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Gambit’s 2013 40 Under Forty ..........................19 Our annual look at 40 of the metro area’s brightest young people

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Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Hair, Sarah Quintana, Jazz Suites and more

NEWS + VIEWS News.............................................................................7 How well is your legislator compensated?

Bouquets & Brickbats ...........................................7 This week’s heroes and zeroes C’est What? ................................................................7 Gambit’s Web poll Scuttlebutt................................................................11 News briefs from all over Commentary............................................................15 Fixing flood insurance rates Clancy......................................................................... 17 The sheriff and the whistleblower

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Health News ............................................................41 Bird brains

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SHOPPING + STYLE What’s In Store ...................................................... 47 Mariposa Salon & Spa

EAT + DRINK Review ......................................................................49 Dreamy Weenies Fork + Center ...........................................................49 All the news that’s fit to eat 3-Course Interview ..............................................51 Pastry chef Kelly Fields Drinks ........................................................................53 Beer Buzz and Wine of the Week Last Bites .................................................................55 Foodie calendar, 5 in Five, Off the Menu

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT A&E News .................................................................63 Van Dyke Parks and Tom McDermott at Snug Harbor Music .........................................................................64 PREVIEW: Laura Marling

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Tue. Nov. 5 | Even if Kurt Vile’s blazed college-dropout rock isn’t your cup of green tea, you have to love the man’s titles: 2011 forgotten-epiphany Smoke Ring For My Halo had “Society is My Friend,” “Puppet to the Man” and “Peeping Tomboy”; sequel Wakin on a Pretty Daze, “Was All Talk” and included “Shame Chamber.” Beach Fossils and VBA open at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

HIP Fest

Tue.-Wed. Nov. 5-6 | The Hosting Improvising Performers (HIP) Festival features the Jeff Albert Quartet, Trapper Keeper and various collaborations between musicians including drummer Hamid Drake, vibraphonist Pasquale Mirra, flutist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Helen Gillet and others. At 9 p.m. at Blue Nile.

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Fri. Nov. 8 | New Orleans native and singer/songwriter Sarah Quintana combines blues, folk and Cajun music. She premieres The Delta Demitasse, which combines music and video, at 7:30 p.m. at the Contemporary Arts Center.

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a collaboration between tap-dancing star Jason Samuels (pictured) and Pandit Chitresh Das, a master of Indian Kathak dance. The performance is set to a blend of traditional Indian music and jazz. At the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

Fri.-Sun. Nov. 8-23 | Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre presents the rock musical about a group of hippies who protest the Vietnam War, call for social change and explore the 1960s’ sexual revolution.

It features the popular tunes “Aquarius” and “Good Morning Starshine.”

Lee Fields and the Expressions

Mon. Nov. 11 | In a career spanning more than four decades, vocalist Lee Fields has blended soul, funk and blues and drawn comparisons to James Brown. In his early 60s, he’s still going strong and released Faithful Man in 2012. At 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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Wed. Nov. 6 | John Dwyer missed his mark by a week: Thee Oh Sees’ deathrattling yips, exhumed and exhilarated on graveyard-whistler Floating Coffin (Castle Face), should’ve set Quintron and Pussycat’s Halloween spike. The OBN III’s and Blind Shake open at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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donated more than $575,000 to Susan G. Komen New Orleans during country musician Jason Aldean’s eighth annual concert series Oct. 25. During the sold-out show at the New Orleans Arena, Aldean presented a check to the breast cancer research, treatment and awareness organization. Proceeds will support grants for breast cancer screening and education programs.

Lucy Dieckhaus,

a Loyola University New Orleans junior and news editor of university newspaper The Maroon, placed second in the nation among 10 college reporters during this month’s National College Media Convention in New Orleans. She received the Story of the Year award from the Associated Collegiate Press for her coverage of Loyola’s Student Government Association.

Louisiana legislators’ salaries vary, but overall they’re not out of line with those of similarsized states.

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of roughly $37,680. The only other members who get additional money because of their positions are Senate President Pro Tem Sharon Weston Broome, D-Baton Rouge, and House Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, D-New Orleans. Each gets bonus pay amounting to roughly $7,500.

Other lawmakers get their base compensation of $22,800, although every member of the Legislature also receives per diem pay ($149 for every day the Legislature is in session and for committee meetings between sessions), plus mileage to and from Baton Rouge. Per diem amounted to $12,814 for practically every legislator last year. They also get paid mileage for one round trip home per week during legislative sessions. The farther from Baton Rouge a lawmaker lives, the higher his or her mileage pay will be.

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pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Oct. 9 to calling Gov. Bobby Jindal in September 2012 and leaving a voicemail saying Jindal should “get a bullet in [his] head.” The 28-year-old New Jersey man regularly harassed public officials over the phone, according to prosecutors. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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hile all Louisiana legislators receive the same base salary, those in leadership positions receive bonuses. Plus, per diem and mileage payments can help even the lowliest lawmaker land a spot in the top rung alongside the best paid from both chambers. But if taxpayers think state lawmakers are getting rich at the public trough, they’re in for a surprise.

These are just a few of the findings uncovered as a result of a series of public records requests LaPolitics filed with the House and Senate in recent weeks.

All told, the state spent more than $6 million last year compensating, in terms of taxable income, the elected members of the Legislature. That figure represents $4.3 million paid by the House and $1.7 million by the Senate. Because 2012 marked the beginning of a new term, a few outgoing lawmakers were paid for short stints, but the lion’s share of the money went to elected members who are still serving in the Legislature.

Every member receives a salary of $16,800, but they also get $6,000 annually through an “unvouchered expense allowance,” which was approved in 1996 as a way for legislators to increase their taxable income without actually increasing their salaries.

That gives each member of the Legislature a base income of $22,800.

The top of the leadership chain in each chamber gets a little more. This bump also puts them atop the pay pyramid, beginning with the budget chairmen. For their budget-writing roles, Senate Finance Chairman Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, and House Appropriations Chairman Jim Fannin, R-Jonesboro, receive an additional salary hike of around $28,000, which boosts their pay considerably. The extra money compensates them for presiding over committee meetings well before and after each annual session and crafting spending plans guaranteed to be as controversial as they are necessary.

For wielding the really big gavels, Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, R-Lake Charles, get pay boosts of about $14,870, giving each a total base pay

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Jackson, $36,448; Erich Ponti, R-Baton Rouge, $36,359; and Alfred Williams, D-Baton Rouge, $36,227.

Locally, here’s what New Orleans area lawmakers took home in taxable income in 2012: • Rep. Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $14,006 in per diem; $1,476 in travel; $38,282 in total compensation.

• Rep. Bryan Adams, R-Gretna: $16,438 in salary; $14,453 in per diem; $2,259 in travel; $39,022 in total compensation.

• Sen. John Alario, R-Westwego: $31,670 in salary; $20,562 in per diem; $5,557 in travel; $63,789 in total compensation.

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Westwego Republican John Alario receives a total of $63,789 for his position as Senate president.

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Per diems and mileage payments are also given for interim committee meetings and legislative business, as well as for “travel,” which must be approved by the Senate president or House speaker.

Taking all those factors into account, the lawmakers in each chamber with the top five taxable incomes from 2012 are as follows:

House • Appropriations Chairman Jim Fannin: $81,138 • House Speaker Chuck Kleckley: $75,192 • Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger III: $51,706 • Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton: $51,060 • Rep. Roy Burrell, D-Shreveport: $51,019

Senate • Finance Chairman Jack Donahue: $67,074 • Senate President John Alario: $63,789

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• Senate Insurance Chairman Blade Morrish, R-Jennings: $58,975 • Senate Natural Resources Chairman Gerald Long, R-Winnfield: $54,655 • Sen. John Smith, R-Leesville: $54,544 At the other end of the spectrum, the lowest paid legislators last year were Sens. Rick Ward, R-Maringouin, $37,175; and Jody Amedee, R-Gonzales, $36,660; and Reps. Kenny Havard, R-

• Sen. Conrad Appel, R-Metairie: $16,800 in salary; $13,709 in per diem; $1,698 in travel; $38,206 in total compensation.

• Rep. Jeff Arnold, D-Algiers: $16,800 in salary; $14,006 in per diem; $1,845 in travel; $38,651 in total compensation.

• Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $13,708 in per diem; $1,381 in travel; $37,889 in total compensation.

• Rep. Robert Billiot, D-Westwego: $16,800 in salary; $17,880 in per diem; $3,150 in travel; $43,830 in total compensation.

• Rep. Wesley Bishop, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $15,794 in per diem; $1,990 in travel; $40,584 in total compensation.

• Rep. Jared Brossett, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $16,986 in per diem; $2,880 in travel; $42,666 in total compensation.

• Rep. Pat Connick, R-Marrero: $16,800 in salary; $14,602 in per diem; $2,469 in travel; $39,871 in total compensation.

• Sen. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell: $16,800 in salary; $14,751 in per diem; $4,104 in travel; $41,655 in total compensation.

• Rep. Raymond Garofalo, R-Chalmette: $16,800 in salary; $13,708 in per diem; $1,943 in travel; $38,451 in total compensation.

• Rep. Jerry Gisclair, D-Raceland: $16,800 in salary; $14,303 in per diem; $3,114 in travel; $40,218 in total compensation.

• Sen. David Heitmeier, D-Algiers: $16,800 in salary; $14,602 in per diem; $2,675 in travel; $40,077 in total compensation.

• Rep. Cameron Henry, R-Jefferson: $16,800 in salary; $15,496 in per

NEWS VIEWS diem; $2,462 in travel; $40,758 in total compensation.

• Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans: $24,334 in salary; $17,880 in per diem; $3,491 in travel; $51,706 in total compensation.

• Rep. Joseph Lopinto, R-Metairie: $16,800 in salary; $15,049 in per diem; $2,198 in travel; $40,047 in total compensation.

• Rep. Christopher Leopold, R-Belle Chasse: $16,438 in salary; $13,261 in per diem; $1,736 in travel; $37,306 in total compensation.

• Rep. Nick Lorusso, R-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $14,751 in per diem; $2,055 in travel; $39,606 in total compensation.

• Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Kenner: $16,800 in salary; $13,708 in per diem; $1,776 in travel; $38,284 in total compensation.

• Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $16,539 in per diem; $3,177 in travel; $42,516 in total compensation.

• Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $15,496 in per diem; $2,979 in travel; $41,275 in total compensation.

• Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $14,155 in per diem; $2,755 in travel; $39,710 in total compensation.

• Sen. Gary Smith, D-Norco: $16,436 in salary; $14,602 in per diem; $1,521 in travel; $38,429 in total compensation.

• Rep. Julie Stokes, R-Kenner — N/A; elected in 2013.

• Rep. Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge: $16,800 in salary; $15,794 in per diem; $1,832 in travel; $40,426 in total compensation.

• Rep. Thomas Willmott, R-Kenner: $16,800 in salary; $14,006 in per diem; $1,709 in travel; $38,515 in total compensation.

• Rep. Ebony Woodruff, D-Harvey: N/A; elected in 2013.

While these figures represent only taxable income, the state spent an additional $2.2 million — $1.4 million in the House and more than $820,000 in the Senate — last calendar year

reimbursing lawmakers for office expenses and lodging and paying for airfare, rent and event registrations on their behalf.

With the average taxable income of a Louisiana legislator coming in at roughly $41,755, they’re still far below their counterparts in places like Illinois ($67,836), Massachusetts ($60,032) and Ohio ($60,583), according to the latest salary breakdown compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.

By comparison, Texas lawmakers earn a paltry $7,200 in annual salary, along with their $150 per diem — but they get generous retirement benefits that are tied to the salaries of state judges. Veteran Texas lawmakers can draw more than $100,000 a year in pension pay. Louisiana abolished retirement benefits for lawmakers who took office after 1996.

Arkansas lawmakers are much closer to Louisiana in base pay, making $15,869 annually with a per diem of $147. The figures are even lower in Mississippi: $10,000 per year and a $123 per diem.

All seem better off than lawmakers in New Mexico. They receive no salary at all, though they do get a $154 per diem. In New Hampshire, a two-year term nets legislative members only $200 — and nothing more.

The highest annual salaries for lawmakers are where you might expect them: California, $90,526; Pennsylvania, $83,801; New York, $79,500; and Michigan, $71,685.

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• Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans: $16,800 in salary; $19,519 in per diem; $6,255 in travel, $48,574 in total compensation.

New Orleans Democrat House Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger receives a total of $51,706 from the state for his job in the Legislature.

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TY PARK edition “That would be called a mistake.

Some mistakes are bigger than others.”

— John Hopper, a spokesman for New Orleans City Park, on last week’s gardening mishap that left City Park’s iconic topiary sign missing the letters “C” and “I.” Hopper said the mistaken chop job was done by a contractor, but that City Park took responsibility and had transplanted new boxwoods by week’s end.

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als responsible for a disproportionate large amount of the violent crime we see in our streets.”

He also pointed to several studies that illustrated the effect the education system can have on violent crime, and “how a 5 percent increase in high school graduation rates for men in this country would result in 1,275 fewer murders.”

“There is a direct correlation between not graduating high school and becoming a violent offender,” Polite said, adding that 67 percent of inmates in the state prison systems, 56 percent of inmates in the federal system, and 69 percent in local jails are not high school graduates — while only 20 to 25 percent of those inmates have graduated.

“What my boss (U.S. Attorney Gen.) Eric Holder told me, the paperwork is always going to be there,” Polite said. “What you have to do is push that away and get out into the community.” — ALEX WOODWARD

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Freret Street merchants brace for construction through March Amid the unending saga of road construction on and around their commercial corridor, Freret Street business owners greeted with weary acceptance the latest promises from city officials that the next round of sidewalk repairs will be finished with only a few days of disruption on each street corner.

“I want to give you what you deserve, and I know at this point that [the Department of Public Works] DPW does as well,” City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell said.

“The goal is to get it done, in and out, and never have to come back again.”

The streetscape work scheduled to start Nov. 4 — after the road repaving is complete and the road is reopened to two-way traffic and on-street parking — will replace and repair the corner bumpouts between Jefferson and Napoleon avenues. It also will add decorative and functional elements to the corners, such as 48 bike racks and 16 iron trash cans, the DPW’s Col. Mark Jernigan said at an informational meeting Oct. 28.

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U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite. who took the top U.S. Justice Department job in the Eastern District of Louisiana in September, made one of his first public appearances last week since taking the job. The occasion: Tulane Hillel’s “The Big Issue” discussion series, which focused that night on violent crime. In his 20-minute presentation, Polite — a native New Orleanian — opened up about the death of his brother, an event he said made him want to become a prosecutor.

“I lost my brother on the streets of New Orleans,” he said. “We’re going into his bedroom, and seeing the environment he grew up in, and I looked at the walls that surrounded his room. They were decorated with the funeral programs of his friends that had died in the street on one wall, and on the other wall were the various shirts we wore to each funeral.

That’s what he woke up to each day. That type of environment, where that level of criminality becomes normal, has to affect your concept of life.

“To this day I’m wracked with some guilt about not impacting his life. That is what I ask myself to do every day and what I’m asking you do to today, and what I’m asking you to do every day as the U.S. attorney: Step out from behind your desk, step out from your safe homes, get out into our communities, get into our schools, get into our churches, and make a difference in the lives of those young men before it’s too late.”

Among his office’s long-term solutions to solving the murder problem, Polite said, are a strong focus on increasing felony arrests and “focusing on a disproportionately small number of individu-

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The work is intended as a do-over of a similar project in 2012 that often kept contractors in front of individual corner businesses for weeks at a time. This time, Jernigan promised a very different timeline — a maximum of eight days on any one block.

“Bottom line is we’re looking at eight days per pair of intersections,” Jernigan said. “We think eight days is more than enough to get the work done. I know that’s not how it worked out in the original job, but this is a new contractor. ...

I’m very confident they can get the work done in that amount of time.” The job is scheduled to finish in March.

Mojo Coffeehouse opened just before the road repaving began, and without parking, saw its business sink so low that evenings were actually busier than mornings — the normal time that coffeehouses make their money, owner Demian Estevez said. If customers are prevented from reaching the shop much longer, Mojo may not stay open until March, he said. “If they stay on schedule and don’t close the roads, it could be all right,” Estevez said. “The only thing I wish is they would have given us a little break between constructions to recoup some money.” — ROBERT MORRIS | UPTOWN MESSENGER

DA’s first successful hate crime prosecution concludes

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Vies for office where he got his start State Rep. Jared Brossett, D-New Orleans, will join the New Orleans City Council District D race this week with an

OIG: NOPD’s 8th District misclassifying theft stats

Police list ‘stolen’ items as ‘lost’ According to a report released by the office of the New Orleans Inspector General (OIG), the New Orleans Police Department’s (NOPD) 8th District reclassified or misidentified 177 thefts in the French Quarter between Jan. 1 and July 31.

Each of the 177 incidents stemmed from victims having “lost” their wallets or purses, which does not constitute a crime. Those same victims later had unauthorized charges on their credit cards or debit cards, which constitutes theft.

Those incidents were classified as “Signal 21 (Miscellaneous)” or “Signal 21L (Lost or Stolen),” but not “Signal 67 (Theft).” By not classifying them as thefts, it prevents the crimes from being figured into the FBI’s crime rate statistics.

Police Chief Ronal Serpas said beginning Jan. 1, 2014, the department will begin a new policy with “clear guidelines for documentation and review,” and that “controls have been included to require follow-up investigation for the purpose of assessing if there has been possible criminal activity associated with the loss subsequent to an initial report being filed.” — ALEX WOODWARD

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Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office concluded what it called its first successful hate crime prosecution on Oct. 30. Jamie Hebert pleaded guilty to second-degree battery and violating Louisiana’s hate crime statute for his beating of New Orleans resident Dana James. Hebert shouted an anti-gay comment at James, then crossed N. Rampart Street to hit him, knocking James unconscious.

“This defendant approached and attacked this victim based on nothing more than his sexual orientation,” Cannizzaro said. “As such, he constituted not only a threat to this particular victim but the entire homosexual community in this city. Accordingly, the enhanced punishment was appropriate.”

Louisiana’s hate crime statute adds penalties to any violent crime if the victim is attacked for his or her race, age, sexual orientation, religion or disability, among other classifications. In addition to a two-year jail sentence for battery, Criminal District Court Judge Julian Parker added three years for hate crime violations, though Hebert remains out of jail on three years’ probation.

— ALEX WOODWARD

official announcement at Dooky Chase Restaurant on Nov. 7.

Brossett has served in the state Legislature since 2009 as the representative from District 97, which largely covers the Gentilly neighborhood.

Prior to his election to the Legislature, Brossett was the former chief of staff to Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell.

Hedge-Morrell, who now represents District D, will be term limited in the upcoming election and already has announced her intention to run for one of the council’s two at-large seats.

Brossett’s interest in the job has been taken as a given for months, and he confirmed that in a telephone call with Gambit. “I’ve been thinking about it for a while,” he said. “The Council is where I got my start as an intern some 12 or 13 years ago.”

As for his goals, Brossett said they were “to continue progressive leadership on the City Council,” and added that his priorities would be “health care, education, blight, increased public safety, job creation and economic development.”

The primary is Feb. 1, 2014. A runoff, if needed, will be March 15. The qualifying period for all candidates is Dec. 11-13.

— KEVIN ALLMAN

Correction

In last week’s story “King for a Day,” we incorrectly stated that Katori Hall was the second African-American female playwright to have a play on Broadway.

Hall is among a very short list of black female playwrights whose works have been staged on Broadway. Gambit regrets the error.

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Flood insurance insurance program say that the NFIP’s below-market rates only help people whose houses flood on a regular basis. They add that any delay in implementing BiggertWaters is simply kicking the can down the road. They are wrong on both counts, and such arguments miss the point of the NFIP entirely. The NFIP was created, like farm subsidies and corporate tax breaks and many other forms of federal assistance, to help millions of Americans realize — and hold onto — their part of the American Dream. Moreover, the NFIP helps millions of people all across America — from Sacramento to Manhattan, from South Dakota to south Florida — not just people who live in low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast.

In response to growing concerns about the astronomical rate hikes that BiggertWaters will trigger, a bipartisan group of senators and representatives, including Waters herself (Biggert lost her bid for re-election to a Democrat last year), have

The proposed law would modify Biggert-Waters and delay the rate hikes for up to four years. united behind the proposed Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act. The proposed law would modify Biggert-Waters and delay some of its changes, including the rate hikes, for up to four years.

Among supporters of the measure are Louisiana’s U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter, who normally agree on very little. In a statement provided by her office, Landrieu said, “Fixing this flawed piece of legislation is about building a future that Louisiana families can count on, where they can safely and affordably live where they need to work to power the country’s economy, keep commerce flowing and produce the products and goods necessary for growth.” In addition to Democrat Richmond, the bill has the backing of Louisiana’s Republican House members, including Reps. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, Steve Scalise, R-Metairie, and Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette.

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ast week, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators and representatives took on a flawed federal insurance program, one that’s shrouded in complexity and threatening policyholders with onerous rate hikes. No, it’s not the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). It’s the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the government-backed insurer for people in flood-prone areas. The NFIP is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Naturally, this is a program that affects Louisianans disproportionately — but by no means exclusively. While nearly half a million of us, more than 1 out of every 10 state residents, live in homes required to have flood insurance, the NFIP covers more than 5 million people across the country — including many who previously didn’t know they lived in flood zones.

The spiraling rate hikes are a consequence of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, which was co-authored by former U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Illinois, and current U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. The Act was intended to right size and sustain the NFIP, which was created in 1968 to help homeowners in high-risk flood areas obtain flood insurance. Since its inception, the NFIP has racked up a shortfall of about $28 billion, according to published reports, and it’s that cumulative shortfall that last year’s legislation was supposed to address.

While the aim of Biggert-Waters seemed simple and focused, its impact has been sweeping. The act not only set out to make the NFIP “sustainable” rather than federally subsidized (read: self-supporting via rate hikes), but it also required a massive redrawing of the nation’s floodplain maps. Among its consequences: Due to remapping, more property owners than ever before were told they need flood insurance, and many people who had purchased flood insurance for years found their premiums not just rising, not just skyrocketing, but shooting into the stratosphere. South Louisiana falls into the latter category.

Last week, WWL-TV profiled Robert Taylor, a resident of St. Charles Parish whose NFIP policy has typically cost him $400 a year. Under the “reforms” of Biggert-Waters, his new rate will be $15,500 a year. Taylor, who lives on rural Bayou Gauche, said neither he nor his neighbors could afford such rates. Worse yet, that kind of price hike surely will keep them from being able to sell their houses.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., told the press that Biggert-Waters has “dried up the real estate market” in his state, while U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, the only Democrat in the Louisiana House delegation, has described Biggert-Waters as the No. 1 problem facing Louisiana.

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Our ‘superficial’ sheriff hen Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Sheriff Marlin Gusman announced an agreement to begin funding the federal consent decree at Orleans Parish Prison (OPP), I thought we were finally seeing some progress at the troubled jail.

Silly me.

The Times-Picayune reported last week that Gusman is investigating the man responsible for helping the T-P and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) expose the countless rapes, stabbings and inhumane conditions inside the jail.

News organizations are loath to reveal confidential sources, but in this case Deputy Bryan Collins has agreed to let the T-P identify him. He no longer has anything to lose, and perhaps the light of day will force Gusman to back down.

According to the newspaper, as of last week Collins had not been allowed to report for duty for a week.

The paper also reported that Collins has hired a lawyer who took the deputy’s concerns about retaliation to the U.S. Department of Justice.

be hailed as a hero, not harassed and possibly punished for daring to expose the truth. I can’t think of a more glaring example of administrative and legal injustice.

Lest we forget, Gusman is the same sheriff who couldn’t explain his own budget from the witness stand in federal court. He’s the same sheriff who kept in an office safe an incendiary videotape of inmates partying in a cell with booze and drugs — and a loaded gun — then later claimed he didn’t know anything about the tape, or the safe … until the feds showed up looking for it.

And as for the photo of the bloody jail cell that Collins leaked to the T-P and the SPLC, this is the same sheriff who called the victim’s stab wounds “superficial.”

If you haven’t seen the photo, go to nola.com and find it. The image is horrific enough. Gusman’s callous dismissal of the stabbing as “superficial” is utterly heartless, and maddening. He has exposed himself as not only incompetent to hold that office, but also unworthy of any public office.

Based on the T-P’s reporting, Collins’ concerns are justified. In fact, the DOJ should expand its probe of Gusman’s office to include retaliation against Collins.

Gusman’s office has confirmed it is pursuing criminal and administrative investigations of Collins for alleged violations of OPP policies. The “violations” include Collins bringing a cellphone into the jail, where he photographed a bloody cell — the scene of a brutal stabbing — and shared it with the newspaper and the law center. The SPLC filed the original lawsuit against Gusman, which the DOJ later joined. That lawsuit led to the consent decree.

Now, after Collins helped expose the hellish conditions that warranted federal intervention at OPP, he’s being scapegoated by the man responsible for those conditions — because he used his cellphone to blow the whistle. Never mind that scores of prisoners bring cellphones — and a lot worse — into Gusman’s jail.

The 48-year-old Collins, who has worked at the jail for four years, should

I had several conversations with Gusman months ago about the jail. Each time, he reminded me that OPP is filled with “bad people,” as if they deserved to be treated like human detritus — before being returned to our streets angrier and more violent than ever. Gusman obviously forgets that on any given day hundreds of men in his jail haven’t even stood trial yet, that some in fact are innocent, and that many are not violent (at least, they weren’t when they entered Gusman’s circle of hell).

It’s time for people to recognize the link between an inhumane jail and the city’s high crime rate. Yes, there are “bad people” in OPP. But there are just as many young men there who need direction. Instead, they get rapes, stabbings and conditions that you’d expect in the worst jails on the planet — and a sheriff who dismisses it all as “superficial” or somehow justified … and always, always, not his fault.

Bryan Collins is a hero. Marlin Gusman is a charlatan. Which one really deserves to lose his job?

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DARREN ALRIDGE, 22 PARA-INSTRUCTOR, NOPLAY RECREATION ASSISTANT, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

The week before Halloween, Darren Alridge was hard at work putting together a free haunted house for the children in the New Orleans Providing Literacy to All Youth (NOPLAY) program and their families.

In 2009, as an alternative to incarceration, a judge sentenced a then-18-year-old Alridge to the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), a local nonprofit that provides case management, mentoring and educational services to at-risk youth. By 2011, Alridge had earned his GED and was a parainstructor in the very program in which he once had been enrolled.

This year Alridge became the first YEP graduate to be hired as a full-time staff member; he works for NOPLAY and helps with afterschool activities. He also was YEP’s 100th GED graduate.

Alridge says he can relate to the young people at YEP because they trust him.

“I was in the same situation they’re in now,” he says. “I wanted to reach some of the guys in my neighborhood, to let them know that dropping out of high school isn’t the last option.”

Alridge has referred friends and family members to the GED program and has tried to convince them that a high school degree is something worth attaining. He is the youth representative for Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s NOLA For Life Group Violence Reduction Strategy.

Though YEP’s staff helped motivate him to complete his GED, Alridge says his 2-year-old son and a desire to continue his education are what make him work hard in his current job.

“My goals are becoming a proud father, getting into school, being a young entrepreneur and opening up new programs like the one I’m involved in,” he says. — JEANIE RIESS

BRIAN E. ANDERSON, 38 CO-OWNER, AGL ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN

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t’s not difficult to find young people in the New Orleans area who have risen to the top of their fields or have developed innovative programs and products to make life better. We have been constantly amazed over the past 16 years by the quality of candidates for Gambit’s 40 Under 40 Awards and what they’ve accomplished.

Here’s our 16th annual 40 Under 40.

When Brian Anderson’s Lakeview home was destroyed in the 2005 levee failures, he and his wife faced the difficult decision of whether to rebuild or move from Anderson’s native city. As they weighed their decision, the architect, not one to be intimidated by a building project, told his wife they were either going to be all in or not at all.

“What we try to preach in my family (is) if you are going to be here, you need to be a part of the city, so you need to try to get involved in things here in the city,” Anderson says.

Once the couple decided to stay in New Orleans, Anderson worked to rebuild not only his home but the city, quickly becoming involved in the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association (LCIA), where he is co-chairman of the Economic Development and Marketing Committee and a member of the board of directors. He also is on the board of directors of Kedila Family Learning Services, which works with at-risk youth.

“If you’re going to be here you’ve got to be part of solving the problems,” Anderson says.

“It’s so easy to sit here and complain that the schools are bad or that the crime is bad … but if you are completely immersed in the city the way my family is, you have to figure out a way to get involved.”

Anderson and business partner Nita Liggio are co-owners of AGL Architecture & Interior Design. Founded in 2003, AGL focuses on commercial construction and interior design, renovations of historic buildings and adaptive reuse.

“I really enjoy owning the business,” Anderson says. “I enjoy being in charge of my own projects. Renovating is part of what drives me. I like creating new things. I like the idea of starting a company from scratch and making my way through the pitfalls.”

