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New Orleans is most associated with the world-renowned French Quarter when tourists think of the city. Also popular are the Saints NFL Football Team, Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. The nola411 website is here to roll up information from around the web that locals ad visitors will hopefully find as a useful tool and check back frequently for the latest news.
Air Canada offers the only non-stop, daily service between Toronto and New Orleans. Flight AC7971 will depart Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport at 10:00 and arrive at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport at 12:10.
The Inn On Bourbon Presents The 1989 movie “Interview With A Vampire”
November 1, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
The Inn On Bourbon
541 Bourbon Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
French Quarter hotel is proud to announce free monthly showings of New Orleans-themed movies. Join us for the 1994 movie "Interview With a Vampire" starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Christian Slater. Presented by the not-for-profit New Orleans Lyceum.
If you’re not from here, you probably haven’t heard of us. If you are, you already know that Mat & Naddie’s offers its own brand of fine dining combined with a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere that has attracted a local following since opening nine years ago. Fine, yet accessible, local cuisine is the watchword here...
New Orleans Louis Armstrong International airport has decided it will remain publicly owned. The New Orleans Aviation Board voted last week to end efforts to raise money by selling a long-term lease to a private operator...
Courtesy of Louis Armstrong New Orleans Amstrong International Airport
Director Christopher Nolan announced Batman 3 will officially be called The Dark Knight Rises. Nola has also chosen to move Gotham from Chicago to New Orleans...
The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist AM was raised in Mandeville and graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans. AM himself is usually careful to mention his Crescent City soul influences, but Future Sons and Daughters, his third full-length release, bears a much deeper imprint from the other LA...
In 1993, Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), the guy who would eventually wind up in jail for having all that cash in his freezer, introduced H.R. 3408, a classic piece of pork designating something in New Orleans to be a National Park celebrating the history of Jazz...
Kermit Ruffins, "Happy Talk" (Basin Street Records) - Go ahead, just try and listen to New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins' latest release without moving — no foot tapping, finger snapping or head nodding. A plate of red beans and rice says you can't do it. Listeners looking to be transported directly to Bourbon Street without paying any baggage fees need look no further than the album's first song...
The New Orleans Investment Conference is now in its 36th year, and Blanchard is likely smiling down in admiration on the 700-odd "gold bugs" assembled, those self-directed investors who attend the annual shindig he mounted then in protest against U.S. monetary policy. The four-day conference opens Wednesday at the Hilton Riverside hotel...
Help spread music to New Orleans’ youth when you score a rare bottle on October 29 at the New Orleans Opera Association’s wine and spirits auction. The auction, now in its 22nd year, typically raises between $20,000 and $30,000 to support the association’s music education programs...
Music thrives in New Orleans. (Skip Bolen/Getty Images)
Bob Schieffer reports on How a City Facing Horrendous Problems Attacked Them Head-On. The city shared the recession with the rest of us, but for New Orleans that was just the half of it. Katrina left 80 percent of the city underwater, and six months ago that was bookended by the worst oil spill ever, which sent its economy for another loop...
Scientists who were aboard two research vessels studying the Gulf of Mexico oil spill's impact on sea life have found substantial amounts of oil on the seafloor, contradicting statements by federal officials that the oil had largely disappeared.
Chances are, whenever you think about Louisiana these days, you probably remember the New Orleans Saints winning the Super Bowl in February, 2010. For Saints fans, the New Orleans Saints embody the living, breathing spirit of all that is Louisiana. Like our state, they’ve weathered the good, the bad, and the really bad times. And, just like Louisiana’s citizens, no matter how bad things got, they never, ever gave up—even when fans wore paper bags over their heads.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was interviewed by "Face the Nation" moderator Bob Schieffer Thursday during a summit called "Reboot America," sponsored by the web site The Daily Beast. Amid the partisan vitriol that has increasingly become the norm in American politics, particularly during an election cycle, Landrieu thinks his city's struggle to rebuild itself in the five years since Hurricane Katrina can provide the country a blueprint to "find herself again."
