Scrim for Mayor: The Dog New Orleans Deserves

March 4, 2025

Look, we’ve tried everything. Career politicians, business moguls, that one guy who swore he’d fix the potholes but somehow made them worse. Maybe it’s time we face reality—our best shot at real leadership has four legs, a scruffy coat, and a rap sheet that makes him the most qualified candidate this city has ever seen. […]


Trump Claims Immigrants Are Eating Our Pets—Harris Calls It Fake News on Four Legs

September 11, 2024

In what might go down as the most surreal debate moment in U.S. political history, former President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell: illegal immigrants, he claimed, are “eating the pets” of hardworking Americans. “Folks, it’s happening. I’ve seen it. The dogs, the cats, even your neighbor’s emotional support ferret. They’re gone! Immigrants are pouring in, […]


So What the Hell is a Black Job?

July 5, 2024

It crossed my mind that it would be neat to write a piece about Trump and what constitutes a black job. After writing nearly 800 words of unpublishable bilge, I thought better of it. As a white, I’ll tell you what I told myself: No fucking way. The truth is maybe, just maybe, I could […]


Mayor Cantrell, The Most Well-Traveled NOLA Leader

February 2, 2023

The good news is also the bad news in New Orleans. Unlike the usual American politician promising to bring us together simply as a political trope our mayor Latoya Cantrell seems to be doing just that. People of all persuasions in New Orleans are coming to a meeting of the minds over the recall effort. […]


Top Ten Things to Do With Your Trash in New Orleans

September 20, 2021

  With the city in a continual state of crisis, from debatable evacuation planning to an inability to fulfill basic sanitation necessities, New Orleans has had a tough time. But we at Big Easy Magazine are here to help out the city and maybe the mayor, if she's not too busy getting into bar brawls. […]


The Flight of the Free

August 3, 2021

Welcome aboard TWA Freedom Flight 669. Here at Trash Weasel Airlines, we aim to make this the free-est flight available. We live or die (just kidding, because we can!) by our company’s motto, "Freedom at any Cost." Here at Trash Weasel Airlines, we encourage you to wear your masks, but we don't require you to. […]


The Raso Report: Save a Cigarette, Smoke Some Broccoli

May 28, 2021

In a tense video that Big Easy Magazine is definitely not making up, Louisiana state Senator Karen Carter Peterson became annoyed when a man testifying regarding taxation compared nicotine in smokeless tobacco products to that of broccoli, which, it turns out, also has nicotine. Who knew? State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, that’s who. But she […]


The Raso Report: A Deep Dive Into Pothole Park

February 8, 2021

  Another day, another beautiful homegrown pothole in New Orleans. But unlike other potholes, this one is special. The Montegut Springs Unnatural Monument has sprung up, on the 1000th block of, where else, Montegut Street. Brought to you by the New Orleans Sinkhole and Water Board, and much admired by the local citizens, the Montegut […]


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