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Mel Chin: Rematch is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Creating A Living Legacy Program of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, the Bertuzzi Family Foundation, Susan and Ralph Brennan, Stephen Reily, Jeffery Beauchamp in honor of Toni Beauchamp, and Molly Kemp. Additional support is provided by Sabrina Franzheim, Kathy Grainger, Patricia Welder Robinson, Thomas P. W. Robinson, Mark and Lisa Sheridan, Frederieke S. Taylor, JoAnn Bass and Dr. David Russin, Storey Charbonnet, Ken Chin, Myrna and John Daniels, Ron Mills, and anonymous donors.

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CONTENTS

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

May 13, 2014

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

STYLE + SHOPPING

Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD Editorial Assistant | MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

What’s in Store ................................................................28 UAL CUE...............................................................................PULLOUT The Northshore Issue

Feature Writer | JEANIE RIESS Contributing Writers JEREMY ALFORD, SARAH BAIRD, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Review ....................................................................................31 Carrollton Market: a return to an elegant night out Fork + Center .......................................................................31 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview ......................................................33 James Beard Award winner Sue Zemanick Drinks......................................................................................34 Beer Buzz and Wine of the Week Last Bites..............................................................................35 5 in Five, Plate Dates and Off the Menu

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A tale of two cities.........................................................19 Sparks fly over a move to incorporate a new city in Baton Rouge

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Seven Things to Do This Week.................................5 War Horse, Chelsea Handler, Ozomatli and more

NEWS + VIEWS

News...........................................................................................7 Autopsy of a failed noise ordinance Week-A-Pedia.......................................................................7 What’s trending online — and in Y@ Speak Scuttlebutt ........................................................................... 11 From their lips to your ears

C’est What? .......................................................................... 11 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats .................................................12 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary.......................................................................13 The Mother’s Day shootings, one year later Jeremy Alford .....................................................................14 Recapturing New Orleans seats in the Legislature Blake Pontchartrain .....................................................15 The N.O. It All answers your questions Clancy DuBos.......................................................................17 Mitch Landrieu’s inauguration — and obligations

A&E News ..............................................................................41 What’s new, Bayou Boogaloo?

Music .......................................................................................42 PREVIEW: Schlomo Film ...........................................................................................45 REVIEW: Only Lovers Left Alive REVIEW: Watermark Art ..............................................................................................47 REVIEW: Fluid States and Water Road Stage .......................................................................................49 REVIEW: Adventures in Wonderland Events......................................................................................51 PREVIEW: Ellen Gilchrist reads from Acts of God Crossword + Sudoku....................................................62

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Tue.-Sun. May 13-18 | In Michael Morpurgo’s novel, a young man goes to extraordinary lengths to recover a beloved horse, Joey, which was sent to war with British troops in World War I. The stage adaptation uses life-size horse puppets. At Saenger Theatre.

Nile

Wed. May 14 | Mysticism and mass suffering are just two things ancient Egypt shares with heavy metal, making Nile’s deathly fusion seem almost natural. The venerable Greenville, South Carolina, degenerates roar equally hilarious and terrifying scrolls (“Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame”) on seventh LP At the Gate of Sethu (Nuclear Blast). Necrotic Priapism, The Art of the Process and Moonhoar open at 9 p.m. at Siberia.

A Benefit for the Tipitina’s Foundation Instrument Repair Initative

Chelsea Handler

Fri. May 16 | The comedian and late-night TV host (Chelsea Lately) performs at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Friday and signs her comic accounts of world travels, Uganda Be Kidding Me, at Garden District Book Shop (tickets required) at 2 p.m.

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Ozomatli | The Los Angeles group established itself in the 1990s with jam

band fans for its party-ready fusion of garage rock, Latin sounds (including what it dubs electro-cumbia), and hip-hop. The band released its eighth studio album, Place in the Sun, in March. The Soul Rebels open at 10 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

Sat. May 17 | The fourth annual vampirethemed goth ball/blood drive — named (with permission) after the pointy-toothed dive on HBO’s True Blood — features DJs, burlesque and headlining sets by The 69 Cats and Clockwork Elvis. Try ordering milk.

At 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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Sun. May 18 | The local African-American opera company celebrates its third anniversary by performing music by Edmond Dede, Lucien Lambert, William Grant Still, Verdi and others. At 8 p.m. at Marigny Opera House.

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Fri. May 16 | Sweet Crude headlines a benefit — along with Paul Sanchez, the Social Set and Tank & the Bangas — for the Tipitina’s Foundation to collect and repair used band instruments and make them available for student performers in local schools. 9 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

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Autopsy of the noise ordinance

>> From King Creole to Miller’s Crossing.

After years of loud debate, the New Orleans City Council quietly killed its sound ordinance.

Will the new council hit rewind?

BY KEVIN ALLMAN

The Bicycle Second Line will bring you to the foot of Bayou Boogaloo

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>> The 11-mile ride starts and ends at Bayou St. John for the mid-May music festival.

Mark Hertsgaard revisits the Mother’s Day shootings in The Daily Beast >> He wonders why attempted-murder charges were dropped at the state level.

New Orleans Saints draft wide receiver Brandin Cooks in first round of NFL draft

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The council deadlocked over an amendment to lift the 1950s-era sound curfew, which prohibited street musicians from performing between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. Palmer, City Attorney Sharonda Williams and opponents of the curfew argued it is unconstitutional, because it only targets people playing instruments.

District E Councilman James Gray said jailing people for performing after curfew “is terrible policy.” Council members made a point of saying that if there were three people performing together after curfew — one playing an instrument, another singing and another playing a stereo — only the musician would be breaking the law. Then-council President Jackie Clarkson suggested banning all noise during the curfew, rather than removing it. “Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water,”

she said. “This is a music preservation ordinance if it’s done properly. … Noise is noise.”

Williams warned the curfew would have a tough time “withstanding legal challenges.”

“We’ve been amending and amending, and we’re going to find out some of the things we’re amending are not legal,” said District D Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell. “What is the rush? Get it right.”

With new blood on the City Council for the next four years, supporters of an updated and enforceable noise ordinance hope for an opportunity to start over.

Ramsey now holds the entertainment-heavy District C seat formally held by Palmer. That district includes the French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny. Ramsey is skeptical about the ordinance as written — and like other new faces on the council, she wants to hear more voices in the discussion.

At-large Councilman Williams, an attorney who has represented brass bands as well as musicians Kermit Ruffins and Glen David Andrews, also wants more discussion, particularly from the music community. Brossett, a former state representative who now holds the council’s District D seat, says despite the recent momentum, the ordinance won’t be up for discussion just yet, but, “If it does come back, I’ll definitely … sit down with all the stakeholders — both sides — from business to the community and experts.”

“I would’ve asked for more time,” Brossett says. “I don’t see where’s the rush. It’s not the end of the world.”

Going back to the drawing board on a sound ordinance will have to take into account the years-long developments and drama not easily forgotten by stakeholders.

Acoustician David Woolworth was hired by the City Council in 2011 to study the effects of sound on New Orleans’ historic structures and to make recommendations for updating the sound ordinance. Meanwhile, throughout the summer of 2012, the Bureau of Revenue began checking delinquent fees and permits at bars and other music venues, including Circle Bar, PAGE 9

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pril 24 was the day. The tension in the New Orleans City Council chamber grew as the meeting agenda included a long-simmering controversy — a proposed ordinance updating the noise laws on Bourbon Street. Years in the making, the proposed ordinance was the subject of more than two hours of debate, which reached a sort of zero-sum anticlimax: The admittedly unenforceable old law remains unchanged, and there are no firm plans to resume the fight in the near future. A 3-3 vote effectively killed the proposed new ordinance.

Moments before the meeting adjourned, outgoing District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who led the charge to update the city’s noise ordinance, said, “I hope all the stakeholders stay at the table for another two years.”

It was Palmer’s last meeting as a member of the council. On May 5, returning council members LaToya Cantrell, James Gray and Stacy Head were sworn in, as were three new members — Jared Brossett, Nadine Ramsey and Jason Williams. For the musicians, businesses, residents and neighborhood groups who worked on the sound issue for more than two years only to see it dissolve, the vote was confusing and disappointing.

Carol Allen, president of the Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates (VCPORA), told the council on April 24, “I’m starting to feel like I have arrows in my back.”

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Palmer in which he said he would see she wasn’t “electable as dog catcher by the time I am finished with you.”

Smith also called for the City Council to fire Woolworth, whose contract was renewed by the council earlier this year, for alleged conflicts of interest.

The ongoing controversy also was a motivating factor in two groups’ decision to separate themselves from the state-created French Quarter Management District (FQMD). Both VCPORA and French Quarter Citizens split from the FQMD. But at a March City Council committee meeting, VCPORA’s Chapman said he was “optimistic we can work out agreeable compromises” in the next draft.

On April 24, the council considered the latest draft of a noise ordinance — with the support of Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his administration. The ordinance shifted noise-enforcement responsibility from the New Orleans Police Department to the city’s Health Department and made violations civil rather than criminal offenses. It also included instructions for sound measurements, which would be taken five feet from a building when its doors and windows are closed, and the measurement would last 20 seconds — instead of the 10-minute rule in present law. The ordinance also included an amendment to lift the curfew for street musicians.

That last point was the final straw, confusing some council members as to what they were actually considering.

Most agreed that despite how long it took to get there, the ordinance needed more time. Eric Granderson, the city’s director of local governmental affairs, told council it should consider “starting from scratch.”

Attorney Ashlye Keaton, who represents several musicians, and musician Roselyn Lionheart both threatened to sue the city if the curfew isn’t lifted. Clarkson said she “proudly stood alone” in her attempt at an amendment to keep the curfew, though she said a vote on the sound ordinance is better suited for the incoming council, which has another four years to tackle the issue.

Palmer expressed frustration. “This has had a tremendous amount of time and effort,” she said. “It deserves a vote.”

With Head absent, the ordinance failed to pass by a 3-3 vote — with Cantrell, Clarkson and Hedge-Morrell voting against it. Cantrell said she hoped that “with a little more tweaking and a little more time, we’ll be there,” despite no time frame for putting the issue on any future council agendas.

On May 7, City Attorney Sharonda Williams announced that the city cannot and will not enforce the curfew, though it — along with the nearly 60-year-old, unenforceable noise ordinance — remains on the books.

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Siberia and Mimi’s in the Marigny, the latter of which was the subject of neighborhood complaints for its dance parties and live music.

The crackdown inspired the creation of the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MACCNO), a group of musicians, fans, business owners, residents and music professionals. The group held weekly meetings at the now-closed Kermit Ruffins’ Speakeasy in Treme and eventually drafted a legislative checklist, including tackling the noise ordinance.

The group met frequently with Woolworth for progress reports.

A year later, in August 2013, Woolworth presented his 87-page report to the City Council with four major recommendations: address low-frequency sound; simplify enforcement of violations in the Vieux Carre Entertainment District; make violations civil and not criminal; and focus on enforcement. All sides agreed that enforcement is necessary; as written, the current law provides no viable infrastructure for handling noise complaints. MACCNO also pleaded with the City Council for transparency in drafting legislation.

But in December, At-large Councilwoman Stacy Head seemed to blindside MACCNO and its supporters with a draft ordinance that ignored Woolworth’s recommendations. Head’s draft mirrored recommendations from “Seven Essential Items to Make Our Noise Ordinance Work for the City of New Orleans” (also called “Seven Essential Items to Make New Orleans Sound Ordinance Fair and Functional”), a proposal from former VCPORA President Nathan Chapman and several other groups. Among those items: lowering the French Quarter’s maximum permissible sound level in residential areas between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. to 70 decibels (currently capped at 80); and in commercial areas, reducing the level to 75 (from its current 80). On Bourbon Street, the maximum decibel level would be capped at 85 (the current ordinance sets a 10-decibel maximum above the ambient noise level).

In a statement, Palmer said her draft was “an attempt to offer a starting point for public consideration and discussion.”

In January, after threats from MACCNO and others to protest the ordinance before a planned City Council committee hearing, Head’s proposed ordinance was shelved, and the meeting called off. The protest happened anyway — including an unplanned storming of City Hall, led by trombonist Glen David Andrews and a massive brass band that paraded into the Council Chamber.

Shortly thereafter, the council ditched efforts to adopt a citywide sound ordinance and focused instead on Bourbon Street, where Woolworth led evening walks measuring sound.

The already contentious process heated up in following months, as Stuart Smith, an attorney who represents VCPORA, attempted to strong-arm council members to move forward with Head’s legislation. In February, The Times-Picayune uncovered emails from Smith to

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NEWS VIEWS SCUTTLEBUTT Quote of the week

Fiscal Fantasyland edition

“We got our state’s fiscal house in order.” — Gov. Bobby Jindal, in a May 4 op-ed in Forbes, touting his financial leadership of Louisiana.

Three days earlier, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) questioned Jindal’s use of advance lease payments of federal funds to finance the privatization of six public hospitals in the state. Jindal had not obtained federal approval for using the federal funds in that way, which could add $260 million to Louisiana’s already-strapped budget in the current fiscal year — and much more in years to come.

Holy Cross development passes

Mixed-use complex approved for Lower 9th Ward A plan backed by Mayor Mitch Landrieu and District E City Councilman James Gray to rezone the former Holy Cross school site and

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Mayor Mitch Landrieu released a report saying that New Orleans’ cultural economy brought in $1.2 billion in wages in 2013. Do you see it reflected in your own paycheck?

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

Mayor Mitch Landrieu would like a vote on whether to double two millages on property taxes from 5 mills to 10 mills. The tax would pay for more police protection and pay off New Orleans’ firefighters pension fund. If this came to a vote, would you support it?

Hit me with your best shot

The latest gun bills in the Legislature

The Louisiana Legislature heard several gun bills last week, including a controversial measure to allow lawmakers to carry their firearms to work. Senate Bill 651 from state Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, already won approval from the state Senate, and it now heads to the House after approval from the House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee on May 6. Allain said it was a “personal protection measure,” expanding the laws allowing judges and district attorneys to carry weapons to courthouses and state buildings.

State Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Central, defended his three bills expanding gun access in Louisiana. All were killed in committee. One of his more controversial proposals, House Bill 494, would allow Louisiana residents

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allow a residential and commercial development gained Council approval May 8. Despite opposition from other parts of the city and in the Lower 9th Ward, the council passed the zoning change with a 5-1 vote among the six council members present. The sole opposition came from new At-Large Councilman Jason Williams. District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell missed the vote (she’s in Aspen, Colorado).

At the newly inaugurated council’s first meeting, dozens of people filled the council chambers inside New Orleans City Hall and picketed outside the front doors, carrying signs opposing the two proposed 60-foot-tall buildings, which would be 20 feet taller than what’s allowed under current zoning law — but in keeping with the 60-foot height restriction for that site under the proposed new Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.

The initial proposal called for a 135-foot building — later reduced to a 75-foot structure — for a planned development from Perez APC. Opponents fear the development will tower above the historic neighborhood and raise property values and taxes on residences, among other concerns. Supporters said the Lower 9the Ward has not had significant redevelopment since Hurricane Katrina and that the Perez proposal would help spur a comeback in the neighborhood. — ALEX WOODWARD

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to carry a concealed firearm without a permit, creating an “open” concealed carry law. While the state does allow for open carry, HB 519 aimed to amend the state’s constitution to extend open carry to concealed weapons.

(Barry demonstrated “open carry” by miming a gun on his hip while his jacket was off, and “concealed carry” with his jacket closed.) “If it’s cold outside, you have to have a concealed carry permit,” he said.

Ivey also admitted he didn’t consult with law enforcement agencies to draft the bill. The Louisiana Sheriff’s Association opposed it.

“The Second Amendment gives us this right already,” he argued.

“Our constitutional rights have been infringed, and this is a measure to correct that.”

The committee also halted a bill that aimed to legalize permitless concealed-carry, rather than amending the state’s constitution and putting it on the ballot. Ivey’s final bill, House Bill 519, would allow lifetime concealed-carry permit holders to own short-barrel firearms without federal registration.

“Short barrel never killed anybody worse than a long barrel,” Ivey argued; he was met with a “no” vote. “Y’all are wrong again, but that’s OK,” he told the committee.

Gun owners’ rights in Louisiana were greatly expanded in 2012, thanks to a constitutional amendment that read, “Any restriction of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.” — ALEX WOODWARD

Palin endorses Maness Former Alaska governor backs Louisiana Senate candidate

Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Rob Maness, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy and state Rep. Paul Hollis in the November race for the U.S. Senate seat currently held

by Landrieu, last week received the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Maness and Hollis, R-Covington, continue to poll in the single digits in the race, but both have led spirited campaigns, firing shots at both Landrieu and Cassidy.

In an ad released the same day as Palin’s endorsement, Maness fires a gun, takes a boat into a swamp and tapes an alligator’s snout shut. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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logged 67,338 service hours in 2013, a 24 percent increase from 2012. The 1,100 volunteers were honored at an event May 8 with awards for foster volunteers, youth volunteer of the year, and volunteers with a minimum of 100 hours. The LA/SPCA is the state’s oldest animal welfare organization and provides adoption, spay/neuter and other community programs.

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received a $5,000 prize from the International Precious Metals Institute to study gold nanoparticles and their potential in solar technology, drug treatment and circuitry.

The University of New Orleans doctoral student and Iran native will receive the award at the institute’s 38th annual conference in Florida next month.

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donated 10,000 tomato plants to third- and fourth-grade students at 50 schools across the country April 28, including New Orleans area schools Belle Chasse Primary, Ethel Schoeffner, John L. Ory Communications Magnet, Our Lady of Grace, McDonogh 26, Morris Jeff Community School, Resurrection of Our Lord, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Francis Xavier and St. Joan of Arc.

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co-owner of the Kenner-based water toxicity testing company Laboratory Technology, was sentenced April 24 in U.S. District Court to two years’ probation and fined $10,000 for falsifying reports for oil and gas companies to be sent to the EPA from 2008 through 2012. Hebert also agreed not to do any testing for five years. Laboratory Technology closed in March.

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The Mother’s Day shootings, one year later ne year ago on Mother’s Day, a jubilant group of New Orleanians was second-lining behind the Original Big 7 Social Aid & Pleasure Club at the club’s annual Mother’s Day procession in the Seventh Ward. About 1:45 p.m. May 12, as the bands and marchers reached the corner of Frenchmen and North Villere streets, a fusillade of gunfire strafed the peaceful crowd. Within seconds, 20 people had been injured by bullets or in the crowd’s frantic attempt to escape. Some crimes still shock even violence-inured New Orleanians. The Mother’s Day shooting of 2013 was one of them.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu and New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas promised the shooters would be found — quickly. Surveillance footage released to the public showed a man in a white T-shirt raising a 9mm handgun and firing into the crowd before running away. In less than a week, police arrested brothers Akein

Deborah “Big Red” Cotton finally is able to attend and document some of the second lines she has loved and championed. When she picked up her notepad and camera a few years ago, second-line culture wasn’t widely known outside New Orleans (or, for some, within our city). More than anyone else, Cotton has brought the sights, sounds and joy of second lines to audiences who had never known them up close.

It’s a testament to Cotton’s activism that, right after the incident, Serpas stressed that second-line culture was not to blame for the shootings. It’s a testament to her professional credibility that where she was once the only journalist publishing maps and guides to the Sunday parades, it’s now a practice spread across New Orleans media. And it’s a testament to her tenacity that despite internal injuries that made her survival questionable (including the loss of a kidney and parts of

Some crimes still shock even violence-inured New Orleanians. The Mother’s Day shooting of 2013 was one of them. her stomach) Cotton is with us, back on the second line as she’s able.

Twenty years ago on Mother’s Day, a third-grader named James Darby was killed in a hail of gunfire as he went home from a Mother’s Day picnic. That shocked the conscience of New Orleanians. Last year, it was 19 people shot, 20 injured — another shock to the system.

In an opinion piece published in The Lens, Cotton wrote, “Everyone says enough is enough, but the city keeps barreling down the same murderous road to the same murderous outcomes.

We won’t get change until people stop being so deferential to politicians, until we start demanding accountability for the money, until resources are applied to programs that we know can make these young men whole.”

Last year, Gambit ran a cover photo essay by local photographer Sabree Hill, who told the stories — in words and pictures — of grieving New Orleans mothers who had lost their children to our violent streets in the last few years. Their names, and their children’s names, may not be as familiar as the names of James Darby and Deborah Cotton, but their pain is the same. On this Mother’s Day, the best way we can honor their memories — and the memories of all New Orleans mothers — is for this never to happen again.

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and Shawn Scott. Akein Scott, the alleged shooter, was no stranger to cops; he was an alleged affiliate of the Frenchmen/ Derbigny street gang. At the time, he was scheduled to appear in court the following week, and just before the shooting he was out of jail on a $15,000 bond.

After the shooting, Orleans Parish Magistrate Gerard Hansen set Akein Scott’s bond at $20 million — half a million dollars for each count of attempted murder. Scott and his alleged cohorts have not yet gone to trial. They are scheduled to appear in federal court next month. Trial is set for June 16 before U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle.

