Hook, Line, & Sinker hosts Wild Moon Hunt in Laveau. Defying the sweltering heat, the community gathers in this event that combines music, food, and old Louisiana tradition under scorching summer skies. Wild boars unleashed, however, result in a blaze that forced eventgoers to flee. Luckily, the majority of people escaped with minor injuries.
“Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.” Charles Baudelaire, The Poem of Hashish Following the road as it climbs from Port Laveau toward downtown Hathian, Lush Leaf appears almost unexpectedly, like a secret growing in the cracks of Laveau....
This month’s Fangs and Claws Edition leans enthusiastically into the animal theme. The crowd gathers expecting teeth, claws and questionable decisions, and the organizers appear determined not to disappoint. At the center of it all is Clivia Sanko-Tang, armed with her usual megaphone and the kind of diplomacy normally associated with bar fights. After silencing...
There are places in Laveau that do not need an introduction. They stand there like old scars, familiar even to those who have never stepped inside them. The clinic is one of those places. Tucked beneath the same roof as the Asylum, the medical clinic has long been one of Laveau’s necessary institutions: useful, feared,...
THE LEDGER – Laveau, LouisianaBy Camille Dupont, Staff Writer LAVEAU — Holiday cheer was nowhere to be found beneath the bayou as Bayou Brawls: Santa’s Sack Edition delivered a night of festive violence, shredded nerves, and blood-soaked tradition. Before a single blow was struck, fighters were forced to plunge their hands into Santa’s infamous sack,...
Laveau’s underground club returns with a Wizard-of-Oz spectacle along with drug-laced fog, emotional fireworks, and a very public family implosion. LAVEAU, LA – The long-awaited reopening of The Vault, Laveau’s notorious subterranean nightclub, erupted Saturday night into a kaleidoscope of neon color, curated fog, and unrestrained revelry. The event, themed after The Wizard of Oz,...