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NEWS: Local bar owners worry

the coming smoking ban will create problems with the neighbors >> 7

FOOD: A look inside the reborn St. Roch Market >> 23

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CONTENTS

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

April 14, 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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What’s In Store .......................................................21 Pearl Wine Co.

EAT + DRINK

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

Feature .....................................................................23 Exploring the new St. Roch Market Fork + Center ...........................................................23 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink

Intern | EMMA DISCHER

PRODUCTION Production Director | DORA SISON Web & Classifieds Designer | MARIA BOUÉ Senior Graphic Designer | LYN VICKNAIR Graphic Designers | PAIGE HINRICHS,

3-Course Interview .............................................25 Dale DeGroff of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum

JULIET MEEKS, DAVID KROLL, JASON WHITTAKER Pre-Press Coordinator | KATHRYN BRADY

Drinks ........................................................................26 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week

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Last Bites ................................................................. 27 5 in Five; Plate Dates; Off the Menu

BILLIE, IDOL Joey Arias brings his acclaimed show about Billie Holiday to New Orleans

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Billing Inquiries 483-3135 Controller | JULIE REIPRISH Assistant Controller | MAUREEN TREGRE Credit Officer | MJ AVILES

ON THE COVER We’re Broke: Welcome to the 2015 Louisiana Legislative Session...............................................15 Jeremy Alford on what legislators plan to do ...................................................................15 Clancy DuBos on what cuts mean for higher ed .............................................................15 10 social issues you’ll be hearing about ..........18

7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 BOUDIN: The New Orleans Music Project; Bill Burr; Lydia Loveless; and more

NEWS + VIEWS News.............................................................................7 Bar owners gear up for the coming smoking ban

Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world Scuttlebutt................................................................ 9 From their lips to your ears C’est What? ..............................................................10 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats ..........................................11 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................12 Will the Louisiana House and Senate finally take on Bobby Jindal?

Blake Pontchartrain.............................................13 The New Orleans N.O. It All

SHOPPING + LIFESTYLE CUE .................................................................. PULLOUT Spring Fashion Issue

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT Music .........................................................................36 PREVIEW: Sleater-Kinney Film.............................................................................39 REVIEW: While We’re Young Art ................................................................................41 REVIEW: Works by Tina Freeman and Amer Kobaslija Stage..........................................................................43 REVIEW: Never Swim Alone Events .......................................................................44 Crossword + Sudoku ...........................................54

CLASSIFIEDS Market Place ...........................................................48 Employment ...........................................................48 Picture Perfect Properties................................49 Legal Notices...........................................................51 Real Estate .............................................................52 Home + Garden .......................................................55

OPERATIONS & EVENTS Operations & Events Director | LAURA CARROLL Operations Assistant | KELLAN DUNIGAN

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BOUDIN: The New Orleans Music Project

Wed.-Sun. April 15-May 17 | Southern Rep and WWOZ-FM’s original production is based on New Orleanians’ stories about the place of music in their lives. At 8 p.m.

(3 p.m. Sundays) at Ashe Power House (previews run Wed.-Fri.).

Lydia Loveless

Thu. April 16 | Columbus, Ohio, country vixen Lydia Loveless couldn’t have a more ironic surname. She’s the lusty life of the party on her third LP, Somewhere Else (Bloodshot): a full-throated, honky-tonk catcall to the dogs who’ve done her wrong. At 8 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Alan Cumming

T-Bird and the Breaks

Sat. April 18 | T-Bird and the Breaks may not put enough funk into the title track of January release Harmonizm to justify its New Orleans second-line references, but the soul-reviving big band has enough horns and background singers to swing an Austin, Texas vision of R&B. At 10 p.m. at The Maison.

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally: Summer of 69

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Marigny Opera House Dance Company | The concluding production in the dance company’s first season features new works by choreographers Donna Crump, Diogo de Lima and Maya Taylor performed to live music by pianist Dustin Gledhill, violinist Donald Surtain and others. At 8 p.m. at Marigny Opera House.

Sun. April 19 | Actors/comedians and singers Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) present a variety show loosely built around their 15-year relationship. At 7 p.m. at Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.

Waxahatchee

Sun. April 19 | After two quietly overpowering albums under the Waxahatchee moniker, Alabama product Katie Crutchfield arrives with Ivy Tripp, this week’s Merge records debut that puts the gifted damage assessor in just the right hands.

The Goodbye Party opens at 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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Sat. April 18 | The Scottish actor has had a successful career onstage and in film and has appeared in everything from Sex and the City to Eyes Wide Shut.

He’s joined by Lance Horne on piano and Eleanor Norton on cello for a show of music and comic tales. At 8 p.m. at The Joy Theater.

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Where there’s smoke …

New Orleans bars prepare to hang “no smoking” signs as a citywide smoke-free ordinance goes into effect April 22. Some worry the ordinance will turn otherwise law-abiding establishments into “nuisance bars.”

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“It’s something every bar in New Orleans is going to have to do,” Rogers said. “We’re in the same boat as any other bar. It was easy enough before the smoking ban. … We have the best of both worlds. We have that unique ability to do that. A lot of places don’t. Now that the city is making it mandatory… well, people will have to step out.”

Debate over the smoking ban began as soon as District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell announced her intent to bring up the measure last July. Businesses opposed to the measure formed the Freedom to Choose Coalition, and smoking ban opponents argued businesses should be able to decide whether they go smoke-free, pointing to the dozens of bars in the New Orleans area that have made the switch voluntarily. Even some owners of smoke-free bars said the city shouldn’t have a monopoly on every bar’s smoking policy.

“This shouldn’t be forced down our throat,” Pat O’Brien’s owner Shelly Waguespack told Gambit. “I appreciate the councilwoman’s energy and passion for this, but as businesspeople we have many other pressing things to worry about.”

Those “other things” also have become sticking points in the smoking ban debate. With smokers and their friends congregating on the sidewalk, bar owners fear their establishments could suddenly become “nuisance” bars if the neighbors decide the people outside are making too much noise.

“Are there going to be more people on the sidewalk smoking? Absolutely,” Rogers said. “Is it going to be a problem? I hope not. We’ll remind them it’s a residential area and to keep the noise down, but we’ve always done that. I don’t see it as a big change. I think there’ll be more people outside at any given time, especially when it gets really busy.”

Smoke-free proponents stand by the ordinance, pointing to the undeniable public health benefits of eliminating smoke in public areas; in a city with so many employed in the service industry, one of the main arguments for the law was that servers, bartenders, musicians and the like shouldn’t be forced to choose between their jobs or their health. On April 9, the City

The front room at Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant on Esplanade Avenue allows smoking, while the back bar, where live music is played, is nonsmoking. After April 22, a new city ordinance will make all indoor areas of bars nonsmoking.

P H O TO BY C HERY L G ERBER he streets are empty in the French Quarter near Esplanade Avenue. But inside Cosimo’s Bar on Royal Street, more than two dozen people are at the bar or at tables along the wall. Nobody is smoking tonight, but a thin, stale smell of smoke lingers in the air and sticks to your clothes — the kind of smell you can’t really get out without a hot shower. That odor soon will be the last thing left of cigarettes and cigars when a smoking (and vaping) ban hits New Orleans bars and casinos this month.

In January, Cosimo’s owner Ray Hummel pleaded with Mayor Mitch Landrieu to veto the smoke-free measure, which had passed the New Orleans City Council. Hummel estimates 80 to 90 percent of his customers are smokers, and if Cosimo’s loses 20 percent in sales, he’ll be out of business. His plea, posted on Facebook, went viral.

“This is not a matter of smoking or non-smoking,” Hummel wrote. “This is a matter of CHOICE. Adult civil liberties CHOICE.” Landrieu didn’t see it that way. On Jan. 30, surrounded by more than a dozen supporters at his desk in City Hall, he signed the smoke-free ordinance. The law goes into effect April 22.

Bar owners, bartenders, smokers and their allies say the measure will be a game changer for New Orleans nightlife and culture.

New Orleans is a place to drink and smoke and carry on, they say, and if you can’t do it here, where can you?

A few blocks from Cosimo’s is Buffa’s Lounge & Restaurant, which allows smoking in its front bar but prohibits smoking in a back bar where there are tables, chairs and a stage that often hosts live music. Owner Chuck Rogers made the change to the back bar so Buffa’s would be able to accommodate smokers and nonsmokers — but on April 22, both rooms will have to be smoke-free.

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

From the discussion about Matt Brennan’s article last week, “Is the Indy Grand Prix worth Louisiana’s investment?”: “Let me see If I have this right. The State is facing a $1,500,000,000 deficit next year with ongoing current deficits this fiscal year and our Politicians just granted NOLA Motorsports $4,500,000 to attract and promote an Indy Racing Event that has sold 4872 seats... You have got to be kidding me.” — mjac167

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Council passed a few tweaks to the ordinance to clarify some of its language, finally completing the measure less than two weeks before it was set to take effect. In a statement, the SmokeFree NOLA Coalition (a campaign made up of statewide and national health agencies and nonsmoking advocates) applauded the council’s victory.

Harrah’s New Orleans, however, still thinks it has a chance to change the city’s position. Last month, the casino began a last-minute push for a compromise to avert what it says could be a revenue disaster — a March 18 statement from casino officials said banning smoking inside the gambling palace would jeopardize between $1.8 and $3.6 million in public revenue to benefit education and police and fire departments.

At least for now, though, the mighty Harrah’s will become as smoke-free as your locally owned corner bar.

Now the campaign that ushered in the New Orleans ban is shifting focus to the Louisiana Legislature, where several smoking bills are on the agenda for this year’s legislative session.

The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living has called for raising the state’s tobacco tax by $1.18 to $1.54 per pack. (Louisiana’s current 36-cent-perpack tax is one of the nation’s lowest.)

The campaign says a tax hike will not only bring in more revenue to ease the state’s budget woes (see cover story, p. 15), but it will save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in health care costs.

State Reps. Austin Badon and Helena Moreno, both New Orleans Democrats, filed bills to get the ball rolling. Moreno’s gives a parish (aka New Orleans) the authority to put a tax hike to a citywide vote, which is now forbidden under state law, while Badon’s bill would set the statewide tax increase.

Under the new law, bars must hang light blue signs provided by the city with the international “no smoking” sign with the words “no smoking or vaping” as well as the city’s smoke-free website (www.nola.gov/smokefree) and 311 number. People can file a complaint form on the website or by calling 311 or (877) 2866431. Complaints also can be submitted anonymously — and time-stamped photographs of someone caught in the act are welcomed. Operators will be available to take calls from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, but complainants will have to leave a message on evenings and weekends.

Within five days of receiving the complaint, the health department will call or email the complainant. Following a second complaint, department officers also will conduct a site visit and “provide educational materials and encourage compliance” to the staff.

But the ordinance is largely dependent on bar staff for enforcement.

Bartenders will be on the front line of telling would-be smokers to take

it outside. The New Orleans Health Department is responsible for managing complaints and issuing fines, but bar owners and managers are required “to direct any person who is smoking or vaping in an area where smoking or vaping is prohibited to extinguish or turn off the product,” according to the city’s enforcement outline. “If the person does not stop such use, the owner, manager, operator or employer is directed, if applicable, to refuse service and to immediately ask the person to leave the premises.”

“It just gets under my skin,” said Dave Clements, who owns Snake and Jake’s Christmas Club Lounge — a small, smoky dive plunked in a residential block of Oak Street in Uptown. “I’m pissed off, nervous, unsure — New Orleans has a reputation as being an ‘anything goes’ city, which I think is part of the allure.

It seemed like it was already going in a [smoke-free] direction already.”

Clements also owns Circle Bar in the Warehouse District, which he voluntarily turned smoke-free three years ago.

Customers there can step outside and smoke on the sidewalks around Lee Circle, hardly a residential neighborhood.

Snake and Jake’s, however, is a different story.

“I have nowhere to tell people to go outside to smoke,” Clements said. “People tell me, ‘It’s no big deal. They can just go outside.’ My bar gets busy from 2 in the morning until 7 or 8 in the morning, and I’m in a residential neighborhood.

Even in the backyard, there are houses that butt right up there. It might be fine for Carrollton Station, which has a back patio. For me, it’s going to be a real p roblem.”

“The locals, they’re going to respect our neighbors,” Rogers said. “When we have tourists in town … those locals are going to remind people, if they get a little bit loud, to keep it down. They’ll police themselves quite a bit. If that doesn’t happen, we’ll take steps to make sure people are aware.”

Bars labeled a “nuisance” are subject to heavy fines and penalties from the city’s Alcohol Beverage Control Board, and the Landrieu administration has cracked down on them several times during the mayor’s two terms in office.

A 2012 press release from the city boasted that while only 32 violations had been prosecuted in 2009, “due to a successful commitment to better enforce nuisance establishments, 287 prosecutions have occurred since the beginning of 2011.”

“This is about quality of life,” Landrieu said at the time. “A huge part of this improvement comes from enforcing the laws and rules that we already have in place to protect our citizens and make our neighborhoods safer.”

“I’m really concerned people are going to call up and complain when five, 10, 15 people are in the front smoking and talking,” Clements said. “I don’t know what they expect us to do.”

NEWS VIEWS SCUTTLEBUTT Quotes of the week Bobby in Iowa edition

“He’s a great guy. I think he’d be a great running mate. It’d be a huge pay cut for him, so I’m not sure he’d be willing to do it.” — Gov. Bobby Jindal, joking about Duck Dynasty performer Willie Robertson at a prayer breakfast last week in Iowa.

The event featured Robertson as the headliner and Jindal as a “special guest.” Jindal spoke to the crowd for 25 minutes about his bornagain Christianity.

“I’m proud to tell you I’m someone who’s not evolving.” — Gov. Bobby Jindal in Iowa again, this time speaking about his continuing opposition to same-sex marriage.

Discrimination — or freedom?

Landrieu, tourism officials against ‘religious freedom’ bill

Leges take up sexual assault policies Legislative package comes from Orleansarea lawmakers

Police departments statewide — including those on college campuses — may soon be required to have comprehensive sexual assault policies

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As the state debates “religious freedom” and same-sex discrimination with state Rep. Mike Johnson’s proposed Marriage and Conscience Act, New Orleans officials are standing firm, saying the Bossier City Republican’s measure is a “slippery slope to a divided society.”

In the wake of controversial legislation in Arkansas and Indiana, Johnson’s bill says “protecting religious freedom from government intrusion is a governmental interest of the highest order,” and the state will “not take any adverse action” against anyone acting “in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction about the institution of marriage.”

Johnson removed a chunk of controversial language from the bill last week, but opponents believe the bill still could be interpreted to prevent the state from penalizing businesses for what amounts to discrimination for denying employee benefits or service to same-sex couples. The U.S. Supreme Court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals are expected to weigh in on samesex marriage soon. Johnson’s bill seemingly pre-empts any decision by the courts by protecting foes of same-sex marriage with its shield of “religious freedom.” Gov. Bobby Jindal supports the measure.

Forum For Equality, meanwhile, has spearheaded the Freedom Louisiana coalition to combat the legislation.

The coalition has backed a measure

by state Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, dubbed the Louisiana Nondiscrimination Act, which adds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to specific categories of protection from discrimination in employment, housing and other areas.

“New Orleans has always been an accepting, inviting city that thrives on its diversity,” said Mayor Mitch Landrieu in a statement to Gambit.

“Discrimination in any form should not be tolerated, and New Orleans has passed its own laws to reflect that principle.”

New Orleans’ tourism industry also has stepped up against Johnson’s measure. Stephen Perry, president of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau (NOCVB), urged Johnson to table the bill. Perry says the measure could have unintended consequences for the city’s service industry. “Legislation that could be construed or misconstrued to invite discrimination and intolerance is bad for our economy, our business environment, our citizens and workers, and our very soul,” Perry wrote.

In 1999, the New Orleans City Council passed a sweeping ordinance barring discrimination in business, housing and public accommodations based on a variety of characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender identification. While the state constitution prohibits both same-sex marriage and civil unions, the city of New Orleans has maintained a domestic partnership registry since 1993 and has offered insurance benefits to same-sex partners of city employees since 1997.

Last year, Landrieu became the first mayor of a major Louisiana city to endorse same-sex marriage. A survey published by Louisiana State University earlier this week found more than 58 percent of residents in the New Orleans metropolitan area in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.

This year’s legislative session begins Monday, April 13. — KEVIN ALLMAN & ALEX WOODWARD

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The policy changes are a part of a sexual assault legislative package from several local lawmakers, including state Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans.

Morrell’s Senate Bill 37 creates a sexual assault awareness-training program for the Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training. The program will cover the neurobiological impacts of trauma and assault, sensitivity training and how to investigate assaults. Morrell’s Senate Bill 242 requires statewide criminal justice agencies to report annually the number of sex crimes reported and investigated, as well as the number of rape kits collected.

Following a controversial report from earlier this year revealing the failure of state and local police agencies to test their rape kit inventories, House Bill 289 from state Rep. Jerry Gisclair will require law enforcement to pick up rape kits at health care facilities within seven days and send kits for analysis within 30 days. Morrell also authored the Senate resolution to require sexual assault training for Responsible Vendor permits.

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Vote on “C’est What?” at www.bestofneworleans.com State Rep. Harold Ritchie wants to raise Louisiana’s cigarette tax to $1.54 per pack (it’s currently 36 cents) to help fill the state budget hole. What do you think?

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Great idea; tax is too low

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OK idea, but way too much Bad idea; no new taxes

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Do you support state Rep. Mike Johnson’s proposed legislation that would allow businesses to refuse service to some people based on the business’ religious beliefs?

Senate Bill 117 from state Sen. Gary Smith and House Bill 139 from state Rep. Valerie Hodges would reclassify Louisiana’s criminal degrees of rape. Louisiana is the only state to use the term “simple rape” to define a rape in which the victim is inebriated or otherwise unable to give consent. The measures create first-, second- and third-degree rape classifications, as well as the crime of misdemeanor sexual battery.

— ALEX WOODWARD

It’s all good

New Orleans OK with weed, same-sex marriage

(Don’t) stop the presses — New Orleans is more progressive than the rest of Louisiana on social issues.

The LSU Public Policy Research Lab last week issued the findings of a statewide survey that found 42 percent of Louisianans now support same-sex marriage (a new high), while 51 percent oppose. And while a majority of Louisianans support legalizing pot for medical use, they’re still opposed to legalizing it for personal use.

Gambit requested the crosstabs on the survey from LSU and found respondents in the New Orleans metro area to be the most liberal in the state on same-sex marriage, with more than 58 percent in favor.

Northwest Louisiana was less than 24 percent supportive. When it came to personal pot use, half of local respondents were fine with it, and fewer than one in five thought jail was an appropriate punishment for possessing a small amount of marijuana.

As is the case elsewhere, though, age is the biggest factor; young people are far more progressive on both issues. Around the state, 59 percent of Louisianans aged 18 to 29 give thumbs-up to same-sex marriage, while 68 percent are just fine legalizing weed for personal use — no doctor’s note required.

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Yes, Uber (again)

Ride-sharing apps approved

by City Council — but companies continue to complain

After months of debate, the New Orleans City Council passed a ridesharing ordinance April 9 that would allow digitally based trans-

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a fingerprint check — both of which are required of cabdrivers. TNC vehicles also don’t need commercial license plates, though the city requires taxis to have them.

