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NEWS: Mitch Landrieu running for governor? The political speculation that won’t go away >> 7

STAGE: The 2015 Big Easy Theater Awards nominations >> 25

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FOOD: Review: Cibo brings Italian specialties and deli sandwiches to the Riverbend >> 33

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CONTENTS

STAFF Publisher | MARGO DUBOS Associate Publisher | JEANNE EXNICIOS FOSTER Administrative Director | MARK KARCHER

March 3, 2015

EDITORIAL Editor | KEVIN ALLMAN Managing Editor | KANDACE POWER GRAVES Political Editor | CLANCY DUBOS Arts & Entertainment Editor | WILL COVIELLO Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD Feature Writer | JEANIE RIESS Calendar & Digital Content Coordinator | ANNA GACA Contributing Writers

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EAT + DRINK Review ......................................................................33 Cibo Fork + Center ...........................................................33 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview .............................................35 Carol Morse, chocolatier Drinks ........................................................................36 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week Last Bites .................................................................37 5 in Five; Off the Menu

SARAH BAIRD, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS Contributing Photographer | CHERYL GERBER

Interns | ELIZABETH MEYER, EMMA DISCHER

PRODUCTION Production Director | DORA SISON Web & Classifieds Designer | MARIA BOUÉ Senior Graphic Designer | LYN VICKNAIR Graphic Designers | PAIGE HINRICHS, JULIET MEEKS, DAVID KROLL, JASON WHITTAKER Pre-Press Coordinator | KATHRYN BRADY

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ON THE COVER Ashe Power House opens .................................. 17 A new theater and gallery space adds to the redevelopment of O.C. Haley Boulevard

7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Paul Taylor 2, Bo Burnham, Gogol Bordello and more

NEWS + VIEWS News.............................................................................7 The speculation flares again: Will Mitch Landrieu run for governor?

A car-sharing operation wants to do business in New Orleans .......................................................12

CLASSIFIEDS Market Place ...........................................................60 Employment/Job Guru.........................................61 Picture Perfect Properties................................62 Real Estate .............................................................64 Mind + Body + Fitness ......................................... 68 Home + Garden ........................................................71

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Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world Scuttlebutt................................................................ 9 From their lips to your ears Bouquets & Brickbats .......................................... 9 This week’s heroes and zeroes C’est What? ..............................................................10 Gambit’s Web poll Commentary............................................................13 The Common Core fight presses on Blake Pontchartrain.............................................14 The New Orleans N.O. It All Clancy DuBos...........................................................15 Bobby Jindal’s budget tricks

Big Easy Theater Awards ..................................25 Nominations for the annual best in New Orleans stage Music .........................................................................45 PREVIEW: Helen Gillet Film.............................................................................48 REVIEW: Mr. Turner Art ................................................................................51 REVIEW: The Horizon Tries Stage..........................................................................54 REVIEW: Mermutants! The Future of Florida REVIEW: Send in the Clown Events ....................................................................... 57 PREVIEW: Los Islenos Fiesta Crossword + Sudoku ...........................................70

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La Luz | Surf pop out of dreary Seattle sounds

mostly like wishful thinking. On 2013’s dual debuts, EP Damp Face and LP It’s Alive (Hardly Art), female foursome La Luz find their beach, turning seasonal affective disorder into a highly effective transport. The Shivas and Native America open at 10 p.m. at Siberia.

Kyle Kinane

Gogol Bordello

Suddenly, Last Summer

Measure for Measure

Tue. March 3 | Comedy Beast features the shower-beer-loving, gravel-voiced product of Midwestern 7-Eleven parking lots, where one finds unironic joy in life’s little things, from frozen pizza to burning his laundry, as he explains on his latest stand-up special I Liked His Old Stuff Better. Cyrus Cooper opens and Andrew Polk hosts at 9 p.m. at The Howlin’ Wolf.

Wed.-Sun. March 4-29 | In Tennessee Williams’ one-act play set in New Orlean’s Garden District, the ruthless and imposing Violet Venable goes to extremes to prevent her niece Catherine from revealing the truth about her son’s death.

Southern Rep presents the drama at 8 p.m. (3 p.m. Sunday) at Ashe Power House (previews March 4-6).

Taylor 2

Thu.-Sat. March 5-7 | Legendary choreographer Paul Taylor’s smaller company, Taylor 2, returns to the Marigny Opera House for a weeklong residency and two programs of classic Taylor works, including Images, Dust and Company B. on Thursday and Saturday and Airs, Runes and Esplanade on Friday. At 8 p.m. at Marigny Opera House.

Fri. March 6 | With every new mustachioed, polkaing punker that comes down the pipe, Eugene Hutz’s handlebar grows.

The cocky, cockeyed actor/rocker has, over the course of a series of film roles, six Gogol Bordello LPs and a silo of vodka, gone from atypical to archetype. Pura Vida Conspiracy (ATO) is the band’s latest. At 9 p.m. at House of Blues.

Fri.-Sun. March 6-22 | Anthony Bean Community Theater presents its first Shakespeare production, Measure for Measure, a comic/tragic story of a judge’s abuse of power and deceit and virtue in the brothels of Vienna. At 8 p.m. (3 p.m. on Sundays) at Anthony Bean Community Theater.

Bo Burnham

Sun. March 8 | In 2009, Bo Burnham became the youngest star of a Comedy Central Presents half-hour solo show, and the baby-faced comedian looked much younger than his 19 years. At 24, his comedy is darker and edgier (and he’s a published poet now), but he still looks like a teen. At 8 p.m. at Civic Theatre.

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knowledge is power New Orleans’ week in Twitter Sheriff Gusman

The non-candidate

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I’m waiting for #Tonya Boyd-Cannon to appear on #thevoice.

Despite the unlikeliness of his candidacy, everybody’s still waiting on Mitch Landrieu to declare whether he’s running for governor.

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So no one got their Road Home money & white folks are buying condemned houses for $300K. How is that not ethnic cleansing? #NOLA

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I can’t tell if I’m trolling or if I’m serious in screaming to bring Reggie Bush back to New Orleans.

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latest campaign finance Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s reports, which show name keeps coming up $33,000 in the bank, all carried over from last in connection to the year’s re-election effort. governor’s race, but The report with the so far the term-limited money indicates the cash mayor is mum on his is for a “future election,” future political plans. which will not be for P H OTO BY I N F R O G M AT I O N/ mayor because he is C RE AT I V E C O M M O N S term-limited. The last donation Landrieu accepted in 2014 came in September.

While Landrieu certainly is in a position to raise piles of cash quickly should he decide to run, $33,000 is not the number a serious candidate would want to start his campaign. There is a good reason for the poor showing.

Landrieu drained his coffers last year for his re-election and immediately went to war helping his sister in a heated Senate campaign while dealing with a long list of controversial issues in the city. If nothing else, the performance of his sister, former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, in last year’s federal election may have the mayor wondering if a grinding statewide campaign in a state that still tilts “red” is worth the effort.

Mary Landrieu was swept up in an anti-Democrat wave that linked her firmly to President Barack Obama and washed away the lion’s share of her white vote last year.

More than just theoretically, the same could happen to the mayor in another statewide election this fall. The president actually endorsed Mitch Landrieu for re-election as mayor last year; Obama never publicly endorsed Mary Landrieu in PAGE 8

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Jindal to Obama: “I’ll keep an eye out for the medieval Christians, why don’t you do your job” and focus on ISIS

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

Last week’s “C’est What?” online poll asked: “The chairman of the Democratic Governors Association said he believes Mitch Landrieu is ‘carefully considering’ whether to jump into the governor’s race.

What do you think?”

“No disrespect to John Bel Edwards, the lone Democrat in the race, but it would be good to see a viable Democrat candidate. I don’t know what his chances of winning are, but he would be harder to tie to the Obama administration, since he hasn’t served in Washington as his sister did.” — Louis Crispino

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ike an amber caution light in the dead of night, flashing brightly and then not at all in a continuous cycle, the yackety-yack about New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s maybe-maybe-not bid for governor has oscillated for more than a year. It catches fire: “Maybe he’ll run” — then burns out: “There’s no way he’s running” — then reignites all over again: “He’s thinking about running.”

The latest match strike comes courtesy of Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who talked Landrieu up while in Washington, D.C. Feb. 21 for meetings of the Democratic Governors Association. Bullock told National Journal that Landrieu is “carefully considering” a run this fall and that the mayor would make a “strong candidate.”

Ask Landrieu’s team on the record and it rolls out the usual: The mayor is focused on the city. The team repeated that line to WWL-TV last week when it pushed a story with the big question mark, and that’s what a top aide said in January during Washington Mardi Gras and at the annual convention of the Police Jury Association of Louisiana. A consultant and donor echoed it during the Decatur Street leg of the Krewe du Vieux parade.

But what of the mayor himself, who thus far has escaped talking about it at length? Landrieu delivered a rousing speech during the weekend luncheon of the Police Jury Association on Jan. 31. Speaking for nearly an hour with no notes, in a practically flawless and commanding style that places him at the forefront of our state’s political orators, he complained about the budgeting practices in Baton Rouge and suggested that the Legislature prioritize issues this session and not spend time and energy on trivial bills. He engaged the crowd, and people responded. He told two jokes; both got lots of laughs.

Landrieu, 54, sounded like a candidate that day, which made one of his aides roll both eyes when I mentioned “it” again.

If the mayor is running for governor, few close to him seem ready to talk it up. If he jumps into the race late it wouldn’t be unprecedented; he entered the 2006 and 2010 mayoral races shortly before qualifying opened.

Some say he will. Others call it unfathomable. Most simply have no idea what he’ll do. Until Landrieu gives a definitive answer, pollsters will continue floating his name, and donors — particularly Democratic donors — will mostly keep their powder dry (much to the chagrin of Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards of Amite, who announced his candidacy for governor in October 2013 but whose fundraising has been somewhat stymied by the specter of a Landrieu candidacy).

Sources close to the mayor insist he has not ruled out the possibility of joining the field. But they also point to his

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the Senate race, and she consistently tried to keep a safe distance from him during election years.

Democratic operatives suggest Mayor Landrieu may be more interested, and better positioned, to become a major influencer in the presidential race.

Some suggest that’s an overstatement, but it makes sense on some levels.

It has become a trend of late to pull from the ranks of big city mayors for top tier D.C. gigs. Were that to happen to Landrieu, he would once again be following in the footsteps of his mayor-father Moon Landrieu, who served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Mitch Landrieu has close ties to the Clinton family, but he could be a strong voice for whoever snags the Democratic nomination.

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Officially, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, the early frontrunner in the race for governor, likes the field the way it is. Polls show him making a runoff against Edwards, who remains the lone Democratic candidate to date. Vitter’s camp believes he can win that showdown easily. Polls also show Vitter beating Landrieu in a runoff, while the other Republicans in the race, Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle and Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, are confident in claiming their own victories if they can make the runoff against Vitter. Many observers believe Vitter likely would beat any Democrat in a runoff, but could be beaten by a Republican who could appeal to GOP moderates and just about all Democrats.

Without another Democrat in the race, Edwards’ chances of making a runoff loom large. If another major Democrat does run, however, that candidate could end up splitting the Democratic vote and potentially creating a runoff path for Angelle or Dardenne. Boosters for both camps are said to be actively recruiting such a Democrat, but who might it be?

We can cross some off the list, like Jim Bernhard, former Shaw Group CEO and one-time chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Sources close to Bernhard say he’s focused on a new business venture, which he hopes to make even more successful than Shaw.

“I think he realizes he can’t do both,” a friend said. “I also think others were more serious about him running over the past year than he ever was.”

When it comes to the short list, don’t overlook Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell. He could bring a double whammy to the race. Campbell not only would steal some thunder from Edwards, but he also would fill a void in wide-open north Louisiana, where no candidate has emerged and votes are up for grabs. Campbell said he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of running, but he didn’t sound eager. “I don’t hear anyone offering any real solutions,” he said. If he runs, Campbell said he would focus on implementing an oil and gas process-

ing tax and eliminating Louisiana’s income tax.

The wild card among Democrats is retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who said, “I’m still thinking. But I know the clock will run out.” Interestingly, Honore has no party affiliation. But that didn’t stop someone or some group from going into the field on Jan. 29 with an automated poll describing Honore as a “Creole Democrat,” according to sources. Honore said he had no idea who might be behind the poll, or if it was an effort to get him to switch at a later date. “I’ve been told by people I need to pick a party to win,” he said.

“But no party has ever asked me.”

Speculation always turns back to Mitch Landrieu. His indecision notwithstanding, his popularity and high profile keep him relevant. His inclusion and encouraging results in early polls — he runs neck-and-neck with Vitter in the potential primary lineup — no doubt pique his interest. Hurt most in those surveys is Edwards, who doesn’t play the part of wounded pol.

A former Airborne Ranger, Edwards has taken the fight to Landrieu on a few occasions, issuing jabs via press releases and buying a campaign billboard that is prominently displayed near the Superdome. In an interview last month, Edwards swept aside the rumors and predicted Landrieu will stay where he is. “Last fall he told a group in Hammond, and I was there, that he would not run,” Edwards said. “He told the people of New Orleans last year that he would not run. I know Mitch to be an honorable person and he’ll live up to his word.”

Right now, many observers and insiders see conflicting messages. One donor told me recently that he pushed Landrieu on the matter, but couldn’t tell which way the mayor was leaning.

A government official in New Orleans said Landrieu has implied he is not inclined to run, but if a poll showed him a clear path to victory, it could convince him otherwise.

Meanwhile, supporters said concerns about the mayor’s questionable standing with unions, firefighters and teachers are overhyped and that he would be able to pull together a support system quickly if he decided to become a candidate in 2015. Landrieu’s critics would argue otherwise, and they would add that while he could afford to wait until the eleventh hour to run for mayor, doing so in a governor’s race would make him seem less interested in the job. And it’s not as if there aren’t other qualified — and popular — candidates out there locking up political support and contributors.

Qualifying is Sept. 9-11. With each passing day it appears less and less likely Landrieu will reach for higher office this year — with or without mixed signals.

NEWS VIEWS SCUTTLEBUTT Quote of the week

“If you turn [your recorder] off, I’ll tell you what I really think about him.”

— Gov. Bobby Jindal to the National Journal’s Karyn Bruggeman, speaking of U.S. Sen. David Vitter. Vitter’s office responded with a statement credited to Vitter, which said in part, “I’m running for governor to confront Louisiana’s biggest challenges headon, not to avoid them or play politics with them.”

Bobby’s busy week

Makes the news cycle, touts himself as ‘a fighter’

All commuters matter

Council votes to create pedestrian-bike committee

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The BISSELL Pet Foundation awarded $3,500 to the Louisiana SPCA to benefit its low-cost spay-neuter program.

The foundation, formed in 2011 as the philanthropic wing of BISSELL Homecare, has awarded more than $2 million to animal welfare organizations since its inception.

The Louisiana SPCA provides medical care and other services to 20,000 animals each year.

Pascal F. Calogero Jr., former Louisiana Supreme Court chief justice, was named the recipient of the 39th annual Ben Smith Award from the ACLU of Louisiana.

Calogero began serving on the high court in 1973 and was chief justice from 1990 until his retirement at the end of 2008. The Ben Smith Award recognizes people who have worked to advance civil liberties in the state. Calogero will receive the award at a ceremony May 8.

Cokie Roberts was named the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ (LEH) 2015 Humanist of the Year.

New Orleans-born Roberts, the senior political commentator for ABC News and senior news analyst for National Public Radio, has won several Emmy Awards and has been named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. Roberts will receive the LEH award at a ceremony April 23.

Several Baton Rouge police officers rode a Spanish Town parade float Feb. 14 mocking Stephanie Ford, who alleges she was sexually assaulted by her reality TV star father Will Hayden of Sons of Guns. The “Krewe of Sleaziana” float featured Ford’s face with the phrase “a face only a father could love.” A Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman told The Advocate the officers were off duty when they rode in the parade but are under investigation.

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Last week, as Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office was preparing to release its budget proposal to deal with the state’s expected $1.6 billion shortfall, the governor was elsewhere, dealing with other matters.

On Monday, Fox News presented an essay by Jindal criticizing President Barack Obama for being (in Jindal’s opinion) soft on the terror group ISIS, saying Obama was more focused on “criticizing America and lecturing the American people than on devising a plan to hunt down and kill these extremists.” (Salon.com summed up Jindal’s argument: “GOP governor has a plan for defeating terrorism — well, not so much a ‘plan’ as a really manly slogan.”)

Two days later, in an essay for TownHall.com, Jindal was criticizing fellow Republicans for what he saw as their timorousness when it came to repealing the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. And the following day, Jindal was at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., where many Republicans mulling a run for the 2016 presidential nomination were gathered. Jindal took swipes at Obama and the Common Core math and reading educational standards.

In a brief sideline interview with ABC News, Jindal still refused to admit he’s running for president, but said he was “unafraid to tell the truth” and expressed the opinion that Americans are looking for “a fighter.” — KEVIN ALLMAN

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Committee Chairman Jared Brossett. The committee will provide recommendations to the council pertaining to transportation safety concerns in accordance with the Vision Zero policy the council adopted in October 2014.

Vision Zero, a policy pitched by nonprofit transportation advocacy groups Bike Easy and RIDE New Orleans, aims to educate the public and improve public infrastructure with a goal of eliminating traffic-related deaths. Brossett said creating a safe infrastructure for all kinds of roadway users is important, especially with the population of the city expected to grow, but that government agencies can’t do it alone. “One life is too much to lose,” said Brossett. “…Whatever your mode of transportation is, it should be respected and the law should be abided by.”

At-Large Councilman Jason Williams called the ordinance “a huge part in making our city what we want it to be.” Williams said New Orleans takes pride in how “cool” it is, but such committees help make the city “look the way we want it to look.” No timetable was set for formation of the committee and no members were named. — JEANIE RIESS

Council honors NOPD for Carnival work

New survey shows public satisfaction with police down

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New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officers made 443 arrests during the 2015 Carnival season, with officers working nearly 59,000 hours over 12 days, according to figures provided by NOPD. During the New Orleans City Council’s Crim-

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inal Justice Committee meeting Feb. 25, the City Council honored NOPD officers who made quick arrests following a Feb. 12 shooting on St. Charles Avenue during the Krewe of Muses parade that left two people dead.

While commending the officers, District C Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell referenced a Feb. 24 Gambit editorial criticizing last year’s Carnival safety legislation that went unenforced this year.

“I actually learned in the Gambit that I am actually responsible for Carnival enforcement and safety.

I didn’t realize that,” she said.

“I’ll never shy away from taking blame, but I’ll never take credit for people who do the work on the ground.”

NOPD Deputy Chief Bob Bardy said that every NOPD officer working parade routes was equipped with a body-mounted camera, and that elsewhere, one out of every two officers (those working with a partner) wore a camera. Bardy also said he met with Mardi Gras Indian chiefs and the Dollis and Montana families and has built a “great relationship” with the Indians, who in the past have had strained relations with the police. “[We are] coming together, breaking bread and exchanging commitments,” Bardy said. “I guess we smoked a peace pipe and it worked out well.”

Despite the praise, citizen satisfaction of NOPD in 2015 has dropped 14 percent from 2014. A February survey from the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Coalition found less than half of New Orleanians (48 percent) are satisfied with the department, while only 41 percent of respondents said they feel safe outside their neighborhoods. The overall satisfaction rate is the third lowest since 2009, when only 33 percent of New Orleanians were satisfied with the department.

— ALEX WOODWARD

Room for cigars?

Council argues over La Habana exception

New Orleans bars and casinos are scheduled to go smoke-free next month, but that could change in parts of the French Quarter. The New Orleans City Council agreed Feb. 26 to ask the City Planning Commission (CPC) to consider allowing cigar bars to operate in

the Vieux Carre.

New Orleans District C Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey, who represents the French Quarter, wants to create a new designation, “tobacco retail business,” where “the sales of tobacco products and accessories (for on-premises consumption)” accounts for 70 percent of its revenue, and where “alcoholic beverages and/or food products are sold or served for consumption on premises.” Ramsey’s measure could allow bars to switch to a smoking lounge, where both smoking and drinking would be allowed.

In December, on her second try, Ramsey got the City Council to request the CPC to consider an amendment to zoning rules to make cigar bars a “conditional use” in parts of the French Quarter. That change, however, seems to affect only one business: La Habana Hemingway on Toulouse Street, which sells alcohol through its designation as a restaurant. The hitch? Restaurants can’t allow smoking.

District A Councilwoman Susan Guidry slammed Ramsey and the motion for what she said makes an exception for an illegal business. Guidry said La Habana “hung out a cigar bar sign” and has since been cited more than 10 times by the CPC, the Department of Safety and Permits and state agencies. If La Habana isn’t properly licensed

by March 6, she said, the state will close it.

Many people who turned out for the council meeting at City Hall supported Ramsey’s measure — or more specifically, La Habana — including state Sen. Ed Murray (who also appears in a promotional video for La Habana).

The vote on Ramsey’s motion was 6-1, including a yes vote from the sponsor of the original smoke-free ordinance, District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell. Guidry was the holdout.

“If the council passes this motion, what we’re doing is making an exception to existing law,” Guidry said. “It’s just another runaround to help this one, illegally operating business.”

Council President Stacy Head called the situation “a procedural mess” but agreed to move the measure forward. The CPC will discuss the measure at an upcoming public meeting.

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Car2Go wants to bring car sharing to New Orleans.

