multi-disciplinary arts center
New Orleans' incendiary cinema since 1986
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd New Orleans, LA 70113
(504) 352-1150 rene@zeitgeistnola.org
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Friday, August 17:
5:00 pm - COCOTE A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returns home when a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder. 7:00 pm - NICO 1988 The film centers on the final two years of Nico’s life, approaching 50 her manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her new album. She longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago. 9:00 pm - SUMMER OF ’84 After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous in this Canadian cult thriller. |
"Something for and against everybody"
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center a.k.a. Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments, inc Zeitgeist is a non-profit, art house cinema that was founded in New Orleans in November 1986.
November 2018 will be Zeitgeist's 32nd Anniversary and we are aging well! __________________________________ Sundays are only $6 for Teachers Mondays are only $6 per film Tuesday is Bring Your Dog To The Movie Night! See 2 or more films on the same night for only $5 each! _______________________________ $8 General || $7 Students & Seniors || $6 Members Patron Members Free - unless otherwise noted. Advanced tickets available as needed. Zeitgeist now accepts MOVIE PASS |
ZEITGEIST – NOUN, GERMAN. THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES; GENERAL TREND, MOOD OR FEELING CHARACTERISTIC OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF TIME, ESPECIALLY AS IT IS REFLECTED IN THE ARTS, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, ETC. \ˈtsīt-ˌgīst, ˈzīt-\
N O W S H O W I N G :
COCOTE
Friday through Thursday, August 17 through 23 @ 5:00 pm
A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returns home when a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder.
Friday through Thursday, August 17 through 23 @ 5:00 pm
A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returns home when a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder.
NICO 1988
Friday through Thursday, August 17 through 23 @ 7:00 pm
The film centers on the final two years of Nico’s life, approaching 50 her manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her new album. She longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.
Friday through Thursday, August 17 through 23 @ 7:00 pm
The film centers on the final two years of Nico’s life, approaching 50 her manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her new album. She longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.
SUMMER OF ’84
RKSS (Canadian cult thriller)
Friday through Thursday, August 17 through 23 @ 9:00 pm
Friday & Saturday, August 24 & 25 @ 10:00 pm
The perfect time to be 15 years old and care free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous in this Canadian cult thriller. RKSS is a collective of writers-directors working as a 3-headed beast. Their first feature, TURBO KID, premiered at Sundance in 2015. Over the past 15 years, they directed many short movies, including Le BAGMAN, Demonitron, T is for Turbo and Total Fury, which have all been awarded several prizes in festivals worldwide. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
RKSS (Canadian cult thriller)
Friday through Thursday, August 17 through 23 @ 9:00 pm
Friday & Saturday, August 24 & 25 @ 10:00 pm
The perfect time to be 15 years old and care free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous in this Canadian cult thriller. RKSS is a collective of writers-directors working as a 3-headed beast. Their first feature, TURBO KID, premiered at Sundance in 2015. Over the past 15 years, they directed many short movies, including Le BAGMAN, Demonitron, T is for Turbo and Total Fury, which have all been awarded several prizes in festivals worldwide. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
C O M I N G S O O N !
Opens August 24:
6:00 & 8:00 pm nightly
RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE
presented by co-filmmakers Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer.
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
The Nutria film. A story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species. Narated by New Orleans' own Wendell Pierce.
Please Note: Filmmakers Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer will be here throughout the opening weekend plus on Saturday night animal star Nooty The Nutria, animal trainers David and Karen Millik and film subject Michael Beran will also be here.
6:00 & 8:00 pm nightly
RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE
presented by co-filmmakers Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer.
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
The Nutria film. A story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species. Narated by New Orleans' own Wendell Pierce.
Please Note: Filmmakers Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer will be here throughout the opening weekend plus on Saturday night animal star Nooty The Nutria, animal trainers David and Karen Millik and film subject Michael Beran will also be here.
Opens August 31:
FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF
Revolutionary landscape designer Pit Oudolf is known for his public gardens like NY’s High Line or the Lurie Garden in Chicago which have redefined our conception of sardines as works of art.
FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF
Revolutionary landscape designer Pit Oudolf is known for his public gardens like NY’s High Line or the Lurie Garden in Chicago which have redefined our conception of sardines as works of art.
Opens August 31:
EUTHANIZER, In this cult hit from Finland, Veijo Haukka is a 50-year-old mechanic, whose second job is to put sick pets to sleep. But what happens when he decides to save the wrong person’s dog and he runs afoul of a deranged white supremacist?
Saturday, September 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Wednesday, September 5 @ 7:00 pm - WATER MAKES US WET: AN ECOSEXUAL ADVENTURE presented by visiting filmmakers Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they shift the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover”. Co-presented by New Orleans Film Society. $10.
