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EDUCATION: Local schools are

showing students how to use social media for life >> 23

FOOD: Meaux, meaux, meaux, how do you like it? Meauxbar, reviewed >> 31

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STAGE: Southern Rep presents the regional premiere of John Biguenet’s new play Broomstick >> 49

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Located in the hot Marigny neighborhood & one of New Orleans’ most romantic restaurants! Originally part of the d’Aunoy plantation dating back to 1795, this historic building currently is approx. 4,390 sqft and features 4 dining rooms (2 up w/ balcony seating & 2 down - one of which is courtyard dining), a full-service bar, 3 kitchens plus office & storage rooms. Sale includes the building & business (trademarked name, website, liquor license, equipment, recipes & artwork). Zoned HMC-1. Offered at $1,455,000.

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A 6 Month Course

Focus and Calm the mind. Relieve Stress. Strengthen Internal Organs, Muscles, and Joints. Improve Mental and Physical Balance. Increase Core Strength. Appropriate and Beneficial for all Ages and Physical Conditions.

Course begins October 14th At NOLA Aikido

504-610-3672 marilynyank@gmail.com • theammacenter.org

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We love our hospice volunteers and are always looking for new additions to our wonderful team!

Our hospice volunteers are special people who can make a difference in the lives of those affected by terminal illness. We would like to announce a new exciting track for those interested in a future medical career. Many physicians and nurses received their first taste of the medical field at Canon.

If you would like to be become a hospice volunteer and work with our patients and families, please call today!

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504-818-2723 ext. 3006

2014-15 Open Houses Go to www.eastbankcollaborative.com for direct links to our schools’ websites and downloadable student applications.

Audubon Charter School Lower School: (PK3-3)

6101 Chatham Dr., New Orleans, LA 70122 • (504) 324-7100

Upper School: (4-8) 1111 Milan St., New Orleans, LA 70115 • (504) 324-7110 www.auduboncharter.com

Benjamin Franklin High School (9-12)

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

Einstein Elementary Charter (PK-8)

5100 Cannes St., New Orleans, LA 70129 • (504) 324-7450

Einstein Charter School Extension (PK-8) 5316 Michoud Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70129 • (504) 503-0110 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) 613-5703 www.ihsnola.org Statewide school

International School of Louisiana (K-8) Uptown Campus:***

Upper School

Lusher Charter

Oct. 22, Nov. 12

Lower School: (K-5)

9:00-10:15 a.m.

7315 Willow St., New Orleans, LA 70118 • (504) 862-5110

Middle/High School: (6-12)

Oct. 9

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

5:30-8:00 p.m.

Morris Jeff Community School** (PK-6)

Jan. 13

3368 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70119 • (504) 373-6258 www.morrisjeffschool.org

4:00-6:00 p.m. at both schools

Moton Charter School* (PK-7)

3774 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70122 • (504) 245-4400 www.motoncharter.org

Nov. 6 & 13 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Year-round school

New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School (Sci High) (9-12)

in the gym on Orleans & French Streets

5625 Loyola Ave., New Orleans, LA 70115 • (504) 324-7061 www.noscihigh.org

Oct. 1, Nov. 10, Jan. 22

New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy (NOMMA)*** (9-12)

6:00 p.m.

425 O’Bannon St., New Orleans, LA 70114 • (504) 227-3810 www.nomma.net

Uptown Campus

Westbank Campus:***

Westbank Campus

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

Nov. 4

Jefferson Campus:

6:00-8:00 p.m.

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

Jefferson Campus

Andrew H. Wilson Charter School** (PK-8)

Dec. 10

3617 Gen. Pershing St., New Orleans, LA 70125 • (504) 373-6274 www.wilsoncharterschool.org

5:30-7:30 p.m.

ECCS unified student application and timely admissions dates for the 2015-16 school year are as follows: Application availability: October 13, 2014 Deadline for admissions application: January 9, 2015 Notification to parents - no later than: April 10, 2015

PLEASE NOTE: Only timely applications will be accepted for schools requiring a lottery.

Not all ECCS schools will have a lottery and may accept applications year-round.

ECCS member schools do not discriminate in the rendering of services to/or employment of individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Oct. 8 & 22, Nov. 12

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

Kindergarten

Nov. 14

9:00-11:00 a.m.

Grades 1-5

Nov. 14

1:30-3:30 p.m.

Grades 6-12

Nov. 20 - 6:00 p.m.

Oct. 22

6:00-7:30 p.m.

Please call school for details Please contact the school to schedule a school tour and/or student shadow

Oct. 27, Nov. 17, Dec. 15, Jan. 26 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Statewide school

Nov. 15

10:00-12:00 noon

ISL Uptown and ISL Westbank accept students statewide.

ISL Jefferson Campus accepts only Jefferson Parish residents.

12000 Hayne Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70128 • (504) 826-7140 www.lakeforestcharter.org

9:00-10:15 a.m.

1400 Camp St., New Orleans, LA 70130 • (504) 654-1088 502 Olivier St., New Orleans, LA 70114 • (504) 274-4571

(Gifted PK, K-8)

Sept. 30, Oct. 20, Nov. 11

Dec. 3

5:00-7:00 p.m.

Please call school for details

All schools accept Orleans Parish students only, with the exception of NOMMA, IHS, ISL Uptown and ISL Westbank, which are statewide schools. ISL Jefferson only accepts Jefferson Parish residents.

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These schools will use the OneApp. Please check the schools’ websites for information and deadline dates. ** Moton (year round school) will not use the unified admissions dates. *** NOMMA, IHS and ISL will use the OneApp for Orleans Parish only. Students should call or check the school’s website for information and deadline dates.

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)

Lake Forest Elementary Charter

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CONTENTS

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

September 30, 2014

EDITORIAL

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Volume 35

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Number 39

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

SHOPPING + STYLE

What’s in Store ......................................................29 The Whitney Hotel

Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD Feature Writer | JEANIE RIESS

EAT + DRINK

Contributing Writers

Review: Meauxbar.................................................31 Kristen Essig’s elegant plates suit the French Quarter location Fork + Center ............................................................31 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview .............................................33 Restaurateur Peter Vazquez Drinks ........................................................................34 Beer Buzz and Wine of the Week Last Bites .................................................................37 5 in Five, Plate Dates and Off the Menu

SARAH BAIRD, ANNE BERRY, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Contributing Photographer | CHERYL GERBER Interns | COREYIEL ELLIS, KATE WATSON

PRODUCTION Production Director | DORA SISON Web & Classifieds Designer | MARIA BOUÉ Senior Graphic Designer | LYN VICKNAIR Graphic Designers | PAIGE HINRICHS, JULIET MEEKS, DAVID KROLL, JASON WHITTAKER Pre-Press Coordinator | KATHRYN BRADY

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

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BEWITCHED Southern Rep presents the regional premiere of John Biguenet’s latest play, Broomstick, which is a one-witch tour de force

BY WILL COVIELLO | PAGE 49

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OPERATIONS & EVENTS

ON THE COVER Is Red the New Blue?............................................ 17 What Mary Landrieu has to do to retain her U.S. Senate seat — and what challengers Bill Cassidy and Rob Maness hope to accomplish

7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Shonen Knife, Art for Art’s Sake, Shiner and more

NEWS + VIEWS

News.............................................................................7 A bumpy start for New Orleans’ first week of ride-sharing services Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world Scuttlebutt................................................................ 9 From their lips to your ears

Operations & Events Director | LAURA CARROLL

C’est What? ............................................................... 9 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats .........................................10 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................13 The real “iconic structure” for New Orleans’ tricentennial Clancy DuBos...........................................................14 Gov. Bobby Jindal’s true legacy Blake Pontchartrain.............................................15 The N.O. It All answers your questions

EDUCATION + SCHOOLS

Social Media in the Classroom........................23 How New Orleans schools are using social media to prepare students for the real world The Butterfly Effect ............................................. 27 Using a butterfly garden to teach all sorts of educational concepts

A+E ...............................................................................49 Southern Rep presents the regional premiere of John Biguenet’s new play Broomstick Music ..........................................................................51 PREVIEW: Beck Film.............................................................................54 REVIEW: The Good Lie REVIEW: Starred Up Art ............................................................................... 57 REVIEW: Robert Rauschenberg and Five From Louisiana and In the Shadow of a Giant Stage...........................................................................61 REVIEW: A Lie of the Mind Events .......................................................................64 PREVIEW: Gretna Heritage Festival Crossword + Sudoku ...........................................76

CLASSIFIEDS Legal Notices..........................................................67 Market Place .......................................................... 68 Employment ...........................................................69 Picture Perfect Properties................................70 Real Estate ............................................................. 72 Mind + Body + Spirit...............................................73 Pets ............................................................................ 74 Home + Garden .......................................................75 Holiday Helpers .....................................................78 Halloween Happenings .....................................79

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COVER DESIGN BY Dora Sison

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seven things to do in seven days

Shonen Knife | After 33 years, Osaka,

Japan, punkers Shonen Knife still haven’t gotten old. In April, the female power trio issued its 20th album, Overdrive, another ripping set of hard riffs and harder-notto-laugh lyrics (“Ramen Rock,” “Fortune Cookie”). At 9 p.m. at the BEATnik.

Lee Fields and the Expressions

Tue. Sept. 30 | Raspy-voiced veteran soul singer Lee Fields has been prolific in recent years with his band The Expressions, releasing My World (2009), Faithful Man (2012) and most recently Emma Jean, some of which was recorded at Dan Auerbach’s (The Black Keys) Nashville studio. DJ Soul Sister opens at 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Paul Collins Beat

Tue. Sept. 30 | Paul Collins was a power pop innovator in the 1970s and is a veteran of The Nerves, The Breakaways and The Beat. After drifting toward rootsier country and folk sounds, he’s back to his own roots with Feel the Noise, released last week. Red Sneakers and King Louie’s One Man Band open at 7 p.m. at Siberia.

Shiner

Wed.-Sat. Oct. 1-18 | Two Los Angeles teens cope with puberty and the suicide of Kurt Cobain in the NOLA Project’s production of Christian Durso’s Shiner. At 8 p.m. at The AllWays Theatre.

Gretna Heritage Festival

Fri.-Sun. Oct. 3-5 | Gregg Allman, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and Robert Randolph and the Family Band headline the festival. There also is food, amusement rides, crafts and more at the festival grounds in downtown Gretna. PAGE 64.

Art for Arts’ Sake

Sat. Oct. 4 | Galleries across the city hold opening receptions for the start of the art season (generally from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.).

There also are PARK(ing) Day installations on Julia Street, in which artists transform parking spaces into public parks (noon-8 p.m.).

Jimmy Cliff

Mon. Oct. 6 | Leave it to Jimmy Cliff to make screeds against war, poverty and widespread immorality sound so joyous. The 66-year-old reggae legend and only living recipient of Jamaica’s Order of Merit is on some kind of run: He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 and won a Grammy for 2012’s Rebirth (Universal), which includes 13 songs that could be Jamaica’s national anthems. At 8 p.m. Monday at House of Blues.

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S C U T T L EB U T T 9 B O U Q U E T S & B RI C K S 9 C ’ ES T W H AT ? 10 C O M M EN TA RY 13 CL ANCY DUBOS 14 B L A K E P O N TC H A RT R A IN 15

knowledge is power New Orleans’ week in Twitter #spookybutts

@animatedGeoff

autumn officially begins at 9:29 and i’m drinking a Terrapin Pumpkinfest and eating Pumpkin Spice Oreos. Take a hike, Summer!

Ride-sharing’s bumpy start

lauren lagarde @laurenlagarde

dead stopped in rush hour traffic so a parade could pass with a woman riding an elephant. #neworleans

A shortage of cars — but not interest — got the ride-sharing service Uber off to a slow start in New Orleans. Meanwhile, the city’s biggest taxi company, United Cab, says its hail-a-car app is on the way.

Hullabaloo News @hullnewsTU

A person stole several pieces of pie from the Tulane Medical Center cafeteria Friday.

The pies were recovered. Summons for theft was issued.

skooks

By Jeanie Riess

@skooks

The Abita Foundation For The Rigorous And Exhaustive Study Of Putting Various Fruits Into Beer

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@lunanola

The best #NCISNOLA drinking game (as proposed by @MStyborski): “When you see the show start, turn it off and go out drinking.”

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

From the story “Uber is up and running in New Orleans”:

Uber Black, the service the New Orleans City Council approved by amending its taxi and limousine code, connects riders with limousines and high-end sedans via smartphone app. (In a concession to traditional cabs, the council set minimum rates of $15 per ride for town cars and $25 for SUVs.) Robert Daspit, owner of the traditional limousine company Lagniappe Chauffeured Services, is working with Uber and already has driven some Uber customers himself.

“We’re getting a lot of rides,” he said, particularly on weekends. “Our business, we usually take care of CEOs, celebrities, corporate executives. But with this, there’s more interaction for the drivers. … It’s fun for them. If I have a driver and I tell them to go get a ride, they’ll say they’d rather do the Uber ride.”

Hayes says the reason for the lack of available cars is that the city hasn’t given out enough CPNCs to vehicles looking to pick up extra cash when they’re not driving for the livery companies they represent.

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“Uber claims to be a ‘technology’ company — doesn’t obey relevant laws, ignores regulations and pays zero back to municipality it operates in.”

— Robert Blake

“The taxis are anti-competition. If they had better services, there wouldn’t be anything for them to worry about.”

— Tyler Jones

“Uber Black is ridiculously expensive unless you happen to be a member of the New Orleans Saints. $75 for a ride from downtown to the airport?

Let’s hope Uber X makes its way here sooner rather than later.” — royalstreet

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uring the nearly seven months it took to legalize the ride-sharing service Uber in New Orleans, the main argument in favor of the smartphone app that connects riders to luxury vehicles was also a slam against the current New Orleans taxi industry: There aren’t enough reliable rides in town.

Uber, which the New Orleans City Council finally approved this month after the group twice delayed a vote on legislation that would allow for Uber’s expansion into the city, began offering rides Sept. 19. The San Francisco-based technology company’s local general manager, Tom Hayes, says people are using the app — the company can track both how many people are opening it and how many people are actually using it to request rides — and are reporting that they’re pleased with the service it provides. Still, the biggest challenge facing Uber is the same one New Orleans faced before the app launched: At many times, especially on weekends, supply can’t keep up with demand. Some who have tried to hail an Uber ride have been met with a message that no cars are available.

Sheree Kerner, president of Nawlins Cab, says the public mistakenly believes “that cabs are a guarantee of service.

“The Uber sensation of ‘Gee, when I order a cab it shows up,’ — yeah, 90 percent of the time it’s going to. But during the times that people are sitting in the backseat, you can’t just throw that person out to go pick up the other person. There’s no magic wand that’s going to change the labor pool or the principles of the transportation experience.”

Hayes declined to say how many town cars and SUVs currently operate with Uber in New Orleans, but an Uber driver who did not want to be identified told Gambit that on the second day of operation there were “about 10” cars rolling around the city. By comparison, the city has issued more than 1,500 Certificates of Public Necessity and Convenience (aka CPNCs, or taxi permits) for traditional taxi services. Uber’s popular UberX service, which competes directly with traditional taxis, still is not allowed in New Orleans.

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“Right now, in order to have a car that we can work with, they need to have a CPNC that’s registered with the city,” Hayes says. “The city has only scheduled CPNC releases quarterly. The next one is coming up Oct. 24. We’re currently constrained to the existing supply of sedans and SUVs that are out there, and quite frankly there just aren’t that many.”

According to Hayes, Uber’s platform is designed to encourage entrepreneurship by allowing drivers to turn on the app and set their own hours. A driver takes 80 percent of the fare and Uber takes 20 percent.

Hayes says Uber wants to see drivers striking out on their own, essentially self-employed via Uber, but the city code makes that impossible, since in order to start a new small business in the livery industry, New Orleans requires drivers to own at least two limousines.

“So even when (Oct. 24) comes around, it’s difficult for that person who maybe used to drive for someone else and wants to go out on their own,” Hayes says. “The financing it takes to buy two stretch limos and then a sedan, which is the car they actually need — it’s pretty onerous and a lot more than just one sedan or one SUV to get going.”

“I think it’s too early to tell if we’re going to make money from it,” Daspit says. “An individual employee is going to make more money regardless, because some chauffeurs don’t get paid for down time. And this way they can make money when they’d usually be at the gym, calling their girlfriend, getting something to eat.”

When Uber began to drop hints at a New Orleans expansion earlier this year, many local taxi companies said they also were developing apps to compete with Uber’s hail-by-phone model. United Cabs President Syed Kazmi told Gambit an app is in the works, but did not elaborate.

According to United administrative assistant Jami Cuthbert, that app is in development and will be optional for United’s drivers when it launches in a few months.

“We considered what we call the ‘old school drivers’ and the ‘new school drivers,’” Cuthbert says, “because we didn’t want to leave out the old school drivers who didn’t want to use the app.” United Cabs will continue to use traditional radio dispatch, but drivers with smartphones will be able to connect with riders using a United-only app. (Earlier this year, Monroe Coleman, president of Coleman Cabs, told Gambit that his company, was working on an app, though multiple calls to the company concerning the app were not returned.)

Kerner points out, though, that more apps won’t solve the problem.

“It’s just changing the way you contact the cab,” she says. Nawlins Cabs has had a smartphone app for the past two years, and although it’s in the process of revising the existing app to make it more like Uber’s, Kerner says the company is focusing more on the experience of riding in a cab than the way drivers and riders are connected. That means installing tablets in taxis to provide customers with local dining, entertainment and sightseeing options, paid for by local advertisers.

The fear of UberX, the taxi industry’s direct competitor, was one of the central barriers to Uber’s expansion into the city’s market. Many cab drivers say they’re still feeling the pinch from city-mandated taxicab upgrades put in place in 2012 that restricted the age of cars and forced the installation of GPS and credit card machines.

Though it’s still not legal, UberX already has put some wheels in motion to launch UberX in New Orleans at some point. The company posted job listings on the local employment website Worknola.com, and at a City Council meeting earlier this month, when Uber was finally approved, two men said they’d begun the application process to become drivers for the ride-sharing service.

“We’ve definitely heard there’s demand for UberX and for affordable options for folks,” Hayes says. “We’re offering that service in over 100 U.S. cities and we think there’s a place for that here in New Orleans as well.”

Asked whether Uber would defy New Orleans’ ban on UberX-style services — a ban the city emphasized this month by passing more stringent penalties for drivers who violate it — Hayes didn’t quite answer the question.

“It’s standard operating procedure for us to essentially collect the demand and even push people through the process, so in the event that we do launch, we’re ready to go,” he says. “We do that in pretty much every city in the U.S. where we’re not currently operating. It’s not really unique to [New Orleans]. In terms of the city, we’re absolutely at the table and wanting to continue conversations around alternatives and more affordable options for the people of New Orleans.”

“New Orleans is such a small, big city,” says Daspit, the limo company owner who’s working with Uber. “And we still have taxicabs. We can’t just go over and stomp on all the taxi drivers, after all we’ve put them through (with mandated updates). We have to be ethical. That’s why, if they try to do UberX, I would say, ‘Don’t do that. It’s just not fair. You have to do business, but do it fairly. Have a sense of heart or a kind of feeling.’”

NEWS VIEWS BOUQUETS + brickbats ™ heroes + zeroes

SCUTTLEBUTT Quote of the week Keg stand edition

Madeleine LeCesne

was named one of five National Student Poets by President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. It is the country’s highest honor for young poets. LeCesne, a student at Lusher Charter School, was honored at a poetry reading featuring first lady Michelle Obama and will spend the next year as a student literary ambassador to libraries, museums and schools.

Jackie Clarkson

will be honored by Parkway Partners with the organization’s fifth annual “Green Spirit Award” at a patron party Oct. 9.

The former City Council president has supported the group throughout her career. Parkway Partners is a 32-year-old organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining green space in New Orleans, from “adopting” neutral grounds to promoting community and schoolyard gardens.

Sean Payton

BP

tried to “claw back” some $185 million — plus interest — in settlement payments that the British oil giant paid to Gulf oil spill claimants, all of whom signed releases in favor of the company in exchange for the money. Last week, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier denied BP’s motion for the claw back, saying the terms of the settlement agreement specifically exempted changes resulting from future litigation. BP vows to appeal, which only further drags out the already protracted litigation spawned by the oil company’s gross negligence in the 2010 oil disaster.

Vitter in Disney World M-I-C-K-E-Y-D-A-V-I-D

“Join Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Senator Vitter at Disney!” was the top line on a fundraising invitation sent out last week for Sen. David Vitter’s gubernatorial campaign, as reported by the website Politico. Guests will mingle with Vitter and cartoon characters at a threeday getaway at the Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

The invitation requested $3,000 for the event ($315 per night for the rooms), and includes a Saturday night dinner at “Disney’s Hoop-Dee-Doo BBQ and Musical Revue,” which was described as “a hilarious, high-spirited hootenanny the whole family will enjoy, accompanied by a finger lickin’ countrified feast.” For the less countrified, there was also the opportunity for a game of golf with Vitter. — KEVIN ALLMAN

Congressional endorsements

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Rep. Vance McAllister, the “Kissin’ Congressman” from Louisiana’s 5th District who indicated he wouldn’t run for re-election and then changed his mind, addressed his infidelity in a new 30-second ad titled “Blessed,” which co-starred his wife Kelly.

“A man’s character is based on how many times he gets back up and stands again,” Kelly said in the video, which appeared to be shot in the McAllisters’ kitchen. The ad, which features prominent shots of the McAllisters’ wedding rings and children, concludes by describing the candidate as “Conservative.

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bought 100 jerseys with the name and number of the Cincinnati Bengals’ defensive tackle Devon Still. Still’s 4-year-old daughter Leah has stage 4 neuroblastoma cancer, and the Bengals are donating the money from each jersey sale ($100 apiece) to cancer research. Still thanked the New Orleans Saints coach in a note: “It’s just showing the world how it’s not all about how competitive you can be on the field, it’s about what you can do to help out humanity.”

“They need to get a sense of a humor, and they need to get a life. It’s just the way we roll. The gentleman that did that is 28 years old and he has also graduated. He has a master’s in business.

