Know Your NOLA
This Marigny dive bar has rolled with the punches since the beginning of the pandemic, creating a parklet to serve customers and teaming up with a neighborhood restaurant for food.
The Zulu parade that rolls through the streets of New Orleans, on Mardi Gras morning, has long been a yearly routine for thousands of New Orleanians. The krewe itself has a rich history dating back to the early 20th Century.
The scent of sizzling meat and fresh tortillas has drawn many customers into the alley early in the evening – the better to get there before the line grows long and the tacos begin selling out. Now fans of the pop-up can rejoice–the operation has moved to 3304 St. Claude Avenue and is open five days a week for lunch and dinner with an expanded menu to match.
While the Bywater Bakery king cakes appear on just about every “Best Of” list in the city, co-owner Chaya Conrad had a different goal for the business she waited years to open.
With a portfolio of 17 wines, more than 700 cases sold in 2020 and in-store availability across the New Orleans area, Kim Lewis is barreling forward with her goal of having Olé Orleans wines available in stores and establishments across the entire Gulf Coast.
In 2019, Terione Brock opened Absolute Health and Wellness to fill a void — a Black-owned, community-based pharmacy. In addition to pharmaceuticals, she will often recommend homeopathic remedies for her clients. Her goal is to facilitate wellness and remove barriers to good health, whether they are physical, emotional, spiritual or economic.
At Remy Diamond’s petite, playfully curated shop, C’Mere, on the base of Esplanade, you’ll find all sorts of wonders and trinkets. It’s the perfect place to go when you don’t know what you’re looking for. C’mere carries a range of products from a few national, but mainly local, hand-selected artists: jewelry, prints, embroidery, masks, paintings, clothing, plants; each creator makes something unique, special, and a bit offbeat. There’s a lot of objects that spark joy inside the walls of this store.
New Orleans has always been a destination for great secondhand and vintage fashion, for both locals and tourists alike. Many people are making the commitment to shop secondhand to minimize the negative effects that the mass-market clothing industry has on the environment, as part of their New Year’s resolutions. For others, shopping vintage is about collecting favorite styles from different decades or finding unique items that stand out in a crowd.
Whether you’re bracing yourself for an awkward family (Zoom) gathering, hoping to make an evening with close friends a night to remember or just trying to give yourself something to do during the commercial break between Home Alone and Home Alone 2, learning to prepare a fun seasonal drink can make you the life of the party…even if it’s only a party of one at the moment.
The entirely-in-view kitchen until recently found on the sidewalk outside the Bayou St. John watering hole Pal’s literally expanded to take up as much of the walk as possible, adding employees and equipment underneath their tent as the lines grew as far as the scent of lemongrass could carry.