Better Than Ezra’s 1st annual Krewe of Rocckus will be a three-day Mardi Gras event taking place Thursday, March 3, Friday March 4 and Saturday March 5th, 2011. BSFN is very excited to be with BTE on their Road to Mardi Gras Tour! More info is available here. “Our city is known for its unique [...]

Prospect New Orleans Art Auction & Throwdown Benefitting the Second Edition of Prospect New Orleans and Honoring Toby Devan Lewis Honorary Co-Chairs Susan and Ralph Brennan, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, Frances Dittmer, Jeanne and Michael Klein, Jonathan Lewis, Peter B. Lewis, Judith Neisser, and Amy and John Phelan With Artist Co-Chair Nari Ward Friday, [...]

84-Day Meet Highlighted by $1 Million Louisiana Derby Starlight Racing Expanded to a Monthly Series The best that Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots has to offer will be bigger and better during the 139th Thoroughbred Racing Season, which runs from Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 2010, to March 27, 2011. The meet’s centerpiece event, the [...]

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic building within the Vieux Carre Historic District, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum showcases its extensive collection and provides interpretive educational programs to present and preserve the rich history of pharmacy and healthcare in Louisiana; past and present. The Museum also highlights the role of [...]

Musée Conti Wax Museum & The Art of Wax Sculpture Founded in 1963, this 3rd generation, family owned and operated business is a New Orleans treasure chest of history, legend and scandal. Unlike other wax museums, The Musée Conti Wax Museum tells the story of one city alone, and what a story it is! From [...]

The Louisiana Memorial Pavilion showcases essential tools of the war effort, including the famous Higgins landing craft. More than 20,000 boats were designed and built in New Orleans and used in all the amphibious landings of World War II. Dwight Eisenhower credited these boats with winning the war for the Allies. Other artifacts include a [...]

Louisiana’s culture often seems to have sprung from its fertile soil. Out of the rich Louisiana sugar fields, New Orleans received a gift of lasting culture in early 1910, when sugar broker Isaac Delgado offered the city $150,000 to build a “temple of art for rich and poor alike” in City Park. The neo-classical, Beaux [...]

Leading the transformation of New Orleans’ downtown Warehouse District into the vibrant cultural hub it is today is the Contemporary Arts Center. Since 1976, the center has been the Warehouse Arts Distric’s focal point and a home to bold experiments in painting, theatre, music, performance art, dance, photography, video, sculpture and more – all celebrating [...]

If you judge a band by the kind of musicians who like to sit in with them, then it’s clear that the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is doing a lot of things right. In coming months, the spunky, player-owned ensemble will share the stage with three very different kinds of superstars: pop songwriter Randy Newman, classical [...]

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