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Tab Benoit & Duane Betts Announce Southern Gentlemen Tour 2027

Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel and Tab Benoit announced their Southern Gentlemen Tour 2027. The guitarists will fittingly travel through the Southeast throughout February. Benoit and Betts & Palmetto Motel will kick off their co-headlining Southern Gentlemen Tour 2027 on February 5 at Tipitina’s in New Orleans. The Southeast jaunt wraps on February 25 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The Southern Gentlemen Tour will see additional stops in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia.

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The Building Sits Five Feet Up, One Foot Higher Than Katrina Flooded City Park

The architects did the math before they drew anything. Four feet of water covered City Park after Katrina, so the Louisiana Children's Museum sits five feet off the ground. That decision shapes the whole campus. The museum opened in City Park on August 29, 2019, after more than three decades at 420 Julia Street in […]

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A Halloween Movie Guide of NOLA Horror

Greetings, citizens of New Orleans and beyond. It's October once again, and we're going to learn about some deep cut movies to quell your homegrown thirst for horror. Yes, horror movies, the excitement for which no other film genre comes even remotely close. As our favorite spooky day, Halloween, is fast approaching, it may be time to look past the Candyman's and Skeleton Key's, all the way to the 1980s for three Italian-produced classics, as well as a 1940s anthology gem that will offer frights, delights, and even take place during our other favorite holiday—Mardi Gras. So sit back, relax, and feel free to raid the candy bowl.

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The barbershop quartet tradition is alive in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (InvestigateTV) - On a Mid City evening, a four-part harmony rang out just off Canal Street. The group, Southern Tradition, has been around since 1999. The quartet is a place where a traditional American art form forges a friendship. “The main attribute to be a barbershop quartet singer...

New Orleans, LA · 14d

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Where Y’at this Weekend: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Haunted Houses, Coquille Park, Louisiana Book Festival

Halloween in New Orleans is when the city really gets to show off, as we masquerade, stay out late, and have a little too much fun…with spooky celebrations, live music, and haunted houses.

New Orleans, LA · 14d

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GALLERY: Colonel Athletic Association Golf Classic

The Colonel Athletic Association hosted it’s 4th Annual CAA Golf Classic Monday at LaTour Golf Club in Mathews. There were 36 hole sponsors that welcomed 34 teams on the spectacular 18 hole course. All the proceeds earned are designated for scholarships. View photos of the event below:. Photos by...

Mathews, LA · 15d

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Bywater Bar Hosts 16th Halloween Cover Show, Eight Bands Honor Nirvana to Spice Girls

Okay Bar in Bywater will host eight bands and roughly 40 musicians on Oct. 31 for the 16th annual Halloween cover show benefiting the New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom. Doors open at 7 p.m.; tickets cost $10 to $20. This year’s sets span Nirvana, Hole, Daniel Johnston, Spice Girls, Jim Croce, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys and Linkin Park.

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Dawn Richard reveals powerful truth about legacy beyond music

Dawn Richard has never been interested in keeping New Orleans frozen in time. With Creole Culture, the singer, songwriter and producer completes a triptych that began with New Breed and continued with Second Line, three albums that each stand on their own but tell a fuller story together. Where New Breed carried the lens of her father’s side of the family and Second Line honored her mother’s Creole roots in New Iberia, Creole Culture finally gives voice to Richard’s own perspective as a New Orleans native.

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Día de los Muertos Festival Returns to Lafayette Square With Free Admission

New Orleans is once again throwing open Lafayette Square for its annual Día de los Muertos Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration honoring loved ones who have passed and packed with live music, food vendors, an ofrenda and a costume contest. The event is hosted by the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana and its HCCL Young Professionals group, continuing a tradition the organization has built over the past several years in downtown New Orleans.

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Westwego's Sala Avenue Draws Artists Chasing Bigger Space, Smaller Rent

A five-block stretch of Westwego known as Sala Avenue is filling back up, with artists converting long-empty storefronts into studio galleries and small businesses moving into renovated city-owned buildings for a fraction of what similar space would cost across the river. The transformation centers on a former bank building that sat vacant for 13 years before painter Joshua Wingerter turned it into a two-story, 4,000-square-foot studio gallery in 2020.

