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Nolaphile is produced and sponsored by New Orleans restaurants MiLa and La Cote Brasserie as a way to support New Orleans' culture of creativity and the many unique forms of artistic expression it inspires. We happily invite you to celebrate it with us by learning more about movements and events in the arts community, contributing your opinions and work, and supporting local talent.
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Anything Can Happen
By Arin Black
Nov 10, 12:12 PM
A girl walks into a bar with Jacques Cousteau’s grandson and the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune. The bar happens to be a chic lounge in the Marigny and the girl happens to be me. The time happens to be last Saturday, and the lesson is that, in New Orleans, anything can happen.
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Tell Me A Story: New Orleans and Its Tales
By Arin Black
Oct 17, 04:20 PM
Well, I must admit that as I write this, I’m far afield. I’ve left the city for a minute (or a month, rather) to finish a book – a project that I’ve been working on for some time now, and that needs to be completed. Not that New Orleans doesn’t have its own stories to inspire.
Make Your Own Art and Contribute to the Renaissance
By Arin Black
Jul 25, 11:27 AM
Are you secretly tinkering with an amazing project you’re just dying to share? Let us know. Do you have something to say about the way the arts are run in NOLA? Sound off! Make a comment, write an article, and send in some photos. We want to know your take on what’s art and what’s not in our fair city.
Sound Your Barbaric YAWP: Get Out There and Do It.
By Arin Black
Jul 11, 02:55 PM
So the world still hasn’t named you its next Picasso, hasn’t showered you with Pulitzer’s, NEA Grants, or MacArthur Genius Awards. Being a starved and unrecognized talent is the lot of so many artists. But one can’t give up. Rather, get out there and show your work to the world. Right now, New Orleans has a number of upcoming projects that could be your big break.
New Orleans in Six or Less
By Arin Black
Jun 12, 12:42 PM
Here in New Orleans, we’re no strangers to passion or to the mingling of genres. Our city is colorful, casual, a little bit insane, the perfect environment to inspire a story or two. So my proposal is this: Why not New Orleans in six or less? But not just words. Six photographs. Six courses in a meal. Six notes of a song (“Do you know what it means…”). Six can be magic. Six can say it all. And so I issue this challenge. Present to me your six.
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The Play's the Thing. Let go and loosen up.
By Arin Black
Jun 6, 11:16 AM
My mother gave me a deck of Healing Wisdom Cards one year for Christmas. Tucked among the canisters of cinnamon and rolls of aluminum foil and exercise clothes that are her usual offerings, the cards offered meditations on things like Letting Go or Seeing the Humor in All Things. Mainly, they were filler for the foil and spice, things she thought I needed, and I originally dismissed them. I set the cards on my bookshelf when I returned to New Orleans from the holidays and forgot about them for six months or so. But one day, for reasons unbeknownst to me, I decided to leaf through the healing wisdom to see what it might tell me.
