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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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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.
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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.
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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" 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.
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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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The Voodoo Mystére Lounge Presents - Orphaned on Purpose
August 7, 2008 - October 2, 2008 |
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Times: Thursdays at 10:00 pm
Location: The Voodoo Mystére Lounge, 718 North Rampart, at Orleans
Phone: (504) 304-1568
Admission: $5.00 plus one-drink minimum
Orphaned on Purpose, New Orleans' newest improv and sketch comedy troupe,begins weekly shows at the new Voodoo Mystere Lounge. The troupe specializes in short-form comedy improvisation based on audience suggestions and written sketch material; both of which are sure to delight a variety of audience members. Members of Orphaned on Purpose have more than two years experience together in University of New Orleans' improv troupe, Dinner Ready is Improv. Its goal is to create a weekly show both dynamic and entertaining, and that nurtures an imaginative artistic atmosphere. Troupe members include Ryan Bruce, Jason Buch, Ellen Buschang, Cory Dumesil, Ryan Lavalette, Jesse Manley, Ben Matheny, Josh Simpson, and Mandi Turner.
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The Last Mistress by Catherine Breillat
August 12, 2008 - August 21, 2008 |
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Times: 9:00 pm
Location: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Phone: (504) 827-5858
THE LAST MISTRESS marks the monumental pairing of cinema's premiere provocateur, director Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL, ANATOMY OF HELL) with the most fearless and explosive actress of our generation, Asia Argento (MARIE ANTOINETTE, BOARDING GATE, MOTHER OF TEARS, THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, TRANSYLVANIA, etc.). A penniless rogue, Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu-ad Ait Aattou), shocks 19th century France with his engagement to the virginal gem of the aristocracy, Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida of FAT GIRL). As lurid speculations of Ryno's ten year affair with the carnal Vellini (Argento) manifest, a supremely erotic and wickedly humorous depiction of human lust is revealed - overriding the brittle facade of nobility and reverence. Bolstered by Breillat's mastery of the medium and Argento's commanding performance, THE LAST MISTRESS is a highly entertaining yet incredibly provocative film that has resulted in unanimous praise from audiences and critics across the world. Sponsored by the NEW ORLEANS CONSULATE DE FRANCE.
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Jazz Roots Series at New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
August 21, 2008 - August 22, 2008 |
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Times: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters Street
Phone: (504) 589-4806
Don't miss the Jazz Roots Series performed by park staff. Each musical demonstration will highlight a significant musical development in the evolution of New Orleans jazz.
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The Louisiana Humanities Center Presents - The Gift of Time
August 21, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00pm
Location: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 938 Lafayette Street
Phone: (504)620-2632
Admission: Free
The Louisiana Humanities Center invites you to a special test screening of The Gift of Time, directed by New Orleans filmmaker Francis James.
The evening will offer a last chance to see the film before it is sent to the Sundance Film Festival. Audience feedback is welcomed and a conversation with Mr. James will follow the film.
The Gift of Time is the powerful story of reconciliation and redemption in a family who thought it was not possible. When the filmmaker’s mother Barbara is diagnosed with cancer, the disease leaves the family with a chance to delve into the secrets and traumas of their past.
The Gift of Time delves honestly and unflinchingly into the healing of generational poisons. In the end, Barbara courageously embraces her own impending death and decides that she will determine how she lives and how she dies. These are the gifts she ultimately gives herself, her family, and, the film’s viewers.
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The Mystick Den Lounge Presents Ingrid Lucia
August 21, 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. Join us for jazz singer Ingrid Lucia.
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Thursdays at Twilight Concert - Terry Rappold
August 21, 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 Terry Roppold, the International Champion Whistler. He will be performing Classical and Jazz, including selectionsfrom his new CD, "New Orleans whiSOULing." Don't miss it!
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