Spread across 58 oak-shaded acres in Uptown New Orleans, the Audubon Zoo grew out of animal exhibits that date back to the 1884 World Cotton Centennial and the flight cage and grounds developed in the decades after; the zoo itself is generally dated to 1914. It takes its name from the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, who lived in the city in the 1820s, and it occupies a corner of Audubon Park between Magazine Street and the Mississippi River. For much of the twentieth century the zoo h.....

A small, characterful live-music room on Freret Street in Uptown New Orleans, Gasa Gasa earned a devoted following as one of the city's most distinctive independent venues. Housed in a converted building with an adjoining coffee-and-art space, the room blended music, visual art and community in a way that captured the creative, do-it-yourself spirit of its neighbourhood and stood apart from the city's larger and more famous music halls. The venue was an intimate space holding only a couple of h.....

Founded in 1977 by a group of fourteen friends determined to give an ailing local legend a place to play, Tipitina's has grown into the most storied music club in New Orleans. The so-called Fabulous Fourteen, many of them Tulane students and alumni, each put in around a thousand dollars to open a room at the corner of Napoleon Avenue and Tchoupitoulas Street, where the pianist Professor Longhair, by then in his sixties and out of venues, could perform in the final years of his life. The club to.....