Today is Fat Tuesday, and New Orleans is full of partiers enjoying their last Carnival moments before the start of Lent tomorrow. But a few years back, when I visited the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, I was surprised and saddened to see how much re-building was still left to be done. Families living […]
View post →Last Monday night I went to the Backroom Bar, in the lower east side of Manhattan, to hear Svetlana and the Delancey Five perform with Wycliffe Gordon. Fellow artists Margaret Hurst, Julia Sverchuk, and my One Drawing A Day editor, Mary Ann Hall, were there drawing too. What a blast! First of all, the Back […]
View post →Upon visiting the upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans, I found many deserted and condemned houses. The area didn’t receive as much of the massive flooding that the Lower Ninth ward did during Katrina, so more of the buildings are standing. However, six years after the hurricane, many of the homes have open rooftops and […]
View post →Last week I traveled to New Orleans, one of my favorite cities in the US. Neil received an award from EPRI, an engineering organization, and was there to make and listen to presentations, as well as attend the awards dinner. During the day, while Neil was busy with the conference, I ventured out into the […]
View post →OTRA is one hot latin jazz dance band that I saw performing at the Blue Nile in New Orleans. I met Sam Price, the bassist, when I was drawing him performing with another group at a club on Bourbon Street. “You’ve got to come to Frenchman Street and draw!†he said, and drew me a […]
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