It’s no secret that Holy Cross, a nabe located in New Olreans’ Lower Ninth Ward, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. This is the area that was shown on the news time and time again, unidentifiable under the depths of the Mississippi. In the wake of this tragedy, the Lower Ninth Ward was one of the slowest areas to come back from th…
St. Claude is an enigma.
No, that’s not quite right. When you’re there, it isn’t hard to define. You know what it is. You’ve been to places like it before. You just don’t know how to say it, other than maybe… “You know, it’s like… well, you know.”
I’ll try to paint you a picture.
…:::We’ll play meta, and it will be fu…
When you’re in downtown, sometimes finding the lines between different nabes can be hard. Although its marked off by the big red Chinese gates on 4th and Burnside, Chinatown can still be a bit hard to define culturally. The first bit of confusion comes from the fact that the area isn’t real inhabited by a significant amount of Chinese…
While by day this nabe tends to host a variety of businessmen and tourist, once the sun goes down, LoDo, short for Lower Downtown, turns into a whole different animal. A tiger, perhaps. What do I mean, you ask? Well, here let me explain. LoDo does not have the most sound reputation. In fact, when you mention the neighborhood to my fri…