New Orleans News

The big news at this year's New Orleans Wine and Food Experience Royal Street Stroll was the addition of gourmet food trucks.

NOWFE, Saints and Sinners, Greek Fest and a host of other events make for an exciting Friday in New Orleans.

Former New Orleans musician Myshkin, a geographically restless artist who's more jazz-poet-chanteuse than conventional singer-songwriter, is back in Louisiana for a spring visit.

Here's a newish music video that's worth a look. Its title, "Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns - Bloody Sunday Sessions" needs a little elaboration.

Virgil Thompson, an American composer and critic, said, " Jazz is the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the Reformation." That is quite the statement: the most astounding spontaneous musical event since the Reformation.

A Loyola University of New Orleans faculty member is among educators and musicians who teamed this week to use elements of jazz to teach the concept of democracy.

Donald Harrison Jr., big chief of the Congo Nation, co-presents and performs at the 19 Benefit at Tipitina's, May 22, 2013.

Louis Prima Jr., right, and singer Sarah Spiegel bring their act to the Max Lounge in Metairie on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2013.

Once again Joburg will be jumping with swinging sounds when The Standard Bank Joy of Jazz hits town in August.

Last week The Guardian ran a thoughtful editorial about the New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting.

A drummer, a sousaphonist and a singer-songwriter all lead their respective bands on Saturday, May 25, 2013.

A former U.S. vice president is indicted for treason, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded hits Chile, "Pac-Man" makes his debut, Johnny Carson signs off, and a deadly tornado devastates Joplin, Mo., all on this day.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday, May 5, 2013.

Jazz Fest 2013 proved as colorful and diverse as New Orleans itself- from the throngs of muddy, die-hard Dave Matthews Band fans slipping and sliding in front of the Acura stage to the hand-raising, hymn-belting Gospel Tent over to the two-stepping Cajun baby boomers catching their favorite Zydeco at the Fais Do Do stage, there was something for ... (more)

It's hardly by chance that Cripple Creek Theatre Co. is staging "Clybourne Park" - Bruce Norris' Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play about the shattering intergenerational shifts of a Chicago neighborhood - amid a New Orleans neighborhood that itself is grappling with social and economic upheaval.

Even on a quiet Tuesday, you can savor top-shelf local music in New Orleans. Options for May 21, 2013 include: Stanton Moore is best known as the powerhouse drummer in Galactic, a player equally enamored of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and the Meters' Zigaboo Modeliste.

Like the 2,800 Tulane University graduates massed before him Saturday morning in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the Dalai Lama was clearly ready to party.

Ruppel Academy for Advanced Studies' staff and students are celebrating because their very own science teacher Emily Miller has been awarded Jefferson Parish Middle School Teacher of the Year.

New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people.

The second annual All Aboard Gala will be held June 7 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Marigny Opera House, 725 St.