Like many downtown residents, whenever I open my front door I catch a glimpse of the decaying Plaza Tower, once the grande dame of Loyola Avenue. I see the blown-out windows, black netting and colorful graffiti that makes the building an ongoing eyesore. I’ve been in New Orleans long enough to remember when the Plaza […]
Barry Kern spent his childhood and much of his adult life at the side of his father, the late Blaine Kern, learning how to design and build floats and props
Just a few steps from St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, the centuries old New Orleans burial ground and final resting place of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, stands a boarded up,