The NOLA Project is extending their January run of Martin McDonagh's play, A Behanding in Spokane. The production was initially scheduled to wrap up Sunday, but the theatre company will extend the stint at Allways Lounge with three shows between Thurs., Jan. 26 - Sun., 28. All shows are at 8 p.m. Curious about what you're getting in a play about the quest for a hand? Check out NoDef Theatre Writer Helen Jaksch's review here.  Tickets are available through the NOLA Project.

On this day in Bayou State history, U.S. Federal troops ended the 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt. 56 African Americans were killed, with their heads displayed on pikes for extra intimdation. Tonight, Bill and Turner Ross  talk their new film and Wasted Lives play at Allways Lounge. But once, Thomas Paine published Common Sense (1776), John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil (1870), ‘Masterpiece Theatre premiered on PBS (1971), Time Warner was formed (1990), Pat Benetar was born (1953), and Howlin Wolf died (1976).

Today, we roll out the Sugar Bowl red carpet for Michigan and Virigina Tech, while keeping vigil for our own Sunday-Monday pigskin party at the end of the week. On this day in history, New Orleans' first two primary schools opened on Julia Street in 1842. One school was for boys, and one for girls. Now check out today's separate-yet-equal happenings:

For the next two weeks, the theatrical productions playing at The Shadowbox Theatre and The Allways Lounge are about worlds that many Americans neither knew nor cared to know existed at the time of their original creation.

In the second act of reviews of the opening night of the New Orleans Fringe Fest, NoDef's crack team of stage savants check out a circus, a sexed-up Streetcar, spaghetti western slapstick, and, as ever, girls and hip-hop.

Today, Norman Rockwell is the topic at the WWII Museum, Keith Sonnier talks sculpting light at NOMA and The Urban Voodoo Machine (+beaucoup others) play Allways Lounge. In purer times, Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower in Cape Cod, MA (1620), Jack the Ripper killed his last known victim, Mary Jane Kelly (1888), the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published (1967), Spiro Agnew (1918), Tom Fogerty (1941), Susan Tedeschi (1970), and Sisco (1978) were born, and Charles de Gaulle died (1970); and it's World Freedom Day. So get liberated with these:

The last stitches of the costume will at least get you through the first few hours of the night, and the brew is in the cauldron. It's time to make plans for Halloween weekend.

Today, the New Orleans Book Fair will host a Drunken Spelling Bee, Blondie will perform at Mahalia Jackson Theater, and The Rap Game will set off the Allways Lounge. But September 28 is also a day when the length of the meter was officially determined at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (1889), Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin (1928), and Warsaw surrendered to Nazi Germany during WWII (1939); it’s Ed Sullivan birthday (1901) Miles Davis’ death (1991), and World Rabies Day.

NoDef Drama Writer Helen Jaksch heads to the Allways Lounge for the doomsday-minded collaboration between Goat in the Road Productions and Cripple Creek Players, "The Future is a Fancyland Place."

August 19th, when Google went public (2004), when ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ ended, and the last U.S. combat brigade crossed the border to Kuwait (2010), National Avation Day, International Humanitarian Day, Coco Chanel (1883), Bill Clinton (1946), Nate Dogg (1969, RIP), and Fat Joes' (1970) birthdays, and Groucho Marx’s death (1977).