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# Crescent City, Signing Off
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/crescent-city-signing-off/
- Published: 2011-07-20T11:30:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:36.000Z
- Description: When Hyperallergic editor Hrag V. asked me to guest edit this site in his absence a few weeks ago and bring a little bit of the Crescent City to the Brooklyn-based blogazine scene, I thought it might be an uneasy fit: after all, as A.J. Liebling memorably said in "The Earl of Louisiana" (though perh
- Author: John d'Addario
- Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, New Orleans, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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When Hyperallergic editor Hrag V. asked me to guest edit this site in his absence a few weeks ago and bring a little bit of the Crescent City to the Brooklyn-based blogazine scene, I thought it might be an uneasy fit: after all, as A.J. Liebling memorably said in “The Earl of Louisiana” (though perhaps most memorably in the intro to[ *A Confederacy of Dunces*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%5FConfederacy%5Fof%5FDunces?ref=hyperallergic.com)), “New Orleans resembles Genoa or Marseilles, or Beirut or the Egyptian Alexandria more than it does New York.” I mean, your bars actually close up there! Talk about your strange customs.

But of course New Orleans and New York have a lot in common: they’re both singular places that are more like themselves than anywhere else, and places where the arts thrive to a degree that very few other cities can match. In the meantime, y’all (I can say “y’all”, right? I’ve lived here long enough) have made me feel most welcome, and I hope I managed to convey a little of what makes the landscape down here, artistic and otherwise, so special and unique. Thanks everyone!