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Previous    08/10/2008 - 08/16/2008    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.
Palm Court Jazz Band with Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran
February 20, 2008 - December 31, 2008
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Times: Wednesdays 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
http://www.palmcourtjazzcafe.com
Location:  Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St.
Phone:  (504) 525-0200
Join us for a Creole cuisine and live Traditional Jazz entertainment featuring Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran.
Thursdays at Twilight Garden Concert Series
March 13, 2008 - August 28, 2008
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Times: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Performance at 6pm
Location:  City Park, Botanical Garden- Pavillion of the Two Sisters
Phone:  (504)483-9386
Admission:  $6.00 for adults, $2.00 for children age 5-12
Series continues through August.  Outside food and drink not permitted. Sorry, admission is included in Friends of City Park membership. Series sponsored by Phelps Dunbar and The Azby Fund. Support provided by Republic Beverage Company, New Orleans Musica da Camera, WWNO 89.9fm, and the New Orleans Botanical Garden.
The National WWII Museum Presents - Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II
April 12, 2008 - October 31, 2008
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Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location:  The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone:  504-527-6012
The National World War II Museum presents Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II, with a showcase exhibit of select artifacts. Check back for more details.
The New Orleans Museum of Art Presents - The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
June 28, 2008 - September 21, 2008
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:  The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone:  (504) 488-2631
This summer, the New Orleans Museum of Art will present The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, the first major U.S retrospective of the artist's work in more than 30 years. Recognized as one of the most well-known and commercially successful artists to emerge from Latin America, the Colombia native now has his work exhibited and collected by major museums around the world, including the New Orleans Museum of Art. The 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures in this exhibition span the length of Botero's career-from paintings executed in 1959 in Colombia, to sculptures executed as late as 2005. The works were selected by John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, and editor and contributor to the accompanying exhibition catalogue. The exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by John Sillevis, guest curator; David Elliot, Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; and Edward Sullivan, Dean of Humanities and Professor of Latin American Art at New York University.
COOLinary New Orleans - Celebrating Dining in America's Most Delicious City!
July 1, 2008 - August 31, 2008
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www.COOLinaryneworleans.com
Location:  Citywide
Phone:  800-748-8695
The celebration, which features special menus and pricing at restaurants throughout the city, is a natural fit for a city whose cuisine is an integral part of its history, fabric and culture. Visit www.COOLinaryneworleans.com for more information.
The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - City Stage
July 12, 2008 - October 5, 2008
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location:  Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone:  (504) 528-3805
Admission:  $5.00; $3.00 for students, seniors. FREE for CAC members and children under 15 every day
Theaters are no longer the ideal stages for the display of contemporary life, nor are actors the ultimate vehicles of the contemporary character. This is more true in New Orleans than anywhere else, where streets are stages and anyone is an actor on Mardi Gras Day. Inspired by recent staged events in New Orleans, from seasonal festivals to street theatre or experimental opera to movie shoots, City Stage gives an update to the Shakespearean idea of the world as a stage through the works of emerging artists from New Orleans and beyond infused by the spirit of the stage. City Stage is a reflection on scenic spaces or stages, be they a concert stage, a movie set, a photographer's studio or the streets during carnival and the way in which they impact on current visual arts production. City Stage looks at the way in which artistic fields outside of the visual arts, and for which the visual is only but one element, influence contemporary art which is itself less and less dominated by the preeminence of the purely visual and material, but instead becoming increasingly aural and performative. Although the exhibition is not solely centered on New Orleans, it recognizes the city's many theatrical, musical and carnival stages as a major source of inspiration for such artistic productions. Works in City Stage run the gamut of elements in a staged production from theatrical sets to costumes to studio photography. With Debris Man, originally created for 7 days in Paradise, a multimedia opera he co-wrote and played in, Jeffrey Cook brings the idea of the fetish explored in previous work to life, with a costume that is also a kinetic sculpture. Taking Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot as a starting point, Cauleen Smith invents a sci-fi narrative in which she uses the streets of New Orleans as a backdrop and stages its people as characters of the future in The Fullness of Time. In Bruce Davenport's drawing series, the protagonists are High-School marching bands whose regimented use of space brings to the fore the acquired stage qualities of New Orleans streets. Inspired by 1960's set design, theatrical props and fashion, Adrian Price blends the boundaries between stage and catwalk in an installation in which she revisits the images of women in mass media. The human figure is absent from Adia Millett staged environment in which props are given life through lighting and become leading characters. Finally Colin Miller and Michalene Thomas bring a different twist to studio portraiture, the former by subverting the televised image of the news anchor and the latter by using retro imagery in very contemporary depictions of African-American subjects elevated to the status of icons. By presenting staged and fictional representations from or in the spirit of New Orleans, City Stage questions the supposed truthful images and reports given by the media, suggesting instead that the City might be best experienced in the realm of the imagination. Artists in the exhibition include Jeffrey Cook (New Orleans), Bruce Davenport Jr. (New Orleans), Adrian Price (New Orleans), Colin Miller (Lafayette), Adia Millett (Los Angeles), Cauleen Smith (Boston), Mickalene Thomas (New York). Exhibition curated by Claire Tancons, Associate Curator, Contemporary Arts Center.
