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1 ambush paparazzi Cameron & bartender JohnPaul s Bartender Tony & bar baron JohnPaul s Kajun s Pub bartender Dante Country Club GM Bert Country Club bar manager Drew Bartender The Friendly Bar Kevin behind the Cutter s Sue missing Pee Big Daddy s Andre behind the the Phoenix Phoenix bartender Wayne Arthur, Koo & Friendly Bar s Meat Night Britnee Alexander & Stephanie Club LAX in Metairie Dusty DeBris emcees Toby s NO/ AIDS Walk Club LAX In for Prime Time JohnPaul s DJ E in The Man 4 Seasons in Metairie The Man 4 Seasons Marigny, Bywater, Metairie RE-Do Decadence Week ~ New Orleans, Metairie ~ Photos by Devin, Rip Naquin Chef Mary Jane with fried horseradish bread n butter The Country Club Big Daddy s bartender Juanita Danielle, Oz s Frankie Wingerter & Toby Lefort join Toby s NO/AIDS Walk Club LAX Manager John grilling burgers 4 Seasons GayMardiGras.COM GayNewOrleans.COM SouthernDecadence.COM Sept. 25-Oct. 8, 2012 The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM 31

2 MC Tiffany Alexander does Don t Rain on My Parade from Funny Girl Regina Adams does Broadway Baby from Follies Former Queen Amon-Ra Electra City does Big, Blonde, and Beautiful for Hair Spray Former Queen Amon-Ra Tittie Toulouse does Some People from Gypsy David, former King Amon-Ra Ms. Jenkins Tarmac & John does Hello Dolly from Hello Dolly Maybelline Maskara does As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Blvd. Former Queen Amon-Ra Safonda Peters does Someone Like You from Jekyll and Hyde Prom Queen Athena Jewele does Be Good to Mama from Chicago President Deja Deja-Vue & Queen Amon-Ra Sydney Williams does Everything s Coming Up Roses from Gypsy President Deja Deja-Vue presents Pete Eschete with the Rickey Callais Award of Excellence for his outstanding work on the event Second lining in memory of the late Rickey Callais President Mr. Deja Deja-Vue & Captain Mr. Opal Masters snap paparazzi King Amon-Ra David Forth & Easter Grand Marshal Mr. Rhonda Roget Pete, Amon-Ra Prom King Robert & friend Function Lt. Michael Strickland & Prom Queen Athena Jewele Mr. Josie Mae Cotton Krewe of Amon-Ra Girls Gone Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center ~ Chalmette, Louisiana ~ Photos by Tony Leggio, Rip Naquin Guest, Petronius Bootsie DeVille does Tomorrow from Annie Former Queen Amon-Ra Kenny Walker does I ve Got You Under My Skin from Born to Dance Marty Curtin does the 2nd Line Maybelline Maskara & Ms. Jenkins Tarmac 32 The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM Sept. 25-Oct. 8, 2012 Official ficial Halloween Guide HalloweenNewOrleans.COM

