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The Bay St. Louis Booker
​On November 8, 1983 - 36 years ago this week - legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker passed on. While his legacy grows even stronger in the city, recent interviews with Bay St. Louis family members give details about Booker's early life on the Mississippi coast - and explain why "the Bay" became one of his touchstones.
- by Edward Gibson
Craig Tracy's Body of Work
The French Quarter artist ushered body painting into the realm of fine art while maintaining his artistic freedom, but there's more to come.
- by Grace Wilson
This Time They Won
The brainchild of performance artist Dread Scott, a two-day reenactment of the 1811 slave rebellion culminates in a march through the French Quarter - and a contemporary victory in Armstrong Park.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Café Cour: A Taste For History
Café Cour offers courtyard dining and a creative menu that draws from Louisiana's rich culinary history, delighting locals and visitors alike.
-by Reda Wigle
Voodoofest on Rue Dumaine and the Spirited Woman Behind It
On Halloween in the Quarter, the original VOODOOFEST celebrates its 21st year with drumming, dancing and a ceremony to honor the Ancestors. Meet the Voodoo Priestess who started it all.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson and courtesy Brandi C. Kelley
Kerry Maloney's French Quarter
I wanted to show folks a very typical day in the quarter. Here's what I saw outside my door Monday, September 30.
– by Kerry Maloney
King Toffa IX Visits the Vieux Carré
West African monarch, His Majesty King Toffa IX, visits the French Quarter as part of a United States tour.
- by Ellis Anderson
Voodoofest on Rue Dumaine and the Spirited Woman Behind It
For more than two decades, the original VOODOOFEST in the Quarter celebrates Halloween with drumming, dancing and a ceremony to honor the Ancestors. Meet the Voodoo Priestess who started it all.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
It's All Good for Hotel Al
After working 60 years at the French Quarter's famed Hotel Monteleone, Al Barras has become an institution - and the subject of an award-winning documentary.
- by Kirsten Reneau
- photos by Ellis Anderson and courtesy Full Armor Productions
Of the Libations and Love of Lady New Orleans
Meet our FQJ "Libations" columnist who believes that with the right amount of respect, humility and luck, Lady New Orleans will embrace a visitor as one of her own.
- by Adam Tusin
- photos by Kerry Maloney and Ellis Anderson
The 67th Annual Red Mass
The annual Red Mass was held Monday morning, October 7, at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, offering up prayers for those in the legal profession - judges, attorneys, law school professors and students.
According the the Louisiana State Bar Association, the tradition "is celebrated all over the world, including Rome, Paris and London. The practice dates back hundreds of years and typically serves as the opening of the judicial year."
- photography by Kerry Maloney
Alquimie New Orleans: More Studio Than Boutique
For 23 years, textile artist Kate Beck has shown her extraordinary clothing designs at Jazz Fest. Now she has a year-round showcase on Royal Street where she's conjuring up more luscious wearable art.
- by Grace Wilson
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Four Courtyards and Mail-Order Tree Frogs
French Country living in the French Quarter: Every room in this fanciful home is defined by the gardens without.
- by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Blood Type FQ
A New York writer finds that a year of French Quarter living leaves him with an undiminished devotion to the neighborhood.
- by Richard Goodman
Go Your Own Way: the Life of Barbara Scott
Rainbow History: Barbara Scott blazed her own trail as a politician, restaurateur, hôtelier, artist, preservationist, gerontologist, feminist - and social justice warrior.
​- by Frank Perez
Strong as the Currents
Meet the hardy folk who ply the waters of the country's "last frontier" in Melody Golding's new book Life Between the Levees.
by Scott Naugle
photos by Melody Golding
Fiesty Forebearers and a Contemporary Challenge
Digging into the history of the French Quarter's indie newspapers, magazines and journals reveals an intriguing past - and a few surprises.
- by Ellis Anderson
The Sound of a Positive Vibration
Boho Back Pages: Was the matronly New Orleans stenographer who founded a French Quarter temple the guru everyone in the 1960s was seeking? At least one follower still believes.
by Michael Warner
The Four Aspirations of Sophie Omoro
The Four Aspirations of Sophie Omoro: Before she'd turned twelve, a young girl in a small Kenyan village made an ambitious list of life goals. Becoming a fashion designer was only number two.
- story and photos by Ellis Anderson
On the Frontlines with Badass Uncle Sam
Providing "the neighborhood’s only explicitly political street entertainment," a former liberal named Michael DeBari draws both fans and fire at his outpost near the French Market.
​ -by Andrew Cominelli
-photography by Ellis Anderson