 09/21/2008 - 09/27/2008  |
Old New Orleans Rum Distillery Tour
August 13, 2007 - December 31, 2008 |
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Times: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Old New Orleans Rum, 2815 Frenchmen Street
Phone: (504) 945-9400
Admission: $10.00
Celebration Distillation offers tours and tastings at the distillery. Our tours offer a intimate and detailed look at the distillation process from beginning to end. All of our tours conclude with a visit to our tasting room. Become a connoisseur as you experience the subtle flavors of our distinctive rums. On occasion the distillers will offer samples of rums we have yet to bring to market to get your thoughts on the directions they are going.
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Palm Court Jazz Band with Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran
February 20, 2008 - December 31, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesdays 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
http://www.palmcourtjazzcafe.com
Location: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St.
Phone: (504) 525-0200
Join us for a Creole cuisine and live Traditional Jazz entertainment featuring Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran.
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The National WWII Museum Presents - Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II
April 12, 2008 - October 31, 2008 |
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Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: 504-527-6012
The National World War II Museum presents Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II, with a showcase exhibit of select artifacts. Check back for more details.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - Tony Feher: Re:Place
April 18, 2008 - October 4, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Closed on holidays
Location: The Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone: (504) 528-3800
Admission: $5.00 General admission; $3.00 Students & Seniors; Free for CAC members
The CAC presents a new, site-specific work, Re:Place, by New York sculptor Tony Feher, made especially for the atrium of the building. The new work will remain on view for three months. Like much of Feher's art, the CAC project has been created using found materials, and it was developed in the form of a direct artistic response to the spaces, shapes, colors and materials of the building's entrance.
To create Re:Place, Feher acquired three dozen 2-liter bottles of Orange Crush and Sunkist orange-flavored soda, and had them positioned at midpoint along the atrium's main cross-beams on three levels. Although each beam holds only one bottle, the cumulative effect of the quantity of bottles across a large spatial volume is of a dappling of the color orange, which at various points during the day catches and/or reflects natural light. Tony Feher (b. 1956), one of the most respected American sculptors of his generation, began showing regularly at galleries in New York and Los Angeles during the early 1990s.
In recent years, he has had solo projects at, among others, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Aspen Art Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and one-person exhibitions at South Texas Art Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Bard College Museum in Annandale-on-Hudson. He just recently held his first solo exhibition at Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York. Feher's characteristic use of extremely humble materials, such as empty bottles, wire coat hangers, packing tape, and plastic bags, have made him one of the leading members of a group of mostly New York-based group of artists who have turned their backs on the highly materialistic art-making practices of the 1980s and 1990s.
In contrast to the abundance of sculpture made using expensive foundries and art fabricators, Feher's approach is heavily arrangement on arrangement, framing and context for its visual and conceptual impact. Tony Feher grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City.
