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(before ya leave, dawlin’)

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The following is a “bucket list” of NOLA activites for members of the Loyola University New Orleans community.

Students: be sure to complete this list, and add new things you’ve found, before you leave the city in pursuit of your careers (we prefer that you stay!)

New faculty & staff: this list will acquaint you with your newly chosen city and its culture.

Existing faculty & staff: this is a checklist of the reasons you love New Orleans!

BECOME A NEW ORLEANIAN: JUST FOR FUN

In February email someone in the north complaining about how hot it is in NOLA

Be sure to always talk about food and music when you visit outside the city

Talk about how we are the only U.S. city with culture

Talk about eating salty oysters and pinching the tails and sucking the heads of crawfish

Research: Google “Share in His Journey: 9 Churches Walk”

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Which nine churches will you visit on good friday?

Go to the 11:00 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Peter Claver Church and light a candle at St. Louis Cathedral (the longest operating cathedral in the U.S.)

Go to the “Jesuit’s Church on Baronne Street”

Gospel Mass at Our Lady Star of the Sea

Attend Jazz Fest Shabbat at Touro Synagogue

Visit 9 churches on Good Friday

Attend a Latin Mass at St. Patrick’s Church

New Hope Baptist Church for Gospel Services

Attend Palm Sunday Mass at St. Augustine Church

Don’t forget to explore churches of other denominations

Attend Sunday of Satchmo Summerfest

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(real name is the Church of the Immaculate Conception)

[Camp Street]

Ask about the late Pastor John Rafael

Freret Street Festival

Greek Festival

Congo Square/New World Rhythms Fest

Po’boy Festival

Essence Music Fest

Cajun & Zydeco Festival

Oktoberfest at the Deutches Haus

French Quarter Festival

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Louisiana Seafood Festival

Oyster Festival

NOTES/OTHER FESTIVALS

French Market Creole Tomato Festival

Satchmo Summerfest

Tennessee Williams Festival

Saints and Sinners

Tales of the Cocktail

Tet Festival in New Orleans East

Tour a St. Joseph’s Altar

Treme Creole Gumbo Festival

Voodoo Music and Arts Experience

“Wednesdays at the Square” concert series

Super Sunday, Mardi Gras Indians

Bayou Boogaloo

ideally the giant one at St. Joseph Church in Gretna on St. Joseph’s Day

Café Du Monde

Camellia Grill

Eat a Lucky Dog from a street vendor

Sample 5 restaurants per day at Jazz Fest

Buy a muffelatta at Central Grocery

Dinner or lunch at:

Antoine’s Commander’s PalaceGalatoire’s Arnaud’s

Have brunch on the patio at Court of Two Sisters

Have brunch at Brennan’s

Oysters at Casamento’s Restaurant

Eat it at the riverfront.

Make Reservations.

NOTES/FAVORITE DISHES

Oysters Mosca at Mosca’s

Oysters at Drago’s

Eat lunch at Lil’ Dizzy’s on Fridays.

Dine at Dooky Chase’s

Have dinner at Gallagher’s Grill in Covington

Eat fried chicken at Dixie Chicken and Ribs in Lakeview

Order the fish tacos at Sarita’s on Freret

Have dinner in the pickup truck in front of Jacques-Imo’s

Go to West End and eat some seafood

Go to Pizza Happy Hour at Domenica

 Kiss your waitress on the cheek.

Check out the glorious artwork and make it a point to meet chef Leah Chase.

Metairie location

 Look at the piers of the restaurants that ain’t dere no mo.

Ask to meet Sarah, the owner

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NOTES/FAVORITE DISHES

Louisiana strawberries and creole tomatoes - you’ll be ruined for life

Boiled crawfish, shrimp, and blue crabs

Gumbo: seafood, chicken and andouille, turkey, and gumbo z’herbes (green gumbo, or gumbo aux herbes – preferably at Dookey Chase’s)

Turtle Soup, with sherry of course!

