NATIONAL MUTT DAY

National Mutt Day encourages us to embrace, save and celebrate mixed breed dogs twice a year on July 31 and December 2.

Desperately longing for a new home, millions of loving and healthy mixed breed dogs in shelters wait for someone to come and adopt them. National Mutt Day provides an excellent opportunity to find the perfect canine companion. Despite the name, a mutt learns, obeys and trains much like purebred animals. While their lineage cannot be traced and their features a bit murky, their companionship will be faithful.  

According to the ASPCA, approximately 3.3 million dogs enter shelters every year. When these abandoned and often abused animals find their way to a shelter, each one needs a forever home. Whether you know it or not, their potential is limitless. Some of the benefits of adoption are often hidden. Human and canine both enjoy increased physical activity. Another boost is social interaction through daily walks. While humans develop patience, their four-legged companion learns to trust and new limits. For example, as dogs explore the many scents of the human lifestyle, they usually discover shoes are off-limits. 

No matter the breed, size or demeanor of the human, er, canine, the shelter will take the time to find the right home for their animals. They schedule visits and have procedures in place to promote healthy adoptions for families and individuals. While some dogs experience injury or illness, the shelters work with veterinarians to heal the animals before making them available for adoption.

Of course, shelters always welcome donations and volunteers. Dogs love walking, playing and being loved even if they haven’t found their forever home. Every moment they spend socializing increases their opportunity for adoption.

NATIONAL AVOCADO DAY

Add National Avocado Day on July 31 to your menu of delicious food holidays to celebrate. Avocados are so versatile you can use them for everything from the appetizer to main dishes. Get ready to clear the table for an entire meal to make sure you enjoy this delicious food in style.

Avocados are more than a staple food in the American diet; they are proven to be a key ingredient in recipes for both inside the body and on the body! While guacamole is grand, don't settle for just the chips and dip on this food holiday.

According to the Hass Avocado Board, as of 2015, avocado consumption in the United States doubled since 2005 and quadrupled since 2000. In fact, a whopping 4.25 billion avocados were sold in the U.S. in 2015. That's four point two five billion of this amazingly beautiful food. 

Super Food

There are many reasons to celebrate National Avocado Day. For one, avocados target insulin resistance with heart-healthy fats. They also fight Alzheimer's with its Omega 3 fatty acids. Another avocado superpower is preventing and repairing damage due to its source of Vitamins C, E and K.

One of the secret weapons in an avocado is the high oleic acid content. This moisturizing fatty acid helps keep skin soft and hydrated but also supports the regeneration of damaged skin cells reducing redness and irritation. Eat more of this superfruit or cook with avocado oil if you have this type of skin issue.

Beauty

Ancient Aztecs used the avocado to beautify their skin topically with masks. Then in the early 20th century, the cosmetic industry discovered the benefits of its oil in creams, lotions, facial cleansers and other products that required a smooth application. Interestingly, the practice continues today.

As mentioned before, avocados have found their way into every meal of the day. Of course, avocados celebrate with dessert effortlessly. Additionally, the creamy texture replaces calorie-laden oils with healthful fats. That means we can indulge without the guilt. What better way to celebrate National Avocado Day than to indulge a little?

Tropical depression may form near Florida. Southeastern U.S. encouraged to monitor progression.

• BY POET WOLFE

A large tropical wave that hurricane forecasters have been tracking since Friday may develop into a tropical depression this weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. 

The system continues to unleash disorganized showers and thunderstorms near the Lesser Antilles, NHC forecasters said Wednesday morning. The tropical wave will have more potential to develop as it moves west-northwestward over the Great Antilles and closer to the Bahamas. 

Hurricane forecasters are not ruling out that a tropical depression could form this weekend in vicinity of the Greater Antilles, Bahamas or near Florida. The chance of development Wednesday had not changed since the day before, as NHC said there was a 60% chance that the system could form within the next week. 

People in the southeastern U.S., the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas are encouraged to monitor the progression of this tropical wave. Id does not pose a current threat to Louisiana.

