Coffee on Your Corner
Tuesday, June 23rd at 9 a.m.
Nix Library at 1401 South Carrollton
Details in the link:
http://www.nola.gov/getattachment/Neighborhood-Engagement/Projects/Coffee-on-Your-Corner/COYC-Flyer-2.pdf/
Coffee Social January 31st
FSJ Coffee-FEST,
Fortier Park, 9:00am, 1/31/15! It is time we gather our neighbors and friends and socialize — join us in the park and share a cup of great coffee, hot cocoa, etc.
Please feel free to bring a favorite sweetbread, cookies, etc!
photo by Brenda London
We’ll have doughnuts available but we have some great bakers in our ‘hood…please feel free to ‘bake-it-up’ and share with the rest of us dough-challenged neighbors…Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Bonnie Lee
[email protected]
(337) 540-0002
Kitchen Produces Liberty
CRESCENT PIE & SAUSAGE CO.
Liberty’s Kitchen proudly announces a new partnership with Crescent Pie & Sausage Company for
Pop-Up Sunday Brunch at our new location –
300 N. Broad St. next to Whole Foods Market.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Join Chef Bart and Chef Jeff of Crescent Pie & Sausage Company for our first Pop-Up Brunch Series from 9 am – 2 pm on the following dates:
October 12
(this weekend!)
November 2
November 23
December 14
Enjoy the autumn weather on our beautiful patio and feast on Louisiana Gulf Shrimp & Grits, Huevos Rancheros,
Smoked Brisket Hash, Market Fresh Veggie Omelets,
and much more!
A portion of all proceeds will benefit Liberty’s Kitchen. No reservations necessary.
For more information, please contact [email protected] or 504-822-4011.
Get Your Liberty on Saturdays, too!
Liberty’s Kitchen is now open EVERY Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, serving tasty breakfast sandwiches, quiche, pastries, and Starbucks coffee drinks.
Neighbors Enjoy Coffee and Treats in Fortier Park
Erich Caulfield, Walter and Bonnie Lee along with Charlie and Brenda London met with many of the great neighbors of Faubourg St. John during the coffee social. In addition to the coffee, tea and donuts, Al and Jean Kramer brought some tasty banana nut bread for everyone to enjoy. Click on the photos below to get a larger view of a few of the great neighbors who met in Fortier Park for the coffee social.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez
Fair Grinds Opens 2nd Location
Quoting Fair Grinds Coffeehouse
Dear Fair Grinds Community,
Happy New Year!
At the end of the year we were asked to headline a mobile phone app for www.stay.com, which asked us to list a bunch of our favorite coffeehouses and breakfast spots in other parts of the city. It was exciting to put together such a list, but humbling to realize how vital coffeehouses are to so many neighborhoods and to the life of the New Orleans community generally, and how fortunate we are to be part of all of your lives as well and a small part of the cultural and nonprofit vibrancy of the city as well.
Speaking of support, thanks for all of the good wishes as we put the pieces together for Fair Grinds on St. Claude, which will be our second location and a chance to be part of the vibrant Marigny-Bywater neighborhoods. The address is 2221 St. Claude, a couple of yards away from the intersection of Elysian Fields and St. Claude Avenues, where the extension of the new streetcar tracks will end. I wish I could say now when we will open, but that’s as much up to various city agencies as it is in our hands. We’re making great progress though throughout the building as well as where the coffeehouse will be located. The actual space is a big smaller
than Ponce de Leon, but offers us other opportunities so we’re hoping to combine the best of PDL with some things that are a bit extra. With fingers crossed I’m praying we open before Mardi Gras, but we’ll see, and I’ll keep you in the loop.
Spread the word!
There’s always something happening at Fair Grinds! Check the Fair Grinds calendar.
Look for Fair Grinds Coffeehouse at www.fairgrinds.com for more details on what’s happening and new things that jump on the schedule unexpectedly. And, yes, we’ll continue to do Affordable Care enrollment through March 31st so watch for the notices!
Here’s hoping we all have a great New Year in 2014!
