New Orleans is a city where cultural tradition matters. In New Orleans there is a balance between innovation and tradition. Improvisation never comes out of nothing. It is always rooted in history . . . in New Orleans. So this is an environment where people sort of backslide into the future.
I’d say that churches and bars are the two most important places in New Orleans.
H/T to Shannon Selin. Littered with some of the standard cliches for the first 5 minutes, but then it gets going.
