No longer held in November, the 10th Annual Oak Street Po-Boy Festival will take place on October 23. The festival is free and open to the public and pets are allowed.

The Oak Street Po-Boy Festival’s website gives us an interesting history of the sandwich: Bennie and Clovis Martin left their Raceland, Louisiana, home in the Acadiana region in the mid-1910s for New Orleans. Both worked as streetcar conductors until they opened Martin Brothers’...