Today, join a ton of New Orleans musicians in Westwego for Charmaine Neville’s benefit concert, tour the Garden District’s food scene on Bon Appétite’s Grub Crawl, take your kiddies to the circus in town, and show your pride on the last day of New Orleans Pride Week with a pub crawl. On this day in history, Fats Domino’s “It’s You I Love” entered the Billboard Top 40, reaching #6 (1957), Shreveport-native Brenton Wood’s “The Oogum Boogum Song” entered the Billboard Top 40 at #34 (1967), the Celebration of Life pop music festival started three days late at Cypress Point Plantation in Point Coupee Parish, LA, where starved and doped up music fans saw John Sebastian, Chuck Berry, Eric Burdon and War (1971).

A pair of side-by-side restaurants from renowned Chef Adolfo Garcia look to take Freret Street's much ballyhooed renaissance to the next level. The good news? They open today.

Communism and human rights are so passe. The filet best suited to sit between french bread is reclaiming its role as powder keg of Sino-American relations. Catfish farmers from Louisiana and other southern states are facing the menacing spectre of cheap imports from Vietnam and China, and - even worse - tilapia. In response, two groups representing the farmers recently did what everyone seeking to get the word out about complex international issues does: they began airing 30-second TV ads that make vague and shakily-sourced assertions.

by Arielle Schecter

Seafood safety testing in the Gulf region has taken a turn for the stinky. Ordinary citizens had presumed that scientists were behind the inspections of oysters, shrimp, and other fishes originating in the oil-tainted waters, but it turns out that anybody with a nose can qualify for the job. Managers of the testing facilities urge the olfactory workers to sniff "like a bunny," according to an NPR report that aired this morning on WWNO. Driving this technology is the belief that people can tell when something's gone bad in their refrigerators. So by extension, they should be able to tell when something's spilled 55,000 gallons of oil on a single catfish.