Carville's condo, a tragedy becomes personal and a second life for Mimi's

The Front Page: Carville's condo, a tragedy becomes personal and a second life for Mimi's

By Chad Calder

Carville's Back: Or as he puts it, he never left. Two months after selling their uptown home, James Carville and Mary Matalin have bought a downtown condominium for $2 million. In the meantime, the political consultant known as the "Ragin Cajun" only had a place in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, prompting people who ran into him in public to give him grief for leaving Louisiana. Carville said the new digs complete the political power couple's effort to downsize in retirement.

Tragic Realization: When news broke over the weekend that a car had been found in a New Orleans East canal containing the bodies of a man, woman and child, there were few clues or details to shed any light on what was clearly a tragedy. But for one woman looking for her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter after their regular Friday dinner visit, the discovery confirmed her worst nightmare.

A Second Life for Mimi's: Mimi’s in the Marigny, the beloved bar that had to close during the coronavirus pandemic, will return to one of the landmark buildings in its namesake neighborhood, the former home of Feelings Café on Chartres Street. Ian McNulty has all the details here. And while you're at it, he's got a look back at how a modest French loaf made Dong Phuong a local institution.

All this and much more in today’s Front Page. Thanks for starting your day with us.

CC