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EASTON, Pa. — Easton Area High School Music program students got a chance to show off their incredible talents in the Big Easy last week, and the Beast from the East dominated the scene. EAHS band and orchestra students took a trip down to New Orleans to participate in...

Eight years ago, LaToya Cantrell stormed into the New Orleans mayor’s office with an attitude. This week she’ll leave with one, too. That the voting public views her brash personality quite differently now compared to when she was first elected says much about her roller coaster of a public life.

With studio film production at an all-time low in Louisiana, the independent film community in the state is filling a major void, employing actors and crews who have had to leave the state, in some cases the country, just to work. But, beginning production this past November, a new feature...

NEW ORLEANS — The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club is preparing for its annual Lundi Gras celebration at Woldenberg Park. Club leaders gathered Saturday at Audubon Aquarium to announce the entertainment lineup and introduce King Zulu for 2026. The George V. Rainey Lundi Gras Festival will feature three...

To mark Mayor-elect Helena Moreno's inauguration weekend, two of the Crescent City's iconic landmarks will be lit up to celebrate.

Originally posted April 10, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War. New Orleans was the only major city in the Confederacy, and it was captured by the Union army and navy just a year after the war began. Did the city fall to the Union because its immigrants were fed up with the nativist Know Nothings commanding its...

For about a dozen years, one of the best fried chicken sandwiches in New Orleans has been a street food find, first at a pop-up and later from a food truck. Now Bonafried finally has its own permanent home, with the new restaurant at 3101 Grand Route St. John. The...

Helena Moreno officially becomes the mayor of New Orleans on Jan. 12, but she’s been unofficially acting as the city’s mayor ever since she was elected in October. "Not 24 hours after I was elected mayor, I was pretty much treated like the de facto mayor,” she says.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana charged a Mexican national, Jose Cabrera-Molina, aged 33, with illegal reentry after deportation. As reported on Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Cabrera-Molina was prosecuted via bill of information for a violation which, upon...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell leaves office Monday, closing out eight tumultuous years with a legal storm gathering at her heels. Instead of being remembered for steering the city through COVID-19, Hurricane Ida, and a carousel of crises that demanded steady hands and stubborn resilience, her tenure now appears...