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January 20, 2015

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Editor | KEVIN ALLMAN Managing Editor | KANDACE POWER GRAVES Political Editor | CLANCY DUBOS Arts & Entertainment Editor | WILL COVIELLO Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON

EAT + DRINK

Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD

Review: 1000 Figs ................................................. 27 Eating Mediterranean on Bayou St. John Fork + Center ........................................................... 27 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview .............................................29 Kelle McFarland, pickler Drinks ........................................................................30 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week Last Bites ..................................................................31 5 in Five; Off the Menu

Feature Writer | JEANIE RIESS Calendar & Digital Content Coordinator | ANNA GACA Contributing Writers SARAH BAIRD, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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ON THE COVER Knot Now ... But Soon? ........................................ 17 A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on same-sex marriage may clear the path for Louisiana couples

7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Arturo Sandoval, John Mulaney, The Four Seasons and more

NEWS + VIEWS News.............................................................................7 Know your rights, teen edition: A library program connects kids with cops Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world

Scuttlebutt................................................................8 From their lips to your ears C’est What? ...............................................................8 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats .........................................10 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................13 Smoke ’em if you got ’em Blake Pontchartrain.............................................14 The New Orleans N.O. It All Clancy DuBos...........................................................15 What Bobby JIndal has stolen

STYLE + SHOPPING What’s In Store ......................................................25 Dr. Deborah Lesem

A+E ...............................................................................37 A brass band compilation, and upcoming new New Orleans music Music .........................................................................38 PREVIEW: Billy Idol and Broncho Film.............................................................................42 REVIEW: Foxcatcher Art ...............................................................................45 REVIEW: Monir Farmanfarmaian in Prospect.3 Stage..........................................................................48 REVIEW: The Night Market Events .......................................................................50 Crossword + Sudoku ...........................................60

CLASSIFIEDS Market Place ...........................................................53 Legal Notices..........................................................54 Employment ...........................................................55 Picture Perfect Properties................................ 57 Real Estate .............................................................58 Mind + Body + Fitness ...........................................61 Home + Garden .......................................................62 Mardi Gras Madness ............................................63

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by New Orleans mainstays Lefty Parker and DC Harbold) take center stage in this Tuesday night residency comprised of unsung covers and melted-wax originals. At 10 p.m. at Saturn Bar.

Arturo Sandoval

Fri. Jan. 23 | Cuban-born trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval mastered jazz and classical music, but he is best known as a disciple of Dizzy Gillespie and a voice for Afro-Cuban sounds in jazz. At 7:30 p.m. at Contemporary Arts Center.

The Four Seasons

Fri.-Sun. Jan. 23-25 | The Marigny Opera House Dance Company premieres its second program with works by choreographers Maya Taylor, Donna Crump and Diego de Lima performed to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons by the New Resonance Orchestra with violin soloist Kate Withrow. At 8 p.m. at Marigny Opera House.

Fri. Jan. 23 | Charlie Yin sounds determined to put the fun back in electronic dance music. Famous for dance-party remixes, his latest work as Giraffage, November EP No Reason (Fool’s Gold), is a mashup of mixed computer signals and playfully chopped synth pop. Spazzkid opens at 10 p.m. at the Hi-Ho Lounge.

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Jarekus Singleton | Jarekus Singleton started singing in church

while growing up in Mississippi, but following a stint as a rapper (and college baskeball star), he picked up the guitar and blazed an upbeat rocking blues style. His 2014 release Refuse to Lose is buoyed by funky beats and swirling organs. With The Funky Meters at 10 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

Fri. Jan. 23 | Current star of Fox’s Mulaney and former Saturday Night Live writer (who wrote Bill Hader’s New York club-kid city correspondent Stefon) John Mulaney earned critical acclaim following his 2012 album and performance New in Town, cementing his status as a top-tier stand-up comic. The comedian performs two shows (9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.) at the Civic Theatre.

Yotam Haber at Space Rites

7 p.m. Jan. 24 | Artists from New Orleans Airlift (creators, with Swoon, of The Music Box, aka Dithyrambalina) created a P.3+ installation at St. Maurice Church and curated a series of musical performances. The final one features award-winning composer Yotam Haber, musicians from the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Vahn Dahn Lion Dance. At 7 p.m. at 605 St. Maurice Ave.

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individual, why we’re stopping The Alvar Street Branch them,” Williams said. “Just of the New Orleans giving a good explanation of …

Public Library scheduled why we’re doing what we’re a seminar Jan. 17 where doing, why we have to do teenagers could ask New Orleans Police Department certain things.” representatives about The presentation also their rights. was set to include new tools P H O T O B Y I N F R O G M AT I O N / and technology the NOPD is C R E AT I V E C O M M O N S putting in place to ensure accountability. “As part of that, we have a lot of new technology that we’re utilizing just to safeguard everyone involved,” Williams said. “We have over 500 body cameras that are in use. That’s going to eliminate the ‘he-said, she-said.’ It changes the officer’s behavior as well as the citizen’s behavior.”

Gamble and Williams acknowledge that recent headlines have tarnished the reputation of law enforcement, both locally and nationally, and Williams says that a sit-down conversation with the community and the police will continue to help the NOPD regain trust.

“It’s an opportunity to meet them and…do nothing but help to bridge that gap and form new relationships,” Williams said.

“It’s just interacting so they see we’re people just like they are, we’re humans ... We’re trying to do a better job of being more transparent.”

The NOPD already has programming for young kids up to middle and high schoolers, including “Officer Friendly,” the community relations campaign first launched in the 1960s by various police departments. That program, however, is aimed at younger children, while the library’s session is aimed at older children and teenagers who may not be certain of their rights when dealing with police.

Horne-Hoonsan says the library is always full of kids, and the one of the best things about it is that if they aren’t having fun, they can walk out and leave, though she tries to pick events that will interest and engage them. “We always look for what we can do with a little,” she said.

Monty: “I’m not doing a good job of getting our guys to play the same way every game. It’s plagued us all year. I’ve got to figure it out.”

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N.O. COMMENT What you had to say on BestofNewOrleans.com this week

Our poll, “If Gov. Bobby Jindal runs for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, what do you think would be his odds for success?,” drew this comment: “Don’t misunderestimate this guy! I am a transplant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and back at the end of 1986, when he just won re-election to another term as governor, the very idea of ‘President Michael Stanley Dukakis’ was ludicrous.”

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hile a national conversation about police brutality and racial profiling continues, the Alvar Branch of the New Orleans Public Library is doing its part to educate young patrons about their rights when interacting with the police.

On Jan. 17, the Alvar Branch Teen Program invited young people to ask Roderick Franklin, the New Orleans Police Department’s (NOPD) 5th District Community Coordinator, questions about their rights.

Charlotte Horne-Hoonsan, a coordinator for the library, made a flier to advertise the event, which asks the following questions: Do I have to show my ID? Can I film the police? What should I do if I feel like I have been mistreated or discriminated against by an officer? What does reasonable suspicion mean? When does an officer need a warrant to perform a search?

Horne-Hoonsan says she saw a need for dialogue between police and teens, as well as a gap in youth programming, and reached out to the NOPD to fill it.

For the NOPD, the meeting is part of a new strategy, designed

by Superintendent Michael Harrison, to engage with New Orleanians in the wake of serious missteps and broken policies in policing nationally, as well as locally — especially in cases like the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

New Orleans has had its own share of controversial policecivilian shootings that haven’t gotten that level of national attention, including the deaths of Wendell Allen, Justin Sipp and Adolph Grimes III. “Last year, when there was a discussion around the country about the kinds of relationships departments have with their community, Chief Harrison made it clear he wanted to get involved in that discussion on the ground,” NOPD spokesperson Tyler Gamble told Gambit.

Franklin was not made available for an interview, but Sgt. Jonette Williams, the head of the 5th District’s Crime Prevention Unit, says the conversation is intended to get New Orleans and the police on the same page by better understanding young people’s rights, as well as the way NOPD officers perform their jobs.

“It’s telling them, while we have a job to do, we’re going to do our best to explain why we’re interacting with a particular

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“One of the most impressive leaders I have ever met is Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. A strong family man, devoted husband, father and son, and perhaps one of the most astute and articulate politicians I know, he’s also quite hip. With sincerity oozing from his pores, one is immediately drawn to his passion for life and his commitment to bringing about good for his neighbors, family and the electorate who overwhelmingly voted for him four times.

“Not only has he turned Louisiana’s economy around, streamlined and improved its healthcare structure, but he is a leading voice in offering solutions for energy independence and public education. Yet his effectiveness as leader and politician is rooted in his fire for God, which fans the flames of faith, Punjab — and — Cajun style.”

— Bethany Blankley, a political analyst for Fox News Radio, writing at TownHall.com. Blankley praised Jindal’s leadership on public education during a week when it was announced the state would have to cut up to $360 million from Louisiana’s public colleges and universities in fiscal year 2015-2016. At the time, Jindal was in Europe on a speaking tour that’s clearly designed to give him some foreign policy cred before his anticipated presidential campaign announcement.

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Duke’s ’91 white vote overstated by national media

Factchecking the former KKK leader’s support News coverage of U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise’s 2002 speech to a hate group founded by neo-Nazi and former state Rep. David Duke prompted widespread media coverage of Duke himself in recent weeks — something the former KKK leader always welcomes. That coverage naturally included mention of Duke’s 1991 gubernatorial showdown against former Gov. Edwin Edwards in “the runoff from hell” — as if Louisianans needed another reminder of their worst political nightmare.

To make matters worse, many national political reporters are now giving Duke even more political cred than he himself claimed back in 1991, by significantly overstating his share of the white vote in that runoff against EWE. In the wake of the 1991 race, which Edwards won by a margin of 61.2 percent to Duke’s 38.8 percent, Duke claimed a pyrrhic victory by boasting that he got 55 percent of the white vote statewide. According to voter registration and turnout figures, which were readily available at the time, Duke’s claim was close but a tad high: He actually got slightly more than 53 percent of the white vote.

For some reason, the national media in recent weeks has begun reporting that Duke got 60 percent of the white vote in that race — or more. That’s impossible, based on the known turnout (just under 80 percent among whites and blacks) and the undisputed results of the race.

Had Duke gotten 60 percent or more of the white vote, his total vote would have been roughly 44 percent rather than less than 39 percent.

Gambit’s analysis was confirmed by demographer Greg Rigamer, who has tracked voter turnout and voting patterns in Louisiana for decades and who serves as a consultant to the Louisiana Secretary of

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State’s office. “In reviewing the 1991 gubernatorial election, it is reasonably clear that David Duke received a majority of the ‘white’ vote,” Rigamer told Gambit. “However, his margin was likely closer to 50 percent than 60 percent.”

The first instance of the erroneous 60 percent figure that we were able to locate is a Dec. 31, 2014 New York Times article about Scalise’s 2002 speech to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO). From there, the inflated white vote for Duke seems to have been reprinted as gospel. It isn’t.

Make no mistake: Duke getting a majority of the white vote in a runoff for governor will always stand as a shameful reminder of too many white Louisiana voters’ racial intolerance in the late 20th century — but exaggerating Duke’s white vote only makes things appear even worse than they already were (and are).

Hopefully, the national media will correct their mistake and start getting it right. — CLANCY DuBOS

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and independent respondents who lean toward the GOP. Clinton was the choice of 66 percent of Democratic respondents and independents who lean Democratic.

POLITICO also published remarks Jindal planned to make about his parents’ decision to immigrate from India to the United States 45 years ago. “I am explicitly saying that it is completely reasonable for nations to discriminate,” POLITICO reported him as saying, “between allowing people into their country who want to embrace their culture, or allowing people into their country who want to destroy their culture, or establish a separate culture within.”

Nowhere in there, it seemed, did Jindal discuss what was on the minds of constituents back home (see “Politics,” p. 15). — KEVIN ALLMAN

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Torres airs anti-crime ads in New Orleans tourism market

Earlier this month, Sidney Torres IV — the former owner of SDT Waste & Debris Services, which PAGE 11

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Gov. Bobby Jindal, often on the road visiting presidential primary states, just spent 10 days in Europe on an “economic development mission,” but in Jindal’s schedule there’s always room for a little (or a lot of) politicking.

Daniel Halper, online editor of The Weekly Standard, reported some of Jindal’s prepared remarks to a conservative London think tank.

Halper wrote of the speech, “Jindal will use the speech to bash Hillary Clinton, the likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, and to go after radical Islam in wake of last week’s Paris terrorist attacks. …

Jindal is planning to say, ‘Our former Secretary of State in America recently said that we need to “show respect for our enemies” and “empathize with their perspective and point of view.” Well, yes, understanding our enemies as a means of destroying them, I’m all for that.

But empathizing with them as if perhaps we can find some common ground, I have no interest in that kind of mindless naivete.’”

In a CNN | ORC poll conducted last month, Jindal was the choice of 4 percent of Republican respondents

Businessman Sidney Torres IV, who aired commercials blaming Mayor Mitch Landrieu for what Torres sees as a crime problem in the French Quarter, took his ads to the Baton Rouge airwaves last week.

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founded by Drew and Brittany Brees, donated $200,000 to the United Way of Long Island for recovery efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Sandy in Long Beach, New York. The donation will help build 20 houses. Since its inception in 2003, the foundation has helped donate more than $20 million to families in need and other charitable causes.

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including Entergy New Orleans, Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, donated $1 million to the New Orleans Council on Aging and the Salvation Army via Entergy’s The Power to Care initiative. The program provides financial assistance statewide to elderly and disabled Entergy customers.

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The Pro Bono Publico Foundation,

the philanthropic arm of the Rex Organization, awarded more than $860,000 to several local charter schools and education programs Jan. 10.

The foundation has awarded more than $3 million to New Orleans area schools since its founding after Hurricane Katrina.

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pleaded guilty in Orleans Parish Criminal Court Jan. 9 to two counts of possessing contraband inside Orleans Parish Prison’s House of Detention. Anderson was the last of a dozen defendants behind an infamous 2009 video at the prison showing inmates using drugs, gambling and wielding a gun, among other illicit activities.

Anderson was sentenced to 28 months in prison.

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provided garbage service to the French Quarter — aired an ad on local television blaming Mayor Mitch Landrieu for a spate of violent crimes in the Quarter and surrounding neighborhoods.

At the time, Torres said he intended to air similar ads in nearby cities, aimed at potential New Orleans tourists. Last week he did just that, airing commercials in Baton Rouge.

One of the ads (which can be seen at www.keepthefrenchquartersafe.com) concludes with people saying, “I don’t feel safe. I just don’t feel safe,” and asking, “How many more? How many more robberies?

How many more assaults? How many more shootings?”

“Demand a plan from our mayor,” the commercial concludes. “Our city depends on it.”

Landrieu has stayed mostly quiet on Torres’ salvos, telling WWL-TV, “He made millions and millions and millions of dollars off of garbage contracts in the French Quarter, and maybe he should just take some of that money and do it himself, if he thinks it is so easy. It’s just not.”

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Vape no more?

E-cigs a sticking point in smoking ordinance

Beefing with the King

Maness wants “A Little Less Conversation”

Ret. Air Force Col. Rob Maness sparred a lot with opponents Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy in last year’s U.S. Senate race, but he’s not through taking jabs at Louisiana politicians. Rep. John Fleming, R-Minden, appeared on the WGSO-FM radio show “Ringside Politics” Jan. 9, and mentioned Maness in passing, saying he had put up a valiant effort against Landrieu but hadn’t managed to raise much money.

Maness used that comment as the occasion to send out a fundraiser for his newly formed political action committee, GATORPAC, and engaged in a little smack talk with Fleming in the process.

“Our grassroots army might not be the richest, but they are the mightiest!” wrote Maness. “I don’t think they’ll take too kindly on politicians from the Washington DC Swamp looking down on them ... Let’s get together soon, I’ll even introduce you to Louisiana’s grassroots conservatives, who are craving leaders who do more than talk.” Maness’ coup de grace was the inclusion of a link to a YouTube video of Elvis Presley singing “A Little Less Conversation.”

There’s a second reason Maness and Fleming might be beefing. If U.S. Sen. David Vitter should win the governor’s race later this year, he would get to appoint someone to take his Senate seat right after he takes his oath as governor. Fleming has said he would “absolutely” run for Vitter’s Senate chair — but Vitter is said to be a Maness fan these days. In fact, Vitter is organizing GATORPAC’s first major fundraiser this year. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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This week, the New Orleans City Council will vote on a measure that could ban smoking, including electronic cigarettes, in bars and casinos citywide (see Commentary, p.

13). But at a “town hall” meeting on the ordinance last week, e-cigarette smokers — “vapers” — and vape store owners said they felt unfairly targeted, given their product has nothing to do with tobacco.

Last year, state Sen. Rick Gallot, D-Ruston, authored a bill banning minors from buying e-cigarettes (that law went into effect last May) and several local universities have included e-cigs in their smoke-free campus policies.

E-cig supporters argue that if cigar and hookah bars are exempt from the ordinance, their stores should be as well so that customers can “taste” vape products.

Others simply say e-cigs do not pose a health threat and shouldn’t be compared to cigarettes, and that legislating against them before government health agencies issue any formal warning about them is

overreaching. Health officials say preliminary studies show e-cigs produce harmful chemicals in their vapor, and because they often resemble cigarettes, allowing their use would complicate enforcing a ban.

The ordinance could gain the backing of e-cig users and sellers if the council agrees to remove them from the ban, according to Anthony Kolesa of SmokeCignals, an Uptown vape shop. Otherwise, they will oppose it, he said.

The City Council will take up the issue Thursday, Jan. 22.

— ALEX WOODWARD

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Where there’s smoke in the hospitality industry. Supporters include the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network, which released a December poll that showed 56 percent of respondents (across all New Orleans council districts) “strongly favor” a ban.

Opponents have formed the Freedom to Choose Coalition, which includes Harrah’s New Orleans, the Louisiana Restaurant Association, the French Quarter Business League and others.

Proponents of the ordinance point to similar bans in dozens of cities as proof that nonsmoking ordinances don’t hurt business — and in some cases they help.

Still, New Orleans is not like other cities, and some questions remain. For example, the first line of enforcement here will be bartenders, servers and bar owners.

We assume most smokers will comply upon request. Potential fines in the initial draft of the ordinance were clear enough — a first-time fine of $100 for the smoker, and the possible “suspension or revocation of any permit or license issued to the person for the premises on which the violation occurred.” But who will actually enforce the new law?

Council members should at least pass an ordinance that’s reasonable — and enforceable.

In a city that is laser-focused on crime — to the point where New Orleans Police Chief Michael Harrison has canceled all time off for cops during Carnival season — using police to enforce a nonsmoking ordinance seems silly as well as impractical. Some have suggested that the forthcoming NOLA Patrol, a paid group of unarmed citizens given power to enforce “quality of life” issues in the French Quarter, might take on this role, but the Quarter is just one neighborhood. What about the rest of the city’s bars and restaurants? The New Orleans Health Department comes to mind as an enforcement agency, but that department is as budget-strapped as any other at City Hall.

Cantrell’s proposed ordinance is scheduled for a vote Jan. 22. Obviously many details must be worked out (including the first day of implementation, which is set in the ordinance for 30 days after passage). If council members are determined to discourage smoking, they should at least pass an ordinance that’s reasonable — and enforceable.

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he New Orleans City Council is scheduled to vote on a longdiscussed smoking ordinance this week, but the outcome already seems clear: Smoke ’em if you got ’em, because the smoking restrictions placed on local restaurants in 2007 seem poised to hit the city’s barrooms in the very near future, in one form or another. New Orleans Health Department Director Charlotte Parent and Mayor Mitch Landrieu support the restrictions, though the mayor’s support has been low key.

Supporters of the proposed ordinance say smoking is no more appropriate in bars than it is in any other workplace.

Opponents say smoking policies should be a choice left to bar owners based on customer demand.

District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell has spearheaded the move to restrict smoking, with staunch support from District A Councilwoman Susan Guidry. Cantrell appears to have enough council votes to pass the ordinance, the current version of which is far more practical than the original draft she introduced in November. At least some of the modifications stem from concerns expressed by the public and by District C Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey, who represents the bar- and tourist-heavy French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny.

The changes include exempting cigar and hookah bars, allowing smoking in outdoor bar patios (where it originally would have been prohibited), and reducing the distance outdoor smokers must remain from an establishment’s exterior doorway from 25 feet to five feet — solving a logistical problem in the Vieux Carre, where doors are often less than 25 feet apart.

Cantrell made another change that’s gone largely unnoticed: The original draft exempted up to 50 percent of local hotel rooms; the revised ordinance outlaws smoking in all hotel and motel rooms.

One of the rationales behind the ban is the number of major medical groups that won’t meet in cities that don’t have a smoke-free law. It thus makes sense to ban smoking in all hotel rooms.

There remains at least one sticking point: electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs, which emit water vapor, not smoke. Ecigs were discussed last week during a public comment session in City Hall, with some saying that not enough is known about them, while others say that a nonsmoking ordinance should encourage the devices because they can help smokers quit. Others suggested that if cigar bars are exempt from the rules, “vape” shops — where customers try e-cigs before buying them — should be exempt as well. That seems fair.

The proposed ordinance has pitted the city’s largest health advocates against some of the biggest names

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There are a couple of easy answers to your question.

The first answer is that when the governor and state Legislature get involved in designating an “official” anything, you sometimes get mixed results. The simpler answer is that while the familiar state flag — featuring a white pelican on a blue background with three pelican chicks in a nest — was introduced in 1912, it wasn’t until 1966 that the brown pelican was named the official state bird.

Still, the bird’s status as a symbol of Louisiana government dates back to its earliest days as an American territory. According to researcher Glen Duncan, the state’s first governor, William C.C. Claiborne, favored as a state symbol a pelican tearing at her breast to produce droplets of blood to feed her young.

This was a common image in Roman Catholicism, a reference to self-sacrifice and Christ’s shedding of blood for his flock.

In 1902, Gov. William Wright Heard made the bird an official symbol on the state seal. Then, in 1912, 100 years after Louisiana became a state, the legislature adopted an official state flag featuring a similar image.

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The Louisiana brown pelican — like this specimen, photographed off Grand Isle — did not become the official state bird until 1966. The original pelican state flag, adopted earlier in the 20th century, featured a white pelican.

