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THU. JAN. 12 | American Wrestlers’ Goodbye Terrible Youth (Fat Possum) is songwriter Gary McClure’s distorted Dear John to his younger vision of the world. Chicago’s Ne-Hi counters with the jangly pop anthem “Stay Young” from its forthcoming 2017 LP Offers. New Orleans artist To Be Loved, who unveiled glassy post-disco and bedroom-pop R&B on 2016’s promising EP Age, opens at 8 p.m. at Hi-Ho Lounge.

JINKX MONSOON, AKA JERICK HOFFER, WON SEASON FIVE OF RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE largely by

virtue of comedic and theatrical talents. That was a surprise to some fans given the show’s emphasis on glamour, fashion runways and lip syncing. “People who watch the show like glamour and the over-thetop nature of it,” Hoffer says via phone from Seattle. “I was prepared for the (reality TV show’s) challenges from watching previous seasons. I knew they’d focus on my fashion. I was a broke college student and just starting to make my name in Seattle. If they made fun of the things I wore on the TV show, they should have seen what I left behind.” On the show, Monsoon improved her fashion sense and delivered memorable moments, such as an impersonation of a flighty Little Edie, the Jacqueline Kennedy cousin who was discovered living in relative seclusion with her aunt on a rundown estate in East Hampton, New York — captured in the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, which later was the basis of a Broadway musical. Hoffer was drawn to Edie’s disconnection from reality. Hoffer created a similarly odd but driven character, Miss Kitty Witless, an old time singer living in current times, for The Vaudevillians, staged Saturday, Jan. 14, at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. “Kitty Witless is an amalgamation of all the female characters of the 1920s,” Hoffers says. “She’s a ditzy blond who doesn’t say words correctly. She plays dumb until she gets pissed off, and when she’s pissed off she becomes an evil genius.”

TUE. JAN. 10 | Reprising both their 2012 arena throw-down and last year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival dust-up, Anthony Kiedis and company continue their New Orleans brass shine with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. Jack Irons — the Chili Peppers’ founding drummer — opens at 7 p.m. at Smoothie King Center.

White Rabbit Red Rabbit In The Vaudevillians, Hoffer and performing partner Major Scales, aka Richard Andriessen, are performers who were buried in an avalanche, preserved frozen and revived in current times. With Hoffer in a flapperesque dress, they look like they should be singing songs like “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” Instead, Scales puts a ragtime-y touch on songs that audiences soon recognize as pop tunes, such as Madonna’s “Music,” and songs by Janis Joplin, Britney Spears and Daft Punk. It shouldn’t surprise Drag Race fans that Jinkx has a background in theater. Around the time she appeared on Drag Race, she starred as the transgender title character in the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and as Angel in Rent. But Hoffer also has played many classical roles and The Vaudevillians was hatched when he and Andriessen performed in Thornton Wilder’s classic, Our Town. “We were both playing really boring roles in Our Town,” Hoffer says. “I played Joe Crowell, the paper boy who dies early in the show. Major Scales played Simon Stimson, the alcoholic choir director, who is clearly gay. It was the whole thing of being stuck in a small town in the early

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1900s. We were like, ‘What would it be like if two characters like us lived back then?’ And what if those characters came to these times?” The first version of The Vaudevillians featured some old songs and improvisation, but it evolved into a mostly set show full of pop tunes. Jinkx’s exposure on Drag Race enabled them to perform it across the U.S. and in London, and they debuted a sequel in New York in 2015. Hoffer also tours as Jinkx, both solo and on tours featuring contestants from Drag Race. Hoffer’s first visit to New Orleans was on such a tour stop.

THU.-FRI. JAN. 12-27 | Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s unique work explores isolation, censorship and manipulation in a work the actor sees for the first time on stage. Performers include Kathy Randels (Jan. 12) and Lisa D’Amour (Jan. 13). At 8 p.m. at St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.

Houston Person FRI. JAN. 13 | The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Jazz and Civil Rights Movement concert tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. features renowned hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist Houston Person, the Herlin Riley Quintet and an appearance by singer Leah Chase. At 7 p.m. at Dillard University’s Lawless Memorial Chapel.

You Don’t Know the Half of It SUN. JAN. 15 | Cecile Monteyne’s comedy show, which joins actors working with a script and improvising comedians, celebrates its fifth anniversary. Contibutors include comedians Ian Hoch and Mike Spara, actor Michael Krikorian, writers Lisa D’Amour, Michael Aaron Santos and many others and there’s music by You Don’t Know the Band. At 7:30 p.m. at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre.

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New Orleans is adding 55 new traffic cameras in 2017 (to go with the 66 already installed). The city says it’s a matter of safety. What do you think?

The number of states that raised their minimum wage as of the new year. LOUISIANA IS ONE OF ONLY FIVE STATES WITH NO MINIMUM WAGE LAW of its own, observing only the $7.25 federal minimum wage for nontipped workers. (Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee are the other four.) As of Jan. 1, however, 19 states raised their minimum wages, either by legislative means, ballot initiatives or previously agreed-to cost-of-living hikes. The states with the highest mandated minimum wage are Massachusetts and Washington ($11 per hour), while Washington D.C. stands at $11.50, higher than any state. California, Connecticut, Arizona and Vermont are the four other states where minimum wage is $10 per hour or higher, though some cities like Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle have enacted minimum wage laws higher than that of the rest of their state. Gov. John Bel Edwards supports a minimum wage hike in Louisiana (in 2016, he backed a bill by State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson to raise it to $8.50 by 2018), but minimum-wage bills traditionally have been a non-starter in the state legislature. This leaves Louisiana in the minority; as of the first of the year, 29 states and Washington D.C. have enacted higher minimum wages than that specified by federal law. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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NOLA ChristmasFest donated more than 160,000 square feet of carpeting used at its 2016 event at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center to Habitat ReStore to support Habitat for Humanity. The 15-day annual event started in 2013 and includes a carousel, carnival rides, a skating rink and other attractions.

Louisiana ranked 46th overall and 49th among U.S. states and Washington D.C. in public school achievement in a January report from Education Week. It’s the third year in a row that our state landed near last place on the report. In the overall ranking we finished with a score of “D+” this time (the national average is a C) — and we received a failing grade for K-12 achievement.

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In regard to the city’s new traffic cameras (see above) “Why not just ticket people who do not use their turn signals?? I’m guessing a LOT more than $5 million would be generated. Add tickets to people who block sidewalks when they park and we could substantially up the city coffers.” — tah

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Something to add to your New Year’s resolutions: Stop speeding — or at least keep an eye out for the 55 new “traffic safety cameras” City Hall will deploy in school zones in early 2017. That’s almost a doubling of the current number of cameras, which total 66. The additions were announced in October as part of the 2017 municipal budget and were approved by the New Orleans City Council in November. They are expected to reap $5 million in revenue for the city. The rollout was scheduled for Jan. 9. Revenue wasn’t mentioned in the city’s press release announcing the installations, which stated that the goal of the new cameras was “to deter red light violations, reduce speeding violations, increase traffic situational awareness and reduce collision severity.” Forty-five of the new cameras will be placed at 32 locations around town, while the other 10 new cameras are mobile units that can be deployed as needed. Municipal fines for speeding in New Orleans range from $157.50 (1 to 9 miles per hour over the posted limit) to $282.50 (15 to 20 miles per hour over the posted limit). Anyone exceeding the speed limit by 20 miles per hour or more must make a court appearance.

2. Dire projections for Louisiana coast

Louisiana could lose 4,000 square miles of its coast, doubling projected losses from a similar scenario posed just five years ago. Louisiana officials released their 2017 “Coastal Master Plan,” a blueprint for restoration projects spanning the next several decades, and revealed dire prospects for the coast while proposing the restoration of up to 800 miles of wetlands and the construction of levee and floodwall protection. The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority outlines 120 coastal restoration projects worth $50 billion, including marsh creation through dredging, sediment diversions and other projects. Its Flood Risk and Resilience Program outlines floodproofing more than 1,400 buildings and elevating more than 22,000. Local and national environmental coalition Restore the Mississippi River Delta — which includes the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, the Lake Pontchartrain

Basin Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and National Audubon Society — said there is “no more significant charge facing our state than the urgent need to respond effectively” to the coast. “As seas continue to rise and land continues to sink, we need to put our existing resources to work wisely, and quickly, to maintain as much of the Louisiana we all know and love,” the group wrote in a statement. “This master plan process advances a strategy grounded in the best available science that balances coastal restoration and protection activities — and is realistic about the coastal challenges we face.” The group encourages the state to use sediment diversions and continue to rebuild and protect barrier islands.

A new year, a new Congress The 115th U.S. Congress was sworn in Jan. 3 in Washington, D.C. — bringing with it the first day of

work for newly minted U.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy, the former Louisiana state treasurer who beat Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell in the December 2016 runoff. U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, who has two years of service under his belt, now is Louisiana’s senior senator, and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise of Metairie retains his title of Majority Whip of the House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, Louisiana’s only Democrat in Congress, was named chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The Senate Republican majority also announced committee assignments, including a spot on the Senate Appropriations Committee for Kennedy. Chairs will be chosen by the various committees. Here’s where Louisiana’s senators will be spending time: Cassidy: Energy & Natural Resources; Finance; Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Joint Economic Committee; Veterans Affairs Kennedy: Appropriations; Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs; Budget; Judiciary; Small Business & Entrepreneurship

DOJ issues harsh report on Louisiana nursing facilities Within the space of one month, Louisiana was the subject of two massive, devastating reports from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — one outlining dozens of civil rights violations and unconstitutional arrests by police departments in Evangeline Parish, and another detailing how the state effectively traps mentally ill people in nursing facilities because of the state’s lack of community-based mental health services. Louisiana leaves many people with serious mental illness with few if any options to receive care in their own communities, leaving about 4,000 people with serious mental illness in nursing homes. Those residents are largely younger and require less nursing care than typical nursing home residents. “Louisiana residents with mental illness who can and want to live in their own homes and communities deserve the chance to do so,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. The report found that “many people who rely on state services do not know that they could choose community-based services instead of nursing facilities because the state has not told them about these services.” The report found that nearly 15 percent of people in Louisiana’s

nursing homes are diagnosed with a serious mental illness; many people in those facilities arrived there from psychiatric hospitals. From 2010-2014, state hospitals also discharged more than 150 people with mental illness into nursing homes.

Times-Pic building going before City Planning Commission The group of local investors who bought the former Times-Picayune building last year are requesting mixed-use zoning from the New Orleans City Council — suggesting yet another major redevelopment in the works along the Pontchartrain Expressway. The request is scheduled to be heard by the City Planning Commission Jan. 10 prior to a final decision by the City Council. The 9-acre property at 3800 Howard Avenue housed The Times-Picayune from the late 1960s until printing moved out of state in 2016. It was sold in September to a development group called 3800 Howard Investors LLC, which included developer Joe Jaeger, Barry Kern of Mardi Gras World and Arnold Kirschman, who recently redeveloped the 4500 block of Freret Street, according to a report in The New Orleans Advocate. The group does not specify its intentions for the property in its application, but says that mixeduse zoning will help pave the way for the future project. Construction on the unspecified project would begin this spring and last six to nine months, the letter says. City planners who evaluated the request note they, too, are in the dark about the nature of the project, but the exclusion of businesses or offices leads them to assume “that residential development would likely be a major component of any future redevelopment of the site.” The proposal may face an uphill battle, however, as the city planning staff is recommending against it for a variety of reasons, calling it “too intense for this physically isolated site, given the limited surrounding infrastructure, and the fact that the site is not easily accessible for vehicles or pedestrians.” The request, the staff notes, contradicts the city’s master plan. The proposal is one of several pending along the Pontchartrain Expressway on the edge of the Central Business District. Jaeger is involved in the proposed expansion of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and the redevelopment of the Market Street power plant, according to The Advocate’s September report, and Kern is planning an indoor trampoline facility nearby on Earhart Boulevard.

