Peter Ricchiuti leaves his regular table at Commander’s Palace in the Garden District and travels downtown to the Arts District. He’s set up shop at the Contemporary Arts Center where art is taking a back seat to business. This is the current home of the Idea Village’s annual bridge between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest – a…
Read MoreA villanelle is not a small cottage in the French countryside. It’s a kind of poem where you can make the same point – for example, making out with a bartender at The Maple Leaf – in a number of chorus-like ways. That’s about the only literary fact you’ll learn from Louisiana’s ex Poet Laureate…
Read MoreSpring in New Orleans can last anywhere from a weekend to a few weeks. As soon as we start to get a little warm we know it might only be days away till it s hot. On this week s Unlisted NOLA, Ariana makes the most of the beginnings of Spring by introducing three real…
Read MoreThe good news is, you’ve got Google. So if you want, in the next couple of minutes, you can look up the word “polymer.” P-O-L-Y-M-E-R. When you do, you probably won’t be much wiser about what a polymer is, and guaranteed you won’t be able to figure out what “polymer monitoring” might be. All you need…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever looked at something in a store and weren’t sure whether to buy it or not, apparently the question you are subconsciously trying to answer is, “Is this me?” According to artist Rebecca Rebouche, that’s the central question in all of our lives in the way we relate to art. How that art…
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