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09/02/10
Drew Brees came into this league as the first pick of the second round (32nd overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft. Almost a footnote to LaDainian Tomlinson at the time, Brees had lifted his black and gold Purdue Boilermakers to the Rose Bowl months before the draft. Shortly after, he was a Charger in the trade that gave Michael Vick to Atlanta... Read More
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09/02/10
Three Muses opened at 536 Frenchmen St. on Aug. 11. The restaurant-bar takes its name from its three owners: Chef Daniel Esses helms the kitchen, Christopher Starnes manages the operation, and Sophie Lee is the music coordinator.
It’s a relatively small space, with six low tables and eight more high two-tops along either wall, with additional seating at the bar. There’s a piano to the left of the entrance that backs up to a stage where local jazz musicians play every night Three Muses is open. The interior is dark, with colorful art by Brandon Delles along the wall to the left of the entrance, between the stage and the bar. The opposite wall features dark wood paneling that matches the columns that run down the...
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09/02/10
Both Sides Now
Tonight is the Paz Fest 2 Preview: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell, held at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. This year’s fest marks the 10th annual fundraiser for the Ruth Paz Foundation –– the first fundraiser was held by musician Michael Paz to raise money to build a burn hospital in Honduras. (The Ruth Paz Hospital for Burns and Pediatric Surgery is opening in San Pedro Sula this October.)
The event honors the First Lady of Folk, Joni Mitchell, known for her haunting acoustic melodies and for such hits as “River” and “Both Sides Now.” The preview party tonight will feature a lineup of musicians including Sue Tierney, Ingrid Lucia, Susan Cowsill, Michael Paz and more; a book signing of New...
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09/02/10
The world recession, now entering its third year, has racked up record national government debts, incredibly high unemployment rates, international foreclosures and enough sleepless nights to cause physicians to rethink their collective advice about the need for at least eight hours of sleep every night. Current thinking seems to be to get as much sleep as your restless mind will allow, even if you have to take it in increments.
Troubled minds and troubled economies can make for some interesting drinking companions –– not as good as some old college roommates or potential life-mates you are trying to impress but interesting nonetheless.
As for those drinking habits, more of us seem to be doing more of it (alcohol consumption in this country is at...
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09/01/10
Museum Marches On
NEW ORLEANS –– Currently under way at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans are plans for four additional pavilions, a parade ground and a hotel and conference center. Future pavilions will feature greater- and lesser-known battles; American involvement in the liberation of POW camps and Holocaust documentation; displays of large-scale land, sea and air artifacts; and a visiting exhibitions gallery.
The museum was founded in 1991 by historian, author and educator Stephen Ambrose. It opened on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, in honor of the more than 16 million Americans who took part in the D-Day battle. In 2003 it was designated by the U.S. Congress as the nation’s official WWII museum.
New...
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09/01/10
Two parties for the theme of one.
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09/01/10
Michelle Miller was one of our People to Watch in 1995, which, incredibly, is now 15 years removed. At the time, Miller was a weekend anchor and reporter for WWL-TV Channel 4, but there was something about her that said she would be going places quickly. “Life is not a destination, it’s a journey,” she said as part of her profile interview.
Her television career would continue, though she would also come to be known in another role: Five years later Miller was pictured on the cover of this magazine hugging the mayor. The cover line of the October 2000 issue read, “The First Couple at Home in Mid-City.” By then known socially as Michelle Miller Morial, she was the city’s new first lady. Her marriage to Mayor Marc Morial was one of the...
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09/01/10
September-December 2010
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09/01/10
The marking of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina continues in traditional ways – art exhibits, concerts and gatherings profane and sacred – and surprisingly familiar, including second-line parades. It has been an extraordinary journey from the shock and horror of watching despair and destruction on TVs far from home to returning to face the devastating reality of damage wrought when the levees broke to seeing the rebirth – torturously slow, ever steady, nonetheless – of this great American city.
To me it doesn’t seem so long ago that the waters subsided, every other roof was covered with blue tarp and a brigade of refrigerators stood like sad, silent sentinels. Meanwhile, under tarp and amid the trauma, citizens of every color and...
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09/01/10
POWER COOKBOOK
Re: Letter to Julia Street, July 2010 issue.
In your July edition, you posted my letter concerning a recipe booklet put out by New Orleans Public Service Inc. years ago that had a special rèmoulade sauce recipe. You cannot imagine what an amazing response I have received – from locals who scanned and faxed the entire booklet or called to read me the recipe over the phone to others as far away as Pennsylvania (a young, lonely housewife whose mother sent it to her when she first married and moved away from New Orleans) and Illinois (a New Orleanian who left 30 years ago but is looking forward to retirement to return). The comments were heartwarming and heartfelt. Some printed the recipe on index cards and mailed it to my home....
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