A Nice Crowd
The blessings of the spectator sport.
Grace Ndiritu, Post-Hippie Pop-Abstraction: Competition (detail), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Klowden Mann.
Yesterday afternoon, I was halfway through a bowl of menudo when Lionel Messi scored his first goal in El Clásico, the semiannual soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. The game is one of the globe’s most-watched sporting events, and I watch it every year, but this was my first time catching it in New Orleans. I’d landed in a Mexican restaurant in Mid-City, where some families loafed around me and some waiters loafed around them. Immediately after Messi whiffed his
