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CONTENTS

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

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

SHOPPING + STYLE

What’s in Store ......................................................23 BodyBrite Metairie CUE .................................................................. PULLOUT Bathroom beauties; hot weather workout gear; and more

D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, HELEN FREUND, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, ROBERT MORRIS, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Contributing Photographer | CHERYL GERBER Interns | CALLIE KITTREDGE

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PRODUCTION

Review ......................................................................25 Junction Fork + Center ...........................................................25 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview ............................................. 27 Eliana de Las Casas, kid chef Drinks ........................................................................28 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week Last Bites .................................................................29 Plate Dates; 5 in Five

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ON THE COVER All About That Vape .............................................. 17 Jules Bentley confesses all when it comes to vaping — and visits some shops with New Orleans vape flavors

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7 in Seven ................................................................... 5 Flowers in the Attic: the stage show, along with La Luz, Suplecs, Jaz Sawyer Quartet and more

NEWS + VIEWS

News Hurricane Katrina anniversary events ..............7 New books about Hurrican Katrina and the federal floods ...........................................................12

Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world Scuttlebutt................................................................ 9 From their lips to your ears C’est What? ............................................................... 9 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats ..........................................11 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................13 After six bike deaths this year, it’s way past time for the city to get serious Blake Pontchartrain.............................................14 The New Orleans N.O. It All Clancy DuBos...........................................................15 Trouble for Vitter? New poll numbers in the governor’s race

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT Music .........................................................................35 PREVIEW: Neurosis Film.............................................................................38 REVIEW: The Look of Silence PREVIEW: The True Orleans Film Festival Art ................................................................................41 REVIEW: Unusual Places, Unusual Spaces and Symmetric Equivalence Stage..........................................................................44 REVIEW: Kingdom of Earth Events .......................................................................46 Crossword + Sudoku ...........................................54

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what to know before you go

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Friday at NOMA

Fri. Aug. 14 | A special edition of the weekly series features music by Amanda Shaw and Michot’s Music Makers, a museum tour with comedians from The New Movement, a screening of Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, art talks with artists and curators and more.

From 5 p.m. until midnight at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Suplecs

Fri. Aug. 14 | Four months after slaying spring, Suplecs is back to punish summer. The rip-roaring New Orleans riff stalkers issued Mad Oak Redoux (Small Stone) in 2011. I Ain’t and Space Metal open at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Death From Above 1979 with Incubus and Deftones

Family affairs

See ’Em on Stage presents the stage premiere of a bestseller

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Jaz Sawyer Quartet

Sun. Aug. 16 | California drummer Jaz Sawyer has recorded often with New Orleans musicians, from longtime collaborations with Wynton Marsalis to a recent release with the Fi Yi Yi Mardi Gras Indians. This quartet features bassist David Pulphus, pianist Viktor Atkins and trombonist Emily Fredrickson. At 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro.

La Luz

Sun. Aug. 16 | The women of Seattle’s La Luz blow away the Emerald City’s permanent rain cloud with harmony-filled surf-pop gems, captured on the band’s Ty Segall-produced 2015 album Weirdo Shrine. Will Sprott and New Orleans punks Gland open at Siberia at 6 p.m.

NOLA Comedy Hour’s Lafayette Benefit Show

Sun. Aug. 16 | Comedians Andrew Polk and Duncan Pace host a benefit featuring more than a dozen of New Orleans’ best stand-up comics. A silent auction benefit for victims in the recent movie theater shooting in Lafayette features signed and donated items from comedians Amy Schumer, Kyle Kinane, Todd Barry and others. The showcase is by donation, with all proceeds going to the victims’ fund. At 8 p.m. at Hi-Ho Lounge.

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contacted Neiderman and convinced him to let See The Dollanganger children ’Em On Stage produce its try to escape their attic world premiere. prison in Flowers in the Attic See ’Em On Stage is two at Old Marquer Theatre. years old, and it’s already established a reputation for doing musicals, particularly outrageous and gory, blood-splatterBy Will Coviello ing works such as its debut, the slasher mashup Evil Dead: The Musical. It followed up with the zombie movie tribute Musical of ith its scandalous tale of intergenerational family the Living Dead and an acclaimed run of the lesser-known work intrigue, greed and four children hidden for months in Zanna, Don’t!, a high school romance in a world where homosexthe family mansion’s top floor, Flowers in the Attic made uality is the norm and heterosexuals dare to declare their love the bestseller list two weeks after it was released in 1979 — and publicly. Its upcoming season features Terminahas occasionally been banned by libraries. It has tor: The Musical in November. sold more than 40 million copies and spawned many Aug. 13-31 Doing the straight drama Flowers appealed books in multiple series, though Andrew Neiderman to Bentivegna because it’s a chance to do a Flowers in the Attic (The Devil’s Advocate) took over for Flowers author premiere, and it plays off his longtime interest in V.C. Andrews, who wrote only seven of the roughly 8 p.m. Thu.-Mon. the Andrews books, which includes the author’s 100 books published under her name. Local actor and series about a bayou girl named Ruby Landry, director Christopher Bentivegna was hooked when he Old Marquer Theatre much of which is set in New Orleans. first read Flowers while growing up in New Jersey.

2400 St. Claude Ave. “The Ruby series has a lot to do with why I “It was so titillating,” he says. “It’s written in a moved here,” Bentivegna says. “[Neiderman] did (504) 298-8676 hypnotic way; it lures you in.” a great job describing New Orleans. I felt like I www.oldmarquer.com In Flowers, Corrine Dollanganger’s husband knew something about the city. The first time dies, leaving her and their four children in debt.

I spent money to go on a vacation, I came to Tickets $20 She moves them to her wealthy parents’ home New Orleans.” but hides the kids in their attic so her father won’t Bentivegna and Neiderman communicate know of their existence, which protects her inheritance. Corregularly by email. He asked the playwright for permission to rine’s mother cooperates with the ploy, but she is hostile toward turn the clock back on the modern timeframe — to not deal with the kids, convinced there is something unholy threatening her smartphones and technology that make the children’s isolation otherwise strict religious ways. The children soon learn what’s unbelievable. Neiderman agreed and gave him latitude to make going on in their family. changes that don’t interfere with the meaning of the work, Bentivegna wrote a one-act play version of the story, but Bentivegna says. He’s also shared posters and materials with at Old Marquer Theater, his See ’Em On Stage: A Production Neiderman as the two have discussed the premiere. Neiderman Company is presenting Neiderman’s recently published adaptawon’t be able to attend the show because he will be in Europe, tion. Following the success of a TV version of Flowers in 2014, but for years there has been talk of making the Ruby books into a TV series shot in New Orleans, Bentivegna says.

Neiderman wrote a version for the theater. Bentivegna read it,

Sun. Aug. 16 | In 2006, Toronto rock duo Death From Above 1979 decided five years together was enough; in 2011, they decided five years off was enough. The Physical World (Last Gang), the follow-up to 2004 debut You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, arrived in 2014. Incubus and Deftones headline at 7 p.m. at Champions Square.

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The big one

7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18 The Ten Years Gone and Aug. 25 exhibit at NOMA includes Jose Torres-Tama, ArteFuturo water markers by artist Productions and Puentes New Dawn Dedeaux.

Orleans present a mobile theater P H O T O C O U R T E S Y N E W O R L E A N S M U S EU M project featuring performance O F A R T artists, musicians and poetry celebrating Latino contributions to post-Katrina New Orleans. Free admission.

By Alex Woodward

K10 Film Festival New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 596-2560; www.nolalibrary.org s New Orleans approaches Aug. 29, 2015 — the 10th 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14; 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15 anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee The series kicks off with a screening of Spike Lee’s 2006 failures — memorials, celebrations, film screenings, documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. readings, theater performances, parties and other events have Acts 1 and 2 screen 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Friday, and been planned in neighborhoods across the city. There also are Acts 3 and 4 screen 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15. national TV specials looking back at the last 10 years. Here’s a look at several events, concluding with a massive celebration for Free admission.

New Orleans residents at the Smoothie King Center. Visit www.

The People’s Murals bestofneworleans.com/k10events for a full list of events.

Myrtle Banks Building, third floor, 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.myrtlebanks.com Ten Years Gone Opens 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, September (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org Creative Alliance of New Orleans and Alembic Community Through Sept. 7 Development host a large-scale exhibit featuring murals NOMA’s group exhibit features works reflecting on Hurricane painted by more than 100 people.

Katrina and the federal floods from Willie Birch, Dawn DeDeaux, Isabelle Hayeur, Spring Hurlbut, Nicholas Nixon and ChristoHome: A Burlesque Tribute to New Orleans pher Saucedo.

Republic New Orleans, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 528-8282; www.republicnola.com Teatro Sin Fronteras 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 Arts Estuary 1024, 1024 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 595-8008 Ben Wisdom hosts and Bella Blue and the Rev. Spooky 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11 LeStrange star in a burlesque performance benefiting the New Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and Habitat for Humanity. Tickets $10. www.oldmarquer.com

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

After Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized “sanctuary cities,” Joseph Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts (a sanctuary city) pointed out his city has had zero murders this year and called Jindal “Gomer Pyle” and “Barney Fife”: Not only does Mayor Curtatone run a good city he also has a great sense of humor which happens to be spot on. — sis Somerville has not had a murder since 2010 Additionally, their violent crime rate is well below the national average — which is even more impressive considering Somerville is one of the most densely populated cities in the nation.

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Events commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches

Helpful tag for New Orleans storylines in the next 3 weeks: Post-Katrina things are better (for the rich, and worse for the poor)

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(504) 528-9569; www.thejoytheater.com 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28 and 8 p.m. & 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 Rob Florence’s play, set in the Mother-inLaw Lounge, recounts the experiences of Antoinette K-Doe, Sylvester Francis, Rudy Rasmussen, Arthur Raymond Smith, Sidney Smith and Jenny Lynn Waters during and after the storm and floods. Before the show, Brunce “Sunpie” Barnes performs 1927 Flood: Songs My Father Taught Me. Tickets $25-$35.

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The 10-Year Journey: Reflections of Family, Identity and New Orleans George & Leah McKenna Museum of AfricanAmerican Art, 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com Opens 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21; through Oct. 10 Photographer L. Kasimu Harris’ exhibit chronicles his experience through the storm and recovery in New Orleans.

Trumpeter Christian Scott performs at the opening reception.

Katrina: 10 Years After the Storm ABC-TV 9 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23 Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts hosts a TV special that revisits people and places impacted by the storm and the levee failures, with guests Terence Blanchard, Drew Brees and Harry Connick Jr. Songs from the Heart series www.habitat-nola.org/songs-from-the-heart 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24 and Wednesday, Aug. 26 Singer-songwriters Randy Newman, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform at this benefit series for Habitat for Humanity hosted by Nonesuch and Warner Bros.

Records. The events are held at private residences. Tickets are $500 per night and include food from chefs Susan Spicer and Nathanial Zimet. Visit the website for details.

The Spirit of the People of St. Bernard: Portraits and Videos River House at Crevasse 22, 8122 Saro Lane, Poydras Opens 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26 Creative Alliance of New Orleans hosts an exhibit featuring portraits and photography

by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, Blake Boyd, Jonathan Traviesa and Monique

Verdin to honor the people of St. Bernard Parish and the Islenos community.

Big Easy Author Night: Tom Piazza Rosa F. Keller Library, 4300 S. Broad St., 504) 596-2660; www.nolalibrary.org 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26 The novelist discusses his post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters and novel City of Refuge, as well as his new book, A Free State, at the New Orleans Public Library’s monthly series. Free admission.

Katrina 10 Years Later: Through Hell In High Water BET-TV 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26 BET premieres an hourlong news special hosted by Jeff Johnson and featuring interviews with Wendell Pierce, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Partners N Crime, Brandan Odums and others.

9th Ward Improv Opera St. Maurice Church, 605 St. Maurice Ave., (504) 218-4807 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27 Andrew P. Sanchez Community Center, 1616 Caffin Ave., (504) 658-3000 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28 Creative Alliance of New Orleans presents a new mixed-media performance from the 9th Ward Improv Opera, which incorporates dance, music and spoken word to reflect on Hurricane Katrina and its impact. Tickets $15 general admission.

10 Years Later, We’re Still Recovering: Black Lives Matter Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27 #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Alicia Garza is the keynote speaker for an event addressing education, criminal justice and ending the school-to-prison pipeline. Visit www.gulfsouthrising.org for details. Free admission.

Katrina: Mother-In-Law of ’Em All The Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St.,

Citywide Day of Service www.katrina10.org/serve 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 The City of New Orleans’ Katrina 10 initiative sponsors a citywide volunteering event. Volunteers will target 100 sites and projects, from planting native grass in New Orleans East to landscaping community centers and schools, building park benches and picking up trash, among other activities. Visit the website for registration information.

Rising Tide X Xavier University, 1 Drexel Drive; www.risingtidenola.com 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson delivers the keynote address at the 10th annual New Orleans-centric bloggers’ conference. There are panels on subjects including short-term rentals, public transportation, changes to the city’s media landscape, black women writers and other issues facing post-Katrina New Orleans. Free admission.

Gulf South Rising march and second line Jourdan Avenue and N. Galvez Street 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 Gulf South Rising hosts a 10th annual march and second line from the site of the Lower 9th Ward levee breach. Visit www.gulfsouthrising.org for details.

Lower 9 Resilience Festival Andrew P. Sanchez Community Center, 1616 Caffin Ave. 1:30 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 The festival includes live music, food and other activities. Visit www.l9fest.com for details.

Gracias Latinos Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www.casaborrega.com 3 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 Casa Borrega hosts a daylong event to recognize Latino people who helped rebuild New Orleans following the federal floods. There’s music from Alexis “Papo” Guevara Afro Cuban Trio and Javier Gutierrez & Vivaz!, guest speakers and more.

K10: Power of Community Smoothie King Center, 1501 Dave Dixon Drive, (504) 587-3663; www.katrina10.org 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29 The City of New Orleans hosts an event with music and arts performances, an interfaith prayer service and more.

NEWS VIEWS SCUTTLEBUTT Quotes of the week

Jindal picks wrong fight edition “Come and get me.” — Somerville, Massachusetts Mayor Joe Curtatone, responding to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s suggestion that elected officials in so-called “sanctuary cities” be held criminally liable for crimes committed by people in the country illegally.

Curtatone put Jindal on blast, comparing him to hapless TV characters Gomer Pyle and Barney Fife; saying, “Bobby Jindal must be proud to use a wedge issue to propel himself all the way into the single digits”; and “We shouldn’t lower ourselves to the lowest common denominator, and that’s the brain of … Bobby Jindal.”

Curtatone finished by comparing his town’s murder rate this year (zero) to that of Louisiana, and concluded by inviting Jindal “to come up here and debate the issue. But need to check bylaws on dishing out a public spanking.”

Georges running for governor again?

Businessman says no — or maybe

Jindal’s ‘attack on poor women’

Governor ends Planned Parenthood Medicaid contract in Louisiana

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s termination of Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid contracts in Louisiana will have disastrous effects in low-income black neighborhoods in New Orleans, PAGE 10

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

Confederate monuments and streets in New Orleans named for Confederates — your thoughts?

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Businessman John Georges, who bought the Baton Rouge Advocate in 2013 and subsequently expanded the paper into New Orleans and Acadiana, announced he would step down as the paper’s publisher next month, naming the newspaper’s general manager and COO Dan Shea as the paper’s new publisher. The move raised speculation that Georges may run for Louisiana governor, as he did in 2007, since the publisher changeover will happen shortly before qualifying in the statewide elections.

Shea officially will become publisher on Sept. 1; qualifying for the Oct. 24 primary is Sept. 8-10.

“I’m flattered by the attention, but a lot of this is a coincidence,” Georges told Gambit, adding that he had discussed passing the torch with Shea a year ago. “Is there a scenario I would run? Sure. I’m monitoring it, but I don’t know under what scenario I would run.”

In 2007, Georges ran for governor as an independent (he previously had been a Republican) and finished third, behind Republican Bobby Jindal (who won on the first ballot) and former state Sen. Walter J. Boasso, D-Chalmette. Less than three years later, Georges ran for mayor of New Orleans

as a Democrat, placing third behind Mitch Landrieu and businessman Troy Henry. The web domain georgesforgovernor.com was registered in June, but Georges said it wasn’t done by him or anyone working with him.

The current field in the governor’s race includes Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter and Democrat state Rep. John Bel Edwards, D-Amite, along with two other Republicans: Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle. Last week, the political newsletter LaPolitics broke the news that New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams also was considering a run.

“I’m not planning to run, but I’m not saying I’m not running,” Georges said. “But who would say they were never going to run for something?”

— KEVIN ALLMAN

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according to New Orleans women’s health organization Women With A Vision (WWAV).

On Aug. 3, Jindal announced that he had directed the state Department of Health and Hospitals to investigate Planned Parenthood after heavily edited videos from the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress alleged Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal tissue. In a statement, Jindal said, “Planned Parenthood does not represent the values of the State of Louisiana in regards to respecting human life.”

Planned Parenthood — which doesn’t provide abortion services in New Orleans but does offer gynecological exams, cervical cancer screenings, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and family planning — has a 30-day window to appeal. (Jindal’s announcement also came as the U.S. Senate failed to pass a measure ending federal Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.)

Deon Haywood, director of WWAV, said the state “is playing games with the lives of poor women and women of color.

“Ending the Medicaid contract creates even more barriers to needed reproductive health care services in a state with some of the highest health disparities in the nation,” she said in a statement. “This is an outright attack on poor women.”

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Louisiana Director Melissa Flournoy said the organization provided 15,000 health care visits to Louisiana residents last year, including more than 4,300 low-income, uninsured women. Louisiana has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the U.S., according to the National HIV Surveillance report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In Louisiana, HIV diagnoses among black women are 12 times greater than diagnoses among white women. There also are disproportionate rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the state.

In Jindal’s keynote speech at the National Right to Life convention in New Orleans July 9, Jindal slammed the GOP and Republican presidential candidates for being too timid on anti-abortion legislation and activism. Jindal hailed Louisiana’s ranking as the “most pro-life state” along with his efforts to

limit abortion in the state and said Republicans “view life and marriage as a distraction.”

“If the Republican party can’t turn defending innocent human life into a winning issue nationally,” he said, “we should fold up the Republican Party and start over.”

— ALEX WOODWARD

DeRay of light

Civil rights activist to speak at Rising Tide

Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson will give the keynote speech at Rising Tide, when the annual bloggers’ “conference on the history of New Orleans” holds its 10th session Aug. 29 at Xavier University. Mckesson is a member of We The Protesters, which has had a presence and amplified the message at several civil rights demonstrations against police power, including those in Ferguson, Missouri, Charleston, South Carolina and Baltimore.

Other panels this year will discuss the state of public transportation in New Orleans; education; the city’s changing media scene; black women writers; short-term rentals and more. Admission is free, and Mckesson will speak at 2 p.m.

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Short-Term Rental Committee meets

Allows no public discussion

It was clear immediately that a meeting to discuss the future of short-term rentals in New Orleans wasn’t meant to include voices from both sides of the debate. In a meeting room inside the New Orleans Council on Aging office on Canal Street on Aug. 7, the New Orleans Short-Term Rental Committee held a public meeting about its mission. At the top of the meeting, French Quarter resident Rob White clarified it wasn’t going to be a debate, nor would it be a discussion. At that point, several people left the room. One person yelled, “Bullshit.”

The room nearly overflowed as committee members and security turned people away, many of them members of the Alliance for Neighborhood Prosperity (ANP), which has lobbied to support New Orleans residents using short-term rental services like Airbnb and

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N.O. Council passes ‘living wage’ law

City contract workers to get $10.55 per hour

New Orleans City Council members approved a minimum wage hike for people working under city contracts by a 6-0 vote Aug. 6. The $10.55 “living wage” ordinance is authored by District D Councilman Jared Brossett, who called the measure “a first step to bring our city on a more progressive path to prosperity.” He added that said government “should not accept the term ‘working poor’ as part of our permanent vernacular.”

Under the ordinance, companies with a city contract of $25,000 or more — as well as companies receiving tax breaks and other subsidies from the city — must pay their employees a minimum of $10.55 an hour and give them at least one week of paid time off.

(Mayor Mitch Landrieu approved a municipal $10.10 minimum wage for direct city employees last year.)

More than a dozen people spoke in support of the measure. They included Colette Tippy with Stand With Dignity of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice.

The center co-organized a rally on the steps of City Hall that afternoon with members of local unions, the Congress of Day Laborers, Black Youth Project 100 NOLA and other organizations.

“This is a huge step forward to make black workers matter in New Orleans,” said Tippy, who urged the council to protect workers from retaliation from contractors who refuse to follow the ordinance. Tippy asked the council to promise it will provide protection “when these workers need it.”

Brossett and District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell said they would not tolerate retaliation. “And if it does occur, I say snatch the contract,” Cantrell said.

