The Sazerac: New Orleans' Official Cocktail
There is a moment in every good New Orleans evening when someone slides a glass across a bar and says, "You ever had a real Sazerac?" Not the version you got at that hotel bar in Chicago. Not the ...
Lafcadio Hearn: The Outsider Who Understood New Orleans Best
Every city has that one person who sees it more clearly than anyone who was born there. In New Orleans, that person was Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-Irish journalist who arrived in the Crescent City in ...
Louis Prima: The Wildest Entertainer New Orleans Ever Made
New Orleans has produced more than its share of larger-than-life musicians, but Louis Prima might have been the largest of them all. Born in the French Quarter to a Sicilian family, Prima became on...
Paul Morphy: New Orleans' Chess Genius Who Conquered the World
Paul Morphy taught himself chess by watching others play, dominated every opponent on the planet by 21, then quit the game entirely. Born in 1837 on Royal Street, he conquered Europe's best players...
Baroness Pontalba: The Woman Who Built Jackson Square
If you've ever stood in Jackson Square and admired the red brick buildings with intricate cast iron balconies, you were looking at the work of Micaela Almonester, the Baroness de Pontalba, who surv...
