on February 7, it exuberantly wound its way through the Marigny and French Quarter neighborhoods with the theme of "The Soaring Twenties." - photos by Ellis Anderson
The St. Philip Theatre where Suzanne Douvillier performed used to stand on the site of this French Quarter school.
A mysterious dancer in the early 1800s mesmerized crowds and caused consternation by cross-dressing and challenging social norms.
- by Michael Warner
Chewbacchus rolled for the tenth year, celebrating with a parade that glowed brighter than any birthday candles.
- by Ellis Anderson
Three costumed men, one wearing drag in front of Dixie's at Mardi Gras. Detail of photo by Stephen Scalia circa early 1950s, courtesy the Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mr. Stephen Scalia, acc. no. 2012.0172.26. Scroll down for full photo.
The first gay Mardi Gras pioneers powered through many challenges - including a police raid on the fifth annual Krewe of Yuga ball, where nearly 100 men were arrested.
- by Frank Perez
Bourbon Street at Iberville, 1956. Photo courtesy the Richard R. Dixon/Cole Coleman Collection, gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Dixon, The Historic New Orleans Collection, acc. no. 1980.257.290
Tag along with this sharp-eyed Southern writer, her widowed aunt and a very unlikely guide on a 1960s trip to Bourbon Street.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson |
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