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Though COVID-19 may be complicating celebrations and gatherings for this upcoming holiday season, the City of New Orleans is taking safety precautions into 2021. Beau Tidwell, Communications director for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, stated during a press conference on Tuesday that while Mardi Gras celebrations…

George J. Steiner, Jr., former Louisiana Film Commissioner and president of Filmworks New Orleans, a 36-acre motion picture and television production facility, died Sept. 26 in New Orleans at age 68. The cause was a cardiac event, according to Phil Caruso, a photographer and friend. Steiner’s work spanned 50 years…

As Hurricane Laura nears landfall as a massive Category 4 storm, some 1.5 million people in the Gulf Coast region are under evacuation orders ahead of what federal officials are describing as an “unsurvivable storm surge.” Today co-anchor and weatherman Al Roker said on MSNBC this morning, “I’ve never seen that phrase…

Olga Wilhelmine, SAG-AFTRA's national board member from New Orleans, is on a mission. With so many of her fellow actors struggling financially during the coronavirus pandemic, she's trying to connect them with their unclaimed residuals. The union is holding tens of millions of dollars in unclaimed SAG residuals for…

The opposition party at SAG-AFTRA's local in New Orleans has won a resounding victory in a re-run of the August election that was mandated by the local's election committee. Olga Wilhelmine, who won the original contest for a seat on the national board, won again in the re-run, as did all of her running mates on the…

Mayor LaToya Cantrell has declared a state of emergency in New Orleans, which has ordered the shutdown of most of the city’s computer network following a ransomware attack. The attack started at 5 a.m. CST on Friday, according to the City of New Orleans' emergency preparedness campaign, NOLA Ready, managed by the…

Saying that "your vote counts, even if they make you do it twice," a group of SAG-AFTRA members in New Orleans say they will "embrace" the mandated re-run of their local's election even though they think the do-over is the result of a "biased decision." "The decision to re-run the NOLA election is a biased decision…

EXCLUSIVE: The New Orleans local of SAG-AFTRA has been ordered to re-run its recent election. The order, handed down by the local's election committee in a 12-page decision, found that the winning NOLA Slate for Change candidates had accepted "unlawful contributions" from employers at a campaign event held on June 29…

Don’t expect moviegoers in Louisiana’s Gulf Coast to head to Sam Raimi’s Category 5 hurricane/alligator movie Crawl this weekend, or any title for that matter. With Tropical Storm Barry expected to dump 25 inches of rain after it reaches landfall Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane, AMC is shutting down all New Orleans…

Film production is shutting down completely in New Orleans in advance of Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday. "All shows here are shut down but one, and that one is shutting down at noon," said Cory Parker, business agent of New Orleans IATSE Local 478. He…

The New Orleans film industry is battening down the hatches as Tropical Storm Barry bears down on the Louisiana coast. "People aren't shooting today or tomorrow on physical locations," said Carroll Morton, director of Film New Orleans, the city's film office. "They're shifting over to soundstages. There's been no real…

Six-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dr. John has died. His death was announced on his official Facebook page by his family. “Towards the break of day on June 6, 2019, iconic music legend Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., professionally known as Dr. John, passed away of a heart attack,” said the…