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Times-Picayune to launch its tabloid product, TP Street, on Monday

Kevin Allman — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:06:34 -0500

The Times-Picayune will launch its new tabloid print edition, TP Street, next Monday, according to a memo this evening from NOLA Media Group Vice President of Content Jim Amoss.

After going to thrice-weekly publication last fall as part of its move to a "digital newsroom" (and later adding a Monday sports tabloid during New Orleans Saints football season and a early-Sunday "bulldog" edition in the subsequent months), NOLA Media Group announced in April it would return to printing a news product on the days that The Times-Picayune was not printed.…

New Orleans Pride Festival 2013 event lineup

Megan Braden-Perry — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:08:00 -0500

New Orleans Pride Festival 2013 events range from fun dance parties and karaoke nights to solemn relationship blessings and memorial services. Select events are listed below, in chronological order.…

Rare copy of A Confederacy of Dunces sold to UL Lafayette at New York auction

Kevin Allman — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:26:00 -0500

The original manuscript of the great 20th-century New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces may never surface, but a rare manuscript copy with handwritten corrections was purchased earlier this month by UL Lafayette, where author John Kennedy Toole taught school in the late 1950s.

From the UL Lafayette Vermilion:

The UL Lafayette Foundation has acquired a rare copy of a manuscript of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.…
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Banh mi tacos and double-decker spring rolls at Pho Bistreaux

Ian McNulty — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:27:00 -0500

As the number of Vietnamese restaurants continues to grow around New Orleans, some are mixing up the typical script for these casual noodle shops.

At one of the newest entries to the field, Pho Bistreaux, this means turning a banh mi into a taco and wrapping fried, crunchy egg rolls inside fresh spring rolls, for a combo called the NOLA roll.…

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An "elite"? How dare you, sir?

Kevin Allman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:41:00 -0500

Gov. Bobby Jindal's "bedwetting," "big-boy pants" op-ed in today's Politico had lots of advice and proscriptions for the national GOP, and certainly got Jindal renewed national attention (though it surely left some amused at Jindal's choice of incontinent metaphor). In the middle of it, Jindal took a sardonic swipe at "the smart guys in Washington," and now one of the D.C. smart guys in the press corps, Ezra Klein of The Washington Post's Wonkblog — is taking a swipe back at the governor:

That’s how the GOP becomes the stupid party: Republican Party elites like Jindal convince Republican Party activists of things that aren’t true.…
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Rep. Walt Leger to seek speakership of state House of Representatives

Jeremy Alford — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:53:00 -0500

House Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, still has to survive two more regular sessions unscathed and secure re-election to District 91, but he tells Gambit he has his sights set on the big gavel in 2016.

"I will absolutely be a candidate for speaker," he said yesterday after an address to the Baton Rouge Press Club.…
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Steve Gleason responds to the Atlanta shock jocks (who couldn't carry his jock)

Kevin Allman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:53:09 -0500

From Team Gleason's Facebook — a letter from Steve Gleason:

Regarding the DJ skit in Atlanta yesterday. I would like to thank the public for their support.…
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First of two new lakefront restaurants sets sail this week

Ian McNulty — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:17:00 -0500

The drinks have been flowing for about a week now at Brisbi’s Lakefront Restaurant & Bar, and from its elevated, westerly-facing deck people have been toasting boaters as they return to port after day on Lake Pontchartrain. On Wednesday evening, the kitchen at this new waterfront restaurant will get rolling with regular service.…
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Jindal on GOP: "It’s time to stop the bedwetting"

Alex Woodward — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:00 -0500

Words Gov. Bobby Jindal uses to describe fellow Republicans in today's Politico column: navel gazing, bedwetting, needs to go to counseling.

What Jindal says fellow Republicans should do: "go kick the other guys around" and "hold fast, get smarter, get disciplined, get on offense, and put on your big boy pants."

Jindal's latest tongue-lashing at his GOP peers reminds them to hold on to their conservative values instead of broadcasting their "embarassing ... public professions of feelings of inadequacy."

"Every day it seems another jilted high-placed Republican in Washington is confessing to the voters; 'It’s not you, it’s me…'," he writes.…
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Diana Ross to perform at the Saenger Theatre in October

Megan Braden-Perry — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:43:00 -0500

Diana Ross will grace the Saenger Theatre stage on Oct. 30. Tickets go on sale next Friday at 11 a.m.

Women who are "sexy 20-40" and are looking for a date to the Diana Ross concert might consider contacting this gentleman via Backpage.com.…
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Brewsday Tuesday: New breweries — and new brews

Nora McGunnigle — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0500

I just returned from a weekend in New York City, having attended Savor: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience, where two Louisiana breweries were showcased for their beer as well as the pride with which they represent their regions.