SilenceIsViolence — the anti-violence group that formed in the wake of the murders of Dinerral Shavers and Helen Hill — will mark the 10th anniversary of its inaugural rally and honor the lives lost to gun violence over the last decade during a memorial at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, outside City Hall. Shavers, a music program director and drummer for the Hot 8 Brass Band, was killed Dec. 28, 2006. Hill, a filmmaker and artist, was killed in her home a week later on Jan. 4, 2007. The murders sparked protests citywide, including a march and rally at City Hall on Jan. 11, 2007, demanding city officials provide equal protection for all New Orleans neighborhoods.

Shattering news: No more glass recycling This week marks the end of glass recycling pickup in the French Quarter and Downtown Development District after a year of curbside service in the neighborhood. The city says it can “no longer justify the cost of the program to taxpayers” after “low participation” from eligible properties. The last day for curbside pickup is Jan. 12. Curbside recycling returned downtown in 2014. But in the first several months after the city expanded its recycling program to accept glass last fall, less than 1 percent — only about 40 of more than 4,000 eligible properties — were using the service. The city contracted Empire Janitorial Sales & Services for downtown trash pickup in 2014, charging households $2.27 a month for trash and recycling pickup. Monthly sanitation charges bumped up to $3.50 when glass was added. Now, however, glass can be recycled citywide, but only at a drop-off point. Beginning Jan. 14, glass will be accepted at monthly drop-offs at 2829 Elysian Fields Ave. from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month. People can bring up to 20 pounds of glass in addition to other accepted recyclable materials (including most paper products, No. 1-7 plastics, metals, Mardi Gras beads, batteries, light bulbs and electronics).

8. A sharp Blow at Tulane Charles M. Blow, the veteran New York Times columnist and Louisiana native whose recent work has been an extended blistering screed against the proposed policies and character of President-elect Donald

9. Sidney Torres’ TV show debuts March 1

New Orleans’ real estate mogul, garbage guru, self-described “serial entrepreneur” (and possible mayoral candidate?) Sidney Torres IV has had more than one TV project in the works, but his first — an investment reality show called The Deed — premieres March 1 at 9 p.m. on CNBC. Based on the trailer, it features Torres advising property buyers. The network promoted The Deed with the Twitter hashtag #DoTheDeedWithSidney.

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City Park bike path breaks ground New Orleans City Park breaks ground on its 1-mile Marconi Bike/ Pedestrian Path Jan. 10. The path connects Robert E. Lee Boulevard to an existing bike route on Harrison Avenue. Construction is expected to end by summer. It’s funded in part by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and the Federal Highway Administration. Bark Kleinpeter Inc. designed the path, and Command Construction Industries will build it at a cost of $698,888. The $20 million bridge construction on neighboring Wisner Boulevard — which has been closed since late 2015 — is expected to conclude this year. The bridge will include bike and pedestrian lanes.

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SilenceIsViolence to mark 10th anniversary

9 Trump, will lead a dialogue on “The Intersection of Social Justice and Journalism” on Jan. 16. The conversation is part of the Conversations in Color series presented by the Amistad Research Center and the Tulane University Office of Multicultural Affairs. Blow, who also has written about social justice, racial inequality and the Black Lives Matter movement, has been one of The Gray Lady’s most outspoken critics of the incoming administration, calling Trump an “unstable, unqualified, undignified demagogue.” During his New Orleans appearance, he’ll touch on a broader range of topics, including race relations, journalists as “change agents” and the use of social media by social justice movements. The conversation takes place at 7 p.m. at Kendall Cram Lecture Hall in Tulane’s Lavin-Bernick Center. It’s free and open to the public, but seating is limited — advance registration is encouraged.

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A violent start

FOURTEEN HOURS AND 22 MINUTES. THAT’S HOW LONG NEW ORLEANS WAS INTO 2017 BEFORE IT HAD ITS FIRST MURDER , when someone shot

a Mid-City man to death in his front yard on New Year’s Day. In the first three days of the year, New Orleans saw seven shootings. At that rate, we’ll have more than 600 shootings this year — even more than the bloody year of 2016. Chicago made national headlines last week for its horrific murder rate in 2016; 762 people there were killed — more than two per day. On New Year’s Eve, Chicagoans brought traffic to a halt on Michigan Avenue with a somber parade of wooden crosses, each bearing the name of a Chicago

New Orleans has a much higher per capita murder rate than Chicago. murder victim in 2016. That attracted the attention of President-elect Donald Trump, who tweeted, “Chicago murder rate is record-setting — 4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016. If Mayor [Rahm Emanuel] can’t do it he must ask for Federal help!” Sadly, New Orleans has a higher per capita murder rate than Chicago, with more than 40 murders per 100,000 residents in 2015 (more than double that of Chicago’s per capita rate that same year). “The recent rise in gun violence here is real and very terrifying,” local crime analyst Jeff Asher wrote in November, shortly after a shooting on Bourbon Street killed one man and injured nine other people. Asher is pessimistic about 2017, for one main reason: Shootings are up. Two of the first

An NOPD officer stretches tape across the scene of a violent crime. PHOTO BY CREATIVE COMMONS/ DEREK BRIDGES

seven shootings in the city this year happened in daylight — within a mile of NOPD headquarters. “The number of shootings is a good predictor of the murder rate [to come],” Asher told Gambit last week. According to his numbers, 35 to 37 percent of shootings in New Orleans are fatal, and there were nearly 500 shootings in 2016 — a 24 percent increase from 2015. “All the alarm bells that should be going off” to indicate a rise in violent crime are there, Asher says. Worse, he adds, there’s not much officials can do, at least in the short term. The gains of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s NOLA For Life program, announced with great fanfare in 2012, were real, but they have largely receded. “We’ve seen the city’s strategy work the first time,” Asher says, “but gun violence is going to be an issue for the next mayor — as it’s been an issue for every mayor since the 1970s.” For every New Orleans shooting that makes national news — the Mother’s Day second line shooting of 2013, for example, or any shootings on Bourbon Street — there literally are hundreds of others that fade into statistics, except for the lifelong heartache and pain they bring to the families and friends of the dead. — The group SilenceIsViolence (www.silenceisviolence.org), which was founded in 2007 after the murders of musician Dinerral Shavers and filmmaker Helen Hill, will hold its 10th anniversary victims’ memorial on the steps of New Orleans City Hall at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11. Members will read the name of each person lost to violence in New Orleans in 2016.

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the Legislature was Mike Foster, a Republican who faced Democratic legislative majorities. Times were different then. The Legislature back then was nowhere near as partisan as it is now, and Foster, a former state senator, proved himself a skilled policy maker. He helped pass the Stelly Plan — one of Louisiana’s most significant tax reforms — in 2002. Sadly, that reform was undone under Govs. Blanco and Jindal. Fast forward to today. A nonpartisan task force on budget and taxation issued a report in November calling for sweeping — and entirely familiar — reforms, but by most accounts it’s dead on arrival in the House, thanks largely to GOP opposition. So far, House Republican leaders have no alternate plan. Hanging in the balance are Louisiana’s public universities, hospitals and the popular TOPS scholarship plan, which collectively touch the lives of many thousands of Louisianans. Unless lawmakers reverse the tax cuts handed out willy-nilly by Team Jindal, those same entities — already gutted recently — will see more cuts. Much like the reforms proposed by the task force, we’ve seen this storyline before. Edwards’ challenge is to change how it ends.

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out floods and mass shootings. Instead, some of the governor’s leading Republican adversaries will try to shoot down his fiscal reform efforts. Our state constitution prohibits lawmakers from changing tax laws during regular legislative sessions in even-numbered years. That’s why Edwards called two special sessions last year to deal with former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s $2 billion deficit. (Remember: Jindal inherited a $1 billion surplus from Gov. Kathleen Blanco.) Between a hodgepodge of temporary tax hikes and the expansion of Medicaid, Edwards and lawmakers raised about $1.7 billion last year. That still wasn’t enough, even though they also cut several hundred million dollars in spending. This year, Edwards and lawmakers have a chance to enact some real fiscal reform, but the odds are against it — mostly for political and ideological reasons. For starters, Republicans control both the House and Senate, and Edwards is a Democrat. Many but not all GOP lawmakers seem perfectly willing to let the state go down in flames if it means handing Edwards a political “loss.” In fairness, many other GOP lawmakers are willing to work with the governor to inject some sanity into the state’s budget and tax process. That’s especially true in the Senate. In the House, not so much — and all tax measures must begin in the House. Also in fairness, even when the Legislature was less partisan, too many lawmakers were loath to enact fiscal reform. That sad fact reflects both the complexity of any state’s tax code and the strength of entrenched special interests, from big business to big oil to local governments and many others. To complicate matters further, passing tax legislation requires a two-thirds supermajority in both legislative chambers. That’s always difficult. The last governor to steer meaningful tax reform through

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Hey Blake, Gilmore Park is on Laurel Street on either side of State Street. Why is it there? Someone told me it was the site of a market. Can you help me solve this mystery? TOM

Dear Tom, Gilmore Park is a “pocket park,” a green space that’s just the right size to be enjoyed by its neighborhood residents. Geographer Richard Campanella explains that the two tiny strips of land that make up the park are remnants of what once was the LeBreton plantation. A third of the plantation was sold and subdivided in 1836 and became an area called Bloomingdale. It was divided into quirky patterns and elongated blocks, Campanella explains in his book Time and Place in New Orleans. Those blocks line up with the borders for the plantation. “Odd angles and kinks in Laurel Street (for Gilmore Park)

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and Annunciation Street line up with the otherwise-erased upper and lower Bloomingdale lines,” he writes. According to several sources, after the Civil War, the area was a public open-air market frequented by farmers. When the area became more residential, the market was phased out. In 1903, the park was named for Samuel L. Gilmore, a New Orleans native who at the time served as city attorney. In 1909, Gilmore was elected to Congress from Louisiana’s 2nd District but served for less than a year. He died in July 1910. His daughter was Martha Gilmore Robinson, a force in New Orleans civic life and preservation efforts from the 1930s until her death in 1981. She was a founder of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, the League of Women Voters and Louisiana Landmarks Society. In the 1960s she also was a vocal opponent of the proposed Vieux Carre Riverfront Expressway.

BLAKEVIEW THIS WEEK MARKS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF A NEW ORLEANS INSTITUTION that feels like it’s been at the corner of Napoleon Avenue and

Tchoupitoulas Street forever: Tipitina’s. The legendary music club opened on Jan. 14, 1977 in a building that formerly housed a bar known as The 501 Club, which borrowed its name from the spot’s address at 501 Napoleon Ave. The club’s new name was inspired by the Professor Longhair song “Tipitina.” The club’s young founders, who called themselves “The Fabulous Fo’Teen,” established the place to host rediscovered local artists including Longhair. Other early acts included The Meters, James Booker, The Neville Brothers, The Radiators, Dr. John and Lil’ Queenie & the Percolators. Longhair’s death in 1980, combined with the downturn in the economy, forced the club to file for bankruptcy and close in 1984. It reopened in 1986 and blossomed 10 years later under the ownership of Roland and Mary Von Kurnatowski. In 2003, the couple and others established the Tipitina’s Foundation, which uses club profits and other donations to purchase instruments for local music students and to help local musicians.

DRUGS

THE SIX BIGGEST DRUG POLICY STORIES OF 2016

— and where Louisiana stands in 2017. BY PHILLIP SMITH/ALTERNET

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MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION WINS BIG. Pot legalization initia-

tives won in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, losing only in Arizona. These weren’t the first states to legalize marijuana — Colorado and Washington led the way in 2012, with Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., following in 2014 — but in one fell swoop, states with a combined population of nearly 50 million people freed the weed. Add in the earlier states, and we’re now talking about 67 million people, or more than onefifth of the national population, who can use weed legally. The question is: Where does marijuana win next? We won’t see state legalization initiatives until 2018 (and the conventional wisdom is to wait for the higher-turnout 2020 presidential election year). Most of the low-hanging fruit in terms of initiative states has been harvested, but activists in Michigan came close to qualifying for the ballot this year and are raring to go again. In the meantime, there are state legislatures. When AlterNet looked in the crystal ball recently, the best bets looked like Connecticut, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Vermont.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA WINS BIG.

