Events & Festivals
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Oysters by the riverside
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Ian McNulty
- Oysters, oysters everywhere.
When you need an oyster dish or two, raw, fried or grilled are the predictable and delicious safe bets. But what happens when you need more like two-dozen different oyster dishes?
In the case of the New Orleans Oyster Festival, planned for June 2-3, you get smoked oyster boudin balls with Rockefeller aioli from Bourbon House; oyster and meat pies from Remoulade, the casual spin-off of Arnaud’s; or fried oysters with foie gras and truffle oil, courtesy of Elizabeth’s Restaurant.
Those are a few of the examples of the oyster dishes on offer at the third annual Oyster Festival, which this year will be held at Woldenberg Riverfront Park.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A Divine day indeed: scenes from Sunday’s second line parade
Posted by Red Cotton on Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Baby when I tell yoooooou! That second line on Sunday was EVERYTHING!
The Divine Ladies annual parade is guaranteed to be EPIC for several reasons:
(more below the jump!)
A month of all-local meals
Posted by Ian McNulty on Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- Ian McNulty
- Hollygrove Market & Farm maps out its suppliers.
Home to one of the world’s great estuaries and blessed with year-round growing seasons, it’s always been easier to source up local provisions here in Louisiana than some other places.
Still, building your diet completely on foods produced nearby is no cinch. But those are the marching orders for people participating in the second-annual Eat Local Challenge, which begins next week and asks people who sign up to eat foods produced within a 200-mile radius of New Orleans during the month of June.
They will get plenty of help from the local foods enthusiasts behind the Eat Local Challenge, however. Pay your $25 registration fee and you get a starter kit with a local food products resource guide, a 10 percent discount on locally-grown products at the Hollygrove Market & Farm, access to the Eat Local Challenge online recipe forum and invitations to official events, among other perks. On the Eat Local Challenge Web site, you’ll also find listings for 14 weekly farmers markets around the region, a local planting guide to grow your own and resources for kids.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
TWO! Second Lines today: Zulus and Divine Ladies
Posted by Red Cotton on Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Divine Ladies Uptown. Zulus downtown. You can have whatever you liiiiiike!
(Divine Ladies route here. Zulu parade route below the jump!)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Sunday: Divine Ladies second line parade 1-5pm
Posted by Red Cotton on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:03 AM
(Divine route details after the jump!)
New Orleans Wine & Food Experience 2012
Posted by Ian McNulty on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM
- Ian McNulty
- A scene along the Royal Street Stroll.
What does a five-day wine festival look like? With the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience, or NOWFE, the answer depends a lot on the day.
NOWFE marks its 20th anniversary this year, and it has evolved into a festival with many faces. One is the freewheeling Royal Street Stroll (on Thursday, May 24), with ticket-holders drinking their way from one wine-stocked French Quarter gallery and boutique to the next, wine glasses in hand, and another face turns up that night with Vinola, the festival’s tasting for higher-dollar wines, held inside the Theatre at Harrah’s.
Then there are the Grand Tastings (Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May 26), which are essentially gigantic food and wine samplings held inside one of the biggest rooms around, an entire hall of the Convention Center.
- Courtesy of NOWFE
- Domenica's tasting station at last year's Grand Tasting.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
When NOLA says “opa!”
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:20 PM
- Image courtesy of Greek Festival
- Greek Fest returns to the bayou on Memorial Day weekend
Restaurants provide the food for countless festivals around town, but sometimes it’s the crews of volunteer home cooks stepping up to contribute their own talents that really set an event apart.
That’s the case at Greek Festival New Orleans, coming up May 25-27 along Bayou St. John near the lakefront. This is the 39th year for the festival, which is held on the grounds around the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral and inside its Hellenic Cultural Center. The event raises money that supports the church community year-round, and as such it inspires a devoted effort from church members who run the show.
For instance, some of them will spend the festival weekend roasting 300 whole spring lambs, a featured food that has become a centerpiece of the event.
“Many of the people who cook the lambs are from Greece, from the small villages, and this is how they do their picnics and celebrations there,” says festival chair Ginny Zissis. “The way people in America do hamburgers and ribs for our cookouts, over in Greece they roast a lamb.”
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Green Day to headline 2012 Voodoo Fest
Posted by Alex Woodward on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM
- JULIE GARDNER
Festival organizers announced the 2012 Voodoo Experience preliminary lineup today. Heading the bill is Neil Young & Crazy Horse and Green Day. Other additions include Skrillex, Justice, Tomahawk, Say Anything, Bootsy Collins, Gary Clark Jr., Awolnation and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Neil Young last appeared in New Orleans at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, with a showstopping performance that ended with The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" and a deluge of rain. Young will perform with Crazy Horse, and the band is releasing Americana on June 5, their first album together in nine years, which revisits classic American folk music. Preview the album here.
Green Day last performed in New Orleans in 2009 during its 21st Century Breakdown tour and was also at the 2004 Voodoo, which featured a killer lineup of Beastie Boys, The Pixies and Sonic Youth.
Voodoo also announced on-site camping at City Park for the fest, a la Bonnaroo. A press release says "the inaugural camping experience will offer festival goers the chance to sleep under the stars amidst two hundred year old oak trees, picturesque lagoons and waterways of New Orleans’ historic City Park and located just steps away from the entrance to the annual Halloween weekend music celebration."
Campers can use general camping amenities or upgrade to a "luxurious, all-encompassing camping experience" with safari tents, cots, pillows, bedding and VIP access.
Voodoo is Oct. 26-28 at City Park. Tickets to the festival are available online; a three-day general admission pass is $175 and the Loa VIP pass is $500.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Sunday: Original Big 7 second line parade 1-5pm
Posted by Red Cotton on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:00 PM
(second line route via Indi CNNDoll Sever - see below)
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
How do you like them apples?
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM
- Courtesy of Crispin Cider Co.
The apple was a leading American crop back in colonial days, and fermented – or hard — cider reigned as the young country’s most common drink through the early 19th century, as New Orleans-based drinks writer Wayne Curtis has documented in “And a Bottle of Rum,” his book on New World spirits. It was easy to produce, it kept well and – then, as now - it certainly helped take the edge off.
It all but disappeared in later generations but, as the growing availability and variety at local bars and grocery stores shows, there is a cider revival now underway.
Next week, on May 15, one of the newer American cider brands, Crispin Cider Co., will be in town for a special tasting dinner at Calcasieu, the private dining venue from the Link Restaurant Group found upstairs from Cochon.
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