Several nights a week, my wife and I cool off with a snowball from Casey’s on West Esplanade in Metairie! Many nights, it’s the meeting place for several of our friends.
Snowballs are a tradition for locals all around the New Orleans area. For me, it’s as New Orleans as Red Beans & Rice [...]

For the last 15 years, I have spent my July 4th evenings working the Go 4th on the River Celebration. Each year, the entire Riverfront is crowded not only with locals but also with visitors from the Essence Festival, an annual July 4th weekend event which produces sold out hotels and very happy restaurants [...]

I have spent the last 30 years of my life promoting New Orleans. After Katrina, besides my home flooding, I was not called back to work. My job was to promote an attraction in New Orleans. Much has changed in my life in the last 10 months, but the one thing that [...]