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In 2006, based on research for a school project by Houma student Joseph Louviere, lawmakers wrote into law that a new state flag should include three drops of blood. The Times-Picayune reported that when testifying before a House committee, Louviere explained the drops of blood are a sign of the state’s willingness to sacrifice itself for its residents. The new flag, though it still features a pelican more white than brown, was introduced in 2010.

ll this talk of the state’s official flag, seal and bird got me to thinking about one of our two official songs, “You Are My Sunshine,” and the man who made it famous: Gov. Jimmie Davis. Davis, a country and gospel singer-songwriter who was also a two-term Louisiana governor (1944-48 and 1960-64), co-wrote the song and first recorded it in 1940.

Louisiana already had an official song (“Give Me Louisiana”) when the first attempt was made to add Davis’ ballad to the law books. In 1968, the Legislature passed a bill naming “Sunshine” the official state song, though some lawmakers had reservations. Some called the move too commercial and opposed the song because of its link to Davis, who made

headlines during his second term as a segregationist.

“I served four years under Davis and I wouldn’t want to be reminded,” commented state Sen. John Schwegmann.

Ultimately, the bill passed, but was vetoed by Gov. John McKeithen who said, “Although I have great esteem for the composer and the song, I don’t believe it is appropriate for the state song of Louisiana.”

Lawmakers tried again in 1977 with more success, making “Sunshine” official.

When Davis died in 2000 at the age of 101, his obituary included the fact that the song had been recorded by more than 350 artists, sold millions of records and was translated into 30 languages, making it one of the world’s most recognizable tunes.

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What Jindal has stolen erm-limited state lawmakers may turn out to be the lucky ones next fall. They won’t have to explain to voters why they went along with Bobby Jindal’s fiscal insanity and cut more than $700 million from Louisiana’s public colleges and universities over the past seven years.

Heck, the cuts could exceed $1 billion by Election Day, particularly since Jindal seems predisposed to do nothing in the face of a projected $1.4 billion budget gap.

Well, not quite nothing — he is laying the groundwork for a quixotic presidential run.

I’m not sure how he’s going to explain $1 billion in cuts to higher education, especially when he’s touting himself as the savior of public education in Louisiana. Then again, the national media rarely look beyond press releases, and voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have no clue what a liar Jindal is.

Louisiana lawmakers facing re-election, on the other hand, don’t share Jindal’s Orwellian gift of spinning political manure into fawning press coverage. Moreover, a recent statewide survey by Baton Rouge-based Southern Media and Opinion Research (SMOR) found that nearly 80 percent of Louisiana voters oppose cutting higher education. Unfortunately, the SMOR survey

also shows that voters are no more realistic than lawmakers when it comes to crafting a solution to the state’s fiscal ills.

Truth is, Jindal made a fatal mistake during his first few months in office, and Louisiana has been paying for it ever since.

He could have bottled up an ill-conceived bill to roll back the Stelly Plan. Voters approved Stelly in a statewide referendum in 2002. Granted, Stelly raised income taxes on middle class voters, but it also brought budgetary stability and lowered regressive sales taxes.

In 2008, the state was awash in cash because of federal aid that poured into Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the federal floods. In a move that foreshadowed future fiscal irresponsibility, Jindal belatedly supported the Stelly rollback, which cost the state $300 million then (and probably more than $500 million today), and then took credit for a “tax reduction” that wasn’t even his idea. He also spent a surplus of more than $1 billion.

To make matters worse, Jindal in subsequent years pushed budgets that clearly exceeded annual state revenues. A majority of lawmakers went along with the ruse.

Jindal covered the deficits — yes, they were

Edwin Edwards only stole money — and he left enough behind to keep colleges open. deficits because the state annually spent more than it took in — by breaking a campaign promise not to use one-time money for recurring expenditures. Over the years, Jindal got increasingly desperate in his use of non-recurring funds to pay for recurring costs, to the point that now, to paraphrase former Gov. Edwin Edwards, there’s nothing left to beg, borrow or steal. Thus we now hear talk of closing some college campuses.

All of which makes Jindal the most fiscally irresponsible governor in modern Louisiana history. Not that he cares. He can’t wait to get out of here and start lying to voters on a grand scale.

State lawmakers don’t have that luxury.

What they do have is one chance to turn things around. When they convene for their annual session in April, they can summon the courage to tell voters the truth, make some judicious cuts (starting with the governor’s office) and pass legislation that raises revenue — by reinstating parts of Stelly and/or scaling back some of Louisiana’s overly generous tax breaks.

They will need to do this early in the session, because Jindal will not offer anything that remotely resembles leadership. If he threatens a veto, they will have to use a veto-proof procedural device to outflank him. It’s been done before, dating back to the 1980s when lawmakers outflanked then-Gov. Edwin Edwards by suspending a wide array of sales tax exemptions.

Somehow, putting Jindal on par with Edwards seems a fitting end to his tenure.

Ironically, EWE had more fiscal integrity than Jindal. He only stole money — and he left enough behind to keep colleges open. Jindal has stolen much more. He has robbed future generations of any chance of attending a great public university in Louisiana.

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hen attorneys for same-sex couples from Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi argued their case before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 9, they focused national attention on the issue of same-sex marriage in the Deep South. Ultimately, legal observers predicted, the issue would have to be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court — in fact, plaintiffs as well as states’ attorneys in the local cases had asked the high court to take up the matter directly.

On Jan. 12, the Supreme Court rejected their request.

But on Jan. 16, the high court announced it would take up four other pending same-sex marriage cases in April and issue a ruling by summer — deciding once and for all whether states can write same-sex marriage bans into their constitutions by a vote of the people, as Louisiana did in 2004.

The Supreme Court still will not be hearing the local plaintiffs’ case. Instead, the court will consolidate and consider four cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, where bans on same-sex marriage were upheld by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. But if the Supreme Court rules such bans are indeed unconstitutional, the ruling would affect every state in the country.

Today, same-sex marriage is legal in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Besides Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, states where it’s not legal include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Tennessee.

The scoreboard changes almost daily. Just a few days before the 5th Circuit hearing, federal courts cleared the

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would take up the issue of same-sex marriage this term, which could clear the way for Louisiana couples by summer.

By Kevin Allman, Robert Morris, Jeanie Riess, & Alex Woodward

way for same-sex nuptials in Florida, making it the only state in the Deep South where gay marriage is legal. On Jan. 12, a federal judge in South Dakota struck down that state’s ban, but that order was stayed pending appeal.

In September 2014, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman upheld Louisiana’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in the case of Robicheaux v. Caldwell. In that case, six Louisiana couples and the Forum For Equality challenged the constitutional ban. It was the first major legal setback for same-sex marriage proponents after a string of legal victories in other states.

That ruling set the stage for this month’s appellate arguments at the 5th Circuit, which gave no timetable for a decision.

For some, it can’t come quickly enough.

Standing outside the massive appellate court building on Camp Street on the day of the hearing, Helen Barnes posed for photographs with a T-shirt reading “Str8 Mom for Marriage Equality.” Barnes, who lives in Mississippi, held a sign that she also brought to same-sex marriage rallies in Washington, D.C., in 2009 and 2013. Her son made the sign when he was 14 years old. He is now 20.

Barnes was among dozens of supporters filling courtrooms and huddling outside in 40-degree weather as the federal appeals court heard oral arguments on behalf of same-sex couples from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas against those states’ laws banning gay marriage. Crowds lined up before 7 a.m. hoping to get a seat to hear the arguments in front of the three-judge panel. The appellate PAGE 18

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Mississippi resident Jennifer Pierce, left, proposed again to her wife Jena Pierce outside the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The two were married in Connecticut.

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judges assigned to the case are Jerry E. Smith and Patrick Higginbotham (both appointed by President Ronald Reagan) and James Graves (appointed by President Barack Obama).

At a press conference outside the courthouse, attorneys for same-sex marriage advocates in all three states expressed confidence in a “just” decision and praised the judges’ questions.

“They expressed significant discomfort with this discrimination,” said Camilla Taylor of Lambda Legal, who had presented a rebuttal to Kyle Duncan of the Louisiana Attorney General’s office. Duncan had told the court that same-sex unions would be a “brand new perspective” on marriage in the history of the institution. Throughout history, Duncan said, marriage has been considered a normal part of the procreation process, and the state has an interest in promoting strong families.

Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, stood nearby, applauding Attorney General Buddy Caldwell’s team for “a masterful job defending Louisiana’s rationale for defining marriage as a legal relationship between one man and one woman.” He acknowledged that the purpose of marriage is more complex than to facilitate procreation, but the history of the institution has confined it to heterosexual relationships. “I think it’s a valid question,” Mills told Gambit. “I don’t believe that the issue will be finally decided by a three-judge panel in the 5th Circuit.”

“It is virtually unprecedented to have so many federal courts considering the same issue at the same time,” Steven Hartmann, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s office, told Gambit before the Supreme Court announced its decision. “If the 5th Circuit rules against Louisiana, which is by no means certain, Attorney General Caldwell is committed to pursuing the best option at the time to safeguard the right of Louisiana citizens to determine for themselves this profound and important policy issue. If the 5th Circuit rules for Louisiana, then the

plaintiffs will have the same options.”

Mills alluded to Feldman’s recent decision upholding Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriage. Among other points, Feldman said the democratic process is a legitimate way of allowing states to make their own decisions about marriage. Louisiana’s constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was approved by voters in a statewide referendum after lawmakers overwhelmingly opted to put it on the ballot in 2004. In several other states, however, federal courts have overturned voter-approved constitutional bans against gay marriage.

“We asked the 5th Circuit in the state of Louisiana to recognize the dignity and respect and equality of our marriage, and the marriage of all same-sex couples in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi,” said Louisiana resident L. Havard Scott III, who has been with his partner Sergio March Prieto for 18 years. “If we don’t get what we’re seeking here, we’ll get it from the U.S. Supreme Court. … We simply love our partners, and we want our love to be respected to the same extent other peoples’ marriages are respected, and we see no reason why the state of Louisiana can’t respect our marriage like it does the marriages of other people.”

Outside the courthouse, Jennifer Pierce proposed — again — to her wife Jena. The Biloxi, Mississippi, residents were married in Connecticut in 2013 but their marriage isn’t recognized in their home state. Following a press conference, Pierce proposed (for a third time). “Third time’s a charm,” she said.

Evan Wolfson, founder and president of the New York-based advocacy group Freedom to Marry, told Gambit he was hopeful the 5th Circuit will find in favor of the plaintiffs.

Wolfson called Judge Feldman’s decision “way out of step with where virtually every other court has gone, having reviewed the Constitution. The language of the ruling was dismissive and hostile and the reasoning was thin and unconvincing.”

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Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell cited states’ rights in his defense of the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

“A billion dollars a year is what we’re leaving on the table with the gay and lesbian community.

And they want to get married here. Let them.”

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an underpinning of his argument that the ban is indeed constitutional. “As Louisiana’s attorney general,” Caldwell wrote, “I will do everything in my power to uphold the will of our citizens and the right of states to manage their own affairs.”

“Part of the reason we have a Constitution, and part of the reason we have courts is that politicians sometimes get it wrong,” Wolfson countered. “They’re sometimes willing to demagogue or pander or play to a base that may not respect the constitutional guarantees that protect all of us. Fortunately, the Constitution is there to protect all of us, and the courts are there to enforce that constitutional protection for everybody.”

After the Supreme Court announcement, Wolfson said, “We will keep working hard to underscore the urgency of the Supreme Court’s bringing the country to national resolution, so that by June, all Americans share in the freedom to marry and our country stands on the right side of history.”

Jon Robicheaux and Derek Penton-Robicheaux were married in Iowa on Sept. 23, 2012. The couple had been together five years before tying the knot. The Louisiana couple has spent their honeymoon years fighting for recognition of their marriage in their home state.

In 2013, one month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, the couple filed a suit — Robicheaux v.

Caldwell — against the state of Louisiana demanding to have their marriage recognized. The case was one of the first nationwide to target a state law. The name “Robicheaux” has become synonymous with the ongoing legal battle to overturn Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban.

“We got to thinking, ‘We don’t really have any of the legal protections of being married.’ There are some federal things

that apply to us now, but it goes way beyond that,” Penton-Robicheaux says. “Tons and tons of state laws, tax laws and things that don’t apply to us. We started on the journey to have that recognized not only for us but also for the countless same-sex couples who are married or want to get married in Louisiana.”

Later that year, Feldman dismissed their lawsuit. In February 2014, the couple joined a separate suit with five other Louisiana couples and the Forum for Equality. (Three of the couples in the case also are the parents of young children.) Though Feldman upheld Louisiana’s ban, Penton-Robicheaux says he is optimistic the appellate panel will rule in their favor.

Stephen Griffin, a constitutional law professor at Tulane Law School, says the judges’ questions to the state’s attorneys should give hope to the plaintiffs.

“If you assumed they’re approaching things with an open mind, I think they would be impressed by the federal circuits that already have ruled in favor of the plaintiffs — only the 6th District ruled against,” Griffin says. “The judges know the score.”

“We were almost uninterrupted with our presentation of our side of the case,” PentonRobicheaux told Gambit, nearly a week after the hearing but before the Supreme Court announcement. “You never know how the judges are going to rule, but it gives you a little bit of a ray of hope if it falls consistently with what happened with the other Circuit Courts. In those decisions, skeptical questions tend to be the way they rule. I’m not saying they’re going to rule in our favor, but it gives us a little hope.”

Penton-Robicheaux says the couple anticipated spending five years trying to overturn Louisiana’s ban. In just two years, he says, their fight and similar suits nationwide have moved much farther than they expected.

“Knowing your state excludes you based on … its moral beliefs about your relationship, to know that you are equal and inequalities shouldn’t be in place, you step back and look at your life against everyone else’s,” he says. “The fight is a fire that is lit inside of you. If you haven’t been on that side of it, you fundamentally don’t understand. You fight for things that are yours, and for things you know are right and true. You stay with the course as long as it takes. It gets very frustrating. You do the best you can, and you know you’re in it for the long haul.”

The Rev. Tony Talavera has officiated more than 12,000 marriages at the French Quarter Wedding Chapel on Burgundy Street. Within the last few years, he also officiated 150 same-sex unions.

“A billion dollars a year is what we’re leaving on the table with the gay and lesbian community. And they want to get married here. Let them,” Talavera says. “We have a big population here already. People love our city. Why are we sticking our heads in the mud when all people want to do is have equal rights?”

Not quite a billion dollars — but not chump change, either. According to New York City tourism organization NYC & Company, the economic impact last year of legalizing gay marriage in that state was $259.5 million, plus $16.5 million in tax revenue.

Mark Romig, CEO of the New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Campaign (NOTMC), points out that New Orleans is not New York, but says, “We want to be there.

“We think it’s the right thing to do, as well,” Romig adds.

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In 2004, more than a dozen states, including Louisiana, passed constitutional amendments explicitly outlawing same-sex marriage (though the only state where it was legal then was Massachusetts). In that election, more than 77 percent of Louisiana voters opted to outlaw not only same-sex marriage, but also any form of civil union.

The parish where the vote was closest was Orleans, with 55 percent of voters in favor of the ban and 45 percent against.

A breakdown of current parishby-parish opinion on the matter isn’t available, but a June 2014 survey of Louisiana voters by Public Policy Polling (PPP) found a near-three-way tie in Louisiana.

According to PPP, 34 percent of respondents supported civil unions for gays and lesbians; 32 percent, no recognition of those relationships; and 28 percent supported same-sex marriage — all pretty much within the poll’s margin of error.

Despite an unfriendly statewide climate, New Orleans already had enacted policies that offered support to samesex couples. In the 1990s, under Mayor Marc Morial’s administration, the city created a domestic partner registry and offered insurance benefits to the partners of same-sex city employees — policies that were challenged but upheld in state courts through the 2000s.

Last year, Mayor Mitch Landrieu — long a supporter for civil unions for same-sex couples — quietly shifted his position to full marriage. In a statement to Gambit, Landrieu aide Tyler Gamble wrote, “The Mayor has long supported ending marriage discrimination at all levels of government. … The City has an interest in strengthening and supporting all caring, committed and responsible family forms, which is why the City signed an amicus brief in support of the Robicheaux case now pending in federal court.” — KEVIN ALLMAN

wedding destination, Talavera says, as couples still must navigate the appropriate paperwork.

“Weddings aren’t tourism and they’re not conventions,” Talavera says.

“Couples come here for romance, for a wedding. They are not here, normally speaking, on a honeymoon. They’re here to get married.” If the court overturns Louisiana’s ban, Talavera anticipates more same-sex couples getting married in New Orleans — if, he says, the state and tourism boards learn how to attract those couples to New Orleans.

Romig points out that with celebrations such as Gay Pride in June and Southern Decadence over Labor Day weekend, New Orleans has long been a friendly and welcoming place for LGBT tourists. But, he says, “We had to be careful in what we were promising the visitor. So we couldn’t do what other states have done, and that is to say: ‘Come and celebrate your marriage here in Louisiana’ and have it approved and so forth. We could take advantage of people wanting to take their honeymoons or celebrate their marriage. We just weren’t able to offer the complete package.”

Romig adds that New Orleans in particular “needed to keep up with a lot of other destinations that are way ahead of us on this.”

City Council President Stacy Head noted the city of New Orleans already extends its employment benefits to same-sex domestic partners.

“If the courts force the state to go further, I think that’s a good thing,” Head told Gambit. She said New Orleans will clearly welcome same-sex partners from elsewhere who come here to wed, and she expects it to be a “desirable” destination for them.

“As far as being open to all different kinds of couples,” Head said, “certainly New Orleans is, and that’s part of the beauty of this place.”

In the past few months, Romig and his team have fleshed out an LGBT section of the official NOTMC website, www.neworleansonline.com. They’ve also created targeted ads for the site’s visitors who identify themselves as LGBT. In the event that same-sex marriage becomes legal in Louisiana, Romig says, his team has been brainstorming a tourism campaign specifically focused on couples and romance, and a potential wedding sweepstakes later in the year, using cities like Ft. Lauderdale, Las Vegas and New York City as examples of best practices.

Earlier this month, Florida became the first Deep South state to legalize same-sex marriages, and Richard Gray, director of LGBT strategizing for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau, is expecting the city’s number of visitors to increase exponentially — in some ways, because Fort Lauderdale, like New Orleans, is a liberal outpost in a conservative state.

An ad from the Greater Fort Lauderdale tourism bureau aims to attract same-sex couples for Florida beach weddings.

into the framework of American families. It opens up a conversation, he says, “about who gay people really are and the love and commitment these couples have … and the fact that they’re living in Louisiana and they’re raising kids and they’re worrying about their aging parents and they’re fighting over who takes out the garbage.

“All of those dawning realities and greater understood truths are helping reduce prejudice and are helping people be more supportive of including gay people as part of the American picture.”

“It looks to me like we will have marriage equality in June,” Forum For Equality Louisiana spokesman John Hill told Gambit. “It’s hard to see the tea leaves any other way.”

Acceptance and legalization of same-sex marriage in America has occurred with astonishing speed ever since 2004, when Massachusetts became the first state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Today, 70 percent of Americans live in areas where same-sex marriage is the law of the land.

This summer, we’re likely to find out whether Louisiana will join them.

But wedding packages and financial benefits are just one part of the story.

For Wolfson, marriage equality is part of a larger narrative, one that squashes long-held stereotypes and beliefs about gay people and brings same-sex couples

— This story was written by Gambit staff writers Kevin Allman, Jeanie Riess and Alex Woodward, along with Robert Morris of Uptown Messenger (www.uptownmessenger.com).

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“We’re progressive,” Gray said. “The state has not been progressive. But Broward County, where Fort Lauderdale is, without a doubt, one of the most progressive counties in the state of Florida.”

Fort Lauderdale is the only city in the country with a designated department within its tourism board for LGBT tourism, according to Gray. The city launched it in 1996 and progressed in baby steps. In 1996, the department didn’t use the word “gay” to describe same-sex visitors — it used the term “rainbow” — and had a budget of $35,000. Today its budget is $1.5 million, and it has an entire landing page on its website devoted to transgender visitors (that campaign is called “Where Happy Meets Go Lucky”).

Gray started strategizing a marriage equality campaign nine months ago, so once the decision was announced, he was able to begin advertising Fort Lauderdale as a wedding destination for all couples.

He organized a contest couples could enter to get married on the beach, in addition to holding a photo shoot for the tourism website’s new LGBT-friendly images. The board also is holding a mass wedding in February, marrying 100 couples in a sunrise ceremony on Greater Fort Lauderdale Beach.

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Dr. Deborah Lesem knows her patients on a first-name basis.

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practice has challenges. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of her electronic records, she spent weeks working the phones, calling patients using bare-minimum contact information from salvaged paper charts.

“We came in here and got garbage bags full of charts,” she says. “We sprayed Lysol and lay them out in my backyard. Every inch of it was covered in charts in the sun.” Lesem’s personal outreach helped retain many clients who have been with her ever since.

Her one-on-one approach helps her listen to what the patient really wants, as well as what they need. She says there’s a difference between what’s practical and what’s possible, and she wants anyone who comes into her office to be aware of both.

“I really try not to assess what’s technically wrong, but what’s best for each person,” she says. This could mean suggesting dentures or extensive tooth repair to younger individuals who might not be prepared to give up their teeth, or accommodating repeat consults for patients who are on the fence about a procedure.

“I like helping people fix problems, even if it’s not the most pleasant thing for them,” she says. “It’s [especially] gratifying to do the cosmetic stuff, because people leave very happy.”

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Now through February, Bywater Art Gallery (3700 St. Claude Ave.) hosts a pop-up shop by Miss Karret (www.etsy.com/shop/ misskarret), who offers handmade clothing and alterations.

Natural parenting boutique ZukaBaby (3248 Severn Ave., Metairie, 2122 Magazine St., 504596-6540; www.zukababy.com) celebrates the grand opening of its Metairie boutique from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. There

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will be entertainment, refreshments, giveaways and discounts, and a portion of sales benefits the Greater New Orleans Breastfeeding Awareness Coalition.

KREWE du optic (800 Common St., 504-6842939; www.kreweduoptic.com) holds a sample sale 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 23. Sunglasses that have been worn in magazines, photo shoots and movies will be discounted 60 to 80 percent.

