Save the Churches

Being the shepherd of the Archdiocese of New Orleans is no doubt a tough job. Much of the flock has strayed, both geographically and spiritually, and many of the churches and buildings remain damaged from Hurricane Katrina, some standing in areas where parishes barely exist anymore … All of this in...

At a time when population growth is at the forefront of New Orleans recovery issues, some local universities are preparing to welcome a larger-than-expected influx of new students this coming school year.

Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, Xavier University and Loyola...

Read and Spin

The Tremé Brass Band has long celebrated an urban heritage rich in music, performance, jazz funerals and second-line, even winning the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award...

Riding a Gospel Train

Little Brother Montgomery

Years ago, a blues researcher told me, with an expression of mingled horror and bafflement, that vocalist Little Brother Montgomery lost a bag of letters by Louis Armstrong that he’d been carrying around. This was in Chicago in the 1960s. He lost that bag on a city bus. I never learned why he was...

Post-disaster economy bucks national trend

As the New Orleans area approaches the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one picture of the city is emerging as a community with fewer people but who make more money and have an easier time finding jobs than before the disaster, according to an economic analysis conducted recently by the...

Restaurant Insider

Ah, August … Traditionally a  time when restaurants live or die by local patronage. If you can brave the heat, why not visit a restaurant you haven’t visited in a while?  
By the time you read this, Rambla may very well have opened in the International House Hotel (221 Camp St.)....

New in Mid-City

3 places to enjoy

The first in a new wave of transit buses are hitting city streets this month and a new look isn’t the only change. All the new buses are equipped to run on bio-diesel fuel, a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources such as vegetable oils.

“It’s an environmental...

Saints’ newly acquired defensive end

Planning for 2018

Imagine a tower along the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain standing 1100 feet high (37 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower). Its sleek column is decorated with art depicting New Orleans’ past and at night it shimmers with lights celebrating the town’s vibrancy. From the top, viewers (on a clear day)...