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November 22, 2008    Next
Old New Orleans Rum Distillery Tour
August 13, 2007 - December 31, 2008
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Times: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location:  Old New Orleans Rum, 2815 Frenchmen Street
Phone:  (504) 945-9400
Admission:  $10.00
Celebration Distillation offers tours and tastings at the distillery. Our tours offer a intimate and detailed look at the distillation process from beginning to end. All of our tours conclude with a visit to our tasting room. Become a connoisseur as you experience the subtle flavors of our distinctive rums. On occasion the distillers will offer samples of rums we have yet to bring to market to get your thoughts on the directions they are going.
World War II Museum Presents - Special Exhibition - Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town
September 25, 2008 - January 11, 2009
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Location:  The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone:  877-813-3329 x 270
Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Town in Poland 1897-1939 illustrates Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust through reproductions of more than 100 photographs of the small town of Szczuczyn, Poland. This special exhibition is on loan from the Holocaust Museum Houston. These photographs capture the ordinary lives of the residents during the years leading up to the Nazi invasion. These photographs were taken by Zalman Kaplan in Szczuczyn, where he established a business as the local photographer.Kaplan’s grandson, Michael Marvins, spent years collecting photographs by his grandfather from the descendants of the families that lived in Szczuczyn. The photographs reveal another side of the small Polish town contrary to the often associated images of Orthodox Jews. They show a rich and diverse way of life that was not so different from our own today. This exhibit puts faces on the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. The photographs are of ordinary people leading common lives. The exhibit shows what can happen to everyday people when hate and intolerance are allowed to flourish. This glimpse into life before the war shows the people of Szczuczyn as similar to many around the world - enjoying life, advancements in technology and living free of labels or hate. Upon close examination, one must wonder, were their lives so different from our own? The exhibit contains over 100 prints of photographs taken by Zalman Kaplan who was a professional photographer in Szczuczyn, Poland. The Jewish community of Szczuczyn was wiped out by the Holocaust. The images were collected from survivors by Kaplan’s grandson Michael Marvins.
"The Influence of Congo Square on our Culture" Exhibition
October 4, 2008 - December 5, 2008
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Times: Monday - Friday 10:00 am 4:30pm
http://www.jazzandheritage.org
Location:  Jazz & Heritage Gallery, 1205 N. Rampart Street
Phone:  (504) 558-6100
Admission:  Free
As a part of our Congo Square tribute we will host our second annual Congo Square exhibition titled, "The Influence of Congo Square on our Culture." This exhibition will display the works of several featured African-American artists.
Barataria Preserve Canoe Treks
October 4, 2008 - November 29, 2008
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Times: 9:30 am -11:00 am
http://www.nps.gov/jela
Location:  Barataria Preserve, 6588 Barataria Blvd., Marrero
Phone:  (504)589-2330 ext. 10
Admission:  free
Explore the waterways of the Barataria Preserve with a National Park Service ranger. Paddle your canoe through bayous and canals, watch for alligators sunning on the banks, listen for migratory birds, and look for burmarigolds and marsh mallows in bloom. Canoe treks are free but reservations are required. 
Free Admission through Jan. 18
November 1, 2008 - January 18, 2009
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Times: Wednesday noon - 8:00 pm; Thursday through Sunday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location:  The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone:  (504) 659-4100
Admission:  Free
The New Orleans Museum of Art will offer free admission to all through January 18, 2009. The dates of the free admittance offer, which began November 1, coincide with both Prospect.1 New Orleans, the international contemporary art biennial which is free at all of its 25 venues throughout the city, and Objects of Desire: Fabergé from the Hodges Family Collection, an exhibition of 108 precious objects by famed master jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé.
Louisiana Renaissance Festival
November 1, 2008 - December 7, 2008
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Times: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location:  46468 River Road, Hammond LA.
