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    April 20, 2012

    Cheri Sicard's New Cookbook Will Turn You Into a Cannabis Kitchen Magician!

    Cheri Sicard has been a seasoned food writer and lover of good recipes long before she became a medical marijuana patient and activist. She created and launched the popular cooking website FabulousFoods.com and has authored books on the subject including last year's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    New Orleans Bayou Bash! Continues at Disneyland

    ​Fat Tuesday may very well be over (if seeing people walk around with dirt on their foreheads today wasn't clue enough), but the Mardi Gras celebration taking place in New Orleans Square at Disneyland is just ramping up.Learn more about Disneyland's Mardi Gras event New Orleans Bayou Bas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Eat This Now: Mabel's Pralines

    Dave Lieberman​I love New Orleans for many things. Everybody's got music in their heads, Creole cooking is immediately welcoming and comforting, and they invented one of my favorite drinks ever, the Sazerac.They're also the spiritual home of the praline, a sweet candy that's like rough brittle. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Jock Jams-Free 2011 NFL Kickoff Playlist

    ​Are you ready for some football? Hank Williams, Jr. really wants to know. The 2011 NFL regular season kicks off Thursday night, when the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers host the New Orleans Saints at Lambeau Field. Apparently, for cities with a pro football team, this is a pretty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Kanye West and Jay-Z Confirm New North American Dates for Watch the Throne Tour

    ​As we reported earlier, Jay-Z and Kanye West have new dates for the Watch The Throne Tour due to the "overwhelming response to presale tickets." The North American tour will now begin on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Philips Arena. All fans who purchase their tickets online will r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Nastasia Townsend of Bad Girls Club New Orleans Continues Fine OC Reality TV Tradition

    ​"I will gladly go upside a bitch's head if she thinks she wants to try me."-23-year-old Nastasia Townsend, formerly a "shy little girl" from Sacramento before becoming a Huntington Beach blowhard who dreams of owning a strip club, as the end credits roll on tonight's premiere episode of Bad Girls ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2011
  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    French Quarter at U.C. Irvine Last Night

    ​ French Quarter, The Teeets, Hollow Sunshine & Kevin GreensponMay 23, 2011Cross Cultural Center, U.C. Irvine Fresh out of recording his latest record, French Quarter frontman Stephen Steinbrink returned to Irvine with a backing band and new set of songs, shifting gears from previous sol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    WTF of the Week: Tom Waits to Release Single on 78 RPM

    ​WTF?Yesterday Pitchfork reported bluesman Tom Waits will be releasing a 78 RPM vinyl single on Nov. 19 through New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Recordings.Each side of the limited edition vinyl platter will feature a cover song recorded in collaboration with the Preservation Hall Jazz band inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Shelly Register of A Restaurant and Market, Part Two

    Photo by Todd Barnes​We continue our interview with Chef Shelly, and learn why the peculiar name A Restaurant and Market was chosen. Click here if you missed Part One of her interview.

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Five Great Things To Drink Before Noon

    vj_pdx @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0​Ten in the morning; you couldn't go out last night because you had to get up for some awful brunch you'd forgotten you promised to go to. The blowhard on your right side is going on at length about the Mercedes-Benz he's going to order that afternoon; the woman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Radio Musings: the Generationals, 'When They Fight, They Fight,' on KCRW

    For the second time this week I heard my new favorite song on KCRW. It's by an act from New Orleans--sounding nothing like what you would expect from a Big Easy band--called the Generationals. They're signed to Park the Van, the tiny indie label best known for unleashing Dr. Dog. The Generationals ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    Kenny Sara

    Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009

    Lil Wayne

    Honda Center

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    Floating Action

    Detroit Bar

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2009

    Live from Coachella: The Knux Knuckle Up

    Yes, the subject of this blog is a play on 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up. I've been in the sun a lot and not sleeping very much. That's how it works.The Knux--from LA by the way of New Orleans--are opening things up on the main stage right now. Pretty swell, and some high-energy hip-hop is what we all probabl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Mos Def

    Yes, the subject of this blog is a play on 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up. I've been in the sun a lot and not sleeping very much. That's how it works.The Knux--from LA by the way of New Orleans--are opening things up on the main stage right now. Pretty swell, and some high-energy hip-hop is what we all probabl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2008