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ar2Go — a car-sharing service that allows drivers to rent small carson a per-minute or hourly basis for short trips around the city — continued its tour of New Orleans neighborhoods last week in the Lower Garden District, explaining its services and the parking agreement it hopes to reach with the city.

Car2Go, a subsidiary of Daimler that operates in 29 cities worldwide, hopes to deploy 200 cars onto the streets of New Orleans. Members can walk up to any car in the program, use a personal identification number, or PIN, to access the vehicle, drive anywhere within the service area and then park and leave the car for the next user, explained Matt Rufo, a transportation consultant with GCR, a local firm representing Car2Go in New Orleans.

Members pay about 41 cents per minute, or $14.99 per hour, Rufo said at a meeting with the Coliseum Square Association Monday night. There is no monthly fee, only an initial membership fee, he said.

“You only pay for what you use,” Rufo said.

The cars can only be parked in an official service area, which generally means they will not be more than a five-minute walk from most users. The company would hire 15 to 20 full-time or part-time employees to service the cars, keep them full of gas and make sure that any cars parked in places where members are not using them are moved to more convenient locations, Rufo said.

Because members generally park the cars on the street, Car2Go needs to reach an agreement with city officials for how to pay for two types of parking. At parking meters, the company can use the vehicles’ location data to determine how long they are parked, and would like to pay a monthly fee for that — instead of requiring drivers to feed the meters each time they park.

In neighborhoods, the company needs to be able to buy the same sort of parking permits available to residents, Rufo said.

“They’re not looking for a giveaway,” Rufo said. “They’re just looking for ability to park the cars in neighborhoods the way that residents do.”

Car2Go already has begun discussions with the mayor’s office and City Council members, and while none of them have publicly announced their support for Car2Go, they have encouraged the company to meet with neighborhood groups to get a sense of public support.

A fleet of Car2Go vehicles in Europe. The company wants to bring 200 cars to New Orleans.

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“The city has had introductory conversations with Car2Go regarding its business model and operating options,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s press secretary, Brad Howard, confirmed. “As talks are just beginning, it is too early to provide any updates on the progress of those conversations.”

The company made a similar presentation in November to the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association, where some concerns were raised about the cars’ viability in flash floods. In Coliseum Square, neighbors wondered whether the cars would be available for hurricane evacuation. Others asked what happens when a driver gets a traffic ticket or parks the car in a pay lot. Rufo said Car2Go pays all tickets immediately. Drivers are insured through the company and may be allowed a first ticket, but subsequent violations and private-lot parking costs are passed on to the driver, Rufo said.

Other new, technology-based car fleets have met strong opposition from the city’s taxi industry, but Rufo said taxi companies do not usually oppose Car2Go. In other markets, 95 percent of Car2Go users are residents. Its competition is not with taxis, he said, but with traditional car dealers, as residents seek alternatives to owning a car themselves.

“It’s not an alternative to getting a ride somewhere, for example, if you’ve been drinking,” Rufo said.

Residents also wondered about the company’s timeline. Once the parking agreement is made legal, Rufo said, Daimler can get the fleet into New Orleans within 60 days.

“They’ve got them ready to go,” Rufo said. “It’s just a matter of getting permission from the city.”

— This story originally was reported by our newsgathering partner Uptown Messenger. To read more, visit www.uptownmessenger.com.

COMMENTARY

thinking out loud

‘Common’ misconceptions ast week, the four major declared candidates for governor — Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, state Rep. John Bel Edwards and U.S. Sen. David Vitter — gathered for a forum in Shreveport hosted by the Louisiana School Boards Association. Among the hottest topics: The Common Core State Standards initiative, the now-controversial set of benchmarks developed by the National Governors Association to measure the progress of public school students nationally.

Vitter and Edwards once supported the standards, which have drawn intense political fire despite strong support from Louisiana’s business community and many educators. The day before the forum, Angelle, who had been silent on the matter, joined the chorus against the initiative. Dardenne is the only major declared candidate for governor still supporting Common Core.

were closely following Common Core were the most likely to be misinformed, according to the poll.

The Collaborative for Student Success, a policy group supporting Common Core, released a memo from its executive director with a list of “10 Questions for Candidates Pandering on Common Core.” Chief among those “candidates pandering” should be Gov. Bobby Jindal, who once trumpeted his Common Core support but now is among its most vociferous detractors. Jindal has sued the feds and the Louisiana Department of Education over

It’s getting lonely out there for Common Core supporters, particularly among Republicans like Dardenne.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is alone among GOP presumptive presidential candidates for his support of Common Core. Last week New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie switched from pro to con. The sad part? A December poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University, released in mid-February, found that the people with the strongest opinions about Common Core also had the most misconceptions about it, starting with what’s actually in it.

The benchmarks are for reading and math — period. Each state, city and school district can set its own curricula; Common Core is just a measuring stick.

But the Fairleigh poll found 44 percent of respondents thought Common Core covered sex education, while other significant numbers of people thought global warming, evolution and the American Revolution were somehow included. It’s interesting — but not surprising — that those who thought they

Common Core’s implementation. In a speech in Washington, D.C., last month, Jindal asked, “What happens when American history is not the American history you and I learned about, but rather it becomes a history of grievances, of victimhood?” How embarrassing that our Ivy League-educated governor doesn’t even know that Common Core does not include American history.

Jindal, along with the Common Core bashers who seek to succeed him, insist they’re not against raising educational standards. Vitter and Angelle call for a “blue-ribbon” panel of educators, parents and others to determine new educational standards for Louisiana.

That’s what we have now, and it has kept us at the bottom of public school achievement by most metrics. Given Louisiana’s political climate, voter misconceptions and the lawsuits, the fight over Common Core is likely to drag on for years. While opportunists exploit public misinformation for their own political advancement, the real losers will be the children.

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BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN™ Questions for Blake: askblake@gambitweekly.com

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Hey Blake,

I can’t find any information on Empire Dry Cleaning Service. It is inset in letters in the front of the property on Dumaine Street at the corner of N. Rendon Street. Do you know if that was indeed a dry cleaning establishment in the past?

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Thanks for your question, which came to us via my Facebook page and gives me a chance to remind readers they can send me questions there.

Empire Dry Cleaning Service did operate at that spot, which is smack dab in the middle of a Bayou St. John neighborhood, about a block away from Pal’s Lounge, a favorite watering hole of locals.

The earliest mention I can find of the business is from 1938, when a writeup in The Times-Picayune called Empire “one of the most modernly equipped and efficiently operated dry cleaning plants in New Orleans.”

Located at 3201 Dumaine St., Empire was owned and operated by N.R. Macaluso. Though I’m not clear when the business opened, in that November 1938 article, Macaluso said the volume of his business was better at that time than in any corresponding period during the 10 years he had been in the dry cleaning business.

In the newspaper piece, Macaluso mentions the building was damaged by fire several months

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Empire Dry Cleaning Service hasn’t occupied its former Mid-City home for decades, but the business’ memory is preserved in the tile work on the front step of the building.

earlier, and the rebuilding process allowed him to add newer techniques and machinery to the operation. The April 1938 fire was said to have caused $4,000 in damages to the business, then owned by P.J. Lacassin. It’s not clear how long Empire operated, but Macaluso died in 1986.

his week marks the 85th anniversary of the rededication of one of the most beautiful Catholic churches in downtown New Orleans — Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church, more commonly known as the Jesuit Church, in the 100 block of Baronne Street in the CBD. According to the church’s website, www.jesuitchurch.net, the land on which the church sits was part of the so-called “Jesuit Plantation,” a huge swath of land given to the Jesuits in the late 1700s by Jean-Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, founder of New Orleans.

Though their work was suppressed worldwide in 1763, the Jesuits returned to New Orleans in 1837 and opened a school and church downtown. The school became The College of the Immaculate Conception (later Jesuit High School).

The church was established in 1851. In 1925, construction work on the Pere Marquette building next

to the church seriously damaged the foundation of the church and it was deemed structurally unsafe.

The building was dismantled brick by brick until new construction could begin.

Archbishop John Shaw celebrated Mass in the “new” church on March 2, 1930. With beautiful stained glass windows, statues, and a 24-karat gold-plated altar, it is one of the prettiest and most popular churches in the city. The Jesuit Church gained many new parishioners in the 1990s, when the Rev. Harry Tompson became pastor and established programs that continue today, including the Good Shepherd Nativity School, which serves at-risk children; and the Harry Tompson Center, which provides services for the poor and homeless. The popular priest died in 2001 — and was named Gambit’s “New Orleanian of the Year” the following January. He is the only person to be so honored posthumously.

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POLITICS

Jindal’s pants on fire o now Bobby Jindal favors a cigarette tax hike. Of course, he won’t spin it that way, but there’s no denying he offered lawmakers that option last week as part of his plan to cover the state’s projected $1.6 billion revenue shortfall in the fiscal year that begins July 1.

Problem is, the cigarette tax as proposed

by Jindal won’t help offset even a small part of the state’s monumental deficit. Jindal wants to tie the cigarette tax to a new tax credit, which he proposes as an offset to his newest round of college tuition hikes. In his mind, that scheme produces “revenue neutrality” and, more important, it allegedly preserves his precious “tax virginity.”

Try telling that to smokers, because it sure will feel like a tax hike to them.

I guess if the governor can flip-flop on Common Core, doing an about-face on the cigarette tax is no biggie. (He vetoed a modest cigarette tax increase in 2011.)

In fact, denying that he now supports a tax increase isn’t even the biggest lie that Jindal has told lately (and he’s told some whoppers). No, his biggest lie is his ongoing meme that Louisiana’s fiscal crisis — which

he led the way in creating — is “largely” the result of a precipitous drop in oil prices.

Team Jindal repeated that one last Friday in presenting his proposed budget, attributing nearly a third of the $1.6 billion deficit to declining oil prices.

There’s no getting around it: He’s lying about that.

The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Office (LFO) connected the dots last week in the February edition of its newsletter, “Focus on the Fisc.” In that newsletter, LFO chief economist Greg Albrecht wrote the following: “[T]he bulk of the projected funding shortfall for the FY 16 [Fiscal Year 2016] budget is not related to oil prices.” He then underlined his next sentence: “The FY 16 funding shortfall was projected at nearly $1.2 billion before any oil price revisions were considered.”

(Some say the deficit was actually $1.4 billion before the price of oil collapsed. Either way, Jindal’s claim that the deficit is “largely” the result of falling oil prices is a lie.)

Albrecht then noted what Jindal wishes we would all forget: “Nearly $1 billion of that shortfall is associated with the use of ad

supporters, should let him off the hook on this one. The more he lies about the cause of Louisiana’s fiscal nightmare, the louder we all should shout, “Liar, liar, pants on fire!”

The truth is undeniable: Bobby Jindal and state lawmakers who IMAGES COURTESY supported his budget DONKEYHOTEY/ CREATIVE COMMONS, proposals spent nearly THINKSTOCK $1 billion in one-time money to balance the hoc resources supporting the current FY current year’s budget, leaving a hole of at 15 budget that will have to be replaced for least $1.2 billion for the next fiscal year. This the FY 16 budget. In addition, current FY 15 didn’t happen overnight. Jindal blew through shortfalls have been financed, in large part, Kathleen Blanco’s $1.1 billion surplus in 2008, with additional ad hoc resources that add to the funding shortfall for FY 16. The drop in and he has increasingly used one-time money to balance the budget since 2009. mineral revenue projections has exacerbatTimes are so desperate now, Jindal has ed the FY 16 funding shortfall, comprising finally suggested a tax increase — but don’t about 25% of that shortfall.” expect him to tell the truth about that.

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hen artist Dawn Dedeaux’s 1993 exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center caused an outcry over how it depicted African-Americans, Carol Bebelle knew she had to do something. Bebelle — not yet the director of the Ashe Cultural Arts Center — had long been disturbed by what she felt were negative stereotypes of black people, pervasive in television shows, movies and art galleries. Dedeaux’s Soul Shadows: Urban Warrior Myths, which featured black gangsters and men in jail, was simply indicative of a larger problem in New Orleans and beyond, she thought.

So Bebelle teamed with local artist Douglas Redd to make the multimedia installation Efforts of Grace, meant to counter racism and reclaim the image of New Orleans’ African-American community. The project burgeoned into a new performing and visual arts organization that eventually required its own space. In December 1998, the Ashe Cultural Arts Center was born in a thenunderdeveloped area of Central City, inside the old Kaufman’s department store on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard.

“In a very real way we were born out of the controversy of stereotypical images of black folks,” Bebelle said of Ashe, which would act as a pioneer for a neighborhood that had a rich cultural community but no space in which to foster creativity. “We need something that’s more literal. We want people to see the beauty, and the power, and the contribution of black people in a literal way,” she added.

Sixteen years later, Bebelle is preparing for another major project for the Ashe Cultural Arts Center — the opening of its new state-of-theart campus, the Ashe Power House.

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The Power House, located at 1731 Baronne St. just around the corner from Ashe’s existing Oretha C. Haley Blvd campus, speaks to the growing need for more performance and creative space in Central City. It comes amid a business boom on O.C. Haley and the Central City Historic District.

“Ashe’s work is really about making things happen, and not just happen for the people who work here, but to make it happen for culture bearers and artists and activists and community,” Bebelle said. “So this is another place that we have to have that transformative work going on.”

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ocated in the once-blighted New Orleans Public Service Inc. Polymnia Streetcar Substation, the Ashe Power House hosts a performance center and visual arts gallery. Original exposed brick walls line a gallery space equipped with track lighting and exposed steel structures. Twenty-foot ceilings are perfect for large-scale installations. The 1924 building, rehabilitated with a $7.4 million development, has more than 10,000 square feet of usable space.

Next to the gallery is the flexible performance space, equipped with theatrical lighting, controls and a lighting grid. An open control booth for sound and lighting is situated above a retractable seating platform. Two fully equipped dressing rooms are in the basement.

“We’re looking to really up our game,” said Jo Ann Minor, the associate director of Ashe Cultural Arts Center, as she led a tour through the newly renovated building.

At Ashe’s other location, cluttered window displays feature Mardi Gras Indian suits, 7-foot-tall painted drums and African artifacts collected from Bebelle and Redd’s Ashe Power House Theatre

COVER STORY travels. The Power House carries the theme with a subtle but symbolic paint job. Throughout the space, deep purple and bright orange color walls and staircases, in a scheme the late New Orleans artist and dancer Jeffrey Cook called the “Central City palette.” The colors are reminiscent of kente cloth, a type of silk and cotton fabric common in southern Ghana.

“Central City’s development has been about culture, community and commerce,” Minor said. “We’re reminding the commerce that it couldn’t happen if culture and community didn’t happen first.”

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long the Central City corridor where Ashe is located, previously dilapidated buildings are being renovated as part of a redevelopment effort that took a decade to come to fruition, due in part to a 2006 Louisiana Main Street and Cultural Products District designation that helped funnel $40 million of funding into the area following Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods.

Celebrated developments include a $20.6 million mixed-use project spearheaded by the new New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA), and The Good Work Network’s $1.6 million small business incubator located in the Franz Building. A $900,000 Community Development Block Grant for streetscape improvements has been allocated, and improvements should begin soon. Jack and Jake’s 23,000-squarefoot market is due to open next month a block from the New Orleans Jazz Market, future home of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Two blocks down the street is the new 30,000-square-foot Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

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Suddenly, Last Summer Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer is the first theatrical is set in the Garden District in the 1930s, and production at the new takes place in a garden over the course of an Ashe Power House. afternoon. Following its 1958 premiere offBroadway, there was speculation about which PHOTO BY JOHN BARROIS home inspired the setting. But in the run-up to Southern Rep’s opening of Suddenly, Last Summer as the premiere production at Ashe Cultural Arts Center’s new Ashe Power House, people have been asking director Aimee Hayes about another feature.

“People keep asking me if there’s an elevator,” Hayes says. “There’s no elevator.”

In the 1959 movie version starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, Taylor played Catherine Holly, a young woman traumatized by witnessing the murder of her cousin Sebastian while vacationing in Europe. Hepburn starred as Sebastian’s mother, Violet Venable, an imposing, rich woman who doesn’t want Catherine to say anything about her son and pushes to have a doctor (Clift) lobotomize her. In the film, Venable imperiously entered and exited scenes from her mansion’s elevator.

Ashe Power House is impressive, but it does not have an onstage elevator.

“We walked through the space and it’s dynamic,” Hayes says. “It’s beautiful and state of the art. It works as a theater in a traditional way and can serve a lot of other types of productions — music, dance; it has retractable seats.”

The premiere continues a relationship between Southern Rep, which has not found a permanent space since leaving its longtime home at The Shops at Canal Place three years ago. Last season, it presented Broomstick, a witch tale by New Orleans playwright John Biguenet, at Ashe. Ashe cofounder and Executive Director Carol Bebelle also has worked with Southern Rep on its New Play Bacchanal.

The production also continues Southern Rep’s relationship with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. In recent years, it has produced Williams’ classics A Streetcar Named Desire and The Night of the Iguana to coincide with the annual literary event. Suddenly, Last Summer stars Brenda Currin (Venable), who won an Obie Award for her role in My Sister in This House, and Beth Bartley (Catherine), who performed on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated Fortune’s Fool. Currin has participated in the Tennessee Williams Festival before and been involved with Southern Rep’s New Play Bacchanal.

Suddenly, Last Summer runs March 7-29 (previews March 4-6).

Visit www.southernrep.com for ticket information. — WILL COVIELLO

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eveloped by the local nonprofit Gulf Coast Housing Partnership (GCHP), the Power House represents a milestone in the 16-year relationship between the organization and Ashe Cultural Arts Center, according to Bebelle.

Ashe has attracted more than 40,000 visitors a year since first renting and eventually buying the Oretha C. Haley campus developed by the GCHP. But the performance areas lack dressing rooms and visitors contend with a one-stall bathroom. Evening programming is limited because people live in apartments above the commercial space. So when Ashe was given the opportunity to become tenants in a new state-of-the-art location, Bebelle jumped at the chance. Now, she said, Ashe can better accommodate theater performances, concerts, workshops and small conferences and will be able to extend programming into late-night hours.

Southern Rep Theater is scheduled to hold the rest of its current season in the brand new space, and Ashe to Amen, an exhibit curated by Leslie Hammond King, is slated to open there this spring. Beyond that, Bebelle said, Ashe will better cater to people looking for nighttime activities following the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and other events.

“This gives us an ability to stay out late with the big girls and the big boys,” she added, laughing.

“It’s really exciting,” said Constance Thompson, the social media strategist for Ashe Cultural Arts Center. “You see things happen like a ripple effect. There’s so much energy.”

With redevelopment, of course, comes gentrification, where rents increase and residents worry about being pushed out to make room for high-end developments.

“Nonprofits and cultural institutions are clustering together, giving this neighborhood its flavor and making sure it will retain its flavor instead of becoming overdeveloped or developed into something that doesn’t serve the neighborhood,” said Linda Pompa, executive director of the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Merchants and Business Association. “And Ashe as a campus and as an institution is extremely welcoming to everyone.”

That, Bebelle adds, was the whole goal in the first place. Right now, Ashe is only a tenant of the building that houses the Power House. Bebelle says she hopes to eventually buy the space and continue to honor African, African-American and Caribbean cultures that have long been celebrated in Central City.

“There was a huge effort on our part to have social justice be a part of that so that we were always setting a table that everybody could sit at,” Bebelle said. “This is the same horse we’re going to ride and the same dance we’re going to dance going forward.”

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unscreened are less likely to have had a close friend or family member with cancer or are unaware of their family history.

Lack of affordability. Lack of

affordability is the No. 1 reason people don’t get screened. Yet the Affordable Care Act ensures that preventive care screenings, such as colonoscopies, are covered for anyone with insurance.

Low levels of healthy behavior.

Despite claiming to be as healthy as those screened, the unscreened population tends to have less healthy behaviors, and is less likely to visit or talk to a doctor about screenings.

Colorectal cancer is almost completely preventable.

Talk to your doctor about screenings if you’re older than 50.

Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT), and which is charged with the ultimate goal of meeting the NCCRT’s “80% by 2018” initiative — a drive to ensure that everyone age 50 and over has been screened by the year 2018.

“Right now, there are people all over the state taking action to help prevent colon cancer,” says Colleen Huard, manager of the Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (LCCCP). “Look at us — we’re teaching people about the disease by having them walk through our inflatable walk-through colon. Others are handing out FIT and FOBT tests (do at-home tests that can help detect colon cancer). What we need to do now is connect all the dots and get people working together to meet that goal.”

The LCCCP works in the state to create awareness about six preventable cancers, including colorectal. With the help of LCCCP, housed at the LSU HSC’s School of Public Health in New Orleans; the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at LSU HSC Shreveport; and the American Cancer Society, the LCCRT’s

steering committee has been formed and will meet for the first time on March 13 at the state capitol.

“I’m encouraged to see Louisiana commit to the national goal of ‘80% by 2018’ and I am really looking forward to working with this diverse coalition to reduce the burden of this cancer in the state,” Winfrey says.

The LCCRT will work to shape up and corral colorectal cancer prevention efforts in the state, including setting up task forces to deal with different aspects of the issue. And what are those issues?

More people are getting colorectal screenings than ever before, but, according to the NCCRT, the “newly insured,” the “insured, procrastinator/rationalizer” and the “financially challenged” are the groups most likely not to get screened, with the problem being even more pronounced among African-Americans and Hispanics in those groups. They share the following characteristics:

The LCCRT will work on issues such as these and, as Huard hopes, others as well.

