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Cool Stuff in New Orleans – Music Box Village

In New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood there stands a unique sculpture garden. While appearing to be a collection of treehouses and cottages, each “house” is in fact a musical instrument. The work of the more than 80 artists with the New Orleans Airlift arts program, Music Box Village is “…inspired by the everyday presence of music in New Orleans, and the city’s under-celebrated class of tinkerers, inventors, and avant-garde musicians….” During public hours, guests are invited to experiment with sound-play; the site is also a performance venue for local, regional, and national acts. Music Box Village also hosts arts workshops in many different media, and invites its guests to sample local cuisine and beverages at the on-site bar.

For more information about Music Box Village, visit https://musicboxvillage.com/

For more cool stuff in New Orleans, check out missfishercon.com/new-orleans

This looks nothing like I expected. I’m intrigued

A young woman sitting outside the Old Absinthe House c.1927 (Photo by Arnold Genthe).

And to think! We'll be recreating this look in just a few months during our Mardi Gras-themed party at Belle Epoque! Will we see you there?

I’ll need to pack carefully to get all my hats to con 👒 ❤️

Something a little different for tonight's musical interlude…Danny O'Flaherty is an Irish balladeer from the Aran Islands in County Galway. He moved to the States in 1969, and for many years owned and performed in O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub in New Orleans. Then came Katrina,

He lives in Texas now, but his heart is still in the Big Easy.

Love this

New Orleans Cocktail of the Month for March - The Cafe Brulot Diabolique

This devilish delight was invented at Antoine's restaurant in the 1880s by Antoine's son, Jules Alciatore. As the name suggests, it's a coffee-based cocktail, one whose appeal is as much in the showmanship as it is in the taste. Your server mixes the coffee with spices, sugar, lemon peel and brandy, right there at tableside, and then

SETS IT ON FIRE!!!!!

before pouring the flaming liquid into cups for you to enjoy!

You can still get Cafe Brulot Diabolique at Antoine's, and some of New Orleans' finer restaurants.

Information provided for entertainment and education purposes only. Please drink responsibly.

Oooooh that looks 🔥

"You can never go wrong in a little black dress" - Florence Astor, Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, S1 E1, Just Murdered

Photo of Nicole de la Marge in a dress by Ronald Paterson, photo by Richard Dormer, October 1964

#littleblackdress

Celebrating International Women's Day

Yessssss

For tonight's New Orleans musical interlude, this classic from Dr. John.

My mother grew up within biking distance of Bill Watterson in Ohio and would like everyone to know:

Fa la la la la, la la, la, laaaaaa!

For tonight's musical interlude, this classic from the Soul Queen of New Orleans.

For our next musical interlude, we're heading to Italy! Louisa Mignone knocked our socks off with her rendition in Ms. Fisher's Modern Mysteries' Season 1, Episode 2 - from 1959, here's Mina and Tintarella di Luna

Did you know we have merch? Miss Fisher Con 2024 merchandise is now available in our Redbubble store!

Yessssssss! Ordered sticker, shirt, scarf… 🎁

It's Friday night! How about some music?

I love these musical interludes!

Tonight's musical interlude, in honor of Armistice Day

Adventuress Aloha Wanderwell Baker, sometimes called "the Amelia Earhart of the Automobile," became "the first woman to drive around the world," as part of the Wanderwell Expedition from 1922-1927. She made the trip largely behind the wheel of a Ford Model-T (Ford sponsored the expedition,) filming the adventure and giving talks along the way. By some accounts, she was the most well-traveled woman in the world, chalking up over 500,000 miles before her death in 1996

Can you imagine driving across India in the 1920s? Scratch that… can you imagine driving anywhere in the 1920s???

Registration for Miss Fisher Con 2024 - July 18 - 20 in New Orleans - is now open for members of the Adventuresses' Club of the Americas!

Not an ACotA member? You can be! We'll open up Miss Fisher Con 2024 registration to nonmembers in a couple months, but there's no reason to wait. Come join us!

Squeeeeeeeeeee!!