Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Sneauxball- Behind the Mistletoo
Posted by Jeanne Foster on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:43 PM
The creative people at the local ad agency Keating Magee got into the holiday spirits or maybe the spiked egg nog this season and made this hilarious "local" spoof of VH-1's Behind the Music posted on You Tube about Sneauxball- Behind the Mistletoe, "an icy cool guy who turned his life into one hot rock and roll ride".
My favorite part is that the other "snowballs" at the Snowball stand said "he had no local flavor, no local flavor"
tax sale - last call
Posted by Jeanne Foster on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:32 PM
Twelve shopping days left until Christmas. Why not buy a family member a blighted New Orleans property? The New Orleans Tax Sale ends this evening at 8:00 pm central time, unless the system isn't fully compatible on my internet browser (the system is unavailable on Safari Browsers, but works with Firefox), it seems like there are 4 pieces of New Orleans real estate left up for grabs - all for under $15,000 (as of 5:30 pm).
300 properties were announced this morning.
Make sure you read all of the stipulations online, for instance you won't take full ownership of your newly acquired land for three years. Happy house hunting!
Prime Personality
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:10 PM
A friend of mine grew up in New Orleans taking regular family meals at Charlie's Steakhouse, which were always followed by slow drives around Audubon Park with opera playing on the car radio, back in the days when you could drive through the park. Another friend recalls how one of the restaurant's waiters would never allow him to order a filet, calling it a "woman's steak."
And I'll never forget the first time I set out to eat at the scruffy, disheveled Uptown restaurant. I arrived at the address and briefly thought the place had closed. The door was so forbidding – a medieval looking thing with iron bars and clanking levers – I thought I had found the service entrance. Inside, there were sounds of people and smells of food, but the front bar and ersatz reception area looked literally abandoned. I spotted another door, opened it to find a flight of stairs and made it up only a few steps before a waiter came charging down with a tray of grease-spattered metal plates. He directed me to the main dining room, just past the darkened bar, where what looked like a Shriners convention of hefty regulars were plowing through brontosaurus-sized T-bones.
more shops for tiger town
Posted by Jeanne Foster on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 1:05 AM
As a follow-up to my previous blog entry, analyzing how Baton Rouge seemed to be trumping NOLA for large commercial retail spaces, The Advocate announced today plans for Louisiana's first Apple Store at a new extension of the Mall of Louisiana. Apple filed a permit to build a 5,500 square foot store. If you haven't been to an Apple Store-it is a holy experience for any MAC lover and if your like the PC guy, you might be converted.
Sephora must not have heard my pleas to open in New Orleans, as they have plans to open a 6,000 square foot space near the new Apple Store as well.
In other Baton Rouge shopping news, Anthropologie officially opened this past weekend at Perkins Rowe.
And if the Sex and the City movie buzz, gets you craving Sarah Jessica's adorable and affordable line-BITTEN. Well, you'll have to hit up Steve and Barry's at the Mall of Cortana, in sigh, B.R.
