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New Orleans Loving Festival – The Loving Project: E-RACE

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a free film screening of “THE LOVING PROJECT: E-RACE” a dynamic dance/theater/music performance that explores interracial marriages and nontraditional partnerships through historical and present-day perspectives. This timely and relevant work offers reflections on racism, sexism, and gender bias, and highlights aspects of union that make partnership between … New Orleans Loving Festival – The Loving Project: E-RACE

NOLAFugees Press|Productions makes a literary conference look entertaining

It’s no small feat to make a video based on a literary conference, where much of the action takes place verbally and cerebrally–and, of course, alcoholically. But the folks over at NOLAFugees have taken a shot at the task and come up with an admirable short piece that features proceedings from the 2012 Tennessee Williams … NOLAFugees Press|Productions makes a literary conference look entertaining

2012 Cupcake Throwdown & Artist Cake Walk!

Please join us at Press Street’s Second Annual CUPCAKE THROWDOWN & ARTIST CAKE WALK!

We will have tasty treats made by home bakers and professional pastry chefs that you can purchase or win by competing in a $2 a ticket cake walk. We will also have free cupcakes for kids in costumes (while they last), and a raffle for a Press Street tote bag filled with prizes. Admission is FREE. For more information contact info@press-street.com.

MelaNated Writers present: THE LITERARY JOOK JOINT

The MelaNated Writers Group will present the second installment of its three-part summer reading series this Saturday, July 14, at 4 p.m. at Cafe Treme (1501 St. Philip St., at Villere). Fiction writer Danielle Gilyot, poet Kelly Harris, fiction writer (and photographer) L. Kasimu Harris, poet Ayanna Molina, and poet-playwright Geryll Robinson will each present … MelaNated Writers present: THE LITERARY JOOK JOINT

Whiskey, words, and wild, wild women: The Southern Summer Comfort Book Tour comes to New Orleans

By Cate Czarnecki For as long as there have been means to travel, writers have been drawn to the open road. As John Steinbeck wrote in his non-fiction saga Travels with Charley: In Search of America, “Who has not known a journey to be over and done before the traveler returns? The reverse is also … Whiskey, words, and wild, wild women: The Southern Summer Comfort Book Tour comes to New Orleans

Furlough roundup: Book review at the Oxford American and patting ones own back at The Lens

Thanks for your patience, loyal readers. We know you’ve been lolling around in the heat wishing for some book and literary news to ease the tedium of summer–or, hopefully, you’ve been out frolicking and dancing and swimming and didn’t even notice we were gone–but, regardless, we’re back. Except that we’re going on another, shorter, furlough … Furlough roundup: Book review at the Oxford American and patting ones own back at The Lens

Postponed due to Tropical Storm: Musically Speaking – Down the Rhodes

Please join Press Street for MUSICALLY SPEAKING – A new series of music-themed movies and documentaries curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister. Mondays, August 27th at 7:00pm Café Istanbul – in the New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 DOWN THE RHODES: THE FENDER RHODES STORY by Benjamin Bove … Postponed due to Tropical Storm: Musically Speaking – Down the Rhodes

Musically Speaking – Wild Style

Please join us for MUSICALLY SPEAKING – A new series of music-themed movies and documentaries on Mondays, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister. Mondays in August at 7:00pm Café Istanbul – in the New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 FREE Admission/Refreshments. Cash bar. Seating is limited. Co-presented with … Musically Speaking – Wild Style

Musically Speaking – That’s The Way Of The World

Please join Press Street for MUSICALLY SPEAKING – A new series of music-themed movies and documentaries curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister. Mondays in August at 7:00pm Café Istanbul – in the New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 FREE Admission/Refreshments. Cash bar. Seating is limited. Co-presented with Press … Musically Speaking – That’s The Way Of The World