This weekend is the kick-off to New Orleans Entrepreneur Week hosted by the Idea Village. Read this weeks story in Gambit to see how Google, Mitch Landrieu and eight teams of MBA students will help some local businesses become well known brands.  The Idea Village will also be hosting open events and workshops for the public.  Check out the schedule here.

On Tuesday, March 23rd from 4-6 at the IP Building, 643 Magazine St.,  Gambit will be hosting a roundtable discussion with some very notable local entrepreneurs.   If you are interested in growing or starting a business, join us for this afternoon discussion on How They Did It, based on the 2009 local best seller.  It would not be a New Orleans event without some food & drink;  Jack& Jake’s will be providing a little organic brain food, Bayou Brew will bring some sweet Southern tea and Big Easy Blends will be sampling some of their spirited Mar-Go-Rita’s.

Limited seating available.  Click here to register for this free event.

Gambit and Ernst Cafe are giving away 10 VIP tickets to this Sunday’s Bacchus Bash to 1 lucky person in our Treat Your Friend’s to Royalty Mardi Gras Giveaway. 1 runner up will also win 4 tickets to Orpheuscapade. We will be notifying the winner by email tomorrow morning. Must be 21 to enter.

Enter here to win. Increase your chances of nabbing a ticket, share with your Facebook friends and tweet your peeps— with the stipulation if they win, you get a ticket too for sharing.

Happy Mardi Gras!

Gambit’s Winter Restaurant Guide is now on the streets, so pick up your copy to have a comprehensive guide of New Orleans eateries listed by cuisine.  We also hit the streets to ask New Orleanians what their favorite restaurant is? See the video here. Is your favorite restaurant represented?

Questionland is a new place for Gambit readers to ask questions, get answers, and share your infinite knowledge with the New Orleans community.

Where is the best place to go for a birthday dinner?

Where would you take a crazy friend coming to town?

Where is the best place to watch the Superbowl besides Miami?

Gambit has our answers- but now we want to hear yours!

Coming soon: Prizes for the best questions, and the “know-it-all” who answer the most in a time period.

So ASK. ANSWER. And feel free to let your curiosity carry you away.

If you heart DJ Pauly D (from MTV’s  Jersey Shore)- line up tomorrow night at 6:00 pm at the Boot to get your tickets to pump your fist on Thurs. Feb 11.

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Traffic Advisory: Avoid Broadway tomorrow evening as 3,545 people are confirmed that they are attending this event via Facebook.

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If GTL is not in your vocabulary and you don’t own anything Ed Hardy, you will be safe on South Peters Street at Republic New Orleans, whose new ads assure us that they will not be paying Snookie a $2,000 appearance fee to show up and drink all of their booze.  

Poor New Jersey.