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The perennial question: What is New Orleans, exactly? It is hard to put into words. It is best experienced to be known. New Orleans is a kaleidoscope of color and sound, flavor and scent, sense and sensibility. New Orleans is a city where good memories get made every day. Sit on a bench. Sit in […]

There is no place more American in America than New Orleans, this most francophile of cities. Nineteen million people visit New Orleans in a year, most of them Americans. An America without New Orleans would not be America at all. It would be something else. The country would have too many cares. The real world

There is no resisting the chicken at Manchu Chicken, officially the Manchu Food Store. Nobody calls it that. Yats stop at Manchu Chicken on their way home. Most Yats work in the city and live in da Parish. They are Chalmations. It is always busy at the Manchu Chicken on North Claiborne Avenue. Especially at

I am watching the city shuffle its way into the present tense. 

There are few Chinese restaurants in New Orleans, and even fewer worth mentioning.  There are only three in the city I would recommend, and, of those, only one of them would I really, really recommend.  That would be Dian Xin.  Everyone agrees Dian Xin has the best Chinese food in New Orleans. Everyone is right.

You-know-who is working with you-know-who. The Guy Fieri crowd is out in full force. They must have chartered a plane. This has to do with the Sugar Bowl. It is some kind of football game. It brings the yahoos to the city. I have a bee in my fedora. I have a yen to head

New Orleans is like no place else on God’s green earth.  You should stay at La Belle Esplanade.  Visit new Orleans like you live here.  We live on a very interesting street.  Get out and explore. Check-in. Checking in to La Belle Esplanade, and much of the daily operation of the inn is fairly self-serve.

I was intrigued by the title of this essay: “When Did You Last Hang Out?” I clicked the link. The unexamined life is not worth living.  I spend most of my time hanging out in New Orleans.  Everybody does. I have to admit that I am hanging out with the chickens in my back garden

I like to go to the Broad Theater for lunch and not just for the pinball. I like to go for the hot dogs.  The Broad Theater has the best hot dog lunch in New Orleans, not just in Mid-City. The Broad Theater is a four-screen movie theater in an old plumbing supply warehouse built