In March, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite Jr. announced a federal indictment of members of the Frenchmen/Derbigny street gang, along with a superseding indictment alleging that Akein and Shawn Scott fired into the crowd as part of a drug conspiracy. “This superseding indictment reflects the results of the [Multi-Agency Gang] Unit’s outstanding work,” Polite said in a statement. “Let this be a signal to the entire community: Those who terrorize our streets through drug trafficking and gun violence will be brought to justice.”

The victims of the Mother’s Day shooting, however, are left to find their own closure.

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Recapturing legislative seats

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hen it comes to influencing the legislative process, size matters — in terms of the number of votes that can be garnered for any given issue. Using that metric, metro New Orleans might be down slightly, but it’s definitely not out. Four area House seats were lost during the 2011 reapportionment process, which translates into four fewer local votes when times get tough at the Capitol.

But New Orleans’ long-term prospects look better, according to some recent numbers.

Many of the House and Senate districts in Orleans Parish lost more registered voters than any other area of the state after Hurricane Katrina. In fact, of the 144 legislative districts, the six that lost the most voters in the years following the 2010 census are all in New Orleans and were all held by Democrats.

The latest study was conducted by JMC Analytics and Polling using voter

In the April 2010 census, Orleans had a population of 344,000, while the July 2013 interim estimate, the most recent available, pegged it at closer to 379,000. In St. Bernard Parish, population increased from 36,000 to 43,000.

(Neighboring Jefferson Parish’s population has remained relatively flat, going from 433,000 to just 435,000.)

Together, Orleans and St. Bernard parishes accounted for 46 percent of Louisiana’s overall population growth from 2010 to 2013.

Couvillon estimates that kind of growth could enable the region to recapture two of the four House seats lost after the 2010 census.

It’s all happening rather quickly. When he looked at the interim census figures last year, Couvillon says he was only expecting one of the New Orleans House seats to be reclaimable.

Louisiana redraws its political lines every 10 years after the decennial census

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It’s already clear that New Orleans’ gain will come at a cost to northeast Louisiana, where population growth is stagnant.

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registration data between April 1, 2010, which is when the last census was conducted, and March 1, 2014. It found the following fluctuations: • House District 99, Rep. Wesley Bishop: 22 percent decrease • House District 97, vacant (most recently Jared Brossett): 14 percent decrease • House District 93, Rep. Helena Moreno: 12 percent decrease • Senate District 3, Sen. JP Morrell: 13 percent decrease • Senate District 4, Sen. Ed Murray: 11 percent decrease • Senate District 5, Sen. Karen Carter Peterson: 8 percent decrease While on the surface this looks bad, JMC President John Couvillon cautions against reading too much into the decreases.

“We’re seeing this because there was a huge voter purge in 2010,” he says. “We didn’t see the population losses from Hurricane Katrina play out until then because the officials doing the purge didn’t want to seem heartless, so there was a delay.”

Besides, districts are drawn based on total population, not voter registration.

Moreover, voter registration figures in those areas are rebounding at a faster rate than the statewide average. “Plus, when you start looking at year-to-year population changes, not just voter registration, you see Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish growing faster than the rest of the state,” Couvillon says.

is released to the states. Because political livelihoods are on the line — congressional and judicial districts have to be redrawn as well — the process is Machiavellian in the truest sense. Answering the question of how and where the new seats will materialize is no simple query. “It would be difficult to say because of the unique political alliances that form during a redistricting session,” Couvillon says.

The next governor, speaker of the House and chairman of the House and Governmental Affairs Committee (which initiates the reapportionment process) all will factor prominently into the complex political formula. The Voting Rights Act and the need for minority districts also will be important components.

But it’s already clear that New Orleans’ gain will come at a cost to northeast Louisiana, where population growth is stagnant, especially in rural areas. The Legislature will still have 144 districts; how those district boundaries are drawn will be the issue.

This is all inside baseball for a process that probably won’t take place until 2021 at the earliest or 2023 at the latest. Based on the early numbers, New Orleans is positioned to gain at least part of what it recently lost.

There are no absolute guarantees, however. “It’s a very interesting tug of war,” Couvillon says, “and it will be the political aspects that determine the specifics.”

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The bronze statue of Ignatius Reilly, the lead character in A Confederacy of Dunces, is located on a sidewalk in front of the old D.H. Holmes building at 819 Canal St. (now the Hyatt French Quarter). William Ludwig, who sculpted the statue in 1996, modeled it after local actor and radio host John “Spud” McConnell, who was Ignatius in a play based on the book.

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He was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1962 and stationed in Puerto Rico, where he taught English and began writing A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole returned to New Orleans in 1963 and taught English at St. Mary’s Dominican College while also revising his book manuscript. He submitted the work to publisher Simon & Schuster in 1964. The publisher liked the book, but suggested many revisions. Toole began to doubt himself and suffered emotionally, according to biographers.

In 1968, Toole returned to Tulane to work on his doctorate, but his emotional state deteriorated. The following year, he drove to Biloxi, Mississippi, and used a garden hose to pipe carbon monoxide into his car to asphyxiate himself.

His mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, found her son’s manuscript years later and tried unsuccessfully to have it published. She eventually met author Walker Percy, who was teaching English at Loyola University and joined her efforts to get the novel into print. In 1980, Louisiana State University Press published A Confederacy of Dunces, which won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year.

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Author John Kennedy Toole, born in New Orleans in 1937, was witty, bright and academically successful. He skipped two grades after attending kindergarten at McDonogh 14, and in 1950, at the age of 12, he enrolled in Alcee Fortier High School. There, the budding writer worked on the school newspaper, Silver and Blue, and wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible.

Toole received a scholarship to Tulane University and began courses in 1954 at the age of 16. He initially majored in engineering, but changed his major to English by the end of his freshman year. At Tulane, Toole contributed satirical cartoons to the school newspaper, The Hullabaloo.

In the biography Butterfly In the Typewriter, author Cory MacLauchlin gives readers glimpses into the people and experiences that contributed to A Confederacy of Dunces. A keen observer, Toole had a knack for capturing the characters and voices of residents of New Orleans’ various neighborhoods, MacLauchlin says. Socially, Toole drank at the Napoleon House and danced at the Roosevelt Hotel. To make ends meet, he sold hot dogs during Tulane football games and worked at Haspel Brothers, a clothing factory not unlike the Levy Pants factory where Ignatius worked in A Confederacy of Dunces.

Another biography, Ignatius Rising,

by Rene Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy, describes Toole frequenting the Irish Channel, enjoying a local blues band and being close friends with New Orleans guitarist Don Stevens. According to Ignatius Rising, Stevens had a side job as a hot tamale cart vendor, and Toole sometimes filled in for him.

Toole was awarded the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in English Literature, which allowed him to attend graduate school at Columbia University in New York, a city he visited several times during high school and college. In 1959, Toole earned a master’s degree and began teaching at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette). That’s where he met Bobby Byrne, a man some believe was the inspiration for Toole’s Ignatius character. A year later, Toole returned to Columbia University to pursue a doctorate and to teach at Hunter College.

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the cigarette and hotel-motel taxes been authorized by lawmakers, they too would have been subject to voter approval.

“We are at a crossroads,” Landrieu said in his speech. That’s a well-worn metaphor, but an apt one in this instance.

The mayor said if no additional revenue is forthcoming, the city faces drastic cuts in services and hundreds of layoffs.

Landrieu cited many examples of New Orleans bouncing back after Katrina — a reduction in blight, reforms in public education, improving NORD and other city agencies — but he also noted that City Hall and voters face even tougher challenges in the next four years. They include having to make painful fiscal choices as well as the ongoing challenge of reducing violence.

There’s a tendency for people to compartmentalize challenges and tasks, to put them into metaphorical boxes and stow them away, particularly when we think we have addressed the problem or met the challenge. Truth is, running a city and keeping it viable is more like tending a lawn than storing furniture. You can put furniture away and pretty much assume that it will be fine. But you can’t just mow the lawn once and think it’s done for good. So it is with a city; new challenges will always present themselves.

Four years ago, Landrieu challenged the City Council to roll forward the city’s millage rate to pay for NORD and other vital services. He and council members also trimmed the city budget significantly.

Many folks probably assumed that we had solved our fiscal dilemma. Now a whole new crop of fiscal problems has arisen.

The mayor and the new City Council once again will have to make some tough choices, as will the voters.

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ayor Mitch Landrieu’s second inaugural address was more pep rally than policy, but that’s how most inaugural speeches go. While his speech did not go deep into specifics, the mayor did caution New Orleanians that the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina is far from over.

“Be assured, the fight is not over; the battle for the future of New Orleans goes on,” Landrieu said.

Indeed, that fight rages in all corners of the city and in Baton Rouge, where state lawmakers are stifling some of the mayor’s attempts to put several revenue-raising options on the City Council’s table for discussion.

New Orleans faces some huge fiscal obligations that have been postponed for decades, but which are now at City Hall’s doorstep. The city must pay for two expensive federal consent decrees — one for the New Orleans Police Department and one for Orleans Parish Prison — and a costly judgment in favor of the firefighters’ pension fund.

Long put off by previous mayors and councils, those obligations are due now.

They come to nearly $40 million a year.

Landrieu is asking the Louisiana Legislature to let New Orleans voters decide how best to meet those obligations. Lawmakers have not responded favorably.

A House committee killed a proposed cigarette tax — twice — and the House has shelved a proposed additional hotel-motel tax. The only viable option that remains is a potential property tax increase, which Landrieu wants to dedicate to police and fire protection. That millage would have to be approved by voters, both statewide and in New Orleans, because it would not be subject to the homestead exemption. Had

Mayor Mitch Landrieu at his inauguration May 5.

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As proposed, St. George, which is currently unincorporated, would become the fifth largest incorporated city in the state with about 84 square miles, more than 107,000 residents and a median household income of $90,000. By comparison, Baton Rouge is Louisiana’s second largest city. It covers 76 square miles, has more than 230,000 residents and a median household income of roughly $58,000.

The income figures have helped paint a portrait of the proponents as privileged white families who want to create their own version of Ascension and Livingston parishes, which have benefited greatly from Baton Rouge’s so-called white flight. While East Baton Rouge Parish has seen the number of schoolage children drop from nearly 79,000 in 1970 to about 74,000 four years ago, Ascension and Livingston have seen their stats more than double for the same category.

The numbers were promoted by Baton Rouge Metro Councilman Ryan Heck in a missive to city leaders last week. Heck has been one of the more outspoken supporters of the St. George effort.

“You’re destroying the middle class in this parish, and continue to do so at a breakneck pace,” he wrote, adding, “The secret is out. The game is exposed. Too many people now realize that this town is run by a small group of elite businessmen who have teamed up with the Poverty Pimps that control votes with an endless supply of five-dollar bills and even more empty promises.”

USA Today covered the issue in December with a headline stating, “Latest secession seeker: Baton Rouge’s richer side.” State Sen. Bodi White, R-Baton Rouge, who was behind Central incorporating in 2005 — against the wishes of Baton Rouge officials — says the description is overly broad. He describes the majority of St. George families as middle-class. Many live in mixed-race neighborhoods, although the mix drops considerably in the tonier subdivisions, of which there are quite a few.

To say the rhetoric is getting thorny would be an understatement. Baton Rouge Metro Councilman John Delgado turned to social media April 2 to say that thanking St. George supporters for any changes that occur in the local education system “is like thanking

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light rain begins to fall as Kathleen, a 54-year-old we’re about to get it,” Kathleen says, moving closer to her teacher, explains how she found herself in Baton carport and setting down the homegrown produce. When the Rouge after Hurricane Katrina. Living off a major weather gets cooler, they’ll also share the satsumas that grow thoroughfare peppered with strip malls and big box retailers in the tree of the neighbor’s front yard. has been an adjustment, says Kathleen (not her real name; she In the front yard of the home immediately to the left of asked for anonymity because Kathleen’s house is a sign the contentious issue has declaring, “Better Together.” pitted neighbor against To Kathleen’s right, among The petition seeking to have residents in the neighbor), but she’s thankful the azaleas in the yard of unincorporated area vote on whether to incorporate as for what she has today. her other next-door neighbor, St. George is due to the Secretary of State’s Office on When she first made it there’s a sign countering, July 23. If there are enough valid signatures, the issue back to her Gentilly home “I’m In.” That sign is a show could be placed on the Nov. 4 ballot. Here are websites following the levee failures of support for the proposed of the opponents and proponents of the issue: in 2005, 5 feet of water incorporation of the City of Better Together had washed away most St. George to be carved out of what she had. With of a swath of unincorporated www.bettertogetherbr.org few alternatives, except a south Baton Rouge.

Catholics for the will never to repeat that Between the two opposing Incorporation of St. George nightmare, Kathleen headed views, literally and figuratively, west on Interstate 10 and resides Kathleen, who doesn’t www.facebook.com/catholicsforstgeorgela took one of the first exits into like discussing politics. She Residents Against the Breakaway the capital city after passing first approached me to find www.facebook.com/ratbbatonrouge the Country Club of Louisiana out why I was taking pictures and Blue Bayou Waterpark. of her neighbor’s homes. She St. George, Louisiana She found a home for sale gave me a sour look when I www.stgeorgelouisiana.com almost immediately, nestled told her I was photographing behind a church and just a the yard signs. I avoid the few minutes away from a topic for a few minutes as we Walmart Supercenter. “New Orleans is my home. It always will discuss the weather and her life back in Gentilly.

Finally, shaking her head and again glancing toward the be,” she says, waving to an approaching neighbor. “But this is darkening sky, she grudgingly weighs in. “We’ve got to do where I live. This is where I am. I love Baton Rouge for giving something about education,” she says. “I’m not sure if this is me that new life and a fresh start. I found it a lot sooner than the answer, though. I’m still weighing the issue myself. It’s others did.” going to take me some time. A new city, I don’t know. It means Her next-door neighbor hands Kathleen a basket of carrots something to me to be a part of Baton Rouge. This is my and lettuce grown in her backyard garden. They exchange city now.” pleasantries before staring at the sky together. “Looks like

Others interviewed for this piece also refused to give their names or go on the record, voicing concerns about losing their jobs or upsetting their neighbors.

While Kathleen is the only one whose story is shared here, the reluctance of the others is further proof of how contentious the debate has become.

Unlike Kathleen, there are many people in Baton Rouge willing to take a firm stance on the issue of incorporating St. George. According to a December 2013 poll conducted by LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab, 40 percent of the registered voters contacted inside the proposed incorporation area supported creating a new, independent city, and 35 percent opposed the idea. But that says nothing of the parish as a whole, which was 50-29 against the incorporation in the poll.

Ask proponents, however, and they’ll tell you that the only tally that matters will come on Election Day — because only residents of the proposed city of St. George will be able to vote.

Supporters started their drive hoping to improve local schools but soon gravitated toward the Lawrason Act, a state law from 1898 that provides a constitutional process for incorporating a city. To get on the ballot, organizers need the signatures of 25 percent of all registered voters in the target area. That means roughly 18,000 signatures, which are being collected at community meetings, outside businesses and at homes throughout the proposed city. Lionel Rainey III, a spokesman for the St. George effort, wouldn’t reveal the count when contacted by Gambit, but he says they’re close.

“We believe if we keep up the pace, we’ll make it on the November ballot,” he says.

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Al Qaeda for improving our airport security measures. I don’t thank people that try to destroy our community. I condemn them for the terrorists that they are.” He refused to apologize, calling proponents the “Baton Rouge Taliban.”

When race is not a dividing line, the disagreement boils down to money, with top government influencers crying foul.

The centerpiece of their argument is a study commissioned by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation that shows the incorporation would lead to a $53 million annual budget shortfall for the capital city. St. George backers counter it would be closer to $14 million.

The proposed city would be rich in sales taxes, due largely to the inclusion of Baton Rouge’s largest retail centers.

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Currently the proposed area generates approximately $65 million a year in sales taxes, which Baton Rouge would no longer be able to access. That has made the Mall of Louisiana a major chess piece.

Last week, city officials announced that parts of the mall and its commercial neighbors off Bluebonnet Boulevard — Baton Rouge General Hospital and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center — are petitioning the Metro Council to be annexed into the city of Baton Rouge and taken out of the unincorporated area.

If that request moves forward, the petition will most certainly take some of the wind out of the sails of St. George supporters, since a judge could potentially rule the signatures collected thus far invalid due to the boundary changes, although supporters discount

the notion. At most they say they’ll have to reconfigure their budget. It’s a hardball tactic that’s being played in concert with other maneuvers underway at the State Capitol this session.

Lawmakers already have axed legislation from White to ease the conversion of the proposed city. Under White’s bill, the St. George Transition District would have offered a way for services to continue and sales taxes to be collected in the interim between a vote of the people and the new city coming online, should the tally break that way.

William Daniel, Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden’s chief administrative officer, lobbied against the bill, saying the new city would simply duplicate services and create an entirely different governing body. Baton Rouge already is taking care of all that, he says, adding, “We have a consolidated form of government that’s worked very well.”

City of State Sen. St. George Karen Carter LEGEND Peterson, DBoundary Line New Orleans, and Area of Proposed City helped kill the East Baton legislation as Rouge Parish Boundary Line well, standing with her Democratic colleagues in Baton Rouge.

“Why are we Livingston Parish creating more government?” she asked during a meeting of the Senate Local and Municipal Affairs Committee.

Rainey says Ascension Parish that defeat shows poor preparation on the part of government.

The transition would have only been needed if the proposed city was Above: A map of the proposed city of approved by voters. “You can’t complain about St. George the financial implications (the) St. George incorporation would have on the city of Baton Rouge and then defeat a piece of legislation Left: Proponents of written to alleviate those implications,” incorporating a new he says. city of St. George collect signatures Another bill that was introduced and is still for a petition outside active would place a statewide moratorium on Louisiana Lagniappe incorporations. A separate effort to allow an restaurant off Perkins entire parish to vote on the matter, rather than Road, in the heart of just the registered voters in the incorporation the proposed new city. If the petition area, was pulled from consideration last week. drive succeeds, the Going forward, even if enough valid signatures issue could appear are obtained by St. George supporters, on the ballot in proponents predict the city-parish will file a November. lawsuit to bring the process into question.

“The opposition is doing everything it can to stop this,” Rainey says.

While the movement started as a campaign to reform local schools and offer parents in the area better choices, the pushback from government officials (led by Holden) and increased media attention have given way to something entirely different.

“It has changed,” Rainey says. “This isn’t about only the schools anymore. Now it’s a fight for self-determination and democracy.

None of us were expecting that.”

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BIG TENT Jazz, rock, blues, Brazil and more at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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he New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is designed to showcase the latest fruits and branches extending from Louisiana music, including jazz, blues, gospel, R&B, Cajun, zydeco and more. The fest featured plenty of big rock acts, jazz giants and a lot more than blues in the blues tent, from Aaron Neville’s singing to Niger’s wildly rhythmic Bombino to the jazz and swing of New York’s Steve Bernstein, Henry Butler and the Hot 9. Mardi Gras Indians and Brazilian parading groups added to the Carnival spirit at the Fair Grounds.

Here’s Count Basin’s look back at two big weekends at Jazz Fest.

Square roots At the Congo Square Stage, Public Enemy’s Chuck D called the actual Congo Square the “home of all music” before the group launched into a mix of hits and obscurities that seemed like an alternate history of hip-hop — one not about conspicuous consumption and glorification of various beefs. At several points during the festival, the stage seemed to be a time-travel wormhole back to the 1980s and early 1990s, whether it was Public Enemy’s DJ working up Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or the Soul Rebels’ medley of Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and The Romantics “Talking In Your Sleep.” Appearances by Chocolate

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Milk, Charlie Wilson and Chaka Khan also harked back to the days of the bus stop and the electric slide.

Also cocky but good New Orleans blues and R&B singer Tommy Singleton’s Blues Tent set included a three-song tribute to Ernie K-Doe. It probably didn’t hurt that K-Doe’s biographer Ben Sandmel was playing drums, alongside former K-Doe collaborator Ernie Vincent on guitar. The band broke into “T’aint It the Truth,” “A Certain Girl” and “Mother-in-Law,” and Singleton told the crowd, “If K-Doe was here today, he’d say, ‘I’m cocky but I’m good!’”

Carnival strings Making its first U.S. appearance, Baiana System played several sets across the first weekend of Jazz Fest. The band’s potent mix of reggae, hip-hop and African sounds centered on the tiny, five-string electric Bahaian guitar, which was developed in the 1950s to be used during Carnival celebrations. Bandleader Robertinho Barreto made the most of the Bahaian guitar’s high, piercing voice, running it through various effects to create sounds that recalled modern guitarists ranging from U2’s The Edge to Malian great Ali Farka Toure.

On the lido deck Boz Scaggs thrilled fans with “Lido Shuffle” and the extended blues jam “Somebody Loan Me a Dime.” He also shared the spotlight, as backup singer Ms. Monet took center stage for a soulful rendition of Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” that segued into Sam & Dave’s “I Thank You.” Scaggs also brought out Allen Toussaint to play “Hercules,” a funky Toussaintpenned number originally recorded with Aaron Neville.

