Gambit New Orleans September 29, 2015

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CONTENTS

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

September 29, 2015

EDITORIAL

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Volume 36

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Number 39

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

ON THE COVER

Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD

The Internet Hates You ...............................................17 In the age of social media, public shaming can go global — and be threatening

Calendar & Digital Content Coordinator | ANNA GACA Contributing Writers 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

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Intern | ELEONORE FISHER

Feature......................................................................................5 Nikki Glaser is among the comics coming to Hell Yes Fest

PRODUCTION Production Director | DORA SISON Web & Classifieds Designer | MARIA BOUÉ

7 in Seven ................................................................................5 Our Town, Art for Art’s Sake, Run the Jewels and more

Senior Graphic Designer | LYN VICKNAIR Graphic Designers | PAIGE HINRICHS, DAVID KROLL, JASON WHITTAKER

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The forgotten heroes of rhythm and blues, rockabilly and more gather for the Ponderosa Stomp

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BUSINESS & OPERATIONS

EAT + DRINK Review ...................................................................................35 Lakeview Burgers and Seafood Fork + Center ......................................................................35 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview ..................................................... 38 Tim Harlan, doctor and gourmet Drinks......................................................................................39 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week Last Bites...............................................................................41 Plate Dates; 5 in Five

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What’s in Store ................................................................33 Rivershack Tavern

News...........................................................................................7 Developers all over town are trying to get approval for large mixed-use housing projects — with mixed results

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

Y@Speak + N.O. Comment............................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world

Film ...........................................................................................55 REVIEW: Queen of Earth

Scuttlebutt ............................................................................9 From their lips to your ears

Art ............................................................................................. 58 REVIEW: New work at The Front

C’est What? ...........................................................................9 Gambit’s Web poll

Stage .......................................................................................62 REVIEW: Fences

Bouquets & Brickbats .................................................. 11 This week’s heroes and zeroes

Events.....................................................................................67 PREVIEW: Gretna Heritage Festival

Blake Pontchartrain .....................................................12 The N.O. It All

Puzzles ..................................................................................78

Music .......................................................................................49 PREVIEW: Ponderosa Stomp

Commentary.......................................................................13 Jindal’s latest deficit

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Clancy DuBos / Politics...............................................14 It’s about to get real, or reality show: Survivor: Louisiana

Employment ......................................................................73

FEATURES Education ............................................................................25 Horticultural/culinary education in New Orleans schools

Market Place ......................................................................72 Picture Perfect Properties...................................... 74 Legal Notices.....................................................................75 Real Estate ..........................................................................75 Home and Garden ..........................................................76 Halloween Happenings ............................................79

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Fri. Oct. 2 | Beach House boards up the windows for Depression Cherry (Sub Pop), the Baltimore duo’s fifth season of accordion lungs and moaning organs, broken chords and broken hearts. Flock of Dimes opens at 9 p.m. at the Civic Theatre.

Gretna Fest

Fri.-Sun. Oct. 2-4 | The festival fills downtown Gretna with music, amusement rides, a beer garden and more. Headliners include Kid Rock, Hank Williams Jr., Bret Michaels, Uncle Kracker and others. PAGE 67.

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Nikki Glaser performs at the Hell Yes Fest comedy festival.

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Fri.-Sun. Oct. 2-18 | Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre’s new artistic director, Maxwell Williams, directs Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about intertwined families in fictional small town, Grover’s Corners. At 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday at Le Petit Theatre.

Art for Arts’ Sake

Sat. Oct. 3 | The annual celebration of visual art features receptions (generally 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) at galleries and museums in the Warehouse District and Uptown, and the Contemporary Arts Center’s event (5 p.m.-8 p.m.) includes pop-up performances by the ETHEL string quartet and more.

Run the Jewels

Sat. Oct. 3 | What happens when two of the angriest forces in hiphop collide? Forget unstoppable forces and immoveable objects; Run the Jewels, the no-holdsbarred collaboration of El-P and Killer Mike, is an omnipotent paradox all its own. Boots opens at 9 p.m. at Republic.

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anything to do with sex, and it’s so fascinating, and you’re scared of it, and it’s all so curious.” Glaser performs at the Freret Street Publiq House Oct. 5 as part of the 2015 Hell Yes Fest presented by The New Movement and featuring dozens of stand-up comics, sketch and improv groups and variety shows at venues across New Orleans. Glaser is among headliners including Tim Heidecker, Todd Barry and Neal Brennan. (For a list of recommended shows, see “Hell Yes Fest,” p. 62.) By Alex Woodward Not Safe debuts in February. It’ll feature interviews with comics, in-the-field reports and “social experiments,” she says. “I want to tackle talking about sex in a way that’s not, ‘Ooo, we’re talking here is an art to the discrete subway photography on Nikki about sex, aren’t we naughty?’ Yeah, we’re all having sex, can we Glaser’s Instagram. First the technique: Use headphones just talk about it like we’re human beings? … Everyone is having to snap a photo, pretend to take a selfie, and dim the sex all the time. We don’t think about how disgusting we all look. screen. And then the subjects: men spreading their legs too wide, If you think about it, it’s almost too much, so you’ve uncomfortable couples, people with obvious body got to compartmentalize it. I’m trying to blur those language. Glaser stopped when she got caught. “It Oct. 1-11 lines and peer in and see what people are into. It’s also just felt wrong after a while,” she says. Hell Yes Fest my favorite thing to do and to talk about.” “The one time I got caught someone told on Glaser co-hosted the MTV series Nikki & Sara me,” she says. “I got yelled at. I was like, ‘I erased www.hellyesfest.com Live with fellow comic Sara Schaefer and is a it!’ It was humiliating. That’s why I stopped doing frequent guest on Comedy Central’s @midnight. it. It seemed too risky. … People on the subway She recently appeared with Amy Schumer in can be violent and erratic — especially the people Oct. 5 Trainwreck (and on her sketch series Inside Amy I’d photograph, who were always weirdos. … Nikki Glaser Schumer) and will film a one-hour special for ComNow I’m living in Los Angeles and there’s nothing 7:30 p.m. Monday edy Central this fall. interesting here.” “I wish I had some cool comedian tell me like, Glaser is in L.A. working on her 10-episode Freret Street Publiq Comedy Central series Not Safe With Nikki House, 4528 Freret St., ‘Hey girl, it’s going to suck for a while, and you don’t have to do this, and there’s no such thing as Glaser, which she describes as “like The Daily (504) 826-9912; blue balls, that’s just a myth to make you do more Show but for sex,” an upfront, late-night comedy www.hellyesfest.com stuff than you’re comfortable with,’” Glaser says. “I update to HBO’s Real Sex or MTV’s late-’90s callTickets $20-$30 was a virgin until I was 21. I was very prudish until in series Loveline. then, so I think I’m just making up for lost time “I want my show to be that for kids who now. It’s all I want to talk about. shouldn’t be watching it,” she says. “I used to watch Real Sex with my friends on HBO and just be horrified. … “And I have a knack for getting people to share with me things When you’re that age, you just want to absorb anything that has they wouldn’t share. … I want to capitalize on that.”

Fri.-Sun. Oct. 2-4 | The Marigny Opera Ballet premieres Maya Taylor’s ballet exploring the tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice. At 8 p.m. at the Marigny Opera House.

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See what’s developing Developers are seeking approval for large housing complexes in neighborhoods all over town — but finding mixed reactions. By Robert Morris | Uptown Messenger

Phyllis Landrieu, a former Orleans Parish School Board member and the aunt of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, plans to replace two small homes at the corner of St. Charles Avenue and First Street with a 57-foot-tall building with 10 three-bedroom condo units inside and a pool and gym on top. Landrieu and her supporters say the existing ranch-style homes are out of place on St. Charles Avenue, and that the proposed $5 million building will enhance the grand avenue. “It amazes me that they ever allowed two ranch-style, Metairie-type homes to be built on that corner,” said Greg Landrieu, her son. “Although they are very nice homes — my mother and father certainly enjoyed living there for the last 25 years — they’re out of place, and it’s time for them to go.” Landrieu’s building would be adjacent to another condo complex in the same block, and it was residents of that building who provided the most opposition to her proposal. They said they had a petition of 90 neighbors in opposition, and argued that the proposed development will take up too much of the lot and be too close to their building.

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Willie Mae Seaton, the proprietor of Willie Mae’s Scotch House in Treme, died last week at 99. In 2005, she received the “America’s Classic” award from the James Beard Foundation. “Another one of our treasures is gone. An iconic New Orleans lady.. sweeter than sugar. 99 years old, but we never want to loose them. RIP sweet lady..we will miss you.” — sis

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new condominium building on St. Charles Avenue in the Garden District received approval from city planners last week, while a larger condo project intended to replace an apartment complex at State and Tchoupitoulas streets was recommended for denial. Meanwhile, city officials are waiting on more information about a new mixed-use development on Royal Street in Bywater, the redevelopment of the former Sara Mayo hospital in the Irish Channel and a similar development at the intersection of Washington Avenue and South Jefferson Davis Parkway in Gert Town. All together, the projects represent nearly 800 new condo and apartment units in neighborhoods around the city — but the City Planning Commission and neighbors have objections, and the developers agree with some of them.

“Along St. Charles, Developers want to tear down this tall buildings detract building on the corner of Washington from the ambience Avenue and South Jefferson Davis of the avenue,” said Parkway, adjacent to the Blue Plate Helen Ullrich, one Artist Lofts, and replace it with a of the opponents, five-story complex of residential units, retail space and a covered parking suggesting that garage. The City Planning Commission the nearby Louise deferred action on the proposal for S. McGehee School 30 days. buildings be a good P H O T O B Y K A N D A C E P O W ER G R AV E S model for future height limits. Andre Gaudin, president of the Garden District Association, said he understands there already are taller buildings on St. Charles Avenue, but he wants the trend to stop. “We are concerned that the avenue will become a fortress of buildings on either side,” Gaudin said. Planning Commission Chair Kyle Wedberg noted that the existing condo building on the block is larger than the one Landrieu proposes. While he said Gaudin brings up an issue that bears further discussion, he feels the Landrieu proposal is worth supporting. The commissioners voted 5-1 to recommend its approval. At State and Tchoupitoulas streets, developer Jim MacPhaille would like to replace 13 red brick apartment buildings with a single condo structure with 49 units. Attorney Justin Schmidt said he has more than 500 letters supporting the project. Of the existing buildings, Schmidt said, “This is not the model we want for our city.” Keith Miller, a neighbor in support of the project, says crime, trash and other issues at the existing apartments have hindered the growth of the neighborhood. “The vast majority of the neighbors support the project in this area,” added Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association member Evan Plauche. Other neighbors were unenthusiastic. Tchoupitoulas Street resident Dara Hoell praised the angular orientation of MacPhaille’s building on the lot, but said it would dwarf the surrounding homes. “I don’t think this is the model we want for the neighborhood,” Hoell said. MacPhaille’s project also faced a more significant opponent: the city planning staff. Their report argued that the city’s Master Plan classifies the area as residential low-density, and that in it, multi-family housing such as apartments can be preserved, but not torn down and replaced with new multi-family projects.

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Commissioner Robert Steeg said while there is a consensus around removing the existing apartments, the Master Plan is clear that they should only be replaced with single- or two-family homes, and proposed accepting the staff’s recommendation to deny the project. With that, they voted 6-1 to recommend denial, with Commissioner Nolan Marshall III the lone vote in MacPhaille’s favor. After the meeting, he said he believed the commission has more discretion with regard to the master plan’s requirements, since the condo project met all the other density regulations. “I thought the developer did everything he could to try to accommodate the neighbors,” Marshall said. Both of the decisions by the City Planning Commission on St. Charles Avenue and on State Street will require final approval by the City Council.

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buildings up to 75 feet tall, build a new road through the property from Dauphine Street to Chartres Street, and have 282 parking spaces in a garage on the Press Street side. The application does not specify prices for the units, but it does tout the value of resident diversity, and notes the nearby Rice Mill Lofts are 12 percent families with children, 20 percent minorities and 30 percent working families — “diversity that by comparison exceeds the neighborhood demographics generally,” it says. It also argues that the increased availability of housing will drive down market pressure on nearby homes. The city planning staff praised a number of elements of the plan. It would bring new life to “underutilized warehouses,” but the overall density of the project, the staff said, is simply too high, and the parking needs would overwhelm the neighborhood. Cummings says while he set out to craft A development consortium is proposing the a building that is “super sensitive” to the redevelopment of the former Sara Mayo neighborhood around it, he now agrees hospital on Jackson Avenue into a mixedwith the criticisms in the planning report use project with 211 residential units and and wants to revise his plans in the next commercial space on the ground floor. month. After hearing more comments, the At a Sept. 22 meeting, members of the commission voted to defer a decision on city planning staff said the project was the project. a good use for the long-neglected former Cummings said he originally envisioned a hospital, but the proposed density was too headquarters for the creative people of the high. They said 111 units was a better numneighborhood: those who build motorcycles, ber for the property, and proposed to delay or run bakeries or digital studios. a decision for 30 days for further negotia“Maybe that idea went a little bit too far, tions with the developer. and we have too much of that kind of space, Attorney Ed Suffern said his clients also which places too much demand on parking,” are in favor of the deferral. They want to Cummings said. conduct more detailed research into how Although everyone involved agreed on the many rooms were in the former hospital, in case that figure has bearing on the density need to postpone a decision, a handful of people on both sides still took the opportufor the new project. nity to air their opinions. Mary Ann Hammett “We may have an entitlement by way of said the Bywater Neighborhood Associagrandfathering,” Suffern said. Another major project pending before the tion supports the project already, and Bob Freilich praised the building as an innovative City Planning Commission is the proposed architectural solution to an underused Parkway Apartments at 4650 Washington section of the neighborhood. Avenue, near the Blue Plate Artist Lofts. A “It has to be a building like this. It’s the developer wants to tear down the existing only logical thing to put there, and I’m single-story building there and construct fascinated by it,” Freilich said. “If it needs a a five-story building with 228 apartments little tweaking for how much commercial and 15,000 feet of ground-floor retail, as well as parking for more than 300 cars in a space it is, then OK. But it’s the most brilliant proposition.” covered garage. Opponents argued that the impact of Each floor above the first will have more the project has yet to be properly studied, than 40 one-bedroom units and about especially as it pertains to traffic near train 13 two-bedroom units. The second floor tracks that already cause bottlenecks. will have a rooftop courtyard and pool “In Bywater, we do need residential develdeck, according to the application. The opment. We need something to counter the apartments will rent for between $1,200 Airbnbs [short-term rentals] rising around and $1,600 a month. our ears, so responsible development is Like the other projects, the planning highly desired,” said resident John Bellinger. staff generally supported the plan but recommends reducing the density from the “But a building being beautiful in itself is not proposed 228 units down to 207. With little the only compelling argument that fits in the space.” discussion, the planning commission deRay Kern, owner of the Den of Muses a ferred a decision on that project for 30 days. block away on Royal Street, said he expects On the edge of Bywater, near Royal and the development to hamper the krewe Press streets, developer Sean Cummings members who gather at his establishment. hopes to replace a warehouse complex “It’s going to create problems for my with a project that — as presently planned business,” Kern said. “I hope to remain there, — would include 260 residential units and but if I can’t, I may have to look elsewhere. 54,000 square feet of commercial shops Please don’t make me go to Arabi.” and “maker spaces,” with exterior murals — This story was produced by our partners by #ExhibitBe artist Brandan Odums. The at Uptown Messenger. To read more, visit project would add a second floor to one www.uptownmessenger.com. warehouse and demolish the other for


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“My daddy always said, ‘If you live in south Louisiana, being mad at stupidity is like being mad at grass.’” — James Carville, speaking to a luncheon in Baton Rouge last week. Baton Rouge Business Report’s Stephanie Riegel reported Carville said he thought any of the four gubernatorial frontrunners could win the race, and added, “And if [Sen. David] Vitter wins, who knows, maybe he’ll do something.”

Jefferson GOP snubs Young Picks Nungesser, endorses Vitter — barely

The Jefferson Parish Republican Party surprised many by choosing to back former Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser over current Jefferson Parish President John Young in the contest for lieutenant governor. The group, comprising 120 members, issued its endorsements Sept. 19. The party’s endorsement committee members include Republican elected officials who reside in Jefferson, parish executive committee members, state central committee members who reside in Jefferson, and leaders of the parish’s six Republican women’s organizations. In addition to choosing Nungesser over Young, the group voted to endorse

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Future location of Mid-City branch up in the air

Two New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) branches will be closing in the next few weeks, with the future of one still in question. New Orleans District A City Councilwoman Susan Guidry says she hopes to secure an extension beyond the Nov. 1 deadline for the city to vacate the American Can Apartments building, where the Mid-City branch library currently operates. City officials are scrambling to secure a new Mid-City location, but finding a space that meets NOPL’s needs is not a simple task. Those requirements are a minimum of 4,500 square feet, adjacent parking and visibility, not to mention affordability, says NOPL Executive Director Charles Brown. Brown says there’s no timetable for completing the move. “Negotiating a lease arrangement and doing any kind of build-out or renovations that might be necessary make it unlikely — it’s possible, but it would be unlikely — that we would relocate from the American Can location directly into another location,” Brown said. Meanwhile, the Milton H. Latter branch Uptown will close for about three months starting Nov. 6 for the second half of a two-phase renovation project costing $2.1 million. The first phase was completed in October 2013. The project includes interior and exterior finishes and electrical replacements. The Friends of the New Orleans Public Library PAGE 10

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U.S. Sen. David Vitter in the race for governor — but sources say it was by the closest of margins: one vote. And that, several sources say, came after a runoff ballot between Vitter and Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne. In other hotly contested local races, the party officials have endorsed state Sen. Conrad Appel for re-election in Senate District 9; state Reps. Nick Lorusso and Chris Leopold in House Districts 94 and 105, respectively; Kenner Mayor Mike Yenni for parish president; Chris Roberts for council at-large; Ricky Templet in Council District 1; Paul Johnston in Council District 2; and Jennifer Van Vrancken in Council District 5. — CLANCY DuBOS

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book sale will move temporarily to the Algiers Regional Library while the Latter branch is closed. The good news, in Guidry’s view, is that the library’s success in the American Can building has demonstrated the viability of a permanent — and larger — Mid-City branch. If all goes according to plan, the new space will be approximately 50 percent larger. Guidry says she’s not sure what sort of flexibility landlord ACV VII might allow on the move-out date; the company had not responded to a query as of Sept. 24. Randy Opotowsky, an attorney representing ACV VII, notified the city Aug. 28 that his client needed possession of the space by Nov. 1, a move that surprised city officials. The library was operating on a month-to-month arrangement that replaced a permanent lease that expired in November 2014, six months ahead of a public referendum on a tax increase for the library system. The 2.5-mill increase passed overwhelmingly, providing the system with an additional $8 million in annual revenue. Brown says uncertainty over the referendum necessitated the month-to-month arrangement and that Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration was preparing to negotiate a new long-term lease, but there had been no discussions with the landlord by the time the letter arrived, nearly four months after the millage vote. Following the referendum, Brown says he and his staff were busy focusing on a 30 percent increase in the system’s operating hours and rebuilding the Nora Navra branch in the 7th Ward, both of which he had pledged to do if voters agreed to the millage. Renegotiating the American Can lease didn’t rank as high on the priority list, he says. “As a long-term, established tenant of this facility, we didn’t think that on May 3, the day after the millage passed, that our top priority would be negotiating with the owners of American Can to change our lease,” Brown said. “We were working on it, but it didn’t seem to be as urgent as some of the other things we needed to do.” In the meantime, ACV II apparently was talking to potential new tenants. Guidry says the landlord came to terms with a tenant that

wants to build out multiple spaces, but she doesn’t know who the tenant is. — BENJAMIN MYERS | MIDCITY MESSENGER

Jindal: I’m here to stay

Poll shows Jindal at 0.3 percent in presidential race

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, once a frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, dropped his bid last week, saying, “I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race.” But Gov. Bobby Jindal’s not going anywhere, he told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly last week. “We’re running a great campaign here on the ground — in Iowa we’re doing great, building great crowds,” Jindal said, adding his usual line that it was time to fire “the establishment” in Washington, D.C. In a Real Clear Politics average of polls taken between Aug. 31 and Sept. 19, Walker had 1.8 percent support. Jindal had one-sixth that level of support: 0.3 percent. — KEVIN ALLMAN

No butts in City Putt, no smoking in Storyland

City Park commissioners weigh smoking ban

The first draft of New Orleans City Park’s proposed smoking ban would apply only to Storyland and City Putt, but it drew a wide range of reactions from park commissioners — some who wanted to ban smoking across the entire park, and some who wanted no ban at all. The proposal presented last week by Board President Susan Hess and CEO Bob Becker is limited in one way and broad in another. It prohibits smoking, including electronic cigarettes and tobacco products, in City Putt and Storyland, which are recreational areas popular with children. Signage discouraging smoking would go up in other areas of the park. Becker would then have authority to impose additional prohibitions throughout the park as he sees fit. Some commissioners pushed for stricter guidelines, but Commissioner Edgar Chase was critical on several fronts. The general concept of smoking regulations may be unfair and outside the board’s


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Gubernatorial debate in New Orleans this week Six candidates invited to debate at WDSU

WDSU-TV will broadcast a live debate this week for six entrants in the Louisiana governor’s race. Campaign spokespeople for state Rep. John Bel Edwards and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle have confirmed their candidates will attend. Luke Bolar, spokesman for U.S. Sen. David Vitter, told Gambit the senator’s campaign will announce his debate participation

schedule “shortly.” Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne’s campaign did not return a call to confirm his participation, though he is expected to attend. All are Republicans except Edwards, who is a Democrat. Also included are two candidates whose poll numbers are lower than the four frontrunners: Cary Deaton of Metairie and Jeremy Odom of Natchitoches. Deaton is a Democrat; Odom is registered as belonging to no party, though his campaign website lists his party as Democrat. The forum will air live at 6 p.m. Oct. 1 and will be moderated by WDSU anchor Scott Walker. WDSU President and General Manager Joel Vilmanay did not return a call inquiring about the specific format for the event. — KEVIN ALLMAN

Scuttlebits

All the news that doesn’t fit

• The New Orleans City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the hot topic of short-term rentals next week — and, yes, there will be public comment. The meeting is Sept. 29 at 5 p.m. in the City Council Chamber … • Sound advice: The New Orleans Health Department last week launched a new initiative called Sound Check, which it characterized as an educational program “to protect people’s health in potentially dangerous sound conditions.” The City Council has been trying to update the city’s antiquated noise ordinance since 2013, with little progress … • New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB) head Cedric Grant was called before the New Orleans City Council in July to explain the S&WB’s poor communication with the public in that month’s boil-water advisory, which was issued seven hours late. When the most recent boil-water advisory was issued on the evening of Sept. 23, the city promptly sent messages urging people to call the Sewerage & Water Board at 52-WATER for more information — but calling resulted in nothing but a message saying the office was closed. The S&WB eventually began updating the recording with recorded progress reports. Progress, of a sort … — KEVIN ALLMAN

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and its supporters donated more than $60,000 to help open two pediatric bone marrow transplant patient rooms at Ochsner Hospital for Children. Hogs for the Cause is an annual nonprofit barbecue cookoff that raises money to support families battling pediatric brain cancer. The hospital held a ceremonial “bacon cutting” instead of a ribbon cutting to open the facilities.

Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy

was the top school in Louisiana in the 2015 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. Kids from every state and 28 countries participated in the ninth annual competitive reading contest, which encourages children to read for pleasure during summer months. Cumulatively, Kenner Discovery students read more than 34,500 hours this summer — placing the school 14th in the world for most minutes read..

36 New Orleans-area firefighters

were honored this month when their names were added to the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Memorial in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The memorial near Pikes Peak “honors the sacrifice made by IAFF members who have given their lives in the line of duty.” To see the complete list of honorees, visit www.iaff.org/hs/ ffm/wall/index.aspx.

Gov. Bobby Jindal

continues to show a high tolerance for hypocrisy. When Democrat Hillary Clinton held a rally in Baton Rouge last week, Jindal released a letter inviting her to debate health care with him. “Instead of the carefully controlled campaign events that Secretary Clinton prefers,” Jindal wrote, “let’s give the American people a real live discussion.” As governor, Jindal has refused almost all live interviews in his home state and “carefully controls” his every public appearance.

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purview, Chase said, and the resolution itself is “overbroad.” He added that the process for drafting it — undertaken by a five-member subcommittee, including Hess and Becker — was too secretive. After the meeting, Hess said the subcommittee studied practices at large parks in several cities, including New York City, Cincinnati and San Francisco. “We had a huge range of findings,” she said. Some parks do nothing, some parks are completely smoke free. And there’s everything in between. We tried to come down in a reasonable way.” As far as a parkwide smoking ban, “It’s not the same thing if you’re walking in Couturie Forest and there’s no one else around as compared to being in Storyland and there’s a crowd of 3-year-olds,” Hess said. “We tried to be sensitive to all those possibilities.” Commissioner Errol Laborde said he preferred to see no smoking at all in the park, and Commissioner Michael Hollis questioned the exclusion of Tad Gormley Stadium from the resolution. Becker told commissioners City Park lacks the enforcement means to impose a parkwide ban. “We chose to begin this process with smaller areas that were fenced because those were the areas we thought we could control the best, and because the children are there,” Becker said, explaining the rationale of limiting the strict prohibition to City Putt and Storyland. “Rules that aren’t enforced to me are almost worse than nothing.” The board did not set a timetable for making a decision. — BENJAMIN MYERS | MID-CITY MESSENGER

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The recent 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina gave us a chance to reflect on how far the region has come, and also to say thank you to the many volunteers and benefactors who helped along the way. One of the biggest contributions locally came from the oil-rich nation of Qatar, which as you noted, is in the Middle East. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it has the world’s third largest natural gas reserves and a large oil reserve, both of which contribute to its standing as the country with the highest per capita income in the world. The nation has been generous to New Orleans. After Katrina, the nation’s Qatar Katrina Fund established a program to support 18 local projects in health care, education and housing, donating $100 million in all. That included about $38.4 million for education, including scholarships at Loyola, Tulane and Xavier universities; $27.5 million for health care, including $5 million each to Children’s Hospital and Tulane Community Health Center; and $34 million for housing, including a large donation to Habitat for Humanity.

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his week marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone for the local Catholic church — the appointment of Philip Matthew Hannan as the 11th Archbishop of New Orleans. Hannan, who at the time was auxiliary bishop of his hometown of Washington, D.C., was appointed to the New Orleans post on Sept. 29, 1965. Before coming here, Hannan was chaplain to paratroopers of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He later became a confidant of the Kennedy family during his time in D.C. and took part in the funeral Mass for President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Hannan arrived in New Orleans just a month after Hurricane Betsy ravaged the area. The need to repair damaged church and school buildings, combined with the church’s need to respond to the social changes underway at the time, meant the new archbishop’s tenure would be anything but ordinary. Hannan is credited with instituting social service programs and overseeing a time of expansion and growth for the local archdiocese. He also hosted Pope John Paul II during his 1987 visit to New Orleans. Hannan stepped down a year later, when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75, but he remained active. He died at age 98 on the 46th anniversary of his appointment — Sept. 29, 2011.


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ouisiana voters now have less than four weeks to winnow the field of governor candidates down to two. Put another way, the major candidates have little time to slice and dice one another to smithereens. Except, of course, for lone major Democrat John Bel Edwards. The state representative from Amite has gone from “John Who?” a year ago to the frontrunner — without getting any scars and without getting his hands dirty. That’s partly because he’s the only major Dem in the contest and partly because the guy with the most money, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, wants Edwards as his runoff opponent. Rest assured Vitter will have plenty to say about Edwards if the two men face off in November. Meanwhile, Vitter’s main GOP rivals — Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle, along with various anti-Vitter super PACs — are hoping to chop into Vitter’s vote and make it a real race, at least on the Republican side. That’s an interesting facet of the Oct. 24 primary. Although technically a nonpartisan contest, with all candidates vying for the top two spots in a political free-for-all, the Oct. 24 ballot is actually a mini-GOP primary. That’s because Edwards, as the lone Democrat, is virtually assured of a runoff spot; in fact, he could easily finish first, with somewhere north of 30 percent of the vote on Oct. 24. The three main Republican candidates are fighting it out for the other runoff spot. Until recently, it was assumed that Vitter had the edge. Then Angelle went on TV and radio while Vitter’s “soft” support among evangelicals, Republicans and senior citizens began to fade. Vitter went from 35-38 percent in springtime

Lone Democrat John Bel Edwards (top left) remains unscathed in the race for governor, while Republicans (clockwise from top right) Scott Angelle, David Vitter and Jay Dardenne are duking it out in a primary-within-the-primary.

polls to 22-26 percent in September surveys — while Angelle rose from around 9-12 percent to the high teens and low 20s, putting him within striking distance of Vitter. Dardenne stayed quiet until qualifying, but now he’s hoping to match his GOP rivals on paid media. The result is a Republican primarywithin-the-primary. Vitter still has more money than all his opponents combined, and he will use it to try to drown out whatever attacks his opponents fire his way. He’s also lobbing grenades at Dardenne and Angelle. All that GOP infighting raises some interesting questions. For starters, will the man who makes it to the four-week runoff be able to mend fences quickly with the two losing Republicans and gain their endorsements? If not, will the also-rans sit out the runoff or possibly endorse Edwards, who has not said an unkind word about any of them (except Vitter once in a while)? Moreover, will the GOP brand be so bloodied that Edwards, who has remained unscathed thus far, looks like the only clean guy left standing? Of course, it’s just as likely that the Republican faithful will close ranks behind the GOP contender no matter who he is. For now, it’s interesting to see polls that show Edwards leading Vitter for the first time in a head-to-head matchup. That’s not necessarily a prediction of how things will turn out, but I suspect it does reflect how things are going in the Louisiana GOP version of Survivor.


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n August, shortly before journalists descended on New Orleans for a week of coverage and events the city had hashtagged #Katrina10, Chicago Tribune editorial board member Kristen McQueary (aka @StatehouseChick on Twitter) sent a tweet: “‘Chicago is so good at hiding its rot.’ My Friday column. Wishing for a #HurricaneKatrina #RahmEmanuel”

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In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” the cover story in this month’s The Atlantic, authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt note, “When speech comes to be seen as a form of violence, vindictive protectiveness can justify a hostile, and perhaps even violent response.” One of the ways “vindictive protectiveness” manifests: public shaming. It’s a centuries-old tradition, but today it takes the form of a keyboard instead of stocks in the public square. In his book, Ronson relates what happened to Justine Sacco, a public relations executive who achieved instant notoriety in 2013 for an idiotic tweet she fired off just before a long plane flight: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” Over the next few hours, the comment was retweeted around the world; for a while, Ronson writes, “Justine Sacco” was the world’s top trending topic on Twitter. Sacco found out about her worldwide infamy only when she landed 11 hours later. She lost her job. In December 2013, “Justine Sacco” was Googled 1.2 million times. More recently, Texan Monica Foy attempted to make a bitter joke about the way some attempt to dig into the past of black men killed by police in order to prove that the deceased was “no angel” or something similar. “I can’t believe so PAGE 18

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The column, which was headlined “In Chicago, Wishing For a Hurricane Katrina,” expressed McQueary’s desire for “An unpredictable, haughty, devastating swirl of fury. A dramatic levee break. Geysers bursting through manhole covers. A sleeping city, forced onto the rooftops.” Why would a Chicagoan want that graphic nightmare visited upon her city? “That’s what it took to hit the reset button in New Orleans,” she concluded. Within hours, the headline was changed to the more innocuous “Chicago, New Orleans, and Rebirth,” and the story was rewritten to reflect McQueary’s wish for a “figurative” storm, one that would sweep away Chicago’s “rot.” (There was nothing figurative about the original column.) But the images of New Orleans’ destruction as a metaphor for fixing Chicago’s infrastructure remained. New Orleanians are used to unfortunate references to Katrina, whether it’s former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s suggestion that the city be bulldozed, or website commenters who call the Big Easy a pit, a sewer, a place that was improved by the levee collapses. What was different in this case was the source: an editorial board member of one of the country’s largest newspapers. The reaction was predictable — in both Chicago and New Orleans. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a McQueary adversary, denounced the column, calling it “morally reprehensible.” Salon.com called it “the most appalling op-ed of the year.” The National Association of Black Journalists’

Chicago chapter demanded a public apology from McQueary (who is white) and asked that she be suspended for two weeks. Within minutes of sending her tweet and posting her column, McQueary had a violent social media backlash, with people on Facebook and Twitter accusing her of heartlessness at best and racism at worst. “Scum,” “bitch” and “cunt” were among the hundreds of epithets aimed at her; some people said she should die. Three weeks after her column appeared, McQueary still was getting angry tweets. “RACIST FILTH,” one person wrote. Another tweeted, “She is vile and deserves a private Katrina.” In his new book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson notes, “I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.” I wondered: What is it like at the bottom of that avalanche? I had a trip planned to Chicago. So I emailed McQueary, asking to meet her, and when she didn’t respond, I tried again.

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many people care about a dead cop and NO ONE has thought to ask what he did to deserve it. He had creepy perv eyes,” Foy wrote. That comment went around the world as well; Foy recently told New York magazine she’s had dozens of death threats. It doesn’t take that much to be provocative. Earlier this month, the Kenner car dealership Lamarque Ford got into hot water after a local Twitter user, @YesICandice, tweeted, “Has anyone seen the HORRIBLE new Ronnie Lamarque commercial?! TERRIBLE!!!!!!” The official @LamarqueFord account snapped back, “Not as horrible as those eyebrows of yours, quit hating on people who actually DO shit. Those commercials are perfection.” Nearly four hours later, after the company had taken a thorough bashing in the New Orleans Twitter community, Lamarque Ford tweeted an apology, adding “Actions have been taken.” Chicago columnists long have been known for tough talk and bluff pronouncements. In 1996, the city’s dean of newspaper columnists, Mike Royko, wrote a column that created an uproar among Hispanics. “There is no reason for Mexico to be such a mess except that it is run by Mexicans, who have clearly

established that they don’t know what the heck they are doing,” Royko wrote. “Just name one thing that Mexico has done this century that has been of any genuine use to the rest of this planet. Besides giving us tequila. See? You can’t. If you are honest, you will admit that it is kind of a useless country. And before its entire population sneaks across the border, we should seize it and make it a colony. We should grab it, privatize the whole country and turn a neat profit by giving Club Med the franchise.” Outrageous? Racist? Royko was lampooning then-presidential candidate Pat Buchanan’s position on illegal immigration. Some people didn’t get it. Others did, and still didn’t like it. In those pre-social media days, people responded via 20th century means, including a demonstration outside the Tribune and hundreds of outraged phone calls, including one that said “You lousy motherf—, I’m gonna put two bullets in your head.” (Royko included it in a subsequent column, adding, “How wasteful. One would do the job.”) Like Royko, McQueary leads with her chin in print (last year, she taunted Emanuel, calling him a “walking personality disorder”) and isn’t inclined to apologize. But she attempted to explain her Katrina column in a terse followup titled “Hurricane Katrina and What Was in My Heart,” writing, “I wrote what I did not out of lack of empathy, or racism, but out of longstanding frustration

with Chicago’s poorly managed finances.” McQueary added, “I am horrified and sickened at how that column was read to mean I would be gunning for actual death and destruction.” But that, as readers pointed out, was exactly what she had written, and in graphic terms. Moreover, what they wanted was an apology, not an explanation. A few people said McQueary had nothing for which to apologize. Michael Miner, the longtime media critic for the Chicago Reader, defended her in a column which received such blowback of its own that Miner wrote his own followup, acknowledging, “I will say simply that the offended black voices of New Orleans have every right to complain that McQueary treated them cavalierly” — as if it were purely a racial issue and ignoring that plenty of “white voices” and Chicagoans were offended as well. (One commenter on Miner’s story wrote, “The things that McQueary was extolling as a cure for Chicago’s ills are broken here. I moved from Chicago to New Orleans 7 years ago and I LONG for some Chicago-style corruption. Or infrastructure at least.”) Some continued to call for McQueary to be fired. Tribune editorial page director Bruce Dold finally issued a statement to Chicago’s WGN-TV that said, “McQueary’s column credits the resilience and ingenuity of the people of New Orleans and

pleads for dramatic change in Chicago, which has not faced up to its financial crisis. That is her point. “Her use of Hurricane Katrina as metaphor has unfortunately been misconstrued.” Sometimes people online are pilloried even for things they didn’t do. Last November, Campbell Robertson, the New Orleansbased reporter for The New York Times, was in Ferguson, Missouri, awaiting the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case. Brown was the 18-year-old man shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson; like dozens of other journalists, Robertson was awaiting the release of the grand jury report. In the meantime, there was little to write about, so when he got a tip that Wilson recently had married, he paid $4 to a St. Louis County clerk for a copy of Wilson’s marriage license. He and fellow Times reporter Julie Bosman wrote a quick online story about the wedding, a brief item that never saw print. Almost immediately afterward, the grand jury decision — thousands of pages long — came down, so Robertson got to work and forgot about the wedding story. The Internet, however, did not. “I was up all night reading thousands of pages of grand jury material,” Robertson says, “and I don’t believe I was aware anything was going on at that time.” After a three-hour nap, PAGE 21


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“It made it look like we had run it,” Robertson says. “And that wasn’t squared away for several days.” Soon after, Robertson received a text from his father in Alabama, saying that a muckraking blogger named Charles C. Johnson was looking for him. “And within a couple of hours,” Robertson says, “my Twitter account exploded.” Johnson had published Robertson and Bosman’s home addresses (with their house numbers), which were being shared on social media. “I called my wife and the phone was ringing off the hook,” Robertson says. “I told her to get out of the house and take our 1-year-old.” One website posted Robertson’s address to Facebook; it was shared nearly a million times. Photos of the Robertson residence were posted on social media and websites. “Anybody up for a good ole fashioned lynchin’?” wondered one commenter. “Maybe draw swastikas and SS bolts and KKK

symbols on him and a big bulls eye on his ass and drop him off tied up around the 9th ward in his drawers? Maybe hire a couple basketball players and homeless guys to run the good ole sodomy express through him first?” On another website, “Anon Emus” took on Bosman: “Send some big guys to beat the crap out of this Bitch. Wait for her to come to work or leave and beat her until she’s unrecognizable… same goes for the guy too.” Robertson’s wife and son did not return to New Orleans for a month. The next night, Fox News personality Sean Hannity made reference to the story. “We have another issue surrounding this debacle in Ferguson, and this one has to do with the media,” Hannity said, “with The New York Times releasing the actual home address of officer Darren Wilson.” “No way,” said guest Deroy Murdock. “There you have it right there,” Hannity said grimly, showing a screenshot of the Times story with a black bar over the street name — implying it was concealing a

street name and house number. At the bottom of the screen, in large capital letters, were the names JULIE BOSMAN and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON. “They are literally putting that man and his family in mortal danger,” Murdock said — referring to Wilson, not Robertson. “I was back in the house a week later and the phone was still ringing every two minutes,” Robertson remembers. “I didn’t check voicemail. But I got hundreds of handwritten letters. There were a lot of just ‘Go to hell.’ A lot of it was just vulgar, ‘You suck.’ There was obviously really some racially horrific stuff — just a handful out of hundreds that were generally disconcerting.” Robertson didn’t go back to work for a month. During that time, someone called the New Orleans Police Department, impersonating him and saying there was a health emergency at the house. Another person put an ad on Craigslist, advertising a moving sale at Robertson’s house. Others used his name to subscribe

to catalogs and magazines. And the letters kept coming for weeks, finally slowing to a trickle. “It would be very different if I didn’t have a wife and a kid,” he says now, nearly a year later. “It was more weird than anxiety-inducing.” Unlike McQueary or Sacco, though, he hadn’t written the words for which he was being pilloried. “It’s not like you did something stupid and you can apologize for it,” Robertson says. “And it’s not something you did you think was right, something you can defend. It was some weird minor thing that wasn’t even done. “It’s all a complete, postmodern, strange nightmare.” Like a tornado, public shaming and Internet attacks can level one house, while leaving identical houses untouched. In July, Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer was briefly the most hated man on social media when it emerged he had paid tens of thousands of dollars to shoot Cecil, a

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he awoke to find “my phone had blown up,” he says. People were saying he and Bosman had published Wilson’s home address in their story, in a photo of the marriage license. Robertson was horrified. Printing Wilson’s address would have been a serious violation of ethics, and could put the Wilson family in danger. Surely he and Bosman couldn’t have done such a thing. Could they? He called his editors. While the story did include the name of Wilson’s street (which had appeared before in many other news accounts), the image of the wedding license had an address on it. But it wasn’t Wilson’s home address; it was the address of Wilson’s lawyer’s office. In an attempt to stanch the furor, an editor took down the image of the license and appended a note to the end of the story: “An earlier version of this post included a photograph that contained information that should not have been made public. The image has been removed.” That, as it turned out, made things worse.

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What McQueary wrote was dumb and tonedeaf, but plenty of people have said much worse things about New Orleans. Why, I wondered, had she reaped this particular whirlwind? And what did she intend to do about it?