For instance, there now are mechanisms in the state to help make sure that eligible women diagnosed with breast cancer will receive Medicaid in time to get treatment; Huard would like to see the same done for patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

She also wants women to be aware that they can get the disease. “Women seem to think they can’t get it, but they have colons too,” she says.

And finally, though colonoscopies are considered the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening, there are other medical facility and take-home options, such as the FIT and FOBT kits. Huard recommends that everyone 50 and older talk to his or her doctor about getting screened for colorectal cancer and quotes health experts who say, “Remember, the best test is the one you’re going to get.”

Rationalized avoidance. Even though people know they should get screened, they don’t recognize the importance of

Laura Ricks is communications coordinator at Louisiana Cancer Prevention & Control Programs (LCP).

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any people know lung cancer is a major killer in Louisiana, but few realize that colorectal is the next deadliest cancer in the state.

That doesn’t mean it’s the most aggressive cancer out there. In fact, colorectal cancer is rather slow-growing.

Yet, according to the Louisiana Tumor Registry, more men and women here die from colorectal cancer than they do from prostate or breast cancer, fueling a colorectal cancer death rate that places Louisiana as the fifth highest in the nation.

“With Louisiana having the second highest rate of colorectal cancer diagnosis in the United States and the fifth highest death rate from this form of cancer, the time for action is now,” says Dr. Keith Winfrey, chief medical officer at the NOELA Community Health Center and Louisiana Colorectal Cancer Roundtable member.

One reason the rate is so high is that black men suffer disproportionately from the disease nationwide, with Louisiana’s black men having even worse rates than their counterparts elsewhere in the country. And a recent Tulane/LSU study found that Cajuns have some of the highest colorectal cancer incidence rates in the United States, which researchers suspect may be due to genetic factors.

Yet all this disease and death results from a cancer that, like lung cancer, is almost entirely preventable. Unlike lung cancer, preventing colorectal cancer does not require anyone to conquer a longheld habit or beat back an addiction. It just requires people 50 and older to get screened on a regular basis.

The combination of those stark figures and easy potential remedies were the impetus for state House Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, and Rep. Tom Willmott, R-Kenner, to introduce House Concurrent Resolution 67 during the 2014 legislative session. It passed, establishing a Louisiana Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (LCCRT) modeled after the National

think they can’t get the disease if they don’t have symptoms or family history.

This is wrong, and symptoms often don’t surface until the disease is advanced.

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At her general dental practice, Dr. Deborah Lesem (100 Robert E. Blvd., 504-286-3880; www.drlesem.com) offers elective procedures, including tooth bleaching, bonding, veneers and tooth replacement via crowns, bridges and dentures.

Below, Lesem shares the insand-outs of these procedures.

— MISSY WILKINSON

How can cosmetic dentistry improve patients’ overall appearance?

Deborah Lesem: There are many ways to change the overall appearance with cosmetic procedures. We can replace enamel that is chipped or worn, which often makes for a healthier, more youthful-looking smile. Bleaching or ceramic or bonded veneers can transform discolored or darkened teeth, making them brighter and more appealing.

Of course replacing missing teeth, especially in the front, dramatically improves one’s looks.

What is the most popular procedure in cosmetic dentistry?

DL: In my office, bleaching is by far the most popular cosmetic procedure. The cost is reasonable (usually under $300 for custom trays and bleach), and just about anyone can do it, although there are some situations that your dentist can check for before you bleach.

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DL: Yes and no. Most bleaches available over the counter or at your dental office are safe if you follow the directions exactly. Some people get into trouble when they try to bleach more often or use more bleach than is recommended. In most cases, overuse or misuse causes sensitivity of the teeth or gums and in more severe cases, can result in permanent damage to the teeth and/or gums. The custom trays made at a dental office work well to keep bleach off the gums. If you choose to do the take-home whitening from your dental office, the doctor or staff can provide you with instructions for proper use, so that you bleach safely and get the best possible results.

How long do results last?

DL: Results are generally permanent, but the teeth can get stained from daily use — eating, drinking, smoking, etc. When this happens, a touch-up treatment (usually only one or two times rather than several days) of bleach may be necessary to bring the color back to its post-bleaching brightness. Some patients choose to touch up their bleach after a professional cleaning to maintain their teeth at the optimum shade. Then they aren’t bleaching through plaque, so it will be very effective.

What’s the second most popular procedure?

DL: In our office, bonding is very popular, because it often takes only one appointment, usually requires no anesthesia, and patients leave with immediate results. The cost depends on the number of teeth involved, but our fees run about half that of porcelain veneers and the bonded veneers have the advantage of being able to be repaired if one gets chipped or damaged. Porcelain veneers run $1,100 per tooth and must be completely redone if they are damaged. We can change the tooth color, shape or alignment in one visit. Another advantage is that usually the teeth do not need to be ground down for bonded veneers.

Is cosmetic dentistry ever covered by insurance?

DL: Every policy is different, but any procedure that is needed due to decay, etc., is generally covered, so cosmetic procedures that are also taking care of decay or failing restorations will often be covered. Bleaching is rarely covered by insurance. Sometimes bonding or veneers can be covered, depending on the reason — for example, if the

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tooth has decay or a filling that requires replacement or is fractured — that would usually be covered.

Do your patients notice their quality of life improves after they get cosmetic dentistry?

DL: Yes. It is common for patients to tell us how much better they feel when they are not self-conscious about their teeth. It is a big boost to their confidence.

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Goat in the Road Productions’ Numb is nominated for six awards, including Best Drama.

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he Gambit-affiliated Foundation for Entertainment, Development and Education announced special award recipients and nominees for theater performances in 2014.

Winners of awards for performances, design and directing will be announced at the 27th annual Big Easy Theater Awards at Harrah’s New Orleans March 30.

There are awards for dramas, comedies and musicals, and a handful of shows collected more than six nominations each. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts amassed nine nominations for Young Frankenstein and six for Shrek The Musical. The NOLA Project collected eight nominations for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, seven for its production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, six for Peter McElligott’s whimsical adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, performed in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and five for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. See ’Em on Stage: A Production Company has made a name for itself producing humorous, blood-splattering zombie and horror musicals, but it drew seven nominations for Zanna, Don’t!, a musical about high school romance in an inverted world where homosexuality is the norm. Goat in the Road productions drew six nominations for Numb, its original production about the early medical use of anesthesia.

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BIG EASY THEATER AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Linda Fried

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR Cecile Monteyne

SPECIAL RECOGNITION The Patchwork Players

Cecile Monteyne is nominated for two individual awards, Best Actress in a Drama for her role as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for playing Olivia in Twelfth Night; or, What You Will.

She also starred in The NOLA Project’s Shiner and a remount of the one-woman show La Concierge Solitaire. She also performs improv comedy. Monteyne will be honored as Entertainer of the Year.

The Big Easy Awards will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Linda Fried. In her 50-year career in local theater, she has sung and danced on stage and, in the past 15 years, focused on costume design. She is nominated for Best Costume Design for Shrek The Musical.

For 30 years, the Patchwork Players have presented classic children’s tales to young audiences — for two decades at Tulane University and more recently at Rivertown Theaters.

The company will receive a Special Recognition Award.

Chris Lane and Trixie Minx will host the Big Easy Theater Awards gala at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 30 at Harrah’s Theatre. General admission tickets are $125 and VIP admission is $150. For information or reservations, contact Jon Broder at (504) 483-3129.

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BIG EASY THEATER NOMINATIONS BEST MUSICAL

A Chorus Line, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University

Chris Kaminstein Numb, Goat in the Road Productions

Shrek The Musical, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Nat Kusinitz Macbeth, Skin Horse Theater

Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Mark Routhier One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project

Zanna, Don’t!, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company The Patchwork Players will receive a Special Recognition Award.

BEST DRAMA

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Roof, The NOLA Project Iguana, The Night of the Iguana Southern Rep Numb, Numb Goat in the Road Productions One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project Nest

BEST COMEDY

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Adventures in Wonderland Wonderland, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

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Linda Fried will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and is nominated for Best Costume Design.

Esther Tebandeke Lutaaya played the title role in ArtSpot Productions and Soulographie’s Maria Kizito.

P H O T O BY J O S E L . G A R C I A I I

P H O T O BY L I Z Z Y B R O O K S

Beau Bratcher Peter and the Starcatcher, Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre Ricky Graham One Man, Two Guvnors, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Andrew Larimer Adventures in Wonderland, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

The Totalitarians, Southern Rep

Karen Hebert Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art Christopher Bentivegna Zanna, Don’t!, See ’Em on Stage: A Production Company Ricky Graham Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Sean Patterson The Mysterious Wisterias, The Stage Door Canteen, The National World War II Museum Gary Rucker Shrek The Musical, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMA

P H O T O BY B E A R H EB ER T

A.J. Allegra Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

One Man, Two Guvnors, Guvnors Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

New Noise’s Oxblood is nominated for Best Original Work, Devised and Best Ensemble.

BEST DIRECTOR OF A COMEDY

Beau Bratcher Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The NOLA Project

Angelle Hebert Macbeth, Skin Horse Theater

Diane Lala A Chorus Line, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University Lindsey Romig Zanna, Don’t!, See ‘Em On Stage: A Production Company

BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR

Tammy Mansfield Peter and the Starcatcher, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Alan Payne Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts C. Leonard Raybon Les Miserables, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University Natalie True Zanna, Don’t!, See ‘Em on Stage: A Production Company

BEST SET DESIGN

Kyle Sheehan Numb, Goat in the Road Productions

Jason Dowies Les Miserables, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University

Eric Porter The Ladies Of The Camellias, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Kevin Murphy Shrek The Musical, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Frank Oliva Shiner, The NOLA Project

David Raphel Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Bill Walker One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN

Trina Beck A Chorus Line, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University Tracey E. Collins Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Dody Nolan Les Miserables, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University

Joan Long Numb, Goat in the Road Productions

Kali Russell Zanna, Don’t!, See ‘Em on Stage: A Production Company

Scott Sauber Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Evan Spigelman Macbeth, Skin Horse Theater Dan Zimmer One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project Mignon Charvet Numb, Goat in the Road Productions Cecile Casey Covert/Chris Arthur Adventures in Wonderland, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art Linda Fried Shrek The Musical, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Julie Winn Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Brendan Connelly The Totalitarians, Southern Rep Marcus Davis Shiner, The NOLA Project Mike Harkins One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Idella Johnson Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Cecile Monteyne Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

Jermaine L. Keelan Shrek The Musical,, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Jessica Podewell The Totalitarians, Southern Rep

Mason Wood Young Frankenstein,, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

P H O T O BY J O H N B . B A R R O I S

Lynae LeBlanc Adventures in Wonderland, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

Larry Johnson Zanna, Don’t!, See ‘Em on Stage: A Production Company

Edward Simon Musical of the Living Dead, See ‘Em on Stage: A Production Company

Liann Pattison is nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for Broomstick, which is nominated for Best Original Work, Scripted.

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Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts’ Young Frankenstein is nominated for nine awards, including Best Musical.

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BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Gary Rucker Young Frankenstein, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

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BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Courtney Boe The Andrews Brothers,, The Stage Door Canteen, The National World War II Museum Kelly Fouchi Shrek The Musical,, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Jaune Buisson Hebert A Chorus Line,, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University Katie Howe Cabaret, Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Joshua Wayne Brewer Zanna, Don’t!, See ‘Em on Stage: A Production Company

Joshua Wayne Brewer is nominated for Best Actor in a Musical fo Zanna, Don’t!

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Kyle June Williams (back) is nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy and Lynae LeBlanc (front) is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for Adventures in Wonderland.

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Alex Martinez Wallace and Amy Alvarez are nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Drama for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

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Jake Bartush Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

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Keith Claverie Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art Clint Johnson A Midsummer Night’s Dream, New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane University Alex Martinez Wallace Peter and the Starcatcher, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Jennifer Pagan Shoebox Lounge, Jennifer Pagan Liann Pattison Broomstick, Southern Rep Ashley Ricord Santos Peter and the Starcatcher, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Kyle June Williams Adventures in Wonderland, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

James Bartelle Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art Ross Britz The Ladies of the Camellias, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Chris Marroy One Man, Two Guvnors, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Nicholas Stephens Peter and the Starcatcher, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Troi Bechet The Night of the Iguana, Southern Rep Gail Glapion Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Anthony Bean Theater Yvette Hargis Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The NOLA Project Lisa Picone Love The Normal Heart, The Allways Theatre

Ashley Ricord Santos and Nicholas Stephens are nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor in a Comedy for Peter and the Starcatcher.

Entertainer of the Year, Cecile Monteyne, is nominated for Best Actress in a Drama and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.

P H O T O BY F R A N K AY M A M I

P H O T O BY J O H N B . B A R R O I S

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Ian Hoch Bug, The Allways Theatre

Orphans The Allways Theatre

A.J. Allegra One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project

Dylan Hunter Macbeth, Skin Horse Theater

Oxblood, New Noise

Randy Cheramie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The NOLA Project

Alex Martinez Wallace One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project

Sam Dudley The Normal Heart, The Allways Theatre

BEST ORIGINAL WORK OF THEATER, SCRIPTED

Last Dance — A Tribute to Donna Summer The Allways Theatre/Anais St. John

Bob Edes Jr. The Night of the Iguana, Southern Rep

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Amy Alvarez One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The NOLA Project Becca Chapman Enter Your Sleep, The Elm Theatre Aimee Hayes The Night of the Iguana, Southern Rep Cecile Monteyne Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The NOLA Project

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA Mike Harkins The Night of the Iguana, Southern Rep

Adventures in Wonderland Peter McElligott, The NOLA Project

BEST CABARET

Le Continental Bremner Duthie

Broomstick John Biguenet, Southern Rep

Midsummer Nights Cabaret Sean Patterson/Jefferson Turner/ Amanda Zirkenbach

An Outopia for Pigeons Justin Maxwell, The Shadowbox Theatre

True Blue Bayou — A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt The Allways Theatre/Dorian Rush

Shoebox Lounge Jennifer Pagan

BEST UNIVERSITY PRODUCTION

BEST ORIGINAL WORK OF THEATER, DEVISED

Maria Kizito, ArtSpot Productions/Soulographie Numb Goat in the Road Productions Oxblood, New Noise

BEST ENSEMBLE

Numb Goat in the Road Productions

Ain’t Misbehavin Timothy K. Baker, Delgado Community College

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo David W. Hoover, University of New Orleans The Golden Dragon Dmitry Troyanovsky, Tulane University The World Goes Round C. Patrick Gendusa, Loyola University

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Though the The Roosevelt cafe’s customers Hotel’s Szechuan are mostly strawberry tourists, Heyd mascarpone says locals also cheesecake won visit the historic Gambit’s For the hotel, especially Love of Sweets during the holiday Challenge. season. “[In] December, it’s P H OTO BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER all locals,” Heyd says. “[We host] holiday parties, weddings, Teddy Bear teas. … I’d say the rest of the year it’s all tourists.”

After winning the For the Love of Sweets Challenge, Heyd expects to see more locals.

“Word-of-mouth is the biggest thing, and I think the challenge will really help out with that, because we’ll have that dessert in here, too,” Heyd says.

In the future, regulars might notice changes at Teddy’s Cafe. In addition to being rebranded and redesigned, it will feature a new menu with healthier fare.

“It’s going to be a big mix of pastries and sandwiches and a lot more healthy items too,” Heyd says. “Gluten-free, vegan … all that is so big now, and I don’t think it’s going to go away. We’re going to try to gear more toward that.”

Heyd also will debut New Orleansthemed pastries.

“I’m going to use a bunch of New Orleans themes and try to create desserts around that,” Heyd says. “I’m using different names: CBD, Crescent City Connection. …

We make all of the ice cream and desserts in-house. We try to keep it local.”

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From 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7, Little Pnuts (209 Harrison Ave., 855-545-7688; www.littlepnuts.com) celebrates the grand opening of its store. The business started in 2012 as a eco-friendly toy subscription service. There will be Champagne, refreshments, giveaways and gift bags for the first 25 customers.

Rubensteins (102 St. Charles Ave., 504-5816666; www.rubensteinsneworleans.com) will expand its young men’s department this

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spring. Sports coats, dress shirts, ties and pants in sizes 6 through 16 will be added to its selection of Lacoste and Polo shirts, blazers and khakis.

Martin Lawrence Galleries (433 Royal St., 504-299-9055; www.martinlawrence.com) holds a fine art preview party from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 7. Works by Bertho, Chagall, Dali, Picasso, Rembrandt, Warhol and other artists will be for sale, and there will be entertainment and refreshments. Call the gallery to RSVP.

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n the past, The Roosevelt Hotel (130 Roosevelt Way; 504-648-1200; www.therooseveltneworleans.com) was known more for its Sazeracs than its desserts. However, after taking home the prize from Gambit’s For the Love of Sweets Challenge, that may change.

The Roosevelt Hotel’s Szechuan strawberry mascarpone cheesecake won over tasters at the inaugural dessert competition, hosted by The Shops at Canal Place in January.

“One thing that helped was that I had one of the lightest desserts,” says head pastry chef Deborah Heyd. “A lot of people went with chocolate, and there was a lot of chocolate and no water. … We did a shortbread crust with toasted almonds, and the strawberry compote was a little sugar, a little salt and fresh-ground Szechuan peppercorn.”

Though Heyd was “shocked” to hear that she and her team won the competition, she soon realized their dessert deserved it.

“Once everything was over, I tasted it again and was like, ‘This was a winner,’” says Heyd, who was excited to compete in the event. “It’s nice to have a local [dessert competition] for pastry chefs, because there isn’t anything.”

Heyd handles all things sweet in The Roosevelt Hotel, including the freshly baked pastries, beignets, cookies, ice creams and muffins at coffee shop Teddy’s Cafe. There are seasonal items, like almond honey thyme king cake during Carnival season, as well as standbys like chocolate chip cookies and eclairs.

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Brooklyn on the bayou

One disappointing Darren Iapichino serves Italian cold cuts, salads option on the menu is and sandwiches at Cibo. the lackluster turkey fagioli sandwich, which P H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER is more reminiscent of a brown bag lunch than a deli creation. Carved turkey is moist but flavorless, and a dense, traffic cone-colwhat ored slice of cheddar cheese and spongy, Cibo unevenly toasted bread do little to improve the flavor. Its highlight is a thin smear of where sun-dried tomato-white bean spread, which 1114 S. Carrollton Ave., adds creaminess and tangy zip, but the (504) 592-7797 sun-dried tomatoes can be a bit chewy and oily. when This white bean creation, along with lunch Tue.-Sun., early dinner several other spreads, is available for purTue.-Sat. chase from the deli, along with an array of classic Italian cold cuts (salami, mortadella, how much soppressata, capicola) and cheeses. Other inexpensive notable items include garden-fresh basil pesto and spiced peach chutney. what works Even after heavier indulgences like meatballs or chicken parmigiana, diners would roast pork sandwich, tender be remiss to pass up the opportunity to add meatballs, filled-to-order cannoli a sweet flourish to the end of their meal.

Cannoli feature crackly shells hand-filled to what doesn’t order with rich, fluffy cream that beckons turkey fagioli sandwich is dry diners to come back for seconds — or a return visit the next morning for a sweet check, please with a cup of espresso. a quick, casual spot for Contact Sarah Baird at sarahgambitdining@gmail.com

Italian sandwiches and red gravy entrees

Brooklyn Brewery Mash (www. brooklynbrewerymash.com) — the international traveling food, beer and arts festival — makes its annual stop in New Orleans March 23-29. The series offers a week’s worth of dinners, tastings and shows including a “slow supper” in conjunction with Dinner Lab (www. dinnerlab.com) that celebrates New Orleans’ bounty of local produce. “Pints and pies” pairs Brooklyn Brewery beer with slices from Pizza Delicious (617 Piety St., 504-676-8482; www.pizzadelicious.com).

“With the Brooklyn Brewery Mash, we bring people together with beer,” says Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy. “But it is more than beer.

It is homegrown food, homegrown beverages of all kinds and homegrown businesses. In 2015, we’re very excited to be joining our craft beer brethren in New Orleans, along with chefs, artists and the creative class in and around [New Orleans], in celebration of our third year hosting.”

A new event in the New Orleans Mash is the Animation Block Party (4 p.m.

Saturday, March 29, at One Eyed Jacks), which will feature animators from Brooklyn and New Orleans.

The Brooklyn Beefsteak dinner looks to be one of the week’s liveliest events, combining a New York-style beef steak dinner (a utensil-less spread of sliced steak and sliced bread) with beer, music and a communal “bread stacking” competition.

“New Orleans is the perfect venue for pairing food and beer, which is why we have so much in common,” says Brooklyn Brewery chef Andrew Gerson.

“We value the importance of local ingredients and food that create a sense of place, pride and a respect for our cities. We’re teaming up with ... Dinner Lab, which is always a hit and a lot of fun. We’re collaborating with some new partners, like Brooklyn Beefsteak, who will be bringing their beef-and-beer fest to New Orleans for the first time.”

A full list of events is available on the Brooklyn Brewery Mash website, and tickets can be purchased there.

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reole-Italian restaurant roots run deep in New Orleans, with this long-marinating fusion cuisine woven into the city’s history and culture for more than a century. Delis specializing in Italian-American sandwiches (other than muffulettas) with cold cuts and cheeses aren’t particularly prevalent, however, leaving a void for those who crave thin slices of Prosciutto di Parma on Italian bread. Cibo, a neighborhood spot dedicated to Italian sandwiches and entrees, is filling that void.