Over twerked At the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage, WYES’ Peggy Scott Laborde interviewed bounce artist Big Freedia and quickly raised the issue of “twerking.”

Freedia’s stock response to questions about Miley Cyrus tweaking at the MTV Video Music Awards is that he’s tired of talking about Cyrus (“I’m over twerking”).

But he noted that the two met when Cyrus performed recently in New Orleans.

And they got their respective dancers

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together to share moves, but Freedia says it was a lopsided exchange. “We didn’t get anything from them,” he said.

Azz everywhere “Turn your ass to the front, we don’t wanna see no faces,” Big Freedia instructed eager volunteers who came on to the Congo Square Stage to perform during “Azz Everywhere.” The crowd thrilled to the show as amateur dancers showed off their bounce skills, including a bounce off to 10th Ward Buck’s “Where Is D Boyz.”

Afterwards Freedia commended the dancers’ efforts: “I appreciate each and every ass that was up here.”

Space Shifters and time warps Robert Plant led the Sensational Space Shifters through an often psychedelictinged flurry of Led Zeppelin tunes, and he reminisced about visits to the Crescent City in the 1970s, when Zeppelin had Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Snooks Eaglin play at parties for them. Plant also talked about other experiences in the Delta, including a trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi, where members tried to connect with some of the bluesmen who influenced them as well as a wave of British

musicians. That was a segue for the Space Shifters to play “Fixing to Die” by Booker White (aka Bukka White) and “Whole Lotta Love,” which originally attracted controversy over similarities to a Muddy Waters song. More straightforward connections to roots music was the prominent play of Gambian musician Juldeh Camara, who led the band on a ritti, essentially a one-string fiddle, in some extended jams.

Phish phood Many people wondered if legions of self-described “phans” of Phish would resemble the crowd the band attracted to its 1996 Jazz Fest engagement — a seminomadic following of dedicated jam-band fans who had latched onto Phish after the death of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia.

One could eavesdrop on fleeting earfuls of casual looniness at the Acura Stage.

One man boasted that while under the influence of psilocybin mushrooms the night before, he had perfectly predicted the upcoming set list. That’s not an easy task given the band’s penchant for idiosyncratic set lists. Phish chose a collection of spaced-out “phavorites,” including concert standards “Birds of a Feather” and “Streets of Cairo” inside one big performance of

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Keep on not trucking Six albums into a successful solo career since leaving the Drive-By Truckers in 2006, singer-songwriter and world-class guitarist Jason Isbell hit the Samsung Galaxy Stage with a set that drew heavily from last year’s intimate Southeastern.

Isbell transformed his Truckers-era classic “Decoration Day” into a blistering slide guitar marathon and delivered a highenergy finale that included another song from that era, “Ain’t Never Gonna Change.”

Toward the end of Jason Isbell’s on-point (tearjerker) set, a man dropped to one knee and proposed to his girlfriend, who quickly accepted. “Did you just propose?”

Isbell asked from the stage. “I hope that song (‘Cover Me Up’) works out as well for y’all as it has for me.”

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Ecstatic grooves Niger guitarist Bombino’s high energy, rock-heavy Blues Tent set featured propulsive cycles of thickly wrought electric blues. The lyrics of his shimmering vocal melodies were not in English, but the band created driving rhythmic structures that seemed to transcend not just language but time and space. Bombino’s trilled and sometimes eerie vocals intimated the sense of longing and struggle that traditional Tuareg music shares with Western blues.

The Blues Tent crowd roared when Bombino launched himself into overdrive, jumping up and down and spinning around as if his blistering, pick-free jams needed any more emphasis. But the bassist kept the set rooted in deep lines of grit executed on a uniquely shaped bass with neon pink strings. No wonder the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach only played bass on one of the tracks he produced for Bombino’s album, Nomad.

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American take on French gougeres, with oozing balls of cheese encased by chewy dough. The acaraje — black-eyed pea fritters with vatapa (cashew, peanut and coconut paste) and vegetables (available with shrimp) — were cooked to order and crunchy and surprisingly light.

“Twist.” Bandleader Trey Anastasio teased the crowd with a snippet of “Down with Disease,” eliciting groans when the band pulled back, but phans were soon grooving again as the band played on.

Brazilian parading percussion group Os Negoes leads a giant, 165-foot long Amazonian snake through the Fair Grounds.

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Love,” John Hiatt playfully reminded “youngsters” in the audience that it was he, not Bonnie Raitt, who wrote the hit song. The set included some new material, like the blues-tinged “Long Time Coming,” but it also featured crowd-pleasers such as “Drive South” from his 1988 Slow Turning album, which was recorded with

Sonny Landreth and The Goners, a band he assembled for Hiatt.

Jazz fritter In conjunction with the Brazilian Cultural Exchange Pavilion, local restaurant Carmo prepared Brazilian food near the Casa do Brasil tent. Pao de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) is a South

Heavy as a feather Flanked by a line of familial Indians festooned in hot pink feathers, plus a pair of Skull and Bone Gang skeletons, Monk Boudreaux’s Jazz and Heritage Stage appearance was visually stunning. The singer delivered Indian standards like “(Somebody Got) Soul Soul Soul” as well as a few reggae-infused melodies. Among the standout moments were Boudreaux’s lush, stormy and extended incantation at the beginning of “Shallow Water” and pint-sized drummer-turned-dancer, N’quan Boudreaux, who threw down some fancy footwork and moved center stage to strut in front of his big chief.

Not fade away Stanton Moore’s virtuosic drum soloturned-duo with guest vibes player Mike Dillon galvanized Galactic’s performance.

But the force of Maggie Koerner’s vocal performance was the real star of a set that featured chestnuts from Galactic’s early days and recent tunes like the bounce-centric new single “Dolla Diva.”

JAZZ FEST 2014 Koerner’s belting reached a new height when, in the final moments of “Gimme Shelter,” she delivered the line, “I’m gonna fade away” with so much dynamism it looked like her jaw might pop off its hinges.

Orleans Jazz Giants during a rendition of “St. James Infirmary” when Braud’s trumpet solo featured a nod to the Rolling Stones as he adapted a riff from “It’s Only Rock ’n Roll (But I Like It).”

Not the cream of the crop Eric Clapton’s set was full of low-key, acoustic guitar work, including a sedate version of “Layla,” and that seemed to leave many disappointed. They were not consoled by the few highlights of the Cream-free set, which were covers “Crossroads” (Robert Johnson), “Cocaine” (J.J. Cale) and Jimmy Cox’s “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.”

Houston, you have a problem Austin, Texas-based Alejandro Escovedo introduced “Bottom of the World” by explaining it’s about regional rival Houston.

“Austin is turning into Houston,” he lamented, noting that the days of songwriters Townes Van Zandt, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson being central figures to the city are long gone. The lyrics make it clear that’s not a good thing: “As I watch the cities of the world reduced to ashes, from where I sit at the bottom of the world.” “If you’re from Houston, I apologize greatly about my point of view,” he concluded before he dedicated the song to an audience member who mistook him for Rodriguez.

El polka The master of the bajo sexto and a member of the Texas Tornadoes (with the late Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender with Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers) for 30 years, Max Baca displayed Hendrix-like virtuosity on the low-pitched, 12-string Mexican instrument with his band Los Texmaniacs. With help from his gifted 22-year-old nephew Josh Baca on accordion, he demonstrated how polkas brought by German settlers to central Texas played a central role in the creation of the music now known as Tex-Mex or conjunto. The bajo sexto replaced the sounds produced by the accordion play-

Guitarist Bombino and his base player propelled a rhythmic fury in the Blues Tent.

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ers’ left hand, Boca explained, freeing up the accordion as a lead voice in the new style of music.

Hooked on classics Classic rock reared its head across festival stages. Violin virtuoso Amanda Shaw unleashed a version of The Clash’s

“Should I Stay or Should I Go” that would be at home on a Dave Matthews record.

Alejandro Escovedo tapped into his early punk roots and channeled Joe Strummer, performing “Straight to Hell,” and Christina Aguilera got the Led out with Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” But the most virtuoso take came from Mark Braud’s New

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Playing for three Johnnyswim, the folk and soul pop and husband-and-wife duo of Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, was riding high following the April 29 Diamonds and exposure on NPR’s Tiny Desk and The Late Show with David Letterman. Between furious strumming by Ramirez and soulful crooning by Sudano on songs like the title

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Glory days Notably missing from Bruce Springsteen’s 2012 Jazz Fest set was “Thunder Road,” the Born to Run album opener and a fan favorite live. But after leading a massive, New Orleans jazz-inspired horn explosion — on “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Pay Me My Money Down” — Springsteen and keyboardist Roy Bittan hit the familiar notes on their respective harmonica and piano. The spectacular finale was a close mirror to 2012, which harked back to 2006, when Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions band headlined the first Fest after the levee failures, a performance Springsteen called one of the most memorable of his career.

With Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello substituted for longtime sideman Steven Van Zandt, the E Street Band sounded more familiar in song choices than in its 2012 set’s sonic force. On “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” Morello delivered an extended searing guitar solo, and on opener “High Hopes,” Morello’s piercing harmonics rang out over Max Weinberg’s thunderous toms. From there, Morello largely played background to Springsteen’s excellent lead. Other special guests, included singer/ songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, who sat in with Patti Scialfa on backing vocals, and John Fogerty, who joined the band for killer takes on “Green River” and “Proud Mary.”

The nearly three-hour set secured Springsteen’s place among the hardest-working, sweat-soaked performers at the Fest and beyond. Not bad for 64.

Rhythm session The rhythmic sensibilities at work among Stanton Moore, James Singleton and David Torkanowsky yielded more than a few innovations in time and space as they interpreted works by James Black and Herbie Hancock and added their own compositions. Moore favored lushness over hard edges in his solos, demonstrating the softer side of a complex groove. The group imbued his funk-soaked “Tchefunkta” with pliant, rolling drum figures that added dynamics to the tune’s signature bass motif. He later made a point of giving props to drummers Herlin Riley, Shannon Powell, Johnny Vidacovich and other

JAZZ FEST 2014 mentors before wrapping things up with a blistering version of Black’s “Magnolia Triangle.” ™

New York Times disses Native Americans In his wrap-up of Jazz Fest’s first weekend, New York Times critic Ben Sisario said there was no electronic dance music at Jazz Fest. He was wrong. Canadian producers and DJ trio A Tribe Called Red keeps their beats and samples rooted in what they call “electric pow-wow music,” but the combination of ecstatic, high-ranged Native American vocals and uptempo, dance-inducing pace had a decisively electronic feel.

Tempos raced through stop-starts and clusters of drum-and-bass-paced beats for most of the set before the trio let one sample linger: Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” The crowd filled in the lyrics — until the guys turned the beat around, throwing the sing-songy finish through an effect that transformed it into a pummeling series of sharp-edged synethesized lines.

Glori days Local supergroup The Glorioskis — featuring cellist Helen Gillet, ukulele player Debbie Davis and guitarist Myshkin — lit up the Lagniappe Stage with a wide-ranging repertoire that never failed to surprise.

Gillet sang lead on Patsy Cline’s “She’s Got You” with delicate two-part harmonies from Myshkin and Davis, leading to a cello solo by Gillet that made the crowd erupt in spontaneous applause. The trio finished with a spirited cover of the Beatles’ “Drive My Car” with the chorus sung in French and Gillet looping instrumental parts to build a virtual symphony of cellos.

Show us a sign Sign language interpreters are becoming more than accessories to the main acts. As emcee Wild Wayne warmed up the crowd for the New Orleans hip-hop showcase at the Congo Square Stage, DJ Mike Swift played DJ Jubilee’s “Get It Ready, Ready” — sending the crowd into the familiar dance moves. One signer not only signed the lyrics, she also danced — she talked that stuff and rolled with it, and walked, served, bounced and twerked, if only briefly. At the end of the set, two

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interpreters partnered along with a Partners-N-Crime duet, signing and swaggering as if the song were their own.

Also signed 3D Na’Tee performed at last year’s Jazz Fest, but this year, she made her Jazz Fest debut on a record label. She signed the deal with Def Jam subsidiary All Def Digital at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Sync Up conference April 25 and at the Congo Square Stage, she introduced herself: “I stand before you a major recording artist.” Na’Tee had time for only a few songs at the New Orleans hip-hop showcase, including the deeply personal “Wake Me Up,” with the final line, “I can’t let anyone come and kill the shit I dream of.”

Pharrell’s “Happy” combined with the Isley Brothers’ “Shout.”

A Neville family affair Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk set drew heavily from 2013 release Dirty Word, but the highlight of the show was a family affair as Ivan brought out Art Neville and Cyril Neville to perform The Meters’ classics “Fire on the Bayou” and “Hey Pocky Way.” Cyril took the lead on a knock-out performance of “No More Okey Doke” and it was a notable Neville reunion at the Acura Stage on the final day of the festival.

The old man down the road John Fogerty, the powerhouse songwriter behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, proved the group’s swampy rock ’n’ roll was timeless during a festivalTell it like it is closing set at the Samsung Galaxy Stage.

Aaron Neville’s Blues Tent set got off to (He also made guest appearances during a slow start, but by the time he started Bruce Springsteen’s Saturday set and the his classic “Hercules” with son Jason Nev- Dr. John tribute at the Saenger Theatre). ille singing and brother Charles riffing on Fogerty led a high-powered, volumesaxophone, it was on. He concluded with cranked set with a rhythm section includthe tried-and-true sequence of “Louisiana ing his son Shane and furious drumming 1927,” “Tell It Like It Is,” “Amazing Grace” from serial session man Kenny Aronoff. and “One Love,” with brother Cyril Neville From the tell-tale tremolo-laced opening accompanying him. lick of “Born on the Bayou” to frenzied solos all over “Ramble Tamble” and a closing Early New York jazz duo of “Bad Moon Rising” and “Fortunate Steve Bernstein, Henry Butler and the Son,” Fogerty and his crew revived the Hot 9, a band mainly comprised of downCreedence catalog. town New Yorkers, played the music of A version of “Proud Mary” appears Jelly Roll Morton and 1920s jazz with verve. on Fogerty’s 2013 album Wrote a Song The horn section blew with precision and for Everyone, on which he revisits the emotion, and also had fun with it. LongCCR classic with Allen Toussaint, Jentime New Orleanian Henry Butler put on nifer Hudson and Rebirth Brass Band. an excellent show, and no less than Allen Fogerty seemed to aim for an all-incluToussaint came into the Blues Tent after sive almost-finale when he brought out his Acura Stage performance to catch it.

Allen Toussaint, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., TBC Oh sunny day Brass Band, Joel Savoy and the McCrary The Gospel Tent typically features Sisters,but the mashup of R&B piano, traditional tunes and styles, but in addition zydeco accordion, Cajun fiddle, New Orleans brass and gospel was its own to a Whitney Houston song, Kim Che’re Louisiana tribute. accented her set with a blessed remix of

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Choked up Introduced as “Lyle Lovett and his acoustic band,” the always off-kilter Texas troubadour launched into a rousing version of “Choke My Chicken,” a sentiment that initially seemed at odds with his dignified and nattily dressed ensemble. Featuring legendary country sidemen like fiddle player Luke Bulla and guitarist Mike Sewell, the band moved gracefully from Texas swing to rootsy blues to new sounds that defied categorization. Set highlights included “She’s No Lady (She’s My Wife)” and Lovett’s classic, hyper-verbal come-on “Here I Am.” The song’s philosophical musings about the nature of physical attraction end with the famous line, “Please, if it’s not too late, make it a … cheeseburger.”

Lovett immediately apologized with, “It’s hard to work ‘shrimp po-boy’ into a song.”

Trumpeter Derrick Shezbie and sousaphonist Phil Frazier lead the Rebirth Brass Band, which performed songs of its new album Move Your Body.

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n the window of UAL (518 Chartres St. 504-301-4437; 2033 N. Hwy. 190, Covington, 985-871-0749; www. shopual.com) in the French Quarter, a Jimmy Choo cage stiletto sits before a display of mannequins dressed in red-and-black graphic prints. This shoe, dresses and other items are part of the collection of fashion-piecescum-art objects available via the apparel liquidator.

“We can help find something in everybody’s budget,” says store manager Ashlee Davis. “It doesn’t have to be that $500 dress, we can find a $50 dress for you, and it might be a couture brand that’s been marked down. [We offer] couture and those art pieces for everyone.”

Since 1981, UAL has grown from a single Hattiesburg, Mississippi, boutique to a Southern mini-chain, with five stores in locations ranging from Nashville, Tennessee, to Austin, Texas. The store offers deep discounts on clothes, shoes and accessories from high-end labels such as Chanel and Alexander McQueen. A team of buyers curates the collection by selecting on-trend pieces from boutiques and upscale department stores.

UAL’s racks and walls showcase the latest fashions. The crop tops, boho chic pieces and distressed denim of the last few seasons currently appear in the store, as do pastels and exaggerated prints.

“Every [incoming shipment] is like Christmas morning, or a surprise, because you don’t know what’s going to be in that box,” Davis says. “That’s really fun.”

Davis comes from a background at corporate retailers like J. Crew and Gap Inc. She joined UAL in February this year

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The boutique’s Chartres Street location is a unique, advantageous spot for a discount retailer. Though some French Quarter shops cater to tourists, with prices that reflect that free-spending market, UAL has a regular clientele of locals who stop by every week to see new merchandise. During the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, many festival attendees visited the boutique. “[These customers] have learned about us from their friends, and when they ask ‘What all do we need to do in New Orleans?,’ [their friends say] ‘Come to UAL,’” Davis says. “They make it a point to come in.”

Davis supervises a growing staff which includes several new associates. She’s teaching them to listen to customers and ane help them build on their style. With a strong customer-to-associate ratio, service at UAL is personalized.

As store manager, Davis aspires to convert everyone who walks in the door into a regular.

“We truly love fashion here; [the difference between us and other retailers] is the person that’s helping [the customer],” she says. ‘There’s a million places to shop or work, and we educate [the customers] on why they should choose us.”

SHOPPING

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Studio Inferno (3000 Royal St., 504-945-1878) holds a moving sale through May 24. All items at the glass studio are 50 percent off.

Franco’s Crossfit (1801 N. Causeway Blvd., 985-801-0500; Mandeville, www.crossfitfrancos.com) celebrates its grand opening from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, May 16. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony, music, refreshments, games, contests and a rock wall.

The Fresh Market (3338 St. Charles Ave., 504895-5160; www.thefreshmarket.com) holds a sidewalk sale to benefit Juvenile Diabetes

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Research Foundation International from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 16 through May 18. Donate $2 and receive a hot dog, root beer float or ice cream sundae.

The Fashion Institute of New Orleans (www. fashioninstituteno.org) holds a casting call for its upcoming Passion for Fashion show from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 17 at The Esplanade Mall (1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 504-468-6116; www.shoptheesplanade.com).

High school students are invited to audition.

The show is Thursday, June 27 at Generations Hall (310 Andrew Higgins Drive).

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The annual James Beard Foundation (www.jamesbeard.org) awards, announced May 5 in New York, were kind to New Orleans. The city is home to four of the five chefs nominated for Best Chef: South, and the top honor was shared by Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s (1728 Soniat St., 504-899-7397; www. gautreausrestaurant.com) and Ivy (5015 Magazine St., 504-899-1330) and Ryan Prewitt of Peche Seafood Grill (800 Magazine St., 504-522-1744; www. pecherestaurant.com). Peche also won Best New Restaurant in America.

Savoir fare

A new Riverbend restaurant shines.

By Sarah Baird

lings elevates farmhouse fare from lackluster dough balls and stewed poultry to a downright sinful combination of salty speck, potato gnocchi and tenderly shredded chicken offset perfectly by ample amounts of tarragon, which might just be the comeback herb of 2014. The menu’s second chicken option — a stuffed chicken breast galantine with tasso and andouille — is passable but struggles to find its footing as a middle-of-the-road dish on a menu full of standouts.

If you’re not looking for a hot, heavy butter and cream affair, the garden-oriented menu items also deliver. The roasted baby carrot and red beet salad is a visual delight, featuring meaty chunks of juicy beet on a bed of peppery arugula and honey-herb ricotta that enhances the natural sweetness of the vegetables. The Gulf yellowfin tuna “hot oil” also is worth exploring, with citrus and sesame and soy mixing on the plate, allowing an already highbrow piece of fish to be experienced in a new fashion.

Even those who typically skip dessert should consider rounding out a meal with the black and white bread pudding. While bad bread pudding often combines the worst of all flavor and texture combinations — stale, sticky, cloying — this variation will erase all previous sorrows with its tender, sweet bread and chunks of dense dark chocolate. It’s a rich conclusion to a meal at a very welcome new dining spot.

Contact Sarah Baird at sarahgambitdining@gmail.com

Ryan Prewitt won Best Chef: South (along with Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s) and his restaurant Peche was named Best New Restaurant in America by the James Beard Foundation.

Chef Jason Goodenough opened Carrollton Market in the Riverbend.

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Carrollton Market

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8132 Hampson St., (504) 252-9928; www.carrolltonmarket.com

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dinner Thu.-Sat.

