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Creepy Fest THU.-SUN. JULY 14-17 | Sheer Terror Records presents its eighth annual citywide punk rock festival with more than 40 bands spanning venues across New Orleans, with art shows, burlesque and film screenings (including the Troma cult classic Surf Nazis Must Die, with director Peter George). Visit www.facebook.com/creepyfest for details.

The NOLA Project’s latest original work is an immersive piece on a film set.

BY LAUREN LABORDE @LAURENLABORDE

The Wizard of Oz

AT A RUN-THROUGH OF THE NOLA PROJECT’S NEWEST ORIGINAL PLAY,

Exterior. Pool-Night, there’s more to work out than nailing lines and figuring out blocking. Much of it is set in the Aloft New Orleans Downtown hotel, but for Act 2, we followed two characters on a voyeuristic trek through the CBD with radios in hand to listen to their conversation from across the street. The cast and crew got a taste of what a play partially performed in the city streets would encounter: confused — and vocal — onlookers, traffic issues (“Are we having [the audience] jaywalk?” a crew member asked) and construction hazards.

The NOLA Project has presented immersive theater experiences before, including 2014’s Adventures in Wonderland, performed in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

This production happens in and around a hotel in the CBD. NOLA Project veteran Alex Martinez Wallace, who plays actor/celebrity Shia LaBeouf, considers the unknowns part of the fun.

“The streetscape in the CBD is constantly changing because of construction,” he says. “I think there’s going to be a lot of ‘we show up this weekend and we can no longer use this street.’ So we’ll see what happens in that sense. Hopefully there will be some improv involved because that’s what I like anyway.”

In the play, written and directed

by NOLA Project founder Andrew Larimer, LaBeouf is directing a biopic of Jonas Salk, the researcher who developed the polio vaccine. The screenwriter is the granddaughter of Salk (played by Natalie Boyd), who drops by the set and learns that LaBeouf has given the script a Hollywood makeover, complete with a CGI “polio monster.”

The play takes place on a film set, which in Acts 1 and 3 is the Aloft hotel

THU.-SUN. JULY 14-24 | Gary Rucker directs the musical adaptation of Frank Baum’s classic tale in which Dorothy hopes the Wizard of Oz can help her return home to Kansas. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts.

De Lune Deluge pool. For Act 2, the audience follows characters on one of three tracks — assigned to them based on surveys they take upon arrival which ask how comfortable they are with walking or “sexual-ish situations.”

The path I followed at rehearsal was the most challenging, a brisk and lengthy trek with LaBeouf and an Assistant Director (Maggie Blaeser).

There’s another outside track that is shorter, and a track that takes place in a hotel room.

“We encourage people who come to the show together to see different second acts so they can tell each other about what they saw afterward, but you don’t need to see multiple ones to get the full story,” Larimer says.

Larimer, who directed Adventures in Wonderland, has always been interested in immersive theater, his favorite production being a version of Sleep No More in New York.

“To me, it’s theater at the height of what theater is, which is an event that brings a bunch people together to go on a journey,” he says. “I like that immersive theater addresses the differences between film and theater in a strong way. Film can beat theater when it comes to seeing different locations and stuff like that, but it can’t actually move you through a space with a group of other people.”

AJ Allegra, Audrey Wagner and Alec Barnes star in Exterior. Pool-Night.

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FRI. JULY 15 | Honeycomb, the latest from local trio De Lune Deluge, casts a different instrument for every voice in singer/songwriter Vanessa Degrassi’s head: guitar, Wurlitzer organ, ukulele, flute, glockenspiel and singing bowl — each a character actor in a sanguine daydream. Soul of Sam opens at 8 p.m. at Bar Redux.

Juxtaposed SAT. JULY 16 | The program features pieces choreographed by Anne Burr of Anne Burr Dance Company and Diane Laizer Carney and the late Harvey Hysell of Ballet Hysell. At 7:30 p.m. at Loyola University’s Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall.

Big Business Further blurring the lines between the audience and actors is a pool party at the Aloft pool following each performance.

“The show is partially about what a seductive world the entertainment industry can be, and inviting the audience into this beautiful rooftop pool after the show is meant to feel like you’re stepping into the lifestyle of the characters you just met,” Larimer says.

SUN. JULY 17 | “Keep breathing,” these Los Angeles-via Seattle sludge-rockers holler on fifth release Command Your Weather (Joyful Noise). Miraculously, through an early period nearly swallowed by bigger acts (original Businessmen Jared Warren and Coady Willis both became Melvins in 2006) and a recent history marked by attrition (once again a duo), they have. Andy the Doorbum opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have launched a civil rights investigation into the July 5 shooting death of 37-yearold black man Alton Sterling by two white Baton Rouge police officers outside a convenience store.

“I have full confidence that the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a thorough, transparent investigation from beginning to end,” said Gov. John Bel Edwards in a July 6 statement. “Based on the information I have obtained from law enforcement and the footage I’ve seen from one publicly available video ... I have very serious concerns.”

Two graphic bystander videos emerged following the shooting, though the Baton Rouge Police Department has not made available possible footage from officers’ body-worn cameras. Marjorie Esman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, asked the department where is the footage.

2. NOLA officials de-

mand transparency

While U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the shooting death of Alton Sterling, he also urged Baton Rouge to join him in “demonstrating our anger with dignity and demanding proper focus on our cause with perseverance.”

“His family and the citizens of Baton Rouge — especially the citizens of North Baton Rouge — deserve answers and that is what we will seek in a fair, thorough and transparent way,” Richmond said.

On Twitter, state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, wrote, “Shouldn’t officer(s) who don’t follow police protocol during questioning & arrest, & then kill a human being be arrested?!? And not just [suspended]!”

“From our own experiences and those of other cities across the country,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, “it is clear that completely open and transparent investigations are the only path forward.”

3. Troy Hebert:

“All lives matter”

While statewide legislators and national leaders an-

the library foundation.

The group Make NOJO Pay has erected a billboard near NOJO’s headquarters in the new Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market, demanding the orchestra reimburse the library foundation. NOJO has agreed to pay back part of the money (less than half) in cash over the next five years, and the rest “in-kind” via a series of concerts.

6. Edwards to launch review of state’s film tax credits

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nounced their support for the family of Alton Sterling, Troy Hebert declared “all lives matter.” Hebert — the former state senator and Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control commissioner currently running for U.S. Senate — criticized how “some deaths are treated differently than others.” (He did not mention that those “some deaths” were by police.)

“Why does the federal government only seem to investigate/care when a white person shoots a black person?” Hebert wrote in a statement. “Why not when a black kills a white? A white kills a white? A black kills a black? One is not any more dead than the others. ... One cannot demand equality when you try to achieve it by being treated separately!”

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Big Freedia ordered to halfway house A federal judge has ordered New Orleans bounce artist and reality TV star Big Freedia to stay at a halfway house and suspend all upcoming shows and tours unless approved by the court.

Freedia — who pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in March to using Section 8 housing vouchers despite earning an income that disqualified the

artist from receiving them — was ordered by U.S. District Judge Lance Africk to submit to substance abuse testing in April. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Freedia tested positive for marijuana and methamphetamine. Freedia also will “undergo further substance abuse evaluation” while at the halfway house.

A sentencing hearing is set for Aug. 11, when Freedia faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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Mayfield out at NOJO Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield resigned as artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) July 5 after the latest in a series of WWL-TV stories detailing questionable transfers of funds from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation, on whose board he served until May 2015. WWL-TV investigative reporter David Hammer found Mayfield had steered more than $1 million from the foundation to the orchestra, which pays him a six-figure salary. An additional Hammer report last month showed Mayfield ran up an $18,000 hotel bill in New York, which he billed to

In the wake of an Associated Press article claiming TV and film production in Louisiana is down by about 90 percent since the state capped its lucrative film tax credit program, Gov. John Bel Edwards last week announced that Louisiana Economic Development will initiate a “comprehensive review” of the program and its economic impact. “Louisiana will drive this process to create a smarter, sustainable model for the future,” Edwards said in a statement. No date was given for completion of the study.

Louisiana continues to spend up to $180 million per year on tax credits for movie and TV producers. In a 2014 Gambit cover story on the sustainability of film tax credits, we reported that $222.8 million was given away by the state in 2012.

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Operation: TIGER arrests suspects in June crimes New Orleans Police Department’s (NOPD) “Operation: TIGER” led to the arrest or identification of 13 suspects in 30 cases involving armed robbery, carjackings and other crimes, according to NOPD Chief Michael Harrison. Harrison formed the “TIGER” (Tactical Intelligence Gathering and Enforcement Response) task force last month following a string of similar crimes in May and June. The arrests include two suspects responsible for three crimes and two juveniles “connected to multiple violent crimes in the area.”

“We made a commitment to track down the suspects responsible for these violent crimes and hold them accountable for their actions, and that’s exactly what we’ve done,” Harrison said in a statement. “These perpetrators

made a choice to terrorize our community and we will absolutely not tolerate it.”

8. Outsourced: The O cuts jobs, joins T-P

Oregon newspaper and website The Oregonian will outsource its copy and design desk to New Orleans at NOLA. com | The Times-Picayune.

Both are wings of Advance Publications. That move means the company will close the Oregonian Media Group’s Pub Hub in October, according to a memo obtained by Willamette Week. “Our Pub Hub employees will be encouraged to apply for open positions located in Portland as well as positions in New Orleans,” reads the memo from Oregonian President Steve Moss.

“Those who are leaving will be eligible for severance benefits and outplacement assistance.”

Advance’s Southeast wing includes papers and websites in Alabama and Mississippi in addition to The T-P.

9. RTA seeking public input

The new Rampart Street streetcar line is set to open this fall, with service between Canal Street and Elysian Fields Avenue. But the group Ride New Orleans has launched a petition urging the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) to keep the traditional 88-St. Claude/ Jackson Barracks bus running to Canal Street as well, rather than forcing riders to transfer to a streetcar.

That and other service proposals will be discussed at a public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 19 at RTA headquarters (2817 Canal St.).

This week, nine “workshops” will be held to educate riders about potential changes. For a calendar of those workshops, visit www.norta.com.

10. Hello, Dolly — finally

Concert organizers prematurely announced Dolly Parton’s Nov. 30 show at the Smoothie King Center back in May — but quickly scrubbed ticket links and announcements. New Orleans promoters confirmed her “Pure & Simple” tour stop last week, and tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday, July 15. Tickets are $42-$82.

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The number of people killed by police in Louisiana in 2016

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THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ALTON STERLING WAS THE 11TH PERSON KILLED BY POLICE IN LOUISIANA IN 2016. In its The Counted database of U.S. police

killings, The Guardian newspaper logged 38 people killed by Louisiana law enforcement since 2015 — 21 were black, including Sterling.

Officers wore body cameras in only seven of the 11 incidents in which people were killed by police in Louisiana this year, according to The Washington Post’s Fatal Force database.

The state ranks 10th in police killings per capita. More than 560 people were killed by U.S. police in 2016 alone as of July 8. In a 2015 analysis from The Washington Post, only 54 officers faced prosecution over the last decade for fatally shooting someone while on duty. — ALEX WOODWARD

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John and Dathel Georges, owners of The Advocate newspapers, donated $1 million to the United Way of Southeast Louisiana to help fund its Blueprint for Prosperity program to eradicate poverty. United Way will track the progress of program participants, from learning job skills to employment, and release its findings next year.

Dr. Robert Thomas

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was named the recipient of Parkway Partners’ 2016 Green Spirit Award. Thomas is a professor and chairman of environmental communication at Loyola University New Orleans, a founding director of the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, and is active in environmental organizations throughout the state and U.S. on coastal land loss, climate change and other issues.

Sheriff of Iberia Parish, was taped making anti-Semitic threats against U.S. Department of Justice Counsel Mark Blumberg, who is part of a federal team investigating civil rights violations in Ackal’s department.

On the recording, revealed in court filings discovered by The Advocate last month, Ackal calls Blumberg a “Jew bastard” and threatens to shoot him between his “goddamned Jewish eyes.”

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that when they “trash” an email, that’s the end of it. They’re wrong.

Chances are even greater they don’t know that the federal government can read any of their emails that have been opened or stored for more than 180 days on third-party servers (Google, Yahoo, Cox, e.g.)

— without notice and without a warrant. “That’s chilling,” says Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise, the House majority whip. That’s why Scalise joined more than 400 other members of the U.S. House of Representatives in unanimously passing the Email Privacy Act (HR 699), which now awaits action in the U.S. Senate. We urge Louisiana’s senators to push for immediate passage of the measure — with no amendments.

We are far from alone in supporting the act. Many of the largest names in the tech and publishing industries also back the bill, which has bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. A recent letter from dozens of prominent tech companies urged senators to approve the “carefully negotiated compromise” immediately and without amendments.

Scalise tells Gambit he hopes to see the proposal passed by the Senate and signed by President Barack Obama this year. That’s an ambitious timetable in a bitterly divided Congress, but if any measure deserves bipartisan support in the current environment, this is it. The list of supporters includes voices of the left and the right, from the American Civil Liberties Union to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

“The laws that protect email privacy go back to 1986 (the Electronic Communications Privacy Act), when

there was no email and no internet,” Scalise says. “We’ve been relying on laws that don’t recognize how digital communications work.”

The result has been an egregious — and dangerous — pattern of government overreach. For example, a 2009 “Search Warrant Handbook” issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the agency’s Criminal Tax Division contains the following directive: “In general, the Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because Internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications. Further, because the Fourth Amendment applies to government searches rather than searches by private actors, it does not appear to limit the ability of internet service providers (ISPs) to obtain customer information and disclose it to the government.”

Government agencies such as the IRS have relied on that language not only to read private emails but also to compel ISPs to turn them over to investigators — without warrants and without any notice to the people whose emails the government wants to read. As The Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial supporting the act, “The potential for abuse is evident.” We agree.

“The Email Privacy Act completely flips this policy around and says that your email communications are your private information, and the only way any law enforcement agency can access it is by getting a search warrant signed by a judge,” Scalise says. That’s how the Fourth Amendment protects written documents.

Email deserves the same level of protection.

