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Student-cast After School Improv Audition Announcement
01/25/2012

In March 2012, The Hideout will be bringing back After School Improv, a mainstage show from 2009, as a student-cast show, directed by Jason Vines. Here is the audition and schedule information.

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Ask Local Genius Society: Q&A with Kayla Lane Freeman
01/25/2012

Local Genius Society is back again this week at the Hideout Theatre’s Thursday Threefer.  Meet the men and women behind the Society. This week:  Kayla Lane Freeman Not too long ago Kayla Lane Freeman hadn’t even seen improv.  Fast-forward a year and a half, and Freeman is building dreamscapes in the Hideout Theatre’s “Spirited,” time-traveling through the Institution [...]

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Layer Upon Layer of Paint: The Hideout Theatre Set Designs
01/25/2012

Kaci here, Your Director of Design at The Hideout Theatre! One of my on-going jobs here at The Hideout is to paint the stage backdrop at the theater every 2 months. Perhaps it would be better to phrase that “re-paint”, because that’s what I do. I paint over the current backdrop over and over again. [...]

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Ask Local Genius Society: Q&A with Andrew Pish
01/25/2012

Beginning this week Local Genius Society takes over the Thursday Threefer. Meet the men and women behind the Society. This week: Andrew Pish

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Hideout Holiday Gift Guide
01/25/2012

Holiday shopping is too stressful.  Lines, crowds, screaming children…Why not forgo the mall madness or 3am lines outside Target and give your friends and family the gift of improv, purchasable through the convenience of your home computer! There are several options available for sharing our award-winning shows and classes.  We’ve got gift certificates for shows [...]

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Explosion of Classes in 2011
01/25/2012

2011 was a record year for our adult education program at the Hideout Theatre, with more classes and students than ever before. After every Level One class we send a student feedback form and, amongst other things, ask them what they would say when recommending classes at the Hideout. These are the compiled quotes. And [...]

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Clarification
01/18/2012

In last week's story about New Orleans' Independent Police Monitor ("Watching the Detectives," Jan. 10, 2012), we wrote that the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) budget is "$6 million-plus." According to Suzanne Lacey Wisdom, acting general counsel in the OIG's office, this figure, which comes from 2012 city budget documents, is based in part on "two entirely speculative sources of funding" totaling $2.6 million from the state and the feds.…

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Review: Fatoush
01/18/2012

Ian McNulty on a Mediterranean restaurant in the Marigny that offers up some unexpected choices by Ian McNulty Fatoush serves a lot of hummus and falafel. But this casual, everyday eatery in the Faubourg Marigny is a Turkish restaurant, so diners who approach it like a typical kebab joint are in for a surprise.…

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Dog People
01/18/2012

Find more information about pit bull adoption and fostering, volunteering at shelters and events, and veterinary services and clinics: Animal Rescue New Orleans…

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Curfew for the Few?
01/18/2012

If the curfew is truly about safety, then people across the city deserve the same protection as the French Quarter and Marigny Back in November, after the Halloween night shootings that made national news, New Orleans City Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell expressed her frustration with the city's approach to troubled teenagers — particularly the public school expulsion rate, saying, "It doesn't deal with the problem. It takes the problem out of one venue and puts it in another, but it doesn't solve the problem."…

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Sucre Lakeside
01/18/2012

Sucre Lakeside (Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 834-2277; www.shopsucre.com) holds a king cake tasting party from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17.…

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Trends, notes, quirks and quotes from the world of food.
01/18/2012

"Food trucks are not for the faint of heart. For our cafe, I don't have to worry about someone coming in and moving my restaurant," Kim Billingsley told Nation's Restaurant News.…

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Coyote Chic
01/18/2012

Coyote Ugly Founder Lil Lovell Works a Look That's Rooted In The Rock 'n' Roll Aesthetic of Her World-Famous Bars by Lee Cutrone In summer 2010, a coyote made news when it migrated Uptown near Audubon Park. But, there's another "coyote" in that area who's been subject to far more media coverage over the years.…

