Culture

Red carpet event in Baton Rouge shines spotlight on film tax program

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Thanks to the Louisiana Film Tax Incentive Program launched in 2002, the state has skyrocketed into the third most productive film nexus in the nation behind Hollywood and New York. Currently, about 14,000 jobs are directly or indirectly [...]

NOLA's Moveable Feast Strikes Again (and Again)

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A few weeks ago, we whetted your appetites with the story of Al Fresceaux, a floating dinner party that aims to advance the culinary experience in New Orleans by providing fresh and innovative meals that focus on the [...]

Riffing On the Tradition: Farewell Blues - A final riff.

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This final article for Riffing on the Tradition took me three weeks to complete. At our last NolaVie editorial meeting, I confessed being ready for a change, but it’s been difficult to figure out how to end this. [...]

SpeakEasy mixes social hour and conversation

Nick Spitzer, the producer and host of American Routes, is a folklorist and a professor of anthropology and American studies at Tulane University, is among locals talking culture at SpeakEasy on Thursday.

New Orleans has a new kind of SpeakEasy, and it offers more than mere drinks (though there will be those, too). Join WWNO and Chickie Wah Wah on the last Thursday of each month for a new series devoted to [...]

Two brothers, a party, and an eye-opening show

Bright Bright

My cousin Sandra dragged me to an opening at Longue Vue House and Gardens one Thursday night recently. All the way out to Bamboo Road I asked, "Now who are we going to see?" She said that former [...]

Local group sets moveable feast in motion

Erin Meyer with Chef Lalita at December's Al Fresceaux Thai dinner.

Last summer, Erin Meyer was looking for a way to do more farm-to-table dining while showcasing the skills and creativity of the city’s chefs. “So I got a few of my friends and we’d have what we called [...]