Within minutes of setting foot in New Orleans, it becomes clear that this city is different. There’s an atmosphere here that you won’t find anywhere else in the mainland United States. Many have said that New Orleans is the U.S.’ most Caribbean city – even more than Miami. But that’s not entirely correct. While New […]
July 2018 Edition
Table of Contents
- Race and Faith in New Orleans
- Families Belong Together NOLA
- “Crime Just Moves”, The Quality of Surveillance.
- So Goes the Coast
- Not Like Canada…Yet. A Roundtable
- D4 Tabletop Gaming Cafe, Open For Business, Fun, Games, And Delicious Food
- THE AIRBNB AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
- Honor & Dignity, Upstairs
- Louisiana wasn’t just built by immigrants and slaves; Louisiana was also rebuilt by immigrants
- A Look Back at the Saints 2018 Off-Season and Ahead to 2018 Training Camp
- Charter Schools: Championed as Improving Schools in New Orleans But at What Cost to the Black Community?
- Profile of a Musician- July 2018
- Strip Club Pop-up; An Outlaw Art Form
- The Power of the Gig Economy
- A Canary in the Coal Mine – Isle de Jean Charles
- New Orleans Happy Hours to Beat the Summer Slump
- Frenchy, New Orleans Icon
- Not Westboro, But New Orleans
- EVENTS! Weekend of June 29th-July 1st
- New Orleans Happy Hours to Beat the Summer Slump
- New Orleans’ Puerto Rican Connections
- Movie Review – On the Seventh Day
- For All Labor (and Love), Everywhere
- Symbols of a Shameful Past
- Portrait of a New Orleans Author: Patty Friedmann
Movie Review – On the Seventh Day
Bill Arceneaux – Lead Content Writer July 1, 2018GOAL! It takes me somewhere between the space of six or so huffs of breath to climb (not walk) up a set of stairs. In that time, a young man named Jose would’ve made six or so deliveries across Brooklyn on his bike. This comparison alone should change the hearts and minds of the […]
For All Labor (and Love), Everywhere
Bill Arceneaux – Lead Content Writer July 1, 2018It doesn’t escape me, the interesting fact of this article publishing the month AFTER June – Pride month. Originally designated to commemorate and memorialize the Stonewall Riots, June’s Pride celebrations have taken on a much more festive and profound/pronounced manner, in the spirit that only the LGBTQ community has. Of course, pride isn’t just about […]
Symbols of a Shameful Past
Nicole Nixon - Contributing Writer July 1, 2018The Take ‘Em Down NOLA Panel Discussion on National Monuments Take ‘Em Down NOLA is a growing coalition of citizens passionate about the vision of a real chance at racial reconciliation in New Orleans. Symbols represent systems; this organization is focused on exposing the systems that have gone on to allow symbols of bigotry to […]
Portrait of a New Orleans Author: Patty Friedmann
Madeline Kolker – Contributing Writer July 1, 2018In the words of New Orleans’ own, Patty Friedmann, “All fiction has a sort of autobiographical element to it, and if you don’t see that, you’re lying.” Ms. Friedmann does not shy away from this reality in her body of darkly comic literary work, and lucky for her readers, her history makes for some rich […]