Sports

Thank you for making Skate Date a huge success! Photos from our debut event.

By Aadam Soorma | March 6, 2019

Our first-ever Very Local event – Skate Date – brought 200 of you downtown (**during a snowstorm**). Here are the photos to prove it.

NOPD releases video in NFL robbery investigation

By Mary Staes | February 5, 2019

Tackling the robbery head-on, the First 48-style video pokes fun at one of the biggest sports tragedies to-date.

Ruby Slipper offers special menu for Super Bowl Weekend

By Mary Staes | January 28, 2019

Ruby Slipper’s Super Bowl weekend offerings rename southern classics like brioche French toast, but with a tongue-in-cheek twist.

Boycotting the Super Bowl? Here’s a list of #PettyParties

By Mary Staes | January 24, 2019

We’re sure there’s a quip about making your own happiness here, but we’re still too hurt.

Retail Therapy: It won’t fix #Refgate, but it might make you feel better

By Mary Staes | January 22, 2019

So, it’s been a few days since the worst no call in the NFL happened. While it still stings, we’ll recover the best way we know how: laugh at it.

What the ref?! Haydel’s cookie offers a bite of revenge

By Mary Staes | January 21, 2019

There’s no word yet on how long the cookies will last, but we hope Haydel’s keeps it up until we get over this loss. Which might not be ever.

Local Wins: How the Who Dat Nation helped New Orleans entrepreneur NolaHatPlug gain success, quit her day job

By Mary Staes | January 16, 2019

Just two months ago, April Brooks was quitting her day job to run her small business, NolaHatPlug, full-time. Now, her hats are being sold in every Fleurty Girl store location, and sales have tripled.

Need somewhere to watch the Saints game? Here are some of the best neighborhood bars

By Mary Staes | January 10, 2019

Here’s a list of places we love to watch the Saints games at, where the drinks flow and the atmosphere is almost as good as being in the Dome.

Rick Holman Hall of Fans

Vote now to send this Steelers Fan to the Fan Hall of Fame

By Lindsay Patross | January 9, 2019

Steelers Fan Rick Holman is one of six super fans nominated to the Ford Hall of Fans.

They’re Talking ‘Bout Us: What Was That Game, Best Restaurants, WWII Fish Bunkers, German Orangutan

By Clint Durrett | September 17, 2018

Everybody’s talkin’ ’bout us, y’all. And, of course. Why wouldn’t they be?