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Wendell Pierce in The Michael J. Fox Show: it's pretty funny

Kevin Allman — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:04:00 -0500

The Michael J. Fox Show — which is on NBC's fall schedule — sounds like one of those things that could be great or could be terrible. The extended preview trailer, however, is pretty good, especially for network TV.…

Sunday: Money Wasters second line parade

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:27:34 -0500

Money Wasters 39th Annual second line parade
Sunday May 26, 1-5 p.m.

(NOTE: Gambit's regular second line correspondent, Deborah "Big Red" Cotton was one of the 19 shooting victim's during the Mother's Day second line so I will be taking over her duties until she recovers. A fund has been set up to help with Deb's medical expenses.…

Gambit TV: 3-Day Weekend A&E picks

Gambit TV — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:00 -0500

Noah Bonaparte Pais made his weekly stop on the WWL Eyewitness Morning News today to break down this weekend's entertainment options. His top choices included The 19 Fund benefit at Tipitina's (tonight!), Ola Podrida at the Circle Bar, I Killed My Mother, the Greek Festival, the Asian-Pacific Festival at Audubon Zoo, Redesigning Women at Mid-City Theatre and more.…

NOWFE's celebrity cake competition

Will Coviello — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:29:00 -0500

The New Orleans Wine and Food Experience's wine tasting events start tonight with the Royal Street Stroll and Vinola premium wine tasting and continue with Grand Tastings Friday and Saturday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. More on NOWFE highlights here.…

Gambit announces partnership with Uptown Messenger and Mid-City Messenger

Editorial — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:00:00 -0500

Gambit and Robert Morris, founder of the websites Uptown Messenger and Mid-City Messenger, have entered into a newsgathering partnership. Stories from Uptown and Mid-City Messenger will appear in the print edition of Gambit, while stories from Gambit and BlogofNewOrleans.com that may be of interest to Messenger readers will be excerpted online.…

Alliance Française continues French film series at Cafe Istanbul

Ken Korman — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:16:14 -0500

L'Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans offers the latest installment in its series of monthly screenings at Cafe Istanbul on Monday, May 27 at 7 p.m. with director Julie Lopes-Curval's 2006 film Toi et Moi. The light-hearted romantic comedy is presented in French with English subtitles and stars Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu.…

Slideshow: New Orleans' craft cocktail bartenders

Kevin Allman — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:00 -0500

Ian McNulty's cover story this week, "Movers and Shakers," was all about New Orleans' craft cocktail bartenders, but of course we didn't have enough room to run all the great photos taken by Cheryl Gerber.

Here's a roundup of images from "The Pop Shop" pop-up bar event at Faubourg Wines April 16, and "On the Rocks Jukebox" at One Eyed Jacks April 23.…

WWL-TV on The 19 Fund benefit concert

Gambit TV — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:31:00 -0500

Tamara Jackson from Silence Is Violence and Mary von Kurnatowski from the Tipitina's Foundation appeared on the WWL Eyewitness Morning News today to talk about the May 23 concert at Tip's for The 19 Fund.

Gambit's nonprofit arm, the Foundation for Entertainment, Development and Education, has teamed up with The Tipitina’s Foundation, the United Way and Silence Is Violence to help the 19 victims of the Mother's Day shooting with a benefit concert Thursday featuring some of New Orleans’ top musicians, including Donald Harrison Jr. leading the Congo Square Nation Mardi Gras Indians, Hot 8 Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band, Bonerama and others.…

The Y@Speak Awards nominations: The people have spoken

Kevin Allman — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:46:00 -0500

The woman who is all things Y@Speak, Lauren LaBorde, is donating blood at the Frenchmen Street blood drive, so forgive me for pinch-hitting for her...

The people have voted, the votes have been tallied and the tallies have been posted: Finalists for the Y@Speak Awards, celebrating all the best in the New Orleans Twitterverse, are now live and voting is open.

Some notes:

1) Do not complain. These were your choices.
2) We agree, we agree: "celebrity" is an elastic term in a town where nobody is really a celebrity, but everybody is kind of a celebrity if you put your mind to it.…
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The Frenchmen Street blood drive for victims of Mother's Day shooting

Kevin Allman — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:49:00 -0500

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.…

NOPD asks: Have you seen this pig statue?

Alex Woodward — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:00 -0500

The ~~man~~pighunt 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.…

A fresh, and refreshing, approach at Basin Seafood

Ian McNulty — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:01:00 -0500

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.…

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Gambit TV: Giving back after tragedy, and The 19 Fund

Gambit TV — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:39:00 -0500

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.…
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Beard and mustache championships come to New Orleans

Will Coviello — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:56:00 -0500

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.…
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Review: Next To Normal

Dalt Wonk — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:00 -0500

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.…
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Stephanie Grace, Laura Maggi join The Advocate

Kevin Allman — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:25:00 -0500

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.…
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Brewsday Tuesday: Reviewing American Craft Beer Week in New Orleans

Nora McGunnigle — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:00 -0500

Welcome to Gambit’s new weekly beer column, “Brewsday Tuesday.” It’s an opportunity to highlight and celebrate an aspect of local craft beer culture, be it profiling a brewery, reporting on upcoming breweries opening or distributing beer here, or spotlighting a bar or restaurant that has a special dedication to craft beer.

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.…
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The Green Project's Free Week starts today

Megan Braden-Perry — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:53:00 -0500

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.…
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Coal-fired pizzeria Amici headed to Magazine Street

Ian McNulty — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:00 -0500

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.…
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How local can you go?

Ian McNulty — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:23:00 -0500

Access to locally-produced foods is improving quickly around New Orleans. How quickly?…
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Y@ Speak: Peace signs

Lauren LaBorde — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:00 -0500

.@dalailama thank you for coming to #nola He like his holiness likes his new @pelicans and @saints hats! #WhoDat twitter.com/ritaleblanc/st…
— rita rita (@ritaleblanc) May 17, 2013

In a much-needed antidote to the Mother's Day second-line shootings, the 14th Dalai Lama visits New Orleans to share messages of peace and compassion and to put on hats.…
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Gambit's Digital Edition: May 21, 2013

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:51:00 -0500
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Deborah "Big Red" Cotton: an appreciation

Kevin Allman — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:31:00 -0500

Note: A fund has been set up to support Deborah Cotton while she recovers from her injuries suffered in the Mother's Day shooting. You can learn more about the fund and donate here.…
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Experimental video program tonight at Antenna Gallery

Ken Korman — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:26:02 -0500

VIDEOROVER: Season 5 is the latest program of experimental videos from New York-based non-profit organization NURTUREart. It will screen tonight, May 18, at 7 p.m. at Press Street's Antenna Galley, 3718 St. Claude Avenue.…
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Review: I Killed My Mother

Ken Korman — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:23:35 -0500

The alienated teenage protagonist of award-winning French Canadian film I Killed My Mother doesn’t actually do the evil deed of the title — it’s not that kind of movie — but you might not entirely blame him if he did. Hubert (Xavier Dolan) and his annoying mom Chantale (Anne Dorval) fight like star-crossed lovers, but their vivid love-hate relationship feels all too familiar to the many of us who barely survived adolescence.…
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