French Quarter

Lens Crafted: MOMA Focuses on Walker Evans

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/22/13

Here are the top 10 concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

BLEATING HEARTS

Step into the world of Goat

Exchange Alley: The Big Easy Apple

Paul Gerard brings us a touch of New Orleans

Which Trend Nazi Invented Brunch?

You know, that infernal hybrid of breakfast and lunch that appeals to hipsters and sickos. I ask that very question in my current column, a hilarious yet insightful romp consisting of 40 things I hate about food. And thanks to a devoted reader, I now have my trend-Nazi answer.

A Streetcar Named Multicultural Is Coming

A black Stanley Kowalski? Well, why not? We had a black Maggie the Cat just a few years ago. And at a meet-and-greet for the Streetcar Named Desire of color (with the white folks living next door) coming to Broadway, director Emily Mann gave us the reasons. "I knew Tennessee Williams and loved hi ... More >>

LIVING HISTORY

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band 
celebrates its gold anniversary

One Arm Hustles In

The New Group adapts a Tennessee Williams rarity

What's Happening This Week: Fat Tuesday Dinner; International Women's Day Drinks

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Fat Tuesday Bash Blue Water Grill Tuesday, March 8 at 8 p.m. The restaurant's Jazz Room will host a three-course prix-fixe menu inspired by New Orleans and accompan ... More >>

Green Eyes Checks In

A Tennessee Williams obscurity gets staged at the Hudson Hotel

At Tales of the Cocktail, a Funeral for the Sex on the Beach

Here lies a bad drink.​ First, they killed off the Appletini, then they killed off the Redheaded Slut. This year, at Tales of the Cocktails in New Orleans, the bartenders of the world (or at least those of this country) will say goodbye to the Sex on the Beach.

New York School Lunch Menus Shrinking; Chipotle Now Serving Naturally-Raised Beef

​This summer, Green Table, a café in Chelsea Market, will sell brown-bag lunches for customers to enjoy at the neighboring High Line park. [Wall Street Journal] Despite the oil spill threatening the seafood supply, the first New Orleans Oyster Festival, originally scheduled for the summer of ... More >>

Boston Cocktail Party: Beantown's Drink Culture is Thriving, Minus the Speakeasy Rhetoric

boston.comDrink in Boston at Drink, in Boston.​ Ask any cocktailian worth her salt and she's sure to tell you that, hands down, New York City has the best cocktail culture in the country. Sure, San Francisco has its abundance of fresh, seasonal produce and New Orleans, in many ways, started i ... More >>

How Treme Can Get It Right

David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans' surreal, heart-breaking fact

Young Writers Take Notes In Williams's Vieux Carré and Alexander's New 10 Things

The Big Easy On Tap

Apparently, roux isn't the key to perfect gumbo. Actually, it's all in the water. Tasting Table reports on a New Orleans bookshop that will ship bona fide NOLA tap water to anywhere in the country so that even us Yanks can make authentic Cajun fare. Kitchen Witch, in the French Quarter, specialize ... More >>

Daily Flog: Deregulate. Spread fear. Deregulate. Spread fear.

Chasing Muffuletta at Dive Bar, Delta Grill, and Bourbon Street

Going through hell to get a bite of the Big Easy

Big Surprise: My Wife Has Lost Interest in Sex. What Do I Do?

Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs Stand Spectacular, Tall, and Proud

Doing their part to keep New Orleans culture alive

Ray Davies' Working Man’s Café

Wherein Ray finally figures America out

Fine Whine

Goin' Home, Eventually

The tour-bus evolution of Trombone Shorty

Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

Magic and Loss

John Boutté is New Orleans' best-kept secret, and possibly its strongest voice

Not Wash Away

The fight for New Orleans' culture continues, one parade at a time

The Out-of-Towners

Fred Anderson takes free jazz to Chicago's South Side, Odean Pope takes Philly to heaven

Sweet Sounds of Home

Bringing musicians back to New Orleans

Hard Listening in the Big Easy

Jazz Fest is on. Clubs are open. The water's receded. The stakes remain high.

To Serve and Protect: A Freestyle Series Rumbles On

The Ninth Re-Ward

The Vietnamese community in New Orleans East rebuilds after Katrina

Flyover

Bush stands up Catholic schoolgirls in the Big Uneasy

Relief at the Point of a Gun

Relax, y'all: It's butter and bullets for big security firms in New Orleans

Preservation Scuzz

Hey hey punky way: How CBGB and New Orleans increase a skeptic's respect for history

Morning Report 9/26/05
Which Gulf is Bigger?

After Katrina: The Smell in Dry New Orleans Now

Stinky dead fish, sweet rotting trees, and gunfire after dark—welcome home, y’all.

Bumper-to-Bumper Autocide; Wrestling in High Heels

Letters

Storm Front

In the wake of Katrina, clubs step it up with benefit shows

My Flood of Tears

Shame for my city, shame for my country

When the Levees Broke

Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society

Ghost of Jerry Garcia Makes Video Game

The Big Easy Does It

Temptation awaits in New Orleans

Williams Tell

Faulkner paints a friend's penis green—and makes Vollmann's list of favorite authors

Riverboat Race

A Mississippi side-wheeler docks on lower Second Avenue

The Big Easy

Seven-Year Ache

Harding's Hustle

Bonuses, Bargains, and Strip Clubs at the Housing Development Corporation

Southern Discomfort

Bearfoot in the Head