Harlem, a Poetry Lesson.

Featuring Jumel Terrace Books and The Private Library.  Bruce Weber’s been supportive of the shop for several years now.  Asked about his favorite haunts for the book My City, My New York he talked about our walks around Harlem.  Last January, a shoot he did on location here appeared in German Vogue called All That […]

Charles Fortner’s Return to his Native Land: Treme.

A year ago our friend Charles Fortner, of the 6th Ward in New Orleans, was felled by a stroke.  An authority on local cuisine, it was something of an occupational hazard.  Having just returned from five days dining with Covington’s own Camilla, Charles and another of Treme’s highly esteemed connoisseurs, Lolis Edward Elie, I can […]

A much appreciated appreciation.

  Friday, September 20, 2013 The Sling Diaries Volume III, Love & Adventure: Wisdom by Lisa Koyuki Smith. Photographs by Mike Nogami. This is my sixth and final entry in the Sakura Bloom Sling Diaries series.  To follow the Sling Diaries project, visit the Sling Diaries Facebook page or the Sakura Bloom Instagram feed.  To see my Sling Diary in Instagram […]