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The major daily newspaper is the The Times-Picayune, publishing since 1837. Weekly publications include The Louisiana Weekly and Gambit Weekly. Also in wide circulation is the Clarion Herald, the biweekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

New Orleans is world-famous for its food. The indigenous cuisine is distinctive and influential. From centuries of amalgamation of local Creole, haute Creole, and New Orleans French cuisines, New Orleans food has developed. Local ingredients, French, Spanish, Italian, African, Native US, Cajun, and a hint of Cuban traditions combine to produce a truly unique and easily recognizable Louisiana flavor.

Decades later, New Orleans was home to a distinctive brand of rhythm and blues that contributed greatly to the growth of rock and roll. A great example of New Orleans` sound in the 1960s is the #1 US hit "Chapel of Love" by the Dixie Cups, a song which had the distinction of knocking the Beatles out of the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. New Orleans became a hotbed for funk music in the 1960s and 70s. By the late 1980s it had developed its own localized variant of hip hop called bounce music which, while never commercially successful outside of the Deep South, remained immensely popular in the poor African-US neighborhoods of the city through the 1990s. A cousin of Bounce, New Orleans Rap has seen commercial success locally and internationally. Also, a form of southern rock or cowpunk has become popular across college campuses throughout the US. New Orleans bands which helped originate this wave include The Radiators, Better Than Ezra, Cowboy Mouth, Rising Sun and Dash Rip Rock. Notable members of the New Orleans music scene are Lil Wayne, Master P, Cash Money Records, Rooster and the Chickenhawks, No Limit Records, Djuan Edgerton, and Rickey Spearman. Throughout the 1990s many sludge metal bands started in the New Orleans area. In addition, New Orleans musical traditions borrow heavily from Acadiana to the west, home of Cajun music and Zydeco music, as well as the Delta blues from its hinterlands in the Mississippi Delta. New Orleans is the southern terminus of the fabled Highway 61.

New Orleans has always been a significant center for music, with its intertwined European, Latin US, and African-US cultures. New Orleans` unique musical heritage was born in its pre-US and early US days with a unique blending of European instruments with African rhythms. As the only North US city to allow slaves to gather in public and play their native music (largely in Congo Square, now located inside Louis Armstrong Park), likely due to the more relaxed attitudes of French and Creole slave owners as compared to their Anglo-US neighbors, New Orleans give birth to an indigenous music: jazz. With New Orleans` large, educated, and influential Creole, Haitian, and free black populus, these African beats intertwined with trained musicians and the city`s now famous brass bands gained wide popularity and remain popular today.

Like many US cities, New Orleans has developed a distinctive local dialect over the years. This dialect is neither Cajun nor the stereotypical Southern accent so often misportrayed by film and television actors. It does, like earlier Southern Englishes, feature frequent deletion of post-vocalic "r". One dialect is similar to the New York "Brooklynese" dialect to people unfamiliar with it. There are many theories to how this dialect came to be, but it likely resulted from New Orleans` geographic isolation by water and the fact that New Orleans was a major port of entry into the US throughout the 19th century. Many of the immigrant groups who reside in Brooklyn also reside in New Orleans, with Irish, Italians, especially Sicilians, and Germans being the largest groups, as well as the largest Jewish community between Florida, Atlanta and Texas. In addition, New Orleans has a sizable Croatian minority as well.

Along with JazzFest, New Orleans` Voodoo Music Experience and Essence Music Festival are both large music celebrations featuring both local and internationally known music artists.