Since Belvedere Vodka is in town for Bon Appétite’s Grub Crawl, we asked Belvedere’s official mixologist Star to fix us some heat-repelling recipes using their new summer-line of vodka – Lemon Tea.

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).

Today, drive down to Des Allemands for Catfish Fest, pig out on a grub crawl in the French Quarter, listen to artist Alexa Kleinbard in a rare walkthrough of her work at Ogden Museum, and show NOLA Pride. On this day in New Orleans history, blues belter Luther Kent (1948), Donald Harrison Jr. (1960) and snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc (1960) were born, and  Louis Armstrong had a heart attack in Spoleto, Italy while on tour (1959). Now back to today:

Today, learn about D.C.’s black history through the “Go-Go” music scene, go on a delicious Grub Crawl, drink cocktails with PRIDE, listen to the legends of Stax Records on Frenchmen, and funk it up with Flow Tribe at Tip’s Free Fridays. On this day in history, music entrepreneur Stan “The Record Man” Lewis opened his first record store in Shreveport, LA (1948), LSU b-ball legend "Pistol" Pete Maravich was born (1947) and rapper Master P and his entourage were detained at New Orleans International Airport for trying to check-in two guns through security (1999).

From Bourdain to Zimmern to those guys who appeared on Treme, we've seen enough of our favorite TV personalities get special treatment at this town's top food and drink spots. Another national food institution is descending on New Orleans this weekend, but this time they're letting locals in on the VIP access. Bon Appétit and Belvedere Vodka are set to host a 3-day Grub Crawl this weekend in New Orleans to showcase the city’s top chefs and mixologists, from Besh to Bodenheimer to Boswell. To top it off there's a Saturday night concert for attendees only. Here's the full lineup: