Sponsored: Voices of New Orleans Choir presents: ‘Mosaic’

The Voices of New Orleans Choir presents “Mosaic”, a vocal concert featuring some favorite pop tunes and beautiful classical vocal repertoire. With vocal arrangements by The Beatles, Billy Joel and even Tichelli and Ave Maria.

This choir concert is free and open to everyone that loves vocal music. It will take place on Saturday, October 22nd at 7:30 p.m. at the St. Charles Ave Baptist Church, home of the New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra.

“Jonah Stands Up” film awarded for portrayal of comedian, activist, mayoral candidate

Even the death of her subject did not discontinue the message of director Hannah Engelson’s documentary about Uptown resident, comedian and disabilities advocate Jonah Bascle, which won a special jury mention at this year’s New Orleans Film Festival.

“My original intention was just to give a well-rounded picture of this person and I think I still accomplished that,” Engelson said.

District 6 School Board election pits incumbent against neighborhood activist

The next few years will bring the the long-awaited reunification of nearly all the city’s public schools under a single entity governed by a locally-elected Orleans Parish School Board. While only three of the seven seats on the board are contested in the Nov. 8 election, one is District 6 in Uptown and Carrollton, where incumbent Woody Koppel will face a challenge from neighborhood activist David Alvarez.