Posts Tagged ‘bars’
Four days
July 28, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: bars, countdown, drinks, French Quarter
Four: 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 [...]
Trip to bayou country
March 14, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: bars, bayou country, Houma, journalists, news, Thibodaux
[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, [...]
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I graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in May with a degree in print and digital news. I moved to New Orleans in January to complete my master's project researching objectivity as it applies to journalists in their everyday lives. I am living in New Orleans while I look for reporting jobs at newspapers and news Web sites. I am available for freelance work in and about the Greater New Orleans area. -- Jackie BorchardtThe blog
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