The Bachelor in New Orleans
July 25, 2008 - August 29, 2008
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Times: Fridays 6:00 pm
Location:  The Voodoo Mystére Lounge, 718 North Rampart (at Orleans)
Phone:  (504)304-1568
Come join us for The Bachelor at a new club - The Voodoo Mystere Lounge. The Few Bachelors in New Orleans really know whether New Orleans is an alcoholic mirage or whether New Orleans drinks are part of a general illusion, including wrought-iron grillwork, impossibly beautiful women, magnolia blossoms, race horses, carnival parades and Mardi Gras, moonlight, and the suggestive music seeping out into the streets from a hundred courtyards. So begins the Bachelor his idiosyncratic guide for the playboy, or playgirl, who visits our city. Having thoroughly enjoyed its first foray into New Orleans-centric material with its production of one-acts by local luminary Brian Sands, Four Humours continues to explore the home turf with The Bachelor in New Orleans, an adaptation of a WWII-era gentleman's guide written by Robert Kinney and adapted and performed by Michael Martin. As the Bachelor continues, smart...albeit besotted and strange...advice is offered on the visitor's proper relations to local landmarks, loneliness, artists and galleries, musicians, food, and romance. More than any American city and now more than ever, we here live in a neverland of what was. Kinney's 1946 guidebook evokes all of what New Orleans is and was and is that holds us all in place. There's little more to say. A compelling yarn, told in an amusing voice, by an actor wearing a snazzy suit, The Bachelor in New Orleans is as simple as theatre gets
Southern Rep presents Gutenberg! The Musical!
August 1, 2008 - August 10, 2008
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Times: Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00 pm; Sunday at 3:00 pm
http://www.southernrep.com
Location:  Southern Rep, The Shops at Canal Place, 3rd Floor
Phone:  (504) 522-6545 Box Office
Admission:  $20.00
Aspiring playwrights, Bud Davenport and Doug Simon, have a new project in the works, a splashy musical about...Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press!  In this two-man musical spoof, Bud and Doug perform their backers' audition with much hope and enthusiasm, playing all the parts, and crossing their fingers for that much-desired Broadway contract -- fulfilling their ill-advised dreams.
Playin at the Polo featuring Jim Harris
August 3, 2008 - August 27, 2008
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Times: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location:  The Polo Club in the Windsor Court
Phone:  (504) 523-6000
Join us as The Polo Club Lounge, named by Zagat as New Orleans' best place to drink, is jazzin' it up with the hot entertainment series, "Playin' At The Polo," featuring pianist Jim Harris.
Trinity Artist Series Presents - Taize
August 4, 2008 - August 25, 2008
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Times: Mondays 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Location:  Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone:  (504)670-2520
Come join us for Taize enchanting simple songs led by Albinas Prizgintas at the piano: candlelight moments of silence, a beautiful iconic cross, and tea. The focus is meditation, tranquility, and healing.
Trinity Artist Series Presents - Albinas Prizgintas
August 5, 2008 - August 26, 2008
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Times: Tuesdays 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Location:  Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone:  (504)670-2520
Come join us for Albinas Prizgintas, organist. The program includes some of the greatest music written for organ and a variety of performed music, ranging from Classical Baroque to vintage rock tunes.
"Playin' at the Polo" Presents Michael Pellera"
August 7, 2008 - August 30, 2008
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Times: Thursdays 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm; Fridays 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Saturdays 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:  The Polo Club in the Windsor Court
Phone:  (504) 523-6000
Meet with friends and colleagues, sip a classic cocktail and hear some of the city's best musicians. Entertainment tonight featuring pianist Michael Pellera.