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ith slate-blue walls, a comfortable couch, and au courant accessories, the waiting room at Dr. Deborah Lesem’s (100 Robert E. Blvd., 504-286-3880; www. drlesem.com) dental practice conveys tranquility. The converted Lakeview cottage feels warm and comforting, rather than chilly and impersonal.

“We tried to [design the office] that way,” Lesem says. “It is more relaxing. ... There aren’t 10 people in bus-stop chairs.”

Many people dread dental appointments.

Lesem combats that with a patient-driven approach. Every morning, the staff meets to go over each patient’s file and discuss possible issues and treatment options. By the time a patient arrives, everyone who interacts with her knows what to expect.

Unlike most dentists, Lesem does her own teeth cleanings. This also gives her a more intimate, first-name knowledge of her patients.

“I know their teeth very well, too,” she says. “It’s not a big crowd. You’re not just a number. … I have my time with you, and that’s my time with you.”

Dentistry has been a part of Lesem’s life since her teenage years. In high school, she got a position in a dentist’s office after just one phone call inquiring about a job. She worked at that Baton Rouge office until the end of college, when she moved on to LSU’s dental school in New Orleans. After a brief partnership with another dentist, she built two practices from scratch. Her present staff includes an old friend from dental school and occasional appearances by her mother, a retired dental assistant.

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Fig Easy

1000 Figs serves Mediterranean fare in Mid-City.

By Sarah Baird

Roasted vegetable salad Diners share Mediterranean dishes at 1000 figs. is an unlikely homage to barley as a new wave salad P H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER ingredient, with pearls of the grain in a wave of minty pesto and dappled with seashells of creamy, salty what feta. It would be heartening to see barley 1000 Figs replace quinoa, the ubiquitous “good for where you” grain, providing diners with a healthy 3141 Ponce De Leon St., alternative that’s significantly more robust and flavorful. The menu’s additional salad (504) 301-0848; option pairs a garlic-forward, lemony play www.1000figs.com on Caesar dressing with shreds of fresh when kale and diminutive, dense croutons, while lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. rings of char-grilled squid give a seaside, spit-fired sensitivity to the dish. how much Brussels sprouts are a mainstay of moderate contemporary menus, but few can rival the tangy, charred appeal of 1000 Figs’ version, what works which possess both unmatched brightness smart use of limited space; and balsamic-inspired depth. The sprouts crispy, golden brown falafel; make an ideal side dish for the smoked rosemary-tinged chicken chicken salad sandwich, which finds salad sandwich pulled slices of tender chicken coated in a refreshing, herbal rosemary mayonnaise what doesn’t between two thick pieces of chewy, rich flatbread occasionally semolina bread. arrives undercooked Patrons can bring their own alcohol, but and chewy it would be nice to see 1000 Figs develop a cocktail menu and wine list, if only to toast check, please the menu’s achievements. the city’s best falafel and a range of light, deliContact Sarah Baird at cately prepared Mediterranean dishes sarahgambitdining@gmail.com

Shoppers visiting Lakeside Shopping Center (www.lakesideshopping. com) will soon be able to enjoy Dat Dog (www.datdognola.com) hot dogs with the opening of a location inside the mall Feb. 1.

“Lakeside will be a new approach to Dat Dog,” says Dat Dog spokeswoman Chelsea Brauwn. “We’ve never had a venue like this, but each of our restaurants are unique venues that reflect the needs of the neighborhoods. ... While this format presents itself as a little more grab-and-go, we hope to cultivate an atmosphere of sit-and-stay while people enjoy their time in Lakeside.”

The location will offer a number of craft beers including the soonto-be-signature Dat Biere, a Frenchstyle farmhouse ale brewed locally

by Bayou Teche Brewery. The beer will eventually be offered at all Dat Dog locations.

Dat Dog originally opened in a modest space on Freret Street and served hot dogs and sausages with a wide selection of toppings. It now has a larger location on Freret Street (5030 Freret St., 504-899-6883) and restaurants on Magazine Street (3336 Magazine St., 504-324-2226) and in the Faubourg Marigny (601 Frenchmen St., 504-301-3362).

— SARAH BAIRD

Southern style

Three members of Southern Eagle Sales and Service’s (www.southerneagle.com) craft beer distribution team went to upstate New York to brew a beer with Southern Tier Brewing (www.stbcbeer.com), and that beer was released exclusively in New Orleans last week.

Kyle Huling, Travis Clark and Donn Lacoste of LA Craft Beer (www. lacraftbeer.com), the craft beer department at Southern Eagle, collaborated with Southern Tier Director of Research and Development Joe Reynolds, to create Southern Tier 30°/90°, which is an American cream ale style brewed with lavender. The 30/90 name references the respective latitudes of New Orleans and Lakewood, New York.

“30°/90° is a lighter beer, both in color and body,” Reynolds says. “The body is lightened by the subtle use of flaked maize, an adjunct commonly used in American cream ales. It adds fermentable sugars without too much else. Judicious use of crystal malts and oats prevents the beer from being watery or thin. The aromatic synergy of lavender and whole leaf PAGE 28

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hen New Orleans is hit with a cold snap, it’s not difficult to begin fantasizing about locales that are less chilly — and offer the blossoming scents of sweet olive and fresh citrus. Unless you’re able to hop a jet to Cyprus, 1000 Figs — the brick-andmortar restaurant spawned by the success of the Fat Falafel food truck — is your best bet for an edible vacation.

Nestled in the former home of Maple Street Book Shop’s Bayou St. John location, 1000 Figs makes the most of a cozy space, creating an ambience that feels like a Mediterranean garden. Shelves are filled with potted plants and emerald sprouts shoot up towards the ceiling. The restaurant often is packed; diners waiting for a table can thumb through the restaurant’s library of cookbooks. The most ingenious and charming space-saving measure is the placement of necessary dining accoutrements — knives, forks, napkins — in drawers built into the tables.

The restaurant serves what is unequivocally the city’s best falafel. While the falafel sandwich popularized by the restaurant’s food truck is still a multifaceted homage to the depth and breadth of vegetarian texture and flavor, the best way to sample falafel is by going with a group and ordering the “falafel feast” ($28).

Served on a glistening platter, the falafel are perfectly crisp, with the golden brown orbs (with fluffy interiors) plated alongside an array of pickled carrots, beets, wheels of citrus and vinegar-tinged greens.

An impressive selection of dips and sauces plays a supporting role on the menu, but their complexity and thoughtfulness is not easily overlooked. The freshly made yogurt retains a lactose-heavy tanginess not often encountered, while a thin, nutty tahini lets its natural earthiness shine. 1000 Figs’ hummus is creamy and serviceable, but the standout is the baba ghanoush, which arrives as a smoky swirl of eggplant that teases the palate with an undercurrent of parsley and garlic. The flatbread is perfectly toothy without any of the pitfall dryness characteristic of many local pita offerings, but it can occasionally arrive slightly gummy and undercooked in the restaurant’s attempt to serve all menu items at the peak of freshness.

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Mosaic is crazy. It fires on all cylinders. Floral, spicy, herbal, berry, fruity, citrus, tea, woody! And just because we are Southern Tier, we dry hopped it with the experimental hop variety 07270, which added a dose of dank, resinous hop aroma.”

The beer is available at The Bulldog Uptown (3236 Magazine St., 504-891-1516; www.draftfreak.com), The Bulldog Mid-City (5135 Canal Blvd., 504-488-4180), Lagers International Ale House (3501 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-887-9923; www.draftfreak.com), The Avenue Pub (1732 St. Charles Ave., 504-586-9243; www.theavenuepub.com), Fat Harry’s (4330 St. Charles Ave., 504-895-9582; www.fatharrysneworleans.com), Ale (8124 Oak St., 504-324-6558; www.facebook.com/aleonoak), World of Beer (4100 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-266-2689; www.worldofbeer. com/locations/metairie), Bayou Beer Garden (326 N. Jefferson Davis Parkway, 504-302-9357; www.bayoubeergarden.com) and Mid City Yacht Club (440 S. St. Patrick St., 504-483-2517; www.midcityyachtclub.com).

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Fruity drinks

If visions of kumquat spritzers and blood orange Old Fashioneds dance in your head on a regular basis, The New Orleans Fruit Tree Project’s (www. nolafruit.org) second annual Citrus Celebration fundraiser is for you. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 28 at Propeller (4035 Washington Ave.), the fruit-themed event features a citrus cocktail competition, food trucks and a way to support the city’s “edible urban canopy.”

The cocktail competition is open to professionals and amateurs and features drinks highlighting Louisiana citrus. Attendees are invited to sample the creations.

All proceeds from the event go to the nonprofit’s “Planting for the Future” program. Its goal is to plant 50 fruit trees in spring 2015. It planted 50 trees during fall 2014. — SARAH BAIRD

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3-COURSE interview

Kelle McFarland Pickle maker

Kelle McFarland and Daniel Boyer are the duo behind the new pickling and preserves company The French Pickl’er (www.frenchpicklerpreserves.com).

McFarland spoke to Gambit about the company’s pickling philosophy, working seasonally and home pickling tips.

How did you begin pickling?

What are your favorite pickles?

M: We really like making marmalades because the citrus is so nice here in New Orleans during the wintertime. We’re doing a lot of kumquat and satsumas right now. We mainly like to focus on the seasonality of things.

Right now, we’re doing winter pickle mixes with cauliflower and Romanesco.

Seasonality is a very cool thing to try and preserve.

We’re still doing wholesale, as well as a small retail section. When the French Market farmers market opened up, it was a really cool opportunity for us to get our product out there on a weekly basis, and we want more markets as space becomes available. We wanted to take it very slow and do it right and not try to expand too quickly.

Any tips for home pickling?

M: Daniel really focuses on salting the vegetables once you cut them. He swears by salting all the vegetables then rinsing them, and that really helps maintain the freshness of the pickles without any preservatives. We don’t like to use any preservatives or anything; it’s just salt and sugar and spices.

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McFarland: Daniel and I met about three years ago at a restaurant called a Mano (now closed), and he was cooking there and began pickling. We were always getting these very fresh ingredients from places like Covey Rise Farms, and there were also a lot of great meats. Daniel learned how to pickle these vegetables to go with the meat plates. When we both moved on, Daniel kept pickling and we started getting involved with a guy who also came from a Mano and opened up a coffee shop called Avenue Cafe. We helped put the menu together and put the pickles on the menu. So, we’ve been doing wholesale there for quite a while.

Part of the wholesale thing at Avenue Cafe also includes jams and jellies, because the shop had a lot of bagels and people were interested in that as well, so we started doing those around the same time.

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BEER buzz Bayou Teche Brewing celebrates its fifth anniversary with parties and a special anniversary brew, Persimmon Sour Ale, which features local persimmons and lactobacillus to get the sour taste.

On Jan. 31, brothers and owners Karlos, Dorsey and Byron Knott host a party at the brewery (1106 Bushville Highway, Arnaudville, 337303-8000; www.bayoutechebrewing.com). There’s a Cajun music jam session from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and zydeco music by Soul Creole from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The anniversary is the release party for the special ale.

The following weekend, The Avenue Pub (1732 St. Charles Ave., 504-586-9243) hosts the New Orleans anniversary party and Persimmon Sour Ale debut.

Beginning at 12:05 p.m., the pub will tap the birthday beer as well as other Bayou Teche barrel-aged favorites including 2013 and 2014 vintages of Loup Garou oakaged Belgian stout; Miel Sauvage, the brewery’s honey beer aged in Jack Daniels barrels; and Cote Rodaire, a saison aged in French sauvignon blanc barrels.

Bayou Teche’s seasonal Carnival beer, the Courir de Mardi Gras Biere de Garde, also will be served. The brewery marks the tapping of its 600th keg at the event.

“We are trying to get Polly (Watts, owner of Avenue Pub) to let us release a chicken for an old-time Cajun Mardi Gras chicken run, but so far, no dice,” jokes Karlos Knott.

Three Mardi Gras krewes will parade down St. Charles Avenue that Saturday, beginning with the Krewe of Pontchartrain at 1 p.m., followed by the Krewe of Choctaw and the Krewe of Freret. Parade access to the balcony is first come, first served. — NORA McGUNNIGLE

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WINE of the week 2013 Daou Cabernet Sauvignon PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA

Retail $25-$30

Paso Robles is roughly equidistant from San Francisco and Los Angeles, and its vineyards are known for producing red grapes, particularly cabernet sauvignon. Brothers Daniel and Georges Daou chose this area to create big red wines.

More than 100 acres under vine are focused on Bordeaux varietals, and this wine is a blend of 88 percent cabernet sauvignon, 8 percent merlot, 2 percent cabernet Franc; the remainder is malbec and petit verdot. After hand harvesting, the “must,” or freshly pressed juice, is not separated from the skins for three weeks during vinification, and the wine aged 10 months in 60 percent new French oak. It offers aromas of red and black currants, earthy notes and a hint of cedar. On the palate, the full-bodied wine tastes of dark cherry, espresso, cassis and spice. Drink it now or cellar for up to 10 years. Decant 30 minutes before serving.

Drink it with rare steak. Buy it at: Elio’s Wine Warehouse, Hopper’s Carte de Vins, Dorignac’s and Rouses Markets on Power Boulevard in Metairie and West Esplanade Avenue in Kenner. Drink it at: Galatoire’s, The Pelican Club, The Grill Room, Gautreau’s, Palace Cafe, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Vincent’s Italian Cuisine, Oak, Legacy Kitchen, Bar Redux and Impastato Cellars. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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NOLA Brewing dinner

7 p.m. Tuesday Fulton Alley, 600 Fulton St., (504) 208-5569

www.fultonalley.com The dinner features courses of yellowfin tuna crudo, Gulf fish piccata, smoked brisket, cheeses and more.

Beer sampling includes NOLA Brewing’s Sauvage, Rebirth Pale Ale, 7th Street Wheat, Girl Scout Cookie Stout and more. Bowling is included. Tickets $65, $375 for a table of six with a bowling lane.

Louisiana Family Day

11 a.m.-noon Saturday Southern Food and Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405

www.southernfood.org Children can decorate and take home their own king cakes and learn about Mardi Gras traditions. Admission is free to Louisiana residents with driver’s license or photo ID.

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King Cake Festival

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday Champions Square, LaSalle Street, (504) 587-3663; www.champions-square.com

www.kingcakefestival.org A fundraising event for Ochsner Hospital for Children pediatric programs, the festival features king cakes from 19 bakeries and restaurants, including Domenica, Fare, Haydel’s, Nonna Randazzo’s and others. Attendees can buy tasting ticket packages and vote for their favorites in different categories. There’s also a half-mile stroller run prior to the festival.

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Five chess pies

1 Boucherie

8115 Jeannette St., (504) 862-5514

www.boucherie-nola.com

Thai chili chocolate chess pie is a spicy spin on the classic.

2 Elizabeth’s

601 Gallier St., (504) 944-9272

www.elizabethsrestaurantnola.com

The menu’s Southern accents include a decadent lemon chess pie.

3 High Hat Cafe www.highhatcafe.com

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Trends, notes, quirks and quotes from the world of food.

Not buying it “How has the farm-to-table movement impacted us?

I can’t say that it has a whole lot.”

— Brian Gotreaux, a farmer in Scott, Louisiana, who says “farm-to-table” is more a trendy restaurant term than a solid ethos. “There’s a lot of chefs who say they’re using our products,” Gotreaux added. “There’s a lot of chefs just using the buzzword for market share.” Writing for Gannett Louisiana, reporter Megan Wyatt concluded, “Again and again, that is the story farmers are telling in Louisiana. Many promote local, but few actually purchase local.”

The menu of Southern cooking includes chocolate chess pie for dessert.

4 P’s & Q’s

5720 Magazine St., (504) 897-5131

www.piesandquiches.com

The pie shop offers chocolate, lemon and peanut butter chess pies.

5 Restaurant August 301 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 299-9777

www.restaurantaugust.com

John Besh’s adapted family recipe is a chocolate chess pie with a flaky crust.

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Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106.

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Colonial Bowling Lanes — 6601 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, (504) 737-2400; www.colonialbowling.net — The kitchen serves breakfast in the morning and a lunch and dinner menu of sandwiches, burgers, chicken wings and tenders, pizza, quesdaillas and more. Daily specials include red beans and rice on Mondays and seafood platters on Friday. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

BAR & GRILL Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sun-dried tomato pesto. Delivery available.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf

shack serves chips with salsa and guacamole made to order, burgers, salads, tacos, entrees and more.

Fried catfish is topped with onion rings and served with mashed potatoes. Panko-crusted avacado is topped with shrimp salsa. The restaurant is dog-friendly. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Perry’s Sports Bar & Grill — 5252 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 456-9234; www.perryssportsbarandgrill.com — The sports bar offers burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, wraps, tacos, salads, steaks and a wide array of bar noshing items. Boiled seafood options include shrimp and crabs. Open 24-hours Thursday through Sunday.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. 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. $ Warehouse Grille — 869 Magazine St., (504) 322-2188; www. warehousegrille.com — The menu features upscale bar food, burgers, steaks, seafood, salads, sandwiches and noshing items including chicken wings and duck crepes with spiced cherry glaze. For brunch, there’s chicken and waffles with Pabst Blue Ribbon syrup. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily, brunch Fri.-Sun. Credit cards. $

BURGERS Charcoal’s Gourmet Burger Bar — 2200 Magazine St., (504) 644-4311; www.charcoalgourmetburgerbar. com — This burger specialist’s patty options include beef, bison, shrimp and veggie. The House burger is dressed with cheddar, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard and served with house-made chips. The Cobb salad features romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, blue cheese, croutons and buttermilk ranch or honey-mustard dressing.

No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno.com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines. com — The Annex is a coffee shop

serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, handshaped Parisian-style baguettes.

No reservations. Breakfast Wed.-Sun., lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — Casual dining options include burgers, sandwiches and half and whole muffuletta rounds and daily lunch specials. Wednesday features steak night. Reservations accepted. Lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed. and Fri.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 4821264; www.cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Il Posto Cafe — 4607 Dryades St., (504) 895-2620; www.ilpostocafe-nola.com — The cafe offers house-baked items, bagels, granola and more in the morning. The lunch and dinner menu features panini, Italian cheese boards, antipasti plates, pressed sandwiches, soups and salads. Shaved Brussels sprouts salad includes toasted almonds, Parmesan, apples and house lemon dressing.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. For breakfast, an omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses and served on a choice of bread. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Liberty’s Kitchen — 300 N. Broad St., (504) 822-4011; www.

OUT to EAT libertyskitchen.org — Students in the workforce development program prepare traditional and creative versions of local favorites.

The Cajun Cobb salad features panseared shrimp, smoked sausage and blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities 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. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$$

Fulton Alley — 600 Fulton St., (504) 208-5569; www.fultonalley.com — The kitchen at this upscale bowling alley offers Southern-influenced cuisine. The menu includes sandwiches, salads, meat pies, sliders, deviled eggs and smoked and fried chicken wings.

Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$ Ivy — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 8991330 — Chef Sue Zemanick offers a selection of small plates. Grilled lobster is served with arugula, roasted potatoes and corn. Warm snow crab claws come with truffle butter. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit Cards. $$ 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. Housemade leek, ricotta and pumpkin seed ravioli are served with butternut squash cream sauce and grilled asparagus. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$ The Tasting Room — 1906 Magazine St., (504) 581-3880; www.

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www. antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms.

Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The mix of Creole and Caribbean fare includes jerk chicken and crawfish etouffee and cheese steaks are available. The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Brennan’s — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — The renewed Brennan’s features innovate takes on Creole dishes from chef Slade Rushing as well as classics such as its signature bananas Foster. Eggs Sardou features 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/ cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise.

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. Louisiana crab cakes are popular. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www. mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$$ Olivier’s Creole Restaurant — 204 Decatur St., (504) 525-7734; www.

olivierscreole.com — Eggplant Olivier features flash-fried eggplant medallions served with shrimp, chicken, andouille and crawfish tails in garlic, basil and brandy sauce. Braised Creole rabbit is served with Creole gravy, oyster dressing and rice pilaf. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish couvillion, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter and grilled Two Run Farm lamb chops served with New Orleans-style barbecue sauce. Balcony and courtyard dining available. Reservations resommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken.

Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx.

No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www. mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 896-7350; 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. The Deli Deluxe sandwich features corned beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and Creole mustard on an onion roll. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333;

Diners enjoy a selection of Indian dishes at Nirvana Indian Cuisine (4308 Magazine St., 504-894-9797; www.insidenirvana.com).

P H O TO BY C HERY L G ERBER 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8855565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 737-8146; www.breauxmart. com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes.

Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

ITALIAN Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www. amicinola.com — Amici serves coal-fired pizza and Italian dishes.

The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana pie is topped with marinara, mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian greens and Italian sausage. Pasta carbonara features pancetta and green peas in white sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

INTERNATIONAL

Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Canal Street Bistro — 3903 Canal St., (504) 482-1225; www.canalstreetbistro. com — This Mid-City cafe’s menu draws from an array of global influences. Duck enchiladas feature corn tortillas filled with duck confit topped with red mole or chipotle-tomatillo sauce and served with black beans.

Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking.

Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with

Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8366859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge.

Reservations accepted. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings.

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare including handmade pastas, ravioli and lasagna and seafood dishes with shrimp, clams and mussels. Sicilian egg pie features eggs baked with cream and spices in puff pastry.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — House-made cannelloni is stuffed with ground veal, spinach and Parmesan, baked in Alfredo sauce and topped with house-made tomato sauce. Creamy corn and crab bisque is served in a toasted bread bowl.

Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat.

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The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers a large selection of wines by the glass and full restaurant menu.

Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations.

Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$

ttrneworleans.com — Sample wines or dine in the lounge or courtyard. The menu features noshing items such as truffle fries and entrees including a petit filet with Gorgonzola cream sauce and asparagus. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit Cards. $$

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OUT to EAT St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads.

“Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www. japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake. com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, panfried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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Yuki Izakaya — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www.facebook. com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupusasneworleans.com — The NOLA Special breakfast burrito is stuffed with hot sausage, organic eggs, refried black beans, hash browns and American cheese. Carne asada is marinated and grilled beef tenderloin served with saffron rice and tropical salad. Vegetarian and gluten-free dishes are available.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton. com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale.

Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www. dickandjennys.com — Located in a renovated Creole cottage, the restaurant serves contemporary Creole and Italian dishes. Sauteed

Gulf fish is prepared with smoked herb rub and served with crawfish risotto and shaved asparagus.

Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and panfried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce.

The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Marti’s — 1041 Dumaine St., (504) 522-5478; www.martisnola.com — This brasserie serves traditional French and contemporary Louisiana cooking. The grande plateau fruits de mer features whole Maine lobster, chilled shrimp, marinated snow crab claws, oysters on the half shell and scallop ceviche.

Grilled Texas quail is served with spaetzle, oyster mushrooms, corn and Pommery mustard sauce.

Reservations accepted. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www. revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www. tivoliandlee.com — The restaurant offers a modern take on Southern cuisine in a small plate format, with dishes ranging from andouille potato tots to fried oysters.

The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers. Half a roasted chicken comes with dirty spaetzle, sweet tea glaze and greens.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Attiki Bar & Grill — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides.

Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www.monascafeanddeli.com — These casual cafes serve entrees including beef or chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb chops, vegetarian options and more.

There also are stuffed grape leaves, hummus, falafel and other appetizers. Patrons may bring their own alcohol. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ 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 Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www. facebook.com/casaborrega — The barroom and cantina is decorated with folk art, and there’s seating in the back courtyard. Chicken enchiladas are served with mole, rice and beans. Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Coyote Blues — 4860 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 301-3848; www.coyotebluesfreshmex.com — Shrimp and crawfish chimichanga is a fried burrito stuffed with shrimp and crawfish in cream sauce, Mexican rice and chili con queso and served with two sides. The churrascaria platter features skewers of marinated beef, chicken, jumbo shrimp, jalapeno sausage, peppers and onions and comes with chipotle cream sauce, chimichurri, mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. 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.

Crispy fried wild catfish is served over stone-ground grits with Cajun tasso. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Del Fuego Taqueria — 4518 Magazine St., (504) 309-5797; www. delfuegotaqueria.com — The taqueria serves an array of house salsas, tacos and burritos with filling choices including carne asada, carnitas, chorizo, shredded chicken and others. Tostadas con pescada ahumada features achiote-smoked Gulf fish over corn tostadas with refried black beans, cabbage and cilantro-lime mayonesa. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515

OUT to EAT 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. Roasted pork tacos are topped with spicy slaw. Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. 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. $$ Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant — 301 Dauphine St., (504) 586-0972 — This French Quarter hideaway is is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ 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. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. 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. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on poboy bread and gyros in pita bread.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Siberia — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread.

Potato and cheese pierogies are served with fried onions and sour cream. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

NEIGHBORHOOD Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb. com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant. com — This casual eatery serves

Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. No reservations.

Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza. com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil.

No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. The Sportsman’s Paradise pie is topped with Gulf shrimp, andouille, corn, diced tomatoes and caramelized onions. Full bar available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. 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 diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys.

The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Mahony’s Po-Boy Shop — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www. mahonyspoboys.com — The Peacemaker layers fried local oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese on Leidenheimer French bread. Angus’ pot roast beef po-boy is served

dressed on Leidenheimer bread.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno. com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. Short Stop’s gumbo combines smoked andouille sausage and chicken. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 8975413; www.traceysnola.com — The neighborhood bar’s menu includes roast beef and fried seafood poboys, seafood platters, fried okra, chicken wings, gumbo, soups, salads and more. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

SEAFOOD Blue Crab & Oyster Restaurant — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 284-2898; www.thebluecrabnola. com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood.

There’s seating overlooking Lake Pontchartrain. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish cooked with the skin on, oysters from the raw bar and more. Large picture windows offer views of Bourbon Street, and the bar is stocked with a large selection of bourbons. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. The menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, fried seafood platters, tuna steaks and a few Italian entrees, such as paneed veal. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8320955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 289-0504; www.halfshellneworleans.com — The Bayou Boogaloo breakfast features a three-egg omelet with sauteed shrimp and crawfish with fried oysters and shrimp sauce on top. Voodoo Bleu features bacon-wrapped char-grilled oysters topped with garlic-butter and blue cheese. No reservations. Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$ 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, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and

Tommy’s Cuisine (746 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-581-1103; www.tommysneworleans.com) serves Creole Italian cuisine.

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daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo.

Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. 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 masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes.

Popular starters include the jumbo lump crabcake made with aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday,

dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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TAPAS/SPANISH

Lin’s — 3715 Westbank Expressway, (504) 340-0178; www.linsmenu. com —The menu includes Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes.

Vietnamese “Shakin’” beef features beef tips and onions served with rice. Singapore-style vermicelli is a stir fry of noodles, shrimp, pork, bean sprouts, carrots and bamboo shoots.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$

Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www. vegatapascafe.com — Grilled avocado salad is served with crispy onions and Mahon cheese in Portuguese chestnut-vanilla vinaigrette. Wild mushroom ravioli are served with Madeira and goat cheese creme. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat, late night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VEGETARIAN

Pho Tau Bay Restaurant — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, (504) 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls and more.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Seed — 1330 Prytania St., (504) 3022599; www.seedyourhealth.com — Seed uses local, organic ingredients in its eclectic global menu, including soups, salads, nachos, sandwiches and more. Raw pad thai features shredded cucumber, carrots, peppers, jicama, bean sprouts and peanuts in house-made marinade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

Rolls-N-Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www. facebook.com/rolls-nbowlsnola — This casual Vietnamese eatery serves spring rolls, pho, rice and vermicelli bowls, banh mi, stir fry entrees and bubble tea. The vermicelli bowl features noodles over lettuce, cucumber and carrots; shrimp are optional. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $

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House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread.

The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice.

Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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notably in “Keepin’ It Funky.”

White picked the bands not only for the genres they represent, but because they’re working bands. “It documents the reality in New Orleans brass bands beyond commercial settings,” he says. White let the bands pick their songs (“a synopsis of what they’d play normally,” White says) to flesh out the compilation’s 15 tracks.

“It’s important in this point in history — there’s been a lot of questions about the survival and future of New Orleans traditions,” White says. “It seems like the older styles are kind of dying out.

There aren’t younger people seriously picking up the mantle for those. It’s important in this time to give a view of what the tradition is at this point.”

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Thou & The Body You, Whom I Have Always Hated (Thrill Jockey)

Louisiana’s bayou doom warlocks Thou teamed with shrieking Oregon duo The Body for a collaborative release (flipping the script on “split” releases) to form a massive tag-teaming metal album.

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Sun Hotel Rational Expectations (Community Records)

The anticipated album from the selfdescribed “post-gospel” outfit promises grand-sized songs, earnest outpouring and fuzzy, starry-eyed guitar rock.

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Kristin Diable Create Your Own Mythology (Speakeasy Records)

Dave Cobb, who helmed acclaimed recent releases from Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell, engineered the upcoming full-length album from country- and folk-influenced singer/songwriter Kristin Diable. The album follows her well-received self-titled album (as Kristin Diable & The City) in 2012.

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The Kid Carsons TBD

The first full-length album from the country-folk family band follows its Opry-sized live shows and promising debut EP, 2012’s Settle Down. The band recorded its new album to tape at A Studio in the Country with Ben Mumphrey.

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Bantam Foxes Give Us a Raise

Dr. Michael White curated a New Orleans brass band music album for Smithsonian Folkways.

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Twin brothers Collin and Sam McCabe front this young garage rock ’n’ roll trio, which released a string of EPs and singles beginning in 2012.

New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City Smithsonian Folkways

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hen he was approached about an album to represent New Orleans in the midst of its early 21st century cultural shift 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Michael White went to brass bands.

“Brass bands really kind of represent the heart and soul of New Orleans music,” he says. “It’s a community. We have done so for so many decades.

The tradition is constantly evolving. In the next 10 or 20 years, with the changing of the city, one or two of those styles may be extinct, and the bands may end up in another direction. I wanted to document what was going on in New Orleans that you can still hear.”

That album — New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City, published by Smithsonian Folkways and arranged and produced by jazz authority and bandleader White — spans three generations, with three groups representing the dominant trends in New Orleans brass band music. Liberty, Treme and Hot 8 brass bands all recorded new versions of songs from their repertoire at Piety Street Recording before it shuttered in 2013. The album is out Feb. 10.

It’s one of several albums by local artists due to drop in coming months.

The Folkways imprint was founded in 1948 to record and preserve global folk culture. Its New Orleans collection includes early New Orleans jazz and 1950s recordings from Eureka Brass Band, some of the earliest recordings of New Orleans brass band music. This entry in the Folkways catalog, White says, documents “the three dominant trends in brass band music playing today.”

“They’re not usually recognized as three different things,” White says. “You have three very different approaches, but it’s all united by the New Orleans spirit and unique approach to New Orleans rhythm and horn playing, which is individual and singing but creates a collective voice.”

White founded the Liberty Brass Band in 1981 to preserve traditional brass band performance — that band contributes material from its more traditional repertoire of marches, hymns and dirges, including album opener “Paul Barbarin’s Second Line” and early-1900s march “Panama.” Treme Brass Band — formed in 1991 with a “transitional” style — is “a little more in the middle, and they represent a time where brass bands became a little more visible, commercial and popular,” White says. Treme performs “Give Me My Money Back” and “Grazing in the Grass,” by Friends of Distinction by way of Hugh Masekela. The Hot 8 Brass Band, which formed in 1995, blends New Orleans brass with funk- and hip-hop-influenced rhythms,

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Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10

BMC — Laura Dyer, Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, The Business, 5

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Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8 Cafe Negril — Arsene Delay, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 8:30

TUESDAY 20 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 7; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8 Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Appleford, 2; Raddy Tattat & the Cats, 4:30; Dana & the Boneshakers, 8 Banks Street Bar — NOLA Country, 8 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Open Ears Music Series: Rob Wagner’s Brass Thing, 10 BMC — Troy Turner, Eudora Evans & Deep Soul, The Abney Effect, 5 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30

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Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes, 7 Casa Borrega — Hector Gallardo’s Cuban Jazz Trio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Dedric Clark & the Social Animals, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Joe Gelinni’s Solar Strut, 9

Little Gem Saloon — Jon Roniger, 5; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 8 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree, 10 The Maison — Gregory Agid Quartet, 6 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Tom Henehan, 9; Mike Liuzza, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old U.S. Mint — Matt Hampsey, Down on Their Luck Orchestra, Hubie Vigreux, Mike Harris, Joe Stolarick, 2 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 7 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — The Session, 8 Snug Harbor — Victor Atkins Quartet, 8 & 10

Columns Hotel — John Rankin, 8

Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Tropical Isle Original — Way Too Early, 1

Circle Bar — Laura Dyer, 6

d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 DMac’s — Singer-songwriter night feat. Chip Wilson, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Interior Decorating, Mystery Girl, 9

WEDNESDAY 21 21st Amendment — Marla Dixon, 7 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 7:30

Gasa Gasa — Progression Music Series: The Grid, 9

Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 3; Albanie Falletta Band, 6:30; John Lisi Blues, 10

Jazz National Historical Park — Richard Scott, noon

Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10

Casa Borrega — Sasha Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Blues Frenzy, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Marc Stone & Josh Paxton, 6; Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8 Circle Bar — Dane Aaron, 10 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10

Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Joe Krown, 8 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Lady Sings the Blues feat.

Dana Abbott, 5; Irvin Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra jam, 8 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 Saucy’s — Mark Appleford, 6 Siberia — Ford Theatre Reunion, Bones, This Stunted Sextette, 9 Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 The Spotlight Bar and Grill — Dr. Rock, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; The Orleans 6, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10

DMac’s — Frenchie Moe, 8

Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Schatzy, 7

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Meryl Zimmerman, 9

Tipitina’s — Badfish (Sublime tribute), 8

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Armand St. Martin, 5:30 Gasa Gasa — Mike Dillon Residency feat. Ryan Montbleau, Marc Friedman, John Kimock, 9 House of Blues — Billy Idol, Broncho, 7; Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hazy Ray Trio, 8:30 Jazz National Historical Park — Joe Krown, noon The Jefferson Orleans North — Jay Zainey Orchestra, 6:30 Little Gem Saloon — Kyle Cripps, 5; Bart Ramsey & Zazou City, 8 Maple Leaf Bar — Mainline Brass Band, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — I & I, 9; Aaron & Zac Maras, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Bob Green & the Green-River Band, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Russell Welch Hot Quartet, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8

THURSDAY 22 21st Amendment — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 8 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Russell Welch, 3; Messy Cookers Jazz, 6:30; Johnny Mastro Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen, 9 The BEATnik — Larkin Poe, Emily Kopp, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Hazy Ray, 10 BMC — Chief Smiley Ricks, John Lisi & Delta Funk, R&R Music Group, 5 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30 Cafe Negril — Usurpers, 6; Soul Project, 10 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Carl LeBlanc Jazz Quartet, 5;

Chance Bushman & Smoking Time Five, 8:30

Ralph & Kacoo’s — Dueling Pianos, 7

Checkpoint Charlie — Mikayla, 7; Rudy Simone, 11

Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5

Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Helen Gillet & Friends, 9

Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Hyperphlyy, 7

Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; Valerie Sassyfras, Mr. Sister, 10 City Park Botanical Garden — Thursdays at Twilight: Bobby Cure & the Poppa Stoppas, 6 Columns Hotel — Naydja Cojoe, 8

Rivershack Tavern — Bill Davis, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — L’il Nathan & the Big Tymers, 8:30 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Playhour feat. Kyle Roussel, 5; The James Rivers Movement, 8

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Siberia — The Salt Wives, 9; Karma to Burn, Sierra, Mountain of Wizard, 9

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30

Snug Harbor — Davy Mooney Trio feat. Mark Ferber, 8 & 10

d.b.a. — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 10

Southport Hall — Millionaries & Erin Woods, 7

DMac’s — Ainsley Matich & the Broken Blues, 8

Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Stephanie Nilles, 9

Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Bayou Saints, 7; Adventures of the Interstellar B-Boy, DJ Housefly, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Soundclash Beat Battle, 9 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Ryan Floyd, 7 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 Gasa Gasa — Groove Therapy, 9 Irish House — Marshall Baker, 6 Joy Theater — Rebelution, Katchafire, 7:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5; Viper Mad Trio, 8 Maple Leaf Bar — Eric Benny Bloom, Joe Ashlar & Jamison Ross, 10:30; Johnny Vidacovich, Mike Dillon & Brian Haas, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Hazel & the Delta Ramblers, 7; Kevin & Didi, 8; Three Ninjas, 9 Oak — Miles Cabecerious, 9 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Ogden After Hours: Nigel Hall, 6 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Just Honey & the Wingmen, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Tony Dagradi, 7:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin & Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10

Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 5 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11

FRIDAY 23 21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Phil Melancon, 8 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 2; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — The No Shows, 10 The BEATnik — Lincoln Durham, 9 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7; Sonic Bloom with Eric “Benny” Bloom & Nigel Hall, 11 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Crowbar, 10 BMC — Lefty Keith & True Blues, Shotgun Double, Zena Moses & Rue Fiya, Soul Company, 3 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s — Daniele Spadavecchia, 5; Tom McDermott, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott, 6; Higher Heights Reggae Band, 10

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Billy Idol with Broncho

The yell is less rebellious, but Billy Idol’s eighth studio album, Kings & Queens of the Underground (BFI), begins with one anyway, because of course it does. It’s how, one wants to imagine, Idol enters every room.

After flirting with the fringes of his range on 1993’s techno-babbling Cyberpunk and 2005’s artificially enhanced horn ball Devil’s Playground, the only surprise is that it took him so long to remember that he’s Billy Freaking Idol — literally all he has to do is show up, pepper a few brooding ballads with peroxide-dipped Billy Idol with Broncho power pop and rock a whiplash sneer JAN you can practically hear. Thankfully, 8 p.m. Wednesday digging up all the debauched anecdotes House of Blues, for his own-voice autobiography, last 225 Decatur St. year’s Dancing With Myself, seems to (504) 310-4999 have put the 59-year-old icon back in the mood. Kings & Queens plays like a www.houseofblues.com companion audiobook, particularly on its first side, where Idol finds himself back in MTV mode for the first time since “Cradle of Love.” Any further inspiration needed will be guaranteed by Oklahoman jump-starter Broncho, whose way with a hooky single (“Try Me Out Sometime,” “Class Historian”) at least ensures Idol won’t be dancing by himself. Tickets $82 (includes fees). — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7:30

DMac’s — Ajeanette, 9

Checkpoint Charlie — Pastor Stone & the Prophets of Blues, 7; Isla NOLA, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Paul Sanchez & Skeet Hanks, 8 Circle Bar — Shane, 6; Same Sex Mary, 10 Columns Hotel — Ted Long, 6 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Honey Island Swamp Band, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Eric Traub Trio, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Up Up We Go, 7 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 3 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5; Antoine Diel Trio, 8:30

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Hi-Ho Lounge — Giraffage, 9 Hotel Monteleone — Lena Prima, 10 House of Blues — Machine Head, 8; King Solomon, Kourtney Heart, DJ Raj Smoove, 9:30 Howlin’ Wolf — Stoop Kids album release, Yugen, Tank & the Bangas, Mantra Love, Eclypso, 9 Hyatt Regency New Orleans — D. Selina, 7 Irish House — Vincent Marini, 7

Gasa Gasa — Clear Plastic Masks, 10

Le Bon Temps Roule — Tom Worrell, 7

Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7

Little Gem Saloon — Mario Abney, 5; Nayo Jones, 8

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Maple Leaf Bar — Russell Batiste & Friends, Wild Tchoupitoulas, 10:30

Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Phil Melancon, 8

Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 & 9

Monkey Hill Bar — Bobby J & Stuff Like That, 7

Bamboula’s — Abby Diamond, 2; Caesar Brothers Band, 5:30; Ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 10

Louisiana Music Factory — Billie Davies, 2; The Parishoners, 3; Patrick Williams, 4

Bar Redux — Heat Wave Dance Party feat. DJ Ann Glaviano, 10

The Maison — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Barry’s Pocket, Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Daniel Black, 7; Richard Bienvenu, 8; Rebecca Green, 9; Sydney Beaumont, 10 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Kyle Roussel, 2; Deltaphonic, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Trio, 8 Preservation Hall — Southern Syncopators, Steve Pistorius, 6; PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Ralph & Kacoo’s — Dueling Pianos, 7 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 6; Anais St. John, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Space Heaters, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Wiseguys, 9:30

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Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8

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Siberia — Metronome the City album release, Blackbelt Band, Dead Marshes, 9 Snug Harbor — Joel Harrison album release, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & his Beautiful Band, 9:30 Three Muses — Matt Johnson Trio, 6; Charlie Halloran, 9 Tipitina’s — The Funky Meters, Jarekus Singleton, 10 Treasure Chest Casino — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7 Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8 Twist of Lime — Hazlehurst, Peezy n’ Dem, The Telegraph Salesman, 9 Ugly Dog Saloon — Texas Pete, 7 Union Station Pub & Grill — The Little Things, 6

SATURDAY 24 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30

Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 11 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Crowbar, 10 BMC — Canaligators, Johnny Mastro & Mama’s Boys, The Jeff Davis Project, Lagniappe Brass Band, 3 Bourbon O Bar — Johnny Angel & the Swingin’ Demons, 8 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 9 Buffa’s — Sweet Substitute Jazz Band, 5; Soundproofing benefit, 8; Keith Burnstein, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Randy East & T-Bone, 4; Cockatoo, 7; Kenny Claiborne, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Sonic Boom feat. Eric Bloom & Nigel Hall: Kool & the Gang tribute, 10 Circle Bar — The Cons and Prose, Next Level Midriff, Vanzza Rokken, 10 Columns Hotel — Andrew Hall, 6 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9

Maple Leaf Bar — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jim Pharis, 8; Gina Forsyth, 9; Lo Faber, 10 Oak — Tom Leggett, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Gal Holiday, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Sirens, Yes Ma’am, 9 Pearl Wine Co. — Scott Sanders Quartet feat. Olivier Bou, 8 Preservation Hall — Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Frank Oxley, 6; Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10 Ralph & Kacoo’s — Dueling Pianos, 7 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 6; Lynn Drury, 9 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1 Rivershack Tavern — Clay Diamond Band, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Eric Lindell, 9:30

d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; King James & the Special Men, 11

Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Rex Gregory, 8

Deutsches Haus — Danny O’Flaherty, 7

Snug Harbor — Herlin Riley Quintet, 8 & 10

DMac’s — The Jeff Davis Project, 8

Southport Hall — Molly Ringwalds, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz, 10

Spotted Cat — Jazz Band Ballers, 2; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 7 Gasa Gasa — Prom Date, Wild Moccasins, Rareluth, 9 Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Hangar 13 — Flyy-By Nite, 1 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — The Colossal Heads, Southern Arrow, 8

Three Muses — Debbie Davis, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — The Soul Rebels, 10 Twist of Lime — Zombies Eating Sheep, Miss Massive Snowflake, 9 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Anais St. John, 6 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8

Howlin’ Wolf — Rebirth Brass Band, 10

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Hyatt Regency New Orleans — D. Selina, 7 Irish House — One Tailed Three, 7

21st Amendment — Tom McDermott, 4 Bacchanal — Roamin’ Jasmine, 7:30

MUSIC LISTINGS Bamboula’s — Christopher Johnson Trio, 3:30

feat. Bruce Daigrepont, David Doucet, 5:30

Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan & Friends, 7; Lagniappe Brass Band, 11

MONDAY 26

BMC — Revival!, Iris P., Soul Project NOLA, 3

AllWays Lounge — Marygoround & Friends, 6

Buffa’s — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7

Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8

Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8

Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Leo/Molly/Kellen, 3; Swinging Gypsies, 7:30

Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Molly Sullivan, 10

Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 9

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Smokers World, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sean Riley Blues Band, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Andrew Bell, 9 Hangar 13 — Bass Massive Mob, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Writers Block, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 6:30

The BEATnik — Kate Voegele, 8 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 Blue Nile — Higher Heights Reggae Band, 9 BMC — Mark Appleford, Lil Red & Big Bad, Smoky’s Blues Jam, 5 Buffa’s — Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; Gene Harding’s N.O. Super Jam, 9 Checkpoint Charlie — Clyde & Iggy, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Circle Bar — Omingnone, 10 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

The Maison — One Love Brass Band, 10

d.b.a. — Glen David Andrews, 10

Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 10

DMac’s — Danny Alexander, 8

Morning Call — The Olivia DeHavilland Mosquitoes, noon Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Jelly Jazz, 3:30 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 2 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Paul Varisco & the Milestones, 5 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Germaine Bazzle & Peter Harris Trio, 8 Siberia — Paper Bison, Hello Nomad, Dogweed, 9 Snug Harbor — Kyle Roussell Quintet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — St. Cecelia’s Asylum Chorus, 2; Ben Polcer & the Grinders, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael Bas, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Tipitina’s — Cajun Fais Do Do

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — Zydeco Two Step, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Hill Country Hounds, 10 Irish House — Traditional Irish music session, 7 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 9 Marigny Brasserie — Harmonouche, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 8; Dave Maleckar, 9; Genial Orleanians, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Dazed on Toulouse, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8

Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 10 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8

CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS Ivan Griffin. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The baritone singer performs American songs and spirituals, accompanied by pianist Michael Borowitz. 5 p.m. Sunday.

