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(Sandy) Alex G W WED. OCT. 11 | Philadelphia’s Alexander Giannascoli is as indie as indie rockers get: a sideways singer and loner bedroom recorder whose glinting, refracted guitar-and-vocal arrangements on 2014’s DSU drew an early-catalog reissue by British imprint Lucky Number Music. His last two releases, Beach Music and this year’s prismatic Rocket (Domino), kicked open the bedroom door. Hovvdy and Crumb open at 8:30 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.
The New Orleans Film Festival features 230 films, filmmakers, parties and more BY WILL COVIELLO THE OPENING NIGHT FILM SCREENING
is usually a big event for a film festival, but for the New Orleans Film Society’s Fallon Young, who came on as executive director in March, it’ll be satisfying for another reason. “I haven’t seen many of the films yet,” she says with a laugh. “I am excited to see The Florida Project. I love Willem Dafoe.” The Florida Project is the latest film from director Sean Baker, who used an iPhone to shoot Tangerine, about a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend/pimp is cheating on her. The New Orleans Film Festival (Oct. 11-19) includes more than 230 films, from advanced releases from major studios to narrative and documentary films in juried competitions for festival awards to showcases of experimental and animated shorts. A handful of films were curated but most were selected by juries from more than 5,000 entries. There are more than 50 Louisiana-made films, programs of Caribbean and Cuban films, a New French Cinema section and a new Change-Makers program with films about social activism. Screenings take place at venues including Cinebarre Canal Place 9 and Orpheum, The Prytania and Broad theaters. Patricia Clarkson is scheduled for a live interview, and Gabourey Sidibe will record an interview for Slate’s “Represent” podcast. Sidibe starred in Precious and directed the short film The Tale of Four, which is being screened at the festival. There also are virtual reality experiences, music videos, parties, panel discussions and more. The Florida Project is about children who live in a budget motel near Disneyland in Florida and imagine their own wonderland. Among the festival’s other films with upcoming theatrical releases is Mudbound, in which an African-American veteran returns from World War II and moves his family from Memphis to a rural
TUE. OCT. 10 | The sounds bubbling inside Nick Hakim’s debut album Green Twins (ATO Records) mirror the faded neons on its cover, depicting a slimy eyeball staring into a mirror on an alien landscape: introspective, psychedelic soul and deep-space grooves. Dreamy pop singer-songwriter Sam Evian opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.
Mississippi where they struggle to learn to farm while suffering racial resentment from the community. The Upside, a remake of the French film Les Intouchables, stars comedian Kevin Hart as an ex-con who gets a fresh start in life as an assistant to a billionaire who’s been paralyzed in a hanggliding accident. The narrative film competition includes After Louie, in which Alan Cumming plays an early HIV/AIDS activist who is startled by the generation gap when he later gets involved with a younger man. In the offbeat She’s Allergic to Cats, an aspiring filmmaker works as a dog groomer while remaking the horror film Carrie using internet cat videos and copes with his own petty horrors and animal attractions. The documentary competition includes The World is Mine, which is not really a documentary, but is a strange dive into Tokyo’s cosplay scene. Filmmaker Ann Oren presents herself as a cosplayer fascinated with Hatsune Miku, an animated teenaged girl with long blue ponytails who is essentially created by fan fiction and voiced by a synthesizer program. Behind the scenes, the film society has facilitated more than 350 meetings between filmmakers and producers and industry professionals during the festival. The ongoing Emerging Voices program connects filmmakers of color with producers as well. “There’s magic in the experience of being able to interface with (other) au-
Peaches FR OCT. 13 | Raunchy performance FRI. artist and electro-pop star Peaches picked New Orleans women artists to join her in this performance, including DeLish Da Goddess, Sean Yseult and Tif Lamson. Gland opens at 6:30 p.m. at the Music Box Village.
Run the Jewels FRI. OCT. 13 | Killer Mike and El-P’s hip-hop supercollider rocked New Orleans in March at the Buku Music + Art Project in March. The duo released overwhelming eponymous albums in three of the past four years (and one merely “whelming” feline remix, 2015’s Meow the Jewels). Denzel Curry and Cuz Lightyear open at 9 p.m. at the Joy Theater. OCT. 11-19 NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL VARIOUS LOCATIONS WWW.NEWORLEANSFILM SOCIETY.ORG
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dience members,” Young says. “Ninety percent of films have filmmakers present for Q&As, so you get a chance to be in the community. It’s not just nine days of films; it’s nine days of parties and connecting and having Hollywood South be introduced to larger community. You get to be in presence of those creative visionaries you’re watching on screen and ask them about their creative process and what they’re trying to achieve with a film.”
Japan Fest SAT. OCT. 14 | The festival highlights traditional Japanese culture (taiko drumming, dance, martial arts, growing bonsai trees, a kimonodressing demonstration) as well as current fads, such as cosplay, Pokemon costuming and a Lolita fashion show. There’s also Japanese food. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the New Orleans Museum of Art and Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
John Mulaney SUN. OCT. 15 | Stand-up comedian and writer John Mulaney’s Kid Gorgeous tour follows his acclaimed specials New in Town and The Comeback Kid as well as a Broadway run of Oh, Hello with Nick Kroll, in which the comics portray insufferable old Upper West Siders. There are shows at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.
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Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, physicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Livingston Parish were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics last week for “decisive contributions” in detecting gravitational waves. The physicists captured the sound of two black holes colliding in deep space, demonstrating Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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retired as President and General Manager of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center last month, after a 10-year span helping rebuild the Convention Center following Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. Johnson served as General Manager of the Superdome in the 1980s and 1990s, and previously was General Manager of the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena.
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Louisiana State Police (LSP) troopers who billed for overtime pay on a business trip last year during which they detoured to Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam, were demoted last week and took a cut in pay ordered by LSP Superintendent Kevin Reeves. The men said the side trips were known to then-LSP Superintendent Mike Edmonson, a charge Edmonson denies.
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I-10 News on the move 1. ‘DOLLAR BILL’
JEFFERSON ORDERED RELEASED FROM PRISON
In a surprise move Oct. 5, a federal judge ordered former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson released immediately from federal prison in Oakdale. Jefferson had been incarcerated since May 2012. Jefferson, a Democrat who represented Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years, was indicted on 16 counts of corruption in 2007 and convicted on 11 of those counts two years later. One count was tossed several years ago, and Jefferson was PH OTO BY CH E RY L G E R B E R sentenced to 13 years in jail for the remaining 10 convictions. The counts on which Jefferson was convicted included two counts of soliciting bribes; two counts of wire fraud; three counts of money laundering; two counts of conspiracy to solicit bribes and commit wire fraud; one count of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; and one count of conducting and participating in a racketeering enterprise — commonly known as RICO. Last week, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who presided at Jefferson’s trial in northern Virginia, threw out seven of the 10 remaining counts and ordered Jefferson freed until the former congressman can be resentenced. The convictions Ellis tossed were those for soliciting bribes, wire fraud and money laundering. The others remain in place. Jefferson’s lawyers had argued for the dismissal of the counts based on a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell on similar charges. Both cases turned on the legal definition of “official acts” by a public official — and whether Jefferson or McDonnell committed any such acts in exchange for something of value. Jefferson has served more than five years of his 13-year sentence, and it’s not clear whether he will have to serve additional time or will be set free. A sentencing hearing has been set for Dec. 1. The RICO conviction, which remains, is considered a major felony, but judges are given discretion in sentencing. During his career, Jefferson rose from rural poverty in northeast Louisiana to win a seat in the Louisiana Senate, then a seat in Congress after losing the 1986 New Orleans mayor’s race. For more than a decade, he was the most influential politician in New Orleans. His political organization, the Progressive Democrats, was unequaled at getting allies of Jefferson elected to city, state and parochial offices.
2. Quote of the week “When there’s a tragedy like this, the first thing we should be thinking about is praying for the people who were injured and doing whatever we can to help them, to help law enforcement. We shouldn’t first be thinking of promoting our political agenda. I think we see too much of that, where people say, ‘Oh, OK, now you have to have gun control.’” — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise to Fox News Oct. 3. Scalise was badly wounded by a shooter in June at a practice for a charity congressional baseball
game and returned to the Capitol just days before the interview. On Oct. 1, he was featured in a 60 Minutes profile hours before Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people.
3. Geaux geaux geaux With the relaunch of its free online rideshare service — once called GreenRide Connect, now called GeauxRide NOLA — the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission (NORPC) hopes to turn New Orleans into a carpooling city.
NORPC public transportation planner Nik Richard says the program connects both potential carpoolers and people who need a ride with drivers who live or work nearby. It’s intended to help New Orleanians get to work, cut down on transportation and parking costs and plug the gaps in neighborhoods which are intermittently served by public transit. Though NORPC had a long-running ridesharing program targeting employers (who sometimes can receive tax breaks for encouraging carpooling), the GeauxRide NOLA relaunch is focused on employees and job seekers. The GeauxRide NOLA service is available to people traveling to and from several areas, including Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, Tangipahoa, Plaquemines, St. John and St. Charles parishes. To sign up, visit www.norpc.greenride.com.
4. Public satisfaction with
NOPD down in latest survey
A new survey compiled by the New Orleans Crime Coalition finds that New Orleans residents feel safer overall but still are largely dissatisfied with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). Fifty-one percent of respondents to a WPA Intelligence survey conducted Sept. 5-7 are “satisfied” with the NOPD, dropping 13 percentage points from the coalition’s 2016 survey. Respondents’ feelings on violent crime influenced the drop, with satisfaction with NOPD performance handling violent crime dropping 20 points to 39 percent. But 82 percent of respondents said they feel safe in their neighborhoods, a bump up from 78 percent last year, and more than half of respondents said they feel safe in neighborhoods other than the ones in which they live.
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Jindal: He’s baaaack. (Maybe) With Tom Price stepping down as President Donald Trump’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, national pundits have begun floating a familiar name for the job: that of former Gov. Bobby Jindal. Dan McLaughlin of the National Review wrote, “Jindal has a great depth of background in both health care policy and administration: He developed the Medicare premium-support plan that would later end up in the Ryan budget when he was a 22-year-old Congressional intern, and was running and rescuing Louisiana’s hospital system when he was 24.” (Louisianans may disagree with the latter half of that sentence.) “Jindal had among the most detailed and realistic plans to repeal
6. STR-ing up trouble A complaint lodged by housing advocacy group Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative (JPNSI) alleges two downtown buildings violate federal housing rules for converting its units into short-term rentals (STRs). According to the city’s short-term rental database, more than half of the units at the Maritime Building on Common Street and more than a quarter of the units in the Saratoga Building on Loyola Avenue are registered as STRs, most of which can be rented out year-round under the city’s commercial STR designation. Both properties have mortgages backed by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to HUD requirements, properties that have received HUD assistance can’t use units as transient rentals or hotel units. New Orleans’ municipal shortterm rental laws, however, don’t have similar restrictions. In a letter to HUD’s New Orleans office, associate regional counsel Bam Viloria Gressett, JPNSI requests “HUD immediately investigate these violations and issue a cease order.”
7. ‘Crime in the Crescent’
to examine public safety in New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans will host an event titled “Crime in the Crescent: A Forum About Public Safety in New Orleans” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the university’s Nunemaker Auditorium in Monroe Hall. Panelists include Jeff Asher, the journalist and crime analyst whose work appears in Gambit and on WWL-TV; Melissa Sawyer, founder of the Youth Empowerment Project; and Flozell Daniels, president of the Foundation for Louisiana. Rae Taylor, chair of Loyola’s Department of Criminology and Justice, will moderate. The panel is free and open to the public.
8. HousingNOLA says city falling short of affordable housing target
Housing affordability group HousingNOLA gave itself a C in its report card gauging its success to help New Orleans produce 3,000 af-
fordable homes by 2018 and 5,500 by 2021. The group, which encompasses several housing advocacy organizations, aimed to increase the availability of homes and apartments for working-class and lower-income families. HousingNOLA Executive Director Andreanecia Morris says that while there have been some policy successes, this year the group is “seeing the realization of the dire predictions that compelled this plan.” “The recovery funds from Katrina are nearly exhausted and we produced approximately 500 new housing opportunities, a far cry from the 1,500 committed and the 3,330 needed,” she said in a statement with the report, released late last month. “Instead of despairing, the HousingNOLA team, staff, board and community intend to fight. We have the plan — we simply need to summon the will to execute.” Morris also called on candidates in citywide elections Oct. 14 to establish “housing first” platforms. “This city will not support leaders who would ignore the needs of the many to indulge the whims of the few or those who would pledge to imprison, rather than house,” she said. “It is time to prioritize housing.”
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Welcome back, Wisner Bridge Following months of demolition and reconstruction, the Wisner Boulevard Bridge over I-610 has opened. The city’s $19.5 million project — in association with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, the Regional Planning Commission and Federal Highway Administration — spans 65 feet and includes a 12-foot pedestrian and bicycle path in each direction. That path is set to open in spring 2018. The city also opened the 10-footwide concrete Marconi Path connecting Robert E. Lee Boulevard to Harrison Avenue on the east side of Marconi Drive.
10. A little comedy, a little cabaret
New York comedy-cabaret headliners Bridget Everett and Murray Hill will make their New Orleans debuts Oct. 23 at One Eyed Jacks. Everett, who’s known for her appearances on the Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer, has won praise for her performance in the new comedy Patti Cake$. Meanwhile, comedian Deven Green (aka “Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian”) will bring her comedy-cabaret act to Cafe Istanbul for a two-night run Nov. 9-10, where she will play songs and tell jokes while playing an electric ukelele. Tickets for both events are on sale now.
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and replace Obamacare, which he unveiled back in 2014,” wrote The Federalist. “If anyone could push Congress toward the policies that would have the most effect, and might actually get past a divided GOP Congress, it would be him.” Perhaps both publications should look at his record of nearly bankrupting Louisiana.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made several visits to New Orleans during the civil rights movement.
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Hey Blake, I enjoyed your story about the ILA Hall on South Rampart Street (Aug. 22). I have a flyer promoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at the ILA auditorium on South Claiborne Avenue on Sept. 21, 1959. What can you tell me about his other appearances in New Orleans?
Dear Mark, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most important link to New Orleans is that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group he led as president, was formed here in 1957. Meetings to organize the group, which coordinated nonviolent protest activities across the South, were held at the New Zion Baptist Church at LaSalle and Third streets. In 1955, King led a service at Dillard University’s newly-opened Lawless Memorial Chapel. Dillard’s president, Albert Dent, offered King the posi-
tion of chaplain, but King declined because of his work organizing a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. King returned to Dillard in 1959 to deliver the baccalaureate address. In 1957, King spoke at the Coliseum Arena on South Claiborne Avenue. As you mentioned, in 1959 he appeared at the International Longshoremen’s Association union hall at 2700 S. Claiborne Ave. “A new baby is being born in the South, the baby of freedom and equality for all,” he told the crowd. In 1961, he was scheduled to speak at the Municipal Auditorium but the South Louisiana Citizens’ Council called on the city and the courts to cancel the appearance because it said King was a “trained agitator.” Instead, he spoke at Union Bethel AME Church at 2321 Thalia St. According to The States-Item, he addressed the venue change saying, “You may cancel a meeting, but you can’t cancel the date New Orleans and the South has with destiny.” Any mention of King’s visits must include Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, where legendary chef and restaurateur Leah Chase and her late husband, Edgar “Dooky” Chase Jr.