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For more information or to schedule a tour, call 504.736.9917. For a complete list of Open House dates, visit us online at stmsaints.com. It is the policy of St. Martin’s Episcopal School to administer its educational programs, including admission and financial aid, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, or disability.

beloved lion who lived in a national park in Zimbabwe. Photos of Palmer posing proudly with the big cat’s corpse drew such vilification he closed his dental practice temporarily and went into hiding. But Palmer certainly isn’t the only trophy hunter in the world. Jimmy John Liautaud, CEO of the Jimmy John’s sandwich shops, has posed, grinning and with thumbs-up, on the corpse of an elephant he shot for sport. Presidential candidate Donald Trump has defended his sons after photos of them holding up a dead cheetah and an elephant’s severed tail were made public. They’re all public figures, but none received the worldwide condemnation that Palmer did. What McQueary wrote was dumb and tone-deaf, but plenty of people have said much worse things about New Orleans. Why, I wondered, had she reaped this particular whirlwind? And what did she intend to do about it? A week after I contacted her, McQueary emailed back. She hadn’t spoken to the press about the column except to issue the followup, but she said she’d be “grateful” to have coffee. In a subsequent email, she wrote, “Will you be writing off of this? I need to know because I have not spoken publicly about the column and am a little gun shy to do so. But not necessarily opposed. Just want to know your intentions.” I followed up with a note: “I thought we could talk off the record for a bit and just speak personally about the column. … While I certainly can understand your gun-shyness, I would like then to go on the record.” I checked her Twitter account later that day. She had long moved on from the topic of Katrina and had just written another column slamming Emanuel, this time over property taxes. But readers had not moved on. One person responded, “How much would he have to raise property taxes after a Katrina — like the one you wished for?” Over Labor Day weekend, I met McQueary in a coffee shop on the bottom floor of the Tribune offices on Michigan Avenue, the posh shopping boulevard Chicago has dubbed the

Magnificent Mile. Here, at least, the city needs no “reset button”; kayakers cruise past on the Chicago River, medians are planted with flowers and that day there was a pop-up Nordstrom store across the street in Pioneer Court. We talked for half an hour — off the record. I told her though I disagreed with the column, I was sorry for the viciousness aimed her way. I shared a few stories of New Orleanians after the levee collapses: people who lost everything, one friend who tried to kill himself. I told her that much of the recovery she envies was due to billions of dollars in federal disaster relief and insurance payouts, and that an infusion of that sort of cash would improve Chicago’s schools and infrastructure even without a hurricane. I asked what her life’s been like since her name went around the world as a symbol of callousness. That’s about all I can say about our meeting, because in the end, McQueary declined to speak on the record. We shook hands, and she left the coffee shop quickly, going back to her editorial writing and her postavalanche life. I don’t think Kristen McQueary is a monster. I don’t think she bore any conscious malice. And I still don’t think she gets it. In the end, stupid statements are just words, and public shaming, destructive and upsetting as it can be, is just more words. Palmer, the lion-killing dentist, is back at work. Robertson is reporting again. Sacco told Ronson she’s rebuilding her life in a new job. McQueary came off better than any of them. Unlike many of the people who’ve felt the wrath of social media and its torrent-to-trickle of outrage, she has a family, a job, a house and bosses who still have her back. Two weeks later, I checked her Twitter account. “Arcane law in PA could cause more than 1,300 bottles of wine to be poured down the drain,” she noted, posting a Tribune story. The first response: “But is it a ‘Katrina-level’ disaster?”


Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools Formerly the Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools (ECCS)

2015-16 Open Houses

Go to www.eastbankcollaborative.com for direct links to our schools’ websites. Audubon Charter School Lower School: (PK3-3) .................. Oct. 10, Nov. 17, Dec. 1, 9:00 a.m. 428 Broadway St., New Orleans, LA 70118 • (504) 324-7100

Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy (KDHSA) (PK-9)

Upper School: (4-8) ..................... Oct. 27, Dec. 2, 9:00 a.m.

2504 Maine Ave., Kenner, LA 70062 • (504) 233-4720 www.discoveryhsf.org Jefferson Parish residents only.

Benjamin Franklin High School (9-12)

Lake Forest Elementary Charter (Gifted PK, K-8)

1111 Milan St., New Orleans, LA 70115 • (504) 324-7110 www.auduboncharter.com

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr., New Orleans, LA 70122 • (504) 286-2600 www.bfhsla.org

Oct. 8

5:30-8:00 p.m.

Einstein Charter at Village De L’Est*(PK-5) ........ Nov. 10, 4:00 p.m. 5100 Cannes St., New Orleans, LA 70129 • (504) 324-7450

Einstein Charter at Sherwood Forest*(PK-5) ........Nov. 11, 5:00 p.m.

5316 Michoud Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70129 • (504) 503-0110

Einstein Charter Middle* (6-8)......................... Oct. 14, 6:00 p.m.

5316 Michoud Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70129 • (504) 503-0110

Einstein Charter High* (9-12) .......................... Nov. 14, 6:00 p.m. 5316 Michoud Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70129 • (504) 503-0470 www.einsteincharter.org

Hynes Charter School (Gifted PK, K-8)

990 Harrison Ave., New Orleans, LA 70124 • (504) 324-7160 www.hynesschool.org

727 Carondelet St., New Orleans, LA 70130 • (504) 613-5702 (504) 613-5706, RSVP for open house at www.ihsnola.org

Nov. 5

(504) 862-5110

5624 Freret St., New Orleans, LA 70115 • (504) 304-3961 www.lusherschool.org

8:30-10:00 a.m. in the gym on Orleans & French Streets

Oct. 20, Apr. 19 5:00 p.m.

International School of Louisiana (K-8) Uptown Campus:* ............................................ Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m. 1400 Camp St., New Orleans, LA 70130 • (504) 654-1088 Oct. 24, 9:00 a.m. Westbank Campus:* .......................................... Oct. 3, 10:00 a.m. 502 Olivier St., New Orleans, LA 70114 • (504) 274-4571 Oct. 7, 6:00 p.m. Jefferson Campus: ............................................ Oct. 24, 9:00 a.m. ISL Uptown and ISL Westbank accept students statewide. ISL Jefferson Campus accepts only Jefferson Parish residents.

Lusher Charter School Lower School: (K-5) ........................... Kindergarten Nov. 14, 9:30 a.m. 7315 Willow St., New Orleans, LA 70118 Grades 1-5 Nov. 20, 1:30 p.m. Middle/High School: (6-12) .................. Grades 6-12 Nov. 19, 6:00 p.m.

Statewide school

8101 Simon St., Metairie, LA 70003 • (504) 934-4875 www.isl-edu.org

Nov. 17, Dec. 1

8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Morris Jeff Community School* (PK-6)

Oct. 15

211 S. Lopez, New Orleans, LA 70119 • (504) 373-6258 www.morrisjeffschool.org

Moton Charter School** (PK-7)

4040 Eagle St., New Orleans, LA 70118 • (504) 245-4400 www.motoncharter.org Year-round school

6:00-7:30 p.m.

Please call school for details

New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School (Sci High)* (9-12) 5625 Loyola Ave., New Orleans, LA 70115 • (504) 324-7061 www.noscihigh.org

Warren Easton Charter High School (9-12) 3019 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70119 • (504) 324-7400 www.warreneastoncharterhigh.org

Nov. 5

5:00 p.m

Dec. 3

5:00-7:00 p.m.

GNOCCS unified student application and timely admissions dates for the 2016-17 school year are as follows:

Application availability: October 12, 2015 | Deadline for admissions application: January 8, 2016 | Notification to parents - no later than: April 8, 2016 PLEASE NOTE: Only timely applications will be accepted for schools requiring a lottery. Not all GNOCCS schools will have a lottery and may accept applications year-round. PRE-K APPLICANTS: Admissions to selected pre-K programs may be subject to change by the State’s implementing the Louisiana Early Learning Enrollment Coordination Law (Act 717). All schools accept Orleans Parish students only, with the exception of IHS, ISL Uptown and ISL Westbank, which are statewide schools. ISL Jefferson and Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy accept only Jefferson Parish residents.

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These schools use the EnrollNOLA Process and timelines. Please check the schools’ websites for further information. Moton (year round school) will not use the unified admissions dates.

The GNOCC schools do not discriminate in the rendering of services to/or employment of individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected basis. 2021 Lakeshore Dr., Suite 414, New Orleans, LA 70122 • (504) 267-7239 • www.eastbankcollaborative.com

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International High School of New Orleans (IHS)* (9-12)

12000 Hayne Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70128 • (504) 826-7140 New campus as of October 26: 11110 Lake Forest Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70128 www.lakeforestcharter.org

Visit the school’s website for tour dates

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Jesuit High School’s

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GREE EEN LOCAL SCHOOLS EMBRACE CAMPUS-BASED EDIBLE GARDENS BY LEE CUTRONE chen, where students conduct various projects, including developing original herb blends used for cooking and making dipping oils and dressings that are sold to help raise money for the program. Malone says the herb blends project has taught students a host of business lessons including marketing, package design, quality control and assembly-line production. According to Malone and Parks, lessons are wide-ranging: brainstorming, conceptualizing, decision-making, supply and demand, food chemistry, math and science, history, cultural culinary traditions, sustainability practices such as composting and more. As the service component, St. Paul students share the benefits of gardening through the school’s PAWS to Work program in which students build gardens for other schools and the elderly. So far, St. Paul’s students have installed gardens for a senior citizens community center and the New Orleans Oral School for the hearing impaired. “The garden is considered a classroom,” Parks says. “At St. Paul’s there is a lot of integrated learning. We believe in learning by doing and not just reading it in a book.” The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA), Louisiana’s public arts conservatory, offers students a hands-on garden experience that cuts across the spectrum of educational disciplines and extends beyond the campus. The school first cultivated gardens in satellite green spaces, rented from

NOCCA culinary arts student Landry Duchane plants fennel seeds at Press Street Gardens as part of a garden entrepreneurship project. P H O TO BY EL I Z A BE T H M C M IL L A N .

Habitat Urban Garden for $1 apiece, near the campus. Earlier this year, NOCCA opened the on-site Press Street Gardens, for use by its faculty, staff, students and the public. It’s a project of the NOCCA Institute, the school’s nonprofit partner organization. In addition to being used by the Culinary Arts Department, now in its fifth year, the garden is used by the Academic Studio, which incorporates it into science, math and history lessons, and the Visual Arts Department, which uses the garden for drawing, painting, photography and more. “The applications are endless,” says chef Dana Tuohy, chairwoman of the

At Isidore Newman School, an independent, coed school for pre-kindergarteners through 12th-graders, the school’s food provider, SAGE Dining Services, maintains a hydroponic garden on site and incorporates the produce into its menus. The 25-year-old SAGE provides fresh, locally sourced and made-from-scratch healthy foods to small colleges and independent schools across the U.S. and Canada. SAGE, which began its gardening program about 15 years ago, now has about 100 gardens ranging from indoor

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chool gardens have come a long way since the days of growing bean plants in Mason jars for science class. Schools across New Orleans are embracing edible gardens ranging from traditional to hydroponic and using the produce in their menus and to teach children experientially about nutrition, how food gets from the garden to the table, sustainability practices and the culinary arts. St. Paul’s Episcopal School, which has students from 2 years old through eighth grade, started its garden program in 2008 as a way to teach sustainability and “service learning,” an educational approach that balances traditional classroom instruction with real life lessons. Today the garden is utilized throughout the curriculum, and each grade has its own garden bed with a theme that correlates to its studies. Fourth grade students studying the Middle Ages, for example, planted a medieval garden and eighth-graders learning about the Vietnam War used ingredients from their garden plot to prepare Vietnamese cuisine. Other themes include a space garden, a victory garden, a wetlands garden and a Native American garden. Director of Admissions Sylvia Parks and Sustainability Education Coordinator Susan Malone, a master gardener, say the students’ enthusiasm is infectious and the ongoing development of the garden is largely student driven. “The ideas just keep building,” Malone says. Several years ago, the school added an outdoor culinary center with a kit-

Culinary Arts Department. “It’s just a matter of fitting it into an already busy curriculum.” According to Tuohy, all culinary students at a certain level do a garden internship/entrepreneurship program, which incorporates business skills by selling NOCCA-grown produce and flowers at the local farmer’s market and preparing and selling brunches made from seasonal garden ingredients out of the NOCCA Institute’s Boxcar food truck. For students in the culinary program, the garden has been a path of discovery for careers that fall under the culinary umbrella, such as dietician, farmer and sustainability advocate. One of the most important effects of the garden, according to Tuohy, is the connection it fosters between students and nature. “It introduces them to an understanding of where food comes from,” she says. “It doesn’t grow on a Styrofoam plate wrapped in plastic.” Horticulturist Margee Green, manager of the Press Street Garden, adds that the firsthand experience is an unparalleled way of teaching otherwise ephemeral ideas of how human beings interact with plants. “When students are actually touching and seeing how plants affect their lives, concepts stick in their heads in a way that they don’t when they come from a book, or a movie or a slide,” Green says.

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6-8PM

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JANUARY 27th

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growing centers made from converted salad bars to outdoor in-ground gardens. In 2013, Newman opted for a hydroponic garden due to limited space on its 10-acre campus, and SAGE maintains the garden with the help of VertiFarms, a hydroponic equipment supplier in New Orleans. ”This was a solution accessible to Newman’s landscape,” says Elise Ehrlich, SAGE’s food service director at Newman. “It’s an ideal way to grow a garden in a small space.” The six-tower garden has spring and fall growing seasons and a diverse array of produce, including edible flowers, tomatoes, peppers, mini cucumbers, eggplant and eight kinds of lettuces and herbs, Ehrlich says. SAGE uses the harvested foods in school meals and catering for events at the school. While Newman students aren’t responsible for the garden, they do have access to the area and are allowed to observe, inquire, touch and pick the plants. “It’s a great educational experi-

with all-natural ingredients and avoiding processed foods.) Empowering public charter school students “to build and maintain healthy relationships with food, the natural world, themselves and their community” is the mission of Edible Schoolyard New Orleans (ESYNOLA), now in its ninth year. Started by FirstLine Schools, a charter management organization that operates five open-admissions public schools, ESYNOLA provides food education for 3,000 students. It encompasses nearly 4,000 garden and culinary classes, 70 food education events for the greater community each year (from meeting farmers and holding festivals to chef competitions and family food nights), organic gardening practices, wellness education and a sense of community through shared meals. ESYNOLA was modeled after renowned Berkeley chef Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard program. While Waters’ original concept was designed for middle

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A student in the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans program holds a red bell pepper grown in an ESYNOLA garden. P H OTO BY S E A N A M BR O S E

ence for the kids who see it growing,” Ehrlich says. Though Newman’s garden is not large enough to feed its entire community of faculty and students, what it produces is used in a variety of ways. For example, basil is used in pesto dishes and lettuces and kale can be used with other locally sourced greens in salads. “Fresher tastes better,” Ehrlich says. SAGE believes the effect on students has been positive in other ways. “We have definitely seen a progression over the years of students getting more involved and wanting to be more involved,” says Anne Wozniak-Freedman, communications manager for SAGE. “It’s no longer just a trend, especially with the ‘clean eating’ movement.” (“Clean eating promotes consuming fresh foods

school students, New Orleans’ comprehensive adaptation provides instruction for kindergarten through 12th grade. Of the five schools that offer the program, Samuel J. Green and Arthur Ashe have large gardens and teaching kitchens, while Langston Hughes Academy has a large garden, as well as live animals and a small culinary demonstration area. Phillis Wheatley Community School’s garden started last year and the school plans to build a teaching kitchen. Joseph S. Clark, FirstLine’s high school, has aeroponic towers for growing edible plants in a small space. Funded primarily through grants and donations, the Edible Schoolyard initiative teaches practical gardening and culinary skills. It also teaches students nutritional and entrepreneurial knowledge and how to appreciate food.


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“They learn a language to express what they like and don’t like,” says ESYNOLA Executive Director Claudia Barker. At the same time, because edible education is woven into the curriculums of the schools, it reinforces core concepts in science, math, language arts, and social studies. The program is in part a response to the local population’s disproportionate rate of diabetes and heart disease, which are directly related to diet, Barker says. It seems to be having a positive effect. A survey of ESYNOLA students conducted by Tulane’s Prevention Research Center in 2014 reported students were eating more fruits and vegetables and had a better overall knowledge of food. It’s also reconnecting children with nature. “It’s not just about food access,” Barker says. “It’s about being in the natural world. Our gardens are safe spaces, oases in the middle of an urban landscape.”

Open The hydroponics garden at Isidore Newman School grows a host of herbs and vegetables that are used for the school’s food service. P H OTO C O U RT E S Y I S ID O RE NE W M A N S C H O O L

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ST. FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL

215 Betz Place

Metairie, LA 70005

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504.833.1471

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ood education programs are blooming in New Orleans schools and sustainable gardens have taken root in higher education. Focused on organic produce and community involvement, these local gardens are sowing seeds of sustainable education. Tulane University operates a sustainability farm on a 7-acre site in New Orleans City Park at 150 Zachary Taylor Drive. Founded in 2011 by food educator Johanna Gilligan and Tulane University, the 2-acre Grow Dat Youth Farm recruits 50 employees, ages 15 to 21, from nine partner high schools in the New Orleans area. Influenced by existing food education programs in New Orleans elementary and middle schools and The Food Project in eastern Massachusetts, Grow Dat Youth Farm was built as a partnership between the Tulane City Center, the New Orleans Food & Farm Network and New Orleans City Park. The farm uses chemical-free, sustainable methods to grow 10,000 pounds of produce every year. Its main objective is to nurture leadership qualities in young people. The leadership program teaches participants life skills — including how to grow their own food — provides them with job experience and training in sales and other business skills. About 60 percent of the produce raised at Grow Dat Youth Farm is sold at farmers markets and to grocery stores and restaurants; the rest is donated to people in need through the farm’s Shared Harvest program. Meanwhile, LSU Health Sciences Center recently transformed a vacant lot on its downtown New Orleans campus into a sustainable, raised-bed vegetable garden. The primary project of the new organization Students for Sustainability, the 18-bed Raised Root Garden was created in conjunction with Parkway Partners, a local nonprofit dedicated to gardens in New Orleans. It was built in August by students from the six schools at LSU Health New Orleans. Adjacent to the Tiger’s Den Cafe, the garden was designed to introduce more fresh, organic vegetables to campus cafeterias and will offer fresh produce to students in exchange for working in the garden. Liberty’s Kitchen and Second Harvest Food Bank have approached student organizers to plan community outreach programs.

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A STORY SEVERAL PL ACES ALONG MAGA ZINE STREET PROVIDE STORY TIMES FOR CHILDREN. BY DENA MARKS

ducators have long touted the benefits of reading aloud to children, and researchers say they’re right. As The New York Times reports, studies have shown that reading teaches children to picture the meaning of words and exposes them to unique word sets. Because of these findings and others, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently began recommending that literacy training begin at birth. Fortunately for parents and caregivers, readings abound in New Orleans, and story times occur every day of the work week and on Saturday along Magazine St., from the CBD to Uptown.

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913 Napoleon Ave., (504) 596-2628; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org STORY TIME: 10:30 A.M. WEDNESDAY Story time and craft: 4:30 p.m., first and fourth Monday of the month Bilingual story time and craft: 4:30 p.m., second Monday of the Month The CRC is one of 13 New Orleans Public Library branches that hosts story times. For sessions in English, librarians Jeffrey Bostick and Jocenta “Miss Jo” Ferrouillet alternate days reading from a stately throne while audience members listen from a mini-amphitheater. The Wednesday reading attracts babies and toddlers. The librarians select stories to suit the needs of their crowd: picture books for older kids and oversized books for younger children. The English language reading on Monday follows a theme, such as science, that is replicated in a craft. That reading is designed for after-school students ranging from 5 to 9 years old. At the bilingual story time, a Tulane University student reads books in Spanish and English. Free admission.

Kindred Studios

5228 Magazine Street, (504) 510-4878; www.kindred-studios.com STORY TIME: 10:30 A.M. FRIDAY Kindred houses a sleek fitness studio for prenatal and parent/baby classes and a storefront for Zuka Baby. Instructor Lindsay Troha reads local picture books from the store shelves to babies and children up to five years old. Readings occur in the romp room, a padded play area lined with wooden toys, foam balls, animal puzzles and a teepee. Lindsay reads two books in the allotted 30 minutes, which means there’s always time to explore the gated play territory after the end. Free admission.

The Magic Box

5508 Magazine St., (504) 899-0117; www.magicboxneworleans.com STORY TIME: 10:30 A.M. WEDNESDAY The locally owned toy store offers “Stories & Such,” a combination reading and play time for 4-month-olds to to 6-year-olds. Sales associate Raven Ambeau reads English and some French books in the play area at the back of the store, where audience members can lounge on an oversized panda bear or lion while listening to stories. The reading lasts about 15 minutes, after which kids may play with Legos and Tegu blocks or draw on coloring pages that reflect the theme of the week. Themes range from school to princesses to plain old silliness. The store prints a monthly calendar of themes and books, which is available in the store. Free admission.

