The 2023 Patois New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival is slated for Thursday (March 23) through Sunday (March 26) at The Broad Theater and The Broadside. What: 2023 Patois Film Festival Where: The Broad, 636 N. Broad St and The Broadside, 600 N. Broad S When: Thursday through Sunday In addition to more than 20 Read More…
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist The family of Linda Frickey visited her grave this week, a year after the 73-year-old was brutally killed in a Mid-City carjacking. “We want justice for our family member, but it’s not just for Linda. We want this for all elderly people. For all the victims of juvenile crime,” said Read More…
As spring begins, Art in Bloom will return to the New Orleans Museum of Art. This year, NOMA will host floral displays by more than 75 exhibitors throughout all three floors of galleries. Each display takes inspiration from work in the museum’s permanent display and this year’s theme, “Paradise Under the Palms.” The floral displays Read More…
The nation’s fastest-growing sport is coming to the city’s largest park On Friday (March 24), City Park Tennis Center will start serving up pickleball seven days a week. “We are so excited to ‘get in the game’ that has been taking the nation by storm,” said City Park Conservancy President and CEO Cara Lambright. “The Read More…
The St. Joseph’s altar is one of those Catholic traditions, in this case a Sicilian Catholic tradition, that, through some creative adaption, south Louisiana has made its own. Among all the breads and cakes shaped into religious symbols — a monstrance, chalice, cross, heart, dove, Bible — it’s not unusual to find an alligator. A Read More…
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist Many supporters of the campaign to recall Mayor LaToya Cantrell may have been surprised Tuesday (March 14) when the mayor and Lower 9th Ward activist Rev. Willie Calhoun filed a challenge to the negotiated settlement on the recall case. Because of the settlement, 25,000 New Orleans voters were temporarily moved Read More…
By Marielle Songy, Mid-City Messenger Sammy’s Ethiopian Kitchen opened in January, serving fresh traditional food in the Broad Street space that once held another Ethiopian restaurant, Addis NOLA. The owner is a veteran of the two other Ethiopian restaurants in the city: Addis NOLA, now on Bayou Road, and Café Abyssinia, on Magazine Street. Sammy’s Read More…
Two Broad Street businesses were robbed at gunpoint last week, according to reports from the New Orleans Police Department and the Mid-City Security District. A man entered the AutoZone on North Broad and St. Peter Street on March 7 at about 9:20 a.m., took merchandise off the shelves, and walked to the door with the Read More…
The Broadwide is hosting a special screening of “Scrap,” a movie chronicling the journey of stuff we throw out, on Wednesday (March 15). The event is a benefit for the Repair Cafe, a nonprofit that helps New Orleanians fix their stuff instead of throwing it out. “Scrap,” a feature documentary by Stacey Tennenbaum, explores the Read More…
A double shooting that injured a 15-year-old and an armed carjacking were reported on Mid-City streets over the weekend. The carjacking occurred Sunday night (March 12) in the 300 block of South Rendon, near Palmyra Street, the New Orleans Police Department reported. Five men approached a 19-year-old man in a white 2011 Chevy Camaro at Read More…
