New Orleans – Flung

Choice New Orleans: A Guide To Bright Nights and Blue Notes

Flung — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:59:55 +0000

At a time when the downtowns of cities across the United States, one after the other, are coming back to life in the image of Brooklyn, New Orleans has accomplished what would seem impossible—forging ahead with its own identity, its own aesthetic, its own cuisine, its own music. Turn one corner and run straight into a brass band, turn another and take in a streetscape of cascading flowers and wrought-iron balconies. Walk inside a restaurant for increasingly contemporary takes on […]

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Ace Hotel New Orleans: Beautiful and Scatterbrained

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:39:58 +0000

I rolled up to my two-night stay at the Ace Hotel in New Orleans at 1 a.m. on an early Wednesday morning after a long flight from New York. A weird time for first impressions, but perhaps a more honest one than usual. The bar staff was closing things down but the guy at reception looked ready for anything—he wasn’t not dressed for a late night out. Despite his careful hipness, though, he was nice as could be, as were […]

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La Petite Grocery: That Apple Salad Though

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:55:16 +0000

On a recent afternoon in New Orleans’ Garden District, I hopped off the St. Charles streetcar on what seemed a cloudy but pleasant day. And yes, my walk through those lovely blocks over to La Petite Grocery on Magazine Street started out sublime. But it nearly ended with me cowering under an awning, succumbing to the heaviest rain I’ve ever been caught in. That’s a lesson to learn about New Orleans, and I learned it the hard way. Torrential rain […]

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The Drifter Hotel: A Retro Backdrop for Commonplace Debauchery

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:03:01 +0000

The beginning doesn’t feel like the best place to start recounting my experience with the Drifter Hotel. Not the moment I exited my Uber and walked through what had to be the front entrance of the new 20-room hotel in New Orleans’ Mid-City neighborhood. Nor the moment I entered the lobby and looked around, noting that yes, this did appear to be a wonderful repurposing of a 1950s roadside motel. Nor the moment a twenty-something oh-so-indolently checked me into my […]

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JFK –> New Orleans on jetBlue Flight 775

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 27 May 2018 23:50:10 +0000

In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better informed in an age of frustration, obfuscation and increasingly unfriendly skies. JFK —> MSY on jetBlue Flight 775 Flight: jetBlue 775 from New York City to New Orleans Scheduled Date and Time: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 at 9:45pm Check In and Security: I checked in online and had no luggage to check, so breezed right through into the security area. I have […]

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