Like so many people, faithful reader Carol Burgard Crosby can’t help but take note of the old Automotive Life Insurance Co. building when driving past it at 4140 Canal St.
The former Emeril s Delmonico restaurant on lower St. Charles Avenue, which was shuttered and put up for sale by celebrity chef Emeril Lagassé s company last year, is being re-marketed at
My New Orleans
02/01/2021
For those who write regularly about Carnival, the quote to the right is both a source of beauty and frustration. The beauty comes from author Perry Young’s butterfly of winter metaphor and his skillful use of language (“tattered, scattered, fragments of rainbow wings”) all encapsuled into 41 words that capture the essence of Carnival. The frustration comes from that statement being hard (perhaps damn near impossible) to top. It is unfair to the future that the definitive paragraph of the season was already written 90 years ago. Nevertheless, Young leaves much to inspire us and to find nourishment in analyzing the season from a hearty feast of butterfly wings.