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Also nominated for Best Chef: South were Justin Devillier of La Petite Grocery (4238 Magazine St., 504-8913377; www.lapetitegrocery.com) and Alon Shaya of Domenica (123 Baronne St., 504-648-6020; www.domenicarestaurant.com).

Ashley Hansen accepted an America’s Classic award for Hansen’s Sno Bliz (4801 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-891-9788; www.snobliz.com), the snowball shop opened by her grandparents.

The foundation also maintains a hall-of-fame Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. Chef/restaurateur John Besh (www.chefjohnbesh. com), who won Best Chef: Southeast in 2006, was one of six new inductees.

— WILL COVIELLO

what works

cozy but elegant decor; decadent chicken and dumplings; colorful and earthy-sweet beet salad

what doesn’t

stuffed chicken breast is unexciting compared to other dishes

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A sophisticated yet simple space with decadent offerings worthy of a night on the town

Ashley Hansen accepted an America’s Classic award from the James Beard Foundation.

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here’s something to be said for understated elegance: the kind of classic, simple sophistication that translates effortlessly regardless of the times. As alluring as that sounds, in recent years many new restaurants have aimed for a rustic, homey feel (communal tables and shared plates, anyone?) which can result in inadvertently sharing your dinner with chatty strangers.

Carrollton Market is a breath of fresh air in a small package, harking back to the kind of refined, attentive restaurants that not only deliver phenomenal meals but make dining out feel like a luxury.

Located in the former home of One Restaurant and Lounge in the Riverbend, the space has been converted from a dark, deafeningly loud lounge to a breezy, light bistro-style environment that uses clever design tricks to punch above the weight of the space. Shades of eggshell and cream give the restaurant a clean, ethereal vibe, while marble tabletops — including an almost-in-the-kitchen chef’s bar and cocktail spot — are both dignified and anchoring. The sound problem has been solved by cleverly disguised panels that are camouflaged with the walls and create a sense of depth.

The cocktail menu is solid across the board, featuring drinks that are complex without being gimmicky and crafted to pair well with entrees.

Many drinks do an unusually fine job of blending spirits that at first glance seem like strange bedfellows, including the Eau Rouge, which weds cognac and mezcal with the fruity notes of grenadine and orange bitters. The Flight of the Bumblebee, a tequila-based drink with an undercurrent of honey and lemon, is a punchy play on a toddy and smooth enough to become the perfect sipper for the duration of a meal.

There’s nothing lightweight about the dishes at Carrollton Market. From starters to main courses, the offerings are comforting and rich.

(If you’re in the mood for a few light tapas and a salad, head elsewhere.) Two outstanding dishes — oxtail terrine and lamb pappardelle — could easily become overindulgent, nap-inducing messes in the hands of a chef less skilled than Jason Goodenough, who renders both with a refreshing degree of delicacy. The potato-wrapped terrine is buttery and earthy, with a biting, fresh shallot compote that makes salt-of-the-earth dining feel glamorous. The pappardelle’s buoyant noodles are hearty enough to support the thick Two Run Farm lamb ragout, while flash-roasted cherry tomatoes bring pops of sunny flavor and welcome bursts of color to the dish.

The restaurant’s take on chicken and dump-

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Tulane meal plan

After several months of delays, the kitchen at Treo (3835 Tulane Ave., 504-3044878; www.treonola. com) is open, serving affordable Spanishinspired small plates with a Louisiana influence, and craft cocktails.

“We’re trying to be a focal point for our area, and kickstart something here,” chef James Cullen says. “There’s a lot of great food in Mid-City, and we’re trying to be a solid addition to that scene while raising the profile of Tulane Avenue.”

Dining options on Tulane Avenue have expanded in recent years with the opening of Pizzicare (3001 Tulane Ave.) and the Vietnamese restaurant Namese (4077 Tulane Ave.) in a converted former gas station.

Highlights from Treo’s menu (nothing costs more than $12) range from an elegant coriander-crusted lamb chop with mint chimichurri and Belgian endive to steamed clams in white wine butter sauce to a homey crawfish enchilada that Cullen describes as “tightened-up crawfish etouffee.”

The kitchen is open 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Cullen plans to expand kitchen hours to midnight soon to match the bar’s hours.

— SARAH BAIRD

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Apres Lounge (608 Fulton St., 504-628-7721; www.apresnola.com) — the first “Champagne bar” in New Orleans — opened in late March in Fulton Alley. The bar says it offers patrons the “sexiness, elegance and excitement that [they] deserve” as people going out on the town. The space is dimly lit (even during happy hour) and full of women in heels and mini-dresses and projects a vibe that seems eerily similar to Parks and Recreation’s Snakehole Lounge.

The choice of murals — including one of the Rat Pack minus Peter Lawford, and another of some sort of ethereal celestial goddess — are a strange combination, but patrons don’t seem to mind. Despite the odd decor, the Champagne selection is vast and well-thought out, with helpful hints for selecting the right bubbly for your needs and price point. There are Champagnes, roses, non-vintage bottlings, cremants and more. A Dom Perignon happy hour each Friday offers glasses for $25, giving everyone the chance to feel like a VIP. Apres Lounge is open 4 p.m.-5 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

— SARAH BAIRD

Health fare

Driving past the freshly painted, bubblegum pink building at 4838 Magazine St., one might stop to wonder: what does “food apothecary” mean?

Is it a place that sells creative fusions of medicine and snacks — Pepcid Gummi Bears, steaks dry rubbed with Advil? It is not. Instead, it’s the latest in a wave of healthy bakery options for the city, where every item is at the very least soy-free, gluten-free and dairy-free.

Open just over two months, Fare (4838 Magazine St., 504-302-9171; www.facebook.com/farefoodforhealth) is charmingly twee, with a variety of sweet baked goods including cupcakes, raisin-spice cookies and flax muffins with a strong tea and smoothie collection to round out the goodfor-you snacking.

“We like to serve items that look like they’re bad for you, but actually help to encourage digestion and improve overall well-being,” Anna Federline says. “We decided to call it a ‘culinary apothecary’ because it’s truly food for your health.”

Savory options—like a delicious carrot and raisin salad — are also available, and Fare looks to be opening a small space for in-store dining in the next few weeks. — SARAH BAIRD

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3-COURSE interview

Sue Zemanick Chef

Chef Sue Zemanick has earned accolades running the kitchens at fine dining stalwart Gautreau’s (1728 Soniat St., 504-899-7397; www.gautreausrestaurant.com) and the small plates restaurant Ivy (5015 Magazine St., 504-8991330), which opened last year. The James Beard Foundation named her and Peche Seafood Grill chef Ryan Prewitt co-winners of Best Chef: South at a ceremony May 5 in New York. Beard awards are given annually for excellence in cuisine and culinary writing in the United States. Zemanick spoke with Gambit about the award and her work.

How did you feel leading up to the Beard awards?

Did you prepare a speech this year? What were your first thoughts when your name was called?

Z: I definitely had nothing written down or prepared to say, so I just had to kind of wing it. My biggest worry, actually, was about making it up on stage.

I had a huge fear of tripping and falling on my way up and pulling a Jennifer Lawrence. I made it up there, though, without a disaster. There was another tie this year in a different category, and a few last year as well, but it’s not super common. It was a real relief to have Ryan up on stage with me, because it really took away a lot of the pressure and anxiety that would have been happening if I have been up there all alone.

I’ve had all the anxiety I can handle from being on Top Chef: Masters twice — no more competition cooking shows for me. I still have nightmares about it.

Do you think that opening a second restaurant is what tipped the scales in your favor this year?

Z: Well, we were a one-restaurant group for so long, but Ivy felt just like a natural sort of fit for folks who couldn’t get into Gautreau’s on any given night or who wanted something a little more casual. I’m really proud of both restaurants.

We’re planning a party for everyone to celebrate the win, but other than that I’m just excited to ride out the summer in New Orleans and enjoy the humidity. — SARAH BAIRD

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Zemanick: The James Beard Awards are like the Academy Awards for chefs — everywhere you see other people you’d like to potentially partner with and who you admire. This was my fifth time being nominated for a Beard, and now every year the biggest worry when nominations come out is that I won’t make the finalist cut. I did, though, and really felt like this could be my year because of all the momentum we had going. [It’s] a little bit of a relief going to the award ceremony and getting to enjoy it and not having to jump up on stage and make an acceptance speech. It’s really just a fun time.

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BEER buzz Mark and Karen Logan are excited about what’s brewing in Mid-City.

The couple currently lives in Alaska and is finalizing plans to return home to New Orleans to open Second Line Brewing, a production brewery and tap room, in a Mid-City warehouse space that previously housed film industry equipment. By the end of the year, it may be a destination for those seeking locally brewed beer.

“We saw the opportunity to come back here and take a chance,” Mark says. “People want to try something new.”

Karen grew up in Metairie, attended Mount Carmel Academy and LSU and met Mark in Houston, where she worked for Shell Oil Company. Mark had a degree in chemistry and worked in biotech business development and pharmaceuticals before switching to a medical career and becoming a physician’s assistant at a Houston Second Line Brewing hospital emergency room. will open in Mid-City.

The couple lived in Lakeview from 2007 until Shell transferred Karen to Alaska in 2011. They were drawn to the brewing culture of the Pacific Northwest and started to think about opening a brewery in New Orleans.

Mark puts his scientific knowledge to work on the brewing side and Karen handles the business of planning the brewery. They expect to return to New Orleans Aug. 1 with newly hired head brewer, Jason Weissberg, who currently runs the Dogfish Head brewpub in Delaware. The Logans say they will give employees the opportunity to have ownership of the brewery and hope their business inspires more people to begin brewing beer at home.

“This will be where people can come to cut their teeth in the brewing industry and learn about craft beer,” Mark says. “We’re very much about the education process and the community.” — NORA McGUNNIGLE Email Nora McGunnigle at nora@nolabeerblog.com

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2011 Jekel Vineyards Pinot Noir

S A N TA B A RB A R A C O UN T Y, C A L IFORNI A

Retail $19

Bill Jekel was a pioneering winemaker in the Monterey Peninsula when he opened his winery along the California coast in 1972.

Over the years, his wines earned an excellent reputation and he expanded to an emerging growing area near Santa Barbara, California, which was hospitable to pinot noir. While the vineyards and the American Viticultural Area (AVA) for Santa Barbara are located north of the coastal city, they enjoy similar maritime influences, rainfall, abundant sunshine and temperature swings.

A thin-skinned grape, pinot noir is upset easily by sunburn, excessive moisture and short ripening seasons, but none of those conditions are prevalent in Santa Barbara. This allows the grapes to mature slowly, with plenty of time on the vine before the onset of winter rains. 2011 offered a cool but not damp season, leaving the clusters in a dry state with excellent swings between high daytime temperatures and cooler nights. After harvest the wine was fermented in stainless steel followed by aging in neutral oak. In the glass, it offers ripe red berry aromas and hints of dried herbs. The wine’s acid level is ideal and one tastes cherry, strawberry, dried fruits, some spice and smooth tannins. Open for 20 minutes before serving. Drink it with seared tuna, smoked salmon, rosemary chicken, roasted vegetables, mushroom risotto and cheeses like Gouda and Comte. Buy it at: Rouses Market in Mid-City. Drink it at: Katie’s Restaurant & Bar; The Court of Two Sisters; Pie, Pizza & Pastas in the Warehouse District; Ralph and Kacoo’s and Palmettos on the Bayou. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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Pancakes and Booze Art Show

8 p.m. Friday The Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com

www.facebook.com/pancakesandboozenola The alternative art expo features drawings, paintings, sculpture, graffiti, DJs and free pancakes. Admission $5.

Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival 6 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Friday; 10:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

Saturday; 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday 225 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse, (504) 394-6328

www.plaqueminesparishfestival.com The festival features a variety of boiled and fried seafood, raw oysters, alligator sausage and more, plus live music, a pageant and a car show.

Crawfish Cookin’ for a Cause

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday Lakefront Harbor, Lakeshore Drive, Mandeville

www.crawfishcookinforacause.com Teams compete in a crawfish boiling contest and the event is all-you-can-eat for attendees. Proceeds benefit Project Red Light for Hope and Mary Payton’s Miracle Foundation. Tickets $25 in advance, $35 at the gate.

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Five salads featuring exotic parts of the hog

1 August

301 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 299-9777

www.restaurantaugust.com

A salad is topped with Chappapeela Farms pig tails and parts of the head as well as housemade pickles.

2 Cochon

930 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 588-2123

www.cochonrestaurant.com

Arugula salad features crispy hog jowl and strawberry vinaigrette.

3 Elizabeth’s

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

601 Gallier St., (504) 944-9272

Half baked ideas

Tangy Maytag blue cheese and sherry vinaigrette marry well with crispy hog jowls in a spinach salad.

— In GQ, chef Donald Link listed 10 amazing meals, including one in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay, that inspired Peche Seafood Grill, which just won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in America.

4 Mariza

2900 Chartres St., (504) 598-5700 www.marizaneworleans.com

Crunchy strips of pig ear, salty anchovy and pickled leeks come together over baby greens in an Italian-inspired salad.

5 Root

200 Julia St., (504) 252-9480 www.rootnola.com

Crispy pig ear shines with radishes, turnips and charred Brussels sprouts alongside black brioche croutons and mustard green-anchovy dressing.

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“My partner at Cochon, Steve (Stryjewski), and I spent four hours at lunch here right next to the beach. Everything was cooked in the oven, from steamed mussels to the baked provolone.

The baked provolone was so good it made it into our cookbook and on the menu at Herbsaint. After four hours there, Steve and I got out our notebooks and started writing down the recipes, and those turned into our new restaurant, Peche.”

www.elizabethsrestaurantnola.com

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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.

AFRICAN Motherland Cafe — 1535 Basin St., (504) 342-2996; www.facebook. com/motherlandcafe — This family restaurant serves Senegalese and Gambian food, and vegetarian dishes are available. There also are house-made ginger drinks and wonjo, made with hibiscus. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

BAR & GRILL American Sports Saloon — 1200 Decatur St., (504) 522-2410 — This sports bar serves burgers made with house-ground patties, chicken wings, 12 beers on tap and more.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 302-9357 — Try the 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun and french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. Delivery available.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Jigger’s Bar & Grill — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 828-3555 — Half or full-round muffulettas are filled with Italian ham, Genoa salami, provolone cheese and house-made olive salad and served toasted. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $

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

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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. 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. No reservations.

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

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. No reservations.

Breakfast Wed.-Sun., lunch Wed.Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www. cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette.

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. $

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Jung’s Golden Dragon — 3009 Magazine St., (504) 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. 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 and serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www.facebook.comruedelacourse — The Downtown sandwich includes turkey, bacon, Swiss cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, sprouts and mayonnaise on a choice of bagel and comes with chips, potato salad or coleslaw.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Cash only. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona.com — A House favorite is sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce. Reservations recommended. 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 sandwiches, salads, meat pies, sliders, deviled eggs and chicken wings. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Ivy — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 8991330 — Grilled lobster is served with arugula, roasted potatoes and corn. Warm snow crab claws come with truffle butter. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit Cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — The constantly changing menu includes vegan dishes and house-made pasta. No reservations. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www. antoines.com — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ 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

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DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www. koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations.

Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www. mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven and serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. 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. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

FRENCH Baie Rouge — 4128 Magazine St., (504) 304-3667; www.baierougenola.com — Shrimp and risotto Milanese features jumbo shrimp cooked with lemon over saffron risotto served with hericots verts. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 737-8146; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Schiro’s Indian Cafe — 2483 Royal St., (504) 944-6666; www. schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers Indian dishes prepared with fresh herbs and spices. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways.

Vegetarian options are available.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www. amicinola.com — The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana pie is topped with marinara, mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian greens and Italian sausage. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni. com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Reservations accepted.

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

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — Pork bracciole features pork loin stuffed with cheese, currants and pignoli nuts that is braised slowly in tomato sauce and served over house-made pappardelle. Reservations accepted.

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

JAPANESE Asuka Sushi & Hibachi — 7912 Earhart Blvd., (504) 862-5555; www.asukaneworleans.com — The Shaggy Dog roll features tempura-fried shrimp, snow crab and avocado topped with crabstick and eel sauce and spicy sauce. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www. japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake. com — 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. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Yuki Izakaya — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www.facebook. com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton.com — Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — This restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors, including a cast iron skillet-fried filet served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort sauce. Reservations PAGE 38

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hollandaise. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery.com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee as well as sandwiches, salads and pasta. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. 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. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www. mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Crabmeat cheesecake is topped with Creole meuniere. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding. Reservations accepted.

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

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter.

Reservations resommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This popular neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken and bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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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. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www. revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Sainte Marie — 930 Poydras St., Suite 101, (504) 304-6988; www. saintemarienola.com — Barbecue jerk shrimp are served with coconut rice and mango chow chow. Sam’s Yak A Mein combines braised beef, chicken, shrimp, egg noodles and a soft-boiled egg.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www. tivoliandlee.com — The restaurant offers a modern take on Southern cuisine in a small plate format, with dishes ranging from andouille potato tots to fried oysters.

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

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons.

Crispy fried wild catfish is served over stone-ground grits with Cajun tasso. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations.

Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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. $$

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

Credit cards. $$

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

Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. Roasted pork tacos are topped with spicy slaw. Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD Bombay Club — 830 Conti St., (504) 586-0972; www.thebombayclub. com — This elegant French Quarter hideaway is styled like an English manor and 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. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ 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. $$

Little Gem Saloon — 445 S. Rampart St., (504) 267-4863; www. littlegemsaloon.com — Little Gem offers creative contemporary and Creole dishes and live jazz.

Louisiana black drum is topped with jumbo lump crabmeat and served with spinach, black-eyed peas and sherry cream. Rabbit and cauliflower gratin is served with apple-cabbage preserves.

Reservations recommended.

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

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

Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

NEIGHBORHOOD Bar Redux — 809 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux. com — The menu combines Creole favorites such as crawfish etouffee and gumbo, Caribbean items including jerk chicken and Cuban sandwiches and burgers, fried chicken and rib-eye cheese steaks. Outdoor seating available.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Cash only. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www. cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ 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. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www. katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PAN ASIAN Lucky Rooster — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.luckyroosternola.com — The menu features a mix of Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese and Japanese dishes. Ko-

OUT to EAT rean-style fried chicken is served with chili-garlic sauce and kimchi slaw. Lucky Rooster soup comes with five-spice chicken, wokseared vegetables and crunchy wontons. The bar offers creative cocktails and house-made sodas.

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

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SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Bear’s Poboys at Gennaros — 3206 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 833-9226 — The roast beef po-boy features beef slow-cooked in house, sliced thin, soaked in gravy and dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on toasted Leidenheimer bread. The 10-ounce Bear burger is topped with roast beef debris, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on a toasted brioche seeded bun and served with fries or loaded potato salad. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ 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. $

SEAFOOD 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. $$$ Chad’s Bistro — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-9935; www.chadsbistro.com — The seafood Napoleon features fried eggplant medallions topped with crabmeat on a bed of angel hair pasta topped with shrimp au gratin sauce. The seafood boat is a bread loaf filled with fried shrimp, oysters and catfish and stuffed shimp. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Sun.-Fri. dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s popular soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 8380022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant. com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Popular starters include the jumbo lump crabcake made with aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and latenight Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

THAI Thai Mint — 1438 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-9001; www.thaimintrestaurant.com — Basil eggplant features pork, chicken, beef or shrimp sauteed with eggplant, onions, bell peppers and basil in spicy sauce. The Adamun Hunter features a soft-shell crab over sauteed scallops and calamari, spicy shrimp, long beans and sweet basil. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE Doson Noodle House —135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283 — Traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlights the menu. The vegetarian hot pot comes with mixed vegetables, tofu and vermicelli rice noodles.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ Lin’s — 3715 Westbank Expressway, (504) 340-0178; www.linsmenu.com —The menu includes Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. Vietnamese “Shakin’” beef features beef tips and onions served with rice. Singapore-style vermicelli is a stir fry of noodles, shrimp, pork, bean sprouts, carrots and bamboo shoots.

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

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

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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. $ Mellow Mushroom — 1645 Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 327-5407; 3131 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 644-4155; 8827 Oak St., (504) 345-8229; www.mellowmushroom. com — The Holy Shiitake pie tops an olive oil and garlic brushed crust with shiitake, button and portobello mushrooms, carmelized onions, mozzarella, montamore and Parmesan cheeses and black truffle oil. The Enlightened Spinach salad is topped with dried cherries, apples, candied pecans and feta cheese. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza 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. $

Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from 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. $

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Born on the bayou

Three days of music and art at Bayou Boogaloo.

By Will Coviello

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Slow Food New Orleans curated a lineup of chefs and mixologists, cosponsored by local food producers including Grow Dat Youth Farm and Hollygrove Market and Farm. Chef Ryan Hughes, who runs the pop-up restaurant Purloo while he waits to open it in a permanent space, will do a demonstration Saturday at 6:30 p.m., and Sylvain’s chef Alex Harrell is scheduled at 1:10 p.m. Sunday. The dishes they demonstrate will be included in the VIP area called Canopy Club (weekend passes cost $100 and include parking). There also are cocktail demonstrations and those drinks are available in the VIP area.