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served King and other civil rights leaders, who held strategy sessions in an upstairs dining room. About 10 years after King’s 1968 assassination, the New Orleans City Council voted to rename a street in his honor. In 1977, Melpomene Street from Baronne to S. Gayoso streets was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. His name was added from St. Charles Avenue to Baronne Street in 1989. In 1976, the city unveiled a bronze monument at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Dryades Street. Another monument featuring a bust of King was unveiled at South Claiborne Avenue and Felicity Street in 1981.
This week marks the centennial of the closing of Storyville, New Orleans’ famous red light district. The 16-square-block area, bordered by Basin, North Robertson, Iberville and St. Louis streets, was established by city ordinance in 1897. Its goal was to control prostitution by limiting it to a certain area. The ordinance’s sponsor was Alderman Sidney Story, whose name would become forever linked to the district. So-called “Blue Books” advertised the businesses of the district, including madams, prostitutes and club owners who operated there, such as Lulu White, Josie Arlington, Tom Anderson and Willie Piazza. In 1917, as the U.S. entered World War I, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels ordered Storyville closed, calling it a “bad influence” on sailors in New Orleans. On Oct. 9, the City Council passed an ordinance closing the district, effective Nov. 12.
AS WE ENTER THE FINAL WEEK OF THE CITYWIDE ELECTIONS, voters are
getting bombarded by messages from candidates and third-party committees. Hopefully, that will translate into increased voter interest and higher voter turnout. It will not, I suspect, change voters’ overall perception of the mayoral field as less than inspiring. That is not to say the would-be mayors, individually or collectively, can’t or won’t do a good job. As pollster Ron Faucheux put it several weeks ago on these pages, “Nobody hates any of these candidates, and voters don’t love one of them more than the others.” That more than anything explains voters’ political ennui. Faucheux’s citywide poll for WWL-TV and The Advocate
showed LaToya Cantrell and Desiree Charbonnet leading the field with 27 and 26 percent of the vote, respectively, with Michael Bagneris at 19 percent. Faucheux was quick to note that polls are not crystal balls; they are snapshots in time. By Saturday’s primary, a lot could change. Only this much is certain: One of these candidates will be New Orleans’ next mayor. If that doesn’t get voters to focus on the race to succeed Mitch Landrieu, shame on voters. Here’s something else on which voters should focus: Those who may harbor reservations about our next mayor — whoever he or she may be — should really pay attention to the City Council elections. One refrain that has echoed through discussions with and forums among City Council
candidates is the current council’s trust in Landrieu. Give Hizzoner credit for knowing how to sell his initiatives. He mostly had his way with the council, and no one is accusing him of raiding the city treasury. That said, the Aug. 5 flood and ensuing revelations about longstanding problems at the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB) have underscored the notion that the next coun-
cil must be far more assertive than the current body in serving as a check on the mayor’s enormous powers. New Orleans’ City Charter unequivocally establishes a “strong mayor” form of government. It does not, however, render the council subservient or irrelevant. Quite the opposite. The council still controls the purse strings, at budget time and throughout the year. It also has the power
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CLANCY DUBOS to reject some of the mayor’s appointments and contracts and override his or her vetoes. At a minimum, the next council must appropriately question every administration proposal — and do so in a nonpartisan, nonpolitical manner. That’s the council’s job. A recent survey showed that New Orleans voters rated former Mayor Marc Morial as the best among the city’s recent mayors. What that survey did not reflect is the fact that the City Council, led by then-At-Large Councilman Jim Singleton, gave Morial fits during his tenure as mayor. Morial often groused about that at the time, but Singleton and his fellow council members said they were just doing their job. Time has shown that an assertive council not only looked out for the interests of taxpayers, but also helped make Morial a better mayor. Let’s hope the next council does the same for Landrieu’s successor.
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COMMENTARY
October 14, 2017
NEW ORLEANS IS ABOUT TO ELECT ITS FIRST NEW MAYOR IN EIGHT YEARS, along with at least three new City Council members and
two judges. Also on ballots are Orleans Parish School Board millage renewals, a new council member for Jefferson Parish District 4, two transportation millage renewals in Jefferson, a statewide treasurer’s race and three statewide constitutional amendments. Our recommendations are below. (As is our practice, we do not endorse in judicial races, due to a longstanding editorial belief that judges should be appointed rather than elected.) We urge all our readers to vote this Saturday.
STATEWIDE TREASURER
Neil Riser Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (Construction work in progress)
Yes
Constitutional Amendment No. 2 (Surviving spouse homestead exemption)
Yes
Constitutional Amendment No. 3 (New gas tax dedication)
Yes
NEW ORLEANS M AYO R
LaToya Cantrell CO U N C I L AT- L A R G E D I V. 1
Helena Moreno CO U N C I L AT- L A R G E D I V. 2
Jason Williams CO U N C I L D I S T R I C T A
Joe Giarrusso III CO U N C I L D I S T R I C T B
Timothy David Ray CO U N C I L D I S T R I C T C
Kristin Gisleson Palmer CO U N C I L D I S T R I C T D
Jared Brossett CO U N C I L D I S T R I C T E
James Gray S C H O O L B OA R D M I L L AG E R E N E WA L S
Propositions 1, 2 & 3
Yes to all 3
JEFFERSON PARISH CO U N C I L D I S T R I C T 4
Danny Martiny T R A N S P O R TAT I O N M I L L AG E R E N E WA L S
Propositions 1 & 2
Yes to both
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WHAT’S IN STORE
BY JOE KELLY NESTLED NEXT TO WIT’S INN IN MIDCITY FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS, Doson
Noodle House (135 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-309-7283) is one of only a handful of businesses from those days left on that stretch of Carrollton Avenue. Owner and chef Doson Ha opened the restaurant in summer 2005. A week later, the city was struck by Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. “The water was up to about here,” says Ha, holding his hand about 2 feet above a tabletop. He says he couldn’t reopen until the following year, but business has been steady since. Originally from Vietnam, Ha moved to New Orleans as a young man, at one point taking courses at Delgado Community College. “I went to school for drafting,” he laughs. Once he started working at his friend’s Chinese restaurant in 1984, he discovered his true passion was cooking. After spending a couple years helping his friend open a restaurant in Ohio, Ha came back to New Orleans and opened up his own place on Oak Street in 1997. The name: “Chinese Chinese.” “It was a Chinese restaurant,” he says, “but every now and then I would serve Vietnamese food to friends. It turns out that they really liked it.” Soon after, Ha changed the name of the restaurant to Doson Noodle House before moving the whole operation to Carrollton Avenue. Doson Noodle House serves a range of Vietnamese dishes, including the popular pho and a variety of bun — the classic dish of vermicelli noodles served with a choice of grilled meats or tofu and vegetables — in an unfussy, comfortable dining area. The restaurant offers brunch on weekdays and switches to a dinner menu at 4 p.m., with delivery and takeout services in the evenings. There also are a few American Chinese standards such as sweet
Doson Noodle House owner Doson Ha with bestselling menu items, pho and Vietnamese iced coffee. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER
and sour chicken. Ha says these dishes are left over from his old restaurant’s menu. “The love is still there with those items, so why not?” he says. A friendly, accommodating atmosphere is important to Ha and his staff. He says he takes pleasure in meeting his guests and shaking their hands whenever possible. “I’m very pleased with this neighborhood,” he says. “The people come in and smile and enjoy the food. They’re all very nice.” For Ha, it’s as simple as that. “My point of view is that I love what I do and so do the people who come in.” He smiles. “It’s been good.” Ha says he’s looking forward to winter, when customers come in to combat cooler temperatures with hot bowls of pho. “That’s what’s great about pho, everyone loves it,” he says. “I definitely love a big bowl of pho in the morning.”
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THE
Tasche &
9 P.M. OCT. 26 Siberia 9 P.M. NOV. 3 Bar Redux 5:30 P.M. NOV. 10 New Orleans Museum of Art DEC. 1-2 Music Box Village PH OTO BY H U NTE R KI N G
Blatzo Zlato
THE “GOLDEN RECORD” ABOARD NASA’S VOYAGER SPACECRAFT contained
Carl Sagan’s curated selection of images — people eating and drinking, DNA diagrams, animals and plants — plus sounds and music, from Chuck Berry to Bach to Bulgarian singer Valya Mladenova Balkanska’s “Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin.” “This lady is the most important singer of all time in my country,” says Blato Zlato percussionist Boyanna Trayanova, who originally is from Bulgaria. “They are so proud of that song. Everyone knows about it. Everyone knows the whole story. The Voyager happened just before I was born. My whole entire life, it was the most iconic song of all time. … It’s something you don’t even touch.” The band performed the song as part of Biliana and Marina Grozdanova’s documentary series Golden Tracks for El Jinete Films, which follows the stories behind 27 songs included on the Golden Record. The filmmakers showed Balkanska a video of the band’s performance — she gave them a thumbs up. “It’s like if Louis Armstrong told you ‘Hey, you’re pretty good at that trumpet,’” Trayanova says. In December, the band — also featuring accordionist and vocalist Lou Carrig, violinist Ian Cook, bassist Pete Olynciw and vocalists Annalisa Kelly and Ruby Ross — orchestrates “The Discovery of Voyager,” a multimedia performance to celebrate the Golden Record’s 40th anniversary, with Helen Gillet, Rebecca Crenshaw, Carl LeBlanc, Seguenon Kone and Binky Griptite (of Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings). At Music Box Village, the band will transform into an alien orchestra performing its interpretation of the music on the record. The performance accompanies the release of Blato Zlato’s Voyage, featuring its rendition of the song along with an original, “Doncho I Stenata.” Voyage follows the band’s 2017 debut Swamp Gold (Blato Zlato, in English), weaving actual bayou sounds into joyous, meditative rhythms and melodies colliding with dense three-part harmonies. “The source of what’s happening vocally is the polyphonic traditions coming from the Balkans, primarily Bulgaria, and the village-style singing, where there is a lot of dissonance, there is a lot of tension and release. You don’t really get that in Western harmony,” Carrig says. “We’ve been going a little further out there and pushing the limits. … How can I bring in just enough dissonance to give you this visceral experience but not make it sound bad, and then release it, so when that tension releases, it’s much more euphoric.” — ALEX WOODWARD
the Psychedelic Roses
TASCHE DE LA ROCHA EARNED A LIVING AND BUILT A REPUTATION ON FRENCHMEN STREET, finding rhythms and celebratory sadness in her
cloudy, Pacific Northwestern-inspired blues. “You have to go through the struggle first before you find the gold at the end of the rainbow,” she says. Her full-band arrangements on 2017’s Gold Rose wring out ethereal, plaintive blues and shuffling, rough-hewn doo-wop and R&B, all tied together by the singer-songwriter’s unmistakable voice — a barbed, wiry howl she says is “just what came out” when she started singing. “People would relate me to Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith before I really knew who they were, which is bizarre and surreal,” she says. “It took a lot of work to make it what it is now. When I started singing, I had no control over my voice. I was whispering into the microphone. … The voice is such a crazy instrument. There are parts of your voice you don’t know exist until you’re lucky enough to figure it out or someone can nudge you in a direction you can expand more and more. …. You didn’t think singing with your cheekbones could be a thing.” De la Rocha’s voice is supported by silvery, ghostly three-piece harmonies, which “creates a lot of dimension” and “immediately makes everything spookier,” she says. Her recent work is inspired by drone music, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged, Mazzy Star, and Joe Meek’s reverb-soaked pop, filtered through her ear for R&B and soul. “It’s all going to sound like itself — I don’t think it can all fall into a genre,” she says. She also sees her work as something that addresses sexism and is inherently feminist, in part “to prove something to the world as a female — and a person coming from where I’m coming from, it’s common to be doubted — and as a female solo artist,” she says. “A lot of it comes from wanting really badly to share and show you can create something polished if you work hard enough and regardless of your background or sex or whatever,” she says. “There’s also a lot of really talented women musicians out there and I’d like to be among them.” — ALEX WOODWARD
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EACH YEAR, GAMBIT’S ANNUAL MUSIC ISSUE DIVES INTO NEW NEW ORLEANS ARTISTS AND ALBUMS. Inside, find interviews with this year’s class: 13 Dreams, Blato Zlato, Boyish Charm, Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, and Yung Vul.
