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Excitement Reigns ~ Mobile, Alabama ~ Photos by Miss Cie & John The Mardi Gras Order of Pan with MIss Cie B-Bob s Tuesday Bingo Hostess Miss Jawakatema Davenport Hello Boys of B-Bob s Biloxi s Miss Toni Dee @ B-Bob s Miss Venus @ B-Bob s mobile paparazzi Party Down October is here which means we are on the fast track into the holiday season, so pull up your big girl panties and get ready to party. My days have become so hectic that I need a social secretary to keep my schedule straight. But since nothing else in my life is straight why should my schedule be any different. My two weeks started on Tuesday with dinner at Dickie Brennan s Steakhouse to celebrate Dawn s (my mom) birthday. If you haven t been to this restaurant, the food and service is impeccable. They truly made this a special and memorable dining experience for us. On Tuesday, I went to two hospitality events. The first was at the W Hotel on Poydras Street which will be changing its flagship next year after a multimillion dollar renovation to become a Le Meridien. They showed off some prototypes of the new rooms and it looks fabulous. They are very artistic, sleek, but yet still have a New Orleans allure. After that gathering, I went to the re-opening of Broussard s Restaurant. One of the oldest dining establishments in the French Quarter, Broussard s recently changed owners and closed down for some much needed renovations. There re-launch was well-atunder the gaydar...from 17 are just dying to get in! An inside source has confirmed that the créme de la créme of The Family will be attending this extravagant event. We expect stringent security measures to be in place at such a large event. Orders are that no packing of heat is allowed. The cream, and not so cream of society, will be there. With gangsters, politicians, dolls, molls and many other interesting guests in attendance this event is sure to be the bee s knees. This is definitely a great way to celebrate Halloween in style and be a part of all the fun. Dress the part because there are several prizes to be awarded such as Best Performer - For Oscar deserving performance skills; Best Costume - For using outstanding creative imagination in costuming; Super Sleuth - For using superior wits and detective skills to solve the mystery; Wealthiest Player - For using cunning, bribery and other nefarious skills to amass the most wealth. Tickets to the Murder Mystery Dinner event are $20 (includes steak, baked potato, side salad). Purchase an advance ticket and pick which character you want!!! For more information, go to New Orleans s Pride Murder Mystery Dinner on Facebook. The Beautiful People! DeToxx, Vicky Voxx, William & Miss Cie @ B-Bob s Dance with Young At Art Young@Art s final programming event for 2013 will be an exclusive modern dance performance by Silas Riener and Rashaun Mitchell at the newly re-opened Le Petit Theatre, with a reception catered by Dickie Brennan s Tableau on Friday, October 25th at 8pm. Regular admission is $45. This is sure to be a moving evening of motion, beauty, and appreciation of the male form. Listed in Dance Magazine s 25 to watch for 2013, Mitchell and Riener are artists who work collaboratively and separately on varied performance projects, including site-specific installations, improvisational dances, traditional proscenium pieces and highly crafted immersive experiences. Mitchell and Riener began working together on dance projects in 2009. They are interested in crafting new vocabulary for dance performance, and new ways for experiencing dance research. They are both drawn to space as an agent of performance, and have been particularly interested in how to create dance in response to complex and active spatial environments. Their first site-specific dance-poetry project NOX, with text by Anne Carson, takes into account its surroundings as a vehicle for communicating particular metaphorical or sense-based aspects of dance and performance. NOX was nominated for New York Dance and Performing Awards in 3 categories (Mitchell-emerging choreographer, Riener-performance, outstanding production of 2012). Get Strung Out! The Mystic Krewe of Satyricon will have you strung out this October literally. They are bringing the hottest group to the city of New Orleans to perform their full show for a concert experience on Tuesday, October 29th. Join the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon for this very special, one-night-only performance by Well Strung, the group that New York Daily News called, The hottest thing with a bow since Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games. It doesn t matter if you re a longtime chamber music fan, of if your idea of classical music is Sony & Cher, you ll appreciate Well Strung s dazzling skills, their eclectic repertoire and they ain t too hard on the eyes, either. The event begins at 7:30pm at Café Istanbul located at 2372 St. Claude in the Healing Center. Purchase tickets at the VIP level, and you ll get the chance to meet these four manly musicians at a sparkling reception following the show! Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased by calling 504.252.5476 or visiting https:/ /www.eventbrite.com/event/ 2504557198. Get into the Gulch MISS GULCH RETURNS! Yes the poor, misunderstood woman from the Wizard of Oz is coming to New Orleans to perform her own special cabaret. This one-man, one-piano musical tour de force by Fred Barton stars Bob Edes Jr., accompanied by Jim Walpole. The opening night performance will be hosted by the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon on Friday, October 18th at 8pm at the Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse Street. Tickets are a $25 donation and can be purchased by calling 504.252.5476 or www.mystickreweofsatyricon.com. A show for the ages a score full of sophisticated comedy numbers that would make Cole Porter proud the lyrics are so cleverly constructed, the rhyme schemes so elegantly intricate, and the messages so rich and ripe that they make a mockery of most of today s Broadway show scores. TheaterMania.com Poor Almira Gulch! In The Wizard of Oz, the crotchety cantankerous Kansan intrigued and intimidated us, but she never got to tell her side of story. She s remained poorly understood, grossly underestimated, and vastly unappreciated. Through the decades, frustrated fans have hungered for solutions to the mysteries surrounding Miss Gulch. Why does she ride that bike? What does she have against neighborhood girls and their little dogs, too? What becomes of her after that tornado? And most of all: who s the real woman beneath that ferocious facade? Now, the biddy is back in all the glory Hollywood denied her, starring in a one-man, one-piano tour de force: MISS GULCH RETURNS! In this unforgettable metaphorical musical, Miss Gulch gives us the dirt. She lays her soul bare and yours if you dare. She sings (at last!). She belts a mean tune (what other kind?). The role of Miss Gulch is performed by multiple Big Easy award-winner Bob Edes Jr., accompanied at the piano by Jim Walpole. MISS GULCH RETURNS! is presented by Running With Scissors. So turn off your cell phones, turn Judy s picture to the wall, turn up the volume, and welcome to the wit and wisdom of Miss Gulch, your entertainesse extraordinaire! 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