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LazarusBitch of the Year: Tiffany Alexander,

Electra City, Gia GiaVanni, PrincesseStephaney, Persana Shoulders

Show Bar of the Year: BourbonPub & Parade, Golden Lantern,JohnPaul's, Michael’s On The Park, Oz

Donnie Jay Performing Arts Award:Big Easy Sisters, La Familia VarietyShow, New Orleans Gay Men’s Cho-rus, Running With Scissors, StandingOn Ceremony

Restaurant/Deli/Coffee House ofthe Year: Clover Grill, Eat, LouisianaPizza Kitchen Uptown, Quartermaster:The Nellie Deli, Verti Mart

Dance Club of the Year: BourbonPub Parade, Club LAX/Metairie,JohnPaul’s, Michael’s On The Park,Oz

Bartender of the Year: Will“Wilhemina” Bennet/Golden Lantern,Matthew Birkhoff/Bourbon Pub & Pa-rade, Chuck Hinkley/4 Seasons-Metairie, Earl Johnson/Oz, JeffPalmquist/Cafe Lafitte in Exile

DJ of the Year: Jason Emrick/Golden Lantern, Dominick Kolb/CafeLafitte in Exile, Eddie Mitchell, TimPflueger/Oz, Jonathan “JRB” Reed/Oz

Leather Bar of the Year: Phoenix,Rawhide 2010

Cheridon Comedy Award: KlorocksBleachman, Big Momma Lavouge,Princesse Stephaney, Persana Shoul-ders, Tittie Toulouse

Fly Fashion Glamour Award: DustyDebris, Dominique DeLorean, AubreySynclaire, Monica Synclaire-Kennedy,Opal Wiley

GLBT Business of the Year: Bour-bon Pride, Mary’s Ace Hardware,Panda Bear, Rab Dab Clothing & Gifts,Second Skin Leather

Leather Person of the Year: EdAzemas, Bill Naquin, Pat Johnson, TobyLefort, Gary Vandeventer

Transgender of the Year: ReginaAdams, Jasmine Essex, Stephanie Lee,Rikki Redd, Chi-Chi Rodriquez

Lesbian of the Year: Misti Ates,

Marty Curtin, Mina Hernandez, PatMcArdle, Hannah Napier

Gay Man of the Year: Tommy Elias,Bradley Latham, Toby Lefort, TonyLeggio, Bill Miller

Marcy Marcell Entertainer of theYear: Dusty Debris, Big MommaLavouge, Monique Michaels, JohnnyPassion, Aubrey Synclaire

The Marsha Delain Award of Ex-cellence: The Drag Ambassador Awardis presented by Marsha Naquin-Delain.

The Board of Directors includesLisa Beaumann, Teryl-Lynn Foxx, andRip and Marsha Naquin-Delain.

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Avita Drugs Pharmacyto Host First WorldHepatitis Day Event inLouisiana July 28

In an effort to help break a GuinnessWorld Record, Avita Drugs Pharmacyis partnering with the World HepatitisAlliance to host the first World HepatitisDay event in Louisiana. The theme forthis year’s World Hepatitis Campaignis “SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL,SPEAK NO EVIL.” Avita Drugs Phar-macy will be the first organization inLouisiana to contribute to the worldrecord. It is set for Sunday, July 28th,10am – 12 noon at New Orleans CityPark: Reunion Shelter, 4 FriedrichsAvenue in New Orleans.

The existing 2012 Guinness WorldRecord for World Hepatitis Day drewout over 12,000 people around theworld who performed the Three WiseMonkey ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil,Speak No Evil’ actions within 24 hoursof one another. The Monkeys that sur-round the campaign symbolize themessage that Hepatitis is an issue thatneeds more recognition around theworld with the goal to create a call toaction for change.

Join Avita Drugs Pharmacy onWorld Hepatitis Day to help break theGuinness World Record! Visit AvitaDrugs’ Facebook page to register, andsimply “LIKE” and “SHARE” the eventto be entered to win an iPad Mini! Allevent attendees will also be entered ina raffle to win an iPad! Attendees canalso register atwww.avitapharmacy.com or call theAvita Drugs hotline number1.888.AVITARX.

Hepatitis currently affects over 500million people worldwide, most of whomare unaware they even have the dis-ease. In Louisiana, over 80,000 peopleare infected with Hepatitis C, resulting

in roughly 120 deaths per year. Sup-port Avita Drugs Pharmacy and WorldHepatitis Day and help us break theworld record and put Louisiana on themap!

13th Annual SatchmoSummerFest brings 3Full Days of Fest

The premier American Jazz Festi-val dedicated to the life, legacy, andmusic of New Orleans’ native son, Louis“Satchmo” Armstrong will take placeAugust 2-4 at the Louisiana StateMuseum’s Old U.S. Mint. This year, the3-day celebration is thrilled to welcomeits first ever title sponsor – Chevron.Satchmo SummerFest will feature evenmore performances from New Orleans’most talented traditional and contem-porary jazz, and brass band musicians.Festival-goers will sample cuisine fromlocal restaurants, attend fascinatingSatchmo Seminars about New Orleansmusic and Louis Armstrong, now withextended hours. Visitors can also enjoythe new Fats Domino exhibit, as well asthe ‘Preservation Hall at 50’ exhibit,located on the second floor of the Mint.

