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NEWS: What’s at stake with the

May 2 vote on the library millage >> 7

MUSIC: The Big Easy Music Awards nominations are announced >> 16

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FOOD: Hitting the clubs late? Where to fill your belly in the wee hours >> 59

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CONTENTS

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

April 28, 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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Fork + Center ...........................................................59 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview .............................................62 Dale Koehl, mango freeze maker

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

Drinks ........................................................................63 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week

Intern | EMMA DISCHER

Last Bites .................................................................65 5 in Five; Plate Dates; Off the Menu

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

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

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

Feature ......................................................................16 The 2015 Big Easy Music Awards nominations

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Music ......................................................................... 74 PREVIEW: Bob Dylan

MEN AT TWERK Bring on the Men! is the Society of Sin’s first all-male burlesque revue

BY MARY CROSS | 73

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Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Dweezil Zappa plays Zappa, Black Joe Lewis and more

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Week 2.......................................................................26 Picks, previews, maps, cubes and all the info you need

MARKETING

Marketing & Events Coordinator | ANNIE BIRNEY Intern | JADE DUPLESSIS

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

NEWS + VIEWS News.............................................................................7 New Orleans prepares to vote on a millage that would fund its libraries for decades Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world

Scuttlebutt................................................................ 9 From their lips to your ears C’est What? ............................................................... 9 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats .........................................10 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................12 Telling the stories of the people affected by the BP oil disaster Clancy DuBos...........................................................13 What’s on the May 2 ballot Blake Pontchartrain is on vacation at Jazz Fest.

EAT + DRINK

Feature .....................................................................59 Late-night dining after Jazz Fest

Film..............................................................................81 REVIEW: Ex Machina Art ...............................................................................85 REVIEW: Tennessee Williams: The Playwright and the Painter Stage..........................................................................89 REVIEW: Boudin: The New Orleans Music Project Events .......................................................................92 Crossword + Sudoku ......................................... 100

CLASSIFIEDS Market Place ...........................................................95 Employment ...........................................................95 Real Estate Guide..................................................96 Legal Notices......................................................... 98 Real Estate ..............................................................101 Home + Garden ..................................................... 103

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

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St. Paul and the Broken Bones | “St.” Paul

Janeway (pictured, center) is proof that soul comes in all shapes and sizes. Backed by crack little big band the Broken Bones, Janeway reaches as deep for his vocals as any young artist in decades. Alabama can’t stop shaking. King James and the Special Men open at 9 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

Alejandro Escovedo

Thu. April 30 | It’s been decades since Alejandro Escovedo jumped into the early wave of punk music. The Austinite has matured into an elder statesman of Texas folk rock, whose last album was 2010’s acclaimed Street Songs of Love. He performs with his backing band The Sensitive Boys at 8 p.m. at Chickie Wah Wah.

The Bayou Rendezvous

Fri. May 1 | The jam marathon features a core of New Orleans jazz-funksters and Southern rockers including Colonel Bruce Hampton, Oteil Burbridge, Ian Neville, Johnny Vidacovich, Duane Trucks, Eric McFadden and others. There also are sets by TAUK, The California Honeydrops and others. At 9 p.m. at The Howlin’ Wolf.

Six Strings Down: Tab Benoit

Fri. May 1 | Baton Rouge bluesman Tab Benoit hosts a guitar summit featuring Anders Osborne, Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars and blues rocker Samantha Fish. At 9:30 p.m. at Republic.

Black Joe Lewis and Kristin Diable

Sat. May 2 | Austin, Texas Southern soul artist Black Joe Lewis

meets New Orleans singer-songwriter Kristin Diable. Lewis combines James Brown soul and funk with howling rock ’n’ roll on Electric Slave (Vagrant), and Diable’s 2015 album Create Your Own Mythology is a moody, soul- and R&B-inspired throwback with a Nashville sheen. At 8 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Feufollet with the Deslondes

Sat. May 2 | Cajun “country” gets literal with this I-10 showdown of Lafayette and New Orleans stompers featuring the renowned mudbugs of Rayne’s Hawk’s Restaurant. Feufollet issued its sixth LP Two Universes (Valcour) in March; The Deslondes’ eponymous debut drops in June. Bonsoir Catin and DJ D. Lefty Parker open at 7 p.m. at Siberia.

Zappa Plays Zappa

Sat. May 2 | Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the final studio album from Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention, Dweezil Zappa — an accomplished guitarist and son of the late rock ’n’ roll provocateur — performs One Size Fits All, which traded the Mothers’ free-form spirit for more song-oriented prog rock. At 9 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

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VIEWS

S C U T T L EB U T T 9 C ’ ES T W H AT ? 9 B O U Q U E T S & B RI C K S 10 C O M M EN TA RY 12 C L A N C Y D U B O S 13

knowledge is power New Orleans’ week in Twitter The First Lady

Widely red

@FLOTUS

Thanks to @MayorLandrieu for bringing together government, nonprofits, landlords, and more to end veteran homelessness in New Orleans!

RevVargVargas @vargvargas

The New Orleans Public Library goes before voters May 2 to ask for a 2.5 mill property tax increase to fund services.

So I have noticed in the last month or so the Bywater hipsters are slowly being supplanted by straight up out of town tourists.

copus

@copus

At Midnight NOPD will march down Bourbon Street and declare smoking over in New Orleans.

By Jeanie Riess

@fofalex

Sorry I’m late, it took longer than I thought to setup these Historic New Orleans ashtray ebay auctions

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ans, issued a report last A sign at the main branch month asking the NOPL of the New Orleans Public to go back to the drawing Library encourages patrons board. Janet Howard, to support the millage president and CEO of BGR, that will be voted upon May says the library has a 2. Without that funding, library officials say, plan for how it’s going to services will be cut. spend the money, but P H OTO BY J E A NIE RIE S S it doesn’t have a strategic long-term plan for its operations.

Howard says that kind of strategic plan should have predated the rebuilding of the library system post-Katrina.

“When we met with (the library), we were told … that such a plan was not developed and the library intended to develop such a plan after they got more money,” Howard says. “And to us, that’s a backwards process. What we’ve said is, ‘Look, there should be this kind of plan if you’re going out to voters, asking them for more money. Develop one and come back in the fall.’”

The NOPL could come back and ask for a millage in the November election, but Orleans Parish Tax Assessor Erroll Williams says that millage increases are almost always easier to win when it’s an off-election (like May 2) without much else on the ballot, unlike the November election, which will include the governor’s race.

“People are generally averse to increases in taxes,” Williams says. “The question is how passionate they are when it comes to funding certain programs or services of government. In the case that this is an off-election, a lot of organizations try to pass theirs when there’s low voter turnout. This is an opportunity for them to pass it, provided PAGE 8

Now we can enjoy the inherent scent of crowded New Orleans bars unmasked by smoke. I’m sure it will be like a walk in an English garden.

Julia O’Donoghue @JSODonoghue

“We are going to spend more money on motion pictures than higher education.” Sen. Jack Donahue, who is worked up right now. #lalege

The name is Nuwanda @RougarouxLSU

Bobby #Jindal is the political equivalent of “Hold my beer and watch this!” amateur wrestling videos. LA folks are the broken folding table.

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

Last week, some people were waxing enthusiastic about Jazz Fest: I have come to new orleans for the last 10 years to see the greatest music fest there is. The Who for sure, but Cassandra Wilson and many others! Plus all of the great night time music at the bars and clubs, plus you guys are going smoke free. Already told my family that I would see them mid May! Takes time to recuperate after getting Patton’s crawfish sacks and crawfish beignets( sp?)

— LeePriest

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y 2016, the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) officially will be in the red.

What that means for the six branches that were rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina has yet to be determined — but if voters approve a 2.5 mill property tax increase in the May 2 election, the library not only could get the funding it needs to stay operational, but also to rebuild the Nora Navra branch in the 7th Ward, the final branch that remains shuttered nearly 10 years after the levee failures. Library officials also would like to increase hours of operation from six days a week to seven.

This isn’t the first time the library has found itself in dire straits. In 1986, when the city was struggling to fund its library system, says NOPL Executive Director Charles Brown, it threatened to close all branches, leaving just the main library on Loyola Avenue open.

“Two things came about to prevent that,” Brown says. “The business community came forward to protect the libraries until a dedicated millage could be designed and put on the ballot for voters to approve.” That millage, set at four mills, passed with a wide majority. At some point between 1986 and 2005, the millage was rolled forward to 4.32 mills.

After Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures in 2005, homeowners were struggling, so the city rolled back millages to encourage people to return to New Orleans. The library millage was rolled back to 3.14 mills — where it is today. The proposed millage increase would cost homeowners without exemptions an additional $25 for every $100,000 of property value.

The vote seems like an easy sell; who doesn’t appreciate libraries? Brown points to the educational and politically neutral environment that branches across the city give to New Orleans youth: providing educational and entertainment materials; serving as points of Internet access in an underwired city; and creating community programming that provides an alternative to crime and a lack of adult supervision.

But the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), a private, nonprofit and non-affiliated research organization in New Orle-

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that the voters who go to the polls understand it.”

Last year, Orleans voters rejected a millage increase for the Audubon Nature Institute, with 65 percent of voters turning thumbs-down. But that situation was different on a number of levels — unlike the library, Audubon is a private entity and charges admission to its attractions, while the vast majority of NOPL services are free to the public. And the Audubon millage wasn’t set to expire for seven years. NOPL says its millage needs are immediate.

Williams speculates the NOPL’s timing was intentional, saying that if the millage was on the November ballot, “it might not have passed. They’ve probably known they’ve had this budget problem for some time.”

Brown says the BGR is wrong. “I have no criticism of the BGR, I simply disagree with their finding,” he says. “I think any impression that voters would have no idea how the funds will be spent is not true. We have clearly articulated how the funding will be spent.”

In a later email, Brown said, “The library has a detailed spending plan, but not a strategic plan at this point,” adding “any new funding will be used for vetted,

convincing numbers to make the case that the NOPL is underfunded.

New Orleans gets $24.54 in library funds per capita, for instance — much lower than other cities with high poverty rates (Detroit gets $41.30 per capita; Baltimore, $61.78; East Baton Rouge, $84.19). Even with that lower total, NOPL says, it’s gotten results. According to NOPL statistics, more than 1.14 million people visited NOPL branches in 2014; 1.1 million items were checked out; and 373,000 people used library computers.

The library also has continued several literacy programs, inlcuding Turn the Page (for students), Every Child Ready to Read (a preschool literacy program) and the regular summer reading program, which had more than 6,000 registrants in 2014. Before the storm, NOPL had few digital offerings; it now has 25,000 e-books and audio books for download and 70 digital magazines. It also launched a new, modernized website last week. All these things, library officials say, are important as New Orleans positions itself as a modern, technologically forward city.

Howard says BGR isn’t against an increase in library funding per se. “The fact that something is a good cause

“I think any impression that voters would have no idea how the funds will be spent is not true. We have clearly articulated how the funding will be spent.” — New Orleans Public

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widely accepted purposes.” As to spending specifics, he said, “The question of the strategic plan is a priority for the future; however, there are simply too many front-line operational considerations that must be addressed first.”

With less money coming in, Brown says the library simultaneously has had to spend more money to operate its facilities and rebuild after the storm. “Six of our libraries were destroyed by Katrina,” he says. “Since that time, we have rebuilt — largely with outside funding — five of the six libraries. They have been rebuilt, and they’re larger facilities and more expensive to operate.”

Immediately after the storm, the library wasn’t operating full throttle, so it was able to build up a solid reserve fund. “Its staff was reduced from over 200 to 19,” Brown says. “So the dedicated millage continued to generate revenue that came into the library’s property.

By 2011, those reserves had built up to almost $12 million.” That reserve fund has been tapped by $3 million a year, and will run out in 2016.

To help sell the millage, NOPL has employed The Ehrhardt Group, a local public relations firm, and issued some

is not enough to say to voters,” she says. “You have to have a system that’s properly executed and you’ve got to have the planning. Do those things and come back.”

BGR plans to look at this and other future taxes as a whole, “because we have all these individual groups that go out and ask (for money),” Howard says. “The sheriff goes out and asks for money, the city can go out and ask for money, the levees can go out and ask for money — but there’s no coordination so that you come up with a concept of ‘What are the community’s top priorities?’” Howard says BGR will issue another report looking at not only property taxes, but also sales taxes and hotel and motel taxes to see where that money is going across Orleans Parish.

That way, voters can decide whether that revenue is being properly allocated.

But for Brown, the question of funding for NOPL can’t wait. “There would be drastic reductions,” he says, but “how those reductions would affect library services has not yet been decided.

“If you lose a quarter of your household income,” Brown says, “something’s got to go.”

NEWS VIEWS SCUTTLEBUTT Quotes of the week

“We’re not going to hear bills to raise revenue unless we have a repeal of other taxes to keep the revenue neutrality in place.”

— State Rep. Joel Robideaux, R-Lafayette, exemplifying the tortuous doublespeak underway last week at the Capitol, where lawmakers struggled to find ways to plug the state’s estimated $1.6 billion budget hole while remaining “revenue neutral.”

“You just opened up a can of whupass on lots of neighbors in the city.” — Nick Scramuzza, co-owner of Lost Love Lounge, as quoted by local writer Michael Patrick Welch in The Guardian.

Scramuzza is worried about outdoor noise complaints following the implementation of last week’s smoking ordinance, but says he’s for the ban overall. Regarding New Orleans’ neighborhood bars, which sometimes directly abut homes, Welch explained, “This neighborly coexistence is a big part of what makes New Orleans different and charming, like some alcoholic Sesame Street.”

First lady commends New Orleans

Mayor says vet homelessness virtually eliminated

Jindal and the ‘media elite’ Governor uses NY Times to defend ‘religious freedom’ laws

Gov. Bobby Jindal is fond of penning op-ed articles in national publications, and he did so last week — this time on The New York Times opinion page with a piece titled “Bobby Jindal: I’m Holding Firm Against Gay Marriage.”

In his latest screed, Jindal used some of the most exclusive media real estate in the world to complain about the “media elite” and propounded his theory that “Hollywood and the media elite are hostile to our values.”

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

Single-day tickets to Jazz Fest are $58 in advance ($70 at the gate).

Your thoughts?

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Michelle Obama was the guest of honor last week at Gallier Hall, at a conference attended by a host of city officials, including Mayor Mitch Landrieu, police Superintendent Michael Harrison and members of the New Orleans City Council.

Obama and Jill Biden launched an initiative among U.S. mayors to reduce veteran homelessness in their respective cities by the end of 2015, with President Barack Obama also aiming to end veteran homelessness nationwide.

Landrieu says New Orleans — via a partnership with federal, state and local nonprofits — was able to house more than 200 veterans by the end of 2014. The Landrieu administration says another 42 veterans have been housed since January and claims veteran homelessness has been virtually eliminated in New Orleans. Several people have turned down offers to join the program.

“Even one homeless veteran is an outrage,” Obama said. “And when we have tens of thousands

of veterans who don’t have somewhere to go when it rains, that is a stain on our nation.”

Since the beginning of the program, nearly 230,000 veterans and their families have been housed nationwide, Obama said. She also announced a new batch of federal housing vouchers available to local and state agencies and a partnership with the private equity firm Blackstone to prepare “welcome home” kits and provide furniture to formerly homeless veterans in their new homes.

“Mayor Landrieu decided to make this a citywide priority,” she said. “It’s not just an extraordinary achievement for the city, it’s a call to action for the entire country.” — ALEX WOODWARD

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NEWS VIEWS BOUQUETS + brickbats ™ heroes + zeroes Dalton Lasnier, Doretha Jones and Tom Zolot

received the 2015 Joseph Massenburg Memorial Award for Excellence in National Service from Mayor Mitch Landrieu April 7 during the national Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service. Lasnier is an AmeriCorps member who runs the Pillowcase Project, a fire and hurricane safety education program; Jones works with Catholic Charities and is president of the Foster Grandparent Club; and Zolot is an AmeriCorps VISTA member serving the Center for Restorative Approaches.

Marshall Faulk,

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New Orleans native and NFL Hall of Fame running back, was honored by city officials and members of the 9th Ward Field of Dreams and G.W. Carver High School on April 8. The Field of Dreams will be renamed the Marshall Faulk Field of Dreams Stadium. It also will feature state-of-the-art turf, lighting and video screens. Carver students who wanted to restart their football team built the Field of Dreams in 2008.

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Whitney Bank

donated $75,000 to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans April 14. The donation will help construct “Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters.”

The bank and museum also honored a group of longtime volunteers dubbed “The A-Team,” including Ronnie Abboud, and posthumous honors went to Bert Stolier, Tom Blakey, Jack Sullivan, Frank Tuttle, George Wichterich and Vernon Main Jr.

Ken Romero,

host of KPEL-FM in Lafayette, claimed former Secretary of State and former U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton is unqualified to run for president by saying, “Lady, having a vagina does not make you qualified to run for president of the United States of America.” His April 16 segment on “Romero on the Right” added that President Barack Obama never played “the race card” during his presidential campaign, but “Hillary, right out the box, is playing the ‘sex card’ before the campaign gets underway.”

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critic, tweeted, “Then why spend $250M/year on film subsidies while higher ed suffers?”

Jindal’s main thrust was touting the proposed Louisiana Marriage and Conscience Act, which would prevent the state from taking “adverse action” against anyone because of his or her religious views about marriage. Critics of the proposed law say it’s a thinly veiled ploy to give cover to discrimination against the LGBT community.

Jindal acknowledged that the public’s view of same-sex marriage has changed (indeed, a Washington Post/ABC News poll that morning showed 61 percent of Americans now are in favor of it), but he insisted he never would agree, “even if it becomes a minority opinion,” citing, “the potential for discrimination against Christian individuals and businesses that comes with these shifts.”

Jindal also addressed companies like IBM, which have written letters urging him not to back the legislation, something he considers to be bullying. “I have a clear message for any corporation that contemplates bullying our state,” Jindal wrote.

“Save your breath.” — KEVIN ALLMAN

What’s in a Core name?

Public distrusts politicization

Sex ed for N.O. kids

City council supports proposal

The New Orleans City Council stands behind measures in Baton Rouge aiming to get better — or any — sex education in New Orleans public schools. At its April 23 meeting, the council unanimously adopted a resolution supporting “comprehensive, age and developmentally appropriate, medically accurate and evidence-informed instruction in sex education” — which is the goal of state legislation introduced by Rep. Wesley Bishop and Sen. J.P. Morrell, both D-New Orleans. Morrell’s legislation calls for anonymous student surveys to screen for sexual health risks among students in New Orleans public schools. Bishop’s bill requires New Orleans public middle and high schools to include sex ed in their curriculums.

District B City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell said, “We teach abstinence, but it’s not working.

It’s not good enough.” Council President Stacy Head said the bills likely will face strong opposition at the state level. The bills will be presented in committees this week.

— ALEX WOODWARD

Scuttlebits

All the news that doesn’t fit • Lt. Col. Jerry Sneed, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, stepped down last week to take a job with the Orleans Parish Communication District, the office that handles the city’s 911 calls …

• The New Orleans City Council was supposed to vote on the proposed Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance last week, but rescheduled the vote for May 14 …

• State Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, has started a podcast to answer questions about state government. Download episodes at www. jpmorrell.com/ask-jp or hit him up on Twitter (@JPMorrell) with the hashtag #AskJP … — KEVIN ALLMAN

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A study released last week by the centrist public policy think tank The Brookings Institution suggests Louisianans aren’t nearly as resistant to Common Core’s principles as they are to the words “Common Core.” The report suggests the politicization of the name “Common Core” is far more daunting to residents in Louisiana than the curriculum’s actual tenets, which seek to create a series of benchmarks for U.S. public education.

In conducting the study, LSU’s Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs asked two versions of the same question to gauge public support for Common Core, one stating the initiative’s name and the other leaving it out. “When the Common Core label is dropped from the question,” the Brookings study read, “support for the concept leaps from 39 percent to 67 percent. With the label, a majority of the public (51 percent) opposes Common Core, but without the label a majority (67 percent) supports common math and reading standards.”

A poll that tested Louisianan’s understanding of Common Core

showed confusion. “When differences in how a question is phrased produce significant inconsistencies — as they do here — that suggests many responses may be based on little more than guesswork,” the study noted.

The full study is available as part of The Brown Center Chalkboard series on the Brookings Institution’s website. — JEANIE RIESS

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COMMENTARY

thinking out loud

Still not RESTORE-d

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he fifth anniversary of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was met last week with a plethora of national and local stories, many of which examined the health of the Gulf, the legal ramifications of the disaster and other worthy topics. For those of us who live in Louisiana, the real story is that of the people whose lives were, and continue to be, forever changed by the negligence of the oil giant.

As it was after the federal flood in 2005, language continues to remain important in discussing the BP disaster. Just as the flooding of New Orleans was the result of shoddy levee engineering, not “Hurricane Katrina,” the BP disaster wasn’t a “spill” but rather the result of “gross negligence” on the part of BP — according to a ruling last September by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier.

BP has paid out billions in claims — and billions to its defense lawyers — but the company balks at taking full financial responsibility for the disaster. The court is expected to award upwards of $13 billion for the oil company’s negligence. Those billions will be divvied up among Gulf Coast states

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via a complex formula. After five years, many of the people most affected by the disaster are still waiting.

Meanwhile, industry apologists insist that BP has done its share. Some even suggest that the company is a victim in all this. A letter published last week by Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association, called BP “a good corporate citizen,” bemoaned “400 unnecessary lawsuits” and suggested Louisianans affected by the spill “leave behind this entitled mentality.”

Such arrogance.

Briggs and his ilk should meet some of those who saw the disaster firsthand. They could start in lower Plaquemines Parish, where last week WWL-TV’s David Hammer talked to the few oystermen and fishermen who are left. George Barisich, head of the United Commercial Fishermen’s Association, told Hammer that state oyster grounds are “95 percent off” where they were before the BP blowout and warned, correctly, “The oysters are like the canary in the coal mine.”

Then there are the people profiled by the Community Voices Project, which was created by Linda Usdin and Gambit contributor Deborah Cotton. They interviewed 10 people

along the Gulf Coast — fishermen, a doctor, a scientist and others — and put their stories on YouTube. They talk about ongoing pollution, decimation of beaches and sea life, health concerns, longtime residents forced to leave the homes of their parents and grandparents because they can’t make a living or fear their health is at risk. (For more information and links to the videos, visit Community Voices Project’s Facebook page, or follow the Twitter account @CommVoicesProj.) “Their words are powerful, truthful and factual counters to the messages produced by the companies responsible for the devastation,” Cotton says. We agree.

A 2010 BP protest in the French Quarter.

P H OTO BY INFR O G M AT I O N/ C RE AT I V E C O M M O N S

On the fifth anniversary of the BP disaster, much national and international attention rightly turned to the Gulf Coast, as it surely will this summer for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. As we learned after both disasters, public interest tends to wane over time. That’s why residents of the Gulf Coast must continue to tell their own stories.

CLANCY DUBOS

Follow Clancy on Twitter: @clancygambit

POLITICS

Important tax elections his Saturday marks more than the second weekend of Jazz Fest. It’s also Election Day across Louisiana. Some important tax referenda are on the ballots in area parishes, particularly Orleans and St. Bernard.

Voters in New Orleans will decide the fate of two proposed property tax millages.

One would redirect an existing millage for the Orleans Parish Law Enforcement District (read: the Sheriff’s Office); the other is an additional millage for city libraries.

In St. Bernard, voters are being asked to raise property taxes for flood protection. Without additional revenue, parish flood control officials say, residents face increased threats of hurricane-related flooding and significantly higher flood insurance premiums.

The Orleans Parish Law Enforcement District was created years ago to help finance construction of new jail facilities. The district currently levies a 2.8-mill property tax to service bonds that voters authorized in 2008. The district — that is, Sheriff Marlin Gusman — proposes redirecting a portion of the revenue from that millage (the portion that is not needed for debt service) to pay operational expenses

for 10 years. The justification for redirecting that revenue is the high cost of implementing a federal consent decree that mandates major reforms at the scandalized jail facility.

Gusman proposed a similar measure (2.9 mills instead of the current 2.8) in November, but voters rejected it. If the

Gusman has run a quiet campaign, to say the least. By contrast, supporters of the city library millage have garnered support from many community, civic and political leaders. The library already gets 3.14 mills, but it does not generate enough to keep the library branches open and properly functioning. The proposition on Saturday’s

While thousands of music lovers are enjoying Jazz Fest this Saturday, others will be sweating the outcome of what promises to be a low-turnout tax election. proposition fails again, the city could be on the hook for even more of the consent decree costs, which could trigger significant cuts in city services. If approved, the overall millage rate for the district would not change; the measure would merely redirect a portion of the revenue derived from the existing millage.

ballot calls for an additional 2.7 mills for 40 years. The new tax would generate $8.25 million a year and allow library branches to open seven days a week.

The only opposition to the library proposition comes from the nonpartisan Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), which says the library board’s failure to adopt a stra-

tegic plan indicates the board lacks a clear vision for the library’s future. BGR says it supports a strong library system and notes that the library board has sufficient funds to continue operations into 2016. It suggests the board develop a better plan before asking voters for more taxes. (See News, p. 7) In St. Bernard, flood control officials are going back to voters after failing to convince them in December to raise taxes for flood protection. At stake is a 7.5-mill property tax to support the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, which is the flood protection agency for St. Bernard Parish.

The proposed 30-year millage would generate $2.5 million a year. The district currently levies a millage that generates approximately $3.5 million a year — but the agency runs a deficit because its responsibilities increased exponentially after Hurricane Katrina. In addition to storm-related flood protection, the levee district also handles drainage for most of the parish.

While thousands of music lovers are enjoying Jazz Fest this Saturday, others will be sweating the outcome of what promises to be a low-turnout tax election.

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HEADLINER

NOTES Big Easy Music Award nominees announced.

BY W ILL COV IELLO

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Lynn Drury is nominated for Best Female Performer.

Glen David Andrews is nominated for Best R&B and Best Album.

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SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Huey “Piano” Smith

Hurray for the Riff Raff will be honored as Entertainers of the Year, and bandleader Alynda Lee Segarra is nominated for Best Female Performer.

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he Gambit-affiliated Foundation for Entertainment, Development and Education (FEDE) announced nominees for the Big Easy Music Awards in 25 categories, including best male and female performers and best album. Winners will be announced May 21 at a gala at Harrah’s New Orleans, and special awards will be presented to Huey “Piano” Smith and Hurray for the Riff Raff.

Hurray for the Riff Raff’s ATO Records debut, Small Town Heroes, drew critical acclaim from NPR. Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and others.

Band members will be celebrated as the Big Easy Music Awards’ Entertainers of the Year, and the band is nominated for Best Country/Folk and Best Album of the Year. Bandleader Alynda Lee Segarra is nominated for Best Female Performer.

Huey “Piano” Smith will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. The native New Orleans R&B pianist is best known for the hit “Rockin’ Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu.” He played piano in Little Richard’s band and on hits for other stars including Earl King (“Those Lonely Lonely Nights”) and Smiley Lewis (“I Hear You Knocking”). Smith also wrote the song “Sea Cruise,” which became a hit for Frankie Ford.

Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne’s Music Ambassador Program will receive the Business Recognition Award. The program provides stipends of $1,000 or more to support musicians traveling to perform at out-ofstate events.

Categories cover a wide array of Louisiana genres, from traditional jazz to Cajun, gospel, electronica, funk and hard rock/heavy metal, and more than 60 bands and artists are nominated. Artists nominated in two categories include Helen Gillet (Best Mixed Bag, Best Female Performer), Aurora Nealand (for Best Traditional Jazz with The Royal Roses and Best Mixed Bag with Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers), Glen David Andrews (Best Album, Best Rhythm and Blues) and Luke Winslow King (Best Album, Best Blues).

Winners will be announced and some nominated artists will perform at the awards ceremony at Harrah’s New Orleans May 21. The Big Easy Awards support FEDE. Big Easy Music Awards sponsors include Gambit, Coleman Adler & Sons, Abita, Sazerac Rye, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly and Evamor. For tickets, call Jon Broder at (504) 483-3129.

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR Hurray for the Riff Raff BUSINESS RECOGNITION AWARD Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne’s Music Ambassador Program

BIG EASY MUSIC AWARD NOMINEES BEST TRADITIONAL JAZZ Aurora Nealand & The Royal Roses Preservation Hall Jazz Band Tuba Skinny BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ Stanton Moore Trio James Singleton Jason Marsalis BEST TRADITIONAL BRASS BAND Preservation Hall Brass Band Treme Brass Band Young PinStripe Brass Band BEST CONTEMPORARY BRASS BAND The Hot 8 Brass Band The Soul Rebels To Be Continued Brass Band BEST GOSPEL CHOIR Shades of Praise Tyrone Foster and the Arc Singers Val & Love Alive Mass Choir

BEST ROCK Benjamin Booker Brass Bed Royal Teeth BEST ROOTS ROCK Honey Island Swamp Band Kristin Diable Tommy Malone

Deacon John Moore is nominated for Best R&B. P H O T O BY C Y R I L V E T T ER

Huey “Piano” Smith will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

BEST COUNTRY/FOLK BAND The Deslondes Hurray for the Riff Raff Paul Sanchez BEST ZYDECO BAND Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band Lil’ Nathan & The Zydeco Big Timers Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole BEST CAJUN BAND Feufollet Lost Bayou Ramblers The Magnolia Sisters

Royal Teeth is nominated for Best Rock.

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BEST FUNK BAND Brass-A-Holics Galactic Naughty Professor BEST RHYTHM AND BLUES “Deacon” John Moore Glen David Andrews Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters BEST BLUES Colin Lake John Mooney Luke Winslow King BEST RAP/HIP-HOP/BOUNCE 5th Ward Weebie Big Freedia Curren$y

Singer/ songwriter Kristin Diable is nominated for Best Roots Rock.

Pastor Jai Reed received a nomination for Best Gospel Group/Individual.

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BEST GOSPEL GROUP/INDIVIDUAL The Electrifying Crown Seekers Kim Che’re Pastor Jai Reed

BEST HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL EYEHATEGOD Mountain of Wizard Thou

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BEST LATIN BAND Alexey Marti & Urban Minds Hector Gallardo’s Cuban Jazz Trio Rumba Buena

The Soul Rebels are nominated for Best Contemporary Brass Band.

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Best Regional Roots Music Album Grammy Award nominees, The Magnolia Sisters, received a nomination for Best Cajun Band.

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Debauche is nominated for Best World Music, an award it has won twice before.

Boyfriend is nominated for Best Emerging Artist.

BEST DJ DJ Soul Sister The Madd Wikkid Quickie Mart

BEST WORLD MUSIC Chegadao Debauche Panorama Jazz Band

BEST MALE PERFORMER Anders Osborne Big Chief Monk Boudreaux Quintron Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews

BEST MIXED BAG Helen Gillet Rory Danger & The Danger Dangers Sweet Crude

BEST FEMALE PERFORMER Alynda Lee Segarra Aurora Nealand Helen Gillet Lynn Drury

BEST EMERGING ARTIST Boyfriend The Breton Sound Leyla McCalla

BEST ALBUM OF 2014 Glen David Andrews Redemption

BEST ELECTRONICA ((Pressures)) Quintron & Miss Pussycat Unicorn Fukr

Hurray for the Riff Raff Small Town Heroes Luke Winslow King Everlasting Arms

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Crafted by a mother-daughter pair in South Carolina, this pink tassel necklace with druzy stone is one of a kind, like someone you know, $35 at Hickory Chicks (1915 Hickory Ave., Suite B, Harahan, 504-324-2454; www.hickorychicksboutique.com).

Mom gets mod with 1960s-inspired cat-eye shades by Oliver Peoples, $405 at St. Charles Vision (citywide; www.stcharlesvision.com).

Trashy Diva’s newest style is the Martini dress, a classic sheath made fresh with a green floral print, $163 at Trashy Diva (2048 Magazine St., 504-299-8777; 537 Royal St., 504522-4233; www.trashydiva.com).

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A hand-engraved gold and sterling silver shadowbox monogram ring by Tom Mathis is an instant classic, $545 at Symmetry (8138 Hampson St., 504-861-9925; www.symmetryjewelers.com).

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She’ll adore a fedora, especially this lightweight woven version with an interior sweatband, $44.99 at Massey’s Professional Outfitters (509 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-648-0292; 816 N. Hwy. 190, Covington, 985-809-7544; 3131 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-885-1144; www.masseysoutfitters.com)

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Round-trip tickets to Paris cost a couple grand, but this black-and-white pitcher could symbolize a shared savings goal for you and your mom’s dream vacation, $36 at Belladonna Day Spa (2900 Magazine St., 504-891-4393; www.belladonnadayspa.com).

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Simple yet striking, this freshwater pearl and peach moonstone necklace is a statement piece she’ll reach for time and time again, $300 at Mignon Faget (The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., 504524-2973; Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504835-2244; 3801 Magazine St., 504-891-2005; www.mignonfaget.com).

Toast Mom with a trio of wines: Riff Pinot Grigio Progetto Lageder 2013, Chateau Fontanes Vin De Pays D’Oc Rouge 2012 and Casa Dora Brut Cava NV, $34.99 at Martin Wine Cellar (714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, 504896-7300; 2895 Highway 190, Mandeville, 985-951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., 504-899-7411; www.martinwine.com).

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Court-Approved Supplemental Information About The Deepwater Horizon Economic Settlement Claim Deadline June 8, 2015 – Deadline to File Claim(s) with the Deepwater Horizon (BP) Economic Settlement Program The Class Settlement and its objective, financial data based causation tests have been approved by final judgment.

The June 8, 2015 Deadline will NOT be extended

If you reside or have a business in the map above, you have the right to file a claim.

www.deepwaterhorizoneconomicsettlement.com

If you submit a claim form and all required information and meet the formulas as approved by the Courts, you qualify for an award.

Not every claim filed will be eligible, but you have the right to file and find out.

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Infused with French lavender, lavandin and clary sage, Aveda Stress-Fix products are designed to promote relaxation. Start with soaking salts, finish with body lotion, and maintain the resulting serenity with an occasional dab of concentrate, $84 at Paris Parker (citywide; www.parisparker.com).

A 24-karat gold-plated snake bracelet by Porter Lyons is sinister yet sexy and can be worn solo or stacked, $125 at Hemline Metairie (605 Metairie Road, Metairie, 504-309-8778, www.shophemline.com).

A little bird told us she’d love a pair of lounge-worthy cotton pajamas, $108.95 at Earthsavers (Lakeside Shopping Center Annex, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-835-0225; The Premier Centre, 3414 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, 985-674-1133; 5501 Magazine St., 504-8998555; www.earthsaversonline.com).

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Did Mom raise an eyebrow at your teen wardrobe choices? Laugh about the past and ensure her arches are still on point with this waterproof brow pen, $22 at Hi-Brow NOLA (126 Sierra Court, Metairie, 504-325-2222; www.hibrownola.com).

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Elton John, Steve Winwood, No Doubt, Buddy Guy and many others perform at Jazz Fest.

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BY COUNT BASIN™ WITH HELP FROM WILL COVIELLO, CATE CZARNECKI, FRANK ETHERIDGE, ANNA GACA & JENNIFER ODELL

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Spencer Bohren & the Whippersnappers

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he New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival concludes with four days of music, parades, food and more. Headliners include Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis, Steve Winwood, No Doubt, Buddy Guy, Terence Blanchard, The Meters, Alison Krauss, Widespread Panic, Shooter Jennings, Kacey Musgraves, Estelle, Sturgill Simpson and many others. This year the festival honors the New Orleans Center

for Creative Arts on its 40th anniversary, and the NOCCA Pavilion features exhibitions and performances by students, teachers and alumni.

On the following pages, Count Basin™ offers daily music recommendations, interviews with artists and a pullout section with a map, daily schedules and information. Look for daily recaps at www.bestofneworleans.com.

COUNT BASIN’S PICKS

Spencer Bohren arrived in New Orleans in the 1970s, drawn by the city’s rich mix of indigenous musical forms of jazz, blues and gospel. The ace lap-steel guitarist plays an array of stringed instruments and is known for narrative songwriting with bayou-outlaw appeal.

Bohren’s son Andre followed his Loyola University education with what is now a decade-plus run as percussionist for local boogie beasts Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes. In recent years, Andre and Spencer built this compelling collaboration in partnership with fellow Dirty Note Dave Pomerleau and guitarist Alex McMurray — whose fellow stellar songwriters in The Write Brothers, Jim McCormick and Paul Sanchez, will join the Bohrens in the Blues Tent for a few songs.

11:25 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Blues Tent

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THE WORD ...............................................29 MONTY ALEXANDER............................30 SHOOTER JENNINGS.............................33 PRES HALL BRASS.................................35 CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT................37 MAPS & CUBES ........................PULLOUT

TAUK

Ushering in what looks to be a jam-friendly day on the Acura Stage (with sets by The Word and Widespread Panic), this ascendant New York City-based quartet found its funky, progrock groove in 2012, when its lineup — together since middle school — of Matt Jalbert (guitar), Charlie Dolan (bass) and Alric “A.C.” Carter (keyboard/organ) solidified with the addition of drummer Isaac Teel and

switched to an all-instrumental sound. The tilt toward a hard-driving, experimental improvisation gained fans and gigs, and by summer 2014, TAUK was onstage at big-name festivals including Bonnaroo and fresh from the studio with the superb LP Collisions, produced

by Grammy Award-winner Robert Carranza (Mars Volta). TAUK arrives at the Fair Grounds on the heels of a national tour in support of neo-hippie rock titans Umphrey’s McGee. 11:25 a.m.-12:25 p.m.

Acura Stage

Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience

Terrance Simien, an eighth-generation Louisianan with roots extending to the first Creoles to settle in St. Landry Parish, was our state’s only artist to take home a Grammy Award in 2014, winning his second such honor for his ninth album, Dockside Sessions, recorded at fabled Dockside Studio along the bayou near Maurice, Louisiana.

Over his 32-year career, Simien has expanded his repertoire of zydeco and Creole music to reflect Louisiana’s African/ Latin/jazz tinges. Unabashedly a flower child, Simien is equally adept at traditional tunes sung in French such as covers of Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. Expect a high-octane show powered by Simien’s hypnotic vocals and infectious good vibes.

2:05 p.m.-3:05 p.m.

Congo Square Stage

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

Blessed with a genie’s mastery of pulling emotions from an accordion, Steve Riley’s talent on the traditional Cajun instrument earned him notice early in his career. The Mamou, Louisiana native has been backed by the Mamou Playboys for 25 years.

The group’s music is marked by traditional French vocal harmonies, talented fiddling by Kevin Wimmer, who learned from the legendary Dewey Balfa, and Sam Broussard’s sizzling work on slide guitar. It comes together with a blistering blues bent over a polished, cohesive

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THURSDAY • APRIL 30 ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION

GENTILLY STAGE 5:25 p.m. - 6:55 p.m.

Cajun style.

2:55 p.m.-3:55 p.m.

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Sturgill Simpson

Tasha Cobbs

At 33, Tasha Cobbs represents a fresh face and star-power energy in the world of gospel music. A soul-stirring vocalist, Cobbs had a smash success with her 2012 debut album Grace, produced by Grammy Award winner and Motown Music labelmate VaShawn Mitchell, before spending a year on Billboard’s Top 10 Gospel chart with

A Tribute to Lionel Ferbos feat.

The Palm Court Jazz Band & Friends

New Orleans lost a treasured link to its traditional-jazz past last July with the death of trumpeter Lionel Ferbos — a few days after his 103rd birthday. A dapper Creole gentleman, Ferbos stood for decades as testament to the timeless appeal of the city’s indigenous musical form with long-running residencies in Jazz Fest’s traditional jazz tent and at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe.

4:20 p.m.-5:20 p.m.

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

Amanda Shires

Expect great things from the expecting Amanda Shires. A fiery Lubbock, Texas-born fiddler, guitarist and vocalist with a knack for earnest lyricism, Shires has a down-to-earth sensibility — personified in an Instagram post captioned “Sonic is the best place to be pregnant,” with her holding a

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Sturgill Simpson is a breakout talent that set the country/Americana scene ablaze in 2014. The 36-year-old singer-songwriter from small-town Kentucky independently released his second album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, in May 2014. Songs such as “Turtles All the Way down” and Internet videos from Simpson’s rapid rise reveal gruff good looks and a thick drawl well-suited to his lowkey demeanor and air of world-weary wisdom — requisite traits for an outlaw-country icon. But Simpson, now signed with Atlantic Records, is not superficial sizzle. A workingman’s troubadour, he’s a slow burn, and one that graciously rages against life’s defeats. Simpson sings with charming, good-old-boy defiance on “Just Let Go.” His refrain: “I don’t have to do a goddamn thing / Except to sit around and wait to die.”

3:35 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Gentilly Stage

its “Break Every Chain,” Billboard’s No. 1 single for 12 weeks. Like many in the genre’s hallowed roots, Cobbs began singing as a child in church at New Life Ministries, founded by her late father, Bishop Fritz Cobbs, in Jesup, Georgia. Life circumstances took her to Atlanta, where Cobbs became involved in the city’s thriving dReam Center Church and now serves as its team pastor and, of course, star singer.

3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Gospel Tent

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Mother’s Day BUFFET in Metairie!

JAZZ FEST 2015 WEEK TWO

THURSDAY • APRIL 30 AMANDA SHIRES

Hours: 10:30 am - 4 pm Adults: $48 | Kids: $18 - 6 & Under Eat FREE

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Brunch Selections

Chef Prepared Omelets Made to Order Crawfish Eggs Benedict Cinnamon Brioche French Toast Applewood Bacon Chicken Sausage

Salad & Soup

Louisiana Crawfish Bisque Roast Duck & Andouille Gumbo Strawberry & Goat Cheese Salad Vine Ripened Tomato Caprese Salad

Carved & Roasted

Garlic Roast Boneless Rib of Beef Boudin Stuffed Pork Loin with pan gravy

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE 4:25 p.m. - 5:35 p.m.

Seafood

Roasted Gulf Fish with Lemon Butter Shrimp & Grits • Crawfish Mac & Cheese

Desserts

Praline Bread Pudding • Red Velvet Cake Chocolate Doberge • Strawberry Lemon Pie White Chocolate Cream Puffs

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half-eaten corndog in one hand and a big drink in the other. Proving enough of an allure to inspire former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell to abandon drinking and drugs in favor of marriage and fatherhood, the 33-year-old songstress lacks pretense on social media and onstage, where she’s built a national fan base thanks to an engaging stage presence and tell-it-like-it-is tunes such as “Wasted on Rolling” that rock with a folk sensibility.

4:25 p.m.-5:35 p.m.

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

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An only-in-New Orleans musical collaboration, Idlewild String Confederation gathers all-acoustic instruments for performances. With backgrounds including rock, country and heavy metal, bandmates Vernon Harvey (guitar), Earl Roesch Jr. (banjo), Charlie McGinn (dobro), George Gouzy (bass drum and snare) and Andy Shepherd (upright bass) got together in 2011 and have developed a reputation for raucous, up-tempo live shows and are equally adept at old-timey originals and covers culled from Ricky Skaggs, the Allman Brothers and AC/DC. 4:25 p.m.-5:20 p.m.

Lagniappe Stage

Widespread Panic

To the uninitiated, the extended set alotted these Southern rock stalwarts might seem an aberration, dwarfing most of the festival’s other headliner spots. As rabid fans of the Georgia-bred sextet will attest, Widespread Panic will apply its jamming blend of improvised blues, rock and boogie to every minute of the set. (Its Jazz Fest sets typically haven’t featured a break.) On the

cusp of Panic’s 30th year, the band seems rejuvenated, despite death and departure, buoyed by the frenzy of now-ensconced guitarist Jimmy Herring and his son-in-law Duane Trucks, a recently recruited 26-yearold drummer of remarkable talent hailing from Florida’s first family of rock with uncle Butch (The Allman Brothers Band) and older brother Derek (Allman Brothers, Tedeschi Trucks Band). Panic has collaborated with many local legends including the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and recently departed Big Chief Theodore “Bo” Dollis Sr. The band also is a contributor to local charities such as the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and Make It Right Foundation. It has a long list of friends in the city and many are performing at Jazz Fest, so don’t be surprised to see anyone from Steve Winwood to Ivan Neville make a guest appearance.

4:30 p.m.-7 p.m.

Acura Stage

Alison Krauss & Union Station

The angelic voice and bucolic country stylings of Alison Krauss have graced Jazz Fest many times, often backed by this bluegrass band, which she assembled while she was a teen singing sensation; since 1998, it has featured the superb Jerry Douglas on dobro. In 2008 and 2011, Krauss performed at Jazz Fest with Raising Sand, her Grammy Award-winning collaboration with Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin). She also did stints singing with Phish and Sting. She’s had health issues for a couple of years, but the 43-year-old Krauss arrives this spring not just as an acclaimed performer, but also as a breast cancer survivor.

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The Word

By Frank Etheridge

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Eric Clapton?’ No, I want to play like Calvin Cook, a sacred-steel player in a tradition still very much alive in my church.”

Some of the Allstars also were familiar with gospel traditions. “[Chew] grew up Pentecostal,” Randolph says. “Luther’s mom was the pianist at a Pentecostal church near Memphis in north Mississippi. And their father was such a blues guy, such a blues pioneer.

The Mississippi guys always bring a little gospel flavor.”

The Word recorded Soul Food in New York and the Memphis home of Hi Records, the studio where Al Green recorded his biggest hits and Mark Ronson laid down “Uptown Funk.” Each member contributed original songs, including Cody Dickinson’s “New Word Order,” inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Randoph’s sacred steel shines throughout Soul Food’s 13 tracks, notably on “Glory, Glory” on which he plays a customized, rarely heard acoustic pedal steel guitar.

He also delivers a moving solo on his song “The Highest.”

“I think all of our music has everything in its intention,” Randolph says. “Mine is more Christian-based, so it’s more sacred or gospel, but I’m just looking to inspire people, pick them up through positive music. Life is about learning and growing and inspiring one another to do the best we can.”

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o sacred steel guitarist Robert Randolph, the 14-year gap between The Word’s self-titled 2001 debut and its Soul Food LP, due May 5, was merely a matter of scheduling conflicts. The initial project with John Medeski and all three of the North Mississippi Allstars propelled Randolph to fame with his own band, and the group got back together for a follow up last year.

“We’ve known each other for a long time now and have played together over the years at festivals — Bonnaroo, Jam Cruise,” Randolph says. “We maintained that connection and always talked about another album but could never find the time. In early 2014, we all carved out some time, focused and found a lot of creative energy.”

Randolph was a teenager working in New York City and had never played outside of a church when he was recruited to perform with an opening act for the North Mississippi Allstars at the Manhattan enclave the Bowery Ballroom. Not long after that, he again met the psychedelic blues power trio — brothers Luther (guitar, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, electric washboard) with Chris Chew (bass) — this time at the Brooklyn studio of Medeski, the keyboard/organ wizard of avant-garde jazz act and jam band favorite Medeski Martin & Wood. Medeski and the Allstars had forged a bond during a shared 1998 tour over two Arhoolie Records compilations that introduced them to sacred-steel sounds and legends. They wanted to do their own gospel album and thought Randolph and his lap and pedal steel guitar would be the perfect fit for the all-instrumental project.

In 2001, The Word released its debut filled with traditional songs such as “I’ll Fly Away.” The project made Randolph into a star with jam band fans, and Robert Randolph & the Family Band signed a big-splash, multi-record deal with Warner Bros. Eventually Randolph and the label had a falling out; two years ago, Randolph signed with Blue Note.

Randolph learned to play in the sacred steel tradition in the Orange, New Jersey church his parents and grandparents had attended since the 1930s. “Our church is the House of God Church,” Randolph says. “I grew up in that tradition, with its lap steel and pedal steel. People would come up to me, ‘Do you want to play like

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Harlem-Kingston Express

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ianist Monty Alexander has spent most of his career playing modern jazz, but he also has kept the sounds of his native Jamaica in the mix. Recent recordings with his band Harlem-Kingston Express have centered on the music of his home country, and he is perfecting a mix of hard-driving modern chords and harmonies with Jamaican rhythms and syncopation.

“I’ve been loving this reconnecting with my roots in Jamaica,” Alexander says. “It’s been great pulling people together who wouldn’t appreciate the ‘one drop,’ as we call it. So I would like to marry the music of Jamaica just like it happened in the beginning; just like ska was the marriage of Jamaican rhythm and rhythm and blues, I would like to meld it with other things — put the jerk sauce on everything.”

Alexander was introduced to jazz at a young age, but he also was inspired by all sorts of American popular music, including what he refers to as the “great American songbook,” such as the work of Nat King Cole.

“I saw Nat King Cole in Jamaica, and that guy was ripping up the piano keys like nobody’s business,” Alexander says.

“He’s the greatest forerunner of modern jazz piano that people forgot about.”

As a teenager, Alexander did session work with the musicians who became The Skatalites, as well as other pioneers of Jamaican music. Those sessions also were influenced by the music he heard on the radio, including New Orleans music.

“I would play the music and boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues with a sense of fierce ownership,” he says. “It’s all that R&B coming from New Orleans, like Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and Professor Longhair and Fats Domino. … I wasn’t trying to play like Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and Professor Longhair, I was just playing. [But] if Huey ‘Piano’ Smith can’t make the session that day, call me,” he says.

Alexander moved to New York in the early 1960s and caught the eye of one of the most famous club owners in the country: Jilly Rizzo. At Rizzo’s club, Alexander found new links between jazz and popular music, including listening to one of the greatest interpreters of all.

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“Later, I played for Frank Sinatra,” Alexander says.

“I played at Jilly’s [Saloon] for three years, and I was around that man and his friends. I know his repertoire like the back of my hand. So here I am, Monty Alexander the pianist, and I wasn’t just playing those songs. I was living them. It was such a powerful experience being around these guys and those idioms.”

Alexander also played with jazz greats including Clark Terry and Milt Jackson, but was thrilled by another New Orleans musician.

“In the midst of that was Louis Armstrong, who was a big influence on me when I saw him in Jamaica. I shook his hand because he was my No. 1 hero. He probably still is my No. 1 hero.”

Alexander also sees similarities between Jamaican and New Orleans music and culture.

“We share the joy and the love of rhythm, and when approached with all of that life force in Jamaica or New Orleans or Trinidad, you can’t escape it,” he says. “You don’t want to escape it. It’s like life; it’s the heartbeat — the rhythm, the beat, the groove, and the way people respond to rhythm. It’s the main part — you have your harmony and melody and all the things you have when you play, but if you don’t have your rhythm, it’s like Duke Ellington says, ‘It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.’ Swing is that force of life. If you order some fried chicken, the chicken is good, but the best part of the fried chicken is sucking on the bone. The bone is the rhythm.

Sucking on the bone is the best part. Jamaica has its own rhythm. Cuba has its own version. You go up the line and you end up in New Orleans.

“It’s like New Orleans is the northernmost part of the Caribbean. There is a big connection of people and attitude and the kind of food we like. It’s an attitude toward life: Be loose, be free, be colorful, celebrate life. It’s very festive. It’s the spirit of the music and the spirit of bringing people together in one love.

Like Bob Marley said, ‘One Love.’”

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SHOOTER JENNINGS

By Alex Woodward

SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE

Friday, May 1 • 4:25 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. music” to a “whole generation of entitled MTV kids that have PlayStations [pretending] they grew up in 1950 Arkansas,” the term has been warped and overused into a nothing phrase, he says. Sturgill Simpson, fellow Jazz Fest country artist and friend of Jennings, also has been tagged with the label. Jennings’ dad never cared for the term either.

“Whenever I see that, it’s usually a red flag that this is gonna suck,” Jennings says. “When someone’s like, ‘Yeah, man, we’re badass outlaw country.’ This is gonna blow. It’s like hearing someone say ‘we’re a rap-metal band.’ ... Any time I rail against something like this someone gets their feelings hurt. I just wish people would do original shit and forget about genres, forget about traditionalism. The only thing that’s real are people who just do their thing and try to do their thing.”

Not that that doesn’t come with some risk or rejection. To promote the Moroder tribute, Jennings tried to reach his connections overseas. Nobody called back.

“I think they think it’s either a joke or a dumbass I-don’t-knowwhat,” he says. “The general perception is that they don’t really understand what we’re doing, and that’s fine, because when it comes out it’ll be a different story. ... That keeps me grounded to some degree. If everyone else was on par with what we were thinking, we’d probably [have] wrecked everything already.”

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hooter Jennings has found his center. The son of country music’s Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter grew up with the family’s music, dived into industrial and psychedelic stoner rock, then came full circle back to his roots — and did everything in between. His center, however, is in Giorgio Moroder. Jennings’ latest project is a tribute album to the electronic music pioneer and includes artists ranging from country-folk singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile to Jennings’ pal Marilyn Manson. Meanwhile, Jennings is touring with his dad’s band, Waymore’s Outlaws, which has known the 35-year-old shit-kicking songwriter since birth.

“Musically I’m doing the most reaching out and stretching I’ve ever done,” Jennings says. “On paper, doing my dad’s band would be kind of a step backwards, but it’s not. They really want to do all the weird shit I’m doing. There’s such a mutual admiration onstage. … The guys from Waymore’s are like, ‘We understand you have this Giorgio record and that this can’t go on forever.’

But they really want to play it.”

That kind of balance — left-field experiments and real-deal rock ‘n’ roll — is at the heart of Jennings’ label, Black Country Rock Media, which will release the Moroder tribute album later this year. Among other recent “offbeat, one-off” projects are a duet with Billy Ray Cyrus for an earnest cover of “Killing the Blues,” and turns from people like porn legend Ron Jeremy and Dennis Haskins, aka principal Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell, who mashed up Tom Jones and Kris Kristofferson (“Delilah” and “For the Good Times”). Jennings and his band scored the backing tracks.

“I was kind of stoned and I got to the chorus and accidentally started playing ‘For the Good Times.’ They’re really similar.

Real Robert Durst-y that way,” Jennings says. “We’re not boring people to death yet.”

That’s kind of the label’s mantra. Jennings founded the label with his manager Jon Hensley in 2010 and started producing records in 2013.

“We’re these weirdos and we’re all alone, and the minute we met, now there’s two of us, and us against the world all of a sudden,” Jennings says. “We laugh because all the releases we do, on paper, they sound like a f—king disaster. And they all turn out great.”

Cyrus was nervous at first — he made a career as a mainstream country heartthrob, but now takes a backseat to his first daughter in pop, Miley Cyrus.

“He’s a really nice guy, f—king funny as shit, sweet, he’s had all this success and money. You go over to his house and he’s like, ‘Man, I don’t have much of a fridge but I could stick some ham in a hot dog bun with some mustard and Cheez Whiz,’ and you’re like, ‘Right on, dude,’” Jennings says. “When we got in the studio he was very nervous at the beginning. He wanted me to sing most of it. … When he got into singing it, there was an ‘oh shit’ moment with the band, like ‘God damn!’ His voice is so powerful — the fact he could layer all these vocals, do all these harmonies. He just wanted to do that for hours.”

With Waymore’s Outlaws — whose lineup of Richie Albright, Jerry Bridges, Fred Newell and Tommy Townsend remains from Waylon’s days at the front of the stage — Jennings bridges the gap from his more eccentric path with his family’s music.

