New Orleans Magazine July 2015

Season's Reasons

Summer perfection

Stephanie Grace, 2015 New Orleans Top Female Achiever

Political Columnist, The Advocate

Jax Frey, 2015 New Orleans Top Female Achiever

Artist

Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D., 2015 New Orleans Top Female Achievers

Richard Ashman, Ph.D. Professor and Head, Department of Physiology, LSUHSC and Director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence, LSUHSC

2015 New Orleans Top Female Achievers

It is no longer novel that women are achieving great success in their fields, many of which were once exclusive to men. While there’s no longer novelty in the news, there are, among all people, discoveries in the storytelling. We present here 10 women whose stories are worth knowing, as we look for the spark […]

Wolfman's Prowl

A Feast of Fridays

Read + Spin

HISTORY: As the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, this month The Historic New Orleans Collection releases The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City by photographer David G. Spielman with essays by Jack Davis and John H. Lawrence. This 168-page hardcover-bound volume features more than 125 of Spielman’s sometimes haunting, sometimes heartening black-and-white images […]

Live From Bohemia

Aurora Nealand and Tom McDermott on stage

Trouble With Robots

Adventures in modern times

Heather Lolley, 2015 New Orleans Top Female Achiever

Director of Restaurant Operations, Link Restaurant Group

Shore Leave

Time off the ship

Good Bones

These guys feel the pulse of their restored home

Nothing Vanilla About It

Ice cream that tastes like home

Restaurants

News From The Kitchens

Avo, Nolavore and Rebellion

Going Fourth

An Independence Day Bounty

Happy Returns

A Promise’s Ghost cuts the humidity

A Need For Speed

Circling NOLA Motorsports

On The Oswald Trail

You’re from New Orleans! You know who else is from there?” John, our tour guide in Dallas, asked. “Yes,” I answered, “and you know who was named John?” You can look at the fine museums, performance center and nouveau modern buildings in Dallas; you can experience a bit of the quaint Texas of lore in […]

Shedding Pounds

Are All Calories Equal?

Support The St. Roch Market

Defeat the Creeps

Julia Street With Poydras The Parrot

The Pursuit To Answer Eternal Questions

Late Night Eats

Where even the after hours have their “after”

Our Top Picks

For July Events

Lagniappe

The Importance Of Being Funny

Festival’s production of Oscar Wilde classic is gonna be good – period.

Camille Whitworth

News anchor has dream job and stormy memories

Plight of the Community Banks

Small institutions take a stand against big regulation

Prescription For Success

Norman Francis’ Xavier commitment

The New Late Night

Theater critic Rex Reed was once in town, and during a discussion he said of his hometown, New York City, that it was no longer a late night place. That surprised me for the town immortalized in song by the line, “I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps.” Such a statement is hard to quantify, but I suspect it’s […]

Healthbeat

The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Week Report recently published findings stating severe vision loss was most prevalent in the South. The report found that “the South was home to three-quarters of the United States counties with the highest prevalence of severe vision loss.” To lower the risk of vision loss, an additional report by the NPR “Shots” blog suggested catching […]