The hostesses smile broadly at the Crescent City Café, the cooks work quickly to plate breakfast and the waiters hustle to get it all out to their guests. But no one here is in it for tips. Rather, the people behind the Crescent City Café are motivated by a desire to help some of their […]
As the incidence of both seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus are on the rise (and on the minds of many concerned individuals), The Lakeview Regional Medical Center Emergency Department is entirely staffed by physicians who are board-certified in Emergency Medicine. According to Lakeview, that figure isn’t matched anywhere else in the country. Lakeview officials […]
Once again we provide our annual list of Top Lawyers in the New Orleans area. This year we have used the data collection services of a different company, Martindale-Hubbell. The New Providence, N.J.-based company is affiliated with the LexisNexis Corporation. Martindale-Hubbell is a big name in the field of legal resources research. The company has […]
Four years ago this Thanksgiving we all might have been forgiven if we asked ourselves, “Just what is it we’re supposed to be thankful for this year?” With our houses – if they survived – smelling of mold, our lawns dead and possibly toxic and our futures totally uncertain, we nevertheless knew the answer: We […]
On May 10, 1956, the 77-year-old engineer Baldwin Wood set sail from Biloxi to Horn Island, Miss., accompanied only by his dog. What happened next was later described in a letter by charter boat operator Captain Louis Gorenflo: There was a spanking southeaster blowing, and just after I had cleared the harbor I saw the […]
Wanna start a business? It is just possible that the time is right in New Orleans. The local climate for startups has received considerable attention of late. That is because the national business press has picked up on New Orleans’ trend toward “clustering” fledgling businesses together. Newspaper and magazine stories about local entrepreneurial “hubs” have […]
The Internet auction site e-Bay has millions of items for sale, but a pair of new local flea markets have a few things the online giant never will, like the sound of live music, the smell of food cooking outdoors and the grip of a vendor’s handshake sealing the deal for a used blender or […]
20 hits on Joint’s Jumpin’, based off of the taped-live local show at Harrah’s, will have you singing and shaking your booty in no time. New Orleans rhythm-and-blues classics such as “Tell It Like It Is” and “Blueberry Hill” are skillfully performed by a cast of musicians and vocalists Tereasa Betts, Gina Brown, Luther Kent, […]
In 1993, New Orleans Museum of Art put on a grand folk art exhibition called “Passionate Visions” and invited William Ferris, a founder of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss, to give a lecture. Ferris’ Blues from the Delta is a major book in the field. His topic that day […]
A wise man once told me: “Never debate politics with a fig tree.” By wise, of course, I mean drunk, but you can’t quibble with the accuracy of the advice: fig trees are truly awful conversationalists. I hope what follows is at least as accurate, and more useful as a practical matter. Theo’s Pizza, which […]
In most places, the turkey or the ham is the star of Thanksgiving dinner but not here. In the South, it’s the dressing. Maybe that’s because our dressings are so darn good. You don’t see a simple bread dressing or croutons mixed with apples on a Louisiana table. No, cher. Here we grind gizzards and […]
My mother-in-law, Ms. Larda, reads the obituaries every day and cross-checks them against her Christmas card list.“You got to face facts, Modine,” she says to me. “No sense sending a Merry Christmas card when you ought to be sending a Your-Loved-One-Rests-in-the-Bosom-of-the-Savior card.” She is very efficient, but she did get her cards mixed up one […]