“My middle name is Albright,” Jennings says. “I remember being young and I always wanted to ride the band bus. I wanted the band to think I was cool, not like the boss’ kid. Then I’d ride the bus and they’d be like ‘F—k!’ and hide the drugs and shit.”

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but draws inspiration for its spirited, eclectic jazz from the streets of Eastern Europe and South America. Clarinetist Ben Schenck leads a crew featuring saxophonist Aurora Nealand, trombonist Charlie Halloran, sousaphonist Matt Perrine and others. Songs like “Sous Les Tropiques” draw upon French and Latin influences, with Schenck’s eloquent clarinet dancing over Patrick Mackey’s rhythmic banjo.

1:40 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Jazz & Heritage Stage

Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards, and she won the 2015 award for British Female Solo Artist.

1:45 p.m.-2:55 p.m.

Acura Stage

impact on her songwriting of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.

2:15 p.m.-3:25 p.m.

Lagniappe Stage

Maggie Koerner

Gurrumul

Her commanding vocals and dynamic stage presence were a boon to the veteran New Orleans jazz-funk group, and she received critical acclaim for live performances of classics such as The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter.” Striking out on her own again in 2015, Koerner has turned her attention to more politically charged material — she recently cited the

Born blind, he’s learned to play guitar, keyboards and drums, and he sings primarily in the Yolngu language and occasionally in English. His voice is highly regarded for its pitch and clarity. His most recent album, Gurrumul and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra: His Life and Music, was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in 2013 and was nominated for

With two albums under her belt, including 2013’s well-received Neutral Ground, Shreveport native Maggie Koerner reached new audiences in 2014 as the lead singer for Galactic.

Folk musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu belongs to the indigenous Australian Gumatj clan of the Yolngu, which comes from Elcho Island, off the country’s northern coast.

PALOMA FAITH

Colin Lake

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Originally from Portland, Oregon, blues guitarist Colin Lake found his way to the Crescent City in 2008 and has become a fixture of the local music scene. In addition to opening for Gary Clark Jr. and Dr. John, he is a regular presence in New Orleans clubs and a frequent performer at festivals including Austin City Limits and Hangout Music Fest in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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The Honorable South

“I don’t always get what I want,” muses Charm Taylor on The Honorable South’s single “Waves,” her voice layered over a warm guitar and drum loop.

Self-described as “electric soul rock ’n’ roll,” the alternative rock band takes local musical influences and filters them through a kaleidoscope of genres. Borrowing from reggae, hip-hop, country and electronica, the group creates sonic landscapes that are elevated by Taylor’s expressive vocals. It released the album Faithful Brave & Honest in 2014, which contains some of the band’s strongest work to date, including the electricand R&B-infused “Overdue.”

11:20 a.m.-12:10 p.m.

Gentilly Stage

Panorama Jazz Band

The Panorama Jazz Band can be seen regularly at gigs at Gasa Gasa and the Spotted Cat,

ACURA STAGE 1:45 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.

Paloma Faith

With her retro style and throaty vocals, Paloma Faith invites comparisons to Amy Winehouse and Duffy. Her 2014 album A Perfect Contradiction carries her most successful single to date, the deeply soulful “Only Love Can Hurt Like This.” Faith has drawn numerous nominations for Brit

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lympia Brass Band had a standing Sunday night gig at Preservation Hall for more than 20 years.

Among its ranks was legendary bandleader Harold “Duke” Dejan, who died in 2002.

“He was my godfather, my PEOPLE’S HEALTH parrain,” says Ben Jaffe, Pres ECONOMY HALL JAZZ TENT Hall’s creative Friday • 4:20 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. director and tuba player. “It was a tradition for them to play, like the Rebirth on Tuesday nights Lord’ and ‘You Are My Sunshine’” as well (at the Maple Leaf Bar). It was a thing.” as New Orleans’ evolving modern brass The group also inspired Jaffe and anoth- sounds. “The ‘modern brass band reperer generation of players, including the Jr. toire’ found its way into Preservation Hall,” Olympia Brass Band, which became “like Jaffe says. the minor league, the college version of That modern influence in Preservation the granddaddies,” Jaffe says. Members of Hall also makes connections within other that junior crew, as well as veterans of the New Orleans music scenes, including hipYoung Tuxedo Brass Band, now compose hop and bounce. Recently, PresHall Brass Preservation Hall’s current resident brass backed rappers Nesby Phips and Fiend outfit, the PresHall Brass. Trumpeter Will inside the famous jazz hall.

Smith, drummer Kerry “Fat Man” Hunter “Nesby and Fiend, they go out at second and trumpeter Kenneth Terry also are lines, they grew up with Olympia,” Jaffe members of New Breed Brass Band. says. “They never had the opportunity to Tuba player Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen connect. … A lot of songs bands end up influenced a generation of players, providwriting are the result of instantaneous ing brass bands’ big, colorful bass. chanting that goes on at second lines, “All the guys in Dirty Dozen Brass Band, chant turns into a riff, a riff turns into a their dads were in Olympia,” Jaffe says. groove, and all combined turns into a song.

“Those guys grew up being influenced by [We] take what’s happening in the city and Tuba Fats and my dad.” say, ‘Let’s see what happens when we put The Olympia dissolved permanently afit on a stage.’ … All the time we have that ter Hurricane Katrina, and its last surviving conversation: Why haven’t we bridged that member, saxophonist Ernest “Doc” Watson, gap, why haven’t we reached out?” died in 2010.

Those connections also are made at “We didn’t want the band to die, but Preservation Hall’s late-night Midnight Prethere were no members any more,” Jaffe serves series, during which a who’s who says. “It became apparent [we needed] to of touring performers on the Jazz Fest carry on the legacy with younger musicircuit stop inside the hall for one-nightcians. Look around; we’re not the younger only, highly secretive performances. It’s guys anymore. We feel like we’re young. also a major fundraiser for Preservation … We are the last musicians who played Hall’s Foundation efforts, which include with Milton Batiste, played with Harold putting instruments and music programs Dejan, with Doc, marched in Zulu and Rex in schools across the city. with those guys. We had the experience of “The next Louis Armstrong is a 4wearing the uniforms — those things that year-old kid in New Orleans,” Jaffe says. were important to Harold were import“Everybody in New Orleans has some ant to us.” sort of appreciation for music. You don’t The PresHall Brass repertoire spans have to play music to be a member of “what we grew up playing — ‘Lord Lord the family.”

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Around Heaven: New Orleans Gospel Soul in 1993 as a tribute to these roots. On it, her powerful voice sounds just as at home on tracks like “Where We’ll Never Grow Old” and “Careful Hands” as it does on her R&B hits “It’s Raining” and “Wish Someone Would Care.” In 2007, Thomas won a Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy Award for After the Rain, her 18th studio album.

3:50 p.m.-4:50 p.m.

Gospel Tent

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One of the Delta’s rising blues singers and guitarists, Jarekus Singleton grew up in the gospel community of his hometown of Clinton, Mississippi. A former college basketball star at the University of Southern Mississippi, Singleton’s sports career was put on hold by an ankle injury, a story he details on the autobiographical “Keep Pushin.” The International Blues Foundation recently nominated his sophomore album Refuse to Lose for three Blues Music Awards including Album of the Year. Signed to Alligator Records in 2014, Singleton’s songs are marked by the legacies of Southern gospel, hip-hop and soul. A standout tune on Refuse to Lose, “Gonna Let Go” combines the get-on-up attitude of James Brown with guitar work similar to Robert Randolph.

3:55 p.m.-4:55 p.m.

Blues Tent

GENTILLY STAGE 11:20 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. an Australian Recording Industry Association award.

2:35 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

Blues Tent

Galactic with Macy Gray

After months of speculation about the addition of a big-name female vocalist, New Orleans mainstay Galactic announced Grammy Award winner Macy Gray would replace Maggie Koerner in the band’s latest iteration. Gray is best known for her 1999 debut album On How Life Is, which contained the smash hit “I Try.” She won the Grammy Award for Best

Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars

Formed in 2004 by blues guitarist and Baton Rouge native Tab Benoit, the Voice of the Wetlands 3:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.

Female Pop Vocal Performance in “American Boy” featuring Kanye All-Stars is a socially conscious Congo Square Stage 2001 for the song, which also was West. West first discovered Louisiana supergroup featuring nominated for Song and Record Estelle when she introduced Cyril Neville, Big Chief Monk of the Year. She joins Galactic for herself to him at a Los Angeles Boudreaux, George Porter Jr., Dr. a series of spring dates, as the restaurant, eventually leading John, Waylon Thibodeaux, Johnny band prepares for the release of to a collaboration between Vidacovich, Anders Osborne and a new album that promises to her and John Legend. LegFifty-five years since the release Johnny Sansone. The all-star linereturn Galactic to its funk and end produced two songs on of her first single “(You Can Have up straddles an array of Louisiana R&B roots. Local singer Erica Falls Estelle’s debut album The 18th My Husband But) Don’t Mess music while raising money and also is slated to join the group Day, leading her to become the With My Man,” the Soul Queen of awareness for the protection onstage at Jazz Fest. first signee on his Homeschool New Orleans is still one of the and preservation of the state’s 3:25 p.m.-4:40 p.m. label. With a vocal range and Crescent City’s finest musical eroding coast. Benoit received the Acura Stage style reminiscent of Mary J. Blige, ambassadors. While most Estelle recently was featured famous for the R&B records she Governor’s Award for Conservaon the Fox TV show Empire, cut with Allen Toussaint, Thomas tionist of the Year in 2009 from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation where she performed her single (then Irma Lee) grew up singing “Conqueror” with Jussie Smollett. gospel music in a Baptist church in recognition of his efforts.

British chanteuse Estelle first 5:35 p.m.-7 p.m.

Estelle released True Romance reached the American mainin Ponchatoula, Louisiana. She recorded the gospel album Walk Blues Tent in February. stream in 2008 with the single

Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas

Estelle

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Cecile McLorin

Salvant

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t 25 years old, vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant has ascended quickly in the jazz world. Her 2013 album WomanChild topped several DownBeat critics’ polls, including jazz album of the year and best female vocalist. She also won the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocalist competition, which helped introduce her style of singing to jazz fans around the globe.

While many jazz vocalists sing straight and add vocalese, or simulated instrumental lines, Savant inhabits her songs and adds a degree of drama to them. Salvant says she has always sung that way.

“When I was a kid in school, we would have to recite poems in French,” Salvant says via phone from New York.

“Most of the other kids would just say them. I would dramaZATARAIN’S/WWOZ JAZZ TENT tize them with movements and Friday • 4:20 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. hand gestures.”

Salvant pulls off her style by also relying on her varying timbres and on her versions of the folk song “John Henspot-on melodic sense, and not allowing ry” and the 1920s blues of Bessie Smith on the drama to overwhelm the music. Her “Baby, Have Pity on Me.” voice sweeps and swells, and it sounds Salvant was born in Miami and grew up in both old and young, at times echoing Billie France. Her mother is French and GuadeHoliday and Betty Carter. She also has an loupean and her father is Haitian. She studunconventional repertoire. Her take on ied classical voice in Aix-en-Provence, France Bert Williams’ signature 1906 tune “”Nobefore she switched to jazz. “I sang ‘Misty’ in body” delves into the emotions behind the class one time,” she says. “I had heard Sarah lament and invokes the greater social and Vaughan’s version, and after I sang it, my racial context of the song. teacher said, ‘You have to sing that.’”

“A song has to mean something to me Salvant is making her first trip to New personally for me to sing it,” Salvant says.

Orleans, but she’s already familiar with the “And I like to sing songs that haven’t been city’s culture. recorded too often. I like to introduce “New Orleans to me is the fusion unfamiliar songs to new audiences.” of music — folk music and blues and But it’s her obvious joy in singing that jazz,” she says. “Sometimes whether in propel tunes like the 1930s jazz number music or art or food, people will put two “You Bring Out the Savage In Me.” Her or three different things together, and it energetic vocals in the Latin-tinged romp doesn’t work. In New Orleans, it works. are simply fun as they dart over the nimble There is a Haitian connection and French and propulsive drums of Herlin Riley on the influence there, and that connects to my rendition included on WomanChild. The heritage, so I’m interested to see what that is like.” same approach makes her voice jump out

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Dee-1

New Orleans native Dee-1, aka David Augustine, returns to Jazz Fest fresh off his first national headlining tour.

Dee-1 began rapping as an LSU student and worked as a middle school teacher in the Baton Rouge area, where he was inspired to dedicate himself to a music career. “I was Mr. Augustine and I was cool, but I realized Lil’ Wayne, Lil’ Boosie and everybody else really had [the students’] ear, so when I chose to walk away from teaching, it’s because I wanted to get in this game and make a difference,” he says in the coda to “My Student Got Murdered (Both Sides of the Gun).” It’s a thoughtful, wrenching cut from his new EP, 3’s Up, released in February through RCA’s Inspiration imprint.

Dee-1 is the only rapper among Inspiration’s roster of gospel and soul singers (labelmate Marvin Sapp performs at 3:55

p.m. in the Gospel Tent), but with a vocal faith in God and a commitment to make consciousness-building music, he is in good company.

12:15 p.m.-1:05 p.m.

Congo Square Stage

of sounds reminiscent of Joe Zawinul’s multi-cultural Weather Report work and Tabla Beat Science’s electronic take on Indian music.

12:20 p.m.– 1:10 p.m.

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Larry Sieberth feat.

Mehnaz Hoosein

Jerry Lee Lewis

This special Jazz Fest one-off pairs pianist and improvisational powerhouse Larry Sieberth on electric keys with Mehnaz Hoosein, an Indian pop singer who got her start studying Hindustani classical music in her native Mumbai.

The ensemble is rounded out with Mike Dillon on percussion, Woodenhead’s Jimmy Robinson on guitar and Calvin Turner on bass. Expect an eclectic mix

It’s easy to associate legendary rock ’n’ roller Jerry Lee Lewis with Memphis and Sun Studio, but he’s a native of Ferriday, Louisiana. (And, of course, his cousin is Baton Rouge-based TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.) The Killer made his last appearance at Jazz Fest in 2007, when he graced the festival’s official poster.

The 79-year-old original wild man has been busy since, releasing two albums.

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Though it has only a couple of recorded songs available online, TYSSON doesn’t have to prove its credentials in the local pop scene. It’s headed by John Michael Rouchell, formerly of MyNameIsJohnMichael. The lineup includes Rouchell, Dumpstaphunk’s Alvin Ford Jr., Cardinal Sons’ Joe Shirley and The Bridge Trio’s Max Moran and Joe Dyson Jr. They’ve moved away from the guitar-driven MyNameIsJohnMichael sound, dropping the horns and creating buoyant electronic pop with hooks reminiscent of chart-topping R&B. 11:20 a.m.-12:05 p.m.

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Pastor Marvin Sapp

Marvin Sapp’s career is marked by loss: the deaths of his father in 2007 and his wife three years later. His father inspired the breakthrough gospel hit “Never Would Have Made It,” and Sapp’s last album, 2012’s I Win, was presented as a tribute to

his wife MaLinda. The message of faith in the face of adversity is a simple one, but Sapp’s sincerity resonates with fans and has made him one of the biggest names in contemporary gospel music. When he’s not on tour, Sapp is the senior pastor at Lighthouse Full Life Center Church in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the author of several inspirational books.

His eighth album, You Shall Live, is due for release in June.

3:55 p.m.-4:55 p.m.

Gospel Tent

Charles Lloyd Quartet Charles Lloyd’s New Quartet is not so new anymore — the group is approaching its 10th anniversary.

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Time, a classic covers collection that came out in conjunction with a new biography of Lewis by Rick Bragg.

If Lewis wants to work the local angle at Jazz Fest, he could play his boogie woogie version of Fats Domino’s “Sick and Tired,” but it’s a pretty good bet we’ll hear his ’50s hits “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On.” 3:05 p.m.-4:05 p.m.

Acura Stage

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Rogers and drummer Eric Harland in the mid-2000s, and the 77-yearold saxophonist has enjoyed something of a renaissance with the group, issuing well-regarded albums including Mirror and Rabo de Nube. The 2013 release Hagar’s Song features Lloyd and Moran as a sax/flute and piano duo. In addition to its own compositions, the quartet mixes classic jazz and popular tunes into its live sets, including pieces by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and The Beach Boys.

4:10 p.m.-5:20 p.m.

Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent

Taj Mahal Trio

Fingerpicking polyglot Taj Mahal is a familiar face at Jazz Fest, first appearing at the festival in 1973 and as recently as 2013. Through the years, he’s pursued the blues with a broad approach, blending folk, jazz and R&B and incorporating a wide range of African, Caribbean, Latin and Cajun influences.

With more than two dozen albums to his name, the raspy-voiced Harlem native continues to challenge the mushy concept of “world” music. The trio lineup includes drummer Kester Smith and bassist Bill Rich. The three have played together since the 1970s.

4:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Sir Elton John last visited New Orleans for a concert at the Smoothie King Center in March 2014. He typically eschews outdoor festivals, and following his summer tour he’ll return to Caesars Palace Las Vegas, where he signed a contract to perform regularly for the next three years. He’s released nearly 30 albums, not including his soundtracks (The Lion King), and his performances typically pull from a slew of 1970s hits, including “Rocket Man,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Bennie and the Jets,” and the rock ’n’ roll jam “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting.”

4:50 p.m.-7 p.m.

Acura Stage

Ed Sheeran

It’s been hard to miss the ascent of Ed Sheeran over the past year and a half. At age 24, the English singer-songwriter has helped write hits for Taylor Swift and One Direction, while launching his multi-platinum solo career. Anyone who’s

T.I.

Fifteen years into his career, Atlanta-born rapper T.I. doesn’t get as much respect as you might think. Perhaps longtime collaborator Pharrell oversold him when he called him “the Jay-Z of the South” — not an easy billing to live up to — but he’s the biggest hip-hop act at Jazz Fest and can live large this weekend. His latest album Paperwork didn’t fare as well as its conceptual predecessor, 2008’s Paper Trail, but T.I. has more than enough business savvy to compensate. In addition to preparing a trilogy-completing album titled Paperwork: Traps Open, he’s a mentor to Australian rap star Iggy Azalea and is pursuing a burgeoning acting career with roles in Get Hard and the upcoming Marvel film Ant-Man. 5:45 p.m.-7 p.m.

Congo Square Stage

Gulf Coast Cuisine with a South Louisiana Flaire

The Terence Blanchard E-Collective

Just when you thought you were familiar with New Orleans trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, he changes it up with an electric quintet — hence the “e” in “E-Collective.” The combination featuring pianist Fabian Almazan, guitarist Charles Altura, bassist Donald Ramsey and drummer Oscar Seaton brings energy and groove to Blanchard’s newly unbridled horn playing. Keep an eye open for the Cuban-born Almazan, a rising star in his own right. The 31-year-old has worked with Blanchard since 2007 and in October released a second record, Rhizome, under his own name.

The E-Collective currently is gearing up for its debut Breathless, which is set for release in May on Blue Note Records.

5:45 p.m.-7 p.m.

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missed the soulful strains of his love ballad “Thinking Out Loud” likely will hear the hit covered at a wedding reception sometime soon. With his boyish looks and earnest, heart-on-his-sleeve delivery, Sheeran attracts passionate devotion from fans who call themselves “Sheeranators.”

5:15 p.m.-6:55 p.m.

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On New Orleans’ modern jazz scene, Uptown Jazz Orchestra colleagues Khari Allen Lee (saxophone) and Gregory Agid (clarinet) share a knack for pushing creative boundaries while espousing a healthy respect for tradition. They join forces to honor two New Orleans jazz luminaries with similar penchants for mixing progressive creativity with a deep reverence for the city’s early jazz pioneers. Like arranger and composer Harold Battiste and clarinetist Alvin Batiste before them, Lee and Agid are avid music educators, helping to shape the sound of New Orleans’ next generation of players.

12:20 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.

WWOZ Jazz Tent

Feufollet

Declared one of the most exciting bands to come out of Acadiana following the 2010 release En Couleurs, this Cajun-meets-indie rock act recently made a substantial shift in personnel and overall sound. Singer, songwriter and fiddler Kelli Jones-Savoy, whose voice and writing style owe more to Appalchian than Acadian heritage, now shares vocal duties with accordionist Chris Stafford.

She also contributes strong original compositions to Two Universes, the band’s first album in five years. New influences aside, Feufollet remains a hub of sorts in Lafayette’s vibrant

music scene: the band is managed

by Lisa Stafford, mother of members Michael and Chris Stafford, while Jones-Savoy frequently collaborates on side gigs with her husband, Valcour Records head and fiddler/guitar star Joel Savoy.

12:25 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Deacon John

After launching his career in the late 1950s with regular, popular gigs at Uptown’s famous Dew Drop Inn, Deacon John Moore became a staple session player for music producer Cosimo Matassa, recording with Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Lee Dorsey and Ernie K-Doe. Meanwhile, Moore’s busy band the Ivories provided the live music for much of New Orleans’ social scene.

The high-energy guitarist, singer and tambourine player keeps a somewhat lower profile around town these days, making his annual Fest appearance a perennial highlight.

12:35 p.m.–1:35 p.m.

Gentilly Stage

Big Chief Juan & Jockimo’s Groove

The leader of the Golden Comanche Mardi Gras Indians, Big Chief Juan Pardo boasts a versatile singing range, a soulful voice and a hip taste in backing musicians (his 2015 album Spirit Food featured guitarist Billy Iuso, 101 Drummer A.J. Mallory and pianist Tom Worrell, among others). For the uninitiated, Pardo also does a great job of explaining the various elements of Mardi Gras Indian history and culture that are at work in his music.

1:45 p.m.– 2:35 p.m.

Jazz & Heritage Stage

The Meters

Art Neville, Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr., and later Cyril Neville, created the foundation of some of New Orleans’ most influential music. As the house band in Allen Toussaint’s studio, The Meters’ grooves anchored recordings

by Lee Dorsey and Dr. John. When the group took off on its own, the R&B and funk albums it cut in the 1960s and ’70s became cornerstones of the Crescent City’s soundscape. A few years after 1975’s Fire on the Bayou, however, The Meters drifted apart, officially calling it quits as a group by 1980. A semi-reunion came nearly 10 years later when most of the band (minus Modeliste and Nocentelli) joined forces as the Funky Meters.

But it wasn’t until Jazz Fest producer

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The O’Jays

Iconic soul acts on the Congo Square Stage have long provided major festival highlights, with performers picking up on and often reacting to the crowd’s appreciative and laid-back vibe. This year, the O’Jays — whose Gamble & Huff-produced hits helped engineer the Philly soul movement of the 1970s with songs such as “Back Stabbers,” “Love Train” and “Use Ta Be My Girl” — seem poised to serve up the kind of feel-good symbiosis for Congo Square audiences. (Is there a more apt Jazz Fest anthem than “I Love Music”?) While a number of O’Jays members have come and

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Quint Davis orchestrated a set featuring the original lineup at the 2006 festival that the group’s early chemistry came back into play. That spark returned a few years ago when the original Meters joined Dr. John and Allen Toussaint to revisit the Bonnaroo Music + Arts festival’s namesake recording, Desitively Bonnaroo.

Trombone Shorty captured another flash of lightning in a bottle when he corralled them to play “Be My Lady” on Say That to Say This. As Jazz Fest sets go, it doesn’t get much more exciting than a performance by the original Meters.

1:55 p.m.– 3:10 p.m.

Acura Stage

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gone over the years, childhood friends Eddie Levert and Walter Williams remain, along with Eric Grant.

3:45 p.m.– 4:45 p.m.

Congo Square Stage

Lenny Kravitz and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Mining the annals of rock, funk and soul history for inspiration, Lenny Kravitz developed a distinct and powerful sound in the early 1990s. At the time, it was a pair of recordings — Mama Said and Are You Gonna Go My Way — that solidified his star status. In 2015, younger fans may know Kravitz as much for his acting (Precious, The Hunger Games) as for his music, but he’s back on the road this year, touring in support of Strut, a sultry exercise in funk-rock with plenty of edge. In 2005, Kravitz hired a young, trombone-playing prodigy from New Orleans named Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, whose background in jazz and brass band music added a new dynamic to Kravitz’s group. Meanwhile, Andrews studied his boss and mentor’s

work closely, developing new ideas for his own music and performance style from what he learned under Kravitz’s wing. Ten years after the pair’s working relationship kicked off, Kravitz warms up the Acura Stage for Andrews and his band Orleans Avenue. One can only wonder whether either musician will make a guest appearance during the other’s set.

Lenny Kravitz 3:50 p.m.– 5:15 p.m.

Acura Stage Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue 5:45 p.m.– 7 p.m.

Acura Stage

Blind Boys of Alabama

For more than seven decades, this prolific group of mostly blind gospel singers has kept the fire alive for a repertoire of traditional church harmonies. The group enjoyed a new wave of recognition in the 1990s, when big-name acts in pop, country, rock and other genres tapped into its soulful sound and raw power for collaborations. (2014’s Talkin’ Christmas with blues legend Taj Mahal is the latest joint effort.) The Blind Boys also have explored connections between their music PAGE 48

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3:55 p.m.– 4:55 p.m.

Gospel Tent

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One of the world’s most influential guitarists, Buddy Guy heaves feeling into his performances, translating dynamic crests and troughs, explosions of feedback and raw virtuosity into palpable angst, love, pain and joy. At 78, his gravelly voice remains strong, even if he seems to share frontman duties with his capable band members with increasing frequency. Despite his long-standing connection to Chicago’s blues scene, Guy hails from Lettsworth, Louisiana, a connection he frequently plays up during shows in New Orleans.

5:40 p.m.– 7 p.m.

Blues Tent

Kacey Musgraves

A rising star in mainstream country music, singer, songwriter and guitarist Kacey Musgraves has more in common with her idol Alison Krauss than with many of the regulars topping country charts today. Musgraves plays guitar and mandolin with the same spunky energy that fuels her often-controversial lyrics, and seems hell-bent on forging her own path to success. “Make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys, or kiss lots

of girls if that’s what you’re into,” the 26-year-old Nashville Star alum sings on 2013’s Same Trailer Different Park.

“When the straight and narrow gets a little too straight, roll up a joint — or don’t. Just follow your arrow.”

5:45 p.m.– 7 p.m.

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

At 4:20 p.m. (wink, wink), avowed reefer fan Kermit Ruffins celebrates the music of another New Orleans-born, gravel-voiced, self-proclaimed “viper,” Louis Armstrong. Ruffins will be fresh off a Satchmo tribute performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

4:20 p.m.– 5:20 p.m.

Economy Hall

Dr. John: Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch

On 2014’s Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch, Dr. John, aka Mac Rebennack, and his then-newly updated band filtered a wide-ranging selection of Louis Armstrong’s music through Dr. John’s unique lens. A key part of that filter is the impressive roster of special guests on the album, many of whom also will perform at the Fair Grounds on the second weekend of the festival.

Be on the lookout for musical assists from Terence Blanchard, Blind Boys of Alabama, Nicholas Payton or Dirty Dozen Brass Band horn men Roger Lewis and Gregory Davis.

6 p.m.– 7 p.m.

