Sep 6, 2011

East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans is pleased to bring the five-time Tony Award nominated smash-hit musical ROCK OF AGES to the Mahalia Jackson Theater Tuesday, November 1 – Sunday, November 6, 2011. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 9, 2011 at 11 a.m. CDT. In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small-town girl met a big-city dreamer – and in...

Aug 26, 2011

Since I started living in New Orleans I began riding my bike everywhere, and despite the humidity, the narrow one-way streets, and the elephant sized potholes, New Orleans has proven to be quite the biking city. I recently found myself bored, just sitting in my apartment, so me and friend decided to go on a little bike riding adventure. We started out with no...

Aug 11, 2011

Recently at Tales of the Cocktail I had the pleasure of attending a seminar entitled “Classic Hotel Bars”. The seminar covered some of the best hotel bars you can find all across the world from the impressive Savoy in London to the Royalton in New York. Hotels are great at providing some of the comforts of home, but the Hotel bar is around to give you the...

Aug 8, 2011

No matter where I go New Orleans is always in my heart. I get angry and annoyed, yet my heart still doesn’t feel more filled than when in this city. Even on the bad days New Orleans just makes you feel alive. The buildings, the music, the food, everything just makes you pay attention to the small things that can make life so beautiful. New Orleans is Love. For...

Aug 1, 2011

Lakeview. Ask most New Orleanians and they will probably have less than stellar things to say. I know. I used to be one of them. Growing up in Metro New Orleans, I always saw Lakeview as some sort of a suburbia stepchild; a kind of middle-class purgatory between the happening heartbeat of New Orleans and the much more suburban city of Metairie. In short, it was...