Looking for a great place to spend the July 4th holiday…well look no further and plan to come to the New Orleans Riverfront for the annual “Go 4th on the River” celebration.
After a full day of entertainment and events at all the attractions along the riverfront, the excitement is focused on the Dueling Barges Fireworks [...]

by Errol Laborde
Since we’re celebrating local quirkiness with our cover story, I hereby designate picturesque vantage points as being a form of quirkiness. Not counting the view from the top of local skyscrapers with their panorama of the river’s curves, here, in ascending order, are my picks of the city’s top five [...]

by ERROL LABORDE
Granted, this is not the most pressing issue facing the legislature, but still alive (though barely) is the proposal to name the Sazerac as the state’s official cocktail. Early in the session the idea ran into flak from mostly upstate lawmakers who saw evil in giving sanction to an alcoholic drink. (Curiously, wine [...]

His creation, the Ortolano Sno-Wizard, was not the only ice crusher on the market. But it was the one used at most local snowball stands. In New Orleans snowballs are a serious business and routine ice machines won’t do. A New Orleans snowball differs from the miserable snow cones sold at traveling carnivals and in other more deprived localities in that the ice is finer – a true snowy blend. In 1937, Ortolano created the first Sno-Wizard and began using it to sell snowballs at his grocery on the corner of Magazine and Delachaise streets.