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Hey Blake, I am reaching out to you to settle a question about a house located on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Harmony Street. A friend believes this house originally was a church and was converted into a home, an idea I find ridiculous. Was it once a church or has it always simply been an oddly shaped house?

What started as a Presbyterian church is now an apartment building.

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Dear Camille,

Harvey Hysell purchased the building and converted it into a dance studio. The son of a Methodist minister, Hysell said he felt at home in the church and spent thousands of dollars to renovate and restore the building, which opened in 1979 as the Ballet Hysell school. The school included three large dance studios, offices, dressing rooms and storage areas. Hysell also had living quarters on the property.

In 1983, the Garden District property was sold and converted into residences. Last year, the Harmony Street home was purchased by Sugarcane Park LLC. Orleans Parish assessor’s records show its mailing address is shared by Beyonce’s management company. Published reports said the superstar singer and her husband Jay Z purchased the home for their frequent visits to town, including visits to Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles, who also has a home in New Orleans.

Ol’ Blake has the answer to your friend’s prayers, or at least confirmation that the building at 3110 St. Charles Ave. was at one point in its history a church. Another nearby home once connected to the St. Charles Avenue structure has an equally rich history and some very famous current owners.

In the 1920s, the building on the corner was Westminster Presbyterian Church. The more modern structure you see today, complete with a 42-foot cathedral ceiling, was built in 1955. It was one section of a large L-shaped property that included the church on St. Charles and a distinctive Spanish Baroque structure facing Harmony Street. It was built in 1910.

According to a 1981 Times-Picayune article, the church closed in 1964. The property was left vacant and fell into disrepair until wellknown ballet and dance instructor

BLAKEVIEW WHILE DIXIE AND JAX BEERS REMAIN FAMILIAR TO NOSTALGIA LOVERS,

and the Falstaff sign and weather ball are still beacons in Mid-City, one former locally brewed beer may not get as much attention. Regal Beer was brewed at the American Brewing Company’s brewery in the 300 block of Bourbon Street until 1962. The brewery opened in 1890 and stopped production only during Prohibition. Beginning in 1933, Regal Beer was the brewery’s best-selling product. Its packaging and advertising included an image of a smiling Prince Regal holding up a glass of beer. A memorable slogan was “Red beans and rice and Regal on ice.” The brewery closed in 1962 and two years later the building was demolished. It is now the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

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WHAT’S IN STORE

A spicy meatball

BY KELLY ROSE

Red Gravy owner Roseann Melisi Rostoker serves her signature meatballs.

PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

BY MISSY WILKINSON

ROSEANN MELISI ROSTOKER CONSUMMATED A LONGTIME LOVE AFFAIR WITH NEW ORLEANS by making the city

her home in August 2010.

Three months later, she opened her restaurant, Red Gravy (125 Camp St., 504561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com). Located in the Central Business District, Red Gravy is a small, friendly diner serving Italian home-style cooking.

“I’m from northern New Jersey and my boyfriend Lou [Lombardo] and I would come to New Orleans every year for my birthday,” Rostoker says. “It took a while for us to get here because I had to sell my house. I put that money into my restaurant. I own Red Gravy, but I run it with Lou.” In its cozy, 15-table dining room, Red Gravy serves breakfast, brunch and lunch to a mix of locals and tourists.

“Most of our breakfast diners are tourists, but we get a business crowd in for lunch,” Rostoker says.

Breakfast items such as pecan waffles, cannoli pancakes and Sicilian egg pie have Southern or Italian flair. There also are house-made pasta dishes, shrimp and grits with Tuscan beans and meatballs with red gravy made by Rostoker and Lombardo using family recipes.

“No one can make the red gravy except for me and Lou, and no one can make the meatballs except for me and Lou,” Rostoker says.

Many ingredients are sourced from farmers markets and small

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Allbrands (769 East I-10 Service Road, Suite 100, Slidell, 985-643-4252; www.allbrands. com/stores/3), a sewing store, hosts Hanspeter Ueltschi, owner of BERNINA International sewing machines.

Ueltschi, “the rock star of sewing,” will discuss the brand and sign autographs from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, July 13.

farms including Happy Hen Farms and TangleWood Farms.

“This is the kind of food I grew up on — fresh and home cooked,” Rostoker says.

Growing up in New Jersey, Rostoker always wanted to cook, but her parents had other plans. “I wanted to go to cooking school as a kid, but my parents didn’t think that was an appropriate career path for a girl,” she says. “When I was in college I was studying to be an English teacher, but that didn’t work out.

I dropped out after a few semesters, got married and had kids.”

Eventually, Rostoker got a job in food service at a UPS corporate

office “by lying to the chef about my experience,” she says. Within six months, she was promoted to sous chef. “I must have been doing something right,” she says.

Rostoker spends the bulk of her day in the kitchen at Red Gravy, but she wears a number of hats at the restaurant.

“I do everything here,” she says.

“I work the room and talk to the people dining here. The restaurant is meant to look like the inside of my house. If you were eating at my house, I’d be sitting and talking to you about trips, travel, food and wine. Red Gravy is just another part of my house.”

Higherpower (514 City Park Ave., 1000 Girod St., 504-302-7497; www.higherpowernola.com), a cycling and yoga studio, recently celebrated the grand opening of its downtown location at The Beacon at South Market District.

Barre3 (600 Metairie Road, Metairie; 611 O’Keefe Ave., Suite C-3, 504-371-5297; 5235 Magazine St., 504-301-3082; www.barre3.com) celebrates the grand opening of its Old Metairie location with free classes Monday, July 11 through Sunday, July 17. The workouts are a mix of Pilates, ballet barre work and yoga. Free childcare is available.

Visit the website to register.

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GLEASON How Steve Gleason, family, friends and filmmakers turned his life with ALS into the documentary Gleason.

BY M AT T B R E N N A N | @ T H E F I L M G O E R ON THE DAY DIRECTOR CLAY TWEEL SCREENED HIS FIRST CUT OF GLEASON for its two

central figures, former New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason and his wife, Michel Varisco, a handful of the couple’s closest confidants gathered in their living room.

In addition to Tweel, Gleason and Varisco invited two of the film’s producers, Seth Gordon and Kimi Culp, as well as Michel’s father, Team Gleason Executive Director Paul Varisco. The mood was one of apprehension, anxiety, even panic.

“We were a wreck,” Tweel says. “[Steve and Michel] started crying pretty heavily 10 seconds into the movie, and I was like, ‘Oh, Jesus Christ, what have we done?’”

After the film ended, there was silence. For Michel, watching Gleason was an “out-of-body experience” — nerve-wracking but ultimately cathartic. Paul,

on the other hand, was “taken aback” by its raw, unflinching portrait of two people — husband and wife, patient and caretaker — facing the rapid advance of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with which Gleason was diagnosed in 2011, while raising their young son, Rivers.

Tweel finally broke the ice, posing a simple question: “So, what do you think, Steve?”

Gleason, who has relied on assistive technology known as Augmentive/Alternative Communication (AAC) since losing his ability to speak, needed only four words.

“Dude, that was intense.”

The moment was the culmination of a process that had begun in October 2010, when Gleason, exhibiting the first symptoms of ALS. He decided to document his experiences in a series of video diaries. In time, the

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“It was one of the craziest, most intense things that Steve and I have ever done,” Michel says.

“To see our life in front of us in two hours.”

When Gleason’s “NFL brother” Scott Fujita returned to New Orleans in 2010 as a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, he already was on tenterhooks. The prospect of returning to the Superdome in colors other than black and gold left him so emotional that he headed to Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar the night before the game, as he often had done during his four-year tenure with the Saints — only this time he accidentally got drunk. No amount of alcohol could have prepared him, however, for Gleason’s description of his recent medical woes, and Fujita, who’d lost an uncle to the disease 15 years prior, recognized the warning signs of ALS. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is exactly what my uncle was experiencing in the early stages,” says Fujita, now one of Gleason’s producers.

The two had met when Fujita joined the Saints in the spring of 2006, not long before Gleason’s blocked punt in the team’s home opener against the Atlanta Falcons made him a hero of the Who Dat Nation, and a symbol of the city’s determination to come back from Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. Fujita remembers

Gleason’s generosity, extending an invitation to see Dave Matthews Band at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and his idiosyncratic charm, which comes through clearly in Gleason.

“One of the very first days [of off-season training], we were in the weight room doing the usual meat-headed stuff, and there’s a guy [on the field] with long stringy hair doing freakish yoga positions,” Fujita says. “And the other guys told me, ‘That’s Steve Gleason. He’s on his own program.’ Steve’s always marched to the beat of his own drum.

Maybe, in reality, he’s just got it all figured out.”

But in January 2011, when Gleason called Fujita from San Francisco with the official diagnosis of ALS, the outlook was grim — so much so that Fujita and former Saints tight end Eric Johnson, both of whom reside in California, drove together to northern California to see Gleason, taking him on a sunrise hike.

“I remember breaking down, because I knew what he was about to go through,” Fujita says.

“I knew what Michel was about to go through as a spouse and a caregiver. It was really, really hard to swallow.”

For Gleason and Michel, the diagnosis would turn out to be just the first of that year’s life-changing developments. Six weeks later, Varisco found out she was pregnant, and a man named Sean Pamphilon was about to enter their lives.

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Gleason: the early reviews “Few former athletes have ever come across as compassionately and empathetically as Steve Gleason, and a lot of that probably comes from his inability to self-censor.

He wants to capture what ALS does to his body, warts and all. He says this is a project for his kid, but it’s just as much therapy for his own soul.” — Toronto Film Scene “The film’s true titan, though, might be Michel, as Tweel shows her cope with daily exhaustion while caring for Steve and their son, Rivers, whose birth provides a touching centerpiece to the film. Gleason, while emotionally exhausting, is ultimately a moving tale of heroism and selfless love.” — POV “One of the most impactful and emotionally affecting documentaries in recent memory.” — Screen Anarchy

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and services to those stricken with neuromuscular diseases.

“I would forget that Steve was even sick, at times. I think everybody would,” Minton-Small says.

“Our personalities just meshed perfectly. We trusted each other.

We were like family.”

Soon, though, the story of Gleason developed another twist, one that reshaped the film yet again. The following spring, Pamphilon left the project altogether, and Gleason described himself in a statement as “deflated and disappointed.” Pamphilon had become, per the title of a 2012 GQ profile, “The Man in the Middle of Bountygate.”

Gleason shows son Rivers a specially made bike in 2013.

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and Miami Dolphins star Ricky Williams in 2010 for ESPN Films’ popular series 30 for 30. Pamphilon approached Gleason in the spring of 2011 about collaborating on a film and contributing to Gleason’s growing video archive — which the father-to-be saw as a chance to communicate with his child before the worst ravages of ALS took hold.

It was Pamphilon, Tweel says, who captured one of Gleason’s most devastating moments: the sight of Michel crying on the banks of Bayou St. John as Gleason struggles to complete the last leg of their miniature “Jazz Fest triathlon,” four months after his diagnosis.

Though Gleason and Michel continued to film each other throughout the rest of 2011, setting up and shooting became more difficult as Gleason’s illness progressed, and the amount of footage Pamphilon wanted to gather was too much for the couple to handle on their own.

With Pamphilon splitting time between Seattle and New Orleans, the decision was made to bring on a part-time videographer.

That summer, 22-year-old Ty

Minton-Small, just out of college, responded to a Craigslist ad and prepared for his first assignment: recording the birth of Rivers Varisco Gleason.

“You gotta start somewhere,” Minton-Small says. “When I went down there I was just young enough and just dumb enough that I didn’t really think about it that much. I do remember thinking on the plane coming down, ‘Oh, shit. I’m about to film a kid being born.’”

“I said, ‘Steve, are you absolutely crazy? You’ve got to be out of your mind,’” Michel recalls. “I was going into labor and I was like, ‘Ty, can you drive stick?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then clean the house!’” (One of the film’s more light-hearted scenes features Michel driving herself to the hospital, with her husband in the passenger seat.)

The trio developed an immediate rapport, and despite Gleason’s deteriorating health, there was much in life to enjoy and capture on film, from newborn Rivers to the launch of Team Gleason, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of ALS and providing cutting-edge technology, equipment

In March 2012, when the NFL announced that Saints Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams and “between 22 and 27 defensive players” had established an improper program of “bounty” payments for injuring members of opposing teams, Pamphilon was sitting on explosive footage.

Two months earlier, while filming Gleason and Fujita at a team meeting on the eve of the Saints’ playoff contest against the San Francisco 49ers, Pamphilon had caught Williams on tape urging his players to “kill the f—king head.” In light of growing concerns over traumatic brain injuries in football, he concluded that the public should hear the audio.

That April, against Gleason’s wishes, Pamphilon released a four-minute compilation of excerpts from his recording.

In opposing public statements, Gleason and Pamphilon disputed the terms of a four-page agreement reached at the beginning of their collaboration. Gleason claimed that the release of any footage related to the project required his “explicit approval.” The filmmaker defended his actions, saying he’d followed the agreement, that a mutually agreed upon mediator had approved the release, and that it was the “right thing” to do. (Yahoo! Sports reported at the time that the contract did not specifically prohibit either Gleason or Pamphilon from releasing audio or video prior to the completion of the film.)

The relationship between filmmaker and subject was over.

“That issue caused a disconnect between Steve and [Pamphilon],” Paul Varisco says. “Steve felt that if he were going to go forward, he wanted to trust the filmmaker.”

The fate of the project was unclear. David Lee, hired by Pamphilon earlier that year, texted Gleason saying he was still available to shoot. On Easter Sunday,

Lee filmed a family barbecue; within weeks, Gleason asked him to record the placement of a feeding tube in his stomach, putting Lee into the kind of private, uncomfortable situation that distinguishes Gleason from similar documentaries.

“Early on, [Steve] told me he wanted to show everything,” Lee says. “I felt guilty for a long time for some of the stuff I filmed.”

Gleason’s intimate, often harrowing depiction of its subjects’ confrontation with ALS — and, at times, with each other — is the result of the kinship Lee and Minton-Small forged with Gleason, Michel and Rivers over the course of the next three years, during which the pair recorded more than 1,300 hours of footage.

“Ty and David more or less lived and traveled with us,” Gleason wrote Gambit in an email interview “They did caretaking for me, and are like uncles to Rivers. ...

