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CONTENTS

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

December 2, 2014

EDITORIAL

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Editor | KEVIN ALLMAN

SHOPPING + STYLE

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

Holiday Gift Guide..................................................31 Take a bow — and a ribbon as well What’s in Store ......................................................37 Walls of Books Guide to Giving .......................................... PULLOUT Gambit’s inaugural guide to making the most of your year-end donations

Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD Feature Writer | JEANIE RIESS Calendar & Digital Content Coordinator | ANNA GACA Contributing Writers SARAH BAIRD, ANNE BERRY, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

EAT + DRINK

Review: Ox Lot 9 ....................................................39 A Covington destination in the Southern Hotel Fork + Center ...........................................................39 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview ..............................................41 Sarah Tucker & Kyle Hubbs of Honeyboards Drinks ........................................................................42 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week Last Bites .................................................................43 5 in Five; Plate Dates; Off the Menu

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

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

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ON THE COVER Undocumented ........................................................7 Honduran children who have immigrated to New Orleans aren’t necessarily in search of the American dream. For most, it’s a matter of life and death

7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Africa Umoja, Twelfth Night, Sidra Bell Dance and more

NEWS + VIEWS

Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world Scuttlebutt................................................................8 From their lips to your ears Bouquets & Brickbats .......................................... 9 This week’s heroes and zeroes

C’est What? ...............................................................8 Gambit’s Web poll Viewpoint ................................................................10 Our readers sound off Blake Pontchartrain.............................................12 The New Orleans Public Library’s odd website and the Rivergate Commentary............................................................14 Net neutrality, and the Gambit ballot Clancy DuBos........................................................... 17 Mitch Landrieu’s legacy

HEALTH + WELLNESS Feature ..................................................................... 27 Are you addicted to Internet shopping?

The Juice...................................................................29 A healthy — and delicious — holiday recipe

Profile ........................................................................52 Caddywhompus is back with a new album Music .........................................................................53 PREVIEW: Common with Jay Electronica Film............................................................................. 57 REVIEW: The Theory of Everything Art ...............................................................................60 REVIEW: Concerted Effort and Homeless:The Definitive Collection Stage..........................................................................63 REVIEW: New Orleans Fringe Festival shows Events .......................................................................66 Crossword + Sudoku ........................................... 76

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WAKE UP & LIVE SPECIALS! 10AM-2PM

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Africa Umoja | The international

touring show marking 20 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa features a tribute to Nelson Mandela, as well as a variety of dance and music, ranging from Zulu cultural traditions to gumboot dancing to gospel and contemporary pop.

At Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.

Twelfth Night

Tue.-Wed. & Sun. Dec. 2-21 | The NOLA Project turns the Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art into Illyria, the land where long-separated and shipwrecked twins seek refuge in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. At 7:30 p.m.

Young Buffalo

Tue. Dec. 2 | The Oxford, Mississippi indie rock quintet will release its 2015 debut album House (produced by Dave Schiffman, who engineered HAIM’s breakthrough debut) next year, showing off the kind of jangly beach pop and buoyant harmonies of its California contemporaries wedged into more familiar, warm Southern rock. Drone Baby opens at 8 p.m. at Saturn Bar.

A Christmassacre Story

Thu.-Sun. Dec. 4-14 | Actor/singer Michael Cerveris (opening weekend only) and Bryan Batt lend celebrity appeal to the horror-themed holiday mashup show (think Silent Night of the Lambs, etc.) from See ’Em On Stage, which recently pre-

sented Musical of the Living Dead. Showtimes vary nightly at The Shadowbox Theatre.

HAMP Fest

Fri. Dec. 5 | The HIV/AIDS awareness event aims to make testing less taboo — and, in the case of last year’s onstage swab by Quintron and Miss Pussycat, even fun. This sixth annual concert features headliners Morning 40 Federation and promises special guests. At 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

ReVUE

Fri.-Sat. Dec. 5-6 | The avant-garde company Sidra Bell Dance New York presents ReVUE, a work exploring sexuality, politics and fantastic themes and costumed like a contemporary vaudeville show. At 7:30 p.m. at Contemporary Arts Center.

Usher

Sat. Dec. 6 | Four years from 40 and father to two boys, Usher Raymond still can’t stop making the ladies scream.

The shirtless wonder is touring in support of his forthcoming 10th (and third eponymous) album, UR. August Alsina and D.J. Cassidy open at 7:30 p.m. at the Smoothie King Center.

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knowledge is power New Orleans’ week in Twitter Marianna

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@MBSuperdome should only play that siren once during a game, and that should be when it’s last call.

Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter

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YUNG GOODMAN FROWN @RTMannJr

Instead of having bottle service, New Orleans bars have The Set Up which sounds much cooler and is much better

Danielle Brown @atlantarouge

The national guard out in ferguson faster than they came to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina. Think on that shit.

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Isn’t “I’m just gonna avoid social media this week” kind of like denying climate change?

Deal with reality. Don’t hide from it.

Spacegiving

DJ Soul Sister @djsoulsister

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We need both civics and arts classes put back in our schools.

N.O. COMMENT

Hundreds of Honduran children have fled that country’s violence, ending up in New Orleans. But with political will against them and an overwhelmed social services system, their futures in America are anything but certain.

What you had to say on BestofNewOrleans.com this week

Meet Junior, Sulmi and Elvis — and the people trying to help them.

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ll the kids are “Mi amor” to Cristi Rosales-Fajardo. The smaller ones climb on her lap, and the older ones give her tight hugs. It’s hard to distinguish between “Miss Cristi’s” own three children and the dozens of others who rotate in and out of her office.

“What do you need, mi amor?” she asks a teenager who wants to know if Rosales-Fajardo wants any red peppers and onions from a nearby garden. “Hola, mi amor,” she says to a firstgrader who has something to tell her about his day at school.

Many of Rosales-Fajardo’s newest “kids” are from Honduras — young people who have fled that country’s violence and terror.

The United Nations listed Honduras as the world’s murder capital in a 2013 report (see “Why Are So Many People Fleeing Honduras?” p. 23). Nearly 57,000 undocumented minors from Central America have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border this year. The greater New Orleans area has seen an influx of about 1,000 children, with close to 2,000 thus far statewide and more arriving all the time. This year alone, Rosales-Fajardo has worked with about 150 Honduran youth.

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City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell’s proposed ordinance to ban smoking in bars, casinos and many outdoor areas was the hot topic on Blog of New Orleans.

“I am skeptical this will pass in any form, and 90% sure it won’t go forward as drafted. The 25-foot rule bans patio smoking in most of the quarter, and the casinos will not roll over for this ordinance. It will be probably be a long fight, if it makes it to a final vote.” — Mike “Smoking and smoke free areas? Where?

At the Maple Leaf? Tips? The Rivershack?

We tried smoking and non smoking areas in restaurants a long time ago. It did not work.

Why are we making so many concessions for a killer?” — bob

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“Another rule which I think is absolutely crazy is when Congress is apportioned following a new [census], non-citizens, including illegals, are part of that town.

Now I don’t think the founders established Congress to represent non-citizens. ... I think that’s just crazy as well.” — Sen. David Vitter on CNN, talking about immigration, in the wake of President Barack Obama’s executive order that will allow more than 4 million undocumented immigrants who take certain steps (including paying taxes) to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

Vitter also supports repeal of “birthright citizenship” — the policy that states any child born in the United States is automatically a U.S. citizen.

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The New Orleans City Council unanimously passed Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s $536 million 2015 budget Nov. 20 after two weeks of hearings and debate. Despite its plea for a slice of the city’s general fund, the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) won’t receive any additional city funding in 2015. But New Orleans voters likely will decide at the polls whether they approve of a new property tax to get NOPL out of its budget hole.

On Nov. 10, head librarian Charles Brown presented NOPL’s $12.5 million 2015 budget, warning of a budget

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shortfall and drained reserves. While a dedicated millage adds $9.5 million to NOPL’s coffers, the millage only covers personnel costs. The library’s reserve fund is at $7.2 million. It was tapped for $3 million in 2014, and Brown anticipates taking out another $3 million in 2015. He predicts NOPL’s reserves — without other sources of revenue — will be empty by 2016.

On Nov. 10, District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell asked Brown whether a budget boost of $1 million would help float NOPL through 2015 as the council works on a permanent budget fix. On Nov. 20, Cantrell said she fought for $200,000 to help NOPL hire a grant writer and keep essential services. That budget boost didn’t happen, and Council President Stacy Head suggested the City Council vote on calling an election for a property tax increase in 2015.

At the Nov. 20 meeting, council members agreed to call an election for a new property tax to add a dedicated revenue to the NOPL budget.

The council anticipates the hike to be 2.5 to 3.5 mills. — ALEX WOODWARD

Same-sex marriage headed to court again

Plaintiffs asking U.S. Supreme Court to rule on issues

Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case on a direct appeal. A Nov. 20 petition asks the court to review U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman’s Sept. 3 ruling upholding the law. The petition was filed by Forum for Equality and Lambda Legal, the latter of which also represents plaintiffs in a samesex marriage lawsuit decided by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit last month reversed lower court rulings in favor of same-sex marriage in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. That 2-1 decision ran contrary to rulings recognizing same-sex marriages in more than 30 states. In the opinion of many court watchers, the ruling increases the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue.

In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) but declined to rule that state laws banning same-sex marriages are also unconstitutional. The high court’s ruling in U.S. v. Windsor led to a slew of lower

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Nominations sought for New Orleanian of the Year Deadline is Dec. 8

Gambit seeks nominations for its annual New Orleanian of the Year, a designation given to a local resident (or two) who has made outstanding contributions to the area in 2014. Elected officials are not eligible.

All nominations must include a brief biographical sketch and the reasons you believe the person deserves recognition.

Email entries to response@gambitweekly.com. No phone calls. Nominations must be received by Monday, Dec. 8.

The New Orleanian of the Year will be announced in our issue of Jan. 6, 2015.

Hyatt Regency New Orleans

donated nearly $1,200 for the Susan G. Komen New Orleans Race for the Cure through the month of October. The hotel donated a portion of sales from a Breast Cancer Awareness Month cocktail and held a bake sale among staff members with all proceeds benefiting the organization.

Rupa and Tarun “TJ” Jolly

donated $3 million to Isidore Newman School to help fund construction of a new science building. The school was founded in 1903 and teaches students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. It plans to open the GreenTrees Early Childhood Village early learning facility in fall 2015.

Central Lafourche High School, St. Augustine High School and Riverside Academy

were named winners of Popeye’s second annual “Popeyes Loves That Music” contest, in which dozens of schools submitted recordings of their bands performing a New Orleans-inspired song. Each school received a check for $10,000. The schools received the awards at a Nov. 19 ceremony.

Alternatives Living Inc.,

a state- and federally funded nonprofit organization established to benefit the homeless and disabled, was revealed

by Fox 8 reporter Lee Zurik on Nov. 12 to owe $1.3 million in taxes, penalties and interest. The nonprofit spent tens of thousands of dollars on fine dining, entertainment, travel and personal expenses, all with money from the organization’s bank account.

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federal court rulings in favor of same-sex marriage — until Feldman’s ruling in September. Similarly, the 6th Circuit ruling last month was the first at the appellate level to uphold same-sex marriage bans.

The Louisiana case of Robicheaux v.

Caldwell is scheduled to be argued before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Jan. 9. The plaintiffs’ direct appeal to the Supreme Court is intended to bypass the appellate court and put the case immediately in front of the Supreme Court.

“The ruling from the lower court in this case is a time-warped reading of the Constitution and neglects developments in the law,” Lambda Legal senior counsel Kenneth D. Upton Jr. said in a statement.

“We are asking for the Supreme Court’s review now, while it is considering the 6th Circuit decision, because together these cases present the full gamut of aberrant arguments supporting these discriminatory bans, and, in Louisiana specifically, present in one state a case covering both the right of same-sex couples to marry, and for legally married same-sex couples to have those marriages recognized.”

On Sept. 22, state 15th Judicial District Court Judge Edward Rubin ruled that Louisiana’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. It was a symbolic victory for samesex marriage advocates, and Rubin’s ruling also found unconstitutional the state’s Department of Revenue policy prohibiting same-sex couples from filing joint tax returns. The rulings followed an adoption case involving a same-sex couple.

Like Louisiana, both Arkansas and Mississippi have constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage. Last week, both saw their same-sex marriage bans overturned by federal judges, though marriages did not commence, as officials in both states already had indicated they would appeal if the judges found in favor of the plaintiffs in each case.

— ALEX WOODWARD

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our recent editorial (“Debunking Jindal’s ‘frivolous’ claim,” Commentary, Nov. 2) praising the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E) for extracting a meager $50,000 settlement from two companies targeted by the board’s controversial lawsuit overlooks several key points.

First, consider the manner in which the settlement was negotiated. Consistent with the trial lawyers’ game plan, the settlement was discussed behind closed doors far outside the light of public scrutiny and never openly voted on by the [SLFPA-E].

The problem with this strategy — essentially regulation through litiga-

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settlement to extract themselves from this case and the lawsuit cesspool we know as Louisiana’s legal system.

The economic reality is that it is far cheaper for the companies to cough up $25,000 each than it is for them to incur the ongoing cost of two legal defense teams — especially in Louisiana’s unpredictable legal climate where anything can happen, regardless of law or fact.

Finally, let’s consider the practical impact that $50,000 will have on the effort to save our coast. Unfortunately, the impact will be negligible at best.

It is obvious this is not a credible legal strategy or a well-informed public policy initiative. This is plaintiffs’ law-

‘Issues of such monumental importance to the citizenry of the entire state should not be decided by a few unelected members of one regional levee board and the plaintiffs’ lawyers who represent them in private settlement talks, in which they have an undeniable financial interest.’

— Melissa Landry tion, or more specifically, behind-thescenes negotiation — is that it takes people out of the process. Without question, many citizens have grave concerns about how the state will fund coastal restoration and flood protection efforts in the future. That is precisely the reason issues of such monumental importance to the citizenry of the entire state should not be decided by a few unelected members of one regional levee board and the plaintiffs’ lawyers who represent them in private settlement talks, in which they have an undeniable financial interest.

Now, let’s consider the value of the settlement. It is obvious the Texasbased companies only agreed to a

yers doing what they do best: using lawsuits to create the illusion of relief that will ultimately do nothing more than increase their own bottom lines.

Another timely and relevant example of this is the settlement recently announced by trial lawyers involved in the levee breech lawsuit. Nearly 10 years after the litigation was filed, a team of lawyers will divvy up $3.5 million while flood victims will get less than $500 each.

In the end, who is really benefiting from these lawsuits? I would venture to say, it is not the people.

Melissa Landry Executive director, Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch

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BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN™ Questions for Blake: askblake@gambitweekly.com

Hey Blake,

Why is the New Orleans Public Library’s URL www.nutrias.org?

Dear Reader,

As a history lover and voracious reader, Ol’ Blake spends lots of time at the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL). Just as exciting as what you can find on the shelves is the treasure trove of information available on the library’s website, the unique name of which you’re not the first to question.

Some of my friends over there, including Irene Wainwright, head of the Louisiana Division and City Archives, joke that the story of the website itself would make a great book. According to Wainwright, the library’s Internet presence was inaugurated April 1, 1995, a time when the Internet was still in its infancy. Before HTML code became the norm, she says, there was an alternative computer protocol called Gopher. The idea was developed at the University of Minnesota, which has as its mascot — you guessed it — the gopher.

The folks at the NOPL decided to jokingly name their new website after the nutria, since the furry creature was the best local equivalent to the gopher. Wainwright says Nutrias later came to stand for: New

Orleans Public Library’s User-friendly, Technologically correct Research and Information Access System.

Years later, from a marketing and branding standpoint, we can see why the name may not have been the first choice, but it has served the library and its patrons well for nearly two decades. Nowadays, the preferred web address is www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org. Do yourself a favor and check it out or, better yet, head to your local library branch. Tell ’em Blake sent you.

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ifty years ago this week, on Dec. 4, 1964, New Orleans leaders broke ground on The Rivergate, an ultra-modern exhibition hall that was expected to lead the city into a new era of tourism economy. Originally called the International Exhibition Facility, the building sat on land owned by the Dock Board at the spot where Canal Street meets the Mississippi River. It was conceived at a time the city was beginning to grow its hospitality industry.

Remember, younger readers, this was well before the Superdome and Ernest N. Morial Convention Center were built, and the city lacked a modern facility to host trade shows, conventions or even Carnival events.

The Krewe of Bacchus held its Rendezvous after-party there for two decades.

The building was designed in the Expressionist architectural style by the firm of Nathaniel “Buster” Curtis Jr. and Arthur Q. Davis, the men behind the Superdome and other New Orleans landmarks.

The Rivergate’s most noticeable and memorable design feature was its swooping, curved roof. It’s also known for the tunnel built under-

neath, which was to become a link to the controversial, but never built, Riverfront Expressway. By the time the building opened in September 1968, it had been rebranded The Rivergate and racked up a $25 million price tag. There were enough amenities inside to draw attention, but equally memorable was the statue of Joan of Arc that greeted visitors who entered from what now is Convention Center Boulevard.

In the 1990s, The Rivergate site was targeted in the push to legalize land-based casino gambling. Despite efforts to convert it into the casino and preserve its architecture, the building was demolished in 1995 to make way for Harrah’s New Orleans. The Joan of Arc statue later was restored and relocated to the French Market.

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Not the time to remain ‘neutral’ he concept of “net neutrality” has been around for a while, and it’s one that today’s Internet users pretty much take for granted. It boils down to two principles: Internet users should be free to visit any (legal) websites they like, and Internet service providers (ISPs) should provide equal service to every legal website. In short: Everything (and everyone) is treated equally going through the pipe. This is largely the way things have worked until now. An ISP offers equal access to CNN and MSNBC, to the Ku Klux Klan and the Southern Poverty Law Center, to the world’s biggest newspapers and to any blogger who has something to say.

That may be about to change. The federal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year invalidated two Internet rules — one that prevented ISPs from charging companies to carry their data, and another that prevented Internet providers from blocking users from legal sites. The decision cast new light on the concept of net neutrality, and it drew further scrutiny when President Barack Obama suggested last month that the public

would like to charge streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to carry their streams — a cost that would be passed to customers who already pay for that service. Third, ISPs could speed up or slow down any service at will.

Comcast, for instance, which owns NBC, could provide a “fast lane” to NBC News and NBC programming while slowing down (“throttling”) competing networks.

If you think this is far-fetched, think again. The Canadian telecom Telus once blocked access to a website organized and run by its own striking workers.

More recently, AT&T Mobile wanted to block Apple’s FaceTime app (which provides free phone and video calls over the Internet) unless customers ponied up extra money to AT&T. Opponents of net neutrality say it would stifle the growth of the telecommunications industry. In 2010, U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Metairie, said regulation would “discourage Internet investment and innovation.” Scalise, now House Majority Whip, is expected to be one of the leaders in the fight against net neutrality.

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Internet be subject to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversight under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

“I believe the FCC should create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online,” Obama said.

“The rules I am asking for are simple, common-sense steps that reflect the Internet you and I use every day, and that some ISPs already observe.”

While some characterized this as a government power grab or a threat to speech (Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called it “Obamacare for the Internet,” presumably on the theory that anything with Obama’s name attached would be unpopular), the opposite is true. Without net neutrality, the core principle of unfettered Internet access will be threatened on several fronts.

First, if net neutrality isn’t enacted, ISPs could “bundle” access to certain websites the way cable companies bundle premium channel packages. For example, you might pay $50 a month for “basic” Internet access — but you may have to pay more to access ESPN or The New York Times. Second, some ISPs

have “a chilling effect on the Internet” and called the proposal “radical.” We disagree. Government regulation hasn’t hurt telecommunications companies; in fact, that industry has thrived under reasonable government regulation. In our view, allowing ISPs to charge more to access certain websites or to limit user access is the real “radical” — and stifling — move.

If you’re still unsure about this issue, look at the organizations that support and oppose net neutrality: telecoms, which stand to profit from eliminating net neutrality, are against it, while Internet-based companies and civil liberties groups largely support it. A study last month by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communications found that 81 percent of Americans oppose “allowing Internet service providers to charge some websites … extra for faster speeds.” The CPC study also found that the more people know about net neutrality, the more they are likely to support it.

Congress has delayed discussion of net neutrality until 2015. If unfettered access to the Internet matters to you, now is the time to contact your congressional representatives and let them know how you feel. More than 4 million Americans already have.

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BALLOT [YOU CAN TAKE THIS BALLOT WITH YOU TO VOTE]

ELECTION DAY DEC. 6 Gambit ENDORSEMENTS U.S. Senate: Mary Landrieu Public Service Commission: Forest Bradley Wright Orleans Parish Public Schools Tax Rededicates an existing property tax: FOR

JEFFERSON PARISH CHARTER AMENDMENTS Amendment 1 Council investigative powers: FOR

Amendment 3 Weakens public notices: AGAINST Amendment 4 Law Enforcement District: FOR Amendment 5 Modernizes Civil Service: FOR Amendment 6 Parish Attorney powers: FOR Amendment 7 Boards and Commissions: FOR Amendment 8 Independent Inspector General: FOR Amendment 9 Technical corrections: FOR Amendment 10 Council control of hospitals, JEDCO: AGAINST Amendment 11 Charter Committee transparency: FOR

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How Mitch Landrieu will be measured hen Mitch Landrieu first took office as mayor of New Orleans, his immediate challenge was to jump-start the city’s long-delayed recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The incompetence and corruption of his predecessor, the now-jailed former Mayor Ray Nagin, brought virtually all recovery efforts to a halt.

Recovery wasn’t the only pressing issue confronting Landrieu. From the earliest days of his 2010 campaign, he talked about the long-standing problems of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) and the need for federal intervention via a consent decree.

While the inert post-storm recovery under Nagin had cast a pall over the city, Landrieu knew from the get-go that the city’s physical recovery was low-hanging fruit compared to reforming NOPD. The mayor and the feds signed a sweeping consent decree in July 2012, but implementing it has not been easy. To be fair, structural reforms and many policy changes are already in place, but changing the NOPD’s culture requires buy-in — and a wholesale change in attitude — among rankand-file cops.

There’s the rub.

That message hit home last month when

the city’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a scathing report that exposed chronic — and scandalous — underreporting and/or mishandling of sex crimes by NOPD’s Special Victims Section from 2011 through 2013. The OIG report alleged that five detectives routinely ignored, failed to investigate or downgraded more than 1,000 rape cases, including some instances of child sexual abuse. Those five detectives and two supervisors have been reassigned and are under internal investigation in the wake of the OIG report. They also may face criminal charges.

The report underscores a parade of scandals at NOPD in the past 15 years — and it tests the leadership of both Landrieu and new Police Chief Michael Harrison. The new chief did not preside over this scandal, but he has inherited it. Landrieu and former NOPD Chief Ronal Serpas, on the other hand, cannot escape responsibility for this debacle.

