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Blakeview: These three New Orleans po-boy spots ain't dere no more

In honor of the 18th annual Oak Street Po-Boy Festival this weekend, we remember some po-boy purveyors of the past. One of them, Acy’s Pool Hall, had a sign over its bar that advertised its sandwiches as the best in the world, according to restaurant reviewer Tom Fitzmorris. In his book “Lost Restaurants of New Orleans,” co-written with Peggy Scott Laborde, Fitzmorris wrote that the statement “may have been going a little far – but only a little.”

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Inside The Warbler, the New Boutique Hotel on New Orleans’ Most Iconic Street

A new boutique hotel just opened on one of New Orleans' most storied streets. The Warbler Hotel, a 58-room property at 1923 St. Charles Avenue in the Garden District, sits on the tree-lined boulevard that is home to the city's idyllic stately manors as well as the route of the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world. The development marks the first hospitality venture for Verdad Real Estate Development, the Dallas and New Orleans-based firm led by principal Joe Mann.

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New Orleans Fringe Festival Returns After 12-Year Gap With Circus, Burlesque

After more than a decade without a citywide fringe-style showcase, the New Orleans Fringe Festival is staging its comeback Nov. 12-15, filling stages across Marigny and Bywater with circus acts, burlesque, puppetry, dance and experimental theater. Organizers are billing it as a multi-venue, multi-show marathon, with performances scattered across venues including New Marigny Theatre, Allways Lounge & Cabaret and Siberia.

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Widespread Panic Raises Hell With 7 Cover Debuts At New Orleans Halloween Show

Widespread Panic turned to Dante’s Inferno for inspiration on Saturday at New Orleans’ UNO Lakefront Arena, building their Halloween setlist around a descent into the underworld. Seven cover debuts and the returns of “Lake Of Fire,” “Tush” and “Sympathy For The Devil” highlighted the finale of the band’s two-night stand.

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Dusky Waters looks to family history on ‘Mother Magnolia’

A few years back, New Orleans-based musician Dusky Waters was sitting with family around her parents’ kitchen table in Arkansas. Extended family had gathered near Little Rock for her grandmother's funeral, and before long, the cousins and aunts sitting at the table began sharing family stories. “I took out...

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From ‘I Play Rocky’ to ‘Sterling Point,’ how Jay Duplass went from a Metairie youth to a Hollywood star

When Jay Duplass took the stage to give his acceptance speech for winning the Celluloid Hero Award at the New Orleans Film Society gala last week, he made sure to say, “I grew up in New Metairie — it’s the part that’s not old, not particularly soulful, and definitely not elegant.”

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This No-Nonsense New Orleans, Louisiana, Counter Has Been Serving Classic Po-Boys Since 1922

Every single week, a kitchen in Louisiana slow-cooks more than 1,000 pounds of roast beef and stirs up over 50 gallons of gravy. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a holiday special either. Put that into perspective for a second: all that gravy has one main job, which is soaking straight into a loaf of French bread.

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New book ‘compassionately captures’ 1980s AIDS crisis in New Orleans throughout 18 stories

“Skylark,” by William Christy Smith, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 246 pages. I’m a sucker for novels set in 1980s New Orleans, a time and place that shaped my earliest years but which I was far too young to fully absorb. Such is the case with William...

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Oldest Building in New Orleans Will Feature Actors in Ursuline History Exhibit

Inside the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi River valley, a French Quarter convent completed around 1752, actors will portray five figures connected to the convent. The Old Ursuline Convent Museum is set to open a new exhibit this weekend marking 300 years since Ursuline nuns first arrived in New Orleans, using live performance to tell stories about people connected to the convent.

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Two New Orleans 'Lion King' Broadway stars missed home: 'Grateful to be back'

New Orleans natives Jennifer Theriot, 35, and Vernon Brooks III, 28, have spent years living out of a few suitcases and a trunk. Touring with Disney’s Broadway musical “The Lion King” means packing light with vacuum-sealed clothes. But there is always room in the luggage for a...

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Treme's Historic Carver Theater Closes Again, Leaving Its Fate Up in the Air

The Carver Theater in Treme is closing its doors once more, with event coordinator Laura Meyers saying the historic building's future is now uncertain after it spent several years operating as a private event space. The announcement marks another turn for a property that has shifted from segregation-era movie house to medical clinic to concert hall over more than seven decades.

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At the oldest building in New Orleans, voices from the past come to life in new exhibit

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Completed around 1752, the Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter is said to be the oldest surviving building in the Mississippi River valley. Now the Old Ursuline Convent Museum, there’s a new exhibit marking 300 years since the Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans.

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Bonfouca Museum Holds Grand Opening; Chief Warhorse Is Keynote Speaker

The Bonfouca Museum & Research Center held a grand opening, with Chief Warhorse serving as keynote speaker. The Tchefuncta Nation, Chahta Tribe dedicated the museum. The museum is intended to preserve Indigenous history. Chief Warhorse personally invited the author to attend the grand opening. The Tchefuncta Site. The Tchefuncte site...

Slidell, LA · 12d

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GALLERY: Nicholls State University Volleyball vs LSUUNO

Nicholls was shut down by the LSU New Orleans privateers 0-3 Thursday evening at the “Stuff Stropher” volleyball game at Stopher Gym. The Colonels (9-6, 2-10 SLC) play two matches in Texas this week starting at Lamar on Nov. 5, then Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 7. View...

Thibodaux, LA · 9d

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Cheers to 60 Years of the Historic New Orleans Collection

The Historic New Orleans Collection hosted a lovely birthday party presented by Ryan Gootee General Contractors which brought together those who can't get enough of true New Orleans culture and history at the flagship center (one of 14 properties). The revelers packed the building and courtyard to indulge in excellent fare from Antoine's, Chef Prudhomme, Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse, and more. As they traversed the rooms, they were treated to the current exhibitions including the brand new Bunny Matthews art exhibit.

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Treme's Historic Carver Theater closing its doors as organizers say future is uncertain

The Historic Carver Theater in Treme, which decades ago served Black moviegoers during segregation, will again close its doors after serving as a private event space for several years, event organizers said. “The Carver has decided to close its doors. I don't know what will come of it, if it...

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Rediscovered 1935 recordings reveal earliest known spoken audio of endangered Louisiana Creole

The earliest spoken-word recordings of Louisiana Creole, a uniquely American language at risk of extinction, have been uncovered and analyzed for the first time, shedding light on a tongue that defined the docks and saloons of New Orleans for well over a century.

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