Medical marijuana is even more popular than legal weed, and it went four-for-four at the ballot box last November, adding Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota to the list of full-blown medical marijuana states. That makes 28 states — more than half the country — that allow medical marijuana, along with another dozen or so red states that have passed limited cannabidiol (CBD)-only medical marijuana laws as a sop to public opinion. It’s worth noting that Montana is a special case. Voters there approved medical marijuana in 2004, only to see a Republican-dominated state legislature gut the program in 2011. The initiative approved by voters in 2016 reinstates that program, and shuttered dispensaries are set to reopen. The increasing acceptance of medical marijuana is going to make it that much harder for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) or President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to balk at reclassifying marijuana away from Schedule I, which supposedly is reserved for dangerous substances with no medical uses. It also could — along with the growing number of states where pot is legal — provide the necessary impetus to change federal banking laws to allow pot businesses to behave like normal businesses.

REPUBLICANS TAKE CONTROL IN WASHINGTON. Trump’s victory and

looming Republican control of both houses of Congress have profound implications for drug policies, for everything from legal marijuana to funding for needle exchange programs to sentencing policies to border and foreign policy and beyond. Early Trump cabinet picks, such as U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, to lead the Justice Department, are ominous for progressive drug reform, but as with many other policy spheres, what Trump actually will do is a big unknown. It’s probably safe to say that any harm-reduction programs requiring federal funding or approval are in danger, that any further sentencing reforms are unlikely and that any federal spending for mental health and substance abuse treatment will face an uphill battle. But the cops probably will get more money. The really big question mark is around pot policy. Trump has signaled he’s OK with letting the states experiment, but Sessions is one of the most retrograde drug warriors in Washington. Time will tell, but in the meantime, the marijuana industry is on tenterhooks and respect for the will of voters in pot-legal states and even medical marijuana states is an open question.

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the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that opioid overdose deaths had topped 33,000, and with 12,000 heroin overdoses, junk had overtaken gun violence as a leading cause of death. The crisis has provoked a variety of responses at both the state and the federal levels. Last month Congress approved $1 billion in opioid treatment and prevention programs. The overdose epidemic also has prompted the loosening of access to the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone and prodded ongoing efforts to embrace more harm-reduction approaches, such as places for supervised injections. On the other hand, prosecutors in states across the country have taken to filing murder charges against those who sell opioids (prescription or otherwise) to people who then die of overdoses, more intrusive and privacy-invading prescription monitoring programs have been established and the tightening of the screws on opioid prescriptions is leaving some chronic pain sufferers in the lurch, while leading others to seek opioids on the black market.

OBAMA COMMUTES MORE THAN 1,000 DRUG WAR SENTENCES. In a bid to undo some of the most

egregious excesses of the drug war, President Barack Obama cut the sentences of and freed more than 1,000 people sentenced under the harsh laws of the 1980s — particularly the racially biased crack cocaine laws — who already have served more time than they would have if sentenced under current laws passed during the Obama administration. Obama has commuted more sentences in a single year than any president in history and more than the last 11 presidents combined. The commutations come under a program announced by former Attorney General Eric Holder, who encouraged drug war prisoners to apply for them. The bad news is that the clock will run out before Obama has a chance to deal with thousands of pending applications that are backlogged in the Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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legal but unavailable AT 11 A.M., A PANEL ON “SEED TO SALE.” AFTER LUNCH, A REVIEW OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA’S PROGRESS IN LOUISIANA. LSU

Health closed 2016 with a seminar (“Cannabis and its medicinal potential”) in New Orleans, with panels not only for doctors and pharmacists but a new crop of prospective drug dealers following the state’s 2015 and 2016 laws approving medical marijuana. Just a few months earlier, LSU Vice President of Agriculture Bill Richardson announced LSU could be ready with a crop by 2018. Louisiana is among 28 states and the District of Columbia with programs in place or in development to cultivate and sell marijuana for medical use. The state’s long, strange trip to get medical marijuana approved began in 1978, when state Sen. Tony Guarisco of Morgan City got a bill on the books to allow doctors to prescribe pot to treat glaucoma, chemotherapy and spastic quadriplegia. Nobody was ever appointed to its Marijuana Control Board, and the law never had any support to make it actually work — like making marijuana legal, for starters. In 2015, state Sen. Fred Mills — despite immense opposition from powerful sheriffs and district attorneys from across the state — passed a measure to task several state agencies to write guidelines for growing and dispensing the drug. In 2016, Mills authored another measure expanding illnesses covered by the medication (for now, only a government-approved cannabis-based oil) and writing the rules for pharmacies as well as where the product can be developed. It gave the LSU and Southern University AgCenters the right of first refusal for production. LSU says it’ll cost more than $11 million, and outside investors and contractors are lining up. But the state isn’t anywhere close to a dispensary-filled pot paradise.

Many conservative lawmakers wouldn’t agree to Mills’ measure unless they were promised it wouldn’t lead to full-blown legalization. New Orleans, however, dramatically softened its laws on pot possession — getting caught with a joint is likely to result in a fine of no more than $100. In March, the New Orleans City Council passed District A Councilwoman Susan Guidry’s ordinance to set up fines for all cases of simple possession (fewer than 14 grams): $40 for a first offense, $60 for a second offense, $80 for a third and $100 for a fourth and subsequent offenses. New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officers still have the discretion to make pot arrests under state law, which carry a penalty of 15 days in jail and a $300 fine for a first offense, but NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison said he instructed officers to stick with the city ordinance. (Guidry’s original draft called for warnings, not fines, for the first offense.) As NOPD adjusts, so may its history of disproportionate arrests. Shortly after the new rules for pot possession took effect, the Vera Institute of Justice released a report finding people booked with pot possession are overwhelmingly black, despite pot use being about the same among blacks and whites. Nearly 80 percent of people arrested for pot from 2010-2015 were black, and 94 percent of people arrested for felony pot possession were black. Meanwhile, the weed industry and patients nationwide brace for U.S. Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions — a staunch pot prohibitionist — to end marijuana production nationwide. In protest, during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20, a group of marijuana reform advocates plan to smoke out the National Mall — four minutes and 20 seconds into his speech. — ALEX WOODWARD

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DEA GETS A WAKE-UP CALL WHEN IT TRIES TO BAN KRATOM. Derived from a Southeast Asian tree, kratom is a popular

and unregulated alternative to opioids for relaxation and pain relief, as well as withdrawal from opioids. It has very low overdose potential compared to other opioids and has become a go-to drug for many. Perturbed by its rising popularity, the DEA moved last summer to use its emergency scheduling powers to ban kratom, but was hit with an unprecedented buzzsaw of opposition from kratom users, scientists, researchers and even Republican senators like Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who authored and encouraged his colleagues to sign a letter to the DEA asking the agency to postpone its planned scheduling. The DEA backed off — but didn’t back down — announcing in October 2016 that it was shelving its ban plan for now and instead opening a period of public comment ending Dec. 1. Before it ended, the agency was inundated with submissions from people opposing the ban. Now, the DEA will factor in that input, as well as formal input from the Food and Drug Administration, before making its decision. The battle over kratom isn’t over, and the DEA still could ban it in the end, but the whole episode demonstrates how much the ground has shifted under the agency. DEA doesn’t just get its way anymore.

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THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC:

a year of overdose deaths and policy changes IN HIS TRADEMARK GRIM DELIVERY,

New Orleans Coroner Jeffrey Rouse announced to the New Orleans City Council last summer that for the first time perhaps ever, more people in New Orleans died from opioid-related overdoses than homicides in the first few months of 2016. Within the first five months of the year, Rouse classified 65 deaths as opiate overdoses — compared to 63 opiate overdoses in all of 2015. By Aug. 1, Rouse says 90 people died from opiate-related overdose deaths, including the synthetic opioid fentanyl as well as heroin and prescription opioids. Rouse classified 93 deaths as murders during the same time frame. New Orleans was among dozens of cities across the U.S. seeing a spike in opioid use. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioids killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, more than quadruple the number of opiod deaths a decade ago. More than three-quarters of heroin users had used prescription opioids before using heroin. New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (EMS) began to

see a rise in opioid overdoses in 2014 and 2015, but within the first weeks of 2016, EMS was responding to double the number of calls per day as it had in the last days of 2015. At January’s end, EMS crews responded to as many as five overdoses a day (and, on one day, 10). The city’s health department issued a public health advisory in the wake of a spike in overdose deaths over Christmas 2015 through January 2016. The city made naloxone — which can reverse the effects of a heroin or opiate overdose — available without a prescription (but for a price) at University Medical Center and several drug stores. Before she became Baton Rouge mayor this year, then-Louisiana Sen. Sharon Weston Broome authored a “Good Samaritan” measure in 2014, providing immunity to people who call 911 for help, despite opiate possession or use. That same year, state Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, supported a measure allowing first responders to carry the potentially life-saving naloxone. But a 2016 Gambit cover

story found that no law enforcement agency in the state carries it. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that Louisiana was among only a handful of states to see a decline in opioid-related hospital stays from 2009-2014 — partially because there are fewer places to go. Budget cuts forced Interim LSU Public Hospital to close its 20-bed detox wing in 2012. Meanwhile, there are no plans to decriminalize opioids, and the New Orleans area continues to see a decline in services for treating or providing inpatient or long-term care to users. In August, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced opioids, particularly fentanyl, posed the biggest drug-related threat to the region. Rouse attributed 28 overdose deaths to fentanyl by mid-2016, more than double the number of fentanyl-related deaths in all of 2015. Jefferson Parish Coroner Gerry Cvitanovich classified 15 fentanyl-related deaths by mid-2016, compared to 14 in all of 2015. By July, toxicological tests put Rouse’s office nearly $20,000 over its budget. (“At any moment I am a broken X-ray machine away from stopping operations,” Rouse told the Council Criminal Justice Committee.) Rouse anticipates announcing opioids’ overall impact in 2016 by late February. — ALEX WOODWARD

WHAT’S IN STORE

Uptown Auto owner Paul Cosma at his new shop. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

BY SARAH RAVITS THIRTY-THREE YEARS AGO, PAUL COSMA OPENED UPTOWN AUTO SPECIALIST (501

River Road, Jefferson, 504-866-8392; www.myuptownauto.com) in the Riverbend section of New Orleans behind Cooter Brown’s bar. Recently, he relocated to a larger space at the intersection of Industrial Avenue and River Road in Jefferson. He says the new place is easier for customers to navigate, has more parking spaces and allows Cosma and his staff to work on more cars. The shop owner says he fell in love with auto mechanics while riding motorcycles as a teenager and turned that passion into a career. His busy shop specializes in imported cars, especially German makes such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. He also works on a lot of Japanese cars. Uptown Auto Specialist’s services include routine maintenance, like oil changes and tire alignment, air conditioning repair and maintenance, automotive computer systems and major repair jobs such as reinstalling turbo chargers. The shop also offers body repairs and vehicle inspections, and addresses common problems shared by New Orleans drivers, such as shock repairs necessitated by driving over potholes and restoring flood-damaged automobiles. The new location has enough space to work on about 15 cars at a time, he says. To meet customer demands for the latest technology, Cosma and his staff stay abreast of the newest systems by attending education and training workshops with suppliers and specialists. “We work really hard at keeping up with current technology because it changes so fast,” he says. Cosma, who has been a vehicle mechanic his entire adult life, says he is dedicated to providing high-quality service and satisfying his customers. Often he is able to

tackle automotive problems within a day, but he recommends calling for an appointment. The hours are long, he says, often starting at 7 a.m. and extending a couple of hours beyond the shop’s

closing time of 5 p.m. “The main focus of our business is to provide good service,” says Cosma, who adds that the strategy has worked to secure him lots of repeat customers.