Serpas has been dogged by allegations of underreporting crime stats for much of his career, although he consistently has denied that cops under his authority were ever encouraged or allowed to downgrade incident reports. Whether he encouraged or tolerated downgrading no longer matters; what matters is that it occurred, not just

Serpas is the police chief Landrieu wanted.

That makes all of Serpas’ sins the mayor’s as well. once in a while but in significant numbers, while he was chief of police here.

The OIG report concludes that the five now-reassigned detectives did not write investigative reports for 86 percent of the 1,290 sexual assault or child abuse cases they were supposed to investigate from 2011 to 2013. There can be no justification for such a wholesale breakdown. Whether it’s a case of lax oversight, laziness, incompetence or corruption — or some combination thereof — this scandal exposes a deep, dark institutional and cultural crisis at NOPD.

Landrieu and police brass now promise that nearly 300 of those cases will get a thorough review by a special NOPD task force, but for many victims — and for the public — the damage has been done. NOPD’s many critics (and many citizens as well) now have one more reason not to trust the department.

This scandal lands in the mayor’s lap not just because the buck stops with him, but also because Serpas is the police chief Landrieu wanted. That makes all of Serpas’ sins the mayor’s as well. Serpas retired months ago and now has a cushy teaching gig at Loyola University. In an interview with The Times-Picayune, he passed the buck down to sergeants and lieutenants — saying police chiefs have to rely on “layers of supervision.”

That’s a cop-out, but Serpas can get away with copping out now that he’s ensconced in academia. Landrieu, not so much.

While the mayor can point to significant improvements at NOPD since he took office, including the arrest of more than 80 bad cops, the sex crimes scandal overshadows those gains. For Landrieu, cleaning up NOPD — not cleaning up after Katrina — will be the yardstick by which he is measured.

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“I am undocumented because I saw my father killed over a war tax.”

“I am undocumented because I am running from a country with corrupt government.”

“I am undocumented because I do not want to be a future victim of rape.”

“I am undocumented because I do not want to be in a gang.”

“I am undocumented because I had to cross rivers and mountains and cities to be here.”

“I am undocumented and all that I ask is for the opportunity to be free.”

Department, Jefferson Parish has seen the highest number of arrivals since the beginning of the year, with 585 minors released to “sponsors” as of Sept. 30.

The ORR cites 267 minors released in Orleans Parish during that same time period. Those counted are only the minors who were detained at the border, taken to detention centers and then released to family members or other sponsors. While children are coming from other countries, more are arriving from Honduras than any other country — and many Hondurans gravitate toward the port city of New Orleans, where they know people.

Originating in ties to the birth of banana corporations in the early 20th century, a relatively large and deeply rooted Honduran and Honduran-American community has long called New Orleans home.

The recent surge over the summer is part of a larger trend that shows no sign of decrease. Three years ago, just under 7,000 children were detained by U.S.

commitment to positive social change, community empowerment and cultural awareness. From its home base in a strip mall on Chef Menteur Highway, the group holds citizenship clinics and helps to enroll the immigrant kids in school and connect them to social services.

Equally important, it acts as a safe place that welcomes any and every child.

At a recent VAYLA event, the Honduran kids read aloud singlesentence “poems”: “I am undocumented because I saw my father killed over a war tax.”

“I am undocumented because I am running from a country with corrupt government.”

“I am undocumented because I do not want to be a future victim of rape.”

“I am undocumented because I do not want to be in a gang.”

“I am undocumented because I had to cross rivers and mountains and cities to be here.”

“I am undocumented and all that I ask is for the opportunity to be free.”

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immigration authorities and placed in federal custody.

This year’s estimates go as high as 90,000.

Rosales-Fajardo is a lead organizer at VAYLA New Orleans, a youth-centered organization with a stated

Unlike other immigrants, Rosales-Fajardo points out, these children didn’t come in search of the American dream. For many, it was literally a life or death decision. They didn’t ask to have their families

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unior Rivas, 16, is a quiet and polite boy with sharp features, but there is sadness in his dark eyes.

Junior fled Honduras about two years ago because his only alternative was to join a pandilla — a gang — that would force him to participate in violent acts about which Junior hesitates to get specific: either they would kill him, or make him do cosas males (bad things). Junior has friends and family members who have been killed and others who joined the gangs.

Going to a different town or neighborhood wouldn’t save him, he says; they would kill him wherever he went.

He doesn’t want to go into specifics about the journey either, only to say that it was “muy peligroso.”

He knows exactly how long it took — six weeks — but all he says is that it was “feo” (bad) — “muy feo.”

Junior doesn’t know what his future holds. Some of his family members here are facing deportation. He misses Honduras and the more peaceful aspects of the life he knew, but he is doing his best to continue

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torn apart, their childhoods severed and their innocence broken by unimaginable violence.

Martin Gutierrez, vice president of Community Services Ministry for Catholic Charities, says if more Hondurans were aware of the legal nightmare their children face once they reach the United States, they might reconsider the perilous journey. But Gutierrez notes that when the other option is certain death — anything is better than that.

Now the Honduran kids are struggling to fit in a new country and learn English and coming to terms with what it means to be “undocumented” or an “illegal alien.” They miss their homes and the family left behind. But they are survivors, RosalesFajardo says. They are here, and they are alive to tell their stories.

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his education. Junior attends public school in New Orleans, and wants to be an architect.

Sulmi Cantillano looks like a typical American 17-year-old. She wears big silver earrings, skinny jeans and white sandals, and the black eyeliner around her almondshaped eyes is applied perfectly.

She is sweet-tempered and shy.

But beneath that there is pain and fear.

Sulmi fled Honduras in June with her two younger stepbrothers. When Sulmi was in seventh grade, she says, she was raped. Afterward, she was afraid to leave the house and her family received death threats against her and her relatives. So Sulmi came to New Orleans to live with family, leaving behind her 7-monthold baby. Sulmi did not think the infant would survive the journey and the border crossing, so her grandmother agreed to take care of the baby. Asked to describe her baby, Sulmi tears up; she only can say “preciosa.”

The eight-day trip was scary, Sulmi says, but they made it with the help of a coyote (smuggler), crossing the Rio Grande in Texas and turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol agents. After 10 days in a detention center, they were released to a relative living in New Orleans.

Sulmi says she wants to work so she can provide for her daughter. But Rosales-Fajardo has encouraged her to finish her education, telling her that is how she can best take care of her child. Right now, Sulmi is attending

public school and has a place to live, though those arrangements may not last.

Sulmi says she is considering a career in law enforcement, so she can prevent what happened to her from happening to other girls.

Elvis Diaz, 17, is more outgoing than Junior and Sulmi, with curly black hair, long dark lashes and a big smile. He has been in New Orleans for about a year and is enrolled in a public charter school. Elvis doesn’t understand all the strict “zero tolerance” rules, but he is getting by, and likes it “mas o menos.” But it doesn’t take long to see that smiling is also his defense mechanism. The more painful a memory a question elicits, the more Elvis smiles.

Elvis says he came to New Orleans in hopes of reuniting with his mother, who came here for work when he was 8 years old.

He hadn’t seen her since.

It took Elvis three months to get to the United States. He made it to Mexico twice, only to be deported. The third trip took 15 days. The first attempt was scary, Elvis says, but not after that — it was just long.

Elvis misses Honduras. He looks down, still smiling, and fights tears when he thinks about home, his father and brother. He doesn’t want to stay in New Orleans, but he knows it is too dangerous to return to Honduras. He hopes to go to college. But as with all the others who made it across the border, the courts will decide his future.

Being undocumented isn’t something Elvis likes to think about. “It feels terrible,” he says.

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ll the undocumented children are at risk of being deported back to the violence overwhelming Honduras. The legal challenges they face are lengthy and complex.

Some also rely on family members who are also undocumented, though not awarded the same layer of protection as the juveniles. Their greatest need right now is legal representation, Rosales-Fajardo says.

In a Metairie office building about 20 miles away from VAYLA’s home base, immigration attorney Kathleen Gasparian devotes her free time to the newly created “Pro Bono and Juveniles” (PB & J). Gasparian started the organization to connect lawyers and other volunteers to kids who cannot afford legal representation.

In Louisiana, there is a severe shortage for pro bono legal services, Gasparian says, especially pro bono immigration legal services. Even if a child or family is able to pay, there are not enough lawyers trained in immigration law. In addition, Gasparian adds, the detention centers (including one of the largest in the country in Jena) are located far away from cities and adequate resources.

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access legal representation.

A 2008 law made it easier for the United States to quickly deport minors back to Canada or Mexico, but the process for other countries is more complicated and lengthy.

Gasparian says she was “floored” by the response to the first PB & J meeting she held calling for volunteers; she had hoped 10 lawyers would show up, but the number was closer to 100. From the first meeting, Gasparian says the group was able to make about 50 matches. But the shortage remains, and there also is a significant need for more Spanish-speaking lawyers and interpreters, she says.

Obtaining legal representation is only the beginning of the fight. Once represented, one path is to apply for amnesty, which Gasparian says can be very difficult to prove and to

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win. Another option is to apply for a special juvenile visa, which requires proof that a child was abused, abandoned or neglected by one or both parents.

Mental health care for the children fleeing traumatic circumstances in Honduras is another major concern, says Gutierrez. He has teamed up with PB&J, and with Catholic Charities Works to connect the kids to social services as well as legal.

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ondurans have been immigrating to New Orleans for more than a century for a variety of reasons — because of the port connection, for better job opportunities and schools for their children, as a place of refuge after Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras in 1998 and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 for work opportunities.

Many of the immigrants were from middle- and upper-class Honduran families, who readily assimilated into the region and are now part of the fabric of

New Orleans society, notes Dr. Steve Striffler, a professor of anthropology and the Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans.

Some accounts of the violence involving children in today’s Honduras are staggeringly brutal. In a July 11 opinion piece in The New York Times, Sonia Nazario wrote about her interviews with 11-year-old Cristian Omar Reyes, a boy living in Honduras and desperate to escape. Nazario recounts: “A girl his age resisted being robbed of $5. She was clubbed over the head and dragged off by two men who cut a hole in her throat, stuffed her panties in it, and left her body in a ravine across the street from Cristian’s house.”

Nazario also described the young children sucked into the violence: “Teachers at Cristian’s school described a 12-year-old who demanded that the school release three students one day to help him distribute crack cocaine; he brandished a pistol and threatened to kill a teacher when she tried to question him.”

For Rosales-Fajardo, her daily focus is about addressing the needs of the wave of Honduran youth now that they are here. Access to education is a priority at VAYLA, and there is a constant effort to make sure schools are serving English language learners and undocumented children, as required by law; if the law requires kids to be in school, Rosales-Fajardo says, then the schools need to meet their obligation (that comes with federal funding) to enroll them and educate them. The schools in New Orleans (now nearly all privatized charter schools) require monitoring to ensure kids with additional needs, like language services, aren’t pushed out or discouraged from enrolling. “There’s a lot of pushout,” Rosales-Fajardo says.

Last month, VAYLA and The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote letters to all charter schools that required a Social Security number on enrollment applications, informing them it is not a requirement (the law allows children a public education regardless of legal status). In 2012, VAYLA published a report and filed a federal complaint regarding the violation of laws related to language services in public schools in New Orleans. The report documented students

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ot long ago, Honduras wasn’t a particularly violent or distressed country. In 2013, however, it was listed in a United Nations report as the murder capital of the world, with a rate almost double any other country. The average global rate for homicides is 6.2 per 100,000 people. In Honduras in 2012, it stood at 90.4.

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez says American drug policy is at the root of the strife. Others point to the 2009 coup d’etat that ousted Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected Manuel Zelaya president. Since then, the small country has PHOTO BY THINKSTOCK rapidly spiraled into violence.

“The out-of-control crime didn’t start until after the coup,” says Dr. Steve Striffler, professor of anthropology and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans. Striffler says many Hondurans were happy to see the former president ousted, but the regime change left institutions broken and ripe for corruption.

While Honduras was not a historical center for drug trafficking, the 2009 coup created new opportunities. In a January article in The New Yorker, Mattathias Schwartz wrote of the coup’s aftermath: “During weeks of street protests, the new government fought to consolidate its control of the cities, a campaign that aggravated the already volatile security climate in Honduras. Mexican and Colombian traffickers took advantage of the chaos by strengthening their ties to Honduran elites and increasing shipments.

Among the underpaid police, some resorted to friendly extortion; others hired themselves out or formed death squads.”

Following the coup, corruption and violence reigned, and youth increasingly have been targeted. More kids have been either the victims of violence, or the most desirable recruits for ruthless gangs battling for control of drug territory. There also are many reports of rumors and false promises among Hondurans, including guarantees of amnesty, or that their children would be automatically welcomed — in contrast to the reality of what awaits the undocumented kids in the United States. — KARI DEQUINE HARDEN

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t the downtown Catholic Charities offices, Gutierrez excitedly shares the news they soon will be hiring two fulltime immigration attorneys to help with the caseload. Aiding immigrants and refugees has long been part of the group’s mission, and undocumented children fleeing danger in Central

America is nothing new. In an average year, Catholic Charities might see 15 cases, Gutierrez says. So far this year they’ve seen close to 300.

To respond to the increase, Catholic Charities has been holding group orientations, after which they screen every child individually. From there they try to ensure the children’s basic health and education needs are met, and then determine which cases have the best chance of finding legal remedy. Word of mouth brought 150 people to the first orientation session held in late August, Gutierrez says.

Gutierrez also is starting a mental health program modeled after the one at PB&J, enlisting pro bono counselors and psychiatrists, pointing out undocumented children don’t qualify for most social services other than education and major emergency medical care.

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who were placed in inappropriate classes — some who spoke English but were assessed based on their surname, and others who were not provided needed language services.

According to the report, 69.5 percent of Asian and Latino students surveyed said they were placed in an English as a second language class they did not feel was appropriate for their level of language development.

Other stories detailed students being pulled out of class to be used as translators, and the failure by schools to translate important communication with families.

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immigration debate.

Gutierrez emphasized that the church does not support “blanket amnesty” but does support comprehensive immigration reform.

People who meet certain basic requirements should “have the chance to legalize their status,” Gutierrez says.

That attitude isn’t shared among many Louisiana politicians.

Despite the relatively small number of undocumented Honduran minors who have come to Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s reaction has been unequivocal. In

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a July letter he wrote to President Barack Obama, Jindal, the son of (legal) Indian immigrants, wrote: “For just one example of the potential negative ramifications of your actions, we are in the midst of hurricane season and I am gravely concerned about the safety and well-being of the 1,071 unaccompanied immigrant children who were placed without our knowledge in the last six months. … The introduction of 1,071 additional children to unknown locations gravely hampers state and local government emergency response. Furthermore,

the school year is about to start. The state has received no guidance or resources to ensure the education and health care for these children.”

Jindal goes on to hold the Obama Administration accountable: “The crisis is a predictable one. It is happening because your administration has failed to secure our borders and enforce immigration laws, making our country a magnet for these migrants.”

Sen. David Vitter voiced his outrage through his Twitter account. On the rumor that a Shreveport coliseum might be asked to house Honduran refugee children, Vitter tweeted: “#Louisiana should not be bullied into housing them.” In an email solicitation a few days later asking for support for his upcoming gubernatorial campaign, Vitter wrote, “I have a bill in Congress that will fix the border crisis now by creating mandatory detention of illegal immigrants who are trying to sneak into the U.S., and expediting deportation.

And as Governor, I will use all of our state’s power to block them from coming to Louisiana in the future.”

But Gasparian points out that there is a higher level of border enforcement under the Obama administration than under any other administration in history. Under Obama, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has seen a record level of funding and the highest level of deportations in history — total “removals” have increased over the past decade, according to DHS figures, from just under

250,000 in 2004 to close to 450,000 in 2013.

The flood of Honduran children entering America has become a flashpoint for immigration reform, with Republicans, Democrats and the public at large voicing strong opinions on what that means. Obama issued an executive order Nov. 20, blocking the deportation of as many as 5 million undocumented aliens while they register with the U.S. government and become legal. The president said the immigration system is “broken” and blamed Republicans in the House for thwarting attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform. He also challenged Congress members who did not like his plan to “pass a bill.”

Even though RosalesFajardo’s colleagues tell her not to do it, she reads online comments following news articles about the Honduran youth in New Orleans and across the country, where the undocumented kids are portrayed as lawbreaking freeloaders and the comment threads are filled with vitriol. Others express sympathy, but along the lines of, “We have to take care of our own before we can take care of others.

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artisan domestic politics and sticky foreign policy aside, the notion that America is a nation of immigrants hits close to home for Rosales-Fajardo, Gasparian, and Gutierrez.

Rosales-Fajardo was a young Brazilian who did not speak a word of English when she came to New Orleans. She’s now a community activist married to a Honduran immigrant and is a mother of three. Gasparian also refers to her own history.

Her grandfather fled the Armenian genocide and her mother’s family fled the potato famine in Ireland.

With her father in the military, Gasparian grew up traveling all over the world.

“I understand how amazing it is to be here,” she says. “I understand how lucky we are just by the virtue of the geography of our birth.”

Gutierrez also identifies with the kids with whom he works. He moved to St. Bernard Parish from Nicaragua in the 1970s to escape violence. His father served in the military and stayed to work while the family decided to wait until things stabilized. But Gutierrez’s father was a target, on the losing side of the conflict, and the family permanently relocated to Louisiana and applied for asylum.

In a July column in the Clarion Herald, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Gutierrez wrote: “This is a major crisis in a very complex world. The root causes that push these families to leave their countries and the forces that pull them to come to the U.S. must be dealt with. This will not happen overnight. In the meantime, we have to deal with this situation in a fair, humane, and just manner.”

Gasparian knows how heartbreaking immigration law can be. If she loses, her clients get deported. She calls the current immigration laws “draconian,” and says the process is trying for everyone involved and can last many years. There’s a major backlog, having nothing to do with the recent influx of kids.

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hile Sulmi, Junior, and Elvis all are in limbo awaiting court dates, Gasparian says the time can be a gift. More time can mean better legal representation. At least for now, they are safe, in school and have a roof over their heads. Sulmi and Elvis are earning small stipends as part of VAYLA’s leadership training program.

“The laws on the books allow the kids to be here and go through the process and have their day in court,” Gutierrez says. “Many will qualify for visas. But the reality is that many will not and will have to be deported.”

Gutierrez says he isn’t optimistic that the attention given to the children fleeing violence in Central America will spur any meaningful immigration reform. “At the same time, I am encouraged by the opportunity to talk to people who normally would not care but do because it involves children,” he says.

“It gives the opportunity to highlight how complex and broken our immigration system is.”

— Kari Dequine Harden is a New Orleans writer.

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Member Appreciation Day Mignon Faget Trunk Show SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014

The Historic New Orleans Collection loves its members, and we are showing our appreciation with a one-day sale at The Shop at The Collection. On Saturday, December 6, THNOC members will save 20% on in-store purchases, including merchandise from the Mignon Faget Ltd. trunk show.

This event is open to the public. Anyone who is not a member can join at the register.

Aventurine alligator necklace, $95 from the Mignon Faget Ltd. Animal Crackers Collection

Member Appreciation Day 9:30 a.m.–7 p.m.

Mignon Faget Trunk Show 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.

Store hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Sunday, 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Monday, December 8 & 15, noon to 4 p.m.

Monday, December 22, 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

The Shop at The Collection

THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION

533 Royal Street in the French Quarter (504) 598-7147 www.hnoc.org/shop

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Blanche wide cuff, $850 from the Mignon Faget Ltd. HEIR Collection

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WEB What to do if Internet shopping becomes an addiction. By Lee Cutrone

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lmost everyone can relate to the shopping temptations technology presents. Even the busiest nine-to-fivers browse shopping sites on their work computers. But when does Internet shopping become a problem?

Shopping addiction, also known as compulsive buying disorder or compulsive shopping, is not new. Defined as an obsession with shopping and buying behavior that causes adverse consequences, shopping addiction affects approximately 5.8 percent of the U.S. population, according to a 2006 study by the American Journal of Psychiatry. What is just beginning to be understood, however, is the way the Internet can fuel such an addiction.

While shoppers in the past had to leave home to buy merchandise, today’s consumers can access an endless stream of goods and make purchases with the click of a mouse. E-marketing strategies (such as emails that lure shoppers with new merchandise and time-limited flash sales) can create a sense of urgency in individuals who otherwise might not buy so quickly.

“The web and even more so with mobile technology makes it so easy to act on impulse,” says Andrew Nelson, assistant professor of the School of Mass Communications at Loyola University. An award-winning journalist who designed Loyola’s first social media course, Nelson says the Internet and social media make it easier for retailers to target consumers by tracking their patterns and generating peer endorsements.

“Millennials are very savvy about social media, and brands have gotten really good at hitching a ride to that,” he says. “When we invite social media into our world, commercial messaging becomes something we act on without even thinking about it.”

Recognizing the signs According to Stock, Internet shopping becomes a problem when it makes your life unmanageable. Overspending, taking time away from work and family activities to shop online, isolation, lying and making excuses about your shopping, guilt, shame, lack of trust from others (as a result of lying), having to spend more to achieve the same feeling, and an inability to cut back on Internet shopping are telltale signs.

Beating the addiction

What is Internet shopping addiction?

Dr. Jose Calderon, assistant professor of psychiatry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, defines addiction as “compulsive use of substances or behaviors despite ongoing negative consequences.” As with other addictions, Calderon says, compulsive shopping is characterized by a loss of control and destructive results including debt, shame and relationship difficulties.

There’s disagreement about whether compulsive shopping is considered an impulse control disorder, an anxiety or mood disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder or an addiction.

Calderon believes it is all of those. “Addictions in general cut across the board,” he says. “There’s a genetic predisposition and different realms from the biological to the emotional and spiritual.”

Treating the underlying issues is key.

“Unlike alcoholism, the model of treatment is not abstinence,” Calderon says. “At some point, everyone has to shop.”

Who’s at risk Compulsive shopping is not the primary reason the majority of Calderon’s patients seek his help. He says shopping addiction often goes “hand-in-hand with other addictions and problems with impulse control” such as alcoholism, tobacco use or binge eating. Other mood disorders such as depression and anxiety can be present as well. According to Calderon, studies show compulsive shopping is more common in women than men. But men tend to be underrepresented in studies and are categorized more often as collectors

Calderon recommends people with Internet shopping addictions learn more about the problem by researching it. Once you’ve recognized the symptoms, educated yourself and decided to be proactive about changing the behavior, it’s helpful to deal with the unique enticements of e-commerce and the underlying problems.

“Technology makes the accessibility easier, but it’s important the underlying issues are addressed,” Stock says. Limiting computer access, cutting up credit cards, reducing credit card limits and investing in software filters that can block certain sites are ways to curtail Internet spending.

Seeking help from a mental health professional or groups such as Shopaholics Anonymous and Debtors Anonymous can help with the long-term part of the equation.

“The largest impediment to anyone’s financial security is credit card debt,” says financial advisor Randy Waesche of Resource Management LLC. “If your credit card bills are growing monthly and all you can afford to spend is the minimum payment, you will never get ahead.”

