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Artist Spotlight: Mark Waguespack

Artist Spotlight: Mark Waguespack

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 Focus: The Wild Life Reserve

Fashion Focus: The Wild Life Reserve

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...
InvadeNOLA reaches 5000 unique visitors for the month of January!

InvadeNOLA reaches 5000 unique visitors for the month of January!

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 Monday: NOLA Jams you Might not Know

Music Monday: NOLA Jams you Might not Know

  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...
Restaurant Focus: Rue 127

Restaurant Focus: Rue 127

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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Common Ground Health Clinic 7th Annual Fire Cider Brewing (Sat, 12/10)

Common Ground Health Clinic 7th Annual Fire Cider Brewing (Sat, 12/10)

What is Fire Cider exactly? Just the ultimate cure for anything that ails ya. A combination of ginger, garlic, apple cider vinegar, turmeric, horseradish, and hot peppers buried in the ground and allowed to ferment for thirty days, its an all natural herbal remedy for use at the first sign of a cold or flu. It is...
Artist Spotlight: Musa Alves

Artist Spotlight: Musa Alves

Musa Alves is our favorite DJ at The Saint, but I recently learned she’s multifaceted creative. Her “Boys” series of photography is hip, modern, and pretty fucking awesome. Read more in her artist statement below: When photographing people, it is not about the pose, the beauty, the shock, or the attitude. It is a documentation...
PhotoGALA Benefit Party and Auction

PhotoGALA Benefit Party and Auction

The New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA) is pleased to announce PhotoGALA, its annual fundraiser and one of the highlights of the sixth annual PhotoNOLA festival. The PhotoGALA Benefit Party and Auction will take place on Thursday, December 8, 2011 from 7-10pm at The Musee Conti Historical Wax Museum. Patrons can enjoy food, drinks, and live...
Chew Dat: The Rethink Cook-Off! (Sat, 12/10)

Chew Dat: The Rethink Cook-Off! (Sat, 12/10)

On December 10, seven teams will compete for the title of CHEW DAT CHAMPION in the first ever Rethink cook-off fundraiser. Benefitting Rethink, a group of visionary middle school students responsible for bringing structural and ideological reforms (http://www.therethinkers.com/what-weve-done-2/ ) to RSD schools in New Orleans, each team will prepare four dishes using a secret ingredient from...
Adorn & Conquer Gallery Celebration

Adorn & Conquer Gallery Celebration

Come celebrate with Maria Fomich and her sister Allison as they kick off the opening of Adorn and Conquer, (http://www.adornandconquer.com) the newest jewelry gallery on Magazine St. in New Orleans! The after hours event will be held Wednesday December 7, 2011 from 5:30 – 8:30, inside 2038 Magazine Street in the upstairs loft. Maria Fomich’s...