Monthly Archives: March 2015

CLICK HERE to listen to the audio version. Few are more excited to ride this Mardi Gras season than the krewe of NOMTOC. NOMTOC, stands for “New Orleans’s Most Talked of Club.” But then you say you’ve never heard of … Continue reading →

CHRIS ROSE’S PULITZER CRYSTAL SITS in his small French Quarter apartment, its glass badly chipped from various accidents. The disfigured accolade for his work on a reporting team at the Times-Picayune is a reminder of both prowess and loss. “The … Continue reading →

Below are three stories I wrote for NewOrleans.me 1) (March 11, 2015) CLICK HERE to read about a new movie called “The Lot,” filmed in, and about, Algiers Point. 2) (Jan. 13, 2015) CLICK HERE to read about Nari Tomassetti’s surrealist … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, on a moist, chilly morning, I was drinking the day’s first coffee when a text arrived from my wife. “Someone murdered one of the goats.” We’d recently moved to New Orleans’ slightly more suburban West … Continue reading →

Chauncey and Tony Clifton (by Zack Smith) New Orleans icon, Chauncey Gardner the goat, passed away quietly of old age on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 at his home in Algiers. As many New Orleanians will tell you, Chauncey was more … Continue reading →