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The Big Easy Experience Contest is here!  You can win a prize package worth over $900 that brings the best of the Big Easy to you.  This awesome prize package includes

• a 2-night stay for two people at the Marigny Manor House Bed and Breakfast
• 2 cocktail Jazz history tours (drinks included) from Southern Hospitality Tours LLC
• a Photo Safari for two courtesy of See It My Way Photo
• a one-hour gondola ride for two courtesy of NOLAGondola.com
• dinner for 2 to a local restaurant
• a custom-made itinerary from 411 NOLA
• a set of 10 New Orleans-themed photo note cards
• a Voodoo Doll from the film Desiree
• a copy of The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans by David Lummis
• a copy of the CD Disco Zydeco by the Bonhoffs
• 2 411 NOLA-branded T-shirts of your choice

To enter to win this awesome prize package send your name, your mailing address, and your phone number to contests@411nola.com.  You must put “The Big Easy Experience” in the subject line of your email.  Limit one entry per household.  Deadline to enter is Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 11:59 p. m.

Please note that the gift certificate for two for 2-nights at the Marigny Manor House Bed and Breakfast is not good during special event dates and that the gift certificate is valid through August 2012.

The winner will be chosen at random using Random.org.  411 NOLA will not keep your personal info on file after the end of the contest.  We respect your privacy.

New Orleans is associated with many famous authors:  Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Ann Rice (just to name a few).  Of course, a local boy named John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces, is perhaps our most famous.  There are many important authors working in Louisiana right now.

Some of those authors are featured in the Fall issue of the Swamp Lily Review, a literary and arts journal that publishes work exclusively from people who live in Louisiana.  The interviews, photos, stories and poems that Swamp Lily publishes are of the highest caliber and reveal the creative soul of the state.  Happy reading!

 

In Louisiana, we don’t eat to live, we live to eat.  For us, food is more than something to eat.  It borders on being a sacrament, and life itself is the celebration.

Unfortunately, one in eight people is struggling with hunger in our community.  Because food and life are valued so highly here, Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank have teamed up with the Second Harvest Food Bank to fight hunger by staging a fun(d)raiser that is all NOLA.  It’s called the Harvest the Music Concert Series. Read the rest of this entry »

New Orleans is home to over 40 museums.  In them, you can discover a world of fine art, history, Mardi Gras, and much more.  Many of these museums are world-famous, such as the The National World War II Museum, and some, such as the Backstreet Cultural Museum, are known only to locals and to lovers of New Orleans culture.  Some of our best museums are not even included in the New Orleans Museum website, nor is the insider info on area museums widely known.  Keep reading to find out how to get in free to one of nine different New Orleans museums today and to many other Big Easy museums all year round. Read the rest of this entry »

The Louisiana Children’s Museum is partnering with LatiNola to experience Latin American culture firsthand this Saturday, September 24, 2011.

Visit with the Consulate of the Dominican Republic.  Sample some arepa (corncake), and explore the life, history and culture of the Dominican Republic.  Also visit with the Consulate of Mexico! Read the rest of this entry »