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Keep Avondale Open
01/18/2012

NEW STUDY OUTLINES EVEN MORE REASONS A Tulane University report outlines more reasons to keep open the Avondale Shipyard, which is scheduled to close in 2013.…

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Chic Dressing is a S.N.A.P.
01/18/2012

If getting organized is among your New Year's resolutions, consider letting Jenny Carr, owner of S.N.A.P. New Orleans (617 Metairie Road, 849-9988; www.snapneworleans.com), give your wardrobe a makeover. Carr offers three closet restructuring services: the Mini ($100), the Midi ($300) and the Maxi ($500).…

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The Mountain Goats
01/18/2012

[iamge-1] Because he lives and works in the 21st century, John Darnielle uses computers and the Internet to disseminate his ideas, and guitars and recording studios to set them to music.…

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Review: Luis Cruz Azaceta and Ivan Navarro
01/18/2012

Change happens. That’s not news, but lately the pace seems to be picking up in often perplexing ways.…

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Manning’s to open Thursday
01/18/2012

Alas, the Saints will be watching the NFC Championship game this weekend rather than hosting it. But, as ever, sports mania marches on and a new restaurant aiming squarely for hungry fans will be unveiled this week.…

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Krewe du Vieux announces new route
01/18/2012

Now that football's over, we segue neatly into Mardi Gras — and one of its opening acts, the Krewe du Vieux, which rolls Sat. Feb. 4 on a slightly amended route through the Faubourg Marigny and French Quarter.…

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Working Without a Net
01/18/2012

A JOURNALIST, A SMALL TOWN ... AND NO BROADBAND…

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Octavio Mantilla
01/18/2012

Co-owner, Besh Restaurant Group Born in Nicaragua, Octavio Mantilla got his start in the restaurant business at age 16 as a dishwasher. After earning degrees from Tulane University and the University of New Orleans, he went to work for Harrah's casinos in New Orleans and St. Louis, Mo. Today, he and business partner/chef John Besh co-own the Besh Restaurant Group, which has nine properties, including a branch of their New Orleans bistro Luke in San Antonio, Texas, and the latest, Borgne, a seafood restaurant which opened this month in the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.…

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Natural Habitats
01/18/2012

Organic wall and floor coverings are an eco-friendly way to freshen up home decor by Alex Pence With the new year upon us, it's a great time to invest in statement pieces that have a subtle yet transformative effect on the home. Organic, environmentally friendly wall and floor coverings made from materials like cork, bamboo and grasscloth offer several options for breathing new life into rooms in need of a pick-me-up.…

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Were 49ers fans out of hand at Saturday's Saints game?
01/18/2012

While it seems most people have put last Saturday's Saints loss to the San Francisco 49ers behind them and are looking forward to the 2012 season, one aspect of the game hasn't gone away. Some who went to the game at Candlestick Park said the behavior of some 49ers fans went far beyond good-natured rivalry. (Exhibit A: Renee Peck's essay for NolaVie.)

This surprised me, because I've visited the Bay Area many times and always found it a friendly city.…

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On pit bulls and writing about your best friends
01/18/2012

In college, I figured I could manage two and a half jobs. My senior year, on top of classes and keeping deliriously long hours at the school paper and freelancing, I quit a restaurant job and answered a Craigslist ad for a graveyard shift at a soon-to-open clinic for special needs dogs.…

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Saints fans: Watch this video of a sad Packers' fan crying to cheer you up
01/18/2012

All in all, that loss on Saturday still stings a bit (we haven't even watched highlights since the end of the game) but it's hard to stay down while watching this utterly ridiculous video of a sad Packers' fan crying to her friend after Green Bay lost to the New York Giants on Sunday.

Really, take a moment and enjoy this video and then remember that you're lucky enough not to have to live in a frozen tundra and that Mardi Gras is right around the corner.…

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