Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Imbibe, The Daily Beast, and Garden & Gun, among other publications.
Wayne Curtis
Mullet Street
On New Orleans’s most famous thoroughfare, it’s always 1986
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, August 18, 2022
Decommissioning Lee
The controversial removal of a prominent New Orleans statue
by Wayne Curtis | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Ghosts of the French Quarter
A glimpse into a literary past
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, August 06, 2015
Why the World’s Best Cocktail Is from New Orleans
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, July 16, 2015
Why the World’s Best Cocktail Is from New Orleans
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, October 01, 2015
Shell-shocked
New Orleans serves history on the half shell
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, September 17, 2015
To Go Left, Turn Right
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, September 10, 2015
Happy Talk
What did we know about joy, and when did we know it?
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, March 01, 2007
Living with Water
On Katrina’s tenth anniversary, the city enters a new relationship with water
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, August 27, 2015
Walled City
It will take more than a catastrophic storm surge to tear down these fortifications
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, August 20, 2015
Clash on Neutral Ground
Sharing the roads with an alien culture
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, July 30, 2015
Man on a Pedestal
What to do about this symbol of the Confederacy?
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, July 23, 2015
To Go Left, Turn Right
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, March 05, 2015
Meet Me on the Battlefront
How dressing up as Indians connects a culture to its past
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, March 19, 2015
Get up, Get down, Turn Around
Building a post-Katrina entrepreneurial culture
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, March 26, 2015
JazzFest Large and Small
You may complain about what it’s become, but you needn’t look hard to find local music and culture
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Super-natives Are Restless
Gentrification as civil war in New Orleans
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, May 07, 2015
Dancing in the Streets
Sending off Alfred “Bucket” Carter
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, April 02, 2015
Brand-New Cities
Frank Gehry's Bilbao Effect looks a lot like 1960s-style urban renewal
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, December 01, 2005
Rum and Coca-Cola
The murky derivations of a sweet drink and a sassy World War II song
by Wayne Curtis | Thursday, June 01, 2006
Jungle Bungle
As a rubber baron, Henry Ford was no Firestone
by Wayne Curtis | Monday, June 01, 2009
