Know Your NOLA

How to know you’re eating in the right place in New Orleans

By Eric Marshall | November 11, 2019

There are over 1,400 restaurants in New Orleans, and that’s honestly too many choices for anyone to make.
You need to examine the landscape. Use all five senses, and it starts from when you walk up to the building.

A traveler’s guide to New Orleans’ new airport terminal

By Jennifer Larino | November 5, 2019

Here’s everything you need to know about the new MSY, including how to get there, what to expect at TSA and dining options.

New $42M solar power plant in N.O. East could change how we think about our power supply

By Jennifer Larino | November 4, 2019

How much should we be willing to pay for solar? And who should own it? The East is poised to be on the front line of that debate.

Portside Lounge is the uncharted “North Caribbean” watering hole of Central City

By Paula Echevarria | October 30, 2019

Portside Lounge has become a neighborhood hangout as well as a destination for devout Tikiphiles, seeking its potions from near and far.

Haunted NOLA: Duels for ‘pride and honor’ left behind hundreds of ghosts at Duelling Oaks in City Park

By Michael DeMocker | October 29, 2019

Hast thou been affronted?

New Orleans East will get its own Carnival parade in 2020. Here’s how it happened.

By Jennifer Larino | October 24, 2019

Nefertiti will debut in February as the first krewe to roll in New Orleans East in decades, a throwback to a tradition of neighborhood parades that has largely faded from the modern Mardi Gras experience.

VIDEO: Meet the artist behind City Park’s ‘Singing Oak’ tree

By Dija Dowling | October 23, 2019

Meet Jim Hart, the artist behind the wind chimes at New Orleans City Park’s Singing Oak.

From Manila to the Marigny: How Philippine pioneers left a mark at the ‘end of world’ in New Orleans

By Matthew Hinton | October 23, 2019

The first permanent Filipino-American, and possibly the first Asian-American settlement in the United States, began in the 1830s on the eastern shore of Lake Borgne in St. Bernard Parish.

Brew Orleans: NOLA Brewing is the proud OG for a new era of local beers

By Matt Haines | October 22, 2019

Dylan Lintern, president and chief operating officer of local pioneer, NOLA Brewing, shares the good, bad and ugly of being one of the first craft beers on the scene in New Orleans.

Haunted NOLA: Horror and Hauntings in Historic French Quarter Pharmacy

By Michael DeMocker | October 15, 2019

The French Quarter building the phantom pharmacist haunts is actually a New Orleans historical treasure. For over a decade, Dr. Dupas plied his ghastly experiments until he was driven mad and died in 1867. But people say “He’s still here.”