Daily VIP tickets also are available.

The art market has grown to occupy the stretch of the bayou between Orleans Avenue and Dumaine Street. The juried selection includes 70 artists and there’s an emphasis on locally made crafts. Last year the festival featured a sculpture artist Marlin Miller carved out of a treer. This year Miller returns to add a 10-foot-tall likeness of Mardi Gras Indian Chief David Montana on the sculpture.

Last year, the festival attracted 35,000 attendees.

The event remains free, but last year it solicited donations at the festival grounds entry points. This year, Zeller has enlisted volunteers from neighbor-

hood nonprofit Fans enjoy music at Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo. groups to circulate and solicit donaP H O T O BY C H ERY L G ERB ER tions. One-third of donations will Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo MAY be distributed 5 p.m.-9:15 p.m. Friday to those groups, 10 a.m.-9:15 p.m. Saturday with the goal of improving the 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Sunday Bayou St. John Bayou St. John area by planting at Orleans Avenue trees, promoting public art and othwww.thebayouboogaloo.com er projects, Zeller says. As the park has improved, the city has moved to charge a usage fee, as it does with other spaces. An appropriate rate has not been determined (see “Boogaloo-ing for bucks” in the April 22 Gambit), so for the time being, the festival is only paying a damage deposit.

Support for the festival also comes from the Positive Vibrations Foundation, which underwrites many of the musical performances.

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s the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo has expanded in its nine years, both filling the banks of Bayou St. John off Orleans Avenue and growing to three music stages and three days, director Jared Zeller has managed to keep the festival free and is glad to have one problem.

“We have to narrow it down to 32 bands,” says Zeller, whose Mothership Foundation sponsors the event. “It’s not easy with all the bands in New Orleans, and there’s so many new bands every year. But we’ve only had a handful of bands that have played the festival more than once.”

Bayou Boogaloo started as a small music festival on the bayou, and it has added a large art market, kids’ activities and hub for nonprofit groups, particularly neighborhood groups, to reach out to festivalgoers. There are two bicycle events; new this year are cooking demonstrations.

The musical lineup features performers from a diverse array of Louisiana musical genres, ranging from brass and jazz to rock and funk to Cajun and zydeco bands. Headliners include accordion player Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys (7 p.m. Sunday) and rocking Cajun fiddler Waylon Thibodeaux (12:15 p.m. Saturday), who blends Cajun and swamp pop sounds. Bounce artist Big Freedia makes his debut at the festival (6:30 p.m. Friday). (The second season of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce premieres June 11 on Fuse.) California native-turned-Gulf Coast groove rocker Eric Lindell makes his debut at the festival (7:45 p.m. Saturday). Lindell recently released Indian Summer and after Boogaloo heads to Indiana to release Live In Space at the club where he recorded the album in January.

The lineup includes several new up-and-coming local bands. Sweet Crude (2:45 p.m. Saturday) is a sunny Cajun-influenced pop band built around Alexis and the Samurai duo Sam Craft and Alexis Marceaux. Tank and the Bangas (4 p.m. Saturday) blends soul, hip-hop, R&B and spoken word performance. Soul singer Nigel Hall and the Congregation (7:45 p.m. Friday) also play their first Boogaloo.

On the jazz front, cellist Helen Gillet and bassist Jim Singleton (11 a.m. Sunday) collaborate onstage and Kid Merv brings his band (3:55 p.m. Saturday).

Vocalist Big Chief Juan Pardo leads the Golden Comanche Mardi Gras Indians (6:30 p.m. Saturday), and R&B pianist Davell Crawford joins Chris Severin (12:15 p.m. Sunday).

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MUSIC LISTINGS

Embree, 8 Roosevelt Hotel — Robin Barnes, 5:30 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 Siberia — Nile, Necrotic Priapism, The Art of the Process, Moonhoar, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Delfeayo Marsalis & Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10

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AllWays Lounge and Theatre — Wasted Lives, 9

AllWays Lounge and Theatre — Bustin Out, 10

Banks Street Bar — Nola County, 8

Banks Street Bar — Acid Broadcast, 8; Major Bacon, 10

Blue Nile — CD Release Show feat. Joel Harrison, Matt Lemmler, Pat Casey, Raymond Weber, 10:30

Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 7

Bombay Club — Lucas Davenport, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary, 8; The Yakiniku AllStars, 10:30 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook, Wendell Brunious, 9:30

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Dragon’s Den — Divergent Rhythms feat. The Real Steven, 10

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Gasa Gasa — Progression hosted by Sasha Masakowski, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Most Wanted Brass Band, 21st Century Brass Band, 10 House of Blues — Johnny Hallyday, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Charlie Miller, 5 The Maison — Gregory Agid, 6; Louisiana Hellbender, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30

Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7 Cafe Negril — Gettin’ It, 7; Sam Cammarata & Dominick Grillo, 7:30; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30

Banks Street Bar — Emma Eisenhauer, Greg Good, 8 The BEATnik — The House Harkonnen, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 6 Bombay Club — Tony Seville, 7 Buffa’s Lounge — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8; Josh Paxton, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30

Circle Bar — Softspot, Sharks Teeth, 10

Community Church — Finzer, Mahoney Duo, Fiona Joy, 7:30

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

d.b.a. — Jon Cleary, 7

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Natasha, 9:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Paper Bird, 9 Gasa Gasa — The Shiz, Quintessential Octopus, 8 House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11 Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Kid Merv, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 9 Lafayette Square — Wednesdays at the Square: Gravity A, King Rey, 5 Little Gem Saloon — Joshua Paxton, 5; Glen David Andrews, 8 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6; Smoke ’n’ Bones, 9:30

Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 8

NOCCA Riverfront Lupin Hall — Jazz Big Band Concert, 7

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — James Singleton Quartet, 8 & 10

Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park: Soul Rebels, Tank & the Bangas, 4

Circle Bar — Zoom feat. The Rick Sinai Band, 10

Maple Leaf Bar — Fresh Funk feat. Eric Benny Bloom, 10

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8

THURSDAY 15

Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Les Autres, 7; Michael Liuzza, 9; Sazerac the Clown’s Cabinet, 10 Old U.S. Mint — Musical Rangers, Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2

Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; The Orleans 6, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Daniel Thompson, 9

Old U.S. Mint — Matt Hampsey, Bruce Barnes, Richard Scott, Gina Forsyth, Meghan Swartz, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran, Topsy Chapman & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Jerry

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Band, 9:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30 Hangar 13 — Reverse Order, 8:30 House of Blues — Reggie Smith, 7 Irish House — Vali Talbot, 6 Little Gem Saloon — Andre Bohren, 5; Nayo Jones, 8 The Maison — Erin Demastes, 5; Bon Bon Vivant, 7; The Jesse Smith Project, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat.

Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Michael Liuzza, 7; Nattie, 8; Lo Faber, 9 & 10 Old Point Bar — Gaunga Dyns, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Bruce Barnes, Matt Hampsey, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Leroy Jones, Katja Toivola, Crescent City Joymakers, 7 Rivershack Tavern — Truman Holland, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Leroy Thomas, 8:30 Siberia — Shai Hulud, Seeker, Wishful Thinking, Variants, 5; Sadistic Intent, Demonic Destruction, Inverted Triifixion I. Grave Ritual, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Spencer Bohren, 8 & 10

MUSIC LISTINGS PREVIEW

Shlohmo

What seems like a shtick-y name — get ready for “dubshtep” — is actually perfect. Henry Laufer, aka Shlohmo, does nothing in real time: The 24-year-old Los Angeles DJ and producer absorbs his synths, samples and massage-chair vibrations and doles them out over a sink-drip analgesic haze, the polar opposite of Skrillex’s amphetamine spikes.

On his 2010 debut Shlomoshun Deluxe, Laufer worked like a playful video-game programmer; by the next year’s Bad Vibes, he had relaxed his grip and moved on to a different kind of bedroom pop, slipping the nighttime supernaturalism of low-end theorist Flying Lotus into Erykah Badu’s 1,000-thread-count sheets. The EPs Vacation (2012) and Laid Out (2013), issued through Laufer’s Friends of Friends and Wedidit constellations, show an embryonic, James Blake-like development Shlohmo MAY taking place: “Don’t Say No” introduces 10 p.m. Thursday unprocessed vocals care of How to Dress Well male ingenue Tom Krell, and the Republic New Orleans electro-operatic “Later” gives Shlohmo a 828 S. Peters St. production showcase on par with “The (504) 528-8282; Wilhelm Scream” or “Limit to Your Love.” www.republicnola.com Laufer’s most exciting work may be compiling on his SoundCloud page, an auditory resume filled with stunning remixes of Little Dragon, Aaliyah, The Weeknd and Drake, the concept of streaming taken quite literally. Jim-E Stack and D33J open. Tickets $13 in advance, $15 day of show.

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Funky 544 — GypsyElise & the Royal Blues, 2

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

Gasa Gasa — The Tanglers, 9

Vaughan’s — Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill & the Heart Attack, 9

FRIDAY 16 Banks Street Bar — PYMP, 10 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 Bombay Club — Sharon Martin, 9:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Honor, 5; The Mumbles, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Cafe Negril — El DeOrazio, 7

Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7 Hangar 13 — Redemption of the King, 10; Pulse Friday: Rroid Drazr, Kidd Love, 1:30 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Chad Valley, 9 Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Guitar Lightnin’ Lee, 10 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5 Le Bon Temps Roule — Dave Reis, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Lucas Davenport, 5; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8; Ra Ra Racket, 10:30

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Mikayla, 7

The Maison — Leah Rucker, 4; The Swamp Donkeys, 7; Dysunktional Bone, midnight

Checkpoint Charlie — Rich Brown, Vince Trimboli, 7

Maple Leaf Bar — Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 10

DMac’s — Vincent Marini, 7

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Damn Hippies, 7 & 8; Mike True, 9; Gina Forsyth, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Loren Pickford, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Lips and Trips, 7

Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5;

Kim Carson, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Esquizito, 2; Creole Sweet Tease Revue, Jayna Morgan, Trixie Minx, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Record release show with Firebug, The Hitchhiker, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Mark Braud, Palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Trio, 8 Rivershack Tavern — Lil Red and Big Bad, 10 Rock ’N’ Bowl — The Boogie Men, 9:30 Rusty Nail — Ian McFeron, 9 Siberia — Leopold and his Fiction, Gold and the Rush, The Royal Attire, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & the Lonely Nights Band, 8 Tipitina’s — Instrument Repair Initiative Benefit: Paul Sanchez & Minimum Rage, Social Set, 9 PAGE 44

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SATURDAY 17 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, Adam Arredondo, Russell Ramirez, Joseph Faison, 8 Banks Street Bar — Mrz. Crowley, 10 The BEATnik — Jason Neville Band, 9 Bourbon O Bar — GypsyElise & the Royal Blues, 9:30 Brazil Taco Truck — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 10 Buffa’s Lounge — Aurora Nealand, 11 a.m.; Royal Rounders feat. Jerry Jumonville, Freddy Staehle, 5; Staehle, Paxton & Stone, 8; Noggin, 11 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Mutt, 9

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jacqui Naylor Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Russell Welch’s Gypsy Band, 2; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 10 Tipitina’s — Ozomatli, The Soul Rebels, 10 Twist of Lime — Ventruss, Will Vance & the Kinfolk, The Beholder, 9

SUNDAY 18 Banks Street Bar — Bert Will, Clint Boyd, 4; Ron Hotstream & the F-Holes, 7 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7 Bombay Club — Tony Seville, 7

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

Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 6; Homebody, Dust from 100 Years, Budokan Boys, Yuppie Teeth, 10

Hangar 13 — Flyy-By Nite, 1 a.m.

Hermes Bar — Leroy Jones Quartet, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Kenny Chesney, 8 Joy Theater — ZMR Music Awards Concert feat. Lisa Downing, Kevin Keller, David Arkenstone, 7:30

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Siberia — Before I Hang, Die Rotzz, Dummy Dumpster, 6; 15Year Anniversary: Big Freedia, Magnolia Rhome, Josephine Donald, 10

Circle Bar — Left of the Dial, 10

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Kermit’s Treme Mother-In-Law Lounge — Neshia Ruffins, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 5; Van the Band, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Kid Merv, 7 The Maison — Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 4; The Smoking Time Jazz Cub, 7; Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10; Street Legends Brass Band, midnight Maple Leaf Bar — Mia Borders, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Clyde & Iggy, 8; Mr. Steve, 9; Ashely Beach, 10 Oak — Aaron Wilkinson, 9 Old Point Bar — Prophets of Addiction, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Hurley Blanchard, 2; Brint Anderson, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Fangtasia IV feat. The 69 Cats, Clockwork Elvis, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lionel Ferbos & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8

d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6 DMac’s — Michael Pearce, 11 a.m.; Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 6 Hangar 13 — Bass Massive Mob, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Treme Brass Band, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8; Beth Patterson, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Jazz Brunch: Viper Mad Trio, 10 a.m.

The Maison — Dave Easley, 4; Linnzi Zaorsky, 7; Caesar Bros., Red Camancho Indians, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Marigny Opera House — Le Salon Creole: Edmond Dede, Lucien Lambert, William GrantStill, 8 Old Point Bar — Christina Fris, Chip Wilson, 3:30; Tom Witek Quartet, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Alligator Chomp Chomp, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Siberia — Maggot Sandwich, 6; Voltaire, Ego Likeness, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Michael Feinberg Quintet, 8 & 10

Rock ’N’ Bowl — Vince Vance, 8

Spotted Cat — Rites of Swing, 2; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

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MONDAY 19 Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 9 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7 Buffa’s Lounge — Ruby Moon, 8 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andrew Duhon Trio, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, Sweet Crude, 8 Circle Bar — Missy Meatlocker, A Funeral Walkaway Parade, 6; Moving Units, 10 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 d.b.a. — Luke Winslow-King, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 Dmac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — MagnOramic Mondays feat. Magnetic Ear, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8 Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; The New Orleans Super Jam, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 9 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 8; Jonathan Tankel, 9 Old Point Bar — Romy Kaye Jazz Trio, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Living Legends feat.

Maynard Chatters, 8 Siberia — My Graveyard Jaw, Dirty Rotten Snake in the Grass, 6 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Mahler’s Tragic Symphony.

Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www. mahaliajacksontheater.com — The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto, performs Gustav Mahler’s symphony.

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NOW SHOWING The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) — A strange company hires supervillains to attack Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield).

Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Brick Mansions (PG-13) — Paul Walker stars as an undercover cop trying to prevent a drug kingpin from ruining Detroit.

Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) — Captain America (Chris Evans) battles a Soviet agent.

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Fading Gigolo (R) — A gigolo and his manager confuse money for love.

Canal Place God’s Pocket (R) — The questionable construction death of one man’s stepson sends him and his neighborhood into turmoil. Zeitgeist The Grand Budapest Hotel (R) — In Wes Anderson’s caper, a hotel concierge befriends a lobby boy.

Elmwood, Canal Place Hateship Loveship (R) — A girl creates a fake relationship between her timid caregiver and her widowed father. Zeitgeist Heaven Is for Real (PG) — The film adaptation of Todd Burpo’s book about a dad sharing his son’s story of going to Heaven. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Jodorowsky’s Dune (PG-13) — Director Alejandro Jodorowsky fails in

Joe (R) — A teenage boy befriends an ex-convict who is searching for redemption. Chalmette Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (PG) — Dorothy returns to Oz to save her old friends from new foes. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Moms’ Night Out (PG) — Moms ask their husbands to watch the kids while they go on a girls’ night out. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Neighbors (R) — A husband and wife’s lives are altered when a new couple moves in next door. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Only Lovers Left Alive (R) — Two lovers reunite as the world falls apart. Elmwood, Canal Place The Other Woman (PG13) — Three women get revenge on the man who has been cheating on them all. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place The Quiet Ones (PG-13) — A group of university students and their professor release evil forces while conducting an experiment on a young girl. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal The Railway Man (R) — A British WWII prisoner of war confronts his Japanese prison guard decades later. Elmwood Rio 2 (G) — In the 2011 animated film’s sequel, a family of blue macaws tries to adjust to life in the Amazon. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

REVIEW

There’s no mistaking a Jim Jarmusch film. It’s been 30 years since the writer/ director’s breakthrough second feature Stranger Than Paradise became bedrock for a new era of independent American film.

Jarmusch doesn’t work as often as he once did, if only because it has become harder to finance original films. But he has stuck with his signature style, using long silences, deadpan humor and beautifully composed images. You Only Lovers Left Alive (R) don’t watch a Jarmusch film so much as let it wash over Directed by Jim Jarmusch you. His gorgeous transatlantic Starring Tilda Swinton, vampire story Only Lovers Left Alive Tom Hiddleston and John Hurt won’t win him many new fans, but it should be cause for celebration Limited release among converts. Like Jarmusch’s best films, it’s short on plot but long on character, atmosphere and ideas.

Cultured vampires Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) are deeply in love and have been married for centuries but currently occupy different continents. He’s a depressed but brilliant underground rock musician who lives in the decaying urban wilderness of Detroit. She resides in Tangier, Morocco and derives real pleasure from daily experience — especially great books. After Adam’s existential crisis brings the couple together physically, they drink “the good stuff” (clean type O negative) from antique cocktail glasses and interrupt the story to stop and enjoy a vintage 45 (Charlie Feathers’ “Can’t Hardly Stand It”) or stumble across a club show by another underground icon (Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan). Their old friend and fellow vampire Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt) ghostwrote all of Shakespeare’s works.

It would be easy to dismiss Adam and Eve as self-absorbed hipsters. But they find themselves still alive at a time when short-sighted humans (known here as “zombies”) are casually destroying the natural world — and when no self-respecting vampire would stoop to feeding on their environmentally contaminated blood. The couple takes refuge in their love for art and each other, their detachment a product of circumstance. Like the replicants in Blade Runner, they’re actually more human than their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Hiddleston’s and Swinton’s affecting performances make that distinction possible.

Great cities often serve as main characters in Jarmusch’s films, including Memphis (Mystery Train) and New Orleans (Down By Law), and No Lovers Left Alive is no exception. Detroit becomes the third facet of a brooding character study, the once-grand city now a symbol of economic neglect and cultural decline. As shot by Jarmusch, it’s also a place of ragged beauty. Sometimes a conventional plot is the last thing a film really needs. — KEN KORMAN Stage Fright (R) — A musical theater camp is victimized by a killer who hates musical theater. Zeitgeist

OPENING FRIDAY Godzilla (PG-13) — Humanity rises to the challenge as Godzilla emerges once again.

Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place, Chalmette Million Dollar Arm (PG) — A sports agent goes to India to find a new pitcher. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank,

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Carter (NR) — Lil Wayne goes on tour following his successful CD Tha Carter III. 10 p.m. Wednesday. Indywood Theater Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (PG) — A scientist learns that a past invention has gone haywire. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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Father-Like Son (NR) — A new college graduate soon has a new dad his own age. 8 p.m. Thursday, 4 p.m.

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Indywood Theater The Goonies (PG) — A group of friends hunt for treasure.

8 p.m. Saturday. Coliseum Square Park Humanscale (NR) — Veteran architect Jan Gehl explores the growing urban population. 5 p.m. Sunday. Indywood Theater King of Herrings (NR) — A group of slackers make PAGE 46

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Watermark Co-directed by Canadian THRU filmmaker Jennifer Bai7:15 p.m. daily MAY chwal and art photograZeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, pher Edward Burtynsky, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Watermark is the com(504) 352-1150 panion documentary to the touring Edward www.zeitgeistinc.net Burtynsky: Water photography exhibition, which was presented at the Contemporary Arts Center in fall 2013. Like that exhibition, Watermark is all about perspective, often using aerial photography to find the beautiful, often geometric shapes created by the industrial use of water across the globe before moving closer to reveal the environmental devastation that often results from those practices. The film is intentionally impressionistic, occasionally including brief interview material with scientists or local workers to illuminate complex issues but relying more on striking images to make its case. The result is a powerful hybrid of visual art and documentary filmmaking, and one that sends a clear message about the perils of environmental mismanagement and the steep price we may pay for not protecting our most precious natural resource. — KEN KORMAN

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Sunken City Season 1 (NR) — The web series shows the hidden aspects of New

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Indywood Theater Teenage: A Documentary (NR) — Archived footage shows how the teenage demographic was first formed.

6 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Indywood Theater AMC Clearview Palace 12: Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie., (504) 887-1257. www.amctheatres.com AMC Elmwood Palace 20: 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan, (504) 733-2029. www.amctheatres.com AMC Westbank Palace 16: 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 263-2298. www.amctheatres.com Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992. www.chalmettemovies.com Coliseum Square Park: 1700 Coliseum St., www.coliseumsquare. org Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629. www.auduboninstitute. org The Grand 14 Espla-

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OPENING Hyph3n-Art Gallery.