— MARGUERITE LUCAS

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CHRISTINE AUDLER, 25 FOUNDER, FIGHT FAT FOREVER INC. P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Christine Audler founded Fight Fat Forever Inc. in 2011 at the urging of a friend who encouraged her to turn her passion for public health into a career. Although at the time Audler didn’t have a set business plan, she says a vision of kids going up a mountain chanting “Fight fat forever” led her to establish the company and write the book, What Lou Can Do, which centers around a young girl battling obesity.

“If I can implement my ideas into action, I know 80 percent of people will not be overweight,” she says.

Through readings of her book and conducting healthy living seminars at schools and local community events, Audler is giving her company an active hand in

changing the obesity epidemic in America.

The Kenner native’s passion for health care began when she was 15 years old and worked at Curves for Women after school. She then worked for three years at Ochsner’s Elmwood Fitness Center. Because of her experiences at gyms, the meaning of the word “fat” shifted for her, Audler says.

“The No. 1 question I get is ‘Were you ever fat?’” she says. “I tell people the word fat [stands for] Fight A Temptation.

“We all fight something. We would have the sexiest women come in (Curves) and they would complain about their bodies and be so thin. … It didn’t matter if you were 128 pounds or 328 pounds. We all fight something.”

In addition to Fight Fat Forever, Audler writes for Break Thru Media magazine and sells medical weight loss equipment.

With What Lou Can Do now available in Spanish, Audler says she wants to expand her company internationally.

“It’s the only thing that makes me happy,” Audler says. “It’s my baby. … I tell everyone I’m the New Orleans Steve Jobs.” — MARGUERITE LUCAS

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When Emily Bellaci was in Houston working toward a master’s degree in behavioral analysis at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, the New Orleans native realized there was a void of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) in her hometown.

“I met people from New Orleans who moved their whole family from New Orleans (to Houston) to get services for their kids,” Bellaci says.

In January 2011, she opened Within Reach, which provides ABA therapy for 2- to 6-year-olds diagnosed with autism and related developmental disabilities. Within Reach works with children to improve their communication, play, independence, motor and academic skills in both group and one-on-one settings. Bellaci, who recently was elected chairwoman of the Licensing Board for Behavioral Analysts, says she hopes to expand her business to keep up with the demand from families with autistic children.

“I do want to grow the business but keep it small ... so kids receive quality, individualized service because that is when they see the most progress,” she says.

“It’s so rewarding to have kids who come to you (and talk) who haven’t been able to talk at age 3 or 4 and nothing has worked for them up to that point,” she says. “Having ABA therapy works so well ... and the kids are so funny. They always keep us laughing.”

— MARGUERITE LUCAS

KIKI BAKER BARNES, 38 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, DILLARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT, GULF COAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

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“I was going to be a radio or TV host, but this was the way to get there,” Kiki Baker Barnes says of taking her first coaching gig at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette while earning a master’s degree in communications. “But once I got into the field, it felt like it was what I was supposed to be doing.”

Shortly after graduating, Barnes, then 25, became head coach at Southern University at Shreveport, where she also was in charge of the dance team and cheerleaders. That’s when she began considering a career as an athletic director and went back to college to earn a doctorate in higher education administration at the University of New Orleans.

“I felt like I needed to have all of the credentials necessary.” Barnes says. “I was black and a female, so that’s like a double whammy, so I felt like I needed to get this Ph.D. and work under someone for about 10 years as an assistant [athletic director], and maybe by the time I turned 50 there would be an opportunity.”

The opportunity came sooner than expected. In 2004, Dillard University hired Barnes as assistant athletic director, and she was promoted in 2006 when the school’s athletic director left for another position.

“I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m getting it at 32 before I finish my doctorate. Really?’” she says.

During her tenure, Barnes has improved conditions for Dillard athletes and coaches and enhanced the experience for spectators. In 2009, she became the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference’s first black female president.

“I believe in not being afraid to fail, not worrying about what other people have to say, doing your best, working hard, having integrity,” Barnes says. “I’ll outwork anybody. I may not be as talented, but I will outwork you. If I want it, I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”

— MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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“The funny thing is that I’d kind of be screwed if I didn’t have the saxophone,” Miles Berry says when asked if music was his lifelong dream. “I really just kind of fell into it.”

The 2013 graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) says hard work, NOCCA training and supportive friends and family are more responsible for his music success than any inherent gift.

“When I went into NOCCA ... I knew nothing,” he says. “Most of the musical knowledge I have now, I learned at NOCCA. They teach you a lot of things that you don’t necessarily want to learn at the time, but you’re just thankful that you’ve learned it in the future.”

For 18-year-old Berry, the future is off to a promising start. His accomplishments include playing with Herbie Hancock at International Jazz Day at Congo Square, being recruited for the Thelonious Monk Institute National Performing Arts High School All-Star Jazz Sextet, playing with trumpeter Terell Stafford in Los Angeles, performing at the Mendocino Music Festival in California and competing in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in Washington, D.C. Berry has a standing gig with Delfeayo Marsalis Wednesday nights at Snug Harbor, the teenager’s favorite place to perform, and he’s recording an album next year with the Thelonious Monk sextet, Berry not only plays with the greats but also finds motivation in them.

“My biggest inspirations, being a saxophonist, would probably be Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane,” Berry says. “My dad is a big inspiration — everyone is an inspiration around me at certain times.” — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY PAGE 22

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JODY BRAUNIG, 37

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GIRLS ON THE RUN NEW ORLEANS P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

After leaving her last job, Jody Braunig wrote a list describing what her “perfect job” would look like, with the assumption that it didn’t exist. Her list included being part of a nonprofit and using skills like fundraising and social work, but it also included preferences such as running, being outside and wearing T-shirts.

When she learned of a job opening at Girls on the Run New Orleans, a local branch of a national organization dedicated to helping girls learn healthy habits, she says, “I couldn’t say no. I knew that it was the perfect job for me. It was meant to be and I love it. I absolutely love it.”

Girls on the Run New Orleans’ goals are to help young women from all backgrounds learn healthy habits, adopt a healthy body image and build confidence.

“The running piece is like the lagniappe,” says Braunig, who also is a float lieutenant in the all-female Mardi Gras Krewe of Nyx. “The curriculum, it’s an empowerment curriculum, and it’s so necessary today with all the bullying.”

Girls on the Run partners with 16 schools in the greater New Orleans area and plans to expand to 12 more schools in the spring.

As executive director, Braunig’s major responsibility is fundraising, with most money coming from the SoleMates program in which adults train for an event while raising money for Girls on the Run. Each SoleMate raises a minimum of $262 (a full marathon is 26.2 miles) and gets to train for an event the girls are running. Braunig raised $3,530 as a SoleMate.

“It is so easy because it’s such a great cause. We’re raising money for the girls here in New Orleans,” Braunig says. “These are our girls. This is our community. These are our future leaders. It’s totally easy, it’s totally fun and we so appreciate it.” — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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Getting an early start on the day as well as juggling duties as an attorney and a new mom to Sophia, now 6 months old, inspired Jacqueline M. Brettner and her partner, Lauren, a pediatric nurse at West Jefferson Hospital, to establish Greenhouse NOLA child day care at their Broadmoor home.

“Long hours go with the territory in being a young attorney,” Brettner says. “I’m an early bird; I like to get to the office early to get organized and accomplish some things in the quiet before the day begins. That’s when we realized the need in the city for Greenhouse NOLA.” The center is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., has flexible pick-up and drop-off hours, and has an open-door policy for parents.

Brettner’s path to New Orleans began in Panama, where she moved as a 9-year-old and explored her family’s culture of food and festivals. She also discovered she had a voice that allowed her to tour Panama as a popular singer and guitarist a year before she enrolled at Tulane University Law School. She graduated in 2006 and worked at the Phelps Dunbar law firm until moving to Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux in 2011. Her pro bono work drafting the Louisiana Language Access Guidelines for English-as-a-secondlanguage clients in civic and criminal cases earned her a Good Apple Award from local legal advocacy group Louisiana Appleseed.

Her schedule is busy, but Brettner says she makes time for exercise. She is a Big Easy Rollergirl, where she enters the rink as Persephone Danger. She’s also a marathon runner and triathlete.

“At the end of a long and stressful day, I just have to blow off some steam,” she says. “It’s a great release and helps keeps everything balanced.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE

DR. REBEKAH GEE, 37

MEDICAID MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF LOUISIANA P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Dr. Rebekah Gee became interested in women’s health at age 16, when her mother died of breast cancer. “She wasn’t just a patient, but an advocate for women,” Gee says. “I wanted to keep advancing the cause.”

A native of Bountiful, Utah, Gee trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard University.

She moved to New Orleans in 2009 after falling in love with her now-husband during a trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and from 2010 to 2012, Gee directed the Louisiana Birth Outcomes Initiative (BOI). “[Louisiana is] 49th or 50th on many health indicators for moms and kids, whether that is prematurity … or our breastfeeding rate, which is lowest in the nation,” Gee says. She addressed the problems by implementing state policies and working with physicians, nurses and hospitals to improve the health of babies — including a push to end the practice of delivering babies before the 39th week of pregnancy. One thousand fewer babies were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in 2012, Gee says.

In March, Gee became Medicaid medical director of Louisiana. “This program is in charge of taking care of almost 70 percent of the kids and moms in our state,” she says.

Gee works with the city in Hollygrove, where she is lead investigator for the “Best Babies Zone” project, which aims to reduce infant mortality by half in the next 10 years by improving aspects of the community and environment that impact women’s health.

When Gee’s not helping other women raise healthy children, she is parenting her own. “I have five kids — twins, and I am stepmom to three,” Gee says. “I’m interested in making sure we’re as healthy as we can be and improving New Orleans communities.”

— MISSY WILKINSON

ZAK GEORGE, 34 DOG TRAINER/ FOUNDER, DOG TRAINING REVOLUTION P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Atlanta native Zak George moved his dog training business to the Crescent City last year. His Dog Training Revolution classes offer a unique set of communication tools to help dog owners build relationships with their pets.

“I have a very firm conviction in teaching dogs from the inside outwards, and making them want to do the behaviors,” George says, adding that his teaching philosophy is about good communication, not choke chains and punishment.

After competing for two years in dog Frisbee competitions and winning several titles, as well as spending three years with the Extreme Canine Stunt Dog Show, George saw potential in teaching other pet owners the same kind of relationships he had with his dogs.

“That opened my eyes to the bigger picture of teaching people about their dogs,” he says. His border collie Venus also inspired him.

George also has been active on YouTube since 2006, and his channel, which offers free training clips, has attracted 15 million views. “I thought, ‘I love entertainment, I love dogs, let’s combine them,’” he says.

“My first ‘eureka’ moment was my first video that had 500 hits.”

He pitched television projects which led to a starring role in Animal Planet’s Superfetch and the BBC’s Who Let the Dogs Out, as well as appearances on latenight hotspots including CBS’ The Late Show With David Letterman and NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

George also gives back to animal rescue groups through Dog Training Revolution. For every registration promoted by local groups such as Animal Rescue New Orleans and the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, George donates 25 percent of registration fees to those groups (about $50 per sign-up).

“It’s important and it’s the right thing to do,” he says. Dog owners can sign up for classes via email: zakgeorge@me.com.

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DARRYL GLADE, 35 CO-FOUNDER, SNAP REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHY

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As a real estate agent in New Orleans, Darryl Glade saw firsthand the need for highquality photographs of buildings that were on the market, leading him to co-found SNAP Real Estate Photography in the summer of 2012 during his third year at Loyola University’s College of Law. “While I was a real estate agent I saw the need for photography for listings,” says Glade, a New Orleans native who also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Loyola. “I saw how it helped listings sell for higher amounts and quicker.”

Since its founding, SNAP has grown into the largest real estate photography service in the region, serving New Orleans, Baton Rouge, the Northshore and the Mississippi coast. He plans to enter six to 10 more Southern cities in the next few years. Glade says one key to his company’s success is the ability to produce the photos in less than 24 hours.

“My drive is to create a sustainable business that is able to grow organically within the city of New Orleans, and to continue to create jobs and have a positive impact on the local economy,” Glade says.

SNAP has hired nine employees, Glade says, and the company is growing by one to two hires per month. He says he expects that growth to continue for a long time.

“It’s very exciting to have a direct impact on the economy in New Orleans,” he says.

Glade also has served as an executive mentor at Loyola, where he introduced incoming freshmen to the local business community in an effort to encourage graduates to stay in the area.

“It’s a lot of fun and I’m really excited about being in New Orleans and the future of New Orleans,” Glade says. — MARGUERITE LUCAS

JASON HEMEL, 38

FOUNDER, PERISTYLE RESIDENCES P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

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Seventeen years ago Candice Gwinn moved to New Orleans from suburban Atlanta with a bag of vintage clothes and $5,000. She opened Trashy Diva with a partner in a small shop on Decatur Street that’s now a nightclub restroom. In 1999, Gwinn launched the Trashy Diva clothing line, a collection of vintage-inspired frocks ranging from size 0 to 24.

“We couldn’t get vintage (clothing) we liked at affordable prices anymore,” Gwinn says. “We added more and more dresses.

Every year, we doubled our collection.”

Today, there are seven Trashy Diva locations throughout New Orleans: two dress stores, two shoe stores, two lingerie stores and one accessories shop. More than 75 boutiques worldwide carry the Trashy Diva clothing line. Celebrities ranging from Taylor Swift to Sophia Bush have been spotted wearing the dresses.

“We’ve sold to … well, name any young celebrity who has come to New Orleans,” Gwinn says.

Gwinn gets inspiration for her designs from her customers and the 30 women she employs in her stores, as well as gaps in her own wardrobe. “Usually, it’s something I want,” she says. “I think, ‘I want this,’ or customers say, ‘I wish I had this.’”

The dresses are manufactured in a private workshop in China, and Gwinn creates original prints with New Orleans-centric designs ranging from sacred hearts to French Quarter scenes. Though she plans to open Trashy Diva stores in other states, Gwinn hasn’t yet found the boutique culture she’s looking for outside the Crescent City.

“There aren’t a lot of places that have that New Orleans feeling,” she says. “We’re grateful New Orleans is such a wonderful city: People are interesting and wear colorful, fun clothing, so I can design what I want and have people be receptive to it.”

— MISSY WILKINSON has worked in the senior living industry since college, including stints as chief operating officer and later vice president of development at St. Margaret’s. “You still have a laundry department. [Residents] still have to eat when everyone else is eating.”

Peristyle Residences offer single-family dwellings that have been modified to conform to Americans With Disabilities Act requirements for doorways and bathrooms.

The complex also offers 24-hour care.

Because there are only six residents living in the complexes, they can create their own schedules, Hemel says.

“Others are homelike, but Peristyle Residences are home,” he says. “Our caregivers are cooking home-cooked meals. … If the

residents want a late breakfast, that’s fine. If they want to sleep until 10 a.m., that’s fine.”

There are Peristyle Residences in New Orleans, Metairie, Gretna and Hattiesburg, Miss., and Hemel says he wants to add two more in the New Orleans area in the next year.

The New Orleans native also serves as president of the board for A Shared Initiative, a nonprofit founded by ASI Federal Credit Union to help small businesses and low-income residents. He also is on the board of Bayou Boogaloo music festival.

“It’s very rewarding to get to know [the residents] as people,” Hemel says. “A lot of people look at me and ask if I really like taking care of old people and I [say] ‘Yes, we give meaning to their lives.’” — MARGUERITE LUCAS PAGE 26

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Jason Hemel’s vision for Peristyle Residences is an assisted living facility that feels like home for its residents. He founded the business in 2011 as a way to help seniors and their families by providing direct care, using the knowledge he gleaned from working in larger institutions and applying it to Peristyle Residences.

“There are some beautiful buildings I have seen that are nice and extremely home-like, but no matter how nice it is, when you have 75 to 100 people living in the same structure, it still has an institutional feel,” says Hemel, who

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DR. TRACEY L. HENRY, 32 INTERNAL MEDICINE PHYSICIAN, OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

An Alabama native with Louisiana lineage, Tracey L. Henry has combined career focus with deeply held convictions about establishing herself as an expert in public health policy.

“I’m driven by the idea of being a complete doctor,” she says. “Advocacy is usually an overlooked part of our profession, but we must care for the people that need our help — and not just the ones that make it in the doors.”

In college, Henry majored in psychology “to better understand myself and how to better help others,” she says, before earning a master’s degree in neuroscience at Tulane University. She completed medical school at Georgetown University. Her tenure in the nation’s capital allowed Henry access to politicians and policymakers, whom she successfully lobbied via the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines for funding to distribute the HPV vaccine to girls in developing countries.

As a physician with Ochsner, Henry has donated services to the homeless and indigent through The National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. In her position on the Louisiana Medical Society’s Board of Governors, she has written opinions on public health policy that were delivered to Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Henry also has visited local schools as part of the Doctors Back to School program. “It’s helpful for those students to see a woman of color that’s a physician,” she says.

While lightheartedly saying she enjoys shopping, photography and the New Orleans Saints, Henry is concise when stating a professional philosophy that doubles as a career goal: “Health care is a right, not a privilege,” Henry says. “I want everyone to have access to ... quality health care, and I believe that this is possible if we change the way we deliver and finance health care.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE

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If he’s not biking on the Mississippi River trail Uptown or installing bike racks with Where Ya’ Rack? on city sidewalks, Daniel Jatres likely is doing something big with a bicycle.

The Regional Planning Commission’s (RPC) bicycle and pedestrian program director also serves on statewide advisory boards for bike safety and infrastructure, works with national bike groups, and advocates for Louisiana’s two- (or several-) wheeled community. Jatres helped create and pass the city’s Complete Streets legislation, which ensures all city planning projects are built for all users, whether on feet or wheels — and

not just cars.

“The end product is going to be something good for the neighborhood, for the people using the roadway, regardless of how they’re using it, and not the ’50s and ’60s mindset of moving cars from point A to point B,” he says.

Jatres joined the RPC in 2007 and has managed a multi-million dollar transportation safety program and outreach campaign, working with law enforcement statewide to ensure bicyclists’ safety, and launching a media campaign to make drivers aware of bike riders. This past summer, RPC updated its bicycle map along with a guide to safe cycling, now available in Spanish and Vietnamese at www.norpc.org. Over the last year, he has worked with Jefferson Parish to update its bicycle master plan, which will be made available to the public for comment later this year. With Where Ya’ Rack?, he helped install bike racks throughout the city to expand bike-parking options.

“The benefits of having transportation choices — whether health, economic, or quality-oflife benefits — touches on so many areas it gets to the point where you develop interests and allies across professions,” Jatres says, adding that he has helped build bike-friendly relationships with the city’s health and public works departments. “New Orleans is at a point where those interests are becoming increasingly cohesive.” — ALEX WOODWARD

DARREN HOFFMAN, 29 KRISTEN MCENTYRE, 34 FOUNDERS, TUTTI DYNAMICS P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Want to take music lessons from a New Orleans jazz master? Thanks to Darren Hoffman and Kristen McEntyre, there’s an app for that.

Hoffman and McEntyre founded Tutti Dynamics and earlier this year launched the Tutti Music Player, an app that provides videos of musicians such as Jason Marsalis, Shannon Powell, Lucien Barbarin and Steve Masakowski performing in ensemble settings. Users can get the instructive views they want by manipulating videos to focus on specific musicians from multiple angles or isolating specific instruments. The app also provides access to traditional teaching tools like tempo control, video looping and sheet music.

Tutti Music Player caught the attention of education administrators at Jazz at Lincoln Center, who brought Tutti Dynamics on board for its 20122013 Essentially Ellington series, a high school band competition that requires students around the country to learn an entire program of big band compositions. The team at Tutti Dynamics recorded Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, then made the performances available for participating bands to study.

“In the past, they sent out sheet music and audio recordings, but nothing really interactive that can get the student closer to the masters,” says Hoffman, who already is working on recordings for next year’s Essentially Ellington program.

The Tutti Music Player is being used in more than 300 high schools and at Tulane University and Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where instructors can record content to use in lieu of textbooks or other conventional instructional materials.

Hoffman got the idea for the Tutti Music Player after graduating from film school at Florida State University and moving to New Orleans to study percussion at the University of New Orleans. He wanted to document the techniques he was learning, so he used his background in filmmaking to create a proprietary recording system that uses more than 20 cameras to capture musicians in the studio.

“I had a vision in my mind of all these locked-down cameras so the information would stay consistent while the viewer can observe it and learn from it without any distractions,” he says.

As Hoffman prepared to launch Tutti Dynamics, he found a kindred spirit and business partner in McEntyre, who moved to New Orleans in 2008.

McEntyre studied digital media and finance at Stanford University, and she bonded with Hoffman over a mutual appreciation for New Orleans jazz.

McEntyre calls the Tutti Music Player “a new standard for interactive music” that gives students and teachers access to a wide variety of jazz players and styles.

“We’re really excited about the potential for Tutti,” McEntyre says. “There are incredible musicians here and great support for the entrepreneurial community, so we think New Orleans is the perfect place to build this company.” — BRAD RHINES

TAMIKA JETT, 26

CHOREOGRAPHER/ DANCER/ OWNER, PASSION DANCE CENTER P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Tamika Jett has had plans to become a choreographer and own a dance school since she was a child.

She looked up to her teachers at Benjamin’s School of Dance in New Orleans and credits the instructors there with teaching her the craft and equipping her with life skills.

“It wasn’t just about dance,” Jett says. “It was about being a lady, (having) grace and poise.” One of her favorite teachers, Fernand Jackson, was a dancer for the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.

“I didn’t know what being an Alvin Ailey dancer meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to do everything Fernand did so that I could be like him,” Jett says.

Jett’s goal has always been to leave an impact on the city and to provide young people with better opportunities than she had. She attended the University of New Orleans for a year, hoping to teach at Benjamin’s School of Dance, but she was displaced after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. She enrolled at Louisiana State University and founded Legacy Dancers with three other New Orleanians.

“Legacy, I think that was major,” Jett says. “We used to do jazz, hip-hop. After my summer internship in New York at Broadway Dance Center where I learned from great choreographers like Frank Hatchett, Luam and Rhapsody James, I was ready to go back and teach everything I’d learned.”

That meant not only choreography, but work ethic and the mission-driven approach to life she found common among New Yorkers.

In 2010, at the age of 23, Jett founded Passion Dance Center, where she works with other choreographers teaching hip-hop, ballet, jazz, tap and tumbling. She choreographs for musicians and background dancers and books talent. On Mondays, Jett hosts “Twerk and Werk” classes, though she says the word “twerk” is not in her vernacular. “I call it p-popping,” Jett says. “I don’t know what ‘twerking’ is.” — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

DANCER, PRODUCER

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Amy Johnson spent her childhood emulating the dance moves she saw in old movies and on MTV, when that network still showed music videos.

So as an adult dancer, she cites those two categories as her biggest influences, with an emphasis on Michael Jackson and Vera Ellen.

The Minnesota native moved to New Orleans in 2007 and was a street performer, meeting musicians and other dancers with whom she still performs today.

“My story isn’t very original,” she says. “I followed the music.”

Johnson has helped re-establish the city as a destination for swing and jazz dancing. She primarily is a dancer and tours globally with Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns. She also started the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival and Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown five years ago, a festival of dance classes, contests and performances that draws dance enthusiasts from all over the world.

Johnson founded and operates the Welbourne Jazz Camp in Middleburg, Va., a music and dance camp for adults that’s open to beginners and professionals alike.

As if those things didn’t comprise a full-time job, Johnson also is the brains behind The Chorus Girl Project, a set of vintage dance classes for adult women that began about a year ago at the New Orleans Healing Center. Johnson says she already is considering adding another class.

Asked whether the projects could exist anywhere except New Orleans, Johnson says probably, “but they wouldn’t be as cool. Dancers here have access to so much music.” — JEANIE RIESS PAGE 29

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Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer formed Generationals in 2007 after the power-pop duo returned to New Orleans from their Baton Rouge digs, where the band performed in The Eames Era. After regrouping as a duo in New Orleans (and naming themselves after a popular 2008 election-season term), Generationals released their debut album, 2009’s Con Law, as well as its follow-up, 2011’s Actor-Caster, on Park the Van Records, the then-New Orleans-based indie rock label. This year, Generationals released Heza on Polyvinyl Records, home to Deerhoof, of Montreal, Xiu Xiu and other influential indie rock acts. Following Heza’s release, the band embarked on a sweeping headlining national tour followed by a European tour in August. After three years on the road, the band now headlines and sells out shows across the country. (The Generationals will headline the 2014 Buku Music + Art Project.)

“We kind of grew into being a headlining band on the road,” Widmer says.

“A year or two later, we’re still doing it,” Joyner says. “(There’s) this great realization that, ‘Wow, we can do this as our job for a little while as well.’”

Now back home, the Jesuit High School graduates are working on Heza’s follow up with producer Richard Swift of The Shins. The band expects to record in January.

“It’s a new chapter in our career,” Joyner says. “It’s our second record with Polyvinyl, but our first making one on Polyvinyl,” adding that they are longtime fans of the label.

“We like them, they like us,” Widmer says. “They’re helpful, good people and we intend to stick around.”

That goes for New Orleans, too — it’s their hometown, where they have helped ignite a renewed interest in independent rock. “It’s famous for a certain kind of music, a certain kind of food, but there’s always a left turn where new directions can be taken,” Widmer says. — ALEX WOODWARD

In 2002, Tiffany Junot read an article about boxer Mia St. John. It was her first inkling that women were boxing. “I thought I’d be good at it,” Junot says.

Her hunch was right.

Nine years later, she fought St. John for the Women’s World Boxing Council World Super Welterweight title — and won.

“I was very focused,” Junot says. She started taking boxing classes in 2002. Within two weeks, she was competing. “I just kept winning,” she says.

Junot rose through the ranks, achieving a No. 1 national ranking as an amateur and turning pro in 2006. In 2011, she became New Orleans’ first women’s world boxing champion.

“I didn’t know about boxing, but I did know how to fight and I was willing to do more than the other person,” Junot says. This includes a conditioning plan that was more advanced than those followed by other amateur fighters. “I set the bar pretty high,” the New Orleans native says. “My goal was to train like a top male boxer.” Six days a week, Junot spent three hours in the boxing gym and two hours in the weight room. She ran more than 30 miles a week.

Junot says she loves the discipline and fairness of boxing.

“It’s just you and the other person,” she says. “You’re the same weight. It’s as fair as a fight could be, and the best person wins.” She likens the sport to a chess game: “It’s very calculated. You have to outthink the other person, not just go out and punch.”

Junot, who plans to retire in another year, says she knows the toughness she’s gained from boxing helps outside the ring. “[Boxing is] about being uncomfortable and pushing past that,” she says. “I know under pressure I’m going to be steady.” — MISSY WILKINSON

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REBECCA KRESTON, 28 MICROBIOLOGIST, WRITER FOR DISCOVER MAGAZINE

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Microbiologist Rebecca Kreston is fascinated by things that make most people squirmy and eager for a vat of bleach. Botulism, cockroaches, tapeworms, rabies and other infectious diseases and parasites are among the topics of her award-winning science writing for Discover magazine. Her enthusiasm is, for lack of a better word, infectious.

“I really dig parasites,” Kreston says.

“I love learning about the history of diseases, too.”

Kreston started her blog, Body Horrors, in 2011 while a student at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It takes Kreston hours to write each meticulously researched, playfully worded post — and that’s in addition to the demands of medical school and its 12- to 14-hour days.

“I just started med school (at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) two months ago, and it’s tough to balance both of these equally important obligations,” says Kreston, who is specializing in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Kreston’s blog has drawn acclaim, appearing in the Scientific American anthology Best Science Writing Online 2012, as well as netting her a writing gig for Discover magazine and offers of two book deals. Kreston says she does plan to write a book someday — after she finishes med school and a residency in infectious diseases.

Born in Norway and raised in Malaysia and Singapore, Kreston cared for people with leprosy during a nine-month internship in Mumbai, India, and she organized hurricanerelated medical evacuations as an intern for the Department of Homeland Security.

Kreston wrote the Louisiana Office of Public Health’s 2013 manual for schools on handling infectious diseases including flu and scabies.

“I wrote the manual on how to tackle them, prevention and control,” Kreston says.

“Transmission of infectious diseases never occurs in a vacuum. There are mitigating factors, and that’s what I explore in my blog — the history, sociology and anthropology of infectious diseases.” — MISSY WILKINSON

DR. BENJAMIN H. LEVY III, 34

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A recent New York Times article, “Is Music the Key to Success?” explores the correlation between musicianship and high achievement in other fields. Dr. Benjamin Levy could be a poster boy for the story. He is a gastroenterology fellow at Louisiana State University New Orleans and serves on the American College of Gastroenterology’s Patient Care Committee. He also is a cellist who majored in music at the University of Virginia and received a Fulbright fellowship to research the music and musicians of World War II at the Sorbonne and with the Orchestre de Paris.

