Travel Archives

Wow!!! Have you seen the latest score on the New Orleans Hornets? Can you believe they beat out the Lakers live on ESPN? What a great game that was!  Number Three – Chris Paul, in only his third professional year, is breaking out like a mad man!  He wants the Hornets to be the comeback kings of the NBA with this year’s return to New Orleans.. [read more]

It's Carnival Time - Mardi Gras 2008 in New Orleans!

New Orleans favorite time of year is here -- Mardi Gras! Starting on the Ephiany and running through until Lent (this year February 5) Mardi Gras is a long standing New Orleans tradition. As far back at 1718, this Catholic based holiday has been filling the streets of New Orleans. [read more]

Artful Accommodations

I can be counted among the road warriors who spend more time in hotels than in my own bedroom. So whenever possible, I search out properties with individuality and gracious hospitality. [read more]

Christmas... New Orleans Style
In New Orleans, we do the holidays with style. Christmas New Orleans Style starts December 1 with a plethora of actives, beautiful decorations and lots of New Orleans food! [read more]

Ritz-Carlton: We like to Stay Here!
I’ve heard it said that patrons of The Ritz-Carlton are loyalists. If you’re curious to find out why, you cannot pick a better time then now to experience The Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans. [read more]

Loews Hotel
We are not much for hang’n around in a hotel room when we travel for leisure, but in places like New Orleans the respite is a necessity. [read more]

Hotel Monteleone: We Like to Stay Here!
This hotel has long been a favorite of writers - Ernest Hemingway mentioned Hotel Monteleone in, Night Before Battle. Whether truth or fiction, our history is rich in stories. [read more]

New Orleans Jazz Fest!
Organizers have announced the 2007 lineup For New Orleans' premier music event - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festiaval, to be held April 27-29 and May 4-6. [read more]

NOLA Cemeteries: Cities of the Dead!
There was a time in New Orleans…when the deceased simply refused to lie still. Apparently, many coffins would often float to the top of the grave because New Orleans is actually below sea level and the water table is very high. [read more]

Everybody’s Gotta Gumbo!
Gumbo has been called the greatest contribution of Louisiana kitchens to American cuisine. It’s no wonder that such a zesty and multi-layered concoction would come from one of the most colorful states in the country! [read more]

Jazzfest
Organizers have announced the 2007 lineup For New Orleans' premier music event - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festiaval, to be held April 27-29 and May 4-6. [read more]

Tennessee Williams Literary Festival
The festival is an annual four-day celebration held in late March, which showcases national and regional scholars, writers, and performing artists. [read more]

Mardi Gras 2008
It’s no secret that Mardi Gras has long been considered the world’s biggest party… an age-old tradition enjoyed by millions… and the 2008 Mardi Gras will be no exception! [read more]

One Step at a Time
The Gulf Coast has managed to pull its way through hurricane after hurricane for hundreds of years and Katrina, as devastating as she was in so many ways, is no exception. [read more]

New Orleans Theater
New Orleans is renowned for its architectural beauty and wild and revelous nightlife. Just as important to the city's cultural scene is its creative and vibrant artistic community. [read more]

New Orleans Jazz
We've all rooted for our high school team and clapped our hands to the beat of the high school marching band as they pranced across the field at half-time. [read more]

New Orleans Conventions
Although many people flock to The Crescent City for an exotic nightlife, exciting festivals, and mardi gras beads... some actually come to the Big Easy, to work! [read more]

A Guide to New Orleans
When the city of New Orleans is mentioned, most people immediately think of Mardi Gras… and with good reason! [read more]

Halloween in New Orleans!
New Orleans is famous for the wild times at Mardi Gras, but not everyone knows that New Orleans throws the howlingest Halloween celebration in the country! [read more]

Satchmo...Oh Yeahhhhhhhhh
Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901. By the time of his death in 1971, he was world famous..known by the single moniker...Satchmo! [read more]

Summertime in New Orleans
Visiting a cool city like New Orleans is an exciting, and often "adult-like" experience...but a weekend visit doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of this multi-layered, multi cultural and "oh so" fascinating city. [read more]

