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New Orleans Holiday Parade 2024
A relative newcomer on the New Orleans parade scene, this third annual march featured dozens of oversized balloons, floats, dancing teams, marching bands and of course, Saint Nick.
- photos by Ellis Anderson
The Krampus NOLAuf Parade 2024
The largest Krampus parade in the country marches through the Bywater each year, celebrating ancient and creepy European holiday folklore traditions - New Orleans-style, of course!
- photos by Shawn Fink
To Collect and to Preserve: The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana
Founded in 2012, this powerhouse organization works to bring New Orleans’ queer history out of the closet and into the open.
– by Doug Brantley
Fresh Concept, Historic Neighborhood: Empanola
A year-long family sabbatical in New Orleans inspired a tasty enterprise that’s expanding across the Gulf Coast, with its newest location in one of the French Quarter’s most storied buildings.
– by Kim Ranjbar
Marigny Opera House: Exaltation of the Arts
A visionary couple has transformed an abandoned church building into a community mainstay for the performing arts – and founded a contemporary ballet company that calls the venue home.
– by Frank Perez
The Arberesh Community in New Orleans - Part One
From Albania to Sicily to New Orleans: across two continents, three countries, and five centuries, some members of the city’s Arberesh community still honors their roots, while others are just discovering them.
– by Mark Orfila
A Spirited Season Sampling - 2024
This year, October 19th was the kick-off day, with the Boo Carre Halloween Haunt at the French Market and the Krewe of Boo parade. On Halloween Day, the 26th annual VOODOOFEST celebrated the cultural richness that the Voodoo religion has added to our city’s culture, then culminating on November 2 with Krewe de Mayahuel’s Dia de Los Muertos Cemetery Procession from the Bywater to the St. Roch Cemetery to honor lost loved ones.
- photos by Ellis Anderson and Melanie Cole
Pat O’Connell: Luck of the Irish Barber
The longstanding French Quarter barber keeps tradition alive on Bienville Street, one great haircut at a time.
– by Doug Brantley
Jim Blanchard’s Magnificent Louisiana Obsessions
Artist Jim Blanchard spills the tea about his technique, his attachment to New Orleans, and his passion for Louisiana’s architectural treasures.
– by Bethany E. Bultman
The Portraits of Curtis Knapp: A Curious Sense of Connection
This renowned international portrait photographer now lives in New Orleans, adding images of local creatives to his extraordinary body of work.
– by Bogdan Mynka
Funk Fest 2024
NOLA Funk Fest 2024: Three solid days and evenings featuring New Orleans favorites like Big Freedia, Geoleo, Jon Cleary and Tank and the Bangas - all on the grounds of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
- photos by Melanie Cole and Ellis Anderson
Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes: New Orleans Culture Bearer – and Sharer
The celebrated musician, educator, and all-around Renaissance man passes on his passion for local culture.
– by Doug Brantley
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi
In this lush new novel set in a 1950s coastal Mississippi town – one based on Bay St. Louis – author Minrose Gwin also gives the French Quarter a pivotal role as an oasis of acceptance in a sea of oppression.
– by Barb Johnson
Proofing Future Bakers at Ayu Bakehouse
Frenchmen Street bakery owners Kelly Jacques and Samantha Weiss have created an in-house incubator, educating and encouraging employees taking first steps toward entrepreneurship.
– by Kim Ranjbar
The Sound and Fury over “Sound and Light”
A mayor’s three-year push to establish a garish tourist spectacle in the city’s historic heart united thousands of French Quarter lovers across New Orleans in the ‘70s, who fought back with protests, petitions and legal action.
– by Bethany Ewald Bultman
Gallier House’s Creole Death and Mourning Tour
Travel back in time and revisit 19th-century New Orleans funereal culture and customs during Gallier House’s most popular seasonal event.
– by Doug Brantley
We Bite: Rare & Unusual Plants For Strange & Peculiar People
This new store in the Marigny focuses on carnivorous plants - and the symbiotic relationship between humans and our botanical companions.
– by Karen Hinton
A Look Inside: “Mobile and Havana: Sisters Across the Gulf”
This new book is an engaging blend of history and photographs, demonstrating how these “Caribbean” cities are linked – through culture, commerce and architecture.
– by Thomas Uskali
Full 2024 Faulkner For All Schedule
Welcome! You’ll find the entire schedule for this year’s events below. You may also download it here.