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Most recent random NOLA experience
- I went into a local independent grocery store to buy chickpeas. I couldn't find them among the other beans. When I asked, first one clerk, then another, neither had heard of "chickpeas" or garbanzo beans" before. Needless to say, they were not in stock.
Top NOLA websites
- New Orleans Craigslist
- Basin Street Records
- Make it Right NOLA-- Brad Pitt's project
- Common Ground Collective
- Krewe du Vieux
- Po Boy Preservation Festival
- NOLAfugees
- Interactive Hurricane Katrina floodmap
- New Orleans Restaurant Menu Index
- Levees.org
- New Orleans Seafood Festival
- Jazzfest
- Where Y'at magazine
- The Gambit Weekly
- 90.7FM WWOZ
- Tipitina's
- The Times-Picayune
Top NOLA festivals and events
- Po-Boy Preservation Festival (November)
- Japan Fest (June)
- Seafood Festival (June)
- Cajun and Zydeco music festival (June)
- Creole Tomato Festival (June)
- Greek festival (late May)
- Voodoo Fest (late October)
- Tennessee Williams Literary Fest
- French Quarter Fest (April)
- Satchmo Summerfest (early August)
- Jazz Fest (late April-early May)
- Mardi Gras (Jan-Feb)
Top songs that mention NOLA
- Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar"
- Johnny Horton "Battle of New Orleans"
- Professor Longhair "Go to the Mardi Gras"
- Tragically Hip "New Orleans is Sinking"
- Lupe Fiasco "Paris, Tokyo"
- Rebirth Brass Band "New Orleans Music"
- Creedence Clearwater Revival "Proud Mary"
- Louis Armstrong "Do you know what it means, to miss New Orleans?"
- The Animals "House of the Rising Sun"
- Fats Domino "Walkin to New Orleans"
- Red Hot Chili Peppers "Apache Rose Peacock"
- Van Morrison "Baby Please Don't Go"
Top books about or set in NOLA
- One Dead in the Attic-- Chris Rose
- The Moviegoer -- Walker Percy
- A Streetcar Named Desire-- Tennessee Williams
- Confederacy of Dunces-- John Kennedy Toole
Favorite NOLA food
- shrimp creole
- mango freeze (JazzFest variety)
- trout baquet
- pecan pie
- fried turkey
- boiled crawfish
- pralines
- Crawfish etouffe
- Seafood gumbo
- Crawfish sushi
- Veggie Mufaletta
- Veggie Jambalaya
- Coffee and Chicory with Beignets
- Soft shell crab po' boys
Favorite NOLA musicians
- Allen Toussaint
- Buckwheat Zydeco
- Charmaine Neville
- Dr. John
- Ellis Marsalis
- Fats Domino
- Ingrid Lucia
- Irma Thomas
- Irvin Mayfield
- Kermit Ruffins
- Marva Wright
- New Orleans Bingo! Show
- Nicholas Peyton
- Pete Fountain
- Rebirth Brass Band
- Soul Rebels
- Terrence Blanchard
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave.
Best NOLA CD of the moment
- Trombone Shorty "Backatown." Simply awesome.
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ABOUT NOLA 504
NOLA 504 is a regularly updated blog detailing life in the Big Easy post-Katrina, post-BP oil spill. NOLA is the acronym for "New Orleans, Louisiana" and 504 is the area code for the region; in terms of education, "504" also refers to civil rights legislation protecting students with disabilities. As a city, New Orleans definitely has special needs that demand more support; she also has a special cultural history that deserves more attention.