Culture
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The Wild World of Doubloon Collecting
It’s not just about beads during Mardi Gras time. You’ll find plenty of people who prefer other such baubles over the ubiquitous strings of beads that just weigh your...
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"Can I Crash at Your Place for Mardi Gras?"
"Can I Crash at Your Place for Mardi Gras?" : How to Say No, and What to Do After You Say Yes Disclaimer: This article is geared toward young professionals...
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Where Y'at Chat - January 2019 at New Orleans Cajun Cookery
Where Y’at Chat Questions (January 2019): Ho! Ho! Ho! St. Nick needs a ride. What are you picking him up in? What's naughty about you? It's...
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The Krewe of Zulu Puts the Sublime in the Coconut
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...
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Takin' It To The Streets: How to Host Your Own New Orleans Second Line
You’ve seen them in the streets of the French Quarter—anywhere from two to 200. They’ve got a band, stilt walkers, jugglers, clowns, drinks, smiles; they’re...
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Armed and Ready for 2019
Do we get a do-over come New Year’s Day? I always hear about New Year’s resolutions, but do we get any brownie points for trying to do better? Resolutions to improve,...
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New Jeers OR Guy Friday
I’ve decided that for 2019, I’m gonna put myself up for adoption. It’s the only way out of this mess, and I think that it would be mutually beneficial for me as...
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New Year’s Traditions Around the World: New Orleans Edition
New Year’s Eve continues to be a popular holiday for worldwide celebration: the start of another chapter in the world’s history and a time for people to make new...
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Bellhop Bar at Loews New Orleans Hotel Offers “Cocktails at Your Service”
You probably spend plenty of time going to the bar—but what if the bar could come to you? That’s the idea behind the Bellhop Bar by Loews Hotels. Now through January 13...
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Santa Claws Has Come to Town with the Amazing Acro-Cats!
If you think that herding cats is a challenge, you should try getting them to walk a tightrope, push a mini-shopping cart across the room, roll around on a ball, or jump through...
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Top 10 New Orleans Destinations for the Prudes in Your Life
We live in a vibrant, colorful and incredibly lively city. And though it’s hard to believe that there are people out there who don’t like this kind of place,...
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Dreaming of a Tennessee Williams Christmas with The Mutilated
“As long as you have longings, satisfaction is possible.” –Celeste Delacroix Griffin When you think about the work of Tennessee Williams, you probably expect...
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A Christmas Carol at Le Petit Theatre is Making Spirits Bright
Everyone loves A Christmas Carol. It’s a time-honored, beloved Christmas classic that we never grow tired of. Frankly, it simply wouldn’t be Christmas without at least...
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A Meet-and-Greet Book-Signing Party at the Kitchen Witch Cookbook Shop
Johnny White’s Sports Bar was a French Quarter institution that weathered the New Orleans heat and Hurricane Katrina, and provided a place of refuge for those with nowhere to...
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More OR Less
Hey, hey, hey! Welcome to the December issue of Where Y’at, which, as you know, will encompass Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, and Festivus for the Rest of Us (I think I might...
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World Traveler
I complain that I never get to go anywhere, that my world is so small because I am confined to our shop day in and day out. And then, in walks another world. Travelers from...
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A Holly Jolly Tricentennial: 300 Years (or Almost) of Christmas in New Orleans
This year, New Orleans will be celebrating its 300th Christmas. That’s 300 visits from Papa Noël, 300 gumbo-laden dinners, and 300 eggnog-induced hangovers. Of course,...
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Red, Red Wine, You Make Us Feel So Fine: It’s Beaujolais Nouveau Time Again!
Some things just don’t age well—like those leftovers in your fridge, bananas, and Val Kilmer. Similarly, so many things are better when they’re young and fresh:...
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How Do You Describe New Orleans?
Much has been said, written, and sung about this city. Some people become enamored with this place because of its rare and enticing culture that allows them freedoms that they...
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The Rose Collaborative: Revitalizing St. Rose de Lima's Buildings
Renovations of the St. Rose de Lima campus (which includes a church and two school buildings, vacant since Hurricane Katrina) will regenerate the oldest road in New Orleans: Bayou...
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French Quarter Horror Story: Where to Eat, Sleep, Drink, and Walk with the Ghosts of New Orleans this Halloween
One of my favorite things to do when I travel somewhere new is to take a haunted history tour. A city tour will no doubt cover all of its urban environs’ key Final Jeopardy...
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A Vampire Culture That’s to Die For
During the mid-1970s, Anne Rice released her first book, Interview with the Vampire, which would later be the first of a series of books titled The Vampire Chronicles. These books...
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Halloween Around the World
Known for its haunted history, vampires, Voodoo and unique cemeteries, New Orleans may be one of the creepiest cities around. Of course, this is no shade to the best city in the...
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When Dinosaurs Danced
“WELCOME!" Damn, I forgot to mute the volume and just startled several customers, my little dog wet herself, and I am frantically reaching across the desk to the...
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Activist and Author Jared Green to Donate 1000 Children’s Books
Jared Green, a 24-year old activist, leader, and nonprofit organization founder, can now add author to his list of motivating titles. On September 21, he released his...
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How’s Bayou Business? OR The Road
As they say on the block, “If you don’t know, you betta ask somebody!” So, you wanna know? Come down my street, come visit, come set a spell. Come with...
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Not Today Seitan OR Waltzing Wheat-Free
Back in the mid-1800s, Madams Begue and Tujague cooked for New Orleanians of every stature and circumstance. They specialized in five-course meals that you could have one of two...
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New Orleans Traffic Camera Tickets: Effective Safety Measure or Nuisance?
Ten years have passed since the city of New Orleans accepted and implemented the automated red-light and speed camera enforcement program. This is the longer way of describing the...
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“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing” –Edmund Burke
In less than two years, one man has changed the course of history. How can one person dismantle a country? Because people let it happen. Because we do not believe in the voting...