Tucked in the shade of the Riverbend’s giant oak trees, Cibo is a diminutive spot that feels snug and welcoming. Counter service in the front makes to-go orders a breeze, and there is a handful of tables draped with red-and-white checkered tablecloths along the far wall. Outdoor seating in front of the restaurant provides a space for leisurely snacking on Caprese salad while reading the newspaper or people-watching.

While there are a few traditional red gravy-style entrees, such as mozzarella-covered chicken parmigiana presented with almost-sweet tomato sauce, sandwiches are where Cibo hits its stride.

Ingredients are mixed, crisscrossed and paired in different fashions throughout the sandwich offerings like a wardrobe of perfectly coordinated pieces. The roast pork sandwich is one of the best, with gooey, briny caciocavallo cheese fondue brushed on a sub roll that is stuffed with feathery slow-roasted pork and sauteed broccoli rabe. The chicken modena sandwich is enlivened by the melding of a bright, chirpy tomato with a melt of silky, earthy fontal cheese.

Meatballs make multiple appearances on the menu, notably as the anchor of the behemoth Brooklyn sandwich, which arrives dressed with a trifecta of ricotta cheeses. The meatballs also shine on their own in an entree. Meltingly tender and golf ball sized, the meatballs are refreshingly uncomplicated and subtly seasoned with basil and oregano.

Sandwiches are served with a choice of pasta salad: an archetypal tricolored rotini with floating half-moons of black olive swimming throughout, or whole wheat balsamic penne. Even if you’re partial to the humble charms of classic pasta salad, the penne option is a more composed costar for any sandwich on the menu, with flecks of piquant sun-dried tomato, fresh basil and sharp balsamic glaze. The side salad is an option, but it is soused in a far-too-vinegary house Italian dressing.

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When Brennan’s (417 Royal St., 504-525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com) reopened late last year, several key members of the team were unable to make the grand opening: the courtyard turtles.

While construction continued on the outdoor seating area, the 10 “Turtles at Brennan’s” were summering on the West Bank at the home of executive chef Haley Bittermann and patiently awaiting their newly constructed home.

At 10:30 a.m. March 14, they arrive at their French Quarter abode in style with a small-scale parade dubbed “the slowest second line on earth.” The turtles will be pulled down an emerald green carpet on tiny floats to the sound of bagpipe music, then cheered with a toast once they reach the courtyard.

Five of the turtles are named for the French “mother sauces” (Bechamel, Espagnole, Hollandaise, Tomate and Veloute), four are named after common Louisiana sauces (Remoulade, Ravigote, Bordelaise and Mignonette) and the only male turtle is named Cocktail.

A procession of 11 floats (made by the Brennan’s staff) will pay tribute to the names and “personality” of each turtle. According to a press release, Bechamel’s float features “illustrated sacks of flour and cartons of milk” and Mignonette’s glitzier carriage will be embellished with “rosy-vinegar-pink and sparkling pearl oyster shells.” — SARAH BAIRD

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For some, Lent means giving up culinary vices — alcohol, coffee, chocolate — but for others, it is a time to enjoy fried fish.

Churches across the city play host to Friday fish fries during the Lenten season, but a new 7th Ward restaurant will help fulfill fried-fish (and chicken) cravings seven days a week. Hooks (2100 St. Bernard Ave.) offers an impressive array of fried fish options, including snapper, tilapia, cod and catfish. Fried is the name of the game at Hooks, with other breaded-and-battered options including chicken livers, gizzards, oysters and shrimp. Crawfish pies, crab cakes and hush puppies are available as well. The restaurant also serves ice-cold slushies and house-made desserts like carrot cake.

Hooks is open 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Friday and Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. — SARAH BAIRD

Penny ante

French Quarter residents have a shiny new neighborhood bar with the arrival of The Black Penny (700 N. Rampart St.). Located in the former home of The Ninth Circle (a dive bar known for thumping techno music), The Black Penny space was renovated by project partners Bert West, a former manager of Erin Rose (811 Conti St., 504-522-3573; www.erinrosebar.com), and Ed Diaz, owner of Bar Tonique (820 N. Rampart St., 504-324-6045; www. bartonique.com).

“We completely gutted the space and spent months working on it,” West says. “The only thing that we left in tact was the bar. We exposed the beams and brick, fixed all the plumbing. When people from the neighborhood walk in now, they’re excited.”

The Black Penny is still developing its menu and will focus on simple cocktails and beers. Currently, it offers 42 craft beers — all in cans — and has set a goal of 50.

“We want it to be a casual place for the neighborhood,” West says.

The bar is open from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily. — SARAH BAIRD

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Carol Morse is the founder of Acalli Chocolate (www.acalli.com), a New Orleans-based “bean-to-bar” chocolate company that won a 2015 Good Food Award [honoring responsibly produced artisanal products]. Morse spoke with Gambit about the cacao supply chain, her inspiration for starting Acalli and the company’s chocolate bars.

What was your inspiration for Acalli?

When did the company officially launch?

M: It’s been exciting doing it in New Orleans and figuring everything out.

I formed the [company] on Valentine’s Day [2014], but I didn’t really start making sales until last month. I actually entered one of the chocolate bars I make, the El Platanal bar, into the Good Food Awards last summer based on samples I brought back from my Peru trip. It was right after I put in my first order for cacao from the cooperative in Peru. I entered on a whim, and the bar ended up winning. Things lined up pretty perfectly with that, and I actually started making sales through the Good Food Award marketplace.

It’s been exciting.

What are the different chocolate bars?

M: I buy all of my cacao from a cooperative called Norandino, and it’s across Northern Peru. It’s not just cacao growers, but they also sell coffee, juice, fruit and vanilla. I had them in my mind a little bit when I started making chocolate, so I was able to get in touch with them and visit this past June.

That’s the source of all my beans. The El Plantanal bar and the Norandino bar both are 70 percent dark chocolate bars, so they’re 70 percent cocoa beans by weight and 30 percent sugar. The El Plantanal bar is made with cocoa beans from one particular community … within the cooperative, and the Norandino bar is from six different communities in the Tumbes region of Peru. The bars have different cocoa beans and different growers that are handling them and fermenting them and drying them. The third bar I make is a milk and nibs bar, and it’s 65 percent cocoa and has a little bit of milk in it.

It also has cocoa nibs sprinkled on the back. — SARAH BAIRD

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Morse: My husband and I moved to New Orleans about three years ago because he’s getting his Ph.D. at Tulane [University] in Anthropology. He does a lot of field work, so when we went to Guatemala a while back we were able to talk to chocolatiers in Guatemala and go to Belize and visit some cacao farms. I just got really into it. Just getting to meet the cacao growers was inspiring. Chocolate felt like it combined a lot of things I am really passionate about. I have a background in anthropology — and, of course, am a chocolate lover — so it brings together so many things I’m interested in.

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Louisiana breweries NOLA Brewing and Bayou Teche are celebrating anniversaries.

From 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, March 6, NOLA Brewing (3001 Tchopitoulas St., 504301-0117; www.nolabrewing.com) is having a party to commemorate “Six Years of Beers.” There will be music by The New Orleans Suspects, Gravity A’s Talking Heads tribute and TAUK. The Holy Grill food truck will offer Greek and Mediterranean food.

There will be limited quantities of the brewery’s anniversary beer, a sour ale made with peaches and aged in white wine barrels. The special release highlights NOLA Brewing’s new sour program NOLA Brewing President Kirk Coco in the brewery’s new production and is now being brewed at production space for sour beers. level in a newly constructed separate brewhouse with a 15-barrel fermenter and more than a 100 wine and whiskey barrels to age beer.

“As I look back on the last six years, I am amazed at how we have exceeded my wildest expectations,” NOLA Brewing President Kirk Coco says. “Our customers have been the No. 1 reason for our success. We want to celebrate their importance to NOLA Brewing by throwing one hell of a great party.”

Tickets are $10 in advance and can be purchased at www.sixyearsofbeers. eventbrite.com. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door for $15.

Chefs Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski host Bayou Teche’s (www. bayoutechebrewing.com) fifth birthday party at Cochon Butcher (930 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-588-7675; www.cochonbutcher.com) from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, March 8. The celebration features Bayou Teche’s Coteau Rodaire sauvignon blanc barrel-aged French ale, 5 Year Persimmon Sour, LA 31 Biere Pale, Quantum Hop (a double IPA with seven hops), Acadie and LA 31 Passionne.

Tickets are $40 and include all beers as well as charcuterie platters and small bites prepared by Butcher. There’s zydeco music by brewery employee Louis Michot, a member of the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Soul Creole, and special guests.

“Cochon was the first account we had in New Orleans, so it’s a fitting place to throw a birthday bash,” says Bayou Teche co-founder Karlos Knott.

— NORA McGUNNIGLE Email Nora McGunnigle at nora@nolabeerblog.com

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WINE of the week 2013 Amatra Jono’s Wave Chenin Blanc ELGIN VA L L E Y, S O U TH A FRI C A RETAIL $20

Chenin blanc has been cultivated in France for more than 1,300 years, but South Africa is making waves in the revival of the varietal’s popularity. It’s the leading South African export, topping the nation’s first-rate sauvignon blancs and the other grapes that flourish in the Western Cape’s rugged countryside. Acclaimed winemaker Catherine Marshall crafted this wine in the Elgin Valley sub-zone of the Western Cape region. The valley is 800 to 1,300 feet above sea level and lies seven miles from the Atlantic Ocean. Early morning mists, low clouds and cool temperatures create a long, gradual ripening period for the grapes. Fruit from the 2013 harvest was 60 percent tank fermented and 40 percent barrel fermented.

In the glass, the wine offers intense aromas of honeysuckle and notes of melon and guava. On the palate, taste peach, apple, citrus and mineral notes with excellent acidity. Drink it with fish, shellfish, roasted chicken, pork tenderloin, couscous, mild cheeses and fruit desserts. Buy it at: Pearl Wine Company. Drink it at: Tableau, Borgne, Red Fish Grill, CellarDoor and Loa. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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Louisiana Sisters Cocktail Competition

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11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy, 3128 Constance St., (504) 367-3307

www.creolecreamery.com

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3100 Magazine St., (504) 373-6579

Noon-5 p.m. Saturday Dillard University Student Union, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822

www.ggsneworleans.com

Honey-ancho cole slaw packs equal parts sweet and heat.

www.dillard.edu Dillard University’s Development Office, Ray Charles Program and United Way of Southeast Louisiana host the competition for home cooks, and there are prizes for the best New Orleans, international and vegetarian dishes and dessert. Attendees can sample dishes, and the event also includes non-alcoholic beverages and live music. Proceeds benefit scholarship programs. Regular admission is $35, VIP admission is $75.

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

— Big Freedia, sharing with Salon.com his family recipe for yaka meat stew, or yakamein.

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“My momma made me and my sister and brother Yaka meat as a kid — it’s a standard New Orleans dish. It’s more than just comforting, though. Honey, it cures any hangover or any type of overindulgence you get into down here — and you will overindulge in my city! It’s the perfect dish for your post Mardi Gras blues.”

Mr. B’s Bistro

201 Royal St., (504) 523-2078 www.mrbsbistro.com

A 12-ounce pork chop grilled over wood fire is glazed with honey-ginger barbecue sauce.

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1413 Upperline St., (504) 891-9822 www.upperline.com

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Green Goddess

307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347 Sweet potato biscuits with orange honey butter are a brunch favorite.

Yaka, yaka, yaka

MONDAY-THURSDAY 11AM-9PM FRI.-SAT. 11AM-10PM • SUNDAY BRUNCH 9AM-3PM

Honey lavender ice cream tastes like a delicious spring day.

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4924 Prytania St., (504) 894-8680; 6260 Vicksburg St., (504) 482-2924

www.renewschools.com The competition features more than 15 local cooks vying for best vegetarian, meat and creative chilis and the audience award. NOLA Brewing beer will be available for purchase. Admission is $5 and includes two samples.

Additional samples are $1 each.

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6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Wednesday Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405

www.southernfood.org Local bartenders including SoBou’s Abigail Gullo, El Guapo’s Scot Mattox and Treo’s Tyler Chauvin create cocktails with products from Louisiana Sisters, such as spiced olives and pepper jelly. There’s food from participating restaurants and music by The Breton Sound.

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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 Ale — 8124 Oak St.; (504) 324-6558; www.aleonoak.com — Lamb sliders are served with feta and mint chimichurri. The Mexican Coke-braised brisket sandwich comes with coleslaw and roasted garlic aioli. Reservations accepted for large parties. Late-lunch Fri., dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

PoBoys PoBoys PoBoys 3939 Veterans • 885-3416

(between Cleary Ave & Clearview) Mon-Tues 11-3 • Wed-Thurs 11-7:30 Fri 11-8:30 • Sat 11-8:00 www.parranspoboys.com

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 special-

ty 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. $ 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. $ 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.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.

OUT to EAT Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www. fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations 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. $$$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — The bar offers a large selection of wines by the glass and full restaurant menu. Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations. Lunch Fri.Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Fulton Alley — 600 Fulton St., (504) 2085569; 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. $$

The Tasting Room — 1906 Magazine St., (504) 581-3880; www.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. $$

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

Bistro Orleans — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 304-1469; www.bistroorleansmetairie.com — Popular dishes include oyster and artichoke soup, char-grilled oysters and wild-caught Des Allemands catfish. Blackened redfish is served with jambalaya, coleslaw and garlic bread. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Brennan’s — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — The renewed Brennan’s features innovative takes on Creole dishes from chef Slade Rushing as well as classics such as its signature bananas Foster. Eggs Sardou features poached eggs over crispy artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce. Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ 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. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ MeMe’s Bar & Grille — 712 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 644-4992; www.memesbarandgrille.com — The menu of seafood and steaks includes double-cut pork chops, grilled veal T-bones, eggplant Parmesan and more. The fried seafood plate features catfish, shrimp and oysters, fries and garlic bread. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$$ 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. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

Five Happiness (3511 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-4823935; www.fivehappiness.com) serves dishes from several regional Chinese cuisines.

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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; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with housemade 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. Credit cards. $

GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 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. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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

ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale 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. $$$ PAGE 40

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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.

House-made 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. $$

cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

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Tivoli & Lee (2 Lee Circle, 504-962-0909; www.tivoli.com) serves modern takes on classic Southern dishes.

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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. $$$

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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. 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.mikimotosu-

shi.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. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. No reservations. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www. criollonola.com — The shrimp, blue crab and avocado appetizer features chilled shrimp, crab, guacamole and spicy tomato coulis. Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust, angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam. Reservations recommended.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www. dickandjennys.com — 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

OUT to EAT 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. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Redemption — 3835 Iberville St., (504) 309-3570; www.redemption-nola.com — Bloody mary charbroiled oysters are served with pickled okra and Asiago cheese.

Duck cassoulet includes roasted duck breast, duck confit and Terranova Italian sausage topped with foie gras. Reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Sat., brunch Sun. 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. $$$ 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. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations.

Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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. $$ Casa Tequila — 3229 Williams Blvd., Kenner (504) 443-5423 — The eatery is known for its bean dip and spinach and artichoke quesadillas. The El General combo plate includes a beef burrito, beef chile relleno, chicken enchilada, a chicken taco and guacamole. The menu also includes fajitas, chimichangas and more. Kids eat free on Mondays. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-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. $$ 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. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. 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. $$ 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. $$ 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 mush-

rooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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) 8328032; 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. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — The pizzeria serves thin-crust pies topped with many local ingredients, including Chisesi ham and sausage from Terranova Brothers. Diners can build their own calzones or pies from a list of toppings, or try a special such as the Mid City Meat Monster, loaded with pepperoni, ham, bacon, meat balls and hot sausage. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. 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 po-boys, 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. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. The menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, fried seafood platters, tuna steaks and a few Italian entrees, such as paneed veal. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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 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. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — 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 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.

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VIETNAMESE 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. $ 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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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. $$$

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brought together his Carnival practice as a Carnival designer and his contemporary art practice.”

She also noticed that discussion of contemporary Caribbean artists and their work rarely mentioned Carnival as a cultural or artistic component.

Having grown up in Guadeloupe, she knew that was a big omission.

Another gallery features the work of Hew Locke, whose work was recently featured in Prospect.3 (including The Nameless, a four-wall installation circling viewers with a mythic and Carnivalesque procession). A native of Guyana and resident of London, Locke staged Give and Take as part of Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival, which Tancons curated at London’s Tate Modern in August 2014. Locke’s piece referenced the creation of the Notting Hill Carnival in response to riots in the 1950s. The processional piece featured Carnival maskers carrying police riot shields, each painted with the facade of a Notting Hill townhouse.

It captured the tensions between property owners, authorities and the changing, more diverse populations, including Caribbean immigrants, moving into the neighborhood. The gallery at the CAC will be set up like an armory, with the shields mounted like police gear.

Tancons is particularly interested in processions as performance art. During the opening of Prospect.3, she and New Orleans Airlift created a second-line-inspired event on Press Street that featured a wide array of New Orleans marching groups. New Orleans’ many parading traditions and related art (i.e. Mardi Gras Indian suits) make the city seem like the perfect base for Tancons, but she came to New Orleans to be an assistant curator for Prospect.1 (as well as an assistant curator at the CAC). She contributed an essay on Carnival-inspired art to the Prospect.1 catalog.

In her critical work exploring Carnival and performance art, Tancons is undertaking to reframe debates, especially vis-a-vis Eurocentric perspectives. In the rarified critical discourse on Carnival aesthetics, literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s dominating notion of the carnivalesque has always referenced medieval

and early RenaisIn Marlon Griffith’s POSITIONS + POWER, an sance European Carnival. Trans“Overseer” figure presides over a procession planting Carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad. to the Caribbean in the wake of the EN MAS’: Carnival and Perfortrans-Atlantic slave MAR mance Art of the Caribbean trade changes the context, she says.

Opening reception “What do we 7 p.m. Friday, March 6 JUNE make of the celebration of the Contemporary Arts Center, flesh in the context 900 Camp St. of the slave trade?”

(504) 528-3800 Tancons asks.

EN MAS’ is a www.cacno.org large-scale undertaking and Tancons has brought on many partners as she rolls out its phases. The CAC expo is co-curated by Krista Thompson. Independent Curators International will publish the catalog and support a series of expos in Caribbean cities, including being reformatted for a film festival, before the show returns to the U.S. and Canada. The tour may be extended to venues in Europe.

Tancons is also working on a book on her Carnival-based work and perspectives.

“I am working on a timeline from the 1930s to the present showing how Carnival infused creative fields including theater, Broadway, dance and visual arts,” Tancons says.

Her work is both pioneering a new understanding of Carnival and creating space for performance art outside of gallery and museum spaces.

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arnival has become a personal and professional passion for contemporary art curator Claire Tancons. She spent much of Lundi Gras on a return flight after speaking at a Paris conference on the influence of Carnival on performance art. Hours later, she donned a costume and joined artist friends from New Orleans Airlift marching with the Society of St. Anne and chasing Mardi Gras Indians and baby doll and skeleton maskers in Treme.

Her show EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean opens Friday at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and she says visitors will experience it like a parade with nine floats — with each gallery’s photos, video, music and artifacts offering a view of a performance art event in a Caribbean city (or Caribbean-influenced city) during Carnival.

The show is the second phase of EN MAS’, which is meant to reference the phrase “en masse,” suggesting events with many people, and “mas’,” the Trinidadian shorthand for masquerading at Carnival.

The initial phase was an array of commissioned performance art events in Caribbean cities (Kingston, Jamaica, Nassau, Bahamas, Port of Spain, Trinidad and others), as well as New Orleans and London, mostly during Carnival season in 2014. Each gallery is set up to best evoke the performance. The New Orleans contribution is Cauleen Smith’s music-based work H-E-L-L-O (Infra-Sound/Structure), which featured nine musicians playing bass-clef instruments at the sites of important and buried histories, such as Congo Square and St. Augustine Church. The gallery is sound-proofed for the video recordings.

One of the first galleries features Trinidad-born artist Marlon Griffith’s POSITIONS + POWER, a nighttime event staged at the end of Trinidad’s pre-Lenten Carnival. In the procession, an “Overseer” figure, in a helmet with spotlights like bug-eyes, mounted a rolling tower and marched with revelers. The piece invoked Trinidadian Carnival figures (the overseer and his dog), masking traditions and police surveillance in a way that referenced crowds taking over the streets (as in Carnival and political protest) and the legacy of colonialism.

Griffith is one of the artists whose work first spurred Tancons’ critical interest in Carnival in 2004.

She noticed that he applied techniques used in making Carnival work in his artwork.