Self care (learning to establish boundaries, develop coping skills and recognize triggers), mindfulness (being present in the moment, breathing and not acting on the impulse) and medication also can help. Calderon notes that antidepressants can have positive effects. Opiate blockers, while not well-studied, may lessen the pleasurable feeling or high that addicts experience. Finally, replacing online shopping with meaningful activities and interaction is an essential piece of the puzzle.

“Addictions shrink people’s lives,” Calderon says. “People lose relationships, money and other things. There needs to be recovery of other areas of one’s life that have been impoverished. As the behavior stops, people need to reclaim hobbies, exercise, relationships, reconnect on a spiritual level and be of service to others.”

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Reading about Internet shopping addiction can help those who have it recognize the signs and start the healing process.

PROFESSIONAL HELP

Talk to a licensed therapist or addiction specialist.

GROUP SUPPORT

Shopaholics Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, and Spenders Anonymous offer support. Calderon also suggests learning more about “simplicity circles,” a social movement geared toward living a downsized, meaningful life.

FINANCIAL COUNSELING

Mounting debt can be a source of stress that exacerbates overspending rather than curbs it. A financial advisor can devise a budget, and a credit counselor can help eliminate debt.

MEDICATION

When there’s a genetic predisposition to addiction or underlying issues of depression and anxiety, medication can be helpful.

MINDFULNESS

Pay attention to emotions, recognize triggers and breathe consciously when you experience the urge to shop online. Work through the impulse without giving in to it.

PURSUE OTHER INTERESTS

To overcoming the cycle of addiction, cultivate hobbies, exercise, eat right, build relationships, reconnect to spirituality and be of service to others.

BE ACCOUNTABLE

Because Internet shopping is often a solitary activity, Calderon suggests going shopping with someone else. Having an accountability partner can help you to be honest with yourself.

LIMIT ACCESS

Cutting up or canceling credit cards (shopping online is impossible without them), decreasing your credit card limit, installing software that blocks access to specific sites, and even giving control of your finances to a spouse, financial professional or other trustworthy individual can be useful stopgap measures.

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How does the Internet encourage shopping addiction?

than shopaholics.

Calderon says compulsive shopping is often a chronic condition that gets out of control at stressful times of life: the transition to college; the 30s and 40s when people experience job, family and financial stresses; and retirement.

“People who are struggling with something internally and don’t have good coping skills to deal with that,” can be susceptible, says Dr. Mary Stock, a licensed clinical social worker who devotes more than half her practice to addiction work. “It’s a quick fix. Addictions are always about running from something.”

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retend you’re mashed potatoes. Now be rice.

Cauliflower can rise to both challenges. It also packs hefty doses of vitamin C among other nutrients, fiber and anti-inflammatory compounds, into its dense flesh.

Featuring an emerging cooking technique, this cauliflower recipe lets the vegetable play more one round of charades: a holiday centerpiece. A thick coating of calcium- and probiotic-rich yogurt protects the vegetable while it roasts and creates a flavorful crust.

You can roast heads whole, or slice them width-wise to create gorgeous cauliflower “steaks.” (There it goes again with charades.) Cinnamon, paprika and Worcestershire sauce provide depth.

Garnish the vegetable with a contrasting color (I made a Brazilian chimichurri with a pistachio oil base) and your buffet has a visual centerpiece, plus an interesting take on a vegetable dish.

Serves 3-4

FOR THE CAULIFLOWER: VEGETABLE OIL FOR OILING PAN 1 WHOLE CAULIFLOWER 1 CUP PLAIN NONFAT GREEK YOGURT JUICE OF TWO SATSUMAS 1 TABLESPOON CHAMPAGNE VINEGAR 2 TEASPOONS CINNAMON 2 TEASPOONS SWEET HUNGARIAN PAPRIKA DASH WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE SALT AND FRESHLY GROUND PEPPER

FOR THE CHIMICHURRI: 1/4 CUP FLAT LEAF PARSLEY, COARSELY CHOPPED 3 TABLESPOONS RED WINE VINEGAR 4 LARGE GARLIC CLOVES, MINCED (2 1/2 TABLESPOONS) 2 TABLESPOONS OREGANO LEAVES 2 TEASPOONS CRUSHED RED PEPPER 1/2 CUP PISTACHIO OIL SALT AND FRESHLY GROUND PEPPER

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Preheat oven to 400 F with oven rack in middle position. Oil a baking sheet or roasting pan with vegetable oil, enough to provide a sheen without oil “standing” in the pan.

Trim greenery from the cauliflower and trim the base until the vegetable can stand upright in the pan.

In a bowl, mix yogurt and remaining ingredients, adjusting seasoning to your taste. Every flavor should be distinct except the Worcestershire, which you should not taste outright. Add additional yogurt to adjust overall intensity.

Mix well.

Use one hand to support the vegetable and the other to smear a thick coasting of yogurt across the entire cauliflower; brushes don’t adequately coat the vegetable. Add yogurt in an even layer until none of the cauliflower is visible.

Place cauliflower on baking sheet and bake for 40-50 minutes.

Immediately after the cauliflower enters the oven, assemble the chimichurri by combining ingredients in a food processor or using a mortar and pestle.

Allow it to sit so the flavors mingle.

The cauliflower is finished when the coating appears dry and begins to darken. Remove from oven and let rest 10 minutes before serving.

To serve, cut width-wise into steaks and garnish with sauce. Or serve on a pie plate with chimichurri drizzled around the vegetable for color.

Per serving: calories 126; fat 3.8 g; cholesterol 0; sodium 80.5 mg; total carbohydrates 15.5 g (fiber 4.5 g; sugar 2 g); protein 10.1 g.

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T he total package Treat your loved ones with gifts that are as sparkling, sweet and original as they are.

BY ANGEL A HERNANDEZ

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1: Decorative Lamp Leave this lamp lit for Santa Claus, add cookies and milk and voila — you’re on the nice list, $25 at House Stuff (3939 Toulouse St., 504-638-7332).

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A black-and-gold lace bra and panty set can be naughty or nice. Push-up bra, $105, boy short, $58, both at Basics Underneath (1281 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville, 985-727-9521; 5513 Magazine St., 504-894-1000; www. facebook.com/basicsunderneath).

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A Daniel Wellington York watch in rose stainless steel is a sleek mix of form and function, $229 at Wellington & Company Fine Jewelry (505 Royal St., 504-525-4855; www.wcjewelry.com).

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Tote the essentials in a handmade wool clutch by Sarah Oliver, $218 at Hazelnut (2735 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, 985-6268900; 5515 Magazine St., 504-891-2424; www.hazelnutneworleans.com).

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5: Diamond Ring She’ll shine bright in a 2.02-carat cushion cut yellow diamond ring set in 18-karat gold, $23,995 at Boudreaux’s Fine Jewelers (701 Metairie Road, Metairie, 504-831-2602; 4550 Highway 22, Mandeville, 985-626-1666; www.boudreauxsjewelers.com).

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6: Silk Slip Slip in to a silk slip by Mimi Holiday, $175 at Bonjour Lingerie (4214 Magazine St., 504-309-8014; www. bonjourlingerie.com).

7: Fragrance Lamp Trade your scented candles for a Lampe Berger fragrance lamp, $30 at Auraluz (4408 Shores Drive, 504-888-3313; www.auraluzlinensgifts.com).

8: Printed Ties

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Elevate his suit-and-tie game with Louisiana-inspired printed ties, $65 at Pelican Coast Clothing Company (5509 Magazine St., 504-309-2314; www. pelicancoastclothing.com).

Sparkle like a starry New Year’s Eve with this gem-encrusted cocktail bag, $65 at Fifi Mahony’s (934 Royal St., 504-525-4343; www.fifimahonys.com).

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Italian almond cookies from the Amaretti di Saronno holiday tin make every gathering a little sweeter, $23.25 at Angelo Brocato Italian Ice Cream and Pastry (214 N. Carrollton Ave., 504486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com).

O Tannenbaum, how NOLA are your branches. New Orleans-inspired ornaments bring local flair to the tree, $6.99 at Gordon’s (725 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-873-9416; 1846 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville, 985-727-4400; 7060 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-454-6810; www.gordonshomedecor.com).

Baby Santa and the Gift of Giving teaches its lesson in more than one way: proceeds benefit Children’s Hospital. $14.99 at Deland Books (www.delandbooks.com).

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THE BIGGEST SELECTION FROM THE TOP BRANDS.

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Walls of Books co-owner Elliott Sarpy presides over a selection of new and used titles.

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the amount of credit.

“We might have one [book] of a series,” Lisa says. “So … we’ll pay you more to get that series [title] that we only have one of. Whereas if we have four of that one book from a series, we wouldn’t pay as much. We just have to know our inventory to judge how much to pay.”

Paperbacks get about 50 to 75 cents and hardcovers get $1 to $1.50 in store credit.

The process of trading books is simple. “[The customer] just brings them in and we approve them and give them a price,” Elliott says. “[Customers] can only use up to 50 percent of the purchase price with your credit. You have to come back and use the remaining credit another time.”

They also can bring back books purchased at Walls of Books and get store credit.

“After you read it, if you don’t want to keep it, bring it in and … get another book,” Lisa says. “That way, you can trade in the books you buy here as well.”

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The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp St., 504-569-9650; www.ogdenmuseum.org) holds its annual shopping event, Art of Giving, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2. The free event features artists from the museum’s Center for Southern Craft & Design. There will be complimentary white wine, live music and a cash bar.

Hickory Chicks (1915 Hickory Ave., Suite B, Harahan, 504-324-2454; www.hickorychicksboutique.com) holds its eighth annual after-hours shopping event, Sip, Shop & Sparkle, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4.

by Missy Wilkinson

There will be cocktails, refreshments, door prizes, discounts and hair and makeup tutorials by Salon J-Elle.

Decked Studios (3000 Royal St., 504-373-5927; www. deckedstudios.com) celebrates its grand opening from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5. The business offers home, set and event design services.

The Esplanade (1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 504-465-2161; www.shoptheesplanade.com) holds its Breakfast with Santa event at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6. There will be complimentary beignets and beverages.

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hough opening a bookstore in the era of e-readers may seem like a gamble, for many people, there’s no substitute for the sight and smell of a store lined with paperbacks and hardcovers. Elliott and Lisa Sarpy opened Walls of Books (910 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 504-281-4224; www. gottwalsbooks.com/franchising/ neworleans) in August.

Founded in Warner Robins, Georgia, Walls of Books is a franchise offering new and used books of all genres, including classics and works by local authors. The buyand-trade bookstore has discounted prices.

“All of the books are in great condition,” Elliott says.

“We have some new books, bestsellers and a lot of New Orleans books. We have classics that are new.”

There also is a kids’ corner filled with toys and children’s books, as well as a chalkboard for kids to draw on and a carpet for story time.

“Not only can you get children’s books as gifts, but we also have the Melissa and Doug line,” Lisa says. “That’ll be a really big draw if you’re not a book-y person. I had a lady come in just to buy toys.”

Walls of Books offers store credit for book trade-ins. The condition and size of the books as well as demand determine

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Ox Lot 9 is a Northshore dining destination.

By Sarah Baird

cream sauce, and Ox Lot 9 is inside the Southern Hotel in Covington. blue crab-topped tomato salad, which P H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER offers one of the menu’s best options to cleanse the palate between heavier courses.

What Ox Lot’s inventive seafood dishes Ox Lot 9 feature several fish that speak to the depth and breadth of Louisiana marine where life. The almond flour-crusted pompano Southern Hotel, 428 E. Boston balances the crackly, finely battered skin St., Covington, (985) 400-5663; with tender, light flesh and shows how www.oxlot9.com alternative flours (almond, rye, tapioca) can elevate a dish. when For those interested in spinning the boozy wheel, the bar offers a “fix” dinner Tue.-Sat., Sun. brunch option, which allows imbibers to select a base spirit from which a specially how much tailored cocktail is made. My concoction’s expensive standout element was a house-made, spearmint-infused rye with bright, sweet what works notes of mint smacking against the rye’s changing seasonal menu spotnuttiness in a tussling of forest flavors. lighting Louisiana produce Other woodsy pairings — a sherry-based bubbly cider and a tart, gingery take on what doesn’t applejack brandy — are equally autumnal pecan-smoked, dry rub ribs and pair well with the seasonal menu.

Dining at Ox Lot 9 can taste like a culiare sinewy nary retreat to rustic environs, helping to rejuvenate the palate and mind. check, please simple and refined ambience and menu that elevates Gulf Contact Sarah Baird at Coast ingredients sarahgambitdining@gmail.com

Ralph Brennan opened Brennan’s (417 Royal St., 504-525-9711; www. brennansneworleans.com) Nov. 25 after a reported $20 million renovation of the renowned restaurant.

“I really love what we’ve been able to do with the space,” Brennan said.

“We put in windows [in the front dining room], so you’ll be able to see straight through from the street back to the courtyard. Not a lot of restaurants do that here in the French Quarter.”

A front dining room occupies the former kitchen space. The upstairs dining rooms are lavishly redone. The bar is remodeled and, in a tribute to Brennan’s iconic rooster logo, it has an aviary theme. A weathered mirror is hand-painted with colorful illustrations of peacocks, flamingos and sparrows, barstools are covered in a rust-colored leather and lanterns shaped like birdcages hang over the bar.

“I was terrified about what the birdcages would look like when my designer told me about them,” Brennan said.

“They turned out great.”

The courtyard can seat 60 diners at umbrella-topped tables and a fountain will be installed. The wine room is still at the back of the courtyard, but it also is remodeled. The cellar currently stocks approximately 7,500 bottles, and Brennan expects to increase it to 10,000 bottles and restore Wine Spectator’s Grand Award, a designation the previous incarnation held for years.

“We’re aiming to become the biggest Champagne house in the South,” Beverage Director Drew Brandwein said.

Sommeliers have been trained to saber Champagne bottles, which will be an option for diners each Friday.

In addition to fresh spins on classic cocktails — a fruity Pimm’s Cup, a honey liqueur-infused take on iced tea, two brandy milk punches — a build-your-own Sazerac menu will be offered during dinner, featuring four types of bitters, absinthe and rye.

The Brennan’s staff discovered a number of unusual bottles of liquor in the cellar and elsewhere during the renovation. One is a complete eight-bottle set of the rare Courvoisier Erte collection from the late 1980s, which sells for upwards of $10,000 and features one-ofa-kind decorated bottles. Another find was a vintage Usquaebach Rare blended Scotch in an unusual earthenware jug.

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x Lot 9 derives its name from Covington’s original planning scheme, which allowed space for farmers to tie up their oxen. Rustic elements inform the restaurant, which is a relatively undiscovered gem inside the Southern Hotel and an up-and-coming anchor for Northshore fine dining. Chef Jeffrey Hansell, who worked under chefs Robert McCormick at Montagna in Colorado and John Besh at Luke, has created a menu and ambience that are refreshingly simple and refined, elevating the humblest of Gulf Coast ingredients to new heights.

Given the freshness and fine-tuned selection of seasonal ingredients at Ox Lot, it’s not difficult to imagine a cadre of fishermen and hunters is sent out each morning on an epic quest for fish and game, returning at dusk with a menagerie of meat and seafood for the Ox Lot team to prepare.

The menu rotates frequently and in early fall dipped heavily into hearty, nostalgia-inducing and rib-sticking hunter’s camp dishes with great reverence for the integrity and composition of each dish’s main ingredient.

A rustic comfort food theme is best expressed in Ox Lot’s take on classic French choucroute garnie, a spread of cured meats and pickles (or sauerkraut) that fights the chill of winter. Ox Lot’s version arrives as a considered, regionally influenced spin, with a plump, fireplug-shaped link of juicy garlic sausage and a succulent, crispy-on-the-outside boudin patty that steals the show from a petit set of ribs, which offer earthy heat but have a texture too sinewy to enjoy. The dish is topped by a puffed, deep-fried, translucent swell of pig skin teetering on the tower of meat. This ode to meat pairs nicely with one of the boiled peanuts served as part of an accompanying pickle dish.

From the choucroute garnie or the equally elegant charcuterie board, it’s easy to progress to the restaurant’s gamier dishes. Locally trapped, flash-fried frog legs should be served with a bib (or two) as diners will quickly find themselves slathered in decadent, fiery hot butter sauce. A milky, tender fried quail is a sportsman gourmand’s dream, plated atop red-eye gravy and creamy grit quicksand with bacon-flecked rainbow chard and compressed apples forming the kind of sweet-and-sour greens about which a Southern exile would dream.

Small plate standouts also include the oyster patty, featuring plump oysters in flaky puff pastry topped with aromatic, absinthe-tinged

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room for exploration of Creole flavors. Dinner service begins Dec. 5.

Breakfast and lunch items with nontraditional twists include New Orleans barbecue lobster, rabbit Rushing (fried Mississippi rabbit, creamed collard greens, eggs and pickled pork jus) and an escargot omelet. Threecourse breakfast, lunch and dinner options will be available, and the Brennan’s team is looking forward to entertaining guests who just want a drink and an appetizer.

“It’s not a newer item, but the dish I’m most excited about is steak Diane,” Brennan said. “Growing up, my dad was allergic to shellfish, so it wasn’t until college that I started trying that. We were a meat and potatoes kind of family. I’m also excited about the filet Stanley, which is one of our signature dishes. It combines filet, banana and horseradish, which sounds different but is delicious.”

There will be 10 pets in residence in the courtyard: turtles, much like the ducks in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Nine female turtles are named after French mother sauces and the lone male is named Cocktail.

Brennan family patriarch Owen Brennan opened his original restaurant in 1946 and died before the 1956 opening of Brennan’s, which he had moved to Royal Street. His sons Ted and Pip Brennan owned Brennan’s when it closed in 2013. Ralph Brennan, Owen’s nephew, and Terry White purchased the building and renovated the space. Ralph Brennan also owns Ralph’s on the Park (900 City Park Ave., 504-488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com), Red Fish Grill (115 Bourbon St., 504-598-1200; www. redfishgrill.com) and other restaurants. — SARAH BAIRD

Kream of the new crop

Vincent Cook III and two partners will open the ice cream parlor Kream at 8116 Oak St. in February 2015. It will offer sweet treats with adult ingredients until midnight. The idea came to Cook when he realized that there was nowhere to go for a late-night dessert.

“We came up with [the idea] because there was nowhere to get ice cream or anything like that after a certain hour,” Cook says.

The owners served samples at the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival Nov. 23. Flavors included a creamy, booze-infused vanilla ice cream, a juicy, locally sourced satsuma ice pop and “poptail” (ice pop cocktail) made with lemon, gin, vodka and a dash of bitters.

“I’m excited about doing a mint julep shaved ice,” says co-owner Shamalon Johnson. “It’s something very fresh.” — SARAH BAIRD

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Sarah Tucker and Kyle Hubbs Founders of Honeyboards

Sarah Tucker and Kyle Hubbs co-founded Honeyboards (@honeyboards), which handcrafts one-of-a-kind serving pieces from local cypress. Tucker and Hubbs spoke with Gambit about the transition from making crafts to opening a company.

How did the idea of Honeyboards come about?

Tucker: We are both crafty and like to do different kinds of things like that — gardening, stained glass — and one day we had been working with wood and had a scrap piece left over. We put some chalkboard paint on it, sanded it down and didn’t think too much more about it at the time, but the seed was planted.

Later on, we were interested in doing a project together, so we said, “What about cheese and charcuterie boards?”

Has there been a favorite piece you’ve created so far?

H: Since every piece is different, each time we make a new board and the final product comes out, we end up showing it to each other and saying, “Look at this one, it’s amazing. It’s my favorite now.” [There is] all the different shading that happens and shapes are natural, so we get longer boards, some shaped like maple leaves, all sorts of different things.

T: A bride wanted a giant, two-by-two (foot) board for her wedding cake, and I was like, “That’s going to take a little bit longer.” — SARAH BAIRD

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What’s the process for creating each board?

T: We’re both from New Orleans, so we started thinking about local woods and ways to incorporate that and we started thinking cypress wood.

Hubbs: Cypress wood is very hard to come by — we use the knees and the stumps of the trees — and there are a lot of legalities involved. So we work with people who are willing to go in after commercial operations leave and salvage the stumps and the knees of the trees no one wants. Some of the time we ask them to leave the bark on the pieces they bring back to us for one kind of look, other times we take the bark off the edges.

It takes a long time to cure each piece of wood into a board because we’re doing everything by hand. We finish them with a food-safe mineral oil and beeswax that we get from the Gretna Farmers Market. Every piece is handcrafted and one-of-a-kind, so no two pieces look the same. We have to remind people that they can’t use these as cutting boards and to make sure and wash them with soap and water.

T: We’ve been thinking about giving each of the boards their own names, since each piece is original tableware.

H: I’d eventually like to work with other woods, like walnut, as well. It’s great, though, because everything is local, down to how to the boards smell like honey from the local beeswax.

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Carol Rice started teaching Carol Rice (fifth from right in the the Crescent City Homebrewback) with the 2013-2014 Beer Appreciaers’ (www.crescentcityhomebrewers.org) Beer Appreciation tion Class.

Class in 2007 because she COURTESY CAROL RICE had so many questions about beer that she wanted answered. She took the class in 1999, and the Beer Judge Certification Program-certified beer enthusiast says, “I found out early on that the best way to learn about something is to teach it.”

The class meets every month for a year and is a forum for making, tasting, evaluating and enjoying beer. While the class is of particular interest to home brewers — and is subsidized by the Crescent City Homebrewers (CCH) club — Rice says it is for anyone interested in beer.

Over the course of the year, Rice guides the class through tastings of more than 120 beers, discerning their components and reviewing the history of brewing and the characteristics of various styles. “Researching the history aspects has been a blast,” Rice says. “There are many myths out there ripe for busting.”

Many people take the class multiple times.

The next class starts Jan. 17, 2015 at Deutches Haus (1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, 504-522-8014; www.deutscheshaus.org), with an overview of the class, discussion of the effects alcohol has on the body and early European beer history.

The class ends in December with a graduation in which participants bring their favorite beer to present to the class. A syllabus is available on the CCH website. For CCH members, the class costs $120. For non-members, the fee is $150 and includes a year’s membership. Anyone can sit in on individual classes for $20.

For information, email Carol Rice at dogearbrewing@hotmail.com.

— NORA McGUNNIGLE Email Nora McGunnigle at nora@nolabeerblog.com

WINE of the week 2012 Dr. Konstantin Frank Dry Riesling FINGER L AKES, NE W YORK STATE RETAIL $18

Germany’s Rhineland is recognized as the birthplace and spiritual home of the riesling grape. Austria and Alsace also are known for producing wines with it, but other regions are gaining attention, including New York’s Finger Lakes.

