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There are over a million people who attend Mardi Gras each year. Among the attendees are hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to stroll along Bourbon Street, Canal Street, and St. Charles Avenue. They come to watch the ornamented floats while collecting as many beads, cups, and signature throws as possible. Most of the city’s tourists limit themselves to the downtown French Quarter festivities and Uptown parade routes. But, for a...

Most people know that finishing a marathon is nothing to scoff at: 26.2 miles of knee pain and exhaustion, months of training, and hundreds of dollars spent on nutritional supplements, good shoes, and pasta. But have you ever thought about what goes into organizing a marathon? From getting city permits and closing off traffic to making sure the distance is 26.2 and not 26.1 miles long, as well as keeping the route stocked with medical tents,...

Peter Murphy has had a love/hate relationship with New Orleans for as long as I can remember. So, when it was announced that he and David J (the Bauhaus bassist) were going to come through New Orleans and do a Bauhaus show, one couldn’t help but be a little skeptical. The last few times he was here, he had sound issues and wasn’t too happy about it. This time around, he was playing a venue he hadn’t played before and was in...

The legendary, revolutionary, UK-born roots reggae band Steel Pulse brought infectious “irie” vibes to the House of Blues Friday night. Their set started off with lead singer David Hinds running on stage, immediately identifiable by his familiar, unfathomably thick dreadlocks. Contrary to the single dense lock he sported in his younger days, recognizable on the iconic True Democracy album cover, which stood upwards,...