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contents The Music of Anais St. John
Senica A Natural. Beautiful. You
Hotel Restaurants Our Top 5 Picks
Dj Spotlight Dj Spin
Spring Fashion Preview
Baggage Boutique Handbags, Shoes, Jewelry, Clothing
Terrance Osborne Interview
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henever you want to take your significant other on a romantic night out for dinner and wine, Hotel Restaurants usually don’t come to mind (well not our minds anyway). Before, the only time you would think of eating at a hotel restaurant was when you were actually staying at a hotel. Makes Sense. Well nowadays, many hotels are divulging in separate street-side restaurant entrances or making existing ones more prominent. Some hotel restaurants even have their own addresses, giving their restaurants its own identity. In turn, this gives pedestrians a chance to notice and consider taking a looksy at the restaurant’s atmosphere and at the menu. Great Idea! In my opinion, if classical fine dining with a comfortable and relaxing setting is in your soul, along with terrific dishes… We are here to help. Nola Nights went on a hotel restaurant indulgence splurge and now we give you our top 5 hotel eateries in the city.
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Explore your city’s rich cuisine. You may be surprised at what you’ll discover.
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DOMENICA [Inside The Roosevelt]
If you’re into Italian dishes, you should definitely make reservations immediately after reading this magazine. This place is pretty much Olive Garden on performance enhancing drugs. From their sophisticated pizzas, to the Burrata Mozzarella (roasted
shallots, crispy bacon & warm focaccia), your mouth will have a blast from all the different textures sloshing around. Which makes for a fun and exciting eating session. Atmosphere: 3.5 out of 5
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ZOE [INSIDE the W Hotel]
We may be a tad bit bias on this one considering we’re absolutely infatuated with this hotel. The W’s ultramodern lobby brings an overwhelming delightfulness to your spirit. Love it! Of course the restaurant absorbs the same energy, but most importantly, the food is satisfactory. The menu is largely filled with our southern style seafood such as Corn and Crab Bisque or Zoe Pasta (gulf shrimp, crawfish, crab, angel hair pasta & parmesan.) One can’t go wrong when choosing this hotel restaurant. Atmosphere: 4 out of 5
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R’evolution [Inside the Royal Sonesta]
Simply WONDERFUL! Excellent service, delicious menu options, and a very friendly environment. Most importantly R’evolution is located right off Bourbon Street… Makes for a great date night. What more can you ask for? Oh, and give the Lump Crab Pasta a try by the way. Atmosphere: 4 out of 5
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MILA [Inside the Renaissance Hotel]
We were overly impressed with this establishment. Mila is your more “intimate outing.” Low lighting, soft jazz playing, lit candles on each table... Soothing at its best. The menu is simple and straight to the point with excellent choices. We’re in lust with this place! Not to mention, the food is outstanding!! The BBQ Lobster is far from disappointing. Trust us! Atmosphere: 5 out of 5
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CRIOLLO [Inside Hotel Monteleone]
Remarkable, Amazing, Incredible, fantastic… We can go on forever with the adjectives. This “state of the art” restaurant embodies excellence. The huge, soft plush seats were enough to seal the deal for us. Everything about this place is just great. Again, we can go on forever. The Seafood Gumbo is highly recommended. Atmosphere: 4.5 out of 5
Hopefully, everyone will give these great hotel restaurants a try for themselves. We had a blast stuffing our bellies to full capacity from doing so. Also, since New Orleans has a generous amount of hotels, your undecided date night location should be reduced tremendously. You’re Welcome! 12
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Interview with
Terrance Osborne 9:20pm...On one of the few cold nights in December, we found ourselves sitting outside of Terrace Osborne’s home preparing for our first interview. To be expected, Terrance’s lovely home stands out with his front door uniquely painted to catch the eye of any pedestrian. After 10 minutes of joking around, we finally agreed that it would be a great idea to get this interview started. Terrance greets us at the door with a huge smile, but we can tell that he had a very long day. He invited us in and offered snacks and drinks (Juice). The inside of his home was decorated with some of his most popular paintings. It was pretty cool to say the least. After a few photos and small talk, we sat at the bar… 19
“I didn’t understand what influence I had because I was born into the culture. When you’re born into something, you don’t fully realize that you were born into it until you leave it and get a different perspective.”
