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A Gay Couple’s Notable Influence on the French Quarter
Rip and Marsha Naquin-Delain – founders of Ambush Magazine – both died in 2017, yet the annual Southern Decadence celebration proves their legacy is very much alive.
-By Frank Perez
Review – Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler
In this new book, New Orleans historian and author Frank Perez delves into the fascinating life of the late LGBT+ activist, a man both driven and influential.
– by Clayton Delery
My Son, the Genius: An Interview with Thelma Ducoing Toole
Interview with Thelma Toole, mother of the late John Kennedy Toole, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Confederacy of Dunces
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
Going to Pots in New Orleans
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
It's All Good for Hotel Al
After working 60 years at the French Quarter's famed Hotel Monteleone, Al Barras has become an institution - and the subject of an award-winning documentary.
- by Kirsten Reneau
- photos by Ellis Anderson and courtesy Full Armor Productions
Sweet Tea and Miss Geraldine
A summer afternoon quest for caffeine in the Quarter nets an old book, a new friend, and a gander at 300 naked people riding bicycles.
- by Nan Parati