Or those remaining at the memorial at the end, the family requests people wear white.
Nice. Uncomplicated. Just like Uncle Lionel
We had walked about twenty steps up Royal Street, just past Marigny Brasserie, when the elephant tear raindrops started to fall in big splats on the sidewalk. We futilely tried to open umbrellas, but it was no use — as if someone pulled the drain plug from the bottom of a cloud — and the sky started sheeting on us. Our proximity to each other only made it worse, as the rainwater sluiced off the other’s umbrella, drenching and unusually cold for a New Orleans summer: we needed cover. As we tried to duck out of the deluge, a familiar figure ran past and told us to come back to Frenchman at 8PM — something was going down for Uncle Lionel. We parted ways at the corner where Royal turns back towards the Quarter, seeking shelter in the R Bar as our friend disappeared into one of the neat shotguns…
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Do You Know It Knows What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
I just heard from Chin Music Press that a paperback version of our book, “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” is arriving soon. I am honored to be among some original thinkers and good writers in this anthology and with such a creative publisher.
The hardcover is gorgeous; the design is worthwhile to get it in hardcover while you can and then get the new paperback to lend out.
http://store.chinmusicpress.com/product/do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new-orleans
Johnny White’s
As someone who had a family member who was associated almost daily with JW’s bar, I have a hard time understanding the confusion over WHICH Johnny White’s were talking about, when people read stories like the current one on the “closing” of the Sports Bar.
Closing Sports Bar
The one on St. Peter is the “real” one for lots of full-time Quarterites, and not just for motorcycle riders. It exists as a home away from home for many, and are treated as family like when the fine folks on St. Peter gave my family member an honored send off when he died last year. Those who frequent the St. Peter one (and probably hung out at Johnny’s Annex too) usually also believe that the “Sports Bar’ on Orleans is pretty bad and not one to hang out in with friends. It, like a lot of things directly on Bourbon, is too full of, well lets just say there’s too much potential for a bad time.
there are 4 places with Johnny White’s name on them in the Quarter and the ones managed by the family of Johnny White are the three BESIDES the Sports Bar. The family is taking control of that space again and probably reopening it slightly altered, which is fine with lots of us.
JW website
There. hope that helps. Now, let’s get a drink.
Homemade Fruit Wine Demonstration
This Sunday: French Market Fare – Homemade Fruit Wine with Brewstock
Sunday, June 17 at 2 PM
Free and Open to the Public
French Market Fare Demonstration Stage (located between Ursulines and Governor Nicholls Streets)
Aaron Hyde of Brewstock will demonstrate how to make a delicious and relatively easy blackberry wine in your own home. Doing the Locavore challenge and feeling thirsty? This is a great way to bulk up your liquor cabinet! Brewstock is one of the only brewing supply shops in New Orleans, covering everything from beer and wine to soda and cheese.
For more information:
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King Creole Returns
Dust off your blue suede shoes and head down to the Quarter, as the New Orleans Film Society, the Louisiana State Museum, and the Louisiana Museum Foundation present an outdoor screening of the classic Elvis film King Creole. The film, which takes place in and around the Vieux Carre, will be shown on our new inflatable screen set up on the grounds of the Old US Mint.
About the film: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau star in this 1958 film that tells the story of a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women. The film was critically and commercially successful and included the song “Hard-Headed Woman,” which became a number one hit for Elvis. He later said that King Creole was his favorite acting role.
Old U.S. Mint
(400 Esplanade Avenue)
Thursday, June 28
Screening starts at 8:15 p.m./sundown
Tickets: Admission is $3 for NOFS members, members of the Louisiana Museum Foundation, and members of the Friends of the Cabildo. General admission tickets are $6.
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