“I’m passionate about music and medicine and had a difficult time trying to decide which field to go into,” says Levy, a native of Savannah, Ga. “I really wanted to be a doctor, but also introduce classical and jazz music to younger audiences.”

In 2003, Levy found a way to merge those passions by organizing the Music Inspires Health Initiative, a national health education campaign that teaches adolescents and adults about issues ranging from depression to HIV prevention.

“We organized concerts in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles … and worked with musicians like Trey Songz and Ingrid Michaelson,” he says.

In 2011, Levy came to New Orleans. He is now working to organize his next health education concert with the help of students at Tulane University, where he is a volunteer lecturer in public health classes.

“I’m passionate about helping populations without health insurance, and that is one of the reasons I chose to move to New Orleans,” Levy says. “I’m excited to give back to the city, because this city gives so much to the world in terms of culture, food and jazz — which I’m personally really into.” — MISSY WILKINSON

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When Root opened in 2011, it was New Orleans’ most ambitious restaurant since Hurricane Katrina, with unusual menu items and preparations more often seen in the fine kitchens of Paris or Chicago than in the Warehouse District.

“We thought it was going to be a huge gamble,” says Phillip Lopez, whose unusual cuisine — dazzlingly composed salads, “foielly pops” (foie gras lollipops), Cohiba-smoked scallops served in a cigar box — quickly earned him national attention and devotion from local foodies who weren’t intimidated by such creative fare. Keeping customers comfortable with Lopez’s culinary vision is Maximilian Ortiz, the maitre d’ and front-of-the-house manager, who says, “The biggest part of our job is making sure everything is welcoming.”

The two met when both were working at Restaurant August and credit chef John Besh for their training and attitude toward hospitality and fine dining. “We had a common vision of what the restaurant scene should be in New Orleans,” Ortiz says.

Lopez has worked at five Besh restaurants, while Ortiz, a graduate of Loyola University, has worked for more than a decade in several New Orleans restaurants. But it was the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, both men say, that shook up the New Orleans dining scene. New chefs moved to town; diners’ palates changed. “It was also the explosion of the Food Network,” Ortiz says.

“People were a lot more open to something besides fish or crabmeat topped with hollandaise.”

Ortiz and Lopez’ next collaboration is Square Root, a Lower Garden District spinoff that’s been more than a year in the making. Square Root will be a chef’s table restaurant, with only two seatings per night and 15 to 18 courses per dinner. Upstairs will be a craft-cocktail bar with small plates food, and Lopez says Square Root will import Root’s popular charcuterie and cheese program.

“You’ll walk in through the kitchen and get to see how everything is made,” Lopez says. “I don’t want to say it’s crazy — but it’s fun.”

Square Root will open in December or January — depending on how quickly construction can be finished — and the restaurant will begin taking reservations by the end of November.

“I’m looking forward to taking off my tool belt,” Lopez says, “and putting on my apron again.” — KEVIN ALLMAN PAGE 32

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Telley Madina’s call to action in advocating for preserving Louisiana coastal wetlands and the vulnerable communities that call them home is a personal one. An Eleanor McMain High School alum with a degree in social sciences from Loyola University, Madina worked as a political consultant and with the city’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) initiatives when the BP disaster struck close to home in April 2010.

“My father-in-law is a third-generation oysterman down in Pointe a la Hache, in Plaquemines Parish,” Madina says. “When the oil spill hit, he (Byron Encalade) needed help.

His business (Encalade Fisheries) lost five boats during (Hurricane) Katrina and was still recouping from that. When I looked at what Katrina and the oil spill had done, to not just my family but at how minority communities and family fisheries were disproportionately affected in what could become a permanent setback for them, I decided to become more engaged in advocacy issues.”

In addition to serving as executive director of the Louisiana Oystermen Association and pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of New Orleans, for the past three years Madina has worked for Oxfam America, an international organization that seeks solutions to poverty and injustice. His duties there range from meeting with state legislators to conducting tours of the West Bank to show leaders of nonprofits how coal refineries relate to high rates of asthma among black children. His latest project with Oxfam America is to fight insurance rates mandated by the BiggertWaters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which he says would result in unreasonably high bills.

Being a volunteer coach at Norman Playground in Algiers, however, is his biggest challenge and one he takes seriously since he cites childhood coaches at Hunters Field in the 7th Ward as crucial to setting him on a good path in life.

“Giving the kids I coach the guidance and direction they need in life — that’s the hardest job I have,” Madina says. — FRANK ETHERIDGE

In his decadelong poetry career, 26-year-old Akeem Martin has earned three champion titles at the annual National Poetry Slam (NPS) competition. Martin is an organizer and coach with the poetry group Slam New Orleans (Team SNO), and the team bested 70 teams from across the country at the 2013 NPS in Boston.

They are almost consecutive wins — 2010, 2012 and 2013. His teams didn’t enter in 2011, though he’s sure they would have won then, too.

Martin began writing poetry as a 16-year-old student at Edna Karr High School and became captain of his slam poetry team, New Orleans Youth Slam, in his senior year. The team entered the 2005 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam and came in sixth place out of 40 competitors.

“Going to Brave New Voices — where you see people doing the same thing though they’re different genders (and) races — breaks down that prejudice ingrained in southern Louisiana and breaks down those barriers,” Martin says. During this year’s NPS, he says his team, formed from veteran poets and newer blood, did a lot of writing to prepare for the stiff competition.

“They had to catch up, and boy did they catch up,” he says. “The harder you work, the sweeter it is.”

Martin graduated from Tulane University with a master’s degree in architecture in 2011. He now works at Spectrum Design architecture firm. He’s also a student of taekwondo and ninjutsu, as well as an aspiring model and actor.

“My schedule is pretty hectic,” Martin says. “I never have a dull moment.”

He hopes Team SNO will be able to compete in the 2014 NPS, where it could be the first team ever to win three consecutive titles — or, as Martin says, “Make it four in a row.” — ALEX WOODWARD

ANNA MONHARTOVA, 35 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, PAYSON CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TULANE UNIVERSITY CO-FOUNDER, A’S & ACES P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Since 2008, Anna Monhartova has been teaching kids to serve — both on the tennis court and in the classroom. She is a professor of International Development at Tulane University and a co-founder A’s & Aces, a nonprofit organization that uses tennis to teach life skills to New Orleans schoolchildren.

Monhartova was born in Czechoslovakia and started playing tennis at the age of 5. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, which ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia, she played on the Czech Republic national team, and earned a scholarship to Tulane University in 1998.

“Tennis made it possible to come here,” Monhartova says.

“When I decided not to play professionally, I thought coming to the U.S. on a scholarship would be a good compromise between education and tennis.”

Monhartova made the most of her opportunity, earning bachelor’s degrees in Russian and political science and a doctorate in international development. She co-founded A’s & Aces with her Tulane tennis coach, David Schumacher, as a way to put development theory into practice.

A’s & Aces provides tennis instruction and academic support to students at six partner schools in the New Orleans area and offers summer literacy and tennis camps to kids from around the city. The camps teach sportsmanship, teamwork, conflict resolution skills, nutrition and more.

“It’s character development,” Monhartova says. “Pretty much every life skill you may think about, we try to tie to our curriculum.”

As a Tulane professor, Monhartova uses A’s & Aces to incorporate service learning into her undergraduate courses, giving Tulane students exposure to underserved public schools and the opportunity to tutor and mentor.

It’s a win-win deal, she says.

“I can connect the service learners with A’s and Aces, which allows me to make sure the service learners have a meaningful experience, and to make sure that A’s & Aces benefits from the service the volunteers provide,” she says.

Monhartova plans to expand A’s & Aces and “make it sustainable so it can create a replicable model for others that can be created somewhere else, to serve more children and families.” — BRAD RHINES

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Louisiana is often called an oil and gas state, but Pierre Moses, founder of Make It Right Solar, is trying to add a few other energy sources to that moniker.

“We’re on the cusp of a rebranding of that tagline,” Moses says. “Louisiana should be known as an energy state, not just a gas state, with all forms of energy, both renewable and fossil fuels.

“The right energy solution is a mix of a lot of different fuel types. I don’t think one can be relied upon for all of our energy needs.”

In 2008, the New Orleans native started working for Make It Right, Brad Pitt’s green, low-income housing development nonprofit, as an unpaid intern. A year later he started the solar industry subsidiary of Make It Right, which has built more than 100 houses in the lower 9th Ward since Hurricane Katrina — all of them equipped with solar panels. Moses says solar panels not only decrease residents’ electric bills, they also cut carbon emissions that result from some forms of electricity production.

He also is a founding member of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association, a nonprofit that drives policy for renewable energy trade groups in Gulf States.

Moses says following the levee failures in 2005, he became aware of how limited the local solar energy market was. At that time, homeowners had to purchase solar panels outright, and financing options were almost nonexistent. Make It Right Solar allows homeowners and housing development projects to lease solar panels, and offers innovative financing for people who want to purchase them.

For struggling communities, those options are priceless, he says. “The consumers that have really benefitted from the technology have been the ones that really needed it,” Moses says. “And they deserve it.” — JEANIE RIESS

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Comedians Chris Trew and Tami Nelson want funny people in New Orleans to stay here.

“One thing that made us sad was people taking comedy classes and getting their feet wet (in New Orleans) and then taking off to Los Angeles or Chicago or New York,” Nelson says. “Our goal is to keep people here and to have people moving to New Orleans and Austin (Texas) for comedy.”

The founders of The New Movement Theater, both natives of New Orleans, met while taking improv classes.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, they headed to Austin, where they discovered they shared a unique perspective on “the art of improv.” Trew and Nelson wanted performers to use individual experiences to bring something different to the improv stage.

“No one was really dealing with it as a comedic art form,” Nelson says. “We structured the syllabus around smart, interesting comedy that’s never happened before.

That’s a cool thing about improv: You can have something that’s never happened before, over and over again. You don’t have to reuse old jokes.”

They opened The New Movement in Austin in 2009, got the theater on its feet then moved to New Orleans to cultivate seeds they’d sewn for a New Orleans branch.

“Our goal was always to come back to New Orleans,” Trew says. “It was the only place in the world we wanted to be, and this is the best thing in the world to be doing.”

Out of The New Movement came Hell Yes Fest, an annual event in New Orleans that Trew and Nelson started in 2010. Each year Hell Yes Fest has grown by 20 percent, and this year’s event (it runs from Nov. 12-18) will feature 100 local and visting performers.

“It’s a testament to how cool New Orleans is and also to the work everyone has done to make New Orleans a good comedy scene,” Trew says. “It is the biggest comedy event that’s ever been attempted in the South.”

Nelson and Trew hope to make Hell Yes Fest a self-sustaining enterprise that can provide New Orleans comedians employment year-round.

“We’re hoping that this festival is something people can do for their job,” Trew says. “So they can work less time at restaurant jobs.

It’s a long-term goal of ours.” — JEANIE RIESS

KRISTEN PREAU, 30 COOK ME SOMETHIN’ MISTER P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Known as “Jambalaya Girl,” Kristen Preau says she was given the title while stirring her father’s cast-iron pot full of jambalaya at her brother’s sporting events.

Preau has fun with her nickname, saying one goal for Cook Me Somethin’ Mister is to make the Jambalaya Girl Louisiana’s version of the Wendy’s girl from the restaurant chain’s promotions.

Preau came up with the concept for Cook Me Somethin’ Mister while traveling across the country to raise money for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She raised $100,000 for her hometown by serving jambalaya made from her father’s recipe at 11 college tailgates. It made her realize that people donated not only because they loved New Orleans, but they also loved the jambalaya.

“It’s always been a goal of mine to represent a company that promoted New Orleans and represent a piece of New Orleans culture through my dad’s recipe,” Preau says.

She founded the company in 2010, and Cook Me Somethin’ Mister’s jambalaya packages of rice, seasonings and vegetables are sold in more than 100 grocery stores across six states, as well as at 22 Sam’s Clubs.

“Once people taste [the jambalaya], they are hooked on it,” Preau says. “It stands out with the quality of the recipe and the flavors in it.”

Preau says she wants to expand the product line beyond jambalaya and market her products internationally.

“I’m having so much fun with this,” Preau says. “We’ve been growing … the business is out there and I’ve just been building it on fans of my product, and think I’m taking it with a good product with a great story and me being a little bit of a character.” — MARGUERITE LUCAS

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Loyola University Law School graduates Ameca Reali and Adrienne Wheeler founded the Justice and Accountability Center (JAC) of Louisiana, whose most recent project was an “Expungement Day” in September, when more than 500 people came to Christian Unity Baptist Church in Treme to seek help in getting their criminal records expunged. Reali and Wheeler now are sorting through those files.

“When our criminal justice system is as active as it is with arrests and two federal consent decrees, expungements become a vehicle for sustainability,” Wheeler says, adding that background checks that turn up criminal records can prevent employment, housing and other services.

“Outside of jobs, it really can affect one’s ability to engage in a community, volunteer, have custody of kids, volunteer at your kids’ school, walk in a parade with them — it’s not just jobs, which is huge, but it also reconnects with the things that help you stay grounded,” Reali says.

Expungements typically take a year, though the process isn’t uniform statewide and varies from parish to parish. In Orleans Parish, Wheeler says, one must get the records, wait for a hearing date, pay $250 for the expungement, and wait for a certificate of compliance from the state police — which can deny the request or ask for more information before it is processed.

JAC also serves as ground zero for addressing Louisiana’s criminal justice anomalies. It works with community partners, from Mary Queen of Vietnam Church to Resurrection After Exoneration, to offer legal clinics and clinics for lawyers to help spread knowledge of how to perform expungements, among other services, such as post-conviction relief, that don’t have other organizations promoting them. JAC’s goal is to be a model for developing a legal service within the community that would make JAC obsolete.

“We pick one, work the model, hopefully fix it, share it, spread it and pick another piece,” Reali says. — ALEX WOODWARD

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AESHA RASHEED, 36

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When New Orleans school districts were struggling to bounce back after Hurricane Katrina, local education advocate Aesha Rasheed went to every open school in the city and gathered data that families could use to make decisions about where to send their children. She collected that information in a book — not as a catalogue, but as an accessible advocacy tool. That guide is in its seventh year now, with information including a school’s average class size and whether it has a garden. New Orleans Parents’ Guide to Public Schools aims to help them make an informed decision in a system that can be complicated and difficult to navigate.

As editor of the guide, Rasheed uses her knowledge of the schools, acquired in part during a five-year stint as an education reporter at The Times-Picayune, to rally for permanent change.

In 2008, she and a coalition of parents, educators and other community leaders started Morris Jeff Community School, and she still sits on the board of that Mid-City charter school. Rasheed also is helping to organize an informational swap process, where parents from all different schools can come together to share experiences and answer each other’s questions about public education.

“The thing that hurt my heart the most was the way I heard adults in our community talk about our children,” she says. “… That some people can walk away and other people have to engage with the system. It’s a huge injustice.”

Rasheed’s work was recognized nationally with a 2013 Daily Point of Light award from the Points of Light volunteer mobilization organization, given to individuals who find innovative ways to meet community needs. — JEANIE RIESS

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OPHTHALMOLOGIST, LOUISIANA CORNEA SPECIALISTS Following medical school at the University of Kentucky and an ophthalmology residency at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Satya Reddy performed a selfassessment that led him to Chicago, where he completed a cornea fellowship at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary.

“When you’re considering the cornea procedures, it comes in very technical dimensions,” Reddy explains, noting measurements in microns (one-millionth of a meter). “It’s a very high-precision surgery and it’s very technologically advanced.

It requires a very specific skill set and presents its own unique challenges.”

Reddy took on many such challenges with cutting-edge techniques and talents that have made his Covington-based Louisiana Cornea Specialists practice a leader in the region. Specific innovations include applying LASIK technologies for enhanced safety and better results in cornea transplants; using a rare iris reconstruction to restore 20/20 vision to a man blinded by a knife wound when he was 10; and incorporating new technologies to treat macular degeneration.

The ophthalmologist opened a practice on the Northshore in 2009. “I realized the Northshore, which grew tremendously in population after (Hurricane) Katrina, lacked specialist-level cornea care,” Reddy says.

A pilot and avid traveler who’s been to 51 countries and scuba dived in the South Pacific, Reddy jokes when asked if a recent trip to take his 16-month-old son Viraaj to India to meet his grandparents was an incredible experience. “Traveling with a toddler across three continents on four flights each with long layovers is incredible in a whole other sort of way,” he said. — FRANK ETHERIDGE

When he was 5, Jacob’s mother Brandi enrolled him in classes at the John Robert Powers performing arts academy in Metairie.

She never imagined where it would lead.

“He’s the one that drives his career, not us,” she says. “He obviously has a talent for it, he has a love for it, and it’s what he says he wants to do.”

Brandi quit her high school teaching job last year in order to home-school Jacob, which allows the family to keep up with his hectic schedule of auditions, acting and singing and dancing lessons. The family splits its time between Louisiana and Los Angeles, living in L.A. from January to March for “pilot season,” the time of year networks cast

actors for upcoming television series. Brandi is hopeful that Jacob can land a pilot next year so the family can settle into a regular schedule. But, she says, if it doesn’t work out, that’s OK, too.

“Jacob takes it in stride,” she says. “He understands that if you go in there, if you did your best, if you did everything that you can do, then it’s not your fault that you didn’t get cast for something.”

Jacob is committed to pursuing a career in acting, though he admits there are a few things he misses when he’s away from home.

“Mostly the Cajun food,” he says, “because I just love shrimp and stuff.” — BRAD RHINES PAGE 39

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STUDENT/ ACTOR Jacob Robinson is a little guy with big plans. The 8-year-old from LaPlace hopes to turn his passion for acting into a full-time career. Jacob has appeared in popular kidcentric AT&T commercials, and he recently walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premiere for his first feature film, the horror thriller The Monkey’s Paw. “That was really fun,” Robinson says. “I thought I did a really good job in my scenes, and I thought they did a really good job of making the movie. It was all just perfect — and I also got to ride in a limo.”

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LOVIE LEWIS RODGERS, 30

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, PHARMACY PRACTICE, XAVIER UNIVERSITY P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

Lovie Lewis Rodgers has known she wanted to be a pharmacist since she was in middle school. Her mother had been ill for as long as she could remember, and Rodgers says the medical professional most attentive to her needs was her pharmacist.

Rodgers graduated from Xavier University in 2004 and is a clinical assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, where the graduating pharmacy class gave her the Preceptor of the Year Award in 2010. Of the dozen or so awards Rodgers has collected during her career, that is the one she’s most proud of, “because it’s all students, so there are no politics,” she says.

For her fourth-year pharmacy students, Rodgers provides on-site training in managing patients’ medications at Daughters of Charity. Under her direction, students are able to learn in an interactive setting and get real-life experience. Rodgers also is the faculty advisor for Xavier’s women’s dance team, a role that allows her to mentor young women who are just beginning to think about what kind of lives they’ll lead.

“They’re able to relate to me,” says Rodgers, who was on the dance team herself as a student.

Rodgers grew up in Houma but moved to New Orleans to attend Xavier and has called it home ever since. She volunteers in the community and wants to improve the overall health of local residents by educating them about preventable diseases such as asthma and diabetes.

“New Orleans has a network of people trying to make a difference,” she says. — JEANIE RIESS

JERMAINE L. SMITH, 32

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, EDUCARE NEW ORLEANS P H OTO BY C H ERY L G ERB ER

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As a kid in Atlanta, Jermaine L. Smith was lucky. The public schools in his neighborhood were good and his teachers nominated him to attend private school with a scholarship.

“Just getting that opportunity completely changed the path of my life,” he says. “I had a great opportunity to have my horizons expanded and I want to do whatever I can to give other people the same opportunity.”

To do that, Smith has raised funds for national and local nonprofits including the United Negro College Fund and Young Leadership Council, taught financial literacy at Walter L. Cohen High School and is development director of Educare New Orleans, a school in Columbia Parc, the successful mixed-income housing complex that replaced a portion of the St. Bernard Housing Development.

Raising funds is only part of his job, Smith says.

“One of the things that’s really amazing about New Orleans is that there is an inherent entrepreneurial spirit and people want to do things for themselves, but what we lack historically is access to resources,” he says. “I think we’re doing a great job of not only creating those resources, but we’re doing a better job of expanding the access to them.”

Smith, who secured more than $2.5 million in grants as development director of the finance nonprofit A Shared Initiative Inc., feels that being a successful fundraiser is the result of many different things.

“I’ve been very blessed to work for organizations that have been well-managed and had great reputations,” Smith says. “But more than that, we do exceptionally well here because we create great relationships with people — and in New Orleans that’s especially important because everybody knows everybody else.”

In his spare time, Smith enjoys relaxing with his wife, Megan Jessica Holt, and their 11-month-old son, Jefferson Henry Davis. — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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Bird A groundbreaking LSUHSC bird study reveals new findings about genes involved in language development.

Vocal learning processes are similar in birds and humans, so LSU researchers tested a hypothesis on zebra finches.

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Li hypothesized that microRNAs (miRNAs) might be involved in controlling the language gene. MiRNAs are molecules that regulate the expression of genes.

Li and her team tested their hypothesis on zebra finches, because the vocal learning process in birds is similar to speech and language development in humans, and the underlying sequence and expression of the FOXP2 gene is very similar among higher vertebrates.

The team was the first to identify two miRNAs regulating the levels of FOXP2. MiRNAs prevent the production of a particular protein by binding to and destroying the messenger RNA that would have produced the protein. The researchers found that certain microRNAs target specific sequences in the zebra finches’ FOXP2 (three prime untranslated regions) and decrease the FOXP2 protein and mRNA expression. Li and her team’s hypothesis turned out to be correct.

Li and her team also found that in a zebra finch’s brain, these miRNAs are expressed in a structure (the basal ganglia nucleus) that is required for vocal learning and that their function is regulated during that learning process. The researchers also found that the expression of the miRNAs is regulated by the social context of song behavior, specifically in males singing “undirected” songs. (“Undirected” songs are those sung in solitude, while “directed” songs are those used in courtship.)

So what do these findings represent? This study shows a mechanism that regulates FOXP2 expression

and suggests that social vocal behavior can influence how language is learned.

In layperson’s terms, the finding represents another piece of the puzzle, Li says. “Our next specific step is to find out if by changing the miRNA, will we change FOXP2?” Li says. “We need to see what its impact is on vocal learning behavior.”

As for the study’s long-term implications and its affect on humans, Li says, “The insights we obtained from studying birds are highly relevant to speech and language in humans and related neural developmental disorders, such as autism. Understanding how miRNAs regulate FOXP2 may open possibilities to influence speech and language development through genetic variations in miRNA genes, as well as behavioral and environmental factors.”

Dr. Li’s research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

Her research team included Zhimin Shi, Ph.D., and Lijuan Fu, Ph.D., from the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Neuroscience Center; Zhide Fang, Ph.D., from the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health; and Guanzheng Luo, Ph.D., and XiuJie Wang, Ph.D., from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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peech and language disorders affect millions of people in the United States. A new LSU Health Sciences Center bird study has identified two tiny molecules as potential regulators of a gene whose mutations cause these impairments. It represents a finding that may have implications for humans.

Led by Dr. Xiao Ching Li at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence and published recently in The Journal of Neuroscience, the three-year study is another step in research that began in 2001, when scientists in England first identified the gene FOXP2 as being linked to speech and language. The scientists studied a family (known only as the “KE” family) who suffered from severe speech and language disorders. Almost half of its members, across three generations, had these impairments.

Studies revealed a chromosomal defect affecting the FOXP2 gene, known as the “language” gene (though it is not the only gene associated with language). Further genetic studies in other people with the same types of disorders confirmed that mutations in the gene are linked to speech and language disorders.

“FOXP2 controls the expression of other genes — several hundred of them — and is very important in the neurocircuits for language,” Li says. “We also know it has to be precisely regulated, with too much or too little being a problem. What we realized is that we didn’t know what controls FOXP2.”

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n the 1990s, scientists in Britain came across a family, now referred to as the “KE family,” in which almost half of its members suffered specific language impairments — so much so that their speech was unintelligible to others. Researchers had known for some time that speech impairments often occurred in more than one member of the same family and were more likely to occur in identical twins than fraternal, suggesting a hereditary component, but they did not know much about the genes involved.

The high proportion of affected members of the KE family suggested the disorder might point to a single gene — and that it was perhaps transmitted by the standard dominant/recessive pattern and not due to a combination of genes. Genetic studies performed on affected members of the KE family narrowed the location of the FOXP2 gene to a region of chromosome 7 that contained about 70 genes. At

roughly the same time, another researcher identified a British boy, known now as “CS,” who was unrelated to the KE family but suffered an almost identical language disorder. Analysis of his DNA showed a visible defect in the same chromosome, 7, which specifically affects the FOXP2 gene. As lead researcher Anthony Monaco of the University of Oxford said at the time, “The defect was like a signpost, precisely highlighting the gene responsible for the speech disorder.”

Since then, FOXP2 has often been dubbed the “language gene” as modifications or mutations in it can result in speech and language problems, including slow language development, difficulties in controlling speech organs, speaking words and forming sentences. As such, scientists continue to study it in the process of understanding speech and language disorders, including autism. — LAURA RICKS

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hen Baton Rouge native Billy Bosch found himself on the road as a field account manager for Shell, his food options were limited.

“I was either skipping meals or hitting a convenience store or fast food restaurant,” Bosch says. “At a convenience store, the healthiest option is water and a granola bar. That gets pretty old.”

Bosch began gravitating to nutrition-based protein drinks sold at convenience stores. He asked registered dietitian Molly Kimball of Elmwood Fitness Center which she’d recommend.

“I said, ‘You know, every grab-and-go protein drink I’d recommend has a ‘but,’” Kimball says. “It’s low in sugar, but it’s artificially sweetened. It’s all natural, but it has more sugary carbs than I prefer.”

Bosch asked Kimball if she’d be interested in creating a protein drink that didn’t have the nutrition pitfalls she’d identified in other beverages on the market. “Absolutely,” Kimball said.

Bosch knew what he wanted: something that would fill him up and give him an energy boost without artificial sweeteners, Iconic CEO and cofounder Billy Bosch sugar or caffeine. In fall 2011, he pitched his created the high-protein beverage concept to the Idea Village entrepreneur as a healthy way to stave off hunger accelerator program and was accepted for between meals or on the go. a six-month intensive program.

“They really challenged us to create a strong brand, understand what the product would represent, and make sure that meshed with the product we were creating,” Bosch says. “As you can imagine, it was a busy six months — formulation, market research, branding.”

Bosch’s target demographic was on-the-go, physically active 20- to 35-year-olds.

“We wanted to create something that was clean, contemporary and different,” Bosch says. “Most of the market for protein-based drinks is heavily geared toward the bodybuilder and almost has an aggressive feel. We wanted to appeal to both genders.”

The final product, called Iconic, has 130 calories and 20 grams of protein from milk protein concentrate, as well as 4 grams of fiber. Vitamins B6, B12 and green tea extract provide a gentle energy boost, and choline and amino acids sharpen mental focus.

There are two flavors: vanilla bean and chocolate truffle.

In early 2013, Bosch held a market test, putting Iconic in 30 grocery stores, gyms and coffee shops throughout New Orleans. “We had trouble keeping it on shelves,” Bosch says.

In October, the product officially launched in 40 stores, including Rouses, Breaux Mart, Robert Fresh Market and Elmwood Fitness Center. At his company headquarters at the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, Bosch keeps bottles of popular protein drinks alongside Iconic. With its minimalist packaging, the drink stands out from the rest.

Though the brand’s base of operations is in New Orleans, Bosch’s goal is to expand to other markets in the state and then the Southeast.

Although he’s a native of Louisiana, it wasn’t hometown pride that led Bosch to start his business in New Orleans. “We had other options,” Bosch says. “In my opinion, there are more resources in this city than in any other city in the U.S.” The resources Bosch cites include the sleek, LEED-certified New Orleans BioInnovation Center, a $50 million facility with 66,000 square feet of office, lab and meeting space for biotech startups, plus a full commercialization team to help bring concepts to fruition. Bosch’s business also nabbed cash prizes ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 from competitions like the 2013 Tulane Business Plan Competition and Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission’s Cordina Challenge.

“To have this many competitions open to a diverse range of businesses is amazing, not to mention you’ve got the Idea Village, the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, Propeller and Launchpad (entrepreneur incubators),” Bosch says. “That’s why this is the best city for us to start our business in.”

Bosch hopes that as New Orleans becomes known as an entrepreneurial hub, its reputation as a health mecca will expand as well.

“We want New Orleans to be known for health and innovation,” Bosch says. “New Orleans will always be known for having a great culture with rich and delicious food.

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Brenda McField “It’s incredibly styles client rewarding to be Allyson Barbay. able to give that P H OTO BY to people.”

C H ER Y L G ER B ER McField takes pride in offering a fun, professional environment where she makes sure every client has a good experience.

“We like to think what makes us unique is not only our ability to service any guest that walks through our door, but our willingness to do our best always,” McField says.