Ultimately, they weren’t outside filmmakers filming our family. We were a team, working together on a mutual project. Ty and David are family to us.”

“They were Rivers’ brothers, our sons, my husbands,” Michel concurs. “They became everything to us. And because of the way it happened organically, I never really thought much about the cameras being on.”

For Lee and Minton-Small, this closeness also presented a dilemma. As time passed and their affection for the Gleasons grew, the line between filmmaker and family members blurred. It became increasingly difficult and emotionally draining to treat their subjects as subjects.

One night, while traveling with Gleason and Michel in Peru, Lee declined to film the former Saints star being showered off after soiling himself, because he felt that doing so would have been “crossing some sort of line.” Minton-Small also began to question whether it was appropriate to shoot footage of certain events.

“After his stem cell surgery, Steve woke up in the middle of the night and thought he was dying,” Minton-Small remembers.

“It was four in the morning, and he had somebody wake me up to film him, what he thought were his last moments, possibly. I had no idea what was going on. I thought, ‘Why am I filming this?

This does not feel right.’”

By the time Gleason entered post-production in March 2015, the combination of Gleason’s worsening condition, the growing number of caretaking duties and the consistent presence of

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cameras had worn down this small “entourage,” as Michel calls it, until the idea of continuing seemed untenable.

“There’s a point where everyone said, ‘Enough is enough,’” she says. “I remember specifically telling David, one time — I think Steve and I were having trouble with something, and I looked at him and said, ‘I don’t want this to be filmed!’ He saw that point.

I saw that point. We had enough footage. I think David really respected that.

“When I was done, I was done.”

In the summer of 2013, Kimi Culp, Michel’s closest friend from the University of Colorado at Boulder, visited the family on their annual vacation in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Lee and Minton-Small prepared to turn Gleason’s diaries, along with their own footage, into a feature-length film. The idea was to do it on a shoestring, editing it themselves using money raised on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter. They’d even finished a “sizzle reel” to attract supporters. The garage, Culp remembers, was papered with sticky notes: on tables, on walls, on Lee and Minton-Small’s computers. (“It was like A Beautiful Mind,” Fujita says.) Culp, a longtime broadcast news producer, recognized the project’s potential immediately.

“I knew in that moment, in that garage, that I had never seen anything like it,” Culp says. “This was incredible.”

As Lee and Minton-Small continued to collect new footage, Gleason and Michel entrusted Culp and Fujita with shepherding the film forward. In the coming months, the pair hashed out countless ideas over pizza and beer at Culp’s Los Angeles home, scrawling each one on whiteboard to see what stuck. They even formed a production company, Dear Rivers Productions.

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because we’d do them at my house, by the fire, after the kids went to bed,” Culp says.

In order for the project to attract investors and achieve the widest possible distribution, the film needed a director with extensive experience and prior credits, which function as currency in Hollywood. Culp and Fujita interviewed more than a dozen candidates. One stood out: Clay Tweel.

“What made Clay so attractive is he was the first one to say, ‘I need to go get on a plane and explain to Steve and Michel why I need to make this film,’” Fujita says. “He wanted to make the pitch to them directly, and that carried a lot of weight.”

Tweel, who said he was “wrecked” by Lee and Minton-Small’s five-minute teaser trailer, flew to New Orleans, where Michel, during one of their first meetings, challenged him to a game of ping-pong. Having grown up around Muhammad Ali and his wife, Lonnie — Tweel’s father was the late boxer’s longtime attorney and friend — Tweel’s passion for the project was, even then, quite personal.

“I saw a little bit of a parallel in Steve and Michel (and Ali and Lonnie),” Tweel says. “There’s two guys who are sports heroes who are often carrying the burden of something larger than themselves, and they have these two amazing wives who support them and carry on their legacy.”

For Lee and Minton-Small, who’d spent years caring for Gleason, playing with Rivers and helping Michel around the house, Gleason’s gathering momentum came with mixed feelings.

On the one hand, according to Minton-Small, it was exciting, after so many false starts, to see the film begin to crystallize. On the other, Lee says, reconciling with new voices and viewpoints after being so close to the project was challenging.

“It’s complicated,” he says. “I guess what I take away from it is, if it’s good, you can start small and it’ll get seen. That’s probably the most encouraging thing.

The hard thing is, you’ve been attached to something for so long, and then to invite a bunch of new people into it, it’s hard to go through that. But it might be necessary.”

The final push to finish Gleason began in earnest in the winter of 2015, with the goal of submitting the film to the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The filmmakers had seven months to whittle down more than a thousand hours of footage into a coherent, feature-length narrative.

Michel Varisco and Steve Gleason at their New Orleans home.

PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

Lee and Minton-Small moved to Los Angeles to help Tweel with the editing process. The director conducted on-camera interviews with Fujita, Michel and other figures in the film, finding the major themes — marriage, fatherhood and the courage of ALS patients and their caretakers.

“We were working extreme hours, trying to stay on the aggressive schedule we had set out for ourselves,” Tweel says.

“You get burned out. You lose your perspective.”

“They’re the best people I know,” says Minton-Small, who filmed Rivers and his friends on an iPhone as recently as two months ago. “If you imagine a sliding scale, I started out 100 percent filmmaker, coming down to document, and slowly that got chipped away. Now, I’m almost 100 percent their friend. ... The film stuff got to be so secondary and small compared to that.

And we were going through an unimaginably difficult situation.

Our roles as filmmakers just dwindled down.”

In January, five years after Gleason’s diagnosis, Gleason debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, receiving praise for the dauntless depiction of ALS that this tight-knit family of filmmakers and subjects had created during years in the trenches together.

Open Road Films and Amazon signed deals for theatrical and streaming distribution; Michel, whose talent for drawing features prominently in the film, sold 10 prints at a post-premiere event,

her first public showing of her art.

In a sense, the response signaled an end of an extended period of tumult and the beginning of a new stage. Call it Gleason’s unseen epilogue.

“I think the most frustrating part is that that time involved a lot of struggle, while things were declining for me physically,” Gleason tells Gambit. “For example, losing the ability to talk then, learning how to type with my eyes, was a heartbreaking experience, not only for me and Michel.

Ty and David lived that loss with us. Currently, I’m more or less stable, meaning I don’t have many abilities to lose. Because of this stability, and an incredible care crew, I’m super active. I pick our son Rivers up from school or camp. I’m at all his activities.

I enjoy our life. In so many ways, we’ve moved past that time of deep struggle.”

Despite the twists and turns of its long gestation, Gleason is what Gleason envisioned in October 2010: a record, a document, of a family fighting through unimaginable circumstances to emerge, changed but closer than ever, on the other side. Only now, audiences will be able to see that experience through their eyes.

“Someone told me this one time, and I think it’s the best thing I’ve heard,” Michel says. “I hope that people get out of it what they need to get out of it. It makes me feel better for showing my privates to the world.

“And not just mine, ours.

All of ours.”

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CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch SatSun. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night

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CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Reservations recommended.

Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/ cafegentilly — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ MeMe’s Bar & Grille — 712 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 644-4992; www.memesbareandgrille.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Messina’s Runway Cafe — 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; www. messinasterminal.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast and lunch daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter. com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — 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 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 592-0223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Fri. Credit cards. $

FRENCH Cafe Degas — 3127 Esplanade Ave., (504) 945-5635; www.cafedegas.com

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GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Nonna Mia Cafe & Pizzeria — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; www. nonnamia.net — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available.

Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

KOREAN Little Korea BBQ — 2240 Magazine St., (504) 821-5006 — No reservations.

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Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended.

Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Red Maple — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 367-0935; www.theredmaple.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www. revolutionnola.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — No reservations.

Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Hummus & More — 3363 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 833-9228; www.hummusandmore.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www.facebook. com/casaborrega — No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Casa Garcia — 8814 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 464-0354 — Res-

PIZZA

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 5229500; www.lpkfrenchquarter com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Live Oak Cafe — 8140 Oak St., (504) 2650050; www.liveoakcafenola.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — 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 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

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OUT TO EAT SEAFOOD Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 2842898; www.thebluecrabnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno. com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS

Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Oyster House — 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; www.mredsrestaurants.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

The Big Cheezy — 422 S. Broad St., (504) 302-2598; www.thebigcheezy.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys. com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $

The Stuffed Crab — 3431 Houma Blvd., Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5444 — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Liberty Cheesesteaks — 5031 Freret St., (504) 875-4447; www.libertycheesesteaks.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www. biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations. Brunch and lunch daily.

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Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 484-0841; 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-2010; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks. com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 897-5413; www. traceysnola.com — No reservations.

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

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily.

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TAPAS/SPANISH Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Reservations accepted.

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Birds of a feather MILKFISH, COMPANY BURGER, MCHARDY’S FRIED CHICKEN AND BAYOU HOT WINGS are among

vendors who will sling their version of the iconic Southern staple at the city’s inaugural Fried Chicken Festival (www.friedchickenfestival.com) Sept. 25 in Lafayette Square.

“Our vendors are diverse like our city, each providing their own twist to the classic dish,” festival organizer Cleveland Spears III said in a prepared statement.

Other vendors include Koreole, Crepes a la Cart, Fiorella’s Cafe, Diva Dawg, Tracey’s, Cafe Reconcile

Cavan focuses on regional seafood dishes.

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT DINING AT CAVAN are the

restaurant’s charm and character.

While restoring the 19th-century mansion, designers highlighted the historic home’s natural decay, and it’s hard not to be instantly seduced by the high ceilings, layered patina, glowing chandeliers and crimson banquettes that frame the downstairs dining room. Dinner plates custom-made by a local ceramicist are used alongside classic French water glasses and charmingly mismatched antique cutlery, details that add to a dinner party-like setting.

These delicate and deliberate touches have made dining a memorable experience since the restaurant opened in February. There’s been a considerably steeper learning curve where other aspects of the restaurant are concerned, but those seem to be catching up.

There have been a few bumps in the road. Within a month of opening, the LeBlanc + Smith restaurant group — which also runs Meauxbar, Sylvain and Barrel Proof — announced the departure of executive chef Kristen Essig. Ben Thibodeaux took over the reins, and most of the preliminary kinks appear to have been ironed out. Service, which could be harried in the early days, is now mostly calm, professional and friendly.

Meals start with a plate of crunchy seasoned oyster crackers. Golden brown hushpuppies arrive nestled in whipped lardo and drizzled with spiced honey, one of the better local renditions of the Southern staple.

The menu is focused on coastal American cuisine and covers the

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seafaring bases, ranging from Old Bay-seasoned peel-and-eat shrimp to spicy scallop crudo topped with lime and pistou, and whole grilled Gulf fish topped with giardiniera (it works).

Gulf tuna carpaccio features delicate slices of the rose-colored fish fanned beneath dollops of pale green avocado cream, crunchy cucumber crescents and healthy drizzles of soy and olive oil.

Some dishes are executed inconsistently. On one visit, poached seafood salad was fresh and briny, brimming with lumps of crab and squid that tasted like they had just been plucked from the sea. But on another occasion, the salad was dull and weirdly sweet, full of wilted lettuce and limp radish slices.

Toasts could use some work. Perhaps if the bread were sliced thicker, the heaping toppings wouldn’t soak through them as quickly. But a toast with roasted tomato and bacon jam is a sweet and smoky hit.

Some of the best dishes are those that deliver simple, rustic flavors, like

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Chef Ben Thibodeaux focuses on seafood dishes at Cavan.

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the excellent baked half chicken, which arrives topped with a blanket of pungent garlicky pistou and simple green salad on the side.

In one entree, plump Gulf shrimp arrive swimming in an addictive butter and beer elixir tinged with rosemary and grilled lemon. Dunking accompanying charred bread in the sauce is a must.

Though the noise level can approach deafening when the restaurant is packed, the upstairs bar provides quieter refuge and is a good place to start the evening or finish with a nightcap. Despite some stumbles, the progress at Cavan is promising, and it’s hard not to be charmed by the beautiful decay when dining here.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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and Liberty’s Kitchen, among others.

At the end of the festival, local and national food writers, bloggers and critics will judge who made the best fried bird. There will be a fried chicken wing eating contest and other events. The music lineup has not been announced.

The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 25. Admission is free.

— HELEN FREUND

Working the glutes CARROLLTON MARKET (8132 Hamp-

son St., 504-252-9928; www.carrolltonmarket.com) chef-owner Jason Goodenough is making a stand for gluten on July 20. For one night, the Riverbend restaurant is serving an eight-course gluten-centric dinner, whimsically subtitled “(It’s) A Celebration of Gluten (Bitches).”

The tongue-in-cheek backlash at gluten-free requests features a tasting menu “centered around the current villain of proteins, gluten,” states a press release from the restaurant.

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“Gluten is a very misunderstood protein,” Goodenough writes.

“It’s what makes my pasta dough elastic, what gives my bread texture and what makes my pie dough crunchy. Instead of scorning gluten, we are celebrating it.”

The menu includes the restaurant’s signature oysters Goodenough, Buffalo-style fried gluten and paneed foie gras with peach bread pudding.

The menu is $80 per person, or $125 with drink pairings. A portion of proceeds will go to the Celiac Disease Foundation. To reserve a seat (there’s only 40 available) call the restaurant at (504) 252-9928.

— HELEN FREUND

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WHEN MASAKO “PEGGY” KAMATA OPENED HER HIBACHI AND SUSHI RESTAURANT SHOGUN (2325 Veter-

ans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504833-7477; www.shogunneworleans. com) in 1981, she dreamed of having a section dedicated to robata, a style of Japanese cooking in which skewered snacks are cooked over a charcoal grill. She felt the timing wasn’t right, so the Metairie spot — the oldest Japanese restaurant in the area — built a reputation on its griddle-top hibachi and, later sushi.

the restaurant’s longtime general manager, Tony Toyonishi.

The room can accommodate roughly 20 people, most of which are at a wraparound bar that overlooks the grill (the restaurant uses gas, not charcoal). Strips of meat, vegetables and seafood are skewered on long wooden sticks, grilled and handed to diners over the counter.

“It’s really meant to be more like drinking food — small things you eat one at a time,” Toyonishi says of the menu, which has changed several times since its inception.