Gentilly Stage

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4:30pm-7pm

The Word

2:20pm-3:45pm

Bonerama

featuring Jerry Douglas

Alison Krauss & Union Station

5:25pm-6:55pm

Sturgill Simpson

3:35pm-4:45pm

Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys

2:05pm-3:05pm

Eagle & Hawk

12:40pm-1:40pm

Joe Hall & the Louisiana Cane Cutters

11:25am-12:15pm

Gentilly Stage

Third World

5:30pm-7pm

Cyril Neville

3:35pm-4:45pm

Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience

2:05pm-3:05pm

Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs

12:35pm-1:35pm

Monty Alexander: HarlemKingston Express

5:30pm-6:55pm

Phillip Manuel swings The Beatles

4pm-5pm

Stephanie Jordan Big Band

2:40pm-3:40pm

Pat Casey & the New Sound

1:30pm-2:20pm

Trumpet Mafia

12:20pm-1:10pm

Loyola University Jazz Ensemble

11:15am-Noon

11:15am-12:05pm

The 4x4 Connection Band

Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent

Congo Square Stage

Louis Ford & His New Orleans Flairs

Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials

The Iguanas

6pm-7:00pm

Amanda Shires

4:25pm-5:35pm

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

2:55pm-3:55pm

Yvette Landry Band

1:30pm-2:30pm

Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole

12:20pm-1:10pm

Kevin Naquin & The Ossun Playboys

11:15am-Noon

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

FOLKLIFE STAGE IN THE LA FOLKLIFE VILLAGE Noon, 1:10 pm and 2:30 pm — Native American Pow Wow featuring Ottertrail Native American Dance Troupe

5:45pm-6:35pm

and friends

The Palm Court Jazz Band

featuring

Tribute to Lionel Ferbos

4:20pm-5:20pm

The Pfister Sisters

3pm-3:55pm

Leroy Jones & The New Orleans Helsinki Connection

1:45pm-2:40pm

Paulin Brothers Brass Band

12:30pm-1:25pm

Joseph Torregano Quartet

11:20am-12:10pm

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

5:45pm-7pm

Eric Lindell

4:15pm-5:15pm

Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns

3pm-3:50pm

Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band

1:35pm-2:35pm

Robert “Bilbo” Walker & the California Dolls

12:35pm-1:15pm

Spencer Bohren & the Whippersnappers

11:25am-12:15pm

Blues Tent

PARADES: 12:30 pm — The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders 12:30 pm in Economy Hall: Second Line Jammers Social Aid & Pleasure Club 1:40 pm — Da Knockaz Brass Band with Revolution and Men Buckjumpers Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs 3 pm — Cheyenne and 7th Ward Creole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 4 pm — Sons of Jazz Brass Band with VIP Ladies and Men of Class Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

7:00pm

6:30pm

Widespread Panic 6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

4:00pm

3:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

2:00pm

1:30pm

1:00pm

12:50pm-1:50pm

TAUK

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12:30pm

11:25am-12:25pm

Acura Stage

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5:50pm-6:30pm

McDonogh 35 High School Gospel Choir

5pm-5:40pm

Tasha Cobbs

3:45pm-4:45pm

Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL

2:40pm-3:25pm

Landry Walker Charter High School Gospel Choir

1:50pm-2:30pm

The Jones Sisters

1pm-1:40pm

Helen Cox High School Choir

12:10pm-12:50pm

Singing Mustangs

Eleanor McMain

11:20am-Noon

Gospel Tent

Mem Shannon & the Membership Band

5:40pm-6:35pm

Confederation

Idlewild String

4:25pm-5:20pm

Kenny Brown Band

3:05pm4:05pm

Kelly Love Jones

1:55pm-2:45pm

Sweet Cecilia

12:40pm-1:35pm

Ruby & The Rogues

11:30am-12:20pm

Lagniappe Stage

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Interviewer: Michael Gourrier

Leroy Jones and Katja Toivola:

4pm-4:45pm

Lil’ Ed

Interviewer: David Kunian

3pm-3:45pm

Interviewer: John Swenson

The Write Brothers

2pm-2:45pm

Interviewer: Michael Tisserand

Steve Riley

1pm-1:45pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

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ISL Circus Arts Kids

5:15pm-6pm

NOCCA presents The History of the Second Line

4:10pm-4:55pm

Square Dance with the Swamp Lilies

3pm-3:45pm

Kalpana the Storyteller

1:50pm-2:35pm

Kid smART Showcase

12:40pm-1:25pm

Donald Lewis

11:30am-12:15pm

Kids Tent

NOCCA PAVILION: 12:20 pm — The History of the Second Line by NOCCA drama students 1:25 pm - 2:10 pm — Chris Stevens & Friends 2:30 pm and 5:00 pm — Classical Music Endemble by NOCCA students 3:20 pm — Live DJ remixes by NOCCA media arts students 3:55 pm - 4:40 pm — Big Sam Williams with Andrew and Joe Dyson

Higher Heights Reggae Band

5:40pm-6:45pm

New Orleans Nightcrawlers

4:10pm-5:15pm

Fi Yi Yi & the Mandingo Warriors

3:10pm-3:50pm

Free Agents Brass Band

1:45pm-2:50pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Young Seminole Hunters

12:50pm-1:30pm

Grupo Sensacion

11:30am-12:30pm

Jazz & Heritage Stage

5:25pm - 6:55pm

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

3:30pm-4:45pm

Luther Kent & Trickbag

1:55pm-3pm

Charmaine Neville Band

5:25pm - 6:55pm

Estelle

3:30pm-4:40pm

Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr.

1:50pm - 2:55pm

Erica Falls

12:30pm-1:20pm

Roland Guerin

The Honorable South

12:35pm-1:30pm

11:20am-12-10am

Congo Square Stage

11:20am - 12:10pm

Gentilly Stage

Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra

6pm-7pm

Cécile McLorin Salvant

4:20pm-5:35pm

Christian Scott

Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars

5:35pm-7pm

Jarekus Singleton

3:55pm-4:55pm

Gurrumul

2:35pm-3:30pm

Reverend John Wilkins

Jesse McBride presents The Next Generation

2:40pm-3:50pm

1:25pm-2:10pm

J. Monque’D Blues Band

12:20pm-1:05pm

Colin Lake

11:15am-Noon

Blues Tent

1:25pm-2:15pm

James Rivers Movement

12:15pm-1:05pm

Kyle Roussel

11:10am-11:55am

Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent

— Jazz Funeral for JT Tamberella feat. High Steppers Brass Band with Lady & Men Rollers and Scene Boosters SA&PCs — New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Rhythm Section with Algiers Warriors and Golden Comanche Mardi Gras Indians — Curtis Pierre & Escola de Samba Casa Samba — Golden Sioux and Young Cherokee Mardi Gras Indians — 21st Century Brass Band with Original Big Seven and Original Four Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

No Doubt Chicago Anthony Hamilton

5:25pm - 6:55pm

Macy Gray

PARADES: 12:35 pm 1:40 pm 2:45 pm 3:45 pm 4:45 pm

7:00pm

6:30pm

6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

Galactic

4:00pm featuring

3:25pm-4:40pm

Paloma Faith

1:45pm-2:55pm

Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes

12:25pm - 1:15pm

Kristin Diable

11:20am - 12:05pm

3:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

2:00pm

1:30pm

1:00pm

12:30pm

NOON

11:30am

Acura Stage

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Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters

5:55pm-7pm

Shooter Jennings with Waymore’s Outlaws

4:25pm-5:35pm

Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playoys

2:55pm-3:55pm

Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue

1:30pm-2:30pm

D.L. Menard

with special guest

Jambalaya Cajun Band

12:20pm-1:10pm

Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners

11:15am-Noon

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

3:45pm-4:55pm

Maggie Koerner

2:15pm-3:25pm

Brazil and Germany

with guests from

Patrice Fisher & Arpa

12:40pm-1:50pm

University of New Orleans Jazz All Stars

11:30am-12:20pm

Lagniappe Stage

Kat Walker Jazz Combo

3pm-3:45pm

Dancescape Studio

1:50pm-2:35pm East Indian performance by

McMain Secondary School Drama Troupe

12:40pm-1:25pm

Young Audiences Performing Arts Showcase

11:30pm-12:15pm

Kids Tent

New Orleans Gospel Soul Children

5:55pm-6:40pm

Shades of Praise

5pm-5:45pm

Hot Club of New Orleans

5:15pm-6:30pm

Interviewer:

On Highway 61 Interviewer:

Bruce Raeburn

Dr. John:

The Spirit of Satch Interviewer:

4:30pm-5:15pm

Tom Piazza

Interviewer:

Reverend John Wilkins

3:30pm-4:15pm

Gwen Thompkins

Marcia Ball & Dennis McNally:

2:30pm-3:15pm

Brett Milano

Kristen Diable

1:30pm-2:15pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .

David & Roselyn

5:15pm-6pm

4:10pm-4:55pm The Gospel Sasha Soul of Masakowski New Orleans Irma Youth Thomas Buck Jumpers

3:50pm-4:50pm

The Raymond A. Myles Singers

2:45pm-3:30pm

Betty Winn & One A-Chord

1:50pm-2:35pm

12:55pm-1:40pm Connie & Dwight Fitch with the St. Raymond & St. Leo the Great Gospel Choir

The Sensational Chosen Voices

12:05pm-12:45pm

Zulu Gospel Male Ensemble

11:15am-11:55am

Gospel Tent

NOCCA PAVILLION: 12:15 pm and 2:50 pm — Musical Theater: American Songbook by NOCCA students 1:05 pm - 1:50 pm — Terence Blanchard 2:05 pm and 3:35 pm — Spoken Word Soundscape by NOCCA students 4:25 pm - 5:10 pm — Classical Jazz featuring Dr. Ko and Michael Pellera 5:20 pm — NOCCA Student Jazz Ensemble

Bamboula 2000

5:40pm-6:55pm

Herbert McCarver & Pinstripe Brass Band

4:15pm-5:20pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Hardhead Hunters

3:05pm-3:55pm

Panorama Jazz Band

1:40pm-2:45pm

Mardi Gras Indians

White Cloud Hunters

12:40pm-1:20pm

High Steppers Brass Band

11:25am-12:20pm

Jazz & Heritage Stage

NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: Folklife Stage in the LA Folklife Village Noon, 2:30 pm, 3:55 pm — Ottertrail Native American Dance Troupe

Orange Kellin’s New Orleans DeLuxe Orchestra

5:40pm-6:35pm

PresHall Brass

4:20pm-5:20pm

Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band with Special Guests

3pm-4pm

Tommy Sancton’s New Orleans Legacy Band

1:45pm-2:40pm

Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans

12:30pm-1:25pm

Chris Clifton & his Allstars

11:20am-12:10pm

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

PARADES :

7:00pm

6:30pm

6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

4:00pm

3:30pm

12:30 pm 1:30 pm 3:00 pm 4:00 pm 5:40 pm

Ed Sheeran

5:15pm-6:55pm

Vintage Trouble

3:20pm-4:35pm

Marc Broussard

1:55pm-2:55pm

Chris Stapleton

12:30pm-1:30pm

TYSSON

11:20am-12:05pm

Gentilly Stage

T.I.

5:45pm-7pm

Big Freedia Queen of Bounce

4:10pm-5:10pm

Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers

2:45pm-3:45pm

The Soul Rebels

1:25pm-2:25pm

Dee-1

12:15pm-1:05pm

featuring

The Terence Blanchard E-Collective

5:45pm-7pm

Charles Lloyd Quartet

4:10pm-5:20pm

Astral Project

2:40pm-3:40pm

Germaine Bazzle

1:30pm-2:20pm

Mehnaz Hoosein

Larry Sieberth

12:20pm-1:10pm

NOCCA Jazz Ensemble

2:55pm-3:55pm

1:40pm-2:35pm

Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders with Butch Thompson

DUKES of Dixieland

12:25pm-1:20pm

Connie Jones & the Crescent City Jazz Band

11:15am-12:05pm

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

5:40pm-6:35pm

featuring Brian “Breeze” Cayolle

Ms. Ruby Wilson’s Tribute to Bessie Smith

4:20pm-5:20pm

Hellraisers

The Taj Mahal Trio

4:20pm-5:35pm

Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars

2:50pm-3:50pm

Corey Ledet & his Zydeco Band

1:35pm-2:25pm

Andrew Duhon

12:25pm-1:15pm

Bonsoir, Catin

11:15am-12:05pm

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Cha Wa

5:45pm-6:45pm

Original Pinettes Brass Band

4:10pm-5:20pm

Javier Gutierrez & Vivaz!

2:55pm-3:50pm

Midnite Disturbers

1:40pm-2:30pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Young Hunters

12:35pm-1:15pm

Mariachi Jalisco US

11:20am-12:15pm

Jazz & Heritage Stage

FOLKLIFE STAGE IN THE LA FOLKLIFE VILLAGE 12:05 pm, 1:15 pm and 2:25 pm — Native American Pow Wow: Native Nations Intertribal 3:50pm — Mariachi Jalisco US

Gregg 6pm-7pm 5:55pm-6:55pm Stafford & His Young Tuxedo Dwayne Dopsie Jazz Band Preservation & the Zydeco Hall Jazz Band

Aaron Neville

4:20pm-5:35pm

Dr. Michael Royal White & the Southern Original Liberty Brotherhood Jazz Band with Thais Clark

2:50pm-3:50pm

featuring The Dixie Cups, Wanda Rouzan and Jean Knight

New Orleans Classic R&B Divas

1:25pm-2:30pm

Chris Thomas King

12:15pm-1:05pm

Henry Gray

11:10am-11:55am

11:15am-12:05pm

11:10am-11:55am

Khris Royal and Dark Matter

Blues Tent

Zatarain’s WWOZ Jazz Tent

Congo Square Stage

— Uptown Warriors and Wild Red Flames Mardi Gras Indians — Big Chief Trouble & Trouble Nation and Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indians — Original Pinettes Brass Band with Undefeated Divas & Gents, Original Pigeon Town Steppers SA&PCs — Kinfolk Brass Band with Nine Times Ladies, Westbank Steppers and The Valley of Silent Men SA&PCs — in Economy Hall Tent - Lady Jetsetters Social Aid & Pleasure Club

Elton John

4:50pm-7pm

Jerry Lee Lewis

3:05pm-4:05pm

2:30pm

3:00pm

“To Fats with Love” A Tribute to Fats Domino

presents

Davell Crawford

1:40pm-2:40pm

Marcia Ball

12:15pm-1:15pm

2:00pm

1:30pm

1:00pm

12:30pm

NOON

Mississippi Rail Company

11:15am-11:55am

Acura Stage

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Puppet Arts Theatre

3pm-3:45pm

The Swing Setters

1:50pm-2:35pm

Ashé Cultural Arts Center Kuumba Institute

12:40pm-1:25pm

Stephen Foster’s Foster Family Music Program

11:30am-12:15pm

Kids Tent

Interviewer:

Interviewer:

Herman Fuselier

Corey Ledet

4pm-4:45pm

Jason Patterson

Larry Sieberth

3pm-3:45pm

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .

The RRAAMS

5:15pm-6pm

Interviewer:

Ashley Kahn

Charles Lloyd

2pm-2:45pm

Scott Jordan

Interviewer:

Jarekus Singleton

1pm-1:45pm

Interviewer: Jason Berry

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes & Rachel Breunlin: Talk That Music Talk

Noon-12:45pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

— Narcisse/Movement Project — Calvin Johnson CJQ — Spoken Word Jazzscape by NOCCA students — NOCCA Jazz Big Bandy by NOCCA students — Khris Royal Quartet

Woodenhead 40th Anniversary Celebration

5:15pm-6:30pm

Lights Youth Theater

Ed Volker’s Trio Mollusc Crescent City

3:40pm-4:55pm

Cardinal Sons

2:10pm-3:20pm

Helen Gillet

12:45pm-1:50pm

Southern University Baton Rouge Jazzy Jags

11:30am-12:20pm

Lagniappe Stage

NOCCA PAVILION: 12:20 pm - 1:05 pm 1:25 pm - 2:10 pm 2:30 pm 3:30 pm 4:35pm - 5:35 pm

The Wimberly Family Gospel Singers

6pm-6:45pm

Jermaine Landrum & The Abundant Praise Revival Choir

5:05pm-5:50pm

Pastor Marvin Sapp

3:55pm-4:55pm

The Johnson Extension

2:50pm-3:35pm

Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir

1:55pm-2:40pm

Pastor Jai Reed

1pm-1:45pm

Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Choir

12:05pm-12:50pm

The Electrifying Crown Seekers

11:15am-11:55am

Gospel Tent

1:00pm

PARADES :

7:00pm

6:30pm

6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

4:00pm

3:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

2:00pm

Ske Dat De Dat ... The Spirit of Satch

Dr. John:

5:55pm-7pm

Steve Winwood

3:55pm-5:25pm

The Radiators

2:05pm-3:20pm

Deacon John

12:35pm-1:35pm

“Big Al” Carson

featuring

The Blues Masters

11:20am-12:15pm

Gentilly Stage

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly

5:40pm-7pm

DJ Captain Charles

5pm-5:25pm

The O’Jays

3:40pm-4:50pm

DJ Captain Charles

3:10pm-3:35pm

Jeff Floyd

2:05pm-3:05pm

& the Roadmasters

Walter “Wolfman” Washington

12:35pm-1:35pm

Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders

11:20am-12:10pm

Congo Square Stage

Dianne Reeves and Jeffrey Osborne

with special guests

Christian McBride Big Band

5:35pm-7pm

NOCCA Allstar Alumni Jazz Jam: The Ellis Marsalis Legacy

4pm-5pm

John Boutté

2:40pm-3:40pm

Jason Marsalis

1:30pm-2:20pm

Khari Allen Lee and Gregory Agid: The Music of Alvin Batiste and Harold Battiste

12:20pm-1:10pm

Courtney Bryan

11:15am-Noon

Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent

Buddy Guy

5:40pm-7pm

Tab Benoit

4pm-5:05pm

Buckwheat Zydeco

2:40pm-3:40pm

Glen David Andrews

1:25pm-2:15pm

Ironing Board Sam

12:15pm-1:05pm

5:35pm-6:45pm

Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias

4:25pm-5:15pm

Fredy Omar con su Banda

3pm-4:05pm

Big Chief Juan & Jockimo’s Groove

1:45pm-2:35pm

Storyville Stompers Brass Band

12:20pm-1:25pm

Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians

11:20am-Noon

Jazz & Heritage Stage

Craig Adams & Higher Dimensions of Praise

6pm-6:40pm

Val & Love Alive Mass Choir

5:10pm-5:50pm

The Blind Boys of Alabama

3:55pm-4:55pm

The City of Love Music & Worship Arts

2:50pm-3:35pm

E’Dana

1:55pm-2:40pm

St. Joseph the Worker Music Ministry

1pm-1:45pm

Cynthia Girtley “New Orleans Gospel Diva”

12:05pm-12:50pm

New Orleans Spiritualettes

11:10am-11:55am

Gospel Tent

Bobby Lounge

5:15pm-6:30pm

The Mulligan Brothers

3:40pm-4:55pm

Naughty Professor

2:10pm-3:20pm

Brandon Moreau and Cajungrass

Interviewer: Matt Sakakeeny

Stooges Brass Band

Members of

4:15pm-5pm

Interviewer: Melissa “DJ Soul Sister” Weber

Christian McBride

3:15pm-4pm

Interviewer: Dave Margulies

Anders Osborne

2:15pm-3pm

Interviewer: Maurice Martinez

Queen Rita & Big Chiefs Bo Dollis Jr. and Monk Boudreaux

1:15pm-2pm Bo Dollis Tribute:

Interviewer: Joyce Jackson

12:15pm-1pm Members of The Blind Boys of Alabama

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .

Culu Children’s Traditional African Dance Company and stilt walkers

5:15pm-6pm

Javier’s Dance Company presents Across the Border

4:10pm-4:55pm

Versailles Lion Dance Team

3:50pm-4pm

Hobgoblin Hill Puppets

2:45pm-3:30pm

Chosen Vessels Dance and Performing Arts

1:55pm-2:25pm

Versailles Lion Dance Team

1:35pm-1:45pm

Johnette Downing and Scott Billington

12:40pm-1:25pm

McTeggart Irish Dancers of Louisiana

John Lawrence & Ven Pa’ Ca Flamenco Ensemble 12:45pm-1:50pm

11:30am-12:15pm

Kids Tent

11:30am-12:25pm

Lagniappe Stage

NOCCA PAVILION: 12:35 pm and 2:30 pm — Musical Theater: American Songbook by NOCCA students 1:25 pm - 2:10 pm — The Kyle Roussel Electronic Band 3:20 pm and 5:15 pm — Jazz Quartet by NOCCA music students 4:10 pm - 4:55 pm —Sasha Masakowski & Cliff Hines Present: Hildegard

Stooges Brass Kacey Band Musgraves

5:45pm-7pm

Pine Leaf Boys

4:10pm-5:10pm

Kim Carson & the Real Deal

3pm-3:50pm

Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band

1:40pm-2:40pm

Feufollet

12:25pm-1:15pm

Major Handy & the Louisiana Blues Band

11:15am-12:05pm

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

FOLKLIFE STAGE IN THE LA FOLKLIFE VILLAGE 12:05 pm, 1:15 pm and 2:40 pm — Native American Pow Wow: Ottertrail Native American Dance Troupe

Norbert Susemihl’s New Orleans All Stars & Wanda Rouzan

5:40pm-6:40pm

Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

4:20pm-5:20pm

Don Vappie & The Creole Jazz Serenaders

3pm-4pm

Kid Chocolate’s Onward Brass Band

1:45pm-2:40pm

Topsy Chapman and Solid Harmony

12:30pm-1:25pm

Palmetto Bug Stompers

11:15am-12:10pm

11:10am-11:55am

Guitar Slim Jr.

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

Blues Tent

12:15 pm — Apache Hunters and Buffalo Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 1:30 pm — Baby Boys Brass Band with Original New Orleans Lady Buckjumpers and Prince of Wales SA&PCs 1:45 pm — in Economy Hall: New Generation Social Aid & Pleasure Club 2:45 pm — Wild Tchoupitoulas Black Feathers and Carrollton Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 4:15 pm — Young Fellaz Brass Band with Ole & Nu Style Fellas and Original C.T.C. Steppers SA&PCs

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

5:45pm-7pm

Lenny Kravitz

3:50pm-5:15pm

Art Neville, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr. & Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste with Cyril Neville

featuring

The Meters

1:55pm-3:10pm

Anders Osborne

1:30pm

12:25pm-1:25pm

George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners

11:15am-12:05pm

12:30pm

NOON

11:30am

Acura Stage

SUNDAY, MAY 3

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INFORMATION

Tickets:

• Single-day tickets cost $58 in advance, $70 at the gate.

• Child’s ticket $5 (available at the gate only; ages 2-10; adult must accompany child).

• Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com and by calling (800) 745-3000. Tickets can be purchased in advance in person at the Smoothie King Center box office. Advance purchase-priced tickets are available through April 29. All Jazz Fest tickets are subject to additional service fees and handling charges.

• VIP ticket information is available at www.nojazzfest.com.

• Re-entry to the Fair Grounds is allowed only with WWOZ Brass Pass, Foundation Gala Pass and Big Chief, Grand Marshal and Krewe of Jazz Fest VIP passes.

Transportation:

• There are taxi stands at Stallings Playground (1600 block of Gentilly Boulevard and Fortier Park (3200 block of Esplanade Avenue).

• Gray Line operates continuous round-trip transportation to the festival from the Sher-

aton Hotel (500 Canal St.), Gray Line Lighthouse (Toulouse Street at the Mississippi River) and City Park (Marconi Meadows) from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for $19 from downtown or $15 from City Park.

A one-way ticket from the festival to downtown is $10. For more information call (504) 569-1401 or (800) 233-2628 or visit www.graylineneworleans. com/jazz-fest-express.html.

Jazz Fest allows:

• Small bags and backpacks (17 by 12 by 10 inches) and 12-pack soft coolers • Single, collapsible chairs • Wheelchairs and medical scooters • Push-strollers for children • Blankets and small tarps not exceeding 6 by 8 feet • Factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter) • Hand-held, personal-sized umbrellas

Jazz Fest prohibits:

• Large or hard-sided coolers • Wagons and carts • Shade canopies, or beach or pole-style umbrellas • Personal tents • Athletic games

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots 1751 Gentilly Blvd. • 11 A.M. – 7 P.M. APRIL 30-MAY 3 WWW.NOJAZZFEST.COM

• Large chairs with rockers, foot rests, side tables, etc.

• Bicycles or other wheeled personal transport devices (e.g. skateboards) • Pets • Glass • Video- and audio-recording equipment • Unauthorized vending • Outside beverages except factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter) • Inflatable items • Inserting stakes, poles or any other objects into the ground, or use of ropes, cords, tape, etc. to reserve space • Weapons, illicit drugs and other contraband

On the grounds:

• Jazz Fest food and drink vendors are cash only. ATMs are available on the grounds.

• Jazz Fest is accessible to the disabled. Call (504) 410-6104 for information.

• There are two medical tents on festival grounds.

One is near the edge of the track between the Gentilly and Fais Do-Do stages; the other is on the edge of the track near the Acura display tent.

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JAZZ FEST 2015

Night time shows

Music Picks

Concerts and festivals around New Orleans.

By Alex Woodward New Orleans Country Festival 9 p.m. daily, through April 28-29 Mag’s 940, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888; www.facebook. com/neworleanscountryfest The inaugural celebration of New Orleans’ Americana, alt-country, folk and bluegrass scene hosts four nights of music (beginning April 26) and closes out with Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners, The Wasted Lives, The Deslondes and Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes on April 28, and Jonny Kashner & The Hatchet Boys, Miss Martha & her Goodtime Gang, The Western Sweethearts and Modern Eldorados on April 29.

ChazFest Noon-10 p.m. Wednesday, April 29 The Truck Farm, 3020 St. Claude Ave.; www.chazfestival.com

Tickets are $30 online, $35 at the gates Named after Washboard Chaz, this locals-only, musician-founded festival features two stages of music and performers Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers, King James & the Special Men, Helen Gillet’s Other Instrument Band, Herringbone Orchestra, Luke Allen, Alex McMurray and others.

Megalomaniacs Ball 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 29 The Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com Tickets $25 The 2015 installment of this annual concert series features Steel Punk, with an all-star lineup including H.R. of Bad Brains, Rocky George of Suicidal Tendencies, Down’s Pepper Keenan, Dave Rosser of Afghan Whigs and several other familiar names. Also on the bill are James Singleton, Marco Benevento with Stanton Moore, and the Mike Dillon Band.

Shorty Fest 7 p.m. Thursday, April 30 Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 581-4367;www. tromboneshortyfoundation.org Tickets $55 Trombone Shorty’s third annual fundraiser for the Trombone Shorty Foundation features performances from the namesake artist with Ivan Neville, Corey Henry & Treme Funktet, an all-star tribute to Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and more.

Mande at Midnight series 11:30 p.m. Monday, May 2 Chickie Wah Wah, 2828 Canal St., (504) 304-4714; www.chickiewahwah.com This late-night series at Chickie Wah Wah concludes with African music from kora player Yacouba Sissoko (who has worked with Paul Simon and Baaba Maal), sabar players Morcoumba Gueye and Magatte Fall, and drummer Papa Diouf (Thione Seck) and others. Also performing are Raja Kassis and New York-based, Mali-inspired outfit Benyoro.

NoizeFest 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 3 Scout Island, Brechtel Park, Algiers Free admission The 10th annual experimentfriendly music festival features psych-rocker Buoyant Sea, noise artists Proud Father and Rotten Milk and others. This year also includes a kids’ stage (hosted by guitarist Rob Cambre) and a goat petting zoo.

Fiya Fest Noon-8 p.m. Friday, May 1 Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans; www.fiyawerx.com/fiya-fest Tickets $65 Dozens of artists participate in all-star jam sessions, including a tribute to the late Big Chief Bo Dollis featuring Big Chiefs Monk Boudreaux and Bo Dollis Jr., Cyril Neville and others. The New Orleans Social Club features George Porter Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Ivan Neville, Henry Butler and Raymond Weber. There also is food from local restaurants and food trucks. Proceeds benefit The Roots of Music and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic.

