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L O U I S I A NA ' S L A RG E S T W E E K LY N E W S PA P E R

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A tapestry of thought on what it will take to rebuild New Orleans..

HEALTH & WELLNESS | What was in the floodwaters?

By Eliza Stickland. PLUS: Health experts discuss post-traumatic stress and kids’ health in the wake of Katrina.

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Don’t squander our opportunities.

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Hurricane Katrina refugees start a one-room school in Lafayette.

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Clancy DuBos on Ray Nagin’s state of emergency

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“The only people who are going to come out of this are those who help themselves and their neighbors.”

M A RY A N N B O S SE T TA G O O D M A NN

Let Us Not Be Victims

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was born and raised in Lakeview.

I stayed for Katrina and personally lived through the horrors of the aftermath. However, I choose not to be a victim. Every newscast or radio show that I hear, every meeting that I attend, every article that I read speaks about the good people of New Orleans blaming everyone but themselves and demanding help from others. We have refused to recognize that we have allowed our city to be used like a toilet, turning our backs on the decadence, corruption, crime and a host of other unholies.

Our present calamity is the result of indifference. Over the years, we handed over power, control and money to others who proved to be inept and/ or corrupt. Now, as we turn to those same individuals to rescue us, we are surprised they have no answers.

On Saturday, Oct. 22, I attended a meeting for Lakeview residents.

We learned little more than what we already knew. The real issue — levees — was not addressed. What I did learn was that the water and land are not toxic or polluted as feared ... because years ago the citizens did what government failed to do for decades: we cleaned up Lake Pontchartrain. We created the “Save the Lake Foundation” and got the job done.

The only people who are going to come out of this are those who help themselves and their neighbors. I for one will not watch our city die!

I propose a Save the City Foundation.

Its mission statement should include the words, “Our city must and shall be saved.” Our priority must be rebuilding the levees, floodgates and pumps so they truly protect us. As a private, people-driven entity, it can work with public officials and hold them accountable.

New Orleans is older than the United States itself. Louisiana doubled our country’s size overnight. We bring incalculable resources the rest of America — its second largest port, so much of its oil and gas, sugar and salt production, its seafood and its most unique culture.

Let us refuse to be victims or to be defeated. Let us do what Americans have always done when times are tough — make it right, make it better.

That’s what makes us great.

There is a new and better New Orleans. Let’s build it!

M A RY A N N B O S SE T TA G O O D M A N

Let Them Fix It

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers talks of “repairing” levees only to their former Category 3 levels and of hopes to finish before next June’s hurricane

season. They say that a “real fix” for a Category 5 hurricane will take decades — and at least two years just to design.

That estimate is, of course, foolish but highly probable based on the Corps of Engineers’ past performance.

Congress, I think, lacks the will to “pull out the stops” and do it right, which could be done in less than three years if they divided the project into 15 or 20 pieces and had separate design and construction groups for each piece, all working simultaneously. Of course, neither Congress nor the Corps of Engineers will ever act intelligently.

One of the most basic local needs is to stop rising water (with floodgates as in Holland) from entering Lake Pontchartrain via the two passes to the gulf — for a week or so before any hurricane comes ashore. Often times, the lake rises several feet before a storm even gets close. With that much “preloading,” it doesn’t take much of a surge to cause failures. I hear that a Category 5 plan was proposed to Congress years ago but that Louisiana’s delegation could not get the plan considered seriously because it was estimated to cost about $14 billion. Good thinking, Congress — save $14 billion and now incur a $300-billion-plus loss. That, on top of lives lost and trauma for a million people of one of our most culturally blessed cities!

The levee failures of the 17th Street and London Avenue canals were not from being topped; they failed from faulty design by the Corps of Engineers.

The criminally short (17 1/2 feet long) sheet piles terminated in a strata of known bog — decaying vegetation — which means the levees were destined to fail. There may be numerous other levee sections that are similarly defective.

The levee failure in the Lower 9th Ward came primarily from storm surge racing up the Intracoastal Waterway and the stupid Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet “ditch,” which caused flooding of that same area and St. Bernard Parish during Hurricane Betsy in 1965. The MR-GO is also responsible for eroding thousands of acres of marsh. The Corps spends millions yearly keeping it dredged to about 38 feet so that an average of one ship a day can use it. That’s another smart move by Congress. It now has a depth of only about 25 feet — because of Katrina.

Congress and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers caused this problem. They now have a duty to fix it — and to pay for the damage caused by their past mistakes.

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t’s time to rebuild New Orleans, and for this Herculean task we need our elected leaders to be on their game like never before. So far, they’re not even on the same page. Even now, two months after Katrina slammed ashore, competing “official” committees assert their own relevance amid behind-the-scenes political jockeying over who’s really in charge. Meanwhile, parts of New Orleans are resettling without official guidance or approval. We take the latter development as a positive sign. As much as they can, New Orleanians are pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps because they know in their hearts that our city must and shall be rebuilt. Good for them. Good for all of us. Nothing will help us cope with Katrina better than getting to work on bringing our city back. This is a time of tremendous challenge — and virtually unlimited opportunity. Let’s not squander it.

No doubt studies have begun in earnest to determine the best course of official action. We at Gambit Weekly decided not to wait for officialdom to get its act together. We contacted as many community leaders and opinion-makers as we could for this, our “comeback” issue, and asked them what they think our city’s priorities should be. We also asked them to identify the elements of New Orleans that should be preserved — and discarded — as the city rebuilds. Their responses became our cover story this week.

It starts with a vision. What do we want our city to look like? What image do we want to project? What segments of our old economy must we bring back to make sure New Orleans maintains its unique character, and what industries do we want to attract to help us to grow in new and healthy ways? If we don’t know the answers to those questions, nothing else matters. One thing on which all New Orleanians should agree is that we must rebuild our neighborhoods. More than any other American city, New Orleans remains a city of neighborhoods — each with a unique identity and sub-culture. “We must preserve our city’s compassion, grace and spirit — and our existing architecture,” says architect Wayne Troyer, adding, “We must avoid ‘Disneyfication’ of our architectural heritage.” We couldn’t agree more. Restaurateur Dickie Brennan offered equally sage advice: “Everyone must participate,” he said.

Ditto that.

Thus, the vision that decision-makers ought to be discussing is one that includes the best elements of “old” New Orleans — our neighborhoods, our architecture, our best and most productive industries, and most of all our people. All of them. Or at least, all of them who want to return. At the same time, we must be forwardlooking, building on our tremendous natural assets and potential for new development.

We need a plan. Once we have a vision, we must turn it into reality.

That will involve some tough decisions, mostly in the way of priorities.

There is near-unanimity on the need to start with our levee system. It must be able to withstand at least Category

3 storms by next hurricane season, and ultimately Category 5 storms. That will take time and lots of federal dollars.

Considering the fact that the federal government designed the levees that breached, there should be no debate that this is a “federal problem.” We also suggest re-engineering the drainage canals so that pumping stations sit at the end of the canals rather than at the halfway points.

Inside the levee system, local utilities are hard at work getting the city turned on, reconnected and lit up as quickly as possible. We applaud those efforts. For the long haul, New Orleans should consider burying its utility lines wherever possible. Economically, nothing will “jump-start” our economy faster than a construction boom. City Hall should work on two fronts at once: speed up the permitting process for homeowners and businesses to rebuild and re-open; and work with FEMA as well as neighborhood associations to establish temporary housing for return-

This is a time of tremendous challenge — and virtually unlimited opportunity. Let’s not squander it. ing families. Meanwhile, we’re pleased to see the hospitality industry already up and running in many quarters, with more hotels and restaurants coming on line weekly. Led by Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, local hospitality leaders set an ambitious goal of operating at nearly full capacity by Mardi Gras. Gov. Kathleen Blanco called the deadline “a mile marker moment” in the city’s recovery. We agree.

Execution is everything. The vision and the plan are crucial, but they are futile if not executed competently. The mayor and the governor must start cooperating like never before, and Louisiana must speak with one voice.

Gov. Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin can start by deciding who’s in charge. We suggest neither of them should be — but we hope they can agree on someone else. Let that person surround himself or herself with a team that will inspire the confidence of local citizens as well as Congress, and then let’s get about the business of rebuilding — even if we all have to pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps to make it GW happen. GW www.bestofneworleans.com | November 01, 2005 | Gambit Weekly

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Hey Blake, I am writing a story. My heroine has to travel from New Orleans to Bay St. Louis around the period of 1895. I am told that there was a railroad access, but I can’t seem to find any info on it. Can you help?

MIMI HEITZMANN Dear Mimi,

During the time period you have in mind, New Orleanians loved to take out-of-town journeys. One of the favorite trips was a train ride to the Gulf coast. You could take the morning train of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, spend a day on the coast and return in the evening. “The Bay” with its long, lovely beach was the nearest of the popular Gulf Coast destinations.

The bay itself was claimed and named

by Bienville, founder of New Orleans, who first set foot on land on August 25, 1699.

He claimed it for France and named it after Louis XI of France, crusader and saint. But during its lifetime, the city of Bay St. Louis has had two other names.

The Choctaw Indians who lived there when Bienville arrived called it Chicapoula.

Subsequently, Britain and Spain claimed possession of the bay and gave land grants.

One of the important Spanish grants went in 1790 to Thomas Shields, and the area became known as Shieldsborough.

In 1818, a charter of incorporation was adopted by the state legislature, making Shieldsborough the oldest established

community on the Gulf Coast. Eventually the town became the seat of Hancock County, but folks wanted the name to be Bay St. Louis, and it was incorporated with that name on February 24, 1882.

Hey Blake, What year was Lakeside Shopping Center built?

JACKIE Dear Jackie,

The official dedication of the Lakeside Shopping Center was on September 1, 1960, but it opened for business months before that. We first heard about the regional shopping center in October 1957 when we read about the plans to develop the sixtyacre tract. It took only two years for the land to be acquired from the individual property owners. But remember, this was nearly fifty years ago and Jefferson Parish was somewhat less populated than today.

The shopping center opened with thirtytwo stores, and the Lakeside Merchants’ Association put on a good show for its customers. The usual collection of parish officials was on hand for the dedication, as well as Mayor “Chep” Morrison.

And just in case you missed it, there were 1500 table tennis balls dropped from a helicopter to eager children below. Each ball could be redeemed for a gift.

Hey Blake, I’ve often heard that there were railroad

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Lakeside Shopping Center, which reopened after Hurricane Katrina on Oct. 28, was originally built as a regional mall in 1960.

tracks on Metairie Road. I knew there were streetcar tracks or were these actually railroad tracks? Where did they run to and from?

B I L LY G U E S S Dear Billy,

Many years ago there was a streetcar that ran on part of Metairie Road. It was part of the longest street railway line in New Orleans: the Napoleon Line. Its original route began at St. Charles and Napoleon, and it went out Napoleon to Broad, Washington, South Carrollton, Shell Road (now Pontchartrain Blvd.) to Metairie Road. From the end of the line, you could walk just a short way to the Half Way House for music and dancing.

The streetcar soon acquired a nickname: “Royal Blue Line.” This was partly due to the fact that the designation signs in the Napoleon Avenue cars were royal blue with white letters. The nickname stuck.

The line that began in 1903 was quickly extended out Metairie Road to the 17th Street Canal. Then in 1915, it was extended even farther. This new bit was known as the “Shrewsbury Extension.” So the Napoleon Line went from Napoleon and Tchoupitoulas, out Napoleon, Broad, Washington, South Carrollton, Shell Road, Metairie Road, Carrollton in Jefferson Parish, Narcissus, Metairie Road, Fagot Avenue, Labarre Drive, Metairie Road, Cypress Street to Shrewsbury Road. You went back the same way on your return trip.

In December 1934, Jefferson Parish replaced the streetcars with buses, and in 1937 and 1940 the line continued to get shorter and shorter. The end of the line came literally in 1954 when the Royal Blue GW Line was replaced by buses altogether. GW G

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The tiny pool is ready for our kids. The fence is propped up with 2-by-4s. The house is clean, the toys are on the shelves, ready for an onslaught of little hands. But our kids aren’t there. Not only our kids — any kids. Usually, his street is filled with them.

Fifty thousand households aren’t coming back to New Orleans, according to a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll. That number includes a lot of children. The reasons: jobs, schools, homes, the environment.

“You know the story of the Pied Piper,” my friend tells me one night over the phone. “You remember what happened in Hamelin? When the town wouldn’t pay him?” His voice cracks.

He walks to another room so he can cry unnoticed. “He took the children. That’s what it feels like. There’s no kids.”

A sheet of paper hangs in the small classroom in New Iberia. On the top, it reads, “WORDS for our hurricane adventure stories.” Next is the list: Hurricane Katrina; house; cars; van; highway; crowded traffic; Lusher School; flooding; levee; gross, dirty, disgusting water. Then, on the bottom of the page, it says, “Once upon a time … .”

The teacher, Paul Reynaud, has illustrated each word with a little cartoon. Often, it’s a selfcaricature, a bearded, chubby man with a surprised look on his face being chased around by the storm. He always includes such drawings when he writes in the kids’ notebooks. It’s like entering a Jules Feiffer comic.

Last year, Mr. Reynaud was my daughter Cecilia’s first-grade teacher. We bought a house for this to happen. I’d first heard about him from one of his old childhood friends who told me he was the smartest person he’d ever met. Two years ago, we had to decide how to educate our kids in New Orleans. Our answer was to buy a house a block from the school where Mr. Reynaud taught — Lusher Elementary School.

Three families in my New Orleans neighborhood all evacuated to small towns in southwest Louisiana. The week after the storm, we lined up to enroll our kids in the Lafayette school system; the district accepted about 3,000 evacuated students. Then we talked to Mr. Reynaud. He told us he always wanted to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. He could start with just paper, markers and little chairs. Other families signed on. He rented out an old CPA office in New Iberia. There are now about a dozen students from kindergarten to fourth grade. They go to school in the back half; Mr. Reynaud’s parents, who evacuated with him, live in the front half.

New Iberia is surrounded by sugarcane fields. The kids named the school Sugarcane Academy. One of the first field trips was to a cane field, where Mr. Reynaud showed them how to break the stalks and taste the syrup for themselves. They ate lunch along Bayou Teche, where they found a snakeskin. (“Teche” is a Chitimacha Indian word for “snake.”)

They checked out snake books from the New Iberia public library and learned it was a cot-

Lusher teacher Paul Reynaud had said he’d always wanted to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. He got his wish when evacuees formed the Sugarcane Academy in New Iberia, in an old CPA office.

Teacher, parents and students alike return to Lusher this week.

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BOUQUETS BRICKBATS Federal troops, National Guard units and police agencies from across the nation descended upon southeast Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and helped restore order in the most desperate of times. Homeowners and businesses across the region owe a huge debt to the selfless men and women in uniform who braved searing temperatures, oppressive humidity levels and filth to protect local lives and property.

Hornets owner George Shinn showed his mettle and his loyalty by promising to return the city’s NBA franchise to the Crescent City next season. Shinn’s unqualified pledge stands in stark contrast to the position of Saints owner Tom Benson, who said in newspaper ads last week that the team’s future is uncertain — “because no decision has been made about the future of New Orleans.” Who dat say New Orleans ain’t coming back?

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James Huey, who resigned last week as chair of the Orleans Levee Board, used this position to hand no-bid contracts to relatives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and to collect more than $95,000 in disputed “back pay” shortly before the storm. Huey claims his actions were justified, but the timing and appearance of impropriety cast such a cloud over his tenure that the governor reportedly demanded his resignation.

Forty-five NOPD officers were absent without permission — or just deserted — during and after Hurricane Katrina, leaving citizens and their fellow officers to fend for themselves. A handful of deserters even had the audacity to apply for police jobs in Dallas, according to recruiters there. They were later fired from NOPD.

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just let it. It’s the Sabbath. Something or other is going on on earth, under the earth, on top of the earth. Maybe it’s leaves falling or new catastrophes brewing, but whatever they are you’re only just a stick of flesh holding on to your Sabbath.

They’ll be back tomorrow, the bills, the troubles, and the work.

Today you’re on sabbatical and there is nothing they can do to you if you don’t invite them. The sabbatical, like Myron said, doesn’t have to be justified. God took his on the seventh day to be alone not because he wanted to be bothered by prayers, incense, lamentations and pleas. He was hoping that you’d do the same, that’s all. If for one day a week every creature looked after itself without worrying about anything else, creation would become instantly self-evident and there’d be no need to fix everything. All that said, there are people who don’t have the luxury of a day off. They have to dig themselves out of rubble, tend to a wound, swim for life or get down from a tree.

Okay, but when they’ve dug out and haven’t died they should GW keep the Sabbath. All suffering can wait. GW

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For the weekend, I decide to take Cecilia and my 4-year-old son, Miles, to Baton Rouge. There’s going to be an event called Fun Day for evacuated kids; sponsors include the Nickelodeon Channel. Then we’ll keep driving east until we get to New Orleans.

We meet up with friends in a Baton Rouge park. The kids all take off their shoes and start climbing into inflated dragons and caterpillars and castles.

The Storyville Stompers brass band plays as buses drive up with evacuees. There are hot dogs and pickles and sno-balls. Kids line up to get a magazine, a squirt bottle and a jump rope from SpongeBob SqarePants and Dora the Explorer. The real Steve from Blue’s Clues is here in his greenstriped T-shirt. So is his show replacement, Joe, in his purple sweater.

A band from New Orleans, the Imagination Movers, is performing today. We’ve been playing the band’s CDs in our cars since the storm.

When they’re done, we find band members under a tent. Steve and Joe are here, too.

I talk with musician (and former Gambit Weekly managing editor) Rich Collins as Cecilia and a friend discover the Blue’s Clues guys. Rich and his wife, Becky, have three children. Their house flooded. He tells me that the first time they went back, they couldn’t believe what water

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At Sugarcane Academy, parents linger in the morning to talk about the Red Cross and insurance adjusters, about leaving and staying. There are no assignments that require the youngest children to memorize their addresses and phone numbers.

Instead, the kids write in their journals: “What does my city look like?

Does it miss me?”

We refugees crave routines, and Sugarcane Academy almost gave it to us. But few weeks ago, we held a PTA meeting. We sat around cross-legged in a back office and told our stories.

Most people want to get back to town. Mr. Reynaud is ready to return, too. We decided to end classes in New Iberia at the end of October. On Monday, Nov. 7, Sugarcane Academy is scheduled to open its doors in an unspecified location in New Orleans, covering the interim until Lusher School’s anticipated reopening in January.

I don’t really know how I feel about going back. We’re the only family in Sugarcane Academy that isn’t planning to return to New Orleans to live.

When the Sugarcane Academy finally closes its doors in December, we’re moving. That’s the plan.

We haven’t told the kids yet.

Recently, my wife, Tami, returned from Chicago, where she received an offer from a pediatric practice. We’ll take the children someplace and call it a family meeting. We’ll tell them about snow in the winter and swimming in the big lake in the summer.

How we can pile in the car and go visit grandparents who live in the Midwest.

We’ll tell them all these things. But we’ll also have to talk about what will lie just behind us: a city that we left one day and never could find our way back to.

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Sugarcane Academy students aren’t required to fulfill assignments like memorizing addresses and phone numbers. More common are journals, which sport entries like “What does my city look like? Does it miss me?” could do. It pushed a player piano over on its side. Furniture crashed around.

You couldn’t even get some of the doors open. They finally got in and found some family silver, and that’s about all they could salvage.

I look over to make sure my kids are behaving. This Saturday in Baton Rouge has been the lightest day I’ve spent with my kids since we evacuated. In fact, it feels just like New Orleans, seeing old friends. The sadness seems at bay.

About an hour later, we’re crossing Lake Pontchartrain. “We’re in New Orleans,” I announce.

“We are?” Cecilia says. Miles looks out the window. They’re acting so excited, it could be Disneyland.

“Do you want to go straight home, or do you want to see something else?”

“I want to see the old house!” Cecilia shouts. “The old house!” Miles repeats.

They’d heard us talking. The house we’d lived in the year before we moved near Lusher Elementary — the house we lived in when Miles was born — is in the flooded Broadmoor section of town.

As we get closer, the children start to recognize the neighborhood. Lining the streets are piles of refrigerators, box fans, beds, bathtubs, toilets, and mounds of clothes and toys. There are a few boats left on the sidewalk. It’s a sunny afternoon, but the neighborhood is grey and it feels like dusk.

“All the things in New Orleans are so crazy,” says Miles.

I slow down so they can see the old house. Next door, a neighbor has created a mound in his front yard. The couch, the piano. Chairs. Clothes. We drive on.

In our own house, the electricity is on.

We see neighbors with kids. They’re living in Alabama now, but they’re here for the weekend.

Mr. Reynaud is down the street. We stop by. There was water in the classroom; he’s mopping up and throwing things out on the street.

The last time I was in our house, it seemed as if the people who lived here had all died. The old Times-Picayune issue was still sitting on the couch, announcing “Katrina Takes Aim.” Now, it quickly becomes just another afternoon in our home. All the kids from the neighborhood are here, pulling down toys. At the end of the day, I wash their

hands by opening gray cans labeled “drinking water.” We fall asleep easily and wake up the next day to orange juice and breakfast bars. I’d told the kids that we could explore the neighborhood.

Taking a cue from Mr. Reynaud, I say we’ll go on an adventure. We’ll go find the search-and-rescue markings.

On every block, walls and sidewalks bare a painted “X” that’s been left behind by a search-and-rescue team.

In the top quarter of the X is the date of the visitation; most indicate early September. The left side bears the name of the team. The bottom part lists the presence of any bodies. I’d been told “D.B.” means “dead body.” I’d decided not to tell the kids this, but as it turns out, our neighborhood has no D.B.s. On the right, usually, is a circle with a line through it and “ans,” which means no animals. We copy the markings into our Blue’s Clues notebooks.

“This hurricane is long,” Cecilia says.

I ask Miles how he feels about the hurricane.

“I don’t know,” he says.

“Does it make you happy or sad?”

“Sad.” “Why?” “It ruins houses.”

On the way back to Lafayette, I ask the kids about everything they saw. I want to know if they have any more questions. That’s when I realize that Cecilia must have heard the talk about moving.

“Why didn’t we evacuate a long time ago?” she asks.

“What do you mean?”

“Mommy said that we knew a hurricane would come. So why didn’t we evacuate before?”

“Well, what do you think?”

“Because our friends are here.” Then she suddenly adds, “I’m not going to move away. And if I move away, I’m not going to make new friends.”

One morning, a children’s Cajun musician named Papillion comes to Sugarcane Academy. He brings an accordion and a guitar, and a bag of tambourines, drums, triangles and zydeco rubboards for the kids. At first, he plays some Cajun songs.

Then he starts out “Mardi Gras Mambo.”

He sings, “Down in New Orleans where the blues was born …” Eli, a first-grader,

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Papillion stops. “Did you hear about the zoo? How the animals are all OK?” “All the fish in the aquarium died,” Eli says.

“That’s true; a lot of them did,” Papillion says. “But people all over the world are going to help.”

“I had a fish, and it didn’t die,” says another first-grader.

“A lot of good things happened,” Papillion says. “A lot of people have learned to be kinder.”

“I’m going to be going back to New Orleans,” says Olivia, a fourth-grader.

Papillion then breaks into “They All Ask’d For You,” an old Meters song that starts out, “I went on down to the Audubon Zoo and they all ask’d for you.”

Afterward, there’s more talk about the hurricane. “It was sad to see a lot of the trees down,” says Papillion. “But people are cleaning it up.”

“Yeah, we all live on the same block, and we walk to school together,” says Olivia.

Papillion closes with a song about making a wish. He talks about how they’ll all see their friends again, and how the friends will say, “Look at you!”

Cecilia closes her eyes to wish. Papillion asks her about it. She can’t tell him what it is, she says, or it won’t come true. .

We’re Back

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ambit Weekly, New Orleans’ award-winning alternative newsweekly, resumes regular weekly publication with this issue. As per custom, the paper began circulating on Sunday, Oct. 30 — in time to honor what has become a New Orleans tradition of red beans, rice and Gambit Weekly on Mondays.

“We are proud to bring back an important part of New Orleans,” says publisher Margo DuBos, who has guided the paper since 1987. “Like many of our readers and advertisers, we suffered enormous setbacks with the flooding of our Mid-City offices and the evacuations of our staff, but, thankfully, all of our employees are well and Gambit Weekly is now back on its feet. While we faced many obstacles as we worked to get back in print, we

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are buoyed by the tremendous response that we have received from readers and advertisers upon hearing that Gambit Weekly has resumed publication. We are more confident than ever that New Orleans is on its way back — and that Gambit Weekly will play a part in that recovery.”

Hurricane Katrina has changed New Orleans forever, and some changes likewise have occurred at Gambit Weekly.

The paper’s long-time editor, Michael Tisserand, and several other veteran staff members have decided not to return to New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.

Gambit Communications Inc. chairman and political columnist Clancy DuBos, who has served twice before as the paper’s editor, has resumed editorial leadership responsibilities once again.

“I think it’s significant that Gambit Weekly is back — and particularly that it’s back on All Saints’ Day, an important and revered holiday in New Orleans,” says Clancy DuBos. “I can’t think of a better day to bring back a beloved New Orleans institution than on one of its favorite holidays.”

