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All on a Mardi Gras Day

2/17/2021

 
The Eyes Have It photo essays - February 2021
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​COVID shutdowns and frigid temperatures kept all but the die-hards out of the French Quarter and Marigny neighborhoods on Mardi Gras day.  Those who came strutted with style, keeping the torch of Carnival Spirit lit until next year. 

- photography by Andrew Simoneaux 


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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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On the Frontlines with Badass Uncle Sam

8/27/2019

 
It's a Living - September 2019
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​Providing "the neighborhood’s only explicitly political street entertainment," a former liberal named Michael DeBari draws both fans and fire at his outpost near the French Market. 
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-by Andrew Cominelli 
-photography by Ellis Anderson


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What We Talk About When We Talk About Hustling

8/9/2019

 
It's a Living - August 2019
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Pedicabbers take on passengers at Bourbon Street and St. Peter

Ride along with this award-winning writer to learn a few of the everyday challenges - and unexpected rewards - of making a living as a French Quarter pedicabber. 
-by Andrew Cominelli
photos by Ellis Anderson and Andrew Cominelli 
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