Defender PicksMARDIMay 22nd
CBD (All Day)
Seminars, grand tastings, 20th anniversary!
Octavia Books (6:00 PM) Carolyn Turgeon signs her novel of swan maidens
Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse (8:00 PM) The sax man and composer plays one of Bourbon's classiest environs
Maple Leaf Bar (10:00 PM) 2 sets by the Grammy-winning brass band
Broadway St Market (9:00AM-1:00PM)
Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns
Spotted Cat (10:00PM)
NOLA Community Printshop's Screenprint Open Shop
d.b.a (10:00 PM) The 6th Ward's home brass band saunters over to Frenchmen for some New Orleans music. MERCREDIMay 23rdLafayette Square (5:00 PM) This week, Wednesday's happiest hour features a brassy lineup: Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. & Hot 8 Brass Band
CBD (All Day)
Seminars, grand tastings, 20th anniversary!
Wazozo Zorchetstra, Helen Gillet & Luke Allen Siberia (10:00 PM) A night of NOLA's favorite cello, first with the Happy Talk Band singer, then with her very own big band!
Republic (9:00 PM) Chris Trew's invisible coitus returns to New Orleans for preliminary rounds
House of Blues (9:00 PM) Yes, they're still around. And, yes, they still love the glam.
Allways Lounge (9:00 PM) Gospel Music is an indie pop songwriter, while Lonesome Leash is Walt from Big Ship, Dark Dark Dark.
Father John Misty, Har Mar Superstar, Moon Hooch, The Dropout One Eyed Jack's (10:00 PM) Lots of indie in da Quarters
Latter Library Carriage House (10:00AM-2:00PM) Weekly Wed Gig- bi-weekly sale on St. Charles.
Weswego Farmers & Fisheries Market
484 Sala Ave (8:00AM-2:00PM)
Hump Day/SIN Night
Country Club (All Day)
Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake
Chickie Wah Wah (8:00PM)
Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses
Mimi's (10:00PM)
Busker's Ballroom
Hi-Ho Lounge (8:00PM)
Tin Men
dba (7:00 PM)
Treme Brass Band
Candlelight Lounge (9:00 PM) JEUDIMay 24th
Blue Nile (10:00 PM)
A fundraiser for Gulf Restoration Network and Sweet Home New Orleans with Elvis Perkins, Erin McKeown, Jeanie Schroder (Devotchka), Justin Poree (Ozomatli), Lateef The Truthspeaker, Martín Perna (Antibalas + Ocote Soul), Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Spank Rock,Thao Nguyen (Thao And The Get Down Stay Down), more!
CBD (All Day)
Seminars, grand tastings, 20th anniversary!
Old US Mint (8:00 PM)
The inaugural chamber music festival holds its first concert
Tip's (9:00 PM)
HIs hair isn't the only thing funny about this Brooklyn-based entertainer. Chris Trew opens.
Jumpin Johnny Sansone
Chickie Wah Wah (8:00 PM)
One of NOLA's foremost blues harp men
d.b.a. (10:00 PM)
SFR is on tour, while Riff Raff are from here. Expect lilt.
Circle Bar (10:00 PM)
Old time country in their old time venue
Siberia (10:00 PM)
An aural and visual experience in the vein of the Flaming Lips
One Eyed Jack's (7:00 PM)
Indie rock...early in the evening
Rock 'N Bowl (8:30 PM)
Zydeco Night!
Thursdays at Twilight
City Park (6:00 PM)
This week featuring Wendell Brunious
Ogden Museum of Southern Art (6:00 p.m.)
This week featuring Americana Duo Spinning Leaves
NOMA Sculpture Garden (7:00 PM)
Theatre: Shakespeare under the oaks!
Mid-City Theatre (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Camp meets Freud in this tale of deviant sexual awakening
JPAS (8:00 PM)
Theatre: 80s kitsch rollerskating musical. Need we say more?
CAC (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Ricky Graham takes the stage for a one-woman show
Gold Mine Saloon (8:00 PM) Weekly reading series, this time with poet Wang Ping
Hi-Ho Lounge (9:00 PM) Weekly Thurs Gig- Brass band of the hour plays their unique mix of hip-hop and jazz.
Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers
Vaughn's (7:00 PM)
Tom McDermott and Aurora Nealand
Buffa's (8:00PM)
I Club (8:30 PM)
Big D Perkins and Cornell Williams team up!
VENDREDIMay 25thKD Lang and the Siss Boom Bang
Mahalia Jackson Theatre (8:00 PM)
The singer-songwriter brings her 5-piece band to the Mahalia
Greek Orthodox Cathedral (All Day) LA festin' goes Medieterranean. Featuring Hellenic dancers, live Greek music and a Greek grocery
Piazza d'Italia (5:30 PM) Chamber music heads outdoors!
CBD (All Day)
Seminars, grand tastings, 20th anniversary!
Chickie Wah Wah (8:00 PM)
These members of the Subdudes and the Radiators, respectively, come together.
Tip's (10:00 PM)
w/ Pockit Tyme, Yojimbo
Blue Max and the Maximizers
John Paul's (9:00 PM)
w/ Billy Outlaw and Ratty Scurvics
Circle Bar (10:00 PM)
NOLA Indie
Allways Lounge (10:00 PM)
NOLA's own Rock and Soul
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue
Banks Street Bar (10:00 PM)
Country without the pop and circumstance
NOMA Sculpture Garden (7:00 PM)
Theatre: Shakespeare under the oaks!
