...it’s been a while since I’ve heard a debut album that’s impressed me the way that this one has. By William Ruben Helms
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Noir Acrylics and Sketch by Author, Musician, and Artist, Louis Maistros
Iconic acrylic portraits of Betty Short mugshot and Lon Chaney, as well as a rendering of Typhus Morningstar from The Sound of Building Coffins.
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Book of the Month, Halloween Galore 2010
Book of the Month: The Sound of Building Coffins
Our book of the month entwines elements of folklore, history, Jazz, and the underworld -- all taking place in late 1800s New Orleans. How about that?
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Photos: Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers
Photos and scribble scrabble by Carlos Detres
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Selection for Week of 5/14/10: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury
Billed as the sequel to Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York, this book contains vivid and lurid accounts of the The Vieux Carré pre-1930's.
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Photgrapher, E.J. Bellocq and his Prostitutes of Storyville
New Orleans red light district of yore, Storyville photographed by E.J. Bellocq. Selected by Carlos Detres
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Selection for Week of 4/23/10: A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces couldn't be a more perfect title for John Kennedy Toole's novel. By Carlos Detres
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An Interview With Louis Maistros, Author of The Sound of Building Coffins
An interview with New Orleans based author, Louis Maistros about his debut novel. Conducted by Carlos Detres
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Top 5 Scandalous Places to be caught dead on Halloween
You still have plenty of time left to decide where to dress down into your sluttiest and goriest costumes.
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A Living Cemetery by Sean Perry (Director of Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans)
When I first started researching Lafayette Cemetery during 1996, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
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