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The Lens launches a new event series, Breakfast with the Newsmakers
Breakfast with the Newsmakers will be a regular monthly event presented by The Lens. They will host a guest speaker involved in the day’s news at the historic Basin Street Station on the edge of the French Quarter.
The public is invited to a live interview conducted by award-winning Lens reporters and editors, followed by an audience Q&A.
Each event will be streamed online and stored on The Lens website for readers unable to attend.
Please join them on Thursday, Nov. 21 for the inaugural Breakfast with the Newsmakers, with guest John Barry.
The Lens’ environmental reporter, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Marshall, will talk with John Barry, who is leading the charge to sue the oil and gas industry for damages to Louisiana’s coast. An audience question-and-answer session will follow.
Where: Basin Street Station & Visitors’ Center, 4th Floor, 501 Basin Street
Date: Thursday, Nov. 21
Time: 7:30 – 9 a.m.
7:30 a.m.: Doors open for breakfast and networking
8 a.m.: Bob Marshall interviews John Barry
8:40 a.m.: Audience Q&A
Admission free to Lens members at the Friend level and above.
Suggested donation $10 for non-members.
Basin Street Station meeting facilities are generously donated to our Breakfast with the Newsmakers series by Michael Valentino and Jay Valentino, developers of the cultural website New Orleans & Me.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
To reserve your spot, please email Eileen Loh, at eloh@TheLensNola.org.
For information about sponsorship opportunities for Breakfast with the Newsmakers,
please email eloh@TheLensNola.org or give Eileen a call at (504) 345-6789.
New Orleans Fringe Festival is around the corner
Get thee to the volunteer sign up or the ticket site. You’ll thank me.
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Local writer CW Cannon defends the vitality of the current vendor base and questions the new French Market director’s understanding of tradition and desired products.
200 Years of New Orleans Literature
So looking forward to this book coming out. Partly because it’s sorely needed and partly because the author is my pal and I think I know how much critical thinking and good old-fashioned writing was expended to undoubtedly create a cohesive, yet original overview of the best that New Orleans had offered the world in written form.
The blurb , written by her publisher Bill Lavender:
N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature, edited by Nancy Dixon– Dr. Dixon taught New Orleans literature for more than a decade at UNO before accepting a professorship at Dillard, and she always wanted a single text that she could assign for that course. Well, she has remedied that situation now and put together the most comprehensive collection of the literature of the city ever. This book will be some 550 densely packed pages of poetry, drama, and prose, beginning with The Heroism of Poucha-Houmma, the 1809 drama of Louisiana life prior to the arrival of the French and Spanish conquerors, going through Walt Whitman, Tennessee Williams, Tom Dent, Truman Capote, and about 40 others, up to the present day, with a general introduction and individual introductions all by Dr. Dixon. It should be out this year.
I hear that some early events will happen this year; best way to know is to check the Lavender Ink site regularly.
New places for locals and visitors alike
Danny and Jerry of Cafe Amelie fame have added another outlet at which to sell their food; a little storefront at the next corner of Royal and Dumaine. A more informal place to drop in with little tables, lovely ambience, sandwiches, drinks AND some local farm goods like the Mauthe’s fresh milk in glass bottles!
Cafe Amelie’s new addition- their sandwich and pastry shop at Royal and Dumaine.
Mauthe Dairy milk now available in the Quarter- people line up at the farmers markets for this goodness so take advantage of it being here!
And a new PJ’s in the Upper Pontalba on the Chartres side.
All Saints Day/Feast of All Souls
With all of the hoopla now surrounding Hallowe’en, many newcomers to New Orleans may not know that today is as important or more to our culture as the ghoulish day before. All Saints Day is done in primarily Catholic places, like New Orleans, and is a day decreed by the Vatican as a catch-all day to pray to your saint of choice.
The day is honored by attending Mass and working on one’s family tomb, cleaning it and making it presentable for November 2 which is the Feast of All Souls or in some Catholic countries, the Day of the Dead. Taking time on All Saints Day is thought to have begun because most Catholic cities like New Orleans would decree the day before a holiday a day off and so people here used it to whitewash and make one’s family tomb presentable.
Today is a day to visit your nearest cemetery in New Orleans, and watch family tradition in action. Tomorrow, take a moment and remember your dead, especially those that you believe might still be in Purgatory…
The modern date of All Souls’ Day was first popularized in the early eleventh century after Abbot Odilo established it as a day for the monks of Cluny and associated monasteries to pray for the souls in purgatory. However, it was only in the Medieval period, when Europeans began to mix the two celebrations, that many traditions now associated with All Souls’ Day are first recorded.
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