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The New Orleans Museum of Art Presents - The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
June 28, 2008 - September 21, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone: (504) 488-2631
This summer, the New Orleans Museum of Art will present The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, the first major U.S retrospective of the artist's work in more than 30 years. Recognized as one of the most well-known and commercially successful artists to emerge from Latin America, the Colombia native now has his work exhibited and collected by major museums around the world, including the New Orleans Museum of Art. The 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures in this exhibition span the length of Botero's career-from paintings executed in 1959 in Colombia, to sculptures executed as late as 2005. The works were selected by John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, and editor and contributor to the accompanying exhibition catalogue. The exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by John Sillevis, guest curator; David Elliot, Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; and Edward Sullivan, Dean of Humanities and Professor of Latin American Art at New York University.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - City Stage
July 12, 2008 - October 5, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone: (504) 528-3805
Admission: $5.00; $3.00 for students, seniors. FREE for CAC members and children under 15 every day
Theaters are no longer the ideal stages for the display of contemporary life, nor are actors the ultimate vehicles of the contemporary character. This is more true in New Orleans than anywhere else, where streets are stages and anyone is an actor on Mardi Gras Day. Inspired by recent staged events in New Orleans, from seasonal festivals to street theatre or experimental opera to movie shoots, City Stage gives an update to the Shakespearean idea of the world as a stage through the works of emerging artists from New Orleans and beyond infused by the spirit of the stage. City Stage is a reflection on scenic spaces or stages, be they a concert stage, a movie set, a photographer's studio or the streets during carnival and the way in which they impact on current visual arts production. City Stage looks at the way in which artistic fields outside of the visual arts, and for which the visual is only but one element, influence contemporary art which is itself less and less dominated by the preeminence of the purely visual and material, but instead becoming increasingly aural and performative. Although the exhibition is not solely centered on New Orleans, it recognizes the city's many theatrical, musical and carnival stages as a major source of inspiration for such artistic productions. Works in City Stage run the gamut of elements in a staged production from theatrical sets to costumes to studio photography. With Debris Man, originally created for 7 days in Paradise, a multimedia opera he co-wrote and played in, Jeffrey Cook brings the idea of the fetish explored in previous work to life, with a costume that is also a kinetic sculpture. Taking Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot as a starting point, Cauleen Smith invents a sci-fi narrative in which she uses the streets of New Orleans as a backdrop and stages its people as characters of the future in The Fullness of Time. In Bruce Davenport's drawing series, the protagonists are High-School marching bands whose regimented use of space brings to the fore the acquired stage qualities of New Orleans streets. Inspired by 1960's set design, theatrical props and fashion, Adrian Price blends the boundaries between stage and catwalk in an installation in which she revisits the images of women in mass media. The human figure is absent from Adia Millett staged environment in which props are given life through lighting and become leading characters. Finally Colin Miller and Michalene Thomas bring a different twist to studio portraiture, the former by subverting the televised image of the news anchor and the latter by using retro imagery in very contemporary depictions of African-American subjects elevated to the status of icons. By presenting staged and fictional representations from or in the spirit of New Orleans, City Stage questions the supposed truthful images and reports given by the media, suggesting instead that the City might be best experienced in the realm of the imagination. Artists in the exhibition include Jeffrey Cook (New Orleans), Bruce Davenport Jr. (New Orleans), Adrian Price (New Orleans), Colin Miller (Lafayette), Adia Millett (Los Angeles), Cauleen Smith (Boston), Mickalene Thomas (New York). Exhibition curated by Claire Tancons, Associate Curator, Contemporary Arts Center.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - Vestiges: Think Tanks
July 12, 2008 - November 2, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Closed on holidays
Location: The Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone: (504) 528-3800
Admission: $5.00 General admission; $3.00 Students & Seniors; Free for CAC members
VESTIGES: THINK TANKS, in the St. Joseph Street side windows of the Contemporary Arts Center, features FLOOD LINES lightwork installation with photos by Debra Howell, Krista Jurisich and Jan Gilbert and text by Michele White. These large-scale photos generously are sponsored by Ridgway's. This project is another in a series of works produced by the New Orleans-based arts collaborative The VESTIGES Project while in residence at the CAC. Additionally this collective is a founding partner of the large neighborhood-based HOME, New Orleans' arts network. Its performance and installation-based collaborations, including the recent and ongoing WHISPERING BONES project, continue to crop up in churches, cemeteries, and gutted houses around town and to infuse the energy of art and audience as a neighborhood recovery tool.
