Living, loving, laughing, and learning in the new New Orleans
I’ve never been a big bar person. In college, I generally opted to stay in and watch "Good Eats" and "Forensic Files" or bake bread or read Judy Blume novels in lieu of going to The Fieldhouse or Big 12 Bar & Grill. I am not a huge drinker; I don’t...
New Orleans Finest Nightlife
It still feels perfectly normal to walk into the Circle Bar, never mind that it reopened just last weekend after a yearlong hiatus for repairs and renovation. An outpost at the fulcrum of Uptown and downtown, it’s still an alluring, atmospheric watering hole with one of the city’s...
New Orleans Community Activism Blog
Ah, Facebook! Let's face it; not everyone writes great status updates. I have one friend who, every time he posts, posts 10 strident political diatribes. Not one, but 10! I have another friend who aired her bitter divorce updates daily and if I see one more cute cat status I shall hurl up...
Weekly Commentary with New Orleans Magazine’s Errol Laborde
Our City Talks Back
Sara Woodard is Executive Director of STAIR, an acronym for Start The Adventure In Reading. With over 350 local volunteers, STAIR in New Orleans teaches first, second, and third grade children to read. As they help children learn to read, STAIR volunteers give the children positive role models...
Weekly Column from Web Editor Alex Gecan
Constance Adler began composing the vignettes that would ultimately form My Bayou: New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover in 2004. This was before two of the seminal events in the story—the literal whirlwind of Hurricane Katrina and the emotional maelstrom of her divorce from the...
All there is to sip and savor in New Orleans
Some people, and maybe you are one of them, have avoided wine for all of their drinking life because it just seems like it’s way too complicated.
Beer is easy to deal with. And it tastes good. You just open the can, or pull the tap, or unscrew the bottle and get with it. It does not...
Lifestyles, Galas and Gaiety from St. Charles Avenue Magazine's Morgan Packard
When I first moved to New Orleans (to attend Newcomb College in 1999), Bywater was a place that only those “in the know” talked about; and when it was mentioned, we were warned to only go “with a group.”
Since then, much has changed in that neighborhood and in New...
Our weekly blog on the New Orleans fine dining scene
This Thursday Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," will appear with Poppy Tooker from 3 to 5 at the Thursday afternoon edition of the Crescent City Farmer's Market in Mid-City. Tooker is, among other things, the host of the...
Exploring the humor and peculiarities of the Big Easy
When I was in Ohio over the holidays, my cousin asked me about Mardi Gras because he was thinking about visiting. Like most people up north and maybe everywhere that's not Louisiana, he thought that Mardi Gras was just about one day, with one major parade. I was like, au contraire!
I...