If the system gains enough strength, it could become Tropical Storm Debby, the fourth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. 

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What a Wonderful Exhibit: Louis Armstrong’s Life in New Orleans

In this striking new exhibit, the New Orleans Jazz Museum offers a love letter to Louis Armstrong – just in time for Satchmo SummerFest.

– by Doug Brantley

photos courtesy New Orleans Jazz Museum and by Ellis Anderson

For generations, Louis Armstrong has been synonymous with the Crescent City.  From the international airport bearing his name to the Tremé park featuring his towering bronze likeness to the French Quarter’s New Orleans Jazz Museum, where each August the annual Satchmo SummerFest celebrates his birth, life and musical legacy, “little Louie” still looms large—both here and abroad—some 50-plus years after his death.

“Louis Armstrong is a pivotal figure in the history of modern music,” notes Jazz Museum director Greg Lambousy.  “New Orleans is the Vienna of the 21st century in large measure because of his influence worldwide, embodying the music and culture of an endlessly interesting city.”

A special envoy for the U.S. State Department during the 1950s and ’60s, “Ambassador Satchmo” traveled the globe, winning over kings and commoners alike with his signature smile, trademark trumpet and waving white handkerchief, spreading the joy of New Orleans-born jazz and breaking through racial barriers of the day along the way.

Opening Aug. 1, the Jazz Museum’s new “Satchmo: Louis Armstrong’s Life in New Orleans” exhibit traces the beloved musician’s journey, from his ragtag beginnings “back o’ town” to his rise as a global culture icon, through a variety of artifacts and ephemera, including excerpts from his many manuscripts and massive collection of private audio recordings. 

Born into poverty on Aug. 4, 1901, to help make ends meet, Armstrong spent his formative years selling newspapers, collecting salvage and delivering buckets of coal to Black Storyville prostitutes for the Karnofskys, a kind-hearted Jewish family with a shop on South Rampart.  

Noting his musical leanings, the Karnofskys, who embraced young Louis as one of their own, taught him “to sing from the heart” and helped purchase his first horn, a cornet – which you’ll find on display in the exhibition.

Armstrong’s first horn belongs to the permanent collection on the New Orleans Jazz Museum and will be on display with the exhibit.

Armstrong’s big break came following his arrest at age 11 for firing a gun in the air outside of the Little Gem Saloon on New Year’s Eve, which landed him in the Colored Waifs’ Home for Boys.  There, he fell under the tutelage of music director Peter Davis, who taught him both discipline and how to properly play the cornet, a talent later honed through the mentorship of Joe “King” Oliver who was heralded in the museum’s recent exhibit, “New Orleans Stomp.”

He was soon busking on street corners he’d formerly hawked papers from and performing with early brass bands in the city’s dance halls and honky-tonks.  He would go on to replace Oliver, who moved to Chicago in 1918, in the Kid Ory Band.  Armstrong followed a few years later to join Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, broadening not only his musical influences but his worldview as well.

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Chicago led to New York and the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, which led to recordings with fellow New Orleanian Sidney Bechet and blues greats Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, among others, including his own Hot Five band, which led to national tours, catapulting him to fame. Armstrong would not return to New Orleans until 1931.

But New Orleans’ now-favorite son wasn’t so warmly embraced back then.  Greeted with great fanfare and jubilant crowds upon his arrival that June, Armstrong called it “the happiest day in my life.”  His tune changed, however, a few days later.

Booked for a summerlong run at Suburban Gardens, a white’s-only club in Metairie, he packed the house with more than 5,000 opening-night attendees and an additional 10,000 Black fans listening from along the levee behind, with even more tuning into the show’s broadcast. 

But despite his immense popularity, the evening’s announcer refused to introduce Armstrong because of the color of his skin.  Undeterred, he took the stage and introduced himself, later claiming to have been the first Black man to speak live on New Orleans radio.