It’s the small things that make Mariposa welcoming. On rainy days, the salon offers what McField calls “umbrella service”: walking customers to their cars or pulling clients’ cars up to the front door. The salon also offers gifts to clients during their birthday month. “Our referral program offers a free service for every three referrals,” McField says. “Our guests love that.”

McField feels it is the responsibility of her staff as industry leaders to take care of the customers who have supported the salon since its opening.

“We hope that our guests come away feeling they want their family and friends to experience Mariposa,” McField says. “We are trying to make our guests’ experiences better each and every time.”

SHOPPING NEWS

Peoples Health and Breaux Mart (citywide; www.breauxmart.com) hold a celebrity Supermarket Sweep to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans & Acadiana at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6 at Breaux Mart’s Metairie location (2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 504-885-5565). Local celebrities rush to fill their baskets with food that will be donated to senior citizens. Last year, $7,500 worth of groceries were donated to Second Harvest Food Bank.

The Renegade Bridal Fair takes place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6 at the Beauregard-Keyes House (1113 Chartres St). Wedding vendors include Sapphire Events, Mrs. Vintage Rentals, Iris Floral and Event Design Studio, Grove Street Press, Judy at the Rink, Pure Barre, Raw Republic, Reyn Studios, P’s

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and Q’s, Bittersweet Confections, Feet First, Maile Lani Photography and more. Admission is free, but attendees must register at www. renegadebridalfair.eventbrite.com.

Feet First (526 Royal St., 504-569-0005; 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, 504-828-3888; 4122 Magazine St., 504-899-6800; www.feetfirststores.com) and The Green Fork (200 Metairie Road, Metairie, 504-309-3677; www.greenforknola.com) celebrate the grand openings of their newest locations at Feet First’s new store (605 Metairie Road, Metairie) from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday Nov. 8 and 9. There will be samples of drinks and smoothies from Green Fork, a trunk show by NOLA Couture, Champagne, cocktails, refreshments and live music.

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renda McField knew she wanted to cut hair ever since she was a child practicing on her dolls.

McField, who is originally from New York, trained and worked all over the East Coast — including Paul Mitchell, Redken 5th Avenue New York, Vidal Sassoon and Goldwell — before opening Mariposa Salon and Spa (3700 Orleans Ave., Suite 1, 504-484-0440; www. mariposasalonandspa.com).

While attending a friend’s wedding in New Orleans, she met her future husband, whose family is from here. The couple started their business in 2007.

“There was something romantic about coming to New Orleans where we first met to start a new life, just after New Orleans had experienced (Hurricane) Katrina,” McField says. “It was a new beginning all the way around.”

The full-service beauty salon and spa offers products and services for men and women.

“We offer hair, skin and nail services, [as well as] scalp treatments, manicures and pedicures,” McField says. “In addition, Mariposa offers makeup application, tanning, hair removal and skin care by trained estheticians.”

Hair services include cuts, which start at $35, coloring, styling and extensions.

Skin treatments range from anti-aging facials to a “back facial” massage. There is a special “Men-U” that caters to male clients. The salon works with bridal parties and can prepare clients for other special events. Mariposa also offers hisand-hers spa packages.

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Ahmad Shakir and Nasr Nance load hot dogs with a variety of toppings at Dreamy Weenies.

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lunch and dinner daily also had a great kick, especially when topped with sauerkraut and the restaurant’s “beef bacon,” a concept that is puzzling albeit delicious. The knackwurst was similarly satisfying, as was, most surprisingly, vegan andouille, which offered familiar Cajun flavors despite being fashioned from soy.

Dreamy Weenies’ version of the corn dog features a choice of sausage hand-dipped to order. This is a brilliant and unique concept, and it pays off well.

Not every dog has its day at Dreamy Weenies.

The kosher Polish sausage didn’t taste very Polish, lacking signature fatty, garlicky notes. And aside from perfectly executed waffle fries, the sides aren’t much to write home about. The red beans are respectable, but the chili, grits and potato salad are unremarkable. Avoid the musty barbecue succotash.

Also, there’s no beer to go with the hot dogs, but it’s a superior alternative to sausage carts on the corner and, with killer waffle fries, Dreamy Weenies satisfies a hot dog craving.

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a variety of filling hot dogs on the edge of the French Quarter

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation will serve hot gumbo and even hotter music this weekend in Louis Armstrong Park at the fifth annual Treme Creole Gumbo Festival. The free festival features music, crafts, Creole food and more. “[W]e programmed nothing but brass bands,” says Scott Aiges, Director of Programs, Marketing and Communications for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. “This year we’ve expanded to include more bands that are inspired by the same culture that inspires brass bands, like our headliner Glen David Andrews.”

Andrews performs Saturday, along with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, Hot 8 Brass Band and the Lagniappe Brass Band with Keedy Black. Sunday features Robin Barnes, John Boutte, the all-female Pinettes Brass Band, Bonerama, Baby Boyz Brass Band and the Second-Line Jammers Social Aid & Pleasure Club. Also taking the stage Sunday is The Madd Wikkid’s Brassft Punk, a brass band tribute to Daft Punk.

There will be gumbos galore from vendors including the Ya-Ka-Mein Lady Ms. Linda Green, Woody’s Fish Tacos, The Praline Connection, Dunbar’s Soul Food, Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse, Cafe Carmo, Li’l Dizzy’s and Brocato’s Eat Dat. New this year is a vegan gumbo cookoff with celebrity judges, but Aiges is quick to note that meat-based gumbos are available, even though they are ineligible for the contest.

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here was a time when if you wanted a hot dog in New Orleans, you got a link from Lucky Dogs, a Superdome dog or mass-market weenies from the grocery store.

None of these dared approach anything that might even glancingly be labeled as “gourmet.”

But now even the most basic foods such as hamburgers and hot dogs are getting cheflike treatment. Enter Dreamy Weenies, a French Quarter purveyor of encased meats that opened last year on North Rampart Street, across from the entrance to Armstrong Park.

What separates Dreamy Weenies from the competition — most notably the growing Dat Dog weiner empire and smaller shops such as Diva Dog — is a dedication to serving kosher, halal and vegan versions of what it calls the “New Orleans-style hot dog,” loaded with topping combinations incorporating local and global flavors.

Housed in a cozy, vividly painted room (the counter sports a jaunty mustard-yellow hue), Dreamy Weenies seems like a neat and comfortable place to get a hot dog, french fries and a cold drink after a few hours wandering the Quarter. The staff’s disposition certainly matches the sunny decor.

But Dreamy Weenies provides a few headscratching notes along with its dogs and sides. First, the kitchen isn’t certified halal or kosher, but the restaurant promises “not to mix pots,” which may not satisfy some diners following dietary restrictions.

Other patrons are free to choose sacrilegious wiener and topping combinations, such as adding cheese and barbecue shrimp sauce to an otherwise kosher beef frank. Were there any pork on the menu, I probably would have piled that on as well, if only to create the ultimate treyf dog to make my rabbi’s head spin.

Despite some concept confusion, Dreamy Weenies offers a number of items worth diners’ time.

Signature dogs include the Toulouse, Arabi and the Genchili. Patrons can choose one of the house sausages and toppings to go with it, which run an additional $.55 or $.99 apiece outside of the basic condiments. Peckish patrons will appreciate that the dogs are 7-inch, quarter-pound sausages on grilled thick specialty rolls suited to sate all but a Kobayashi-sized hunger.

The most notable dog was the Arabi, a “beef kebab” frank topped with a fragrant curry sauce, to which I added cool lebna, a Middle Eastern sauce made with strained yogurt. It packed an exotic punch, and I’ll be back to revisit it. The “zesty beef”

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for this as a way to give back to the community.”

The festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. — SCOTT GOLD

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Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse (716 Iberville St., 504-522-2467; www. dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com) has been cooking strips, chops, prime rib and seafood for a decade and a half as of this month, and to celebrate, the restaurant is offering a “15-themed” menu through November.

The lunch menu sports a $15 two-course pairing, in which diners can choose a wedge salad, gumbo or onion rings to go with either the housesmoked duck, ham and cheese sandwich topped with a fried duck egg (take that, croque monsieur), broiled twin filets or a fried oyster salad.

Dinner offerings celebrate some of the restaurant’s past menus.

Longtime Dickie’s fans should be happy to see familiar dishes including five-onion soup, an 18-ounce bone-in New York strip with foie gras butter, veal chop bordelaise and salted caramel profiteroles for dessert and more.

Since no celebration in New Orleans would be complete without spirits, the bar is offering $15 glasses of Moet & Chandon Imperial Brut NV, and a flight of three 15-year aged whiskeys, including Redbreast Irish Whiskey as well as Springbank and Dalwhinnie single malts ($20 for three oneounce pours).

The restaurant is open for lunch Wednesday through Friday and dinner daily. — SCOTT GOLD

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Blue Oak, which formerly served tacos and egg rolls from the kitchen at Grits Bar, has added “Barbecue” to its name and moved into the kitchen space at Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St., 504-304-4714; www. chickiewahwah.com).

Ronnie Evans and Philip Moseley, the duo behind Blue Oak, went on a pilgrimage through West Texas last year, sampling barbecue to refine their knowledge of the craft. The New Orleans natives brought that experience home to Chickie Wah Wah in Mid-City.

“There’s been a growth of barbecue here in the last couple of years,” Evans says. “It’s good stuff, but it could get better. We want to bring something new to the table.”

Blue Oak Barbecue (504-621-9837; www.blueoaknola.com) serves brisket, smoked wings, house-made sausage and smoked burgers. Pork egg rolls add some flair to the otherwise traditional menu. Sides include braised Brussels sprouts, macaroni and cheese and baked beans, and there are two tangy barbecue sauces. Evans and Moseley expect to add menu items, and they have eliminated some things, such as tacos, that were on the menu at Grits.

Blue Oak Barbecue serves dinner daily and is open from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. for Chickie Wah Wah’s weekday happy hours and during New Orleans Saints and LSU football games. — JEANIE RIESS

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Kelly Fields A native of South Carolina’s Low Country, pastry chef Kelly Fields made a name for herself in New Orleans by baking cakes, pies and other sweet treats in local restaurants. She currently oversees desserts for John Besh’s Restaurant August, Domenica, Besh Steak, Borgne, The American Sector and Luke.

: How did your experience growing up in rural South Carolina influence your career as a pastry chef?

: You’re known for playful but sophisticated desserts. How would you describe your style?

F: I like to think that my desserts are really just fun and interesting. Most of the desserts on the menus have an element of nostalgia to them. At Luke, we have traditional Alsatian French profiteroles, but we add apple pie ice cream and pour apple cider over the top to make it like a traditional apple pie for fall — a taste of my youth.

Banana pudding with Nilla wafers was one of my absolute favorite things to eat growing up, and I’ve always wanted to use that experience to create a dessert at August. So I decided to do a grown up version of that: banana pudding with peanut butter, marshmallow and Nilla wafer ice cream. What I think about most when I conceptualize desserts is how to combine and contrast flavors and textures. So the banana pudding evolved as a way to present bananas in as many textural ways as I can: a banana cake, banana pudding, caramelized bananas and a banana meringue, which is crispy. But it all goes back to that childhood love.

: Are there any new desserts on the menu at any of your restaurants that diners should check out?

F: There’s a new dessert at August that’s been on the menu for about a week or so. It was inspired by the Creamsicle, which I loved growing up, as well as local satsumas, which are now really coming into season. I created a satsuma mousse with carrot cake granola and carrot sorbet made from fresh buttermilk. The satsumas come from a trip I made to Israel to visit my best friend, and we drank this fresh carrot-orange juice, which was wonderful. So the sorbet is made to be like that drink — a great combination of orange and carrot flavors and that nostalgic sense of a Creamsicle.

— SCOTT GOLD

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Fields: I grew up on the water and we grew most of our own food — a lot of produce, particularly. I remember grabbing ripe tomatoes right off the vine and eating them like apples, which made my mother pretty mad. We’d go shrimping or crabbing, catch what we could, then pick what we could find in the fields to go with it, and that was dinner. It’s a pretty cool way to grow up. It’s sort of in my blood, but I never really thought about doing it as a career. I moved to New Orleans in 1996 for the first time and started cooking for Your Daily Bread. Then I worked for Susan Spicer, and she taught me so much. The other cooks there called me “googly eyes” because I was always trying to absorb as much as I could, to learn and to get better. It was a fantastic experience.

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Covington Brewhouse (226 E. Lockwood St., Covington, 985-893-2884; www. covingtonbrewhouse.com), originally founded in 2005 as Heiner Brau, experienced its first seismic shift in management and mission last year when founding brewmaster Henryk Orlik left and Brian “Bruiser” Broussard (pictured) took over as head brewer. The second shift occurred last month when an investment group, including Broussard and new Covington Brewhouse President David Arbo, purchased the brewery.

“I’m working 70 hours a week,” Arbo says with a grin, “and I’m loving every minute of it.” Arbo is new to the beer world, having spent his first career as a science teacher and administrator. Although he admits he misses his students, Arbo has been relishing his role heading up one of Louisiana’s seven commercial breweries.

Broussard, a former brewer at Abita, says he is thrilled to exercise more creative control and influence the direction of the brewery. “My main concentration has been on [ensuring a] quality product and putting the freshest beer on the shelves,” he says. “I’ve also been working on new products like the Anonymous IPA to give our brand a new, fresh, exciting boost.”

Broussard’s Anonymous IPA, brewed with five different hops, has popped up over the past several months at events including the WYES Private Beer Sampling in June. The IPA created a buzz at the event among local beer enthusiasts.

In keeping with its mysterious moniker, the complex hop profile of Anonymous is being kept secret. “So far nobody has figured them out,” Broussard says.

Covington has partnered with the Columbia Street Tap Room & Grill to offer experimental beers to the community. The first beer was Farmhouse Wit, a wheat style with yeast spiciness and hop earthiness. The second, Snickerdoodle Bock, is a bock spiced with ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Anonymous IPA will be released at The Avenue Pub (1732 St. Charles Ave., 504-586-9243; www.theavenuepub.com) at 6 p.m. Nov. 9. As for future plans, Broussard says, “if we told you what’s brewing, we’d have to kill you.”

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534 St. Louis St., 504-522-6652 Pan-seared filet mignon is served with cauliflower puree, confit wild mushrooms, herb-roasted bone marrow and garlic bordelaise.

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The grilled 22-ounce bone-in rib-eye comes with Creole butter, roasted bone marrow and bordelaise.

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Roasted bone marrow and escargot bordelaise is served with crostini topped with chicken liver mousse. Servers have been known to offer a shot of whiskey using the empty marrow bone as a luge.

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www.slicepizzeria.com The pizzeria hosts a party to thank its patrons with pizza, beer and cocktails. RSVP at www.slicepizzeria.com/party.

5:30 p.m. Friday Wise Words Community Garden, 724 S. Hennessey St.

www.nolagreenroots.com Chefs prepare baby back ribs and vegetables with herbs picked from the community garden and serve them with wine. Registration is only available online.

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Opening doors “I just knocked on the back door, was pretty straight: ‘I don’t have a high school diploma, zero experience, I just want a chance.’”

— Chef Rick Tramonto, of Restaurant R’evolution and Chicago’s Osteria di Tramonto, in an interview with the Milwaukee, Wis., Journal Sentinel on applying for his first restaurant job at a Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers franchise. Tramonto was 16 years old, a high school dropout, his father was incarcerated and his family had lost its house.

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741 State St., 504-252-9431 As a starter, roasted bone marrow is topped with Creole mustard-miso glaze and fresh bonito flakes.

5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. Wednesday Charlie’s Steak House, 4510 Dryades St. 504-895-9323

www.charliessteakhousenola.com The steak house holds a benefit dinner with all proceeds going to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Dinner includes a 10-ounce steak, sides, dessert, salad and drinks. RSVP by phone. Dinner $75 inclusive of tax and tip.

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

Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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American Sports Saloon — 1200 Decatur St., (504) 522-2410 — This sports bar serves burgers made with house-ground patties, chicken wings, 12 beers on tap and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations.

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

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Jigger’s Bar & Grill — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 828-3555 — The sports bar serves sandwiches and bar noshing items. Half or full-round muffulettas are filled with Italian ham, Genoa salami, provolone cheese and house-made olive salad and served toasted. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ Rendon Inn’s Dugout Sports Bar — 4501 Eve St., (504) 826-5605; www.therendoninn.com — The Boudreaux burger combines lean ground beef, hot sausage and applewood-smoked bacon on a ciabatta bun with cheese, onions and remoulade. Fresh cut fries are served with Parmesan cheese and a drizzle of truffle oil. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Shamrock Bar & Grill — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 301-0938 — Shamrock serves an Angus rib-eye steak with a side item, burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, grilled chicken, spinach and artichoke dip and more. No

Motherland Cafe — 1700 N. Galvez St., (504) 342-3996; www.facebook. com/motherlandcafe — This family restaurant serves Senegalese and Gambian food, and vegetarian dishes are available. Thiebou djenne is a fish and rice stew, and boulettes are fried balls of fish.

There also are house-made ginger drinks and wonjo, made with hibiscus. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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AMERICAN Huh! A Restaurant & Bar — 3401 N. Hullen St., Metairie, (504) 2292484; www.huhrestaurant.com — This restaurant serves salads, sandwiches, burgers, entrees and sweet and savory crepes. The king cake crepes are available in plain and filled varieties topped with purple, green and gold icing and sugar. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., and open Sundays during New Orleans Saints games. Credit cards. $$ Knuckleheads Eatery — 3535 Severn Ave., Suite 10, Metairie, (504) 888-5858; www.knuckleheadsnola.com — This casual eatery serves burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads and bar noshes.

Mulligan Mike’s all-Angus chuck burger is topped with grilled ham and Swiss or cheddar cheese and comes with fries and a pickle. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ O’Henry’s Food & Spirits — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 866-9741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, (504) 461-9840; www.ohenrys.com — Complimentary peanuts are the calling card of these casual, family friendly restaurants. The menu includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat.

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BARBECUE Boo Koo BBQ — 3701 Banks St., (504) 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.Sat. Cash only. $ Hickory Prime BBQ — 6001 France Road, (757) 277-8507; www.hickoryprimebbq.com — Proprietors Billy Rhodes and Karen Martin have won several barbecue competitions. They serve Texas-style brisket, smoked chicken, ribs and more. The pulled pork platter features pork cooked for 12 hours over hickory and white oak and it comes with two sides. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Saucy’s — 4200 Magazine St., (504) 301-2755; www.saucysnola. com — Saucy’s serves slowsmoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled chicken.

The cochon blue is a sandwich of pulled pork, blue cheese and melted mozzerella on a bun. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

BURGERS Charcoal’s Gourmet Burger Bar — 2200 Magazine St., (504) 644-4311; www.charcoalgourmetburgerbar. com — This burger specialist’s patty options include beef, bison, shrimp and veggie. The House burger is dressed with cheddar, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard and served with house-made chips.

The Cobb salad features romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, blue cheese, croutons and buttermilk ranch or honey-mustard dressing. No reservations.

Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno. com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.

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Attiki Bar & Grill (230 Decatur St., 504587-3756; www.attiki neworleans.com) serves Mediterranean dishes including seared tuna, lamb chops and more.

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CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Jung’s Golden Dragon — 3009 Magazine St., (504) 891-8280; www.jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine.

Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

bacon, Swiss cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, sprouts and mayonnaise on a choice of bagel and comes with chips, potato salad or coleslaw. The Lakeview features chicken or tuna salad dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a bagel and comes with a side. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

Cash only. $ Pinkberry — Citywide; www.pinkberry. com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. There also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop and serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www.facebook. comruedelacourse — The coffeeshop offers a selection of bagels (plain, sesame, everything, honey whole wheat or cinnamon-raisin) from Artz Bagelz. The Downtown sandwich includes turkey,

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

Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ One Restaurant & Lounge — 8132 Hampson St., (504) 301-9061; www.one-sl. com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes inlcuding char-grilled

oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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

Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise.

Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards.

Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery.com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee as well as sandwiches, salads and pasta. Crawfish Ignatius pasta features crawfish cream sauce with mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and bell peppers topped with grated Parmesan. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. Louisiana crab cakes are popular.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style

Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish couvillion, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Saints & Sinners — 627 Bourbon St., (504) 528-9307; www.saintsandsinnersnola. com — Styled to reflect era of Storyville, the restaurant serves Creole and Cajun dishes, raw oysters, seafood, steaks, poboys, burgers and more. The Politician’s Special features a trio of jambalaya, crawfish pie and a cup of gumbo. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This popular neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ PAGE 58

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com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations.

Breakfast Thu.-Sun., lunch Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin. Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette.

Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads.

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

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Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with housemade boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. The Deli Deluxe sandwich features corned beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and Creole mustard on an onion roll. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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ETHIOPIAN Cafe Abyssinia — 3511 Magazine St., (504) 894-6238 — The menu includes a variety of wots, traditional stews served over injera bread, and tibs, dishes of sauted meats or vegetables. Yebeb alicha is lamb in mild garlic-ginger curry sauce.

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

FRENCH Baie Rouge — 4128 Magazine St., (504) 304-3667; www.baierougenola.com — Shrimp and risotto Milanese features jumbo shrimp cooked with lemon over saffron risotto served with hericots verts.

Pig Dip features pork debris, caramelized onions and garlic aioli on French bread with a side of smoked pork jus. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Martinique Bistro — 5908 Magazine St., (504) 891-8495; www. martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. New Zealand lamb loin is served with cucumber and sweet onion pickles, Israeli couscous, Meyer lemon-watercress aioli and tomato-sherry vinegar demi-glace.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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

INDIAN Julie’s Little India Kitchen At Schiro’s — 2483 Royal St., (504) 944-6666; www.schiroscafe. com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices.

Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine.

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

Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Vegetarian options are available.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www. amicinola.com — Amici serves coal-fired pizza and Italian dishes.

The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana pie is topped with marinara, mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian greens and Italian sausage. Pasta carbonara features pancetta and green peas in white sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni. com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Maximo’s Italian Grill — 1117 Decatur St., (504) 586-8883; www. maximosgrill.com — Sit at the bar overlooking the open grill and watch chefs prepare dishes like the fish of the day pan-sauteed in habanero-infused olive oil and served with seasonal vegetables.

Osso buco is a braised veal shank served with garlic, thyme and white wine demi-glace, herb-roasted Parmesan potatoes and grilled asparagus. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings.

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves breakfast items including pancakes, waffles and pastries. At lunch, try handmade meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Thu.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Ristorante Filippo — 1917 Ridgelake Drive, Metairie (504)

835-4008 — The Creole-Italian menu includes a crabmeat salad featuring half of a tomato filled with jumbo lump crabmeat over romaine lettuce dressed with remoulade and balsamic vinaigrette. Veal Sorrentina is sauted veal layered with prosciutto and eggplant, topped with marinara and mozzarella and served with spaghetti marinara. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 8852984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni. Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce.

Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Asuka Sushi & Hibachi — 7912 Earhart Blvd., (504) 862-5555; www.asukaneworleans.com — Asuka serves sushi and grilled items from the hibachi. The Shaggy Dog roll features tempura-fried shrimp, snow crab and avocado topped with crabstick and eel sauce and spicy sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Kakkoii Japanese Bistreaux — 7537 Maple St., (504) 570-6440; www.kakkoii-nola.com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads.

“Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

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

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Brisbi’s Lakefront Restaurant & Bar (7400 Lakeshore Drive, 504-304-4125; www.brisbisrestaurant.com) serves sesame-crusted tuna and other seafood dishes.

Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupsasneworleans.com — This cafe serves Latin and Caribbean dishes, tapas and appetizers like guacamole and chips. Spanish garlic shrimp is served with refried black beans, saffron rice and tropical salad.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton.com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale. Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www. dickandjennys.com — The menu combines contemporary Creole

dishes and Italian items from Christiano’s pop-up. Pork loin roulade is stuffed with goat cheese and pine nuts and served with spinach, stone-ground grits and balsamic-infused pork jus.

Pappardelle is served with pulled duck confit, charred pepper and mustard greens. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and panfried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors.

A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.

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

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

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

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MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ PAGE 60

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ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death

by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a rouxbased gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Sainte Marie — 930 Poydras St., Suite 101, (504) 304-6988; www. saintemarienola.com — Barbecue jerk shrimp are served with coconut rice and mango chow chow. Sam’s Yak A Mein combines braised beef, chicken, shrimp, egg noodles and a soft-boiled egg.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes like semi-boneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewood-smoked bacon dirty popcorn rice, Swiss chard and Madeira sauce. The duck cassoulet combines duck confit and Creole Country andouille in a white bean casserole. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations.

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Bombay Club — 830 Conti St., (504) 586-0972; www.thebombayclub.com — This elegant French Quarter hideaway is styled like an English manor and is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini.

Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 5258899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Little Gem Saloon — 445 S. Rampart St., (504) 267-4863; www.littlegemsaloon.com — Little Gem offers creative contemporary and Creole dishes and live jazz. Louisiana black drum is topped with jumbo lump crabmeat and served with spinach, black-eyed peas and sherry cream. Rabbit and cauliflower gratin is served with apple-cabbage preserves. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros in pita bread. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Siberia — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2658855; www.siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. Potato and cheese pierogies are served with fried onions and sour cream. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

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Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

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PIZZA Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mellow Mushroom — 1645 Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 327-5407; 3131 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 644-4155; 8827 Oak St., (504) 345-8229; www. mellowmushroom.com — The Holy Shiitake pie tops an olive oil and garlic brushed crust with shiitake, button and portobello mushrooms, carmelized onions, mozzarella, montamore and Parmesan cheeses and black truffle oil.

The Enlightened Spinach salad is topped with dried cherries, apples, candied pecans and feta cheese. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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Diners enjoy CreoleItalian dishes at Tommy’s Cuisine (746 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-581-1113; www. tommysneworleans.com).

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SEAFOOD Acme Oyster House — 724 Iberville St., (504) 522-5973; 1202 N. Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 246-6155; 3000 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 309-4056; www.acmeoyster.com — The original Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter has served raw oysters for more than a century. The full menu includes char-grilled oysters, cooked seafood dishes and New Orleans staples. The Peace Maker po-boy combines fried shrimp and oysters. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Chad’s Bistro — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-9935; www. chadsbistro.com — The seafood Napoleon features fried eggplant medallions topped with crabmeat on a bed of angel hair pasta topped with shrimp au gratin sauce. The seafood boat is a bread loaf filled with fried shrimp, oysters and catfish and stuffed shimp. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri. dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s popular soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and

dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Grand Isle — 575 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant.com — The Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and caramelized onions.

The baked Gulf fish is topped with compound chili butter and served with local seasonal vegetables and herb-roasted potatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 5981200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Sergio’s Seafood — 533 Toulouse St., (504) 227-3808; www.facebook.com/ sergiosseafoodnola — The Fritanga plate includes a grilled petit filet mignon, pork loin, gallo pinto, fried plantains, fried cream cheese and cabbage salad.

Center-cut beef tenderloin is topped with chimichurri and served with a baked potato. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and

brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Paella de la Vega combines shrimp, mussels, chorizo, calamari, scallops, chicken and vegetables in saffron rice. Pollo en papel features chicken, mushrooms, leeks and feta in phyllo pastry. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE Doson Noodle House —135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283 — Traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlights the menu. The vegetarian hot pot comes with mixed vegetables, tofu and vermicelli rice noodles. No reservations.

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

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Bear’s Poboys at Gennaros — 3206 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 833-9226 — The roast beef po-boy features beef slow-cooked in house, sliced thin, soaked in gravy and dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on toasted Leidenheimer bread. The 10-ounce Bear burger is topped with roast beef debris, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on a toasted brioche seeded bun and served with fries or loaded potato salad. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Dress It — 535 Gravier St., (504) 571-7561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. Original topping choices include everything from sprouts to black bean and corn salsa to peanut butter. For dessert, try a chocolate chip cookie served with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 2526745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Wilma’s Cheesesteaks — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 304-5411; www.jugheadsneworleans.com — Wilma’s specializes in cheese steaks on toasted Dong Phuong bread. The regular cheese steak features thin-sliced rib-eye, sauteed mushrooms, onions, peppers and garlic and melted provolone and mozzarella.

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cordings, and Parks selected 16 tracks. The album includes several compositions by Scott Joplin but most songs were composed by McDermott.

Many recordings feature his longtime collaborator, clarinetist Evan Christopher. “[The album] has got physicality,” Parks says. “[McDermott]’s very hip to South America. He’s looking out beyond the levees and beyond the continent to be refreshed by other rhythms.

It’s a sampling of Tom McDermott. There’s some stuff that he does that is totally outside the box.”

At Snug Harbor, two shows each feature a double bill.

Parks will perform with percussionist Don Heffington, bassist Jim Singleton, cellist Helen Gillet and harpist Rachel Van Voorhees. Then McDermott will be joined by Michael Skinkus and other guests. Parks will play some of Gottschalk’s music, and other selections from his eclectic tastes.

