Red Dress Run and Dirty Linen Night top this weekend's things to do in New Orleans

Thursday

🥒 Drew Brees' Pickle Fest, a festival-style pickleball tournament, begins today and continues through Sunday with parties, play and music. (Details)

🍴 COOLinary deals are ongoing through the month, so find a dinner partner and get out there. (Details)

🖼️ It's also Museum Month. Members at any participating museum get free admission to the others on the list all through August. (Details)

Friday

🌟 HexFest is a conference for witches, rootworkers, Voodoo priests and other magical teachers, the website says. Events go through Sunday. (Details)

🧀 BargeBoard in Algiers Point has a fine art and food festival starting at 5:30pm. (Details)

🥇 The Olympics wind down this weekend, so check out the watch party at Tracey's Original Irish Channel Bar. (Details)

Saturday

🍒 The Red Dress Run is back, raising money for the New Orleans Hash House Harriers' donations to local nonprofits. (Details)

🩶 You've had White Linen Night, so now it's Dirty Linen Night. The French Quarter's answer to last week's party takes over Royal Street from 6-9pm. (Details)

🪴 Get plants that bite back by learning how to build your own carnivorous garden at We Bite's workshop. (Tickets)

🎨 See artwork by young New Orleanians created through StudioBE's summer program, Eternal Seeds, at a showcase at the New Orleans Jazz Market. (Details)