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 …
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Flyering Door-to-Door is a Constant Neighborhood Education
New Orleans Opening a new location of our social enterprise Fair Grinds Coffeehouse on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans was a relief even if we’re still shaking out the kinks, installing the ice machine, this and that. How we get the word out for our soft opening and early weeks has been a constant …
Signs at the Borderland of Gentrification
New Orleans In New Orleans in the Bywater-Marigny neighborhoods where I live and work were in the throes of a long drawn out, desultory stretch for decades since the 1980s. We were going to be “hot” one day, but who knew when. Into the latter years of the 20th Century, one thing or another like the …