CELEBRATION IS ON ITS WAY!

49,066!  Wow we are getting close!  It is so exciting. Soon we will be celebrating big time!

 Soon we will be on site in New Orleans with updates on the arts, music and culture of one of our great cities in the world.  There is no place quite like it.  As Paris or New York, it has its own personality.  It marches to its own sassy bluesy beat and people can party for any reason any time!  I look forward to taking you on a virtual road trip.  I know so many of you are from other parts of the world and I am happy to let you take a peak at place you may have been and remember or a place you can only travel to on line.  We will definitely have cafe au lait and beignets at the Morning Call and roasted oysters at Drago's.  We will walk the French Quarter and post pictures for you and listen to the blues and Dixie land jazz..and maybe a little zydeco.  And we just may meet up with Sean Starwars one of our featured artists.  At any rate we intend to share a New Orleans Christmas with you!

Stanley's(click)

Minimalist in look, maximalist in food!

There is this place off of Jackson Square in the French Quarter called Stanley's.  You can stop in for cafe au lait, or a scrumptious breakfast or lunch.  I had gone with my friends down to the Quarter (as the locals call it), it was hotter than hot...sweat rolling down my back in rivers...I had looked at the various art hung by different artist on the wrought iron fencing, watched the entertainers who paint themselves silver and gold and pretend to be statues, and I had watched the tarot card readers real in their clients for a promise of a glimpse of the future.  So I was tried and ready to sit while my friends kept walking and looking.  I sat down at the counter, order a cafe au lait and watched the waiter take care of other tourist.  It struck me as I looked at the minimalist diner and bare whiter that white tile walls that it looked like Edward Hopper's(click) painting...Night Hawks...people in a diner at night.  See what you think?  But if you go to New Orleans, by all means go and eat at Stanley's...it is well worth the visit!

Stanley's  French Quarter  photo Elizabeth Gordon

Night Hawks by Edward Hopper  from google image

Stanley's  French Quarter New Orleans  photo Elizabeth Gordon