While celebrating the return of their paper, Margo and Clancy DuBos also acknowledged the generosity of alternative newsweeklies across the country, many of which sent financial contributions to assist Gambit Weekly staffers in the wake of Katrina. “We are grateful beyond words for the outpouring of offers and assistance that our employees and our company received as a result of this catastrophe,” says Margo DuBos. “The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, its staff and member papers will always have a special place in our hearts, and for the rest of our lives we will owe them a great debt of gratitude. We could not have come back without them.”

In addition to print versions of Gambit Weekly, the newspaper’s Web site, www. bestofneworleans.com, likewise resumes publication this week.

Gambit Weekly, now celebrating 25 years in print, will be distributed free at more than 160 local retailers and restaurants in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes.

While the paper’s home on Bienville Street in New Orleans is being gutted and restored, the company has established a temporary home in Metairie — at 2800 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 320. The paper also has a new telephone GW number: (504) 831-2307. GW

Next week, Michael Tisserand continues his multi-part series, “Submerged: An Evacuee’s Journal,” with a trip to St. Bernard Parish. For the rest of Tisserand’s series, visit www. altweeklies.com and click on the “Submerged” icon in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Tisserand can be reached at michaeltisserand@yahoo.com.

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‘State of Emergency’

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atrina has changed everything. Three months ago, Mayor Ray Nagin looked like a shoo-in for re-election, probably without a major opponent. Now I’m not sure he could beat my dog Stella. Lucky for Nagin, my dog can’t run.

She’s now domiciled in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Oh, yeah. There’s one other thing: It’s not certain that the Feb. 4 elections will even be held.

Under state law, Gov. Kathleen Blanco has authority to suspend or delay elections — upon certification by Secretary of State Al Ater that a “state of emergency” exists. What qualifies as a “state of emergency”? The statute authorizing the governor to delay elections references “maximum citizen participation” among other factors.

Hurricane Rita and its aftermath led Ater to recommend suspending the Oct. 15 elections in several southwest Louisiana parishes. Blanco agreed and delayed the elections one month. Ater’s news release stated that his office “will not be able to have machines, personnel, or electorate in place.”

Does New Orleans’ slow recovery constitute a “state of emergency”? We’ll see.

One thing that is clear is that New Orleans faces a “political emergency.” Katrina laid bare Nagin’s weaknesses as a politician and as a mayor, particularly his inability to seek out good advice — and then follow it — and his penchant for talking without checking his facts.

For example, his erratic comments in the weeks after Katrina about folks returning to town. First

he said to stay away. Then he said to come home.

Then he sent people away again when Hurricane Rita threatened — all within a few days.

That was just one example, possibly undertandable in the heat of battle. His ill-fated idea of a casino district, on the other hand, allegedly came after sober reflection.

Worse still, when hundreds of Lakeview residents gathered on Oct. 1 at Heritage Plaza — 100 yards beyond the 17th Street Canal — to express concerns about not being allowed back into their neighborhood, Nagin declined their invitation to attend. He said if they wanted to meet with him they would have to do so in New Orleans. DUH! The whole point of the meeting was his refusal to allow them into New Orleans.

Three weeks later, several thousand Lakeview residents gathered in the schoolyard behind St. Dominic’s Church, barely a mile and a half from Nagin’s home. Again, he snubbed them — after traveling to Shreveport, Dallas and elsewhere to meet with evacuees and who-knows-else.

On several other occasions, Nagin has told media that he is “homeless.” That’s news to his neighbors. Several of them tell me Nagin’s home stayed high and dry on Park Island.

Does this sound like a guy who’s running for re-election … or running from reality?

I don’t enjoy posing that question. This newspaper supported Nagin enthusiastically nearly four years ago. Our endorsement helped give him cred-

ibility at a pivotal point in the campaign. Like so many others, we saw in him a refreshing change from “business as usual” at City Hall.

To be fair, Nagin has cleaned up a lot of the patronage mess left by his predecessors. He deserves praise for that.

But he hasn’t done much else. And he deserves criticism for that.

Moreover, while Katrina raged, he retreated into a self-imposed state of isolation, taking cues from virtually no one, and he froze at a critical moment in the city’s history. I have heard this from too many people who were there at the time to overlook or discount such reports. His erratic comments, his failure to reach out to or get in step with other elected officials, and his self-portrayal as “rowing alone” — it all underscores his isolation and ineffectiveness. At a time when he should be engaged as never before, Ray Nagin has marginalized himself.

Secretary of State Ater probably has lots of reasons to conclude that a “state of emergency” exists in New Orleans. But I’m not sure delaying the election will do anybody any good.

Just last week, at Nagin’s first “town hall meeting,” he flippantly answered a critic who called his Bring New Orleans Back Commission a “reelection commission” by saying, “You want the job, man? Maybe we can work something out.”

Yeah. Maybe my dog Stella can come home and GW run after all. At least she listens. GW

Katrina laid bare Nagin’s weaknesses as a politician and as a mayor, particularly his inability to seek out good advice — and then follow it.

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can be a horrific pruner of city foliage; block after block of treetops that seemed visited by the cutting crews of the high-wire public utilities. Boys with horrible haircuts. …

The saviors are named Eric and Johnny and they wait in their boat while clothes are grabbed. Your worldly possessions look surrealistically picturesque as they float by, one last appraisal before they are soaked and sad and shoveled out of your life forever. It was nice having you around.

Maybe I should have paid more attention when I had the chance.

Outside, the water-shaped city will be part of the public memory, the collective recall of images. But these few, these sad, beautiful few will be mine alone. …

A couple of rescue rides and a stuporwalk later, and all around Causeway and I-10 is the churning of people who look like colorized newsreels of those fleeing the guns of war.

We like to think, even those of us who have received or given great harm, that there is a sliver of innocence that remains, a hidden part of us that believes that although we are aware of even greater evil in the world, we won’t be called to witness or promote it.

After this — this wide circle where minute by minute planes and boats and trucks vomit up the ragged and the ruined — after this, it will be much, much harder to believe in all that.

After an unruly ride to refugeehood, the yellow school buses disgorged us at a basketball gym. After midnight some generators were located and the lights uncovered people lined against retractable bleachers like gulls on a seawall.

In the gym’s too-bright lights, everyone looked like figures from a wax museum, things pale and obsolete. Yesterday they might have looked at the world right in the face, with their shoulders back and their back straight, but now and here, there is only sadness in this place of play, and everyone looks like lost ephemera in the white light.

There will be a great deal of healing due when all this is over. I hope to be GW around for some of it. GW

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s I was swimming naked through the living room …

You might say that lead is a dirty little trick, a deliberately distorted view of things worded like the start of a Lewis Carroll chapter.

The only thing arguing against the “dirty little trick” label is the mere and pitiful truth. I was swimming naked through the living room, here on the forenoon after the hurricane had left. Left but left behind the effects, with the time to ponder them, fear them, curse them.

Here are some floating by now, a purple candle escaped from its candlestick, a Jean Harlow video, a wooden Javanese deity, a coffee table book, a coffee table.

All looked out of place, of course, like the illustration of a child’s book of the fantastic or absurd. All except the Javanese deity. It must have a role here, a role explaining the ways of God to man. In Greek tragedy, the audience was always being warned of the danger of self-security and forgetting the existence of powers who trump correctness and justice.

It would be hard to forget them today.

They are everywhere up and down Hidalgo Street and as far as the eye can see. …

The hurricane officially began the night before, when the electricity went out.

The house shuddered without light and moaned its fear. Branches slashed the walls, and from time to time things heard but not seen crashed into them.

The winds would flex out the sound of a Wurlitzer organ for a half-minute at a time.

As dawn seeps into the world, everywhere is evidence to back the devoutest gambler’s faith in fate. Here the gasping taproots of the overturned shade tree, once the neighborhood’s pride and joy, and there its upright tiny neighbor. Here a peeled-back roof and wall showing the furniture inside like a dollhouse, and next door a bungalow serene in its intactness. Such unpredictability is why people bother to pray. …

You don’t dare take the time to think of Death once he actually steps onto the stage with you. You do your best to push him offstage or get on with your role in the play. That way his presence can be set aside another day, while you make yourself readier.

But later, lying in bed, I stared out the window into electric-free darkness made even more complete by the regular flash of white light every half-minute or so, like a final holdout against the void.

Now there is the time and place to think about anything that troubles you.

Yet all this leisure yields only this: Death is the certain loss that validates all your wins. And this storm with the silly-sounding name? The uncertain loss to better prepare you for the certain one. …

From here you can only see the tops of trees — here a camphor, there a pecan — and they are all badly pocked. Nature

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n the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a domestic form of battle fatigue settled over New Orleans like the muck that remains after floodwaters recede. People in all corners of town were simply overwhelmed by what they saw, felt, experienced — and feared. Optimism was in short supply. Devastation was everywhere.

Now, as the long recovery period begins, many still are daunted by a threshold question: Where do we start?

We think the answer lies in another threshold question: What are our priorities?

To answer that question, Gambit Weekly set out to ask as dozens of New Orleanians — from a wide array of backgrounds and disciplines — three fundamental questions about the rebuilding process: • What should our priorities be?

• What elements of New Orleans must we preserve at all costs?

• What mistakes must we avoid at all costs?

The first step was tracking down local opinion-makers, business owners, artists, musicians, civic leaders and just plain folks in the aftermath of the New Orleans Diaspora. We ourselves had been homeless for almost two months. Finding respondents was difficult, but engaging those we found was easy. Everyone we

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Maybe that’s the real first step each of us can take: getting engaged in the process.

“We need, each of us, to take a serious inventory of our personal and collective pride in our city and each do our part to make that better,” says Jonathan Ferrara, an artist who also owns Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. “We have a unique opportunity to make it better, but we can also screw it up.”

That mix of hope and warning was a common thread.

“It’s a new day in New Orleans, and we have the opportunity to paint a new picture of our city,” says civil engineer and businessman Roy Glapion Jr. “This picture will represent the new New Orleans. Our old picture had many errors that seemed impossible to solve, such as crime and education issues. My concern is who’s holding the paintbrushes that will define our city for the next century?”

The sense of opportunity was another recurring theme.

“Out of the tremendous pain and suffering that came at the hands of this catastrophic event, New Orleans now has the distinct, unprecedented opportunity of a second chance to right its wrongs, to replace

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its disparities with equalities, to integrate its segregated communities, to rank our children and their educational needs at the top of our priority lists,” says Lynette Colin, branch manager of the HOPE Community Credit Union in Central City. “I pray that we seize this opportunity to make New Orleans what it should be — one of the top ranking cities in the nation.”

Others showed their grit.

“Adversity reveals character, it does not build it. I still believe in this city,” says Rod West, chief counsel for Entergy.

Chef John Besh echoed that sentiment: “We don’t need to sell our city — just clean it up and it will return, better than ever. I’ve got everything riding on it.”

“When we get discouraged, we need to remember that if our ancestors had quit when life got tough, none of us would be here,” says Charlie Smith, a poet and lobbyist for the arts.

More than anything else, New Orleanians from all walks believe that the city must rebuild itself socially as well as physically and economically.

“New Orleans has the opportunity to become a model of urban renewal and revitalization,” says Ron Forman, CEO of the Audubon Institute. “We must hold true to what makes us unique — our culture, our history, our diversity, our lust for life. At the same time,

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we must fix what was and is broken — our schools and the threat (and reality) of violent crime in our city. We will have resources we could not have imagined. But, we must reach across race, geography, history and politics to work together.”

“As a community, we have to take ownership, but first we must avoid the racial divide that we’ve known,” says Irvin Mayfield, jazz maestro, composer and artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. “Rebuilding New Orleans isn’t a white or black issue, it’s an American issue. We’re all Americans and we should be proud of our city as Americans.”

In that spirit, our first post-Katrina cover story also kicks off a three-part series, “The Road Back,” with a discussion of our priorities, our heritage, and our aspirations as a community. We hope it’s just the beginning of a productive American dialogue.

A note to our readers: The responses below represent just a sampling of the wonderful feedback we received. To see the full text of all responses, go to www.bestofneworleans.com.

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What should New Orleans’ priorities be at the outset of the rebuilding process?

Patrick C. Breaux, M.D. President, Orleans Parish Medical Society “Our three top priorities should be jobs, public elementary and secondary education, and health care.

New Orleans should pursue economic development in biotechnology and information technology. To attract these jobs, however, we must solve our public education crisis in the city. Prior to Katrina, health care was the largest employer (if you include hospitals, physician practices, the medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, etc.) We had three academic medical centers, two medical schools, a vibrant private practice medical community and a safety net system for all citizens. We must preserve much of this infrastructure if we expect people to move back to New Orleans. Access to quality health care is a huge ‘quality of life’ measure that we should seek to ensure in the rebuilding process.”

Dickie Brennan Managing Partner, Dickie Brennan’s Restaurants “We need real protection. Solve coastal erosion and put in a levee system that will eliminate any doubt about the future safety of our citizens. Then, realign parish governments into ‘metropolitan area services.’ Other cities have had success coordinating basic services. Police, schools, and public transportation are all basic services. We don’t need eight different police forces. We need one agency to take care of all the levees. We also must create a new business environment. Business needs a single entry point to government that is state-of-the-art and supports their efforts to locate and expand here. We have a tendency to prevent businesses from wanting to make investments in New Orleans because of old ways.”

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‘We need to make sure that jazz, Mardi Gras Indians, social aid and pleasure clubs, jazz funerals, second-lines, brass bands, local food, literature festivals, music festivals, museums, etc., return. We can’t lose any part of this, or we’ll lose a part of ourselves.’

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Lynette Colin Branch Manager, HOPE Community Credit Union “Develop affordable housing stock in diverse, integrated neighborhoods throughout the city — neighborhoods that bear the distinction of a residential mix of socio-economic backgrounds that will encompass both rental and owneroccupied properties, complete with sustainable infrastructure. The timely attraction of adequate private reinvestment capital will greatly enhance public investment contributions for the rebuilding and revitalization of the New Orleans small business community. Priority must be given to small and disadvantaged businesses, non-profit organizations and micro-enterprises.”

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Sean Cummings Developer “We need to fundamentally reduce the cost of doing business in New Orleans, and we need to focus economic development on what we can be the best in the world at doing. This state needs to take the courageous step to eliminate all income taxes. Like nothing else, it will induce companies and people to stay, grow and even relocate here. To push us to new heights, we should bring a world-class culinary institute to New Orleans. With New Orleans to spice up the branding, this Institute could be the best in the nation, a culinary university which draws people from all over the region and the world.”

Jonathan Ferrara Artist, Gallery Owner “Transparency must be a top priority in the rebuilding process. We, the people of New Orleans, must be able to see where the reconstruction money is going. Given our history of corruption, we must know that the dollars intended for rebuilding our great city are not going

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Ron Forman CEO, Audubon Institute “First, build a safe New Orleans. Repair and rebuild our levee system. This is critical, and I’m certain it is on the mind of any individual or business considering staying or investing in New Orleans. Focus also on public safety and rebuilding our Police Department. Immediate attention must also be paid to the businesses New Orleans has and those we are on the brink of losing due to circumstances created by Katrina. Adopt a plan that will stimulate the economy and bring jobs back to New Orleans in the short term and focus on long-term growth.”

Roy Glapion Jr. Civil Engineer & Businessman “Our top priority should be helping the people of New Orleans return to their quality of life as quickly as possible. In doing that, we must make certain that ALL local or Louisiana-based firms are being utilized in the rebuilding process.

This is currently not being done. We also must make certain that the people of New Orleans are informed about the progress of our city.”

Okyeame Haley Attorney “New Orleans’ top three priorities should be competitive education, meaningful housing assistance, and compassionate capitalism.”

Ray Manning Architect “Analyze, design and construct an improved levee system before June 2006.

Prepare a comprehensive plan to rebuild New Orleans based on science, natural capitalism, equity and speed. Create a

plan of evacuation for hurricane season 2006 that works for everyone.”

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Don Marshall Executive Director, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation “Economic and cultural integration should permeate the three major components of rebirth — education, economic development and neighborhood restoration. Public, private and parochial schools must develop collaborative relationships and put an end to our extreme segregation. ... Music and the Arts must be an integral part of learning. Partner with cultural institutions that expand learning opportunities: NOMA, Backstreet, LPO, Ashe, CAC, Mardi Gras, Ogden, DDay, Jazz Fest. Build on our cultural economy: music, literature, culinary arts, film, theatre, architecture, folk life, crafts, dance, visual arts, celebrations, fashion and design. Stabilize endangered neighborhoods that contribute to the greatness of the community from Treme and Mid-City to the Ninth Ward and the Lakefront. Provide assistance to homeowners who do not have the resources to gut their home.”

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Kevin Martin Civil Engineer “Rebuilding priorities should include a sound flood protection system (levees, flood walls and pumps) that has the demonstrated integrity (design, construction and adequate maintenance) to protect the city against a Category 4 or 5 storm and its associated storm surge and rain.

Another priority is an ethnically and economically diverse population. In addition, we must rebuild homes to meet contemporary building codes and, most importantly, to reflect the city’s architectural and cultural heritage.”

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William T. (Ted) Mason III CPA “New Orleans’ top priorities at the outset should be securing a commitment from the federal government to rebuild levees to protect the city from a Category 5 storm, having the business community take charge of getting the city moving forward and up and running, and getting the government out of the way of the business community.”

Irvin Mayfield Jazz Musician & Composer “Rebuilding New Orleans will require more than just new buildings, streets and reinforced levees.

It will require attention to culture/ arts education, which gives our future generation hope and the tools to tackle complicated issues creatively. It will require attention to who gets decent-paying jobs. And it will require affordable housing for our returning evacuees. When new housing structures are developed, care should be taken to offer previous residents the opportunity to purchase.”

Stephen Perry President/CEO, New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau “All priorities should be wrapped in a refusal to accept mediocrity, the status quo, and reflect a commitment to national excellence.

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Priority one should be the re-establishment of the basic economics of the city — the hospitality industry, the port and maritime industry, and the creation of unprecedented tax stimuli to make this the most attractive business zone in America. Priority two should be restoration of all essential city services (including a thorough cleaning of the city) utilizing a creative, incentive-driven privatization approach that makes New Orleans the leanest, most efficient city in the nation. Third should be the total re-engineering of the public school system, utilizing an innovative, downsized, charter school approach with new governance, school buildings, and freedom from old rules, barriers, and politics.”

Jim Randels Teacher, Writer “Reopen the public schools as soon as possible; develop the neighborhood public schools as key part of community hubs through which all sectors of society work, providing low-income housing and health clinics; and make the history and rebuilding of New Orleans the lens through which all students develop academic skills and take ownership of their city.”

George Rodrigue Artist “Do everything possible to suspend the fear of another hurricane hitting New Orleans: fix the levees and the pumps. Realize RIGHT NOW that New Orleans depends on city, state, and U.S. government — three areas of politics which all must be on the same page.

This long journey will require the influx of new young people, who see opportunities to help the re-birth of the city.

The question is, Do I bring it back, or does my son?”

David Rubenstein Co-Owner, Rubenstein Bros.

“New Orleans’ top priorities are really two priorities — short-term needs and long-term needs. The short-term need is to plan the staging for repopulating New Orleans. This requires all resources to be directed and coordinated first to the neighborhoods. The long-term priorities are rebuilding our educational system and attracting industries that build our economic engines. We need careful planning of investment and capital. We need to re-visit our methods of taxation so that we become attractive to business.”

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businesses, and reduce poverty and crime. We should use existing school sites to establish middle school and high school learning academies to teach basic skills for direct employment in specific job sectors such as the construction/building, culinary/hospitality and computer/graphics industries. Divide each student’s day between academics and specific training programs taught by local master craftsmen and artisans. Partner with local and national businesses to sponsor these programs, provide teachers — and, above all, hire the graduates.”

Wayne Troyer Architect “Develop a grand vision that embraces and supports the diversity of our cultural heritages. New Orleans must become a city that is responsive to the changing needs of society in the 21st century. This would be accomplished by creating an urban plan that utilizes art, architecture, and landscape designs in making places that can enhance the human spirit and encourage creative expression. New Orleans is a city of overlapping cultures. Urban planning initiatives must promote sustainable, mixed-use neighborhoods and the elimination of segregation based on economics or race. Social and environmental changes cannot be isolated issues....

There are many specific architectural responses, but the main issues before us are planning and vision.”

Robbie Vitrano Advertising & Public Relations Executive “If ever there has been a time to move past blame and excuses, this is it.

It’s time to drop, once and for all, this romantic notion of New Orleans as the northernmost Caribbean nation. There’s not only room for us in America, we have something they all desperately want: a capitalistic opportunity in which both black and white can prosper; humanity and soul.”

Charlie Smith Arts Lobbyist, Poet “Begin immediately to rebuild the levees — but also dam up the MR-GO and use it as a landfill for hurricane debris.

Then rebuild the barrier islands and coastline. We also must provide infrastructure before asking people to return, unless they’re part of the rebuilding.”

Judy Watts Executive Director, Agenda for Children “Public housing must be opened immediately. Thousands of low-income families are still waiting to come home while public housing stock – much of it in good condition – lies empty and idle. Schools and childcare must be in place by January. Families can’t come back if these pieces are missing. Never before has the catch phrase ‘children are our future’ been more meaningful.

A city without children literally has no future. And, there must be good jobs with decent wages and an organized effort to assist returning evacuees with securing employment.... Our businesses won’t survive without a competent reliable workforce.”

Allison Stewart Artist “Our three priorities for rebuilding New Orleans should be education, education, education. Establishing a public school system that provides quality education to our children will create meaningful employment, attract new

Rod West Attorney, Entergy “The top three priorities should be public safety (environmental, crime, water quality, sewerage, and utilities), a comprehensive temporary housing plan, and an urban planning model to focus spending priorities.”

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What elements of New Orleans must we preserve at all costs?

John Besh Chef/Restaurateur “The old charm of New Orleans should be preserved through its architecture, music, food and hospitality. That’s a given. Meanwhile, we have to be careful about segregating ourselves from each other. Through the cultural arts, all races and creeds are brought together. Preserve the neighborhoods and the corner stores; these are the cornerstones of our community.”

Keith Butler Investment Banker & Real Estate Developer “Read the architecture of old New Orleans, and you see in it a commitment to execution, high quality, and risk taking in design. Not only do we have to preserve those old buildings, but we also have to recapture the attitudes that put those buildings up.”

John Deveney Advertising and Public Relations Executive “Diversity has been our greatest strength. It created the cuisine, music, festivals and traditions for which we are globally renown. Our rich tapestry of diversity attracted $5.5 billion dollars spent by 10.1 million visitors last year and inspired some of the greatest artists of the past century. Respect and inclusion regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, faith, ethnicity or socioeconomic standing will allow us to maximize our cultural economy. This period gives us a chance to leverage that heritage to become the national role model for tolerance.”

Roy Glapion Jr. Engineer/Businessman “We must preserve the 9th Ward, which is the true backbone of our old city, along with the East, Lakeview, Pontchartrain Park, the 7th ward, red beans and rice on Monday, and fried fish and potato salad on Friday. In short, we must preserve our culture, how we think, how we live, our way of life.”

Okyeame Haley Attorney “We must preserve live New Orleans music; our civil rights history; brass bands; second lines; Mardi Gras Indians; the African retentions in New Orleans food, music, dance and language; and our architecture. We must bring back the people. Pre-Katrina New Orleanians must be given the first opportunity to repopulate and rebuild the city.”

Wayne J. Lee Attorney and Past President, Louisiana State Bar Association “The city needs to fervently work to restore, preserve and promote the things that make New Orleans unique. Our musical, artistic and culinary heritage is part of the city’s heart and soul. They make people from around the world want to visit and keep coming back.”

Irvin Mayfield Jazz Musician & Composer “The majority of our historic architecture survived relatively well, but we can ensure that new architecture preserves the ‘old’ New Orleans spirit. Additionally, we need to make sure that jazz, Mardi Gras Indians, social aid and pleasure clubs, jazz funerals, second-lines, brass bands, local food, literature festivals, music festivals, museums, etc., return. When these return, then you’ll know our folks have returned. Our culture is unlike any other in

the United States, and it’s this culture that brings people to our city over and over.

We can’t lose any part of this, or we’ll lose a part of ourselves.”

Echo Olander Executive Director, KIDsmART “The arts and culture of New Orleans are not just the soul but also the backbone of the community. They are created and perpetuated by the widest cross-section of the population. It is essential that the future New Orleans recognizes and supports all of the arts – architecture, music, theater, visual arts and the folk arts, which are the beginning, end and everything in between of New Orleans’ soul.”

Roberto Quintal, M.D. Cardiologist “New Orleans will only be New Orleans to the extent that we are able to preserve our multicultural heritage. New Orleans must maintain its ‘flavor.’”

Jim Randels Teacher, Writer “New Orleans’ most important asset is its ‘blackness.’ That’s the root of our creativity and culture, our gift to the world through jazz, gumbo, Mardi Gras Indians, and social aid and pleasure clubs. That’s been the backbone of our sense of justice and our greatest unity, as expressed in the 1866 Constitutional Convention for black suffrage, the Citizens’ Committee’s challenge to the Separate Car Act in 1892, the formation of American Federation of Teachers Local 527 in 1937 to fight for quality public education and equal pay for black teachers, and the development of world-renowned arts education programs.”

