neworleansmagic

  • New Orleans Folds Space

    New Orleans Folds Space

    Today started out ordinary and veered straight into uncanny. I sat down at Honey’s, a neighborhood café I picked more or less at random, and barely had time to sip my coffee when Hayden—yes, that Hayden—walked in like it was the most natural thing in the world. We met over a month ago, hundreds of…

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  • Laura Mattingly at the R Bar

    Laura Mattingly at the R Bar

    New Orleans magic. Laura Mattingly has been giving haircuts at R Bar in the Marigny every Monday night for 14 years. I knew Laura back in the day as one of the wild punk kids who floated a damn pedal raft from Kansas City down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. That’s a…

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