Posts tagged french-quarter

Flames Hit Close To Home For HumidCity Blogger

August 17th, 2008 by Loki

Hey everybody, hop on over to HumidCity blogger Bigezbear’s blog and show him some love. That big fire in the French quarter the other night was in his building. At the moment he is eiled from his home in the middle of a production without any way of knowing when he will be able to return home.

Here are his pertinent recent posts:

During the season or worrying about water it is fire that strikes close to home.

Let’s help our brother pick himself up a bit, eh?

-Loki, HumidCity Founder

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Saturday Super Events!

July 25th, 2008 by Loki

Saturday is it! A huge date on the calendar during which Rising Tide, Dirty Cost Press and the Big Easy Rollergirls Present:

FYYFF It’s Black and Gold Forever
A Fund-raiser for the Ashley Morris Memorial Foundation

FYYFF- It's Black and Gold Forever


Featuring:
The Big Easy Roller Girls, The Other Planets , Simon Lott, Helen Gillet, Justin Peake , Diamond Kinkade, Fleur de Tease “Nude Is Nice” performance, Supa Saint, Art for sale/auction/raffle by NOLA Rising, T Shirts and gear from Defend New Orleans and illustrious services of emcee Andrew Ward - The Reverend Pysch Ward, who was last seen at O’Dark Thirty in the morning kicking off the NOLA Running of the Bulls.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

You see the fine folks at NOLA Rising have agreed to re-purpose their art party earlier in the day into creating fresh art for the evening to help raise funds. Come by, grab a paintbrush and join in the fun. Ashley Morris loved this city and its community more than words can express. Come and BE a part of that community.

paint party flyer by G Rat

When? Saturday, July 26th, from noon until sunset. Yep, the dog days of summer. No one said living in New Orleans during the summer is nice.

Where? XO Studios in the Marigny. 2833 Dauphine at the corner of Press (right where the train tracks are)

Why? Why not? We love our community, we love to paint, we love to be a part of something that is uniquely New Orleans. You don’t have to be an artist to come and join us. In fact, most of the best talents we’ve discovered had never even picked up a brush in their entire life.

(Proceeds from the raffle and the auction as well as the T-Shirts will be donated by the Morris family to the Ashley Morris Memorial Foundation which will be used to present FYYFF Awards at later dates.)

Please share this message through your MySpace Bulletins, email lists, and blogs. Be part of the community!

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Krewe Tales

July 16th, 2008 by Loki

This afternoon the Completely Mystick Krewe of Chartreuse will be seen staggering through the French Quarter in order to participate in the opening day of Tales of the Cocktail. If you see them abase yourself to the reigning Dark Lord.

That is all.

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Shooting at Antoine’s?!?!?!

April 26th, 2007 by Loki

Evidently a few bare minutes ago there was a shooting at Antoine’s restaurant here in the French Quarter. To use a classic internet acronym, WTF? One of the oldest and poshest restaurants in town, in the middle of the most heavily trafficed part of the city and there is a shooting in broad daylight?

Obviously the marching and ranting against crime has resulted in no real net gain. This is bloody horrible, not only because someone may well be dead now, but also because the day to day killings in impoverished parts of the city do not get the attention lavished upon them that this will. Nauseating.
To steal a line from Joeseph Conrad, “The Horror, The Horror…”

More to come as I get info

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Day 297: Attendance Required

June 21st, 2006 by Loki

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Go. Have fun. Get organized. See who is back. Its a community building thing.

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