HBO Series "Treme" Challenge

Hello Day of Dead New Orleans Celebrators

Announcing today!!  that all who watch the first 4 episodes of the HBO series Treme will win a $15 gift certificate to Cake Bakery, a wonderful breakfast place a block from Lion's Inn on Chartres, or a $15 gift certificate to The Joint, best BBQ around. The series can be found on Netflix, HBO Go, and probably others like Amazon Prime.

This brilliant series is about New Orleans, with the first episode starting 3 months after Katrina.  The opening episode introduces all the players: politics, police, gentrification, beginning recovery, the Mardi Gras Indians, the second lines on Sundays ( the black clubs that make elaborate feather costumes to dance and chant at special events), the food, the music (jazz, Louie Prima singing Buena Sera Signorina), etc

The series is done by David Simon, who did the award winning series, The Wire, about drugs and crime and politics in Baltimore.

Of course this will be the honor system, and I hope it will lead to watching the other episodes after the first four.  With the map I sent and the Rebecca Solnit Atlas book on New Orleans, you can look up items to learn more about them.  Such as the Mardi Gras Indians, or the social and pleasure clubs that organize the second lines on Sunday's at 1pm.


Big Chief Howie

Opening Day of Official Blog for the Day of the Dead New Orleans Birthday Celebration

Hello all,

Have just started a blog for the 70th birthday party in New Orleans, October 31, November 1, November 2, 2014

I am looking for this to be a repository of information on the party,New Orleans, restaurants, news articles, recipes, music, literature, movies...........

Enjoy!!

Big Chief Howie