Sunday, October 21 at 2:00 PM
free and open to the public
French Market Fare Demonstration Stage (located between Ursulines and Governor Nicholls Streets)
Join the French Market’s 4th annual Boo Carre Halloween and Harvest Festival! A pie eating contest, featuring Loretta’s Pralines’ sweet potato pies, will take place at 2PM with SoFAB director Liz Williams presiding. We’ll take the time between bites to discuss Southern pie culture.
We assume all of this street construction mess is in preparation for the 2013 SuperBowl. Because why after all, would a poor city and its administration work on the streets of the Quarter AGAIN before some of those roads broken in hurricanes that happened years ago?
Why indeed?
So, if you are coming to the Quarter prepare yourself for backed up travel streets, very limited parking along with an overabundance of construction vehicles running their engines for hours outside.
And they wonder why we drink so much here.
Love this story and I’ll remind my friends that I predicted it would happen. Anne Rice wants to come home.
Our most prolific, successful and colorful native author had a string of incredibly bad luck in her last years in NoLa and understandably went to where she felt life might be easier and closer to her author son. That bad luck includes a feud with ridiculous Popeyes magnate Al Copeland (go look at St. Charles-she was right ), bad health for her and the loss of her talented artist husband Stan. Enough to make anyone go to Breaux Mart for some packing boxes!
I thought she was moving too fast and worried that she would regret selling her house and belongings ( actually was biking by during one of the sales at the orphanage and bought some great black turtlenecks and if I had seen her that day, I would have put my 2 cents in and told her so but what was done was done.)
Now she is homesick and wants to come home and I say, COME ON!
We need personalities like hers to come home.
Anyone out there who has read “The Feast Of All Saints” knows she gets the Quarter. The Mayfair books were the best historical New Orleans saga I’ve ever read-you know she gets it and makes our city sound great.
Come on back Mrs. Rice. I’ll buy you the first round of muffalettas.
One of the glorious history lessons of the 20th century in New Orleans- Newcomb Pottery, part of the arts and craft movement of the 1920s. D yourself a favor and take a look at this exhibit.
French Quarter block by block 
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