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		<title>Advertise in the February/March InvadeNOLA Magazine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This issue features: Food Focus: Local sweet shops All Male Fashion Photo spread Culture Focus: The Illustrated History of Mardi Gras Music Focus: Interview with local Electronic band Personal Narrative: I f*cking hate Valentine&#8217;s Day Important deadlines: Absolute Closing deadline: Wednesday, Feb 8 Ad Design deadline: Friday, Feb 10  To order, email dominique@invadenola.com Click here to download the full media kit. ]]></description>
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		<title>Food Focus: Merchant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Elizabeth Tran Merchant 800 Common Street 504-571-9580 https://www.facebook.com/MerchantNOLA Merchant is not to be confused for a mere café. This sleek, upscale location at the Maritime in the CBD, for the purposes of convenience and technicality, can be categorized as a café. But in reality, it is in a niche of its own, on the border between restaurant and wine bar but perhaps teetering more into coffee shop territory with carefully crafted Illy espressos and unwavering wifi. The thought to design here is evident upon first entrance. The interior is almost entirely white, a modern space with a hint of New Orleans charm that makes it pleasant to sit in for hours stooped over your laptop. The little things have been thought about, you realize, when you sit at one of their white circular tables set off into a quiet hallway right next to the coffee bar, and see that there is enough space for your duck confit crepe, iced coffee, paperwork, notebooks, Blackberry, and Macbook, and there is an outlet handily available to you and to every other person at every other table. There’s nothing worse than having the condensation ring from your cup leaking onto your notes written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons I Don&#8217;t Leave Town for Mardi Gras</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nikki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drunken revelers are coming and I can&#8217;t wait. I used to leave town for Mardi Gras, especially when I lived in the Quarter. It was too hard to find parking and I got tired of spraying off my sidewalk. Today, I am safely entrenched Uptown and make sure I take vacation so I can enjoy as many parades as possible as well as both Lundi and Mardi Gras. Here are my top ten reasons for not leaving town during Mardi Gras. 10. To have a say in what happens here. The city of New Orleans needs us, the local population, to promote and participate in the festivities. It cannot become a holiday for only the tourists. Otherwise, we will no longer have a say in what happens during that time period. I want this to be my celebration as a local, and not a tourist trap. 9. To take back my local street corner. I hear way too many complaints about tourists taking over all the good spots along St. Charles. This has happened because we let them take our spots. We should share the areas and educate them on proper etiquette for the parades. Knocking children down to get beads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tipitina&#8217;s w/ Big History, Gold and the Rush, and Chilldren</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Emily Jensen Photography: Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee Lately I’ve been having recurring moments of feeling suddenly, conspicuously old. At the ripe old age of 23, things that were normal just two years ago have slowly morphed into signs of my fading youth. Do these denim cutoffs make me look washed up? Is it 10 o’clock already? Are these bran muffins made with wheat flour? Don’t you want to see my ID? IS THAT A GREY??While these grown-up realizations may be a little delusional based on the fact the I’m barely a quarter of the way into my potential lifespan, times when I become aware that I’m no longer a footloose late-teen can still be jarring. Take, for example, a local band showcase at Tipitina’s last week. Leaning against the bar nursing our drinks, my boyfriend and I watched Urban Outfitters-clad boys and girls flitting anxiously past one another as they awaited the opening act. Even though we came to scope out New Orleans’ own sultry-electro outfit Big History, we both felt creepily old and unintentionally skeezy when we realized that this was a Back to School show sponsored by WTUL. That explained the sea of ironic thrift-store threads and suspiciously fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Reasons I love the Oscars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my earliest memories from childhood involve me standing in front of a room full of cabbage patch kids and barbie dolls and giving my acceptance speech into my hairbrush&#8230;.thanking the academy of course (even at 5 years old I knew it would be taboo not to), my kindergarten teacher for seeing something special in me, and of course my dog for always being there to listen to me recite my lines. I must have set some sort of record for the child actress with the most awards under her belt because I was caught reciting that same speech (no variations here) day in and day out (sometimes multiple times) but yet somehow my parents &#8220;misplaced&#8221; them all or sold them to pay for all our family vacations. While I reminisce about my child star burning out too soon, here are the TOP 5 Reason&#8217;s I get Oscar fever and STILL practice my speech in the mirror sometimes just in case&#8230; 5. The clothes. More than I love the Oscars themselves I love watching the Red Carpet special beforehand, and even more so the Joan Rivers special announcing the best and the worst dressed. The gowns have actually become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Update: February 2-5</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amanda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Orleans Film Society presents The Weird World of Blowfly, with DJ Soul Sister hosting a Q+A with the film’s star, Blowfly himself. You won’t want to miss it. The Weird World of Blowfly tells the story of Clarence Reid, a Miami musician who wrote and produced romantic and spiritual songs for some of the greatest Southern soul and R&#38;B acts of the 1960s and 1970s. He is also the gonzo performer Blowfly, Clarence’s freaky alter ego and the original X-rated rapper. Zeitgeist Multi-Disiplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. 