We’re shin-deep in 2013 already. How’s your luck been? It’s the Chinese year of the SNAKE, to boot, which could bode…
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New Orleans Memories & Free Art for Mardi Gras
Happy Fat Tuesday, y’all! I’m fattening up as we speak, eating a hubcap-size pumpernickel bagel with enough cream cheese to…
One more new orleans place: the hi-ho lounge on St. Claude
The Hi-Ho Lounge on St. Claude in New Orleans. Legendary. Scruffy. Good. Next time you’re in NOLA, get out of…
A couple more new orleans paintings before mardi gras
Here’s a little one I did of the Jax brewery (sort of a study for this big one) and a…
Tabasco Sauce, the other official beverage of New Orleans
Last spring we road-tripped it from NOLA to Avery Island, Louisiana, home of Tabasco. Why was the famous red stuff…
Funky New Orleans Horn, a jazz painting
A few years back, Wifey Mae and I trucked up to Tarrytown, NY to a) eat some really, really good…
cafe au lait and beignets: a new orleans treat to get you back on yer feet
What a weekend, huh? Super Bowl, loss of power, 49ers’ comeback, Ravens win, Carnival Season ramping up to a frenzy.…
The STATUE OF ROBERT E. LEE: ANOTHER POSTCARD FROM NEW ORLEANS (HAPPY MARDI GRAS!)
New Orleans is a city of contradictions. At one time it was the most racially liberal city in the south.…
Jax Brewery in New Orleans, a landmark painting (and espn super bowl hq)
Ah, the Jax Brewery… we hardly knew ye. Well, I didn’t. New Orleanians did. This French Quarter behemoth was the…
Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar: a Bastion of [Relative] Sanity on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street
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We think of Jean Laftitte as a pirate, but some historians think of him more as a crime boss. Paulie…