When people think of Bourbon Street, images come to mind of a cacophonous carnival of sights and sounds, bright lights and loud music, a frenzied, often garish atmosphere. This boozy barrage on the senses is often the image that lingers, and if in town only briefly, a visitor may end up thinking of New Orleans as Bourbon Street. No Dorothy, this isn’t Kansas. But it’s not really New Orleans either. In fact the high voltage brightness of the Bourbon Street circus often ends up misrepresenting ...