NOLA NIGHTS: In your words, what type of influence does your art have on the city? Terrance Osborne: Well, you know when I was younger I started working on my artwork. I didn’t understand what influence I had because I was born into the culture. When you’re born into something, you don’t fully realize that you were born into it until you leave it and get a different perspective. So I think I was already being influenced by the city and reflecting that, but then it wasn’t until I became an adult that I realized I was just giving the city back what it was giving me so in that sense that would be the influence that I’m having on the city because the city influence me. NOLA NIGHTS: We tried to find it, but we were unsuccessful. Which part of New Orleans did you grow up in? Terrance Osborne: Part of the reason is because I moved all over [laughs], but mostly Treme’. Mostly the 7th ward. I lived on St. Claude Avenue in between Elysian Fields and St. Bernard and then all the way up through Treme’, all the way to St. Bernard housing projects. So that was my little stretch, but my parents moved around a lot. We lived in the East in Michoud at one point. We lived uptown.. just all over. NOLA NIGHTS: When it comes to painting, what kind of creative pattern, routines or rituals do you have? Terrance Osborne: I try not to have any [Laughs] because when I have too many routines or when I get into a pattern it gets mundane and I have to break. But there is some consistency… I get up in the morning,
bring my daughter to school. My 12 year old is home school so he stays here. After bringing my daughter to school, I come back to do any business like, pack any orders that need to go out, and then I start working. I actually work with my 12 year old. I teach him science and art. Then I do my art, …[A loud bark is echoing from the other room. We’re nervous, but Terrance continues]… sometimes I have lunch with my wife. We would either go out for lunch or have lunch here. It just depends on how busy I am at the time. Sometimes I don’t even eat. NOLA NIGHTS: We know what you mean Terrance Osborne: I don’t eat breakfast or lunch. I don’t eat until dinner. Anyways, my daughter gets home, homework with her, give them a bath, bed and get back to painting so I guess mostly I paint in the morning and late at night. I guess there’s a pattern to it NOLA NIGHTS: not really a ritual, just a pattern Terrance Osborne: Well, I have to have music.. that’s like a necessity because if I don’t, I don’t know, I just don’t feel right. Music is that avenue. It puts me there immediately. My creative energy just flows NOLA NIGHTS: This wasn’t one of our questions, but what type of music do you listen to? Terrance Osborne: I get obsessed with an artist and I just listen to them so hard that I got my kids and my wife listening to them. They know all the songs and 20
Without art, I would be - a Botanist everything, but right now I’m listening to Miguel. NOLA NIGHTS: That’s a nice cd Terrance Osborne: Yeah, Miguel and Jason Mraz. Those two artist. I’ve been on them for a minute. A little bit of mystical. Mystical is just awesome NOLA NIGHTS: The “Mind of Mystical” ? Terrance Osborne: All of them! I mean, his first all the way to the end. Mystical is laced in there somewhere [Everyone Laughs] . I know it’s weird but that’s what it is. NOLA NIGHTS: Ok, we read about Richard Thomas in your Bio. How did you guys connect? Terrance Osborne: I was at NOCCA at the time (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts) and a friend of mind brought me to his gallery because I had never met a practicing, working artist until then. I became his apprentice at that point. I ended up working in his gallery as like a trade off. He wasn’t paying me. The payoff was I get to work in the gallery, talk to the clients and be influenced by his artwork. That was good enough for me. He got me started with painting. NOLA NIGHTS: How would you describe your art to the public audience if they have never seen it before? Terrance Osborne: That’s a good question. The easiest thing is that it looks like a pop-up book. A lot of my art I do in relief. Relief meaning it’s raised. I work on wood so I can cut it out with a jigsaw. What you’re seeing around here is a bit more flat, but a lot of it is raised. I use the primary and secondary colours hard. The primary colours you can’t make those by mixing them. Red, yellow and blue and then the secondary colours. The colours that you can mix by using a primary colour.
Your oranges, your greens, and purple. So the primary and secondary colours are used heavily, it makes my paintings seem kind of playful. I think that’s why it appeals to a lot of people because when you look at it, it just makes you feel good. NOLA NIGHTS: ..Feel happy Terrance Osborne: Yeah, it makes you feel happy. There’s enough negativity in the world, You know. Why would you create more of it so I want to see something that makes me feel good and just so happens that a lot of people agree with me. Works for me. NOLA NIGHTS: Which creative medium would you love to pursue, but haven’t yet? Terrance Osborne: Hmm. That’s good. Wow [Terrance Pauses].. Sculpture. I’ve done it to some degree, but not like I want to. It’s usually more flat sculpture. I would love to do like sculpture for gardens you know like public display. I think I would do some nice metal sculptures. NOLA NIGHTS: In life and art, how do you cope with negative situations? Terrance Osborne: Usually I don’t have any. I think we are responsible for making our lives what we want. In some sense whatever you let into your life you’re responsible for dealing with it. So I’ve become a master at only letting things in that I want to be responsible for. So really I don’t have obstacles. Most of them are probably with my artwork. With my art, those are almost like math problems. I just have to work out sometimes until I get to what I want. To me, it’s a language. Every piece that I do is like a word in my vocabulary. The more I work out those obstacles in my work, the broader my language gets and the more I get to speak to you about it. Just like anybody else though, you do your best.