Charlie Smith Arts Lobbyist, Poet “Ensure the preservation of all the historic things, architecturally and culturally, that make our city unique. Fight the urge to bulldoze or go for the quick fix. Do not rebuild expensive instant slums but do encourage home ownership in the salvageable neighborhoods. We are not, never will be, and should not seek to be Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, or, God forbid, Las Vegas. Preservation of the culture is inseparable from preservation of our architecture.”

Wayne Troyer Architect “We must preserve our city’s compassion, grace, and spirit — and our existing architecture. The historic fabric of our architecture needs to be celebrated, restored, and maintained. Our celebration of life and all the ways that it is manifested — food, music, art, dancing, and the sharing of our lifestyle with visitors.”

Judy Watts Executive Director, Agenda for Children “Our people need ready access to reliable health care. This is especially urgent for low-income families. Charity Hospital has been a lifeline for poor people in our city for many years and with Charity facing an uncertain future, families are concerned about their health care needs being met.”

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What mistakes must we avoid at all costs?

Dickie Brennan Managing Partner, Dickie Brennan’s Restaurants “Everyone must participate. We need to find ways to move certain segments of our community into the mainstream.

I just read an article describing the ‘underclass’ of New Orleans. It basically explains a societal segment here that has limited access and no hope when it comes to contributing to the mainstream of our community. The bottom line is that this can’t exist in a healthy new New Orleans.”

Keith Butler Investment Banker & Developer “Don’t get bogged down. Don’t back ourselves into a corner by telling everybody what they want to hear. New York did that with the families of 9/11. Four years later Ground Zero remains a hole in the ground in Lower Manhattan. Delays have been exacerbated as the state fights with the city. Sound familiar? Run the Commissions as meritocracies that defer to the best ideas, even if most of them come from one or two members.

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Lynette Colin Branch Manager, HOPE Community Credit Union “We must circumvent the segregation that existed in many low-income neighborhoods, i.e., the 9th Ward. And even further, we must prevent the erosion of infrastructure. We must provide for access in those communities where there is only limited availability or no existence at all of essential business services, such as financial institutions, shopping facilities, etc., only those that prey upon the residents of those communities.”

John Deveney Advertising and Public Relations Executive “Corruption and the divisiveness of discrimination are fatal. We have to rebuild a playing field that is just and level. Our rebuilding will require all members of the community working together. ‘Politics as usual’ that has made our past leaders popular targets of federal investigations and indictments will evaporate the tremendous national and federal support required — and available — for this great undertaking. Abuse of power (from police brutality to cronyism) has to be relegated to the sadder chapters of our his-

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tory. The ignorance of intolerance that breeds discrimination, oppression and violence can have no place here.”

Jonathan Ferrara Artist, Gallery Owner “Politics and political in-fighting must not be allowed to prevail over common sense and a common cause. The world has seen our dirty laundry aired on CNN. Must we continue that with our politicians clamoring for control, or do we unite for a better future?”

Ron Forman CEO, Audubon Institute “The parochial politics of the New Orleans region were evident during the storm and have continued post-Katrina.

Local officials continue to work in isolation to develop parish plans instead of looking at our region and working together to rebuild Greater New Orleans.

How can we connect New Orleans to the east with Mississippi and to the west with Baton Rouge? In the next few years, the emphasis should be on healing our region. During this process we should focus on how to develop a strong middle class in New Orleans.

Through job creation and wise land use that offers affordable housing, we should work to create a city that is no longer a city of haves and have-nots.”

Okyeame Haley Attorney “Avoid quick fixes like numerous charter schools and casinos. Avoid rewarding those who demonize the poor.”

Ray Manning Architect “The primary problem facing New Orleans is leadership. Not in terms of top-down leadership but the ability of new voices and all the voices that make of the city to speak for the least among us. Moving forward, all citizens need to know that their leadership truly understands their needs. … We live in an environmentally sensitive zone. If that is not clear now, we are doomed.

We all need to see that this community was always 72 hours away from chaos on any day prior to Katrina, and unless we truly change our thinking about what is important we cannot rebuild this city and its neighborhoods.”

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& Heritage Festival and Foundation “What mistakes must be avoided?

Segregation in our schools, our neighborhoods, our businesses and institutions and in our minds. Lack of respect and support for education. Lack of proper training for our workforce. Poverty and unemployment. Wages that don’t reflect the cost of living. Inability to see past perceived differences and work together for the good of the entire community. We need hospitals working together, schools working together, races working together, politicians working together. Constantly lowering our standards and expectations. Not having floodgates at all canals where they meet the lake. Underpasses that allow water to flow all over the city instead of using the railroad tracks as a second levee — and not filling in the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.”

William T. (Ted) Mason III CPA “The greatest mistake would be to think we can rebuild New Orleans as it was. We have the opportunity before us to transform New Orleans into a great place to do business and live — and to miss this chance could mean the death of the city.”

Jim Monaghan Jr. Proprietor, Molly’s At the Market “One mistake we should avoid in rebuilding New Orleans is the re-creation of political fiefdoms, whether it be the School Board, City Hall, the Levee Board or the Sewerage and Water Board. These boards and all levels of government should work cooperatively with the understanding that they work for the citizens of New Orleans.”

Echo Olander Executive Director, KIDsmART “We must fight against cookie-cutter neighborhoods that pay no attention to the environment or communities living in them. Let’s examine cutting-edge practices of environmental protection and eco-friendly communities using the architecture and the craftsmen of the city.”

Henry F. Owsley Investment Banker “Avoid re-ghettoizing the city and allowing the bureaucracy to reassert itself in unproductive ways.”

Stephen Perry President/CEO, New Orleans Metropol-

itan Convention and Visitors Bureau “We must refuse to rebuild what we were. ... We need new standards of excellence and new vision, the infusion of the best ideas from the best and brightest minds in America. Every time you hear that we must have local vision primarily drive the recovery, know that it is just code for protecting the way we were, doing it the wrong way, returning us to mediocrity.”

Roberto Quintal, M.D. Cardiologist “We have to prevent the clustering of poverty in certain areas of the city.

This type of economic segregation is, I believe, the principal culprit of high crime rates.”

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George Rodrigue Artist “The biggest mistake everyone made was in not taking the city’s vulnerability seriously. This hurricane has changed all that and more — for the good and for the bad. To permanently protect the city against these natural disasters is a challenge not only for the city, but also for America.”

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Allison Stewart Artist “The greatest mistake of the 20th Century was for the middle and upper classes to abandon the public schools.

Post-Katrina New Orleans must rebuild its public education system from the ground up.”

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Wayne Troyer Architect “We must avoid ‘Disneyfication’ of our architectural heritage. Architecture must be responsive of its time and place. A contemporary work executed with skill and integrity creates a wonderful and stimulating dialogue between the old and the new. Contemporary architecture can be humanistic and technically advanced. Replication of old styles diminishes the original.”

Robbie Vitrano Advertising/Public Relations Executive “Mayors (or other leaders) as kings instead of public servants. This is an indictment on the population (not elected officials), by the way. As a whole, we have a dysfunctional relationship with our public leaders, surrendering our power and ideals, expecting either generosity (homestead exemption) and/or a savior, both of which abdicates personal responsibility.”

Judy Watts Executive Director, Agenda for Children “The combination of race and poverty created a fault-line in the aftermath of Katrina that must not be ignored. As we rebuild our city, let’s come together to confront and eliminate the manifestations of injustice and inequality and set an example for the rest of the nation.

This will require a plan, not just more discussion. It means examining the evidence – beginning with the appalling illustrations that were in everybody’s face during and after the storm – and acting with honesty and integrity to right the wrongs for this generation and future generations.”

Rod West Attorney, Entergy “We must avoid expecting (or wanting) our city to return to ‘normal.’ We also must avoid relying on old paradigms — such as the politics of race and class — to address public education, health care, and economic development GW initiatives.” GW

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Temple of Fitness

At the new Temple personal training studio (4521 Magazine St., 261-8988 or 2022446), those looking to tone themselves, build endurance and strengthen their bodies will never encounter a “one size fits all” workout program.

“Our forte here is personalized training,” says owner Gus Mendoza, who has been in the fitness business since 1982. “Each person is an individual who requires a different training (program). You may have injuries that I will take into consideration … and everyone has a different lifestyle, temperament and discipline level.”

Instead of setting up a master workout mold into which they fit all their clients, Mendoza and trainer Les Schmidt pull from their decades of experience to combine whatever exercise disciplines are needed for each person. The staff soon will include more than a half-dozen fulltime trainers and a nutritionist who will advise clients how best to meet their dietary needs.

“When everyone is working out once a week and all working out the same way, that’s not personal,” says Schmidt. “We’ll find out what’s going to work for [each client]; keep some muscle, keep down the injuries, look at their form and results and strengths.” When a workout program is set up specifically for an individual and they can see results, Schmidt says, they tend to stick with it and it becomes a part of their lifestyle. A trainer can add or subtract components to keep them from losing interest.

Owner Gus Mendoza works out on a Flex Fitness machine Mendoza renovated the building, which was at his new Temple personal training studio Uptown. a firehouse when it first was built in 1892 and was converted to a dry cleaning business in the 1920s, to have a comfortable and stylish interior space with exposed brick walls, beam ceilings and a huge, arched window that allows light in through the front. The studio is equipped with top-of-the-line exercise machines by Flex Fitness — Temple is the first studio in New Orleans to install the line — as well as weights large and small.

Even when a customer is on a machine, the trainers are watching and adjusting the equipment to perfectly fit each person’s size and monitoring the resistance level to match their fitness goals. “I use the machines to gauge improvement and strengths,” Mendoza says. “I use free weights to build stabilizer muscles. I adjust the machines and routines according to a person’s injuries and their abilities.”

A Woman’s Touch

Plastic surgeon Dr. Cynthia Mizgala has opened a new office and medi-spa with therapeutic and relaxation services at 4720 I-10 Service Road, Metairie (885-4515). Originally Mizgala had scheduled a grand opening for mid-September, but Hurricane Katrina postponed those plans until December or January.

The medical practice and spa, however, are open, with the full-service spa providing manicures, pedicures, relaxing massages, facials by esthetician Sara Gremillion, body treatments, back facials, eyelash extensions and tinting, body wraps, scrubs, microdermabrasion, peels and wrinkle treatments that include Botox, Hylaform and Restylane. The spa also is offering a Katrina Special that includes a free peel when you schedule a special facial. The business also has been providing free relaxing facials to emergency personnel.

In her medical practice, Mizgala, president of the Louisiana Society of Plastic Surgeons, performs surgery on both men and women, including body contouring, facial and breast surgery.

Living With Cancer

St. Tammany Parish Hospital (STPH) (1202 S. Tyler St., Covington, 985-898-4000; www.stph.org and www.sthfoundation.org) has scheduled several activities this month that focus on cancer.

The STPH Cancer Resource Center will hold a free educational teleconference from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Outpatient Pavilion (16400 Hwy. 1085, Covington) to help cancer patients who are going through treatment, and their families and friends better handle holiday stress. Lunch will be provided, but you must register by calling (985) 898-4481. Later that evening at the same location, the hospital is sponsoring a free program from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in which cosmetologists give cancer patients tips about how to deal with appearance-related side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Advance reservations are required.

Call 898-4481.

Physicians and nurse practitioners will give women 18 and older free clinical breast exams from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 19 at the STPH Community Wellness Center (1505 N. Florida St., Covington). Screening mammograms will be available to uninsured women 40 and older and to those who don’t have a doctor or haven’t GW had a mammogram in more than a year. Call 225-215-1234 or 888-616-4687 for information. GW

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linically, stress is typically described as our pattern of responses following any event that taxes our ability to cope. For most of us, these events are simply the background noise for daily experiences in the form of time demands, interpersonal conflicts, or minor hassles at work, school and home. Following a more serious crisis, however, these coping mechanisms can become overwhelmed, particularly when the event is unpredictable and out of our control, as in the recent hurricanes. When it comes to coping with catastrophic stress, a little self-awareness and patience can go a long way toward emotional recovery.

One of the psychological challenges facing post-Katrina survivors is dealing not only with individual losses, but also with the wide range of reactions shown by those around us.

In times of stress people usually rely on their support system, yet that is weakened significantly when everyone has experienced the same crisis.

Most people in our area are facing some type of loss and can expect to go through stages similar to those experienced in grief. Individuals progress through the stages at different rates and in a different order even though they’re dealing with the same stressful situation.

Psychological makeup also plays a role in how each person expresses emotions. Some people have immediate and intense outbursts, while others have more of a delayed response. “While our reactions may be as unique as we are, the important thing to remember is that each one is valid, and acceptance of ourselves and others is the first step toward C O N T IN U ED O N P. 2 8

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Q: What do you expect to be the health effects on children following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?

A: I think the biggest health effects are how children are going to deal with it psychologically and the manifestations of how the psychological effects will affect their physical health. Some of those effects have been abdominal pains, worsening acne.

There are several ways our psychological health affects us physically. For adults, it’s easier for us to say, “I know my belly hurts because I’m upset.” With children, parents are afraid they are ignoring something seriously wrong with the child (if they pass such pains off as the result of being upset).

Q: You mentioned seeing abdominal pains; is that true pain or nausea?

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successful coping,” notes Joe Eppling, director of East Jefferson General Hospital’s Psychiatric Services.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS Stress affects the mind as well as the body. Some or even all of these feelings and behaviors are to be expected following a catastrophic event. Also, a person’s level of pre-hurricane stress and past experience in dealing with a crisis can influence their current response.

Mental: Emotional states could swing from profound sadness and discouragement to a feeling of disconnected numbness or irritability. As with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), flashbacks or frequent replay of disaster images may occur, along with accompanying anxiety as the mind attempts to desensitize itself to the trauma. Other cognitive symptoms include confusion, forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating, particularly when familiar work and home environments change.

Physical: Many people change their patterns of eating and sleeping out of necessity, but stress also wears down the body and depletes immunity and natural energy stores without our even realizing it. The result is fatigue, changes in weight, and increased incidence of minor physical ailments, such as colds and allergies. Preexisting medical conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and asthma may also worsen and should be monitored closely during recovery.

HOW TO COPE Get back on schedule: Basic routines like regular mealtimes and consistent patterns of sleeping and waking tend to restore a sense of comfort and security. Build in time for hobbies and other enjoyable activities. If you are sharing a home with displaced relatives, divide up household responsibilities and respect everyone’s need for privacy.

Exercise: If you can find time for even a brisk 10-minute walk, being active can boost mood-enhancing endorphins and make you feel like doing more.

Rest and relax: Sleep deprivation only magnifies stress and makes it difficult to solve problems. Meditation and progressive muscle relaxation are easy to learn and a great way to reduce anxiety.

See your doctor: Chances are, medical appointments were missed or pushed to the bottom of the to-do list over the past few months. More than ever, it’s important to address medical concerns as well as focus on preventative care.

Ask for help: While adapting to major stressors takes time, seek professional help if you feel your symptoms are severe and prolonged. Far from being a sign of weakness, knowing when to ask for help contributes to active and healthy coping GW skills. GW East Jefferson General Hospital can be reached at 454-4000; patients can use HealthFinder at 456-5000 to make physician appointments.

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people with asthma or allergies are going to be more sensitive to all the things (dust, mold, etc.) left behind.

Q: Let’s talk about respiratory problems inherent in returning to a place with so much debris and mold.

A: In general, the most common types of mold should not have an effect on a healthy person. There are certainly some more severe molds, like the black mold that develops for reasons that are not clear, but for a person who has asthma or already has respiratory problems, the mold can mechanically set them off.

Q: What about the sludge that came with the flooding that now has dried and turned to dust?

A: I don’t know if it’s totally clear what the effects of that will be; it might take a while to determine that. To me, it’s going to quantify how to determine that airborne problems from the hurricane are truly what’s causing our problems. There is no test for airborne bacteria or fungus. There’s not any way to isolate it in the respiratory tract without being invasive.

Q: What should parents do to help their kids through this?

A: Parents need to do their best in spending some quality alone-time in reassuring their children. Discussing (the storm and its effects) with them but at the same time letting them know their families are OK, and the buildings’ damages will be repaired and things will be OK again if their families are around.

Q: What treatments are there?

A: For the things we’re worried about — respiratory-wise it’s mostly setting off asthma — it’s the traditional treatments like albuterol and steroid breathing treatments. For the most part, if you have a healthy immune system, you just let it take its course or take allergy treatments. We’ve not yet had to treat these problems any differently than before the storm, although we’ve noticed they’re a little more frequent.

Q: How toxic is this stuff we’re around?

A: I don’t know that we really know yet. I think general precautions — washing your hands, wearing a mask if you are doing cleaning-out type of work, and for children, making sure their regular immunizations are up to date, including tetanus and hepatitis B — will work.

Q: How important are flu shots for kids this season?

A: I think they’re a good idea. Certainly as people have lived more closely together and have been more crowded in schools and also that people don’t want to deal with a major illness on top of everything else. We’ve started to give vaccine GW already; so far this year there is no shortage. GW

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t was one of the more alarming phrases repeated by newscasters in the days after Hurricane Katrina: the floodwaters had turned into a “toxic gumbo,” they said, a swirling pool of chemicals and bacteria. Those New Orleanians who were forced to wade or swim through the water wondered what effect the exposure would have on their health, but they had no immediate answer. Now, two months after the water rushed through the breached levees, state and city officials have answers they hope will put some minds at ease.

More than 500 water samples were taken from the floodwaters, the pumping system and Lake Pontchartrain in the days and weeks following the flood, says Chris Piehler of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Most of those samples were tested for 200 factors, including chemicals like arsenic and lead, and bacteria like E. coli and fecal coliform. DEQ staffers are still combing through the data generated, looking for “hotspots” where the level of a certain chemical was unacceptably high. While that work continues, Piehler says the team has analyzed enough samples to make a few generalizations.

“Thankfully, except for bacteria counts, we haven’t found any levels to warrant concern or any special considerations,” he says in reference to floodwater that has been pumped back into Lake Pontchartrain. In fact, tests show that the lake is well within the water-quality standard set for swimming.

Original alarmist reports that the floodwaters were a blend of toxins largely were due to ignorance of the city’s layout, says Piehler. “Yes, we have a lot of petrochemical facilities in Louisiana, but not in the parts of New Orleans that were flooded.” In the city, the most frequent chemicals found in the floodwaters were gasoline from flooded vehicles and some household chemicals like pesticides and cleaning products, but Piehler says neither were present at dangerous levels.

The DEQ, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, also has taken more than 400 samples of the sediment that was left on sidewalks and streets when the waters drained away. In New Orleans, the sediment is mostly mud from the lake, in some areas oil and diesel components also were found. Because long-term skin contact with these chemicals can cause rashes, Piehler recommends taking commonsense precautions. Residents should avoid unnecessary trips to the most damaged neighborhoods that have the most sediment. If they do drive through them, they should roll up their windows, and they should avoid direct skin contact with the sediment.

St. Bernard Parish is a somewhat different story. The Murphy Oil Refinery spilled more than 1 million gallons of oil into its Chalmette neighborhood, and

large amounts of the oil components and chemicals are still present on structures and in the sediment. “There will be some places where the sediment has enough oil that it will have to be removed,” says Piehler. The state’s debris-management plan includes removal of the sediment, but the project is so enormous that Piehler estimates it will take a couple of years to complete.

In the meantime, however, Piehler says the scope of the devastation in St. Bernard Parish means that residents have more pressing concerns. “There are plenty of things to be concerned about in the parish, but environmental concerns are not very high on the list.” Many neighborhoods have no drinking water, power or working sewerage systems, rendering them largely uninhabitable.

Because residents can’t return to live in those areas, they won’t be exposed to the potential health threats.

Some locals say the DEQ needs to do a better job of informing citizens of its work in the most damaged areas like St. Bernard Parish. “If you talk to the average person on the sidewalk in Chalmette, they have never heard word one about any sampling that the DEQ or EPA are doing,” says Anne Rolfes of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental group that has worked in Chalmette for several years. The parish needs to do a full-scale environmental assessment and disseminate the findings widely so residents aren’t tempted to move back into an unsafe environment, she says.

The DEQ encourages residents to peruse the “enviromapper” found on the EPA’s website at http://www.epa. gov/enviro/katrina/. The interactive map shows sites throughout Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes where water or sediment samples have been taken and also shows the chemical and biological results of the tests.

In New Orleans, the biggest source of floodwater contamination by far was sewer lines that run under the city streets, says Piehler. “We found a high bacteria count just about anywhere we looked because of the commingling of floodwater with sewage,” he says.

The good news is that the bacteria needs warmth and moisture to survive, and bacteria left in sediment died off when floodwaters were pumped out of the city.

The DEQ’s tests of the water in Lake Pontchartrain have found low levels of bacteria there as well. Piehler attributes this to the brackish, salty nature of the lake water, in which most bacteria can’t survive. Bacteria levels were low enough that on Sept. 29 the DEQ announced that it was safe to eat seafood from the lake, because thoroughly cooking fish, crabs or shrimp will kill any remaining bacteria. Raw oysters, however, are still off the menu.

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Another myth repeated on newscasts following Katrina was that the storm surge would be followed by a wave of disease, with contagious illnesses like cholera and typhoid spreading through the city. Clearly, nothing of the sort occurred. Kristen Meyer, a spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, says it was never even a threat.

“Cholera is a particular kind of bacteria not found in New Orleans,” she says.

“Since it wasn’t found there before the hurricane, there’s no scientific basis to believe it would occur after a hurricane.

The hurricane didn’t bring in foreign bacteria.”

The department set up triage stations around New Orleans and has been tracking incidents of illness through those centers; so far, the statistics are promising. “In terms of illnesses, we fared much better than some expected,” Meyer says, but there have been numerous injuries sustained from vehicle mishaps and accidents that have occurred as homeowners climbed ladders, scaled roofs and revved up chainsaws to repair their properties. In fact, 26 percent of the people who went to a triage center sought treatment for an injury, she says.

The 1,678 people who sought treatment for respiratory infections made up 7.5 percent of patient visits. Meyer says some suffered allergies or chronic respiratory problems that were aggravated by the mold and dust, but others had just picked up a seasonal cold or cough.

About 2 percent of patients, or 433 people, sought treatment for diarrhea illnesses that were probably related to high bacteria levels in floodwaters. The best safeguard against the respiratory and diarrhea ailments is good hygiene, says Meyer. “It may sound simple, but it’s the most effective way to prevent illnesses. Respiratory illnesses and diarrhea illnesses, those are the kinds of

things that spread real easy from person to person.”

Several weeks ago, the Department of Health and Hospitals announced that tap water was safe to consume in all areas of New Orleans west of the Industrial Canal. “I think people should feel fairly confident,” says Karen Irion, department administrator for the safe drinkingwater program. “They’re taking over 100 bacterial tests a day, and they treat the hell out of the water in the plant.” In New Orleans, the Sewerage and Water Board has increased chlorine levels in the water and raised the pressure in the water mains so that if there are small breaks and holes in the pipes, the water will go out and contamination won’t come in.

Finding all the breaks is an ongoing process, and the public can help. “If people lose water pressure in the house, or if they see water or sewage bubbling up in the streets, they should call [the Sewerage and Water Board] right away,” Irion says. “It’s a big city, and finding all the line breaks is like finding a needle in a haystack.”

The so-called boil advisory, which indicates that drinking water is not safe, has not yet been lifted for the areas east of the Industrial Canal, and Irion says she has no idea when it will be. The large water mains that cross the industrial canal still need repairs, and the power and sewerage systems that work in tandem with the water supply system aren’t yet functional. “The eastern part of the city is going to be a longer-term endeavor,” says Irion. “I know people are impatient to get back in their neighborhoods, but we think about safety first. We don’t really care how much people yell at us, we care about GW public health.” GW

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All in the Timing

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Thursday, Nov. 3; ongoing The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org

7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 3-5; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6; through Nov. 19 Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans, 4539 N. I-10 Service Road, second floor, 456-4111

Culture vultures were delighted to learn about the reopening of the Ogden last week, becoming the first institution of its kind in New Orleans to mark its comeback from What’s-her-name. The Ogden celebrated the return to form with its immensely popular (and now, never more needed) Ogden After Hours series in which local musicians sit down for a mixture of performance, interview and question-and-answer sessions.

Gambit Weekly’s own Alex Rawls was on tap to welcome the Satchmo of the Ghetto, James Andrews, the trumpeter and lead singer of the New Birth Brass Band whose amazing musical lineage (Troy Andrews, Jesse Hill and Prince LaLa) made him a fitting choice to get things going again. As we are learning the hard way — and as you’ll probably be able to tell by our “directorystyle” music listings later in the A&E section — advance info on gigs is tough to come by these days as venues struggle to wrestle their musical schedules to the ground. So this week’s performer was TBA at press time, but we figure it’s a safe bet it will be worthwhile. Free admission. — David Lee Simmons

It says something about the pluck of this community when a scruffy little upstart band of performers like the ones in the Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans can bounce back from the troubled waters and wade back onto the boards. The Actor’s Theatre, of all groups, appears to be leading the thespian charge back into the city by breaking out in Ives — David Ives, that is. His 1994 off-Broadway comedy hit, All in the Timing, is a collection of six short stories in which the performers get to wrap their heads and mouths around witty banter and snappy wordplay. Director René Piazza (left) directs a cast that features the mercurial Stacy Taliancich (middle) and Vicki Lovelace.

