August 2009 Archives

Tasty Morsel
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Tonight at the LSU Museum of Art, the eco-friendly boutique Noelie Harmon will showcase TOMS shoes that you can paint or have painted by a local artist. For every pair of TOMS shoes purchased a pair is given to a child in need. The event features live music, drink specials and complimentary food. Admission is $5 for museum members, $10 for everyone else.

Elsewhere, the Government Street art, antique and architecture store Circa 1857 hosts a night of art, food and music as part of its Circa at Night program. 5-9 p.m.

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City-parish officials this morning dedicated the recently completed improvements to the intersection of Government Street and Foster Drive. The $2.8 million project, part of the city's Green Light Program, added left-turn lanes in all directions, computer-controlled traffic signals and push-button pedestrian crosswalks.

The Metairie firm Hard Rock Construction finished the project in 70 days -- 80 days ahead of schedule, Department of Public Works Director Pete Newkirk said at the dedication ceremony. It's the seventh Green Light project to be completed.

Mayor Kip Holden called it "one off the most important and historic intersections in the Baton Rouge area."

The improvements "will help break the gridlock, keep traffic moving and provide much-needed relief to commuters and residents in this area," Holden said. "It will also benefit the businesses in the area by opening up new turning lanes, providing better access to local shops and allowing more cars to quickly and safely through the intersection each day."

The short ceremony at the Foster Drive YMCA included public works employees holding a banner touting the project's completion across Foster Drive using two bucket trucks.

If you can't make it to the Michael Bolton show tonight in Biloxi, fear not. There's plenty to do in Baton Rouge ...

my obligatory balloon shot ...
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• The Perseid Meteor Shower: A Live Presentation at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. From the museum website:
  

Every August, the Perseid Meteor Shower lights up the sky as the earth passes through the leftover debris of a comet orbiting around the sun. The result is a spectacular display of some 100 or more meteors, or shooting stars, per hour! In this live planetarium presentation, Jon Elvert, director of the Pennington Planetarium, explores why the Perseid Meteor Shower is the year's major meteor shower, what comets are and where they come from, and the difference between meteorites and asteroids. A tour of the summer's night sky, identifying constellations and visible planets, is also included. Admission: Regular planetarium admission.

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Daniel Jackson captured these shots of the Sunday morning competitions at the 2009 Pennington Balloon Championships.

Jessica Harp
Photo by Mr. Greenjeans

Country singer Jessica Harp performing at the Pennington Balloon Championship.
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FRIDAY

• Pennington Balloon Championship.

• Soliquist of Sound (pictured at right) at Spanish Moon.
  

• Highlines with Streamline at Chelsea's Cafe.

• The Family Dinner Improv Comedy Show at Perks Coffee and Tea.
  

• Michael Kosta at The Funny Bone.

• Bricks in the Wall at The Varsity.

• 5 Card Charlie at The Caterie.
  

• Ayleron with Against the Stream at Clicks.

• Medicine Nation at Phil Brady's.

• DJ Otto at Northgate Tavern.

• Wade Reeves (6 p.m.) & Sid Melancon (9 p.m.) at Boudreaux & Thibodeaux.

• Beer For Breakfast at The Roux House.

• Bottoms Up at Cadillac Cafe.

• La Noche Dulce with DJ Q at 600 Main.

• The Promised Land with The Little Band O' Gold, at Manship Theatre.

• The Crazy Love Tour: Charlie Wilson & Keith Sweat with Rude at the River Center.
  

• Scratch N Sniff at Pastime.
  

SATURDAY

• Pennington Balloon Championship.

• The Circuit Breakers at Boudreaux & Thibodeaux.

• The Melters & Struggle Bear at Spanish Moon.

• David Loti at Chelsea's Cafe.

• ELEVATE with DJ Triz-A at The Varsity.

• Elash & Denton Hatcher at Northgate Tavern.

• Michael Kosta at The Funny Bone.

• Furr at The Caterie.
  

• Lucid with Touching the Absolute at Clicks.

• Rev. Rob at Phil Brady's.
  

• True Too Life at The Station.

• Sexy Saturday with DJ Quiet Storm at 600 Main.

• Voyage at Dalton's.

• Black Magnolia at Boudreaux & Thibodeaux.

• Prom Date & The Old Oaks at Northgate Tavern.

• Michael Kosta at The Funny Bone.

• Blues Jam at Phil Brady's.
  

• Star80 at Spanish Moon.

• Letters in Red at The Station.

• Thursday Night Band at Clicks.

• Piano Bar at The Roux House.

• Damon King Band at Cadillac Cafe.

• Bayou Hot Shots at Boutin's.
  

• Karaoke with Coco at Dalton's

• Dee-1 & U4RIA at 600 Main.

• Hype at The Caterie.

• Justin and Brook Live at Puncher's Sports Bar.

• Karaoke at Pastime.

Baton Rouge Gallery will hold a First Wednesday Opening Reception tonight for three artists to kick off a month-long exhibition.

The work of Jenny Authement, Chris Dennis and Michael W. Howes will be on display through August 27. The opening reception is 7-9 p.m. tonight. The exhibits features "a menagerie of fish, birds and birdlike forms, along with installations reflecting the basic elements," according to John Byrd, the gallery's special events coordinator.

The Second Verse is the Same as the First, Dennis' exhibition at the gallery, features paintings that are deliberately ambiguous. As Byrd puts it: "the fish in these works are often surrounded by water but they are quite clearly 'out of it.' The birds depicted in others are wingless, earth-bound, stuck. The strangeness yet immediacy of the imagery draw on the viewer's preconceptions and invite them to create their own narrative."

Sculptors Authement and Howes, who have collaborated in the past under the name MJ Bronz, each have their own exhibits at the gallery. Howes's exhibit, IRDS @ CERTAIN SITES, feature sculptures that are part of a continuing series of works based on the bird-like forms called "Irds" as well as collage drawings. Authement's exhibition, Mystic Triforms, "references the artist's connections to the basic elements of air, earth and fire," Byrd said.

• First Wednesday Opening Reception at Baton Rouge Gallery.
  

• Velcro at The Spanish Moon.

• Songwriter Night hosted by T.J. Black  at Chelsea's.

• The Modern Society at Bogies.
  

• Wine Walk Wednesdays begins at 5:30 p.m. This week's walk begins at Boudreaux and Thibodeaux's then your choice of four of the following places: Kingfish Lounge, Stroube's, Capital City Grill and Avoyelle's upstairs.

• Dixie Rose and Selwyn Cooper at Teddy's Juke Joint.

• Tango Night at Avoyelle's.
  

• Largely Ironic Karaoke at Red Star.

• One Wants at The Caterie.
  

• The Indie Lounge presents Allison Collins Acoutsic at The Roux House.
  

• Open Mic Night at Northgate Tavern.

• Karaoke at Cadillac Cafe.

• Team trivia at Mellow Mushroom.

• DJ PK1 at Clicks.
  

• Karaoke at Cadillac Cafe.
  

• Baby Boomers Singles Party at Boudreaux and Thibodeaux.

I'm a Pepper, Too
Photo by st.one
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• Josiah Granier at Northgate Tavern.
  

• Stand Up Comedy and Acoustic Jam at Phil Brady's.

• Juke Joint Jam at The Caterie.

• Al Berard and Friends at Boutin's.

• Open Mic Night at Mellow Mushroom.

• Monday Night Band at The Caterie.

• Hardgruv at Northgate Tavern.

• Karaoke at Clicks.