An Opening Reception will kick offSatchmo SummerFest, Thursday, Au-gust 1st at the Hotel Monteleone andreception tickets can be purchased atwww.fqfi.org or by calling the FrenchQuarter Festivals, Inc. office at504.522.5730. This year’s KeynoteConversation, will be presented by re-nowned musician, composer, conduc-tor and arranger Wycliffe Gordon,named 2013 “Trombonist of the Year”by the Jazz Journalists Association.The Keynote Conversation will takeplace following the reception and isfree and open to the public. Reserva-tions are required for both events.

Satchmo SummerFest 2013 Art-ists include Allen Toussaint, EllisMarsalis, Preservation Hall Brass Band,Wycliffe Gordon, Connie Jones andTim Laughlin, Don Vappie & The CreoleJazz Serenaders, The Dukes ofDixieland, Charmaine Neville, JohnBoutte, James Andrews, Treme BrassBand, Hot Club of New Orleans, LarsEdegran’s Ragtime Orchestra featur-ing Lionel Ferbos, Meschiya Lake andthe Little Big Horns, The Uptown JazzOrchestra, Yoshio Toyama & The DixieSaints, New Birth Brass Band, KidMerv and All That Jazz, Orleans Brass

Band, Kermit Ruffins and the BarbecueSwingers, Jeremy Davenport, SharonMartin, The New Orleans Jazz Vipers,Topsy Chapman and Solid Harmony,Wendell Brunious, Carl LeBlanc, Origi-nal Pinettes Brass Band, Leroy Jonesand New Orleans’ Finest, and manymore.

Between musical sets, dancers ofall levels can enjoy free lessons fromNew Orleans’ best dance teachers atthe Cornet Chop Suey Stage each dayof the festival. Dance lessons are freeand open to the public and are taughtand sponsored by NOLA Jitterbugs.

Throughout the day on Saturdayand Sunday, children and parents canrelax in air-conditioning on the secondfloor of the Louisiana State Museum’sOld U.S. Mint and enjoy an array ofeducational, entertaining family activi-

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ties, movies, and exhibits. The Satchmofor Kids’ area features a variety ofactivities including a Satchmo collageproject, red beans and rice maraca-making, coconut decorating with theZulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club’sJunior Zulus, the Jazz National HistoricPark’s Junior Rangers program, a sec-ond-line umbrella creation station toget kids ready for the Satchmo for Kids’second line parades on Saturday andSunday of the festival.

While inside, visitors can also en-joy the Louisiana State Museum’s ex-hibits, including the debut of a Fats

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Domino piano which was flooded inHurricane Katrina. The Louisiana StateMuseum has undertaken a restorationof the piece and it will be on display atSatchmo SummerFest. The ‘Preserva-tion Hall at 50’ exhibit is also on displayinside the Old U.S. Mint.

Co-curated by Preservation Halland the Louisiana State Museum, Pres-ervation Hall at 50 tells the story of theNew Orleans music landmark from theearly 1960s to the present throughartifacts, photographs, film and audioclips, interviews and oral histories.Adding wider historical context are iconicobjects from the Museum’s world fa-mous jazz collection-including LouisArmstrong’s first cornet and instrumentsplayed by Preservation Hall jazz greatssuch as clarinetist George Lewis andbassist Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau.The exhibit and children’s area are freeand open to the public during Festivalweekend.

The 2013 Satchmo SummerFestseminars are free and open to thepublic and will take place all three daysinside the Louisiana State Museum’sOld U.S. Mint. An impressive array ofspeakers will present seminars, dis-cussions, music, and movies about thehistory and progress of New OrleansJazz and the life and music of LouisArmstrong. Seminar hours have beenextended this year and are scheduledfrom 11:30am to 5:30pm Friday, Au-gust 2nd through Sunday, August 4th.

In addition to a weekend full ofgreat music, food, seminars, movies,and children’s activities, SatchmoSummerFest features an array of spe-cial events including the annual JazzMass at the historic St. AugustineChurch in Treme, a traditional secondline parade, and the annual ‘TrumpetTribute’ which closes the festival Sun-day night with a Satchmo birthday party.

Satchmo SummerFest is sched-uled annually to coincide with LouisArmstrong’s birthday on August 4th.The artist often stated in public inter-views that he was born on July 4, 1900(Independence Day), a date that hasbeen noted in many biographies.Armstrong died in 1971 and his truebirthdate, August 4, 1901, was notdiscovered until the mid-1980s.