To refresh everyone’s sloggy memories, the Actor’s Theatre is located on the second floor of the WTIX-FM building before Target in Clearview Mall. Tickets $8 adults, $6 students/seniors. — David Lee Simmons

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The Bible, The Complete Word of God (Abridge) 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 3-4; through Nov. 25 Skyfire Theatre, 332 N. New Hampshire St., Covington, 985-875-7577; www.skyfire.tv As you will learn later in this section in Dalt Wonk’s recap of lives in the theater but not in New Orleans, the Skyfire gets a big knock on wood for the good luck it had for being able to come back so quickly from The Hurricane Whose Name We Don’t Speak and get productions going again by teaming our very own version of Hope & Crosby, Sean Patterson and Gary Rucker, in its recent mounting of Greater Tuna. What, you missed it? Stuck out in Lafayette, were ya? Couldn’t make the commute from Houston? No sweat; Patterson and Rucker have decided to keep the ball rolling by bringing back Le Petit’s presentation of The Bible, whose run was interrupted at the very end by that little rainchild. Patterson (right) and Rucker (middle) are here to say it’s not nice for the weather to mess with God though we’re not sure who was messing with whom in presenting this playful satire of The Word. Rucker returns as director; Robert Richardson (left) co-stars. Tickets $20.

— Simmons

Welcome the immediate future of New Orleans, where the three-minute pop song is as rare as a garbage pickup. Since few bands are back in town with their full lineups intact, clubs are booking mix-and-match combos to jam. In this case, the show should be coherent since drummer-about-town Kevin O’Day has already played at least one post-Katrina date with the Radiators’ bassist Reggie Scanlan and saxophonist Eric Traub. Percussionist and O’Day’s bandmate in Elastic Karma Kings Andy Ambrose completes the core lineup, with guests sitting in each week. Fortunately, all of the principals have solid funk and jam chops, and can drift in jazzy directions when the situation calls for it. “Reggie gives you that raw vibe you need, and Eric can take you off on those jazz flights,” says O’Day (pictured) before finishing packing up and leaving Lafayette, where he’s been staying.

“When you put that combination together, it’s great for me because I can just lay right in the pocket.” Katrina has not only brought about this addition to the Maple Leaf lineup, but it has brought about a rather momentous change. Shows now start at 9 p.m., and owner Hank Staples swears he’s going to try to get the talent to adhere to it. With relief workers and construction workers in town, he hopes to make it possible for people to catch at least one set before they head for bed. Dreamer that he is, he even hopes to get bands to start around 10 p.m. when things get closer to normal. For Kevin O’Day, anything familiar is a good thing, early or late: “It’s incredible to be living back home and among friends, and playing in the clubs I love.” — Alex Rawls

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Back in Business Christopher Kohl and Matt Rhody of the Hot Club of New Orleans are among the many bands that are home but missing some of its members.

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he back room of Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine Street is shoehorned with music fans there to see Sol Fiya and Anders Osborne, and in many ways it looks like the usual crowd.

It’s a little light on college students, but the audience is largely young with the usual sprinkling of older hipsters, hippies and music lovers. With six people performing, Osborne and singer Chris Boone are crowded off what passes for a stage at the Bon Temps, and stand faceto-face with the audience, who politely give them a few feet of breathing room.

It seems like just another Saturday night in New Orleans until you realize the side door’s open because there are no neighbors to disturb. In fact, another 30 or so people are hanging around outside the bar. A Humvee rolling by on Bordeaux Street reminds you that this is postKatrina New Orleans.

At one point, Mean Willie Green walks in and sidles up next to Osborne whispering in his ear while he’s playing. When that song ends, Green moves behind the kit and powers the band through a rambling, funky jam that might be a little too loose but still has its moments. Still, few in the crowd seem to miss the importance of what they’re seeing. This is the funky New Orleans they missed. It might not be polished, but it, too, is home.

Walter “Wolfman” Washington played perhaps the most infamous post-Katrina gig, performing at the Maple Leaf Bar with generators supplying the juice. The show went past the 8 p.m. curfew, and Maple Leaf owner Hank Staples is convinced the show would have continued past 9 p.m., when it was closed down, had the sax player not danced second line-style around an Ohio State Police car that was idling outside.

Washington has been omnipresent these days, despite commuting to gigs from Memphis. Many musicians are coming in from Baton Rouge and the Northshore. For Sol Fiya’s Boone, who has been playing at the Bon Temps since it opened, his trip to work takes five minutes.

“My house is on Bayou St. John, so I’m staying in the Hampton Inn (on St. Charles Avenue) for a month,” he says between sets. “It’s all right. I can ride my bike here.”

He’s also fortunate in that all of his original band mates are back in town because the biggest obstacle that club owners face in trying to book live

music is finding musicians. On d.b.a.’s first night of live music — also with Washington — managing partner Tom Thayer is talking to violinist Matt Rhody and clarinet player Christopher Kohl about booking the Hot Club of New Orleans. They’re up for it, but they have to figure out what to do about guitarist David Mooney living in Brooklyn for the foreseeable future.

At Snug Harbor and the Maple Leaf, Jason Patterson and Hank Staples, respectively, are dealing with the same problem, putting bands together or asking musicians to assemble groups to play gigs. “We’re just trying to get the doors open,” Patterson says. Staples is trying to return things to normal as much as is possible, so his is one of the few venues currently trying to offer live music nightly. Still, the schedule has some notable changes, the most obvious being Tuesday nights featuring Kevin O’Day, Reggie Scanlan, Eric Traub and Andy Ambrose performing with a rotating series of guests. That’s traditionally the Rebirth Brass Band’s night, just as Thursday night has belonged to Johnny Vidacovich and George Porter, but none of those musicians are back, so Staples is doing what he can. “Fortunately, all of Papa Grows Funk (which performs on Mondays) are back now.”

With a limited pool of musicians, club owners are scrambling to book weekend shows. Few have confirmed gigs for more than a week away, but they’re keeping an eye on the holidays. Eric Orlando has booked Anders Osborne and John Gros at Carrollton Station for Thanksgiving, and even though Tipitina’s is focused on transforming itself into a musicians’ drop-in center for the near future, general manager Adam Shipley has booked Galactic for New Year’s Eve. House of Blues is now finding out what staffers are in town or want to return, but it plans to reopen in time for an all-New Orleans New Year’s Eve weekend with Dr. John on Dec. 29, then Better Than Ezra on Dec. 30-31.

Like Jason Patterson at Snug Harbor, Orlando at Carrollton Station has modest goals right now. “I’m letting people know we’re ready to start booking,” he says, and he’s focusing on Saturday nights.

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Not all showtimes were available by press time; call club for details.

All times are p.m. unless otherwise noted.

ALL SHOW TIMES P.M. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — 527 Decatur St., 522-0571 — Open

ANDREA’S — 3100 19th St., Metairie, 834-8583 — Open

CYPRESS HALL — 3612 Hessmer Ave., Metairie, 4542953; www.myspace.com/cypresshall — Opening mid-November

ANGELI ON DECATUR — 1111 Decatur St., 566-0077 — Live jazz nightly APPLE BARREL — 609 Frenchmen St., 949-9399 — Open w/ music occasionally ARNAUD’S JAZZ BISTRO — 813 Bienville St., 2308892 — Not open

D.B.A. — 618 Frenchmen St., 942-3731 — Sat: Rotary Downs, 10 DIXIE TAVERNE — 3340 Canal St. — Closed

BANKS STREET BAR — 4401 Banks St., 486-0258 — Sun, Nov. 6: Kim Carson & friends acoustic show, 5

DOMINIC’S — 219 Carondelet St., 587-9155 — Not open

BEACH HOUSE — 2401 Woodlawn Ave., 456-7470 — Tues: DJ Night Owl, 7; Wed: Candy Riedl-Lowe, 7; Fri: Bobby Cure & the Summertime Blues, 10

DONNA’S BAR & GRILL — 800 N. Rampart St., 5966914 — Open w/ music; Sat: New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 9

BIG TOP — 1638 Clio St., 569-2700 — Open some nights

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — 5535 Tchoupitoulas St., 891-8500 — Open w/ music

BLUE NILE — 534 Frenchmen St., 948-2583 — Not open

DRAGON’S DEN — 435 Esplanade Ave., 949-1750 — Not open

BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 586-0972 — Fri-Sat: Heather & the Monkey Kings, 8:30

FAIR GRINDS COFFEEHOUSE — 3133 Ponce De Leon St., 948-3222; www.fairgrinds.com — No information available

CAFÉ BRASIL — 2100 Chartres St. — Open

FAIRMONT HOTEL — 123 Baronne St., 529-4733 — No information available

CAFÉ NEGRIL — 606 Frenchmen St., 944-4744 — Not open

FIVE O’CLOCK GRILLE — 501 Bourbon St., 529-4256 — Open

CAFÉ SBISA — 1011 Decatur St., 522-5565 — Not open

FRITZEL’S — 733 Bourbon St., 561-0432 — No information available

CAJUN CABIN — 501 Bourbon St., 529-4256 — Open

FUNKY BUTT — 714 N. Rampart St., 558-0872 — No information available

CANAL BUS STOP BAR & GRILL — 2828 Canal St., 822-2011 — No information available CARROLLTON STATION — 8140 Willow St., 865-9190 — Fri: Jimmy Sidewall & friends acoustic show; Sat: Susan Cowsill Band “Covered in Vinyl Series” CATE STREET PUB & CAFÉ — 116 N. Cate St., Hammond, (985) 345-5059; www.mulespub.com — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 9 CHECK POINT CHARLIE — 501 Esplanade Ave., 9497012 — Live music nightly CHELSEA’S CAFÉ — 148 W. State St., Baton Rouge, (225) 387-3679; www.chelseascafe.com — Sat: Rocket 88, 9:30 CHEZ VODUN — 822 N. Rampart St., 558-0653 — Open

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DARKROOM — 10450 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, (866) 5-DARKRM; www.darkroombatonrouge.com — Fri: Suture, Hyperion, Hostile Takeover, 7; Sat: Fondling Amber, Benison, Blindfolded War Routine, the Vincent, the Art of Abandonment, Kemo for Emo, 7

BADA BING’S — 3515 Hessmer Ave., 454-1120 — Music every Fri & Sat

BOOMTOWN CASINO — 4132 Peters Road, Harvey, 366-7711 — Open

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FUNKY PIRATE — 727 Bourbon St., 523-1960 — MonSat: Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 9; Wed-Sat: Willie Locket & the All-Purpose Blues Band, 5; Sun: Jeff Chaz, 3; Willie Locket & the All-Purpose Blues Band, 8 GAZEBO CAFÉ — 1016 Decatur St., 525-8899 — Not open HAMMERHEADS — 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, 834-6474 — No information available HANGAR — 1511 S. Rendon St., 822-9858 — No information available HARRAH’S CASINO — 4 Canal St., 533-6600 — Not open HI HO LOUNGE — 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Not open HOBNOBBER’S — 139 Carondelet St., 525-5428 — No information available

CIRCLE BAR — 1032 St. Charles Ave., 588-2616 — Music nightly; Fri: Mike Hurtt & the Haunted Hearts, 10

HOOKAH CAFÉ — 1407 Decatur St., 943-1101 — Open

COBALT — 333 St. Charles Ave., 565-5595 — Not open

HOTEL MONTELEONE — 214 Royal St., 523-3341 — No information available

COLUMNS HOTEL — 3811 St. Charles Ave., 899-9308 — Not open

HOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 529-BLUE — Not open

Susan Cowsill After joining Beatin Path onstage at The Parish at House of Blues to sing a cover of Paul McCartney’s “Band on the Run” this past August, Susan Cowsill walked off the stage and said, “I always wanted to sing that song!” Little did she realize how prophetic that statement would become, as less than two weeks later her band indeed went on the run. Cowsill, husband/drummer Russ Broussard and her daughter, Miranda, performed a few sets under the moniker Band on the Run as they fled from Hurricane Katrina. With her debut solo album, Just Believe It, finally getting national release on Blue Corn Records in October, she and her band-inexile started touring in September unsure of whether they had homes to return to (in Cowsill and Broussard’s case, their Mid-City house took on 6 feet of water).

On Saturday, she will return to New Orleans and resume her “Covered in Vinyl” series, which features her band performing a classic album in sequence and in its entirety. This time, it’s no surprise that she will cover Band on the Run. Besides the album title’s newfound significance, it’s easy to imagine her being drawn to the goofy fun of covering “Jet,” and the possibility of finding the soul in “Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me).” — Alex Rawls

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[MUSIC] LISTINGS HOUSE OF SEAFOOD — 300 Decatur St., 581-2534 — Open HOWLIN’ WOLF — 907 S. Peters St., 522-WOLF; www. howlin-wolf.com — Open w/ music at new location; Sunday Afternoon Cajun Swamp Stomp w/ Amanda Shaw, 5 IGGY’S BAR — 1943 N. Rampart St., 949-3485 — Open JAMILA’S CAFÉ — 7808 Maple St., 866-4366 — No information available JAZZY’S RESTAURANT & BAR — 2304 A.P. Tureaud Ave., 945-8054 — No information available KERRY IRISH PUB — 331 Decatur St., 527-5954 — Tues: Betsy McGovern, 9; Wed: Beth Patterson, 9; Thu: Hurricane Refugees, 9; Fri: Jeff & Vida, 9; Sat: Betsy McGovern, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9; Sun: Danny Burns, 9; Mon: Danny Burns, 9 KRAZY KORNER — 640 Bourbon St., 524-3157 — No information available LAMPLIGHTER LOUNGE — 908 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 832-9909 — No information available LE BON TEMPS ROULE — 4801 Magazine St., 8958117 — Open w/ music; Thu: Soul Rebels LOFT 523 — 523 Gravier St., 200-6523 — No information available LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY — 210 Decatur St., 586-1094; www.louisianamusicfactory.com — Open LOUNGE LIZARDS — 200 Decatur St., 598-1500 — Open w/ music; Wed: Michael Hurtt & the Haunted Hearts LUCKY’S — 1625 St. Charles Ave., 523-6538 — No information available MAPLE LEAF — 8316 Oak St., 866-9359 — Tues: the Trio plus One w/ Kevin O’Day, Reggie Scanlan, Eric Traub & Andy Ambrose, 9:30; Wed: Ricki Comeaux, 9:30; Thu: Joe Krown Organ Combo, 9:30; Fri: the Gamble Brothers, 9:30; Sat: Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 9:30; Sun: the Slackers, Captain of Industry, Fatter Than Albert, 9:30; Mon: the Trio plus One w/ Kevin O’Day, Reggie Scanlan, Eric Traub & Andy Ambrose, 9:30 MARGARITAVILLE — 1104 Decatur St., 592-2565 — Live music nightly 6 p.m. to midnight; Sat: Jesse Moore CD-release party, 10 MARKET CAFÉ — 1000 Decatur St., 527-5000 — No information available MARLENE’S PLACE — 3715 Tchoupitoulas St.; www. myspace.com/marlenesplace — Open MICHAUL’S — 840 St. Charles Ave., 522-5517 — No information available

United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area would like to thank the following corporations and organizations for their generous donations to the United Hurricane Recovery Fund Murphy Oil USA - $1,000,000 New Orleans Saints - $440,000 Cox Enterprises - $300,000 United Way of Sarasota County - $250,000 Chevron Corporation - $200,000 United Way of America - $200,000 United Way of Greater Chattanooga - $150,000 Exxon Mobil - $120,000 United Way of Greater St. Louis - $100,000 Heart of West Michigan United Way - $10,000 Please join in the recovery effort by visiting www.unitedwaynola.org and contributing online.

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MO’S CHALET — 3201 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 7802961 — No information available MULATE’S — 201 Julia St., 522-1492 — No information available NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE — 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381 — No information available OLD OPERA HOUSE — 601 Bourbon St., 522-3265 — Mon-Wed: live bands, 6; Thu-Sun: live bands, 3 OLD POINT BAR — 545 Patterson St., Algiers Point, 364-0950 — No information available ONE EYED JACKS — 615 Toulouse St., 569-8361 — Thu: 80s Dance Night; Fri: Dimestore Troubadours, Bones; Sat: Happy Talk Band, R. Scully ORA MAE’S — Lake Forest Plaza, 5700 Read Blvd., 246-0412 — No information available PALM COURT JAZZ CAFÉ — 1204 Decatur St., 5250200 — Wed-Sun: Palm Court Jazz Band, 7 PLANTATION COFFEEHOUSE — 726 St. Peter St., 522-2841 — No information available PRESERVATION HALL — 726 St. Peter St., 522-2841 — Not open QUEEN & CRESCENT HOTEL — 344 Camp St., 5879700 — No information available RIB ROOM BAR — 621 St. Louis St., 529-7045 — Open RITZ-CARLTON — 921 Canal St., 524-1331 — No information available ROSIE’S TAVERN — 22067 Hwy. 59, Abita Springs,

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SNUG HARBOR — 626 Frenchmen St., 949-0696 — Open w/ music SOUTHPORT HALL — 200 Monticello Ave., Jefferson, 834-7990 — Wed: Pig Pen & the Porkchops, 8; Fri: Appetite For Destruction: Guns ’N Roses Tribute Band, 10; Sat: Throwing Silk, Da Supa, 10 SPANISH MOON — 1109 Highland Ave., Baton Rouge, (225) 383-6666 — Open w/ music SPOTTED CAT — 623 Frenchmen St., 943-3887 — Fri: New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 8; Sat: Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30 ST. CHARLES PORTERHOUSE — 1628 St. Charles Ave., 525-8337 — No information available STEAK PIT — 609 Bourbon St. — Mon-Tues & Sun: Danny T, 6; Wed-Sat: Dick & Randy, 7 STORYVILLE — 125 Bourbon St., 410-1000 — No information available

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SWEET LORRAINE’S — 1931 St. Claude Ave., 9459654 — Not open

Sat 11/12

THIRD ROCK — 2703 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 465-0755 — No information available

Wed 11/16 Thur 11/17

TIPITINA’S — 501 Napoleon Ave., 895-TIPS; www. tipitinas.com — Not open TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — 721 Bourbon St., 5294109 — Mon-Tues: Debi & the Deacons, 9; Wed-Sat: the Rusty McHugh Band, 9; Sun: Ricky Rayburn: 9; Wed-Sun: Bruce Bono, 1 TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — 739 Toulouse St., 525-1689 — Mon-Thu: Al Miller, 9; Fri-Sun: Late As Usual, 9 TROPICAL ISLE’S BEACH CLUB MUSIC BAR — 608610 Bourbon St., 529-1728 — Tues-Thu: Waylon Thibodeaux, 5; Gary Brown, 9; Fri: Party Time Band, 1; Waylon Thibodeaux, 6; Gary Brown, 10; Sat: Waylon Thibodeaux, 2; Jimmy T, 6; All-Purpose Blues Band, 10; Sun: Waylon Thibodeaux, 5; Jimmy T, 9; Mon: All-Purpose Blues Band, 12:30; Waylon Thibodeaux, 5; Jimmy T, 9 TWIROPA — 1544 Tchoupitoulas St., 232-9503 — Closed

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WHIRLING DERVISH — 1135 Decatur St., 566-1338; www.1135decatur.com — Open WINDSOR COURT HOTEL (POLO LOUNGE) — 300 Gravier St., 523-6000 — Fri-Sun: Michael Pellera, 5 WISDOM — 1359 St. Bernard Ave., 940-1234 — No information available DJS/NIGHTLIFE LEGENDS — 2708 N. Hullen St., Metairie, 887-3877 — Wed: DJ spins, 9 MO’S CHALET — 3201 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 7802961 — Sun: El DJ Boricua, 8 PARADE — 801 Bourbon St., 529-2107 — Thu-Sun: DJs spin SOUTHSIDE — 3012 N. Arnoult Road, Metairie, 4569500 — Fri-Sat: DJs spin, 9 UTOPIA — 227 Bourbon St., 523-3800 — DJ Gil and DJ Tony Twillie spin nightly WHIRLING DERVISH — 1135 Decatur St., 566-1338 — DJs spin nightly

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had every expectation that I was going to love North Country. It was directed by Niki Caro, who made the wonderful Whale Rider, may favorite movie of 2002. It has great stars in Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, and Sissy Spacek. And it has Woody Harrelson, who, despite his goofus image, has the habit of appearing in good films.

Crucially, I wanted North Country to be terrific. It’s the first movie I saw since Katrina changed everything, and I desperately wanted to be transported.

Alas, North Country is a sizeable disappointment, a movie so overwrought it undermines its own worthy political sentiments.

Based (very loosely) on the life of Lois Jensen, a Minnesota miner who changed American corporate policy when she successfully sued her company for sexual harassment, North Country is the fictional story of Josey Aimes (Theron), a working-class girl who bears two children by different fathers and ends up at age thirty with a man who beats her. After ditching him, she seeks the dirty work in her hometown mine because that’s the way she can make the most money and provide the best life for her children. Unfortunately, the men at the local mine, including Josey’s own sour father (Richard Jenkins), are charter members

in the Male Chauvinist Monsters Hall of Shame. These guys aren’t just unenlightened sexists; they are lying, perjuring, battering rapists. They don’t deserve to be sued so much as arrested and sent for correction to Abu Ghraib prison.

North Country was written by Michael Seitzman, and his script’s utter lack of subtlety is the problem. In the process of trying to provide her kids with a decent life, Josey encounters a schoolmate, a teacher, a husband, a father, an area boss, a pack of co-workers, a foreman and a CEO, all best described as fiends from hell. Her female co-workers are either sexpots or cowards or both. Only one other person in town, including Josey’s mom (Spacek), has an ounce of gumption, her pal Glory (McDormand), who immediately begins to expire from Lou Gehrig’s disease. In the end, Seitzman gives us an inexplicable character reversal, a speech by lawyer Harrelson that would have landed a real barrister in jail for contempt, a weepy moment between mother and son that belongs in another movie, and a narrative steal from Spartacus that would be plagiarism if it weren’t executed so awkwardly. The defeat of workplace sexual harassment is historically important; this rendering of how it happened is embarrassingly incompetent.

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The Weather Man, starring Nicolas Cage as a disappointment of a son and a failure of a father, was screened for critics in the spring, before its April release was pushed to October, ostensibly to allow for the off chance that Cage or Michael Caine (as Cage’s father) might be nominated for Academy Awards. But those who’d seen the movie months ago believed an altogether different reason for its delay: Paramount had absolutely no idea how to sell the thing; it has the dour, dark sensibility of an art-house resident but the budget of a wide release. Perhaps the studio held up its release in order to better market it — a theory borne out by the current ad campaign, which pitches The Weather Man as light, wacky and uplifting. In other words, it’s being sold as something for everyone, which is selling it short.

In truth, it’s brooding, dark, and contemplative — a reluctant comedy about failure and fear, about living up to expectations and letting down loved ones, about making things right and doing it all wrong, about trying to fix things beyond repair. There is redemption somewhere in here, even the suggestion that success will not completely elude weatherman Dave Spritz (Cage), but writer Steve Conrad and director Gore Verbinski are less interested in peeks of sunshine than in downpours — Verbinski, perhaps, as a result of spending so much time at sea shooting Pirates of the Caribbean.

Dave may win a few, but he’s a loser … no, worse.

Yep, sure — Cage and Caine deserve Oscar nominations; so do the kids and Davis, all perfect in a movie about imperfect people trying their best and usually doing their worst. But this is hardly the point. The Weather Man is not the wacky movie Paramount is selling, nor is it cynical Oscar bait. It’s just a little movie about little people trying not to get wet or freeze to death or get burned when they walk outside, GW and good luck with all that. GW (See Film Listings on the next page.)

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JARHEAD (R) — Sam Mendes directed and William Broyles Jr. adapted Anthony Swofford’s 2003 Gulf War memoir, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx.

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DOOM (R) — Doom is based more on the moody Doom 3 game than the original, which featured satanic imagery and demons from hell, the movie ultimately cops out by culminating in a fistfight between two humans, with nary a cyborg missilethrowing devil in sight. (Thompson) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 DREAMER: INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY (PG) — Soñador (“Dreamer” in Spanish), nicknamed “Sonya,” is but one of many horses in the stable of rich, racist Mr. Palmer (David Morse), who insists on running her even when trainer Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) knows for sure that Sonya doesn’t want to race. Sonya proceeds to break a leg, but Ben refuses to kill her, as Palmer demands. Instead, he quits his job and takes the horse as his own, much to the delight of daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning). (Thompson) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 ELIZABETHTOWN (PG-13) — Cameron Crowe’s latest paean to all things lost, innocent and true focuses on hotshot shoe designer Drew (Orlando Bloom) who, on the same day, loses a massive amount of money for his company and finds out that his dad has died. As Drew flies to Kentucky to make burial arrangements — and to flee his professional fiasco — he meets quirky flight attendant Claire (Kirsten Dunst). (Carlson) AMC Palace 10, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 FLIGHTPLAN (PG) — Here’s a nifty, heartbreaking premise: Has airplane engineer Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) really lost her child on a double-decker, U.S.S. Enterprise-sized luxury jetliner bound for New York, or is her daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) just a memory manufactured by grief, as the flight crew claims when it can’t find the girl on the passenger manifest? (Wilonsky) AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 THE FOG (PG-13) — How is it possible to make a movie about zombie lepers who can manipulate water vapor, and have it be boring? Ask director Rupert Wainwright (Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em: The Movie, seriously), who has taken a reasonably cool 1980 John Carpenter horror flick, subtracted everything that made it cool (practical special effects, good cast, narrative coherence), and added a ludicrous plot twist that makes no sense at all.