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MON - THURS 11AM - 9PM•FRI & SAT 11AM - 10PM SUN BRUNCH 9AM - 3PM GUITARIST, VOCALIST AND BANDLEADER DOMINIC MINIX lists Yung Vul’s appellations: Yung Vulnerability,
Bad Brains or Nirvana, and pull from that. But it definitely comes through the songwriting, too.” Yung Vulva, Yung Vulcan, or “Yung Vole, like the roMinix says while NOCCA taught him jazz theory and dent.” His nimble quartet with drummer Michael Scott, conventions and Loyola showed him the business, “I trumpeter Xavier Molina and bassist Nic Lefebvre really learned to play by just taking every gig and playembraces the raw intimacy of hardcore punk to plunge ing with everybody.” into a heady mix of jazz and soul, resistant to genre On his 2016 EP Introducing as the Dominic Minix boundaries while challenging them. The band hosts Quartet, he’s immersed in sweeping jazz instrumentals. the monthly Clashback series, a collaborative music Yung Vul’s 2016 EP Cannonball Adderall assembles a residency at Three Keys at the Ace Hotel in which the singular mix of eerie harmonies, breakneck rhythms, band performs alongside a range of artists, from Saul metal riffs and vaporous, meditative jazz riffs — openWilliams to Nick Hakim and New Orleans electronic ing with the chaotic “Invisible Idiot” and closing with and hip-hop producer AF THE NAYSAYER. the R&B-inspired “Wine and Cookies.” “Just to work with different artists each month “I think everyone has synesthesia,” he says. “I is a great challenge, but it’s also a great way to keep that in mind when I’m thinking about build material and build songs,” he says. “It was the aspects of music and recording, melody, a good training ground.” texture, dynamic. … I know when I want Minix counts among his influences an explosion in the song, I know when artists from Jean-Michel Basquiat to I want the song to float, I know when 9 P.M. OCT. 27 Joan Miro and Kanye West and “musithere needs to be booming — these Clashback at cians who have something to say that are more visual adjectives, and trying Three Keys goes against the grain: Jimi Hendrix, to convey that to the band is Bob Dylan, Christian Scott, Miles Davis.” the challenge.” 2:30 P.M. OCT. 28 In 2016, Minix joined an international Minix sees each show’s arc as having Voodoo Music + Arts tour with Scott, whose genre-averse a beginning, middle and end, a story Experience with Pell visions transcend traditional jazz told in the unique language the band audiences and “influenced my entire developed over five years. generation,” Minix says. “Seeing that it’s possible really “It comes back to telling a story,” he says. “I think one fueled my ambition.” of the reasons people don’t listen to jazz now is because After studying at the New Orleans Center for Crethey don’t know when the story begins or ends. Jazz ative Arts (NOCCA), Minix attended Loyola University becomes institutionalized. We’ve taken a away from New Orleans, where he developed a quartet from a the idea of music by people for people. That informs school project during his freshman year and morphed the language we have. What languages are we using? gradually over five years from jazz and R&B to an Punk rock and jazz. … The beginning of someone’s solo “all-encompassing” multilingual outfit cutting through I might say ‘no drums,’ or then it’s like, ‘balls to the wall, several genres and with “different languages to choose let’s go crazy.’ There’s the unpredictability aspect, where from — hip-hop, punk rock, jazz, whatever,” Minix says. I want guys in the band to feel safe and take risks.” “If I want to take it to this visceral level, I can access — ALEX WOODWARD PAGE 20
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Boyish Charm RYAN ROWLEY ADMITS HE’S A DAVID LYNCH FANBOY. “I like that his movies will sometimes wrap around me in the most uncomfortable way each time I watch them. I’ll sink into the couch and get stuck,” he says. “It’s terrifying in a good way.” That’s also a fitting description for Rowley’s Boyish Charm, his vessel for dark, brooding pop songs, and his soft-focus, jewel-toned performances. “I want it to be sexy and seductive,” he says. “Kind of whiny and bitchy, but at the same time I want it emotional, seductive, lovey-dovey without being smooth. More harsh-seductive.” Rowley grew up in Baton Rouge and studied music business at Loyola University New Orleans before transferring to LSU for advertising, inspired by fashion and art outside music while focusing on his sound and voice — floating around lean guitar lines, rich reverb and plush post-punk atmosphere. “I wanted to create catchy Cure-ish music,” he says. “Catchy, accessible, but also creative and not copy-paste-easy. … But not too serious, because I can’t take anything too serious.” Rowley, who also performs with New Holland, featuring Boyish Charm collaborator Alex Skalany, debuted Boyish Charm in 2016, though early performances were “the most raw I had probably sounded,” Rowley says. “Now I feel more comfortable. I want to create a soft, dreamy presence.” — ALEX WOODWARD
13 Dreams
P H O T O B Y C A I T LY N R I D E N O U R
JUSTIN BATISTE AND JESSE ZENON MET SHORTLY BEFORE THEY ARGUED UNTIL 5 A.M. inside The Club/Ms. Mae’s, some-
P H O T O B Y B OY I S H C H A R M & S O P H I E H U D S O N
complex songs with more nuance, never straying away from pop music or pop sensibilities.” how sparking a relationship that turned The band quietly has composed into electronic R&B duo 13 Dreams. They roughly 70 songs over the last few years, don’t remember what the argument building from Batiste’s percussion samwas about. ples and Zenon’s sweeping synthesizer 13 Dreams’ formal debut, 2016’s Post riffs, later finalized in the studio with Gospel Disco, gathers lush and delicate producer Kirby Campbell (formerly of textures, warm bursts of layered keyGIVERS) and, recently, arranged boards and Seal- and Prince-inwith a full live band. “I think it’s spired vocal arrangements, but important to let things gestate a they admit there’s a sadness while,” Batiste says. “You have lurking throughout. “You can to give everything some feel the sunshine,” Batiste breathing room.” says, “but the deeper you 13 DREAMS Moonset singles “Prior’s get into the record, getting Place” and “Adjacent SpacMoonset into the back half, you can es” fold dreamy harmonies Out this fall feel it getting darker, and into punchy synths and casyou can feel something on cading percussion samples, the horizon, that life wasn’t going to building on the dense, headphones-fillcontinue down that trajectory.” ing pop catalog 13 Dreams prefers to 13 Dreams follows Post Gospel Disco release as a fully realized, overwhelmwith 2017’s upcoming Moonset, which ing vision. Zenon says reflects personal “whiplash” “We’re definitely outliers musically after Post Gospel Disco with “depresshere,” Batiste says. “We’re aware of that. ing-ass songs.” No one has any illusions about trying to “But somehow we ended up with shoehorn a sound likes ours into the New something that’s more poppy than Orleans scene, or where does that stand the last one,” he says. “We tried pushin the scheme of things. We don’t need to ing ourselves a little harder, not just win over everyone. We just need to win sonically. We tried to write a little more over someone.” — ALEX WOODWARD
Pels
WED. NOV. 1 • Davis scores 40+ points, again,
WED. OCT. 18 • The Pelicans’ first game of the season, at Memphis
THU. NOV. 9 • Pelicans play on the road in Toronto
against the Timberwolves
TWEET SEASON FOR THE
Jake Madison @NOLAJake
Derick Hingle
Warning: #FakeNews ahead.
THE 2017 NBA SEASON WILL BE PIVOTAL FOR THE NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — not only because head
coach Alvin Gentry and general manager Dell Demps are on the hot seat, and not only because last season’s surprise trade acquisition, All-Star DeMarcus Cousins, is out of contract at the end of the year. This season is pivotal because, in a league dominated by guards (the Houston Rockets’ James Harden, the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry, the Boston Celtics’ Kyrie Irving) and wings (the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James, the Warriors’ Kevin Durant), the Pelicans are going against the grain and hoping their all-star front court of Cousins and Anthony Davis can carry them to the playoffs. The early returns from last season were not spectacular. The Pelicans were just 11-14 after the trade. But after an offseason spent working out together in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Lexington, Kentucky and New Orleans, Davis and Cousins hope to have much more chemistry on the court. In two former All-Star guards — the recently resigned Jrue Holiday and free agent Rajon Rondo — along with shooting guard Tony Allen, the Pelicans feel they have enough complimentary pieces around their dominant front court. If the season goes well — and the Pelicans avoid injuries that have plagued them for the past two seasons — it will show the NBA that the popular small-ball style of play is not the only way to win. If things go poorly — and the feeling around the league is still skeptical — the Pelicans will have no choice but to move on from Gentry and Demps, and potentially ship a lot of familiar faces out of town. With those kind of stakes, the Pelicans will be a must-watch team this season. Twitter has become the go-to platform for NBA coverage. Highlight reel dunks, jokes and memes alternate alongside deep analytical analysis. Fans eagerly wait for the latest trade rumor and hope they’re looking at their timeline the moment a trade breaks. To help you prepare for the upcoming Pelicans season, here are some definitely fake, and not real at all, tweets you can expect to see this season.
MON. NOV. 13 • Pelicans beat the Atlanta Hawks
MON. DEC. 4 • The New Orleans Saints season
is winding down, and the team is out of playoff contention SAT. OCT. 21 • The day after the Pelicans lose their
home opener to the Golden State Warriors
MON. DEC. 25
TUE. OCT. 24 • Anthony Davis leaves the
game against the Portland Trail Blazers early, in what likely will be the first of many occurrences this season MON. JAN. 8, 2018
THU. OCT. 26 • DeMarcus Cousins plays his first
game back in Sacramento WED. JAN. 17, 2018 • Pelicans lose on the road to
the Atlanta Hawks
TUE. OCT. 31 • As the Pelicans go 4-3
for the season FRI. JAN. 19, 2018
DeMarcus Cousins’ mighty roar.
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FRI. JAN. 26, 2018 • Pelicans
beat Houston in an upset at home
If the Pelicans sneak into the playoffs, you can all thank me for getting in Chris Paul's head last night and winning the game for the team THU. FEB. 1
AYYYYY!!!! Pelicans 6 games over .500! I knew Alvin Gentry was the right coach for this team. Playoffs here we come! TUE. FEB. 6 • Two days before the NBA trade deadline
WHAT DO THE EYES MEAN? FAM TELL ME WHO WE ARE TRADING FOR?????
You'd have to figure the Pelicans are looking to move this year's first round pick for a player who can get them into the playoffs
Free Anthony Davis from basketball purgatory in New Orleans. Trade him to the Celtics. Let's make this happen! THU. FEB. 8 • Krewe of Muses
Thursday
Just because the Pelicans don’t play on Muses Thursday does not mean I’m not lurking somewhere…but I’m harmless…because I am a baby…
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SAT. FEB. 10 • Pelicans lose a stunning game on the road to the New Jersey Nets WED. APR. 4 • Memphis Grizzles
at New Orleans Pelicans
SUN. FEB. 18 • All-Star Game THU. APR. 12 • Day after end of regular season
FRI. MAR. 16
DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis exchange high-fives.
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Sbisa supports Cajun Airlift
THROUGH OCTOBER, French Quarter restaurant Cafe Sbisa (1011 Decatur St., 504-522-5565; www. cafesbisanola.com) is donating all proceeds after costs to Hurricane Maria recovery efforts. The Decatur Street restaurant announced the donation in a statement last week, which said the proceeds will be donated to Cajun Airlift (www.facebook.com/cajunairlift), an organization comprised of local and out-of-state pilots who are transporting and delivering supplies to victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Bearcat Cafe is a casual spot off Freret Street BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund DO YOU WANT TO BE GOOD OR DO YOU WANT TO BE BAD?
That’s the question folks dining at Bearcat Cafe should be ready to ask themselves. For the good and bad, news of the new cafe tucked off the Freret corridor on Jena Street sure traveled fast. The dining room, with its long counter bar overlooking an open kitchen, is bright and spacious, outfitted with modern accents and potted plants. Tables are adorned with mason jars of sprouting grass — which would come off as precious if they weren’t so damn cute. In some ways, the choice to be good has already been made. Gluten-free, paleo and vegan options abound. For drinks, there’s house-bottled chai and kombucha. There’s brew from Equator Coffees & Teas, the San Francisco-based third-wave coffee company which supports sustainable farming practices and provides microloans to farming communities. And a few of the “Bad Cat” items have a healthyish ring to them: chicken with farro, oyster mushrooms, carrots and pan sauce, for example. Beyond that, there’s a striking dichotomy between the dishes that fall into the menu’s “Good Cat” and “Bad Cat” zones. A towering vegan breakfast sandwich (Good), though difficult to eat, felt downright wholesome slathered with garlicky pesto and stuffed with roasted oyster mushrooms, tomatoes and smoky Vidalia onions. The
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2521 Jena St., (504) 309-9011; www.bearcatcafe.com
vegan quesadilla (Good) made me reconsider tofu as acceptable breakfast fare for the first time since the late ’90s. Still traumatized by the dry and flavorless tofu scrambles of my college years, I was apprehensive at first, but the crispy herb-flecked tortilla filled with creamy tofu “eggs,” caramelized onions, avocado and a cashew queso fresco is a delight. For the Bad breakfast options, a bowl filled with creamy stoneground grits and juicy Gulf shrimp arrived swimming in a buttery, New Orleans-style barbecue sauce. Not that it needed more carbohydrates, but the dish was topped with two giant slices of grilled bread. The best thing I ate here fell, not surprisingly, into the Bad zone. A spicy fried chicken thigh featured a crunchy crust that gave way to delicious dark meat. The chicken is topped with bread and butter pickles and pimiento cheese on a seeded bun. There are dishes that seem to fall somewhere between good and evil,
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vegan quesadilla, hot chicken sandwich
Diners eat breakfast at Bearcat Cafe in Uptown. P H OTO B Y C H E R Y L G E R B E R
and are listed as “smalls.” A plate of golden-fried crab and eggplant croquettas is served with a tangy piri piri pepper sauce, and a refreshing dish of fresh ricotta includes nutty arugula and a medley of cherry tomatoes, almonds and cherries. Neither good nor quite bad, service still appears to be a work in progress. On weekends, there is often a line out the door and getting seated — and served — can take longer than it should. It’s a small ding for an otherwise welcome addition to the Freret dining scene. As for the food, I always want to be good when heading to Bearcat Cafe, but being bad is much more fun. Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com
WHAT DOESN’T
weekend service is uneven
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Uptown breakfast and lunch spot offers diners options to be good or bad
The organization was formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, when more than 50 pilots delivered 25,000 pounds of supplies to communities in Texas devastated by the floodwaters from the storm. Other area nonprofits working with Cajun Airlift include The Baton Rouge Emergency Aid Coalition (www.breac225.org), Medical Disaster Response Network and others. The donation comes at the oneyear anniversary mark for Cafe Sbisa, which reopened in October 2016. The restaurant closed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures and struggled to reopen. “As I continue to watch what the victims of Hurricane Maria are going through, I’m immediately brought back to the days and weeks following (Hurricane) Katrina,” said executive chef and co-owner Alfred Singleton. “Our city was virtually destroyed — particularly the Lower Ninth Ward, the area I grew up in — but we were PAGE 27
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In 2015, NOLA.com reported that the Louisiana State Museum, which owns the building the restaurant occupies, would possibly force its tenant out after its 15-year lease expires in February 2018. Owner Irene DiPietro opened the Creole-Italian restaurant in 1993 with Tommy Andrade, who went on to open Tommy’s Cuisine in the Warehouse District in 2003. — HELEN FREUND
Irene’s Cuisine (539 St. Philip St., 504-529-8811) will move to a new home early next year, the restaurant announced this week. The Creole-Italian eatery will move seven blocks from its longtime home on St. Philip Street. The restaurant’s new home, at 529 Bienville St., likely will open “in early 2018,” according to a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page.
OF WINE THE WEEK
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BY BRENDA MAITLAND
2013 Los Morros Merlot Central Valley, Chile Retail $14
Brunch pizza LOCAL PIZZA CHAIN REGINELLI’S
(www.reginellis.com) will serve brunch on Saturdays and Sundays at some locations beginning Oct. 14. The Italian-inspired brunch menu includes breakfast pizzas, fritattas baked in skillets and a ciabatta toast, similar to French toast, served with fruit. The Eggin’ Megan sandwich combines scrambled eggs, ham, prosciutto, tomatoes and mozzarella on ciabatta bread. Bottomless bloody marys and mimosas are available. Darryl Reginelli opened the first Reginelli’s pizza restaurant in Uptown in 1996. Most of the restaurants’ 10 locations are in the New Orleans area, and there is one in Baton Rouge and one in Houston. — WILL COVIELLO
CHILE’S CENTRAL VALLEY is one of the largest wine
regions in South America, though the wine industry is concentrated in 150 miles of its much larger expanse. The area includes the renowned grape growing appellations of Maipo Valley (near the capitol, Santiago), Colchagua Valley and Maule Valley, among others. This is red wine country, with large tracts devoted to cabernet sauvignon, merlot, syrah and Chile’s iconic grape, transplanted from France’s Bordeaux region, carmenere. This Los Morros wine is 100 percent merlot. The hills at the foot of the Andes mountains provide excellent drainage and good sunlight for the vines. Winemaker Miguel Besoain honed his style by working in vineyards across France and elsewhere in Europe and takes a playful approach without straying from the typicity of the varietals in his wines. Typical of merlot, the wine has flavors of black plum, raspberry, dark cherry, spice and smooth tannins. Aerate 15 minutes before serving. Drink it with baked herbed chicken, duck confit and grilled and roasted meats. Buy it at: Pearl Wine Co. and Grande Krewe Fine Wine & Spirits. Drink it at: Nacho Mama’s.
