A Toast to New Orleans and YOU! Week of June 20- 27: Happy Juneteenth-Restaurant and Sazerac Week/ Hamilton at the Saenger/ Round Table Luncheon Celebrating Tales of the Cocktail, Satchmo Summer Fest & Storyville
Good afternoon my darling family and friends. Happy Juneteenth, Monday, June 20! I hope that you all had a lovely Father's Day and remembered those that have departed us and gone to heaven!
“It’s Monday. I’m Happy. I’m Blessed. God is going to do amazing things this week.” “Always believe something wonderful is about to happen." Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall! Have a blessed week. Keep cool and hydrated!
Last week was not too hectic and I started my social week by attending the always-fabulous Inside New Orleans magazine
What a fun evening mingling with business owners and leaders at a lovely reception hosted by Inside New Orleans celebrating its June - July issue created by Greg Creason at the Virgin Hotel.
I enjoyed going on Friday to the first sale of legendary Chris Owen's possessions.
Yes, I was one of those adoring fans that as you can see in the photo made it early on Friday morning to buy a memento of my darling longtime friend legendary Chris Owens. I was so disappointed because I really wanted to buy the hot pink fur that the girl in the first photo bought just before me. I was with Sammy Steele in NYC a few years ago when he bought it for Chris Owens. I always loved it and of course I thought I could buy it at the sale. It was not an auction, and the price was more than what Sammy paid for it, but I am looking forward to checking out the lots that will include the spectacular hats that will be auctioned off by Neal Auction House in July and August.
 | Bourbon Street legend Chris Owens died in April after an astonishingly long career as a nightclub entertainer. The leggy, 89-year-old Latin-style dancer got her start in the French Quarter more www.nola.com |
Margarita Bergen checks out a fur coat during the Chris Owens estate sale at the Occasional Wife store in New Orleans, Friday, June 17, 2022. The Bourbon Street legend Chris Owens died in April at the age of 89. (Photo by Sophia Germer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)
Checking in at the Palm & Pine , NOWFE’ s winner of Best of Show- Savory for the annual Debouche ‘s National Flip Flop luncheon 
The first day of summer in 2022 is Tuesday, July 21, but there's a more precise moment that astronomical summer will begin in the Northern Hemisphere. That's at 5:14 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, which marks the 2022 summer solstice.
Round Table Luncheon Salutes the Summer Festivals and Storyville on Friday, June 24
The next Round Table Luncheon, “Saluting the Summer Festivals and Storyville,” will be held at noon, Friday, June 24 at the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI), located at 725 Howard Avenue, corner of Carondelet Street, in the Central Business District.
Invited guest speakers will be Eileen Wayner, Director of Tales of the Cocktail (July 25-29, 2022), and Sabrina Cutaia, Director of Development for French Quarter Festivals, Inc. and Satchmo SummerFest (August 6-7, 2022).
Also appearing will be talented Marita Woywod Crandle, author of “Josie Arlington's Storyville: The Life and Times of a New Orleans Madam” and “New Orleans Vampires: History and Legend.” Along with her husband, Marita runs the Boutique du Vampyre and a private vampire speakeasy – Potions, in the French Quarter. Entertainment will be talented pianist Jim Walpole and Carl Mack on the drums.
Josie Arlington, “Storyville’s Most Infamous Madam” and her girls, will be resurrected for the Round Table Luncheon Saluting Summer ‘22 and its festivals. The fabulous, very memorable RTL will return, by popular demand to the scenic dining room at NOCHI. The $79 per-person admission is all-inclusive, with Champagne, wines and delicious buffet luncheon included.
Jorge Lauriano Jr., Division Manager at William Grant & Sons, will provide guests with a delicious, refreshing Hendricks Gin Cocktail in honor of the upcoming 2022 Tales of the Cocktail.
The buffet, prepared under the supervision of Chef Philipe LaMancusa, will offer:
Ceasar Salad
Roast Loin of Pork Brabant Potatoes with mushrooms
Crawfish Stuffed Filet Au Sole w/Creole Meuniere sauce
Ratatouille Bananas Foster Bread Pudding and Molten Lava Cakes
To reserve your seat please RSVP to Margarita Bergen via Venmo, Zelle (Chase Bank), or check to Margarita at 811 Marigny Street, Condo C, New Orleans, LA 70117.
Before i share all the upcoming events for this upcoming week, I wanted to share that my longtime friend Nicaragua -born Nora Peters Fine has passed away about a month ago .I just learned yesterday of her ultimately death. Nora will be remembered by all of us who knew and loved her. I was fortunately to had enjoyed her company for years and looked up to her as an inspiration and mentor. She was the mother of David Prejean,(RIP)my darling longtime friend and partner at one of my galleries on Royal Street Her sister beautician guru Lulu Buras died a few years ago.
 | The annual holiday had always been celebrated amongst communities of color but became a federal holiday last summer after Congress passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in June 2021. www.mlive.com |
 | New Orleanians gathered Sunday to commemorate Juneteenth, the celebration of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in 1865, coming together for games, food and music. www.nola.com |
 | On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union Gen. Gordon Granger announced in Galveston that all enslaved people in Texas were now free. www.cbsnews.com |
Have a fabulous week:
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 | ‘By Any Scenes Necessary: Richard III’ “My kingdom for a horse” is a desperate line from Richard III in Shakespeare’s play about his ploy to rule England. www.nola.com |
Performances of Hamilton will play The Saenger Theatre June 21 - July 10, 2022 as part of the current Hancock Whitney Broadway in New Orleans Series.
HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
HAMILTON’s creative team previously collaborated on the 2008 Tony Award ® Winning Best Musical IN THE HEIGHTS.
 | The national touring company of 'Hamilton' brings inventive staging, contemporary musical numbers and a course in American history to the Saenger Theatre starting Tuesday for three weeks. www.nola.com |
 | The Sazerac name goes back to France and a family of the same name that started a winery in about 1600. By 1796, the cognac produced there, Sazerac de Forge & Fils, was being exported to New Orleans. www.nola.com |
 | Summer in New Orleans is a time when restaurants roll out special deals and menus to lure the locals in the off-season. www.nola.com |
‘Women and Power in Ancient Egypt’
Kara Cooney, the author of “When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt” and a professor of Egyptology at UCLA, will give a lecture on Friday, June 24, about women in ancient Egypt, their power and “how women negotiated their limited leadership roles.” The lecture is in relation to the New Orleans Museum of Art’s “Queen Nefertari’s Egypt” exhibition, and attendees will have access to the exhibit. The lecture is at 6 p.m. at NOMA. Tickets are $20 general, $10 NOMA members at noma.org.
 | 2. Sauté shrimp and garlic until shrimp turn pink and are slightly firm. 3. Remove shrimp immediately and place on a paper towel-lined plate to cool. www.theadvocate.com |
 | Lisa Rowley, a mosquito taxonomist with the St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement district, looks at six different species of mosquitoes that came out of one trap on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. www.nola.com |
 | The American Elder Abuse Conference will host a free Slidell workshop for seniors on July 12 so they can learn how to better protect themselves from financial scams, but attendees www.nola.com |
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 | Count them! Seventy-eight debutantes! That’s 6½ dozen young women who will be partying, presented and processing in Carnival courts during the rising 2022-23 deb season. www.nola.com |
 | Head bartender Nicholas Jarrett mixes a drink at Peychaud's, the new bar inside the Hotel Maison de Ville in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. www.nola.com |
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