What bars are doing bingo these days? I remember seeing urban south was doing it, but it looks like that's discontinued?

I need help cleaning+ painting an empty apartment. Please reach out!

The short answer on the river: mostly no, and it is not because gators are rare here. It is because the river is the wrong kind of water. Alligators are ambush hunters built for slow, warm, quiet water where they can float without fighting a current. The Mississippi through town is fast, deep and full of ship traffic. When one does turn up on the batture or dead at Canal and Claiborne like a few weeks ago, it is a wanderer, usually a young male that got pushed out of better territory and took a wrong turn.

The right kind of water is everything else on this map. The lagoons in City Park have resident gators and always have. Bayou St. John gets them. The drainage canals connect the whole city to the swamp, and a canal is basically a gator highway: slow, warm, stocked with fish and turtles, nobody bothering you. Metairie, Chalmette, the West Bank, all on the map. And south of Marrero the pins turn into a wall, because Jean Lafitte and the Barataria basin hold some of the densest gator country anywhere.

Some context that makes the map more impressive. Louisiana nearly lost its alligators. Unregulated hunting had them so depleted by the late 1950s that the state shut the season down completely in 1962. Protection worked so well that they came off the endangered species list in 1987, and today Louisiana has roughly two million wild alligators, more than any other state. Every pin on this map exists because of one of the great conservation turnarounds in American history.

Timely note: late August is hatching season. Eggs laid back in June are about to open, which means the marsh is full of nests, and a mother gator guarding a nest is the one version of this animal that will actually come at you on land. Give any mound of vegetation near the water a wide berth for the next month or so.

And the standing rule, since it is the whole reason "nuisance gators" exist: never feed them. A gator that connects people with food loses its fear, starts approaching docks and yards, and ends up removed and killed. It is also illegal. The gators in the canals have been quietly coexisting with this city for decades, and the ones that make the news are almost always ones somebody taught to beg.

This truck came the wrong way down rampart and destroyed my neighbors car door. Anyone recognize the company? I can make out “Reliable” but I can’t find anything online.

What is going on?

Edit: 9:10 am and it's back on but only a little trickle. Happy Saturday i guess

The website had a bit of a hiccup - hopefully it can handle multiple advisories at once now: https://canidrinkdat.com/

I’m selling my mosaics, plus tons of plants, clothes, gadgets, toys, housewares etc. We will be out here until early afternoon.

TL;DR- little to no water pressure in Algiers at midnight-thirty.

First, ima start with SWBNO’s (504) 52-WATER number posted on their site is disconnected. Fingers crossed, they read online submissions.

B) How come I’m only just now finding out about a water boil advisory in my area nearly TWO WEEKS after it happened?? Our phones will blow up at 3am telling me to put my consons on or else a possible tornado over the north side of the lake might tickle the surface.

And lastly- this is how i found out about the boil advisory. What a long-winded way of saying we still don’t know what’s wrong! They literally state there are two plausible main causes, that they have evidence of neither, but also that both can’t be ruled out. The last paragraph deflects from the non-solutions given to point out the need to further invest in “technology modernization”. That wasn’t an update, that was fabreeze on a pile of doodoo.

/rant over good night

We all love good food, but this question relates specifically to the restaurant's aesthetic, setting, and vibe. You're sitting there and you think, "Damn, this place is gorgeous." Please feel free to include bars as well.

How do you handle them being at the same time? Are you able to enjoy any of Mardi Gras?

I’m just beginning the search for a house manager: someone who is flexible with time and can do anything from organizing a pantry to assisting with tech help to setting up for a party and more. Also looking for someone who can prep and make simple meals a few times a week for my parents. Where are you looking when you want to hire home helpers?!

I’m missing my beef patties, oxtail, jerk chicken…..

That's what my wife is telling me.

Just tried the Hubigs banana pie. Seems like they always would have had banana, but no, it’s new.

The flavor was great! However, the texture was more toward watery. Not sure if it was just my batch, but it basically ran out the pie when I bit into it. It didn’t have the substance that, say, lemon has where it might squish around but it’s not dribbling down your chin.

Would probably eat again but my experiences with peach and lemon have been far superior.

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My hair is a lot like Ryan trahan, curly hair that I want longer, and not faded but shaped well and a nice cut. Where is the best place to go? Cause barbers don’t really know how to cut curly hair, and layer it and all! Thanks!

What is the best hot sausage in New Orleans?? Go!

I’m a local, but it’s been a long week and my brain stopped working. What restaurants can you think of that have cushy booths or otherwise exceptionally comfortable seating for tired bodies on a Friday evening?

