New Orleans People were out in force in the Holy Angels meeting space in my neighborhood of Bywater in New Orleans. I got there ten minutes after the announced starting time, and it was standing room only. The convener said they had one-hundred explanatory packets laid out on table tops, but they clearly had …
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New Twists for Mardi Gras
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pistol-Annies-01-Best-Years-Of-My-Life-200012144.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The song goes, “have you ever been to Mardi Gras,” and I can honestly say, “been there, done that!” I’m somewhere between Carnival-skeptic and agnostic. Historically, the city can’t live with it and can’t live without it. There’s almost nothing about its mainline history …
The Mural Mile on New Orleans’ St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans For decades the ACORN headquarters has been somewhere around the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Elysian Fields Avenue. We were ten blocks from the Mississippi River for many years, and we are again. The old riddle used to be, “What street has its head in the river and its feet in the …