Konstantin Frank emigrated to the area in the 1950s from Ukraine. Eventually, he opened the Vinifera Wine Cellars winery and planted pinot noir in a 9-acre vineyard on a hillside bluff overlooking Keuka Lake. His wines garnered praise, and he has been singled out as the catalyst for New York’s wine industry’s current success. This well-balanced wine offers aromas of tart green apples, nectarine and lime zest. On the palate, taste stone fruit, flinty notes, grapefruit and characteristic minerality. Drink it with butternut squash soup, white-fleshed fish, mussels with french fries, and Chinese and Thai cuisines. Buy it at: Pearl Wine Company. Drink it at: Loa. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

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7 p.m. Wednesday Martinique Bistro, 5908 Magazine St., (504) 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com

www.wyes.org WYES kicks off its Wednesday wine and coffee dinner series at local restaurants. The first dinner is at Martinique Bistro and features foie gras creme brulee, turtle soup, cider-poached pork tenderloin and more. Proceeds benefit the public broadcasting station. Call WYES at (504) 840-4886 for reservations. Tickets $95, including tax and tip.

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Concours de Croissant

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405

www.southernfood.org or www.af-neworleans.org The Alliance Francaise and Southern Food & Beverage Museum host a croissant-baking contest open to amateurs and professionals, and there’s a freestyle category. Attendees can sample croissants, drink Cool Brew coffee and vote for their favorite. Admission $10, $5 students and seniors; free for museum members.

New Orleans Saints celebrity servers 7 p.m. Monday Morton’s Steakhouse, 365 Canal St., (504) 566-0221; www.mortons.com

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1 Baie Rouge

4128 Magazine St., (504) 304-3667

www.baierougenola.com

Hand-cut, skinny fries are topped with brie fondue and fresh thyme.

2 Boucherie

8115 Jeannette St., (504) 862-5514

www.boucherie-nola.com

Garlicky Parmesan fries are the perfect sidekick to smoked Wagyu beef brisket.

3 Capdeville

520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161

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California dreaming

“One of the most mistreated of Louisiana’s foods is the po’ boy, which in the rest of the country could be any old fried shrimp or oyster sandwich on some kind of roll with shredded lettuce and mayo. ... Fried oysters, bread and mayonnaise is an inherently delicious combination, so the results are seldom as horrifying as, say, the blunt, salty sludge that passes as gumbo in most non-Louisiana establishments. But still: Once you’ve had the real thing — once you’ve stood sweating in a line that snakes around a worn room, and chosen from seafood but also sausage and roast beef and turkey breast — it’s hard to go back to those sad approximations.”

— Besha Rodell of the LA Weekly, reviewing Little Jewel of New Orleans, a po-boy shop that’s opened in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.

www.capdevillenola.com

Get fries topped with chorizo and manchego.

4 District Donuts Sliders Brew

2209 Magazine St., (504) 570-6945

www.donutsandsliders.com

Waffle fries are topped with cheese sauce and sweet pickled jalapenos.

5 High Hat Cafe

4500 Freret St., (504) 754-1336 www.highhatcafe.com

Crispy fries are covered in Southern-style pimiento cheese.

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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.

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

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

BAR & GRILL

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. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves chips with salsa and guacamole made to order, burgers,

salads, tacos, entrees and more.

Fried catfish is topped with onion rings and served with mashed potatoes. Panko-crusted avacado is topped with shrimp salsa. The restaurant is dog-friendly. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Perry’s Sports Bar & Grill — 5252 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 456-9234; www.perryssportsbarandgrill.com — The sports bar offers burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, wraps, tacos, salads, steaks and a wide array of bar noshing items. Boiled seafood options include shrimp and crabs. Open 24-hours Thursday through Sunday. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

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

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

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

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. 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 Wed.-Sun., lunch Wed.Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — Casual dining options include burgers, sandwiches and half and whole muffuletta rounds and daily lunch specials. Wednesday features steak night. Reservations accepted. Lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed. and Fri.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 4821264; 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. $ Il Posto Cafe — 4607 Dryades St., (504) 895-2620; www. ilpostocafe-nola.com — The cafe offers house-baked items, bagels, granola and more in the morning. The lunch and dinner menu features panini, Italian cheese boards, antipasti plates, pressed sandwiches, soups and salads. Shaved Brussels sprouts salad includes toasted almonds, Parmesan, apples and house lemon dressing. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Tue.-Sat. 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. $

CHINESE

Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The

OUT to EAT large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/DESSERT

Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream. com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www. facebook.comruedelacourse — The Downtown sandwich includes turkey, bacon, Swiss cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, sprouts and mayonnaise on a choice of bagel and comes with chips, potato salad or coleslaw. The Lakeview features chicken or tuna salad dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a bagel and comes with a side. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

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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

and shrimp dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter and grilled Two Run Farm lamb chops served with New Orleans-style barbecue sauce. Balcony and courtyard dining available. Reservations resommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken.

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. $ 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 house-made 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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FRENCH

Martinique Bistro — 5908 Magazine St., (504) 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — Roti d’agneau is roasted New Zealand lamb loin served with white truffle mashed potatoes, pine nut pistou and sun-dried tomato jus.

Courtyard seating is available in all weather due to a retractable roof. Reservations recommended.

Dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GOURMET TO GO

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Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona. com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers a large selection of wines by the glass and full restaurant menu.

Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations.

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

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$ Ivy — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 8991330 — Chef Sue Zemanick offers a selection of small plates. Grilled lobster is served with arugula, roasted potatoes and corn. Warm snow crab claws come with truffle butter. No reservations.

Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit Cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — The constantly changing menu includes vegan dishes and house-made pasta. Sauteed sea scallops are served with fried green tomatoes, snap peas and sweet and spicy mango ginger ambrosia sauce. No reservations.

Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The mix of Creole and Caribbean fare includes jerk chicken and crawfish etouffee and cheese steaks are available. The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook. com/cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise. Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery.com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee as well as sandwiches, salads and pasta. Crawfish Ignatius pasta features crawfish cream sauce with mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and bell peppers topped with grated Parmesan. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www. neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options.

Louisiana crab cakes are popular.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www. mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday.

Credit cards. $$$ Olivier’s Creole Restaurant — 204 Decatur St., (504) 525-7734; www. olivierscreole.com — Eggplant Olivier features flash-fried eggplant medallions served with shrimp, chicken, andouille and crawfish tails in garlic, basil and brandy sauce. Braised Creole rabbit is served with Creole gravy, oyster dressing and rice pilaf. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ 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

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Mona’s (504 Frenchmen St., 504-949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-861-8175; 3901 Banks St., 504-482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., 504-894-9800; www.monascafeanddeli. com) serves an array of Mediterranean dishes.

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

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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. $$

INTERNATIONAL

Canal Street Bistro — 3903 Canal St., (504) 482-1225; www. canalstreetbistro.com — This MidCity cafe’s menu draws from an array of global influences. Duck enchiladas feature corn tortillas filled with duck confit topped with red mole or chipotle-tomatillo sauce and served with black beans. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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(between Cleary Ave & Clearview) Mon-Tues 11-3 • Wed-Thurs 11-7:30 Fri 11-8:30 • Sat 11-8:00 www.parranspoboys.com

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

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare including handmade pastas, ravioli and lasagna and seafood dishes with shrimp, clams and mussels. Sicilian egg pie features eggs baked with cream and spices in puff pastry.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — House-made cannelloni is stuffed with ground veal, spinach and Parmesan, baked in Alfredo sauce and topped

with house-made tomato sauce.

Creamy corn and crab bisque is served in a toasted bread bowl.

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

JAPANESE

Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — 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

OUT to EAT small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

LATIN AMERICAN

La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 8625252; www.pupusasneworleans.com — The NOLA Special breakfast burrito is stuffed with hot sausage, organic eggs, refried black beans, hash browns and American cheese. Carne asada is marinated and grilled beef tenderloin served with saffron rice and tropical salad. Vegetarian and gluten-free dishes are available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN

Attiki Bar & Grill — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www.monascafeanddeli.com — These casual cafes serve entrees including beef or chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb chops, vegetarian options and more. There also are stuffed grape leaves, hummus, falafel and other appetizers. Patrons may bring their own alcohol. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN

Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www. facebook.com/casaborrega — The barroom and cantina is decorated with folk art, and there’s seating in the back courtyard. Chicken enchiladas are served with mole, rice and beans.

Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations.

Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Coyote Blues — 4860 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 301-3848; www.coyotebluesfreshmex.com — Shrimp and crawfish chimichanga is a fried burrito stuffed with shrimp and crawfish in cream sauce, Mexican rice and chili con queso and served with two sides. The churrascaria platter

features skewers of marinated beef, chicken, jumbo shrimp, jalapeno sausage, peppers and onions and comes with chipotle cream sauce, chimichurri, mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Del Fuego Taqueria — 4518 Magazine St., (504) 309-5797; www.delfuegotaqueria.com — The taqueria serves an array of house salsas, tacos and burritos with filling choices including carne asada, carnitas, chorizo, shredded chicken and others. Tostadas con pescada ahumada features achiote-smoked Gulf fish over corn tostadas with refried black beans, cabbage and cilantro-lime mayonesa. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito. com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more.

Roasted pork tacos are topped with spicy slaw. Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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hood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice.

Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes.

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

MUSIC AND FOOD

Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. The Sportsman’s Paradise pie is topped with Gulf shrimp, andouille, corn, diced tomatoes and caramelized onions. Full bar available.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant — 301 Dauphine St., (504) 586-0972 — This French Quarter hideaway is is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola. com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted.

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

Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on 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.

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NEIGHBORHOOD Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighbor-

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SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS 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. $ Mahony’s Po-Boy Shop — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www. mahonyspoboys.com — The Peacemaker layers fried local oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese on Leidenheimer French bread. Angus’ pot roast beef poboy is served dressed on Leidenheimer PAGE 48

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

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

Sauteed Gulf fish is prepared with smoked herb rub and served with crawfish risotto and shaved asparagus. Reservations recommended.

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 pan-fried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 5938118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Marti’s — 1041 Dumaine St., (504) 522-5478; www.martisnola.com — This brasserie serves traditional French and contemporary Louisiana cooking. The grande plateau fruits de mer features whole Maine lobster, chilled shrimp, marinated snow crab claws, oysters on the half shell and scallop ceviche.

Grilled Texas quail is served with spaetzle, oyster mushrooms, corn and Pommery mustard sauce. Reservations accepted. Dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar

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

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. Crispy fried wild catfish is served over stone-ground grits with Cajun tasso. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno. com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. Short Stop’s gumbo combines smoked andouille sausage and chicken. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Grilled avocado salad is served with crispy onions and Mahon cheese in Portuguese chestnut-vanilla vinaigrette. Wild mushroom ravioli are served with Madeira and goat cheese creme. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat, late night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 8975413; www.traceysnola.com — The neighborhood bar’s menu includes roast beef and fried seafood po-boys, seafood platters, fried okra, chicken wings, gumbo, soups, salads and more. No reservations.

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

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

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

SEAFOOD Blue Crab & Oyster Restaurant — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 2842898; www.thebluecrabnola.com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood. There’s seating overlooking Lake Pontchartrain.

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Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish cooked with the skin on, oysters from the raw bar and more. Large picture windows offer views of Bourbon Street, and the bar is stocked with a large selection of bourbons. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. The menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, fried seafood platters, tuna steaks and a few Italian entrees, such as paneed veal.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8320955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and

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new potatoes. Galley’s soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 289-0504; www.halfshellneworleans.com — The Bayou Boogaloo breakfast features a three-egg omelet with sauteed shrimp and crawfish with fried oysters and shrimp sauce on top. Voodoo Bleu features bacon-wrapped char-grilled oysters topped with garlic-butter and blue cheese. No reservations. Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak

St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www. mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill. com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

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STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steak-

Smitty’s Seafood (2000 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 504-468-1647) serves fried shrimp po-boys and more.

P H O TO BY C HERY L G ERBER house — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www. austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood.

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

Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant. com — The house filet mignon is

served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Popular starters include the jumbo lump crabcake made with aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$

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

Lin’s — 3715 Westbank Expressway, (504) 340-0178; www.linsmenu. com —The menu includes Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes.

Vietnamese “Shakin’” beef features beef tips and onions served with rice. Singapore-style vermicelli is a stir fry of noodles, shrimp, pork, bean sprouts, carrots and bamboo shoots. Reservations accepted.

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

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Light on the ice

PhotoNOLA features portfolio reviews, workshops and exhibitions.

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a TED Fellow, and she subsequently wrote the essays in her book as a fellow at Stanford University.

In 2011, she decided that flying thousands of miles to photograph diminishing ice was adding to the problem, so she stopped. Massive clouds and tornados in the Great Plains became her new focus.

She prefers the panoramic views offered in Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota and her photos typically depict towering mesocyclone systems, which produce tornados.

“I chase light,” she says.

PhotoNOLA includes a wide variety of shows and approaches to photography. Seaman gives a talk at 2 p.m. Sunday at Historic New Orleans Collection.

Gowin is known for both candid shots of his family, including nudes, and aerial landscape studies. He’ll deliver the festival’s keynote address at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the talk is followed by the PhotoNOLA gala (tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door) featuring music by Alexis & the Samurai and food from area restaurants.

One of the highlights of the festival is the portfolio review in which a panel of professionals critiques 70 photographers’ work. The public can view the works during the Photowalk from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Patrick F. Taylor Library.

Rick Olivier, John McCusker and others present a

panel discussion about photographing bands and musicians at 4:30 Camille Seaman’s work p.m. Sunday at the Old U.S. Mint. documenting icebergs is A Chemigram workshop is an captured in her recent exercise in cameraless photogbook, Melting Away: A Tenraphy as participants work with Year Journey Through Our light-sensitive paper and darkroom Endangered Polar Regions. techniques. Colorado College’s C O U R T E S Y C A M IL L E S E A M A N Heather Oelklaus leads the workshop from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Scott Edwards Gallery.

PhotoNOLA DEC There are many photography exVarious locations hibits opening during the festival or on display in conjunction with it. www.photonola.org The list includes Prospect.3 shows, such as Pieter Hugo’s stark works from Africa on display at the Contemporary Arts Center, and Richard Sexton’s Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere expo at the Historic New Orleans Collection’s Laura Simon Nelson Galleries.

There’s almost a harmonic convergence of inspiration around shows of Polaroid photos. Boyd Satellite gallery features Polaroids by Andres Serrano (creator of the notorious work Piss Christ) and by Ogden photography curator Richard McCabe. Elizabeth Shannon presents her own Polaroid expo at Faubourg Wines.

For a full list of exhibits and special events, visit www.photonola.org.

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amille Seaman didn’t begin her photography career until she was 32, when a fortuitous trip to Alaska resulted in a personal discovery. She’s a member of the Native American Shinnecock Montaukett Indian Nation and grew up on Long Island, New York. After stints surfing and leading hiking trips, she was earning a living sewing her tribe’s traditional beadwork when she developed tendonitis. She took a break, got bumped from a flight in Oakland, California, and used a voucher to travel to Alaska. She wanted to see the Bering Strait, where her Native American ancestors first entered North America.

“Standing on the ice was the first time I felt really connected to the world,” she says. “We are not separate from nature.”

She grew up with the Shinnecock Montaukett belief that stones are made of the blood and bones of ancestors and ice is their tears and sweat, accumulated over thousands of years. The connection was profound for her, and it led to a decade photographing icebergs in the Arctic and Antarctic. Her photos appeared in National Geographic and other publications.

Polar ice proved to be a timely subject, but it’s her eye for light that makes her photos stand out. The advice she gives to aspiring photographers, however, echoes her worldview.

“I tell anyone that no matter what I photograph, I wait until I feel something,” Seaman says via phone from her northern California home. “I don’t have to have a name for it, but I have to feel something.

Making images without emotions attached to them makes bad images.”

Seaman shares her experiences and coaches photographers in an all-day workshop (Dec. 5) that’s part of PhotoNOLA, the annual photography festival created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance. The festival includes portfolio reviews, a keynote address by Emmet Gowin, a gala and exhibitions at participating galleries and museums across the city.

The morning portion of Seaman’s workshop is a visit to a swamp. That’s a far cry from her work at the poles, but she’s spent the last 15 years focused on water, nature and weather. Her fascination with icebergs was personal, but interest in global warming has drawn attention to her work. Massive icebergs breaking off the poles is part of a natural process (albeit accelerated), but a series of photos of polar bears on dry land is a result of climate change, she says. Her photos of icebergs resulted in her becoming

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Nesting

Caddywhompus returns to New Orleans to release Feathering a Nest. By Alex Woodward

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riving from Canada through upstate New York, Caddywhompus drummer Sean Hart says he earned his “honorary Canadian drivers license” after dragging the band van through brutal Canadian fall weather. The band — Hart and guitarist and vocalist Chris Rehm — returns to its native southern U.S. after a month on the road to preview its latest release, Feathering a Nest (Community Records).

The band’s albums often play like miniature suites, with each song full of its own movements in a kaleidoscopic set of suites-within-suites.

The band pushes the dynamic on Feathering a Nest — a simple singalong melody on “Company” returns as an oversized, overdriven version of itself, followed by the straightforward, propulsive pop of “Thirst” giving way to a playful metallic riff before ending where it began.

“Songwriting-wise, we picked up where we left off,” Hart says. “Chris comes up with riffs and ideas and chord progressions, he brings them to me and we figure out the songs together. That hasn’t really changed. For this, we made a conscious decision to do a studio record and have someone else turn the knobs. It’s the first record Chris hasn’t set up the mics.”

Rehm’s densely layered guitars often float atop one another, pushing and pulling hazy, echoing riffs in one direction and chunky, brutally beautiful chords in another. Rehm’s soaring near-falsetto weaves the melodies through the band’s key-jumping aerobics.

Hart doesn’t merely play along — the duo is in lockstep harmony, from startstop riffs with offbeat time signatures to booming, spaced-out, space-filling drums. Hart’s four snare hits introduce the appropriately titled closer “Layers,” beginning an unpredictable 10 minutes of heavenly, teeth-baring riffs with measured and wild blasts of percussion before collapsing into static.

The Houston natives, both Loyola University graduates, formed Caddywhompus in 2008 and released the punky, experimental noise-pop releases EPs in 2009 and Remainder in 2010, followed by 2011’s focused four-song effort The Weight. For November’s Feathering a Nest, the band wanted a “proper vinyl release” for its renewed post-college productivity. Recorded and mixed by

Chris Rehm, left, and Sean Hart of Caddywhompus.

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Matt Coppola in Philadelphia, Hart says the album represents a “good snapshot of songs we had written two years ago that are now coming to fruition.”

“Once we recorded those, we started writing more stuff and we already had some ideas we recorded in that session that we wanted to save and rework for the next record,” he says. “We’re in a new phase. We’re in the same spot, but we’re at least changing sonically and being more mature about how we’re dealing with records.”

The band’s live setup has changed little. Rehm’s towering, mismatched speakers and amplifiers (and floor full of effects pedals) meet Hart’s huge (and huge-sounding) drum kit.

“Our gear has been in shambles,” Hart says, laughing. “That’s the dream, to have nice gear that doesn’t break and sounds how you’d want it to sound and you treat it nice. But we break stuff a lot.” (At a recent show in Ontario, Canada, Hart used a microphone stand as a cymbal stand.)

“Whatever we have, we’re going to use,” he says.

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TUESDAY 2 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 7; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 8 Banks Street Bar — NOLA County, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Blue Biscuit, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary, 8; Khris Royal & Dark Matter Jam, 10 Circle Bar — Laura Dyer, 6; Jared Harville, King Mulhacen, 10 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9

Ellis Marsalis Center for Music — Leroy Jones, 6 Gasa Gasa — Progression Music Series feat. Luke St. John, Baron Amato, Mr. B and Mr. Smiff, No Suh Foster, Haruskii, The Dominic Minix Quartet, 9 House of Blues — Kat Dahlia, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Jon Roniger, 5; The Messy Cookers, 8 The Maison — Gregory Agid Quartet, 6; Bon Bon Vivant, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jeff Ruby, 7; The Bureau, 8 & 9; Mike Liuzza, 10 Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 Saturn Bar — Young Buffalo, 7 Siberia — Microshards, Street Sects, Hex Cult, Proud Father, High in One Eye, 9 Snug Harbor — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10

St. Louis Cathedral — Crescent City Brass Quintet, 6 Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium — Tunes for Toys benefit: Soul Rebels Brass Band, Trombone Shorty, 8

WEDNESDAY 3 21st Amendment — Marla Dixon, 7 Bamboula’s — Woody Doppler, 3; Albanie, 6:30; Big Pearl & Chief Doucette, 10 Banks Street Bar — Ruby & the Rogues, 6; Major Bacon, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Hubcap Kings, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Seth Walker, 8; Lynn Drury Birthday Bash feat. Chris Atkins, Arsen Delay, Jamie Lynn Vessels, Cass Faulconer, 9

Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 The Spotlight Bar and Grill — Dr. Rock, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; Orleans 6, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 St. Louis Cathedral — Betty Winn and One A-Chord, 6

THURSDAY 4 21st Amendment — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 8 Bamboula’s — J Eubanks, 3; Swinging Gypsies, 6:30 Banks Street Bar — Cold Country Duo, 9 The BEATnik — Jared Harville, 9 Blue Nile — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 7; Joey and the Hoplights, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Sam Price CD release, 9 Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; Hatchet Boys, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Geoff Clap Trio, 9

Circle Bar — Mount Sherpa, 10

Dragon’s Den — St. Louis Slim, 7; Adventures of the Interstellar B-Boy, DJ Housefly, 10

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

House of Blues — Fozzy, Texas Hippie Coalition, Shaman’s Harvest, 7

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Leah Rucker, 9

Kerry Irish Pub — Paintbox feat.

Dave James, Tim Robertson, 9

Dragon’s Den — Dancehall Classics with DJ T-Roy & Bayou International Sound System, 10

Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11

Gasa Gasa — Alanna Royale, Bershire Hounds, Jake & Mark, 9

The Maison — Jon Roniger, 5; Sweet Substitute Jazz Band, 7; Rue Fiya, 10

House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf — Common, Jay Electronica, Fly Union, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — Jay Zainey Orchestra, 6:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 9 Lucky’s — Leisa K & Rule 52, 9 The Maison — Bayou Saints, 6; Smoke N Bones, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — The New

Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5; Viper Mad Trio, 8

Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat.

Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30 Old Point Bar — Lunch Truck Specials, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Crescent City Joymakers feat. Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola, 8 Rivershack Tavern — Ched Reeves, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — L’il Nathan & the Zydeco Big Tymers, 8:30 Siberia — The Blind Shake, Heavy Lids, 6; Mr. Gnome, Young Tongue, The Blackbelt Band, 10 PAGE 54

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Dragon’s Den — Interior Decorating, Mystery Girl, The Noise Complaints, 10

Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; James Martin, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10

Siberia — Stumps Da Clown Birthday Bash feat. Ban Sanity Slideshow, Duncan Ross, 9

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If you haven’t been keeping up with Lonnie Lynn lately — between books, films and television, Common’s music has become anything but — he catches you up on “Rewind That,” the closer to his 10th album Nobody’s Smiling (Def Jam/ARTium). The track is split between two sides, each celebrating a mentor: the first commemorating his split and eventual reunion with producer No I.D., the Chicago guru with whom he made his name on mid-’90s classics Resurrection and One Day It’ll All Make Sense; the second dedicated to rap godfather J Dilla, who, with the production collective and Native Tongues offspring Soulquarians (Questlove, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Q-Tip, D’Angelo), helmed Common’s 2000 breakthrough Like Water For Chocolate, before dying of a blood disease in 2006. It’s a lot to tackle on a five-minute Common DEC track, but that’s Common’s 10 p.m. Wednesday stock-in-trade: “I Used to Love H.E.R.,” from Resurrection, The Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St. spins the rap game into a (504) 522-9653 story about an ex who went www.thehowlinwolf.com astray, boiling down 15 years of hip-hop history into three cleverly verbose verses. Nobody’s Smiling is a more direct piece, more in line with contemporary trends than any album before it, evidenced by its Big Sean takeover single “Diamonds.” But No I.D.’s splattered sonic palette and Common’s rhythmic simmer dominate, and a crew of Chicago up-and-comers give voice to the tales of inner-city violence spilling out of Chitown. Dreezy paces the swagger on the Camp Lo rip “Hustle Harder,” and spoken-word artist Malik Yusef drops the record’s top rhymes on the title track, over a menacing lurch and ominous dispatch hook: “Out of 10 people that was shot, seven ate 9’s”; “Face on T-shirts with no hashtags/ Just big-ass trash bags tagged hash.” New Orleans native Jay Electronica and Fly Union open. Tickets $30. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Snug Harbor — Terence Blanchard, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10 St. Louis Cathedral — Ellis Marsalis, 6 Tipitina’s — David Shaw & Friends, 9 UNO Lakefront Arena — Hunter Hayes, Dan + Shay, The Railers, 7

Banks Street Bar — Pears, Direct Hit, Big Fat & Delicious farewell concert, 9 Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Eudora Evans, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Cafe Negril — El DeOrazio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Randy East and T Bone Stone, 4; Morning Call Ensemble, 7; Willy Rocket and the Blues Krewe, 11

Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7 Hangar 13 — Pulse Friday: Rroid Drazr, Kidd Love, 1:30 a.m.

Hi-Ho Lounge — Nancy Whang, 10 House of Blues — Christmas show: Johnnyswim, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5; Foot & Friends, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Bill Malchow, 7

Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Chris Thomas King, Dege Legg, Michael Juan Nunez, 8:30

The Maison — Leah Rucker, 4; The Messy Cookers, 7; Brown Sabbath, Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 10

21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30

Circle Bar — Shane, 6; Laugh in the Dark, 10

Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30

d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Chubby Carrier, 10

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jasper Brothers, 7; Agent 86, 8; The Necessary Gentlemen, 9

Bamboula’s — Christopher Johnson Trio, 2; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; 19th Street Red Blues Band, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10

Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie St. Pierre, 9:30

Gasa Gasa — Seven Handle Circus, 10

One Eyed Jacks — Hamp Fest, Morning 40 Federation, 10

FRIDAY 5

Oak — Tom Leggett, 9

MUSIC LISTINGS Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Greg Stafford, Palm Court Jazz Band, James Evans, 8 Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Trio, 8 Preservation Hall — The Southern Syncopators, Steve Pistorius, 6; The PresHall Brass feat. Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 6; Tanya Boutte, 9 Rivershack Tavern — The Hangovers, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Topcats, 9:30 Siberia — Krampus Gras: Mistress Kali, Lydia Treats, Alexandra Scott, BONES, 9 Snug Harbor — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Framing Hanley, 8 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & his Beautiful Band, 9:30 Tipitina’s — Holiday Spectacular feat.

Anders Osborne, 10 Treasure Chest Casino — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7 Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8 Twist of Lime — All About a Bubble, 6

SATURDAY 6 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30

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Checkpoint Charlie — Namastasia, 4; Kenny Claiborne, 7; Lynn Drury, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Carolyn Wonderland, 9 Circle Bar — Richard Bates, 6; Painted Hands, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10

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Hurricanes Sports Bar — Toys for Tots Benefit Show: 90 to Nothing, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Speed the Mule, 5; Beatles tribute feat. Roux the Day, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 10; Johnny No, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Benny Turner & Real Blues, 8 Louisiana Music Factory — JJ Thames, 2; Longtime Goners, 3; Debbie Davis & Matt Perrine, 4 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Igor, 7; Kerry Cox, 8; Patsy Grace, 9; Roger Ferrara feat. Maggie Havens, 10 Oak — Aaron Wilkinson & Friends, 9 PAGE 56

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Old Point Bar — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Tom Hook, 2; Sarah Quintana, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Caddywhompus record release feat.

Grotto Girl, Tare, Sexy Dex & the Friggity Fresh, 10 Preservation Hall — The Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Frank Oxley, 6; St. Peter Street All Stars feat. Lars Edegran, 8, 9 & 10

St. Louis Cathedral — Shades of Praise, 6 Tipitina’s — Fais Do-Do feat.

Bruce Daigrepont, 5

MONDAY 8 Bamboula’s — Justin Donovan, 2:30; Purple Ribbon Fiasco, 7:30

Rock ’n’ Bowl — SuperCharger, 9:30

Banks Street Bar — The Bathrobe Banditos, 7; South Jones, 9

Smoothie King Center — Usher, The UR Experience, 7:30 Snug Harbor — Evan Christopher & Don Vappie’s Storyville Centennial Project, 8 & 10 Tipitina’s — Holiday Spectacular feat. Anders Osborne, 10

BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andrew Duhon Trio, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — Wendy Darling, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Circle Bar — Jamey St. Pierre & Dave Freeson, 6

Twist of Lime — Red Mouth, 9:30

Gasa Gasa — Antique Booty Music, 9

SUNDAY 7

Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Hill Country Hounds, 10

Bamboula’s — Zarsky Trio, 3:30; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 7 Banks Street Bar — Bob Murrell, 4; Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Sweet Olive Duo, 6; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8

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Spotted Cat — Pfister Sisters, 2; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

Rivershack Tavern — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 10

Siberia — My Next Blackout, Duct Tape the Clown, Dr. Creepy, 6; D.R.I., Pallbearers, Classhole, Disappointed Parents, 9

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Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; New Orleans Nightcrawlers, 10 DMac’s — Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 6 Hangar 13 — Bass Massive Mob, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — Jay Zainey Orchestra, 7 The Maison — Melanie Gardner Trio, 4; Soul Project, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Marigny Opera House — Sunday Musical Meditation feat.

Psychedelic Winter, 5

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

Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Legendary Shack Shakers, Whiskey Shivers, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat.

Leroy Jones, 8, 9 & 10 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 10

CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS Christmas Concert. St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, 1923 St. Philip St., (504) 822-8059; www.stpeterclaverneworleans.org — The Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir performs. 5 p.m. Sunday.

Siberia — Missing Monuments, Martin Savage Gang, Hector’s Pets, JP5, 9

Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra Fall Festival Concert. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.gnoyo.org — The youth orchestra’s fall concert features guest performer Delfeayo Marsalis. General tickets $15, students $5. 3 p.m. Saturday.

Snug Harbor — James Single-

Hermitage Piano Trio. Tulane

Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30; Tom Witek Jazz Quartet, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10

University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.friendsofmusic. org — The U.S.-based Russian trio performs work by Shostakovich, Arensky and Rachmaninoff. General tickets $35, under age 35 $18, students $5.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Holiday Concert. Lawless Memorial Chapel, Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard. edu — Carver Davenport directs an orchestra concert featuring the Dillard University Concert Choir, the New Orleans Chinese Choir, the Zion Harmonizers, Bridget Bazile and the DU Diamonds dance team. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Handel’s Messiah Sing-Along.

Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — John Ware conducts organist Albinas Prizgintas, the Trinity Choir and the audience in the Christmas favorite. 5 p.m. Sunday.

Musica da Camera. Ursuline Chapel, 2701 State St.; www. nomdc.org — The ensemble performs “O Magnum Mysterium: A Christmas Celebration,” featuring Vox Feminae. 4 p.m. Sunday.

New Orleans Civic Symphony.

University Of New Orleans, Human Performance Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 554-3748; www.nocivicsymphony.org — Charles Taylor directs a program including Tchaikovsky, Grieg and von Suppe. Free. 7 p.m. Sunday.

Organ & Labyrinth. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — Albinas Prizgintas performs on organ.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Versipel New Music. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.versipel. org — Versipel Collective members perform chamber music

by Louisiana composers. Tickets $15, students and seniors $7.50. 8 p.m. Thursday.

We Need A Little Christmas, Cher. St. Martin’s Episcopal School Solomon Theater, 225 Green Acres Road, Metairie, (504) 733-0353; www.stmsaints.com — Susan Domangue directs the Crescent City Sound Chorus’ holiday musical.

6 p.m. Saturday.

Yuletide Celebration. The Louisiana Philharmonic plays a concert featuring holiday compositions. Tickets start at $20; children and students $10. 4 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Kenner, 1400 Williams Blvd., Kenner; 7:30 p.m. Friday at Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, 220 E. Thomas St., Hammond; 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Slidell Municipal Auditorium, 2056 Second St., Slidell.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND

James Booker, whose talent masked personal struggles with substance abuse and isolation. Chalmette

The Circle (NR) — Swiss filmmaker Stefan Haupt directs a docudrama about a pioneering gay publication in 1940s and ’50s Zurich. Zeitgiest

Beyond the Lights (PG-13) — Struggling with sudden success, singer Noni Jean (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is saved from suicide by a young police officer (Nate Parker) in a romantic drama also starring Danny Glover. Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

Hector and the Search for Happiness (R) — Deciding he’s not capable of truly helping his patients, disillusioned psychiatrist Hector (Simon Pegg) sets out to discover something better. Chalmette

The Overnighters (PG-13) — A pastor faces backlash when he offers his church to homeless workers seeking jobs in North Dakota oil fields. Zeitgeist The Pyramid (R) — A team of archeologists venture into an ancient, maze-like pyramid, but soon realize that something inside is after them. (Check www. bestofneworleans.com for local showtimes)

NOW SHOWING Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG) — Eleven-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould), his mother (Jennifer Garner), father (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) are all having bad days. Kenner Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker (NR) — Concert footage, photographs and interviews illustrate a portrait of late pianist

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (R) — A washed-up actor, whose previous claim to fame was his portrayal of a popular superhero, attempts to recapture his past glory by mounting a Broadway play.

Canal Place Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) — Dimwit Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) snaps the equally cretinous Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) out of a fugue state to accompany him on a journey to find his long-lost daughter.

Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Equalizer (R) — Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) helps Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a girl who is caught in the clutches of violent Russian mobsters. Slidell

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (PG-13) — The first half of the final part of the trilogy opens as Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) wakes up in District 13 and learns of a secret rebellion that could save her nation. Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place Interstellar (PG-13) — A physicist (Michael Caine) and an ex-NASA pilot (Matthew McConaughey) seek a habitable planet where they can send the population of a blighted Earth. Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place John Wick (R) — Legendary assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) returns to his violent career after his wife dies suddenly and the mobster Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) kills his puppy. Slidell Nightcrawler (R) — Lowlife Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) stumbles into a new career videotaping Los Angeles’ most horrifying crimes.

Canal Place Ouija (PG-13) — Friends confront their deepest fears after they awaken the dark spiritual powers of the occult board game. Kenner, Slidell Penguins of Madagascar (PG) — Animated penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private star in a spy thriller, battling villainous octopus Dr. Octavius Brine (John Malkovich). Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Santa vs. The Snowman (NR) — A snowman tries to take over Christmas from Santa, inciting a full-scale war between the two sides.

Entergy IMAX Saving Christmas (PG) — The annual Christmas party is about to be ruined, but Kirk’s brother-in-law argues that the holiday has lost its true meaning. Regal The Theory of Everything (PG-13) — Racing a bleak diagnosis, a young Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) and transforms the study of physics.

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Gone Girl (R) — Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, and her husband Nick (Ben Affleck) becomes the prime suspect. Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Horrible Bosses 2 (R) — Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale

The Better Angels (PG) — A.J. Edwards’ historical drama,

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How to Not Kill A Tiger (NR) — The owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete produced this documentary in favor of individuals’ rights to keep exotic animals. Chalmette

Big Hero 6 (PG) — Young prodigy Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) and his robot sidekick Baymax (Scott Adsit) must save San Fransokyo from a dangerous plot in this animated adventure. Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

(Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) start their own business, but resort to kidnapping after an investor rips them off. Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

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The Theory of Everything Directed by James Marsh Starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones

The Theory of Everything’s title strongly suggests a biopic of its widely admired subject, cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who began his career with the search for a single equation that might explain the universe. But this second feature from director James Marsh (who made the Oscar-winning documentary Man On Wire) barely scratches the surface of Hawking’s mind-blowing theories, instead focusing on the scientist’s courtship of literature student Jane Wilde and their ensuing marriage and family life. While lavishly produced and full of strong performances, The Theory of Everything delivers an ordinary love story that should appeal least to those who consider themselves fans of Hawking and his ideas.

What sets the true-life Hawking-Wilde love story apart is the courage and character required of both parties after Hawking received a diagnosis of motor neuron disease at age 21 and was told he had two years to live. Wilde chose to marry Hawking despite that bleak prognosis. Now 72, Hawking defied the odds, and he’s quick to say he couldn’t have done it without Wilde’s early support. As portrayed in The Theory of Everything, their story becomes one of the same internal strains and external threats that test all marriages.

It’s hard to imagine a studio pitch for The Theory of Everything that wouldn’t include the phrase “holiday Oscar movie,” as there’s scarcely another way to get this level of funding for a romantic drama. The couple’s first kiss on a bridge is beautifully shot, and that’s before the camera moves up and out in the kind of attention-grabbing crane shot that characterizes opulent Hollywood musicals from the 1930s. Marsh and crew shot much of the film at Hawking’s alma mater, England’s University of Cambridge, even gaining access to the Cavendish Laboratory where the neutron was discovered and the atom split. It lends an air of authenticity to what is essentially a period piece spanning the early 1960s to the 1980s.

The real Oscar bait arrives in the form of young British actors Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables) and Felicity Jones (The Invisible Woman) as Hawking and Wilde.

Redmayne handles the gradually encroaching disease gracefully, getting across subtle physical changes as Hawking’s condition worsens. He even learned to isolate the few facial muscles Hawking uses to control a computer-based speech synthesizer. Jones embodies the principled passion of storied young love, later evolving into a clear-eyed and unsentimental woman. The film is based on Jane Wilde Hawking’s memoir Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, and both Marsh and screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Death of a Superhero) are careful to give the author her due.

Hawking endorsed the project in his own way by allowing use of his real-life synthesized voice in the movie after seeing its debut at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Maybe he was pleased by his unlikely new status as a romantic lead in a major film. If only his ideas had received such tribute. — KEN KORMAN

FILM LISTINGS produced by Terrence Malick, follows Abraham Lincoln’s upbringing in 19th-century Indiana. 5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Edward Scissorhands (PG-13) — Outcast Edward (Johnny Depp) is adopted by a loving family, even though he has long blades instead of hands. 10 p.m.

Wednesday. Prytania Eyes Wide Shut (R) — Shotgun Cinema presents Stanley Kubrick’s last film, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a couple consumed by sexual jealousy. 7 p.m. Thursday. Old Firehouse Holiday Inn (NR) — Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Virgina Dale star in a musical about a love triangle at a rural performance venue that’s only open on holidays. Noon Sunday. Prytania Home Alone (PG) — Eightyear-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) defends his home from burglars after his family mistakenly leaves for vacation without him. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday. Canal Place, Slidell, Kenner

Land Ho! (R) — Retirees and former brothers-in-law Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) and Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) take a road trip of self-discovery through Iceland. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Indywood Last Days in Vietnam (NR) — Rory Kennedy’s documentary covers the final weeks of the Vietnam War, as American soldiers scrambled to evacuate friends and family from Saigon. 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Laut Gedacht Live (NR) — Pop band Silbermond performs in Oberhausen, Germany for a concert filmed in April 2007. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Deutsches Haus Lumumba (NR) — Raoul Peck’s drama centers on Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese leader who led his country to independence in 1960. 7 p.m. Friday.

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (PG-13) — Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) just wants to have a “good old-fashioned family Christmas” in the 1989 holiday comedy written by John Hughes. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

W French Quarter The Polar Express (G) — A young boy takes a fantastical train trip to the North Pole in the 2004 animated film featuring Tom Hanks in six separate roles. 6:30 p.m.

Friday. Spanish Plaza The Neighbors / The Room (R) — Director Tommy Wiseau stars as Johnny in the sobad-it’s-(almost)-good cult film about a melodramatic love triangle. Wiseau attends the screening, which also includes a premiere of his new sitcom. 10 p.m. & 12:15 a.m.

Friday-Saturday. Prytania RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus (NR) — The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 offer snide commentary on a holiday classic. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Elmwood, Slidell, Regal Snowpiercer (R) — The survivors of a post-apocalyptic ice age are confined to a speeding train, where the repressed rearmost passengers are determined to revolt. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium TCM Presents: A Christmas Carol / Christmas in Connecticut (NR) — Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz filmed an introduction to a double feature of holiday classics: A Christmas Carol (1938) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945). 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Sunday. Regal The Way He Looks (NR) — Blind teenager Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo) gradually falls in love with his new classmate Gabriel (Fabio Audi) in this Brazilian drama. 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist UFC 181: Hendricks vs.

Lawler II (NR) — Ultimate fighters Johnny Hendricks and Robbie Lawler face off in Las Vegas. 9 p.m. Sunday.

West Bank, Slidell

CALL FOR FILMMAKERS Tulane University Film & Arts Festival. Organizers seek short films and art pieces for the inaugural festival, which will be held Feb. 20-21, 2015. Deadline Jan. 10, 2015. Visit www.tulanefilmandartsfestival.com or email tulanefilmfest@gmail. com for details.

Alliance Francaise: 1519 Jackson Ave., (504) 568-0770; www.af-neworleans.org AMC Clearview Palace 12: Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie., (504) 887-1257; www.amctheatres. com AMC Elmwood Palace 20: 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan., (504) 733-2029; www.amctheatres.com AMC Westbank Palace 16: 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey., (504) 263-2298; www. amctheatres.com Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette., (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com Deutsches Haus: 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie., (504) 522-8014; www.deutscheshaus.org Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner., (504) 229-4259; www.thegrandtheatre.com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell., (985) 641-1889; www.thegrandtheatre.com Indywood Movie Theater: 628 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 345-8804; www.indywood.org The Old Firehouse: 720 Mandeville St.; www.sites.google.com/ site/oldfirehousemandeville Spanish Plaza: 1 Poydras St.; www.canalstreetholiday. com Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium 14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington., (985) 871-7787; www.regmovies.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540; www.thetheatres.com Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium: 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu W New Orleans French Quarter: 316 Chartres St., (504) 581-1200; www.wfrenchquarter.com Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net

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Laggies (R) — Suffering a quarter-life crisis at her high school reunion, Megan (Keira Knightly) evades an overeager ex-boyfriend by befriending 16-yearold Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz). 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Indywood

Meet Me in St. Louis (NR) — Judy Garland debuted “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” in the 1944 musical about a St. Louis family during the 1904 World’s Fair.

Noon Wednesday. Prytania

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Julia Street Art Walk. New Orleans Arts District — Galleries in the Warehouse District host openings the first Saturday of the month.

LUNA Fete. Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Ave., (504) 565-7457; www.nola.gov/gallier-hall — A large-scale light installation by Damien Fontaine illuminates nightly at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. through Saturday.

Making Time: Documenting Louisiana’s Music History.

Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www. crt.state.la.us/museum/ properties/usmint — Historian Karen Leathem moderates a discussion with four artists featured in the Old U.S. Mint’s exhibition of music photography. 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Pancakes & Booze Art Show.

Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The unorthodox pop-up show features local artists’ work, multimedia displays, body painting and free pancakes. Admission $5. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday.

PhotoNOLA. Citywide; www. photonola.org — The New Orleans Photo Alliance’s annual festival features photography exhibitions at dozens of galleries throughout New Orleans.

Thursday-Sunday. “a stranger to me.” 809 Piety St. — The one-day exhibition of large tintype photographs by Kevin Kline and Bruce Schultz is part of PhotoNOLA and includes an opening reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.

PROSPECT.3 Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Citywide; www.prospectneworleans.org — The third edition of New Orleans’ international contemporary art biennial includes official shows at many local museums and institutions.

OPENING Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — “Path-

less Travel,” work by Cheryl Grace, Kiki Huston, Ginger Kelly and Ellen Macomber, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Where the River Bends,” photographs

by Scott Dalton, opening reception 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Boyd | Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Once Around the Sun,” Polaroids by Richard McCabe and Andres Serrano; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Rhapsody in Blue,” cyanotypes by Philip Yiannopoulos, opens Thursday; official opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Chateau Curioso. 641 Caffin Ave., (718) 757-8119 — “Paper/ Weight,” photo-based work

by Stacy Greene, Jill Stoll and Maria Levitsky, PhotoNOLA reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “Fact and Fiction: Imagining the West,” photographs by Jeremiah Ariaz, opens Tuesday; official opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Faubourg Wines. 2805 St. Claude Ave., (504) 342-2217; www.facebook.com/faubourgwines — Polaroids 19881998 by Elizabeth Shannon, opens Thursday; official opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Gallery Twenty-One Fourteen.

2114 Decatur St., (504) 875-2110; www.gallerytwentyonefourteen.com — “Elysium,” photographs by Colleen Mullins, opens Thursday; official opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — “Queens Rule!” portraits, attire and art inspired by Mardi Gras Indian queens, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Gradoux Gallery. 2117 Decatur St.; www.gradouxgallery.com — “Wrists Up,” photographs

by Katrina Arnold, opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

Graphite Galleries. 936 Royal St., (504) 565-3739; www. graphitenola.com — “Elan,” photographs by Christy Lee Rogers, opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Guthrie Contemporary. 3815 Magazine St., (504) 897-2688; www.guthriecontemporary. com — “Big Appetites,” photographs by Christopher Boffoli; “Counting to Ten in French,” photo-based art by Aline Smithson; “She Can Leap Tall Buildings,” photographs by Heidi Lender; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www. hallbarnett.com — “Southern Winters,” work by Melissa Smith, Laura W. Adams and others, opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Hey! Cafe. 4332 Magazine St., (504) 891-8682; www.heycafe. biz — “The Pines,” photographs

by Eric Adams, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “B is for Banana, Bayou and Bungalow,” paintings by Carol Hillock, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Kevin Gillentine Gallery. 3917 Magazine St., 891-0509; www. kevingillentine.com — “Duck Blinds,” photographs by Nell Campbell, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Unseen Works of Paul Ninas,” paintings by the late artist; “An Abstract Master Rediscovered,” work by Dusti Bonge; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www. martinechaissongallery.com — “a dot red,” photogravures

by Christa Blackwood, opens Friday; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom. 1201 Mazant St.; www.nolacommunityprintshop.wordpress.com — “Portraits of place, self and obsession,” photographs by Breonne DeDecker, Meg Turner and Colin Roberson, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — “Art d’Hiver,” glass sculpture by Gerald Haessig and print work by Cathy DeYoung, opening reception 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Photo Alliance.

