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River Fest 2025
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River Fest 2025

For the past decade, this festival at the New Orleans Jazz Museum has offered food, music and educational panels to help educate locals and visitors alike about sustainability and restoration of the Mississippi and our coastal waters.

- photos by Scott Saltzman

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2025 Mermaid Parade
Storyboard Melanie Cole Storyboard Melanie Cole

2025 Mermaid Parade

This annual benefit by the Krewe Du Fool for the Audubon Institute’s Education Department welcomed little minnows, mermaids and mermen and all things oceanic.

- photos by Melanie Cole

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Our Hell in High Water
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Our Hell in High Water

A writer with deep generational ties to the French Quarter flees the neighborhood in Katrina’s aftermath, only to find the storm strengthened his resolve to return - and to stay.

-by James Nolan

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Night of 1000 Mona Lisas
Storyboard Shawn Fink Storyboard Shawn Fink

Night of 1000 Mona Lisas

When Mona Lisa Restaurant was told they’d have to move because of new building ownership, the community rallied, planning this event in support. Happily, by the time it took place, the restaurant learned it was staying put, making the block party a celebration of the neighborhood icon.

- photos by Shawn Fink

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Satchmo Summerfest 2025
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Satchmo Summerfest 2025

The annual festival celebrating Louis Armstrong’s birthday celebrated its own 25th anniversary this year – in a wonderful world kind of way.

- photos by Scott Saltzman and Odette Harmsen

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