New Orleans

Lineup for SoCal Restaurant Show THIS SATURDAY on KLAA-AM 830: OC Register's Kedric Francis, Arepas, and More!

We don't hate everyone at the Orange County Register, you know. Roving editor Kedric Francis has always been kind to the paper, and he used to be a staple of our gossip column back when we had a gossip column and he was the editor of Riviera. Anyhoo, he's going to be on tomorrow on the SoCal Restaur ... More >>

Our Mardi Gras Phat Tuesday Playlist

That's right folks, it's Mardi Gras. The day before Lent kicks off with the solemn Ash Wednesday where absurdly excessive partying hits its absolute peak. Of course, whether you're a Catholic or not, Fat Tuesday is a fantastic excuse to cut loose and have the absolute most fun one can have on a Tues ... More >>

'Tchoupitoulas': The Real, Real New Orleans

Tricky, gorgeous new film is a grand travelogue

Top Five Essential No Limit Soldier Tracks

With yesterday being Veteran's Day, we at the Weekly were reminded of how the late 90s wouldn't have been the same without the contributions of Master P's No Limit Soldiers. From their beginnings in California through their rise to national prominence with some of New Orleans' finest, No Limit Recor ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Long Beach Bayou & Blues Festival

Rainbow Lagoon Park

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 >>

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.

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 >>

Kenny Sara

Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen

Lil Wayne

Honda Center

Floating Action

Detroit Bar

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 >>

Mos Def

It’s the Humidity

Bayou Fest

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Tron

Big Easy Barbecue

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

One More Thing

This Week in Dining to Save Starving Artists

Everlasting Sounds

Ten of the years most timeless records

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'

Carrying the Torch

The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

Scattered Lives

Ridiculous Fraud goes off on a tangent

Three Steps to Nowhere

Letter from New Orleans

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Sept. 22 - Sept. 29

The Historical Record

Jim Washburn DJs New Orleans back to life

The City That Bush Forgot

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

Wash, Rinse, and Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!

Helping the folks who need it: the GOP

This Week in Southern Comfort

Too Much Dick Spoils the Gumbo

Take Out Venezuela!

On a date!

A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

Don't Mind Dyin

Rock & rolls last encores at the Ponderosa Stomp

Sophisticated Space-y

Galactic channel the Meters

Bless The Drunks With Boners

Preservation Hall Jazz Band will pop your pup tent

Beignet and Muffuletta Orgy!

The Big Easy marches into Tustin at Crescent City

Rodney King for a Day

Riots and the rise of the Southern California SUV culture

Soul Food Man

DJ Danny Love loves the gumbo

Conversion!

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

Our Remotest Reader

Radioactive Beagles Here? Sure!

IKO! IKO!

The Nevilles let the good time roll away

Transmigration of Sol

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

This weeks featured game: New Orleans vs. Chicago