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. LISTEN UP!: THE LIVES OF QUINCY JONES by Ellen Weissbrod Steering … Musically Speaking – Listen Up!: The Lives of Quincy Jones
Otto Splotch, the maestro of whimsical comic sleaze behind such local gems as Quarter Vomit and Melted Shelter, whose work appears regularly in such prestigious publications as Antigravity magazine, has undertaken an ambitious effort to self-publish what will certainly become a contemporary classic: Stink Helmet. But he needs your help. Splotch, a New Orleans native … Instead of Giving Money to a Crusty Panhandling on the Corner, Give Money to a Kickstarter Campaign to Fund a Comic Book About Crusties Panhandling on the Corner (and other fun stuff!)
Author Aimee Bender, who is currently the 28th Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence at Tulane, will read from her work and field interview questions at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, in the Freeman Auditorium at Tulane. Bender is the author of four books, and her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, … Aimee Bender reads at Tulane Jan. 28
Please join us for a FREE film screening of BORROWED TIME by Thom Musso. Co-presented by Press Street’s Antenna Gallery, Charitable Film Network, and Humidity Skate Shop. Seating is Limited. Skateboarding is all about stolen moments. Police, private security, the weather and the responsibilities of life all play their roles in determining where and when … New Orleans Premiere of BORROWED TIME
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
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
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