Matthew Polenzani. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu/~theatre — The operatic tenor performs music by Liszt, Ravel, Beethoven, Satie and Barber, accompanied by pianist Julius Drake. A question-and-answer session follows. Regular tickets $35, under 35 $18, students $5. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Organ & Labyrinth. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — Albinas Prizgintas performs on the church’s 5,000-pipe tracker organ. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Rhett Bramwell. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — The Celtic harpist and composer specializes in sacred, classical and meditative music. 2 p.m. Sunday.

CALL FOR MUSIC Crescent City Sound Chorus.

The women’s chorus holds auditions at 7 p.m. on Mondays at Delgado Community College. Call (504) 442-7449, (985) 898-0951 or visit www. crescentcitysound.com.

New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra. The orchestra seeks intermediate or better musicians. Visit www.novorchestra.com for details.

Symphony Chorus of New Orleans. The chorus holds auditions by appointment on Jan. 20 and 27. Call (504) 525-2711, e-mail admin@svmphonvchorus.org or visit www. symphonychorus.org.

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Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8

Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10

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The Boy Next Door (R) — An affair between newly divorced teacher Claire (Jennifer Lopez) and her teen neighbor Noah (Ryan Guzman) takes a dark, obsessive turn in this psychological thriller. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Big Muddy (NR) — Martha Barlow (Nadia Litz) and her son Andy (Justin Kelly) are on the run from Andy’s crimes in a modern-day Western from Canada. Zeitgeist Mortdecai (R) — At the request of an MI5 officer (Ewan McGregor), art dealer and dandy Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) agrees to hunt a stolen Goya painting rumored to lead to Nazi gold.

Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Strange Magic (PG) — The romance-hating Bog King (Alan Cumming) wants to outlaw love potions, but changes his mind when he meets Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood) in a story adapted

by George Lucas from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

NOW SHOWING American Sniper (R) — Clint Eastwood’s war drama is based on the autobiography of notorious Navy SEAL and Iraq war veteran Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), known for his high kill count. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place Annie (PG) — Foster child Annie (Quvenzhane Wallis) befriends Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), a billionaire seeking to improve his image, in the update of the classic musical.

Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Big Eyes (PG-13) — Artist Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) fights her ex-husband (Chrisoph Waltz) for rights

to paintings of doe-eyed children in Tim Burton’s biographical drama. Elmwood Big Hero 6 (PG) — Young prodigy Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) and his robot sidekick Baymax (Scott Adsit) must save San Fransokyo from a dangerous plot in this animated adventure. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (R) — A washed-up actor, whose previous claim to fame was his portrayal of a popular superhero, attempts to recapture his past glory by mounting a Broadway play.

Elmwood Blackhat (R) — An FBI agent (Viola Davis) partners with a Chinese investigation team and a convicted hacker (Chris Hemsworth) to investigate an international cyber attack. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Boyhood (R) — Director Richard Linklater follows Mason (Ellar Coltrane) for more than 12 years from childhood through adolescence.

Elmwood Foxcatcher (R) — Wealthy, insecure heir John du Pont (Steve Carrell) invites Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) to his estate to train a private team in this Palme d’Or-winning true crime drama. Elmwood, Kenner, Canal Place The Gambler (R) — Literature professor Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) has an out-ofcontrol gambling problem in the remake of the 1974 drama. Elmwood Great White Shark 3D (NR) — The documentary explores shark encounters.

Entergy IMAX Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG) — Eleven-year-old Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) learns he’s a wizard in the first film adapted from J.K. Rowling’s fantasy saga. Prytania

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) — Dragon Smaug and evil lord Sauron attack Bilbo (Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Ian Mckellen) and the dwarves in the final installment of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (PG-13) — The first half of the final part of the series opens as Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) wakes up in District 13 and learns of a secret rebellion that could save her nation. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Imitation Game (PG-13) — British computer scientist and cryptographer Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbach) cracks the Nazis’ Enigma Code, but is later prosecuted for homosexuality. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place Inherent Vice (R) — Louche stoner and private eye Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) tracks a missing ex-girlfriend in Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaption of Thomas Pynchon’s novel. Elmwood, Canal Place Into the Woods (PG) — Meryl Streep, James Corden and Emily Blunt star in the musical about an unhappily childless couple who meet fairy tale characters as they seek to undo a witch’s curse. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) — Morgan Freeman narrates a film about lemurs in Madagascar. Entergy IMAX Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom (NR) — Two young Maasai warriors go on a ritual safari through Kenya. Entergy IMAX Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) — Night watchman Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) travels to London to preserve the magic that brings museum exhibits like Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) to life. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Paddington (PG) — A young bear with a passion for marmalade finds a new home with Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins) and their children in the film based on the storybook character. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Penguins of Madagascar (PG) — Penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private battle villainous octopus Dr. Octavius Brine (John Malkovich) in the animated spy thriller. Kenner, Slidell

FILM LISTINGS REVIEW Selma (PG-13) — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) leads a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, resulting in the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

homa City Museum of Art registar Matthew Leininger in this documentary. 7 p.m. Tuesday & 9 p.m. Thursday at Indywood; 7 p.m. Wednesday at CAC The Babadook (NR) — A children’s book monster terrorizes a young boy (Noah Wiseman) and his mother (Essie Davis) in this Australian psychological horror tale. 9 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist

Spare Parts (PG-13) — With the help of their high school teacher (George Lopez), four Hispanic students form a robotics club and compete against the champion robotics team from MIT. Elmwood

Basquiat (R) — Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) is a rising star of the New York art world and a friend of Andy Warhol (David Bowie) in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 biopic. 4 p.m.

Saturday. CAC

Taken 3 (PG-13) — Framed for his wife’s murder, former covert agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) evades authorities and sets out to exact revenge on her killers.

Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

Blue Ruin (R) — Amateur assassin Dwight Evans (Macon Blair) faces extrajudicial justice after he takes revenge on the man who killed his father in this 2013 independent thriller. Through Jan. 20, 9 p.m. Tuesday & Thursday; 10:30 p.m. Wednesday; 7 p.m. Friday. Indywood

The Theory of Everything (PG13) — Facing a bleak diagnosis, a young Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) and transforms the study of astrophysics.

Elmwood Unbroken (PG-13) — Former Olympian Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) survives 47 days on a raft in the Pacific Ocean and more than two years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. Clearview, Elmwood, Slidell, Regal

Whiplash (R) — A young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) endures verbal and physical abuse from his teacher (J.K. Simmons) in hopes of achieving greatness.

Elmwood Wild (R) — After losing her beloved mother, Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) makes a clean break from her troubled life with a solo hike of the challenging Pacific Crest Trail. Elmwood The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (PG-13) — A pair of schoolteachers (Phoebe Fox and Helen McCrory) evacuate students to the countryside to escape the London Blitz, but find a sinister haunt at an empty estate.

Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Animal House (R) — Rejected by a more prestigious fraternity, college freshmen Larry and Kent (Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst) join the rowdy Delta Tau Chi in John Landis’ 1978 college comedy. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place Art and Craft (NR) — Prolific art forger and faux philanthropist Mark Landis is exposed by Okla-

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Vanessa Redgrave Wide release

In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald published a short story called The Rich Boy in which he famously wrote, “Let me tell you about the rich. They are different from you and me.” It was 10 years later that Fitzgerald’s literary peer and onetime friend Ernest Hemingway answered the point sardonically in his own writing with, “Yes, they have more money.”

While he was at it, Hemingway also wrote that the rich were “dull and repetitious.” Each writer’s point of view has stood the test of time if director Bennett Miller’s scathing Foxcatcher is any indication of truth as regards the moneyed classes.

Foxcatcher is the “based on true events” story of du Pont family heir and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic John du Pont, who bought his way into Olympic sports in the 1980s by building a private training facility and inviting 1984 Olympic gold medalists and brothers Mark and Dave Schultz to join Team Foxcatcher, du Pont’s privately funded wrestling organization. Named after the du Pont family’s lavish 800-acre Foxcatcher Farm estate in eastern Pennsylvania, the team would train the country’s best for competition at the 1987 World Wrestling Championships and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

John du Pont also hoped Team Foxcatcher would legitimize him as a patriot, leader and mentor to heroic athletes who in reality only needed his financial support. But reality was not du Pont’s strong suit, and the resulting disconnect ran deep. Foxcatcher imagines the complex and deteriorating relationships among du Pont, Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz as real-life events spiral out of control, leading to murder and incarceration. An artful but austere character study, the film is elevated by an astounding dramatic performance from comic actor and The Daily Show With John Stewart alumnus Steve Carell as du Pont.

With his prosthetic nose and soft-spoken, to-the-manor-born demeanor, Carell is positively spooky in the challenging central role. He made it his mission to bare the dark soul of the psychologically scarred du Pont, a grown man still longing to win the approval of his distant mother Jean du Pont (Vanessa Redgrave). As if spurred by Carell’s slow-burn performance, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum also deliver the best work of their lives as the affable, easygoing Dave Schultz and his troubled younger brother Mark. They trained for months to make the film’s wrestling scenes as brutally authentic as possible. Both Carell and Ruffalo richly deserve the Academy Award nominations they earned for Foxcatcher.

With his award-winning films Capote, Moneyball and now Foxcatcher, Miller has made a specialty of revealing elusive truths about real-life characters through finely crafted fictionalizations. Miller undertook an eight-year process to bring Foxcatcher to the screen, approaching his subject as a journalist would by interviewing those closest to the film’s three principal characters and amassing a trove of original research.

But his target was the kind of human insight found in art, not journalism. The rich may be different from you and me but they’re flesh and blood all the same. — KEN KORMAN

Buckaroo Banzai (PG) — Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) battles alien reptiles from Planet 10 in the 1984 cult classic sci-fi film. Indywood celebrates its birthday at the screening with free beer and a DJ. 9 p.m.

Thursday. Indywood Concerning Violence (NR) — Lauryn Hill narrates filmmaker Goran Olsson’s documentary about colonialism and liberation in 1960s and ‘70s Africa, based on Frantz Fanon’s essay of the same title. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday. Zeitgeist Dial M for Murder (PG) — A retired tennis pro (Ray Milland) plots the murder of his wife (Grace Kelly) and struggles to cover his tracks in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller. Noon Sunday. Prytania Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PG) — Young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) finds his school strangely haunted when he returns for sophomore year in the second film adapted from J.K. Rowling’s fantasy saga. 10 p.m. Sunday. Prytania Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG) — Elevenyear-old Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) learns he’s a wizard in the first film adapted from J.K. Rowling’s fantasy saga. 10 p.m.

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The Wedding Ringer (R) — Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is all set to marry his fiancee (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), but the socially awkward groom has to hire a best man (Kevin Hart) in this buddy comedy. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake (NR) — The ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s story of Odette, a beautiful swan-woman who must break her curse by winning true love. 11:55 a.m. Sunday.

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footage and interviews with friends.

Noon Saturday. CAC The Lady Vanishes (NR) — A young woman (Margaret Lockwood) is baffled by the sudden disappearance of an older woman (May Whitty) from their train in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller. Noon Wednesday. Prytania Le nom des gens (The Names of Love) (R) — Young activist Baya Benmahmoud (Sara Forestier) has no qualms about sleeping with her political opponents, until she meets a man (Jacques Gamblin) to match her deviousness. 7 p.m.

Monday. Cafe Istanbul The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow Encore (NR) — Renee Fleming stars as the wealthy widow in an art nouveau staging of Franz Lehar’s operetta. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, Regal The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) — The cult classic musical film about an innocent couple who seek help at mansion full of strange inhabitants is accompanied by a shadow cast.

Midnight Friday-Saturday. Prytania Slavery by Another Name (NR) — Sam Pollard’s PBS documentary studies the history of forced labor in the American South after the Civil War. The New Orleans Public Library presents the screening and a discussion follows.

7 p.m. Thursday. Zeitgeist

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Vessel (NR) — The documentary follows Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts of Women on Waves, which provides abortions in international waters for women from countries with restrictive laws. New Orleans Abortion Fund hosts the screening. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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AMC Clearview Palace 12: Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie., (504) 887-1257; www.amctheatres.com AMC Elmwood Palace 20: 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan., (504) 733-2029; www.amctheatres.com AMC Westbank Palace 16: 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey., (504) 263-2298; www. amctheatres.com Cafe Istanbul: New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette., (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies. com Contemporary Arts Center: 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno. org Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute. org The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner., (504) 229-4259; www.thegrandtheatre.com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell., (985) 641-1889; www.thegrandtheatre. com Indywood Movie Theater: 628 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 345-8804; www.indywood.org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www. theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium 14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington., (985) 871-7787; www.regmovies.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540; www. thetheatres.com Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistnola.org

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HAPPENINGS Arts and Activism Series.

The Foundation Gallery, 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — The gallery hosts talks by artist Kelwin Coleman and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee Segarra. Suggested minimum donation $5, benefitting BreakOUT and The Body Electric Fund. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Arts Estuary opening party. Arts Estuary 1024, 1024 Elysian Fields Ave. — The new community art space celebrates its opening with food from local restaurants and a DJ. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Franklin Sirmins. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www. noma.org — Prospect.3’s artistic director discusses the art on display at NOMA. 6 p.m. Friday.

How to Be. Xavier University, Administration Building Auditorium, 520-7525; www. xula.edu — Gia Hamilton moderates a panel discussion by local street artists on P.3+ project ExhibitBE. 2 p.m. Saturday.

Mark Steinmetz gallery talk. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The photographer and Ogden photography curator Richard McCabe lead a gallery tour. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Not Just a Few of Us. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.

PROSPECT.3 Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Citywide; www. prospectneworleans. org — The third edition of New Orleans’ international contemporary art triennial features 60 artists in exhibitions at many local museums and institutions.

Through Sunday.

OPENINGS Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico.

901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Mexico, World Heritage Cities,” photographs of UNESCO-recognized sites in Mexico, opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

Garden District Gallery.

1332 Washington Ave., (504) 891-3032; www. gardendistrictgallery. com — “Carnival!,” group show of paintings, photography and sculpture, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Salutations,” collodion tintypes

by Josephine Sacabo, opens Friday.

by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing.

and Sadie Sheldon, through March 1.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www. noafa.com — “A Visit to Horn Island,” plein air paintings

by Claude Ellender, Diego Larguia, Renee Mitchell, Mary Monk, Louis Morales, Auseklis Ozols, Phil Sandusky and Billy Solitario, through Feb. 27.

Boyd | Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Megalomania Three,” portraits of the gallery director by 37 artists, through February.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — Group exhibition by members of MASS artist collective, through Feb. 8.

AFA New Orleans. 809 Royal St., (504) 558-9296; www. afanyc.com — “Dirty Little Secrets,” pop surrealism group exhibition, ongoing.

AIA New Orleans Center for Design. 1000 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-8320; www.aianeworleans.org — Prospect.3: work by Mary Ellen Carroll, through Sunday.

AKG Gallery. 716 Bienville St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — “Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!,” drawings and hat collection of Ted Geisel, through Feb. 14.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “The Blue Library,” group show of photography chapbooks, through January; “Welcome to My Homepage,” group exhibition curated by Amanda Cassingham-Bardwell, through Feb. 8.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www. antieaugallery.com — “Super Imposed,” work by Betsy Youngquist and Celibeth Donnelly, through Tuesday.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery. com — Ceramic art by Nancy Susaneck; jewelry by Lark and Lotus; paintings by Myra Williamson-Wirtz; all through January.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “Does Anyone Remember Laughter? Lost Landscapes and Lonely Men,” work by Dawn DeDeaux; “Circulation of Light,” mixed media installation by Courtney Egan; both through February; “Random Precision in the Metric of Time,” prints and sculpture by Erwin Redl, through March 14.

5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 940-2900; www.5pressgallery.com — “Twelfth Night,” group show by Sam Crosby, Ariel Jackson, Bonnie Maygarden, Jacob Reptile and Ashley Teamer, through Feb. 21.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Peruvian Metaphysicals,” work by J. Castilla-Bambaren; “Red Cross Blankets/Deep Cuts,” work by Christopher Saucedo; “Sleepers,” photos by Robert Hannant; all through Feb. 7.

A Gallery For Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www. agallery.com — “Where: The Exploration of Photo-

Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery. 4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — “Puppy Love with My Angels from Above,” paintings

GALLERIES

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Castles of the New World,” ceramic sculpture by Jenna Turner, through March 10.

Callan Contemporary.

518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary. com — “Collective Memory: Works by Shawne Major”, through January.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — 35th Anniversary Exhibition, through February.

Casell-Bergen Gallery.

1305 Decatur St., (504) 524-0671; www.casellbergengallery.com — Work by Joachim Casell, Rene Ragi, BellaDonna, Jamal and Phillip Sage, ongoing.

Catalyst Gallery of Art. 5207 Magazine St., (504) 220-7756; www.catalystgalleryofart.com — Group exhibition of New Orleans-inspired art, ongoing.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — Prints and paintings by Katie Rafferty, through January.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “La Petite Mort,” installation by Blaine Capone, James Taylor Bonds and M. Silver Smith, through Sunday.

Dillard University. Art Gallery, Cook Communications Center, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 816-4853; www.dillard. edu — Prospect.3: work by Terry Adkins and William Cordova, through Sunday.

Du Mois Gallery. 4609 Freret St., (504) 818-6032; www. dumoisgallery.com — “La Isla Misteriosa,” paintings and sculpture by Craig Berthold and Mark Grote, through Feb. 7.

The Exchange Center. 935 Gravier St., (504) 523-1465; www.artscouncilofneworleans.org — Prospect.3: work by Liu Ding, Lisa Sigal and Tavares Strachan, through Sunday.

The Foundation Gallery.

1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola. com — “Body Electric,” work

by Pinky Bass, Doug Balous, Kelwin Coleman, Barbara Groves, Heather Hansen

Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres. com — Mixed media by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

Gallery Twenty-One Fourteen. 2114 Decatur St., (504) 875-2110; www.gallerytwentyonefourteen.com — “Things That Go Bump in the Night,” work by Ben Gregory, Margaret Minezer, MRSA, Pauly Lingerfelt, Senan O’Connor, Katy Weidemann and Chez Marie, through Sunday.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery. com — “The Pigeons in This Town Taste Like Shit,” new work by Stephen Collier, through Feb. 8.

Guthrie Contemporary. 3815 Magazine St., (504) 897-2688; www.guthriecontemporary. com — “Big Appetites,” photographs by Christopher Boffoli; “Counting to Ten in French,” photo-based art by Aline Smithson; “She Can Leap Tall Buildings,” photographs by Heidi Lender; all through February.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Painting the New Orleans Arts District,” group show of local scenes, through January.

Joan Mitchell Center. 2275 Bayou Road, (504) 940-2500; www.joanmitchellfoundation.org — “Convergence,” work by resident artists curated by Deborah Willis; Prospect.3: work by McArthur Binion, Los Jaichackers, Akosua Adoma Owusu and Hayal Pozanti; both through Sunday.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — “Guns in the Hands of Artists,” decommissioned guns repurposed as art, through Sunday.

J&S Gallery. 3801 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, (504) 952-9163 — Wood carvings and paintings by local artists, ongoing.

La Madama Bazarre. 910 Royal St., (504) 236-5076; www.lamadamabazarre. com — Mixed-media group exhibition featuring Jane Talton, LaTeefah Wright, Sean Yseult, Darla Teagarden and others, ongoing.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988;

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Closing Celebration of Prospect.3. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — The Ogden hosts film screenings, an artist gallery tour and a dance party for the closing weekend of Prospect.3. Free with regular museum admission.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

tulane.edu/~theatre — Artist Andrea Fraser reprises her performance for the final week of Prospect.3 at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Fraser also gives a lecture at the Contemporary Arts Center at 7 p.m. Thursday.

graphs and Place, 1843-2014,” through January.

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ART LISTINGS www.lemieuxgalleries. com — “Becoming Invisible,” paintings by Jesse Poimboeuf, through February. “Excavations and Monuments: Works in Plaster” by Alan Gerson, through February.

M. Francis Gallery. 1938 Burgundy St., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery. com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans. 433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www.martinlawrence.com — Paintings by Kerry Hallam and Marc Chagall, through Feb. 1.

Martine Chaisson Gallery.

727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery. com — “A Dot Red,” photogravures by Christa Blackwood, through January.

May Gallery and Residency.

2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105, (504) 316-3474; www.themayspace.com — Prospect.3: “Meka Jean: How She Got Good,” installation by Tameka Norris, through Sunday.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — “Insomnia,” watercolor prints by Henry Miller, through January.

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New Orleans Photo Alliance.

1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Skins, Shells and Meats,” assemblages by Elizabeth Stone, through Tuesday.

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NOCCA Riverfront. 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — “Sabor-Saber-Saver,” photo installation

by Cristina Molina, through Jan. 29.

Oak Street Gallery. 111 N. Oak St., Hammond, (985) 345-0251; www.theoakstreetgallery.com — Work by Thom Barlow, Mark Haller, Pat Macaluso and John Robinson, ongoing.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — Sculpture and mixed media by Wayne Amedee, through January.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — Works by Vitrice McMurry, Lauren Thomas, Sabine Chadborn, Cathy DeYoung and others, ongoing.

