If you are anything like my friends and I, you love karaoke, especially after imbibing in a few adult beverages. The problem with karaoke Uptown is the availablilty of establishments open late. We are always on the look out for new places we can drink and sing, but I think we may have found a permanent home. We discovered this amazing place, Kajun’s Pub, after searching for a place outside the Quarter for late night singing and cheap beer. It’s easy to miss if you are not looking for the sign with the alligator or the… Read More »
You can’t live off of love sandwiches forever
Being constantly bombarded with announcements of people’s engagements, marriages, and babies I started to ask myself, what the hell is wrong with everyone? I am tired of family members and friends asking me when I plan on getting hitched like there is something wrong with me for embracing my singlehood when these are the same people that complain about how much they hate their significant others to anyone who will listen. Hardly any married person I know is happy, and those who seem to be are probably just pretending. On… Read More »
Album Preview: Cosmic in the Badlands
New Orleans-based band Coyotes have me drooling over their barroom sing-along-style Americana. The heady cacaphone of folk rhythms, ghostly horns and Duz Mancini’s raspy croon make me want to throw my arms around my best pals and sway to the music in a whiskey haze – they are the burn of a bourbon shot with a fizzy beer back, the soundtrack of a rollicking good time winding into the wee hours of the morning. If I sound infatuated, it’s because I am. Coyotes got their start in Los Angeles a couple… Read More »
Rachael’s TOP 5 Reasons Christmas was so much cooler as a kid…
Every year for the past several years, I reprise my role as the Grinch who stole Christmas beginning the day after Thanksgiving. It seems as though every year the Christmas preparations start earlier and earlier with the window displays in stores, the Black Friday sales, and the carols on every radio station. I have nothing against Christmas (starting the week of), but this month long madness not only annoys me it stresses me out. I can’t help but wish I was a kid again, because like everything else in our… Read More »
Rachael’s TOP 5 Things I missed being Jewish
Being raised in a densely populated Jewish community and having mostly Jewish friends growing up most people just assumed I also was of Jewish decent. My large nose and Jew-fro probably didn’t help me convince these people otherwise, nor did the fact that our fridge was always filled with lox and bagels, my mom cooked potato latkes during Hanukkah, and the star on the top of our Christmas tree bared a striking resemblance to the Star of David. The only hotdogs I ever had as a kid were Hebrew Nationals,… Read More »