Living wage advocates also pressed for a higher minimum wage and for the ordinance to cover more workers. Louisiana law prohibits municipal governments from setting citywide minimum wages; the state’s hourly minimum is $7.25.

An August report from The Data Center said New Orleans ranks second in income inequality among 300 U.S. cities. — ALEX WOODWARD

Roy Glapion

was named recipient of the 2015 Homer L. Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of New Orleans International Alumni Association.

Glapion is an engineer and president of The Beta Group engineering and construction firm. He’ll receive the honor on Nov. 5 at an event at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

Larry Katz,

CEO of Dot’s Diner, collected 1,000 pounds of pet food at his six restaurants throughout the month of July. Customers who donated food and pet supplies received a 20 percent discount on their check.

The food was sent to the Humane Society of Louisiana.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)

awarded $2.7 million in grants to eight New Orleans nonprofits, including the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies, Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, Liberty’s Kitchen, Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, Reconcile New Orleans, Recovery Assistance Ministries, Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans and the YOUTHanasia Foundation. The grants aim to help at-risk young people of color from ages 16-24.

Gov. Bobby Jindal,

whose out-of-state security detail while traversing the country to promote his presidential ambitions from July 2014 through March 2015 cost taxpayers $2.2 million, vetoed language in this year’s budget that would make the governor’s office — rather than State Police — pay for security costs while on the campaign trail.

Several months after Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne asked for Jindal’s current security expenses, Jindal has yet to respond or reimburse those taxpayer-paid expenses.

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VRBO. White was the only speaker during the next 45 minutes. He railed against absentee owners and how neighborhoods are dissolving under the creep of short-term rentals, and how enforcement has been a total failure on the city’s part.

The group — composed of “neighbors for neighborhoods” with a message to “Get it right, New Orleans” — demands the city take a more strict approach to enforcing laws against “illegally” operating rentals, particularly those advertised on services like Airbnb and VRBO. Among its goals of “getting it right” are avoiding “halfbaked” attempts at regulation in cities like Portland, Oregon, which White called a failure because only a fraction of rental listings complied. “New Orleans should not be the next lemming to jump off the cliff,” White said.

White said the city needs to create and use effective enforcement measures to address regulations already on the books, including current bed and breakfast ordinances. “Enforcement is broken,” White said. The committee also wants to tackle home affordability and availability (If a building “can house a permanent resident, it should house a permanent resident,” White said), as well as “rogue hotels” with absentee landlords who own and rent a property, sometimes with several units in a building, as short-term rentals, despite not living there themselves. White said absentee owners aren’t participating in a sharing economy, they’re “colonizing.”

“Absentee owners are not sharing the neighborhood, they’re sharing me,” he said. “We victims are powerless.”

The committee is not a city-sanctioned organization but is a volunteer-run group made up of members of neighborhood groups like Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates (VCPORA) and bed-andbreakfast operators. Its co-chairs are Brian Furness and Jay Seastrunk.

Freddie King, constituent services director for New Orleans District C Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey, attended the meeting. He told Gambit that Ramsey is looking at the shortterm rentals issue within her district, which encompasses rental-heavy French Quarter, Marigny and Bywater.

Committee member Meg Lousteau (also the director of VCPORA) said the committee has yet to decide whether to hold another round of public meetings. — ALEX WOODWARD

BOUQUETS + brickbats ™ heroes + zeroes

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Katrina in print

A spate of new books looks at New Orleans during and after the federal floods.

By Kevin Allman Katrina: After the Flood

By Gary Rivlin (Simon & Schuster, $27)

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Rivlin covered the aftermath of Katrina for The New York Times and pieces together a tapestry of portraits and tales that should place this as one of the definitive books on the subject. He was a fly on the wall at meetings of the Bring New Orleans Back Commission (which was, of course, about bringing back some neighborhoods and not others), and examines the 2006 mayoral race, which brought 21 challengers against Mayor Ray Nagin, who had made headlines with his “chocolate city” comment. Along the way, Rivlin tells personal stories of New Orleanians just trying to get by, like that of Cassandra Wall, who believes the stress of the storm contributed to her mother’s death from cancer, and the late Mack McClendon, who worked on his destroyed house all day and slept in a formaldehyde-poisoned FEMA trailer at night.

There are fascinating quotes on nearly every page, from real estate developer Pres Kabacoff (“It took a Katrina to finally turn things around”) to Nagin, who allowed talk show host Oprah Winfrey to enter the Superdome only after swearing aloud, “I, Oprah Winfrey, promise not to hold the city liable financially or otherwise as a result of me going into this doggone stinky-ass Superdome.”

Rivlin also resurrects a 2006 story by The New York Times’ Adam Nossiter, who described boosters imagining a New Orleans that has become “an arts-infused mecca for youthful risk-takers, a boomtown where entrepreneurs can repair to cool French Quarter bars in ancient buildings after a hard day of deal making.” You be the judge.

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Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina Edited by Cynthia Joyce (UNO Press, $19.95 paperback) When Hurricane Katrina made landfall and the federal levees collapsed, Twitter hadn’t been invented yet, and Facebook was still a year away from being offered to the general public and coming into wide usage. Blogging and message boards were the way displaced New Orleanians communicated online — venting, joking, blowing their stacks, exposing their fears. At a time when some in the national media were clueless at best (and tactless at worst) about New Orleans and its culture, a displaced resident could go online and find fellowship; these were recognizable voices, even if you’d never meet the writer.

Cynthia Joyce’s compilation of post-Katrina online writing is taken from the days, weeks and months after the tragedy, stopping at the two-year point. Much of it is taken from 2006, the year that began with many in the rest of the world asking how New Orleans possibly could celebrate Mardi Gras (the answer: how could we not?), moving on to Bruce Springsteen at the 2006 Jazz & Heritage Festival and the New Orleans Saints’ triumphal return to the Superdome later that year.

Among the writers are two passionate advocates and strident voices gone too soon — teacher and essayist Ashley Morris and Greg Peters, whose “Suspect Device” cartoon appeared for years in Gambit. “We are not going away,” Peters warned in April 2006. “And if we go down, we’re taking you with us.” But the most memorable character may be Joshua Cousin, who is forced to leave his beagle Cheddar on the side of the road during an evacuation — and who spends weeks trying to locate Cheddar again.

Some of the writings are long and thoughtful; others are as dashed off as a grocery note, but Please Forward is a fascinating collection of immediate reactions to the storm and the first days of recovery. As Allen Boudreaux wrote on the first anniversary of the storm’s landfall, “New Orleans is not even okay yet, but it is surviving. New Orleans is still gut-shot, hemorrhaged, disfigured, torn and anemic … and yet very alive.”

Flood of Images: Media, Memory and Hurricane Katrina

By Bernie Cook (University of Texas Press, $29.95, paperback) Of interest primarily to academics and media professors, Flood of Images examines how TV news covered the flood and its aftermath, sometimes nearly frame by frame. It also examines how the storm was presented in documentaries like When the Levees Broke and Trouble the Water. Bernie Cook is the founder of the film and media studies program at Washington D.C.’s Georgetown University.

How We Came Back: Voices From Post-Katrina New Orleans

By Nona Martin Storr, Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Henry Storr (Mercatus Center at George Mason University, $15.95, paperback) The authors introduce and tell the stories of more than a dozen personal stories from four heavily AfricanAmerican neighborhoods: the 9th Ward, Central City, Gentilly/Pontchartrain Park and Village de l’Est. Much of it is told in first person (and most could use some editing), but there are some less frequently told stories in here — like that of Joyce, a Central City mail carrier and homeowner who was dubious about her hometown before the storm and became even more so afterward. Joyce stays in New Orleans because her family can’t bear to leave, but she’s not happy: “I always thought it was a raggedy city,” she says. “I mean, people come and liked it, but I didn’t see it.”

We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

By Roberta Brandes Gratz (Nation Books, $27.99) In 400 pages, Roberta Brandes Gratz attempts an overarching look at the city, taking on a number of topics that could be books on their own: the death of Charity Hospital; “crime, the jail and police”; public housing; poverty; urban development; the Make It Right Foundation housing; the attempted remake of the New Orleans educational system; and more. For such a sprawling series of topics, Gratz does a decent job of tying them together and explaining them. Though many of the stories have been told before and will be familiar to New Orleanians, it’s a good explainer for out-of-town people who only know the tale of our city in its broadest strokes.

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans Written & illustrated by Don Brown (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99) This slim graphic novel tells the story of the few days after the levee collapses using drawings to illustrate familiar images — the chaos at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and the Superdome, the rescues of people from roofs and the despair and desolation of the days after, as people wondered when organized help would arrive. Brown’s book is suitable and informative for all ages.

COMMENTARY

thinking out loud

Ghost bikes

t’s become customary for mourners to set up “ghost bikes” — painted white bicycles covered with flowers and cards — at the sites of fatal collisions between cars and bicyclists. It’s a sad sight, and it has become a sadly familiar one in New Orleans. Last week saw the city’s sixth traffic-related bike fatality of the year at the corner of Canal and Broad streets, where a cyclist was hit by a dump truck.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration has made much of New Orleans becoming a bike-friendly city, touting the number of bike lanes added in recent years and

had written for such infractions. Baronne business owners and neighbors said enforcement was nonexistent.

Little has changed since then. Two more bicyclists have died after being struck by cars — one on Elysian Fields Avenue heading home from work, the other last week on Canal Street. Enforcement is so lacking that concerned cyclists held a “die-in” on the steps of City Hall last month to draw attention to the problem.

Now New Orleans City Council members Jared Brossett and LaToya Cantrell say they intend to formulate a plan. Brossett’s

having a soft opening of the beautiful new Lafitte Greenway, which runs from Mid-City nearly to the French Quarter. What the administration hasn’t done is enforce laws that would make this a truly bikefriendly city.

Last December, the city unveiled a dedicated bike lane on Baronne Street downtown with much fanfare. It reduced Baronne to one lane of vehicular traffic heading out of the CBD — and it was probably the worst place it could have been done (why not on wide Loyola Avenue, which already has a streetcar?). City Hall assured everyone it was only a pilot program, to be assessed in six months.

In May, a Gambit cover story showed in words and pictures that the Baronne Street lane was virtually meaningless due to lack of enforcement. RTA buses regularly use the bike lane; delivery trucks park in it; and cars drive right through it — forcing bicyclists into the middle of the street.

At the time, Department of Public Works Director Mark Jernigan said he couldn’t estimate the number of tickets the city

Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Advisory Committee will have its first meeting Aug. 21 — six months after it was created — in the Council Chamber. It’s a start.

“As I travel throughout the district,” Cantrell said in a statement, “I regularly see bicyclists and drivers blatantly disregard one another on the streets — cars deliberately driving in bicycle lanes and bicycles running red lights while weaving in and out of traffic, all without getting a citation.”

After the bicyclist was killed last week, the mayor issued a statement saying, “I am fully committed to making our roadways even safer for all users whether they are biking, walking or driving.” That sounds good, but words mean little when the city isn’t willing or able to write tickets or stop buses from driving in bike lanes. We urge Brossett’s committee to come up with concrete solutions quickly — and get cops to enforce the law.

Bike infrastructure is meaningless when the bike lanes are dotted with ghost bikes.

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Last week saw New Orleans’ sixth traffic-related bike fatality of the year.

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

Hey Blake,

About 65 years ago, my parents would take my sister and me to a restaurant named Happy Landing on Hayne Boulevard near Lakefront Airport.

The dining room was on the second floor, because there was no levee to keep the lake out when water levels were high. I remember eating fried crabs.

Do you have any information about the restaurant?

Sam Rosamond

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Your question brings back happy memories of hot summers, cool breezes off the water and great seafood at restaurants along the New Orleans lakefront. Beginning in 1933, Happy Landing, located in the 6400 block of Hayne Boulevard, was one of those spots. Early advertisements for the restaurant pointed out it was opposite Shushan Airport, which opened in 1934 and is now known as Lakefront Airport.

“Boiled crabs, lake shrimp, river shrimp, crawfish and soft-shell crabs, when in season, unusual crawfish bisque, green turtle soup with sherry wine (if desired), frog legs on toast, tender and tasty Western T-bone and sizzling steaks are some of Happy Landing’s specialties,” read a 1938 advertisement in The Times-Picayune.

“The quality of the food and the manner in which it is prepared and served, in addition to the congenial, informal atmosphere

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prevailing, has made Happy Landing the mecca of the social elite.”

The restaurant also advertised a 40-foot bar, spacious dance floor and private party rooms for as many as 350 guests. Patrons danced to big band orchestras and jazz groups on Saturday nights and holidays including Mardi Gras, Christmas and New Year’s Eve. An early morning fire on Dec. 30, 1961 severely damaged the two-story building.

Newspaper accounts said the custodian was inside Happy Landing when the fire broke out but escaped unhurt. The building suffered an estimated $15,000 in damages.

The restaurant appears to have staged somewhat of a comeback, with a 1982 ad promoting shows there by musician/comedian Frankie Brent. Since then, however, it has faded into history.

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he area near Causeway and Veterans Memorial boulevards in Metairie couldn’t be hotter in terms of real estate and business development, but it’s actually been that way for quite a while.

I’m thinking back to 1959 and the gigantic Chinese restaurant that opened there that year: House of Lee. The restaurant, one of the first offering Asian food in the area, was housed inside a four-story green and red building designed to resemble a Chinese pagoda.

It advertised breakfast, lunch and dinner (featuring both American and Chinese foods), as well as private meeting and banquet rooms. Proprietor Lee Bing, his wife and eight children — including future Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee — ran the restaurant. Lee Bing died in 1973, and his wife died in 1974. The family continued to run the restaurant until 1995, when the property sold for $1.75 million. It later became a Borders bookstore and now is a retail and office complex that includes a Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant. Harry Lee died in 2007. A statue of the popular longtime sheriff stands on the opposite side of Causeway Boulevard near Lakeside Mall.

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Dear Sam,

Happy Landing restaurant in 1961.

CLANCY DUBOS

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Guv race finally heating up

U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s (left) statewide support has declined significantly in recent months, according to pollster Verne Kennedy, while Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle’s base has grown.

African American, could pull a huge chunk of Democrat votes from Edwards.

Meanwhile, Vitter may have bigger problems than the possibility of facing Angelle or Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, both Republicans, in the runoff. According to Kennedy’s latest survey, which was taken in late July, Vitter’s statewide support has declined significantly in recent months.

Kennedy’s surveys in May, June and July show Vitter falling from 28 to 21 percent. Meanwhile, Angelle has risen from percentages in the teens to 24 percent.

Most important, Angelle leads Vitter for the first time in an independent poll. Edwards runs a close third with 20 percent; Dardenne trails at 13 percent; “undecideds” are at 21 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent. The numbers cited above include respondents who are committed to, and those who are “leaning” toward, a candidate.

The order of finish is the same without the leaners: Angelle, 16; Vitter, 15; Edwards, 14; Dardenne, 8; leaners and undecided, 47.

Kennedy attributes Vitter’s drop to a decline in support among several key constituencies — including Republicans.

Since June, Vitter has fallen 5 to 11 percentage points among whites, Republicans, evangelicals, women and seniors.

Kennedy notes that Vitter’s fortunes could turn around in the coming weeks.

He still has lots of money — but after months of lethargy and low voter interest, the race appears to be tightening up at the starting gate.

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he governor’s race is tightening and soon could change dramatically.

Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, the clear early frontrunner, has fallen to second place in one independent poll, behind Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle. At the same time, two prominent Democrats have emerged as potential candidates who really could shake things up for Vitter and Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards.

Qualifying for the Oct. 24 primary is Sept. 8-10, which leaves little time for late entries. Still, the talk of political circles last week was word that local businessman John Georges and New Orleans City Councilman Jason Williams are considering the race.

Georges ran for governor in 2007 and finished third in his first outing as a candidate. He ran for mayor in 2010 and again finished third. Since then, he bought The Advocate and made it a New Orleans daily.

He is one of several Louisiana business people who regularly commission statewide surveys by veteran pollster Verne Kennedy. Georges often lets his name be included as a potential candidate.

“I’m monitoring the race, but I currently have no plans to run,” Georges told me last week, adding he would not rule out a run “under the right circumstances.”

He will step down as Advocate publisher on Sept. 1.

If he runs, Georges would be a game changer. He has residual name recognition, a statewide network, and he could match Vitter’s war chest with his own money. At a minimum, he would split the Democrat vote with Edwards; if he doesn’t make the runoff himself, he could pave the way for a Republican to make the runoff against Vitter, who needs a Dem runoff opponent to secure a win.

The same is true of Williams’ potential candidacy. Were he to run, Williams, who is

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– The Times-Picayune

(NOT) WAITING TO Jules Bentley gave up smoking and started vaping.

He has some thoughts.

Cheryl Gerber verything about vaping is embarrassing. To say cigarettes are cooler than vaping is like saying alligators are larger than amoebas — only someone who’d never visited Earth would find that useful information. But vaping keeps growing in popularity, and whatever unregulated cocktail of chemicals you’re vaporizing against a batterypowered heating coil, it’s probably far less harmful than cigarette smoke.

As with “fracking,” some of the negative perception may attach to the ugliness of the verb. I think the culprit is the vowel; it sounds so much like cape, gape, rape and GamerGate. Can we tweak it? Can we call it ... viping? Then you’ve already

got your throwback slogan, “Are you a viper?” Vipe sounds hype, like Skype or dykes — it sounds like something kids could be into. Yes, “vape” is in the dictionary, but there’s lots of stuff no one cares about in the dictionary. It’s not too late to rebrand.

I began viping after years of unsuccessful attempts to quit smoking cigarettes. First I got a small white gizmo that looked like a cigarette and required expensive cartridges. The nubbled plastic “cherry” on the end lit up a cheerful orange on inhale. It was semidiscreet, the equivalent of orthopedic footwear trying to look like basketball shoes. It made my tummy hurt and tasted like the sky above a refinery,

but it did scratch my itch for a Newport cigarette in a way nicotine gum never had.

After weeks of shelling out to replace the tiny cartridges, I tried a friend’s flavored vape outside a pro wrestling show. He was sticking something in his face that looked like a handheld 8mm camera, a plastic rectangular box with a protruding lens-like mouthpiece. I thumbed down a button, heard an intriguing sizzle, and took a gigantic hit of custard, fruit and hazelnuts. When I exhaled, what looked like several cubic yards of vapor billowed out around me; I felt like a mighty dragon.

It was wonderful.

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A customer exhales flavored vapor at Big Chief Vapors in Chalmette.

Vapor Eyes co-founder Mark Raeder custom-blends flavors at Vapor Eyes in the French Quarter.

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My first proper vape device, purchased shortly thereafter, resembled a fat outer space cigar. It had a vaguely medical vibe and was heavy as a roll of nickels. Since then, a friend whose partner found his vaping unacceptable

gifted me his old piece. If my previous was a piccolo, this is a bassoon. It’s long and segmented, like a de-winged insect; its goo-tank and battery unit were separately purchased components. It resembles the space-hookah Jabba the Hutt puffed in Star Wars, and its turret-like mouthpiece swivels on a

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You can hold your own outdated opinion on my constant, compulsive oral recourse to a

LIGHT-UP TIRE-PRESSURE GAUGE, but you’ll need to make your peace with it as a part of who I am.

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ball joint, opening the possibility of vaping around corners. A blue digital readout allows adjustment of the device’s amperage and voltage, data — as meaningless to me as cholesterol readings or summertime poll numbers.

This may not have been everyone’s experience, but there was a phase of adolescence where, having discovered the joy of masturbation, I found myself inclined to masturbate in odd or inappropriate places. This antisocial habit matured, or anyway evolved, into a fondness for having sex in locations one oughtn’t. The thrill of transgression reliably compounds — or occasionally even outweighs — the pleasure of the act itself. I offer you this unasked-for glimpse of my psychogeography because I’ve found one of the greatest things about vaping is surreptitiously partaking in places I’d never dare sneak a cigarette, since vapor dissipates immediately and doesn’t cling like smoke. It’s an outlaw thrill that enhances the hit of nicotine.

Of course, notwithstanding the vape lobby’s hard work, vaping is banned by law nearly everywhere cigarette smoking is. At a recent musical performance I attended, the bartender spotted me vaping indoors;

she scolded me and let me know in no uncertain terms that she had a high-grade vipe-able hash oil for sale.

“It smells like cardamom,” she said.

“Nobody can tell.”

It’s true; vaping or “dabbing” THC oil is super-discreet — right up until your knees give out, because the potency is so sickeningly high. Unless I need to blot out the effects of chemotherapy, I’ll stick to nicotine, though I do eagerly anticipate the availability of inhalable caffeine and have enjoyed speculative conversations about vaping doses of hormones or DMT. Speaking as someone ostensibly in addiction recovery, there is no mistaking that this is a drug.

