Notes from New Orleans

People Museum is about half of what its name suggests. This group of alternative pop musicians has been building a reputation at gigs around New Orleans.…

Venice has often been called a kindred city to New Orleans, with its Carnival traditions and tumultuous relationship with water. As part of PhotoNOLA, an…

As is the case with most holidays, New Orleans has numerous Christmas traditions that set our city apart from others. The Feast of the Seven Fishes is one…

New Orleans abounds in spirits. And nowadays, not all of them are of the ethereal kind. The city will have eight craft distilleries by the end of this…

New Orleans is known for its unusual architecture, but there are a few houses around the city that are still bound to turn the heads of locals and…

We talk a lot about musical instruments in New Orleans, so much so that it feels like our music dates back thousands of years. But the santur, a…

Often, movies and TV shows just can’t seem to get New Orleans right. But Garden District, a new TV series written by local playwright Rosary O’Neill,…

In a city so culturally invested in creativity, New Orleans artists are often faced with a lack of financial investment in their creations. That was part…

New Orleans is getting a lot more colorful lately. Local and national artists are turning blank brick and concrete walls into massive outdoor artworks,…

John Pope covered several different beats over more than 4 decades at the Times-Picayune. But he’s best-known as the city’s pre-eminent writer of…