He revisited the city again for performances in 1938 and 1940, and famously in 1949 for Mardi Gras as king of the Zulu parade, which Armstrong recounts in a letter included in the exhibit.  In between he toured Europe, played the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall, appeared in numerous films, made his television debut, was featured on the cover of Time and purchased a house in Queens, N.Y., where he resided for the remainder of his life. 

Though he held his hometown near and dear (often signing letters “Red Beans and Ricely Yours”), by the mid-1950s Armstrong swore off performing here altogether due to Jim Crow laws and restrictions, which prohibited his long-integrated band from playing together.  “I’m accepted all over the world,” he told the Times-Picayune in 1959, “and when New Orleans accepts me, I will go home.” 

That did not happen until 1965—following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, his Grammy win for “Hello Dolly” and the razing of Armstrong’s childhood home to make way for a new police complex—with a sole performance at Loyola University’s Field House.  He would return only twice more before his death in 1971. 

Armstrong with Don Marquis at the Blue Note in Chicago, 1951. Marquis was a noted jazz author and founder of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

“Armstrong knew what it meant to miss New Orleans,” wrote frequent Satchmo Fest speaker Ricky Riccardi, director of research collections at the Queens-based Louis Armstrong House Museum, in a recent essay.  “To love New Orleans, to celebrate New Orleans, to be hurt by New Orleans and to hate New Orleans—but through it all, he knew that in many ways, he was New Orleans, with all of its complexities.”

Armstrong’s relationship with the city was a fraught and fractured one, not unlike that of New Orleans musicians and expats who fled for higher ground and greener pastures following that other August anniversary in 2005.  The place that bore and raised him, his lover and muse, had also scorned and betrayed him.

During Katrina, a large section of roofing from the Old U.S. Mint, in which the Jazz Museum is housed, was torn away and mangled by the destructive winds that forever changed New Orleans.  It took some time to patch up and repair, but by the following year, modern-day jazz greats were back on the Mint’s grounds performing Armstrong classics, as they will again Aug. 3-4 during this year’s SummerFest. 

Meanwhile, indoors on the Legacy Stage, Riccardi and other Satchmo scholars will sing his praises just steps away from the new exhibit, chronicling his lasting impact on the city and the world.

More than a century after he first departed, “Little Louie” has come home.  It’s so nice to have you back where you belong.

Note: The New Orleans Jazz Museum collaborates with the Louis Armstrong Music Academy to teach students about the music and its important history that is indigenous to New Orleans, as well as traditional and contemporary jazz and blues. The joint program instills in students awareness of the role that jazz has played historically and socially. Working with leading New Orleans music educators, the Teaching Artists provide arts integration on Jazz and New Orleans Brass Band music, strengthening existing school music programs with individual and ensemble-based instruction.

K&B drug stores heir launches new real estate firm and industrial project in Luling

• By STEPHANIE RIEGEL

Andrew Marcus was just 8 years old in 1998, when his grandfather Sydney Besthoff sold the family drug store business, K&B, to Rite Aid.

So, while Marcus remembers the chain’s iconic purple logo and beloved peppermint ice cream, the family business he grew up in wasn’t focused on running pharmacies but on real estate — specifically, managing more than 100 retail properties the Besthoffs owned even after they sold K&B.

Now, Marcus, 34, is branching out on his own with a new real estate development company, called Agile Coast, that is concentrating on the industrial sector. His first solo project, which broke ground this month, will be an industrial development on a 53-acre site on the west bank of St. Charles Parish in Luling with three large warehouses totaling 750,000 square feet.

Marcus is building the facility on spec, meaning he doesn’t have any tenants lined up yet to lease the space. It’s a riskier way to do a project. But Marcus is bullish on the market and believes if he builds it, they will come.

“There hasn’t been any new industrial supply of any scale in this market in more than 20 years,” Marcus said. “There is very little inventory for tenants who want a newer, flexible, modern fulfillment or distribution space. The supply isn’t keeping up with the demand.”

