Toups Family Meal (TFM), Chef Isaac and Amanda Toups’ non-profit and mission for change dedicated to providing food security for families in need, is hosting its First Annual Pumpkin Drive. This event will take place on Saturday, October 5th, from 1PM-5PM with the goal of bringing a little seasonal sweetness to 500 children and families in need by delivering 500 free big pumpkins and festive decorating kits. 

Volunteer delivery drivers will set out in their vehicles filled with pumpkins and decorating kits; a mobile pumpkin patch. These festive gifts will be distributed  throughout New Orleans. 

What began as a grassroots effort in March 2020 to provide meals during the COVID-19 crisis has evolved into a dedicated organization committed to addressing hunger. To date, TFM has served over 175,000 meals and continues its efforts through initiatives like the summer meal program. For additional information or to support this cause, visit www.toupsfamilymeal.com. To donate, click here. To register to be a volunteer driver, click here. Follow Toups’ Family Meal on social media @toupsfamilymeal
 
The Toups Family Meal First Annual Pumpkin Drive will begin at the TFM distribution facility,  located at 845 North Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans. The truck will depart at 1PM and distribute throughout the city until 5PM.

The Substance
​(dir. Coralie Fargeat)
Review by Jeff DeRouen

As a good gay, I’m here for an acting swing from Demi Moore and happy to lay my money down to experience the magic that made her one of the nineties biggest stars.

I’d heard The Substance was not typical “I’m back” fair, that writer/director Coralie Fargeat had crafted something special, and that Demi Moore gives a brave, compelling performance. Holy moly – what an understatement. This is a momentous work inspired by the likes of Cronenberg and Kubrick and absolutely one of the most batsh*t movies I have ever seen.

Moore plays an aging fitness star who takes a secret serum and splits in two – her younger and older self. They are both HER and she must change bodies every week or complications take place (and I wouldn’t dream of giving you any more details than that).

The Substance is a sci-fi/body horror allegory where Fargeat lays bare her view of how
society affects women giving us top notch gore and career-best performances from both
Demi Moore AND Margaret Qualley.

It’s a riveting, unsettling, hilarious, and absolutely disgusting sci/fi body horror masterpiece that must be seen with an audience in a theater – I can’t wait to go again.