7pm $6 for NOFS/Zeitgeist members, $7 students/seniors, and $8 general admission. http://neworleansfilmsociety.org/events/detail/178/Screening-of-THE-WEIRD-WORLD-OF-BLOWFLY- NOMA’s Artfully Aware The evening includes a performance by the Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Guardians of the Flame, Michael Watson, the musical director of Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, and the New Orleans Dance Collective. Visitors can interact with professional writers and artists from A Studio in the Woods, catch a literary reading organized by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, listen to original poetry and prose read by students from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, view photography that reflects the Sierra Club’s local environmental efforts, hear speakers from the Young Leadership Council and watch short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Spotlight: Sophie Lvoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Sophie T Lvoff was born in 1986 in New York and received her BFA in photography and imaging, and philosophy from New York University. Exhibitions of her photographs have been shown in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, including Institut d&#8217;Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, France; Musée de l&#8217;Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland; The Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans; Grand Central Terminal in New York; the Aperture Foundation in New York; Art Miami; and Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans. Lvoff has also curated a number of group exhibitions in New York and New Orleans. She is a member of Good Children Gallery, a collective gallery in New Orleans that is currently participating in St. Claude Satellites, a satellite exhibition program during Prospect.2. She is an MFA candidate in Studio Arts at Tulane University. Describing her work, she said: I use large and medium format color film to photograph romance in the sky, in the landscape, and in science. I also rely on literature and the narrative arc of history as cues for photographs. Illustrating my own landscapes through composition and color is how I have focused a preoccupation with the fragility of history and emotional chronology. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace in the Second Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Bradley Bates Donald Johnson lay dead on the sidewalk, his “Misunderstood” tattoo clearly visible. 1 The 21-year-old’s death brought an end to a Hollywood-esque spree of violence that began when Johnson and two accomplices showed up at a home in eastern New Orleans. The trio allegedly opened fire on the occupants. Two in the home died immediately, while two others were wounded. As the shooters fled in a red Pontiac Grand Prix, 60-year-old Reyland Berry, who was also in the home, returned fire &#8211; only to be killed in the exchange. A police chase ensued. The getaway car crashed into a telephone pole, forcing the three passengers to bail out. At this point, the trio began firing at officers, police said. All three would be hit by return fire, with Johnson dying at the scene. This episode brought the murder count in New Orleans up to 12, through just the first 12 days of the year. 2 Against a bloody backdrop, the Undefeated Divas and Gents Social Aid and Pleasure Club prepared for their annual second line. The theme for this year’s parade is peace. Written on all the banners is “We’re Still Standing.” Events like second lines seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOVAC Helping to Build a Knowledgeable Film Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Chris Henson The film industry in New Orleans, and in Louisiana in general, is booming. But it is not only the major studio productions coming to the Crescent City. Independent filmmaking has also exploded in the area. Organizations like New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC) help promote, encourage, and expand film knowledge and practice throughout the city, which only benefits the region’s rapidly growing industry. NOVAC is a 501(c) (3) non-profit media group which helps cultivate a sustainable film community by providing access to resources, education, and locally generated content. Now in its 40th year, NOVAC does this through a broad range of classes, workshops, and training, utilizing the best available technology, career development, community outreach, independent productions, and special events. Some highlights from NOVAC’s past year, include: Producing the Indie – a two-day intensive on how to fund an independent film; Watch My Movie! – which demystified the world of marketing and distribution for the indie filmmaker; trained over 50 participants through the free Production Assistant Workforce Training; and finally, Citizen Voices – in partnership with the New Orleans Film Festival, held a panel discussion about the best practices and ethics in documentary filmmaking. Those at NOVAC realize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Happy Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ejensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.&#8221;  ~Bob Dylan Since the first time I set foot in New Orleans, I felt a surreal connection. I could feel its vivid history rise up from the seashell-laced soil and into my teenage toes; the ancient rhythm thrumming through the air filled my throat, and I have been singing this place’s melody ever since. New Orleans is for me that proverbial “happy place,” where I feel most in tune with the core of my being, and it is in honor of the magic I find here that I’ve pieced together a small photographic cartography &#8211; a collection of freeze frames of a few little things that make the Big Easy so special to me. Nothing gives me a little jolt of joy and wonder like looking up into the big oak trees to see a technicolor web of Mardi Gras beads in the middle of summer, months after the last float rolled. It reminds me that in New Orleans, the spirit of celebration is omnipresent, and I love that the city is more concerned with preserving that spirit than with looking pristine. It&#8217;s hard not to [...]]]></description>
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