From the Editor’s Desk

by Nikita Weymann on March 2nd, 2013

This week we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the city of New Toulouse, founded on March 8, 2008, by Carricre Wind, affectionately known as Mama Cree.

Kicking off the week is the opening of Art in the Park, a weeklong exhibit by Taloosters and friends. Join Maurice Nixon today at 1:00 PM for a champagne reception in Laveau Square. Currently on display are works by T. S. Carson (as curated by Lazarus Morane), Maggie Hawksby, Adele Kling, Kristine Jinx-Kristan, Gigi Lapin, Maurice Nixon, and Bryn Oh. More artwork will be added as the week progresses.

Shotgun Row Blues Cafe and the Green-eyed Fairy will offer Founder’s Week amusements, and the week wraps up on Saturday, March 9, with a ceremony by Mayor Godenot followed by a street party and live concert by singer and pianist Kyle Bronsdon.

Mama Cree once said,

New Toulouse, despite all appearances, is not New Orleans. It may seem like New Orleans at times, but it’s not. Instead it is a glorious approximation of a south Louisiana city set around 1918 in our past.

It’s all the pain, the beauty, the lust, community and loneliness all rolled up, in a pretty package.

It’s everything from the history and the imagination. There are gators, zombies, hoodoo mambas and houguns, gentlemen, belles, sluts and hobos. In Taloos, skin color is an option, ’cause we get all sorts. There’s a deep history, but it isn’t ours.

It’s theirs.

They earned it.

If you’re reading this right now, you are probably a Talooster. Whether you live in the city or the bayou or elsewhere, whether you have been here from the start or you’ve just arrived recently, you are what makes this place so vibrant. All of us together make up this strange and wonderful thing called New Toulouse, and that right there is cause enough for celebration.


Nikita Weymann may be a grumpy swamp hermit, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you.

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