It's a Christmas miracle! The Polar Express will chug through New Orleans again in 2024, bringing a beloved Yuletide tradition back after four long, sad years.
Annette Sisco
New Orleans takes food seriously. And that starts early.
Lunch was half an hour away, but seats were already filling up in the dining room at Congregation Gates of Prayer synagogue in Metairie.
The Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival returns Friday through Sunday (April 12-14), bringing traffic jams on nearby interstate highways as visitors flood into the small Tangipahoa Parish town.
Don Lemon, who rose to television news fame from his beginnings near Baton Rouge, married his longtime beau in a church ceremony in New York City on Saturday, People magazine has reported.
Former New Orleans newswoman Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager will be back in New Orleans next month to broadcast live from the New Orleans Jazz Museum, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the TODAY show with Hoda & Jenna as the French Quarter Festival kicks off around them.
In the third chapter of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane, the plot thickens.
The Krewe of Proteus was born in 1882, making it the second-oldest krewe in Mardi Gras. The group treasures its traditions, rolling on original chassis from the 1880s behind a secret king.
When Alton Johnson was in school in St. Bernard Parish in the 1970s, the headlines screamed racial struggle as Black people across the nation pushed for equal rights. Yet lessons in school taught him little about the historic oppression behind that inequality.