Insurance would be handled via a compromise insurance model bill, complete with two periods of liability coverage. Period one would cover the driver when a for-hire app is turned on but before he or she has matched with a rider. Period two would take effect from the time a driver is matched with a passenger to the completion of that ride.

TNC vehicles would not be allowed to sit at cabstands, be hailed by passengers on the street or accept cash — a rule that Jason Coleman, who owns Coleman Cabs, warned the council that Uber and Lyft frequently flout in other cities.

In his closing remarks, just before the vote, District D Councilmember Jared Brossett said he considered the lack of satisfaction on both sides a good sign.

“The fact that it’s not 100 percent of what either side prefers is a sign that we have struck the right balance,” he said. — JEANIE RIESS

Scuttlebits

All the news that doesn’t fit

• Dousing speculation he might run for state attorney general, state Treasurer John Neely Kennedy announced last week he’ll be running for a fifth term in October …

• Former Florida Governor and presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush will hold a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s gubernatorial campaign this week in Metairie. Vitter was endorsed last week by Louisiana Congressmen John Fleming, R-Minden, and Ralph Abraham, R-Alto …

• Beau Tidwell was named communications director for the Louisiana Democratic Party last week.

Until recently, Tidwell held the title of “Staff Performance Measurement and Development Specialist” at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

Among the other journalists who’ve jumped ship in the past to flack for the state Democrats: former Gambit staffer Scott Jordan. On the GOP side, Cole Avery left NOLA.com in December to serve as the mouthpiece for newly elected Fifth District U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham …

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Boysie Bollinger,

one of south Louisiana’s most successful businessmen, donated $20 million to the National World War II Museum in March, the largest private donation the museum has ever received. The donation will fund the building of the “Canopy of Peace,” a 150-foot-tall structure that will connect the museum’s campus.

The Canopy is set for construction in 2017.

Nathalie Scott

was awarded one of three $1,000 national Working Parent Scholarships from the website job-applications. com last month.

Scott, a Terrytown resident attending the University of New Orleans, also works full time and has a 2-year-old son. The other Working Parent Scholarships went to Sarah Czarnecki of St. Peters, Missouri and Horace McNeil of Levittown, Pennsylvania.

Lt. Heather Sylve,

the Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a man who attacked TSA agents at Louis Armstrong International Airport in March, was awarded Sheriff Newell Normand’s Award of Excellence at the 30th annual Crimestoppers Awards Luncheon on March 26. On March 20, Sylve shot Richard White three times as he attempted to attack agents with a machete.

Paige Okpalobi & Christopher White

pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court last month to participating in a $50 million Medicare fraud scheme between 2007 and 2014. Okpalobi owned a New Orleans medical clinic and falsely submitted Medicare claims for home health care that wasn’t provided. White managed financial and accounting services, and both admitted they fabricated tax and employment records in response to federal subpoenas. They’ll be sentenced July 1.

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portation companies to start giving rides in the city. But both Uber and Lyft, ridesharing businesses that have been instrumental in getting the legislation off the ground, told Gambit they likely won’t be able to operate because of last-minute amendments to the ordinance.

The companies are particularly dissatisfied with language that would prevent transportation network companies or TNCs (the newly minted, digitally based, for-hire designations the ordinance creates) from discouraging passenger or driver litigation. Specifically, the ordinance in final form states that any TNC attempts to require passengers or drivers to resolve disputes via arbitration or litigation outside Louisiana shall have no effect, which means passengers or drivers could sue TNC’s in Civil District Court.

“The 11th-hour changes make it very difficult to operate in the market,” Michael Masserman, Lyft’s director of government relations, told Gambit. “Not just for Lyft and Uber but for anyone in the ridesharing industry. There’s potentially overly burdensome litigation costs and insurance measures that have been legislated ahead of or before the private sector.”

Tom Hayes, Uber’s local general manager, couldn’t say whether the San Francisco tech company would be able to operate here until his team had a chance to evaluate the amendment. But in public comments made to the council, Trevor Theunissen, Uber’s public policy manager for the Southeast, said the company would not be able to operate under the ordinance as adopted.

“There’s a strong and enduring public policy decision that’s been repeatedly affirmed by the [U.S.] Supreme Court to encourage arbitration of dispute,” Theunissen said during the meeting. “Uber, like many companies — including some here like the [New Orleans] Pelicans, the [New Orleans] Saints, the Superdome — many companies are relying on this national view to require arbitration of disputes.”

As passed, the ordinance doesn’t require drivers to have a special license for TNCs, though traditional cab drivers require a chauffeur’s license. A TNC driver would need to pass a background check, but would not be required to complete

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COMMENTARY

thinking out loud

Time for boldness

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t is well established that Gov. Bobby Jindal ranks among the most risk-averse governors in Louisiana history. That’s among the many reasons why his expected bid for the presidency is a national laughingstock. He’s long on rhetoric and short on performance.

And, by all indications, he won’t be very engaged in the process of trying to solve the state’s $1.6 billion budget hole — a hole he led the way in creating over the past six years. That means it’s up to state lawmakers to save the state from further fiscal ruin, and to do that they must summon the kind of boldness that Jindal sorely lacks.

Louisiana legislators are famously low-key during election-year sessions.

They historically try to get in and out of Baton Rouge without having to cast any controversial votes. That’s not possible this year. They must choose between raising revenues and potentially shutting down public universities, not to mention severely cutting public health care. This is a time for boldness, not timidity.

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Gov. Bobby Jindal has offered one plan to solve the state’s budget crisis, but bipartisan political opinion indicates it’s a non-starter with both parties.

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All of these options should be seriously considered. Even though it’s not going to be popular to suggest eliminating certain revenue dedications and constitutional mandates, we think many dedications and mandates need to be scaled back or elimi-

The most dangerous political course of all is maintenance of the status quo.

The governor’s proposed solution to the problem is a virtual non-starter. His plan to effectively raise taxes on businesses that pay local inventory taxes is novel in concept but too unpalatable politically. In the face of mounting criticism, he offers no “Plan B.” Fortunately, a number of lawmakers have stepped up to present a wide variety of options — from temporarily suspending or eliminating tax exemptions and exclusions to repealing constitutional and statutory dedications. Others have discussed — quietly — the possibility of using the procedural device of veto-proof resolutions to raise revenues. Given the enormity of the problem, every idea should be on the table.

Some of the legislative proposals are focused on the long term because they require voter approval of constitutional amendments in October — well into the next fiscal year and therefore of no help in the present crisis. Others are aimed at addressing the immediate problem just long enough to give the next governor and Legislature time to fix things long-term.

nated. This is especially true when you consider that higher education and health care — clearly two top priorities — remain unprotected by dedications while funding for so many lesser priorities is enshrined in the statutes or in the state Constitution.

For years, lawmakers have told voters that their hands are tied when it comes to most of the state budget. Typically, they use that as an excuse for cutting health care and higher education. While it’s true that constitutional mandates and dedications limit lawmakers’ spending options, the present crisis presents a golden opportunity to untie the Legislature’s hands — by repealing or scaling back most if not all of the statutory dedications and letting voters decide whether to eliminate or reduce constitutional mandates and dedications.

No doubt promoters of entrenched special interests will warn lawmakers that it’s political suicide to tamper with budgetary sacred cows. We disagree. In our view, the most dangerous political course of all is maintenance of the status quo.

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

Hey Blake,

What goes on at the Brown’s Dairy in Central City? Is it a packaging plant? I see big tankers pull up daily. Are they delivering milk?

Jon

Dear Jon,

This brown-and-white cow sculpture is a longtime mascot of Brown’s Dairy.

It now sits across the street from the main Brown’s complex.

distribution area spanned the Gulf Coast.

Brown was active in the community and was hailed as “one of the busiest and most successful of modern New Orleans’ publicspirited citizens.” After his death, Brown’s family (which includes this year’s Rex, Christian Brown) ran the company for more than two decades. The dairy is now owned

by Dean Foods, based in Dallas.

The ownership change also brought a name change: The company is now Brown’s Dairy, with the tag line “Smooth as Velvet.”

The Central City facility expanded in the 1990s and, as you pointed out, business remains brisk. A spokesman says the plant now receives up to 15 tankers of raw milk each day. It processes and distributes regular milk, chocolate milk and buttermilk, as well as fruit drinks and mixes.

Its distribution area includes Louisiana, south Mississippi and south Alabama.

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his week marks a milestone in local sports — the 100th anniversary of the opening of Pelican Stadium, home to baseball in New Orleans from 1915 to 1957. The stadium had its roots in a ballpark called Heinemann Park, located across from Jesuit High School on South Carrollton Avenue and Banks Street.

In 1915, the park’s wooden grandstand was disassembled and moved by mules to the corner of South Carrollton and Tulane avenues. It reopened on April 13, 1915. Until 1938, it was known as Heinemann Park, named after Pelicans owner A.J. Heinemann. The stadium hosted games for the minor league New Orleans Pelicans (baseball, not basketball) team, which was established in 1887.

The Pelicans played their last game in Mid-City on Sept. 1, 1957. The ballpark was demolished soon after, and the Pelicans disbanded within two years. The Fontainebleau Motor Hotel was built on the site. It later became a self-storage facility and home to other businesses, and is now the headquarters of the Tipitina’s Foundation.

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Many a New Orleans child, including Li’l Blake himself, grew up drinking milk from the dairy formerly known as Brown’s Velvet and eating more than his share of ice cream from the Central City business.

Pecan Krunch by the halfgallon was a personal favorite.

Founder Benjamin C. Brown came to New Orleans from his native Canada in 1904 and established a small ice cream plant the following year at St. Charles Avenue and Polymnia Street.

“The original business employed about four persons who cranked ice cream by hand, using crushed ice and rock salt,” according to Brown’s 1967 front-page obituary in The Times-Picayune. The newspaper explained that as Brown’s ice cream operation grew, the business moved to St. Charles Avenue and Terpsichore Street, and then to 1300 Baronne St., where it opened in 1915.

In the early years, Brown’s Velvet packaged its ice cream in “bricks,” rectangular boxes better suited for the icebox refrigerators of the day. Later, the product line grew to include milk, Creole cream cheese, whipping cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, buttermilk and eggnog.

A 1960 newspaper ad touted Brown’s new “6-acre, fully air-conditioned plant” on Baronne Street, billed as one of the most modern and efficient in the country. Its

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COVER STORY

Bobby has left the

building As the governor eyes

the presidency, lawmakers must tackle a

$1.6 billion budget hole largely on their own.

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BY JEREMY ALFORD “I don’t know many people who wanted to file any of his bills,” state Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, said of Jindal’s initial proposals. That’s a far cry from the norm. The spending bills that lawmakers approve each spring traditionally hew closely to the governor’s budget proposals.

Things are different this year. Lawmakers appear left to plot their own course. That may prompt prognosticators and historians to temporarily redefine the notion of “legislative independence,” which historically meant bucking the administration — or at least trying to do so.

This year, it’s more about lawmakers setting their own policy agenda while trying to stay within the governor’s evolving framework of what is allowable in terms of increasing revenue. Call it a poor man’s version of independence.

This much has not changed: Jindal will veto any attempt at a net tax increase. He is willing, however, to support a tax increase if it is offset either by a tax cut, credit or rebate elsewhere in the budget.

The concept is supposed to reflect “revenue neutrality,” a term that may as well be a four-letter word around the Capitol.

That Jindal has conferred on this stance with Americans for Tax Reform, led by D.C.-based tax foe Grover Norquist, has only furthered the widespread perception that the governor doesn’t own his final session.

Even when read optimistically, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed budget

cuts another $226 million

from higher education.

Do lawmakers have the will to save the day?

BY CLANCY DUBOS

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or the past six years, higher education leaders in Louisiana have held their tongues in the face of massive cuts in direct state funding for public colleges and universities. Most feared for their jobs if they dared to criticize Gov. Bobby Jindal’s pogrom of institutional starvation.

Year after year, Jindal and his legislative allies cut direct state support for higher ed. Then, when the governor’s make-believe revenue numbers failed to materialize mid-year, they cut higher ed again. And again. And again.

Depending on how you count (Team Jindal has jiggled the numbers so many times they’re almost incomprehensible), the cumulative cuts to higher ed range from $700 million to more than $1 billion in the next fiscal year’s budget.

Now, as Jindal and lawmakers face a $1.6 billion budget hole — a hole they jointly created over the past six years — higher education is finally finding some champions. However, given the enormity of the state’s structural deficit (well over $1 billion a year and growing) and the lack of legislative consensus (not to mention political will) over how to avoid further cuts, many fear it may be too late to stave off disaster.

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n the morning of Feb. 27, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration presented to lawmakers and the public its proposal to balance a $24.6 billion budget for the next fiscal year. It was a packed room at the state Capitol, filled with tension and fear, with only wisps of hope.

Lawmakers without a seat on one of the budget committees lined the walls of the House meeting room as lobbyists worked the hallways outside, where Democrats earlier had held a quiet but scornful news conference. A reporter from The New York Times was there too, a byproduct of Jindal’s presidential ambitions — and a follow-up to the negative press the governor received recently because of his previous patchwork budgets, which Moody’s termed “a structural deficit.”

Back in the room, Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols trudged through a PowerPoint presentation as lawmakers and reporters tried to keep pace. Few were surprised by what they saw and heard; the administration wisely had leaked key sections to the Associated Press the night before, sucking some of the air out of a touchy situation that had been building for months, some say years.

Lawmakers knew even before the meeting (which was rescheduled to follow Fat Tuesday by three days) that the $1.6 billion shortfall — 20 percent of the state general fund — was deadly serious. Many had stayed quiet in the preceding weeks, opting instead to wait for the executive budget proposal. Many refused to reveal their own thoughts until then, hoping the administration would offer an out.

Such hopes were quickly dashed. The executive document — a mix of tax credit changes, higher university fees, a bonding scheme and a few contingencies — is now widely considered “Plan A.” Luckily there are 25 other letters in the alphabet.

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(For more on higher ed’s budget dilemma, see Clancy DuBos’ story on p. 15.)

In yet another example of the many moving pieces of the budget picture, repealing the inventory tax would stun local governments that rely heavily on it as a source of revenue.

Thus, local governments could find themselves fighting public colleges and universities for

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across the board to make up the loss.

Then there’s health care, which along with higher ed is the only other budget area where lawmakers can make large cuts, due to constitutional and statutory dedications.

The cuts there run into the hundreds of millions of dollars in Jindal’s proposed spending plan, leaving lawmakers

I think it is going to be the toughest session I’ve personally seen,

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says State Sen. President John Alario, a veteran of the legislature’s budget wars.

funding if the inventory tax is eliminated.

“If the state takes away the inventory tax, local government and the local taxpayer will suffer tremendously,” said Louisiana Municipal Association Executive Director Ronnie Harris, adding that local governments may have to increase property taxes

to fill budget holes within budget holes.

So what are lawmakers to do?

Ideas abound.

For starters, there are veto-proof revenue-raising resolutions that lawmakers could use to circumvent Jindal (with a two-thirds vote).

That’s risky, however, since

Jindal has line-item veto authority over the budget bill.

Several lawmakers have filed resolutions to temporarily suspend all statewide sales tax exclusions and exemptions over the next fiscal year. Such a resolution could generate as much as $2.9 billion. Other veto-proof resolutions would temporarily suspend a bevy of other

exclusions, exemptions and credits.

Lawmakers also may increase the cigarette tax, which looks more like a sure thing with each passing day, and pursue a plan to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, which is a tax already on the books but one which has largely gone uncollected. Creating an oil and gas processing tax is probably a nonstarter, but it’s on the agenda.

Other proposals include eliminating or reducing the film tax credit and the Enterprise Zone program, which are popular but have been rocked by cases of abuse in recent years.

There are also taxes in disguise, as state Rep. Jay Morris, R-Monroe, puts it.

“If there are taxes, they will be renamed, papered over, lawyered over and dressed up to look like something else,” he said. For example, at least eight executive departments and agencies have proposed $74 million in new fees and fee hikes (not “taxes” per se, but close enough).

So far there’s no rallying cry behind any single idea, which is understandable. While Louisiana has dealt with large budget shortfalls in the past (especially during the 1980s oil bust), the proposed solutions never have been spread out across so many bills. There’s usually a lead budget bill and a handful of supplemental bills, but this year hundreds of other bills are vying for passage to help the main budget bill stay in balance.

In a session that will last just two months, lawmakers face a mighty task. They will either have to plot their own course — independent of the governor — or pass tax increases and somehow find offsets to comply with Jindal’s revenue neutrality rule. “It’ll probably be a mixture of both,” said state Rep. Lance Harris of Alexandria, chairman of the House Republican Caucus.

The daunting task ahead has prompted some legislators to hunt for $800 million in new revenue to mash up with a few accounting tricks, rather than cover the full $1.6 billion shortfall. That strategy suggests a six-month budget taking effect July 1 — giving Jindal just enough time to get out of office before the well runs dry — and putting the entire mess squarely in the lap of the next governor.

Louisiana ended up in this situation by spending a $1.1 billion surplus left by former Gov. Kathleen Blanco in 2008 and then passing generous tax breaks and using onetime money to cover the lost revenue for the next six years.

Team Jindal has been quick to blame the drop in oil prices, which tumbled last October, but if oil prices shot back up today it would make little difference. The administration and Legislature put a record $1 billion in one-time money in the budget last year, creating an instant shortfall that will only grow in future budgets.

And all known fund reserves have been tapped out.

To hear Alario describe the many possible scenarios, finding a solution will be akin to throwing spaghetti against the wall and hoping some of it sticks. “It’s going to take a little piece of all those things to make it work,” Alario said.

“But at some point we’ll have to pull it all together and see what works best.”

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“It’s unconscionable to think our governor is deferring to a man who can’t even vote in Louisiana,” state Sen. Rick Gallot, D-Ruston, said. “I think people would be shocked to know that.”

Jindal’s travel schedule and his apparent focus on early GOP caucus states means there’s no figurehead on the fourth floor to negotiate with legislative leaders and the big lobbies. Consequently, an uncharacteristic sense of uncertainty presaged the opening of the annual session this week.

Even Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, with 43 years at the Capitol and enough chips to make most calls on his own, had no idea what to expect.

“I think it is going to be the toughest session I’ve personally seen,” Alario said.

“We have various senators working on various solutions and the same is happening in the House.”

Jindal will be counting on Alario and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, R-Lake Charles, to make sure lawmakers adhere to his revenue neutrality rule. Independence by any definition can only go so far. Should Jindal lose on that front, it will mar his presidential campaign kickoff. Don’t bet on that happening; Louisiana governors always find a way to win.

The governor’s cornerstone proposal this session involves making 12 refundable tax credits nonrefundable, which would save the state $536 million in expenditures. Most of that sum — about $377 million — would come from scaling back the inventory tax credit.

The business community is up in arms about that idea, and lawmakers have dutifully soured on it — a reflection of both the autumn election cycle and Jindal’s waning influence.

Instead, many lawmakers want to kill the inventory tax altogether, much to the delight of business and industry, which alone pays the levy.

Even if lawmakers go along with Jindal’s tax credit plan, which would direct part of the resulting savings to higher education, Louisiana’s colleges and universities would still face $211 million in cuts next fiscal year. Most legislators agree a cut that big is unacceptable, but there’s no agreement as to where to find more money.