(Thompson) AMC Palace 10, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 THE GOSPEL (PG) — With the success of The Fighting Temptations and the god-awful Diary of a Mad Black Woman, it seems as if African American gospel movies are becoming quite a viable cinematic subgenre. This latest entry deals with a prodigal son of sorts, a raunchy R&B star named David Taylor (Boris Kodjoe), who fled the church following his mother’s death, furious at his preacher father (Clifton Powell) for focusing more on ministry than family. (Thompson) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12 THE LEGEND OF ZORRO (PG-13) — Seven years after their first outing as Don Alejandro and Elena (The Mask of Zorro), Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones can still buckle the old swash, but this workmanlike adventure yarn, again directed by Martin Campbell, is something less than “legendary.”

Intermittently reverent to the canon, it’s not very inspired, and its low-camp smirkiness sounds embarrassed. (Gallo) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 NORTH COUNTRY (R) – C Niki Caro’s fictionalized account of the female Minnesota miner (Charlize Theron) who changed American corporate policy when she successfully sued her company for sexual harassment offers worthy political sentiments inside an incredibly overwrought narrative. (Barton) (Reviewed in this issue.) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 PRIME (PG-13) — With a name like Prime, a movie had better be about something more than an older

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woman digging on a younger man, much to the disapproval of the younger man’s mom. Alas, it’s about nothing more than that: A woman named Rafi (Uma Thurman), just divorced from a man apparently her own age and possessing the libido of a corpse, winds up with a much younger man named David (Bryan Greenberg) — sort of. (Wilonsky) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 SAW II (R) — Despite being churned out only a year after the original, this sequel improves on all of the first film’s problem areas while leaving intact the solid concept. Police officers Mathews (Donnie Wahlberg) and Kerry (Dina Meyer) rather quickly manage to capture social-Darwinist sociopath Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) in his lair. Closer to death than before, the killer doesn’t even try to run, but as anyone who knows their Se7en or Oldboy might suspect, getting caught is all part of the plan. (Thompson) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 STAY (R) — A wonderfully surprising abstract painting from director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland).

Psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) tries to save the life of suicidal patient Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), all the while confronting his own doubts about his relationships. STAY registers off-thecharts in story weirdness and confusion, but the performances — including a frightening cameo from Janeane Garofalo — are engaging, and the visual artistry in play here is stunning and emotional.

(Carlson) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9 TWO FOR THE MONEY (R) — D.J. Caruso’s ( The Salton Sea) sophomore effort stars Al Pacino, who once upon a time demonstrated subtlety and nuance, but those days are long gone. Here he rants, raves, and generally acts like a deranged salesman in his role as a sports bookie who hosts infomercials and runs a 1-900 tipline. It takes an equal ham to smoke Pacino in this mode, and Matthew McConaughey is it, as Pacino’s latest protégé, renamed and repackaged for public consumption. (Thompson) AMC Palace 12 WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERERABBIT (G) — The first feature-length film starring Aardman Animation’s signature characters. In a country town obsessed with growing oversized vegetables, Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and Gromit (silent) run Anti-Pesto, a humane pest-control service that catches rabbits rather than killing them. In fact, the bunnies are housed in the dynamic duo’s basement, which becomes a problem, as they tend to multiply. (Levine) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, Holiday 12, Hollywood Cinemas 9, Prytania

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he 19th century has been redeemed before my eyes!” exclaimed artist George Schmidt about the ravages wrought by Hurricane Katrina. A painter known for his vivid historical scenes, Schmidt has never needed excuses to celebrate the past, and here he extolled the way that some of the city’s oldest neighborhoods such as the French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny and Garden District survived a storm that decimated many of the more modern sections of the city.

But even he seemed subdued by the devastation faced by his fellow New Orleanians, including more than a few of his fellow artists.

Like much of New Orleans, the local art world is on the ropes. Anyone who saw the network television news coverage of Katrina might be surprised that there is still an art scene at all, but the French Quarter and Warehouse Arts District galleries survived with only minimal damage.

Yet the following weeks in which the city lay silent and empty deprived New Orleans of the revenue that is its life’s blood — so now the artists and galleries, like the rest of the city, must stagger back from the brink.

The New Orleans Museum of Art is a case in point: It came through Katrina and the subsequent flood that surrounded it in surprisingly good shape, with damage limited mainly to a single piece in the outdoor sculpture garden. Inside the museum itself, climate control was quickly restored and crack security teams toting automatic weapons protected the collection against looters. But the fiscal crunch that followed caused the venerable institution to remain closed and lay off 80 percent of its staff. The Contemporary Arts Center and other museums have faced similar difficulties.

And then there are the artists themselves, most of whom were scattered far and wide. Many remain at large, although a steady stream of them return on a daily basis.

Anyone who wonders what happened to the thousands of artists who call this city home need only consult a posting on the Arthur Roger Gallery Web site. A kind of open letter, it accounts only for that gallery’s roster of artists, yet their stories are fairly representative. Some lost their homes, some lost their studios, some lost their entire output of recent work, and at least one returned to a home that had been looted.

This large 2003 woodcut by John Scott, one of the artists featured in the Arthur Roger Gallery’s Comeback show, eerily anticipates the damage inflicted by hurricane Katrina.

Despite all that, “all of our New Orleans-based artists are returning to the city,” says Roger, who plans to reopen on Nov. 19 with a group exhibition titled, appropriately enough, COMEBACK. One artist even used her time away from her studio to ensure that local artists remained visible in the face of an uncertain future. MADE IN NEW ORLEANS: A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE CRESCENT CITY, curated by Jacqueline Bishop, opens on Wednesday (Nov. 3) at Space 301 in Mobile, Ala. Meanwhile, some gallery dealers seemed determined to hit the ground running. In addition to Arthur Roger, whose October exhibition featured Lin Emery sculptures, Andy Antippas reopened Barrister’s Gallery on Oct. 1 with a show of Sallie Ann Glassman’s paintings and a collection of work by artists with mental illnesses, even though it meant staying in his Marigny home without gas or electricity. Also now open, though with reduced hours, are the LeMieux Gallery on Julia Street, and A Gallery for Fine Photography in the French Quarter.

In fact, most gallery dealers contacted have vowed to continue in some way, shape or form, even as some devised unusual strategies for doing so.

For instance, the directors of the Soren Christensen Gallery showed their artists’ work in Dallas while preparing to reopen their regular Julia Street space later this year, while Jonathan Ferrara dealt with hefty monthly mortgage payments by leasing his gallery to a construction company as he prepares to exhibit his artists at other venues around the country.

Among artists and dealers alike, tales of tribulation and woe were mitigated by a dogged, if whimsical, determination perhaps best expressed in a message left on the Big Top Gallery’s answering machine, which says, among other things: “The Big Top will be open … it might be November, it might be December, but we’re gonna make sure it happens. … Thanks for calling. Hope you’re having a great day.

Hope your life’s not too whacked … We love you. We GW mean it. We’ll see you soon.” . GW

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galleries 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — Hot For Teacher, group exhibition of teaching artists. Gallery and bar open at least once a week. Call for details.

THE ACADEMY GALLERY. New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111; www.noafa. com — No information available.

ACME GALLERY. 5700 Magazine St., 891-0357; www. acmegal.com — Closed.

A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Exhibition of new acquisitions and vintage photographs by Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Josephine Sacabo and Jerry Uselmann.

ALEX BEARD GALLERY. 319 Chartres St., 568-1976; www.alexbeard.com — Temporarily closed.

ALEXANDER & VICTOR FINE ART. 312 Royal St., 5867555; www.alexanderandvictor.com — Paintings by Jann Harrison and others.

ANIMAZING GALLERY. 906 Royal St., 525-0744; www. animazing.com — Animation art, including the work of Chuck Jones, Alex Ross and Dr. Seuss, ongoing.

ANTON HAARDT FOLK GALLERY. 2858 Magazine St., 891-9080; www.antonart.com — No information available.

ARTEBELLA GALLERY. 323 Chartres St., 299-7196 — Not open.

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 522.1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — Will reopen Nov. 19 with Comeback exhibit.

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY PROJECT. 730 Tchoupitoulas St., 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — Not open.

ARTICHOKE GALLERY. 912 Decatur St., 636-2004 — No information available.

ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Temporarily closed.

BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — Sallie Ann Glassman: Glimpses Of The Invisible; Altered Perceptions II: Artists With Mental Illnesses; both through Nov. 23.

BARLOW ART GALLERY. 805 Royal St., 523-2964 — No information available.

BERGERON STUDIO & GALLERY. 406 Magazine St., 522-7503; www.bergeronstudio.com — No information available.

BRYANT GALLERIES. 316 Royal St., 525-5582; www. bryantgalleries.com — Exhibiting more than 30 contemporary artists, ongoing.

BRUNNER GALLERY. 215 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 893-0444 — Covington location temporarily closed; moved to Shaw Center in Baton Rouge.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — Open Tuesday-Saturday.

COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — Richard Johnson: 7 Paintings, 4 Decades, through Nov. 27. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

COLLINS C. DIBOLL ART GALLERY. Loyola University, Monroe Library, 6363 St. Charles Ave., fourth floor, 861-5456 — No information available.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 5283805; www.cacno.org — Closed until further notice.

Glimpses of the Invisible: Paintings by Sallie Ann Glassman Altered Perceptions II: An Exhibition of Artists With Mental Illness She’s not only New Orleans’ best-known voodoo priestess, she’s also a prolific painter and illustrator. Famous for her hurricaneprotection rituals, Sallie Ann Glassman found herself in the ironic position of having her painting exhibition, originally scheduled to open in September, delayed by a hurricane. Nonetheless, she says her ritual worked, and that Katrina wasn’t really “the Big One.” Even so, it is hard to view this show without sensing something ominous in the works. While much of it celebrates the mythic figures and deities of many faiths as well as the traditional pantheon of voodoo spirits, there are also images that seem eerily prescient. Hurricane Season (pictured) is a downright sinister view of the New Orleans skyline under a furious hurricane sky, with massive breakers rolling in from the river. Other, no less apocalyptic, images with titles invoking the Four Horsemen depict scenes reminiscent of the violence and looting that came in Katrina’s wake. So what did Glassman know and when did she know it? In fact, it is not unusual for artists to sense events before they happen and depict them in their work even if they may not know exactly what they are at the time. Fleeing the Tempest, a painting by Martha Ittenback in the companion Altered Perceptions, is no less prescient in its depiction of elemental fury roaring in from the ocean. How do artists know these things?

That is one of those eternal mysteries that art and science have yet to fully fathom. — D. Eric Bookhardt

Through November Barrister’s Gallery, 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 525-0767; www.barristersgallery.com CRESCENT GALLERY. 628 Toulouse St., 525-5255; www.crescentgallery.net — Gallery temporarily closed. Rolland Golden has an exhibit at the National Arts Club in New York City in November.

D.O.C.S. GALLERY. 709 Camp St., 524-3936; www. docsgallery.com — Ceramic collage by Cara Moczygemba, through December.

DUQUE ART CENTER. 3218 Magazine St., 899-4554; www.gustavoduque.com — No information available.

EUROPA FINE ART. 526 Royal St., 412-8884 — No information available.

FREDERICK GUESS STUDIO. 910 Royal St., 581-4596 — Paintings by Frederick Guess.

FT. ISABEL GALLERY. 502 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1841 — Opens Nov. 11 with group show.

GALERIE D’ART FRANCAIS. 541 Royal St., 581-6925 — Artwork by French artists Wrobel, Sebille, Ferro Le Gree, Passario, Salamon and Tchoubanoff and limitededition artwork by American artist Todd White.

GALERIE ÉCLAT. 3116 Magazine St., 896-2307; www. galerie-eclat.com — No information available.

HAROUNI GALLERY. 829 Royal St., 299-8900 — Paintings by David Harouni.

GALERIE RIVE GAUCHE. 318 Royal St., 524-5623 — Not open.

HERBERT HALPERN FINE ARTS. 1520 St. Charles Ave., 524-6921; www.herberthalpernfinearts.com — No information available.

GALERIE ROYALE. 3648 Magazine St., 894-1588 or (800) 582-9351; www.groyale.com — No information available.

GALLERIA BELLA. 319 Royal St., 581-5881 — Not open.

GEORGE SCHMIDT GALLERY. 626 Julia St., 592-0206; www.georgeschmidt.com — Paintings by George Schmidt.

GUTHRIE CONTEMPORARY. 3815 Magazine St., 8972688; www.guthriecontemporary.com — Paintings

by Auguste Garufi, Jean Geraci, Janet McGreal and Adele Sypesteyn, and sculpture by Auguste Garufi and Tom Corbin. Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

HANSON GALLERY. 229 Royal St., 524-8211; www. hansongallery-nola.com — Not open.

HANSON-KING GALLERY. 523 Royal St., 556-8240; www.hansonking.com — Not open.

HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www.heriardcimino.com — Will reopen in midNovember.

THE HOUSE OF ART. 959 Gerard St. (Hwy. 59), Mandeville, (985) 674-9261 — No information available.

INSLEY ART GALLERY. 427 Esplanade Ave., 949-3512; http://insleyart.com — No information available.

JACK GALLERY. 537 Royal St., 588-1777 — No information available.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www.jeanbraggantiques.com — Southern landscapes by Alla Baltas, Chestee Harrington, Jim Lamantia and David Noll, through Nov. 19.

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JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 841 Carondelet St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — Gallery/Artists In Exile, gallery artists exhibit on the road. Gallery closed indefinitely.

KABUKI DESIGN STUDIO. 1036 Royal St., 523-8004; www.kabukihats.com — Gallery offering handmade hats and jewelry.

KEVIN GILLENTINE. 3908 Magazine St., 899-4201; www.kevingillentine.com — No information available.

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KUNFLAMA ART GALLERY. 1920 Magazine St., 586-1606; www.kunflama.com — No information available.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — Microbe Mania (And Other Fears), ceramic sculpture by John Donovan, through Nov. 12.

LIGHTHOUSE GLASS GALLERY. 743 Camp St., 5294494 — No information available.

NOW OPEN Thank you New Orleans for voting us one of the “BEST NEW RESTAURANTS” —Gambit Weekly

LYON & LYON FINE ART. 819 Royal St., 588-9985; www.lyonandlyonfineart.com — Exhibition of contemporary artists, including Steven Hofberger.

MAGAZINE STREET GALLERY. 5207 Magazine St., 897-5330 — No information available.

MUSEO FINE ART. 1034 Royal St., 569-0023 — No information available.

MYSTIC BLUE SIGNS. 2212 Magazine St., 525-4691 — No information available.

NEIGHBORHOOD GALLERY. 1410 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 524-8800 — No information available.

Monday - Saturday · 5pm ‘til close

8132 HAMPSON ST. 504.301.9061 www.one-sl.com

NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.com — No information available.

NEW ORLEANS ARTWORKS. 727 Magazine St., 529-7279; www.neworleansglassworks.com/site2/ mainpage.htm —Open.

NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS/ RIVERFRONT. 2800 Chartres St., 940-2787; www. nocca.com — Not open.

We Still Make House Calls Since 1951

NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS AND PRINTMAKING STUDIO. 727 Magazine St., 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com/site2/mainpage.htm — Open.

NEXT II FINE ART. 1128 St. Roch Ave., 948-0772 — No information available.

PALMA GALLERY. 828 Howard Ave., 598-2276 — Will reopen Nov. 12.

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PELIGRO GALLERY. 395 Decatur St., 581-1706 — No information available.

POETS GALLERY. 3113 Magazine St., 899-4100 — No information available.

RADICI GALLERY. 603 Julia St., 596-2144; www. radicigallery.com — No information available.

Open Monday–Saturday: 8am–5pm

RHINO GALLERY. 633 St. Peter St., 569-8191 — No information available.

ROBERT BRUNO GALLERY. 900 S. Peters St., 679-0001; www.robertbrunogallery.com — No information available.

RODRIGUE STUDIO. 721 Royal St., 581-4244; www. georgerodrigue.com — Not open.

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THOMAS MANN DESIGN. 1810 Magazine St., (800) 923-2284 — Not open.

VEN NORMAN GALLERY. 317 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-9555; www.vennorman.com — Gallery status unknown; photography sessions available.

WAITING ROOM GALLERY. 906 Pauline St., 949-1805; www.wroomgallery.com — No information available.

THE WILLIAM AND JOSEPH GALLERY. 713 Royal St., 566-7009; www.thewilliamandjosephgallery.com — No information available.

WINDSOR FINE ART. 221 Royal St., 586-0203; www. windsorfineart.com — No information available.

museums AMERICAN-ITALIAN MUSEUM & RESEARCH LIBRARY. 537 S. Peters St., 522-7294 — No information available.

AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER ART GALLERY. Tulane University, Tilton Hall, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 865-5535; www.amistadresearchcenter.org — No information available.

BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM. 1116 St. Claude St., 522-4806; www.backstreetculturalmuseum.com — No information available.

GERMAINE CAZENAVE WELLS MARDI GRAS MUSEUM. Arnaud’s Restaurant, 813 Bienville St., 523-5433; www.arnauds.com/museum.html — No information available.

HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — The Terrible and the Brave: The Battles for New Orleans: 1814-1815.

LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM. 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm.org — No information available.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/site/cabex. htm — The Cabildo: Two Centuries of Louisiana History; Freshly Brewed: The Coffee Trade and the Port of New Orleans; Louisiana and the Mighty Mississippi River; all ongoing.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM MADAME JOHN’S LEGACY. 632 Dumaine St., 568-6968; http://lsm.crt. state.la.us — No opening date scheduled.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/ site/presbex.htm — Reopening February 2006.

MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN COCKTAIL. 514 Chartres St., 565-8027; www.museumoftheamerican cocktail.org — Not open.

THE NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.ddaymuseum.org — Not yet open; Veterans Day Block Party on Nov. 11.

NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Governor Nicholls St., 319-5415 — No information available.

ROYALBLUES GALLERY. 623 Royal St., 524-2583 — No information available.

ROY GALLERY. 329 Julia St., 598-2048 — No information available.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, 488-2631; www.noma.org — Not open.

SANDERS, STOKES & SMITH GALLERY. 5230 Magazine St., 897-0678 — No information available.

NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM. 514 Chartres St., 565-8027; www.pharmacymuseum.org — Not open.

SEVEN DEVILS IMAGINATION PARLOR. 1111 St. Mary St., 304-8245; www.sevendevilsparlor.com — Open with limited hours.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.com — Passport: Classic and Unknown Photographs By Herman Leonard; Observations: Sketchbooks, Paintings and Architecture of Errol Barron; Recent Acquisitions: Paintings and Sculpture; William Eggleston: People; Generations of Hands: Recent works by Nene Humphrey; works from the permanent collection.

SOREN CHRISTENSEN GALLERY. 400 Julia St., 5699501; www.sorengallery.com — Will reopen Nov. 19 with a group show.

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SYLVIA SCHMIDT GALLERY. 400-A Julia St., 5222000; www.sylviaschmidt.com — Closed indefinitely.

NEW ORLEANS HISTORIC TRAIN GARDEN AT CITY PARK. New Orleans Botanical Garden, City Park, 4824888; http://www.neworleanscitypark.com/nobg. php — Not open.

SLIDELL ART LEAGUE GALLERY. Historic Slidell Train Depot, 1827 Front St., Suite 201, (985) 8479458 — No information available.

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St., Covington, (985) 892-8650 — No information available.

STAN RICE GALLERY. 861 Carondelet St. — Gallery is moving to Dallas.

STEVE MARTIN STUDIO. 624 Julia St., 566-1390 — No information available.

ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. 320 N. Columbia

OLD U. S. MINT. 400 Esplanade Ave., 568-6990; http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/site/mintex.htm — Closed indefinitely for repairs.

SYDNEY AND WALDA BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN. New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, 488-2631; www.noma.org — No information available.

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cattered, to the four winds. That’s the way it’s been. For New Orleans theaters, “scattered” means, “Where did the cast go?” After all, how do you put a show on if you can’t find your actors?

Of course, once you find your actors, the next “scattered” problem is the audience. Ryan Rilette, artistic director of Southern Rep, estimates that 25 percent of his audience lost their homes. Are those folks coming back? And, if so, will they be in the mood for a night in the theater?

Southern Rep was one of the lucky ones — though it didn’t seem that way at first. Saks Fifth Avenue, on the ground floor of The Shops at Canal Place, caught fire. The first reports told of cataclysmic smoke damage to the theater — two floors above Saks — not to mention an inundation from the sprinkler system.

All that proved false. Southern Rep is basically OK. True, looters forced their way in — but they satisfied themselves at the refreshment stand and left.

Rilette says he’ll reopen with Kimberly Akimbo in May, starring Lara Grice and Gavin Mahlie (as originally planned) and Becky Allen.

Speaking of looters, one of the saddest storm stories comes from Roch Eshleman, who purchased True Brew a few short months ago. Eshleman evacuated to Little Rock, Ark., but since True Brew is only a block from the infamous Convention Center, Eshleman often saw his building in panning shots on CNN. All seemed well, until one day, he noticed that one shutter, which had been shut, was now open. In fact, True Brew survived the wind and rain, but looters tore the place up. Most depressingly, as Eshleman said — with a grim sigh — “the looters indulged in ... I think the scientific term is ‘defecation.’ Everywhere, even the top of my desk. It’s like the business was raped!” Undaunted, Eshleman plans to reopen ASAP. Things are brighter at Le Petit. Artistic Director Sonny Borey reports that he and Derek Franklin stayed in town to look out for the theater. Although rain flooded the newly added orchestra pit, the small second theater was undamaged. After a week of caretaking, Borey and Franklin herded their four doggies to City Park, boarded an Army helicopter and whisked off to Houston. Borey says he hopes to have a show on the boards in a month or two.

Another good-luck story comes from Rivertown Rep, which suffered very little damage. Kathy Primeaux, longtime box-office chief, has been reassembling her season-ticketholders one phone call at a time. The theater will be back up in December with Cinderella, featuring Gary Rucker and Sean Patterson as the ugly stepdaughters!

Rucker and Patterson are stalwarts who got back on the boards almost before the storm surge subsided. They brought Greater Tuna to life at the undamaged Skyfire in Covington. Artistic Director Rita Stockstill says Skyfire will keep going, as though the greatest natural catastrophe on record here had not happened. Over in Mandeville, Lori Bennet — artistic director of the North Star — was less fortunate. Her home was totally washed away, so she literally

Ricky Graham joined Harry Mayronne Jr., Cynthia Owen and other Big Easy favorites in a New York City benefit put together by a group of organizers including Le Chat Noir’s Barbara Motley.

moved into the theater’s set of Invisible Friends, which was still onstage. The theater itself lost part of its roof and flooded. Nonetheless, Bennet says she will be back in business in about six months.

Back on this side of the lake, Anthony Bean reports that the theater bearing his name survived intact. He’ll be up and running shortly with Joe Turner’s Come And Gone starring Gwendolyn Foxworth and City Councilman Oliver Thomas. The Contemporary Arts Center got whacked pretty badly. Director Jay Weigel says the building will need nearly $1 million in repairs. The theaters, however, came through in fine fettle. Dennis Assaf, artistic director of the Jefferson Performing Arts Society, returned home to face a thoroughly dismaying mayhem.

The facade of the new Westwego theater had “skinned off,” while the East Jefferson Auditorium was soaked and mildewed. But Maestro Assaf is hoping to reopen soon with a remounting of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at a second Westwego location.

Last, but never least, Le Chat Noir came through with minimal damage.

Owner Barbara Motley will open the bar Nov. 1 and hopes to be back in full swing shortly thereafter. The undaunted Motley, by the way, was one of the organizers of a mega-cabaret blast in New York recently — a benefit to raise money for hurricane-struck performers.

Big Apple top bananas sang and swang for three hours plus. But looking right at home with them in the limelight were some Big Easy favorites: Harry Mayronne Jr., Ricky Graham, Banu Gibson, Chris Wecklein and Cynthia Owen. That was a “scattering” of talent that raised our GW hopes for the future. GW

Stuart Hall School for Boys

CAMPUS RE-OPENING NOVEMBER 7, 2005 ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR JANUARY 3, 2006 Nursery – Seventh Grade

2032 S. Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118

(504) 382-8135 · (504) 861-5384 www.stuarthall.org

Financial Aid Available · Stuart Hall School is open to all qualified students regardless of race, national origin, or religious belief.

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This week’s listings sections are presented in a directory format to update readers on the status of New Orleans’ cultural institutions. Listings will be updated each week; we will return to our previous format as more events are presented. Please send your updated status and any other listings information to the Listings Editor Katie Walenter at listingsedit@gambitwee kly.com or fax to (504) 830-3498.

Evening Classes will be at Cabrini High School, 1400 Moss St, New Orleans, from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

ACTOR’S THEATRE OF NEW ORLEANS. WTIX-FM Building, second floor, 4539 N. I-10 Service Road, Metairie, 456-4111 — The Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans presents David Ives’ Off-Broadway comedy All in the Timing. Rene Piazza directs Leon Contavesprie, Michael Sullivan and others. Tickets $8 general admission, $6 seniors/students. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, through Nov. 19.

All Holy Cross middle and high school students are invited to rejoin the school.

Register on-line at www.holycrosstigers.com.

