The key is not to be found in the antics of the carefully crafted “rednecks” in front of the camera, but in the political commentary surrounding them — which is essentially a form of marketing.
The ultra-hip have concluded that Frenchmen Street is already too well-known to confer “underground” cred.
Many of the galleries proliferating in the Quarter sell wares distinguishable from souvenir-shop fare only by their price tags.
The national press shows that it’s not really interested in New Orleanian self-analysis. Apparently we’re not qualified.
Carnival is more broadly participatory than ever, and its downtown culmination on Fat Tuesday is a public art form unique to New Orleans.
"Starbucks has done a great service to the United States in general by putting semi-decent coffee in places that never had it before. But that obviously doesn’t apply to us."
Does a cleaned-up French Market affirm or betray its storied past?
New Orleans native C.W. Cannon savors his right to carry a drink into the streets, but wonders if the go-cup kerfuffle wasn't a tad overblown.
Was Trayvon Martin's killing a lynching? In one way, it's worse: It was legal.
Multi-generational white Southerners are not any more racist than racists in Colorado, New Jersey, or the new Florida of George Zimmerman.
