NYT article on New Orleans - holy hell

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“New Orleans is not cosmopolitan,” said the actress Tara Elders. “There’s no kale here.”

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Music really flows through the veins of the town, like where we are going tonight,” Mr. Huisman said, referring to the United Mardi Gras Indian Practice. “It’s so true to itself and so African.

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I know several writers who have begun making pilgrimages down to New Orleans to shake off the New York grind.
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garnished with fresh herbs and shouted cheerily at each other over enthusiastic accordion music about the influence on all New Orleans artists of what Ms. McCalla called the “many amazing aspects of black culture represented here.”
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She lives in an apartment where her landlord is a voodoo priestess
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“Sorry I didn’t make it to Thanksgiving,” she called out. “I saw pictures of the smoked gator on Facebook.
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“We arrived at 4 in the morning in a deep fog in the Garden District,” she recalled. “In my mind there were beautiful vampires on vine-strewn balconies.”

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