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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
Artist Jim Blanchard: Architectural Portraits
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.
Cabrini Park: An Epicenter of Quarter Camaraderie
One of only two parks in the French Quarter, residents gather daily to catch up on local happenings, play with their pooches and organize to help maintain the neighborhood.
– by Claude Summers
THNOC’s New Exhibit “Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration”
A powerful new exhibit at The Historic New Orleans Collection eloquently weaves history, art, and video, challenging viewers to ask: How can this malignant system change for the better?
– by Christopher Louis Romaguera
The Life of a Writer – with Help from Tennessee Williams
En Avant! Before he became a national celebrity, Tennessee Williams struggled with hardships, rejection and disappointment, yet this personal mantra kept him moving “onward” - with an exclamation point!
– by Richard Goodman
Preserving the Narrative at The Celestine
A classic French Quarter building with a storied past has been recreated into an alluring boutique hotel – named after one of its historic owners, Celestine Peychaud.
– by Kim Ranjbar
Quarter Kaleidoscope: A Neighborhood History Project
This new interactive oral history program mines the French Quarter’s past in an effort to sustain its future.
– by Doug Brantley
The Magic of Mahmoud
Mahmoud Chouki brings together some of the city’s finest musicians and conjures up an irresistible, cultural melange for his latest album, Caravan from Marrakech to New Orleans.
– by Bogdan Mynka
Inside the New “Modern Creole” Cookbook
In this sleek new cookbook, Chef Eric Cook skillfully elevates family recipes to meet New Orleans’ stratospherically high fine dining standards. Bonus in this review: Baked Flounder with Shrimp and Mirliton Dressing recipe from the book.
– by Thomas Uskali