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New Orleans

The Second Line of Babylon: Music in New Orleans

New Orleans
Music is New Orleans

Floating around New Orleans is like being privy to a million greatest hits radio stations. No matter where you go, in the French Quarter or Uptown, from Mid-City to the Garden District, music is playing. Sometimes it just leaks out of homes with open windows.

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Beads of Sweat in an Emerald City

New Orleans
New Orleans Garden Disctrict

New Orleans is a verdant city. Aside from several major parks, City Park in Mid-City, and Audubon Park uptown, the city feels like it was just plopped down in a swampy glade. Oh wait, that is exactly what happened. Yes its true, New Orleans is basically a big swamp

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Leave the Gun Take the Gumbo

New Orleans
New Orleans Muffuletta

If your imagination ever needed a kick in the pants, or if you ever wanted to salivate instantly, you could think of the following: crawfish etoufee, alligator sausage, hot beignets dusted with powdered sugar, fried oyster po boys, muffaletta’s, oysters, crawfish monica, andouille gumbo, pralines.

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Welcome to New Orleans

New Orleans
New Orleans Jackson Square

I have been wanting to write about New Orleans for years, a fact I discern from the excitement that drills through me every time I am given a platform to talk about this most unique city. And ever since I learned that HBO was readying “Treme,” an hour-long Sunday Night drama that premiered last night, I have been reliving, in my imagination, my time in New Orleans.

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