Admission:  $8.00 - $47.00
At the "Louisiana Renaissance Festival " (LA Ren Fest) we bring to life what an English village and festive marketplace could have been like, mixed with a little bit of Louisiana spice. Come experience the exciting romantic Renaissance, and complete your holiday shopping from the most unique gift selections in Louisiana. From royalty to peasants and even skilled craftsmen you are sure to enjoy the pastimes of the Renaissance. In addition there are several stage acts from swordsmen to jugglers including a full contact joust and birds of prey. The Renaissance festival is known for having peasants, gypsies, nobles, knights, barons and visiting royalty. Villagers to look for include: Blacksmith, glassblower, carpenters, sculptors, potters, pig farmers, busty wenches, Scotsmen in kilts and men in tights. The Renaissance is also known for entertainment and events such as: Shakespeare, juggling, fire eating, magicians, sword-fighting duels, birds of prey, and jousting. Even our food has a deliciously medieval flavor. Huge turkey legs, steak on a stake, jester chips, bread bowls, gourmet mushrooms, and dozens of other items are all available. Modern and traditional refreshments are plentiful, with a variety to chose from including hot cocoa, apple cider, soft drinks, beer, mead, and water. The Louisiana Renaissance Festival is a very educational experience. Learn about history, everyday life and the social structure of the European Renaissance. See demonstrations of how products were created, including swords, glassware, metalwork and much more. The live interactive theater of the Renaissance festival is unmatched in today's society.
Nine Artists to Exhibit at NOMA During Prospect.1 New Orleans
November 1, 2008 - January 18, 2009
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http://www.noma.org
Location:  The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone:  (504) 659-4100
For 11 weeks,  the New Orleans Museum of Art will showcase works by nine artists, from international superstars to locally based legends, as part of Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest contemporary art biennial ever held in the United States. Prospect.1 New Orleans will feature 81 artists at 25 venues throughout the city. The artists whose work will be on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the adjacent City Park grounds are Monica Bonvicini, Willie Birch, Kalup Linzy, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Victor Harris and the Fi Yi Yi, Jorge Macchi and Edgardo Rudnitzky, Kaz Oshiro, Xu Bing and Paul Villinski.
Prospect 1 New Orleans
November 1, 2008 - January 18, 2009
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http://www.prospectneworleans.org
Location:  New Orleans Museum of Art and 19 other venues throughout New Orleans
Prospect.1 New Orleans will be the largest international exhibition of contemporary art ever presented in the United States, showcasing the work of 75 artists from around the globe while establishing New Orleans as a major center for contemporary visual art exhibitions.

The exhibition plan for Prospect.1 New Orleans calls for a total of 100,000 square feet of exhibition space, divided among several buildings in various historic New Orleans neighborhoods, including the Warehouse District, the Bywater, French Quarter, the Marigny, and the Treme.

A number of existing institutions and halls – CAC, NOMA, the Ogden -- will be used, along with converted warehouses, commercial structures and other public spaces in the city. Among the artists who have accepted the invitation to participate in Prospect.1 New Orleans are artists from the U.S. (including, naturally, artists from New Orleans and Louisiana), South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, France, U.K., Spain, Japan, So. Korea, China, India, Iran, Italy, Germany, and Kenya.

The director and curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans is Dan Cameron, an international New York-based curator who was inspired to organize an exhibition in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. From 1995 to 2006, Cameron was Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and is also widely known for such international surveys as Cocido y Crudo (Madrid, 1994); Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003); and Dirty Yoga: 5th Taipei Biennial (2006). He is also a frequent visitor to New Orleans since the late 1980s, and he organized the 1995 New Orleans Triennial for the New Orleans Museum of Art. In May 2007 Cameron took on the position of Visual Arts Director at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), one of the leading venues for new art in the South, and a principal venue for Prospect.1 New Orleans.
