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Amon Ra's Miss & Mr. America Pageant Sept. 29 the "official" dish by Rip & Marsha Naquin-Delain RipandMarsha.COM E-mail: info@ambushmag.com The Krewe of Amon Ra presents its annual Miss and Mr. America Pageant on Saturday, September 29 at the Marigny Theatre (behind Cowpokes), 2240 St. Claude Ave. in New Orleans. Doors open at 7pm with showtime at 8pm. Entry donation is $20. The krewe is looking for a few hot men and a few campy women as contestants. There is no entry fee. Categories of competition for Miss America include State Costume, Swimwear and Talent. The Mr. America contestants compete in one category only, Swimwear. Winners receive crown, sash and trophy. Pre-registration is required. Contact Opal Masters at 985.892.3324 or opalmasters@aol.com. Proceeds from the pageant go towards the Krewe of Amon Ra Bal Masque XLIII on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at English Turn Country Club. Lords of Leather Presents Flying Down to Rio Sept. 30 The Lords of Leather invites you to join the krewe for Flying Down To Rio, The T-Back Tea Pool Party on Sunday, September 30 from 3-7pm. Hosted at the Lions Inn, 2517 Chartres St., New Orleans, the event promises food, adult beverages and spicy fun. Donation is $15 per person and a canned food or personal hygiene item benefiting Food For Friends. Prizes will be awarded for Best Tan Line, Teeniest Thong, and Best Mrs. Fernando Lamas Look-A-Like, plus a 50/ 50 Raffle. This fund-raiser benefits the Lords of Leather Bal Masque XXV on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at the Alario Center. For more info, visit LordsOfLeather.COM. Valhalla Auditions Oct. 1-3 To Do Productions, fresh off the heels of its rollicking blockbuster Naked Boys Singing, will be holding auditions October 1, 2 and 3 for its next production: Paul Rudnick s Valhalla. Valhalla intertwines two stories: the life of Ludwig of Bavaria, the 1880s mad king responsible for building a series of storybook castles inspired by Wagnerian operas, and the fictional adventures of James Avery, a wild Texas teenager of the 1940s. These two iconoclasts are tracked from childhood through their deaths, and while they embody separate eras, they are ultimately revealed as time-traveling soul mates. The play explores questions of beauty and madness, as both Ludwig and James pursue lives of operatic passion, bringing them in contact with such diverse figures as a high-school quarterback, the prettiest girl in Dainsville, Texas, most of the characters of Lohengrin and Princess Sophie, who declares herself the loneliest humpback in Europe. "Valhalla is a comic epic, confronting the price to be paid for wanting, and getting, everything you dream of." -from Dramatists Play Service To Do Productions is looking for 4 men and 2 women who will play a multitude of roles.auditions will be held at the Marigny Theatre, 1030 Marigny Street, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, October 1, 2, and 3 at 7pm. Satyricon Sponsors Opening Night of Carrie s Facts of Life! Oct. 5 The Mystic Krewe of Satyricon is sponsoring the opening night of Running With Scissors next comedy spoof, Carrie s Facts of Life! opening on Friday, October 5 at 7pm at One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse Street. All tickets for this performance are $20 and may be obtained by calling 504.525.4498. For all other performances, please call 504.606.9903. The Krewe of Satyricon Bal Masque VI is Sunday, January 26, 2008 at the Sugar Mill. Visit MysticKreweofSatyricon.COM for additional information. Art For Arts Sake Presents Four New Exhibitions Opening October 6 at The Ogden Museum The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents the Name Change project, which was started around 1970 by McGowin. Frustrated by the art world s prescriptive requirements that artists work and careers must follow a linear trajectory, he explored a new theory in order to free himself. To demonstrate this theory McGowin changed his name legally twelve times in the District of Columbia court system. For each name he created works of art and exhibited them at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1972. For the past thirty-five years he continued to create works for the eleven names. As part of Art For Arts Sake, the Ogden exhibition on the fifth floor of the Museum will display each of the artist s eleven silkscreen pieces replicating the legal documents representing the eleven changes to his name. They will be accompanied by work created by each of the twelve personas. Continuing in the galleries of the fifth floor will be a collection of Thornton Modestus Dossett, the eighth of McGowin s personas. According to McGowin, Dossett was then a 34-year-old, full-time frontend loader operator at the American Sand and Gravel Company, who used self-induced trance states to achieve his works of art. As this exhibition demonstrates, Dossett continues to work and is one of the most prolific of the eleven artists created by McGowin. Ogden Museum Director J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D., says, McGowin was one of the most advanced artists active in the 1970s. And he still is. His Name Change concept, which continues today, was and is ahead of its time. He sought to escape modernist prescriptions and succeeded. He also anticipated the pluralism and breakdown of personality as well as the invention of persona that postmodern brought about. A book, Ed McGowin: Name Change, with an essay by Museum Director J. Richard Gruber Ph.D., will be available in the Museum store. Art and Paradise: Self-Taught Art Selections from the Permanent Collections of Ed McGowin and Claudia DeMonte It took 25 years and thousands of road miles, mainly backroads of the Southern U.S., for McGowin and DeMonte to build their collection of self-taught art. Their primary goal was to meet the artists. Collecting was a byproduct and there was never a consistent theme dictating their choices. As DeMonte says, This group of works is not a survey of Outsider Art but the result of a personal quest to understand art-making. If anything, the collection demonstrates a common theme within selftaught art repetition. In some cases, it is the obsessive repetition of a technique that is demonstrated by the artist. In others it is theme often religious, erotic or centered on daily life. All of the artists in the exhibition are Southern and include Jimmy Lee Sudduth, who passed away recently at the age of 97, Mary Smith, Howard Finster and Pappy Kitchens. This is New Orleans chance to see the collection that has toured Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. Richard Sexton: Terra Incognita Recent hurricanes brought America s third coast more fully into the country s consciousness. Richard Sexton, along with many Southerners, knows the Gulf Coast intimately. The exhibition, Terra Incognita, will appeal to lovers of fine photography and particularly to those who appreciate landscapes. But most of all, it will be cherished by anyone who spent time running through the dunes or lush forests and tropical landscapes of this beautiful and sometimes stark area. In the early 90s, shortly after moving from San Francisco to New Orleans, Richard Sexton began making black & white landscape photographs of the Gulf Coast. 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