1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Skins, Shells and Meats,” assemblages by Elizabeth Stone, opens Thursday;

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GALLERIES A Gallery For Fine Photography.

241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “WHERE: The Exploration of Photographs and Place, 1843-2014,” through Jan. 31, 2015.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www. noafa.com — Annual miniature exhibition, through Tuesday.

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

AIA New Orleans Center for Design. 1000 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-8320; www.aianeworleans.org — Prospect.3: work by Mary Ellen Carroll, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.pressstreet.com/antenna — “Nocturnal Emissions,” work by Brad Benischek, through Sunday.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com — “Phantom Limb,” new work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, through Dec. 20.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Painting Out Loud,” paintings by Luis Cruz Azaceta; “Unique Observations of the Natural World,” work by John Alexander; both through Dec. 20.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Concerted Effort,” metal sculpture and assemblage by Srdjan Loncar and Daniel P. Alley; “Homeless: The Definitive Collection,” paintings on cardboard

by Charles Beau Hoffacker; both through Saturday.

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

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Back to Bogalusa,” paintings and sculptures by George Dunbar, through Dec. 26.

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

by Joachim Casell, Rene Ragi, BellaDonna, Jamal and Phillip Sage, ongoing.

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

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “La Petite Mort,” installation by Blaine Capone,

Concerted Effort and Homeless: The Definitive Collection As we enter the holiday season of giving, it seems like more Americans are recovering from the recent recession, yet the presence of homeless people hustling for a handout persists like a Dickensian flashback.

Passersby avert their Concerted Effort: Metal sculpeyes, as if trying to make the THRU ture and assemblage by Daniel panhandlers invisible, but New DEC Orleans Police Department P. Alley and Srdjan Loncar homicide detective Charles Homeless: The Definitive Col“Beau” Hoffacker not only lection: Paintings on cardboard engages with the homeless,

by Charles “Beau” Hoffacker he buys their cardboard signs and paints their portraits on Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. them, leaving bits of their Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; scrawled pleas for help visible. www.barristersgallery.com An intriguing selection of such works is on view at Barrister’s Gallery, and Hoffacker’s sketchy yet deftly executed brushstrokes enable us to see his subject’s human dimensions. Some may be addicts or psychologically impaired, and some may be war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, but by painting them with such a skilled hand and empathetic eye, Hoffacker reveals their soulful auras. It does not remedy their hardship, but they no longer are invisible.

In the adjacent exhibit of sculptural works by Daniel P. Alley and Srdjan Loncar, modern art plays tricks and nothing is what it seems. Inspired by mass-media imagery, Loncar fills a gallery space with languidly curved sheet aluminum sculptures with faux finishes like the oxidized steel minimalist sculptor Richard Serra uses in his similar, but much larger, installations. Loncar’s replica flaunts its fakeness as a commentary on the pervasive appropriation of the digital age.

Alley takes us to the Washington Monument, which recently reopened after its pyramidal tip was repaired. In this pristine installation, dozens of imperfect cast aluminum pyramids appear in a precisely lit display, a mini-jewelry showroom where they rest on glass shelves like so many variations on a theme. Rising from the floor, a majestic replica of the monument displays a perfect pyramid at its peak. One can’t help but feel patriotic. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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James Taylor Bonds and M. Silver Smith, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Dillard University. Art Gallery, Cook Communications Center, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 816-4853; www.dillard.edu — Prospect.3: work by Terry Adkins and William Cordova, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Du Mois Gallery. 4609 Freret St., (504) 818-6032; www.dumoisgallery.com — “Pablove Shutterbugs,” photographs by children and teens living with cancer, through Dec. 13. “Places Paper and Paper Clay,” collages and ceramics by Don Fels, through Dec. 20.

Etoile Polaire Lodge #1. 1433 N. Rampart St. — “Cry Me A River,” group show curated by Janet Levy, through Jan. 25, 2015.

The Exchange Center. 935 Gravier St., (504) 523-1465; www. artscouncilofneworleans.org — Prospect.3: work by Liu Ding, Lisa Sigal and Tavares Strachan, through Jan. 25, 2015.

The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www. foundationgallerynola.com — “Cosmos Transition,” paintings by Jon Coffelt, through Dec. 23.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront. org — “Oppositions and Parallels,” work by Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Naomi Shersty and Ryn Wilson; “Crusher Run,” new photographs

by Lee Deigaard; “Medium Surface,” new work by Jonathan Traviesa; “Votive Offerings and Relics,” photographs by Eddie Lanieri; all through Sunday.

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

Gallery Twenty-One Fourteen.

2114 Decatur St., (504) 875-2110; www.gallerytwentyonefourteen. com — “Things That Go Bump in the Night,” work by Ben Gregory, Margaret Minezer, MRSA, Pauly Lingerfelt, Senan O’Connor, Katy Weidemann and Chez Marie, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Crowning Glory,” new work by Good Children artists, through Jan. 4, 2015.

Gradoux Gallery. 2117 Decatur St.; www.gradouxgallery.com — “Chemical,” abstract photography by Heather Oelklaus, through Sunday.

Hyph3n-Art Gallery. 1901 Royal St., (504) 264-6863; www.hyph3n. com — “Trajectory,” photo-based art by Jason Michael Mullan, through Dec. 13.

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

Joan Mitchell Center. 2275 Bayou Road, (504) 940-2500; www.joanmitchellfoundation. org — “Convergence,” work by resident artists curated by Deborah Willis; Prospect.3: work

by McArthur Binion, Los Jaichackers, Akosua Adoma Owusu

and Hayal Pozanti, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Guns in the Hands of Artists,” decommissioned guns repurposed as art, through Jan. 24, 2015.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery offsite location. 3919 St. Claude Ave. — “Chapel of the Almighty Dollar,” outdoor installation by Dan Tague, through Jan. 25, 2015.

La Madama Bazarre. 910 Royal St., (504) 236-5076; www.lamadamabazarre.com — Mixed-media group exhibition featuring Jane Talton, LaTeefah Wright, Sean Yseult, Darla Teagarden and others, ongoing.

Loisel Vintage Modern. 2855 Magazine St., (504) 899-2444; www.loiselvintagemodern.com — “NUDES,” photographs by Jonathan Kane, through Monday.

Loyola University, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery. Monroe Library, fourth floor, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5456 — “Leftovers,” work

by Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton, through Jan. 15, 2015. “Reconciliation,” work by Peter Biarritz, through Jan. 15, 2015.

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

by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans. 433 Royal St., (504) 2999055; www.martinlawrence.com — New work by Douglas Hofmann, through Dec. 12.

May Gallery and Residency. 2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105, (504) 316-3474; www.themayspace. com — Prospect.3: “Meka Jean: How She Got Good,” installation

by Tameka Norris, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Oak Street Gallery. 111 N. Oak St., Hammond, (985) 345-0251; www.theoakstreetgallery.com — Work by Thom Barlow, Mark Haller, Pat Macaluso and John Robinson, ongoing.

Reynolds-Ryan Art Gallery.

Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., (504) 896-6369; www. newmanschool.org — “Artist Spaces: New Orleans,” photographs by Tina Freeman, through Dec. 17.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 6100581; www.scottedwardsgallery. com — “Borrowed Relics: The Last of the Large Polaroid Transfers,” photography by Anna Tomczak, through Feb. 7, 2015.

Soren Christensen Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com — Group exhibition by William Dunlap, Audra Kohout, Steven Seinberg, Thomas Swanston, Jamali and Ed Smith, ongoing.

St. Tammany Art Association.

320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyartassociation. org — “Put Your Best Sq. Foot

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NOCCA Riverfront. 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www. nocca.com — “Sabor-Saber-Saver,” photo installation by Cristina Molina, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — Photography by Joe Zammit-Lucia, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “PhotoNOLA Currents 2014,” members’ exhibition by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, opens Thursday; opening reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt. state.la.us/museum/properties/ usmint — Pictures of the Year International, opening Thursday.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Juju,” photographs by Sandra Russell Clark, opening reception 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday.

Sophie Lvoff at 3422. 3422 St. Claude Ave.; www.facebook.com/ sophielvoff3422 — Photographs

by Sophie T. Lvoff, PhotoNOLA reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Soren Christensen Gallery.

400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com — “New Light,” abstract paintings by Karen Scharer; “Dream Eternal,” photographs by Nicolas Bruno; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www. stellajonesgallery.com — “Another Southern Journey,” work

by Ed Clark, Bruce Davenport Jr., Charles Simms and Leonard Maiden, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.facebook. com/nolaartsalon — “Down the Hatch,” new work by Wendell Bruins and Angel Perdomo; new print work by Jono Goodman; both open Saturday.

Williams Research Center.

410 Chartres St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org/willcent. htm — “Studio, Street, Self: Portrait Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection,” opens Thursday.

Xavier University. 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula. edu — Graphic design by Angie Unger; paintings by Deirdre Dyson; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net — “The Perpetual Instant,” group photography exhibition juried by Grant Hamil-

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Forward,” members’ exhibition, through Saturday.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Suspension of Disbelief,” new work by Cynthia Scott, through Sunday.

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

Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., Covington, (985) 8922811; www.threeriversgallery. com — “Out of the Wild: Capturing St. Tammany’s Natural Treasures,” paintings by Peggy Hesse, through Saturday.

Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.carrollgallery.tulane.edu — “Tulane Contemporary.3,” new work by seven professors in Tulane’s Newcomb Art Department, through Jan. 25, 2015.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — Prospect.3: work by Christopher Myers and the Propeller Group: Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Upstairs at 3308 Magazine Street. 3308 Magazine St. — “The Nature of Now,” new work by 14 artists addressing Louisiana ecology, through Jan. 24, 2015.

Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www. vieuxcarregallery.com — Work

by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing.

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

Xavier University. 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula. edu — Prospect.3: work by Lonnie Holley, through Jan. 25, 2015.

MUSEUMS Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “If We Had Our Way – Experiencing Joy in the Lives of Women and Girls,” photographs by Douglas Redd and Jeffrey Cook, through December; Prospect.3: work by Kerry James Marshall, through Jan. 25, 2015; “The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present,” an educational panel display, through February 2015.

Contemporary Arts Center.

900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Prospect.3: The CAC hosts work by more than a dozen Prospect.3 artists, through Jan. 25, 2015.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504)

586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — Prospect.3: work

by Carrie Mae Weems, through Jan. 25, 2015.

The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — “Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans”, through March 29, 2015. Hand-carved decoy ducks, ongoing.

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

Le Musee de F.P.C. 2336 Esplanade Ave., (504) 233-0384; www. facebook.com/lemuseedefpc — “Revelations of Goddesses,” paintings by Eleanor Merritt, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Prospect 3: work by Shigeru Ban, Camille Henrot and Jose Antonio Vega Macotela, through Jan. 25, 2015.

Louisiana Children’s Museum.

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

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee,” an overview of the Carnival organization, through December. “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts; “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

New Orleans African American Museum. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., (504) 566-1136; www.noaam.com — Prospect.3: work by Zarouhie Abdalian, through Jan. 25, 2015.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection,” group exhibition of paintings; Prospect.3: work by Tarsila do Amaral, Frederick J. Brown, Huguette Caland, Ed Clark, Andrea Fraser, Paul Gauguin, Jeffrey Gibson and Alma Thomas; both through Jan. 25, 2015. “Orientalism: Taking and Making,” European and American art influenced by Middle Eastern, North African and East Asian cultures, through Feb. 1, 2015.

“Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer sculpture and related work, through March 1, 2015.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “Art of the Cup: Functional Comfort,” ceramic cups and teapots by more than 70 artists, through Sunday. “Self-Process-

ing — Instant Photography,” instant film photography group exhibition; “Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art from the collection of Richard Gasperi”; both through Jan. 4, 2015. Prospect.3: “Basquiat and the Bayou,” paintings and paper work by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Prospect.3: work by Herbert Singleton, Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick and Benny Andrews; both through Jan. 25, 2015.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt. state.la.us/museum/properties/ usmint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, through February 2015.

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

Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — “Happy Happy Happy!” photographs from S. Louise Neal’s Birthday Cake Project, ongoing.

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

Gravier Street Social. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St.; www.gravierstreetsocial. com — The social club seeks art for monthly group shows.

Artists should work on canvas, mixed media or board with paint, collage or ink. Deadline Jan. 9, 2015.

Jazz Fest Crafts Vendors. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival seeks applicants from crafts vendors for its 2015 festival. Visit www. nojazzfest.com/crafts/apply for details. Application fee $30.

Deadline Tuesday.

Louisiana River Arts College Art Contest. The contest seeks art from students attending accredited Louisiana colleges. Cash prizes are awarded. Visit www.rwnaf.org/ contest, email emilyyoung@ rwnaf.org or call (318) 865-4201, ext. 130, for details. Deadline Feb. 1, 2015.

Platforms Fund. A collaboration of Press Street, Ashe Cultural Arts Center and Pelican Bomb, the fund provides grants of up to $5,000 for artist-driven projects that engage the community. Deadline Jan. 20, 2015.

Visit www.platformsfund.org for more information.

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

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FRINGE

Reviews of New Orleans Fringe Festival shows

By Will Coviello, Tyler Gillespie & Brad Rhines

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Based on accounts of the lives of 19th-century prostitutes from different parts of the U.S., director/co-creator Jenny Sargent’s For the Sins I Can Remember is an absurdist courtroom drama set in purgatory, featuring bumbling angels in powder wigs and pancake makeup as prosecutors. The piece examines gender roles and biases, and the woman on trial is a prostitute accused of “criminal intimacy,” but the fate of another unnamed, silent woman seems to be at stake as well. There were funny moments, and the clowning also was used to animate the life of an “incorrigible child” who grew into a “lewd woman.”

The woman challenges the angels and accounts for her actions in a vulgar cabaret number. Performed at two venues, including the Marigny Opera House, it left some questions unanswered, including the relationship between the silent woman and the hardships and choices of the prostitute.

The aerial theater company Paper Doll Militia’s LoopsEnd combined two unrelated pieces at the Old Ironworks. In the first piece, two identically costumed women performed a duet on two intertwined heavy chain loops. While industrial music played, the two engaged in a physically demanding routine, constantly pulling the chains into different configurations as they held onto and at times suspended one another. The second piece involved a stilt walker and five women climbing on white ribbons, at times bunched like ropes and at times used as screens or hammocks. The show’s most dramatic moments featured five performers working at a furious pace, climbing, twirling, changing ribbons and creating mesmerizing chaos in the air. At times the aerial work was elegant, but more often it was gymnastic in its strength and speed. The narratives were abstract, but the company impressed with its riggings and busy aerial choreography.

Exquisite Mistake reimagined Henry James’ novel The Portrait of a Lady as an interactive mod dance party with impromptu dance numbers and an upbeat, bluesy score. In the immersive experience at the Art Klub, audience members were the guests of honor, a stand-in for Isabel Archer, the protagonist who unexpectedly inherits a fortune. Various characters — an old friend, a sad single father and a sensible cousin,

Goat in the Road Productions presented Numb at the New Orleans Fringe Festival.

among others —are eager to share in Isabel’s windfall.

It was engaging, although it seemed like a better experience for those familiar with the novel.

Presented in a Victorian home on Royal Street, The Other Mozart featured Maria Anna Mozart, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus, holding court in one room as the audience looked on from an adjacent room. Maria Anna recounts how she and her brother traveled Europe to great acclaim. But when Maria Anna reached an age where her public performances were considered improper for a woman, she was forced to give it up.

Maria Anna (played alternately by Sara Fellini and writer Sylvia Milo) was surrounded by an ornate 18-foot white dress as she revealed feelings of jealousy and woe. The drama wasn’t tightly woven and at times moved slowly, but it offered insightful perspective on a forgotten talent.

In The Wake, presented at the Old Firehouse, Ben Moroski played Pete Harrisburg, an aspiring playwright and performer debuting his first one-man show, a tribute to an ex-girlfriend. In an amusing bit of metaperformance, Pete breaks character to address the audience directly: He’s met a new woman, who turns out to be the ideal companion, except for one detail — she’s dead.

The Wake is an interesting vehicle to comment on intimate relationships. Pete exalts in finding a woman who doesn’t judge him, but he projects himself on to her image and he sees himself reflected back. It’s an absurd premise that Moroski plays straight, but the joke of loving a corpse wears thin. Moroski’s strong performance carried the show.

In the mime and clowning piece, Palindrome, The Incredible Incredible’s identically dressed Matthew “Poki” McCorkle and Justin Therrien meet for the first time. They mirror and repeat each other’s movements to see if they’re seeing their own reflections, and the street-clowning piece gets off to a slow start. Both are skilled at solo illusions such as holding a suitcase in place while walking around it and pretending to be un-

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he New Orleans Fringe Festival featured more than 80 shows, including comedy, clowning, burlesque, aerialists, musicals and much more.

It was a good year for traditional dramas, and below are reviews of 16 shows. Apologies to all the shows we were unable to review.

At the 2011 Fringe, playwright Matthew Hancock and Aztec Economy presented the spaghetti Western spoof My Aim Is True, in which a silent stranger murdered his way through a tumbleweed town. In My Horse’s Name is Loneliness, presented at the Purification Plant, the silent stranger walks into a Mayberry-like town featuring characters similar to those on The Andy Griffith Show. The sheriff jails the murderer and struggles with his commitment to nonviolence as citizen vigilantes try to enforce their own justice, revealing an unseemly underside to Mayberry.

Hancock’s caricatures are brilliant, and excellent acting made the show soar. As the supposedly idyllic hamlet showed its true colors, the cold-hearted, straightshooting stranger became a source of dry humor and wisdom. This piece mixed up time periods, genres and cultural references and made anything seem possible and funny.

In Numb, Goat in the Road Productions crafted an erudite discourse on the slow and relatively unaware early period of medical use of nitrous oxide and anesthesiology. It added exuberant playfulness, direct address of the audience and gratuitous breaking of the fourth wall. An actor (Ian Hoch) broke character to say the doctor he played wouldn’t repeat a long list of medical diagnostic terms, and to placate the audience, he said, “I’ll play a bird later.”

Writer/director Chris Kaminstein’s play focuses on a trio of doctors and their spouses and associates, who work, socialize and experiment with laughing gas. The unconventional stage at the improvised space dubbed the Ether Dome was narrow but deep and the actors bounced around it constantly. Dance, physical clowning and clever movement and sound effects added to the piece’s upbeat tone. The entertaining show drew solid performances from all six players.

At the Art Klub, (Almost Definitely) Questionable Acts was more than the sum of its parts. In the absurdist vaudevillian show, CB Goodman and Josh Rice strung together vignettes incorporating puppetry, mime, slapstick and acrobatics and touched on intimacy, relationships and social issues. They imagined executed Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti as a Laurel and Hardy-like comedy duo. Goodman and Rice interacted with the audience throughout the show. Though they struck a good rapport and many of the gags were oddly poignant, a unifying theme was not clear.

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able to push or pull it in any direction.

The show took off when they added their own twists on familiar tricks.

Therrien put the handle of a fork all the way into his nasal cavity and then flipped pieces of fruit into McCorkle’s mouth and fed a volunteer from the audience. He then ran a very long plastic string through his nose, which McCorkle pulled slowly at first, and then quicker — and then he jumped rope with a doubled-over length and ran to the far ends of the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center space.

The piece could have been 20 minutes shorter, but the two have very polished skills and good comic timing.

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Painted in white, caked-on makeup, Windy Wynazz sang, danced and joked in her one-woman show UnCouth at The Shadowbox Theatre.

She mixed burlesque and acrobatics and made clowning around sexy.

Although driven by her zany energy, the show followed a thoughtful storyline about a daughter trying to please overbearing parents. Wynazz occasionally brought audience members onstage, and in one of the most successful of such segments, she accused a woman of giving “eyes” to her cardboard cutout boyfriend. Then, the two had a shootout using toy guns.

A talented and skilled physical comedian, Wynazz put on an all-around fun and exciting production.

In Blanche Presents, life-long friends Blanche and Stella have a complicated relationship and both harbor jealousies. Their conflict spills out during a surprise party Blanche (Lucy Shelby) throws for Stella (Ariel Lauryn), and their friendship unravels in an exaggerated and hilarious way.

During the shindig, Blanche, wearing a prom dress, pulls out a gun to confront Stella, who falls into a wooden chest and remains stuck for a portion of the show. The two try to resolve the fight the best way they know how — by performing a dance number from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The show offered many laughs and proved a frantic friend is sometimes the best kind.

Reese Johanson packed disparate experiences into her reflection piece, They Don’t Eat Corn Here, at Zeitgeist. It started slowly with a long solo by an accompanying cellist before becoming a travelogue and observational piece about different cultures’ customs, diet and etiquette.

It offered a long, funny sequence about trying to find a bathroom while traveling in a foreign land. A segment inviting audience members to contribute answers to questions on a “Customs Declaration Form” handed out before the show segued into a sort of sound poem as recorded answers were mixed and replayed.

Together with video projections, dance and poetic snippets, it was a

busy piece. A broad conclusion tied the work together, but the narrative’s focus suffered from incorporating too many elements and ideas.

In Beyond Desire, 10 local poets, including Kaycee Filson and Panzachual, collaborated on a group work describing the feeling of falling in love.

The performers described “unhinging” a lover’s jaw and the desire to climb inside a partner’s body as if it were a sleeping bag. The poem/play followed the trajectory of two people, and the performers’ lines mixed together. The poets acted as composites of the lovers and performed with disregard to gender. Some movement and dim lighting at The Shadowbox Theatre added to the piece’s sensuality. While some moments seemed overly sentimental — every fight was a blowout — the production compellingly evoked emotional truths about an intimate relationship.

Also at The Shadowbox, Dallas’ Elaine Liner explained that a “sweater curse” is a knitting project started but never finished. For example, a knitter begins making a sweater but her boyfriend breaks up with her before it’s finished. In her show, Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love, Liner shared stories about her “sweater curse” experiences and mixed in a history of knitting. Some jokes were hokey — regarding online dating she said, “That’s not OK, Cupid” — but Liner was warm and charming, and her dissing of crocheters drew some of the biggest laughs.

In Bibliomancer, self-described Arkansas mind-reader Paul Prater described audience members’ relatives and attempted to learn their thoughts. He shared personal stories, and was engaging throughout the show, but a couple spots went underdeveloped. He smoothed over rough spots with quick jokes, but in this type of show, the performer needs to build to more challenging feats, and Prater needs to work on his pacing.

While some audience members at The Shadowbox Theatre likely remained skeptics, no one should have left without feeling entertained.

In her one-woman show, Wit & Wrath: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker, Claudia Baumgarten animated Dorothy Parker, the famous writer, Vanity Fair theater critic and founding member of the 1920s literary group, the Algonquin Round Table. She used the wit’s famous quip, “I like to have a martini, two at the very most.