“The songs I sing tend to be topical or tropical and often both,” Parks says. “I try to do topical stuff without being a scold. I talk about how we can make this world more fair for 99 percent of the people — where I came from.”

On Thursday, the Tipitina’s Foundation sponsors Fess Fest, an event to raise funds to rebuild Professor Longhair’s family home on Terpsichore Street.

The lineup includes British actor and pianist Hugh Laurie and keyboardist Joe Cocker. Laurie will be familiar to fans of the TV drama House, but he’s a fan of New Orleans music. He was interviewed about James Booker’s music in Lily Keber’s recently premiered documentary Bayou Maharajah, and his recent album Didn’t It Rain includes a cover of Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina.”

The concert also features Jon Cleary, Donald Harrison Jr., George Porter Jr., Alfred “Uganda” Roberts, Shannon Powell, Detroit Brooks, Mark Mullins and others. The TIP intern program band also will perform.

Van Dyke Parks, who grew up in Mississippi and Louisiana, performs Saturday at Snug Harbor.

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ianist, composer and arranger Van Dyke Parks jokes that he found the anonymity he always sought. But even if he isn’t a household name, he’s had a very successful career in popular music.

Parks is best known for collaborations with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, and he has also worked with everyone from The Byrds to Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Ringo Starr and Three Dog Night.

Parks spent many years working behind the scenes for Warner Bros. and he was instrumental in getting the company to release Allen Toussaint’s Southern Nights (on the Reprise label) in 1975.

“I was fortunate enough to be in New Orleans to bear witness to Allen Toussaint coming out with that incredible record,” Parks says. “It’ll live on through the ages — when Glen Campbell isn’t even a memory.”

Parks visits New Orleans to perform with another local pianist whom he’s helped with an album: Tom McDermott, who recently released Bamboula.

Together with Fess Fest, a fundraiser to restore the home of Professor Longhair, it’s a week celebrating New Orleans piano players.

Parks was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., and spent his early years in Lake Charles, La., before his family moved to Los Angeles, where he’s lived for most of his life. While he helped promote popular artists for Warner Bros., he’s always kept more eclectic tastes.

“I have been wallowing in the pop music racket for 40 years,” he says. “I don’t listen to pop music. I listen to music that is outside the box. Even from my teenage years — Tal Farlow, George Van Eps, Fats Waller ... — everything that was excellent in music came together in my house.”

It was another native New Orleans pianist and composer that linked him with McDermott: Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

“Gottschalk did something that would infect my preferences for music for the rest of my life,” Parks says. “Folk music, music of the street, would be arranged for literature — for piano sheet music.

That was true for Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Beethoven and his Ode to Joy. I have always loved music where you can feel the heat of the street.”

Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829 and was recognized as a piano prodigy at an early age. He studied in Europe, returned to the U.S. and traveled often, spending time in Cuba and Brazil. His tune “Bamboula,” the title track on McDermott’s album, was composed in the mid-1840s, along with some other songs based on Creole melodies.

Aware of Parks’ enthusiasm for Gottschalk, McDermott reached out to him. They corresponded and Parks agreed to curate the album, which was released on Minky Records. McDermott shared 80 re-

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Yuki Izakaya — Kanako Fuwa’s Moshi Moshi feat. Detroit Brooks, 8

THURSDAY 7 Banks Street Bar — Shotgun Double, 9 Bayou Beer Garden — Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 8

All show times p.m. unless otherwise noted.

TUESDAY 5 Banks Street Bar — Lost in Society, 9 Blue Nile — HIP Fest feat.

Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell & Pasquale Mirra, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary, 8 & 10; Nigel Hall, 10 Circle Bar — RTB2, Daniel Markham, Daria & the Hip Drops, 10 The Civic Theatre — Coheed & Cambria, Balance & Composure, I the Mighty, 7

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Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Wendell Brunious, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Songwriters Gumbo, 8 House of Blues — NEEDTOBREATHE, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 11 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 One Eyed Jacks — Kurt Vile & the Violators, Beach Fossils, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy J. Forest, 4; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 Tipitina’s — Lupe Fiasco, Stalley, The Boy Illinois, 9 Tropical Isle Original — Way Too Early, 1

WEDNESDAY 6 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — HIP Fest feat.

Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell & Pasquale Mirra, 9 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8 & 9 Cafe Negril — Gettin’ It, 7; Sam Cammarata & Dominick Grillo, 7:30; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Meghan Stewart’s Too Darn Hot, 9:30 Hard Rock Cafe — The Josh Garett Band, 9 House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Domenic, 6 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Wicked Wonderland Empire, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — NOJO Jam, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Planet Earth, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Boukou Groove, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 One Eyed Jacks — Thee Oh Sees, OBN III’S, Blind Shake, 10 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8:30 Roosevelt Hotel — Robin Barnes, 5:30 Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 The Sandbar at UNO — Don Vappie, 7 Siberia — King Khan & the Shrines, Hell Shovel, Native America, Pretty Cats DJs, 9

Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Matt Scott & Otto, 10 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Eudora Evans, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — George French Quartet, 8:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Papa Mali, Johnny Vidacovich & Cass Faulconer, 8 Circle Bar — Jay Arner with Gasa Gasa Orchestra, 10 The Civic Theatre — Robert Glasper Experiment, 7:30 Columns Hotel — Kristina Morales, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Ernie Vincent & the Top Notes, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Matt Lemmler, 9:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — The Quickening, Captain Green, 8 Hard Rock Cafe — Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Plus One Show, 9 House of Blues — KMFDMvfeat. Chant, DJ Angelle, DJ Sneauxball, 8 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — James Rivers Movement, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Paintbox, 9 Lafreniere Park — Boogie Men, 6 Little Gem Saloon — Paul Sanchez, 5; Ricky Sebastian’s Jazz Master Series feat. Wes Anderson, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich & Friends, 11 Oak — Keith Burnstein, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Delorean, 7 Rivershack Tavern — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk

MUSIC LISTINGS Revue, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners, 8:30 Roosevelt Hotel — Ingrid Lucia, 5:30 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Kirk Duplantis Trio, 9 Siberia — CRO-MAGS, Classhole, Fat Stupid Ugly People, Toxic Rott, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Khari Lee & The New Creative Collective, 8 & 10 Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Luke Winslow King, 7:30 Tipitina’s — Fess Fest All-Stars feat. Jon Cleary, Donald Harrison Jr., George Porter Jr., Mark Mullins, Shannon Powell, Detroit Brooks, Tracey Griffin with Hugh Laurie, 9 Vaso — Tonya Boyd-Cannon & Friends, 10 Vaughan’s — Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill & the Heart Attack, 9 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11

FRIDAY 8 8 Block Kitchen & Bar — Anais St. John, 9 Banks Street Bar — Blind Texas Marlin, Get Wrongs, Natalie Mae, 9 Bayou Beer Garden — Pontchartrain Wrecks, 9 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7; Bottoms Up Blues Gang, 10; Brass-A-Holics, 11

Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Capri Blue Bar at Andrea’s Restaurant — Phil Melancon, 8 Carrollton Station — Last New Beginning feat. Chase McCloud, 10 Circle Bar — The Plowboys, 10 Columns Hotel — Ted Long, 6 Contemporary Arts Center — Sarah Quintana, 7:30 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Linnzi Zaorski, 6; Steve Wynn & the Miracle Three, 10 Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, 6:30 DMac’s — Vincent Marini, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Eric Traub Trio, 10 Gasa Gasa — The Honorable South feat. Tank & the Bangaz, 8 Hangar 13 — Bad Grass, Las Cruces, 4 Mag Nitrous, House of Goats, 10 Hermes Bar — Tonya Boyd-Cannon, 9:30 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Boomclap feat.

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Only 23, Laura Marling has already lived as 9 p.m. Saturday a child, a bird, a grandmother and a ghost.

Civic Theatre, The English singer/songwriter’s anthropo510 O’Keefe Ave. morphic fourth album, Once I Was an Eagle (Ribbon Music), is a memoir playing out as 504-272-0865 it is being written; in more modern terms, www.civicnola.com it would be a video streaming just ahead of its buffer, but there’s not much modern about Marling, a slender, washed-out specter of a woman whose reprising songsuites, tidal guitar tunings, first-person reminiscence and churned alto reinvent and repurpose the dusky pastorales of 1960s British folk and the diurnal rhythms of 1970s Laurel Canyon pop. Written with minimal accompaniment and recorded the same way over 10 days at Ethan Johns’ studio, Eagle captures Marling in the midst of a marvelous transition, both figuratively (from limitless wunderkind to emotionally wizened troubadour) and literally (the Brit is now a U.S. resident, having moved to Los Angeles). At the age when many young Americans are trying to figure out what to do with their degrees, she’s arrived with a doctorate in self- and cross-examination, and she has the aced dissertation to prove it. Tickets $15 advance purchase, $20 day of show. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

MUSIC LISTINGS Little Gem Saloon — Alex McMurray, 5; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 8 Maple Leaf Bar — Andrew Block Band, 10:30

Swingers, 7; Fat Opie & Dan Coyle, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Papa’s Saturday Night Special feat.

John Gros, 10:30

Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5

Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1

One Eyed Jacks — Kevin Devine & the Goddamn Band, Now, Harrison Hudson, 10

Rock ’N’ Bowl — Johnny J & the Hitmen, Josh Garrett, 9:30

Pearl — Scott Sanders Quartet feat. Les Colonello, 8

Shamrock Bar — Brass-AHolics, 7

Smitty’s After Hours — Michael Aaron & the Strays, 10

Siberia — Hot Hands, Giorgio Murderer, Chinese Nightmares, 6; War Master, Grave Ritual, Sacridose, Demonic Destruction, 9

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony, 8 & 10

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Van Dykes Park Band feat.

Tom McDermott, 8 & 10

Spotted Cat — Andy J. Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10

Spotted Cat — Shotgun Jazz Band, 3; Jazz Vipers, 10

Rock ’N’ Bowl — Eric Lindell & the Sunliners, 9:30

St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & the Lonely Nights Band, 8 Three Muses — Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Treasure Chest Casino — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7 Warehouse Grille — Kenny Triche Band, 7 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Shannon Powell Trio, 5

SATURDAY 9 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, Adam Arredondo, Russell Ramirez, Joseph Faison, 8

Bayou Beer Garden — Jeb Rault Band, 9 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Trio, 7; Locos Por Juana, 11 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8 & 9 Buffa’s Lounge — Royal Rounders, 8 Capri Blue Bar at Andrea’s Restaurant — Phil Melancon, 8 Circle Bar — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 10 The Civic Theatre — Laura Marling, Willy Mason, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Little Freddie King, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Cody Blaine, 1

Tipitina’s — Black Joe Lewis, 10 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Montegut, 11

SUNDAY 10 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 8; To Be Continued Brass Band, 10 Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like It Hot, 11 a.m.

Circle Bar — Sol Cat, Kansas Bible Company, Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m.

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Strange Roux, 11

Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 8 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Circle Bar — Saint Rich, 10 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Glen David Andrews, 10 Dmac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Armand St. Martin, 9:30 Hard Rock Cafe — The Russel Welch Hot Jazz Trio, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — Bernhort, Sivert Hoyem, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Cafe Au Lait Funk Review, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Treme Brass Band, 8 Maple Leaf Bar — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 One Eyed Jacks — Lee Fields & the Expressions, 9

DMac’s — Michael Pearce, 11 a.m; Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 6

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Living Legends feat. Maynard Chatters, 8

House of Blues — Gospel Brunch, 10 a.m.

The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Jazz Factory Night with the James Partridge Septet, 9

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Tyler’s Revisited feat.

Germain Bazzle, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Lagniappe Brass Band, 10:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Ritz-Carlton — Armand St. Martin, 10:30 a.m; Catherine Anderson, 2 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jimmy Robinson, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Rights of Swing, 3; Ben Polcer & the Grinders, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sounds, 10

Las Delicias Restaurant — Merengue4-Four, 10

Three Muses — Raphael & Norbert, 5:30; Matt Johnson Group, 8

Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue

Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium — Afroman, 9

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville & Friends, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 10 Three Muses — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Marigny Opera House — 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 9489998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — New Resonance Orchestra performs excerpts from their upcoming productions. 7 p.m. Thursday.

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Three Muses — Linnzi Zaorski, 6; Jayna Morgan, 9

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12 Years a Slave (R) — The locally filmed movie adaptation of Solomon Northup’s slave narrative tells the story of a free New Yorker being kidnapped and sold into slavery. Canal Place, Elmwood, Prytania, Westbank

Doonby (PG-13) — A ramblin’ man finds a job in a blues bar in Texas. Elmwood

Baggage Claim (PG-13) — Afraid of remaining a spinster, Montana Moore (Paula Patton) sets off on a 30-day quest to find Mr. Right. Westbank

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

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Captain Phillips (PG-13) — Tom Hanks plays Capt.

Richard Phillips in the retelling of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates.

Canal Place, Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Ender’s Game (PG-13) — The sci-fi movie based on the Orson Scott Card book of the same name follows a child prodigy sent to military school to prepare for Martian invasion decades after an alien war. Canal Place, Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Escape Plan (R) — A wrongfully imprisoned man (Sylvester Stallone) recruits a fellow jailbird (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help him flee and learn who framed him. Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Free Birds (PG) — Two turkeys must put aside their differences to travel back in time and remove themselves from Thanksgiving menus. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Carrie (R) — Stephen King’s 1974 novel about the naive teenage daughter of a religious fanatic single mother is modernized with references to social media and cellphones. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Gravity (PG-13) — Marooned in space following a disaster, a veteran astronaut (George Clooney) and a medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) combine forces for survival. Canal Place, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (PG) — The 2009 animated feature’s sequel has wacky inventor Flint Lockwood returning home to stop his creation from making food-animal hybrids. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Great White Shark 3D (NR) — Shark encounters are shared in the documentary.

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The Counselor (R) — When a lawyer gets involved in drug trafficking, he quickly becomes the one who needs counsel in this thriller from director Ridley Scott and writer Cormac McCarthy.

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Haunted Castle 3D (PG) — After much exploration, a man discovers the house he recently inherited is haunted. Entergy IMAX Hurricane On The Bayou (NR) — The film tells the story of Hurricane Katrina and the impact that Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands has on hurricane protection.

Entergy IMAX I’m In Love With a Church

Girl (PG) — A thug (Ja Rule) turns saint, thanks to the woman he loves (Adrienne Bailon). Grand, Westbank Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (R) — An octogenarian and his 8-year-old grandson go across the states secretly filming the public’s reactions to their antics, which include tipping caskets at funerals and doing pole dancing routines at girls’ beauty pageants. Canal Place, Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Last Vegas (PG-13) — A trio of men in their sixties throw a Vegas-style bachelor party for their notoriously single friend (Michael Douglas) who finally proposes to his girlfriend who is half his age. Canal Place, Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Machete Kills (R) — In this follow-up to 2010’s Machete and prequel to Machete Kills Again...In Space!, Danny Trejo is recruited to keep a person in Mexico from starting a nuclear war. Clearview Man of Tai Chi (R) — Keanu Reeves stars in and directs an action movie about a young Tai Chi master in a fight club. Elmwood To The Arctic 3D (G) — Meryl Streep narrates the documentary that follows a polar bear and her two 7-month-old cubs as they navigate the Arctic wilderness. Entergy IMAX

OPENING FRIDAY About Time (R) — Richard Curtis’ latest romance is about a man who discovers he can travel back in time and get unlimited do-overs of his life’s events. Elmwood Thor: The Dark World (PG13) — In the sequel to 2011’s Thor, the title character (Chris Hemsworth) embarks upon his most challenging journey yet. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

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Ender’s Game (PG-13) It’s easy to see why Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game has Directed by Gavin Hood remained a favorite among young readers Starring Harrison Ford, over the last 28 years. The story takes place Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterin the not-too-distant future after humanity field and Abigail Breslin has barely survived an alien invasion. With the looming prospect of another intergalacWide release tic war, it is somehow decided that a new military leader must be found among the preteens of Earth, presumably because they’re all so good at multitasking and using computers. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is the ace 12-year-old who must save humanity with his tactical genius and knack for video games. All of which confirms the suspicions of preteens everywhere that adults aren’t as smart as they think they are.

What’s not to love?

The inherent silliness of the Ender’s Game premise poses no serious problem for writer/director Gavin Hood’s long-awaited film adaptation. It revels in the book’s high-tech fantasy world, cuts to the chase by compressing the six years covered in the almost 400-page initial tome to one decisive, action-filled year, and leaves the door open for unlimited sequels to match the dozens of Ender’s Game novels, short stories and comic books currently available. The movie is well-crafted and the kids will love it. The rest of us can deal privately with its muddled politics and the troubling sight of world–weary elders — played by Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley, no less — training gifted children as soldiers. Ender’s Game is surprisingly entertaining as long as you don’t think about it too much.

The movie gets a lot of mileage out of some wondrous visual effects, dwelling on its space stations and an alien mothership as if they were works of fine art. The set piece is a zero gravity, 100-meter-wide glass sphere in which the cadets learn to conduct combat in the weightlessness of space. Most of Ender’s Game was shot at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East, which was converted into a series of Hollywood-style sound stages built on massive scales. It’s probably a lucky thing that no one got a film adaptation together before the current era, as the story relies heavily on digitally created worlds that didn’t look anywhere near this convincing before recent leaps in technology.

Ender’s Game eventually manages to have its cake and eat it too by gently evolving into an anti-war war movie — or not, as the film is too timid to take political sides and intentionally leaves things wide open to interpretation. The idea of preemptive war — popularized in recent years in the form of the Bush Doctrine — becomes a bone of contention late in the film. But it all feels tacked onto a big-budget movie that essentially offers guts and glory as its only beating heart. Ender’s Game will get pushed aside in exactly three weeks when Catching Fire, the first sequel to teen obsession The Hunger Games, arrives in theaters across the country. It looks like November belongs to the kids. — KEN KORMAN

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Director Ridley Scott’s landmark 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien screens at 10 p.m. Sunday at Prytania Theatre.

Filmmaker Magazine’s New Faces of Indie Film Shorts (NR) — Shorts selected by Filmmaker magazine are screened. This is a Gathr presentation. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Zeitgeist

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The Hot Chick (PG-13) — Tom Brady’s comedy about a stereotypical mean girl (Rachel McAdams) who finds herself in the body of a man (Rob Schneider) is BYOB. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania The Muppet Movie (G) — Kermit and the rest of his Muppet friends try to make it in Hollywood, but a frog leg vendor is hot on their trail. The screening is outdoors. 7 p.m.

Friday, NOMA Pontchartrain Film Festival (NR) — There are film screeings and workshops. Visit www. pontchartrainfilmfestival.com for details. Friday-Sunday, Slidell Little Theatre Short Film Screenings (NR) — Indywood presents short film screenings. Visit www. facebook.com/indywood.

org for details. 9 p.m. Friday, Red House Short Term 12 (R) — A foster care home supervisor works with her colleague and steady boyfriend. 5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, Zeitgeist The Sting (PG) — Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in a 1973 crime movie set in 1930s Chicago. 10 a.m.

Sunday, Prytania Thunderball (NR) — James Bond (Sean Connery) is on assignment in the Bahamas.

10 a.m. Wednesday, Prytania

CALL FOR FILM The Claiborne Bridge — Chalmette Movies holds a short film contest for filmmakers expressing their frustrations about the out of service bridge. Click the Facebook link at www.chalmettemovies.com for details. Deadline Nov. 17.

The Theatres at Canal Place, The Shops at Canal

Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 363-1117; www.thetheatres. com; Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies,com; AMC Clearview Palace 12, Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 887-1257; www.amctheatres. com; ; AMC Elmwood Palace 20, 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan, (504) 733-2029; www. amctheatres.com; Entergy IMAX Theatre, 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org; The Grand 16 Slidell, 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell, (985) 641-1889; www. thegrandtheatre.com; New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org; Red House, 2820 St. Claude Ave., (970) 631-6350; www. indywood.org; Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 643-0556; www. slidelllittletheatre.org; AMC Westbank Palace 16, 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 263-2298; www.amctheatres. com; Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net

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OPENINGS Art Klub. 519 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 943-6565; www. artistinc.org — “ARTDOCS,” art auction to benefit uninsured and indigent artists. Artists Receiving Treatment Doctors Offering Crucial Services (ARTDOCS) hosts an auction of pieces by 29 local artists 6:30 p.m. Thursday. There will be New Orleans Rum and Abita beer. Visit www.jonathangallery.com to preview items.

Auction admission $10.

Bridge Lounge. 1201 Magazine St., (504) 299-1888; www.bridgeloungenola.com — “Secret Leaks,” photography exhibit about oil and the environment

by Jonathan Henderson of the Gulf Restoration Network.

Opening reception 7 p.m. Tuesday with music by Sassafras.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront. org — Fifth Anniversary: Carol Dass, Rachel Jones Deris, John Hathaway. Artists’ reception 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Third floor, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc. edu/departments/art-gallery — “Fettle and Tender,” alumni invitational show.

Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www. noma.org — “Photography at NOMA,” group photography exhibition, Sunday.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.thesecondstorygallery.com — “Shuffle,” group photography exhibition.

Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Attachments,” small-scale oil paintings and gouache/ graphite drawings by Kathy Rodriguez, Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery.

2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Objects in Mirrors,” group photography exhibition, Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES A Gallery For Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery. com — “Beyond Thought: Homage to Clarice Lispector,” photogravures by Josephine Sacabo, through December.

Photographs and photo books from all eras by various photographers, ongoing.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — “The 2013 Annual Miniature Exhibition,” mixed media group exhibition, through Dec. 6.

AFA New Orleans. 809 Royal St., (504) 558-9296; www.afanyc.com — “Phantasmagoria,” oil paintings on paper and canvas by Anne Bachelier, through Monday. “The Art of Joe Sorren,” paintings by the artist, through November.

AKG Presents the Art of Dr. Seuss. 716 Bienville St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com/dr-seuss — Works by Dr. Seuss, ongoing.

Alex Beard Studio. 712 Royal St., (504) 309-0394; www.alexbeardstudio.com — Drawings and paintings by Alex Beard, ongoing.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.antonart.com — “Juke Joint: Folk Art from the Deep South,” mixed media group exhibition, through October.

“Deep Blues,” Southern folk art group exhibition, ongoing.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — Mixed media group exhibition, through November.

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Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “Cultivar,” video installation by Courtney Egan; “New Orleans From Above,” paintings of aerial views of New Orleans by John Hartman; “Water,” largescale aerial photographs by Edward Burtynsky; all through Nov. 23.

Beneito’s Art. 3618 Magazine St., (504) 891-9170; www. bernardbeneito.com — Oil paintings by Beneito Bernard, ongoing.

Boyd | Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www. boydsatellitegallery.com — Mixed media exhibitions by Robert Hodge and Greg Miller, through November.

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Look What I Did!” janzhi and kirigami (ancient Japanese paper crafts) by Huggy Behr, through Nov. 18.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary. com — “We Thought We Were Drowning But It Was Only Love,” paintings by Margaret Evangeline, through December.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Goodman and Oles,” woodwork by David Goodman and ceramics by John Oles, through November.

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

Chester Allen’s Oasis of Energy. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 292-8365; www.chesterallen-oasisofenergy.tumblr. com — “Universal Groove,” silversmithing by Chester Allen, ongoing.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “Modern Life,” paintings by Mac Ball, through November.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Anatomy Lesson in a Time of Conflict,” mixed media exhi-

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Du Mois Gallery. 4609 Freret St., (504) 818-6032; www. dumoisgallery.com — “art*,” painting on canvas and board and photography by Brian McCormick and Amy McKinnon. Artists’ reception 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

St. Tammany Art Association.

320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyart.org — “Put Your Best Square Foot Forward,” mixed media group exhibition.

Artists’ reception 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday during the Three Rivers Art Festival.

angelakinggallery.com — “Fluid Thoughts,” mixed media exhibition by Paul Tamanian, through Friday.

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Though visually spare, this New Orleans Museum of Art exposition goes straight to the heart of the paradoxes that define coastal Louisiana. French artist and Venice Biennale award-winner Camille Henrot uses videos and symbolic objects to portray Louisiana’s receding coast and the people it supports. By implicitly comparing it to Brittany’s mythic city of Ys — which was lost to the sea after the devil seduced the king’s daughter into giving him the key to the dike that protected it — Henrot evokes Louisiana’s Faustian bargain with the oil industry, which over decades ravaged vast expanses of marshes that once protected our cities, indirectly causing them to flood. Her subplot is the plight of the Houma Indians, the modest yet resilient inhabitants of Louisiana’s coast whose own Faustian bargain involved adopting the language of their Cajun neighbors, with whom they sometimes intermarried. Their flair for cultural camouflage enabled them to blend in effectively, but it also caused the federal government to routinely deny their appeals for official tribal status. Henrot records the Houmas’ travails as they try to deal with modern America and the powerful oil industry (multi-media image pictured) as their ancestral lands continue to wash out from under them.

Issues involving identity are illustrated in Emory Douglas’ classic poster graphics at The George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. As the Black Panther Party’s minister of culture during the group’s 1960s and ’70s heyday, Douglas produced many posters illustrating its concerns.

Its Louisiana ties (beyond Baton Rouge-born co-founder Huey Newton) are most poignantly illustrated in his Free All the Angola 3 poster focused on three Black Panther activists imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who spent decades in solitary confinement for murdering a guard in a case so flawed that even the guard’s widow said they were innocent.

In October, one of them, Herman Wallace, was freed only to die days later of liver cancer. Their concerns clearly live on today. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

bition by Jessica Goldfinch, through Saturday.

Courtyard Gallery. 1129 Decatur St., (504) 330-0134; www.woodartandmarketing. com — New Orleans-themed reclaimed wood carvings by Daniel Garcia, ongoing. d.o.c.s. 709 Camp St., (504) 524-3936; www.docsgallery. com — “Burn Again,” metal and mixed media sculptures

by Adam Farrington, through Dec. 5.

Dutch Alley Artist’s Co-Op. 912 N. Peters St., (504) 412-9220; www.dutchalleyartistsco-op.com — “The 10th

Anniversary Celebration of Dutch Alley Artists Co-Op,” mixed media group exhibition, through Sunday.

The Foundation Gallery.

608 Julia St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola. com — “Forms of Abstraction,” photographs by Daniel J. Victor to benefit Stomp the Violence, through November.

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

The Garden District Gallery.

1332 Washington Ave., (504)

891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery.com — “The Poetry of Place,” group exhibition of sculptures, paintings and pastel work, through Sunday.

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

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

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.

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The Classic Works of Emory Douglas: Black Panther and civil rights posters The George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art 2003 Carondelet St. 504-586-7432 www.themckennamuseum.com

Cities of Ys: Mixed media

by Camille Henrot New Orleans Museum of Art City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle 504-658-4100 www.noma.org

jeanbragg.com — “One More for the Road,” paintings about 1920s New Orleans bar life by Ann Cox Strub, through November.

Lemieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “The Immortal Charles Peale,” paintings by Kate Samworth, through Nov. 16.

“Nondescript Landscapes,” sculpture by Elizabeth Chen, through November.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — “The River Between Us,” mixed media group

exhibition about the river, through Dec. 1.

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

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans. 433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www. martinlawrence.com — Art

by Francois Fressinier, through Sunday.

Martine Chaisson Gallery.

727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Continuum,” photomontages by Tim

ART LISTINGS Hope, through Nov. 23.

May Gallery and Residency.

2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105, (504) 316-3474; www.themayspace.com — “World Construction Variation: Empty Vessel,” sound art installation by Thomas Grill, through Nov. 23.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www. michalopoulos.com — “Down and Dirty,” paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

Morrison. 1507 Magazine St., (504) 451-3303; www.morrisonsculpture.com — Sculpture and drawings by Thomas Randolph Morrison, ongoing.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — Glass by Kyle Herr and Andy Katz, 3-D mosaics by Christine Ledoux, woodcut prints by Francisco Magallan, through November.

Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartgallery. tulane.edu — “Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise,” largest presentation of Newcomb arts and crafts in nearly 30 years, through March 9.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., Second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — “A Wink & A Smile,” mixed media group exhibition of art celebrating eyes and mouths, through Nov. 22; Contemporary crafts by Sean Dixson, Cathy Cooper-Stratton, Margo Manning and Nellrea Simpson and others, ongoing.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — Photography of Jacko Vassilev, through Dec. 7.

Sheila Phipps Studio & Gallery.

8237 Oak St., (504) 596-6031 — Oil and acrylic portraits and abstracts, ongoing.

Sibley Gallery. 3427 Magazine St., (504) 899-8182; www.sibleygallery.com — Paintings by Evie Clinton and Alexandra Gjurasic, through November.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www. stellajonesgallery.com — “Trailblazers: 20th Century Works on Paper,” radical art by black artists, through November.

Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113;

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

CALL FOR ARTISTS Magdalena. International House Hotel and PhotoNOLA invite photographers and mixed-media artists whose work incorporates photography to submit images imagining or reimagining Mary Magdelene.

