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10 Ways To Get Into The Christmas Spirit In New Orleans

We may not have a white Christmas, but we've got our very own New Orleans Christmas.

Peri Novick

Dec 06, 2016

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10 Ways To Get Into The Christmas Spirit In New Orleans

While some people are dreaming of a white Christmas, we are living the dream with mild weather and a New Orleans Christmas.

Art of Giving

When: Tuesday December 6, 5pm - 8pm

Where: Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Stop by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to support local vendors and get all your holiday shopping done. If you need more motivation, there will also be cocktails, music, food, and free gift wrapping!

Christmas Bonfire on the Levee

When: Friday December 9, 5pm - 9pm

Where: Nottoway Plantation

Holiday Movies on the Mississippi

When: December 9 & 16, 6:30pm

Where: The Outlet Collection at Riverwalk - Spanish Plaza

Krewe of Kringle

When: Saturday December 10, 6pm - 3am

Where: French Quarter

Dust off your Santa outfits and gather your reindeer, meet the Krewe of Kringle downtown at the House of Blues - Voodoo Garden and get ready to parade down Bourbon in true New Orleans fashion.

Running of the Santas

When: Saturday December 17, 2pm - 11:45pm

Where: Starts at Manning's - 519 Fulton St.

Don't put away those Santa outfits quite yet! This festival/pub crawl starts at Manning's and ends at Generation Hall with live music from Category 6 and Flow Tribe.

Caroling in Jackson Square

When: Sunday December 18, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Where: Jackson Square

Santa visits Pat O'Briens

When: Every Friday and Saturday night in December, and Christmas night, 5pm-9pm

Where: Pat O'Briens

Holiday cheer, 1/2 priced photos with Santa, and your favorite Pat O's drinks!

Miracle on Fulton Street

When: Enjoy the sights until December 24

Where: Fulton Street

The 30-foot tree is only the beginning of the miracle. A gingerbread house display, pictures with santa, Christmas carolers, live music and hourly snowfall, all without the freezing temperatures, it really is a Christmas miracle!

Creole Christmas

When: December 27-29, 10am-4pm

Where: Friends of the Cabildo, 1850 House Museum Store, 523 St. Ann Street

Take a walk through time and enjoy these historic houses decorated in their Creole Christmas finest.

Celebration in the Oaks

When: Open through January 1, 2017 (Closed Christmas Eve and New Years Eve)

Where: New Orleans City Park

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, enjoy the mild winter weather at this spectacular lights festival. Take the train ride through the light exhibits and view Christmas Cajun style!

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10 Ways To Get Into The Christmas Spirit In New Orleans

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Art of Giving

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Santa visits Pat O'Briens

Creole Christmas

Celebration in the Oaks

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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