Louis Armstrong was raised in apoor section of New Orleans known as“Jane Alley.” Throughout his career, heentertained millions – from heads of

obituary

Elwood JohnRichardson

It was with a heavy heart thatStewart P. Butler, local activist andsenior member of Elwood’s large, ex-tended family was informed of the de-parture from this life of long-time FrenchQuarter resident, artist, model, ElwoodRichardson on July 1, 2013.

Over a year ago, Elwood left NewOrleans to reside in a Texas nursinghome to be closer to his two brothers.Elwood’s remains have been sent foruse to LSU Medical School, Shreve-port and will later be cremated.

Elwood leaves behind many whocherish fond and loving memories ofthis talented, caring man.

Announcements of a memorial ser-vice will be made afterwards. Condo-lences may be sent to his brothers,Rodney, 12157 US Hwy 71, Fouke, AR71837; and Warren, Sunny Acres Nurs-ing Home, 12250 FM1840, DeKalb, TX75559.

state and royalty to the neighborhoodkids on his stoop in Corona, New York.Despite his fame, he lived a simple lifein a working-class neighborhood.

The man known around the worldas “Satchmo,” short for Satchelmouth,was widely recognized as a foundingfather of jazz – a unique American artform. In 1932, Melody Maker maga-zine editor Percy Brooks greetedArmstrong in London with “Hello,Satchmo!” and the nickname stuck. Hisinfluence, as an artist and cultural iconis universal, unmatched, and very muchalive today.

Armstrong was a charismatic andinnovative performer whose improvisedsoloing was the main influence for afundamental change in jazz. As one ofthe most famous musicians of the 20thcentury, he was first known as a cornetplayer, then as a trumpet player, andtoward the end of his career he wasbest known as a vocalist and influentialjazz singer.

Sponsors and Community Partnersfor the 13th annual Satchmo SummerFestinclude: Chevron, Abita Brewing Com-pany, The Louisiana State Museum,WWL-TV, Ford, the Louis ArmstrongEducational Foundation, French MarketCorporation, Absolut, Avion, Pepsi, NewOrleans Tourism Marketing Corporation,Hotel Monteleone, Rouses, Rhodes Fu-neral Home, Harrelson Trumpets, ZuluSocial Aid and Pleasure Club, NOLAJitterbugs, New Orleans Jazz NationalHistorical Park, Associated Office Sys-tems, Aidan Gill, Harrah’s New Orleans,The Joseph K. & Inez Eichenbaum Foun-dation (Stephen Maitland-Lewis and JoniBerry), OffBeat, WHERE, LouisianaKitchen, Downbeat Magazine, NOLADefender, Where Y’at, Pelican Ice, NewOrleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation,Inc., Tulane Medical Center, New Or-leans Tourism Marketing Corporation,New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bu-reau, Event Rentals, Rolland Safe andLock, I.T.S. Fire Alarm Security, TheAdvocate, The Windsor Court Hotel,Jefferson Variety, Camellia Brand,inthenola.com, WWOZ, WWNO 89.9 FM,and TravelHost Magazine, and more.

For more information on all FQFIfestivals and events, call 504.522.5730or visit online at www.fqfi.org.

Satchmo SummerFest is producedby French Quarter Festivals, Inc.(www.fqfi.org), the 501 (c) (3) nonprofitorganization, which also produces FrenchQuarter Festival in April and ChristmasNew Orleans Style! in December. French

Quarter Festivals, Inc. promotes the VieuxCarré and the City of New Orleans throughhigh quality special events and activitiesthat showcase the culture and heritage ofthis unique city, contribute to the eco-nomic well being of the community, andinstill increased pride in the people ofNew Orleans.

Lords of Leather GarageSale Aug. 3-4

You’ve all heard the saying “oneman’s “junk” is another man’s trea-sure”? Sure…..

Now is your chance to do someserious shopping. Lords of Leather isholding a Garage/Yard Sale on Satur-day, August 3 and Sunday, August 4 at1208 Kingswood Drive in Westwego.Hours will be Saturday from 7am untilnoon and Sunday from 9am until noon.

Some of the items available will bebooks, furniture, a piano, prints, cloth-ing, ceramic molds, a bicycle, lightingfixtures and a vast assortment of mis-cellaneous merchandise.

So get up early, use your GPS andhead over to the West Bank on August3 and 4 to find your treasures.

Miss LouisianaLeatherette Aug. 10 @Michael's On The Park

What happens when you combineleather, lace and a stage filled withbeauties? It can only be the Lords ofLeather “Miss Louisiana Leatherette2014 “ contest.

Come on down to Michael’s on thePark at 834 N. Rampart on Saturday,August 10 at 8pm to see who will wearthe fabulous sash and win the $100cash prize. Blanche Debris will beMistress of Ceremonies.

There will be chances to win greatprizes and of course, a 50/50 raffle.

A $10 donation at the door getsyou in for a fun-filled, entertainingevening of camp drag. Admission tick-ets are also available in advance fromany krewe member.

Contest is open to both men andwomen to see who can put together themost outrageous ensemble and re-quires a $25 application fee.

See www.lordsofleather.com formore information and to get your onlinecontest application forms.

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