Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans seduces anew with songs in the key of life In the foyer of the New Orleans Pere Marquette Hotel, a stone’s throw from the French Quarter, is an installation of horns salvaged from the debris of Hurricane Katrina which blew suede shoes 20 years ago this month. Called…
Art, Central Park, jazz, Cate Blanchett, and great soup. Even in the midst of political turmoil and protest, New York delivers. Excess All Areas went looking for some cultural respite care A New York pitstop smack bang in the middle of a week of bad politics (the inauguration and all it unleashed)…? Let culture be…
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Susan Skelly returns to a city that is reinventing itself in many unexpected ways. Tap into the Creole/Cajun cuisine, the new French Quarter and see how Downtown is turning into a vibrant metropolis. Irvin Mayfield has presence, patter and precision. He plays an audience with the same dexterity he brings to…
One minute longhorns, lassos, lager, the next cocktails, fine food and old masters. As Susan Skelly discovers, Fort Worth is not just next door to Dallas… Mayor Betsy Price is holding court in Fort Worth’s sparling new Sundance Square Plaza. She’s just come from winning the women’s division in a clay-pigeon shoot and has invited…