1901 Royal St., (504) 2646863; www.hyph3n.com — “The Tenth: Volume 1,” mixed media by more than 80 black, gay artists, 7 p.m. to midnight Friday.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College,” opening reception 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

GALLERIES

Callan Contemporary.

518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary. com — “I Search in Snow,” mixed media by Sibylle Peretti, through May. Carol Robinson Gallery.

840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Symbols and Surfaces,” mixed media

by Mary Hardy, through May. Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “City in Mind,” monotypes of New Orleans streetscapes by Barbara Brainard, through May.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery. com — “Erin Lee Gafill: Colorscapes,” mixed media group exhibition, through May.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www. nolafront.org — “FATHOM (MCMLXXVI),” photography

by Ryn Wilson; mixed media by Yukako Ezoe and Naoki Onodera; and “Thirds,” mixed media by Hunter Thompson, Lindsay Preston Zappas, Jamie Solock, through June 8.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Art Syncopation,” paintings by Angel Gonzalez de la Tijera, through May 20.

Arthur Roger Gallery.

432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “Chihuly,” architectural installations by Dale Chihuly, and “Still Lifes,” oil paintings by Amy Weiskopf, through July 12.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery. com — “Illuminated Vessels,” works by Marcela Singleton, “Subterraneous,” paintings and videos by Shawn Hall, and “Transmographies,” paintings by Adam Montegut, through May. Boyd | Satellite.

440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery. com — “Played to Win,” oil paintings by Elizabeth Fox, through June 3.

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

Garden District Gallery.

1332 Washington Ave., (504) 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery.com — Louisiana Watercolor Society’s international exhibition, through May 25.

Good Children Gallery.

4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Middle Digit,” sculptures by Aaron McNamee, through June 8.

Graphite Galleries. 936 Royal St., (504) 565-3739; www.graphitenola.com — Group mixed media exhibition, ongoing.

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com —

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

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www. jeanbragg.com — “The Quintessential Vieux Carre Genre,” paintings by Oscar Quesada, through May. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — “Stronger than Dirt,” mixed media by Gina Phillips, through May. La Madama Bazarre. 1007 St. Mary St., (504) 236-5076; www. lamadamabazarre.com — Group exhibition celebrating the whimsical and weird sides of Louisiana, ongoing.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Summer Stars,” astrology-themed paintings by Jon Langford, through May. Lisa Victoria Gallery.

616 Royal St., (504) 315-0850; www.lisavictoriagallery. com — Mixed media group exhibition, ongoing.

Live Art Studio. 4207 Dumaine St., (504) 484-7245; www.liveartstudio.com — Giclee prints of jazz musicians

by Sarah Stiehl and “Louisiana Waltz,” photography by Richard Weller, through May. M. Francis Gallery.

1938 Burgundy St., (504) 9311915; www.mfrancisgallery. com — Acrylic on canvas by Myesha, ongoing.

Michalopoulos Gallery.

617 Bienville St., (504) 5580505; www.michalopoulos. com — “Down and Dirty,” paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

Morrison. 1507 Magazine St., (504) 451-3303; www. morrisonsculpture.com — Sculpture and drawings by Thomas Randolph Morrison, ongoing.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — Hand-blown glass trumpets by James Mongrain and metal saxophone sculptures by Robert Sarpy, through May. Newcomb Art Gallery.

Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombart-

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “De Troit,” photographic homage to Detroit by Joseph Crachiola, through June 7. “One Foot in the Swamp: Portraits & Daydreams as Photographs,” photography by Zack Smith, through Aug. 2.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.thesecondstorygallery. com — “Images from Paradise,” drawings by Madeleine Faust, through May. Sheila Phipps Studio & Gallery. 8237 Oak St., (504) 596-6031 — Oil and acrylic portraits and abstracts, ongoing.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — “Minding the Gap,” paintings

by Linda Dautreuil, through May 24.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “GRAPHite,” drawings by Robert Lansden, through June 8.

Stella Jones Gallery.

Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Conjuring New Orleans Music: Voodoo, Gumbo and Snowballs, Too,” mixed media group exhibition, through May. Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., (985) 892-2811; www.threeriversgallery.com — “Ferrous and Flora,” ambrotypes by Robert Dutruch, through June 7.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery.

2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Material Lifespan,” sculptures by Corbin R. Wayne Covher, and “Redd Hott Fiyah,” collages by Darel Joseph, through June 8.

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

SPARE SPACES Bar Redux. 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — “Spiritual Beliefs

and the Resurrection of Life,” mixed media by Michael Roman, ongoing.

Basin Street Station. 501 Basin St., (504) 293-2600; www.basinststation.com — Scale model of the French Quarter in 1915, ongoing.

Bonjour Lingerie. 4214 Magazine St., (504) 3098014; www.facebook.com/ bonjournola — Mixed media black light art by Mario Ortiz, ongoing.

The Country Club.

634 Louisa St., (504) 9450742; www.thecountryclubneworleans.com — “All Amzie All the Time,” group exhibition of art celebrating Amzie Adams, ongoing.

Hey! Cafe.

4332 Magazine St., (504) 891-8682; www.heycafe.biz — Cartoons from Feast Yer Eyes magazine, ongoing.

La Divina Gelateria. 621 St. Peter St., (504) 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com — Art and photographs by Thom Bennett, Mary Moring and Rita Posselt, ongoing.

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Treo. 3835 Tulane Ave., (504) 650-9844; www.treonola. com — Mixed media group exhibition, ongoing.

CALL FOR ARTISTS The Summer Show. St. Tammany Art Association, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — The St. Tammany Art Association seeks contemporary art. Awards up to $3,000. Deadline Monday.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center.

900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “hello I AM,” contemporary art by New Orleans teenagers, through Saturday. “30 Americans,” group exhibition of works by black artists from the past 30 years, through June 15.

Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Shout, Sister, Shout! The Boswell Sisters of New Orleans,” mixed media exhibition about a local 1920s and 1930s trio, through Oct. 26.

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Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery. com — Jazz Fest photography group exhibition, through Wednesday.

The Foundation Gallery.

608 Julia St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — “Earth Vision,” paintings by Faye Earnest, through June 7.

The Hotel Modern. 936 St. Charles Ave., 504-962-0900; www.thehotelmodern. com — “The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, Chapter 3,” mixed media by Sanford Biggers, through May.

gallery.tulane.edu — “Early Modern Faces: European Portraits 1480-1780,” exhibition of paintings by old masters, through June 29.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “Fluid States,” photography by Michel Varisco, through May.

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After spending many years documenting the splendors and struggles of Louisiana wetlands and the Gulf of Mexico, Michel Varisco shifted her focus to a new perspective on the world’s waterways. Her Fluid States expo at Octavia Art Gallery reveals unusual Fluid States: Recent photoviews of those bodies of water and THRU graphs by Michel Varisco the life-forms they contain, the MAY aqueous environs of China’s turbulent Octavia Art Gallery, rivers and New Zealand’s exotic sea454 Julia St., scapes. What ties them all together (504) 309-4249 is the beauty of their timeless vistas www.octaviaartgallery.com and the mysteries that dwell beneath their silvery surfaces. In the most Water Road: New macro view, The Color of Water and retrospective work (pictured), those shimmering surfaces

by Daniel Minter comprise a large and diverse grid Soren Christensen Gallery, of seascapes. When artists create grids, we expect something that 400 Julia St., scientifically reduces their subjects’ (504) 569-9501 implicit drama to a cool taxonomy for www.sorengallery.com cerebral contemplation, but this piece is unabashedly sensual, with sublime colors that elucidate each body of water as a separate yet related universe. A more micro approach is seen in Marsh Seedbox, named for one of the plants that appear in a view of a swamp, where pale, rose-like flowers on serpentine stems rise from the murky depths of a miniature jungle just below the surface. Other works explore everything in between and the magic that is hidden in plain sight in the watery world around us.

A related yet different view appears in Daniel Minter’s Water Road paintings.

We’ve heard about the horrors of the slave ships that plied the oceans as their human cargo died in vast numbers from hideous conditions below deck, but Minter rather shamanistically merges ethereal visions of archetypal African people with the sea’s mystical azure aura in images that suggest all aspects of nature and humanity are ultimately sublime and that the intermittent horrors of the human condition are the result of our small-minded failure to comprehend that universal, yet elusive, reality. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Irish Cultural Museum. 933 Conti St., (504) 481-8593 — “Jewellery Box — Irish Hidden Gems,” photographs by Daragh Muldowney, through May 24.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — “Kinder Garden: Creep, Crawl and Fly,” an education in insects for children via songs, crafts and hands-on learning, Tuesday.

Louisiana Children’s Museum.

420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.

state.la.us — “The Louisiana Photographs of Robert Tebbs,” photos of plantations from 1926, through June 1. “Images and Instruments: Medical History,” artifacts and images of 19th- and 20th-century medical equipment, ongoing.

Newcomb College Pottery of New Orleans”, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee,” an overview of the Carnival organization, through December. “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts, and “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items, ongoing.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “I’ll Save You Tomorrow,” mixed media by Juan Logan, “Into the Light II,” Southern photography group exhibition, through July 20.

Madame John’s Legacy. 632 Dumaine St., (504) 568-6968; www.crt.state.la.us — “The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress:

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Rematch,” a retrospective of conceptual artist Mel Chin, through May 25.

Williams Research Center.

Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org — “From Cameo to Close Up: Louisiana in Film,” the history of movie-making in New Orleans as seen in posters and photographs, through Nov. 26.

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CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY The Andrews Brothers.

National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5281944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — Three men fill in for the Andrews Sisters when a flu outbreak quarantines the women. Dinner and show $65, brunch and show $60, show only $30.

Dinner 6 p.m., show 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

Beach Blanket Burlesque.

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

9 p.m. Wednesday Bits & Jiggles. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — The show mixes comedy and burlesque.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 658-4100; www. noma.org — The NOLA Project gives viewers the option to follow the Red Queen and her walking story, the Cheshire Cat and her fast-moving story or the Mad Hatter and his stationary story. Adults $18, $12 members, students and children ages 7-17. Children under 7 not permitted. 7 p.m. WednesdayFriday & Sunday.

Almost, Maine. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www. playmakersinc.com — The residents of Almost, Maine, fall in and out of love in unforeseen and humorous ways. Adults $15, students $10. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Death of a Salesman. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www. lepetittheatre.com — Le Petit Theatre presents the classic Arthur Miller play. Tickets start at $30.

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

Kiss Me Kate. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre. org — The play inside a musical features compositions by Cole Porter. 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

Marry Me, a Little. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www. midcitytheatre.com — Promethean Theatre presents a musical about two single people in New York. 8 p.m.

Thursday, 9 p.m. FridaySaturday, 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www. thejoytheater.com — The

90-minute comedy about relationships, based on John Gray’s book, is divided into vignettes. Tickets $45.

7:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Size of Life. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www. theshadowboxtheatre.com — Frederick Mead stars in his solo show about John James Audubon’s life. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Sunday.

War Horse. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www. saengernola.com — A man goes on a quest to retrieve his horse at the end of World War I. Tickets start at $36. 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Young Frankenstein.

Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., (504) 461-9475; www. rivertowntheaters.com — The musical version of Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy comes to the stage. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Humpty Dumpty in The NOLA Project’s Adventures in Wonderland, a semiparticipatory dramatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s two novels about Alice, doesn’t sit on a wall. He hangs out on a bridge in the middle of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Instead of the hapless nursery rhyme characAdventures THRU ter, he’s a speech-impaired, slightly in Wonderland MAY edgy social climber who wants to be 7 p.m. Wed.-Fri. & Sun. invited to the A-list parties in Wonderland. Carlos Velazquez plays him to City Park, Sydney hilarious effect, especially as he insists and Walda Besthoff that people crossing the bridge keep Sculpture Garden, their elbows down, so as not to upset 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle any (unnamed) other person.

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Humpty is a minor character in noma.eventbrite.com Adventures. Audience members choose either to chase Alice through Tickets $18 general the garden, sit at the Mad Hatter’s tea admission, $12 NOMA party or follow Alice’s sister Esther members/university on her wild adventure. But one of the students/children (7-17) things that makes the production so charming is that all the characters are constantly active during the 90-minute show. One can go with Alice (Molly Ruben-Long) to the tea party to see if the Mad Hatter (Alex Martinez Wallace) knows who took the Red Queen’s tarts, and off in the distance, one sees Humpty conversing with the White Rabbit, or Mock Turtle lecturing some of the garden’s sculptures of human figures. Under Andrew Larimer’s clever direction, Wonderland feels like a living place where one is crashing the party along with Alice or one of her two sisters (although in the books she only has one).

The three groups and their respective subplots cross paths throughout the show. One group follows Alice as she tries to discover who has stolen the Red Queen’s tarts. The pace is quick, and it’s best to stay near the front to catch every word as the group hustles along the garden paths. Audiences who wish to let the action come to them can bring a blanket or chair and stay at the tea party, but they won’t see Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee’s puppet show.

Standout performances include Wallace’s menacing Mad Hatter, RubenLong’s earnest but determined Alice, Velazquez’s comic Humpty Dumpty, buffoonish Tweedles Price Provenzano and Cammie West, and the double-cast droll and snarky Cheshire Cats, Ross Britz and Dylan Hunter. As Mock Turtle, Chris Carrington seemed to aim for pretentious aloofness but came off flat.

Peter McElligott’s adaptation is smart and effective. The NOLA Project says it is suitable for 7 and up. There are asides for adults. The Duchess (Kristin Witterschein) sells pepper soup and fusses about being a small business owner.

Wonderland is a place full of absurdity and silliness, but Alice miraculously makes sense of it. Early on, she is told she will be blamed for taking the missing tarts because she is a “stranger.” A simple lesson about the cruel logic of scapegoating innocents seems like a cautionary tale for real-life political spheres, and other caustic asides seem aimed at the frustrations of coping with government or workplace bureaucracies.

The intermissionless show flies by, particularly if one follows one of the two mobile groups. Wonderland thrills its audience with calamitous horrors (the Red Queen’s constant threats of decapitation) and resolves them with a combination of silliness and earnestness appropriate for a children’s tale. The entire cast gathers for the cacophonous and cathartic resolution at the tea party, and as the girls lament, it’s sad one has to leave Wonderland. But one can return for at least two different takes on the adventure, and in a perfectly childlike way, enjoy the story again and again. — WILL COVIELLO

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Burlesque Ballroom.

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www.sonesta.com/royalneworleans — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. Call (504) 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

Every Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner Has a Future. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — The LGBT variety show features burlesque, fire-eating and prizes. Tickets $15, students $10. 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday.

Remember the King: Elvis Through the Years.

Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www. mahaliajacksontheater.com — Elvis’ career, from the 1950s through the Vegas years, is highlighted. Tickets start at $20. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Victory Belles: Spirit of America. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The Victory Belles perform patriotic tunes and music from the songbooks of George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin. Cuisine from American Sector is available.

11:45 a.m. Wednesday.

AUDITIONS City-wide auditions. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Performers older than 18 audition for more than a dozen local producers. Actors should prepare two contrasting monologues, each one minute long. Actor-musicians should prepare a two-minute instrument solo, 16 bars of song and a one-minute monologue. Singers should bring sheet music for a 16 bar musical song to be played by a provided accompanist.

11 a.m. Saturday.

Crescent City Sound Chorus.

Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, (504) 616-6066; www.dcc.edu — The Crescent City Sound Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, holds auditions. For details, visit www.crescentcitysound. com. 7 p.m. Monday.

Twilight Dance Camps. Various locations, New Orleans — Kids ages 6 to 18 can register for New Orleans Ballet Association’s June evening camps. No auditions required.

Visit www.nobadance.com/ youthprograms.cfm for details.

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — Le Petit Theatre seeks actors and actresses for paid roles.

Performers should prepare a comic monologue no longer than two minutes. Call (504) 522-2081 for more information.

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday.

DANCE Giselle. Jefferson Performing Arts Society, 1118 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, 885-2000; www.jpas.org — A peasant girl falls in love with a prince in this ballet. Tickets start at $15. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Known Mass. daMata Acupuncture Studio, 2933 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3445642; www.acupuncturedamata.com — Musicians and dancers preview their June production. Tickets start at $5.

8 p.m. Saturday.

COMEDY Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge.com — J. Alfred Potter and Jonah Bascle do stand-up shows on a rotating basis. 11:55 p.m. Friday.

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

Chelsea Handler. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — Chelsea Handler makes a stop on her Uganda Be Killing Me tour. Tickets start at $45. 8 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open-mic portion. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comedy Sportz. NOLA 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.

The Franchise. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www.tnmcomedy. com — Comedians perform at this weekly improv show.

Admission $5. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Friday Night Laughs.

NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts an open-mic.

11 p.m. Friday.

Give ‘Em The Light Open-Mic Comedy Show. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues. com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Johnny Rock. C. Beever’s Bar of Music, 2507 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-9401 — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts an open-mic comedy night.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Laugh & Sip. The Wine Bistro, 1011 Gravier St.; www. facebook.com/thewinebistrono — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians.

Call (504) 606-6408 for details.

Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Lights Up!. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www.tnmcomedy. com — The theater showcases new improv troupes. Tickets $5. 9 p.m. Thursday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www. tnmcomedy.com — Each show features a guest sharing favorite true stories, the details of which inspire improv comedy.

Tickets $8. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic & Showcase. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the series featuring a booked showcase and open mic. Free admission. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Sunday.

Sit-Down Stand-Up. Prytania Bar, 3445 Prytania St., (504) 891-5773; www.prytaniabar.com — Jonah Bascle hosts the stand-up comedy show presented by Accessible Comedy. Free admission.

8:30 p.m. Monday.

Sketch Comedy. NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy. com — The Sketchy Characters perform sketch comedy. Visit www.sketchycharacters.net for details. 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Student Union. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www.tnmcomedy.com — A weekly improv for The New Movement students and alumni. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Think You’re Funny? Comedy Showcase. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 8659190; www.carrolltonstation. com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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EVENTS TUESDAY 13 Free Swimming Lessons.

Tulane University, Reily Center, 31 McAlister Drive; www. reilycenter.com — The Ashley Kelly Swim Program offers free swim lessons and water safety to children and adults older than 5. Register at www.saveourlake.org or call (504) 836-2238. 5 p.m., 6 p.m. & 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

It’s All About the Music Bike Ride. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — As part of NOLA Social Ride, bicyclists cruise around the city, stopping a few times along the way to enjoy live music. Visit www. facebook.com/groups/nolasocialride for details. 6 p.m.

Yoga at the Cabildo.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — Yoga classes for all experience levels are held in the Cabildo gallery. 7:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY 14 Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — The talk show features Brandan Odums, Bethany Bultman, Big Freedia and Joe Cardosi. Tickets $10. 8 p.m.

Nature Walk and Titivation.

Northlake Nature Center,

Ron Kottemann. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The grandson of the Roman Candy Company founder talks about the business and his family. 7 p.m.

Wednesday at the Square. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place; www.lafayette-square. org — The Wednesday evening concert series features New Orleans musicians, food and arts and crafts. Proceeds benefit the Young Leadership Council. Visit the website and check Gambit music listings for details. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday-Monday.

THURSDAY 15 Alvar Arts. Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 596-2667; www. nutrias.org — Alvar Library hosts an evening of music, art, writing and performance.

There’s a presentation, a Q&A and refreshments. Visit www. alvararts.org for details. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Art on the Rocks at W New Orleans. W Hotel New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444; www.wneworleans. com — Artists in residence showcase their work alongside a DJ, drink specials and giveaways by W Hotels.

Visit www.wneworleans.com/ artontherocks for details. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Innocence Project New Orleans Gala. The Foundry, 333 St. Joseph St., (504) 586-1309 — The event includes special guest Lance Nichols and catering by Jacques-Imo’s.

Tickets $150. 6:30 p.m.

Jazz in the Park. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — Jazz in the Park’s free musical and dance performances series features food and art

The Pancakes & Booze Art Show.

Howlin’ Wolf Music Club, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — The show features works by more than 55 artists, live music, body painting and free pancakes. Admission $5. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

FRIDAY 16

Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival. Festival Grounds, 225 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse — There is food, crafts, music, a car show and carnival rides. 6 p.m.

Concerts In the Courtyard. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St., 504-523-4662; www.hnoc.org — The monthly event offers live music, beer and

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Overeaters Anonymous. Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church, 3900 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-3431; www.rayneumc. org — Group members help each other use the 12-step method to recover from compulsive eating.

For details, contact Sarah at (504) 458-9965. 7 p.m.

wine. Non-members $10. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 523-3341; www. hotelmonteleone.com — The LGBT festival features panel discussions, workshops, author readings and writing contests.

Thursday-Sunday.

Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Festival. Bayou St. John, at Orleans Avenue — The music festival along the banks of Bayou St. John features three music stages, an arts market, children’s activities and food and drink vendors. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The weekly event includes an art activity, live music, a film and a food demonstration. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Crawfish Cookin’ for a Cause.

Mandeville Lakefront Harbor, Lakeshore Drive & Jackson Ave — There are unlimited crawfish at the benefit for Project Red Light for Hope and Mary Payton’s Miracle Foundation. Tickets start at $25. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Crawfish Rumble. St. Ann School, 4921 Meadowdale St., (504) 455-8383; www.stannschool.org — Crawfish, hot dogs, soda and beer are available.

