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New Orleans Food Memories
a documentary by Peggy Scott Laborde
If New Orleanians aren't eating, chances are they are at least
talking or thinking about food. Peggy Scott Laborde's latest
documentary, New Orleans Food Memories, features chefs,
restaurateurs and foodies sharing personal stories and serving up
histories of local dishes.
By Will Coviello |
November 16, 2009
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ArtDocs 2009
ARTDOCS provides health care assistance to artists
ARTDOCS Benefit Art Auction 6:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
By Will Coviello |
November 16, 2009
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Ron White
Ron White brings his Scotch-soaked observations to the Mahalia Jackson Theater Nov. 13
7:30 p.m., Fri., Nov. 13 Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 801 N. Rampart St.,
287-0351; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com
By Kevin Allman |
November 9, 2009
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Breaking the Band: Herrington
Mandeville Group wins Gambit's First "Breaking the Band" contest
Breaking the Band with Herrington 7 p.m.
By Aariel Charbonnet |
November 9, 2009
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I Am My Own Wife
An Outrageous Tale of Surviving the Nazis
I Am My Own Wife 8 p.m.
By Will Coviello |
November 2, 2009
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Dave Eggers' Zeitoun
Dave Eggers' latest book chronicles the post-Katrina experiences of a New Orleans family
Dave Eggers discusses Zeitoun Kathy and Abdulrahman Zeitoun will attend
By David Winkler-Schmit |
November 2, 2009
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Man of the Columns: Angus Lind
Knocking back a couple with longtime New Orleans columnist, raconteur and racing fan Angus Lind
Go out for a beer with Angus Lind (he'll take a Coors Light) and the
stories start flowing like brew from the tap: Pete Fountain. The
Manning family.
By Kevin Allman |
October 26, 2009
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Os Mutantes
Dormant for three decades, the founding fathers of Brazil's Tropicália music movement are back
Os Mutantes with DeLeon 10 p.m.
By Noah Bonaparte Pais |
October 12, 2009
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Behind the Camera with Jessica Lange
Mexico by Jessica Lange Up until about two or three years ago I didn't show my photographs
to anyone," says Jessica Lange, revealing something of the reticence
that is an essential if unlikely aspect of her persona.
By D. Eric Bookhardt |
October 12, 2009
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Plessy v. Ferguson Commemoration
Before it was appealed to the United States Supreme Court and became
the landmark "separate but equal" Plessy v. Ferguson
decision (later overturned by Brown vs. Board of
Education), the case of Homer Plessy's arrest for riding in the
wrong segregated rail car was argued and decided in the Sala Capitular
of the Cabildo.
November 16, 2009
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Jews, After the Storm
Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, No.4 — New
orleans Edited by Joshua Ellison
By Alison Fensterstock |
December 8, 2008
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Where Y'Eat?
Peter Cousin, an 81-year-old Lacombe native, can't say just why, but he knows good food when he tastes it and when he makes it. "I don't cook with a recipe, I cook with talent," he tells writer/photographer Elsa Hahne in her book You Are Where You Eat (University Press of Mississippi).
By Ian McNulty |
October 14, 2008
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Katrina: This Time it's Personal
Caroline Goyette
For writer and Gambit Weekly contributor Ian McNulty, New Orleans recovery has become a matter of perspective. "I've learned to concentrate on relatively small issues and measure progress in the scale of block-by-block improvements rather than whole neighborhoods or anything like the whole region," he writes in the epilogue to his new book, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina (University Press of Mississippi).
August 5, 2008
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A Fish Tale
Ralph Brennan's Seafood Cookbook helps tell the story of our evolving local mania.
Ralph Brennan's New Orleans Seafood Cookbook was a long time coming. There was the early challenge of winnowing down the daunting list of potential dishes that fall under its title.
By Ian McNulty |
April 29, 2008
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The City Perpetual Care Remembers
Writer James Nolan had planned to sit on his cast-iron, French Quarter gallery, but by the time I arrived, the gallery had largely ceased to exist. Or at least, the one above it had.
By Caroline Goyette |
April 15, 2008
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Taylor Morris
Longtime New Orleanian Taylor Morris completed his triology All
the Clouds'll Roll Away (Gap Mountain Press) with the final
installment Dreams to Life. The series follows the wide-eyed
adventures of a young New Orleanian who dreams of flying planes and
enlists in World War II as a pilot.
April 13, 2009
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Jack Woodville London — Book Review: Virginia's War
Anyone who has lived in a small town, particularly one in Texas, will recognize the trappings of existing in such a fishbowl in the lives and characters of Jack Woodville London's Tierra, Texas, in the first book of his French Letters trilogy, Virginia's War: Tierra, Texas 1944. Just like those of everyone else in America, the lives of Tierra residents were wrapped up in World War II during the early 1940s.
By Kandace Power Graves |
March 31, 2009
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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
In January 2007, as many in the media gave in to their own Katrina
fatigue and left New Orleans to its own devices, The New Yorker
sent down writer Dan Baum to begin a chatty Web feature called "New
Orleans Journal." For six months, Baum and his wife Margaret chronicled
the city from a rented house in the Faubourg Marigny, sending out two
important messages from New Orleans to The New Yorker
readership: We are not destroyed, and yet we are not OK.
By Kevin Allman |
February 16, 2009
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Signs of New Orleans
New Orleanians may be familiar with
award-winning graphic designer Tom Varisco and his labor of love,
Desire. For years, he's produced the short (generally eight to
16 pages) journal of missives on New Orleans subjects, with
over-the-top design and fanciful text treatment.
December 15, 2008
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A Season of Night
"There is nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at without result," said Winston Churchill in The Story of the Malakand Field Force, an account of his military service in a border war in India. It also sums up the spirit of A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina by Ian McNulty, who also serves as Gambit Weekly's restaurant critic.
July 8, 2008
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