 |
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Natasha Cox, a student at Belle Chasse High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, has been given a Silver Award by YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
February 8, 2010
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Terence Blanchard, Grammy Award-winning composer and trumpeter, has been awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in the jazz category for his CD Choices.
February 1, 2010
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Susan Larson, longtime book editor for The Times-Picayune, wrote her final column for the daily paper last week.
January 22, 2010
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
House of Blues and Steve Price presented the annual HOB show "Home for the Holidays," which benefits the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts' Daniel Price Memorial Fund for Aspiring Artists.
January 18, 2010
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Alicia Detiege, Joseph Banks and Eddie Stafford, employees of local Lowe's stores, organized a charity motorcycle
ride that recently provided Christmas toys for 80 children.
December 28, 2009
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Fats Domino, New Orleans' legendary R&B singer, songwriter and piano player,
laid down his first music tracks at Cosimo Matassa's recording studio
with help from producer Dave Bartholemew 60 years ago last week —
on Dec. 10, 1949.
December 14, 2009
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Valerie Strecker, a graphic designer from Slidell, had the winning T-shirt design in a
competition sponsored by ONE, a nonprofit organization that fights
extreme poverty in Africa.
December 7, 2009
|
Bouquets & Brickbats
They get what they deserve
Troy Simon, a sophomore at Greater Gentilly High School, has been named one of
the top 10 finalists in the "I Am What I Learn" video contest sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Education.
November 30, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
|