Mint Juleps And Margaritas: It's a Hat Trick Of Fun Partying Events To Kick Off May Get on your party hats, it's the first weekend of May. And you'll have to change those party hats depending on the day. Saturday, it's Derby hats for the annual Running of the Roses, the Kentucky Derby. Sunday, it's sombreros for Cinco de Mayo, the gringo's celebration of Mexican … [Read more...]
PubClub Survival Tips: New Orleans JazzFest — Essential Guide
This PubClub Survival Tips guide is based on firsthand experience attending JazzFest in New Orleans and navigating the festival over multiple days. Here is everything you need to know about attending this fun music, food and beer drinking festival known as New Orleans JazzFest. Think of it as your essential JazzFest survival guide. Things To Know Before Going To … [Read more...]
Pardi Gras New Orleans Parrotheads Party Guide 2026 Dates & Events
A Pre-Mardi Gras Gathering For Jimmy Buffett Fans For those who just can't wait for Mardi Gras, there's Pardi Gras. A multi-day festival in January, it includes a pub crawl, Jimmy Buffett-style bands and a tropical-attired crowd that just can't seem to get enough bar time. The site: New Orleans. Of course. The 2026 event is Jan. 15-18. For those who miss Jimmy … [Read more...]
Full New Orleans Mardi Gras 2026 Parades Schedules & Locations
The prime party event in a prime party place takes place the last two weeks in February in the Big Easy. It's Mardi Gras, and in New Orleans the focal point of the celebrations are the parades. Primarily, they take place during two weekends, culminating with Fat Tuesday, which in 2026 is Feb. 17.. But there are other parades, as well, which started in January. It's … [Read more...]
New Orleans Named Top New Year’s Eve Party Destination NYE Reviews
Other Top Spots Are Prague, Sydney, Las Vegas, Rio And The Virgin Islands When it comes time to choosing a place to spend New Year’s Eve this year, don’t drop the ball. Leave that to the people in charge of putting on the celebrations. But being where those balls are dropped – and having a ball – is the real thrill of a fulfilling New Year’s night. That is why … [Read more...]
New Orleans Top Singles Party Events: Spice up Your Nightlife!
New Years Eve, Mardi Gras, JazzFest, Pardi Gras & Festivals In The Big Easy New Orleans is a year-round party yet added to this like shrimp into gumbo are a number of fun events that add even more spice to the city. PubClub.com has compiled this list of our top events, along with a description and the dates for 2025. For you singles out there, these are the prime … [Read more...]
New Orleans NYE Drinking Tips: Surviving the Big Easy
When partying in New Orleans – PubClub.com's Top Party Place for New Year's Eve as well as being a nightlife mecca nearly every day of the year – it's important to be able to survive. And in New Orleans, that's not always easy! So take it from this veteran of not only the Big Easy but NYE in the Big Easy. You CAN go big by following these five party … [Read more...]
PubClub.com Virtual Destination Of The Week: The City Of New Orleans
The Big Easy Is Big On Fun & Entertainment By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Just because we are on lockdown and can't travel anyplace does not mean we cannot dream about traveling to places. With that in mind we present the PubClub.com Virtual Destination of the Week: the city of New Orleans. NOLA is called the Big Easy because there's … [Read more...]
New Orleans Fat Tuesday Weather Forecast – No Rain
The Parades Roll & The Party Rolls On Under Cloudy Conditions By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger The parades roll rain or shine – as does the tremendous party – and the weather forecast for Fat Tuesday in New Orleans is one that will have people dancing in the streets. The weather will be cloudy and a bit cool, with a high of 67. Yes, no sunshine. But … [Read more...]
New Orleans Is THE Place To Party In January With These Two Events
The Roaring 2020s Start With LSU vs. Clemson & Pardi Gras By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger The Big Easy goes big to open the Roaring 2020s with two major party events in January that may have some calling for their own Prohibition for a few days afterward. The College Football Playoffs are Monday, Jan 13 – with LSU playing in it, no less – … [Read more...]
Hurricane Barry Washes Out Weekend Party Scene On Bourbon Street
New Orleans Nightlife On Hold In The Bars & Nightclubs; Rolling Stones Postpone Concert By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger There is a famous drink at Pat O'Brien's called The Hurricane, but it's a real hurricane that has New Orleans staggering this weekend. Hurricane Barry may be the first storm of hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico and … [Read more...]