Ages 16 and older $20, ages 10 to 15 $10, ages 9 and younger free. Purchase tickets at www. crawfishrumble.org. 5 p.m.

Crescent City Farmers Market.

Magazine Street Market, Magazine and Girod streets, (504) 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — The market features produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon.

Cystic Fibrosis Walk. Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — Walk to help cure Cystic Fibrosis. There will be food, raffles, Mardi Gras dance krewes and more. 9 a.m.

German Coast Farmers Market.

Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon.

Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 362-8661 — The weekly rain-orshine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers.

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.

In the Name of Street Art. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — Artist Brandan Odums teaches a workshop about street art techniques.

Admission $8, members $5. 10 a.m. to noon.

SATURDAY 17 Antique Auto Club of St. Bernard Cruise Night. Brewster’s, 8751 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 309-7548; www.brewstersrestaurant.com — Antique and classic cars are displayed and there is music from the 1950s through the 1970s. 6 p.m.

Cathy Gianfala Carriere. The Catholic Book Store, 3003 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-7504; www. cbstorenola.com — The musician signs her CDs A Matter of Faith and Love Story, A Tribute to John Denver. 10 a.m.

Jeff Fish Fest & Rodeo. St. Matthew Apostle, 10021 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge — A weigh-in party follows the two-day fishing rodeo, along with prizes, auctions, games, music and steak dinner. Adult $20, children $5. 2 p.m.

Louisiana Veterans Festival.

Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd., Slidell, (985) 781-3650 — Habitat for Humanity hosts the fundraiser featuring live music, a car show, amusement rides, arts, crafts and food. General admission $8, veterans $5, children 12 and under free. 10 a.m.

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Library Genealogy Series. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Sal Serio, curator of the library’s American Italian Research Center, leads a 13-part genealogy series.

Contact Chris at (504) 889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us for a complete schedule. 7 p.m.

Tuesday-Monday.

23135 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — Guests tour natural habitats and learn to prune plants along the trail.

Call (985) 626-1238 for more information. 5:45 p.m.

Marketplace at Armstrong Park.

Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap. org — The market features produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, handmade beauty products, arts, crafts and entertainment. Visit www.icdnola.org for details. 2 p.m. to 6 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 are invited to dance, talk and dine together at this health-centered event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Madisonville Art Market. Madisonville Art Market, Tchefuncte River Front at Water Street, Madisonville, (985) 871-4918; www.artformadisonville.org — The monthly market features works by local artists including paintings, mixed media, photography, jewelry, wood carving, sculpture, stained glass and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Milan Golf Scramble. Audubon Clubhouse Cafe, 6500 Magazine St., 212-5282; www.auduboninstitute.org — The tournament benefits Team Gleason. Entry fee $100. 1:30 p.m.

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Yoga/Pilates. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The museum holds Pilates classes every fourth Saturday of the month, and yoga classes every other Saturday. Call (504) 456-5000 for details.

Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

SUNDAY 18

North American Quilling Guild annual conference. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (800) 850-3878 — Quillers display their work, demonstrate techniques and sell their items. 1 p.m.

Art & Soul Gala. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, 2800 Chartres St.,, (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — The event includes performances by NOCCA students and benefits the school. Tickets $65. 6 p.m.

OCH Recycled Art Market.

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

Bicycle Second Line. Bayou St. John, at Orleans Avenue — Bike advocacy group Bike Easy hosts a second line route. Free for members. Membership costs $35. Call (504) 861-4022 for more information. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Rivertown Farmers Market.

Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard., Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Street, Westwego — The cookoff guarantees enough crawfish to last all day. 11 a.m.

Spring Fest in the Marigny. St. Paul Lutheran School, 2624 Burgundy St., (504) 947-1773; www.splno.com — The festival includes music, games and food. Noon.

St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 278-4242; www.visitstbernard.com — The market offers seafood, produce, jams, preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities. Call (504) 355-4442 or visit the website for details. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A Stitch in Time. Chalmette Battlefield of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 8606 W. St. Bernard Hwy., Chalmette, 589-3882; www.nps.gov/jela — Guests learn about 1815-era uniforms and sewing techniques. Call (504) 589-3882 ext. 134 to make reservations. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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.

Westwego Farmers and Fisheries Market Crawfish Cook-Off. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth

Fishing Rodeo & Family Fun. Myrtle Grove Marina, 161 Marina Road, Belle Chasse — Individuals, kayak fishers and teams compete in the fishing contest.

Individuals and kayakers $20, teams $30. 11:30 a.m.

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

Swap Meet NOLA. St. Margaret’s at Mercy, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 279-6414; www.stmargaretsno.org — The Humane Society sponsors a flea market, art market and farmers market. 9 a.m.

Swing Dance Lesson With Amy & Chance. d.b.a., 618 Frenchmen St., (504) 942-3731; www. dbabars.com/dbano — The bar and music venue offers free swing dance lessons. 4:30 p.m.

Swingin’ Sundays. AllWays Lounge and Theatre, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Free dance lessons at 8 p.m. are followed by a live band at 9 p.m.

Tipitina’s Foundation’s Sunday Youth Music Workshop.

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

Washington Square Park Spring Festival and Home Tour.

Washington Square, between Elysian Fields Avenue and Frenchmen Street, (888) 3120812; www.faubourgmarigny.org — There is live music, children’s activities and food. Self-guided home tours begin at noon. Tour tickets $20. 10 a.m.

PREVIEW

Acts of God

P H O T O BY N AT H A L I E D U B O I S

Tragedies beget heroic acts large and small that can unveil a person’s character or profoundly change how they approach life. Award-winning author Ellen Gilchrist explores human nature and survival instincts in her latest book, Acts of God (Algonquin Books, April 2014, $23.95), a collection of 10 short stories about Southern characters dealing with things they can’t control: tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, aging, disease and death. How we react to such tragedies is the allure, and the stories’ lessons are subtle and intelligently presented.

With her trademark narrative style, Gilchrist weaves engaging tales about people who perform exceptional acts of kindness as part of their instinctual nature: because it’s the right thing to do. That was the case MAY Ellen Gilchrist disin “Hopedale, A History in Four Acts,” the cusses and signs story of an 8-year-old black boy who was Acts of God taken in by the McCamey family, white Mississippi farmers — strangers at the 6 p.m. Monday time — after his parents died in a flood at Garden District Book the plantation where they lived. The boy, Shop, 2727 Prytania Eli Naylor, lived on the farm for the rest St., (504) 895-2266; of his life and was buried alongside the www.gardendistrictrest of the McCamey family. An exception to do-gooding is “The Dogs,” a series of bookshop.com terse letters circulated among persnickety neighbors.

The stories aren’t simple, though they are quick reads, and there are few revelations or real surprises. Still, the reader comes away with a feeling of optimism.

Part of Gilchrist’s success lies in her ability to make her characters authentic and believable, like people you might run into regularly at the grocery store, or with whom you can emphathize. Those talents are what earned Gilchrist the National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan. Her portfolio includes 20 works, including novels, memoirs, poems and short stories.

The attitude of Acts of God can perhaps best be summarized in the words of David Haver, a paramedic in the story “High Water,” who was attending a convention in New Orleans when the levees failed following Hurricane Katrina and stayed to rescue patients from hospitals downtown: “Some people are heroes and some plot, some lie and cheat and steal, and some carry morbidly obese patients up six flights of stairs so they can be medevaced to hospitals and kept alive to eat another day,” he says. “The human race. You have to love it and wish it well and not preach or think you have any reason to think you are better than anyone else.” — KANDACE POWER GRAVES

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MONDAY 19 Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 6584100; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold presents the class in the museum’s art galleries.

Call (504) 456-5000 for details.

Non-members $5. 6 p.m.

WORDS Chelsea Handler. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author discusses and signs Uganda Be Kidding Me.

Two tickets and a copy of the book for $30. 2 p.m. Friday.

Clifton Crais. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author discusses and signs History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory and the Brain. 6 p.m. Friday.

Cora Carmack, Jay Crownover, Sophie Jordan, Nichole Chase, J. Lynn, Lisa Desrochers.

Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The new adult fiction authors discuss and sign their books. 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Don R. Caffery. The Catholic Book Store, 3003 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-7504; www. cbstorenola.com — The author discusses and signs Our Holy Father, the Pope: The Papacy from St. Pete to the Present. 11 a.m. Saturday.

Ellen Gilchrist. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author talks and signs Acts of God. 6 p.m. Monday.

Eric Muller. National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.nationalww2museum.org — The

author discusses and signs Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II. 5 p.m.

Tuesday.

Garrison Keillor. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre. com — The author and radio personality discusses and signs The Keillor Reader. Tickets $30. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Joseph Boyden. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author talks and signs The Orenda. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The authors discuss Odin’s Ravens. 1 p.m.

Kimberla Lawson Roby. New Orleans Public Library, Norman Mayer Branch, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., 596-3100; www.nutrias. org — The author discusses and signs The Prodigal Son. 3 p.m. Saturday.

Monte Dutton. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author talks and signs The Intangibles. 6 p.m.

Robin Roberts. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author talks and signs Everybody’s Got Something.

11 a.m. Sunday.

Sarah Pekkanen. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author discusses and signs Catching Air. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen.

Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — Children’s books are read.

11:30 a.m. Saturday.

SPORTS Zephyrs. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.zephyrsbaseball.com — The New Orleans Zephyrs play the Oklahoma City RedHawks. 7 p.m. Monday.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Poetryfest. Poetryfest seeks poems no longer than 21 lines from amateur poets. Email entries to poetryfest@yahoo. com. Deadline Friday.

Swap Meet NOLA. Artists, farmers, bakers and flea market vendors are invited to set up booths at recurring swap meets. Visit www.swapmeetnola.com, call (504) 813-5370 or email swapmeetnola@gmail. com for details.

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NEWCOMERS CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS

Welcoming new residents to City of New Orleans (Jefferson & Orleans) in 4th Tuesday Luncheon setting.

New friends. Area Coffees are free, crafts sessions, explore city. Contact elspurlock@aol.co, or Randall (504) 866-7435 for dates of activities.

LEGAL NOTICES 24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 716-418 DIV. G SUCCESSION OF ETIENNE J. CAIRE, II NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

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NOTICE is hereby given that Therese Ann Caire Bryars duly qualified Executrix of the Succession of Etienne J. Caire, II has made application to the Court for authority to sell the following immovable property at private sale, to-wit:

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A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, and prescriptions (both liberative and acquisitive) and ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Fairfield Park Subdivision, in Block No. 2 thereof, bounded by Edenborn Avenue, Division, 49th and Fairfield Streets; according to survey of Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C.E., dated February 15, 1954, resurveyed April 12, 1956 by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C.E., said portion of ground is designated as Lot No. 3, which commences 124.50 feet from the comer of Edenborn Avenue and Fairfield Street, and measures thence 62.25 feet front on Fairfield Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 80 feet between equal and parallel lines. All as more fully shown on print of survey by Raymond B. Saucier, C.E. dated October 17, 1964.

The improvements thereon bear the municipal No. 3709 Fairfield Street, now 3709 West Metairie Avenue North. The acquisition of the above described property was recorded by the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson on January 17, 1974 under entry number 628128 in which Inez Songy, wife of, and Etienne J. Caire, II, vendees, purchased the above described property from Rita M. Sutton, James Wesley Sutton and Josephine S. Clark, vendors.

Any creditors of the deceased 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 and sum of One Hundred Thousand and No/100 ($100,000.00) all cash to seller, at private sale.

Attorney: Ryan S. McBride Bar No. 29332 Address: 1000 Veterans Blvd #204 Metairie, LA 70005 Telephone: (504) 265-1705 Gambit: 5/13/14 & 5/20/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of ADAM CLAYTON WILLIAMS please contact Justin A. Reese Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 696-468 DIV. N SUCCESSION OF ANN TOMLINSON AUTIN LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Michelle Autin- Executrix of the Succession of Ann Tomlinson Autin- has petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell all of the succession’s interest in and to the following described immovable property in accordance with the provisions of Articles 3191 and 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, Town of Harahan, in the part therof known as ROSELAND PARK SUBDIVISION, in Square No. 6, bounded by GORDON AVENUE, MONROE STREET, ROSELAND PARKWAY, and RADIANCE PATHWAY, which said lot of ground is designated as Lot No. 31-B, commences at a distance of 65 feet from the corner of GORDON AVENUE and RADIANCE PATHWAY, and measures thence 110 feet front on GORDON AVENUE, by a depth of 110 feet between equal and parallel lines, and is composed of a portion of original Lot 29, immediately adjoining original Lot 39, the whole of original Lots 30, 31, 32, and 33. All in accordance with a survey by Gilbert and Kelly Surveyors, dated November 6, 1951. All in accordance with a survey by F. G. Stewart, Surveyor, dated August 22, 1956, a copy of which is annexed to the vendors act of purchase, passed before notary.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal Nos. 328 GORDON AVENUE. Any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within seven (7) days.

Attorney: Tara Waldron Address: 3201 Gen. DeGaulle Dr. Suite 105 New Orleans, LA 70114 Telephone: (504) 365-1700 Gambit: 5/13/14 & 6/3/14

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 737-476 DIV. O SUCCESSION OF DAVID O. EZELL NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given to the creditors of this estate and to all other persons interested to show cause within seven (7) days from this notification why the First and Final Tableau of Distribution presented by the Independent Administrator of this Estate should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed accordingly.

By Order of the Court, Attorney: Ronald W. Morrison Address: 209-A Canal St. Metairie, LA 70005 Gambit: 5/13/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Earl Martin Devlin please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 5539588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130.

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

NO.: 2013-11532 DIV. A

NO.: 08-3556 DIV. F NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

SUCCESSION OF ROBERT YOUNG, JR.

SUCCESSION OF PHILLIP T. PIZZECK

SUCCESSION OF ISAIAH JACKSON, SR. AND AUDREY LIGGANS JACKSON

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL MOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION

SUCCESSIONS OF EARL FRANKLIN and MYRTLE FRANKLIN

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 731-370 DIV. O

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE is given to all parties whom it may concern, including the creditors of the decedent herein and of his estate, that the Administrator of this succession has petitioned this Court for authority to sell at private sale that certain movable property belonging to the decedent in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure for the total sum of $1,800.00.

NOTICE IS GIVEN that DEIDRA EVANS, executrix in the above numbered and captioned matter, has filed a petition for authority to pay estate debts of the succession in accordance with a tableau of distribution filed in these proceedings.

The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice.

Any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to its homologation.

The movable property to be sold at private sale and its price is described as follows:

By Order of the Court, Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court

1998 Ford Van bearing VIN# 1FTRE1428WHCO8566 - Price: $300.00 2004 Suzuki Motorcycle bearing VIN JS1VS54A942104393 - Price: $1,500.

Attorney: Brad P. Scott Address: Two Lakeway 3850 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 1130 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 264-1057

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 9th day of May 2014.

Attorney: Wallace H. Paletou Bar Roll No. 10278 Attorney for the Succession Address: 3601 N. I-10 Service Rd. West Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 456-2626 Gambit: 5/13/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts Mark M. Germek or Julie Wilcox Sawyer, please call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost mail note payable to Anthony Smith Financial dated August 8, 2013 in the amount of $1,620.15 and signed by a G. Holmes; please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Alvin Richardson, please call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Ananda Just Badon Wife of/and Aaron J. Badon, Jr., please contact K. Adam Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Brian K. Sennett, Jr. and Iketha Williams Sennett, please call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Camille Delmast Dumas, please call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Charles A. Williams, call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Derek A. Villavaso and Idolka L. Alvarez, a/k/a/ Idolka L. Alvarez Holmes, please contact Timothy P. Farrelly, Atty. (504) 832-4101 or 3445 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste 103, Metairie,LA 70002.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Dianne Butler, please call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

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

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jesus R. Jaques AKA Jesus Jaques, call Halima Smiith, 352-2112.

Gambit: 5/13/14

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 99-18504 DIV. G SECT. 11 SUCCESSION OF STANLEY CHARLES ROSKIND NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO PAY FEES AND EXPENSES NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of this Estate and to all other persons herein interested, that a Final Tableau of Distribution has been filed by Vincent B. “Chip” LoCoco, Dative Testamentary Executor of this Succession, with his Petition praying for homologation of the Final Tableau of Distribution and for authority to pay the debts and charges; and that the Final Tableau of Distribution can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this Notice.

Any opposition to the Petition Filing Final Tableau of Distribution must be filed prior to homologation.

DALE ATKINS, Clerk of Court Civil District Court For the Parish of Orleans Attorney: BRODIE G. GLENN Bar #33152 BALDWIN HASPEL BURKE & MAYER, L.L.C. Address: 1100 Poydras Street 3600 Energy Centre New Orleans, LA 70163 Telephone: (504) 569-2900 Gambit: 5/13/14 & The Louisiana Weekly Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Sonjia Brown Joseph or Dale Michael Joseph, call attorney Steven Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the heirs of Martha Jane Broussard, please notify attorney William Boyles at 504-232-2940.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of the representative for the LOIS TUMBLIN FOX, whose last known address was 8832 Belfast St, New Orleans, LA 70118, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

Notice is hereby given that Linda J. Franklin, the duly appointed administratrix of the above entitled successions, has applied for an order granting her the authority to sell at private sale the following property to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in Third District of the City of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, more specifically designated as LOT NO. 10, in SQUARE NO. 1344.

Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 2439-41 Columbus Street, New Orleans, LA 70119. The sales price for the whole property is $90,000.00, cash payable at at the act of sale. Each estate will be receiving gross proceeds of $45,000.00, therefore each is considered a small succession. Pursuant to Civil Code of Procedure Article 3443, notice of the application of a succession representative to sell succession property from a small succession needs to be published once and in the Parish where the proceeding is pending or where the property is located, and shall state that any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within ten (10) days of the date of the publication.

By Order of Clerk of Court Civil District Court Parish of Orleans Attorney: George S. Ruppenicker Address: 2325 Manhattan Blvd.

Harvey, LA 70058 Gambit: 5/13/14 and The Louisiana Weekly Non-Resident Notice; 4th Circuit Docket No. 13A11; Desiree E. Rodriquez v.

Felix Leoneldo Matute Morales; In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a not-resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon FELIX LEONELDO MATUTE MORALES. It is ordered that said Defendant enter his appearance herein with thirty (30) days after 5/27/14 same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville ,TN, and defend or default will be taken on June 26, 2014. It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Gambit, a newspaper published in New Orleans to run on 5/6/14, 5/13/14, 5/20/14 & 5/27/14.

Luke D. Bottorff, Attorney for Plaintiff NOTICE TO MANUEL CARONIA AND/ OR THE LEGAL SUCCESSOR OF VALERIE ROSS, DECEASED: pursuant to La. Code of Civil Procedure article 803(c), you are summoned to appear and substitute yourself for VALERIE ROSS in the matter of Valerie Ross v. Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Inc. d/b/a Winn-Dixie, Case No. 671-121, Division C, on the docket of the 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson, within 60 days of this publication.

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

NO.: 13-1127 DIV. I

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Notice is hereby given that Lisa Young Joseph, Administratrix of the Estate of Robert Young, Jr., has, pursuant to the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for Authority to Sell at Private Sale, for the price of one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000.00), the following property: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings, and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and all advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, in the FOURTH District of the City of New Orleans, in Square 76, bounded by Annunciation, Chippewa, Sorraparu and First Streets, designated as Lot 12, on the blue print survey certified correct by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated May 23, 1952, recertified April 20, 1972.

The improvements thereon bear Municipal Address 2354 Annunciation Street, New Orleans, LA 70130.

Legatees, Constant V. Serrette, Carolyn G. Young, Arnold E. Young, Karl W. Young, Terrence R. Young, Sharon M. Young, Lisa Y. Joseph, Berralyn B. Young and Marline M. Young, 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, to Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court, Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans.

Attorney for Estate: Marion D. Floyd, Esquire Address: 2214 Third St., Suite A, Kenner, LA 70062, Telephone: (504) 467-3010 Gambit: 5/13/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of KATARZYNA A. LANKAMER please contact Justin A. Reese Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of MAURICE RENARD PALMER, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1600, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of MELVIN SYKES please contact J. Benjamin Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Merrill J. Amos, Jr., aka Merrill Amos, Jr., please contact Atty. C. Hunter King at 504-460-0168.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Milton Keith Hamilton, please contact attorney William Boyles at 504-232-2940.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of NICOLE M. SAUNDERS please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1600, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Rachel Jeanne Paine please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 5539588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of RANDY D. MANEAU, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1600, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611 PAGE 61

CLASSIFIEDS EMPLOYMENT NEW ORLEANS

JOB GURU

Dear New Orleans Job Guru, “You helped me with my résumé last month and I just landed an interview for a great job. In fact, it pays $12,000 more than I’m making now! They just told me I have an interview next week with a panel of 5 people. I’ve never interviewed for a group before. How do I prepare for a group?”