Bring your little ghosts and goblins to Boo at the Zoo! This annual Audubon Zoo extravaganza is a safe, fun-filled Halloween event for children up to age 12, featuring trick-or-treat houses with candy, the Mombassa Ghost Train, a haunted house, games with prizes and entertainment. All games and treats, except concessions, are free with admission...
A Mississippi jury has sentenced a New Orleans man to life in prison without parole for his role in a crime spree that began in New Orleans and ended in rural Jackson County. Jurors found 31-year-old Eddie Pugh guilty Thursday on charges of capital murder, arson and aggravated assault...
Wizard Entertainment has announced that its 2011 comic convention tour will kick off at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre in January, the move sees the city host the event for the first time...
Singer, songwriter and pianist Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack has been at the heart of New Orleans funk and R&B since the 1950s, so when he paid a visit to the KPLU/Jazz24 studio for a solo performance, we were sure we'd get a good dose of the Crescent City...
Attorneys for New Orleans-based sanitation contractors Richard's Disposal, Inc., and Metro Disposal, Inc., have appealed to the New Orleans Ethics Review Board to seek cancelation of Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux's recently announced volunteer citizens' inspection of local residences and small businesses as duplicitous and wasteful.
BESE board members heard from a standing room only crowd of educators, parents, students and members of the community regarding the current transition plan for New Orleans public schools. Fire marshalls were actually forced to turn some 200 people away from the hearing, which was required by state law to be held so the board could receive input from the community before its final vote on the decision, set to take place in New Orleans on December 9.
Crescent City sight—“Krazy Korner, N.O.,” a solarized gelatin sliver print, is among the 16 images in Yolanda Tooley’s “New Orleans, The Soul of America” exhibition, opening Oct. 29 at Oswego State Downtown.
Yolanda Tooley’s photographic exhibit “New Orleans, Soul of America” will bring the spirit of the Crescent City to Oswego State Downtown, (New York) corner of West First and Bridge streets, Oct. 29 to Nov. 27.
The show will start with a reception, free and open to the public, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 29.
The fifth-busiest bridge system in the country, the Crescent City Connection over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, doesn’t operate by the book and has its share of wasteful practices, a state audit has revealed.
The Crescent City Connection Division of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development operates a system that includes two tolled bridges on U.S. Route 90, six ferries and 29 commissioned officers. All are funded primarily with toll revenue.
The 2010 New Orleans Fringe Festival, November 17-21, will be an extraordinary five days of theater, performance art and spectacle. Forty groups from around the country and New Orleans will be presenting over 100 shows in venues across the city. The shows include the exotic, the dramatic and the insane: drama, dance, one-person shows, cabaret, comedy, puppetry, clowning, improvisational, aerialist and many other creative works...
While New Orleans is the far-and-away leader of food, music and good times, we're hardly known for our fashion-forward sensibilities. Everyone has that friend or relative who needs a makeover, whether she's stuck in the 1980s, dressing too old or young for her age, simply oblivious or any number of fashion felonies. Here is your chance to nominate her for the "What Not to Wear" overhaul and a chance to be featured on the TLC hit...
The Community Food Security Coalition decided to host the convention in New Orleans because the city's unique culinary traditions give convention attendees a lot to learn. Bringing the convention to an area affected by a hurricane and an oil spill not only helps teach others how to cope in similar crises but also aids economic development...
After 14 months in office, Archbishop Gregory Aymond has begun to roll out his agenda for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on several fronts, one of which will be a sustained push to recruit new priests for a regional church that is steadily losing ground...
Now that the oil has stopped flowing from the Deepwater Horizon well blowout, what can we expect in terms of environmental impact, economic recovery and government responses to the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history? ...
Sanitation services, street conditions, and blight can affect the quality of life for residents of any city, and for years, they have been major concerns for New Orleanians, but have city services improved since Mayor Mitch Landrieu took office?
Peter Toma, an accordionist who led the band that played in the Roosevelt Hotel’s Fountain Lounge for 19 years, died Sept. 18 at his New Orleans home. He was 91...
Kids in New Orleans may get their Halloween candy a day early, as a group of area moms are urging residents to adopt early trick-or-treating to avoid conflicting with the Saints' October 31 night game...
