It’s great to see most of the city’s festivals return to full strength this summer, and when they come back as strong as Essence Festival of Culture 2022 - replete with several new programs, including film and food festivals - it’s especially gratifying. We take a quick look at the highlights for this weekend, which include Janet Jackson (pictured).
As well as Essence, we review contrasting tours (Urban Enslavement at the Hermann-Grima House and French Quarter Phantom’s Saints and Sinners Tour) and report back from Jack Rose restaurant and the Maison de la Luz Hotel. We’ve also got a more general look at Southern hospitality trends if that’s your bag, plus the diary and news!
Thank you so much if you signed up for the newsletter this past week, we sincerely appreciate it! We picked two winners for the restaurant voucher and cookbook generously supplied by The Ace Hotel and these are on their way to L Williams and C Root respectively. We have way more prizes and giveaways coming up, so you’ll have more chances to win in the very near future, we promise.
Don’t forget that if you like nightlife then our sister publication, Up All Night New Orleans goes out every Thursday.
We’ll be back next week but in the meantime, thanks again for your support, stay cool if you can and much love, wherever you are.