Louisiana Children’s Museum (LCM)

420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org STORY TIME: 11 A.M. & 1 P.M. MONDAY-SATURDAY TODDLER TIME: 10:30 A.M. TUESDAY & THURSDAY The LCM, a 30,000-foot exhibition space, offers play and learning platforms for children of all ages. Story times typically take place in the Talk and Play Center, a material version of A Cajun Little Red Riding Hood replete with a lily pond, green canoe and Cajun cottage. For large groups, readings move to the auditorium. Education Program Coordinator Kate Grueneberg reads stories that evoke monthly themes such as “power of play” and “circles and spheres.” The regular story time is geared for book lovers 4 and older. Toddler Time, a reading for ages birth to 3 years old, includes a sensory activity that relates to the book. For both events, LCM publishes a newsletter, available online, that lists the month’s theme and books. Free with admission, which costs $8.50 for adults and children; babies under 1 are free.

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5600 Magazine St., (504) 899-9119; www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/arabellastation STORY TIME: 10 A.M. THURSDAY The health food chain and Nurture Nannies, a local child-care agency, host story times that feed the mind and body. Nannies read books about radishes, tomatoes and other healthy foods in the breezeway at Whole Foods, and the market provides complimentary snacks and juice for the children and coffee for grownups. Audience members can stay for the full hourlong reading session (three to four books) or just for one or two. Free admission.


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Rivershack Tavern offers pub grub with Louisiana flavors. P H OTO BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER

po-boys and deli sandwiches. The bar also has an extensive selection of local and imported draft beer. Baskind, who has run the kitchen for 12 years, offers rotating daily specials, which recently included Vietnamese shrimp and lemon grass soup, a ginger-brined double-cut pork chop loin served with a sweet chili glaze, jasmine rice congee and baby bok choy, and pan seared Cuban-style redfish served with black beans, fried plantains, grilled asparagus and a lime-garlic mojo sauce. Monday’s special is always red beans and rice. These weekday lunch specials attract diners from across New Orleans. “You could have everyone from college students to retired insurance people, doctors, nurses, boat workers,” Thomas says. “We draw people from all over the city for lunch, especially in the spring when we do crawfish boils.” Weekends have a festive vibe. “We have live music three or four nights a week, usually Thursday through Saturday, and charge a small cover on Friday and Saturday nights,” Thomas says. Rivershack Tavern can accommodate groups, including bachelor parties. “It’s a great hangout for people from all over the country,” Thomas says.

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Parenting boutique ZukaBaby (5228 Magazine St., 504-596-6540; 3248 Severn Ave., Metairie, 504-407-2700; www.zukababy.com) moved its Magazine Street store to 5228 Magazine St., inside KINDRED Studios. The store features parenting classes, cloth diapers, hospital-grade breast pump rentals and environmentally friendly products for infants. Local running goods store Southern Runner (6112 Magazine St., 504-891-9999; www.southernrunner.com) has closed. It will reopen in a new location under new ownership in October.

By Eleonore Fisher

Record store NOLA Mix (1522 Magazine St., 504-345-2138; www.nolamix.com) recently celebrated its grand opening. It offers new and used vinyl, tapes, accessories, production equipment and T-shirts, as well as lessons in DJing and music production. Bella & Harlow (4221 Magazine St., 504-324-4531; www.bellaandharlow.com) celebrates its threeyear anniversary in October and hosts a trunk show for Jess Leigh Jewels from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. Store purchases of $150 or more are discounted 15 percent.

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oused in a ramshackle, century-old building, Rivershack Tavern (3449 River Road, Jefferson, 504-8344938; www.therivershacktavern. com) smacks of authentic roadside dive. The bar stools, made in 1992 by former owner Jimmy Collins, add to its offbeat look. Each stool resembles a person from the waist down. “He did several walks of life, from a shrimper to a scuba diver to the girl with her pants down to her ankles,” owner Donnie Thomas says. To celebrate its recent 25th anniversary, the restaurant booked live music and invited guest bartenders. Rivershack Tavern’s website bills it as “home of the tacky ashtray,” but the bar has been smoke-free for three years. Thanks in part to its 2008 feature on Food Network’s Diners, DriveIns and Dives, Rivershack Tavern has become a dining destination. Thomas wanted to create an atmosphere where customers could appreciate the scents and flavors of chef Mike Baskind’s menu. “I chose to go non-smoking about three years ago,” Thomas says. “Why take away from the food we’re trying to sell?” Thomas says that although Rivershack Tavern has evolved into a restaurant, he still considers it primarily a place to drink. “I run it as a bar, but we sell a lot of food,” Thomas says. The menu offers “Shack-A-Tizers” such as meat pies and alligator sausage as well as typical pub grub like burgers, cheese fries,

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Marcello’s Restaurant and Wine bar (715 St. Charles Ave., 504-581-6333; www. marcelloscafe.com), the wine shop and rustic Italian restaurant, will open a third location in Metairie next year in the space currently occupied by Coyote Blues (4860 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-3013848; www.coyotebluesfreshmex.com), a Louisiana-based Mexican restaurant chain. Marcello’s owners Gene Todaro Sr. and Gene Todaro Jr. are partnering with Coyote Blues’ parent-company owner, Kevin Moody, to convert the space into an Italian restaurant mirroring their existing bistros (the other Marcello’s is in Lafayette). The owners of Marcello’s have been looking for a new location large enough to incorporate a sizable wine collection. “Metairie has a big population, and those people frequent our downtown restaurant,” Todaro Jr. said, adding that the new 6,500-square-foot space will have a large, stand-alone bar, a patio, a private banquet space and ample parking. It was not immediately clear what would happen to Coyote Blues and if the owners plan on opening a new Metairie location. According to a news release, the Coyote Blues chain will be “venturing into a new direction” that requires less space. Marcello’s new location is expected to open in January 2016. — HELEN FREUND

Good neighbors Lakeview Burgers and Seafood has casual appeal By Helen Freund

Rock star chefs

in sauteed champignons Chef Joseph Faroldi (left) runs Lakeview Burgers and their deep, earthy flavor and Seafood with Kitsy Adams and Josef Faroldi. nicely complemented the P H O T O B Y C H ER Y L G ER B ER char on the patty. What works best for the restaurant is its proximity to Parlay’s, the what neighboring watering hole popular with a Lakeview Burgers and Seafood young professional — and often rowdy — Lakeview crowd. On weekends, sidewalk where tables are filled with bar patrons, a natural 872 Harrison Ave., (504) 289-1032 clientele for burgers and fried seafood. Other satisfying options include a Cuban when sandwich, traditional in every way except lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. for thick slabs of Genoa salami Faroldi throws in for good measure. The spicy how much cured meat joins hunks of slow-roasted inexpensive pulled pork, wedges of ham, Swiss cheese, mustard and bread and butter pickles on a what works pressed po-boy roll. mozzarella sticks, While there’s room for improvement, Cuban sandwich there is little pretense here. What you see is mostly what you get: a casual what doesn’t neighborhood restaurant comfortable in spongy seafood beignets; some its surroundings. fried seafood items Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@ gmail.com

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When Sarah Borealis first ate the traditional stone soup from Oaxaca, Mexico — a fish stew heated with scorching hot rocks — she was reminded of a childhood fable. “I thought, ‘No way; this is something I’ve only heard about in stories,’” says Borealis, a local visual historian who became fascinated by the ancient tradition while studying in Mexico. Now, Borealis is helping bring the dish to New Orleans diners at a four-day pop-up at Vaughan’s Lounge (4229 Dauphine St., 504-947-5562) Oct. 6,-7 and 9-10. Usually prepared by men, the soup is meant to honor the elders, women and children of the indigenous Chinantec community. “The recipe has remained the same, but the method of preparation has really evolved throughout the years,” says Borealis, who researched its ancient and modern preparation methods while making her 24-minute documentary The Path of Stone Soup, which will be screened at the event. Chef Cesar Gachupin de Dios and his son Victor Gachupin Velasco, who own and run the restaurant Caldo de Piedra in their village, Usila, will demonstrate preparation of the soup using stones Vaughan’s owner Cindy Wood brought back from Mexico last year. Traditionally served in a hollowed-out gourd, the soup includes red snapper, shrimp, scallops, chilies, cilantro, garlic, PAGE 37

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ast June, after decades of working in French Quarter restaurants, chef Joe Faroldi opened Lakeview Burgers and Seafood on a lively stretch of Harrison Avenue. It was a substantial change of pace from where he last hung his hat (the since-shuttered K-Joe’s on St. Louis Street), and Faroldi’s new home has the neighborly feel of a family-run business in a residential area. Family members often work at the cash register, service is friendly and attentive and there is plenty of banter exchanged while diners wait for their food. The casual atmosphere extends to the small dining room. There are about five tables, and diners place their orders at the counter and seat themselves. Fried seafood is served in plastic baskets and other dishes appear in plastic vessels. Condiments are available in tiny to-go ramekins. Most sandwiches cost $7 or $8, and fried plates between $13 and $16 easily can be shared. Casual dining shouldn’t necessarily correlate with a dip in quality, but there are some hits and misses at Lakeview Burgers and Seafood, often with dishes involving the fryer. On a recent visit, seafood beignets were spongy and carried a burnt caramel tinge suggesting the items were fried too long. Mozzarella sticks are a much better bet. Gigantic strips of fresh mozzarella cheese are given a quick egg wash and lightly dusted with seasoned flour before hitting the fryer — just long enough to achieve a crispy golden exterior that gives way to ribbons of oozing cheese. Accompanying marinara is slightly sweet. As the restaurant’s name implies, seafood platters feature prominently here. Battered in a thick crust, fried oysters and shrimp are lackluster, but catfish was moist on the inside. The flaky white fillets are available as one of many sandwich options, most of which are served on crusty po-boy rolls or brioche buns. French fries too, win the battle with the fryer, but could have used more salt. The fries are soft, with a light golden shell that gives way to a creamy interior. In line with the no-frills atmosphere, the burgers are a testament to simplicity. A mixture of ground chuck and brisket goes into 8-ounce patties that are cooked to a deeply charred well done and dressed to order with lettuce, pickles and condiments. The burgers could use more seasoning, but the chefs don’t skimp on the toppings. On one visit, a request for mushrooms resulted in a burger blanketed

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FORK + CENTER [CONTINUED] tomato and epazote, an herb commonly used in Mexican cooking. Stones are heated in an open fire for at least two hours and dropped into the bowl, instantly bringing the water to boil and cooking the seafood in minutes. The events take place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 6, 7, 9 and 10 and also feature live music, drink specials including mezcal cocktails and Victoria beer and an exhibit of Chinantec textiles. Tickets are $15. Proceeds support the Gachupins’ attendance at the International Institute of Indigenous Resource Management in Denver, where The Path of Stone Soup is an official selection of the 2015 Indigenous Film and Arts Festival. — HELEN FREUND

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Atchafalaya robbed during dinner service

Diners at the Uptown restaurant Atchafalaya (901 Louisiana Ave., 504-8919626; www.atchafalayarestaurant.com) were robbed at gunpoint on the evening of Sept. 24, New Orleans police said. According to police, the restaurant manager told authorities that two men wearing Velcro masks and dark hooded sweatshirts approached the restaurant at about 9:45 p.m. Believing they were attempting to rob the restaurant, the manager said he locked the front door, but the two men kicked and shoved the door until they were able to enter. Police said the duo brandished handguns and stormed the eatery, demanding all the employees and customers hand over their belongings. The suspects grabbed cash out of the register and fled the scene on foot, heading towards Laurel Street. No one was injured during the robbery, police said, adding that surveillance cameras from the area are currently being reviewed by detectives. The robbery comes almost exactly one month after diners at Patois (6078 Laurel St., 504-895-9441; www.patoisnola.com) were robbed by three men wielding guns during dinner service. No arrests have been made in either case. — HELEN FREUND

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Willie Mae Seaton, of the fried chicken institution Willie Mae’s Scotch House (2401 St. Ann St., 504-822-9503; www.facebook.com/williemaesscotchhouse) died Sept. 18. She was 99. “She was an entrepreneur,” said Seaton’s great-granddaughter Kerry SeatonStewart. “She was extremely driven and hardworking and she did what she had to to keep the place going. ... Everyone loved her — her customers and her family.” Seaton-Stewart runs the restaurant and its Uptown outpost. Seaton was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and moved to New Orleans with her husband in during World War II. While he worked at a shipyard, Seaton worked a variety of jobs including a long stint as a taxi driver. Willie Mae’s Scotch House opened as a bar in 1957 and later became a restaurant. Seaton tended bar for 15 years before becoming its chef. “(Bar patrons) would smell her food coming into the bar, and they’d beg and beg and beg her to open a restaurant,” Seaton-Stewart said. Seaton ran the restaurant with help from various family members, including her daughter, Lillie, who died in 1991. Her cooking attracted a following of locals and tourists who praised the spicy, crunchy fried chicken, creamy white butter beans and the casual and friendly neighborhood atmosphere. The restaurant won a James Beard Foundation America’s Classic award in 2005. Seaton has been featured on the Travel Channel, National Public Radio and Food Network, among others. The restaurant also gained notoriety from rebuilding efforts after the building was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. It was rebuilt with the help of workers from the Southern Foodways Alliance and Mississippi chef John Currence. It reopened in April 2007. The restaurant garnered international accolades, and President Barack Obama dined at the institution while attending 10th anniversary events for Hurricane Katrina. — HELEN FREUND

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Tim Harlan Doctor and gourmet

Chef-turned-doctor Tim Harlan is the assistant dean for clinical services at Tulane University School of Medicine and executive director of the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, a culinary teaching facility for medical students and the community, where participants learn to view food “as medicine.” Harlan speaks at the sixth annual James Beard Foundation Food Conference Oct. 19. He talked with Gambit about what the future of food as medicine looks like.

The topic at this year’s conference is rethinking the future of food. What’s the future of food as medicine?

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Harlan: We started out with this idea that we would teach medical students how to cook and we would use that as a metaphor for helping them understand how to work with their patients differently. That’s evolved into … taking that information ... and translating that into the conversation that they will have in the examination room with their patients about food. ... [H]ow do you help [physicians] with substantive messaging for their patients that can have an impact on their health? We can give them the tools to be able to make those changes with their patients — and the dialogue. ... Our data says people have improved their diets. … [T]he challenge now is to see what we’ve learned here in New Orleans and learn how to scale it to other providers.

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What are the challenges in getting people to eat healthier?

H: I think the challenge for folks across the spectrum — no matter the socioeconomic class, profession, whether they are a truck driver or a secretary or a chef — (is that) most of us unfortunately don’t have those skills to manage our own day-to-day nutrition. There’s a lot of historic reasons for that: There’s no more home economics classes taught in the schools; there’s a shift to the two-parent families who are both working — we’re all busy and there’s easy access to simple, pre-prepared calorie-dense foods that have clearly contributed to the problem of obesity as well as diet-related illness. In our community programming ... we want you to learn how to read a recipe … build a weekly menu, plan for the week, go to the grocery store, cook, plan for leftovers and then also start working toward thinking differently about all of that. ... We take the best research, which is the Mediterranean diet, and we translate that for the American kitchen. We certainly do not focus on weight loss. We focus on eating great food that just happens to be great for you.

Chefs are a big part of the equation but don’t always welcome change when it comes to their cooking techniques. What does the future of food look like for restaurants?

H: It’s not just chefs; it’s the food industry as a whole. The problem is that there is this perception among chefs that (food) has to be really salty and really fatty and really greasy and really rich. But the foods that are healthy taste better, period. There’s tons of research about this. I can put a beef stroganoff in front of you, and then I can put a reduced-fat or a lower calorie, healthier version in front of you: if you’re blind-folded, you’re going to choose the healthier one about 85 percent of the time. Unless I tell you first, and if I tell you first, those numbers are almost exactly reversed. Part of this lies in our perception of how we think about food. Getting from point A to point B, that’s a huge undertaking. We want to have a role in that and I think that’s the pie in the sky for us at the Goldring Center. We are developing programming for chefs right now … and we absolutely see this as a key. — HELEN FREUND


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BEER buzz • Bayou Teche Brewing and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) launched an official school beer, Ragin’ Cajuns Genuine Louisiana Ale, before ULL’s first home football game of the season earlier this month. The beer is a Kolsch style brewed with rice and designed to complement tailgating food. • The owners of Red River Brewing Company in Shreveport announced an expansion of brewBayou Teche Brewing’s Karlos ery facilities. Co-founders Jared Beville, Knott and Charles “Buddy” Robert McGuire and Beau Raines are Schilling announce the moving from a small warehouse space release of Ragin’ Cajuns Gento a 23,000-square-foot facility that will uine Louisiana Ale on Sept. 10. house a 20-barrel brewing system and P H O T O BY JA DY N E B EL L a tap room. The shift to the new space should be complete by spring 2016, but the owners hope to open the tap room by the end of 2015. Red River will release a new beer in conjunction with the expansion. Session 18 is a session-style IPA with a low alcohol level. The new facility will feature a bottling line, and Beville says the expansion should broaden the brewery’s distribution in southern Louisiana. “One of my personal milestones is to be able to drink one of our beers at the bar while having a shrimp po-boy at Parkway (Bakery & Tavern),” Beville says. • Paradigm Gardens (www.paradigmgardensnola.com), the urban farm/garden in Central City, announced its fall music series will kick off Sept. 29 with the Mike Dillon Band. The bimonthly events will feature food from Paradigm’s partners Meauxbar, Coquette and Patois. The series is sponsored by Courtyard Brewery. “I was just happy to get invited to the party,” Courtyard brewer/owner Scott Wood says. “I’m friends with Mike [Stoltzfus of Coquette] and Kristen [Essig of Meauxbar] and I like their food a lot, and I guess they like my beer, which is rad.” — NORA McGUNNIGLE

WINE of the week 2014 Chateau de Thauvenay Sancerre LO IRE VA L L E Y. FR A N CE RETAIL $15

Many believe the best sauvignon blanc comes from the Loire Valley’s Sancerre A.O.P. (Appellation d’Origine Protegee). Chateau de Thauvenay’s 42 acres of vineyards originally were planted in 1819 by Count de Montalivet, who had served as Napoleon’s Minister of the Interior. Today, the sixth generation of the family owns the estate. The vineyards are planted on stony hillside slopes receiving peak exposure to sunlight. The nearby Loire River provides protection from spring frosts and cooling morning fog during summer. Immediately after harvest, the fruit is pressed at low pressure in a cold environment to preserve freshness and natural yeast fermentation preserves its aroma and flavor. In the glass, the wine exhibits subtle aromas of lemon, pear and apple and flinty notes. On the palate, minerality underscores bright citrus and white peach flavors. Drink it with artichokes, asparagus, salads, grilled peppers, sushi, seafood, light meats, chicken, Asian cuisines and soft cheeses such as chevre. Buy it at: Costco. — BRENDA MAITLAND

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Pork and beer dinner

7 p.m. Tuesday Meauxbar, 942 N. Rampart St., (504) 569-9979

www.meauxbar.com The dinner features pairings of Belgian beers and dishes featuring pork from Chappapeela Farms. Call for reservations. The dinner costs $65.

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

www.stjamescheese.com The tasting features popular French cheeses, including Livarot, Pont-l’Eveque and Camembert, and apple ciders from Normandy, Basque country and Foggy Ridge Cider in Virginia. There also is charcuterie from Cleaver & Co. and bread from Bellegarde Bakery. Reservations required. Tickets $35.

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Noon-4 p.m. Sunday Tableau, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463

www.sofabinstitute.org The self-guided tour of private kitchens and a few culinary stops in the French Quarter features wine and small bites from restaurants including Compere Lapin, Shaya, Cane & Table, Johnny Sanchez, Primitivo, Salon by Sucre and others. Check-in is at Tableau. Call (504) 267-7490 for reservations. Tickets are $45, $35 for Southern Food & Beverage Museum members.

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Dirty rice balls are stuffed with duck and served with romesco dipping sauce.

Borgne

601 Loyola Ave., (504) 613-3860 www.borgnerestaurant.com

A “broken” romesco made with the sauce’s ingredients dresses seared scallops over wild rice with lentil salad.

Brown Butter

231 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 609-3871 www.brownbutterrestaurant.com

New York strip steak is served with marrow-roasted potatoes and smoky romesco.

Green Goddess

307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347 www.greengoddessrestaurant.com

Freekeh tops arugula salad with barberries, almonds, pickled turnips and romesco.

St. Lawrence

219 N. Peters St., (504) 525-4111 www.saintlawrencenola.com

Hanger steak is served with patatas bravas, grilled asparagus and romesco.