Entries must be submitted via www.whoismagdalena.com and are due Sunday. Entry fee for up to three images $20.

SPARE SPACES The Country Club. 634 Louisa St., (504) 945-0742; www.thecountryclubneworleans.com — “All Amzie All the Time,” group exhibition of art celebrating Amzie Adams, ongoing.

Hey! Cafe. 4332 Magazine St., (504) 891-8682; www.heycafe.biz — Cartoons from Feast Yer Eyes magazine, ongoing.

La Divina Gelateria. 621 St. Peter St., (504) 302-2692; www. ladivinagelateria.com — Art and photographs by Thom Bennett, Mary Moring and Rita Posselt, ongoing.

Mandeville City Hall. 3101 E. Causeway Approach, Mandeville, (985) 626-3144; www.cityofmandeville.com — “Kindred Reality,” photography by Yvette Brion, through November.

Old Florida Project. between Florida Avenue, Mazant Street, Gallier Street and North Dorgenois Street — #ProjectBe features tributes, remembrances and social statements spray painted in the long blighted Florida project by local artist and Gambit 40 Under 40 honoree Brandan “B-Mike” Odums, ongoing.

Top Drawer Antiques. 4310 Magazine St., (504) 897-1004; www.topdrawerantiques.net — Mixed media black light art by Mario Ortiz, ongoing.

MUSEUMS Ashe Cultural Arts Center.

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — “The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present,” National Museum of Mexican Art pieces about the contributions of Africans

to Mexican culture, through Feb. 28.

Contemporary Arts Center.

900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “Water,” largescale aerial photographs by Edward Burtynsky, through Jan. 19. “Cinema Reset,” video group exhibition, through Feb. 2. “SubMERGE,” art by Lee Deigaard, through Feb. 20.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — “The Classic Works of Emory Douglas,” art about the Black Panther Party and the civil rights movement, through Nov. 23.

Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org — “Occupy New Orleans! Voices from the Civil War,” collection of items conveying New Orleanians’ feelings during the Civil War, through March 9.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — “A Year and One Day,” sculpture by Andy Behrle, through Dec. 20.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 5686968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — “Images and Instruments: Medical History,” artifacts and images of 19th and 20th century medical eqipment, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt. state.la.us — “They Call Me Baby Doll: A Carnival Tradition,” an exhibit about the Baby Dolls, and other black women’s Carnival groups, through January.

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

Madame John’s Legacy. 632 Dumaine St., (504) 568-6968; www.crt.state.la.us — “The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb College Pottery of New Orleans,” ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “The Making of an Argument,” photography by Gordon Parks, through Jan. 5. “Cities of Ys,” art by Camille Henrot, through Feb. 23.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Into the Light,” photographs by various artists, through Jan. 5. Works by Walter Inglis Anderson from the museum’s permanent collection; an exhibition of southern regionalists from the museum’s permanent collection; paintings by Will Henry Stevens; all ongoing.

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Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Light on Water,” watercolor on paper and mixed media on canvas by Eliza Thomas; “Ritual Devotion,” oil on canvas by Anastasia Pelias; both through November.

www.thomasmann.com — “Celebrating 25 Years of Insight-full Objects with Coincidence, Collision, Assembly: The Art of Uniting the Unusual,” group metal and sculpture exhibition, through Nov. 16.

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THEATER 1964 The Tribute. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The theater hosts a Beatles tribute.

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Bless Ya, Boys: RedemptSEAN. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — Shine Productions’ fast-paced Saintsthemed show is full of sketch comedy, slapstick and one-liners. Tickets $26.

8 p.m. Thursday-Friday.

Cry You One. Los Islenos Heritage and Cultural Society, 1357 Bayou Road, (504) 251-6322; www.losislenos. org — ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro present an outdoor performance about south Louisiana culture and the effect the vanishing coastline has on it. Shuttle rides are available from downtown New Orleans to Los Islenos Heritage and Cultural Society in St. Bernard Parish.

Visit www.cryyouone.com for details. Tickets $10 to $23. 1 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Hair. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — The musical explores what it was like for American teenagers in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War. Tickets start at $10. 8 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Harvey. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters. com — Gary Rucker directs and Ricky Graham stars in Mary Chase’s comedy about a kind man with an imaginary friend named Harvey. Tickets $37. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m.

Sunday.

Hello, Dolly! Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu — A cast of more than 100 Lusher students, along with their student orchestra and crew, put on a production of the famous musical. Visit www.lusherschool.org for details. Tickets $15. 7 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

Here is Where You Turn Back. Xavier University, 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula.edu — The show is an adaptation of literary works inspired by New Orleans history and culture during the turn of the 20th century. It’s the first of three events for the inaugural season of the university’s Performance Studies Laboratory.

RSVP at xuperformancestudieslaboratory@gmail. com. Visit www.facebook. com/xuperformancestudieslab for details.

Free admission. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday-Friday.

Honoring Our Heroes.

National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www. nationalww2museum. org — The Veterans Day show about war combines poetry, music and theater.

Visit www.lpomusic.com for tickets. Tickets $45. 7 p.m. Monday Little Shop of Horrors.

Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 400 Phlox St., Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — The musical doo-wop spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies features a hapless flower shop owner, his humaneating plant and the girl he fancies. Tickets $18. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m.

Sunday.

The Mountaintop. Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www.anthony-

Possum Kingdom

Possum Kingdom

THRU In a backyard on St. NOV 8 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Claude Avenue, strings of Truck Farm colored lights unexpectedly went dark and 3020 St. Claude Ave., conversation stopped.

504-264-1776 Minutes later, a few www.cripplecreekplayers.org escorts emerged from the darkness. Using flashlights, they led the audience down a winding path crossed by roots and strewn with dried leaves to rows of seats facing a cluster of trees. It was completely dark in the interior of a city block where the Truck Farm is located.

Then two headlights flicked on to start Cripple Creek Theatre Company’s new show Possum Kingdom.

Written by Andrew Vaught, who also plays the character Inman, Possum Kingdom is a dystopian story about economic power imbalance and its effects on the disadvantaged and their homes. To make a living, the forest dwellers scrape trees for “brosia,” and Inman sells it “up river.” How the up-river people use brosia is unclear, but the show states that two things live off it: the workers and possums. The possums are aggressive scavengers whose “garbage disposal” stomach acid can break down the brosia, and the creatures are believed to kill people who compete with them for the resource.

In the face of economic desolation and hostile possums, the forest workers show resilience. The entire cast delivers engaging, emotional, vibrant performances. The highly determined Alder (Dylan Hunter) builds himself a ramshackle home. Hunter plays him with raw intensity and conviction. Marjorie (Kate Kuen) scribbles daily logs in her loose-leaf journals, but in a script only she can read. “We keeping giving our lives away,” Marjorie cries in a moment that pierces the darkness. Kuen also has a standout moment when she sings a beautiful song about loss. Pattison (Martin Bradford) heaves through chestcoughs and battles his deep frustration with his situation.

While the characters in Possum Kingdom were dynamic, at times the plot went static. In a of couple places, the use of supernatural elements distracted from the grounded narrative about the workers. After she was killed by possums, Inman’s wife Ginger (Odile del Giudice) returned to the camp as a spirit.

Giudice gave a resonant performance, but Act 2 was too focused on her.

Clever staging and light design turned the Truck Farm into an expansive theater space. The outdoor setting, with chirping crickets and cockroaches crawling on a stump near the action, was well-ssuited to the story. The menacing red-lit eyes of possums in the distance were a great element.

The show touched on the punishing effects of an unsustainable economy can have on its workers, who suffer madness, abuse and subjugation. As things went from bad to worse, each worker lived in fear of the “up river” people and struggled with his or her own lack of control. Economic and environmental issues intertwined in an interesting way, and Possum Kingdom was an ambitious show that hit its mark much more often than not.

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STAGE LISTINGS beantheater.com — Anthony Bean and Monica R. Harris star in the New Orleans premiere of Katori Hall’s play about the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Nocturnes (I-III). Cosmodrome, 3625 St. Claude Ave. — Skin Horse Theater’s original work is set in a space station, the mission control room and in space during man’s first space flight. Visit www.skinhorsetheater.org for details. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

Possum Kingdom. Truck Farm Studios, 3020 St. Claude Ave., (504) 944-7776; www.cripplecreekplayers.org — Andrew Vaught’s play is about a community of south Louisiana swamp workers whose lives are changed for the worse because of consumerism and environmental problems. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Sesame Street Live: Can’t Stop Singing. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — Elmo, with the help of Abby Cadabby’s magic wand, turns everyday life on Sesame Street into a musical with Grover, Baby Bear, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie and Murray. Tickets start at $18. 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Thursday-Friday, 10:30 a.m., 2 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

This Stage of LOVE. Fuhrmann Auditorium, 317 N. Jefferson St., Covington, (504) 892-2624; www.fpa-theater.com — Ed Morvant directs and choreographs Robert Sturcken’s “play inside of a play” about a once famous director who wants to get back into the spotlight.

Thomas Braud and Mallory Bogle lead the 21-member cast.

Tickets $20. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Veronica’s Room. Playmakers Theater, 19106 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc.com — Melanie Hayno directs Ira Levin’s murder mystery. Tickets $15. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Friday.

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

Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www.sonesta.com — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. Call (504) 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m.

Friday.

The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9401130; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — The Ya-KaMein Lady Miss Linda Green, Rebecca Snedeker and Little Freddie King are guests on The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Admission $10. 8 p.m.

Wednesday.

Jump, Jive & Wail: The Music of Louis Prima. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — A 10-member cast sings hits from Louis Prima’s songbook and John Besh caters dinner Friday and Saturday, brunch Sunday. Tickets $60. 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday.

La Familia Variety Show.

John Paul’s, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888; www. johnpaulsbar.com — Johnny Passion stars in the variety show. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Valentine’s Burlesque. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www.thejoytheater. com — The theater hosts a Valentine’s Day-themed burlesque show. Tickets start at $40.

2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Victory Belles: Spirit of America. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The Victory Belles perform patriotic tunes from the American canon and from the songbooks of George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin.

Cuisine from chef John Besh’s American Sector is provided.

Brunch show $55. 11 a.m.

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AUDITION S Crescent City Sound Chorus.

Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, (504) 616-6066; www.dcc.edu — The Crescent City Sound Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, holds auditions for its

holiday chorale. For details, visit www.crescentcitysound. com. 7 p.m. Monday.

DANCE India Jazz Suites. NOCCA Riverfront Lupin Hall, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — NOBA and NOCCA co-present the New Orleans premiere of Pandit Chitresh Das’ and Jason Samuels Smith’s East-meetsWest dance performance. For tickets, call (504) 522-0996 or visit www.nobadance.com.

Tickets may also be available at the NOCCA box office an hour before the show. Tickets $50. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

COMEDY Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge.com — J. Alfred Potter and Jonah Bascle do stand-up shows on a rotating basis. 11:55 p.m. Friday.

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

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf. com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. Free admission.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 944-0099; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open-mic portion. 8 p.m. Thursday.

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

8 p.m. Thursday, Friday.

Give ’Em The Light Open-Mic Comedy Show. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues. com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Johnny Rock. C. Beever’s Bar of Music, 2507 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-9401; www.cbeevers.com — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts an open-mic comedy night. 8 p.m.

Tuesday.

Laugh & Sip. The Wine Bistro, 1011 Gravier St.; www.facebook.

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SoloMania! Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — Solo performances of all genres are presented by Bremner Duthie, Veronica Russell, Frederick Mead, Harry Mayronne, Pandora Gastelum, Karen Shields, Jennifer Pagan, Amy Woodruff, Enzo Lombard, Brady McKellar, Julia Jackson, Claudia Baumgarten, Brad McEntire and Casey Groves. Visit www. solomaniafest.com for a complete schedule. Tickets $10 per show, $40 for a five-show punch card. Friday-Sunday.

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In the poem The Black Art, Anne Sexton describes writing poetry as taking used furniture and trying to make a tree.

There’s something like that at work in Cry You One, a unique theatrical experience that ArtSpot Productions, Mondo Bizarro and collaborating artists created in the forest behind the Los Islenos Heritage and Cultural Society in St. Bernard. There are many poetic pieces and parts, and they come together in a structured but varied way in a work exploring how the people of south Louisiana can restore and preserve their land and culture following massive loss of wetlands. The story’s concept is brilliant even if the journey occasionally requires indulgence.

The adventure begins at the Los Islenos Center, where participants split into small groups, each led by one of the show’s characters, such as ornithologist Dr. Ozane P H O T O BY M EL I S A C A R D O N A (Pamela Roberts), scientist Dr. Carol Carl (Hannah Pepper-Cunningham) or Cry You One Tom Dulac (Nick Slie), a salt-ofTHRU 1 p.m. Fri.-Sun. the-earth son of oil industry NOV workers. Each group separately Los Islenos Heritage and makes its way into the forest, Cultural Society and thus each hears a differ1357 Bayou Road, St. Bernard, ent story and gets a different 504-826-7783 perspective on the land and its inhabitants. www.cryyouone.com The groups convene at a Houma Indian-style thatched hut, where a strange man (Will Bowling) presents the leaders with a suitcase, suggesting it contains the power to fulfill their wishes, and this prompts a debate about approaches to restoring the wetlands and whether the fight has already been lost.

The trickster figure sews discord, but Dulac and Carl restore calm. The experience kicks into full participatory mode and there’s music and dancing. Slie does an excellent job of engaging the crowd, not overplaying sentimental notes while introducing themes about cultural traditions and preservation. He horses around enough to break the ice and guide the first hour of the event to a festive high.

The groups move individually to a second setting, and Cry You One assumes a different tone. The second part follows a more easily marked path, but the ensuing series of vignettes are not predictable, and again each group hears different stories at some points. Unfortunately, the transition between the two halves is long, and an extended dance sequence serves less as a narrative link than filler. The rest of the journey has many impressive moments of storytelling, music and engagement, but it also has lulls that defuse the narrative tension and continuity. At the three-hour mark, the cast still was enthusiastic, but the show seemed to drag.

There are numerous impressive contributions. Many scripted stories are both poetic and on point with the show’s greater narrative. Music by Sean LaRocca

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Director Kathy Randels says a production needs to leave room for the audience to interpret the work.

There might be too much room here for a show, but it’s meant to be more than a theatrical production. The conversation about the wetlands is not diminished into a dramatic device. There are engaging performances by the troupe and many sharply focused illustrations of the predicament south Louisiana faces. While the journey ends in an interesting place with a lovely closing vignette, I found it more pretty and touchy-feely than inspiring. But there’s a lot to take in, and this is a show designed to be a different experience for everyone. — WILL COVIELLO

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com/TheWineBistroNO — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians. Call (504) 606-6408 for details. Tickets $7. 8 p.m.

Thursday.

Lights Up. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www. tnmcomedy.com — The theater showcases new improv troupes. Tickets $5. 9 p.m. Thursday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www.tnmcomedy.com — Each show features a guest sharing favorite true stories, the details of which inspire improv comedy. Tickets $8. 10:30 p.m.

Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic & Showcase. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the open-mic series that features a booked showcase. Free admission. 8 p.m. sign-up, 9 p.m. show.

Sunday.

Sit-Down Stand-Up. Prytania Bar, 3445 Prytania St., (504) 891-5773; www. prytaniabar.com — Jonah Bascle hosts the stand-up comedy show presented by Accessible Comedy. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Monday.

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

Think You’re Funny? Comedy Showcase.

Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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TUESDAY 5 Big Easy Stompers Country Western Line Dance Lessons.

John Paul’s, 940 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 948-1888; www. johnpaulsbar.com — The Big Easy Stompers give country western line dance lessons. 8 p.m.

Crescent City Farmers Market.

Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St. — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. Visit www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org for details. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Figure Drawing Class. Forstall Art Supplies, 3135 Calhoun St., (504) 866-4278; www.forstallartsupply.com — Call to register for the figure drawing class. Admission $10. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Free Environmental Job Training. Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard.edu — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University and

It’s All About the Music BIke Ride. Congo Square, Louis Armstrong Park, North Rampart and St. Ann streets — As part of NOLA Social Ride, bicyclists cruise around the city, stopping a few times along the way to enjoy live music with no cover charge. More information is available at www. facebook.com/groups/nolasocialride. 6 p.m.

Reggae Night. The Other Place, 1224 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 9437502 — DJ Kush Master spins reggae, there’s food from Coco Hut and there are cultural vendors.

Free admission. 8 p.m.

Spirituality in the City: The Muslims Around You. Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church, 130 Baronne St., (504) 529-1477; www. jesuitchurch.net — Loyola professor Adil Khan facilitates a discussion to promote dialogue and understanding. Lunch is served.

The series is sponsored by the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Loyola Institute for Ministry and the Catholic Book Store. 2:30 p.m.

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NOLA Food Swap. La Divina Gelateria, 3005 Magazine St., (504) 342-2634; www.ladivinagelateria. com — Homemade foods and beverages, such as preserves, bread, pesto, chutney, vinegar, infused alcohols, beer, herbs, vegetables and eggs are swapped. Attendees should bring at least five packaged items to swap. Visit www. nolafoodswap.wordpress.com for details and ideas. 7 p.m.

the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences offer free job training in hazardous waste cleanup, green construction, mold remediation and lead and asbestos abatement. Incentives include stipends, bus tokens (if needed) and lunch. Upon completion of the program, participants will receive job placement assistance. Call (504) 816-4005 to sign up.

Legions of bowling Valkyries and castrating German nihilists are found onscreen in The Dude’s nightmares in the Coen Brothers’ cult classic The Big Lebowski — and partying in bowling alleys at Lebowski Fest. The original Lebowski Fest was in Louisville, Ky., in 2002, and the first New Orleans edition is Nov. 8-9.

Friday at The Howlin’ Wolf, there’s music by The Dudes Abide, a Creedence Clearwater Revival and “Dude music” cover band made up of three past Best Dude costume-contest winners. The Catfish Orchestra also performs, and there’s a screening of The Big Lebowski. On Saturday, there’s a costume contest for indiLebowski Fest viduals and groups, a trivia contest and unlimited bowling NOV with admission at AMF All Star Lanes.

8 p.m. Friday Lebowski Fest was founded by Will Russell and Scott The Howlin’ Wolf, Shuffitt. They used to moonlight selling T-shirts at conven907 S. Peters St. tions, and during down time, they’d quote from the movie’s endless 504-529-5844 supply of memorable lines. www.thehowlinwolf.com “At one convention in 2002, some guys we didn’t know next to us joined in and started quoting with us,” Russell says. “We realized we 8 p.m. Saturday were not alone. We were at this weird tattoo convention where these AMF All Star Lanes, people were suspended by their ass piercings, and we were out of our 3640 Williams Blvd., element, but we were like: If they can have this weird tattoo and piercKenner, 504-443-5353; ing convention, we should have a Big Lebowski convention.” www.amf.com/allstarlanesla Their first event was at a bowling alley in Louisville, and 150 people attended. The following year, 1,200 people went. In 2004, the festival www.lebowskifest.com featured its first band: My Morning Jacket.

“It was great,” Russell says. “Jim James dressed as The Dude, the drummer, Patrick Hallahan was Walter, Tommy (Blankenship) was Jesus and Carl (Broemel) was a nihilist.”

In 11 years, there have been more than 60 Lebowski Fests in more than 20 cities. All the film’s principal actors have made it to at least one festival. Jeff Bridges (Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski) attended the Los Angeles festival in 2005. When Universal Studios released the film on Blu-ray, it staged an event at a New York Lebowski Fest and attendees included Bridges, John Goodman (Walter Sobchak), John Turturro (Jesus Quintana), Julianne Moore (Maude Lebowski) and Steve Buscemi (Donny).

Festivals also have featured appearances by a host of minor characters. The actor who played the Malibu police chief attended one event and re-enacted the interrogation scene with a Dude lookalike. That Dude lookalike is a festival regular and became the trivia contest quizmaster.

Other minor role-players who have appeared at the festival include Jesus Quintana’s bowling partner.

“Jim Hoosier, he plays Liam, Turturro’s bowling parter — he doesn’t have any lines; he just shakes his belly and shines his balls with Turturro,” Russell says. “He’s really popular.” — WILL COVIELLO

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

Admission $8, free for members. 10:30 a.m.

WYES Wine and Coffee Pairing Dinners. Chefs at restaurants in New Orleans, on the north shore and in Baton Rouge create multi-course dinners using Community Coffee in at least one of their dishes. Bus service is available for an additional $10 per person and a portion of the proceeds benefit WYES. Visit www.wyes.org for menus and reservation instructions. Dinner $85, including tax and tip. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 6 Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion of entrepreneurship, family, love, dreams and more.

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

Blessed Sacrament-St. Joan of Arc Faith Festival & Revival.

Conrad Park, 3400 Hamilton St — There’s music and guest speakers. Call (504) 866-7330 for details. 5:30 p.m. through Thursday.

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Covington Farmers Market. Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873 — The market offers fresh locally produced foods every week. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

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An Evening in the Garden of Eden: Keeping the Promise.

Touro Synagogue, 4238 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-4843; www.tourosynagogue.com — Attendees will learn more about Eden House’s role in helping human trafficking victims.

There’s wine, cheese and a testimony from a survivor. RSVP for the free event with Maggie at (504) 407-0943 or at info@ edenhousenola.org. 5:30 p.m.

Gender and Incarceration.

Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick Center, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, (504) 314-2188; ww.tulane. edu — Melissa Harris-Perry moderates a panel discussion about the correlation between gender and incarceration. 6 p.m.

Genealogy Series. Jane O’Brien Chatelain West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www. jplibrary.net — Curator of the Jefferson Parish Library’s American Italian Research Center, Sal Serio, conducts genealogical seminars. Topics include: vital records, country-specific records, military records and immigration. Visit www.jplibrary.net or call (504) 838-1100 ext. 2505 for details. 1 p.m. & 2 p.m., through Nov. 6.

How Lawyers Use Social Media Information in Divorce and Oth-

er Cases. Congregation Gates of Prayer, 4000 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-2600; www. gatesofprayer.org — New Orleans Personal Computer Club hosts a seminar with two lawyers about how past social media posts can be used in divorce and other legal proceedings. Visit www. nopc.org for details. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Lunchbox Lecture. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum. org — The semi-monthly lecture series focuses on an array of World War II-related topics.

Call (504) 528-1944 ext. 229 for details. Noon.

Pottery and Sculpture Sessions. Freret Clay Center, 2525 Jena St., (504) 9198050; www.freretclaycenter. com — Potters and sculptors hold three-hour workshops.

Materials $20. 9 a.m. & 6 p.m.

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

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

THURSDAY 7 Art Activities During After Hours. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The Ogden offers art activities for kids during weekly After Hours concerts. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Lafreniere Live! Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie, (504) 838-4389; www. lafrenierepark.org — Musicians perform on the new Al Copeland Concert Meadows stage and refreshments are sold.

See Gambit music listings for details. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Marketplace at Armstrong Park. Armstrong Park, North Rampart and St. Ann streets; www.icdnola.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, handmade beauty products, art, crafts and entertainment. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

NOLA TimeBanking, DyverseCity Etsy Training. DyverseCity, 3932 Fourth St., (504) 439-4530 — Attendees can set up TimeBank accounts, learn how to run Etsy shops or get computer coaching. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Overeaters Anonymous. Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church, 3900 St. Charles Ave., 899-3431 — Group members help each other utilize the 12-step method to recover from compulsive eating. For details, contact Sarah at 504-4589965. 7 p.m.

Sistahs Making a Change.

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

569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Women of all levels of expertise are invited to dance, discuss and dine together at this health-centered event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Monday.

FRIDAY 8 19th Annual Poydras Home Art Show & Patron Party. Poydras Home, 5354 Magazine St., (504) 897-0535; www.poydrashome. com — The patron party includes a silent auction, food, drinks and entertainment. Tickets $100. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Paintings, sculpture, blown glass, photography and jewelry are exhibited at the art show. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Designing with Jazz. Delgado Community College, Student Life Center, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 671-5000; www.dcc.edu — The American Society of Interior Designers South Central hosts a day of classes and a vendor show. Breakfast and lunch are included. Register online at www.asidneworleans.org. 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The four-part weekly event includes an art activity, live music, a film and a food demo. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Gala Gallops Off to the Derby. St. Peter Catholic Church, 125 E. 19th Ave., Covington, (985) 892-2422; www.stpeterparish. com — The school’s sixth annual gala is Kentucky Derby-themed, featuring a tea bar, mint juleps served in jelly jars, entertainment, food and live and silent auctions. Tickets $75. 6 p.m.

Holy Name of Jesus Fest: Gators Walk the Plank. Holy Name of Jesus Church, 6367 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-7430; www.hnjchurch.org — There’s food, raffles, games, rides and an LSU vs. Bama watch party.

Through Sunday.

Junior Achievement City Stars Soiree. Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans, 5100 Orleans Ave., (504) 569-8650 — Glen David Andrews performs, there’s food, drinks, auctions and raffles. Five young New Orleanians are honored for their entrepreneurial work. Tickets $50. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Lebowski Fest. Various locations, check website for details — In honor of the cult classic film The Big Lebowski, there’s a screening of the movie, a bowling party, trivia and more.

Costumes are encouraged. Visit www.lebowskifest.com for details. Through Saturday, Moonlight on the River 2013: Garden of Greens. Magnolia School, 100 Central Ave., (504) 731-1317; www.magnoliaschool. com — There’s entertainment, food, drinks, dancing and live and silent auctions. Proceeds

EVENT LISTINGS from the gala benefit Magnolia’s horticulture program. Visit www.magnoliaschool.com/ moonlight-on-the-river for details.

Tickets $100.7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market. Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market, 922 Teche St. — Produce, seafood and more will be available for purchase. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Renaissance Mixed Martial Arts. Harrah’s Casino (Harrah’s Theatre), 1 Canal St., (504) 5336600; www.harrahsneworleans. com — Aaron Phillips, Brandon Shelton, Cy Landry, Matt Hamilton and Thanh Le fight. 8 p.m.

Spice of Life Women’s Expo.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd — There’s food, music, drinks, vendors, workshops and more at the woman-centric expo. Visit www.spiceoflifewomensexpo.com for details.

Tickets $12. Through Saturday.

St. Rita Pecan Festival. St. Rita Church, 7100 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 737-2915; www.stritaharahan.com — The church hosts its 21st annual pecan festival, featuring pecan dishes, a spaghetti dinner, games, rides, live entertainment and a Saints tailgate. Visit www.stritapecanfestival.com for details. Through Sunday.

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Crescent City Farmers Market.

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

Feelin’ Good: A Tribute to Nina Simone. Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, 1901 Bartholomew St., (504) 940-3400; www.ellismarsaliscenter.org — SISTAWorks’ inaugural benefit features musical tributes to Nina Simone, food, drinks, a silent auction and dance performances. Visit sistaworks.brownpapertickets. com for details and tickets.

Tickets $75. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

German Coast Farmers Market.

Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www. germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon.

Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504)

Piety Street Market. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741; www.612piety.com — More than 40 vendors sell art, handmade jewelry and crafts, vintage collectibles and flea market finds. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Refrigerator Art Auction and Gala for ISL. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm. org — The International School of Louisiana hosts its 10th annual refrigerator art auction and gala to benefit enrichment programs at all three campuses. There’s music, food, wine, beer, entertainment. From 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., there is a patron party. Visit www.isl-edu.org for tickets. General admission $60, patron party $125. 7 p.m.

Sankofa Farmers Market.

ARISE Academy, 3819 St. Claude Ave. — The weekly market offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, fresh eggs and other goods. Call (504) 872-9214 or visit www.sankofanola.org for details. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Scholarship Luncheon. WalkOn’s, Roux House, 1009 Poydras St., (504) 309-6530; www. walk-ons.com — Proceeds from the sorority luncheon benefit the Epsilon Phi Sigma alumnae chapter scholarship fund.

Contact Alice at (504) 376-4280 or Nicole at (985) 688-0238 for details. Tickets $50. Noon to 3 p.m.

St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 355-4442; www.visitstbernard.com — The market showcases fresh seafood, local produce, jams and preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment, children’s activities and more. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Studio Classes for Kids: The Printed Image. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — Kids learn basic techniques of printmaking including relief, intaglio, photography and screen printing.

3 p.m.

Three Rivers Art Festival.

Columbia Street, downtown Covington, Columbia Street, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The streets of downtown Covington take on a festival atmosphere with tents sheltering the creations of about 200 artists from 20 states offering fine art, arts and crafts, jewelry and gifts.

There are also food vendors, craft demonstrations, a kids’ run and children’s activities.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sunday.

Yoga. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden,

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — The museum holds yoga classes. Call (504) 456-5000 for details. Free for NOMA and East Jefferson Wellness Center members, $5 general admission. 8 a.m.

SUNDAY 10 Books 2 Prisoners Packing Party. Young Leadership Council, 1840 Euterpe St., (504) 585-1500; www.youngleadershipcouncil.org — The YLC hosts a book packing party for Books 2 Prisoners, a volunteer organization that ships books to the incarcerated. Drinks, snacks and supplies are provided. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Fall Stained Glass Tour. Various locations, check website for details — The Stained Glass Art in Sacred Places committee of the Preservation Resource Center hosts a stained glass tour.