Even if I didn’t know I was getting nicotine out of the deal, no other category of hobby entails this level of fiddly obsession with the physical apparatus. It’s all there: the little science-y vials of regents, the different bits that fit together laid out on a cloth, the tea-ritual prep process, the vast and limitless personalized options capitalism’s generosity unfolds to the moneyed participant.

This wonkish fetish for the equipment is a big piece of what constitutes the culture of vaping.

We all know weed nerds, or at least have picked up one hitchhiking, but vaping is more like handgun culture crossed with guitar collecting with a dash of saltwater aquarium, set in a series of bubble-tea shops. There is jargon, there are innumerable ultrafine distinctions, there are brittle opinions and the ferocious armchair expertise of the autodidact.

As a consumer, I find the most appealing aspect of vaping the different sorts of flavored goo, also known as e-liquid or “Vape Juice” (surely, the cruelest playground nickname). It comes in as many wild flavors and jewel-like colors as snoball syrup or fingernail polish, both of which may or may not be ingredients of a given goo.

The sweeteners, flavorings and color agents in vape goo are at present largely unregulated, a cause of concern to some nannygovernment types who don’t believe in my right to place my respiratory health in the fingerless-glovewearing hands of the vape industry.

Vape goo’s base is better known; it’s a mix of vegetable glycerine, a sticky sugar alcohol derived from palm and coconut, and propelyne glycol, a petroleum byproduct whose consumption here in South Louisiana likely falls within the aegis of the Eat

Local Challenge. Because vape goo is very cheap to make and people are addicted to nicotine, there’s been a vaping gold rush. Many towns that barely have a library now boast a vape shop, and the profit margin’s good enough that there are vaping billboards on the highways.

for sale including vape equipment with 3-D images. Their house blends run a broad South Louisiana gamut from Fais-do-do, Gator Milk and Barataria Bay to The Roosevelt, Iko Iko and Wild Tchoupitoulas. The whimsical, well-written descriptions in the menu give you a sense of what to “listen What you may I can’t help but notice for” in the taste, not know is that objective everyone who doesn’t vape — and despite the humor with scientific which they’re women in particular — analysis has described, determined the rolling their eyes, and these juices absolute best are seriously flavors of goo my keen ears pick up delicious are made right — careful ominous murmurings: here in metro combinations New Orleans. I that work visited a swath thoughtfully and of the East harmoniously Bank’s vape in the mouth. establishments Usually I don’t to sample their even like tropical house mixes; flavors, but the the following are shop’s Danger among the best. blend — a subtle At the peak mix of cantaloupe, pineapple and kiwi intersection of flavor quality and — was refreshing rather than cloying, retail atmosphere, nowhere I visited typical of Big Chief’s sophisticated charmed me as much as Chalmette’s mixological approach.

Big Chief Vapors on West Genie, Vapor Eyes on St. Louis Street also just upriver from Paris Road. Not made a positive impression as soon only are the mixtures there playful, as I walked in the door. It’s the kind pleasurable and memorable, but the of small French Quarter business I whole establishment feels like an love — cozy and idiosyncratic. The atypically friendly biker clubhouse. proprietor’s work table, surrounded Many vape spots offer seating, Wi-Fi by a mad scientist’s assortment and other inducements to hang out, of bottles and implements, calls but Big Chief is a bona fide social to mind the custom perfumeries center with a welcoming laid-back that used to be a mainstay of Royal vibe, a calendar of upcoming events Street. Like those vanished perfume (example: a Golden Tee tournament) establishments, Vapor Eyes coand a fascinating range of hardware founder Mark Raeder is willing and eager to make a custom flavor if A man exhales a large puff nothing in his catalog seems just at Vapors Inn, which has right. My favorites at this shop were those with a cold spark of menthol the ambience of a cigar bar — the brisk, cherry-orange-menthol and custom-blends premium

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Hawk Sauce, Black Ice (a menthol bubblegum) and Thug Juice, a mix of watermelon, grape and menthol that delighted me despite its troubling name. I also was impressed with praline pecan bacon, which sounded like a gimmick but turned out to be solidly yummy. “I kept toning the bacon down,” Mark said. “At this point, it’s just a hint of it — a sweet-andsalty mix.” Vapor Eyes also offers a 10 percent discount for locals and is open till midnight.

Crescent City Vape on St. Charles Avenue has a chic, upscale metropolitan feel. A clinic next door sells high-end intravenous vitamin treatments for patrons too busy to get their nutrition through food. While Crescent City doesn’t blend in house, its hundreds of available third-party flavors include the locally produced Paradox Liquids, a premium range that nails presentation — the physical aspects of the product — in ways others could learn from. Paradox also backs up its high-end bottles and

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Early on in my venture into vapery I would duck away from others when I indulged, wandering lonely as a cloud of atomized addictive butterscotch.

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The Vaping Tiger in Metairie offers its signature flavor line with regional names and provides an inviting space for customers to vape.

branding with quality goo. Each of the four Paradox flavors has depth and multi-dimensionality. If I had to pick a favorite among them, it would be Black Hole, an almond-glazed donut with blackberry tinge. The shop’s Quantum Loop also distinguished itself among a field of many Froot Loops analogues, adding a creamy layer for the taste of milk.

My friend and I had a great time at Sweet Southern Vapes in Harahan, once we finally found it. I love sugary flavors, and Sweet Southern Vapes has a vast, dreamy candyland of them, all laid out and easily available for sampling. At a few vape places, I felt asking to sample flavors was an inconvenience or nuisance. On the other end of that spectrum, the setup at Sweet Southern Vapes made the testing process a pleasure, as did the shop’s chipper and chatty staffers.

Vapors Inn on Veterans in Metairie feels like a small, well-appointed cigar bar staffed by friendly record-store clerks. It doesn’t hurt that the shop’s wide assortment of premium flavors, made to order, includes my all-time favorite goo, Fat Bastard. It’s a peanut banana caramel mixture that consistently hits the spot: rich without being too rich; sweet without being treacly. Vapors Inn’s menu is a great place to find a daily go-to vape blend.

Although it doesn’t create flavors on site, Herb Import’s Vapor Room (listed as being on Canal Street but actually around the corner on St. Anthony Street) had the most studied elegance of the vape locations I visited. It has a meticulous steampunk/Victorian-aesthetic interior, abundant black velvet paintings (a longstanding weakness of mine) and, behind a bar, a half-dozen dispensers of Herb Import’s commissioned custom mixes in the flavors of signature New Orleans cocktails. There are many vape juices named after drinks, but these excel, particularly the Sazerac and absinthe.

The Vaping Tiger on Athania Parkway in Metairie, tucked beneath the Causeway, offers its Tiger Aide line, quality flavors with ostentatiously regional names. I was especially taken with the lesssweet options: tart, pomegranate-apple Oak Alley Pomtation; Fleur de Victoria, which combines a cherry undertone with floral, almost herbal notes of hibiscus; and Where Y’at, which is like pistachiochai ice cream.

In the honorable mention category is the slightly austere Vapor County on Judge Perez Highway, The shop doesn’t do a lot of custom flavors, but I love its “Zebra Stripe Gum,” which nails the flavor of Fruit Stripe Gum perfectly.

So, instead of smoking cigarettes or eating candy, I inhale a high-tech vapor engineered to emulate both. It’s a futuristic tradeup, a new and more streamlined hybrid addiction made possible by technological innovation.

In many advertisements, bearers of cutting-edge gadgets are swarmed by admirers, but mostly I sense the opposite from those around me when I whip out the LED-encrusted droid cock that is my nicotine-delivery system du jour. I can’t help but notice everyone who doesn’t vape — women in particular — rolling their eyes, and my keen ears pick up ominous murmurings: “Fedora ... libertarian.”

There is stigma.

In my early days of vaping I would duck away from others when I indulged, wandering lonely as a cloud of atomized addictive butterscotch.

Now I don’t care; I just need my fix. After all, we mighty cloud dragons are rapidly outnumbering the non-inhalant-device-owning dinosaurs. You can hold your own outdated opinion on my constant, compulsive oral recourse to a light-up tire-pressure gauge-looking contraption, but you’ll need to make your peace with it as a part of who I am. I’m a viper, all right? It’s very now.

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Youth Code Tuesdays

Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2660

www.techtalentsouth.com Tech Talent South holds a free coding class for kids ages 9-12 every week through Sep. 8. Topics include HTML, computer animation, developing ideas for websites and more. Students should bring their own laptops. Register online or by calling the library.

4 p.m. Tuesday.

“Life on Paper” Creative Workshop

Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238

www.northlakenature.org Artist Mia Kaplan shows kids ages 9 to 12 techniques and materials they can use to document the natural world at this hands-on, outdoor art class. Sketchbooks are provided. The class is free but limited to 15 students; call or email rue@northlakenature.org to register. 10 a.m. Saturday.

Say Yes to Success

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 598-3800

www.crescentcitylights.org Students from Crescent City Lights Youth Theater perform a musical revue featuring songs from their favorite productions, including Honk, Jr., Dear Edwina, Sleepover and Bugsy Malone. Tickets $15, children age 12 and under $13. 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

ASK BUDDY BATISTE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOR NEW ORLEANS KIDS

Why do people throw beads at Mardi Gras?

My family was at Disney World when I first found out that people don’t always throw beads during parades.

We were in the Magic Kingdom and all of a sudden floats and people in costume appeared, but all they did was wave at us. My parents thought it was funny when I started yelling “Throw me something, mister!” I didn’t know throwing beads and other stuff from parade floats was something unique to New Orleans. I wanted to know why that was, so when I got back home I read that the tradition of throwing beads started in the 1920s. It turns out Rex was the first krewe to do it, and members threw cheap glass beads. They also were the first Carnival krewe to throw doubloons. That’s pretty cool, but my favorite throws still are light-up beads, moon pies and toilet paper.

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very comfortable and be able to talk about any problem they’re having that we can help them with. It’s a hard thing to talk about, but we want folks to know we get it.”

Jeane and Swisshelm say they have a diverse clientele that includes men and transgender customers. Some people bring their teenaged children for facials to help with acne. Jeane and Swisshelm are creating packages for back facials, ear hair removal and skin rejuvenation for folks who love spending time in the sun, as Jeane admits she does.

BodyBrite Metairie offers discounts on popular services through the summer, including photo and oxygen facials, teeth whitening and body contouring. The medical spa hosts a “Good Fortune” store party at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 and will donate 10 percent of proceeds to Covenant House.

New customers receive a free consultation and should expect to spend about 20 minutes answering questions about their health history and medications. Jeane stresses that she wants all her customers to feel comfortable as they learn about the available treatments.

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Anthropologie (The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., 504-592-9972; www.anthropologie.com) holds a Teacher Appreciation month, offering educators 15 percent off all in-store and website merchandise through Sept. 7.

KINDRED Studios (5228 Magazine St., 504510-4878; www.kindred-studios.com) hosts a brunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, benefiting the New Orleans Women’s Shelter.

The brunch is free to attend, and people who donate baby items such as car seats, diaper bags, carriers and supplies receive 20 percent off classes or membership at KINDRED, an upscale, family-centered gym. There will

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be a bloody mary bar, mimosas, snacks, childcare, pop-up shops by Hunt Collective and FIT By You and makeup tutorials by Glam Squad Ninjas.

Reyn Studios (725 Magazine St., 504717–9982; www.reynstudios.com) hosts donation-based yoga classes by Free People at noon, 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. There will be refreshments by City Greens and gift bags for all attendees, plus giveaways for the first five people to arrive. Donations benefit Reyn Studios’ RSOM program, which makes yoga more widely available to underserved communities.

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pened in May, BodyBrite Metairie (4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-475-5510; www.bodybriteusa.com) is a medical spa franchise location offering intense pulsed light photofacials, hair removal, teeth whitening and more. Owner Andi Houston Jeane and shop manager Amber Swisshelm met in nursing school and decided to join forces to run a business, fulfilling a longtime dream of Jeane’s. They have enjoyed the learning experience of opening BodyBrite Metairie and offering affordable treatments.

“I loved the price point and thought it opened [medical spa services] up for people who never could have afforded them before,” says Jeane, a Chattanooga, Tennessee native. “I knew that here, it would be appreciated, where there are a lot of college students and moms who are busy all the time and spend their money on their kids.”

When it comes to beauty routines, neither woman describes herself as highmaintenance; both play on a volleyball team with their employees and often forgo makeup. Jeane boxes for exercise and Swisshelm is a former gymnast. The partners have tried every service the spa offers, which puts clients at ease — as does the duo’s sense of seen-it-all practicality, a result of their nursing days.

“It’s a very personal experience to come in here and tell us something that’s bothering you about yourself,” says Jeane, who received a Nursing Caring Award from LSU Health. “We want people to feel

Amber Swisshelm (left) and Andi Houston Jeane opened BodyBrite Metairie to provide affordable medical spa services.

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Junction serves burgers and bar food.

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city. A brown sugar and cayenne rub The Kansas City Southern burger is lends sweet, soft heat to the burger, topped with barbecue sauce. which is topped with thick slices of cheddar, tender onions rendered sweet P H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER and soft on the griddle, sauteed mushrooms and thick, dark barbecue sauce. what The black bean burger offers vegetarians a respite Junction from the otherwise beef-centric menu and is topped with Monterey Jack cheese, avocado, sprouts and where bright house-made salsa.

3021 St. Claude Ave., A couple of salads, wings and a fried vegetable (504) 272-0205; www. basket round out the menu, but the fried pickles junctionnola.com kick it up a notch and should not be missed. The deliciously salty orbs are heavily battered in cornmeal, when fried crisp and served with cool dill tartar sauce. lunch and dinner daily Fries also meet the mark and are of the hand-cut variety: Skins intact, the thick sticks are fried dark how much brown and salted judiciously. inexpensive The burgers are big enough to soak up the majorwhat works ity of an evening’s alcohol intake, including any one Kansas City Southern of the bar’s 40 craft beers on tap, the varieties of and Central Vermont which are organized by geographic origin and include burgers, fried pickles several excellent pale ales from the Northwest.

Dessert is noticeably an afterthought, and the what doesn’t menu includes only one item: lemon cake topped burger temperatures with whipped cream and spiced pecans. It’s better are inconsistent, to cap the meal with a frozen Irish coffee, the French service can be slow Quarter favorite colloquially known as an Irish daiquiri and a staple at the other Monaghan bars. Creamy, check, please boozy — like an alcoholic milkshake — the potent burgers and craft slushy is a good reason to cross the tracks. beers in a railroad-themed Contact Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com Bywater bar

At the new bakery and cafe Willa Jean (611 O’Keefe Ave., 504-509-7344; www.willajean.com), Kelly Fields’ childhood memories find their way to the plate. In a reimagined milk and cookies dessert, chocolate chip cookies are served with a glass of Tahitian vanilla milk and a beater of fresh cookie dough.

“When I was baking cookies growing up, the experience was never as fun if you didn’t get to have a little dough straight off the cookie beater,” says Fields, who is the restaurant’s executive chef and named the space after her grandmother.

Fields is partners with Besh Restaurant Group chefs Lisa White, Brian Landry of Borgne and John Besh in the venture. Fields and White come from extensive tenures at Besh restaurants: Fields is the executive pastry chef for the Besh Restaurant Group, and White is the pastry chef at Domenica and its Uptown spinoff, Pizza Domenica.

Willa Jean has a warm, welcoming feel: high ceilings meet exposed brick walls, floor-to-ceiling windows provide an airy and bright atmosphere, and finishing touches include wiry kitchen whisks, which serve as encasements for the lighting fixtures. A full-service coffee and pastry bar greets diners who can opt to carry out a quick breakfast or lunch or linger at one of the tables or bar stools in the 80-seat dining space.

The sprawling pastry bar features banana bread, blueberry-ginger muffins, pecan sticky buns, andouille breakfast tarts topped with sunny-side up eggs, flaky ham and cheese croissants and freshly made baguette sandwiches. Breads include crusty ciabatta, sourdough pumpernickel, semolina and seeded whole wheat bread made with locally milled flour, among others.

The menu features a buttermilk and honey biscuit topped with fried chicken and jalapeno relish, and roasted lamb served with minted peas and arugula on an onion roll.

Full dinner service includes hanger steak with a fried egg and potatoes; kale ravioli tossed with cheese, tomatoes and pine nuts; and roasted yardbird atop crusty panzanella with fresh greens.

Chicago’s Intelligentsia Coffee company supplies Willa Jean with a signature blend. The brew comes into play at the full-service bar and in playful coffee-based cocktails.

Willa Jean is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. — HELEN FREUND

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unction, a beer and burger spot that opened last winter in Bywater, sits steps away from the train tracks along Press Street, a subtle link to the restaurant’s underlying railroad theme.

Sleek lines, an art deco bar and wooden booths line the walls of the narrow space, giving the feel of being inside a railroad car.

The burgers are named after the American railways and tracks that cross the country.

In a prelude pop-up incarnation, the burgers were offered out of the kitchen at Molly’s at the Market, which was meant to be a trial before Lloyd Miller and Jim and Alana Monaghan of Molly’s and 13 Monaghan opened the restaurant. But Junction never really became a restaurant; it is first and foremost a bar — and has an impressive selection of craft beers on tap.

The pub fare menu features a small selection of amped-up burgers, fries and wings. Service is friendly, but Junction is often shortstaffed. On a recent visit, there was a lone bartender tending to bar customers and patrons in the dining area, which made for spotty experience. That can be forgotten easily once food arrives, although there are some lapses in its consistency.

The bar menu states that burgers will be delivered medium unless diners specify otherwise, but on a recent visit three burgers arrived in varying states of doneness, ranging from medium rare to a light pink medium to a very well-done, slightly tough version.

Burgers cooked medium rare or medium deliver: The caramelized char on the outside gives way to 6 ounces of juicy, lean meat that asks for little more than a thin slice of cheese and a bun.

The bar’s railroad theme takes geographic hops across the map, nodding to the flavors and cooking styles of the American Midwest, Northeast and South, among others. Creative toppings and rubs dress the grass-fed beef burgers, which are served on sweet brioche rolls from Dong Phuong Bakery.

The New Mexico Rail Runner packs the heat and flavors of the Southwest: Roasted green chilies crown a thick patty topped with cheddar cheese and a searing aioli that leaves your lips tingling.

The Central Vermont pushes the sweet-and-savory envelope and succeeds. Topped with oozing white cheddar, a thick slice of charred apple and applewood-smoked bacon, the medley is coated in thick, syrupy maple crema, giving the burger a breakfast-like appeal.

One of the heartiest and best options, the Kansas City Southern, is inspired by the molasses-heavy smoked meats representative of the Midwestern

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FORK + CENTER [CONTINUED] down its New Orleans operations Aug. 7, as well as hubs in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and reduced staff in San Francisco.

CEO Rob Spiro explained the decision in an online memo: “The single biggest mistake the company made was growing too quickly, to multiple cities, before fully figuring out the challenges of building an entirely new food supply chain.”

The business, which operates as a type of online farmers market, allows customers to place online orders for meat, fresh produce and dairy products from local farmers. The company was founded in San Francisco in 2011, launched New Orleans operations in the summer of 2013 and quickly expanded, moving to newer, bigger digs twice, settling in a warehouse on Earhart Boulevard. Roughly 140 employees were laid off as a result of the closures, according to the website www.techcrunch.com. —HELEN FREUND

Home Alon

Shaya (4213 Magazine St., 504-891-4213; www.shayarestaurant.com), chef/ owner Alon Shaya’s Uptown stunner, has been named one of the country’s best new restaurants by Bon Appetit magazine. The magazine’s website lists Shaya among its “50 Nominees for America’s Best New Restaurants 2015.” It is the only New Orleans restaurant to make the cut. The top 10 winners will be announced Aug. 18.

Shaya garnered national accolades in May as the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef: South. — HELEN FREUND

Going public

Public Belt, a new cocktail and piano lounge in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (2 Poydras St., 504-561-0500; www.hiltonneworleansriverside.com) is now open, serving craft cocktails and presenting live jazz. Its name pays tribute to the iconic New Orleans Public Belt Railroad. The 61-seat bar features a dark, sleek interior and a baby grand piano where Joe Krown will perform weekly evening sets Thursdays through Saturdays.

Besides a handful of classic New Orleans cocktails — Sazerac, Vieux Carre, hurricane — the menu features a selection of drinks inspired by Storyville prostitutes and madams of the early 1900s.

Ella’s Sinful Secret features Boodles gin, St. Germain elderflower liqueur, dry vermouth and celery bitters. A drink called the Scarlet Harlot combines Patron Silver tequila, apricot liqueur, dry vermouth and lemon juice. — HELEN FREUND

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Dinner Lab (www.dinnerlab.com), the membership-based supper club, is throwing a third anniversary party Aug. 20 featuring food, drinks and music. The dining club was conceived in New Orleans and expanded to more than 30 cities across the country.