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COVER STORY

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BY JEREMY ALFORD

or a legislative session heavy on complex tax topics and ominous budget complications, state lawmakers still found time to introduce bills that tap into Louisiana’s undercurrent of political, sexual and spiritual divisions. Social issues are always on the legislative agenda, it seems.

Nothing ups the temperature of rural and urban lawmakers like a debate over abortion or same-sex marriage. Nothing grabs clever headlines like a policy exchange over marijuana.

And nothing fills committee rooms like possible changes to laws governing sex education and creationism.

Social issues represent a third rail lawmakers can’t help but touch, whether it means throwing red meat at angry constituents during an election year or riling up the opposition. Here’s 10 issues that will be on the table:

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“Religious freedom” — House Bill (HB) 707 by Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Shreveport, aims to protect business owners from government action for defending their religious beliefs. Opponents liken it to lightning-rod laws in Indiana and Arkansas, arguing it would allow private businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.

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Creationism — Senate Bill (SB) 784 by Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, would prohibit the teaching of creationism in public classrooms.

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Sex ed — HB 359 by Rep. Wesley Bishop, D-New Orleans, would require public schools in New Orleans to teach sex education to students in certain grades.

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Defining life — SB 80 by Sen. Elbert Guillory, R-Opelousas, is a constitutional amendment that would legally define an unborn child as a “human being” from the moment of conception.

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Gender-preference abortions — HB 701 by Rep. Lenar Whitney, R-Houma, would prohibit abortions that are sought due to the sex of the unborn child — and allow parents and grandparents to seek civil damages of $10,000 to $100,000 (or more) if its the fourth or subsequent offense “to deter future violations.”

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Loosening marijuana laws — HB 6 by Rep. Dalton Honore, D-Baton Rouge, and SB 143 by Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, would make way for medical marijuana. Honore’s HB 117 would also provide for proposition elections to legalize weed.

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Pot busts — HB 149 by Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, would bar the application of habitual offender laws for second and subsequent convictions for possession of marijuana, but only when the conviction deals solely with marijuana possession.

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Marijuana possession — SB 241 by Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, does away with jail time for most first offenses of marijuana possession of an ounce or less and reduces penalties for subsequent convictions.

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LGBT employment protection — HB 632 by Rep. Karen Gaudet St. Germain, D-Plaquemine, would make it unlawful for any employer to discriminate based on an “individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

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Sexual discrimination — HB 612 by Badon would add new sexual discrimination protections for four orientation/identity categories under 62 different areas of law.

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For his part, Jindal addresses the budget dilemma with the same dissembling doublespeak that he brings to his non-starter presidential campaign. His aides continue to spin the governor’s claim that higher ed hasn’t really been cut that much since 2008 because the cuts were “swapped” for higher tuitions and fees. While it’s true that tuitions and fees have risen significantly under Jindal at public universities, those increases (which blogger C.B. Forgotston calls taxes on students and parents) have not kept pace with the cuts — not by a long shot.

Here’s a look at the numbers: • Since 2008, direct state funding for higher ed has been cut by nearly $738 million. Even when TOPS dollars are counted in the total, that’s a reduction of more than 36 percent;

excluding TOPS, its almost a 50 percent reduction.

Those numbers also include the 80 percent hike in tuition and fees imposed under Jindal.

• Since 2008, public universities have cut 336 academic programs, consolidated another 226 program, lost 1,074 faculty members and cut nearly 3,500 support staff and administrators.

• Individual students have felt the pain, too. In 2008, state support plus tuition and fees equaled $12,194 per full-time equivalent student; in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, that figure was $9,726 — almost $2,500 per student less.

• The governor’s proposed budget for next fiscal year is even starker.

It would cut another $533 million in direct state support for higher ed — a reduction of more than 57 percent — even after a significant increase in TOPS funding.

LSU President F. King Alexander warns that further cuts to higher ed will hurt Louisiana’s business environment as much as its academic standing.

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— $36.4 million — would actually be raised.

• Excluding TOPS and the proposed “supplemental” funding, Jindal’s budget for next fiscal year would result in a cumulative cut of more than 91 percent in direct support for higher ed since the governor took office. That’s why some accuse Jindal of “privatizing” public universities.

Meanwhile, LSU alum and Democratic political firebrand James Carville has become a leading advocate for fully funding higher ed.

He threw down a gauntlet when he delivered UNO’s December commencement address, and he minces no words today.

“From the moment kids go to public school in

From the moment kids go to public school in Louisiana ’til the time they graduate from college, they get lied to.

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— James Carville

• To offset that huge cut, Jindal proposes various forms of “supplemental” funding, but there’s no guarantee that such funding will materialize.

For example, he suggests offsetting $70 million in cuts by raising tuition and fees again, but the state Board of Regents says barely half of that

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Louisiana ’til the time they graduate from college, they get lied to,” Carville told Gambit. “We teach them creationism in grade school, and in college we tell them higher ed hasn’t really been cut. It’s all one big colossal lie. The earth is not 6,000 years old, and higher education has been cut drastically. We need to stop lying to them.”

College students are planning a “statewide higher education demonstration” from noon to 3 p.m. this Wednesday, April 15, at the state Capitol. They chose “Tax Day” for their protest because they are tired of being “taxed” via higher tuition and fees.

Students need to show up en masse to get lawmakers’ attention, but what would really get legislators’ attention is parents — who vote in much larger numbers than students — flooding the Louisiana legislature with calls and emails demanding full funding for the state’s higher education.

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earl Wine Co. (3700 Orleans Ave., Suite 1C, 504-483-6314; www.pearlwineco. com) stocks more than 600 wine labels, many produced in limited quantities. Leora Madden opened her store when she grew tired of traveling to California to buy her wine.

“I grew up near here and lived in California for seven years,” Madden says. “Wine is so part of the culture there. When I got back to New Orleans in 2007, I was frustrated with the retail selection and not just because it was [after Hurricane Katrina], but because of what was being offered in the retail sector specifically. I was going back to California once or twice a year to buy my wine.”

Madden enrolled in wine school in Chicago “for fun” in 2009, which sparked her new passion. “Within a couple of weeks, I knew I needed to make a career change, and it was something that I really wanted to do,” she says.

For years, she searched for the right spot to open a wine store. In 2013, she found the ideal location in the American Can building, where wine shop Cork & Bottle was for sale. “It felt like the perfect fit,” says Madden, who bought and renamed the store.

Madden goes on buying trips to seek out international wines, and she traveled to South Africa last year. However, she also stocks local craft beers and wines.

“There aren’t any wineries in New Orleans proper, but there are some on the Northshore,” Madden says. “Pontchartrain Vineyards — I do carry their wines.”

The local influence combines with Madden’s love for California wine culture to create a unique vibe at the shop, Madden says.

“It’s a space that, I hope, evokes the mystique and a kind of energy you would

get at a winery in California,” Madden says.

“And I think it does. I have other people that tell me that.”

Pearl Wine hosts daily events ranging from free wine tastings to Mani and Martini Monday, when customers pay $20 and get a martini at the bar and a manicure. This month, the wine shop celebrates its second anniversary with a party Thursday, April 23.

It will introduce full lunch and dinner counter service by chef Matthew Kopfler of pop-up L’enfant Terrible, The menu will include panini, soups, salads and cheese plates.

Pearl Wine Co. owner Leora Madden celebrates the shop’s two-year anniversary this month.

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“We don’t have a kitchen, so [Kopfler] is going to bring it in, but we’re going to prep it here,” Madden says.

Madden calls her business a labor of love.

“I’m very passionate; it’s very much out of love,” she says. “It’s something I want to share with other people.”

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Gambit has named Helen Freund as its new contributing restaurant reviewer and contributing food and drink reporter. Her reviews will appear weekly in Gambit’s Eat + Drink section and on BestofNewOrleans.com.

Freund is a veteran reporter who worked for the New York Post for four years as a general assignment and crime reporter. She covered crime for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune for the past two years and contributed to the paper’s 2013 Bar Guide.

Before moving to New York, Freund reported on dining and nightlife in Seattle. She reviewed restaurants and reported on bars and nightlife in the greater Seattle area for Citysearch.com.

Freund also is a professional chef. She attained a culinary degree at Paris’ Le Cordon Bleu. In New York, she worked as a chef for a restaurant group and various catering companies and wrote and tested recipes for a cookbook by Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner. She can be reached at dining@gambitweekly.com.

Roch stars

The St. Roch Market opens on St. Claude Avenue.

By Will Coviello and Jeanie Riess

Roch, filled with peanut butter, banana, bacon and marshmallow.

At the Lagos counter, chef Tunde Wey is continuing the “ambassadorial” mission of his pop-up of the same name. After doing two pop-up dinners in New Orleans, he moved here from Detroit to open in St. Roch. His menu focuses on a handful of traditional Nigerian dishes, such as jollof. A dish he sees as an antecedent to jambalaya, it’s a combination of spiced rice, tomatoes, peppers and onions. Wey adds bouillon cubes to a pot of jollof while working in St. Roch’s shared kitchen and describing why he thinks it’ll appeal to local customers.

“It’s deja vu,” he says. “It’s familiar because it resembles something people know.”

At the soft opening Thursday, his menu also included frijohn, a black bean and coconut pudding with hot pepper and nkwobi, a cowfoot stew spiced with calabash, nutmeg and habanero. His counter also offered bottled Ghanian palm juice and some Nigerian staples.

After working at high-end Italian restaurants in San Francisco and at Cochon Butcher locally, Kristopher Doll turned his focus to butchering and curing meats at his own business, Shank Shop. He opened Shank Charcuterie at St. Roch to serve sandwiches, charcuterie boards and to sell sausages, meats and cheeses. Doll is a native of Lafayette, so the charcuterie board he offered Thursday included andouille and chaurice sausages as well as Italian sausage, head cheese, boiled egg, remoulade, mostarda and bread. For a sandwich, he

Museum quality food Nadia Ogbor, Claire Alsup and chef/owner Tunde Wey serve Nigerian dishes at Lagos in the St. Roch Market.

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lunch and dinner daily served Italian sausage topped with peperonata on ciabatta.

Keenan McDonald opened St. Roch Forage, which offers fruits, vegetables and flowers. She has background in organic farming and currently works as an intermediary between regional farmers and chefs. At St. Roch, she’s selling produce to vendors and the public, and produce comes from urban farms and gardens in New Orleans East as well as farms in Mississippi and Alabama. She sources mushrooms form the Northshore and strawberries from Hammond, striving for prices between Rouses and Circle Food Store, she says. But she’s also offering bargain $10 grab bags. She also will offer weekly $20 and $30 boxes, which will have fruits, vegetables and items such as bread, seafood, coffee or juice from other St. Roch vendors as they develop partnerships.

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-469-0405; www.southernfood. org) holds a gala at 7 p.m. Friday, April 17 marking its official opening at its new Central City location, and there are chefs’ demonstrations throughout the weekend.

The gala features food from Chef Ryan Hughes’ restaurant Purloo (504324-6020; www.nolapurloo.com), which recently opened inside the museum space, cocktails from spirits company Lillet and cooking demonstrations by slow food expert and host of Louisiana Eats! Poppy Tooker and Chef Justin Devillier of La Petite Grocery (4238 Magazine St., 504-891-3377; www.lapetitegrocery.com) and Balise (640 Carondelet

Giuseppe and Antonio “Nino” Bongiorno at their Carrollton restaurant Café Nino.

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t. Roch Market opened April 10 with Mayor Mitch Landrieu and community leaders on hand to hail the project as a sign of economic development.

“This is your community center,” Landrieu said. “This is your neighborhood.

This is to build this neighborhood back in a way that gives us an opportunity to give folks in New Orleans a place to live and work and play.”

Following a $3.7 million renovation, the historic market, which had been closed since Hurricane Katrina, reopened as a food hall with a dozen vendors, a bar, some grocery items and seating indoors and outside.

The St. Roch Market originally opened as an open-air neighborhood market in 1875, and it was enclosed in 1911. Before Katrina, it was home to a seafood market, but the new St. Roch Market, opened by Will Donaldson and Barre Tanguis, features food counters offering everything from Nigerian cuisine and Korean-infused Creole dishes to sandwiches, salads, seafood, an oyster bar, savory crepes, bread, cakes, juices and more. There’s also a full bar called The Mayhaw.

When she was dissatisifed with the job market following her college graduation, Lesley Turner and husband Artis Turner started talking about starting their own food truck business. In August 2014, they launched Dirty Dishes, which is focused on waffles. They jumped at the chance to be part of St. Roch Market as a step towards a brick-and-mortar restaurant. For now, they’re focusing on the market, but they’ll soon juggle both the truck and the market and use some of the seven employees they’ve hired at St. Roch to support catering jobs. At the market, they offer a menu of sweet and savory crepes. “Dirty” is taken from the nickname of a deceased cousin, but they also think of the term as part of their style.

“We want to take a dish and funk it up, make it Dirty,” Lesley says.

One of their most popular food truck dishes is smoked Gouda macaroni and cheese that they make “Dirty” with crawfish and tasso. The roughly 10-item regular menu includes build-your-own crepes and the Elvis-inspired Jailhouse

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FORK + CENTER [CONTINUED] St., 504-459-4449; www.balisenola. com). The patron party begins at 6 p.m. and features cocktails by Dale DeGroff (see “3-Course Interview,” p. 25). Gala tickets are $145, $125 for museum members; patron party tickets are $200.

Admission to the museum is free on Saturday, and there is a cooking demonstration by Chef Tenney Flynn of GW Fins (808 Bienville St., 504-581-3467; www.gwfins.com) at 2 p.m. and a lecture by food writer and barbecue expert Steven Raichlen (www.barbecuebible.com) at 5 p.m. On Sunday, Chef Tariq Hannah of Sucre (3025 Magazine St., 504-520-8311; 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-834-2277; www.shopsucre.com) does a pastry demonstration at 2 p.m.

— WILL COVIELLO

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Michael A. Ross

Jason Marsalis Music - folk band

Alynda Lee Segarra Hurray for the Riff Raff

After 18 years in an unassuming building on South Carrollton Avenue, Chef Antonio “Nino” Bongiorno plans to close Cafe Nino (1510 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-865-9200) at the end of May. “Everyone knows me, and everyone cries,” Bongiorno said when word spread about his plans to close. But fans of Nino’s pizza, chicken Marsala and red wine, take note: Bongiorno said that after a short break, he plans to seek a new location.

The 70-year-old chef said he needs to return home to Messina, Sicily, where his parents live. For another, he said, the condition of the building he has leased for nearly two decades is now making it more difficult to attract new customers.

With a new location — his first choice is the Warehouse District, though he also likes Freret Street — and his current following, “they will be lining up out the door,” he says.

Bongiorno made his way from Italy to America in 1970, landing in New York with his first wife. In 1986, he moved to New Orleans, and bought into the Scotto franchise of Italian eateries with a location in the Riverwalk Marketplace. After nine years there, Bongiorno moved to the Carrollton area and the building that has borne his name since.

Bongiorno has built a reputation based on his hearty Italian food and his hospitality. The faded menu offers a heavy plate featuring an entree of veal, fish or chicken and a side of pasta for $9.45, often with a glass of wine on the house.

“I’m an old man, but I still get new energy,” Bongiorno said. “A sip of wine will do that.” — ROBERT MORRIS | UPTOWN MESSENGER

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Dale DeGroff Master mixologist

A founder of the modern craft cocktail movement and the Museum of the American Cocktail (www. cocktailmuseum.org), Dale DeGroff will attend the April 17 gala opening of the museum inside the Southern Food & Beverage Museum (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-5690405; www.southernfood.org). He spoke with Gambit about the exhibit and cocktails.

What will people see in the exhibit?

There’s also a lot of tiki stuff in the exhibit.

D: [Tiki drinks] were wildly popular post-Prohibition. A lot of people were going to Cuba; a lot of rum was coming up through Florida and Louisiana. [America] had a second love affair with rum; people had a taste for it. And also, rum was cheap. Lots of distributors who had been gangsters moved into the legitimate end of the business. They found themselves with large inventories of rum. They started allocating better spirits according to how much rum you bought. That pushed people to create drinks around rum.

How close is New Orleans to the cutting edge of the craft cocktail movement?

D: You just caught up. I travel everywhere. I go to Rochester (New York), Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Minneapolis. Everywhere you go there are craft cocktail bars.

The Internet is driving it. New Orleans just caught up to cutting-edge major urban areas like Boston, New York and, believe it or not, Seattle and Portland.

Los Angeles’ market is pretty amazing right now. New Orleans is right there with those urban areas because of Tales of the Cocktail. A lot of craft cocktail bartenders have relocated here, like Jeff Berry. — WILL COVIELLO

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DeGroff: It’s a timeline. It gives you the moment in 1806 when the cocktail was defined officially for the first time as a mixed beverage. [The cocktail] was a novelty. It wasn’t available to many folks. Reasonably priced ice hadn’t evolved yet. But once Frederic Tudor starting storing ice and shipping it around the world and around the country from New England, wealthier folks started demanding ice with their mixed drinks.

In the years 1830 to 1861, mostly for cruise ships and onboard, there was the development of artificial ice machines. They took over the industry by the mid19th century. With the sudden availability of lots of reasonably priced ice and with other advances — like water saturated with gas and then flavored, and the ability to push beer through lines with gas — all these things evolved: the mechanics of the modern barroom.

The cocktail is a post-Industrial Revolution phenomenon. It couldn’t exist in the 16th and 17th centuries. They didn’t have the ways and means to make it cheap and easy to do these things. The precursor of the cocktail was the punch bowl — a mixed drink with a lot of the same elements as a cocktail: sweet, sour, bitter, a spice. It was the property of the wealthy. You had to have a big silver punch bowl and a lot of silver punch cups and exotic spices that were expensive and access to citrus fruit, which was hard to get. All of these things — with increased availability in urban areas —seemed to come together in the middle of the 19th century. That journey is what you see on the wall [at the museum]. It’s a growing ability to mechanize the bar, the electrification of the bar.

Then there’s the downfall that came from temperance. The cocktail was severely affected by Prohibition. By the middle of the 20th century, the fancy cocktails of the golden era of the 1880s were long gone. They were historical oddities. Only now do we find them flourishing again, as part of the culinary revolution of the past 35 years. Our exhibit ends at the new millennium.

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BEER buzz Covington Brewhouse (226 E. Lockwood St., Covington, 985-893-2884; www.covingtonbrewhouse.com) opens its new brewery tap room April 17. The 10-tap tasting room will have space for 30 to 40 people, and it will be open 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Founded in 2005 as Heiner Brau, the brewery is making a fresh start under Covington Brewhouse brewmaster Brian the ownership of new head Broussard, brewer James Cancienne, brewer Brian Broussard and brewer Mike Ogden, and Dan Cobb share former high school teacher the first toast in the new tap room.

David Arbo. They added COURTESY COVINGTON BREWHOUSE Anonymous IPA to the brewery’s year-round lineup and introduced a new seasonal series, including a recently released pale ale. Rock & Roll Summer, a farmhouse ale, will soon debut for summer. In fall, the brewery will release a traditional Oktoberfest-style Fest Bier. Electric Porter is its winter beer.