The facility will initially target tenants looking for distribution space, a growing need in the era of e-commerce. Amazon has continued to perfect its tiered-distribution model, with large, centrally located fulfilment centers that feed to networks of smaller regional and local facilities. E-retailers that want to compete with the online giant need to keep up, said Gerard Henry, a broker with Max J. Derbes.

“Post-COVID, everyone moved to the Amazon model,” Henry said. “It’s not enough to service New Orleans with a warehouse in Houston. You have to have a satellite location nearby.”

The project is next to the Esperanza Business Park on a former sugar cane field that Marcus purchased last year for an undisclosed price.

He is building the facility in phases. The first warehouse will be 125,000 square feet with the capacity to expand to 250,000 square feet. Once the entire building is leased, Marcus will build a second building of roughly 250,000 square feet, then a third the same size.

He estimates the cost of the first phase is more than $12.5 million.

He believes there are opportunities to do more than just lease the warehouses to e-commerce companies . Energy service companies that do work offshore could use the warehouses for equipment and operations. 

Other possible uses include logistics, light assembly or advanced manufacturing, where mostly finished components could be brought in through the port and assembled on site. 

A rendering depicts the new industrial facility planned by Andrew Marcus' Agile Coast Developers for the Esperanza Business Park in Luling.

Provided by Agile Coast

Marcus said he wants to use the development as a way to grow the local economy and attract companies that might otherwise look elsewhere because of a lack of state-of-the-art industrial space.

“We know this region is not growing as fast as Texas or Florida, or even Mobile, so figuring out how to grow the pie here is a primary interest of mine,” he said. “We have companies that want to come here but don’t want to go into a 40-year-old warehouse. We can build them a nice, new logistics facility near-ish to New Orleans and grow our local economy and keep those dollars here.”

Better economics

Marcus remembers hanging out with his grandfather as a child and said he learned a lot about doing business from the late Besthoff, who was also a philanthropist and art collector.

“I was really close to him growing up,” he said. “We would go to construction sites and run around on rubble. That was more fun to me than the art gallery stuff.”

Though Besthoff, who died at the age of 92 in 2022, didn’t found K&B, he grew the business from three stores to 187. Today, the family, which does business under the name PMG Leasing, still manages dozens of those former storefronts, many of which have been converted to medical office buildings or other uses.

The late Besthoff also had considerable experience in the industrial sector, developing several warehouse projects in Elmwood, where K&B’s distribution facility was located. Marcus, who spent his 20s in California after graduating from college, came back to work for the family business in 2018 and has spent the past six years learning the ropes. Though he is still affiliated with PMG, Agile Coast is a separate business that he alone is running. 

“I like being in the industrial side much better than in retail,” he said. “One warehouse equals the same economics as 10 former K&B locations."

New year completion?

It’s a challenging era for most sectors of the real estate market, both locally and nationwide, experts say. The housing market has been hammered by higher interest rates and skyrocketing insurance premiums. Office buildings are struggling as hybrid work has become the new norm. And retail storefronts have been partially replaced by online shopping.

Amid those changes, the industrial sector has remained strong. That’s particularly true in the New Orleans area, where there has been little new construction over the past two decades, driving up demand for what remains available. Marketwide occupancy averages around 90%. In Elmwood, which commands the highest rates in the market, it tops 93%.

Henry said the lack of supply and increased demand bodes well for the new development, which he is marketing for Marcus.

“We have gotten a ton of inquiries, and we're waiting on permits to give them an estimated completion date,” he said. “I think we will have the first building leased before it’s completed.”

With permits now in hand, Marcus estimates the first warehouse will be completed by the beginning of the new year. Lease rates will range from roughly $10-$12 per square foot. By comparison, older warehouse space in the area typically goes for between $6.50-$10 per square foot.

"Our biggest value add is being close to downtown New Orleans," he said. "It's a prime location." 

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Antoine's Restaurant

Join us for a Burger + Libation for $18 in the Hermes Bar during Happy Hour! Happy Hour in the Hermes Bar is now running daily from open till 6pm.