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fortunate enough to have other caring communities to lean on and that helped us get back on our feet. Now it’s my turn to help others and this is the best way I know how.” Singleton, who worked at the restaurant prior to Katrina, reopened the restaurant with coowner Craig Napoli last year. “The generosity of Cafe Sbisa comes at a crucial time where people, everyday essentials and most importantly, medical supplies and personnel, need to be transported to Puerto Rico and even more importantly, within Puerto Rico,” said Chanse Watson, co-founder of Cajun Airlift. “Funding will help to cover fuel and other aircraft expenses so our pilots are able to continue donating their time and efforts to those struggling in the most devastated areas.” Cafe Sbisa serves dinner Wednesday through Sunday and brunch on Sunday. — HELEN FREUND
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Nick Middleton CHEF NICK MIDDLETON STARTED RUNNING a Ca-
jun-themed pop-up outside of his Austin, Texas home last year. But Middleton grew up cooking Mexican food with his mother, and he changed course to create his Mexican-themed pop-up Grita Tacos (www.gritatacos.com), which operates in Austin and New Orleans. Middleton spoke with Gambit about Mexican food.
: How did you get into cooking Mexican food? MIDDLETON: We’re originally from Brownsville, Texas. It’s in the south, a border town. I moved to New Orleans and went to Loyola (University) pre-(Hurricane) Katrina and when the storm hit, I ended up moving to Texas for a bit. I ended up back in Austin and started running a few pop-ups, but the dream was always to get back to New Orleans. I’m Hispanic, so I’ve been making Mexican food with my mom forever. We didn’t really think of it as Mexican food. That was just what we ate. Everyone eats breakfast tacos everyday. Everyone cooks barbacoa on the weekends. My father has Louisiana heritage, so we always made a lot of gumbo, and when I got back (to Texas), I started running a Cajun pop-up out of my front yard. I was homesick for New Orleans, so for art exhibits and stuff like that I’d make a huge batch of gumbo and sell it there. At nighttime, I would make this big family meal for all the volunteers and everyone that helped out. ... I’d make moles and enchiladas and tomatillo salsas, and that ended up being as popular, if not more, as the pop-up. So I figured we were onto something.
: How do you split time between Austin and New Orleans? M: There’s a lot of driving, and it takes a really understanding partner. You kind of give up sleep. It’s really half and half — the best of both worlds. The best thing has been (working with) brew partners. When I got back to New Orleans, I started talking to the folks over at Parleaux (Beer Lab), and I’ve done events at Courtyard (Brewery) and Wayward Owl (Brewing Co.). When I’m in Austin, I do a few events at breweries there. Our next event is at Way-
ward Owl (on Friday Oct. 13). We probably do about three events in New Orleans every month. My signature dish is probably a mole. I’ve been making it since I was a kid. I really love changing people’s opinions of mole. There’s this notion of what mole should taste like: a lot of deep chocolate or something super sweet. The chocolate is really just there to balance out the all the chilies and the spice. It’s a complementary thing; it’s not the lead flavor. It’s there to support the other flavors, like the roasted pumpkin seeds and chilies. My mole has 17 ingredients — kind of intense for a pop-up, since it takes about six hours.
: How does Mexican food differ from Austin to New Orleans? M: New Orleans allows me to experiment a little bit more, so it’s really a lot of fun because I can come in with wild ceviches and stuff like that. In Austin, people have a different standard for Mexican food. In New Orleans, Mexican food is underrepresented. In New Orleans, you get a lot of standard (Mexican) dishes. But one of the things that New Orleans is moving toward is food that has more of a street-food feel. (As a child) we’d cross the border once a week with my parents, and that’s all you eat. You don’t go to fancy restaurants. You don’t go to middle-of-the-road restaurants. You’re eating from a guy that is at a stand making his own sauces, and has his wife and kids cooking with him. That’s the real food; that’s what’s really good and underrepresented. I think Mexican food is moving toward more high-end dishes. ... I hope it will help alter people’s perception of what Mexican food is. — HELEN FREUND
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Paradigm Gardens Concert Series 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday Paradigm Gardens, 1131 S. Rampart St., (504) 344-9474 www.paradigmgardensnola.com The Maggie Bell Band performs and there’s food by chefs from Coquette, Ancora Pizzeria & Salumeria, Maypop and Coutelier NOLA. Two Girls One Shuck serves oysters. Courtyard Brewery provides beer and there are Cathead Vodka cocktails. Tickets $60 plus $4.29 fee.
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Andouille Festival 6 p.m.-midnight Friday; 11 a.m.-midnight Saturday; 1 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday St. John Community Center, 2900 Highway 51, LaPlace, (985) 652-9569 www.andouillefestival.com Andouille is the focus of a gumbo cookoff, a sausage-eating contest and many dishes from food vendors. The music lineup includes Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Dwayne Dopsie and The Zydeco Hellraisers, The Chee-Weez, Catch 22, DJ Captain Charles and others. There’s also a second line parade with Mardi Gras Indians, a pageant, a kids’ tent, craft vendors and more. Admission $3, $1 for children ages 3 to 12.
OCTOBER 14
Chocolate-Covered Insect Day 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, 425 Canal St., (504) 524-2847 www.audubonsintitute.org/chocolate-covered-insect-day The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium’s Bug Appetit cafe serves treats including “chocolate chirp” cookies, tarsal toffee and campfire fudge and there’s a chocolate fountain. The menu includes grasshoppers, wax worms and more. Free with regular museum admission: $22.95 adults, $19.95 seniors, $17.95 children.
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3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997 www.joeyksrestaurant.com An eggplant Napoleon includes breaded and fried eggplant medallions stacked with fried shrimp and crawfish cream sauce.
3637 Magazine St., (504) 895-1636 www.liletterestaurant.com Fried eggplant and zucchini chips are served with tzatziki. Tulane University Hillel, 912 Broadway St., (504) 232-0758 www.rimontulanehillel.com A Moroccan eggplant sandwich is dressed with roasted pepper and walnut spread, caramelized onions and greens on foccacia.
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Tal’s Hummus
625 Chartres St., (504) 265-8123 www.sylvainnola.com Panko-breaded fried eggplant is served with burrata, tomatoes, mint and a lemon-honey vinaigrette. 4800 Magazine St., (504) 267-7357 www.ordertalsonline.com The pita sabich is filled with fried eggplant, hard-boiled egg, tahini, fries, mango chutney and pickles.
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Contact Will Coviello willc@gambitweekly.com 504.483.3106 | FAX: 866.473.7199 C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S T O F N E WO R L E A N S .C O M Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.
AMERICAN Vista Buffet — Treasure Chest Casino, 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$
BAR & GRILL Queenies on St. Claude — 3200 St. Claude Ave., (504) 558-4085; www. facebook.com/queeniesonstclaude — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
BARBECUE Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
BURGERS Bayou Burger & Sports Company — 503 Bourbon St., (504) 529-4256; 3226 Magazine St., (504) 224-6024; www.bayouburger.com — No reservations. Bourbon Street: Lunch. dinner and late-night daily. Magazine Street: lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. Credit cards. $
CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe Gentilly — 5339 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.thecafegentilly.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Cash only. $
reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pierre Maspero’s — 440 Chartres St., (504) 524-8990; www.originalpierremasperos.com — No reservations. Breakfast Fri.-Mon., lunch and dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., , (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$
CHINESE August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
COFFEE/DESSERT
Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/ cafeluna504 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $
Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $
Cafe Maspero — 601 Decatur St., (504) 523-6520; www.cafemaspero. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
CONTEMPORARY
Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Chartres House — 601 Chartres St., (504) 586-8393; www.chartreshouse. com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Green to Go — 400 Poydras St., Suite 130; 2633 Napoleon Ave.; (504) 460-3160; www.greentogonola.com — No reservationas. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No
Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Boulevard American Bistro — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 889-2301; www.boulevardbistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., early dinner Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Reservations accepted. Brunch and early dinner Thu.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$
CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$
Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$
Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
DELI Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
JAPANESE
Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Bombay Club — Prince Conti Hotel, 830 Conti St., (504) 577-2237; www. bombayclubneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 5813866; www.broussards.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$
Dick & Jenny’s (4501 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-894-9880; www. dickandjennys.com) serves Gulf shrimp in New Orleans-style barbecue sauce over goat cheese grits with garlic bread. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER
Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; Www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 592-0223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Fri. Credit cards. $
INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 —
Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 509 Canal St., (504) 323-2109; www.creolehouserestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
ITALIAN
Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$
Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$
Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$
Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$
Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 5985005; www.kingfishneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$
Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville
OUT TO EAT St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner Sun.-Thu. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; 800 S. Peters St., (504) 3098864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; 5538 Magazine St.; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Noreservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ La Casita Taqueria — 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Delivery available
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Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$
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Tuesday to Friday. No reservations. Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
PERUVIAN Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards.$$
PIZZA G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards.$
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Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; Www.jackdempseys.net — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House — 301 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 872-9975; 512 Bienville St., (504) 309-4848; 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; 3117 21st Street, Metairie (504) 833-6310; www. mredsrestaurants.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno. com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Pier 424 Seafood Market — 424 Bourbon St., (504) 309-1574; www.pier424seafoodmarket.com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$
Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www. lpkfrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$
Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $
Royal House Oyster Bar — 441 Royal St., (504) 528-2601; www.royalhouserestaurant.com — No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$
Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $
THURS - MON | 4 - 7PM $6 DRINKS + SNACKS
Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$
Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
THURS - MON | 10AM - 4PM BOTTOMLESS MIMOSAS
Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $
Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
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SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $
STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ The Steak Knife Restaurant & Bar — 888 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-8981; www.steakkniferestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$
VIETNAMESE Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $
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21st Amendment — Prohibition All-Stars, 7:30
Algiers Ferry Landing — Wednesdays on the Point feat. Johnny Sansone, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat. Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 6:30; Sunshine Brass Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 BMC — Sierra Green & Soul Machine, 5; Mignano, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Shynola Jazz Band, 8 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Castillo Blanco — The Babe Rainbow, Maybird, 8 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Ivor Simpson-Kennedy, 5:30; Russell Welch Gypsy Jazz Jam, 8; WWD40 feat. Charlie Wooton, Jermal Watson, Mike Doussan, 10 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — (Sandy) Alex G, Hovvdy, Crumb, 8:30 House of Blues — LeCrae, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Backup Planet, 9 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — The Jordan Anderson Band, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Will Smith, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole String Beans, 8 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 The Sandbar at UNO — Germaine Bazzle, 7 Siberia — DJs Matt Scott and Otto, 9 SideBar — The Zen Beats feat. Reggie Scanlan, 9 Slidell Library — Vive la Quintet, 6 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10
Bamboula’s — Jan Marie, 3; Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band, 6:30; Dana & the Boneshakers, 6:30 Banks Street Bar — Ricky T & the Robots, 9 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Ainsley Matich & the Broken Blues, 11 Bourbon O Bar — Marty Peters Quartet, 8 Cafe Negril — 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Chip Wilson, 5:30; Jon Cleary, 8; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 10 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; The Whiffs, The Rubs, 10 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Nick Hakim, Sam Evian, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Jasen Weaver’s The Outlier, Michael Watson’s The Alchemy, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard “Piano” Scott, noon Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree, 9 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Mudlark Public Theatre — Rob Cambre, Luke Brechtelsbauer, Will Thompson, Mike Mito, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Mikiko, Alex Bosworth, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 One Eyed Jacks — Parker Millsap, Devon Gilfillian, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Will Smith, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Queenie’s — Jackson Square All-Stars, 6:30 Ray’s — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 Republic New Orleans — Whethan, Bearson, Opia, 10 Santos Bar — Levitation Room, 8 SideBar — Kirk Duplantis, Chris Alford, Quinn Sternberg, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10
THURSDAY 12 Bamboula’s — Kala Chandra, 3; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJ Mange, 9
PREVIEW
Wadada Leo Smith
THERE IS NO OVERSTATING the grasp-matching-reach achievement • Oct. 14 that is Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten • 8 p.m. Saturday Freedom Summers. Issued in 2012 by Cuneiform Records after 34 years of • Loyola University, workshopping and woodshedding, the Louis J. Roussel Performance trumpeter and composer’s definitive collection — a finalist for the 2013 Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., Pulitzer Prize in Music and one of the (504) 865-2074; most ambitious and celebrated releases of the new millennium — earns the term www.newquorum.org “album” better than any before it: four decades-spanning branches, each a family of gestated suites that exceed an hour in length and an average jazz LP’s depth and breadth, the unpardonable and irreparable first half of a lifetime brought to its knees by an interpretive retrospective that took most of that life’s second half to articulate and fully realize. Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi, in 1941. He was five months younger than Emmett Till and an hour car ride away when the 14-year-old was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Utilizing free jazz and symphony, meditation and catharsis, Ten Freedom Summers tells the incomplete story of the struggle for American civil rights, an infuriating hopscotch of tragedies and victories from “Dred Scott: 1857” to “Thurgood Marshall and Brown vs. Board of Education: A Dream of Equal Education, 1954”; from “Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless” in 1955 to “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Memphis, the Prophecy” in 1968. As a kind of demonstration of its colossal gauntlet, fans wishing to experience the entire piece in person will have to road-trip with Smith. This southern United States premiere encompasses four cities in four days: Austin, Texas, gets the first collection on Thursday; Houston, the second on Friday; Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a mixed ensemble on Sunday. New Orleans receives part three, a love-lifted microcosm of the movement that tracks backward from a celebration of 1961’s Freedom Riders and the eternal spirit of Medgar Evers to the “Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957,” the black students whose attendance at Arkansas’ Little Rock Central High School ratified Brown v. Board of Education from theory into practice — five of whom were born the same year as Smith. Tickets $20 (students $15). — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS
