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We got your weekend: Beer Fests, Burlesque, Theater, Pride

SATURDAY / Booze and boobs: Join the Contemporary Arts Center this weekend for Bourbon and Burlesque. The CAC is known for throwing some impressive fundraisers, including the August tradition White Linen Night. Featuring creative cocktails and cuisine, the ... Read More »

Big Business, not Big Brother, the snoop to worry about

My younger brother said years ago that he thought that the fewer people who knew he existed the better off he was. That meant that he wasn’t planning to sprint to the top of his profession -- university ... Read More »

'Condolences from Death Row'

The current issue of the Oxford American includes a feature-length essay by Press Street co-founder Anne Gisleson, “Condolences from Death Row.” The essay, an early draft of which Gisleson read at a Room 220 event in May 2012, uses the author’s receipt of a letter ... Read More »

What do you do?

It was about 5 o’clock on a Tuesday evening when a tourist came into the bar for happy hour and ordered a gin and tonic. I poured him the drink, squeezed in some lime and set it down ... Read More »

How's Bayou? Nolavini, vidi, vici!

Millie and I were couch potatoes before Dan Quayle misspelled the singular of the tuber. We've been ahead of the curve for most of the sedentary pleasures computers have brought us, and Millie laps up social media. ... Read More »

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Love NOLA: Reflections of a 25-year college graduate

by Brett Will Taylor “WTF” That was my immediate…and abbreviated…thought as I opened an envelope from the University of Texas at Austin and stared down at a card that said “Happy 25 years!” “There must be some mistake,” was my second thought. ... Full Story

Throwback Thursday - I Remember New Orleans: 50 summers ago

by NolaVie It's Throwback Thursday again, when we revisit our favorite summer articles from the past. Today we're not only throwin' it back to a June 2011 post, but way back to Summer 1961 memories. Let's get nostalgic. By Jim ... Full Story

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