Special Feature:
The New Orleans Film Festival
When the NOFF blew the NOLAFugees editors off, despite their pleas on Cox cable to "Save the Film Fest," we figured there must be plenty enough people lined up and willing to donate services to this city's independent film-starved cineastes. Still, to do our part for civil society, we offer the following reviews:

Filmmaker Julie Gustafson & the Teenage Girls’ Documentary Project's Desire follows the lives of five young woman from very different backgrounds to try and sort out how environment affects hopes, dreams, and ambitions. By Monica Mankin.

Rebecca Snedeker's
By Invitation Only documents
one of the city's oldest and most selective traditions: the debutante season and the Mardi Gras Ball. NOLAFugees newest correspondent Nicole Thibodeaux, reviewing Snedeker's work, wishes she'd let the cat out of the bag.

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Teach Like He Do a review of Half Nelson by Feelicia Brown Who says smoking white drugs and changing lives don't mix?
Stanton Moore Music writer Sheri McKee interviews acclaimed New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore and gets the inside scoop on his forthcoming project, the all-star brass band The Midnite Disturbers.