COVID-19 is a virus that affects the respiratory system. Many people who get COVID-19 will feel like they have a regular cold, but others could experience more severe illness or...
Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is not the first epidemic to plague New Orleans. In fact, from 1796 to 1873, New Orleans residents were subject to city-ordered quarantine for a total...
The majority of the public health strategy for dealing with widespread illnesses in general is focused on protection through vaccination and prevention, in the form of hand...
Ron Smith makes his living driving around New Orleans with his hat brim cocked over one eye like Humphrey Bogart. Smith’s impeccable style and debonair manner have earned him...
It is almost impossible to go through Mardi Gras season without hearing George Porter Jr. and for good reason. In the 1960s and ‘70s, the bassist’s thick funk grooves helped...
A few weeks before Mardi Gras in 1975, The Eunice News informed readers in the circulation area it called “the heart of Acadiana” that “a new breed of television...
The photographs of Richard Sexton’s Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River offer an evocative depiction of southeast Louisiana and the prodigious...
On a relatively quiet Sunday night, John Curry and I perch up at the base of the vacated Lee Circle, New Orleans stretching out below us in several directions, each part of town...
The recent collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel on Rampart and Canal claimed the lives of three workers assigned to its construction—and injured many others. This titanic, entirely...
