Editor’s Note: What happens when you put together a jazz historian, a map maker, a sound engineer, and a writer/photographer? You just get a whole lot of jazz. Ba da bum!
John McCusker (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist/photographer and founder of The Cradle of Jazz Tours), Steven Melendez (journalist with publications in Fast Company, Newsweek, Al Jazeera America and New York Public Radio’s WNYC), Sarah Holtz (audio producer), and Kelley Crawford (journalist and writer) all put their efforts together to research, compile, and create a jazz tour full of photos, audio clips, text, and well…some good old fashion walking.
Audio stories: John McCusker
Map creation: Steven Melendez
Sound production and engineering: Sarah Holtz
Photos and text: Kelley Crawford
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. 