Prospect 1 New Orleans Installation by Rosângela Rennó (b. 1962, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
November 1, 2008 - January 17, 2009
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Times: Tuesday - Saturday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location:  Brulatour Courtyard, 520 Royal Street
Phone:  (504) 523-4662
Prospect1 New Orleans Installation by Rosângela Rennó (b. 1962, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] has been conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, and will showcase new artistic practices as well as an array of programs benefiting the local community. The Historic New Orleans Collection is pleased to host Rosângela Rennó in the historic Brulatour Courtyard at 520 Royal Street. Ms. Rennó lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She has become known for her archival approach to photography and video, collecting anonymous portraits and other found photographs.  Through her found visual data, she brings the lives of strangers to attention, and comments on the fragility of individual lives within a society. Rennó graduated in Architecture and Visual Arts in Belo Horizonte and went on to earn a doctorate from the University of São Paulo. She has had solo shows in institutions around the globe, among them, The Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (1995); the Museum of Contemporary art, Los Angeles (1996), the Museo do Chiado, Lisbon (2000), Centro Cultural Bando do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2003); the Festival d’Automne, Paris (2005); and most recently at the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães, Recife, Brasil. She has participated in international group shows such as Aperto, Venice (1993); the São Paulo Biennial; Cocido y Crudo at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1994); and represented Brazil, together with Beatriz Milhazes, at the Venice Biennale (2003).
The Dutch Alley Artist Co-op
November 1, 2008 - January 18, 2009
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Times: 10am - 6pm
http://www.neworleansthanksyou.com
Location:  The Dutch Alley Artist Co-op, 912 North Peters
Phone:  (504)412-9220
The Dutch Alley Artist Co-op and New Orleans Thanks You have teamed up to present and exhibition of artwork expressing thanks for the help received since Hurricane Katrina. "Draw, Design and Donate" is the title of the show. The artwork will be on display and available for purchase at the Dutch Alley Artist Co-op throughout the Propsect 1 Art Biennial. Participating artist are supporting the recovery effort by donating a portion of their proceeds to "River of Hope". River of Hope is a Minnesota based non-profit that has been helping with the recovery effort in the 9th Ward.
Downtown Development District Welcome Center at Prospect 1
November 5, 2008 - January 18, 2009
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Times: Wednesday - Sunday 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location:  851 Magazine Street in the former Hefler Warehouse
Phone:  (504) 715-3968 or (504) 613-8600
As Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art in the United States, opens to the public in museums, historic buildings and found sites throughout the city, one old warehouse will serve as the initial greeting point for all visitors. Located at 851 Magazine Street in the former Hefler Warehouse, the official P.1 Welcome Center was& made possible through a collaboration between the Downtown Development District, local architecture studio Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara. The welcome center’s cutting edge design is in keeping with the premise of the Prospect.1 exhibition. Surrounded by pieces from the P.1 exhibition, as well as another exhibition curated by Ferrara, the welcome center will serve as the point of respite and direction for the biennial visitors and the media, according to DDD President & CEO Kurt Weigle. The idea developed from the DDD’s desire to familiarize guests with other attractions and opportunities during their visit to the city.
THE SEAFARER
November 6, 2008 - December 7, 2008
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Times: Thursday - Saturday 8:00pm; Sunday 3:00 pm
http://www.southernrep.com
Location:  The Shops at Canal Place, 365 Canal 3rd Floor
Phone:  (504) 522-6545
Admission:  $20.00-$27.00; $18.00 Previews ; $10.00 Student Rush
Southern Rep presents the piece on many theatre critics’ Top Ten Lists this past year, THE SEAFARER, by Tony-award winning playwright Conor McPherson, directed by Mark Routhier. North Dublin Sharky Harkin and his blind brother Richard stock up on booze for some celebratory Christmas Eve poker. When old friends arrive with a dapper if darkly mystifying guest, the stakes become deadly serious. Often billed as “chilling,” Variety also said the play “pushes through into laugh-out-loud comedy.” No performances Thanksgiving Week.
New Orleans Museum of Art Presents Objects Of Desire: Fabergé from the Hodges Family Collection
November 9, 2008 - January 18, 2009
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:  New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle
Phone:  (504) 658-4100
This winter, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents OBJECTS OF DESIRE: Fabergé from the Hodges Family Collection --featuring sculpture, jewels, smoking accessories, scientific instruments and other precious objects by Peter Carl Fabergé. The opening of this major exhibition, featuring several pieces never before exhibited publicly in the United States, will coincide with the Forty-Third Odyssey Ball, the Museum's lavish annual gala, a perennial highlight of the New Orleans social calendar. The Hodges Family Fabergé Collection currently includes 106 diversified objects, a number that continues to grow as Louisiana resident D. Lee Hodges amasses one of this country's premier groups of Fabergé masterworks.