The location of the party is a secret until one day before the event. The meal includes a dozen small plates prepared by Mike Gulotta of MoPho, David Barbeau from Toups’ Meatery, Mike Stoltzfus of Coquette, Kristen Essig of Meauxbar, Rita Bernhardt of The PDR, Ryan Haigler and Jacob Cureton from Grand Isle and Nick Martin of Primitivo. Three local bartenders, whose names have not yet been released, will provide cocktails, and music will be provided by DJ Soul Sister. Visit the website’s “New Orleans events” page to buy tickets. — HELEN FREUND

Rolling at the Rivershack

Rivershack Tavern (3449 River Road, 504-834-4938; www.rivershack. com) celebrates its 25th anniversary with a four-day bonanza Sept. 24-27. There are bands, guest bartenders and food specials that include throwbacks from the bar’s original menu. — HELEN FREUND

Palace renovations

Palace Cafe (605 Canal St., 504-523-1661; www.palacecafe.com) will close Aug. 15 for major renovations, including the addition of a second floor bar and a new kitchen. The upstairs bar will have more of a “lounge feel,” will offer a small plates menu and include a charcuterie kitchen, owners say. Construction on the project is estimated to take 45 days. Palace Cafe’s summertime special “temperature lunches” will be offered at Tableau (616 St. Peter St., 504-934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com), Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse (716 Iberville St., 504-522-2467; www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com) and Bourbon House (144 Bourbon St., 504-522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com) from Aug. 17 through Labor Day. — HELEN FREUND

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Eliana de Las Casas Kid chef

Eliana de las Casas has spent more time in the kitchen than most kids her age. At 15, the Kenner native and student at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) has written three cookbooks — her most recent, Cool Kids Cook: Fresh & Fit, was published in 2014 — and she hosts a weekly online radio show in which she interviews chefs and culinary industry personalities.

While on summer break, she interned for a month at Commander’s Palace under executive chef Tory McPhail, her first restaurant kitchen gig. She spoke with Gambit about what she learned at the restaurant and what it’s like being a kid in the kitchen.

How has your experience at NOCCA been so far?

C: I’ve been cooking since I was 4 years old. I’ve always loved being in the kitchen; I never wanted to leave.

So I was so excited when I first found out there was an actual school that has a culinary arts program. [At] most other schools, it’s just home (economics) and baking cookies … but NOCCA: there’s a commercial kitchen — and we just got a new kitchen this past year.

I get to be around other people my age that love the same thing I do. My other friends, they’re just like, “No, I’m not gonna cook. But you can cook for me.” So it’s really nice to be able to have conversations about food without someone being like, “What? What is that?”

I’m going to be a sophomore this year. … I’m still not sure what culinary school I want to [attend] — there are just so many great schools out there.

I like being in the kitchen, but I’m not sure if I want to work in the kitchen (in the future). I want to have my own line of spices — I’ve created maybe a dozen spice blends. I want to keep writing cookbooks and also have a line of cookware and chef wear for kids.

What’s your favorite thing to cook? Favorite ingredient?

C: It’s really hard because I love to cook all things, but I really like to do fusion — I’m in the middle somewhere [between] gourmet and comfort food.

I like to do a lot of family-style (food) too.

I used to not really be that big of a baker. I didn’t do much with dessert except for eat it. Being at NOCCA has really expanded my knowledge of baking, so that’s been really great. I now know how to do more cakes, and I learned how to make bagels and pretzels, which was really cool.

I love salt. I think I have this really weird obsession with salt. But just salt on a dish can make it so much better and bring out the natural flavors. I have maybe, like, 15 different kinds of salts at home.

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De Las Casas: It’s been so much fun here. It’s given me a really different perspective, being in an actual restaurant kitchen. I get to see behind the scenes and see what really goes on. I’ve learned a lot here — I didn’t know too much about being in an actual kitchen — I’ve always just been doing it from home and at NOCCA. I guess I never noticed how much quantity there is; there’s so much of everything. I’m used to cooking for four people and here, it’s cooking for so many (people).

I worked the weekends and Mondays and Tuesdays. I chopped a lot of vegetables for different soups and different dishes; we peel lots of shrimp, stuff like that. I’ll help out with some of the different meals. Yesterday, I learned how to make the turtle soup, so that was pretty fun. It seems like it would be (hard to make), but then when you start putting it together it’s actually pretty easy.

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The New Orleans beer scene is busy and growing with new breweries, bars and upcoming annual events.

NOLA on Tap (www.nolaontap.org) is Saturday, Sept. 26 at the New Orleans City Park Festival Grounds. Sponsored by the Louisiana SPCA, the family- and pet-friendly event is free and attendees support the festival by buying tickets for beer. Colin Lake, Cardinal Sons and the Honey Island Swamp Band The brewery at Chappapeela are scheduled to perform. Gates open at 1 p.m., and VIP early admission is at noon. Farms is nearing completion.

The event runs until 8 p.m.

P H O T O BY N O R A M C G U N N I G L E The Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s Boudin, Bourbon & Beer (www.boudinbourbonandbeer.com) fundraiser is Nov. 13 at Champions Square. Tickets are available now and cost $85 through Sept. 1. In addition to its flagships and seasonal beer selections, co-sponsor Abita Brewing Company will provide rare beers from its cellars, such as Bourbon Street Maple Pecan brown ale.

World of Beer’s Julia Street location (324 Julia St.; www.worldofbeer.com/ locations/warehousedistrict) is expected to open in late August. Also on track to open in late August or early September is the new Tchoupitoulas Beer Garden (840 Tchoupitoulas St., Suite 103; www.tbgnola.com), which will feature a large outdoor space and a variety of German, American and local craft beers on tap.

Second Line Brewing (433 N. Bernadotte St., 504-248-8979; www.secondlinebrewing.com) received its final permits on July 27, making it the 16th brewery in Louisiana. Owner Mark Logan and his team brewed their first batch, an IPA, on July 29, and it will be released in several weeks. Logan expects to open a tap room on the premises.

Tom Conklin’s brewery at Chappapeela Farms (57542 Hillcrest School Road, Amite, 225-281-9474; www.chapfarms.com) is nearing completion. Its small batch beer will be sold in 750-milliliter bottles, and will be available almost exclusively in fine dining restaurants. The brewery’s two flagship beers will be a porter and a barrel-aged saison, both brewed with Brettanomyces yeast. — NORA McGUNNIGLE Email Nora McGunnigle at nora@nolabeerblog.com

WINE of the week 2012 Rubio San Polo Toscana IGT T US C A N Y, I TA LY RETAIL $18-$19

Winemaking in central Italy dates to the 8th century B.C., but huge progress was made when the Italian DOC system (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) imposed stringent standards, which made exporting easier. But some producers went their own way and outshone the country’s top “official” bottlings. In 1992, the IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) classification was created, and “Super Tuscan” wines transformed Tuscany’s wine business. This baby Super Tuscan is produced at the San Polo estate in Montalcino. After harvest, Rubio’s blend of sangiovese grosso with cabernet sauvignon and merlot was soft pressed and cold macerated prior to fermentation in stainless steel tanks. The wine aged 12 months in large oak casks followed by bottle aging. In the glass, it has lush aromas of red and black cherries and hints of leather. On the palate, taste intense dark fruits, currants, spice and cassis notes. Drink it with red meat, veal dishes, pasta, poultry and hearty dishes with marinara. Buy it at: Swirl Wine Bar & Market and Grand Krewe Fine Wine & Spirits. Drink it at: Swirl Wine Bar & Market. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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Dan Stein’s Beer 101: Sour Beers

7 p.m. Wednesday St. James Cheese Co., 5004 Prytania St., (504) 899-4737

www.stjamescheese.com Dan Stein, owner of Stein’s Market & Deli, and Derek Lintern of NOLA Brewing lead a tasting of sour beers from around the world. The tasting includes cheese, charcuterie from Cleaver and Co. and bread from Bellegarde Bakery. Reservations are required. Tickets $30.

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Grass-fed Beef Picnic

6:30 p.m. Wednesday Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse, 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467

www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com The steak house hosts a picnic-themed meal featuring grass-fed beef from Gonsoulin Land and Cattle ranch near New Iberia. Dessert, a cocktail and wine are included. Tickets are $55, and $10 of each ticket goes to Grow Dat Youth Farm.

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Street Fare Derby

4 p.m.-8 p.m. Saturday; 12:30 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515

www.fairgroundsracecourese.com The food truck roundup features live music during the track’s Summer Quarter Horse Meet. Food trucks include Bratz Y’all, Dirty Dishes, Food Drunk, Frencheeze, La Cocinita, Rue Chow, Woody’s Fish Tacos and others.

Street Fare tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the gate; $75 VIP admission includes early entrance.

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Five great vegetarian sandwiches

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1514 Delachaise St., (504) 891-9361; 710 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-3310 One sandwich features roasted eggplant, roasted red pepper, red onions, Kalamata olives, feta and mozzarella cheeses, pesto and hummus.

St. James Cheese Company 5004 Prytania St., (504) 899-4737 www.stjamescheese.com

Melted cave-aged Gruyere and caramelized onions are served on multigrain bread.

Superfood Bar

4113 Magazine St., (504)891-7733

www.superfoodbar.wix.com/nola

The “PLT” features a black bean patty, lettuce, tomato and chipotle-sunflower mayonnaise.

Ursa Major

611 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 309-8765 www.ursamajornola.com

The Manchurian “meatball” sub includes vegetable pate, pickled mango and sweet and spicy sauce on a baguette.

Welty’s Deli

336 Camp St., (504) 592-0233 www.weltysdeli.com

A sandwich of roasted vegetables includes red peppers, eggplant, onions, yellow squash, mushrooms and artichoke hearts on whole-grain bread.

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Colonial Bowling Lanes — 6601 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, (504) 737-2400; www.colonialbowling.net — The kitchen serves breakfast in the morning and a lunch and dinner menu of sandwiches, burgers, chicken wings and tenders, pizza, quesdaillas and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood and dishes from a variety of cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn. com — The neighborhood bar and restaurant offers a menu of pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

BAR & GRILL Ale — 8124 Oak St.; (504) 324-6558; www.aleonoak.com — The Mexican Coke-braised brisket sandwich comes with coleslaw and roasted garlic aioli. Reservations accepted for large parties. Late-lunch Fri., dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ The American Sector — 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1940; www.nationalww2museum.org/ american-sector — The menu of American favorites includes a burger, oyster po-boy, cobb salad, spaghetti and meatballs, fried chicken, Gulf fish and more.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — The 10-ounce Bayou burger is served on a sesame bun, and disco fries are topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves chips with salsa and guacamole made to order, burgers, salads, tacos, entrees and more.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Pelican Cafe — 3901 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 510-4367; www. pelicancafenola.com — The Pelican’s Roost salad features boiled shrimp in crab boil mayonnaise on romaine lettuce with warm smoked sausage “croutons.”

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Perry’s Sports Bar & Grill — 5252 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 456-9234; www.perryssportsbarandgrill.com — The sports bar offers burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, wraps, tacos, salads, steaks and a wide array of bar noshing items. Open 24-hours Thursday through Sunday. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Revival Bar & Grill — 4612 Quincy St., Metairie, (504) 373-6728; www. facebook.com/revivalbarandgrill — The bar serves burgers, po-boys, salads and noshing items including boudin balls, egg rolls, chicken wings, mozzarella sticks and fries with various toppings.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www. therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Warehouse Grille — 869 Magazine St., (504) 322-2188; www. warehousegrille.com — The menu features upscale bar food, burgers, steaks, seafood, salads, sandwiches and noshing items.

Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily, brunch Fri.-Sun. Credit cards. $

BURGERS Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno. com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Dis & Dem — 2540 Banks St., (504) 909-0458; www.disanddem. com — A house burger features a glazed patty, lettuce, tomato, onion and mayonnaise on a sweet sourdough onion bun. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Five Guys Burgers and Fries — 1212 S. Clearview Pkwy., Suite C, Harahan, (504) 733-5100; www. fiveguys.com — The menu features burgers, cheeseburgers and bacon cheesburgers with toppings such as grilled onions or mushrooms, tomatoes, pickles, jalapenos, hot sauce and barbecue sauce. No

reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — Casual dining options include burgers, sandwiches and half and whole muffulettas and daily lunch specials. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed. and Fri.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www. cafenoma.com — The cafe serves shrimp salad, chipotle-marinated portobello sliders, flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic and more.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees, pastries and desserts baked in house and a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Pearl Wine Co. — 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www. pearlwineco.com — The small menu features salads, panini and cheese and charcuterie plates. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Liberty’s Kitchen — 300 N. Broad St., (504) 822-4011; www.libertyskitchen.org — Students in the workforce development program prepare traditional and creative versions of local favorites. Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAJUN Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 561-5171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 522-2233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www. daisydukesrestaurant.com — The New Orleans sampler features red beans and rice, jambalaya, a cup of gumbo, fried green tomatoes and a biscuit. Delivery available from Carondelet Street location.

No reservations. New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.

OUT to EAT fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include crispy smoked quail salad with pear and bourbon-molasses dressing. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers wines by the glass and full restaurant menu including mussels steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The constantly changing menu features dishes such as pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, crispy Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$ The Tasting Room — 1906 Magazine St., (504) 581-3880; www.ttrneworleans. com — Sample wines or dine on a menu featuring truffle fries, a petit filet with Gorgonzola cream sauce and asparagus and more. No reservations. Dinner daily.

Credit Cards. $$

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Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 5927083; www.barredux.com — The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Bistro Orleans — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 304-1469; www.bistroorleansmetairie.com — Popular dishes include oyster and artichoke soup, char-grilled oysters and Des Allemands catfish. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Brennan’s — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Eggs Sardou is poached eggs over crispy artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce. Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/ cafegentilly — Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy. No reservations.

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

Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.mamommashouse.com — Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ MeMe’s Bar & Grille — 712 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 644-4992; www.memesbarandgrille.com — MeMe’s serves steaks, chops and Louisiana seafood. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Messina’s Runway Cafe — 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; www. messinasterminal.com — Jimmy Wedell seafood pasta features Gulf shrimp, Lake Pontchartrain crabmeat, crawfish, fresh herbs and angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Breakfast and lunch daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes.

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

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

DELI The Grocery — 2854 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-9524; www.thegroceryneworleans.com — The vegetable melt includes three cheeses, marinated tomatoes, mushrooms, avocado, mayonnaise and Creole mustard. No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli offers corned beef and pastrami from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.mardigraszone. com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 4566362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce

and pasta. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

FRENCH Cafe Degas — 3127 Esplanade Ave., (504) 945-5635; www.cafedegas.com — The menu of traditional French dishes includes pate, cheese plates, salads, escargots bourguignons, mussles and fries, hanger steak with fries and garlic bordelaise and more. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $

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

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — The restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes.

Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — The menu features tandoori dishes with chicken, lamb, fish or shrimp, mild and spicy curries, rice dishes such as chicken, lamb or shrimp biryani, and many vegetarian items. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/ owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended.

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

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

Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines old world Italian favorites and pizza. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Creamy corn and crab bisque is served in a toasted bread bowl. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include raw and cooked versions. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, including sushi, hibachi dishes, teriyaki and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake.com — Rockn-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. No reservations. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupusasneworleans.com — Carne asada is marinated and grilled beef tenderloin served with saffron rice and tropical salad. Vegetarian and gluten-free dishes are available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Chappy’s — 6106 Magazine St., (504) 2088772; www.chappys.com — The pork chop Napoleon features two blackened chops layered with oyster stuffing and topped with fried oysters and bearnaise made with tarragon from the restaurant’s garden. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust, angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam.

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

Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Redemption — 3835 Iberville St., (504) 309-3570; www.redemption-nola.com — Duck cassoulet includes roasted duck breast, duck confit and Terranova Italian sausage topped with foie gras. Reser-

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

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

Creole dishes with many seafood options. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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

vations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www.tivoliandlee. com — The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. No reservations. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www. monascafeanddeli.com — These casual cafes serve entrees including beef or chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb, vegetarian options and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

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Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www.facebook. com/casaborrega — Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Casa Garcia — 8814 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 464-0354 — Chiles rellenos include one pepper stuffed with cheese and one filled with beef, and the menu also features fajitas, burritos, tacos, chimichangas, quesadillas, nachos, tortas and more. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Casa Tequila — 3229 Williams Blvd., Kenner (504) 443-5423 — The El General combo plate includes a beef burrito, beef chile relleno, chicken enchilada, a chicken taco and guacamole. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Del Fuego Taqueria — 4518 Magazine St., (504) 309-5797; www.delfuegotaqueria.com — Tostadas con pescada ahumada features achiote-smoked Gulf fish over corn tostadas with refried black beans, cabbage and cilantro-lime mayonesa. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito. com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Live Oak Cafe — 8140 Oak St., (504) 265-0050; www.liveoakcafenola.com — The cafe serves huevos rancheros with corn tortillas, black beans, fried eggs, ranchero sauce, salsa and Cotija cheese. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Signature dishes include a waffle topped with brie and blueberry compote. Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations. Brunch and lunch Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizza.com — Pies feature hand-tossed, house-made dough and locally sourced produce. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys

and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Diners can build their own calzones or pies from a list of toppings. Delivery available.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS The Big Cheezy — 422 S. Broad St., (504) 302-2598; www.thebigcheezy.com — The menu of gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches includes a namesake triple-decker Big Cheezy with Gouda, Gruyere, pepper Jack, cheddar, mozzarella and Monterey Jack on challah bread.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 2526745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ Liberty Cheesesteaks — 5031 Freret St., (504) 875-4447; www.libertycheesesteaks.com — The Buffalo chicken steak features chicken breast dressed with wing sauce, American and blue cheese and ranch dressing is optional.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef slow cooked in its own jus. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 897-5413; www. traceysnola.com — The neighborhood bar’s menu includes roast beef and fried seafood po-boys, seafood platters, fried okra, chicken wings, gumbo and more.

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

SEAFOOD Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www. basinseafoodnola.com — The menu includes grilled whole fish, royal red shrimp with garlic butter and crab and crawfish beignets with remoulade.

Reservations accepted.Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 284-2898; www.thebluecrabnola.com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood. No

reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish, oysters from the raw bar and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 298-0504; www. halfshellneworleans.com — Voodoo Bleu features bacon-wrapped char-grilled oysters topped with garlic-butter and blue cheese. No reservations. Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Reservations recommended.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

VEGETARIAN Good Karma Cafe — Swan River Yoga, 2940 Canal St., (504) 401-4698; www. swanriveryoga.com — The Good Karma plate includes a selection of Asian and Indian vegetables, a cup of soup, salad with almond dressing and brown or basmati rice. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Sat. Credit cards. $$ Seed — 1330 Prytania St., (504) 302-2599; www.seedyourhealth.com — Seed uses local, organic ingredients in its eclectic global menu. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine — 5359 Mounes St., Suite H, Elmwood, (504) 3010775 — The menu features spring rolls, fried Vietnamese egg rolls, vermicelli bowls, rice dishes, pho and seafood and chicken stock soups with egg noodles.

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

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TUESDAY 11 21st Amendment — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8 Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Appleford, 2; Vivaz, 4:30; Dana & the Boneshakers, 8 Banks Street Bar — Mike Doussan Band, 10 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Open Ears Music Series feat. Jonathan Freilich, 10 Cafe Negril — Four Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9:30

Little Gem Saloon — Messy Cookers, 7

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8

Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8

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

Irish House — Bluegrass jam session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New

Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; One Tail Three, 11

Siberia — American Sharks, Hundred Visions, sunrise:sunset, 9 Snug Harbor — Jeffrey Miller Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10

WEDNESDAY 12 21st Amendment — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 4:30 Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat. Giselle Anguizola, 2; Albanie Falletta, 6:30; Mem Shannon Band, 10

Chickie Wah Wah — John Rankin, 5:30; Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8

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Neurosis 8 p.m. Saturday House of Blues 225 Decatur St. (504) 310-4999 www.houseofblues.com

“We All Rage in Gold,” the imposing gatekeeper to Neurosis’ 10th LP Honor Found in Decay (Neurot), swings from feedback-squalling buildup to hard-line swagger to oppressively moody blues to pulverizing reprise.

