Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of the Black Cat Magic Club of New Orleans. New Orleans is a city full of secret societies, fraternal organizations, sororities, social aid & pleasure clubs, Carnival krewes, marching associations. They are people who gather once a week or once month to socialize and do good like committing to […]
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We have a museum of local curiosities in our lobby. It is called The New Orleans Odditarium. Our museum is open to the public by appointment. Most of the people who enjoy it are our guests. You can be one, too. That’s what it’s there for. Your time in New Orleans should be the stuff
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New Orleans is calling you. How do I know? Because when New Orleans calls you have to answer and I hear New Orleans singing. The city is squawking its yawp over its rooftops out into the wider world. New Orleans is calling you. Are you going to answer by coming here? You should. NEW ORLEANS
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Do you know what it means to love New Orleans? If you’ve never been to New Orleans, you should visit. Nobody ever says their visit is too long; it is always too short. The longer you invest time in New Orleans, the more you’ll grow to love it. Everyone has a little New Orleans in
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Spend 15 minutes in New Orleans and I guarantee you’ll appreciate being alive. It may be quicker. The only reason I can think of if it takes longer is that you are already a corpse. Then, it definitely will take longer, if it happens at all. Even skeletons dance in New Orleans. They kick of
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New Orleans is just like where you are right now, only New Orleans is better. How do I know? I live here. All is well and good in New Orleans. It always is. Everything is exactly as it should be, warts, scars, and all. Can you count the stars in the sky? Only if you
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Life itself is an exercise in exceptions. The spaces between facts are pregnant with things undescribed and unexplained. Have you been to New Orleans recently? New Orleans will be here when you’re ready. We’re looking forward to it. NEW ORLEANS IS CALLING YOU. New Orleans is a city that knows arithmetic but the city doesn’t
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The simplest statement can only be the most prosaic. The sun shines. New Orleans is. The simplest statement can be, on reflection, the most profound. The sun always shines in New Orleans, even when it’s raining. It happens every day in August for about 20 minutes in the afternoon. The sun doesn’t shine at night in New Orleans. People do.
New Orleanians don’t think of what we do as being for tourists. We know people come from all over the world to visit New Orleans, to see what makes the city unique, but I don’t know anyone who goes out of their way to be unique in New Orleans. We just are what we are,
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We are pursuing a policy of truth. I read in the Wall Street Journal today that “Small Business Owners Fret Over Loan Delays.” I didn’t need to read it on the front page of the newspaper to learn that. I’m one of them. Melanie, who is the better half of this operation, talked with our
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