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Gallery Bienvenu Presents New Paintings featuring Jim Napierala and Arturo Mallman
August 2, 2008 - September 26, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
http://www.gallerybienvenu.com
Location: Gallery Bienvenu, 518 Julia Street
Phone: (504) 525 - 0518
Mesmerizing and complex, the process-intensive paintings of New York City-based artist Jim Napierala superimpose the gestural freedom of Abstract Expressionism atop the rigor of the modernist grid. The paintings are the end result of a working method developed by the artist in 2000 and constantly evolved and adjusted since that time. Methodically taping off sections of a maple plywood panel, Napierala slices into the tape with a blade, creating curvaceous, biomorphic forms with a spontaneity reminiscent of Dadaist automatic drawing. Arturo Mallmann’s luminous paintings follow in this tradition, inviting us into landscapes that are half-geographic, half-psychological, and wholly immersive. Born in Uruguay, Mallmann has led a richly colorful life, residing and traveling throughout South America, Europe, and North America, and within these far-flung adventures lie the aesthetic and experiential influences that inform his haunting work. With acrylics, resin, and varnish, the artist layers and sands coat after coat of materials in a process that, like nature itself, is by turns additive and substractive. His austere compositions are often coalesce around the eternal motif of the horizon line, harkening to our primal human capacity for awe.
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The Voodoo Mystére Lounge Presents - Orphaned on Purpose
August 7, 2008 - October 2, 2008 |
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Times: Thursdays at 10:00 pm
Location: The Voodoo Mystére Lounge, 718 North Rampart, at Orleans
Phone: (504) 304-1568
Admission: $5.00 plus one-drink minimum
Orphaned on Purpose, New Orleans' newest improv and sketch comedy troupe,begins weekly shows at the new Voodoo Mystere Lounge. The troupe specializes in short-form comedy improvisation based on audience suggestions and written sketch material; both of which are sure to delight a variety of audience members. Members of Orphaned on Purpose have more than two years experience together in University of New Orleans' improv troupe, Dinner Ready is Improv. Its goal is to create a weekly show both dynamic and entertaining, and that nurtures an imaginative artistic atmosphere. Troupe members include Ryan Bruce, Jason Buch, Ellen Buschang, Cory Dumesil, Ryan Lavalette, Jesse Manley, Ben Matheny, Josh Simpson, and Mandi Turner.
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The New Orleans Museum of Art Presents - Coping With Katrina
August 27, 2008 - November 2, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone: (504) 488-2631
The New Orleans Museum of Art will present Coping with Katrina: Artwork from the Hyogo-NOMA Children's Art Therapy Initiative, an exhibition of artworks by children who lived through the 2005 hurricane and subsequent flooding. All of the pieces were produced by participants in the Hyogo-NOMA Children's Art Therapy Initiative, which has offered art therapy sessions at schools throughout the New Orleans area and at free day camps at the Museum. "The works express sincere emotions about the children's experiences with Hurricane Katrina," said Holly Wherry, the professional art therapist who has been on staff at NOMA since 2007 and who coordinated the sessions that led to this exhibition. "You see how they are coping three years after the storm, and you see their immense pride in New Orleans. All of the participating children have given permission for their art to be exhibited publicly in order to communicate their experiences and educate the public about art therapy.
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Playin at the Polo featuring Jim Harris
August 31, 2008 - September 24, 2008 |
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Times: Sundays 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: The Polo Club in the Windsor Court
Phone: (504) 523-6000
Join us as The Polo Club Lounge, named by Zagat as New Orleans' best place to drink, is jazzin' it up with the hot entertainment series, "Playin' At The Polo," featuring pianist Jim Harris.
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Longue Vue Kinder-Garden: Back to School in the Garden Drop - In Program
September 2, 2008 - September 30, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesdays 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Location: Longue Vue, 7 Bamboo Road
Phone: (504) 488-5488 ext. 333
Admission: $10.00 FLV; $12.00 Non-members; Siblings discounted; $5.00 for additional adult
Children ages 18 mos. – 3 yrs and their accompanying adult are invited to explore the world of gardens through age-appropriate activities such as plant care, seed sorting, singing, craft making and digging for worms in this hands-on class for young, curious learners. Pre-registration is NOT required in this drop-in program. Program fee covers one child and one adult. Shine only!
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"Playin' at the Polo" Presents Michael Pellera"
September 4, 2008 - September 27, 2008 |
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Times: Thursdays 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm; Fridays 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Saturdays 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: The Polo Club in the Windsor Court
Phone: (504) 523-6000
Meet with friends and colleagues, sip a classic cocktail and hear some of the city's best musicians. Entertainment tonight featuring pianist Michael Pellera.
