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Dolly Walks These Streets Now
Dolly Parton may have passed, but 700 New Orleans women will carry on her legacy by wearing big wigs and glittering rhinestones – and giving books to thousands of children.
– by Karla Marie “Karlita” Cochran
Cover to Cover: Beautiful and Ugly Too
A debut poetry and essay collection by Chuck Perkins celebrates New Orleans in all of her “sadness, sickness, spirit and splendor.”
– by Skye Jackson
The Société Des Champs Elysée: At the Crossroads
This Social Aid and Pleasure club focuses on the “social aid” part of their name, working year-round to feed the homeless and hungry.
– by Kim Ranjbar and Ellis Anderson
The Last Forgerons
In 1920, the last in a line of French Quarter forgerons put down their hammers, never again to create the wonderfully detailed wrought iron fences and balconies of New Orleans.
– by Michael Warner
Something Wild With Jimmy Buffett
A smoking volcano ignites at a concert, proving the old adage: If at first you don’t succeed, throw away all the evidence that you tried.
– by Nan Parati
– photos by Scott Saltzman
COOLinary and Museum Month: Pairing Culture & Cuisine
Happily, Museum Month and COOLinary restaurant specials coincide in August, so like cultural sommeliers, we've paired several of our French Quarter favorites.
-By Kim Ranjbar
Return to New Orleans
After living in New Orleans for more than a decade, a writer who has moved away gets “all funny” when he returns to visit.
-by Richard Goodman
In the Plein Air Tradition: Lyla Clayre Studio
This plein air watercolorist opened her first bricks and mortar studio on Chartres Street in late 2021, helping build her reputation – and providing delightful subject matter right outside the door.
-By Angelique LaCour
Art & Soul NOLA
The first bricks and mortar location for this local photographer reinforces her artistic approach: only capture images that she loves living with.
– by Angelique LaCour
James Booker at the Toulouse
A young woman working at the Toulouse Theatre in the early ‘80s becomes acquainted with the legendary pianist – and the forces that both inspired and bedeviled him.
– by Ellis Anderson
Faces of Mardi Gras 2023
A collection of some of our favorite Carnival portraits, photographed in the Quarter and the Marigny on Mardi Gras morning.
– by Ellis Anderson
Barkus Parade 2023
Storyboard: The 30th anniversary of the Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade had lots of tails wagging. The parade members and their human companions gathered in Armstrong park and then paraded through the French Quarter on February 12th. French Quarter resident and photographer Andrew Simoneaux, who specializes in pet portraits captured the parade participants and canine spectators in all their glory.
- by Andrew Simoneaux
A Treasure Trove of Vintage Gay Mardi Gras Images
The Louisiana State Museum discovers and acquires a collection of 820 color slides by a relatively unknown photographer documenting the LGBT+ midcentury celebrations.
- by Frank Perez
- images courtesy Louisiana State Museum, Joe Crews collection
Holiday Parade 2022: “First of its kind”
We're not sure what we were expecting from a first year parade, but from the enthusiasm, the number of participants and parade-goers, it might have been the 25th annual.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Awakening the Holidays: The Réveillon Tradition in New Orleans
Awaken your spirits and your palate with this year’s Réveillon, a timeless French celebration during the holidays.
Palm & Pine Pivots and Perseveres
Palm & Pine Pivots and Perseveres: Flexibility learned as pop-up chefs proves invaluable to restaurant owners Amarys and Jordan Herndon in Palm and Pine's first year.
-Kim Ranjbar
Plywood Pop: Josh Wingerter
Plywood Plop: Josh Wingerter: Philosophy and philanthropy drive the creative process of local artist and "universe kind of cat," Josh Wingerter.
-Reda Wigle
The Queer Quarter: A Moveable Feast
The Queer Quarter: A Moveable Feast: 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.
-Frank Perez
The $50 Loan With 30 Year Terms
The rise of homelessness during the pandemic reminds a French Quarter writer of a luckless time in youth, when a spontaneous act of generosity turned the tide.
– by Ellis Anderson
On Richard Sobol & Quarter Culture
On Richard Sobol & Quarter Culture: 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.
-Ellis Anderson