
Karen Taylor Gist
Community News Editor| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Wish editor at Times-Picayune, soundsglamorousdoesn't it?
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Jan 20, 2025 |
nola.com | Karen Taylor Gist |Karen Taylor
Carnival season can be loud and brash, crowded and raucus, but the folks at the Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans have found a way to introduce the littlest krewe members to the traditions of the holiday in a gentler way. It's holding storytimes featuring Carnival-themed books, published by the local Pelican Publishing, in January and February. JAN.
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Nov 1, 2024 |
ourcommunitynow.com | Karen Taylor Gist
In Louisiana, history isn’t relegated to books. It’s a tangible thing. We see and interact with it every day in many ways, but especially in our architecture. A new hour-long documentary by the Louisiana Architecture Foundation, “Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture,” shines a light on how building practices and the master craftsmen who perfected them developed here by exploring the times that shaped the people. The film will be shown Nov.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
nola.com | Karen Taylor Gist |Karen Taylor
In Louisiana, history isn’t relegated to books. It’s a tangible thing. We see and interact with it every day in many ways, but especially in our architecture. A new hour-long documentary by the Louisiana Architecture Foundation, “Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture,” shines a light on how building practices and the master craftsmen who perfected them developed here by exploring the times that shaped the people. The film will be shown Nov.
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Oct 28, 2024 |
nola.com | Karen Taylor Gist |Karen Taylor
The 10-foot pumpkin in Vincent Catalanotto Jr.’s Lakeview yard could be called charmingly imperfect, an old-style handmade Halloween ornament crafted from orange Visqueen over a wood- and chicken-wire frame. When Catalanotto looks at it, however, he sees something more.
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Oct 24, 2024 |
nola.com | Karen Taylor Gist |Karen Taylor
"Gothic Life: The Essential Guide to Macabre Style," by Aurelio Voltaire; Epic Ink, $24.99. Author Aurelio Voltaire is obsessed with horror, monsters and the macabre. He loves Halloween, yes, but the Goth life is not just a holiday for him: He lives it every day, in the darkly decorated New York City apartment he designed. (He’s also a musician, bringing his dark cabaret musings on Oct.
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