SECTIONS:Defender PicksMercrediMay 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' |
Room 220: Tom Dent Literary Fest Coming This Week Dillard University’s English Department, in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library’s African American Resource Center, will present the 2012 Tom Dent Literary Festival on Thursday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 3. The event will feature readings and discussions by local and visiting writers in honor of Dent, one of the most influential New Orleans authors in the last half of the 20th century and something of an icon in New Orleans African-American literary and theater circles.
The festival kicks off on at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library with a reading by Dent’s friend and collaborator Kalamu ya Salaam and a music performance by Carl LeBlanc of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. An exhibition curated by the Southern University of New Orleans graduate program, “Storied Expressions: The Visual Language of African Art,” will be on display.
The festival continues at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, on Dillard’s campus on the first floor of the Professional Schools and Science Building with a panel discussion and readings by T. Geronimo Johnson, Valentine Pierce, Chancelier “Xero” Skidmore, and Olympia Vernon. Johnson appeared earlier this fall as part of Room 220‘s LIVE PROSE reading series. Room 220 featured an essay about his debut novel, Hold It ‘Til It Hurts by Kristina Robinson.
The Tom Dent Festival was established in 1999 as a tribute to Dent, who was a poet, essayist, activist, and teacher. The native New Orleanian was influential in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, having helped found the Umbra Writers Group and Umbra literary journal in New York City, and BLKARTSOUTH and the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans. He is part of a rich history of black writers organizations in New Orleans that stretches back to the Depression-era Negro Writers Project and forward to the present, embodied today by the MelaNated writers group. Dent also helped found Callaloo, the premier literary journal of African diaspora writing, published today by John Hopkins Press. |
Contributors:Dead Huey Long, Emma Boyce, Ian Hoch, Sarah Esenwein, Ryan Sparks, Will Dilella, Chris Rinaldi, Lianna Patch, Phil Yiannopoulos, Cate Czarnecki, Jonas Griffin, Jennifer Abbot, Mary Kilpatrick, Elaina Patton, Mike Horst, Devin Bambrick, Katherine McGuire, Norris Ortolano, Joe Shriner Staff WritersRyan Sparks, Kerem Ozkan Listings Elisabeth Morgan Puzzler Paolo Roy Art Director: Michael Weber, B.A. Assistant Managing EditorMary-Devon Dupuy Managing EditorStephen Babcock Editor: B. E. Mintz Published Daily byMinced Media, Inc. |
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