The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: 24 Miles of Water and Nerve
Twenty-four miles of bridge. Nothing but water in every direction. And for a stretch in the middle, you can't see land at all. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is one of those structures that sound...
The Saenger Theatre: The Night Sky on Canal Street
Walk into the Saenger Theatre, look up, and you'll see the night sky over a Florentine courtyard. It's fake. It's also one of the most beautiful things in New Orleans. The Saenger Theatre on Canal...
WTUL 91.5 FM: New Orleans Freeform Radio
If you have ever been driving through Uptown on a Tuesday night and caught something on the radio that sounded like a Cambodian surf rock band covering a Meters riff, you were probably tuned to 91....
WWOZ: New Orleans' Heartbeat on the Dial
There is a moment, usually around dusk, when you are driving through New Orleans and you land on 90.7 FM. Maybe you were scanning stations. Maybe someone told you about it. But suddenly there is a ...
Louisiana Coastal Land Loss: What We're Losing
If you've ever driven south out of New Orleans, past the last gas station and the last grocery store, down into Terrebonne or Plaquemines Parish, you know the feeling. The road gets narrower. The l...
New Orleans Oysters: A Local's Guide to the Half Shell
There is a sound you hear in New Orleans that you will not hear anywhere else in the world. It is the pop and scrape of an oyster knife hitting a shell, followed by the slide of a half dozen across...
Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans: A History of Masking
If you've ever stood on a New Orleans sidewalk on Mardi Gras morning and heard drums rolling down a back street, followed by a flash of feathers so bright it made you forget where you were, then yo...
The New Orleans Crawfish Boil: A Backyard Tradition
Nobody teaches you how to throw a New Orleans crawfish boil. There is no class, no certification, no YouTube tutorial that really captures it. You just show up to enough of them, and one spring Sat...
By Adam Karlin In a nation divided between individual liberty, puritan morality, and the good of the public, the portable drink is a nod to freedom in a daiquiri-friendly carrying case. It’s liquid...
Bill Banzai White Tennessee, 2025 It started well before the tshirts. There was an energy among those who started Dirty Coast to move the city of New Orleans towards being more equitable and progre...
Blake’s early partner in crime with the launch of Dirty Coast in the city after Katrina. From friends to partners, Patrick ran the day-to-day operations from 2006 to 2014. Here he and Blake remin...
Absinthe: Double the Vision, Double the Fun
Vintage spirits, bohemian New Orleans, and fine illustration. In 2009, Dirty Coast raised a glass to one of New Orleans’ most notorious muses - absinthe. A drink that blurs the line between sin and...
Blake HaneyFounder Looking back, I realize not many people know how Dirty Coast really began. There was no grand plan. I wasn’t imagining retail stores, employees, or a business that would last dec...
Our First Screen Printer, Diego.
Before Dirty Coast had its own rhythm — before we had regular photo shoots, calendars, or a reliable lineup of printers — there was Diego at La Chiva. His shop on Tchoupitoulas could make eight col...
The most prolific of all the designers we have had the luck to work with over the years. Burton Hals from Lafayette and was for a time a full-time designer for Dirty Coast and our other company, ...
Hired in 2013, Chris soon became a frequent creative contributor for new product designs and then in 2015 he stepped up as General Manager. He is now living in Los Angeles with his wife Kylie and...
One of our earliest supporters and friends, Zack Smith has been a photographer and creative collaborator for us over the years. He calls Chalmette home with his family. Interview by Price and Blake...
Mandy Barton was one of Dirty Coast’s early multi-tool team members — a writer, shop manager, and creative spark rolled into one. Starting at the tiny Magazine Street “cave,” she helped shape the ...
Every company has a “first” - the person who isn’t a founder but steps in when an idea needs to turn into a real operation. For Dirty Coast, that person was Michael Lamanola. She was there when the...
Our full time screen printer since 2008, Michael’s business Purple Monkey has grown along side ours. He has helped us with not just Dirty Coast products but also the production of many items for ...