So far, the list has included seafood selections like white eel drizzled with wasabi soy sauce, spicy squid and mackerel. Vegetables have included daikon radish with miso glaze or shiitake mushrooms coated in thick shrimp paste. For carnivores, there are beef and foie gras skewers, chicken meatballs in demi-glace, pork belly with plum paste and shiso and a slew of bacon-wrapped selections, including scallops, oysters and enoki mushrooms.

Toyonishi says part of the fun is offering a daily special, which he chooses based on what strikes his fancy at the market. Recently, specials have included skewered roasted duck and sea snails, or whelks, which he fills with fish stock, herbs and shiitake mushrooms and tops with a quail egg.

The hours for the robata room differ from the main restaurant, but guests usually will be able to dine at the robata grill from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.

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But as of June 28, Kamata’s dream is back. Hibachi and sushi dining areas remained untouched, but a small room — previously used for private parties — in the back of the restaurant now serves a separate robata menu. It is helmed by

ndelet St., 504-930-3070; www. josephineestelle.com), the Southern-leaning Italian restaurant inside the Ace Hotel.

Mariano previously served as chef de cuisine at Domenica, and James Beard award-nominated chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman tapped him to helm Josephine Estelle when the hotel opened earlier this year.

A representative for the hotel confirmed Mariano’s departure “to pursue other opportunities.” In the interim, sous chef Ysaac Ramirez has become the executive chef.

Ramirez is a longtime employee of Ticer and Hudman’s and moved to New Orleans from Memphis to help open the restaurant.

— HELEN FREUND

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cooking as a guy from New Orleans, not cooking like a world traveler or anything like that.

But it was awesome. It’s just: How much stuff can you learn in California and bring back to New Orleans? I mean, they’re cooking with different ingredients.

I learned more about the way people carry themselves in their own kitchens and about the way they did things there. At Bar Tartine (in San Francisco) — that one was a game changer; it was my first stage and I had been cooking in the same kitchen for years. Coming from (Coquette) as the chef at my last job, I felt like I had big shoes to fill, and it was nerve-wracking. But it was just so cool and so enlightening. They had a new way to do everything; it was a really great experience.

And Butcher & Bee, a sandwich shop in Charleston (South Carolina) … that was on the other side of the spectrum. I think I worked there for a few days, maybe a week; it was just cool to see a place doing really, really good food, but mostly sandwiches and casual (food). The owner was super nice and the chefs were super nice — laidback and happy and hardworking — the kind of staff I want coming out of my restaurant.

Every job you take and everywhere you go, you pick up things along the way. I’ve been making breakfast over at HiVolt (Coffee) for the last two months, and I’ve learned things there too. There’s no place you’re going to go and not pick up something.

What does the name Turkey and the Wolf mean?

H: The only way to really explain it is: Lauren is the wolf, and I’m the turkey. — HELEN FREUND

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breweries in the Monroe area.

CottonPort Brewing opened in Sterlington in April, but owner and brewmaster Troy DuGuay Sr. died on May 20. CottonPort closed, but a representative from the brewery says its managers plan to reopen

by September.

Heath Lord homebrewed beer for many years before opening Ouachita Brewing Company in Monroe on Dec. 23, 2015. Lord uses a two-barrel (bbl) system to brew small batches of Ouachitadown pilsner, 318 IPA, Conflicted coffee porter and Silverwater ESB for local distribution. He recently began contract brewing his flagship beer, LouisiAmber, at Lazy Magnolia Brewing Company in Mississippi, and Ouachitadown production may follow.

Ouatchita Brewing was the only brewery in northeast Louisiana until CottonPort opened. Monroe has been slow to embrace the craft beer movement, Lord says, but adds he thinks locals are catching on. To help encourage interest in beer culture, Lord has served on the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council since 2007.

“We just want to serve our state well and keep that good Southern hospitality going,” Lord says.

Flying Tiger Brewery is on track

to open in Monroe in September.

Co-founders James Simpson and Robert Brewer began construction earlier this year on the 8,000-square-foot facility, which will house a 15-bbl brewhouse system, 11 fermenters and brite tanks and a 2,000-square-foot taproom.

Flying Tiger brewmaster is Brooks Hamaker, former head brewer and vice president of Abita Brewing Company and head of operations at Durham, North Carolina’s Fullsteam Brewery. Hamaker will brew blonde ale, IPA, amber ale and nitro milk stout as the brewery’s four flagship beers.

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2015 Arca Nova Vinho Verde Rose Minho, Portugal Retail $10-$11

In Portugal, the Douro River draws most of the wine world’s attention, but the Minho — both a river and region — also is worthy of consideration. In the Minho region, Vinho Verde, which is both a place and a wine style, is a traditional vintage that’s moderate on alcohol content and normally has light carbonic spritziness.

Arca Nova’s rose is a fine presentation of the espadeiro grape, which is actually a family of closely related grapes. The winemaking team at Quinta das Arcas monitors more than 500 acres of vineyards, and grapes are harvested manually. Fruit is vinified in small stainless steel containers and slowly fermented at a low temperature. For the rose, there is brief contact with grape skins during fermentation. The almost iridescent wine has flavors of strawberry, raspberry and lime. There is light carbonation, balanced acidity and a tinge of fruit sweetness. Drink it as an appertif or with barbecue, grilled meats, salads, seafood, vegetables, fruits and cheese. Buy it at: Philippe’s Wine Cellar, Pearl Wine Co. and Faubourg Wines. Drink it at: Kingfish, Oxalis and the Pontchartrain Hotel.

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Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Justin Donovan, 2; Dana & the Boneshakers, 6:30; Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 10 Banks Street Bar — Todd Smith Band, 9 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars Rhythm Section feat. Larry Johnson, noon; BB King All-Star Band feat. Jonte Mayon, 6:30 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Open Ears Music Series feat. WATIV, 10 Cafe Negril — The Four Sides, 6; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Important Gravy, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Nyce!, 6; The St. Cecilia’s Asylum Chorus, 8 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — The Last Honky Tonk Music Series with Bridgette London, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Gasa Gasa — The Warheadz, Meezus, Lucas Wylie, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Grass Mud Horse, 6:30 House of Blues — Marianas Trench, Skylar Stecker, 6 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Coast to Coast HipHop Showcase, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard Scott, noon Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Charlie Miller, 7 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30; The Key Sound, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Old Opera House — Creole Storm, 7:45 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Siberia — Oryx, Wilt, Capsizer, 9 Snug Harbor — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church — David Doucet, 7

WEDNESDAY 13 30/90 — Justin Donovan, 5 Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Gentilly Stompers, 6; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars Rhythm Section feat. Jonte Mayon, noon; Lacy

Blackledge, 3:30; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 6:30 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 BMC — Mark Appleford, 5; Doc Lovett’s Louisiana Remedy, 6; Mike P & the Funk Factory, 8:30 Cafe Negril — Wil Funk, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Justin Howl, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Dave Hickey & Jacob Tanner, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8 d.b.a. — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Holly Rock, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Synthsation feat. Microclimate, Sexy Dex & the Fresh, 9:45 House of Blues — Zakk Wylde, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown, Jared James Nichols, 8; Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Rod Melancon, 9 Jazz Cafe — The Key Sound, 7:30 The Jefferson Orleans North — Jerry Embree & the Heartbeats, 6 Little Gem Saloon — Norma Miller, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Jazz Camp Faculty & Alumni Band, 7 The Maison — DinosAurchestra, 4; Jazz Vipers, 6:30; Wilfunk, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Charlie Wooton Project feat. Jason Ricci, Doug Belote, Keiko Komaki, Jamison Ross, James Southwell, 9 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rivershack Tavern — Dave Ferrato, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Jerry Embree, 8 Siberia — AF the Naysayer, Death Cat, MC Trachiotomy, Ghandi Castle, Donde Wolf, 8 Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat.

Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

THURSDAY 14 30/90 — Andy J. Forest, 5; Smoke N Bones, 9 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Kalas Swing Society, 2; Messy Cookers, 6:30; Keith Stone, 10 Banks Street Bar — The One Percent, 9 Bar Redux — Creepy Fest feat. Special Victims Unit, Burn Barbie, Los Ninos Molestos, Cauche Mar, Bathroom Grime, 6 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars Rhythm

Section feat. Jonte Mayon, noon; Stevie J, 3:30 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Bayou International Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11 Buffa’s Lounge — Arsene Delay, 5 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andre Duhon Trio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Gate, 7; Raccoon City Massacre, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil Degruy & Emily Robertson, 6; James Singleton, Dave Easley & Friends, 8:30 Circle Bar — Jeremy Joyce, 7; Canadian Waves, US Nero, Helen of Choi, 9:30 City Park Botanical Garden — Boogiemen Swing Band, 6 d.b.a. — John Lisi & Delta Funk, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Chicken & Waffles, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Creepy Fest feat.

Dummy Dumpster, The Bills, Trampoline Team, The Diplocrats, Merkabah, DJ Pasta, 10 Jazz Cafe — Louise Cappi, 8 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Lynn Drury, 7 The Maison — The Good For Nothin’ Band, 4; Eight Dice Cloth, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Old Point Bar — The Spike Band, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Leroy Jones & Kerry Lewis, 2 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Geno Delafose, 8:30 Siberia — Crazy Whiskey, Kelcy Mae, 9 Snug Harbor — Morgan Guerin CD Release, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 15 21st Amendment — Jim Cole & the Boneyard Navigators, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 9:30 AllWays Lounge — The Salt Wives, Anna Pardenik & the Live Oaks, 9:30 Bacchanal — Raphael Bas, 4:30; The Organettes, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Smoky Greenwell, 5:30; Johnny Mastro, 10 Banks Street Bar — Chris Zonada, 7 Bar Redux — De Lune Deluge, Soul of Sam, 8 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars Rhythm Section feat. Larry Johnson, noon; Stevie J, 3:30; BB King All-Stars feat. Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7:30 Black Label Icehouse — Painted Hands, Ize, Boyish Charm, 9 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7:30; New Breed Brass Band, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

Buffa’s Lounge — Greg Shatz Trio, 5; Ruby & the Rouges, 8; Vanessa Carr, 11 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30;

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Esme Patterson

IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH ESME PATTERSON — through her years fronting Colorado folkies Paper Bird, her two previous solo albums • July 16 or, most likely, her Feist-y duets with Shakey • 9 p.m. Saturday Graves digger Alejandro Rose-Garcia, including the Spotify smash “Dearly Departed” — you • Gasa Gasa know she can do dreamy-pretty in her sleep.

• 4920 Freret St. The surprise on We Were Wild (Grand Jury • (504) 338-3567 Music) comes right away, with eye-opener “Feel Right,” when a peel-out guitar pattern • www.gasagasa.com and ascending feedback squeal amount to a blastoff for this third release. The imagery that accompanies the record centers around the ties that bind: the chainlink leash she’s wearing on the cover, or the heavy rope that pulls her out of the water in the video for lead single “No River.” But look closer and those visuals are subverted. The expanded photos for the cover shoot reveal she’s holding her own leash, and by the end of “No River,” she’s won the game of tug-of-war, leading her cadre of dancers back into the stream. Patterson has earned a reputation as a feminist protest singer, her 2014 mini-LP Woman to Woman giving the shackled subjects of so-called “love songs” (Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” Townes Van Zandt’s “Loretta,” Elvis Costello’s “Alison”) an emancipating rebuttal. She has a different, equally cutting notion: “Songs written from the point of view of men aren’t generally touted as masculine songs,” Patterson countered in a recent interview. “They’re just songs.” And with that — and the teeth of a few buzzsaw guitars — they’re all set free. Winstons and Conor Donohue open. Tickets $10-$12.

— NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

OUR TAKE

Folk-pop songstress Esme Patterson unleashes herself on a faster, louder new album.

Higher Heights, 10 Champions Square — Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 4; Gravy Flavored Kisses, 7; Jerk Officers, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — The Mulligan Brothers; Michael Pearce, 6; Nikki Hill, 8 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 6; Honey Island Swamp Band, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Bedowin Buddha, 7; DJ Fireworks, 1 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 8 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Lips & Trips, 7 Gasa Gasa — MS Saint, Boosegumps, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues — The B-Side Players Curtis Mayfield Tribute, 8

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Sleazy EZ, Kr3wcial, Shaogrove, Young Roddy, DJ Snipe, 10 Jazz Cafe — Louise Cappi, 8 K. Gee’s Cafe — Christian Serpas & Ghost Town, 6 Le Bon Temps Roule — Jeff Snake Greenberg, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Lynn Drury, 7:30 The Maison — Up Up We Go, 1; Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; The Soul Project, Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Soul Brass Band, 11 Oak — Tom Leggett, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Lynn Drury, 2; Dreux Antoine, 7 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; The PresHall Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Republic New Orleans — Soul Clap, Nick Monaco, Poolside, Unicorn Fukr, 11 Rivershack Gretna — John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9

21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6 Avant Garden District — Slangston Hughes, The Essence, Sic Hop, 9 Bacchanal — Red Organ Trio, 4; Will Thompson Quartet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — G & the Swinging Three, 1; Christopher Johnson, 5:30; Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 10 Banks Street Bar — Retro Electro CD Release, Colossal Heads, 10 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; Lacy Blackledge, 3:30; BB King All-Stars feat. Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7:30 Bei Tempi — Conga Queen, 10 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Sonic Bloom feat. Eric “Benny” Bloom, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

Buffa’s Lounge — Yvette Voelker & the Swinging Heathens, 5; Joe Lastie & the New Orleans Sound, 8; Stuart McNair, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7; Soul Project, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — Creepy Fest feat. Before I Hang, Classhole, Speedealer, Future Hate, Bucketflush, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — C.C. Adcock and Lil Buck Sinegal’s Cowboy Stew Blues Revue, 9 Circle Bar — Short Street Band, 6; SS Boombox, Nap & the Secret Wands, Ground Water Mafia, Merkabah, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; Brass-A-Holics, 11 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Vincent Marini, 7; Notel Motel, 9; The 2 Pistols Jam Session, 2 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Makenzie Mizell, 7 Gasa Gasa — Esme Patterson, Winstons, 9 Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Heaven’s Gate — Noids, Gland, Chamois Boys, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi Tribute, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Shane Smith & the Saints, 10 Jazz Cafe — Louise Cappi, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Glen David Andrews, 7:30 Louisiana Music Factory — Lilli Lewis Project, 2 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Leah Rucker, 4; Smoking Time PAGE 37

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Maple Leaf Bar — Mike Dillon Band, 11 Oak — Ponchartrain Wrecks, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Revival feat. Caroline Broussard, 9:30 Oz — Sunday School with Cameron Kelly, 4 a.m.