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

AMERICAN Colonial Bowling Lanes — 6601 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, (504) 737-2400; www.colonialbowling.net — The kitchen serves breakfast in the morning and sandwiches, burgers, pizza, quesdaillas and more for lunch and dinner. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The all-you-caneat buffet includes 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 bar and restaurant offers pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

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. $

Revival Bar & Grill — 4612 Quincy St., Metairie, (504) 373-6728; www.facebook. com/revivalbarandgrill — The bar serves burgers, po-boys, salads and noshing items. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — There is 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, steaks, seafood and more. 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 specialty burgers, fried chicken, sandwiches and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Dis & Dem — 2540 Banks St., (504) 9090458; www.disanddem.com — A house burger features a glazed patty dressed 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 with toppings such as cheese, grilled onions and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

The American Sector — 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1940; www.nationalww2museum.org/american-sector — The menu includes American classics like burgers, cobb salad, spaghetti and meatballs and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Ted’s Frostop — 3100 Calhoun St., (504) 861-3615; www.tedsfrostop.com — The menu features burgers with hand-made patties, chicken tenders, crinkle-cut fries and more. Pancakes are available with blueberries, pecans or chocolate chips. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 302-9357 — The 10-ounce Bayou burger is served on a sesame bun. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders. com — Lucy’s serves guacamole made to order, burgers, salads, tacos and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Pelican Cafe — 3901 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 510-4367; www.pelicancafenola.com — The Pelican’s Roost salad features boiled shrimp in crab boil mayonnaise with sausage “croutons.” No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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, steaks and

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) 8617890; 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 August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — The menu includes Chinese and Vietnamese dishes such as sweet and spicy tilapia glazed in tangy sweet-and-spicy sauce served with bok choy. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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

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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. $$ The Tasting Room — 1906 Magazine St., (504) 581-3880; www.ttrneworleans. com — Sample wines or dine on a menu featuring truffle fries, a petit filet with Gorgonzola cream sauce and asparagus and more. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit Cards. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Bistro Orleans — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 304-1469; www.bistroorleansmetairie.com — Popular dishes include oyster and artichoke soup, chargrilled 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 Creole dishes with many seafood options. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.mamommashouse. com — Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ PAGE 45

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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 late-night daily. Credit cards. $

Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. 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.

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) 8852984; 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. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. No reservations. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 8625252; 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 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. $$$ Redemption — 3835 Iberville St., (504) 309-3570; www.redemption-nola.com — Duck cassoulet includes roasted duck breast, duck confit and Terranova Italian sausage topped with foie gras. Reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ 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.

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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 housemade boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” and weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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OUT to EAT 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) 8949800; 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. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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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. $$

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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 achiotesmoked 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. Credit cards. $

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., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and


OUT to EAT 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. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

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. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 483-6464; www.gspizza.com — Pies feature hand-tossed, house-made dough and locally sourced produce. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8328032; 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

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) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys. com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of poboys. 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 accept-

ed. 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) 301-0775 — 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 29 21st Amendment — Reid Poole Quartet, 4:30; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8

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Circle Bar — Oh Pep!, 10 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30

Republic New Orleans — Emancipator Ensemble, Wax Tailor, YPPAH, 10

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

Apple Barrel — Lisa Harrigan, Richard Fiske’s Martini 6:30; Datphunk, 10:30 Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Davenport, 7 Trio, 7:30 Siberia — The Skull, KNIGHT, Bamboula’s — Mark AppleSpace Cadaver, 10 ford Duo, 2; Vivaz, 4:30; Dana Sisters in Christ — Destroy & the Boneshakers, 8 Judas, Trapped Within Burning Banks Street Bar — Mike Machinery, Solid Giant, Magister, 7 Doussan Band, 9

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Cristina Perez 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

Spotted Cat — Chris Christy, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Rob Wagner, 7 Vaso — Angelica Matthews & the Matthews Band, 10

THURSDAY 1 21st Amendment — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4:30; New Orleans Ragweeds, 8 AllWays Lounge — Anxious Sound feat. Rob Cambre, Helen Gillet, Donald Miller, Doug Garrison & Jesse Morrow, 10 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Albanie Falletta, 6:30; NOLA Swinging Gypsies, 10 Banks Street Bar — Aaron Lopez-Barrantes, 7; Cameron Dupuy & the Cajun Troubadours, 9 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Bayou International Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Mikey “B3” Band, 10 BMC — Water Seed, 10 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Duo feat. Duke Heitger, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Alexandra Scott & Josh Paxton, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Castillo Blanco — Renshaw Davies, Castro Clones, Pretty Party, Grotto Girl, Pope, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Yamomenem, 7 Chiba — Kieko Komaki, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6 Circle Bar — Denton Hatcher, 6; The Geraniums, 10 City Park Botanical Garden — Thursdays at Twilight feat. Paul Sanchez & Minimum Rage, 6 Columns Hotel — Naydja CoJoe, 8 Covington Trailhead — Rockin’ the Rails feat. New Suit, 5 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 DMac’s — Fools on Stools feat. Jason Bishop, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Todd Duke Trio, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Christin Bradford, 7; Painted Hands, Dead Man Talking, Noise Complaints, 10; DJ Matt Scott, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30 Funky 544 — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Gasa Gasa — David Ramirez, Dylan LeBlanc, 8 House of Blues Foundation Room — Colin Lake Duo, 6 House of Blues (The Parish) — New Orleans Most Wanted, 9:30 Irish House — Patrick Cooper, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans — Ashlin Parker Trio, 5; The James Rivers Movement, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Marlon Jordan Quartet, 7 Louis Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park feat. Raw Oyster Cult, Pinettes Brass Band, 4 The Maison — Jon Roniger, 4; Sweet Substitute Jazz Band, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Ogden After Hours feat. Russell Gulley, 6 Old Point Bar — Valerie Sassyfras, 8 Old U.S. Mint — New Orleans Swing Dance Festival Pre-Party feat. Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Crescent City Joymakers feat. Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rare Form — Keisha Slaughter, 1; Deltaphonic, 8; The Dave Jones Experience, midnight Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — James Martin Quartet, 7 PAGE 51

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Snug Harbor — Stanton Moore Gasa Gasa — Isidro, The Trio, 8 & 10 Night Janitor, Gasa Gasa Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Orchestra, 9 Meschiya Lake & the Little Big House of Blues — Jet Horns, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Lounge, 11 Club, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hazy Cafe Negril — Texas Pete, 6; St. Roch Tavern — Valerie Ray Trio, 8:30 John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9:30 Sassyfras, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Casa Borrega — Hector GalPlayhouse, Royal Sonesta lardo’s Cuban Jazz Trio, 7 WEDNESDAY 30 New Orleans — Dana Abbott, Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie 5; Irvin Mayfield & the NOJO 21st Amendment — Jeff Lynn Vessels, 7 “Snake” Greenberg’s Charming Jam, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Lil’ Quartet, 8 The Jefferson Orleans Falletta, 5:30; Tommy North — Jay Zainey OrchesApple Barrel — Dre, 6:30; Malone, 9 tra, 6:30 Deltaphonic, 10:30 Circle Bar — Laura Dyer Jazz The Maison — NYCE, 4; Jazz Bacchanal — Jesse Morrow Trio, 6; Joel Wilson, Sarah Vipers, 6:30; New Orleans Trio, 7:30 Elizabeth, Chris Cole, 10 Swamp Donkeys, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Columns Hotel — John Maple Leaf Bar — Hill CounTrio feat. Giselle Anguizola, Rankin, 8 try Hounds, 10 2; Messy Cookers, 6:30; Mem Crescent City Brewhouse — Shannon Band, 10 Mo’s Chalet — Da Krewe New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Band, 7 Banks Street Bar — Major d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Bacon, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar Blue Nile — New Orleans on the Bone, 7:45 Rhythm Devils, 8; Water — Jenna McSwain, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Palm Seed, 11 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) Court Jazz Band feat. Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, 7 — Ashley Blume’s Four Spot, 7 BMC — Mark Appleford, 5 Gasa Gasa — Sidewalk Chalk, Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski, Preservation Hall — Pres8 ervation Hall All Stars feat. Yugen, 10:30 Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Hi-Ho Lounge — Da Truth Evans, 8 Prime Example Jazz Club Brass Band, 10 — Jesse McBride & Next Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo House of Blues — Billy Idol, Generation, 8 & 10 Bass, 8 The London Souls, 8 Cafe Negril — The Melatauns, Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Krown, 5 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9 Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans — Amari Ansari Carousel Bar & Lounge — Tom Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Quartet, 8 Hook & Wendell Brunious, 8:30 Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Revival Bar & Grill — Dr. Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Casa Borrega — Sasha Rock, 8:30 Dish Country Jamboree, 9 Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30 Richard Fiske’s Martini The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Champions Square — Back 2 Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Agid Quartet, 6:30 School Fest feat. Rich Homie Davenport, 7 Quan, K. Camp, Jacques, Diggy, Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Justine Skye, Silento, Elijah Stringbeans, 8 Brass Band, 10:30 Blake & Rawyals, 7 Saucy’s — Mark Appleford, 6 Old Opera House — Chicken Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone on the Bone, 7:45 Stone & the Happy Monsters, Siberia — The Mynabirds, Bad Bad Hats, 6; Sham 69, Preservation Hall — The 7; Squirrel Queen, 11 The Scandals, GLUT, Wave Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Chickie Wah Wah — John Raper, 10 Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Rankin, 5:30; Meschiya Lake Smoothie King Center — Prime Example Jazz Club — & Tom McDermott, 8; Cole Janet Jackson, 8 Williams, 10:30 Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Open Ears Music Series feat. People Places & Things (Mike Reed, Greg Ward, Tim Haldeman, Jason Roebke, Jason Stein & Ben Lamar), 10:30

Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10

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Rock ’n’ Bowl — Horace Trahan, 8:30

Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6

Siberia — Chuckleberries, The Bills, Lonely Lonely Knights, 9

Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 6; Lillybrave, Teenager, Quintessential Octopus, 10

Snug Harbor — Rex Gregory Saxophone Quartet, 8 & 10

The Civic Theatre — Beach House, Flock of Dimes, 9

Spice Bar & Grill — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7

Columns Hotel — Ted Long, 6

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

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Luke Winslow King, 7:30 Tipitina’s — Houndmouth, Basia Bulat, 9 Tulane University, Der Rathskeller — Jazz at the Rat feat. Jesse McBride & Next Generation (Harold Battiste tribute), 7 Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium — United States Marine Band, 7:30 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 5

Contemporary Arts Center — ETHEL, 7:30

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Ike Stubblefield Trio feat. Will Bernard & Jermal Watson, 10 Dish on Hayne — Sharon Martin, 6:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — George French Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Esso Afrojam Funkbeat, 7; DJ Matt Scott, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Sam Cordts, 3

Vaughan’s — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 9

Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5; Antoine Diel Trio, 8:30

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Funky 544 — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Gasa Gasa — Teen Daze, Heavenly Beat, 10 Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7

AllWays Lounge — Chapter Soul, 10:30

House of Blues — Appetite for Destruction, 8

Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Philip Melancon, 8

House of Blues Foundation Room — Jake Landry, 5

Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 2; Swamp Donkeys, 6:30; John Lisi Band, 11 Banks Street Bar — Caffeteine, My Parasite, Death Church, 10 Blue Nile — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 11 Bombay Club — Mark Braud, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Jerry Jumonville & the Jump City Band, 5; String Remedy, 8; RJ Comer, 11 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6; Higher Heights Reggae Band, 10 Carousel Bar & Lounge — Robin Barnes Jazz Quartet, 5

Howlin’ Wolf — Tyler Kinchen & the Right Pieces album release, Abby Diamond, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Addie Eversong & the Legion, 9 Irish House — Zak, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans — Tom McDermott, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Mark Appleford, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Dave Reis, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Meghan Linsey, 7:30; Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor, 8 The Maison — Luneta Jazz Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; Dirty Bourbon River Show, Fat Ballerina, 10

Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7:30

Maple Leaf Bar — YMG: Yamagishi, Malinowski, Gelini, 10:15

Checkpoint Charlie — Mad Max, 4; Manual Dap Funk, 7; Louisiana Hellbenders, 11

Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Diabolo’s Horns, 9:30

Oak — Bon Bon Vivant, 9

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Ponderosa Stomp Thursday-Saturday Various locations; concerts at Rock ’n’ Bowl, 3016 S. Carrollton Ave. (504) 861-1700 www.rocknbowl.com www.ponderosastomp.org

Over its 13 years THRU — 12 more than founder Ira “Dr. Ike” Padnos might have expected — the Ponderosa Stomp has expanded and contracted, relocated and returned; bade farewell to spring and ushered in fall; made a Circle Bar hop from the Rock ’n’ Bowl to House of Blues, The Howlin’ Wolf and back again. Participants have died and traditions been born. A biennial since 2011, the festival celebrating the unsung heroes of rock, soul, R&B, gospel and swamp pop seems to carry even greater import now, as an every-other-calendar-year occurrence. The setup remains familiar: A Hip Drop 45 rpm DJ marathon kickoff party (9:30 p.m. Thursday at d.b.a.) and three days of a record swap meet and music history seminars at the AC Hotel by Marriott (221 Carondelet St.), followed by two nights of salon-style bookings at Rock ’n’ Bowl — literally all night, as the final scheduled gigs, rockabilly godfathers J.M. Van Eaton, 77, and Roy Head, 74, each start at 2:45 a.m. Debuting this year are Mable John of Motown, Stax and Raelettes fame; Muscle Shoals soul man Willie Hightower; and New Orleans singer/songwriter Jimmy “Pistol” Jules, who composed for Etta James and played with Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Regulars returning include southpaw guitar-slinger Barbara Lynn (pictured) and Motown heartbreaker Brenda Holloway. For a full schedule and video previews, visit www.ponderosastomp.com. Single tickets $60; two-day pass $110. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Old U.S. Mint — “India Soul into NOLA” feat. Andrew McLean & guests, 2 One Eyed Jacks — Cretus, Suplecs, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Senri Oe, 8; Just Judy & Rasa Vitalia, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Palm Court Jazz Band feat. Lucien Barbarin & James Evans, 8 Pearl Wine Co. — GromKo’s Rhythmic Tricks, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Southern Syncopators feat. Steve Pistorius, 6; PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Prytania Bar — Eastwood Smokes, 8:45 Rare Form — Golden Ours, 1; Justin Donovan, 4; Deltaphonic, 8; Hazelhurst, midnight Republic New Orleans — Jose Gonzalez, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Brian Miller Duet, 6; Iris P & the Greatest Band, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Ponderosa Stomp: Freddie “Boom Boom” Cannon & Los Straitjackets, Marble John, Brenda Holloway & many others, 6:30 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Moon Germs, 7 Siberia — Malice, 9Tales, TRVPFVTHVR, NOLA FAM, Spammkid, 9

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SATURDAY 3 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blu Piano Bar — Philip Melancon, 8

Brass Band, Tonya Boyd-Cannon, 11

One Eyed Jacks — Albert Hammond Jr., 9

Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Trio, 8

Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — Guitar Slim & His Band, 8

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

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Palm Court Jazz Band feat. Brian O’Connell & Chuck Badie, 8

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 9 Buffa’s Lounge — Cole & Keef, 5; Leslie Cooper, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Luska, 4; T Bone Stone’s birthday extravaganza, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Johnny Sansone Band, 9 Circle Bar — Jeff Pagano, 6; Glish, Moths, I’m Fine, Ex-Specter, 10 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Little Freddie King, 11 DMac’s — Iceman Special, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — David Harris Quartet, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 7 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Amanda Ducorbier Trio, 9 Funky 544 — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Gasa Gasa — Where Y’acht, Tony Scratchere, 10 Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Goorin Bros. — Dustan Louque, 4 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, DJ Soul Sister, 5 House of Blues (The Parish) — Electric Six, Yip Deceiver, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — Hot 8 Brass Band 20th anniversary celebration, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Palmyra, Next Level Midriff, 10 Joy Theater — GRiZ, 11 Kerry Irish Pub — Speed the Mule, 5; One Tailed Three, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 & 9; Motown tribute feat. Casme, Newlines Finest Band & others, 9

Banks Street Bar — Scarecrow Sonic Boombox, Johnwayneisdead, Melville Deweys, 10

The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Fais do do feat. T’Canaille, Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Kumasi, Street Legends Brass Band, 10

Bei Tempi — Rumba Buena, 10

Oak — Miles Cabecerious, 9

Blue Nile — New World Order

Old Point Bar — Datphunk, 9:30

Bamboula’s — Four Spot, 1; Smoky Greenwell Band, 5:30; Caesar Brothers, 10

Preservation Hall — Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Frank Oxley, 6; Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Freddie Lonzo, 8, 9, 10 Rare Form — Justin Donovan, 1; Marc Stone, 5; Steve Mignano Trio, 8 Republic New Orleans — Run the Jewels, Boots, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 6; Glen David Andrews, 9 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Ponderosa Stomp: Irma Thomas, Barbara Lynn, Roy Head, James Alexander & many others, 6:30 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Moon Germs, 7 Siberia — The Herringbone Orchestra, The Monocle feat. Aurora Nealand, 6; The Stovebolts, Face on Mars, Over the Top, The Weakness, 9 Sisters in Christ — G.L.O.S.S., Population, Room 101, Niteland, 7 Snug Harbor — Ike Stubblefield Organ Trio, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 2; Swamp Donkeys, 6; The Davis Rogan Band, 10 Three Muses — Chris Peters, 5; Debbie Davis, 6 Tipitina’s — Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, 9 Twist of Lime — PaperChase (cover band), 9 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Anais St. John, 6

SUNDAY 4 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Spike Perkins Quartet, 5:30; Ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 9 Banks Street Bar — Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7:30; Lagniappe Brass Band, 11 Bombay Club — Matt Lemmler, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Red Hot Brass Band, 4 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Mike “Soulman” Baptiste, 7 Cafe Istanbul — Senri Oe, 5 Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8


MUSIC LISTINGS Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Funky 544 — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Gasa Gasa — BUHU, Della, Rareluth, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bru Bruser’s Libra B-day Bash feat. Gov’t Majik, Full Orangutan, DJ Kwesi, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irish House — Aaron Lopez-Barrantes, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans — Germaine Bazzle, 8 The Jefferson Orleans North — The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 6:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8 The Maison — Dinosaurchestra, 1; Nickel-A-Dance feat. Shannon Powell’s Traditional All Stars, 4; Leah Rucker, 7; Soul Project, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Old Point Bar — Romy Vargas, 3:30

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Sunday Night Swingsters feat. Lucien Barbarin & Mark Braud, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1; Stephanie Nilles, 4; Shan Kenner, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 2 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Fais do do feat. Bruce Daigrepont, 5:30 Siberia — Ponderosa Stomp presents Davie Allen & the Arrows, 3 Balls of Fire, Guitar Lightnin’ Lee & the Thunder Band, DJ Jonathan Toubin, WFMU DJs, 8 Snug Harbor — Jason Marsalis & B.G.Q. Exploration, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Pfister Sisters, 2; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Yuki Izakaya — Senri Oe, 8

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; Carl LeBlanc, 4:30; Russell Gulley, 9 Banks Street Bar — Lauren Sturm’s Piano Night, 7; South Jones, 9 Bombay Club — Josh Paxton, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Arsene Delay, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Trent Pruitt, 6; Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Circle Bar — Rafael Ponde, 10 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Luke Winslow King, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 DMac’s — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Instant Opus Improvised Jazz Series, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Joseph Allred, New Holland, Sharks’ Teeth, 7 Gasa Gasa — Anxious Sound feat. The Thing, Death Posture, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; In the Valley Below, The Moth & the Flame, 9 Irish House — Traditional Irish music session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Paul Tobin, 8 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Zena Moses & Rue Fiya, 10 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Root Juice, 3; Snake & the Charmers, 7 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Siberia — Shannon & the Clams, Cool Ghouls, Gland, Freddy Beach Sidney’s Saloon — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick

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CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS An Afternoon of Chamber Music. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno.edu — Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Loyola Chamber Orchestra students perform. Tickets $40, students $10. 3 p.m. Sunday. Fall Fireworks! First Baptist Church of New Orleans, 5290 Canal Blvd., (504) 482-5775; www.lpomusic.com — The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra performs pieces by Stravinsky, Barber, Bach and Handel, including Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks.” Tickets to 10 a.m. open rehearsal are $10; tickets to the evening performance start at $20. 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Trinity Artist Series. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www. trinitynola.com — “Uncle” Wayne Daigrepont performs songs and show tunes. Free. 5 p.m. Sunday. Wave, Leaf & Stone. Ursuline Chapel, 2701 State St.; www. nomdc.org — Musica da Camera’s 50th season opens with a program focused on imagery in medieval music, highlighting a 13th-century song cycle by composer Martin Codax. Free. 4 p.m. Sunday.

