COVID shutdowns and frigid temperatures kept all but the die-hards out of the French Quarter and Marigny neighborhoods on Mardi Gras day. Those who came strutted with style, keeping the torch of Carnival Spirit lit until next year. - photography by Andrew Simoneaux
Floyd McLamb: a sharecropper's child from North Carolina turned high-powered French Quarter businessman reflects on the "high cotton" days in the neighborhood.
-by Andrew Cominelli
Providing "the neighborhood’s only explicitly political street entertainment," a former liberal named Michael DeBari draws both fans and fire at his outpost near the French Market.
-by Andrew Cominelli -photography by Ellis Anderson
Ride along with this award-winning writer to learn a few of the everyday challenges - and unexpected rewards - of making a living as a French Quarter pedicabber.
-by Andrew Cominelli
photos by Ellis Anderson and Andrew Cominelli |
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