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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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Creative Class / Events / Local Spotlight / Theater

“Tiny Alice”: dizzying down the rabbit hole

by contributor on Jan 27, 2012 • No Comments

I attended the Friday, January 20th performance of Silk Dress Productions’ Tiny Alice by Edward Albee at the Mid-City Theater, a recently renovated venue in the New Orleans theatre scene, which is a refreshing sight in spite of the indefinite closure of venues such as Le Petit in the French Quarter, Le Chat Noir in...

Sex

Sex Edna – Your One True Love

by admin on Jan 27, 2012 • 1 Comment

Our lives begin with relationships. The relationship of our bellybutton to our umbilical cord which subsequently leads to your mom…the first person you have a relationship with. No matter what happens between you and your mom outside of the womb, she nourished you for, more or less, nine months of your existence. However, once you...

Food and Beverage

Pravda: the true vodka

by admin on Jan 27, 2012 • No Comments

By: Rebeca Garcia Although I really enjoy the occasional girly drink, it took me longer than it should have to try a Cosmo, in part because vodka and I were no longer in speaking terms after certain college hangovers. Our reconciliation, however, could have not happened in a better place: Pravda (Russian for truth, named...

Art

Second Saturday: Art Recap with Photos

by amanda on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

Visit any of these St. Claude Art District galleries: On view January 14 to early February 2012 Open: Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm or by appointment. Homespace Gallery: RAW A Salon at HomeSpace 1128 St. Roch Ave, https://www.facebook.com/groups/8022854956/ Staple Goods: Arm’s Breadth Recent Sculpture and Drawings by William DePauw 1340 St. Roch Avenue...

Events

Weekend Update: January 26-28