If you usually can’t afford to dine at the Ste. Marie, bring yourself to the CBD tomorrow for the Nola Fashion Council Brunch. There will be a $30 fixed menu, but the real steal is the 25cent mimosas. You can use the money you save on the trunk show, but more importantly, a portion of the restaurant’s proceeds will go towards local up and coming fashion designers. NoDef spoke with Andi Eaton of the Nola Fashion Council about how the brunch idea came to be.

by Sean Rhoads

Now that Jazz Fest is over, rest your bloated, sunburned body in the air conditioning and watch a movie (or seven) at New Orleans Film Society’s Film-O-Rama. The slate of recent independent and foreign films (along with a couple of old favorites) runs at Uptown’s Prytania Theater from this Friday, May 13, to the following Thursday, May 19. A kickoff party, featuring cocktails and trailers of the week’s movies, is slated for tonight at 6 p.m. at Ste. Marie restaurant on Poydras St.

May 11, when Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. State (1858), when Mercedes-Benz formed (1924), when thirty-six year old Bob Marley died of foot cancer (1981), when Baltimore saw the first sccessful heart-lung transplant completed (1887), and when Admiral Thad Allan was appointed as leader of the Federal response to the erl spill (2010). Meanwhile, in NOLA news:

CBD - Formerly known as the Faubourg Ste. Marie, today’s Central Business District houses new establishments that are turning this skyscraper-heavy downtown locale into a bustling center of food and drink. Among the newest to stake its claim over territoire du Poydras is Ste. Marie, a restaurant owned by Leon and Pierre Touzet (of Patois fame) and Robert LeBlanc of LRG, with chef Chris Foster of NYC’s Bar American.