This Saturday, powder your wigs, shine your boots and get out your white hats, 'cause CL-10 is heading back to the Napoleonic front. And, there will be food.

Today, Twilight actor Gavin Bristol hosts a special comedy night at The New Movement a holocaust survivor comes to the National WWII museam and a mixture of synth, brass, gypsy jazz comes to local clubs. On this day in Louisiana history, jazz pioneer Charles “Buddy” Bolden was born (1877). Considered by many to be the originator of jazz, he was once described by Jelly Roll Morton as “the blowingest man since Gabriel”! Here's how we talk up today:

by Mary-Devon Dupuy

Lovers of the macabre and the counter-culture should mark their calendars this week. It’s Creepy Fest in the Big Easy, and local bands are fanning out from July 11-15 (note that includes Friday the 13th) and filling bars with gore, horror, and of course, punk rock. From tonight on, the Hi-Ho, the Circle Bar, The Big Top, Siberia, Saturn Bar, and Checkpoint Charlie’s are taking turns hosting the city’s creepiest acts.

by Brad Rhines

Expect the Big Top to look more like the Mos Eisley Cantina this weekend, as the sci fi-curious members of the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus are set to step out with “Set Your Phasers to Stunning,” a fashion show for the Queen Amidala in all of us. The Mardi Gras krewe's coming-out event gives krewe members a chance to show off their costumes, and provides an opportunity for the rest of NOLA’s drunken nerds to join in on the fun. With a bigger, longer, more prominent Krewe of Chewbacchus on tap for the Feb. 18 march, even the inahabitants of the Outer Rim and Bayous of Dagobah are expressing an interest in coming into town early for the show.

by Jeffrey Hill

Need a gift idea? There's a mafia for that. With Christmas less than two weeks away, last-minute shoppers are once again invited to the New Orleans Craft Mafia’s 6th Annual Last Stop Shop this Thursday from 6 to 10pm at the Big Top Gallery (1638 Clio). Shoppers can expect to find a variety of unique and handmade gifts made by local artists and craft enthusiasts. All current members of the Craft Mafia will be participating at this year’s holiday craft fair including favorites like Miss Malaprop, art by mags!, and Green Kangaroo.

Following the success from their inaugural march during Mardi Gras Stardate 2011, the Intergalactic Krewe of Chubacchus will be hosting a holiday celebration Friday December 9th titled “Christmas in Tatooine” at The Big Top, 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center, 1638 Cilo Street. Everyone from Vulcans to Jedi Masters are encouraged to attend and dance the night away to tunes by The Green Demons + Eat A Happy Holidick. Along with a fully stocked cantina, festivities will also include an art auction and raffle as well as low-cost, high-tech tattoos. Doors open at 8 and there will be a $10 cover for nonmembers and $5 for members.

September 6, when the Puritans set sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower (1620), when the Puritans settled Salem, (1928), when Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond to move in with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847), when nine Israeli athletes were murdered during the Munich Olympic Games, when Russia’s second largest city is renamed Saint Petersburg after being named Leningrad in 1924 (1991), and when Princess Diana’s funeral was held in London (1997); it’s Foxy Brown’s birthday (1979), and Tom Fogerty's death (1990).

That old feeling that you are in a movie is even more likely than usual to be true this weekend. No less than 500 filmmakers will take to the streets to create a movie as part of the 48 Hour Film Project. The competition kicks off at Big Top Gallery on CL-10 tomorrow at 7 p.m., and closes out Sunday at 7 p.m.

April 16, when Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel (1912), when Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered LSD (1943), when Walter Cronkite took lead over the CBS Evening News (1962), when MLK Jr. wrote his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (1963), the Virginia Tech massacre (2007), Charlie Chaplin’s birth (1889), and Alexis de Tocqueville’s death (1859). Tough to top, but here goes:

by Michael Cohn-Geltner

Community Records, the record label that will host tomorrow's annual Block Party outside the Big Top, have an upfront and transparent approach to music. They offer a dollar-by-dollar breakdown of where the buyer’s money goes. The label gets a 15% cut that helps them break even, while 3% plus 30 cents goes to PayPal. The artists receive the rest of the money. This kind of operation, run of the apartment of owners Greg and D-Ray, is reminiscent of a more lenient Touch and Go. Steve Albini might even approve.