NOLA-ing: Upcoming Events in New Orleans

Plan your NOLA weekend with these recommendations from Nola Nerd Couple: Motown:  The Saenger Theater is one of this city’s treasures.  Their Broadway series has been excellent and is always a hot item.  I can’t wait for this play because of the great music.  Motown will be playing at the Saenger…

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Meeting the Cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation

How I Came to Love ST:TNG Star Trek: The Next Generation helped me get through college. It was on right when I got home and provided a great study break later on at night. At the time, we could catch TV stations from both New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and…

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ComicCon-ing: Wizard World New Orleans 2016

Every year since its inception, Nola Nerd Couple have enjoyed going to the Wizard World con in New Orleans. Besides the Star Wars Celebrations, I had never been to a con before. In fact, I would credit the New Orleans Wizard World con for jumpstarting my love of cons. The…

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Unboxing: The Replacements Box Set

Last year was a great year to be a Replacements fan.  First, they did their first tour in 22 years, which we were lucky enough to see in April 2015 in Hollywood.  Later in the year, Rhino released a box set of their first four albums on TwinTone. Here is…

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Listening: David Bowie

I was too young to remember Elvis dying.  I remember John Lennon’s death and how it affected others but I was too young to feel it. I feel it.  It keeps hitting me.  I had to pause in class today when a student brought it up.  The people I saw…

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NOLA-ing: Bonnet Carré Spillway Opening

For only the eleventh time in history, the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonne Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish on January 10, 2016. Once they open the 7000 foot spillway, running from Norco to Montz, it flows into a roughly 5.7 mile floodway, the purpose of which is to divert…

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