Enjoy an Antoine's Burger with French Fries and your choice of a Beer or Select Wine. Cheers!

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A Taste of Napoleon House Favorites for a Historic Price!

AVAILABLE 3-6 PM / JULY 1 - SEPTEMBER 1

FIRST - Small Lemon-Parmesan Salad 

SECOND - A Quarter of our World Famous Warm Muffuletta with side of Jambalaya

THIRD - Classic Bread Pudding with whiskey sauce

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Join us for the best steaks in town! Our cast iron seared 8oz filet includes a garden salad and your choice of:

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At six feet, four inches, Lincoln towered over most of his contemporaries. When he wore his stovepipe hat, he stood nearly 7 feet tall! The average height for a man during that time was about five feet, six inches.

NATIONAL RASPBERRY CAKE DAY | JULY 31

National Raspberry Cake Day is jubilantly feasted each year on July 31st. Therefore, today is the day to enjoy raspberry cake. Because it is a cool and refreshing dessert. And, is indeed a summertime favorite around the United States.

Raspberries are the edible fruit of the plant that belongs to the genus Rubus of the rose family. Raspberry plants grow on woody stems and are perennial. These amazing plants grow in all temperate regions of the world, too, making them widely available. Producers also cultivate the raspberry as a commercial crop, bringing them into groceries and other markets. The raspberry was once a midsummer crop. However, through innovation, new technology, and transportation, producers now grow them all year long. 

More interesting facts about raspberries include:

• An individual raspberry weighs 0.11 – 0.18 oz.
• An individual raspberry is made up of about 100 drupelets.
• One raspberry bush can yield several hundred berries a year. 
• A single raspberry has a hollow core once it is removed from the receptacle. 
• Raspberries are a rich source of vitamin C, manganese, and dietary fiber.
• Raspberries contain vitamin B1, vitamin B3, folic acid, magnesium, copper, and iron.

And since raspberries are sweet, they bring a wonderful flavor to cakes.

July 31st Celebrated History

1777 - Marquis de Lafayette is named General of the Continental Army at the age of 19.

1792 - The United States' first government building, the US Mint in Philadelphia, lays its cornerstone.

1876 - U.S. Coast Guard establishes a training school in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

1912 - Congress passes the Sims Act, censuring the transportation of fight films. The law regulated the distribution of films depicting prizefighting, either fictional or non-fictional. The also threatened further regulations of cinema, too. In 1940, Congress repealed the act.

1954 - Ardito Desio and the Italian expedition he led reach the summit of K2, the second tallest mountain on Earth.

1971 - Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first humans to drive on the moon. Their moon buggy rides totaled 6.5 hours and almost 28 kilometers.

1991 - The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

2012 - At the Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps earns a record-breaking 8 medals. Throughout his Olympic career, Phelps earned 28 medals.

12 Birthdays on July 31

S.S. Kresge (1867) - The founder of K-Mart, S.S. Kresge, started the department store chain under the name of S.S. Kresge Corporation.

Fred Quimby (1886) - The Oscar-winning animator produced hundreds of animated shorts throughout his career, including those with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry. The Oscar-winning animator produced hundreds of animated shorts throughout his career, including those with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry. 

Salvatore Maranzano (1886) - Also known as "Little Caesar," Maranzano immigrated from Sicily and created a crime organization dedicated to gambling and bootlegging in New York City during the Prohibition Era.

Milton Friedman (1912) - The Nobel Prize awarded economist, Milton Friedman, the award for economics in 1976 for "his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy."

Sergio Rossi (1935) - After learning the shoe trade from his father, Rossi opened his first shoe store in 1951. He would later launch his own designs and brands.

Geraldine Chaplin ( 1944) - The Golden Globe-winning actress, Geraldine Chaplin, is also the daughter of the silent film star, Charlie Chaplin. With international appeal, Chaplin has appeared in over 150 movies and television shows.

