Category Archives: French Quarter

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Clarence John Laughlin — Indiegogo

This is an amazing, important documentary fundraiser to highlight a true French Quarter character, artist and world class collector. From the home page of the documentary:
This is a documentary about the New Orleans photographer Clarence John Laughlin, who many consider to be the father of American surrealist photography. Shot in the historic New Orleans Pontalba building where he lived for over 35 years in a garret apartment stuffed with thousands of books covering every available surface, this is the only known footage of one of our most original artists.

Clarence was a well-known eccentric with an artistic temperament. He could be both charming and difficult. He was married five times, twice to the same women. Possibly due to his strong willed personality, Clarence’s greatness was not fully recognized or appreciated during his life, though he received much acclaim and was published in major magazines and exhibited in galleries in the U.S. and Europe. There is no doubt Clarence was a photographic genius who’s life and work deserves more attention and praise. The documentary will explore Clarence the book collector and writer and how those passions influenced his life and his significant body of work.

Please support this work and pass it along to others that might also support.

Clarence John Laughlin — Indiegogo.

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19th Century New Orleans and its Magnificent Obsession: Gentlemen’s Free Lunches, Coffeehouses and Dinner by the Lake | Okra

wonderful slice of life history. enjoy and then become a member of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum:
http://www.southernfood.org

19th Century New Orleans and its Magnificent Obsession: Gentlemen’s Free Lunches, Coffeehouses and Dinner by the Lake | Okra.

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This Sunday: Eat Fit Nola Demonstration

Sunday, August 5 at 2 PM
Free and Open to the Public

French Market Fare Demonstration Stage (located between Ursulines and Governor Nicholls Streets)
Too much classic New Orleans food weighing you down? Muriel’s Jackson Square has decided to help guests meet their personal health and wellness goals by partnering with Molly Kimball, a registered dietitian with Ochsner’s Elmwood Fitness Center, to offer Eat Fit NOLA menu items. Gus Martin, Muriel’s Executive Chef says, “We worked especially hard to keep the integrity of the dishes without losing any of the flavor.” Join us as Chef Gus prepares two of these delicious and nutritious dishes.

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Short Storyville history

As I was searching for a history of the Tango District of the French Quarter, I found this, which is a good primer on the history.

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Outdoor Screening of TCHOUPITOULAS // New Orleans Film Society

Synopsis

Tchoupitoulas is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-eyed conduits to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn, from Rampart to the river, we explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities. In moments, vignettes, performances, and exchanges, T
Friday, July 27

Floods may have thwarted last Friday’s scheduled screening of Tchoupitoulas in the French Quarter, but we are committed to showing this film outdoors in the quarter! We’ve rescheduled the screening for this Friday on the grounds of the Old U.S. Mint (400 Esplanade Avenue)

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Dutch Alley in the French Market

While locals watch tourists frantically search for shade and some room on the sidewalk in the French Quarter (while down in the French Market District) those same locals know to duck behind Cafe Du Monde to use this alley. It’s one of the few places in the Quarter where some peace is nicely merged with a bit of activity.

Even though the alley is next to the Mississippi storm gates, the name has nothing to do with the language of the Netherlands and their triumphant engineering over waterways, or from any emigration patterns. It, in true New Orleans form, is named for Mayor Dutch Morial and his 1980s era of civic renovation. It’s joined by its neighbor the Moonwalk, which is the riverside path parallel to the alley, which was named for 1970s Mayor Moon Landrieu, father of the current mayor as well as our senior US Senator.
Ironically, the French Market owes its location to the Choctaw Indians, its name and founding to the French, its structures to the Spanish and its present day doldrums to politicians who keep finding a way to put their names on the stuff!

However, some smart local artists have taken this rather confusing intersection name and made it the home of cooperative marketing as Dutch Alley Artists Co-op. Take a right turn while on Decatur going downriver (around Joanie on her pony a.k.a. the Joan of Arc Statue) and chat with some great local artists while you load up on your gift-giving.

Dutch Alley Artsts Co-op

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Uncle Lionel’s second line route-Friday at 5 pm

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Or those remaining at the memorial at the end, the family requests people wear white.