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Uptown Veterinary Hospital

Martha Pitts — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

by Martha Pitts At Uptown Veterinary Hospital (731 Nashville Ave., 504-897-4973; www.uptownvetnola.-com), it's not uncommon for dogs to come to their appointments wearing tutus and other frilly frocks, even when it's not Carnival season. Dr. Jessica Miller, a veterinarian and owner of the clinic, wouldn't have it any other way.…

Swizzle: The Wine Edition

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Your guide to the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience Vintage Style Events at NOWFE Thinking outside the bottle Interview with wine expert Tim Hanni…

Review: I Killed My Mother

Ken Korman — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Ken Korman on an award-winning French Canadian film by a 19-year-old auteur by Ken Korman The alienated teenage protagonist of the 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 many of us who barely survived adolescence.…

The Mother's Day shootings

Alex Woodward — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Alex Woodward on the week following a bloody Sunday in New Orleans by Alex Woodward A figure in a white T-shirt lifts a gun from his hip and steps from a sidewalk into the street. He raises the gun and fires into a crowd of 200 people.…

Review: Endless Line and Self-Portrait

D. Eric Bookhardt — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

D. Eric Bookhardt on a site-specific installation at Newcomb Art Gallery by Pat Steir by D. Eric Bookhardt Big time celebrities in cities like New York sometimes get big heads. It is a common human trait to try to find meaning in fame and fortune, but wisdom is a very different experience.…

Deborah Cotton: an appreciation

Kevin Allman — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Kevin Allman on the second-line chronicler and Gambit contributor by Kevin Allman "It is my belief that you don't choose New Orleans — New Orleans chooses you. Those who have fallen for her, live with her, are sprung, lost and turned out in love with her, know exactly what I mean.…

Review: Gypsy

Lauren LaBorde — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Lauren LaBorde says Rivertown Theaters' production of the classic is a faithful rendition by Lauren LaBorde Gypsy is based on the memoirs of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, but the show is centered on Rose — her fiercely stubborn stage mother who's been portrayed by powerhouses including Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone in film and stage versions. Unfortunately Lisa Picone, the Rose in Theater 13's production of the musical at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, was battling a sinus infection during opening weekend's Sunday matinee (as evidenced by coughs between lines and coming from backstage), and it hindered her performance.…

Preview: The Music Tapes

Noah Bonaparte Pais — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Noah Bonaparte Pais on what to expect from the band coming to Howlin' Wolf May 21 by Noah Bonaparte Pais In winter 2011, to celebrate their first new music in three years, Julian Koster, Robbie Cucchiaro and friends staged the Lullaby Tour, a three-month special delivery of The Music Tapes' Purim's Shadows EP to more than 200 homes across the country, from Mountain Home, Ark., to the band's own home base in Athens, Ga. It was a customized vehicle for the enchanting, personal Purim, the 17 minutes of which were less an album than a long-form status update for the former Elephant 6 recording savant and wayward satellite: The record's fourth track, "4 (Jeff, Jill, and Julian Serenade Rudy on the Beach at Nantasket)," is 27 field-captured seconds of Koster, Jill Carnes and Neutral Milk Hotelier Jeff Mangum doing just that, while its belted-banjo closer "Nantasket" — the Tapes' best composition to date — could have been plucked from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea's overgrown, evergreen tree. Koster's bowed saw lent that 1998 classic much of its unearthly quiver, so it's only natural that the recently resurfaced Mangum haunts the Tapes' 2012 audio curio Mary's Voice (Merge), both literally (his liner-note contributions include turntable manipulation and "chair") and otherwise ("Takeshi and Elijah" shores up "Nantasket" with a dusty-room ode seemingly sung directly to Mangum).…

The 19 Fund benefit

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Thu. May 23 | Donald Harrison Jr.'s Congo Square Nation, Hot 8 Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band, the Revivalists, Bonerama and others headline a benefit for the victims of the shooting at the Mothers' Day second line.…

Review: Li'l Dizzy's Cafe

Ian McNulty — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Ian McNulty finds lunch in the Treme as good as ever by Ian McNulty I've heard New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival food booths described as offering curious visitors a crash course in New Orleans cooking. This year I learned what an effective refresher they can be for locals as well.…

Preview: Redesigning Women

Will Coviello — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Will Coviello on the drag version of the '80s sitcom -- starring Ricky Graham and Varla Jean Merman by Will Coviello When the TV sitcom Designing Women debuted in 1986, it found its signature device in just the second episode: A rant by the character Julia Sugarbaker — now immortalized on YouTube under the title "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia." In the episode about beauty pageants, Julia (Dixie Carter) doesn't like the way a pageant organizer belittles her sister Suzanne (Delta Burke).…

Review: Lore

Ken Korman — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500

Ken Korman says Cate Shortland's tale of children is unlike any World War II movie before it by Ken Korman It's not easy to make a film about events surrounding World War II that's essentially different from all those that have come before. Since the mid-1940s, an average of at least 20 major World War II films have been produced internationally each year, a pace that has remained surprisingly steady even after the Internet made it easy to keep tabs on such things.…

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?…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

Review: Lore

Ken Korman — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:55:00 -0500

It’s not easy to make a film about events surrounding World War II that’s essentially different from all those that have come before. Since the mid-1940s an average of at least 20 major World War II films have been produced internationally each year, a pace that has remained surprisingly steady even after the internet made it much easier to keep tabs on such things.…

NOPD makes another Mother's Day shooting arrest

Alex Woodward — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:13:18 -0500

New Orleans Police Department officers arrested another suspect related to the Mother's Day second line shootings. This afternoon, Monique Pepe, 19, was charged with being an accessory to attempted second degree murder for allegedly hiding 24-year-old Shawn Scott, who was arrested along with his 19-year-old brother Akein Scott.…

New lunch and brunch options stack up

Ian McNulty — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:43:00 -0500

A number of restaurants have recently expanded their service, adding new options of note around town.

In the French Quarter, Kingfish added lunch this week.…

Sunday: Divine Ladies Second Line

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:11:00 -0500

Divine Ladies/Unbreakable Men 13th Second Line
Sunday May 19 1-5 P.M.
"Sitting On Top of The World, Overlooking Our Haters"

(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 replacement blood drive to benefit victims of the shooting will take place Wednesday May 22 on Frenchmen Street. A benefit concert is being held Thursday May 23 at Tipitina's.…

Benefit for Mother's Day shooting victims May 23 at Tip’s

Clancy DuBos — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:27:00 -0500

Gambit’s Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education, Tipitina’s Foundation, United Way of Southeast Louisiana and Silence Is Violence have joined forces to host a special benefit concert for the 19 victims of the May 12 shooting. The concert will be next Thursday (May 23) at Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., and will feature local brass bands, Mardi Gras Indians, and other musicians and entertainers.…

Akein Scott's brother and 4 others in custody for Mother's Day shootings

Alex Woodward — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:00 -0500

Returning to the intersection of Frenchmen and North Villere streets, city officials and law enforcement announced the capture of second line shooting suspect Akein Scott as well as his brother, 24-year-old Shawn Scott, and four others.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas confirmed Shawn Scott as the second shooting suspect.…

Blood drive Wednesday for victims of Mother's Day shooting

Kevin Allman — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 -0500

The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic has finalized plans for a blood drive in response to the Mother's Day shootings that injured 19 people in the 7th Ward.

The blood drive will be held Wed., May 22 from 3 to 9 p.m. at 617 Frenchmen St. (the site of the Frenchmen Art Market).…