NOLA NIGHTS: What inspires you to keep going and how do you keep yourself motivated?
“I’ve become a master at only letting things in that I want to be responsible for. So really I don’t have obstacles. ”
Terrance Osborne: I work everyday. What keeps me going is that definition of what motivation is – The will to keep going even when you don’t want to.. I do get those days when I’m just overwhelmed with all the work that I have to do, but I could not have it, you know. As far as the things that inspires me, what I do is, even when I’m not doing my artwork, I’m actually doing my artwork because I’m collecting as I go along throughout my life and at some point all those things that I collect start to build up and I don’t know when it’s going to happen. I don’t know when I’m going to get that idea but when it happens, it’s like magic. I get the idea and I’m obsessed with it until I finish the piece. That may be my whole process of becoming inspired. NOLA NIGHTS: The 2012 Jazz Fest poster of Trombone Shorty seems to be a favorite amongst the locals. Did you have any idea that the people would take such a liking to it? Terrance Osborne: No. You never know. It’s always a shot in the dark, but I have confidence about my abilities so I knew that it
NOLA NIGHTS: If you had the power to change anything about the art world, what would it be? Terrance Osborne: One of the main things that has always bothered me is that title “Black Art”. That category just makes no sense to me. We’re Americans. Anywhere we go in the world, we’re going to be Americans. I’m proud of who I am, but I don’t want my work to be in a book in some section under Black Art. It’s just doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t even think, “Let me sit down and do some Black Art” . I can see if I sat down and intended on doing some Japanese art then OK, this is Japanese art [Barks from other room echoes again]. I don’t intend to do Black Art. That title is very limiting. [The Barks are getting louder. We stopped the interview for a minute so Terrance can let his huge Great Dane outside. He has a painting of his dog called “Sir Toaster” named after his dog.]
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Support local art because - what you give comes back to you. Anything local, The more you support it, more of it can be done. You’re preserving the culture. would be good. I just didn’t know how good it would be to everyone else. One of the things that makes a piece successful is when you take something that everybody likes and then you create from it. At that point, everybody is involved. I think this piece is like that. NOLA NIGHTS: Was that the reason you chose Trombone? Terrance Osborne: It wasn’t my choice to use him. Jazz festival picks the subject for the posters every time and it’s what you do with it after that. I think at that time the show “Treme’” was real hot. They thought that I should put Trombone Shorty snug in a Treme’ neighbourhood. That was an easy one, no brainer there. NOLA NIGHTS: “Generator Isaac” This painting was created out of your frustration to find a generator during hurricane Isaac. Tell us, were you successful at finding one? Terrance Osborne: Yeah, well, I found one when we were in Beaumont though. Not here because before we left, I called every store from Mobile to Lafayette looking for a generator and nobody had any. So we drove to Beaumont and stayed for a few days there. We were going to come back down, but I knew I had to find one before we left because I knew we wasn’t going to when we got home. This was the “generator storm.” Everybody stayed with a generator. We went to a few stores and finally found one at Sears. It was the floor model. The lady said we couldn’t buy it because it takes 10 days to ship it, this is just a floor model. So I explained it to her that we needed it and we were on our way back to New Orleans, we really need it. She went talked to the manager and the manager said yes. So we get back home all excited, you know. I put the gas in, but there was NO KEY [we all laughed] .. I
was like, a key for the generator? It was a floor model. [Still Laughing] Luckily, the next day my neighbor told me that there was a generic key so we went to the hardware store and got the key. It was still hot though. Even with the fans it was torturous. Let me grab that painting [He leaves to go grab the painting] NOLA NIGHTS: How long after Isaac did you start painting this piece? Terrance Osborne: I started painting it on the last day that we didn’t have lights. I started painting during the day without electricity. NOLA NIGHTS: Who is the guy in “Never to Return”? What is his emotion? Terrance Osborne: You would think that one was some kind of Katrina related piece, but I did that one preKatrina. I don’t know, maybe at the time I just wasn’t happy. I wasn’t happy with the city, my career. I don’t know, that’s a very early piece. I just wanted to paint something negative. I really don’t quite know. I must of being like in my early 20’s when I painted that. I’m 38 now. That was a while ago. NOLA NIGHTS: Was that you in the painting? Terrance Osborne: Yeah, I guess so.. that was my way of leaving the city, but I didn’t. [Laughs] NOLA NIGHTS: “Hurricane Solutions” – one of our favorites. Explain its message.. Terrance Osborne: Well, after Katrina, I couldn’t paint anything without putting water underneath. Houses, trees, whatever, I just put water. After a while, I got tired of doing that and I wanted to do something that
