Since the cancellation of Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, and Lafayette's Festivals Acadiens et Créoles due to rising COVID numbers, the Krewe of Red Beans is bringing the festivals to your front porch! Fest Fest is an initiative that is meant to aid the musicians who have found themselves out of work due to the […]
Blue Bikes, the bike-share program in which New Orleanians, and those visiting the city, can rent public bikes by the hour or month, are returning to the streets of New Orleans. A fleet of 500 pedal-assist e-bikes will be ready to ride by September 1st. The Blue Bikes program, which was first introduced to the […]
The SOS coalition, the Treme stakeholders and others opposing the City Administration's efforts to relocate City Hall to the Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park New Orleans, will host three public engagement meetings to gather ideas and input from citizens. On Monday, July 26, SOS is teaming up with the grassroots group Justice & Beyond to […]
The Save Our Soul Coalition (SOS) will hold a voter registration drive Saturday, July 17 at Optimus Entertainment, 9820 Lake Forest Blvd. SOS opposes the proposed relocation of City Hall to the Morris F.X. Jeff Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park. The effort to educate and sign-up new voters will take place from 2 p.m. until […]
Mark Bologna is a native New Orleanian whose family owned the famed Teddy's Grill in Gentilly, until it closed in 2006. He attended Brother Martin High School and, after living outside of the city for 15 years, he returned in 2012, so that he could raise his children in the city that he was proud […]
Members of the Save Our Soul Coalition said Monday that Mayor LaToya Cantrell should immediately call off the still-outstanding RFQ for a new City Hall at the Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park. Though Mayor Cantrell has said she is postponing all discussion on the proposed relocation until after the fall elections, proponents doubt her sincerity. […]
The announcement by City Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer yesterday that she was slowing down the process of moving City Hall to the Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park was a clear indication that the voices of Treme residents and other culture bearers will finally be heard. The press conference was attended by more than a dozen […]
Taking New Orleans by a storm, @lookatthisfuckinstreet is one of the city's most popular pothole accounts, "documenting the cracked and sinking streets of the Crescent City." With almost 29,000 followers, widely worn Pothole Watchdog t-shirts, and over 714 hilarious posts, the account has blown up to be bigger than the impressive New Orleans streets it […]
As support continues to grow for Treme culture bearers and others who oppose the relocation of City Hall to the Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park, Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration took to Facebook yesterday to spin its position. Treme and French Quarters residents are joining with supporters of New Orleans unique culture including musicians, Mardi Gras […]
If you were walking around the French Quarter on Saturday evening you probably saw something that even New Orleanians would call a little unusual- a lot of bikers with not a lot of clothes. Around 5 PM, the 13th annual World Naked Bike Ride took off from Mickey Markey Park, weaving through the French Quarter, […]
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