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  • My NOLA Life Chronicles-Memoir
    • First blog post
    • My NOLA Life: Teen Mom to Successful Entrepreneur
    • My Bittersweet Pickaninny Dolls: New Orleans Vintage Gambina Dolls, Ninkie, and Jody circa 1700s
    • NOLA Chic’s 1st Tarot Card Reading on Bourbon St
    • Experience the heart and soul of New Orleans with The NOLA Chic
    • My NOLA Life: Latchkey & RTA Kid
    • Who’s that Chic anyway???
    • Starting from the bottom…on up
    • My Mother’s Sacrifice for Me
    • Light Skin, Dark Skin and the things in between 
    • Art & Cake. A thank you to my customers
    • A Walk In The Park with my Grandson
    • My Nola Life: Growing Up Fast…
    • I’m lost in my eyes
    • Essence McDonald’s 365 Black Awards Golden Carpet
    • NOLA Chic hits South Beach…and it gave me life
    • Welcome to Miami: Day 1
    • Post Katrina PTSD
    • My Inexperience with Marijuana: Story of a new short term smoker
    • We must release our pain & LIVE
    • Suffering in Silence: Birth and Loss of my baby girl
    • Mardi Gras Memories
    • NOLA ChristmasFest with my NOLA Girls
    • Nola Chic Memoir: Thoughts on my move to NOLA last year
    • My Nola Life: Onset of TNT Claws Season 3 and OWN Queen Sugar
  • My NOLA Neighborhood
    • Let me show you My NOLA Neighborhood
    • A New New Orleans or Gentrification of New Orleans?
    • New Orleans Bounce Music and Gentrification.. I didn’t realize the colonizers want everything New Orleans Culture for themselves
    • For the love of New Orleans culture…surviving more than hurricanes…
    • New Orleans is drowning, but not our spirit
    • Overwhelming feelings of my evening walk in Louisiana 
    • NOLA Graffiti Art: Poor Boys Bar-Bathroom Graffiti
    • Thank you for supporting me at our WSBN Networking Happy Hour Event at the Half Shell
    • My NOLA Light
    • Air Mattress Floaty: Nola Life
    • Will it flood today…
    • The New Orleans Misbelief Fruit also known as Chinese Plums or Loquats
    • I saved a NOLA Fig Tree from gentrification
  • NOLA Natives
    • New Orleans Black History: Celebrating Chocolate City New Orleans
    • Women in New Orleans History: Honoring the life of Hattie McCray
    • Remembering Big Queen Kim “Cutie” Boutte
    • Leah Chase ” Queen Of Creole Cuisine” dies at 96
    • Kinky Chics Beauty Boutique-BLACK OWNED BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE IN NEW ORLEANS
    • New Orleans Native Stacey Muhammad takes a seat in the Director’s Chair on “Queen Sugar” on the OWN Network
    • Brandan Odums featured in Huffington Post – Urban Orleans
    • Drag-On & Juvenile Bust Guns For The Double R On “Down Bottom”
    • Polo Silk The Legendary Photographer: Opening Reception at Antenna Gallery 
    • Nola Artist: Songbird Mykia Jovan
    • New Orleans Artist: Kishonda Webb
    • New Orleans Urban Success Story: Reebok collaboration with Polo NOLA & Chase N. CASH
    • Local rapper gains national recognition by freestyling on New Orleans streets
    • New Orleans Bucket Drummer: Street Performer or Son Who Needs To Be Saved
    • 2 Black Bloggers: Ladies Who Inspired the Build and Balance Blog — Build & Balance
    • NOLA Angels
    • NOLA Street Bucket Drummer: Beats OF A NOLA Girl
    • Hollins’s Prodigal Son finally back in NOLA
    • We are New Orleans
    • Tee-Eva, New Orleans Queen of Pralines has passed away
    • Pianist, singer Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack, an icon of New Orleans music, has died | News | theadvocate.com
    • Mr. Okra: New Orleans Food Truck Icon Dies at 75
    • New Orleans Own, Chef Lena Richard 1892-1950
    • IN LOVING MEMORY OF Franklin J.P. Augustus
    • NOLA mourns the passing of noted photographer Randolph “Mookie” Square
    • Ronnie Virgets, veteran journalist and voice of New Orleans, dead at 77 | wwltv.com
    • Café Rose Nicaud contributed to the community, character, charm, and culture of Frenchmen Street in New Orleans has closed
    • New Vegan Concept To Open At St. Roch Market- Coalesce Goods
    • A conversation with “Da Gawd Mother of NOLA” Kimberly Dilosa of Fion Productions
    • Local Entreprenuer,Danita Tate, CEO of Chiquita Miracle Works honors her murdered sister’s birthday
    • Nola Chic’s Urban Nola Entrepreneur Highlight: Megan Kelly, CEO of Silk Me Kids and Hair Glam Squad
  • NOLA Eats
    • The Best Black Women-Owned Restaurants In New Orleans Serving Up Creole & Cajun Faves
    • Don’t Miss These Mouthwatering Regional Cuisines
    • Heard Dat Kitchen is making headlines
    • Grand Opening of NOLA Sips SnoBar & Bistro
    • Review of Sidewalk Food Tour New Orleans
    • NOLA Foodie
    • Black-Owned Restaurants in New Orleans
    • Let’s talk New Orleans Gumbo! The history of Gumbo
    • Let’s Talk Gumbo
      • Let’s talk New Orleans Gumbo!!! NOLA Chic Cooking Class Part #l
      • Let’s Talk New Orleans Gumbo: Roux 101
    • NOLA Hot Sausage
    • Hubig’s Pies are coming back!
