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Clinton Street, New Orleans LA, March 14 2026
I bicycle around New Orleans constantly. Except for streets First through Ninth in Uptown (which MUST be spelled out, never writing them like “2nd.”) there is mostly no system for the street names in New Orleans, many of which are exotic sounding, like LaFaye Street or Soraparu Street. An AI search says there about twelve…
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Almost Under the Bridge, reporting February 28, 2026
Our condo is in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District. Fifteen minute’s walk towards downtown is an area I will call “Almost Under The Bridge” which I have been taking photos of for more than a year, trying to capture the intensity of walking or cycling through streets where an elevated highway plows through a historic…
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Going Down to Hammond LA; January 30, 2026
I love “The Hammond Song.” I used to read Rolling Stone religiously and in 1979 when I was living in Houston TX I bought, on the magazine’s recommendation, the then-new debut album The Roches by three sisters from New Jersey. When I moved to New Orleans in my Renault Le Car in September 1981 I…
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Restaurant review Pulcinella! January 26, 2026
The exclamation point is theirs, not mine. I learned of Pulcinella! from an almost year old review by the local restaurant writer Ian McNulty. (Do readers refer to his employer by its newspaper name Times-Picayune or do they say NOLA dot com? I suspect it’s an age thing.) Some in our pickle ball group here…