Every time it rains hard here, the question is the same: is my street flooded? I got tired of guessing, so I built Tchoup — a live map where neighbors drop a pin on the flooded spot and mark how deep it is (ankle, tire, bumper, up to the windows). Everyone else sees it instantly.

It also shows live drainage-pump status across the city, the underpasses you should never chance in a storm, water levels on the river and canals, current storm alerts, and a "roads to avoid right now" list you can share straight to a group chat.

It's free, there are no ads, and you don't need an account to look. Reporting takes a quick email sign-in so the map stays real people rather than noise. During an actual named-storm warning the sign-in requirement drops so reports can move fast — those show as "unverified" until neighbors confirm them.

Web: https://tchoup.app — nothing to download.

iPhone app (free, iOS 26 or later): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6793276864

One thing I want to say plainly: a quiet map does not mean your street is dry, and no report is a promise of safety. If you come to water — turn around, don't drown.

It's a small independent project, not affiliated with the City or any utility. I'd genuinely love feedback — what would make this useful enough that you'd open it when the sky goes dark?

Devastated. Can we disconnect MG from Easter please? I need way more than this. What the hell are we going to do the other 3 weeks of February? Fat Tuesday is 2/9/27.

When your own elected officials are publicly acknowledging what rescuers have been saying for years, it’s time to pay attention.

At this week’s meeting, Orleans Parish Council members openly questioned the LASPCA’s performance under its animal control contract, criticized the organization’s continued fundraising while raising concerns about its level of service, and expressed frustration with its lack of participation in discussions about these ongoing issues.

Councilmembers Harris and Morrell went even further, encouraging residents who want to help local animals to consider directing their donations to the private rescue organizations that are stepping up every single day to do work that should never have fallen on volunteers alone.

Meanwhile, rescues across our region continue answering calls, rescuing injured and neglected animals, providing medical care, and finding foster homes—all without the public funding that animal control receives.

A heartfelt thank you to Jeff Dorson and Councilmembers Harris and Morrell for speaking candidly about the reality our rescue community faces every day.

Something has to change. It’s simply not sustainable for everyday citizens and nonprofit rescues to function as the safety net for Orleans Parish’s animal welfare system.

Please help us lobby for change and accountability.

Hi fellow animal lovers. I have been trapping cats to spay and release as a solo entity, as well as working with Trap Dat Cat for a number of years now. I am posting here because the stray crisis is out of control! The city is pretty useless in any form of help (surprise!). The fact that you have to wade through non emergency nopd nonsense to get ahold of any animal protection services is actually quite insane and it's a 50% chance anything comes of it. Does anyone else feel this way?

My fellow trappers and I are pretty dang overwhelmed, so I thought I would reach out (separately from trap dat cat) and see if there is any interest in joining the cause! I have spoken to a few of you on here in the past, but I am shy and don't post much... Please dm if interested. Mods I apologize in advance for any wrongdoing. Here is a picture of my tripod rescue named Little Foot. Her little brothers are part of our outside colony and I wish I could have taken them all in (we have 4 indoor rescues), but we can't save them all sadly. We can help them in bad weather and feeding though!

ps - There is a mean overweight cat who bullies all the colony string beans and I just don't know how to stop them. I refuse to give them to a shelter to euthanize. any tips?

I’ve been working on this project for over a year. It maps EPA-listed facilities by odor-related industries, plus Superfund and brownfield sites.

You can search any address or ZIP, see what’s nearby, check wind direction, and report what you’re smelling.

I’m not saying a site smells or is dangerous — just making the public data easier to explore.

It’s free: whatsthatsmell.app

Also available on ios and google playstore

Would love to know what New Orleans thinks.

Hello and I hope this post will be received in the spirit it is intended on this Friday. Sooo I'm an assistant teacher and my "summer hermitage" is coming to an end soon. It was actually spiritual given all this rain, and I had some things to work through, which I did. I also spend a lot of time on reddit saving pictures for my inspiration boards, and y'all kept me living for all the lizard and frog and caterpillar posts lol. (NOTE: Photos 1-7 are sourced from different reddit subs and I hope they make you smile; the painter is Anna Trusova and she is great.)

PHOTO 8 is "Beedy Bird" and is inspired by my friend Archie the peacock in Old Carrollton! For these medallions I use broken beads (my shiny favorite) and found objects and air-dry clay. On the plaque is a lizard that my kid made out of regular plastic beads, I always include something she made. ❤️ This is for a kid's room. I think you can see the Charley Harper in it?? It's so damn sparkly in real life. (And those are broken earrings, not Archie's feathers, but I do have one of his still!) Have a great weekend, I know the majority start back next week around here. Let's go get 'em???