Holidays

PICS: Krewe de Mayahuel’s colorful Day of the Dead parade lights up St. Roch

By Matthew Hinton | November 4, 2019

Krewe de Mayahuel parades in the St. Roch neighborhood from Carnaval Lounge to St. Roch Cemetery as part of a Day of the Dead procession to remember and celebrate loved ones who have passed.

pittsburgh's ghost hunters

VIDEO: Ghosts N’at // visit the (haunted) Hotel Conneaut with Pittsburgh’s ghost hunters

By Lindsay Patross | October 31, 2019

We brought our camera along for a ghost hunting adventure at the Hotel Conneaut. 

A history of Halloween Rituals

By Matt Haines | October 31, 2019

Halloween actually has its origins in the Celtic holiday of Samhain (somehow pronounced “sow-win”), a druidic festival held approximately between the evening of Oct. 31 and sunrise the following day.

On my first All Saints Day without my dad, something is still missing

By Mary Staes | October 30, 2019

All Saints Day for many New Orleanians is a pilgrimage. But, what if on your pilgrimage, you didn’t know where you were going?

Come to our house for Friendsgiving at The Shop at the Contemporary Arts Center!

By Mary Staes | October 30, 2019

It’s a 3-course dinner party with unlimited cocktails, and you don’t even have to cook or clean up!

Elaborate costumes abound at annual Halloween New Orleans fundraiser

By Matthew Hinton | October 28, 2019

HNO is one of the only 100 percent donation/volunteer event weekends left in the United States and its sole mission of its fundraising is to support Project Lazarus.

Haunted NOLA: The Three Ghosts of Toulouse Street and the hauntings from a former hospital

By Michael DeMocker | October 23, 2019

Along Toulouse Street in the French Quarter, one block is filled with more than just hungry tourists and locals passing by. From a feed store to a quarantine hospital and later a pub, three ghosts are said to be seen roaming the grounds along with the haunting cries of “Mommy! Mommy!”

PHOTOS: Despite near cancellation, Krewe of Boo rolls through the French Quarter

By Matthew Hinton | October 21, 2019

The festive Krewe of Boo was given the all-clear to parade Saturday night.

Haunted NOLA: The wandering statue of Storyville madam Josie Arlington’s Metairie Cemetery tomb

By Michael DeMocker | October 8, 2019

In life, and death, the legend of Storyville madam Josie Arlington is that of a woman unafraid to ruffle a few feathers.

Let’s get spooky: a guide to Halloween in New Orleans

By Matt Haines | October 3, 2019

From the stuff of nightmares to the slightly scary and kid-friendly, it’s all here.