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The Best French Antiques Shops on Magazine Street: Petricia Thompson Antiques

by Valorie April 7, 2011 Shopping

This is the second in a series the Visual Vamp is doing about the five best shops that sell French antiques on Magazine Street. New Orleans is a city known for its fabulous shopping and for the incredible stock of French antiques it has for both locals and visitors to buy.

Coming in at #4 of the best French …

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Shotgun House Tour: An Inside Look at New Orleans Architecture

by Valorie March 31, 2011 Arts & Culture

The Preservation Resource Center is hosting a fabulous tour of shotgun houses in the Irish Channel and Garden District this Saturday, April 2, from 10 AM – 4 PM.  This is the first tour since Hurricane Katrina. It has taken five years for this Spring rite of passage to appear again, and there is special sense of celebration for the …

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GoNOLA TV Presents: Taboo Tattoo

by Andrew March 21, 2011 Things To Do

When you visit New Orleans, part of the city sticks with you for the rest of your days. It might be the music, it might be the architecture, the food, or the people, but this city sticks to you. If you want a permanent reminder of your time here, though, a New Orleans themed tattoo from Taboo Tattoo on …

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The Top 5 French Antiques Shops On Magazine Street: #5 Karina Gentinetta

by Valorie March 17, 2011 Shopping

In New Orleans, it should not be a huge stretch that there would be a plethora of antiques stores specializing in French antiques. Beautiful things from France have been coming into New Orleans for nearly 300 years.

There are many shops on Magazine Street selling antiques, but I have five favorites that deal with goods from the mother country …

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GoNOLA Recommends: 5 Things to do in New Orleans this Weekend

by Stephen Maloney March 10, 2011 Events

In case you haven’t noticed, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. This year, thanks to an unusually late Mardi Gras, we’re lucky enough to basically slide from one celebration to the next. Or maybe unlucky, it all depends on how much you value sleep and productivity. So here’s a list of things you should do for the next …

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Kisses and Cabbages on Magazine Street

by Valorie March 10, 2011 Cocktail Culture

The St. Patrick’s Day parade is this Saturday, March 12, around 1 PM in the Irish Channel. It winds its way onto Magazine Street, with thousands of men dressed in tuxedos or kilts sipping from Go-Cups, handing out roses for kisses.

Floats roll too, and the besides tossing the usual beads in green, cabbages (and potatoes) are handed out to …

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Mardi Gras 2011: Final Days of the Season

by Shercole King March 7, 2011 Arts & Culture

If you are reading this I take it you have survived parade season! Congratulations, you have made it to the lightening round called Mardi Gras 2011! These last few weeks have been like training for a marathon waiting for the big show happening on Fat Tuesday.

The all day parading is a serious New Orleans sporting event. It takes …

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Stein’s Market and Deli: A Taste of New York in New Orleans

by Sunny Dawn Summers February 28, 2011 Food

When I first moved to New Orleans, all of my kitchen stuff spent a couple weeks packed snugly in boxes. I had driven to New Orleans in a moving van and knew the first stop on my moving tour would be a temporary one.

That means I lived for a couple weeks without kitchen supplies, plates, silverware, or my …

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Theo’s Pizza: The Heart of a New Orleans Food Revolution

by The Red Streetcar February 25, 2011 Food

New Orleans is, and has been, in the midst of a mini-food revolution. The revolution is small, not the food. New Orleans food is rarely ever accused of being small. Previously discarded as a convenience food or something to give the kids when the parents were going out for a night on the town, pizza has made a fantastic resurgence …

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Oscar Night On Magazine Street

by Valorie February 24, 2011 Events

There’s going to be a fun and huge NOLA Oscar Viewing Party on Magazine Street on Sunday, February 27, from 6 – 10 PM

Watch the Oscars in New Orleans with a big group of people! The red carpet will roll! There will be  paparazzi, swag bags for the first 50 guests, and a specially priced cocktail called the “Red …

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Smooth As Velvet On Magazine Street

by Valorie February 17, 2011 Food

In a tiny yellow house Uptown on Magazine Street, right across the street from Whole Foods, is a new coffee place called Velvet. That would be Velvet in red letters, to bring to mind the New Orleans signature sweet treat, red velvet cake.

Velvet is a family affair. Mom, Tamara, is a trained and certified Barista who has a passion …

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Ah-ha Moments on Magazine Street

by Christy February 1, 2011 Uncategorized

One of the joys of shopping on Magazine Street is finding so many good boutiques. While businesses come and go, Ah-ha has remained a “miracle mile” staple on the corner of Magazine and Ninth St. for years now.

Owned by daughters of the Rubenstein family, Ah-Ha does no advertising. That’s right – no tweets, no Facebook updates, no website – …

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The Designing Men of Magazine Street

by Valorie January 27, 2011 Shopping

Magazine Street has fast become the interior design mecca in New Orleans. Editors and bloggers regularly feature the shops that range from fabulous antiques to cutting edge home decor. Local and out-of-town designers and decorators love to shop on Magazine Street.

You’ve all heard of the “designing women” that populate the interior design world, but there are also …

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Hang Loose at the Half Moon Bar and Restaurant

by Kim Ranjbar January 18, 2011 Nightlife

Want to keep it low-key tonight? Put on some flip-flops and your most comfortable pair of jeans and head to one of the finest dive bars in New Orleans: the Half Moon. Located on the corner of St. Mary and Sophie Wright Place – that strange little triangle at the downtown end of Magazine Street – this is …

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Shop Like a Fashionista on Magazine Street

by Valorie January 12, 2011 Shopping

Magazine Street has become a must-see destination for shopping, dining, and strolling in New Orleans.

Many, many, wonderful clothing and shoe stores pepper the seven mile expanse of  the Magazine Street shopping corridor. The stretch of Magazine between Washington and Louisiana Avenues sports no less than that fourteen shops dedicated to the fashionista.

You can make a great start …

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Stealing Magnolias: A Great Book About New Orleans

by Valorie December 16, 2010 Arts & Culture

From the first powerful rush to the senses of its beauty via the old streets and houses, hearing those first intoxicating jazz notes, or through the experience of dining on extraordinary food simple or grand, or by getting to know the people and their rituals, New Orleans is the kind of place you can picture yourself living in. But how …

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