William F. Weld (1945) - As a businessman and attorney, Weld served as Massachusetts 68th governor for two terms.

Wesley Snipes (1962) - The actor, director, and producer has starred in numerous films since the launch of his career, including the Blade series, White Men Can't Jump, Jungle Fever, and Coming 2 America.

Norman Cook (1963) - Also known as Fatboy Slim, Cook launched his DJ career in the late 1980s. In 1996, he adopted the nickname Fatboy Slim.

J.K. Rowling (1965) - The best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, Rowling began writing the popular series in 1990.

Zac Brown (1978) - Lead guitarist and vocalist for the Zac Brown Band, Brown founded the southern rock group in 2003.

AJ Green (1988) - Drafted in 2011, AJ Green plays wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Real New Orleans Culture

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St. Louis Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans in the 1960s

Louisiana Memories

Pontchartrain Beach in New Orleans in 1947

New Orleans' Classic Memories: 1718 -1964

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This, Classic New Orleanians was the Lane Cotton Mill of N.O. , (1913). It was located at Tchoupitoulas St and Valance St. It opened in 1852 and closed down by 1950 (today, what else?... storage units). The interior shows oil stained floors. For many years, there were unrestrained use of children - laboring at early ages, so common then in industries' factories until a "child labor law - Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) were enacted to protect those teens and pre-teens.New Orleans'

NORD is hosting Gen Z Fest Back 2 School Concert next Saturday, August 3rd from 2:00pm-5:00pm at Xavier University Convocation Center located at 7900 Stroelitz Street, NOLA 70125. This is event is FREE! Tickets are available at Eventbrite.com! For HIGH SHOOLERS, AGES; 13-17YRS OLD! Click link for easy access: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nord-gen-z-back-2-school-edition-concert-tickets-939500841307

See you next Saturday!!!

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY cooking series celebrates Leah Chase, the “Queen of Creole Cuisine.”

The 26-part cooking series, produced by WYES-TV in New Orleans, was shot on location at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant with dishes prepared by younger generations of the Chase family who have led the restaurant since Leah’s death in 2019.

Viewers will meet Leah’s grandson, Edgar “Dook” Chase IV, who now oversees the restaurant’s kitchen; her niece Cleo Robinson, who joined Leah in the kitchen in 1980; and the restaurant’s newest chef, Leah’s great-granddaughter Zoe Chase. Paired with some of the menus are specialty cocktails crafted by Leah’s granddaughter Eve Marie Haydel, the restaurant’s beverage manager who has updated drink recipes from the restaurant’s earlier days. Granddaughter Chase Kamata narrates. Each 30-minute episode explores a new take on Creole classics and a different chapter of the restaurant’s history.

See it every Saturday at 10am & Sundays at 11:30am.

Watch on WYES-TV and stream on wyes.org/live and on the WYES and PBS Apps. Out of WYES’ viewing area? Contact your local public television station for air dates. For a limited time, see new episodes with WYES Passport.

Arts District New Orleans (ADNO), the organization that founded the popular White Linen Night in 1994, is pleased to announce that the event is back this year, and will take place on August 3, in conjunction with the First Saturday Gallery Openings. 

Fidelity Bank returns as the title sponsor of the event, which will take place from 5-10 pm on the 300-600 blocks of Julia Street in the New Orleans' historic Warehouse Arts District, as well as the 500 block of Saint Joseph - bridging the Julia-street thoroughfare with surrounding galleries, museums, and institutions. Guests are strongly encouraged to don their white linen while strolling the district, visit the galleries, enjoy food and drink from local vendors, and art-centered street activations.

Each gallery will present new exhibitions, with world-class art installations from the talented artists represented. In addition to the Julia and Saint Joseph Streets block party event, member galleries off-Julia will also welcome guests, and area institutions. The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art will also open their doors and unveil new exhibitions of juried open calls featuring artists from the region. 

