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4 the "official" dish by Rip & Marsha Naquin-Delain Oz Presents 48th Annual Bourbon Street Awards Sponsored by Bud Light The 48th annual Bourbon Street Awards, the ultimate costume contest, is set for Mardi Gras Day, February 21 at 12noon. Since 2002, Oz New Orleans has presented the contest which now takes place outside Oz in the 800 block of Bourbon Street down from Ambush Headquarters at 828 Bourbon. Johnny Chisholm and Oz New Orleans with the generous sponsorship of Bud Light, brings us this fantastic contest. Award categories include: Best Drag, Best Leather, Best Group and the grandest award, Best of Show with 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category. A $500 cash prize is also awarded to Best Overall Costume. Celebrity emcees will feature the talents of mega circuit star Bianca Del Rio and Oz s own Blanche Debris. The parade of costumes will originate down Bourbon at Dumaine passing both Cafe Lafitte in Exile and Clover Grill, the original site of the awards, heading past Ambush Headquarters towards Oz at 800 Bourbon. The Bourbon Street Awards, well into its fourth decade, has hosted some of the most exciting and extravagant Mardi Gras costumes ever seen, and a bit of controversy as well. The 48th Annual Bourbon Street Awards will be The Best Free Show of Mardi Gras. For more information, visit GayMardiGras.COM. In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar Book Signing Feb. FAB In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar is the first comprehensive treatment of the history of gay New Orleans. Drawn primarily on the recollections of dozens of gay men and women, Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist weave a fascinating narrative of how gay New Orleans evolved throughout the twentieth century. FAB: Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, 600 Frenchmen Street will host a book signing with auithor's Perez and Palmquist on Thursday, February 16 from 7 to 8pm. A perfect reflection of the French Quarter, In Exile brings history to piquant, steamy, and always-fascinating life. The Quarter is a place like no other, and with the publication of In Exile, there s now a book about its history like no other. Rick R. Reed, award-winning author of Caregiver A true look into New Orleans Gay History and Café Lafitte s role in it. Ken GranPré, General Manger Wood Enterprises, Café Lafitte Even further back than the oldest gay publication in the South, an exciting read... Ambush Magazine Showing the incredible and previously unrecognized contributions gay people have made to New Orleans culture, In Exile illuminates the darkness where gay people lived secret double-lives for decades and chronicles the social forces that enabled gay New Orleanians to live openly and honestly. Learn how homophobia led to the founding of the nation s oldest gay bar, the origins of gay Carnival culture, and how Southern Decadence, one of the largest gay festivals in the world, began as an impromptu house party by a handful of bored college students. inside celebrazzi 6 community within communities 12 obits, under the gaydar 14 king cake queen xix 17 snap paparazzi/amon-ra ball 18 snap paparazzi/nola, chalmette 20 on the prowl 24 baton rouge, news 26 Written with graceful insight and thoughtful perception, In Exile is not only a captivating history book, it is a beautiful meditation on the intersection of place and identity. Author Frank Perez grew up in Louisiana and now lives in the French Quarter where he is a barfly at The Café Lafitte in Exile. Author Jeffrey Palmquist grew up in South Dakota and now lives in the French Quarter where he is a bartender at The Café Lafitte in Exile. In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar will be available Feb. 10 in print and several ebook formats including Kindle and NOOK and found at many print and ebook online retailers including Rainbowebooks.com. Visit the In Exile page at LL- Publications: LL- Publications is an independent publisher based in Scotland specializing in genre and literary titles in both print and ebook formats since Gay Mardi Gras Ball/Events Schedule Thursday, February 2nd... ~8pm- 1am, 23 rd annual Brigid Ball: 20,000 Faeries Under the Sea, Ironworks Building, New Orleans Saturday, February 4th...~8pm, 19th King Cake Queen Coronation, presenting King Cake Queen XIX of Gay Mardi Gras Nicole DuBois, by invitation only, New Orleans Friday, February 10th...~8pm, Giant Mardi Gras Ambush out Feb. 14th DEADLINE: Fri., Feb. 3rd snap paparazzi/apollo br ball 28 classifieds 30 ambush paparazzi/new orleans 34 trodding the boards 35 pride new orleans 36 pensacola paparazzi 38 ambush paparazzi/nola 40 chop chop/the country club 41 Gulf South Entertainment/Travel Guide Since A Bourbon St. New Orleans, LA marsha@ripandmarsha.com 4 The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM Jan. 31-Feb. 13, 2012 Official ficial Gay Mardi di Gras Guide GayMardiGras.COM Krewe of Satyricon Bal Masque X, The Sugar Mill, New Orleans Friday, February 17th...~9pm- 12midnight, Friday Night Before Mardi Gras Extravaganza XIII, Audubon Tea RoomNew Orleans ~10pm-2am, Lords of Leather present Night of the Black Mask: The South s Oldest Leather Block Party, Phoenix/Eagle, Elysian N. Rampart, New Orleans Saturday, February 18th...~9pm, Krewe of Armeinius Bal Masque XLIV, Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center, New Orleans Sunday, February 19th... ~8pm, Lords of Leather Bal Masque XXVIII, Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center, [continued on 8] THE OFFICIAL MAG Facebook.COM/AmbushMag Gulf South Entertainment/Travel Guide Since 1982 Louisiana-Florida Official Gay Easter Parade Guide Official Gay Mardi Gras Guide Official Gay New Orleans Guide Official Southern Decadence Guide OFFICE/SHIPPING ADDRESS: 828-A Bourbon St., New Orleans, LA USA OFFICE HOURS: 10am-3pm Monday-Friday [Except Holidays] marsha@ripandmarsha.com PHONE: ANNUAL READERSHIP OVER 1 MILLION: 260,000+ in print/780,000+ On-line CIRCULATION: Alabama-Mobile Florida - Pensacola Louisiana - Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Metairie, New Orleans, Slidell Mississippi - Bay St. Louis, Biloxi STAFF: PUBLISHER/EDITOR R. Rip Naquin-Delain, New Orleans PRODUCTION DIRECTOR M. 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