As she's closing her gallery and packing to move, Harriette Prevatte reflects on four decades spent as a working artist in the French Quarter.
- story and photos by Ellis Anderson
A trip to the new Sazerac House interactive museum and distillery leads to sampling the classic cocktail at five favorite French Quarter bars.
- story by Kim Ranjbar - photos by Ellis Anderson
From Tucks to Barkus to Mardi Gras day in the Quarter to the mounted police's traditional ride down Bourbon Street to end the Carnival season, photographer and French Quarter resident Andrew Simoneaux caught the energy.
For fifty years, a ceremony involving Vaseline and champagne has served as the official opening to the Mardi Gras weekend.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
On the weekend before Mardi Gras for the past 38 years, the French Market has hosted one of the most unusual art markets in the country. Meet a few of the makers behind it. - by Kirsten Reneau
This quirky canine parade that began in a French Quarter bar 27 years ago has become a favorite Mardi Gras fixture that benefits animal rescue groups.
- photography by Kerry Maloney
Visit with this creator of distinctive Carnival headdresses in her Bywater home and studio, where both colors and ideas are given free reign. - story by Harry Philpott - photos by Ellis Anderson and Harry Philpott
This miniature take-off on the city's mega-parades, titRəx, may be diminutive in size but participants go for satire in a very big way.
- photos by Kerry Maloney
The renowned and raucous punsters of Krewe du Vieux marched this year with "Erection 2020" as their general theme, which gave the sub-krewes infinite opportunities for fun. Followed seamlessly by krewedelusion, FQJ caught the grand show from a balcony at the corner of Royal and St. Ann. - photography by Kerry Maloney for French Quarter Journal
Krewe of Boheme, whose presiding regent is a green fairy representing absinthe, was made up of 18 sub-krewes in 2020. Marching on February 7, it exuberantly wound its way through the Marigny and French Quarter neighborhoods with the theme of "The Soaring Twenties." - photos by Ellis Anderson
Chewbacchus rolled for the tenth year, celebrating with a parade that glowed brighter than any birthday candles.
- by Ellis Anderson |
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