if you need a Christmas tree and holiday gifts anyway, why not have your purchases benefit the Hubbell Library in Algiers? They have “trees, wreaths, garlands, jewelry, books, art and more.” And Santa will be there! ’til 5pm @ Gulf Pizza.
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Chili Cook-Off at the Allways
I missed the one-woman show, “A Different Woman: a True Story of a Texas Childhood” when it was running here in town. If it is up again, I absolutely won’t miss it. I hear it is great. Its creators sent me this invitation to what sounds like a super-fun event for a worthy cause. They are having a Texas-to-Canada themed party to raise money for a Canadian tour of the show. Just remember to take your Beano.
Come to the All-Ways Lounge the Saturday after Thanksgiving to sample and judge the rockin’est chili in the city! Only $5 gets you all you can eat until the chili runs out… Also screening (at 9pm) Charlie Chaplin’s classic silent film “The Gold Rush” with live musical accompaniment, plus trivia games and prizes!
15 spicy, savory, and super-secret chili concoctions will compete to win the favor of your tastebuds… try them all, and help crown the first quadrennial chili champion of New Orleans!!!
DanFest @ Dragon’s Den
I’m not exactly sure what Dan Fest is a fundraiser for…I guess it’s so the NooMoon people can put on a music festival? Today already looks kind of like a music festival to me…Anywho, over at Dragon’s Den there are about 20 bands playing, from about 4pm-midnight on two stages. The flyer says it starts at noon, but I think that’s changed because of the Saints game. Check out the line-up:
| DOWNSTAIRS: 4: Reecy and the Postmodern Bullshit 5: Fat Camp 6: Schatzy 6:30: Jazzholes 7:30: Hammadruz 8:30: Rob Cambre 9:30: Polymos 10:15: Debauche 11: Ray Bong 11:30: Mikronaut midnight: DJ Proppa Bear UPSTAIRS: |
World’s Largest Mac & Cheese
Yesterday it was the world’s largest king cake. Today, it is the world’s largest mac and cheese! It’s funny, in a cruel sort of way, what the universe sends one’s way when one is trying to reduce her body weight by 14%! That’s right folks, I will have to live vicariously through your tales of cake and mac and cheese.
So, Vermont’s Cabot Creamery Cooperative has teamed up with Chef John Folse who is cooking this record breaking-ly large mac and cheese in a huge cast iron kettle that dates back to 1797. Umm, rad! The final dish will weigh 2100 pounds.–speaking of reducing one’s body weight by 14%. The dish is then being served in all-you-can-eat bowls for $5. And it all benefits the Magnolia School and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity.
Today! From noon-2pm at Fulton Square.
Oh, here’s the recipe for you to recreate at home:
Ingredients:
- 575 pounds cooked macaroni
- 286 pounds mixed Cabot cheese
- 56 pounds butter
- 26 pounds flour
- 1,100 pounds of milk
- 61 pounds dry seasoning blend
Worlds Largest King Cake
Haydel’s Bakery has made the world’s largest king cake! Apparently this thing is so large, it wraps around the Superdome twice! Today you can eat a piece of that history. They are going to start slicing it up at noon (continuing until 3pm) at the Superdome. The New Orleans Saints will be there, and it’s all for a good cause. There will also be music and prizes!
Benefit Dinner for P&J Oyster Shuckers
Wanna splurge on dinner for a great cause?
Tonight at Tujague’s–the second oldest restaurant in New Orleans–there is a special benefit dinner for P&J Oyster shuckers, who have been out of work due to the Gulf disaster. $125 gets you the entire meal, including tax and tip. All proceeds go to the shuckers. Cocktails start flowing at 6:30, with hors d’oeuvres at 7:15 p.m. Not a bad deal, actually, and a worthy cause.
