New Orleans

Staycation: Kayak While You Social Distance at These 12 New Orleans Area Waterways

By Matt Haines | August 12, 2020

Whoever first called New Orleans “The Big Easy” probably didn’t do it in the summer. As humidity and temperatures both climb toward triple digits, it sometimes feels like you need a paddle just to make it around the block. Here’s some spots to get outdoors and some places to stay to make a weekend adventure!

JAMNOLA’s permanent art pop-up is all the fun you’ve missed during quarantine

By Marielle Songy | August 11, 2020

JAMNOLA will take you on a photographable and Instagram-able journey throughout a magical New Orleans that explores art, music and the people who have made the city what it is. The goal of the museum is happiness, and it seems that there is no better time than now to spread a little joy through local art.

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The world is your oyster! Here are some things to celebrate these marvelous mollusks

By Very Local Staff | August 10, 2020

Here are some of the homemade things we’ve found to celebrate these magnificent mollusks!

Opening a restaurant in a pandemic? These new NOLA spots have done it.

By Chelsea Brasted | August 10, 2020

Opening a restaurant is already hard. Opening a restaurant during a pandemic? Well, that might be almost impossible. But these New Orleans chefs have done it.

Madame X: How a New Orleans Mona Lisa created scandal in Paris

By Matt Haines | August 10, 2020

You might not guess it by looking at it, but this painting created an uproar that rippled through the highest levels of Parisian society. Its unveiling in 1884 was met with such disdain that the painter fled in shame to London, and the subject’s mother begged for the portrait to be removed from the highest-profile art exhibition at which it was displayed.

What’s Happening in (Virtual) New Orleans This Week: Aug. 10-15

By Matt Haines | August 9, 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 get those COVID cases back under control. Here are some of the events we’re most looking forward to in Virtual New Orleans this week.

PHOTOS: Emotions high as body recovered from Hard Rock Hotel site

By Matthew Hinton | August 8, 2020

On Aug. 8, the body of Quinnyon Wimberly was removed from the site after nearly 10 months. His family and city officials were at the site Saturday morning.

Local Artist Feck Made The Perfect Album For A Summer Spent Inside

By Alex Galbraith | August 6, 2020

Feck’s songs sound akin to our quarantine current situation: manic outbursts of energy being let out into empty rooms because it and you have nowhere else to go. The movement, and the confinement, are both a little more involuntary than we’re entirely comfortable with.

What’s Happening This Weekend (Virtually) in New Orleans: Aug. 7-9

By Matt Haines | August 6, 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 get those COVID cases back under control. Here are some of the events we’re most looking forward to in Virtual New Orleans this week.

How a local artist is paying homage to Black New Orleans

By Mary Staes | August 5, 2020

Jacq Francoi$ is a local artist who pays homage to Black New Orleans culture with his limited runs of highly-collectible and buzzworthy art pieces.