Jambalaya

Red Beans and Rice

Charbroiled oysters and baked oysters inas many places and ways as you can find them

Eat and learn to cook crawfish etouffe

Eat catfish at Middendorf’s in Manchac

Eat Prejean’s Quail/Pheasant/Andouille gumbo at Jazz Fest and chase it down with a Mango Freeze

Eat a Crawfish Strudel at Jazz Fest while you listen to Los Hombres Calientes.

For dessert, a snowball from Plum Street Snowballs

Eat and have an opinion on the best baked/stuffed chicken from the Gourmet Butcher Block on the West (Best) Bank

Learn how to make a roux

Be sure to talk about other restaurants constantly when out to eat

Go to any of the local farmer’s markets, buy something from a local

Order something good to eat from a food truck

Buy some vegetables and fruit from Mr. Okra

Search for the best po’boy (following Tom Fitzmorris here) in the city and adamantly share and maintain your opinion

Listen to Tom Fitzmorris on radio and visit his website (nomenu.com)

Eat crawfish (not crayfish) at the “Fly”

Eat a praline (pronounce it correctly!)

Learn how to peel crawfish

Snowball (or snoball) from:

Ginger Lime Juice and jerk veggies at the Coco Hut

Buttermilk Drops at the Buttermilk Drop Bakery (home to one of the stars of Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Eat a cannoli and some gelato at Brocato’s on Carrollton Avenue

Drink coffee at local coffee houses, PJ’s, CC’s and The Rook Cafe

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William’s Plum St. Snoball Hansen’s Sno-bliz,

Pandora’s Snowballs Sal’s Sno-balls

Ro-Bear’s Sno-Balls other Snoball

while you are at the bar: doodle here about your fav drink:

Hurricane at Pat O’s – have one both on the patio by the fountain and in the piano bar (but not on the same night)

Snake & Jakes (Christmas Club Lounge) 7612 Oak St. (fully clothed, of course)

St. Patrick’s Day at Parasol’s - drink green beer and demand they serve you an Irish Shalalie drink

Do the same at Tracey’s at Magazine & Third (owned by the person who made Parasol’s famous)

Go to Tipitina’s

Have a drink at Miss Mae’s (ask people in the bar if they knew the late Miss Mae, and ask them to “tell you stories”)

Drink a Sazerac and a Ramos Gin Fizz (not at the same time)

Brewhaha on Bayou Road

Have a drink at:

The Columns Old Absinthe Sazerac Bar

Carousel Bar Green Lantern

Experience purchasing a daiquiri from any drive-thrudaiquiri shop window, then go drink it at the “Fly”

NOTES_THOUGHTS_FAVORITE PARADES

Go to these parades (at least) Rex Zulu Muses Bacchus Endymion Krewe du Vieux Tucks Nyx Tit' Rex

Ride in a Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day, or Italian parade

Visit Mardi Gras World

Cook a meal with the food you catch at a St. Patrick’s Parade

At the St. Patrick’s Day parade, continually ask riders for a corned beef

Get a Zulu coconut – and keep it forever (like your National Geographic Magazines)

Catch a Muses’ shoe and display it with pride

Eat a piece of King Cake

Buy the next King Cake if you get “da baby” form an opinion of the very best king cake

Keep all your king cake babies in a special box

See St. Augustine’s Marching 100 in a parade

Find a group of roving Mardi Gras Indians

Do the Mid-Summer’s Mardi Gras parade on Oak Street

Figure out where to pee on Mardi Gras day

Catch the always impressive Southern University Marching Band

New Orleans Museum of Art

National WWII Museum

Louisiana State Museum - go to all their buildings

Visit the Backstreet Cultural Museum to learn all about Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, and Second Lines

Go to the New Orleans Botanical Gardens in City Park

Go to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to the Walter Anderson Museum and Shearwater Pottery

Go to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Visit the Contemporary Arts Center,especially on White Linen Night

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Visit Longue Vue House and Gardens (Louisiana Iris Day is March 28 from 4 to 7 p.m.)