Visit www.prcno.org for details.

Tickets $25. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

SoFAB cooking demo. French Market, Corner of Governor Nicholls and French Market Place; www.frenchmarket.org — Local chefs cook their signature dishes. 2 p.m.

Swing Dance Lesson With Amy & Chance. d.b.a., 618 Frenchmen St., (504) 942-3731; www.dbabars. com/dbano — The bar and music venue offers free swing dance lessons. 4:30 p.m.

MONDAY 11 MADD meeting. Old Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road, 838-4353 — This is a meeting of the Metairie/New Orleans chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Call (504) 483-3406 for details. 6 p.m.

The Pot & The Palette Cookbook Release. Rodrigue Gallery, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal St., (504) 525-2500; www.sheratonneworleans. com — The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts and the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation host a party to celebrate the release of The Pot & The Palette Cookbook, featuring food and appearances by chefs. All proceeds benefit the aforementioned foundations. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

SENIOR-CISE with Richard Simmons. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985; www. pontchartraincenter.com — The Jefferson Council on Aging presents a morning of exercise for seniors led by New Orleans’ own Richard Simmons, followed by a meet and greet. Call (504) 888-5880 or visit www.jcoa.net for details. 8 a.m. to noon.

Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold presents the class in the

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Children’s Art Workshop. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., Second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — RHINO artists lead kids in art projects like origami, collages, bookmaking and more. Call (504) 523-7945 or email artboxrhino@ gmail.com to register. Suggested donation for materials $5. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

362-8661 — The weekly rain-orshine market features more than 30 vendors offering a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. Free admission. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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EVENT LISTINGS museum’s art galleries. Call (504) 456-5000 for details. Free for NOMA and East Jefferson Hospital Wellness Center members, $5 general admission. 6 p.m.

Pelicans. New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www. neworleansarena.com — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Los Angeles Lakers. 7 p.m. Friday.

THANKS+GIVING: A Design for Good Cocktail Social. Propeller Incubator, 4035 Washington Ave., (504) 564-7816; www.gopropeller. org — Propeller and AIGA New Orleans partner to bring nonprofits and graphic designers together as an effort to enroll professionals into Propeller’s Pro Bono Network. There are craft cocktails by Cane and Table, light hors d’oeuvres, a heroically themed photobooth and prize giveaways for new enrollees.

RSVP at www.gopropeller.org/ network. 6 p.m.

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

Sunday.

Transit Week 2013: Spotlight on Transit. Various locations, check website for details — Ride New Orleans hosts a week of transit-centered events. Visit www.rideneworleans.org for details. Through Nov. 15.

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Twerk & Werk Bounce Dance Class with Dwight & William.

Passion Dance Center, 2619 Dreux Ave., (504) 284-3955; www. passiondancecenter.com — Bounce dancers Dwight and William, who have performed with Big Freedia and Walt Wiggady, teach a bounce dance class. Contact Tamika at (504) 376-3069 or tamika@passiondancecenter.com for details and to sign up. Class $10, $5 with college ID, first class free. 8 p.m.

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Veterans Day at The National WWII Museum. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — In addition to free admission to the museum, veterans get hand-knitted scarves from the Knit Your Bit program and there are tributes to veterans. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS American Cancer Society. American Cancer Society, 2605 River Road, Westwego, (504) 833-4024; www.cancer.org — The American Cancer Society needs volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs.

Opportunities are available with Relay for Life, Look Good … Feel Better, Hope Lodge, Man to Man, Road to Recovery, Hope Gala and more. Call for information.

CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; thorough training and support is provided.

Call Brian Opert at (504) 522-1962 ext. 213 or email info@casaneworleans.org for details.

Dress for Success New Orleans.

The program seeks volunteers to assist clients in shopping, to manage inventory and to share expertise in its professional women’s group. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org to register.

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Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running buddies, assistant coaches, committee members and race day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola.org to register. Visit www.gotrnola.org for details about the program.

Pelicans. New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Phoenix Suns. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. The center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation

and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area. Call (504) 717-4257 or email mmorgan@gnofairhousing.org for information.

Green Light New Orleans. The group that provides free energy-efficient lightbulbs seeks volunteers to help install the bulbs in homes. Call (504) 324-2429 or email green@greenlightneworleans.org to apply. Visit www. greenlightneworleans.org for details.

HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the Greater New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the various opportunities available, how to sign up for service projects and general tips on how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@ handsonneworleans.org or visit www.handsonneworleans.org for details.

Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice, 519 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8111 — Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111 for details.

Lakeview Civic Improvement Association. The association’s green space committee needs volunteers for the adopt-a-block program who will either pick up trash or trim trees. Sign up with Russ Barranco at (504) 482-9598 or rpbarranco@cox.net.

Louisiana SPCA Volunteers. The Louisiana SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete a volunteer orientation to work directly with animals.

Visit www.la-spca.org/volunteer to sign up.

Meal Delivery Volunteers.

Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults. Gas/mileage expenses will be reimbursed. Call Gail at (504) 888-5880 for details.

Public School Volunteers. New Orleans Outreach seeks volunteers to share their enthusiasm and expertise as part of the ARMS-Outreach after-school program. Volunteers are needed in the arts, academics, technology, recreation and life skills. Email jenny@nooutreach. org or call (504) 654-1060 for information.

Senior Companion Volunteers.

New Orleans Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St., (504) 821-4121; www. nocoa.org — The council seeks volunteers to assist with personal and other daily tasks to help seniors live independently.

Start the Adventure in Reading. The STAIR program holds regular volunteer training sessions to work one-on-one with public school students on reading and language skills.

Call (504) 899-0820, email elizabeth@stairnola.org or visit www.stairnola.org for details.

Teen Suicide Prevention. The Teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks volunteers to help teach middle- and upper-school New Orleans students. Call (504) 831-8475 for details.

Touro Infirmary. Touro Infirmary, 1401 Foucher St., (504) 897-7011; www.touro.com — The hospital is currently in need of adult volunteers to assist in a variety of assignments, including the chemo infusion center, at information desks, in the family surgery lounge and with the book cart. For information, call Volunteer Services or email Denise.Chetta@Touro.com.

WORDS Barnes & Noble Jr. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 455-5135 — The bookstore regularly hosts free reading events for kids. Call for schedule information.

Cold•Cuts. Kajun’s Pub, 2256 St. Claude Ave., (504) 947-3735; www.kajunpub.com — The monthly poetry and perfor-

mance series features three readers. Visit www.coldcutsreading.blogspot.com for details.

7 p.m. Saturday.

Fair Grinds Poetry Event. Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon St., (504) 913-9073; www. fairgrinds.com — Jenna Mae hosts poets and spoken-word performers. 8 p.m. Sunday.

Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Book Sale. Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 596-2625; www.nutrias.org — The group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday & Saturday.

John Milliken Thompson. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author signs and discusses Love and Lament. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Kay Kendall. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author reads from and discusses Desolation Row. 4 p.m. Saturday.

Local Writers’ Group. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 455-5135 — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing. All genres welcome. 7:30 p.m. Monday.

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

Poets of Color. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 947-2121; www.stannanola. org — Poets participate in a writing circle. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Wednesday.

Rebecca Snedeker. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author signs and discusses Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. 6 p.m.

Tuesday.

Rodger Kamenetz. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-

7323 — The author signs and reads from To Die Next to You. 6 p.m. Friday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — The bookstore hosts a children’s book reading. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Tao Poetry. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., (504) 891-3381; www.neutralground.org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading.

9 p.m. Wednesday.

Tim Parrish. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author signs and discusses Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist and The Jumper. 6 p.m.

Sunday, The Well: A Women’s Poetry Circle. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 947-2121; www.stannanola. org — The group for writers of all levels meets at 2 p.m.

Monday. Call (504) 655-5489 or email fleurdeholly@gmail.com for details.

William Conescu. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author reads from and signs Kara Was Here.

6 p.m. Wednesday Zella Palmer Cuadra. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The author reads and discusses New Orleans con Sabor Latino.

6 p.m. Friday.

CALL FOR WRITERS Bayou Magazine. UNO Press’ non-student publication hosts a poetry and fiction contest.

Winners receive $500. For details, visit www.uno.edu/ bayou. Deadline Dec. 30.

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

NO.: 641-672 DIV. H SUCCESSION OF BEATRICE A. LEVERT, CONSOLIDATED WITH AGATHA LEVERT NOTICE

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Notice is hereby given that Annette Webre Wolf, Dative Testamentary Executrix of this Succession has applied for authority to sell all the succession’s right, title and interest, in the following property, which is 100%, for $80,000.00 cash consideration, for the entire property, at private cash sale, according to the terms and conditions contained in the Agreement to Purchase, annexed to the Petition for the Authority.

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THAT PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known as Westgate Subdivision, being a resubdivision of a portion of Highway Park Subdivision, according to a plan of Westgate Subdivision by Roessle & Galloway, Consulting Engineers, dated June 30, 1955, recorded in Plan Book 27, folio 29, revised January 17, 1958, recorded in Plan Book 28, folio 45, which portion of ground is designated as follows:

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 730-107

DIV. E

SUCCESSION OF INEZ MARIE GUILLOT WIFE OF/AND CLERFA LUCIEN PERQUE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Jeanette Perque Broussard, the Administratrix of the Succession of Clerfa Lucien Perque has petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell all of the succession’s right, title and interest in and to the following described immovable and movable property in accordance with the provisions of Articles 3191 and 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure: All of the succession’s right title and interest in and to the following described immovable property, to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as LOMONACO SUBDIVISION, IN SQUARE #3 thereof, which said Square is bounded by Oak Street, Division Road, the property now and formerly belonging to Sam Scanio, and an unnamed street, and according to a plan of survey made by Alvin E. Hotard, CE&S, dated March 10, 1947, which plan is registered in the office of the Clerk of Court of the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, said piece or portion of ground is designated as LOT NO. 1, which said lot has a width of Fifty (50’) feet front on Oak Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of Eighty and 93/100 (80.93’) feet along the line of Division Road and a depth of Eighty and 98/100 (80.98’) feet along the line separating it from Lot No. 2. Lot No. 1 forms the corner of Oak Street and the Division Road. Municipal Number: 501 Oak Street, Marrero, Louisiana 70072.

Being the same property acquired by Inez Guillot, wife of/and Clerfa Perque from Adeline Ordoyne, wife of/and Oneal Joseph Trosclair, by act passed before Lazard Levy, Notary Public, dated February 21, 1958, registered in COB 442, folio 274, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana.

All of the succession’s right title and interest in and to the following described movable property to wit:

Lot 26, of Square “G” of Westgate Subdivision, and said portion of ground has the same designation on a certificate of survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. and Associates, dated April 4, 1956, a copy of which is annexed to an Act of Sale

by Lattie Development Co., Inc. to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Forrester passed before John T. Charbonnet, Notary Public, on August 6, 1958; and according to which certificate said lot bears the Municipal No. 2408 Maryland Avenue, Metairie, Louisiana.

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Any heir, legatee or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the date of last publication of this notice.

Kendra Pierre, DEPUTY CLERK

Gretna, Louisiana, this 9th day of October, 2013.

Attorney: GEORGE PIVACH II (10798) 8311 Highway 23, Ste. 104 Belle Chasse, LA 70037 Telephone: (504) 394-1870 firm@pivachlaw.com

Marilyn Guidry, CLERK OF COURT Attorney: T. Robert Lacour Bar Roll Number 8077 Address: 3220 Williams Blvd.

Kenner, LA 70065 Telephone: (504) 443-1353 Gambit: 10/15/13 & 11/5/13

The proposed sale shall be subject to the price, terms and conditions as set forth in the purchase agreement and agreement to purchase, copies of which are filed in these proceedings.

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his or her opposition within seven (7) days from the date on which the last publication of this notice appears.

JON GEGENHEIMER, CLERK OF COURT

Gambit 10/15 & 11/5/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts Labrina Daniels Robinson, contact Atty., Raquelle Badeaux-Phillips at (504) 723-8309.

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

NO.: 729-011 DIV. N

NO.: 663-704 DIV. G

SUCCESSION OF TENA LEE, WIFE OF/AND JAMES ARBUTHNOT

SUCCESSIONS OF ELWIN JOSEPH BOURGEOIS, SR. AND ANN MAE BOURGEOIS

SUCCESSION OF RAYMOND A. DARDAR

NO.: 13-3712 DIV. F SECTION 7

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR PRIVATE SALE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

663-706 SUCCESSION OF SEVERINE ROUSSELL DARDAR

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 729-053

DIV. F

Notice is Given that the administratrix of this succession has petitioned this Court for authority to sell immovable property belonging to the Successions of Tena Lee wife of/and James Arbuthnot at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure for a total price of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) to be divided equally between the Succession of Tena Lee and the Succession of James Arbuthnot with the buyer paying all closing costs. The immovable property proposed to be sold at private sale is described as follows: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, priviliges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisianam in KING ESTATES SUBDIVISION, designated as LOT 18-A of SQUARE H, bounded by Coretta Drive, Southern Court the West line of the Subdivision and the 150 foot servitude of Louisiana Power and Light Company, all as more fully described in the rider annexed and made a part of the act before Helen C. Manale, Notary PUblic, dated February 19, 1970, of COB 711 folio 574.

Being a part of the same property acquired by Tena Lee, wife of/and James Arbuthnot, by act before Helen C. Manale, Notary Public, dated February 19, 1970, registered in COB 711, folio 574.

This act is made, executed and accepted subject to the following: a) Servitude in favor of Louisiana Power & Light Company over the rear 5 feet of lots in Square H, as per instrument dated November 14, 1968, COB 688, folio 610. b) Restrictions as contained in act before Gordon K. Konrad, Notary Public, dated January 10, 1969, COB 691, folio, 409.

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

Lisa M. Cheramie, Clerk of Court Attorney: William G. Cherbonnier Address: 2550 Belle Chasse Hwy, Ste. 215 Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 309-3304 Gambit:10/15/13 & 11/5/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Glenn Michael Bridges and Belinda Bell Bridges, please contact Steven M. Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jacob Leonard please contact the law office of James S. Knight at (985) 795-9200, 1073 Cleveland Street, Franklinton LA 70438.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jerlin Woodard, Jr., please contact Halima Narcisse Smith, attorney, at (504) 358-2112.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Joseph Raymond Legeaux please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223 New Orleans, LA 70130.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CYNTHIA ANDRE, Administratrix of the SUCCESSIONS OF ELWIN JOSEPH BOURGEOIS, SR. AND ANNA MAE BOURGEOIS has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of SEVENTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($70,000.00), the Successions’ undivided interest in and to the following described property: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known as New Mechanickham, and according to a print of survey by Hotard & Webb, Civil Engineers, dated September 22, 1950, said lot is designated as lot 5, Square No. 14-A, Gretna Gardens, bounded by Stafford, 19th, Weyer Streets and Central Drive, said lot 5 commences at a distance of 41 feet 8 inches from the corner of 19th and Stafford Streets, and measures thence 41 feet 8 inches front on Stafford Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet, between equal and parallel lines, all according to a survey by Hotard & Webb, C.E., dated August 31, 1951. Said lot also lies at a distance of 41 feet 8 inches from the corner of Stafford and Central Drive.

The improvements bear the Municipal Nos. 1905 Stafford Street.

Being the same property acquired by Anna Mae Breaux, wife of, and Elwin J. Bourgeois from Fifth District Homestead Society by act passed before Norris J. Nolan, Notary Public dated January 7, 1960, registered in COB 497, folio 423, File No. 170148, Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana.

NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that CYNTHIA ANDRE, Administratrix of the SUCCESSIONS OF ELWIN JOSEPH BOURGEOIS, SR. AND ANNA MAE BOURGEOIS, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears. An order authorizing Administratrix to make such sale may be issued after seven days from the date of second publication of this notice. An opposition to the application may be filed at any time prior to the issuance of such order.

Masie Comeaux, Deputy Clerk for Jon A. Gegenheimer Clerk of Court 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Ashley J. Becnel Address: 230 Huey P. Long Ave. Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 367-9001 Gambit: 11/5/13 & 11/29/13

STATE OF LOUISIANA

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NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION FOR PRIVATE SALE OF PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Administrator in the above captioned Successions has filed a Petition for authority for the private sale of a 1985 Champion Trailer for the best offer that may be obtained, including salvage, to a responsible purchaser who may remove the Trailer without damage to the immovable property on which it is installed and without expense to the Successions. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice. Any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to its homologation.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT Deputy Clerk Attorney: Michael J. Laughlin Address: 3636 S. I-10 Service Rd. W., Suite 206 Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 835-9951 Gambit: 11/5/13

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

NO.: 719-335 DIV. N SUCCESSION OF JOYCE ASHLEY NOTICE TO PUBLISH Notice is hereby given to the creditors of this estate and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within ten (10) days from this notification (if any they have or can) why the Final Account and Tableau of Distribution presented by the Independent Administratix of this estate should not be approved and Homologated and the funds distributed in accordance herewith.

Masie Comeaux, Deputy Clerk of Court 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson Attorney: M. H. Phillips Address: 715 Girod St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 524-5555 Gambit: 11/5/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA, executed by Kimberly Cannon Ramirez and Carlos Ramirez, and dated May 21, 2003, in the principal sum of $80,254.00, bearing interest at the rate of 5.375% percent from dated until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same. Please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of GINA MARIE LORINO and/or ANN DICKINSON BERBIERI, whose last known address was 1214 Felicity St, New Orleans, LA 70130, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

SUCCESSION OF JACQUELINE DESALLE-DIXON Notice is hereby given to all creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication of this notice, if they have or can show cause why the Tableau of Distribution filed by LaTiesha DeSalle, Administrator of the Succession of Jacqueline DeSalle-Dixon should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance therewith.

Attorney: L. Gerome Smith Address: 2640 Amelia St. New Orleans, LA 70115 Telephone: (504) 891-3323 Gambit: 11/5/13

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

NO.: 723-829 DIV. N SUCCESSION OF KERRY P. GRUNDMEYER Notice is given that the Administratrix of this succession has petitioned the court for authority to sell immovable property belonging to the Estate of decedent, Kerry P. Grundmeyer, at private sale in accordance with the provisions of C.C.P. art. 3281 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure with the immovable property being sold for $120,000.00 and/or not less than $100,000.00, cash, minus closing costs and real estate commission fees, said property to be sold at private sale and is describes as follows: Immovable property located at 956 Tavel Drive, Kenner, Louisiana Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appeared.

Attorney: Al J. Mendoza Address: 2439 Manhattan Blvd., Ste. 207 Harvey, LA 70058 Telephone: (504) 362-1001 Gambit: 11/5/13 & 11/12/13

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 13-8579 DIV. 1-14 SUCCESSION OF CURLEY JOHNSON, SR. NOTICE OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is here given to the creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven days from the publication of this notice, if any they have or can, why the tableau of distribution filed by Testamentary executrix, Charlotte J. Harris should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance with it.

Clerk of Court Attorney: Bruce J. McConduit Address: 3701 Canal St., Ste. U New Orleans, LA 70119 Telephone: (504) 486-7700 Gambit: 11/5/13 Edy Transito Vela or anyone knowing his whereabouts, contact Loyola Law Clinic, 504-861-5599.

LEGAL NOTICE Last Chance to Claim Funds!

Pursuant to a class action settlement in the following matter, BURGESS GREER, ET AL versus MOBIL OIL CORPORATION Case number 80-975 Division “C” 34th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Bernard, State of Louisiana Certain sums of money were paid in to a court administered fund to settle the matter and compensate those members of the class for any alleged damages they may have occasioned. This matter is now in the final stage of administration and disposition of remaining funds. The following persons (or their heirs) must make a WRITTEN CLAIM for these funds providing their current address and contact information to:

Special Master - SALVADOR E. GUTIERREZ, JR GREER versus MOBIL OIL CORPORATION Case Number 80-975 34th JDC Division “C” 2137 Jackson Boulevard, Chalmette, Louisiana 70043 This written claim MUST BE RECEIVED on or before JANUARY 2, 2014 After that date the right to claim any funds will expire and be extinguished.

If anyone knows the correct address or contact information for any of the persons listed below (or their heirs) please promptly inform them of this notice or promptly send their contact information to the Special Master at the above address.

Perry Gatlin Lance Givens, Jr. Edna B. Green Jimmy L. Green Melvin J. Green, Jr. Wanda Griffin Joseph S. Hall, III Ferdinand Harrison, Sr. Ellen Haymond Anthony Henderson Alvin J. Johnson Lattanya Johnson Randy L. Johnson Carey L. Martin Alfred Williams Matthews, Jr. Vernelle Mitchell Vincent G. Mitchell Otis C. Mock Marian Morris Quantrice T. Myers Johnie Nevil Jasmine Nicholas Earl Carl Parker Sandra Peabody Brenda Kelly Pearson Tavist C. Peters John Phoenix

Austin J. Ross, Sr. Sheila Marie Ross Christopher Roy Janice N. Ruffin Carlos S. Russell Justin Sandolph Antoine Shelvin Shrellthond Z. Squire Clarence O. Stansberry Willia R. Stansberry Floyd M. Stevenson Michael L. Stirgus Tykesha Ann Taylor D’Andre P. Thompson Torri Vaughn Annie L. Walker Marcus Dion Washington Ashley O. Wells Raymond White Trevor White Gabrielle M. Williams Raymon J. Williams Rebecca H. Williams Robert L. Williams Valencia M. Williams Winston J. Williams Lawrence Wilson

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 1994-19231 DIV. A SECTION 15 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ET AL. BAR ORDER AND PROCEDURES RELATIVE TO CLAIMS AGAINST SETTLEMENT FUNDS

By Order and Judgment dated December 29, 2011, this Court determined that settlements confected by the Class and Defendants, Louisiana Insurance Guarantee Association (“LIGA”), National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA (“National Union”), Lexington Insurance Company (“Lexington”), Scottsdale Insurance Company (“Scottsdale”) and Republic Insurance Company (“Republic”) were “fair, reasonable and adequate for the Class.”

By Order and Judgment dated December 29, 2011, this Court determined that a settlement confected between the Class and the Housing Authority of New Orleans (“HANO”), was “fair, reasonable and adequate for the Class.”

In connection with those Judgments, the Court established an Attorney Fee Reserve of 40% of the settlement proceeds, an Administration reserve of 5% of the proceeds; leaving a Claimant Settlement Reserve of 55% of the gross proceeds of these settlements for distribution to the Class. Those Judgments are now final.

On Friday, September 27, 2013, this Court approved the recommendations of the Special Masters for the allocation of the Settlement Fund to Class Members. The Court is preparing to distribute allocated amounts to Class Members such that the Court now seeks to address any claims against those sums allocated to individual Class Members. No attorney fees shall be deducted from individual Class Member allocations. All fee claims related to the prosecution of class or class member claims will be paid from the Attorney Fee Reserve only.

In order to facilitate the distribution of the settlement reserve to class members and to facilitate the allocation of the attorney fee reserve, the Court enters the following: BAR ORDER AND PROCEDURE RELATING TO CLAIMS AGAINST THE CLAIMANT SETTLEMENT RESERVE AND THE ATTORNEY FEE RESERVE Any and all Persons having a claim against the funds allocated to any Class Member relating to matters at issue in the litigation, whether for medical liens, reimbursement, reimbursement of attorney litigation costs, expenses, advances or otherwise (but not claims for attorney fees related to the prosecution of Class Member of Class lead poisoning claims) are required to present same to the Special Masters, Scott Bickford and James Williams, 338 Lafayette Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 by hand delivery at their office or by mail/commercial courier to their office U.S. postmarked by/and or delivered no later than November 2, 2013.

Anyone presenting such a claim shall be required to obtain proof of timely delivery. The claim shall set forth the nature and amount of the said claim and must include evidence supporting the said claims.

Any attorney claiming any portion of the Attorneys Fee Reserve as a private counsel fee is required to present same including, but not limited to, a signed and dated attorney/client contract, to the Special Masters, Scott Bickford and James Williams, 338 Lafayette Street,

New Orleans, LA 70130 by hand delivery at their office or by mail/commercial courier to their office U.S. postmarked by and/or delivered no later than November 2, 2013. The claims shall be individual to class members represented and shall set forth the name of the Class Member and must include a copy of the contingency fee contract dated when originally executed and signed by the Class Member or his/her representative if, at the time the contract was signed, the Class Member did not have the capacity to sign the contingency fee contract, and evidence of the work performed on behalf of the class member client (e.g. time sheets, pleadings, materials prepared, etc.), and any other evidence the claimant attorney may want considered.

Any and all Persons, without limitation, having a Claim are hereby enjoined from bringing any and all claims of any sort (whether for reimbursement, indemnity, subrogation, liens, claims, fees, expenses or for any other claim, lien or recovery) against the Settlement Funds, the Parties or involved counsel that arise from, concern, or are related, directly or indirectly, to the Incident, the alleged injuries, the Claims, the Litigation or the Settlement, except through the procedures and within the deadlines set forth above.

No money shall be taken or deducted from any Class Member’s recovery for fees, expenses, advances, or for any other matters relative to the litigation, medical treatment or other reason absent an order of this Court.

Any Person desiring access to the list of individual Class Members receiving awards under the settlement may contact the Office of Special Masters and information will be made available subject to such limitations and/or safe guards as are appropriate, and all information released shall be and shall remain confidential.

This order is to be published by posting at Civil District Court, by mailing same to known potential claimants and/or their attorneys (though the failure to mail to all potential known claimants or to a current address shall not invalidate the notice), by posting on the Billieson Settlement website, and by publication for five days in the Times Picayune classified section.

New Orleans, Louisiana, this 17th day of October, 2013.

JUDGE TIFFANY G. CHASE

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 2011-3170 DIV. C SECTION 10 SUCCESSION OF JAMES A. COX Notice is hereby given to all creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication of this notice, if they have or can show cause why the Tableau of Distribution filed by Carmelita L. Thomas, Administrator of the Succession of James A. Cox should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance therewith.

Attorney: L. Gerome Smith Address: 2640 Amelia St. New Orleans, LA 70115 Telephone: (504) 891-3323 Gambit: 11/5/13 ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of WILLIE LEE ADAMS, whose last known local address was 1406 Clouet St, New Orleans, LA 70117, please contact Atty.

Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 99-7266 DIV. M SUCCESSION OF WILLIE LEE BOLDEN NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administrator of the above Estate has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: Decedent’s one-half interest in Lot “A”, Seventh District, Square 392, acquired by Act of Sale dated June 27, 1991, and recorded at Conveyance Instrument No. 38055, municipal address 8436 Apricot St., for any amount exceeding $75,000 for the decedent’s one-half interest.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, that they are ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT, Dale N. Atkins Clerk Attorney: Steven J. Koehler Address: 3350 Ridgelake Dr., Ste. 200 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 293-0004 Gambit: 10/15/13 & 11/5/13

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 2013-1469 DIV. A SUCCESSION OF WILFRED J. LODRIG, SR. NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS GIVEN that KAREN-V. LODRIG-PLUMMER, ADMINISTRATRIX in the above numbered and captioned matter, has filed a petition for authority to pay estate debts and partial distribution of estate assets of the succession in accordance with a Tableau of Distribution filed in these proceedings. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this Notice. Any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to its homologation.

By Order of the CIVIL DISTRICT COURT DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk Attorney: Wilson C. Boveland Address: 1739 St. Bernard Ave. New Orleans, LA 70116 Gambit: 11/5/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of ALPHONSE PLEMING, please contact Carlos A. Ramirez, Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1400, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of any heirs to the ESTATE OF BENJAMIN J. ADAMS A/K/A BENJAMIN ADAMS please contact J. Benjamin Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Astrid Jenson Devlin please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223 New Orleans, LA 70130.

