Cochon Doberge: The Hyperpolicing of the French Quarter

April 2016

Cochon Doberge: The Hyperpolicing of the French Quarter

Part I of a series examining control / space in contemporary New Orleans On Saturday, April 9th, residents of Orleans Parish are invited to vote on a ballot measure titled PW...

Jules Bentley

February 2016

Ashes to Ashes, Blogs to Bricks: Booty’s and the Cult of Small Business

When, late on a weeknight, I received confirmation that Booty’s Street Food was closed for good, I announced it to the dinner party around me. A cheer rose from the...

Jules Bentley

February 2016

Go Fret a Watchman: Carnival Surveillance and Masking

In case you aren’t reading the New Orleans Advocate—and you oughta be, if you’re looking for a solid local daily—a recent article by Jessica Williams is titled...

Jules Bentley

December 2015

Top 5 Premium Vapes

“I mix my own for fifteen cents a quart, and it’s great!” No it’s not. You’re a scrub, get away. Strictly. Premium. Vapes. That’s the credo...

Jules Bentley

October 2015

Newspapers vs. Newspeak: Five Key Points About the Most Recent Round of NOLA.com Layoffs

In September 2015, NOLA.com fired 28 more full-time staffers (more than a fifth of NOLA.com’s remaining newsroom) and nine part-timers. These layoffs follow earlier firings of...

Jules Bentley

June 2015

Check Please: The Eat Local Challenge and the Price of Virtue

Some years ago I was working as a janitor at a rural facility that hosted various conferences, one of which had to do with “sustainability.” During my lunch break, a...

Jules Bentley

March 2015

Unapologetically Black: Activism on (and off) the Streets with the Black Youth Project 100

The pattern of American police murdering people of color, an everyday reality for some communities, came to the rest of the world’s attention in 2014. The ongoing governmental...

Jules Bentley

February 2015

Farewell to the Flesh: Notes on a Cybernetic Carnival

Everyone celebrates Mardi Gras their own way, some by avoiding it altogether, but my Mardi Gras lives and flourishes in the streets—streets transformed into space for humans...

Jules Bentley

January 2015

Last Supper: Best of the ‘Burbs Edition

Among the ways I kept my shit together in 2014 was long bike rides through New Orleans’ suburbs. There’s a lot I love about New Orleans suburbs. I love finding bike routes...

Jules Bentley

October 2014

Glow Sticks and Goat’s Blood: AG Writers Pick their Voodoo 2014 Favorites

The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience has always served up an eclectic conflict of sound, whether it’s been Neil Young vs. Metallica, Rage Against the Machine vs. M.I.A., or this...

Alex Taylor, Anna Gaca, Erin Hall, Jenn Attaway, Jules Bentley

October 2014

Don’t Be a Ghost on Halloween

Hey: you’re not a kid anymore. I’m sorry. It sucks you had to find out this way, in the pages of this magazine. Most likely you were drawn in by Passmore’s art and...

Jules Bentley

June 2014

The Big Cat and the Boycott: Remembering Ernie Ladd

Few pro wrestlers were as universally despised as the Louisiana-born WWE Hall-of-Famer “Big Cat” Ernie Ladd, considered one of the first (and all-time best)...

Jules Bentley