The Elmwood Palace theater and Fathom Events present Carole King: Tapestry on Tuesday, July 11 at 7 p.m. The film captures a 2016 London concert by the legendary singer-songwriter in which she performed her classic 1971 album Tapestry in its entirety for the first time.
The Prytania Theatre (5339 Prytania St.) has announced a July film series spotlighting the innovative work of British-American director Christopher Nolan. Included is Nolan’s new film, Dunkirk, a World War II epic that reportedly is almost dialogue-free.
Last year, Ret. U.S. Air Force Col. Rob Maness was running for the U.S. Senate to represent Louisiana.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu postponed his annual State of the City address this morning following the shooting of Louisiana U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and several Congressional staffers at a baseball field outside Washington D.C.
The speech was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. June 14 at the Civic Theatre.
Chef Dustin Brien will helm the kitchen at Public Service, when the new restaurant opens inside the NOPSI Hotel(317 Baronne St.) next month.
The luxury boutique hotel opens to the public on July 6 in the historic building on the corner of Baronne and Union streets, which once was the headquarters for New Orleans Public Service Inc., the city’s public utility and streetcar operator.
Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is an emotionally moving epic about the U.S. Civil War written by Suzan-Lori Parks and presented by Southern Rep Theatre. It borrows themes from classical Greek theater to heighten the drama about a slave named Hero (Sam Malone), who faces an awful dilemma.
Dennis Persica, a journalist who worked for The Times-Picayune, The Lens and was most recently a weekly columnist for The New Orleans Advocate, died this morning after what was described as a short battle with cancer, according to his brother Michael Persica and sister Anne Persica Morel. Persica was 67.
Persica worked for The Times-Picayune for 25 years as both a reporter and editor, and was laid off in the “digital transition” there along with some 200 other employees of the paper.
After news broke that U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot in the hip early this morning while practicing in a Virginia park for a charity baseball game later this week, the Louisiana Legislature and Gov. John Bel Edwards began their day gathered in prayer in the Capitol Rotunda.
Edwards, state Sen. President John Alario, R-Westwego, and House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, led a prayer for Louisiana House members, who retired last night expecting to dedicate their day to a handful of fiscal bills.
The annual bike event returns June 17
The 17th annual Louisiana Bicycle Festival returns to Abita Springs Saturday. Before 10 a.m., participants gather for an informal marketplace featuring sales and swaps of bikes and bike parts, including unusual and rare bicycles.
A new report from the nonpartisan Institute for Women’s Policy Research reveals extremely troubling data about the economic and social challenges facing black women here in Louisiana.
The report, which was compiled with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance, studied factors like political participation, employment, income and family structure to create a snapshot of the state of black women the U.S. The report’s findings are genuinely disturbing: it finds black women concentrated in lower-paying jobs (even relative to their academic achievement), being paid less than white women and men in similar occupations and having more limited access to health insurance, often while acting as their family’s primary breadwinner.
“Black women continue to experience structural barriers to progress that have roots in the nation’s legacy of racial and gender discrimination and exploitation,” the report’s authors explain.
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