So I think he can make a decision for himself what he’d like to do. I thought I did pretty well by not doing it myself and just helping him.” — Sen. Mary Landrieu, responding to reporters about her photo op at an LSU tailgate, where she held a beer keg nozzle for a Tigers fan who was doing a handstand. One of her GOP opponents, Rep. Bill Cassidy, criticized the stunt, saying it encouraged binge drinking: “It’s not something to celebrate.”

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McAllister was supported by Phil Robertson, patriarch of TV’s Duck Dynasty family, in his first congressional campaign. After the scandal broke last spring, Robertson disavowed McAllister and threw his support to Calhoun businessman Zach Dasher, a Robertson nephew. Phil and Kay Robertson released a Dasher radio commercial last week. In it, Phil said Dasher had been “officially and thoroughly vetted by the Robertson clan,” and urged voters to cast ballots for “Zach, my nephew.” Wife Kay reminds him, “You have to say Zach Dasher in there. You can’t just say Zach.”

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little smaller last week when Norm Clark dropped out of the race and endorsed state Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge. That leaves eight GOP candidates jostling for the chance to make the runoff against presumed frontrunner Edwin Edwards, the former governor and ex-convict. EWE is one of three Democrats in the race, plus one Libertarian. — KEVIN ALLMAN

Not-so-sweet tweets Dasher, Whitney cyber slap politicians

Speaking of Zach Dasher: Buzzfeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski poked around Dasher’s Twitter account and found that before Dasher was a candidate, he was an online irritant to a couple of powerful Louisiana politicians in his own party: Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter.

In 2013, Dasher twitted Vitter for one of his votes, saying Vitter “failed us on the fiscal cliff,” and snapped at Jindal’s idea to sell birth control over the counter. “Time to stand up to big government and big Pharma by allowing contraception to be purchased over the counter,” Jindal had written, to which Dasher replied, “I’m afraid you misunderstood the election result. Populist rhetoric won’t make you president.”

In the 6th District race, it’s candidate and current state Rep. Lenar Whitney who’s leading the Twitter field in chippy talk. “On twitter I get attacked by libs during daytime hrs, while the rest of America is at work. … Ironic that Liberals insult us while we are at our jobs, paying for them to sit at home all day and tweet,” she noted recently. Another Whitney bon mot: “Somewhere in the White House, @MichelleObama and @BarackObama

have teams working in shifts thinking of which hashtag to combat #ISIS with,” she wrote, hashtagging ISIS correctly.

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Cannizzaro re-elected DA Opponent Burns disqualified

Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro was automatically elected to a second term last week when the Louisiana Supreme Court disqualified his sole challenger, former Assistant District Attorney Lon Burns, after Burns could not prove he’d filed state income tax returns for the last four years. Earlier this month Orleans Parish Civil District Judge Tiffany Chase had disqualified Burns, only to reverse herself. On Sept. 17, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that Burns’ candidacy could continue, but the Supreme Court disagreed, ruling that Burns could not prove he had filed his taxes from 2010-2013.

“The Louisiana Supreme Court’s ruling puts this issue to rest once and for all,” Cannizzaro said in a statement. “I am looking forward to moving from this campaign and focusing 100% of my time and attention to addressing the criminal justice issues that are facing this city.”

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Scuttlebits

All the news that doesn’t fit

• Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriage was ruled unconstitutional last week by state District Judge Edward Rubin of the 15th Judicial District Court, but the ruling was stayed after Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed an appeal. The case now will go to the state Supreme Court. In the meantime, same-sex marriage still is not legal in Louisiana …

• Oct. 4 will bring “(Park)ing Day NOLA,”

a local version of the international event that converts parking spaces into temporary mini-parks for the day.

If you want to enjoy them, head down to Julia Street in the Warehouse Arts District …

• The city of Kenner launched a free smartphone app last week that provides a number of city services, including listings of all city departments, an event calendar and online payment of traffic tickets. It’s available in the app stores for Apple and Android phones …

• As of press time, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was set to eat a plate of gator at Restaurant des Familles in Crown Point as part of a swing through Louisiana in support of Rob Maness, the tea party-backed candidate challenging incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu in the U.S. Senate race. Earlier this year, Maness released a campaign video where he wrestled an alligator — sort of.

— KEVIN ALLMAN & JEANIE RIESS

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A real iconic structure improvements, the airport also (somewhat) modernized its transportation options, including the construction of an integrated car rental facility on site and a revamp of the taxi queue process.

But not even four years of work and millions of dollars could give New Orleans the airport it needs (and deserves).

The new north terminal will have many advantages over the old one on Airline Highway, including a better location.

Situated just off Interstate 10 in Kenner, the new terminal will jump-start business development on Loyola Avenue and Veterans Memorial Boulevard. At a January press conference announcing plans for the new terminal, guests were shown renderings of a graceful “double boomerang” structure made of glass, with a luxury hotel on site. The new terminal also will include an area for shops and restaurants, the lack of which is a frequent complaint of travelers at the current airport.

The new north terminal will have many advantages over the old one on Airline Highway.

In April, Airline Weekly reported that Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport was the fastest-growing airport in the country. While we ranked 37th in the number of passengers handled in 2013 (9.2 million, less than one-tenth of the number who passed through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport), our growth was 7 percent over the year before. That trend shows no sign of slacking, particularly if we attract more international flights, as tourism officials hope. The new north terminal will be ideal for passenger flights to Mexico and Central America.

The money that arrived last week reminds us that our new airport is scheduled to open in less than four years — in May 2018, as the city celebrates its tricentennial. New Orleans already has many iconic structures, the biggest of which is the French Quarter.

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n 1718, the explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville found a bend in the Mississippi River and decided it was the ideal location to establish the city of Nouvelle-Orleans. In 2018, New Orleans will celebrate its tricentennial, and government and tourism leaders have been planning how to do that for a while now. There have been plenty of roadblocks.

New Orleans’ hopes of landing Super Bowl LII in 2018 were dashed earlier this year, and Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s idea of remaking now-closed Charity Hospital into a civic center, with government offices and courtrooms under one roof, seems to be off the table as well, due to lack of funding.

For a while, redevelopment of the former World Trade Center site on the riverfront was touted as a linchpin of the city’s 300th birthday celebration. But that project has stalled once again. Last year, the city examined three proposals and selected Gatehouse Capital Corporation to redevelop the site, but the deal fell apart in May when the city and the company could not come to financial terms. Looking at the plans again, it’s probably for the best; Gatehouse’s vision included trimming the skyscraper in purple and adding an “iconic structure” (a giant neon Ferris wheel) on the river. While modern and historic architecture can coexist in exciting ways — think of Berlin’s skyline, or I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid outside Paris’ Louvre Museum — Gatehouse’s plan would have fit better in Miami or Las Vegas than just upriver from the French Quarter.

Meanwhile, plans are chugging along for a more utilitarian iconic structure — a new Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has promised $83.38 million in discretionary funding for construction of a new north terminal on the Interstate 10 side of the current East-West runway, and last week U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond announced the first $21 million was on its way. New Orleans City Councilman Jared Brossett, who heads the city’s Transportation and Airport Committee, said the FAA’s total commitment to the project is $95.5 million. The entire project will be funded by a mix of federal grants, bonds and Aviation Board capital funds.

The existing airport has long been out of date. The building that comprises most of the main terminal was built in 1959 and has seen several redesigns and addons, none of which has integrated well with the original structure. In the 1970s, Concourses A and B were added, and Concourse D was built in the 1990s. Several years ago, the airport got a facelift in anticipation of Super Bowl XLVII; the project took four years and cost an estimated $300 million. Along with the infrastructure

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obby Jindal has about 15 months left as governor of Louisiana.

Given his obvious presidential ambitions, it’s clear that he’ll be paying less and less attention to Louisiana going forward. That being the case, it’s not unreasonable to start talking about his legacy.

To hear Team Jindal spin it, he has turned our state from a fetid backwater into a shining beacon of commerce and efficiency. A more objective view would posit that Jindal’s legacy is one of corruption, vacillation and missed opportunities.

Consider his four biggest challenges (and opportunities) as governor, two of which came in areas in which he claimed expertise: health care, education, coastal erosion and fiscal management.

• Health and Hospitals — Jindal got his political start as secretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) in 1996. As governor, his signature health care initiative was priva-

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• Coastal Restoration — The state agency responsible for writing a coastal master plan drafted a fine proposal, but no way to fund it. The obvious solution is to press the oil and gas industry, which contributed mightily to wetland loss, to help pay to fix the coast. Instead of leading that effort, Jindal prostituted himself to Big Oil — to the point of replacing qualified experts on the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E) with toadies who promise to kill the flood agency’s environmental lawsuit against Big Oil. • Fiscal Management — Every year, Jindal has broken his campaign promise not to spend one-time money on recurring expenses. He has raided reserve funds, coastal funds and public employee benefit funds to paper over his deficits. When the BP oil spill money comes down from Washington, Jindal no doubt will try to divert it — then claim he “balanced” the budget.

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Jindal will be remembered as the governor who lacked the guts and the integrity to do what’s right.

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tizing Louisiana’s public hospitals. Last week, the man Jindal hired to implement that initiative — former DHH Secretary Bruce Greenstein — was indicted by a state grand jury on nine counts of perjury. All nine counts relate to numerous alleged contacts Greenstein had with his former employer, CNSI, before Team Jindal gave CNSI a $200 million contract to process Medicaid claims. If Greenstein acted with others to rig the selection process — and then cover it up — he has every reason to cooperate with state and federal investigators. At a minimum, Jindal’s Big Idea for public health care will go down as an Edwin Edwards-style inside job. That is on top of his refusal to expand Medicaid, which keeps more than 200,000 working poor in Louisiana from getting health care.

• Education — Jindal previously led the University of Louisiana System, but as governor he cut annual state funding for higher education by $700 million. He rammed a massive overhaul of K-12 education through the Legislature, but later most of it was declared unconstitutional. He brought Common Core to Louisiana, then turned against it when it became unpopular among right-wingers. He continues to say, falsely, that Washington forces Common

Ultimately, Bobby Jindal will be remembered as the governor who lacked the guts and the integrity to do what’s right. If he’s dumb enough to run for president, his opponents will destroy him with one question — a query posed to voters, not to Jindal: Do you want all of America to look like Louisiana?

Correction: In last week’s column, I incorrectly stated that Jindal could shorten the next term of SLFPA-E member G. Paul Kemp by refusing to submit Kemp’s name to the state Senate for confirmation. Actually, Jindal could shorten Kemp’s term by asking the Senate not to confirm him.

Since then, the so-called “independent” nominating committee for SLFPAE membership “reconsidered” Kemp’s nomination. That’s yet another sign that Jindal and nominating committee chair Jay Lapeyre will do anything to derail the SLFPA-E lawsuit. Kemp supported the litigation. The glaring irony here is that Lapeyre led the fight after Hurricane Katrina to “reform” the old levee board by claiming the new board should focus on flood protection exclusively. He and Jindal are focused exclusively on the lawsuit. We all are at risk as a result.

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stop consuming alcohol altogether. At the time, alcohol was blamed for many of society’s ills, including crime and destitution.

Much of the initial push for temperance came from women and was in response to hardships they endured as a result of their husbands’ drinking. Many relied on their husbands to support the family and heavy drinkers often squandered their weekly pay at local taverns.

Temperance societies started in New York in 1808, and the interdenominational American Society for the Promotion of Temperance began in 1826, spreading messages against alcohol and other vices throughout many states and prompting the formation of local temperance groups.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union formed in 1874, and the Anti-Saloon League was established in 1893.

In Louisiana back then, most northern parishes were dry, while most of the southern parishes were “wet.” As a large international port with lots of bars, New Orleans was not known for temperance.

Temperance unions and their supporters felt men needed an alternative to drinking a beer (the local drinking water wasn’t very clean), and they began to erect drinking fountains, or temperance fountains, in major cities. Although there were calls for such a fountain to be built in New Orleans (The Daily Picayune mentioned them in articles in 1903 and 1910), it appears none was ever built.

The temperance movement spawned the 18th Amendment, which was ratified in 1919 and made Prohibition the law of the land. Clandestine operations, bootlegging and raids of speakeasies and bars dominated the ensuing decade. In 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition and it again became legal to buy a drink in the U.S.

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Construction on the first bridge to connect downtown New Orleans to the West Bank began in 1954, and the bridge was opened to the public in 1958. The official name of the bridge was the Greater New Orleans Bridge, although many locals referred to it as the Mississippi River Bridge. A second bridge, parallel to the first, opened in 1988, and a year later there was a public contest to name the bridges. The official name became the Crescent City Connection.

It is the fifth largest cantilever bridge in the world.

Inspired by the New York Port Authority and its toll bridges, retired U.S. Navy Capt.

Neville Levy led the initiative to have the bridge built, and he later served as chairman of the Mississippi River Bridge Authority. His supporters thought the bridge should have been named in his honor, but the Bridge Authority’s board of directors voted to honor Levy in a different way. In 1970, the board dedicated the bridge to Levy by placing blue plaques with white stars in their four corners and a pelican, Louisiana’s state bird, in the middle at each end of the bridge. The stars represent a promise made by then-Gov. Robert Kennon, who said Levy would be promoted from captain to four-star admiral on the governor’s staff if he could overcome the many obstacles faced in having the bridge erected.

When Levy died in 1974, several organizations wanted to rename the structure Levy Bridge. Levy’s son advocated for Levy Bridge again when it was time to name the second bridge. In that case, however, rules of the naming contest stipulated that to avoid politicking, the bridge could not be named after any person.

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Democrat Mary Landrieu is trying to thread a political needle one more time to keep her U.S. Senate seat — but Louisiana is trending Republican these days.

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M

ary Landrieu’s current bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate is easily the toughest challenge of her career. That’s nothing new for Landrieu, an 18-year Democratic incumbent. Every time she runs, it’s the toughest race of her career.

But something seems different this time.

Louisiana’s ongoing tilt to the right — or “red” in the pigmented parlance of today’s pundits — has made her the state’s lone statewide elected Democrat. Now more than ever, she is the state GOP’s No. 1 target.

In her three prior Senate races, Landrieu cobbled together a coalition that included blacks, labor, women and moderate Republicans — including a respectable number of GOP business leaders and local officials who put pragmatism ahead of party loyalty. Many who disagree with Landrieu philosophically nonetheless value her 18-year incumbency as well as her recent ascension to chairwoman of the Senate’s Energy and

Natural Resources Committee, a key position for a Louisiana senator.

Landrieu also caught a lot of the breaks in her previous Senate races. This year, not so much.

Without question the biggest difference between this year’s Senate contest and Landrieu’s race in 2008 is The Obama Factor. In 2008, the then-Democratic presidential nominee fared poorly in Louisiana, but voters here separated him from Landrieu. Obama got less than 40 percent of the stateside vote in 2008, but Landrieu beat her main GOP opponent by more than 121,000 votes the same day.

Landrieu did not endorse Obama in 2008, but his presence atop the ballot was a godsend to her campaign. It increased black voter turnout significantly, which boosted her vote total.

This year, things are very different. Obama is not on the ballot, but he may as well be as far as Landrieu’s opposition is concerned. Political scientists and

On several levels, Landrieu faces a different kind of Republican opposition this time. Cassidy is Landrieu’s first challenger with Washington experience. He doesn’t have to study national issues to discuss them with authority; he has voted on them since he arrived in Congress in 2009. Of course, Cassidy’s voting record, like Landrieu’s, gives his opponent fodder for campaign attacks, but no one can say he doesn’t know the issues.

In addition, the tea party remains a viable — some say growing — statewide political force. Landrieu’s other major GOP rival, retired Entergy exec and former Air Force Col. Rob Maness of Madisonville, is the darling of Louisiana’s tea party. Maness has tossed at least as many grenades at Cassidy as he has at the incumbent (one of the few breaks Landrieu has caught this year), PAGE 18

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pollsters uniformly describe him as “a millstone around Landrieu’s neck” among white voters, who comprise about two-thirds of the state’s electorate. Ironically, she still needs Obama voters in the black community to rally behind her in order to win.

The president’s unpopularity among white voters explains why Landrieu’s main GOP opponent, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge, and several Super PACs that support him constantly tell voters that she “voted with Obama 97 percent of the time.” While that’s unquestionably an inflated figure confected

by Republicans, the mantra has resonated among conservative whites.

“Cassidy and Landrieu aren’t really that different, philosophically,” says University of Louisiana at Lafayette political scientist Pearson Cross, a veteran observer of Louisiana elections. “He’s not the most conservative Republican, and she’s not the most liberal Democrat. So Cassidy is trying to make this a referendum on Barack Obama. If he can succeed in doing that, he wins almost by default without having to have strong credentials on his own.”

Michael Henderson, research director at LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab, says Obama “has become a polarizing figure” who rallies conservatives against anyone associated with him.

“If anyone wants to vote against Barack Obama, this is the chance to do it,” Henderson says. “They can go express their antipathy for this president by taking the Senate away from his party. That’s why Cassidy runs ads saying, ‘Landrieu represents Barack Obama and I represent Louisiana.’”

Despite the president’s unpopularity, Cross still calls this race a toss-up.

“I don’t think anybody has won or lost this race,” he says. “If I had to pick, I still think I would pick Landrieu because of her incumbency. Of course, that could change because we’re headed into the period where candidates are going to be spending all their money.”

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Security, but I don’t know if it’s going to convince anyone who hates Barack Obama to vote for her. It will still be a turnout game for Sen. Mary Landrieu and Rep. Bill Cassidy ended her in December.” the most recent reporting period with nearly the Cross agrees.

“All bets are off if this same amount of cash on hand. Landrieu took in goes to a runoff and if almost $4 million more in contributions, but she Louisiana is going to be a has spent far more than Cassidy: $7 million to his deciding race in terms of $3 million. The third major challenger in the race, who controls the Senate,” Rob Maness, has raised more than $1.5 million, Cross says. “If that happens, far behind the other candidates, but has spent we’ll experience a campaign most of it; he had less than $200,000 cash on the likes of which we havehand at the end of the reporting period. None of n’t seen for a long time. this includes spending by “Super PACs,” which You’ll see intensity on both are not new but will continue to pump millions of sides that hasn’t been hit dollars into advertising, much of it attack ads. In since the 1991 governor’s an interview with Gambit last week, Rep. Cedric race between Edwin Richmond estimated total spending on the race Edwards and David Duke. will be between $50 and $100 million should the That was the last time the race go into a runoff. nation beat a path down to Louisiana.”

Democratic Congressman MARY LANDRIEU Cedric Richmond of New Orleans, who supports Summary from Jan. 1, 2013-Aug. 2, 2014 Landrieu, says candidates and Super PACs could Ending Cash On Hand.........................................$5,523,930 spend between $50 Net Contributions...................................................$9,477,895 million and $100 million on Net Operating Expenditures..............................$7,050,113 Louisiana’s Senate race if it goes to a runoff. That’s another major difference BILL CASSIDY this year, thanks to a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Summary from April 1, 2013-Aug. 2, 2014 decision that opened the floodgates to corporate Ending Cash On Hand........................................$5,606,889 contributions and virtually Net Contributions.................................................$5,888,528 unlimited “independent” Net Operating Expenditures.............................$2,991,473 (wink-wink) expenditures by Super PACs. All agree that the ROB MANESS barrage of TV and radio ads attacking Landrieu Summary from April 1, 2013-Aug. 2, 2014 will only escalate in the coming weeks.

Ending Cash On Hand...............................................$196,407 Another major difference Net Contributions.....................................................$1,531,236 this election cycle is Net Operating Expenditures............................$1,336,664 the smaller number of high-profile Republican endorsements for Landrieu.

Source: Federal Election Commission The chief exception is 2014 House and Senate Campaign shipbuilder Donald “Boysie” Finance Reports, www.fec.gov Bollinger, whose TV pitch for Landrieu ranks among PAGE 17 her best media spots thus far. Otherwise, most of the marquee but his presence in the race — and his Republican elected officials who broke steady rise in the polls — means this party ranks to publicly endorse her contest could go to a Dec. 6 runoff. in 2008 are staying mum this year.

Many observers feel that would not be Those endorsements, particularly one good for Landrieu.

by Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell “If it comes down to this being the Normand, helped put Landrieu over the last race in the country, the one that top in 2008. could put the Republicans in control of For her part, Landrieu is said to be the Senate, or if the Republicans have happy that many local GOP officials are already won control on Nov. 4, she’s still on the sidelines. “We consider it a probably toast,” says LSU’s Henderson. victory that some of the most respected “If the Democrats keep the Senate in Republican parish and statewide November, that’s her best argument leaders are not backing Cassidy for re-election in December, but even publicly,” one Landrieu campaign aide then it’s difficult. [The importance of says. “Privately, they wish us well Landrieu’s incumbency] is more likely to because they know Mary has delivered resonate than border security or Social

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handsomely for them in the past and will do so again.

They also know a freshman Republican senator won’t be able to do anything of consequence for Louisiana.”

While Normand remains neutral in this year’s Senate race, the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association gave Landrieu its endorsement over the summer. The sheriffs’ group is always a sought-after endorsement by statewide candidates, especially those who, like Landrieu, need a strong turnout on Election Day. In addition to the sheriffs, Landrieu recently announced endorsements from a host of local elected officials as part of her “I’m with Mary” campaign theme.

“It’s going to be tough for any Democrat running in Louisiana this year. [Mary Landrieu] might be the only one who could pull it out — but then again it might be just hard enough to put it out of reach.”

— Michael Henderson, director, LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab

phenomenon political observers and operatives call “the differential.”

“If the differential is 6 percent or more, she is in trouble,” Pinsonat says.

“The closer she can keep turnout among blacks to that of whites, the better off she will be. Among white voters, what’s going to matter is whether Mary can separate herself enough from Obama and convince people that Louisiana needs her in Washington to bring home the bacon. Her worst nightmare is too many voters holding her accountable for the policies of President Obama.”

LSU’s Henderson notes that Landrieu has been in tight races before and found a way to win.

“If anyone can do it this time around, she can,” Henderson says. “But it’s going to be very, very tight. It’s going to come down to voter mobilization. It’s less about persuasion, more about getting out the vote.”

Hand-in-hand with “localizing” the race is Landrieu’s goal of winning outright in November, when turnout is likely to be highest. If the race goes to a runoff — as most polls currently suggest will happen — she could be in trouble.

