Ray Mitchell Jr. last spoke with his wife around noon Friday during a lunch break from his job digging a tunnel underneath a Kenner home to perform some plumbing repairs. Despite the days spent in muddy trenches â this one 6 feet deep â Mitchell, 42, never expressed any nervousness, said Renada Banks. “He loved his…
Fall is one of the busiest times in the garden. Even spring, the season when most people get âplanting fever,â doesnât measure up to the amount of planting we can and should do now. Vegetable gardeners are preparing beds and planting fall and winter vegetables and herbs that will thrive in the cool temperatures and…
Who stole Sweet Emma? That question haunted New Orleans artist MJ Robitaille for 13 years, ever since her life-size plywood painting of Sweet Emma Barrett, a jazz pianist, singer and Preservation Hall icon, disappeared from the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience in City Park. Sweet Emma, Robitaille assumed, was gone forever. And then, in March, she…