Bar Redux — Domenic Fusca, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Bayou International Reggae Night feat. Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Joy Owens Band, 5; Wonderland, 8; Burris, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Luneta Jazz Band, 8
Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Sarah Quintana & the Miss River Band, 8 Church of the King — Kari Jobe, 7 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; William Matheny & the Strange Constellations, 10 Covington Trailhead — The Yat Pack, 5
Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6
d.b.a. — Alexis & the Samurai, 7; The Iguanas, 10
Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30
Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Carl Leblanc Trio, 9:30
Castle Theatre — Linda Wright, Reggie Smith, 8 Check Point Charlie — Gino’s Fanelli, 8
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FRIDAY 13 21st Amendment — Juju Child Blues Band, 9:30 The AllWays Lounge & Theater — Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; Crawdaddy T’s Cajun Zydeco Review, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Samantha Pearl & Adam Everett, 8:30 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Tom Leggett Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m. BMC — Lifesavers, 3; Slow Rollerz Brass Band, 6; Hyperphlyy, 9; LC Smoove, midnight Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Check Point Charlie — The Hubcap Kings, 8; The Pallbearers, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, 9 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Classy Country Combo, 6 d.b.a. — Tuba Skinny, 6; Happy Talk Band, Esther Rose, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Zoe K & Friends, 7; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10
Gasa Gasa — Volume Overload!, Radialhead, 8 House of Blues — Breaking Benjamin (acoustic), 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Atlas Road Crew, 10 Joy Theater — Run the Jewels, Denzel Curry, Cuz Lightyear, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Steve DeTroy, 7 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Music Box Village — Peaches, 6:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jano Brindisi, Marilyn Duncan, John Parker, 8 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Steve Mignano, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Soulful Takeover with DJ Soul Sister, 9 The Orpheum Theater — In This Moment, Of Mice and Men, Avatar, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 5 & 6; The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Topcats, 9:30 Santos Bar — Cretus, Space Metal, Riffer Madness, 8 Siberia — Little Freddie King, 10 SideBar — Mike Dillon’s Punk Rock Percussion Consortium, 10 Southport Hall — Puddle of Mudd, Akadia, Remedy, 8 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Monty Banks, 3; Russell Welch’s Mississippi Gipsy Jazz, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Three Muses — Messy Cookers, 5:30; Doro Wat Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — Songhoy Blues, 10 Twist of Lime — The Tomb of Nick Cage, People on the Side, Breach, Jak Locke, 8:30 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 3 Voodoo Lounge — Mystery Mix Tape with DJ JD (WHIV-FM benefit), 10 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Mark Monistere, 5
SATURDAY 14 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 9:30 The AllWays Lounge & Theater — Thibault, 10 Bamboula’s — G & the Swinging Three, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7; Marigny Street Brass Band, 11:30 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Sonic Bloom, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — St. Roch Syncopators (album release) feat. N’awlins Johnnys, New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m. BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; Crooked Vines, 9; Funk It All, midnight Bourbon O Bar — Marty Peters & the Party Meters, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Carolyn Broussard, Gentilly Lace, 6; The Royal and Dumaine Hawaiians, 9 Cafe Istanbul — Chad B, DJ Jus, Arsonal, 10 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Casa Borrega — Co & Co, 8 Check Point Charlie — Kenny Triche
MUSIC Band, 8; J Monque’D Blues Band, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Buenos Diaz, 9 Circle Bar — The Penny Arcade, Particle Devotion, Renshaw Davies, 10 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 7; Cedric Burnside Project, R.L. Boyce, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Betty Shirley Band, 10 Gasa Gasa — Cosmicana feat. T. Morris Hardy & the Hard Knocks, Motel Radio, Ghost Kill Choir, Coyotes, Deltaphonic, Cooties, 7 Hi-Ho Lounge — Pink Room Project, 11 House of Blues — Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Polyphia, Toothgrinder, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Eleanor Tallie, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Sam Kuslan, 5; Ricardo Pascal’s New Orleans Wildlife Band, 8 Joy Theater — The Growlers, The Texas Gentlemen, 8 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — The Key Sound, 4 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — The Shiz, 7; Zac Craven, 9 Oak — Keith Burnstein, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Revival, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Alvvays, Nap Eyes, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10; Mia X & the Pinettes Brass Band, 11:30 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Steve Mignano, 10 Republic New Orleans — Flosstradamus, 10 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — Lucas Davenport, 6; Hyperphlyy, 10 Riccobono’s Peppermill — Miss Claudia & Her Bier Gartners, 6:30 Rock ’n’ Bowl — John “Papa” Gros Band, Soul Rebels, 9:30 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Amanda Ducorbier, 9 Santos Bar — Sheer Mag, Mujeres Podrisas, Casual Burn, 8 Siberia — Alex McMurray, 6; Mike Dillon, High, BENNI, 10 SideBar — Majid Araim, Maxwell Boecker, Joey van Leeuwen, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Phillip Manuel Ensemble, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Up Up We Go, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5 Tipitina’s — Interstellar Boys, Big Chief Juan Pardo & Golden Comanches, 9 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Sam Kuslan, 5 PAGE 40
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Hi-Ho Lounge — Com Truise, Nosaj Thing, 9 House of Blues — KMFDM, ohGr, Lord of the Lost, 8:30 House of Blues (The Parish) — New Year’s Day, Wild Fire, Twinspan, 8 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 The Maison — The Good for Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Mardi Gras World — Glass Animals, RUFUS DU SOL, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — D.W., No True Scotsman, 8 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Cedric Burnside, 6 One Eyed Jacks — Greta Van Fleet, Welles, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin & Clive Wilson, Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Will Smith, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Louis Ford, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners, 8:30 Santos Bar — Walrus, Carinae, 8 Siberia — Eastern Bloc Party feat. Salt Wives, 9 SideBar — Pink Lion feat. Tristan Gianola, Nora Jane Messerich, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — Homegrown Night feat. Black Laurel, Ruby & the Rogues, Fighting for Frequency, 8:30 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10
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SUNDAY 15 21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Redux — Xandra Wong, Dusky Waters, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Ruth Marie’s Jazz Band, 7; Quattrosonic, 10 Bourbon O Bar — G & the New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — VL & Just Right Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Johnny Sansone Band, 8:30 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Friends, 6; Happy Abandon, Cosma Dog, 10 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Egg Yolk Jubilee, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Michael Mason Band, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Oak House, Easter Island, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (30th anniversary), 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — Cindy Van Duyne, The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 7
The Maison — Roderick Paulin, 4; Higher Heights, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Cha Wa, 10 Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30; Romy Vargas & the Mercy Buckets, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Peelander-Z, 8 The Orpheum Theater — Herbie Hancock, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Mark Braud & Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Will Smith, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Santos Bar — Yawning Man, We Are the Asteroid, 8 Siberia — Kelcy Mae, 8 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Kristina Morales & the Inner Wild, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 UNO Lakefront Arena — Justin Moore
Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7; Motown Monday with DJ Shane Love, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Funk Monkey, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Audiodope with DJ Ill Medina, 11 Gasa Gasa — Dance with the Dead, Gost, 8 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Tai Shan, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Cypress Knee, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 6 SideBar — Trapper Keeper, Nick Benoit, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10
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21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 7:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell, 9 Banks Street Bar — Chris Dibenedetto’s Piano Showcase, 7 Blue Nile — Jeff Chaz, 7; Brass-A-Holics, 10 BMC — Two Way Street, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 8; TUBAD & the Kings of NOLA, 10 Bourbon O Bar — Shake It Break It Band, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Rose Cangelosi & Fantasy Nonfiction, 8
Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s “Organ & Labyrinth” performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock by candlelight. Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday. A Gala Concert. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www. trinitynola.com — The concert features the New Orleans Black Chorale, St. Augustine Soulful Voices, Valerie Francis & the Patriotic Project Youth Chorus, Albinas Prizgintas, sopranos Joy Meade and Maria Thomas and others. Free. 5 p.m. Sunday. Halloween Spooktacular. Loyola Univer-
sity New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074 — The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra gives its annual family-friendly Halloween concert. Tickets $15, free for kids ages 15 and younger. 4 p.m. Sunday. Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, 220 E. Thomas St., Hammond, (985) 543-4371 — For its “Evening at the Cinema” program, the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s suite from Swan Lake, works from Fiddler on the Roof and selections from Verdi, Strauss, Beethoven and others. Tickets $20-$37. 7:30 p.m. Friday. The same program is performed at Our Lady of Lourdes (400 Westchester Blvd., Slidell) at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Music Under the Oaks. Newman Bandstand, Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St. — The outdoor concert series features a performance by New Orleans Concert Band. Free. 5 p.m. Sunday. Ten Freedom Summers. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno. edu — New Quorum, Golden Quartet and RedKoral Quartet present the work by Wadada Leo Smith inspired by the civil rights movement. Tickets $20, students $15. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Saturday.
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FILM FESTIVALS New Orleans Film Festival. Citywide — More than 200 films are screened during the festival. There also are panel discussions, receptions, parties, one-onone mentoring sessions and celebrity guests. Visit www.neworleansfilmfestival. org for details. Wednesday-Monday.
OPENING THIS WEEKEND The Foreigner (R) — A London businessman (Jackie Chan) breaks bad when his daughter is killed in a terrorist attack. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell Marshall (PG-13) — Chadwick Boseman portrays Thurgood Marshall as a young NAACP lawyer trying a high-profile sexual assault case. Elmwood, West Bank The Nile Hilton Incident — In Cairo, a corrupt cop uncovers a murder’s connection to Parliament. Zeitgeist
NOW SHOWING American Assassin (R) — A Cold War veteran and a vengeful young man try to foil a world war. Slidell, Regal American Made (R) — Tom Cruise tries to win us back in this trueish story about a pilot recruited into CIA cartel ops. Clearview, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Battle of the Sexes (PG-13) — Tennis players (Steve Carell, Emma Stone) face off in a famous match/media circus. Broad, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Blade Runner 2049 (R) — The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s cyperpunky thriller features Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Cinebarre Earth: One Amazing Day (G) — The documentary showcases nature’s beauty, in HD. Elmwood Flatliners (PG-13) — This is a remake of the ’90s creepshow about med students playing around with near-death experiences. Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Happy Death Day (PG-13) — Like Groundhog Day, if Groundhog Day had been a slasher film. Elmwood, Slidell Home Again (PG-13) — Three dudes move in with single mom Reese Witherspoon. Slidell, Regal It (R) — A new adaption of the Stephen King book that sparked a nation’s fear of clowns. Clearview, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Kingsman: The Golden Circle (R) — The star-studded spy comedy follows 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. Clearview, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre
The LEGO NINJAGO Movie (PG) — Plastic figurines experiment with martial arts. Clearview, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal The Mountain Between Us (PG-13) — Kate Winslet is opposite Idris Elba in a survivalist drama about a plane crash. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre My Little Pony: The Movie (PG) — Round up your bronies for this animated musical based on the children’s show. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal A Question of Faith (PG) — Car crashes cause strangers’ lives to intersect. Slidell, Regal The Stray (PG) — Broken relationships are mended through the healing power of a dog. West Bank Stronger (R) — Jakes Gyllenhaal stars as Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing. Elmwood ’Til Death Do Us Part (PG-13) — A woman tries to escape her abusive partner in this thriller. West Bank, Cinebarre Victoria & Abdul (PG-13) — An Indian man and Queen Victoria hit it off on the eve of her Jubilee. Elmwood, Cinebarre Wild Ocean 3-D — The ecology documentary explores marine life off the South African coast. Entergy Giant Screen
SPECIAL SCREENINGS 3 Dead Trick or Treaters — The Canadian indie horror chronicles Halloween superstitions and traditions. 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Zeitgeist 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain — A snowboarding bro (Josh Hartnett) gets trapped on a mountain and maybe finds God. 7 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood American Masters: This Is Bob Hope — The documentary profiles the popular 20th-century entertainer. 6 p.m. Thursday. National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion Brave (PG) — A headstrong princess tosses arrows, and her curls. 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday-Monday. Elmwood Demons — In the Dario Argento (Suspiria) film, some people go see a movie, only to find they share the theater with demons. 4:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Chalmette Double Indemnity — A weak-willed man is convinced by a woman to kill her husband for the insurance money. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — The documentary explores the stacks at the New York Public Library. 6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Friday the 13th (R) — Just in time for the relevant date. 10 p.m. Friday. Prytania Ganja & Hess — The avant-garde horror movie touches on race, class and vampir-
ism. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Burgundy Picture House Halloween and Halloween II (R) — Michael Myers stops by, repeatedly. 9 p.m. Wednesday. Bar Redux Halloween Movie Marathon — Kids’ (3 p.m.) and adult (7 p.m.) Halloween movies are screened. 3 p.m. Saturday. Backyard Ballroom (3519 St. Claude Ave.) Legend of Tarzan (PG-13) — Shirtless Alexander Skarsgard stars in this reimagined Tarzan film. 7 p.m. Friday. Digby Park The Metropolitan Opera: Die Zauberflöte — The opera is better known as The Magic Flute. 11:55 a.m. Saturday. Elmwood, Regal The Metropolitan Opera: Norma Encore — Bellini’s opera is set in Gaul during the Roman occupation. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood O Brother, Where Art Thou? (PG-13) — The Coen brothers’ movie about cons on the run loosely adapts The Odyssey. 7 p.m. Friday. New Orleans Museum of Art The Princess and the Frog (G) — Disney’s animated fairy tale is set in New Orleans. 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. TuesdayThursday. Elmwood The Princess Bride (PG) — The oft-quoted fairy tale send-up is screened. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal. The movie also screens at Slidell Library (555 Robert Blvd., Slidell). 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) — An engaged couple forgets to leave a trail of breadcrumbs when they find a strange mansion in the woods. 10 p.m. FridaySaturday. Elmwood RWBY Volume 5 Premiere — New chapters of the anime future-fantasy series premiere. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood Samurai Jack — A time-traveling samurai battles a host of enemies. 7 p.m. Monday. Elmwood Scream and Scream Again — Christopher Lee is a British intelligence head chasing a serial killer. 8 p.m. Saturday. Bar Redux Steve McQueen: American Icon — The documentary features interviews with stuntmen and McQueen’s biographer. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal Tokyo Ghoul — Based on the dark manga (it sounds like True Blood, but with zombies). 7 p.m. Monday. Elmwood Torn Curtain (PG) — Paul Newman is a U.S. double agent searching for Soviet secrets. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania White Zombie — Bela Lugosi is the shuffler master in this 1932 film, which is said to be the first zombie movie. 10 p.m. Sunday. Prytania
