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New Orleans has two seasons: hurricane and festival. That’s it. Take your pick. Zehnder
Communications—my favorite
cross-media agency here—has recently announced “State
of the Listen” (#TheStateOfTheListen or SOTL) to track social media buzz
for everything from festivals, such as Tales of the
Cocktail and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, to worldwide events like the Olympics. |
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Ellen
Macomber is my neighbor. When her kitchen cabinets were being
replaced she hated to see them trashed, so she came up with a very creative
solution: using them as containers to grow a vegetable garden. Only one more challenge… We
live in the French Quarter in New Orleans, as do rats and mice. Ellen’s plan wasn’t to
help these vermin get their roughage, no. Instead, Ellen made a hanging garden.
Genius! |
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Pamela D. Arceneaux, senior librarian and rare books curator at The Williams Research Center, is currently researching and writing about New Orleans Blue Books. But these blue books aren’t social registers or pricing guides like Kelley Blue Book for cars, they were prostitute directories for Storyville, where prostitution was legally sanctioned in New Orleans about a century ago. No one knows the true author nor publisher of New Orleans Blue Books, but weirdly, Will Bradley’s Mission Toys—ornaments designed in 1904 for the American Type Founders Company (ATF)—appear in some! Follow along as this curiosity develops. |
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Low-tech alternative to air conditioning. No hinges, no permanent installation, no Historic Preservation (or landlord) approvals. |
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“Doug and Gene Meyer: The Longue Vue Installation,” was a decorative arts, fashion and design exhibition curated by Jeff McKay earlier this year in New Orleans. (Note from author: I’m terribly envious of what these bright brothers, a style monger and the spirit of a social activist socialite pulled off in my hometown. This group took a mere retrospective of the Meyers’ work and created a blockbuster event.) |