“There are no good scenarios in a December runoff for Landrieu,” says Pinsonat. “She needs to win in

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In contrast to the GOP tack of trying to make this election all about Obama, Landrieu’s strategy is to remind voters of the late Tip O’Neill’s time-honored maxim: All politics is local. If she can get voters to focus on her ability to “deliver handsomely” for Louisiana — and overlook Obama’s unpopularity — she increases her chances of victory significantly.

“Turnout is absolutely the key for Landrieu,” says UNO pollster and political scientist Ed Chervenak.

“Looking at her previous mid-term election, turnout overall was about 40 percent. She needs to get it above that.

She needs voters who typically don’t turn out for midterm elections to come out and vote for her this time.”

Bernie Pinsonat, a Baton Rougebased pollster, agrees.

“The emphasis of her campaign, the best scenario for her, is robo-calls from Barack Obama right before Election Day,” Pinsonat says. “It’s all about turnout on Nov. 4 — and you have turnout scenarios that favor her in Shreveport, where there’s a hotly contested mayor’s race on the ballot, in the 5th Congressional District and in the 6th Congressional District.”

Shreveport, like New Orleans, is a majority-black city. In the 5th Congressional District, Monroe’s black mayor, Jamie Mayo, is challenging Republican incumbent Vance McAllister.

And in the 6th District, former Gov. Edwin Edwards (who has always been popular among black voters) leads a crowded field of candidates.

Both Pinsonat and Chervenak use the same turnout benchmark for Landrieu: They say she needs black voter turnout to be no more than 6 percent lower than white voter turnout on Nov. 4.

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November, which is what she’s trying to do. … Her worst nightmare is for this to be the race in December, the one that decides control of the Senate. On the other hand, it’s not impossible for her to win this in November. If I were her, that’s what I would be pushing for.”

Pinsonat adds that if the Democrats retain control of the Senate on Nov. 4, which few if any pundits predict right now, “that would be one of the best scenarios for Landrieu. She would still have a tough battle, but her seniority and committee chairmanship is a message that she could sell.”

While Landrieu walks a tightrope — needing to distance herself from Obama while also needing his voters to turn out for her — Cassidy has just one message: Obama, Obama, Obama.

“The probability model shows Cassidy with the advantage right now,” says Chervenak. “It’s based on a number of polls, fundraising and other variables that analysts put into their model. …

He’s getting lots of exposure with all this money coming in.”

Chervenak says Cassidy’s strategy is to make the cut in November and then hope only “chronic voters” show up in December. The November ballot will be crowded with lots of local races, many of which will drive up voter turnout. If the Senate race goes to a December runoff, it will be the only Senate race in the country, and there will be far fewer local races on Louisiana’s ballot.

“If it’s chronic voters only — mostly older and whiter, who lean Republican — then Cassidy has a clear advantage,” Chervenak says.

In a way, Cassidy is waging the same kind of campaign that Mitt Romney ran nationally in 2012 — what pundits call an “air game” — pouring virtually all his money into an intense media volley against Landrieu and Obama. The Super PACs that support his candidacy are doing likewise, only with lots more money.

Henderson says the GOP strategy of making this race part of a national referendum on Obama represents Cassidy’s best chance to win.

“Normally we would think of an incumbent three-term senator, it’s her race to lose. This is the opposite,” Henderson says. “If she pulls it out, I think people will think of it as an upset.

The deck appears to be stacked against her because national issues do not favor her. … It’s going to come down to turning out your vote, which is probably easier for [Cassidy]. The Republican base is more or less self-mobilized because of Obama.”

While Cassidy started the campaign well behind Landrieu, the media barrage against her has brought him even with, and in some polls slightly ahead of, his Democratic opponent. Many suspect that the recent surveys showing him ahead caused him to decline several debates against Landrieu. He also is

considered a less-than-dynamic public speaker, and no doubt his handlers don’t want to take any risks in a freewheeling debate against Landrieu, who is a veteran of the campaign trail.

Will the criticism that Cassidy is “ducking debates” hurt him?

“I don’t think it will turn anyone against him who wasn’t already against him,” Henderson says. “It’s part of the back and forth. Normally, however, it’s the incumbent who ducks debates.

Cassidy is behaving like an incumbent. … Maybe debating more would actually hurt him if he’s not a very good debater.”

Another potential weakness for Cassidy is fellow Republican Maness.

“The best thing Landrieu has going for her is Maness,” Pinsonat says. “She needs the Republicans to screw up and give her some room, and Maness offers the best opportunity for that to happen because he’s criticizing Cassidy among conservatives. Maness is not running against Mary right now. He’s running mainly against Cassidy, and only somewhat against Mary.”

Chervenak says Maness embodies the “civil war” that is going on nationally within the GOP between “traditional” or “mainstream” Republicans and hard-core conservatives in the tea party faction. “Louisiana is not immune from the factionalism that’s taking place in the Republican Party,” he says.

“Politically, Maness seems to be doing more harm to Cassidy. He is going to pull votes away from Cassidy.”

Although Maness galvanizes tea party conservatives at Cassidy’s expense right now, Cross predicts those conservatives likely will embrace Cassidy in a runoff.

“If Cassidy comes in ahead of Landrieu in the first round, I think he’s very likely to be the winner in December because the tea party voters will swing to him,” Cross says. “She needs to be up in the first round by three to five points or more in order to have a good chance of making it in the second round. If it goes 47-42 for Landrieu in November, with Maness at around 11, I think Landrieu has a good chance. But if Cassidy finishes ahead of her, he looks very strong at that point. …

“I don’t think Cassidy is a shoo-in by any stretch. I think it’s very competitive — and I think there’s going to be a runoff because of Maness.”

At the end of the day, Landrieu’s task is to thread the political needle one more time. Henderson recalls that she did exactly that in her last midterm election in 2002 — another year that was not very good for Democrats. “She still managed to win that one,” he says.

“It’s going to be tough for any Democrat running in Louisiana this year. She might be the only one who could pull it out — but then again it might be just hard enough to put it out of reach.”

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SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CLASSROOM Teachers adapt to how today’s students communicate and show them PRODUCTIVE WAYS TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA

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increasingly straying from Facebook because their parents are on it, that could be Instagram and Tumblr,” he says. “Alumni like Facebook.

Everybody loves Twitter, so the thrust of the semester is being able to direct [students’] messaging.”

When Nelson’s students are finished with the class, each will have a portfolio of the entire social media campaign for the school, complete with what worked and what didn’t. That’s key to learning the most crucial elements of social media, from engaging followers to growing a public base, Nelson says.

“It’s important because we have students who have taken the class and have come back and said, ‘I’m working or I got a job or I got an internship,’ and they just love the fact that this is what we’re able to do,” Nelson says. “We’ve gone through this experience of not saying, ‘Oh, I’ll tweet or I’ll post,’ but ‘Who is my

audience?’ Or, ‘What should I be saying to them, how do I reach them best and how do I measure those results?’”

When smartphones became common, many schools, including St. Martin’s Episcopal School in Metairie, initially banned the distracting devices in classrooms and school hallways. Garrett Mason, director of innovation and design at St. Martin’s, says students and faculty got together over the summer to revise those rules as teachers in a variety of classes last year increasingly asked students to use their smartphones during class.

For example, Mason says, an upper-school Spanish teacher will post a photo on Instagram, and students must respond to the photo using Spanish vocabulary and grammar.

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cross platforms, social media is designed to be as intuitive as possible. How do you tweet? Simple.

Click the box that says, “compose tweet” and type your 140 characters.

Posting and sharing in the digital world is easiest for what Loyola University New Orleans’ Andrew Nelson calls “digital natives,” like the students he instructs at Loyola’s School of Mass Communication. There are no questions about how to manipulate a smartphone, or how to take advantage of what Facebook has to offer. For most of Nelson’s students, Facebook has been a reality since they were in middle school.

But in Loyola’s social media classes, and within the university’s newly minted social media minor, it’s not about teaching

students how to use the technology with which they are intimately familiar. Instead, it’s focused on teaching them how to use social media strategically and get the most out of what the various platforms offer. “It’s a question of what is good content — when do you post and thinking about how you post strategically,” Nelson says. “How do you work together across platforms?”

In Nelson’s social media class, the School of Mass Communication is the students’ client. Students represent the school by operating its social media presence. Content is produced with a purpose and students get a real life connection between the classroom and the world beyond its walls. Nelson says one of the major challenges students face is how to find a dynamic voice that appeals to a variety of audiences.

“Trying to reach high school students, who are

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Smartphones are still banned at certain times of the day and in certain places, but St. Martin’s goal is to stop resisting technology and instead encourage its use as a tool for exploration and learning.

Mason’s job at St. Martin’s is to work with students and faculty to

by millions, Mason says the school is cognizant of privacy issues and does not use students’ full names.

Students get a real life connection between the classroom and THE WORLD BEYOND ITS WALLS. develop projects that tackle real problems in the community. Last year, a first-grade class studied the so-called colony collapse of the honeybee population. “They went through a process called design thinking,” Mason says. “It’s a problem-solving model to help students develop problem-solving skills and creativity.” The first-graders had their own Twitter account, @stmhoneybees. First-graders at St. Martin’s also have their own blogs.

Last year, St. Martin’s ninthgraders were connecting with ninthgraders in Nigeria via Twitter to learn about issues surrounding water access and corruption.

“We obviously have to structure it so that a kindergartener is not tweeting on behalf of the school, but we expose them,” Mason says.

“So first-graders have their own blogs. There’s this incredible app where it’s so basic, you just click and you can add a picture or a video, and then you can write a caption for it and just send it up to their blog.

It goes to the teacher first, and the teacher approves it.”

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Technology has changed the roles of teachers in the classroom; students can get information from anywhere, but it takes a good teacher to help curate that information and teach students what to trust and how best to use information to achieve goals. The upper school’s creative writing project last year is a good example.

The class had a unit on marketing, and the school reached out to the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce to ask if any businesses wanted the students to develop a marketing campaign for them. “[The Chamber of Commerce] sent an email out to all their members, and they heard back from 20 businesses that said, ‘We would love for St. Martin’s students to design a marketing campaign for us,’” Mason says. The students invited three of the 20 respondents to pitch their businesses. The class selected FitGourmet, the Metairie-based healthy foods company, and built a marketing campaign.

Other schools are embracing technology in similar ways. At the Academy of the Sacred Heart and Louise S. McGehee School, middleand upper-school students are required to have laptops. At McGehee, a media literacy class teaches students how to navigate a world run by news and status updates.

For many educators, it’s about embracing social media and the way it is changing how we communicate, not fearing it. That’s why students no longer have to leave their phones at home.

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The garden was made possible by a donation to Little Gate, McGehee’s early childhood program, from alumnus Mary Alice Quinn of Memphis, Tennessee. It was designed

by Alan Mumford of Landscape Images (with input from faculty) and installed a few weeks ago.

“True to Little Gate’s Reggio Emilia approach, the butterfly garden encourages a child’s innate sense of curiosity and wonder,” says Little Gate Director Camille Greenberg. “The children seem to stop and slow down and wonder and investigate,” adds Mimi Odem, the school’s lower school admissions director.

The park-like setting, complete with a paved pathway, bamboo flower bed railings and childsized hills, teaches Little Gate students about the life cycle of the butterfly (a process that takes 21 days), its habitat and the interaction between plants and animals. Within that hands-on framework, students and faculty discover countless other lessons as well, including learning to respect a natural habitat, identify flowers,

A Little Gate student explores the butterfly garden at Louise S. McGehee School.

trees and other greenery and herbs by name, appreciate the sensory experience of a garden and be inspired and renewed by the beauty and calm of nature, according to faculty and administrators. Some girls use the garden as a place to sketch; for other students, it’s a quiet oasis. “It’s so much more than a butterfly garden,” Powers says.

At the entrance to the garden is a “butterfly shade tent,” where students can gather. An awning overhead mimics the shape of a butterfly’s wings and moves with the breeze. From there, visitors are led through the four stages of a butterfly’s life — from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis and finally to the emergence of a butterfly. Art installations representing the four stages of metamorphosis are found along the way — stones denote eggs,

a boxwood hedge is clipped in the shape of a caterpillar, a mesh curtain with bits of tattered fabric symbolizes molten skin and suspended gourds signify the pupa stage.

Butterfly gardens are planted with colors and fragrances that attract butterflies and nectars that feed them. The McGehee garden contains a profusion of flowering plants and vines as well as fragrant herbs. Milkweed, plumbago, jasmine, wisteria, lantana, cat whiskers, sunflowers, cone flowers, porter weed, rudbeckia thryallis, parsley and dill - all labeled for identification — are included in the landscape. Little Gate students use magnifying glasses to inspect leaves for eggs and delight in the butterflies they spot.

Because the garden includes a

path, hills, bridges and a balance beam-like area known as the stump challenge, children are engaged physically as well. Little Gate students are welcome to walk the garden path or ride through the exhibit via pedal car or tricycle. Other interactive play spaces in the garden include a “Mud Pie Kitchen”; the willow dome, a whimsical iglooshaped house woven from twigs; and the Aqua Architects’ Bridge, an addition designed by Little Gate’s 3-year-old class and some of their parents.

Thanks to the warm climate in New Orleans, the garden will be a place for all seasons.

“We planted the garden for year-round butterflies,” Greenberg says. It also will be a place of inspired education.

“It’s full of unlimited, endless possibilities,” Odem says.

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n Voltaire’s 18th century coming-of-age story Candide, the eponymous protagonist concludes “Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” which translates to “We must cultivate our garden.” In the new butterfly garden opened in September at Louise S. McGehee School, those words are apropos.

Beautiful, interactive and multilayered, the Mary Alice Quinn ’54 Butterfly Garden is a place where students, teachers and visitors can learn and grow.

“The garden was three years in the making,” says McGehee Headmistress Eileen Powers.

“It’s really an outdoor classroom that came to fruition when we realized we do so much with [the] Reggio Emilia [approach].”

The Reggio Emilia approach is an educational philosophy focused on preschool and primary education in which children are encouraged to explore and investigate through a self-guided curriculum. It’s also a methodology that aligns well with the school’s overall mission of turning out graduates who are lifelong learners and researchers, according to the administration.

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Guests receive free Wi-Fi, local telephone calls and newspaper delivery, as well as other amenities.

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Bonjour Lingerie (4214 Magazine St., 504309-8014; www.bonjourlingerie.com) celebrates its one-year anniversary from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4. There will be Champagne, hors d’oeuvres and burlesque performances by Bella Blue, Foxy Flambeaux and Cherry Brown.

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mid the CBD’s office towers, sandwich shops and parking lots, a cinnamon-colored Beaux Arts building houses The Whitney Hotel (610 Poydras St., 504-581-4222; www. whitneyhotel.com). Inside, tiled floors and marble columns, complete with period moldings of eagles edged in gold leaf, offer a glimpse of turn-of-the-century metropolitan New Orleans.

“This is the last surviving example of this … grand hall look [in New Orleans], which was done quite frequently at that time,” says Marc Becker, director of sales and marketing for the New Orleans Hotel Collection.

The locally owned hotel group acquired the Whitney Hotel in August. Becker says preserving the hotel’s historic feel is paramount. In the adjacent cafe, designers rotated the brass-plated letter “M” (for the Metropolitan Bank, the building’s original tenant) to become a “W” for “Whitney.” The remodeling effort transformed former bank vaults with gold-hued bars covering their doors into meeting rooms and a working kitchen.

The property’s current logo, an urn, reflects decorative elements of the building’s façade.

Becker says there’s a recent industry trend toward contracting out services such as housekeeping and security to third-party agencies. At the Whitney Hotel, the new ownership brought in its own staff, which had been trained to uphold company standards of cleanliness

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The namesake salad isn’t as engaging or polished when as its small plate counterparts — it’s serviceable but dinner daily, late night comparatively lackluster.

Meauxbar’s spaetzle — chewy, eggy German Fri.-Sat. noodles — is slightly browned and arrives looking appropriately wavy and abstract topped with how much Bolognese. The dish (which has a thicker than expensive typical Bolognese) is chock-full of protein — ground chicken, beef, pork and pancetta — which work miwhat works raculously well together to create a hearty, warmescargot and marrow ing meal that would best be eaten while bundled with Herbsaint; earthy, viin a blanket by a fire. Unfortunately, the dish looks brant tomato and shrimp like Hamburger Helper in the restaurant’s dim light, and would benefit from a presentation on par with aspic; hearty Bolognese its extraordinary flavors.

The check arrives tucked neatly inside a small what doesn’t card containing a seasonal “at-home” recipe Meauxbar salad for diners to try. This sense of generosity and is unexciting consideration sets Meauxbar apart from some of its stuffier peers, and offers a peek behind the check, please curtain of fine dining in New Orleans.

European bistro fare walks the line between Contact Sarah Baird at playful and sophisticated sarahgambitdining@gmail.com

October 24 will be a big day for celebrity chefs in New Orleans. Iron Chef America host and Food Network star Alton Brown (www.altonbrowntour.com) is at the Saenger Theatre (1111 Canal St., 504-525-1052; www.saengernola.com) as part of a tour in which he talks about food, demonstrates cooking techniques and recipes and even sings a few tunes.

Celebrity chef, restaurateur (Red Rooster Harlem) and Food Network personality Marcus Samuelsson (www. marcussamuelsson.com, pictured) also visits New Orleans as part of a book-release tour for Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes I Cook at Home. He signs the book at 2 p.m. at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-569-0405; www. southernfood.org).

“We’re particularly excited because his visit to the museum will coincide with the reopening of the Leah Chase Louisiana Gallery,” museum executive director Liz Williams says. — SARAH BAIRD

Taste of Nigeria

Tunde Wey, a Detroit, Michigan-based chef and mastermind behind the highly successful concept restaurant Revolver (www.revolverhamtramck.com) and the expensive pop-up concept Goldfinch American, is bringing a taste of his native Nigeria to New Orleans Oct. 17. Wey’s latest Nigerian barbecue pop-up project Lagos is hitting the road for one night only, promising to bring “spicy food and raunchy music” to New Orleans.

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ilt your head back just a little bit more,” the waiter said, helping me position a hollowedout marrow bone over my mouth. “And cover your shoulders with your napkin. You don’t want to dribble on yourself!”

While I sat in Meauxbar at the crossroads of silliness and sophistication, diners at neighboring tables turned to look at the spectacle unfolding as my server began to gingerly pour a stream of Herbsaint through the bone into my mouth.

“You’re doing great!” cheered a stately woman with a helmet of frosted blonde hair.

Moments earlier, I was eating chewy, marrow-coated escargot which had been neatly tucked into the bone as if part of a game of culinary hide-and-seek. After finishing the first part of the dish, the final flourish (or challenge) was to drink the remaining Herbsaint through the hollow bone, picking up any remaining silken bits on the way down with bright licorice flavor.

Downing the Herbsaint successfully, I slammed the marrow bone on the table like I had just finished a shot of whiskey.

A couple of people clapped as my server congratulated me, “That was the most elegant I’ve seen that carried out so far!”

Meauxbar is a little bit French-bistro fussy and a little bit devil-may-care adventurous — the kind of place that takes the art of shotgunning a beer to hoity-toity heights by turning it into a boozy luge.

While Chef Kristen Essig’s makeover of Meauxbar has a few carryover elements of dishes from her menu at Ste. Marie — such as the lemony brightness of the chicken farci, the herbal, earthy bite of the lamb loin — the restaurant feels more purposeful in its choices on and off the menu. Black and white dominate the decor and minimalistic figure sketches lining the walls add to a cozy, Parisian atmosphere.

The menu includes a strong stable of small plates and a handful of entrees, many of which also are available in smaller portions. All menu items flow together well, and it is wise to select two to three small plates per person to share with the table. Beginning with one of Meauxbar’s takes on frites, with the moules frites arriving as a tangled nest of thin, wiry fries atop mussels soaking in a sea of cloudy, fennel- and anise-tinged broth.

There’s an exciting parade of decadent plates, including beef tartare with perfectly balanced hints of cocoa and chipotle, and pork belly and watermelon salad with dazzling, briny-sweet

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FORK + CENTER [CONTINUED] immigrant, who is sometimes looked at as different, this personal idea of New Orleans makes me feel very comfortable.

“Being comfortable is one of the reasons I began cooking Nigerian food for people. It gave me the opportunity to share my immigrant experience [and] bring folks closer to my perspective.”

The menu features Nigerian favorites including egusi (melon seed stew), asun (peppered goat meat), goat pepper soup and fufu.

“I’m visiting New Orleans for the first time to disabuse myself of all my romantic notions of this beautiful city, as well as share some goodass, take-you-back-to-the-motherland cooking with my NOLA peoples,” Wey says.

The dinner is at 6 p.m. Oct. 17, and there is one seating with 20 spots.

Reservations are available on www.fromlagos.com. The dinner event location that will be revealed to those making reservations. — SARAH BAIRD

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Tiki drinks expert Jeff “Beachbum” Berry (www. beachbumberry.com) expects to open his tiki bar Latitude 29 (www.latitude29nola.com) in the third week of October in the Bienville House Hotel (320 Decatur St., 504-529-2345; www.bienvillehouse.com). Berry and wife Annene Kaye, who will be the general manager, announced several notable staff additions.

Steve Yamada already is signed on to run the bar.

Joining him are Hadi Ktiri and Brad Smith. Ktiri made a name for himself locally by crafting cocktails at French 75 at Arnaud’s (813 Bienville St., 504-523-5433; www. arnaudsrestaurant.com). Ktiri became the beverage supervisor at The Roosevelt Hotel (130 Roosevelt Way, 504-648-1200; www.therooseveltneworleans.com) in spring of this year. Smith moves to Latitude 29 from Maurepas Foods (3200 Burgundy St., 504-267-0072; www.maurepasfoods. com). It’s a return to tiki for Smith, who formerly worked at Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge in Minneapolis, Berry says.

“Our bar team is exciting,” Berry says. “Some real world-class people.”

Chris Shortall will run the kitchen. He’s a veteran of Restaurant August (301 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-297-9777; www.restaurnataugust.com) and Coquette (2800 Magazine St., 504-265-0421; www.coquettenola.com) and is known for running Shortall’s BBQ in the kitchen at Twelve Mile Limit (500 S. Telemachus St., 504-488-8114; www.facebook.com/twelve. mile.limit). Latitude 29 is a full-service restaurant offering what it calls PolynAsian food, a mix of Cantonese- and Polynesian-inspired dishes.