Fair Grinds Coffeehouse
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Coffee with Your Neighbors
Indigo Building
Joan Mitchell Center
2285 Bayou Rd
Wednesday, September 11th
8:30 am to 11:30 am
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This fall, the Joan Mitchell Center invites YOU to join us for Community Coffee at the Indigo Building! On the second Wednesday of every month, from 8:30am to 11:30 am, stop by to visit with us and learn about the Center, our programming, and opportunities for community partnerships.
* Take a tour of the site
* Join our mailing list
* Meet and greet staff
Join us every month:
* Wednesday, September 11th
* Wednesday, October 9th
* Wednesday, November 13th
* Wednesday, December 11th
For more information, email mailto: [email protected] or just stop by and say hi!
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The core program of the Center will be an artist in residence program, which will offer both time and space for artists to create work in a contemplative environment, as well as provide opportunities for visiting artists to engage with the local arts community and experience the rich cultural possibilities of New Orleans.
For more information contact [email protected]
2275 Bayou Road, New Orleans, LA 70119
office: 504-940-2500 fax: 504-940-2501
– See more at: http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/center#sthash.3QqxTUA3.dpuf
Joan Mitchell Center | 2275 Bayou Road | 504.940.2500
www.joanmitchellcenter.org | [email protected]
The Joan Mitchell Center has an artist-in-residence program.
You can read about Joan Mitchell below then click on the link at
the end to learn more about the Joan Mitchell Center on Bayou Road.
Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1925. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947, she was awarded a James Nelson Raymond Foreign Traveling Fellowship, which took her to France for a year in 1948-49, and it was there that her paintings moved toward abstraction. Returning to New York, she participated in the famous “Ninth Street Show” in 1951, and soon established a reputation as one of the leading younger American Abstract Expressionist painters. She exhibited regularly in New York throughout the next four decades and maintained close friendships with many New York School painters and poets.
In 1955 she began dividing her time between New York and France, and in 1968 she settled in Vétheuil, a small town in the countryside outside of Paris, where she worked continuously until her death in 1992. During the almost 50 years of her painting life, as Abstract Expressionism was eclipsed by successive styles, Mitchell’s commitment to the tenets of gestural abstraction remained firm and uncompromising. Summing up her achievement, Klaus Kertess wrote, “She transformed the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well. And her total absorption of the lessons of Matisse and van Gogh led to a mastery of color inseparable from the movement of light and paint. Her ability to reflect the flow of her consciousness in that of nature, and in paint, is all but unparalleled.”
Mitchell gave personal support to many young artists who came to stay with her at Vétheuil—sometimes for just one night, sometimes for an entire summer. Correspondence in her papers reveals that this generosity often had a life-changing impact on those who spent time with her. Her generosity in her own lifetime continued after her death with the formation of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, called for in her will in order to create support and recognition for individual artists. In addition, the Foundation’s mission includes the promotion and preservation of her legacy, which includes her remarkable body of work, her papers, including correspondence and photographs, and other archival materials related to her life and work. –
Learn more about the artists in residence program at: –
http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/center
DESMARE | Saturday | September 22nd
photo by Charlie London
Faubourg St. John neighbors and the Cabrini Dads Club worked together on September 22, 2012 to make Desmare Playground a better place for everyone!
DESMARE PLAYGROUND | 3456 Esplanade Avenue
A significant amount of debris
was removed from Desmare Playground.
Fair Grinds Brews On
Dear Fair Grinds’ Community,
There’s a lot of big news for Fair Grinders, but Hurricane Issac has got to be the lead story for our world along with big thanks for the support – and patience – of all of our community! In fact I held the September e-bulletin until Tuesday in hopes that more of you might have power finally.
You know our story because we were here in the middle of it together keeping the coffee hot and at your fingertips when it was hard to find a cup of coffee just about anywhere in the City of New Orleans. Stories in the Times Picayune with a picture of our unbroken morning ritual and in City Business marveled that we were somehow open even when it was just the last Lowe’s generator operating in the dark, a borrowed fan from Mark Herman, a borrowed extension cord from our neighbors, my mother’s big coffee pot, impressed labor from my son, Chaco Rathke, who couldn’t say “no,” heroic efforts by new manager, Zee Thornton, who rose to every occasion, and even guest turns helping provide relief behind the coffee bar from my daughter, Dine’, and my partner, Beth, both of whom enjoyed every minute. At one point one of the regulars yelled to me, “Wade, you should have had more children!” It takes a village!
