New Orleans

New Orleans indie filmmakers’ “doc” about a bar’s last day blur the lines between fiction, reality

By Alex Galbraith | August 31, 2020

The mostly unscripted tale of a hole-in-the-wall’s end asked real people to play semi-real versions of themselves in an actual Terrytown dive where the booze was anything but fictional.

What’s happening in (virtual) New Orleans this week: Aug. 31- Sept. 4

By Matt Haines | August 31, 2020

Bars are still closed and the maximum size of group gatherings has been reduced, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had online while getting those COVID cases back under control. Here are some of the events we’re most looking forward to in Virtual New Orleans this week.

What’s happening this weekend in (virtual) New Orleans: Aug. 28-30

By Matt Haines | August 26, 2020

Bars are closed again and the maximum size of group gatherings has been reduced, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had online while getting those COVID cases back under control. Here are some of the events we’re most looking forward to in Virtual New Orleans this week.

2020 is a dumpster fire and these products will make the rest of the year a little easier

By Very Local Staff | August 26, 2020

Look, 2020 is stressful. We’re over it. While we ride out the rest of this dumpster fire of a year, here’s some products making it a little easier on us. 

‘Where’d you go to school?’ Home? Here’s what you need to go back to school in 2020

By Very Local Staff | August 26, 2020

Here are a few things we found to make your school/house the best it can be for the new school year!

No Hum Bow: Wrongly convicted and never wanting revenge, Mardi Gras Indians Chief Joe Jenkins chose love

By Matthew Hinton | August 26, 2020

He was wrongly convicted. Instead of choosing to be hateful, the life and legacy of Chief Joe Jenkins is about choosing to love and guarding the flame.

Staycation: Wild peacocks roam, pirate’s treasure and a Japanese tea house on Jefferson Island is just two hours away from New Orleans

By Steven Melendez | August 26, 2020

Jefferson Island, is a strange but beautiful place about two hours from New Orleans, just outside of New Iberia.

7th Ward Santa is gone and so is part of the Christmas magic for Black New Orleanians

By Mary Staes | August 26, 2020

While Hurricane Katrina may have taken many of our childhood photos, 7th Ward Santa was something that was here well before Katrina, and lasted beyond the storm. Unlike second lines or Super Sunday’s, which have become more mainstream (for lack of a better word) since the storm, 7th Ward Santa was something that was always ours.

Recipe of disaster: With New Orleans bars closed due to COVID, hospitality workers face housing crisis

By Suzanne Pfefferle Tafur | August 26, 2020

Thousands of unemployed hospitality workers throughout the city are worried about paying their rent or mortgage.

Magazine Street’s Ghost Manor won’t happen in 2020

By Mary Staes | August 24, 2020

According to Ghost Manor’s Facebook page, the animatronic light show won’t be running this year because of social distancing measures.