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Keeping New Orleans New Orleans

I grew up in New Orleans and in its environs, and have lived everywhere from Uptown, the Irish Channel, Downtown, Broadmoor and Central City, in addition to some of our […]

Tit for Lunch

Okay, not really tit. It’s probably spelled thit, but either way it’s the tit that puts the pork in the Vietnamese po-boy. After trying one made by the church ladies […]

Foolishness and Mayhem are Your Friends

On the Style Network’s Clean House, Niecey Nash routinely scolds families for their “foolishness and mayhem” – code for house clutter on such a high, pathological order that the families really […]

Generation M?

Nothing marginalizes you like acting as if Twitter, Facebook and apps require special geek knowledge to understand. First, these things are ridiculously easy to use as anyone who’s tried them […]

A Basic Question Answered

Why do some bands get attention and others don’t? One of the simplest things those who feel shunned can do is have a print quality photo (a jpg that’s 300 […]

The more things change…

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”…If you’re from New Orleans, you probably know what this means: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Over the […]

John Hughes and Mardi Gras

Was it just me, or did it seem like the largest, most energetic Mardi Gras since Katrina this year? That aside, a quote from David Kamp’s piece on John Hughes in Vanity Fair […]

Remembering Antoinette

The joy of last year’s Mardi Gras was muted by the news that Antoinette K-Doe had passed away the night before. Tonight, she’ll be remembered at the Mother-in-Law Lounge, where […]

Oh, the Rhetoric!

This afternoon, Facebook and Twitter have been alive with reports of the city shutting down the Art House at 1614 Esplanade Ave. and attempting to evict its residents. The spectacle of […]

When Will Music Be “All Dat?”

I’m hoping that the post-Superbowl glow that everyone in the city has doesn’t end for a while. In fact, I hope we can think positively about New Orleans for at […]