MIXED MESSAGES: Multiracial Identity Past and Present A group exhibit, featuring artwork by Niko Busciglio, Helen Maurene Cooper, E. Paul Julien, Michele Burton-Oatis, Stephanie Hierholzer, Aubrey Roemer, Karel Sloane-Boekbinder, Chase Markovich, Paige Valente, Christopher Porché West, and Jerald L. White. Organized by the New Orleans Loving Festival. The New Orleans Loving Festival (NOLF) is a … Mixed Messages / The Phoenix
Please join Press Street / Antenna and the New Orleans Loving Festival for a special free film screening: ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY by Jeff Chiba Stearns After a realization at a family reunion, half Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married … ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY
Two of America’s most exciting young fiction writers—Blake Butler and Michael Kimball—will read at Antenna Gallery on Thursday, June 9, at 7 p.m., courtesy of Room 220. Both authors work at the forefront of contemporary literary art, and if you have any interest in such things this is an event not to be missed. Blake … Room 220 Presents: Michael Kimball and Blake Butler
$3 at the Door The revolution is upon us – join us for New Orleans’ ONLY Auto-Authoritarian Mind Control Experiment & Drinking Game! Write laws, win beer, and elect a new Charismatic leader via the emerging technologies of MASS SELF HYPNOSIS and TURBO ZEN! Bring your own lobby and YOU could become the NEXT CHARISMAT! … CHARISMATIC BATTLE 9
By Nathan C. Martin Michael Kimball’s stylistic capacities dwarf those of most contemporary fiction writers, and he employs them with vigor to confront themes that authors have explored through the annals of literature—most explicitly: death. His first novel, The Way the Family Got Away, is a surreal and cerebral travelogue that follows a family fleeing … THE ACCUMULATOR: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL KIMBALL
Excerpt: Us by Michael Kimball Michael Kimball’s new novel, Us, methodically depicts the ordinary death of an elderly woman from her husband’s point of view. With spare and elegant language, Kimball articulates the mind-bending agony and desperate love that awaits at the end of most lifelong marriages. In the following passage, the husband has fallen … Excerpt: US by Michael Kimball
Please come and join us for the last screening of Community Cinema Season: “TWO SPIRITS” by Lydia Nibley. Filmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition – the nadleeh, … Two Spirits
In the wake of a police crackdown on people allegedly involved with the Krewe of Eris Mardi Gras parade—which ended in the brutal beat down, pepper spraying, and arresting of many revelers who took part—the Iron Rail Collective, formerly at the corner of Decatur and Marigny Streets, was shut down due to “building code violations,” … The Iron Rail Reemerges!
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridianis legendary for its lyricism and violence, and the streets of New Orleans are among the first in the novel to collect a bit of blood. Though his time in New Orleans lasts less than a page, it is transformative for Meridian’s protagonist, The Kid, who becomes fully steeled and prepared in mind and soul for his brutal adventures ahead.
Interested in finding out more about a new media effort aimed at creating more openness and accountability in New Orleans government? Come meet the voices of The Lens. They are experienced investigative reporters and bloggers who creatively combine the old and the new. Merging the accuracy, fairness and thoroughness of traditional journalism with the speed, … Happy Hour Salon : The Lens