New Orleans Museum of Art Presents - Photography and Depression
November 19, 2008 - March 1, 2009
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
http://www.noma.org
Location:  The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone:  (504) 488-2631
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Photography and Depression, an examination of depression in all its forms, including mental and financial, through 82 works from the Museum's permanent collection.Featured artists represent a who's who of photography, including Ansel Adams, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Andrew Feininger, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon, Eadweard Muybridge, George Tice, Alfred Steiglitz, Weegee and many more.
 
The works are accompanied by text excerpted from Culture and Depression, a 1985 book by Dr. Arthur M. Kleinman, the distinguished professor, psychiatrist, medical and social anthropologist based at Harvard University.
 
Photography and Depression, the second exhibition in the museological series at NOMA, is a journey--or, as Brian Eno suggested in 1975, an "oblique strategy"--that began as a reaction to the notion of mania in contemporary art. Underneath the frivolity of contemporary art and fashion, one can quickly locate various types of psychological disorders that often lead to cataclysm, economic breakdown or illness. The works chosen were felt to be the most relevant to our present day. "It might have been more expedient to use the nineteenth-century term melancholia, rather than depression," said Diego Cortez, NOMA's Freeman Family Curator of Photography, "but it was felt that the latter term--a more twentieth-century disorder and phenomenon--most accurately described our modern and contemporary society." The history of photography, like that of the twentieth century, has an underlying thread of depression-economic, psychological, and destructive trends in society. These prints document all three facets. The exhibition employs the ideas of Dr. Arthur M. Kleinman, who has led a revolt against his own profession by calling for a broader, more cross-cultural understanding of depressive disorders-one which can encompass widely divergent cultural behaviors, rituals, and beliefs. Excerpts from Kleinman's 1985 book Culture and Depression, edited with Byron J. Good, juxtapose images of the last 150 years, helping to expose some of the underlying subtexts of society's sociological, psychological or anthropological collective attitudes.
The Voodoo Mystére Lounge Presents - Brewed
November 20, 2008 - November 22, 2008
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Times: Thursday and Friday 7:00 pm Saturday Matinee
Location:  The Voodoo Mystére Lounge, 718 North Rampart, at Orleans
Phone:  (504) 304-1568
Admission:  $12.00
SCOTT T. BARSOTTI's comedy-drama Brewed concerning an impacted family of sisters charged with a mysterious, exhausting task--is about that exactly: faith and fate, whether to fight it or succumb to it.
Harrah's New Orleans Presents - Gino Vannelli
November 21, 2008 - November 22, 2008
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Times: 8:00 pm
Location:  Harrah's Theatre
Phone:  (504) 533-6600
After three sold-out shows last year, Harrah’s New Orleans welcomes Gino Vannelli back to Harrah’s Theatre with shows nightly. Vannelli is known for writing and producing sophisticated jazz-inflected pop. He produced ten “Billboard” pop chart hits. Seven of these charted Adult Contemporary and three crossed over to the R&B charts. Several of those timeless classics are included on his most recent album, “These Are the Days.” Vannelli’s hits include “I Just Wanna Stop,” “Living Inside Myself,” “People Gotta Move,” “Black Cars,” “Hurts to Be in Love” and “Brother to Brother.
House of Blues Presents - 2K Sports Bounce Tour featuring Q-Tip and The Cool Kids
November 22, 2008
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Times: 8:00 pm Door; 9:00 pm Show
http://www.hob.com
Location:  House of Blues, 225 Decatur St.
Phone:  (504) 310-4999
Admission:  $28.00 - $31.00
Come join us at the House of Blues for Hip Hop artist 2K Sports Bounce Tour featuring Q-Tip and The Cool Kids.
Lionel Ferbos with Palm Court Jazz Band
November 22, 2008
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Times: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location:  Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St.