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CLASSIFIEDS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF ORLEANS

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION OF RMM MAINTENANCE & REPAIR, L.L.C. A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statues §12:1338 of the Louisiana Limited Liability Company Law, RMM MAINTENANCE & REPAIR, L.L.C., a Louisiana limited liability company (the “Company”) is in liquidation and that all persons who have a valid and subsisting claim against the Company and all persons having unfulfilled contracts with the Company present their claim in detailed writing by June 1, 2014 to the following address: FRANCIS J, LOBRANO LAW OFFICE OF FRANCIS J. LOBRANO, L.L.C. POST OFFICE BOX 208 BELLE CHASSE, LOUISIANA 70037 PHONE: (504) 433-3100 FAX: (504) 433-3103 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all persons who have a valid and subsisting claim against the Company must present their claim along with all supporting documentation by the close of business on the date referenced above or their claim shall be barred perpetually and peremptorily. PLEASE NOTE: THIS NOTICE ONLY APPLIES TO CREDITORS AND PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT ALREADY RECEIVED NOTICE BY CERTIFIED MAIL OF THESE PROCEEDINGS PRIOR TO THE PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. All creditors and persons who have previously filed claims with the liquidator in this matter need not file their claims again.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF ORLEANS

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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATION OF RIVER MARINE MANAGEMENT, L.L.C. A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statues §12:1338 of the Louisiana Limited Liability Company Law, RIVER MARINE MANAGEMENT, L.L.C., a Louisiana limited liability company (the “Company”), is in liquidation and that all persons who have a valid and subsisting claim against the Company and all persons having unfulfilled contracts with the Company present their claim in detailed writing by June 1, 2014 to the following address: FRANCIS J. LOBRANO LAW OFFICE OF FRANCIS J. LOBRANO, L.L.C. POST OFFICE BOX 208 BELLE CHASSE, LOUISIANA 70037 PHONE: (504) 433-3100 FAX: (504) 433-3103 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all persons who have a valid and subsisting claim against the Company must present their claim along with all supporting documentation by the close of business on the date referenced above or their claim shall be barred perpetually and peremptorily. PLEASE NOTE: THIS NOTICE ONLY APPLIES TO CREDITORS AND PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT ALREADY RECEIVED NOTICE BY CERTIFIED MAIL OF THESE PROCEEDINGS PRIOR TO THE PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. All creditors and persons who have previously filed claims with the liquidator in this matter need not file their claims again.

State of Louisiana No. 2013-4119 Div. H Sect. 12, SUCCESSION OF SHARON GABRIEL ROBINSON Notice is hereby given to all persons or parties of interests to object and show cause within 10 days from publication of this notice, if they have or can show cause why Nzinga Robinson should not be approved as tutrix for the minor child, Nakeem Robinson.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

NO.: 97-17528 DIV. A

NO.: 11-7186 DIV. D SEC. 16 DOCKET 1

STATE OF LOUISIANA

IN RE: SUCCESSION OF CARL A. RIDDLE, SR. NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS GIVEN that Glenna J. Davidson, Provisional Administrator in the above numbered and captioned matter, has filed a petition for authority to pay estate debts of the succession in accordance with a tableau of distribution filed in these proceedings. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice. Any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to its homologation.

By Order of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans Dale N. Atkins, Clerk of Court for the Parish of Orleans Attorney: John A. E. Davidson Address: 2901 Independence St., Ste. 201 Metairie, LA 70006 Telephone: (504) 836-5973 Gambit: 11/5/13

FIRST CITY COURT FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 2011-53507 JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENT SALE BY CONSTABLE THAT PORTION OF GROUND, BEARING MUNICIPAL NO. 2633 New Orleans St., this city, in the matter entitled: Sun Realty, L.L.C., as assignee of Sun Finance Company, L.L.C. f/k/a Sun Finance Company, Inc. vs.

Valerie Jackson Nelson a/k/a Valerie Jackson Mercadel and Wayne Nelson a/k/a Wayne Nelson a/k/a Wayne Martin Nelson, Sr. By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me directed by the Honorable The First City Court for the City of New Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will proceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the City on December 3, 2013, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the following described property to wit: Lot M, Square No. 1504, Third District Municipal No. 2633 New Orleans Street Acquired: CIN 406808, 04/28/08 Previous Acquisition: CIN 194918 NA# 2000-12101, 03/16/2000CIN 406808, NA 08-30037 WRIT AMOUNT: $19,214.60 Seized in the above suit, TERMS-CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a deposit of ten percent of the purchase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: All deposits must be Cash, Cashier’s Check, Certified Check or Money Order; No Personal Checks.

Attorney: Lee Thomas Address: 2301 N. Hullen St., Ste. 101 Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 831-7908 Gambit: 11/5/13 & 12/3/13 & The Louisiana Weekly: 11/4/13 & 12/2/13 Lambert C. Boissiere, Jr Constable, Parish of Orleans

STATE OF LOUISIANA

SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER NOTICE IS GIVEN that MARY CLARE HARTMAN, Dative Testamentary Executrix of the SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER, has, pursuant to the provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3224, applied for authority to liquidate “EWK CONSULTANTS, INC.,” a sole proprietorship owned by the decedent.

MIND, BODY, SPIRIT NOTICE

Massage therapists are required to be licensed with the State of Louisiana and must include the license number in their ads.

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The Order granting such authority may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this Notice. Any Opposition to the Application must be filed prior to the issuance of the Order.

YOGA/MEDITATION/PILATES A GREAT PLACE TO DO YOGA

WILD LOTUS YOGA - Voted “Best Place to Take a Yoga Class” 10 yrs in a row

by Gambit Readers.” New student special: 10 classes for $60. www. wildlotusyoga.com - 899-0047.

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES ENDYMION 1977 & 78 DOUBLOONS

Multi Colored. Details ask for Bill, (504) 269-8416.

BABY ITEMS DOUBLE STROLLER

Like new Double Stroller! Great for Halloween. Great for Halloween! $50.

(504) 832-1689

By Order of the Court: Attorney: Eric M. Schorr Address: 201 St. Charles Ave., Ste. 3815 New Orleans, LA 70170 Telephone: (504) 582-1500 Gambit: 11/5/13 and The Louisiana Weekly LATASHA RENEE SMITH or anyone knowing her whereabouts, contact Loyola Law Clinic, 504-861-5599.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Richard L. Smith and Mary A. Smith, please contact Steven M. Jupiter at (504) 533-8720.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Sheryle L. Blackwell please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 5539588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223 New Orleans, LA 70130.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the unopened Succession of Vidal Clarke Thomas, please contact Jennifer Medley, atty at (504) 495-1385.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of TIFFANY RICKMAN, please contact Carlos A. Ramirez, Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1400, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Wade A. Barrow, please contact William Boyles, Atty, at 504-232-2940.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of LARRY DUNBAR, whose last known address was 3308 Pauger St, New Orleans, LA 70119, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of LIONEL S. DONALDSON, JR. or COREY A. DONALDSON, whose last known address was 2334 Flood St, New Orleans, LA 70117, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Lories Thornabar, Jr., please contact Trong Nguyen, Atty., 504-383-4545 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Michelle Nicole Rush, please contact atty Mark Spears, (504) 347-5056.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of one certain promissory note executed

by DANIEL SOUTHERLAND in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON on NOVEMBER 24, 2003 made payable to ARGENT MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC, in the amount of $78,375.00 with payments in the amount of $566.92 beginning on JANUARY 1, 2004, at the interest rate of 7.850%, please contact HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, P.O. BOX 87379, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of PERRY DESROCHES, please contact Carlos A. Ramirez, Atty, 1515 Poydras St., Suite 1400, New Orleans, LA 70112, (504) 410-9611.

MOVING SALE

MERCHANDISE

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES $135 Full/Double Size Mattress Set, still in original plastic, unopened.

We can deliver. 504-952-8404 (504) 846-5122 $249 Brand New Queen Size Leather Bicast . Can deliver. 504952-8404 (504) 846-5122 King Pillowtop Mattress, NEW!!!

ONLY $299 Can deliver. 504-9528404 (504) 846-5122

Bedroom Set, King-size bed, entertainment center, bookshelves, desk & other items! Call (504) 251-2287 NEW Pub Height Table Set all wood, still boxed. Delivery available. $250. 504-952-8404 (504) 846-5122

ROCKING CHAIR

Very heavy. Purchased from Hurwitz Mintz. Mahogany. Would be perfect for Mom or Mom to be. OBO. Call (504) 488-4609.

SLATE TABLE

Slate End table with metal scroll legs, $75. Call (504) 488-4609

MISC. FOR SALE CRAB & DEEP WATER CRAWFISH NETS Handmade & Heavy Duty Call Melvin at 504-228-9614 for a price.

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REAL ESTATE Call 483-3100

SERVICES CLEANING/JANITORIAL

HANDYMAN

SIDING

LAKEVIEW CLEANING

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Rhino Shield Louisiana

Residential & Commercial. After Construction Cleaning. Light/General Housekeeping. Heavy Duty Cleaning.

Summer/Holiday Cleaning. Fully Insured & Bonded.

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PAT’S HOUSEKEEPING

Professional • Dependable • 15+ Yrs Exp • References • Wkly, Bi-Wkly or Monthly. Free Est. Call Pat: (504) 228-5688 or (504) 464-7627.

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EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

Home Improvement & Repair Specialists. Pre & Post Inspection Repairs.

Storm shutters, gutters, siding/fascia, patio covers, concrete, plumbing, new roofs & repairs, tree trimming & removal. “We do what others don’t want to do!” Jeff, (504) 610-5181. jnich762@gmail.com

Protect & Beautify Your Home & Roof with Rhino Shield & Super Shield.

25 Year Warranty!

Call today for a FREE Evaluation!

Financing Available. 1-877-52-RHINO

MISC. HOME SERVICES PAINTING/PAPER HANGING HELM PAINT & DECORATING

Steering You In the Right Direction for over 40 Yrs! We match any color! We rent Pressure Washers, Spray Guns & Wall Paper Removers (Steamers). Free Delivery.

M-F, 7a-6p, Sat, 8a-5p. Locations on Earhart, Canal, Magazine & Veterans

SILVER FLATWARE POLISHING

LAMINA STERLING 840 ROYAL ST., NOLA 70116 $3.00 TO $6.00 PER PIECE. Discount for more than 50 Pieces.

Call (504) 324-3423. laminasterling@gmail.com

CLASSIFIED EMPLOYMENT NEW ORLEANS

JOB GURU

Dear New Orleans Job Guru, “I will be graduating from my high school next Spring and I haven’t decided on a major.

I have a good GPA and I did well in all subjects except Phys Ed. As the Job Guru, what do you think I should major in to be sure I have the best chance for a good job when I get out? My parents aren’t rich and I’ll be using a combination of grants and also student loans that I’ll have to pay back.”

— Suzette A., Slidell, LA

Grant Cooper

Dear Suzette, You are right to be concerned about how college costs could weigh you down after you graduate. According to the Department of Education, 10% of recent borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans within the first two years, and one in seven borrowers went into default, an event that can be accompanied by aggressive debt-collection, wage garnishments, and withheld IRS tax refunds.

The cost of college tuition continues to rise, although it has slowed down in the past few years. The 2013 annual Report on College Pricing & Student Aid from the nonprofit College Board reported a 2.9% increase nationally for in-state tuition and fees at public, four-year institutions, compared to a 4.5% increase in 2012-13. The good news is that The Pew Research Center estimates a $650,000 lifetime difference between the earnings of the average high school graduate and the average college graduate, so you’re definitely on the right path in aiming for a college degree.

On the subject of student loans, the White House has offered a proposal (it requires Congressional action, so watch the news and contact your representative) allowing all borrowers to enroll in Pay As You Earn, a new income-driven repayment plan that caps repayment for new borrowers (those who borrowed their first federal loan on or after Oct. 1, 2007 and received a new loan on or after Oct. 1, 2011) at 10% of your income, with forgiveness after 20 years of payments.

As far as how your choice in a college major could affect your earning potential, Payscale.com reports in its 2013-2014 College Salary Report that the top-paying college majors are heavily weighted toward Engineering, with Petroleum Engineering at #1, boasting over $100,000 in starting salary.

It is a particularly sad commentary on our society that the three lowest-paying majors listed are Social Work, Elementary Education, and Child & Family Studies, all barely exceeding $30,000 in starting salary. Of course, each individual will have a different approach, and some of my happiest clients are those in the “helping professions” (medical, social, and educational), who often earn less, but believe that they are contributing to improve our world.

As a Career Coach & Résumé Writer with nearly two decades of assisting clients, I have learned that the two most critical elements that will stand the test of time in terms of employment are 1) technical skills with an emphasis on engineering and mathematics, and 2) finely tuned communications, critical thinking, and writing skills that every organization requires to succeed.

New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Résumés®, Grant has ranked in the Top 2% of 340 LinkedIn National Résumé Writing Experts worldwide, and has assisted the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, NFL/NBA players & coaches, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and major corporations.

AIRLINE CAREERS

Become an Aviation Maintenance Tech.

FAA approved training. Financial aid if qualified – Housing available. Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877-492-3059

CLERICAL RECEPTIONIST

Nice & energetic person with friendly attitude for receptionist position. Can grow into career opportunity as a service and sales producer. No experience necessary. Fax or email resume.

(504) 739-9320 or a024516@ allstate.com

FARM LABOR TEMPORARY FARM LABOR

Carter-Cox Seeds, has 1 positions for rice & soybeans; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must be able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $9.50/hr; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 12/2/13 – 9/29/14. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order 697878 or call 225-342-2917.

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR WANTED SUSHI CHEFS

Full and/or Part -Time. Experience required. Please call Sara at Kyoto (504) 891-3644.

RETAIL FRIENDLY FACES WANTED

Now accepting applications for several full, part time positions. Must be motivated, hard working & friendly.

Retail experience a plus. Apply in person Mon-Fri, 12-5pm only. Southern Candymakers, 334 Decatur St.

NOW HIRING CLUB SUPERVISOR

Responsible for hiring, training, and managing staff for assigned Club stores.

Previous supervisory, demonstration, or retail experience preferred. F/T. Email angela.johnson@asmnet.com or call 678-492-6451.

Send your questions to New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

TRADE/SKILLS $FLOORING INSTALLERS WANTED

For year round work! 2 yrs. exp. Must have van, tools, plus Corporation/LLC, GL insurance, pass background and speak English. Call 504-470-4472 or email Mlopinto@us-installations.com

Are you an energetic and service oriented food and beverage professional looking for a new and exciting opportunity?

We have the following openings available:

COOK II • COOK III SERVER • COOK (SEASONAL)

If you are interested in any of these positions, please email your resume to Ja’net Torrance at ja’net.torrance@renaissancehotels.com

Marriott is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.

EEO/M/F/V/D/AA

Are you a service oriented food and beverage professional looking for a new opportunity at a top New Orleans restaurant?

We have the following openings available: Cook II • Server In Room Dining Server

If you are interested in any of these positions, please email your resume to Ja’net Torrance at ja’net.torrance@renaissancehotels.com

Marriott is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.

EEO/M/F/V/D/AA

PIZZA MAKER Experienced

WIT’S INN Bar & Pizza Kitchen Apply in person Mon-Fri, 1-4:30 pm 141 N. Carrollton Ave. VOLUNTEER

TANK CLEANERS

Competitive Pay! 100% Paid Health Insurance for Employees!

Advancement Opportunities!

No Experience Required!

readers need

You can help them find one.

A NEW JOB

To advertise in Gambit Classifieds’ “Employment” Section call 504.483.3100.

Midwestern Services, Inc. a Houston, TX based company is accepting applications for tank cleaners. Will train.

Crews average 50-60 hours per week.

90% travel required.

Transportation provided to and from the job site. 100% Drug Free. EOE. Must be able to read, write and speak English. To fill out an application, please go to www.midwesternserves. com and go under employment tab to complete the application. www.midwesternservices.com

Offers Volunteer Opportunities

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

Call Volunteer Coordinator @ 504-818-2723 #3006

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The statistics on college majors generally state that at least 50% of college freshmen are undecided on a major, nearly 70% of college students change their majors at least once, and over half will change majors several times before graduation. With today’s ever-changing global economy, it is good to keep in mind that the #1 jobs of today could be gone tomorrow. Some experts predict that more than 50% of the jobs of the future have not even been invented yet! Also, over half of college grads end up in jobs that are not directly related to their majors.

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Bathtubs · Marble Walls ·Tile Walls ·Floors · Countertops Cast Iron · Fiberglass · Tin · Plastic · Cultured Marble We believe your home should reflect your personal taste and style!

KITCHEN STYLE is a full-service, kitchen, bath cabinets and Marble & Granite counter tops, residential interior design firm with a distinguished reputation.

Whether you need help with minor updating, large-scale renovations or new construction, we’ll help you achieve the look you want. On time and within budget.

Call us today for a FREE initial consultation and FREE KITCHEN DESIGN AT YOUR EMAIL

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We REPAIR:

Rust on Porcelain Fixtures · Cracks in Fiberglass ·Chips, Gouges and Scratches

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Our refinishing makes cleaning easier Certified Fiberglass Technician Family Owned & Operated

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• Knowledgeable Sales Staff • Free Do-It-Yourself Advice • Free Prompt Delivery

We Match Any COLOR NEW ORLEANS, LA

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NEW ORLEANS, LA

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WE DO IT ALL ...

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HANDY-MEN-R-US “at your service”

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We Rent Pressure Washers, Spray Guns & Wall Paper Removers (Steamer)

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Commercial & Residential Emergency Call Services

HOME IMPROVEMENT & REPAIR SPECIALIST We are available for consulting toward energy savings, inspection requirements, raising your property’s curb appeal. Pre & Post Inspection Repairs. We Raise Standards!

• Siding/Fascia - Repairs • New Installations • Gutters - Cleaning • Repairs • New Installation • Storm Shutters/Panel Installations • Patio Covers/Sunrooms/Screen Rooms • Electrical - Repairs • Rewire • Ceiling Fans Lights & Fixtures • Plumbing - Repairs • Sinks • Toilets • Subsurface • New Roof/Roofing Repairs • Tree Trimming & Tree Removal • Cutting Hauling • Stump Grinding

“We do what others don’t want to do!”

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LOCALLY OPERATED

Picture Perfect Properties PICTURE YOURSELF IN THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS!

221 S. Solomon • $310,000

LET THE RENT PAY YOUR NOTE

For Rent

Upscale Furnished & Unfurnished Apartments!

Starting at $1800/month for unfurnished units, and $3000 to $3,600/mo. for furn. Penthouse (as little as $100/day!).

• 1500 to 2000 Sq. Ft! • 2 Br/2 or 2.5 Bath • Off St. Parking • High Speed Internet • Security Cameras & Alarm • Spacious Closets • Balconies in view!

PATTY BRADFORD

• Landscaped Grounds & Seating Areas/Grill • Washer/Dryer • Complimentary Hilton Health Club Membership (includes rooftop pool!)

And much, much more!

(504) 416-7747

2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, hardwood floors, backyard, walk to Mid City shops and restaurants and City Park.

3329 Calhoun St. • $335,000

19415 1&2 Slemmer Rd., Covington • $123,000 COVINGTON - GOOD CASH FLOW UPDATED UNITS, INSIDE UTILITIES, FIREPLACE ON EACH SIDE. NO FLOODING.

6260 Vicksburg St. • New Orleans, LA 70124

heart of the forest R E SI DE N T IA L DE V E L OP M E N T

Andrew Severino Investment Specialist Sharpe Realty, LLC

1513 St. Charles Ave. #A New Orleans, LA 70130 504-571-9576 • (914) 787-9513 j to lrgRoad, Covington 17652 Three Rivers

$789,000 4 BR/3.5 BA

For a Personal Tour of the Properties Call (985) 796-9130 • www.lapolofarms.com

Two locations! 323 Morgan St. and 407 Morgan St. Call today! (781) 608-6115 or rhapartments@aol.com

JUDY FISHER INC. REALTORS ®

356 HELIOS ST. • METAIRIE

Easy access to all areas of the Northshore and New Orleans

Offering Personalized Real Estate Services Since 2003

504-524-JUDY (5839)

917 Toulouse St. 7 • $810,000

SOUTHERN ACADIAN HOME tucked behind iron gates and nestled on 13 beautiful acres just 1.5 miles from Hwy. 190! Thick cypress wood flrs reclaimed from N.O. WHSE Dist., REAL WOOD WINDOWS, Old Chicago brick F/P, & wet bar in living. Kit. boasts brick flrs, cypress cabs, granite,& s/s appl. Enormous MA/BR and giant closet. . MA/BA has jetted tub, sep shwr,& bidet. Cabana adj to lrg in-grnd pool w/ not tub & div brd. Great for family compound. THE VIEWS!!!

Susan Ameen (985) 727-7000 Office • (504) 481-8255 Mobile thequeen@kw.com 1522 W. Causeway Approach Mandeville, LA 70471

Spacious & serene courtyard condo with luxe amenities in the middle of the Historic French Quarter! 10-yearold construction for peace of mind with ga rage parking & tranquil pool.

Beautiful lush garden views from Master Bedroom Suite. Awesome rooftop deck to enjoy the splendid views of the Vieux Carre. Flex floorplan offers 2nd & 3rd bedrooms with private entrances on one floor. Hardwood floors, granite in kitchen and baths, SS appliances.

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$539,000 Charming family home on corner lot framed by majestic oak tree !! Freshly landscaped, four bedrm,3.5 baths,hardwd floors down,granite kitchen, new carpeting up,master suite has sep jacuzzi and shower,whole house generator,storm shutters on rear of house and colonial operable shutters, side and front, 12x20 carport,ample offstrt pking, move-in condition!!!

Sally Bartlett Sanders Cell: (504) 554-8446

Associate Broker R. ALAN BARTLETT, INC. 2475 Canal St., Suite 107 New Orleans, LA 70119

Office: (504) 822-8228 Fax: (504) 304-1463 sallybsanders@aol.com

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Impeccable 2011 Contemporary Renovation. 3BR/2BA, Designer tile throughout, custom kitchen, oversized cabinets, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, subway tile in baths. Island offered with sale along with all appliances. Ideal floorplan with vaulted ceilings. Spacious corner lot with fenced backyard, walk to neighborhood restaraunts and Tulane University.

Visitors are welcome to explore our new residential development. We have made every effort to preserve the pristine forest.

Lots vary in size from two to four acres, which allows for perfect building sites.

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NOTICE:

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

221 S. Solomon $310K

2BR/2BA, hardwood floors, backyard walk to Mid City shops & restaurants & City Park. Call Andrew Severino, Investment Specialist, Sharpe Realty, LLC (504) 571-9576 or (914) 787-9513

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT WAREHOUSE DISTRICT CONDO On 2nd floor of beautifully renovated bldg. Exposed bolted beams with high ceilings, gourmet kitchen & wood floors throughout. Outdoor patio & roof top commuinty areas for grilling & entertaining with spectacular view. Call Jennifer Rice, Agent, (985) 892-1478. jennifer@jenniferrice.net

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE/OTHER EVACUATE OR RETIRE

Beautiful Home in town of Greensburg, La. Grocery & Hospital near by.

4BD/2BA $124,900. Bobby Drude And Associates, (985) 345-3344

3341 PLAZA - $135,000

3BR/2BA. Immaculate, charming Ranch home. Open flr plan for entertaining. Beautiful kitchen w/granite cntertpps. Huge Master suite that opens to patio & large no maintenance yard. Covered carport located off kit is great for outdoor activities. Call Lynne Depanics, (504) 583-8207. New Orleans Property Shoppe, Inc.

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3329 CALHOUN ST. $335K

Impeccable 2011 Contemporary Renovation, 3BR/2BA. Designer tile throughout, custom kit, oversized cabinets, granite cnttps, ss appl, subway tile in baths. Island offered w/sale along w/all appl. Ideal flrplan w/vaulted ceilings. Spacious corner lot w/fenced bkyd. Walk to n’nood restaurants & Tulane Univ. Call Andrew Severino, Investment Specialist, Sharpe Realty, LLC (504) 571-9576 or (914) 787-9513

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

1129 BURGUNDY 3BR/2.5BA

Elegant, immaculate creole cottage circa 1830’s w/detached 2 story balcony carriage house restored to it’s original character. Gourmet kit w/ marble cnttps. 18th century chandelier, high end ss appl. Main house has original mantles. Many nice features.

Foyer was designed painted & coordinated by Tara Shaw. $1,595,000. Call Lynne Depanics, (504) 583-8207. New Orleans Property Shoppe, Inc.

1321 Coliseum St. $450,000

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S 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on Historic Coliseum Square. Off street parking, central air and heat, great entertaining home large front porch and balcony. in an untra convenient Lower Garden District location close to downtown. Approx 3k sq.ft.

Move in cond, lots of architectural details, 1st block off Canal, off street pkng for several cars, garage. 2 br, 2 dens, encl porch/sun rm & wood flrs. Must see to appreciate.

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Newly rebuilt & renovated home on the water! Cathedral ceilings throughout, ss appl, tile cnttps & backsplash. 100 ft on the water w/ new bulkhead, dock & ramp. Seller will pay $500 towards buyers closing costs. Option to purchase neighboring parcel, for 2 waterfront acres. Call Betsy Balder Montjoy, Realtor, (228) 547-2856. betsy.balder@coldwellbanker.com

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On street car line at St. Charles and Broadway. Multiple units from 127 to 4,000 square feet, utilities and alarm included. Elevator. Call (504) 861-9415, www.scabc.org

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124 EMERALD LAKE DR $259,900

Beautiful custom home on spring fed lake. Exclusive & private n’borhood.

Relax on your private beach & fish in yiur backyard. Wbfp,. Open floor plan.

Split bedroom plan. Master suite with whirlpool tub. New construction & move in ready! House in NOT in a flood zone. Call Betsy Balder Montjoy, Realtor, (228) 547-2856. betsy.balder@ coldwellbanker.com

Renovated! Good n’borhood. 2/1, lg livingroom, stove, fridge, dishwasher.

Walk in closets & storage, ceiling fans, ca&h. $750/mo + $750 dep. Call (504) 373-5594 or (504) 458-3699

JEFFERSON 2537 RIVER ROAD

Between Labarre & Rio Vista. 2 BR, 1.5 BA, $880/mo includes water, w&d, fridge & stove. NO pets, pool, smoking.

OR 2BRr/1BA, $850 includes water B>Great landlord for great tenants!

504-887-1814

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Private home near Metairie Rd. $525/ mo inclds util, cable & some use of kit. Refs & dep. Avail now. Call 985237-0931.

SPARKLING POOL Bike Path & Sunset Deck

1 BR apt with new granite in kit & bath.

King Master w/wall of closets. Kit w/ all built-ins. Laundry on premises.

Offst pkg. NO PETS. Avail now. Owner/ agent, $724/mo. 504-236-5776.

1 BR EFF. CLOSE TO UNIV

Furn efficiency with liv rm, a/h unit, ceil fans, wood/tile floors, w/d onsite.

Clara by Nashville. Avail Now. $575/ mo. 504-895-0016.

8021 SPRUCE ST 1/2 OFF 1st MO. RENT!

3BR/2BA, fenced. CA&H, w&d, o/s pkng. Landlord pays water. $1600/mo + deposit. Call (504) 858-2875

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ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

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Park your small rv, trailer, small boat or vehicle. 1 blk from streetcar line. Mid City area. $100 monthly or obo. Call (504) 488-4609

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ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 1101 N. White St.

Large 1 bedroom, w/front porch, furnished kit & w/d. No pets $850/ month. Call 504-343-8651.

NEAR CITY PARK - DESAIX

Single house, c-a/h, 2br, 1ba, w/d hkps, lrg fncd yd, pets ok. $1100/mo.

504-952-5102

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2511 S Carrollton Ave. 1/1 Furn kit, cen a/h, off st pkg. $750/mo, wtr pd.

Background ck required. 504-4507450.

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Trixie’s owner was a volunteer and dear friend of SpayMart. Before Trixie’s owner passed away, SpayMart promised to find homes for her cats.

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PIDDY - Missing Her Family

Piddy’s owner lost her home & job and had to give up her cats. Piddy is missing a warm lap, gentle strokes, and a best friend. She is sweet, calm and gentle. Piddy is about 5 years old/fully vetted. Call 504-454-8200; adopt@spaymart.org.

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As part of its ongoing efforts to find suitable, permanent homes for foster animals, Gambit, along with the Louisiana SPCA, Spaymart, Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter and The Humane Society of Louisiana, is sponsoring its 14th Bi-Annual Pet Adopt-A-Thon.

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American Bulldog, 2-years-old, male 60 lbs. Trained/Fully Vetted. Happygo-lucky lovebug!

Call 504-874-0598.

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JUPITER Kennel #A21175029

late Pomeranian who prefers a home with no (or older) children. He’s a bit timid around new friends, loves treats and would benefit from a little leash training. To meet Jupiter or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

Leon

is a 5-month-old, neutered, DSH with tuxedo markings and a sassy goatee.

He and his brother (Malachi—A20914417) get along well with other cats and kids and hope to go home together. To meet Leon or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

LEON Kennel #A20914479

To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

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To Sponsor an Animal for Adoption from a Local Shelter Send $25 per animal: Attn: Pet Adopt-A-Thon Gambit 3923 Bienville Street New Orleans, LA 70119

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BYWATER DOUBLE

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1208 PAULINE ST.

ANTEBELLUM TREME BEAUTY. Built in 1855 this home features a grand stairway, large porch, elegant iron work and classic facade. 4-plex with guest cottage.

Fully rented. 12 ft ceilings, heart of pine floors, side yard, off street parking. Lush tropical front garden. Excellent property for investors and/or owner/occupant. $399,000

HISTORIC BYWATER DISTRICT DOUBLE. 1 block from St Claude-Lakeside. Large double recently lived in. New carpet, interior freshly painted, move in ready. Utilities are on. Would be a wonderful single or leave as a double and rent out. Larger side could be owner’s unit. Be part of a Renaissance along the St Claude corridor. Off street parking. $149,000

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1602 S. Carrollton $849,000

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