It’s a six-minute ceremonial, a practical how-to on dynamic hard rock — and the second shortest track on the album. For the 30-year-old Oakland, California, juggernaut, this is what qualifies as a palate-whetter. Working again with recording engineer Steve Albini, whose rib-sticking low end makes for a perfectly queasy soulmate, the band renders every sonic detail with life-threatening attention; its tectonic shifts in volume give off lasting aftershocks, and even its rests (increasingly prevalent since Albini’s entrance with 1999’s Time of Grace) feel restless. “The one constant in our adult life has been Neurosis,” singer/guitarist Steve Von Till says in a voiceover video trailer for Honor, as righteously epic as any three-minute music montage could possibly be. Yet for as consistent as the output has been — an album every two or three years, until the five years between Given to the Rising and Honor — the constant has been change: from bell-ringing hardcore welterweight to grunge gravedigger to static electrician to chaos conductor to this, an antler-impaled merchant of menace, raging in gold. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth and Iron Tongue open. Tickets $25. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Circle Bar — Shane Sayers, 6 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Linnzi Zaorski, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 DMac’s — Nawlins Johnnys, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Stevie Niles Trio, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Antoine Diel Duo, 5 Gasa Gasa — Renshaw Davies, Palmyra, See Schaff Run, 9 House of Blues — Snow Tha Product, Audio Push, AudyoDope, Yelz, 7; Jet Lounge, 11 House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge) — Teenager, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans —

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Hi-Ho Lounge — Da Truth Brass Band, 10

Casa Borrega — Sasha Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30

Old Point Bar — Isla NOLA, 8

Columns Hotel — Guitarmony feat. Phil DeGruy, Todd Duke & John Rankin, 8

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 5

Carousel Bar & Lounge — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 8:30

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7

Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5

East Bank Regional Library — New Orleans Trombone Choir, 7

Cafe Negril — The Melatauns, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30

Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30

Circle Bar — Laura Dyer Jazz Trio, 6; Sound Prizm, 10

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

Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8

The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30; Messy Cookers, 9:30

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10

DMac’s — Kenny Triche, 8

BMC — Mark Appleford, 5 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski, 8

Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Kenny Claiborne, 11

d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9

Blue Nile — Mikey “B3” Burkart, 8; Pirate’s Choice, 11

Jazz National Historical Park — Richard Scott, noon

Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10

Orleans — Ricio & Reece’s Pieces Wired, 8

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

Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Falletta, 6; Papa Mali & Cary Hudson, 8

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MUSIC LISTINGS Dana Abbott, 5; Irvin Mayfield & the NOJO Jam, 8

Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Mike Dillon Band, 10

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

Circle Bar — Denton Hatcher, 6; Bantam Foxes, Hello Nomad, 10

The Maison — Emily Estrella, 4; Jazz Vipers, 6:30; The Upstarts, 9:30

City Park Botanical Garden — Thursdays at Twilight feat.

Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 6

Maple Leaf Bar — Sexual Thunder, 10 Mo’s Chalet — Da Krewe Band, 7 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old U.S. Mint — Sam Kuslan, 2 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Jason Neville Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Freddie Lonzo, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & Next Generation, 8 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Revival Bar & Grill — Dr. Rock, 9

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Lightnin’ Malcom, 10 DMac’s — Fools on Stools feat.

Jason Bishop, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Kitt Lough, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Bayou Saints, 7 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Kelcy Mae, The Rayo Brothers, Matt Butcher & the Schoolyard Band, 9

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Clockwork Elvis, 8

Irish House — Mark Appleford, 6; Sea shanty night, 7

Saucy’s — Mark Appleford, 6

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans — The James Rivers Movement, 8

Spotted Cat — Chris Christy, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Jazz Band Ballers, 10

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Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 8

Siberia — Mike Dillon & the New Orleans Vikings, The Jerk Officers, Kevin O’Day & Live Animals, 9

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Columns Hotel — Naydja CoJoe, 8

Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5 Vaso — Angelica Matthews, 10

THURSDAY 13 21st Amendment — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4:30; New Orleans Ragweeds, 8 Aloft New Orleans Downtown — Blind Texas Marlin, 5:30 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — The Tradsters, 2; Messy Cookers, 6:30; Troy Turner Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — The Pears, 9 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Bayou International Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Waterseed, 8 Bolden Bar, New Orleans Jazz Market — Victor Atkins (Duke Ellington tribute), 6 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Duo, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Cafe Negril — Soul Project, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Brother Stone & the Prophets of Blues, 7; Dat Phunk, 11

Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Marlon Jordan, 7 The Maison — Jon Roniger, 4; Roamin’ Jasmine, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat.

Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Ogden After Hours feat.

Marshall Ruffin, 6 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old U.S. Mint — Jazz Masters Series feat. Betty Shirley, 2 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rivershack Tavern — Adam Pearce & Shane Wesley, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Geno Delafose, 8:30 Snug Harbor — Dwight Fitch Trio, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10

FRIDAY 14 21st Amendment — Viper Mad Quartet, 6; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 9:30 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 2; Sweet Deluxe, 6:30; Smoky Greenwell Band, 6:30 Banks Street Bar — No More Beyond, 10 Batch — Yisrael, 5 Blue Nile — Original Pinettes Brass Band, 10 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Burkart & Joseph, 10 Bolden Bar, New Orleans Jazz Market — Friday Night Fights feat. Trumpet Mafia, 9 Bombay Club — Daniel Schroeder, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Rhodes Spedale, 5; The Honeypots, 8; Hunter Burgamy, 11 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6; Higher Heights Reggae Band, 10 Carousel Bar & Lounge — Robin Barnes Jazz Quartet, 5 Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7:30 Champions Square — Colbie Caillat, Christina Perri, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Acousticrats, 4; Yamomenem, 7; One Tail Three, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Lynn Drury & Chris Atkins, 8; Eric Bloom’s Sonic Bloom (Isley Brothers tribute), 10 Circle Bar — Richard Bates, 6; The Rakers, 10 Columns Hotel — Ted Long, 6 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 6; Kenny Brown, 10 Dish on Hayne — Sharon Martin, 6:30 DMac’s — Jon Roniger, 7; The Acousticrats, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Joe Krown Trio, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — NOLA Housing Project, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5; Antoine Diel Trio, 8:30

Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5

Gasa Gasa — Dominic Minix Quartet, Micah Jasper, ORGANized Crime, 10

Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 5

Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7

Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11

Hi-Ho Lounge — Derek Freeman & Friends, 11

MUSIC LISTINGS House of Blues — Joe Gelini, 5; Jake Landry, 9

Blue Nile — Andrew J. Forest, 7

Maple Leaf Bar — 101 Runners, 11

Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Waterseed, 10

Mo’s Chalet — Night Train, 9

Little Gem Saloon — Nayo Jones, 8

Bolden Bar, New Orleans Jazz Market — Dwight Fitch, 1

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — Kids’ Swing & Sing feat. The Swing Setters, 12:30

Bombay Club — Todd Duke, 8

Oak — Sunpie, 9

Bourbon O Bar — Johnny Angel & the Swingin’ Demons, 8

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7

The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10; Da Truth Brass Band, midnight Maple Leaf Bar — Rotary Downs, 11 Oak — Speed the Mule, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Chris Klein, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Suplecs, I Ain’t, Space Metal, 9 Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Southern Syncopators feat. Steve Pistorious, 6; PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rivershack Tavern — Pig Pen & the Porkchops, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bucktown All-Stars, 9:30 Siberia — Pallbearers, Future Hate, Lord High Panther, The Bills, 9 Snug Harbor — Jason Marsalis Band, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Luke Starkiller, 9 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30; Cottonmouth Kings, 10

Tipitina’s — Friday Night Fights feat. Honey Island Swamp Band, Darcy Malone & the Tangle, 10 Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8 Twist of Lime — The Enclave, Lazlo’s Burrito, TJ Bourgeois, 9 Ugly Dog Saloon — Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 7 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 3

SATURDAY 15 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Bamboula’s — Jungle Money, 2; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — Egg Yolk Jubilee, 10 Bei Tempi — Salsa Night feat. Alexey Marti & His Latin Urban Minds, 10

Buffa’s Lounge — Clint Johnson, 5; Jenna Guidry, 8; Stuart McNair, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7; Dana Abbott Band, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — Sugarcane Collins & Cutlips Vogel, 4; Shamaniacs, 7; Birthday Candles, Valens, Name Calling, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Pat McLaughlin Band, 9 Circle Bar — Jeff Pagano, 6; Quintessential Octopus, TOMA, Fpoon, 10

Old U.S. Mint — Dr. Michael White’s Liberty Jazz Band, 2 One Eyed Jacks — American Fangs, Vanzza Rokken, Hitchhiker, Terranova, 9 Preservation Hall — Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Frank Oxley, 6; Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Freddie Lonzo, 8, 9 & 10

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bag of Donuts, 9:30

DMac’s — Vincent Marini, 7; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 9

Snug Harbor — Dr. Michael White’s Liberty Jazz Band, 8 & 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz, 10

Spotted Cat — Chris Christy’s Band, 3; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 10

House of Blues — Neurosis, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Iron Tongue, 7

Tipitina’s — Holiday with the Hounds feat. Gal Holiday & Hill Country Hounds, 10 Twist of Lime — Mrz. Crowley (Black Sabbath tribute), 9 Ugly Dog Saloon — Honey Island Swamp Band Trio, 7

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House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge) — Cary Hudson, 5; Justin Donovan Duo, 8:30

21st Amendment — Leslie Martin, 3:30; Messy Cookers, 7

House of Blues (The Parish) — New Orleans Most Wanted, 9:30

Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Albanie Falletta, 5:30; Troy Turner, 9

Howlin’ Wolf Den — The 9 Singer/Songwriter Series, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Music for All Ages Workshop feat. Treme Brass Band, 2; The Cowan Brothers feat. Brian Seeger, 3:30 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 & 9 The Maison — Moonshine & Caroline, 4; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 7; Original Pinettes Brass Band, 10; Musical Expression, midnight

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Origami Sun, 7 Gasa Gasa — Aaron “Ab” Abernathy & the Nat Turner Band, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Writer’s Block, 10 House of Blues — Howie Day, Casey Buckley, 7

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

Sisters in Christ — Innards, Bright Like the Sun, I’m Fine, Keeping, 7

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

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Russell Welch, 7; Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10

Rivershack Tavern — Soul Express, 10

Deutsches Haus — Danny O’Flaherty’s Hurricane Memoirs in Song, 7

Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Andrew Duhon, 9

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10

d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; Little Freddie King, 11

Gasa Gasa — Telekinetic Walrus, AF the Naysayer, 11

DMac’s — HollyRock, 6; Lauren Sturm, 8

Republic New Orleans — Borgeous, 10

Siberia — Jonathan Freilich & Stephanie Nilles, 6; Amanda X, Spirit of the Beehive, ZULA, Freddy Beach, 9

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — N.O. Swinging Gypsies, 7

d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Zakk & Big Papa Binns, 10

Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7:30; Lagniappe Brass Band, 11

The Maison — Melanie Gardner, 4; Too Darn Hot, 7; The Business, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Mo’s Chalet — Jake & the Nifty Fifties, 9

Circle Bar — Get Lo on Dark Mondays, 6 DMac’s — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Instant Opus Jazz Series feat. Mike Dillon, Ray Bong & Aaron Niziger, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Yes Ma’am, 10 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Rue Fiya, 10 Old Point Bar — Romy Kaye Jazz Trio, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 8, 9 & 10 Sidney’s Saloon — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10

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Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat.

Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10

Organ & Labyrinth.

Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola. com — Albinas Prizgintas performs on the church’s 5,000-pipe tracker organ.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Paul Varisco & the Milestones, 5 Siberia — La Luz, Will Sprott, GLAND, 6; Cattle Decapitation, Beyond Creation, Brutiful, Severed Mass, 9 Snug Harbor — Jaz Sawyer Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Jon Roniger, 3; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

MONDAY 17 21st Amendment — John Royen & Orange Kellin, 8 Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 6:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Rubin & Chip Wilson, 2; Justin Donovan, 4:30; Blue Monday Jam feat. Keith Stone, 8

Cafe Istanbul — J. Henry, 8

Banks Street Bar — Lauren Sturm’s Piano Night, 7; Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 7; South Jones, 9

Champions Square — Incubus, Deftones, Death from Above 1979, 6

Chickie Wah Wah — Benny Maygarden III, 6; Alexis & the Samurai, 8

Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30

Buffa’s Lounge — Jazz Youth Showcase feat. Miles Lyons, 4; Nattie’s Songwriter Circle, 7 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott & Trumpet Mike Korbin, 4; Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9:30

Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; Panorama Brass Band, 9:30

Blue Nile — Higher Heights Reggae Band, 9 Buffa’s Lounge — Daniel Schroeder Trio, 8

Summer’s End: The Musical. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.motherintune.com/summersend — Lilli Lewis, Roselyn Leonard and the New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra perform original pieces and works

by Mozart, Saint-Saens and Brahms at a family-friendly concert where kids from 9 months to 4 years old can dance, sing and participate. Pay what you will.

2 p.m. Saturday.

CALL FOR MUSIC Symphony Chorus of New Orleans. The chorus holds auditions by appointment for new singers on Aug. 18 and Aug. 25. Visit www. symphonychorus.org for details. Call (504) 525-2111 or email auditions@symphonychorus.org to schedule an appointment.

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

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 9

Old Point Bar — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30

Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Larry Hess, 10

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FILM FESTIVALS True Orleans Film Festival.

University of New Orleans, Robert E. Nims Theatre, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-7469; www.true-orleans. org — Shotgun Cinema hosts a documentary-focused film festival including full-length screenings, documentary shorts, director appearances, panels and a Bring Your Own storytelling competition.

Titles include The Look of Silence, Land of Opportunity and (T)error. Single admission $9, festival pass $35.

Friday-Sunday.

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Listen to Me Marlon (NR) — Marlon Brando tells his story in his own words in this documentary crafted from hours of audio tape the actor recorded during his lifetime. Zeitgeist

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (PG13) — CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) team up against a mysterious nuclear threat in a film reboot of the classic Cold War TV series. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell Straight Outta Compton (R) — Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) and MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) change West Coast hip-hop forever in this drama based on the rise of N.W.A. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

NOW SHOWING Amy (R) — Director Asif Kapadia chronicles singer Amy Winehouse’s meteoric rise and untimely death through archive footage and recordings. Prytania Ant-Man (PG-13) — Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) recruits Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) to help defeat a nefarious enemy with the powers of Ant-Man. Clearview, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Dark Places (R) — Twenty-five years later, Libby Day (Charlize Theron) revisits traumatic memories of the massacre that killed her mother and

sisters in hopes of solving the mystery. Prytania Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F (NR) — Goku, Vegeta and the rest of the gang face off against their longtime enemy Frieza. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell Fantastic Four (PG-13) — Four young friends transport to an alternate universe, where their newfound powers as Mr. Fantastic, the Thing, the Human Torch and the Invisible Woman enable them to fight to save Earth. Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Furious 7 (PG-13) — In the seventh installment of The Fast and the Furious series, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) face the angry brother of a previously defeated enemy. Elmwood, West Bank The Gift (R) — Young couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) find their lives thrown off balance after a chance encounter with Simon’s high school friend. Clearview, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Inside Out (PG) — After her family moves to San Francisco, 11-year-old Riley Anderson (Kaitlyn Dias) copes with strong emotions, personified by actors including Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling in this Pixar film. Clearview, West Bank, Slidell Irrational Man (R) — Tormented philosophy professor Abe (Joaquin Phoenix) breaks out of his midlife crisis by plotting the perfect murder in a drama by Woody Allen. West Bank, Slidell, Canal Place Jurassic World (PG-13) — Twenty-two years after Jurassic Park, the dinosaur theme park is up and running — what could possibly go wrong? Kenner, Regal Mr. Holmes (PG) — Striving to restore his memory, an aging Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellan) revisits the tragic final case of his career. Slidell Paper Towns (PG-13) — Teenager Margo (Cara Delevingne) leads her friend Quentin (Nat Wolff) on a nighttime odyssey through their town before disappearing, leaving a trail of cryptic clues for Quentin. West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Pixels (PG-13) — President Will Cooper (Kevin James) recruits

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his childhood pal, former video-game champ Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler) to lead a team of old-school arcade players (Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad) and a military specialist (Michelle Monaghan) to save the planet.

Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Ricki and the Flash (PG-13) — Rock ’n’ roller Ricki Rendazzo (Meryl Streep) returns home to Indiana, hoping to reconnect with her ex-husband (Kevin Kline) and their two grown children (Mamie Gummer and Sebastian Stan). Clearview, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Runner (R) — Nicolas Cage stars as a New Orleans politician whose reputation is tainted by corruption in the wake of the BP oil spill.

Elmwood, Prytania Southpaw (R) — Tragedy strikes the seemly perfect life of boxing champion Billy “The Great” Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), forcing him to start over with the help of former fighter Titus “Tick” Wills (Forest Whitaker).

Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Trainwreck (R) — Comedian Amy Schumer stars as a commitment-phobic magazine writer wondering whether a charming interview subject (Bill Hader) might be worth her time. Clearview, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Vacation (R) — Recalling fond memories of his own childhood family vacation, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) surprises his wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) and their kids with a road trip.

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

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (G) — Ned Land (Kirk Douglas), Pierre Aronnax (Paul Lukas) and Conseil (Peter Lorre) set sail in search of a sea monster in the 1954 Disney adventure. 10 a.m.

Wednesday. Prytania.

Destroy Cleveland (NR) — The documentary covers Cleveland’s hardcore music scene and its DIY aesthetic, profiling bands like Confront, Outface, Sepultura and Filter. 9:30 p.m.

Friday. Zeitgeist.

Dr. Strangelove (PG) — U.S. Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) orders the first strike on the U.S.S.R. in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire of the nuclear scare. 10 p.m. Sunday. Prytania John Rabe (NR) — The 2009

FILM LISTINGS REVIEW

The Look of Silence

Director Joshua Oppenheimer’s 2012 The Act of Killing earned dozens of international awards and an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, but the film defied all efforts at easy categorization. It examines the genocide of The Look of Silence more than a million THRU people in mid-1960s 7:30 p.m. daily AUG Indonesia by paying Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, a 21st-century visit to 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. the perpetrators, who (504) 352-1150 remain in power in that country and boastfully www.zeitgeistnola.org portray themselves as national heroes.

7:30 p.m. Sunday AUG Oppenheimer asked Robert E. Nims Theatre, University of the mass murderers to New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive “create scenes” about (504) 280-7469 the killings to explain their pride. Without www.true-orleans.org benefit of much additional background, the result was a shocking and surreal work that illuminates the underlying psychology of terror but intentionally leaves burning questions unanswered — as regards both the historical context of depicted events and the process through which the film was made.

Oppenheimer returns to the scene of the crimes with The Look of Silence, a companion film to The Act of Killing that reexamines events from the perspective of victims’ surviving relatives. The director’s methods haven’t really changed — he again provides only a few sentences of background at the start of the film and allows his subjects to tell their stories mostly through their onscreen actions. But where The Act of Killing is disorienting for viewers, The Look of Silence is relatively straighforward in its meditations on memory, truth and reconciliation.

The Look of Silence focuses on 44-year-old optometrist Adi, whose older brother Ramli was murdered as part of the Indonesian genocide. True to form, the film never fully explains that Adi and his surviving family were not chosen at random. Ramli’s name had become a code word for the 50-year-old atrocities in his village because his death was one of very few witnessed by others who managed to survive. This is crucial because those mass murderers now serve as local and national officials and successfully maintain a public fiction about their actions. The film follows the soft-spoken and introspective Adi after he does the unthinkable by mounting a series of self-directed confrontations with those responsible for his brothers’ death, even though they are fully capable of repeating that history today as regards Adi and his family.

The context absent in the original film arrives in the form of Adi’s family, from a still-grieving mother to a playful young daughter who will soon be taught official lies in school if nothing is done to change the culture of silence and fear. By resisting the urge to portray Adi as a crusading hero, Oppenheimer preserves the moral complexities of this tragic story and moves beyond the conventions of documentary filmmaking to a place enlivened by creative expression.

Oppenheimer shot The Look of Silence before the release of The Act of Killing to ensure the safety of his collaborators and limit the potential for official obstruction.

(Both films list “anonymous” repeatedly in the credits, including that of a presumably Indonesian co-director.) Remarkably, the second film has largely deflected official censorship, inspired the first real public discourse on the genocide among the people of Indonesia and forced the government to begin a slow process of acknowledging past atrocities. There’s nothing like a little hard evidence for the power of art to affect meaningful social change. — KEN KORMAN

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True Orleans Film Festival

Shotgun Cinema launches a documentary film festival including feature-length and short films, podcasts and panel discussions about subjects including ethics in documentary filmmaking, New Orleans food culture and more. Full-length documentaries include The Look of Silence (7:30 p.m. Sunday, see review on page 38), Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to his acclaimed and unconventional film The Act of Killing, featuring men True Orleans Film Festival who carried out murderous purges in AUG Indonesia in the 1960s. King GeorgUniversity of New Orleans es (2:30 p.m. Saturday) follows chef Performing Arts Center, THRU Georges Perrier (pictured) of PhiladelRobert E. Nims Theatre, phia’s renowned traditional French AUG 2000 Lakeshore Drive restaurant Le Bec Fin as he struggles www.true-orleans.org with changing tastes and competition.

