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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gallery Bienvenu Presents New Paintings featuring Jim Napierala and Arturo Mallman
August 2, 2008 - September 26, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
http://www.gallerybienvenu.com
Location: Gallery Bienvenu, 518 Julia Street
Phone: (504) 525 - 0518
Mesmerizing and complex, the process-intensive paintings of New York City-based artist Jim Napierala superimpose the gestural freedom of Abstract Expressionism atop the rigor of the modernist grid. The paintings are the end result of a working method developed by the artist in 2000 and constantly evolved and adjusted since that time. Methodically taping off sections of a maple plywood panel, Napierala slices into the tape with a blade, creating curvaceous, biomorphic forms with a spontaneity reminiscent of Dadaist automatic drawing. Arturo Mallmann’s luminous paintings follow in this tradition, inviting us into landscapes that are half-geographic, half-psychological, and wholly immersive. Born in Uruguay, Mallmann has led a richly colorful life, residing and traveling throughout South America, Europe, and North America, and within these far-flung adventures lie the aesthetic and experiential influences that inform his haunting work. With acrylics, resin, and varnish, the artist layers and sands coat after coat of materials in a process that, like nature itself, is by turns additive and substractive. His austere compositions are often coalesce around the eternal motif of the horizon line, harkening to our primal human capacity for awe.
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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.
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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).
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Sunday Swing at The National World War II Museum
August 17, 2008 - August 31, 2008 |
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Times: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St
Phone: (504) 527-6012 ext 359
Kick up your heels at The National World War II Museum with Sunday Swing. Professional swing dancers from NOLA Swing will be on hand to provide coaching for dancers of all levels while local musicians play World War II era hits. This free event is part of Stars and Stripes Summer, a summer-long tribute to the American Spirit featuring programs for adults and children and a special discount on admission for Louisiana residents. For more information, call. Special thanks to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic.
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The National WWII Museum Presents - Real to Reel Hollywood and WWII
August 23, 2008 - August 24, 2008 |
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Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: (504) 527-6012 x 229.
As part of the exhibition Real to Reel: Hollywood and WWII, the Museum will showcase its collection of World War II newsreels, training films and period documentaries covering battles, propaganda, Women in the War and soldiers' health concerns. For more information, call
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New Orleans Track Club's "45th Anniversary" Race
August 24, 2008 |
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Times: 7:30 pm
http://www.runnotc.org
Location: Roosevelt Mall Blvd., City Park, New Orleans, La.
Phone: (504) 467-8626
Come join us for the 45th Anniversay New Orleans Track Club's Race.
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Trinity Artist Series Presents - “Smoke on the Water” - Pre- Katrina Memorial Organ Concert
August 24, 2008 |
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Times: 5:00 pm
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave.
Phone: (504) 670-2520
Come join us for “Smoke on the Water” A Pre- Katrina Memorial Organ Concert. Albinas Prizgintas, on the 5000 pipe Trinity tracker organ music by Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, The Beatles,& Greg Lake, Moody Blues, Emerson, Steve Winwood, Allman Bros, and others.
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Weddings In Style Magazine Presents - "The Bridal Event of the Summer"
August 24, 2008 |
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Times: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Marriott New Orleans Lakeway, located at 3838 N. Causeway Blvd
Phone: (504) 525-BRIDE (2743)
Admission: $10.00
Future brides will have the chance to meet with more than 100 of the nations most esteemed wedding experts as Weddings In Style Magazine presents "The Bridal Event of the Summer" bridal show at the in Metairie. Experts from every wedding related field from reception sites and entertainment to invitation concepts, wedding themes, honeymoons, cake and floral displays, couture bridal fashion to the latest photography trends will be showcased. A few participating experts include Benedicts Plantation, MQ Photography, Copeland's, Bumble Lane Spa Retreat, MoJeaux Entertainment, Dillard's, Welliver Video Productions, Antoine's, Gent's Formal Wear, Le Pavillon Hotel, Degas House, Nola Couture, Paris Parker Salon & Spa, Sophisticated Styles and more. Guests will enjoy a presentation by Southern Bridal featuring the latest trends in couture bridal fashion. All bridesmaids will be treated to the famous cake pull for a chance at winning high end prizes and one lucky couple will win a 4 day honeymoon cruise courtesy of Gone With The Wind Travel.
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