River House at Crevasse of 1922. 8122 Saro Lane, Poydras; www.cano-la.org — “LandScapes: Photography, Drawings and Paintings,” group show, through Sunday.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Borrowed

Relics: The Last of the Large Polaroid Transfers,” photography by Anna Tomczak; “Juju,” photographs by Sandra Russell Clark; both through Feb. 7.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.thesecondstorygallery. com — “Complementary Perspectives,” paintings by Rebecca Birtel Madura and Jeffrey Stolier, through Feb. 7.

Sophie Lvoff at 3422. 3422 St. Claude Ave.; www.facebook. com/sophielvoff3422 — Photographs by Sophie T. Lvoff, through Sunday.

Soren Christensen Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com — “Daydreamer,” paintings by Barry Lorne; “Manifest Destiny,” paintings by Ed Smith; both through January.

St. Tammany Art Association.

320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyartassociation. org — “Nature’s Essence: Two Visions,” paintings by Marcia Holmes and Jim Seitz, through Feb. 7.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “YYNN,” recent work by Elizabeth Chen, through Feb. 8.

Steve Martin Studios. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www. stevemartinfineart.com — “Artisan Juncture,” group show featuring Gustavo Duque, Travis Linde, Amy Boudreaux, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Jedd Haas, Steven Soltis and others, ongoing.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www. facebook.com/nolaartsalon — “Louisianacore,” painting and installation by Jonathan Mayers; “Study,” recent work

by Natalie Sciortino Rinehart; both through January; “I Love You 1000,” new work by Jeff Rinehart, through Feb. 1.

Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., Covington, (985) 892-2811; www.threeriversgallery.com — “Small Works: Group Exhibition,” featuring gallery artists, through February.

Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.carrollgallery.tulane.edu — “Tulane Contemporary.3,” new work by seven professors in Tulane’s Newcomb Art Department, through Sunday.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — Prospect.3: work by Christopher Myers and the Propeller Group’s Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, through Sunday.

Upstairs at 3308 Magazine Street. 3308 Magazine St. — “The Nature of Now,” new work by 14 artists addressing Louisiana ecology, through Saturday.

Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www. vieuxcarregallery.com — Work

by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing.

Whisnant Galleries. 343 Royal St., (504) 524-9766; www. whisnantgalleries.com — Ethnic, religious and antique art, sculpture, textiles and porcelain, ongoing.

Xavier University. 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula. edu — Prospect.3: work by Lonnie Holley, through Sunday.

SPARE SPACES Ancora Pizzeria & Salumeria.

4508 Freret St., (504) 324-1636; www.ancorapizza.com — New paintings by Chad Sines, through March 20.

Cafe Luna. 802 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook. com/cafeluna504 — “The Fix Is Now In,” work by Mario Ortiz, ongoing.

City Park. 1 Palm Drive, (504) 482-4888; www.neworleanscitypark.com — Prospect.3: work

by Will Ryman, through Sunday.

Etoile Polaire Lodge #1. 1433 N. Rampart St. — “Cry Me A River,” group show curated by Janet Levy, through Sunday.

Fairynola. 5715 Magazine St., (504) 269-2033; www.fairynola. com — “Enchantment,” paintings by Tim Jordan and Louise Rimington, ongoing.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery offsite location. 3919 St. Claude Ave. — “Chapel of the Almighty Dollar,” outdoor installation by Dan Tague, through Sunday.

LA46. 2232 St. Claude Ave., (504) 220-5177; www.louisiana46.com — “Jazz, Jazzland & All That Jazz,” photographs by Skip Bolen, ongoing.

Mister Gregory’s. 806 N. Rampart St., 407-3780; www. mistergregorys.com — “Waiting for the Egg Man,” group show of work inspired by John Waters, through Feb. 14.

New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute. 1527 Third St., (504) 330-1947 — “Foodways,” multi-media exhibition presented by Pelican Bomb, through Sunday.

New Orleans Public Library.

219 Loyola Ave., (504) 529-7323; www.nutrias.org — “From Common and Basin to Tulane and Loyola: 150 Years of Change in Our Neighborhood,” photographs and documents of neighborhood transformation, ongoing.

ART LISTINGS REVIEW Rabbit Ears. 8225 Oak St., (985) 212-0274; www.facebook.com/ rabbitearsnola — “Five in Four: A Family Archive,” photographs by five generations of a family tree, through Sunday.

Siberia. 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com — “For When Goblins Sit Down,” mixed media by MILAGROS and Miss Pussycat, through Sunday.

St. Alphonsus Church. 2025 Constance St., (504) 524-8116; www.stalphonsusneworleans. com — “I am not garbage,” mixed media by Mike Kilgore, through Sunday.

Surrey’s Cafe & Juice Bar. 1418 Magazine St., 4807 Magazine St., (504) 524-3828; www. surreyscafeandjuicebar.com — “21st Century Photographs,”

by Natasha Sanchez (at 1418 Magazine St.); group exhibition

by Will Smith, Mardi Claw and Tamar Taylor; both ongoing.

Treme Market Branch Building.

800 N. Claiborne Ave. — Prospect.3: work by Gary Simmons, through Sunday.

Treo. 3835 Tulane Ave., (504) 650-9844; www.treonola.com — “Draught,” work by Chicory Miles and Malcolm McClay; “Waxing Lyrical,” still lifes by Laura Fischer Saxon, Mary McGinness and Pauline Patterson; both through Sunday.

Tulane University. 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 862-8000; www.bamboulanola.tumblr.com — “BAMBOULA / NOLA,” 12 sound art installations throughout campus in partnership with May Gallery, through Sunday.

United Bakery. 1325 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 495-6863 — Bas reliefs by Tamar Taylor, through January.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistnola. org — “The Perpetual Instant,” group photography exhibition selected by Grant Hamilton, through Sunday.

MUSEUMS Ashe Cultural Arts Center.

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Prospect.3: work by Kerry James Marshall, through Sunday; “The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present,” an educational panel display, through February; “Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” commemorative

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — Prospect.3: work by Carrie Mae Weems, through Sunday; “Queens Rule!” portraits, attire and art inspired

by Mardi Gras Indian queens, through March 14.

The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — “Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans”, through March 29; hand-carved decoy ducks, ongoing.

Le Musee de F.P.C. 2336 Esplanade Ave., (504) 233-0384; www. facebook.com/lemuseedefpc — “Revelations of Goddesses,” paintings by Eleanor Merritt, through Sunday.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — Prospect 3: work by Shigeru Ban, Camille Henrot and Jose Antonio Vega Macotela, through Sunday.

Louisiana Children’s Museum.

420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, 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 African American Museum. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., (504) 566-1136; www.noaam.com — Prospect.3: work by Zarouhie Abdalian, through Sunday.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Prospect.3: work by Tarsila do Amaral, Frederick J. Brown, Huguette Caland, Ed Clark, Andrea Fraser, Paul Gauguin, Jeffrey Gibson and Alma Thomas, through Sunday; “Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection,” group exhibition of paintings, through Sunday; “Orientalism: Taking and Making,” European and American art influenced by Middle Eastern, North African and East Asian cultures, through Feb. 1; “Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer sculpture and related work, through March 1; “Photo-Unrealism,” group exhibition of abstract and surreal photography, through March 15; “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through April.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org

Now that it’s almost over, Prospect.3’s defining qualities are becoming clearer, but there is still an aura of mystery about it. If Prospect.1 brought a lot of global art world glitz to a city still reeling from flood devastation, P.3 is more contemplative, complex and multicultural. At its best, it harks to often-overlooked obscure facets of local history, reminding us that New Orleans was already a global city when it became part of the U.S. Take, for instance, the army that won the Battle of New Orleans — a wild assortment of French Creoles, free people of color, pirates, Choctaw Indians, Haitian refugees, slaves and miscellaneous mismatched infantry from surrounding states. Those multicultural misfits defeated what was by any measure a vastly superior British force.

Based on questions of identity raised by Paul Gauguin’s paintings and Walker Percy’s novel The MovProspect.3: Monir THRU iegoer, P.3 often seemed more concerned with the inner life of exotic places Farmanfarmaian JAN than with the cleverly dramatic spectacles more typical of international art Tulane University, biennials today — a strategy that made it interesting for some art world Newcomb Art Gallery cognoscenti and challenging for others. Its most mysterious artist may be Monir Farmanfarmaian, a 90-year-old Iranian who had been active in the New (504) 865-5328 York avant garde world of Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy www.newcombartWarhol. She returned to Iran to pursue her flair for melding modern abstracgallery.tulane.edu tion with ancient Sufi mysticism. The result is the dazzling mirrored geometry seen in works like Octagon Sculpture 2013 (pictured). It looks modern, but its mirrored surfaces employ an ancient Iranian glass mosaic technique, so it can seem coolly elusive even as the viewer’s reflection appears in a multifaceted new form, resulting in an odd sense of recognition. A related sense of recognition regarding P.3 itself may be shaping up in global art media. For instance, artnet.com listed its 50 “most exciting” global artists’ exhibitions of 2014, and five were in New Orleans. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s Mel Chin retrospective made the cut; the rest were components of Prospect.3. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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— Prospect.3: “Basquiat and the Bayou,” paintings and works on paper by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Prospect.3: work by Herbert Singleton and Keith Calhoun Chandra McCormick; both through Sunday; “Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art from the collection of Richard Gasperi”, through Feb. 22; “Before I Die...,” interactive installation by Candy Chang, through February; “South,” photography by Mark Steinmetz, through May 10.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt. state.la.us/museum/properties/ usmint — Pictures of the Year International, images from the Missouri School of Journalism’s photojournalism competition; “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history; both through February.

Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane. edu — “Bungalows,” artifacts of

bungalow and cottage architecture, through May 20.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — “Happy Happy Happy!” photographs from S. Louise Neal’s Birthday Cake Project, ongoing.

Williams Research Center.

410 Chartres St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org/willcent. htm — “Studio, Street, Self: Portrait Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection,” through February.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Distillery Artist Residency. The summer residency at the Contemporary Arts Center seeks artists interested in creating performance work. Visit www. neworleansdistillery.wordpress. com. Deadline Feb. 6.

Femme Fest 2015. The Women’s Caucus for Art of Louisiana accepts submissions from women artists for exhibition at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Gallery. Visit www. wcalouisiana.weebly.com for details. Deadline Feb. 10.

Good Children Gallery. Good Children Gallery, 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www. goodchildrengallery.com — The gallery reviews submissions for new artist-members in 2015.

Email info@goodchildrengallery. com for details. Deadline Jan. 20.

Louisiana River Arts College Art Contest. The contest seeks art from students attending accredited Louisiana colleges.

Cash prizes are awarded. Visit www.rwnaf.org/contest, email emilyyoung@rwnaf.org or call (318) 865-4201, ext. 130, for details. Deadline Feb. 1.

Platforms Fund. A collaboration of Press Street, Ashe Cultural Arts Center and Pelican Bomb,

the fund provides grants of up to $5,000 for artist-driven projects that engage the community. Visit www.platformsfund.org for more information.

Deadline Jan. 20.

Reverb: Past Present Future.

The Contemporary Arts Center and guest curator Isolde Brielmaier hold an open call for contemporary art submissions from the Greater New Orleans area.

Visit www.cacno.org/reverbcall for details. Deadline Feb. 15.

Skewer Gallery. Kebab, 2315 St. Claude, 504-383-HEAT (4328); www.kebabnola.com — The restaurant gallery accepts work on the theme “Illusion.”

Maximum two pieces per artist.

Drop off work between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Feb. 14.

Swap Meet NOLA. St. Margaret’s at Mercy, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 279-6414; www.stmargaretsno. org — The art and farmers market seeks artists. Email info@ swapmeetnola.com.

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Tulane University. School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Collins C. Diboll Auditorium, 1440 Canal St — “MotherShip II: Selections from the MotherShip Series,” mixed media by Dawn DeDeaux, through Sunday.

art exhibition honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., through March 7.

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THEATER Ain’t Got No Home. Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — The sequel follows characters from last year’s Blueberry Hill and features more classic New Orleans R&B songs. Tickets $30 adults, $27 seniors and military, $20 students, $15 children. 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

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Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — A pair of troubled adults (Jamie Neumann and Joshua Mark Sienkiewicz) meet in a chance encounter at a bar in Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright John Patrick Shanley’s two-person drama. Tickets $10. 7 p.m.

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Dreadful Dwarfs Delicious Day!. 1315 Touro St. — Seven dastardly dwarfs hold a production monopoly on the world’s most valuable good in director Nari Tomassetti’s absurdist play, featuring live music by Matt Bell and His Orchestra. Tickets start at $10.

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

The Irish Curse. Cutting Edge Center for the Arts, 767 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 649-3727; www.cecaslidell.com — Five Irish-Americans meet at a self-help group for insecure men in Martin Casella’s comedy about sex and body image. Tickets start at $22. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Jesus Christ Superstar.

Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — Nick Shackleford stars as Jesus in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera. Tickets start at $30.

7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Night Market. St. Roch Firehouse, 1421 St. Roch Ave. — Case Miller directs an experimental production featuring actors, puppets

and original music by Ratty Scurvics. Tickets $15. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

Real|Unreal. Playhouse NOLA, 3214 Burgundy St. — Theater production company South of Uqbar present four one-act plays that question the perception of reality. Tickets $12.

7:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.

Say Amen: A Gospel Play.

Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www. anthonybeantheater.com — A mega-church pastor harbors a secret in this religious drama featuring original music by Dwight Fitch. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Will Rogers Follies.

Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Kelly Fouchi directs the biographical musical about 1920s and ’30s cowboy, vaudevillian and commenter Will Rogers. Tickets start at $32. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Your Lithopedion. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www. theshadowboxtheatre.com — Glenn Aucoin stars as a serial killer hoping to change his ways in Justin Maxwell’s dark comedy about murder and marital dysfunction. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY Beach Blanket Burlesque.

Tiki Tolteca, 301 N. Peters St., (504) 267-4406; www.facebook.com/tikitolteca — GoGo McGregor hosts a burlesque show. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Bella’s Birthday Spectacular. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Local burlesque performer Bella Blue hosts a birthday show. 10 p.m. Friday.

Bits & Jiggles. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-

8855; www.siberianola.com — Local comedians and burlesque performers pair their talents. 9 p.m. Monday.

Burlesque Ballroom. Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse), 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2331; www.sonesta.com/royalneworleans — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly ’60s-style burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio.

11:50 p.m. Friday.

Cirque d’Licious.

Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — GoGo McGregor hosts a burlesque, acrobatics and vaudeville show featuring Ginger Licious, Aaron Lind, Kim Lee, Franki Markstone and Addison Panic. Tickets $10.

9 p.m. Thursday.

Haha’s and Tata’s. Union Station Pub & Grill, 735 St. Joseph St., (504) 522-4934; www. unionstationneworleans.com — Bowtie Burlesque combines burlesque and stand-up comedy. 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Sunday School. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St., (504) 648-7998; www.facebook.com/beatnikbookingnola — The burlesque and variety show features the Rev. Spooky LeStrange & Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls. Cover $5. 9 p.m. Sunday.

Where the Wild Things Went III. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Freaksheaux to Geaux and Ford Theatre Reunion present a vaudeville tribute to the popular children’s book. Tickets start at $15. 10 p.m. Saturday.

DANCE The Four Seasons. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www. marignyoperahouse.org — The Marigny Opera House Dance Company premieres original choreography set to Vivaldi’s 1725 piece, performed by violinist Kate Withrow and the New Resonance Chamber Orchestra.

Tickets $30, students $20. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

OPERA Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno.edu — Loyola opera theater students perform two one-act operas by composer Giacomo Puccini.

Tickets start at $25. 7:30 p.m.

Friday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

COMEDY Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9490038; www.buffaslounge.com — Jake Potter hosts stand-up.

Midnight Friday.

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8 p.m. Wednesday.

Friday Night Laughs. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts an open mic. 11 p.m. Friday.

Give ’Em the Light OpenMic Comedy Show.

House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www. houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the open mic.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Hear My Train A Comin’.

Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www. barredux.com — Lane Lonion and Luke Oleen-Junk host open-mic stand-up comedy.

9 p.m. Thursday.

Jeff D’s Comedy Cabaret.

Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., 504-5292107; www.bourbonpub. com — Comedian Jeff D and drag performer Carla Cahlua star in a weekly show. 10 p.m. Friday.

John Mulaney. The Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865; www.civicnola.com — The former Saturday Night Live comedian and star of the Fox sitcom Mulaney performs. Tickets start at $30. 8 p.m. & 10:45 p.m. Friday.

Johnny Rock. C. Beever’s Bar of Music, 2507 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-9401; www.facebook. com/TheNewCBeevers — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts an open-mic comedy night. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Laugh & Sip. The Wine Bistro, 1011 Gravier St., (504) 606-6408; www.facebook. com/thewinebistrono — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Local Uproar. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Tory Gordon and Paul Oswell host an open-mic night. 7 p.m. Saturday.

The Magna Carta Show.

Playhouse NOLA, 3214 Burgundy St — William Benner, David Kendall, Nathan Sutter, Brian Tarney and Thomas Fewer star in a weekly improv and sketch comedy show. 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story at

The Night Market opens with an amusing pair of massive pig puppets. Ollie and Jewels squabble like a couple, and at times their dialogue seems philosophiThe Night JAN cal, delivered all in brief lines, as if Samuel Market Beckett had sketched a fable about trust 8 p.m. Fri.-Sun. and alienation. Ollie is concerned that Jewels 1421 St. spends a lot of time writing in a journal.

Roch Ave. Jewels says it’s not secretive, and everyone needs some privacy. Puppeteers Renee Anderson and Zibby Jahns’ deft manipulation and the pigs’ lighted eyes and well-articulated snouts bring the creatures to life, and the work gets off to a great start. But talk of secret journals suggests trouble looms, which it does for Ollie and Jewels, and unfortunately, for The Night Market as well.

Ollie and Jewels comprise half of writer/director Case Miller’s show, which takes place in a dusty, raw, improvised space on the ground floor of a former firehouse on St. Roch Avenue. The rest of the piece concerns Lu-Lu (Anais Adair), who operates a grim butcher stall in a marketplace. The drama combines large-scale puppetry, live music by Ratty Scurvics and two onstage chorus members who sing some of the songs and sometimes talk to the characters and offer observations.

Lu-Lu’s stall is strewn with debris and is suffering some sort of malaise.

She has no idea why her butchered pigs are rotting so quickly (and there’s only the slightest suggestion of a connection to Ollie and Jewels). As if in response to Lu-Lu’s needs, The Speculative Designer (Alix Chapman) arrives.

He’s upbeat and speaks in a mix of technological and business jargon. He also sings the praises of his outlook in “I Am a Hub,” one of the play’s eight songs, many delivered in a quirky, rhyming poetry more than singing. Oddly, the Designer likes the taste of the rancid pork.

Lu-Lu’s initial confusion and frustration are comic, as is the Designer’s futuristic snake oil salesmanship. But both characters and performances seemed stuck on those notes on opening night. Adair had the same subdued response to the threat of losing her livelihood and to the absurdity of meeting the bizarre Scientist (M. Chandelier), who seemed to offer an otherworldly view of her predicament. A hilariously animated half-butchered pig puppet, lying on its back with its stomach opened, also offered a macabre deal to Lu-Lu, if the butcher could reassemble the pig.

It’s not clear in the drama why the market has fallen into decline, or whether technology provides only the illusion of progress. The work follows a narrative, but there are many devised components by contributing artists, and Miller has created local art installations with performance. Opening night didn’t get past that haze, but there were many impressive parts and effects, including the puppetry, the palpable existential dread of the market and much of the music. — WILL COVIELLO

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this weekly show. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

Mickey and Cassidy Henehan’s Super Comedy Show.

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www. carrolltonstation.com — Comedians and brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan perform a free stand-up show. 9 p.m. Saturday.

A Night of Comedy.

Tacos & Beer, 1622 St. Charles Ave., (504) 304-8722; www.tacosandbeer.org

— Corey Mack hosts two stand-up showcases. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour.

Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the series, which features a booked showcase and open mic.

9 p.m. Sunday.

Think You’re Funny?

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www. carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy

showcase is open to all comics. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

AUDITIONS Southern Rep Theatre.

NOLA Spaces, 1719 Toledano St. — The theatrical company holds auditions for singers and musicians to appear in its upcoming production of BOUDIN: The New Orleans Music Project from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Jan. 21. Visit www. boudinmusicproject.com for details.

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All-Star Comedy Revue.

House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the stand-up comedy show with special guests and a band. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelve.mile. limit — Molly Ruben-Long and Julie Mitchell host an open mic. 9 p.m. Monday.

A Brunch of Laughs. Banks Street Bar, 4401 Banks St., (504) 486-0258; www. banksstreetbarandgrill.com — Bob Morrell hosts a free stand-up comedy showcase.

3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Chris & Tami. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Comedy theater founders Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform free weekly improv.

9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Comedy Beast.

Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Beast Unleashed.

Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Massive Fraud hosts a comedy showcase featuring Sophie Lucido Johnson, Joe Cardosi, Addy Najera, Vincent Zambon and Lane Lonion. Tickets $5. 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase.

10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F--k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon hosts a showcase of rotating local comedians. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform. An open mic follows. 8 p.m. Thursday.

ComedySportz. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

Crescent City Stand-Up. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.

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insurance enrollment. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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TUESDAY 20 1099 y Todavia Empresario.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — Participants learn how to access capital for a small business in this Spanish-language session. 9 a.m.

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Battle of New Orleans talk.

Chalmette Battlefield of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 8606 W. St. Bernard Hwy., Chalmette, (504) 589-3882; www.nps. gov/jela — Visitors learn about the War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans each afternoon. 2:45 p.m.

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CFLebration. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.greenlightneworleans. org — Energy efficiency nonprofit Green Light New Orleans’ party features music by Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes and Sarah Quintana, with food available from Mat & Naddie’s, Boucherie and Chiba. Admission free. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

First-Time Renovator Training. Preservation Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 581-7032; www.prcno.org — Potential home renovators learn about selecting and financing projects in a session titled “Financing a Renovation Project.” Fee $20. RSVP to Suzanne at (504) 636-3399 or sblaum@prcno.org. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Healthcare Marketplace Enrollment. Various locations, New Orleans — Residents receive free assistance with health insurance enrollment.

