"New Orleans" Blogs & Blog Posts

This weekend, a giant spectacle of (mostly) tiny creations will saunter their way onto stages around New Orleans. Puppets built on backpacks, puppets that fold up and fit into shoeboxes, red puppets, blue puppets, tiny little finger puppets, shadow p...

Yesterday we brought you news about the rats in New Orleans—specifically, that "they're all high" after eating the confiscated marijuana in the evidence room at the New Orleans criminal justice building.  Well, in true New Orleans fashion, some...

So I love edutainment, sue me. I was being facetious, please don't sue me. Anyway, if you want to watch a man dressed in sunglasses and a wool suit, carrying ye olde French flag whilst paddling down the bayou and walking through the historical portag...

It's King Cake season! It's stumble drunkenly down Bourbon Street at 3pm o'clock! You know what that means, it's Carnival time! Though truthfully, you can pass out in public midday in New Orleans any time of year. And every year the floats that trund...

We've previously featured Wrinkle the Duck enjoying the Ohio State Fair. Well, we're back, inviting you to take a trip to New Orleans with Wrinkle (and her human, juggler Justin Wood). In this adorable video, Wrinkle wanders through the French Qua...

Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation offered New Orleans residents in the exceptionally hard-hit and predominantly black Lower Ninth Ward new homes. Residents were sold houses designed by starchitects l...

Today, January 6, is Kings Day, also known in Christian traditions as Epiphany, or Three Kings Day. ABC7 Chicago explains that this Christian feast day "celebrates how a star led three wise men to baby Jesus after he was born." For many folks in Lo...