Music at Zeitgeist 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 and 9 p.m. Friday, May 1 Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-1150; www.zeitgeistnola.org Tickets $10 Among the avant-garde offerings at Zeitgeist during Jazz Fest are electronic artist Timeghost with industrial-influenced duo Ora Iso and ambient drone artist Psychic Hotline on April 28. Bassist James Singleton performs an encore of his Jazz Fest Orchestra on May 1.

Nevilles Forever: A Celebration of the Neville Brothers and Their Music 9 p.m. Saturday, May 2 Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 525-1052; www.saengernola.com Tickets $95-$550 Don Was — who helmed a massive tribute to Dr. John at the Saenger Theatre last year — arranges this tribute concert for the New Orleans music family. Aaron, Art, Charles and Cyril Neville will perform, as well as Widespread Panic, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Galactic and others.

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Nightcap

Places to eat after a concert.

By Will Coviello

School meals

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and is being feted with a special pavilion at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where there are art exhibitions and musical and dramatic performances by students, faculty and alumni. On Wednesday, April 29, participating local restaurants will donate a portion of proceeds to the NOCCA Institute, which provides equipment and supplies to students, supports summer programs and pays for visiting artists and teachers to come to the school.

Those restaurants include Emeril’s New Orleans (800 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/emerils-new-orleans), Emeril’s Delmonico (1300 St. Charles Ave., 504525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/ emerils-delmonico), Press Street Station (5 Press St., 504-249-5622; www. pressstreetstation.com) Slim Goodies Diner (3322 Magazine St., 504-891-3447; www.slimgoodiesdiner.com), Sylvain (625 Chartres St., 504-265-8123; www. sylvainnola.com) and others. A full list of participating restaurants is at www. noccainstitute.com/taste.

— WILL COVIELLO

Mosquito warning

Coop’s Place (1109 Decatur Wood Pizza Bistro & Taphouse serves wood-fired pizzas St., 504-525-9053; www. in the Warehouse District. coopsplace.net) is more of a bar with a kitchen and limitP H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER ed seating, but it serves until late (hours vary). It’s known known for beautiful presentations and for rabbit and sausage jambalaya and tricky techniques, as in his signature casual Cajun- and Creole-inspired dishes chorizo-dusted, Cohiba-smoked scalas well as pastas. lops, which are presented in a cigar box, Near the House of Blues and One Eyed Jacks, St. Lawrence (219 N. Peters St., 504- but the kitchen also creates a hearty “Sausage Fest” board with a selection of 0525-4111; www.saintlawrencenola.com) house-made sausages and condiments. serves elevated bar fare ranging from the Wood Pizza Bistro & Taphouse (404 familiar (chicken wings) to local seafood, Andrew Higgins Drive, 504-281-4893; www. produce and locally sourced meats from places such as Two Run Farm. The bar fea- woodpizzaneworleans.com) takes a more straightforward approach, focusing on tures a selection of original daiquiris and wood-fired classic pies such as margarita, craft cocktails. Daisy Duke’s (121 Chartres bianco and tutti carne, which is topped St., 504-561-5171; www.daisydukesrestauwith sausage and Italian cured meats. rant.com) is a 24-hour diner, and its catchThere also are some salads and Italian all menu includes breakfast at all hours, appetizers. Wood Pizza is open until 2 a.m. chicken wings, oysters, fried chicken and has abundant outdoor seating. fingers and seafood baskets, sandwiches, Music fans departing the Maple po-boys and a handful of entrees. Daisy Leaf Bar can head to the Riverbend’s Duke’s CBD location (123 Carondelet St., late-night beacon, The Camellia Grill (626 504-522-2233) also is open 24 hours.

S. Carrollton Ave., 504-309-2679). Diners Chef Phillip Lopez’s Root (200 Julia can take a seat at the counter and order St., 504-252-9480; www.rootnola.com) is diner fare including omelets, pancakes, the fanciest place to get a late meal in burgers, sandwiches and pie heated on the Warehouse District. It’s open until 2 the grill. a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Lopez is

Mosquito Supper Club (www.mosquitosupperclub.com), which hosts monthly dinners and pop-up events and often incorporates live music, has announced two May events. There is a zydeco dance from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at Redhaus (2820 St. Claude Ave.) featuring Lake Charles’ Rusty Metoyer and the Zydeco Krush. The menu includes gumbo, boudin, potato salad and beer.

Admission is $10 at the door (not including food). From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17, Mosquito hosts a Cajun brunch at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-352-1150; www.zeitgeistnola.org) featuring the Lafayette band Petite et les Patates. The menu features quiche, crawfish pies, shrimp and grits, boudin, gumbo, biscuits, scones, muffins and more. Suggested donation for admission is $10, and patrons can bring their own alcohol. — WILL COVIELLO

Seafood fest

The 11th annual Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival (449 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse; www.plaqueminesparishfestival.com) features many of the food items one might expect, including all sorts of oyster dishes, but there are some unexpected ones as well, including crawfish enchiladas and shark on a stick. The weekend event (May 15-17) also features amusement PAGE 61

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ocal music clubs fill their concert calendars during the weekends of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, sometimes with early, late and even early-morning shows. It’s easy to get out of a show at odd hours and wonder what restaurants are still open. Here are some of the wee hours options near busy music clubs.

There are many latenight eating places in the French Quarter and Marigny.

Revelers on Frenchmen Street don’t need to go far at all and can probably still hear music from the balcony of Dat Dog (601 Frenchmen St., 504-309-3362; www. datdognola.com), which is open until 3 a.m. on weekend nights. The menu features a range of sausages including bratwurst, smoked sausage, crawfish sausage and a veggie dog, all of which diners can customize with their choice of toppings and wash down with one of the regional craft beers on tap. 13 Monaghan (517 Frenchmen St., 504-9421345; www.13monaghan.com) is open as late as 4 a.m. It serves breakfast all day, and the menu includes vegetarian items and tachos, or potato tots topped with everything from chili to roast beef debris, cheese and marinara.

Not far off the Frenchmen strip are a few 24-hour establishments. Buffa’s Lounge (1001 Esplanade Ave., 504-9490038; www.buffasrestaurant.com) offers a far ranging menu which includes bar noshing items (chicken wings, boudin balls, fried green beans), burgers, sandwiches, salads, pasta dishes and Creole favorites including its version of jambalaya made with bratwurst. For those out super late, breakfast begins at 6 a.m. Verti Marte (1201 Royal St., 504-525-4767) is a bastion of late-night eating in the French Quarter. There’s no seating, but the deli counter serves po-boys, entrees and sides such as macaroni and cheese and jambalaya. The mini-grocery also is equipped with drinks and snacks, and delivery is available.

Email dining@gambitweekly.com

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Mother’s Day BUFFET in the French Quarter!

Hours: 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Adults: $59 / Kids: $19 - 6 & Under Eat FREE

Reservations 598-1200

Seafood Display

Oysters on the Half-Shell • Bloody Mary Oyster Shooters Boiled Gulf Shrimp • Louisiana Crawfish Boil Salmon Pastrami Canapés • Blackened Redfish Salad

Soups & Salad

Alligator Sausage & Seafood Gumbo Crawfish Cauliflower Chowder • Pecan Pesto Orzo Pasta Crawfish Creole Potato Salad • Chilled Grilled Asparagus

Entrées & Carved Favorites

BBQ Shrimp & Sweet Potato Grits Wood Grilled Redfish pontalba potatoes & lemon butter Crawfish Cakes rum flamed jalapeño corn & ravigote Cajun Fried Turkey • Prime Rib • Slow Roasted Leg of Lamb

Sides & Fixins’

Baby Squash & Honey Carrots • Sautéed Green Beans Whipped Sweet Potatoes • New Potato Mash

Sweets

Double Chocolate Bread Pudding • Chocolate Strawberries Lemon Swiss Meringues • Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies Chocolate Truffle Cookies • Vanilla Cream Puffs

AND MUCH MORE!

FREE glass of Champagne for Mom!

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115 Bourbon Street, French Quarter • www.redfishgrill.com

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N:eaux way

In the March 31 issue of Gambit, we printed a review of a Bywater restaurant called n:eaux, and many of our savvy readers (correctly) sniffed an April Fool’s stunt. The restaurant supposedly demanded that diners not make reservations but apply online for a dining invitation. It served over-the-top cocktails with a pricey artisanal ice cube selection.

There were deconstructed dishes with lettuce foam, kale galore, shared utensils and a Bitcoin payment system.

Last week, someone else took up the joke. The website neauxnola. com claims to represent such a restaurant — with “Real Chefs and Real Celebs” — and there is a page on which prospective diners can apply for admittance into the in-the-neaux inner circle. It helpfully prompts applicants to supply their New Orleans, New York, San Francisco or Akron, Ohio, area code. I applied to dine at n:eaux. As of press time, I was apparently not worthy of dining at the imitation fake restaurant.

— WILL COVIELLO

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rides, a car show, helicopter rides, a five kilometer run/walk, farmer’s market and live entertainment.

Food is a regular highlight of the festival. This year’s lineup includes sweet potato beignets, rum-soaked pound cake and crawfish boil arancini. The farmers market is a new addition and will offer fresh produce and citrus trees.

A portion of the food has a Croatian twist, which reflects the large Croatian community in Plaquemines.

“There will be several drinks and cuisine offered along with that, especially Friday night,” Festival Manager Robert Hopkins says. “To celebrate that history, this year we’re bringing in authentic Croatian dancers.”

The festival music lineup includes Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters, Dash Rip Rock, Todd O’Neill and others. There also is a talent competition, a battle of the bands and the Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival Queen pageant (pictured).

Many of the food booths are run by nonprofit groups as fundraisers.

“You know when you go up and you see the guy that’s serving you a beer, you don’t realize that he’s with, say, the Knights of Columbus,” Hopkins says. “He’s making money for his group. Or when a guy hands you a roast beef po-boy, you don’t realize that he’s doing that to raise money for cancer research and to help his wife [who is battling cancer].”

“The original directors started it as a different way to … basically have a good time and help local organizations raise money. ... This year is going to be a real growth year for us because we are moving under the roof,” Hopkins says. “The parish built a 40,000-square-foot pavilion so you get to experience music and food in the shade late spring, early summer.”

Festival admission is $5, and children under 12 get in free.

— EMMA DISCHER

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3-COURSE interview

Dale Koehl

WWOZ Mango Freeze maker Dale Koehl and son Christian prepare to sell WWOZ Mango Freeze at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

For more than 20 years, Dale Koehl and his family have made the WWOZ Mango Freeze served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival as a fundraiser for the community radio station. Koehl works in contruction and real estate, and Mango Freeze is a seasonal avocation for him. WWOZ FM General Manager David Freedman estimates sales of the sorbet have raised more than half a million dollars for the station.

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Koehl: ’OZ was trying to do it 22 or 23 years ago. They were trying to do it in-house. They had a tabletop machine, an ice cream machine that would make a couple of quarts, and it didn’t work out. Then they turned it over to someone else, and he came to us because we had an ice cream and sorbet business. We took it and fixed it and made it a good product. Then they asked me to run the booth. When we started, we just had a couple of 4-foot freezers. Now we keep 90 (5-gallon) buckets on the grounds at all times.

My wife (Diane) used to make customized ice cream and sorbet for white-tablecloth restaurants in town. She had a business called Gourmet Sorbet and there was a retail line at Whole Foods Market and high-end places. Now, we do it exclusively for WWOZ. Quintin (of Quintin’s Natural) lets us use his facility. And we do some production year round. It’s available at Rouses (on Carrollton Avenue only) and Morning Call.

We have tried to do it at other festivals. We do French Quarter Festival now. We did one in Washington D.C. one year. Getting it there is the challenge. They tried talking me into doing Bonnaroo. I’d like to do Hangout Music Fest on the [Gulf] coast, truthfully. It’s closer. It makes more sense.

Do you have a special recipe?

K: It’s pretty easy. It’s mango, water and sugar. It’s made with a mango puree. We make it in a gelato machine so the consistency is smoother.

How much do you serve over the festival’s seven days?

K: We make it as we go. You never know what’s going to happen, like if it rains, and we don’t want WWOZ stuck with 55 buckets of it. So we make it as we go and try to only make enough to get through the whole thing. The last week, if we have to run 24 hours to make enough, we run 24 hours.

We made 175 5-gallon buckets for the first weekend. We started working Saturday for the second weekend. We only make as much as ’OZ is going to need. — WILL COVIELLO

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BEER buzz On April 20, Flying Heart Brewing (700 Barksdale Blvd., Bossier City, 318-344-8775; www.flyingheartbrewing. com) became Louisiana’s 15th and Bossier City’s first brewery. A grand opening celebration is at 3 p.m. Friday, May 1. “We’ve got a lot of beer in the tanks ready to go,” co-founder Ben Hart says.

Flying Heart Brewing will work with Glazer Distributing to get the beer into the Bossier area, and its tap room will be open at the brewery.

Initially, Flying Heart will Flying Heart Brewery is equipped release three beers: Firehouse with a tap room for visitors.

Blonde, a 4.8 percent alcohol by volume Kolsch style that Hart calls C O U R T E S Y F LY I N G H E A R T B R E W ER Y the brewery’s “gateway” beer; 6 of Hearts, an American-Belgian-style pale ale with extra hops and wheat; and Black Heart Smooth Black Ale, the beer that inspired the three partners to open the brewery.

Hart and partners Jason LeBleu and Ben Patillo began homebrewing together with a clone of Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout. For their business, they learned as much as they could from educational institutions such as the Siebel Institute of Technology, as well as fellow craft brewers. LeBleu and Hart have backgrounds in biology; LeBleu works with the yeast, Hart focuses on hops and malts and Patillo, a water engineer, oversees water quality and filtration.

The brewery is located in a converted firehouse, which the three bought from Bossier City last year. The Flying Heart logo and name come from Hart’s family’s ranch in Washington State.

The three are excited to build on northwest Louisiana’s growing craft beer culture, which started with Shreveport’s Great Raft and Red River Brewing. “It’s not just about one brewery,” Hart says. “It’s about becoming a brewery destination.” — NORA McGUNNIGLE

WINE of the week 2013 Cono Sur Bicicleta Cabernet Sauvignon CEN TR A L VA L L E Y, CHIL E RETAIL $9-$11

The Cono Sur winery was founded 22 years ago in central Chile in Chimbarongo, 100 miles south of Santiago. The winery’s 40 estates total 2,200 acres of vineyards in one of the world’s southernmost wine-producing regions. This organic wine is a blend of 88 percent cabernet sauvignon and small amounts of merlot, carmenere, syrah, malbec, petit verdot and Alicante Bouschet. The wine was fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. Following vinification, 20 percent was aged in oak barrels and 80 percent in stainless steel for eight months. In the glass, it offers aromas of cassis, red berries and oak hints. On the palate, taste plum, currants, spice, earthiness, cocoa, vanilla and firm tannins.

Decant 45 minutes before serving. Drink it with beef, lamb, barbecue, burgers, pasta dishes and spicy sauces. Buy it at: Martin Wine Cellar, The Fresh Market, Whole Foods Market in Uptown and Metairie and many Rouses. Drink it at: Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant, Ye Olde College Inn, Capdeville, Rock ’N’ Bowl and Circle Bar. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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5 p.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2660

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1 Booty’s Street Food

Abita beer dinner

6 p.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday Roosevelt Hotel, The Fountain Lounge, 130 Roosevelt Way, (504) 648-5486

www.therooseveltneworleans.com The dinner features Abita beers paired with several courses prepared by chef Mark Majorie Jr. and pastry chef Deborah Heyd. Brandade beignets with whipped farmer’s cheese are paired with Abita Stawberry Harvest Lager. Australian lamb is served with Turbodog.

Duck loukaniko will be served with Wrought Iron IPA. The dinner costs $70.

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Eatmoor in Broadmoor

www.myhousenola.com The food truck roundup features Dirty Dishes’ waffles and funky Creole food, St. Clair’s pizza and Italian fare, King Creole’s upscale Louisiana dishes and Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls.

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Kentucky Derby party

noon-10 p.m. Saturday Galatoire’s 33 Bar & Steak, 215 Bourbon St., (504) 335-3932

www.bootysnola.com

Shrimp, pineapple and mango are served in coconut milk curry over rice.

2 Good Karma Cafe

Swan River Yoga, 2940 Canal St., (504) 401-4698 www.swanriveryoga.com

Malaysian curry features vegetables and soy protein and is served over brown or basmati rice.

3 MoPho

514 City Park Ave., (504) 482-6845 www.mophonola.com

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

Don’t pimp my ice cream “We trusted most people to kind of not take us too seriously. Our goal was not that kind of edgy, in-yourface kind of thing. I think that’s kind of cheap.”

— Milk Cult owner Ed Cornell quoted in a Washington Post story about negative reactions to the name of its new ice cream, Bangkok Brothel, a vegan coconut milk ice cream. The company announced it will keep the name but donate a portion of proceeds to two groups that advocate better treatment of sex workers.

Slow-roasted lamb neck, beets and smoked tofu are served in a bowl of green curry with Creole cream cheese roti.

4 Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine 923 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859

www.facebook.com/tajnola

Chicken vindaloo features boneless chicken in spicy curry sauce.

5 Tan Dinh

1705 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 361-8008 De xao lan is curried goat topped with nuts and herbs.

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www.galatoires33barandsteak.com To celebrate the running of the Kentucky Derby, the steakhouse offers drink specials featuring Woodford Reserve Whiskey and including mint julep lemonade and food specials. A rendition of a Kentucky staple, the hot brown is an open-faced turkey sandwich topped with white cheddar bechamel and bacon. There also are tea sandwiches, grilled mutton and more.

800 Louisa St., (504) 266-2887

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Thin sliced beef rolled with shrimp, snow crab, green onion and asparagu s inside.

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

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 and tenders, pizza, quesdaillas and more, plus daily specials. No reservations.

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

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

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Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn. com — The neighborhood bar and restaurant offers a menu of pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

BAR & GRILL Ale — 8124 Oak St.; (504) 324-6558; www.aleonoak.com — 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. $ Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — The 10-ounce Bayou burger is served on a sesame bun, and disco fries are topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. 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 dog-friendly surf shack serves chips with salsa and guacamole made to order, burgers, salads, tacos, entrees and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner

daily, late night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Perry’s Sports Bar & Grill — 5252 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 456-9234; www. perryssportsbarandgrill.com — The sports bar offers burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, wraps, tacos, salads, steaks and a variety of noshing items. 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 lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Warehouse Grille — 869 Magazine St., (504) 322-2188; www.warehousegrille.com — There’s upscale bar food, burgers, steaks, seafood, salads, sandwiches and noshing items. 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, cheeseburgers and bacon cheesburgers with topping options such as grilled onions or mushrooms, tomatoes, pickles, jalapenos, hot sauce and barbecue sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. 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. 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 — Roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette is on the menu. 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. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Liberty’s Kitchen — 300 N. Broad St., (504) 822-4011; www.libertyskitchen.org — The Cajun Cobb salad features pan-seared shrimp, smoked sausage and blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAJUN 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. No reservations.

New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes.

Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www. angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

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.

Reservations recommended.

OUT to EAT Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www. thedelachaise.com — Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Fulton Alley — 600 Fulton St., (504) 208-5569; www.fultonalley. com — The kitchen at this upscale bowling alley offers Southern-influenced cuisine. 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., latenight Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$ The Tasting Room — 1906 Magazine St., (504) 581-3880; www. ttrneworleans.com — The menu features truffle fries and entrees including a petit filet with Gorgonzola cream sauce and asparagus.

No reservations. Dinner daily.

Credit Cards. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www. antoines.com — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska.

Reservations recommended.

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

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. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Brennan’s — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Eggs Sardou features poached eggs over crispy artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce. Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www. neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.

MeMe’s Bar & Grille — 712 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 6444992; www.memesbarandgrille. com — MeMe’s serves steaks, chops and Louisiana seafood. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Messina’s Runway Cafe — 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; www.messinasterminal. com — Jimmy Wedell seafood pasta features Gulf shrimp, Lake Pontchartrain crabmeat, crawfish, fresh herbs and angel hair pasta.

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 — Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter.

Reservations resommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken.

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

DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — The corned beef and pastrami here 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. 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) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. 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 has a “Deli to Geaux” and 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 menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8366859 — The menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

INTERNATIONAL Canal Street Bistro — 3903 Canal St., (504) 482-1225; www.canalstreetbistro.com — 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 topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ 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. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Creamy corn and crab bisque is served in a toasted bread bowl. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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

Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles

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

mamommashouse.com — 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. $$

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OUT to EAT Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki and tempura.

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

LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupusasneworleans.com — The NOLA Special breakfast burrito is stuffed with hot sausage, organic eggs, refried black beans, hash browns and American cheese. 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 appetizer features chilled shrimp, crab, guacamole and spicy tomato coulis. Reservations recommended.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys.com — Sauteed Gulf fish is prepared with smoked herb rub and served with crawfish risotto and shaved asparagus. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

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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 pan-fried 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 — 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. $$$ Marti’s — 1041 Dumaine St., (504) 522-5478; www. martisnola.com — The grande plateau fruits de mer features whole Maine lobster, chilled shrimp, marinated snow crab claws, oysters on the half shell and scallop ceviche. Reservations accepted. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ 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. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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Redemption — 3835 Iberville St., (504) 309-3570; www.redemption-nola.com — Bloody mary char-broiled 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. “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www.tivoliandlee.com — The restaurant offers a modern take on Southern cuisine in a small plate format, with dishes ranging from andouille potato tots to fried oysters. The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers. Half a roasted chicken comes with dirty spaetzle, sweet tea glaze and greens. Reservations accepted.

OUT to EAT 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. $$

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

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$ Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www.monascafeanddeli.com — These casual cafes serve entrees including beef or chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb chops, vegetarian options and more. There also are stuffed grape leaves, hummus, falafel and other appetizers. Patrons may bring their own alcohol.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www. facebook.com/casaborrega — The barroom and cantina is decorated with folk art, and there’s seating in the back courtyard. Chicken enchiladas are served with mole, rice and beans. Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations.

Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Casa Tequila — 3229 Williams Blvd., Kenner (504) 443-5423 — The eatery is known for its bean dip and spinach and artichoke quesadillas. The El General combo plate includes a beef burrito, beef chile relleno, chicken enchilada, a chicken taco and guacamole.

The menu also includes fajitas, chimichangas and more. Kids eat free on Mondays. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Coyote Blues — 4860 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 301-3848; www.coyotebluesfreshmex.com — Shrimp and crawfish chimichanga is a fried burrito stuffed with shrimp and crawfish in cream sauce, Mexican rice and

— The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread.

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

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

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 caramelized bananas and pancetta. The menu also includes biscuits topped with gravy or chicken tenders with andouille and chorizo gravy. Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations. Brunch and lunch Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. Roasted pork tacos are topped with spicy slaw. Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant — 301 Dauphine St., (504) 586-0972 — This French Quarter hideaway is is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini.

Reservations recommended.

Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread.

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

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on poboy bread and gyros in pita bread.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Siberia — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com

NEIGHBORHOOD

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www. cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese.

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

PIZZA Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 5229500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, 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, including Chisesi ham and sausage from Terranova Brothers. Diners can build their

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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.

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chili con queso and served with two sides. The churrascaria platter features skewers of marinated beef, chicken, jumbo shrimp, jalapeno sausage, peppers and onions and comes with chipotle cream sauce, chimichurri, mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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OUT to EAT own calzones or pies from a list of toppings, or try a special such as the Mid City Meat Monster, loaded with pepperoni, ham, bacon, meat balls and hot sausage. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. The Sportsman’s Paradise pie is topped with Gulf shrimp, andouille, corn, diced tomatoes and caramelized onions. Full bar available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www. theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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

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

The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $

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Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations.

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

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. Short Stop’s gumbo combines smoked andouille sausage and chicken.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 8975413; www.traceysnola.com — The neighborhood bar’s menu includes roast beef and fried seafood poboys, seafood platters, fried okra, chicken wings, gumbo, soups, salads and more. No reservations.

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

SEAFOOD 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 and served with garlic bread. 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. Large picture windows offer views of Bourbon Street, and the bar is stocked with a large selection of bourbons. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. The menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, fried seafood platters, tuna steaks and a few Italian entrees, such as paneed veal. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 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. Voodoo Bleu features bacon-wrapped char-grilled oysters topped with garlic-butter and blue cheese. No reservations.

Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 8380022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo.

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

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s

serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant. com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Popular starters include the jumbo lump crabcake made with aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — Mushroom manchego toast is a favorite here.

Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Grilled avocado salad is served with crispy onions and Mahon cheese in Portuguese chestnut-vanilla vinaigrette. Wild mushroom ravioli are served with Madeira and goat cheese creme. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat, late night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VEGETARIAN Good Karma Cafe — Swan River Yoga, 2940 Canal St., (504) 401-4698; www.swanriveryoga. com — The Malaysian curry bowl features vegetables and soy protein over brown or basmati rice. The Good Karma plate includes a selection of Asian and Indian vegetables, a cup of soup, salad with almond dressing and brown or basmati rice. The cafe serves free trade and organic coffee. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Sat. Credit cards. $$ Seed — 1330 Prytania St., (504) 302-2599; www.seedyourhealth. com — Seed uses local, organic ingredients in its eclectic global menu, including soups, salads, nachos, sandwiches and more.

Raw pad thai features shredded cucumber, carrots, peppers, jicama, bean sprouts and peanuts in house-made marinade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE Pho Tau Bay Restaurant — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, (504) 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Rolls-N-Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.facebook.com/rolls-nbowlsnola — This casual Vietnamese eatery serves spring rolls, pho, rice and vermicelli bowls, banh mi, stir fry entrees and bubble tea. The vermicelli bowl features noodles over lettuce, cucumber and carrots; shrimp are optional.

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Men are the performers in a new burlesque show.

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down and lead the audience in a singalong while playing an acoustic version of Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy” on ukulele. Mazing, founder of the variety show Emergency Circus, also often brings a circus feel to his “boylesque” routine.

On April 18, Mazing graced The Dragon’s Den stage as Indiana Jones for Talk Nerdy to Me, The Society of Sin’s weekly nerdlesque production. While a heavy metal version of the film’s theme music revved up the audience, Mazing disrobed while gun slinging and cracking a whip above his head. For a finale, he grabbed a tall can of beer from an audience member and finished it onstage before hurling the can and hitting it in midair with a flick of his whip.

Mazing’s boylesque homage to the swashbuckling archaeologist is one of the pop culture-based routines that are typifying the growing number of nerdlesque productions. Troupes such as Bluestockings Burlesque, Reverend Spooky LeStrange & Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls and Four Suits all have created odes to their favorite fandoms and pop-culture phenomena. There also have been shows focused on video games and sci-fi. Ranging from explorations of the Joss Whedon universe to the land of Westerns, steamy parodies and themed variety have created a titillating nerd-vana.

“I migrate towards nerdlesque because of the story,” says Xena J. Alfred Potter stars in the new Zeit-Geist, founder of The Society all-male burlesque show Bring of Sin. “It’s full of characters that on the Men! I feel passionately about. I like to P H O TO BY C HERY L G ERBER be able to craft fan fiction that’s played out through stripteases.

Bring on the Men! Seeing what I’ve written come MAY alive onstage is my favorite part 8 p.m. Friday of the show.”

Mag’s 940 Gender-bending performances are common in nerdlesque, but 940 Elysian Fields boylesque is focused on playing Ave., (504) 948-1888 with images of male sexuality. “(Boylesque) turns societal norms on their heads,” Zeit-Geist says. “I don’t see burlesque as an act that should be gendered. What I think is important to think about is queerlesque — people who aren’t necessarily fitting into one-gender binary onstage.”

