Perusing my Facebook page last night, I saw a reference to a problem at the Marigny Opera House, a renamed old church in the Bywater. By candlelight (no electricity, apparently), someone started playing acoustic music, and a few shows have been performed there. The neighbors shut it down. Huh? Dave Hurlbert, who operates the church [...]
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Krewe du Vieux: Photos
February 6, 2012 – 6:31 pm
The first official Mardi Gras parade of the year—Krewe du Vieux—marched through the Marigny and French Quarter Saturday night, full of its usual satiric, irreverent, and lewd floats and costumes. The theme for this year’s parade, Krewe du Vieux’s 20th, was “Crimes Against Nature”. All photos by Kim Welsh.
Marching Band on Royal Street
February 1, 2012 – 12:08 am
Photographer: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee My first time at Mardi Gras was in 2009. Two marching bands were “battling” in the street as a walking krewe was preparing to begin their route through the French Quarter. The light was in the right place, reflecting the band in the window of an antique shop on Royal [...]
Krewe of Kringle’s Ninth-Annual Christmas Costume Pub Crawl: Photos
December 12, 2011 – 2:04 pm
The Krewe of Kringle has only one rule: you have to wear a holiday-themed costume. On Saturday, December 10, Santas, elves, wise men, and many other participants filled the streets of the French Quarter for the Krewe of Kringle’s ninth-annual pub crawl parade. The Pair-A-Dice Tumblers led the way with music, starting at Molly’s and [...]
Christmas Concerts
December 1, 2011 – 12:04 am
With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, the French Quarter is celebrating “Christmas New Orleans Style”. The annual program that encourages tourists to spend the holidays in the Crescent City has a new wrinkle this year: in addition to the Christmas Concerts in St. Louis Cathedral, there will be a series of shows at the St. [...]
Sending a Message
November 14, 2011 – 8:57 am
From today’s Times-Picayune: “It signals to people they can do anything they want in the French Quarter. They can come in and spray paint all over a building; they can lay across the sidewalk; they can beg for money; they can hit someone over the head and steal money; or bring guns into the French [...]
Rotten, Really Rotten Apples
November 2, 2011 – 1:56 pm
You know that old idiom, “A rotten apple spoils the barrel”? We had a taste of that on Halloween night when two morons on Bourbon Street and Canal Street decided to take their personal fights to the street using guns. In the process, two people were shot dead, and eight others were injured. This happened in [...]
A Lot of Vieux to Do This Weekend
June 8, 2011 – 8:18 pm
For the fifth year in a row, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation has partnered with the Louisiana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board and the New Orleans French Market to present their “three festivals in one weekend” celebration. The three festivals—the Creole Tomato Festival, the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, and the Louisiana Seafood Festival—are intertwined [...]
New Orleans Oyster Festival: Photos
June 8, 2011 – 11:46 am
The second-annual New Orleans Oyster Festival was held Saturday and Sunday in front of Jax Brewery in the French Quarter. The free festival included music from the Treme Brass Band, Bucktown Allstars, Bag of Donuts, John Popper and the Dusk Ray Trubadors, James Ray Brad, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and Irma Thomas. [...]
