New Orleans
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #5
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: Some nights only begin once you get hit in the face. I never saw it coming, though I’m not sure the rider in Bacchus could say the same. The…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #4
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: If there’s one lesson we know well here in New Orleans, it’s that none of us are immune to the elements. It’s only a matter of time before a…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #3
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: “I thought I’d be happy with just one!” Kellie says, her slender frame weighed down under two full pounds of beads. Around her neck they gleam in a perfect…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #2
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: “Y’all ready?” I ask the cops, clustered near the corner of Napoleon and St Charles. “Been ready,” one shoots right back at me. “Just ready to get it done.”…
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Throw Me Something, Mister:
Mardi Gras Dispatch #1Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: This is how it begins: with a lot of standing around. Some of us are drunk. Some of us are getting there, some of us are dead sober, but…
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GENERATION GAP #7: Mario Tama’s New Orleans
Now that It is over—now that the circus has come and gone, its glaring lights, its grips and its roadies; now that the visiting dignitaries have made their dignified departures and the newspapers have returned to publishing news
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #12: Miss Marty, Mother of Strippers
New Orleans has a textured and macabre history when it comes to the sex industry, particularly regarding house moms–that hybrid of manager, referee and babysitter.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #11: Angela Eve’s Bohemian Hustle
Angela Eve and I work together at a topless joint on Bourbon Street. We spoke in the locker room while she brushed her hair and I applied gloppy eyelash glue. Angela Eve’s the hardest working stripper at Rick’s. She lures…
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THE BLURB #17: The Poet Never Affirmeth
Are there rules that govern the representation of the “real world” in fiction? How much should fiction writers be allowed to misrepresent history before being called out for it?
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #8: The Sex and Politics of Antonia Crane
Antonia Crane has worked many jobs in the sex industry. She’s done escort, BDSM, porn, and stripping. She’s also been very engaged with sex worker activism.
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Politics Sunday
Gangland tours of LA, with one helluva waiver. In New Orleans, what happens when sex workers are prosecuted as sex offenders. A brilliantly written profile of a sniper. “(M)y grandmother’s feet were bound in China, and there were people here…
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The Hurricane and the War
A new book about a soldier who murdered his girlfriend examines the similar traumas of combat veterans and Katrina survivors.