Uptown Messenger

03/06/2024

The Dew Drop is hosting music once again. Here's why it matters.

The Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge, after a 54-year pause, is hosting live music once again. The legendary Central City nightclub reopened Friday (March 1) with performances that paid homage to its storied history. The Dew Drop on the LaSalle Street was the city’s leading Black music venue during roc...

01/31/2024

The City Council will decide the fate of these two Victorian shotguns and a Creole cottage on Thursday.

By R. Stephanie Bruno and Katherine Hart The City Council is set to determine the fate of three 19th century cottages on Tchoupitoulas Street at its Thursday (Feb. 1) meeting. The owners took their demolition request to the council after the Historic District Landmarks Commission blocked it. The dou...

01/22/2024

For this year's Mardi Gras costume, stay off Amazon and find everything you need in Uptown's small businesses.

Mardi Gras costumes of all sorts can be found in shops along Magazine Street. Options range from recycled vintage outfits to shiny new ones, or a mix of the two, plus some custom-made options. As Denise Lyons of Buffalo Exchange put it, “Carnival season is huge for Magazine Street.” Uptown resid...

01/11/2024

Here's how you can spend the upcoming holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year falls on the slain civil rights leader’s actual birthday, Jan. 15. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other local nonprofits offer a variety of events to honor the transformative leader. A parade through Central City is the centerpiece of the New ...

12/15/2023

Here's what's going up where the Trolley Stop used to be.

A five-story hotel with a ground-floor restaurant and rooftop bar is in the works for the former site of the Trolley Stop on St. Charles Avenue. The owner and developer is Verdad Real Estate & Construction, the firm behind the redevelopment of the Magazine Street building that once housed Harry’s ...

12/06/2023

Christmas themed opera directed by Ricky Graham at Loyola this weekend

12/04/2023

The Rabbit's Foot café in the Lower Garden District is now closed.

The Rabbit’s Foot, an all-purpose market and café that served food and local goods, announced its closure on Thursday (Nov. 30). The spot opened in March 2022 at 2042 Prytania St. in the former home of Zara’s Supermarket. The building was entirely renovated by owner Ryan Murphy. The rabbit’s ...

11/13/2023

A Riverbend cottage that was the last residence of writer John Kennedy Toole is on its way to becoming a historic landmark.

A center-hall cottage in the Carrollton neighborhood is on its way to becoming a local landmark for its distinction as the last residence of John Kennedy Toole, the author of the Pulitzer-awarded novel “A Confederacy of Dunces.” The Historic District Landmarks Commission approved the building at...

10/31/2023

It's one of the city's oldest churches and currently "a beacon of light to the Spanish-speaking community." In 2024, It will close.

The 175-year-old St. Theresa of Avila will be shuttered in the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ reorganization plan announced Sunday (Oct. 29). The St. Theresa parish will be absorbed by two nearby parishes, St. Patrick on Camp Street in the Warehouse District and St. Alphonsus on Constance Street. In ...

10/26/2023

Meet the skeleton krewe on St. Charles Avenue.

By Jeanne D’Arcy, Uptown Messenger Once again, the queen of ghostly puns has pulled off a Halloween extravaganza on St. Charles Avenue. Crowds gather and a line of cars slows down to see the Skeleton House at 6000 St. Charles Ave., the creation of homeowner Louellen Berger. The skeleton krewe is a...

10/19/2023

Calliope’s premiere brews are fermenting, and the first four craft beers are expected to be on tap the first weekend in November. In the meantime, the new Oak Street brewpub keeps serving up Southern comfort food and local brews.

By Jeanne D’Arcy, Uptown Messenger There’s a new restaurant — and soon a new craft brewery — on Oak Street. Calliope Beer Works took over the space vacated by Cowbell, where Oak Street meets the river levee, in August. Calliope’s premiere brews are fermenting, and the first four craft beer...

08/29/2023

Soon you can, in the words of Little Richard, meet all your fine friends at the Dew Drop Inn.

Beginning this fall, the legendary Dew Drop Inn in Central City is set to host live music for the first time in more than half a century. The city’s leading Black music venue for three mid-century decades, the club billed as “the swankiest spot in the South” holds a hallowed place in New Orlea...