Preservation Hall — The Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Jamie Wight, 6; The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Creepy Fest feat. Ese, Disappointed Parents, Fugitive Family, Donkey Puncher, Crimewave, Stovebolts, Fuck With Fire, The Chica Negra, Fat Stupid Ugly People, The Poots, Betty White Tit Fuck, The Perfect Gentlemen, 8 RF’s — Lucas Davenport, 6; Sunshine Brass Band, 9 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1 Rivershack Gretna — Holly Rock, 9 Rivershack Tavern — The Untamed Few, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Deacon John & the Ivories, 9 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Amanda Ducorbier Trio, 9 Siberia — A Living Soundtrack, Static Masks, Glassing, Capra, 9 Snug Harbor — Herlin Riley Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Egyptian Lover, 8 Spotted Cat — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Twist of Lime — Torrid Complex, Southern Brutality, Hydrilla, Trick Bag, 10 Vaso — JoJo and Mo Blues, 11 a.m.

SUNDAY 17 Avant Garden District — Black Titan, Bad Misters, 8 Bacchanal — The Tradsters, 4; The Roamin’ Jasmine, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Banks Street Bar — Kyle Smith, 4; Simple Sound Retreat, 8 Bar Redux — DJ Andy Average’s Limbo Lounge, 7 BB King’s — Keith Stone Band, 11 a.m.; Jeremy Joyce, 6:30 Black Label Icehouse — Creepy Fest feat. A Hanging, Witch Burial, AR-15, Baptizer, Stereo Fire Empire, 3:30 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Snake & the Charmers, 6 Bombay Club — David Boeddinghaus, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Chris Christy Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like It Hot, 10:30 a.m.; Nattie Sanchez Songwriter Circle, 7 Cafe Negril — All 4 One Brass Band, 6; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Creepy Fest feat.

Liquor & Lies, Tuff Luvs, Fugitive Family, Medically Separated, Tomb of Nick Cage, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m.

Crescent City Brewhouse — Traditional jazz, 6

MONDAY 18 30/90 — Perdido Jazz Band, 5; New Orleans Super Jam, 9 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Rubin & Chip Wilson, 2; NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Smoky’s Blues Monday Jam, 9 Banks Street Bar — Lauren Sturm’s Piano Night, 7; Mid-City Allfunksters, 10 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 Bombay Club — Josh Paxton, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Falletta, 6; Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — Traditional jazz, 6 d.b.a. — Slick Skillet Serenaders, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8

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Jazz Club, 7; Miss Mojo, Brass Lightning, 10

d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Soul Brass Band, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Blues Brunch with Michael Pearce, 11 a.m.

Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Ike Fonseca, 7 Gasa Gasa — Big Business, Andy the Doorbum, 9 Hey! Cafe — Fister, Christworm, Cikada, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irish House — Dan Rivers, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Jazz Cafe — The Key Sound, 7:30 The Jefferson Orleans North — The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 6:30 Kermit’s Treme Mother-In-Law Lounge — Kermit Ruffins, Paris Harris, DJ Sugar Ray, 4 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Cecile Savage Duo, 10 a.m.

The Maison — Chance Bushman & the NOLA Jitterbugs, 10 a.m.; DinosAurchestra, 1; Too Darn Hot, 7; Higher Heights, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 RF’s — Will Kennedy, 4; Tony Seville & the Cadillacs, 7 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 2 Siberia — The Tumbling Wheels, Up Up We Go, Tasche, The Psychedelic Roses, 6; Lauren Jean & Her Resting Bitchface, Clem McGillicutty & the Burnouts, Swamp Rats, Ratty Scurvics, Flying Roaches, 9 Snug Harbor — James Singleton Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Alien Ant Farm, 7 Spotted Cat — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Superior Seafood — Superior Jazz Trio feat. John Rankin, Harry Hardin, Tim Paco, 11:30 a.m.

Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Vaso — JoJo and Mo Blues, 11 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Carl Leblanc, 9 Gasa Gasa — Chokey, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Instant Opus Improvised Series, 10 Irish House — Traditional Irish music session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Fat Ballerina, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 Pour House Saloon — Noah Peterson, 9 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 8, 9 & 10 RF’s — David Bach, 4 Sidney’s Saloon — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Bart Ramsey, 5

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s “Organ & Labyrinth” performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock by candlelight. Free. 6 p.m.

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Bastille Day Musical Extravaganza. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — Albinas Prizgintas, Rebecca Todaro, Phil the Tremolo King, Laura Patterson, Fritzgerald Barrau, The Merry Antoinettes and others present French-themed pieces.

Free. 5 p.m. Sunday.

New Orleans Chamber Orchestra. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — The orchestra’s “A Little Night Music” program consists of works by Jerry Sieg, Sibelius, Purcell, Timothy Robertson and Mozart. Tickets $10-$25. 8 p.m. Friday.

Tristan Legovic. Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190 — The French harpist performs solo and ensemble pieces. Free. 2 p.m. Sunday.

CALL FOR MUSIC Crescent City Sound Chorus. Singers of all levels are welcome to join the women’s chorus for a variety of vocal exercises.

Reading music is not required. Contact Corinna at (601) 550-0983 or email corinna@ccschorus.org with questions.

Kinderchor. Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 522-8014 — The New Orleans German-American Children’s Chorus meets Saturday afternoons from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Membership is open to all ages and no prior experience in German or singing is necessary. Visit www.neworleanskinderchor.blogspot.com for details.

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

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FILM FESTIVALS French Film Festival. Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com — The New Orleans Film Society presents a variety of modern, classic and avant-garde French films. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org for schedule. Tickets $9-$70.

Tuesday-Thursday.

OPENING THIS WEEKEND Ghostbusters (PG-13) — Funny girls Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig star in a remake of the cult classic with an all-female cast. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place, Chalmette Lucha Mexico — The documentary introduces fans and converts to the (very) colorful world of Mexican wrestling. Zeitgeist Our Loved Ones — A familial saga follows a Quebecois clan after its patriarch’s suicide. Zeitgeist

NOW SHOWING The BFG (PG) — Roald Dahl’s tale of a friendly giant and his cannibalistic foes is adapted for the screen. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Central Intelligence (PG-13) — Guns are dutifully a-blazin’ in this odd-couple action comedy with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Conjuring 2 (R) — Haints turn up in a London townhouse. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal De Palma (R) — The director’s filmography is explored. Chalmette Finding Dory (PG) — Ellen Degeneres and Albert Brooks voice fish on a quest in this sequel to Finding Nemo. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Flight of the Butterflies 3D — A scientist chronicles lepidopteran migration. Entergy Giant Screen Free State of Jones (R) — Matthew McConaughey rises again to lead a rebellion against the Confederacy. Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Hurricane on the Bayou — Director Greg MacGillivray explores Hurricane Katrina and Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands.

Entergy Giant Screen Independence Day: Resurgence (PG13) — Cue inspiring speech that saves humanity in five ... four ... Clearview,

Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Infiltrator (R) — Former Breaking Bad meth kingpin Bryan Cranston switches teams to portray an FBI agent in pursuit of Pablo Escobar. Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place The Legend of Tarzan (PG-13) — Shirtless Alexander Skarsgard takes on civilization. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Lobster (R) — In the surrealist drama, single people have 45 days to find a partner or be turned into an animal. Broad Me Before You (PG-13) — High tea meets high treacle when an Englishwoman becomes the caretaker for a handsome paralyzed banker. Kenner Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (R) — Two dudes discover too late that their dates are girls gone wild. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Now You See Me 2 (PG-13) — A Harry Potter sequel? Nope, just poor Daniel Radcliffe typecast as a magician again.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Purge: Election Year (R) — The third (!) installment of the campy franchise in which citizens celebrate “Purge Night,” a lawless evening of mayhem. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Secret Life of Pets (PG) — Comic luminaries Louis C.K., Hannibal Buress, Kevin Hart and Jenny Slate provide voices for this animated animal adventure. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Secret Ocean 3D — Filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau explores the ocean’s food chain from phytoplankton to the largest whales. Entergy Giant Screen The Shallows (PG-13) — Gossip Girl meets Open Water. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Sing Street (PG-13) — In the timehonored tradition of teenage boys everywhere, an Irish kid starts a band to get a girl. Elmwood Swiss Army Man (R) — Daniel Radcliffe plays a flatulent corpse in this oddball indie. Elmwood, Broad, Prytania, Canal Place Wiener-Dog (R) — A diminutive pup changes owners in a black comedy from the director of Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness. Broad Wild Cats 3D — Big kitties roam the African plains and Victoria Falls. Entergy Giant Screen

SPECIAL SCREENINGS AAIC: Papal Basilicas of Rome — A greatest-hits tour of cool Roman Catholic churches. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Elmwood, Regal Back to the Future (PG) — According to The New York Times, China banned this movie in 2011 because the idea of time travel “disrespects history.” Midnight Friday-Saturday. Prytania Beetlejuice (PG) — Just one of a slew of ’80s goth-coms (Heathers, Edward Scissorhands) starring Winona Ryder. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Black Label Icehouse (3000 Dryades St.) A Better Life — The documentary profiles atheists and their search for meaning outside of religion. Q&A with the director follows. 2 p.m.

Saturday. Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library (4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie) Curious George (G) — An explorer accidentally brings an inquisitive monkey back from Africa. 10 a.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday. Regal Dough — An elderly Jewish baker befriends a young Muslim refugee in this feel-good drama. 9 p.m. TuesdayThursday. Zeitgeist Eyes on the Prize — The film is based on Civil Rights Movement-related events. ’70s attire encouraged. 2 p.m. Sunday.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center Full Aperture: Animation — Art films

by Oscar Fischinger and Jodie Mack are screened. 8 p.m. Saturday. New Orleans Photo Alliance (1111 St. Mary St.) Funny Face — A photographer (Fred Astaire) recruits a shy bookstore clerk (Audrey Hepburn) as his model. 10 a.m.

Wednesday. Prytania The Good Dinosaur (PG) — In Pixar’s foray into prehistoric times, a young boy befriends an apatosaurus. 7 p.m. Friday.

Audubon Zoo La Boheme Met Summer Encore — Puccini’s timeless opera is the tale of dissolute Parisian artists who fall in love.

7 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood No Men Beyond This Point — The mockumentary imagines a future in which men are obsolete. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Return of the Living Dead, Rotten Riders and Surf Nazis Must Die — Creepy Fest’s horror-comedy triple-header has zombies and villainous neo-Nazi surfers (yes, really.) 3 p.m.

Saturday. Lost Love Lounge RiffTrax Live: MST3K Reunion — Original Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast members reunite for a night of dork snark. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Elmwood, Regal Singin’ in the Rain (G) — The endlessly parodied Old Hollywood masterpiece is screened. 7 p.m.

Monday. Orpheum Star Wars: The Force Awakens (PG-13) — A slightly less long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. 7 p.m.

Tuesday. Orpheum The Wizard of Oz (G) — BYO copy of Dark Side of the Moon. 10 a.m.

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THERE MAY BE NO MORE POLARIZING DIRECTOR IN THE HISTORY OF MOVIES THAN BRIAN DE PALMA. The writer• Thru July 18 director’s films have continually split • 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. daily viewers into equally passionate groups of fans and detractors, fueling a 40-year • Chalmette Movies debate on the value of De Palma’s work. To • 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, some, he’s a master craftsman and fearless artist hell-bent on pushing boundaries and Chalmette challenging audiences. Others dismiss De • (504) 304-9992 Palma as a technician with little aptitude for • www.chalmettemovies.com character or story who borrows too freely from his cinematic hero, Alfred Hitchcock.

Young filmmakers today frequently count themselves among De Palma’s admirers, so it’s no surprise that the co-directors of documentary De Palma, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) and Jake Paltrow (The Good Night), regard their subject as a towering figure in cinema history.

But instead of building a case for De Palma’s artistic worth, Baumbach and Paltrow get out of the way completely and allow the director to describe the process of creating each of his 29 feature films in chronological order without interruption or outside interpretation.

It’s a remarkably straightforward approach to a filmmaker documentary, and one that reaps big rewards and a few frustrations. The now 75-year-old De Palma has three primary things to share with us: how both Hollywood and independent filmmaking actually work (he has gone back and forth between the two worlds throughout his career); specific insight on what it takes to be a successful director; and revealing, often hilarious stories from the trenches. De Palma is a must-see for film buffs and aspiring filmmakers, and it is entertaining enough to engage casual viewers.

De Palma begins with a discussion of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the film that changed De Palma’s life and clearly remains a source of wonder and inspiration for him. De Palma spends less than three minutes on his upbringing (“I was basically a science nerd,” he says, illuminating his craft-driven approach to filmmaking) before launching into his film-by-film discussion.

All of De Palma’s movies receive roughly equal time, including major hits (Carrie, Mission: Impossible), spectacular failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mission to Mars), cult classics (Scarface) and sources of endless controversy (Dressed to Kill).

The chronological approach illuminates the ebb and flow of a life’s work while showing just how much flexibility and perseverance are required to maintain a career as a filmmaker.

Questions posed by Baumbach and Paltrow are edited out of the film so that the only voice belongs to De Palma. The fast pace needed to cover so much ground in 109 minutes means the film never bogs down, but it’s the barrage of film clips — selected by Baumbach and Paltrow with the touch of a knowledgeable fan — that brings De Palma’s storytelling to life. Audiences will leave the screening with a long list of films they can’t wait to see.