The Travel Blogger: Why It’s Mardi Gras 365 Days A Year In New Orleans
Why The Big Easy Is A Year-Round Party By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger It's Mardi Gras time in New Orleans and even tho I'm not there for it, in a kind of strange, New Orleans way, I was just there for it. The time was early September and the Zydeo music was coming out of beads shops in the French Quarter, Bourbon Street was packed with people – … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: Bet You Didn’t Know This About The New Orleans Mardi Gras Parades
Answers To The Questions You Need To Know By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger You've heard about them, seen them on the news and – perhaps if you're lucky – have even been to them. And I've been in them, and I'm here to tell you a few things about the Mardi Gras parades you may not know about, but which are very interesting things to know about … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Don’t Cry New Orleans, The Mardi Gras Parades Start Soon
Saints Fans Will Recover In Time To Party By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Sure, New Orleans. Losing the chance to play in Super Bowl VIII on a blown non call by an official stinks. I know how much you love your Saints. Heck, I was in the Superdome to start the season to experience it for myself. But a reason to celebrate is just around the … [Read more...]
The NIghtlife Blogger: Crap, I Forgot About The Pardi Gras Party In New Orleans
Jimmy Buffett Parrotheads Flock To The Big Easy For This TropRock Paradise By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger A few months ago, Eric Babin of Radio TropRock asked me if I was going to New Orleans for the annual Jimmy Buffett migration of Parrotheads known as Pardi Gras. It's a multi-day event of Buffett-style musicians playing at bars all around the … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: New Orleans Hosting NFC Championship Game
Saints Play Rams And It's Going To Be A Party By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Who dat!? It's the Saints and the city of New Orleans, which are hosting the NFC Championship game on Sunday, Jan. 20, against the LA Rams. And it's going to be a party like Mardi Gras in the Big Easy. If you want a fun destination to travel to the third week of … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Why New Orleans Is My Top New Year’s Eve Destination
A Big Time In The Big Easy For NYE By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger With all the great places to be for New Year's Eve, one stands out above all others to me. New Orleans. It's not New York City, it's not Sydney and it's not on a tropical beach, but NYE in the Big Easy is a big time. And I'll tell you why right here. First of all, it's New … [Read more...]
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler While In New Orleans
NOLA Is A Unique USA Destination Where The Good Times Roll By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Laissez les bons temps rouler. Let the good time roll. That's the way I roll when I'm in New Orleans and you should, too. And how can you not? New Orleans is unlike any other city in America. Instead of having signature landmarks – such as the Golden Gate Bridge or … [Read more...]
Port Of Call New Orleans A Great Burger Joint And Dive Tiki Bar
Big Hamburgers And Polynesian Drinks Like Neptune's Monsoon In The French Quarter By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Foodie Blogger Port Of Call In New Orleans is more than a good burger joint. It's also a dive bar with tiki touches. And Polynesian drinks. With this combination, I could have stayed all day. Or night. But I did like just about everyone who … [Read more...]
