“You can probably blame my deep obsession with Practical Magical, Hocus Pocus and being surrounded by animals at all times,” Merci Raines says of her decision to run with “Witch Pop” as the term for ...

Tuesday, Sept. 10, is the birthday of one of New Orleans’ most indelible icons. Marie Catherine Laveau was born in 1801, two years before the city was purchased by the United States. She was part of a ...