Los Po-Boy-Citos album release
Latin soul meets New Orleans brass. Dec. 4 A mashed-up bayou boogaloo of classic Latin soul and original New Orleans brass, Los Po-Boy-Citos make like Rebirth with Tito Puente at the reins and Richie...
View ArticlemicroGreens
Green and sustainable news briefs from around the city. RSD Wins Green Award New Orleans' Recovery School District (RSD) has received the U.S. Green Building Council's 2010 Leadership Award, which...
View ArticleIntimate Stranger with Lovey Dovies
Don't call 'em fusion. Just go see 'em. When an international outfit's recipe calls for such far-flung ingredients as Chilean guitarists and a half-English, half-Croatian singer, one instinctively...
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A unflinching satire about ... terrorism. If you think airport security screenings and TSA pat-downs are comically inept, get in line for Four Lions, a dangerously brilliant satire of Jihadi...
View ArticleButch Hancock
Quirky humor, clever wordplay and a rootsy Texas sensibility (with a dash of politics). Troubadour Butch Hancock hails from the Lubbock, Texas, music scene that also gave the world Joe Ely and Jimmie...
View ArticleHAMP Fest 2010
A Rolling Elvis wants to raise awareness of HIV through a musical project. Dec. 11 The 2009 brainchild of Dr. Mark Alain Dery (an infectious disease specialist and Rolling Elvis) the HIV Awareness...
View ArticleVariety at the Ogden
A variety of New Orleans-themed works on display at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The Michael Brown and Linda Green Collection, one of the first major donations to the Ogden Museum after its...
View ArticleVox and the Hound
Leo DeJesus' newest band at the Circle Bar. Dec. 11 A former utility infielder for MyNameIsJohnMichael and current energetic concierge for Empress Hotel, multi-instrumentalist Leo DeJesus displays a...
View ArticleRobert Earl Keen
The man behind "Merry Christmas from the Family." Dec. 11 If your holiday shopping list includes "... a can of bean dip and some Diet Rites, a box of tampons and some Marlboro Lights," then you're...
View ArticleBlack White + Gray
When Mapplethorpe met Wagstaff ... and Patti Smith. Dec. 7 Black White + Gray chronicles the personal and professional relationships between photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (pictured) and curator Sam...
View ArticleTwo Gates of Sleep
A New Orleans-born filmmaker tells a sparse, evocative tale set along the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Alistair Banks Griffin's Two Gates of Sleep takes place somewhere in the rural areas of the...
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The full Monty (Python) at the Mahalia. Dec. 14-19 It's hard to live up to either the cult or popular fame of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), a film in which almost every other line has been...
View ArticleFunked Up
Doves will cry at DJ Soul Sister's Right-On '80s Dance Party. The twisted history of funk is perhaps fraught with higher highs and lower lows than any other musical genre, from George Clinton and...
View ArticleRare Exports: A Christmas Tale
He knows if you've been bad or good. Especially bad. The image of Santa as a jolly and eternally generous fellow is the most popular conception of the holiday figure, but there have been other...
View ArticleThe Santaland Diaries
David Sedaris' modern classic at Le Chat Noir. Advent calendars don't start on the post-Thanksgiving kickoff of holiday shopping that has become known as "Black Friday," but they should. The best...
View ArticleTrombone Shorty's Funky X—mas Jam
Holidays in brass at House of Blues. The strongest winds to hit Louisiana this year didn't occur between June and November. They came weeks earlier, in the fierce gusts that launched Trombone Shorty's...
View ArticlePhotoNOLA 2010
Photography exhibits of all kinds. The fifth annual PhotoNOLA may be officially over, but most of its more than 50 exhibitions are still open.…
View ArticleGeorge Porter Jr.'s Birthday Bash
Dec. 26 Original Meter and bass of spades George Porter Jr. may be busier in his 60s than he was in his 20s.…
View ArticleNoise Night
Fringe musicians at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. Jan. 6th For those who've already abandoned New Year's resolutions, Zeitgeist presents a night of decidedly unresolved art.…
View ArticleThe Ricky Graham Show
The venerable funnyman welcomes 2011. Jan. 10 Ricky Graham ushers his cast of New Orleans notables onstage for a couple of Monday night performances (Jan. 10 and 17).…
View ArticleJon Cleary
The funkmeister general takes over the piano at Chickie Wah Wah on Monday nights. Jan. 10th Chickie Wah Wah got a new piano for Christmas, and Jon Cleary has kindly volunteered to break it in.…
View ArticleGraae's Anatomy
Song-and-dance man Jason Graae comes to Le Chat Noir. Jan. 7-9 Singing and dancing cabaret star Jason Graae brings his one-man show Graae's Anatomy to Le Chat Noir for the weekend.…
View ArticlePreview: Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
Will Coviello on the 10th anniversary of New Orleans' LGBT literary gathering The 10th anniversary Saints and Sinners literary festival features Dorothy Allison (pictured; Bastard Out of Carolina,...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson to speak at Tulane University April 14
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson — public intellectual, frequent talk-show guest and host of the radio show "Star Talk" and the Fox/National Geographic show Cosmos — will speak at Tulane...
View ArticleReview: Finding Vivian Maier
It’s no wonder that “paradoxical” is the first word uttered in the documentary Finding Vivian Maier to describe its elusive and mysterious subject. Vivian Maier made her living as a nanny for...
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