10th Annual Essence Festival
When the ESSENCE gets its party on, it's always done in great style. Every year, The Essence Music Festival is the hottest ticket in the nation. [read more]

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Organizers have announced the 2007 lineup For New Orleans' premier music event - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festiaval, to be held April 27-29 and May 4-6. [read more]

Mardi Gras!
It’s no secret that Mardi Gras has long been considered the world’s biggest party… an age-old tradition enjoyed by millions… and the 2008 Mardi Gras will be no exception! [read more]

King Cake History & Recipe
The King Cake is a brioche-style cake traditionally made throughout Louisiana during the Carnival Season prior to Mardi Gras. Also known as Twelfth Night Cake, the King Cake is prepared in New Orleans bakeries for the period between the Twelfth Night and Ash Wednesday. [read more]

The Louisiana Purchase...200 Years!
The huge province of Louisiana was originally settled by the French in the early 18th Century but in 1762 it was ceded to Spain by a "secret" treaty. [read more]

Bigfoot and Honey Island Swamp
The swamplands of Louisiana are well-known for their primitive beauty and exotic wildlife…picture if you will, moss hanging on gnarled cypress trees rising from the water, the sweet smell of wild azaleas in the air…alligators, black bear, red wolf, deer and BIG FOOT! What? [read more]

Voodoo Music Experience
Spending Halloween weekend in New Orleans has to be the coolest thing you could do for this frightful holiday! Where else in America has the same spooky atmosphere, the same haunting history, the same... nightlife? [read more]

Haunted New Orleans
New Orleans is famous for the wild times at Mardi Gras, but not everyone knows that New Orleans throws the howlingest Halloween celebration in the country! [read more]

Jazz Fest 2002
Organizers have announced the 2007 lineup For New Orleans' premier music event - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festiaval, to be held April 27-29 and May 4-6. [read more]

French Quarter Festival
The Annual French Quarter Festival employs hundreds of musicians and provides an estimated economic impact of $75 million dollars for the city during three short days of FUN in the Quarter. [read more]

Presbytere Mardi Gras Exhibit
The Presbytere, which with the Cabildo (Town Hall) flanks St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square in New Orleans' historic French Quarter, is a vital part of the Louisiana State Museum system. [read more]

Mardi Gras Returns!
Mardi Gras is back! Everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl, but let's be honest - nothing beats Mardi Gras! The parades, the frivolity, the beer... ah, Mardi Gras! [read more]

Super Bowl & Mardi Gras!
Mardi Gras in New Orleans - could there be anything any better? Well, how about having the Super Bowl right in the middle of Mardi Gras?! That's what's happening this year! Super Bowl XXXVI will be held at the Louisiana SuperDome on Sunday February 3, 2002. [read more]

Celebration in the Oaks
City Park's 14 acre Botanical Garden featuring art deco inspired fountains, ponds, and sculptures by world renowned artist Enrique Alferez come back to life after Hurricane Katrina with a newly planted Garden, magical holiday lights and musical displays to delight every age. [read more]

New Orleans' Royal Families
Every world-class city has to have a shopping area that caters to the discriminating consumer, the customer who values fine quality craftsmanship and dealers with integrity.[read more]

Southern Decadence: New Orleans, with a Twist
The Louisiana Swamp Exhibit is where is all started. It was the inspiration for the Louisiana Swamp Fest and central point for meeting Swamp Creatures - two and four legged kinds. Audubon Zoo's Louisiana Swamp Exhibit is the most authentic swamp exhibit in Louisiana. [read more]

New Orleans Wine & Food Experience
The New Orleans Wine and Food Experience features: Vintner Dinners held at over 30 New Orleans restaurants; Royal Street Stroll where guests can savor wine while walking along the main street of the historic French Quarter. [read more]

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Organizers have announced the 2007 lineup For New Orleans' premier music event - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festiaval, to be held April 27-29 and May 4-6. [read more]

Storyville
At the turn of the last century, the undisputed center of good times in the Big Easy was literally ‘carved out’ of the New Orleans landscape by Alderman Sidney “Story.” [read more]

D-Day Museum
On June 6, 1944 tens of thousands of American, Canadian, and British soldiers, sailors and airmen participated in the largest sea-borne invasion in world history- the goal? [read more]