August 2008
The doors opened on my shift – I remember I wrote the first patient name in the admit book,” recalls Connie Masson. In the 1970s, during her years at the University of New Orleans, Masson had a job as an emergency room clerk at the newly opened St. Claude General Hospital. That substantial hospital...
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July 2008
Portraits of black New Orleans
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June 2008
Beulah Ledner and the evolution of the doberge cake
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May 2008
If it’s good for New Orleans, I’m for it!” That’s the perfect slogan for the 1960s-era Mayor of New Orleans, Victor Hugo Schiro, a cheerful, positive-thinking, unabashed booster and promoter of his city. He wasn’t tall and commanding; in fact President Lyndon B. Johnson sometimes referred to him as...
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April 2008
There is something special about a piano bar. First, as music historian Jack Stewart notes, the piano really gets the patron’s attention. “The piano is the entertainment – they turn off the television.”
New Orleans has always been a good town for piano bars (several are available today,...
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