Well, slurking urpal slackush scrum! If you haven’t heard, you are most late for the very important Gribling date! Alice has returned to Underland — or “Wonderland” — at last to slay the Jabberwocky on Frabjous Day! How do I know? It’s all foreseen in the all-knowing Oraculum, the parchment calendar dictating every […]

Squeezed is the word that comes to mind when I think about Casamento’s Restaurant.
Squeezed, the way the small white-washed facade stands sandwiched and retreating between the two larger brick buildings on either side.
Squeezed, the way my prodigiously proportioned waitress looked as she navigated the maze of tables with aisle widths better suited for the skinny waif […]

Ever notice that New Orleans is severely lacking fresh, easily accessible produce? Ever notice that the produce at your local large chain supermarket looks kind of questionable? Well, look no further than Hollygrove Market and Farm to solve your produce problems.
HGMF’s Saturday market is their most popular, providing a larger selection of fruits and vegetables […]

French Quarter Festival may take place in a part of town that’s constantly overrun with tourists, but it’s an event that showcases the best of local New Orleans artists, for free. Native acts such as Soul Rebels, The Revivalists, Rebirth Brass Band and Bonerama will fill the historic streets with lively, modern music April 9 […]

WTUL, Tulane University’s radio station, will host its 37th Rock-On Survival Marathon March 11 - 28. This annual fundraiser takes place each year to keep WTUL on the air. Through a series of shows, DJ sets and a few gimmicks, WTUL hopes to raise as much as $30,000 this year.
The radio station will team up […]

Foburg Fest may have a kind of silly name, but it’s got some serious freaking talent. The Frenchmen Street festival will feature all sorts of diverse bands from close to home to super far away on the March 12 to 14 weekend. With 25 shows at six venues over the course of three days, it […]

If you got some beads from the 24th float of the Tucks parade, you may have gotten them straight from Rob Corddry (“The Daily Show”), Craig Robinson (“The Office”) or Clark Duke (“Greek”), stars of the upcoming comedy “Hot Tub Time Machine.” As the celebrity guests of the parade, the guys were around to talk, […]

Cochon offers a daring new food homage to the American altar of pork.
Named after the French word for pig, Cochon honors its namesake by making use of the entire animal, a snout-to-hoof dining approach that incorporates every part except the tail — which was probably on special. The in-house boucherie creates all products: ham, sausage, […]

There’s something about the word “Techno.” It’s probably the dirtiest thing you can say to someone who cares a lot about the semantics of music — as opposed to, you know, someone who just likes listening to it. If you, the average Tulane student, said something about some cool new Techno you just found, be […]

One shouldn’t expect much from a four-person college play. Most times, acts of this nature are too pretentious, and the intimate stage performance becomes lost amid themes and character relations that are simply too grandiose for such a small cast. In “The Shape of Things,” however, the four performers deftly handle writer Neil LaBute’s themes, […]

Swedish electronic duo The Knife, siblings Olaf Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson, is best known for synth-heavy tracks including “Heartbeats” and “We Share Our Mother’s Health,” Karin’s solo project Fever Ray and their notorious habit of appearing in public wearing Venetian plague masks. Their new album, however, Tomorrow, In A Year is unlike anything they’ve […]

Joanna Newsom’s new album Have One on Me is a complex triple album, a musical rarity even among overambitious indie artists. It contains 18 harp-fueled songs, most of them more than six minutes long, and lasts a little more than two hours. Her latest effort splits the difference between the quirky, chirpy debut The Milk-Eyed […]

Wal-Mart
1901 Tchoupitoulas Street
Wal-Mart gets a bad rap. Its labor practices, market dominance and history of harsh negotiating tactics have given the company brand recognition problems that would put even McDonalds to shame. But to those paying attention, America’s largest grocer has been making some interesting steps to become, at the very least, marginally less evil. If […]

I know that Pitchfork is supposed to be the end-all-be-all of “indie” music, but sometimes they’re just plain wrong. Contra is not as great as they seem to think it is. Merriweather Post Pavilion was not the greatest album of the last year. Having said that, the Pitchfork list of the Top 100 Tracks of the 2009 […]

Magnetic Fields album draws you in
From the man who brought us 69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields’ Steven Merritt brings us another classic breakup album… just in time for Valentine’s Day. Here he continues the “no synth” trilogy, following i and Distortion, though the new album is starkly different from the latter. Realism, ironically, feels like […]