New Orleans Magazine March 2014

Music + Festivals

Piggin’ Out

Hogs for the Cause co-founders Becker Hall and Rene Louapre discuss the upcoming festival-fundraiser.

Cocktails

Beach Crawl

A progressive bar crawl across the Gulf Coast

Lagniappe

10 Top Places to Stay Along the Gulf Coast

Springtime arrives and thoughts of emerald waters and sugar white beaches come to mind. Heading east from New Orleans, heaven exists in our neighboring Gulf states, and the beachside destinations run the gamut from quaint bed-and-breakfasts and inns, to full-service resorts with all the amenities. Here are 10 to choose from, from the Mississippi […]

Things To Do

Trying at Flying

Navigating the aerial arts at Gravity Defying Fitness

Music + Festivals

Read & Spin

MEMOIR As America’s favorite political odd couple, James Carville and Mary Matalin share a candid look into their lives in Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home. The book alternates between Carville and Matalin’s first-person, candid accounts of living their life of politics while dealing with family and marriage. […]

Restaurants

DINING GUIDE

Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House is Open and Ready to Expand Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar and Fish House, 3117 21st St., Metairie, 833-6310, MrEdsOysterBar.com Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House is open and renovations are complete. The restaurant, which had been the site of Bozo’s since 1979, is the newest addition to […]

Dinner With Tennessee’s Brother

Being invited to have dinner with Tennessee Williams’ brother would ordinarily be considered to be a great honor – and it was. Only, anyone who knew Dakin Williams knew that with him things could be different. Dakin was an annual visitor to the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. He wasn’t a shy man. The semi-retired St. Louis lawyer often wore a gold […]

Cocktails

March Merriment

The Mox Ruby From Little Gem Saloon

Restaurants

Mopho, Good Eggs and Atomic Burgers

Happy March, kids! For those of you playing at home, this marks my 45th year on the planet. If you’re a scientist and working to perfect “putting one’s consciousness into a perfect, cloned body,” it’d be great if you could pull that off some time in the next few years. Not that I need a […]

Restaurants

Uptown Turf ‘n’ Surf

New and newly revised

Remembering Mrs. Foxworth

I research everything: Developmental milestones; worst-case scenarios; organic versus nonorganic foods; charter schools versus public schools; types of charter schools; vaccinations, with and without thimerosal. When Ruby was freakishly good at puzzles at age 2: Signs of giftedness. When she was a bit slow to learn to read at age 5: Signs of dyslexia. Any […]

Travel

Branson Bound

Passing the security check

Hogman & Hogbabe

Courting Gone Wild

Best of Architecture: Cheers for Tableau

If architecture was theater, this magazine’s choice for the “best of the new” would win a Tony Award. As it is, the architecture shares space with a theater that it has enriched. Appropriately named “Tableau,” restaurateur Dickie Brennan’s conversion of part of the building that houses Le Petit Théâtre in the French Quarter is a masterpiece. […]

Music + Festivals

The Visual Side of Music

Musicians behind the scenes

Sports

Playing the Course

Where to enjoy golf this spring

Rebuilding the Nature Center

The Audubon Louisiana Nature Center opened in March 1980 but has been abandoned since Hurricane Katrina. More than eight years after the storm, and 34 years since its opening day, the center is finally beginning the renovation project that will revitalize it as a place of education about Louisiana’s natural attractions. Located in eastern New […]

The Cop Who Stayed

William Trepagnier’s Legacy

ULL Launches Online Teaching Program

Wellness

HEALTHBEAT

More people in Louisiana are signing up for health plans offered through the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (found on aspe.hhs.gov) released Feb. 12 says, as of Feb. 1, 32,800 Louisiana residents were signed up for health insurance through the federal marketplace – which is […]

Moving Forward With Common Core

Schools Making Their Own Decisions

Homes for Sale

New Orleans’ housing market tipping in sellers’ favor

Regulating Backyard Breeders

Supporters of the Intact Animal Permit Law are calling for enforcement of the city law that requires a permit number when advertising animals for adoption, hoping to cut down on the number of neglected animals in the community. Currently, hundreds of ads for adoptable pets are run every day without displaying permit numbers. Supporters of […]

Interview with Diane Ladd

It isn’t often that non-New Orleanians appear on the pages of “Persona,” but consider Diane Ladd an honorary native daughter. While she was born in Mississippi and would eventually live in many other places, Ladd attended a New Orleans finishing school, was Empress of a Metairie Carnival krewe and it was her role in a […]

Things To Do

26 Things To Do in March in New Orleans

Our top picks of the month's events for March 2014.

Julia Street with Poydras the Parrot

The Pursuit to Answer Eternal Questions

Lagniappe

Considering Ray Nagin

Some thoughts on the conviction of former Mayor Ray Nagin: • In 2002, when Nagin was first elected, part of his appeal was that he sold himself as a businessman. That attracted conservative voters who argued that more sound business practices should be incorporated into government. Overlooked though was that Nagin, who at the time was CEO of the local Cox Cable operation, might […]

Recipes

Feast Day Festing

Cooking for St. Joseph’s and St. Patrick’s days