Come enjoy LPO with conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto in New Orleans.
Orpheum Theater
920 Terpsichore St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
May 4, 2022
7:30pm
Tickets $25 – $80
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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral
1200 Robert E. Lee Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70122
May 29, 2022
Tickets $10
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Smoothie King Center
1501 Dave Dixon Dr
New Orleans, LA 701130
May 18, 2022
7:30pm
Tickets $22 – $300
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The 2022 New Orleans Air Show came back to the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans in Belle Chasse after five years. The airshow first began at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in the 1950s. The pandemic caused the show to cancel in 2020.
The show entertains every generation. One Belle Chasse resident has not been to the show in 20 years. She said that it brought back memories this year when she went to the show.
“I feel like I’m walking in the same footsteps that my dad did,” Hebert said. “It’s magical, really. This is Disneyland in my heart.”
“I can’t stop smiling,” she said. “I’m probably the biggest nerd.”
The number one favorite attraction was the Blue Angels. Local Theodore Samon said that he specifically came to see the famous Blue Angels.
“Many people only come to see the Blue Angels,” base spokesperson Andrew Thomas said of the U.S. Navy’s famed demonstration team. “They are that good.”
Everyone is ready to get out and start going to different events. In the midst of the pandemic, it was nice to get out and enjoy the show.
“It feels like something normal again,” Melisa Gunzburg said.
Patrons come to the naval base but also can see the show from local house parties and picnics on the levee. Boats sit in the canals to watch the show.
“This is all part of their heritage,” Todd Bruemer, the base’s commanding officer said.
“People are amazed, excited, and it’s nice to give that to people,” base spokesperson Andrew Thomas said. “You’re showcasing to the American taxpayer your military but you also get kids out here that say ‘I want to do that.’ It sparks an interest.”
James Smith of Imperium Estates LLC is a developer which has plans to build a subdivision on 36-acres close to the former Six Flags. The plans include over 116 homes that will be built in several different phases close to the intersection of Interstate 510 and Chef Menteur Highway, just south of the Eastover neighborhood.
“The homes are beautiful,” said Dawn Hebert, chairperson of the East New Orleans Neighborhood Advisory Commission, a group that represents several homeowner and neighborhood associations in the east.
The neighborhood has a few obstacles, including the property’s current zoning. The city’s master plan has the property zoned for an industrial park. Luckily District E Council member Oliver Thomas is backing the idea of changing the zoning to residential. He feels the master plan does not match the needs of New Orleans East development or the wishes of surrounding residents and landowners.
“I just thought it was appropriate in terms of what they wanted to do to fit to where that community was going,” Thomas said. “I haven’t seen or heard of anyone submitting plans for light industrial development out there.”
Herbert explains that the industrial designation for the area was originally placed in 1970. In five decades there has been zero interest or demand for an industrial park.
“I think it’s outdated zoning because, since Katrina, more homes have been built over there,” said Hebert.
“You don’t have a long line of people trying to invest out there,” a neighboring property owner, Robert Charbonnet.