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The Barre Code (787 Harrison Ave., 504-900-1770; www.thebarrecode. com) is on a mission to help women become their most fit selves with classes centered on cardio, strength training and restorative stretching. For a limited time, customers who sign up online will be funding a $5 per class donation to Children’s Hospital through LCMC Health. Use promo code “LCMC” when registering. Gallery Arlo (837 Chartres St., 504-330-0803; www.galleryarlo.com) opened recently in the French Quarter. The gallery is owned by Mary Bonney, who operated William & Joseph Gallery in New Orleans before moving the operation to Santa Fe, New Mexico after Hurricane Katrina. The new gallery is named for Bonney’s dog Arlo, a Chihuahua-boxer mix. Bonney says the gallery will focus on one-of-a-kind paintings and sculpture. The gallery is open Thursday through Tuesday. Jared, the Galleria of Jewelry (3400 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-885-2221; www.jared.com), is holding a one-day showcase of Le Vian’s top product trends, including chocolate diamonds and peach morganite, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11. The event is free and refreshments will be served. Kitchen Witch Cookbooks (1452 N. Broad St., (504) 528-8382; www. kwcookbooks.com) hosts a neighborhood shop-and-stroll event 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13 features free wine and beer.

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ored, casual comfort food or refined and modern takes on Southern classics. The concept of elevated Southern restaurants has evolved to include fine-dining establishments where traditional dishes are re-imagined with advanced culinary techniques. At Toups South, chef Isaac Toups and Amanda Toups’ new restaurant inside the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, there’s a successful marriage of the two, but its defining characteristic is the bold approach of a chef known for Cajun roots and culinary skill. While the chef’s first restaurant, Toups’ Meatery, is a decidedly Cajun affair, the food at the new restaurant speaks to the larger region of the South. Thick, puffy sourdough biscuits are accompanied by crab fat butter, a bright orange medley that throws a creamy, funky curveball with flavors reminiscent of South Carolina Lowcountry she-crab soup. “Smoke sticks” (which are more like smoke discs) are a reminder of Toups’ touch with Cajun charcuterie. The smoky, spicy sausage is served in thick slices with mustard and sweet pickle slices. Toups appeared on season 13 of Bravo’s Top Chef and was voted fan favorite because of his animated personality and unpredictable style. That loud and demanding presence is here, too. It’s in the stack of fried pork chops that arrive on a butcher block, harpooned with a giant steak knife like some sort of mad Cajun caveman feast. It’s in the barbecued deckle steak, a cowboy campfire

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a punchy mix of herbs and nestled in a thick ragu of tomato-braised eggplant. A pasty, mayonnaiselike tonnato sauce adds a salty element that seems like overkill on a plate teeming with bold flavors. A bright salad of basil and mixed herbs provides a necessary breath of freshness needed in the loud dish. Many of the dishes are daring and unapologetically self-assertive, but others are more refined and exercise restraint. A delicate crab salad — served in a tiny mason jar — is garnished with satsuma and carries the faint essence of ginger and a whisper of cayenne — just enough spice to contrast the creamy layers of crab and complement its clean flavor. A slab of lacquered pork belly sidles a crisp square of Chef Isaac Toups serves a stack of fried pork watermelon and chops at Toups South. gets sweetness from P H OTO B Y C H E R Y L G E R B E R a brown sugar glaze. The fatty belly is balanced by bursts of cool watermelon and the crunch dish in which an enormous slab and spice of seasoned pork rinds. of smoky, fatty beef is delivered Though Toups South is a more swimming in a stew of hearty baked grown-up and elegant affair than its beans, topped with pickled mustard Mid-City predecessor, the chef made seed and onions. That brash attitude a name for himself by pushing the is seen even in desserts. A giant boundaries of modern Cajun cuisine, chocolate chip and peanut butter and that approach prevails here. cookie is served in a sizzling castDishes demand attention and speak iron skillet, a preparation that begs loudly in a Southern accent while for a giant glass of milk. straddling the line between refineGrilled Gulf tuna feels worlds away ment and excess. from the seared ahi preparations Email Helen Freund at helensthat dot so many menus. Here, the freund@gmail.com large slabs of fish are crusted with

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(1000 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway, 504-301-3709) will open a second location at 2854 St. Charles Ave. in January. The new cafe replaces The Grocery, which closed in mid-December. The new spot will feature counter service, seating for 40 people and some packaged foods to go. It will offer the same menu as the original location, with pastries, breads, baked goods, chai and French Truck Coffee. Breakfast items include egg and cheese sandwiches, French toast, salmon and bagels and more. Popular lunch items are sandwiches filled with smoked ham, pastrami and other house-smoked meats on house-baked bread and tarragon chicken salad with apple, golden raisins, pickled onion and almonds over spring greens. Brunch will be served on weekends. Pastry chef Megan Forman and husband Jay Forman opened Gracious Bakery + Cafe in 2012. They added a commissary kitchen and quick service location (7220 Earhart Blvd.) in 2015, where pastries, cakes and breads are baked for its cafe

and area restaurants. They had been looking to expand to a new location when The Grocery location became available, Jay says. Gracious offers king and queen cakes for Carnival. King cakes are made with chocolate and queen cakes add almond frangipane. Gracious will add two new flavors this Carnival season: nectar cream and Meyer lemon. Gracious cakes are available at its locations and Whole Foods Markets in Uptown, Mid-City and Metairie. PAGE 20

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The St. Charles Avenue Gracious has a package liquor license and will sell local craft beers, wine and spirits. During parade season, Gracious will apply for a special events permit to sell cocktails, Jay says. The new location will be open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m to to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. — WILL COVIELLO

Bottle service A COUPLE OF DICKIE BRENNAN’S RESTAURANTS begin monthly tast-

ing events this month. Bourbon House (144 Bourbon St., 504-522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com) is known for the wide selection of bourbons at its bar. The restaurant’s New Orleans Bourbon Society hosts a tasting of Maker’s

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46, Basil Hayden’s, Knob Creek Rye and Jim Beam Double Oak from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10. Admission is free. Palace Cafe (605 Canal St., 504523-1661; www.palacecafe.com) completed a renovation in late 2015 that added the rum-focused Black Duck Bar on the second floor, as well as a kitchen specializing in charcuterie. The Black Duck Bar hosts a tasting of rums from the Cruzan Rum distillery in the U.S. Virgin Islands from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 25. The tasting features Cruzan’s Distiller’s Collection of light and dark estate rums and a single-barrel aged rum. Admission is free. Palace Cafe initiated a New Orleans Rum Society at the bar. Membership is not required to attend events, but members receive first notice about upcoming events. — WILL COVIELLO

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NEWLY OPENED WAYWARD OWL BREWING COMPANY (3940

Thalia St,, 504-827-1646; www. waywardowlbrewing.com) began the new year by distributing its Family Tree kristallweizen and Clean Slate IPA in cans that will debut at Rouses and other retailers soon. They’re among several new beer options being introduced by local breweries early this year. Wayward Owl brewers will collaborate with District: DonutsSliders-Brew (www.donutsandsliders.com) to create a house beer that can be adjusted to match seasonal specials at District’s locations. The currently unnamed beer will be released in early February. Second Line Brewing (433 N. Bernadotte St., 504-248-8979; www.secondlinebrewing.com) will expand its capacity in 2017. It will add one 30-barrel fermenter next month and several more during the first half of the year. Second Line’s popular beer garden-only release Alryte, Alryte, Alrtye imperial rye IPA will be released in kegs and 22-ounce bombers. There’s a release party at the brewery Jan. 13. Urban South Brewing (1645 Tchoupitoulas St., 504267-4852; www.urbansouthbrewery.com) will release its variety

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Second Line Brewing will release Alryte, Alryte, Alryte in kegs and 22-ounce bombers. P H OTO B Y N O R A M C G U N N I G L E

12-pack called The Weekend Pack in mid-January. Bayou Teche Brewing (1106 Bushville Highway, Arnaudville, 337-754-5122; www.bayoutechebrewing.com) rolls out new formulations of its flagship beers in late January. Biere Pale, a Belgian pale ale, will still have a Belgian-focused malt bill and French ale yeast, but additions of Mosaic, Cascade and Chinook hops will be added in whirlpool and dry-hopping phases. Bayou Teche is returning to how Biere Noir originally was imagined — as a black French saison.

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AMERICAN Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood and dishes from a variety of cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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salami, Swiss cheese and olive salad on a bun. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma. com — The cafe serves shrimp salad, chipotle-marinated portobello sliders, flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic and more. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $

The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Chartres House — 601 Chartres St., (504) 586-8393; www.chartreshouse. com — A creamy blend of crawfish, spinach and mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses is stuffed into Leidenheimer French bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

BURGERS

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers wines by the glass and full restaurant menu including mussels steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

Bayou Burger & Sports Company — 503 Bourbon St., (504) 529-4256; www. bayouburger.com — Cochon nachos top freshly fried tortilla chips with melted cheeses, house-smoked pulled pork, house barbecue sauce, coleslaw, onions and sour cream. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

CAFE

Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees, pastries and desserts baked in house and a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The coffee shop serves pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Pearl Wine Co. — 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — The wine bar offers cheese plates. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Cafe Maspero — 601 Decatur St., (504) 523-6520; www.cafemaspero.com — The muffuletta combines pastrami,

Pierre Maspero’s — 440 Chartres St., (504) 524-8990; www.originalpierremasperos.com — Two pan-fried crab cakes

CAJUN Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 561-5171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 5222233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www.daisydukesrestaurant.com — The New Orleans sampler features red beans and rice, jambalaya, a cup of gumbo, fried green tomatoes and a biscuit. Delivery available from Carondelet Street location. No reservations. New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Tres Bon Cajun Meats — 10316 Jefferson Highway, River Ridge, (504) 405-5355; www.tresbonmeats.com — The market serves brisket, pulled pork, house-made sausages and cracklings with layers of skin, fat and meat fried in hog lard. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CHINESE August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — The menu includes Chinese and Vietnamese dishes such as sweet and spicy tilapia glazed in tangy sweet-and-spicy sauce served with bok choy. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe — 3208 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 467-3176; www.chezpierreneworleans.com — The bakery specializes in cakes and there is a breakfast menu and Vietnamese dishes. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include crispy smoked quail salad with pear and bourbon-molasses dressing. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Boulevard American Bistro — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 889-2301; www.boulevardbistro.com — Pan-seared crab cakes are served with fries and coleslaw. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Vinegar-braised grilled beef short ribs are served over stone-ground yellow grits with arugula and boiled peanut salad. A fried chicken breast is served over a Belgian waffle with smoked ham, aged cheddar and Steen’s mustard glaze. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — The eclectic menu includes bouillabaisse, grilled Caribbean lobster, jerk shrimp and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., early dinner Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — The constantly changing menu features dishes such as pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, crispy Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines. com — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Eggs Sardou is poached eggs over crispy artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce. Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/cafe-

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OUT TO EAT gentilly — Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter. com — Tableau’s contemporary Creole cuisine includes marinated crab claws in white truffle vinaigrette. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Bagels & Bytes — 1001 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 831-7968; www.bagelsandbytes.com — The bagel selection includes whole wheat, poppy seed, pumpernickel, garlic, blueberry and other varieties from Davidovich Bakery in New York City. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli offers corned beef and pastrami from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com

— The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 5920223; www.weltysdeli.com — The New Orleans AK sandwich features a choice of four meats plus cheddar, provolone, pepper Jack and Swiss cheeses on a warm muffuletta bun. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” and weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — The restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — The menu features tandoori dishes with chicken, lamb, fish or shrimp, mild and spicy curries, rice dishes such as chicken, lamb or shrimp biryani, and many vegetarian items. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$

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Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines old world Italian favorites and pizza. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Osso buco features a veal shank with angel hair pasta and veal demi-glace. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include raw and cooked versions. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, including sushi, hibachi dishes, teriyaki and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