was a little more upbeat so I started sort of poking fun at the storm. So I was like, let me come up with solutions to the hurricane. Lets solve this thing. So I just started thinking of crazy stuff like, what if we built house in trees? That was the first idea..put the houses on the top of the trees. Then there’s “Hurricane Solutions #2” we put the houses on stilts. So there’s a guy with a hammock under the house then you need a boat because that would be the motor transportation. That’s how they do it in Venice. Then the 3rd one was to put the houses on boats which is the most successful of the Hurricane Solutions. That one is just fun. There’s a chandelier on the first house that use to hang in here when we first moved here. My wife hated that chandelier, but I loved it. I knew I wasn’t going to win that one so I said, “it’s going to stay in this house some kind of way. I’m gonna put it in a painting” so before I took it down I put it in a painting. So yeah, it has a lot of little fun stuff like that in it. Oh and there’s Hurricane Solutions #4 which never made into a print I just did it and it’s in the storage. I put the houses on top of buildings with bridges to connect. It’s a fun one too. Have you seen that one? NOLA NIGHTS: Nope Terrance Osborne: I haven’t push that one too much but it’s a fun one. Terrance Osborne: “Nike Commissions” How did this partnership come about? Terrance Osborne: Well, you know, just out of the blue. They called me after I did my first Jazz Fest poster. I’m guessing because my wife does a lot of business for Gallery Osborne and she does a lot of pushing the website nationally. So I think it was that plus my Jazz Fest poster. Which is a nationally recognized poster. I think those two things push my website to the forefront of Google search for New Orleans’ artist. So Nike just called me one day and told me, “we just Googled New Orleans’ artist and you came up and you were the first one to come up. We went to other artist and other sites and we were like, I like the other artist”
so they kept going back to my site and they finally just said lets go with the first artist we found because that’s the one we like. When they called me, I was like, “I’m. On. The. Phone. With. Nike” I was just as surprised as anybody would be to hear it. It was crazy. So I ended up doing a poster for Nike and then which lead to a tennis shoe also. It was the first New Orleans Air Force One tennis shoe. It has some houses on the side of it and a second line band on the inside part of the shoe with a Fleur de lis on the toe. They made a very short run of them. You had to win them. You couldn’t even buy them. You ever seen them? NOLA NIGHTS: Nope Terrance Osborne: I think my son still has a pair. NOLA NIGHTS: Wow. Well, how did you come up with the painting doors idea? Terrance Osborne: That was my wife’s idea. She had been wanting me to do it for 2 years. When we first got here she was like we need something on the door. I don’t know why, and she said a tree.. I can’t claim that at all. So it took me about two years to finally do it and its been a hit. You can’t miss the house if you’re driving through the neighborhood. NOLA NIGHTS: How do you feel about the Saints’ season this year? Terrance Osborne: My parents weren’t sports people. So I never really got into it until I became an adult. I guess I always been a saints fan, but I’ve never been as emotional about them. You know on Sunday some people, if they win, they’re happy the whole day. If they lose, they’re mad the whole day. I’m not either really. I’m happy when they win of course, but it doesn’t affect my day in that way. So, really, you know….Go Saints! [Everyone Laughs] NOLA NIGHTS: How about the New Orleans Pelicans? What’s your thoughts on the name change from the Hornets? 24
Terrance Osborne: Oh god, don’t even, no, now that’s emotional right there. I hate that. I mean, the Hornets, it’s like, even though “Hornets” have nothing to do with New Orleans, we’ve adopted that team and we’re attached to that name and it just feels like New Orleans. The Pelicans? That our state bird, but I think we’re asking for it. I mean, It’s easy [Everyone is Laughing] ..its just easy, you know. You could grill it & fry it, but yeah, I was asked by a radio station what should it be and I said I think it should be, Cayenne. New Orleans Cayenne. I’ll do the design and everything. A pepper with some flames, make it look kind of mean. The girls could be the “Spice” you know, there’s just so many things we could do. I haven’t heard anybody agree with that idea. No one was like, Pelicans? Yes! That’s such a good idea. NOLA NIGHTS: How do you define success? Terrance Osborne: I think you’re successful if you are doing what you love to do and generating the income
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to sustain that lifestyle. So you have all the tools you need to continue your success. So if I need the best camera on the market to shoot my work, success allows me that so then I can produce the best product. That’s just the technical side of it. For me to be able to create and be successful at it is the other side and probably the final side is that I have people around that I love and love me to sustain that whole lifestyle. I think that’s success. NOLA NIGHTS: What does the future look like for Terrance? Terrance Osborne: Looks good to me, I don’t know [laughs] ..I’m enjoying it now though. I try not to really think about the future. It’s not that I’m moving along blindly. Its more so that I rather be in the present moment so that I can do my best at this point. That’s it.
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