Dear Residents of New Orleans,

The Mayor’s Neighborhood Engagement Office is preparing to launch its next cohort of the Civic Leadership Academy, an engaging 8 week program that provides residents with an in-depth look at City government. The program gives participants an insider’s view of how the City of New Orleans operates. With this knowledge, participants are better equipped to lead collective action towards the advancement of neighborhoods’ and residents’ quality of life.

To you the Mayor’s Neighborhood Engagement Office (NEO) extends an invitation to apply to the Civic Leadership Academy Fall 2024 class. 

Who can participate in Civic Leadership Academy?

An eligible participant must be a resident of the city of New Orleans and at least 18 years old. (Each applicant MUST provide proof of residency.)

If eligible, you can click here to apply!

Applications will be received until 5 pm, Friday, August 9, 2024 OR UNTIL CAPACITY IS REACHED at which time applicants will be placed on a waiting list. 

Event Details

What: Civic Leadership Academy

When: Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 6pm through Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 6pm

Where: Enterprise Community Conference Room, 8th floor of City Hall (8E10)

Civic Leadership Academy Background

CLA was created to foster civic engagement by developing citizens’ understanding of City government and how local offices and services are employed to serve communities. With this knowledge, participants will be better equipped to lead collective action towards the advancement of neighborhoods and citizens’ quality of life.

There is no fee to participate; however, there is a substantial time commitment.

CLA will meet weekly on Thursday evenings from 6pm-8pm from August 22nd to October 10th in City Hall in the Enterprise Community Conference Room (8th Floor/8E10). Participants will learn about various aspects of local government including the structure of government, finances, public works, operations, public safety, planning, economic development, et al. Each of the Academy’s interactive sessions will be led by representatives from City departments or guest lecturers. Refreshments will be served during each session; and a closing ceremony will be held at the end of the 8 weeks on October 10th.

In Person Classes in New Orleans

Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm

"Shimmer" Bellydance Basics

For all levels. Ongoing

$60 per month or $18 drop in.

10 classes, used within 10 wk., $120

At: "The Movement Collective"

3921 St. Claude Ave, (Bywater)

New Orleans

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Movement Collective - New Orleans

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Come and dance...

Bring veils, zils, and your hips to do lots of shimmies.

$18 per class, $60 per month

10 classes for $120

www.tamalyndallal.net

Comedy House New Orleans

The most unique comedy show in New Orleans is The Open Mic From Hell, hosted by Chris Trew (as seen on MTV, Comedy Central, America's Got Talent)

CHNO ( Comedy house New Orleans)

609-610 Fulton St

New Orleans, LA 70130

Mon, August 5

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

(Entry at 7:30 pm)

The Open Mic From Hell is the most unique night of comedy in New Orleans.

Everything about the show is chaotic and unpredictable in the most beautifully hilarious way. 

The list of performers? A total mystery. 

The jokes they’ll tell? Nobody knows, not even them. 

How does it work? Comedians sign-up on the list an hour before showtime. At least 13 names get pulled out of the bucket. 

When a name gets pulled they come on stage and make a choice - do they do an entirely new set based on words from the audience, or a special challenge set. 

Past challenges have had comics doing their set outside on the street, with noise canceling headphones on, and with a designated heckler in the crowd. We are always adding new, improved, and ridiculous challenges to the show. 

• 6711 Airline Dr, Metairie, LA, United States, Louisiana

(504) 733-2248

LSU Athletics is proud to announce its year-long celebration of 100 Years in Tiger Stadium, highlighted by stadium upgrades, events, storytelling initiatives, and a season-long celebration throughout the 2024 campaign.

Tiger Stadium, one of America’s most iconic sporting venues, first opened its gates on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1924. Since then, the Tigers have won 450 contests in Death Valley, which has been home to two Heisman Trophy winners, four national championship teams, and 12 SEC title-winning squads.

Included in the celebration are several upgrades to Tiger Stadium, including a new videoboard and lighting system, as well as other upgrades designed to enhance the game day experience. Other events and celebrations will be announced throughout the year.

