Tag: french quarter
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December 30, 2009 06:24 PM EST --
Several times this summer...I was lucky enough to visit New Orleans, one of my favorite cities. One time, I stayed at a friend's Guest House. My friend, Shelley and I spent the weekend . . .
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December 30, 2009 11:57 PM EST --
The opportunity to go back to Nawlins presented itself several more times this last summer. I couldn't post anything at the time though I may have tried. So now, on this snow covered evening, . . .
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January 21, 2009 02:04 PM EST --
Two 15-year-olds were booked with murder Tuesday by New Orleans police after their mothers noticed they resembled suspects sketched by a police artist after the killing of a French Quarter bartender and . . .
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May 25, 2007 02:00 AM EDT --
New Orleans has long been regarded for it's world-class dining, cultural diversity, and antebellum charm. Though the "Big Easy" boasts some of the most highly-rated digs that our nation has . . .
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March 20, 2007 03:45 AM EDT --
the
dark-skinned
statue
with eyes
focused on you
stands posed
bucket at boots
with
plastic red guitar
and
top hat
the smell of
java
beignets
piss
and
beer
linger in the air
on the streets
and in your hair . . .
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August 29, 2008 04:40 PM EDT --
New Orleans is beckoning. I fell in love with the Big Easy on my first trip 7 years ago.
An amazing friend took me along with her on a business trip and while she was trapped in conferences all . . .
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December 12, 2008 07:01 PM EST --
The French Quarter has always stood out as one of New Orleans' star attractions, possessing the mixture of cultural influences, architecture, history, music, and celebration that defines . . .
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January 21, 2009 07:15 PM EST --
Lafitte's Blacksmith shop built in the 1720, is the oldest working bar in the country, and the second oldest building in New Orleans. The property is believed to have been used by Jean and Pierre . . .
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February 21, 2009 10:38 PM EST --
I’m not sure what the recovery period is for a life-changing operation like a heart/lung transplant. I also don’t know whether patients view such radical work as bodily destruction or complete renewal. . . .
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August 26, 2006 04:25 PM EDT --
You don't ever have to have been there to love New Orleans. To live in America, or indeed in many parts of the world, is to be unable to escape the influence the Big Easy has had on our culture, . . .
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June 06, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
Visit the author @ www.KurtFriese.com
In April I had the opportunity to spend a few days in New Orleans. It would take a kind of Faulknerian prose that eludes me to express the spectrum . . .
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January 09, 2009 12:45 PM EST --
I recently heard the song 'City of New Orleans' by Steve Goodman on the radio- it brought me back to a time long ago. The song speaks of the Amtrak passenger train that runs 926 miles between . . .
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February 07, 2006 02:44 AM EST --
Have you ever been to a world class party? The kind of event that makes the news or travel shows. It's been a quest for my wife and I for the past few years.
Once you feel as though you have enough . . .
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January 02, 2006 12:17 PM EST --
Broadcast on Saturday, December 31, 2005
Home Sweet Home
Weekend America first introduced you to Judy Arceneaux during Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans resident had safely evacuated from her home and . . .
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March 07, 2007 06:26 PM EST --
724 Dumaine St.
I have been to this museum before Hurricane Katrina hit and enjoyed it very much. The museum is full of ritual objects, charms and spirit portraits. When you enter the museum there is . . .
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October 26, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
Chapter 1
New Orleans : December, thirteen years ago
A vision in white satin and antique lace floated down . . .
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December 28, 2008 10:58 PM EST --
Sick of that same old ball dropping or watching that same boring Dick Clark special every year? Get out of town and hit the road for something completely new. There are several destinations across . . .
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February 17, 2006 10:44 PM EST --
New Orleans is Gone
New Orleans is gone
Flooded like a bible story
New Orleans is gone
no ark to climb onto
to ride out the storm
New Orleans is gone
levee by levee
home by home
soul by . . .
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October 04, 2005 12:57 PM EDT --
TUESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY, 2004
Listen (RealAudio) | How to listen Poem: "The Last Hours," by Stephen Dunn, from Different Hours (W.W. Norton). The Last Hours There's some innocence . . .
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