Today in NOLA: 12.2.14
A dense fog advisory was in effect this morning in New Orleans. The Canal Street Ferry and Algiers Ferry are not running due to the weather conditions. Only the right lane is open on the Causeway going...
View ArticleNew Jazz Center Keeps the Beat in Treme
After years of planning and work, a curious building located at 1255 North Rampart has new life. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation opened their long awaited jazz cultural center in the Treme, the...
View ArticleToday in NOLA: 1.27.15
Tonight features lots of New Orleans staples. Treme is playing Frenchmen and Rebirth are holding down their weekly gig on Maple Street. Fresh groceries abound on Broadway. Gospel legend Mahalia Jackson...
View ArticleMardi Gras Mambo: Car Chase in the Treme
The Quarter and parade routes are flooded with every sort of law enforcement imaginable, but that does not mean that the rest of the city is unwatched. Two cops on their beat made a drug bust by the...
View ArticleWhen You Get to New Orleans
"When you see the Mardi Gras, somebody'll tell you what's Carnival for." Professor Longhair's lyrics express the mystical essense of New Orleans' biggest party. You have to see it to believe it, and...
View ArticleTreme Tunes: Spring 2015 Armstrong Park Concert Schedule Released
Tis’ the season for lineup announcements. Today, People United for Armstrong Park (PUFAP) rolled out the spring schedule for Jazz in the Park. The free series running from April 16 through June 11 will...
View ArticleBlight Blaze
On Friday (3.07), the City placed 3,000 blighted properties on the auction block. One blighted property did not make it to the gavel. A three fire alarm ravaged a vacant Treme house and sparked a...
View ArticleStrutting Their Stuff: Backsteppers Gallery Opens in Treme
National outlets have made some high profile attempts to portray second lines. Now a couple of photographers in Treme (the neighborhood, not Treme the HBO show) are opening a local gallery to laud laud...
View ArticleEmpress Hotel Robbed Yet Again (Video)
Despite a reality TV makeover, the Empress Hotel (1317 Ursulines Avenue) still has some issues. Besides the sticky sheets, the Treme destination’s crime issues continue. The New Orleans Police...
View ArticleDrinking Culture
Gentle reader, the winds of change know no compass, no season. The gale erodes the old traditions as it sows the seeds of the new. But be not dismayed by smoking bans and kneejerk gentrification, my...
View ArticleWendell Pierce Editorializes on Baltimore, NOLA
New Orleans is proud to call Wendell Pierce our own. But, his portrayal of the affable Baltimore Police Homicide Detective William “Bunk” Moreland on The Wire built a special relation between the actor...
View ArticleTuba Fats Tuesday Second Line to Honor Trumpet Black
For the past few years, Treme musicians have been taking it upon themselves to honor a true New Orleans music legend on the Tuesday after JazzFest ends. Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen is remembered with a...
View ArticleMissing Mother and Children Found Dead
Tragedy struck early this morning after the search for a missing Treme woman and her two children quickly turned into a homicide investigation. New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent...
View ArticleColbert Names Batiste Bandleader
HBO’s Treme provided some national television exposure for local musicians including Jon Batiste. However, Batiste is about to get a lot more tv time. Today, Stephen Colbert, heir to David Letterman’s...
View ArticleFive Shot in Treme
Friday (6.05) afternoon turned bloody in the Treme. The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) says that five people were shot in the neighborhood during a 15 minute period.read more
View ArticleDrinking Culture
Part One of a Two Part SeriesGentle reader, local bars are the eyes of a neighborhood. We see new faces and old through the windows, hear the talk on the sidewalk tables. And then we know something...
View ArticleDrinking Culture
Part Two of a Two Part Series. Read Part One Here.Gentle reader, the force of a river issues from the constituent dewdrop. And so too, the sweeping movements of a society take shape from the...
View ArticleTwo Teens Busted After Treme Car Theft
A man parked in the Treme before heading into the Quarter. A few hours later, the motorist had a broken window and the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) were arresting a pair of teens for a laundry...
View ArticleNY'er Mag Turns Monocle on Bywater Gentrification
The Great Bywater AirBnB Battle is going viral. The August 24th issue of The New Yorker magazine features a comic by Ronald Wimberly titled, “Ten Years After” which dives headfirst into the...
View ArticleWoman Fatally Shot in Treme
Temperatures are dropping, but New Orleans’ summer of violent crime shows no sign of abating. On Friday (9.11) a woman was shot to death in the Treme according to the New Orleans Police Department...
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