    Crystal Antlers Score EW Mention

    Long Beach's Crystal Antlers, who this year already netted an 8.5 on Pitchfork for their self-released EP (which was subsequently sntached up by Touch and Go) and just last night played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC as part of the CMJ Music Marathon, saw their good buzz streak continue with a mention i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008
  • Film

    July 26, 2007

    Special Screenings

    Movie of the Week: Tron

  • Food

    June 7, 2007

    Big Easy Barbecue

    Memphis chef Diego Velasco shares his secrets to the perfect backyard summer feast

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    One More Thing

    This Week in Dining to Save Starving Artists

  • Features

    December 28, 2006

    Everlasting Sounds

    Ten of the years most timeless records

  • Columns

    December 14, 2006

    Letters

    'Theres a joke in Puerto Rico that says the only reason Hitler ordered that the Jews be killed is because he didnt know Cubans existed'

  • Music

    November 16, 2006

    Carrying the Torch

    The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

  • Culture

    October 26, 2006

    Scattered Lives

    Ridiculous Fraud goes off on a tangent

  • News

    October 12, 2006

    Three Steps to Nowhere

    Letter from New Orleans

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2006

    One Year Later

    Usually when a regular columnist for one of the major news magazines begins to chew through the restraints of received ideas and government press releases, it is, to borrow a phrase from Samuel Johnson, "like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it don ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2006

    Hughcifer Descending

    Bad news for our favorite unintentional radio comedian, Hugh Hewitt. According to the latest Arbitrends, the audience for the lawyer/pundit/Nixon fetishist/blogger/moralizer/George W. Bush worshiper/professional Vermont boycotter is shrinking right along with Bush and Cheney's approval ratings. Pre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2006

    Earthquake weather or whatever...

    Yesterday, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was submitting to a public humiliation ritual before a Senate committee, his only punishment for letting New Orleans drown (in other countries, such incompetence would result in dismissal from office and permanent disgrace, but in the land o ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 22, 2005

    Sept. 22 - Sept. 29

    Yesterday, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was submitting to a public humiliation ritual before a Senate committee, his only punishment for letting New Orleans drown (in other countries, such incompetence would result in dismissal from office and permanent disgrace, but in the land o ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2005

    The Historical Record

    Jim Washburn DJs New Orleans back to life

  • Columns

    September 15, 2005

    The City That Bush Forgot

    The president could hop from one corpse to another and think hes walking on water

  • Columns

    September 15, 2005

    Wash, Rinse, and Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!

    Helping the folks who need it: the GOP

  • Food

    September 15, 2005

    This Week in Southern Comfort

    Helping the folks who need it: the GOP

  • Features

    September 8, 2005

    Too Much Dick Spoils the Gumbo

    Helping the folks who need it: the GOP

  • Columns

    September 1, 2005
  • Columns

    September 1, 2005
  • Features

    June 30, 2005

    Don't Mind Dyin

    Rock & rolls last encores at the Ponderosa Stomp

  • Music

    April 7, 2005

    Live Previews

    Rock & rolls last encores at the Ponderosa Stomp

  • Music

    August 19, 2004

    Sophisticated Space-y

    Galactic channel the Meters

  • Music

    July 8, 2004

    Bless The Drunks With Boners

    Preservation Hall Jazz Band will pop your pup tent

  • Food

    June 24, 2004

    Beignet and Muffuletta Orgy!

    The Big Easy marches into Tustin at Crescent City

  • Columns

    May 2, 2002

    Rodney King for a Day

    Riots and the rise of the Southern California SUV culture

  • Food

    February 7, 2002

    Soul Food Man

    DJ Danny Love loves the gumbo

  • Columns

    November 2, 2000

    Conversion!

    This weeks featured NFL game: New Orleans Saints vs. Arizona Cardinals

  • Features

    September 14, 2000

    Our Remotest Reader

    Radioactive Beagles Here? Sure!

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    IKO! IKO!

    The Nevilles let the good time roll away

  • Food

    June 8, 2000

    Transmigration of Sol

    The food comes from all over the planet but ends up pleasantly in your belly

  • Columns

    October 7, 1999

    This weeks featured game: New Orleans vs. Chicago

    The food comes from all over the planet but ends up pleasantly in your belly

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