In Land of Opportunity (noon Sunday), filmmaker Lisa Dantas explores community redevelopment in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. All events are at the Robert E. Nims Theatre at the University of New Orleans’ Performing Arts Center. Visit the website for full schedule. Film screenings are $9 per film, $7 for students. Festival passes are $35. — WILL COVIELLO

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film is based on the true story of John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur), a German businessman who protected thousands of Chinese citizens in Nanjing from massacre by invading Japanese armies in 1937. 7:30 p.m.

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Kasamayaki (NR) — After the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, a young woman returns to her home in the town of Kasama, Japan, to create pottery and make sense of her loss. In Japanese with English subtitles. 6 p.m. Monday.

Cafe Istanbul The Look of Silence (PG-13) — In Joshua Oppenheimer’s second documentary on the 1965 Indonesian killings, an optometrist confronts the men who murdered his brother. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) — It’s just a step to the left... Midnight Friday-Saturday. Prytania Sundance shorts — Indywood screens short films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. 8 p.m. Friday. The Edison Building TCM Presents Grease Singa-Long (NR) — Turner Classic Movies presents a sing-along version of the classic musical about high school romance. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sunday.Elmwood, Slidell, Regal (2 p.m. only), Canal Place The Tribe (NR) — A teenager (Grigoriy Fesenko) arrives at a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf, where he falls in with a group of students who engage in violence and

prostitution. 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgiest UNITY (NR) — The sequel to the 2005 documentary Earthlings contemplates why humans seem unable to live in peace, with introduction and interview segments with director Shaun Monson. 7 p.m.

Wednesday. Elmwood, Regal When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts — The library screens Spike Lee’s 2006 documentary as part of its Katrina 10 Film Festival.

Parts one and two screen at 5 p.m. Friday; parts three and four screen at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Main Library Wodehouse in Exile (NR) — In this BBC historical drama, British humorist P.D. Wodehouse (Tim Pigott-Smith) is imprisoned

by German authorities and threatened with charges of treason at home. Free screening; donations accepted. 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Zeitgeist

CALL FOR FILMMAKERS Create Louisiana Filmmakers Grant. The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the New Orleans Film Society and Deep South Studios offer a $50,000 grant for a short film project to be screened at the 2016 New Orleans Film Festival.

Visit www.leh.org or email grants@leh.org for application and details. Deadline Sep. 14.

AMC Clearview Palace 12: Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 887-1257; www.amctheatres. com AMC Elmwood Palace

20: 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan, (504) 733-2029; www.amctheatres.com AMC Westbank Palace 16: 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 263-2298; www.amctheatres. com Cafe Istanbul: New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com Deutsches Haus: 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 522-8014; www.deutscheshaus.org The Edison Building: 614 Gravier St.; www.indywood.org Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629; www. auduboninstitute.org Gasa Gasa: 4920 Freret St., (504) 304-7110; www.gasagasa. com The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 229-4259. www. thegrandtheatre.com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell, (985) 641-1889; www.thegrandtheatre.com New Orleans Public Library, Main Library: 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 596-2602; www.nutrias. org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium 14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington, (985) 871-7787; www. regmovies.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540; www. thetheatres.com Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistnola.org

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HAPPENINGS Covington White Linen Night.

Downtown Covington — Art lovers don white clothes and enjoy gallery openings, shopping, music and wine along Columbia Street in downtown Covington.

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Creative Time Summit. Parse Gallery, 134 Carondelet St., (262) 607-2773; www.parsenola. com — PARSE hosts a local screening of arts organization Creative Time’s summit in Venice, Italy. Viewers enjoy highlights from the summit and baked goods from Shake Sugary at 11 a.m. Tuesday, and Monica Ramirez-Montagut of the Newcomb Art Museum speaks at a 6 p.m. reception.

A continuous live stream of the summit screens in the gallery window Tuesday-Thursday.

OPENING Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www. antieaugallery.com — “Ecstatic Windows,” paintings by Nathan Pitts, opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “El Tiempo,” work by Patricia Jordan; “Laberintos Mentales,” work by Francisco Magallan; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — Metal sculpture and furniture by Rachel David, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — “Other Voices, Other Rooms,” antique furniture and decorative arts paired with paintings by Roy Pfister; group exhibition by gallery members; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES 5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 940-2900; www.5pressgallery.com — “Crystalline,” group exhibition of abstract painting and installations, through Saturday.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — “Being,”

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com — “Phantom Limb Illustrated,” work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, ongoing.

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

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

by Dana Drolla Manly; pottery

by Nancy Michael-Susaneck; jewelry by Anna. H Designs; paintings by David Lumpkin; all through August.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Between Before & After,” work by Ale de La Puente, through Wednesday.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “Ali,” photography by Gordon Parks; “The Dapper Bruce Lafitte Introduces: Draw Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee,” work

by Bruce Davenport Jr.; “First Impressions,” work by Whitfield Lovell; “Seen and Unseen: Coupling,” work by Willie Birch; all through Sept. 19.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Modern Swamp,” ceramic sculpture, paintings and photography curated by Susan Bowers, through Sept. 3.

Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery. 4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings

by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Louisiana Cereal,” portraits by Blake Boyd commemorating Hurricane Katrina, through Sept. 1.

Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www.facebook. com/brandneworleansartgallery — “Flight Patterns,” paintings by Mike Guidry, through October.

The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 3529283; www.building1427.com — Work by Daniel Jupiter, Mark Lacabe and Ted Ellis, ongoing.

Callan Contemporary.

518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary. com — “Rhythm and Form,” sculpture by Caprice Pierucci, through Sept. 26.

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

by Joachim Casell, Rene Ragi, Bedonna, Gamal Sabla, Phillip Sage and others, ongoing.

Catalyst Gallery of Art. 5207 Magazine St., (504) 220-7756; www.catalystgalleryofart.com — Group exhibition of New Orleans-inspired art, ongoing.

Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery.

Loyola University, Monroe Library, fourth floor, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5456; www.loyno.edu/dibollgallery — “Senior Exchange Show,” work

by Mississippi State University students, through Sept. 10.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Summer City,” group exhibition featuring Blaine Capone, Chris Dennis, Dona Lief, Eliot Brown, Emily Farranto, James Taylor Bonds and Jessica Goldfinch, through Sept. 19.

The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www. foundationgallerynola.com — “Botanical Explorations,” new work by Layla Messkoub, through August.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “Beaucoup Humidity,” paintings by John Isaiah Walton; “Guilty about not being guilty,” work by Garima Thakur; “Lightfall/For Display Only,” photography by Maria Levitsky; all through Sept. 6.

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

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

by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery. com — “A Subwoofer in Tweeter’s Clothing,” work by Bradford Cooper Willingham, through Sept. 6.

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

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

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

by Ann Cox Strub and David Lloyd, through August.

John Bukaty Studio and Gallery. 841 Carondelet St., (970) 232-6100; www.johnbukaty. com — “Flags of Our Time,”

The Katrina Decade

Images of an Altered City A new book and exhibition presented by The Historic New Orleans Collection

In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaches ravaged New Orleans, David G. Spielman photographed less-documented areas of the city, capturing the melancholy beauty of recovery, neglect, and endurance.

EXHIBITION OPENING: August 22, 2015, 3:00–6:30 p.m. at THNOC’s Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art, 400–410 Chartres Street, in the French Quarter BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE at The Shop at The Collection, online at www.hnoc.org/shop, and at independent bookstores. hardcover • 9" × 9" • 168 pp. • 138 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-917860-68-3 US $39.95 www.hnoc.org

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Myrtle Banks Building. 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — “The People’s Murals,” exhibition of murals by community members, opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

paintings by Aaron Reichert, through Sept. 10.

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ART LISTINGS flag-inspired art by John Bukaty, through October.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — New mixed-media pantings and ceramic sculpture by Sidonie Villere; “Usual Places, Unusual Spaces,” abstract paintings and drawings by Marna Shopoff; both through Aug. 29.

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

La Madama Bazarre.

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

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “Suspension,” work by Kathryn Hunter, through Sept. 12.

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

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

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Martine Chaisson Gallery.

727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Knocking from the Inside,” work by Mallory Page, through Sept. 26.

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

New Orleans Art Center.

3330 St. Claude Ave. — Assemblages by Wally Warren; paintings by Jon Schooler; collage and video art by Infinity; all through Aug. 30.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — Glass, metal and print work by studio faculty, through August.

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.

REVIEW

Usual Places, Unusual Spaces and Symmetric Equivalence

In the past, New Orleans’ art season officially started with Art for Art’s Sake in the first week of October, but that event has long been eclipsed by the August anomaly known as White Linen Night, which, like so many iconic events, inspires speculation. Viewing art Usual Places, Unusual Spaces: abstract paintings THRU shows at such times and drawings by Marna Shopoff AUG can be like searching tea Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400A Julia St., (504) 522-5471; leaves for omens, and this www.jonathanferraragallery.com year the portentous signs assume angular configuSymmetric Equivalence: new work by Gil Bruvel, rations. In Marna Shopoff’s Stephen Chauvin and Leslie Wilkes paintings and drawings at Octavia Art Gallery, 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, www.octaviaartgallery.com the mysterious interaction of light and space creates an architectural quality that is inviting yet elusive, as if dwellinglike spaces appeared within mirages of colliding rays of refracted light that Shopoff had flash-frozen. Like latter day deco mashups that somehow meld vintage modernism and nanotechnology, some usher us into existential antechambers from which there is no obvious escape, and others — like her 5- by 9-foot painting Layered (pictured) — suggest rhapsodic futurist constructions composed entirely of laser light. Shopoff says growing up behind her parents’ drive-in restaurant may have affected her, but her best works are lucid explorations of how certain shapes, colors and spaces affect our perceptions of place.

Urbane geometry is the order of the day at Octavia Art Gallery, where Leslie Wilkes’ geometric paintings evoke a kaleidoscopic sensibility employing opaquely vibrant colors reminiscent of jade, amethyst, sandstone and the like. If their aura is urbane, with hints of Wassily Kandinsky filtered through the formal neo-Platonism of the Bauhaus, their tonalities hark to the primordial mesas of the desert Southwest, not far from Wilkes’ studio in Marfa, Texas. The curving, serpentine ligaments that comprise Gil Bruvel’s sculptures reflect a uniquely French extension of surrealism that appeals to the popular imagination, while Stephen Chauvin’s pristine geometric chairs and domestic items appear to provide the ideal furnishings for the colorfully ethereal castles of light that Wilkes’ and Shopoff’s paintings imply. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Stephen Chauvin and Leslie Wilkes, through Aug. 29.

theme of transformation, through August.

Overby Gallery. 529 N. Florida St., Covington, (985) 8881310; www.overbygallery.com — Paintings and drawings by James Overby, ongoing.

River House at Crevasse 22. 8122 Saro Lane, Poydras; www.cano-la.org — “Crevasse 22: Surge,” painting, photography and outdoor sculpture garden by Louisiana artists, ongoing.

Pedestal Gallery. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 645-3864; www.pamelamarquisstudio. com — New artwork by George Williams and Pamela Marquis, ongoing.

Photo Works New Orleans.

521 St. Ann St., (504) 593-9090; www.photoworksneworleans.com — Photography by Louis Sahuc, 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.

Oak Street Gallery. 111 N. Oak St., Hammond, (985) 345-0251; www.theoakstreetgallery. com — Work by Thom Barlow, Mark Haller, Pat Macaluso and John Robinson, ongoing.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — Work by Peg Martinez, Andrew Jackson Pollack, Allison Cook, Paul Troyano and others, ongoing.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Of the Rising Tide: A Photo Essay on the Vanishing Bayou Community of Isle de Jean Charles,” photography by Melinda Rose, through Dec. 6.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Symmetric Equivalence,” new work by Gil Bruvel,

Rhythm & Hues Art Space.

1501 Canal St., (504) 569-9070 — “Changed Waters: Thrown Rocks, Building Castles,” group exhibition on the

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 7104506; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — “Decade,”

group exhibition commemorating Hurricane Katrina, through Sept. 5.

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

Soren Christensen Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com — “Aldara,” paintings by Jason Horton, through Aug. 29; group exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/ staplegoods — “What Stands Behind,” paintings by Aaron Collier, through Sept. 6.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery. com — “Lagniappe: Imagining New Orleans in a Post-Katrina World,” group exhibition, through September.

Steve Martin Studios. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www.

stevemartinfineart.com — “Artisan Juncture,” group show featuring Gustavo Duque, Travis Linde, Amy Boudreaux, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Jedd Haas, Steven Soltis and others, ongoing.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www. tengallerynola.com — “An Introduction,” group exhibition by gallery artists, through Aug. 30.

Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann. com — “Martini Tales,” group exhibition of reworked stainless steel martini glasses, through Sept. 5.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery.

2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “#ReHumanize, for Albert Woodfox,” art inspired by the Angola 3 prisoners

by Jackie Sumell and Devin Reynolds, through Sept. 7.

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

by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing.

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

SPARE SPACES Atrium Gallery at Christwood.

100 Christwood Blvd., Covington, (985) 898-0515; www.christwoodrc.com — “Images from Paradise,” work by Madeleine Faust, through Aug. 29.

CellarDoor. 916 Lafayette St., (504) 383-5583; www.cellardoornola.com — “Icons, Rockstars and Rebels,” work by Frank Worth, Irving Klaw, George Hurrell and Josh Wingerter, through Nov. 5.

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

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

M. Furniture Gallerie. 2726 Royal St., Suite B, (504) 324-2472; www.mfurnituregallerie.com — Paintings by Tracy Jarmon; copper work by Giovanni; watercolors by Bill James; furniture by John Wilhite; all ongoing.

Niki Walker Salon. 625 Baronne St., (504) 522-5677; www.nikiwalkersalon.com — “Nouveau Noir,” work by Abigail Poplin, through Sept. 17.

MUSEUMS Ashe Cultural Arts Center.

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — “Ashe to Amen,” exhibition celebrating the spirituality of people of African descent, through Oct. 2.

Contemporary Arts Center.

900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “REVERB: Past, Present, Future,” group exhibition of regional artists curated by Isolde Brielmaier, through Nov. 1.

The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long,” exhibition of documents, photographs and audiovisual records, through Oct. 11; handcarved decoy ducks, ongoing.

Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 400 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662;

Louisiana Children’s Museum.

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

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “From ‘Dirty Shirts’ to Buccaneers,” art, artifacts and documents from the Battle of New Orleans, through Jan. 8, 2016; “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and 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, 2016; “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts; “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — “Ten Years Gone,” group exhibition commemorating Hurricane Katrina featuring Willie Birch, Dawn DeDeaux, Isabelle Hayer, Spring Hurlbut, Nicholas Nixon and Christopher Saucedo, through Sept. 7; “A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context,” Rococo Revival-style parlor from Butler-Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, through Oct. 11; “Forever,” mural

by Odili Donald Odita, through December; “Orientalism: Taking and Making,” European and American art influenced by Middle Eastern, North African and East Asian cultures, through December 2016.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Project,” participatory collection of memory statements about Hurricane Katrina, through August; “Tina Freeman: Artist Spaces,” photographs of local artists’ work spaces, through Sept. 6; “Louisiana Contemporary,” juried exhibition of recent work by local artists; “The Rising,” group photography exhibition about New Orleans’ renewal, both through Sept.

20; “Bean and Bailey Ceramics,” ceramic art by Anderson Bailey and Jessie Bean presented by the Center for Southern Craft and Design, through Sept.

29; “Betsy Eby: Painting with Fire,” paintings by Betsy Eby, through Oct. 25; “Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art from

the Permanent Collection,” through Nov. 7.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www. louisianastatemuseum.org/ museums/the-old-us-mint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, through Jan. 1, 2016; “Time Takes a Toll,” conserved instruments featuring Fats Domino’s piano, through December 2016.

Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane. edu — “Medieval Louisiana,” exhibit on the region’s adoption of Byzantine, Romanesque, Hispano-Moresque and Gothic architectural forms from the Antebellum period through the early 20th century, through May 20, 2016.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — Culinary photography by Sam Hanna, ongoing.

Williams Research Center.

410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org/willcent.htm — “It’s Only Natural: Flora and Fauna in Louisiana Decorative Arts,” exhibition of antiques and decorative items, through Nov. 28; “Rolland Golden’s Hurricane Katrina Series: A Selection,” paintings by Rolland Golden, through Jan. 16, 2016.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS Chef Soiree poster contest.

The Youth Service Bureau and the St. Tammany Art Association seek submissions of poster art for the 2016 event by St. Tammany Parish and Washington Parish residents. Visit www.ysbworks.com or email chefsoiree@ysbworks.com for details. Deadline Aug. 24.

The Front. The Front, 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — The artist collective and gallery seeks applications for new members.

Visit the website for details.

Deadline Sep. 6.

Greek muses sculptures.

Jefferson Beautification, Inc. seeks artist proposals for original outdoor sculptures based on the Greek muses to be placed in the gardens of the new Jefferson Performing Arts Center at 6400 Airline Drive.

Email parkwaypromenade@ aol.com or call (504) 737-7583.

Deadline Aug. 28.

New Orleans PARK(ing) Day. Artists, designers, architects, urban planners and others are invited to submit design proposals for pop-up installations hosted in parking spaces for PARK(ing) Day on Sept. 18.

Visit www.downtownnola. com/parkingdaynola or email parkingdaynola@gmail.com.

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New Orleans Public Library. 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 529-7323; www. nutrias.org — “From Common and Basin to Tulane and Loyola: 150 Years of Change in Our Neighborhood,” photographs and documents of neighborhood transformation, ongoing.

www.hnoc.org/nelson-galleries — “Visions of a City: Printed Views of 19th-Century New Orleans,” antique lithographs and engravings, through Saturday.

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The Book of Liz. The Theatre at St. Claude (formerly the Marigny Theatre), 1030 Marigny St., (504) 638-6326 — Broken Habit Productions presents Amy Sedaris’ and David Sedaris’ play about Sister Elizabeth Donderstock (Margeaux Fanning), who leaves her religious community to explore the outside world. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

The Cradle Will Rock.

Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse. org — Cripple Creek Theatre Company presents a free staging of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 musical about a union strike against a local tycoon in fictional “Steeltown, USA.” 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Flowers in the Attic. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.oldmarquer.com — See ’Em On Stage presents the world premiere of a new play based on the 1979 novel by V.C. Andrews. Tickets $20.

8 p.m. Thursday-Monday.

Kingdom of Earth. St. Charles Avenue Christian Church, 6200 St. Charles Ave., (504) 264-2580; www. twtheatrenola.com — The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans presents its first production, Williams’ drama about two half-brothers on a Mississippi farm. Tickets $25, students and seniors $20. 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

Red Light One Acts Festival, Vol. 2. Playhouse NOLA, 3214 Burgundy St.; www.drowninginblue.com — Drowning in Blue presents The Wild Plays of Hebert Frances. The show raises funds for the theatrical company’s film project. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Thursday-Monday.

Teatro Sin Fronteras. Arts Estuary 1024, 1024 Elysian Fields Ave. — Jose Torres-Tama, ArteFuturo Productions and Puentes New Orleans present a free mobile theater project featuring performance artists, musicians and poetry celebrating Latino contributions to post-Katrina New Orleans. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

What Difference Does It Make? United Bakery Gallery, 1337 St. Bernard Ave. — The Cobbleslop Group theater company presents Deb Margolin’s original play about a couple struggling with their status as fictional characters and other self-referential difficulties.

Tickets $10. 8:30 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

FAMILY Say Yes to Success. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Students from Crescent City Lights Youth Theater perform a musical revue featuring selections from Honk, Jr., Dear Edwina and other children’s productions. Tickets $15, children age 12 and under $13.

3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY The Blue Book Cabaret.

Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107; www.thebellalounge.com — Bella Blue and a rotating cast including Darling Darla James, Nikki Le Villain, Cherry Brown, Ben Wisdom and others perform classic and contemporary burlesque and drag.

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

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

Bustout Burlesque. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues. com/neworleans — Elle Dorado, Ginger Valentine, Miss Stormy Gayle and others star in a 1950s-style burlesque show featuring live music.

8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Creole Sweet Tease Burlesque Show. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 522-5400; www. thesainthotelneworleans.com — Trixie Minx leads a burlesque performance featuring music

by Jayna Morgan and the Creole Syncopators Jazz Band.

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

Dante’s Dirty Tricks. Lucky Pierre’s, 735 Bourbon Street, (702) 785-7441; www.luckypierresnola.com — Dante the Magician performs a one-man magic and comedy show.

Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Monday.

Flim Flam Variety Hour.

Lucky Pierre’s, 735 Bourbon Street, (702) 785-7441; www. luckypierresnola.com — A rotating cast including Dante the Magician, Chris McDaniel and Donny Vomit perform magic, sideshow acts and comedy.

Tickets $10. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday.

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Life, Uh, Strips a Way. Old Marquer Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.oldmarquer.com — Bluestockings Burlesque performs a show inspired by Jurassic Park. Tickets $15. 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Strange for Hire. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Frankie Sin, Donny Vomit and Eric “The Lizardman” Sprague perform burlesque, variety and sideshow stunts. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Friday.