Johnny’s Po-Boy New Orleans Restaurant Worth A Second Visit: A Review
Killer Po-Boy Sandwich & Seafood Gumbo Brings Back PubClub's Foodie Blogger By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Foodie Blogger New Orleans is full of long-standing traditional restaurants, places that have that great NOLA food like gumbo and muffalettas and a long list of "best" and "original." So it's often hard to know where to go to eat, especially in the … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Why It’s Fun Walking Around The New Orleans French Quarter
Bead Shops, Zydeco Music, Restaurants, Bars And Drinks To Go By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger In order to get my "New Orleans fix," one of the things I must do when I'm in the Big Easy is to walk around the French Quarter. I just love it. The French Quarter is one adrenaline rush after another. There's the distinctive architecture, New … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: Finding The Best Bloody Mary In New Orleans
Coop's In The French Quarter Tops Daisy Duke's Drink In NOLA By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger If there's one drink you need in New Orleans to get you going in the morning after the night before, it's a Bloody Mary. And so I went searching for one and found it. It is at Coop's Place, a dive bar and restaurant if ever there was one, in the … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: Blasted By The Hand Grenade Drink On Bourbon Street
New Orleans' Strongest Drink Lives Up To Its Billing By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger I don't know what it was about this time, because I've had it before with it causing any damage. But on this trip to NOLA, I got blasted by the Hand Grenade, billed as "New Orleans' Strongest Drink." The only difference is that this time, I was in the bar … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: I Survived A Weekend Trip To New Orleans (Again)
Letting The Good Times Roll In The Big Easy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger I'm sooo tired, need a power nap right after getting out of bed, my friend has no voice and I think my brain is still reeling a bit from those Hand Grenades on Saturday night. But overall I managed, somehow, to once again survive a weekend trip to New Orleans. What is … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Why I Love Walking In New Orleans
NOLA Is A Great City For Pedestrian Sightseeing By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger One of my favorite ways to explore when traveling is by using my feet. Walking while traveling is the ideal way to get around a city or destination. You get to see things up close, at your own pace (well, except in New York City where you will get trampled if you … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Getting To Know New Orleans Again
The New And The Familiar In The Big Easy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger Day 1 back in New Orleans and the first thing I did – after getting a stiff Bloody Mary's from Daisy Dukes – was walk around "the Quat-er" as the locals pronounce it, and get to know the city again. It's been a while since I've been to the Big Easy – at least five years but … [Read more...]
Top 5 Do’s and Don’ts Of Bourbon Street Bars
NOLA Nightlife: Big Things To Know About Partying In The Big Easy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Bourbon Street is one of America's top nightlife districts. And like any place, there are important things to know about it in order to maximize your party fun. Fortunately for you, PubClub.com has been on Bourbon Street several times and provides … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: How I Spent $30 In 30 Seconds In A Bourbon Street Bar
The Shot Girl Blondes Get The Best Of Me By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Blondes. If you are wondering how in the world I did what I wrote in the headline, or even if it's true, my one-word response is blondes. I'm a sucker for a pretty blonde and when one pulled me into a bar on Bourbon Street, and then I was surrounded by three more, … [Read more...]
Travel Blogger Daily Blog: New Orleans Here I Come, Come Hell (Raising) Or High Water
Almost No To NOLA But Back To Bourbon Street By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger When my friend messaged me to say she had a ticket for me in an NFL box for the New Orleans opening game and invited me to join her and her boyfriend in it, I did a dance like those people holding those multi-colored umbrellas marching through the French Quarter. I had … [Read more...]
The Nightlife Blogger: The 5 (Funny) Things I Fear About Being In New Orleans
Fear And Loafing In The Big Easy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Ahh, New Orleans. The French Quarter, "Sweet Home Alabama" pouring out of a Bourbon Street bar, multi-colored drinks and Mardi Gras beads, even when it's not Mardi Gras. I love it. But, in a way, I also fear it. The partying is so open, so available so, well – there – that … [Read more...]
My Tour Tales: New Orleans, Voodoo, Hoodoo, A Musician’s Life On The Road
Highlights From The French Quarter In The Big Easy By Eric Stone, Traveling Musician And Troubadour I landed in New Orleans after a long redeye flight starting at 8:30pm the night before in Boise. I was running on fumes I guess because I hadn’t slept a wink yet. But New Orleans was calling so I bucked up grabbed an Uber to go to Enterprise Rental Cars. Inside … [Read more...]
Halloween In New Orleans A Fun Bourbon Street Bars Party Scene
The Good Times Roll, Especially With These WAACOs By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger The Elvis-Playboy-pimp daddy walked down Bourbon Street, grabbed a "Big Ass Beer" and got a Hurricane to go from legendary Pat O'Brien's bar. Everywhere he went, he was approached by women who wanted pictures with him and men laughed. "I've never been so … [Read more...]
French Quarter Festival 2017 Dates New Orleans Quarterfest
WHAT: A free music, drink & food festival exclusively in the French Quarter of New Orleans, which serves as kid of a a Jazzfest warm-up for locals. WHERE: 23 stages set up all over the French Quarter from the river to Bourbon Street SINGLES SCENE: Mostly New Orleans locals and a lot of them – more than 700,000 people attend. So the odds are in your favor, especially … [Read more...]
New Orleans Hosts Reverse Mardi Gras Parade & Party
The Big Easy Shows It Is 'Always Open' When the good times roll in New Orleans, they roll for all, and in 2017 the city that hosts an incredible series of parades leading to Fat Tuesday held a reverse Mardi Gras parade. New Orleans tourism and people from all over the community came together at New Orleans’ famous Bourbon and St. Ann streets to march together in its … [Read more...]
