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City Park Memories (opens the original)
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Everything in New Orleans is tainted, so we may as well have lunch at Tavern on the Park, the restaurant across from Pizzati Gate, the side entrance to City Park. It’s gonna be that kind of day.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://subs
Narrative Grease (opens the original)
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Not a lot of action this month. Sorry. I was working the galleys for the book I am printing, then somebody presented me with an elegantly simple, old-fashioned business idea, so my train of thought got derailed so that I could work on that for a week and a half. I launched the business this afternoon. If you are curious what this business might be, I’m gonna be mum. If you don’t know, you don’t need to.Who is this man of mystery?Zen Orl
New Bridge Mural (opens the original)
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It isn’t the edge of the world, not by a long shot. That would be the Rigolets. The only reason to cross the Rigolets is to go to Slidell. There is never a reason to go to Slidell unless you live there.I don’t live in Slidell.Gentilly Road turns into Chef Menteur Highway after the railroad bridge that runs over the People’s Avenue Canal. It’s by the God is Good Carwash, and the Baptist Theological Seminary, and Walmart. It’s the part of Gentilly where Gentilly Woods meets Pontchartrain Park, nex
Golden Gill Hunt (opens the original)
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Bob Dylan said, “There are a lot of places that I like, but I like New Orleans better.” Tourists of a certain age like to buy tee shirts that say this, as do people who’ve just moved to the city. Local New Orleanians rarely leave the city, so it never occurs to them to even think about it.Jewels is wearing one of those shirts, and cut-off denim shorts that are cut at pocket level. She’s unselfconscious and it shows.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/
Maunsel White's 1812 Sauce (opens the original)
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The Elmont Club is a bar in a house on a residential street. It withstood Katrina, and it shows. It’s been painted, but the paint had asbestos in it, so it had to be sandblasted off. Now, it’s got five coats of primer over its sideboards.It’s the kind of place that has barge board in its walls. The building creaks when you walk around. There’s a sign over the toilets, in both the women’s and the men’s room. “Jiggle the handle.”People drive past this place all the time, can’t find it, and then th
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