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2018 has been quite a year for the city of New Orleans. With lit “300s” filling the city, packed festivals, and a new mayor, New Orleans spent its tricentennial year...

A melting pot, besides being a fondue restaurant on Saint Charles Avenue which is sadly now closed, is a term used to describe a society of many different cultures coming...

When you think of taking a sip of something sweet and thirst-quenching in New Orleans, you usually think of imbibing something alcoholic. However, there’s another type of...

New Orleans is one of the most staunchly Catholic cities in America because it was forged by French and Spanish people who were devoted to the Catholic Church. When the first...

Okay, so you know when your friends, your mom, your dentist, and probably the guy who checks you in at the gym all tell you that you have to go to so-and-so place to eat? You simply must go there, they assure you, because they have the best … whatever (insert random highly sought-after food item here—let’s just say pizza). You really like pizza, so you take their advice and go—except that you have to wait two hours...

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!” Big Red would yell in frustration when, as a kid, I had done something particularly dim-witted; and face it, oftentimes stuff I did as a youngster was considered dumb. Of course, I saw myself as clever, smart, and extremely witty. Others around me, however, when not considering that I was just another pretty face, believed I was as dim as a box of rocks, a tree stump, a sack of hammers, a Brillo pad. You...

Life is hard. But when living in the world’s most magical city, and more specifically, during the most magical time of the year (Mardi Gras, of course), life tends to feel a little easier. For about two months, New Orleans is blessed with Mardi Gras season. The euphoria in it comes from the fact that it’s a season jam-packed with all the things that makes New Orleans itself euphoric: dancing, music, food, festivals, cheap mixed...

What comes to mind when you hear the word coconut? Is it peaceful tropical beaches, coconut-scented tanning oil, and palm trees blowing in the wind? Or, is it the chaos—the noise, the color, the excitement—of thousands of festive parade-goers, all of them elbowing, shoving, and screaming, while vying for the coveted trophy of decorated coconuts distributed by festively costumed krewe members atop 30-ton floats? In New...