The tenth annual New Orleans Book Fair takes places this Saturday, Nov. 5, on Frenchmen Street from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. There will be craploads of tables of books and other bound printed matter lining the sidewalks, and tons of (really attractive!) literary people browsing through them. Go act like you’re checking out the … Get a Date This Saturday at the New Orleans Book Fair!
Sick! Twisted! Dirty! Repulsive! Calling all degenerates! Come out for the Scumbag Cinema Double Feature Series! Get out of the flop house, crack house, or from under that bridge and come by for some of the weirdest films you’ve never seen! This stuff’ll stain your mind and be sure to send your soul straight to … Scumbag Cinema – Hausu & House
Sick! Twisted! Dirty! Repulsive! Calling all degenerates! Come out for the Scumbag Cinema Series! Get out of the flop house, crack house, or from under that bridge and come by for some of the weirdest films you’ve never seen! This stuff’ll stain your mind and be sure to send your soul straight to hell! Admission … Scumbag Cinema – Street Trash
crowdsourced animation from the 2011 Draw-a-thon from C.Egan on Vimeo. November 12-13 at the Old Iron Works – Located at 612 Piety Street (New Location!!!) This year it is important that you back our Draw-a-thon kickstarter Campaign! Draw-a-thon is an expensive enterprise and it won’t be possible this year without generous support from folks … DRAW-A-THON 2011
By Taylor Murrow In A Meaning for Wife (Ig Publishing), a man’s wife has died from an allergic reaction to cashews. Coping with her loss and his newfound role as a single dad, he travels to his childhood home to attend his twenty-year high school reunion. While there, he stays with his parents and is … The “Youness” of It: An Interview with Mark Yakich
Mark Yakich will celebrate the launch of his novel A Meaning for Wife as part of Room 220’s Live Prose at the Antenna Gallery reading series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 27, along with Ig Publishing press-mate Laura Ellen Scott, author of Death Wishing. Mark Yakich is a poet and an associate professor of … Mark Yakich and Laura Ellen Scott read at Antenna Gallery Oct. 27
Acclaimed short story writer, screenwriter, and novelist Sherman Alexie will read, answer questions, and sign books on Monday, October 24, at 6 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Room of the Lavin-Bernick Center at Tulane University. More info here. Alexie is the author of 20 books, including The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which … Sherman Alexie reads at Tulane October 24
Please join us for a free screening of THE BIG UNEASY by Harry Shearer. In his feature-length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. Shearer speaks to the tireless investigators and experts who … The Green Screen – The Big Uneasy
Please join us for PhotoNOLA 2011 – The 6th Annual Festival of Photography in New Orleans THERE WAS A FOREST includes works in palladium and color, depicting Jewish presence and absence in Eastern Europe today. This is a part of a larger body of work by LOLI KANTOR, created from 2004 – 2010 in Poland, … THERE WAS A FOREST – Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today
SLIDE SHOW / ARTIST TALK & BOOK SIGNING Friday, October 7th, 6:00pm at Antenna Artist Lynda Frese will give an artist talk followed by a book signing for her new publication Pacha Mama: earth realm. The artist will share recent images from the Peruvian Amazon and other off-the-grid experiences that helped shape the environmental themes of her work. … PACHA MAMA: earth realm
