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Kenner says goodbye to its riverboat casino before new location opens with a new look
At Kenner's Treasure Chest casino, Elvira Henry saddled up at a Five Times Pay slot machine and began pressing her luck. Like clockwork, the 87-year-old travels from her home in Gentilly to the gambling boat on Lake Pontchartrain each week to unwind. “It’s an outlet, you know. A safe outlet....
New Orleans restaurateur, founder of namesake Vincent's Italian Cuisine, dies
Vincent Catalanotto Sr., a restaurateur whose effusive personality won as much praise as his lasagna and cannelloni, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Ochsner Health Center-Kenner, said his son, Vincent Catalanotto Jr. He was 70. Even though he was the owner, “he greeted every person at the door for 35...
New Orleans restaurant's daily signs steal the spotlight
NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans restaurant has become iconic for its daily tradition, people come from all over the city to catch a glimpse of the window. Mona Lisa restaurant's front window provides daily laughs and plenty of satire. It's a morning ritual that started back on March...
Ron Bechet and Hannah Chalew: You Can’t Hide the Sun
Landscape paintings, like maps, have historically been used to assert human dominance and ownership over a place. But something else is happening in Ron Bechet and Hannah Chalew’s “landscapes” in the exhibition, You Can’t Hide the Sun, on view now at Other Plans in New Orleans. Bechet depicts large and layered scenes of surrealist tree roots, trunks, and branches in charcoal on paper via rigorous mark making. Chalew creates her own media from fossil fuel pollution, plastic waste, sugarcane, living plants, and littered detritus. From this material concoction, she draws and sculpts patches of vegetation atop rusted pipes and candy-colored plastic bundles. Both artists push inherited boundaries of traditional landscape painting with exciting, new explorations and expansions in media—Chalew with the reuse of pollution materials and Bechet through his depiction of thriving trees with charcoal, itself burnt and dead wood.
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