“Marlon Griffith was a promising young Port of Spain artist,” Tancons says. “He was doing installation work in a gallery context. He used a vacuum-forming technique to make plastic prints — a fabrication technique used in Carnival work — to make art, but it was suffused with a Carnival aesthetic. But he hadn’t

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MUSIC LISTINGS

Nathan Rivera, 9 House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hazy Ray Trio, 8:30 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Lady Sings the Blues feat. Dana Abbott, 5

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TUESDAY 3 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 7; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8

Preservation Hall-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8

Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30

Seal’s Class Act — Lady T & the Heavy Hitters, 11

Bamboula’s — Vivaz, 4:30; Dana & the Boneshakers, 8

Siberia — Led to the Grave, Budd Dwyer, Six Pack, Short Leash, 9

Banks Street Bar — New Orleans Street Legends Brass Band, 9 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Open Ears Music Series: Prone to Fits, 10 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Kristen Ford, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary, 8

d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9

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

WEDNESDAY 4 21st Amendment — Marla Dixon, 7 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30

Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Kyle Cripps, 5; The Listening Room, 6; Mario Abney & Friends, 8 The Maison — Jazz Vipers, 6; Roamin’ Jasmine, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Solar Strut feat. Steve Malinowski, Joe Gelini, Chris Alford, 10

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Mark Braud, 8 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & Next Generation, 8 Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole Stringbeans, 8 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9

Siberia — Cancerslug, Death Church, SPIT, 9

Hi-Ho Lounge — DRGN King, Little Maker, 9

The Spotlight Bar and Grill — Dr. Rock, 9

Joy Theater — Above & Beyond, 10

Chickie Wah Wah — John Rankin, 12:30

Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8

Circle Bar — Mike True, 6; Jim Keaveny Band, 10

Little Gem Saloon — John Eubanks & Paula, 5; The Messy Cookers, 8

The Civic Theatre — Simon Posford presents The New Shpongletron 3.1, Phutureprimitive, 9

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Helmet’s Betty 20th anniversary show, 9 Preservation Hall — The

Gasa Gasa — CakeWalk feat.

Noruz & the Willie Green Project, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Resonant Rogues, Salt Wives, St. Cinder,

d.b.a. — Otra, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Todd Duke Trio, 9

House of Blues — Andy Grammer, Alex & Sierra, Paradise Fears, Rachel Platten, 5:30

Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 4; Benny D Band, 6:30; John Lisi Band, 10

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10

City Park Botanical Garden — Thursdays at Twilight: James Andrews, 6

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman feat.

Palm Court Jazz Band, 8

Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Hubcap Kings, 11

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — The Bureau, 8; Mike Liuzza, 10

Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; Brief Lives, 10

Old Point Bar — Bob Green & the Green River Band, 7

The Sandbar at UNO — Shannon Powell, 7

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Leah Rucker, 9

Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6

Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30

Southport Hall — Corey Smith, 7

Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30

Checkpoint Charlie — The Wasted Lives, 7; Texas Pete, 11

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Ryan Floyd, 7

Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 7:30

d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10

Cafe Negril — Soul Project, 10

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7

Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8

The Maison — Gregory Agid Quartet, 6; New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 9

FRIDAY 6

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Renshaw & Davies, 9

Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10

Gasa Gasa — Jelly Bread, 9

Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Bayou Saints, 7; Pretty Party, Dam Sun, 10

Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Combichrist, 10

grass, Rayland Baxter, 8:30

Spotted Cat — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 The Willow — Trevarri, 10

THURSDAY 5 21st Amendment — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 8 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Hot & Spicy, 2; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 6:30; Michael Vincent Band, 10

Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11

Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis & Palm Court Jazz Band feat. Christian Winther, 8

Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 2; Carl Le Blanc Blues, 5:30; Mem Shannon Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Deadly Fists of Kung, 11Blade, 10 Blue Nile — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11

Old Point Bar — Valerie Sassyfras, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola feat.

Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Louis Ford, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Mississippi Hyperfly, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers, 8:30 Siberia — La Luz, The Shivas, Native America, 9 Snug Harbor — Shannon Powell Quartet, 8 & 10

The BEATnik — Honeyboy Carencro & the Hawt Ya Ya’s, 8

Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9

Blue Nile — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11

Spotted Cat — Up Up We Go, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — Greensky Blue-

Rock ’n’ Bowl — No Idea, 9:30

Siberia — The Salt Wives, 6; Banditos, Deslondes, 10

Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Center of Performing Arts — Pfister Sisters, 8 Checkpoint Charlie — Randy East & T-Bone Stone, 4; Woodenhead, 7; Tony Rayney, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6 Circle Bar — Helen Gillet album release show, 10

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Up Up We Go, 7; Asheson, 10

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 6; PresHall Brass feat.

Daniel Farrow, 8

Buffa’s Lounge — Jenna Guidry, 5; Camile Baudoin & David Doucet, 8; Daniel Schroeder Trio, 11

Marigny Brasserie — Jamey St. Pierre & Dave Freeson, 7

Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Ogden After Hours: Colin Lake, 6

Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Trio, 8

Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, Crazy McGee, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Panorama Jazz Band, 10

Oak — Miles Cabecerious, 8

One Eyed Jacks — DJ Soul Sister, 9

Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8

Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat.

Johnny Vidacovich, 10

Banks Street Bar — New Orleans American Legends, 9

Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8

Old U.S. Mint — Bill Davies, 2

d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; John Papa Gros Band feat. Brian Stolz, Eric Vogel, Russ Broussard, 10

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Pat Flory, 8; Mark Fernandez, 9; Aaron & Zac Maras, 10

Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Johnny Angel & Helldorado, 9:30

21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30

The Maison — Jon Roniger, 5; Sweet Substitute Jazz Band, 7; Zena Moses & Rue Fiya, 10

Masquerade — Real Love, 6

the Bone, 7

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 3 Gasa Gasa — The Kid Carsons album release show, 10 Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7 Hangar 13 — Pulse Friday: Rroid Drazr, Kidd Love, 1:30 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Transplanted Roots, 7 House of Blues — Gogol Bordello, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Laurie Lehner, Ani Carlson, Sturmlandia, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8; Justin Murphy, 9 LACE the Grand Ballroom — Gina Brown & Anutha Level, 6

Snug Harbor — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Cerebral Drama, 9 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & the Beautiful Band, 9:30 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5:30; Glen David Andrews, 9 Tipitina’s — Bayside, Senses Fail, Man Overboard, Seaway, 8 Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8 Twist of Lime — Dread, Big Pig, Aurorean, Wreckage Revival, 9 Ugly Dog Saloon — Rick Tobey, 7 Union Station Pub & Grill — The Little Things, 6

SATURDAY 7 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Abby Diamond, 2; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Dummy Dumpster album release show feat. The Bills, 10 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Big Sam’s Funky Nation feat. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, 11 Bourbon O Bar — Johnny Angel & the Swingin’ Demons, 8

Le Bon Temps Roule — Davis Rogan, 7

Buffa’s Lounge — Lynn Drury, 5; The Royal Rounders, 8; James Keene & the Jazz Invaders, 11

Little Gem Saloon — Jon Roniger, 5; Nayo Jones, 8

Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7

The Maison — Leah Rucker, 4; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 7; Jesse Smith Project, Street Legends Brass Band, 10

Checkpoint Charlie — Good Children, 4; Leisa K & Rule 52, 7; The Daily Times, 11

Maple Leaf Bar — Groovesect, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Bad Oyster Band, 7; Agent 86, 8; The Necessary Gentlemen, 9 Oak — Andrew Duhon, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on

Circle Bar — The Fifth Men, Biscuithound, Ruby & the Rogues, 10 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

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Circle Bar — Laura Dyer Jazz Trio, 6; Mope Grooves, The Life and Times, 10

Snug Harbor — Barry Cuda & the Sharks, 8 & 10

The Jefferson Orleans North — Jay Zainey Orchestra, 6:30

Buffa’s Lounge — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8

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PREVIEW

Helen Gillet album-release party

Helen Gillet has blank powers. Fill it in as you will: special (try and find another musician anywhere with her range and ability); secret (there’s no telling what she’ll do in the next second, let alone on her next release, this week’s Bangkok Silver); super (she’s yet to prove she can see through walls or leap tall buildings in a single bound, but we shouldn’t rule it out). I didn’t know I liked improvisational music until I saw Gillet do it. (Granted, having Michael Ray, Terrence McManus and Tim Green onstage with her didn’t hurt.) She’s mastered Helen Gillet MAR French big band (Wazozo) and 10 p.m. Friday solo chansons, spaz duos (with James Singleton) and jazz trios Circle Bar, 1032 St. Charles Ave. (2011’s Running of the Bells); she (504) 588-2616 can be on-point or off-rails. She www.circlebarneworleans.com speaks Boris Vian and Velvet Underground. Her most apt and oft-used descriptor — cellist — falls well short. She’s a conduit, a weathervane, a lightning rod; the kite, the key and the storm. Tickets $10. — Noah Bonaparte Pais

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Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — The PresHall Brass Band, 6:30

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

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10

The Maison — Swamp Donkeys, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10; Dysfunktional Bone, midnight

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 7 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Amanda Ducorbier Trio, 9 Gasa Gasa — Uptown Sounds feat. Naughty Professor, Stoop Kids, Abby Diamond, Yugen, Quintessential Octopus, 8 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 — Avery Sunshine, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — The Green, Through the Roots, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Live for Live Music feat. Nicholas Payton, Johnny Vidacovich, Andrew Block, Eric Vogel, Adryon de Leon, Cakewalk, Sexual Thunder, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Mississippi Shakedown, Fides, 10 Kerry Irish Pub — Speed the Mule, 5; Lonestar Stout, Hugh Morrison, Jed Marum, 9

Anderson, 1 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Big Lebowski Anniversary Party feat. Eric Lindell, 9:30 Siberia — Leyla McCalla & Sarah Quintana, 6; Megafauna, The Noise Complaints, 35 PSI, 9

Maple Leaf Bar — CommonSenseNOLA fundraiser feat.

Billy Iuso & Friends, Laith Al-Saadi, Junko Beat, John Sinclair, 8

Snug Harbor — Germaine Bazzle & the Larry Sieberth Quartet, 8 & 10

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Igor, 7; Patsy Grace, 9; Roger Ferrara & Maggie Havens, 10

Three Muses — Debbie Davis, 6; The Roamin’ Jasmine, 9

Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Deltaphonic, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Tank & the Bangas, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & Chuck Badie feat.

Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Pearl Wine Co. — Scott Sanders Quartet feat. Olivier Bou, 8 Preservation Hall — Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Frank Oxley, 6; Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Freddie Lonzo, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 6 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine

Spotted Cat — Panorama Jazz Band, 6

Tulane University — Mahalia’s New Orleans: Irma Thomas feat. Diane Peterson, Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Cynthia Girtley (Mahalia Jackson tribute), 7:30 Twist of Lime — Mrz Crowley (Black Sabbath tribute), 9 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Anais St. John, 6 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8

SUNDAY 8 21st Amendment — Tom McDermott, 4 Bacchanal — The Roamin’ Jasmine, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 2:30; Raddy Tattat & the Cats, 7

MUSIC LISTINGS Banks Street Bar — Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Jazz Youth Showcase feat. Nick Ellman, 3; The Telegraph Salesmen, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Mobros, Feverish, Fishplate, 10 City Park Botanical Garden — Garden Party feat. Glen David Andrews, Swamp Donkeys, 4 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; The Mumbles, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Russell Welch, 7; Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Hangar 13 — Bass Massive Mob, 10

8 & 10

Friends, 8

Spotted Cat — Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS

Three Muses — Raphael & Pascale, 5; Davy Mooney, 8

MONDAY 9 Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Justin Donovan, 4:30; NOLA Swinging Gypsies, 7 Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 9 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 BMC — Mark Appleford, 5 Buffa’s Lounge — Antoine Diel, 8 Checkpoint Charlie — Wendy Darling, 7

Hi-Ho Lounge — Voltaire, 10

Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, 8

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10

Circle Bar — Druids, 10

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Germaine Bazzle & Peter Harris Trio, 8

Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

The Jefferson Orleans North — The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 6:30

d.b.a. — Luke Winslow King, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10

Kerry Irish Pub — Justin Murphy, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9

Little Gem Saloon — New Orleans Swingin’ Gypsies, 10 a.m.

Gasa Gasa — Faux Sheaux feat.

Paul Thibodeaux, Martin Masakowski, Stephanie Nilles, 9

The Maison — Nickel-A-Dance feat. Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 4; Bon Bon Vivant, 7; Corporate America, 10

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Block party feat. Big Jim & the Whiskey Benders, noon; Christian Serpas & GhostTown, 5; 12-Mile Limit, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Dina Martina, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Sunday Night Swingsters feat. Charlie Fardella, 8 Preservation Hall — Tommy Sancton’s New Orleans Legacy Band, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 2 Rock ‘N’ Bowl — South Reunion, 4 Saenger Theatre — TobyMac, Mandisa, Capital Kings Smoothie King Center — Journey, Steve Miller Band, Tower of Power, 6:45 Snug Harbor — Tony Dagradi & New Orleans Sax Ensemble,

Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Hill Country Hounds, 10 Irish House — Traditional Irish music session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Paul Tobin, 8 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Musical Expression, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 9 Marigny Brasserie — Harmonouche, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Uke Joint, 7; Sam Cordts, 8; Total K, 10 Old Point Bar — The Romy Kaye Jazz Trio, 7 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street AllStars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — John Sinclair, Carlo Ditta, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii &

Family Concert: Movie Magic!

Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage. loyno.edu — The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra performs music from favorite family films like Star Wars and Frozen. Tickets $10, children 12 and under free. 2:30 p.m.

Sunday.

Musical Meditation. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — Violinist and violist Amelia Clingman performs selections from Bach’s Sonatas and Partitias for Solo Violin and Six Suites for Violoncello. By donation. 5 p.m. Sunday.

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. The Celtic harpist and composer specializes in sacred, classical and meditative music. Free. Noon Friday at Ochsner Medical Center, 1514 Jefferson Hwy. and 2 p.m. Sunday at East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. Singers of United Lands.

Academy of the Sacred Heart, 4521 St. Charles Ave., (504) 269-1213; www.ashrosary.org — The international vocal group is joined by the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans and choruses from Delgado College, Academy of the Sacred Heart, Isidore Newman School, Lusher Charter School and Ursuline Academy. Tickets $20, students $10. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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 or (985) 8980951 or visit www.crescentcitysound.com.

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

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And the Winner Is... Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — Jacomo Bairos conducts the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in “an evening of award-winning movie music” from films like West Side Story, E.T. and Lord of the Rings. Tickets start at $20. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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FILM FESTIVALS New Orleans International Children’s Film Festival. New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 596-2602; www.nutrias.org; www.neworleansfilmsociety.org — The New Orleans Film Society and the New Orleans Public Library host a youth-oriented film festival including workshops, 50 short films and three full-length features: The Lego Movie, Pim and Pom and Will to Change.

Friday-Saturday.

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WIFT International Short Film Showcase. Indywood Movie Theater, 628 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 345-8804; www.indywood. org — Women in Film and Television International screens 10 short films by women directors from Louisiana and around the world, including a documentary about New Orleans’ Eden House. 6 p.m. Sunday.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND Bluebird (NR) — A school bus driver (Amy Morton) fails to notice a boy sleeping at the back of her bus, setting off a chain of fraught social interactions in her small Maine town. Zeitgeist Chappie (R) — A mechanized police robot named Chappie gains the ability to think and feel, creating a new kind of threat to the dystopian social order in this sci-fi drama. Chalmette, Slidell, Kenner, Canal Place Eastern Boys (NR) — An older man unknowingly falls into a trap when he attempts to solicit the attention of a young Eastern European man in this French drama. Zeitgeist The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (NR) — The sequel about British retirees in India sees characters pursue romance and part-time jobs, while retirement home owner Sonny (Dev Patel) plans a business expansion and a marriage.

Elmwood, West Bank, Prytania Timbuktu (PG-13) — In Abderrahmane Sissako’s acclaimed drama, the Islamic militant group Ansar Dine occupies the

city of Timbuktu and imposes repression on its residents.

Indywood Unfinished Business (R) — Three American businessmen (Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) go to Europe to close a deal, but get sidetracked at an economic summit and a fetish conference.

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

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, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place 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, West Bank Birdman (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.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Black or White (PG-13) — A widower (Kevin Costner) raises his biracial granddaughter and argues with her paternal grandmother (Octavia Spencer) over whether the girl should live in an African-American household.

Elmwood, West Bank The DUFF (PG-13) — When Bianca (Mae Whitman) learns that her supposed friends call her the “Designated Ugly Fat Friend,” she sets out to revamp the high school social order. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Fifty Shades of Grey (R) — A literature student (Dakota Johnson) and a controlling

businessman (Jamie Dornan) ignite a daring affair in the film based on E.L. James’ erotic romance novel. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place Focus (R) — Con artist Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) breaks off romantic involvement with his protege Jess Barrett (Margo Robbie), only to rediscover her on the opposite side of a scam.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Great White Shark 3D (NR) — The documentary explores shark encounters. Entergy IMAX Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) — Buddies Nick (Craig Robinson) and Jacob (Clark Duke) use their time-traveling hot tub to find who murdered their friend Lou (Rob Corddry).

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Humpback Whales 3D (NR) — Scientists follow humpback whales as they migrate across the globe. Entergy IMAX 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, Regal Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) — Morgan Freeman narrates a film about lemurs in Madagascar. Entergy IMAX Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) — Ordinary cleaning woman Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) discovers her true identity as an alien princess when a space warrior (Channing Tatum) arrives on Earth to find her. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom (NR) — Two young Maasai warriors go on a ritual safari through Kenya. Entergy IMAX Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) — Debonair super-spy Harry Hart (Colin Firth) recruits a wayward young man (Taron Egerton) to the service just in time to stop a diabolical tech mogul (Samuel L. Jackson).

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place A la mala (PG-13) — Aspiring actress Maria Laura (Aislinn Derbez) finds a new career testing the fidelity of other women’s boyfriends in this Mexican romantic comedy. Elmwood, Slidell, West Bank The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) — Researchers Frank (Mark Duplass) and Zoe (Olivia Wilde) discover a serum to revive the dead, but when they use it on Zoe, they realize that evil powers accompany reanimation. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

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Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner

OPENS Six of the eight films made by British MAR Directed by Mike Leigh director Mike Leigh in the last 20 years Starring Timothy Spall have earned Oscar nominations, but it’s hard to name a filmmaker less conLimited release cerned with the commercial pressures of Hollywood. From his breakthrough early films Life Is Sweet and Naked to recent successes like Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake, Leigh has crafted stark, realistic stories about working-class people told with humor, insight and compassion. His methods typically involve months of improvisation and discussion with his actors to develop characters, story and a shooting script, which Leigh then refines into a finished screenplay. All of which typically has little to do with the way anyone makes a historical biopic like Mr. Turner, Leigh’s intimate portrait of Britain’s greatest painter, the 19th-century visionary Joseph Mallord William Turner.

Leigh has navigated similar waters before with 1999’s Topsy Turvy, a musical drama about Gilbert and Sullivan, the Victorian-era composers of comic operas.

But the largely internal journey of a painter is a far cry from musical theater as the subject of a film. Leigh supplements his usual methods for Mr. Turner — a great deal of historical research provides the foundation for the film’s vivid imagining of Turner’s last quarter century (he was 76 when he died) — but the results are grounded in the mundane realities of everyday life, just as in Leigh’s many tales of modern-day London.

With its slow-and-steady pace and reliance on nuances of character and interpersonal relationships, the 149-minute Mr. Turner is not for everyone. But those who can give themselves over to it will be rewarded with a uniquely immersive period piece that manages to evoke the beauty and mystery of Turner’s paintings.

Mr. Turner is a study in contrasts and contradictions. It roughly covers the years from 1825 to 1850, in which the artist used his extraordinary gifts to capture the pristine grandeur and chaotic violence of the natural world as the industrial age approached. (You don’t need a degree in art theory to appreciate Turner’s work, which also anticipates the even more widely celebrated impressionists who came soon after.) Leigh’s Turner is an impassioned humanist who ignores his family and exploits the affections of his devoted housekeeper, an enfant terrible who provokes the arts establishment while supporting less talented peers. A world traveler most comfortable in his home studio, Turner has himself tied to a ship’s mast in a blinding snowstorm so he later can commit the scene to canvas.

Appearing in his sixth Leigh film, British actor Timothy Spall radiates a deep humanity as the gruff Turner, a man who communicates mostly through a variety of oddly expressive grunts. The entire cast brings a lived-in quality to their roles that can only result from the painstaking preparation and lengthy rehearsal times central to Leigh’s techniques.

Perennial champions of shooting with film, Leigh and longtime collaborator and cinematographer Dick Pope embrace digital moviemaking for the first time with Mr. Turner. Early on, the film serves up the bucolic scenes and pretty landscapes in which Turner surely found initial inspiration for his work. But it’s all a setup for images created for the film’s later stages to reflect the spirit of Turner’s visual art.

Leigh and Pope use computer-generated imagery to add painterly effects to their widescreen landscapes with astonishing results. Mr. Turner doesn’t look like any other film I remember — just as Turner stood apart from the artists of his time.

— KEN KORMAN

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FILM LISTINGS McFarland, USA (PG) — A new coach (Kevin Costner) at a predominantly Latino high school leads the exceptional cross-country team to the championship in a film based on a true story. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place 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. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal Project Almanac (PG13) — A group of teens discover blueprints for a time machine, but soon realize their newfound power has unintended consequences.

Elmwood Seventh Son (PG-13) — Apprenticed to a magical warrior (Jeff Bridges), the seventh son of a seventh son (Ben Barnes) learns to battle the dark magic of Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore) in a fantasy tale based on a book by Joseph Delaney.

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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) — SpongeBob Squarepants (Tom Kenny) and friends battle a pirate named Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas) over a stolen recipe for Krabby Patties. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

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Still Alice (PG-13) — Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, linguistics professor Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) must cope with the loss of her sense of self and her connection to her family.

Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Canal Place The Theory of Everything (PG-13) — 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 Two Days, One Night (PG-13) — Upon discovering that her colleagues accepted a bonus for her own dismissal, Sandra (Marion Cotillard) has just two days to convince them otherwise. Elmwood 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.

Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell 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

SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Babadook (NR) — A children’s book monster terrorizes a young boy (Noah Wiseman) and his mother (Essie Davis) in this Australian psychological horror.

