New Orleans Around the Web | Week of October 24

It’s the end of the week and once again, New Orleans is giving people something to talk about. As a haunted city with a vampire fetish, something strange happens in New Orleans every Halloween. Everything hiding under beds and in the corners of dark closets comes out at night. So, in this week’s NOLA Around the Web, we have a Swamp Monster siting, lyrics to a creepy New Orleans-inspired song, plus the adventures from a traveling National Geographic writer.

National Geographic’s Intelligent Traveler, Andrew Evans, has been making his way through Louisiana from Cajun Country down to New Orleans where he’s been having quite a time. Taken with the cultural cornerstones of the city, he chatted with Voodoo Priestess Sallie Ann Glassman about the power of herbs at Island of Salvation Botanica and got a behind the scenes look at the secret of making Café du Monde beignets.

Another day, another food blog about New Orleans. A post simply entitled “New Orleans: The Food,” on “A Fit and Spicy Life” recounts a Midwestern foodie’s memorable meals spanned across a six day visit to New Orleans.

These unassuming song lyrics from Concrete Blonde’s “Bloodletting” may sound like an innocent folk song, but in fact they are part of a cryptic and menacing vampire story inspired by Anne Rice. From @akelaa: “I got the ways and means, to New Orleans/I’m goin’ down by the river where it’s warm and green.” In the Halloween mood, anyone?

In celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, bartenders from The Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone concocted a decadent mixed treat inspired by one of the ghosts said to roam the premises: a former Carousel Bar regular, Solemn John.

This article looks at what cities have maintained its vehicles of early public transportation: streetcars. Though the inner city trains have come and gone in some cities, they are as functional and romantic as ever in New Orleans.

A New Orleans born artist comes full circle: Wayne Gonzales, an artist who has shown all over the world but never in his native country premiers his first solo museum art show in the United States at the first venue he ever saw fine art: NOMA.

 

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