KOREAN Little Korea BBQ — 2240 Magazine St., (504) 821-5006 — Dolsot bibimbap features rice, seasoned vegetables, egg, chili paste and a choice of meat or tofu in a hot stone pot. No reservations. Lunch Mon. & Wed.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Audubon Clubhouse Cafe — 6500 Magazine St., (504) 212-5282; www. auduboninstitute.org/visit/clubhouse-cafe — Crispy duck features citrus glaze, boudin, Brussels sprouts, pickled mirliton slaw and duck demi-glass. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.Fri., dinner Sun.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bombay Club — Prince Conti Hotel, 830 Conti St., (504) 577-2237; www.bombayclubneworleans.com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp are simmered in garlic Creole meuniere sauce and served with toasted ciabatta. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 5813866; www.broussards.com — Broiled black drum Rosalie is a mustard- and rosemary-crusted fillet served with

haricots verts and ginger-apple glaze. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Rebel Yell braised short ribs are served with corn maque choux and mashed sweet potatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 509 Canal St., (504) 323-2109; www. creolehouserestaurant.com — Grilled Louisiana oysters are topped with smoked bacon, Monterey Jack cheese and garlic butter. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust, angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys.com — Braised Niman Ranch pork cheeks are served with sauteed Southern greens, grit cakes, sweet potatoes and country gravy. Reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 598-5005; www.kingfishneworleans. com — Blackened barbecue shrimp in chili-butter piquant sauce top a fried stone-ground grit cake. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant.com — Shrimp Ya-Ya features Gulf shrimp sauteed with Cajun pesto and served with garlic toast. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Red Maple — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 367-0935; www.theredPAGE 27

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NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Signature dishes include a waffle topped with brie and blueberry compote. Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$

Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — The menu is an elevated take on neighborhood restaurants. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — Stuffed gumbo features a hand-battered and fried catfish fillet atop chicken, sausage, shrimp and crabmeat gumbo. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — There are seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-2010; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — The roast beef po-boy features housecooked roast beef on Gendusa Bakery bread and is dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

PIZZA Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — There are pizzas, po-boys and more. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Diners can build their own calzones or pies from a list of toppings. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

OUT TO EAT Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Po-boy fillings include everything from fried seafood to corned beef. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Po-boy options include fried shrimp or oysters and roast beef cooked in its own jus. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

SEAFOOD Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — The menu includes shrimp with garlic butter and crab and crawfish beignets with remoulade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Seafood dishes include barbecue shrimp, redfish with the skin on, raw oysters and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, po-boys, daily specials and more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Oyster House — 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; www. mredsrestaurants.com — The menu includes raw oysters, seafood, steaks, fried chicken, crawfish etouffee and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pier 424 Seafood Market — 424 Bourbon St., (504) 309-1574; www.pier424seafoodmarket.com — Battered frog legs are tossed with Buffalo sauce and served with ranch dressing. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and gumbo. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Royal House Oyster Bar — 441 Royal St., (504) 528-2601; www.royalhouserestaurant.com — Clams, mussels, shrimp and scallops sauteed with garlic and herbs are served with marinara over linguine. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza, salads, pasta and more. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Panseared jumbo shrimp top a grit cake and are served with chipotle-garlic cream sauce and tomatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and a choice of two-dozen toppings. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Live Oak Cafe — 8140 Oak St., (504) 2650050; www.liveoakcafenola.com — The cafe serves huevos rancheros with corn tortillas, black beans, fried eggs, ranchero sauce, salsa and Cotija cheese. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$

Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — There’s pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and more. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — The short menu of po-boys is constantly changing. No reservations. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $

Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Barbacoas features jumbo shrimp in chorizo cream on bread medallions. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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WEDNESDAY 11 21st Amendment — Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 8 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat. Giselle Anguizola, 2; Messy Cookers, 6:30; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — New Breed Brass Band, 10 Cafe Negril — WilFunk, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Terra Terra, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — The Raisin Pickers feat. Natalie Mae, 8; Helen Gillet, Mark Sutherland, Annie Ellicot Trio, 9 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7

d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Mighty Brother, Marina Orchestra, The Hallow End, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Thibault, No Scruples, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Jazz Cafe — The Key Sound, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road, 7 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Mike Dillon’s Combinations & Collisions feat. Jean-Paul Gaster, Norwood Fisher, 10 Mudlark Theatre — The Body, Divtech, Jasper Den Hartigh, Corey Cruse, 7 National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen — The Vic-Tones, 11:45 a.m. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Rick Trolsen, Joplin Parnell, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Arrowhead Jazz Band, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Johnny Angel & the Swingin’ Demons, 8 Siberia — Lawn, Biglemoi, Pope, 9 Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

THURSDAY 12 21st Amendment — G & the Swinging Three, 5:30; Branden Lewis Band, 9 Bamboula’s — Chip & Friend, noon; Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 2; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; John Lisi, 10 Banks Street Bar — Dan Wally Baker, The Raisin Pickers, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Bayou International Reggae Night feat. Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11 Buffa’s Lounge — Gumbo Cabaret, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6 Checkpoint Charlie — Crazy Whisky, 7; Jon Hatchett Band, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Mikayla Braun Quar-

tet, 8; Dave Easley & Papa Mali & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 7; Ebola Boys, Trouble Boys, Cheap Fur, BENNI, 9:30 City Park Botanical Garden — Bobby Cure & the Poppa Steppas, 6 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Stephanie Nilles, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Litty Situation, Lord Chilla, J. Hurst, Delish Da Goddess, Que Hefner, DJ J.A.M., 9 Hey! Cafe — Diners, Sharks’ Teeth, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — American Wrestlers, Ne-Hi, 8 Jazz Cafe — Jeff Chaz, 12:30; Louise Cappi, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Michael Watson’s The Alchemy, 7 Mag’s 940 — Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, Maggie Belle Band, The Tumbling Wheels, 9 The Maison — The Good For Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — No True Scotsman, Mike True & the Phantom Band, 9 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Alex McMurray, 6 Old Point Bar — Dreaming Dingo, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Gregg Stafford (Danny Barker tribute), 2 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times ’80s and ’90s Night, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Clive Wilson & Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Louis Ford, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Jason Danti & Friends, 6; Deltaphonic, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Chubby Carrier, 8:30 Siberia — Aurora Nealand, Simon Lott, Trapper Keeper, 9 Snug Harbor — Danny Barker’s Birthday Bash feat. Herman LeBeaux, Kerry Lewis, Mari Watanabe, Detroit Brooks, Freddy Lonzo, Bruce Brackman, Gregg Stafford, Topsy Chapman, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Monty Banks, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — The Radiators (anniversary show), Colin Lake Duo, 9 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 13 21st Amendment — Shake It Break It Band, 2:30; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 9:30 AllWays Lounge — Doombalaya (album release), 11 Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 11 a.m.; Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Smoky Greenwell, 5:30; Caesar Brothers, 10 Bar Redux — DJ Pumpkinhead’s Soul, Funk, R&B Throwdown, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8; Soul Rebels, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m. Buffa’s Lounge — Michel Pellara & Miles Berry, 5; Gentilly Stompers, 8; Swamp Kitchen, 11 PAGE 30

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Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre, 4; Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 4; Kenny Triche Band, 7; Raccoon City Massacre, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Erica Falls, 8; Good Enough for Good Times, 11 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6 d.b.a. — Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 6; Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk, 10 Dillard University, Lawless Memorial Chapel — Houston Person, Herlin Riley Quintet, 7 p.m. Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Joe Krown Trio, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Gasa Gasa — Ron Gallo, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Harumph, Second Hand Street Band, 8; Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues — The Fighters, Ryan Follese, Michael Tyler, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Royal & Toulouse, Deltaphonic, 9 Jazz Cafe — Jeff Chaz, 12:30; Louise Cappi, 8 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Honey Island Swamp Band (Radiators after-party), midnight Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Grant Ligon, 7; Pucusana, John Parker, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — The Dirty Rain Revelers, 7 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; The PresHall Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Supercharger, 9:30 Second Vine Wine — The Key Sound, 6 Siberia — Benjy Ferree, Cock Hunter, Naughty Palace, Gardenella, 9 Snug Harbor — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Tipitina’s — The Radiators (anniversary show), Marc Stone, 10 Twist of Lime — Mad Dog, The Angry 88s, Death Ed., 10

SATURDAY 14 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 11 a.m.; G & the Swinging Three, 1; Johnny Mastro, 7 Banks Street Bar — Chaos of the Cosmos, The Bills, 9 Bar Redux — DJ Andy Average’s Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble, 10 a.m. The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Noah Young (album release), Space & Harmony feat. members of The Revivalists, Naughty Professor, 10:30

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Pharoahe Monch

NO MC CEMENTED HIS LEGACY FASTER THAN PHAROAHE MONCH. On “Simon Says,” the chest-obsessed puffer off his 1999 debut • Jan. 14 Internal Affairs, Monch chiseled a tombstone resume in under 20 words: “New York City grit• 8 p.m. Saturday ty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the • The Howlin’ Wolf midst of the calm, the witty.” (Even writing that • 907 S. Peters St. feels badass.) One could argue it came earlier, on any of his three Organized Konfusion records • (504) 529-5844 with Prince Po, but those are collaborative, • www.howlinwolf.com freehand classics. Released seven days after Mos Def’s debut Black on Both Sides, Internal Affairs is a one-man show — a crankier, more aggro Black Star barking his internal rhymes in your mug. The eight-year wait for follow-up Desire may have killed his momentum, yet Monch delivered another mutation, predating last year’s gospel-rap proselytizing by another eight years. Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey) hung up the mic last week — 2016’s final casualty, noted The Village Voice — but Monch is, relatively quietly, still going strong, self-releasing two acronymic albums, W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) and PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the latter a spiritual sequel to OK’s 1994 treatment Stress: The Extinction Agenda. “I’m a manic depressive mechanic that manages to frantically do damage,” he spits on “Time2,” a true story addressing the chemical imbalance that nearly killed him. Not “Zoloft and acidophilus” — those just sound killer together. A bunch of rappers and DJs (Sic Hop, Elespee, Strategy, J-Dubble, Ric Ducci and Alfred Banks) open. Tickets $20. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Ambush Reggae Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m. Buffa’s Lounge — Red Hot Jazz Band, 11 a.m.; Fraulein Francis & Her Sleazeball Orchestra, 5; The Royal Rounders, 8; Harry Mayronne, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Phil the Tremolo King, 4; Woodenhead, 7; LA Hellbenders, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — 2 Headed Dog, 8; Song Dogs & Friends, 9; CC Adcock & the Lafayette Marquis, 11 d.b.a. — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Claire & the Company, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Sexy/Back ’00s Dance Party with DJ Dizzi, 10 Gasa Gasa — Suplecs, The Pinx, Something’s Burning, 9; Scizorgy with DJs Nice Rack, Jeff Jani, 12:30 a.m. Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Grits & Biscuits, 10 Howlin’ Wolf — Pharoahe Monch, 8

Jazz Cafe — Jeff Chaz, 12:30; Louise Cappi, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 & 9 Louisiana Music Factory — Doombalaya, Rudy & the Caribbean Funk Band, 2; James Martin Band, 4 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Honey Island Swamp Band (Radiators after-party), midnight Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — The Shiz, 7; Crazy Whisky, Brutal Fruta, 9 Old Point Bar — Chris Klein, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Sam Kuslan, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 PJ’s Coffee — Valerie Sassyfras, 7 a.m. Poor Boys — La Danse Macabre with DJ Sea Wolff, 10 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 5 & 6; The Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Steve Mignano, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Colin Lake, Sonny Landreth, Eric Lindell, 8

SUNDAY 15 21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Bamboula’s — Hausman & Friend, 11 a.m.; NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Banks Street Bar — Winslow, 4; Simple Sound Retreat, 9 Bar Redux — Matt Babineaux, 9 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — The Mark Appleford Band, 3 Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like It Hot, 10:30 a.m.; Gerald French Trio, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Teresa B, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Edgardian Angels, 8 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Soul Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman & Todd Duke, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Anuraag Pendyal, Dignity Reve, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Scarecrow Sonic Boombox, Seabattle, Joy on Fire, Bag of Humans, 9 House of Blues — The Devil Makes Three, 8:30 Howlin’ Wolf — Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival Finale feat. John Boutte, Kenny Neal, Charmaine Neville, Steve Masakowski & the UNO Jazz Ensemble, Solid Harmony, Maria Muldaur, 6 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Kermit’s Treme Mother-In-Law Lounge — Kermit Ruffins, Paris Harris, DJ Sugar Ray, 4 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the NOLA Jitterbugs, 10 a.m.; Higher Heights, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio, 10 Marigny Opera House — Redwine Jazz Band, 5 Old Point Bar — Gregg Martinez, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bruce Daigrepont, 5:30 Snug Harbor — Donald Harrison & Willie Pickens Quintet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 2; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Three Muses Maple — Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, 11 a.m.