Baumbach, Paltrow and De Palma have been friends for a long time, which seems to make De Palma comfortable and open on camera. But it also may have kept the documentary filmmakers from pressing De Palma on aspects of his work for which he has long been criticized, such as the relentless violence against women in his films. De Palma’s thoughts on his singular adoption of Hitchcock’s film language also needs further explanation. It may be best to take the film as a kind of visual memoir, a unique document for which De Palma has finally earned the right to tell it exactly as he sees it. — KEN KORMAN

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OPENING Rabbit Ears. 8225 Oak St., (985) 2120274; www.facebook.com/rabbitearsnola — New work by New Orleans outsider artist Al Weidenbacher; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Studio Inferno. Studio Inferno, (504) 945-1878; www.facebook.com/infernonola — “Annual Open Art Show,” opening reception and awards presentation 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES 5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 9402900; www.5pressgallery.com — “The Colors Bordering Earth and Sky,” work by NOCCA alumni, through July 30.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “KOKO’s Love: A Soap Opera Tale of One Family,” multimedia exhibition by Yoshie Sakai, through Aug. 7.

“The Midden Heap Project,” experimental work about Finnegan’s Wake, through July.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico.blogspot.com — “Los Demonios de Mi Tierra,” photographs by Mauricio Silerio, through July.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Maafa: The Past We Inherit, the Future We Create,” photographs by Gason Ayisyin and Peter Nakhid, through July.

Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandartnola.com — “Dream,” mixed-media work by Russian contemporary artist Olesya, through July.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Coastal Cartography,” mixed-media Georgia coast landscapes

by John Folsom, through July 30.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Summer Group Exhibition,” new work by gallery artists, through Aug. 27.

CJ Nero. 839 Spain St., (504) 875-2008; www.facebook.com/craig.who.dat.nero — “Le Jardin,” watercolors by Joleen Arthur Schiller, through Aug. 6.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Defining Identity,” works about identity by emerging artists Dan Branch, Darneice Floyd, Emily Lovejoy and Leroy Miranda Jr., through Aug. 4.

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

Mixed-media work by Vanessa Centeno, Stephen Rooney, Claire Rau and Madeleine Wieand, through Aug. 7.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Finite and Infinite,” paintings by Carol Scott, through July.

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

Hyph3n-Art Gallery. 1901 Royal St., (504) 264-6863; www.hyph3n.com — Group exhibition by Polina Tereshina, Walker Babington, Charles Hoffacker, Garrett Haab, Jacob Edwards, Wendy Warrelmann and Amy Ieyoub, ongoing.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/ departments/art-gallery — “Delgado Open,” new work by non-art faculty and staff, through Thursday.

John Bukaty Studio and Gallery. 841 Carondelet St., (970) 232-6100; www. johnbukaty.com — Paintings and sculpture by John Bukaty, ongoing.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Art Hysterical,” New Orleans artists curated by Matthew Weldon Showman; “Web of Life,” abstract paintings by Richelle Gribble; “Mother Vision,” dimensional photographs by Rosemary Scott-Fishburn; all through July 30. “Exchange,” work of eight German artists as part of a cultural exchange between New Orleans and Berlin, through July.

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

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Luminescence,” new work by Deedra Ludwig; “Memento Wild,” new work by Marcy Lally; both through July 30.

M. Francis Gallery. 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery.com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

Martin Welch Art Gallery. 223 Dauphine St., (504) 388-4240; www.martinwelchart.com — Paintings and mixed-media work by Martin Welch, ongoing.

May Gallery and Residency. 750 Carondelet St., (504) 316-3474; www.may-neworleans.org — “Trail Magique,” new work

by Dave Greber, through July.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos. com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

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Kalaya Steede, Alison Ford, Erin Gesser and others, ongoing.

RidgeWalker Glass Gallery. 2818 Rampart St., (504) 957-8075; www.ridgewalkerglass.com — Glass, metal sculpture and paintings by Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway, ongoing.

River House at Crevasse 22. 8122 Saro Lane, Poydras; www.cano-la.org — The sculpture garden addresses environmental themes, ongoing.

Rodrigue Studio. 721 Royal St., (504) 581-4244; www.georgerodrigue. com — “The Spirit of the Game,” work about sports by George Rodrigue, through Sept. 18.

Rolland Golden Gallery. 325 E. Lockwood St., Covington, (985) 8886588; www.rollandgoldengallery.com — “Finally Winter,” work by Rolland Golden, ongoing.

Rutland Street Gallery. 828 E. Rutland St., Covington, (985) 773-4553; www. rutlandstreetgallery.com — Group exhibition featuring Peggy Imm, Shirley Doiron, Georgie Dossouy, Len Heatherly, Brooke Bonura and others, ongoing.

ShiNola Gallery. 1813 Martin Luther King Blvd., (504) 223-5732 — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

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

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org

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by Gulf South artists, through Aug. 20.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Raw,” mixed-media abstract works by Antonio Carreno, through July.

Sutton Galleries. 519 Royal St., (504) 581-1914; www.suttongalleries.com — New work by Isabelle Dupuy, ongoing.

Tripolo Gallery. 401 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 893-1441 — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

United Bakery Gallery. 1337 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 908-9412 — “Piano & Poker,” new work by Daniel Grey, Liam Conway, Todd Lyons, Sarah Davis, Lauren Miller, Brianna Serene Kelly and Galen Cassidy Peria, ongoing.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Presences,” mixed-media work by current Master of Fine Art degree candidates, through Aug. 7.

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

MUSEUMS The Historic New Orleans Collection.

533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “The Seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter,” model of 200-year-old French Quarter building and historic site and more.

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Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — “Voyage to Vietnam,” video, materials and crafts saluting the Tet Festival and Vietnamese culture, through Sept. 11 and more.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and display exploring Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere.

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

National Food & Beverage Foundation.

1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.natfab.org — “Tujague’s: 160 Years of Tradition,” photographs, awards and memorabilia about the restaurant, ongoing.

National World War II Museum.

945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — “Tom Lea: LIFE and World War II,” paintings and illustrations by the war correspondent, ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Bob Dylan: The New Orleans Series,” paintings by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, through July. “The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction,” everyday objects

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New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 5297277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Glass sculpture by Thomas Kelly and Robert Kelly; metal sculpture by Devon Murphy; both ongoing.

New Orleans Tattoo Museum. 1915 1/2 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 218-5319; www.nolatattoomuseum.com — “Folklore & Flash,” tattoo designs and artifacts, ongoing.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery. com — “A Glimpse Within,” oil, watercolor and collage works by Alex Hernandez Duenas, Martha Hughes, Kathryn Keller, Grover Mouton and Pierre Bergian, through July 30.

Overby Gallery. 529 N. Florida St., Covington, (985) 888-1310; www.overbygallery.com — Exhibition by gallery artists James Overby, John Goodwyne, Kathy Partridge, Linda Shelton and Ray Rouyer, ongoing.

Pamela Marquis Studio. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 615-1752; www.pamelamarquisstudio.com — New paintings by Pamela Marquis, ongoing.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery.

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20th century, people debated whether stark, geometric modernist designs were sleek or severe, but now styles from the Mad Men era • Through Sept. 11 can seem nostalgic, even timeless, as classical modernism attains a kind of eternal life in • The Essence of Things —Decontemporary furnishings by companies like sign and the Art of Reduction: Ikea and Herman Miller. Arising from origins as 100 years of modern design varied as the mystical geometry of Piet Mondrian’s paintings and the industrial utopianism of • New Orleans Museum of Art the German Bauhaus designers, 20th-century • 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, modernism was based on the idea that form City Park should follow function and that everything should be reduced to its essence. At its best, • (504) 658-4100 that approach engendered the elegant simplic• www.noma.org ity that characterizes most of the work in this The Essence of Things exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Organized by Germany’s Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition is a mixture of the familiar and the exotic. Some designs — such as the art deco aluminum espresso maker designed

by Alfonso Bialetti in 1933, or the steel and fiberglass stackable chairs designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1954 — are so commonplace that we don’t even notice them any more. But a scale model of one of the Eames brothers’ rare modular houses suggests a striking Mondrian composition expanded into three dimensions. Among the more exotic items is a clear acrylic chair by Noato Fukasawa (pictured) amid more conventional designs including a clear polycarbonate chair by Philippe Starck, all of which elaborate on the see-through furniture motifs of the 1970s. On the walls behind them is an assortment of posters ranging from an elegant composition by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to a playful pictograph of the IBM logo, and even a stark red clenched fist, all reflecting the efficient minimalism of modernist poster design. But the most curious item in the show would have to be Andrea Zittel’s Escape Vehicle, a kind of inhabitable metal packing case for people who need a sleek human cocoon where they can curl up and escape the manic madness of modern times. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Modernist ideas inspired simple yet elegant designs.

covering 100 years of design history, through Sept. 11, and more.

per,” paper arts and works on paper from the permanent collection, and more.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — New work by Syrian-born artist Diana Al-Hadid; “Syria’s Lost Generation,” portraits and audio recordings by Elena Dorfman; “Women of Newcomb,” recently acquired work by Newcomb College alumnae; all through July 24.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/the-old-us-mint — “Time Takes a Toll,” conserved instruments featuring Fats Domino’s piano, through December.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “The Surreal Work of a Reclusive Sculptor,” Arthur Kern retrospective, through Sunday. “Pa-

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THEATER Chicago. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road, Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc.com — Justin Lapeyrouse directs the musical about Prohibition-era women who commit murder and the society that celebrates their crimes.

Tickets $15-$30. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Exterior. Pool-Night. Aloft New Orleans Downtown, 225 Baronne St. — The NOLA Project presents a Hollywood “backstage” drama performed in and around a swimming pool. Visit www. thenolaproject.com for details. Tickets $20-$30. 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.

The High Priestess of Dark Alley.

Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www. lepetittheatre.com — Jackie Alexander directs her play about two sisters struggling to come to terms with their domineering mother. Tickets $25-$40.

7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

Seussical: The Musical. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — The musical is a mash-up of tales by Dr. Seuss. Tickets $13-$17. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Wizard of Oz. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www. rivertowntheaters.com — The American fable follows its heroine’s quest to return to Kansas from the enchanted land of Oz. Tickets $36-$40. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY American Mess. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www. barcadianeworleans.com — Katie East hosts local and touring comedians alongside burlesque performances.

8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Bad Girls of Burlesque. House of Blues (The Parish), 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.hob.com — Miss Stormy Gayle, Elle Dorado, Chere Noble, GoGo McGregor, Nikki LeVillain and others perform at the transgressive burlesque show.

Tickets $21-$33. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Bella Blue’s Dirty Dime Peepshow.

AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Bella Blue produces a boundary-crossing burlesque show hosted by Ben Wisdom. Tickets $15. 11 p.m. Saturday.

The Blue Book Cabaret. Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107; www.bourbonpub.com — Bella Blue and a rotating cast including Darling Darla James, Nikki LeVillain, Cherry Brown and Ben Wisdom perform classic

and contemporary burlesque and drag.

Visit www.thebellalounge.com for details.

Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Saturday.

Burgundy Burlesque. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 5225400; www.thesainthotelneworleans. com — Trixie Minx leads a weekly burlesque performance featuring live jazz.

Free admission; reserved table $10.

9 p.m. Friday.

Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www.sonesta.com/imjazzplayhouse — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly 1960s-style burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye & the Mercy Buckets. Call (504) 553-2331 for details.

Midnight Friday.

Burlesque Boozy Brunch. SoBou, 310 Chartres St., (504) 552-4095; www. sobounola.com — A burlesque performance by Bella Blue and friends accompanies brunch service. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.

Monday’s a Drag. House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge), 229 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans — Nicole Lynn Foxx hosts local drag performers. 8 p.m. Monday.

Scrooge This. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux. com — Picolla Tushy’s Christmas in July-themed burlesque show is inspired

by Dickens, Charles Bukowski and the Chipmunks. 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9405546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

Theatre Nouveau. Jax Brewery, 600 Decatur St., (504) 299-7163 — Cherry Bombshell and Queenie O’Hart produce the burlesque revue. Tickets $10.

8 p.m. Monday.

Whiskey & Rhinestones. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www.gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts a burlesque show. Visit www. thebellalounge.com for details. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Thursday.

DANCE Juxtaposed. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — The Anne Burr Dance Company and Ballet Hysell’s performance incorporates several styles of modern dance.

Visit www.ballethysell.brownpapertickets.com for details. Tickets $10-$15.

7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show.

10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Gold. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “RedBean” Plunkett hosts a stand-up show. 8 p.m. Thursday.

The Duplex. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Two hosts and two improv troupes perform.

8 p.m. Thursday.

Friday Night Laughs. NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 10 p.m., show at 11 p.m. Friday.

Go Ahead. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone and Shawn Dugas host a short lineup of alternative comics. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 947-2379; www.sidneyssaloon.com — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Sunday.

The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — A comedy show and open mic includes periodic rounds of bingo. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Stage Time. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues. com/neworleans — Leon Blanda hosts an open mic. Sign-up 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday.

Stand Up or Shut Up. Black Label Icehouse, 3000 Dryades St., (504) 875-2876; www.blacklabelbbq.com — Garrett Cousino hosts an open mic. 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Think You’re Funny?. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — Brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The TMI Talk Show. NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — Performers are urged to overshare with the audience. 8:30 p.m.

Thursday.

Virginia’s Harem. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — The sketch comedy and multimedia troupe performs. 9 p.m. Saturday.

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THE TITLE OF JIM FITZMORRIS’ LATEST DRAMA, The Killing of a Lesbian Bookie, is racy, but it isn’t long enough to accommodate all the crime, vice and prurience that quickly spilled onstage at The Theatre at St. Claude. Burlesque star Triple Lexxxi is PHOTO BY EDWARD CARTER SIMON preparing for the opening night of her bar and club a when beer purveyor, nicknamed Irish, drops by with what turns out to be an offer that’s hard to refuse.

Lexxxi (Bunny Love) has worked long and hard to save money and build up the fame she’s leveraged to open her own club. She wants to cash in on the dues she’s paid, including trading sex for favors, and make the most of the time left in her performing career. Her lover and business partner is a bookie (Kimberly Kaye), who has complicated relationships with her clients. Irish (Justin Welborn) is interested in more than stocking the bar with craft beers, including selections from Rogue Ale, if anyone was looking for easy clues.

The action takes place in Lexxxi’s dressing room, and the show included partial nudity. Lexxxi stores a collection of classic crime films on a shelf behind a bar, and David Raphel’s stylish set was hung with vintage crime movie posters. Lexxxi and Irish are both crime movie junkies, and they banter about genre classics by director John Cassavetes — adding a few other pointedly dropped titles (The Godfather, Chinatown) as well.