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

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

7 p.m. Saturday.

The Vice Is Right. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.thesocietyofsin. com — The Society of Sin’s live game show features burlesque performers and volunteer contestants from the audience.

Tickets $8 in advance, $10 at the door. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Whiskey & Rhinestones.

Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St.; www.thebellalounge. com — Bella Blue hosts the burlesque show. Tickets $10.

9 p.m. Thursday & Sunday.

COMEDY 1919. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Derek Dupuy, Chris Trew, CJ Hunt, Tami Nelson, Mike Spara, Chris Kaminstein, Mike Yoder, Cecile Monteyne, Jared Gore, Ian Hoch and James Hamilton perform improv comedy. Tickets $5. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Block Party. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Nick Napolitano hosts an open mic. Sign up online. 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

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

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Boom. House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www. houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts a free comedy showcase. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www.

STAGE LISTINGS Kingdom of Earth

Tennessee Williams’ Kingdom of Earth isn’t produced often, but the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans chose the work for its inaugural production. The drama has three characters, and there are similarities to — if not better versions of — them in other Williams plays, but the trio here all have intriguing moments under Augustin Correro’s direction.

Kingdom of Earth, which in another incarnation was titled The Seven Descents of Myrtle, is set in a home on a Mississippi River levee about to be demolished by rising flood waters. Lot (David Williams) returns to reclaim his mother’s home, but he’s weakened by tuberculosis, and he blames his illness for his inability to consummate his marriage to his wife of two days, Myrtle (Kate Kuen). Lot’s half-brother Chicken (Sean Richmond) takes care of the home and sleeps on a cot in the kitchen.

The first half of the show offers glimpses of Williams’ humor and pathos. Lot’s TB seems to P H O T O BY JA M E S K EL L E Y mask deficiencies in his relationship with Myrtle, and he warns her not to reveal his sexual failure Kingdom of Earth to Chicken. She used to work in show business, but it’s AUG not clear how notable, or marginal, her accomplishments 8 p.m. Fri.-Sun. were. Chicken is a brute, and though he wants the house, THRU Metropolitan Community he tracks mud all over it, angering Lot. Things start to Church of New Orleans, fall apart when Myrtle realizes Lot does a better job of 6200 St. Charles Ave. bleaching his hair than she does with hers. Williams does a nice job as the hobbled but insistent Lot, and doesn’t www.twttheatrenola.com overplay any of his foibles, avoiding campy pratfalls.

Lot is determined to deny Chicken ownership of the property by passing it on to Myrtle. Though played here by Richmond, who appears to be white, Chicken repeatedly calls attention to his complexion and explains to Myrtle that his mother had black relatives. Discrimination has contributed to his disenfranchisement, but he’s determined to gain ownership of the property via a previous agreement with Lot. Chicken harbors great resentment against his half-brother and family, and in this production, his emotional expressions range from simmering rage to contempt. Thoughout the second half, he offers his views of the natural order of the world in plodding speeches, while also physically intimidating Myrtle. Richmond sustains the intensity, but the show slows to a crawl. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski is a violent brute who’s concerned about the deed to a property, but he’s a fully realized character and we see different sides of him, including those Stella finds attractive. Here, Chicken comes across as merely angry although some of his story is sympathetic. Kuen is mostly entertaining as the delusional Myrtle, though at times her glee can be high-pitched, and it’s hard to understand her reaction to Chicken. Chicken’s extended time in the spotlight bogs down the show, which should have been trimmed.

The space at Metropolitan Community Church of New Orleans is slightly improvised: The home’s bedroom is on the room’s small built-in, raised stage, and there’s no backstage. The home’s ground-floor kitchen and living room jut out at audience level, and though there’s limited seating, only the first two rows have a good vantage point.

Some of Williams’ best works feature characters struggling with their sexuality and the legacy or ownership of an estate (Streetcar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). In Kingdom those elements pull the work in different directions, and though there are intense and funny moments in this show, they aren’t well resolved. — WILL COVIELLO

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(504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — This week’s show is a comedy fundraiser and silent auction for victims of the Lafayette theater shooting. Featured guest comedians from Lafayette include Jason P. Leonard, Charles-Thomas Vidrine, Joey Tibodeaux and Vaughan Veillon. Fifteen New Orleans comedians also perform.

Andrew Polk and Duncan Pace host. 8 p.m. Sunday.

Pure Comedy. Pure New Orleans Bar/Lounge, 1101

Gravier St., (844) 787-3504 — Horatio Dell and Amanda G. host an open mic. Sign up at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The Roast of Fleurty Girl. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net — Chris Trew of The New Movement hosts a comedy roast of Fleurty Girl owner Lauren Thom. Tickets $10.

7 p.m. Monday.

S—tstarter: A Dumb Crowdfunding Show. The

New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Five comedians present real, unlikely crowdfunding projects and ask audience members to contribute. Tickets $5.

10:30 p.m. Friday.

Think You’re Funny?

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www. carrolltonstation.com — All comics are welcome to perform at the weekly open

mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

CALL FOR THEATER Faux/Real. Faux/Real Festival of Arts seeks theatrical, literary and culinary/ beverage productions on the theme “Something Different” for the Nov. 4-22 festival. Application fee $20.

Visit www.fauxrealneworleans.com/registration to apply. Deadline Sep. 15.

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lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase.

10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “RedBean” Plunkett hosts local comedians. An open mic follows. 8 p.m. Thursday.

ComedySportz. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

Friday Night Laughs. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts a comedy open mic. 11 p.m. Friday.

GG’s 504 Comedy Tour.

Castle Theatre, 501 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 287-4707; www.castle501.com — Gina Gomez hosts a stand-up comedy show featuring Carrey B, Laura Meagher, Danny Ray and Anna Lederman.

Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Saturday.

I’m Kind of a Big Deal. Mag’s 940, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888 — Jake Potter hosts an open-mic show.

Midnight Friday.

Lights Up! The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Each weekly show features two of The New Movement’s local improv comedy troupes.

8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Local Uproar. Paul Oswell hosts stand-up comedy.

8:30 p.m. Thursday at Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., and 7 p.m.

Saturday at AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave. The Magna Carta Show. Playhouse NOLA, 3214 Burgundy St.; www.magnacartacomedy. com — William Benner, David Kendall, Nathan Sutter, Brian Tarney and Thomas Fewer star in a weekly improv and sketch comedy show.

8:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story at this weekly show. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

A Night of Comedy. Tacos & Beer, 1622 St. Charles Ave., (504) 304-8722; www.tacosandbeer.org — Corey Mack hosts two stand-up comedy showcases. Tickets $10.

8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave.,

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TUESDAY 11 It’s All About the Music Bike Ride. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.nolasocialride.org — NOLA Social Ride cyclists cruise around the city, stopping along the way to enjoy live music. 6 p.m.

The New Orleans Brand: 10 Years Post-Katrina. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — The Public Relations Society of America hosts Mark Romig of the New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation, Michael Smith of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau and other local hospitality leaders to discuss how the city’s marketing has changed since Hurricane Katrina. Non-members $45 in advance. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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New Perspective: Painting in the Palm. Le Meridien New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444; www.lemeridienneworleanshotel.com — Artist Kristin Malone guides guests as they paint her sketch of the New Orleans skyline and enjoy cocktails and music in the hotel’s Palm Garden. Tickets $28. Register by Aug. 10. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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

Non-members $8. 10:30 a.m.

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

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

Youth Code Tuesdays. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — Tech Talent South holds a free weekly coding class for kids ages 9-13. Each week covers a different topic, including HTML, computer animation, developing ideas for websites and more. Students should bring their own laptops. Register online or by calling the library at (504) 596-2660. 4 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 12 Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Casino dance class. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Kevin Braxton of Cuban dance group Bookoo Rueda teaches a free class on the salsa-like Cuban dance. 7 p.m.

Dan Stein’s Beer 101: Sour Beers.

St. James Cheese Company, 5004 Prytania St., (504) 899-4737; www.stjamescheese.com — Dan Stein of Stein’s Market & Deli and Derek Lintern of NOLA Brewing lead a tasting of sour beers accompanied by cheese and charcuterie. Tickets $30. 7 p.m.

Down Home Eats Downtown.

Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse, 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com — The meal is billed as “Louisiana grass-fed beef picnic,” and a portion of proceeds benefits Grow Dat Youth Farm.

Tickets $55. 6:30 p.m.

Family Flow Yoga. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.phnojm. com — The free yoga class is suggested for kids ages 5-13 and adults. 1:30 p.m.

Get Moving. Growing Local NOLA, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 5070357; www.growinglocalnola.org — The urban farm hosts a free weekly exercise class such as yoga, boot camp or CrossFit. Visit the website to RSVP. 5:30 p.m.

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

Let’s Eat Salads for the Health of It. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 5297323; www.nutrias.org — Each course features healthy living information and a salad recipe from Bertina McGhee of the LSU AgCenter. 5:30 p.m.

Nature Walk and Titivation.

Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature. org — Guests tour natural habitats and learn to prune plants along the trail. 6 p.m.

White Glove Wednesdays.

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

THURSDAY 13 Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 —

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Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m.

Business Breakfast. Cafe Hope, 1101 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 756-4673; www. cafehope.org — The cafe hosts a business networking breakfast for West Bank professionals. By donation. 7 a.m.

Longue Vue After Hours.

Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — Garden party attendees are invited to bring a picnic and enjoy crafts and water games.

Non-members $8, children free.

5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sistahs Making a Change.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Women of all experience levels dance, talk and dine together at this health-centered event.

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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

FRIDAY 14 Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — This week’s event is a special “Louisiana Late Night,” with programming until midnight including gallery talks, a lecture on textile conservation, a comedy gallery tour, a screening of the 1964 film Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte and music by Michot’s Melody Makers. 5 p.m. to midnight.

Hot August Night. Downtown Hammond — Visitors may drop into businesses, galleries, restaurants and bars for shopping, live music, food and drinks during downtown Hammond’s annual wine stroll. Wrist bands $20. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. iQuit. Rivers Retreat Center, 14253 Highway 190, Covington, (504) 733-5539; www.cagno.org — The Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans’ weekend retreat offers counseling and support services to help young adults ages 21-35 quit tobacco.

The cost is $50, including meals. Visit the website for details or contact Joanna Jao by calling or emailing iquitnola@ gmail.com. Friday-Sunday.

Krescent City Diamond Club Chapter Reunion & Ladies Night. Metropolitan, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 568-1702; www.themetropolitannightclub.com — The charitable organization holds two nights of fundraising parties, with live music by Gina Brown & Anutha Level on

Friday and Rebirth Brass Band on Saturday. Tickets start at $20 each night. 10 p.m.

SATURDAY 15 610 Stompers try-outs. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., (504) 371-5543; www.maisonfrenchmen.com — Men age 21 and up may audition for the nonprofit dance troupe.

Registration opens at 11 a.m.

The public may watch auditions with a $10 donation. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

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

Back to School Bike Mechanics & Safety Workshop. 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2660; www. nutrias.org — Bicycle advocacy group Bike Easy leads free workshops on biking safely, fixing a flat tire and more. Participants should bring a bike; attendees under age 18 receive a prize. 1 p.m.

Bienville Saturday Market.

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

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Bonsai Auction. Marine Corps League Hall, 2708 Delaware St., Kenner — The Greater New Orleans Bonsai Society auctions miniature trees and growing equipment for beginners and enthusiasts. Viewing begins at 4 p.m. and the auction runs 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Dancing for Autism. Club Silhouette, 3505 N. Hullen St., Metairie, (504) 885-1771; www. bayouautism.org — The Autism Society of Louisiana hosts a benefit gala including a ballroom dancing competition with local celebrity judges, social dancing, dinner and a cash bar. Tickets $50. Contact Gwen Hebert at (985) 791-7764 or gwen_autismsocietyla@yahoo. com for details. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Family Day. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.phnojm.com — Families enjoy jazz story time at 11 a.m., crafts at 2 p.m. and a solo pianist from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Forest recovery walk.

Woodlands Conservancy, 449 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse, (504) 433-4000; www. woodlandsconservancy. org — Participants learn about ongoing hurricane recovery and reforestation efforts with a free guided hike and discussion. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

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

“Life on Paper” Creative Workshop. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — Artist Mia Kaplan guides kids ages 9-12 as they explore the natural world and document it in sketchbooks using a variety of techniques and materials. The class is free but limited to 15 students; call or email rue@northlakenature. org to register. 10 a.m.

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.

NOTC Anniversary Race. City Park Festival Grounds, 1701 Wisner Blvd., (504) 482-4888; www. runnotc.org — The New Orleans Track Club celebrates its 52nd birthday the only way it knows how: a 3-mile race and a halfmile kids’ race. Non-members $25 in advance, $30 after Aug. 9. Register online. 8 a.m.

OCH Recycled Art Market.

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

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

SoFAB Cooking Demo. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www. frenchmarket.org — Local chefs cook their signature dishes. 11 a.m.

Street Fare Derby. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515; www. fairgroundsracecourse.com — The race course hosts 20 food trucks and live music during the Summer Quarter Horse Meet races. Saturday features Flow Tribe and Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes; Sunday features the John “Papa” Gros Band and Bonerama. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

Saturday-Sunday.

Yoga/Pilates. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park,

(504) 456-5000; www.noma. org — The museum hosts yoga classes in the sculpture garden.

Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

SUNDAY 16 New Orleans Sushi Fest. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www. neworleanssushifest.org — Thirty local restaurants sell sushi, Japanese-inspired dishes and drinks at the festival. Flow Tribe performs. General admission $20 in advance (including fees), $25 at the door. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Summer Party. New Orleans Opera Guild Home, 2504 Prytania St., (504) 267-9539; www. operaguildhome.org — The Junior Committee of the New Orleans Opera Association kicks off the season with a “Bows and Beaus”-themed party featuring food from Ralph Brennan Catering & Events and bow ties from NOLA Couture. Non-members $35.

2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Tipitina’s Foundation’s Sunday Youth Music Workshop. Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-8477; www.tipitinas.com — Kids jam with the Johnny Vidacovich Trio at a free session suggested for middle and high school music students. 1 p.m.

MONDAY 17 Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 456-5000; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold leads the class in the museum’s art galleries.

Non-members $5. 6 p.m.

WORDS Addie and Jeremy Martin.

Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www.nutrias.org — The co-authors of Southeast Louisiana Food: A Seasoned Tradition discuss Cajun culture and its relationship to the fishing industry. 10 a.m. Saturday.

Bring Your Own. University of New Orleans, Robert E. Nims Theatre, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 2807469; www.theatre.uno.edu — The storytelling competition is presented in partnership with Shotgun Cinema’s documentary festival. The theme is “Too Good to Be True.” 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Dana Gynther. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author discusses and signs The Woman in the Photograph, a novel based on the life of model and artist Lee Miller.

2 p.m. Sunday.

Dinky Tao Poetry. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., (504) 891-3381; www.

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neutralground.org — The coffeehouse hosts an open-ended poetry hour. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

FARMERS MARKETS

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

Covington Farmers Market. www.covingtonfarmersmarket. org — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and live music twice a week: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington.

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

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

George Sanchez. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The author of the Jeff Chaussier mysteries signs Exploration’s End and Lit

by Lightning. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Gus Lyman and Keith Viezer.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The authors of A Big Easy Childhood and VeizerVizerWiezerWieser: A Memoir, Eight Stories and a Search from Granite City to Kompolt discuss and sign their memoirs.

7 p.m. Thursday.

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Judy Walker. Kitchen Witch Cookbooks Shop, 631 Toulouse St., 528-8382 — The cookbook author signs Cooking Up A Storm and drinks are served.

2 p.m. Saturday.

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Sex vs. Love. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.cafeistanbulnola. com — The show features more than a dozen performers of spoken-word poetry and a live band. Tickets $20 in advance.

7 p.m. Saturday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen.

Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — Miss Maureen reads children’s books. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Travel writing seminar. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Southeastern Louisiana University English professor Reine Dugas Bouton leads a free workshop on writing about travel for personal enjoyment or publication.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org — The market offers produce, meat, seafood, dairy, flowers and prepared foods at four weekly events. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St.; 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place; 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at American Can Apartments, 3700 Orleans Ave.; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Magazine Street Market, corner of Magazine and Girod streets.

CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook.com/crispfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

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

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

German Coast Farmers Market.

Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan; www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items.

8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Gretna Farmers Market. Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, (504) 361-1822; www.gretnafarmersmarket.org — 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.

Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market. 922 Teche St., Algiers, (504) 362-0708; www.oldalgiersharvestfreshmarket.com — Produce and seafood are available for purchase. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

Rivertown Farmers Market.

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

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

11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave.; 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday at New Israel Baptist Church, 6322 St. Claude Ave. Vietnamese Farmers Market.

14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd. — Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early market, which caters to New Orleans East’s Vietnamese population. 5 a.m. Saturday.

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.

Bayou Rebirth Wetlands Education. Bayou Rebirth seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties.

Visit www.bayourebirth.org.

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.

SPORTS

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.

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.

Zephyrs. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.zephyrsbaseball.com — The New Orleans Zephyrs play the Oklahoma City Dodgers. 6 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday.

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037; www. hollygrovemarket.com — The urban farm operates a daily fresh market. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

Crescent City Farmers Market.

CCFM and MarketUmbrella. org seek volunteers to field shoppers’ questions, assist seniors, help with children’s activities and more. Call (504) 495-1459 or email latifia@ marketumbrella.org.

Dress for Success New Orleans.

The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to help clients, manage inventory and share their expertise. Call (504) 8914337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org.

Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-onone 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 or email goalofgno@gmail.com.

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.

fer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.

Jackson Barracks Museum Volunteers. The museum seeks volunteers to work one day a week for the Louisiana National Guard Museum.

Volunteers prepare military aircraft, vehicles and equipment for display. Call David at (504) 837-0175 or email daveharrell@yahoo.com.

Katrina 10 Citywide Day of Service. The mayor’s initiative seeks volunteers for a citywide day of service on Aug. 29, in honor of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. A wide range of projects is available. Visit www. katrina10.org/serve.

Lakeview Civic Improvement Association. The association’s green space committee needs volunteers to pick up trash or trim trees for the adopt-ablock program. Sign up with Russ Barranco at (504) 4829598 or rpbarranco@cox.net.

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.

Lowernine.org. Lowernine. org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@ lowernine.org.

National World War II Museum. The museum accepts applications for volunteers to greet visitors and familiarize them with its galleries and artifacts. Call (504) 527-6012, ext. 243, or email katherine.alpert@nationalww2museum.org.

Senior Companion Volunteers.

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

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 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 and high school students. Call (504) 831-8475.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries. The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans with food and clothing distribution, home improvement, beautification, social media and web design. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www.veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com.

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

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.

New Canal Lighthouse Museum. The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation seeks volunteer docents for its museum and education center. Visit www.saveourlake.org or call (504) 836-2238.

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.

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.

The Idea Village’s Entrepreneur Season. The Idea Village accepts applications for its 2016 Entrepreneur Season accelerators for small businesses, energy start-ups and digital media projects. Visit www. ideavillage.org. Deadlines are Aug. 22 and Sept. 4.

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.

Jazz in the Park vendors. The weekly concert and festival series seeks food and craft vendors for its upcoming season. Visit www.armstrongpark.org or call (504) 258-2444 for vendor applications and more information.

Hike for KaTREEna. The forestry organization seeks volunteers to adopt and trim trees around the city. Email info@hikeforkatreena.org or visit www. hikeforkatreena.com.

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CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICES Anyone having any information concerning the whereabouts of Shelton E. Kennedy, please contact Lori A. Noto at (504) 512-0611.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to BANK ONE, N.A., executed by ANGEL MARIE SAVAGE WARD, and dated August 1, 2000, in the principal sum of $94,388.00, bearing interest at the rate of 8.93% percent from date until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same, please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to LEADER FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, executed by DAMIAN PONSETI KNIGHT AND TIMOTHY SCOTT KNIGHT, and dated September 26, 1986, in the principal sum of $53,768.00, bearing interest at the rate of 9.5% percent from date until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same, please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of any relative of Charlyn Ann Sauter, please contact Regel L. Bisso, attorney, at 3925 N. I-10 Service Road W., Suite 227, Metaire, La., 504-830-3401.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of AUDRA CAUTHERN WEHBE please contact Paul C. Fleming, Jr., Attorney, 504-888-3394. Property rights involved.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the Executor or Heirs of Lisa Salsberry Divinity A/K/A Lisa Salsberry Weary, please contact Paul C. Fleming, Jr. Attorney at 504-888-3394.