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Playin at the Polo featuring Leah Chase
September 5, 2008 - September 26, 2008 |
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Times: Fridays 9:00 pm – 12:00 midnight
Location: The Polo Club in The Windsor Court
Phone: (504) 523-6000
Join us for live entertainment featuring Jazz Vocalist Leah Chase.
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"Playin' At the Polo" Presents The Anais St. John & Trio
September 6, 2008 - September 27, 2008 |
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Times: Saturdays 9:00 pm - Midnight
Location: The Polo Club in The Windsor Court
Phone: (504) 523-6000
Join us as we jazz it up with hot entertainment series, "Playin' At The Polo," featuring New Orleans' home-grown vocalist Anais St. John with The Harry Mayronne Trio.
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Southern Rep presents Speech and Debate
September 6, 2008 - September 28, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Saturday 8:00 pm; Sunday 3:00 pm
Location: Southern Repertory Theatre, 365 Canal St., 3rd Floor
Phone: (504) 522-6545
Admission: $20.00- $27.00
SPEECH & DEBATE is the Off-Broadway sensation of last season, where it was extended twice at The Roundabout in NYC. In this fiercely funny play with music, three high school misfits find each other over the internet and decide to combat local corruption, sex scandals and bad casting when they sign up for the newly formed Speech & Debate team to take their grievances public, big time. Their hard-won exposé culminates in a time-traveling George Michael-inspired musical version of Miller’s The Crucible. Alternately zany, hilarious, and heartbreaking, playwright Karam explores identity, the appropriate boundaries for sexuality, and what it’s like to be without a voice in this less than brave new world.
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Trinity Artist Series Presents - Taize
September 8, 2008 - September 29, 2008 |
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Times: Mondays 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone: (504)670-2520
Come join us for Taize enchanting simple songs led by Albinas Prizgintas at the piano: candlelight moments of silence, a beautiful iconic cross, and tea. The focus is meditation, tranquility, and healing.
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Trinity Artist Series Presents - Albinas Prizgintas
September 9, 2008 - September 30, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesdays 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone: (504)670-2520
Come join us for Albinas Prizgintas, organist. The program includes some of the greatest music written for organ and a variety of performed music, ranging from Classical Baroque to vintage rock tunes.
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Jefferson Performing Arts Society Presents - All Shook Up
September 13, 2008 - November 2, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm
http://www.jpas.org
Location: Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave Westwego
Phone: (504)855-2000 ext. 205
A rock-n-roll retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, “All Shook Up” weaves the music of Elvis Presley into this musical comedy of mistaken identities, misguided lovers and playful mayhem set in 1950’s small-town America. Don’t miss this jukebox of a musical featuring classic Elvis Presley tunes including “Jailhouse Rock,” “Love Me Tender,” and “Hound Dog.”
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Jefferson Performing Arts Society Presents - Madama Butterfly
September 20, 2008 - September 21, 2008 |
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Times: Saturday 7:30 pm; Sunday 5:00 pm
Location: Jefferson Performing Arts Center
Phone: (504)855-2000 ext. 205
JPAS is pleased to bring Puccini’s masterpiece to the stage once again! This tragedy of love, betrayal, and sacrifice is vibrantly brought to the stage by international talent.
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Bring The Noize! Fest 2008 - Day 3
September 21, 2008 |
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Times: 4:00 pm
Location: Howlin' Wolf, 907 St. Peters St.
Phone: (504) 528-8282
A 3-day festival featuring the best punk, hardcore & metal in the world today. In addition to bands, this event will feature local, volunteer-run organizations representing a myriad of causes from housing/renters rights to New Orleans rebuilding efforts to local artist/musician support.
Featured artist will be KYLESA, BLUDWULF, THOU, EVIL ARMY, NO F#CKER, HELLKONTROLL, THE SKUDS, SH!TF#CKER, HAARP & GRAVEBOUND.