National Audubon Society experts say bird populations along Louisiana's oil-tainted shores are doing surprisingly well nearly six months after the BP PLC oil spill, but caution that oil continues to ooze out of the ground in many places and multiple threats ...
Donna’s On Rampart—the old Donna’s Bar & Grill, which closed in August—has been leased by optometrist Dr. Eugene Oppman, who also owns the Carver Theater on Orleans Avenue. Oppman started his optometry career in the Carver Theater in 1987...
Baton Rouge is ranked second in the country for its per capita income growth rate in the past 25 years, according to a new report by Portfolio.com. New Orleans ranks fifth...
VOODOO is a three-day music festival that's held the last weekend in October. This year's festival is on Friday, Oct. 29, Saturday, Oct. 30 and Sunday, Oct. 31. The VOODOO experience can be enjoyed by those of all ages. Kids under ten get in free, and have access to VooBoo, an area that provides kid-friendly events and activities...
If you prefer a contemporary decor style, you aren't interested in rustic jack-o-lanterns or homespun stuffed witches when Halloween comes around. But fear not: This season you'll find lots of ghoulish yet glamorous pieces to fete the occasion...
Going to be in New Orleans for Halloween. The Krewe of Mystic Orphans and Misfits (MOMs) is selling tickets to the public for their annual Halloween costume ball. COSTUMES ARE REQUIRED. Get Creative!
Warning: You may be refused entry if you have a very lame costume.
Krewe of M.O.M.'s Halloween Ball: Forever Neverland
featuring Papa Grows Funk with special guests, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes & Josh Garrett and the Bottom Line
Saturday, Oct 30, 2010 9:00 PM CDT
Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA
18 years and over
New Orleans TV horror host Dr. Morgus will be making something of a comeback this Halloween as his 1962 movie 'The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus' plays at the Chalmette Movies...
Since parting ways from the Iguanas, saxophonist Derek Huston has kept busy as a free agent. This month, Huston will play as a member of the band when Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello play each other’s songs in San Francisco. Huston became connected with the show through former Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen guitarist Bill Kirchen and pianist Austin De Lone, both of whom will be part of the show...
Entergy New Orleans has pledged to give the city $1 million to support the New Orleans Recreation Department and the New Orleans Council on Aging. The bulk of the money -- $650,000 -- is geared towards NORD...
New Orleans police have suspended using dogs while making arrests, a spokeswoman said. In 2009, two police dogs died after being left unattended. One died of heat stroke after being left in a police car and another dog died after falling 17 stories down an elevator shaft at Charity Hospital...
The trade-show at the National Funeral Directors Association convention in New Orleans being held this week features green burial options such as recycled newspaper coffins, sea-salt urns, and the like. Passages International, a company from Albuquerque introduced biodegradable container in which the body or cremated remains are placed and it will break down quickly without doing harm to the earth around it.
The National Marine Fisheries Service will study whether the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has depleted the population of Atlantic bluefin tuna to the point that the food fish should be placed on the endangered species list. The fisheries service will make a recommendation by May 24, 2011 - a year after The Center for Biological Diversity filed its petition.
The annual Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association fund raiser, with cuisine provided by local restaurants, open bar, live music.
Tickets are for sale for $40 in advance or $50 at the door.
Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:30 p.m., and the party begins at 8:30 p.m. and goes until midnight
Pitot House, 1440 Moss Street on Bayou St. John
Benefit for the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association Your ticket covers live musical entertainment, an open bar and fare from some of New Orleans most beloved restaurants.
The City Council approved each of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's nine nominees to a new board that will oversee the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, but the process didn't go as some would hope...
This weekend’s eating forecast: sunny with a chance of scattered euphoria. Get your head checked if you don’t eat at least three meals outside. Here are five places to lounge, nibble and swill al fresco in New Orleans.
Criminal justice leaders are looking for ways to ease jail overcrowding, and a recovery/intervention center thinks it can help. If the city adopts this sobering center idea, Odyssey House would like to offer space for police to drop people off...
A clinic focusing on the needs of children will open today in Plaquemines Parish, an area that was already lacking in such medical care before the BP disaster stretched the area's resources even further...
A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts -- One man's tribute to the seductive rhythms, exotic sounds and wild legends of Louisiana's swampland.