Opens September 7:
A SKIN SO SOFT by Denis Cote. A documentary about gladiators of modern times, a profile of six men obsessed with pushing their bodies beyond their limitations as extreme bodybuilders, diets, supplements and all oiled up for their next competitions.
Opens September 7:
BLUE IQUANA, Ex-jailbirds Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until a sexy English lawyer (Phoebe Fox) walks in with an offer they can't refuse in this indie comedy.
Opens September 7:
WILD BOYS, a trippy take on William Burroughs novel of the same name where five 'Wild Boys' all played by actresses(!!!) take on a captain bent on taming their ferocious appetites for mischief in this subversive and playfully gender bending maritime adventure.
Opens September 14:
PORCUPINE LAKE by Ingrid Veninger. A story of bravery and the secret life of girls set in Northern Ontario during a hot and hazy summertime when adulthood has not yet arrived, but childhood is quickly vanishing.
Friday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - TIGERS JAW, indie-pop-emo-punk band from Scranton, PA featuring Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins. With special guests THE SIDEKICKS, CAVE PEOPLE and CHERRY. tickets @ tigersjaw.com
Opens September 22:
BEL CANTO, thriller based on the best-selling book about a famous opera singer held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman’s lavish birthday party. Starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Lambert, etc.
Opens September 22:
VENUS OBSCURA by Christophe Karabache. A theater director leads his two actors to an isolated cottage in the countryside to rehearse for Heiner Müller's « Hamlet-machine ». Once on sight, the small troupe faces not only the dullness of daily routine, but eventually strange occurrences that turn out to be extraordinary and extreme in nature in this multi-award winning French experimental drama.
Friday, October 5 @ 6:00 & 8:00 pm - FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI: THE PEOPLE’S SAINT, The film explores the environment and deep spirituality that shaped Mother Cabrini – the Patron Saint of Immigrants and Hospital Administrators -- in honor of the Centenary of her passing. It reintroduces audiences to the first American citizen saint and addresses her relevance today for refugees and immigrants around the world. As an alumni of St. Francis Cabrini Elementary School here in N.O. this film has special significance to me.
Saturday October 6 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 @ 4:00 pm - Lumpy Grits Artistry (from Shreveport, LA) presents LYSISTRATA, An Ancient Afro-Greek Comedy. Lysistrata is an ancient anti-war comedy that was originally written by Aristophanes, in 411 BC
Saturday, October 6 @ 10:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 9:00 pm. $10.
Opens October 9:
THE THIRD MURDER by Hirokazu Kore-eda. From the internationally-acclaimed director comes this courtroom mystery about a lawyer struggling to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning his own faith in the law. Winner of 6 Japanese Academy Awards!
Opens October 12:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION is an award-winning documentary on the queer punk movement focusing on homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
Thursday, October 19 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm - THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS CREOLE COOKING: THE BLACK HAND IN THE POT, a student produced documentary followed by a panel discussion presented by the Dillard University Ray Charles Program. Free.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
EUTHANIZER, In this cult hit from Finland, Veijo Haukka is a 50-year-old mechanic, whose second job is to put sick pets to sleep. But what happens when he decides to save the wrong person’s dog and he runs afoul of a deranged white supremacist?
Saturday, September 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Wednesday, September 5 @ 7:00 pm - WATER MAKES US WET: AN ECOSEXUAL ADVENTURE presented by visiting filmmakers Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, With a poetic blend of curiosity, humor, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Travel with Annie, a former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit, as they shift the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to “Earth as Lover”. Co-presented by New Orleans Film Society. $10.
Opens September 7:
A SKIN SO SOFT by Denis Cote. A documentary about gladiators of modern times, a profile of six men obsessed with pushing their bodies beyond their limitations as extreme bodybuilders, diets, supplements and all oiled up for their next competitions.
Opens September 7:
BLUE IQUANA, Ex-jailbirds Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until a sexy English lawyer (Phoebe Fox) walks in with an offer they can't refuse in this indie comedy.
Opens September 7:
WILD BOYS, a trippy take on William Burroughs novel of the same name where five 'Wild Boys' all played by actresses(!!!) take on a captain bent on taming their ferocious appetites for mischief in this subversive and playfully gender bending maritime adventure.
Opens September 14:
PORCUPINE LAKE by Ingrid Veninger. A story of bravery and the secret life of girls set in Northern Ontario during a hot and hazy summertime when adulthood has not yet arrived, but childhood is quickly vanishing.
