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May 2021

BAD PRESS

Forty years ago, reporters from The Times-Picayune visited a set of Metairie businesses and, apparently finding the services on offer were as they expected, called the police. A...

Steven Melendez
A black and white illustration of a light skinned man in a tweed jacket holding a briefcase labeled “FROGS.” The man is wearing a hat and is looking to the right and smiling. The briefcase has frog legs sticking out the sides of it. There is a gray circle behind the man, framing him like a cartoon. Illustration by Happy Burbeck.

April 2021

Albert Broel, Frog Prince of New Orleans

Head west from New Orleans along Metairie Road and you’ll pass a building marked with the silhouette of a Churchillian gentleman smoking a cigar, advertising Winston’s Pub and...

Steven Melendez
A black and white photo of several light-skinned people hanging out during Mardi Gras in 1979. A few people are wearing uniforms, either police or fire, that have helmets to go along with them. One person is dressed as a mouse and is bent over with their hands on their knees while they’re smiling. There’s a traffic light in the background.

February 2021

DIFFERENT, NOT CANCELLED

In early November, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced that the City would be accepting suggestions for an “alternative Mardi Gras” in lieu of the usual festivities. The...

Beck Levy, Steven Melendez

January 2021

GUMBO DIPLOMACY

In November, President-elect Joe Biden selected Baton Rouge native Linda Thomas-Greenfield to serve as ambassador to the United Nations. Thomas-Greenfield, who has served as a...

Beck Levy, Steven Melendez

December 2020

Hindsight is 2020: Year End Top 5 Round Up

Ahem. Good evening. Could we have everyone’s attention for a moment? Webster’s dictionary defines “year” as containing 365 days, but anyone who made it through 2020 knows...

Beck Levy, Steven Melendez

December 2020

REVIEWS

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Julia Engel, Mary Beth Campbell, Raphael Helfand, Sabrina Stone, Shirani Jayasuriya, Steven Melendez, Will Hibert, William Archambeault

November 2020

REVIEWS

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Chris Conner, Danielle Dietze, Derek, Julia Engel, Kevin Barrios, Mary Beth Campbell, Raphael Helfand, Steven Melendez, Victoria Conway, William Archambeault

October 2020

Things That Times-Picayune Art Critic Doug MacCash Has Called “Weird”

A play at the Fringe Festival. “Most conceptual art.” Some performance art. Vincent van Gogh’s art. Krazy Kat’s growing love for Ignatz. MacCash’s...

Steven Melendez

April 2020

HARSH SENTENCE

The nation is hunkering down at home with cleaning supplies and canned goods to prevent the spread of the deadly new coronavirus. But members of at least one vulnerable population...

Steven Melendez

December 2019

Reviews

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Andru Okun, Edward Pellegrini, Jon Kieran, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Steven Melendez, William Archambeault

November 2019

THE PRISON THAT CARE FORGOT

In 2013, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman settled a class action suit brought by imprisoned people at Orleans Parish Prison alleging brutal conditions at the jail violated...

Steven Melendez

November 2019

Reviews

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Andru Okun, Emily Elhaj, Erin Hall, Holly Devon, Jesse Baum, Marisa Clogher, Mary Beth Campbell, Michael Kunz, Steven Melendez, William Archambeault

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