June 2012
2 posts
Q&A with bounce MC Big Freedia
Q: You’ve spent most of the past year on the road. What’s your favorite thing about touring?
A: Bringing the New Orleans party all over the world and showing them how we rock down here – that’s the best thing about it.
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May 2012
4 posts
April 2012
33 posts
Mother Jones' San Francisco office was basically... →
motherjones:
Most entertaining story on our site today: The tumultuous, uncensored, lightly battered history of 222 Sutter Street.
Ok, first off: lol
But I do agree with the author, New Orleans poboys are said to have originated in the 1920’s, not as far back as the oyster sandwiches described here.
The sandwiches described here are more like this:
while a, um,...
NOLA Navy Week →
I’m live streaming the arrival of the tall ships in New Orleans right now. The second ship just got the 21 gun salute from the naval base, there’s plenty more to come over the next couple of hours.
Gameloft has established new video game development studio in New Orleans.
NOLA Vie profiles the French entrepreneurs who brought it here.
NOLA Bike To Work Day →
I had no idea today was the first annual NOLA Bike to Work Day. Seen here is Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer waiting for the Algiers ferry this morning on her way to work.
DEFEND NEW ORLEANS: Q&A with Miss Pussycat →
defendneworleans:
An excerpt of Miss Pussycat’s interview with Alison Fensterstock. Miss Pussycat will be traveling to Nice, France this fall to exhibit 100 new puppets and she’s wrapping up the sequel to “Trixie and the Tree Trunks” (to be released this summer).
Q: How did you get into puppetry?
A: I…
Dr. John was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to promo his new album.
March 2012
59 posts
Make your own New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival... →
Here it is, in its first public incarnation! Now you can coordinate your New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented By Shell schedule with your friends =D
I’m gonna be working to add a Facebook button, better Twitter functionality, bit.ly shortened URLs and, hopefully, a mobile version over the next couple of weeks.
Street Art Shamans
utnereader:
Could street art change your life?
I miss the before i die house…
It now lives in Chicago, apparently. well, the installation that is. The house has been going through some major renovations for a couple months now.
Thinking Outside the Box Office
The T-P’s Mike Scott has a whole line-up of non-big box movie events this weekend.
NOLA Drive-In will be screening Dazed and Confused on their CBD rooftop (part of the proceeds benefit WTUL’s spring pledge drive) and my favorite Hitchcock, North by Northwest, will be at the Prytania.
jonnodotcom asked: Thanks for the reblog and link! By "current" I meant "updated," of course - there is absolutely no information on the Piety Arch, for example, on either the project's official website or Facebook page.
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2012 cubes announced →
Here is this year’s complete New-Orleans-Jazz-and-Heritage-Festival-Presented-by-Shell schedule (in PDF format).
I’ll be pushing out a more personalizable version in the next couple of days :)