World rhythms festival celebrates African influence in New Orleans
Music, food and a nod to history – that was the theme of this weekend’s Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival.
“This festival is a celebration of the African diaspora and its connection to New Orleans,” said Kia Robinson, marketing and communications coordinator for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
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A taste of New Orleans: Mardi Gras cooking brings people together
Most of the United States has four seasons — spring, summer, fall and winter. But in New Orleans, there’s a fifth season, and it’s the overwhelming favorite.
Carnival season begins on the 12th night of Christmas, Jan. 6, and ends on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. Carnival is part of the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar, though this fact is easy to forget amid weeks of parades, balls and house parties leading up to the big day.
An eye on black history: New Orleans boasts hundreds of spots to learn more about the city’s culture
New Orleans culture attracts people from all over the world. They come for the food, the music, the fun. But there’s a more serious history to that culture many visitors, and even some residents, might overlook.
Three Muses open craft store in Mid-City
What do a clinical psychologist, a marketing consultant and a scientist have in common? They’re three crafty Muses with a passion for glitter.
That is the case, at least, for the owners of a new craft store in Mid-City. NOLA Craft Culture, 127 S. Solomon St., is owned by Lisette Constantin, Nori Pritchard and Virginia Saussy — women who ride together in the Muses parade. All three women left their former occupations to work together for the love of crafting.
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Canal Street pop-up brings sweet treats from across New Orleans to ‘one central spot’
Just outside of New Orleans’ haunted Mortuary Mansion sits a pop-up shop selling a Mardi Gras staple: king cakes.
The shop, located at 4800 Canal St., is called the King Cake Hub. The hub’s owners have partnered with bakeries from across New Orleans and southeast Louisiana to bring more than 30 varieties of king cake to the shop every day.
Boater's first trip to New Orleans aims for world record
For those who know Cincinnati native Marc Phelps well, his aspiration to break a world record was no surprise.
Phelps, who has traveled by motorcycle across the continental United States and climbed a Himalayan mountain, decided earlier this year it was time to check another item off his bucket list, and he did so Sept. 16 when he arrived in the Crescent City - the final stop of his 21-day trip down the Mighty Mississippi.
New food studies program stresses social justice, service learning
Milking cows and goats, collecting eggs from chickens and learning about workers’ exploitation during a high school trip to an educational farm in upstate New York changed one Loyola student’s view of food forever.
“We were doing organic farming there, and they taught us about food issues,” said Julia Gollobit, sophomore and Omaha, Nebraska native. “I learned a lot about food insecurity and the problems with the industrial system.”