The annual National Fried Chicken Festival is moving to the Gentilly lakefront. Festival organizers announced this week that the popular event found a new home along the lake from Franklin Avenue to the Seabrook Bridge. The fifth anniversary festival...
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist Sibil Fox and Rob Richardson (also known as Fox and Rob Rich) are among a handful of New Orleanians who have a personal stake in Sunday night’s 2021 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
business / COVID-19 / Entertainment / Featured / Food and Drink
by Gentilly Messenger · Published January 6, 2021 · Last modified January 9, 2021
By Jeanne D’Arcy, Gentilly Messenger Drive by 3000 Franklin Ave. during a Saints game and you are sure to see plenty of fans — spread out in the days of COVID-19, but none the less cheering on our team. Culture...
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by Gentilly Messenger · Published May 5, 2020
Wendell Pierce talks COVID-19, “Jack Ryan,” “Burning Cane,” and WBOK in interview with Kristine Froeba New Orleans native, “Treme” and “The Wire” actor, Wendell Pierce is coming off of one of the most exciting periods of his career. And although...
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by Tyree Worthy · Published January 29, 2020 · Last modified January 30, 2020
Wendell Pierce and partners relaunch WBOK with new programming at new station location WBOK 1230 AM, Louisiana’s oldest African-American radio station, relaunched with a new brand, website, programming and more on Monday (Jan. 27). Under its new owners, Equity Media,...
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by Tyree Worthy · Published December 24, 2019 · Last modified December 23, 2019
The NOLA Project will host a four-day workshop for students between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The Winter Intensive, for ages 12 to 17, will focus on acting, writing, and stage combat. Through courses led by NOLA Project ensemble...
Sponsored by Forty-two years ago, the sound of the 20th Century Fox fanfare kicked off a franchise that has captivated multiple generations of fans and spawned a nine-episode story about fathers and sons and daughters set in a galaxy far,...
by Gentilly Messenger · Published October 16, 2019 · Last modified October 15, 2019
Councilman Jared Brossett and the District D staff will be hosting a free Halloween Pizza Bash for local children and their families. The event will provide a safe place to enjoy Halloween and will include trick-or-treating, music with a local...
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by Jamal Melancon · Published September 20, 2019 · Last modified September 21, 2019
He has drawn political cartoons for newspapers, created his own comic books, and co-hosted on WBOK. Now Gentilly Sugar Hill resident John Slade is displaying his latest exhibiton, “Political Gastronomy 2019,” at the Dillard University Art Gallery. John Barnes, assistant...
Southern Rep Theatre and the New Orleans Theater Network will host city-wide open auditions for actors, singers, and actor-musicians at Southern Rep Theatre (2541 Bayou Road) on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The auditions will be...
Story via The Spears Group Equity Media—the newly-formed team comprised of New Orleans native and Actor/Producer Wendell Pierce, Spears Group President/CEO Cleveland Spears, III, Henry Consulting Managing Partner Troy Henry, and Thomas Media Services Founder Jeff Thomas—has announced it will...
PATOIS: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival (PATOIS), will celebrate its 15th anniversary this year at The Broad Theater from Thursday, March 21 to Sunday, March 24. The festival opens with 2019 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary The...
