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Broadway Pounces On New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer April 12, 2012 Arts & Culture

In New Orleans, you don’t have to journey to New York to see some of the best theater in the world, it comes to you. Broadway in New Orleans is just what it sounds like – all the leading Broadway productions like Lion King, Jersey Boys, Les Miserables and Wicked right here at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. Watch …

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GoNOLA Recommends: 5 Things To Do In New Orleans This Weekend

by Sally Tunmer April 12, 2012 Arts & Culture

Even though festival season has been upon us for a little while now, it “officially” begins today with the French Quarter Festival! What some people may not know is that with every major festival like French Quarter Festival and Jazz Festival, there is a secret locals’ festival that spills out into the night. All mysteriousness aside, that basically means that …

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The Vieux Carre Culture of New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer April 11, 2012 Food

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I’ve lived in New Orleans for roughly eight years – save a year and a half stint in New York before I was helplessly lassoed back by unflinching homesickness – and no matter how many times I walk the French Quarter streets, I’m utterly enamored. The sense of beauty and history seeping out of every sidewalk crack is all consuming, …

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French Quarter Festival Ushers In New Orleans Spring Festival Season

by Sally Tunmer April 9, 2012 Events

It’s all been leading up to this. Since Mardi Gras we’ve had a sprinkling of dress rehearsals, but the real premier is mere days away. Starting on Thursday at 11 a.m., the beast that is the New Orleans spring festival season will pounce on the city starting with French Quarter Fest. The festival, lauded as the largest free festival in …

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Crawfish Etouffee

by Sally Tunmer April 8, 2012 Food

If for some strange reason there is enough uneaten crawfish after a boil to use the next day for a recycled dish, much like turkey sandwiches the day after Thanksgiving, then Crawfish Etouffee is an excellent choice. Take the leftover crawfish tails and combine them with a savory blend of the Cajun Holy Trinity, Creole seasonings, and some other brilliant …

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Dance Through the Week at New Orleans’ Wednesday at the Square

by Sally Tunmer April 5, 2012 Events

Wednesday at the Square is a glorious thing in New Orleans. Whether you want to treat the mid-week blues or embrace hump day, all you have to do is walk into the welcoming world of Lafayette Square and let the awesome bands and killer food wash serenity into your soul. That might sound a little over the top, but Wednesday …

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GoNOLA Recommends: Top 5 Things To Do In New Orleans This Weekend

by Sally Tunmer April 5, 2012 Arts & Culture

As another round of holidays approaches, New Orleans is at the ready to throw down in typical fashion. Besides all the wonderful food to enjoy surrounding Easter and Passover in New Orleans, there are also adult scavenger hunts and unconventional Easter parades (as if there were an alternative). There are also plenty of non-affiliated events to enjoy, including two street …

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Treme: A Legendary New Orleans Neighborhood

by Sally Tunmer April 4, 2012 Food

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Treme. The name carries a breadth of connotations that vary from person to person. Depending on who you talk to, it’s a neighborhood, a TV show, the birthplace of jazz music or a place where you can find some of the best fried chicken or gumbo known to man. Indeed, Treme is all of these things, and our hosts cover …

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GoNOLA Top 5: Spring Holiday Brunching in New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer April 3, 2012 Food

For weeks now, devout Catholics and resolution bandwagon hoppers in New Orleans have commendably restrained themselves from succumbing to their carnivorous instincts, at least on Fridays. Those observers of Lent and lovers of any holiday associated with eating out before or after due worship will rejoice at the chance to feast for Easter or Passover. Classic New Orleans brunch favorites …

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Crawfish Monica

by Sally Tunmer April 1, 2012 Food

The music at Jazz Fest is great and all, but for some, the food – specifically the Crawfish Monica – is really where it’s at. Think eating hot, creamy crawfish pasta in the sun is insane? Well call us crazy, because in New Orleans, we live for the stuff under any condition. This year, you can find the genius plate …

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GoNOLA Flickr Pick of the Week: French Quarter Festival Parade

by Sally Tunmer March 31, 2012 Events

The countdown to French Quarter Festival is just 11 days away, and we can’t wait for all the excessive gorging, dancing and frolicking about the Quarter with wild abandon that will most certainly take place. To ring in this festival of indulgence in New Orleans life will be one of the French Quarter Festival’s free special events, the second line …

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Art and Basketball: Two Worlds Collide in New Orleans

by Sally Tunmer March 30, 2012 Arts & Culture

New Orleans artist Robert Tannen interprets the basketball in a different way than say, the NCAA likely does. Tannen was so taken with the form and function of the athletic sphere, that he created a series of drawings inspired by it, and by other sports balls used throughout history and the world. To coincide with the March Madness Final Four …

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GoNOLA Recommends: 5 Things To Do In New Orleans This Weekend

by Sally Tunmer March 29, 2012 Events

As always in New Orleans, there’s quite the diverse lineup for the weekend. There’s really something for everyone: a very unordinary puppet festival, the first roller derby bout of what will surely be a very exciting season, a drunken scavenger hunt, all the March Madness madness, and even a fishing festival and competition just to round everything out. If you’re …

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Cajun New Orleans: Bringing Regional Traditions to the Big Easy

by Sally Tunmer March 28, 2012 Arts & Culture

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Often the term Cajun becomes misconstrued by the general population outside of Louisiana. It’s usually associated with face disintegrating spice and funny French accents. While that is true to a certain extent, those qualities are not what define Cajun culture. It is as GoNOLA Radio music host George Ingmire describes, a “cultural phenomenon” born and surviving in Southwestern Louisiana. New …

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GoNOLA Top 5: New Orleans Final Four Events

by Sally Tunmer March 27, 2012 Events

The final four teams are determined. Fans suit up in official gear to properly represent. New Orleans prepares for the eminent onslaught of March Madness. This is the premier sports event of the season, and basketball is just one part of it. The Final Four championship game on Monday, April 2 is like the closing ceremony after an Olympics of …

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A Strings-Attached New Orleans Festival

by Sally Tunmer March 26, 2012 Arts & Culture

The imagination of Pandora Gastelum creates an even deeper layer of enchantment within the bewitching aesthetic construct of New Orleans. The local artist and her posse of puppeteers reach into childhood memory and pull out a parallel universe populated by puppets. This world comes to life regularly at The Mudlark Theater which Gastelum owns and on a grander scale this …

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