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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...

Three hundred years ago, when Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, discovered New Orleans and decided to make it the capital of the French colony of Louisiane, we’re...

New Orleans has been making its mark on the country and the world for over 300 years. One of the things that the city can be most proud of is the number of universities and...

The city of New Orleans has contributed much to not only America, but also the entire world, since its inception 300 years ago. The city has given the world great food, a unique...

Street Art is, without question, the most influential art form of the 21st Century—and understandably so. It is for the people and by the people, uncensored by commercial or political influence and displayed where all can see. Of course, much of it is illegal; even many of those who have graduated to galleries and commissioned murals made their bones drawing outside the lines of the law.  “A small group create, promote,...

I’ve had a series of ten personal moving experiences in New Orleans in the last twenty years. I’m not talking about dancing steps, psychic breakthroughs, or intestinal functions; I’m talking about the whole relocating “pilot experience” of pick it up here, pile it there. Granted, the moves were from not only my living quarters, but from my brick and mortar shops as well. In both cases, in a word, it sucks....

Contrary to popular belief, New Orleans does have distinctive seasons—even more than the usual “four seasons.” It’s New Orleans, so of course we do not conform to what others might expect, and this goes for our weather and the other seasons unique to us.  Our autumn rolls in around the time our neighbors to the north are already in deep-freeze mode with that crazy white stuff falling from the sky everywhere....

The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company (TWTC) of New Orleans has done it again, successfully bringing another Tennessee Williams masterpiece to life. This time around it’s Vieux Carré, the emotion-packed story of a motley group of misfits living together in a New Orleans boarding house (based on the actual former residence of Williams himself). It’s the story of human interactions and human relationships, of joy and...