Visit the New (Basin) Canal Lighthouse on Lake Pontchartrain

Confederate Museum

Visit either the Gallier House or the Hermann Grima House in the Quarter

Louisiana Children’s Museum - nice for big kids, too

Audubon Zoo, Insectarium, Aquarium, Louisiana Nature Center

Opening nights at the local galleries is a great way to see art, impress your date and have free wine and snacks (First and Second Saturdays of every month!

Enjoy jazz at Davenport Lounge, the Palm Court, Snug Harbor, and Preservation Hall to hear some fine jazz that you won’t find anywhere else in the world.

Save up all of your time and money and spend 7 days at the Jazz Fest. You can ask for this as a graduation gift.

Be sure to see shows by the younger folks carrying on our musical traditions, such as Glen David Andrews, Shamarr Allen, and The Soul Rebels Brass band(inquire about current musicians from Music majors or professors)

Rebirth at the Maple Leaf

Listen to the Treme Brass Band at the Candlelight Lounge on Wednesday evenings after midnight

Walk down Frenchmen Street and visit the clubs

Listen to WWOZ

Walk down Royal Street and give every street musician a dollar

Go see Trombone Shorty, Anders Osborne, Galactic, Theresa Andersson, and Sonny Landreth perform anytime they are in town

Go find what part of the city the Tambourine Lady is running around and give her $20 for a personal performance   

Attend a Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra concert

Catch a magic show by Dante, whether on the street, at someone’s home, or in a club

Go to Rock ‘n Bowl and bowl, dance, drink, eat, and people-watch

Go to Tipitina’s on Sunday night and Cajun dance

See the Nevilles and Irma Thomas whenever you can

Louisiana Music Factory April in-store concerts – French Quarter

Soul Rebels at Le Bon Temps Roulé

Catch Trixie Minx in action

Go out by the Causeway in mid-July as dusk is falling and watch the purple martins that have gathered there to prepare for migration

Go canoeing or kayaking at Jean Lafitte National Park Barataria Unit, City Park, and Bayou St. John

In August, hatch alligator eggs at Insta-Gator Ranch near Abita Springs

Walk the Coquille Trail at Jean Lafitte Park with a naturalist; attend the annual Loyola Frog Walk with environmental students and professors

Go to Grand Isle and Elmer’s Island

Unless you are hyper-allergic, touch a buckmoth caterpillar-- have a credit card handy to scrape out the spines and toothpaste for instant relief (no, don’t!) . . . then you can understand why the people of New Orleans fear caterpillars more than alligators

Learn to identify ibis, egrets, and whistling ducks... try to count them in Audubon Park . . . when this fails, count the turtles

Go to Avery Island . . . even if you aren’t into peppers, the salt dome in the middle of the marsh is amazingLearn to recognize resurrection fern, and for that matter, cemetery fern

Climb a tree in Audubon Park

Find and observe the “Loyola Peregrine Falcons” during Fall and Winter

Go fishing in City Park

Go fishing for redfish and speckled trout

Go on a Swamp Tour

Go canoeing at Shell Bank Bayou with Dr. David White

Attend Loyola Natural History Club outings

Fall asleep under a live oak tree on a summer afternoon.  Then eat a snoball

Call a stranger “Doc,” “Dahlin,” or “Sweetheart”

Go to Camellia Grill on Carrollton and say “Word” and give fist bumps

Drink a Bloody Mary while doing your laundry at Igor’s on St. Charles Avenue

See Fats Domino’s home on Caffin Avenue

Participate in NOLA’s Annual Running of the Bulls (San Fermin in Nueva Orleans)

Go dancing at Rock ‘n Bowl (or do anything at Rock ‘n Bowl for that matter)

Go to the Fairgrounds race track in season on a Friday and ask to meet “da Weasel,” “da Croaker,” “Bones,” or “da Chinaman”

Go to the Holy Cross Neighborhood and see the “Steamboat Houses,” then go up on the levee and see why New Orleans is called the Crescent City 

Wander around in the garden district at night in the winter when the sweet olives are in bloom

Fall asleep under a live oak tree on a summer afternoon.  Then eat a snoball

Call a stranger “Doc,” “Dahlin,” or “Sweetheart”