“Our building is over 100 years old and is an historic landmark of Covington,” Arbo says. “Most people know it as the old Alexius hardware building but it also spent time as a gymnasium and a cotton processing warehouse.

“We expect to both enhance and benefit from this aspect of [downtown] Covington,” Arbo adds.

The brewery’s location at the end of the Tammany Trace bike path and across the street from Trailhead Park creates opportunities to participate in area events as well. There is a block party featuring food vendors and live music on the street in front of the brewery from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, April 24, and the tap room will be open during the event. — NORA McGUNNIGLE

April 24-26 April 30-May 3

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WINE of the week 2011 Colome Estate Malbec S A LTA , A RGENTIN A RETAIL $20-$26

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Carmo a tropical restaurant & bar

527 Julia Street, NOLA (504) 875-4132 CafeCarmo.com

traditionally-eclectic tropical cuisine + exotic fruit juices & cocktails + top certified green restaurant vegan/vegetarian-friendly + decadently healthy + unique sustainable shima sashimi menu

Founded in 1831, Bodega Colome is Argentina’s oldest winery.

The original owners brought cabernet sauvignon and malbec vines from France to their estate in the Calchaqui Valley in the northern province of Salta. California’s Hess Collection purchased the estate and installed the latest equipment. Vineyards are planted along Salta’s mountain slopes at 5,500 to 10,000 feet above sea level, and soils are composed of sandy loam and alluvial deposits. A blend of 85 percent malbec, 8 percent tannat, 3 percent cabernet sauvignon and 2 percent each petit verdot and syrah grapes were hand-harvested and underwent slow vinification and extended maceration to develop complexity. Half the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in French oak before aging 15 months in new and used oak barrels. In the glass, it offers concentrated aromas of blackberry, cherry and hints of pepper and oak spice. On the palate, taste red and black currants, plums, herbal notes, velvety tannins and a backbone of acid. Decant 30 minutes before serving. Drink it with meat and chops, roasted fowl and game and aged cheeses. Buy it at: Costco, Dorignac’s and Breaux Mart in River Ridge. Drink it at: Cava, Galatoire’s, Restaurant August, Tableau, Tony Angello’s Ristorante, Palace Cafe, La Boca, K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, Morton’s The Steakhouse, Crescent City Steak House, The Steak Knife, The Court of Two Sisters, Harrah’s New Orleans and Lola in Covington. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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Old New Orleans Rum dinner

6:30 p.m. Tuesday Tiki Tolteca, 301 N. Peters St., second floor, (504) 288-8226 www.tikitolteca.com The six-course dinner features Old New Orleans Rum cocktails and New Orleans cuisine. The first course will be served at the bar, and then guests will ride a bus to the distillery for the second course and a tour. The final courses will be served at Tiki Tolteca. Tickets are $100, including tax, tip and transportation.

Grow Dat Youth Farm Hootenanny

6:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 300-1132

www.growdatyouthfarm.org The fundraising party features square dancing and zydeco music by Cedric Watson, The Western Sweethearts, My Wife’s Hat and others. There’s food from local restaurants including Mondo, 1000 Figs, Pagoda Cafe, St. James Cheese Company, Woody’s Fish Tacos, Good Eggs and others. Tickets $40.

Cochon Cotillion XIX

7 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, (504) 361-7821

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Ova priced?

“There’s a humane way to do things and the ‘I-don’t-givea-damn-I’m-at-the-top-of-thefood-chain’ way. A woman recently asked me how could I pay $6 a dozen for eggs.

My answer was, ‘How much do you pay for a cup of coffee at Starbucks?’”

— Maurice Sinnett, quoted in a Washington Post story on the rise of “pasture-raised” eggs in stores. Texas startup Vital Farms sells eggs from chickens allowed to roam pastures and graze. Its certified organic, pasture-raised eggs cost as much as $8.99 per dozen, which is a few dollars more than regular organic eggs.

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640 Carondelet St., (504) 459-4449

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Venison tartare is served with dill mayonnaise, shaved horseradish and rye crumbs.

2 Chophouse

322 Magazine St., (504) 522-7902 www.chophousenola.com

Beef carpaccio is thin-sliced rare beef topped with romano cheese, capers, arugula and aioli.

3 The Franklin

2600 Dauphine St., (504) 267-0640

www.thefranklinnola.com

Steak tartare is mixed with diced strawberries and served with a quail egg and balsamic.

4 Restaurant R’evolution

777 Iberville St., (504) 553-2277 www.revolutionnola.com

Espresso-crusted venison carpaccio is topped with black walnuts and dark chocolate.

5 Shaya

4213 Magazine St., (504) 891-4213 www.shayarestaurant.com

Kibbeh nayah is a mixture of Two Run Farms beef and lamb tartare with walnuts and hot Yemeni flatbread.

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www.bridgehouse.org The annual mock Mardi Gras ball is a fundraiser for Bridge House and Grace House, which provide support and services to people recovering from substance abuse. Tacky costumes are encouraged, and the event features live music, a full bar, silent auction, raffle and food from local restaurants including Casamento’s, Pascal’s Manale, Zea Rotisserie & Grill and many others. Call (504) 821-7288 for tickets and information. Tickets $100.

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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.

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you are where you eat

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.

Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

AMERICAN 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, pizza, quesdaillas and more. Daily specials include red beans and rice on Mondays.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-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. $$

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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 is an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The 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

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.

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

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Five Guys Burgers and Fries — 1212 S. Clearview Pkwy., Suite C, Harahan, (504) 733-5100; www.fiveguys. com — The menu features burgers and cheeseburgers with topping options such as grilled onions or mushrooms, jalapenos, hot sauce and barbecue sauce. There also are hot dogs, grilled cheese and grilled cheese and vegetable sandwiches and fries. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. 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) 482-1264; 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. 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. $

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

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

Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The constantly changing menu features dishes such as pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, crispy Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

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 pan-seared shrimp, smoked sausage and blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit c ards. $

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. $$

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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. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska.

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

Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 561-5171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 522-2233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www. daisydukesrestaurant.com — The New Orleans sampler features red beans and rice, jambalaya, a cup of gumbo, fried green tomatoes and a biscuit. The seafood omelet contains crawfish, shrimp, tomatoes and mushrooms and is topped with cheese. Delivery available from Carondelet Street location. No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Credit cards. $

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at

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Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The mix of Creole and Caribbean fare includes jerk chicken and crawfish etouffee. The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

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.

Reservations resommended. 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. $$$

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. $$

Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/ cafegentilly — Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a 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) 6444992; www.memesbarandgrille. com — MeMe’s serves steaks, chops and Louisiana seafood. New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp are prepared in their shells and served with peppery lemon, garlic and butter sauce. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Messina’s Runway Cafe — 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 2415300; www.messinasterminal.com — Jimmy Wedell seafood pasta features Gulf shrimp, Lake Pontchartrain crabmeat, crawfish, fresh herbs and angel hair pasta. The breakfast menu includes pain perdu, crab cakes Benedict, omelets, waffles and more.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast and lunch daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish couvillion, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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 house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 4566362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy is dressed with lettuce and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp in 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. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8366859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ PAGE 31

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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. $

potatoes. Panko-crusted avacado is topped with shrimp salsa. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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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. $$

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INTERNATIONAL Canal Street Bistro — 3903 Canal St., (504) 482-1225; www.canalstreetbistro.com — The 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.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings.

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

Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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

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

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

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. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www. criollonola.com — The shrimp, blue crab and avocado are served with 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. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys.com — The restaurant serves contemporary Creole and Italian dishes. Sauteed Gulf fish is prepared with smoked herb rub and served with crawfish risotto and shaved asparagus. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ 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 Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce.

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

Credit cards. $$$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www. tivoliandlee.com — The restaurant offers a modern take on Southern cuisine, with dishes ranging from andouille potato tots to fried oysters. The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ 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. $$

MIDDLE EASTERN Attiki Bar & Grill — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. 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 cafes serve beef or chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb chops, vegetarian options and more.

There also are stuffed grape leaves, hummus and falafel. 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 Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www. facebook.com/casaborrega — 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. No reservations.

Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 8852984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Cannelloni are stuffed with veal, spinach and Parmesan, baked in Alfredo sauce and topped with tomato sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, panfried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. No reservations. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Casa Tequila — 3229 Williams Blvd., Kenner (504) 443-5423 — The

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The El General combo plate includes a beef burrito, beef chile relleno, chicken enchilada, a chicken taco and guacamole. 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. The churrascaria platter features skewers of beef, chicken, shrimp, jalapeno sausage, peppers and onions and comes with chipotle cream sauce and chimichurri.

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

Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns. com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

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Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant — 301 Dauphine St., (504) 586-0972 — 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. $$$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; 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. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ 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. Cheese pierogies are served with fried onions and sour cream. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www. biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Signature dishes include a waffle topped with brie and blueberry compote and French toast served with bananas and pancetta. The menu also includes biscuits topped with gravy. Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations. Brunch and lunch Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar.

Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites. Daily specials include braised lamb shank and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. Roasted garlic pizza is topped with roasted whole garlic cloves, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, feta and mozzarella. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — The pizzeria serves thin-crust pies topped with many local ingredients. 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, tomatoes and 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 are 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. $

entrees. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. 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. $

Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 298-0504; 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. No reservations.

Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 2526745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a changing menu of po-boys. The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and dressed with garlic mayo and 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 poboy 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. Short Stop’s gumbo combines smoked andouille 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) 897-5413; 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 Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — The menu includes grilled whole fish, royal red shrimp with garlic butter and crab and crawfish beignets with remoulade. Char-broiled oysters are topped with garlic butter and Parmesan. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 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. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish cooked with the skin on, oysters from the raw bar and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ 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 and a few Italian

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. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Flash fried oysters are tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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. Reservations accepted.

Dinner Mon.-Sat, late night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VEGETARIAN Seed — 1330 Prytania St., (504) 302-2599; www.seedyourhealth.com — Seed uses local, organic ingredients in its eclectic menu, including soups, salads, nachos, sandwiches and more. Raw pad thai features cucumber, carrots, peppers, jicama, bean sprouts and peanuts in house-made marinade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

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

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Joey Arias performs his homage to Billie Holiday

By Will Coviello

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“I had been doing more Led Zeppelin-y stuff and crazy stuff,” he says.

“Lady Bunny said ‘Can you do a beautiful Billie Holiday song for Wigstock?

Everything is so wacky and crazy, it’d be cool if you came out and did something really pretty.’”

A friend suggested he appropriate Holiday’s look from Lady in Satin, with a 1950s gown and long earings and gloves.

“I came out and sang and people freaked out,” he says. “People started calling me to book me.

The money changed and everything changed. So there it was. I’ve been doing these shows in drag.”

But Arias also presents his vision of Holiday.

“People always say, ‘Oh Billie Holiday, what a sad story,’” he says.

“It’s like, ‘No, not at all.’

She gave so much. She wasn’t a downer. She’s not like Amy Winehouse. She was classy; she was elegant. She lived up to the name ‘Lady Day’ — sheer elegance. She spoke out [about] racism and about women. She put that foot forward and said ‘F—k it, it’s out there.’ She spoke like a sailor and didn’t care what people had to say. She didn’t like walking in the back door. That’s why she opened Cafe Society. It was a place where blacks and whites could mingle.”

Mingling in New York turned up many opportunities for Arias. When he arrived in the city, he took a sales job at the couture shop Fiorucci, where he was known to sing and perform as well.

“I met a lot of people there,” he says. “I honed my craft of performance, but at the same time making sales. But I stood out like a big sore thumb. I sang on the floor. But people would buy something. Fiorucci was a big part of my life.”

It’s where he met fellow singer and unconventional performer Nomi.

“I was hanging out with Klaus and we were having a ball,” Arias says. “He started to get famous, and they put a band together for him and he didn’t know what he was doing so I joined him to help out. …[W]e

had another show and another show and it was great. We were just having P H OTO BY fun, and before you know it, there’s David Bowie at the Mudd Club, going crazy seeing Klaus and I, and [Bowie] APRIL wanted to do a project with him.

Before you know it, I am invited to do Saturday Night Live with them. …

“We did three songs. People freaked out when we wore these (Thierry) Mugler gowns and Bowie came out in a Chinese airline stewardess’ outfit. We were just having fun doing it. It wasn’t like we were going to change history, it was just having a good time.”

Manhattan’s downtown has changed, and though Arias lives in the same rent-controlled Greenwich Village apartment he acquired in 1981, he now runs into people like Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin when he walks the streets, he says. As a fixture in New York’s nightclub and cabaret scene, Arias says they’re the peers and neighbors he now chats with about his new projects.

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Joey Arias sings Billie Holiday 7:30 p.m. Friday Contemporary Arts Center 900 Camp St. (504) 528-3805 www.cacno.org

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n the centennial of Billie Holiday’s birth, New York singer Joey Arias has been traveling the world, performing his homage to the legendary singer.

He was at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on the actual centennial (April 7, 1915).

Since the 1990s, Arias has often done the show in drag, and sometimes he wears Holiday’s fox fur and jewelry loaned to him for specific occasions by a grandnephew of her last husband Louis McKay (“It’s a long story,” Arias says about how he met the nephew on Facebook). Arias brings his Holiday tribute to the Contemporary Arts Center Friday, though he’s not sure if he’ll bring Holiday’s wardrobe, he says.

Though Arias sometimes wears a gardenia in his hair like Holiday sometimes did, he is not doing an impersonator act. His career is marked by a memorable star turn performing with David Bowie and Klaus Nomi on Saturday Night Live in 1979. And he starred for six years in Cirque du Soleil’s first adult-themed show, Zumanity, in Las Vegas. Holiday’s music had helped him find a singing voice that he really likes.

“When I sang ‘Good Morning Heartache,” for him, Andy Warhol said, ‘Don’t even say Billie Holiday. That’s just you,’” Arias says via phone from his New York apartment. “‘That’s your voice, that’s you.’”

“My voice happens to have the same raspy elegance,” he adds.

Arias was born in North Carolina and grew up in Los Angeles, where he sang in pop bands, before moving to New York at the age of 17 in the mid-1970s.

While in New York, he discovered Holiday’s music.

“I fell in love with her voice, with the tonality, her phrasing,” he says. “I didn’t know too much about Billie, I just thought her voice was beautiful. I was like, ‘I want to sound like that.’”

In the late 1980s, he created his first full Holiday show, which a musician friend goaded him into titling “Strange Fruit,” after Holiday’s song protesting racial oppression and referring to lynchings. The show ran for almost a year, and a singing style similar to Holiday’s became a focus for him.

“I moved forward doing pop tunes — ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ or Madonna a la Billie’s style of singing,” he says. “Then I’d go back to doing my Billie show again.

Then back to pop.”

His homage includes some of Holiday’s best known songs.

“I love ‘You’ve Changed’ from Lady in Satin,” he says. “It’s a beautiful song about love and it’s got a beautiful melody. I love ‘God Bless the Child.’ I used to do the songs she sang most of her life and I throw in a few others: ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’,’ ‘Everything I Have Is Yours,’ ‘Violets for Your Furs.’”

Arias didn’t do the show in drag until he was asked to perform at New York’s drag festival, Wigstock.

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Chasing Safety, Too Close to Touch, 6:30; Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hazy Ray Trio, Freeway Revival, 8:30 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Lady Sings the Blues feat. Dana Abbott, 5; Irvin Mayfield & the NOJO Jam, 8

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TUESDAY 14 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 7; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8 AllWays Lounge — Magnetic Ear, 8 Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30

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Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Snug Harbor — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10

Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Open Ears Music Series: Tate Carson, Chris Alford & Will Thompson, 10

WEDNESDAY 15

BMC — Hatchett Boys, Eudora Evans & Deep Soul, Mario Abney, 5

Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 7:30

Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30

Casa Borrega — Hector Gallardo’s Cuban Jazz Trio, 7

Bamboula’s — Ben Fox Trio, 4; Benny D Band, 6:30; Troy Turner, 10

Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; The Jonathan Brown Band, Saucy Yoda, 11

Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10

Chickie Wah Wah — Trent Pruitt, 5:30; Andrew Duhon Trio, 8:30; The Kid Carsons feat.

David Easley, 10 Circle Bar — Laura Dyer Jazz Trio, 6; King Mulhacen, 10 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Freret Street Publiq House — Wild Child, 8 Gasa Gasa — Progression Music Series, 9 House of Blues — Sir Michael Rocks, Rob Banks, Pouya, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Pat Casey & The New Sound, 8 Little Gem Saloon — The Messy Cookers, 8 Louisiana Music Factory — Southern Sounds Tour Party feat. Tuba Skinny, 6 The Maison — Gregory Agid Quartet, 6; New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30

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Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 8

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Mike Indest, 7; Eddie Parrino, 8; Quinn DeVeaux, 9; Sazerac the Clown’s Cabinet, 10

Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 BMC — Bobby Love & Friends, Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, The Business, 5 Cafe Istanbul — Jam session feat. Lynn Drury, 7; Medfield High School Jazz Band feat.

Eric Bloom, 10 Cafe Negril — Arsene Delay, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9 Casa Borrega — Sasha Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Black Laurel, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — John Rankin, 5:30; Casey McAllister, Spencer Bohren, Aurora Nealand, 8 Circle Bar — Mike True, 6 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Meryl Zimmerman, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Lady Lamb, Luke Rathborne, 9 House of Blues — I Prevail,

Lafayette Square — Wednesdays at the Square: Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Amanda Shaw, 5 Little Gem Saloon — Kyle Cripps, 5; The Listening Room, 6; Mario Abney Sextet, 8 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6; Roamin’ Jasmine, 9:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Renshaw & the Davies, 9; Aaron Maras & the Zac Maras, 10 Old Point Bar — Bob Green & the Green River Band, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Joe Krown, 2 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Kid Merv, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tom Sancton & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, Steve Pistorious, Shannon Powell, 7 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All Stars feat.

Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & Next Generation, 8 & 10 Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Joe Krown, 8 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 The Sandbar at UNO — Warren Battiste, 7 Siberia — Rachel Kate, Jeff Shepard, Mike Collins Jr., 10 Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 The Spotlight Bar and Grill — Dr. Rock, 9 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Schatzy, 7 Tipitina’s — Lee Scratch Perry, DJ T-Roy, 9

THURSDAY 16 21st Amendment — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 8 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Loose Marbles Trio, 2; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 6:30; Mem Shannon Band, 10 Blue Nile — Mikey “B3” Burkart, 7; DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Yisrael Trio, The Crooked Vines, Malika, 5 Buffa’s Lounge — Crescent Cats feat. Sacramen-

MUSIC LISTINGS to Jazz Camp Counselors, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Jeff Chaz & the NOLA Blues Band, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Garrett Thornton, 7; Pastor Stone & the Prophets of Blues, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; David Lindley, 8 Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; ClintMaedgenRadio, Rob Cambre, 10 City Park Botanical Garden — Thursdays at Twilight: Paul Soniat, 6 Columbia Street Taproom Grill — Andree Dupepe, 7:30 d.b.a. — New Orleans Swamp Donkeys, 6:30; Little Freddie King, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Stephan Lands, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Bayou Saints, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — James Rose Band, Jordan Prince Band, Lovey Dovies, 10 Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Langhorne Slim & the Law, 9 House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge) — King Cupcake, 7 Howlin’ Wolf — Trevarri, The Big Excuse, Noruz (Miles Davis tribute), 8 Irish House — Ruby Ross, 6

Kerry Irish Pub — Michael Brown, 8 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11; New Breed Brass Band, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5; Mykia Jovan, 8 Louis Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park: The Revealers, The Honey Island Swamp Band, 4 The Maison — Jon Roniger, 5; Bon Bon Vivant, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter Jr., Eric “Benny” Bloom, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Nattie, 8; Bad Oyster Band, 9 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Ogden After Hours: Africa Brass, 6 Old Point Bar — Fade Away Jumpers, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Lydia

Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger, Crescent City Joymakers, David Boeddinghaus, Herman LeBeaux, 7

Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Johnny O’Brian, 4; Woodenhead, 7; Isla Nola, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 8

Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10

Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 6; Guitar Lightnin’, 10

Prime Example Jazz Club — Alexey Marti & Urban Minds, 8 & 10

d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Luke WinslowKing, Sam Doores, 10

Rare Form — Joey VanLeeuwen Trio, 4; Adam Everett Trio, 7 Republic New Orleans — Young Fathers, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Harvey Castle, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Jeffery Broussard, 8:30 Siberia — Artillery, Striker, VX36, Potential Threat, Dahlmer’s Realm, A Hanging, 8 Snug Harbor — Warren Battiste Quartet, 8 & 10 Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Luke WinslowKing, 7:30 Tipitina’s — Homegrown Night Series feat. Hipnosis, The N’awlins Johnnys, CakeWalk, 8:30 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11

FRIDAY 17 21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30 AllWays Lounge — Dayna Kurtz album release show, 10 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Organized Chaos feat. Honey Savage, 2; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; Johnny Mastro Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Stereo Fire Empire, 10 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers album release, 7; Corey Henry & Treme Funktet, 10 BMC — Lefty Keith & True Blues, James Jordan & the Beautiful Band, Soul Project, Josh Kagler & HPC, 3 Buffa’s Lounge — Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, 5; Crossing Canal feat. Ruby Ross & Patrick Cooper, 8; Viper Mad Trio, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Original Pinettes Brass Band, 8

Columbia Street Taproom Grill — The Tramps, 9:30

Pops, 10; Dave & the Gang, 11 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Jacques & Marie Letalon, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin, Palm Court Jazz Band, James Singleton, 7 Preservation Hall — PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10

Roniger, 5; The Royal Rounders, 8; Alexandra Scott & Josh Paxton, 11 Cafe Negril — Jame Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Alexa Burroughs, 4; Kenny Triche, 7; Kaboom, 11 Circle Bar — Richard Bates, 6; Dan Montgomery, 10 Columbia Street Taproom Grill — The Voyage, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; Hot 8 Brass Band, 11

Dish on Hayne — Sharon Martin, 6:30

Rare Form — Justin Donovan, 4; Vic Pappa & Friends, 9

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Eric Traub Trio, 10

Rivershack Tavern — Joe Nadeau, 10

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Lips & Trips, 7

Rock ’n’ Bowl — No Idea, 9:30

Gasa Gasa — Alexis & the Samurai, Nyce!, Renshaw Davies, 8

Rusty Nail — Kirk Holder, 5

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 7

Saturn Bar — Adults record release, Secret Passage, We Need to Talk, 9

Gasa Gasa — The Breton Sound, Social Set, Sounds Del Mar, 10

Snug Harbor — Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony, 8 & 10

Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11

Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Transplanted Roots, 7; Felix, Patrick Shuttleswerth Wants to Make You Deaf, Night Janitor, 10 The Historic New Orleans Collection — Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road, 6 House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge) — The Lexington Express, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Gulf benefit concert feat. The Honey Pots, Double Wide, Gitlo Lee, Drew Landry, Charmaine Neville, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Sun Year, Melville Deweys, Boy Sprout, 10:30 Irish House — Marshall Baker, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8 Jazz Cafe — Gypsy Elise & the Royal Blues, 9 JuJu Bag Cafe and Barber Salon — Sharon Martin, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Paul Ferguson, 5; Wild Irish Roots, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Piano Bob, 7; Revival, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Stuart McNair, 5; Nayo Jones, 8 The Maison — Leah Rucker, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; The Suffers, 10; Cakewalk, midnight Mandeville Trailhead — John Boutte, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Eric Bolivar, Casandra Faulconer, Brian Coogan, Andrew Block & Jason Neville, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Damn Hippies, 7; Mike True, 9; Blues in da Pocket, 10; Mike Liuzza &

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 — The Waterboys, New Breed Brass Band, 9

Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — Tuba Skinny, 6:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Honeyboy Carencro & the Hawt Ya Ya’s, 9 Irish House — Scottish Session feat. Strathsby & Reel, 2; Patie O’Sullivan, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Leroy Jones Quintet, 8 Jazz Cafe — Gypsy Elise & the Royal Blues, 9

Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8

Kerry Irish Pub — Speed the Mule, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9

Ugly Dog Saloon — Shotgun Double, 7

Le Bon Temps Roule — Chris Klein, 11

Union Station Pub & Grill — The Little Things, 6

Little Gem Saloon — Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, 7

The Willow — Battle of the bands feat. Arm Candy, Chopped Up Tulips, The Bummers, 8

SATURDAY 18 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30 Abita Springs Town Hall — Chris Talley & Friends, Cassie Krebs & Dave Easley, NOLA Bluegrass Band, Wasted Lives, 7 Bamboula’s — Abby Diamond, 2; Carl Le Blanc, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — The Parishoners, 9:30 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Free Agents Brass Band, 10 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Ambush Reggae Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Luneta Jazz Band, Johnny Mastro & Mama’s Boys, The Jeff Davis Project, Dysfunktional Bone, 3 Buffa’s Lounge — John

Louisiana Music Factory — Jon Roniger, 2; Alexandra Scott, 3; Caesar Brothers, 4; Tank & the Bangas, 5 The Maison — Moonshine and Caroline, 1; Cajun Fais Do Do, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; T-Bird & the Breaks, 10; Street Legends Brass Band, midnight Maple Leaf Bar — Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Clint Kaufmann, 7; Mr. Steve, 9; Lo Faber, 10 Oak — Jenn Howard Glass, 9 Old Point Bar — Gal Holiday, 9:30 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s Mighty Men, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell, Palm Court Jazz Band, Wendell Eugene, Ernie Elly, Chuck Badie, 7 Pearl Wine Co. — Jasper Brothers, 8

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Joshua Starkman, Dave Mooney, 5; The James Rivers Movement, 8

Loveless, 7

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Preservation Hall — The Southern Syncopators feat. Steve Pistorius, 6; The Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10; ClintMaedgenRadio, midnight Rare Form — Mike Dill, 1-3; Marc Stone, 5; Mark Darby, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Ghost Town, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Mike Zito, Connie G, 8 Siberia — Sarah Quintana, 6; Suplecs, The Weakness, Knight, 10 Snug Harbor — Dr. Michael White & Original Liberty Jazz Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Jazz Band Ballers, 2; Ecrib Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; Sasha Masakowski, 10 Three Muses — Chris Peters, 5; Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — Papadosio, The Human Experience, 10 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8

The Maison — Daniel Schroeder, 4; Too Darn Hot, 7; One Love Brass Band, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Russell Batiste, 10 Old Point Bar — Jelly Jazz, 3:30; 12-Mile Limit, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Humming House, 7 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Wardell Williams & the Blues Masters, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin, Sunday Night Swingsters, Tom Fischer, Mitchell Player, Frank Oxley, 7 Preservation Hall — Tammy Sancton & Sammy Rimington (George Lewis tribute), 3; The Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bruce Daigrepont, 5

21st Amendment — Tom McDermott, 4

Sisters in Christ — Graf Orlock, The Flex, Red Death, The World Is a Vampire, 2

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

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Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8

SUNDAY 19 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 2; Ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 7

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BMC — R&R Music Group, Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, Higher Heights Reggae Band, 3 Buffa’s Lounge — Jazz Youth Showcase feat. Nick Ellman, 3; Hot & Spicy Swing Club, 7

Snug Harbor — James Singleton & Blue Belly, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Up Up We Go; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael Bas, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8

Rarely have one-off projects been so productive.

If the net gain of Wild Flag’s profligate 2011 is the conception of a fantastic descendent and the resurrection of a classic antecedent — not to mention the marginal return of one of the best albums of that year — then losing it all has been more than worth it. No one knew for sure that Sleater-Kinney was coming back when Carrie Brownstein lowered the Flag in early 2014; no one knew of Ex Hex, which Sleater-Kinney APR Mary Timony would debut later that 8 p.m. Sunday year. This unlikely scenario, getting two The Civic Theatre, beloved bands out of one, is the rarest of rock post-nups, outside of Ex Hex’s 510 O’Keefe Ave. Timony, Betsy Wright and Laura Harris joining (504) 272-0865 forces with Sleater-Kinney’s Brownstein, Corin www.civicnola.com Tucker and Janet Weiss to form a dozen-deep X-chromosomal Voltron (please make this happen). As it actually happened, the two resulting records, Ex Hex’s Rips and January pick-up game No Cities to Love (Sub Pop), arrived three months apart — the latter 10 years after Sleater-Kinney wandered off into The Woods and 10 months to the day after Rolling Stone published a profile titled “Carrie Brownstein’s Life After Punk.” (“Does the world need another Sleater-Kinney album?” Fred Armisen asks, rhetorically and prophetically, in the piece. “It’s like asking if the world needs food.”) Unquestionably the trio’s most fun LP, it is everything that’s great about them all at once: feral and foxy, deeply in touch and forever out of bounds. THEESatisfaction opens. Tickets $30.

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d.b.a. — Luke Winslow-King, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9

MONDAY 20

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 3

Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30

Gasa Gasa — Instant Opus Music Series, 9

Bamboula’s — Justin Donovan, 4:30; NOLA Swinging Gypsies, 8

Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Hill Country Hounds, 10

Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 9

House of Blues — Tyler, the Creator, Taco, 8

The Civic Theatre — Sleater-Kinney, 8

BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10

d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Smoker’s World, 10

Blue Nile — King Parrot, 10

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Dragon’s Head, The Fifth Men, Darren BuCare, 8

Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Fpoon, Daniel Amadee, The Urban Cellist, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Andrew Duhon, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Russell Welch, 7; Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Waxahatchee, The Goodbye Party, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Writers Block, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irish House — Aaron Lopez Barrantes, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz

BMC — Mark Appleford, Lil Red & Big Bad, Smokey’s Blues Jam, 5 Buffa’s Lounge — Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Istanbul — MACCNO Fundraiser feat. Rebirth Brass Band, James Andrews, Gang Flag Honey, Jonathan Freilich, Brad Walk, 8 & 10 Chickie Wah Wah — The Little Things, 5:30; Alexis & the Samurai, 8; 5 O’Clock Charlie, 10:30 Circle Bar — Get Lo on Dark Mondays, 6; Sir Richard Bishop, Robert Millis, HAWN, 10

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Kim Carson, 8:30 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; The Business, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Natalie Palms, 7; Sam Cordts, 9 Old Point Bar — The Romy Kaye Jazz Trio, 7 One Eyed Jacks — The Ting Tings, 8

Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters, 8, 9 & 10 Siberia — Turquoise Jeep, Merle Swaggard, Austin Rapbaum and others, 10 Sisters in Christ — Jeff Rosenstock, Chumped, Donovan Wolfington, 6 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Bart Ramsey, 5; Washboard Rodeo, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8

CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — Pianist Jon Kimura Parker and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.

Tickets start at $34. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Emerson String Quartet.

Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www. tulane.edu/~theatre — The quartet performs work by Purcell, Berg and Ravel. Tickets $35, under 35 $18, students $5. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

“Loves Lost (and Found).”

— Jefferson Chorale performs a free spring concert.

7:30 p.m. Thursday at First Christian Church, 8121 Airline Hwy., Metairie; 5 p.m.

Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. “Mostly Mozart.”

Munholland Methodist Church, 1201 Metairie Road, (504) 834-9910; www. munhollandumc.org — The Musaica Chamber Ensemble performs Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D Major and the G Minor String Quintet, and other works. Suggested donation for adults $10, students and seniors $5.

7:30 p.m. Monday.

Organ & Labyrinth. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — Albinas Prizgintas performs.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

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FILM FESTIVALS Timecode:NOLA. www.timecodenola.com — The festival of local underground film includes screenings, workshops, a Super 8 film competition and a mini-festival of skateboard videos. Locations include One Eyed Jacks, the Old U.S. Mint and the Den of Muses. Visit the website for full schedule and details. Thursday-Sunday.

OPENING THIS WEEKEND An Honest Liar (NR) — Stage magician, skeptic and professional debunker James Randi is the subject of this biographical documentary. Indywood Leviathan (R) — When a corrupt mayor orders their seaside home demolished, Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) and his family attempt to fight back.

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG) — Hardworking mall cop Paul Blart (Kevin James) foils a criminal scheme at a Las Vegas security guard convention in the sequel to the 2009 action comedy. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Spring (NR) — An American man (Lou Taylor Pucci) flees to Italy, where he meets a young woman hiding a dark secret.

Zeitgeist Unfriended (R) — A dead teenager appears to her former high school classmates through Skype to seek revenge in this Internet-age thriller. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

NOW SHOWING American Sniper (R) — Clint Eastwood’s war drama is

Cinderella (PG) — Imprisoned by a cruel stepmother (Cate Blanchett), orphaned Ella (Lily James) meets a fairy godmother (Helena Bonham Carter) and goes to the palace ball in an adaptation directed

by Kenneth Branagh. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Danny Collins (R) — Aging rocker Danny Collins (Al Pacino) changes the course of his life when his manager (Christopher Plummer) discovers an undelivered letter from the late John Lennon. Elmwood, Regal, Canal Place The Divergent Series: Insurgent (PG-13) — Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) evade enemies and search for answers in post-apocalyptic Chicago in the second film based on science fiction novels

by Veronica Roth. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Do You Believe? (PG-13) — A local pastor re-ignites his faith and takes action in his community in this faith-based drama. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal 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 Furious 7 (PG-13) — In the seventh installment of The Fast and the Furious series, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) face the angry brother of a previously defeated enemy. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Get Hard (R) — After he’s convicted of fraud, an obtuse hedge fund manager (Will Ferrell) asks a law-abiding black man (Kevin Hart) to teach him how to survive in prison. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chal-

While We’re Young

Indie filmmaker and prototypical New Yorker Noah Baumbach found mainstream success in 2005 with his semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale, which was inspired by his adolescent years (and his parents’ messy divorce) in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope (in its pre-gentrified days). In recent years, the now 45-year-old Baumbach appears to have found much inspiration in the classic films of Woody Allen.

Baumbach’s little-seen 2012 gem Frances Ha combines elements familiar from Allen’s 1970s masterworks. It stars Baumbach’s girlfriend Greta Gerwig (who also co-wrote the film) in the title role of an endearingly daft New Yorker, which could also describe Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.

(As if to complete the circle, Gerwig appeared in Allen’s 2012 To Rome With Love.) As a black-and-white While We’re Young (R) love letter to New York City and its endlessly soul-searching denizens, Frances Ha also can’t help but recall Allen’s Manhattan.

Directed by Noah Baumbach Baumbach’s While We’re Young jumps one decade ahead to echo Allen’s Starring Ben Stiller, 1980s films Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Naomi Watts, Adam Driver Frances Ha’s essential sweetness is replaced by something a bit darker and Charles Grodin and a lot more complicated and ambiguous. The light comedy is balanced by drama and satire. By focusing his story on two Brooklyn couples a Limited release generation apart who become unlikely friends, Baumbach not only gets to the heart of present-day New York but also examines the new generation gap between digital-era millennials and those who came of age 15 or 20 years earlier. As depicted in While We’re Young, the two generations share much in terms of popular culture but have very different ideas about everything from marriage to cultural authenticity and professional success.

Fortysomething Josh (Ben Stiller) is a documentary filmmaker who’s been obsessing for 10 years on an unfinished, six-hour-long and very dry film. His wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) used to produce the films made by her father Leslie (Charles Grodin), a revered pioneer of the documentary form. It seems like all their friends are having babies but their own marriage is stuck in neutral. (Maria Dizzia and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz are hilarious as the couple’s supposedly blissed-out best-friends-with-baby.) Twentysomething aspiring documentarian Jamie (Adam Driver) and his wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried) approach Josh after crashing his continuing education class, and friendships ensue as the younger couple’s free-spirited nature reinvigorates the older one. But as Jamie worms his way into nearly every aspect of Josh and Cornelia’s lives, his motives quickly become suspect.

While We’re Young’s first hour has enough keen observations on modern life for a half-dozen movies, and its telling portrait of an acutely status-and-success obsessed New York is long overdue. It’s depicted as a place where even youthful art-making hipsters and the somewhat older art-making creative class never can really bridge their divide, though they suffer from the same narcissistic immaturity.

The film’s last 30 minutes lapse into an implausible discussion of truth and ethics in documentary filmmaking.

It all seems beside the point in a movie most interested in the hardships of marriage and the pain of lost youth — and in giving its audience much to think about and discuss on the way home. That’s one idea of success that While We’re Young fulfills easily. — KEN KORMAN

mette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Great White Shark 3D (NR) — The documentary explores shark encounters. Entergy IMAX His Girl Friday (NR) — Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in the 1940 comedy about a newspaper editor who attempts to prevent his ex-wife’s remarriage. Prytania Home (PG) — A girl named Tip (Rihanna) hides from an alien invasion, but befriends an alien named Oh (Jim Parsons) who’s

different from the rest of his kind in this animated comedy.

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

Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom (NR) — Two young Maasai warriors go on a ritual safari through Kenya. Entergy IMAX

Humpback Whales 3D (NR) — Scientists follow humpback whales as they migrate across the globe. 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). Elmwood, West Bank

It Follows (R) — Teenage Jay (Maika Monroe) is afflicted with a fatal curse after she sleeps with her new boyfriend Hugh (Jake Weary) in this indie horror film. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

The Last Five Years (PG-13) — A young novelist and an actress recount the history of their re-

lationship through song in the film based on the musical by Jason Robert Brown. Chalmette The Longest Ride (PG-13) — A young couple whose divergent paths in life threaten to tear them apart are inspired by an older man’s long relationship in a drama based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Run All Night (R) — Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson), a semi-re-

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Monkey Kingdom (G) — Disney’s nature feature stars South Asian monkeys Maya and Kip, who navigate the primate social hierarchy and learn to adapt when their home is invaded by neighboring monkeys.

Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

based on the autobiography of notorious Navy SEAL and Iraq war veteran Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), known for his high kill count. Elmwood

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tired hit man, is torn between his estranged son and his former mob boss Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris). West Bank The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) — 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, Regal 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. Chalmette While We’re Young (R) — A middle-aged couple (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts) find invigoration, turmoil and challenge through their friendship with a younger, hipper couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried). Elmwood, Canal Place Woman in Gold (PG-13) — Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) fights the government of Austria over a Gustav Klimt painting confiscated by Nazis in a drama based on a true story.

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Amarcord (R) — Federico Fellini’s 1973 film looks at life in a small coast town in 1930s Italy through the eyes of a young man named Titta (Bruno Zanin). 6:30 p.m. Monday.

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Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) — Human supporters of Winter, a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, work to find her a replacement pool-mate so she can remain at her home aquarium.