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MONDAY 16 21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 6:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Rubin & Chip Wilson, 2; NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Sunshine Brass Band, 9 Banks Street Bar — Dignity Reve’s Piano Night, 7; Lilli Lewis, 9 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 Buffa’s Lounge — Arsene Delay, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Alex McMurray, 8 Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7 d.b.a. — Alexis & the Samurai, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — New Orleans Jazz Manouche, 7 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Ed Mosley, Lea, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1; Dominic Fusca, 5 RF’s — John Marcey Duo, 4; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7 Saturn Bar — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Monty Banks, 5; Washboard Rodeo, 7

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 5220276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s “Organ & Labyrinth” performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock by candlelight. Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday. New Orleans Opera. Abita Brew Pub, 72011 Holly St., Abita Springs, (985) 8925837; www.abitabrewpub.com — New Orleans Opera Association singers perform opera favorites in a casual setting. Free. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Valerie Francis & Wilfred Delphin. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola. com — The soprano and pianist present a program of operatic arias and Italian art songs. Free. 5 p.m. Sunday.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND The Bye Bye Man (PG-13) — Let’s hope this horror movie is scarier than its title. West Bank Elle — Isabelle Huppert stars in a French-language thriller about a woman’s life after an assault. Theaters TBA Hunter Gatherer — When an ex-con returns to the old neighborhood, his girlfriend and family have forgotten about him. Zeitgeist Live by Night (R) — Ben Affleck directs and stars in this Prohibition-era mobster drama. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank Monster Trucks (PG) — A tentacled beastie accompanies a high school senior on truck-related adventures. West Bank Old Stone — A taxi driver in China feuds with bureaucracy and the local legal system. Zeitgeist Patriots Day (R) — The Boston marathon bombings dramatized too soon. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank Sleepless (R) — Jamie Foxx is an undercover cop in Vegas. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank

NOW SHOWING Assassin’s Creed (PG-13) — “Based on the video game franchise of the same name ... ” Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Collateral Beauty (PG-13) — Will Smith is a wounded ad exec searching for What It All Means. Kenner, Slidell, Regal Doctor Strange (PG-13) — “Fast hands” Benedict Cumberbatch is a surgeonturned-sorcerer in the ever-expanding Marvel universe. Elmwood

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (PG-13) — Open your wallets, devoted fans, for this tangentially related Harry Potter tale. West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Fences (PG-13) — Denzel Washington stars in a film adaptation of the play by mid-20th-century playwright August Wilson (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom). Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Hidden Figures (PG) — Three AfricanAmerican women contribute to NASA breakthroughs in this drama based on a true story. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Jackie (R) — Natalie Portman dons the pillbox hat. Elmwood, Canal Place La La Land (PG-13) — Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling pay tribute to Golden Age musicals. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Lion (PG-13) — A young man (Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) returns to India to search for his biological parents. Elmwood, Canal Place Manchester by the Sea (R) — Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams star in the Oscar-buzzy film by Kenneth Lonergan. Elmwood, Slidell, Canal Place Moana (PG) — Disney’s modernized princess musical features Moana, the daughter of a South Pacific chieftain. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal A Monster Calls (PG-13) — A troubled 12-year-olds summons a CGI Grendel voiced by Liam Neeson. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Office Christmas Party (R) — As if your own office party wasn’t nightmare

enough. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Passengers (PG-13) — Unusually attractive people (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) wake up too early from a spaceship’s deep freeze. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (PG-13) — Unlikely heroes bond and triumph over adversity in space. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place Sing (PG) — Talking (er, singing) animals compete in a vocal talent competition. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Trolls (PG) — Plastic figurines live an eternal bad hair day. Kenner, Slidell Underworld: Blood Wars (R) — Hey look, here’s some more CGI werewolves and vampires. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Why Him? (R) — Bryan Cranston is a dad vexed by his daughter’s Silicon Valley dudebro boyfriend (James Franco). Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Bad Kids — The documentary follows at-risk kids to an alternative high school in the American desert. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation — In a documentary, the feminist intellectual discusses the power of cultural criticism. 2 p.m. Sunday. Freeport McMoran Theater, Contemporary Arts Center Carousel — A carnival barker gets a one-day reprieve from death in the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. 2 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, Regal Disney Junior at the Movies With Mickey! — The immortal Mouse celebrates his birthday. 10 a.m. Saturday. Elmwood, Regal Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

(PG) — The beginning of a fantasy saga and $6.5 billion dollar franchise. Midnight Friday-Saturday, 10 p.m. Sunday. Prytania Heaven and Earth Magic — The art film by Harry Everett Smith uses animated cutouts from photographs. 8 p.m. Saturday. New Orleans Photo Alliance (1111 St. Mary St.) I Confess — In Alfred Hitchcock’s drama, a priest hears a murder confession. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Labyrinth (PG) — The Year of Bowie concludes with a screening of Jim Henson’s dark fairy tale. 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday. Prytania The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco — Verdi’s opera dramatizes the plight of the Jewish people in exile. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood Mifune: The Last Samurai — The documentary profiles Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist One Piece Film: Gold — A rich, greedy tyrant lusts for political power; pirates feud with him. (If only.) 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Elmwood, West Bank The Shining (R) — All work and no play, etc. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Catahoula Hotel (914 Union St.) Silk Stockings — In the 1957 musical, a Russian composer and his minders fall in thrall to wine, women and the decadent West. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania Singin’ in the Rain — RIP Debbie Reynolds. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal, Canal Place Step Off — Melle Mel stars in the hip-hop musical filmed in 1985. 7 p.m. Saturday. Zeitgeist PAGE 34

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“PROVOCATEUR” MAY BE THE WORD THAT • Directed by Paul Verhoeven BEST DESCRIBES DUTCH FILMMAKER PAUL VERHOEVEN. The director’s forays into • Starring Isabelle Huppert science fiction mostly have resulted in cult • Limited release favorites like RoboCop and Starship Troopers, violent and audacious films with a satirical PH OTO BY bite not often found in sci-fi. When the subject SONY CLASSICS PICTURES turns to sex — as it often does for Verhoeven — audiences are confronted with lurid and oddly defiant films like Basic Instinct and Showgirls. These movies subvert Hollywood conventions but seem more focused on getting under everyone’s skin. Showgirls has become an all-time classic of accidental camp, winning two Golden Raspberry Awards in 1995 for Worst Film and Worst Director of the year (and later earning a special Worst Film of the Decade award). But Verhoeven had the last laugh with Showgirls, not only because the film made a fortune on home video but also when he became the first filmmaker ever to show up at the Golden Raspberry ceremony to accept his awards. That devil-may-care attitude surely is what drove Verhoeven to create Elle, the world’s first lighthearted rape-revenge fantasy thriller. Now 78 and coming off a decade-long hiatus from feature films, Verhoeven reaches a new pinnacle of audacity with Elle. Shot in Paris with a French cast and crew and starring the great Isabelle Huppert — arguably the finest actress of the last three or four decades — Elle arrives with the bearing of a sophisticated foreign film (though the director said that Elle only became French when no American actress was willing to take the lead role). But underneath the facade, Elle is pure Verhoeven: self-possessed, confrontational and guaranteed to offend a wide range of viewers. The film begins with a violent rape scene shot from the detached perspective of a house cat as the pet’s owner, Michele (Huppert), attempts to fend off a masked intruder. Instead of assuming the role of victim, Michele brushes herself off and goes on with her life, only gradually becoming curious about who might have perpetrated the assault. There are many suspects, not only because Michele co-owns a successful videogame company with a lot of male employees who dislike her, but also because she manipulates or abuses just about all the men (and women) in her life. The story doesn’t really begin until Michele identifies her attacker and responds to the news in a variety of troubling and unpredictable ways that seem designed to provoke feminists in particular. It would be hard to overstate the heroic nature of Huppert’s performance, which may be the only thing saving Elle from Showgirls-like status. The focus of virtually every scene in the two hours-plus film, Huppert transforms the deeply ambiguous Michele into a source of mystery as we struggle to understand the character’s true motivations and behavior. Huppert brings some jet-black humor to the film, making it appear smarter and more idea-driven than it deserves credit for being. If there’s an underlying message to Elle, it may be that we’re all culpable for the wrongs we do each other — and that anyone can learn something from their responses to a movie like this. If nothing else, Elle represents an opportunity to fully accept the challenges posed by a uniquely provocative film. See it with a large group that includes both genders and a variety of perspectives, and watch the sparks fly in post-movie discussion. If dull predictability is the primary sin of today’s mainstream filmmakers, then Verhoeven may be some kind of saint. — KEN KORMAN

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HAPPENINGS Alexander the Great Visits New Orleans. New Orleans Art Center, 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — The art installation and gala combines Alexander the Great and Carnival themes and benefits the Creative Alliance of New Orleans. Black tie or toga required. Advance tickets $35, door $50. 7 p.m. Thursday. St. Claude Second Saturdays. St. Claude Arts District, 2820 St. Claude Ave. — Galleries surrounding St. Claude Avenue host receptions, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

OPENING Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Melange,” films, works on paper and vogue performance by Rashaad Newsome; opening reception 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. The Engine Room. 2839 N. Robertson St. — “Glass Houses,” paintings, sculpture and mixed-media about the tension between public image and private behavior by Carlton Scott Sturgill; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday. New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — “Cultural Grid,” exhibition by gallery artists; opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “The Minor Works: 100 Paintings,” paintings by Norah Lovell inspired by Roberto Bolano’s novel 2666; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Time Signature” and “Ripple,” MFA thesis exhibitions by Brent Houzenga and Tyler P. Haney; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES A Gallery for Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “The World Is Not Enough,” Joel-Peter Witkin photography retrospective, through March 10. Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — “Miniature Exhibition,” group show of small paintings and sculpture, through Friday. Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery com — “Annual Auction,” group selection of work available for auction by gallery artists including Peter Max, Raymond Douillet and Steven Forester, through January. Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/

antenna — “Blue Library Vol. 2: Conversations,” group exhibition of photobooks made in conversation with notable photographers, through Jan. 30. Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery. com — “Illuminated,” new work and installation about seasons by Chris Roberts-Antieau, through Sunday. Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.antonart. com — Selected folk art by Mose Tolliver, Jimmie Sudduth, Mary T. Smith and Sybil Gibson, ongoing. Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery. com — Art by Suzanne Brinker and Frannie Kronenberg; jewelry by Suzanne and Angelique Juneau; furniture by Arlyn Jimenez; all through January. Arthur Roger@434. 434 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “Taking the Long Way Home,” new work by Read More and Eli Hansen, through Feb. 18. Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (504) 322-5055; www.beatasasik.com — New work by Beata Sasik, ongoing. Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery. 4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing. Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery. com — “Megalomania,” portraits of the gallery dog Cosmopolitan by 27 artists, through Feb. 1. Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandneworleansartgallery.com — “Angels Collection,” new work by Ramon Reyes, through Jan. 30. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Syn-tac-tic,” abstract works by James Kennedy, through Feb. 18. CANO Creative Space at Myrtle Banks Building. 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — “Of Human Bonds,” photographs by Marti Corn, Ashley Lorraine and Joe Quint, through Feb. 28. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “City Saints,” new oil≈paintings by Warren Prindle, through January. CJ Nero. 839 Spain St., (504) 875-2008; www.facebook.com/craig.who.dat.nero — “Lifting the Veil II,” black-and-white photographs by Craig J. Nero, Darcy Culp, Jill Shampine and Tish Douzart, ongoing. Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Southern Exotic,” group exhibition exploring Southern flora and fauna, through Jan. 21. Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.