Go to Camellia Grill on Carrollton and say “Word” and give fist bumps

Drink a Bloody Mary while doing your laundry at Igor’s on St. Charles Avenue

See Fats Domino’s home on Caffin Avenue

Participate in NOLA’s Annual Running of the Bulls (San Fermin in Nueva Orleans)

Go dancing at Rock ‘n Bowl (or do anything at Rock ‘n Bowl for that matter)

Go to the Fairgrounds race track in season on a Friday and ask to meet “da Weasel,” “da Croaker,” “Bones,” or “da Chinaman”

Go to the Holy Cross Neighborhood and see the “Steamboat Houses,” then go up on the levee and see why New Orleans is called the Crescent City 

Wander around in the garden district at night in the winter when the sweet olives are in bloom

Go to the cemeteries...especially on All Saints Day

Attend a blessing of the fleet – Bucktown or Delacroix

Spend a day rebuilding a house with the St. Bernard Project

Visit as many neighborhoods as you can

Have a picnic at the site of Old Spanish Fort

Buy a live rabbit at the Vietnamese market on an early Saturday morning (then keep it for its life or give it backdon’t let it go in the wild)

See a movie at the Prytania Theater

Look at the mural at the Amtrack station

Visit the classic Art Deco New Orleans Lakefront Airport terminal and its lavish 1930s interior design

Race go-karts at NOLA Motorsports on the West Bank

Go up River Road and see the plantation homes, sugar cane fields, and the chemical plants

Go see the Bonnet Carré Spillway structure in Norco

Become a member of the Who Dat Nation

Watch the Saints win their second Super Bowl

Go to a Saints tailgating party or, if you can, attend a Saints home game

If you’ve never been to an NBA game, you gotta go to a Pelicans game - be sure to remain standing until the Pelicans make their first score!

Get a hotdog and beer and enjoy a Zephyrs game on Fireworks Friday

Listen to Bobby Hebert and Deke Bellavia on WWL radio as they break down the latest Saints game and take on callers

Learn why New Orleanians have fond memories about the late Buddy Diliberto (Buddy D) and Hap Glaudi

Take a carriage ride through the French Quarter

Take a ride down the Mississippi on the Natchez - skip the dinner, but you can still listen to the jazz

Visit the New Orleans Battlefield in Chalmette

Take a ride through City Park and marvel at how it’s been renewed stroll through the Sculpture Garden

attend Celebration in the Oaks at Christmas + Hanukkah

Sail and swim in Lake Pontchartrain (no lifeguard on duty!)

Cross the Mississippi River on the Algiers Ferry

Take the streetcar from Loyola down St. Charles Avenue to Canal, then transfer to the Canal Street line to City Park

Take a night ride on the streetcar and look at the leaded glass doors at homes along the way

Drive Old US 90 (Gentilly Blvd, which becomes the Chef Menteur Hwy), through Gentilly, East New Orleans, Venetian Isles, and eastward all the way past the Chef Menteur & Rigolets passes

At the Rigolets, visit Fort Pike

Drive to Venice, the southernmost spot on the Mississippi River accessible by car

Drive to Grand Isle & Elmer’s Island – the Cajun Riviera

When biking, be sure to wear a helmet and watch out for turning cars and opening car doors. Follow the rules of the road. For more info: http://www.neworleansbicycleclub.org/laws.htm

Walk or bike along Bayou St. John

Walk or bike along the Mississippi River levee paralleling Leake Avenue - continue past the enclave of houses tucked in on the batture side at the Jefferson Parish line.

Bike along the lakefront

Cross the lake and spend some time on the Tammany Trace, either on a bike or on foot. End the day with a cold Abita or two at the Abita Brew Pub.

Run or walk in the Crescent City Classic

Bike the new Lafitte Greenway!

100% = 240 WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES!Since most of you are here for four years, you should

update your list and see how your percentage score

improves over time.

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THANKS TO AIMÉE THOMAS, LAURA JANE BEATTY,LESLIE PARR, JUSTIN NYSTROM, SANDY HINDERLIE,

LISA MARTIN, NAOMI YAVNEH AND ALL THE OTHER CONTRIBUTORS!