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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Muthaf*kin Party Pics: Circle Bar re-opening!

Muthaf*kin Party Pics: Circle Bar re-opening!

The InvadeNOLA team went to the Circle Bar (1032 St. Charles Ave.) Reopening January 20. It was so crowded we had to stand outside. That’s where all the cool people were anyway. Photos By: Lizzie Ford-Madrid  
Surprise, Surprise – Truth is Stranger than Fiction Here in New Orleans: "The Last Madam" by Christine Wiltz

Surprise, Surprise – Truth is Stranger than Fiction Here in New Orleans: “The Last Madam” by Christine Wiltz

Once again, New Orleans history teaches us that our fair city has enough characters and intrigue to keep our lurid sensibilities sated without ever needing to turn to Perez Hilton or TMZ.  In The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld, author Christine Wiltz captures the life and times of the notorious French...
Stellar Turnout at InthekNOwla.com's Heritage: A Brass Band Celebration Benefiting Trumpets NOT Guns

Stellar Turnout at InthekNOwla.com’s Heritage: A Brass Band Celebration Benefiting Trumpets NOT Guns

By: Megan Braden-Perry The place to be last night was The 12 Bar on Fulton (608 Fulton St., 212-6476; www.12barnola.com), jamming to not one, two, three or four, but five of New Orleans’ most well-known brass bands: Baby Boyz, Free Agents, Hot 8, To Be Continued and The Pinettes. Proceeds from the event benefited John and...
Droid vs. IPhone - Let's Settle This

Droid vs. IPhone – Let’s Settle This

Ask any person on the street whether IPhone or Droid is superior and you are bound to get an answer and a strong opinion from anyone who owns one of these devices. Droid people think Apple products stink and the Droid is superior. Apple people are still mourning the loss of Steve Jobs, but still...
Fashion Focus: Frock Candy

Fashion Focus: Frock Candy

By: Elizabeth Tran Frock Candy is like Forever 21, but less obnoxious and more organized. This Magazine Street store’s front window display, which is nestled amongst a number of cafes and boutiques in the garden district, is at the moment filled with black and gold laden dress forms, covered in gold sequined harem pants, black...