New Orleans Magazine February 2015

Bourbon

A bar-hopping guide to America’s native spirit

Fashion

Pave the path to her heart with diamonds and lace; these stylish tokens of love say “Be Mine” year-round. Ten carat heart-shaped yellow sapphire with diamond halo and split shank set in platinum and 14 karat hand-crafted cupid pendant with diamond eyes at Jack Sutton; hand-carved and painted wooden frame […]

Wellness

patients’ pick

Top Rated regional hospitals

Wellness

atrial fibrillation

Responding to a different beat

The Art of Nature

Charlotte and Jean Seidenberg’s tranquil home

Feet on the Street

A tradition of dance groups

Quieting Down

Keeping Satan guessing

Lagniappe

Hear Today

Reaching the inner ear

Things To Do

Toe Business

Reflexologists afoot

Revised and Remembered

Sketches of Spain and dirges for Al Belletto

Music + Festivals

READ+SPIN

COOKING: In the latest Savor the South cookbook series, Gumbo, Dale Curry offers up 50 recipes for Louisiana food lovers. Curry is a monthly contributor to this magazine, the former food editor at The Times-Picayune and author of New Orleans Home Cooking. This simply designed volume is petite, but packed with every gumbo imaginable, a […]

Music + Festivals

When Music Reigns

February rocks for Carnival

Things To Do

OUR TOP PICKS

FOR FEBRUARY EVENTS

Boatner Reily

Making it right

Need a Portfolio Tune-Up?

Four tips for investors

Private-Tears

The evolution of hard times for higher education

Wellness

HEALTHBEAT

U.S. News and World Report released its rankings of the best and worst diets for 2015. A panel of experts rated each diet on a scale of one to five based on “short-and long-term weight loss, ease of following, nutrition, safety and performance as a diabetes and heart diet.” Topping the list were the DASH […]

Fighting Time

The hardest battle

Cocktails

A Carnival Perspective

The Reveler Reviver

Recipes

One-Pot Wonders

Catching up with Carnival

Restaurants

Bruning’s Bar and More

Continental Provisions, Bourré and Purloo

Restaurants

Chinese On the Menu

Daring and traditional

JULIA STREET WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT

THE PURSUIT TO ANSWER ETERNAL QUESTIONS

Lagniappe

We’ll Miss You Herbert Simpson

Sorry We Never Met You

Rex Takes a Train

In 1943 Franklin Roosevelt because the first sitting president to fly. In 2015 Rex of that year became the first monarch to arrive at Lundi Gras by train. Rexes have ridden the rails twice before, including, according to Rex archivist Stephen Hales, a visit to the 1884 Cotton Centennial at the site of today’s Audubon […]

Things To Do

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Things To Do

Go With The Glow

Trying an anti-aging facial for the first time