    • NOLA Bread Pudding
    • Where the locals eat, NOLA Corner Stores
    • One of my favorite restaurants, best gumbo in NOLA, The Half Shell On The Bayou
    • Nola F.A.M.E Food Mart Good Eats
    • A Traditional New Orleans Monday Dinner is Red Beans & Rice; Recipe Included
    • Baking Sugar Cookies with My St. Roch Krewe
    • Big Freddia dishes out Bouncing Beignets flavored Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
  • NOLA Events
    • New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indians return for Super Sunday 2022! 
    • NOLA Mardi Gras Indians: Super Sunday
    • Zulu 25th Lundi Gras Festival
    • The best spots to explore in NOLA during Essence Fest Weekend
    •   Treme/7th Ward Arts & Culture Festival  May 25-27
    • My fabulous evening at grand opening of The Marquee by Bluegreen Vacations in New Orleans
    • NBA Player Lance Thomas to Host First Slangmagic Fishing Extravaganza in New Orleans
    • My star studded fabulous night at the Big Easy Entertainment Awards
    • History Of The Big Easy Entertainment Awards 
    • Join Color of Change at #ServeOurSisters in New Orleans
    • Treme 7th Ward Arts & Cultural Festival
    • My star studded fabulous night at the Big Easy Entertainment Awards
    • Hott Haute NOLA Fashion Show
    • Mardi Gras 2018
  • NOLA Tips
    • What Is Mardi Gras? The REAL History and Traditions Explained by Newtral Groundz
    • It’s Carnival Time 2022! History of King Cakes
    • Local Review of The Paddlewheeler Creole Queen
    • The 14 Times Mardi Gras was Effected in NOLA History
    • Free Wednesdays for Nola Locals at the Audubon Institute 2020 Calendar
    • Plan a Trip to New Orleans: Tips from 28+ Travel Experts
    • The New Orleans Tribune releases a New Orleans travel guide “Welcome” based on the movie the Green Book and I love it!!
    • A few of my fave Nola Made Body Products
    • NOLA Hurricane Preparedness Tips
    • Essence Tips Part 2
    • A letter to Essence Festival Travelers
    • NOLA Festival Safety Tips for Women
  • NOLA Chic Book Reviews
    • Book Review: Chronicles of a Serial Dater
    • Book Review: Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Book by Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Julie Gross
    • A personal review of Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber
    • NOLA Book Review: Jason Lee ~ God Must Have Forgotten About Me
    • Remembering Toni Morrison: My first time reading The Bluest Eye
  • Nola Tours
    • Where are all the Nola Natives??? My walk thru Treme
    • Neighborhood Art Walk
    • NOLA Chic’s Saturday in Treme Photos
    • My walk to Calvary Spiritual Church in New Orleans
    • New Orleans 24/7: Melba’s and more
    • Music mural displayed for 1st time since Hurricane Katrina

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EXPERIENCE NEW ORLEANS THROUGH THE EYES OF A LOCAL! Established in 2016 and has been growing ever since. Dat Nola Chic LLC is a passion-filled New Orleans brand and lifestyle blog founded by Deatra” Dee” Hollins, NOLA Chic. Dee invites you into the heart and soul of New Orleans by blogging real-life stories of the people who are the roots of New Orleans culture and traditions; they’re the honest-to-goodness Cultural Gatekeepers and Ambassadors of the city. The content highlights authentic New Orleans experiences that will enlighten and inspire you. Such as the local happenings tips on where to eat, stay and play as the locals do. This platform is committed to educating and inspiring people worldwide. New Orleans is much more than the Big Easy vacation of tits, beads, and booze. The good times may roll on Bourbon Street, but to truly understand the meaning of “Laissez Les Bon temps rouler,” you must hang out with the locals. “Oui, her, New Orleans may be the number one travel destination globally. Still, it is home to generations of native New Orleanians committed to the continuum of our ancestors’ legacies, stories, traditions, and customs. Please accept this invitation to experience New Orleans through the eyes of a local who is a sixth-generation New Orleanian who has experienced the joys and pains that come with living in New Orleans. Still, there’s no other place on earth she would want to live. Dat NOLA Chic is a New Orleans native, persona, and writer who loves her city, cultures, traditions, and especially the people. She believes new Orleans is alive with a loving, resilient mothering soul whose spirit is kept alive within the hearts of New Orleanians.

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