Phone:  (504) 525-0200
Join us for Creole cuisine and live Traditional Jazz entertainment featuring Lionel Ferbos with Palm Court Jazz Band.
New Orleans Hornets vs Oklahoma City
November 22, 2008
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Times: 7:00 pm
http://www.hornets.com
Location:  New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St.
Phone:  (504) 587-3663 or (800)-4NBATIX
Admission:  tickets starting at $8.
New Orleans Hornets vs Oklahoma City.  Come experience NBA basketball at its best as the Hornets take on the NBA's brightest stars. Bring yourself or a group to an amazing fan experience - New Orleans style! Tickets starting at $8.
The 2nd Annual North Rampart Festival at Armstrong Park
November 22, 2008
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Times: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location:  Armstrong Park at Dumaine and Rampart Streets
Phone:  (504) 286-2100
This year, the 2nd Annual North Rampart Festival is taking it to the street…North Rampart Street! At the festival there will be a showcase of more than 20 artists and food vendors along the promenade in front of Armstrong Park.  The North Rampart Main Street Program is designed to revitalize North Rampart Street, the "Gateway to the French Quarter," which encompasses the properties located between historic Canal Street and Esplanade Avenue. These properties, whether through abandonment, neglect, or Katrina damage, are to be nurtured back to its glory days when Rampart Street meant prosperity, vitality, and life on the edge of the historic French Quarter and Treme. The goal is to strengthen existing businesses and attract new businesses who have the vision to stay the course, and help rebuild the street to its rightful place of honor.
The 4th Annual All the Saints - A Festival of Healing, Celebration and Jazz! Saint Songs
November 22, 2008
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Times: 11:00 am
Location:  Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Avenue
Phone:  (504) 895-6602
Admission:  FREE and open to the public
Come join for All The Saints Festival which also includes: Saint Songs Spirituality Workshop with Linda Nelson of Advent House Spirituality Center.
The Bombay Club Presents -Johnny Angel & Swinging Demons
November 22, 2008
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Times: 9:30pm - 12:30am
Location:  The Bombay Club, 830 Conti Street, New Orleans
Phone:  (504) 586-0972
Come join us at the Bombay Club for  R&B and Swing entertainer Johnny Angel and Swinging.
Tulane Men's basketball vs. Nicholls State
November 22, 2008
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Times: TBA
Location:  Fogelman Arena
Phone:  (504)861-WAVE (9283)
Admission:  tickets as low as $10.00
Tulane Men's basketball vs. Nicholls State.
Voodoo Mystere Presents - "Lord Chaz's Dark Theatre"
November 22, 2008 - December 20, 2008
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Times: 4:30 pm
Location:  The Voodoo Mystere Lounge, 718 North Rampart at Orleans
Phone:  (504) 304-1568
Admission:  $8.00
Week by week, programming at the Voodoo grows more adventurous and far-ranging. (Though, still and always, low-budget and accessible.) Thanks to a successful and profound appreance at our Halloween night fundraiser, The Little Death Show, this weekend will see the Voodoo debut in a full-run staged performance by one of the Vieux Carre's modern legends: raconteur, poet and vampyr LORD CHAZ, creator of the renowned New Orleans Ghost and Vampire Tours.
 
On tour and in constant demand, Lord Chaz has agreed to deploy his spellbinding powers to create Lord Chaz's Dark Theatre, a show of pitch-dark macabre, for a series of five sunny Saturday afternoons. Still more unusual, Lord Chaz's Dark Theatre is a show that grows, each installment deepening and elaborating on the one that preceeded it. By closing night (closing afternoon), the stuff of it will genuinely NOT be for the faint of heart. As has been acknowledged of his tours, "...108 people (men as well as woman) have fainted...during Lord Chaz performances.

 Sixteen have been sent to the hospital via ambulance, including one heart attack." And that's outdoors! Imagine the danger in a closed room. Accomplished as he is, Lord Chaz doesn't expect to work such a powerful trick unassisted. His guest for opening is ADAMAS, and new guests--including the sender of this release--will be announced week by week.
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