Please join us for NOLAsynchroniCITY, a new monthly film series featuring the extraordinary culture of New Orleans and our Louisiana heritage. The films will be shown twice at 8pm and 10pm on Sunday nights at Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant. Filmmakers will be available for questions in between screenings. Admission FREE. FLOOD STREETS by Helen Krieger … NOLAsynchroniCITY – Flood Streets
Room 220 editor Nathan C. Martin spent a good chunk of last spring selecting locations and writing the first edition of the recently released Wallpaper* City Guide to New Orleans, published by Phaidon Press. Wallpaper* is a magazine based in the U.K. that covers design, architecture, interiors, fashion, and art, and their series of travel … Shameless Self-Promotion: Wallpaper* City Guide to New Orleans
By Ari Braverman In Moira Crone’s new sci-fi parable, The Not Yet, coastal flooding has turned the Gulf South into a wild archipelago. The New Orleans Islands are mostly a playground for Heirs, the decadent ruling class whose lives have been artificially extended for centuries and revolve around entertainment and vapid ritual. Naturals—or “Nats,” the … Any System of Thinking Holistically has been Totally Abandoned: An interview with Moira Crone
The wonderful Rebecca Solnit will give a talk at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9 in Nunemaker Hall on Loyola University New Orleans’ main campus. Stay tuned for a fairly gushing post by Room 220 editor Nathan C. Martin on the importance of her work to him. Solnit is currently at work editing a book of … Early warning: Rebecca Solnit at Loyola Jan. 9
Though it’s intended for a worldwide audience, this recent piece by Press Street co-founder Anne Gisleson in the Cairo Review of Global Affairs presents a more clear-eyed, comprehensive personal assessment of the city than any other I’ve recently encountered. It’s the city from Gisleson’s individual perspective, and like the rest of her work, this piece … The Cairo Review of Global Affairs: New Orleans, Marching On
Cocktail reception and visit with Prospect.3 Artistic Director Franklin Sirmans, Prospect.3 Curatorial Advisor Rita Gonzalez, and visiting artists Mary Ellen Carroll and Theaster Gates. Tuesday December 11, 2012 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Press Street’s Antenna Gallery 3718 Saint Claude Avenue We hope very much that you can join us! Prospect.3 will open to the public October 25, … PROSPECT.3 MEET&GREET
Wesley Stokes presents this two day movie marathon in anticipation of the end of days. 6 pm – The Omega Man (1971) Charlton Heston tries to keep his sanity and as always, his guns in the future where humanity has become extinct. Based on the book, I Am Legend, this story has been adapted to film previously … Apocalypse Soon Movie Marathon Day Two
Wesley Stokes presents this two day movie marathon in anticipation of the end of days. 6 pm – Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) At the end of the world, Mel Gibson rages on as Mad Max! After a few years of fighting on the road against weirdo future punks with battle-ready vehicles, Mad Max re-emerges at a … Apocalypse Soon Movie Marathon Day One
7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13, New Orleans author Moira Crone will present a reading of her new novel, The Not Yet, which takes place in the near future, in a post-apocalyptic Mississippi Delta in which resources are slim, society is radically stratified, the elites are hellbent on living forever, and one young hero is left to piece … Room 220 Presents: Moira Crone
By Clark Allen A few days after I read My Heart is an Idiot, a new collection of personal essays by writer, This American Life contributor, and Found magazine creator Davy Rothbart, something happened that got me thinking about it. I was at a bar with some friends. I don’t remember what sparked the conversation, … Sometimes Things Land Right: An interview with Davy Rothbart
