NEW ORLEANS — Hogs for the Cause announced its 14th annual charity barbecue cook-off and music festival will take place April 1 and 2, 2022. Team registration for returning teams begins on Oct. 4 at hogsfest.org. Registration for new teams…
NEW ORLEANS - Beignet Fest is teaming up with food vendors that were slated to participate at this year’s festival to showcase a wide variety of beignet dishes. The food will be available to purchase at vendor locations across the…
NEW ORLEANS – A coalition of New Orleans nightclubs and music venues, in partnership with New Orleans & Company, will host the Oct. 7-17 NOLAxNOLA series of live music events. The goal is to support venues, musicians and culture bearers…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It's a neighborhood bar and restaurant, but for two extended weekends every year, the “regulars” at Liuzza's by the Track include an overflow crowd of tourists grabbing drinks and settling in for meals on their way…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week’s top business stories: Hotels Debut Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences New Orleans is now open in the former headquarters of the World Trade Center building at the foot of Canal Street. In…
NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Wine & Food Experience has been named a winner in the 2021 USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice travel award contest for Best Wine Festival. NOWFE was nominated by a panel of experts who partnered…
NEW ORLEANS – The 2021 Beignet Fest planned for Saturday, Sept. 25 at New Orleans City Park has been cancelled due to the current surge of COVID-19. Sherwood Collins, founder and executive director of Beignet Fest and the Tres Doux…
NEW ORLEANS - Organizers of the 2021 French Quarter Festival announced they are cancelling their planned October 2021 event, which had been rescheduled from April, because of increased rates of COVID infections and hospitalizations in the area. The decision came…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are week's top business stories: Notes from the Pandemic The City of New Orleans has announced that proof of vaccination or a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test will be required to participate in activities with…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People who want to enter New Orleans bars, restaurants, music halls — or any other inside venue — will soon have to show proof of vaccination against the coronavirus or a recent negative test, according to…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With new COVID-19 cases surging in Louisiana, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival won't be returning this year after all, organizers said Sunday. The festival, which traditionally is held in the spring, had been scheduled…
NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center hosted a Christmas in July volunteer event through Second Harvest Food Bank to support the Boys and Girls Club of Gretna. The July 15 event announced the return of…
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans & Company is re-launching its COOLinary New Orleans summer restaurant campaign from July 14 to Sept. 5 with some new twists. Unlike previous years, the campaign has opened participation to include delivery and take-out options,…
NEW ORLEANS – The reopening of Carousel Gardens and the return of special events are great news for New Orleans City Park – but new CEO Cara Lambright says support from the community will…
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The fifth annual Beignet Fest is set to kick off the fall festival season in New Orleans on Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Organizers will return to the Festival Grounds at…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week's biggest business stories: The Hotel Saint Vincent is officially open at 1507 Magazine Street. The 75-room boutique hotel, which cost approximately $22.5 million to create, was developed by Austin-based hospitality hotshots Larry McGuire,…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Demi Lovato, Ludacris, The Isley Brothers, Melissa Etheridge and Trombone Shorty are among the acts slated to take the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which returns this fall after…
NEW ORLEANS — The nonprofit French Quarter Festivals Inc. has announced the return of French Quarter Festival presented by Chevron. The unusual fall edition of the event will take place Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in various Quarter locations. FQFI organizers have…
NEW ORLEANS - There is good news and bad news in the latest tourism industry status report from New Orleans & Company, the city’s destination marketing organization. On the positive side, vaccine distribution in Orleans Parish is over 45%. Land-based…
NEW ORLEANS - At a Thursday morning press conference, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the city’s health department, announced that the city’s mask mandate will remain in place but larger gatherings will be allowed.…
NEW ORLEANS - What does the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo music festival have in common with Napoleon Bonaparte and the Dalai Lama? After this year, all three will have spent time in exile. When the North Mississippi Allstars headline this year’s…
NEW ORLEANS - Thanks to a long spring break season and exceptionally beautiful weather, visitors have been flocking to New Orleans again - but mostly on weekends and mostly by car. Attractions like the Audubon Zoo have been posting attendance…
BATON ROUGE – A study from the Louisiana Office of Tourism and New Orleans research firm MDRG found that roughly half of recent visitors to the state were motivated by a movie or TV show featuring Louisiana. The Office of…
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans tourism exec Stephen Perry told Biz New Orleans he hopes the City will spend a small portion of its nearly $380 million in federal relief funds on infrastructure improvements to the French Quarter. “The last…
NEW ORLEANS - Epistemix, a computational modeling software company that develops simulations to fight disease and inform policy, and the Exhibitions and Conferences Alliance, a coalition that represents the common interests of the U.S. exhibitions and conferences industry, announced a…
NEW ORLEANS - Hogs for the Cause has announced a new Friday evening experience: "Wings and Bacon Night" is a chance for culinary teams to create and sell their unique wing and bacon dishes, as well as serve barbecue samples.…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans said it has launched efforts to support music venues that include waiving City fees, providing small grants to support venues and individual musicians, and partnering with local nonprofits to help venues to…
NEW ORLEANS - Lior Sekler, vice president of revenue management at New Orleans-based HRI Lodging, said most U.S. travel markets experienced increased occupancy in March. Some, in fact, were hitting 80% of their 2019 numbers for the month. [caption id="attachment_247403"…
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Office of Tourism is unveiling Louisiana Sunshine Magazine to promote the state to leisure travelers. “We want our visitors to feel right at home by sharing our locals’ insider tips and favorite spots to fish,…
JEAN LAFITTE, La. – Jean Lafitte will host its first town market since the pandemic this Saturday, March 27, 2021, at the Jules Nunez Seafood Pavilion. Two spring town markets will follow on April 17, 2021, and May 15, 2021.…
