A tattooed grandmother from a tiny Mississippi town took Manhattan by storm for the second half of the 20th Century. Ms. Ellen Ellis Lee is an exploding ball of laughter and energy who retired from 40 years of wardrobe supervising in 2000. With two tiny stud earrings in the cartilage of her right ear, the [...]
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Miss Ellen Ellis Lee
Posted: December 2, 2010 in Faceshot, Traveling ShotsTags: Ellen Ellis Lee, Mississippi, Ocean Springs, The Art House
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Oh When The Saints Go Marching In!
Posted: February 8, 2010 in City News, Traveling ShotsTags: hurricanes, jumbalaya, king cake, mardi gras, New Orleans, The Saints
Last night, NFL history was made when the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl. This blogger watched the game among a slew of NOLA fans in a Saints Blow Out Party at Social Bar in Midtown Manhattan. Donning Saints shirts, eating home-made jambalaya along with yummy king cake, and sipping super-strong Hurricanes, the crowd [...]
Faceshot: Cheryl Dawson Black
Posted: February 6, 2010 in Faceshot, Traveling ShotsTags: Cheryl Dawson Black
She has memorized every relevé and port de bras of Giselle because she’s seen it so many times. She has a memory bank full of variations that she learned as a teenager at the Washington Ballet. And her favorite role was La Sylphide when she was 18 years old. Cheryl Dawson Black first stepped foot [...]
Faceshot: Mama Cat
Posted: July 24, 2009 in Faceshot, Traveling ShotsTags: French Quarter, Mama Cat, New Orleans, Palm Reading, Regina
“Find ‘em. Fuck ‘em. And forget ‘em.” is her life motto. She comes from a long line of palm readers and has been reading in the French Quarter of New Orleans since 1984. Regina, aka Mama Cat, sits in front of St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square and waits for potential clients. “There’s a Lutheran [...]
Social Experiment with a French Twist
Posted: March 22, 2009 in Faceshot, Placeshot, Traveling ShotsCheck back later today to see what happened when I tied a disposable camera to a bench in France. Look below to see the photos…
Faceshot: The Mexican Restaurant Rocker
Posted: January 7, 2009 in Faceshot, Traveling ShotsTags: Anderson Domingues
Anderson Domingues spices things up at El Rancho Mexican restaurant On Thursday and Sunday evenings, Gulf Coast residents can have their cravings for Mexican food and classic rock satisfied at the same time in Biloxi, MS. At El Rancho, Anderson Domingues performs an eclectic and surprising mix of artists ranging from Journey, U2, and The [...]
Faceshot: Darwell’s Darwell
Posted: January 4, 2009 in Faceshot, Traveling ShotsTags: Darwell Yeager, Darwell's, Long Beach
a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker He lives in a tour bus. He calls himself a “washed up old hippie.” And he pushes the vidalia onion dressing. The proprietor of Darwell’s in Long Beach, MS is a jack of many trades whose life is more colorful than the watercolors hanging in his restaurant. Darwell’s [...]
Placeshot: the big M
Posted: January 2, 2009 in Placeshot, Traveling ShotsTags: Hernando de Soto Bridge, Memphis, Mississippi
The Hernando de Soto Bridge connects Memphis, TN to West Memphis, AR Straddling the Mississippi River, the Hernando de Soto Bridge is known to locals as either “the new bridge” (because of its youth in comparison to neighboring bridges) or “the big M” (because of its shape). Called by the Guinness Book of World Records [...]
Faceshot: Live Jazz…in the Airport?
Posted: December 25, 2008 in Faceshot, Traveling ShotsTags: Atlanta, Jazz, Michael B.
Michael B. tinkers out tunes for international travelers Pianist, composer, and musical arranger, Michael B. has many gigs–one of which is bringing music to the ears of fliers in the International Terminal at the Atlanta airport. “It really works here,” Michael says of the jazzy aspect of the terminal (the only one with live music). [...]
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