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I will miss… bar hopping on Frenchmen Street, Uptown, MidCity… This city knows how to drink: Bloody Marys at brunch, mint juleps on a hot afternoon, ice cold seasonal Abita at night while listening to live music. Bars populate the city. Some line up along one street. Others are nestled into neighborhoods. We went to [...]

I’ve decided to add a night to my last week and leave on Sunday instead of Saturday. This gives me a third day to pack and relax before hitting the road. Also, my roommate Rachel will be driving north on Sunday. We’ll caravan and if I get tired, I can stop with her. Once again [...]

Broadening my Louisiana life experience, I met some reporter friends in Houma to go crabbing. What’s crabbing? You go fishing and come back with fish. You go crabbing and come back with crabs.

The process is pretty simple. Find some water. Tie a string to the dock or a stick or other object that won’t move [...]

I found a summer temp job “quickly” and have been asked repeatedly how it happened like magic. My coworker Michael and I got into a discussion about unemployment and job searching at lunch today and we condensed my success story into the following points. Sure, they seem to be common sense, but if just one [...]

My fingernails are still dirty and the grease probably won’t come out of my t-shirt, but it was worth it for putting together my very own bicycle from scraps.

After looking at several used bikes around the city, I decided to check out the Plan B bike co-op. The shop is intended to be a public [...]

[yes, that is a $1.25 Keystone Light tallboy special on the sign]
My cousin Camille turned 21 on Thursday, so her older sister and I decided to visit her in Thibodaux where she goes to school. A friend of hers drove us to the bars, about a mile from campus. He parked along the bayou, toward [...]