New Orleans Entertainment
NOOA’s New Year Opened with Tchaikovsky’s Joan of Arc
Culture
The New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA) started the new year with a magnificent performance of Tchaikovsky's Joan of Arc. As the Patron Saint of New Orleans, her story is one filled with triumph and tragedy. It is a suspenseful story that, while well documented, has many...
Skinz n Bonez: Feelin' that Rhythm Jones
They operate as a type of walking momento mori-Latin for "remember that you must die." The motto for the krewe is "enjoy yourself; it's later than you think," so the common theme...
Mardi Gras Around the World
New Orleans has become synonymous, or at least identifiable, with its world-famous Mardi Gras celebrations. But as some locals would like to forget, we are not the only city to...
Inside the NOMA Exhibition, “An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond”
The Bauhaus only existed for fourteen years, but even with such a short life-span, it changed the way the world looks. The influence of the design school is everywhere, and because...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle your Beads
On March 13, 2019, just days after the end of the Mardi Gras season, Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced that 1,072 tons of trash had been collected by sanitation workers cleaning up...
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
Miles of Fun With the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon and Half-Marathon
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
If you notice a sudden increase in people wearing moisture-wicking sports gear all over town, a particularly high number of musicians in the streets, people passing out free beer to strangers, and unusually long wait times for any restaurant in the city that serves pasta, it's probably a sign that...
Sugar Bowl Preview: Georgia’s Back in NOLA to Battle Baylor
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
It's déjà vu down in the Big Easy for the Georgia Bulldogs, who return to the Sugar Bowl after a 2019 campaign fraught with similar road bumps from last season. After finishing 11-1 again this year, Georgia lost in the SEC Championship and is once again headed to face an up-and-coming, hungry foe out of the Lone Star State. Last year,...
Just Peachy: LSU is Back in the National Championship Hunt Against Oklahoma
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
It's been eight years, but it feels like only yesterday that LSU was undefeated and headed to New Orleans to square off against Alabama to claim their third national championship in less than a decade. Of course, we know how that game turned out, as well as the subsequent misery involved with an eight-game losing streak to Alabama, the firing...
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Film Review: Birds of Prey
Film
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Haley Quinn) plays like a twisted, punk comic book version of John Cassavetes' 1980 film Gloria. In that film, a gangster's lady friend (Gena Rowlands) ends up protecting a young boy who is being chased by the mob. In the...
Film Critic's Picks for Best Films of 2019
Film
Vicari's Best Films of 2019
by David Vicari
Awards season means that it is time for me to list my ten
favorite movie from the previous year. First, here are some 2019 honorable
mentions: Avengers: Endgame, Crawl, Ford v Ferrari, How
to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Knives Out, Midsommar,
Queen & Slim, Rocketman, Shazam and Uncut Gems.
Now, here are the best films of 2019, according to me.
10) Us -...
Film Review: The Gentlemen
Film
Writer-director Guy Ritchie
(Snatch; Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels) has had an up-and-down
career. His latest, The Gentlemen, has some amusing stretches, but
peters out by its conclusion.
Matthew McConaughey plays
an American weed kingpin in London. He wants to sell his business to another
dealer (Jeremy Strong) and retire, but an up-and-coming rival (Henry Golding)
wants to just take it from him. Also, a seedy...
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