“Chris is digging deep into Asian flavors,” Berry says. “He’s modernizing it and tiki-fying it.”

Shortall is joined by sous chef James Rivard, who worked for him at Shortall’s BBQ. Construction continues at Latitude 29, which is taking over the space formerly occupied by Iris. Designer Bosko Hrnjak (www.boskoart.com) is creating tiki pieces, including 6- and 8-foot-tall carved totems that will stand at the restaurant’s private dining huts. “Bosko is the guy who revitalized tiki carving in the ’90s,” Berry says.

The restaurant also has 40 chairs acquired from the Florida Polynesian institution Mai Kai Restaurant. Berry also has a team working with reclaimed wood from a 19th-century Lower Garden District mansion.

“The wood beams are 100 years old,” he says. “It’s got this aged wood, nautical vibe. It’s some really creative stuff.”

Berry previously announced that Rhiannon Enlil (Cure, The Erin Rose) will serve as events coordinator.

Latitude 29 will open from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday through Sunday. — WILL COVIELLO

PHOTO BY OLIVIER KONIG

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Peter Vazquez Chef

Pete Vazquez is the chef/owner of The Appetite Repair Shop (400 Vallette St., 504-602-9990), a takeout-only spot in Algiers Point offering globally inspired dishes. Vasquez spoke with Gambit about the road from pop-up to brick and mortar restaurant.

Vazquez: It was rocky. When I was running Hush [Supper Club] outside of Stein’s (Market & Deli), it really was just a once-a-week pop-up selling food out of the back of my truck, so eventually things started to get a little flat. It was hard to produce that much food every week without having a commercial kitchen. People wouldn’t show up after they had ordered [to pick up] and it was especially bad during football season on Sundays.

I knew the Bubby’s space — (which) I’m in now — was here and that it was rarely open, so probably not going to last. When the spot became available, it was really serendipitous. I was almost broke and actually thinking about living in my truck.

Is dining culture in Algiers Point changing?

V: I’ve lived in Algiers Point for 15 years, so I’ve really seen the demographics of the neighborhood shift. There are still a lot of people who want a big plate of cheap food all across New Orleans, and here in Algiers Point it’s no different, but I think the city is slowly changing on that front. I’m happy for this neighborhood, because I know people were dying for different kinds of food.

There are only a couple of spots, and then some pretty good coffee shops that sell pastries and lunches, but that’s been it — no ethnic food until now.

What are some of the most popular dishes?

V: I always have some standby, prepackaged things, with specials that change every day. There’s always a gazpacho. The menu has a lot of vegan and vegetarian dishes on there, but some of the more popular things are always the curries, pates and terrines. The Danish beet salad — which I hate making, because I hate chopping beets — and anything with Brussels sprouts always sell fast. The salted caramel tiramisu always sells out; I open at 4 p.m., and it’s gone by 5 p.m. — SARAH BAIRD

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How was the transition from running your pop-up, Hush Supper Club, to opening Appetite Repair Shop?

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University Montessori School

Ages 2-6 Years 7508 BURTHE STREET NEW ORLEANS

CALL (504) 865-1659 for information or visit

umsnola.org

University Montessori School admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin.

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BEER buzz Observing the second annual Louisiana Craft Brewers Week (LaCBW) brings to mind how much Louisiana craft brewing has developed in the past year. Even though Louisiana only has 11 breweries, which ranks it 43rd in the country in number of breweries and 50th per capita, there is much positive growth to celebrate.

During last year’s Louisiana Craft Brewers Week, there were seven breweries in the state: Abita Brewing Co., Bayou Teche Brewing, Chafunkta Brewing Co., Covington Brewhouse, NOLA Brewing, Parish Brewing Co. and Tin Roof Brewing Co. This year, four more have joined the fold: Great Raft Brewing Co. and Red River Brewing Co., both in Shreveport, 40 Arpent Brewing Co. in Arabi, and Gnarly Barley Brewing in Hammond.

Another measure of growth over the past year is the number of national craft brands that have come to the Louisiana market, such as The Bruery, Founders Brewing, and Lagunitas Brewing Co. Current breweries have expanded their product lines over the past year. NOLA Brewing came out with Rebirth Pale Ale; Chafunkta released and started bottling Kingfish cream ale; Covington Brewhouse developed Anonymous IPA; Bayou Teche released Loup Garou imperial stout and Coteau Rodaire, a beer aged in French wine barrels; and Tin Roof released the new seasonal brew Turnrow, a wheat ale brewed with coriander. Parish Brewing released its highly acclaimed double IPA Ghost in the Machine, and Abita released several new beers, including the Bourbon Street barrel-aged series and Seersucker Summer Pils.

By this time in 2015, who knows how much will have changed. Several breweries are expected to open in the next year, including Mudbug Brewery in Thibodaux and Courtyard Brewery in New Orleans. Others in planning stages are Cajun Fire, Second Line Brewing, Wayward Owl Brewing Co. and Urban South Brewing, all in New Orleans. Current breweries continue to innovate with sour and barrel programs. — NORA McGUNNIGLE

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WINE of the week 2013 Domaine La Jeanne Rose

L ANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, FRANCE Retail $14-$15

Wednesday • Oct. 1

6 PM

1100 Constance St. NOLA • 525-5515

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This rose is produced in the heart of southern France’s Languedoc region. Located in the Pays D’Oc subzone near the town of Beziers, La Jeanne estate’s winery and vineyards were the dream of owner-winemaker Frederic Faro. Just 5 miles from the Mediterranean Sea, the vineyards enjoy a moderate climate with coastal breezes and few temperature swings. The area’s rocky soils are composed of limestone, clay, coarse alluvial sands and terra rossa components, allowing good drainage. The wine is a blend of classic Mediterranean and Rhone River Valley grapes: 70 percent grenache and 30 percent syrah. Harvested fruit was placed atop previously picked bunches so the weight of the new fruit created the gravity flow of free-run juice, a practice that minimizes bitterness from seeds crushed by machine processes. This vintage’s entire bottling came from free-run juice. In the glass, it offers subtle aromas of strawberry and floral notes. On the palate, taste delicate red berry flavors, hints of watermelon, pleasing minerality and solid acid balance on the dry finish.

Drink it with roasted nuts, sushi, paella, grilled fish, pork loin, fowl, veal and red beans and rice with sausage. Buy it at: Bin 428 and Swirl Wine Bar & Market. Drink it at: Borgne, Amici Ristorante & Bar, Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar & Bistro and Delachaise. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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Mosquito Supper Club

7 p.m. Tuesday Tigermen Den, 3113 Royal St.

www.mosquitosupperclub.com The multicourse dinner focuses on Louisiana seafood and cooking, with dishes including raw oysters, shrimp boulettes, shrimp and crab stew, tart a la bouille and more. Tickets $60.

Chilean wine dinner

6:30 p.m. Wednesday Rue 127, 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571

www.rue127.com The four-course wine dinner features scallop tortellini, goat cheese gnudi, chicken roulade with truffles and more. Wines are from vintners Casa Silva, Garcia & Schwaderer and Mayu. Tickets $100 including tax and tip.

Bywater food truck round up

6 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday St. Claude Avenue at Feliciana Street

www.stclaude.org St. Claude Main Street and My House NOLA begin a month of weekly Bywater food-truck roundups. Thursday features Theo’s Pizza Truck, Dirty Dishes and Burgers Ya Heard. Friday brings Grilling Shilling, Meltdown and Cocoa & Cream. Saturday it’s Burgers Ya Heard, Diva Dawg and Cocoa & Cream. There’s also food from neighborhood popups, beer, live music and restrooms.

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1 Another Broken Egg Cafe

607 Harrison Ave., (504) 301-4667; 2917 Magazine Street, (504) 301-2771 www.anotherbrokenegg.com

House-made granola features blueberry-flavored quinoa, strawberries, blueberries, toasted coconut and crushed bananas.

2 Bar Redux

801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083 www.barredux.com

The Island veggie burger tops a quinoa patty with pineapple.

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“And then you add all the Obama nonsense to what it’s become in the last several years. I don’t have anything against Mr. Obama. I’m just saying the way that, you know... the government should stay out of things. ... Pretty soon, they’re going to wipe a lot of the middle restaurateurs and restaurant cooks. ... If it continues, then watch: you’re going to have high-end, and you’re going to have fast food, and you’re going to have chain restaurants.”

— Chef/restauranteur Emeril Lagasse, quoted while promoting his new TNT cooking competition show On the Menu.

www.cafecarmo.com

The Esmerelda salad features quinoa, black beans, corn, peppers, cilantro, toasted pumpkin seeds and coconut-chili-lime vinaigrette.

4 Muriel’s

801 Chartres St., (504) 568-1885 www.muriels.com

The “vegetable soiree” includes a lentil quinoa cake with cilantro sour cream, marinated wild mushrooms in rosemary-infused olive oil, roasted beets with horseradish vinaigrette and more.

5 Rue 127

127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571 www.rue127.com

The arugula and strawberry salad includes goat cheese, candied pistachios and puffed quinoa.

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527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132

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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.

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Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sun-dried tomato pesto. Delivery available.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Jigger’s Bar & Grill — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 828-3555 — The sports bar serves burgers, chicken wings, wraps, salads and bar noshing items.

The Jiggers burger is a 10-ounce patty stuffed with pepper Jack cheese and topped with tasso and hot sausage. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

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

For brunch, there’s chicken and waffles with Pabst Blue Ribbon syrup. Reservations accepted.

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

Charcoal’s Gourmet Burger Bar — 2200 Magazine St., (504) 644-4311; www.charcoalgourmetburgerbar.com — This burger specialist’s patty options include beef, bison, shrimp and veggie.

The House burger is dressed with cheddar, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard and served with house-made chips. The Cobb salad features romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, blue cheese, croutons and buttermilk ranch or honey-mustard dressing. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno. com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines. com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities 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. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www.facebook. comruedelacourse — The Downtown sandwich includes turkey, bacon, Swiss cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, sprouts and mayonnaise on

a choice of bagel and comes with chips, potato salad or coleslaw.

The Lakeview features chicken or tuna salad dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a bagel and comes with a side. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

Cash only. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. 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 a large selection of wines by the glass and full restaurant menu.

Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$ Fulton Alley — 600 Fulton St., (504) 208-5569; www.fultonalley.com — The kitchen at this upscale bowling alley offers Southern-influenced cuisine. The menu includes sandwiches, salads, meat pies, sliders, deviled eggs and smoked and fried chicken wings. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Ivy — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 8991330 — Chef Sue Zemanick offers a selection of small plates. Grilled lobster is served with arugula, roasted potatoes and corn. Warm snow crab claws come with truffle butter. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit Cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — The constantly changing menu includes vegan dishes and house-made pasta. Sauteed sea scallops are served with fried green tomatoes, snap peas and sweet and spicy mango ginger ambrosia sauce.

No reservations. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines. com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller,

crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The mix of Creole and Caribbean fare includes jerk chicken and crawfish etouffee and cheese steaks are available. The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/ cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise. 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. $ Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery. com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee as well as sandwiches, salads and pasta. Crawfish Ignatius pasta features crawfish cream sauce with mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and bell peppers topped with grated Parmesan. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. Louisiana crab cakes are popular. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www. mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc.

For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$$ Olivier’s Creole Restaurant — 204 Decatur St., (504) 525-7734; www.

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Colonial Bowling Lanes — 6601 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, (504) 737-2400; www.colonialbowling.net — The kitchen serves breakfast in the morning and a lunch and dinner menu of sandwiches, burgers, chicken wings and tenders, pizza, quesdaillas and more. Daily specials include red beans and rice on Mondays and seafood platters on Friday. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$

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version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations. Breakfast Wed.-Sun., lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — Casual dining options include burgers, sandwiches and half and whole muffuletta rounds and daily lunch specials. Wednesday features steak night. 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 roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads.

For breakfast, an omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses and served on a choice of bread. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $

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olivierscreole.com — Eggplant Olivier features flash-fried Chef Michael Gulotta presents a whole fried fish at MoPho eggplant medallions served (514 City Park Ave., 504-482-6845; www.mophonola.com). with shrimp, chicken, andouille and crawfish tails in P H O TO BY C HERY L G ERBER garlic, basil and brandy sauce.

Braised Creole rabbit is served with Creole gravy, oyster dressing www.martinwine.com — The wine Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s and rice pilaf. Reservations extensive menu ranges from emporium’s dinner menu includes recommended. Lunch Tue.-Sat., chicken to vegetable dishes. pork rib chops served with housedinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Reservations accepted for five or made boudin stuffing, Tabasco Roux on Orleans — Bourbon more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. pepper jelly demi-glaze and Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) Credit cards. $$ smothered greens. The Deli Deluxe 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans. sandwich features corned beef, Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C com — This restaurant offers pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) contemporary Creole dishes dressing and Creole mustard on 836-6859 — The traditional including barbecue shrimp, redan onion roll. No reservations. menu features lamb, chicken fish couvillion, gumbo and catfish Breakfast and lunch daily, early and seafood served in a variety and shrimp dishes. Reservations dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credof ways, including curries and accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner it cards. $$ tandoori. Vegetarian options Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ are available. Reservations Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., recommended. Lunch and dinner Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) (504) 934-3463; www.tableauTue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ 456-6362 — The menu includes frenchquarter.com — Tableau’s gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and updated Creole cuisine includes hot plate lunches. The hamburger bacon-wrapped oysters en po-boy can be dressed with letbrochette served with roasted tuce, mayo and tomato on French Canal Street Bistro — 3903 garlic butter and grilled Two Run bread. Shrimp Italiano features Canal St., (504) 482-1225; www.

Farm lamb chops served with shrimp tossed with cream sauce canalstreetbistro.com — This New Orleans-style barbecue and pasta. No reservations.

Mid-City cafe’s menu draws from sauce. Balcony and courtyard Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. an array of global influences. dining available. Reservations Credit cards. $ Duck enchiladas feature corn resommended. Lunch and dinner tortillas filled with duck confit daily. Credit cards. $$$ topped with red mole or chipoWillie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 tle-tomatillo sauce and served St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This with black beans. Reservations Martinique Bistro — 5908 neighborhood restaurant is recommended. Lunch Wed.-Fri., Magazine St., (504) 891-8495; www. know for its wet-battered fried dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. martiniquebistro.com — Gulf fish chicken. Green beans come with Credit cards. $$$ is served with soba noodles, Vidarice and gravy. There’s bread pudlia onions, shiitake mushrooms, ding for dessert. No reservations. charred scallions and miso-mussel Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ broth. Barbecued Chappapeela Farms duck features Louisiana Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 plum glazed duck breast, duck Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www. leg confit napa slaw, house-made amicinola.com — Amici serves Kosher Cajun New York Deli pickles and a sesame pancake. coal-fired pizza and Italian dishes. & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Reservations recommended.

The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.

Dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. pie is topped with marinara, koshercajun.com — This New Credit cards. $$$ mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian York-style deli specializes in sandgreens and Italian sausage. Pasta wiches, including corned beef carbonara features pancetta and and pastrami that come straight green peas in white sauce. No from the Bronx. No reservations. reservations. Lunch and dinner Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. daily. Credit cards. $$$ Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; Credit cards. $ 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.

Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 9647 www.andreasrestaurant.com — mardigraszone.com — The Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s 24-hour grocery store has a deli (504) 737-8146; www.breauxmart. specialties include speckled and wood-burning pizza oven. com — Breaux Mart prides itself trout royale which is topped with The deli serves po-boys, salads on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as lump crabmeat and lemon-cream and hot entrees such as stuffed weekday specials. No reservasauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines peppers, beef stroganoff and vegtions. Lunch and dinner daily. house-made angel hair pasta and etable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also Credit cards. $ smoked salmon in light cream are available. No reservations. sauce. Reservations recommendLunch, dinner and late-night daily. ed. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Credit cards. $ Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.

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Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings.

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare including handmade pastas, ravioli and lasagna and seafood dishes with shrimp, clams and mussels. Osso buco features a 16-ounce veal shank simmered with vegetables and stock and served with polenta.

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

JAPANESE

LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupusasneworleans.com — The NOLA Special breakfast burrito is stuffed with

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton. com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale. Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www. dickandjennys.com — Located in a renovated Creole cottage, the restaurant serves contemporary Creole and Italian dishes.

Pan-seared scallops are served with fennel-grapefruit salad, arugula pesto and jalapeno-infused olive oil. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. 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 and pan-fried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce.

The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Marti’s — 1041 Dumaine St., (504) 522-5478; www.martisnola.com — This brasserie serves traditional French and contemporary Louisiana cooking. The grande plateau fruits de mer features whole Maine lobster, chilled shrimp, marinated snow crab claws, oysters on the half shell and scallop ceviche. Grilled Texas quail is served with spaetzle, oyster mushrooms, corn and Pommery mustard sauce. Reservations accepted. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www. revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole

dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death

by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www.tivoliandlee.com — The restaurant offers a modern take on Southern cuisine in a small plate format, with dishes ranging from andouille potato tots to fried oysters. The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers.

Half a roasted chicken comes with dirty spaetzle, sweet tea glaze and greens. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. Crispy fried wild catfish is served over stoneground grits with Cajun tasso.

No reservations. Dinner daily.

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

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

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www.monascafeanddeli.com — These casual cafes serve entrees including beef or chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb chops, vegetarian options and more. There also are stuffed grape leaves, hummus, falafel and other appetizers. Patrons may bring their own alcohol. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ 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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Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads.

“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 new and old favorites, both raw and cooked.

The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available.

Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake. com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Yuki Izakaya — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www.facebook. com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

hot sausage, organic eggs, refried black beans, hash browns and American cheese. 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. $$

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Diners enjoy seafood, steaks and Italian dishes at Sapphire (2306 Front St., Slidell, 985-288-4146; www.sapphiredining.com).

P H O TO BY C HERY L G ERBER corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.Sat. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant — 301 Dauphine St., (504) 5860972 — This French Quarter hideaway is is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers.

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

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

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

muffulettas, Philly steaks on poboy bread and gyros in pita bread.

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

NEIGHBORHOOD Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www. cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www. katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ PAGE 47

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art, and there’s seating in the back courtyard. Chicken enchiladas are served with mole, rice and beans.

Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side.

No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Coyote Blues — 4860 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 3013848; www.coyotebluesfreshmex. com — Shrimp and crawfish chimichanga is a fried burrito stuffed with shrimp and crawfish in cream sauce, Mexican rice and chili con queso and served with two sides.

The churrascaria platter features skewers of marinated beef, chicken, jumbo shrimp, jalapeno sausage, peppers and onions and comes with chipotle cream sauce, chimichurri, mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Del Fuego Taqueria — 4518 Magazine St., (504) 309-5797; www. delfuegotaqueria.com — The taqueria serves an array of house salsas, tacos and burritos with filling choices including carne asada, carnitas, chorizo, shredded chicken and others. Tostadas con pescada ahumada features achiote-smoked Gulf fish over corn tostadas with refried black beans, cabbage and cilantro-lime mayonesa. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www. juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. Roasted pork tacos are topped with spicy slaw. Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in

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PAN ASIAN Lucky Rooster — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.luckyroosternola.com — The menu features a mix of Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese and Japanese dishes. Korean-style fried chicken is served with chili-garlic sauce and kimchi slaw. Lucky Rooster soup comes with five-spice chicken, wokseared vegetables and crunchy wontons. The bar offers creative cocktails and house-made sodas.

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

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SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys. com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Mahony’s Po-Boy Shop — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — The Peacemaker layers fried local oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese on Leidenheimer French bread. Angus’ pot roast beef po-boy is served dressed on Leidenheimer bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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Blue Crab & Oyster Restaurant — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 284-2898; www.thebluecrabnola.com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood. There’s seating overlooking Lake Pontchartrain.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish cooked with the skin on, oysters from the raw bar and more. Large picture windows offer views of Bourbon Street, and the bar is stocked with a large selection of bourbons. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. The menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, fried seafood platters, tuna steaks and a few Italian entrees, such as paneed veal. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes.

Galley’s soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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

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

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

Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side.

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

Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and latenight Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Grilled avocado salad is served with crispy onions and Mahon cheese in Portuguese chestnut-vanilla vinaigrette. Wild mushroom ravioli are served with Madeira and goat cheese creme. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat, late night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VEGETARIAN Seed — 1330 Prytania St., (504) 302-2599; www.seedyourhealth. com — Seed uses local, organic ingredients in its eclectic global menu, including soups, salads, nachos, sandwiches and more.

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

VIETNAMESE Lin’s — 3715 Westbank Expressway, (504) 340-0178; www. linsmenu.com —The menu includes Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. Vietnamese “Shakin’” beef features beef tips and onions served with rice. Singapore-style vermicelli is a stir fry of noodles, shrimp, pork, bean sprouts, carrots and bamboo shoots.

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

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

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Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations.

Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. The Sportsman’s Paradise pie is topped with Gulf shrimp, andouille, corn, diced tomatoes and caramelized onions. Full bar available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. Short Stop’s gumbo combines smoked andouille sausage and chicken.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 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, soups, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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Southern Rep opens its season with John Biguenet’s Broomstick.

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rhythmic and beguiling like a spell and at times vivid like a horror story.

Biguenet has written many ghost tales, including some in his first collection of short stories, The Torturer’s Apprentice.

His first play, The Vulgar Soul, about a man who follows no faith but develops stigmata, also touched on the theme of ordinary humans’ connections to a greater spiritual universe.

Ghost stories and fairy tales harbor some of the same existential concerns.

“Children intuitively anticipate fear of death,” Biguenet says.

“The ghost is a way of anticipating something children glimpse in the way the past lives on. The past shapes us in many ways.”

The witch sees meaning in everything. Every crimson sun set in the same sky as a pale moon is a sign of something greater.

Her unflinching view of a black cat crossing a path and casual mention of collecting the same type of ribbons as those found in the hair of a girl who fell down a well are meant to be unsettling. And entertaining.

Broomstick won a National New Play Network award and is opening in several cities this fall. It recently opened at Montana Repertory Theatre and also opens this week for a two-month run at The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. It may be perfectly suited to open a fall season.

“I’d be happy for it to be the Halloween play,” Biguenet says.

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t’s not surprising to hear an old woman talk with pride about her cooking. The seasoned old cook in New Orleans resident John Biguenet’s latest play, Broomstick, even crows about praise heaped on her food long ago by people long dead.

