New Orleans Magazine December 2006

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ERROL LABORDE’S COMMENTARY: TWELFTH NIGHT

New Orleanians who do it right never have to worry about post Christmas letdown....

RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Blandness Be Gone!

Nobody ever accused Creole and Cajun food of being light or dietetic. If we’re...

NEW ORLEANS VOICES:

I thought it might be fun to ask some of our favorite New Orleanians...

FEATURED HOME: A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Driving down the quite uptown streets, the charming salmon-colored camelback shotgun seems like any...

Deakle-Duggins Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Scott DugginsFor every seamless moment, every spontaneous-looking smile on a bride’s...

Daigle-Ferrand Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Brad FerrandJoneé Mae Daigle and Brad David Ferrand were united in...
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STREETCAR: LAST DAYS OF Maylies

Adecade of New Year’s Eves have begun since the last day of 1986 when...

LOCAL COLOR: JACOB SHERRY – JUGGLER

Pity the modern, harried, burnt to a frazzle, counseled to a dweeb, medicated into...

CHRONICLES: FRANK YERBY AND MARCUS CHRISTIAN

Early 19th century New Orleans provided a wealth of material for 20th century writers...

MODINE’S: SCANDAL IN FOLSOM

My mother-in-law, Ms. Larda, is back home in Chalmette.Not a minute too soon. She...

EDIBLE SCHOOL YARDS

Donna Cavato, Program Director for the new Edible Schoolyard at the K-8 Green Charter...

ULTIMATE NEW ORLEANS: Chris Rose by a Landslide

He has a gift for dead-on sarcasm, a penchant for potty humor and a...
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ULTIMATE NEW ORLEANS

OUR READERS' PICKSThere were elections for Congress and on constitutional amendments during the past...

HOME: AT HOME IN TREMé

THE HISTORYImagine a house built with walls three bricks thick, cypress windows, doors and...

FOOD: Blandness Be Gone!

Nobody ever accused Creole and Cajun food of being light or dietetic. If we’re...

HEALTH: A BIG SWELL

Swollen lower legs and underlying cardiovascular disease are common cousins. Swollen ankles are more...

BIZ: BUSINESS STIRS IN LAKEVIEW

Hope and optimism may be staples of personal recovery from disaster, but making a...

SPEAKING OUT: WHAT BILL JEFFERSON’S VICTORY MEANS

On the night that William Jefferson was reelected to Congress, a television anchor asked...
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NEWS BEAT: Documenting the New Orleans that Was

As New Orleans struggles to define its future after Hurricane Katrina, a new project...

NEWS BEAT: Local Lawyer, White House Fellow

Local attorney Bedouin Joseph didn’t need to spend much time in Washington, DC before...

MUSIC: STIRRINGS FROM MADELEINE PEYROUX

Madeleine Peyroux has a voice of silk and honey with echoes of Billie Holiday...

NEWS BEAT: Return of the Red Streetcars

Like homes and businesses along much of their route, the Canal streetcars that were...

RESTAURANT INSIDER

I’ve started the New Year hungrier than ever and with this resolution: to enjoy...

TABLETALK: DOWNTOWN STEAKHOUSES

I’ve always regarded steakhouses as the dinosaurs of the culinary world: lumbering behemoths with...
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PERSONA: Fr. William F. Maestri

Can a nice Presbyterian girl like me have a crush on a nice Catholic...

MYSTIC DANCE

As political leaders go, the Marquis de Vaudreuil was not known for his integrity,...

JULIA STREET

Dear Juila,I’ve been driving past my pre-Katrina grocery, Canal Blvd. Supermarket, lamenting its absence...

MARQUEE

The 73rd Sugar Bowl Football Classic, LSU vs. Notre Dame, Jan. 3Sugar BowlThe 73rd...

ERROL LABORDE’S COMMENTARY: 5 CHRISTMAS LISTS

2 Local Traditions That Won’t Be Around This Year•The drive through at Celebration in...

ERROL LABORDE’S COMMENTARY: 4 REASONS WHY JEFFERSON WON

Local politics has gotten more difficult to predict largely because the electorate is so...
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