Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Frenchmen Street blood drive for victims of Mother's Day shooting
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM
- KEVIN ALLMAN
- Janine Waters, left, and Christie Jourdain of the Original Pinettes Brass Band showed up to give blood this afternoon at the "Frenchmen Street: Roll Up Your Sleeves" event put on by the New Orleans Musicians' Assistance Foundation and The Blood Center.
Two enormous bloodmobiles — one in neon chartreuse, the other, well, blood-red — stretched down Frenchmen Street from the Apple Barrel to the Spotted Cat this afternoon. The event was called “Frenchmen Street: Roll Up Your Sleeves,” and it was a replacement blood drive for the 19 victims of the Mother’s Day second line shooting in the 7th Ward.
More than 100 people had preregistered to give blood between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., according to Amanda Chittenden, the Blood Center’s public relations manager. “But the first 12 people we got were all walkups,” said Erica Dudas of the New Orleans Musicians' Assistance Foundation, the group that staged the blood drive.
The event — held in the concrete pad that’s home to the Frenchmen Art Market — was busy from the kickoff, with would-be donors lining up and musicians David and Roselyn serenading the crowd with a song appropriately called “Kiss It and Make It Better.”
“New Orleans has given us a lot,” said Roselyn. “Helping other musicians is just what you do.”
NOPD asks: Have you seen this pig statue?
Posted by Alex Woodward on Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:53 AM
The manpighunt begins:
The New Orleans Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a stolen statue of a pig in a chef’s outfit. The statue was stolen on the morning of May 1, 2013 during Jazz Fest weekend.
Possible scenario: Swept up in the reverie of a musical weekend, the thieves stumbled upon their new pig friend and invited it to their Hawaiian shirt and straw fedora Bacchanalia. Or, a hooded Chik-Fil-A employee removed the statue as a message — the consequence of slogan copywright infringement. Or, the pig was a witness. To what? We may never know.
Anyone with information as to the location of the pig is asked to notify Detective Robert Stoltz, First District Investigations, 504-658-6012, rfstoltz@nola.gov, 911, or Crime Stoppers at 504-822-1111 or toll free at 1-877-903-7867.
A fresh, and refreshing, approach at Basin Seafood
Posted by Ian McNulty on Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:01 AM
- IAN MCNULTY
- Smoked snapper dip at Basin Seafood & Spirits.
Edgar Caro made his name in New Orleans at his restaurant Baru Bistro & Tapas, where he serves dishes from his native Colombia. The food at his most recent venture, Basin Seafood & Spirits (3222 Magazine St., 504-473-8865), has a lot more to do with his adopted Louisiana home, and also with his partner in the new restaurant.
Caro recently opened Basin Seafood with Tommy Peters, a former fishing guide whose family has for years operated a fishing charter business from Venice, La. Caro was one of their clients, and Peters says he was always impressed by what the chef could do with the day’s catch once he got it dockside— or even before then.
“We caught a snapper one time and he made it into ceviche right there on the boat,” Peters recalls. “It was just four ingredients and it was the best ceviche I’d ever had. We’ve been friends ever since.”
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Gambit TV: Giving back after tragedy, and The 19 Fund
Posted by Gambit TV on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:39 PM
In his commentary tonight on WWL-TV, Gambit political editor Clancy DuBos discussed the New Orleans Mother's Day shootings and Thursday night's benefit for "The 19 Fund," which will benefit the victims. Donald Harrison, Jr. and The Congo Square Nation, Hot 8 Brass Band, Bonerama, Stooges Brass Band and others will perform.
Beard and mustache championships come to New Orleans
Posted by Will Coviello on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:56 PM
New Orleans has hosted the Super Bowl, Final Fours, championship boxing bouts, presidents, a pope, the Dalai Lama and coming in September: The 2013 National Beard and Moustache Championships(Sept. 6-7), the Westminster show of male facial hair. There are 18 categories to medal in, and anything goes except artificial hair.
Germany is home to the World Beard and Moustache Association, which held its first competition in 1990. National Geographic has some good pictures of 2010 competitors. Britain's club has its own impressive competition.
In the U.S., regional groups are cropping up and there are several regional competitions. There is a New York competition, which allows women to participate (and Coney Island has its own competition). There's also a New York beard alliance. Los Angeles has a competition. Missouri has an active hirsute community. There's a club in Philadelphia. Austin. Houston. Bonnaroo has a beard competition this year, and it's got a category for fake beards. The online Beard Club has a links page with a round up of tumblr sites with photos, how to sites, competitions and more.
Update: There also is a local group for those who want to stop shaving and start networking.
