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Artist Spotlight: Mark Waguespack

by admin on Jan 26, 2012 • 5 Comments

By: Laura Klein New Orleans based artist Mark Waguespack is truly a local gem. Versatile and endlessly creative, Mark excels in a variety of different mediums. He creates everything from prints, posters, books, paintings and then some. A graduate of The Memphis College of Art, Mark currently works as a...

Fashion

Fashion Focus: The Wild Life Reserve

by admin on Jan 24, 2012 • 1 Comment

By: Megan Braden-Perry It’s like a scene from a western. An average Joe walks into a high-end retailer looking for a tie. With all eyes on him, he feels nervous. He searches the whole store, hoping the right tie will catch his eye. When it finally does, he looks at the...

Announcements

InvadeNOLA reaches 5000 unique visitors for the month of January!

by admin on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

For just over two years, InvadeNOLA has offered a daily blog for the Creative Class of New Orleans. Reflecting the voice of these coolhunters, our content focuses on art, fashion, music, events. food and culture. I am earth-shatteringly proud to announce that InvadeNOLA has reached 5000 unique visitors so far...

Music

Music Monday: NOLA Jams you Might not Know

by admin on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

By: Megan Braden-Perry One day while looking at the liner notes of a greatest hits of the 70s CD, I noticed that the band who sings one of my favorite songs, “Moonlight Feels Right”, was formed by a guy who was once in a NOLA band! I started wondering what...

Food and Beverage

Restaurant Focus: Rue 127

by admin on Jan 13, 2012 • 1 Comment

by Charlé Washington Wedged between two relative monoliths, Rue 127 is a seemingly quaint eatery carved out of what appears to have been a single shotgun house. Upon entering, its domestic vibe is replaced by the odd feeling that you have, in fact, discovered a tear in the space time...

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Events

Weekend Update: February 2-5

by amanda on Feb 2, 2012 • No Comments

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...

Art

Artist Spotlight: Sophie Lvoff

by admin on Feb 2, 2012 • No Comments

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’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, France; Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland;...

Culture

Peace in the Second Line

by admin on Feb 1, 2012 • 1 Comment

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...

TV and Film

NOVAC Helping to Build a Knowledgeable Film Community

by admin on Feb 1, 2012 • 1 Comment

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...

Art

In My Happy Place

by ejensen on Jan 31, 2012 • 2 Comments

“There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.” ~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...

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