Starring in the one-woman show, Liann Pattison speaks in a thick Appalachian drawl and stirs a big cast iron pot in her cabin in the woods while she recalls a favorite meal of roast suckling pig.

Her father also loved it and its soft, sweet, juicy meat. She also knows some of her neighbors remember it differently. Perhaps it was a little boy and not a piglet.

There are reasons the old woman is regarded as a witch.

She’s a forceful and funny woman, and she lays claims to profound powers of persuasion. Perhaps she has powers greater than that.

Southern Rep presents the New Orleans premiere of Broomstick at Ashe Cultural Arts Center this week. The Witch tells her tale, and though some of the events are murky, she’s got a sharp tongue and certain judgment about a litany of unfortunate occurences and wicked deeds, many of them committed by humans. If the Witch has been strict, her actions also have been fair and reasoned, she says.

“After a show at the premiere at (New Jersey Repertory Company), a woman from the audience asked to talk to the playwright,” Biguenet says. “She told me she was a witch and that it was a very accurate portrayal. She wanted to reserve 20 tickets so she could bring her coven the next week.”

Biguenet began working on Broomstick in 2009, while he was finishing his Hurricane Katrina trilogy (which will be published

by LSU Press in 2015). In the plays Rising Water (2006). Shotgun (2009) and Mold (2013), he recounted the flooding, its physical damages and the toll it took on individuals. Most of it was based on real accounts. Broomstick is a fictional work but still based on common cultural attitudes and misogyny, which are reflected in fairy tales and literature, he says.

“I researched how older women are viewed in cultures around the world,” he says. “In many, they are demonized. It’s fear. We’re afraid of the body of knowledge old women have.”

Biguenet cites fears and suspicions surrounding midwifery as an example of women’s folk knowledge being held against them.

“They’re situated between two worlds,” he says.

Even in stories where young women are accused of witchcraft, they are often portrayed as being manipulated by old women, he says.

In Broomstick, the witch’s story is in part a confession. But it’s full of her wisdom, and Biguenet thought an older woman would serve as a remarkably free observer of the world.

“In some ways, she’s positioned to be the freest of all human beings,” he says. “She’s seen everything, done everything. She doesn’t need a man. She has the potential to live with complete knowledge of what it is to be a human being.”

But the witch is more folk storyteller than philosopher, and not at all passive. She’s frightening when chopping carrots with a cleaver as she recounts a tale of another old woman reputed to have claimed a few fingers. The language in the play is poetic,

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TUESDAY 30 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 8

Old U.S. Mint — Musical Rangers feat. Hubie Vigreux, Mike Harris, Joe Stolarick, 2

Banks Street Bar — Hazelhurst, 9

One Eyed Jacks — Lee Fields & the Expressions, DJ Soul Sister, 8

Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — redrawblak, 10:30

Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8

Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — My Next Blackout, 7; Yomomanem, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary, 8; Smoke & Bones, 11

Prime Example — The Sidemen + 1, 8 Siberia — Paul Collins Beat, 6 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10

d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9

Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Andrew Duhon, 9

Tropical Isle Original — Way Too Early, 1

Circle Bar — Laura Dyer, 6

Gasa Gasa — Progression, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Pueblo Mutando, 9

The Maison — Gregory Agid, 6; Swamp Donkeys, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — Richard Scott, noon

21st Amendment — Marla Dixon, 8 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Selma Street Chemical Co., 11 The Civic Theatre — The Head and the Heart, The Belle Brigade, 8

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7

The Cove at University of New Orleans — Ellis Marsalis, 7

Old Point Bar — ISLA Nola, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar —

If you’re not much into Beck Hansen’s 12th LP, Morning Phase (Capitol), wait a few years. It’s been the pattern with every release since 1996’s definitive Odelay: initial bewilderment turning to creeping acceptance becoming peerless admiration.

The price of being ahead of the game is to be perpetually disappointing someone, and Beck has always been a pop pacesetter among pacesetters. Mutations was too sluggish, too organically worldly; Midnite Vultures too freaky and too falsetto; Sea Change too obviously pretty, too serious and too damn depressing; Guero too slight; The Information too manufactured and too self-reverential; Modern Guilt too jaded. Those last three have, Beck OCT over time, become the Beck albums I 7 p.m. Sunday turn to the most, so my first reading House of Blues of Morning Phase as a bore — too shiftless, too similar in sound to Sea 225 Decatur St. Change, too “mature” — likely means (504) 310-4999 I’m too stuck in the headspace of his funked-up, thrown-back recent matewww.houseofblues.com rial to properly appreciate it. Before, Beck’s use of different producers (Dust Brothers, Nigel Godrich, Danger Mouse) was like changing stylists, but in the five years since Modern Guilt, he’s been the one behind the boards for the best solo records from Stephen Malkmus (Mirror Traffic) and Thurston Moore (Demolished Thoughts). Morning Phase is Beck producing Beck, and it has few detours and fewer surprises. It features his best singing in years, and it sounds wonderful: a grand folk railroad, or the saddo from Sea Change having reached the other shore, his slide show on display in a seated, acoustically treated theater. Slowly, I can feel the staid becoming stately, the lack of left turns turning into emotionally honest directness. But I’m not there yet. After the instant gratification of stand-alone 2013 singles “Defriended,” “Gimme” and “I Won’t Be Long” — the latter of which has a 15-minute extended take featuring Kim Gordon — I just want to be misled. Maybe next time. Tickets $105 (including fees). — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Dragon’s Den — Dancehall Classics with DJ T-Roy’s Bayou International Sound System, 10 Freret Street Publiq House — Gringo Star, 9 Gasa Gasa — Joe Kile, Lonely Lonely Knights, 8 House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Domenic, 6 Little Gem Saloon — Kyle Cripps, 5; Meghan Stewart, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gold Beneath the Highway, 9; Aaron & Zac Maras, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman feat. the Palm Court Jazz Band and Otis Bazoon, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Mark Braud, 8 Prime Example — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 Recovery Room Bar & Grill — Oscar & the Blues Cats, 8:30 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Joe Krown, 8 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 Saucy’s — Mark Appleford, 6 The Spotlight Bar and Gril — Dr. Rock, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Hot Club of New Orleans, 7 Tipitina’s — Lucius, Lake Street Dive, 9 Yuki Izakaya — Kanako Fuwa’s Moshi Moshi feat. Detroit Brooks, 8 PAGE 52

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Little Gem Saloon — Michael Branley, 5; Crescent City Groove, 8

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THURSDAY 2 21st Amendment — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 8 Banks Street Bar — Jonny Kashner & the Hatchet Boys, 9 BMC — Roxy Roca, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30 Cafe Istanbul — Amanda Shaw, Charmaine Neville, 6:30 Cafe Negril — Chris Klein Trio, 6 Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 7; Hubcap Kings, 11 Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; Apache Dropout, 10 Covington Trailhead — Jeff Cryer’s Tribute to Motown, 5 d.b.a. — Jon Cleary, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Todd Duke, 9 Dragon’s Den — Adventures of the Interstellar B-Boy, DJ Housefly, 10 Gasa Gasa — Turquoise Jeep, Yip Deceiver, Sex Party, 8 Harrah’s Casino (Masquerade) — Lisa Amos, 6 Little Gem Saloon — Mark Weliky, 5; Viper Mad Trio, 8

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Louis Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park: Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk, Joe Krown Trio feat. Russell Batiste, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 4

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Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Iain Weigert, 8; Mark Fernandez, 9 & 10 Oak — Hazy Ray, 9 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — June Victory & the Bayou Renegades, 6 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Spirit Tonic, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin, Duke Heitger & the Crescent City Joymakers, Kitt Lough, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat.

Lucien Barbarin, 8 Ralph & Kacoo’s — Dueling Pianos, 7 Republic New Orleans — BASSIK, Pegboard Nerds, Varien, 9; BASSIK, Pegboard Nerds, Varien, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Mississippi Hyperfly, 7 Rivershack Tavern — Ched Reeves, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Geno Delafose, 8:30 Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy

& the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6 Tipitina’s — Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers, 8:30

Tribute to Danny Barker, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Jeff the Brotherhood, Music Band, Hunters and Babes, 9

Tulane University — Ellis Marsalis, 7

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & the Palm Court Jazz Band, James Evans, James Singleton, 8

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Pat O’Brien’s — Emelie Guidry, 4

21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30 Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Cafe Istanbul — Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band CD release show, 7:30 Cafe Negril — El DeOrazio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Dead Dick Hammer, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Cerveris & Loose Cattle, 8 Circle Bar — Shane, 6; Ruby, 10

Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Trio, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 6; Davis Rogan, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Refried Confuzion, 10 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Mulligan Brothers, Mercy Brothers, 9 Spotted Cat — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & his Beautiful Band, 9:30 Treasure Chest Casino — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7

The Civic Theatre — Preservation Hall Ball feat. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco, Beats Antique, Alexander Ebert, 8:30

Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8

Deanie’s Seafood — Vince Vance & the Valiants, 6:30

21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30

DMac’s — Vincent Marini, 7

Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon & the Banks Street All-Stars, 9

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick, 10

SATURDAY 4

Gasa Gasa — Rotary Downs, 9

Buffa’s Lounge — Royal Rounders feat. Jerry Jumonville, Freddy Staehle, 8

Generations Hall — Fais Do Do, 7

Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7

Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7

Checkpoint Charlie — Kenny Claiborne, 7; Randy East, 9; The Happy Monsters, 11

Fulton Street — Craig Klein, 5

Gretna Heritage Festival — Greg Allman Band, Brass-AHolics and others, 4:30 Hangar 13 — Pulse Friday: Rroid Drazr, Kidd Love, 1:30 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Phoebe Hunt, Connor Forsyth, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5 Le Bon Temps Roule — Tom Worrell, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Erin Demastes, 5:30; Nayo Jones, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Agent 86, 8; The Necessary Gentlemen, 9; Baggypantsrich, 10 Newman Bandstand, Audubon Park — Music Under the Oaks: Loyola Faculty Chamber Ensembles, 4:30 Oak — Billy Iuso, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Alex McMurray, 2; Detroit Brooks & Friends:

Chickie Wah Wah — Chegadao, Corey Ledet & his Zydeco Band feat. Lil’ Buck Senegal, 9 Circle Bar — Richard Bates, 6; Laugh in the Dark, Lenny Zenith, 10 Columbia Street — The Steve Anderson Group, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Dutch Alley — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 1:30 Gasa Gasa — The Tanglers CD release show, 9 Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Gretna Heritage Festival — Lynyrd Skynyrd, Honey Island Swamp Band, Robert Randolph & the Family Band and others, 1:30 Hangar 13 — Flyy-By Nite, 1 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Miggs, 8

MUSIC LISTINGS Howlin’ Wolf Den — Breast cancer research benefit show feat. Tank & the Bangas, The Honorable South, Erica Falls, Sasha Masakowski, 10 Le Bon Temps Roule — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 10:30 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 & 9 Louisiana Music Factory — Michael Cerveris & Loose Cattle, 2; Ken Swartz, 3; Jimmy Carpenter, 4; Mike Dillon, Johnny Vidacovich, James Singleton, 5 The Maison — The Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Mandeville Trailhead — Naydja Cojoe, 6 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Igor, 7; Kerry Cox, 8; Gina Forsyth, 9; Roger Ferrera feat.

Maggie Havens, 10 Oak — Jenn Howard, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old U.S. Mint — Ben Polcer’s Swingin’ 6, noon; Mehnaz Hoosein, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Mike Dillon Band, High and Batebunda, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & the Palm Court Jazz Band, Chuck Badie, Wendell Eugene, 8 Pearl Wine Co. — Jasper Brothers, 8

Preservation Hall — The Pres Hall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8 Republic New Orleans — Phantogram, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 6; Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Retro, 10 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Paul Sanchez and Minimum Rage, 9:30 Shamrock Bar — Roxy Roca, 10 Siberia — Michael Cerveris & Loose Cattle, 6 The Willow — Denton Hatcher, Valerie Sassyfras, 8

SUNDAY 5 21st Amendment — Tom McDermott, 7 Banks Street Bar — Jack Jacomo, 5; Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 7 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Daniel Bonespur, Hand Sand Hands, Puny, 10 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6

Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8

Dutch Alley — Jonathan Stout & his Campus Five, 1

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Wild Adriatic, Hazy Ray, Hazelhurst, 8

Gretna Heritage Festival — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Marc Broussard, Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes and others, 2

Irish House — Traditional Irish Music Session, 7

Hangar 13 — Bass Massive Mob, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Kajun’s Pub — Michael Cerveris & Loose Cattle, 6 The Maison — Lucien Barbarin, 4 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Sam Cordts, 8 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7 Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30; Tom Witek Jazz Quartet, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & the Sunday Night Swingsters, Mark Braud, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars feat.

Wendell Brunious, 8 Republic New Orleans — St. Lucia, Joywave, 9 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Cajun Fais Do-Do, 5 Spotted Cat — Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; The New Orleans Super Jam feat.

Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 9:30 Marigny Brasserie — Harmonouche, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jay P. Dufour, 9 Old Point Bar — Romy Kaye Jazz Trio, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Dazed on Toulouse, 9 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Gregg Stafford, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 10 Three Muses — Joe Cabral, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8

Tipitina’s — Amos Lee, Priscilla Ahn, 8

CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS

Trinity Episcopal Church — Sing-Along and Tribute to Pete Seeger feat. Ron Clingenpeel, Chris Young, Lauren Sturm, Ricardo Barega-Ibanez, Nigel Ra’oof, Olivia Green, 5

Musica da Camera. Ursuline Chapel, 2701 State St. — The ensemble performs A Voice Still Heard: Medieval Sephardic Music. Sun., Oct. 5, 4 p.m.

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MONDAY 6 Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8 Banks Street Bar — The Bathrobe Banditos Jazz Band, 7; South Jones, 9 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Checkpoint Charlie — Clyde and Iggy, 7 Circle Bar — Missy Meatlocker, 6; Paisley Fields, Max Bernardi, The Shiz, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — Panorama Jazz Band, 8

New Orleans Civic Symphony.

University of New Orleans, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6381; www.uno.edu — Dr. Charles Taylor conducts the symphony as it performs works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Moussorgsky and Robert Schumann. 7 p.m. Sunday.

CALL FOR MUSIC French Quarter Festival. The French Quarter Festival seeks local musicians to perform at the April 9-12, 2015, event. Visit www.fqfi.org for details and to submit an application. Deadline Nov. 1.

New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra. The orchestra seeks intermediate or better musicians for its fall season.

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NOW SHOWING As Above/So Below (R) — Archaeologist Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) assembles a team to search under the Catacombs of Paris for Flamel’s Philosopher’s Stone, an artifact that can grant eternal life and turn any metal into gold. Kenner As It Is In Heaven (NR) — Just before the leader (John Lina) of a cult dies, he names David (Chris Nelson) as the new leader instead of his son (Luke Beavers). Zeitgeist

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Beyond All Boundaries (NR) — The museum screens a 4-D film, bringing audiences into WWII battles using archival footage and special effects. National World War II Museum

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The Boxtrolls (PG) — Eggs (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) lives with the Boxtrolls — a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who inhabit a cavern beneath the city of Cheesebridge. When villainous Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) hatches a plan to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs teams up with feisty Winnifred (Elle Fanning) to save them. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (R) — Following the death of their child, a woman (Jessica Chastain) leaves her husband (James McAvoy) and flees to the suburban home of her wealthy parents.

Elmwood, Canal Place Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) — After one of the two dolphins at Clearwater Marine Hospital dies, the hospital crew races to find a new companion for the survivor. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Drop (R) — Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) tends bar and looks the other way when local mobsters use the pub as a temporary bank. A robbery at the bar and the return of his neighbor’s abusive ex-boyfriend force Bob

to face the truth about those he thinks he knows best — including himself. Elmwood, Canal Place The Equalizer (R) — Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) helps Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a girl who is caught in the clutches of violent Russian mobsters. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Giver (PG-13) — Jeff Bridges stars in the film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s 1993 dystopian novel. Elmwood, Regal Great White Shark 3D (NR) — The documentary explains shark encounters. Entergy IMAX Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) — Space adventurer Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) steals an orb, setting off a bounty hunt by the evil Ronan.

Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Haunted Castle 3D (PG) — A teenage rocker (Jasper Steverlinck) meets the devil (Harry Shearer) while visiting the seaside estate of his late mother. Entergy IMAX The Hundred-Foot Journey (PG) — A recently displaced Indian family opens an eatery and clashes with the owner (Helen Mirren) of a nearby celebrated French restaurant. E lmwood If I Stay (PG-13) — Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz), a talented young cellist, must choose between pursuing her dreams at Juilliard or being with the love of her life.

Clearview, Regal Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) — Morgan Freeman narrates a film about lemurs in Madagascar. Entergy IMAX Kenya 3D: Animal Kingdom (NR) — Two young Maasai warriors go on a ritual safari through Kenya. Entergy IMAX Let’s Be Cops (R) — Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. pretend to be cops for a costume party and take their new look too far. Clearview, Elmwood, Slidell

The Maze Runner (PG-13) — A teen awakes in a massive maze with a group of other teens and with no memory of his past other than dreams about an organization known as W.C.K.D. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place My Old Lady (PG-13) — Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) tries to sell a Paris apartment he inherits, but finds that a stubborn Englishwoman (Maggie Smith) won’t let him. Elmwood No Good Deed (PG-13) — An unsuspecting Atlanta woman (Taraji P. Henson) lets a charming stranger (Idris Elba) into her home to use her phone, and he takes over her house and terrorizes her family. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Skeleton Twins (R) — Following many years of estrangement, twins Milo (Bill Hader) and Maggie (Kristen Wiig) have an unexpected reunion after a set of near-tragedies. Elmwood, Canal Place The Song (PG-13) — A long-struggling musician (Alan Powell) finally hits the big time with a love song he wrote for his wife, but sudden fame and temptation cause his life and marriage to crumble.

Elmwood, Regal Starred Up (NR) — A violent 19-year-old man enters prison, where he meets his father. Zeitgeist Take Me to the River (PG) — The documentary explores interracial influences on the Memphis music scene and includes interviews with the North Mississippi All-Stars, Snoop Dogg and Terrence Howard.

Canal Place Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PG-13) — Michael Bay produces this 21st-century take on the classic crime-fighting reptiles.

Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal This Is Where I Leave You (R) — When their father dies, four grown siblings are forced to stay at their childhood home with their free-speaking mother (Jane Fonda) and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place The Trip to Italy (NR) — In this sequel to The Trip, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat six meals on a road trip through Italy. Zeitgeist Tusk (R) — A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an extraordinary past. Elmwood A Walk Among the Tombstones (R) — Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson) is a former member of the NYPD who now works as an unlicensed

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The Good Lie

Anyone who watches trailers online before purchasing movie tickets knows that Hollywood marketing materials are not to be trusted. The only purpose of movie posters, TV spots and trailers is to increase ticket sales, even if that means willfully misrepresenting the content of a particular film. Sample the marketing campaign OPENS The Good Lie for Canadian director Philippe Falardeau’s The OCT Directed by Good Lie and you might identify it as a Reese Philippe Falardeau Witherspoon vehicle in which a beautiful and good-hearted American woman comes to the Starring Reese rescue of helpless Sudanese refugees. That’s not Witherspoon and exactly the case. The Good Lie wrings a gentle Carey Stoll tale from the harshest of sociopolitical circumLimited release stances, and it unabashedly targets the broadest audience possible. But it also makes a genuine and convincing case for compassion toward anyone in need of asylum at a time when American politics consistently threaten to derail widely shared values.

The Good Lie’s first act starts in southern Sudan during the 1980s, when civil war resulted in more than 20,000 orphaned and displaced children now known as the “Lost Boys of Sudan.” The fictional story tracks a small group of kids who undertake a nearly 1,000-mile walk to the safety of a refugee camp in Kenya after their village is destroyed and their parents lost. The story jumps ahead 13 years as the now grown-up Sudanese led by Mamere (Arnold Oceng) are granted asylum in America. Transplanted to Kansas City, Kansas, their lives become enmeshed with those of Carrie (Witherspoon) and Jack (Corey Stoll), who initially were hired to find jobs for the Sudanese. The struggle of the transplanted Sudanese is not only one of adapting to a strange world, but also reuniting with family forcibly separated from them along the way.

Director Falardeau witnessed the horrors of the Second Sudanese Civil War firsthand when he was cinematographer on a documentary about the resulting humanitarian crisis. He sidesteps the white savior pitfall by casting Sudanese actors — many of whom were child refugees or descendants of refugees — in major roles and giving them room to tell their story in a dignified way. The screenplay by Margaret Nagle (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) balances pathos with humor, and makes sure the American characters arrive at some kind of enlightenment. It’s not often that an essentially feel-good story is the best way to approach subject matter of this kind, but it’s hard to argue with The Good Lie’s sincerity and understated message. — KEN KORMAN

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OPENING FRIDAY Annabelle (R) — Members of a satanic cult invade the home of a man (Ward Horton) and his pregnant wife (Annabelle Wallis) and turn a vintage doll into a conduit for ultimate evil. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Battle of the Strands Live (NR) — Some of the world’s best fantasy designs in hair, makeup and nail art are showcased as 16 teams battle to be named the 2014 World Salon Champion. Elmwood, Slidell Gone Girl (R) — Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, and her husband Nick (Ben Affleck) becomes the prime suspect. Clearview, Elmwood,

Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Good Lie (PG-13) — After their village is destroyed and their parents killed by Northern militia, Sudanese orphans Theo, his siblings and other survivors make a difficult journey to a refugee camp in Kenya. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell Left Behind (PG-13) — The entire planet is thrown into darkness when millions of people disappear without a trace — all that remains are their clothes and belongings. Airline pilot Ray Steele (Nicolas Cage) struggles to save the lives of the passengers who remain on his flight, while his daughter (Cassi Thomson) races to find her brother and mother, both of whom have disappeared. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal PAGE 56

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private detective. After his client’s wife is kidnapped and brutally murdered, Scudder races through the back streets of New York to catch the killers before they strike again. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place When the Game Stands Tall (PG) — The sports drama recounts a California high school football coach’s (Jim Caviezel) 151-game winning streak. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Zero Theorem (R) — In Terry Gilliam’s film, Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a reclusive computer genius, is hired to crack a theorem and is interrupted by the seductive Bainsley (Melanie Thierry) and the turbulent Bob (Lucas Hedges). Zeitgeist

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REVIEW P H O T O C O U R T E S Y T R I B EC A F I L M

Starred Up

“Starred Up” is British slang for prematurely bringing a young offender from juvenile detention to the harsh world of adult prisons, a practice with potentially dire consequences as depicted in Scottish director David Mackenzie’s raw and caustic film. Upand-coming British actor Jack O’Connell stars as the uncontrollably violent Eric, a 19-year-old newly transferred to a prison inhabited by his estranged and volatile father (Ben Mendelsohn) Starred Up THRU and a volunteer prison therapist OCT 9:30 p.m. daily (Rupert Friend) who desperately wants Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary to save him. Shot in sequence in what Arts Center, 1618 Oretha was until recently a functioning prison, Castle Haley Blvd.

