Never let it be said that Pyrates don’t appreciate culture – fact is, we brought much of it here to begin with!
The Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum in Old Algiers (operated by local folk artist Charles Gillam) will be open and offering tours on Family Pyrate Day from Noon – 3pm. It’s about a 5 minute stroll from our Pyrate District.
Our mate, Rick Prose, was responsible for founding lowernine.org – rebuilding homes/community in the Lower Ninth Ward o’ New Orleans. The Crew at NOLA Pyrate Week are proud to have supported & volunteered with this fine organization. Despite the fact they’ve returned more folks to their homes (on less budget) than any other similar organization,…
It’s 300 years for New Orleans and 10 years for NOLA Pyrate Week! Artisans, Authors, Merchants o’ all kinds…it’s time to get yerself prepared for the annual Family Pyrate Day – Sat. 7 April! While some o’ the particulars are yet to be confirmed (exact location, minimum donation…), the general idea hasn’t changed. In the…
Our New Orleans mate Larry Henley has been severely injured in a traffic accident – head trauma, skull fracture, memory loss (and other scrapes & bruises). He was in Intensive Care for three days and the Med. Staff were not sure he’d be OK…thankfully he’s a tough ol’ Pyrate! He’s a grand fellow and a…
NOLA Pyrate Week is proud to both sponsor & participate in the New Orleans Book Festival inside the amazing Audubon Zoo on Saturday, March 19 from 10am – 5pm. The Book Festival is bringing together authors, educators, readers (and potential readers) in one of the world’s most beautiful Zoos for a day to enjoy everything…
Avast ye scalawags! We’ve just added our mate Jennifer Raven to our Merchants Market in Houma. Why is that important, ye ask? Because she is artisan & proprietor o’ Red Paw Leather – creators o’ all manner o’ accoutrements. Baldrics, belts, wrapped tankards, arm bracers…all beautifully hand tooled!
As of this writing (Nov. 2010)…five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong. In his feature–length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that…
