This weekend, the Superdome hosted the Sunday Night Football game bringing lots of Cowboy fans and the NBC Sports film crew into town. One of the film crew wives organized a dinner for the crew by getting some of her favorite local chefs to open a “pop up” restaurant in the Golden Feather Mardi Gras Indian Restaurant on Rampart. Surrounded by staggeringly beautiful, elaborately beaded and fully-feathered Indian suits, Melisande Short-Colomb and Venessa Williams of Cajun Moon Catering treated us to a paper plate feast. Continue reading
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Second Line, Class Got Brass, Congo Square, Stooges and Rebirth (again)
After the perfect day we had Saturday, we finished the weekend with a perfect Sunday. Again, the weather was warm and sunny with a constant balmy breeze. Breakfast was Camellia Grill in the French Quarter. Gotta love those grits and the service (complete with fist-bumps) always puts a smile on my face. Then it was off to Armstrong Park for the Revolution Social Aid and Pleasure Club’s second line. We found Briana Edwards of Raintree Children and Family Services in the crowd of steppers and jumpers then followed along. Loved the snappy school kid costumes the paraders wore. Continue reading
Golden Feather Unmasked
Spy Boy Ricky, a Mardi Gras Indian and member of the community has been jailed under dubious circumstances and people have mobilized to free him. The newly opened Golden Feather Mardi Gras Indian Restaurant Gallery hosted a fundraising event with food, beverages and a silent auction. Though the crowd was interesting, the was food tasty and the Indian suits throughout the restaurant/gallery were dazzling to look at, the highlight was when several men in the crowd led by Yellow Pocahontas Hunters Second Chief, David Montana, began to bang their drums and tambourines.
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Vieux To Do
Vieux To Do is 3 festivals in one, the Creole Tomato Festival, the Cajun-Zydeco Music Festival and the Louisiana Seafood Festival. The Creole Tomato Festival is an over 20 year tradition showcasing the French Market, our country’s oldest city marketplace (1791). In addition to the super-tasty locally grown tomatoes, there are stages with live music, an air conditioned enclosed tent for cooking demonstrations and a parade I apparently missed. Continue reading