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Amtrak Mardi Gras Line: The Inaugural Run
- photos by Ellis Anderson
The French Quarter’s Last Remaining School Reopens
When the “Little Red Schoolhouse” closed two years ago, the neighborhood feared the historic building would be commercially developed. But this week, officers from the 8th District and “Patch,” their mini-horse mascot, welcomed Lyceé Francais students back to the French Quarter.
- photos by Shawn Fink
Night of 1000 Mona Lisas
When Mona Lisa Restaurant was told they’d have to move because of new building ownership, the community rallied, planning this event in support. Happily, by the time it took place, the restaurant learned it was staying put, making the block party a celebration of the neighborhood icon.
- photos by Shawn Fink
New & Now: The Nous Foundation
Oh là là! Scott Tilton and Rudy Bazenet’s chic boutique museum is “bringing French back to the French Quarter.”
-by Doug Brantley
The Assunto Brothers and Louis Armstrong: How New Orleans Jazz Pushed Jim Crow’s Envelope
In the 1950s, two talented young brothers rocket from a Bourbon Street bar to Carnegie Hall, eventually recording with one of their childhood heroes - despite the South’s repressive Jim Crow laws.
- by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Satchmo Summerfest 2025
The annual festival celebrating Louis Armstrong’s birthday celebrated its own 25th anniversary this year – in a wonderful world kind of way.
- photos by Scott Saltzman and Odette Harmsen
Sean Friloux - Plein Air on Jackson Square
A rare plein air watercolorist finds endless subject matter by exploring shadows in the city of his ancestors.
-by Caroline Rowe
Past Lives Served Nightly: Sylvain Restaurant & Bar
Now 15 years old, this restaurant is creating its own legacy in a building with a storied past - and its own sassy ghost named Rose.
– by Kim Ranjbar
Cross-Cultured at the Historic New Orleans Collection
Two new mirroring exhibits reflect the city’s communal makeup through a decade of oral histories.
-by Doug Brantley
Quarter Rats
A writer with deep generational ties to the French Quarter takes readers back in time, then guides them through a century of change.
– by James Nolan
Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Train Service Begins August 18, 2025
On July 1, a progressive series of press conferences moved across the coast of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, when Amtrak announced the start date of its long-awaited Mardi Gras train service between Mobile and New Orleans. Tickets for the first day sold out by late afternoon.
- photos by Scott Saltzman, Gregg Martel, Dena Temple, and Ellis Anderson
Go 4th on the River 2025
The annual Go 4th on the River event brings families, visitors and locals down to the riverfront in the French Market District for fun and fireworks - which never disappoint!
- photos by Shawn Fink
Elaine Adel Cummins: The World Comes to You
A second-generation Jackson Square artist, Elaine Cummins got her first license to hang “on the fence” when she was only 16. More than forty years later, she’s still happily painting there.
-by J. Michael Warner
Dedication of the New Up Stairs Fire Plaque
A plaque dedication and second line commemorate the victims of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, which killed 32 people in one of the deadliest attacks on the LGBTQ+ community in U.S. history.
- photos by Cheryl Gerber
Local Archeology: Digging the Quarter
The search to uncover more about this historic French Quarter home’s past gets down to earth with Dr. Ryan Gray and his team.
-by Jane Lowrance-Neal
A Look Inside: Painting the Town
Color me impressed: this new volume from Preservation Resource Center celebrates the many hues of the Crescent City’s architecture.
– by John S. Sledge
Pride Parade 2025
A thunderstorm caused the delay of the Pride Parade, but it rolled on through the rain-cooled streets of the Quarter to the delight of cheering throngs.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
On the New Orleans Jazz Museum Beat
From its recently revamped Performance Center to its musician-promoting record label, everything is up-tempo on Esplanade Avenue.
-by Doug Brantley
Celebrating Queer Art
A four-day multi-media series of events honors legendary Louisiana LGBTQ+ artists - and introduces the work of emerging ones.
~ by Claude Summers