9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Indywood.

Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (NR) — Dancers Alexander Volchkov and Anna Nikulina star in the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Sergei Prokofiev’s Shakespearean ballet. 12:55 p.m. Sunday.

Elmwood, Regal Cantiflas (PG) — Oscar Jaenada stars as Cantiflas in this Mexican biopic about the famed comic actor from the golden age of Mexican cinema. In Spanish with English subtitles. 5:30 p.m. Friday.

Easton Park Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (NR) — Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives star in the 1958 film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play about a Southern family tormented by self-deception. Noon Sunday. Prytania Citizen Kane (PG) — Indywood screens Orson Welles’ groundbreaking 1941 film about fictional newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. 6:30 p.m. Monday.

Indywood Dear White People (R) — Four black students at a fictional Ivy League school confront race and identity in director Justin Simien’s critically acclaimed satire. 7 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday. Indywood The Drop Box presented by Focus on the Family (NR) — South Korea pastor Lee Jong-Rak is profiled in this documentary produced by the Christian organization. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal Girlhood (NR)— In the tough Paris suburbs, 16-year-old Marieme (Karidja Toure) explores identities and joins a girl gang in Celine Sciamma’s coming-of-age drama.

5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Zeitgeist Islenos Trappers’ War (NR) — Local filmmaker David DuBos premieres his documentary about the 1920s land dispute in St. Bernard Parish. It also screens at the Los Islenos Festival. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Nunez Community College J’ai pas sommeil (I Can’t Sleep) (NR) — A string of murders in 1980s Paris forms the backdrop for Claire Denis’ 1994 drama about the French immigrant experience. 7 p.m. Friday. Alliance Francaise Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (PG-13) — The documentary looks at the career of the legendary filmmaker and director of Citizen Kane and includes rare clips of unfinished work. 7 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 p.m. Sunday-Monday.

Indywood

Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (NR) — Filmmaker Michele Josue revisits the life of his friend Matt Shepard, a gay college student who was tortured and killed in 1998.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Zeitgeist Suddenly, Last Summer (NR) — Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor star in the 1959 film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play about a wealthy family concealing the dark secret of a young man’s death. Noon Wednesday. Prytania The Princess Bride (PG) — A farmhand rescues his true love from the evil prince with the help of a motley crew in the 1987 cult favorite. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Kenner, Slidell Young Bodies Heal Quickly (NR) — After they kill a young woman, a pair of brothers make a desperate, ill-planned escape to the isolated home of their estranged father.

9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Zeitgeist Alliance Francaise: 1519 Jackson Ave., (504) 568-0770; www.af-neworleans.org 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 Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www. chalmettemovies.com Easton Park: 600 N. Lopez St.; www. nola.gov/nordc 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 Nunez Community College Auditorium: 3710 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 278-6467; www.nunez. edu 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 Family Day. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The family-friendly event is themed after a Cajun fais do-do and features art activities, music and food. Free with regular museum admission. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Julia Street art walk. New Orleans Arts District, Julia and Camp streets and St. Charles Avenue — Galleries in the Warehouse District host free openings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. the first Saturday of the month.

Keith Sonnier. Loyola University, Miller Hall, Room 114, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — The Postminimalist artist discusses his career at a free lecture.

6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www. noafa.com — Landscape and portrait paintings by Louis Morales and Susan Hortard, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — “Gridlock: The Conflict Continues,” paintings by Kim Howes Zabbia; jewelry by Chester Allen; sculpture by Hernan Caro; paintings by Scott Pearson, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Carol Robinson Gallery.

840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Artists of Faith,” religious-inspired art by Warren Prindle, David Goodman and Michael Yankowski, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “New Paintings of New Orleans and Ocean Springs,” plein air oil paintings by Phil Sandusky, opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

The Foundation Gallery.

1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola. com — “Haiku with Abandoned Ghosts: New Work by Demond Matsuo,” opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Guthrie Contemporary. 3815 Magazine St., (504) 897-2688; www.guthriecontemporary. com — “Look and Leave,” photography by Jane Fulton Alt; “Space Between,” photography by Jennifer Shaw, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg. com — “Storyville,” group exhibition of paintings about New Orleans, opens Tuesday; official opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

John Bukaty Studio and Gallery. 841 Carondelet St., (970) 232-6100; www. johnbukaty.com — “NOLA Pot Holes: Impressions of Street Art,” sculpture by John Bukaty, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — “Palimpsest,” collages and drawing by Michael Pajon, artist reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “From Our Shallow Waters: Still Lives From the Coast of New Orleans,” paintings by Billy Solitario, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “On Your

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — “Springtime in NOLA,” glass sculpture by Gerald Haessig and woodcut prints

by Jessica Normington, opening reception 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “Jim Roche: Cultural Mechanic,” drawings, sculpture and installation by Jim Roche; “Tina Freeman: Artist Spaces,” photographs of local artists’ workspaces, opening reception Saturday.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www. facebook.com/nolaartsalon — “After the Dust Settles,” new work by Peter Barnitz, opens Saturday.

Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www. carrollgallery.tulane.edu — “Thank You,” MFA thesis exhibition by Jeffrey Stenbom, opens Wednesday; opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “34 K FT, photographs from 34,000 feet,” photography

by Jose Antonio Zabalgoitia, through March 15.

Arthur Roger Gallery.

432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “Random Precision in the Metric of Time,” prints and sculpture by Erwin Redl, through March 14.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery. com — “Between Hope and Despair,” sculpture and drawings by Gary Oaks; “Life Size,” paintings by Rob Owen; “Peruvian Metaphysicals,” work by J. Castilla-Bambaren; through Saturday.

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

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.

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Contemporary Arts Center.

900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “En Mas: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean,” traveling exhibition of art influenced by masquerading traditions; “Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works,” installations and sculpture by the artist, opening reception 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Mark,” paintings of Longue Vue’s Discovery Garden; live painting reception 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Substructures,” paintings

by James Kennedy, through March 28.

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.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “A Wilderness,” paintings and sculpture by M. Silver Smith, through April 4.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — Abstract paintings

by Corey Drieth; botanical-inspired art by Jonathan Taube & Tada Kono; furniture prototypes by Mike Garman, through Sunday.

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

by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

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Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “The Horizon Tries,” video exhibition by Lala Rascic, Fokus Grupa and Lana Cmajcanin, through Sunday.

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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.

Loyola University, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery.

Monroe Library, fourth floor, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5456 — “Mementos,” mixed media by Mary Jane Parker; “Stop Thinking So Much,” drawings by Christopher Deris, through March 17.

M. Francis Gallery.

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

Martine Chaisson Gallery.

727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery. com — “Reconciled Beauty,” work by Yury Darashkevich, through March 28.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave. — Work by Ray Cole, Randy Sanders, Corbin Swain and House of Frankenstein, through March 14.

New Orleans Photo Alliance.

1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Que Bola Asere, Celebrating Cuba,” group photography exhibition, through Sunday.

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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.

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

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.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www. scottedwardsgallery.com — “Juju,” photographs by Sandra Russell Clark, through April 12; “Cemetery Walker,” ambrotypes of cemeteries by Euphus Ruth, through June 14.

St. Tammany Art Association.

320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyartassociation.org — “The Antiquarian Image: An Exhibition of 19th Century Photographic Processes,” group exhibition, through April 4.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Indecent Intentions Leave Me Vulnerable and Voiceless,” new work by Katrina Andry, through Sunday.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Straight From the Soul, Part II,” mixed media by Kevin Cole, through March.

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.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery.

2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2806493; www.finearts.uno.edu — “Framed,” MFA thesis paintings

by Nora See; “Isthmus=Anchovy,” MFA thesis installation

by Bradford Willingham, through Sunday.

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.

Ancora Pizzeria & Salumeria.

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

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

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

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.

Niki Walker Salon. 625 Baronne St., (504) 522-5677; www. nikiwalkersalon.com — “Maskers & Dollfaces,” paintings by Kevin Thayer, through April 4.

Slidell Little Theatre. 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 6410324; www.slidelllittletheatre. org — “Muse: Works following the impulse of inspiration,” work by Michael Aldana, Jamie Alonzo, Jessie Hornbrook and Benjamin Netterville, through March 15.

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, ongoing.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 8275858; www.zeitgeistnola.org — “Loss,” photographs by Souzan Alavi, through March 29.

MUSEUMS Ashe Cultural Arts Center.

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — “Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” commemorative art exhibition honoring Martin Luther King Jr., through Saturday.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — “Queens Rule!” portraits, attire and art inspired by Mardi Gras Indian queens, through March 14.

ART LISTINGS REVIEW 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.

Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 400 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org/nelson-galleries — “Recent Acquisitions in Louisiana Art, 2010-2014,” local paintings and decorative arts from the 1790s to the 2000s, through May 2.

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 Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “Unsung Heroes: The Secret History of Louisiana Rock’n’Roll,” music artifacts curated in partnership with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, through May; “From ‘Dirty Shirts’ to Buccaneers,” art, artifacts and documents from the Battle of New Orleans, through Jan. 8, 2016; “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and panel display exploring Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Emmet Gowin: Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself,” photographs by Gowin and excerpts from the book about Stieglitz; “Photo-Unrealism,” group exhibition of abstract and surreal photography; both through March 15; “Robert Rauschenberg and the ‘Five from Louisiana,’” Rauschenberg’s Melic Meeting (Spread) and work by contemparies, through March 29; “Salutations,” collodion tintypes by Josephine Sacabo, through April 5; “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through April; “Kongo Across the Waters,” art from west central African and African American cultures, through May 25.

Newcomb Art Gallery.

Woldenberg Art Center, (504)

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MAR New mixed-media work Is there “a secret harmony between the earth and

by Lala Rascic, Fokus Grupa humanity” that we ignore at our peril? The 19th-cenand Lana Cmajcanin tury French geographer, anarchist and animal rights activist Elisee Reclus thought so, and during his Good Children Gallery, two-year sojourn in Louisiana, starting in 1853, he 4037 St. Claude Ave. was shocked by the rampant way our wilderness (504) 616-7427 areas were plundered for their resources. He believed, “Whatever we do to nature, we inevitawww.goodchildrengallery.com bly do to ourselves,” a pronouncement revealed as prophecy by the way our industry-ravaged wetlands are losing their capacity to protect us from hurricanes. Although his presence here is most obvious in a reliquary exhibit (detail, pictured) including books, publications and even a bottle of wine from his family vineyard, his views often underlie works

by Bosnian and Croatian artists in this show organized by Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Zagreb, Croatia, and New Orleans-based artist/curator Lala Rascic.

Into the Dusk Charged Air, Rascic’s reverse painting on glass, depicts all of the rivers cited by John Ashbery in his poem of the same name as a meandering maze of lines — a tangle of tides appearing as a kind of geographical Gordian knot. Rivers often are used as markers of borders in regions throbbing with the competing claims of rival national cultures, and here Croatian artist Lana Cmajcanin’s Geometry of Time depicts a vintage map of Europe with every change of national boundaries recorded in a vortex of overlapping lines that collectively all but obscure the Balkan region. The old European conundrum of nature and nationalism is explored by the Croatian collective Fokus Grupa, whose video ironically intimates how even serene national park scenes can conceal underlying tensions. This returns us to the realm of Reclus, and on March 7 at 6 p.m., his translator, John Clark, presents a lecture, “Elisee Reclus & the Apocalyptic Social Geography of New Orleans,” followed on March 8 at 4 p.m. by an artist talk, “Abstraction and Landscape,” featuring Jessica Bizer and Brian Guidry. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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314-2406; www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu — “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” works on paper by Degas and his circle, through May 17.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “South,” photography

by Mark Steinmetz, through May 10; “Tennessee Williams: The Playwright and Painter,” paintings by the writer, through May. Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www. louisianastatemuseum.org/ museums/the-old-us-mint —

“Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, through Jan. 1, 2016; “Time Takes a Toll,” conserved instruments featuring Fats Domino’s piano, through December 2016.

www.southernfood.org — “Antoine’s Restaurant: Celebrating 175 Years,” through June.

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.

Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography. The New Orleans Photo Alliance awards a $5,000 grant to a Gulf Coast documentary photographer. Visit www.neworleansphotoalliance.org to apply. Deadline March 30.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405;

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Southern Rep Theatre.

Southern Rep Theatre, 6221

S. Claiborne Ave.; www. southernrep.com — The theater company invites visual artists to create a “musical altar” for the scenic design of its upcoming production BOUDIN. Blank altars are available from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through March 26. Deadline April 2.

Email mmoore@southernrep.com for details.

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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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.

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THEATER Always… Patsy Cline. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The Victory Belles perform a musical play inspired by the country singer. Dinner and show $65; show only $30; brunch $60. 6 p.m. FridaySaturday, 11 a.m. Sunday.

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America’s Wartime Sweethearts: A Tribute to the Andrews Sisters. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The Victory Belles perform as 1940s harmony singers LaVerne, Patty and Maxine Andrews.

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The Best of Enemies.

Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, (504) 616-6066; www.dcc.edu — A civil rights activist and a KKK leader engage in heated debate and reach unexpected understanding in Mark St. Germain’s theatrical adaptation of a true story. Michael Aaron Santos directs Delgado’s production. Tickets $10; Delgado students and staff $8. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

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Doubt: A Parable. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www. slidelllittletheatre.org — The community theater performs John Patrick Shanley’s play about a nun who suspects a priest of sexual misconduct. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.thegoodnightshow. us — This month’s edition of the live talk show features filmmaker Alex Glustrom, education advocates Qasim Davis and Jamia Brown and music by The Honorable South. Tickets $10. 8 p.m.

Loot. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc. com — Anysia M. Genre directs Joe Orton’s farce about two young thieves who attempt to evade police while hiding money in a coffin. Tickets $15, students $10.

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Love Letters. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — Nell Nolan and Dennis Woltering star as a pair of friends who share a lifetime of personal letters in A.R. Gurney’s play. Tickets $20. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Measure for Measure.

Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www. anthonybeantheater.com — Fredrick Mead directs the community theater production of Shakespeare’s play about virtue, sin, mercy and humility. Tickets $20; students and seniors $18.

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce. University of New Orleans, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6381; www.uno.edu — A bank teller named Tilly has a series of surreal, emotional encounters and discovers why humans are like almonds in a play by Sarah Ruhl. J. Hammons directs the UNO production. Tickets $12; UNO students and faculty $8.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Sex Please, We’re Sixty.

Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — Respectable guests at Mrs. Stancliffe’s bed and breakfast get frisky after a mischievous neighbor obtains Venusia, a little blue pill for older women. Tickets $30 adults, $27 seniors and military, $20 students, $15 children. 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

She Kills Monsters. 30 by 90 Theatre, 880 Lafayette St.,

Mandeville, (844) 843-3090 — Young teacher Agnes Evens (Calla Harper) reconnects to the memory of her late sister through Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying in a play

by Qui Nguyen. Tickets $18, students $13. 8 p.m. and midnight Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Suddenly Last Summer. Ashe Power House, 1731 Baronne St., (504) 522-6545; www. southernrep.com — Aimee Hayes directs Southern Rep’s production of the Tennessee Williams play about a wealthy family’s attempt to conceal the truth of a young man’s death.

Tickets $40; senior, student and teacher discounts available by phone. 8 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, 3 p.m. 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.

Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2331; www.sonesta.com/royalneworleans — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly 1960s-style burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

Chez Shea Cabaret. MidCity Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www. midcitytheatre.com — Actress and singer Janet Shea traces her biography through stories, poems and classic Broadway songs. Jefferson Turner provides piano accompaniment.

Tickets $20. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

Creole Sweet Tease Burlesque Show. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 522-5400; www.thesainthotelneworleans.com — Trixie Minx leads a burlesque performance featuring music by Jayna Morgan and the Creole Syncopators Jazz Band. 9 p.m. Friday.

Look What I Can Do Variety Show. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Kitty Kaos, Dr. Sick, Ooops the Clown and performing dog Mr. Cheeze star in a circus arts, burlesque and vaudeville show.

No cover. 10 p.m. Thursday.

Strip Roulette. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Bella Blue hosts two teams of burlesque performers for an improvised striptease competition. Tickets $15. 10 p.m. Saturday.

Sunday School. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St., (504) 648-7998; www.facebook.com/beatnikbookingnola — The burlesque

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Tickets $5. 9 p.m. Sunday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (downstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9405546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts.

6:30 p.m. Saturday.

Up, Up and Away: The Songs of Jimmy Webb. MidCity Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www. midcitytheatre.com — Heidi Melancon, Hector Ventura, Larry Beron, Terry Rappold and Phil Melancon perform favorite songs by longtime pop songwriter Jimmy Webb. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

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OPERA Opera on Tap. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., (504) 525-5515; www.therustynail. biz — Young local and regional singers perform opera and Broadway songs.

6 p.m. Wednesday.

COMEDY 1919. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Derek Dupuy, Chris Trew, CJ Hunt, Tami Nelson, Mike Spara, Chris Kaminstein, Mike Yoder, Cecile Monteyne, Jared Gore, Ian Hoch and James Hamilton perform improv comedy. Tickets $5.

8 p.m. Sunday.

Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffasbar.com — Jake Potter hosts stand-up. Midnight Friday.

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 Murrell 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 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;

Ariel’s mouth. This ritual happens a few times and ultimately signals the end of Earth.

The show was created in January by a collective of puppeteers and artists in residence at the Kilnhaus art space in Dahlonega, Georgia. Many of them also collaborated on a 2014 show, Deep Space Showcase.

Mermutants’ eccentric antics might turn off some people, but it’s a fringe festival-type of show and works for some indulgent viewers.

The presentation is outlandish, but that fits its critique of overconsumption and the wasting of precious resources. — TYLER GILLESPIE

www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an allages improv comedy show.

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

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. 9:00 p.m. Thursday.

Jeff D’s Comedy Cabaret.

Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504)

529-2107; www.bourbonpub. com — Comedian Jeff D and drag performer Carla Cahlua star in a weekly show. 10 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.

Katt Williams. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www. arena.uno.edu — The comedian and actor performs his “Born Again... Again” tour. Tickets start at $60.

8 p.m. Saturday.

Kevin James. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — The comedian and The

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Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www. marignyoperahouse.org — The six-person touring company performs repertory works by the famed modern choreographer. On Thursday and Saturday, the company performs “Images,” “Dust” and “Company B”; on Friday, “Air,” “Runes” and “Esplanade.” Tickets $30; students and seniors $20.

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

In a dystopian future, the rising ocean has swallowed Miami and the only human survivors live in a gated community in a small Florida town. Post-apocalyptic conditions have spurred sea creatures to mutate — sprouting feet, walking on land and breathing air — in Mermutants, a multimedia puppet show presented recently at La Nuit Comedy Theater.

Mermutants loosely follows a subversive telling of The Little Mermaid. The characters are unnamed, but the Ariel figure (Ariel Harris-Porada) is one of the only humans left on land and she must fend off mosquitoes while cleaning up the giant mess that was once the Sunshine State. A mermaid wearing a bright pink wig, mask and sequined gown washes up on shore and offers Ariel the chance to trade her feet for a fish tail.

The show uses puppets, animation from shadow projectors and original music. It is billed as a comedy and gets a few laughs from absurd visuals such as bedazzled mermaids and conjoined neon-pink dolphins. Many jokes about water levels and sea witches don’t land, but the colorful spectacle and good storytelling make the production work. In an entrancing scene, sea creatures dance at Slimey’s nightclub. Dressed in elaborate fish masks, they dance to a club-banging original. The club’s bartender is a pink flamingo in a waiter’s jacket. The crab-like DJ Krustacean (Kristal Shaver) plays the keyboards and then breaks out a saxophone for an off-key solo that somehow fits the looped house beat. The partygoers sing the chorus, “I’m not trying to waste your time/ I just want to taste your slime.”

The surreal show takes a gross turn when Ariel finally decides to mutate. To complete the transformation, a sea witch spits liquid into

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It’s not flattering to be referred to as a clown, and even though Carmine, the mobster in Send in the Clown, has attained the nickname because of a skin condition, the reference is always a problem. That’s the simple premise of writer/director Ace Denison’s work, which ran in the New Orleans Fringe Festival in November 2014 and was remounted recently at Marigny Theatre.

An opening scene should be familiar to any fan of Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas, where the mafia men’s club’s extreme violence and bravado are a font of dark humor. Clown’s scene is very similar to the film when Henry (Ray Liotta) says he thinks Tommy (Joe Pesci) is funny and Tommy asks if Henry is actually calling him foolish (“I’m funny how? I mean like I’m a clown? I amuse you?”).

Carmine’s absurd predicament makes him a permanently misunderstood figure, which seems promising, but the story is thin and too many characters are onedimensional or cartoonish: an Irish cop with an overdone accent, Carmine’s perpetually angry mafia family rival Bobby Damone and bit-part mobsters constantly tugging at their lapels and rolling their shoulders.

Carmine wears white makeup on his face with blue diamonds around his eyes and a big red nose. As a bullied child, Carmine learns to fight and this ostensibly leads to a life in organized crime. As he climbs the ladder in the organization, he becomes interested in Don Angelo’s daughter, though it’s not clear why she falls for him — other than claiming that he’s not like other people. Carmine’s lifelong friend thinks this is an opportunity for the two of them to take over the organization.

As Carmine, Craig Leydecker does everything he can to carry the drama, but he has to do it alone. There are no other strong characters, and the story mostly rushes forward in short scenes.

The set was minimal, and some technical work was rough. Sound effects of gunshots were too quiet and not sharply synchronized with action. Stage fighting choreographed in slow motion was not smooth.

