The Louisiana Supreme Court denied requests for a temporary restraining order against New Orleans' vaccine and indoor masking mandates, allowing those mandates to remain in place through Mardi Gras.
A lawsuit filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court on Feb. 10 is seeking class-action status for all former and current Nyx members since 2016 who suffered economic damages as a result of alleged gross mismanagement by Mystic Krewe of Nyx founder and CEO Julie Lea.
After pictures began circulating on social media over the last few days of unmasked crowds and close activity at The Red Eye Grill, Mayor LaToya Cantrell has decided she has had enough. In a Facebook post, the Mayor said, "The City of New Orleans overnight shut down several bars across the city for failure to […]
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is definitely different this year. With the city discouraging large crowds and stopping parades as we know them, with their fun, funny, beautiful floats, it’s a real change of pace. However, that hasn’t stopped the citizens of New Orleans from getting in the Mardi Gras spirit. One of the things […]
Put away your tutus, ladders, and signs, there will be no Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans in 2021. While this news is devastating for parade-lovers, and more importantly, New Orleans business owners, it’s not exactly surprising. The US has surged in COVID cases over the last week, and our amount of cases is […]
As Black Lives Matter protests have spread worldwide following the murder of George Floyd, the Mystic Krewe of Nyx, which touts itself as a diverse and inclusive Mardi Gras organization, repeated the same right wing trope of “All Lives Matter.” The photo, which depicts a black and white child embracing, also says “Our souls are […]
On April 10th, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report titled Geographic Differences in COVID-19 Cases, Deaths and Incidences. This report covered the time between February 12th and April 7th of 2020. They state that incidence has ranged widely across U.S. jurisdictions and that there is considerable variation in 7-day increases. […]
Bourbon Street, Photo by: Marielle Songy (This article originally appeared on Medium on March 28, 2020.) To Whom It May Concern: It’s currently being reported that New Orleans has had an explosive rate of coronavirus diagnoses and may soon be known as the “epicenter” of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. Many factors are to blame: New […]
(Publisher’s note: The report referenced in the opinion piece was released by The Data Center in May 2018. The report was titled “Advancing Health Equity in New Orleans: Building on Positive Change in Health.) When the word of the Coronavirus first made its way to the ears of many black people, it was met with […]
Mardi Gras, the February celebration renowned around the world, has a long and rich history that is often unknown and overlooked by tourists and locals alike. In 1699, a French-Canadian colonist arrived near what is now New Orleans, and named it “Pointe du Mardi Gras” because he realized it was the eve of a popular […]
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