The fantastic New York-based BOMB magazine, which has been publishing conversations between the day’s most exciting artists since 1981, recently featured an interview with New Orleans’ own Michael Jeffrey Lee, author of Something in My Eye. Lee, who is currently at work on a novel, celebrated the launch of Something in My Eye with a … The BOMB interview with Michael Jeffrey Lee
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, and co-presented by Charitable Film Network, Press Street, Mimi’s in the Marigny, and WWOZ. FREE Admission! Cash bar, featuring drink specials. Tapas menu served. For more information contact: mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org, … Musically Speaking – THE UPSETTER
Draw-a-thon is once again at a new location, this year at the amazing Marigny Opera House. Thanks for making this year’s Draw-a-thon happen by backing the Kickstarter! Press Street’s 24-hour Draw-a-thon is the only event of its kind in the city of New Orleans. It is an art experience in which people are active … Draw-a-thon 2012
Press Street’s Antenna Gallery is pleased to present Better, Still– an exhibition of new work by Chicago based artist David R. Harper. Harper was chosen from several hundred applications during last year’s Antenna: Open Call ( This year’s application process is underway right now! ), and we are very excited to have his work launch the … Better, Still: New Work by David R. Harper
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, and co-presented by Charitable Film Network, Press Street, Mimi’s in the Marigny, and WWOZ. FREE Admission! Cash bar, featuring drink specials. Tapas menu served. For more information, contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org. … Musically Speaking – The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Please Join us for a free screening of URBANIZED by Gary Hurstwit Urbanized is a documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. (85 minutes, 2011) Admission Free. Seating is limited. Doors open at … The Green Screen – URBANIZED
Poet Katherine Soniat will read from her new collection of poetry, A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the University of New Orleans Sandbar (inside The Cove, on Founders Avenue, directly across from the Education Building). Soniat is a contributor to the current issue of Bayou Magazine, which … University of New Orleans hosts poet Katherine Soniat
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 … Dillard University and the NOPL present the Tom Dent Festival
By Elizabeth Kaiser For his new book, Am I a Jew?, Theodore Ross set out on a multi-adventure odyssey to answer this complex yet fundamental question. He treats the reader to introspective telling of his childhood “double life” as a pretend non-Jew in rural Mississippi and a fake non-Christian in Manhattan, which is at turns … DNA is Not Destiny: An interview with Theodore Ross
Join Room 220 for an evening of discussion between media theorists Joy Fuqua and Michele White at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2 at the brand new Press Street Headquarters (3817 St. Claude Ave., at Pauline). Both authors have recently released books via Duke University Press that examine, respectively, the history of hospital televisions and … HAPPY HOUR SALON: Joy Fuqua and Michele White at the NEW Press Street HQ