There are funny moments, including Carmine’s attempt to confess his considerable backlog of sins to a priest, but too many jokes rely on corny puns and variations of Carmine repeatedly being called a clown. There were some promising ideas and contributions, but the show isn’t ready for the big top. — WILL COVIELLO

King of Queens actor performs stand-up. Tickets start at $52.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

Kyle Kinane. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 5295844; www.thehowlinwolf. com — The stand-up comedian performs. Tickets $15.

9 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.

Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Local Uproar. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 7585590; 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, Thomas Fewer and Annie Barry 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 this weekly show. 10:30 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.

Rude. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Colleen Allerton and Lauren LaBorde perform a

monthly sketch comedy show.

9 p.m. Saturday.

Slam Up. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Cali Bulmash and Emily Lowinger perform a mix of comedy, music and poetry.

Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Friday.

Think You’re Funny? Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 8659190; www.carrolltonstation. com — All comics are welcome to perform at the weekly open mic. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

AUDITIONS Playmakers Theater.

Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www. playmakersinc.com — The theater holds auditions for its May 8-24 production of the female version of The Odd Couple at 7 p.m. March 9-10. Email playmakerstheater@gmail.com for information.

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Home Safety Training. Plumber’s Hall, 3515 N. I-10 Service Road, Metairie, (504) 488-2412; www.selacaci.org — Fire safety and building professionals discuss how to reduce the risk of fire and gas exposure.

Tickets $20 in advance, $30 at the door. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

I Can Quit. Touro Infirmary, 1401 Foucher St., (504) 897-8500; www.touro.com — Touro holds the first of four weekly sessions for people who want to quit smoking. Contact Robert Gardner at (504) 897-8209 or robert.gardner@touro.com for details. 4 p.m.

Kelly Hayes-Raitt. New Orleans Lyceum, 4511 Chestnut St., (504) 460-9049; www.lyceumproject. com — The author speaks on the topic “Working with Refugees in Iraq, Syria, and Beirut: A Comparison with Experiences in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.” Registration required; email druben2@hotmail.com.

7:30 p.m.

Pisces Party. Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St., (504) 9482583; www.bluenilelive.com — The astrologically-themed party features music by the Yemayayas and DJ Black Pearl, food from local restaurants and a raffle. Proceeds benefit the Bret Thomas Doussan Foundation. Tickets $10. 8 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.

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.

Haunted history lecture. West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — Local ghost hunter David Laville discusses paranormal experiences and New Orleans’ ghostly history. 7 p.m.

Heart health for kids. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — Staff and students from LSU Health New Orleans teach kids about heart health with science demonstrations, coloring and activities. 3 p.m.

Jazz Pilates. New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters St., (504) 589-4841; www.nps.gov/jazz/index.htm — Stephanie Jordan leads a free class incorporating Pilates, dance movements and jazz music. Noon.

Louisiana Sisters Cocktail Competition. Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — Nine bartenders compete to make craft cocktails using Louisiana Sisters products. Local celebrity judges include Ann Tuennerman of Tales of the Cocktail.

The Breton Sound and So Long Storyland perform. Admission free. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Lunchbox Lecture. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012;

and The Jones Sisters perform, and there’s hors d’oeuvres, wine and a raffle. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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.

Michael Levitt. University of New Orleans, University Center ballroom, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6000; www. uno.edu — The Stanford biophysicist and Nobel laureate discusses “the birth and future of multiscale modeling of macromolecules.” 11 a.m.

SoFAB Cooking Demo. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www. frenchmarket.org — Chef Regina Charboneau demonstrates a dish made with fresh ingredients from the market.

2 p.m.

Suddenly Less Summer lecture. Center of Performing Arts, 201 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 727-4638; www. centerofperformingarts.net — Historian Ray Arsenault speaks on “The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture” as part of a series of events about the effect of air conditioning in Louisiana. 6 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.

THURSDAY 5 Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m.

Curtain Up! Light the Lights!

New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 596-2602 — Attendees learn about the history of Broadway musicals from 2000 to the present, enjoy performances by local musicians and participate in a prize drawing. 6:30 p.m.

Ernesto J. Poza. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick Center, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, (504) 314-2188; www.tulane.edu — The author of Smart Growth: Critical Choices for Family Business Continuity discusses strategies for small business people. 8 a.m. to noon.

Learning Everyday Togther.

Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www. nutrias.org — Families with children age 3 to 7 discover activities and find books to help kids prepare for and succeed in school. Dinner is served. Visit website for registration. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Love Will Lift Us Higher. Tulane University, Bea Field Alumni House, 6319 Willow St.; www. shadesofpraise.org — Gospel groups Shades of Praise, Zulu Ensemble Men’s Gospel Choir

Sistahs Making a Change.

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.

Suddenly Less Summer lecture. Madisonville Library, 1123 Main St., Madisonville, (985) 845-4819 — Historian Ray Arsenault speaks on “The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture” as part of a series of events about the effect of air conditioning in Louisiana.

1:30 p.m.

World War II Discussion Group.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Historian Brian Altobello hosts a monthly group for history buffs. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 6 “Alchemy and the Hero’s Journey”. Parker United Methodist Church, 1130 Nashville Ave., (504) 895-1222; www.parkerchurch.net — The C.J. Jung Society hosts analyst Everett McLaren for a discussion.

Non-members $15, students $10. 7:30 p.m.

The Boat Show. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3663; www.superdome.com — The expo features boat dealers, marine insurance providers and vendors of electronics, machinery and gear.

3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Emily I. Dolan. Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, University of New Orleans, (504) 280-7469; www.uno.edu — The Harvard music professor gives a talk titled “Instruments and Instrumentality.” 2 p.m.

Julia Jump. Kingsley House, 1600 Constance St., (504) 523-6221; www.prcno.org — The Preservation Resource Center benefit features food from Emeril’s Restaurant, cocktails, a live charity auction and music by The Wiseguys. Tickets $125, under 35 $75. 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Light of Hope Gala. City Park, Arbor Room at Popp Fountain, 12 Magnolia Drive; www. casajefferson.org — The gala features food, drinks, dancing

and a silent auction, benefiting CASA Jefferson’s work against child abuse. Tickets $75. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Moonlight Hike and Marshmallow Melt. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — Participants take a quiet evening hike. Reservations required; call or email rue@ northlakenature.org. 5:50 p.m.

Toast Our Coast. Lakeside Country Club, 1520 Rose Garden Drive, Metairie, (504) 834-9200; www.saveourlake.org — The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s gala features a dinner buffet, live auction and music by Bobby Cure & the Poppa Stoppas. Tickets $50. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Tulane Black Arts Festival.

Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 862-8000; www.tulaneblackartsfestival. strikingly.com — The Tulane Black Student Union hosts arts, music and poetry performances, a gospel dinner, a film screening and a Black Trans Lives Matter workshop during the 10-day festival. Most events are open to the public. Visit the website for dates and details.

Friday-Tuesday.

SATURDAY 7 Abita on the Avenue. Various locations; www.abita.com — Participants enjoy Abita beers at locations along St. Charles Avenue, including Avenue Pub, Slice Pizza, The Blind Pelican, Irish House and more.

Free with online registration.

Check-in is 3:30 p.m to 5 p.m. at Avenue Pub. Beneficial Garden Wildlife.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — LSU AgCenter staff discusses insects and birds that can help gardens grow. Noon.

Bloomin’ Deals Bag Day. Bloomin’ Deals Thrift Shop, 4645 Freret St., (504) 897-9128 — The Junior League of New Orleans’ resale boutique invites shoppers to fit as much as they can in one bag for $10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Chili in the Channel. ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy, 3128 Constance St., (504) 367-3307; www.renewschools.org — Fifteen local chefs compete to create the best chili, and there are cocktails and NOLA Brewing beer. Admission $5, including two chili samples. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Covington Art Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings

and more. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dr. Seuss’ Belated Birthday Party. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Kids and families enjoy crafts, games, snacks and Dr. Seuss stories. Non-members $8.50 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Feel Good Fest. Michalopoulos Studio, 527 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 558-0505; www. michalopoulos.com — The oneday festival features live music, art vendors and food from District Donuts, Grilling Shilling and Saigon Slims. Kumasi, Summer, Biglemoi, Ben Shea & The Pleebs and others perform.

Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. 6 p.m.

Fragniappe. Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd., Slidell, (985) 781-3650; www.bayoureefkeeping.com — Bayou Reefkeeping hosts an expo for reef enthusiasts featuring a “frag swap” of coral specimens and 30 vendors of fish, supplies and aquarium equipment. Admission $10, seniors $5, children 12 and under free. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Japanese Folk Dancing Lessons. St. Tammany Parish Library, Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 646-6470; www.sttammany.lib. la.us — Sugai Barker instructs participants in kabuki, bon odori, nihon buyo and noh mai styles of performance. Free.

Register by telephone or online.

3 p.m.

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

Junior Ranger Day. Fort Pike State Historic Site, 27100 Chef Menteur Highway; (504) 736-7140 — Kids 12 and under complete workshops and activities to earn a Louisiana Parks Junior Ranger Patch. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Leprecrawl. Mid-City, corner of Canal Street and Jefferson Davis Parkway; www.leprecrawl. com — Nonprofit The Creativity Collective hosts a leprechaun bar crawl fundraiser in Mid-City with stops including Cafe Degas, Swirl, Pals Lounge, Parkway Bakery & Lounge and more. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. 3 p.m.

Los Islenos Fiesta. Los Islenos Heritage and Cultural Society, 1357 Bayou Road, (504) 251-6322; www.losislenos.org — The festival celebrates St. Bernard Parish’s Canary Islands heritage with crafts, food, live music and dancing. Canarian musicians and dance group La Zarzalera perform both days.

Tickets $3, children under 12 free. 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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It’s All About the Music Bike Ride. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.nolasocialride.org — NOLA Social Ride cyclists cruise around the city, stopping along the way to enjoy live music.

6 p.m.

Birdwatching class. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — Longtime birder Wendy Rihner leads a session on birdwatching basics. 7 p.m.

www.nationalww2museum. org — The semi-monthly lecture series features World War II-related topics. Call (504) 528-1944, ext. 229, for details. Noon.

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Dot Benge, whose family came to St. Bernard Parish from the Canary Islands, has watched her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren learn about their Islenos heritage through the Los Islenos Heritage and Cultural Society and its annual festival, Los Islenos Fiesta.

“In the Canary Islands, folklore, dance and music is a mainstay,” says Benge, a member of the Los Islenos Heritage and Cultural Society board. “I think everyone in the Canary Islands knows how to play an instrument and do folklore dances because they teach it in school.”

At the annual event, visitors can enjoy music and dance performances by groups including La Zarzalera, and there is traditional cuisine, craft demonstrations, screenings Los Islenos Fiesta MAR of a new documentary and more.

Los Islenos Heritage and The festival takes place Saturday Cultural Society Museum, and Sunday, March 7-8, at the 1357 Bayou Road, St. Bernard historic village of the Los Islenos Museum Complex in St. Bernard.

(504) 277-4681 La Zarzalera combines folk www.losislenos.org music and dance from the Canary Islands, and it performs on both days of the festival. Dressed in traditional colorful skirts, blouses, vests and fullbrimmed hats, members will demonstrate traditional partner dances and music styles. Other performers include August Rush, Pick 6 Band, Ovi-G and the Froggies and The Topcats.

Traditional dishes for sale include ropa vieja, empanadas and fried bananas and drinks such as sangria and imported honey rum cocktails. Craft demonstrations feature net weaving, wood carving and lace making.

Local filmmaker David DuBos (brother of Gambit Political Editor Clancy DuBos) premieres his new documentary Islenos Trappers’ War at 7:30 p.m. March 5 at the Nunez Community College; it screens at the festival as well. Thenesoya Vidina Martin De la Nuez and Aníbal Martel Pena will display their photography and oral history project “Cislanderus” about the descendants of Canary Islanders in the U.S. Festival admission is $3 and is free for children under 12. — EMMA DISCHER

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Mahalia’s New Orleans. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulaneblackartsfestival.strikingly. com — The free symposium on Mahalia Jackson includes a set of panel discussions and an evening concert with Irma Thomas and Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band. 2 p.m.

Mini Maker Faire. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick University Center, McAlister Drive, (504) 247-1507; www.nolamakerfaire.com — The festival for tech enthusiasts and artists features workshops, demonstrations and student projects on electronics, robotics, parade contraptions, 3D printers and more. Admission $10 in advance, $12 at the door;

free for kids under 16. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mudbug March. City Park Festival Grounds, 1701 Wisner Blvd., (504) 482-4888; www. neworleanscitypark.com — LSU Health’s Nursing Alumni Association hosts a 5K race, one-mile fun walk and silent auction to raise funds for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Registration at 7 a.m.; race at 8 a.m.

Nature photography class.

Woodlands Conservancy, 449 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse, (504) 433-4000; www.woodlandsconservancy. org — Ken Redler leads a class for photographers of all skill levels. 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

NORDC Summer Camp Expo.

Behrman Center, 2529 Gen. Meyer Ave. — Parents can learn about and register for NORDC’s Summer Youth and Teen Camps. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Open house. Habitat for Hu-

manity Model Home, 1911 Montegut St.; www.habitat-nola.org — Visitors can tour a Habitat for Humanity house and learn about the organization’s homeownership programs. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Shamanic Meditation. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias. org — Matthew Ancira leads meditation practice and Barbara Dupart offers a gentle yoga class. Free. 10 a.m.

Soul Fest. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 5814629; www.auduboninstitute. org — Irvin Mayfield headlines the two-day festival featuring BRW, the Soul Rebels, Zena Moses & Rue Fiya, Glen David Andrews, Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown and many others.

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Soul Revival. www.organawareness.com — The Legacy Donor Foundation gala features food from chef Ben Thibodeaux, a gospel choir and dancing.

Tickets $135, under 35 $100.

7:30 p.m.

Spring Planting. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., (504) 322-7479; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — Kids can help plant spring vegetables in the library’s community garden.

Noon to 1 p.m.

Spring Shuffle. LaSalle Park, 6600 Airline Drive, (504) 7314726; www.isl5k.blogspot.com — International School of Louisiana hosts a 5K and one-mile family fun run, and participants enjoy food, prizes, music and massages. 7:30 a.m.

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.

Walk for the Hungry. Holy Name of Jesus School, 6325 Cromwell Place, (504) 458-3029; www.hnjschool.org — Bread for the World hosts the 4-mile walk and collects nonperishable food items for Second Harvest Food Bank. Registration $15, children 7 and under $10.

Call or email jfremson@loyno. edu for details. Registration at 8 a.m.; walk at 9:30 a.m.

SUNDAY 8 Camellia growing workshop. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — The Camellia Club of New Orleans hosts demonstrations of camellia cultivation and a free lecture at 2 p.m. Grafted plants are available for sale. Contact Nick Piazza at (504) 616-4378 or npiazzajr@gmail.com for details. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Celebration: A Treasure Odyssey. Castine Center, Pelican Park, 63350 Pelican Drive, Mandeville, (985) 626-7997; www.cmstkids.org — The gala benefits the Children’s Museum of St. Tammany and features food from 40 local restaurants, cocktails, raffles, charity auctions and music by Groovy 7 and the Fontainebleau High School Jazz Band. Tickets $100.

6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Family Day: Princesses, Ponies and Superheroes. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515; www. fairgroundsracecourse.com

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.

John Sevenair. Audubon Zoo, Dominion Auditorium, 6500 Magazine St. — The Sierra Club member discusses his travels in Papua New Guinea. 6:30 p.m.

Jesmyn Ward. Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 8999308; www.thecolumns.com — The National Book Award-winning author of Men We Reaped reads and discusses her work at the 1718 Society’s monthly reading. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Unified Indian practice. Handa Wanda’s, 2425 Dryades St., (504) 813-3496 — Mardi Gras Indians gather for a weekly open practice to rehearse music and routines. 8:30 p.m.

MONDAY 9 Debora Spar. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick University Center, McAlister Drive, (504) 247-1507 — The Barnard College president and author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection discusses feminism and culture. 7 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.

Walking in This World seminar.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Participants complete creativity exercises and discuss Julia Cameron’s Walking In This World, the sequel to The Artist’s Way. 7 p.m.

WORDS Catherine Campanella. Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, 133 Mabel Drive, Madisonville, (985) 845-9200; www.lpbmaritimemuseum. org — The author signs Lake Pontchartrain, a book in the Images of Modern America series. Noon Saturday.

Celebrating International Women’s Day. Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters St., (504) 589-4841 — Poets Tara Thierry, Delia Tomino Nakayama, Marla Chirdon, Amelie Prescott, Jessica Mashael Bordelon, Honey Sanaa and Biljiana Obradovic share their work.

Noon to 2 p.m. Saturday.

C.S. Harris. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author discusses and signs Who Buries the Dead, a Victorian-era mystery.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

French bilingual story time.

Nix Library, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630; www. nutrias.org — A storyteller reads and translates French children’s books, teaches French songs and leads a craft.

2 p.m. Saturday.

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Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author and photographer discuss Fun, Funky & Fabulous: New Orleans’ Casual Restaurant Recipes. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Laura Cayouette. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author discusses and signs Lemonade Farm, a coming-of-age novel. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Laura Kelley. — The author of The Irish in New Orleans discusses the influence of local Irish culture. 7 p.m. Thursday at New Orleans Athletic Club, 222 N. Rampart St. and 2 p.m. Saturday at The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St. Michael Ross. Loyola University, Thomas Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-3240; www.loyno.edu — The author and historian discusses The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

New Writers Literary Festival.

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, 2800 Chartres St.,, (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com; www.lusherschool.org — High school-age writers participate in a master class with Slam Team New Orleans and workshops on screenwriting, poetry, nonfiction and more.

Registration $20. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Rachel Breunlin and Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The authors discuss Talk That Music Talk, a history of local music and cultural preservation. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Ralph Angel and Andy Young.

University of New Orleans, Liberal Arts Building, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6657; www.uno.edu — The poets read and sign their work, and there’s a brief reception. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Reading Between the Wines.

Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — Erica Spindler, Alys Arden, Dawn Chartier and Deborah Burst, local authors of mystery and paranormal fiction

and nonfiction, share their work. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen.

Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — Miss Maureen reads children’s books. 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.

SPORTS Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 5873663; www.nba.com/pelicans — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Detroit Pistons at 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Boston Celtics at 7 p.m. Friday and the Memphis Grizzlies at 6 p.m. Saturday.

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.

Gretna Farmers Market. Huey P. Long Avenue at Second Street, Gretna; www.gretnafarmersmarket.com — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Grow Dat Farm Stand.

Grow Dat Youth Farm, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 3778395; www.growdatyouthfarm. org — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon 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.

Crescent City Farmers Market. www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org — The market offers produce, meat, seafood, dairy, flowers and prepared foods 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.

St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 355-4442; www.visitstbernard.com — The market offers seafood, produce, preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

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.

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.

French Market. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket. org — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market. Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego; www.cityofwestwego.com/ farmers_market.asp — The monthly Westbank market offers produce, eggs, pickles, baked goods, art, live music and pony rides. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

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.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and to facili-

tate patient service programs.

Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200.

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.

Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-onone mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors. Visit www. eachonesaveone.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.

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.

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.

Teen Life Counts. The Jewish Family Service program seeks volunteers to teach suicide prevention to middle and high school students. Call (504) 831-8475.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries. The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans.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 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.

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.

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Yoga/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 yoga in the sculpture garden.

Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

— Children can meet Disney princesses, comic book superheroes and miniature horses and there’s a coloring table and bounce house. Horse racing begins at 1:25 p.m. Admission $5, children 12 and under free.

Noon to 4 p.m.

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JOB GURU

Dear New Orleans Job Guru, “I think my résumé looks pretty good. It has all of my job descriptions and my degree. It looks as good as résumés I’ve seen out there, but I’m still not landing hardly any interviews, even though I’ve posted it and respond to ads I like. Can you review it and let me know if I’m doing anything wrong?”

— Barry W., Metairie, LA Dear Barry, Barry, getting your résumé up to top standards is one of the first steps in successfully competing for good interviews. As I’ve said in earlier columns, even having a great résumé nowadays isn’t enough… You need to get that résumé into the right hands so Grant Cooper it can be seriously considered. But first, let’s take a look at your résumé itself.

There are several things I do like about your résumé. At two pages, the length is perfect for someone with your level of experience, a university degree, and four major career positions. For your education, you perhaps could have provided details on your school activities, your GPA, and your awards.

Even though it was quite a few years ago, employers are interested in how deeply you were involved in school activities. And while your résumé is reasonably neat, I do believe it looks a little too much like one of those Microsoft templates that are readily available online.

Well-formatted résumés are easy to read, attractive, and use bulleting, bolding, and other creative formatting techniques to highlight important accomplishments and key information. Your résumé, although basically neat and fairly well organized, could be greatly improved through state-of-the-art formatting techniques.

However, the most important factor that I believe is hurting your résumé, is in the content. Although it is true that you have some good job descriptions, after reading them, I still don’t see much coming through about you. Your descriptions let the reader know how your job was done, the various duties that were involved, but those are the same steps that anyone would have been required to do just in order to keep the job.

In today’s competitive job market, decision makers want to know what is so different about you, as opposed to someone else with similar experience? You need to make a clear and convincing case as to why they should spend their expensive staff time in scheduling an interview with you, as opposed to one of the other dozens or hundreds of résumés they are reviewing.

