#New Orleans Culture

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Cajun Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Master P released his sixth album Ghetto D September 2, 1997

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countless days pass by immeasurably;

anniversaries gutter in the maelstrom

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Priestess Miriam founded the Voodoo Spiritual Temple in 1990, aiming to provide education and spiritual guidance to followers of voodoo and the broader New Orleans community.

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One point that I personally haven't seen a lot make about amc's interview with the vampire especially compared to the movie (and honestly the book) is how much of a character new orleans is. I'm biased being from new orleans (seeing black vampires in New orleans made me wanna originally watch the show lol) but it's really amazing to see.

Setting plays such a pivotal role in storytelling/character development and this show just gets it. Like in the movie if they didn't mention new orleans it wouldn't even feel like the story takes place there while with the show new orleans is so prevalent. Not be all English class but Anne Rice was from new orleans and set here story there for a reason. If season 1 wasn't set in New Orleans you could see how this wouldn't even be the same show

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Mick Jagger is way too comfortable around Black people! 🤣🙌🏿

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"Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green."

From Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite

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Boys playing “king of the mountain” on jungle gym, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1974.

Jeanne Pitre Soileau - Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play (2016)

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To you, what is the highlight of Carnival in New Orleans?

This is a tough question, and I had it sitting in my inbox for a few hours until I felt I could answer properly. It's a cliché in media to depict the city in a perpetual Mardi Gras, but it is true that Carnival represents in many respects New Orleans at its greatest. It's the pure undiluted spirit of excess, not just in the food and the copious alcohol and the many opportunities for ill-advised sex but in the way the city comes alive at the height of its social season. While the US is coming down off its heavily commercialized holiday season and settling into what must be a very dull few months of winter, we swap out the red and green for the purple, green, and gold and keep right on partying.

The balls are always fun if you know the right people, and even if you don't parties along the parade routes are a great time as well. I've participated in drag krewes (not on stage, mind you), dined at many of the old downtown restaurants with assorted lovers, and even endured the tourists in the Vieux Carré on Mardi Gras itself. Of course they're obnoxious...but at least they can be counted upon to hassle the Protestant protesters that bus themselves down every year and call us all vile unrepentant sinners would deserve to be swept away by a hurricane, etc.

It really is difficult to pinpoint any one single thing. Perhaps how Carnival has never become a commercialized American holiday, and how it often feels like the preceding three American holidays all rolled into one - and better. It's an inversion festival with public masquerading that's immediately followed by a holy day of obligation (Halloween) only without all the horror nonsense, there's lots of decadent feasting (Thanksgiving) only with no familial obligations or the fixation on perhaps the driest poultry in existence, and it's an extremely social season with lots of parties and events to attend (Christmas, which I'm here distinguishing from Noël/the Nativity as I recognize it and as it's traditionally celebrated among the Louisianais) without the pressure to spend inordinate amounts of money on people you may or may not even like.

It's certainly not the only time of year where New Orleans engages in decadent revels - the Decadence is in September, after all - but for length and scope it can't be rivaled.

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Louis w the camera. claudia w the diary..

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New Orleans Jazz Funerals

First the service. Then comes the second line. Louisiana Creoles celebrate the life of loved ones beyond death. 

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Today in Hip Hop History:

The Hot Boys released their second studio album Guerrilla Warfare July 27, 1999

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Representation of Haitian Voodoo in comics. Integrating its rich mythology and its deities. Art by: vodou.renaissance

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"Congo Square". Congo Square drum circle. New Orleans, 2016.

Photo: David Joshua Jennings,