{"id":1993,"date":"2010-10-06T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2011-01-21T03:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:08:45","slug":"blaine-and-barry-kern-kiss-and-make-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"BLAINE AND BARRY KERN KISS AND MAKE UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2308209459674001\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"CCCCCC\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"C2C2C2\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"666666\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"333333\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2001\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-and-Blaine-Kern.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2001\" title=\"Barry and Blaine Kern\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-and-Blaine-Kern.jpg\" alt=\"Barry &amp; Blaine Kern\" width=\"318\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-and-Blaine-Kern.jpg 318w, http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-and-Blaine-Kern-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry &amp; Blaine Kern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a short public feud, less than 1 month.\u00a0 There&#8217;s so much money for the Kerns at stake, some of the major krewe captains, notably Owen &#8216;Pip&#8217; Brennan (Bacchus Captain) and Ed Muniz (Endymion Captain) got the Kerns to sit down by inviting the father and son to a meeting without telling each other.\u00a0 It was a classic usage of the Take Away Sale- If\u00a0 you don&#8217;t kiss and make up, we&#8217;ll take away Bacchus and other key krewes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1998\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blaine-Kern.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1998\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998\" title=\"Blaine Kern Sr.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blaine-Kern.jpg\" alt=\"Blaine Kern\" width=\"239\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blaine Kern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a hollow threat, there&#8217;s no other float builder around to take up the slack if the Kerns don&#8217;t build the major krewes.\u00a0 Carnival is less than 6 months away, and that&#8217;s go time in the float building business.\u00a0 Only Blaine Kern Artists have the size to build Bacchus, Rex, Endymion, Muses, Alla, Orpheus, and many more parades at once.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very ironic that a Brennan was called to settle this family feud, since the Brennans have a large family and have been feuding in and out of the newspapers for decades<\/p>\n<p>The family survived a rift that left the children of the late  Owen Sr. about as disposed toward their aunts and uncles &#8212; Adelaide, John,  Ella, Dick and Dottie &#8212; and their 11 children as the Hatfields were  disposed toward the McCoys. Since 1974, when the feud split the  business, Owen&#8217;s children &#8212; Pip, Jimmy and Ted &#8212; have run the family&#8217;s  original restaurant, Brennan&#8217;s, on Royal Street.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Ella, Dick, Adelaide, Dottie and John took over  Commander&#8217;s Palace in the Garden District and built it into one of the  10 top grossing restaurants in the United States. Adelaide, who did not  have children, died in 1983. Ella, Dick, Dottie and John continued to  run Commander&#8217;s and built five other restaurants &#8212; Mr. B&#8217;s, Palace Cafe  and Ristorante Bacco in New Orleans, Brennan&#8217;s and Third Coast in  Houston.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2308209459674001\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"CCCCCC\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"C2C2C2\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"666666\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"333333\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a short public feud, less than 1 month.\u00a0 There&#8217;s so much money for the Kerns at stake, some of the major krewe captains, notably Owen &#8216;Pip&#8217; Brennan (Bacchus Captain) and Ed Muniz (Endymion Captain) got the Kerns to sit down by inviting the father and son to a meeting without telling each other.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,4,9,107,128],"tags":[27,437,366,432,430,1146,39,435,436,434,1134,438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}