Biking around New Orleans in the years after Katrina, pondering the destruction—what was lost and what survived, the blue sky reflecting in the puddles and in the potholes—Anthony DelRosario was conceiving the project of a lifetime. He would go on to spend days, months, years documenting the careful lettering advertising beauty salons, barber shops, churches, delis, daiquiri shops, lounges. This included corner stores, once the center of community life for gossip and groceries. It all began as an act of preservation, a realization that “life and things are fragile and ephemeral.” BEER - WINE - Liquor  KILLER FREE Jukebox Snacks…GOOD TIMES He calls his life’s work Nola ‘Nacular, a reference to the vernacular signage he has taken to heart. Hand-painted signs are going the way of the typewriter, the way of the phonograph. Growing rarer every day, these signs are sometimes misspelled but always distinct to the painter, utilitarian, sure, but also something more.…