Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Other-toberfests
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:46 PM
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of Deutches Haus, the German cultural organization in Mid-City. And once again this fall, its redoubtable brick headquarters and large, walled beer garden hosts the city's largest Oktoberfest each Friday and Saturday evening through the end of the month.
But it's not the only celebration of Bavarian culture on tap around the area this fall.
This weekend, German-born, German-trained master brewer Henryk Orlik and his Heiner Brau brewery will host their third annual Oktoberfest in downtown Covington.
The all-knowing Sarah Palin
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:50 PM
You've always wondered what cultivated Sarah Palin's sophisticated worldview — Katie Couric has uncovered the answer:
21 Questions to the Beach Promotion
Posted by Jeanne Foster on Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Please help us learn more about our readers and ways that we can make our website and paper better by taking our online survey. As an added incentive- one lucky survey taker will win a 3 night stay on the Gulf Coast. As always thank you for reading Gambit Weekly, bestofneworleans.com and the blogofneworleans.com. 21 questions will take less than five minutes. Good Luck!
Morris Peterson is Diligently Working on his Trick Shots
Posted by Alejandro de los Rios on Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:51 PM
-
So you think it's easy to make a half-court shot? Or one over your back? Or off a 30-foot wall? Ladies and gentleman, it takes hard work and dedication. The ability and commitment to stay after practice and take a dozen or so aimless shots from half-court pre-empted by "You're going to put this on ESPN."
-
