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During Bruce Daigrepont’s most recent Sunday evening Cajun dance party at Tipitina’s, he played two of longtime fan Steve Servay’s favorite songs. Servay wasn’t there. He had died three weeks earlier. But Christine Servay came to Tipitina’s for the first fais do do following her husband’s...

Marie Gauthe-Joseph drives around with a large plastic box full of rocks in the trunk of her car. And in her purse. She has delicately painted each rock with a variety of designs — quirky pets, mermaids, colorful faces, hearts, cartoonish insects, flowers, and whimsical birds with giant eyes.

When the editors sent us food writers a list of recipes to choose from out of “Cooking up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” a book that was put together to help rally and comfort the Louisiana diaspora in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, my eyes immediately gravitated to the crab an

Back when Gov. Jeff Landry opened the legislative session in March, I started thinking of the 2026 session as the “year of the inspection sticker.” That the governor used his big speech to promote eliminating the pesky but hardly consequential mandate seemed, at the time, a signal that this would be a low-temperature s

I’ve been visiting a Kenner restaurant for Thai dishes otherwise unknown on local menus and also for a sideline of dishes I never imagined finding at any Thai restaurant. There was a chicken foot dish that stood out as an audacity of a special, one so specialized in its appeal that it brought out the foot fanatics and

Sometimes the desire to fit in is so overwhelming that even engaging in reckless behavior doesn’t override the quest to feel normal. In the new feature film “Under the Lights,” Sam (Pearce Joza of Disney's "Zombies" franchise) has epilepsy and is willing to risk the strobing lights that bring on his seizures, just so h

Chef Ashwin Vilkhu is a stylish man with a calm, measured energy. When he and his longtime partner, Tina Anand Vilkhu, married and bought a stately home in the Irish Channel in 2020, she trusted her husband with most of the home’s design decisions. “We are remarkably on the...

In the middle of New Orleans’ Central Business District, Good Catch Thai Urban Bistro just landed a serious international nod: Thai Select 1‑Star certification from Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce. The stamp of approval is reserved for restaurants serving authentic Thai cuisine with high‑quality food and full‑service h

The Panamanian ceviche, bright with habanero pepper; the squid ink rice, dark with briny flavor, the oysters baked with chorizo and Manchego. Say the name RioMar and for some New Orleans dining aficionados these flavor memories will flow back from a trailblazing seafood restaurant that closed more than a decade ago.

A small coastal community that's pursued its own flood protection for nearly two decades will fold its levee projects into the Southeast Flood Protection Authority-West after a year of financial turmoil. The Lafitte Area Independent Levee District will consolidate into the West Bank levee authority starting Aug. 1 unde