Mardi Gras Parades 2017 New Orleans & Fat Tuesday
WHAT: New Orleans Mardi Gras Parades WHERE: Uptown & French Quarter.but not on Bourbon Street WHEN: Feb. 11-28; Fat Tuesday is Feb. 28 PARTY SCENE: Outstanding; you can drink in the streets here, go in and out of bars, get beads from people on the floats and party with tens of thousands watching the parades. SINGLE SCENE: Fantastic. Think about it – a festive … [Read more...]
Mardi Gras Top Party Destinations: Celebrating Carnival Around the World
This story has been updated for 2026. In the realm of this world's grandest parties there is, of course, New Year's Eve, Oktoberfest in Munich, St. Patrick's Day and, in the USA, the 4th of July. Yet the biggest of them all may well be Carnival. Unlike most of the other events, Carnival is a multi-day, multi-week and, in some cases, a multi-month celebration. Fat Tuesday 2026 … [Read more...]
New Orleans Bourbon Street Bars May Close Doors At 3 AM
Big Easy Mayor Mitch Landrieu Wants Looks To Curb Street Crowds Can you imagine begin locked in a Bourbon Street bar!? It could happen if you're in one after 3 a.m., and a proposal from New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu passes City Council. Landrieu wants to find a solution to a couple of early-morning shootings that have occurred fairly recently on and around Bourbon … [Read more...]
New Orleans To Host 2022 NCAA Men’s Final Four
Basketball Championship Returns To The Site Of Michael Jordan's Game-Winning Shot The Big Easy is getting the big game. Again. In 2022, for the first time since 2012, the NCAA Men's Final Four will be held in New Orleans, The last game in the Big Easy was when Kentucky beat Kansas to win the title. The 2022 game will be the 40th anniversary of when true freshman Michael … [Read more...]
New Orleans Jazzfest 2016: Where I Want To Be This Weekend
Blogger's Party Bucket List Destination For April 28-May 1 By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger Let's party! Here's where I want to do it the weekend of April 28-May 1: New Orleans for the Jazz & Heritage Festival. Otherwise known to partiers simply as New Orleans Jazzfest, this is a perfect combination of an outdoor beer-drinking event, a potential singles … [Read more...]
Allen Toussaint Death Sparks Social Media Reaction From Musicians
Jazz Musician Remembered For His Soulful Sounds In this day of American Idol stars, YouTube sensations and jerks like Justin Bieber, you may not know the name of Allen Toussaint. But true musicians know Toussaint and his passing touches those who knew and respected this blues and jazz musician. At 77, he died of a heart attack and the reaction was as touching as his … [Read more...]
New Orleans Nightlife The Best Bourbon Street Bars
A Guide To The Balconies, Beads & Bands In The Big Easy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger Few places on Earth possess the year-round party atmosphere as does New Orleans. And it all starts on Bourbon Street. This is New Orleans' most famous street, the Amsterdam of America, a place dominated by drinks and drinkers where the cocktail is king … [Read more...]
Let The Good Times Roll For Fat Tuesday Parties
Marti Gras Parades Through The Soul Of The Party Blogger There's a saying in New Orleans. It applies year-round in that party city but it was created because of Mardi Gras: Let The Good Times Roll. And those good times do indeed roll for Carnival, and not just in New Orleans. There's Brazil, of course, and even Germany and Switzerland. One of the most fun places is San … [Read more...]
New Orleans Mardi Gras Memories Of Parade Experiences
Marching In The Parades Brings Beads, Boobs And Kisses The Mardi Gras parades are underway in New Orleans – check out the parade schedule here, as well as a few "survival tips"– and that always brings back good memories of when I was actually in a some of the parades. It was back in high school, and when our band director announced we would be going to take part … [Read more...]
New Orleans Nightlife Is A Party Down South
The Big Easy and Bourbon Street Party Scene Starts Early For People From the South Because it's in Their Blood When a baby is born in the South – and I know this to be true because I was one of them – before it is given over to the mother and the near passed-out father, the doctor and nurse do something very sneaky. But very good for the kid later in life. They … [Read more...]