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Best Comic Book Shop:
Winner: Crescent City Comics
Runner Up: Old School Comics
Other Contestants: More Fun Comics & Cards
Crescent City is by far the best place to nerd-out in New Orleans. Their selection is massive, with plenty of graphic novels — try “The Alcoholic” by Jonathan Ames, which is terrific — and […]

Every year, the arcade comes up with a variety of categories to award Tulane’s favorite places in New Orleans with the highest accolade you can receive in this very newspaper — an A+ Award. This completely unscientific process results in the editors coming up with five choices per category and then leaving it is up […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Fleshlight is the ugly duckling of our sex-based consumer culture. The Fleshlight is not embarrassed by capitalism. While marketing normally consists of tricking consumers into viewing a commodity as something other than a mere tool to produce endorphins, the Fleshlight doesn’t waste time selling you meaning in a meaningless world; it provides the fuel […]

This year’s Valentine’s Day movie event is simply titled: “Valentine’s Day.” Director Gary Marshall (“The Princess Diaries,” “Pretty Woman”) presents a film that follows a series of intertwining love stories, or for some, unrequited love stories, during one Los Angeles V-Day. The film is adapted from a screenplay by Katherine Fugate with plot assistance from […]

Date, n.[deyt]: Two people getting together for an activity when the possibility of romance between them has been broached but not ruled out.

I include this definition to quiet all the whiners who claim romance is dead and Tulane has no dating scene. The Boot fosters a perfect environment to get together and grind without the complication […]

There are few times better in New Orleans to address the topic of narcissism than right now, in the midst of Carnival season where we’re dressed in beads and ball gowns and parade through the streets like we own them. This Mardi Gras when Mister throws you something, remember this: You’re not quite as special […]

Y Not? There are so many reasons. For starters, you are filthy rich. You were a member of the most influential and beloved pop band of all time. There’s simply no way you’re going to escape the legacy of being the least-talented Beatle. What, you think you’re going to record another White Album? You would […]