As shows mix boylesque, nerdlesque and queerlesque, local troupes have more freedom to try new things.

“It’s not just taking off your clothes for dollars,” Potter says.

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ome local comedy fans may know J. Alfred Potter from his standup act and as the founder of Accessible Comedy. Some burlesque fans may remember him from a fall fundraiser for a local women’s shelter. The Wonder Woman-themed show was his debut as the city’s first physically disabled stripper.

“My first striptease was on Oct. 24 (2014) for Wonder Women,” he says. “I was terrified and absolutely hooked. Being physically disabled, there aren’t that many opportunities for people with those needs to be sexy and show off that they feel confident with their bodies. It allowed me to own who I am and my body.

“I hope to put the idea in the audience’s head that anyone who wants to make a serious effort at this can go do burlesque,” Potter adds. “Anyone can be sexy, regardless of gender, size, sexual orientation, color or physical ability. Whatever it is that you think is holding you back — nothing is.”

Potter now is working with the Society of Sin burlesque troupe to launch an all-male show. Called Bring on the Men!, the revue features an all-local roster of performers and debuts at 8 p.m. Friday, May 1 at Mag’s 940. Half of the show’s proceeds will be donated to the NO/AIDS Task Force.

“A lot of the burlesque dancers in town who heard about it said, ‘Oh, it’s about time. Can’t wait to see it,’” Potter says. “There are so few male burlesque performers who are known locally.”

Potter holds dual roles producing the show and performing in it, under the moniker Leg Luthor. For the new show, Potter created a routine using a wheelchair. Set to Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” he peels off his costume piece by piece “in an effort to find yet another future ex,” he says.

“You have to be able to laugh at yourself,” he says.

“There’s who you are offstage and who you are onstage. I’m using this as an extension of comedy.”

While Potter has focused on comedy before, this show is not a joke.

“When you’re doing a glove peel, you want to make the audience feel like they are that glove,” Potter says.

Bring on the Men! involves many performers who have expanded the city’s “nerdlesque” scene.

Melody Thick hosts, and it features performances

by Leo Brixton, Papa Razzi, Amen Five, Clay Mazing and Stevie Poundcake. Queenie O’Hart will open the performance by singing the show’s namesake song, and Jade Patton will perform stand-up.

“I expect nerdlesque acts and a new twist on classic burlesque from Stevie Poundcake,” Potter says.

Mazing takes an unconventional and wide-ranging approach to his acts. He has been known to strip

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Maple Leaf Bar — Luther Dickinson, Johnny Vidacovich, 8; Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Milo’s Music Parlor — Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes, 6:30 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 8

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TUESDAY 28 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 7; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8 AllWays Lounge — Magnetic Ear, 8 Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Vivaz, 4:30; Mem Shannon Band, 8 Banks Street Bar — NOLA County, 8

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Blue Nile — Fantastic Four feat. Eric Krasno, Oteil Burbridge, Robert Walter, Cochemea Gastelum, Adam Deitch, John Staten, The Polyrhythmics, 8:30; The Whip! feat. Brian J, Ronkat Spearman, Robert Walter, Pete Shand, Corey Henry, John Staten, Carly Meyers, 2 a.m.

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Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Open Ears Music Series: Rob Mazurek & Black Cube SP, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, 10 BMC — Hatchett Boys, Eudora Evans & Deep Soul, Mario Abney, 5 Bombay Club — Josh Paxton, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Trumpet Black Hill, 7 Cafe Istanbul — New Orleans Helsinki Connection, 7; Dayna Kurtz, 10 Cafe Negril — Mumbles, 6; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 10 Casa Borrega — Hector Gallardo’s Cuban Jazz Trio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Bible Belt Sinners, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Anders Osborne, John Fohl, Johnny Sansone, 8 Circle Bar — Laura Dyer Jazz Trio, 6; The Iguanas, 10 Columns Hotel — John Rankin, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 5; Treme Brass Band, 9; Funk & Chant feat.

John Papa Gros & Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, 11

One Eyed Jacks — Dragon Smoke, 9 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5

DMac’s — Cary Hudson, Susan Cowsill, Kim Carson, 9:30

Rare Form — Willie Bohanan, 7; The Unnaturals, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9

Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 7

Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Pretty Party, Painted Hands, 10

Snug Harbor — Dr. Lonnie Smith, Donald Harrison Band, 8 & 10

Euclid Records — Bible Belt Sinners, 5 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Carina Point, 7 Freret Street Publiq House — Papa Mali, Gravity A, Tanglers Bluegrass Band, 4 Gasa Gasa — Hildegard album release, TYSSON, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Songwriter Showdown, 9 House of Blues — Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, 7 Howlin’ Wolf — Michael Jackson/Stevie Wonder tribute feat. members of Lettuce, Snarky Puppy, The Nth Power, The Magic Beans, 9 Irish House — Hillbilly Jigs Bluegrass Jam Session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Davy Mooney Band feat. Jamison Ross, Barry Stephenson, Rex Gregory, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Mark Appleford, 8 Little Gem Saloon — The California Honeydrops, 9; Chawa, 10; Honey Island Swamp Band, Papa Mali, 11:30 Louisiana Music Factory — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, noon; Ken Swartz, 1; Little Freddie King, 2; Funk Monkey, 3; Big Chief Juan Pardo & the Golden Comanche, 4; Kristin Diable, 5; Zeke Fishhead, 6 Luthjen’s Dance Hall — Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road feat. David Torkanowsky, 8 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree: Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes, 9 The Maison — The High Beamens, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6; Kumasi Afrobeat Orchestra, Smoke’n’Bones, 10

Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Tuba Skinny, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10 Three Muses — John Saavedra, 5; Gal Holiday, 7 Tipitina’s — Ministry, The Sixxis, 8 Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center — Timeghost, ORA ISO, Psychic Hotline, Proud Father, 8:30

WEDNESDAY 29 21st Amendment — Marla Dixon, 7 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Christopher Johnson Trio, 4; Benny D Band, 6:30; John Lisi Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — Ivan Neville, 8; The Creator Ensemble: Skerik, Alecia Chakour, Cochemea Gastelum, Joe Russo, John Medeski, Robert Walter, James Singleton, 11 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — The Main Squeeze, 10 BMC — Pink Magnolia, Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, The Business, 5 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8 Cafe Negril — Arsene Delay, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9 Carousel Bar & Lounge — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 8:30; Amanda Ducorbier Band, 8:30 Casa Borrega — Sasha Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30

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Bob Dylan

There are Bob Dylan fans who want him to sound just like he does on the albums they own, and there are Dylan fans who appreciate his unpredictability. The comments section of a recent concert preview at NOLA.com (bear with me) turned into a sweetly shared, anecdotal retrospective of Bob Dylan shows past: last year, at Baton Rouge’s Red Dragon Listening Room; in 2002 and 2011 at UNO Lakefront Arena; back-to-back nights at House of Blues in 1994; one “disastrous” gig at the Saenger in the early ’90s. I’ve seen him just once, at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 2007. I had the good fortune to be backstage covering My Morning Jacket, APRIL Bob Dylan who had the better fortune to be Dylan’s 8 p.m. Wednesday opener of choice. (You can imagine Jim Saenger Theatre, James’ face when describing that phone 1111 Canal St., call.) I did my best to blend in to the surroundings, foolishly thinking I might (504) 525-1052; even sneak around long enough to meet www.saengernola.com the man, but moments before he was to go on, I was whisked away by a Secret Service-level security detail. When the lights came up, he was standing center stage, oblivious to the light falling rain, sporting a Michael Jackson-esque black suit and white fedora, cocked low. He launched into “Everybody Must Get Stoned,” and everybody did. Tickets $78.45$110.50 (includes fees). — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Marc Maceira Band, 6

Chickie Wah Wah — John Rankin, 5:30; John McLaughlin & Friends, 9; Shinyribs, 11:30

Howlin’ Wolf — Megalomaniacs Ball feat. Steel Punk, Marco Benevento/Stanton Moore Duo, Mike Dillon Band, 9

Circle Bar — Mike True, 6; Natasha Agrama, 10 The Civic Theatre — Breaking Benjamin, Young Guns, 9 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — The Iguanas, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10; Bayou Gypsys, 2 a.m.

DMac’s — The Pentones, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Antoine Diel Duo, 5 Gasa Gasa — Mother Falcon, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Justin Bieber’s Girlfriend feat. Yojimbo and Skerik, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Carly Meyers, 9 House of Blues — Walk the Moon, The Griswolds, 8; Jet Lounge, 11

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hazy Ray, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Lady Sings the Blues feat.

Dana Abbott, 5; Irvin Mayfield & the NOJO Jam, 8 The Jefferson Orleans North — Jay Zainey Orchestra, 6:30 Joy Theater — Steely Dan’s The Royal Scam, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Tim Robertson, 9 Lafayette Square — Wednesdays at the Square: Marcia Ball, Lynn Drury, 5 Little Gem Saloon — Ruby Rendrag, Michaela Harrison, 7; Glen David Andrews, 8; Little Freddie King, 10 Louisiana Music Factory — Jason Marsalis, noon; Irvin Mayfield, 1; Kermit Ruffins, 2; Rebirth Brass Band, 3; Woodenhead, 4; Colin Lake, 5; Royal Southern Brotherhood, 6 Luthjen’s Dance Hall — Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road feat. Brian Seeger & Roland Guerin, 8

The Maison — Moonshine & Caroline, 4; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 7; Derrick Freeman & Friends, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Oak Street Block Party: Leftover Salmon, Nth Power, The Heard, Kung Fu, Sonic Bloom, noon; Johnny Vidacovich, Ivan Neville, June Yamagishi, George Porter Jr., 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Drew Martin, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Bob Green & the Green River Band, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Suwannee Family Band feat. Adam Deitch, Eric Krasno, Oteil Burbridge, Nigel Hall, Kofi Burbridge & the Shady Horns, Jennifer Hartswick Band, Hard Proof, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Kid Merv, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran, Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, Robert Harris, Shannon Powell, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & Next Generation, 8 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 PAGE 76

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Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7

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Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Rice Mill Lofts — Couches feat.

Tank & the Bangas, Ms. Charm Taylor, Mykia Jovan, 6 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole String Beans, Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars, 7:30 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 Saenger Theatre — Bob Dylan & His Band, 8 The Sandbar at UNO — Christian Scott, 7 Saucy’s — Mark Appleford, 6 Siberia — Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes, Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, Gregory Good Snug Harbor — Piano Summit feat. Marcia Ball, Joe Krown, Tom McDermott, 8 & 10 The Spotlight Bar and Grill — Dr. Rock, 9 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Miss Sophie Lee, 7 Tipitina’s — St. Paul & Broken Bones, King James & the Special Men, 9 The Willow — The Heavy Friends, Exotic Pets, Captain Rob & the Seamen, 10

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Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Justin Donovan, 2; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 6:30; Troy Turner, 10 Banks Street Bar — Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes, 8; Dave Jordan, 10 Blue Nile — Kung Fu, Ryan Montbleu, Billy Iuso & the Restless Natives, 9 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Willie Sugarcapps, Grayson Capp, Will Kimbrough, Sugarcane Jane, Corky Hughes, 9; Toubaub Krewe, midnight BMC — Laura Dyer, The Crooked Vines, New Orleans Swamp Donkeys, 5 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Duo, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8; Josh Paxton, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Jeff Chaz & the NOLA Blues Band, 7 Cafe Istanbul — Michaela Harrison, 8; Axial Tilt (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 Cafe Negril — St. Louis Slim &

the Usurpers, 6; Soul Project, 10 Carousel Bar & Lounge — Antoine Diel Jazz Band, 5; Anais St. John Quartet, 8:30 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Eric Lindell, 10 Champions Square — Slipknot, Hatebreed, 8 Checkpoint Charlie — Johnny Angel & Helldorado, 7; We’re Only In It For the Honey, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Helen Gillet & Friends, 8; Krewe of Blenders party feat. Charlie Wooten Jazz Fest All-Stars, 11 Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; The Alex McMurray Band, 10 Columns Hotel — Naydja Cojoe, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road, 8; John Medeski, Terrence Higgins, Will Bernard, Kirk Joseph, 10; Pimps of Joytime, midnight Louis Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park: N’awlins Johnnys, Rockin Dopsie, 4 The Maison — Jon Roniger, 5; Kristina Morales, 7; Pimps of Joytime, Monophonics, 10; FIYA POWA! feat. George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore, Karl Denson, Tony Hall, Big Sam, Roosevelt Collier, Jennifer Hartswick, 1 a.m.

Maple Leaf Bar — Oteil Burbridge, Marco Benevento, Skerik, Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30 Marigny Brasserie — Jamey St. Pierre & Dave Freeson, 8

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Ruby Ross, 8; Dave Easley, 9; Ghost of the American Road, 10

d.b.a. — Jon Cleary, 7; King James & the Special Men, 10; Cedric Burnside Project, 2 a.m.

Oak — Miles Cabecerious, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7

DMac’s — Noisewater, 7; Kim Carson & the Real Deal Band, 9:30

Old Point Bar — Deltaphonic, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Jenna McSwain Trio, 9 Downtown Covington — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, 5 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Bayou Saints, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Andrew Price/Jesse Smith Duo, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Haas/Lott/Price Trio, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Dirty Dozen Brass Band, California Honey Drops, 9 Gasa Gasa — Mother Falcon, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Iman Omari, Yugen, 9 & 11 House of Blues — Kermit Ruffins’ Big Easy Trumpet Battle Royale feat. Leroy Jones, Wendell Burnous, James Andrews, Leon Brown, Travis Hill, Shamarr Allen, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — The Revivalists All in the Family Experience, Rebirth Brass Band, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Naughty Professor, RumpleSTEELskin, 9:30 Irish House — Ruby Ross, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Playhour, 5; The James Rivers Movement, 8 Joy Theater — Royal Family Ball “Masquerage” feat. Soulive & Lettuce, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Vincent Marini & the One Tailed Three, 9

Old U.S. Mint — Kidd Jordan, Hamiet Bluiett, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Galactic, 8; Worship My Organ feat. Marco Benevento, Skerik, Robert Walter, Joe Russo, 2 a.m.

Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger, Tim Laughlin, Crescent City Joymakers, Hal Smith, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Maurice Brown (Clark Terry tribute), 8 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rare Form — Joey VanLeeuwen Trio, 4; Adam Everett Trio, 7 Republic New Orleans — Down on the Bayou benefit feat. Dr. John, John Bell, Domingo “Sunny” Ortiz, Dirty Dozen Brass Band & others, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Hyperphlyy, 7 Rivershack Tavern — Bill Davis, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Zydeco Triple Threat feat. L’il Nathan & the Big Tymers, Chris Ardoin & Nu Step, Beau’s High Rollers, 8 Siberia — The Salt Wives, 6; Keith Frank & the Soileau Zydeco Band, CC Adcock, The Layette Marquis, Quintron, 10 Snug Harbor — Christian Scott, 9 & 11 Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy &

MUSIC LISTINGS the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Luke Winslow-King, 7:30 Tipitina’s — St. Paul & Broken Bones, Downright, DJ Logic, 9; Leftover Salmon feat. Bill Payne, Bruce Hampton, 2 a.m.

Treme Center — New Creations Brass Band, Matthew Shilling Quartet, Yisrael Trio, N’iya, 2 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 5 Vaughan’s — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 9:30 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11

FRIDAY 1 21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30 AllWays Lounge — Magnetic Ear, 11 Alombrados Oasis — Ruins ov Abbadon, Eukaryst, Mehenet, 8 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Phil Melancon, 8 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Organized Chaos feat.

Honey Savage, 2; Ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Daria & the Hip Drop, Social Set, Tragic Kingdom Tribute, 10; Billy Iuso, 1 a.m.

Blue Nile — Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Honey Island Swamp Band, 10; The Main Squeeze, 2 a.m.

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Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Tank & the Bangas, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, 10; The Mike Dillon Band, 1:30 a.m.

BMC — Lefty Keith & True Blues, Tracorum, Crowned Jewelz Band, Dysfunktional Bone, 3

Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Alexandra Scott & Josh Paxton, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8; Sherman Ewing & Friends, Dr. Jimbo Walsh, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Axial Tilt (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott, 6; Higher Heights Reggae Band, 10 Carousel Bar & Lounge — Robin Barnes Jazz Quartet, 5; Lena Prima & Band, 9 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — John Mooney & Bluesiana, 10 Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Bottom Dollars, 4; Angela Everwood, 7; J Monque’D, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Luke Allen Trio, 9; The Deslondes, 11:30 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 6; James Hall & Felix, 10 The Civic Theatre — Primus & the Chocolate Factory, 10 Columbia Street Taproom Grill — Casey Saba & the Beanstalks, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Ted Long, 6 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 PAGE 78

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Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — CC Adcock, Dylan LeBlanc & Kaleb Elliott, 7; Soul Rebels, 10; Earphunk, 2 a.m.

Dish on Hayne — Sharon Martin, 6:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Up Up We Go, 7 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 3; Sioux City Kid, 7 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5; Antoine Diel Trio, 8:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Toubab Krewe Orchestra feat. Toubab Krewe, Benyoro, Raja Kassis, Weedie Braimah, 9 Gasa Gasa — Flow Tribe, Joe Krown Trio, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Russell Batiste Jr., 10 Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Transplanted Roots, 7; Kristin Diable, 10 Hotel Monteleone — Lena Prima, 10 House of Blues — Blackberry Smoke, The Temperance Band, Ben Miller Band, 7:30

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House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Andrew Duhon, 8:30 Howlin’ Wolf — Bayou Rendezvous feat. The Bayou Rendezvous Allstars, 9 Irish House — One Tailed Three, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Joe Krown, 6; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8 Jazz Cafe — Gypsy Elise & the Royal Blues, 9 Joy Theater — An Evening With Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 10; The New Mastersounds feat. Zigaboo Modeliste, Robert Walter & Adryon De Leon, 2 a.m.

Singleton, Robert Walter’s Tequila Wisdom feat. Simon Lott & Carly Meyers, 11 The Maison — Loose Marbles, 4; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 7; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 7; Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Street Legends Brass Band, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — James Brown Tribute feat. Tony Hall, Jeff Watkins, Raymond Weber, Renard Poche, Roderick Paulin, Tracy Griffin, Vitas Jones, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Agent 86, 8; Charlie King, 11 Oak — Sunpie, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Eric Lindell, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Maggie Koerner & David Shaw, Cardinal Sons, 8; Dr. Klaw, The Bear Creek All-Stars, 1:30 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Butch Thompson, Clive Wilson N.O. Serenaders, Hal Smith, 7 Pearl Wine Co. — GromKo’s Rhythmic Tricks, 8:30 Preservation Hall — PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10; Midnight Preserves, midnight Prime Example Jazz Club — Stephanie Jordan Quintet, 8 & 10 Rare Form — Justin Donovan, 4:30; Vic Papa & Friends, 9 Republic New Orleans — Voodoo Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 2 a.m.

Rivershack Tavern — Wooton Gang, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., 8:30 Saturn Bar — Guitar Lightnin’ Lee, Idle Hour Club, 10 Siberia — Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers, Debauche, Abandon Delight, Rog Dinger, Wits End Brass Band, 10 Snug Harbor — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 9 & 11

Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9

Spotted Cat — Pfister Sisters, 2; Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10; Dr. Sick & the Late Greats, 2 a.m.

Le Bon Temps Roule — Tom Worrell, 7; Gravy Flavored Kisses, 11

St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & the Beautiful Band, 9:30

Le Petit Theatre — Marcia Ball, 9

Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5:30; Glen David Andrews, 9

Little Gem Saloon — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8; Stanton Moore Trio feat. Torkanowsky & James

Tipitina’s — The Funky Meters, 9; Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe feat. Roosevelt Collier, Jimmy Herring, 2 a.m.

Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8 Union Station Pub & Grill — The Little Things, 6 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 3

SATURDAY 2 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30 AllWays Lounge — Alexandra Scott, 10 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Phil Melancon, 8 Bamboula’s — Abby Diamond, 2; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; Johnny Mastro Band, 10; Vivaz, 11 Banks Street Bar — The Egg Yolk Jubilee, 10 Bar Redux — The Vinyl Solution feat. DJ Chrischarge, 9 Blue Nile — WimBash All Stars feat. Doug Wimbish, Nigel Hall, Big Sam Williams, Khris Royal, 9; Marco Benevento, 1:30 a.m.

Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Corey Henry & Treme Funktet, Brass-A-Holics, 10 BMC — Lunetajazz, Johnny Mastro & Mama’s Boys, Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, Woody’s Rampage, 3 Bombay Club — David Boeddinghaus, 6:30; Hal Smith Trio feat. Susanne Ortner, 9 Bourbon O Bar — Johnny Angel & the Swingin’ Demons, 8 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 9 Buffa’s Lounge — Marc Stone, 5; St. Cecilia Asylum Chorus, 8; Leslie Cooper, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Barry Stevenson, 8 Cafe Negril — Jame Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7; Dana Abbott, 10 Carousel Bar & Lounge — Tom Hook feat. Cristina Perez, 9

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Maple Leaf Bar — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 10:30

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Kerry Cox, 8; Patsy Grace, 9; Riger Ferrera & Maggie Havens, 10

d.b.a. — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; George Porter Jr. & His Runnin’ Pardners, 10; Lost Bayou Ramblers, 2 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Joe Krown Trio, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Doombalaya, 10:30; Gov’t Majik, 12:45 a.m.

El Mesquite Grill — The Strays, 5 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Amanda Ducorbier Trio, 9 Freret Street Publiq House — Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Tauk, 9 Gasa Gasa — Lost Bayou Ramblers, Cardinal Sons, 10 Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Blackberry Smoke, The Temperance Band, Ben Miller Band, 7:30 House of Blues (The Parish) — The California Honeydrops, 10; Pimps of Joytime, midnight; Kung Fu, 2 a.m.

Howlin’ Wolf — Anders Osborne, 11; Particle, 1:30 a.m.

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, 11 Irish House — Beth Patterson, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel — Thomas Pol, Brad Walker, Davy Mooney & Stephen Gordon, 9 Jazz Cafe — Gypsy Elise & the Royal Blues, 9

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andrew Duhon Trio, 10

Joy Theater — An Evening With Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 10; The New Mastersounds feat. Jennifer Hartswick, Mike Dillon & Natalie Cressman, 2 a.m.

Checkpoint Charlie — Taylor Hogg, 4; Lynn Drury, 7; Woodenhead, 11

Kerry Irish Pub — Speed the Mule, 5; Mark Hessler & Friends, 9

Chickie Wah Wah — Helen Gillet, Mark Sutherland, Michael Skinkus, 9; Toubab Krewe & Friends, 11:30

Le Petit Theatre — Terence Blanchard feat. the E-Collective, 9

Circle Bar — Rotary Downs, 10 The Civic Theatre — Primus & the Chocolate Factory, 10 Columbia Street Taproom Grill — Four Unplugged, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Andrew Hall, 2

Little Gem Saloon — Nayo Jones, 8; The Meters Experience feat. Leo Nocentelli, 10; Los Po-Boy-Citos, 11 The Maison — Leah Rucker, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Rebirth Brass Band, Naughty Professor, 10; The Motet, 2 a.m.

Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Jeb Rault, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Craig Brenner, 2 One Eyed Jacks — Black Joe Lewis, Kristin Diable, 8; Break Science Live Band, 2 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell, Palm Court Jazz Band, Ernie Elly, 7 Preservation Hall — PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10; Midnight Preserves, midnight Prime Example Jazz Club — Donald Harrison Quintet, 8 & 10 Prytania Bar — Valerie Sassyfras, 8:45 Rare Form — C.O.G, 8 Republic New Orleans — Voodoo Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 6 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1 Rivershack Tavern — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Eric Lindell, Mingo Fishtrap, The Iguanas, 8:30 Saenger Theatre — Nevilles Forever feat. the Neville Brothers, Widespread Panic, Trombone Shorty, Galactic, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Terence Blanchard, Ivan Neville, John Boutte, Anders Osborne, Ian Neville and more, 9 Saturn Bar — R. Scully’s Rough 7, Norco Lapalco, 10 Siberia — Feufollet, Deslondes, Bonsoir Catin, 7 Snug Harbor — Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet, 9 & 11 Spotted Cat — Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 2; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Davis Rogan, 10; Dr. Sick & the Late Greats, 2 a.m; Three Muses — Ingrid Lucia, 5:30; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — Zappa Plays Zappa (tribute), 9; Galactic, 2 a.m.

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Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Anais St. John, 6 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8

SUNDAY 3 21st Amendment — Tom McDermott, 4 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 2; Troy Turner, 5:30; Swamp Donkeys, 10 Banks Street Bar — NOLA County, 4; Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 8 Blue Nile — Funky But Better feat. Big Sam Williams, Marco Benevento, Maurice Brown, Doug Wimbish, Roosevelt Collier, 9 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Luke Winslow King, 10 BMC — R&R Music Group, Iris P, Soul Project, 3 Bombay Club — Tom Hook, 8

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Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Russell Batiste, 10; Marco Benevento Band feat.

Dave Dreiwitz, Andy Borger, 2 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8

Mid-City Theatre — Helen Gillet, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30 One Eyed Jacks — Eric Lindell, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin, Sunday Night Swingsters, Butch Thompson, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10; Midnight Preserves, midnight

House of Blues — Falling in Reverse, Ghost Town, 5:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Kim Carson, 8:30 Louisiana Music Factory — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, noon; Kim Carson, 1:30; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 3; Luke Winslow-King, 4:30; Eric Lindell, 6 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Jesse Smith Project, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 8; The Troubadors of Divine Bliss, 9; Gina Forsyth, 10 Old Point Bar — The Romy Kaye Jazz Trio, 7

Republic New Orleans — Voodoo Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 10

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 8, 9 & 10

Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7

Rare Form — Snake & the Charmers, 7; Terra Terra, 11

Cafe Istanbul — James Singleton, Johnny Vidacovich, Brian Hass & Mark Southerland, 9

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, Samantha Fish, 8

Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7

Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott, 4; Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; Dr. Sick’s Stunted Sextette, 10

Siberia — Today Is the Day, Lazer/Wulf, Gristnam, Sinister Gaze, 9:30

Checkpoint Charlie — Damn Frontier, 8

Snug Harbor — Herlin Riley All Stars, 9 & 11

Chickie Wah Wah — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes, 6; Susan Cowsill’s Covered in Vinyl, 9

Spotted Cat — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

Buffa’s Lounge — Jazz Youth Showcase feat. Tyler Clements, 3; Dr. Sick & the Late Greats, 7; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

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Band, 4; Melanie Gardner, 7; Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10

Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6 d.b.a. — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen Trio, 7; Stanton Moore Trio, 10; Frequinox, 1 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Andrew Duhon, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Russell Welch, 7; Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Colin Lake, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — AZZFest feat.

BateBunda, Yojimbo, Rusty Lazer, 10 House of Blues — George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic feat. DJ Soul Sister, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — Good Enough for Good Times, A Town Get Down, 7; The Motet: Mixtape 1975, Zigaboo’s Funk Revue, Gravy, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 6:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Paintbox feat. Dave James & Tim Robertson, 8 The Maison — Hot & Spicy Jazz

Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8

Tipitina’s — Dumpstaphunk, 9

CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS

MONDAY 4

Chantez! St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1545 State St. — NOVA Chorale’s chamber ensemble, VOCE, performs an a cappella French-language concert. Suggested donation $20.

3 p.m. Sunday.

Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Chip Wilson & Mark Ruebin, 2; NOLA Swinging Gypsies, 8 Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 10 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 Blue Nile — Nth Power, 9 BMC — Mark Appleford, 5 Bombay Club — Jenna McSwain, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — The Little Things, 5; Alexis & the Samurai, 7; Ed Volker’s Lost Radio, 9 Circle Bar — Eric Lindell, 10 d.b.a. — Luke Winslow-King, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 DMac’s — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — Instant Opus

Maiden, Mother, Muse. Holy Name of Mary Church, 400 Verret St., Algiers, (504) 362-5511; www. facebook.com/holynameofmary — Music Da Camera’s performance of “Maiden, Mother, Muse: Women in the Cantigas of Alfonso X” features Vox Feminae. 3 p.m.

