We'll put out status updates to remind everyone about upcoming events or festivals. THE NOLA 100:
FESTIVAL:
1. Irish-Italian Parade
3. Patrick’s Day Parade
4. Jazz Fest (bonus points for crawfish bread)
5. Voodoo Music Fest
6. Strawberry Festival (extra points for pictures with the Queen)
7. Wednesdays at the Square
8. Thursdays at the Square
9. Hurricane Festival
10. French Quarter Festival
11. P
o-boy Festival
12. Crawfish Festival
13. Essence Fest
14. Southern Decadence Festival
15. Satchmo Summerfest
16. Gretna Heritage Festival (bonus points for running in the 5k)
17. Tales of the Cocktail
RITUAL:
1. Halloween on Frenchman
2. Midnight Mass
3. Tubing [Wayne’s World, Tiki Tubing, etc]
4. Fleur de Lis drop in the French Quarter for New Year's
5. Red Dress Run
6. White Linen Night (bonus points for Dirty Linen night)
7. Angola Prison Rodeo
8. Abita Pub Crawl
9. Caroling in Jackson Square for Christmas
10. House of Shock for Halloween
11. Pirates vs. Ninjas Battle on Pirates Alley & Pere Antoine Alley on Halloween!
12. Chalmette Battlefield Re-enactment
13. Do a second line (wedding, funeral, Mardi Gras ball, etc.)
14. Run the Crescent City Classic
TOUR:
1. Plantation Tours
2. French Quarter Ghost Tour
3. Abita Brewery
4. N.O. Rum distillery
5. Swamp Tour
6. Audubon Zoo (bonus points for Boo at the Zoo, Earth day or Swamp Fest)
7. Insectarium
8. Aquarium of the Americas
9. Cemetery tours
10. D-Day Museum (see the movie)
11. Steamboat Tour of the Mississippi River
12. Christmas in the Oaks
13. Christmas at the Roosevelt
14. Make it Right
15. Ride the street car from Carrolton to Canal
16. New Orleans Museum of Art
17. City Park-Botanical Garden
18. Children’s Museum
19. Mardi Gras World/Mardi Gras Museum
20. Saints Museum at the Superdome
21. McIlhenny Island/Tabasco Factory Tour (bonus for eating Tabasco flavored ice cream)
EVENTS [Sports/concerts]
1. Saints (game + tailgate)
2. Greet the Saints at the NOLA airport
3. Hornets (game)
4. LSU (game + tailgate)
5. Better Than Ezra Concert (extra points for House of Blues)
6. Cowboy Mouth
7. Soul Rebels
8. Rebirth
9. Trombone Shorty
10. Preservation Hall
11. Fleur de Tease
FOOD:
1. Any Brennan Restaurant
2. Any Besh Restaurant
3. Emeril’s
4. Catfish Fry
5. Crawfish Boil
6. BBQ Shrimp
a. Pascale Manale's
7. Beignets
a. Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter
8. Gumbo
9. Oysters (bonus if you shuck your own)
10. Po-boy’s
a. Mother's
b. Parasol's
c. Domileses
11. Red Beans and Rice
12. Hurricane (Pat O'Brien's)
13. Hand Gr***de (Tropical Isle)
14. Rat Attack
15. Creole Creamery
16. Jazz Brunch (Court of Two Sisters, Muriel’s, Commanders, etc)
17. Eat at Copelands/Popeyes
18. King Cake (bonus points for Randazzo’s)
19. Jacques-Imos on Oak
20. Snowballs (bonus points: Plum Street)
21. Camellia Grill
ICONS:
1. Louis Cathedral’s Jesus
2. Pat O’Brien’s fire/water fountain
3. Monkey Hill (extra points if you get the bar as well)
4. French Market
5. Banksy graffiti
6. Jackson Square (Andrew Jackson statue)
7. Monument in Lee Circle
8. Drive the Huey P. Long Bridge
9. 1927 flood Memorial in the Train Station
10. Dueling Oaks in Audubon Park
MISC:
1. Play at Coconut Beach
2. Rock N' Bowl
3. Meet a New Orleans Celebrity (Drew Brees, Anne Rice, Brangelina, Nicholas Cage, James Carville (The Ragin’ Cajun), etc.)
4. The Dungeon
5. Sing Karaoke at Cat’s Meow
6. Go through a Drive-Thru Daiquiri
**updated December 2011
