InvadeNOLA is a weekly online lifestyle zine, featuring content that is irreverent and uniquely New Orleans. This is our chance to be the cultural coolhunters.
Artist Spotlight: Mark Waguespack

Artist Spotlight: Mark Waguespack

By: Laura Klein New Orleans based artist Mark Waguespack is truly a local gem. Versatile and endlessly creative, Mark excels in a variety of different mediums. He creates everything from prints, posters, books, paintings and then some. A graduate of The Memphis College of Art, Mark currently works as a...
Fashion Focus: The Wild Life Reserve

Fashion Focus: The Wild Life Reserve

By: Megan Braden-Perry It’s like a scene from a western. An average Joe walks into a high-end retailer looking for a tie. With all eyes on him, he feels nervous. He searches the whole store, hoping the right tie will catch his eye. When it finally does, he looks at the...
InvadeNOLA reaches 5000 unique visitors for the month of January!

InvadeNOLA reaches 5000 unique visitors for the month of January!

For just over two years, InvadeNOLA has offered a daily blog for the Creative Class of New Orleans. Reflecting the voice of these coolhunters, our content focuses on art, fashion, music, events. food and culture. I am earth-shatteringly proud to announce that InvadeNOLA has reached 5000 unique visitors so far...
Music Monday: NOLA Jams you Might not Know

Music Monday: NOLA Jams you Might not Know

  By: Megan Braden-Perry One day while looking at the liner notes of a greatest hits of the 70s CD, I noticed that the band who sings one of my favorite songs, “Moonlight Feels Right”, was formed by a guy who was once in a NOLA band! I started wondering what...
Restaurant Focus: Rue 127

Restaurant Focus: Rue 127

by Charlé Washington Wedged between two relative monoliths, Rue 127 is a seemingly quaint eatery carved out of what appears to have been a single shotgun house. Upon entering, its domestic vibe is replaced by the odd feeling that you have, in fact, discovered a tear in the space time...
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Oscar Night New Orleans Pre-Party

Oscar Night New Orleans Pre-Party

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but what is arguably the biggest night of the year for film buffs is approaching – the 2012 Academy Awards. Whether film is your life, you enjoy hitting up the local theaters once in a while or you are a sucker for Red Carpert fashion (hello, me!) there’s a good chance that you’re...
Professional Fashion: Dressing up for yourself

Professional Fashion: Dressing up for yourself

By: Rebeca Garcia Just like everything else in New Orleans, fashion in the city’s professional sphere is very unique. Especially after Katrina, it seems like a wave of young professionals has taken over along with their eclectic sense of fashion. The one thing in common? While we can’t look like corporate New Yorkers (let’s face...
Follow the Leader: Interview with FosterBear Films

Follow the Leader: Interview with FosterBear Films

Photo: Lizzie Ford-Madrid Tell me more about your company DAVID: FosterBear Films is a co-operative. Its four filmmakers that respect the shit out of each other, making dreams manifest while paying the bills by doing what we love. As passionate New Orleanians, its important to us to share whatever tools we have and success we enjoy...
Yojimbo "We Are Dogs"

Yojimbo “We Are Dogs”

Oh, hello there! I’m sorry, I didn’t notice you – I was too busy dancing. What, you may ask, is the spontaneous cause of these wild movements I dare to call dancing? I’m glad you asked! It’s Big Easy band Yojimbo and their first album, We Are Dogs, that’s got me in a groove. After seeing them...
"Spring Awakening," an 8-Year Romance

“Spring Awakening,” an 8-Year Romance

  InvadeNOLA Founder, Justin Shiels, wrote a terrific plug for Theatre 13’s Spring Awakening at Southern Repertory Theatre, but I lament one thing about it: I wish Justin and I could’ve seen the show together, so he could’ve laughed and cried right along with my friend, Laura, and me. We sat in the theatre, whispering about...