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Blade Runner 2049
THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINDS of • Directed by Denis Villeneuve science fiction movies: those made before Blade Runner and the ones • Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford that came after. That is a measure of and Ana de Armas how high Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece raised the bar for sci-fi on film. • Wide release Though classics of the genre abound, © 2017 WARNER BROS. none equals Blade Runner for its fully realized depiction of our potentially dystopian future. For 35 years, sci-fi films of every type have been saddled with the thankless task of trying to surpass it. The real secret to Blade Runner’s artistic success is that it’s far from limited by the trappings and traditions of sci-fi. Scott’s film is equally rooted in hard-boiled detective fiction as first imagined in the literature of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and other writers in the 1930s, and later brought to the screen by the film noir of the ’40s and ’50s. Blade Runner is one of those rare films in which disparate elements come together so well it almost seems a matter of serendipity — difficult, if not impossible, to repeat. All of which makes the idea of a Blade Runner sequel sound about as smart and appealing as a 21st-century Casablanca, Part 2 (which, thankfully, no one has suggested publicly). News of director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 was met with substantial dread by those who obsess over the original. But the French-Canadian Villeneuve, who created a modern sci-fi classic last year with the eight times Oscar-nominated Arrival, may have been the ideal choice for tackling the Blade Runner sequel. Villeneuve repeatedly pays tribute to Scott’s film with Blade Runner 2049 but avoids trying to replicate its elusive alchemy. The film’s stunning visuals build on those originally created for Blade Runner but support a more traditional work of science fiction. Blade Runner 2049 may be no match for the one-of-a-kind original, but that doesn’t make Villeneuve’s film any less enjoyable or remotely signify a failure or missed opportunity. Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after Scott’s film, at a time when a new version of Blade Runner’s replicants (robots largely indistinguishable from humans) have been “perfected” and integrated into society. Ryan Gosling stars as K, a police detective known as a “blade runner,” whose job is to hunt and destroy rogue replicants remaining from the previous era. A routine case leads to an unexpected discovery that may change public perception of modern-day replicants and result in social upheaval. K’s investigation leads him to seek out Deckard (Harrison Ford), the blade runner from Scott’s film who disappeared at the end of that story. The real star of Blade Runner 2049 may be British cinematographer Roger Deakins, whose past work ranges from Sid and Nancy to Skyfall to 12 films by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film’s stark representation of an environmentally ravaged 2049 Los Angeles remains enthralling throughout a sometimes slow-moving 164-minute film. Deakins also helps Villeneuve break new ground with the film’s depiction of artificial intelligence, implemented most strikingly in the form of K’s holographic girlfriend Joi (Ana de Armas). Villeneuve’s low-key, minimalist approach to sci-fi as first seen in Arrival owes a specific debt to Blade Runner — especially the narration-free “director’s” and “final” cuts of that film released over the last 25 years. With Blade Runner 2049, the director completes that circle while managing to cut a worthy path of his own. — KEN KORMAN
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• Thru Oct. 28 calligraphic Zen art might look like if it had originated in Alabama? The • Beneath the Layers: answer might be in the work of Stephen Figurative oil paintings Strickland. Ditto abstract art. In his new Cole Pratt Gallery expo, the Jackson, by Stephen Strickland Mississippi-born, Mobile, Alabama-based • Cole Pratt Gallery, painter once again focuses on crowds in public spaces such as beaches or con3800 Magazine St., certs, but if his earlier works were figura(504) 891-6789; tive while hinting at abstraction, his new stuff is abstract yet about human figures www.coleprattgallery.com — and the spaces between those figures. Abstraction is a time-honored genre, but what makes these unpretentious abstract canvases different from most is their oddly intuitive aura of personal discovery, a quality more typically associated with Zen and self-taught artists. For instance, abstract art pioneer Vassily Kandinsky made pristine paintings like avant-garde symphonic compositions, but Strickland’s canvases resonate more contrapuntal, almost Caribbean, rhythms. At first glance, Layered Memory (pictured) suggests a vaguely chaotic array of manic mark-making, as if prehistoric cave painters had memorialized their own version of a mosh pit, or maybe just a crowded dance hall somewhere in Cuba. Look closely and the marks increasingly evoke human forms, and the spaces between them suggest percussive rhythms, as if conga drums were part of the mix. Along the Beach is comprised of an array of pallid earth, sand and cadmium swatches that, while compositionally related, yield a contemplative sense of people gathered on an anonymous public expanse, yet seemingly alone with their thoughts. In Pale Memory, the forms are more ghostly if not amorphous, like specters from mythic notions of the transmigration of souls, or maybe fragments of elusive dreams. Strickland’s artist statement says: “My work shows a visual rhythm created by the patterns of crowds and brushstrokes. These regular recurrences evoke more than feelings of sight, but of time, space, movement and sound. When the painting is completed, I hear a new and unique song.” — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT
OPENING 5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 940-2900; www.5pressgallery.com — “Lo.cus,” new mixed-media works created from found materials by Lorna Williams; artist’s reception 6 p.m. Saturday. A Gallery for Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Barking at God — Retablos Mundanos,” hand-colored photogravures combining Mexican devotional art and New Orleans graffiti; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday. Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Pleasure, Performance, Politics,” work addressing contemporary issues by eight Louisiana artists; “We Believe in Infinite Intelligence,” prints from Lacey Prpic Hedtke’s book of the same name; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday. Bar Redux. 801 Poland Ave., (504) 5927083; www.barredux.com — “Casualties of Precision,” group show by Huggington Behr, Lee Dotson, Carlos Mendieta, Nick Parnell, Jacqueline Roche and others; opening reception with DJs and bands 8 p.m. Friday. The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “A Growing Dance,” photography and installation exploring the body by Robyn Leroy-Evans; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday. Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 7104506; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — “Grand Claims,” new works by Ron Bennett; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday. Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Magenta Alert,” photography and audio installations from an endurance performance by Jenna Noblach; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday. UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Lakeshore Drive,” new work by UNO fine arts faculty; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.
GALLERIES Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — “A Retrospective,” Dorothy J. Coleman retrospective; “New Work,” oil paintings by Auseklis Ozols; both through Oct. 28. Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — New surrealist works by Steven Kenny, through Oct. 24. Group exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing. Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 3040849; www.antieaugallery.com — New work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, ongoing. Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 891-9080; www.antonart.com — Selected folk art by Mose Tolliver, Jim Sudduth, Howard Finster and others, ongoing. Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — New work by Dana Manly, Carmen Lee and Nance Gambrill; jewelry by Nancie
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ART Roark; crafts by Nancy Susaneck; all through October. Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5283722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico.blogspot.com — “The Mardi Gras Indians: Cultural Connections in the Americas,” photographs depicting Mardi Gras Indian culture, through Oct. 19. Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Crossing,” new work by Ralph Bourque; “Sensitivity Training,” new work by Stephanie Patton; “Entangled,” new work by Brian Guidry; “Balancing Act,” new work by Troy Dugas; all through Oct. 28. Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (504) 322-5055; www.beatasasik.com — New work by Beata Sasik, ongoing. Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery. 4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing. Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandneworleansartgallery.com — “Trayectoria Abstracta: The Road from Cuba,” new work about cultural diversity by Daniel Lopez, through Tuesday. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “The Supreme Leader and Other Ponderables,” works in oil by Jose-Maria Cundin, through Oct. 30. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Apparitions,” new work in oil by Jere Allen, through October. Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Garden of Earthly Delights,” new works by Jason Kruppa, Michael Meads and Carlton Scott Sturgill about vanity, lust and human desire, through Oct. 21. Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “Beneath the Layers,” figurative oil paintings by Stephen Strickland, through Oct. 28. Creason’s Fine Art. 831 Chartres St., (504) 304-4392; www.creasonsfineart. com — “Figures II: Jazz Portraits on Strings,” marionettes by Harry Mayronne, ongoing. Ellen Macomber Fine Art & Textiles. 1720 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-9414; www.ellenmacomber.com — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing. Frank Relle Photography. 910 Royal St., (504) 388-7601 — New selections from “Until the Water,” “Nightscapes” and “Nightshade,” night photographs of Louisiana by Frank Relle, ongoing. Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Illuminations: New Orleans in the Night,” night scenes in oil by Lesperance, through October. Gallery B. Fos. 3956 Magazine St., (504) 444-2967; www.beckyfos.com — Paintings by Becky Fos, ongoing. Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres. com — Mixed-media work by Ally Burguieres, ongoing. Gallery Orange. 819 Royal St., (504) 701-0857; www.gallery-orange. com — “In Bloom,” stylized portraits by
Anna Kincaide, ongoing. Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — “WTF,” group show featuring James Kane, Caitlin Albritton and 25 other artists, through Dec. 5. Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/ departments/art-gallery — “We’re Still Here,” group exhibition by fine arts and visual communications faculty, through Nov. 15. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Object,” hand-cut road map sculptures and metallic paintings by Nikki Rosato; “Campaign Julienne,” patterned drawings on mylar by Laura Tanner Graham; both through Oct. 28. Ken Kirschman Artspace. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — “Strivin’,” group show curated by NOCCA alumna April Curran, through Oct. 23. LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “The Concurrence of Things,” new work by Kathryn Hunter, through Oct. 28. M. Francis Gallery. 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery.com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing. Martin Welch Art Gallery. 223 Dauphine St., (504) 388-4240; www.martinwelchart.com — Paintings and mixed-media work by Martin Welch, ongoing. Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Hello There,” new paintings by Logan Ledford, ongoing. Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos.com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing. M.S. Rau Antiques. 630 Royal St., (504) 523-5660; www.rauantiques.com — “The Georgian Collection,” British works from the era of King George, through Monday. New Orleans Photo Alliance. 1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Deafening Sound,” documentary photography about domestic and sexual violence by Annie Flanagan, through Nov. 11. Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Ode to a Flower,” paintings, works on paper and multi-sensory pieces by Joseph Cohen, through Oct. 28. Pamela Marquis Studio. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 615-1752; www.pamelamarquisstudio.com — New paintings by Pamela Marquis, ongoing. RidgeWalker Glass Gallery. 2818 Rampart St., (504) 957-8075; www.ridgewalkerglass.com — Glass, metal sculpture and paintings by Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway, ongoing. Scene by Rhys Art Gallery. 708 Toulouse St., (504) 258-5842; www.scenebyrhys. com — Pen and ink drawings by Emilie Rhys, ongoing. ShiNola Gallery. 1813 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 223-5732; www.facebook. com/shinolagallery — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing. Slidell Cultural Center. Slidell City Hall, 2055 Second St., Slidell, (985) 646-4375 — “Women’s Caucus for Art Louisiana,” new work by regional artists, through Oct. 27.
The Spielman Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 899-7670; www.davidspielman.com — Black-and-white photographs by David Spielman cover travel, Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf South, ongoing. Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Instinct,” abstract works by Antonio Carreno; mixed-media prints by Delita Martin; both through October. The Striped Hat. 716 Bienville St., (504) 524-8207 — “Dr. Seuss’ Unorthodox Taxidermy,” sculpture by the children’s book author presented by Angela King Gallery, through October. Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Shuffle,” exhibition by gallery artists, through Nov. 1. Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery.com — New work by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing. Zack Smith Photography Studio and Gallery. 4514 Magazine St., (504) 2517745 — “The Battlefield Oak,” landscape photography by Zack Smith, ongoing. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 8275858; www.zeitgeistnola.org — “The Mini Worlds and Many Words of Sean IssoFresh,” psychedelic mixed-media works by the Louisiana artist, ongoing.
SPARE SPACES Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design. 1725 Baronne St., (504) 314-2330; www.architecture.tulane. edu/outreach/small-center — “Sites of Resistance,” works highlighting activism in New Orleans throughout the city’s history, through Feb. 5, 2018. Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — “Things Imagined: Life Outside the Lines,” work about dreams and ideas, through Nov. 26. The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-9283; www. building1427.com — Mixed-media works by Daniel Jupiter, Mark Lacabe and Eric Alugas, ongoing. Crescent City Brewhouse. 527 Decatur St., (504) 522-0571; www.crescentcitybrewhouse.com — Group exhibition by Al Champagne, Brenda Delle, Darlene Johnson, Karen Kelly, Dawn Koetting and Glinda Schafer, ongoing. East Bank Regional Library. 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — “1,000 Words,” nine photographs by Olivia Greene, through October. M. Furniture Gallerie. 2726 Royal St., Suite B, (504) 324-2472; www.mfurnituregallerie.com — Paintings by Tracy Jarmon; copper work by Giovanni; watercolors by Bill James; furniture by John Wilhite; all ongoing. Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery. 535 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-5271; www. old77hotel.com — “Art Crush I,” group exhibition curated by Dabito, ongoing. Pirate’s Alley Cafe. 622 Pirate’s Alley, (504) 524-9332; www.piratesalleycafe. com — Paintings, prints and mixed-media works by Joe Bostick, Mario Ortiz, Chris Holcombe, Nathan Durapau, Ernest Brown, Emily Stieber, Jennifer Laffin, Brandon Felix and others, ongoing. St. Louis Cathedral. Jackson Square, 615 Pere Antoine Alley, (504) 525-9585; www.
stlouiscathedral.org — Artists including Ken Cook, Sher Stewart, Joan Bonner, Lee Tucker and Nathan Pitts display works in front of the cathedral and around Jackson Square, ongoing. Tulane University (Jones Hall). 6801 Freret St. — “The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner,” drawings, letters and photographs by the architect, through June 8, 2018.
MUSEUMS The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “A Most Significant Gift: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection,” more than 80 works from the Nelson Collection including Newcomb pottery, through Oct. 21. “Storyville: Madams and Music,” photographs, maps, cards and objects from New Orleans’ one-time red-light district, through Dec. 2. “Giants of Jazz: Art Posters and Lithographs by Waldemar Swierzy from the Daguillard Collection,” jazz portraits by the Polish poster artist, through Dec. 17. “The Seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter,” model of a 200-year-old French Quarter building and historic site, ongoing. Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Historic French Quarter life and architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “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. Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes and Culture. 1010 Conti St., (504) 218-4872; www.themardigrasmuseum.com — “Jours des Phantoms; Masks and Mayhem,” new paintings by Herb Roe, through Dec. 27. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “East of the Mississippi: 19th-Century American Landscape Photography,” vintage photographs of the American landscape, through Jan. 7, 2018. Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists,” new work by seven U.S. abstract artists, through Dec. 23. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — “Louisiana Contemporary,” annual juried exhibition of works by Louisiana artists, through Sunday. “The Colourful South,” exploration of color photography in the South; “Troubled Waters,” dye transfer color prints by photographer William Eggleston; both through Oct. 26. “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection,” exhibit about African-American contributions to visual art, through Jan. 21, 2018.