ANTHONY BEAN COMMUNITY THEATER. 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 862-7529 — The theater will open in January 2006 with Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson.

On-site registration at Cabrini on November 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ARCHBISHOP BLENK THEATER AUDITORIUM. 17 Gretna Blvd., Gretna, 835-6002 or 362-4451 — No information available.

ASCENSION COMMUNITY THEATRE. Pasqua Theater, 823-Felicity St., Gonzales, (225) 647-1230 — The ACT will present Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Nov. 10-13 and 17-19.

THE COFFEE COTTAGE. 5860 Dickory, River Ridge, 818-0051; www.thecomedystand.com — The Comedy Stand presents “Back & Lovin It! Stand Up Comedy” featuring Jodi Borello and Mike Strecker. Tickets $12.

9 p.m. Friday.

A College Preparatory Middle & High School for Boys

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 5283805; www.cacno.org — Closed indefinitely.

FLOUR POWER. 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, 276-9095 — Location currently not open. Shine Productions is revising its 2006 season.

HEYMANN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. 1373 S. College Road, (337) 291-5555, Lafayette, www.pasa-online. org — The Performing Arts Society of Acadiana presents Csardas: the Tango of the East performed by Zoltan Zsurafzski’s Budapest Ensemble. Tickets $6-38.

7:30 p.m. Sunday.

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JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. 400 Phlox St., Metairie, 885-2000; www.jpas.org — Closed indefinitely. JPAS is planning for productions in spring 2006.

LE CHAT NOIR. 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812; www. cabaretlechatnoir.com — Bar Noir opens Tuesday.

Cabaret Room will open soon.

LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRÉ. 616 St. Peter St. 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — Closed indefinitely.

OPEN ALL DAY EVERYDAY!

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DOG NIGHT–come sniff out a new friend. Dogs drink free!

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY DRAMA DEPARTMENT. Loyola University, 865-3492; http://www.loyno.edu — The university is closed until Jan. 9.

LSU THEATRE DEPARTMENT. Louisiana State University, Hatcher Hall Theatre, Baton Rouge, (225) 578-4174; www.theatre.lsu.edu — LSU Theatre Department presents The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer.

Jessica Hawley directs. Tickets $6 at the door. 7:30 p.m.

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Be sure to leave the date you would like and how many people you estimate will be coming.

CATERING IS ALSO AVAILABLE.

LSU’S SWINE PALACE. Louisiana State University, Reilly Theatre, Tower Drive, Baton Rouge, (225) 5783527; www.swinepalace.org — Swine Palace Productions opens its season with George Bernard Shaw’s comedy Arms and the Man. Jane Brody directs. Tickets pay-what-you-can preview Wednesday, $12 Thursday preview. Regular run tickets $22 general admission, $13.25 seniors/staff/faculty, $10.25 students. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday-Friday, through Nov. 20.

THE MANSHIP THEATRE. Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St., Baton Rouge, (225) 344-0334; www. manshiptheatre.org— Of Moving Colors Productions will present Kaleidoscope 2005: A Choreographers’ Showcase: Local Artists’ Newest Works on Nov. 13.

MARIGNY THEATER. 1030 Marigny St., 418-5629; mail@blackberryangels.com — No information available.

OPEN: Monday - Friday 10:30am - till 1201 Magazine Street · New Orleans

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MARTINE’S LOUNGE. 2347 Metairie Road, Metairie, 301-6288; www.martinesonline.com — Venue closed.

MINACAPELLI’S DINNER PLAYHOUSE. 1540 Lindberg Drive, Slidell, (985) 781-6565; http://minacapellis.com — Open for dinner. Shows to resume in January 2006.

NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION. Announcements pending regarding NOBA’s January-May season.

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Becky Allen and Sandy Bravender return in The Queen of Bingo this weekend at the Skyfire Theatre in Covington.

NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS/ RIVERFRONT. 2800 Chartres St., 940-2900; www. nocca.com — Closed for repairs.

ORPHEUM THEATER. 129 University Place; www. orpheumneworleans.com — No shows currently.

ORPHEUM THEATRE. Six Flags New Orleans, 12301 Six Flags Parkway, 737-4787 or 253-8100; www.sixflags. com/parks/neworleans — Six Flags New Orleans is closed indefinitely.

PLAYMAKERS THEATER. 19106 Playmakers Road, off Lee Road, Covington, 893-1671 — Playmakers Theater will present “A Tribute to the First 50 Years of Playmakers” on Dec. 8-18. Auditions will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at St. Tammany Art Association, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington. Call 893-2090 for details.

RIVERTOWN REPERTORY THEATRE. 325 Minor St., 468-7221 — The theater will launch its 2005-2006 season on Dec. 2 with Cinderella directed by Gary Rucker.

RIVER REGION PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER. 15146 River Road, Norco, (985) 746-7678; www.rrpa.org/pages/10 — No information available.

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS. One Eyed Jacks, Toulouse St., 606-9903 or running@sturtle.com — The company will produce Grenadine McGunkle’s Double-wide Christmas in December. Richard Read is holding auditions for men of any age, height or weight with singing ability and camp humor. Call for details.

SAENGER THEATRE. 143 N. Rampart St., 524-2490; www.saengertheatre.com — Closed indefinitely.

The 2005-2006 “Broadway in New Orleans” season is cancelled.

SKYFIRE THEATRE. 332 N. New Hampshire St., Covington, (985) 875-7577, ext. 3; www.skyfire.tv — Skyfire Theatre presents The Queen of Bingo written by Jeanne Michels and Phyllis Murphy. Dane Rhodes directs Becky Allen, Sandy Bravender and others.

Tickets $25. 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, through Nov. 27.; The Reduced Shakespeare Company presents The Bible, the Complete Word of God (Abridged). Gary Rucker stars and directs Sean Patterson and Robert Richardson. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, through Nov. 25.

SLIDELL LITTLE THEATRE. 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324 or (985) 643-0556; www.slidell-slt.org — Slidell Little Theater’s season will continue on Dec. 2 with The Gifts of the Magi, a musical version of the O. Henry classic.

SOUTHERN REP THEATRE. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., 522-6545; www.southernrep.com — The first four shows of the season are cancelled. Southern Rep plans to open in May 2006 with Kimberly Akimbo

by David Lindsay-Abaire.

SOJOURNER TRUTH COMMUNITY CENTER. 501 Galvez St., 891-6191 or 621-0673 — No information available.

TEATRO WEGO. 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, 885-2000 or 371-3330; www.jpas.org — Closed indefinitely. JPAS is planning for productions in spring 2006.

TERRYTOWN PLAYGROUND. 641 Heritage Ave., Terrytown, 319-6941 — No information available.

TRUE BREW THEATRE. 200 Julia St., 522-8440 — Closed indefinitely.

TULANE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE. Tulane University, 215 McWilliams Hall, 314-7760 or 314-7761; www.tulane.edu/~theatre or www.neworleansshakespeare.com — The university is temporarily closed.

WESTWEGO PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE. 117-A Sala Ave., Westwego, 371-3330 or 885-2000; www.jpas.org — Closed indefinitely. JPAS is planning for productions in spring 2006.

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family SATURDAY 5 ROSCOE REDDIX. Children’s Castle, 501 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 468-7231 — The Children’s Castle presents a performance by Roscoe Reddix. Tickets $3.50. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

events TUESDAY 1 KIWANIS MEETING. Beck ’N Call Café, 534 N. New Hampshire, Covington, (985)674-3904 or (985) 5026248 — Kiwanis of Greater Covington meets for breakfast and invites fellow Kiwanians affected by the hurricanes. 7:30 a.m.

JOB FAIR. Slidell Municipal Auditorium, 2056 Second St. — A Job Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

OAK ALLEY PLANTATION TOURS. 3645 Hwy. 18, Vacherie, (800) 44-ALLEY or (225) 265-2151; www. oakalleyplantation.com — Oak Alley Plantation offers tours daily. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

HAUNTED HISTORY TOURS. 861-2727; www. hauntedhistorytours.com — Haunted History Tours offers tours daily in the Garden District (3 p.m.) and French Quarter (6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.). Call or visit Web site for meeting locations.

MARIGNY NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING. St. Paul Lutheran Church, 2624 Burgundy St., 945-3741 — Weekly town hall meeting for Marigny and surrounding area neighbors and businesses. 6 p.m.

WILD LOTUS YOGA CLASSES. 48 Perrier St., 899-0047; www.wildlotusyoga.com — Wild Lotus Yoga offers a limited schedule of classes. Visit Web site for schedule.

WEDNESDAY 2 FRENCH MARKET FOOD EVENT. French Market, North Peters St., 522-2621; www.crescentcityfarmersmar ket.org or www.frenchmarket.org — French Market farmers visit for one-day event: “PoBoy Power” with Poppy Tooker and Slow Food. Daytime hours.

OSWALD’S TOWN HALL MEETING. Oswald’s Speakeasy, 1331 Decatur St., 218-5954 — Weekly meeting for residents and business owners in the French Quarter and surrounding areas. 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 3 DISASTER RECOVERY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LECTURE. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Blvd., Rooms A & B, 838-1170 — Experts discuss how to manage housing, finances, contractor selection and other post-hurricane related issues. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 4 BLOOD DRIVE. Clearview Mall, Center Mall Pavilion, 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-0202 — Oschner holds a blood drive. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SUNDAY 6 TRINITY ARTIST SERIES. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., 522-0276 or 670-2520; www. trinityc.net — Albinas Prizgintas presents a “Welcome Bach” concert and talk. Free admission. 5 p.m.

MONDAY 7 PERSONAL SELF-CARE FOLLOWING DISASTER. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 838-1100; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Tulane-Lakeside Hospital presents a recovery program for Katrina victims. Free. 7 p.m.

call for volunteers CITY PARK CLEAN-UP. City Park, Victory Drive, 7159655; jalacour@bellsouth.net — Volunteers are needed for a two-day “Sweep Out Katrina” clean-up event in City Park. Bring cleaning supplies, gloves, all yard tools and garbage bags. Meet at tennis courts on Victory Drive across from Carousel Gardens. Must be

Trinity Artist Series: “Welcome Bach” If there is anything in the local classical-music scene that remotely suggests that life is getting back to normal, it would be knowing that Sunday still represents the opportunity to hit the Lower Garden District and enjoy the Trinity Artists Series. On Sunday, Oct. 31, the series enjoyed its second installment featuring music

by Der Wienerschnitzel Orchestra and its “oom-pah” music. But the following Sunday offers a return to a sweet routine with Albinas Prizgintas (pictured, mischievous as always) honoring his idol with “Welcome Bach.” The driving force behind the “Bach Around the Clock” celebration has decided to use his go-to pitch as he performs organ works while letting folks in on his recent fundraising trip across Europe. Best of all for those on the last nickel or two of their FEMA check: free admission.

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5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., 670-2520 17-older. Lunch provided. Contact Julie for details. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

THREE RIVERS ARTS VOLUNTEERS. (985) 898-4725 or (985) 705-7968 — The Covington Three Rivers Arts Festival needs volunteers to house visiting and displaced artists on Nov. 12-13. Call Karen Whiteside for details.

call for applications

Available to help with clean-up and possible rebuilding homes in New Orleans and the surrounding areas

CHILDREN’S BOOKMARK CONTEST. Jefferson Parish Libraries, 838-1100; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Jefferson Parish Library invites children to design bookmarks on the theme “Give Thanks for Reading” depicting how reading and libraries helped after Katrina. Submit one design by Nov. 5 at any open Jefferson Parish library location.

road trip JAY LENO. L’Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino, 777 L’Auberge Ave., Lake Charles (337) 395-7777; www. ldlcasino.com — The comedian performs his standup act. Must be 21-up. Tickets $75 and $125. 9 p.m.

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Jon Smith, owner of Cork & Bottle Fine Wines (3700 Orleans Ave., 504-934-1386), plans to reopen his Mid-City wine shop Tuesday (Nov. 1) with steep discounts on inventory that weathered the storm and plenty of new deliveries. Located in the American Can Company building, the store took a few inches of water. Bottles that touched floodwater have been tossed, but Smith says other bottles that sat through nothing worse than weeks without climate control will be on sale at “hurricane prices.” Cork & Bottle has seen an expansion since Katrina; within a few weeks of evacuating to Baton Rouge, Smith bought Marcello’s Wine Market (3911 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, 225344-1414), one of the capital city’s best-known wine merchants.

Smaller menus are luring big crowds to reopened restaurants throughout the New Orleans area.

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Cooking on Canal Mid-City may still be pretty desolate after nightfall, but there are plenty of people around during the day working on their homes and businesses. That’s why Maria Vieages decided to reopen her take-out and catering business, Maria’s MultiRegional Cuisine (4145 Canal St., phone unavailable). Her plan was to begin Oct. 24 serving meals in the heart of her stricken neighborhood, where as of this writing no restaurant had yet reopened. She planned to cook dishes like jerk chicken and cinnamon pork on a propane grill outside the flood-damaged building and serve take-out only from lunchtime to sundown.

Maria’s was based on Harrison Avenue for six years and opened on Canal Street in June.

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ioMar’s owners reopened six weeks after Hurricane Katrina with a three-dish menu, a self-service bar and a lot of uncertainty about the business they could attract to their upscale Spanish and Latin American seafood restaurant just two blocks from the Convention Center.

Customers would pay cash at the door to co-owner Nick Bazan, grab a drink from the bar and then pick up an order of fried chicken or shrimp directly from Chef Adolfo Garcia at the kitchen window.

“We had to open up; we couldn’t just sit on our hands,” says Bazan. “We thought we’d be feeding FEMA people though, serving all these out-of-town workers, so we opened up like a cafeteria. But from day one the people in here were locals, our neighbors here in the Warehouse District.”

RioMar’s selection is growing almost daily and most of the best-selling seafood dishes from its former menu are back, including a choice of two ceviches.

“Our goal is to transcend all this and get it back to the old RioMar,” says Bazan.

One step at a time, New Orleans restaurants are moving closer to a semblance of normalcy, expanding from the first basic toeholds they established for service, hours and menu choice to get back in business.

When K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen reopened Oct. 18, for instance, it was with a celebratory mood up front and a mad scramble behind the scenes. The Storyville Stompers Brass Band played upbeat tunes outside and Chef Paul Prudhomme greeted patrons at the door.

Inside, managers from Prudhomme’s other business, the Magic Seasoning Blends spice company, were pressed into service waiting tables, since so few of the previous staff had yet returned.

At this writing, the return to business of K-Paul’s and Ralph Brennan’s Bacco’s is a rarity among the truly famous New Orleans restaurants. Bayona hopes to open in mid-November, while Arnaud’s Restaurant is planning to reopen Dec. 1. Galatoire’s Restaurant and Antoine’s Restaurant are both shooting for a January reopening and, at press time, managers from Commander’s Palace were meeting to determine the timeline for the landmark restaurant’s return.

Restaurateurs who have reopened are finding their efforts rewarded by a steady flow of patrons who seem open-minded about the limitations that persist.

People have been jamming Clancy’s Restaurant since its Oct. 17 return, creating minor traffic jams on the surrounding Uptown streets as well as around the narrow bar inside. The menu is missing some signature dishes, like the oysters with brie and the smoked softshell crab, but in the dining room it feels like none of the restaurant’s regulars are missing the chance to grab a table.

The scene is much the same at casual eateries as well.

“A lot of people still can’t cook at home, and everyone wants to get out of their houses after working on them all day, so they hang out here,” says Jammer Orintas, coowner of Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza.

Like many other New Orleans restaurants, Le Petite Grocery reopened Oct. 18 with a limited menu, but hopes to grow as the city itself does the same.

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Like countless others, Orintas and his partners found the refrigerator at their Uptown pizzeria ruined by the time they returned to the city. That put a severe limit on the ingredients they could keep on hand. So when Theo’s came back Oct. 6, the menu had a choice of just four pizza toppings, plus beer and Coke.

Orintas says Uptowners seemed to grow tired of staying in their storm-damaged houses and quickly turned Theo’s into a neighborhood nexus, with random reunions of friends that often spilled onto the Magazine Street sidewalk, with wide, glassy-eyed expressions and hugs trumping handshakes. Nearby, Le Petite Grocery reopened Oct. 18 with a limited but welcome menu for the neighborhood’s fine-dining fans.

Further up Magazine Street, the only limitations at the French-Italian hybrid Lilette are the ones Chef-owner John Harris imposed on himself as he restored his staffing.

Other restaurants are seating customers wherever they can, but Harris decided to serve only in Lilette’s petite main dining room and a few sidewalk tables, foregoing 25 seats in the patio.

“I didn’t want long waits and poor service, I only wanted to do what we were prepared for,” Harris says.

So the small dining room and reservation book stay full, as does the restaurant’s inventive menu. Harris says sourcing his menu took a determined effort and brought some princely air-shipping bills, but Lilette is now only a few dishes shy of its pre-Katrina norm. Harris even revamped his menu for autumn, adding specials like king crab claws and braised short ribs with gnocchi.

“Everyone wants to get back to normal and experience the things they knew before. That’s what we’re trying to do here,” Harris says.

Restaurateurs who escaped major damage from Katrina and its aftermath may be counting their blessings, but getting back to business still hasn’t been easy for any of them. They have had to cope with spoiled food, lost revenues, missing employees and, like all business owners, great uncertainty for the future. Still, restaurant owners say getting their doors open again and seeing their regulars begin to return has made them much more optimistic.

“Whatever it takes, it feels like a small price to pay to be back home now,” says Bazan at RioMar. “There was a point there when we thought we lost everything.”

(Please see our restructured Out to Eat directory on the status of most area restaurants, on the next page.)

The new Gretna Farmers Market is open on the West Bank, providing consumers and farmers with a marketplace for fresh produce, baked goods and garden plants. The first market was held Oct. 29 and is scheduled to continue each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Old Train Depot in downtown Gretna (300 Huey P. Long Ave.) Plans for the market have been in the works for years, says organizer Marcia Madere, and were inspired by the success of the Crescent City Farmers Market, whose four weekly market days in Orleans Parish remain suspended since Katrina.

The Gretna Farmers Market began with about 10 vendors, and Madere says applications are being accepted for others interested in joining. Contact her at 362-8661.

Here and NOWFE The New Orleans Wine and Food Experience (NOWFE) will go on as scheduled next year with its 15th annual event on Memorial Day weekend. The schedule of events is in the works, but in the past NOWFE has been a weekend-long series of culinary seminars, wine and food tastings and vintner dinners at restaurants and other venues around town. The event is run by a nonprofit organization that raises money for culinary and hospitality education programs in Louisiana. Look for updates online at www.nowfe.com.

Got a tip for Food News? Email Ian McNulty at imcnulty@cox.net.

WINE OF THE WEEK 2003 J. Vidal Fleury Cotesdu-Rhone Blanc France

$11-$12 Retail

The oldest continuously operating Rhone wine firm, J. Vidal Fleury has been producing highquality wines for more than two centuries.

This 100 percent Viognier was made with fruit sourced from 25-year-old vineyards just south of the Rhone Valley near Avignon. A wine with a lovely freshness and great varietal expression, the Fleury offers bursts of citrus and apricot aromas with floral notes followed by rich, round fruit flavors of tangerine and nectarine, some spice and mineral character and honeyed undertones. For maximum enjoyment, serve cool, but not chilled (about 52 degrees F.) Drink young. Good as an aperitif or as a fine accompaniment to white-fleshed fish, baby white veal, chicken and blue cheese.

Where to buy it: The Wine Seller. Where to drink it: Lilette. (Listings current at press time.)

— Brenda Maitland Questions? Email winediva1@ earthlink.net.

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The post-Katrina dining scene is constantly changing, with more restaurants reopening every day and others expanding hours and offerings as their staffs get larger and supplies more consistent. Things may have changed at some of the restaurants listed in Out To Eat by the time you read this. The new New Orleans dining world includes dinner hours that can end as early as 5 p.m., service and seating delays caused by staff shortages and, in the majority of eateries, limited menus. We advise that you call before you go, and be aware that phone problems have caused a number of restaurants to go to cash-only payments because their credit card machines don’t work.

American APPLEBEE’S — 315 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 898-0500; 1220 S. Clearview Pkwy., Harahan 734-0042; 3142 W. Hwy. 190, Hammond (985) 419-2220; 3701 Veerans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 455-0755; 3850 I-10 Service Road, Slidell (985) 641-4800; www.applebees.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ AZALEA GRILL — 3501 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson 8319310 — No reservations. Breakfast daily, lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ THE BEACH HOUSE — 2401 Woodlawn Ave., Metairie 4567470 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ BENNIGAN’S GRILL & TAVERN — 3010 Holiday Drive 3942805; www.bennigans.com — No reservations. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ BILLY’S PLACE — 1035 Dealer’s Ave., Harahan 818-2121 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Wed.-Fri. Credit cards. $ BULL’S CORNER — 1036 W. Airline Hwy., LaPlace (985) 6523544; www.bullscorner.com — Reservations accepted until 6 p.m. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ CAFE BANQUETTE — 3445 Prytania St. 891-5773 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ COME BACK INN II — 3826 Williams Blvd., Kenner 443-1623 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ HOBNOBBER’S CAFE — 5928 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie 7348448 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ HOUSTON’S — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 8892301 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ THE JIMANI — 141 Chartres St. 524-0493 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LOUISIANA PURCHASE KITCHEN — 8853 Veterans Memorial Blvd. (Westgate Shopping Center), Metairie 468-3663 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Cash only. $ MINACAPELLI’S — 1540 Lindberg Drive, I-10 Service Road, Slidell (985) 781-6565; www.minacapelllis.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ O’HENRY’S FOOD & SPIRITS — 710 Terry Pkwy., Gretna 4334111; 1375 Gause Blvd., Slidell (985) 646-1600; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd. 461-9840; www.ohenrys.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PICADILLY CAFETERIA — 2222 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie 454-6271; 4150 Gen. DeGaulle Drive 392-7030 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner buffet daily. Credit cards. $ PONTCHARTRAIN GRILLE — 5050 Williams Blvd. (Treasure Chest Casino), Kenner 443-8000; www.treasurechest. com/site/dining — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ RAISING CANE’S — 919 S. Clearview Pkwy., Jefferson 2162424; 1270 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 809-0250; 1654 Gause Blvd., Slidell (985) 405-1423; 1735 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey 2971622; 4036 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 297-1633; www.

raisingcanes.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ ROADHOUSE GRILL — 5131 Lapalco Blvd., Marrero 341-3636; www.roadhousegrill.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SCHIRO’S COMMUNITY BAR & CAF — 2483 Royal St. 9446666 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SPUDLY’S SUPER SPUDS — 2609 Harvard Ave., Metairie 455-7783 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WING ZONE — 1000 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner 468-7996; 2222 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie 887-1113; 5128 Lapalco Blvd., Marrero 328-9663; 8231 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan 737-6556; www.wingzone.com — No reservations. Delivery available at Metairie and Harahan locations. Lunch and dinner daily, except lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. at Marrero.

WOW WINGERY — 3100 Severn Ave., Metairie 885-1322; 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd. (Clearview Shopping Center) 889-9653; 5359 Mounes Blvd., Harahan 733-8600; www. wingery.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

American Contemporary BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St. 586-0972; www.thebombayclub.com — Reservations recommended. Brunch Sunday, dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ THE CHEESECAKE BISTRO — 528 N. Columbia St., Covington (985) 875-9793 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ CRYSTAL ROOM — 833 Poydras St. (Le Pavillon Hotel) 5813111; www.lepavillon.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ KABBY’S ON THE RIVER — 2 Poydras St.(Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel) 584-3880; www.emarketing360.com/hilton/ no/hnor — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tues.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ LA PETITE GROCERY — 4238 Magazine St. 891-3377 — Reservations recommended. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ HERBSAINT BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 St. Charles Ave. 5244114; www.herbsaint.com — Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards $$ TCHOUP-N-JOE’S — 870 Tchoupitoulas St. 581-2858 — Lunch and dinner daily. Cash or checks. $

Bar & Grill BAYOU BAR — 2031 St. Charles Ave. (Pontchartrain Hotel) 524-0581; www.pontchartrainhotel.com — No reservations.

Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ BLUE MOON TAVERN — 115 Focis St., Metairie 831-6725 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE BULLDOG — 3236 Magazine St. 891-1516; www.draftfreak.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CADDYSHACK CAFÉ & BAR — 3217 Ridgelake Drive, Metairie 833-1799 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ CAJUN MIKE’S PUB ’N’ GRUB — 116 Baronne St. 566-0055; www.cajunmikes.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ COLUMBIA STREET TAPROOM & GRILL — 434 N. Columbia St., Covington (985) 898-0899 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ COOTER BROWN’S TAVERN & OYSTER BAR — 509 S. Carrollton Ave., 866-9104; www.cooterbrowns.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ DINO’S BAR & GRILL — 1128 Tchoupitoulas St. 558-0900 — No reservations. Lunch daily. Credit cards. $ THE EDGE BAR & GRILL — 3400 Hessmer Ave., Kenner 7802266 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ERNST CAFE — 600 S. Peters St. 525-8544; www.ernstcafe. net — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ F&M PATIO BAR — 4841 Tchoupitoulas St. 895-6784 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ FAT HARRY’S — 4330 St. Charles Ave. 895-9582 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ FOX & HOUND ENGLISH PUB & GRILLE — 1200 S. Clearview Pkwy. (Elmwood Village Shopping Center), Harahan 7316000 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ G.B.’s PATIO BAR & GRILL — 8117 Maple St. 861-0067 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ HOOTERS — 2781 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna 393-7177; www. hootersoflouisiana.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ HURRICANE’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL — 1414 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 833-0050 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ JIGGER’S GRILL — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd. 828-3555 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ KABBY’S SPORTS EDITION — 2 Poydras St. (Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel) 561-0500; www.emarketing360.com/hilton/no/hnor — Reservations accepted for large parties only.

Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ MELIUS BAR & CAFÉ — 1701 Lake Ave., Metairie 8289446 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MULLIGAN’S TAVERNE — 3535 Severn Ave., Metairie 8885858 — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ OSCAR’S RESTAURANT & BAR — 2027 Metairie Road, Metairie 831-9540 — No reservations. Lunch Tues.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PORT OF CALL — 838 Esplanade Ave. 523-0120; www.portofcallneworleans.com — No reservations. Call for hours. Credit cards. $ RED EYE GRILL — 852 S. Peters St. 593-9393; 1057 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 833-6900 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SHIMMY SHACK — 1855 Dock St., Harahan — 729-4442 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL — 3655 18th St., Metairie 456-2618 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SIDELINES BAR & GRILL — 1229 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 831-4002 — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ SPORTS CENTER BAR AND GRILL — 3805 Hessmer Ave., Metairie 455-2231 — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $ STITCHES BAR & GRILL — 3941 Houma Blvd., Metairie 4546266 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SWAMP ROOM — 5216 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 888-5242 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ TIMES BAR & GRILL — 1827 Front St., Slidell (985) 639-3335; 1896 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville (985) 626-1161; www.timesgrill.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit

cards and checks. $ UGLY DOG SALOON & BBQ — 401 Andrew Higgins Drive 5698459; www.uglydogsaloon.net — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WINSTON’S PUB & PATIO — 531 Metairie Road, Metairie 831-8705 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ YO MAMA’S BAR & GRILL — 727 St. Peter St. 522-1125 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Barbecue ABITA BAR-B-Q — 69399 Hwy. 59, Abita Springs (985) 892-0205 No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ HILLBILLY BAR-B-Q — 208 Tallulah Ave., River Ridge 7381508 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SWEET DADDY’S CAJUN BARBECUE — 420 S. Tyler St., Covington (985) 898-2166; 2534 Florida St., Mandeville (985) 626-0208 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. at Mandeville, lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. at Covington. Credit cards. $ VOODOO BBQ — 100 E. James Blvd., Kenner 464-1880; www. voodoobbqgrill.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Limited delivery. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ZYDEQUE — 808 Iberville 565-5520 — No reservations. Delivery in the French Quarter and CBD. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

Brewpub ABITA BREW PUB — 72011 Holly St., Abita Springs (985) 892-5837 — Reservations accepted for parties of 10 or more.

Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ LAGER’S INTERNATIONAL ALE HOUSE — 3501 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 887-9923 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ZEA ROTISSERIE & BREWERY — 1401 W. Esplanade Ave. (The Esplanade), Kenner 468-7733; 1644 Hickory Ave., Harahan 738-0799; 4450 Veterans Memorial Blvd. (Clearview Shopping Center), Metairie 780-9090; www.zearestaurants.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Burgers BUD’S BROILER — 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna 393-8160; 2008 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie 899-2837; 2800 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner 466-0026; 3001 Ormond Blvd., Destrehan 7251116; 4101 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson 837-9419; 6325 Elysian Fields Ave. 282-6696; 9327 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge 7382452 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ GROUND PAT’I — 814 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 893-4208; 3124 David Drive, Metairie, 887-9449 — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards at Covington; cash only at Metairie.

HERO’S ALL AMERICAN GRILL — 4700 Hwy. 22, Mandeville (985) 845-1000 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ LEE’S HAMBURGERS — 2100 Airline Drive, Kenner 4720966; 3516 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 885-4291; 4301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-0110 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $

Cafe BACK PORCH GRILL — 414 N. New Hampshire St., Covington (985) 892-5252 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ BARRACKS STREET CAFE — 430 Barracks St. 525-0330 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ BECK-N-CALL — 534 N. New Hampshire St., Covington (985) 875-9390 — No reservations. Limited delivery available.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ BLUEBIRD CAFE — 3625 Prytania St. 895-7166 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ BROKEN EGG CAFÉ — 200 Gerard St., Mandeville (985) 624-

Hours can vary from day to day depending on staff availability. Dinner hours may be earlier than normal. Most menus are limited. Prepare to pay cash for meals.

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Breakfast and lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Sat.-Sun., brunch Sun. Credit cards and checks. $

Cajun JUKEBOX CAJUN DINER — 2560 Williams Blvd., Kenner 4691112 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

Caribbean MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St. 891-8495 — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Chinese AUGUST MOON — 3635 Prytania St. 899-5129 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ CAFE EAST — 4628 Rye St., Metairie 888-0078 Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ CHINA DOLL — 830 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey 366-8822 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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3388; www.anotherbrokenegg.com — Reservations accepted Mon.-Fri., call-ahead seating Sat.-Sun. Breakfast, brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ CAFE ENVIE — 1241 Decatur St. 524-3689 — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ CAFÉ LATTE — 2324 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 8336343 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFÉ LUNA — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave. 269-2444 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ CAFÉ PONTCHARTRAIN — 2031 St. Charles Ave. (Pontchartrain Hotel) 524-0581; www.pontchartrainhotel.com — No reservations. Breakfast and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ CAFE ROYAL — 3343 Metairie Road, Metairie 304-8438 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat, dinner Mon.Fri. Credit cards and checks. $ CAFFE! CAFFE! — 3900 Hwy. 122, Mandeville (985) 727-4222; www.caffecaffe.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast and dinner Mon.-Sat., lunch daily. Credit cards. $ CHATEAU COFFEE CAFÉ — 3501 Chateau Blvd., Kenner 4659444 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $ COFFEE COTTAGE — 5860 Citrus Blvd., Harahan 818-0051; www.coffeecottage.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Tues.-Sun. Cash only. $ COFFEE COVE — 3431 Houma Blvd., Metairie 780-9445 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ COFFEE RANI — 234 Lee Lane, Suite A, Covington (985) 8936158; 3510 Hwy. 190 (Pontchartrain Square), Mandeville (985) 674-2002 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards and checks. $ COMMON GROUNDS — 335 Huey P. Long Ave., Gretna 2272200 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

DEJA VU RESTAURANT AND BAR — 400 Dauphine St. 5231936; www.dejavurestaurantandbar.com — No reservations.

Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ KICKSTAND CAFÉ — 690 Lafitte St., Mandeville (985) 6269300 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Sat.-Sun. Cash and checks. $ LA BOULANGERIE — 4526 Magazine St. 269-3777 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ LA MADELEINE — 3434 Hwy. 190, Mandeville (985) 626-7004; 5171 Citrus Blvd., Suite 2000, Harahan 818-2450; www.lamadeleine.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun. and dinner Thurs.-Sat. at Mandeville; lunch daily at Harahan.

Credit cards. $ LI’L DIZZY’S CAFÉ — 1500 Esplanade Ave. 569-8997 — Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $ PARADISE CAFÉ & GRILL — 3717 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 888-4141 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ PAUL’S CAFÉ — 100 E. Pine St., Ponchatoula (985) 3869581 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ PUCCINO’S — 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd. (Lakeside Shopping Center), Metairie 835-3151; www.lovepuccinos.com — No reservations. Lunch daily. Credit cards. $ ST. JOHN’S COFFEE HOUSE — 535 E. Boston St., Covington (985) 893-5553; www.stjohnscoffeehouse.com — No reservations. Breakfast daily, lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ SURREY’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR — 1418 Magazine St. 5243828 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Tues.-Sun. Cash only. $ VIANNE’S TEA SALON & CAFÉ — 544 Gerard St., Mandeville (985) 624-5683; www.viannes.com — Reservations accepted.

OUT 2 EAT 7894; www.pjscoffee.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $ RUE DE LA COURSE 3121 Magazine St. — 899-0242 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ STILL PERKIN’ — 2727 Prytania St. (The Rink) 899-0335 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $ VOOBREW COFFEE AND TEA — 830 N. Rampart St. 3246420; www.voobrew.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Creole ANTOINE’S — 713 St. Louis St. 581-4422; www.antoines. com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$$

DOUBLE DRAGON — 8236 Hwy. 23, Belle Chasse 433-4333 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

BEALER’S RESTAURANT (FORMERLY DOUG’S) — 348 Robert Blvd., Slidell (985) 649-1805 — No reservations. Dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

EMPIRE BUFFET — 1635 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville (985) 951-8686 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CAFÉ RECONCILE — 1631 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. 568-1157; www.cafereconcile.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Cash only. $

FONG’S CHINESE RESTAURANT — 2101 Williams Blvd., Kenner — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MANDARIN HOUSE CHINESE BUFFET — 1545 Lapalco Blvd., Harvey 263-5333; 3401 Holiday Drive 362-9941; 3501 Severn Ave., Metairie 779-0888 — Reservations accepted at Metairie location. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SESAME INN — 408 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville (985) 9518888; www.sesameinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $ TEA GARDEN — 1918 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 8339455 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Fri. $ TREY YUEN CUISINE OF CHINA — 600 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville (985) 626-4476 — Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tues.-Fri. and Sun., dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards and checks. $$

CLANCY’S — 6100 Annunciation St. 895-1111 — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

Coffee/Dessert CAFÉ DU MONDE — 800 Decatur St. (French Market) 5254544; 4700 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 888-9770 — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ CC’S COFFEE — 2 Poydras St. (Hilton Riverside) 525-0024; 941 Royal St. 581-6996; 1597 Gause Blvd., Slidell (985) 6413177; 3647 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 454-1200; www. ccscoffee.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Credit cards. $ CREOLE CREAMERY — 4924 Prytania St. 894-8680 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ CRESCENT COFFEE CAFÉ — 3001A Gen. DeGaulle Drive 3676013 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Cash only. $ HERSHEY’S ICE CREAM PARLOR — 70456 Hwy. 21, Suite 400, Covington (985) 809-7445 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ ICE COMPUTER CAFE — 5928 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie 3246130; www.icecomputercafe.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MORNING CALL COFFEE STAND — 3325 Severn Ave., Metairie 885-4068 — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ PJ’S COFFEE AND TEA — 644 Camp St. 529-3658; 800 Metairie Road, Metairie 828-1460; 1600 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 871-9326; 1808 B. W. Airline Hwy., LaPlace (985) 359-7575; 2963 Hwy. 190, Mandeville (985) 674-1565; 4100 Gen. DeGaulle Drive 392-4280; 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd. (Clearview Shopping Center), Metairie 885-4543; 4480 Hwy. 22, Mandeville (985) 624-9015; 5300 Tchoupitoulas St., 895-2007; 10158 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge 738-7797; 61103 Airport Road, Slidell (985) 847-9474; 70456 Hwy. 21, Covington (985) 875-

CORNER OYSTER BAR AND GRILL — 500 St. Peter St. 5222999; www.thecorneroysterbarandgrill.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ HUNT ROOM GRILL — 214 Royal St. 523-3341 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ JAZZ SEAFOOD & STEAK HOUSE — 2722 Williams Blvd., Kenner 468-3237 — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ LE CITRON BISTRO — 1539 Religious St. 566-9051; www. lecitronbistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ THE ORIGINAL PIERRE MASPERO’S — 440 Chartres St. 524-8990 — No reservations. Lunch Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ORLEANS CAFÉ — 135 Decatur St. 581-1136 — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PETUNIA’S PLACE — 2020 Hwy. 59, Mandeville (985) 6743436 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE RED MAPLE — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna 367-0935; www.redmaplerestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ RIVER 127’ — 100 Iberville St.(Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place) 553-5082; www.wyndham.com — No reservations.

Breakfast and dinner buffet daily. Credit cards. $$$ SWIZZLE STICK LOUNGE — 300 Poydras St. (Loew’s Hotel) 595-3305; www.cafeadelaide.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ THE UPPERLINE — 1413 Upperline St. 891-9822; www.upperline.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily.

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Crepes LA CREPE NANOU — 1410 Robert St. 899-2670; www.lacrepenanou.com — No reservations. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Cash and checks. $$

Deli GATTUSO’S — 435 Huey P. Long Drive, Gretna 368-1114 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ HUGH’S WINE CELLAR — 4250 Hwy. 22, Mandeville (985) 626-0066; www.hughswinecellar.com — No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie 8967300; www.mrtinwine.com. — No reservations. Lunch and

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FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St. 895-0900 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Cash only in deli. $ MCALISTER’S DELI — 1000 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite A13, Kenner 466-1500; www.mcalistersdeli.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MR. SAM’S DELI — 3531 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan 8376300 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ POINTE DELI — 5050 Williams Blvd. (Treasure Chest Casino), Kenner 443-8000; www.treasurechest.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner buffet daily. Credit cards. $ VERTI MARTE — 1201 Royal St. 525-4767; www.vertimarte. com — No reservations. Delivery available. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $

Diner CLOVER GRILL — 900 Bourbon St. 598-1010 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ DOT’S DINER — 6633 Airline Drive, Metairie 734-0301; 10701 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge 738-9678; 12179 Hwy. 90, Luling (985) 785-6836 — No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Credit cards. $ FRENCH QUARTER BEIGNETS AND DINER — 816 Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 892-0125 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash and checks. $ KRYSTAL’S — 116 Bourbon St. 523-4030; www.krystal. com —No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ SLIM GOODIES — 3322 Magazine St. 891-3447 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash and checks. $ TIC TOC CAFÉ — 3205 36th St., Metairie 834-6272 — No reservations. Open 24 hours. Credit cards. $

French

LA BAR & BISTRO AT LA LOUISIANE — 725 Iberville St. 3788200; www.lalouisianerestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ LA PROVENCE — 25020 Hwy. 19, Lacombe (985) 626-7662; www.laprovencerestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ LILETTE — 3637 Magazine St. 895-1636; www.liletterestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MIDI — 614 Canal St. (Marriott Hotel) 527-6712; www.midirestaurant.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ THE NEW ORLEANS GRILL — 300 Gravier St. (Windsor Court Hotel) 523-6000 — Reservations accepted. Breakfast and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ ZOE — 333 Poydras St. (W Hotel) 207-5018; www.zoebistrot. com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Gourmet-To-Go DORIGNAC’S — 710 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 8348216 — No reservations. Lunch daily. Credit cards. $ THE HERB’AN SPICE COMPANY AT CELLARS OF RIVER RIDGE — 1801 Dickory Ave., River Ridge 734-8455 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ LANGENSTEIN’S — 800 Metairie Road, Metairie 831-6682; 1330 Arabella St. 899-9283 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Cash and checks. $ SAVVY GOURMET — 4519 Magazine St. 895-2665; www.savvygourmet.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

Indian NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4309 Magazine St. 8949797 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Intercontinental

BISTRO MOISE — 827 Toulouse St. (Hotel St. Marie) 5712888 — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

BLUE TOMATO RESTAURANT & CANTINA — 4401 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson 734-3000 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $

CAFÉ LISE — 1111 S. Tyler St., Covington (985) 892-3838; www.cafelise.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Fri. Credit cards and checks. $ C’EST BON — 131 S.W. Railroad Ave., Ponchatoula (985) 3864077; www.cestbonitsgood.com — Reservations for parties of five or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LA COTE BRASSERIE — 700 Tchoupitoulas St. (Renaissance Arts Hotel) 613-2350; www.lacotebrasserie.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ SARA’S — 724 Dublin St. 861-0565; www.sarasrestaurant. com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit

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(Clearview Shopping Center), Metairie 454-7930; www.semolina.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SUN RAY GRILL — 619 Pink St., Metairie 837-0055; 2600 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna 391-0053 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ VIC’S KANGAROO CAFÉ — 636 Tchoupitoulas St. 5244329 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $

3100 N. 19th St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant. com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ ANGELI ON DECATUR — 1111 Decatur St. 566-0077 — No reservations. Late lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $ ANSELMO’S — 3401 N. Hullen St., Metairie 889-1212 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $$ ASSUNTA’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 2631 Covington Hwy., Slidell (985) 649-9768 — Reservations accepted for parties of seven or more. Dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ BACCO — 310 Chartres St. 522-2426; www.bacco.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Italian

BRAVO! ITALIAN KITCHEN — 3413 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 828-8828; www.bravoitalian.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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CAFÉ D’CAPPUCCINO — 4041 Williams Blvd., Kenner 4432299 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFÉ DIBLASI — 1801R Stumpf Blvd., Terrytown 3613106 — Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch Tues.Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFÉ FRESCA — 4441 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie 8872010 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ CAFÉ GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St. 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ CARMINE’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT — 4101 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 455-7904 — No reservations. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ FAUSTO’S BISTRO — 530 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 833-7121 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ FAZZIO’S — 1841 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville (985) 6249704 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ GIORLANDO’S RESTAURANT — 741 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie 835-8593 — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ LA ROSETTA — 2111 Gause Blvd., Slidell (985) 649-9003 — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ IRENE’S CUISINE — 539 St. Philip St. 529-8811 — No reservations. Dinner Sun.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ MIMI’S ITALIAN AND SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 10160 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge 737-6464 — No reservations. Lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ NARDO’S TRATTORIA — 6078 Laurel St. 895-9441; www. nardostrattoria.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ NUVOLARI’S — 2446 Gerard St., Mandeville (985) 6265619 — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ OLIVE BRANCH CAFÉ — 1995 Barataria Blvd., Marrero 3482008; 5163 Gen. DeGaulle Drive 393-1107; www.olivebranchcafe.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ RESTAURANT CYPRESS — 4426 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie 885-6885 — No reservations. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ RISTORANTE DEL PORTO — 205 N. New Hampshire St., Covington (985) 875-1006 — Reservations accepted. Lunch

Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL — 3410 Hwy. 190, Mandeville (985) 727-1998; www.macaronigrill.com — No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SAL & SAM’S — 4300 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 885-5566 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily . Credit cards. $$ SANDRO’S TRATTORIA — 6601 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 888-7784; www.chefsfreerecipe.com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Reservations accepted. Credit cards. $$ TECORO’S SEAFOOD & ITALIAN RESTAURANT — 3525 Williams Blvd., Kenner 466-5550 — Reservations recommended on weekends. Lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S CUISINE — 746 Tchoupitoulas St. 581-1103 — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ VENEZIA — 587 Central Ave., Jefferson 734-3991 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ VINCENT’S — 7839 St. Charles Ave. 866-9313 No reservations. Dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Japanese HANA JAPANESE RESTAURANT — 8116 Hampson St. 8651634 — Reservations recommended (opening Nov. 2). Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ KANNO SUSHI — 3205 Edenborn Ave., Metairie 4555730 — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $ KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St. 891-3644 — Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ LITTLE TOKYO — 590 Asbury Drive, Mandeville (985) 7271532 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $ LITTLE TOKYO RESTAURANT — 1521 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie 831-6788 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards and checks. $$ NINJA — 8433 Oak St. 866-1119 — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $$ OKI NAGO — 2712 N. Arnoult Road, Metairie 780-8588; www. okinago.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ SAKE CAFÉ — 817 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner 468-8829; 4201Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 779-7253 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily at Kenner, dinner daily at Metairie. Credit cards. $$ SAKE CAFÉ UPTOWN — 2830 Magazine St. 894-0033; www.

sakecafeuptown.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SEKISUI SAMURAI SUSHI — 239 Decatur St. 525-9595 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TENNOU SUSHI BAR — 1818 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey 3663898 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ YUJIN — 323 N. New Hampshire St., Covington (985) 8093840 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Latin American CHURROS CAFÉ — 3100 Kingman St., Metairie 885-6516 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ FIESTA LATINA — 1924 Airline Drive, Metairie 468-2384 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Louisiana Contemporary ANNADELE PLANTATION — 71495 Chestnut St., Covington (985) 809-7669 — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ COPELAND’S — 680 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 809-9659; 1700 Lapalco Blvd., Harvey 364-1575; www.copelands.net — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $$ THE DAKOTA — 629 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 8923712 — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ HILLERY’S ON TOULOUSE — 827 1/2 Toulouse St. 571-2888; www.hillerysontoulouse.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ JACQUES-IMO’S CAFÉ — 8324 Oak St. 861-0886 — Reservations required for parties of five or more. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ K-PAUL’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN — 416 Chartres St. 5962530; www.kpauls.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ LE PARVENU — 509 Williams Blvd., Kenner 471-0534 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ LONGBRANCH (FORMERLY ARTESIA) — 21516 Hwy. 36, Abita Springs (985) 871-8171 — Reservations recommended. Brunch Sun., lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ LOUISIANA BISTRO — 4012 Ithaca St., Metairie 525-3335 — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ NAPOLEON HOUSE BAR & CAFÉ — 500 Chartres St. 5249752; www.napoleonhouse.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132 Hampson St. 301-9061;

OUT 2 EAT www.one-s1.com — No reservations. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ PERISTYLE — 1041 Dumaine St. 593-9535 — Reservations required. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ QUARTER SCENE — 900 Dumaine St. 522-6533; www.quarterscene.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ RESTAURANT CUVEE — 322 Magazine St. 587-9001 — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ RESTAURANT AUGUST — 301 Tchoupitoulas St. 299-9777; www.rest-august.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ SUGAR HOUSE — 315 Julia St. (Embassy Suites Hotel) 5251993 — No reservations. Dinner buffet daily. Credit cards. $$ WOLFE’S OF NEW ORLEANS — 859 Convention Center Blvd.

613-2882 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Mediterranean MADRID RESTAURANTE — 2723 Roosevelt Blvd., Kenner 469-5599 — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ TABLE ONE — 2800 Magazine St. 324-9550 — Call for hours. Credit cards. $$

Mexican & Southwest ADOBE CANTINA & SALSA — 1905 W. Thomas St., Hammond (985) 419-0027; www.adoberestaurant.com — Reservations accepted Mon.-Thur. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ CARRETA’S GRILL — 1200 W. Causeway Approach, Mandeville (985) 727-7212; 1340 Lindberg Drive, Slidell (985) 847-0020; 2320 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 837-6696 — Reservations accepted Fri.-Sat. nights. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ CHEVY’S FRESH MEX — 1201 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey 3682100; 3300 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 887-7788 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ CUCO’S — 1300 Gause Blvd., Slidell (985) 641-4706; 2000 S.W. Railroad Ave., Hammond (985) 345-2634; 5953 W. Park Ave., Houma (985) 868-0800 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Magazine St. 5690000 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit

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tions. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ MIDDENDORF’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 30160 Hwy. 51, Manchac (985) 386-6666 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MORTON’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 702 Water St., Madisonville (985) 845-4970 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$

cards. $ LA CARRETA — 108 N.W. Railroad Ave., Hammond (985) 4199990; www.carretarestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ LA CASA GOMEZ — 643 W. Causeway Approach, Mandeville (985) 624-8667 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFER’S BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St. 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurfers.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MI MAMACITA’S — 2345 Florida St., Mandeville (985) 6741400 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards and checks. $ MOE’S SOUTHWEST GRILL — 69292 Hwy. 21, Suite 300, Covington (985) 893-9895 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ NACHO MAMA’S MEXICAN GRILL — 3242 Magazine St. 8990031 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $ SERRANO’S SALSA COMPANY — 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 780-2354; www.serranossalsacompany.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TAQUERIA CORONA — 1827 Hickory Ave., Harahan 738-6722; 3535 Severn Ave., Metairie 885-5088; 5932 Magazine St. 8973974 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Friday, dinner Mon.-Sat. at Harahan; lunch and dinner daily at Metairie; and Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. at Magazine. Credit cards at Harahan, cash only at Metairie and Magazine Street. $

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Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Middle Eastern BABYLON CAFE — 7724 Maple St. 314-0010 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ BYBLOS — 3218 Magazine St. 894-1233 — Reservations accepted for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ BYBLOS MARKET — 2020 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 837-9777 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ DIXIE GYROS — 110 Carondelet St. 523-6614 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LEBANON’S — 1500 S. Carrollton Ave. 862-6200 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MONA’S CAFÉ — 2820 E. Causeway Approach, Mandeville (985) 624-2977; www.shopno/monas.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PHOENICIA — 4201 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 889-9950 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Music & Food JIMMY BUFFET’S MARGARITAVILLE CAFÉ — 1104 Decatur St. 592-2565 — No reservations. Lunch Sat.-Sun., dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ PALM COURT JAZZ CAFÉ — 1204 Decatur St. 525-0200; www. palmcourtcafe.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.Sat. Credit cards. $$ SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — 626 Frenchmen St. 9490696 — Reservations accepted. Call for dinner schedule.

Credit cards. $$ Neighborhood CRABBY JACK’S — 428 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson 8332722 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ FROOT’S — 5250 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan 733-3401 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ FURY’S — 724 Martin Behrman Ave., Metairie 834-5646 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ JOEY K’S — 3001 Magazine St. 891-0997 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ JUDICE’S — 421 Gibson St., Covington (985) 892-0708 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards and checks. $ MOTHER’S RESTAURANT — 131 Huey P. Long Ave., Gretna 368-8678 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ R&O PIZZA PLACE — 216 Old Hammond Hwy., Metairie 8311248 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ RIP’S ON THE LAKE — 1917 Lakeshore Drive, Mandeville (985) 727-2829 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ Panasian ASIAN SUPER BUFFET — 3900 Williams Blvd., Kenner 7120899 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ASIAN CAJUN BISTRO — 301 Decatur St. 522-4964; www. asiancajunbistro.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ KING BUFFET — 601 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 8374383 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LEMON GRASS — 217 Camp St. 523-1200 — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PANASIA THAI RESTAURANT — 500 St. Charles Ave. (Best Western Parc St. Charles) 299-8004 Reservations accepted.

