New Orleans Entertainment
Caffeine Jitters? It Really Can Affect Your Sleep
Culture
Acclaimed food writer Michael Pollan investigated the ways in which caffeine affects our sleep in his audiobook Caffeine, which came out at the end of January. "Everyone is caffeinated," Pollan concluded, after cutting out caffeine for three...
A Cure for the Coronavirus? Not So Fast: The Wishful Thinking and False Hope That is Chloroquine
If only we could wave a magic wand and rid the world of the coronavirus for good. We all want it to just go away. We want a return...
Reading Your Way to New Orleans
Tennessee Williams, Anne Rice, John Kennedy Toole … these are the names one generally conjures when pondering New Orleans authors. If you've read 'em all and are still seeking...
All That Glitters is Not Gold
If you go to a parade in New Orleans, there's a good chance you'll be wearing glitter, whether you intend to or not. The sparkly substance is everywhere during most every festival,...
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
Saints Take Over the Dixie Brewery as New NFL Draft HQ
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
With the NFL Draft right around the corner on April 23-25, football teams across the country are gearing up to finalize their rosters and are strategizing to prepare for the big weekend. However, the closure of NFL facilities due to the coronavirus pandemic is forcing teams to transform the ways in which...
Alleviating Stress
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
In these awfully strange times requiring self-isolation and social distancing, it's all too easy to feel inordinate amounts of anxiety and stress. Worries roll almost unceasingly through your mind. When can I go back to work? How will I pay my bills? Am I experiencing allergies or symptoms of COVID-19? Will I survive if and when I do catch the...
Reach Your Fitness Goals and Mix Up Your Workout with Interval Training
New Orleans Sports & Fitness
Short on time? Looking for a new challenge? Try interval training-designed for speed, strength, endurance, and a good sweat-session-in 30 minutes or less. Considered to be the latest fitness rage, interval training is a series of low- to high-intensity work periods interspersed with rest or recovery periods. The intermittent cycle of...
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Film Review: Blow the Man Down
Film
Now streaming on
Amazon Prime, the new film Blow the Man Down is an effective small-town
noir.
Written and
directed by Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole, this film follows two
sisters, rough-around-the-edges Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) and the more...
Classic Movies for the Couch
Film
Welcome to "Classic Movies for the Couch," a haven for prospective film-lovers in the New Orleans area and beyond. If you are reading this, then you are likely already a follower of old movies, or you are a movie fan who is ready to dip the proverbial toe into the water that is classic cinema. Either way, you'll enjoy these glimpses into a time unlike ours. One of the zaniest adventures captured on film concerns those clown princes...
Film Review: Spenser Confidential
Film
Netflix recently premiered Spenser Confidential, from director Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon, Friday Night Lights). For better and for worse, it feels like a throwback to mid-range 1980s buddy-action movies. The film is based on the novel Wonderland and features Mark Wahlberg as Spenser, who's fresh out of jail after having served five years for assaulting a corrupt and violent police captain. Shortly after Spenser's release, the...
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