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A venerable yet humorous Mardi Gras spectacle, the greasing of the poles at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, delights again in its 43rd year!
Category Archives: Festivals
The greasing of the poles kicks off this weekend’s carnival festivities in the French Quarter!
Feb 8
Guest Post: It’s your party and I’ll cry if I want to: Why the St. Claude Night Market needs to talk to its neighbors
Nov 16
This past Saturday night, there was a community event on my block. Or at least that’s what the people there told me was going on. I wouldn’t have known about it if I hadn’t been home and wondering what all the noise was. My first thought was that Treme was filming in the lot across […]
Sailing with Mount Gay Rum; TOTC 2012 is off to a huge start
My first 2012 Tales of the Cocktail event took place Tuesday July 24 at the Yacht Harbor in Lakeview here in New Orleans, and it was so much fun, though in true TOTC fashion, it was a marathon. I spent the day photographing the sailing regatta with the Mount Gay crew and what a great time was had. Here are some from this fun sailing event; and of course, wherever there is rum, water, and sailors, there is eye candy.
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- TOTC Mount Gay Sailing event.
Balloons!!!
Jun 20
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We made the trek to Foley, Alabama for the second year in a row to attend the Gulf Coast Hot Air Balloon Festival. Now in it’s 8th year, the festival attracts balloon teams from Ohio, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana and Alabama. While the real action takes place at 6 A.M. both days […]
Creoles and Zydeco
Jun 12
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This past weekend was the Creole Tomato and Cajun Zydeco Festival in New Orleans. Despite the wet, wet weather, we were lucky to catch the fun in between rain bands. It was well worth the gamble. This festival duo took place from the Jackson Square area down to the U.S. Mint. There was food and […]
Crawfish!
Apr 22
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It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here. We moved into our “final house” at the beginning of this month. I never realized how much stuff we had crammed into our old house!! Since the new home is less than a mile from the old, we moved everything ourselves. It took over a month […]
Street Festivals
Apr 10
New Orleans is known all over the world for its big festivals like Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, Essence Music Fest and Voodoo Fest. But I’ve only been to three of those ONCE. I’m not big on crowds, and I really have to talk myself up to walk around in direct sunlight for several hours. […]
In loving memory of Charlie: LAST CALL…
Mar 4
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We’d met on an intermittently drizzly day in the heart of the Vieux Carré in January 1992, when I’d stopped to check out the poetry he was peddling at Jackson Square.
Tet Festival 2012
Jan 29
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Tucked away in New Orleans East is Mary Queen of Vietnam Church, just a stones throw from the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. Every year this close knit community of Vietnamese people celebrate their New Year by holding Tet Festival on the Church grounds. Tet is an abbreviation for Tet Nguyen Dan, meaning “first day.” This […]
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