Narrow and wide sterling silver Chain Link cuffs by Mignon Faget; J. Carter oxidized sterling silver cuff with gold and diamond constellation at Symmetry Jewelers Ben-Amun 24 karat gold-plated gold and geode collar necklace with pendant at Angelique Wonder Woman Cuff by St. Claude at SoPo; ivory bone cuff at Hazelnut; Caged Pearls […]
YOUNG ADULT: In The Casquette Girls, Alys Arden taps into the supernatural world amid a backdrop of a deserted post-hurricane French Quarter. The story is told through the eyes of 16-year-old Adele Le Moyne, who’s trying to make sense of a string of murders mysteriously tied to her ancestors. Arden is scheduled to speak at […]
LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a high-risk high-reward innovation research grant. Research will be targeting heart disease and stroke. LSU Health New Orleans Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Imran Mungrue Ph.D. will the be the first researcher in Louisiana to receive this type of grant from the American Heart Association. The […]
Mardi Gras was on Feb. 28 10 years ago in 2006. The late date was fortunate because the Katrina-battered city needed every extra day it could get to prop itself up for the celebration it needed to have. Since March 3, 1699 – the amazingly coincidental date when Frenchmen first camped out in what would […]
Throwing That Net Re: “Salt On a Melon, “Inside column by Errol Laborde. October 2015 issue. Wow, did your editorial on “Salt On a Melon” hit home with me. I was born and raised in New Orleans in the late 1930s and do remember riding on the lakefront, visiting that stand and eating those delicious […]
Booze was in the news this past month. There was the announcement that the Sazerac Company had acquired Southern Comfort. There is something right with a world in which the same people that warehouse Southern Comfort also stack Sazerac, for both brands were created here. Southern Comfort was invented by New Orleans bartender Martin Wilkes Heron back in 1874. The liqueur has always had a unique fruit taste because of its recipe, which combines […]