Harrah's New Orleans Presents - Jungua- The Descendants of the Dragon
August 7, 2008 - August 24, 2008
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Times: 8:00 pm
Location:  Harrah's Theatre
Phone:  (504)533-6600
Harrah's New Orleans proudly presents JUNGUA - The Descendants of the Dragon featuring the Shaolin Disciples (martial artists) and the Imperial Acrobats of China (contortionists, hand balancers, foot jugglers and aerialists).
INAUGURAL NEW ORLEANS ANTIQUES FORUM
August 7, 2008 - August 10, 2008
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http://www.hnoc.org
Location:  Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
Phone:  504 523-4662
Admission:  $75.00 - $150.00
Enjoy four days of lectures and tours dedicated to the study of the southern decorative arts. The program will feature preeminent scholars from the field, including Thomas Savage, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate; Robert Leath, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts; Cybèle Gontar, Graduate Center, The City University of New York; Alexandra Kirtley, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Thomas Jayne, Thomas Jayne Studio; Elle Shushan, Fine Portrait Miniatures; and Suzanne Turner, FASLA, Suzanne Turner Associates. Special hotel rates will be available at the Hotel Ste. Marie. Registration is required and there is a fee for attending.
Playin at the Polo featuring Ed Perkins
August 8, 2008 - August 29, 2008
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Times: Fridays 9:00 pm – 12:00 midnight
Location:  The Polo Club in The Windsor Court
Phone:  (504) 523-6000
Join us as The Polo Club Lounge, named by Zagat as New Orleans' best place to drink, is jazzin' it up with the hot entertainment series, "Playin' At The Polo," featuring Ed Perkins
Playin at the Polo featuring Leah Chase
August 9, 2008 - August 30, 2008
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Times: Saturdays 9:00 pm - 12:00 Midnight
Location:  The Windsor Court, Polo Lounge, 300 Gravier St.
Phone:  (504) 523-6000
Join us as The Polo Club Lounge, named by Zagat as New Orleans' best place to drink, is jazzin' it up with the hot entertainment series, "Playin' At The Polo," featuring Leah Chase.
Trinity Artist Series Presents - Pro Musica Singers
August 10, 2008
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Times: 5:00 pm
Location:  Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone:  (504) 670-2520
Come join us for PRO MUSICA Singers directed by Rick Watkins Gospel and Spirituals.
Kenny Chesney and Leann Rimes: the Poets & Pirates Tour
August 14, 2008
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Times: 7:30 pm
Location:  New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St
Phone:  (504) 587-3663
Admission:  $29.50 - $67.50
Come join us for Country singer Leann Rimes and Kenny Chesney with the Poets and Pirates.
Thursdays at Twilight - Paul Soniat and Friends
August 14, 2008
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Times: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:  City Park, Botanical Garden- Pavillion of the Two Sisters
Phone:  (504)483-9386
Admission:  $6.00 for adults, $2.00 for children age 5-12
Come join us for Paul Soniat and friends.
The Mystick Den Lounge Presents Betty Shirley
August 15, 2008
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Times: 9:00 pm – 12 midnight
Location:  The Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon Street
Phone:  (504)586-0300
Slip into the Mystick Den Lounge to experience some of New Orleans' top performing artists.  Ms. Betty Shirley will bewitch you with her unique style of the blues. From samba to swing, the Mystick Den's entertainment will leave you breathless!
New Orleans International Children's Film Festival
August 16, 2008 - August 17, 2008
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Location:  In the Theater atop the Savvy Gourmet, 4519 Magazine
Phone:  (504)309-6633
Admission:  Free
The Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival is proud to partner with the New Orleans Film Society for the first-ever New Orleans International Children's Film Festival! The festival will  showcase more than 70 short films from around the world made for children and teens. All daytime screenings are free for everyone! This free festival is intended as a gift to the families of New Orleans three years after Hurricane Katrina. Look for a complete schedule and list of films on this site in early July.
New Orleans Saints vs Houston Texans
August 16, 2008
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Times: 7:00 pm
Location:  Louisiana Superdome
Phone:  (504)587-3663
The New Orleans Saints and the Houston Texans  kick off at 7:00 pm. 
The National WWII Museum Presents - Real to Reel Hollywood and WWII
August 16, 2008
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Times: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location:  The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone:  (877) 813-3329 x 229

Join us the first and third Sunday of every month for classic WWII films in conjunction with the exhibit Real to Reel: Hollywood and WWII.

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