June 2023 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR The masochist in me still yearns for summer. Summer is frisky—a time of looser rules, minimal clothing, and prioritizing leisure. Routine is tossed aside in favor of... Marisa Clogher
April 2023 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR Newton’s first law, or the law of inertia, says that an object in motion will stay in motion, in a straight line and at a constant speed, unless acted upon by an external force.... Marisa Clogher
January 2023 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR When I was at Loyola University, I took a bookbinding class. It was time-consuming, meticulous, repetitive, immensely frustrating, and I wasn’t particularly good at it. But I... Marisa Clogher
January 2023 FOR THE RECORD On December 1, the New Orleans City Council approved the 2023 City budget, along with “amendments to include $262 million in spending of one-time funds.” Of the funds included... Marisa Clogher
January 2023 REVIEWS ... Danielle Dietze, Holly Devon, Jamal Melancon, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Steven Melendez, William Archambeault
December 2022 Get the Fuck Dressed: John Waters is Coming Back to Town Christmas is perhaps the most ubiquitous tradition in the American zeitgeist. Each year its saturation into daily life encroaches earlier and more aggressively than the last, and... Marisa Clogher
December 2022 Kim Kelly: All Workers Deserve the World The adage goes, “work is work is work.” Each subsection of the workforce comes with its own unique frustrations, but the consistent, overarching broad strokes are usually... Marisa Clogher
December 2022 REVIEWS ... Bryan Funck, Jamal Melancon, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Megan Burns, Shirani Jayasuriya, Veronica Cross, William Archambeault
October 2022 FOR THE RECORD On September 15, the City Council voted unanimously to remove a stretch of protected bike lanes in Algiers. The ordinance, helmed by Councilmember Freddie King III, comes after... Marisa Clogher
September 2022 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR On Saturday, August 27, 2005, I was supposed to have my first sleepover with a friend from school. On Friday, August 26, my mom made a judgment call—we were evacuating. I was... Marisa Clogher
September 2022 FOR THE RECORD On July 21, the City Council approved an ordinance that allows for the use of facial recognition software that had been previously banned in 2020. The ordinance would give NOPD... Marisa Clogher