Southern Food and Beverage Museum hosts Louisiana Sisters cocktail competition

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Nine bartenders from around the city will compete to make the best cocktail using a trio of gourmet ingredients from Louisiana Sisters in a free event with live music Wednesday evening at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and the audience will get to help choose the winner. The competitors will make a cocktail using one of three Louisiana Sisters products, an all-natural Bloody Mary mix, spiced olives, and pepper jelly, and alcohol provided by Donner-Peltier Distillers and Cathead Vodka. Four local celebrities will judge the drinks on smell, taste, appeal and presentation. The public’s votes will contribute to the final vote. The winner will receive a year’s supply of Louisiana Sisters products, $150 from Donner-Peltier Distillers, two tickets to Gambit’s Food Revue, Tales of the Cocktail lagniappe, and a Yelp!

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Artist Keith Sonnier to speak at Loyola

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Keith Sonnier, a postminimalist, performance, video and light artist, will speak about the development of his art at Loyola University this week as a part of the Mark Grote Visiting Artist Lecture Series. 

A Louisiana native and graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculptures in the 1960s and has been one of the most successful artists to do so. He was also part of the Process Art Movement. He has received many awards, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Sonnier will speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in room 114 of Loyola’s Miller Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

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Women’s guild to host discussion about upcoming “Lucia Di Lammermoor” opera

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New Orleans Opera Association’s Women’s Guild and Junior Committee will host an opera orientation and roundtable discussion Sunday. The event will happen from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Women’s Guild Home at 2504 Prytania Street. Guests from the upcoming production of “Lucia Di Lammermoor” will attend and speak at the event. Themed refreshments will be served. Tickets for members of the Women’s Guild and the Junior Committee are $25.

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Novelist Lorrie Moore to give reading at Tulane

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Novelist Lorrie Moore, author of “A Gate at the Stairs” and a finalist for the Story Prize, will give a public reading from her work this week as this year’s Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence at Tulane University. The event will happen on March 2 at 7 p.m. in the Kendall-Cram Auditorium in Tulane’s Lavin Bernick Center. She will read some of her work and then Tulane assistant professor Zachary Lazar will lead a conversation with her. After the program, there will be a book signing and a reception. Moore has written five collections of short stories and two novels.

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Lenten fish fry begins Friday at Blessed Pauline Center on Constance Street

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With the Lenten season now upon us, Friday-evening fried-fish dinners will resume at the Blessed Pauline Center this week, parish officials said. The Knights of Columbus, de la Salle Council #3411, will host their first fish fry of the season at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Blessed Pauline Center, 4219 Constance Street. Dinner will begin after the Stations of the Cross conclude at the Church of St. Henry, 803 General Pershing Street.

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Cajun historian to speak at Loyola Law School

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Warren Perrin, attorney and author of Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History, will give a free lecture next week at Loyola Law School commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Cajun culture. 

Perrin will speak at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 20 in room 308 of the main law school building at Loyola’s Law School at 7214 St. Charles Ave. He will discuss the French-speaking Acadian people’s settlement in Louisiana. The uniqueness of Cajun people’s cultural heritage will be emphasized, as well as the legal arguments that protect their livelihoods.

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Tulane’s Newcomb Art Gallery to feature Degas exhibit

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Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Gallery will feature an exhibition called “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist, Works on Paper by the Artist and his Circle,” with an opening reception the day after Mardi Gras. The exhibit will include drawings, prints, photographs, monotypes and sculpture from one private collection. It will be on display from Feb. 18 to May 24. A public reception will celebrate the opening of the exhibit on Feb.

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Civil Rights exhibit extends run at Myrtle Banks building on OC Haley

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“Above Canal: Rights and Revival,” a P.3 exhibit sponsored by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans, will continue to be shown through February. The exhibition is on the third floor of the Myrtle Banks Building at 1307 OC Haley Blvd. This display, along with two others in the city, debuted in October last year and were supposed to end on Jan. 25. Local and national artists displayed work in the exhibit as a tribute to and in remembrance of the Civil Rights movement.

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Ashe Cultural Arts Center to host brunch theater

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Seasons Center and Ashe Cultural Arts Center are teaming up to celebrate Women’s Month by presenting “Soul Full: Sunday Brunch Theater. ”

This event will be held on Sunday, Feb. 22 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center at 1712 Oretha Castle-Haley Blvd. This brunch will celebrate Women’s Month by acknowledge those who have conquered various obstacles in their lives with help of their faith. General admission tickets are $35.

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Loyola arts department holds opening reception for new multimedia, drawing exhibits

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Loyola University New Orleans’ Visual Arts Department is holding an opening reception this evening (Thursday, Feb. 5) for its two new exhibitions, “Mementos” and “stop thinking so much.” The reception will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. today in the Collins C. Diboll Gallery on the fourth floor of Loyola’s Monroe Library at 6363 St. Charles Ave. Mary Jane Parker, creator of “Mementos,” said in her exhibition statement that her multimedia work involves the fusion of plants, things and the human body.