Commission Accomplished: Notable NOLA area home sales
A look at the highest- and lowest-priced home sales in the New Orleans area and the agents who closed the deals.
View ArticleBar fire briefly closes part of Bourbon Street
New Orleans firefighters have extinguished a small fire that broke out inside a well-known French Quarter bar and briefly shut down part of Bourbon Street.
View ArticleNew Orleans again looking at noise law
A recurring subject of tension between New Orleans nightspots and neighboring residents is about to be revisited by the New Orleans City Council.
View ArticleRenovation to add apartments near French Quarter
A dilapidated 19th century-era commercial building at a busy French Quarter street corner is undergoing a six-month renovation for conversion into apartments and ground-floor retail.
View ArticleFrench Quarter: Few artists, performers brave cold
The third and nastiest arctic blast of the season hit Louisiana.
View ArticleCondo projects scarce despite high demand
Even with a wait list of interested buyers, realtors and real estate analysts say new condo development is still a few years away.
View ArticleSonniers make a big splash with Kingfish
Going over the menu, you find that almost everything engenders recognition and a mouth-watering reaction. Yet some two-thirds of the dishes depart from the familiar to a degree great enough to have you...
View ArticleNew Orleans to begin replenishing Esplanade oaks
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration is looking for a contractor to start replenishing the diminished canopy of oak trees along the Esplanade Avenue neutral ground between North Rampart...
View ArticleArnaud’s brunch ranks among city’s best; French Creole remains solid
I have been saying for years that Arnaud’s puts forth the best Sunday brunch around. Its big dining rooms deliver just about anything you’d want from that meal — and dinner, too.
View ArticleDoris Metropolitan puts new spin on steak
New Orleans needed a new direction in the well-populated steakhouse category. Doris Metropolitan is not only unconventional but a little mysterious.
View ArticleFormer Gretna restaurant to become food truck prep space
The owners of a Magazine Street restaurant want to serve the growing demand for commercial kitchen space from the local food truck industry, and they are branching out to Jefferson Parish to do so.
View ArticleCommittee OKs plan for new French Quarter hotel
Over the objection of some French Quarter residents, the Vieux Carre Commission's Architectural Committee gave initial approval to a plan to convert a vacant 19th-century riverfront building into the...
View ArticleNOLA serves contemporary Creole to locals, tourists
Although white tablecloths reign, everything about the place is easygoing and much less formal than Emeril’s other two New Orleans establishments.
View ArticleFrench Quarter to get solar-powered trash cans
The new cans take up as much space as the city’s iron cans but can hold a lot more garbage.
View ArticleRedevelopment of Hurwitz Mintz building clears commission
A plan to convert the former Hurwitz Mintz furniture store in the French Quarter into a mixed-use development with condominiums and ground-floor commercial space cleared another hurdle.
View ArticleFrench Quarter security tax sent on Oct. 24 ballot
French Quarter voters will decide this fall whether to increase sales taxes by another quarter of a cent to finance improved security measures in the historic neighborhood.
View ArticleFrench Quarter music, restaurant zoning changes fall short
The New Orleans Planning Commission has voted against several zoning changes that would have allowed an expansion of live music in restaurants and courtyards in the historic district.
View ArticleFrench Quarter agency backs removal of White League monument
A French Quarter commission has voted to remove a 124-year-old obelisk monument dedicated to the White League's brief, and bloody, overthrow of a biracial Reconstruction government after the Civil War.
View ArticleOz managers plan renovations for nightclub
Renovations to Oz, the French Quarter nightclub purchased by local developer Mike Motwani in a July bidding war, will begin within the next 30 days, according to the club’s new managers.
View ArticleOfficials: Man illegally demolished historic house
A New Orleans man must pay more than $6,000 in fines after demolishing a historic French Quarter carriage house without permission.
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