SECTIONS:Defender PicksMardiMay 21stRosa Keller Library (5:00-9:00 PM) My House NOLA presents a rolling food vendor mini festival
101 Drummers Maple Leaf (8:00PM) Feel the Mardi Gras Indian beat with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
Rebirth Brass Band
Crescent City Farmers Market
Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns
The Antenna Gallery (7:00 PM) A series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Charitable Film Network, Press Street, and WWOZ
Birdfoot Backstage with WWNO 89.9 FM Jewish Community Center (7:30 PM) The second evening of a chamber music festival that has something for classical aficionados and dilettantes alike
Pure X Circle Bar (10:00 PM) Catch the Indie rockers on their North American tour MercrediMay 22ndNOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden (5:00 PM) The NOLA Project presents this festive comedy that pits two of Shakespeare's most beloved characters, Benedick and Beatrice, in a war of words and wits
1445 Pauger Street (6:00 PM) Cultural philanthropists Dorian and Kel Bennett have opened their historic Marigny home for this inaugural event with music, theater and dance performances
Circle Bar (10:00 PM) Punk rock on Lee Circle
Walter Wolfman Washington d.b.a. (10:00 PM) Fiery blues on Frenchmen - every week
Curren$y's Jet Lounge Blue Nile (10:00 PM) The NOLA rapper's weekly party
Major Bacon Banks Street Bar (10:00 PM) Blues rock and BLTs!
SIN Night Country Club (All Day) Weekly Wed Gig- $3 martinis and free admission for the service industry folks.
Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake Chickie Wah Wah (8:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- Piano man meets a golden voice.
Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses Mimi's (10:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- Gypsy jazz upstairs in the Marigny
Busker's Ballroom Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- from the street to the stage. Midnight Snax throwdown follows at 10pm.
Tin Men dba (7:00 PM) Weekly Wed Gig- The world's premiere washboard-sousaphone-guitar trio.
Treme Brass Band Candlelight Lounge (9:00 PM) Weekly Wed Gig- Pass on by and see the 6th Ward’s home band JeudiMay 23rdNOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden (5:00 PM) The NOLA Project presents this festive comedy that pits two of Shakespeare's most beloved characters in a war of words and wits
Thursdays at Twilight with Alex McMurray City Park’s Botanical Garden (5:00 PM) New Orleanian songwriter performs at the weekly outdoor concert series
The Ogden Museum (6:00 PM) Singer/ songwriter who has recently performed at Austin City Limits Music Festival and provided tour support for Raul Malo and the Wood Brothers
Maya Erdelyi Reception and Film Screening The Foundation Gallery (6:00 PM) A screening of Maya's award-winning animation "Pareidolia" followed by a Q &A with the artist
Snug Harbor (8:00 & 10:00 PM) The third evening of a chamber music festival that has something for classical aficionados and dilettantes alike
Hi Ho Lounge (9:00 PM) Hip hop artist raps on St. Claude with his album Trap Hop
Circle Bar (10:00 PM) Performing tracks from the new album 'What a World' |
Fringe Fest Curtain Call: 'Shylock,' Reviewed by Mark Folse I can think of no better measure of the success of playwright Mark Leiren-Young’s Shylock than the heated discussion I had with my son driving home from the Backyard Ballroom. A thoughtful young man of 16 who’s frequent reaction to life is “meh” or “OK”, he animatedly recounted a classroom argument over the portrayal of blacks in William Faulkner’s A Dry September, and remembered the sanitized Huck Finn he read in school, in which the word "nigger" never appeared. Fringe's Final LapMore Drama Reviews to Guide You Through the New Orleans Fringe Fest's Last Day Updated 11.20, 5 p.m. Careful not to blink, or Fringe might be gone. Last night, NoDef reviewers got site-specific, spoken-to and self-reflective. Check out these reviews to see how it all shook out: Digital Publishers Summon Spine, Square off Against 'Big Six' Backers Mark Folse of ToulouseStreet.net provides the post-mortem on a publishing throwdown at last week's Words & Music Fest Will Murphy, executive editor at Random House was the nominal moderator until the fist chair flew. It was billed as “New Designs in Publishing in the Digital Age, just another equanimous panel discussion at the staid Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s annual Words & Music Festival, until e-publisher John Oakes came off ropes like a glory-hungry luchador going for the title belt. One World, Many NarrativesOr, Why the Germans Have a Word Specifically to Lament the Death of their Forests and Americans Just Mow Them Down to Print More Books About Dogs Mark Folse of ToulouseStreet.net sums up a discussion at the Words and Music Festival about writing for a global audience, and Americans' relucatance to let in the rest of the world. Words & Music: French Quarter Confab Serves Up 3 Pulitzer Winners, 1 Literary Feast by Mark Folse of Odd Words Faulkner House Books and the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society will host the annual Words & Music, a Literary Feast in New Orleans this Wednesday through Sunday at venues across the French Quarter, with the Hotel Monteleone serving as festival headquarters. This year’s theme is Literature and Life in the Global Village. The Fortin Street StageJazzFest From the Front Porch New Orleans writer Mark Folse, author of Toulouse Street, observes JazzFest without enterting the gates. 
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