Please join us for “Musically Speaking” with DJ Soul Sister – A weekly series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, with support from Charitable Film Network, Press Street, New Orleans African American Museum, Whole Foods Market, and WWOZ. FROM THE MOUTHPIECE ON BACK by Jason DaSilva & Colleen O’Halloran … Musically Speaking – FROM THE MOUTHPIECE ON BACK
Over at The New Inquiry, New Orleans’ resident air travel intellectual Christopher Schaberg provides a history of defunct airplane models and anticipates the eventual death of Boeing’s new Dreamliner aircraft, a “plane of the future” that has already begun to drift “into the friendly skies of banality.” He moves from an airplane bone yard in … From Hangar to Grave: Christopher Schaberg on Dead Airplanes
Please join us for “Musically Speaking” with DJ Soul Sister – A weekly series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, with support from Charitable Film Network, Press Street, New Orleans African American Museum, Whole Foods Market, and WWOZ. STILL BILL by Damani Baker & Alex Vlack Still Bill is … Musically Speaking – STILL BILL
By Kristina Robinson I’m an eighties baby. The Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday was signed into law by Ronald Reagan the year I was born. I’m also from New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the largest entry points in the nation for enslaved Africans, the private prison and incarceration capital of the world, and home to … Beware the Drum Major Instinct: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley at Dillard on MLK Day
Spend Wednesday night celebrating the launch of the latest issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas, the somewhat stodgily named yet solid in-house magazine of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The LEH will be throwing a party beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at its headquarters (938 Lafayette St.) in honor of the occasion. … Louisiana Cultural Vistas launch this Wed., Jan 16
Call to artists in all mediums. My Mom Still Thinks My Work is Improving is the second round of a show that illustrates the interesting connections between childhood and adulthood in art. Some artists’ work will just naturally show this connection and some work will be made out of a desire to rework a childhood … My Mom Still Thinks My Work is Improving
On January 24th, 7-9pm Alison Pebworth will be showing images and talking about the evolution of the Beautiful Possibility Project, the exhibition currently on view at Antenna Gallery. Alison will be offering a rare Elixir tasting as a digestible travelogue in conjunction with the presentation. The Beautiful Possibility Elixir is distilled from ingredients collected from … Alison Pebworth Artist Talk & Elixir Tasting
Phillip Lopate, whose writing has done more to keep the personal essay a vibrant and viable form than perhaps any of his peers in the past several decades, will present a reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (2800 Chartres St.). His reading is part … The inimitable Phillip Lopate at NOCCA – Thurs., Jan. 17
Jackson Squared: The Heart of New Orleans By Tom Varisco (Chin Music Press) Reviewed by Cate Czarnecki The idea of Jackson Square and what it embodies has been fragmented over time in the minds of those whose lives intersect with it. As with any iconic public space, various prisms reflect the different versions of what … The never-changing, ever-changing scene: JACKSON SQUARED by Tom Varisco
Have Fun – Make Music! Sign up for NOLA MIX Youth DJ Classes and learn how to mix, scratch, and perform music with new technology, and hands-on training. Saturdays from 12:00pm – 1:30pm / January 12th to February 2nd (4 Classes – Space is limited). Course Highlights: DJ History The Ins & Outs of Equipment – … NOLA MIX – Youth DJ Classes
