New Orleans

An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a half a million people, organizers said on May 6.

That was the second highest attendance in the festival's history — just behind the 600,000 attendees in 2001. In 2023, more than 460,000 people passed through the festival's gates.

Yorgos Mavropsaridis celebrated his nomination at this year's Oscars alongside his two daughters, who joined him on his journey to Los Angeles: 24-year-old Ilektra, a musician, and 27-year-old Penelope, a director. Perhaps this was his greatest joy.

The U.S. state of Lousiana's New Orleans bade a typically joyous goodbye to Carnival season on Feb. 13 with Mardi Gras parades, street parties and what amounted to a massive outdoor costume festival around the bars and restaurants in the French Quarter.

In celebration of the festive season Gazarte (gazarte.gr) is hosting "Jazz Christmas with Crazy People Music" on Boxing Day, a hearty journey into the world of jazz, funk and New Orleans' second-line tradition.

 A new, permanent addition to the sprawling National WWII Museum in New Orleans is a three-story complex with displays as daunting as a simulated Nazi concentration camp bunk room, and as inspiring as a violin pieced together from scrap wood by an American prisoner of war.

American filmmaker, actor, and comedian Woody Allen will be in Athens next month to promote his new film "Coup de chance."

The screening, which will be introduced by the director himself, will take place on September 8 at Cine Aegli, the outdoor cinema at the Zappeion, as part of the 29th Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights.

The great American filmmaker is coming to Athens wearing his other hat as an accomplished musician. Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band will be performing at the iconic open-air Herod Atticus Theater and tickets, available from viva.gr, start from 45 euros.

Nearly 30 years ago, creators of Essence Magazine came to New Orleans to celebrate the publication's 25th anniversary with a salute to Black women highlighting culture, empowerment conversations with the nation's thought leaders and, of course, music.

The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women's access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.

Brooke Shields reveals that she was the victim of a sexual assault in a new documentary about her life that premiered on Jan. 20 at the Sundance Film Festival.