Starred Up pushes the envelope of authenticity down to the screenplay’s (504) 352-1150 reliance on obscure prison slang. The www.zeitgeistinc.net actors’ thick cockney accents don’t help matters — subtitles would help — but the film gradually develops into something special: a prison film with threedimensional characters and even a faint glimmer of hope. — KEN KORMAN

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS

formances by musicians in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. 5 p.m. Sunday. Zeitgeist

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (R) — Aliens turn a woman (Daryl Hannah) into a giantess finally able to get even with her husband (Daniel Baldwin) and father (William Windom).

9 p.m. Wednesday. Indywood Movie Theater

From Here to Eternity (NR) — A musical tale of illicit love and Army life in 1941 Hawaii, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. 7 p.m. Thursday, 1 p.m.

Sunday. Elmwood

The Birds (PG-13) — Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet store and decides to bring him two love birds. Birds around town start attacking children and stage a huge assault on the town.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place.

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (R) — Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Ron Howard and others pay tribute to legendary independent filmmaker Roger Corman. 7 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Indywood Movie Theater Crimes and Misdemeanors (PG-13) — Two relationships are in trouble due to infidelity. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Dog Day Afternoon (R) — A man’s (Al Pacino) attempt to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover’s sex reassignment surgery goes awry. Call for times. Indywood Movie Theater The Dog (NR) — The documentary focuses on John Wojtowicz, the man who attempted to rob a New York bank and was the inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon. Call for times. Indywood Movie Theater Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians (NR) — The documentary includes interviews and per-

Gone With the Wind (NR) — A screening of the fully remastered classic film, with a special introduction by Turner Classic Moves host Robert Osborne. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Wednesday, Elmwood; 7 p.m. Slidell Howl’s Moving Castle (PG) — After a witch (Lauren Bacall) transforms Sophie (Jean Simmons) into a crone, Sophie seeks shelter at the walking home of an unusual wizard (Christian Bale). 10 p.m. Sunday. Prytania M*A*S*H (R) — A group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers perform surgery and pass the time just miles from the front lines of the Korean conflict. 2 p.m. Sunday. Elmwood Monsters University (G) — Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) enrolls at Monsters University and meets his best friend Sulley (John Goodman). 7:15 p.m. Burke Park Plan 9 From Outer Space (NR) — Residents of California’s San Fernando Valley are under attack by flying saucers from outer space. 9 p.m. Thursday.

Indywood Movie Theater Swamp Women (NR) — Three escaped women and an undercover policewoman (Carole Mathews) need a geologist (Touch Connors) in the bayou.

9 p.m. Tuesday. Indywood Movie Theater

Tarzan of the Apes (NR) — A boy is raised by apes in the African wilderness. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Williams Research Center 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 Burke Park: Annunciation and Second streets Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 229-4259; www.thegrandtheatre.com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell, (985) 641-1889; www.thegrandtheatre.com Indywood Movie Theater: 630 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 345-8804. www.indywood.org National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater: 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.nationalww2museum. org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium 14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington, (985) 871-7787; www. regmovies.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540; www.thetheatres. com Williams Research Center: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net

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Poet’s Gallery. 4610 Magazine St., (504) 899-4100 — Pop-up gallery featuring art by Louis St. Lewis, Lisa Conrad, David McPherson and Sean Yseult, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

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OPENING Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — “Harboring Paradox,” oil paintings by Garth Swanson; oil paintings by Nancy Dawes; opening receptions 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — New works by Andrew Baird, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — “The Space Between,” new work by Gustavo Duque, Debbie Villa and Ben Hamburger, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “7,000Day Candles,” video installation

by Dave Greber; “Beautiful Dirt: Ballgowns of Lightness & Dark,” sculptures by Lesley Dill; cut paper assemblages by Troy Dugas; “Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times,” by Deborah Kass; opening receptions 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery. 4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — “Puppy Love with My Angels from Above,” paintings

by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, opening reception 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 3529283 — “A Vernissage,” art by Daniel Jupiter, Charles Anderson, D. Lammie-Hanson and Ernest Brown, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Imagined Shores,” sculptures and paper works by Raine Bedsole, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — Photorealist watercolor paintings by Stephan Hoffpauir, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium. com — “A Prelude to La Petite Mort,” interactive art by Blaine Capone, James Taylor Bonds and M. Silver Smith, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Fairynola. 5715 Magazine. St., (504) 269-2033; www.fairynola. com — “Enchantment,” paintings

by Tim Jordan and Louise Rimington, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — Oil paintings by Charles G. Smith, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Guns in the Hands of Artists,” decommissioned guns repurposed as art, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Art, Environment & Observations,” paintings by Deedra Ludwig, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Arts District.

Galleries on Julia and Camp streets and St. Charles Avenue — “PARK(ing) Day,” parking spaces decorated as art, noon to 9 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com — Blown glass sculptures by Kyle Herr; glass shrines by Robert Burch; both open Saturday.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “The Gasperi Collection: Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art,” mixed-media group exhibition; “Self-Processing — Instant

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Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.facebook. com/nolaartsalon — Ten Gallery Collective group exhibition, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann.com — “A Sculptural Retrospective,” sculptures by Thomas Mann, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES AFA New Orleans. 809 Royal St., (504) 558-9296; www.afanyc. com — “Dirty Little Secrets,” pop surrealism group exhibition, ongoing.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www. press-street.com/antenna — “An Imperfect Force,” new works by Eric McMaster, through Sunday.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com — Works by Chris Roberts-Antieau, ongoing.

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Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — “Wanderlust,” paintings by Cheri Ben-Iesau, jewelry by Chigusa Nishimoto, pottery by Renee Melito and mixed media by Stephen Palmer, through Tuesday.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www. barristersgallery.com — “1+1=3: Ibeji Twins,” mixed-media sculptures and drawings by Kristin Meyers; “Sugar After Stranger,” ceramics, paintings and photography by Susan Bowers; both through Saturday.

Boyd | Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Undivided,” paintings by Pinkney Herbert, through Tuesday.

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Taproot,” sculptures by Walter Stevens, through Oct. 7.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Transience,” acrylic and oil paintings by Cathy Hegman, through Tuesday.

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

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Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Shooting from the Hip,” photography by Michael Alford, opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

com — “The Archaeology of Solitude,” new work by Bernard Mattox, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Sibley Gallery. 3427 Magazine St., (504) 899-8182; www.sibleygallery.com — New work by Evie Clinton, Alexandra Gjurasic, Eddie Granger, David Rex Joyner, Caroline Sokol and Wanda Sullivan, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

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ART LISTINGS Rene Ragi, BellaDonna, Jamal and Phillip Sage, ongoing.

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

Du Mois Gallery. 4609 Freret St., (504) 818-6032; www.dumoisgallery.com — “Collaborations: Vessels,” ceramic sculptures

by Rachael DePauw and William DePauw, through Oct. 18.

The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — “The Gilded Edge,” new works by Lee Morais, through Oct. 26.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “Data Drops,” technological art by Brian James Priest and H. Cole Wiley; “Jargon,” mixed media exploring how artists use language by Bonnie Brenda Scott, Nicola Vruwink, Ken Shaw, Jamie Solock, Ben Skinner and Raquel Meyers; “To Bear One’s Threads,” printmaking by Imen Djouini; all through Sunday.

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

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “In the Shadow of a Giant,” recent works by Generic Art Solutions, through Sunday.

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Gradoux Gallery. 2117 Decatur St.; www. gradouxgallery.com — Sculptures by Thor Carlson, through Sunday.

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Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/departments/art-gallery — “Of Paint and Paper: A Survey of Monotype Collage Paintings,”

by Keith Perelli, through Thursday.

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

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg. com — “Louisiana He*ART,” paintings of New Orleans scenes by Michelle Conques, through Tuesday.

La Madama Bazarre. 910 Royal St., (504) 236-5076; www.lamadamabazarre.com — Group exhibition celebrating the whimsical and weird sides of Louisiana, ongoing.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “Wildflowers,” metal plant sculptures by Trailer McQuilken, through Sunday.

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

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — Blown glass sculptures by Moshe Bursuker; hand-pulled prints by Hanneke Relyea; both through Tuesday.

Oak Street Gallery. 111 N. Oak St., Hammond, (985) 345-0251; www.theoakstreetgallery.com — “Gloria Ross: A Retrospective,” art by Gloria Ross to celebrate her 90th birthday, through Tuesday. Works by Thom Barlow, Mark Haller, Pat Macaluso and John Robinson, ongoing.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery. com — Mixed media by Lois Chiles,

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ART LISTINGS REVIEW

Robert Rauschenberg and Five from Louisiana and In the Shadow of a Giant

His work was always of the moment, anticipating every new trend while remaining much the same over the decades; Robert Rauschenberg was making pop art in the 1950s when Andy Warhol was still a shoe illustrator.

He was born in Port Arthur, Texas, but in the 1940s his family moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, Robert Rauschenberg where he returned every year for THRU and Five from Louisiana his New Orleans-born mother’s OCT birthday. This show is a mini-reprise New Orleans Museum of Five From Louisiana, a 1977 New of Art, New Orleans City Park, Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle expo that also included work (504) 658-4100

by Lynda Benglis, Tina Girouard, Richard Landry and Keith Sonnier www.noma.org — Louisiana natives prominent in New York’s pivotal post-minimalist In the Shadow of a movement. Unlike minimalism’s THRU starkness, postminimal art was, Giant: Recent works by OCT like this state’s primal baroque Generic Art Solutions wildness, organic and curvaceous.

Good Children Gallery, These works complement NOMA’s 4037 St. Claude Ave. big, newly acquired Rauschenberg mixed-media piece, Melic Meeting (504) 975-1557 (pictured), while reminding us of the www.goodchildrengallery.com transformational role that Louisiana artists played in the evolution of American modernism.

Fast forward to 21st-century St. Claude Avenue, where we find a trove of Rauschenberg-inspired works by Generic Art Solutions (Tony Campbell and Mat Vis).

Rauschenberg was an art world titan when he died in 2008, and his foundation maintains his 20-acre compound on Florida’s Captiva Island, where Campbell and Vis were recently had a one-month residency. There they made art that embodies the inventiveness for which he and they are known, works like Flight, where Campbell wearing Icarus wings is depicted in a literal leap of faith over the Gulf of Mexico — an homage perhaps to Rauschenberg’s famously inspired, if somewhat woozy, flights of fancy. The most substantial work on view is their Rauschenberg and Constantin Brancusi-based Maiastra, two bicycle frames precisely conjoined into a beautifully symmetrical “thought cycle” — a vehicle they say “can only be ridden with one’s imagination … unless you actually take a ride beyond the earth’s atmosphere into zero gravity.” — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Red Truck Gallery. 938 Royal St., (504) 522-3630; www.redtruckgallery.com — “Small Indignities,” contemporary art group exhibition, through Sunday.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — Jewelry of New Orleans neighborhoods by Brandi Couvillion, through Oct. 24. Works by Peggy Bishop, Jerry Hymel, Sean Dixson and Caren Nowak, ongoing.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Behind Closed Shutters,” nude photography group exhibition, through

November. “One Foot in the Swamp: Portraits & Daydreams as Photographs,” by Zack Smith, through Sunday.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.thesecondstorygallery. com — “Our Visions of Home,” paintings by sisters Amy Bryan and Alma Bryan Powell, through Friday.

Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www. sorengallery.com — “Jamali: New & Retrospective Work,” paintings

by Jamali, through Tuesday.

“Untamed Empire,” collaborative paintings by Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey, ongoing.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyart.org — “Views from New Orleans: Contemporary Art from the New Orleans

Museum of Art,” works from the museum’s permanent collection, through Oct. 25.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Overture,” paintings by Miriam Lilje, through Sunday.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “The Painted Canvas,” oil paintings by Antonio Carreno, through Tuesday.

Steve Martin Studios. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www. stevemartinfineart.com — “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” oil paintings and sculptures by Steven Soltis, ongoing.

Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., Covington, (985) 892-2811; www.threeriversgallery. com — “Chasing the Light,” land-

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ART LISTINGS scape paintings by Mary Monk, through Saturday.

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Tulane University (Jones Hall).

7801 Freret St. — “Guantanamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit of stories, photographs and documents about the U.S. naval base, through Oct. 30.

call (504) 481-8593 for details.

Deadline Oct. 15.

Jazz in the Park. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — Jazz in the Park seeks artists and vendors for its fall season. Visit the website to fill out a vendor form.

Fringe Festival Yard Art Tour.

The New Orleans Fringe Festival seeks art to be placed outside in Central City, the Marigny, St. Roch, St. Claude and Bywater neighborhoods. Visit www.nofringe.org for details. Deadline Oct. 15.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — “Environmental Scanning,” works

by Katharina Cibulka and Nicole Weniger, through Sunday.

George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center opening. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation seeks art to purchase or commission for the opening of its new George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center. Visit www.callforentry. org to submit an application.

Deadline Oct. 10.

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

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

Gravier Street Social. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St.; www.gravierstreetsocial.com — The social club seeks art for monthly group shows. Artists should work on canvas, mixed media or board with paint, collage or ink. Deadline Jan. 9, 2015.

CALL FOR ARTISTS ArtFields competition. The competition seeks art for a combined $100,000 in cash prizes. The festival runs from April 24 to May 2, 2015. Visit www.artfieldssc.org for details.

International Irish Famine Commemoration. The International Irish Famine Commemoration and the Irish Cultural Museum of New Orleans seek art for a juried exhibition with hunger awareness as the theme. The commemoration runs from Nov. 6-9. Visit www.icmnola.com or

French Quarter Festival.

The French Quarter Festival seeks submissions for its 2015 poster. Interested artists should

Student Art Contest and Exhibition. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4137; www.noma. org — The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Odyssey Committee seek art from students of any grade level from Orleans and Jefferson parishes. Selected works are exhibited in the 2014 Student Art Contest and Exhibition. Call or email odyssey@noma.org for details. Deadline Oct. 18.

Swap Meet NOLA. St. Margaret’s at Mercy, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 279-6414; www.stmargaretsno. org — The art and farmers market seeks artists.

Wild Things Youth Art Contest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Southeast Louisiana National Wildlife Refuges seek art from artists ages 5 to 18. The art should capture nature and wildlife. Call (985) 882-2021, email diane_barth@fws.gov or visit www.fws.gov/southeastlouisiana for details. Deadline Thursday.

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Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “International Sculpture Center: Outstanding Student Achievement Awards,” 12 artists chosen from 159 universities, closing reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday. “Mark of the Feminine,” mixed-media group exhibition by female artists, curator walkthrough and closing reception 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

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

Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 400 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc. org/nelson-galleries — “Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere,” by Richard Sexton, through Dec. 7.

Louisiana Children’s Museum.

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

National World War II Museum.

945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — “From Barbed Wire to Battlefields: Japanese American Experiences in WWII,” artifacts, oral histories and stark images of Japanese Americans who were accused of sympathizing with America’s enemy during World War II, through Oct. 12.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Drawings from Life of Pi,” by Alexis Rockman, through Oct. 12.

Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Eradication: A Form of Obsession,” sculptures by Chakaia Booker; “One and Together,” sculptures by Katherine Taylor; both through Thursday.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Pastoral Universe,” immersive art installation by Shawn Hall, through Nov. 2. “Art of the Cup: Functional Comfort,” ceramic cups and teapots by more than 70 artists, through Dec. 7.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt. state.la.us/museum/properties/ usmint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, ongoing.

Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane.edu — “Bungalows,” artifacts of bungalow and cottage architecture, through May 20, 2015.

Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.carrollgallery. tulane.edu — “Data Shadows,” photographs by AnnieLaurie Erickson, through Oct. 8.

Williams Research Center.

The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “From Cameo to Close Up: Louisiana in Film,” the history of moviemaking in New Orleans as seen in posters and photographs, through Nov. 26.

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“Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts; “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

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THEATER Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. University of New Orleans, Robert E. Nims Theatre, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-7469; www. theatre.uno.edu — David W. Hoover directs Rajiv Joseph’s Tony Award-winning play about two U.S. Marines, the tiger they encounter and kill, and an Iraqi translator. General admission $12, students and faculty $8. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

Blueberry Hill. Christ Episcopal Theatre, 80 Christwood Blvd.,

Covington, (504) 885-2000; www. jpas.org — The jukebox musical brings classic New Orleans R&B songs to life. 9:45 a.m.

Wednesday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Broomstick. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — Southern Rep Theatre presents a play about a witch who reflects on the ways she has used her powers. General admission $40, teachers, students seniors, military and theater professionals $35. 8 p.m.

Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Endgame. Loyola University New Orleans, Lower Depths Theater, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage. loyno.edu — Students of Loyola University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance perform Samuel Beckett’s play. General admission $12, students, children and seniors $8. 7:30 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

A Lie of the Mind. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre. com — Elm Theatre presents the story of two families connected by a broken marriage.

Thursday tickets $15, Friday and Saturday tickets $20. 7:30 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

A NOLA Love Story. Seed, 1330 Prytania St., (504) 302-2599; www.seedyourhealth.com — Compleat Stages present a dinner theater show about food, music and love in New Orleans.

Single tickets $38, couple $60.

11:30 p.m. Thursday.

Shiner. The Allways Theatre, 1030 Marigny St., (504) 758-5590; www.allwaystheatre.com — Two teenagers in suburban Los Angeles struggle to make sense of Kurt Cobain’s suicide.

Wednesday and Thursday $15, Friday and Saturday $18. 8 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY Beach Blanket Burlesque. Tiki Tolteca, 301 N. Peters St., (504) 267-4406; www.facebook.com/ tikitolteca — GoGo McGregor hosts a burlesque show. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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

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

Creole Sweet Tease Burlesque Show. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 522-5400; www.thesainthotelneworleans.com — The burlesque dancers perform to music by The Creole Syncopators Jazz Band. 9 p.m. Friday.

The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul,

New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — John Calhoun interviews Capt. “Doc” Hawley, a steamboat pilot and calliope player, and Ana Zorrilla, executive director of the Louisiana SPCA. Comedian J.D. Sledge and musical guest Tank & the Bangas perform. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Storyville Rising. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.storyvillerising. com — Kali von Wunderkammer produces the immersive cabaret about a brothel in the historic Storyville neighborhood. Advance tickets $20, at the door $25. 9 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

Sunday School. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St. — The burlesque and variety show features the Rev. Spooky LeStrange & Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls. Cover $5. 9 p.m. Sunday.

DANCE Say, You Got the Password?

NOLA Spaces, 1719 Toledano St. — Storytellers Dance Project tells a story set in a 1920s-era speakeasy. Adults

$20, students $10. 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

So You Think You Can Dance.

Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The 10 finalists from the FOX television show’s 11th season perform. Tickets start at $38. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

OPERA Opera on Tap. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., (504) 525-5515; www.therustynail.biz — Young local and regional singers perform opera and Broadway songs. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

AUDITIONS Christmas on the Bayou.

Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc.com — Playmakers holds auditions for a holiday play. 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

Sunday, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Monday.

Crescent City Sound Chorus.

Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, (504) 616-6066; www. crescentcitysound.com — The chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, holds auditions. 7 p.m. Monday.

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A Lie of the Mind COMEDY Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge.com — J. Alfred Potter and Jonah Bascle do stand-up shows on a rotating basis.

Midnight Friday.

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

Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114 — Molly Ruben-Long and Julie Mitchell host an open mic. Sign-up 8:30 p.m., show 9 p.m. Monday.

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

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

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

Friday-Saturday.

Cram It In. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St. — Massive Fraud presents an open-mic comedy show hosted

by Joe Cardosi. 7 p.m. Friday.

Friday Night Laughs. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy. com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts

an open mic. 11 p.m. Friday.

Give ’Em The Light Open-Mic Comedy Show. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase.

Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Last Comic Standing local showcase. Howlin’ Wolf Music Club, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 5295844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform.

Tickets $5. 8 & 10 p.m. Thursday.

Laugh & Sip. The Wine Bistro, 1011 Gravier St., (504) 606-6408; www.facebook.com/thewinebistrono — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians.

Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Local Uproar. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 7585590; www.theallwayslounge. com — Tory Gordon and Paul Oswell host an open-mic night. 7 p.m. Saturday.

Metal Hand of Comedy. Twist of Lime, 2820 Lime St., Metairie, (504) 455-7775 — Amber Luning, Andrew Polk, Leon Blanda, Jon Reaux and Matt Brown perform, along with music by Javony Nova. Tickets $7. 9 p.m. Friday.

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. Signup 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Sunday.

Sketch Comedy. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.sketchycharacters. net — The Sketchy Characters perform sketch comedy. 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

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

“She’s not gonna pull outta this one,” Jake yells frantically to his brother through a pay phone receiver. “She’s dead.”

The phone call starts Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind, which The Elm Theater is running at Mid-City Theatre. Jake (Garrett Prejean) has severely beaten his wife Beth (Becca Chapman) in a fit of jealous rage. But Beth is not dead. She’s badly injured and her brother Mike (Andrew Vaught) is helping care for her in a hospital. The drama spares the viewer from watching the horrific event, but the tension only increases as Beth tries to heal.

Chapman delivers a standout performance.

Beth wakes up in a hospital and believes she is a “zombie” because she is so bandaged. She speaks in clipped sentences, frequently dropping words and letting her thoughts wander.

It’s heartbreaking to watch her struggle to communicate, but Chapman gives Beth complexity, pride and determination.

