If you are a certain age, you know Louis Prima’s songs and wild onstage antics from TV or Las Vegas. …
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Fifty years ago, the world watched as two Americans set foot on the lunar surface. It seems like an otherworldly …
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Most people don’t look for hidden pictures on the edges of books, but years ago “fore-edge paintings” were an elegant …
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Few attractions excite the local memory like former lakefront amusement park Pontchartrain Beach. But, when was the park opened to …
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On July 28, the Christian Brothers celebrated 100 years of continuous ministry in Louisiana with a mass at St. Louis …
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Though New Orleans is affectionately nicknamed the “City that Care Forgot,” we do care a whole lot about our cocktails. …
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This month some of New Orleans’ oldest attractions joined forces in a new effort. Seven museums in the French Quarter …
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With 300 years of rich culture, New Orleans has played an important role in America’s history. Beginning with the Louisiana …
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I finally admitted that we have outgrown our office. After months of searching for new digs, I thought of Baroness …
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The Swedish invasion gripped New Orleans on Feb. 7, 1851. But it wasn’t a pop star, or a rock ‘n’ …
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Before New Orleans’ founding in 1718, Native Americans traversed an overland route, or portage, connecting the arteries of Bayou St. …
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New Orleans-based photographer Michael P. Smith (1937-2008) documented the culture of his city, and one of his most popular subjects …
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New Orleans’s Tricentennial is a fitting time to reflect on how the land Bienville called “la Nouvelle-Orléans” — a site …
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In 1876, Father Peter Leonard Thevis promised God that if his parishioners were spared from the yellow fever epidemic, he …
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One of the most popular resources at The Historic New Orleans Collection is the Collins C. Dibbol Vieux Carré Digital …
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Housed in the oldest building on the Mississippi Delta, “The Church in the Crescent: Three Hundred Years of Catholicism in …
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The Office of Black Catholic Ministries cultivates the rich diversity of the black Catholic community in the Archdiocese of New …
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Much of Louisiana experienced record-breaking cold temperatures and icy conditions last month, and New Orleans even saw two very light …
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From 1850 until about 1990, the holiday season brought lavish decorations, toy lands, trim-the-tree displays and aisles of Christmas cards …
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New Orleans’ favorite pastry has been around longer than our city. French and Spanish colonists brought their version of beignets …
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When Leona Tate approached McDonogh 19 on November 14, 1960, an angry crowd confronted her and the two other girls …
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Many who spent their college years around NOLA remember Fump and Manny’s on Tchoupitoulas Street, better known as F & …
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Twenty years after its inception, the red-light district known as Storyville was declining.
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Storyville, the red light district that operated from 1898–1917 in New Orleans, lives prominently in the local imagination, but little …
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“History was slow here.”
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As the summer drags on, many New Orleanians begin seeking air-conditioned shelter from the oppressive heat. But there are still …
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Blue Star Museums offers U.S. military personnel and their families free admission to museums nationwide. In effect since 2010, the …
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During the Great Depression, life was hard for everyone, and Vernon Rudolph was no exception. But at least he had …
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