Errol Laborde serves as executive editor of New Orleans Magazine and Louisiana Life magazine. In 2013, he was awarded first place in the City and Regional Magazine Association’s competition in the Columns Category. In 2021, he was given a Bronze Award, also in the Columns category, by the International Regional Magazine Association. The winner of over 20 New Orleans Press Club awards, Laborde is a three-time winner of the Alex Waller Award, the highest award given in print journalism by the Press Club.

Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am

Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium

Chronicles of South Louisiana

with Errol Laborde and William J. Thibodeaux

11:30 am to 12:15 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 1

Muddy Mississippi: Past and Future

with Ned Randolph, Boyce Upholt, and moderator Errol Laborde

When Rex Met Zulu and Other Chronicles of the New Orleans Experience

In chapters ranging from food and drink to history and war, this book shares real-life stories that only New Orleans could produce. Errol Laborde founded Lundi Gras and the now-beloved tradition of Zulu meeting Rex at Spanish Plaza before a loud, excited crowd on the eve of Fat Tuesday. He tells that origin story here, along with other vignettes adapted from his national-award-winning Streetcar column in New Orleans magazine.