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Propeller Incubator, 4035 Washington Ave.; noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave. and at CrescentCare, 2601 Tulane. Ave., second floor; 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at City Hall, 1300 Perdido

St.; 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at Ruth U. Fertel Clinic, 711 N. Broad St.; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Algiers Library, 3014 Holiday Drive.; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday at Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St. It’s All About the Music Bike Ride. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 6583200; www.facebook.com/ groups/nolasocialride — The cyclists of NOLA Social Ride cruise around the city, stopping along the way to enjoy live music. 6 p.m.

NOLA Brewing Dinner. Fulton Alley, 600 Fulton St., 504-2085569; www.fultonalley.com — Diners enjoy a six-course dinner paired with NOLA Brewing beers and a round of bowling. Tickets $65, or $375 for a table of six. 7 p.m.

Parenting in the 21st Century. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — Joyce Duncan discusses Shefali Tsabary’s The Conscious Parent and new parenting philosophies. 7 p.m.

Toddler Time. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm. org — The museum hosts activities for children ages 3 and under and their parents or caregivers. Non-members $8. 10:30 a.m.

Yoga at the Cabildo.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — Yogis of all experience levels practice in the Cabildo gallery. Non-members $12.

7:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY 21 Affordable Care Act bilingual assistance. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — The Cognasante Foundation offers English- and Spanish-language help with health

Creative Grind. The Rook Cafe, 4516 Freret St., (618) 520-9843; www.neworleans.aiga.org/ event/creative-grind — Designers, artists, writers and makers meet to share work and offer feedback. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Lunchbox Lecture. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944, ext. 229; www.nationalww2museum.org — The semi-monthly lecture series features World War II-related topics. Noon.

Nature Walk and Titivation.

Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — Guests tour natural habitats and learn to prune plants along the trail. 1 p.m.

White Glove Wednesdays. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5276012; www.nationalww2museum.org — Curator Eric Rivets gives visitors a chance to wear original military uniforms and equipment. 9 a.m.

Women and Wine on Wednesdays. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — Women relax and network while enjoying wine. 5:30 p.m.

YouthSpark Winter Camps.

Microsoft Store, Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., (504) 841-5180; www.microsoft.com — Kids age 8 to 10 learn game coding skills while parents take a separate workshop. Free. Visit the website to register. 5 p.m.

Wednesday-Thursday.

THURSDAY 22 Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m.

Chuck Perkins. New Orleans Athletic Club, 222 N. Rampart St., (504) 525-2375; www. neworleansathleticclub.com — The spoken word artist and Cafe Istanbul owner leads a panel discussion on Mardi Gras Indians and their cultural significance. 7 p.m.

MLK Convocation & Symposium. Xavier University, University Center Auditorium, 1 Drexel Drive, 486-7411; www. xula.edu — Motivational speaker and activist Michael

EVENT LISTINGS

Skolnik delivers the keynote speech of the Martin Luther King Jr. Week for Peace, entitled “New Faces of the Dream: Moving from Apathy to Activism.” 6 p.m.

NOMA Louisiana Unveiled. Tulane City Center, 1725 Baronne St., (504) 865-5389; www. nomala.org — The Louisiana affiliate of the National Organization of Minority Architects hosts a 2014 retrospective featuring prize-winning designs, drinks, a silent art auction and plans for 2015.

5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Pablo Rey & Anna Callau. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 948-9961; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — The veteran travelers and authors speak.

6 p.m.

SELA Urban Flood Control Program Community Meeting. Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, 2515 Franklin Ave., 488-8488 — Officials discuss drainage infrastructure improvements on Florida Avenue between St. Ferdinand Street and Peoples Avenue Triangle.

6 p.m.

Steamboat history lecture.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — Historian Christina Vella talks about the golden age of steamboats and steamboat racing. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 23 Arts & Action. George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www. themckennamuseum.com — The gala for Community Works of Louisiana features food, cocktails, live music and local retail brands. Tickets start at $25. VIsit www. communityworksla.org for details. 6 p.m.

Forgotten Conflicts: Indians, Andrew Jackson and the War of 1812 in the South. Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 523-3341; www.hotelmonteleone.com — The Historic New Orleans Collection hosts an academic symposium examining the effect of the War of 1812 on the South, in conjunction with its exhibit Andrew Jackson: Hero

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — This week’s event includes a lecture by Prospect.3 director Franklin Sirmans, a documentary about artist Chuck Close and music by Daria & the Hip Drops. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Superball Sweet 610 Debutante Ball. Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, (504) 361-7821; www.610stompers.com — The 610 Stompers’ gala features dances and costumes inspired by ’80s superheros and benefits the Youth Empowerment Project. Tickets $60 at the door. 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 24 Be in That Number: A Children’s Second Line. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere, 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-2123; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — Kids age 5 to 13 and an adult learn second line traditions and dances, make props and parade around Jackson Square. Free; call to pre-register. 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Camellia show. Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, 3315 Maine Ave., Kenner, (504) 4431361; www.roosevelt.jpschools. org — The Camellia Club of New Orleans holds its 75th annual flower show and plant sale. Call Andy at (985) 7265187 or Nick at (504) 616-4378 for details. Plant sale begins at 11:30 a.m. and the juried show is open from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Family Day. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 6584100; www.noma.org — The theme of the day is Degas’ Little Dancer, and events include ballet performances, readings, a gallery tour, scavenger hunt and drawing workshop. Free with regular museum admission. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

drinks, a silent auction, raffle and music by Brass-A-Holics.

Tickets $50. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Jazz Yoga. Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters St., (504) 589-4841 — Susan Landry leads a free class featuring meditational jazz piano. 10 a.m.

Louisiana Family Day. Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — Children decorate king cakes and learn about Mardi Gras traditions. Free to Louisiana residents with photo ID. 11 a.m. to noon.

Pilates. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 456-5000; www. noma.org — The museum hosts Pilates classes in the sculpture garden. Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

Record Raid. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741; www.recordraid. com — More than 20 vendors offer vinyl, cassettes, CDs and audio equipment at the pop-up music flea market.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Renaissance Marketplace of New Orleans East. Renaissance Marketplace, 5700 Read Boulevard — The market offers cuisine from area restaurants, arts and crafts, children’s activities and more.

1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

School garden workshop. www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Sarah Bertrand of the LSU AgCenter instructs educators and community members how to create and sustain a school garden. 9 a.m. to noon at East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey.

Feral Cat TNR Workshop. LA/ SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www.la-spca. org — Participants learn how to humanely trap, neuter and return feral cats and receive information about low-cost resources. 10 a.m.

Starry Night. Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St., (504) 525-0200; www.palmcourtjazzcafe.com — The Roaring Twenties-themed benefit for the Waldorf School of New Orleans features food, auctions, raffles and music by Panorama Jazz Band, Ingrid Lucia and Shotgun Jazz Band.

Tickets start at $45. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Homecoming Affair: A Decade of Difference Gala. First NBC Bank, 210 Baronne St., (504) 566-8000; www.projecthomecoming.net — The gala for housing nonprofit Project Homecoming features food,

Swap Meet NOLA. Swap Meet NOLA, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 813-5370; www.swapmeetnola.com — The event includes a farmers market, flea market and art market. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Voices for Transportation Choices. Sojourner Truth Community Center, 2200 Lafitte St., (504) 827-9963; www.transportationvoices. com — Transportation advocacy group Ride New Orleans hosts informational panels and public forums to discuss priorities for public transit. Visit the website for required registration.

8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Water Wise Workshop. St. Augustine High School, 2600 A.P. Tureaud Ave., (504) 944-2424; www.purpleknights. com — Water Wise NOLA and the Sewerage & Water Board host a potluck and an informational forum about do-ityourself drainage and water management strategies.

Potluck begins at 12:30 p.m.; workshop begins at 1 p.m.

Winter tree & edible plant walk. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature. org — Donna Caire educates hikers on winter season tree identification and native edible plants. Non-members $5.

Call or email rue@northlakenature.org to reserve space.

9 a.m.

Y’Heard Me? Music Industry Summit. Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, 1901 Bartholomew St., (504) 940-3400; www. yheardme.splashthat.com — Musicians learn about copyright, licensing, internet marketing, local resources and more at this set of free, small-group seminars. Noon to 3 p.m.

SUNDAY 25 King Cake Festival. Champions Square, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3822; www.kingcakefestival.org — The tasting festival features cakes from 19 bakeries and restaurants including Domenica, Fare, Haydel’s and more. The event benefits Ochsner Hospital for Children. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Real Men of St. Tammany Gala. Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd., Slidell, (985) 781-3650 — The Safe Harbor domestic violence shelter crowns a male honoree at an annual gala. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Rock’n’Roll Marathon. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place; www.runrocknroll. competitor.com/new-orleans — Race day includes a full marathon, half marathon and 10K. Visit website to register.

7 a.m.

SoFAB Cooking Demo. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www. frenchmarket.org — Local chefs cook their signature dishes. 2 p.m.

MONDAY 26 Brain Food Lecture. Dillard University, Professional Schools Building, Georges Auditorium, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., 283-8822; www.dillard.edu — Jason Riley, author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed speaks at Dillard’s lecture series. 7 p.m.

First-Time Homebuyer Training. Preservation Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 581-7032; www.prcno. org — The four-day course prepares participants for the home purchase process and the demands of homeownership. Fee $75 individual or $90 household. Starts 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday.

Russel Granet. Academy of the Sacred Heart, 4521 St. Charles Ave., (504) 269-1213; www.ashrosary.org — The director of the Lincoln Center Institute gives a free talk as part of Young Audiences of Louisiana’s professional development seminar for educators. RSVP to info@ya4la. org or (504) 523-3525. 2 p.m.

SELA Urban Flood Control Program Community Meeting. St. Mary of the Angels, 3501 N. Miro St., (504) 945-3186 — Officials discuss drainage infrastructure improvements on Florida Avenue between Mazant and St. Ferdinand streets. 6 p.m.

Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 456-5000; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold leads the class in the museum’s art galleries.

Non-members $5. 6 p.m.

WORDS Andra Watkins. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author discusses and signs Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace.

6 p.m. Wednesday.

Andy Young, Ralph Adamo, Jonathan Kline. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — The authors of All Night It Is Morning, Ever and The

Wisdom of Ashes share their work. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Arthur Hardy. — The author discusses the fifth edition of Mardi Gras in New Orleans: An Illustrated History. 6 p.m.

Thursday at Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St. and 2 p.m. Saturday at Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, 631 N. Carrollton Ave. Bring Your Own. Myrtle Banks Building, 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.bringyourownstories.com — Storytellers speak on the theme “saved.” 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Friends of the New Orleans Public Library book sale.

Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 596-2625; www. nutrias.org — The group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday and Saturday.

Lee A. Farrow. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author presents Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, a history of Alexei Alexandrovich’s 1871 trip to the U.S. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Leong Ying. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author and scientist leads a discussion and signs his memoir, From Newton, Einstein, to God. 1 p.m. Sunday.

Louisiana Cultural Vistas happy hour. Louisiana Humanities Center, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, (504) 523-4352; www.leh.org — The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities celebrates the 100th issue of its publication with beer, barbecue and music by To Be Continued Brass Band. 5 p.m. Thursday.

Miki Pfeffer. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — The author discusses Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women’s Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

One Book, Many Communities. University of New Orleans, Kirschman Hall — Local writer Ambata Kazi-Nance hosts a discussion of Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings In Jenin, the national reading selection of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.

1 p.m. Saturday.

The Queer South launch.

Press Street, 3718 St. Claude

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Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — Women of all experience levels dance, talk and dine together at this health-centered event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

of New Orleans. Registration $90. Friday-Saturday.

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Ave., (504) 298-3161; www. press-street.org — Literary collective The Waves present a new anthology of poetry and prose by LGBTQ Southern writers. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — Miss Maureen reads children’s books including Charlotte Zolotow’s Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

StoryQuest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — Authors, actors and artists read children’s books and send kids on art quests through the museum.

11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Ytasha Womack. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The author discusses and signs Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture. 4 p.m. Saturday.

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Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.nba.com/ pelicans — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Los Angeles Lakers at 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Dallas Mavericks at 7 p.m.

Sunday and the Philadelphia 76ers at 7 p.m. Monday.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. www.covingtonfarmersmarket.org — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and live music twice a week: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington.

Crescent City Farmers Market. www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org — The market offers produce, meat, seafood, dairy, flowers and prepared food at four weekly events. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tuesday at Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St.; 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place; 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at American Can Apartments, 3700 Orleans Ave.; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Magazine Street

Market, corner of Magazine and Girod streets.

CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook.com/ CRISPfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan; www. germancoastfarmersmarket. org — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Gretna Farmers Market.

Huey P. Long Avenue at Second Street, Gretna; www. gretnafarmersmarket. com — The weekly rain-orshine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037; www. hollygrovemarket.com — The urban farm operates a fresh market that’s open daily. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market. Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market, 922 Teche St., Algiers, (504) 362-0708; www.oldalgiersharvestfreshmarket.com — Produce and seafood are available for purchase. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

Rivertown Farmers Market.

400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy products, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Sankofa Mobile Market. www.sankofanola.org — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden at several weekly stops. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave.; 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday at New Israel Baptist Church, 6322 St. Claude Ave. St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 3554442; www.fb.com/StBMarket — The market offers seafood, produce, preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities.

8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Vietnamese Farmers Market. 14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd. — Fresh produce, baked

goods and live poultry are available at this early market catering to New Orleans East’s Vietnamese population.

5 a.m. Saturday.

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.

Another Life Foundation. The foundation seeks volunteers recovering from mental illness to help mentor others battling depression and suicidal behaviors. Training is provided. Contact Stephanie Green at (888) 543-3480, email anotherlifefoundation@ hotmail.com or visit www. anotherlifefoundation.org.

Arbor Day Volunteers. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — The nature preserve seeks volunteers to help plant longleaf pine seedlings on Jan. 31 and Feb. 7. Call (985) 626-1238 or email rue@northlakenature.org.

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.

Crescent City Farmers Market. CCFM and marketumbrella.org seek volunteers to field shoppers’ questions, assist seniors, help with children’s activities and more. Call (504) 495-1459 or email latifia@ marketumbrella.org.

Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to help clients, manage inventory and share

their expertise. Call (504) 8914337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org.

Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-onone 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.

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.

Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. The center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area. Call (504) 717-4257 or email mmorgan@gnofairhousing.org.

with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete an orientation to work directly with animals. Visit www.la-spca. org/volunteer.

Lowernine.org. Lowernine. org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@ lowernine.org.

Meal Delivery Volunteers. The Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults.

Gas and mileage expenses are reimbursed. Call Gail at (504) 888-5880.

National World War II Museum. The museum accepts applications for volunteers to greet visitors from around the world and familiarize them with its galleries and artifacts. Call (504) 5276012, ext. 243, or email katherine.alpert@nationalww2museum.org.

Green Light New Orleans.

The group seeks volunteers to help install free energy-efficient lightbulbs in homes.

Visit www.greenlightneworleans.org, call (504) 324-2429 or email green@greenlightneworleans.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.

HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the opportunities available and how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@handsonneworleans.org or visit www. handsonneworleans.org.

Parkway Partners. The greenspace 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.

Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.

Jackson Barracks Museum Volunteers. The museum seeks volunteers to work one day a week for the Louisiana National Guard Museum.

Volunteers prepare military aircraft, vehicles and equipment for display. Call David at (504) 837-0175 or email daveharrell@yahoo.com.

Lakeview Civic Improvement Association. The association’s green space committee needs volunteers to pick up trash or trim trees for the adopt-a-block program. Sign up with Russ Barranco at (504) 482-9598 or rpbarranco@cox.net.

Louisiana SPCA. The LA/SPCA seeks volunteers to work

Senior Companion Volunteers. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist with personal and daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Visit www. nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121.

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 training sessions for volunteers who work one-on-one with public school students to build 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- and

upper-school New Orleans 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 improvement, beautification, social media and web design. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www. veteranshousingoutreach. webs.com.

CALL FOR WRITERS Youth Writing Contest. The New Orleans Loving Festival seeks essays on race, racism and the multiracial experience by writers age 18 and under.

Cash prizes are awarded. Visit www.charitablefilmnetwork. submittable.com/submit for guidelines. Deadline March 31.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Call for Makers. The New Orleans Mini Maker Faire seeks makers, artists, performers and crafters for the March 7 event at Tulane University.

Visit www.nolamakerfaire. com/callformakers for an application. Deadline Feb. 1.

Essence Festival vendors.

Organizers seek art vendors, food vendors and community outreach exhibitors for the July 2-5 festival. Visit www. essence.com/festival for details. Deadline Jan. 30.

Jazz in the Park Art Market vendors. Organizers seek artists and craft vendors for the Thursday concert series in Armstrong Park, which begins April 16. Visit www.pufap.org to apply. Deadline March 16.

Startup St. Bernard. The Meraux Foundation offers cash and business services worth $110,000 to a new business located in St. Bernard Parish.

Visit www.startupstbernard. com to submit a business plan. Deadline Jan. 31, 2015.

Swap Meet NOLA. Swap Meet NOLA, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 813-5370; www. swapmeetnola.com — Artists, farmers, bakers and flea market vendors are invited to set up booths at recurring swap meets.

Wednesday at the Square vendors. The Young Leadership Council seeks food and art vendors for the concert series at Lafayette Square, which begins in March.

Visit www.wednesdayatthesquare.com to apply.

Deadline Jan. 30.

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CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICES CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.682-786 DIVISION “F” SUCCESSION OF ARJIE EMILE GASPARD, JR

NOTICE TO SELL MOVABLE OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The DOROTHY JOHNSON, Executrix, the above estate has made application to the court for the sale, at private sale, of the movable or immovable property described, as follows: A CERTAIN LOT OR PORTION OF GROUND, with the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situated in the Second District of this City, in Square No. 146, bounded by Marais, St. Phillip, Ursulines and N. Liberty Streets, designated as Lot “A-1” pm the annexed sketch of survey by Guy J. Seghers, Surveyor, dates July 27, 1951; according to which survey, said lot commences at a distance of one hundred twenty feet from the corner of Ursulines and Marais Streets, by a depth on the side nearer Ursulines Street of fifty-eight feet three inches on line, a depth on the opposite side line of fifty-eight feet two inches, and a width in the rear of thirtytwo feet six inches. The improvement on said property bear the Municipal No. 1024 Marais Street.

THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: $30,000.00 in full and final sum.

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STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 2012-7741 DIV: “M-13” SUCCESSION OF CECELIA AUGUSTA GALLE

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TWENTY FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Notice is now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

DALE N. ATKINS, Deputy Clerk Attorney: Cameron Landry Address: 405 S. Broad New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Telephone: 504-861-7488 Gambit: 1/20/15 & 1/27/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to CENTEX HOME EQUITY CORPORATION, executed by ELVIN D. CANTY, and dated February 3, 1999 in the principal sum of $ 84,500.00, bearing interest at the rate of 10.990% percent from date until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same, please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Anthony Smith Financial, Inc. dated March 3, 2014 in the amount of $1,225.50 and signed by a L. Knuth please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Luckmore Finance Corporation dated July 29, 2014 in the amount of $1,000.00 and signed by a D. Joseph please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Amy Goldberg, last known address, 1820 St. Thomas St., New Orleans, LA 70130, please contact attorney Tony Dooley, 3701 Canal St. 4th Floor, Suite U, NOLA 70119 or (504) 298-0854.

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The Co-Executors of the Estate of Arjie Emile Gaspard, Jr. files this Notice to Sell Immovable Property At Private Sale.

The Co-Executors of the Estate of Arjie Emile Gaspard, Jr. have made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property located on Pailet Avenue. The immovable property is described as follows: THAT PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, means, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances, thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in the subdivision known as Harvey Canal Subdivision, all as shown on a map annexed to an act before Lester Pailet, N.P., dated December 20, 1993, made by Elbert G. Sandoz, C.E., and Surveyor, dated September 19, 1927, and which map was finally revised by J.H. Payne, Jefferson Parish Engineer, on April 24, 1933, and filed for record with the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana, and which squares of ground in accordance with said map bear the numbers and have the boundaries as follows, to-wit: SQUARE 67, consisting of LOTS 10 to 20, both inclusive, bounded by Pailet Avenue, Joseph Street, Harland Company Property (formerly Odom Tract) and the South line of LOT 9, SQUARE 67.

And according to the survey made by Dufrene Surveying & Engineering, Inc., dated April 17, 1998, said property is bounded by the East line of Subdivision, Joseph Street, Pailet Avenue and Bathia Street (side).

Being the same property acquired

by Arjie Emile Gaspard from the Succession of Philip Adam Boudreaux and Juanita Gomez Boudreaux by Cash Sale passed before Hazel A. Sanchez, Notary Public, dated May 15, 1998, registered in COB 2983, folio 773 on May 21, 1998, Entry Number 9827851, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

Encroachments: (1)Fence misalignment as shown on survey made by Dufrene Surveying and Engineering, Inc. dated April 17, 1998; and (2)Five foot (5’) encroachment of ditch on the Pailet Avenue side of Lots 19 and 20 and part of Lot 18, Square 67, as shown on survey made by Dufrene Surveying and Engineering, Inc. dated April 17, 1998. on the following terms and conditions, to-wit: $100,000.000 paid by Charles Lewis on the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement to Purchase or Sell.

Notice is now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of decedent and of this estate that they be ordered to make any opposition they may have to such application and at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued at the expiration of 7 days from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

Thereby order of the Court, December 23, 2014.

