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The Decorated Life of StuART! Auld
This year on Mardi Gras Day, the legendary Society of Saint Anne celebrated the artist and costume designer who helped conjure the colorful magic.
-by Nan Parati
New Orleans Italian Boxing Champions: Forged Out of Tragedy
The horrific 1891 lynching of eleven Italian Americans later helped motivate generations of young men who punched their way past discrimination in the early 1900s.
- by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Marigny Opera House: Exaltation of the Arts
A visionary couple has transformed an abandoned church building into a community mainstay for the performing arts – and founded a contemporary ballet company that calls the venue home.
– by Frank Perez
The Société Des Champs Elysée: At the Crossroads
This Social Aid and Pleasure club focuses on the “social aid” part of their name, working year-round to feed the homeless and hungry.
– by Kim Ranjbar and Ellis Anderson
St Anna’s Episcopal Church: An Unorthodox Beacon of Metanoia
In a parish already known for acceptance, Hurricane Katrina’s heartbreak provided an impetus for a new all-inclusive policy – one that made St. Anna’s a center of hope amid despair.
-By Bethany Ewald Bultman
The New Algiers Ferries: the romance of the ride remains
The Algiers Ferry: The Romance of the Ride Remains
The Colors of Kate McNee
Visit with this creator of distinctive Carnival headdresses in her Bywater home and studio, where both colors and ideas are given free rein.
- story by Harry Philpott
To Live in a Masquerade: Inside the Mask Market
On the weekend before Mardi Gras for the past 38 years, the French Market has hosted one of the most unusual art markets in the country. Meet a few of the makers behind it.
- by Kirsten Reneau
The Music Woman on the Steamboat Natchez
Few get to meet the woman who plays the most unusual - and loudest - instrument in New Orleans. French Quarter Journal goes behind the scenes and up top of the Natchez to watch Debbie Fagnano in action.
- story by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson
The Sticky Business of Carlos Buesos
Long before first light, this eradicator of property defacement begins his hunt through the Quarter, determined to scour graffiti and stickers from public property.
- by Dar Wolnik
-photos by Ellis Anderson