Our weekly blog on the New Orleans fine dining scene
Xavier Laurentino is a happy man. About three weeks ago, he opened Barcelona Tapas in the space formerly occupied by Café Volage at 720 Dublin St. For the past two-and-a-half years, he’s been engaged in a monumental renovation of the ancient cottage that is impossible to appreciate...
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Posted by Robert Peyton on 03/04/10 @ 12:00 AM
New Orleans Finest Nightlife
There will be longer Carnival seasons than the one we’ve just finished, but it’s hard to imagine one being more intense. The New Orleans Saints made sure of that, injecting spontaneous post-game party eruptions and that incomparable Super Bowl victory parade to the shank of Mardi...
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Posted by Ian McNulty on 02/24/10 @ 12:00 AM
Following one bride’s attempt to plan the wedding of her dreams in New Orleans
Setting up my gift registries has been one of the best and worst tasks during my wedding planning process. If you searched my fiancé’s last name, you’d find four different registries for our wedding date but only two of those registries are fully functioning. The etiquette...
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Posted by Jessica Natal on 03/03/10 @ 12:00 AM
Weekly Commentary with New Orleans Magazine’s Errol Laborde
This has got to be the best time ever to be a dog. City Bark, the dog park, is about to open –– and just in time. People are walking dogs all around town and not just one at a time. Increasingly, there might be two or three connected to a leash. What has really changed, though, are...
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Posted by Errol Laborde on 03/08/10 @ 12:00 AM
All there is to sip and savor in New Orleans
In the Happy Hour blog on Feb. 25 , we noted the recent scandal involving America’s largest winery, Gallo, and its suppliers in the Languedoc region of France, Sieur d’Argues, who furnished Gallo the “pinot noir” grapes for the brand, Red Bicyclette. As you no doubt...
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Posted by Tim McNally on 03/04/10 @ 12:00 AM
From the Garden State to the Garden District
When I was 10 years old, my mother took me to Newark Symphony Hall to see the legendary Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe. Athletic and atypical yet graceful and gifted, the dancers defied standard models of modern dance. Many of the dancers were either too tall or too muscular, but in every capacity...
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Posted by Marcie Dickson on 03/02/10 @ 12:00 AM
Living, loving, laughing, and learning in the new New Orleans
I didn’t travel all that extensively as a child. There was a trip to visit my grandfather in Milwaukee when I was 4, the only thing about which I now remember is that my step-grandmother made me a snack of canned pears decorated to look like mice. There were numerous trips to the house in...
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Posted by Eve Kidd Crawford on 03/05/10 @ 12:00 AM