Lie follows a fairly linear narrative, though Shepard is not a realist and sometimes delves into the absurd. The subject matter is extremely disturbing, but the show triumphs in the exploration of two families caught in cycles of violence.

Leah Farrelly’s set places the audience between the two spheres of action. The main stage is Beth’s domain; it’s where we see her in the hospital and later her parents’ house. At the back of the MidCity space is where Jake and his family interact on a smaller stage. The families exist at different poles and struggle with their own histories.

When Jake’s mother Lorraine (Kristin Samuelson) hears of Jake’s assault, she calls Beth a “bimbo” and says she deserved the beating. Lorraine is bitter. Her wandering alcoholic husband left her, and she ignores the reality of her son’s behavior. Samuelson’s unsettling intensity makes Lorraine a terror. She tries to convince Jake to stay in his childhood bedroom.

Though Jake has nearly killed his wife, he suffers a breakdown and believes he will die without her. His brother Frankie (Joel Derby) tries to help him, but it’s to no use. Jake has no redeeming qualities, and Prejean does an excellent job embodying the psychotic husband.

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Baylor (Roger Magendie) is a gruff, broad-shouldered man who controls his family by belittling them. Baylor is a hunter, and Magendie is imposing, his voice tinged with violence. He never physically challenges anybody, but he seems like he could.

None of the couple’s parents recognize how their actions affected their children’s desire — or predilections to recreate vicious patterns. The show’s traumas push each character toward a breaking point.

A Lie of the Mind’s story is unnerving, but Elm Theatre’s excellent acting and set design make this a rewarding production. — TYLER GILLESPIE

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EVENTS TUESDAY 30 Citizens Academy. Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, 619 S. White St., (504) 822-2414; www.orleansda.com — Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro leads weekly classes to help citizens understand the criminal justice system.

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Crescent City Farmers Market.

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

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Ham radio technician course.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Attendees learn how to operate amateur radios and have the opportunity to take a national accreditation course.

6:30 p.m.

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

National Alliance on Mental Illness Fundraiser. Rock ‘N’ Bowl, 3000 S. Carrollton Ave., 861-1700; www.rockandbowl. com — The fundraiser includes bowling, food and raffle prizes.

Tickets $5 to enter, $15 to bowl.

7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Standing in the Shadows (No More). Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney leads a quilting and fiber art workshop.

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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 — Yoga classes for all experience levels are held in the Cabildo gallery.

7:30 a.m.

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

Covington Farmers Market.

Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873 — The market offers local produce.

Genealogy Program. West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — Sal Serio leads a 14-part genealogical series about family research using vital records such as birth, marriage and death certificates and other public resources. 1 p.m.

Living in an App-Centric World. Congregation Gates of Prayer, 4000 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-2600; www. nopc.org — The New Orleans Personal Computer Club’s meeting features Chris Boyd, founder of app development studio Apptitude, talking about the future of smart devices.

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Lunchbox Lecture. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944, ext. 229; www.nationalww2museum.org — The semi-monthly lecture series features World War II-related topics. Noon.

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. 5:45 p.m.

OctoberFeast. Mandeville, various locations, (985) 624-3147; www.mandevilleoctoberfeast. com — Various Mandeville restaurants offer tastings and special dinners. Wednesday-Saturday.

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Gretna Heritage Festival

The Gretna Heritage Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with three days of food, festivities and music by Gregg Allman Band (pictured), Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and others. What originally was a one-day, local affair has grown to a weekend-long event filling 25 blocks of downtown Gretna and expected to draw more than 100,000 attendees.

“Just to be here 20 years later ... we never expected to be any bigger,” says Ricky Templet, Jefferson Parish councilman and founder of the Gretna Economic Development Association, which created the festival. “The event’s purpose, at the time, was to create a day of local community involvement; that has never changed.”

Gretna Heritage The festival features six music stages, more than 100 craft and OCT Festival merchant booths, carnival rides and amusements and food areas. Food vendors include local restaurants, West Bank Carnival krewes and food 3 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday; trucks. The Italian Village offers Italian cuisine, wines, Moretti beer and its noon-11 p.m. Saturday; own music stage. The German Beer Garden serves sausages, pretzels, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday German beer, wine, schnapps and locally brewed beer from Covington’s Downtown Gretna Heiner Brau.

There are more than 50 bands scheduled. Touring acts include Robert www.gretnafest.com Randolph and the Family Band and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company. Also performing are The funky Meters, Amanda Shaw, Bonerama, Tank and the Bangas, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, the Brass-A-Holics, Cowboy Mouth and others.

“We’ve moved to another level this year,” says Gretna Deputy Police Chief Anthony Christiana. “The economic impact alone is projected to be $1.7 to $1.8 million.”

A portion of proceeds is donated to local nonprofit groups. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the gate, $47.50 weekend pass in advance. — KATE WATSON

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Tree ID. Bayou Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expressway, Westwego, (504) 736-7140; www.bayousegnettestatepark. com — Attendees create their own field guides and identify trees in the park. 11 a.m.

White Glove Wednesdays.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5276012; www.nationalww2museum.org — Curator Eric Rivets gives visitors a chance to wear original military uniforms and equipment. 9 a.m.

THURSDAY 2 Art on the Rocks at W New Orleans. W Hotel New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444; www.wneworleans.com/artontherocks — Artists showcase their work alongside a DJ, drink specials and giveaways from W Hotels. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m.

Charity Golf Tournament.

Lakewood Golf Club, 4801 Gen. DeGaulle Drive, (504) 3735926; www.lafcaa.com — The tournament includes a raffle,

door prizes and awards for the top three teams. Louisiana’s 1st Choice Auto Auction sponsors the event. Proceeds benefit the Louisiana SPCA. Tickets $125.

12:30 p.m.

Hope in Blasted Landscapes, Revisited. New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres St., (504) 565-8027; www.pharmacymuseum.org — The Black Forest Fancies’ Cachet ARt and Culture Program hosts and Dr. Eben Kirksey leads the panel discussion about Louisiana’s ecosystem and water network.

6:30 p.m.

Jazz in the Park Marketplace.

Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.icdnola.org — The market features produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, handmade beauty products, arts, crafts and entertainment to go with the Jazz in the Park concert series. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Kenner Wine and Food Event.

Chateau Golf and Country Club, 3600 Chateau Blvd., 504-4671351; www.chateaugcc.com — The event includes more than 100 wine options, cuisine from more than 25 local restaurants and music by Groovy 7.

Proceeds benefit the Louisiana

Hospitality Foundation. Advance tickets $75, at the door $90. 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Overeaters Anonymous. Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church, 3900 St. Charles Ave., (504) 458-9965; www.rayneumc. org — Group members help each other use the 12-step method to recover from compulsive eating. 7 p.m.

Sistahs Making a Change.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Women of all experience levels are invited to dance, talk and dine together at this health-centered event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

St. Tammany Parish Fair.

Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873; www.sttammanyparishfair.info — The fair includes pageants, a rodeo, dance performances, music, children’s games, seminars and more.

Thursday-Sunday.

Swing Dance Festival. Various locations; www.lindyshowdown.net — The festival includes dance performances, competitions, classes and music by Meschiya Lake & the

Little Big Horns, Ben Polcer’s Swingin’ Seven and the Shotgun Jazz Band. Thursday-Monday.

Vintage Fashion & Lifestyle Expo. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt.state.la.us/museum/ properties/usmint — The event includes vintage clothing vendors, cocktails, a fashion show and music by the Shotgun Jazz Band. Tickets $25. 7 p.m.

Women Performing for Women Fundraiser. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — Hagar’s House’s fundraiser features food, a silent auction, child care and music by Amanda Shaw, Charmaine Neville and pianist Paul Longstreth. Tickets $40 per person, $75 for a couple. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

FRIDAY 3 Carey Street Crawl. Carey Street, between Robert and Cousin streets, Slidell — Local businesses and artists show their offerings alongside food, drinks, live music and children’s activities. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

EVENT LISTINGS Darkness to Light. Children’s Hospital, 200 Henry Clay Ave., Room 3302 — The New Orleans Children’s Advocacy Center hosts a training workshop to help prevent child abuse. Email ncooper@chnola.org to RSVP. Admission $10. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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

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

Gentilly Fest. Pontchartrain Park, Press Drive and Prentiss Avenue; www.gentillyfest.com — The festival features live music, food vendors and a kids village. Friday-Sunday.

Gretna Heritage Festival.

Downtown Gretna, Huey P. Long Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets — There are several stages of music ranging from rock ‘n’ roll to jazz, as well as arts and crafts, food vendors, a German beer garden and other activities.

Admission $20 per day, $15 in advance; $50 weekend pass, $40 in advance; free for ages 12 and younger. 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The Mysterious Wisterias starring Ricky Graham. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — Features local favorite Ricky Graham, a cast of eight, and WWII-era songs. Dinner by The American Sector restaurant.

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

Parents Night Out. Bethel Baptist Church, 201 Filmore Ave., (504) 486-4679 — Kids play games, watch movies, do crafts and eat snacks while their parents get some free time. Call pastor Wayne Adams at (985) 981-1144 or associate pastor Roger Hurd at (985) 400-3149 for details. 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

St. Ann Hawaiian Family Fest.

St. Ann School, 4921 Meadowdale St., (504) 455-8383; www. stannschool.org — The festival includes inflatables, games,

Viva La Cure — A Night of Hope.

Hampton Inn, 1201 Convention Center Blvd.; www.cagno.org — The Latin-themed fundraiser raises money for the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans. Tickets $75. 7:30 p.m.

Wings and Wine. Wild Bird Center, 2033 N. Highway 190, Covington, (985) 893-3766; www.wildbird.com — The event includes a bird slideshow, wine, coffee and dessert.

Reservations $25. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 4 Art for “Arf’s” Sake. NO Fleas Market, 4228 Magazine St., (504) 324-4727; www.nofleasmarketnola.com — The free event includes a raffle, dog treats and painting for dogs. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Art for Art’s Sake. The Magazine Street Merchants Association sponsors the event in which businesses along the length of Magazine Street keep their doors open late for music, wine, gallery openings and shopping. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Contemporary Arts Center presents an event spanning Julia and Magazine streets with art galleries showing their latest exhibits. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Crescent City Farmers Market.

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

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

Gretna Farmers Market.

Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 362-8661 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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

Guided Nature Hike. Bayou Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expressway, Westwego, (504) 736-7140; www. bayousegnettestatepark.com — Attendees follow a relaxing guided nature hike. 11 a.m.

Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale Golf Tournament. Stonebridge Golf Club of New Orleans, 1500 Stonebridge Drive, Gretna, 3941300; www.mkfemmefatale.org — The four-person team golf scramble includes cart use and a catered lunch. Admission $100. 8 a.m.

New Orleans Baby and Child Fest. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985; www.pontchartraincenter.com — Enjoy a day at one of the premier family expos in the Southeast. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

New Orleans Gathering. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.neworleansgathering.org — Pastors and ministers throughout New Orleans invite Christians of all denominations to gather for a full day of prayer. 3 p.m.

Rivertown Farmers Market.

Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy products, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations.

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 3554442; www.visitstbernard.com — The market offers seafood, produce, jams, preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

StoryQuest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Authors, actors and artists read children’s books and send kids on art quests through the museum. every other Saturday, 11:30 a.m.

Swap Meet NOLA. Swap Meet NOLA, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 813-5370; www.swapmeetnola. com — The event includes a farmers market, flea market and art market. 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Vampire 5K. Zephyr Field, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.vampire5k.com — The race travels through fog, red powder and strobe lights and features an after-party with red beer, Bloody Marys and music. Proceeds benefit the Mission to Hear Foundation. Admission $40. 6:30 p.m.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries. Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries, 116 Byrd Lane, Hahnville, (504) 340-3429; www.veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com — The organization holds weekly meetings to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans find housing, food and cloth-

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Million MILF March. Howlin’ Wolf Music Club, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. millionmilfmarch.com — The pub crawl includes food, a photo booth and music.

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EVENT LISTINGS ing. Call (504) 340-3429 or (504) 333-0614 for details and location updates. 7 p.m.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art, live music and pony rides. 8 a.m.

Who is Flying Through?

Fairview-Riverside State Park, 119 Fairview Drive, Madisonville, (985) 845-3318 — An interpretive ranger helps attendees identify native and migrating birds.

8 a.m.

Yoga/Pilates. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 456-5000; www.noma.org — The museum hosts Pilates classes every fourth Saturday of the month and yoga classes every other Saturday in the sculpture garden. Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

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SoFAB Cooking Demo.

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

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Swap Meet NOLA. Swap Meet NOLA, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 813-5370; www.swapmeetnola.com — The event includes a farmers market, flea market and art market. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Swing Dance Lesson With Amy & Chance. d.b.a., 618 Frenchmen St., (504) 9423731; www.dbabars.com/ dbano — The bar and music venue offers free swing dance lessons. 4:30 p.m.

Tipitina’s Foundation’s Sunday Youth Music Workshop.

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

MONDAY 6 Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars. Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd., Slidell, (985) 781-3650; www.gotothecircus.com — The circus includes acts such as the flying trapeze, acrobatics, elephants, tigers and a human cannonball.

Adults $16, children 12 and younger free. 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Dat Truck Mondays. Dat Dog, 5030 Freret St., (504) 899-6883; www.myhouse-

nola.com — Dat Dog and My House NOLA present a gathering of food trucks, with drink specials and live music. Visit the website to find out which food trucks will be present. 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Kit Wohl. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs New Orleans Classic Creole Recipes. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 456-5000; www.noma. org — Terry Rappold leads the class in the museum’s art galleries. Non-members $5. 6 p.m.

Laura Lane McNeal. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses and signs Dollbaby. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

WORDS Andi Eaton. Bellocq, Hotel Modern, 936 St. Charles Ave., (504) 962-0900; www. thehotelmodern.com — The author discusses and signs New Orleans Style. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Brad Richard, Carolyn Hembree. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Richard, a poet and the chair of Lusher Charter High School’s creative writing program, and Hembree, poetry teacher at the University of New Orleans, read and sign copies of their books. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Carole Feuerman. Octavia Art Gallery, 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — The artist and author discusses and signs Swimmers. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m.

Saturday.

Dinky Tao Poetry. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., (504) 891-3381; www.neutralground.org — The coffee house hosts an open-ended hour of poetry.

8 p.m. Wednesday.

Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Book Sale.

Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 596-2625; www.nutrias.org — The group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

James Nolan. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories. 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Ken Wheaton. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author discusses and signs Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Local Writers’ Group.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 4555135; www.barnesandnoble. com — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing.

7:30 p.m. Monday.

Open Mic. Drum Sands Publishing and Books, 7301 Downman Road, (504) 247-6519; www.drumsandspublishing.com — The bookstore and publishing house hosts an open mic for writers of all genres. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Poets of Color. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 6555489; www.stannanola. org — Poets participate in a writing circle. 2 p.m.

Wednesday.

Publishing 101. New Orleans Public Library, Nix Branch, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630 — Author and publisher Gary Michael Smith discusses small press publishing.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Shawn Hall. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The author and artist signs Emanator and Other Sorts.

6 p.m. Thursday.

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

11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Tao Poetry. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., (504) 891-3381; www. neutralground.org — The coffee house hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The Well: A Women’s Poetry Circle. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 655-5489; www. stannanola.org — Writers of all levels meet. Call or email fleurdeholly@gmail.com for details. 2 p.m. Monday.

SPORTS Saints. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3663; www. superdome.com — The New Orleans Saints play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Noon Sunday.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Swap Meet NOLA. Swap Meet NOLA, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 813-5370; www. swapmeetnola.com — Artists, farmers, bakers and flea market vendors are invited to set up booths at recurring swap meets.

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

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

Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to assist with managing inventory and helping clients to shop as well as sharing their expertise.

Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@dressforsuccess.org to register.

Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest oneon-one mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors.

Visit www.eachonesaveone.org for details.

Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race day volunteers.

Email info@gotrnola.org to register. Visit www.gotrnola.org for details about the program.

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

Green Light New Orleans.

The group that provides free energy-efficient lightbulbs seeks volunteers to help install the bulbs in homes. Call (504) 324-2429 or email green@greenlightneworleans.org to apply.

Visit www.greenlightneworleans.org for details.

HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the various opportunities available, how to sign up for service projects and general tips about how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 3042275, email volunteer@ handsonneworleans.org or visit www.handsonneworleans.org for details.

Louisiana SPCA Volunteers.

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

Meal Delivery Volunteers.

The Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults. Gas/mileage expenses will be reimbursed. Call Gail at (504) 888-5880 for details.

Senior Companion Volunteers. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist with personal and daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Visit www. nocoa.org or call (504) 8214121 for details.

Teen Suicide Prevention.

The Teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks volunteers to help teach middle- and upper-school New Orleans students. Call (504) 831-8475 for details.

Tulane Summer Volunteer Program. Tulane Medical Center needs dedicated high school students to join its volunteer program. Call (504) 988-5868 for details.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries.

Volunteers are needed to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans through food and clothing distribution and with home improvement, beautification and social media and web design skills. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www. veteranshousingoutreach. webs.com for details.

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The Long-Term Ombudsman Program needs volunteers. You will make an impact on residents in nursing and assisted living homes. For more information call Tanya Hayes at (504) 909-0672.

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

NO. 641-686 DIV. “C” SUCCESSION OF JOSEPH FUXAN, SR. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN that Diane Adele Fuxan Labrador, Succession Representative, for the SUCCESSION OF JOSEPH FUXAN, SR., was pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVEN THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($211,000.00) Dollars, any interest this Succession may have in and to the following described property, with the net proceeds divided equally between the Succession of Joseph Fuxan, Sr. and the Succession of Aline Elizabeth Fuxan, which is currently opened under independent administration in Division “E” under Docket No. 641-686.

NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that Diane Adele Fuxan Labrador, Succession Representative, for the SUCCESSIONS OF JOSEPH FUXAN, SR. proposed to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

September 19, 2014 Giselle LeGlue Deputy Clerk of Court Attorney: Raymond B. Landry Address: 2341 Metairie Road, Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 837-4950 Gambit: 09/30/14 & 10/07/14

24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

NO.: 696-468 DIV. “N”

NO.: 741-027 DIV. “P”

NO. 11-874 DIV. “H”

NO. 2013-10821 DIV. C

NO.: 739921 DIV. “L”

SUCCESSION OF ANN TOMLINSON AUTIN THE WIDOW OF LEONARD JEROME AUTIN SR.

SUCCESSION OF MARGARET CATHERINE McMANUS

SUCCESSION OF PHILLIP A. FRANKLIN, SR.

SUCCESSION OF MARY WILLIAMS CAZALAS

SUCCESSION OF GERALD J. FAYARD, SR.

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

NOTICE IS GIVEN that TENEKA FRANKLIN HOLLINGSWORTH, administratrix of the Succession of PHILLIP A. FRANKLIN, SR., is applying for authority to sell at private sale, on terms of SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND ($74,000.00) DOLLARS cash, undivided interest in the immovable property owned by the Succession of PHILLIP A. FRANKLIN, SR. described below.

NOTICE

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO PAY ESTATE DEBTS

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Testmentary Executrix of the above Estate has made application to the Court for the partition/sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit: A certain lot of ground together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, TOWN OF HARAHAN, in that part thereof known as ROSELAND PARK SUBDIVISION, in Square No. 6, bounded by GORDON AVENUE, MONROE STREET, ROSELAND PARKWAY and RADIANCE PATHWAY, which said lot of ground is designated as Lot No. 31-B, commences at a distance of 65 feet from the corner of GORDON AVENUE and RADIANCE PATHWAY, and measures thence 110 feet front on GORDON AVENUE, by a depth of 110 feet between equal and parallel lines, and is composed of a portion of original Lot 29, immediately adjoining original Lot 30, the whole of original Lots Nos. 30, 31, 32 and 33. All in accordance with a survey by Gilbett & Kelly, Surveyors, dated November 6, 1951, which is annexed to an act passed before Allain C. Andry, Jr. N.P., dated November 17, 1951. All in accordance with a survey by F.G. Stewart, Surveyor, dated August 22, 1956.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal Nos. 328 Gordon Avenue.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

By Order of the Court Jon A. Gegenheimer Clerk Attorney: Faun Fenderson Address: 700 Camp Street, Suite 318, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: (504) 528-9500 Gambit: 09/30/14 & 10/21/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Chester A. Williams and/or Kara Williams please contact Nathan M. Chiantella, Curator Ad-Hoc/Attorney, 650 Poydras Street, Suite 2515, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 207-1370; regarding Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration, An Agency of the United States of America versus Chester A. Williams and Kara Williams, Suit No. 2014-632, Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Petition for Executory Process Without Appraisement. The Property Sale Date is set for November 6, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m., by the Sheriff of Orleans Parish for the property located at 824-826 Roosevelt Place, New Orleans, LA 70119.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Luckmore Finance Corporation dated August 5, 2013 in the amount of $876.00 and signed by a M. Williams please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

WHEREAS the Administratrix of the above estate has made application to the Court for the private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described to wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, METAIRIE RIDGE NURSERY SUBDIVISION, SQUARE 38, bounded

by Nursery, Pine, Cypress Streets and Papworth Avenue, per plan by H.L. Zander, C.E. dated May 4, 1915, said lots measuring as follows: LOTS 48 and 49 adjoin each other and measure, each 25’ front on Nursery Avenue, by a depth of 120’ between equal and parallel lines. All in accordance with a survey made by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated August 7, 1971, and according to said lot 49 lies nearest and commences at a distance of 131 feet 6 inches 0 lines from the corner of Nursery Avenue and Pine Street. Also in accordance with a survey made by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated August 26, 1971.

Improvements bear the No. 1213 Nursery Avenue.

Upon the following terms and conditions to wit: $195,000 (One Hundred Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars), subject to the estate crediting purchaser the sum of $8,500 (Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars) for closing costs and pre-paid costs for a net sale price of $186,500 (One Hundred Eighty-Six Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars). Property sold “AS IS.” Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the Decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they may have or may have to such application at any time, prior to the issuance of the Order or Judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such Order or Judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

Attorney: Henrik A. Pontoppidan Address: 1420 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, LA 70005 Telephone: (504) 293-8238

By Order of the Court, Masie Comeaux Clerk Gambit: 09/30/14 & 10/07/14 Anne Romano, her heirs, or anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact Geralyn Garvey (504) 838-0191.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of DETHERITA M. PARKER, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty., 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 410-9611 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Ernest & York Jenkins please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Harold L. Richard, please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504-615-7340

STATE OF LOUISIANA

THAT CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Third District of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, in Square 792, bounded by Elmira, Congress, Derbigny and North Roman Streets, which said lots are designated by the Letters “L” and “M”, they adjoin and measure each thirty-one (31’) feet front on Congress Street, by a depth of one hundred seven feet and seven inches and four lines (107’7”4’’’) between equal and parallel lines. Lot “L” forms the corner of Congress and North Roman Streets. The whole in accordance with a plan or map of lots on file in the City Engineers Office of the City of New Orleans.

