There are times you know you've done something good. Because Madewood is like a huge ante-bellum vacuum cleaner (yes, they had them back then, powered by the push of a human hand), sucking up every dollar I can [...]

We called it The Frat Trifecta, The Triple Crown Royal. We'd signed Madewood up for three fraternity parties in two weeks. Were we crazy, or just willing to do anything to pay the bills? Madewood had hosted the [...]

We planned a casual repast, three friends, former colleagues at The Times-Picayune, getting together to ponder the future of online journalism. The most au courant of the group suggested the recently-opened Dominique's on Magazine, the newest incarnation of [...]

At first I thought it was Invasion of the Costume People III, or that Papageno, Mozart's feather-costumed birdcatcher, had strayed into Madewood's library, complete with birdcage on his back, after missing a cue in an errant production of [...]

If my usually laid-back wife, Millie, feels as strongly as I do (in contravention of ancient Greek philosopher Socrates's wisdom) that the unexamined life is, in fact, well worth living, then why did she put our tiny Uptown [...]

The sight of mothers-of-the-bride driving pickup trucks to a wedding is so 2012 -- at least along Bayou Lafourche. Instead of filling their truck beds with what's left of the reception buffet and roaring off into the distance, [...]