Lisa M. Cheramie, Clerk Attorney: Gary J. Giepert Address: 4603 S. Carrollton Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Telephone: 504-523-0700 Gambit: 12/30/14 and 1/20/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.2012-7403 DIV. A-15 SUCCESSION OF LEROY CANCIENNE NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS , the administrator of the above Succession has made application to the Court, as it pertains to the decedent’s one-seventh (1/7) interest, for the sale of the immovable property situated in the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, bearing municipal number 1327 Elizardi Blvd., and more particularly described as follows: FIVE CERTAIN PIECES OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in the FIFTH DISTRICT this CITY, PACE PARK SUBDIVISION, in SQUARE NO. 5 bounded by Elizardi Boulevard, Socrates and Lamarque Streets and Pace Boulevard; said LOTS are designated by the NOS. 16, 17, 18, 19 AND 20 of SQUARE NO. 5 and measures each 25 feet front on Elizardi Boulevard by a depth of 120 feet between equal and parallel lines, all according to a plan of R. B. Benso, Civil Engineer, dated June 10, 1909.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal Number 1327 Elizardi Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70114.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS: $30,000.00 all cash for the transfer of full ownership interest in the property (not solely decedent’s one-seventh interest) – Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving, and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT Attorney: Joaquin Shepherd Address: 4051 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Ste. 228 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 920-9050 Gambit: 12/30/14 and 1/20/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of any heirs of Audrey Shepherd Adams contact Halima N. Smith, attorney at 504-358-2112.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Deborah Clark Kimbrough, last known to be a resident of Harvey, LA and/ or Houston, TX, contact Attn. Deborah Lonker (504) 528-9500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Lavance Kimbrough, last known to be a resident of Harvey, LA and/or Houston, TX, contact Attn. Deborah Lonker (504) 528-9500 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Stephanie Santelli Hebert, whose last known whereabouts is Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, please contact Henrik A. Pontoppidan, Attorney At Law (504) 293-8238.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

Being the same property acquired by Judith Alexander, wife of/and Dwayne Nash from Ella Alridge Alexander and Succession of Bernell J. Alexander, Sr., by act before Jeron Kauffmann, Notary Public, dated November 5, 2012, registered in CIN 529209.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NUMBER: 2015-8 DIVISION: “J” SECTION 5 SUCCESSION OF JUDITH ALEXANDER NASH NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN that DeWayne Nash, Succession Representative of the Succession of Judith Alexander Nash, has pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of $27,500, the following described property, in which the Succession of Judith Alexander Nash has a partial interest: THAT CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Third District of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Carver Lane Subdivision, designated as Lot No. 11-A, Square 10, bounded

by Rosemont Place (late Carver Lane), Prentiss Street, Rhodes Drive and Dwyer Road. Said Lot No. 11-A commences at a distance of 107.39 feet from the intersection of Dwyer Road and Rosemont Place, and measures thence 50 feet front on Rosemont Place, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 122.5 feet between equal and parallel lines. All as more fully shown on a plat of survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated July 26, 1962, resurveyed certified & correct on May 31, 1963; and resurveyed certified & correct on April 3, 1970, a copy of which is annexed to act at COB 698/331.

The improvements thereon bear Municipal Number 4866-68 Rosemont Place.

NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that DeWayne Nash, Succession Representative of the Succession of Judith Alexander Nash proposed to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court Attorney: Raymond B. Landry Address: 2341 Metairie Rd Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Telephone: 504-837-4950 Gambit: 1/20/15 & 2/10/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Thomas Gerald Winn or Betty Winn please contact Steven Jupiter, Attorney at (504) 533-8720.

CARMEN G. MUNIZ, her heirs or anyone knowing their whereabouts, please contact atty. Justin I. Woods at 504-309-4177 or 1610 O.C. Haley Blvd., Suite B, NOLA 70113.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to NOVA STAR MORTGAGE, INC., A VIRGINIA CORPORATION, executed by RONNIE L. CARPENTER AND EDNA LOUISE CONERLY CARPENTER, and dated September 17, 2002, in the principal sum of $150,000.00, bearing interest at the rate of 6.75% percent from date until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same, please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

January, LLC d/b/a Nu Nu Restaurant Lounge is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the City and Parish of New Orleans at the following address: 1700 Port Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 January, LLC Doing Business As: Nu Nu Restuarant Lounge Members: Emanual January Director of LSM: Emanual January Living Proof Productions, LLC and its production of “Joe Dirt 2” is closing its office in Covington, LA. All invoices and inquiries must be submitted by February 11, 2015 to 4220 Lankershim Blvd. 2nd Floor, North Hollywood, CA 91602

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 745-116 DIVISION: “I” SUCCESSION OF CAROL STUMPF, wife of/and LAWRENCE K. CONNELLY NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given that the administratrix of this succession has filed a petition for authority to pay debts of the succession in accordance with the tableau of distribution contained in the petition. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of this publication; any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation.

Deputy Clerk Attorney: Daniel M. Douglass Address: 3224 N. Turnbull Drive Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Telephone: 504-888-1919 Gambit: 1/20/15 PAGE 59

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Please send resume & cover letter to: Jeansonne@fqr.com

DOMESTIC/HOUSEHOLD LIVE-IN SITTER PERSONAL ASSISTANCE

CAREER PREPARATION

Live-in sitter, over 18, over 5’9”, up to $900/month + car, and tuition assist. One child ok. (713) 647-0460 or lm11076@yahoo.com

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LOCAL & Regional Reserve Openings! Great Pay, Many Bonuses, 100% PAID Health Ins & More! Class-A w/tank, Hazmat, TWIC & 1 yr. Trac/Trailer Exp. Required Call Now: 1-877-661-0678

FARM LABOR TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

AG, Inc., Brickeys, AR, has 2 positions for grain; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/ hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/15/15 – 12/15/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 10687799 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR

Jeffery Roper Farms, Plains, TX, has 4 positions for grain & oilseed crops; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.35/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/20/15 – 12/20/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX5022524 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Anderson Farms, Heth, AR, has 3 positions for rice & soybeans; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 3/1/15 – 12/15/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 1079470 or call 225-342-2917.

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Eldon Reed Farms, Marianna, AR, has 3 positions for rice & cotton; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/20/15 – 12/15/15.

Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 1077670 or call 225342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Franz Farms II, Partnership, Brookshire, TX, has 2 positions for seed rice production; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.35/ hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/15/15 – 12/15/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX6989364 or call 225-342-2917.

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EMPLOYMENT TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Freeland Farms Partnership, Moro, AR, has 3 positions for grain, corn & cotton; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 3/1/15 – 12/1/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 1079474 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Kubecka Flying Service, Edna, TX, has 2 positions for grain; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.35/ hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/15/15 – 11/30/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX2799459 or call 225-342-2917.

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M&D Farms, Alicia, AR, has 5 positions for cotton & oilseed crops ; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/15/15 – 12/10/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 1071646 or call 225-342-2917.

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TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Panhandle Harvesting Services, Amarillo, TX, has 18 positions for combining grain; 6 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days with airbrake endorsement to drive grain & transporter trucks; must be able to lift 75 pounds; hired workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; employer will pay the higher wage per state of $10.34/hr up to $2100/mo., may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/21/15 – 12/20/15.

Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX8333342 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Round Pond Farm, Helena, AR, has 6 positions for cotton & oilseed crops ; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/20/15 – 11/15/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 1077671 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

T&R Farms, Dalhart, TX, has 2 positions for hay & grain ; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.35/ hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/20/15 – 12/20/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX6988492 or call 225-342-2917.

MODELING/ACTING BRAND AMBASSADORS NEEDED!

Elevated Events is adding BAs to represent high profile spirits brands. Day, night and weekend work available.

Choose when you work! $15-$25/hr. Direct Deposit. Must be 21+, outgoing and reliable. Jobs@Elevate-Your-Event.com

MUSIC/MUSICIANS LOUISIANA RED HOT RECORDS

Bookkeeper/Executive & Marketing Asst., PT/FT, $20-45K Email resume to: louisianaredhotrecords@gmail.com

NEW YEAR, NEW CAREER

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Located at the corner of Bienville & Bourbon, the most photographed corner in the French Quarter is reopening after a 3 month renovation. We have immediate openings for: Line Cooks, Bussers, Servers, Hosts/Hostesses, Bartenders, Oyster Shuckers. We offer a fun environment, excellent benefits and a chance to be part of a new beginning of a New Orleans tradition. http:// www.sonesta.com/RoyalNewOrleans hrneworleans@sonesta.com

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Apply in person Mon-Fri, 1-4:30 pm 141 N. Carrollton Ave.

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Full time for English riding. Please call Avery at (504) 891-2246.

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TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

REM of Shaw, Shaw, MS, has 6 positions for corn & cotton; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to lift 75 pounds; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take random drug tests at no cost to worker; testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.18/hr, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 2/20/15 – 11/10/15.

Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order MS115342 or call 225342-2917.

Offers Volunteer Opportunities

Make a difference in the lives of the terminally ill & their families. Services include: friendly visits to patients & their families, provide rest time to caretaker, bereavement & office assistance. School service hours avail.

Call Volunteer Coordinator @ 504-818-2723 #3006

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28 OLIVIA LANE

3432 sqft - $675,000 + 10K Bonus

812 Ursulines French Quarter $1,050,000 Exquisite French Quarter Creole Cottage Circa 1840’s. Meticulously maintained.

First time on the market since 1984. TWO BUILDINGS, flexible floor plan, use as single with guest house or duplex with third apartment. Live in as is or renovate to your liking. Lovely outdoor courtyard, secure and private. Demand neighborhood close to shops, galleries, lovely quiet location.

Contract parking available in rear of property based on availability.

Mike Hindman (800) 566-7801

Country Estate in the rolling hills of Poplarville w/68.11 acres of rolling pastures, and multiple barns.

Southern Traditional style home wrapped in brick w/ metal roof. Welcoming front and relaxing back porch.

Two-car carport, over-sized two-car garage w/ elevator to second floor office with AC-heat. Three suites, one on first level and two on second level. Closets and storage galore! Huge kitchen w/ upgraded appliances.

Todd Taylor, Realtor, 504 232-0362

504.722.7640 • TriciaKing.com

3527 Ridgelake Dr., Metairie.

JUDY FISHER INC. REALTORS ®

RE/MAX & NOMAR Award Winning Agent toddtaylorrealtor@yahoo.com • www.toddtaylorrealestate.com RE/MAX Real Estate Partners (504) 888-9900

Specializing in luxury, historic and investment real estate.

Offering Personalized Real Estate Services Since 2003

504-524-JUDY (5839)

Each office individually owned and operated

1922 Marengo Street • $900K

FOR SALE

2760 Athis St. (VLD) $33.5K 6961-3 Boston Dr. (VLD) $25K 2234-6 Delachaise Street $89K 4123-5DownmanBlvd.(COMM)$525K 13110 Lemans St. $105K 1922 Marengo St. $900K 2025-7 Painters St. $119.9K 2625 Pine St. $675K 638 S. Rocheblave St. (VLD) $45K 2458 N. Tonti St. $160K

2124 Cadiz St. $164.9K SOLD 1210-12N.GalvezStreet $480KU/C 4001Gen.PershingSt.(VLD)$110K U/C 2349 Maryland Av. $90K U/C 1269&71MiltonSt. $800/moLEASED

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6000 Eads St. 2028 Pauger St., B 2625 Pine St., A

$1,075/mo $900/mo $3,750/mo

Office Space Metairie

1900 - 1906 St. Ann Street 4,000 Sq Ft $175,000

Luxury Great Location

Development opportunity in historic Treme. Property consists of 2 buildings, one corner building and one Creole Cottage double with large garage extending from N Roman side. Close to the French Quarter, Lafitte Greenway, new biomedical complex, Interstate, CBD. Zoned B-1 commercial, corner building was a bar for many years with apartment above. Possible use of state & federal historic restoration tax credits- exciting possibilities await!

www.JudyFisher.net

Approx 1,350 usable sq.ft.

2nd floor of 2 story office building. Parking, efficiency kitchen, storage room, mens and womens restrooms, reception area, conference rooms, private office.

Available immediately. 1 year lease $1,700/mo.

(504) 957-2360.

RETAIL FOR LEASE 3200 Severn

933 Behrman Hwy

9511 Chef Menteur Hwy

JENNIFER LANASA-EVANS ASSOCIATE BROKER

Across from Lakeside Mall

End Cap Closed Restaurant

Upscale Retail Strip

Approx 2200 sq ft 1-1/2 story $20/sq ft NNN

3450 sq ft $15/sq ft NNN 1000-1150 sq ft $15/sq ft NNN

10 spaces avail from 1042-9118 sq ft $14/sq ft Modified Gross

4641 FAIRFIELD ST • METAIRIE, LA 70006 • 504 207 7575

Jennifer@lanasa.com Cell (504) 250-9930 www.lanasa.com

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What if I told you NOLA had some really cool housing?

THEN, what if I proved it? Well, here is a great example.

A 4 bd/2.5 ba GRAND home w/a 2 bd/1 ba Mother - In - Law or RENTAL unit w/LR & den. Or, a 6 bd/3.5 home w/a “teen enclave” for a simpler life. :-) However YOU slice it, this is a great place to call home. The lot is spacious, there is a wonderful in ground pool which makes exercise & summer easier. Looking for a serious buyer.

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NOTICE:

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

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UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

New granite in kit & bath. 12 x 24ft lr, King Master w/wall of closets. Furn Kit. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg.

NO PETS. O/A, $724-$848/mo. 504236-5776.

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750-$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

3723 NASHVILLE AVE.

3BR, lr, dr, kit, 2ba, wd flr, c-a/h.

Upper duplex, yd, off st prkg.

No pets. $1650/mo.

(504) 432-7955 or (504) 277-1588

Discover the short drive to the Mississippi Gulf Coast! I am very confident that I can help you with your real estate investment or dream home on the Coast. I welcome the opportunity to work with you and your family. Let me guide you through this time consuming process.

LRG 2 BR, 1.5 BA

Recently remodeled, kit, c-a/h, hi ceils, hdwd/crpt flrs, fncd bkyd. w/d hookups, off st pkg. $1150/mo. 1563 N. Galvez. Call 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@yahoo.com

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT Furn efficiency with liv rm, a/h unit, ceil fans, wood/tile floors, w/d onsite.

Clara by Nashville. Avail Now. $675/ mo. 504-895-0016.

1205 ST CHARLES/$1095

Uptown. Double corner lot. Keep as single or apts. Much work needed. $450K. Call (504) 450-3957

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST REALTOR/ASSOCIATE BROKER (228) 233-8975 • kcreely@att.net

UPTOWN/ GARDEN DISTRICT

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KELLY HUMPHREYS CREELY

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry/3 mo. min. No pets. Avail Dec. 12. Call 504-442-0573 or 985-871-4324.

3723 NASHVILLE

3br, lr, dr, kit, 2ba, wd flr, c-a/h, upper duplex, yd, off st prkg. No pets. $1650 • (504) 432-7955 or (504) 277-1588

5527 PITT ST. NEWLY LISTED & FABULOUS!

3 BR/2 BA, Sum Room, LR, DR, HW Floors, All appliances. No smoking/ pets. Lease & deposit. $2,250/ Mo. Gardner Realtors, Rowena Christensen (0) 504-891-6400 (c) 504-259-0635 rochristensen@cox.net

In addition to holding a Mississippi Real Estate Broker’s license, I am licensed to practice law in Mississippi, Louisiana and Colorado.

We started with a summer home and now live here permanently choosing a superior quality of life. Paradise is just a short drive away.

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CBD BEAUTIFUL CBD OFFICES FOR RENT

Stunning offices with city views for rent! The building is within walking distance to the Pan Am Life Center, One Shell Square, Federal District Court, Federal Court of Appeals Library and CDC, and St. Charles Streetcar lines. All amenities are included: telephone, fax, copiers, internet access, kitchen, etc. Rental rates start at $899 per office. Offices are furnished, but can be unfurnished. cbdofficerental@gmail.com

COMMERCIAL RENTALS 2 ROOM OFFICE $875/MO Easy Parking! Only one vacancy.

Avail now. Desks, file cabinets incl 2273 Barataria Blvd, Marrero.

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Four bedrooms, three baths, jacuzzi in bath & full shower, porches, 2 car garage, workshop. Six acre landscaped lot.

Located 10 min. north of I12 Goodbee/Madisonville Exit 57

Between Labarre & Rio Vista. 2BR, 1.5 Townhome, $885 water included, w&d hkups, fridge & stove. No pets, NO smoking. B>Great landlord for great tenants! 504-887-1814

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ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

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1233 Marais

#6,7,8,13,14,15&16 All renov units in Treme w/Parking! $925

718 Frenchmen #5

Grnd flr unit w/fresh updates and more! Fab location! $950

1307 Decatur #2

2/1 2/1 Lge Gallery/Hdwd Flrs/High Ceils/W/D on site $2500

1025 Dumaine #6

1/1 newly renov, w/d, central ac/heat,fireplace ........ $1,200

1025 Dumaine #4

2/1 no pets Renov, wd flrs, w/d in unit ...................... $1400

1219 Treme

2/2 shotgun style w/sm porch & yard ................................ $1200

FOR SALE 836 N Rampart

#2 Soaring ceilings,orig medallions,plaster molding,balc $379,000

929 Dumaine

#18 Jewel-box condo. Loft in the heart of FQ. Furnished. $179,500

1454 St Mary #6

2/2 Renov lower garden district condo w/pool&parking $249,500

1233 Esplanade #4

2/1 Grnd flr condo. SS appls Prkng. Common patio&pool $159,000

823 Burgundy #3

2/2 1,600 sqft, brand renovation, balcony ............ $599,000

7916 Breakwater Dr#46 1/2 Boathouse overlooking Marina & Lake! .......... $299,000 928 Gov Nicholls

2/2 Single house in the FQ. Pool & courtyard ....... $995,000

526 Spain “A”

2/1 Grtarea.2bdw/3rdforoffice.Hdwdflrs,brckctyrd...$242,500

2248 Cambronne

3/2 Classic uptown home on large lot .................... $419,000

7211 Broad Place • $499,000

Five (5) bedroom home just off Jefferson Ave on Prytania. Awaits your persoanl touches.

Large front porch, double parlours, renovated kitchen, high ceilings, wood floors. Best price in this great uptown neighborhood.

Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226

Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 727-685 DIV. “ F “ c/w 572-639 DIV. “ F “ SUCCESSION OF JAMES J. ROMANO, SR. and SUCCESSION OF NOEL REUSS ROMANO NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Executors of the above successions have petitioned that Court for authority to sell immovable property of the estate at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure for ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND ($159,000.00)] AND NO/100 cash, with the succession to pay the usual and customary closing costs at the act of sale. The immovable to be sold at private sale is described as follows: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges. prescriptions, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Hillcrest PARK ESTATES in accordance with a plan of survey Wilton J. Dufrene, Land Surveyor, dated September 26, 1973, said lot is designated as LOT 23 of SQUARE 8, which said square is bounded by HILLCREST DRIVE and DELERY DRIVE, ELLEN DRIVE and PASCAL DRIVE and measures at a distance of 144 feet from the corner of Hillcrest Drive and Pascal Drive, measuring thence 72 feet front on Hillcrest Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth between equa1 and parallel lines of 114.14 feet. The said property is subject to a five-foot servitude across the rear of said lot.

According to survey of Wilton J. Dufrene, Land Surveyor, dated August 10, 1977, and resurveyed May 16. 1978 to show improvements, a copy of which is annexed hereto, Lot 23 of Square 8 has the same measurements designation and location as set forth hereinabove.

The improvements thereon bear Municipa1 No. 4009 Hil1crest Drive.

Being the same property acquired by Mr. and Mrs. James Joseph Romano, Sr. by act before Miles J. Blazek, Jr., Notary Public, dated June 1, 1978, registered in COB 928, folio 531, MOB 731, folio 411, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

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Address: 3408 Clearview Pkwy Metairie, Louisiana 70006 Telephone: 504-888-0500 Gambit: 1/20/15 & 2/10/15 If you know the whereabouts of Betty Jean Cager A/K/A Betty Liggio, please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-347-5056.

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 745-116 DIVISION “I“ SUCCESSION OF CAROL STUMPF, wife of/and LAWRENCE K. CONNELLY NOTICE WHEREAS the administratrix has made application to the Court for the sale of property of the decedents, Carol Stumpf, wife of/and Lawrence K. Connelly, as follows: Real Estate (Description): Jefferson Parish: All of decedents’ right, title and interest in and to: That portion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, designated as Lot 40-A of Square No. 12 on a survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C.E., on January 21, 1966, approved by Jefferson Parish Council in Emergency Ordinance No. 7559 and recorded in C.O.B. 630, folio 679 of the records of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana and according to which Square 12 is bounded by Moss (formerly Missouri Street) Lane, Upstream Eighth and Ninth Streets, and Lot 40-A commences at a distance of 143.06 feet from the intersection of Upstream Street and 9th Street and measures thence 72 feet front on 9th Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet between equal and parallel lines. Lot 40-A is a resubdivision of all of original Lots 39 and 40 and a portion of original Lots 38 and 41, all as more fully shown on plat of survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, dated June 20th, 1967, a copy of which is annexed to act before Patrick J. Farrelly, Jr., Notary Public, dated June 23rd, 1967, recorded in COB 659, folio 417.

Upon the terms and conditions set forth in the petition and the agreement to purchase filed in the record of this matter.

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file their opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

By Order of the Court, Jon A. Gegenheimer, Clerk of Court

By Order of the Clerk Lisa M. Cheramie, Deputy Clerk January 14, 2015

Attorney: Daniel M. Douglass Address: 3224 N. Turnbull Drive Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Telephone: 504-888-1919

Attorney: Malcolm Robinson

Gambit: 1/20/15 & 2/10/15

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NUMBER: 716-411 DIVISION: “I” SUCCESSIONS OF JOHN ANTHONY FRECHE AND EDWINA FRANCES NESTOR FRECHE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Edwina F. Schwegman, Testamentary Executrix of the Successions of John Anthony Freche and Edwina Frances Nestor Freche, has petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell all of the successions’ interest in and to the following described immovable and movable property in accordance with the provisions of Articles 3191 and 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Terrytown Subdivion No. 6, designated as Lot 22 of Square No. 97, bounded by Goucher St., Graham Dr., Grinell Pl., and Grape Pl. LOT 22 measure approximately 60 feet front on Goucher Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 110 feet between equal and parallel lines.

Lot 22 commences at a distance of 190 feet from the corner of Goucher St. and Graham Dr. Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 725 GOUCHER STREET, TERRYTOWN, LOUISIANA 70056. Being the same property acquired by John Anthony Freche and Edwina Frances Nestor Freche from Summit Homes, Inc by act dated Oct. 25, 1965, registered in COB 624, FOLIO 176, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Including the following movable property: the refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and microwave.

The proposed sale shall be subject to price, terms and conditions as set forth in the agreement to buy or sell, copies of which are filed in these proceedings. Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his or her opposition within seven (7) days from the date on which the publication of this notice appears.

Deputy Clerk JON GEGENHEIMER, CLERK OF COURT Attorney: PETER A. NASS Address: 860 Behrman Highway, Gretna, Louisiana 70056 Telephone: (504) 393-0080 Gambit: 01/20/15 & 02/10/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Vera Cook Cavalier, please contact Atty.

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