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THEATER & CABARET All My Sons. Fuhrmann Auditorium, 317 N. Jefferson St., Covington — Evangeline Theater Company presents the Arthur Miller drama about two families troubled by choices they made during World War II. Visit www.evangelinetheater.com for details. Tickets $12-$17. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. America’s Wartime Sweethearts: A Tribute to the Andrews Sisters. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5281944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The musical revue pays tribute to the Andrews Sisters, who often performed for World War II troops. Tickets $39.99. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday. Champions of Magic. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871; www.orpheumnola.com — Five illusionists perform in the show. Tickets $25-$50. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Chicago. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — In the musical, Roxie Hart plots her path to fame from a Chicago jail cell. Tickets $20$75. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Debauchery. The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — Southern Rep presents the live soap opera featuring an Uptown family with a downtown mom. Admission $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Fun Home. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St. — The musical, presented by Southern Rep, is adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel about a young gay woman discovering family secrets and her sexuality. Visit www. southernrep.com for details. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Macbeth. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org — In Shakespeare’s tragedy, ambitious Macbeth and his wife hatch a murderous plot to rule Scotland. Tickets $16. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Pirates, Prostitutes and Cockroaches! A History of New Orleans (Abridged). Fortress of Lushington, 2215 Burgundy St., (504) 704-1393 — La Fete Theatre Company presents the comedy in which famous figures from New Orleans history meet. Visit www.facebook.com/lafetetheatrecompany for details. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. The Sunshine Boys. Cafe Luke, 153 Robert St., Slidell, (985) 707-1597; www. cafeluke.com — The dinner theater production is a Neil Simon play about a pair of reunited vaudeville comedians. Tickets $25-$45. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Urinetown. University of New Orleans, Robert E. Nims Theatre, Performing Arts Center, St. Anthony Drive off of 2000 Lakeshore Drive — The NOLA Project presents the satirical dystopian musical in which an evil corporation con-
trols a town’s private toilets. Visit www. nolaproject.com for details. Tickets $30. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.
BURLESQUE & VARIETY American Mess. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www.barcadianeworleans.com — Katie East hosts local and touring comedians alongside burlesque performances. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Bad Girls of Burlesque. House of Blues, The Parish, 225 Decatur St., (504) 3104999; www.hob.com — The leather-clad burlesque troupe performs. Tickets $21$33. 9 p.m. Friday. Burgundy Burlesque. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 5225400; www.thesainthotelneworleans.com — Trixie Minx leads a weekly burlesque performance featuring live jazz. Free admission; reserved table $10. 9 p.m. Friday. Burlesque Ballroom. The Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www. sonesta.com/jazzplayhouse — Trixie Minx and guests star in the late-night burlesque performance. 11 p.m. Friday. Burlesque Bingo. Bar Mon Cher, 817 St. Louis St., (504) 644-4278; www.barmoncher.com — Lefty Lucy is the emcee at this bingo night with burlesque performances. There’s a one-drink minimum to play. 8 p.m. Monday. Burlesque Boozy Brunch. SoBou, 310 Chartres St., (504) 552-4095; www.sobou-nola.com — A burlesque performance by Bella Blue and friends accompanies brunch service. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. Glamour Ghouls. The Willow, 8200 Willow St., (504) 656-6563; www.thewillowuptown.com — Society of Sin presents the burlesque tribute to goth girl culture. Tickets $10-$25. 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday. The Punany Poets. 14 Parishes, 1638 Clio St., (504) 814-1490; www.14parishes.com — “Erotic sketch theater” is performed. Visit www.punanypoets.ticketbud.com for details. Tickets $25-$50. 10 p.m. Saturday. Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www. barredux.com — Burlesque artists Tsarina Hellfire, Lune Noirr and Scarlett Siren perform. Tickets $10. 11 p.m. Saturday. Spotlight New Orleans with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — Erica Falls is the musical guest at the live talk show. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Strip Roulette. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2185778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Bella Blue produces the improvised burlesque dance-off. 11 p.m. Friday. Stripped into Submission. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — The burlesque show is influenced by fetish and BDSM culture. Tickets $10. 11 p.m. Sunday. Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (up-
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FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER are the most commonly acknowl• Oct. 12-14 edged basic human needs, but what about the need to pee? The premise • 7:30 p.m. Thu.-Sat. of Urinetown, a melodramatic Broadway musical currently being • Robert E. Nims Theatre, presented by The NOLA Project and UNO Performing Arts Center, Theatre UNO, concerns a corporate-controlled social order in which 2000 Lakeshore Drive; citizens not only are charged for use www.nolaproject.com of the facilities but company police arrest those daring to indiscriminate• Tickets $30-$35 ly pee. A siren blares when Old Man Strong (Ian Hoch) discharges against PHOTO BY JOHN B. BARROIS a building, and he is dragged off to the dreaded Urinetown. “We can’t have you peeing for free,” Officer Lockstock warns. The disagreeable premise has been criticized, but the reality is conceivable since there are shortages of clean water in many parts of the world, as well as corporations attempting to monetize the problem. Staged in the round at University of New Orleans’ Robert E. Nims Theatre, the Gotham-like world features ragtag vagrants living among piles of refuse and scrounging for a few coins to visit Public Amenity No. 9, the cheapest of the community urinals. (Apparently, the environment was worse during the “stink years.”) Penelope Pennywise (Leslie Claverie) is a hardnosed toll collector with a coin changer hanging from her belt, and she keeps the rabble in line. Above the din, lavatory lords, led by the vile Caldwell B. Cladwell (Alex Martinez Wallace), president of the Urine Good Company, aka UGC, enjoy a luxurious lifestyle. Cladwell is dressed like Dracula in a black velvet cape and cravat. He glamorizes waste sanitation the same way Sidney Torres IV did garbage disposal. After graduating from an elite school, Cladwell’s innocent daughter Hope (Maggie Windler) arrives to work at UGC sending faxes and making copies. She falls for assistant custodian Bobby Strong (Keith Claverie), a revolutionary in a jumpsuit armed with a plunger and a mop who fights for urinary rights. He declares the “days of deprivation are over.” NOLA Project’s technical expertise is in high gear for this production. UNO’s cavernous theater is transformed into a netherworld by scenic designer Eric Porter, who created multilevel staging with numerous entrances and stairways allowing actors to rush around the space. Tony French’s imaginative costumes higlighted aristocrats similar to the privileged class in The Hunger Games. Even the riffraff wear fashionably layered rags. Bill Camp’s lighting effects lend real drama and emotional impact to the scenes, and Lindsey Romig’s choreography keeps the large cast churning in constant mayhem. Directed by A.J. Allegra, Urinetown features outstanding performances by Claverie as the hero, Wallace as the villain and Windler as the ingenue. Tony Award-winning music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann parody a variety of musicals, including The Threepenny Opera, Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story, and Act 1’s breathtaking finale closely resembles Les Miserables, but imitation does not detract from the enjoyment of Hollman’s fine score. The cast delivers blockbuster numbers with verve and passion. Despite its title, Urinetown is the sweetest show NOLA Project has produced and is not to be missed. — MARY RICKARD
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DANCE Trisha Brown, In Plain Site. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Trisha Brown Dance Company presents pieces from its repertoire in CAC galleries. Tickets $35. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelvemilelimit — Laura Sanders hosts an open-mic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday. Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 834-6474;
www.facebook.com/pages/thenewwaloos — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Tuesday. The group also performs at Hi-Ho Lounge (2239 St. Claude Ave.) at 8 p.m. Saturday. Chris & Tami. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform improv weekly. 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Massive Fraud presents stand-up comedy. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday. Comedy Gold. House of Blues, Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “RedBean” Plunkett hosts an open-mic standup show. 8 p.m. Thursday. Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Chris Lane hosts the stand-up comedy open mic with burlesque interludes. 9:30 p.m. Monday. Crescent Fresh. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546;
www.dragonsdennola.com — Ted Orphan and Geoffrey Gauchet host the stand-up comedy open mic. 8 p.m. Thursday. Dean’s List. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green and Cyrus Cooper perform improv. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Dylan Moran. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www.thejoytheater.com — The British comedian and star of Black Books performs. Tickets $33.50-$38.50. 8 p.m. Thursday. The Franchise. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The New Movement’s improv troupes perform. 9 p.m. Friday. John Mulaney. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — The comedian performs. Tickets $20-$30. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Sunday. Knockout. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Two comedy acts compete to win an audience vote. 9:30 p.m. Monday. Koo Koo Kanga Roo. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — The duo performs musical comedy. Tickets $12-$15. 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up comedy showcase with free food and ice cream. 8 p.m. Saturday.
The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story. 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 947-2379; www.sidneyssaloon.com — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday. NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Sunday. Pass the Mic. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Jeff Buck hosts the stand-up and improv comedy night. 10:30 p.m. Friday. The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www. barredux.com — Young Funny comedians present the stand-up comedy show and open mic. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Think You’re Funny? Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation. com — Brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.
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Community Dialogue on Developmental Disabilities. Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190 — Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority’s panel is for Jefferson Parish residents impacted by developmental disabilities. 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Celebrating Black Creole Culture at Dillard University. Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard.edu — Kevin Dunn discusses beading and ribbon work, and there’s a screening of the documentary Bleu Orleans. 2 p.m. Evenings with Enrique. New Orleans Botanical Garden, 5 Victory Ave., (504) 483-9386; www.neworleanscitypark. com/botanical-garden — Local musicians perform in the gardens, and mojitos and Latin food are available for purchase. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Harrison Avenue Marketplace. Harrison Avenue Marketplace, 801 Harrison Ave.; www.harrisonavenuemarketplace.org — The monthly market offers food, live music, kids’ activities and arts and crafts vendors. 5 p.m.
Slave Trail of Tears: The Forgotten Journey of a Million. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu — Edward Ball’s lecture chronicles a forced slave migration from the Chesapeake Bay area to the Deep South. Free admission. 7 p.m. Stitch & Bitch with Kate McCurdy. Glitter Box, 1109 Royal St., Suite A; www.glitterboxno.com — The lesson begins with the basics of knitting and crochet and offers instructions on making a koozie. Materials are available for purchase. Suggested donation $10-$15. 6 p.m.
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THE JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION’S FREE FESTIVAL features different styles of blues and barbecue. Saturday headliner Robert Cray (pictured) climbed the Billboard charts with his 1986 album Strong Persuader and has released a steady stream of blues albums. The lineup includes a host of Louisiana- and Mississippi-born or -based musicians, including Bobby Rush, King Edward, Grady Champion, Deacon John, Little Freddie King, The Como Mamas, Louis “Gearshifter” Youngblood and new New Orleanian Samantha Fish. There’s barbecue from Blue Oak BBQ, Central City BBQ, The Joint and Saucy’s BBQ, and dishes from longtime New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival vendors Vaucresson’s Sausage Company and Walker’s Southern Style BBQ. There’s also German-style sausages from Bratz Y’all!, crepes from Crepes a la Cart, Food Drunk food truck and desserts. — WILL COVIELLO
Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival • Oct. 13-15 • 5 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.8:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday • Lafayette Square Park, 540 St. Charles Ave. (504) 558-6100; www.jazzandheritage.org/blues-fest PHOTO BY JIM BROCK
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GRADE-LEVEL READING
The New Orleans Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is a coalition of partners in New Orleans who are working to increase the number of children reading on grade level by third grade is an important milestone for future success asked all candidates for mayor to answer questions on this important issue. Below are the responses by the top three candidates: Michael Bagneris, LaToya Cantrell, and Desiree Charbonnet. For more information on the campaign, please visit nolagradelevelreading.org.
WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO ADDRESS POVERTY FOR YOUNG CHILDREN IN NEW ORLEANS? BAGNERIS: When I am elected, I will be the first Mayor to institute an Office of Family Services and Education. There is an irrevocable link between poverty and lack of education with crime and other issues that plague New Orleans. My Office of Family Services and Education will work to help families connect the dots between balancing work and economic opportunity with access to quality childcare, and educational options with local access, among other things. There are a number of great programs around our city that deserve more funding from the state and federal level. We must leverage what is already working and take it to scale. As Mayor I plan to be a powerful voice in support of ECE funding. CANTRELL: I will focus on increasing equity and opportunity with economic development, affordable housing, and youth and family support initiatives. Economic opportunity: nPay-for-success program that provides revenue to invest in job creation nConnect at-risk citizens to living wage jobs / job training n Support job training programs nSupport new businesses in advanced manufacturing, digital media, renewable energy and water management nProvide capital access and resources to small businesses nEncourage the hospitality industry and large-scale employers to hire locally. I support a $15 minimum wage by working with local businesses and increasing the city worker minimum wage to $15/hour. Housing: nWork with legislature on a constitutional amendment allowing the city more flexibility/oversight over property tax policy. Use this to incentivize affordable housing. nPreserve existing rental housing: Property tax incentive to encourage existing landlords to lock in affordable rental rates. nCreate homeownership opportunities: First-time homeowner tax abatement for low and moderate income families. nBuild affordable units: Gap financing program for developers leveraging other state and federal incentives. Youth and families: nCreate an Office of Youth and Families to provide case management and connect families to services and economic / educational opportunity. CHARBONNET: As Mayor I will address the issue of childhood poverty by emphasizing the importance of public-private partnerships to fill in the gaps of some of the most important programs, like Head Start. I will work with private entities, such as local businesses, to help find more funding to support early childhood development. Additionally, we must encourage economic development to help bolster the average family’s income in New Orleans. As I outlined in my economic development plan, I will work to address New Orleans’ problem of unemployment and underemployment. We must recruit and retain well-paying jobs that can support a family. By pursuing New Market Tax Credits, capitalizing on our city’s assets, and focusing city policies on opportunity and equity, New Orleans will see improved economic growth that puts more dollars in the pockets of New Orleans’ citizens. WILL YOU CREATE DEDICATED MUNICIPAL FUNDING FOR HIGH-QUALITY EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION? PLEASE ELABORATE ON YOUR PLANS. BAGNERIS: I cannot make a specific commitment at this time. Other candidates may promise to raise property or sales taxes or sell bonds to fund new programs, but I believe that would put additional burdens on our families and exacerbate the problem of a too-high cost of living. But I do anticipate my Office of Family Services and Education to help relieve pressure on families by being a reliable catchall for related services. With recent budget cuts to early childhood education in the last eight years, we all need to figure out ways to combine our resources. I support the efforts of Senator Morrell and Representative Leger to expand access to the tax credit programs and provide state match to local investment. I intend to leverage that to the extent possible in the city budget. But every level of government is strapped and city government is no different. City Hall must stay focused on addressing public safety and security. I promise to be a strong partner in building support for your efforts but I cannot commit to dedicated funding at this time. CANTRELL: The city already has dedicated funding, coming from Harrah’s grants devoted to education. As a Councilmember, I was able to identify those funds ($10M) when they were going unspent and redirected them. We definitely need additional resources for early care and education; however, I am not yet ready to commit municipal funding to that increase, if we can first work creatively on finding other means of securing that funding. CHARBONNET: Yes, I am willing to examine the city budget to help find money to dedicate to early childhood care and education. I intend to do a full-scale performance review of all departments, offices, functions of the city, and any entity receiving tax dollars, including all public-private partnerships. Among other things, we will measure effectiveness, efficiency, accountability, and transparency. All statements of support, here and elsewhere throughout the campaign are contingent upon what that review process discovers. WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO ENSURE EVERY CHILD BORN IN NEW ORLEANS REACHES THIS MILESTONE OF BECOMING A PROFICIENT READER BY THIRD GRADE AND IS ON TRACK TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL? BAGNERIS: From kindergarten to second grade, you learn to read. From third grade on, you read to learn. In New Orleans, we must change the culture about how we view early child development. Learning begins the moment that child exits the womb. We all know that. Instilling in every parent the importance of reading is a partnership I will engage with you on as a public service campaign; enlisting our hospitals to be partners with us in educating young moms and dads about the importance of this skill even if they feel deficient is also key. Again, my parents made it clear to me I had to do whatever was necessary to STAY IN SCHOOL AND BE READY FOR SCHOOL. I worked at odd jobs to be able to afford elementary school so I get this priority and I’ll help you hold those responsible for meeting this task accountable as well as be your partner in educating young parents. CANTRELL: Part of the Harrah’s funding I mentioned before currently goes to reducing truancy, which has a huge effect on dropout rates. I also believe that many of the services that I want to provide as part of my violence reduction strategy (through a new Office of Youth and Families and otherwise), including increasing summer job opportunities for at-risk students, providing case management for those students, and giving access to educational programs that improve decision-making, similar to the Becoming a Man program in Chicago, will help to reduce dropout rates and end the school to prison pipeline. CHARBONNET: While the Mayor of New Orleans has no official oversight of the Orleans Parish School Board, I recognize the role equal access to a quality education provided by a highly qualified teacher plays in mitigating many of the challenges the city of New Orleans faces. City tax dollars fund the soon-to-be re unified school district tasked with providing this access to all New Orleans students. I will support any efforts to make sure that a quality education for all our children is a reality. In order to accomplish this we must invest in academic development outside of the classroom. As Mayor I intend to provide the necessary funding to existing programs, like NORD, to ensure they have the ability to reach their full potential in regards to enriching our children academically.
