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The Up Stairs Lounge Fire Memorial Service

6/27/2020

 
Story Board photo essay  - June 2020
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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  

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Jackson Square Protest - June 5

6/6/2020

 
The Eyes Have It - photo essay
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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 


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titRəx Parade 2020

2/11/2020

 
Storyboard - February 2020
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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 


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Krewe of Boheme Parade 2020

2/8/2020

 
Storyboard - February 2020
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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.

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, 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


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Kerry Maloney's French Quarter

10/24/2019

 
The Eyes Have It - October 2019
photographers loose in the French Quarter
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Kerry Maloney: 

I have been a French Quarter resident for 10 years and even though I have visited more than 40 countries - there is no place like home. I really want people to know the Quarter is a place where real people live. It's a place where misfits from all over come and find each other. We take care of each other, we are family. I wanted to show folks a very typical day in the quarter. Here's what I saw outside my door Monday, September 30.


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King Toffa IX Visits the Vieux Carré

10/19/2019

 
Storyboard - October 2019
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West African monarch, His Majesty King Toffa IX, visits the French Quarter as part of a United States tour.
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- by Ellis Anderson


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The 67th Annual Red Mass

10/7/2019

 
The Eyes Have It - October 2019
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The annual Red Mass was held Monday morning, October 7, at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, offering up prayers for those in the legal profession - judges, attorneys, law school professors and students.  

According the the Louisiana State Bar Association, the tradition "is celebrated all over the world, including Rome, Paris and London.  The practice dates back hundreds of years and typically serves as the opening of the judicial year." 

- photography by Kerry Maloney

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Andrew Simoneaux's French Quarter

9/12/2019

 
The Eyes Have It - September 2019
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Photographer Andrew Simoneaux found himself visiting the French Quarter almost every day to seek out shots.  Last year, he made life easier by moving into the neighborhood.  

The images he selected to include in this photo essay were taken  from the end of August into the first week of September, during the Southern Decadence festivities.  



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