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September 2009

A Refurbished Corner Joint Asks "Where Y'Acht?"

09/24/09

A Refurbished Corner Joint Asks "Where Y'Acht?"

It's normal to find a yacht down a dead end street because they're typically perched at the water's edge. The Mid-City Yacht Club sits along an intersection of two dead end streets, but it is not typical. In fact, it's not even a yacht club.

Rather, the Mid-City Yacht Club is a neighborhood bar and a post-Katrina creation through and through. It opened during the summer of 2007, and its name is a whistling-past-the-graveyard reference to the levee failures that temporarily made its address waterfront property. More than that, though, the Yacht Club is an ongoing act of recycling and restoration, and one that's in tune with the themes of renewal and civic pride ringing through its neighborhood in these post-flood years.

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Choices and Channels at Cooter Brown’s

09/09/09

Choices and Channels at Cooter Brown’s

Louis Armstrong raises his Dixie. A few feet away, Alfred Hitchcock cradles a Dead Guy, and Bela Lugosi, silver screen star of Dracula fame, is across the room showing his Evil Eye. Meanwhile, by the pool tables, Jacques Cousteau hoists a Kingfisher, and Jimi Hendrix lifts a Purple Haze.

These famous names are a few examples of the gallery of small caricatured statues of dead celebrities displayed on the walls of Cooter Brown’s Tavern and Oyster Bar. Each statue poses holding a beer –– from the local Abita Brewing Co.’s Purple Haze to Kingfisher from India and Dead Guy from the Oregon microbrewery Rogue Ales.

There are more than 100 of the caricatures ringing the walls of the...

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About This Blog

Ian McNultyA transplant from his native Rhode Island, Ian McNulty quickly discovered how easy it is to strike up conversations with New Orleans people simply by asking about their favorite clubs and neighborhood joints.

He asked often, listened carefully and has been exploring the nightlife of the Crescent City ever since.

McNulty was the editor and principle contributor to "Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans," a guidebook to nightspots and inexpensive restaurants around town. He is also author of "Season of Night," a memoir about life in a devastated part of New Orleans during the first few months after Hurricane Katrina.

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