New Orleans Magazine April 2015

Music + Festivals

Can Tipitina’s Inspire the Orpheum?

Two guys with a dream say it will

Music + Festivals

Guardian of the Groove

festive wear for festival frolicking

Lagniappe

Mobile Music Homes

New Orleans Airlift is back with “The Roving Village Residencies”

Things To Do

JULIA STREET WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT

THE PURSUIT TO ANSWER ETERNAL QUESTIONS

History

April is a big month for sneezing, such as recently when I was climbing the steps of a building that was surrounded by flora. First there was the tickling in my eyes, followed by three rapid-fire blasts. There was a pause and then another sneeze. “That’s four,” a man climbing the steps behind me said. “Jeez, he’s actually counting my sneezes, ” I thought to […]

Things To Do

TRY THIS

Grandmother’s Buttons Opens In NOLA GrandmothersButtons.com Grandmother’s Buttons, the Louisiana-made jewelry company, is opening its second location in New Orleans on Magazine Street. The grand opening on April 9 will feature food, music and gift bags for the first 50 customers. The opening coincides with the company’s 20th anniversary of its flagship store in St. […]

Fashion

On Needles and Pins

Acupuncture therapy for wellness

Cocktails

Loup Garou – The Drink

Wolfing it Down

Recipes

Easter Renewal

A menu to welcome spring

Restaurants

Small Plates; Big Dreams

Balise, Shaya and Bourré

History

The Magic Cap

When the subject is fashion, I’m never called upon to be an expert witness and certainly never chosen to be a model, especially when the fashion in need is for casual events such as festivals. Few of us, of either gender, have what it takes to look as good as our cover model, for whom neither wind nor heat presents a challenge. Sometimes wardrobes get a reaction because of a T-shirt with […]

Home + Design

American Style

Garden District home has a modern touch

History

Carrollton

Along the garden path

Personalities

Ill Thoughts

Strep by strep

Personalities

Playboy The Bunny

And Other Cotton Tales

Music + Festivals

READ+SPIN

MEMOIR: For any fan of the Beatles, meeting Paul McCartney is a defining life moment. For a young musician, meeting and spending time with McCartney and his wife Linda as they visited New Orleans to record the fourth studio album for Wings was a dream come true. Earlier this year John Taylor, bass player for […]

Arts + Entertainment

April’s Showers

Sounds of all sorts

Arts + Entertainment

Songs of the Culture

Ann Savoy’s carousel of talent

History

Looking for Consent

A day in court

Wellness

HEALTHBEAT

A study published in February in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that exposing infants to peanuts prior to age 1 helped prevent a peanut allergy. The Associated Press reports that exposure lowered the risk of a peanut allergy by as much as 81 percent. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of […]

Personalities