“In the morning, Wink’s also serves hot items, such as grits, eggs and hash brown. At lunch, there are po-boys and daily specials.
Wink’s is open Sunday through Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday to Saturday from 6 a.m. to midnight.”
Wink’s Buttermilk Drop Bakery and Bistro: 1218 Decatur St., New Orleans, 504.309.2481
From Cameo to Close-up Monthly Film Series
THNOC will present a monthly film series in conjunction with the exhibition From Cameo to Close-up: Louisiana in Film one Saturday each month through November 2014.
All screenings will be held at the Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street, and will begin at 10:30 a.m. Admission is free.
June 28
King Creole (1958), starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau, followed by a walk-through of Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere with photographer Richard Sexton
The movie is loosely based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins, which follows a young Brooklyn man as he becomes involved in an underground boxing ring to support his family. Presley plays 19-year-old Danny Fisher in the film version, which is set in the French Quarter, as he spirals downward into the seedy world of local crooks and thieves. Fisher’s fists and his voice help him out of numerous situations, but harsh consequences escalate throughout the film.
Well, eyes on the street are one thing, but gun-toting citizens without any training or anyone to answer to are another thing. Let’s hope this is done with sensitivity and tact but I am not reading anything that tells me that is likely…
How about offering to fix streetlights or offering FQ shift workers scooter or pedicab rides to their cars?
Armed citizens form group to keep eye on French Quarter | New Orleans – WDSU Home.
Update
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Would-be-French-Quarter-law-enforcer-is-wanted-on-stalking-allegation
First thing to share: I was the Deputy Director of the city’s original open-air market organization for some time, including back when we opened the Wednesday market at the French Market in 2002 or 2003 ( I never remember which)…
Here is what I wrote on FB about this news:
well.the old footprint of CCFM is restored completely, 9 years after the federal levee breaks took it apart. I certainly wish the new leadership well with this endeavor, and like the FM Director Richard McCall we had back in the day when I worked for CCFM, they have an enthusiastic director at FM to assist. There is no doubt that opening a true farmers market in the old shed market can be very tricky (as we learned in 2002? or 2003? when we opened it originally), but more places for regional producers is a valiant effort to put forth. The work required to find and keep the flow of people coming will be substantial, but finally it will be up to folks downtown and regional producers to commit in order for it to thrive.
Weekly farmers market coming to French Market | News | The New Orleans Advocate.
So I decided to pay homage with this clip, filmed in the Quarter on the 1000 block of Royal Street in gorgeous black and white. Elvis does a good job in this film, as do Carolyn Jones and Walter Matthau. This opening certainly sets the scene for the Quarter being a lead role in the movie too:
French Quarter block by block 
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