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

by Sally Tunmer February 1, 2012 Arts & Culture

On one hand it feels like it was just yesterday and on the other it seems like we’ve been growing gray hairs waiting, but either way Mardi Gras has arrived! This weekend is very exciting as it’s the first parade of the Carnival season! Surrounding the Krewe du Vieux parade are pre and post parties and in addition, this weekend …

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Bywater Neighborhood Bars

by Elizabeth Pearce January 13, 2012 Cocktail Culture

While Bourbon Street is a standard destination for most visitors, if you really want a taste of local culture (in a glass), sometimes you need to leave the French Quarter. Visit any of the Bywater bars below for a sneak peek into NOLA nightlife away from the regular tourist spots. None of these bars have a Web site and while …

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Top 4 Places to Watch the Football Playoffs and Superbowl in New Orleans

by Lauren McCabe January 12, 2012 Cocktail Culture

Mark your calendars: Superbowl XLVI is on February 5, 2012, the night after Krewe Du Vieux. Indianapolis not in your budget this year? No sweat, New Orleans is the next best place to enjoy cold beer, delicious food, and unbridled football revelry during the final weeks of the 2012 football season. We’ve got our fingers crossed that the Saints will …

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GoNOLA Top 5: Where To Be In New Orleans For 2012 Championship Games

by Sally Tunmer January 3, 2012 Cocktail Culture

Football dominates New Orleans in January. You can try to run from the all the bowls and playoffs, but you can’t hide, and why would you want to? As unpatriotic as this may sound, I never cared much for football until I lived in New Orleans. But I’m a full-fledged jersey wearing, WHO DATing, beer drinking convert, and I must …

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

by Sally Tunmer December 21, 2011 Cocktail Culture

It’s the weekend we’ve all been waiting for: Christmas! We’ve been waiting in anticipation for it to arrive and now that it has, we’re not sure how it got here so quickly. It’s probably because of all the fun we’ve been having this month. Whatever the case, the momentum won’t wane, only gain this weekend! Of course there are many …

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GoNOLA Recipes at Home: Ramos Gin Fizz

by Sally Tunmer December 18, 2011 Cocktail Culture

The New Orleans Fizz was created in 1888 by Henry Ramos and quickly became the toast of the town, literally. The Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel later bought the rights to the drink and deemed it the Ramos Gin Fizz, as it’s been called ever since. Governor Huey P. Long famously enlisted a New Orleans bartender on a mission …

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

by Sally Tunmer December 14, 2011 Cocktail Culture

This weekend presents ample opportunity for unabashed displays of glee, bliss and other happy outbursts. NOMA teaches a lesson on how to throw a birthday party – in short, make it 31 hours long; another drunken stampede of Santas invade downtown New Orleans; and two very different but equally special Christmas sing-alongs highlight the weekend. The countdown to Christmas is …

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

by Sally Tunmer December 8, 2011 Arts & Culture

If you see a dizzying blur of fake beards and red and white velvet this weekend – don’t be alarmed – it’s just another krewe of drunk Santas. Besides the Krewe of Kringle on Saturday, there’s a more family-friendly holiday event this weekend with Louisiana’s version of The Nutcracker at the Southern Rep Theater. Over Christmas already? Not to worry …

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The Running of the Santas: Taking Christmas To The Streets

by Sara Hudson December 5, 2011 Cocktail Culture

No one presumes that New Orleans, the city of Mardi Gras, 24/7 bar hours and Bourbon Street, has an angelic halo of purity hovering over it. So it’s no surprise that we who so well lead the life of laissez le bon temps roulé present a multiplicity of ways to heat up holiday celebrations, including this year’s new tradition: the Running …

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Three New Orleans Bars Celebrate the End of Prohibition

by Elizabeth Pearce December 2, 2011 Cocktail Culture

On December 5, 1933, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment, ending thirteen years of Prohibition in the United States. What some – namely government officials – called The Great Experiment, most of America had come to call The Great Mistake. But while most of the country was mixing up bathtub gin, New Orleans had a more steady and reliable supply of …

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

by Sally Tunmer November 30, 2011 Arts & Culture

The beginning of December in New Orleans means it’s time to completely immerse yourself in holiday events and activities. Don’t try to escape, because Christmas New Orleans Style won’t allow you, so there’s nothing to do but just embrace it. Always diverse, New Orleans welcomes an all-male dance troupe sharing the weekend with youth theater and the Crescent City’s official …

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GoNOLA TV Presents: Thanksgiving at Arnaud’s

by Andrew November 21, 2011 Cocktail Culture

It’s nice to know that even if you can’t in many other towns, you can always get a well made drink or an epicurean meal on a holiday in New Orleans. This Thanksgiving, if you don’t have any traditional plans or aren’t partaking in one of the many alternative Thanksgiving festivities in New Orleans, you can dine out at several …

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New Orleans Pedicabs: When Pedaling is a Pleasure

by Sara Hudson November 21, 2011 Cocktail Culture

From the charm of streetcars to the leisurely pace of horse-drawn carriages, transportation wafts all manners of New Orleans stories and histories. The latest addition to the family? Pedicabs. Pedicabs are those odd contraptions that look like the offspring of clown tricycles and nineteenth century buggies. Anyone who has ever dragged children around in a wagon or double stroller will …

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New Orleans Around the Web | Week of November 14

by Sally Tunmer November 18, 2011 Arts & Culture

This week, online news and lifestyle channels have picked up some interesting featured New Orleans projects and events. It is Semaine Francais, or French Week, in New Orleans organized by the local French Consulate celebrated of course with the ever-so-popular French 75 cocktail. Also commencing this week are the launch of two huge, year-round cruise ships embarking from New Orleans …

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To-Go Drinks From Sidney’s: A Perk of Living in New Orleans

by Elizabeth Pearce November 18, 2011 Cocktail Culture

One of the pleasures of being in New Orleans is the legality of sipping on what I like to call a “walking around drink.” When walking with a drink in your hand, you can’t be in a rush, lest you slosh that lager down your shirt. Drinking while walking makes you slow down and appreciate all that’s lovely around you: …

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

by Sally Tunmer November 16, 2011 Arts & Culture

As Thanksgiving quickly approaches and with a bye week for the Saints, this weekend makes sure to take advantage of its prime timing. A rare chance to see the lavish art collections inside splendorous New Orleans homes, three distinct festivals celebrating the best of their respective themes and a parade of saucy women with towering headwear are the highlights of …

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