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Mardi Gras, Sunflower Style
Life on the Kansas prairie has been good to Truckstop Honeymoon’s Mike West and Katie Euliss in the post-Katrina era. Except, that is, on Mardi Gras day, when Euliss finds […]
Po-Boy Fest Returns
The second annual Po-Boy Preservation Festival returns to Oak Street and South Carrollton November 23. There will be po-boys from the Parkway Bakery, Jacques-Imo’s, Drago’s, Crescent Pie & Sausage, Saltwater […]
Roller Derby Moves
Nothing said “Good times” like roller derby amid the leftover float parts at Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World. There’s no question; the prows removed from floats of yore added ambiance […]
Brass Tasks
In Lafayette’s slumping indie rock scene, young band Brass Bed is a decent size fish getting bigger and bigger in a pond that grows smaller and smaller with each lackluster […]
More Seafood, More Festival
Now New Orleans has two seafood festivals, one in June and one that starts Friday, October 3 on Fulton Street and runs throughout the weekend. The New Orleans Seafood Festival […]
The Voice of Urgency
Security backed us up. “A band’s going to be coming through here.” As if people wouldn’t think to get out of the way when a brass band was approaching, but […]
From France to Frenchmen Street
When the French twin brothers Francois and Louis Moutin were growing up in Paris, one of the games they engaged in together was pretending they were playing New Orleans traditional […]
It’s All in the Game
Who knew that Lakeside Mall would be such an influential place in a young boy’s life? Well, Will Gilbert, one-fourth of the local instrumental band, Metronome the City, definitely didn’t […]
Goin’ Back to Gretna
The Gretna Heritage Festival takes place the first weekend of October starting at 4 p.m. Friday, October 3 and at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The festival is always […]
We’re Baa-aack … Sort Of
Recently, Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) completed a study of profiling the state of New Orleans music scene—including Mardi Gras Indians and Social Aid and Pleasure club members—and found good […]