Sunday.

One Great Moment in Time. www.jpas.org — Ariel Assaf, Jennifer Delatte, Micah Desonier and composer Glyn Bailey perform.

Regular tickets $30, seniors and military $27, students $20, children $15. 7:30 p.m. Friday at Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego; 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Christ Episcopal Theatre, 80 Christwood Blvd., Covington; 3 p.m. Sunday at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 4600 St. Charles Ave. Organ & Labyrinth. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola. com — Albinas Prizgintas performs on the church’s 5,000-pipe tracker organ. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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Tuesday-Wednesday.

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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (NR) — Irsaeli woman Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz) fights her estranged husband Elisha (Simon Abkarian) for a gett, the document that would permit a legal divorce under Jewish law. Chalmette Kung Fu Killer (NR) — A vigilante kung fu master (Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen) hunts a serial killer while evading the police in this self-aware martial arts movie. Zeitgeist The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (NR) — Italian TV host Pierfrancesco Diliberto wrote, directed and stars in a comedy about a young man whose entire community appears infiltrated by the Mob. Zeitgeist

NOW SHOWING The Age of Adaline (PG-13) — After 80 years of concealing her immortality, 29-year-old Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) meets Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman) and considers revealing her secret. Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

Brotherly Love (R) — A star basketball player, his brother and his sister struggle with life decisions and community pressures in a film set in West Philadelphia. West Bank Child 44 (R) — Disgraced Soviet secret agent Leo (Tom Hardy), his wife Raisa (Noomi Rapace) and Gen. Mikhail Nesterov (Gary Oldman) uncover a conspiracy as they attempt to investigate a serial killer.

Canal Place 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, 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. Regal Ex Machina (R) — Internet programmer Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) visits tech CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), who’s secretly testing Ava (Alicia Vikander), an intelligent, self-aware robot.

Clearview, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, 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, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Home (PG) — A girl named Tip (Rihanna) hides from an alien invasion, but befriends an alien named Oh (Jim Parsons) in this animated comedy.

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Little Boy (PG-13) — Alejandro Monteverde’s World War II-era drama stars a seven-yearold boy with a deep, loving relationship with his father.

Clearview, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Monsters: Dark Continent (R) — Ten years after the events of 2010’s Monsters, the tentacled alien creatures have spread across the planet. Chalmette True Story (R) — Journalist Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) hopes to rebuild his career by winning an interview with alleged murderer Christian Longo (James Franco), who’s stolen Finkel’s identity. Canal Place Unfriended (R) — A dead teenager appears to her former high school classmates through Skype to seek revenge in this Internet-age thriller.

Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Water Diviner (R) — An Australian farmer (Russell Crowe) travels to Turkey seeking his three sons, who fought in World War I’s Battle of Gallipoli.

Canal Place 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). 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, based on a true story.

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

SPECIAL SCREENINGS An Affair to Remember (NR) — The 1957 romance stars Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as cruise ship passengers who unexpectedly fall in love, despite being engaged to other people. 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Prytania Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (R) — Nicolas Cage plays a drug-addled cop with a prostitute girlfriend and a gambling problem in Warner Herzog’s darkly bizarre crime drama. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Burgundy Picture House Dancing in the Water (NR) — Matt Moseley swims 25 miles across the restored Lake Pontchartrain, accompanied by live music. Moseley, filmmaker Wayne Ewing and others appear at the screening and a concert by Papa Mali follows at Castillo Blanco. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Prtyania PAGE 83

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Big Charity (NR) — A noted film at the 2014 New Orleans Film Festival, Alexander Glustrom’s documentary explores the closing of Charity Hospital after Hurricane Katrina. Canal Place

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Ex Machina Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (NR) — Lolis Elie and Dawn Logsdon’s documentary explores the history of the oldest black neighborhood in America. 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Indywood Fresh Dressed (NR) — Sacha Jenkins’ hip-hop fashion documentary looks at the history and expression of “urban” style. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Jazz & Heritage Center Grateful Dead Meetup 2015 (NR) — The previously unreleased concert was recorded at Wisconsin’s Alpine Valley Music Theatre in July 1989.

7 p.m. Monday. Elmwood Halfway to Halloween — NOLA Horror Film Fest screens the gory 1985 cult movie Re-Animator and winning short films from the 2014 festival. Costumes encouraged. 8 p.m. Friday.

Spirits on Bourbon Man with a Movie Camera (NR) — Dziga Vertov’s plotless look at everyday Soviet life in 1929. 7 p.m.

Monday. Indywood The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci Encore (NR) — Tenor Marcelo Alvarez stars in the pair of one-act operas.

6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, Regal

The Riot Club (R) — Two firstyear Oxford students (Sam Claflin and Max Irons) pledge to an elite secret society of men. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Steamboat Bill Jr. (NR) — Sexy Dex & the Fresh provide live music to accompany Buster Keaton’s 1928 silent comedy. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Thursday. Indywood Tommy (PG) — Robert Daltry stars as the titular pinball wizard in The Who’s 1975 rock musical. 10 p.m.

Wednesday. Indywood The Untouchables (R) — Government agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and Irish-American cop Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery) face off against crime boss Al Capone (Robert De Niro). 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place Vanishing Pearls (NR) — This 2014 documentary looks at Gulf Coast oystermen and the effects of the BP oil disaster.

6 p.m. Tuesday. Indywood We Won’t Bow Down (NR) — Christopher Levoy Bower di-

rects a documentary about New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indians. 7 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Indywood What We Do in the Shadows (NR) — Vampire roommates Viago, Deacon, Vladislav and Petyr struggle to adapt to everyday life.

5 p.m. Tuesday, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday. Zeitgeist 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 Burgundy Picture House: 4117 Burgundy St.; www. picturehousenola.com 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) 345-8804; www. indywood.org New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center: 1225 N. Rampart St., (504) 558-6100; www.jazzandheritage.org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787. www.theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium

14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington, (985) 8717787; www.regmovies.com Spirits on Bourbon: 615 Bourbon St., (504) 524-6014; www.neworleanshorrorfilmfestival.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540; www.thetheatres.com Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistnola.orgl

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Nine Lives: A Musical Story of New Orleans — Paul Sanchez’s musical tribute to Dan Baum’s book was recorded at Le Petit Theatre in 2011. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Indywood

There’s an entire subgenre in science fiction devoted to the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (A.I.). The finest A.I.-themed films — such as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner — easily move beyond the idea of robots-gone-wrong to address ethical and philosophical quandaries that spring from any story involving self-aware machines.

What exactly constitutes consciousness? If an A.I. possesses the desire for its own continued existence, are its creators obligated to honor that wish? Such issues typically lead to an examination of what it means to be human, which is where sci-fi transcends genre limitations to reach its highest expression.

This is the fertile ground in which British novelist, screenwriter and first-time director Alex Garland sows Ex Machina, a challenging and timely take on the long-term potential of A.I. Garland has developed a specialty in science-induced catastrophe as the screenwriter for films like 28 Days Later (synthetic virus causes zombie apocalypse) and Never Let Me Go (the horrors of human cloning). But Ex Machina’s story of a uniquely sentient robot is not especially concerned with looming threats to humanity. It’s a potent psychological thriller and an Ex Machina (R) ambivalent cautionary tale that’s more focused on posing provocative Directed by questions than providing easy answers.

Questions are the raw material from which Ex Machina’s story is Alex Garland built. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a programmer at Blue Book, the world’s Starring Domhnall dominant Internet search engine (apparently “Google” was unavailable), Gleeson, Oscar Isaac which was founded by brilliant and reclusive CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar and Alicia Vikander Isaac). Caleb wins a company contest to spend a week with Nathan at his rural hideaway, which turns out to include a private lab where Nathan Wide release has secretly developed a very special robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander).

Caleb discovers that he will spend the week helping to administer a “Turing Test,” which determines whether an A.I. can pass for human. What follows is essentially a series of intense conversations — filled with practical and philosophical questions — that evolves into a game of cat-and-mouse among the film’s three speaking characters. But all may not be as it seems.

Ex Machina has style to burn and appears uniquely self-assured for a directorial debut. There’s a minimalist aesthetic guiding every aspect of the film, from the architecture of Nathan’s compound to the ideal mix of human traits and high technology represented by Ava’s striking design and Vikander’s performance. An eerie soundtrack by Geoff Barrow (of Portishead fame) and Ben Salisbury similarly blends electronic and acoustic instruments and ratchets the tension as events escalate.

For all his painstaking work on the look and feel of Ex Machina (despite a modest budget), Garland finds his secret weapon in Isaac. Familiar from starring roles in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis and J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year (and soon to be featured in Star Wars: The Force Awakens), the 36-year-old Isaac proves himself an actor with very few peers through his utterly convincing work as the megalomaniacal Nathan. Exuding confidence but ultimately lacking self-awareness, Nate’s physical presence alone speaks volumes about his flawed character.

Some plausibility issues linger after Ex Machina ends, but it’s a small price to pay for an elegant film that leaves us with much to consider. In an era of genetic engineering and virtual experience, we’d do well to address the ramifications of A.I. before it arrives on our doorstep with questions of its own. — KEN KORMAN

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

The Music Box Roving Village.

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 482-4888; www.neworleansairlift.org — New Orleans Airlift’s multi-artist installation features interactive miniature musical houses near the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Wisner Boulevard. Noon to 6 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

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com — Paintings of New Orleans bars by William B. Cowell, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com — Glass sculpture by Curtiss Brock; enameled copper work

by Cathy DeYoung; etchings by Tish Douzart; opening reception 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Reynolds-Ryan Art Gallery.

Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., (504) 8966369; www.newmanschool. org — Artist-in-residence exhibition by Max Bernardi, opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “HairBall,” drawings by Harriet Burbeck, opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Personal Comments on Organic Abstraction,” paintings by Flor Pandal, opening reception 6 p.m. Friday.

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

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Coastal Paintings,” paintings by David Bates, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Failings of Spring,” abstract art by Michel Alexis; oil paintings by Brooks Frederick; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Cafe Luna. 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www. facebook.com/cafeluna504 — Paintings by Adrienne McFaul, opens Friday.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Recent Sculpture,” by Bradley Sabin, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.

GALLERIES

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.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www. angelakinggallery.com — “The World According to Peter Max,” paintings by Peter Max, through May 20.

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

Aquarium Gallery and Studios.

934 Montegut St., (504) 701-0511; www.theaquariumstudios.wix. com/theaquariumstudios — “Cestrum Nocturnum,” work by Jenna Bonistalli and Vanessa Adams, through Thursday.

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

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — Paintings by Amer Kobaslija, through May 30.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 5252767; 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 Saturday.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Every Eventually,” work by Valerie Corradetti, through Wednesday; “Rigged,” work by Errol Barron, through June 3.

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 Tuesday.

Carol Robinson Gallery.

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

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

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — Abstract paintings and mixed media by Randy Asprodites, through May. Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery.

Loyola University, Monroe Library, fourth floor, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5456; www.loyno.edu/dibollgallery — Senior design show, through Thursday.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Crux,” paintings and installation by Blaine Capone, through July 10.

Cutting Edge Center for the Arts. 767 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 649-3727; www.cecaslidell. com — “Strong Yet Friendly,” mixed media sculpture by Jean Flint, through Thursday; “Tides of Evolution,” paintings and mixed media by Alicia Megison, through May 9.

The Exchange Center. 935 Gravier St., (504) 523-1465; www. artscouncilofneworleans. org — “Fertile Ground,” group exhibition, through May 17.

The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www. foundationgallerynola.com — “Etchynpufe,” group exhibition of

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Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — Art

by Jacques Soulas; jewelry

by Belle Bijoux; glasswork by Gerald Haessig; photography by Johnny Chauvin; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Jivita; crafts by Veretta Garrison-Moller; all through Thursday.

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Tennessee Williams: The Playwright and the Painter

I was not going to review this show.

Many celebrity art shows turn out to be embarrassing spectacles — evidence that talent doesn’t always carry over into different media. When I learned that a show of Tennessee Williams’ paintings was opening at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, I tried Tennessee Williams: The to avoid it. Then I stumbled into it by THRU accident, and while some of these MAY Playwright and the Painter works do indeed border on embarrassOgden Museum of ing, they also possess a poignant eloSouthern Art, 925 Camp St. quence that reflects the playwright’s (504) 539-9650 troubled yet transcendent psyche.

Some works suggest the daubs of a www.ogdenmuseum.org decadent yet oddly innocent child, but up close many also radiate an inexplicable mysticism poised somewhere between William Blake and Sister Gertrude Morgan.

She Sang Beyond the Genius of the Sea is a view of a disheveled siren emerging on a beach, waving her trident as two guys slog toward the briny depths beyond the far horizon. Fleshy yet subtly evanescent, such scenes distill Williams’ narrative proclivities into messy, symbolic daydreams where men and women appear roiled by the whispers of their inner angels and demons. As a playwright, he was a master of human pathos, but as a painter he was a folk artist adrift in a sea of social intrigue, as we see in his Sulla Terrazza della Signora Stone painting of an aging actress and a Roman gigolo. Here he uses his brush to hint at the complexities underlying the social veneer, and if it suggests a scene from a play, it’s actually based on his first novel. If there is any doubt that these canvases are the work of Williams’ inner child, his bloody beach scene featuring Truman Capote as a killer baby in diapers (pictured) illustrates the puerile petulance that ensues when literary friendships go bad. Unlike much celebrity art today, these works were personal ruminations that he shared with a select few confidants. Most were collected by David Wolkowsky, his longtime friend in Key West, Florida. This is their first formal museum exhibition. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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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 Sunday.

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

Galerie Severn. 3501 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5361; www.galeriesevern.com — Paintings by Goli Mahallati, through Thursday.

Gallery Orange. 819 Royal St., (504) 701-0857; www. gallery-orange.com — Work

by Jill Ricci and Lyle Carbajal, through Monday.

Garden District Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 8913032; www.gardendistrictgallery.com — “Four Voices,” paintings by Patti 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 Sunday.

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.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/ departments/art-gallery — Fine arts student exhibition, through Thursday.

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 Thursday.

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,” collaborative paintings by Skylar Fein and MRSA; all through May 30.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Going for Broken,” mixed media by Shannon Landis Hansen; “Mystery of Memory,” paintings by Carolyn McAdams; both through May 30.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — Tulane/Newcomb College glass art exhibition, through May 24.

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

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

medium.org/staplegoods — “If Your Video Image Is Neither Here Nor There,” video, prints and collage by Brittan Rosdendahl, through Sunday.

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

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 July 30.

New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — Louisiana Watercolor Society annual exhibition, through May 8.

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

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; all through Thursday.

New Orleans Photo Alliance.

1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance. org — “Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music,” photographs by Henry Hohenstein, through May. 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.

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

“Soiree d’Evolution,” still lifes by Sean Yseult, through Aug. 9.

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 Saturday.

Soren Christensen Gallery.

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

Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., Covington, (985) 892-2811; www.threeriversgallery. com — “Unfinished Business,” paintings by Tanya Dischler, through Saturday.

Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.carrollgallery.tulane.edu — Undergraduate juried exhibition, through Friday.

United Bakery. 1325 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 495-6863 — Group exhibition of paintings, photography, letterpress prints and more, through May 8.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — “Armchair Tourist,” MFA thesis exhibition by Brad Stire; “Esc,” MFA thesis exhibition by Craig Branum; both through Sunday.

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 and more; all through June 7.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.theycallmebabydoll.org — “Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls,” group exhibition of new work inspired by Baby Doll Mardi Gras traditions, through May 30.

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, through Oct. 11.

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.

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 13.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.post-

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504)

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy,” Carnival costume designs by Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler, through Dec. 4, 2016, and more.

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, and more.

Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” works 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, and more.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www. louisianastatemuseum.org/ museums/the-old-us-mint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, through Jan. 1, 2016, and more.

Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane. edu — “Bungalows,” artifacts of bungalow and cottage architecture, through May 20.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — “Antoine’s Restaurant: Celebrating 175 Years,” through June.

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 about slavery, 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 coop seeks craft artists in any medium for its Guest Artist Exhibition Series.

Deadline May 15.

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. Deadline May 1.

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Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “Southern Work,” photography by Debbie Fleming Cafferty, through May 23.

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

568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “Unsung Heroes: The Secret History of Louisiana Rock ’n’ Roll,” music artifacts curated in partnership with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, through May.

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FAMILY Disney On Ice Presents Frozen.

UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — Disney’s live performance features characters from Frozen, Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Lion King. Tickets start at $29.

7 p.m. Thursday; 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m., 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m. Monday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY Big Deal Burlesque. Freret Street Publiq House, 4528 Freret St., (504) 826-9912; www.publiqhouse.com — Roxie le Rouge hosts a burlesque show with music by The Storyville Stompers Brass Band. Tickets start at $14. 10 p.m. Wednesday.

The Blue Book Cabaret.

Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107;

Bring on the Men!. Mag’s 940, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888 — Leg Luthor, Papa Razzi, Amen Five, Clay Manzig and Stevie Poundcake star in an all-male burlesque revue benefiting NO/AIDS Task Force. Tickets $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Visit www. societyofsin.com for details. 8 p.m. Friday.

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

Clue: A Burlesque Mystery. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 7585590; www.theallwayslounge. com — GoGo McGregor and Dr. Sick stage an interactive show based on the classic board game. Tickets $15. 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.

Emergency Circus. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — Clay Mazing, Special Head, Gugliellmo, LADYbeast, Chatty the Mime,

DANCE Movement of Freedom.

Tekrema Center for Art and Culture, 5640 Burgundy St., (504) 943-9779; www. tekremacenter.wordpress. com — Tekrema Dance Theater gives a free performance as part of the weeklong Dance Forever! conference, which also includes discussions, dance classes, music and receptions.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

OPERA Opera on Tap. Four Points by Sheraton, 541 Bourbon St., (504) 524-7611; www.starwoodhotels. com — Singers from the New Orleans Opera Association perform. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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

Tickets $5. 8 p.m. Saturday.

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

All-Star Comedy Revue.

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

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

9 p.m. Monday.

Block Party. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave.,

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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; discounts available for seniors, students, teachers and people under age 35. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

An Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Show. Indywood Movie Theater, 628 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 345-8804; www.indywood. org — Puppeteer Zach Dorn’s show combines video projection and paper puppets to tell several quirky stories. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Sex Please, We’re Sixty.

Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — Respectable guests at Mrs. Stancliffe’s bed and breakfast get frisky after a mischievous neighbor obtains Venusia, a libido pill for women.

Tickets start at $22. 8 p.m.

Friday- Saturday.

www.thebellalounge.com — Bella Blue and a rotating cast including Darling Darla James, Nikki LeVillain, Cherry Brown, Ben Wisdom and others perform classic and contemporary burlesque and drag.

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

Liza Rose and G-String Orchestra perform circus arts and music. Super hero costumes are encouraged. By donation. 7 p.m. Saturday.

Mistress Kali’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www. siberianola.com — Mistress Kali presents the burlesque and variety show. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

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.gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts the burlesque show. Tickets $10. Visit www.thebellalounge. com for details. 9 p.m. Thursday & Saturday.

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houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the open mic.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Hear My Train A Comin’.

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

9 p.m. Thursday.

Jamie Kilstein. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater. com — The New York-based comedian and Citizen Radio co-host performs stand-up.

Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door. 7 p.m. Friday.

Jeff D’s Comedy Cabaret. Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107; www.bourbonpub.com — Comedian Jeff D and drag performer Carla Cahlua star in a weekly show. 10 p.m. Friday.

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

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Knock-Out. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater. com — Two comedy acts compete to win an audience vote. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Lights Up! The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Each weekly show features two of The New Movement’s local improv comedy troupes. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Liquid Ass. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.

Lights dim as a singer steps into the spotlight. After a beat, she looks at the crowd and sings a sorrowful tune.

Then the beat picks up and soon everyone’s dancing in Boudin: The New Orleans Music Project, an original show produced by Southern Rep at Ashe Power House.

The brainchild of Sean Daniels, who also directed the show, Boudin is based on solicited responses to the question “How has New Orleans music saved your soul?” That seems like a lot to tackle in a 90-minute piece, but the show pursues answers by weaving songs, stories and history, from the first “jass” recordings to modern rhythm and blues. A great piece of art makes its viewer both think and feel, and Boudin does just that.

Dorian Rush commands the stage and offers one of the show’s most charming moments: She sings a James Brown song and relates how, when she used to sing in clubs on Bourbon Street, she actually sang to Brown — by way of someone holding a cellphone with him on the other end of the line. Later, Rush sings a powerful duet of “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” with Brittney M. James, a New Orleans native whose love of music started as a child, when she listened to records with her grandmother.

Boudin tries to pack in many stories, and a couple of the performer’s arcs end up unbalanced. We find out how music helped Clint Johnson conquer his stutter and how Natalie Jones knew, after singing a duet with a frantic airport worker, that she would move back to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The story of Phillip Manuel, who sang backup for Allen Toussaint, isn’t as fully realized as

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

(504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Nicky Napolitano hosts an open mic. Sign up online.

9:30 p.m. Thursday.

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

9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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

10 p.m. Tuesday.

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

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

Friday-Saturday.

Dean’s List, The Jetblacks.

The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green, Cyrus Cooper and Jonathan Evans perform improv. The Jetblacks open.

9 p.m. Friday.

Give ’Em the Light OpenMic Comedy Show. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.

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it needs to be. These narratives, though, are secondary to the role of music.

Designed by Leah Farrelly, the minimal set of old trunks and rocking chairs becomes a functional piece as performers walk on and offstage and sometimes perform in the aisles. The set also helps showcase a stunning, back-lit map for which cartographer Jakob Rosenzweig took words and phrases from the project’s interviews and incorporated them into an outline of New Orleans.

Throughout the show, performers stop the narrative to ask audience members questions. The structure resembles the call and response of some of the city’s music traditions. While these interactions are unexpected and fun, they also reinforce the idea that New Orleans is a city where people are accustomed not just to watching but participating in cultural traditions.

— TYLER GILLESPIE

newmovementtheater.com — Addy Najera hosts Isaac Kozell, Peter Honan, Amanda G., Cyrus Cooper and Shawn Dugas for a gross-out comedy show. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

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

The Magna Carta Show.

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

A Night of Comedy. Tacos & Beer, 1622 St. Charles Ave.; (504) 304-8722; www. tacosandbeer.org — Corey Mack hosts two stand-up showcases. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Saturday.

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

9 p.m. Sunday.

Rude. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater. com — Colleen Allerton and Lauren LaBorde perform a monthly sketch comedy show. 9 p.m. Saturday.

Think You’re Funny?

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www. carrolltonstation.com — All comics are welcome to perform at the weekly open mic. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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Eatmoor in Broadmoor.

Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — My House NOLA and the Broadmoor Improvement Association host a food truck round-up featuring Dirty Dishes, St. Clair, King Creole and Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Abita beer dinner. Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel, 123 Baronne St., 504648-5486; www.therooseveltneworleans.com — The menu pairs Abita Brewing beers with food by chef Mark A. Majorie and pastry chef Deborah Heyd.

Dinner $70. 6 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.

Make Music NOLA Fundraiser. The Foundation Gallery, 1109 Royal St., (504) 5680955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — The evening includes food, a raffle and music by String Remedy.

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

New Orleans Country Fest. Mag’s 940, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888 — The festival features country, honky tonk, bluegrass, swing music and more. Headliners include Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes, The Deslondes, Modern Eldorados and many others, plus square dancing and a clogging contest. All-day pass $40 in advance.

Tuesday-Wednesday.

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.

Barbershop Meetings.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion.

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

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.

ChazFest. Truck Farm Studios, 3020 St. Claude Ave., (504) 944-7776; www. chazfestival.com — Washboard Chaz’s namesake festival features music by Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers, Herringbone Orchestra, Alex McMurray, King James & the Special Men, Helen Gillet’s Other Instrument and others, plus food from the Joint. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Noon to 10 p.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 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.

John Cummings and Ibrahima Seck. Loyola University New Orleans,

Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2011; www. loyno.edu — The founders of the Whitney Plantation discuss the plantation’s history and the process of re-opening it as a museum about slavery. 7 p.m.

Healthy eating demonstration. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Nutritionist Karen Walker talks about healthy eating and prepares a seasonal salad. 7 p.m.

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

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 948-1285; www. nojazzfest.com — The internationally acclaimed annual festival features performances by Elton John, Keith Urban, Lenny Kravitz, No Doubt, Alison Krauss, Widespread Panic, The Who, Chicago, Steve Winwood, John Legend, Jimmy Buffett, Tony Bennett and others. There also are kids’ activities, arts and crafts areas, food and drink vendors and more. Admission $58 in advance, $70 at the gate, $5 children 2-10 (at the gate only). 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Thursday-Sunday.

Oak Street Block Party. Oak Street, between Carrollton Avenue and Leonidas Street — The free block party includes two outdoor stages and an indoor stage at the Maple Leaf Bar. Bands include the Oak Street All Stars, Leftover Salmon, The Nth Power, The Heard, Kung Fu, Eddie Roberts’ West Coast Sounds, Sonic Bloom and Hard Proof. Noon to 7 p.m.

Professor Longhair Memorial. The Professor Longhair Museum, 1738 Terpsichore St., www.longhairmuseum. com — The Preservation Resource Center unveils a memorial plaque at 4:30 p.m. and there’s music by James Jordan & the Beautiful Band, The Gentilly Brass Band, Mardi Gras Indians and others from 1 p.m. to 6 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.

THURSDAY 30 Amazon river dolphin talk.

Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — Amazon River Dolphin Conservation Foundation director Suzanne Smith discusses her work with the iconic pink dolphins and their ecosystem. 6 p.m.

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

9 a.m.

Odyssey Jazz Brunch. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — NOMA celebrates International Jazz Day with a fundraiser brunch featuring Terence Blanchard and Poncho Sanchez at 8 a.m. and a free outdoor performance at 10 a.m. A second line to Jazz Fest follows. Brunch tickets $100 for non-members.

Shorty Fest. Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 568-1702; www. generationshall.com — The Trombone Shorty Foundation’s benefit show features performances by Sweet Crude, New Breed and MainLine brass bands, John Boutte, Tank & the Bangas, TYSSON, a tribute to Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet.

Tickets start at $55. 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.

VSNO Social Run. Varsity Sports, 3450 Magazine St., (504) 899-4144; www.varsityrunning.com — Runners meet for a friendly 3- to 6-mile run. 6:30 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 website to RSVP. 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 1 Fiya Fest. Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, (504) 361-7821; www. mardigrasworld.com — The concert and crawfish boil features all-star jam sessions including Dragon Smoke, The Revivalists and the New Orleans Social Club featuring George Porter Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Ivan Neville, Henry Butler and Raymond Weber. There’s food from local vendors including Mr. Okra, McClure’s Barbecue, MoPho and others. Proceeds benefit The Roots of Music and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic. Tickets start at $65. Noon to 8 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — The evening includes music by Keith Burnstein and a children’s art activity.

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

Sync Up Music. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart St., (504) 558-6100; www.jazzandheritage.org — Jazz Fest’s industry conference offers sessions on topics including booking shows, crowdfunding and succeeding as an independent musician.

Free with required online registration. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

Zoo to Do. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 8616160; www.auduboninstitute. org/ztd — Audubon Zoo’s gala fundraiser celebrates the zoo’s orangutans with cocktails and food from dozens of local restaurants, a silent auction and a raffle. There’s music by Downtown Fever, Bill Malchow & the Go Cup All Stars, Heather & the Monkey King and Eastern Sunrise.