The 2024 home schedule features several marquee matchups, including home contests against Oklahoma, UCLA, and Alabama. Information on the full 2024 schedule and season tickets will be announced in the coming weeks.

One of the most legendary stadiums in all of college football, Tiger Stadium has been called “the best place in the world to watch a sporting event” by ESPN and “the pound-for-pound king of noise in college football.”

Entering its centennial season in 2024, Tiger Stadium has been a cornerstone of LSU Athletics and the Louisiana community for almost a century, hosting numerous NFL superstars, Heisman Trophy winners, and Hall of Famers since its opening in 1924. It serves as a sporting, cultural, and commercial hub for LSU Athletics, which contributes an estimated $500 million of economic activity for the state of Louisiana annually.

Eric L. Cager

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New Orleans: The New Orleans Jazz Museum is more than a building; it is a living embodiment of New Orleans Jazz culture and music in New Orleans. This is due to the vision of one person: Greg Lambousy, Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

Through Greg Lambousy and his staff’s efforts, the New Orleans Jazz Museum has become the epicenter of the New Orleans Jazz scene. From festivals like the Danny Barker Banjo and Guitar Festival, Satchmo Summerfest, Jazz on the Balcony, Weekly free Jazz performances, and the most significant exhibits relative to New Orleans and early Jazz history presented in the correct cultural context, the City of New Orleans.

To paraphrase the great Professor Longhair, “When you come to New Orleans, be sure to go see the New Orleans Jazz Museum.”.

Presentation, 7:30 PM, August 23 at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart St, NOLA. Free Admission RSVP preferred to: festguide@gmail

Greg Lambousy is the Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Before accepting this position, Lambousy was Director of Curatorial Services for the National World War II Museum. He began his career at the New Orleans Museum of Art and later moved to the Louisiana State Museum (LSM). During his twenty-year tenure at the LSM, Lambousy managed the institution’s collections of more than 500,000 artifacts and other historical items, directed improvements to collections storage at the New Orleans Mint, developed conservation and digitization projects across collections and within the Louisiana Historical Center archives, conducted oral histories and guided the selection and accession of materials related to the State’s history. Since 2016, as Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Lambousy has led the expansion of the Museum in programming, education, exhibitions, international relations, and the development of the Gallatin Street Records label. Visitation has increased fourfold since 2016, and revenues from grants, sponsorships, and events have funded operations, while capital programs have advanced the development of the Museum’s Performance Center and Herb Alpert Education Wing, among other aspects of the Museum’s campus

New Orleans Jazz Club 7-28

JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ... we're back this Sunday, for some great Jazz from fantastic musicians at Mo's Chalet from 2:00 to 6:00 pm. It's an open Jam Session to Trad Jazz musicians and those who love the music which is FREE and open to the public. NOTICE to musicians...all musicians are welcome to play whether you're a regular or new to the Club. Keyboards and drums are provided so bring your ax and sign in and you'll be assigned 1 of 4 sets to perform in. Mo's provides a safe and welcoming environment for an afternoon of New Orleans Jazz. Bring your family and friends to create your own Jazz party where outside food is OK with a cash bar hosted by Sandy, Metairie's finest plus join in on our 50/50 cash drawing. Become a member and be a part of New Orleans music history by supporting America's oldest Jazz Club which was started in 1948. The NOJC Jam Session's are held on the last Sunday of the month from 2:00 to 6:00 pm.

Southeastern Conference 

2024 SCHEDULE

LSU Football

Heart Failure Support Group

Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with heart failure? Our support group community is open to patients, family members, friends, and caregivers. We offer education, resources, and emotional support.

Join us at our next meeting on Wednesday, July 10, from 4-5 pm at East Jefferson General Hospital in Esplanade 2 of the Conference Center for this free support group.

 Upcoming Dates

Wednesday, September 11

Wednesday, November 13

  Time

4 - 5 pm

 Location

East Jefferson General Hospital 1st Floor Conference Center - Esplanade 2 

Questions? Call our group facilitators at 504.503.6949

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See you in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX on FOX