References to 1970s organized crime movies abound, but the drama resembles Pulp Fiction and other Quentin Tarantino movies. There’s a lot of dialogue, philosophizing and creative thinking with guns drawn. One strength of Fitzmorris’ story is that the fast-talking characters are more compelling than the easy drama created by putting guns onstage. The tension built, but it didn’t settle on easy resolution.

Irish is a former corrupt cop who gravitated toward protection rackets, trading favors with influential people and hanging out with crooks, strippers and whores. It’s not a story of fallen virtue, as all three characters have been involved in criminal and exploitive enterprises and survived all sorts of dirty deals to get ahead. Corruption is environmental in this demimonde. The drama explores the trade-offs of pursuing love and money and warns against trusting anyone without an identifiable personal stake, preferably business interests. “Take care of yourself,” Fitzmorris writes.

Lexxxi and Irish share an ironic appreciation of the burlesque concept of “the reveal.” Fitzmorris’ script is characteristically aware of and calls attention to language, often conspicuously savoring a double entendre or turn of phrase. At times the piece is too wordy, but the crime scheme is complicated and compelling, and the show breezed by in 75 minutes without an intermission.

It’s never really convincing that Lexxxi and the bookie love each other in anything but superficial ways, though the drama seems to need their bond to be meaningful and at times heated. The acting was generally sharp, and Welborn had brilliant moments handling Irish’s entertaining deal-making under duress — as well as a couple of stumbles keeping up with its pace. Bunny Love is an experienced burlesque performer and is comfortable in Lexxxi’s skin, though her burlesque costume seems odd, splitting the difference between glamorous old burlesque and neon stripper ware.

The Killing of a Lesbian Bookie was a fast-paced, fun dive into the underworld. It’s got a smart plot, enough surprises to keep it lively and plenty of guilty pleasures. It courted and then rose above easy titillation. — WILL COVIELLO

The Killing of a Lesbian Bookie

OUR TAKE

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TUESDAY 12 ENONAC Community Meeting. St. Maria Goretti Community Center, 7300 Crowder Blvd., (504) 242-1313; www. smgnola.com — A meeting for residents covers the proposed new power plant in New Orleans East. Visit www.enonac.org or call (504) 218-5949 for details. 6 p.m.

Les Comediens Francais Lecture. Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org/willcent. htm — Alfred Lemmon’s discussion covers the writings of Victor Sejour, a free man of color. Free admission; reservations recommended. 6 p.m.

Nearly New Sale. Shir Chadash Synagogue, 3737 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-1144; www.shirchadash.org — A community rummage sale supports local charities including Bridge House and Friends of the Library. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Windsor Uncorked: The Wines of the Northern Rhone. The Grill Room at the Windsor Court, 300 Gravier St., (504) 522-1992; www.grillroomneworleans.com — Sommelier Bill Burkhart shares wines from the Rhone region.

Tickets $45. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 13 Alexander McConduit Sno-ball Day. Children’s Resource Center, 913 Napoleon Ave., (504) 596-2628; www.nutrias.org — The family-friendly event includes lessons on poetry and sno-ball history and snoball vendors. Free admission. 11 a.m.

Community Coffee. Joan Mitchell Center, 2275 Bayou Road, (504) 9402500; www.joanmitchellfoundation. org — Artists meet to network and share current projects. Light refreshments provided by Pagoda Cafe. Free admission.

8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Gambit’s Emerging Chefs Challenge.

The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St., (504) 486-8351; www.cannerynola.com — At Gambit’s “Krewe of Sous” dining event, up-and-coming sous chefs share dishes and compete to win an audience vote.

Visit www.bestofneworleans.com/chefs for details. Tickets $35. 6:30 p.m.

Girls Pint Out. Crescent City Brewhouse, 527 Decatur St., (504) 522-0571; www. crescentcitybrewhouse.com — The women’s beer appreciation and networking group meets for brews and finger foods.

Free admission. 6 p.m.

Newcomb Summer Hours. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 3142406; www.newcombartmuseum.tulane. edu — The galleries stay open late. Free admission. 5 p.m to 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 14 Arnaud’s Bastille Day Fete. Arnaud’s Restaurant, 813 Bienville St., (504) 523-

5433; www.arnaudsrestaurant.com — The dinner celebrates French Independence Day with wine, cuisine and communal dining. Tickets $100. 7 p.m.

Bastille Day. Nix Library, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630; www. nutrias.org — The library’s celebration has French music, stories and children’s crafts. 2 p.m.

Bastille Day Wine Dinner. The Grill Room at the Windsor Court, 300 Gravier St., (504) 522-1992; www.grillroomneworleans.com — The restaurant hosts a six-course prix-fixe dinner celebrating the French holiday. Tickets $125. 6:30 p.m.

Environmental Farming 101. Recirculating Farms Coalition, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357 — Marianne Cufone and Maria Brodine discuss hydroponic gardening, using solar energy and other green farming techniques. RSVP requested; free admission. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Jefferson Bourbon Dinner. Tujague’s Restaurant, 823 Decatur St., (504) 5258676; www.tujagues.com — A five-course dinner created by guest chefs Isaac Toups, Alex Harrell and Marcus Woodham includes pairings with Jefferson bourbon cocktails. Tickets $110. 7 p.m.

Ogden After Hours. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The galleries stay open late for artist talks, receptions and special exhibits. Admission $10. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Revolution: Modernizing the New Orleans Fashion Girl. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www. gravierstreetsocial.com — A fashion show features modern looks inspired by retro designs. Contact girlsguidetoneworleans@gmail.com for details. Tickets $10$30. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Write & Draw Mini-Zines & Comic Books.

Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 5962667; www.nutrias.org — At the program for teens, patrons make an eight-page zine filled with comics, stories or poems.

Free admission. 2 p.m.

FRIDAY 15 Bastille Day Fete. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100 — Alliance Francaise’s celebration of French National Day features French cuisine, a French dog costume contest, music and family-friendly activities. Visit www.bastilledaynola.com for details. Free admission.

4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Covington Prayer Breakfast. St. Paul’s School, 917 S. Jahncke Ave., Covington, (985) 892-3200; www.stpauls.com — Physician Vern Palmisano is the guest speaker at the community breakfast.

Email dan@danjohnsoncpa.com to register. Tickets $20-$150. 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Friday Night Fights. Friday Night Fights Gym/HQ, 1632 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.,

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(504) 895-1859 — The fight series has male and female boxing, guest performances and a swimsuit competition.

Tickets $15-$20; military, UNO students and swimsuit-clad attendees free. 7 p.m.

New Orleans Summer Bead and Jewelry Show. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985 — The annual bead, gem and jewelry show returns. Visit www.aksshow.com for details. Admission $5. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Sip and Shop on Bayou Road. Kitchen Witch Cookbooks, 1452 N. Broad St., (504) 528-8382; www.kwcookbooks. com — At a block party, shoppers visit neighborhood businesses while enjoying free wine. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A Summer Night at Southport. Southport Hall, 200 Monticello Ave., (504) 835-2903; www.newsouthport.com — A fundraiser for the Akula Foundation has live music, a silent auction, local cuisine and drinks. Call Christopher Guthrie at (504) 881-0452 for details. Tickets $30$35. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Wild Nights Insect Adventure. Audubon Wilderness Park, 14001 River Road, (504) 581-4629 — Audubon entomologists share details about bugs in the wild, followed by a nature walk and sandwich dinner. Visit www.audubonnatureinstitute. org for details. Tickets $125, members $115. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screenings. LSU Healthcare Network, 3700 St. Charles Ave., (504) 598-5241; www.lsuhn. com — Free ultrasound screenings are available for attendees with abdominal aneurysm risk factors such as a history of smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Appointments required; call (888) 871-3801 to register. 8 a.m. to noon.

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 with a retro music soundtrack. 6 p.m.

Crescent City Model Railroad Club Open House. Crescent City Model Railroad Club, 601 N. Lester Ave., Metairie, 7373723; www.ccmrc.com — Visitors can explore a variety of model train layouts.

There’s also a kid-friendly layout and a scavenger hunt. Suggested donation $5, kids $1. Noon to 6 p.m.

Critter Cinema. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www.la-spca.org — A slumber party for kids (ages 5-10) has pizza, movies and time with the animals. Bring a sleeping bag, pillow and toothbrush. Email erica@la-spca.org to register (required).

Tickets $65. 6 p.m.

Fight for Hunger Food Drive. Winn-Dixie, 2112 Belle Chasse Highway, Gretna, (504) 433-3646; www.winndixie. com — The Professional Football Players’ Mothers Association and Second Harvest Food Bank collect dry and non-perishable goods. Mothers of NFL players are on-site for autographs and photos. 9 a.m. to noon.

Geekfest. New Orleans Public Library, Main Library, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 5962602; www.nutrias.org — The library and Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop host

a celebration of geek culture, which has author talks, anime screenings, crafts and music. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Holly Daze. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985 — Handcrafted items and a large selection of gifts are featured at this arts, crafts and gifts show. Admission $5, kids free.

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

Madisonville Art Market. Madisonville Art Market, Tchefuncte River 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.

The Millennial Awards. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 301-9006; www.phnojm.com — An award ceremony honors young professionals’ contributions in public service, business or culture. Visit www.millennialawards.com for details. Tickets $15. 7 p.m.

Mutt Mama Doggy-Dog Birthday Bash.

Sopo, 629 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 6092429; www.soponola.com — Mutt Mama Bayou Bites dog treats hosts a canine birthday celebration with rescue dogs, music, treats and more. Visit www.muttmama.com for details. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Seven Deadly Sins of Pin. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www. barcadianeworleans.com — A hair and fashion show displays pin-up inspired hairstyles and apparel, with drink specials and giveaways. Free admission. 8 p.m.

West Bank Beer Fest. NOLA Motorsports Park, 11075 Nicolle Blvd., Avondale, (504) 302-4875; www.nolamotor.com — The fest has beer tastings, photo ops with race cars, raffles and more. Shuttles from the East Bank available. Visit www. westbankbeerfest.com for details. Tickets $20-$60. 12 to 5 p.m.

SUNDAY 17 Afternoon Delight. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www. barredux.com — The pastry-tasting fundraiser benefits the Roux Crew’s Spicy Brown Burlesque Festival.

Email honeytang@rocketmail.com for details. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Bastille Day Bartenders & Waiters Race.

French Market, French Market Place, between Decatur and North Peters streets, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket. org — Service industry professionals race toward a finish line carrying a fully loaded tray. Visit www.frenchmarket.org for details and sign-up. Free admission. 4 p.m.

Growing Local Birthday Party. Recirculating Farms Coalition, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357 — A party with food, live music and dancing toasts the organization’s five-year anniversary. RSVP requested; free admission.

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

Rock Ride & Rescue. Rock ’n’ Bowl, 3000 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-1700; www. rocknbowl.com — An outing with raffles, a bake sale, a silent auction and drinks benefits the Louisiana SPCA Special Needs Fund. Visit www.la-spca. org/rrr for details. Tickets $10-$15.

6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Spillway Classic Trail Run. Bonnet Carre Spillway, Norco — Runners meet for a 3-mile mud run. Visit www.runnotc.org to register. Registration $30. 8 a.m.

MONDAY 18

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The market has fresh seafood, meat, baked goods, preserves, prepared foods and cooking demos. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Crescent City Farmers Market Magazine. 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 Saturday.

Crescent City Farmers Market Mid-City.

American Can Apartments, 3700 Orleans Ave. — Mid-City’s evening market features fresh produce and prepared items.

3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.

Crescent City Farmers Market Tulane.

Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St., (504) 865-5000; www.tulane.edu — The weekly market features produce, dairy items, kettle corn, plants and flowers. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday.

CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook. com/crispfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

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

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

Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 361-1822 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits and vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www.growdatyouthfarm.org — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037 — The urban farm operates a daily fresh market. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market. Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market, 922 Teche St., Algiers, (504) 362-0708; www.oldal-

SPORTS New Orleans Zephyrs. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.zephyrsbaseball.com — The New Orleans Zephyrs play the Fresno Grizzlies and the Sacramento River Cats. 7 p.m.

Thursday-Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m.

Sunday, 6 p.m. Monday.

WORDS Brian Keene. Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, 631 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 4919025; www.facebook.com/tubbyandcoos — The horror writer signs Pressure and The Complex. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

BSB Open Mic. Banks Street Bar, 4401 Banks St., (504) 486-0258; www. banksstreetbarandgrill.com — Jonathan Kline is the guest host at the poetry open mic. 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Carl Baker. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses and reads from his new historical-fiction mystery novel 14 Days in July. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Julie Byrne. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — The author discusses The Other Catholics: Remaking America’s Largest Religion.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Maple Street Book Club. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 8664916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — Local author Rien Fertel guest facilitates the book club’s discussion of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. 6 p.m. Thursday.

M.O. Walsh. Robert E. Smith Library, 6301 Canal Blvd., (504) 596-2638; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The My Sunshine Away author reads.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Neal Bascomb. National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.nationalww2museum.org — The author presents The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb at a wine and cheese reception. RSVP to (504) 5281944 ext. 412. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs. Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200.

Arc of Greater New Orleans. The organization for people with intellectual disabilities seeks donations of Mardi Gras beads. Visit www.arcgno.org for details and drop-off locations.

CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans.

The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 522-1962 or email info@casaneworleans.org.

The Creativity Collective. The organization seeks artists, entrepreneurs, parents and teens to help with upcoming projects and events, including maintaining a creative resource directory and organizing charity bar crawls. Visit www.creativitycollective.com or call (916) 206-1659.

Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to manage inventory, help clients and share their expertise. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org.

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

Edgar Degas Foundation. The nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to foundation development. Call (504) 821-5009 or email info@degashouse.com.

Edible Schoolyard. Edible Schoolyard seeks community volunteers and interns to assist in kitchen and garden classes and to help in school gardens.

Visit www.esynola.org/get-involved or email amelia@esynola.org.

First Tee of Greater New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteers to serve as mentors and coaches to kids and teens through its golf program. Visit www.thefirstteenola.org.

Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race-day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola.org or visit www.gotrnola.org.