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New Orleans Convention Center Presents Chicago
September 21, 2008 |
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Times: 8:00 pm
Location: New Orleans Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd
Phone: (504) 522-5555
Admission: $35.00 - $75.00
Come join us at the New Orleans Convention Center for the legendary rock group Chicago. The Grammy award-winning rock band Chicago, has had 21 top 10 singles including such hits as such as “Saturday in the Park,” “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” and “You’re the Inspiration.
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Trinity Artist Series Presents - Albinas Prizgintas
September 21, 2008 |
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Times: 5:00 pm
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone: (504) 670-2520
Come join us for Albinas Prizgintas, organist Bach and Roll.
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House of Blues Presents - Amos Lee
September 22, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm Door opens; 8:00 pm Show
http://www.hob.com
Location: House of Blues, 225 Decatur St.
Phone: (504) 310-4999
Admission: $23.50
Come join us at the House of Blues for Amos Lee plus Mutlu.
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American Whiskey Fest
September 24, 2008 |
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Times: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Southern Food & Beverage Museum American Cocktail, Riverwalk – Julia Street entrance
Phone: (504) 569-0405
Admission: $10.00 (event is free with museum admission)
Whiskey Nation: American Culture and Brown Liquor. A Panel Discussion Featuring Master Distillers Chris Morris Woodford Reserve, Harlen Davis Wheatley Buffalo Trace, Jeff Arnett Jack Daniel’s, and Jimmy Russell Wild Turkey. Dr. David Beriss, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans will lead the panel. Beriss, a curious American Whiskey fan, researches and frequently enjoys the food and drink culture of the United States, and particularly New Orleans. His most recent publication, The Restaurants Book Ethnographies of Where We Eat, brings together anthropological insights into these thoroughly postmodern places. He sees our country’s experience as tied to a long history of brown liquor production.An amazing diversity of whiskeys existed before prohibition. These Master Distillers have, each in his own way, revived that diversity with some really high quality offerings. Expect a lively brown liquor discussion. Spirited Master Distiller Dinners: Featuring American Whiskey Cocktails and Special Paired Menus. Dine with a legend over distinctive New Orleans cuisine.
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American Whiskey Festival - Meet The Masters
September 24, 2008 |
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Times: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Bourbon House
Phone: (504) 274 - 1829
Admission: $120.00
There will be Four Living Legends Under One Roof: Chris Morris, Harlen Davis Wheatley Buffalo Trace, Jeff Arnett Jack Daniel’s, and Jimmy Russell Wild Turkey). Guests can discuss the art of making fine whiskey, from grains to bottling with all four Master Distillers and taste from the award-winning portfolios of the world’s best producers. Specialty whiskey cocktails will also be available. Signed bottle sales will benefit the Southern Food & Beverage Museum. At the Meet the Masters event, Master Distillers will offer many tasting terms that are strikingly similar to the language used when tasting wine – as many wines are also aged in oak barrels. Just like fine wines, fine whiskeys are meant to be sipped and savored.
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Blue Nile Presents - TriFuncTa
September 24, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 pm
Location: Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St
Phone: (504) 948-2583
Come join us for TriFuncTa.
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Blue Nile Presents - DJ T Roy
September 25, 2008 |
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Times: 11:00 pm
Location: Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St
Phone: (504) 948-2583
Come join us at the Blue Nile for DJ T Roy.
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Blue Nile Presents Gal Holiday's Honky Tonk Review
September 25, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 pm
Location: Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St
Phone: (504) 948-2583
Come join us at the Blue Nile for Gal Holiday's Honky Tonk Review.
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Champagne, Cheese, and the Yellowbrick Road
September 25, 2008 |
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Times: 6:30 pm
Location: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, 2800 Chartres Street
Phone: (504) 949-3609 ext 505
Admission: $15.00
Join in the Adventures of Dorothy and her courageous friends. All in support of Project Lazarus!