Non-member tickets start at $175. 8 p.m. to midnight.

SATURDAY 2 All About Roses. Fairview-Riverside State Park, 119 Fairview Drive, Madisonville, (985) 845-3318 — Gardeners learn how to care for roses that grow well in south Louisiana. 10 a.m. to noon.

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.

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Covington Art Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings and more. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Derby on Fulton. Fulton Alley, 600 Fulton St., 504-208-5569; www.fultonalley.com — Fulton Alley celebrates Derby Day with a free street festival featuring derby hats, food from Ernst Cafe and P.J.’s Coffee and music by the Pocket Aces Jazz Band.

1 p.m.

Free Comic Book Day. Various locations, New Orleans — Local comic shops including Crescent City Comics (4916 Freret St.) and Big Easy Comics (301 N. Hwy 190, Suite B6, Covington) participate in the national event. Big Easy Comics also hosts artist signings, pet adoptions and a bake sale.

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Gay Krewe of Krewes parade.

French Quarter — LGBT Carnival clubs including Amon-Ra, the Lords of Leather, Satyricon and Queenateenas parade from Rampart St. and Elysian Fields Ave. through the French Quarter.

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

3 p.m.

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

JLNO Kitchen Tour. Junior League New Orleans, 4319 Carondelet St., (504) 891-5845; www. jlno.org/kitchentour — Twelve stylish Uptown kitchens are on display for the Junior League of New Orleans’s annual self-guided tour, including a House Beautiful Kitchen of the Year.

Tickets $40 in advance, $45 day of tour. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Let’s Grow. Growing Local NOLA, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 5070357; www.growinglocalnola. org — The urban farm hosts a free weekly class on home gardening. Visit website to RSVP. Noon.

Moonlight Hike and Marshmallow Melt. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.

northlakenature.org — Participants take a quiet evening hike.

Reservations required; call or email rue@northlakenature.org.

Non-members $5. 7:30 p.m.

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

SoFAB Cooking Demo. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — Local chefs cook their signature dishes. 11 a.m.

Swim with Mermaids. University of New Orleans Aquatic Center, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-6000; www.aquaticcenter. uno.edu — Mermaid performers including Bayou Mermaids, NOLA Mermaid, Venessa, the Louisiana Mermaid and others participate in an open swim.

Tickets must be purchased online; $15 for swimmers, $5 for spectators. 6 p.m.

Work/Play Day. Southeast Louisiana Refuges Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters (Bayou Lacombe Centre), 61389 Hwy. 434, (985) 882-2025; www.fws. gov — Volunteers spend the morning clearing trails and the afternoon canoeing. The Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges provide lunch. RSVP to David Stoughton by calling or emailing david_stoughton@fws.gov by April 30. 9 a.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 in the sculpture garden.

Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

SUNDAY 3 NOizefest. Brechtel Park, 4401 Lennox Blvd., Algiers — The annual festival of unclassifiable music features performances

by Buoyant Sea, Proud Father, Lake Charles Barkley, Contaminated by the Cross, Rotten Milk, Sea Battle and many more.

There’s also a kids’ tent and a goat petting zoo. 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.

Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www. promisewalk.org/nola — The walk supports the Preeclampsia Foundation. Registration at 8:30 a.m., walk at 10 a.m.

Tango lesson and performance.

Dance Quarter, 1719 Toledano St., (504) 897-0327; www.facebook. com/orquestafleurtango — Orquesta Fleur holds a social dancing lesson at 5:30 p.m., with a party at 6 p.m. and live

tango music beginning at 7:30 p.m. Non-members $10.

Zydeco Dance. Redhaus, 2820 St. Claude Ave. — The Mosquito Supper Club’s dance features food, drinks and music by Rusty Metoyer & the Zydeco Krush.

Admission $10. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

MONDAY 4 Magical creatures lecture.

St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany.lib.la.us/covington.html — History professor William Robison discusses “Vampires, Werewolves, Witches and Wizards: Popular Superstition in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” 6 p.m.

Shoeboxus. Washington Square, between Elysian Fields Avenue and Frenchmen Street; www.chewbacchus.org — Chewbaccus celebrates Star Wars Day with a miniature shoebox parade featuring Lagniappe Brass Band and BateBunda and benefitting youth art program KID smART. The theme is “Lighten Up!” and the parade is open to all float-makers.

Parade rolls at 6 p.m.; afterparty at Handsome Willy’s from 8 p.m.-midnight.

Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold leads the class in the museum’s art galleries. Call (504) 456-5000 for details. Non-members $5.

6 p.m.

Woe Is She. New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres St., (504) 565-8027; www.pharmacymuseum.org — Jen Stovall and Rachel Reeves of Maypop Herb Shop and artist Rachel Speck discuss 19th-century hysteria remedies for women.

6 p.m.

WORDS Friends of the New Orleans Public Library book sale.

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

Jeanne Bogino. Louisiana Music Factory, 421 Frenchmen St., (504) 586-1094; www.louisianamusicfactory.com — The author signs her novel, Rock Angel. 3 p.m. Tuesday.

John Taylor. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses and signs Wings Over New Orleans: Unseen Photos of Paul and Linda McCartney, 1975.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

Jose Torres Tama and Melina Palacio. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The poets read their work.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen.

Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — Miss Maureen reads children’s books. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

StoryQuest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Authors, actors and artists read children’s books and send kids on art quests through the museum.

11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Team SNO Poetry Slam. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre. com — Team SNO holds a poetry slam and open mic. Tickets $5. 7 p.m. Sunday.

Wayne Curtis. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — The author signs And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and leads a cocktail demonstration and tasting. 6:30 p.m. Monday.

SPORTS Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Golden State Warriors on Thursday. Game time not announced at press time.

VooDoo. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The New Orleans VooDoo play the Spokane Shock.

7 p.m. Saturday.

Zephyrs. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.zephyrsbaseball.com — The New Orleans Zephyrs play the Nashville Sounds at 11 a.m. Tuesday and the Memphis Redbirds at 7 p.m.

Thursday-Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. www.covingtonfarmersmarket. org — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and live music twice a week: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington.

Crescent City Farmers Market. www.crescentcityfarmersmar-

ket.org — The market offers produce, meat, seafood, dairy, flowers and prepared foods at four weekly events. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St.; 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place; 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at American Can Apartments, 3700 Orleans Ave.; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Magazine Street Market, corner of Magazine and Girod streets.

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.

German Coast Farmers Market.

Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan; www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items.

8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Gretna Farmers Market. Huey P. Long Avenue at Second Street, Gretna; www.gretnafarmersmarket.com — The weekly rainor-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers.

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 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 fresh 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 fruits, vegetables, dairy products, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

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

11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave.; 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday at New Israel Baptist Church, 6322 St. Claude Ave. St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 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.

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

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers. Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200.

Wednesdays at the Square volunteers. The Young Leadership Council seeks volunteers for its spring concert series in Lafayette Square. Visit www. ylcnola.org.

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.

REQUESTS 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.

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

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 14-10870 DIVISION “ N-8 ” SUCCESSION OF EDWARD LEE ADAMS NOTICE is hereby given that Sharon Adams duly qualified date of testamentary executrix of the Succession of Edward Lee Adams, has applied to the court for the authority to sell the decedents one-half interest in unto the following property at private sale described herein after to-wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, means, privileges, servitudes, Advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated In the SIXTH DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana in SQUARE No. 257 bounded by LYONS, CHESTNUT ST., BORDEAUX and CAMP STREET, designated as LOT 18 on a survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Civil Engineers and Surveyors dated May 2, 1962, a blue print of which is annexed to act before C.P. de Laup, Jr., dated May 15, 1962 and according to which said Lot commences at a distance of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FEET (120’) from the corner of BORDEAUX and CAMP STREET, same in width in the rear, by a depth of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FEET (120’) between equal and parallel lines.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal Numbers 4817-19 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115.

Being the same property acquired by Edward Lee Adams, et tux by act dated

by May 31, 1965 under Instrument Number 005427 of the official records of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Orleans.

Any creditors or heirs of this Succession who oppose the sale must do so within seven (7) days of the last date of publication issued. After seven (7) days from the last publication the court may issue an order authorizing the sale of the property for the price of and sum of four hundred and fifty thousand ($450,000.00) at private sale subject to the terms and conditions of the agreement to purchase and sell wherein the sale is conditioned upon the ability of the purchaser to borrow $250,000.00 at a rate not to exceed 6%.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS Attorney: Irvy E. Cosse, Jr. Address: 1130 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA. 70130 Telephone: (504) 371-5700 Gambit: 4/7/15 & 4/28/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

NO. 2015-03729 DIVISION “F” SECTION: 7

NUMBER: 2006-5124 DIVISION “L” DOCKET: 6

SUCCESSION OF EDNA P. DAVIS

SUCCESSION OF SAMUEL JOSHUA COLEMAN, SR.

Whereas the Administrator of the above Estate, has made application to the Court for the private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit:

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

STATE OF LOUISIANA

All undivided interest held by the estate in: 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 THIRD DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 1729, bounded by CASTIGLIONE, ROSIERE, SERANTINE and N. GAYOSO STREETS, designated as Lot 20, which said Lot 20 commences 30 feet from the corner of Rosiere and Castiglione Streets, and measures thence 45 feet front on Castiglione Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet between equal and parallel lines; all in accordance with survey of J. J. Krebs & Sons, dated February 11, 1971.

Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 2929 Castiglione Street.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: $23,000 less all existing claims, liens, privileges, judgments, mortgages and encumbrances but with full reservation of all rights to challenge and/or dispute the validity of any such claims or encumbrances prior to the sale.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

DALE N. ATKINS, CLERK Attorney: Wesley M. Plaisance Address: 909 Poydras Street Suite 1500 New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Telephone: 504-584-5471 Gambit: 4/28/15 & 5/19/15 Any person having an interest in the estate of Ernest Johnson, Jr. please contact Robert A. Pearson at (504) 483-9050 Anyone knowing the whereabouts Carlos M. Johnson, Sr. a/k/a Carlos Johnson Sr. or his heirs if dead, please contact Victor A. Dubuclet, III attorney at (504) 586-0361.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Tower Loan of Slidell dated January 1, 2015 in the amount of $1,206.20 and signed by a C. Roberts please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Akeem I. Khalif contact Dianne T. Alexander, Attorney, at (504) 450-0987 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 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of August Milton Hubbard, Sr., please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504-615-7340.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Judy Frilot, please contact Atty. E. Appleberry at 405 Gretna Blvd., Ste. 104, Gretna, LA 70053; (504) 362-7800.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

Whereas the Administratrix of the above entitled succession has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable properties hereinafter described, to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Third District of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, in SQUARE NO. 924, bounded

by Port, North Johnson, St. Ferdinand and North Prieur Streets, designated as LOT “M” measuring twenty-nine feet (29’) front on Port Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of one hundred twenty-one feet, six inches, two lines (131’6”2’’’) between equal and parallel lines and commences at a distance of one hundred ninety-nine feet, six inches (199’6”) from the corner of Port and North Prieur Streets, all according to a sketch of survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie Inc., The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 1923 Port Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117.

And A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances and advantages thereon belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, in the THIRD DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 924, bounded

by North Johnson, Port, St. Ferdinand and North Prieur Streets, designated by the LETTER “R” on a sketch of survey attached to Act 289 of Volume 93 of F. D. Charbonnet’s Records, also by the same letter on a plan of R. P. Rordam, C.E., dated August 2, 1934, annexed to an act passed before Frank Manchcca, Notary Public, on August 10, 1934, according to which said lot begins a distance of 105 feet from the corner of Port and North Johnson Streets and measures hence 32 feet front on North Johnson Street, by a depth of 112 feet 6 inches between equal and parallel lines.

All as more fully shown on a survey by Gilbert, Kelly and Coutrie, Inc. S & E, dated May 10, 1974. The improvements thereon bear the Municipal Nos. 2714-2714 ½ North Johnson Street.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, ay any time prior to the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after their expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT: Dale N. Atkins, Clerk Attorney: T. Colette White Address: 1100 Poydras Street Suite 2900 New Orleans, LA 70163 Telephone: (504) 457-8550 Gambit: 4/28/15 & 5/19/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Rodney J. Williams please contact Attorney Ashley B. Schepens at (504) 301-0708.

CLASSIFIEDS CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.2003-01228 DIVISION “C” SECTION: 10 SUCCESSION OF JUANITA COWART HALEY And NO. 14-4200 DIVISION: “M “ SUCCESSION OF ISAAC HALEY NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The Joint Administrators of the Succession of Isaac Haley and Juanita Cowart Haley, have made Application to the Court for the sale, a private sale, of the immovable property described as follows: PROPERTY 1 A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all appurtenances thereunto appertaining, situated in the FIRST DISTRICT of this City, designated by the Letter “C”, in SQUARE NO. 318, bounded by Loyola Avenue, Euterpe, Saratoga and Felicity Streets, on a sketch of survey by Adloe Orr, Civil Engineer, dated June 14, 1946. According to which, said Lot “C” measures thirty feet nine inches five lines (30’ 9” 5’”) front on Felicity Street, thirty (30’) feet in width in the rear, by a depth on the side line separating it from Lot “B” of seventy-seven feet eight inches (77’8”) and a depth on the opposite side line of eighty-four feet seven inches one line (84’ 7” 1’”). Also shown on a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., Surveying & Engineering, dated July 12, 1991.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 2043-45 Felicity Street.

Being the same property acquired by Juanita Cowart Haley and Isaac Haley from American General Finance, Inc. by act before Gary P. Zimmerman, Notary Public, dated July 26, 1991, registered in CIN 39418 in the records of Orleans Parish.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 2047-49 Felicity Street.

Being the same property acquired by Juanita Cowart Haley and Isaac Haley from Bluma Cohen Polmer and Ruby Cohen Polmer by act before Rene Lehmann, Notary Public, dated April 2, 1981, registered in COB 771, FOLIO 435 in the records of Orleans Parish.

On the following terms and conditions, to-wit: A sale for the amount of $40,000.00 cash will be paid by Renee Claire Blanchard to the Sellers, the Succession of Isaac Haley and the Succession of Juanita Cowart Haley.

NOTICE IS NOW GIVEN TO ALL PARTIES to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such Application, at any time,

BY ORDER OF THE COURT: Dale N. Atkins Clerk of Court Attorney: Lloyd N. Frischhertz Address: 1130 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: 504-523-1500 Gambit: 4/28/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NUMBER: 2015-2860 DIVISION “L” DOCKET: 6 SUCCESSION OF HELEN REBECCA COLEMAN NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administratrix of the above entitled succession has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Third District of this City, in SQUARE NO. 253, bounded

by St. Ferdinand, Burgundy, (late Craps), Press and Dauphine Streets, (late Greatman), designated as LOT NO. 9 on a plan of J. Communy and Pilie, dated October 21, 1834, and deposited in the office of Felix Grima, Notary Public, said lot measures, English measure, thirty-one (31’) feet front on St. Ferdinand Street, by a depth and front of one hundred ten (110’) feet on Burgundy Street, and forms the corner of St. Ferdinand Street and Burgundy Street.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal Nos. 839-41 St. Ferdinand Street.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, ay any time prior to the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after their expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT: Dale N. Atkins, Clerk Attorney: T. Colette White Address: 1100 Poydras Street Suite 2900 New Orleans, LA 70163 Telephone: (504) 457-8550 Gambit: 4/28/15 & 5/19/15 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.

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 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.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 2008-9745 DIV: “E-16” SUCCESSION OF BERNARD CLAIBORNE GALLE SR. NOTICE TO SELL MOVABLE OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The DOROTHY JOHNSON, Executrix, the above estate has made application to the court for the sale, at private sale, of the movable or immovable property described, as follows: A CERTAIN LOT OR PORTION OF GROUND, with the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, situated in the Second District of this City, in Square No. 146, bounded by Marais, St. Phillip, Ursulines and N. Liberty Streets, designated as Lot “A-1” pm the annexed sketch of survey by Guy J. Seghers, Surveyor, dates July 27, 1951; according to which survey, said lot commences at a distance of one hundred twenty feet from the corner of Ursulines and Marais Streets, by a depth on the side nearer Ursulines Street of fifty-eight feet three inches on line, a depth on the opposite side line of fifty-eight feet two inches, and a width in the rear of thirty-two feet six inches. The improvement on said property bear the Municipal No. 1024 Marais Street.

THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: $30,000.00 in full and final sum.

Notice is now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk Attorney: Cameron Landry Address: 405 S. Broad New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Telephone: 504-861-7488 Gambit: 4/28/15 & 5/05/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 14-12324 DIV. M SUCCESSION OF ELIZABETH B. WOODS NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

the corner of Edinburgh and Joilet Streets. All as more fully shown on a survey made by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated August 8, 1958, a copy of which is annexed to act passed before Leon F. Davison, Notary Public, dated October 10, 1958, and which said portion of ground has the same designation, boundaries and measurements as above set forth according to a certificate of survey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated September 24, 1976, a copy of which is annexed to vendor’s act of purchase passed before John T. Charbonnet, on October 15, 1976.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 8521 Edinburgh Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.

Being the same property acquired by Elizabeth Bankston Woods from John Bankston in an Act of Sale and Assumption, dated October 30, 1978, recorded in Orleans Parish in COB 756, folio 413.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: 1.The purchase price of $139,000.00 will be paid when the act of sale is passed. 2. The property will be sold in “as is” condition. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern including the legatees and creditors are required to make opposition if they have or can to such sale, within seven (7) days including Sundays and Holidays from the date whereon the publication of this notice appears.

Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court Attorney: Shyrl Patterson Bagneris Address: 5139 Easterlyn Circle New Orleans, LA 70128 Telephone: 504-522-0303 Gambit: 4/28/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.:2013-11591 DIVISION “J” IN RE: SUCCESSION OF HARRY GOLDGAR NOTICE OF PETITION FOR AUTHORITY TO PAY DEBTS AND FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven days from the publication of this notice, if any they have or can, why the tableau of distribution filed by Mark David Netzer the duly confirmed executor of this succession, petitioned the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans for the authority to pay certain debts of the Decedent, Harry Goldgar should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance with it.

The Petition for Authority to pay debts can and will be homologated after the expiration of SEVEN DAYS from the date of this publication and that any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation.

Deputy Clerk

The Executrix of the above Estate has made application to the Court for the private sale of the immoveable property described as follow; to-wit:

Attorney: Allen H. Borne Jr. Address: 4902 S. Claiborn Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Telephone: 504-899-1234

THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, and appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Seventh District of the City of New Orleans, in square No. 553 bounded by Leonidas, Palm, Joilet and Edinburgh Streets, which said portion of ground is designated by the No. 11, and according to a blue print of survey by Adloe Ott, Jr., C.E., dated January 30, 1950, said Lot No.11 measures 50 feet front on Edinburgh Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet, 3 inches between equal and parallel lines, and commences 150 feet, 1 inch from

Gambit: 4/28/15 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 Thomas C. Nicholls, please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-347-5056.

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TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 2013-30520 DIVISION “A” SUCCESSION OF JOSEPH N. BRUNO NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The co-executors of the above estate have made application to the Court for the sale, at private sale of the immovable property described, as follows: 1. ONE-HALF (1/2) OWNERSHIP OF TWO CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and prescriptions thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the SEVENTH DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO 71 of METAIRIE PARK, bounded

by PONTCHARTRAIN BOULEVARD, FORTIETH STREET, AVENUE A and THIRTY-EIGHTH STREET, designated by the NUMBERS 19 and 20 on a survey by E. L. Eustis & Sons, C.E.&S., dated July 21, 1959, a copy of which is annexed to an act of sale passed before Margaret Gaudin, N. P., under date of August 12, 1959, registered in COB 630 folio 435, and according to which said lots adjoin each other and measure each 25 feet front on PONTCHARTRAIN BOULEVARD, same in width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 120 feet. Lot No. 20 lies nearer to and commences at a distance of 100 feet from the corner of Pontchartrain Boulevard Fortieth Street. Improvements bear the Municipal No. 6762-64 Pontchartrain Boulevard.

All as more fully shown on survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. Surveyors, dated February 11, 1965, and redated June 22, 1965, copy of which is annexed hereto.

Being the same property acquired

by Angelo .M. Bruno from Jackson Homestead Association on December 7, 1959, before Clarence De Lucas, N.P., registered in COB 629 folio 652.

2. ONE-HALF (1/2) OWNERSHIP OF TWO CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and prescriptions thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the SEVENTH DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO 71 of METAIRIE PARK, bounded

by PONTCHARTRAIN BOULEVARD, FORTIETH STREET, AVENUE A and THIRTY-EIGHTH STREET, designated by the NUMBERS 23 and 24 as shown on a map of Metairie Park S/D of the New Orleans Land Companys lands by J. F. Coleman, Engineer, dated May, 1916, on file in the office of The New Orleans Land Company, and according to which said map, the said lots adjoin each other and measure each 25 feet front on PONTCHARTRAIN BOULEVARD, same in width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 120 feet. Lot No. 24 forms the corner of Fortieth St and Pontchartrain Boulevard.

According to a blueprint sketch of a survey made by Wilfred E. Calongne, C.E., dated Nov. 5, 1940, annexed to an act passed before Clarence De Lucas, N.P., dated April 17, 1941, said lots have the same location, designation and measurements. According to a Title Change registered in COB 631 folio 148, the said lots No. 23 and 24 have been redesigistered as Lot 23A. Improvements thereon bear the Mun. Nos. 6774-6774 1/2 Pontchartrain Boulevard.

Being the same property acquired

by Angelo .M. Bruno in an act of sale before Clarence De Lucas, N.P., dated November 7, 1952 and registered in COB 585 folio 505.

3. ONE-HALF (1/2) OWNERSHIP OF TWO CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances advantages and prescriptions thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the SEVENTH DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO 71 of METAIRIE PARK, bounded by PONTCHARTRAIN BOULEVARD, FORTIETH STREET, AVENUE A and THIRTY-EIGHTH STREET, designated by the NUMBERS 21 and 22 on a survey by W. F. Calongne, Civil Engineer, dated November 5, 1940, a copy of which is annexed to an act of sale passed before Clarence De Lucas, N. P., under date of April 5, 1941, and also designated by the Nos. 21 and 22 on a play by J.J. Krebs, Civil Eng, dated August, 1950, ann. hereto and according to which said lots adjoin each other and measure each 25 feet front on PONTCHARTRAIN BOULEVARD, same in width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 120 feet. Lot No. 22 lies nearer to and commences at a distance of 50 feet from the corner of Pontchartrain Boulevard and Fortieth Street. Improvements bear the Municipal No. 6768-68 1/2 , 6870 Pontchartrain Boulevard.

Being the same property acquired by Angelo .M. Bruno in an Act of sale before Jerome Meunier, N.P., dated August 25, 1950 and registered in COB 569 folio 626. on the following terms and conditions, to-wit: cash sale $182,500.00 representing one-half () of total sales price of $365,000.00 and under the terms and conditions provided in the agreement to purchase filed in these proceedings.

Notice if now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

CLERK OF COURT Attorney: Craig S. Sossaman Address: 3351 Severn Ave., Suite 201 Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Telephone: 504-455-3100 Gambit: 4/28/15 & 5/19/15 The Heirs of Mary Adams Tolbert, l/k/a 2106 Josephine Street, New Orleans, LA 70113 or anyone knowing their whereabouts, please contact Atty, Veleka Eskinde, 504-434-0030 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of CYI Investments, LLC and Joseph Robinson, Sr., please contact attorney Tony Dooley, 3701 Canal St. 4th Floor, Suite U, NOLA 70119 or (504) 298-0854.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of DAISY SALVAGGIO MILLET, AND/OR ROSE SALVAGGIO KERN AND/OR ANTHONY SALVAGGIO OR THEIR HEIRS, please contact Atty. D. Nicole Sheppard, at 4224 Canal Street NOLA,70119, 504-234-4880.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Edward James Lazerini, 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 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.

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PROPERTY 2 A CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the FIRST DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, SQUARE NO. 318, bounded

by Simon Bolivar (formerly S. Franklin), Saratoga, Felicity and Euterpe Streets.

Said portion of ground measures sixty-eight (68’) feet, four (4”) inches, four (4’’’) lines front on Simon Bolivar Avenue, fifty-six (56’) feet front on Euterpe Street, forty-six (46’) feet, three (3”) inches, one (1’’’) line front on Felicity Street and seventy-seven (77’) feet, eight (8”) inches on the sideline nearer to Saratoga Street.

prior to the issuance of the Order or Judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that Application and that such Order or Judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of such Notice, all in accordance with law.

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SUCCESSION OF E. RALPH LUPIN NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION TO PAY INTERIM ALLOWANCE TO HEIRS Notice is given that the Executrix of the Succession of E. Ralph Lupin has filed a Petition on April 21, 2015 for authority to make an interim distribution to the residuary legatees. Any opposition to the Petition must be filed within ten (10) days from the date of this publication.

Respectfully submitted, Wade Webster Attorney: Wade P. Webster and Jon W. Wise Address: 400 Poydras St., 30th Floor New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: 504-523-2600 Gambit: 4/28/15

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts Tyamber S. Porea a/k/a Tyamber Shelby Porea and Thomas L. Porea, Jr. please call Shaun R. Mena, attorney at (225) 328-2034.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Joynal C. Abdin, A/K/A Joynal Christopher Abdin or in the event of his death, the Estate of Joynal C. Abdin, A/K/A Joynal Christopher Abdin and any heirs of the unopened succession of Joynal C. Abdin, A/K/A Joynal Christopher Abdin, contact atty. Stacey Williams Marcel at (504) 581-9322.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jacqueline Mai Giffin and/or John Hung Tran, please contact Matthew Moghis, attorney, at (504) 836-6597, located at One Galleria Boulevard, Suite 1400, Metairie, A 70001 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of John W. Leavell, please contact attorney Tony Dooley, 3701 Canal St. 4th Floor, Suite U, NOLA 70119 or (504) 298-0854.

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 Mavi, LLC, L&J Management, Inc., Bhanumati Nanji or Laxmi Jagani, call attorney Paul C. Fleming, Jr. at 504-888-3394.

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 with an interst in the estate of the deceased; Muriel T. Travler, also known as Muriel Turner Travler, also known as Muriel Travler, contact Dianne T. Alexander, Attorney, at (504) 450-0987 Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Jeardine J. Daniel whose last known addresses were 2261 N. Derbigny Street or 2259 N. Derbigny Street, New Orleans, LA, 70122, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Justinah Onyemachi Ebiwek Norton or Anthony Norton whose last known address was 1912 Filmore Street, New Orleans, 70122, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to THE CIT GROUP/CONSUMER FINANCE, INC., executed by Sheila Landry and dated November 18, 2000, in the principal sum of $63,831.65, bearing interest at the rate of 11.250% from date until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same. Please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Tower Loan of Slidell dated January 1, 2015 in the amount of $2,503.93 and signed by a D. Hinton please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

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

AT&T Mobility, in accordance with requirements of Section V.B. of the March 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement (NPA) for Review of Effects on Historic Properties for Certain Undertakings Approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is requesting comment regarding potential impacts to historical or archaeological properties listed on, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), by installation of telecommunications equipment and antennas on the building located at 1000 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA 70130 at latitude 29° 56’ 43.4” north and longitude 90° 4’ 35.9” west.

All comments should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice referencing project ATT02E15115 and sent to the attention of Ms. Anne Gilbert, Environmental, Inc., 1345 Blair Farms Road, Odenville, AL 35120. Ms. Gilbert may also be reached via email at towerinfo@envciv.com, via telephone at (205) 629-3868, or via facsimile at (877) 847-3060.

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