Tag: New Orleans

  • New Orleans: The City That Invented Itself

    New Orleans: The City That Invented Itself

    New Orleans in October, when the heat finally breaks and the most singular city in America remembers what it is Sometime in October — the exact date varies by year, but the Crescent City knows it when it arrives — the first cool front comes off the Gulf and the temperature drops ten degrees overnight…

  • Sara Ruffin Costello’s Fabulous New Orleans Home

    Sara Ruffin Costello’s Fabulous New Orleans Home

    In the Garden District of New Orleans, the photographer Paul Costello and his wife, Sara Ruffin Costello, live in a storied pink house that was what Paul calls “a chic disaster” when they found it in 2010.