A product of New Orleans, Simmons sweated his way to spotlight.
The story of how feral hogs arrived at New Orleans’s doorstep, 500 years in the making.
The venue played host to Tulane Green Wave games, the New Orleans Saints' first few seasons, and three Super Bowls.
As New Orleans braces for a vastly downsized Carnival 2021 because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, THNOC is looking back at each cancellation, focusing on what the city was like at that time, the activities of the krewes during the downtime, and the celebrations that did take place despite the shutdown of big parades.
When she died in June 2019 at age 96, Leah Chase was celebrated as a New Orleans legend, icon, and inspiration. During research for 2009’s animated The Princess and Frog, directors Ron Clements and John Musker called on Chase’s life story and culinary renown—a journey from French Quarter waitress to James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award recipient—as inspiration for the character of Tiana, Disney’s first African American princess.
New Orleans has had a long relationship with America's pastime, even if it has no current team. Still, our baseball fields have lent innovations, hall of famers, and one jazz-legend-turned-team-owner to the annals of the sport.
Here in New Orleans, the evolution of organized sports over the last 150 years has paralleled the fundamental transformations brought to the city after the Civil War.
Before he played Dr. Evil's son, Seth Green was a household figure in New Orleans for his role in a Rally's commercial that sparked a beloved Saints cheer.
It was a hot June day in 1969, when for the first time, black and white kids dove into the Audubon Park swimming pool together, marking a symbolic victory for the civil rights movement in New Orleans.
In the winter of 1857, a frenzy took over the city of New Orleans, and local chess prodigy Paul Morphy was right at the center of it.