— Melinda G., New Orleans, LA Dear Melinda, Congratulations! As you know from my columns, getting the interview is now considered half the battle in the job search process. Certain interview techniques will remain the same, whether it is an individual who interviews you, or a group panel, as in this case. For example, in any interview, you will want to prepare your “CAR” Grant Cooper stories in advance. CAR stands for Challenge-Action-Result.

Get several index cards and on each one write very brief example of a Challenge that you were presented with (usually at work), an Action you took concerning the challenge (it’s o.k. if you did so as part of a team), and the (hopefully positive) Result that you generated through your actions.

Commit these cards to memory and be prepared to weave them into as many answers and comments as possible during your interview. It is well established that concrete examples like this will consistently trump other, more general interview answers.

Also, whether it is an individual interviewer or a group, always remember to show up 15 minutes ahead, dress one level above what you would be expected to wear to work each day, avoid perfumes, shake hands firmly, research the company thoroughly, and smile as much as possible.

Along with those general guidelines for job interviews, here are a few tried and true hints on how to successfully navigate the panel or group interview scenario: •

Try to learn who the panelists are prior to the interview. Use LinkedIn, Google, and the company website to research each one to obtain information that can address their individual roles or concerns.

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Even when one member of the panel asks a question, be sure to direct your gaze and attention during your answer to all of the group members, not just the questioner.

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Remember the names of each panelist, and use those names to address them in the interview. It is normally fine (if permitted) to have a small notepad and jot their names down at the beginning.

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Don’t try to impress just one or two of the panelists at the interview. Sometimes the less talkative or active panelists may be the decision-makers.

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Always bring along enough extra copies of your résumé, references, and portfolio or work samples (if applicable) to give to each member of the panel.

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Panel interviews can take longer for each person to get in their questions, so you should make your responses a bit briefer than you would in a one-on-one interview.

New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Résumés®, Grant has ranked in the Top 2% of 340 LinkedIn National Résumé Writing Experts worldwide, and has assisted the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, NFL/NBA players & coaches, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and corporations.

Send your questions to New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

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PIZZA MAKER WIT’S INN Bar & Pizza Kitchen Apply in person Mon-Fri, 1-4:30 pm 141 N. Carrollton Ave.

BOOKKEEPER

Exp Bookkeeper/Office Asst - 3+yrs QuickBooks exp, 1-2 yrs admin support role, A/P, A/R, P/R & more.

To apply email: nowhiring70123@ gmail.com

ANIMAL CARE/VETERINARY VET TECH/ASSISTANT

Clinic located in the French Quarter.

Animal experience preferred.

Emphasis on positive personality and communication skills. No night shifts. Sundays off and no boarding or grooming. www.thefrenchquartervet.com

DRIVERS/DELIVERY Drivers:

LOCAL & Regional Reserve Openings!

Great Pay, Many Bonuses, 100% PAID Health Ins & More!Class-A w/tank, Hazmat, TWIC & 1 yr. Trac/Trailer Exp. Required. Call Now: 1-877-661-0678

FARM LABOR TEMPORARY FARM LABOR:

Berry Farms Enterprise, Tunica, MS, has 2 positions for rice, soybeans, corn & wheat; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $9.87/hr; threefourths work period guaranteed from 3/22/14 – 12/15/14. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order MS90150 or call 225-342-2917.

MUSIC/MUSICIANS

CONTROLLER

A well-established, locally-owned New Orleans company is seeking an outstanding applicant to oversee financial operations. The Controller will ensure the proper and timely recording, documenting and reporting of financial activity; coordinate and finalize the annual operating budget; analyze and evaluate financial performance; supervise two business dept. employees; process payroll; manage cash balances; etc. The ideal candidate will be an experienced, hands-on degreed accountant with a strong work ethic; have extensive practical knowledge of budgeting, A/R, A/P, payroll and a solid management and customer service background. The offer for this full-time, salaried position includes a benefits package (health insurance, 401(k) plan with company match, paid vacation, paid holidays, personal and sick time). Email a cover letter and resume to hrdeptnola@gmail.com. fax option: (504) 483-3158.

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR POSITIONS WANTED I AM LOOKING FOR WORK!

I am a Certified Cross Trained Aide! II do menus, exercise, etc. If I can be of any service please call me, Joanie at (504) 891-4275, if no answer, please leave message.

LOOK WHAT’S COOKING!

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NOW HIRING

Experienced Sous Chefs (min. 2 yrs. Sous experience)

Email resume: hr@neworleans-food.com DEL FUEGO TAQUERIA HIRING Fun, upbeat Mexican restaurant on Magazine Street is looking for team members dedicated to providing exceptional food & service. PT/FT, Cooks, wait staff, bartenders, dishwashers, baker, hosts. Please email resumes with references to jobs@ delfuegotaqueria.com

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REAL ESTATE Call (504) 483-3100

CAREER PREPARATION

Louisiana Red Hot Records

Bookkeeper/Executive Asst., PT/ FT, $20-45K Email resume to: louisianaredhotrecords@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL Business Development Analysts

(multiple openings) needed for Food Team of manufacturer of modular plastic conveyor belt systems. Will perform mkt & product opportunity assessment & analysis; dvlp customized business cases/return on investment calculations to support selling teams; perform pricing analysis & competitive threat assessments in Latin American mkts; prep Food Team annual & quarterly strategic plans based on analysis. Must have MBA or Master’s in a rltd field; in-depth knowl of: mkt research in Latin American mkts; food production; conveyor belt systems.

Fluent written & spoken business Spanish; 40% travel to Latin America reqd.

Job location: Harahan, LA. Send CV & cover letter to Franck LaBiche, Human Resources Director at Intralox, LLC, 200 Laitram Lane, Harahan, LA 70123 within 30 days and refer to Job #13627 to be considered.

VOLUNTEER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE GREEN PROJECT OUR MISSION IS TO CREATE A CULTURE OF REUSE IN NEW ORLEANS

The Green Project seeks a leader with passion for reuse, re-purpose, and recycling to lead the organization to continued growth. Candidates must show experience with organizational leadership, financial acumen, and be willing to get dirty when necessary.

Send resume to: gpexecdirector@gmail.com To Advertise in

EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

Offers Volunteer Opportunities

Make a difference in the lives of the terminally ill & their families. Services include: friendly visits to patients & their families, provide rest time to caretaker, bereavement & office assistance. School service hours avail.

Call Volunteer Coordinator @ 504-818-2723 #3006

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Melinda, you can check out my past columns for general interviewing techniques in order to be ready for those “trick questions” and the questions that are the most common in any interview scenario. As always, preparation is the key. While panel interviews can be intimidating, they do give you the opportunity to show off your group presentation skills in a setting that traditional interviews do not.

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Picture Perfect Properties PICTURE YOURSELF IN THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS!

Experience the difference with Crown Title, Inc. Friendly & Courteous Service Reasonable Fees

Todd Taylor, Realtor, 504 232-0362

RE/MAX & NOMAR Award Winning Agent toddtaylorrealtor@yahoo.com • www.toddtaylorrealestate.com RE/MAX Real Estate Partners (504) 888-9900

3125 Upperline St. • $389K

FOR SALE

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GORGEOUS 7.5 ACRE ESTATE 19286 KENZIE ROAD ASKING $550,000

FOR RENT

1269 Milton St. $850/mo 1271 Milton St. $850/mo 2028 Pauger St., B $1,100/mo 3018 Second St. $775/mo 3020 Second St. $800/mo 3605 St. Ferdinand St. $875/mo 3607 St. Ferdinand St. $875/mo

BEAUTIFUL HOME FOR SALE IN PASS CHRISTIAN, MS $349,500

Darlene Gurievsky 985-674-SOLD(7653) Direct 985-789-2434 Cell Darlene@DarleneG.com www.DarleneG.com Equal Housing Opportunity

800 N. Causeway Blvd. Ste 1-A Mandeville, LA 70448 985-626-8589

$1,500 per mo./2,100 sq.ft./$ 7.14 sq. ft.

Prime location, parking space, security system, Kitchen, 2 restroom, Recption area, conference room, private offices Very busy area in the heart of Metairie

504-885-7786 • 504-458-2784

DUPLEX IN HARVEY • $120K OBO

3 bed/3 bath + bonus room downstairs

3433 Magazine Street

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2124 Cadiz St. $164.9K 1301 Garden Rd. $75K 301 Grove Rd. $129K 617 Hunterbrook Dr. $65K 13110 Lemans St. $116K 2723 - 25 N. Robertson St . $33K 3026 – 8 Second St. $59.75K 24 Yosemite Dr. $260K

6843 Glengary Road • $180K

Gorgeous 3 bd/2 ba Lakewood East hm w/sep LR/ DR, lrg den, & lrg eat in kit. Bdrms lrg enough for queen beds + furnishings. Over 2,200 sf., prk’g for 7, yard w/patio for cookouts.

Great Waterfront Home on the Bay. Open Floor plan with vaulted ceilings & hardwood floors. Master suite overlooks the water with large walk-in closet.

Has a back-up stand-by diesel generator, sprinkler system & bug control system.

Call or text (504) 452-7436 Motivated to Sell! Will consider selling furnished.

Gorgeous estate w/10 stall barn w/apt, guesthouse w/full kit.

Main home 3BR,3BA + open family & dining room w/window walls, in law qtrs w/priv. entrance. Floors & fixtures imported from Mexico. Solarium, 64x12 veranda, huge workshop, pool, fenced & cross fenced for horses, arena, ponds & more.

1 blk off Veterans Blvd/1 blk off Power/1 blk off Interstate

Each office individually owned and operated

Broadmoor never shined brighter, this 4 bd/3.5 ba beauty radiates w/charm & space.

Over 2400 sf., & not a small room in the joint!!!!

Motivated seller!!!!

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE 3801 N. Causeway Blvd. Suite 207 Metairie, Louisiana 70002 504.833.7603

3233/3235 Lisa Dr. • Metairie

B1-A Zoning District (Neighborhood Business District) New Orleans elegance of a classic historic Greek Revival property. Outstanding property currently used as a office building located on popular Magazine Street between Louisiana Avenue and Delachaise Street in Uptown New Orleans. This well maintained charming historic property was built in 1857. Spacious property has 4,626 square feet of office space on a lot 47’ x 121’. $1,141,000 Contact Pat Browne ...

For Personal, Professional Real Estate Services

Cellular 504-228-4780 Office 504-834-3221 PBrowne@monbar.com

Licensed in the State of Louisiana

NEWLY RENOVATED!

Two bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, each side. All electric, carpet throughout. Owner will finance.

Approx $20,000/yr income For details call Stan at (504) 258-0890 or 366-4463

Picture Perfect Properties PICTURE YOURSELF IN THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS!

1222 W 15th Ave. Covington • $339,900 4 BR/ 3BA/ 2,512 sqft A real Beauty!!! Two story in Covington, walking distance to park and restaurants, close to hospital. Wonderful open floor plan with fireplace in living and dining. Real wood floors throughout. Lrge master w/tray ceiling. Master Ba has sep shower, turbo tub & adjacent office.

Rear yd access, dog run & large deck.

4220 CHATEAU LAFITTE DR.• KENNER $284,900 Wonderful private street home features large rooms and an open floor plan. Private pool and pool house. Association cuts grass.

Planned urban development. The Perfect Home!

Rose M. Fogarty

Past NOMAR Realtor Of The Year • Licensed in the State of Louisiana

504-338-2717 cell

www.rosefogarty.com • www.latter-blum.com/rosefogarty

3527 Ridgelake Dr., Metairie.

2802 MAGAZINE ST.

Wow! Fabulously Renovated! 4 bdrm home in Lovely Lakeview! Open living, Dining, Kitchen w/ Granite Counters, SS Appliances, Island, New Lighting, Huge Master Suite, Carrera Marble Jacuzzi, Sep. Shower, located on 2nd flr, Huge 2nd Bdrm w/ Stage, 2nd Den OR Office, Large Yard, Colorful Landscaping, and 2 car Garage. A Must See! Staged by the Designer Shop “ABODE”.

Luxury Great Location Approx 1,350 usable sq.ft.

Charlotte Hailey-Dorion Realtor

Susan Saia

(504) 957-7504 8001 Maple Street N.O. Properties New Orleans, LA 70118 Office: (504) 866-7733 Each office independently owned & operated Email: saia@bellsouth.net Website: www.susansaia.com

2nd floor of 2 story office building. Parking, efficiency kitchen, storage room, mens and womens restrooms, reception area, conference rooms, private office.

Available immediately. 1 year lease $1,700/mo.

(504) 957-2360.

16 Englewood St. • Metairie • $2,650,000

This stately home has a grand entrance with elegant staircase. Triple crown molding & authentic Venetian Plaster wall throughout 1st floor. Custom kitchen is a dream - all top-of-the-line appliances: 2 sinks, 2 dishwashers, 2 warming drawers and more! A must see!!

Gold Award 1995 - 2013 Platinum awards Presidents circle

504-861-7575

WHEN DEMANDING EXCELLENCE, CHOOSE THE SPECIALIST!

Cell: 237-8615 • Office: 861-7575 | charrealty@nocoxmail.com

7934 MAPLE STREET / NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118

6143 General Haig St. • New Orleans • $525,000

Great neighborhood. Completely renovated 2-story, 5-bedroom home, in the heart of Lakeview. With stamped concrete floors throughout. The space allows a family of 5 to live comfortably day in and day out. 2 blocks from Harrison Avenue. A must see!!

LINDA FOREST • 504-421-8884 • lforest@cox.net

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• (6) 2 BEDROOMS • (1) 3 BEDROOM UNIT • 12 FT. CEILINGS • GRANITE COUNTERS • MARBLE BATHS • SECURE INDOOR PARKING

3621 Veterans Blvd Metairie, La. 70002 504-888-4585 X33310

6671 CANAL BLVD • $499,000

Office Space Metairie LUXURY APARTMENTS AVAILABLE LATE 2014/EARLY 2015

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REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

Diamondhead

NOTICE:

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

Championship Golf Course* Marina* Swimming Pools Join us to live in the coasts number one resort community!

Please contact K. Fiore with Diamondhead Realty for information on becoming a part of it all! 866-270-9464

BUY BOTH TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY

3BR/BA on 1 acre & 4BR/2BA on 4 acres or both on 5 acres! 2 miles east of Magnolia MS. Call 601-248-0888

3BDRM/2BA + LIVINGROOM

OUT OF TOWN 342 ST. JOHN ST. BAY ST. LOUIS MS

2 BR, 2BA, OLD town Bay St. Louis, totally renovated, wood floors, walls & ceilings/gourmet kitchen/designer bath. www.baycottagesllc.com/stjohn

With Million Dollar Views! Furnished, 2 Br + Loft Bed/2.5 BA, healthclub, pool, secured parking, All utilities & WiFi, $700 daily (3 day minimum).

Call (781) 608-6115.

CORPORATE RENTALS FRENCH QUARTER OFFICE RENTAL

Location, location, location. Owner relocating. Website, antiques, statuary & more. Call 504-428-5868.

All hdwd flrs & ceramic tile. Great N’borhood, close to schools & great shopping. No pets. $1300/mo + deposit. (504) 715-7947

RIVERFRONT PENTHOUSE

BUSINESSES HOME & GARDEN BUSINESS FOR SALE

OLD METAIRIE

SPECIAL EVENT RENTALS

301 Chartres St. $4,000 per month.

Move-in well-appointed 2065 sq. ft. office, extra large wrap around balcony, large conference room that can be divided, wood floors, 2 baths, deluxe kitchen & 2 private offices. Furniture & equipment to stay. Brigitte Fredy, Latter& Blum,Inc. 504-616-4044.

NON-PROFIT OFFICE SPACE

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Uptown rental space for non-profits.

Rent runs from $200 to $2,000 per month. St. Charles Ave. Baptist Church, 7100 St. Charles Ave. Call (504) 891-9514 for information. www.scabc.org

REAL ESTATE Call 483-3100

1321 Coliseum St. $450,000

117 S. Hennessey St., $ 329,900

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3 bedroom, 2 bath home on Historic Coliseum Square. Off street parking, central air and heat, great entertaining home large front porch and balcony. in an untra convenient Lower Garden District location close to downtown. Approx 3k sq.ft.

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RENTAL PROPERTY?

Move in cond, lots of architectural details, 1st block off Canal, off street pkng for several cars, garage. 2 br, 2 dens, encl porch/sun rm & wood flrs. Must see to appreciate.

Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226

Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

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3 br, 2 ba duplex. Cen a/h, furn kit w/d/w & m’wave. Close to univ & hosp. On bus line. Lg fenced bkyd. safe n’hood, sec patrolled. Avail 8/1. $1650/mo. 504- 289-5110.

OLD METAIRIE 1BR 1/2 DOUBLE AVAIL

Great location! $900/mo., utilities paid. Call (504) 782-3133.

ESPLANADE RIDGE

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY

1208 N GAYOSO

2BR/1BA, lr, dr, kit, wood ceramic flr, high ceiling, CA&H, w&d hkkps. No pets. $1375 per month. Call (504) 432-7955

LRG 2 BR, 1.5 BA

Recently remodeled, kit, c-a/h, hi ceils, hdwd/crpt flrs, fncd bkyd. w/d hookups, off st pkg. $1150/mo. 1563 N. Galvez. Call 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@yahoo.com

OLD METAIRIE 1&2 BDRM. APTS Sparkling Pool & Bike Path

New granite in kit & bath. 12 x 24 ft LR, King Master w/wall of closets.

Furn Kit. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg. NO PETS. O/A, $724-$848/mo.

504-236-5776.

NEW RENTAL 1556 N. Rochblave

Walking distance to Fairgrounds.

Newly renov. 3 rms, kit, bath, washrm, fridge, mw, stove & washer. $700 mo/neg. Also avail for Jazz Fest.

504-905-9086, 504-717-7394.

SPACIOUS APARTMENTS

Spacious Studio & 1BR Apartments.

High ceiling, private balcony, ceiling fans, gated property in Faubourg St John/Esplanade Ridge Areas.

Walk to Fine & Casual Dining, City Park,Fairgrounds, French Quarter, Jazz Fest and more.

(504) 208-8896.

GENTILLY 5000 WILTON DR. APT. A

ALGIERS POINT

Large 2 BR, 1 Bath Apt. Cent Air & heat, utilities incl, offst pkg. Near UNO & Dillard Univ, on bus line. Call 504-994-4119.

HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750-$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

French Quarter Realty

New FQR Office open! 713 Royal MON-SAT 10-5pm Sun-1-5 Full Service Office with Agents on Duty! 522-4585 Wayne • Nicole • Sam • Jennifer • Brett • Robert • George • Dirk • Billy • Andrew • Eric

825 Chartres LSQ 934 Burgundy 333 Julia #508

1/1 w/d in unit. 700 sqft. prkng is $300 $1350 2 / 1.5 Luxfullyfurn.Shorttermrental.Prvtpool. $4,000 1/1 Furn corporate rental in warehouse dist. $1950

1020 Esplanade #201 2/1 renovated FQ apt with parking and pool! $1950 1004 Gov Nicholls

studio Hi Ceils, Renov Kit/Bath, Nice ctyd $1000

526 Madison #2D

1/1 2ndfltastefully-furn,FrenchQtr! w/donsite$1200

1025 Dumaine #3

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MID CITY 4322 HAMILTON

2BR/1BA lower, 1000 + sf, hdwd flrs, furn kit, w/d, porch, fen yd, off st pkg, no smokers, pet negot. $975/mo + dep. (504) 488-2969.

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4 LG BR/3 FULL BA 4916 DANNEEL - UPPER

Spacious, lighted, & 24-hr security, 2 sunrms, lg lr/dr, wd flrs, hi ceils, ca &h & window units. all appls: w/d, fridge, f’nd bkyd, o/s pkg, gtd. & grded. Close to St. Charles & Newman. $2100/mo. 813-8186. 504330-3313. Ready to lease!

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Lola Belle is a 1 1/2-year-old, spayed, Dachshund mix who puts her paws up for attention and enjoys snuggling in laps. She likes treats and takes them like a dainty little lady. Lola Belle will require TLC during her complimentary heartworm treatment.

To meet Lola Belle or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

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To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

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ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of the representative for the SUCCESSION OF BELVIA CHAUVIN ISABELLE and/or RAOUL V. CHAUVIN, whose last known address was 2338-40 Chippewa St, New Orleans, LA 70125, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Troy D. Porter, aka Troy D. Porter, Sr. 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 Vanessa Peters and/or any heirs of Ernest Peters, please contact Paul C. Fleming, Jr., atty, 504-888-3394.

Property rights involved.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of GERMAINE CAREY PALMER, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1600, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611

Red Lobster Restaurants LLC, d/b/a Red Lobster, is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell high & low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 3020 N. Causeway Boulevard, Metairie, LA 70002. Carl B. Richmond, President & Treasurer, Horace G. Dawson, III, Secretary, Joseph G. Kern, Assistant Secretary, Colleen M. Hunter, Assistant Secretary.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of William Cooley, Ika Lincoln Avenue, Marerro, LA 70072, contact Atty.

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