6 p.m. Saturday. Lakeview Presbyterian Exhibition OnScreen: Vincent Van Gogh (NR) — Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum opens its galleries for a look at classic art and new research about Vincent van Gogh. 7 p.m.

Tuesday. Elmwood, Regal Friday: 20th Anniversary Director’s Cut (NR) — Ice Cube and Chris Tucker star as pot-smoking slackers under pressure to cough up some cash in the 1995 buddy comedy. 7:30 p.m. Monday. West Bank, Slidell, Regal

and sound editing as it tracks the relationship between a married woman and a single man. 9 p.m. Friday-Sunday, 10 p.m. Monday. Indywood

escaped prisoner (Cary Grant) and a law professor (Ronald Colman), each of whom vie for her affection. 10 a.m.

Sunday. Prytania

Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) — Space adventurer Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) bands together with Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Groot (Vin Diesel), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Drax (Dave Bautista) to protect a powerful orb in the Marvel superhero film. 10 p.m.

Sunday. Prytania

TCM Presents: The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary (NR) — Turner Classic Movies presents a restored version of the 1965 musical about the Von Trapp family and their new governess Maria (Julie Andrews). 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Sunday. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal

His Girl Friday (NR) — Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in the 1940 comedy about a newspaper editor who attempts to prevent his ex-wife’s remarriage. 10 a.m.

Wednesday. Prytania

Welcome to New York (R) — Gerard Depardieu stars as Devereaux, a powerful businessman embroiled in a sex scandal, in a drama inspired by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. 7:15 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist

The Hunting Ground (NR) — The documentary examines sexual assault on college campuses. A question-andanswer session with a student panel follows. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Woldenberg Art Center Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PG-13) — Erstwhile archeologist Indiana Jones stops the Nazis and their plan to obtain The Holy Grail. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place The Lego Movie (PG) — Ordinary Lego figure Emmet (Chris Pratt) is accidentally prophesied to save the world from evil Lord Business (Will Ferrell) in the movie based on the popular building toys. Field games at 6 p.m., movie at 7:15 p.m. Friday. A.L. Davis Park Navigate Him (NR) — The documentary looks at the experience of AfricanAmerican men from age 5 to age 90 in New Orleans. 1 p.m.

Saturday. Elmwood Purple Rain (R) — The New Orleans Film Society hosts an outdoor screening of the 1984 rock musical starring Prince as an aspiring rocker called “The Kid.” 7:45 p.m. Friday. The Brick Yard R5: All Day, All Night (NR) — Young pop band R5 appear in concert footage and interviews. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Elmwood, Slidell Saturday Morning Cartoons — Indywood screens classic and modern children’s cartoons and there’s a cereal and milk bar. Noon Saturday.

Indywood

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (NR) — A lonely, skateboarding vampire hunts men who disrespect women in Ana Lily Amirpour’s “Iranian vampire spaghetti western.”

10 p.m. Tuesday; 6 p.m.

Wednesday; 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

Thursday. Indywood

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (PG) — Discovered inside a bamboo stalk, Princess Kaguya grows into a beautiful woman and challenges her suitors to impossible tasks in an animated film from Japan’s Studio Ghibli. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Indywood

Goodbye to Language (NR) — Famed director Jean-Luc Godard’s 2014 film experiments with 3D technology

The Talk of the Town (NR) — The 1942 film stars Jean Arthur as a high school teacher who houses an

What We Do in the Shadows (NR) — Vampire roommates Viago, Deacon, Vladislav and Petyr struggle to adapt to everyday life in this comedy from New Zealand. 5:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist A.L. Davis Park: 2600 LaSalle St.; www.nola.gov/nordc 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 The Brick Yard: Chartres Street at Montegut Street; www.neworleansfilmsociety.org Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com 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) 345-880: www. indywood.org Lakeview Presbyterian Church: 5914 Canal Blvd., (504) 482-7892; www. lpcno.org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 8912787; 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 Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium: 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistnola.org

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HAPPENINGS Deconstructing Radcliffe Bailey. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — The CAC’s Mariana Sheppard and McKenna Museum of African American Art curator Jennifer Williams lead a tour of “Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works.” Free with regular museum admission; Louisiana residents receive free admission on Sundays. Visit the website to RSVP. 2 p.m. Sunday.

Edgar Degas lecture. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 3142200; www.tulane.edu — Yale art historian Carol Armstrong gives a lecture in conjunction with the Newcomb Art Gallery’s Degas exhibition. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Low Road third Thursday art walk. — Galleries in the 700 to 1100 blocks of Royal Street stay open until 10 p.m. for this monthly event. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition Artist Panel. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — Ogden Museum curator Bradley Sumrall moderates a talk with artists Carole Feuerman, Dean Ruck, Martin Payton and Mia Kaplan.

Coffee and pastries are served.

Free with regular museum admission; RSVP at www. poydrascorridor.eventbrite.com.

10 a.m. Saturday.

OPENING Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com — “Phantom Limb Illustrated,” work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsor-

The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long,” exhibition of documents, photographs and audiovisual records, opens Tuesday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Going for Broken,” mixed media by Shannon Landis Hansen; “New Works,” paintings by Carolyn McAdams; both open Saturday.

Louis Armstrong Park. 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — “Turning Blight into Beauty,” group exhibition of art inspired by the Treme; opening reception noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Soiree d’Evolution,” still lifes by Sean Yseult, opens Thursday; opening reception 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday.

Slidell Little Theatre. 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 6410324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org — “Curtain Call,” group exhibition by gallery artists, opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday.

GALLERIES 5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 940-2900; www.5pressgallery. com — “Metaphyta,” group exhibition of work inspired by plants, through June 13.

A Gallery For Fine Photography.

241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — New work

by Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, through July 30.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.pressstreet.com/antenna — “Millennial Tragedy,” group exhibition, through April.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.antonart.com — “Outsider Expose,” folk and outsider art by Mose Tolliver, Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth and Chuckie Williams, ongoing.

Aquarium Gallery and Studios.

934 Montegut St., (504) 701-0511;

It is rare for two unrelated exhibitions to feature the same subject at the same time, but Tina Freeman’s photographs at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Bosnian artist Amer Kobaslija’s paintings at Arthur Roger Gallery are all about artists’ studios. (Odder still, Kobaslija’s show coincidentally follows fellow Bosnian artist Lala Rascic’s recent expo at Good Children.) New Orleans is sometimes called a “psychic city” for the way coincidences happen, but this is a double dose of synchronicity. Neither portrays the artists themselves, but Freeman’s photos are accompanied by examples of her subjects’ work while Kobaslija’s paintings let us piece together their personalTina Freeman: Artist Spaces THRU ities from their cluttered surroundings. Not that Freeman’s artOgden Museum of JUL ists are any pikers when it comes to clutter — the late George Southern Art, 925 Camp St. Dureau’s live-in studio (pictured) is a masterpiece of aesthetic accumulation that echoes the elegant curiosities that once (504) 539-9650 surrounded long gone maestros like Henri Matisse or Frederic www.ogdenmuseum.org Church, in contrast to his spare artworks on view.

Freeman’s photographs of Elizabeth Shannon’s antique woodwork and swamp relic-infested studio are flanked by her installation of taxidermied alligators climbing old wooden Amer Kobaslija: recent paintings THRU ladders in an eerie evocation of the animist spirits of the city Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia St. MAY and the nearby wildernesss, but Robert Tannen’s Crucifish as(504) 522-1999 semblage with a stuffed marlin affixed to a tall wooden cross behind a Savonarola chair suggests something a swashbuckwww.arthurrogergallery.com ling Grand Isle Francis Bacon might have concocted. Ersy Schwartz’ bronze, bird-headed chess pieces look dramatically orderly atop their precise wooden cabinet, but their aura is bizarrely surreal. In Kobaslija’s painterly rendering of Jackson Pollock’s studio, a solitary chair appears amid a riot of manic paint splatters on the floor. But in the rustic domesticity of Balthus’ studio, cats, quinces and a nude, half-painted nymphet offer clues to the late artist’s inner life. Kobaslija’s and Freeman’s studio scenes are portals into the artists’ personas in absentia via the environments and trappings that guided them like lodestones toward uncharted territories. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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www.theaquariumstudios.wix. com/theaquariumstudios — “Cestrum Nocturnum,” work by Jenna Bonistalli and Vanessa Adams, through April.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — Work by Julie Breaux; jewelry by Jivita; crafts

by Veretta Garrison-Moller, through April.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Maya Ruins and the Passage of Time: The Stephens & Catherwood Project,” photography by Jay A. Frogel, through Wednesday.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — Abstract kinetic sculpture by Lin Emery, through April 25; paintings by Amer Kobaslija, through May 30.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www. barristersgallery.com — “Corridor (Bricks #4),” installation

by Meg Turner; “The Rise of the Machines,” drawings by Patrick Lichty; “The Zwolle Paintings,” work by Bob Tooke; all through May 2.

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.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Every Eventually,” work by Valerie Corradetti; “Rigged,” work by Errol Barron; both through April 29.

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — New pottery work by Miki Glasser, through May 6.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Reconnaissance: Battle of New Orleans,” paintings by Norah Lovell, through April 28.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Orange Evenings/Blue Mornings,” new paintings by Jack Bartlett, through April.

Casell-Bergen Gallery. 1305 Decatur St., (504) 524-0671; www. casellbergengallery.com — Work

by Joachim Casell, Rene Ragi, BellaDonna, Jamal and Phillip Sage, ongoing.

Catalyst Gallery of Art. 5207 Magazine St., (504) 220-7756; www.catalystgalleryofart.

com — Group exhibition of New Orleans-inspired art, ongoing.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — New landscape paintings by Gaither Pope, through April 25.

The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www. foundationgallerynola.com — “Etchynpufe,” group exhibition of prints curated by What Editions, through May. The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront. org — “How to Cook a Wolf,” new paintings by Brooke Pickett, through May 3.

Galerie Royale. 3648 Magazine St., (504) 894-1588; www. galerieroyale.net — “Feminist Facets,” photography by Heather Weathers, through April.

Gallery B. Fos. 3956 Magazine St., (504) 444-2967; www.beckyfos. com — Paintings by Becky Fos, ongoing.

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

Garden District Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery.com — “Four Voices,” paintings by Pat-

ti Adams, Rolland Golden, Marcia Holmes and Kris Wenschuh, through May 24.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www. goodchildrengallery.com — “East Bound and Down,” group exhibition organized with Flight Gallery of San Antonio, through May 3.

Henry Hood Gallery. 325 E. Lockwood St., Covington, (985) 789-1832 — “Dreaming Out Loud,” sculpture by Babette Beaullieu and paintings by Linda Dautreuil, through May 7.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Shoreline and Wetlands, Two Perspectives,” landscape paintings by Rhea Gary and Melissa Smith, through April.

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, through Friday.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — “Strike Anywhere,” giant metal matchbooks by Skylar Fein; “Strong Medicine,” metal sculpture by David Buckingham; “Children of the Night,” collabora-

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The Music Box Roving Village.

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 4824888; www.neworleanscitypark. com — New Orleans Airlift’s multi-artist installation features interactive miniature musical houses near the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Wisner Boulevard. Visit www.neworleansairlift.org for details. Noon to 6 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

tium.com — “Crux,” paintings by Blaine Capone, opens Friday.

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La Madama Bazarre. 910 Royal St., (504) 236-5076; www. lamadamabazarre.com — “Spring Altar” by Sea & Dagger; mixed-media group exhibition

by Jane Talton, Lateefah Wright, Sean Yseult, Darla Teagarden and others, ongoing.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “The Mirror of Alchemy,” paintings and mixed media by Paul LeBlanc, through April 25.

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

by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans. 433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www.martinlawrence.com — “Art with a Twist,” paintings by Robert Deyber, through April.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www. martinechaissongallery.com — “Happy Dogs,” work by J.T. Blatty, through May 30.

M.S. Rau Antiques. 630 Royal St., (504) 523-5660; www.rauantiques.com — “Innocence, Temptation and Power: The Evolution of Women in Art,” exhibition of 19th-century impressionist paintings, through May 4.

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New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom. 1201 Mazant St.; www.nolacommunityprintshop.org — “Stygian,” group exhibition of fluorescent work, through April.

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New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com — Glass animal sculptures by Paul Bendzunas; musician portraits

by Greg Giegucz; intaglio prints

by Cora Lautze, through April.

New Orleans Tattoo Museum.

1915 1/2 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 218-5319; www. nolatattoomuseum.com — “Folklore & Flash: Grand Opening of the New Orleans Tattoo Museum,” ongoing.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “Southern Work,” photography

by Debbie Fleming Cafferty, through May 23.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Work 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 — “Cemetery Walker,” ambrotypes of cemeteries by Euphus Ruth, through June 14.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.thesecondstorygallery. com — “Unclaimed,” work by Karen Abboud, Edla Cusick and Belinda Tanno, through May 2.

586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — “Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls,” group exhibition of new work inspired

by Baby Doll masking traditions, through May 30.

Sibley Gallery. 3427 Magazine St., (504) 899-8182; www.sibleygallery.com — Group exhibition by gallery artists, 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.

Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www. sorengallery.com — Group show by gallery artists, through April.

St. Tammany Art Association.

320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyartassociation. org — “Plank and Feather,” work

by John Atkins and Zach Slough, through May 23.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “If Your Video Image Is Neither Here Nor There,” video, prints and collage by Brittan Rosdendahl, through May 3.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Evolution of a Warrior: Elizabeth Catlett in New Orleans,” through June 30.

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

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — Work by Harriet Burbeck and Kami Galeana, through April.

Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., Covington, (985) 8922811; www.threeriversgallery. com — “Unfinished Business,” paintings by Tanya Dischler, through May 2.

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.

MUSEUMS 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; both through June 7.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504)

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Kongo Across the Waters,” art from west central African and African-American cultures, through May 25; “Self/Reflection,” group exhibition of photography from the permanent collection, through Aug. 9.

Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 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; “Jim Roche: Cultural Mechanic,” drawings, sculpture and installation by Jim Roche; “Tina Freeman: Artist Spaces,” photographs of local artists’ workspaces; both through July 12.

Williams Research Center.

The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade,” manuscripts, photographs, oral histories and artifacts relating to slavery in New Orleans, through July 18.

CALL FOR ARTISTS RHINO Contemporary Craft Company. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — The cooperative seeks craft artists in any medium for its Guest Artist Exhibition Series. Deadline May 15. Visit the website for details and application.

St. Tammany Art Association.

St. Tammany Art Association, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The association seeks artists for its 50th National Juried Artists Exhibition. Visit the website for details. Deadline May 1.

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THEATER

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY Alan Cumming: Uncut. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 5289569; www.thejoytheater.com — The Scottish actor performs a mixture of Broadway tunes, pop songs and comedy. Tickets start at $40. 8 p.m. Saturday.

The Blue Book Cabaret.

Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107; www.thebellalounge.com — Bella Blue and a rotating cast perform burlesque and drag.

Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Wednesday, Friday & Saturday.

Blue Stockings Burlesque. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Picolla Tushy’s Bluestockings burlesque troupe performs monthly. 10 p.m. Saturday.

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 burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. 1:50 p.m. Friday.

Cirque D’Licious. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Ginger Licious, LadyBeast, Golden Delicious, Stitch the

In Never Swim Alone, currently running at the Old Marquer Theatre, a girl challenges two boys to a swimming race across the bay. The boys, a couple of gawky best friends, accept, and when she eventually falls behind, they have to make a choice: Save her or continue the competition.

The answer isn’t as obvious as it may seem in this one-act presented by The Elm Theatre.

The race serves as a catalyst, but the show centers on the contest between Frank (Garrett Prejean) and Bill (Nicholas Stephens), who are dressed in suits and ties. Through a series of challenges such as “power lunch” — where they try to intimidate each other over a restaurant meal — and “best son,” Never Swim Alone APR the two battle over who is superior.

8 p.m. Thu.-Sat. In each round, the Referee (Tenea InOld Marquer Theatre, THRU triago) blows a whistle to signal which 2400 St. Claude Ave. man has won the round or hit below the belt.

(504) 298-8676 At first, the men seem like carbon www.theelmtheatre.com copies of each other. Their dialogue overlaps, and often they deliver monologues Tickets $15, call (504) 218simultaneously. Prejean is unnervingly 0055 for reservations intense, and when the actors directly address the audience, his gaze is manic, especially when he nears a breakdown.

In moments of bravado, Prejean pulls back to show the fear that ultimately drives Frank. Though slightly more likable, Bill also is pushed to the brink by his ambitions.

Stephens matches Prejean’s force, and his emotional depth helps make Bill endearing. Together, the two are explosive and fierce in their cut-throat decision making.

At its core, Never Swim Alone explores the effects of capitalism and competition in the United States. The two men seem like American male archetypes, but their facades quickly crack under pressure. The show lays out contemporary anxieties about the desire to get ahead. The system, the show argues, forces people to care only about themselves.

Throughout the contest, the Referee sits in an elevated lifeguard chair and issues judgments. Designed by Phil Cramer, the set’s minimalist quality, featuring a chair and a sand pile to indicate the beach, becomes haunting as it illustrates the difference between a carefree summer and the adult world. Intriago’s calm demeanor balances the show’s energy. There’s a sadness to the Referee as she rings the bell for each round. Intriago gives a nuanced performance that keeps her grounded. When and we later find out why the Referee has ultimate power over these men, it’s Intriago’s earnestness that makes us feel the impact.

From the opening scene, director Joanna Russo’s Never Swim Alone questions the social systems that surround and control us. It’s a probing and well-acted deconstruction of modern economic decisions and expectations. In life, there are no easy ways out of corners we’re backed into, and this show doesn’t try to offer any. — TYLER GILLESPIE

Beast and Karolina Lux perform burlesque, vaudeville and aerial acts. Tickets start at $10. 10 p.m. Thursday.

Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com — Corey Mack and Roxie le Rouge host a free comedy and burlesque show. 9 p.m. Monday.

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. Tickets $10. 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Damn Everything But the Circus! Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — Freaksheaux to Geaux performs vaudeville and circus arts. Tickets start at $15. 10 p.m. Friday.

The Dirty Dime Peepshow.

AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge. com — The Lady Lucerne and Vinsantos Defonte star in an extra-naughty burlesque show, hosted by Ben Wisdom and produced by Bella Blue. Tickets $15. Midnight Saturday.

Joey Arias. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — The cabaret singer performs the music of Billie Holiday in honor of her 100th birthday. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

A Purrfect Evening. Marigny Theatre, 1030 Marigny St., (504) 758-5590; www.allwaystheatre. com — Anais St. John performs the songs of Eartha Kitt. Tickets $25. 8 p.m. Friday.

The Sweet Spot Nation. Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-2951; www.sweetspotnation.com — The erotic arts event features burlesque, body art, poetry, comedians and DJs. Tickets start at $20 in advance, $40 at the door. 7 p.m. Friday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www. dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts.

7 p.m. Saturday.

Whiskey & Rhinestones.

Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St.; www.thebellalounge. com — Bella Blue hosts the burlesque show. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Thursday & Sunday.

nand St., (504) 948-9998; www. marignyoperahouse.org — The program features new pieces by choreographers Donna Crump, Diogo De Lima and Maya Taylor, accompanied by live music. Tickets $30, students and seniors $20. 8 p.m. Friday- Sunday.