Friday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - TIGERS JAW, indie-pop-emo-punk band from Scranton, PA featuring Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins. With special guests THE SIDEKICKS, CAVE PEOPLE and CHERRY. tickets @ tigersjaw.com
Opens September 22:
BEL CANTO, thriller based on the best-selling book about a famous opera singer held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman’s lavish birthday party. Starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Lambert, etc.
Opens September 22:
VENUS OBSCURA by Christophe Karabache. A theater director leads his two actors to an isolated cottage in the countryside to rehearse for Heiner Müller's « Hamlet-machine ». Once on sight, the small troupe faces not only the dullness of daily routine, but eventually strange occurrences that turn out to be extraordinary and extreme in nature in this multi-award winning French experimental drama.
Friday, October 5 @ 6:00 & 8:00 pm - FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI: THE PEOPLE’S SAINT, The film explores the environment and deep spirituality that shaped Mother Cabrini – the Patron Saint of Immigrants and Hospital Administrators -- in honor of the Centenary of her passing. It reintroduces audiences to the first American citizen saint and addresses her relevance today for refugees and immigrants around the world. As an alumni of St. Francis Cabrini Elementary School here in N.O. this film has special significance to me.
Saturday October 6 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 @ 4:00 pm - Lumpy Grits Artistry (from Shreveport, LA) presents LYSISTRATA, An Ancient Afro-Greek Comedy. Lysistrata is an ancient anti-war comedy that was originally written by Aristophanes, in 411 BC
Saturday, October 6 @ 10:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 9:00 pm. $10.
Opens October 9:
THE THIRD MURDER by Hirokazu Kore-eda. From the internationally-acclaimed director comes this courtroom mystery about a lawyer struggling to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning his own faith in the law. Winner of 6 Japanese Academy Awards!
Opens October 12:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION is an award-winning documentary on the queer punk movement focusing on homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
Thursday, October 19 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm - THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS CREOLE COOKING: THE BLACK HAND IN THE POT, a student produced documentary followed by a panel discussion presented by the Dillard University Ray Charles Program. Free.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
INDIGENOUS FILM SERIES
Tricentennial…Tri Again!
Do you know what it means to dismiss 1300 years of New Orleans history? colonialism, racism...
The City forgot to invite indigenous people to their history, so we are celebrating them all year long
Throughout the year, 2018 is being celebrated as both the 300th Anniversary of the City of New Orleans and the 100th Anniversary of the First Film to be shot in Louisiana.
But for over 1300 years before the French “Founded” New Orleans, Native Americans lived in thatched huts along Bayouk Choupique in a village called Bulbancha, later renamed Bayou St. Jean by the French and even later “Old Spanish Fort”. New Orleans was “officially founded” in 1718 by the French as Nouvelle-Orléans, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, but Bienville selected the site of an abandoned Quinipissa village for his "new city".
Like all of American history, it seems New Orleans history only began when Europeans “Found” or “Discovered” it. That seems more than a bit dismissive. So while organizations and the city pays tribute to the French, Spanish, American and even Creole history of the city, Zeitgeist will be celebrating 2018 with a year long series of INDIGENOUS FILMS, which celebrates and explores Indigenous, Native, First Nation and tribal peoples from throughout the world.
Tricentennial…Tri Again!
Do you know what it means to dismiss 1300 years of New Orleans history? colonialism, racism...
The City forgot to invite indigenous people to their history, so we are celebrating them all year long
Throughout the year, 2018 is being celebrated as both the 300th Anniversary of the City of New Orleans and the 100th Anniversary of the First Film to be shot in Louisiana.
But for over 1300 years before the French “Founded” New Orleans, Native Americans lived in thatched huts along Bayouk Choupique in a village called Bulbancha, later renamed Bayou St. Jean by the French and even later “Old Spanish Fort”. New Orleans was “officially founded” in 1718 by the French as Nouvelle-Orléans, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, but Bienville selected the site of an abandoned Quinipissa village for his "new city".
Like all of American history, it seems New Orleans history only began when Europeans “Found” or “Discovered” it. That seems more than a bit dismissive. So while organizations and the city pays tribute to the French, Spanish, American and even Creole history of the city, Zeitgeist will be celebrating 2018 with a year long series of INDIGENOUS FILMS, which celebrates and explores Indigenous, Native, First Nation and tribal peoples from throughout the world.
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BULBANCHA IS STILL A PLACE
the debut Zine by writer, historian, activist Jeffery U. Darensbourg, which chronicles the 1600 year indigenous history of what is now the New Orleans area is proudly on sale at Zeitgeist for only $5.
the debut Zine by writer, historian, activist Jeffery U. Darensbourg, which chronicles the 1600 year indigenous history of what is now the New Orleans area is proudly on sale at Zeitgeist for only $5.