The championships in New Orleans are open to men only. There are three main divisions with subcategories: Mustache (Salvador Dali, Hungarian, Imperial, freestyle, etc.), Full Beards (natural, Geribaldi, freestyle) and Partial Beards (Fu Manchu, Muskateer, Amish, sideburns, freestyle, etc.). Competitors are allowed to use various hair products, but from competition photos, it seems that some sort of period costume is a good idea.
Review: Next To Normal
Posted by Dalt Wonk on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Just when pompous period melodramas like The Phantom of the Opera seemed to have cornered the market on serious musical theater, Next To Normal ran off with a Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors. This inventive oddity, deftly produced by Southern Rep, might be characterized as the revenge of the middle class. It’s contemporary, suburban and a maelstrom of psychological torments.
The show is a soft rock opera. Almost all the narrative is sung, and a four-piece band under the direction of Jefferson Turner accompanies the impressive cast.
Bill Walker’s set is a two-level abstract metallic structure, and most of the time, it represents the New York home of the Goodman family.
Wife and mother Diana Goodman (Leslie Castay) has had bipolar syndrome since her son Gabe died 16 years ago at the age of 18 months. Teenage Gabe (Clint Johnson) is one of the main characters, and we realize he is a ghost in his mother’s mind.
Stephanie Grace, Laura Maggi join The Advocate
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Longtime New Orleans political columnist Stephanie Grace and Times-Picayune reporter Laura Maggi are the latest names to join the New Orleans edition of The Advocate.
Grace, who declined a job offer from The TImes-Picayune last year following the paper's restructuring, will return to print three times weekly with a column that will appear Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. (Most recently, she has written a series of cover stories as a contributor to Gambit.) Last week, James Gill, another veteran T-P columnist, jumped to The Advocate, where his column appears twice weekly.
"I'm back to doing what I always did — writing about local and state politics — and really excited to be part of the conversation in Baton Rouge," Grace told Gambit this morning. "I'm picking up where I left off, and surrounded by some of my favorite people who happen to be great journalists."
Brewsday Tuesday: Reviewing American Craft Beer Week in New Orleans
Posted by Nora McGunnigle on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Last week (May 13-19), the New Orleans craft beer community celebrated American Craft Beer Week. Bars, restaurants, breweries, and distributors created dozens of events around the city and on the Northshore (and Baton Rouge and beyond) attended by hundreds of local beer enthusiasts. One blogger can only attend so many events, but here are the highlights of what I did attend:
● Cask conditioned ale abounded all week long, starting with Bayou Teche’s Saison d'Ecrevisses dry-hopped with New Zealand Motueka and Alsatian Aramis hops served appropriately alongside a crawfish boil on Sunday evening at the Avenue Pub. Bayou Teche also provided a sneak peek at a beer they aren’t releasing for several months. Their Miel Sauvage, a honey strong ale (also called a braggot, a very old style), was served in a cask on Wednesday night at d.b.a on Frenchmen St. Other standouts were Parish Brewing’s new Envie Pale Ale cask ale on Friday at the Avenue Pub (double dry-hopped with Amarillo and New Zealand Pacifica), Covington Brewhouse’s Pale Ale at the Avenue Pub during Saturday’s Grand Tasting, Lazy Magnolia’s Timber Beast served during the Avenue Pub’s HopHead IPA event on Thursday and Bayou Teche’s cask of Biere Noir at Evangeline in the French Quarter, also on Thursday.
The Green Project's Free Week starts today
Posted by Megan Braden-Perry on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM
The Green Project is giving away light fixtures, cabinets, cabinet doors and a huge selection of other locally reclaimed building materials starting today in its fifth annual Free Week. In addition to free building materials, the store is also giving away free refreshments from local eateries and holding a contest in which one winner will get a year's worth of The Green Project's merchandise.
The daily free refreshment schedule and contest instructions are below the jump.
- The Green Project
- The Green Project in New Orleans
Coal-fired pizzeria Amici headed to Magazine Street
Posted by Ian McNulty on Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:45 AM
- IAN MCNULTY
- Amici is slated to open in June on Magazine Street.
A New Orleans company better known for daiquiris and pizza slices in the French Quarter plans to open a much different concept on Magazine Street.
Renovations are now underway for a pizzeria called Amici, which will serve pizzas prepared in a coal-fired oven. The restaurant is expected to open around mid-June at 3218 Magazine St., which had been the home of Byblos before that Middle Eastern restaurant moved a block up the street last year.
Amici is being development by the same management company that runs Jester Mardi Gras Daiquiris and Pizza (its motto: “Home of the World’s Strongest Drink”). Jester operates three daiquiri shops on Bourbon Street and a fourth in Destin, Fla. and has a related beverage mix supply company.
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