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Praise Fest marks its 16th year along Bayou St. John, while NOLA Funk Fest highlights local music, and prioritizes paying artists above market rates.

You can enjoy a variety of cuisines, including African, Caribbean, French, Italian, and Creole. The iconic New Orleans dishes, which include gumbo and jambalaya, red beans and rice, and raw oysters, are all extraordinary. New Orleans' best restaurants honor the old using modern techniques and flavor combinations. 1....

While Mardi Gras and Thanksgiving are all fine and good, here at Louisiana Eats, our very favorite holiday has always been Halloween! Every October since the show's debut in 2010, we've gotten into the spooky spirit by bringing you stories of the silly, the supernatural, and the downright scary! This week and next,...

Have you been contemplating pet adoption, or simply love perusing adorable pets? A myriad of delightful pets are available for adoption at various animal shelters in the vicinity of slidell..

A prank report of an armed suspect at Lakeside Mall was made Sunday, Oct. 19.

One of New Orleans' most iconic characters has become the basis of one of New Orleans' best annual Halloween parties, Morgus Madness, the annual WYES-TV fundraiser celebrating the life and legacy of the iconic New Orleans horror-host Morgus the Magnificent. The annual Halloween celebration has garnered a cult...

A recent study using New Orleans’ brown anole lizards to detect lead in urban areas found extremely high levels of lead contamination. The study, led by Tulane University evolutionary biology Ph.D. student and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency biologist Annelise Blanchette, uncovered that the city’s Cuban brown...

I have very strong opinions about food. I have a sandwich ranking (and a bunch of other food rankings, but those aren't important right now). My number-one sandwich in life is the muffuletta. The first one I tried was in New Orleans, so I might be spoiled for life. But there was something about the […]

Twenty years ago, Mark Clemens stepped off an airplane into the devastated landscape left by Hurricane Katrina. With two decades of experience in Washington’s Emergency Management program, Clemens was no stranger to disaster. He had helped respond to floods, wildfires and toxic spills. But Katrina proved to be a...

“Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851” by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, Louisiana State University Press, 288 pages. I had long assumed that New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood earned its name from the area’s quiet, pastoral qualities. It sure is gentle up here, I’d...