The property bears Municipal No. 173840 Congress Street.

An order authorizing her to do so may be issued after seven days from the date of second publication of this notice.

An opposition to the application may be filed at any time prior to the issuance of such an order.

By Order of the Court, Clerk of Court Attorney: Brad P. Scott Address: 3850 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 1130, Metairie LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 264-1057 Gambit: 09/30/14 & 10/21/14

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

NO.: 728-850 DIV. “A” SUCCESSION OF VIRGINIA CHIASSON SCHINSING, wife of/and LEO GEORGE SCHINSHING, II NOTICE OF FILING TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of these Estates and to all other interested persons that a Second and Final Tableau of Distribution has been filed by the succession representative praying for homologation of the Tableau and for ratification of the payments listed therein, for authority to pay the remaining administrative expenses of the Succession and for authority to distribute the remaining balance of the Succession funds to the Decedents’ heirs; and that the Second and Final Tableau of Distribution can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice.

Any opposition to the Petition must be filled prior to homologation.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the EXECUTOR, Matthew Hedrick, has filed a Petition for Authority to Sell Immovable Property at Private Sale, described below of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND ($420,000.00) DOLLARS, on the terms and conditions set forth in the “Offer to Purchase,” which is incorporated hereto and annexed to his Petition.

ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all of the buildings and improvements, thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywhere appertaining, situated in the Second District of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, in City Park row, bounded by City Park Avenue, Sherwood Forest Drive (Carrollton Avenue Side), Dumaine Street and Allard Boulevard (N. Hennessey Street Side) which said lot of ground is designated by the Letter “B”, commences at a distance of forty-four feet, eight inches, no lines (44’8”0’’’) from the corner of City Park Avenue and Sherwood Forest Drive, and measure thence forty-seven feet, six inches, two lines (47’6”2’’’) front on City Park Avenue, same width in the rear, by a depth of one hundred fifty-four feet, seven inches, no lines (154’7”0’’’) between equal and parallel lines, and is composed of the whole of a sketch of survey by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated July 21, 1958, which is annexed to an act passed before Allain C. Andry, Jr. Improvements bearing Municipal Number 1116 City Park Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119.

Any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within seven (7) days of the last publication.

Dale N. Atkins Clerk of Court Attorney: Alexandre E. Bonin Address: 4224 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Telephone: (504) 586-0064 Attorney for Matthew Hedrick, Executor Gambit: 09/23/14 & 09/30/14

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 13-10627 DIV. F-7 IN RE: SUCCESSION OF LOUISE CUSHENBERRY WHITE NOTICE OF FILING TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is here given to the creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven days from the publication of this notice, if any they have or can, why the tableau of distribution filed by Andrea White Elliot, The Executrix of the above estate, should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance with it.

By order of the Court.

By order of the court, Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court

Attorney: Robert T. Weimer, IV Address: 1615 Poydras St., Ste. 1275, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Telephone: (504) 561-8700

Attorney: Sonjia Kirk Address: 829 Baronne Street, New Orleans, LA 70113 Telephone: 504-581-9322

Gambit: 09/30/2104

Gambit: 09/30/14

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE IS GIVE to the creditors of this succession and to all other interested persons, that a Petition Filing a First and Final Tableau of Distribution has been filed by Ellen Walker Fayard, Administratrix of the Successions of Gerald J. Fayard, Sr., with her Petition praying for homologation of the First and Final Tableau of Distribution; and that the First and Final Tableau of Distribution can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of publication of this notice. Any opposition to the Petition and/or First and Final Tableau of Distribution must be filed prior to homologation.

Patricia Ann Moore Clerk of Court, Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Ryan C. Higgins Address: 401 Whitney Avenue, Suite 500, Gretna, Louisiana 70056 Telephone: (504) 362-2466 Gambit: 09/30/14

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

CASE No.: 2014-8877 DIVISION: A SUCCESSION OF ANTHONY C. BATISTE NOTICE Notice is given that the administrator of this succession has petitioned this court for authority to sell immovable property belonging to the deceased at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure by the assumption of debts totaling $83,717.95, the assumption to assume all liability to pay all taxes, and proper certificates and revenue steps.

The immovable property proposed to be sold at private sale is described as: 1921 Delachaise Street, New Orleans, Louisiana Square No. 467, Lot No. 17, Delachaise 30x120 - SW Any heir or creditor opposed the proposed sale must file this opposition within seven (7) days from the date on which the last publication of this notice appears.

By order of the court 23rd days of September, 2014 Dale N. Atkins Clerk of Court Attorney: James F. Willeford Address: 201 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 4208, New Orleans, LA 70170 Telephone: 504-582-1286 Gambit: 09/30/14 & 10/21/14 IMPORTANT - property rights involved!

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of GREGORY J. MEFFERT or LINDA B. MEFFERT please contact Faun Fenderson, Attorney at 504-528-9599 or faun@faunfenderson.com Louis A. Hinton, Jr,. 2443 Calhoun St. Metairie, LA 70001, and/or 2820 Steamship Cir., Apt D, New Orleans, LA 70123. his heirs, or anyone knowing his whereabouts please contact Geralyn Garvey (504) 838-0191.

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CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages, thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Bridgedale Subdivision in Section “F” thereof in Block No. 174, bounded by Shirley, South Park and North Park Drives and according to a survey and plan of resubdivision by J.J. Krebs C.E.&S., dated February 13, 1950, and revised April 10, 1950, said lots are designated by the nos. 7-F and 7-G and are composed of a portion of original Lots 7, 8 and 21 and according thereto lot 7-F commences at a distance of 301.49 feet from the corner of Shirley and North Park Drives and lots Nos. 7-F and 7-G and join and measure each fifty feet front on Shirley Drive, same in width in the rear by a depth of 150 feet between equal and parallel lines.

And according to a survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, C.E. and Surveyors, dated February 2, 1960, the above described property has the same location and measurements as above set forth and the improvements bear the Municipal No. 1206 Shirley Drive.

24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

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Forward resume’ and salary history to: rmmcay@interiorexterior.net. Fax: 504.486.6386 or mail to: Interior/ Exterior Building Supply 730 South Scott St., New Orleans, LA 70119 www.interiorexterior.net An Equal Opportunity Employer rmccay@interiorexterior.net

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

2026 PRYTANIA ST. UNIT C 2BR/2BA • 2,251 SQFT • $675,000

4220 CHATEAU LAFITTE DR. KENNER • $284,900

Susan Saia

(504) 957-7504

Wonderful private street home features large rooms and an open floor plan. Private pool and pool house. Association cuts grass. Planned urban development.

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5409 LAUREL ST. $669,000

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Fab newly renovated home in great location. Steps to Magazine St. Light & bright with 11’ ceilings, wd flrs. Lg living rm w nice moldings & pocket doors. Attractive all white kit w/ s.s. appl. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2055 sq.ft. Lg master suite w dbl vanity, separate tub & shower. Energy efficient insulated windows, new HVAC, electrical, plumbing, tankless hot water heater. Interior & exterior recently painted.

Driveway, landscaped yard. patio, security & sprinkler systems.

Keller Williams New Orleans • 862-0100 Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

www.BrittGalloway.com

Warehouse District Retail/Office for Lease 316 St. Joseph Street • New Orleans, LA.

2000sf of showroom and office space.

Newly refurbished.

Hot Warehouse Dist. Location close to Conv. Ctr. Potential for 2nd flr. Studio/Apt., 1.5 baths, storefront. $2,995/mth NN

Owner/Agent

Shaun Talbot

(504) 975-9763

8001 Maple Street New Orleans, LA 70118 Office: (504) 866-7733 saia@bellsouth.net www.susansaia.com

N.O. Properties Each office independently owned & operated

Beautiful 2 bedroom condo in the Lower Garden District. Open floor plan, granite counter tops, large balcony. Minutes from downtown, interstate with easy access. Custom office and 2 parking spots.

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929-31 Touro St. New Orleans

Magnificent duplex in the Marigny Triangle!

Another fantastic renovation by Summit NOLA. The top floor (1,700 sq ft upper level w/ 3BR/2BA & office) is a restored 1880s w/a wrap around balcony, 13’ ceilings, 12” base boards, 7.5” crown moulding, 9’ pocket doors, original heart of pine floors & cypress doors/windows. Modern kitchen features a pantry, custom cabinets, ss appl & quartz counters. Gorgeous master w/ 2 closets & balcony access. Master bath suite has a double vanity & marble tile. The fourth rm has a travertine floor, en suite bath & laundry w/a back balcony. This beautiful home offers a new roof, insulated attic, a termite contract & 3,775 total sq. ft!! Keep as a duplex or use as large single family. #931 has a separate entrance plus access by #929 through a side door to a 10x12 storage room for the owners use or use as a 3rd bed for the rental unit.

Downstairs has 8.5’ ceilings, travertine floors, central AC, & new appl. Find out more and watch Summit NOLA at https://www.facebook.com/SummitNOLA! Jessi Sanborn 504-453-0003 jessisanborn@yahoo.com https://www.facebook.com/SummitNOLA http://www.sissywood.com/

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Each office individually owned and operated Open 9/28, 1 – 3 p.m.

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3125 Upperline St. • $359K

6843 Glengary Road • $175K

Broadmoor never shined brighter, this 4 Gorgeous 3 bd/2 ba Lakewood East hm w/ bd/3.5 ba beauty radiates w/charm & space. sep LR/ DR, lrg den, & lrg eat in kit. Bdrms lrg Nearly 2,500 sf., SS appliances, large rooms, and enough for queen beds + furn. Over 2,200 sf., master bath is gorgeous!!!! prk’g for 7, yard w/patio for cookouts.

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4123 – 5 Downman Blvd. $525K 4001 Gen. Pershing (VLD) $125K 6843 Glengary Rd. $175K 5237 Lakeview Ct. (VLD) $5K 13110 Lemans St. $110K 2025-7 Painters St. $135K 2458 N. Tonti St. $175K 3125 Upperline St. $359K 4724 Virgilian Street $119K

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6000 Eads St. $1,125/mo 1269 &71 Milton St. $850/mo 2028 Pauger St., B $1,000/mo 1818 Paul Morphy St. $1,200/mo 4315 Perrier St. $1,000/mo 6921&23YorktownSt. $1,300/mo 2124 Cadiz St. $150K U/C 20 Lakewood Pl. $380K U/C 24 Yosemite Dr. $245K U/C

STAGED HOMES SELL FASTER!!!

Office Space Metairie Luxury Great Location Approx 1,350 usable sq.ft.

2nd floor of 2 story office building. Parking, efficiency kitchen, storage room, mens and womens restrooms, reception area, conference rooms, private office.

Available immediately. 1 year lease $1,700/mo.

(504) 957-2360.

137 Gardenia Lane • Waggaman

Stats prove staged homes sell quicker My listing package includes a staging consultation for added value! I am an AHS -- Accredited Home Stager who can help you present your home at it’s very best.

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This stunning property has it all! Beauty (just renovated), LOCATION (Garden District), Income potential (2 unit guest house w/private baths & separate utilities, great as Mardi Gras rentals). 4 Bdrms in main house 2 in guest. High end appliances & fixtures, hardwood, marble counter tops, large master closet, balcony, off street parking, large family room, formal living room & dining room, original 1850’s fireplaces,new plumbing, electric, HVAC.

Margaret Berliner & Associates (504)388-8558 This listing is represented by REALTOR® MARGARET BERLINER

Mary Mang 504-650-7156 Keller Williams Realty 455-0100

Owner will finance this beautifully renovated 3 bdrm, 2 bath all brick with $10K down. Wood Floors, granite countertops, new windows, crown molding, garage, carport and huge workshop. $119,000. Call for additional details.

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Take a peek at this French Quarter condo down on Rampart Street! Sit on the front balcony and enjoy the view of Louis Armstrong Park. Soaring ceilings that are set off by the sparkling chandeliers, original medallions and plaster crown molding.

Plantation shutters. Spa like bathroom with double sinks and cedar walls. Fireplace in each room. Nest Thermostat. Open kitchen w/ gas range. Picture molding. Original hardwood flooring and the list goes on!

Come home to this Adorable Arts & Crafts Cottage in the Hip Bywater!

Enter through solid Honduran Mahogany doors into a lovely open flrplan. Enjoy a glass of lemonade on the Porch. Relax on the Back Porch w/ a glass of wine overlooking the New Orleans style Crtyd. Prepare gourmet meals for your friends in the New Kitchen w/ SS Applcs! Or curl up by the Ventless, Gas Fireplace!

Home has wireless Sec. Sys. $2500 allowance for Central A/C.

Charlotte Hailey-Dorion

Sharon Rovira, Realtor • (504) 650-1336

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REAL ESTATE WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

GENERAL RENTALS

NOTICE:

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

Fully Furnished 2 bed Townhouse 318 ST. JOSEPH ST

2Bd/2Ba., 1400 sf, balcony, all utils. included. pkng provided. Avail now! $2,995/mo. 3 mo.+ term.

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NORTHSHORE NORTHSHORE PROPERTY FOR SALE

CBD

BEAUTIFUL 4.28 acres cleared and ready to build your dream home on!

Located just outside of Covington in Abita Springs right next to Abita Lakes Subdivision, this property has the benefits of being in a country atmosphere while still conveniently located just minutes away from all the city amenities. For Sale By Owner, $106,000. Call (504) 638-1693.

CBD OFFICE SPACE

Furnished Office Space in CBD available with all ammenities. Lease by the office $500 per month per office.

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3/2.5 PENTHOUSE w/ balcony , POOL, PARKING ............. $5,000 1/1 Lrg renov. 20+ft ceils, plenty of nat lit, loft - 2nd bd $2200

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1/1 newly renov, w/d, central ac/heat,fireplace ........ $1,200

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2/1 no pets Renov, wd flrs, w/d in unit ...................... $1400

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7/8 Commercial Lease- can be B&B or Office ........... $6,000

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Studio Furn. exposed brick. marblein bath. crtyrd..... $159,900

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One-half double. Two stories with two bedrooms, one bath, central heat and air, one car garage, refrigerator & stove; washer/dryer. 4228 Orleans Ave. Available Sept. 01. $1400/mo., 1-year lease and month deposit.

Phone 225-752-0134 or 225-8026554.

2/1 Hdwd Flrs, Renovated Kit/Bath. Washer/Dryer ...... $2750

836 N Rampart #2 401 S Pierce 1454 ST MARY #6

1/1 Beaut Condo overlooking park, Spa bath. Hi Ceils $399,000 3/3,5 Renovated double in MidCity. Apt in rear. grea loc $379,000 2/2 Renov lower garden dist condo w/ pool & pkng $270,000

1233 Esplanade #4

2/1 Grnd flr condo. SS appls Prkng. Common patio&pool $159,000

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2/2 1,600 sqft, brand renovation, balcony ............ $599,000

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312 Olivier

4/3 Great house in Algiers Point. Must see!!

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$450,000

3/2.5 PENTHOUSE w/ balcony , POOL, PARKING ........ $950,000 1/1 balcony overlooking street. Lush crtyrd ....... $348,000

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Spacious Studio & 1BR Apartments.

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UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

2565 WISTERIA

1BR, furn kitchen, hdwd floors, o/s pkng. $500 + $500 security. 504-7151662. Email 1rentball@gmail.com

Huge Upper Studio Apt. Bright, spacious, high ceilings, hdwd flrs, cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles Street Car. Easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. Water & garbage pd. $900/ mo. 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@ yahoo.com

2100 ST. CHARLES AVE. LUXURY CORNER CONDO FOR LEASE

Lovely 3/2, 1745sf, deluxe kit & baths, long windows, wood fls, fab closets, all utilities & parking incl, pool, fitness cen, 24-hr security, NO pets, $3000 mo; 3 MOS RENTAL – 2027A MILAN, LARGE 2/2 lower apt w/cen a/h, equip kit $2,000/mo. EILEEN WALLEN - 504-250-5656, GARDNER REALTORS - 504-861-7575.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jennifer Howard Peter, please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504-6157340.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of JONAS DENNIS, please contact attorney Carolyn Hennesy at (504 ) 581-9322.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jose Francisco Martinez Pena please contact Atty. D. Nicole Sheppard, at 4224 Canal Street NOLA, 70119, 504-234-4880.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Pablo A. Hernandez, please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504-615-7340.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of ROBERT A. SCHIFF aka as ROBERT ANDREW SCHIFF, please contact Lakeisha Jefferson Atty., at 225-302-3209.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the heirs of Dorothy Tircuit McCrae, please contact Attorney Dana Henry at 504-265-9896.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of The Heirs of Jessie Vial and/or Russell Vial, please contact Atty. D. Nicole Sheppard, at 4224 Canal Street NOLA, 70119, 504-234-4880.

LMT#4553

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA DOCKET NO. 738-181 DIVISION: “D” SUCCESSION OF E. RALPH LUPIN

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Pamela Lupin, Executrix for the Succession of E. Ralph Lupin, furnishes notice pursuant to La. C. Civ. Proc. art.

3297 that she has applied for authority to transfer by a giving in payment to Regions Bank a Certificate of Deposit ending in the numbers 8874 in partial satisfaction of a secured debt to Regions Bank. Any opposition to the granting of the application must be made within seven (7) days from publication to be made once in the Gambit newspaper.

Attorneys for Pamela Lupin: Wade P. Webster, Jon W. Wise Address: 400 Poydras St., 30th Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: 504-523-2600 D. Esteves, Deputy Clerk Gambit: 09/30/14

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of The Heirs of Joseph Leon Branch and/or The Heirs of Doris Randle Branch, please contact Atty. D. Nicole Sheppard, at 4224 Canal Street NOLA, 70119, 504-234-4880.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Claude Joseph Lewis, please contact Attorney Louis DiRosa, Jr., at 504-6157340.”

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Clyde Frank Brown, please contact Atty. D. Nicole Sheppard, at 4224 Canal Street NOLA, 70119, 504-234-4880.

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CLASSIFIEDS AUTOMOTIVE AUTOS FOR SALE 2003 Honda Accord EX

White. 155K miles. New battery & alternator.

Transmission & timing belt are 5 years old. $6,500 or best offer. Call (504) 4322561 for info

TRUCKS ‘95 Chevy Pick-Up Truck. Good work truck, $1,000. Call Don at 504-8744920.

ART/POSTERS

MERCHANDISE

ORIGINAL PAINTINGS FOR SALE

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

Weekly Tails

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By French Quarter artist. $50 ea. Call Don (504) 874-4920.

FRANK SINATRA BOOK

Frank Sinatra Treasuries. Interesting to read. $30. Call (504) 430-2968.

SAINTS SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS HAT White. Never Worn. $75. Call (504) 430-2968.

PAT’S HOUSEKEEPING

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES Sofa Sleeper fair condition, wood framing army green color, $50. Call 504-236-3002.

To Advertise in

Harmony is a 9-year-old, spayed, Beagle

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Hair products for sale - HUGE variety!, 2 shampoo chairs & lots of misc. Call (504) 466-8407 or (504) 615-4005

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CAT CHAT

HARMONY Kennel #A23732899

Minnie is as cute as can be. She was the tiniest of a litter of four kittens found in a local school yard. All of her siblings have been adopted as now it’s her turn. Minnie is a purring ball of fur, with a very sweet personality. Visit Minnie at our Thrift Store Adoption Center: 6601 Veterans Blvd, Metairie or contact us: 504-454-8200; adopt@spaymart.org

LYLE Kennel #A23785878

www.spaymart.org

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who ADORES being petted, snuggled and cuddled. She has the sweetest temperament and enjoys meeting all new people and making new dog friends. Harmony will require TLC during her complimentary heartworm treatment and has senior dental issues. To meet Harmony or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

Lyle is a 2-year-old, neutered, DSH who enjoys the outdoors. Lyle would be comfortable inhabiting a porch, barn, stable, woodshop or outbuilding. He enjoys the companionship of other felines and doesn’t mind the company of humans, but prefers not to be held. To meet Lyle or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd.

(Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

Adorable Kitten!

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PUZZLE PAGE CLASSIFIEDS FACE OF

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John Schaff

New Orleans is by far one of the best places to live. Take it from John Schaff, a fourth generation New Orleanian and Associate Broker with Latter & Blum. The city’s real estate market is hot and continues to rise. Schaff has been active in New Orleans real estate for over 16 years, specializing in condo development and sales along with luxury single-famiy homes. Known to his clients as “More than Just a Realtor” Schaff was named as one of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 200 Income Producers in Real Estate in 2006. Affiliated with Latter & Blum since 1999, Schaff is consistently one of the company’s top producers.

“GREEN” HIDDEN GEM

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SUSTAINABLE & SECLUDED - Newly constructed 4 BR 3 BA Home. Architect designed to maximize efficiency.

2 Phase high efficiency HVAC. Foam insulation in floors, walls, roof. Solar Panels. Windows provide lots of natural light and excellent ventilation. Private dining porch. Stranded Bamboo Flooring. Upscale security & camera system. Low utility bills. Off street parking. Enjoy views of neighboring gardens from privacy of your home. $450,000

TROPICAL OASIS IN RIVER RIDGE. Pull into a circular drive to this Lovely, 3 BR 2 BA well maintained Home on a quiet, tree lined street. Recently installed ceramic tile floors, kit counter tops, bathrm vanity, elec panel and ceiling fans. Lots of storage. Den opens up to a Huge Lush Tropical Garden, thoughtfully laid out. Fountain, patio and established plants 2 Live Oaks. Built and owned by same family since 1961. $199,000

ABR, CRS, GRI, SFR, SRS John Schaff, CRS | Latter & Blum, Inc. Realtors 2734 Prytania Street, New Orleans, LA (504) 343-6683 • www.NOLArealtor.com

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