In "Bayou Underground," a head-long dive into the music and culture of New Orleans and its environs, Dave Thompson rightly stops to comment on "I Walk on Gilded Splinters." He calls it "the definitive sound of bayou country." The music is as "intense as it is hypnotic . . . all jerking ropes and clouds of smoke, charnal chants and crazy-eye staring."
Check out the the 2011 New Orleans Music Photography Calendar
Look for these artists in the 2011 calendar: George Porter Jr ¦ Anders Osborne ¦ Stanton Moore ¦ Jon Cleary ¦ Rebirth Brass Band ¦ Big Sam Williams ¦ Ivan Neville ¦ Art Neville.
This calendar has highlights the NOLA music festivals as well as traditional holidays.
Tipitina's Sunday Music Workshops have some exciting sessions planned for the coming weeks:
- October 10 : Alvin Youngblood Hart & Johnny Vidacovich
- October 24 : Kirk Joseph & Roger Lewis of Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Sunday Music Workshops are free, for all ages, and happen 1PM to 3PM at Tipitina's Uptown Music Club, 501 Napoleon at Tchoupitoulas. Kids, bring your instruments and come ready to play and learn!
The proposed merger of Southwest Airlines and AirTran should have little impact in Baton Rouge because neither serves Metro Airport, but the deal offers the opportunity to perhaps persuade Southwest to enter the market, an airport official said...
Although a series of high-profile construction blunders left Armstrong Park unusable for most of the summer, work will soon resume under a new general contractor. The project has become politicized because Mayor Ray Nagin trumpeted the project as something super-spectacular, promising "you're going to be blown away," and fast-tracked the work so that he could unveil the Roots of Music Cultural Sculpture Garden in his final days in office.
To certain constituencies—among them the Rockefeller Foundation—Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans are much more than convenient reference points for calamity, and they represent something far more profound: the integrated, evolving, and critically important challenges we will confront in the 21st century, from the incipient dangers of climate change, to the dramatic urbanization underway in America and around the world, to the need for our institutions to deal more deftly with increasingly complex problems...
The director of New Orleans' emergency medical services has resigned following reports of moonlighting at a Texas medical device company whose leading product is used in the city's ambulances...
Saturday, October 9, 2010 in City Park at The Big Lake 2-6 pm — A beer tasting like no other. Come sample 200 different beers while sitting under an oak tree in City Park and enjoying live music by Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes. Did we forget to mention the pub crawl? That’s right, local bars will be sponsoring tables and when you visit the bars and get your beer passport filled you'll get a free shirt. There will also be a food and soda booth. You can even check out the LSU game at our tailgating zone! You know what the best part of sampling all this beer is? You will be helping out the LA/SPCA by having an awesome time.
In the past week, Plaquemines Parish officials say about 13,000 gallons of an oily water mix have been recovered in Bay Jimmy, a spot that has been hit hard by the oil spill. In the week before that, officials said about 31,905 gallons had been collected...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidance to homeowners who have had problems with Chinese drywall on how they can claim a tax deduction to help cover the costs of repairs to their home.
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The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist AM was raised in Mandeville and graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans. AM himself is usually careful to mention his Crescent City soul influences, but Future Sons and Daughters
, his third full-length release, bears a much deeper imprint from the other LA...
Kermit Ruffins, "Happy Talk"
(Basin Street Records) - Go ahead, just try and listen to New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins' latest release without moving — no foot tapping, finger snapping or head nodding. A plate of red beans and rice says you can't do it. Listeners looking to be transported directly to Bourbon Street without paying any baggage fees need look no further than the album's first song...
Singer, songwriter and pianist Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack has been at the heart of New Orleans funk and R&B since the 1950s, so when he paid a visit to the KPLU/Jazz24 studio for a solo performance, we were sure we'd get a good dose of the Crescent City...
," a head-long dive into the music and culture of New Orleans and its environs, Dave Thompson rightly stops to comment on "I Walk on Gilded Splinters." He calls it "the definitive sound of bayou country." The music is as "intense as it is hypnotic . . . all jerking ropes and clouds of smoke, charnal chants and crazy-eye staring."
John McCusker, The Times-Picayune