This will be a rare oppurtunity to view this film classic on the big screen. There will also be short works by NOCCA students and a Ruby slipper raffle. Designs by Krewe of Muses and participating artists. Character costumes encouraged by children of all ages!
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Harrah's New Orleans Presents - Thrillusions
September 25, 2008 - September 28, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm
Location: Harrah's Theatre
Phone: (504) 533-6600
Admission: $25.00 - $35.00
Harrah’s New Orleans welcomes Thrillusions back to Harrah’s Theatre for four nights. This new production will feature international award-winning magician James Brandon. He will join the cast of legendary rock star impersonators including Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Prince. The new Thrillusions will also include exciting opening and finale dance numbers with electrifying dancers.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans Presents - Harvest the Music Series - Edwin McCain
September 25, 2008 |
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Times: Thursdays 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Location: Lafayette Square, 600 St. Charles Avenue
Admission: Free
Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana announces its new fall concert series, Harvest the Music, to raise awareness and funds to highlight the ongoing crisis of hunger across southern Louisiana. Harvest the Music concert series will begin with nationally-acclaimed Edwin McCain joined by Kevin Kinney.
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Tulane University vs SMU
September 25, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm
Location: Louisiana Superdome, Sugarbowl Drive
Phone: (504) 587-3822
Tulane University football vs SMU.
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World War II Museum Presents - Special Exhibition - Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town
September 25, 2008 - January 11, 2009 |
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Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: 877-813-3329 x 270
Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Town in Poland 1897-1939 illustrates Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust through reproductions of more than 100 photographs of the small town of Szczuczyn, Poland. This special exhibition is on loan from the Holocaust Museum Houston. These photographs capture the ordinary lives of the residents during the years leading up to the Nazi invasion. These photographs were taken by Zalman Kaplan in Szczuczyn, where he established a business as the local photographer.Kaplan’s grandson, Michael Marvins, spent years collecting photographs by his grandfather from the descendants of the families that lived in Szczuczyn. The photographs reveal another side of the small Polish town contrary to the often associated images of Orthodox Jews. They show a rich and diverse way of life that was not so different from our own today. This exhibit puts faces on the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. The photographs are of ordinary people leading common lives. The exhibit shows what can happen to everyday people when hate and intolerance are allowed to flourish. This glimpse into life before the war shows the people of Szczuczyn as similar to many around the world - enjoying life, advancements in technology and living free of labels or hate. Upon close examination, one must wonder, were their lives so different from our own? The exhibit contains over 100 prints of photographs taken by Zalman Kaplan who was a professional photographer in Szczuczyn, Poland. The Jewish community of Szczuczyn was wiped out by the Holocaust. The images were collected from survivors by Kaplan’s grandson Michael Marvins.
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Blue Nile Presents Jealous Monk
September 26, 2008 |
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Times: 11:00 pm
Location: Blue Nile, Upstairs 532 Frenchmen St
Phone: (504) 948-2583
Come join us at the Blue Nile for Jealous Monk.
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Blue Nile Presents Soul Rebels Brass Band
September 26, 2008 |
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Times: 11:00 pm
Location: Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St
Phone: (504) 948-2583
Come join us for the Soul Rebels Brass Band. This shrewd crew of college trained multi-instrumentalists blend the sounds of Mardi Gras funk, soft rock and reggae so seemingly it defies category. Soul Rebel is a seven piece ensemble that adds a hip hop sensibility with the New Orleans jazz tradition.
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Oktoberfest 2008
September 26, 2008 - October 31, 2008 |
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Times: Fridays, 3:00 pm to 1:00 am; Saturdays, 6:00 pm to 1:00 am
Location: Deutsches Haus, 200 S. Galvez St
Phone: (504) 522-8014
Oktoberfest at Deutsches Haus features live bands German food and beer, wine and schnapps, and Souviners from Germany. Featured items include a great selection of German beer. Here's a list of some of them: Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest Spaten Lager, Oktoberfest, Franziskaner, Optimator Dinkel Acker Dark Paulaner Hefeweizen, Munich Lager, Oktoberfest Hofbrau Oktoberfest, Munich Lager Warsteiner and Warsteiner Dunkel Bitburger Kostritzer Schwarzbier (Black Lager). Also there's Schnapps (Goldwasser, Goldschlager, Rumplemintz, Black Haus), and Clean Slate Reisling. Of course there's some great German Food like Sauerbraten, Bratwurst, Knackwurst & much more.
