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Cover to Cover: Charles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle
This new book follows a dynamic young artist into the Roaring ‘20s French Quarter, where its lively Bohemian colony anchors him for the next sixty years.
By Tom Uskali
Cover to Cover: New Orleans (1970 - 2020), A Portrait of the City
A new book by writer Dalt Wonk and photographer Josephine Sacabo unflinchingly documents a five-decade love affair between the two artists and their abiding passion for New Orleans.
– by Richard Goodman
Full 2025 Faulkner For All Schedule
Welcome! You’ll find the entire schedule for this year’s events below. Bookmark it for easy reference!
Southern Decadence Parade 2025
A later starting time and cooler temps – at least for New Orleans in August– made this celebration one of the most flamboyant yet!
- photos by Cheryl Gerber
2025 Mermaid Parade
This annual benefit by the Krewe Du Fool for the Audubon Institute’s Education Department welcomed little minnows, mermaids and mermen and all things oceanic.
- photos by Melanie Cole
Our Hell in High Water
A writer with deep generational ties to the French Quarter flees the neighborhood in Katrina’s aftermath, only to find the storm strengthened his resolve to return - and to stay.
-by James Nolan
My–Oh–My! A Look Back at Female Impersonator Venues in New Orleans
The first club featuring female impersonators opened in New Orleans in 1933 at the edge of the French Quarter. Read on for a a peek inside some of the most popular.
-byFrank Perez
A Look Inside: Rainbow Fleur de Lis
Frank Perez's new book on New Orleans LGBT+ history bears witness to the value of local journalism, especially when covering minority communities.
-by Claude Summers
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
Amtrak Mardi Gras Line: The Inaugural Run
The new Mardi Gras line between New Orleans and Mobile was thirty years in the making, so every city on the route celebrated the inaugural run on August 16th - starting in the Crescent City.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
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