CALL FOR MUSIC Crescent City Sound Chorus. The women’s chorus holds auditions at 7 p.m. Mondays at Delgado Community College. Call (601) 550-0983 or visit www.crescentcitysound.com. Jazz Fest 2016. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival accepts applications for bands to perform at the festival on April 22-May 1, 2016. Visit www. nojazzfest.com/apply or mail a press kit to New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Attn: Music Department, 336 Camp St., Ste. 250, New Orleans, LA 70130. Deadline Oct. 1. Kinderchor. Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 522-8014; www.neworleanskinderchor.blogspot. com — The New Orleans German-American Children’s Chorus meets Saturday afternoons from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Membership is open to all ages and no prior experience in German or singing is necessary. New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra. The orchestra seeks musicians at intermediate level or higher. Visit www.novorchestra.com for details.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND Grandma (R) — Lily Tomlin’s first lead role in 27 years is Elle, a feisty lesbian whose teenage granddaughter (Julia Garner) needs $600 for an abortion. Elmwood, Canal Place The Martian (PG-13) — Matt Damon said, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this,” so they leave him on Mars forever. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Partisan (NR) — Vincent Cassel stars as cult leader to a community of karaoke-loving child assassins in this 2015 Sundance pick. Zeitgeist Peace Officer (NR) — The documentary’s subject is ex-sheriff Dub Lawrence, who created Utah’s first SWAT team but later changed his views of law enforcement after an officer killed his son-in-law. Zeitgeist Sicario (R) — FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) signs up for an unexpectedly violent assignment zig-zagging across the Mexican border to track a cartel boss. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place

Stonewall (R) — Critics sharpen their knives on Roland Emmerich’s poorly conceived combination of gay-rights drama and total fiction. Canal Place The Walk (PG) — The heights are uncomfortable as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s fake French accent in the fictionalized version of Man on Wire, about tightrope walker Philippe Petit. Elmwood, Slidell

NOW SHOWING 90 Minutes in Heaven (PG-13) — Minister Don Piper (Hayden Christensen) has an out-ofbody experience following a near-fatal car crash in the adaptation of Piper’s 2004 memoir. Elmwood, Slidell 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: shrinking in size while gaining superhuman strength. West Bank

Captive (PG-13) — Single mother Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) talks down a homicidal fugitive with a Christian devotional book in a dramatization of the 2005 incident. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Everest (PG-13) — Baltasar Kormakur directs a dramatization of the 1996 Mount Everest blizzard disaster, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Clarke as expedition leaders. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Hotel Transylvania 2 (PG) — Dracula signs his grandson up for vampire boot camp, hoping to push him towards the lifestyle in a world increasingly tolerant of humans. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Intern (PG-13) — Robert De Niro takes the last available media job. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Iron Giant: Signature Edition (NR) — Brad Bird’s animated giant robot (voiced by Vin Diesel) crash lands again because no one appreciated him in 1999. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Learning to Drive (R) — A literary agent (Patricia Clarkson) and a Sikh driving instructor (Ben Kingsley) strike up an unexpected friendship. Elmwood Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (PG-13) — Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow teenage Gladers battle the mysterious organization W.C.K.D. and make an escape across the desolate Scorch in the series’ second installment. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (PG-13) — Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team tackle a new threat, an international organization called the Syndicate, in the series’ fifth installment. Elmwood, Regal Pawn Sacrifice (PG-13) — Tobey Maguire stars as chess enigma Bobby Fischer, who faced Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) in 1972. Elmwood, Canal Place

The Perfect Guy (PG-13) — He’s a violent, creepy stalker (Michael Ealy) and she (Sanaa Lathan) deserves better than a film with a 19 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place 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 hiphop forever in this drama based on the rise of N.W.A. Elmwood, West Bank The Transporter Refueled (PG13) — The sequel stars Ed Skrein as Frank Martin, a mercenary smuggler who becomes embroiled in a bank heist and the kidnapping of a Russian kingpin. West Bank Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos (PG-13) — A timid young rooster named Toto (Bruno Bichir) summons the courage to fight an evil rancher who threatens to destroy his family in this Mexican animated film. Elmwood A Walk in the Woods (R) — Determined to hike the Appalachian Trail, travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) takes the only companion he can find: his ne’er-do-well old friend Stephen (Nick Nolte). Clearview, Elmwood, Slidell, Regal War Room (PG) — A troubled woman turns to prayer in this independent Christian drama. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 9 Month Stretch (NR) — An uptight judge (Sandrine Kimberlaine) accidentally gets pregnant after a New Year’s encounter with a dim-witted criminal (director Albert Dupontel). In French with English subtitles. 7 p.m. Friday. Alliance Francise Anatomy of a Murder (NR) — A man arrested for murder argues that he was seized by temporary insanity when the murder victim raped his wife in the 1959 courtroom drama with a score by Duke Ellington. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes (NR) — Whether you like this film is just a reflektion of whether you like Arcade Fire. 10 p.m. Thursday. Prytania The Big Beat (NR) — Indywood screens local filmmaker Joe Lauro’s history of Fats Domino and solicits donations to build out its new cinema space. 3 p.m. Saturday. 3400 St. Claude Ave. The Big Uneasy (NR) — Harry Shearer’s documentary looks at federal levee failures and flooding following

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Black Mass (R) — The World’s Most Ubiquitous Men (Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch) star as Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and his brother, Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place

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FILM LISTINGS Hurricane Katrina. 8 p.m. Saturday. Buffa’s The Civil War (NR) — New Orleans Lyceum screens Ken Burns’ PBS documentary on five Wednesdays Sept. 16-Oct. 14, marking 150 years since the Civil War and 25 years since the series’ debut. 7 p.m. Wednesday. New Orleans Lyceum The Driller Killer (NR) — Unable to make the $500 rent on his Lower East Side apartment, a struggling artist takes to murder by power drill in Abel Ferrara’s gnarly 1979 horror thriller. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Burgundy Picture House Escape from New York (R) — The future is 1997, Manhattan is a prison island and the special effects are on point in John Carpenter’s Cold War-era dystopian sci-fi film. Midnight Friday-Sunday. Prytania Guidance (NR) — A former child star fakes his resume to get a job at a high school in a film directed by, starring and mocking former child star Pat Mills. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists (NR) — Karl Wirsum and other artists held down a zany Chicago scene in the New York-centric art world of the 1960s. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Freeman Auditorium

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition (NR) — The saga goes ever on (three hours, ten minutes, two movies to go). 7:30 p.m. Monday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal The Last Season (NR) — A Vietnam vet and a former Cambodian freedom fighter bond as they hunt rare mushrooms (but not that kind of mushrooms) in a documentary from Oregon. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Chalmette The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore (NR) — Marco Armiliato conducts Verdi’s opera, featuring soprano Anna Netrebko, tenor Yonghoon Lee, baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick. 11:55 a.m. Saturday. Elmwood, Regal Million Dollar Arm (PG) — Kids watch sports agent J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) discover two promising young baseball pitchers in India; parents do a double take every time a contract negotiation sounds

Queen of Earth (NR) — Selfcare backfires as Catherine (Elizabeth Moss) takes a crazy-making holiday at her best friend Ginny’s (Katherine Waterston) lake house. 9:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday. Zeitgeist Rifftrax Live: Miami Connection (NR) — Mystery Science Theater 3000 comedians watch motorcycle-riding ninjas take on a college rock band in the 1987 cult film. 7 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal Roger Waters The Wall (NR) — Vintage footage of Pink Floyd performing The Wall is paired with interviews with band members Roger Waters and Nick Mason. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Elmwood, Slidell, Canal Place Rope (NR) — Two men strangle a mutual friend, dump the body in a wooden chest and use it to serve a buffet dinner in Alfred Hitchcock’s quintessentially dark thriller. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Zeitgeist Serenity (PG-13) — The 2005 film continues Joss Whedon’s TV series Firefly, following a group of rebels as they evade a sinister regime aboard the spaceship Serenity. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Kenner, Slidell The Trials of Spring (NR) — Filmmaker Lauren Feeney profiles nine activist women across the Middle East and North Africa. A filmmaker Q&A follows. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Freeman Auditorium The Whole Gritty City (NR) — Three local school marching bands gear up for Mardi Gras season. Indywood hosts Skully, one of the film’s stars, to celebrate his birthday. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. CRISP Farms Alliance Francaise: 1519 Jackson Ave., (504) 568-0770; www.af-neworleans.org 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 Buffa’s Lounge: 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9490038; www.buffasbar.com Burgundy Picture House: 4117 Burgundy St.; www. picturehousenola.com Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com CRISP Farms: 1310 Lesseps St.; www.indywood.

Alex Ross Perry has no tolerance for feel-good movies. Like his fellow New York-based, independent filmmaker Noah Baumbach, Perry is known for creating acerbic and distinctly unlikable characters and putting them at the center of what turn out to be critically acclaimed films. Baumbach and Perry also share an affinity for well-drawn female characters and an acknowledged debt to Woody Allen. But as Baumbach (Mistress America) increasingly finds inspiration in Allen’s early comedies, Perry has moved closer to dour but insightful Allen dramas like Interiors. Throw in some Roman Polanski — The Tenant or Rosemary’s Baby — and a bit of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, and you’ve got Perry’s altogether original Queen of Earth. A character study about a clinically depressed woman and a deteriorating friendship, Queen of Earth provides what may be the most challenging cinematic experience since Perry’s previous film, last year’s Listen Up Philip. Elisabeth Moss (Peggy on TV’s Mad Men) stars as Catherine, a high-strung woman who has just lost her father, a famous artist to whom she had devoted her life while neglecting her own artistic career. To make matters worse, her longtime boyfriend dumps her (in an opening scene shot in excruciating close-up on Catherine’s face) for another woman. Catherine finds “exile” with her best friend Ginny (Katherine Waterston, Inherent Vice) at the secluded lake house owned by Ginny’s family. But Ginny’s focus drifts away from Catherine toward a casual relationship with boorish, vaguely threatening neighbor Rich (Patrick Fugit, Gone Girl), feeding Catherine’s alienation and despair as she veers toward mental illness. Shot in two weeks on a miniscule budget and executed in a style that points to the psychological thrillers of the 1960s and ’70s — even the opening titles and end credits refer specifically to that genre and time period — Queen of Earth makes no apologies for a story that’s deeply troubling and often hard to watch. It paints an unflinching portrait of the love-hate dynamic at the center of many close friendships and wears its joylessness like a badge of honor. As tensions build and the psych-horror tropes multiply, Queen of Earth telegraphs a big payoff that never quite comes through. Catharsis is not something Perry seems predisposed to offering his characters — or his audience. Both Catherine’s and Ginny’s emotional trajectories are communicated through scenes that flash back to the previous summer at the same lake house, with the best friend roles’ largely reversed. (Catherine has the insufferable boyfriend and Ginny is going through an unspecified difficult time.) The artful juxtaposition of scenes from two very different summers — sometimes intercut with brief snippets of dialogue — gives Queen of Earth its distinctive character. Perry has style to burn but Moss delivers the substance with a searing portrayal of one woman’s descent into madness. In recent interviews, Perry has hinted that his work with Moss over two films (she also played a key role in Listen Up Philip) may be just the beginning of a long creative partnership. Given the range Moss shows in Queen of Earth, that seems like a very good plan. — KEN KORMAN

org The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 229-4259; www.thegrandtheatre.com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell, (985) 641-1889; www.thegrandtheatre.com Indywood Movie Theater (future location): 3400 St. Claude Ave.; www. indywood.org New Orleans Lyceum: 4511 Chestnut

St., (504) 460-9049; www. lyceumproject.com 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 St. Roch Park: 1800 St. Roch Ave.; www.nola.gov/ nordc The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal

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Hellions (NR) — That feel when all you want to do on Halloween is get high and eat candy, but evil children are knocking on your door and you’re pregnant with Rosemary’s baby. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist

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Art for Arts’ Sake. Galleries and museums in the Warehouse District and Uptown open new shows in the annual celebration of visual art. Inside the Contemporary Arts Center (www.cacno. org/afas2015), visitors enjoy pop-up performances by string quartet Ethel, the grand opening of art and design bookstore The Stacks, a cash bar and activities for children and families. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Paintings by Courtney “Ceaux” Buckley. Axiom Art Gallery, 4613 Freret St., (504) 419-0202 — The show is on display for one night only. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday.

OPENING Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www. angelakinggallery.com — “Temples of Glass,” glass sculptures by Marlene Rose; new works by Joanna Zjawinska; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — Paintings and drawings by Cheri Ben-Iesau; jewelry by Chigusa Nishimoto; paintings by Myra Williamson Wirtz; art furniture by Veretta Garrison-Moller; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — Kinentic sculpture by Lin Emery; “Operas and Prisons,” photography by David Leventi; “The River and the City,” paintings by Simon Gunning; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (985) 288-4170; www.beatasasik.com — “Down the Rabbit Hole,” paintings and jewelry by Beata Sasik, opening reception 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary. com — “Recent Sculpture,” work in bronze by David Borgerding, opens Thursday; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Toward Green,” new paintings by Jere Allen, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789;

www.coleprattgallery.com — Paintings by Mike Williams, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Coup D’oeil Art Consortium. 2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — Work by James Taylor Bonds, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Guthrie Contemporary. 3815 Magazine St., (504) 897-2688; www.guthriecontemporary. com — Photographs by Dorothy O’Connor, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Guy Lyman Fine Art. 3645 Magazine St., (504) 899-4687; www.guylymanfineart.com — “Dorothy Jean,” photography by Les Schmidt, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/departments/art-gallery — “Made in the U.S.A.: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit,” opens Thursday; opening reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 8. Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Louisiana Wild,” paintings of Louisiana flowers by Will Smith Jr., opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www. jonathanferraragallery.com — “Absence and Presence,” drawings and paintings by Monica Zeringue; “Invisible Ping,” new paintings by Brian Guidry; opens Thursday; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Julie Silvers Art. 617 Julia St.; www.juliesilversart. com — “Ladies,” paintings and sculpture by Julie Silvers, grand opening reception 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “Pints, Quarts and Gallons,” work by Christopher Saucedo, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Mystic Blue Signs. 2212 Magazine St., (504) 525-4691; www. mysticbluesigns.com — Group calligraphy exhibition by the New Orleans Lettering Arts Association, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — New paintings by Caio Fonseca, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-

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9600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink,” photography by Bill Yates; “Bent, Not Broken,” drawings by Michael Meads; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Pop City. 3118 Magazine St., (504) 304-7744; www.facebook. com/funrockn.popcity — “2300 Miles: One String, Many Drawings,” drawings and paintings by Nurhan Gokturk, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com — “Passages,” work by Thomas Swanston, opens Thursday; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. Saturday. Steve Martin Studios. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www. stevemartinfineart.com — “Creatures of the Waterline,” paintings by Frances Rodriguez, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Places and Offhand Geometry,” paintings and mixed-media work by Bryce Speed, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES 5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 940-2900; www.5pressgallery.com — Solo exhibition by Brandan Odums, through Nov. 7. A Gallery for Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Joshua Mann Pailet: Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth,” photography from 2005-2015, including Hurricane Katrina, through Nov. 2. Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/antenna — “Dash Initial,” group exhibition of Atlanta-based artists curated by Dashboard, through Sunday. Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com — Work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, ongoing. Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 3094249; www.antonart.com — “Outsider Artist Expose,” folk and outsider art by Mose Tolliver, Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth and Chuckie Williams, ongoing. Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Hispanic Convergence in New Orleans,” group exhibition of artists from Central and South America, through Oct. 10.


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New work at The Front

The great thing about the galleries along St. Claude Avenue is their unpredictability and the way potential genius is free to experiment. The annoying thing about St. Claude galleries is their unpredictability — not knowing if you’ll see something great or half-baked. The Front has four connected spaces where artists can do their thing. This month, all four spaces hold work that is polished, or at least deftly realized, as we see upon entering and confronting India Jacobs’ Future Mythologies series of prints and drawings. The recent Tulane University architecture graduate’s work is based on her view of her native Los Angeles as a pricey, virtual reality rendition of the American Dream which she distills into sci-fi visions like Destination Airship Mechanics (pictured), a geometric rhapsody Future Mythologies: Revisiting THRU of scaffolds, cranes, slinky tubes the American Dream: OCT and striated spheres rendered in New work by India Jacobs Day-Glo colors. Similar compoThis Shifting Vessel: New nents appear in Building the ceramics by Jeffrey Thurston American Dream, but here they support an aerial golf course with helicopters, Making Jamie: Cartoon journal mysterious domes and surveillance of childbirth and parenting devices hovering over the greens. As in by Kyle Bravo Aerosol and Industrial Waste — a realm Brand New Atlas: Mixed-media where monumental beauty parlor hair works by Kelly A. Mueller dryers and industrial cooling towers stand like Easter Island monoliths — we The Front, 4100 St. Claude Ave. see a future based on current tendencies (504) 383-4075 taken to their logical conclusions. San Francisco native Jeffrey Thurwww.nolafront.org ston’s ceramic sculptures suggest archaeological artifacts mingled with cityscapes, human bones and tiles from ancient civilizations, a perspective he says was inspired by the way Bay Area Rapid Transit offers odd, cutaway views of the city. Kyle Bravo’s cartoons of his and his wife’s daily life before and after the birth of their child are touching yet entertaining, a visual diary of the common yet wondrous journey. Kelly A. Mueller’s abstracted views of wild boars and vultures and fishing trawlers at Shell Beach reflect such a knowing, visceral familiarity that it’s hard to believe she’s a Chicago transplant. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “No Comply,” temporary studio installation by Dan Tague, through Wednesday; “Osama, Obama, Baby Mama Drama,” paintings by Jon Boles; “Pitcha This, Ya’ Heard Me,” mixed-media paintings by Charles Beau von Hoffacker; both through Saturday. Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (985) 288-4170; www.beatasasik.com — “Colors of Aspen,”

paintings and jewelry by Beata Sasik, through Wednesday. Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery. 4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing. Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www.brandartnola. com — “La Louisiane: Two Man Show,” paintings by Mike Guidry and sculpture by Kelly 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. Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794;

www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Louisiana Landscapes,” decorated porcelain vessels by Sarah Ball, through Oct. 7. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “To Match Our Dreams of Perfection,” new paintings by Noah Saterstrom, through Tuesday. 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. PAGE 60

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Atrium Gallery at Christwood. 100 Christwood Blvd., Covington, (985) 898-0515; www. christwoodrc.com — “Then and Now: A Retrospective,” paintings by Rise Delmar Ochsner, through October.

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Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery. Loyola University, Monroe Library, fourth floor, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5456; www.loyno. edu/dibollgallery — Work by Lee Deigaard and Rachel Jones Deris, through Oct. 22. The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www. foundationgallerynola.com — “House,” group exhibition featuring Andrew Lamar Hopkins, Ben Hamburger, Marta Maleck, Loren Schwerd, Daniel J. Victor and Shawn Waco, through Oct. 30. The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront. org — “Brand New Atlas,” mixed-media work by Kelly A. Mueller; “Future Mythologies: Revisiting the American Dream,” work by India Jacobs; “Making Jamie,” cartoons by Kyle Bravo; “This Shifting Vessel,” ceramic work by Jeffrey Thurston; all through Sunday. 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. Gallery Orange. 819 Royal St., (504) 701-0857; www.gallery-orange.com — Artist residency featuring Gigi Mills, through Oct. 28.

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Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www. goodchildrengallery.com — “9 to 5,” work by Marta Maleck, through Sunday.

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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. Jazz & Heritage Gallery. 1205 N. Rampart St., (504) 558-6100; www.jazzandheritage.org — “My

Louisiana Muse,” photographs of Louisiana artists by Zack Smith, through Oct. 7. Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Around Town,” paintings by Diego Larguia, through Wednesday. John Bukaty Studio and Gallery. 841 Carondelet St., (970) 232-6100; www.johnbukaty.com — “Flags of Our Time,” flag-inspired art by John Bukaty, through October. Ken Kirschman Artspace. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca. com — NOCCA faculty exhibition, through Nov. 21. M. Francis Gallery. 1938 Burgundy St., (504) 931-1915; www. mfrancisgallery.com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing. Martin Welch Art Gallery. 223 Dauphine St., (504) 388-4240; www.martinwelchart.com — Paintings and mixed media by Martin Welch, ongoing. Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos.com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing. New Orleans Photo Alliance. 1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www. neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Catalyst,” group photography exhibition juried by Alan F. Rothschild, through Nov. 15. 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. 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.

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. Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www. neworleanshealingcenter.org — Recent work by Amy Bryan, Alma Bryan Powell and Myesha Francis Agwe, through Saturday. Sinistra Studio. 3333 Kingman St., Suite 100, Metairie, (504) 812-3197; www.sinistrastudio. com — “Inside the Artists’ Studio,” ceramic work by Susan Bergman, Gerald Haessig and Kate Tonguis, through Oct. 17. Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www. sorengallery.com — Group exhibition by gallery artists, through Wednesday. The Southern Letterpress. 3700 St. Claude Ave., (504) 264-3715; www.thesouthernletterpress. com — “Color Matching Systems: Nancy Sharon Collins,” exhibit about historical color design processes, through Oct. 24. St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — “Architecture as Art: Selections from the New Orleans Museum of Art,” group exhibition of works from NOMA’s permanent collection, through October. Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium. org/staplegoods — “Extempore,” new work by Mary Rooney, through Sunday.

Reynolds-Ryan Art Gallery. Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., (504) 896-6369; www. newmanschool.org — “A Survey 1997-2005,” mixed-media work by Troy Dugas, through Oct. 30.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “10 Years Later — a Black Perspective,” group exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, through Wednesday.

Salon. 3446 Constance St — Paintings and drawings by Erica Lambertson, through Wednesday.

