Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Things I Love New Orleans

Things I Love New Orleans

Men know how to flirt
People dance
No one is afraid to look like a fool
It’s slow
It’s really slow.
You can bike everywhere on a cruiser.
People say “hey” when you pass on the street.
People say darlin and baby.
Caliope is pronounced Caliope; Burgundy is Burgundy; Charters is Charters
Everynight, there’s live music, and every odd hour, WWOZ announces all 30 sum
varieties of it on the radio.
There are twenty-two blocks which lie between Piety and Desire.
Pimm’s Cups with a slice of cucumber at the Spotted Cat.
Peeling paint
The southern love of the woman
A plate of beignets drowned in powdered sugar at a table surrounded by tourists at Café
du Monde
All those musicians
Brass bands.
Neutral grounds.
Driving to Gretna for Vietnamese food
Mandina’s
The week after Jazz Fest
Super Sunday
WWOZ 24 hours a day.
The Soul Rebels, Wednesday nights, at the Matador
Double shotguns
Canopies
How lush it is
The creative use of Mardi Gras beads
Trombone Shorty
Stopping by and hanging out
Sneaking into the pool at the Hyatt and the Marriott and the New Orleans Athletic Club
Gallatoire’s
Hearing people downtown say quarter and corner
April
Running into people you know, everyday, all over town
The Fly
Saying Tchapatoulus
Kaboom Books
How many different ways there are to say, “New Orleans.”