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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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
The Contemporary Arts Center's annual summer fundraiser celebrates with nods to Prohibition and the heyday of burlesque. Former Bourbon Street burlesque dancer Wild Cherry makes a cameo appearance and Bourbon House's Bourbon Society runs a speakeasy.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Brad Rhines on La Cage aux Folles, opening the summer theater's 46th season
by Brad Rhines
Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University opens its 46th season with the Broadway hit La Cage aux Folles. Over the years, Summer Lyric has focused on providing local audiences with polished productions of classic and popular new musicals.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
June 23 | The title of T.I.'s 2012 album Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head refers to a soundtrack Marvin Gaye created for a movie of the same name, but it features an all-star hip-hop guest list including P!nk, Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne. The video for lead single "Ball" was filmed in the Hollygrove neighborhood and Wayne appears on the single "Wit Me" from forthcoming sequel Trouble Man: He Who Wears the Crown.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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."…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Fri. June 21 | Italian violin virtuoso Matteo Fedeli is on a 12-city North American tour with a priceless 1726 Stradivarius.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Ken Korman reviews Richard Linklater's third installment of the romantic drama
by Ken Korman
Just about everyone over a certain age has been there: that moment when you realize your long-term relationship has gradually evolved into something that's less about romance and more about the practical side of everyday life. Before Midnight, the third in a series of conversation-based films about Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), offers what may be the most realistic depiction of a mature love relationship ever committed to film.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Fri. June 21 | Named by Comedy Central as Best Club Comic in 2012, Hannibal Buress is a regular late-night guest and a veteran of the 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live writers' rooms.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
D. Eric Bookhardt reviews the artist's exhibit at Arthur Roger Gallery
by D. Eric Bookhardt
Of all the artists this city has produced, there are probably none more representative of its iconic mix of flamboyant elegance and earthy eccentricity than George Dureau. Now 82, the painter and photographer was a French Quarter fixture for decades until his recent move to an assisted living facility.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Pizzerias with coal-fired ovens are common in the pizza hubs of the Northeast, where the best examples produce distinctive pies with a light char and smokiness to the crust. The style is harder to find in the South, but the New Orleans area will have a couple of pizzerias using this approach soon.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
"Doughnuts have the nutritional value of radiator fluid. While that may seem a negative thing, it's quite the opposite.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Joe Segreto is like a senior senator in the world of Creole-Italian restaurants, and he often is found running the show at his elegant trattoria Eleven79 (1179 Annunciation St., 504-299-1179; www.eleven79.com). So it was a little surprising to learn that on Sunday afternoons this summer, Segreto will instead be at an altogether different restaurant serving boiled seafood and beer.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
The folks who own Kyoto Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar (4920 Prytania St., 504-891-3644; www.kyotonola.com) aren't worried about the summer lag that plagues many New Orleans restaurants. "We're rocking during the summer — we don't let up," owner Sara Molony says.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
The nonprofit cafe and caterer Liberty's Kitchen (422 1/2 S. Broad St., 504-822-4011; www.libertyskitchen.org) doubles as a culinary training program for teens and young adults, offering them mentoring, work experience and access to jobs in the city's hospitality industry. This is a mission people in the local restaurant world understand and support, a fact underscored by the list of chefs and restaurants participating in an upcoming fundraiser for Liberty's Kitchen.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
The color trend that's the bee's knees by Kathleen Allain
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Dive into summer with 1940s-inspired swimwear by Missy Wilkinson Model: Kirsten Rinck Photographer: Carlton Mickle (www.carltonmickle.com)…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Insider tips and tricks for a perfect 'do by Missy Wilkinson Part of a new haircut's appeal is the expert styling job that accompanies it, resulting in silky, bouncy tresses that smell like a botanical garden. I've never successfully recreated that look at home, and the rise of blow-dry bars indicates I'm not alone.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Looking for a way to display your local pride with nary a fleur-de-lis or water meter cover in sight? Topher England's River Shelves (www.rivershelves.com) are geographically accurate sections of the Mississippi River made of strong, lightweight oriented strand board with a variety of finishes.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
by Nicole Carroll
In a fitness center on Magazine Street, Jordan, the fluffy-eared Shih Tzu/Maltese mix who spends her days at All Inclusive Health (4119 Magazine St., 504-715-0397; www.allinclusivehealth.com) is ready to take on the day after a healthy start in the morning. First, she gets a little exercise. "She does her yoga in the morning," says owner Julie Joffrion.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Sustainable landscaping turns backyards into thriving ecosystems by Missy Wilkinson There's a saying that New Orleans is so far behind, it's ahead. According to Demetria Christo, co-owner of landscaping company Eco Urban (504-957-7706; www.ecourbanllc.com), that's true when it comes to the urban agriculture trend.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Cute, comfy looks for the tiniest hipsters by Kathleen Allain Put away the smock dresses and bloomers, says Meg O'Reilly, owner of Abeille NOLA. She takes a modern approach to dressing her 3-year-old daughter Vivian.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Classic Design with a contemporary edge runs through Rivers Spencer's Business and Personal Style by Lee Cutrone Seated in her eponymous home furnishings shop, decorator Rivers Spencer lists the films that introduced her to timeless design: To Catch a Thief, Rear Window and High Society are among them. "Ever since I was a little girl, I've loved Grace Kelly," Spencer says as Frank Sinatra songs play in the background.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Artist Laura Giancola combines sculpture with her original prints to create Mokamoda, a line of limited-edition handbags. The striking and functional Surrealist bag, $150, packs an organizational punch with three interior pockets.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
Featuring soaps, body creams, scrubs and skin-care items in scents like Fresh Laundry and Rose Mimosa, SoapyLuv (504-722-9346; www.soapylove.com) products are locally made and great for sensitive skin. SoapyLuv opens a physical location in Oakwood Center (197 Westbank Expwy., 504-361-1550; www.oakwoodcenter.com) Monday, June 24.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
The future's bright, but these shades take cues from the past by Kathleen Allain This season, sunglasses peek into the past with designs inspired by the 1980s and the 1920s. "The look is that bad '80s look of a bunch of guys headed to spring break," says Chris Yarbrough, manager and buyer for St. Charles Vision's Uptown location.…
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18 June 2013 | 5:00 am
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
On Friday, June 24, Krewe du optic (www.kreweduoptic.com), a local eyewear company, launches its three-frame collection. The handmade acetate frames come in colors like matte smoke and midnight Atlantic tortoise.
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
Retro-inspired swimwear, blowout bar secrets, sustainable gardening tips and more
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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.…
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17 June 2013 | 4:40 pm
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