DANCE

COMEDY

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 5295844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Marigny Opera House Dance Company. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdi-

Al Jackson. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovement-

Kenny Zimlinghaus, Greg Johnson. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844;

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CJ Hunt hosts. Tickets $10 in advance. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

www.thehowlinwolf.com — The New York City-based stand-up comedian performs his “Clean Your Clock Tour.” Greg Johnson opens. Tickets $17. 7 p.m. Friday.

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater. com — The comedic couple perform their “Summer of 69: No Apostrophe” tour. Tickets $52. 7 p.m. Sunday.

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BOUDIN: The New Orleans Music Project. Ashe Power House, 1731 Baronne St.; www. boudinmusicproject.com — The theatrical production is inspired by the question, “How has New Orleans music saved your soul?” Tickets $40.

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

The Glass Menagerie. Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www.anthonybeantheater. com — Janet Spenser directs Tennessee Williams’ play about a struggling family whose grown daughter is absorbed by her collection of glass figurines.

Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Going to the Chapel. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www. cuttingedgetheater.com — A jukebox musical celebrating female singers and girl groups of the 1960s. Tickets start at $22; children $16.50. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

Gone With the Breaking Wind. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — Varla Jean Merman stars in a parody of the epic Southern Civil War drama. Tickets start at $30. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 2870351; www.saengernola.com — Andy Blankenbuehler directs the touring production of the classic musical starring Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 8 p.m.

Friday; 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

The Lady with All the Answers.

Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — Advice columnist Ann Landers copes with heartbreak in a drama set in 1975. Tickets $30 adults, $27 seniors and military, $20 students, $15 children. 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Never Swim Alone. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude

Ave., (504) 298-8676; www. theshadowboxtheatre.com — Joanna Russo directs The Elm Theatre’s satirical play about two men who fight a 13-round boxing match to win the title of “Top Dog.” Tickets $15. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

Pat Bourgeois’ Debauchery.

Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — The live soap opera stars an uptown family with a downtown mom. Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Verbatim Verboten. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre. com — A rotating cast of actors star in a monthly show inspired by clandestine recordings and invasions of privacy. Tickets $12.

8 p.m. Wednesday.

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Bike to Work Week. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place; www.bikeeasy.org — Bike Easy’s annual Bike to Work Day expands to a week this year with neighborhood bike meet-ups, a discussion and happy hour.

There’s coffee, breakfast and giveaways for bike commuters from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Lafayette Square. Tuesday-Friday.

First-Time Renovator Training. Preservation Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 636-3399; www.prcno.org — Potential home renovators learn about managing projects. Non-members $65.

RSVP by calling or emailing sblaum@prcno.org. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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.

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

Yoga at the Cabildo.

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

Non-members $12. 7:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY 15 Casino dance class. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Kevin Braxton of Cuban dance group Bookoo Rueda teaches a free class on the salsa-like dance.

7 p.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.

Get Moving. Growing Local NOLA, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357; www.growinglocalnola.org — The urban farm hosts a free weekly exercise class such as yoga, boot camp or CrossFit. Visit the website to RSVP. 5:30 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 and jazz. Noon.

Louisiana Landmarks Society Awards. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.louisianalandmarks. org — The society presents its Awards for Excellence in Historic Preservation with a presentation and reception. Tickets $50.

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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

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

RAW New Orleans presents Exposure. Republic New Orleans, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 528-8282; www. republicnola.com — More than 40 local artists in film, fashion, music, performance, visual art, photography, hair and makeup show off their work at this event. Tickets

Slavery history lectures.

The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — Erin M. Greenwald discusses “Taking on the Tough Stuff of History: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade” and Maurie D. McInnis discusses “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the American Slave Trade.”

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Small business discussion group. Five Happiness Imperial Room, 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-0820; www.fivehappiness.com — Small business professionals meet to network. RSVP required; call John at (504) 919-3484. 11:45 a.m.

White Glove Wednesdays.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum.org — Curator Eric Rivets gives visitors a chance to wear original military uniforms and equipment. 9 a.m.

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

THURSDAY 16 Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m.

Creative Jam. Propeller Incubator, 4035 Washington Ave., (504) 564-7816; www. nvite.com/creativejam — Adobe sponsors a free design showcase including a competition, professional talks, a networking hour and drinks. 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

“Katrina: Before, During and After.” Loyola University New Orleans, Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2011; www.loyno.edu — A panel of media personalities and authors including WDSU meteorologist Margaret Orr and geographer Richard Campanella discuss their experiences of Hurricane Katrina. 7 p.m.

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.

“The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking.” Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard. edu — Subtitled “The Black Hand in the Pot,” the symposium addresses the history of African-Americans and Creole foodways. Culinary historian Michael Twitty is the keynote speaker.

Free and open to the public.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

What’s Cooking? Growing Local NOLA, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357; www. growinglocalnola.org — The urban farm hosts a free weekly class on healthy home cooking. Visit the website to RSVP. 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 17 Dancing for the Arts.

Harrah’s Casino, Harrah’s Theatre, 1 Canal St., (504) 533-6600; www.youngaudiences.org — The benefit for Young Audiences of Louisiana features a dance competition, drinks and dinner. Tickets start at $100.

6:30 p.m.

Eat! Drink! SoFAB! Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — The museum celebrates its complete re-opening with food, drinks, cocktail demonstrations and music by Sharon Martin.

Food writer Poppy Tooker and chef Justin Devillier give cooking demonstrations.

Tickets $145 for non-members. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“The Economics of Oil.” Loyola University, Miller Hall, Room 114, 6363 St. Charles Ave — Economist Jay Johnson discusses the oil market and its effect on gas prices. 7 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — This evening’s event includes an anthropology lecture by Grey Gundaker of the College of William and Mary, youth and adult poetry slams and a performance

by N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Grand Isle Migratory Bird Celebration. Grand Isle; www.grandisle.btnep.org — The Grand Isle Sanctuary Group invites participants to enjoy the annual spring bird migration. There are birdwatching tours, arts and crafts, games and family activities. Hours vary. Admission varies. Friday-Sunday.

Hootenanny Barn Dance Benefit. Grow Dat Youth

Farm, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www. growdatyouthfarm.org — The benefit dance features food from local restaurants, a silent auction, zydeco dance lessons and music

by Cedric Watson, My Wife’s Hat and The Western Sweethearts. Tickets $40 in advance, $50 at the door 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Sentimental Journeys.

Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — The garden gala benefits Longue Vue House & Gardens and features food, wine, silent and live auctions and music by The Essentials. Tickets start at $250, under 40 $150.

7:30 p.m. to midnight.

SATURDAY 18 Antique Auto Club of St. Bernard Cruise Night.

Brewster’s, 8751 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 309-7548; www. brewstersrestaurant.com — Antique and classic cars are displayed and there is music from the 1950s through the 1970s. 6 p.m.

“Beyond the Battle of Lake Borgne.” Chalmette Battlefield of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 8606 W. St. Bernard Hwy., Chalmette, (504) 589-3882; www.nps. gov/jela — A park ranger discusses the naval battles leading up to the Battle of New Orleans. 11 a.m.

Bicycle Repair Workshop.

Mid-City Market, 401 N. Carrollton Ave. — Friends of the Lafitte Corridor and Bike Easy hold a basic maintenance workshop at 11 a.m. A bike ride alongside the future Lafitte Greenway follows at 12:30 p.m.

Bienville Saturday Market.

Swap Meet NOLA, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 813-5370; www. swapmeetnola.com — The pet-friendly weekly market features arts, crafts, a flea market and food. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Caribbean-Style Family Workshop. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno. org — The educational family event features a guided tour of current exhibition “En Mas’,” weaving crafts and a steel-pan drum demonstration and performance.

Adults $15, kids $10 for non-members. 11 a.m.

Cochon Cotillion. Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, (504) 361-7821; www.bridgehouse.

EVENT LISTINGS org/events/cochon-cotillion — The Krewe of Pork and Beads’ Carnival ball-style benefit for Bridge House features food from local restaurants, music, a silent auction and raffles.

Tickets $100. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Comic Workshop. Nix Library, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630; www.nutrias.org — Harriet Burbeck leads a comic drawing workshop for teens and ’tweens. 2 p.m.

“Common Ground Between East and West?” Audubon Zoo, Dominion Auditorium, 6500 Magazine St. — Meditation practitioner David Bernstein discusses global philosophical perspectives at a free lecture. 5 p.m.

Covington Heritage Antique Festival. Downtown Covington; www.covingtonheritagefoundation.com — The Antique Festival features vintage collectibles and crafts, architectural salvage, live auction, appraisals, classic cars, demonstrations and walking tours. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

Crawfest. Tulane Lavin-Bernick Center Quad, Tulane University, 314-2188; www.crawfest.tulane.edu — Tulane University’s music festival lineup include The Wailers, Earphunk, Twiddle, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Khris Royal and Dark Matter, The Tontons, 101 Runners and Big Excuse. Tickets $10 or free with current Tulane ID. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Early voting. www.geauxvote. com — Early voting for the May 2 municipal election is held daily Saturday-April 25, except for Sunday. Visit the website for details and voting locations.

8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Earth Day Festival and Solar Derby. Palmer Park, South Claiborne and Carrollton avenues; www.nolaearthdayfest.wordpress.com — The Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s Earth Day fest includes food, a solar-powered model car race, a second line, a green business expo, kids’ activities and music by Theresa Anderson, Earphunk and Africa Brass.

11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Grand-Reopening Celebration.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — The

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.

Jump, Jive & Swing. Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home, 3827 Canal St., (504) 482-2111; www.schoenfh.com — The Lakeview Shepherd Center seniors’ gala features food, drinks, a silent auction, the 610 Stompers and music by the Pfister Sisters. Swing era costumes are encouraged.

Tickets $50. Visit www.lscnola. org for details. 6 to 10 p.m.

Let’s Grow. Growing Local NOLA, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357; www.growinglocalnola.org — The urban farm hosts a free weekly class on home gardening. Visit website to RSVP. noon.

Little Flea NOLA. Little Flea NOLA, 1173 Magazine St.; www. littlefleanola.com — The market offers vintage clothes, furniture, collectables and antiques. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Madisonville Art Market.

Madisonville Art Market, Tchefuncte River at Water Street, Madisonville, (985) 8714918; www.artformadisonville. org — The monthly market features works by local artists including paintings, mixed media, photography, jewelry, wood carving, sculpture, stained glass and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Magnolia Fest. Magnolia School, 100 Central Ave., (504) 731-1317; www.magnoliaschool. com — Magnolia Community Services’ festival includes art and craft vendors, food trucks, pet adoptions, face painting, dance performances and more.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Muffins & Mimosas. Bayou St. John, at Orleans Avenue and N. Jefferson Davis Parkway — Brooke Bailey leads a free yoga class and refreshments follow at Pearl Wine Co. 8:30 a.m.

OCH Recycled Art Market.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. ochartmarket.com — There’s live music, entertainment, art and home furnishings crafted from reclaimed materials. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Record Store Day. Various locations, New Orleans; www. recordstoreday.com — Local

record stores including Euclid, Peaches, Skully’z, Louisiana Music Factory and The Mushroom participate in the event.

Louisiana Music Factory has performances by Jon Roniger, Alexandra Scott, Caeser Brothers and Tank & the Bangas; Euclid hosts performances by Lovelee and J, DANNY, The Kid Carsons and Chicken Snake plus free beer and hot dogs.

Red Tent Event. New Orleans East Hospital, 5620 Read Blvd., (504) 592-6600; www.noehospital.org — The free community event includes Zumba and yoga classes, massages, blood pressure screenings and refreshments. Visit the website to RSVP. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Slavery history lecture. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www.nutrias.org — Curator Erin Greenwald discusses The Historic New Orleans Collection’s current exhibition about the domestic slave trade. 10 a.m.

SoFAB Cooking Demo. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www. frenchmarket.org — Southern Food and Beverage Museum staff demonstrate recipes featuring spring produce. 11 a.m.

Spring Plant Sale. Private residence, 2202 General Pershing St. — The Herb Society of America offers herbs, annuals and perennials for sale. Sale benefit the Herb Society, New Orleans Botanical Gardens and Longue Vue House & Gardens.

9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

SuperSaurus Saturday. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www. lcm.org — The New Orleans Geological Society leads learning activities about dinosaurs and geology. Free with regular museum admission. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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 classes every other Saturday in the sculpture garden.

Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

SUNDAY 19 Green Wave Community Market. Mintz Center for Jewish Life/Tulane Hillel House, 912 Broadway St., (504) 866-7060; www.tulanehillel.org — Tulane’s market offers art, crafts, food, free help with bike maintenance and live music.

Noon to 3 p.m.

Gretna Historical Society Tour of Homes. Gretna Historical Society Complex, 209 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 362-3854 —

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Crawfish Cookoff. Fritchie Park, 901 Howze Beach Road, Slidell — Sixty cookoff teams prepare crawfish at a festival hosted by the Hospice Foundation of the South.

The Topcats, Category 6 and Rockin’ Dopsie & the Zydeco Twisters perform. Adults $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Saturday. Tariq Hanna gives a pastry demonstration at 2 p.m. Sunday. 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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Hattitude with an Attitude.

Bethany United Methodist Church, 4533 Mendez St., 324-5057; www.bethanyumcneworleans.org — The church’s annual parade of hats includes prizes and a reception. Admission $15.

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Pinch A Palooza. Deanie’s Seafood, 1713 Lake Ave., (504) 831-4141; www.pinchapalooza. com — The block party features crawfish, crawfish eating contests, crawfish races, food trucks, kids’ activities, an art market, performances

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by Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys, Vince Vance & the Valiants and others. Admission free. 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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Take Steps for Crohn’s and Colitis. Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.ccfa.org — The walk supports the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.

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Tipitina’s Foundation’s Sunday Youth Music Workshop.

Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-8477; www.tipitinas. com — Kids jam with the Johnny V Trio. 1 p.m.

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 20 Genealogy seminar. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Emery Webre discusses “Researching Louisiana Pupils in 19th-Century School Records.” 7 p.m.

Medieval political philosophy lecture. Tulane University, Rogers Memorial Chapel, 1229 Broadway St., (504) 862-3214; www.tulane.edu — Scholars Joshua Parens, Douglas Kries and Joseph MacFarland discuss “Prophet, King, and Philosopher in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions.” 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.

WORDS Esoterotica. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.esoterotica.com — Local writers read erotic stories, poetry and other pieces. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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

Wednesday and Saturday. A special sale from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday features live music and food trucks.

Jamie Kornegay. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author signs his novel Soil and discusses his work with writer Michael Pitre.

6 p.m. Thursday.

John Taylor. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., (504) 3227479; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The author discusses Wings Over New Orleans: Unseen Photos of Paul and Linda McCartney, 1975. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

L. Kevin Coleman. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The author performs flamenco guitar and discusses his novel Different Springs. 6 p.m. Saturday.

Megan Burns and Gina Ferrara. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The poets share their work.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

Michael Martin. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — The historian and author of Russell Long: A Life in Politics discusses his work. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The Moth. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — The theme for this month’s storytelling competition is “Delusions.” Tickets $8 in advance, $10 day of show.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

Poetry writing seminar.

East Bank Regional Library,

4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Poets Bill Lavender, Lee Grue, Valentine Pierce and Kay Murphy give free talks on elements and styles of poetry. 11 a.m. Saturday.

Shannon Ables. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs Choosing the Simply Luxurious Life: A Modern Woman’s Guide. 2 p.m. Sunday.

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.

Unbroken book dicussion. Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 596-2625; www.nutrias. org — Readers discuss the book by Laura Hillebrand and explore artifacts from the World War II Museum related to prisoners of war.

6 p.m. Wednesday.

SPORTS BigEasy Roller Girls.

University of New Orleans, Human Performance Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6683; www.uno. edu — The Big Easy Roller Girls face the Detroit Derby Girls and the Cajun Rollergirls. 5 p.m. Saturday.

Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.nba.com/ pelicans — The New Orleans Pelicans play the San Antonio Spurs. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Zephyrs. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.zephyrsbaseball.com — The New Orleans Zephyrs play the Iowa Cubs at 6 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. Wednesday and 7 p.m. Thursday.

Zurich Classic of New Orleans. TPC Louisiana, 11001 Lapalco Blvd., Avondale, 4368721; www.zurichgolfclassic. com — PGA professionals compete at the golf tournament. April 20-April 26.

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.

fruits, vegetables, dairy products, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

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

Sankofa Mobile Market. www.sankofanola.org — The market truck offers produce from the Sankofa Garden at several 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.

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.

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.

Gretna Farmers Market.

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

Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; 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 daily market. 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

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.

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.

CALL FOR WRITERS Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation seeks outstanding fiction by rising African-American authors for the award, which includes a $10,000 cash prize. Deadline Aug. 15. Visit www.ernestjgainesaward. org for details.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Foundation for Entertainment, Development & Education Grants. The Foundation accepts applications for funding for local educational projects in the performing arts. Visit www. bestofneworleans.com/fede for application. Deadline May 11.

PitchNOLA: Living Well. The pitch competition accepts project proposals to help New Orleanians lead healthier lives. Live event April 21.

Visit www.gopropeller.org/ pitchnola for details.

Rising Tide Programming Committee. The committee seeks programming proposals such as panel discussions, presentations or debate for the August conference on activism, media and the future of New Orleans. Visit www. risingtideblog.blogspot. com for details. Submission deadline is May 1.

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We actively support the rebirth of New Orleans

Offering Personalized Real Estate Services Since 2003

504-524-JUDY (5839)

JOHN SEITZ 504-264-8883 BEAUTIFUL RENOVATION, VERY SPACIOUS 1 BEDROOM/1 BATH STUNNING FRENCH QUARTER VIEWS, GORGEOUS COURTYARD WITH POOL

504-891-6400

Development opportunity in historic Treme. Property consists of 2 buildings, one corner building and one Creole Cottage double with large garage extending from N Roman side. Close to the French Quarter, Lafitte Greenway, new biomedical complex, Interstate, CBD. Zoned B-1 commercial, corner building was a bar for many years with apartment above. Possible use of state & federal historic restoration tax credits- exciting possibilities await!

www.JudyFisher.net

JSeitz@GardnerRealtors.com • www.FrancherPerrin.com

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

RE/MAX & NOMAR Award Winning Agent

Each office independently owned and operated.

1900 - 1906 St. Ann Street 4,000 Sq Ft $175,000

May the Bunny bring you and your friends purely delightful treats!!!!

Todd Taylor, Realtor

Cntrl City: Classic double. Gorgeus renovation. Big owners side. 5 min to CBD, walk to OCH. Gtd parking.

Fenced yard, energy efficient. rent helps with mort. $324K

JUDY FISHER INC. REALTORS ®

PENTHOUSE CONDO • $535,000

Luxury Homes.

Historic Properties.

Legendary Service.

Patti Faulder

Lakeview: Cute!

2+ bd, 2ba Plenty of space, fenced yard. Wd firs.

Pretty inside. Tree lined street. Guest cottage. 10 min to CBD. Parking. $324K

3910 – 12 LOUISIANA AVENUE PARKWAY • $200K

FOR SALE 2760 Athis St. (VLD) 6961 – 3 Boston Dr. (VLD)

$25K

1215 N. Broad St. (COMM)

$750K

2234 – 6 Delachaise Street 7537 Devine Av.