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4 spotlight feature Support the Arts by Dining & Purchasing Tadgh Weekly Artwork at The Country Club Oct. 1 On the evening of Monday, October 1, The Country Club will donate 10% of its proceeds to the Arts Council of New Orleans for the Dine Around For The Arts. In addition, the club's current featured artist, Tadgh Weekly, will donate 10% of his artwork sales procured that evening of October 1st as well. You can enjoy a scrumptious meal, fabulous new artwork and support the arts all in one stop! As most of you know, The Country Club loves to support local artists. Every month or two the club showcases new work on their walls to enjoy and to buy. At 6pm on October 1, you can also meet Tadgh for the wine and cheese meet and greet. The Work Compelling, Evocative, Powerful, Magically interpretive -all words that have been used to describe the work of Tadgh Weekly. Born in rural Illinois, Tadgh creates his art using modern, progressive, multi-layered techniques applied to an early 17th century Italian process known as Monotyping. Each work is an original and cannot be duplicated. Whether his subject depicts the density of urban jungles or a community within communities the tranquility of a primeval forest, Tadgh captures the often subconscious and multi-dimensional connection between man and habitat with his compilations of color, shape, and luminosity. Tagdh creatively interprets the element of natural environments that affect the sensitivities of mankind through works of art that compel his viewers to examine their own undiscovered language that sings through the water, wind, earth and fire of the soul. The Artist Now calling New Orleans home, Tadgh s work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe. He has taught at the University level and has inspired students around the globe to constantly examine and strive for individual artistic expressions. He has owned and operated cooperative galleries in Baltimore and New Orleans and is currently in the process of assembling a group of internationally acclaimed artists to exhibit together in his newly adopted home city of New Orleans. 1,000,000 Bones by The Rev. Bill Terry, Rector St. Anna s Episcopal Church fr.bill@stannanola.org Bones, the last remains of life once lived. Bones, the vestiges of existence that carried the frames of men, women, and children and within those frameworks were housed tears, joy, hope, despair, the full range of humanness. Gay History Month is part of these 1 Million Bones. There was a time, not so long ago, when medical treatment was withheld from Gay persons because of even the perceived threat of AIDS. There was a time when AIDS was a death warrant and the religious right said it was the condemnation of homosexuality. I recall a sign on I-12 that proclaimed AIDS as the hand of God. It remained the hand of God until straight men and women became infected, it remained the hand of God until the story of thousands of Africans dying because of AIDS. Then it was no longer the hand of God it became a pandemic and treatments were developed to combat its effects. 1 Million Bones. The 1 Million Bones project was originally designed as a graphic art installation project that will be installed on the Washington Mall in The original intent and I suppose the current intent is to bring attention to genocide; specifically the genocide in Ethiopia and Sudan. But, as always, the project found its way to New Orleans as one of many project sites worldwide. In New Orleans it morphed. For us it is now about death by neglect (a form of violence), death by urban violence in our own city, AND genocide where ever it happens or happened. Visiting Dachau Prison Camp the story of the extermination of Gay men and women if graphically told; programmatic extermination of Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and anyone who did not fit in. So, it is that 1 Million Bones in New Orleans has come to be changed at least locally. It will tell a story. This project invites people to make clay bones of all sorts. Any group can gather for a day of bone making. St. Anna s Church in collaboration with several other groups including 1 Million Bones will send an artist to get the group started and supply the clay. The bones will then be collected and installed at St. Anna s Church from November 1-3 which includes All Saints and All Souls days. You, at your pub, at your krewe, at your circle of friends are invited to make bones and name them if you wish as memorials to those who have died of abuse, AIDS, social neglect, urban violence, write the names on the bones. If you cannot find a group: Anna s Arts and the children will be making bones every Saturday starting at about 3pm until the installation date. St. Anna s congregation will make bones after Mass on Sunday, October 7 you are invited and need not attend mass - we will start at about 11:45. You will be invited to lay the bones to rest in homage on Thursday, November 1 in the late afternoon. Our goal is to collect 10,000 bones and do a massive art installation using most of the outdoor property of St. Anna s Church campus. The bones will and installation will remain on site for the three days. Security will be provided for those that wish to come and contemplate, maybe pray, or simply to meditate upon the reminders of humanity 24 hours a day until 6pm on Saturday. Make a statement about the state of our human condition. Become connected to all of the loss, all of the sorrow, all of the hatred, and make a stand against it. It is a social issue that is greater than a community within a community. We are the community of the human race for better or worse. We want and MUST bring attention to our city of the violence and death that permeates every neighborhood. This is an ecumenical enterprise that invites Jew, Christian, Muslim, and secular humanists to make a statement. Yes, St. Anna s will host a traditional All Saints service at 6pm on Thursday, November 1 st and along with the Litany of Saints we will name all of the murder victims in Yes, St. Anna s will host a traditional All Souls service at 6pm on Friday, November 2 nd naming the dead family members of St. Anna s congregation and friends. A list is posted in the Parish Hall for those names. Saying the names, the Hebrew Bible teaches us that those persons still live in memory. On Saturday the church will host an all day event that will include a preview of Shell Shocked about youth violence in New Orleans; talks by The Lost Boys of the Sudan and the genocide in the Kush Mountains; loss by Gay and Lesbian persons to AIDS; music by choirs and individuals featuring the Treme Community Choir it will be a day to take notice. So please, come out and take notice, just this one time help support your community church and your greater human community make a bone, place a bone, honor 1 Million Bones as an homage to life itself. If you or your group wish to participate and have an artist and clay delivered please contact Fr. Terry or Darryl Durham at or by at fr.bill@stannanola.org or darryl@stannanola.org. Join us and remember. 34 The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM Sept. 25-Oct. 8, 2012 Official ficial Halloween Guide HalloweenNewOrleans.COM

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