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Pamela Marquis Studio. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 615-1752; www.pamelamarquisstudio.com — New paintings by Pamela Marquis, ongoing. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — “Creatures of Carnival,” prints by Christopher Kirsch; beads by Eloise Davis; beaded tapestries and Mardi Gras Indian regalia by Big Chief Alfred Doucette; all through February. RidgeWalker Glass Gallery. 2818 Rampart St., (504) 957-8075; www.ridgewalkerglass.com — Glass, metal sculpture and paintings by Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway, ongoing. Scene by Rhys Art Gallery. 708 Toulouse St., (504) 258-5842; www.scenebyrhys. com — Pen and ink drawings by Emilie Rhys, ongoing. Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.neworleanshealingcenter. org — “Rebirth,” group show featuring Natori Green, Jessica Normington, Ron Bennett, Gina Laguna and Cynthia Ramirez, through Feb. 26. ShiNola Gallery. 1813 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 223-5732; www.facebook. com/shinolagallery — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing. The Spielman Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 899-7670; www.davidspielman.com — Travel, Hurricane Katrina and Gulf South black-and-white photographs by David Spielman, ongoing. St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation. org — “Technology Today,” work made using salvaged materials by Jason Kofke, through Jan. 28. Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Visual Folklores,” mixed-media work about the slave trade and African history by Georgette Baker and Epaul Julien, through Jan. 28. Studio Inferno. 6601 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-1878; www.facebook. com/infernonola — “The Dog Show,” group exhibition curated by Carol Leake, through Feb. 11. The Tigermen Den. 3113 Royal St.; www.facebook.com/tigermenden — “Role Models,” paintings about the feminine subconscious by Rose McBurney, through Sunday. Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery.com — New work by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing.

SPARE SPACES The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-9283; www.building1427.com — Work by Daniel Jupiter, Mark Lacabe and Maurice Hicks, ongoing. M. Furniture Gallerie. 2726 Royal St., Suite B, (504) 324-2472; www.mfurnituregallerie.com — Paintings by Tracy Jarmon; copper work by Giovanni; watercolors by Bill James; furniture by John Wilhite; all ongoing. Pirate’s Alley Cafe. 622 Pirate’s Alley, (504) 524-9332; www.piratesalleycafe.

com — Paintings, prints and mixed-media works by Joe Bostick, Mario Ortiz, Chris Holcombe, Nathan Durapau, Ernest Brown, Emily Stieber, Jennifer Laffin, Brandon Felix and others, ongoing. Treo. 3835 Tulane Ave., (504) 304-4878; www.treonola.com — “Luminous,” group show of contemporary photography curated by Erin Nelson, through Thursday. Tulane University. 6823 St Charles Ave., (504) 865-5000; www.tulane.edu — “Thomas Sully: At Home and at Leisure,” drawings, blueprints and photographs of residences and yachts by Thomas Sully, through June 3.

MUSEUMS The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Rites, Rituals and Revelry: The History of Mardi Gras in New Orleans,” guided tours featuring Carnival history and artifacts, through Feb. 24. “Clarence John Laughlin and his Contemporaries: A Picture and a Thousand Words,” photographs and writings by the 20th-century photographer, through March 25. “Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825-1925,” period merchandise, ceramics, silver, furniture and clothing sold in the French Quarter, through April 9. Hand-carved decoy ducks; “The Seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter,” model of a 200-year-old French Quarter building and historic site; both ongoing. Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Historic French Quarter life and architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and display exploring Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts; “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection,” five centuries of landscape painting including works by Cezanne, Monet, David Hockney, J.M.W. Turner and others, through Jan. 15. “Elements of Chance,” George Dunbar retrospective, through Feb. 19. “African Art: The Bequest from the Francoise Billion Richardson Charitable Trust,” more than 100 African scuptures, through June 30. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — “Mississippi History,” Southern color portraits by Maude Schuyler Clay, through Jan. 15. “CURRENTS: New Orleans Photo Alliance Members Showcase,” juried exhibition of new work by NOPA members, through Jan. 29. “Simon Gunning and the Southern Louisiana Landscape,” paintings by the Australian-born artist, through Feb. 5. Metalwork by Ben Caldwell, through March 28. “Profligate Beauty,” work inspired by the Amer-

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Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection

by old and modern masters spanning five centuries. The Microsoft • Through Jan. 15 co-founder’s collection features • New Orleans Museum of Art a stellar array of big names, and • 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle the New Orleans Museum of Art is its only Southern venue. Need• (504) 658-4100 less to say, there is a lot to see, • www.noma.org but be prepared for a few quirks. The “Seeing Nature” part of the title should be taken very literally, because this show is less about landscapes than it is about how artists have been “seeing nature” over the ages. So Jan Brueghel the Younger’s “sense” paintings — such as Sense of Sight (pictured) — are really more about culture. In this painting, the 17th-century Flemish master depicts a gilded gallery with dozens of dazzling artworks surrounding a pale pink muse chatting with an affable cherub in a scene that suggests a fantastical estate sale on Mt. Olympus. What it means is best left to the historians, but it really is amazing. No less arresting is Georgia O’Keeffe’s Black Iris VI, a rhapsodically painted flower with delicately suggestive petals. O’Keeffe’s flowers looked less overtly anatomical in the pre-internet age, but now even a Google search for hot water heater parts can turn up views of women’s private parts amid the hardware. O’Keeffe’s paintings are as gorgeous as ever, but the era of Google’s anatomical indiscretions makes them seem more graphic than intended. Even a panoramic Grand Canyon painting by David Hockney can be disorienting, perhaps because his color palette seems derived from Life Savers candies. It seems more cute than awesome, a quality that may cause some to involuntarily flash on Walt Disney while viewing an adjacent Grand Canyon canvas by 19th-century American master Thomas Cole. Like a party where the guest list looked stellar on paper but seemed slightly puzzling in person, this can be a very rewarding viewing experience if you are prepared for a few disorienting surprises. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

ican South from the museum’s permanent collection, through September.

CALL FOR ARTISTS LSU AgCenter Get It Growing Lawn and Garden Calendar. LSU AgCenter requests gardening photographs for its 2018 calendar. Visit www.lsuagcenter.com/getitgrowingcalendar for details. Platforms Fund. Artists working on “ambitious, accessible and experimental” projects may apply for grants of up to $5,000 from the Platforms Fund, a collaborative project of Antenna, Ashe Cultural Arts Center and Pelican Bomb in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Visit www.platformsfund. org for details. #PutYourStampOnLoving. The New

Orleans Loving Festival seeks stamp designs commemorating the Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision. Visit www. charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/ submit for details. Utility box street gallery artists. Community Visions Unlimited seeks artists to paint public utility boxes around the city. Visit www.cvunola.org or email cvunola@ gmail.com for details.

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THEATER Billy Elliott. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Elton John wrote the score for the musical about a young English man who discovers ballet. Tickets $39.80-$44. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Book of Love: Back to the Chapel. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www. cuttingedgetheater.com — The musical comedy is the sequel to Going to the Chapel. Tickets $22.50-$30. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Grace & Igor. The Tigermen Den, 3113 Royal St. — Generate INK presents a one-act play by Jesse Strauss, in which a woman who has recently become ill befriends a Russian puppeteer. Visit www. generateink.com for details. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Jinkx Monsoon. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — The comedic variety show starring the winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race is The Vaudevillians. Tickets $35$75. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Lion King. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The critically acclaimed show adapts Disney’s musical about the cub who would be king. Tickets $45-$165. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 2 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Reefer Madness: The Musical. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave. — The Storyville Collective presents a musical based on the 1936 cult film. Visit www.doctuhmistuh. org for details. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday-Sunday. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane.edu/~theatre — New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane presents Shakespeare’s early cross-dressing comedy. Tickets $20-$30. 7:30 p.m. Friday. White Rabbit Red Rabbit. St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church, 7100 St. Charles Ave. — Poor Yorick presents the play by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, which stars a different actor each night. Visit www.facebook. com/pooryoricknola for details. Tickets $10-$18. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Chris Lane hosts the open-mic comedy show with burlesque interludes. Admission $5. 9:30 p.m. Monday.

An Evening with Nicole Lynn Foxx. House of Blues, Big Mama’s Lounge, 229 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans — Nicole Lynn Foxx and DC Paul host the weekly drag and comedy show. 7 p.m. Friday. Miss Gay Crescent City Louisiana USofA. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — Kitty D’Litter and USofA Pageants present the drag competition with a “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” theme. Admission $10. 9 p.m. Friday. Spotlight New Orleans with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — Louisiana Bucket Brigade executive director Anne Rolfes and ethnomusicologist Nick Spitzer are the guests at the live talk show. Cedric Watson is the musical guest. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Strip Roulette. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Bella Blue presents the improvised burlesque competition. 11 p.m. Saturday. Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9405546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday. Whiskey & Rhinestones. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www.gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts a burlesque show. Visit www. thebellalounge.com for details. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Thursday.

DANCE Art of Broken Pieces. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — Maritza Mercado-Narcisse’s collection of choreographed works is presented by her company, the Narcisse Movement Project. Tickets $25, students and seniors $15. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelve.mile.limit — Julie Mitchell and Laura Sanders host an openmic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday. Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 834-6474; www.facebook.com/pages/thenewwaloos — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Chris & Tami. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform improv weekly. 9:30 p.m Wednesday.

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Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Massive Fraud presents stand-up comedy. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 9492009; www.lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday. Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “RedBean” Plunkett hosts a stand-up show. 8 p.m. Thursday. Dean’s List. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green and Cyrus Cooper perform improv. 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Franchise. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The New Movement’s improv troupes perform. 9 p.m. Friday. Go Ahead. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone and Shawn Dugas host a short lineup of alternative comics. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Greetings, From Queer Mountain. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — LGBT comics perform. Tickets $8. 7:30 p.m. Friday. Hot Sauce. Voodoo Lounge, 718 N. Rampart St., (504) 304-1568 — Vincent Zambon and Leon Blanda host a comedy showcase. 8 p.m. Thursday. Local Uproar. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a comedy showcase with free food and ice cream. 8 p.m. Saturday. NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Sunday. Pass the Mic. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Jeff Buck hosts the evening of stand-up comedy mixed with improv. 10:30 p.m. Friday. Something Like. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — The monthly singalong features group karaoke to songs from Little Shop of Horrors. Costumes encouraged. 8 p.m. Thursday. Stoked. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Mary-Devon Dupuy and Lane Lonion host the comedy showcase. 8 p.m. Saturday. Think You’re Funny?. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — Brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday. You Don’t Know the Half of It. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peters St., (504) 522-2081; www. lepetittheatre.com — Cecile Monteyne’s half-scripted, half improvised show marks its fifth anniversary with a lineup of actors, comedians and musical interludes. Tickets $25. 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

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TUESDAY 10 Transition to Windows 10. Madisonville Library, 1123 Main St., Madisonville, (985) 845-4819; www.sttammany.lib.la.us — The class covers tips for transitioning to Windows 10. Registration required. 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 11 Big Chief Robbe. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www.nolalibrary.org — The Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief discusses his history with the Creole Wild West, the Golden Blades, the White Eagles and the Ninth Ward Hunters. 6 p.m. Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. Boomtown Casino, 4132 Peters Road, Harvey, (504) 366-7711; www.boomtownneworleans.com — The Murder Mystery Company presents an immersive dinner theater performance of Till Death Do Us Part. Tickets $90. 7 p.m. Obituaries for Genealogy Research. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www. nolalibrary.org — City Archives and Special Collections staff introduce obituary research. 6:30 p.m. Positive Thinking Workshop. Unity of New Orleans Spiritual Center, 3722 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-3390; www. unitytempleneworleans.com — Swami Sankaranda discusses transcending fear

and finding inner peace. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY 12 Consider the Oyster Dinner. Press Street Station, 5 Press St., (504) 249-5622; www.pressstreetstation.com — The restaurant hosts a four-course oyster dinner presented by chef Frank Brigtsen, Two Girls One Shuck and NOCCA’s Culinary Arts program. Tickets $125, includes wine pairings, tax and gratuity. 6 p.m. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration. New Orleans Public Library, main branch, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 596-2602; www.nolalibrary.org — Bamboula 2000 and Eleanor McMain Secondary School Choir perform at the party in King’s honor. Hon. Calvin Johnson is the keynote speaker. 10:30 a.m. Politics on Tap. NOLA Brewing Taproom, 3001 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 301-0117; www.nolabrewing.com — The informal political discussion group holds its inaugural meeting. 6:30 p.m. Weight Loss Discussion Group. West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — SelfCare Health Initiatives holds a three-week food and weight loss discussion group. Contact (504) 889-8143 or wcsmith@jplibrary.net for details. 6 p.m. Where Does It Hurt?. Circle Food Store, 1522 St. Bernard Ave. — Bring Your Own’s evening of storytelling

