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With a touch of the poet comes a collection of aesthetic vignettes written to capture the vital essence of a dream-laden city. Through the Vieux Finder conjures La Nouvelle Orléans and its infamous Vieux Carré (a.k.a. French Quarter) as an artistic wonderland of history, romance, and unique culture.

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Welcome to New Orleans

Like an off-centered bellybutton on the lopsided torso of American culture, New Orleans is not a wrinkle-free world of manicured youth ideology...

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Iron & Lace

As opposed to a trendy style or design statement, the texture and appearance of New Orleans is like a birthright or an inheritance, not...

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Cities of the Dead

Death is no stranger to New Orleans. On fitful wings through the passage of time and disaster, fate has forced the city’s inhabitants to...

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Jazz & Heritage

Before the brink of civil war on American soil, the roots of jazz music were dug into a scenic landscape called Congo Square, a grassy...

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Devil Down South

There is but one New Orleans; Queen City of the Inland Sea; Gateway to the Mississippi Valley; Paris of America. She is the most wicked...

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La Fée Verte

The spirit world encompasses New Orleanians. Spirits haunt, spirits consume, spirits flow like the mighty current of the Mississippi. But...

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Hollywood South

The setting is the South. The scene feels European. The characters are eccentric. From swampy bayou country to antebellum mansions, from...

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An Epic Battleground

From a military marching ground in the center of the city to a plot of land on the outskirts of town, New Orleans has served as a...

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Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler

Loving New Orleans is both a pleasure and a hardship. The city is a harsh mistress, beautiful and enchanting with romantic iron-lace...

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Mistress of Many Masters

Vieux Carré, an impossible beauty with style and panache, is like a woman. She is seductive, voluptuous, and vulnerable, and for more...

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Au Cœur du Quartier

“Au Cœur du Quartier” The Heart of the Quarter Ahhh, love. New Orleans is love. New Orleans has passion and warmth. New Orleans offers...

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Prince of Pirates

To talk of scalawags and smugglers, of seadogs and rogues; to rush upon the blade of dagger, saber, and sword; to bind the wind that...

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Symphony in the Streets

Down the Delta blues highway and across the Zydeco crossroads, therein lies the crescendo of the Crescent City. In the dawn of the United...

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Farewell to Flesh

Imagine a land reigned by a bearded king who arrives by boat to his riverside kingdom, gathering his loyal subjects so to issue a...

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Iko Iko

Drumsticks tap-tapping on an aluminum chair. An accompaniment of a studio ashtray and a Coke bottle. A trio of sisters singing a song...

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Land of Dreams

A jazz player silhouetted in the milky haze of lamplight flooding Jackson Square… the twin-stacked, wedding-cake steamboats floating down...

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Ol' Man River

With a civilization steeped in mysterious legend like ancient Atlantis, with paranormal dangers that go unexplained similar to the...

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Dueling to be Different

When placing a century-old postcard beside a recent photograph of New Orleans, the similarities of the two images are so striking that it...

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The Secret Gardens

Along the promenades and thoroughfares of Vieux Carré, there is a terrain pioneered by architects, ranging from colonial to contemporary,...

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Storyville

City of dangerous dreams, city of darkness, city of dirty money and dirty deeds – New Orleans needs a rainy downpour from time to time...

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Tastes of the Town

There is a cornucopia feast for the senses in New Orleans. The city’s unique personality, sights, sounds, smells, tastes and temperatures...

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Ode to the Cocktail

Pour history in a glass and experience the art of drink in New Orleans where cultural heritage does not limit itself to architecture and...

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Romeo Spikes

Along the muddy embankment of the Mississippi River, a swamp once rested quietly in its murky haze of Native Americans and wildlife. Like...

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Wanting Bohemia, Discovering Bourbon

New Orleans knows how to party. No matter the season, no matter the reason, this city likes to celebrate. Holidays do not go unnoticed,...

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Pirate's Alley

In the days of the New World, when blank pages of the map were being filled, the French-founded city of Orléans became a grid of life for...

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South Mouth

Like an unfamiliar territory or faraway land, New Orleanians tends to cook, celebrate, and speak in a manner that seems foreign to many...

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Anatomy of the Dead

Shadows cloak the grand old oaks, limbs outstretched with waving arms, reaching for a passerby to claw with leafy hands. The moon is...

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The Courtesan of Culture

New Orleans, O muse of neglected treasure, bares the soul of a city who inspires and sheds the tears of a heartbroken lover while the...

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Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras is that very special time of year in New Orleans when the neutral ground becomes a campground, king cake replaces a balanced...

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The Decadent South

A lone trumpet wails. Somewhere a dog howls. The city stirs like a swizzle stick in a Pimm’s Cup. Red lights burn by the madam’s door,...

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All Hallows

What scrapes the edge of day just before dawn is a fang bleeding life from the night. Darkness invades many cities through corruption,...

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Sweet November

Daylight fades early in the amber glow of afternoon as the kissing hues of golden brown start to shimmer. Twilight humbles the burning...

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'Tis The Season

When the ice-kissed Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun, the veil of winter solstice ushers in a season of holiday magic. Feasts...

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Auld Lang Syne

There’s a refreshing sense of renewal and reinvention at the stroke of midnight on December 31st. Each year, brief scènes de vie filled...

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R'Evolution

Timeworn buildings of weather-beaten, patina-aged façades are the very face of New Orleans. The city does not stand only as an antiquated...

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