Golden Opportunity Adult Literacy Program. GOAL seeks volunteers to conduct courses for reading comprehension, GED preparation and English language learning. Call (504) 373-4496.

Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. The center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area. Call (504) 717-4257 or email mmorgan@gnofairhousing.org.

Green Light New Orleans. The group seeks volunteers to help install free energy-efficient lightbulbs in homes.

Visit www.greenlightneworleans.org, call (504) 324-2429 or email green@greenlightneworleans.org.

HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the opportunities available and how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@ handsonneworleans.org or visit www. handsonneworleans.org.

Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.

EVENTS Louisiana SPCA. The LA/SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete an orientation to work directly with animals. Visit www. la-spca.org/volunteer.

NOLA for Life Mentors. The city initiative’s partner organizations seek adults to mentor boys ages 15 to 18 who are at risk for violence. Visit www. nolaforlife.org/give/mentor.

NOLA Wise. The partnership of Global Green, the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient. It seeks volunteers, who must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@globalgreen.org.

Parkway Partners. The green space and community garden organization seeks volunteers for building, gardening and other projects. Email info@parkwaypartnersnola.org, call (504) 620-2224 or visit www.parkwaypartnersnola.org.

Refugee mentors. Catholic Charities of New Orleans’ Refugee Service Program seeks volunteers, especially those with Arabic, Burmese and Spanish language skills, to help newly arrived refugees learn about everyday life in America.

Senior companions. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist seniors with personal and daily tasks so they can live independently. Visit www.nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121.

SpayMart. The humane society seeks volunteers for fundraising, grant writing, data input, adoptions, animal care and more.

Visit www.spaymart.org, email info@ spaymart.org or call (504) 454-8200.

St. Thomas Hospitality House. The Catholic charity seeks individuals and groups of volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness. Contact Daniel Thelen at nolacw@gmail.com or (517) 290-8533.

Start the Adventure in Reading. The STAIR program holds regular twohour training sessions for volunteers, who work one-on-one with public school students to develop reading and language skills. Call (504) 899-0820, email elizabeth@stairnola.org or visit www.stairnola.org.

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

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries.

The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www.veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com.

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A Sunset Soiree. The Roosevelt New Orleans, 123 Baronne St., (504) 648-1200; www.therooseveltneworleans.com — A Pilates and yoga workout on the hotel’s pool terrace is followed by cocktails and food. Bring a yoga mat. Visit www.footprintstofitness.com for details. Registration $25. 6:30 p.m.

giersharvestfreshmarket.com — Produce and seafood are available for purchase. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

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

Saturday.

Sankofa Mobile Market. Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday. The truck also stops at 6322 St. Claude Ave. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Vietnamese Farmers Market. Vietnamese Farmers Market, 14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd.

— Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early morning market. 5 a.m. Saturday.

EMPLOYMENT / NOTICES

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EMPLOYMENT

PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT TO FURNITURE BUYER

IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR A FULL TIME ASSISTANT TO THE FURNITURE BUYER. THE IDEAL CANDIDATE MUST BE A TEAM PLAYER WHO IS PROFESSIONAL, DETAIL AND RESULT ORIENTED, FLEXIBLE AND ORGANIZED. APPLY IN PERSON. HURWITZ MINTZ FURNITURE, 1751 AIRLINE DR, 70001 www.hurwitzmintz.com

CLERICAL

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR KINGFISH

RESERVATIONS AGENT

Answer phones, emails, take reservations, describe our tours.

MUST LOVE NEW ORLEANS. 30 to 40 hrs/wk, includes week-ends, $12.00/hr. isabelle@toursbyisabelle.com

is seeking experienced, service oriented professionals who enjoy extending gracious hospitality to others in a fine dining atmosphere. Servers, bartenders, greeters and line cooks with upscale experience should apply. Please send your resume to: kingfish@creolecuisine.com

Experienced

PIZZA MAKER

Looking for Landscape Maintenance Foreman

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

Le BAYOU

at 208 Bourbon Street Is having open interviews for professional and reliable servers, cooks, oyster shuckers and greeters. Please come by Monday - Friday between 2pm 4pm to complete an application.

WE LOVE OUR VOLUNTEERS!

G A M B I T > B E S T O F N E WO R L E A N S . C O M > • J U LY 1 2 > 2 0 1 6

MUSIC/MUSICIANS MUSICIAN NEEDED

Small independent Catholic parish seeks musician. Basic requirements: Key Board skills (organ, piano/keyboard) and ability to sing as a cantor. We have two masses every Saturday at 2:00 PM at a long-term care facility in Marrero (electronic keyboard) and 5:00 PM at a church in Uptown New Orleans (pipe/digital organ or piano).

No masses on Sunday. $60 per mass (6,500 - $7,000 annually) with potential for additional income playing at weddings, funerals and other special liturgical celebrations. Please reply to: St. Michael’s Holy Catholic Church Contact: Rev. Theodore Feldman (Mail4RevTed@aol. com) or 504-373-4732.

Must have 2 years’ experience in running a crew and ground maintenance.

Must have valid driver’s license and be able to pass drug test/background check.

Apply in person at The Plant Gallery or email resume to Richardg@theplantgallery.com.

RETAIL EXPERIENCED CASHIER

We are always looking for additions to our wonderful team! Hospice volunteers are special people who make a difference in the lives of patients and families affected by terminal illness. Interested in a future medical career? Get on our exciting new track!

Many physicians and nurses receive their first taste of the medical field at Canon.

Hurwitz Mintz has an immediate opening for a full time cashier with previous retail experience. Candidate must be professional, detail oriented, flexible with good communicative skills. Some nights and weekends are required. Apply in person 1751 Airline Dr, Metairie, La. (504) 378-1000

FOR SALE SMALL SPACE CALL 483-3100

We are continuing to grow...

Coming to Mid City Market this September!

Mr. Ed’s Restaurant Group has locations throughout New Orleans, Metairie, & Kenner. We are currently seeking experienced General Managers, FOH & Kitchen Managers, Bartenders, Line Cooks, Servers, Bussers, and Dishwashers to join our team throughout the area.

Apply, in person, Monday - Friday from 12-4pm at Austins Seafood and Steakhouse, 5101 W. Esplanade Ave in Metaire or email your resume to StacieEMeyer@yahoo.com

To become a hospice volunteer, call Paige at 504-818-2723 Ext. 3006

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NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENTS FAMILY BUSINESS FOR SALE

Providing gift baskets, crates, etc. to the hotel industry and conventions. Current owner will assist and train. Only serious purchasers need apply.

Contact Dominick Savona at 504-715-7128

Due to growth we are currently seeking both FOH and BOH Management Attention to service and guest hospitality are paramount.

We are looking for the best managers throughout the New Orleans area!

Are you a leader with an eye for talent, strong work ethic, and drive to succeed?

We strive for guest service excellence with family core values of Integrity, Commitment, Generosity, & Fun – if this fits you, then you are the key to success!

For consideration send your resume to alicial@creolecuisine.com

LEGAL NOTICES Anyone knowing the whereabouts of JOHNNIE ELEBY CHARLES and RASHONDA F. CHARLES and/or their children, heirs, legatees, assigns, relatives or successors in interest, please contact attorney Julien F. Jurgens at (504) 722-7716 IMMEDIATELY. Financial rights are involved in 24th JDC, Jefferson Parish, Case # 736-297.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Mickey P. Carmouche a/k/a Mickey Carmouche, please call Atty. Marion D. Floyd, 504-467-3010.

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SALE BY CONSTABLE JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENT

THAT PORTION OF GROUND, BEARING MUNICIPAL NO. 760 Magazine St., Unit 305A, this city, in the matter entitled WAYNE CITRON AND ROSE ANN CITRON vs STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANY: CHRIS NOLAN; MAGAZINE PLACE HOMEOWNER’S CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. First City Court for The City of New Orleans Case No: 2011-51923 By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me directed by the Honorable The First City Court for the City of New Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will proceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the City on August 16, 2016, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the following described property to wit: Unit 305A (formerly Units 305 and 306) 760 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA FIRST DISTRICT, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA SQUARE 124, LOTS “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “E”, “F”, “N”, “M” and a portion of LOT “G”.

Acquired by act passed 09/18/2002, dated 09/19/2002, NA# 2002-48104, CIN 244598.

WRIT AMOUNT: $25,000.00

METAIRIE OPEN STUDIO SPACE FOR CLAY ARTISTS IN METAIRIE

Note: All deposits must be Cash, Cashier’s Check, Certified Check or Money Order; No Personal Checks.

Lambert C. Boissiere, Jr Constable, Parish of Orleans Attorney: Donald C. Hodge, Jr. Telephone: 337-794-8873 Gambit: 7/12/16 & 8/9/16

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

NO. 535-914 DIVISION “C” SUCCESSION OF ROY FOSTER LILES, SR NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER SUCCESSION PROPERTY

BY GIVING IN PAYMENT

THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all of the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in PARISH OF JEFFERSON, State of Louisana, CITY OF KENNER, in that part thereof known as REDWOOD PARK SUBDIVISION (being a resubdivision of a portion of Highway Park) as shown on a plan by J.J. Krebs and Sons, Inc., C.E., dated October 31, 1968, adopted by the Board of Alderman, City of Kenner, Louisiana, under Ordinance No. 1092, registered in COB 688, Folio 425, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and according to survey thereof by Guy J. Seghers, Jr., C.E., dated May 30, 1969, certified copy of which is annexed to act before James T. Davis, N.P., dated January 19, 1970 and further, in accordance with the survey of Sterling Mandle, Land Sureyor, dated June 25, 1975, said lot is designated and measures as follows:

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 METAIRIE CONDO FOR SALE WHITNEY PLACE METAIRIE

1 Bedroom 1 Bath All New Appliances 1st Floor Near Main Gate. Offers: 24 hr. Security, Laundry Room, Pool.

Call: 504-439-0684

MISSISSIPPI PORT GIBSON, MS 39150 509 Church St. ~ McDougall House 1820’s Historic, Renovated Greek Revival Raised Cottage 5 beds/3 baths, pool. $185,000 1201 Church St. ~ Anderson House 3 beds/3.5 baths, Studio apt + bldg w/4 beds/4 baths. Recently used as a B&B. $245,000 1207 Church St. ~ On National Register Re-creation of Antebellum Mansion 6 beds/4baths + 2 bed Carriage House. $395,000 Call Realtor Brenda Roberts Ledger-Purvis Real Estate 601-529-6710

OUT OF TOWN

LOT NO. 5 of SQUARE NO. 7, bounded by TAFFY DRIVE, HANS AVENUE, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET and INDIANA AVENUE, LOT NO. 5 commences at a distance of 100 feet from the corner of TAFFY DRIVE and HANS AVENUE, and measures thence 55 feet front on TAFFY DRIVE, same width in the rear, by a depth of 112.50 feet between equal and parallel lines.

Giselle LeGlue, Deputy Clerk Jon A. Gegenheimer Clerk of Court 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Betsy A. Fischer Address: 3636 S. I-10 Service Rd. W. Suite 216, Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: 504-780-8232 Gambit: 06/21/16 & 07/12/16 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Ollie Foxworth Hunter, also known as Ollie Foxworth Brown Quinn Boyd Hunter, whose last known residence was 623-625 Second St., New Orleans, LA 70130, please contact attorney John Mason at (504) 723-4997.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Okley G. Fazande, Jr. contact Atty Rudy W. Gorrell@ 504-553-9588

1304 EVELINA ST.

2 BR/1 BA Renov, updated furn kit, off st prkg, w&d. $950 mo + $950 dep. Pets neg SOLID NR PRISES at (504) 361-1447. Avail to show July 25th by Appt Only.

HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4 BR, 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.

1025 PIETY ST

Bywater Duplex * 2 br, 2 full ba, w/ hdwd floors, w/d hkps, cen a/h, c-fans, fenced yd.

NO PETS. $1,350/ mo + dep. 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@yahoo.com

CARROLLTON

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT OLD METAIRIE OLD METAIRIE 1&2 BDRM. APTS SPARKLING POOL & BIKE PATH

New granite in kit & bath. 12 x 24ft lr, King Master w/wall of closets. Furn Kit. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg. NO PETS. O/A, $748888/mo. 504-236-5776.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 1 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

1827 S. CARROLLTON AVE.

1 BR/ 1 BA, 760 SF 1 designated off-street parking spot. All appliance include w/d.

Water/incl. Dogs welcome. $1,600/mo. (504) 669-4503.

Small effeciency, 2nd floor, microwave & small fridge only. Single bed. No pets/ smoking. LEASE $625/mo.

Call (504) 913-6999.

CITY PARK BAYOU ST. JOHN BESTVALUE 1BR $925

1 Occupant, 3143 Maurepas (rear) Yard, Garage, Office Nook, Cent A/H, Restaurants, Streetcar, City Park, NO PETS realcajuns@gmail.com

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY FRENCH QUARTER LUXURY

Furnished Apts $2,400-$3,200/mo.

Washer/Dryer. Off street parking available for $250. 60 days min.

(504) 247-6736 bkdla@aol.com Bryan

Efficiency w/appliances liv room, a/h unit, ceil fans, wood/tile floors, w/d onsite. Clara

by Nashville. Avail July. $700/mo.

504-895-0016.

208 MAIN ST

Renovated large 2 BR w/A/C, hdwd floors, furni kit with walk in pantry, washer dryer, lots of closet space, dogs ok. No cats. Refs are a must. $1800/mo includes water. Dep neg. Call/Text (504) 388-2323.

WAREHOUSE APT / W PARKING

1 BR EFF. CLOSE TO UNIVERSITIES

over 6 thousand sq. ft., hot location downtown Natchez, Ms. Restaurant, bar, condo, parking lot for sale. Total renovation in 2014 from the roof down. business grossing 1.2 million. perfect for chef owner operator team. building, condo, business and parking lot included!!!!!

For Sale by Owner, $1,200,000 cottonalleycafe.com guybass@bellsouth.net

OCTAVIA ST. NEAR TULANE LAW SCHOOL

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Improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 2208 TAFFY DRIVE. The Order granting such authority may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of this Notice.

Any Opposition to the Application must be filed prior to the issuance of the ORDER.

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