It will take a couple of days to get back to normal. We have plenty of coffee, tea, juices, and most items, but some of our suppliers of baked goods are still getting back on their feet, so for Fair Grinds, just like the rest of the community, there will be progress every day, but nothing will be accomplished in just one day.
Looking forward, there’s a lot happening in September at the coffeehouse, because fall is when we cycle back into our busier time. Schools are back in session. Colleges and universities are open again. Events scheduled for late August will be rescheduling this month and on into the fall. The construction work on the balcony and new upstairs seating areas lost a week, but has started working again, so hopefully will get back in swing. Jeff Poree, doing us a huge favor, will be loaning us scaffolding soon so we can finish the last big wall on our painting job. Progress, slow but steady!
Big reminder though that the September Fair Grinds Dialogue on Fairtrade and the Port of New Orleans is more than a dialogue, and something closer to a combination information meeting on fairtrade coffee and why it is so important and a public forum to enlist explanations for why there is tariff discrimination favoring New York/New Jersey against the Port of New Orleans and how – and who – we can get to step up and start pushing for the changes which could make New Orleans the fairtrade coffee port for North America. I’m moderating and have invited guests from the Port, coffee roasters, university and religious fairtrade committees, longshoremen and other unions, public officials and political leaders, so that we can put our heads together, get the facts, understand the situation, and move to do what it takes to make a difference. Join us!
Fairtrade and the Port of New Orleans
Fair Grinds Common Space – 2nd Floor
Tuesday, September 18th
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Of course we continue to allow local and visiting musicians to introduce themselves to our community. Keep an eye on our calendar on the coffeehouse bulletin board and our website, because new groups are added to the line-up all of the time.
What Did You Do – A Group from Orlando – Friday, September 8th 730PM
Open Mic – Thursday, September 13th 7PM
Lydia Kolda, a new talent from Texas via Loyola, Saturday, September 15th 7PM
We also have the regular groups meeting in the Fair Grinds Common Space rooms on the 2nd floor, but it is amazing how the calendar is filling up. There’s more yoga! There are book clubs now with one group reading bell hooks every Sunday. Acupuncture is proving popular on Sunday’s as well. The Fix-it timesharing event will be rescheduled for September as will a postponed book signing. A “rights” group for the deaf is organizing starting this Saturday. The doulas are coming together. The cooperatively supported space means there is more people utilizing the space and doing great things on the 2nd floor. We’re excited about this!
You led the way and many followed as we were voted one of Gambit’s 2012 Best of New Orleans in the Coffeehouse category for the 2nd straight year – we’re so proud!
Best!
Wade Rathke
Morning Call to Locate in City Park
Café au lait and beignets will soon be served within the Casino Building at New Orleans City Park. Morning Call Coffee Stand will be updating the concession area of the Casino Building over the next several weeks and plans to open to the public in the fall.
Morning Call will be open 24/7 and will offer ice cream, jambalaya, gumbo, and other fare in addition to coffee and beignets.
Restrooms will be open via the rear of the building during construction as will the gift shop. The park will be selling light refreshments during the construction phase.
Appealing to an eclectic and colorful clientele, Morning Call offers a unique and traditional experience. The rich chicory coffee is brewed using the time tested French drip method which allows the coffee to build intensity and body. Whole milk is heated to a near boil then mixed with the coffee to form the quintessential café au lait.
The beginets, also referred to as French market donuts are hand rolled and cut before being plunged into hot oil. The result is a light, delicate treat that is liberally dusted with powdered sugar and is well-known as an irresistible New Orleans creation.
Originally located on Decatur Street in the world famous French Quarter, Morning Call prospered for over 100 years before moving to Jefferson Parish in 1974.
