Posted in French Quarter, New Orleans, Travel on Nov 2nd, 2009
I try to go to the cemetery (St. Louis No. 1) every year on All Saints day. Save Our Cemeteries is there every year, too, with a list and the map from the Dead Space project to help families locate tombs. They’ve been doing a good job over the years working with various groups and [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, New Orleans on Jul 21st, 2009
Updated 07/23/2009.
Tales of the Cocktail 2009 is now over. From the opening ceremony Wednesday, July 8 (celebrating the 75th anniversary of NOLA’s own Herbsaint), to the Wormwood Society’s grand soirée closing things out on Sunday night, it was a whirlwind of boozing, networking and learning.
Tales of the Cocktail’s official cocktail, the Creole Julep, on the [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, Travel on Jul 14th, 2009
While I’m still working on some more detailed posts on things I learned at Tales of the Cocktail this year, I want to hand out some kudos to everyone involved. Ann and Paul Tuennerman, along with the Cocktail Angels Melissa Young, Christina Gaspari and Michelle Dunnick and the rest of Ann’s staff did a remarkable [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, New Orleans on Jul 9th, 2009
Updated, see below.
So a while back, while researching the Roosevelt Hotel’s opening, I couldn’t help noticing all the references to the Ramos Gin Fizz, along with the Sazerac (at the Sazerac Bar) it’s the hotel’s signature drink. The Ramos Gin Fizz was the favorite drink of Governor Huey Long, famous rogue politician who, they say, [...]
Posted in Food, French Quarter, New Orleans, Travel on May 26th, 2009
The Hotel Montleone, one of New Orleans’ historic hotels, and home to Tales of the Cocktail, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its Carousel Bar. The Royal Street landmark is famous for its literary connections.
Literary greats have haunted its halls for decades. Tennessee Williams was a frequent guest, Truman Capote often quipped that he was [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, New Orleans on Apr 18th, 2009
It’s celebrated for its storied dining rooms named after and decorated with memorabilia from some of New Orleans’ most staid carnival krewes. Antoine’s is expanding on its traditions with a new venue, next door to the hallowed restaurant: the Hermes Bar.
The bar’s grand opening was Friday, coinciding with the opening day of French Quarter Fest. [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, Travel on Mar 30th, 2009
New Orleans and cocktails, two things nearest and dearest to my heart. Each year Tales of the Cocktail presents all the best of these two things; cocktails, cocktail history, New Orleans’ cocktail history, and, for the finale, your chance to participate in New Orleans cocktail history in the making.
I’ll have more details for everyone later [...]
Posted in French Quarter, Mardi Gras, New Orleans on Feb 8th, 2009
Last year was my first encounter with Krewe du Vieux. It’s definitely “one for the locals;” highly satirical and raunchy to the extreme, it’s also held early enough each year that it’s off of the regular Mardi Gras beer-and-hand grenade-swilling, boob-flashing tourist crowd’s radar. As KdV’s website says:
It is unique among all Mardi Gras parades [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2008
“On my honor I will do my best: To do my duty to God and my country…”
Oath, Boy Scouts of America.
“I vow to personally buy the first Sazerac for any visitor who asks ‘Hey, where do I get a Hurricane?’ and pledge to pull out the Herbsaint and Rye no matter the time of day [...]
Posted in Art, French Quarter, New Orleans, Northshore Exile on Nov 10th, 2008
I interviewed an artist up in Covington for my day job. He asked if I had seen any of Prospect.1, the international art exposition going on all over New Orleans. There are installations and showings of 80 artists from all over the world. The U.S. Mint and the Contemporary Arts Center are the main venues. [...]
Posted in Festivals, French Quarter, New Orleans, Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2008
Halloween 2008. It’s been planned for at least a month now. Flash mob, Jackson Square, New Orleans. Pirates vs. Ninjas. Pirates gathered in Pirates Alley (duh), Ninjas in Pere Antoine Alley. At 5pm sharp, an air horn sounded, both sides met at battle in front of St. Louis Cathedral.
Now, I have no doubt that in [...]
Posted in Food, French Quarter, New Orleans on Oct 11th, 2008
We went to catch up on streetcar photos for StreetCarArt.com today. They placed another set last week; Nola caught the ones in Lakeview last week and today we went to get the ones installed on Chartres, Jackson Square and at Cafe du Monde. They’ll be posted at the streetcar site soon.
I collided with one of [...]
Posted in French Quarter, Katrina, New Orleans on Aug 20th, 2008
This isn’t a destruction photo. It’s from St. Louis No. 1 cemetery on Basin Street. Our family has a tomb there. The archdiocese opened the cemetery on Nov. 1, All Saints Day, in 2005. It was the first time since the storm it had been open to the public and would not be open again [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, New Orleans, Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2008
More from Tales of the Cocktail, day 2 for me, day 3 for everyone else. After attending the absinthe seminar, we headed back downstairs to formulate a plan. A plan never actually materialized, in no small part because we chose the hall outside one of the tasting rooms to check the schedule. Inexorably drawing us [...]
Posted in Art, Festivals, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Northshore Exile, Travel on Jul 19th, 2008
YLC Streetcar artists Paulette Lizano and Will Smith popped up during Tales of the Cocktail at the event’s Cocktail Marketplace on Saturday. Paulette, who is in the process of building her streetcar, “Perley’s Barnyard Party” was there selling glass coasters and plates featuring martini glasses and S&WB meter cover designs.
Will Smith’s streetcar is located at [...]
Posted in Festivals, Food, French Quarter, New Orleans on Jul 19th, 2008
I’ve decided to break this Tales of the Cocktail post into a few non-linear small parts. This part covers the first and last happenings of the day, the absinthe seminar and end-of-day cocktails at the Carousel Bar (below).
I continued on my quest at Tales of the Cocktail to learn all there is to know about [...]
Posted in Art, Festivals, Food, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Northshore Exile, Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2008
With that challenge, Kevin Brauch (the reporter on Iron Chef America who is not Alton Brown, thank Gawd) opened up Tales of the Cocktail.
But first things first. Today’s kick-off event was Toast to Tales of the Cocktail in the Riverview Room of the Hotel Montleone. NOLA blogger Loki of Humid City and the Krewe of [...]
Posted in Animals, Festivals, French Quarter, New Orleans on Jul 12th, 2008
I believe we have a winner of a new tradition in the works. It’s called San Fermin in Nueva Orleans, or more appropriately, the Running of the Bulls in New Orleans. See other coverage here and here.
Held this morning in the Quarter, the New Orleans event pays tribute to the famous Running of the Bulls [...]
Posted in Food, French Quarter, New Orleans on Jun 13th, 2008
Yesterday’s coffee klatch evolved into the ultimate tweet-up: lunch with Nola, Yat Pundit and Ryan (joined by his lovely fiance) at Galatoire’s Restaurant.
Galatoire’s is on Bourbon Street, near the corner at Iberville. Besides fantastic Creole cuisine, it’s famous for quite a few quirks, among them that they don’t take reservations for the first-floor dining room. [...]
Posted in Food, French Quarter, New Orleans on Jun 6th, 2008
O.K. folks, I have received a request (or was it a challenge?) from Yat Pundit to post my quick and dirty version of a classic New Orleans dish, Chicken Bonne Femme (Good Woman’s Chicken?). Tujague’s has probably the best known version of the dish which is prepared with garlic, potatoes, white wine and, of course, [...]
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