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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…
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Cycling to Lyman and Gillian’s wedding; January 6, 2026
My readers may know Lyman from his years of accompanying me on bike trips. Living in Austin TX for thirty years he was originally from New Orleans where he maintains family connections. His partner Gillian whom he met in Austin coincidentally grew up in Durham NC and we have found we have mutual acquaintances. Gillian…