nahlins

a blog exploring the magic, energy, charm, flavor, quirkiness, excitement, beauty, culture, and fun new orleans has to offer.

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We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Charles Rangel

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Milan Street by fegbm on Flickr.

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Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana

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This is my type of place.

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I love this place.

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Before breaking up in 2009, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers put together three albums of upbeat swing and jazz. A seven-piece outfit, the New Orleans natives joined the ranks of many other Frenchmen Street bands that refuse to use amplifiers when performing. 

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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Boris Vian

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The brothels of Storyville c. 1905

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Mardi Gras Indians at Congo Square on Flickr.

Mardi Gras Indians at the Congo Square International Music Festival at Armstrong Park in New Orleans.

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For the last year, thinking about New Orleans has filled me with overwhelming regret.

In a lot of ways, the "New Orleans Sounds, Creole" course I took this semester intensified my regret. It made me scold myself for turning down a perfect opportunity to be in a place with such vibrant personality, cultural richness, and undeniable quirkiness. But it also helped me see New Orleans in another light. Knowing about colorism, being able to distinguish between Cajun and Creole, understanding voodoo as a religion, learning about Storyville, listening to jazz, and discussing the scars left by Hurricane Katrina have changed my perspective on New Orleans and taught me to appreciate why it is as well as what it is. New Orleans has so much to offer. As an international port it is constantly changing, influenced by the people and goods that gather at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Crescent City is full of warmth and flavor that lend themselves to New Orleans' status as a place of temptation. This course has taught me that New Orleans is more than just a potential place to live, more than the booze and vomit that fills Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, and more than a city decimated by a natural disaster.

When I finally make another trip to New Orleans I will be able to experience the city for its rich culture and strong history, rather than a place of "could have been."

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