All candidates received a questionnaire with six questions. To see all responses, visit nolagradelevelreading.org.
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FRIDAY 13 Autumn, the Second Spring. Church of the King, 22205 Little Creek Road, Mandeville, (985) 727-7017; www.churchoftheking.com — The daylong seminar hosted by St. Tammany Master Gardeners features several speakers on gardening in the Gulf South. Lunch is served. Tickets $35. 9 a.m. Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place — The festival showcases Southern soul, blues and R&B music, and there’s barbecue and an arts and crafts fair. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Electric Vehicle Meeting. Urban South Brewery, 1645 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 267-4852; www.urbansouthbrewery.com — Electric vehicle aficionados gather to learn about a pro-electric car ordinance. Visit www.ev-la.org for details. Free admission. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Masquerade Party Fundraiser. Corpus Christi-Epiphany Catholic Church, 2022 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 945-8931 — Friends of the New Orleans Council on Aging’s annual party has food, drinks and a costume contest. DJ Jubilee and Hot 8 Brass Band perform. Visit www.nocoa.org for details. Tickets $25. 8 p.m. Magic in the Moonlight. New Orleans Botanical Garden, 5 Victory Ave., (504) 483-9386; www.neworleanscitypark.com/ botanical-garden — The outdoor dinner benefits a teaching kitchen in the gardens. There’s live entertainment, an auction and drinks. Tickets start at $100. 8 p.m. to midnight. New Orleans Gem, Mineral, Fossil and Jewelry Show. John A. Alario Sr. Event Center, 2000 Segnette Blvd., Westwego, (504) 349-5525; www.alariocenter.com — The showcase features gems, minerals, fossils and jewelry. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Oktoberfest. 1700 Moss St. — Deutsches Haus hosts its annual festival in celebration of German culture near its new location on Bayou St. John. There’s beer, dance performances, beer stein-holding contests, German food and dachshund races. Visit www.oktoberfestnola.com for details. Admission $8, children under age 12 free. 4 pm. to 11 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. St. Mary Magdalen Seafood Festival. St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, 6425 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 733-0922 — The seafood festival offers food, amusement rides, and more. Bands perform. 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday, noon to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.
BarkAID. Vanguard College of Cosmetology, 740 Oak Harbor Blvd., Slidell, (985) 643-2614 — Hairstylist Patrick Lomantini’s haircut clinic benefits Louisiana SPCA. Visit www.barkaid.org for details. Minimum donation $20. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Garden Workshop. Crescent City Farmers Market, 750 Carondelet St., (504) 8614488; www.crescentcityfarmersmarket. org — A workshop covers veggie growing basics. Suggested donation $15. 10 a.m. Mermaids and Mayhem. Southport Hall, 200 Monticello Ave., (504) 835-2903; www.southporthall.com — Sirens of New Orleans dance troupe hosts the Halloween party fundraiser to benefit New Orleans Family Justice Center. There are food trucks, drinks, dancing, raffles and performances by several dance troupes. Email sirenskrewe@gmail.com for details. Tickets $45. 8 p.m. New Orleans Walk for Education. The Fly, 6500 Magazine St. — The UNCF walk benefits college students affected by Hurricane Harvey and features food, entertainment, kids’ activities and health screenings. Registration $35. 8:30 a.m. Piety Street Market. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741; www.612piety.com — More than 50 vendors offer art, jewelry, crafts, vintage clothes, collectibles, used books and flea market treasures at this monthly market. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Secret Gardens Tours of the Vieux Carré. French Quarter — Patio Planters presents self-guided tours of private courtyards and gardens in the French Quarter. Tickets $20, available at Creole Delicacies (533 St. Ann St.). Noon to 4 p.m. Steam Train Festival. The Fly, 6500 Magazine St. — Louisiana Steam Train Association celebrates New Orleans’ railroad history by showcasing Southern Pacific Steam Locomotive No. 745. There’s also food, music, railroad gifts, a kids’ area and exhibits. Donations accepted. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wild Things. Bayou Lacombe Centre, 61389 Highway 434, Lacombe, (985) 8822000; www.fws.gov — The annual celebration includes family-friendly outdoor activities, animals, live music, hayrides, face painting, and boat and canoe tours. Food is available for purchase. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Women Crying Blessed Caregivers Retreat. City Church of New Orleans, 13123 I-10 Service Road, (504) 246-5121 — The half-day restorative retreat is for formal and informal caregivers. Visit www. womencryingblessed.com for details. Registration $20-$30. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wooden Boat Festival. Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, 133 Mabel Drive, Madisonville, (985) 845-9200 — Held on the banks of the Tchefuncte River, the festival draws more than 100 classic boats and hundreds of other crafts. There’s food, live music, a children’s area, arts and crafts, a classic car show and the Quick ’n’ Dirty Boat Building Contest on Sunday. Admission $10, kids and military free. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.
SUNDAY 15 Clear the Shelter Pet Adoption. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www.la-spca.org — Animals are available for adoption at no cost. Each animal is spayed or neutered, vaccinated and microchipped and comes with a small
bag of pet food. Noon to 4 p.m. Lobbying Basics. Abita Springs Town Hall, 22161 Level St., Abita Springs, (985) 8920711 — Sierra Club’s Honey Island Group presents a training focused on personal lobbying. There’s a breakout session to practice. Free admission. 2:30 p.m.
MONDAY 16 Free Flu Shots. Norman Mayer Branch Library, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 5963100; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — Walgreens hosts the free flu shot clinic. Children and teens must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hannah G. Solomon Luncheon. Marriott Hotel, 555 Canal St., (504) 581-1000; www.marriott.com — The National Council of Jewish Women presents its annual luncheon and awards ceremony. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monica Kalozdi. Scandinavian Jazz Church and Cultural Center, 1772 Prytania St. — The Everest climber’s “Climb Your Own Everest” lecture is about success in business. Admission $20. 11:30 a.m. Plant Hanger Workshop. Glitter Box, 1109 Royal St., Suite A; www.glitterboxno.com — Kaysie Condron teaches participants to make macrame plant hangers. Registration $65, includes supplies. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Story Time & Craft. Children’s Resource Center, 913 Napoleon Ave., (504) 5962628; www.nolalibrary.org — The interactive story time is for children age 5 and under. 4:30 p.m.
FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. Crescent City Farmers Market. Citywide — The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at locations citywide, including Tulane University Square (200 Broadway St.) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday; the American Can Apartments (3700 Orleans Ave.) 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and in the CBD (750 Carondelet St.) 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook. com/crispfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. French Market. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www. germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 361-1822 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www.grow-
EVENTS datyouthfarm.org — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037 — The urban farm operates a daily fresh market. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. ReFresh Project Community Garden Farmers Market. ReFresh Project, 300 N. Broad St.; www.broadcommunityconnections.org — The weekly Monday market offers local produce, homemade kimchi, cocoa-fruit leather, pesto and salad dressing. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday. Rivertown Farmers Market. Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy products, preserves and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Sankofa Mobile Market. Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday. The truck also stops at 6322 St. Claude Ave. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday. St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 278-4242; www.visitstbernard.com — The market offers seafood, produce, jams, preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities. Call (504) 355-4442 or visit the website for details. Vietnamese Farmers Market. Vietnamese Farmers Market, 14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd. — Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early morning market. 5 a.m. Saturday.
SPORTS New Orleans Saints. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive, (504) 587-3663; www.superdome.com — New Orleans Saints play the Detroit Lions. Noon.
WORDS Blood Jet Poetry & Fiction Series. BJ’s Lounge, 4301 Burgundy St., (504) 9459256; www.facebook.com/bjs.bywater — Poets Jade Hurter and Andrew Ketcham read. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Brian Costello. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses his book Carnival in Louisiana. 7 p.m. Thursday. Christopher Swann. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author reads from and signs Shadow of the Lions. 6 p.m. Tuesday. David Cappello. Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 596-2667; www.nolalibrary. org — The author discusses The People’s Grocer, his biography of John G. Schwegmann. 6 p.m. Wednesday. David Lee Campbell. South Slidell Library, 3901 Pontchartrain Drive, (985) 781-0099; www.sttammany.lib.la.us/southslidell. html — The author reads from and signs The Double Life and Nature All Around Us: 50 Years of Creatures and Native Plants at Little River Bluffs. 6 p.m. Tuesday. Günter Bischof, Hans Petschar and Wolfgang Petritsch. National World War II Mu-
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and Country Club, 3600 Chateau Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-1351 — Local restaurants offer several dishes at this event, and there are wines from around the world. Groovy 7 performs. 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Morris Jeff Community Gala. Morris Jeff Community School, 211 S. Lopez St., (504) 373-6258; www.morrisjeffschool.org — The school fundraiser includes entertainment, food, drinks and a silent auction. Tickets $60-$120. 6 p.m. Open Shanty Sing. Scandinavian Jazz Church and Cultural Center, 1772 Prytania St. — NO Quarter Shanty Krewe leads the maritime sing-along. Suggested donation $4. 7 p.m.
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seum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.nationalww2museum.org — The authors discuss The Marshall Plan Since 1947: Saving Europe, Rebuilding Austria. Registration required; free admission. 5 p.m. Thursday. Jesmyn Ward. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author is in conversation with Nathaniel Rich about her book Sing, Unburied, Sing. 6 p.m. Thursday. Jon McCarthy. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., Algiers, (504) 322-7479; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The author reads from and signs Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs. Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200. Arc of Greater New Orleans. The organization for people with intellectual disabilities seeks donations of Mardi Gras beads, volunteers to help sort beads and volunteers for Arc farm duties. Visit www.arcgno.org for details and drop-off locations. Community Educators. Alzheimer’s Association Louisiana seeks volunteers to lead educational programs and classes. Email Stacey Denham at sdenham@alz. org for details. Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to manage inventory, help clients and share their expertise. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org. Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-on-one mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors. Visit www. eachonesaveone.org. Edible Schoolyard. Edible Schoolyard seeks community volunteers and interns to assist in kitchen and garden classes and to help in school gardens. Visit www.esynola.org/get-involved or email amelia@ esynola.org. First Tee of Greater New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteers to serve as mentors and coaches to kids and teens through its golf program. Visit www. thefirstteenola.org. Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race-day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola.org or visit www. gotrnola.org. Golden Opportunity Adult Literacy Program. GOAL seeks volunteers to conduct courses for reading comprehension, GED preparation and English language learning. Call (504) 373-4496. HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the opportunities available and how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@handsonneworleans.org or visit www.handsonneworleans.org. Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.
Lakeview Civic Improvement Association. The association’s green space committee needs volunteers to pick up trash or trim trees for the adopt-a-block program. Sign up with Russ Barranco at (504) 482-9598 or rpbarranco@cox.net. Longue Vue House and Gardens. Longue Vue seeks volunteers to assist with giving tours, garden maintenance and education outreach. Email info@longuevue.com or call (504) 293-4720 for information. Louisiana SPCA. The LA/SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete an orientation to work directly with animals. Visit www.la-spca. org/volunteer. Lowernine.org. Lowernine.org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@lowernine.org. NOLA for Life Mentors. The city initiative’s partner organizations seek adults to mentor boys ages 15 to 18 who are at risk for violence. Visit www.nolaforlife.org/ give/mentor. NOLA Tree Project. The forestry organization seeks volunteers to adopt and trim trees around the city. Visit www.nolatreeproject.org. NOLA Wise. The partnership of Global Green, the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient. It seeks volunteers, who must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@ globalgreen.org. Parkway Partners. The green space and community garden organization seeks volunteers for building, gardening and other projects. Email info@parkwaypartnersnola.org, call (504) 620-2224 or visit www.parkwaypartnersnola.org. Refugee mentors. Catholic Charities of New Orleans’ Refugee Service Program seeks volunteers, especially those with Arabic, Burmese and Spanish language skills, to help newly arrived refugees learn about everyday life in America. Second Harvest Food Bank. Volunteers are needed to help prepare meals in the community kitchen at the food bank’s Elmwood location. Email vcaveherazo@ secondharvest.org for details. Senior companions. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist seniors with personal and daily tasks so they can live independently. Visit www. nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121. SpayMart. The humane society seeks volunteers for fundraising, grant writing, data input, adoptions, animal care and more. Visit www.spaymart.org, email info@ spaymart.org or call (504) 454-8200. Teen Life Counts. The Jewish Family Service program seeks volunteers to teach suicide prevention to middle school and high school students. Call (504) 831-8475.
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Lg Victorian, 1,400 sq ft, 2br/1.5ba, living rm, dining rm, furn kit, w/d, wood fls, walk-in closet, hi ceils. Gated w/police security. Off-street parking. Pool privileges. $1,475/mo. Call 504274-8075.
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Zoe is an 3-year-old, spayed, Bengal. Like a true Bengal, she is a very athletic, curious and intelligent. Zoe is extremely playful and absolutely loves the laser pointer. She lived in a staff member’s office for a couple of weeks and she was a perfect office-mate!
To meet these 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., call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org
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