AT&T Mobility, in accordance with requirements of Section V.B. of the March 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement (NPA) for Review of Effects on Historic Properties for Certain Undertakings Approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are requesting comment regarding potential impacts to historical or archaeological properties listed on, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), by replacing existing antennas and installation of additional antennas on a building located at 2929 S Carrolton Avenue in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA 70118 at latitude 29° 57’ 28.3” north and longitude 90° 06’ 51.8” west.

All comments should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice referencing project ATT02E15202 and sent to the attention of Chad Stinnett, Environmental, Inc., 1345 Blair Farms Road, Odenville, AL 35120. Mr. Stinnett may also be reached via email at towerinfo@envciv. com, via telephone at (205) 629-3868, or via facsimile at (877) 847-3060.

AT&T Mobility, in accordance with requirements of Section V.B. of the March 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement (NPA) for Review of Effects on Historic Properties for Certain Undertakings Approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are requesting comment regarding potential impacts to historical or archaeological properties listed on, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), by replacing existing antennas and installation of additional antennas on a building located at 1401 Foucher Street in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA 70115 at latitude 29° 55’ 31.7” north and longitude 90° 05’ 32.3” west.

All comments should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice referencing project ATT02E15199 and sent to the attention of Chad Stinnett, Environmental, Inc., 1345 Blair Farms Road, Odenville, AL 35120. Mr. Stinnett may also be reached via email at towerinfo@ envciv.com, via telephone at (205) 629-3868, or via facsimile at (877) 847-3060.

AT&T Mobility, in accordance with requirements of Section V.B. of the March 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement (NPA) for Review of Effects on Historic Properties for Certain Undertakings Approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are requesting comment regarding potential impacts to historical or archaeological properties listed on, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), by replacing existing antennas on a building located at 2031 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA 70130 at latitude 29° 56’ 06.10” north and longitude 90° 04’ 46.90” west.

All comments should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice referencing project ATT02E15201 and sent to the attention of Chad Stinnett, Environmental, Inc., 1345 Blair Farms Road, Odenville, AL 35120. Mr. Stinnett may also be reached via email at towerinfo@ envciv.com, via telephone at (205) 629-3868, or via facsimile at (877) 847-3060.

AT&T Mobility, in accordance with requirements of Section V.B. of the March 2005 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement (NPA) for Review of Effects on Historic Properties for Certain Undertakings Approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are requesting comment regarding potential impacts to historical or archaeological properties listed on, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), by replacing existing antennas and installation of additional antennas on a building located at 300 Canal Street in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA 70130 at latitude 29° 57’ 01.5” north and longitude 90° 03’ 58.9” west.

All comments should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice referencing project ATT02E15200 and sent to the attention of Chad Stinnett, Environmental, Inc., 1345 Blair Farms Road, Odenville, AL 35120. Mr. Stinnett may also be reached via email at towerinfo@ envciv.com, via telephone at (205) 629-3868, or via facsimile at (877) 847-3060.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of any relative of Charlyn Ann Sauter, please contact Regel L. Bisso, attorney, at 3925 N. I-10 Service Road W., Suite 227, Metaire, La., 504-830-3401

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

NO. 751-476 DIVISION “D” SUCCESSIONS OF GERTRUDE (A/K/A GERTIE) VERDIN SCHOUEST WIFE OF/AND EURIS PAUL SCHOUEST NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the court approved Testamentary Executor of the above estates of GERTRUDE (a/k/a GERTIE) VERDIN SCHOUEST wife of/and EURIS PAUL SCHOUEST has made application to the Court for the sale of the immovable and movable property hereinafter described, to-wit: An undivided one hundred (100%) percent interest in and to: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, all rights, ways, servitudes, privileges, situated in the District of Barataria, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, being a part of the Berthoud Plantation, more particularly described as follows: Said portion of ground measures fifty (50’) feet front on the easternly side of Highway No. 30, the same width on the rear line, by a depth of one hundred fifty (150’) feet between equal and parallel lines bounded on the North side by property now or formerly belonging to Alphonse Guidry, on the South side by property belonging to Fleming Plantations, as per sketch annexed to and made part of act of sale

by Fleming Plantation, Inc. to Bennet Gisclair, passed before Alvin F. Higgins, Jefferson Parish Notary on October 4, 1940, and on the record in the office of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson.

The improvements thereon bear municipal no. 2051 Jean Lafitte Boulevard, Lafitte, Louisiana.

AND A 2009 Southern Homes double wide trailer 28 x 44 Mobile Home Serial Number: DSD4AL54115AB, Model Number SX304 UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: (a) The purchase price will be paid in the amount of Forty Seven Thousand and 00/100 ($47,000.00) Dollars in cash to the Successions but the buyer will withhold from the purchase price a sum sufficient to discharge all encumbrances on the property; and (b) The successions will pay the pro rata share of taxes for the current year, and the cost of the revenue stamps and of all property certificates; and c) The Successions will pay Attorney Carol A. Newman her attorney fees for handling the successions and any out of pocket costs incurred in obtaining a court order from the sale proceeds; and (d) The property is to be sold in an As Is condition with the purchase waiving his Right of Redhibition; and (e) The Successions will reimburse the Testamentary Executor and any other parties who have incurred any and all administrative expenses incurred up to the date of the Act of Sale.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedents herein, and of these estates, be ordered to make any opposition which

BY ORDER OF COURT, B. CALONGNE Attorney: Carol A. Newman Address: 813 South Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Telephone: (504) 861-0008 Publication: Gambit 08/11/15

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

NO.746-157 DIVISION: “B” NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY SUCCESSION OF OSKAR MARTINEZ NOTICE is hereby given that Tanea Martinez duly qualified Administratrix of the Succession of Oskar Martinez has made application to the Court for authority to sell the following immovable property at private sale, to-wit: A CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or anywise appertaining, situated in the Village of Marrero, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, and located in HILLCREST PARK ESTATES, being a resubdivision of Lots H-217 and H-218, Section H: Lots G-217, G-218 and G-90, Section F and ½ of Lot E-37, all part of Estelle Plantation, Ames Farms and Lot H216, Ames Farms, Lower Estelle, designated as LOT 5A in SQURE 10, said Square being bounded

by Delery Drive, Pascal Drive, Villa Drive and Ames Boulevard (side), and Lot 5A commences at a distance of 272.22 feet from the Point of curve of Lot #1 at the intersection of Delery Drive and Pascal Drive and measures thence 70.00 feet on Delery Drive, same with in the rear, by depth of 322.85 feet between equal and parallel lines. Lot 5A is composed of all of former lot 5 and a part of Lot H-216, Ames Farms, all shown on resubdivision plan by Deferens Surveying & Engineering, Inc., dated July 31, 2000, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on October 28, 2000, as Ordinance No. 21097, registered in COB 3041, folio 880, on November 6, 2000. Being the property acquired by Oskar Martinez from Gertrude Guillory, wife of and Gerald L. Lynch by act before Claudia Tapani, Notary Public dated August 30, 2007 registered in COB 3200, folio 478 on September 6, 2007.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal no. 4017 Delery Drive, Marrero, LA 70072 Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, that any heirs or creditors of the deceased who oppose the sale must do so within seven (7) days of the last date of publication issued. After seven (7) days from the last publication the Court may issue an order authorizing the sale of the property for the price and sum of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND and 00/100 ($165,000.00) DOLLARS all cash to seller, at private sale.

Attorney: Ryan S. McBride Bar No. 29332 Address: 1000 Veterans Blvd #204 Metairie, LA 70005 Telephone: (504) 265-1705 Gambit: 07/21/15 & 08/11/15

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

TWENTY FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON

NO. 283-803 DIVISION “C”

NO. 745-240 DIVISION “B”

SUCCESSION OF MRS. ANNA MELANIE SCHAEFER, WIDOW OF OTTO PAUL, AND WIDOW BY SECOND MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH DOWIE

SUCCESSION OF RAY JOSEPH HUNTER

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS, MERILYNN B. DONELON, duly appointed and qualified administratrix of the above estate, has made application to the Court for the sale, at private sale, of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit: TEN (10) CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in the South New Orleans Subdivision, designated by the NOS. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 in BLOCK No. 49, bounded

by York and Staten Avenues and Fifth and Sixth Streets, as per plan made

by H.C. Smith, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, in 1913, a reduced delineation of which, approved by Alf. R. Bonnabel, Parish Surveyor, on August 15, 1914, is filed in the office of the Clerk of Court and Parish Recorder for the Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana; according to which said plan, said lots adjoin each other and measure each twenty-five feet (25’) front on York and Staten Avenues, by a depth of one hundred feet (100’) between equal and parallel lines.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO WIT: Sale of the entire interest in said property to MAMDOUH SULEIMAN, in “as is” condition with no warranties, express or implied as to the condition of the property for the gross sales price of $85,000.00 cash with purchaser to pay usual expenses of closing.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with the law.

By Order of the Court, Dale N. Atkins Clerk of Court Respectfully submitted, Attorney: Anthony V. Ligi, Jr., A PLC La. Bar No. 1179 Address: 4425 Clearview Parkway, Suite “C” Metairie, LA 70006 Telephone: (504) 455-7974 Fax: (504) 455-7977 Attorney for Merilynn B. Donelon Administratrix Gambit: 07/21/15 & 08/11/15 Louisiana Weekly: 07/20/15 & 08/10/15 The feature film presently titled “Night of the Wild” completed principal photography on June 7th. Creditors wishing to file claims or submit invoices should contact nightofthewildbt@gmail. com no later than August 31, 2015.

Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of JEFFERSON FURNITURE STORE INCORPORATED, please contact Harold E. Molaison Esq. at (504) 834-3788.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE OF FILING TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is here given to the creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven days from the publication of this notice, if any they have or can, why the tableau of distribution filed by Rayson Hunder, Administrator of this succession, should not be approved and homologated and the fund distributed in accordance with it.

Giselle LeGlue Deputy Clerk of Court August 4, 2015 Attorneys At Law: Frank W. Lagarde, Jr., Melanie M. Licciardi, Joel Levy Address: 4141 Veterans Blvd. Suite 212, Metairie, Louisiana 70002 Telephone: (504) 885-3332 Fax: (504) 885-3860 Email: Flag1230@aol.com Gambit: 08/11/15

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 732-189 DIVISION “L” SUCCESSION OF SHIRLEY PIERCE APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS the Keywanna Jenkins Pierce, duly appointed and qualified in the above-entitled and numbered matter, in her capacity of Co-Administratrix, of the Succession of Shirley Pierce, filed an Application to Sell the immovable property of this estate, described herein, at a private sale, to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, means, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as NORTH RIO VISTA ADDITION, in SQUARE NO. 4, bounded by San Jose Avenue, Santa Rosa Avenue, Labarre Road and San Carlos Avenue, designated as LOT NO. 20, all in accordance with the survey of Hotard & Webb, C.E., dated October 2, 1941, filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson in Plan Book 14, Folio 3, which said lot measures 74.01 feet front on San Jose Avenue, 75.03 feet in width in the rear, by a depth of 76 feet on the side line nearer Santa Rosa Avenue, by a depth of and front alongside Labarre Road of 76.01 feet. Lot No. 20 forms the corner of San Jose Avenue and Labarre Road; all in accordance with the survey of Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C.E., dated February 19, 1962.

The improvements thereon bear No. 35 San Jose Avenue, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana.

The Administratrix applied for the authority to sell the immovable property at a private sale for the sum of ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND ($125,000.00) DOLLARS. The immovable, described herein above must be sold for, at the least, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND ($125,000.00) DOLLARS and the sellers’ cost, in accordance with the purchase agreement filed herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs, the creditors of the decedent and the estate, to wit: IT IS ORDERED that any oppositions, which they may have to such application and that such order or judgment authorizing, approving and the homologating of such application may be issued up to seven (seven) days from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with the law.

Any oppositions should be sent to: Rosalind Jones Larkins, Attorney at Law, for the estate/succession at: Address: 421 S. Iberville Avenue, Gonzales, LA 70737 Telephone: 504.905.8826,

BY ORDER OF THE COURT, John Gegenhiemer Clerk of 24th Judicial District Court.

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

NO. 727-785 DIVISION “E” SUCCESSION OF ROSEMARY CANATELLA SNOW NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MAKE APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO OFFER IMMOVABLE PROPERTY FOR LEASE Notice is given that the Executrix of this Succession is applying for authority to offer for lease immovable property belonging to the deceased in accordance with the provisions of Article 3226 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The immovable property to be offered for lease is described as follows: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in J.J. LITTLE FARMS SUBDIVISION, in SECTION “E”, thereof, bounded by Orange Street, Little Farms and Stewart Avenues.

According to a survey of Adloe Orr, Jr., C.E., dated February 13, 1953, said portion of ground is designated as follows: LOT “V” which commences at a distance of 540 feet from the corner of Orange Street and Little Farms Avenue, measures thence 60 feet front on Little Farms Avenue, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 132 feet front on Little Farms Avenue, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 132 feet between equal and parallel lines, all as more fully shown on survey by Julian J. Carazo, L.S., dated October 10, 1978, copy of which is annexed to act before Robert S. Taylerson, Notary Public, dated October 13, 1978.

LEGAL NOTICE: SUMMONS FOR Parentage- Custody and Support Case No FAMSS1504132 IN THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA. NOTICE TO RESPONDANT Jerome Demond Jones YOU HAVE BEEN SUED

BY PETITIONER Hillary Ann Strobel.

You have 30 calendar days after this summons and petition are served on you to file a response (FORM FL-220 OR FL-270) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your response on time, the court may make orders affecting you right to custody of your children. You may also be ordered to pay child support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. NOTICE: The restraining order on Page 2 remains in effect against each parent until the order is dismissed, a judgement is entered, or the court makes further orders. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE COURT ARE: SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 351 N. ARROWHEAD AVENUE, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415.

STANDARD RESTRAINING ORDER: Parentage- Custody and Support Case No FAMSS1504132. Starting immediately, you and every other party are restrained from removing from the state, or applying for a passport for, the minor child or children for whom this action seeks to establish a parent-child relationship or a custody order without the written prior consent of every other party or an order of the court. This restraining order takes effect against the petitioner when he or she files the petition and against the respondent when he or she is personally served with the summons and petition or when he or she waives and accepts service. This restraining order remains in effect until the judgement is entered, the petition is dismissed, or the court makes other orders. This order is enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of it.

NOTICE OF SUSPENSION AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT TO: Jonuel L. Hernandez Case No: 201405407 A Notice of Suspension to suspend and an Administrative Complaint to revoke your license and eligibility for licensure has been filed against you. You have the right to request a hearing pursuant to Sections 120.569 and 120.57, Florida Statutes, by mailing a request for same to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing, Post Office Box 5708, Tallahassee, Florida 323145708. If a request for hearing is not received by 21 days from the date of the last publication, the right to hearing in this matter will be waived and the Department will dispose of this cause in accordance with law.

The improvements thereon bear the municipal No. 205 Little Farms Avenue.

Any interested heir or creditor who opposes the proposed lease must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

Attorney: Leonard L. Levenson Address: 427 Gravier Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 586-0066 Facsimile: (504) 586-0079 Publication: Gambit 08/11/15 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of JOSEPH NARO, please contact Channing J. Warner, attorney, at (504) 361-8596.

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Being the same property acquired by Gertie Verdin, wife of/and Euris Paul Schouest from Eugene B. Pitre by act passed befog Robert Anthony Pitre, Jr., Notary Public, dated February 20, 1970, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, COB 711 folio 665.

they have for or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order of judgment may be issued after expiration of ten (10) days, from the date whereon the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

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JEFFERSON 2537 RIVER ROAD

2 units betwn Labarre & RioVista. 2br/1ba, w/d hookup $865.

2br/1.5ba twnhse, w/d $915. Ea inc water, fridge, stove. No pet/smoke.

504-887-1814

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, $724-$848/mo. 504236-5776.

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Newly renov’d, 2br/1ba, LR, kit w/appls, wash/dry, nice backyard. $1200/ mo + $1200 dep. Start showing Aug. 1st. 504-231-0889 or 817-681-0194.

ESPLANADE RIDGE 1561 N. GALVEZ ST.

LARGE 3 BR, 1.5 BA with central air/heat, hi ceilings, washer/dryer hookups, off street parking. $1150/ mo. Call 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@ yahoo.com

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RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 825 Ursulines - 2bd/2ba ........................ $2500 1203 St. Mary - 1bd/1ba ....................... $2300 1133 Kelerec - 2bd/2ba ...................... $1600 810 Congress - 1bd/1ba ...................... $1600 539 Dumaine - 1bd/1ba ...................... $1500

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2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605 FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY HISTORIC 700 ROYAL STREET

building is located on a corner just one block from Jackson Square. The first floor is available for lease. Request info chrisward@woodenterprises.com

MID CITY 1508 CARONDELET ST.

Very Large 1 BR apt., 2nd floor with balcony, hdwd flrs, cent air/heat, 24-hr laundry. No pets/smoking. $1250/ mo. Call 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@ yahoo.com

UNIVERSITY AREA 6319 S. PRIEUR

2 bedroom, living room, dining room, furn kitchen, tile bath. No pets. Off Calhoun. $900/mo. Call Gary 504494-0970.

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1508 CARONDELET ST.

Studio Apt with cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles Street Car. Easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. All utilities included. $875/mo. 1-888239-6566 or mballier@yahoo.com

3216-18 DRYADES STREET

Double Shotgun/Uptown. 3 BR/2 BA + 2BA/1BA. Modern updates. $369,900 www.hesco-realty.com (225) 810-8315 or evelyn.greenwood@att.net

7446 GARFIELD ST.

Thriving business with spacious home on 2nd level. For Sale by Owner, (504) 715-2197.

3221B PRYTANIA St.

Lg Victorian - UPPR w/3br/2ba, furn kit, w/d, wd flrs, lg closets, hi ceils, porch. Gated w/police security. Offstreet parking. Pool privileges. Serious Inquiries Only. $1800/mo. (504) 813-8186 or (504) 274-8075.

LARGE UPTOWN APARTMENT 3 BR/2BA, cent a/c, hdwd flrs, W/D, yard. $2250/mo. $2250 SD, 1yr lease. Call to schedule an appt to see.

(504) 866-6319.

STUDIO COTTAGE

5300A Freret by Jefferson, ideal for grad student, new construction, 700 sq. ft., bath, kit, w/d, air. $1,200 includes utilities. 504-899-3668.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT IRISH CHANNEL 1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

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This spectacular Thomas Sully Mansion, built in 1880 for Joseph Walker, was meticulously restored in 2002.

Truly one of the Avenue’s finest examples of Queen Ann Italianate homes! The original details, beautiful inlaid pecan floors and spectacular gourmet kitchen make it an incredible home for entertaining and raising a family. The 3rd floor could be used as an apartment or a mother-in-law suite. Spacious carriage house, enough for overflow guests and the 4 car garage really comes in handy during Carnival!

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4530 URQUHART STREET

1739 URQUHART STREET

Bywater 4-plex; 3788 sq. ft.; Renovated in 2006. Three 3 BR/2 BA units and one 1 BR/1 BA unit. Currently generating $2794 in monthly income. Grossly Under-rented! All leases are month-to-month. Invest in this quiet pocket of Bywater where there are lots of new renovations. $350,000

Walk into an open, large living space with 12’ ceilings and gorgeous heart of pine floors. Sweet home in a desirable location close to the French Quarter.

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5526 S. CLAIBORNE AVE. $4,650/mo Furnished, clean 3 bedrooms/2 baths with fun eclectic decor! Large living room with flat screen TV and plenty of seating, separate dining room and full furnished kitchen with endless counter top space! Master has it’s own en suite bathroom, flat screen TV, large closet and high quality linens! W/D in separate indoor laundry room. Lovely fenced backyard shared with upstairs tenant.

Plenty of off-street parking in driveway!

LANDLORD pays for lawn, all utilities and an electric bill cap of $200! No pets and no smoking. 3 month minimum.

831 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVENUE

Crescent Title is in the front of building and this is 2 large open rooms in the rear of building. Perfect for law firm or any type of office! Only tenants requiring office space will be considered. Lessor will provide partial build out credit. Only 5 blocks to French Quarter and river, 1700 sq. ft. with high ceilings, cement slab floor and masonry walls. $2,000 a month plus taxes, insurance and utilities.

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This representation includes residential, vacant land, and multi-family and is based in whole or in part on data supplied,

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FOR SALE 809 31st St. 2760 Athis St. (VLD)

Todd Taylor, Realtor 504 232-0362

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NOLA...got an opportunity for you: A great New Orleans cottage, SETBACK 15 ft. from the street, w/both front & side yds., off str prkg, just blocks from Whole Foods & the RISING Lafitte Greenway (soccer, anyone?)...on an OAK LINED STREET. Make this home and lot what you want it to be.

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Black Pearl GEM!!!! 3 large bdrms, 2 updated baths; RE/RO/WA/DR/DW are all furnished, sec. sys. incld’d in the rent.

Awesome wrap around balcony …available immediately.

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