Wayne Curtis

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.

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 5, 2017

Top Banana

When fruit was king

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 24, 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

And Then, Quiet

Ten years after the storm

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 3, 2015

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

Everybody Scream

The return to normal

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 13, 2015

The Art of Doing

By Wayne Curtis | Saturday March 1, 2008

Happy Talk

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday March 1, 2007

Rum and Coca-Cola

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday June 1, 2006

Brand-New Cities

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday December 1, 2005

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