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Upcoming Words and Music

The Pirate’s Alley Alley Faulkner Society, Inc.
624 Pirate’s Alley

Dear Friends:

The Faulkner Society is a (501) (c) (3) literary and educational non-profit. Donations are, therefore, tax deductible.

Our major projects for the fall will include our festival, Words & Music, a Literary Feast in New Orleans, December 4 – 8. Part of the programming will focus on
the work of Walker Percy, author of The Moviegoer, which won the National Book Award, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, and other works of fiction, as well as
entertaining and enlightening non-fiction, such as Signposts in a Strange Land and The Last Self-Help Book. Our literacy project concurrent with Words & Music,
will include distribution of free copies of a Walker Percy novel, as well as a master class for students and teachers on his work.

Our next free event will be a multi-author My New Orleans event July 21 at the Cabildo. Among authors will be Liz Wiliams and Rick Barton.

For more on the Faulkner Society, visit our web site.

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Tujagues’s saved

Not only is it saved, but it sounds like the food and offerings may improve as well.

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/historic-tujagues-will-remain-open-in-new-orleans/

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Le Petit opens new season

http://m.wdsu.com/news/le-petit-box-office-opens-for-new-season-saturday/-/17429724/20333762/-/xx5sqx/-/index.html

Le Petit website

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RESCHEDULED: Outdoor Screening of COOL HAND LUKE at the Old U.S. Mint // New Orleans Film Society

The screening of Cool Hand Luke that was scheduled for this weekend will be rescheduled for later this summer.

Outdoor Screening of COOL HAND LUKE at the Old U.S. Mint // New Orleans Film Society.

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173-year-old family-run New Orleans restaurant may lose a daughter

A story from the OTHER family run restaurant in the Royal/St. Louis block where things seem much calmer in this era. However, I am sure that I not the only one who caught the reference to how this family branch took over management:

When the restaurant struggled financially, he saw his chance, helped install a new board and eventually took over as chief executive in 2005.

so maybe there is hope for their neighbors to put all of this behind them as well.

173-year-old family-run New Orleans restaurant may lose a daughter – latimes.com.

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Police called in as family battle over control of Brennan’s erupts in the French Quarter restaurant | NOLA.com

So sad. I have family working here so I will withhold detailed comment but publicly hope for a return to calm times and glory days for this beautiful restaurant:

Police called in as family battle over control of Brennan's erupts in the French Quarter restaurant | NOLA.com.