Gambit Weekly is doing an excellent job of giving the most up to date information about Voodoo. I’m super stoked about this Sunday because we’re going to have NERD, Lupe Fiasco, Panic at the Disco, and Dashboard Confessional. I jsut need someone to go with (hint hint)

Lil Wayne’s World
One of the most prolific artists in music returns home for to headline the Voodoo Music Experience

R.E.M at Voodoo Experience

Voodoo Bonuses
know before you go

Pod Cast Preview: Listen In!

Voodoo Podcast Two: Local Samples on stage this weekend

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I received this email from Zeitgeist, a company that plays some pretty dope movies. I decided to post it to the blog:

Zeitgeist’s Bailout Plan:

Zeitgeist is broke. We have not paid our October rent yet and owe money to several film distributors, but not for our past programming, we need money for advanced film rentals for several films we have booked for later in October and November. The way it works is you send the film distributor a guaranteed minimum rental and then they send you the film.

Zeitgeist receives no grants or public funds, so this “Bailout Plan” will not cost the tax payers one red cent.

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OCTOBER 3 through 5, 2008

Zeitgeist once again is helping spread the F.E.A.R.
FILM EFFECTS ANIMATION REVIVAL
presented by our good friends at LUCID SFX Productions.

www.fearinneworleans.com

A FILM FESTIVAL FOR EFFECTS ARTIST AND THE ILLUSIONS THEY CREATE.

This fabulous affair of enormous proportions recognizes the use of effects and animation in film and story. FEAR is a celebration of the arts that separate video from movie. The artists that are involved with created illusions for your eyes and ears will be at FEAR to showcase there talents and give practical demonstrations in their field.

Workshops will be held daily ranging from music video workshops, CG demonstrations, prosthetics classes and demonstrations. The festival is organized by collaborate efforts of local non-profit organizations and profit companies under the lead of Lucid SFX Development (LSD), which is a Louisiana based digital post-production company at the forefront of the visual effects industry. Our affiliates include Reality Deprivation ( Film Studio ), Charitable Film Network, Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, Bottletree Productions, and Hallucination on Film.

Most events are at REALITY DEPRIVATION STUDIOS, a film & video production studio located behind the Elmwood Palace Theater, 1517 Kuebel Street, Suite B, Harahan, LA 70123

FOR COMPLETE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE go to www.fearinneworleans.com

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editors note: Tiffany Irving, like many other New Orleanians, was given the boot by Hurricane Katrina. After years in Birmingham, she is finally reunited with her first love.

It’s been 3 years since the storm that shares the namesake of my favorite female rapper from Miami and the same amount of time since I’ve lived in the crescent city.  Like many others, when Katrina exacted her wrath on the Gulf Coast, I relocated to higher ground, with the intentions of returning soon after.  That stormed exposed a lot of what was wrong with NOLA, because she, like other big cities, had skeletons–only hers were washed out of the closet with the river waters that breached the levees.  What I thought would be just one semester at the University of Alabama at Birmingham turned into my life, which included a wedding, a child, owning my first home, and my dream job.  Living in Birmingham meant a lot of different things to me:  it meant great schools, clean streets, and well paved roads (anyone who’s ever driven in New Orleans knows why this is important), but also ignorant intolerance of all things not in line with mainstream conservative thinking.

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Due to Hurricane Gustav, the NO/AIDS Walk has been rescheduled to Sunday September 28, 2008 

Join us on Sunday, September 28, 2008 and take a powerful step toward improving the lives of thousands of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS as well as those at risk for infection.

This year they hope to raise over $200,000 for the prevention, care and support services of NO/AIDS Task Force and other Louisiana AIDS service organizations through the Walk Share Grant Program. The NO/AIDS Walk is one of the largest HIV/AIDS fundraisers in Louisiana, which helps improve the lives of thousands affected by this disease.

Click here to learn more.

Do you guys want to do a team?

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