After three, I’m under the table. After four, I’m under my host.” Parker’s legacy of barbs provided plenty of zingers at the Dryades Theater, and Baumgarten occasionally interacted with the crowd. While she was charming and impeccably costumed, Baumgarten didn’t have a strong delivery and some of the show felt stilted.

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by Biz Markie, Leslie Hall and costumed characters.

Tickets start at $42. 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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Beach Blanket Burlesque.

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

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

Burlesque Ballroom. Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse), 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2331; www.sonesta.com/royalneworleans — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly 1960s-style burlesque show featuring music by Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

Creole Sweet Tease Burlesque Show. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 522-5400; www. creolesweettease.com — Trixie Minx leads a burlesque performance featuring music by Jayna Morgan and the Creole Syncopators Jazz Band. 9 p.m. Friday.

The Nightmare Before Christmas Burlesque.

Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre. com — Remy Dee directs a burlesque performance coordinated to Tim Burton’s animated holiday movie. 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 9 p.m. Monday.

Smut Smash Game Bash.

AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge. com — The variety show combines burlesque, poetry, fortune-telling, drag performances, live music and audience games. Tickets $10.

10 p.m. Friday.

Sunday School. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St., (504) 648-7998 — The burlesque and variety show features the Rev. Spooky LeStrange & Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls. Cover $5. 9 p.m. Sunday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den, 435 Esplanade Ave.; www.myspace.com/dragonsdennola — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts.

7 p.m. Saturday.

Cirque de Noel. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — Aerial circus and acrobatics troupe Cirque de la Symphonie perform to seasonal accompaniment.

Tickets start at $34. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Nutcracker Suite.

Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu/~theatre — The New Orleans Ballet Association’s community production of the holiday classic features dancers from NOBA’s programs for youth, seniors and schoolchildren. Tickets $5. 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. Sunday.

The Nutcracker. Destrehan High School, 1 Wildcat Lane, Destrehan; www.rrpa.org — The River Region Ballet presents the holiday classic

by Tchaikovsky, as well as an abbreviated Sugar Plum Matinee for young children.

Tickets $15-20. 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Sidra Bell Dance New York.

Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — The dance company performs ReVue, a genre-bending piece influenced by cabaret, ballet and hip hop. Tickets $35 in advance, $40 day of show.

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

COMEDY Accessible Comedy.

Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge.com — J. Alfred Potter and Jonah Bascle perform stand-up shows on a rotating basis.

Midnight Friday.

Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www.facebook.com/twelve.mile.limit — Molly Ruben-Long and Julie Mitchell host an open mic. 9 p.m. Monday.

Chris & Tami. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Comedy theater founders Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform free weekly improv.

9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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

Friday-Saturday.

Cram It In. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St., (504) 648-7998 — Massive Fraud presents an open-mic comedy show hosted by Joe Cardosi. 7 p.m. Friday.

Dusty Slay. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The stand-up comedian from Nashville, Tennessee headlines The New Movement’s Comedy Beast show.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Friday Night Laughs. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts an open mic. 11 p.m. Friday.

Give ’Em the Light Open-Mic Comedy Show.

House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www. houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Hannibal Buress. The Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865; www. civicnola.com — The Chicago-born, New York-based comedian brings his Comedy Camisado tour to New Orleans. Tickets start at $30. 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. Friday.

Johnny Rock.

C. Beever’s Bar of Music, 2507 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-9401 — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts an open-mic comedy night. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Laf-A-Lot. Occasions Entertainment Hall, 7122 Downman Road, (504) 314-6050 — Blowfish hosts Southern comics at a weekly dinner open mic. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Local Uproar. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Tory Gordon and Paul Oswell host an open-mic night. 7 p.m. Saturday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story at this weekly show. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the series, which features a booked showcase and open mic. 9 p.m. Sunday.

Sketch Comedy. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www. sketchycharacters.net — The Sketchy Characters perform.

9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Think You’re Funny?

Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www. carrolltonstation.com — The open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. 9 p.m.

Wednesday.

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Africa Umoja. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www. africaumoja.com — The musical from South Africa celebrates culture and freedom through music, drumming and dance.

Tickets start at $32. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday; 4 p.m. Sunday.

The Amazing Acro-Cats: Meowy Catmas. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Trained cats jump through hoops, walk a tightrope and run an obstacle course in this unique feline circus with a holiday theme. 7 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters. com — The musical version of the Charles Dickens holiday story is based on the 1994 Broadway show, featuring music

by Alan Menken. General tickets $37, seniors $35, students and military $32.

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

A Christmas Carol.

Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www. anthonybeantheater.com — Harold X. Evans stars as Scrooge in a performance of Charles Dickens’ classic, featuring contemporary Christmas carols. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

A Christmas Carol.

Loyola University New Orleans, Marquette Theatre, Marquette Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage. loyno.edu — Southern Rep’s holiday production stars Spud McConnell as Scrooge and Donald Lewis as Bob Cratchit. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

A Christmassacre Story.

Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — The gory Christmas comedy is a mashup of holiday television specials and horror movies, featuring live actors, custom-made puppets and musical guests. Tickets $15. 8 p.m.

Thursday; 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.thegoodnightshow. us — The live talk show features local notables and live music. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Numb. The Ether Dome, 3625 St. Claude Ave. — Goat in the Road Productions presents a play about the advances in anesthesiology and pain-free surgery. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

The Odd Couple. Timberlane Country Club, 1 Timberlane Drive, (504) 3675010; www.timberlanecc. com — The female version of Neil Simon’s comedy stars Ramona Tyler as Florence and Sandy Bravender as Olive. Tickets $50. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The NOLA Project stages an immersive production of Shakespeare’s comedy about shipwrecked twins in the museum’s Great Hall. General tickets $24, museum members and children $18. 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday and Sunday-Monday.

Yo Gabba Gabba! Live.

Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.

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TUESDAY 2 The Archetypical Path of Tarot. Parker United Methodist Church, 1130 Nashville Ave., (504) 895-1222; www.parkerchurch.net — Members of the C.G. Jung Society discuss divination, symbology and archetypes found in tarot. A dramatization follows. Tickets $15, students $10. 7:30 p.m.

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Art of Giving. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The holiday art market features regional artisans and craftspeople, live music and a cash bar. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Artisans’ Emporium. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org — The Olde Towne Arts Center hosts an arts and crafts market featuring jewelry, pottery, sculpture and more.

Tuesday-Monday.

Celebration in the Oaks. New Orleans City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 488-2896; www. celebrationintheoaks.com — The festival of lights draws 165,000 people to City Park for light displays, dancers, a carousel and a train ride.

Admission $8. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday-Thursday, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

It’s All About the Music Bike Ride. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 6583200; www.facebook.com/ groups/nolasocialride — The cyclists of NOLA Social Ride cruise around the city, stopping along the way to enjoy live music. 6 p.m.

Ortique Lecture. John Georges Auditorium, Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard.edu — Dillard hosts a free lecture by civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown in high-profile cases. 7 p.m.

Taste on Common. Merchant, 800 Common St., (504) 5719850; www.myhousenola. com — Food trucks park in

the CBD for lunch the first Tuesday through Thursday of the month. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Toddler Time. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm. org — The museum hosts activities for children ages 3 and under and their parents or caregivers. Non-members $8. 10:30 a.m.

Turkey frying oil drop-off.

Whole Foods Market, 300 N. Broad St., Suite 103, (504) 4343364; 3420 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 888-8225; 5600 Magazine St., (504) 8999119; www.wholefoods.com — Bring cooled oil to Whole Foods stores for reuse in biodiesel fuel produced by Louisiana Oilworks of Kenner. 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

Yoga at the Cabildo. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — Yogis of all experience levels practice in the Cabildo gallery.

Non-members $12. 7:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY 3 All I Want for Christmas … Is to Fit in My Pants. Healthe Habits for Living, 7015 Hwy. 190 East Service Road, Covington — Participants learn to manage temptations and guilt during the holidays at free workshops hosted by the wellness therapy clinic. 11:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

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

Community Arts Awards.

Mardi Gras World, 1380 Port of New Orleans Place, (504) 361-7821; www.artscouncilofneworleans.org — The Arts Council of New Orleans presents its annual awards.

Tickets start at $50. 5 p.m.

Creative Grind. The Rook Cafe, 4516 Freret St., (618) 520-9843; www.neworleans.aiga.org/ event/creative-grind — Designers, artists, writers and

makers meet to share work and offer feedback. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

International WorkBoat Show.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 582-3000; www. mccno.com — The commercial marine trade show features more than 1,000 exhibitors. Veterans visit a Military to Marine Career Fair from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday. Wednesday-Friday.

Lighting of the Balconies.

Royal Sonesta, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; www.sonesta. com/royalneworleans — The hotel illuminates its holiday decorations, with live music and a visit from Santa. 6 p.m.

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

Nature Walk and Titivation.

Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature. org — Guests tour natural habitats and learn to prune plants along the trail. 1 p.m.

White Glove Wednesdays.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum. org — Curator Eric Rivets gives visitors a chance to wear original military uniforms and equipment. 9 a.m.

THURSDAY 4 Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m.

Gingerbread House Building Competition. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 948-9961; www. ghc2014.eventbrite.com — Nonprofits Build Now, Project Homecoming and others host a gingerbread house contest featuring live music, food, open bar and a $200 prize. Tickets $20 in advance, $30 at the door.

6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Sistahs Making a Change.

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

Toasts & Tails & Jingle Bells.

NO Fleas Market, 4228 Magazine St., (504) 324-4727; www. nofleasmarketnola.com — LA/ SPCA hosts a pet-friendly holiday party with treats for humans and dogs, photos with Santa and a raffle. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Warm & Bright. Canal Street Inn, 3620 Canal St., 483-3033; www.canalstreetinn.com — The Alliance for Affordable Energy’s

EVENT LISTINGS holiday social features music by Mark Weliky and Eileina Dennis. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

World War II Discussion Group. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Historian Brian Altobello hosts a monthly group for history buffs. 7 p.m.

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

Christmas Extravaganza Arts & Crafts Expo. St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds, 1304 N. Columbia St., Covington — The expo features more than 500 regional artists and artisans.

Admission $5. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Christmas Under the Stars.

Griffith Park, 333 Erlanger St., Slidell — The holiday celebration features live music, decorations and visits from Mr. and Mrs. Claus. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — This week’s event features a lecture about Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral, a signing by cookbook author Nia Terazakis and music by Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunshine Band. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Holiday In the Park. Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8384389; www.lafrenierepark. org — The park’s holiday celebration features light displays, a carousel, ornament decorating and Christmas characters. Admission $3 per car. Dusk to 11:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, dusk to 9:45 p.m. Sunday-Thursday.

Holiday of Lights. Tammany Trace Trailhead, 21400 Koop Road, Mandeville, (985) 8716971 — The festival features light displays, carnival rides, live music and a visit from Santa. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Friday-Monday.

Hollaback! New Orleans Launch Party. NOLA Brewing Taproom, 3001 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 301-0117; www. neworleans.ihollaback.org — The anti-street harassment organization celebrates its new local chapter with drinks and a food truck.

Donations are accepted for the Metropolitan Center for Women and Children. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Merry Madisonville.

Madisonville Town Hall, 704 Water St., Madisonville — The event includes caroling, photo ops with Santa, kids’ activities and a tree lighting.

4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

A Night of Hope. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The popular televangelists and pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen preach in New Orleans.

Tickets $15. 7:30 p.m.

Parents Night Out. Bethel Baptist Church, 201 Filmore Ave., (504) 486-4679 — Parents get some free time while kids enjoy games, crafts, movies and snacks.

Call pastor Wayne Adams at (985) 981-1144 or associate pastor Roger Hurd at (985) 400-3149 for details. 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Plaquemines Parish Fair & Orange Festival. Fort Jackson, Highway 23, Buras, (504) 657-7742; www.orangefestival.com — The 68th annual festival features seafood, oranges, arts and crafts, live music, children’s activities, carnival rides, a dessert competition and a 5K run. Admission free.

Friday-Sunday.

WACNO Holiday Soiree.

University of New Orleans, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6381; www.uno.edu — The World Affairs Council of New Orleans’ party features a silent auction, raffle, internationally-themed children’s activities and music by the UNO Wind Ensemble. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

SATURDAY 6 Art Against AIDS. Club XLIV and Encore at Champions Square, 1500 Girod St., (504)

587-3663; www.superdome. com/clubxliv — The annual gala, auction and holiday ornament sale benefits NO/ AIDS Task Force. 8 p.m.

Big TREEsy Giveaway. City of New Orleans Department of Parks & Parkways, 2829 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 658-3200 — Hike for KaTREEna gives away 1,000 Louisiana-grown trees, with additional trees available for purchase. 9 a.m. to noon.

Bonfire and Concert on the River. Algiers Point, 200 Morgan St., Algiers; www. algiersbonfire.com — The bonfire features live music, food trucks and bounce houses for kids. 5 p.m.

Concours de Croissant.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum, 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.af-neworleans.org — The Alliance Francaise hosts a croissant-baking competition open to professionals, amateurs and tasters. Free with regular museum admission (general admission $10, students and seniors $5, children free). 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Covington Art Market.

Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings and more. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Deck the Rails. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The kids’ holiday event includes caroling, a screening of the movie Elf and a visit from Santa. 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Festival of Trees Family Fun Day Brunch & Pajama Party. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — The children’s museum hosts holiday festivities with games, crafts and a scavenger hunt. A catered brunch featuring the Panorama Jazz Band begins at 10 a.m. Brunch tickets $20; general admission $15. 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Free health screenings. Columbia Parc Health Center, 3943 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 529-5558; www.stthomaschc.org — Attendees receive health screenings and assistance with health insurance or Medicaid enrollment. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Gambit’s FestivALES: Freret St. 2014. Freret Street, between Napoleon and Jefferson avenues; www.

bestofneworleans.com/ festivales — Sample up to 28 seasonal and craft beers at 5 different venues along Freret Street in one day.

Tickets $35. Noon to 6 p.m.

Girls on the Run Fall 5K. Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.gotrnola.org — The girls’ charity celebrates its fifth birthday with races and a party. Registration at 8 a.m., race at 9 a.m.

Holiday Hop Pub Crawl.

Evangeline Lounge II, 1753 St. Charles Ave., (504) 5234500; www.itrulycare.com/ events/2014-holiday-hop — Philanthropy organization the Red Shoe Society hosts a holiday pub crawl benefitting the Ronald McDonald House of New Orleans. Visit website or email redshoesocietynola@ gmail.com for details. 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

It’s A Wonderful Life.

Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 522-8014; www. nolavoicetalent.org — Eric Paulsen, “Uncle Wayne” Daigrepont and Debbie Davies star in NOLA Voice Talent’s live charity production. 7 p.m.

Jazz Yoga. Jazz National Historical Park, 916 N. Peters St., (504) 589-4841 — Susan Landry leads a free class featuring meditational jazz piano. 10 a.m.

Jean Lafitte: History and Mystery. Jean Lafitte National Park, 6588 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 6893690; www.nps.gov/jela — Attendees learn about New Orleans’ most famous pirate. Free event; call or visit website to reserve space. 1 p.m.

Krampus Gras. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Named after the child-snatching Christmas demon, the costumed event features live music, a parade and costume contest, benefiting the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Fund.

Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 9 p.m.

Krewe of Jingle Parade.

Central Business District — New Orleans’ official holiday parade features floats, marching bands, costumed characters and more.

Parade proceeds from Lee Circle to Canal Street and back. 1 p.m.

Le Marche des Fetes. Pitot House, 1440 Moss St., (504) 482-0312; www.louisianalandmarks.org — Shoppers browse more than 30 local artists and vendors and

enjoy live music, treats and a visit from Papa Noel.

Requested donation $5. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Louisiana Renaissance Festival. Louisiana Renaissance Festival, 46468 River Road, Hammond, www.larf.org — The festival includes jousting, falconry, medieval entertainment, craft demonstrations, music, food and shopping.

One-day admission $18 adults, $10 kids ages 6-12, free for kids under 6. Saturday-Sunday.

Lycee Francais Marche.

Lycee Francais de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 5951 Patton St., 620-5500; www.lfno. org — The winter market features local vendors, food, crafts, music and children’s activities, benefitting the school’s parent-teacher organization. Admission free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Montesoiree. New Orleans Cooking Experience, 1519 Carondelet St., (504) 4305274; www.cathedralmontessori.com — The gala features a silent auction, food, cocktails and live music by Gal Holiday and St. Claude Serenaders, benefitting Cathedral Montessori School.

Tickets $50 in advance, $65 at the door. 7 p.m.

NOLA Polar Express. Freret Street Publiq House, 4528 Freret St., (504) 826-9912; www.facebook.com/ nolapolarexpress — The holiday benefit for CASA New Orleans and Casa SoLA features music by The Breton Sound, The Wooden Wings, Social Set and Paper Bison. Admission $10, or $5 with donation of a new, unwrapped toy. 8 p.m.

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

Saturday-Sunday.

Tree of Recovery. Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-8000; www.bridgehouse.org/ events/tree-of-recovery — The Bridge House and Grace House choirs perform at a holiday event honoring donors. 11 a.m.

YMCA Corporate Cup: Second Line for Literacy.

New Orleans City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 488-2896; www.neworleanscitypark. com — The race includes a 5K, fun run, kids’ activities and music by the Stooges Brass Band. Proceeds benefit YMCA Educational PAGE 69

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Fit NOLA Fall Forum. City Park Botanical Garden, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 483-9386; www.neworleanscitypark. com/botanical-garden — Partners in the citywide fitness initiative enjoy an afternoon of networking and brainstorming. Noon to 4 p.m.

Holiday Studio Sale.

Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — The art sale features glass ornaments, ceramics, paintings, photographs and more, benefitting the Newcomb Art Department.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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VALUED AT $1,000+ HOW TO ENTER: 1 Grab your friends and visit the participating bars now thru Dec. 30th, 2014

2 Take a photo with anything that has the bar’s logo

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PARTICIPATING BARS CHECK THEM OFF AS YOU GO! (BY NEIGHBORHOOD)

MID-CITY

201 Julia St.

FRENCH QUARTER

326 N. Jefferson Davis Pkwy

Rusty Nail

21st Amendment

1100 Constance St.

725 Iberville St.

Handsome Willy’s

Rock ‘n’ Sake

Bourbon O

Bayou Beer Garden

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218 S Robertson St.

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The Holy Ground Irish Pub

Mulate’s

823 Fulton St.

717 Orleans St

Tivoli & Lee

Deja vu Bar & Grill

936 St. Charles Ave.

400 Dauphine St

440 S St Patrick St

UPTOWN

713 Rue Saint Louis

Pal’s Lounge

Ale

3340 Canal St

Mid City Yacht Club 949 N. Rendon St.

8124 Oak St.

Parkway Bakery and Tavern

Bruno’s Tavern

538 Hagan Ave

Columns Hotel Bar

Ralph’s on the Park 900 City Park Ave.

Banks Street Bar & Grill 4401 Banks St

DOWNTOWN Bellocq Bar

7538 Maple St. 3811 St. Charles Ave.

Down the Hatch

Hermes Bar House of Blues 225 Decatur St.

Kerry Irish Pub 331 Decatur St.

May Baily’s Place 415 Dauphine St

Patrick’s Bar Vin 730 Bienville St.

1921 Sophie Wright Pl.

Red Fish Grill

Prytania Bar

115 Bourbon St.

3445 Prytania St.

Publiq House 4528 Freret St.

936 St. Charles Ave.

St. Joe’s Bar

Fulton Alley

5535 Magazine St.

Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar

Bourbon House 144 Bourbon Street

Palace Cafe 605 Canal Street

Tableau 616 St. Peter St.

Tiki Tolteca 301 N. Peters St.

Turtle Bay 1119 Decatur St.

MARIGNY/ BYWATER

Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar

2604 Magazine St

Oak

Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse

701 Tchoupitoulas St.

8118 Oak St.

716 Iberville Street

717 Conti St.

(Old Metairie) 2700 Metairie Rd.

Coyote Blues (Metairie) 4860 Veterans Blvd

Gennaro’s Martin Wine Cellar

J&J’s Sports Lounge 800 France St.

(Metairie) 714 Elmeer Ave.

Mimi’s in the Marigny

Martine’s Lounge

2601 Royal St.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Bulldog

Felipes

Vive!

Cafe B

1001 Esplanade Ave.

615 Bourbon St.

Tracey’s

7900 Lakeshore Dr.

(Old Metairie) 3200 Metairie Rd.

Spirits on Bourbon

600 Fulton St.

Blue Crab

Buffa’s Lounge

(Uptown) 3236 Magazine St. (Mid-City) 5135 Canal Blvd

301 Dauphine St.

MORE GREAT PLACES!

(French Quarter) 301 N. Peters St. (Uptown) 6215 S. Miro St. (Mid-City) 411 N. Carrollton Ave.

(Old Metairie) 2347 Metairie Rd.

Oscars (Old Metairie) 2027 Metairie Rd.

Perry’s Sports Bar and Grill (Metairie) 5252 Veterans Blvd.

Swamp Room (Metairie) 5216 Veterans Blvd.

Legends 2708 N Hullen St

to enter: 12/30/14 • Must be 21 to play • Multiple entries at the same bar will be discarded. Have fun & don’t drink and drive!

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Services and its adult literacy programs. 8:30 a.m.

Slaughter’s forthcoming book Upriver. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Yoga. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 456-5000; www.noma. org — The museum hosts yoga classes in the sculpture garden.

Non-members $5. 8 a.m.

Bonnie Warren. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses New Orleans Homes at Christmas.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

SUNDAY 7 Archives and Cultural Preservation. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — Leon Miller of Tulane’s Louisiana Research Collection discusses the Collection’s Civil War archives, including papers from Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. 1 p.m.

Caroling on the Green. Gretna United Methodist Church, 1309 Whitney Ave., (504) 366-6685; www.gretnaumc.org — Families gather to sing Christmas carols.

The church requests non-perishable food donations. 5 p.m.

Kayaking the Bayou. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www.northlakenature.org — David Woodard of Massey’s Professional Outfitters provides gear and leads kayak trips down Bayou Castine.

Non-members $5. Call or email Rue@northlakenature.org for reservations. 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1, p.m. and 3 p.m.

Sunday Youth Music Workshop.

Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-8477; www.tipitinas. com — Music students jam with Khris Royal & Dark Matter. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

MONDAY 8 Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 456-5000; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold leads the class in the museum’s art galleries.

Non-members $5. 6 p.m.

WORDS Andi Eaton. The Roosevelt Hotel, 130 Roosevelt Way, (504) 648-1200; www.therooseveltneworleans.com — The author and stylist signs New Orleans Style.

6 p.m. Saturday.

Andy Young, Sara Slaughter.

Antenna Gallery, 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.pressstreet.com/antenna — The authors read from their work, including Young’s poetry collection All Night It Is Morning and

Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Book Sale.

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

George Gurtner. New Orleans Public Library, Nix Branch, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630 — The author discusses his book about New Orleans, Cast of Characters. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Ibrahima Seck. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author of Bouki Fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Population of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860 presents his work.