Pizza BROOKLYN PIZZERIA — 2701 Airline Drive, Metairie 8331288 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFÉ ROMA — 910 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner 467-8555; 1101 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie 833-7662; 1119 Decatur St. 566-1800 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ DITALI’S PIZZA — 8160 Belle Chasse Hwy., Marrero 3931160 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ GIO’S PIZZA — 4941 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie 885-3515 — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ISABELLA’S PIZZERIA — 4250 Hwy. 22, Mandeville (985) 674-5700; 70452 Hwy. 21, Covington (985) 875-7620 — No reservations. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ITALIAN PIE — 417 N. Rampart St. 522-7552; 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 832-1121; 1530 Lapalco Blvd., Harvey 362-3657; 4350 Hwy. 22, Mandeville (985) 626-5252; 5406 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 887-9977; 5538 Magazine St. 894-0005; 5650 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan 734-3333; www.italianpierestaurants.com — No reservations. Delivery available at Mandeville and 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd. locations. Lunch and dinner daily, except lunch only daily at Rampart Street and lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. at Harvey. Credit cards. $ LOUISIANA PIZZA KITCHEN — 95 French Market Place 5229500; 615 Carrollton Ave. 866-5900 — Reservations recommended for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MARK TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $ MILANO’S PIZZA — 3002 Cleary Ave., Metairie 7807500 — No reservations. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ MONA LISA — 1212 Royal St. 522-6746 — No reservations.

Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ MO’S PIZZA — 1112 Ave. H, Westwego 341-9650 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ NEW YORK PIZZA — 5201 Magazine St. 891-2376 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PIZZA FLORENCE — 4445 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 888-7888 — No reservations. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ REGINELLI’S — 741 State St. 899-1414; 817 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner 712-6868; 5608 Citrus Blvd., Harahan 818-0111 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SICILY’S PIZZA — 301 N. Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 8930005 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards and checks. $ SLICE RESTAURANT — 1513 St. Charles Ave. 525-7437 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St. 8948554; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ TOWER OF PIZZA — 2104 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 833-9373 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Cash only. $ Sandwiches and Po-Boys BARCIA’S GROCERY — 3633 Annunciation St. 899-9111 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ BEAR’S — 128 W. 21st Ave., Covington (985) 892-2373 — No reservations. Lunch Tues.-Sat. Cash and checks. $ CHRISTY’S PO-BOYS — 1102 Stumpf Blvd., Gretna 3686498 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Fri. Cash only. $

DANNY AND CLYDE’S — 805 Newport Drive, LaPlace (985) 652-5227; 1504 Gause Blvd., Slidell (985) 726-6101; 2201 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie 885-1332; 5861 Citrus Blvd., Jefferson 734-0060; 68083 Hwy. 59, Mandeville (985) 809-2133 — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $ DIMARTINO’S — 1788 Carol Sue Ave., Terrytown 391-1711; 3900 Gen. DeGaulle Drive 367-0227 — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ MIMI’S (FORMERLY LEE’S HAMBURGERS) — 503 Schlief Drive, Belle Chasse 392-9922 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MOTHER’S — 401 Poydras St. 523-9656 — No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ PARASOL’S RESTAURANT & BAR — 2533 Constance St. 8992054 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PHILLY’S STEAK HOUSE — 4639 Westbank Expwy., Marrero 328-2222 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Sun.-Fri. Credit cards. $ QUIZNOS SUBS — 701 David Drive, Kenner 733-8817; 817 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner 466-9195 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. at David Drive, lunch and dinner daily at W. Esplanade. Credit cards. $ RADOSTA’S — 249 Aris Ave., Metairie 831-1537 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Seafood ACME OYSTER HOUSE — 519 E. Boston St., Covington (985) 898-0667; 724 Iberville St. 522-5973; 3000 Veterans Memorial Blvd., 309-4056; www.acmeoyster.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ANDREW JAEGER’S HOUSE OF SEAFOOD — 300 Decatur St. 581-2534 — No reservations. Lunch Thur.-Tues. Cash only. $ BOURBON HOUSE SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR — 144 Bourbon St. 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ CAJUN CATFISH HOUSE — 521 Central Ave., Jefferson 7339538 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ COFFEE’S BOILIN’ POT — 305 Covington St., Madisonville (985) 845-2348 — No reservations. Lunch Thurs.-Sun, dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards and checks. $ DEANIE’S SEAFOOD — 1713 Lake Ave., Metairie 831-4141 — No reservations. Lunch Sun., dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ THE DOCK OF SLIDELL — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell (985) 645-3625 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ DOCKSIDE SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR — 1820 Dickory Ave., Jefferson 736-9666 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ DRAGO’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR — 3232 N. Arnoult Road, Metairie 888-9254; www.dragosrestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ DRY DOCK CAFE — 133 Delaronde St. 361-8240; www.thedrydockcafe.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Cash only. $$ FRENCH MARKET RESTAURANT & BAR — 1001 Decatur St. 525-7979; www.frenchmarketrestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for parties of five or more. Lunch and dinner Wed.Mon. Credit cards. $$ THE GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie 832-0955 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ HARBOR SEAFOOD & OYSTER BAR — 3203 Williams Blvd., Kenner 443-6454 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ KENNER SEAFOOD INC. — 3140 Loyola Drive, Kenner 4664701; www.realpagessites.com/kennerseafood — No reserva-

MR. ED’S SEAFOOD & ITALIAN RESTAURANT — 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie 838-0022 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ NEW ORLEANS HAMBURGER AND SEAFOOD COMPANY — 817 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie 837-3382 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ NEW ORLEANS FOOD AND SPIRITS — 208 Lee Lane, Covington (985) 875-0432 — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ RALPH & KACOO’S — 519 Toulouse St. 522-5226; www. ralphandkacoos.com — Reservations accepted for large groups. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St. 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ RESTAURANT DE FAMILLES — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Crown Point 689-7834 — Reservations recommended on weekends.

Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ RIOMAR — 800 S. Peters St. 525-3474; www.riomarseafood. com — No reservations. Lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ RIP’S ON THE LAKE — 1917 Lakeshore Drive, Mandeville (985) 727-2829 — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ SEAFOOD GALLEY (FORMERLY SNAPPER JOHN’S) — 509 S. Tyler St., Covington (985) 892-3287 — No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ STINGRAY’S SEAFOOD GRILL AND BAR — 1303 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner 443-4040 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Steakhouse BEEF CONNECTION — 501 Gretna Blvd., Gretna 3663275 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ BOULE PRIME HOUSE — 1950 Hwy. 190, Covington (985) 809-0969; www.bouleprimehouse.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$$ THE EMBERS ORIGINAL BOURBON HOUSE — 700 Bourbon St. 523-1485; www.emberssteakhouse.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ KEITH YOUNG’S STEAKHOUSE — 165 Hwy. 21, Madisonville (985) 845-9940 — No reservations. Lunch Tues.-Fri., dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$$ OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE — 61 Park Place Drive, Covington (985) 893-0505; 830 E. I-10 Service Road, Slidell (985) 6494329; 1501 Barataria Blvd., Marrero 341-5544; 2746 Severn Ave., Metairie 455-6850; www.outback.com — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RIB ROOM — 621 St. Louis St. 529-7045; www.ribroom. net — Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Fri, dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ SAMMY’S STEAK HOUSE — 627 Bourbon St. 525-8442 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ STAR STEAK AND LOBSTER — 237 Decatur St. 525-6151 — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ YOUNG’S RESTAURANT — 850 Robert Blvd., Slidell (985) 6439331 — No reservations. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

Tapas OHIA — 2 Lee Circle (Le Cirque Hotel) 962-0900 — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tues.-Sat. Credit cards. $ VEGA TAPAS CAFÉ — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie 8362007; www.vegatapas.com — No reservations. Dinner Wed.Sat. Credit cards. $$

Thai BASIL LEAF — 1438 S. Carrollton Ave. 862-9001 — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Vegetarian & Health Food COLUMBIA STREET NATURAL FOODS — 415 N. Columbia St., Covington (985) 893-0355 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Vietnamese FROSTY’S CAFFÉ — 2800 Manhattan Blvd., Suite B, Harvey 361-9099; 3400 Cleary Ave., Metairie 888-9600 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only in Metairie, credit cards in Harvey. $ KIM SON — 349 Whitney Blvd., Gretna 366-2489 — Reservations recommended for groups of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ TAN DINH — 1705 Lafayette St., Gretna 361-8008 — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Cash only. $ To update information in the listings or to inform Gambit Weekly about venues that have opened, email kandaceg@gambitweekly.com or fax the information to 830-3459.

Hours can vary from day to day depending on staff availability. Dinner hours may be earlier than normal. Most menus are limited. Prepare to pay cash for meals.

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Education, Business & Financial Services

605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 70056 433-0333

HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK Locations City Wide 1-800-666-4417

CAMERON JONES 2127 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70130 524-3119

LAPORTE SEHRT ROMIG HAND, CPA Covington,(985) 892-5850 Metairie, 835-5522 LYNN LUKER, ATTORNEY New Orleans, 525-5500 MUTUAL SAVINGS & LOAN 2900 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, 70006 455-2444

COLE PRATT GALLERY 3800 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 891-6789 DAVID ART CENTER 3828 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, 70002 888-3630

NEW HORIZONS COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER 2800 Veterans Blvd. Suite 2200, Metairie, 70002 849-6600

EARTHSAVERS 5501 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 899-8555

STUART HALL 2032 S. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans, 70118 861-1954

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TONY’S TRUCKING & EXCAVATING (937)-379-2519

Shops AIDAN GILL 2026 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70130 587-9090 BALLIN’S LTD 721 Dante St., New Orleans, 70118 866-4367 2917 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 891-4502 806 E. Boston St., Covington, 70433 (985)-892-0025 BELLINI 474 Metairie Rd., Metairie, 70005 835-2021 BREAUX MART 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 70002 885-9022 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 70123 737-8146

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JUANITA’S 721 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, 70005 834-9511

SALON DU BEAU MONDE 612 Julia St., New Orleans, 70130 568-0050

JUDY’S AT THE RINK 2727 Prytania St., New Orleans, 70130 891-7018 MASSEY’S SPORTS 3363 Severn Ave., Metairie, 70002 885-1144

DOWNTOWN FITNESS CENTER One Canal Place, 3rd Floor, New Orleans, 70130 525-2956

SIMPLE ELEGANCE 712 Adams St., New Orleans, 70116 861-4200

PARIS PARKER SALON AND SPAS 1-888-990-2468 4900 Prytania, St. New Orleans, 70115

Holiday Square, 1-12 at Hwy 90, Covington, 70433 (985) 893-4777

Lakeside Shopping Center, Metairie, 70002

SNAP 240 Metairie Rd., Metairie, 70005 504-849-9988

DR. JEFFREY SINGER 4720 S. 1-10 Service Rd., Suite 406, Metairie, 70001 456-3155

METRO THREE 2032 Magazine St., New Orleans 558-0212

ST. FRANCISVILLE HISTORIC MERCHANTS 11757 Ferdinand St., St. Francisville, 70755 1-800-789-4221

MIGNON FAGET 3801 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 891-2005

STAFFORD TILE 5234 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 895-5000

Lakeside Shopping Center, Metairie, 70002 835-2244 NEOPHOBIA 2022 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70130 569-9963 ON THE OTHER HAND 8204 Oak St., New Orleans, 70118 861-0159 ORIENT EXPRESSED 3905 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 899-3060 ROBERT’S FRESH MARKET 5016 West Esplanade, Metairie, 70006 885-7005 RODRIGUE GALLERY 2021 Pinhook Rd., Lafayette, LA, 337-233-3274 SABAI 924 Royal St., New Orleans, 70116 525-6211 3115 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70115 899-9555

SYMMETRY 8138 Hampson St., New Orleans, 70118 861-9925 TALEBLOO RUG GALLERY 2015 Magazine St., New Orleans, 70130 581-9700 THE FURNITURE DOCTOR 3701 Tchopitoulas St, New Orleans, 70115 899-3608 UPTOWN AUTO SPECIALISTS 501 S. Carrollton, New Orleans, 70118 866-8392 VILLERIE’S FLORIST 1107 Veterans Blvd, Metairie, 70005 833-3716 1027 Village Walk, Covington, 70433 985-809-9101

DR. KEN MORGAN DDS 3100 Kingman St., Ste 100, Metairie, 70006 780-7006 DR. LISA COLON 4720 1-10 Service Rd, Suite 105, Metairie, 70001 457-0299 120 Meadowcrest St., Suite 320, Gretna, 70056 391-7675 EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL 4200 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 70006 454-4000

4900 Hwy 22, Mandeville, 70471 100 E. Thomas St., Hammond, 70401 SOUTHERN ORTHOPEDICS 2731 Napoleon Ave., New Orleans, 70115 897-6351 3800 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 70006 455-9500 ST. CHARLES VISION 8040 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, 70118 866-6311 3200 Severn Ave., Metairie, 70002 887-2020

EQUIPOISE WELLNESS CLINIC (985) 645-0045

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FAIRWAY MEDICAL CENTER 67252 Industry Lane, Covington, 70433 (985) 809-9888

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METROPOLITAN GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATES 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 705, New Orleans, 70115 896-8670 1111 Medical Center Blvd., #5-450, Marrero, 70072 349-6401 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 520, Metairie, 70006 456-8020

Health, Beauty & Wellness

MICHELLE LONGINO, 4829 Prytania St., Suite 200, New Orleans 723-0782

AUDUBON YOGA STUDIO 511 Octavia St., New Orleans, 70115 821-9885

ONE TO ONE PERSONAL TRAINING 735 Octavia St., 70115 504-891-5121

837 S. Clearview Pkwy, Jefferson, 70121 733-0406 13322 Hwy. 90, Boutte, 70039 985-785-8484 SUNNYSIDE PEDIATRICS 4420 Conlin St., Suite 205, Metairie, 70006 455-8887 TULANE-LAKESIDE HOSPITAL 4720 1-10 Service Rd., Suite 300, Metairie, 70001 780-4560 WEST JEFFERSON HOSPITAL 1101 Medical Ctr Blvd., Marrero, 70072 347-5511

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE GENERAL REAL ESTATE

Take your home with you or place this mobile home in front of your building site. Sleeps 8, full size bedroom w/bay window, shower, toilet, brand new fridge.

New a/c, TV, liv rm/din rm combo. New tires, new line. New owner will have to pick up. $10,000 OBO.

830-3481

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100% MORTGAGES Owner Occupied OR Investment

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GENERAL REAL ESTATE

www.eurekahomestead.com call 504-837-0550

or email 24/7 dwagner@ eurekahomestead.com

AMAZING EXTRAS

4 Br, 2.5 Ba, crnr lot, kit, LR, DR, Den, wd flrs, carpet, Cen A/H, grge, pool $225K 504-615-9053 or 985-892-1405

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE

FRENCH QUARTER/FAUBOURG MARIGNY

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT SPECIAL EVENT RENTALS UPTOWN GUEST HOUSE

741 Topaz

High & Dry. 5bd/3 full & 2 half baths.

4300 sf. Pool, crtyds, covd pkg. Home theatre.

His/her baths.

Call 504.453.7068 or 504.525.9763.

Year round availability. Daily, weekly, monthly. Rooms & suites, $65 - Up. www.hoovermanor.com or (504) 2614668

RON BALLESTAS

BOB FRAICHE

504-388-1220 bfraiche@kw.com

AUTO REPAIR SHOP For Sale $150,000

OLDE TOWNE SLIDELL OFICE SPACE For Lease $8.18 PSF

UPTOWN Apartments with no flooding or damage. Great selection of historic properties in fantastic locations. High ceilings, hardwood floors, central air/heat, updated kitchens & baths, pools. Pets negotiable.

Starting at $685.

899-RENT

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GENERAL REAL ESTATE

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2 bed/2baths + study. 1863 sf.

Private storage units. Property tax abatement. Fitness center. Secured cov’d pkg. 2 large walk-in closets.

Bob Talbot, 504-525-9763.

TALBOT REALTY GROUP

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

“Darlene D.”

Delesdernier, GRI, CRS Over 20 years Experience

985-845-8111

985-845-2067 ext 131

Prospere Oaks

Covington, $3,125,000 TEC REALTORS®

Each office is Independently Owned � Operated

Corinne Fox 239-1481

To view my select listings visit my website at:

NewOrleansAreaRealtor.com Mandeville, Beau Chene Iris Manor, $5,400,000 221 Evangeline Drive, $875,000 710 Tete L'ours, $650,000 808 Tete L'ours, $525,000 104 Pecaniere, $309,000

TERRYTOWN 304 Helen Street 3br, 2ba, cen a/h. $1100/mo.

ALGIERS POINT CONDO

140 Morningside Drive

Mandeville, The Estates of the Reserve, $635,000

1823 N. Rampart St.

Mandeville, Deerfield 1085 Whitetail Drive, $485,000 Mandeville, The Woodlands 780 Sweet Bay Drive, $350,000

2br, 2ba. Beautifully renov, 1500 sq ft. $1200/mo.

Mandeville, Magnolia Ridge 613 Maple Street, $245,000

UPTOWN

Mandeville, Laurel Wood 1776 Logan Lane, $299,000

Lg 1br, cen a/h. Next to Audubon Park. $750/mo.

840 TCHOUPITOULAS #218

RESTAURANT For Sale $330,000

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

UPTOWN DOUBLE 1333-35 Burdette, 5/2 $399K MID-CITY DOUBLE 516-18 N. Olympia, 1/1 ea side $230K

FAUBOURG MARIGNY

LOUNGE/RESTAURANT For Sale $400,000

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FOR SALE

An exclusive residence facing Jackson Square. 2br, 2.5ba, 1400 sq ft. $2500/mo.

WAREHOUSE WORK SPACE For Sale $275,000

Visit: Bob Fraiche & Ron Ballestas at

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

1205 ST. CHARLES Furn effy $1500 Furn 1br $2000 Lg unfurn 1br $2000 1914 DUBLIN, 2/1 $1200

455-0100

Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

CENTRAL JEFFERSON OFFICE SPACE For Lease $13 PSF

1835’S CREOLE COTTAGE For Sale $1,650,000

RENTALS UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

504-338-5527 rballestas@cox.net

FORMER BEAUTY COLLEGE; APT COMPLEX, LAUNDROMAT For Sale $1,200,000 Lending Since 1884

3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths. $159,900. No water from Katrina. Own. Angela 504554-8267. Keller Williams

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

Innovative Programs at Lower Bank Pricing

Serious inquires only.

741 LANG ST

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910-486-6118

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ESTATE

Mandeville, Estates of the Reserve 140 Morningside Drive, $635,000

COXE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 228-229-6373

Madisonville, Waterfront 115 Mabel Drive, $1,200,000 Harahan, Vacant Land On Colonial Golf Course, $235,000

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4404 Rue Place Pontchartrain

Kenner, Place Pontchartrain - $775,000

Abita Springs, Comm’l Land Hwy 36, $127,000

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Single family home w/flex floor plan for 2 families. 5 br, 3.5 ba. Mstr ste w/fplc, jacuzzi/whrlpl tub, his/hers closets. 5,262 sf liv area, wd flrs in dr & kit, carpet in br's & den. 10' ceil down & 9' ceil up. Extra lg garage/ workshop, plus cov carport.

2 cov rear porches. Many other amenities.

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT/CBD 448 Julia. Furnished 2bed/2bath condo. Fantastic skyline views, wd flrs, granite pkg, fitness, etc. $3000/mo.

TALBOT REALTY GROUP Shaun Talbot 504-525-9763

504-835-6953 Call Adrian Pappalardo PAPPALARDO CONSULTANTS, INC 5557 Canal Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70124

HOWARD M. SCHMALZ & ASSOCIATES REAL ESTATE

HISTORIC 2 STORY 2br, 2ba, furn kit w/ss appls, w/d, exposed brick, hdwd flrs, gated pkg. $1200.

FABULOUS 3 BEDROOM Just off St. Charles, 2.5ba, 14 ft ceil, balconies, laundry, patio, great kit. $2000.

JUST OFF ST. CHARLES 2br, 1.5ba, hdwd flrs, cen a/h, 14 ft ceil. $800.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT 2br, 1/2 block off St. Charles, new kit, patio, a/c, ceil fans. $750.

581-2804 LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT Purple Victorian Hse

1304 Felicity. Renov 2 br, 1 ba, cen a/h, new kit, w/d, hdwd flrs, hi ceils. $1100/mo, 259-7321. Also, a 2 BR 1 BA avail. - $950/mo.

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448 JULIA Top flr cnr furnished condo.

2beds/2baths. Skyline views, wd flrs, granite, parking. �3000/mo.

24 VERDE STREET LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! HIGH & DRY!

908-7443

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WAREHOUSE/ARTS DISTRICT RENTALS

1427 St. Mary Street

1107 S. Peters · Fibre Mills

Stunning 2Bdrm/2Ba Luxury Apt with 2000sq ft. Living Area, Auto-Gated off street parking, Prvt Yard w/Fountain, Exquisite Features, Top Notch Kitchen, much more - $2400/mo.

2 bed / 1.5 bath. $1,895

920 Poeyfarre · Cotton Mill 1 bed / 1 bath. $1,800 furn.

448 Julia · Gallery Row

2 bed / 2 bath. $3,000 furn.

Other 1 and 2 bedroom rentals available now.

Various lease terms.

Gated Historic Home in Heart of Lower Garden District 1.5 Blks to St. Charles Ave, Water & Sewer Pd, No Pets, 1 Yr Lease.

(305) 395-0470/(305) 852-8299 louiskoerner@bellsouth.net OLD METAIRIE LOCATION! LOCATION!

12 Duck Hook Dr off Metairie Rd & I-10.

Brand new! 3/3.5 townhouse, 2500 sf, hdwd/tile flrs, gourmet kit, granite counters, frplce, jacuzzi, pkg. $475K. O/A Cody, 913-1195.

SHAUN TALBOT

525-9763

SUBLET CLINICAL OFFICE Newly refurbished office within 3 office suite with other therapist/clinicians.

Shared waiting room, bathroom & office supply areas. Great location near Causeway & Veterans with offstreet parking.

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UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 3929 COLISEUM

FRENCH QUARTER/FAUBOURG MARIGNY

Lux 2 br, 2 ba, lr, formal dr, gourmet kit, hdwd flrs, hi ceil, jacuzzi, front & rear balc, rear deck. Pet ok. $1800/mo. Avail Dec 1. 913-1195.

5108 LAUREL

Renov 1 br, furn kit, hdwd flrs, ceil fans, cen a/h, w/d hkps, pvt yard. Pet ok. Avail now! $850/mo. 913-1195.

LG 1 BDRM UPPER

3931 Coliseum. Avail Nov 1-7. Hdwd flrs, furn kit, a/c, w/d, porches. Pet nego. $825/mo. Cody, 913-1195.

CALL RACHEL @ 828-8232.

Uptown Space

FOR RENT

Looking for a person or small firm to share space w/small mgmt firm of 2. Available ASAP! Great location, priv & common space available.

Over 2000sf. Will consider reconfiguration of present office set-up for the right tenant.

Great space for small business. $2000/mo. +utils; negotiable if prof. services exchanged.

2340 Dauphine Street

944-3605

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 4431 TCHOUPITOULAS - 3br/2.5ba $2500 324 CHARTRES - 2br/1ba $2500 1604 PAUGER - 1br/1ba $750 1022 ST. PETER - 2br/2ba $2700 1022 ST. PETER - 2br/1.5ba $3000 713 CAMP 3H - 2br/2.5ba $8000 713 CAMP 2B - 2ba/2ba $6000 713 CAMP 2A - 2ba/2ba $4500 713 CAMP 1A - 1ba/1ba $2500 5527 LOYOLA AVE - 3ba/2ba $1500 807 MARIGNY- 1ba/1ba $700 1227 GOV. NICHOLLS- 2ba/2.5ba $1500 1831-33 GENTILLY - 2ba/1ba $1000

CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS!

504-897-2958 or 319-7869

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 2533 CALHOUN ST

REAL ESTATE

Lg 1 bdrm, prkg, wd flrs. Univ area, $700/mo • 4233 FONTAINEBLEAU, 1 bdrm, prkg, w/d, $550/mo. 628-3663 / 628-3661

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 3 BR, 2 BA, 2200 SF

Univ Area Liv rm, din rm, den, tile kit, w/d, d/w, micrwv, yd w/ deck, wd flrs, ceil fans $2100. 899-4232/982-0543

CONDOMINIUMS FOR SALE

1205 St. Charles Avenue Unit 402 - 1 bedroom - $169,000 Unit 1014 - furnished 1 bedroom - $198,500 Unit 617 - 1 bedroom - $165,000 Unit 817 - 1 bedroom - $179,000 Unit 810 - Efficiency - $126,500 Unit 617 - 1 bedroom - $165,000

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