Where Y'at

While a number of new technologies have come and gone in the last 20 years, there have been few as intriguingly complicated as the installation of 5G cell towers in the French Quarter. The new towers should increase cell phone speeds, but only outdoors. The problem behind the technology is that it does not penetrate walls, which would mean that French Quarter businesses would not see the benefit of...

To add to the list of reasons of why our city is so great, New Orleans is ranked as the eighth most pet-friendly city in the U.S. Wallethub.com revealed that owning a pet, which over 80 million American households do, can be pretty pricy, depending on where you live. The American Pet Products Association believes that in 2020, Americans will spend about $100 billion dollars on pet...

Dawn Porter's documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble debuted on VOD and in theaters (it played at the Broad in July and then at the Prytania through August 6) shortly before the legendary civil rights activist and Congressman's death on July 17 (at the age of 80). It's a mostly stirring portrait of an important figure in American history. Lewis was one of the Freedom Riders, who peacefully worked to...

The Rental is a fairly tepid attempt at a horror movie. For most of its 90-minute running time, it's an excruciatingly dull soap opera; then, in its last 15 minutes or so, it becomes a generic slasher film. Two couples rent a beach house for a weekend getaway, but things spiral out of control when they suspect that they are being spied on. Even before they feel that they are being watched, there...