Since the New Year’s violence, service workers across the French Quarter have navigated a strange dissonance, grappling with the emotional and financial fallout of an assault that hit so close to home while putting on a smile to do what they do so well: Show tourists a good time in a romanticized city that could live or die by their spending.

Corporate events abound in New Orleans as parts of the city is transformed for the Super Bowl. But in the French Quarter, the heart of the action, the smallest players in the city's hospitality scene are still keeping it real,

Kelsey Grammer recently revealed to the New York Post the reason why he had a 30-year falling out with “Cheers” co-star Ted Danson. The two actors appeared on a podcast last October where Danson apologized to Grammer for an incident on the “Cheers” set that resulted in them not speaking for three decades. Grammer now …