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Ross (3282 KP) rated New Orleans Piano by Professor Longhair in Music
Jun 5, 2020
[Empire of Sin]by [Gary Krist] was an interesting account of the downfall of what I would have thought as the golden age of New Orleans. New Orleans was the last bastion of sin in the South during the Gilded Age in America. This was a time period when people were trying to live by Victorian standards and New Orleans went against them all. This was a war between cultures and depending who won, New Orleans was bound to be changed.
The book was well written. It started out really strong and the characters in the book were very colorful, more so knowing they were real people. This was a character driven non fiction which makes sense for New Orleans which had more than it's share. My only complaint was towards the end of the book [Krist] seemed to be quickly wrapping up some stories not giving the details that were present in the beginning.
I have recommended this book to quite a few people though. It was a much needed non-fiction fix.
The book was well written. It started out really strong and the characters in the book were very colorful, more so knowing they were real people. This was a character driven non fiction which makes sense for New Orleans which had more than it's share. My only complaint was towards the end of the book [Krist] seemed to be quickly wrapping up some stories not giving the details that were present in the beginning.
I have recommended this book to quite a few people though. It was a much needed non-fiction fix.
Jessalyn Joy (118 KP) rated The Princess and the Frog (2009) in Movies
Jul 16, 2017
Cool
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I didn't like that they introduced voodoo into the movie but it is in New Orleans and that is part of the culture so I did enjoy the movie.
MelanieTheresa (997 KP) rated Let the Dead Sleep (Cafferty and Quinn, #1) in Books
May 16, 2018
Matthew McConaughey recommended Angel Heart (1987) in Movies (curated)
Kevin Phillipson (9967 KP) rated the PlayStation 4 version of Mafia III in Video Games
Apr 22, 2020
Lincoln clay (2 more)
New Bordeaux
60s setting
Been playing a lot of this week it's a good open world set in a victional version of New Orleans everything about is great the 60s setting the music the cars the fashion and Lincoln clay the main character the missions u have to do can be very violent but that's nothing from these type of games
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2097 KP) rated Under the Cajun Moon in Books
Mar 9, 2018
Chloe returns to New Orleans after her father is shot in an accident, and wakes up the next morning in a strange hotel room with a corps. What's going on? This book grabbed me from page one and didn't let me go until the very end.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-under-cajun-moon-by-mindy.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-under-cajun-moon-by-mindy.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Dean (6925 KP) rated Night of the Demons (2009) in Movies
May 29, 2021
Fun low budget horror
Not to be confused with the 80's film of the same name. Fairly run of the mill Horror as a few friends attend a Halloween party in a derelict house in New Orleans.
The make up effects were very good and the soundtrack was decent. One if you are in a Halloween theme mood.
The make up effects were very good and the soundtrack was decent. One if you are in a Halloween theme mood.
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated A Kind of Freedom: A Novel in Books
Nov 6, 2017 (Updated Nov 6, 2017)
A book rooted in hope and endurance
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's beautiful debut novel explores four generations of a family, from the time of segregation to mass incarceration.
In A Kind of Freedom, Sexton pursues a family’s history in a downward spiral, with three alternating plot lines that echo one another along the way. It begins with the budding love of Evelyn, brought up in New Orleans and the daughter of a Creole mother and black doctor father. She is courted by Renard, a poor man who works menial jobs to get by but aspires to study medicine. Their courtship reveals the strictures of a class- and colour-driven society that suffocates ambition and distorts desire.
The second generation is about Jackie, a single mother in 1980s New Orleans who is in love with her child’s father but afraid he will succumb to his crack addiction.
Eventually, we get to know Jackie’s son, T.C., in 2010, a young man at a turning point in his life. Through T.C.'s eyes, Sexton portrays a post-Katrina New Orleans where the smell of mold still lingers and opportunities for fast cash in the streets abound, as do the chances of getting shot or arrested.
It's an unflinching portrayal, slightly detached and not overbearing in its rhetoric. It shows where links have been bruised and sometimes broken, but dwells on the endurance and not the damage. A moving read.
In A Kind of Freedom, Sexton pursues a family’s history in a downward spiral, with three alternating plot lines that echo one another along the way. It begins with the budding love of Evelyn, brought up in New Orleans and the daughter of a Creole mother and black doctor father. She is courted by Renard, a poor man who works menial jobs to get by but aspires to study medicine. Their courtship reveals the strictures of a class- and colour-driven society that suffocates ambition and distorts desire.
The second generation is about Jackie, a single mother in 1980s New Orleans who is in love with her child’s father but afraid he will succumb to his crack addiction.
Eventually, we get to know Jackie’s son, T.C., in 2010, a young man at a turning point in his life. Through T.C.'s eyes, Sexton portrays a post-Katrina New Orleans where the smell of mold still lingers and opportunities for fast cash in the streets abound, as do the chances of getting shot or arrested.
It's an unflinching portrayal, slightly detached and not overbearing in its rhetoric. It shows where links have been bruised and sometimes broken, but dwells on the endurance and not the damage. A moving read.