“Who doesnt love a steaming café au lait with a delicious side of beignets?”, said Bob Becker, CEO of City Park. What better place to enjoy them than at City Park adjacent to century old oak trees and abundant open spaces.
Its truly an honor and a privilege to be able to combine two New Orleans institutions, Morning Call Coffee Stand and City Park, in a new venture, Morning Call in the Oaks, located in the old Casino Building. Open 24 hours, we are looking forward to creating a new tradition in one of New Orleans’ most beautiful settings. “We are looking forward to seeing everyone enjoying café au lait and beignets under the oaks!”, said Mike and Bob Hennessey, Proprietors of Morning Call.
John Hopper
New Orleans City Park
Chief Development Officer +
Public Affairs Director
Improvements at Fair Grinds
August 21st, 2012
Dear Fair Grinds Community,
PARDON OUR DUST!
That’s what the construction signs usually say, but actually it’s not going to be that bad, and in fact I think all of you will find this special bulletin welcome news.
We’re fixing the balcony, “waterproofing” the outside patio, and preparing to open up more chairs, tables, umbrellas, computer electricity outlets, and space in our open area. How about that for an exciting addition as we prepare to celebrate our second year of “great coffee for a change?”
Here’s more than you want to know about what’s happening. We’re shoring up and replacing some of the piers and supports for the balcony. We’re replacing all rotten wood and redoing the decking on the balcony. We’re raising the wrought iron fencing on the balcony to the required 42 inches to assure safety for our customers. We’re surfacing the balcony so that rain doesn’t pour into the patio scurrying our customers when we’re facing our current deluge. We’re adding gutters to the balcony so that when the rains come then it will drain to the back, rather than spill over our sides.
Our contractor making these repairs is going to work in sections, so that only a couple of feet of the patio is unavailable at any time during the construction and so that in fact there really isn’t dust or disturbances on the first floor. Furthermore, this should be a quick process finding Labor Day back to normal with the balcony “open for business!”
Frequently asked questions include:
Will the common space be affected?
No. We will continue to operate the common space as usual.
Will dogs be allowed on the balcony?
This is a matter between you and your dog, as long as the dog is not a jumper!
What about smoking? The front sidewalk is not our property, so smokers will continue to enjoy this space. The patio though is going to move to a non-smoking area whenever practicable. Children and others run free in the patio and too often smoke clouds are trapped under the stairway making it less than ideal space. Instead we are going to make the balcony open to smoking, which actually means that our smoking customers will have MORE space to smoke and drink their coffee than they have now! “Whenever practicable” means that the community is self-policing, so when it is raining or inclement, then of course there’s going to be some smoking in the patio, but during the normal wonderful New Orleans weather, it’s balcony rules!
What about music? No music is planned for the balcony because we want to continue to be good neighbors while continuing to welcome musicians to give their time and offer enjoyment to our customers and, I’m not sure that would qualify.
We’re super excited about this huge improvement and its ability to open up more space for our more people who are joining the Fair Grinds community every day! Some pain, but lots of gain!
Thanks as always for your support!
Fortier Park This Saturday
This Saturday, July 28 walk on over to Fortier Park.
COFFEE | RAKE | GAB | GARDEN
in
FORTIER PARK
Come for coffee or come to help for a while! Help your neighbors, gab and laugh and plant or rake and sweep or mulch and play. Bring the kids to play, everyone is welcome!
SATURDAY MORNING | July 28th | 9 am to NOON |
3200 Esplanade Avenue
Free coffee, snacks and fun
Bring a rake or broom, bring a shovel or pruners and help keep Fortier Park the best park in the city!
Kennedy Park Saturday
flyer by Linda Landesberg
Click here for a PDF of the flyer.
Come for coffee or come to help for a while! Help your neighbors, gab and laugh and plant or rake and sweep or mulch and play. Bring the kids to play, everyone is welcome!
FREE COFFEE, SNACKS AND FUN
Please bring a rake, broom, shovel or pruners and help give Kennedy Park a face lift.
Check out the Times Picayune’s coverage of the last park cleanup…
http://blog.nola.com/new_orleans/2012/06/families_get_involved_in_proje.html