This summer we’re running a Throwback Thursday series, where we feature one of our favorite summer pieces from the past. Today it’s all about sno-balls. Keep reading to forgo a round of iced-saccharine Russian roulette and maintain your candied hydration with the real deal.
Sno-ball stand openings are as sure a sign of summer in New Orleans as booster club baseball tryouts or too-hot-to-touch steering wheels. Come hot weather, it seems every neighborhood corner has one pop up, like mushrooms in a clover field after a summer thundershower.
Local artist and photographer Gretchen Wheaton offers this virtual exhibition of sno-ball signs, harbingers of shaved-ice-and-syrup season in New Orleans. Colorful, idiosyncratic, expressive, they become, through her expressive images, icons of dog day afternoons in the City that Care Forgot. Enjoy.
NOLAbeings Multimedia artist Claire Bangser created NOLAbeings as a portrait-based story project that marries... 
Voodoo in New Orleans: Reviving history: New Orleans fortune telling This article takes a deep dive into the history of Voodoo in New Orleans, its hybridization with Catholicism, and its present-day place in the city's culture. The author visits fortune-tellers in the French Quarter, using their guidance as a tool for introspection rather than a deterministic predictor of the future. Through her experiences in New Orleans, the author feels a mystical connection to both the past and the future. 