November 2023 New Orleans Has a Long History of Street Vending—and Crackdowns. How Do We Stop This Cycle? Street vending, in one form or another, has always had a place in New Orleans. Zella Palmer, chair and director of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in African American... MaCCNO
September 2023 MaCCNO: Death Meets Disney — New Name, Same Exploitation One hundred thirty-nine years ago, New Orleans hosted the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. Though it was plagued with financial problems and attendance was... MaCCNO
July 2023 MaCCNO: FROM FOOD VENDORS TO LIVE PERFORMANCE How the City’s previous bad policy decisions increase inequity and restrict cultural practice Last October in this column, we wrote about how an arts and culture overlay... MaCCNO
June 2023 MaCCNO Advocacy Guide: The Basics This month, we are launching the first in a series featuring our tips and advice gathered over a decade of New Orleans-based cultural organizing and advocacy. For the first... MaCCNO
January 2023 MaCCNO’s 2023 Agenda—Building Just and Equitable Systems from City Streets to City Hall Beginning with the lingering impacts of Hurricane Ida and the COVID-19 pandemic and ending with the celebration of our 10th anniversary, 2022 was a year of achievement,... MaCCNO
June 2022 OUTDOOR LIVE MUSIC REGULATIONS ARE TAKING SHAPE Here’s Where Things Stand And How You Can Get Involved Within the next two months, the City Council should finally vote on regulations that would permanently legalize outdoor... MaCCNO
May 2022 A ROYAL (FRENCHMEN) MESS On March 22, the Royal Frenchmen Hotel and Bar posted that they were closed indefinitely “due to an attack on live music and events” at the venue. The business, as the name... MaCCNO
December 2021 Five Ways We Can Help Build a Stronger Economic Safety Net For the Cultural Community in 2022 As we head into December, New Orleans is starting to resemble its old self again—music venues are open and hosting regular shows; second line Sundays are back; Mardi Gras 2022... MaCCNO
November 2021 HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS Ida Underlines Housing Crisis Among Cultural Practitioners A bass player who moved in with his girlfriend after six weeks with no plumbing. A dancer-actress who has to deal with a... MaCCNO
September 2021 Back to the Status Quo or a Stronger City? Who Will Determine the Future of Post-Pandemic New Orleans? We’re 18 months deep into an ongoing pandemic and at the peak of the fourth wave, which is hitting Louisiana harder... MaCCNO
July 2021 COVID-Era Expansion of Outdoor Live Music Faces an Uncertain Future One of the few welcome impacts of the pandemic has been the widespread expansion of outdoor live music in New Orleans. For many months, the French Quarter was effectively shut... MaCCNO
May 2021 Making a Living as a New Orleans Musician: Then and Now, By the Numbers In our column last month, we began unpacking the idea of “going back to normal” and how various post-pandemic reopenings could perpetuate the “long-standing legacy of... MaCCNO
