Editor’s note: though we are typically a news outlet, we got haunted by a ghost this Halloween season. They made us publish the following fiction—or is this just a reported piece? Spooky. Story by Samarah Bentley, sophomore at Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orleans Carina had a Halloween party to set up. But first and… Read More »October’s Guard
At one point in the fourth quarter—right before he was subbed out for garbage time—Steph Curry made two jaw-dropping behind-the-back passes in one play, embarrassing the Pels’ young squad. And the second of those passes resulted in a clean three…
At Dîner en Blanc (DEB) this year, October 20, it felt like two minutes couldn’t pass without someone stopping to take photos or ask about what a sea of people were doing dressed in white. If it seems like the…
Story by Hannah Darcey, junior at Mount Carmel Academy. Mentored by Liam Pierce. The lobby of the Saenger Theatre Thursday night was filled with the smell of popcorn, lines of people taking pictures with cardboard cutouts, and children dressed in…
Story and photos by Mark Joseph, senior at St. Augustine High School and Derek Dunbar, senior at St. Augustine High School. The Saints offense simply showed up with a different type of swagger today against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. At…
Story and photos by Phillip Petty III, junior at St. Augustine High School and Chris Taylor, junior at St. John the Baptist STEM Magnet High School. The Saints were unable to find the end zone, but that wasn’t necessary for…
Story by Taylor Pittman, junior at McDonough 35 High School. Anderson Cooper, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Bob Woodward—all names that pop up when you Google “popular journalist in the United States.” Among Black people, there are…
Story by Jacklyn Leo, 10th Grader at Lusher Charter School On August 2nd, the New Orleans 48 Hour Film Project held the first day of its 13th annual red carpet screenings in the Central Business District. The hall of the…
Story by Derek Dunbar, senior at St. Augustine High School. Sadly, the Baby Cakes are on their way out of town for good. Alongside their 22 years in the Big Easy, the Cakes had their ups and downs with the…
Story by Wyatt Vaughn, freshman at Nicholls State University. It’s easy to mistake the South’s passion for college football as merely a trend. Or a byproduct of fair-weather fans following the recent successes of southern teams. But college football has…
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