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CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. Since 1993, Zeitgeist's ongoing SERIES OF FILMS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCES AND VISUAL ART celebrating the innovative, utterly bizarre and extremely vast body of work from our neighbors to the north. Their films may be smaller, but at least their country is bigger! Size does matter. |
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Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 32nd anniversary this November.
Come join us!
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 32nd anniversary this November.
Come join us!
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This is our new logo design, made for us by our good friend Dublin / New York experimental Irish filmmaker / artist
Moira Tierney. We now have, t-shirts and canvas messenger bags (as shown on your left). They are available at the Zeitgeist Box Office or through our online store. Messenger Bags are $30.00 T-shirts are $15.00 (sizes are Small to 5XL) |
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ALSO HAPPENING @ 1618 OCH
The OCH Gallery @ Zeitgeist
ENTANGLEMENTS: An Immersive Exhibition of Video Art Works by HARLEIGH JADE
(created in both London & New Orleans) on view in the OCH Gallery through August. Free.
Entanglements is an immersive, audio-visual compilation of recent art works created by Harleigh Jade
Show Opening with Sound Installations (Video works will stay up through August)
Harleigh is an artist and student on track to complete a B.F.A. in Digital Art at Tulane University this upcoming Spring. She works mostly with the mediums of video and sound, utilizing layering and a spatial treatment of the digital towards her goals of creating immersive and affective experiences. The result is at once disturbing and then soothing, with humorous and cathartic undertones.
"My work is centered around bodies. When I use the term body I am not concerned merely with the physical flesh but am thinking through bodies as an assemblage of physicality, mind, and societal forces. I think through objects, sounds, technology, and the environment as bodies, with interest in the consciousness and entanglement of these entities. Heavily inspired by the tensions of the human form, my work will often suggest a bodily presence even when the human body is absent. It may imply themes of sex, though this is not definitive of the piece, but acts as a lens in which to explore ideas of discomfort, control, release, anxiety, and the erotic. “ HarleighJade.com
(created in both London & New Orleans) on view in the OCH Gallery through August. Free.
Entanglements is an immersive, audio-visual compilation of recent art works created by Harleigh Jade
Show Opening with Sound Installations (Video works will stay up through August)
Harleigh is an artist and student on track to complete a B.F.A. in Digital Art at Tulane University this upcoming Spring. She works mostly with the mediums of video and sound, utilizing layering and a spatial treatment of the digital towards her goals of creating immersive and affective experiences. The result is at once disturbing and then soothing, with humorous and cathartic undertones.
"My work is centered around bodies. When I use the term body I am not concerned merely with the physical flesh but am thinking through bodies as an assemblage of physicality, mind, and societal forces. I think through objects, sounds, technology, and the environment as bodies, with interest in the consciousness and entanglement of these entities. Heavily inspired by the tensions of the human form, my work will often suggest a bodily presence even when the human body is absent. It may imply themes of sex, though this is not definitive of the piece, but acts as a lens in which to explore ideas of discomfort, control, release, anxiety, and the erotic. “ HarleighJade.com
ORLEANS COFFEE HOUSE
(in Zeitgeist's lobby) is now open!
Their Hours of Operation will be: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Mondays through Fridays and 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturdays.
https://www.facebook.com/orleanscoffeecafe/
Serving breakfast and lunch daily
(in Zeitgeist's lobby) is now open!
Their Hours of Operation will be: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Mondays through Fridays and 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturdays.
https://www.facebook.com/orleanscoffeecafe/
Serving breakfast and lunch daily
DINNER, DRINKS AND A MOVIE
There are several great lunch or dinner options just within a block or two from the theatre on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Across the street are Cafe Reconcile and Casa Borrega. One block to our left is Cafe Roma followed by the outdoor food court Roux Carre (featuring Trinidadian soul food from Queen Trini, Honduran cuisine from Alma, homemade deserts from KD NOLA and fusion cuisine from LOCAL MENU NOLA plus drinks from the Roux Bar) and to our right there is Toup South at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
There are several great lunch or dinner options just within a block or two from the theatre on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Across the street are Cafe Reconcile and Casa Borrega. One block to our left is Cafe Roma followed by the outdoor food court Roux Carre (featuring Trinidadian soul food from Queen Trini, Honduran cuisine from Alma, homemade deserts from KD NOLA and fusion cuisine from LOCAL MENU NOLA plus drinks from the Roux Bar) and to our right there is Toup South at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
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Zeitgeist would like to welcome
BLUE BIKE NOLA ride share service to OCH BLVD (just a 1/2 a block from the theatre). |
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