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New Orleans Magazine January 2013

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Elizabeth “Betsy” Barnard and Thomas Blackburn Favrot III were introduced through Betsy’s friend who volunteered with Thomas at the Houston rodeo. Thomas asked Betsy to dance at Gallant Knight Bar, which featured a jazz band every Thursday. Betsy didn’t realize that Thomas would soon become her Gallant Knight. It didn’t take long for Betsy and […]

Read&Spin

CD He isn’t a New Orleans native, but Ned Sublette has devoted plenty of time to the Big Easy with his knowledge and talents. He wrote two books about New Orleans – The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square and The Year Before The Flood: A Story of New Orleans, and […]

Best Hotel Bars in New Orleans

Where just about nobody knows your name

Guide to Schools in New Orleans

Area private elementary and secondary schools, public and private universities and public charter schools

2013 Tops of the Town

Our Readers’ Picks in a Range of Categories

The Politics of Education

How the election shook up the school board

DINING GUIDE

                  January at Muriel’s 801 Chartres St., 568-9795, Muriels.com January may be a quiet and cold month in other cities, but not in New Orleans. Take Muriel’s in Jackson Square for example. Founded in 1718 at the same time as the city, it’s one of the oldest […]

Cocktail Recipe for the New Year

The New Year is a time to remember past happiness and a chance to plan for the future. Maybe we can even make good on matters that have gone off track. A Hurricane – the drink, not the meteorological event – is one of those famous cocktails that has had great success but at a […]

Light Recipes for New Year’s Resolutions

Here we are at diet month in the face of King Cakes and Super Bowl. My ploy? Not to eat a single chip in January. Or a cookie, or a piece of King Cake. It is the only way.  Now I’m not one to do without when it comes to food. It gets me in […]

Taking a Bigger Bite

Did you know that Morning Call opened a location in City Park? If so, congratulations; if not, now you do. It is in the first floor of the casino, and it’s hard to imagine how they could have done a better job with the renovation. The opening marks a return to Orleans Parish for Morning […]

New Butchers Putting Down Stakes

Meat lovers, rejoice. A growing number of specialty shops around town now cater to carnivores with a focus on artisanship, selection and customer service. Uptown on Baronne Street is the new Cleaver & Co., a whole-animal butcher shop that takes a holistic approach to its sourcing. The brainchild of Seth Hamstead, the shop strives to […]

Artsy Home Decor

Stephanie and Terrence Osborne’s home is a reflection of his art.

When It Snowed in New Orleans

From 1853 to 2008, the National Weather Service recorded 17 New Orleans “snow events.”

Digital Grandma

My little granddaughter Lollipop has written a song. We never had no songwriters in the Gunch family before. We never even had anybody who could carry a tune. We are the kind who moves our lips silently while everybody else belts out the words. And get this – this song is about me. My daughter […]

The Family That Inks Together Stays Together

A relationship that’s more than skin deep

Terror in New Orleans

He loved roses – if only he could have loved them longer. This column, being the first of the year, should be joyous, and indeed there’s much to be joyous about – a new year and the Super Bowl coming, to down right in the middle of the parade season. Our cover story, which focuses […]

Music From the Soul

Ruminations on St. Cecilia

A Pixie at Krewe du Vieux

Early in the parade I had made a good catch . We were near Marigny Street watching Krewe du Vieux pass by. Because the irreverent krewe marches on the weekend before the big-floated parades begin, it’s a harbinger of the season. Its marchers and its crowd tend to be more bohemian than what might be […]

TRYTHIS

            Pilates and a Little History – New Orleans-style You have probably heard of  Joseph Pilates, or even taken a class, but you’ve never taken a Pilates class like this. Uncle Joe’s Pilates Studio, a nod to the regimen’s founder, in Riverbend co-owned by Larry Gibas and Juan Williams, teaches […]

Accolades for New Orleans

The Big Easy has been quite popular with the travel media recently.

New Orleans Crime:“Front End” to “Back End”

A view from both ends of public safety

Irish Museum Opens in French Quarter

Walk around the French Quarter. You can read the history of the city in its architecture, hear it from tour guides and experience curatorial renditions at landmark properties. Now, a new cultural center in the French Quarter is telling a different chapter of the city’s history, one its founder says has been neglected for too […]

Healthbeat

Patricia Molina, M.D, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Physiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Molina’s term began in November of 2012 and will end in October […]

Startups Flourish in New Orleans

Building enterprises from the ground up

Coaching for Change

On a recent rainy afternoon, students at Samuel J. Green Charter School got their first taste of an unfamiliar sport, rugby, and a dose of one tried-and-true youth development tool, coaching. Nick Conte, a youth coach with the New Orleans Rugby Foundation, showed the students how to run with a rugby ball and evade tacklers […]

Austin Rivers

My first game to see New Orleans Hornets rookie point guard Austin Rivers play was ironically against the Utah Jazz, the team that was once known as the New Orleans Jazz. The Jazz logo, as my friend pointed out, looks just like the same one it had when it was located in New Orleans. While […]

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OUR TOP PICKS OF THE MONTH’S EVENTS

Julia Street with Poydras the Parrot

THE PURSUIT TO ANSWER ETERNAL QUESTIONS

Learning From the Spirit of the Jim Letten Years

Crime fighting and public integrity took a big step backward in 2012 with the resignation of U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. He was the person in public life that people trusted most. His reputation as a crime fighter was unparalleled by anyone who has held that office locally. Letten’s resignation was triggered by the revelation that […]

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