Westwego, LA · 17d

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Reba McEntire to Headline New Orleans Real Estate Conference Next Week

Reba McEntire is set to headline one of the real estate industry's biggest annual gatherings, with the Grammy Award-winning singer, actor and businesswoman scheduled to appear at NAR NXT in New Orleans next Saturday. The conference, organized by the National Association of Realtors, is expected to draw more than 10,000 real estate professionals from around the world.

New Orleans, LA · 15d

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Freaky Deaky Brings Halloween Rave to New Orleans for First Time

New Orleans is getting its own stop on the Freaky Deaky calendar. The Halloween-themed festival is making its New Orleans debut October 30-31 at Mardi Gras World, bringing two nights of electronic music, costumes and haunted-house-style production to a city that already treats Halloween like a second Mardi Gras. The...

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This Locally Owned Louisiana Art Supply Store Turns A Former Church Into An Artist’s Playground

An art store inside an old church is unusual enough. Putting the custom frame shop where the baptismal pool once sat takes the story somewhere much stranger. The renovation kept uncovering surprises. Workers peeled away old stucco and found a terra cotta screen hiding behind it. Once exposed, daylight could...

New Orleans, LA · 18d

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This new tool maps 116 sculptures, murals across downtown New Orleans: ‘Our outdoor museum’

At the corner of Girod and Baronne Street in the Central Business District, a grinning man with outstretched arms holds his young son just above the water's surface. He's teaching him how to swim. Beneath the water's surface is a wilder world of blue. There are mermaids and mysterious faces....

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NOLA MusiCon Kicks Off This Week

Musicians, music lovers, and those in the business will learn much at NOLA MusiCon. The three-day music industry conference brings together local musicians and industry professionals to in multiple panel discussions and lectures about the current state of the music industry and what to expect in the future. Session topics include, but aren't limited to, AI Is Sampling: What Music Licensing Can Teach Tech, Beyond Halftime: The Hidden Power of Music in Sports, The Business of Being Independent, and What is The Mechanical Licensing Collective.

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Victoria Monét Cancels Raleigh & New Orleans As Charlotte Show Moves

Victoria Monét canceled two early stops on her “Frequency Of Love Tour,” leaving Raleigh and New Orleans without shows while Charlotte fans got a new date and venue. The Raleigh concert had been set for October 27 at Red Hat Amphitheater, followed by October 30 at The Fillmore New Orleans. Ticketmaster now marks both events as canceled.

Charlotte, NC · 17d

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A Mississippi Summer Camp Museum Closed in 2012, and Its Collection Rebuilt Itself on Howard Avenue

For 26 years, the story of Jewish life in the American South lived at a children's summer camp in Utica, Mississippi, where almost no one outside the camp could see it. That was the original Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, which opened at URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp in 1986 and served mostly campers […]

Utica, MS · 15d

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From father to son: Influential Louisiana church prepares for a new, but familiar, leader

The seeds of the Rev. Fred “Chip” Luter III’s journey to the leadership of one of the largest Baptist churches in Louisiana were planted at a Catholic high school. Luter was 16 and a student at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans. Though his father, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr., was the lead pastor at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, the younger Luter wasn’t sure about making church work a family business.

New Orleans, LA · 18d

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“Thriller” Halloween Flash Mob Celebrates 15 Years

NEW ORLEANS — The Flash Mob New Orleans annual “Thriller” Halloween Flash Mob event will return to New Orleans City Hall on Oct. 30, marking 15 years of a Halloween tradition that has brought dancers, local students and a broad mix of community members together for the New Orleans-style Halloween tradition.

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Beignet Fest brings deeper meaning to classic New Orleans pastry

Beignet Fest will return to New Orleans on Nov. 7 at City Park’s Festival Grounds. The event will feature an array of beignets and live music while supporting the Beignet Fest Foundation, a local nonprofit benefiting children with autism. When 3-year-old Liam Collins was diagnosed with autism in 2016,...