Recently added articles from New Orleans Magazine:
CARNIVAL'S CONFUSING ANNIVERSARIES
Feb 01, 2009; ... Suppose you started a new Job in February 2008. When then, should you celebrate your first anniversary? A reasonable answer would be this month, a year later, February 2009. That is. unless you use Carnival time. In that case you should have celebrated your first year on your first day on the ...
UNO TUITION CORRECTION
Feb 01, 2009; ... In the January 2009 issue's Ouide to Schools we mistakenly reported the University of New Orleans' ...
WHEN THE BISHOP IS WRONG
Feb 01, 2009; ... 5 options - though most might not work Carnival season usually begins with festive Twelfth Night celebrations. This year there was also something else: a raid by police, initiated by the archdiocese, of people praying in their church. What happened on Twelfth Night as the ...
LETTERS
Feb 01, 2009; ... CHURCH CLOSINGS Re: "A Christmas with Fewer Churches," Speaking Out column. December 2008 issue. We are natives of New Orleans who now live in St. Oenevieve. Mo. ((55 miles south of St. Louis along the Mississippi River). We still support many organizations there (such as WYES), ...
MAD COWS
Feb 01, 2009; ... Somewhere in a pasture we would like to think that there are two impish cows spoofing humans by disguising as "Mad Men." Given the TV show by that name, they could merely don 1950s garb and feel the part. As for ...
JULIA STREET
Feb 01, 2009; ... WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT A MONTHLY PURSUIT OF ANSWERS TO ETERNAL QUESTIONS Dear Julia, While driving through lower Mid-City, I happened to notice a large stucco home at 219 South Miro St. It is both distinctive and gigantic, quite unlike the rest of this Victorian ...
CRUSADING AGAINST SIN
Feb 01, 2009; ... Like my mother-in-law Ms. Larda always says. God don't open a window without shutting the door. Easy for her to say. being as her insurance paid off and she is back in a nice renovated house right where her old one was. My house is an oily spot in the Chalmette swamp. But to give God ...
MARQUEE
Feb 01, 2009; ... Our top picks of the month's events BRITNEY'S BACK On March 3, one of Louisiana's homegrown talents will return to her roots. Britney Spears, one of the biggest pop stirs in the world, will perform at the New Orleans Arena to promote her latest album. Circus. Though the last few ...
Condos with brand identity
Feb 01, 2009; ... Prominent New Orleans brand names are Increasingly remerging in real estate listings as more of the historic buildings and sites affiliated with them are converted into residential developments. The latest locally important commercial name to join the likes of Falstaff, Krauss and ...
STELLA! MEETS STANLEY
Feb 01, 2009; ... SCOTT BOSWELL GILDS the lily in the same way that Fabergé did with his jeweled eggs: with panache and an over-the-top style. The dishes at his flagship restaurant Stella! typically feature ornate arrangements of luxurious and unusual ingredients, many seldom seen elsewhere in the city, making a ...
"CARNIVAL TIME"
Feb 01, 2009; ... The song, at 50 THE SONG COMES AT YOU like a smiling freight train, bravura saxopones and the lyrics a sweet roar by the "Carnival Time" man himself. Al Johnson: The Green Room is smoking And the Plaza's burning down Throw my baby out the window Let those ...
OUR ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Feb 01, 2009; ... 5 essential things you need to know "In New Orleans, we have our own definition of celebrity." As New Orleanians, we're mon inti'rest ed in the Trombone Shortys than we are the Lenny Kravitzes. We define the term celebrity in a different way. This alternate defi- nition creates ...
PERSONA: TYRONE MATHIEU SR.
Feb 01, 2009; ... IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE ON North Broad Street on a certain weekend in May-the third Sunday to be precise-there's a good chance that the corner of Orleans Avenue will be bursting with energy: people on the sidewalks and the neutral ground all centered on the black and creamy gold clubhouse of the ...
READ & SPIN
Feb 01, 2009; ... The beats are "dlrty-dirty" New Orleans, with lyrics to match, on Troubled the Water, the debut album from Blackkoldmadlna (aka Kim Rivers Roberts). Roberts' Ka trina footage was recently turned Into a film, Trouble the Water, which won a grand jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. (And ...
In search of a coin
Feb 01, 2009; ... The recent display of a oneof-a-kind gold coin produced at the Old U.S. Mint In the French Quarter some 165 years ago has sparked the search for its companion piece, and a fat bounty of at least Sl million Is on the line. For the last three months, the Louisiana State Museum has ...
RECIPES FOR ROMANCE
Feb 01, 2009; ... OUR FEBRUARYS ARE JAMMED with Carnival events, so wo sometimes forget how many important days actually occur in this short month. There's Groundhog Day, Presidents Day and. most romantically. Valentine's Day. If you add up 12 days of parades, that's mo than half of the month that we are ...
RESTAURANT INSIDER
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Italian Barrel (430 Barracks St.) Is less than a year old, and I feel a bit foolish that I'd never heard of It until recently. It Is the realization of a dream for owner Samantha Castagnetti, a native of Verona, Italy. While in Italy, she operated a wine bar, but always wanted a more food- ...
IS CHOCOLATE GOOD FOR YOU?
Feb 01, 2009; ... The bitter and the sweet One shop doesn't transform a recovering metropolis into a chocolate city. But last year a small chocolate paradise arose out of the receded Hood waters on Canal Boulevard. A few blocks past the cemeteries, located between a Helm Paint Store and a Deluxe ...
HEALTH BEAT
Feb 01, 2009; ... * Newsweek reports some 'Katrina kids' are amongst the sickest children in the U.S. In Newsweek, Children's Health Fund president and Columbia University professor Irwin Redlener described children who spent extended periods of time in Baton Rouge FEMA trailer parks as "the sickest I have ever ...
CHRISTMAS DINNER AT CAMP RAMADI
Feb 01, 2009; ... Ed. Note: Baghdad Dispatch is written by two female Marines with local connections: Marine Capt. Mary Noyes, an attorney (right); and Marine Maj. Meredith Brown, an Iraqi Women's Engagement officer (left). Their respective columns will appear in alternate montlis. Noyes moved to New Orleans in ...