NOLA News This Week
- At the Gretna Food Truck Festival on Saturday (Sept. 24), festival goers ate delicious street fare while watching the LSU vs. Auburn game on a 20-foot outdoor screen.
- New Orleans native and Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis was awarded a National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony hosted by President Barack Obama.
- Although Deepwater Horizon, Peter Berg’s disaster-thriller film, will premieres in the U.S. on September 30th, locals in New Orleans got a sneak peek this week at a red-carpet event at the Orpheum Theater. Deepwater Horizon stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, and John Malkovich in a fictionalized adaptation of the 2010 BP oil disaster.
- Following the New Orleans Saints‘ 16-13 loss to the New York Giants, a frustrated Sterling Moore told reporters that receiver Odell Beckham Jr. regularly gets away with offensive pass interference.
- Tulane University just unveiled the sleek, 5,800-square-foot ByWater Institute this week, designed by the New Orleans architecture firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple.
