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Nolaphile is produced and sponsored by New Orleans restaurants MiLa and La Cote Brasserie as a way to support New Orleans' culture of creativity and the many unique forms of artistic expression it inspires. We happily invite you to celebrate it with us by learning more about movements and events in the arts community, contributing your opinions and work, and supporting local talent.
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- This Week's Basin Street Picks
Make Your Own Art and Contribute to the Renaissance
This week's music picks from Basin Street
Hybrids and Other Sorts
Sound Your Barbaric YAWP: Get Out There and Do It.
Art of the Cocktail-Ginger Manhattan
Music from Basin Street
Making Her Own Opportunities
Art of the Cocktail- Pimm's Cup
Shake a Tail Feather
This Week's Basin Street Picks
By Tiffany
25 July 2008
Comme Ci Comme Ca
Dr. Michael White: Blue Crescent
A Smile in a While
Jon Cleary: Pin Your Spin
Skokiaan
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughan’s
Make Your Own Art and Contribute to the Renaissance
By Arin Black
25 July 2008
Are you secretly tinkering with an amazing project you’re just dying to share? Let us know. Do you have something to say about the way the arts are run in NOLA? Sound off! Make a comment, write an article, and send in some photos. We want to know your take on what’s art and what’s not in our fair city.
This week's music picks from Basin Street
By Tiffany
15 July 2008
Like a Star
Irvin Mayfield: Love Songs, Standards and Ballads
North American Idiosyncrasies
Henry Butler: PiaNOLA Live
Crescent City Calypso
Dr. Michael White:Blue Crescent
Hybrids and Other Sorts
By Alison Popper
15 July 2008
The current show at BECA Gallery is all about context, whether decontexualized, recontextualized, or somewhere in between. The name of the gallery is an acronym for “Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art,” and their mission of representing lesser-known local artists, international artists, and artwork that is atypical for the New Orleans gallery scene, is filling a significant void in the community.
Sound Your Barbaric YAWP: Get Out There and Do It.
By Arin Black
11 July 2008
So the world still hasn’t named you its next Picasso, hasn’t showered you with Pulitzer’s, NEA Grants, or MacArthur Genius Awards. Being a starved and unrecognized talent is the lot of so many artists. But one can’t give up. Rather, get out there and show your work to the world. Right now, New Orleans has a number of upcoming projects that could be your big break.
Art of the Cocktail-Ginger Manhattan
By Tiffany
11 July 2008
In the third video blog installment of “The Art of the Cocktail”, favorite New Orleans bartender Chris McMillan mixes his business with our pleasure in the form of a delicious and sophisticated Ginger Manhattan.
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