Arnaudville’s Bayou Teche Brewing presented a salon on Cajun culture, which tied their beer, Cajun food, and traditional music together to immerse attendees in the experience of being a part of the joyous traditions that inspired Bayou Teche’s creation.…
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Zeitgeist Movies to present silent classic The Wind with live original soundtrack

Ken Korman — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:36:00 -0500

One of the last major silent films produced by Hollywood, The Wind was an outright flop upon its release in 1928. Audiences had just started flocking to movies that had sound.…
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Gambit TV: CUE on WWL-TV

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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Eat Local Challenge Days 16 & 17: Going big

Alejandro de los Rios — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:55:00 -0500

For the month of June, I will be chronicling my participation in the Third Annual New Orleans Eat Local Challenge. Every day, I will post about all the meals I had the day before and the ups and downs of trying to eat only locally-sourced or grown food.…
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Atlanta radio station mocks Steve Gleason

Alex Woodward — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:10:00 -0500

Update, 5:15 p.m.: 790 The Zone station manager apologizes to the Gleason family and announced the termination of the radio announcers.

Update, 1:25 p.m.: 790 The Zone has suspended "Mayhem In The AM" members.…
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cibugnù: new Sicilian restaurant at the Leonardo address

Ian McNulty — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:42:00 -0500

The new downtown restaurant cibugnù is slated to officially open June 26, which should give us all a little time to get accustomed to its unorthodox name. But even before the this new restaurant serves its first meal it has already nabbed some early culinary recognition.…
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Y@ Speak: A Lesson Before #Being

Alex Woodward — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:30:00 -0500

Props to the kid on Magazine screaming bloody murder as his mom tries to put a fedora on his head
— Duris Holmes (@duris) June 14, 2013

In our journey to discover the meaning of life and our role on this rock, we paused last week to discover ourselves — our being. What do we represent, what do we want to become, how do we become like children and know never to wear a fedora?

Some became more honest, or perhaps we simply watched — with envy or with spite — as others triumphantly revealed their true selves: pizza lovers, bathroom users, minutiae obsessers, filth revelers.…
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A note to readers regarding "Blake Pontchartrain"

Kevin Allman — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:29:00 -0500

Over the weekend, a Gambit reader noticed that some recent Blake Pontchartrain columns contained passages that hewed closely to materials that were published elsewhere. In some cases, passages in the Blake columns were identical, or nearly identical, to the work of others.…
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Gambit's Digital Edition: June 18, 2013

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:05:00 -0500
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Kenner's Hollywood Cinemas 9 movie theater has closed

Megan Braden-Perry — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:19:00 -0500

Kenner's Hollywood Cinemas 9 movie theater closed abruptly Friday, according to a NOLA.com report.
"One local moviegoer said he went to the theater to catch the locally shot heist film Now You See Me, only to see employees carrying supplies out of the darkened building."- NOLA.com
Vishu Mandava, the theater's owner for over a decade, couldn't fund renovations and had trouble passing inspections.…
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Eat Local Challenge Day 15: Starting anew

Alejandro de los Rios — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:42:00 -0500

Days: 15
Total meals eaten today: 3
Non-local items eaten: 1
Vices: Beer, coffee, bread

After trying to find inspiration by going to Boucherie and seeing how one of my favorite restaurants does local food, I woke up once again hoping to find a fresh start with the Eat Local Challenge. And, yet again, I found my enthusiasm tempered by another dumb mistake on my part: I had let my zucchini squash from Hollygrove Market go bad.…
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Sunday: Perfect Gentlemen second line parade

Alejandro de los Rios — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:59:00 -0500

Perfect Gentlemen Father's Day Parade
Sunday June 16, 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.…
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Eat Local Challenge Day 14: Quality control

Alejandro de los Rios — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:23:00 -0500

Days: 13
Total meals eaten today: 3
Non-local items eaten: 5
Vices: Beer, coffee, bread

So yesterday I wrote about trying to find some inspiration to get out of the doldrums if found myself and to find a way to make the Eat Local Challenge more practical in my daily life.

Well, that didn't really go as planned.…
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Review: What Maisie Knew

Ken Korman — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:06:29 -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 six-year-old girl sees as her two absent and self-obsessed parents (Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan) fight over her custody out of sheer hatred for one another.…
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This weekend in New Orleans: C.H.A.T. studio opening, property research, Huey P. Long run and more

Megan Braden-Perry — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:52:00 -0500

Tonight
•Curbing HIV/AIDS transmission NOLA (C.H.A.T. NOLA), an organization that answers anonymous callers' questions about HIV/AIDS, is hosting a grand opening for its lounge, which will serve as a place where young people can display their talents. There will be door prizes, performances, open-mic and refreshments.…
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