Upon first glance of a piece by local artist, Michael Pajon, one is transported immediately into a private dreamscape – anachronistic figures float beside untethered flora and fauna, all interwoven to create intricately stunning tales, whose purpose and meaning hover just beyond the viewer’s grasp. It is a haunting and beautiful experience to search these images for the connections and meanings that lie just beneath the surface, much like one does upon waking from a long night spent dreaming. Pajon’s collages unravel stories and scenes of social anxieties, inner… Read More »
The Red Cross Rolls out the Red Carpet
If you have always wanted to be in the crowd on Oscar night, but don’t have any of the talents that could get you there, you are in luck! The SouthEast Louisiana Chapter of the American Red Cross* is hosting one of only 50 official Oscar viewing parties sanctioned by the Academy (and the ONLY one in NOLA) at the Theatres at Canal Place on February 26,2012 from 6pm-midnight. The big show will be airing on the big screens in the shwanky Canal theatres. If you are in desperate need of a new… Read More »
Local Etsy Store with an international twist
Most people would find it difficult to run a business together when one partner lives in New Orleans and the other in Kobe, Japan, but somehow Yeonsoo Son and Mayumi Nakagawa make it work running most of their business meetings through Skype. Having met at Parsons in NYC several years ago where they were both pursuing other creative outlets, they collaborated on their jewelry design line Coughing Cow n Chicken about a year ago. This unique name was born from their Asian heritage as Yeonsoo is from the year… Read More »
10 Questions with Willard Hill: A Breath of Future Fresh Air to the Music Scene
By: Megan Braden-Perry New Orleans Hip Hop/Soul artist Willard Hill graduated from Howard University in Jazz and Audio Production, had a hit single on Q93, is Pro Tools certified and produced all but three tracks on his album, Gemini Mood Swings. In this interview, he shares his musical background and lets us know what to expect in the near future. 1. What/who made you go into music? I’ve been fascinated by music from an early age. Even when I was at St. Aug and playing football, I was more focused… Read More »
Sex Edna – 5 Sex Do’s of Mardi Gras
It is that time of year again where the lives of everyone in New Orleans is going to take a turn for the crazy… Mardi Gras. The holiday used by Catholics in order to purge themselves of all the horrible things they can’t do during Lent, like eat meat, do drugs, have pre-marital sex and expose themselves to complete strangers for recycled anal beads. The next two installments of this column are going to be dedicated to some sexual preparations needed to come out relatively unscathed by this debaucheries of… Read More »
