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Gambit TV — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:56:00 -0500

CUE magazine editor Missy Wilkinson sat down with Laura Buchtel of the WWL Eyewitness Morning News today to show off the big fashion spread from this week's issue — retro-themed swimsuits with 1940s and 1950s touches.

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Five worthy lunch buffets

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Boswell's Jamaican Grill3521 Tulane Ave., (504) 482-6600The daily buffet features jerk chicken and other island staples. Churra's Brazilian Grill3712 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-9595The spread is a pay-one-price Brazilian bonanza.…

Review: Hell's Belles

Dalt Wonk — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Dalt Wonk on Mid-City Theatre's comic Southern Gothic production by Dalt Wonk Hell's Belles, currently on the boards at the Mid-City Theatre, is an antebellum Southern Gothic tale, but you're more likely to come across a harlot than a Scarlett at this Tara. The French Finishing School for Little Confederate Women, where Hell's Belles takes place, was dreamed up and populated by Running with Scissors.…

Bourbon and Burlesque at the CAC

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Sat. June 22 | The annual fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts Center features performances by Fleur de Tease, Storyville Starlets, Queerlesque and Reverend Spooky LeStrange and Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls.…

Fashion Week New Orleans' "Strut + Swim"

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Fashion Week New Orleans hosts "Strut + Swim," a series of free poolside fashion shows at the W Hotel (333 Poydras St., 504-525-9444; www.whotelneworleans.com) from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, June 30, as well as the last Sundays in July and August.…

Quote of the week

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

"He's very sincere. He wants to go back to Louisiana and never wants to be heard from ever again."…

Review: What Maisie Knew

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Loosely based on Henry James' short novel of the same name, What Maisie Knew is the latest in a recent stream of deeply affecting films told from a child's point of view. The title can be taken literally, as the film shows exactly what a precocious 6-year-old girl sees when her two absent and self-obsessed parents (Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan) fight over her custody out of sheer hatred for one another.…

Interview: Dr. James Moises

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Winemaker, Moises Vineyard & Wines New Orleans native James Moises is a physician and professor of emergency medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. In 2002, he began making wine in Oregon's Willamette Valley with his medical school classmate Mark Wahle, whose family has vineyards in that region.…

Restaurant review: Tivoli & Lee

Ian McNulty — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Ian McNulty reviews Lee Circle's latest eatery inside the Hotel Modern by Ian McNulty Great design can be like great genes, conserving the potential to bounce back after years of shabby treatment. That's the case these days around Lee Circle, the graceful fulcrum between Uptown and downtown where gas stations hold down two corners and new life is emerging around it.…

Baths at the Hi-Ho Lounge

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Wed. June 19 | Will Wiesenfeld's two albums as Baths — 2010's Cerulean and last month's Obsidian (Anticon) — are black-and-blue punching bags, the Angeleno's introverted pop vocals and satiny veneers cut, beaten and whipped into a dance music frenzy.…

Same-sex marriage

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Annual survey shows baton rouge respondents evenly split on making it legal The Baton Rouge Area Foundation released the results of its annual CityStats quality of life survey June 10, revealing 47 percent of its respondents (from the greater Baton Rouge area) favor legalizing same-sex marriage. Forty-seven percent said they were opposed, and 6 percent were undecided.…

The last true liberal?

Jeremy Alford — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

by Jeremy Alford When I told Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, last week that she may be the last true liberal in the Louisiana Legislature, she didn't try to shake the label or qualify her record, one which dates to her winning a House seat in 1999. Instead, she offered a polite, "Well, thank you.…

Bouquets & Brickbats

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

They get what they deserve Carol Fran, a longtime Louisiana soul singer and pianist, will receive a $25,000 National Heritage Fellowship at a ceremony Sept. 25 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The award was announced June 4 by the National Endowment for the Arts.…

Todd Rundgren at House of Blues

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Sun. June 23 | Following his annual weeklong bacchanal Toddstock at Nottoway Plantation, birthday boy Todd Rundgren (he's 65 on June 22) concludes the love fest in New Orleans.…

Jefferson Performing Arts Society costume shop sale

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

The Jefferson Performing Arts Society's costume shop (5005 Bloomfield St., Harahan, 504-885-2000; www.jpas.org) is holding a sale on theatrical costumes through Friday, August 2. Costume pieces start at $1, and whole costumes start at $20.…

Economic developments

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

New business plans and contractor rules The New Orleans City Council will consider the latest disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) program ordinance Thursday, June 20. The ordinance was approved by the council's Economic Development and Special Projects Committee last week.…

2012 Billette Bouquet de Provence Rose, Chateau La Gordonne

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Cotes de Provence, France $13 Retail Located in the center of Cotes des Provence, Chateau La Gordonne is an 865-acre estate that enjoys a warm, mild climate for most of the growing season.…

Nothing to hide

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

If Mayor Mitch Landrieu and New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas asserted the right to collect your telephone records without your knowledge or consent — all in the name of reducing street crime — would you agree? If you're not a criminal, you should have nothing to hide, right?…

Preview: Generationals album release

Noah Bonaparte Pais — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Noah Bonaparte Pais on the pop duo's new album and party at Maison by Noah Bonaparte Pais Through chance and happy circumstance, there is no other active New Orleans band whose growth I've had the privilege of watching as close-up as the Generationals. The introduction came almost a decade ago, via Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner's cutting, interlocking guitar hooks on The Eames Era's 2004 single "Could Be Anything."…

Twin Shadow at Maison

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Thu. June 20 | Entering the picture in 2010 with his elliptical homebody-soul debut Forget, George Lewis Jr. instead went big with 2012 blowout Confess (4AD), stuffing every track with hyperrhythmic studio doodads and arena-begging New Wave choruses.…

Press clips

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

More shifts on the New Orleans media scene More media maneuvers: The Advocate added four reporters last week, including Jeff Adelson, who had been working as The Times-Picayune's state political reporter in Baton Rouge; Adelson will be covering Jefferson Parish. Also coming on board: longtime T-P party photographer/chronicler Steven Forster.…

Coquette dinner series

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Coquette (2800 Magazine St., 504-265-0421; www.coquettenola.com) launches a series of dinners June 25, with an unconventional but appetizing combination: fried chicken and Champagne. This is an upgrade from a fried chicken and beer dinner chef/owner Michael Stoltzfus hosted at Coquette last year, and it will feature not just fried chicken but also the chef's smoked fried chicken.…

Fire at the Up Stairs Lounge: a musical

Will Coviello — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Will Coviello on the musical premiering on the 40th anniversary of New Orleans' deadliest fire by Will Coviello The Up Stairs Lounge was usually crowded on Sunday nights. The weekly "beer bust" allowed patrons to pay $1 for a glass and each table had a pitcher that was refilled as long as the bust lasted.…

Lil' Band o' Gold

Scott Jordan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

Scott Jordan talks to the Louisiana band before its tour with Robert Plant by Scott Jordan At a former feed store and semi-refurbished warehouse in the shadows of the downtown railroad tracks in Lafayette, the garage doors are open but the stifling June air doesn't move. It's a hazy, moonless Tuesday night where patrons and liquor bottles drip rivulets.…

Discount for Gambit readers at SoapyLuv

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:00 -0500

SoapyLuv (504-722-9346; www.soapylove.com), a locally made line of soaps and skin-care items, offers a special discount for Gambit readers who shop online Tuesday, June 18, through Sunday, June 23: Enter the code GAMBIT at checkout and receive 15 percent off your purchase.

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