When: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, 6:00 – 6:45 PM
Where: Meet at the corner of Freret and Cadiz
Why: Walk with the officers of the 2nd District to help combat blight and
trouble spots in the Northern portion. Meet the people protecting
your neighborhood!
Bring your friends, families, and neighbors and let’s have a big turnout to help
support your neighborhood! Refreshments to be provided.

UPDATE:

First time ever! Freret Market Unplugged.

Due to the forecast of high winds, the May 12th Freret Market is adjusting to an indoor format.

We will be at 4510 Freret from 12 – 5 with a limited number of gift and food vendors.

Great free live music and tasty beverages still available. Please join us for this once in a lifetime event!
Colin Lake @ noon.
Margie Perez @ 1:45
Juke Box Heros 3:30The Freret Market is held the first Saturday of the month, except July and August, at the intersection of Freret Street and Napoleon Avenue.

The market is split up along three category lines: food, art, and flea. Besides all of the great shopping every week, the market also hosts local restaurants serving up their unique cuisine, live music, and a kids area.

The Freret Market is a place for neighbors to meet, a place to relax and find a unique item, and an important part of the renaissance on Freret Street.

Please come and enjoy everything the Freret Market has to offer.

Come sell your stuff. Come shop. Most importantly, come enjoy yourself!

Two for the Season

Creative lunches and new to the cake scene

If you need a cake to make Mother’s Day extra-special or you just flat-out need a cake for its basically delicious nature, check out Pure Cake. This new start-up on Freret Street was recently opened by business partners Danielle Ross and Monique Landaiche and features a three-tier line of signature confections.

“We are both primarily self-taught bakers who worked in other fields before falling in love with cake design and cake decorating,” Ross says. “We both have a strong belief in doing everything from scratch because we really want to make products that taste as good as they look.”

Standard cakes are three-layer, eight-inch rounds that serve 12-15 people. They stand taller than most, resulting in more cake for the buck.

Flavors range from the classic, like chocolate, to the more exotic, like salted caramel, and there’s a line of top-shelf signature cakes inspired by New Orleans desserts. “The bread pudding cake is one that we are really excited about,” Ross says. Using cake instead of bread, they cut down on the sugar in the custard to level it out, bake it and frost it with whipped cream. For their New Orleans-inspired mocha cream “doberge,” they use a mocha pastry cream in lieu of the traditional chocolate pudding between the layers to make it their own.

Cakes must be ordered in advance, but walk-ins can enjoy the oversized cake pops offered in their display case, which mirror many of their custom cake flavors. “Those have been really popular,” Ross says. “We do those a little differently than other people. Ours are served upside-down, kind of like a candy apple. And we do them a little larger so they are multiple bites – not just a one-bite treat. There is a center in the middle surrounded by cake, which is then dipped in chocolate. We offer filled flavors; for example we do both a white cake with a caramel center that is then dipped in chocolate and our red velvet with its cream cheese frosting center has been popular as well. Cake pops allow us to create a lot of different flavor combinations and give us a palette to play with.”

They also sell four-inch mini-cakes and specialize in wedding cakes, groom cakes and large celebration cakes for any occasion. All this goodness comes out of a space with a total footprint of just 650 square feet. So far the customers’ response has been strong and with this year’s record-setting Freret Street festival, they are well poised to capture the Uptown sweet tooth.

JOIN US this Saturday, May 12th, 5-8p when we open our newest show visages featuring Devin Meyers and Fat Kids sponsored by Yelp.

Devin is a folk artist that works in paints and now sequins and has been know to paint the occasional mural or car. Fat Kids might also be recognized as some of the New Orleans’ street art. Both bring a sense color and vibrancy, often contemplating countenance and face.

Yelp will host many vendors and are sponsoring the evening, DJ and all!

New Hours starting May 4, 2012

Now open on Mondays!
Dat Dog 5030 Freret Street

Monday-Thursday 11am-10pm
Friday-Saturday 11am-Midnight
Sunday Noon-8pm
Outside Dat Dog. [Photo: Amy Jett]

For the hot dog shop itself, the biggest improvement is simply the addition of a whole lot of seating both inside and out. The larger space also allows Dat Dog to expand its drink options by adding wine options, house-made ginger ale and nectar colas, and floats featuring Barq’s root beer and Mexican Coke.  They also are featuring Markham Wine. The New Freret won the Markham Mark of Distinction $25k grant in 2010.

New Orleans, LA – Saturday, May 5th, 2012 @9am.

Jane’s Walk USA is a series of free neighborhood walking tours that helps put people in touch with their environment and with each other, by bridging social and geographic gaps and creating a space for cities to discover themselves.  Since its inception in 2007, Jane’s Walk has happened in cities across North America, and is growing internationally.

No need to sign up . . . just show up at 9am at Freret & Jefferson Ave in front of Village Coffee @ 5335 Freret Street.

Sizes Available: Small, Medium, Large, XL, 2XL

Price: $15

How to get one:
1. You can pick it up locally at Zeus’ Place @ 4601 Freret
2. Pick one up at the next monthly Freret Market (May 12, 2012)
3. Email FreretMarket@gmail.com for mail orders

CALL TO ARTISTS: Our 3rd annual printmaking invitational, COLD DRINK.  A cool, refreshing show that takes the temperature of the current state of printmaking.  Held in our space, the little blue shotgun, in the middle of the Freret commercial corridor, this once a year event provides artists, new and established, great exposure.  And this year we are pleased to have LSU printmaking professor Leslie Koptcho as juror!