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez Commemorative Luncheon. Ashe Power House, 1731 Baronne St., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Guest speakers Dr. Barbara Ransby and Dr. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto discuss King and Chavez at a luncheon. Tickets $25. Noon to 2 p.m. Fit for a King Conference. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Delgado Theater, (504) 616-6066; www.dcc. edu — Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center’s day of workshops is called “Defending the Dream: The Future of Fair Housing.” New York Times Magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is the keynote speaker. Vist www.fitforaking.org for details. Registration required. 9 a.m. Inter-Krewe-Lactic King Cake Party. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8201; www.4321saintclaude.com — Krewe of Dreux and Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus host a king cake party with raffles, live music and food trucks. Costumes encouraged. Admission $13. 7 p.m. Priscilla and Elvis’ 50th Wedding Anniversary. The Willow, 8200 Willow St., (504) 656-6563; www.thewillowuptown. com — Krewe of Rolling Elvi hosts the party with wedding cake, Champagne and DJ performances. A portion of proceeds benefits Ronald McDonald House. Tickets $10. 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 14 Children’s Theatre Workshop. River Region Performing Arts & Cultural Center, 15146 River Road, Norco, (504) 9041129; www.rrpa.org — The River Region Drama Guild’s free theater workshop for kids ages 8 to 15 teaches acting skills. Call (504) 331-0990 for details. 9 a.m. to noon. Critter Cinema. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191 — Kids ages 5-10 snuggle with puppies and kittens at a movie night and pajama party. There’s pizza and popcorn. Email erica@la-spca.org to register (required). Tickets $35. 6 p.m. Dutch Oven Cooking. Bogue Chitto Park, 17049 State Park Blvd., Franklinton, (888) 677-7312 — The Bogue Chitto Dutch Oven Cookers prepare a variety of dishes at this monthly gathering. Open to the public. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Evening at Chester’s with Author Karen Marie Moning. Republic New Orleans, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 528-8282; www. republicnola.com — This dance party celebrates the final installment of Moning’s Fever paranormal romance series with live entertainment, a costume contest and snacks. Tickets $30. 7 p.m. to midnight. Nature Photography Walk. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 6588 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 5893882; www.nps.gov/jela — Local photographer Mike Murphree shares techniques PAGE 42

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for taking memorable nature photos. Call (504) 689-3690 ext. 10 to register. Free admission. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. NOLA Gaymers Party. LGBT Community Center of New Orleans, 2727 S. Broad St.; www.lgbtccno.org — LGBT gamers of all ages meet to enjoy board, card and console games. Suggested donation $1. 2 p.m. Piety Street Market. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741; www.612piety.com — More than 50 vendors offer art, jewelry, crafts, vintage clothes, collectibles, used books and flea market treasures at this monthly market. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saint Roch Art Market. St. Roch Market, 1200 St. Claude Ave.; www.strochmarket. com — St. Roch Market hosts local art vendors. Contact saintrochartmarket@ gmail.com for details. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Set Your Phasers to Stunning. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3018201; www.4321saintclaude.com — Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus’ talent show features various singing, dancing and variety acts and a costume contest. Admission $10, or $5 in costume. 8 p.m. Super Second Saturday Yard Sale. Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association, 1123 Lamanche St., (504) 3736483 — NENA’s yard sale features arts and craft vendors and music and dance performances. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

SUNDAY 15 New Puppy Workshop. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 3685191; www.la-spca.org — This humans-only workshop gives an overview of new puppy ownership. Visit www.la-spca.org/trainingworkshops to register (required). Noon. A Tisket, A Tasket: Who Is In The Casket?. The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St., (504) 486-8351; www.cannerynola. com — The evening presented by Spiritual 6 Productions includes dinner and an immersive murder mystery comedy. Tickets $45. 5:30 p.m.

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WORDS Blended Books Club. Stella Jones Gallery, Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www. stellajonesgallery.com — New Orleans

Loving Festival holds a storytelling hour and book sale of work by human rights advocates and artists of color. There are refreshments and prizes. Free admission. 3 p.m. Saturday. John Bemelmans Marciano and Sophie Blackall. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The author and illustrator discuss and sign their children’s book The Witches of Benevento: Mischief Season. 2 p.m. Saturday. Lisa Wade. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The author discusses and signs American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. 6 p.m. Thursday.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs. Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200. Arc of Greater New Orleans. The organization for people with intellectual disabilities seeks donations of Mardi Gras beads, volunteers to help sort beads and volunteers for Arc farm duties. Visit www.arcgno.org for details and drop-off locations. Bayou Rebirth Wetlands Education. Bayou Rebirth seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties. Visit www. bayourebirth.org. CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer court-appointed special advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 522-1962 or email info@ casaneworleans.org. The Creativity Collective. The organization seeks artists, entrepreneurs, parents and teens to help with upcoming projects and events, including maintaining a creative resource directory and organizing charity bar crawls. Visit www.creativitycollective.com or call (916) 206-1659. Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to manage inventory, help clients and share their expertise. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org. Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-on-one mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors. Visit www. eachonesaveone.org. Edgar Degas Foundation. The nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to foundation development. Call (504) 821-5009 or email info@degashouse.com. Edible Schoolyard. Edible Schoolyard seeks community volunteers and interns to assist in kitchen and garden classes and to help in school gardens. Visit www.esynola.org/get-involved or email amelia@ esynola.org. First Tee of Greater New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteers to serve as mentors and coaches to kids and teens through its golf program. Visit www. thefirstteenola.org. Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race-day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola.org or visit www. gotrnola.org. Golden Opportunity Adult Literacy Pro-

EVENTS to mentor boys ages 15 to 18 who are at risk for violence. Visit www.nolaforlife. org/give/mentor. NOLA Tree Project. The forestry organization seeks volunteers to adopt and trim trees around the city. Visit www.nolatreeproject.org. NOLA Wise. The partnership of Global Green, the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient. It seeks volunteers, who must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@ globalgreen.org. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The museum seeks docents to discuss visual arts in the South with adults and children. Email ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org for details. Parkway Partners. The green space and community garden organization seeks volunteers for building, gardening and other projects. Email info@parkwaypartnersnola.org, call (504) 620-2224 or visit www.parkwaypartnersnola.org. Refugee mentors. Catholic Charities of New Orleans’ Refugee Service Program seeks volunteers, especially those with Arabic, Burmese and Spanish language skills, to help newly arrived refugees learn about everyday life in America. Senior companions. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist seniors with personal and daily tasks so they can live independently. Visit www. nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121. SpayMart. The humane society seeks volunteers for fundraising, grant writing, data input, adoptions, animal care and more. Visit www.spaymart.org, email info@ spaymart.org or call (504) 454-8200. St. Thomas Hospitality House. The Catholic charity seeks individuals and groups of volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness. Contact Daniel Thelen at nolacw@gmail.com or (517) 290-8533. Start the Adventure in Reading. The STAIR program holds regular two-hour training sessions for volunteers, who work one-on-one with public school students to develop reading and language skills. Call (504) 899-0820, email elizabeth@ stairnola.org or visit www.stairnola.org. Teen Life Counts. The Jewish Family Service program seeks volunteers to teach suicide prevention to middle school and high school students. Call (504) 831-8475. Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries. The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans with food and clothing distribution, home improvements and beautification, social media and web design. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www.veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com.

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Temporary Farm Labor: Harrell Farms, Black Oak, AR, has 1 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment with GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops from field to storage, operating cotton pickers, module builders & boll buggies; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.39/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 3/1/17 – 12/1/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1843716 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: Nelson & Diana Bulanek Farms, Danbury, TX, has 4 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment & machinery for cultivating, fertilizing, planting, & harvesting of rice, walking fields to pull weeds, shovel levees & install water boxes, sort crawfish, check oxygen levels, clearing fence lines, transporting rice; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/15/17 – 12/15/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX3450444 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

Temporary Farm Labor: Florenden Farms, Luxora, AR, has 6 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment with GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting rice & soybeans from field to storage, install, maintain & repair irrigation, adding & removing spillways; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.39/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 3/1/17 – 11/1/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1843777 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: Justin Mencer Farms, Lake Village, AR, has 2 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops from field to storage, cleaning grain bins, maintain & repair irrigation; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.39/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 3/1/17 – 12/1/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1843763 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: Gill Brothers Farms, Walnut Ridge, AR, has 3 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment with GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops from field to storage, operating hay equipment for hay production of swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting from field to storage, walking rice fields to pull weeds, leveling grain in bins, adding & removing spillways; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.39/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 3/1/17 – 12/20/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1843719 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225342-2917.

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Temporary Farm Labor: Brazos Barton Farming Partnership, Hearne, TX, has 8 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment with GPS for tilling, cultivating, planting, fertilizing & harvesting of grain, operating haying equipment for swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting from field to storage, assisting with livestock, vaccinating, ear tagging, branding, feeding supplements, assist with calving, transport calves to market; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/15/17 – 12/15/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX6517601 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: David & LaLain Wilkison Farms, Brinkley, AR, has 13 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment for cultivating, planting, fertilizing & harvesting of row crops, loading fertilizer on equipment, walking fields & pulling weeds, drying, bagging loading soybeans & rice; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.38/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/12/17 – 12/1/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1842894 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

Temporary Farm Labor: Panhandle Harvesting Services, Amarillo, TX, has 16 positions, 6 mo. experience for operating self-propelled custom class harvesting machines to harvest a variety of grain & oilseed crops, adjust speed of cutters, blowers & conveyers, change cutting head & height of cutting head using hand tools; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain appropriate CDL with clean MVR to drive grain & transporter trucks within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.00/hr. - $2000/mo. plus R&B depending on location in TX, OK, KS, CO & MT, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/20/17 – 12/20/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX3450423 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: Salem Operating, Inez, TX, has 12 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment for cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops from fields to storage, maintain & repair irrigation, manure cleaning of cattle pens; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/15/17 – 12/15/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX5194984 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: TMG Ag LLC, Mellwood, AR, has 4 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment for mixing, transporting & delivering pesticides to farms to apply pesticides to fields, assisting with vaccinating, ear tagging, supplements & feeding of livestock; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.38/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/1/17 – 10/30/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1829166 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 25-342-2917. Temporary Farm Labor: Adee Honey Farms, Newton, TX, has 11 positions with 3 mo. experience required as beekeeper with references; raise honeybees, maintain colony health, caging queens, install queen cells, assemble hives, harvest combs, transport honey; maintain & repair buildings & equipment; long periods of standing, bending & must lift 75 pounds; obtain driver’s license within 30 days of hire with clean MVR; no bee, pollen, or honey related allergies; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, may increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends and asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/15/17 – 5/31/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX2971779 or call 225-342-2917.

EMPLOYMENT

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Temporary Farm Labor: F&F Companies, Searcy, AR, has 15 positions, 3 mo. operating large farm equipment such as tractors, backhoes, forklifts, harvesters, spray rigs for stacking sod, cleaning fields, field preparation for planting & harvesting of crops, pickup up rocks, maintain & repair irrigation, hand mixing of soil/compost for plants, crops & trees, growing & harvesting pecan trees; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.38/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 3/1/17 – 12/10/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order 1842934 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

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