The Neville Brothers are a band that needs no introduction. With a career spanning more than four decades, they have become one of the most influential families in music history. The Neville Broth...
Mahalia Jackson was born Mahalia Ann Julia in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 26, 1911. She was one of nine children born to Rev. Joseph and Mahala Jackson. From a young age, Mahalia showed an ...
If you want to know what soul music is, look no further than Irma Thomas. Often referred to as the "Queen of Soul" of New Orleans, Irma has been performing for over 50 years. She started her caree...
Louis Prima was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1910. He was a jazz musician and singer, who achieved great success both in the United States and abroad. He is considered to be one of the pioneer...
Larry Ragusa's King Cakes: The Greatest Fake Bakery in New Orleans History
The muffuletta king cake. The shrimp bordelaise king cake. The Mrs. Ragusa special with chopped-up weenies and tomato gravy. None of it was real, and all of it was perfect.Larry Ragusa's King Cak...
I’m one of those people that thought they were an introvert, but the pandemic hit and I started missing being out and about with people. In a time where everyone needs to stay six feet away, the pe...
“The best gay one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced” is how Dr. John described James Booker. A New Orleans native, “Black Liberace” lived a life peppered with tragedy and addic...
Ellis Marsalis was an integral part of the New Orleans tradition of passing on a passion for music to the next generation. Born in New Orleans in 1934, he grew up in the small, working-class, music...
This organization is one of our partners at ScreensforGood.com. WWOZ 90.7 FM is the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Station, a community radio station currently operating out of the French Market Co...
Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Club
Mardi Gras is world-renowned for many different reasons, one of which is the classic Fat Tuesday parade that occurs every year. This parade involves the marching of over 100 different krewes, whic...
A little more about the little castle on the bayou that you've most likely passed 1,000 times leaving town.
Thanks to New Orleans’s complicated history, settling patterns, and geographical layout, the city’s various neighborhoods are particularly distinct areas, often boasting their own architectural cha...
Art “Poppa Funk” Neville came into this world on December 17, 1937. It became evident at quite an early age that Art, along with his three siblings - Charles, Aaron and Cyril – were gifted musicall...
Frankie and Johnny's Furniture: Go See the Special Man
"Bad credit? No credit? No problem! Go see the Special Man. Let her have it!" If you grew up watching television in New Orleans anytime from the 1980s through the 2000s, those words are burned int...
Hansens, like all of the best things in New Orleans, is historic, a little bit sinful, and always open to innovation.
The elder Bo Dollis spent five decades leading the Wild Magnolia tribe, a role he used to help guide the city’s entire Mardi Gras Indian culture into a new, more peaceful era and enable the spread...
