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The Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale, Mississippi has music workshops scheduled later this year
Leslie and I had the tasting menu at Nobu in Las Vegas in 2016 and it was faaaabulous
Nobu — restaurant and hotel — are set to open at what’s now Caesar’s in New Orleans (formerly Harrah’s) late this year.
2016
The story of Andrée Keil Moss — Keil’s Antiques in the French Quarter — in the FQ Journal.
As the reigning queen of French Quarter antique dealers, Andrée Keil Moss has witnessed the heyday of the Vieux Carre’s world-renowned antique emporiums. But few can match what she survived on her second buying trip to Europe with her parents in 1956 – sixty-eight years ago.
It was the sinking of the Andrea Doria.
from a visit last year
Anderson’s Alice: Walter Anderson Illustrates Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is available for preorder
from 2023
Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman will be working with Williamston + Atlanta Art Conservation Centers in a $2M restoration of its 125+ miniature structures after consulting with Kohler. The project will take about two years.
Ivan Argote’s 16′ tall pigeon will land on the High Line in NYC; Troy has Nall’s disturbing Violata Pax Dove which was originally commissioned as part of a post-earthquake renovation project for the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its not-so-good side:
and better:
from a visit in 2020
Butch Anthony puts on private tours of his Museum of Wonder in Seale AL
The Kenny & Ziggy’s sandwich with latkes rather than bread, from a 2015 visit
The two scuba divers who were left behind in the Gulf last month wanted to eat at Kenny & Ziggy’s when they made it back to land. From the NYT:
For the next 39 hours, the Makers bobbed in the Gulf of Mexico more than 20 miles offshore. They got stung by jellyfish and pried sucker fish from their legs. They watched search planes fly overhead, each one too far away to see them. Exhausted, they forced themselves to swim to fight off hypothermia. They sang songs and made up goofy games to lift their spirits…
…Mr. Maker, a retired firefighter, in particular became smitten with the “Fiddler on the Roof of Your Mouth,” a triple-deck sandwich with corned beef and pastrami on double-baked rye with Russian dressing and coleslaw.
September 24, a statue of Johnny Cash will join one of Daisy Bates representing Arkansas in the US Capitol. The unveiling will happen in Emancipation Hall.
Judy Pfaff’s Apples and Oranges at the High, from a 2020 visit
At Penta: How the High Museum of Art Transformed to Reflect Its Atlanta Home (the High’s membership is up 60%, now 41000).
One of Robert’s Freelines that I bought from him in 2008
For KCRW, Evan Kleiman’s The brutal history of sugar cane and the sweet taste of Louisiana pralines and Robert King, who sold his pralines after his conviction was overturned and he was freed after serving 31 years in Angola
Texas Highways on the Lanier Theological Library:
Hidden away in a gated, 35-acre estate, this grand,17,000-square-foot library offers over 105,000 volumes and resources, along with a digital library of 900,000 materials, highlighting world religions—primarily Christianity.
Mark Lanier, a renowned trial attorney and founder of The Lanier Law Firm, had the building constructed in 2010 after a visit to Oxford University, where he sketched a composite library design inspired by a collection of libraries he and his eldest son visited, including the famed Bodleian Libraries.
The Mayflower Cafe, 2011
Excited to see how The Mayflower in Jackson turns out — it’s been purchased and the team with Elvie’s is behind the refresh — open since 1935 and in the current location since almost forever, they’re building bathrooms downstairs in an additional space, putting a window to the kitchen in a hallway, and the original Mayflower comeback will remain (along with the bottles on the table). It will hopefully be open a little later this month. More at Garden & Gun.
Thrilled to announce that I’m likely going to be a Bama mom starting Fall 2025!
the lobby at 106 Jefferson in Huntsville — upstairs is the rooftop bar, Baker & Able — this is their lemondrop:
Went antiquing with Anne at Fox Hill in Florence AL
Glad both boys are home from their incredible summers — both boys spent weeks in Israel; Shug was also in Poland for a week and three or so days in Greece, and Shugie was at Temple University for about a week and Syracuse University for a couple of weeks racking up college credits early.
Hope your summer is fab fab fab too. xoxo!
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