There are a number of foods that people both here and abroad consider to be distinctly American.  Not "regional American," mind you, but pure red white and blue, through and through.  There's apple pie, of course, and [...]

"This is my idea of heaven," Keith Marshall, owner of Madewood Plantation, said recently. "A celebrity chef meal and a concert by internationally acclaimed performers in the ballroom at Madewood, and all I have to do is show [...]

More than 900 works of art, including sculptures, antiques, woodworks, jewelry, pottery and mixed-media pieces by local and nationally renowned artists, will be available for preview beginning Sunday. The works will be part of the 31st annual WYES [...]

Tibetan prayer flags have popped up all over New Orleans to welcome the Dalai Lama, including outside the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, where a weeklong series of films is celebrating the visit of the spiritual leader. More information at www.zeitgeistinc.net. Photographer [...]

To hear Sharon Litwin's interview with Ronald Marks on WWNO radio, click here. By now, most New Orleanians know that the Dalai Lama is in town this week. They may know that this Nobel Peace Prize Laureate will [...]

Today's Love NOLA is a little different.  Rather than my words, it contains mainly the words of Eleanor Chapman. Eleanor is the mother of Chelsea Thornton, the bipolar schizophrenic woman who killed her two young children, Kelsey and [...]