New Orleans is known for a few things, but somewhere at the top of the list is its food. Local cuisine is one of the most cited reasons for New Orleans’ booming tourism trade, and it has some of the most recognizable regional dishes in American cuisine. If you’re going to NOLA, you’re going for the gumbo, the jambalaya, the po boys, and the beignets. With a Creole grandmother, it’s […]

They don’t make bourbon like they used to, but what if they did? It’s a simple question, one posed by a group of American whiskey luminaries, now dubbed the “Distiller’s Council,” back in 1996, and now, in 2025, we finally have the answer. Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Distiller’s Council is the newest bourbon from Buffalo Trace, but what makes it so unique is that it draws its inspiration from the […]

This week’s Sound Check With Jeremy Hecht is also a Sound Check with Tech — as in Tech N9ne, the Midwestern indie stalwart whose tongue-twisting rhymes have upheld the standard for lyrical excellence for the past 25 years. The Kansas City native takes on the challenge of choosing between carefully selected songs to display his taste, and once again, Jeremy has the unenviable task of guessing Tech’s desert-island fave, all […]

Alison Brie and Dave Franco have been married for years at this point, and here and there, their acting careers overlap and they work on projects together. The latest puts an extreme twist on relationship, as Together is a supernatural horror film exploring themes of co-dependency. The film is a major one for Michael Shanks, as he wrote it and it’s also his directorial debut. It hasn’t been stress-free for […]

Just days ahead of a headlining performance at the Essence Festival of Culture, New Orleans rap legend Master P announced that the set would be his last. After over three decades of setting the standard for independent rap hustle with his label No Limit Records and classic songs like “Ghetto D” and “Make ‘Em Say Ugh,” the man born Percy Miller will hang up his mic to accept a position […]