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Po-Boy Views: The Need to Feed Or Tenement Symphony
New Orleans Perspectives
There's a place in New York City called Hudson Yards. It's a new development described as a monstrosity. I was raised two blocks from it, in the projects-five kids, single mother, and father figures through the years (a story for another time). The point: A two-bedroom space at...
Caffeine Jitters? It Really Can Affect Your Sleep
Acclaimed food writer Michael Pollan investigated the ways in which caffeine affects our sleep in his audiobook Caffeine, which came out at the...
A Cure for the Coronavirus? Not So Fast: The Wishful Thinking and False Hope That is Chloroquine
If only we could wave a magic wand and rid the world of the coronavirus for good. We all want it to just go away. We want a return...
Reading Your Way to New Orleans
Tennessee Williams, Anne Rice, John Kennedy Toole … these are the names one generally conjures when pondering New Orleans authors. If you've read 'em all and are still seeking...
All That Glitters is Not Gold
If you go to a parade in New Orleans, there's a good chance you'll be wearing glitter, whether you intend to or not. The sparkly substance is everywhere during most every festival,...
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
Saints Take Over the Dixie Brewery as New NFL Draft HQ
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
With the NFL Draft right around the corner on April 23-25, football teams across the country are gearing up to finalize their rosters and are strategizing to prepare for the big weekend. However, the closure of NFL facilities due to the coronavirus pandemic is forcing teams to transform the ways in which...
Alleviating Stress
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
In these awfully strange times requiring self-isolation and social distancing, it's all too easy to feel inordinate amounts of anxiety and stress. Worries roll almost unceasingly through your mind. When can I go back to work? How will I pay my bills? Am I experiencing allergies or symptoms of COVID-19? Will I survive if and when I do catch the...
Reach Your Fitness Goals and Mix Up Your Workout with Interval Training
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
Short on time? Looking for a new challenge? Try interval training-designed for speed, strength, endurance, and a good sweat-session-in 30 minutes or less. Considered to be the latest fitness rage, interval training is a series of low- to high-intensity work periods interspersed with rest or recovery periods. The intermittent cycle of...
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Quarantine Brings the Movie Theater to You
Film
As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Hollywood has been forced to make some changes. With theaters shut down, the deadline for digital releases has been moved up. Movies which have recently premiered (or are slated to open in the following...
Film Review: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Film
After a very limited run in theaters, Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is now streaming on Amazon Prime. This filmed-in-the-New-Orleans-area movie is for Smith diehards only. Stoners Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith) learn that Hollywood plans to make a reboot of Bluntman and Chronic, the comic book whose heroes are based on them. They set off from New Jersey to Hollywood to stop the film. Along...
Film Review: Blow the Man Down
Film
Now streaming on
Amazon Prime, the new film Blow the Man Down is an effective small-town
noir.
Written and
directed by Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole, this film follows two
sisters, rough-around-the-edges Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) and the more grounded
Priscilla (Sophie Lowe), in a small Maine fishing town. Following their mother's
death, Mary Beth meets a sketchy man in a bar. After she leaves with him,...
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