Studio Inferno. 6601 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-1878; www.facebook.com/infernonola — “Katrina X,” work by Larkin Gaudet, Althea

Holden, Karen Edmunds and Mitchell Gaudet commemorating Hurricane Katrina, through Nov. 1.

— “Katrina 10: Reflections on Renewal,” work by Wayne Amedee, through Oct. 11 and more.

UNO Lakefront Campus Fine Arts Gallery. Hardwood Drive, University of New Orleans, (504) 280-6000; www.uno.edu — “Matthew Sontheimer: Unposted and Seldom Seen,” installation and collages, through Oct. 12.

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.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — “Miraculous Tales of Nonfiction,” work by Jessica Goldfinch, through Sunday.

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 Sunday. 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. George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 5867432; www.themckennamuseum. com — “The 10-Year Journey: Reflections of Family, Identity and New Orleans,” photography by L. Kasimu Harris, through Oct. 10. 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. 18 and more. Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 400 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org/nelson-galleries — “The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City,” photography by David Spielman and archival images, through Jan. 9, 2016. Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com

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 and more. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy,” Carnival costume designs by Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler, through Dec. 4, 2016 and more. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www. noma.org — “A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context,” Rococo Revival-style parlor from Butler-Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, through Oct. 11 and more. Newcomb Art Museum. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartmuseum. tulane.edu — “A Shared Space: KAWS, Karl Wirsum and Tomoo Gokita,” group exhibition, through Jan. 3, 2016. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Bean and Bailey Ceramics,” ceramic art by Anderson Bailey and Jessie Bean presented by the Center for Southern Craft and Design, through Tuesday and more. Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/ the-old-us-mint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, through Jan. 1, 2016 and more. Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane.

edu — “Medieval Louisiana,” exhibit about the region’s adoption of Byzantine, Romanesque, Hispano-Moresque and Gothic architectural forms, ongoing. Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.sofabinsitute.org — “The Photography of Modernist Cuisine,” large-format photography by Nathan Myhrvold, 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 and more.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Open call. Second Story Gallery, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.neworleanshealingcenter. org — The gallery seeks exhibition proposals for 2016 from artists and arts organizations. Call (504) 427-2719 or email rongbennett@ cox.net. Spillways. Press Street seeks artists, writers and collectives from outside the New Orleans area to participate in a residency program and develop a local project with a $15,000 budget. Visit www.press-street.org for details. Deadline Sept. 30. St. Tammany Art Association. St. Tammany Art Association, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The association seeks work by its members that is no more than 144 square inches for its “Put Your Best Square Foot Forward” show. Entry fee $15. Call, visit the website or email info@sttammanyartassociation.org for details. Wild Things Youth Art Contest. Kids ages 5-18 may submit art inspired by local National Wildlife Refuges for a chance at prizes. All artwork will be featured in an Oct. 17 exhibition. Visit www. fws.gov/southeastlouisiana or contact Diane Barth at (985) 8822021 or diane_barth@fws.gov for details. Deadline Oct. 2.


Tim Youd: 100 Novels

At the heart of this endeavor is an extended and idiosyncratic literary pilgrimage. Youd journeys across the world to retype 100 works of literature— some canonical, others obscure—in locations germane to each novel. Youd will be retyping a series of novels set in Louisiana that will include everything from Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer to John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.

October 2, 2015 – February 21, 2016

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Ain’t Got No Home. Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, (504) 885-2000; www. jpas.org — The Blueberry Hill sequel features more classic New Orleans R&B songs. Tickets $30 adults, $27 seniors and military, $20 students, $15 children. 7:30 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. A Grand Night for Singing. Loyola University New Orleans, Lower Depths Theater, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno. edu — Loyola theater students perform a revue of songs by famed musical theater writing team Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. General tickets $12; students, seniors and Loyola staff $8. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. I’m STILL Still Here, Me. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Ricky Graham plays a variety of New Orleans characters in a 10th anniversary remount of his post-Katrina one-man musical. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Jump, Jive & Wail: The Music of Louis Prima. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The show includes songs Louis Prima was known for such as “Sing! Sing! Sing!” and “Basin Street Blues.” 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday. My Fair Lady. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — The classic musical about a Cockney flower girl who takes elocution lessons to become a lady is the debut production at Jefferson Performing Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Our Town. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — Maxwell Williams directs Thorton Wilder’s classic play about families in the fictional small town of Grover’s Corners. 7:30 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Pat Bourgeois’ Debauchery. The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 638-6326; www.brokenhabitproductions. com — The live soap opera stars an uptown family with a downtown mom. Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Quills. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985)

640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — French writer and libertine Marquis De Sade (Ronald Brister) lives out the end of his life in Charenton mental asylum in Doug Wright’s fictionalized drama. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Songs that Won the War. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The Victory Belles perform classic World War II-era songs like “The White Cliffs of Dover,” “The Last Time I Saw Paris” and “La Vie en Rose.” Tickets $40. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday. Stage Kiss. Ashe Power House, 1731 Baronne St., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Jason Kirkpatrick directs Southern Rep’s regional premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s play about two actors reunited on stage after their failed love affair. General tickets $40, seniors $35, age 35 and under $25. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Walking to New Orleans. Carver Theater, 2101 Orleans Ave., (504) 304-0460; www. walking2neworleans.com — Al “Lil Fats” Jackson, Shamarr Allen and other musicians star in a musical tribute to the longtime collaboration between Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Tickets start at $35. 7 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. When a Mother Weeps. L.B. Landry-O.P. Walker High School, 1200 L.B. Landry Ave., (504) 302-7170; landry-walker. org — The original drama about a college student in a violent community is inspired by Marguerite LaJoy Washington, a Dillard University student who was murdered in 2012. 5 p.m. Saturday.

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. Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2331; www.sonesta. com/imjazzplayhouse — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly 1960s-style burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye

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and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. Midnight 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. The Flim Flam Revue. Lucky Pierre’s, 735 Bourbon Street, (702) 785-7441; www.luckypierresnola.com — A rotating cast including Dante the Magician, Chris McDaniel and Donny Vomit performs magic, sideshow acts and comedy. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Wednesday & Sunday. Muck Dynasty. Rocky & Carlo’s Restaurant and Bar, 613 W. St. Bernard Hwy., Chalmette, 2798323; www.rockyandcarlos.com — Philip Melancon and Chris Champagne perform a satirical cabaret show about Louisiana society and politics. Dinner and show $30. 7 p.m. Saturday. Serenitease: The Shiniest Burlesque in the ’Verse. Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-2951; www.thesocietyofsin.com — The Society of Sin performs a burlesque tribute to cult sci-fi series Firefly. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. 10 p.m. Friday. Show & Yell. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 7585590; www.theallwayslounge. com — The open-stage night offers performers five minutes apiece for music, dance, drag, storytelling or other art. 9 p.m. Wednesday. Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www. thesocietyofsin.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday. The Vice is Right. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.thesocietyofsin.com — The Society of Sin’s game show-themed burlesque features 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., (504) 941-7629; www.thebellalounge.com — Bella Blue hosts the burlesque show. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Thursday & Sunday.

DANCE Orfeo. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — Marigny Opera Ballet premieres Maya Taylor’s ballet about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Tucker


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Fuller provides the score. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

edy show with special guests and a band. 8 p.m. Thursday. Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, COMEDY 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 4888114; www.facebook.com/twelve. 1919. The New Movement, 2706 mile.limit — Molly Ruben-Long St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; and Julie Mitchell host an open www.newmovementtheater. mic. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show com — Derek Dupuy, Chris at 9 p.m. Monday. Trew, CJ Hunt, Tami Nelson, Mike Spara, Chris Kaminstein, Block Party. The New MoveMike Yoder, Cecile Monteyne, ment, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) Jared Gore, Ian Hoch and 302-8264; www.newmovementJames Hamilton perform theater.com — Nick Napolitano improv comedy. Tickets $5. hosts an open mic. Sign up 8 p.m. Saturday. online. 9:30 p.m. Thursday. All-Star Comedy Revue. House Chris & Tami. The New Moveof Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 ment, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; 302-8264; www.newmovementwww.houseofblues.com — Leon theater.com — Comedy theater Blanda hosts the stand-up com- founders Chris Trew and Tami

Nelson perform free weekly improv. 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 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.lostlovelounge. com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. 10 p.m. Tuesday. PAGE 64

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In August Wilson’s Fences, Troy Maxson is certain he had the skill to play major league baseball, but was been denied the opportunity because of his skin color. It’s the late 1950s, a few years after Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier in Major League Baseball, and Troy’s wife Rose says race relations are changing for the better. But Troy, now in his fifties, says he’s been “stuck on first base” for years. Director Anthony Bean is presenting Fences at Anthony Bean Community Theater for the second time, having completed Wilson’s entire 10-play, decade-by-decade chronicle of African-American life in the 20th century. Fences explores the psyche of a family during the early stages of the civil rights movement in Pittsburgh. Troy (Will Williams) is a sanitation worker fighting for the opportunity to become a driver, a position held only by whites. He’s tired of being treated unfairly and wants to earn more money to support Rose (Gwendolyne Foxworth) and their teenage son Cory (Tony Felix). Williams delivers a passionate, larger-than-life performance as a commanding, fast-talking guy who also likes to crack jokes with his best friend Jim Bono (Harold X. Evans). The two men have a deep bond, and Evans’ performance is full of warmth. Troy is restless. He’s been married to Rose for 18 years, but is involved with another woman. Foxworth gives a poignant performance as a woman scorned who is endlessly nurturing to Troy’s out-of-wedlock daughter Raynell (Emani Johnson). Johnson is charming in the role of the fourth-grader. Troy also feels responsible for his younger brother Gabriel (Alfred Aubry), who was brain-injured in World War II and has a metal plate in his head. Gabriel believes he’s a heavenly messenger for St. Peter and carries a trumpet. Aubry brings the right level of emotion and nuance to the complicated character. The show takes place in front of Troy’s house and in the surrounding yard. John Grimsley’s set is realistic, and construction of a fence onstage becomes an important part of the narrative as Troy and Cory work together. Their relationship is central to the show’s tension. When it comes to sports, Troy has been denied opportunities, and he refuses to allow Cory to pursue football. The scenes between Williams and Felix are dynamic as Cory fights to become his own person. Felix transforms from a quiet boy into a confident man. The strong production is full of impressive performances and builds on the theater’s commitment to Wilson’s legacy. — TYLER GILLESPIE

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Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www. dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon hosts a rotating showcase of local comedians. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

The Hell Yes Fest comedy festival runs Oct. 1-11 at venues throughout New Orleans. Below are 12 shows to see. Visit www.hellyesfest.com for tickets and details.

Gregg Turkington, aka Neil Hamburger, performs Thursday at Cafe Istanbul.

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Sean Patton 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave. The unpredictable stand-up comic and hometown hero performs with Matteo Lane, Nato Green and Molly Ruben-Long.

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Karatefight 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3 Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. New Orleans duo Massive Fraud presents the stand-up and filmed sketches showcase. Part 2: Unnecessary Sequels: Clueless edition with Amy Heckerling 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3 The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave.

Comics pitch a Clueless reboot. Tim Heidecker 10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5 Freret Street Publiq House, 4528 Freret St. The comedian and co-creator of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tom Goes to the Mayor performs stand-up. Hell Yes Next 7:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6 The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. Hell Yes Fest hosts a locals-only lineup of newer comics. Neil Hamburger 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 Cafe Istanbul Gregg Turkington — he of the miserable stand-up persona — performs with Matt Braunger.

Doug Loves Movies 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 Cafe Istanbul Doug Benson hosts a live recording of his popular podcast. Baron Vaughn 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 Hi-Ho Lounge The stand-up comic performs with Super Henehan, Julie Mitchell and Lisa Friedrich. 77 Cents: An Unapologetically Feminist Comedy Show and Coloring Book Party 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 Cafe Istanbul Molly Ruben-Long hosts a stand-up showcase with Farah Brook, Sara June, Josh Androsky, Kaitlin Marone, Ella Gale, Anna Seregina and Alex Kumin, and there’s also a coloring book of

women comics from artist and comedian Sophie Lucido Johnson. Picture This 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 Hi-Ho Lounge The Los Angelesbased, high-concept show from Brandie Posey and Sam Varela presents stand-up comics and voice actors — who are illustrated live by animators and cartoonists. Todd Barry 10:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 Cafe Istanbul The stand-up comic performs with Andrew Polk, Christina Parrish and Terance McDavid. Neal Brennan 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 Cafe Istanbul The co-creator of Chappelle’s Show performs stand-up.

Jeff D’s Comedy Cabaret. Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107; www.bourbonpub.com — Comedian Jeff D and drag performer Carla Cahlua star in a weekly show. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Friday. Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Johnny Rock. C. Beever’s Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., Bar of Music, 2507 N. Wood(504) 529-5844; www.thelawn Ave., Metairie, (504) 887howlinwolf.com — Frederick 9401; www.facebook.com/ “RedBean” Plunkett hosts local comedians. An open mic thenewcbeevers — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts follows. 8 p.m. Thursday. an open-mic comedy night. ComedySportz. La Nuit Com- 8 p.m. Tuesday. edy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacom- Knock-Out. The New Moveedy.com — The theater hosts ment, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newan all-ages improv comedy show. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. movementtheater.com — Two comedy acts compete to win Dean’s List. The New an audience vote and perform Movement, 2706 St. Claude at the next week’s show. 8 Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. p.m. Wednesday. newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green, Lights Up! The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., Cyrus Cooper and Jonathan (504) 302-8264; www.newEvans perform improv commovementtheater.com — Each edy at a free show. 8 p.m. weekly show features two Monday. of The New Movement’s local The Franchise. The New improv comedy troupes. 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. Liquid Ass. The New newmovementtheater.com Movement, 2706 St. Claude — The comedy showcase Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. features a selection of The newmovementtheater.com — New Movement’s improv per- Addy Najera hosts Geoffrey formers and troupes. Tickets Gauchet, Benjamin Hoffman, $5. 9 p.m. Friday. Duncan Pace, Margee Green Friday Night Laughs. La Nuit and James Hamilton for a Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret free gross-out comedy show. Midnight Friday. St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Local Uproar. Paul Oswell Jr. hosts a comedy open mic. hosts stand-up comedy. 8:30 11 p.m. Friday. p.m. Thursday at Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., Go Ahead. The New Moveand 7 p.m. Saturday at AllWays ment, 2706 St. Claude Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave. Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com The Megaphone Show. — Shawn Dugas and Kaitlin The New Movement, 2706 Marone host local and visitSt. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; ing comics for a free, weekly www.newmovementtheater. stand-up comedy show. com — Improv comics take 7:30 p.m. Friday. inspiration from a local celebI’m Kind of a Big Deal. Mag’s rity’s true story at this weekly show. 10:30 p.m. Saturday. 940, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888 — Jake Potter The Monthly with Rude. hosts an open-mic comedy The New Movement, 2706 St. show. Midnight Friday. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264;

www.newmovementtheater.com — Colleen Allerton and Lauren LaBorde perform a monthly sketch comedy show. Tickets $5. 9 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., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the series, which features a booked showcase and open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 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. 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.

AUDITIONS Playmakers Theater. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 8931671; www.playmakersinc. com — The theater auditions actors of all ages for its Dec. 11-12 holiday production of Let There Be Light at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 and 7 p.m. Oct. 5. Call to schedule an audition.

CALL FOR THEATER New Orleans Fringe. The curated performance arts festivals seeks original show submissions for the April 14-17, 2016 festival. Visit www. nolafringe.org for details. Deadline Dec. 10.


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TUESDAY 29 Baby Artsplay! Broadmoor Arts & Wellness Center, 3900 Gen. Taylor St., (504) 523-3525; www.ya4la. org — Young Audiences of Louisiana holds a weekly series of music, movement and drama classes for children ages 1-2 and their caregivers. The cost is $10 per class. Call, visit the website or email jenny@ ya4la.org for details and registration. 10 a.m. Baptist Voices on Religious Liberty: Left, Right and Center. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 3939 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 282-4455; www.nobts.edu/ events/baptistvoices.html — Speakers from national and international Baptist organizations discuss religious liberty, tolerance and freedom at the symposium. Free; online RSVP requested. 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Eatmoor in Broadmoor. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias. org — My House NOLA and the Broadmoor Improvement Association host a food truck roundup with King Creole, Crepes a la Cart, Frencheeze, Burgers Ya Heard and Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls, plus music by Shotgun Double. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. French wine tasting. Alliance Francaise, 1519 Jackson Ave., (504) 568-0770; www.af-neworleans.org — Jodie Smith leads the tasting. Non-members $25. 6 p.m. Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on Healthcare. Dillard University, Professional Schools Building, Georges Auditorium, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.healthcareeveryone.org — All four gubernatorial candidates are invited to a free, nonpartisan forum hosted by the Campaign for Healthcare for Everyone Louisiana and moderated by physician and journalist

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.

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. Galatoire’s Wine Dinner Series. Galatoire’s “33” Bar and Steak, 215 Bourbon St., (504) 335-3932; www. galatoires33barandsteak. com — Chef Michael Sichel and sommelier Gabrielle Waxman present a dinner featuring wines from Tolaini Wines of Tuscany. The dinner costs $125, including tax and gratuity. 7 p.m.

Marjorie Esman. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — The director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana discusses the First Amendment during Banned Books Week. 7 p.m.

Gator n’ Brews. Kingfish, 337 Chartres St., (504) 598-5005; www.kingfishneworleans. com — Chef Nathan Richard presents a five-course meal paired with Abita beers. The dinner costs $55, plus tax and gratuity. 7 p.m.

Mark One. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.lovingfestival.org — Dustin Ruttenberg hosts a free discussion of multi-racial experiences and identity. Email druttenberg74@gmail.com for details. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Get Moving. Growing Local NOLA, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357; www.growinglocalnola.org — The urban farm hosts a free weekly exercise class such as yoga, boot camp or CrossFit. Call (813) 785-8386 or email info@ recirculatingfarms.org to RSVP. 7 p.m.

Pork & Beer Dinner. Meauxbar, 942 N. Rampart St., (504) 569-9979; www. meauxbar.com — Chef Kristen Essig’s dinner features Chappapeela Farms pork paired with Belgian beers. The dinner costs $65. 7 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.

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.

Let’s Eat Salads for the Health of It. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www. nutrias.org — Each free event 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. 5:15 p.m.

Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

OctoberFeast. Various locations in Mandeville; www. mandevilleoctoberfeast. com — The five-day event includes wine and beer dinners at local restaurants, wine tastings with live music and a jazz brunch. Wednesday-Sunday.

Casino dance class. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Kevin Braxton of Cuban dance group Bookoo Rueda teaches a free class on the salsa-like Cuban dance. 7 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.

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THURSDAY 1 Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m. Flower Hustle. Press Street Gardens, 7 Press St.; www. pressstreetgardens.com — The public flower market offers live music, cocktails and flowers for sale. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Healthy eating sessions. West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Karen Walker of the LSU AgCenter hosts a series of free lessons and food demonstrations about healthy eating. 7 p.m. Hell Yes Fest. Various locations; www.hellyesfest. com — The comedy festival features Tim Heidecker, Doug Benson, Todd Barry, Nikki Glaser, Neil Hamburger, Sean Patton and many others, plus films and workshops at venues around town. Thursday-Oct. 11. Kenner Wine and Food Event. Chateau Golf and Country Club, 3600 Chateau Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-1351; www.chateaugcc.com — The event features food from local restaurants, wine, music by Groovy 7, a photo booth, door prizes, a silent auction, a cigar bar, craft beer and more. Proceeds support the Louisiana Hospitality Foundation’s philanthropy. Tickets $75 in advance, $90 at the door. 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Merci for the Magic Halloween Kick-Off Parade. Flea Market, corner of Barracks and North Peters streets — The Skinz n Bonez marching krewe, The Black Hat Society, decorated carriages and costumed staff from several local occult businesses parade through the French Quarter, beginning from the corner of Decatur and Barracks streets at 7 p.m. New Orleans Swing Dance Festival & Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown. Various locations; www. lindyshowdown.net — Lindy hoppers converge for a five-day festival with dance contests, classes, parties, live music, a second-line parade and more. There’s a second-line parade from Washington Square Park at noon Friday and free live jazz and dancing at the French Market’s Dutch Alley from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Individual event tickets start at $20; weekend pass $195 in advance, $210 at the door. Thursday-Monday.