Mid-City Theatre (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Camp meets Freud in this tale of deviant sexual awakening
JPAS (8:00 PM)
Theatre: 80s kitsch rollerskating musical. Need we say more?
CAC (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Ricky Graham takes the stage for a one-woman show
Allways Lounge (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Cripple Creek recreates the classic Greek drama of war and abstinence
SAMEDIMay 26th
Greek Orthodox Cathedral (All Day) LA festin' goes Medieterranean. Featuring Hellenic dancers, live Greek music and a Greek grocery
The New Orleans Food & Wine Experience CBD (All Day) Grand tastings, seminars, 20th anniversary. Today: The Louisiana Seafood Cookoff
UNO Lakefront Arena (7:00 PM) Mike Epps, Joe Torry, Tony Rock, Jay Lamont and Gary Owen. One night.
Tip's (10:00 PM) Yes, that's Johnny Vidacovich and Stanton Moore. Can the two NOLA drum masters share one stage?
Rebirth Brass Band Howlin' Wolf (10:00 PM) See the Grammy-winning brass band
Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Lost Bayou Ramblers Siberia (10:00 PM) The inventor of the drum buddy brings his Cajun buddies in for what's sure to be the highest-energy show of the night
Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers Rock n Bowl (8:00 PM) Plenty of room for dancin', and rollin'
Wild Magnolias d.b.a (10:00 PM) Funk 'n Indians!
Sasha Masakowski's Musical Playground Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro (8&10 PM) The jazz singer shows what's up her sleeve
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? Allways Lounge (10:00 PM) They like dirges, and they've got a lotta members. Nothing wrong with that!
Mid-City Theatre (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Camp meets Freud in this tale of deviant sexual awakening
JPAS (8:00 PM)
Theatre: 80s kitsch rollerskating musical. Need we say more?
CAC (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Ricky Graham takes the stage for a one-woman show
Allways Lounge (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Cripple Creek recreates the classic Greek drama of war and abstinence DIMANCHEMay 27th
Greek Orthodox Cathedral (All Day) LA festin' goes Medieterranean. Featuring Hellenic dancers, live Greek music and a Greek grocery
Debauche d.b.a. (10:00 PM) Russian mafia band!
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship?, Noir Fonce, Hormone Imbalance The Big Top (2:00 PM) All-local matinees continue on CL-10
Hot 8 Brass Band Howlin' Wolf Den (9:00 PM) with food by Que Crawl!
Mid-City Theatre (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Camp meets Freud in this tale of deviant sexual awakening
JPAS (8:00 PM)
Theatre: 80s kitsch rollerskating musical. Need we say more?
CAC (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Ricky Graham takes the stage for a one-woman show
Allways Lounge (8:00 PM)
Theatre: Cripple Creek recreates the classic Greek drama of war and abstinence |
WhoDat Said They Gonna Change Dat King Cake? by Shay Sokol A Marigny coffee shop with a very loyal following is trying its hand at King Cakes this year. Who Dat Coffee Café on the corner of Mandeville and Burgundy Streets is serving personal-sized mini and whole plain-cinnamon King Cakes for the first time with simply good results.
Originally from Delcambre, LA, co-owner Craig Nero has lived in New Orleans on and off for 18 years. Nero explained that as a child, his grandmother, like many Louisiana women, would bake cinnamon rolls year-round. Around Mardi Gras, she would decorate them with purple, green and gold icing. Craig Nero is not trying to serve King Cakes as we’ve come to know them in the Randazzo’s sense, but is trying to create a King Cake of his childhood.
“Instead of evolving into the 5,000-calorie dessert, like the elaborate ones, the braided, the big ones, the stuffed ones with Bavarian cream, we just do original like grandma. Sometimes simple is just better,” Nero said.
David Ysaguire is the baker behind the king cakes. His company, Dat's Good, is ran out of Nero's cafe.
When asked what Nero thinks King Cakes are about, he said he believes they became a holiday treat as “a last ditch attempt to have your sweets before Lent.”
But he doesn’t think King Cakes are about how sweet they are. For those susceptible to sugar shock that accompanies the standard Mardi Gras fare, the icing on Who Dat’s King Cakes is refreshingly not as sweet as most other King Cakes.
NoDef tried the personal King Cakes, which look like cinnamon rolls with purple, green, and gold powder-sugar icing. Nero said the personal ones are “a comfort food to be enjoyed with a glass of milk or coffee.” The personal King Cakes can be ordered at the counter during all open hours, while the whole King Cakes must be ordered 24 hours in advance.
The icing supplies the moistness, as opposed to a moist filling inside like most elaborate King Cakes these days, (see: Cake Café’s apple and goat cheese King Cake). The inside of Who Dat’s King Cakes have the consistency and taste of homemade cinnamon rolls.
Who Dat will open a new location in Old Town, Slidell on June 1, which also happens to be the birthday of Nero's late father.
Who Dat Coffee Café is on 2401 Burgundy Street, and serves personal- and whole-sized plain-cinnamon King Cakes.  ’)
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The Who Dat also carries
The Who Dat also carries gluten free King Cake made by Josh! Wow!
Okay, so I was wrong! The
Okay, so I was wrong! The address is 2401! Sorry!
Okay, so I was wrong! The
Okay, so I was wrong! The address is 2401! Sorry!
The address is actually 1401
The address is actually 1401 Burgundy at the corner of Mandeville. Two blocks in from St. Claude and two blocks in from Elysian Fields! Great Food and Great folks!
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