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Arts Market of New Orleans
September 27, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
http://www.artscouncilneworleans.org
Location: Palmer Park (at the corner of S. Claiborne Ave. and S. Carrollton Ave.
Phone: (504) 523-1465
The Arts Market features handmade, affordable art from local and regional artists and artisans. Styles of art include Painting, Photography, Ceramics, Glass, Jewelry, Wood, and Printmaking, plus handmade clothing, soap, candles, and other delights. Between 50 and 100 artists display and sell their wares each month.
The Arts Market also features live entertainment, food and beverage booths, and a children's activities area.
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Blue Nile Presents Irvin Mayfield and Purple Disrespect
September 27, 2008 |
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Times: 11:00 pm
Location: Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St
Phone: (504) 948-2583
Come join us at the Blue Nile for Irvin Mayfield and Purple Disrespect.
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Harrah's Theatre Presents - Richard Simmons
September 27, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 am and 2:00 pm
Location: Harrah's Theatre
Phone: (504) 533-6600
Admission: $20.00 per person
Sweat to the oldies with New Orleans native Richard Simmons at Harrah’s Theatre. Get your heart pumping with Simmons, followed by a meet and greet session and photo opportunity with the workout legend.
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House of Blues Presents - Slang Angus plus 6 Pack Deep
September 27, 2008 |
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Times: 9:00 pm Door ; 10:00 pm Show
Location: The Parish at the House of Blues
Phone: (504) 310-4999
Come join us at the House of Blues for Rock Hip Hop artist Slang Angus plus Pack Deep and Tony Skratchree.
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Natchez Fall Pilgrimage
September 27, 2008 - October 11, 2008 |
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Times: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
http://www.natchezpilgrimage.com
Location: Natchez, Mississippi
Phone: (800) 647-6742
Come join us for the Natchez Fall Pilgrimage. Hostesses in period costume welcome visitors to three mansions each morning and three each afternoon, eighteen historic mansions in all. After your day's touring, relax and enjoy the town. Entertainment is available every night during the two week period of Fall Pilgrimage. Amos Polk's voices of Hope Spiritual Singers features dinner and stirring Gospel music. "Big River" A Musical Adventure about Huckleberry Finn on the Mighty Mississippi based on the writing of Mark Twain. The music keeps emotions on edge, from songs that tug at the heart to songs that are pure fun.
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New Orleans Museum of Art Presents - Festival of Flavors
September 27, 2008 |
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Times: 6:00 pm
Location: New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park in the Great Hall
Phone: (504) 658-4100
Come join us for The Festival of Flavors, a series of free tastings showcasing Latin American cuisine from a different country or region. Come and enjoy the food by West Indies Restaurant and Columbian Friends of the Museum. The Festival of Flavors tastings are presented in conjunction with The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, retrospective of work by Latin America's most famous living artist, on view now through September 21.
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World War II Museum Presents - Lagniappe Lecture – The 1941 Senate Investigation of Hollywood
September 27, 2008 |
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Times: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: (504) 527-6012 x 229
Come join us for Lagniappe Lecture – The 1941 Senate Investigation of Hollywood, presented by John Moser. In 1941 a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate launched an investigation into the motion picture industry for allegedly producing propaganda to encourage American involvement in World War II. Was this a precursor to the famous 'witch hunts' of the McCarthy era, or were the senators on to something? Why, after years of avoiding potentially controversial subjects, had Hollywood suddenly decided to focus on events in on Europe. Finally, what does this episode tell us about the film industry--and politics--in the months before Pearl Harbor. Join Professor John Moser as he presents this intriguing lecture.
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