Filed under benefit, dining, new orleans cuisine
Red Dresses and Dirty Linen
Oh dear, it’s the Red Dress Run again. Presumably, if you are participating you are already at Washington Square Park. For the rest of us: beware. Starting at noon, hundreds of drunk people are going to be running through the Marigny, the French Quarter and beyond. You will know them by the red clothes they are wearing. By evening, this tends to get a little, uh, loose. And just in time to collide with Dirty Linen Night. From 6pm-10pm, the entirety of Royal Street in the Quarter (200-1000 blocks) will be a great big party. More than 60 venues, mostly galleries, will be open, including artists in their studios. Dirty Linen Night Headquarters is located at Creole Cuisine, where there will be food and the official Dirty Linen Martini.–Just the night cap those Red Dress people need.
They do raise a lot of money for charity, though. Just sayin’.
Burly-Q for the Bayou
Perhaps to say this is in poor taste, but, if you’re going to have one of the (if not the) worst manmade environmental disasters in history, having it in proximity of New Orleans means the breadth of fundraisers will be far more entertaining than anywhere else.
For instance, tonight a bevy of burlesque artists are putting on a benefit for the Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana.
It’s from 7-10:30 at Howlin’ Wolf. Here’s the what and precisely when:
710-730 – The UnNaturals
730 – Master of Ceremonies Sharky
735-740 – Rev Spooky LeStrange
750 – 755pm – Dorian Faust
8- 805pm Bella Blue
810 – 815 Foxy Flambeaux
820 – 840 – VeVe LaRoux Escape performance
845- 905pm Chrystal Skye
910-915pm Roulette Rose
920 – 935 Comedian Jonah Bascle
935pm – 10 pm The UnNaturals
10pm – 1005 Bella Blue .
1015-1020 Roulette Rose
1025-1030 Rev Spooky LeStrange
1035-1040 Dorian Faust
1045 We are the Pretenders
PARADE OF PRIZES RAFFLE (tickets $1)
Artists Act Now Gulf Fundraiser
Artists Act Now is a non-profit organization whose mission is “is to draw from the talents and compassion of artists across the globe to provide aid and relief to anyone and anything in need as a result of man-made or natural catastrophes.” Well, the way things are going lately, there will be no shortage of causes for these altruistic folks.
This evening Artist Act Now is having a fundraiser and art auction that benefits Audubon Nature Institute’s Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue program. There will be food, drink, music by The New Orleans Moonshiners and artwork by featured artists, which includes: Aubrey Edwards, Charles Merrell, Doug Keese, Tim Trapolin, Jason DuMouchel, Kristin Littwin Gile, Sean Friloux, Christopher Morrison Slave, Chris Kirsch, Brian Bush and more..
6 pm to 9:30 pm. At The Foundry. $30.
Worn Again NOLA 4
Tonight is Worn Again NOLA 4, a sexy night of fashion and fun that is all for a good cause.
PRESS RELEASE
Team WORN AGAIN has hosted eight fabulous years of re-purposed couture supporting various grass-roots organizations; 2010’s fundraiser will be our fourth in New Orleans, establishing this recycled fashion extravaganza as one of our city’s premier “socially conscious social events”. We are pleased to announce that WORN AGAIN nola4 will benefit the community-based arts and literature collective Press Street.
WORN AGAIN designers deconstruct the random recycled materials we give them to create innovative works of wearable art to rock the WORN AGAIN runway. The WORN AGAIN Patron Party precedes the fashion show and the After Party is kicked off by our infamous Recycled Dance Competition. WORN AGAIN nola4 is always a wonderful night of unique fashion, terrific prizes, limited edition merchandise and amazing music that true lovers of New Orleans creative culture will not want to miss.
PATRON PARTY: 7:30–8:30p $50
Advance preview of the Top 10 WORN AGAIN designs/Silent Auction/delicious hors d’oeuvres compliments of Who Dat Coffee Café, Cake Café and Whole Foods/DJ Kristen/VIP lounge/fashion show
FASHION SHOW: 9:30-10:30p $15
Fashion show with DJ Brice Nice and awards ceremony
RECYCLED DANCE OFF: 11:00p (included in ticket)
Club Coordination
Faust and Prozac’s Haus of Vigilante Burlesque
Emcee and Judge: DJ Voice
Special Performance:
Gris Gris Strut perform to “Pickle” and “Ooh Ah Ah” by Jean-Eric
good liver NOLA 