$89K $120K

4123–5DownmanBlvd.(COMM)$500K 7320 Hansbrough Av.

$120K

3910 – 12 LA Avenue Pkwy.

$200K

13110 Lemans St. One of NOLAs beautiful tree lined streets nestles this well maintained duplex. Each unit has 2 independent bdrms/1 ba, hdwd floors, & covered porches. The lot is oversized & actually goes through to the next street, there is covered off street parking & a back yard to fully enjoy. A very charming home that we look forward to sharing with you.

FOR RENT $33.5K

1922 Marengo St. 2349 Maryland Av. 2625 Pine St. 638 S. Rocheblave St. (VLD) 2458 N. Tonti St.

$102.5K $860K $75K

1269 Milton St.

$850/mo

2028 Pauger St., A

$1,150/mo

2625 Pine St., A

$3,575 mo

UNDER CONTRACT/SOLD/LEASED 4 Alice Ct. (VLD)

$10K U/C

809 31st St.

$80K U/C

1210 – 12 N. Galvez St.

$480K SOLD

4001Gen.PershingSt.(VLD)$110KSOLD 6000 Eads St.

$1,075/mo LEASED

$650K

1269 & 71 Milton St. $800/mo LEASED

$45K

2028 Pauger St., B $900/mo LEASED

$142.5K

3607St.FerdinandSt.$975/moLEASED

CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICES FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

Vehicular Accidents Defective Products Slip and Fall Accidents Vehicle Lemon Law Claims Fair Debt Collection Violations Debt Help Options Credit Card Defense Auto, Credit Card, Internet or Insurance Fraud Unfair Credit Reporting Civil Rights Violations

W.J. Hamlin, Attorney at Law Hamlin & Griffin, LLC 81306 Robinson Road Folsom, LA 70437 LAconsumerattorneys@gmail.com

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 349-341 DIV. K SUCCESSION OF CARL J. BOSSE, SR. NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of the above numbered and entitled Succession, together with notice to all heirs and to all other interested persons herein, that Gregory Joseph Bosse, Testamentary Executor of the estate of the late Carl J. Bosse, Sr., has filed in the above proceedings an Twenty-Third Accounting and TwentySecond Tableau of Distribution, a copy of which is annexed hereto, and that the accounting my be homologated after the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of publication hereof, that the tableau may be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of publication hereof and that any opposition thereto must be filed before the homologation.

Respectfully submitted: BUHRER LAW FIRM

Gambit: 4/14/15 Any person having an interest in the estate of Ernest Johnson, Jr. please contact Robert A. Pearson at (504) 483-9050 Anyone having any information regarding Elizabeth Porter Scott and/or the Succession of Olive Porter, please contact Richard Perque, Atty. (504) 681-2003.

Anyone having any information regarding Faye Carter Peters, please contact Richard Perque, Atty. (504) 681-2003.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Luckmore Finance Corporation dated August 5, 2013 in the amount of $876.00 and signed by a N. Stack please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Tower Loan of Slidell dated September 1, 2014 in the amount of $1,420.00 and signed by a C. Ratcliff please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-5819545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Amanda Theriot please contact J. Benjamin Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St. New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Amy Boykins, please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 2011-6473 DIV. E-16 DOCKET NO. 1 SUCCESSION OF DONALD LOUIS SMITH SR. NOTICE OF FILING OF FIRST & FINAL ACCOUNT & TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Whereas the Independent Administratrix of the above Estate has filed with the court her First and Final Account and Tableau of Distribution for her administration of this Estate: 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 First and Final Account And Tableau of Distribution, at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such Account and Tableau of Distribution and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of ten (10) days, from the date of the publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT CLERK OF COURT Attorney: FAUN FENDERSON Address: 700 Camp Street Suite 318 New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 528-9500 Gambit: 4/14/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 08-10836 DIV. I

SUCCESSION OF LAWRENCE TREVOR WINCHESTER, JR. NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS GIVEN that TODD GERARD WINCHESTER, executor in the above numbered and captioned matter, has filed a petition for authority to pay estate debts of the succession in accordance with a tableau of distribution filed in these proceedings. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice. Any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to its homologation.

Dale N. Atkins, Clerk of Court Attorney: Carol Gaston Address: 5220 Richland Dr. Marerro, LA 70072 Telephone: (504) 994-2939 Gambit: 4/14/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Andrel Michelle Jackson a/k/a Andrel M. Jackson a/k/a Andrel Jackson and/ or Beverly Jackson Buckner a/k/a Beverly J. Buckner a/k/a Beverly Buckner, please contact Atty. Jonique Hall at (504)383-5294 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Anjel N. Batiste, a/k/a Anjel N. Gallo, please contact Timothy P. Farrelly, Atty.

(504) 832-4101 or 3445 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste 103, Metairie, LA 70002.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of August Milton Hubbard, Sr., please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504-615-7340.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of RALPH BLAKMON, DEBRA CALICE BLACKMON AND/OR THEIR HEIRS, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty., 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 2015-2460 DIVISION F-7

NO: 710-154 Division: P

SUCCESSION OF JULI MCINNIS

SUCCESSION OF MAURICE WEINSTEIN, SR. AND CULOTTA BELLIPANNI WEINSTEIN

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY given that Dianne Bernard, Executrix of this Succession, has petitioned the Court for authority to sell at private sale to Irene Ornelas the following described property in accordance with all terms and conditions contained in the Petition filed in this matter.

A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the FIFTH DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, designated as LOT NO. 29 IN SQUARE 81, bounded by Alix, Eliza, Vallette and Olivier Streets, on a sketch and certificates of survey made by Edgar Pilie, Surveyor, dated June 26, 1894, annexed to an act passed on April 29, 1906. According to which sketch, said lot begins at a distance of 90 feet from the corner of Olivier and Alix Streets, by 113 feet, 11 inches in depth between equal and parallel lines. Improvements bear the Municipal No. 613 Alix Street, New Orleans, LA 70114.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: Sale to be for the sum of $233,000.00 CASH. Notice is hereby given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the 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 or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be used after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

Attorney: Connie P. Trieu Address: 537 Holmes Blvd.

Suite A Gretna, Louisiana 70056 Telephone: 504-301-4525 Gambit: 4/14/15 & 5/5/15 Heirs of LARRY HENO, SR., l/k/a 8110 Aberdeen Road, New Orleans, LA 70126 or anyone knowing their whereabouts, please contact Atty Erica Andrews, 504.534.5560.

If you know the whereabouts of Sidney E. Buniff III, please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-347-5056.

If you know the whereabouts of Thomas C. Nicholls, please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-347-5056.

Ledwin Tierrablanca, or anyone knowing his whereabouts, contact Loyola Law Clinic at 504-861-5599.

Tamika Edwards or anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact Peter Russell at 504-451-4070.

Tequila House, LLC is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcoholic content at retail in the Parish of Orleans at the following address: The Tequila House, 417-19 Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130. Matthew Emory, Member/Manager.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of GERARD C. JONES AND THADDEUS S. BOUCREE AND/OR ANY OF THEIR HEIRS, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty., 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN that Joy Gaspard, Testamentary Administratrix of the Succession of Maurice Weinstein, Sr. and Cullotta Bellipanni Weinstein has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of One Hundred Seventy Seven Thousand ($177,000.00) and 00/100 dollars, the Succession’s interest in and to the following described property: That certain piece or portion of ground, together with all the buildings and Improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges , servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining¸ situated in the State Of Louisiana, in the Parish of Jefferson, in Airline Park North Subdivision, in Square No. 106, bounded by Glenn Street, Frankel Avenue, Cristine Street, and Eisenhower Avenue, designated as Lot No. 1, all in accordance with the survey of S.K. Landry, C.E. dated April 24, 1961, which said lot forms the corner of Glenn Street and Frankel Avenue, and measures 41.44 feet front on Glenn Street, by a depth and front alongside Frankel Avenue, and measures 41.44 feet front on Glenn Street, by a depth and front alongside Frankel Avenue of 113.23 feet, by a depth along the opposite sideline of 105 feet, by a width in the rear of 83.82 feet.

Improvements thereon bear Municipal No 7037 Glenn Street, Metairie, La. NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that Joy Gaspard, Administratrix of the Succession of Maurice Weinstein, Sr. and Cullotta Bellipanni Weinstein, propose to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

JOHN GEGENHEIMER CLERK OF COURT CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON Attorney: Daye H. Geigerman Address: 664 Rosa Ave. Metairie, LA 70005 Telephone: (504) 833-7000 Gambit: 4/7/15 & 4/14/15 The heirs of Cora Mae Coney Brooks, or anyone knowing their whereabouts, please contact Peter Russell at 504451-4070.

Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Leslie S. Leganie whose last known addresses were 56 Eugenia Court, New Orleans or 116 Terry PKWY, Suite G, Terrytown, LA 70131, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Natausha Gaudin whose last known addresses were 4820 Annette Street, New Orleans or 1105 McGinnis Street, Donaldsonville, LA 70346, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

Cheryl Steel Lipovsky or anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact Peter Russell at 504-451-4070

TWENTY-NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ST. CHARLES STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.P-10, 792 DIVISION “E” SUCCESSION OF THERESA ANN PHILLIP NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SALE OF PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Notice is hereby given that Margaret P. Hunter and Marie P. Hogh, CoAdministratrixes of this Succession have applied for an order authorizing them to sell the following described property, for the price of $59,900.00, as is provided in the Petition filed in the record, and to execute any and all other documents which may be required: That certain piece or portion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Floral Acres Subdivison, being a portion of Live Oak Plantation, in Square No. 2, bounded by Azalea Drive, Aster Lane, Buttercup Drive, the Eastern line of Floral Acres and a public highway, and designated as Lot No. 22.

All in accordance with survey of Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C.E., dated March 13, 1964, which said Lot commences at a distance of 484 feet from the corner of Azalea Drive and Aster Lane and measures thence 53 feet front on Azalea Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet between equal and parallel lines. All in accordance with survey of Adloe Orr, Jr., and Associates, C.E., dated September 21, 1967.

Any heir, legatee or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the date of last publication of this notice.

Hahnville, Louisiana, this 1st day of April, 2015.

Lance Marino Clerk of Court Attorney: T. Robert Lacour Address: 3220 Williams Blvd.

Kenner, Louisiana 70065 Telephone: (504) 443-1353 Gambit: 4/14/15 & 5/5/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Barbara Batteau Nelson L/K/A 1140 Parkwood Court N., New Orleans, La, call P. Hamilton, 504-940-1883.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Bernell R. Randall please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 5539588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Davie Robinson please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Edward B. Bush and/or Kim Marie Bush please contact Attorney Marie A. Bookman at (504) 585-7350.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Edward James Lazzerini, please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Evelyn M. Curren a.k.a. Evelyn Mortensen Curren, please contact Paul C. Fleming, Jr. attorney at (504) 888-3394.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Judy Frilot, please contact Atty.

E. Appleberry at 405 Gretna Blvd., Ste. 104, Gretna, LA 70053; (504) 362-7800.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Lawrence J. Price, Jr. please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Leonard Martin Chamberlin, III, A/K/A Leonard M. Chamberlin, III, A/K/A Leonard Chamberlin,III, please contact Attorney Ashley B. Schepens at (504) 301-0708.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of NATIONS CREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty., 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Ralph J. Hardy, IV, and Nicole Saucier Hardy, please contact Atty. E. Appleberry, at 405 Gretna Blvd., Ste. 104 Gretna, LA 70053; (504) 362-7800.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Sandra Brooke Elledge Boudreaux contact Theresa Piglia, Atty, 233 Metairie Lawn Drive, Met. LA 70001, (504) 831-5272 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of VALERIE MARIE MCCAY please contact atty. Greg Murphy at 225767-7151. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of VALERIE MARIE MCCAY please contact atty. Greg Murphy at 225-767-7151.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Victoria Moten Ferons, or her heirs, please contact Timothy P. Farrelly, Atty.

(504) 832-4101 or 3445 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste 103, Metairie, LA 70002.

Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of the Heirs of Lottie Hubbard Booth whose last known address was 916 Tupelo Street, New Orleans, LA 70127, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

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Attorney: R. Scott Buhrer #17493 Address: 3017 21st Street, Ste.110 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 833-5112 Attorney for the Succession of Carl J. Bosse, Sr.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

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REAL ESTATE

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

MISSISSIPPI LARGE HOUSE ON 4 ACRES

Livable but needs work 3 miles east of Magnolia, MS, $45,000. Call (601) 248-0888.

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

COMMERCIAL RENTALS *COMMERCIAL FOR LEASE* 2 Units, 1375 sq. ft. each, adjacent to each other, can be combined (2750 sq ft. total) or stand lone 1995 GENTILLY BLVD @DESAIX CIRCLE(504) 583-5969.

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. 504-236-5776.

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

ESPLANADE RIDGE

919 DAUPHINE ST. MINT FRENCH QUARTER

1 BR, 1 BA. New Appliances. New Furniture & W/D. Private Patio. UTILITIES INCLUDED, $2,300/MO. Lane Lacoy, Realtor 504-957-51165/504-948-3011.

Latter & Blum, 840 Elysian Fields, NOLA 70117.

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE

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JEFFERSON NEAR OCHSNER

Beautiful 2 BR, 2 BA, large jacuzzi in master bath, high end appliances incl washer & dryer, pool. $1200/mo.

No pets/smoking. Call 504-287-4783.

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New FQR Office open! 713 Royal MON-SAT 10-5pm Sun-1-5 Full Service Office with Agents on Duty! 522-4585

ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail.

Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

Wayne • Nicole • Sam • Jennifer • Brett • Robert • George • Dirk • Billy • Andrew • Eric

RENTALS TO SHARE

FOR RENT

House/Pet/Plant Sitter Looking For Position in Exchange for Room

Exp’d House/Pet Sitter seeking room & board in lieu of rent. Mature SWF, highly educated, world traveler, great cook. Loves pets. Ref’s. Call Louise (504) 450-8378.

Studio Apt with cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles Street Car. Easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. All utilities included. $900/mo. 1-888239-6566 or mballier@yahoo.com

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

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 1041 Ursulines - 2bd/2.5ba ................

1030 Orleans - 1bd/1ba ....................

1022 Toulouse - 1bd/1ba ..................

711 Kerlerec - 2bd/1ba ..................

713 Kerlerec - 1bd/1ba ..................

127 Carondelet - 1bd/1ba ..................

$2500 $2500 $2500 $1800 $1700 $1795

1/1 FURNISHED APT WITH STREET BALCONY .............. $1300

2102 N Claiborne #A

2/1 Lg upper near FQ/Marig. wd flrs, high ceil. W/D hkps. No pets $1,000

1025 Dumaine #6

1/1 newly renov, w/d, central ac/heat,fireplace ........ $1,200

1025 Dumaine #5

2/2 fully renovated ............................................................. $1550

1025 Dumaine #4

2/1 no pets Renov, wd flrs, w/d in unit ...................... $1400

FOR SALE

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1508 CARONDELET ST

210 Chatres 3B

MISSISSIPPI

Secure bldg. Newly remodeled. Granite, tile, lots of closets. Refrig, stove, w&d. Centrally located near Metairie, UNO & Downtown., off st pkg, $800/ mo. + $800 dep. Call 504-228-2282.

DORIAN M. BENNETT • 504-236-7688 dorian.bennett@sothebysrealty.com 3BR/2BA 1,750 sq.ft Fresh! Laundry room, gardner furnished, gas stove, dble oven, built-in micro, dishwasher, floored attc. Outside storage, covered prkng, fenced bkyrd, screened front porch, alarm system. 1 patio off MBR, 2nd patio off den, vaulted ceiling in large den w/ wbfp & gas starter. All on quiet street w/ only 8 houses. $1400/mo. Avail June 1.

Call to see (504) 228-8883

French Quarter Realty

1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

1BR, 1 BA CONDO

HARAHAN/RIVER RIDGE

River Ridge Nice Home Quiet St.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT IRISH CHANNEL

Sea Breeze Cottage in PASS CHRISTIAN

Available for 6 MONTH Lease. 200 Yards from the sugar and sand Beaches of Gulf and the Harbor.

2 Bedroom/1 Bath FURNISHED with everything you will need! Enjoy the front veranda or the back screened porch. Walk steps to the library or City Hall.

Lawn Service Provided.

Call (504) 231-2445 or susan@ propertybaycoast.com

7200 Schouest (Met)

3/2 1590 sqft, lrg garage, deck in lush backyard ........ $197,000

412 S Hennessey

4/3 Renov sngl Midcity. SS appls, media rm, garage pking. $449,000

824 Burgundy #5

1/1 Fab FQ condo w/tons of light & pool ................. $309,000

280 Pi Street Vacant Land IntracoastalWaterfntlot.Minbldg2ksqft.100x490.$175,000 3/2 Cute.reno,newcarpet.Bigyd,off-stpkng.Needsalittlelove$138,000

1713 Arts

2/2.5 1253sqft, Pvt Ctyd, Balc, wd flrs, reno, nearby pkng ....... $598,500

803 Burgundy 727 Barracks Unit #10

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In the Heart of Metaire. Close to bus line and Lakeside Mall. Off street parking, full kitchen, balcony, cent air, pool, laundry on premises. 3033 Edenborn Ave., $625/mo. Call (504) 834-2440. After 5 p.m. & weekends call (504) 919-9158. Visit us at www. angeleapartments.com

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1/1 ViewsofFrQtr&City,wdflrs,CathedCeil,expbrick...$239,500

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2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605

7211 Broad Place $499,000 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.

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 32 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

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SERVICES

AUTOMOTIVE CAMPERS/RV

AIR COND/HEATING

25 Ft. Travel Trailer

75 DEGREES Air Condition & Heating

Jay Flight, like new, hardly used $10,950, 5 years old. Call (504) 864-9233.

Commercial & Residential 504-874-3211 or 504-615-9212

DECK/PATIO

Mature GREEN-EYED BLONDE Do you deserve more attention than you’re getting?

Call 504-428-1140.

Beautiful European Model

Private & Discreet Sessions. Rubdown, Fantasy, Fetish. (504) 289-6603.

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MERCHANDISE

CONCRETE BY KRANE

Specialize in demolition. Concrete work, swimming pools, driveways, patios & sidewalks, home gutting & yard plumbing. Call (504) 338-5655

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES Single Bed $25 & Electric Barber Set $80. Call (504) 455-6093.

LAWN/LANDSCAPE

MISC. FOR SALE

River Sand Garden Soils & Stone

East Bank, West Bank & Jefferson Parish Spring Time is Approaching!

Loads From 8-10 Yards Delivered to you for your Landscaping Needs.

Smaller Loads Available. Call (504) 416-4506 or grode2b@gmail.com

NATURAL TOOTHPASTE FROM THAILAND

Call (504) 292-0724

PAINTING/PAPER HANGING HELM PAINT & DECORATING

Steering You In the Right Direction for over 40 Yrs! We match any color! We rent Pressure Washers, Spray Guns & Wall Paper Removers (Steamers). Free Delivery.

M-F, 7a-6p, Sat, 8a-5p. Locations on Earhart, Canal, Magazine & Veterans

HELM PAINT & DECORATING

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