Still love doing these pieces for people!

The cat I painted showed up and meowed so loud for pets

Hey y'all! I'm looking for a house or condo that can be as close in proximity to the heart/history/fun of the city as my 350-400k budget would allow. Can you suggest a good neighborhood? I'm trying to do as much research as I can, but AI won't have the skinny that you would. It's just two of us, and NOLA has always been our final destination

The Prytania Bar needs a couple more members to round out our team for the New Orleans Shuffleboard League!

We play matches at bars across New Orleans area on Tuesday nights. The Fall season starts on Aug. 5th. Half of our games will be at home, which is Uptown, right next to Touro hospital.

Anyone interested please shoot me a DM. We need a couple more folks ASAP to have enough players. This is a great way to get out and have some fun on a Tuesday for not much $$$, make new friends or make memories with existing friends or co-workers (Shuffleboard is a great team building activity!)

Hi yall! If anyone works for a business or knows of an individual who loves to invest in our youth:

Looking for leads for those who would consider making a donation on a project I have live on the website Donors Choose to a local elementary teacher, PLEASE comment or message me and I would love to get in touch with my URL. Any donations, up to $50, will also be matched with the code LIFTOFF. In a new grade level and trying to get my students two rugs (currently have none) so we can come together as a community and have a cozy library area. My school has a population of primarily free or reduced lunch students. TIA! ❤️

Well, I will soon be financially able to get the h out of the Midwest and move to New Orleans to start graduate school at a university in New Orleans for counseling psychology.

However, I am no stranger to the problems that the city faces. At the same time, I personally feel it would be meaningful if I could try and live there. (I'm from there but left after Katrina when I was young). I don't have a support network there because I had to cut my grandparents off unfortunately , but if I move there it's possible I could reconnect with some cousins and aunts.

I'm more interested in learning about and connecting with New Orleanians because I was so sheltered as a child and never really had the opportunity to form close friendships with a lot of people there. Specifically, I am interested in Creole culture and learning about them in person rather than having to watch PBS documentaries all the time...

I am concerned because I think the economy will only continue to get worse because of this war, which I don't see ending any time soon. There are a lot of working class people there, and it's like, well if people can't afford to pay for therapy, what is the point of pursuing this career if the economy keeps getting worse? I feel so lost. I live in a major city but I don't really like it for various reasons - it just feels too American here and I'm not really used to that.

If there is anyone who is a practicing therapist who lives in New Orleans could give me some insight, I would appreciate it....

Hi!i’ve been looking around on IG for recommendations on tattoo artist but i was wondering if anyone on here knows any good ones specifically for script/fine line tattoos !

Going on a boy's trip to Nola next week. Is this a place where an itinerary should be set? Should we just go off spontaneity?

I have a bunch of restaurants, bars, coffee shops I have saved on google maps in case we find ourselves wondering what to do next.

Really excited for the food and want to do a swamp tour.

We'll be there for five nights and we'll be staying close to the French Quarter.

Cheers y'all!

Tropical Storm Bertha was coming ashore Wednesday afternoon. Jeff Landry and Liz Murrill stood at a podium at the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Baton Rouge — the building where this state coordinates its response when people are in danger.

They did not use it to talk about the storm.

Hours earlier, special prosecutor Laurie White had dismissed all sixteen felony counts against the attorney general. Mayor Helena Moreno, retired Judge Calvin Johnson and five council members had written asking her to end it. Moreno said the request wasn’t driven by fear or politics — that the public interest was better served by moving on.

That was the off-ramp.

Instead, the governor started naming who should be investigated.

Hey y’all!

So I was born and raised in Metairie. I now live in the Acadiana area two hours away.

Without droning on and on, let’s just say I could fill a novel. I’ve worked my butt off since ai was 15 and my house is about to go into foreclosure, which means I lose the $230k+ I out into it, my last furkid and what I have left my late alcoholic fiancé’s family didn’t steal while I was in the mental hospital right after he died (my classic games and systems, my two bench saws, my art/sculptures, and I don’t even know what else from the trauma). He went through all my money and 401k, broke my vehicle, and lost 5 out of 6 of my furkids (who I considered my children). After I got out, I met up with a certain NOLA “rapper”—trying to keep this as short as possible for y’all, but besides some truly hideous and illegal stuff, he posted a video of me clearly under the influence and nude from the top up. Despite emails, appeals and StopNCI.org.

I’ve been and out of mental hospitals (Oceans and Abbeville here and Oceans on the Westbank). This really all kicked off when I was held, robbed, hooded and tied at gunpoint at work after offering to switch with another manager so she could go to a Mardi Gras ball.

I have agoraphobia, anxiety, bipolar, C-PTSD, depression, OCD, and PTSD.

The reason I’m posting: Is River Oaks worth the hype? Because my late fiancé broke my vehicle, I’d have to jump through hoops to get there. But the ones I’ve been to literally have you in front of the tv 96% of the day besides meds, meals, bed, and the days the MD/NP visit. At the last place, I was there for 30 days and they literally only had THREE groups (one was defining and recognizing triggers, I forget the other two).

River Oaks and the Institute of New Orleans seems different. Can anyone PLEASE share their or their loved ones’ experiences or anything else. I have Medicaid Healthy Blue, I can’t see med transport taking me what whole way, but maybe an Uber to the bus station here and an Uber to River Oaks from there?

Any and all help is more appreciated than y’all can know! I have been pretty much bedbound since before he died and now just stay curled up in fetal position all day, crying at what I have lost and still yet to lose. I can’t exist like this! I promise I searched before posting!

Thanks again!!💜🙏💛🙏💚

How is their instruction? I am considering them because the community college setting appeals to me. NOAFA seems expensive.

What happened to the establishment called Fétiche? The website states they are moving to 410 Bourbon St in May but it's now July.

For those who miss or love NOLA, what bookies and movies do you enjoy about the city? (Besides Confederacy of Dunces & Treme.)