Ponderosa Stomp. Rock ’n’ Bowl, 3000 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-1700; www.ponderosastomp.com — The festival of rock ’n’ roll, blues, New Orleans R&B, swamp pop, rockabilly and more features Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, Irma Thomas, Brenda Holloway, Mable John, Barbara Lynn, Roy Head, Willie Hightower, P.F. Sloan, Billy Boy Arnold and others. The weekend also includes a music history conference and a record show. Single-night ticket $60; two-day passes $110. Thursday-Saturday. 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 monthly class on healthy cooking. Call (813) 785-8386 or email info@recirculatingfarms.org to RSVP. 7 p.m. World War II Discussion Group. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Historian Brian Altobello hosts a monthly group for history buffs. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 2 Adult Swim Drive-In. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www. adultswimpresents.com — The cable network screens unaired episodes of its shows at an outdoor event with free popcorn and candy, games, trivia and food available from food trucks. Free with advance online RSVP. Doors open at 7 p.m., show at 8:30 p.m. Antoine’s 175th Anniversary Block Party. 700 St. Louis St. — The block party celebration features $1.75 specialty cocktails, a Champagne toast, giveaways and music by Mark Monster & Friends. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. BreastFest NOLA. Hard Rock Cafe, 125 Bourbon St., (504) 529-5617; www.breastfestnola.com — Attendees second-line with Pocket Aces Brass Band to Krewe de Pink’s gala, which features food, drinks, a silent auction and music by Mixed Nuts. Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Tickets start at $40. Patron party 5:30 p.m.; parade 7 p.m.; gala 8 p.m. to midnight. PAGE 68

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Dinner & Learn. New Orleans East Hospital, 5620 Read Blvd., (504) 5926600; www.noehospital. org — Cardiologist Keith C. Ferdinand discusses cholesterol management at a free dinner. Cholesterol screenings at 4 p.m., dinner and talk at 5:30 p.m.

Corey Hebert. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., forum at 6 p.m.

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CONtraflow. Hilton New Orleans Airport, 901 Airline Drive, Kenner, (504) 469-5000; www.contraflowscifi.org — The sci-fi and fantasy convention features a lineup of authors, artists, scientists and musicians, role-playing games, a steampunk cotillion, costume contests, an art market and a charity auction benefiting the New Orleans Public Library. Daily admission $20; weekend pass $45 in advance, $50 at the door. Children ages 8-13 $10, children age 7 and under free. Friday-Sunday. Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The museum is open late on Friday evening, with a performance of Tim Youd’s 100 Novels project, a lecture on slavery by Mary Niall Mitchell and music by the Roamin’ Jasmine. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Gretna Heritage Festival. Downtown Gretna; www. gretnafest.com — The three-day festival takes over 25 blocks of downtown Gretna and features six stages of performances by

local and national music acts. Headliners include Kid Rock, Bret Michaels, Uncle Kracker, Marc Broussard, Hank Williams Jr., Lost Bayou Ramblers and Amanda Shaw. There also are food vendors, carnival rides, a beer garden, an art market, kids’ activities and more. Daily admission $20, weekend pass $50; children 12 and under free. 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. Here For Good: A Party in Progress. Margaret Gardens Inn, 1133 Margaret Place, (504) 5227677; www.margaret-place.com — Marketing agency RapJab and business accelerator Propeller announce a joint project to help local nonprofits at a free party featuring food from Fulton Alley and music by The Essentials and DJ Bunny. 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. House of Shock. House of Shock, 319 Butterworth St., Jefferson; www.houseofshock. com — The house of horrors is back from the dead (or 2014’s canceled closing) and revels in gore, the occult and a new feature: the Bordello of Freaks.

General admission $25, VIP admission $50. 7:30 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 31. Laugh Out Loud! Comedy for a Cause. Southport Hall, 200 Monticello Ave., (504) 835-2903; www.newsouthport.com — Comedians Dane Faucheaux, JD Sledge, James Cusimano and Matt Owens perform a benefit show for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Tickets $20. 7:30 p.m. Storywalk. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — Visitors take a stroller- and wheelchair-accessible trail walk and live a day in the life of a turtle with an interactive reading of Box Turtle at Long Pond by William T. George. Noon to 3 p.m.

SATURDAY 3 5K & Fun Run Against Bullying. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www. fhfjefferson.org — Families Helping Families of Jefferson


EVENT LISTINGS encourages kids to don a costume and “be a superhero against bullying” at a 5K and fun run for all ages and ability levels. There’s also character appearances, food, Abita beer and live music. Adults $35, children $25. Registration at 7:30 a.m., run at 8:30 a.m. Antoine’s Restaurant Gala. Antoine’s Restaurant, 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www. antoines.com — The Prohibition-themed gala includes a gaming room and a speakeasy to celebrate the restaurants’ 175th anniversary. Proceeds benefit the Historic New Orleans Collection. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Baking for Breast Cancer. Alcee Fortier Park, Esplanade Avenue and Mystery Street — The Amazons benevolent society and the Black Storyville Baby Dolls host a bake sale to benefit the American Cancer Society’s breast cancer campaign and two local women currently fighting cancer. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Beekeeping workshop. Capstone Community Gardens & Orchard, 1816 Lizardi St.; www. capstone118.org — Beekeeper David Young teaches a handson workshop sponsored by The Green Project. Long sleeves and pants recommended. RSVP to egenrich@thegreenproject. org. 10 a.m. to noon.

Blues in da Parish. Docville Farm, 5124 E. St. Bernard Highway, Violet; www.merauxfoundation.org — The Meraux Foundation’s festival features local food and music by Danny Alexander Blues Band & Connie G., Mark & the Pentones, Brother Stone & the Prophets of Blue, Oscar & the Blues Cats, Lil Red & Big Bad and others. There’s a harmonica lesson at 12:30 p.m. Admisison free. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Covington Art Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings and more. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dutch Oven Gathering. Bogue Chitto Park, 17049 State Park Blvd., Franklinton, (888) 677-7312 — The Bogue Chitto Dutch Oven Cookers demonstrate their preferred outdoor cooking method. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Family Day. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.phnojm.com — Families enjoy jazz story time

kids’ activities and tours of its headquarters. 2 p.m.

Frontier of Progress: A Live History of Loyola Avenue. The Saratoga, 212 Loyola Ave., (504) 522-4555; www.thesaratoganeworleans.com — Young Audiences’ One Book One New Orleans project continues its series of events around Brian Boyle’s New Orleans Boom and Blackout with a history of Loyola Avenue and its streetcar. There’s also art by Ayo Scott, music by DJ Yamin and drinks by Ivanabitch Vodka. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Mini Art Box Auction. Treo, 3835 Tulane Ave., (504) 957-552; www.cvunola.org — Buyers can take home their favorite utility box in miniature at an auction benefiting Community Visions Unlimited’s utility box painting project. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

German and Italian Cultural Celebration. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, French Quarter Visitor Center, 419 Decatur St., (504) 589-2636; www.nps.gov/jela — The free event includes live folk music, cooking demonstrations and German and Italian food tastings. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Gleason Gras Race & Festival. Team Gleason House, 3525 Bienville St.; www.gleasongras. org — The fifth annual race and festival kicks off at 9 a.m. with a 5K race from Bayou St. John to City Park. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., the festival features live and silent auctions, face painting, a Microsoft game tent, a jewelry pull and music by Better Than Ezra, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Flow Tribe and others. Race entry $45 through Sept. 29, $55 day of race; festival admission $5 in advance, $10 at the gate. Grand Golden Gamble. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — The fundraiser and reverse raffle offers food, drink, door prizes and a chance to explore Longue Vue’s gardens. Three guests are grand-prize winners. Tickets $50, including raffle entry. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Indywood Kickstarter launch. 3400 St. Claude Ave.; www.indywood.org — The independent theater launches a fundraising campaign to build out its new space with a garage sale starting at 2 p.m., a screening of Fats Domino documentary The Big Beat and filmmaker Q&A at 3 p.m. and a dance party at 7 p.m. Jazz Yoga. Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters St., (504) 589-4841; www.nps.gov/ jazz — Susan Landry leads a free class featuring meditational jazz piano. 10 a.m. Lighthouse Louisiana Centennial Block Party. Lighthouse Louisiana, 123 State St., (504) 899-4501; www.lighthouselouisiana.org — The organization for people with vision loss and other disabilities celebrates 100 years with a free block party featuring food, live music,

#NOLAArtistsUnite. Oya! Market, 2360 St. Claude Ave., (504) 475-9142; www.oyamarketnola. com — The social mixer for local artists and members of the film industry features food, drinks and music. Tickets $25. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Paris Soul Cafe. Crystal Magnolia Country Club, 7221 Curran Blvd., (504) 655-5605; www.crystalmagnoliacountryclub.com — WWL’s Tamica Lee and Q93’s Wild Wayne host an award ceremony honoring seven local “Women of Excellence.” There’s food, drinks and live music. Tickets $40, couples $75. 5 p.m. Preservation Hall Ball. The Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865; www.preservationhallball.org — The Preservation Hall Foundation’s benefit ball features performances by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ivan Neville, Deacon John Moore, Corey Glover, Pinettes Brass Band and others. Tickets start at $43 (including fees). 9 p.m. Second Line for Safety. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.nola. gov/parks-and-parkways — French Quarter Advocates host a benefit for the French Quarter Task Force with live music, food and drinks at Armstrong Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a second-line parade at 1 p.m. Members $25, non-members $40. Shamanic Meditation. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias. org — Matthew Ancira leads meditation and Barbara Dupart offers a yoga class. 10 a.m. Shop for Change. The Outlet Collection at Riverwalk, 500 Port of New Orleans Place — Dress for Success, the nonprofit organization for women entering the workplace, holds an inventory reduction sale and fundraiser. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. St. Bernard Car Show. The Home Depot, 8601 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 271-4172; www.homedepot.com — There’s music, food and more than 100 cars on display at the St. Bernard Antique Auto Club’s annual show. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Treme Festival. St. Augustine Church, 1210 Gov. Nicholls St., (504) 525-5934 — The free inaugural festival features live music, a second-line parade,

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

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BTE Foundation Tailgate. Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar, 1009 Poydras St., (504) 309-6530; www.walk-ons.com — The Better Than Ezra Foundation’s annual charity tailgate features performances by Better Than Ezra, the 610 Stompers and Treme Brass Band, plus tailgate food, an open bar and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit after-school programs supported by the foundation. Tickets $125. 3 p.m. to 6:30 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 school and high school music students. 1 p.m.

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NOLATech Week. Various locations; www.nolatechweek.org— The five-day “un-conference” includes industry speakers, educational seminars, a coding class, a pitch competition and social hours. Most events are free and first-come, firstserved. Visit the website for schedule and details. Monday-Oct. 10. Que Pasa Fest. Various locations, New Orleans — The festival celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) with five days of classical and Latin music, visual arts and dance, culminating with a free family festival. The first event includes music by Patrice Fisher and Alexis “Papo” Guevara and a viewing of “Hispanic Convergence in New Orleans,” at the Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico (901 Convention Center Blvd.) at 7 p.m. Monday. Monday-Oct. 10.

SPORTS Saints. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleanssaints.com — The New Orleans Saints play the Dallas Cowboys. 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

WORDS Andrea Gibson. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick Center,

Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, (504) 314-2188; www.tulane. edu — The poet and LGBT activist holds a free reading at Tulane University. Student readers open the performance. 9 p.m. Friday.

a cash bar and readings by Zell, Robert Skinner, Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa, Jason Kerzinski and Cubs at 7 p.m. Thursday. Zell also appears at Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., at 6 p.m. Monday.

Banned Books Week. New Orleans Public Libraries, all branches; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — NOPL celebrates banned books with readings for adults and teens, a trivia night, a dirty poetry reading and a showcase for censored plays and films. Visit the website for locations and details. Tuesday-Friday.

Michael Murphy. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — The author signs Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards & Ghosts of the Crescent City. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Blood Jet Poetry Series. BJ’s Dave Hoekstra. Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.sofabinsitute. org — The author discusses The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today. Photographer Paul Natkin presents photos from the book and Purloo’s chef Ryan Hughes serves soul food. 2 p.m. Saturday. Dick Wall. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www. gardendistrictbookshop.com — Dick Wall, husband of the late author Carol Wall, signs Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening on her behalf. 6 p.m. Thursday. An Evening with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. NOCCA Riverfront, Nims Blackbox Theatre, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2875; www.press-street.org — Visiting authors Armen of Armenia, Karen Villeda of Mexico, Samuel Kolawole of Nigeria and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow of Singapore read prose and poetry at a free event hosted by Room 220. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Frederick Barton. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 8997323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author reads and signs In the Wake of the Flagship. 6 p.m. Tuesday. Lecia Kennie. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www. nutrias.org — The author reads Adventures of King’s Wild Imagination: Tourist in My Own Town. 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Melinda Rose. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 5962675; www.nutrias.org — The photographer discusses and signs Of the Rising Tide: A Photo Essay of the Vanishing Community of Isle de Jean Charles. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Michael Allen Zell. Pelican Bay, 1701 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 940-1111 — The author celebrates the release of Run Baby Run at a party with food,

Paula Williams Madison. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Delgado Theater, (504) 616-6066; www.dcc.edu — The journalist and author discusses and signs Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem. The event includes a screening of the 2014 documentary film based on the book. Tickets $33. 6:30 p.m. Friday. Madison also appears at the Main Library, 219 Loyola Ave., at 11 a.m. Saturday. Peter Cooley. Louisiana Humanities Center, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, (504) 523-4352; www.leh.org — The recently appointed poet laureate of Louisiana shares his work. Reception at 6:30 p.m., reading at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Preston Lauterback. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author presents Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis. 6 p.m. Thursday. Renee Ahdieh and Claudia Gray. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The authors of The Wrath and the Dawn and A Thousand Pieces of You discuss their work. 5:30 p.m. Friday. Sybil Haydel Morial. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author and former First Lady of New Orleans discusses and signs her memoir, Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment. 6 p.m. Monday.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Threadhead Cultural Foundation Grants. The foundation awards grants to fund artistic projects promoting local cultural heritage. Visit www.thcfnola. org/grants for details. Deadline Oct. 23. For Farmers Markets and volunteer opportunities visit www.bestofnew orleans.com.


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Leaf River Lodge is a one of a kind total “Family Retreat” offering year round outdoor recreation for the entire family. Located just an hour and a half from New Orleans, this property has approximately a mile of river frontage on the scenic Leaf River. Nestled in 290 +/- wooded acres, on a beautiful sandy bottom 22 acre stocked lake. Leaf River Lodge offers great hunting, fishing and outdoor activities for year round family fun. Designed with 4 individual cabins each containing 2 bedrooms, a full service kitchen, and bath. The center of the lodge is perfect for entertaining, with a large open kitchen, dining area, bar, and den. A 176 x 12 foot covered porch ties all the cabins together, with a covered open air gazebo including a wood burning fireplace overlooking the lake. Enjoy fishing off of the covered fishing deck or go to one of 9 food plots, 5 with King Ranch Stands. There is a monitored security system, satellite internet, as well as a Genrac 15kw generator.

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Immediate positions available. Great hours and location. Apply in person at ROSE LYNN’S HALLMARK, 800 Metairie Road.

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

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Needed by small A-V rated law firm in CBD. Must type 70 wpm, communicate with clients, attorneys and court personnel, have excellent grammar and writing skills to draft correspondence, and respond to discovery. Medical malpractice or medical background a plus. Compensation depends on experience. Generous benefits package. Send cover letter and resume to kaw@lawbowling.com

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Looking for energetic personable bartenders for busy uptown location. Please apply in person at Igor’s 2133 St. Charles Ave., NOLA 70130, Noon 2pm Wednesday/Thursday.

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McDougal House c. 1820 • Historic, Renovated Greek Revival Raised Cottage, Center Hallway, Formal Rooms, Fireplaces, 5 Bedrooms, 3 Baths, Large Lot, 16’ x 32’ Pool.$185,000

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Historic Anderson House

Antebellum residence moved from Vicksburg and rebuilt. Impressive hallway, elegant living room with fireplace, 3 large bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, studio apartment plus rear building with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. Most recently used as a B&B. Large lot with mature landscaping. Over $95,000 spent recently on roofing, carpentry and plumbing.

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REAL ESTATE

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

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

STATE OF LOUISIANA

CASE NO: 745-126 DIVISION “G”

NO: 753-818 DIV. “J”

NO. 753-499 DIVISION “L”

SUCCESSION OF MILDRED PARKER MCDANIEL

SUCCESSIONS OF MAXINE FONVERGNE COE wife of/and HOWARD G. COE, SR.

NOTICE TO SELL MOVABLE OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The Administratrix of the above estate has made application to the court for the sale, at private sale, of the movable or immovable property described, as follows: Two certain lots of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in the subdivision known as Fairfield Park, and according to a plan of survey made by J.J. Krebs and Sons, Inc., Civil Engineers and Surveyors, dated April 7, 1965, a copy of which is annexed to an act passed before Jerome Meunier, Notary Public, dated May 3, 1965, and made a part thereof, said portion of ground is located in Square Number Five (5) of said subdivision, and is bounded by Division Street (formerly Lake Avenue), Bixler Street, Waltham Street and Dixon Street, being designated as Lots Numbers Twenty-One and Twenty-Two (21 & 22), which adjoin each other and measure each twenty-five feet (25’) front on Division Street (formerly Lake Avenue), the same in width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of one hundred fifteen feet (115’). Lot number twenty-two (22) lies nearer to and commences at a distance of sixty and two tenths feet (60.2’) from the intersection of Division Street (formerly Lake Avenue) and Dixon Street.

Sale for $89,100.00 subject to court approval and to short sale approval. Notice is now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. By order of the court, Patricia Moore Deputy Clerk Issued on the 23rd day of September, 2015 This notice was requested by: Attorney: Jacqueline Mouton Address: 700 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: (504) 595-1812 Gambit: 09/29/15 & 10/20/15 If you know the whereabouts of Barbara R. Nelson, please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-3475056. Anyone having information concerning the whereabouts of Capacine Cobbs Young please contact the Law Office of Vergie L. Riley, immediately at (504) 227-0222. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Kevin Meredith, please contact Atty. E. Appleberry, 405 Gretna Blvd., Ste. 104, Gretna, LA.; (504) 362-7800.

NOTICE IS GIVEN that DAVID PARKER MCDANIEL, Executor of the SUCCESSION OF MILDRED PARKER MCDANIEL, has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, article 3281, petitioned the 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of One Hundred Twenty Thousand and No/100 ($120,000.00) Dollars, the Succession’s interest in the following described property: THREE CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as “Bonnabel Place,” said lots being designated as Lots Numbers Ten B (10 B), Eleven A (11 A) and Eleven B (11 B) in square Number Seventy Five (75), which said square is bounded by Hesper Avenue, Claudius and Caesar Streets and Bonnabel Canal. Said lots Nos. 10 B, 11 A, and 11 B adjoin and measure each twenty five (25) feet front on Hesper Avenue by eighty six (86) feet, more or less, in depth between equal and parallel lines. Lot No. 10 B begins 487 feet from the corner of Hesper Avenue and Claudius Street. All in accordance with resubdivision map of Bonnabel Place made by Alfred E. Bonnabel, Civil Engineer and Surveyor of Jefferson Parish, dated October 30, 1924, also plans of C.A. Robert, Civil Engineer, dated January 5, 1926 and October 21, 1953, and plan of A.T. Dusenbury, Civil Engineer, dated May 2, 1927, all plans on file in the office of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson. The said lots and the delineations thereof are also shown on a plan of survey by J.L. Fontouberta, Surveyor, dated Jefferson Parish, July 8, 1955. Being part of the same property acquired by the Bonnabel Land Company, Inc., from Lake Range Realty Co Inc., as per act of sale before Frederick C. Querens, Notary Public, dated May 8, 1934, registered C.O.B. 120, folio 445. NOW THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that David Parker McDaniel, Executor, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property at private sale, upon the aforesaid price and terms, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors of this estate be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date of the last publication of this notice, all in accordance with law. By the Order of Court 24th Judicial District Court Deputy Clerk Gegenheimer Attorney: Michael L. Eckstein Eckstein Law Firm, APC Address: 1515 Poydras Street, Suite 2195, New Orleans, LA 70112 Telephone: (504) 527-0701 Facsimile: (504) 566-0040 Gambit: 09/29/15 & 10/20/15 If you know the whereabouts of Michael R. Flora (A/K/A Michael Roy Flora), please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-347-5056. Anyone having information concerning the whereabouts of Estate of Brenda Plaisance also known as Brenda Ledet Plaisance please contact the Law Office of Vergie L. Riley, immediately at (504) 227-0222.

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Notice is hereby given that Howard G. Coe, Jr., the duly appointed Administrator of the above entitle succession, has applied for an order granting her the authority to sell at private sale the following property to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as the TAFFY PARK SUBDIVISION, more specifically designated as LOT NO. 8 of SQUARE NO. 2. Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 2621 Taffy Drive, Marrero, LA 70072. The sales price for the property is $34,000.00, cash payable at an act of sale. Pursuant to Civil Code of Procedure Article 3443, notice of the application of a succession representative to sell succession property from a small succession needs to be published once and in the Parish where the proceeding is pending or where the property is located, and shall state that any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within ten (10) days of the date of publication. By Order of Clerk of Court For the Parish of Jefferson Attorney: George S. Ruppenicker/ Southern Title, Inc. Address: 2325 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, LA 70058 Telephone: (505) 362-3861 Publication in Gambit 09/29/15

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