5 Totally Real Products New Orleans Needs.

It’s nearly mid June, and I’ve been feeling the signs of a New Orleans summer for a while now: Shorts to work, clothes sticking to you, swamp ass and a blistering heat that takes more than a rattling window unit to cool you down. The humidity here is brutal, almost …

Louisiana is bass ackwards in a number of ways from gender biased flashing practices to sticking with “da parish” over counties. The list goes on, but the largest difference separating us from the rest of the country is our system of laws. The legal code in Louisiana is based in …

New Orleans has a few genres that are distinctively ours. One of the greatest of those is the genre that’s been keeping New Orleans twerking since the early 90s and won’t ever let Miley steal. Bounce. Bounce isn’t hard to explain. It’s New Orleans hip hop with its own twist …

Tis the season for final crawfish boils, last-minute trips to F&M’s “just to remember it bye,” and pawning your old crap off on craigslist. Trust me, no one wants that couch after how many times it’s been pissed on. Thousands of students come to New Orleans for our higher education, …

These may be fighting words depending on where on this Earth you may be, but I’m here to argue that New Orleans is the worldwide capital of live music. I mean, just check out WWOZ’s Livewire calendar – it’s almost too much information to process. Show me another city that …

Come for the music, stay for the people watching.

It’s no secret that I’m a lover of all things local. Take your Hostess Pies and shove it, I’ll patiently wait for a Hubig’s. Even if Starbucks did add chicory to the shit they call coffee, I’ll still be filling up at Z’otz or PJ’s. If it’s home grown, expect …

What the funk is with this weather lately? I went from wearing shorts to bundling up in the course of six hours. There’s the real concrete what the funk of today because what’s coming next is a little bit more vague. Wednesday What the Funk articles usually try to explain …

It’s definitely saying something if I’m eating at a restaurant with items on the menu that I’ve never heard of. I consider myself a pretty cheap date who thinks fancy ketchup is something that I probably can’t afford. I’m a man of simple pleasures — nice restaurants just aren’t my …