Here are a few hints that may help: 1. Any special projects, assignments, or initiatives you performed at your jobs, the steps you took to accomplish them, and the results.

2. Any measurable goals or accomplishments that you achieved (it is O.K. to estimate them if you don’t have exact figures, as long as you are reasonably accurate).

4. Any favorable performance evaluations you received, including quotes showing how well you did your job. Of course, any awards, bonuses, or other feedback from your superiors.

5. Any significant community activities, volunteerism, and nonprofit outreach or events you have participated in, and What your role was.

New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Résumés®, Grant ranks within the top LinkedIn Résumé Writing Experts nationwide and has assisted the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, NFL/NBA players & coaches, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and major corporations.

Send Your Questions to New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222.

Please state your city, first name, and last initial.

CAREER PREPARATION

FARM LABOR TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Garrett Administration Service, Danbury, TX , has 5 positions for rice seed 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 4/1/15 – 12/15/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX7000201 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

High Plains Forage Harvesting, Dalhart, TX, has 11 positions for alfalfa, sorghum & 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 4/1/15 – 12/1/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX6351463 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Morales Trucking, Nazareth, TX, has 15 positions for grain & oilseed crops; 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 10.35/hr up to $2100/mo plus room & board, may work nights and weekends; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 4/3/15 – 12/31/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX3286118 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Rustin Knight, Tokio, TX , has 2 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 4/11/15 – 2/11/16. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX6352400 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Temporary Farm Labor: 15 Black LLC, Hartley, TX, has 6 positions for hay; 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; threefourths work period guaranteed from 4/15/15 – 11/20/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX3285646 or call 225-342-2917.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Triangle Cattle Co., Nazareth,TX, has 1 positions for hay; 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 4/15/15 – 2/1/16. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX7000927 or call 225-342-2917.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COORDINATOR

The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) seeks an Education Coordinator to assist with building, institutionalizing, and facilitating the organization’s educational offerings to a wide array of stakeholders. Please email resume and cover letter explaining your interest in the position to resumes@ gnofairhousing.org with the subject line “Education Coordinator” by C.O.B. March 4, 2015. www.gnofairhousing.org

OUTREACH COORDINATOR

The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) seeks an Outreach Coordinator to assist with planning, conducting, and managing various outreach, marketing, education, communications, and public relations activities on behalf of the organization.

Please email a resume and cover letter explaining your interest in the position to resumes@gnofairhousing.org with the subject line “Outreach Coordinator”

by C.O.B. March 4, 2015. www.gnofairhousing.org

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR EXPERIENCED SERVERS/ BUSSERS

Will take and serve food, wine and beverage orders in a high-volume, fine-dining restaurant. Apply in person at Emeril’s Delmonico Restaurant, 1300 St. Charles Ave. Mon-Fri 11:00 am -3:30 p.m.

WAITSTAFF/BARTENDERS/ HOSTS

Hiring waitstaff/bartenders/hosts for Sac-a-lait Restaurant coming soon to the warehouse district. Hiring experienced fine dining staff to start and train in February. Come join the team for New Orleans Most Anticipated Restaurant 2015. All serious applicants will be contacted for an interview. www.sac-a-laitrestaurant. com sam@sac-a-laitrestaurant.com

TEACHERS/INSTRUCTORS

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 To Advertise in

REAL ESTATE Call (504) 483-3100

AGENTS & SALES

VOLUNTEER

BARTENDER and

REGIONAL ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Green firm seeks Sales Rep, construction industry experience. $700 Avg. Wkly Base + New Sales Comm. + mileage. Clean vehicle with insurance. Exc. health & safety record, prof. appearance, computer skills.

Driving & credit checked. Resume + 3 references. yww@bellsouth.net

CLERICAL RECEPTIONIST

Real Estate Company. Experience necessary. Good salary plus benefits.

Please send cover letter & resume to: Richard Jeansonne, 1041 Esplanade, NOLA 70116

PIZZA MAKER Experienced

WIT’S INN Bar & Pizza Kitchen Apply in person Mon-Fri, 1-4:30 pm 141 N. Carrollton Ave.

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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3. Any travel you conducted for the job, including the city and the purpose. Also, any conferences or training sessions you attended, with city and year.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

New Orleans TV seeking FT Administrative Assistant; answering phones, scheduling shoots, Data Entry; Assist GM, Microsoft Office is a must. Experience necessary. Please email cover letter and resume to: accounting@ tripsmarter.com

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28 OLIVIA LANE

3432 sqft - $675,000 + 10K Bonus 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.

Mike Hindman (800) 566-7801

Todd Taylor, Realtor, 504 232-0362

1-3 PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AVAILABLE ON FIRST FLOOR

RE/MAX & NOMAR Award Winning Agent toddtaylorrealtor@yahoo.com • www.toddtaylorrealestate.com RE/MAX Real Estate Partners (504) 888-9900

53 Colony Trail Mandeville

Each office individually owned and operated

4BR/3.5BA

NEED A RENTAL? CHECK THESE OUT:

$389,000

6000 Eads St., Gentilly 3/1 ....................... $1,075/mo 1269 Milton St., Gentilly 2/1 ....................... $850/mo 2028 Pauger St., B, Downtown 3/1 ................ $900/mo 3607 St. Ferdinand St., Downtown 2/1 ............. $950/mo 2625PineSt.,A,Broadmoor3/2 ........................ $3,750/mo

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FOR SALE/SOLD

2760 Athis St. (VLD) $33.5K 6961 – 3 Boston Dr. (VLD) $25K 2234 – 6 Delachaise St. $89K 4123 – 5 Downman Bl. (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. $150K 809 31st St. $80K UC 4001 Gen. Pershing St. (VLD) $110K U/C 2349 Maryland Av. $90K U/C 2124 Cadiz St. $164.9K SOLD 1210 – 12 N. Galvez St. $480K SOLD

FOR RENT/LEASED 6000 Eads St.

$1,075/mo

1269 Milton St.

$800/mo

2028 Pauger St., B

$900/mo

3607 St. Ferdinand St.

$975/mo

2625 Pine St., A 1269 & 71 Milton St.

$3,750/mo $800/mo LEASED

Darlene Gurievsky

in charming, restored Mid City Victorian on Canal Street with furnished shared conference room available. $850 - $1250, per office, depending on size and conference room needs. Other commercial/retail considered\. Utilities included. Other amenities and services available.

Call (504) 482-3400

985-674-SOLD(7653) Direct 985-789-2434 Cell Darlene@DarleneG.com www.DarleneG.com Licensed in Louisiana • Equal Housing Opportunity 800 N. Causeway Blvd. Ste 1-A Mandeville, LA 70448 985-626-8589

Kyle Gurievsky cell 985-373-0582

NORTHSHORE FOR SALE 2 TO 4 ACRE LOTS

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Ideally located 10 min. north of I-12 Goodbee Exit 57

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Gorgeous French European home w/all the bells & whistles. Renovated kitchen inc. double ovens in brick wall, 3/4 nail down wood floors, brick floors, tongue and groove cypress ceil., Lavish Master Suite w/travertine tile floors & shower. Flagstone patio, new detached Guest Cottage.

www.lapolofarms.com

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

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AVAILABLE PROPERTIES FOR LEASE/FOR SALE 3200 Severn

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4134 Florida Ave • Kenner

JENNIFER LANASA-EVANS ASSOCIATE BROKER

Across from Lakeside Mall

End Cap Closed Restaurant

Upscale Retail Strip

For Sale Office Building

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

$539,500.00 All leased up, Cap Rate 10% Great for owner/occupant or investor.

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4641 FAIRFIELD ST • METAIRIE, LA 70006 • 504 207 7575 Western North Carolina Mountain Properties

By Owner Various Parcels •

• Gorgeous Views • Gated Mountain Community 30 Minutes From Downtown Asheville

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316 St. Joseph Street • New Orleans, LA.

Offering Personalized Real Estate Services Since 2003

504-524-JUDY (5839)

2000sf of showroom and office space.

Newly refurbished.

Hot Warehouse Dist. Location close to Conv. Ctr. Potential for 2nd flr. Studio/Apt., 1.5 baths, storefront.

1900 - 1906 St. Ann Street 4,000 Sq Ft $175,000 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!

$2,995/mth NN

Owner/Agent

JUDY FISHER INC. REALTORS ®

Shaun Talbot

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5117 PRYTANIA ST. • $1,225,000

Victorian gem in super condition close to great bistros, parades and conveniences. Cove ceilings, handsome mantles, heart of pine floors. Large master bath in Carrera marble. Enviable kitchen with breakfast room that opens to nicely landscaped grilling patio and pool. Possible 5th bedroom or office on 3rd floor currently used as playroom. Good closets and outdoor storage. Secured parking for 2 cars behind electric gate. Move right in!

Across the U.S. buyers and sellers are agonizing their inability to buy or sell a home. It takes the right REALTOR to get the job done in any situation, and Brittny McKay is that REALTOR! Military friendly and experienced with first time home buyers, sellers, investment property, relocation, short sales, foreclosures, contract writing, negotiations. and so much more!

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Each office is independently owned & operated

Uptown Condo living at its finest! 1 bed 1 bath Condo, 2 blocks from Magazine St. Schedule your private showing today!!!

Brittny Jade McKay Real Estate Agent/Realtor Cell: 504-236-5749

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Perfect For Second Home, Investment or Retirement • Professional Golf Course and Private Airstrip

Warehouse District Retail/Office for Lease

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Licensed in Louisiana

Office: 504-282-2611 bjmckay@latterblum.com

Lakefront Office 7039 Canal Blvd. New Orleans, LA Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission Latter & Blum, ERA Powered, is Independently Owned and Operated

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METAIRIE

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

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

2BR/1BA COTTAGE

Between Vets & I-10, near Bonnabel.

Furn. kit. CA&H, w&d hkkps. No pets, no smoking. 1 yr lease. $1200/mo. + deposit. Water paid. (504) 813-1444

MISSISSIPPI

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

LAKEFRONT

OLD METAIRIE 1 BEDROOM APT

Utilities paid. $900 per month + dep.

No pets. Call 504-782-3133

OLD METAIRIE 1&2 BDRM. APTS SPARKLING POOL & BIKE PATH

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.

LARGE ATTRACTIVE APT.

Newly Renovated 2BR, 2BA w/appls.

Beautiful balcony & courtyard setting w/swimming pool. Quiet neighborhood. $1050/mo. Call 504-756-7347.

NEW LISTINGS!

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

924 TRUDEAU DRIVE

2 BR/2.5 BA Town House Condo, 1343 Sq. Ft., $245,000 dancingqueen924@aol.com (504) 931-9458

ESPLANADE RIDGE

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

3201 - 05 Carondelet Street 2 & 3 Bedroom Condos from $199,900

1205 ST CHARLES/$1095

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry/3 mo. min. No pets. Avail Dec. 12. Call 504442-0573 or 985-871-4324.

LARGE HOUSE ON 4 ACRES

Livable but needs work 3 miles east of Magnolia, MS, $45,000. Call (601) 248-0888.

DORIAN M. BENNETT • 504-236-7688 dorian.bennett@sothebysrealty.com

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RESIDENTIAL RENTALS

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1041 Ursulines - 2bd/2.5ba ...............

1030 Orleans - 1bd/1ba ....................

1022 Toulouse - 1bd/1ba ..................

1750 St. Charles - 2bd/2ba ..................

713 Kerlerec - 1bd/1ba ..................

127 Carondelet - 1bd/1ba ..................

$2995 $2500 $2500 $2200 $2200 $2000

Shaun Talbot & Erin Stopak, Realtors Direct Line: (504) 535-5801 charlottecommons@talbot-realty.com www.charlottecommons.com

7211 Broad Place • $499,000

5349 Prytania St. • $759,000

Beautiful new renovation of 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath.

NO FLOOD with low flood insurance rates.

Viking stove, marble baths, great open entertaining area, huge front porch, master suite with walk-in closet and sitting room. French Bath fixtures in mint move-in condition. Owner/Agent.

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.

CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS!

2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605

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

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

TWENTY FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 14-10752 DIV. H

NO. 743025 DIVISION “J “

NO. 719-863 DIVISION “K”

NO. 2015-1720 DIVISION “J”

SUCCESSION OF GLORIA L. RAYMOND, WIFE OF AND LAWRENCE RAYMOND, SR.

SUCCESSION OF ROSEMARY SCHICKINGER VICKNAIR

SUCCESSION OF NATHANIEL SOLOMON, JR. AND LILLIAN BUCKNER SOLOMON

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

SUCCESSION OF FRANK SIMPSON, SR. NOTICE OF PRIVATE SALE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY WHEREAS, the Administratrix has made application to the Court for the sale of property of Frank Simpson as follows: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings thereon and all rights, ways, privileges and servitudes, situated in the SEVENTH DISTRICT of this City, in SQUARE NO. 215, bounded by GREEN, BIRCH, FERN and BURDETTE STREETS, which lot is designated by the NUMBER 22, on a certain plan by C.G. Freiderichs, Auctioneer, and annexed to act before H. Rouen, Notary Public, dated September 8, 1903, and which Lot #22 measures 30 feet front on Green Street by 120 feet in depth between parallel lines. Said Lot #22 commences at a distance of 90 feet from the corner of Burdette and Green Streets, all as is more fully shown on a plat of survey

by Adloe Orr, Jr. and Associates, dated July 19, 1967, a print of which is annexed to act before Arthur J. O’Keefe, Jr., Notary Public, dated May 9, 1968, recorded in Conveyance Book 684, Folio 150, of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1968.

Improvements thereon bear the municipal number 7814 Green Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Being same property acquired by Thelma Jones wife of/and Frank Simpson, Sr., by act before Arthur J. O’Keefe, Jr., Notary Public, dated May 9, 1968, recorded in COB 684, folio 150, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1968.

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file their opposition within ten (10) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

By Order of the Court, Dale N. Atkins, Deputy Clerk Attorney: Robert J. Bergeron Kendra L. Duay Address: 7835 Maple Street New Orleans, LA 70118 Telephone: 504-866-5151 Gambit: 3/3/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Sheila Burke, please contact Halima Narcisse Smith, atty at (504) 3582112.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Taiwan Lynn Grover, a/k/a Taiwan Grover, please contact Timothy P. Farrelly, Atty. (504) 832-4101 or 3445 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste 103, Metairie, LA 70002.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Leonard Baudoin, Jr., please contact attorney Cory S. Grant at 504-457-8659.

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NOTICE TO SELL MOVABLE OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The Executors of the above estate has made application to the court for the sale, at private sale, of the movable or immovable property described, as follows: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, in the THIRD DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 744 bounded

by St. Roch Avenue, North Claiborne Street, Spain Street (side) and North Derbigny Street (side). Said portion of ground is designated as LOT “B”, commences at a distance of 95.11.2 feet from the corner of St. Roch and North Claiborne Street, measures thence 32.2.6 feet front on St. Roch Avenue, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 105 feet between equal and parallel lines. All as more fully shown on survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated August 5, 1988.

Improvements thereon bear the No. 1612-14 St. Roch Avenue.

Being the same property acquired by Thomas Joseph Henry, et ux, by Act of Sale registered in COB 756 folio 264, and acquired by Thomas John Henry and Craig Anthony Henry by Judgment of Possession in the Succession of Rose M. Gonnella Henry registered under N.A. #765341.

Being the same property acquired

by Gloria Lee, wife of and Lawrence Raymond by Act of Sale from Thomas Joseph Henry, Thomas John Henry & Craig Anthony Henry on September 23, 1988.

Subject to fence encroachments as shown on survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc. S & E, dated August 5, 1988. $230,000.00 sold as is with full waiver of redhibition rights in act of sale pursuant to L.A.C.C. Art. 2530 through 2548.

Notice is now given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs, legatees and creditors of decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they have or 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.

By order of the Court Attorney: Stephen P. Bruno Address: 855 Baronne Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70113 Telephone: 504-525-1335 Gambit: 3/3/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Margie A. Blakely, please contact Atty Valerie Fontaine, 985-893-3333-Property Rights Involved Anyone knowing the whereabouts of PATRICIA BRANDT COGNEVICH, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty., 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the administrator of the above estate has made application to the court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit; A CERTAIN 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 that part known as Highway Park Subdivision, in Square 447 thereof, bounded by Maryland, West Napoleon and Massachusetts Avenue and Fourth Street. Said portion of ground in designated as Lot “C” on plan made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, dated May 10, 1954, and measures as follows: Lot “C” commences at a distance of 125 feet from the corner of Maryland Avenue and Fourth Street and measure thence, in the direction of West Napoleon Avenue, 60 feet front on Maryland Avenue, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 122 feet 6 inches between equal and parallel lines, all as more fully shown on plat of survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, dated December 1, 1954.

For informational purposes only: the APN is shown by the County Assessor as 1706; source of title is Book 3045, Page 557 (recorded 01/16/01) Address: 2009 Maryland Avenue, Kenner, Louisiana 70062 UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: All cash sale for the sum and price of One Hundred Ninety-Five Thousand and No/100 ($195,000.00) Dollars, payable in cash, at the time of the execution of a deed to him. Seller will pay for Buyer’s closing costs, including pre-paids not to exceed Four Thousand Four Hundred and No/100 ($4,400.00) Dollars.

Notice is hereby given to all those whom it may concern, to show cause within ten (10) days, including Sundays and holidays, from the day whereon the last publication appears, why the said authorization should not be granted.

Mandeville, Louisiana, this 26th day of February, 2015.

Attorney: DONALD D. BANN Address: 1321 North Causeway Blvd.

Mandeville, Louisiana 70471 Telephone: (985) 626-8518 Gambit: 3/3/15 & 3/24/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Etta Kennedy, AKA Etta Renee Bridges Smith, AKA Etta Renee Bridges Smith Kennedy, last known to be a resident of Gretna, LA , contact Attn Deborah Lonker (504) 528-9500.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jean-Guy Bellegarde, please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504615-7340.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of JOYCE SKINNER GREEN (aka JOYCE GREEN), whose last known address was 6218 Cambridge Ct, New Orleans, LA 70131, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

Anyone knowing the Whereabouts of Ollie Antoine please contact Marcus DeLarge at (504) 264-5552.

Attorney: William J. Luscy, III Address: 616 Papworth Avenue Suite C Metairie, Louisiana 70005 Telephone: 504-837-5597

STATE OF LOUISIANA

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 738-208 DIVISION “D” SUCCESSION OF LEONARD JOSEPH GUARRASI

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NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

NOTICE FOR APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

NO. 2015-1720 DIVISION “J”

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the administrator of this succession has petitioned this court for authority to sell immovable property belonging to the deceased at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure for One Hundred SeventyOne Thousand ($171,000) Dollars cash, with the succession to pay all encumbrances and pro rata taxes.

The immovable property proposed to be sold at private sale is described as follows:

STATE OF LOUISIANA

The duly qualified and confirmed Administrator of the Succession of Nathaniel Solomon, Jr., has made application to the Court for the private sale of the succession’s undivided one-half interest in the immovable property described ad follows: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, City of Kenner, in that part thereof known as Audubon Subdivision. Said Lot is designated as Lot No. 44, Square No. 4, which is bounded by 35th Street, East Loyola Drive, Loyola Drive, Galan Drive, Hooper Drive, Maggiore Drive and Yenni Drive and measures as follows: Said Lot 44 commences at a distance of 347.88 feet from the corner of Galan Drive and East Loyola Drive and measures thence 75 feet front on East Loyola Drive, a first width in the rear of 43.12 feet to a point, and a second width in the rear of 13.80 feet, by a depth on the sideline nearer to Galan Drive of 148.44 feet and a depth on the opposite sideline of 132.85 feet.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal Number 3409 East Loyola Drive, Kenner, Louisiana 70065.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO WIT: $75,000.00 all cash to the Vendor ad sale.

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 have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration if seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

SUCCESSION OF FRANK SIMPSON, SR. 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.

Dale N. Atkins, Deputy Clerk Attorney: Robert J. Bergeron Kendra L. Duay Address: 7835 Maple Street New Orleans, LA 70118 Telephone: 504-866-5151 Gambit: 3/3/15 LYNDON PAUL GRANT or anyone knowing his whereabouts, contact Loyola Law Clinic at (504) 861-5599.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Eleria Taplin Adams a/k/a Eleria Taplin Henry Adams Waters L/K/A 2424 Pressburg St. N.O.,LA, call Peter Hamilton (504)940-1883.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the heirs of Elnora Wilson Johnson (Perry, Katie, John or heirs of the late Gloria Johnson) L/K/A 3111 Bacchus Dr., N.O., R. Hamilton (504)940-1883.

Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Michael Pleas whose last known addresses were 548 Abalon Court, New Orleans, LA or 10001 Lake Forest Blvd, Suite 6, New Orleans, LA 70127, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, an all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jefferson, City of Kenner, in LAKE TRAIL SUBDIVISION, SECTION 2, in Square 2, bounded by Lake Trial Drive, West Esplanade Avenue, David Drive and 37th Street, designated as Lot 54.

Municipal Address: 3500 Lake Trail Drive, Kenner, Louisiana 70065 Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT Bridget Calongne Attorney: Morgan Field Address: 6161 Perkins Rd. 1C Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 Telephone: 225-341-5270 Gambit: 3/3/15 & 3/24/15 SHAWN PERRY or anyone knowing her whereabouts, contact Loyola Law Clinic at (504) 861-5599.

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Upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Petition and the agreement to purchase filed in the record of this matter.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON

BY ORDER OF THE COURT Wendy Gaudet, Deputy Clerk

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