6 p.m. Wednesday.

Jose Torres-Tama. Antenna Gallery, 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street. com/antenna — The Ecuadorian-born bilingual performance poet reads and signs his work.

2 p.m. Sunday.

Laura Kelley. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author discusses and signs her historical study, The Irish in New Orleans. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Mason James Cole, Alex Jennings. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The authors of Buster Voodoo and Here I Come and Other Stories read their work and discuss horror and science fiction literature. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Moira Crone. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 8664916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The author reads and signs her novel The Ice Garden. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Nolalit. Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 957-5820; www.nolalit.com — The Creativity Collective hosts a book club focusing on works about New Orleans. 6 p.m. Monday.

Panel discussion on New Orleans style, culture and food. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6360; www.pearlwineco.com — The

Poppy Tucker, Kit Wohl. Pop City, 3118 Magazine St. — The cookbook authors sign Louisiana Eats, Madame Begue’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery and the New Orleans Classic Series. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Ronald Fisher. Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, 631 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 491-9025; www.facebook.com/tubbyandcoos — The author signs Mid-City Errands, a historical novel set in New Orleans.

2 p.m. Saturday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen.

Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — Children’s books are read. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Write to Wellness. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — Local writers lead a workshop for breast cancer patients, survivors, family and friends.

11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

SPORTS Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.nba.com/pelicans — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Oklahoma City Thunder.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

Green Wave. Yulman Stadium, Ben Weiner Drive, (504) 861-9283; www.tulanegreenwave.com — The Tulane Green Wave play the Temple Owls.

6:30 p.m. Saturday.

Saints. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleanssaints.com — The New Orleans Saints play the Carolina Panthers. Noon Sunday.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. www.covingtonfarmersmarket. org — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and live music at two weekly dates. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington.

Crescent City Farmers Market. www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org — The market offers produce, meat, seafood, dairy, flowers and prepared food at four weekly dates. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St.; 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday

at the French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place; 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at American Can Apartments, 3700 Orleans Ave.; 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Magazine Street Market, corner of Magazine and Girod streets.

CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook.com/CRISPfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

German Coast Farmers Market.

Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan; www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items.

8 a.m. to noon.

Gretna Farmers Market. Huey P. Long Avenue at Second Street, Gretna; www.gretnafarmersmarket.com — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037; www.hollygrovemarket.com — The urban farm operates a fresh market that’s open daily. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

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

Rivertown Farmers Market.

400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy products, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 355-4442; www.fb.com/StBMarket — The market offers seafood, produce, preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Vietnamese Farmers Market.

14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd. — Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early market catering to New Orleans East’s Vietnamese population. 5 a.m. Saturday.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market. Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego; www. cityofwestwego.com/farmers_market.asp — The monthly Westbank market offers produce, eggs, pickles, baked

goods, art, live music and pony rides. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

(504) 620-2224 or visit www. parkwaypartnersnola.org.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Senior Companion Volunteers.

The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist with personal and daily tasks to help seniors live independently.

Visit www.nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121.

American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs. Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200.

CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 522-1962 or email info@ casaneworleans.org.

Dress for Success New Orleans.

The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to help clients, manage inventory and share their expertise. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@dressforsuccess.org.

Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-onone mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors. Visit www. eachonesaveone.org.

Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola.org or visit www.gotrnola.org.

Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.

Louisiana SPCA. The LA/SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete an orientation to work directly with animals. Visit www.la-spca.org/volunteer.

Meal Delivery Volunteers. The Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults.

Gas and mileage expenses are reimbursed. Call Gail at (504) 888-5880.

NOLA Wise. The partnership of Global Green, the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient. It seeks volunteers, who must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@ globalgreen.org.

Parkway Partners. The greenspace and community garden organization seeks volunteers for building, gardening and other projects. Email info@ parkewaypartnersnola.org, call

St. Thomas Hospitality House.

The Catholic charity seeks individual and groups of volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness. Contact Daniel Thelen at nolacw@gmail.com or (517) 290-8533.

Start the Adventure in Reading.

The STAIR program holds regular training sessions for volunteers who work one-onone with public school students to build reading and language skills. Call (504) 899-0820, email elizabeth@stairnola.org or visit www.stairnola.org.

Teen Suicide Prevention. The program seeks volunteers to help teach middle- and upper-school New Orleans students. Call (504) 831-8475.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries. The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans with food and clothing distribution, home improvement, beautification and social media and web design skills. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www.veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS 2015 JEDCO Challenge. The Jefferson Economic Development Commission seeks entrepreneurs in Jefferson Parish for its pitch competition on March 23. Deadline Dec. 12. Visit www. jedco.org for details.

New Orleans Fashion Week.

Organizers are accepting designer applications for New Orleans Fashion Week, March 21 to 28, 2015. Deadline for the Top Design Competition is Dec. 31; deadline for the Featured Designer is Jan. 15, 2015. Visit www.fashionweeknola.com for details.

PitchNOLA. Propeller Incubator, 4035 Washington Ave., (504) 564-7816; www.gopropeller. org — Propeller is accepting applications for a live business pitch competition where community members offer solutions to local challenges. More than $5,000 will be awarded.

Deadline Dec. 19.

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

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

Christopher Buehlman. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author signs his vampire novel, The Lesser Dead.

6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Reading Between the Wine series concludes the year with authors Andi Eaton, Ronald Fisher, Michael Murphy and Addie K. and Jeremy Martin. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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Dear New Orleans Job Guru, “I read your columns every chance I get and I’ve even saved some and highlighted the best parts for my job search. I’m an executive assistant now, and I know I’m good at what I do. I take care of everything for the owner and she never has to worry about anything, because I’m super detail-oriented. But it’s a small business and the pay is low with no benefits. My problem is that you are always advising people to get out there and network to find a new job, but I’m a total introvert. The idea of networking is terrifying to me. That’s why I’ve always been in a support role and never gone into sales or management.”

— Giselle R., New Orleans, LA

Grant Cooper

Dear Giselle, My introverted clients are often those who get the best results from networking, although my extroverted clients find it much easier to do. The reason for this, Giselle, is because the best networkers are those who are ready and willing to help others, exactly as you do in your current job.

Extroverts generally believe that networking is going out into the world and telling everyone about themselves and what their career needs are. In fact, we in the career coaching industry know that the most successful job search efforts involve going out there and listening to others, learning what their needs and challenges are, and gaining their support and trust. Then, through positioning yourself as a helper and valued colleague, you will be in “the right place at the right time” to hrear about job openings and opportunities. In my past columns, I have shown how more and more jobs are filled, not through traditional job boards or other “Help Wanted” avenues, but through referrals from employees.

I can tell you, Giselle, that the best antidote for your fear is preparation. The feeling of being terrified by networking can be overcome, in time, with knowledge and preparation, things that you appear to be good at. Introverts typically feel most at ease when they are thoroughly prepared, as opposed to extroverts who can walk into any situation and “work the room” without knowing anyone. Before you begin to reach out and meet people in the types of industries, businesses, or organizations that you would like to work within, you need to do a bit of research ahead of time.

Of course, you should always check out the company’s website first. Be sure to read everything in the “About Us” section and pay particular attention to the pages where they list and describe the “team members” or staff. Always be on the lookout for any schools, organizations, or former employers that you may have in common with a staff member. Also many company websites will mention events or company outreach programs in the community that you can attend or offer to provide assistance.

New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Résumés®, Grant is currently ranked in the Top 2% of 340 LinkedIn National Résumé Writing Experts and has fulfilled contracts for the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, the NFL, the NBA, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and major corporations throughout the nation.

Send your question to New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

EXPERIENCED SALES PEOPLE

Hurwitz Mintz Furniture is looking for Experienced Sales People. Earn 40K Plus. We offer top notch benefits including paid training, 401K, a complete insurance package and excellent compensation. Sales experience necessary. (504) 378-1000.

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La Thai Uptown is now hiring experienced servers. We are looking for motivated, knowledgable, friendly & outgoing servers to join our team.

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MODELING/ACTING BRAND AMBASSADORS NEEDED!

Elevated Events is adding BAs to represent high profile spirits brands. Day, night and weekend work available.

Choose when you work! $15-$25/hr.

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PROFESSIONAL EXP. FLORAL DESIGNER

Full or part-time. Saturday work necessary. Apply at Villere’s Florist, 750 Martin Behrman Avenue, Metairie.

METAIRIE DRY CLEANERS

looking for seamstress. Will work at our shop. M - F Call (504) 832-1546

on behalf of the ACLU to fight for LGBT rights Full time/Part time/Career

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TPC Louisiana is seeking Part-Time Golf Operations Staff to greet members and guests. Apply at TPC Louisiana.

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As a follower of my column, you know that LinkedIn is one of the best sources to gather information on prospective employers. Many businesses have a Company Profile on LinkedIn showing the number of employees, industry, headquarters location, anyone on LinkedIn that you may already be connected to, job postings, and more. Definitely click onto the LinkedIn Profiles of company employees and look for any commonalities, same degree or college, home town, or past jobs you may share with them. You can also see any LinkedIn Groups they belong to and join those Groups and even participate in the online discussions. The more you know about someone, the less nervous you will be in reaching out to them, and the more likely you will be to find a way to develop a professional relationship that may lead to a job offer.

AGENTS & SALES

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French Country Brick Home 50275 Huckleberry Lane, Folsom, LA

Each office individually owned and operated

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Two bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, each side. All electric, carpet throughout. Owner will finance.

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Hardwood floors, updated kit. & baths, pocket doors, tiled mantles, & off street parking. A great owner occ. opportunity OR a single home waiting to happen. You make that decision, let’s get you in to see it.

FOR SALE

6961 – 3 Boston Dr. (VLD) $25K 4123-5 Downman Blvd. (COMM) $525K 1210 – 12 N. Galvez Street $480K $118K 4001 Gen. Pershing St. (VLD) 6843 Glengary Rd. $175K $5K 5237 Lakeview Ct. (VLD) 13110 Lemans St. $105K 2025-7 Painters St. $130K 2458 N. Tonti St. $170K 4724 Virgilian St. $118.5K

FOR RENT 6000 Eads St. $1,075/mo 1269 & 71 Milton St. $800/mo 2028 Pauger St., B $1,000/mo 2124 Cadiz St. $150K U/C 20 Lakewood Pl. $380K SOLD 4901 - 3 Willow St. $215K SOLD 24 Yosemite Dr. $245K SOLD

JUDY FISHER INC. REALTORS ® Offering Personalized Real Estate Services Since 2003

504-524-JUDY (5839)

This executive home has four bedrooms, three baths, Jacuzzi in master bath and full shower, nine foot ceilings throughout, country kitchen with granite island top, front and back porches, antique pine floors and two car garage with separate workshop/ wellhouse. Located on a beautifully landscaped six acre lot with mature trees. Ten minutes north of Interstate 12 at the Goodbee/Madisonville exit. (Hwy. 1077) FOR LEASE NOW $1950 Per Month For More Information call: (985) 796-9130 For More Photos and Map Visit:

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Heart of the Forest TWO TO FOUR ACRE LOTS

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2707 Chartres St. #7 $169,000

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Lake Pontchartrain Boathouse

Spectacular panoramic views 2100 sq ft of living & 1500 sq ft of decks with 40 ft covered boatslip. City water lease.

JENNIFER LANASA-EVANS CCIM ASSOCIATE BROKER

COMMERCIAL SALES, LEASING AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT

Jennifer@lanasa.com Cell (504) 250-9930 www.lanasa.com 4641 Fairfield St Metairie, LA 70006

Warehouse District Retail/Office for Lease 316 St. Joseph Street • New Orleans, LA.

2000sf of showroom and office space.

Newly refurbished.

Hot Warehouse Dist. Location close to Conv. Ctr. Potential for 2nd flr. Studio/Apt., 1.5 baths, storefront. $2,995/mth NN

Owner/Agent

Shaun Talbot

(504) 975-9763

Enchanting 1 BR, 1BA condo in c. 1840 Creole Townhouse in historic Architects Row, located in the Marigny near the Riverfront park, NOCCA, walking distance to many restaurants. 3rd floor walk-up of rear bldg, offers a covered balcony with room enough to entertain, spacious feel to interior with abundant natural light, high ceilings, rustic beams, exposed brick walls throughout, attic area offers plenty of storage or possible loft area.

Ideally located 10 min. north of I-12 Goodbee Exit 57

985.796.9130

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FAUBOURG ST. JOHN

Home of the 2015 Louisiana Indy Grand Prix Race

Stunning Courtyard / Lush Greenery / 4 Large Queen Palms

Lots Available

3021 Bell Street, NOLA - Center Hall/Raised Basement with Owners spacious quarters and 3 units - over $3,000 monthly income potential - flexible space may also be restored to Beautiful single family - floor plan ideal for a Grand Master Suite, large spa bath, walk-in closet Approx. 4,140 sq ft living, 4 baths, 5+ beds

$798,000 - a great price for this demand area at $192 sq. ft.

504-486-8271

Delisha Boyd, BA, MBA, DBA(abd)

Real Estate Broker Delisha Boyd LLC New Orleans, La 70131 Dir.: 504-415-1802 • Ofc: 504-533-8701

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REAL ESTATE JEFFERSON 2537 RIVER ROAD

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

Between Labarre & Rio Vista. 2BR, 1.5 Townhome, $885 water included, w&d hkups, fridge & stove. No pets, NO smoking. B>Great landlord for great tenants! 504-887-1814

OLD METAIRIE 1/2 DOUBLE - 1BR

Dishwasher & stove, CA&H, carport.

No smrks/pets. $800/mo + Deposit & lease. (504) 832-0115.

OLD METAIRIE 1&2 BDRM. APTS SPARKLING POOL & BIKE PATH

CARROLLTON NEAR JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL

406 S. HENNESSEY ST. Recently Remodeled. 2 BR, 1 BA, Living Room., Dining Room., Hardwood Floors, w/d hookups, Screened Porch, $975/mo.

Call (504) 874-4330.

RICKY LEMANN

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CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN NEAR CITY PARK - DESAIX

504-861-0100

Single house, c-a/h, 2br, 1ba, w/d hkps, lrg fncd yd, pets ok. $1100/mo.

Avail Jan 1, 2015.

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New granite in kit & bath. 12 x 24ft lr, King Master w/wall of closets. Furn Kit. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg.

NO PETS. O/A, $724-$848/mo. 504236-5776.

CBD OFFICE SPACE

Furnished Office Space in CBD available with all ammenities. Lease by the office $500 per month per office.

If interested please email to ssa@ ocblaw.com

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

COMMERCIAL RENTALS 2 ROOM OFFICE $875/MO Easy Parking! Only one vacancy.

Avail now. Desks, file cabinets incl 2273 Barataria Blvd, Marrero.

Call cell, 781-608-6115

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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

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

2565 WISTERIA

3619 CALHOUN $850

1BR, furn kitchen, hdwd floors, o/s pkng. $400/mo + $500 security. 504715-1662. Email 1rentball@gmail.com

2 br, 1 ba Shotgun double. Hardwood floors, Furnished kitchen, Central A/C and Heat. W/D hookups. Call (504) 8666319 to schedule appointment to see.

CBD PRIME CBD OFFICE SPACE

Renovated professional office building in the CBD. Space from 4,000 sq. ft. to individual offices. Perfect for small businesses, remote office location, individuals, or office storage. Competitive prices. Can email pictures. 612 Gravier St. Appointment only. Call (504) 5255553 or cgreen@barrylawco.com

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RENTALS TO SHARE

2BR, 2BA w/ appls, beautiful courtyard setting w/swimming pool, quiet neighborhood. $1200/mo.

504-756-7347

Seeking House/Pet Sitting in Exchange for Room & Board

SWF, highly educated, world traveler, references, great cook, dog lover seeking accommodations. Call Zoey & leave message, (504) 450-8378

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Beautiful new renovation of 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath.

NO FLOOD with low flood insurance rates.

Viking stove, marble baths, great open entertaining area, huge front porch, master suite with walk-in closet and sitting room. French Bath fixtures in mint move-in condition. Owner/Agent.

Five (5) bedroom home just off Jefferson Ave on Prytania. Awaits your persoanl touches.

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CLASSIFIEDS ANNOUNCEMENTS HAVE FUN LEARNING SPANISH! Vamanos NOLA (504) 495-2345 http://vamonosnola.com/

Attorney: Albert J. Derbes, IV Address: 3027 Ridgelake Drive, Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 837-1230 Gambit: 11/11/14 & 12/02/14

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

NO. 638-434 DIVISION “A” D.B. COULSON A Story of Terror and Dark Romance set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. http://www.inkwaterbooks.com/ theawakening/#sect1

LEGAL NOTICES 24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 707-107 DIV. “E” SUCCESSION OF JULIAN PERCY NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

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WHEREAS, Hillary Ratnakumar Percy Jayasuriya, administrator of the above succession, has applied to the Court to sell the estate’s one-half interest in the following immovable property, herein described, to-wit:

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ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Section “B” of Lake Villa Subdivision, in accordance with a plan of resubdivision made by F.B. Grevenberg, C.E., dated March 1929, filed in Plat Book as Lot No. 6 in Square No. 11, bounded by Lake Villa Drive, similar width in the rear by a depth of 125 feet between equal and parallel lines and forms the corner of Lake Villa Drive and Glendale Street.

All in accordance with survey by Curry Dixon & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S., dated September 13, 1978.

The improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 4200 Lake Villa Drive, Metairie, Louisiana.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: FOR THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN THOUSAND AND 00/100 DOLLARS ($215,000.00) CASH FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING THE ESTATE’S ONE-HALF INTEREST, AS SET FORTH IN THE PETITION ON FILE OR ON TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS MAY BE ORDERED BY THE COURT. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedents herein, and of this estate, to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of 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.

This notice was requested by attorney ALBERT J. DERBES, IV and was issued by the Clerk of Court on the 6th day of November, 2014.

Deputy Clerk of Court Jon Gegenheimer Clerk of Court Kendra F. Pierre Deputy Clerk

SUCCESSION OF JAMES F. TOUPS, JR. NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN that Lori Toups, duly qualified executrix of the Succession of James F. Toups, Jr. has filed a Petition for authority to sell, at private sale, the immovable property described as follows: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, or PORTION OF GROUND, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances, thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that park known and subdivided as SUBURBAN PARK SUBDIVISION, in Block or Square No. Three (3), thereof, bounder by Hancock, Palfrey, Cook and Solon Streets, and which said lots adjoin each other, and as designated by the numbers Nine (9) and Ten (10) of said square and beginning at a distance of 75’ feet from the corner of Hancock and Solon Streets, said lots measures each 25’ feet, front on Hancock Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 125’ feet between equal and parallel lines. All as per plan of Suburban Park Subdivision made by J.W.T. Stephen, C.E., dated August 25, 1917, a copy of which is annexed to an act passed before Charles V. Macaluso, Notary Public, of the Parish of Orleans, Dated August 3, 1923, and also as per plan of the same subdivision, made by J.W.T. Stephens, C.E., dated June 21, 1917, a copy of which is on file in the office of Clerk of Court of the Parish of Jefferson, as plan No. 22-A in Book of Plans No. 12. Also as more particularly described as above on a plan of survey made by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated June 6, 1941, a blue print of which is annexed to act before Hugh E. Humphrey, Notary Public, dated June 13, 1941.

Being the same property acquired by Rita Magnon, wife of an James F. Toups, Sr., from Lucy Justin Duet by act passed before Harold L. Molaison, Notary Public, dated February 13, 1953, registered in COB 334, folio 51, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. under the terms and conditions as provided in the agreement to purchase filed in these proceedings.

Notice is now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 21st day of November, 2014.

Giselle LeGlue Clerk of Court Attorney: Ryan Scafidel, Scafidel Law Firm Address: 4130 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119 Telephone: (504) 485-0200 email: ryan@scafidellawfirm.com Gambit: 12/02/14 & 12/23/14

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

NUMBER: 738.714 DIVISION “D”

NO. 08-9601 DIVISION “D” DOCKET 16

IN THE MATTER OF THE SUCCESSION OF VICTORIA ENGRAM HARRIS

SUCCESSION OF WILHEAMINA POCHE BARRAS

STATE OF LOUISIANA

APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE Under the provisions of the La Code Civ Proc Ann art 3281, petitioner here, applies to sell the real estate above described, and on compliance with the law made and provided in such cases, is entitled to an order of this Court authorizing the sale.

Therefore, petitioner prays that due notice of this application for authority to sell real estate at private sale, be published according to law; that after due delays and proceedings had, this application be homologated and petitioner Velvet Harris Davis, Executrix be authorized and directed to sell the above described real estate for the price and subject to the conditions stipulated above.

Dazerra Esteves Deputy Clerk Attorney: Deborah E. Dugas Address: 373 Central Ave., P.O. Drawer 554, Reserve, La. 70084 Telephone: 985-535-8770 Fax: 985-536-2282 Gambit: 11/18/14 & 12/02/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to ARGENT MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC, executed by Viet T. Dang and dated January 19, 2006, in the principal sum of $193,500.00, bearing interest at the rate of 7.750% 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 a lost promissory note payable to Anthony Smith Financial, Inc. dated May 16, 2014 in the amount of $995.31 and signed by a S. Galmore, please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-5819545 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Luckmore Finance Corporation dated April 9, 2014 in the amount of $1,000.00 and signed by a W. Franklin please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-5819545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Checker LLC and Ben McKery call J. Gainsburgh, atty at (504) 582-2280.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of HENDRIX J.S. BROUSSARD (a/k/a Hendrix Broussard), TIONA RICHARDSON, and/or LEIGH TORRENCE, please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.324.4400.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Isaac Landler, whereabouts unknown, please call Peter Hamilton, 504-9401883.

Anyone knowing the Whereabouts of Nickie Hunter please contact Marcus DeLarge at (504) 264 5552 Be advised that anyone who knows the whereabouts of Joell B. Johnson whose last known address was 3401 Bennett Street, New Orleans, LA., 70114, please contact Clinton Smith, Jr. Esq. at (504) 382-3760.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Toneyell B. Ricard, l/k/a 1875-77 North Rocheblave St., New Orleans, La please call P. Hamilton, 504-940-1883.

STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the court approved Administratrix of the above estate, SHIRLEY BARRAS ELLSWORTH, has made application to the Court for the sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: An undivided One Half (1/2) interest in and to: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings, and improvements thereon, and all the rights, servitudes, privileges and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Third District of New Orleans, in Square No. 757, bounded

by Derbigny, Lapeyrouse, LaHarpe and Claiborne Streets, said lot is designated

by No. 6 and measures thirty two feet front on Derbigny Street by a dept of one hundred feet; the said property is also designated as a certain lot of ground in the third district bounded by Derbigny, Lapeyrouse, LaHarpe and Claiborne Streets; said lot is designated by the No. 11 of Square No. 21, and measures thirty one feet, seven inches front on Derbigny Street by one hundred feet deep; and also shown on a sketch of survey made by S. A. Calangne’s Sons, C. E. & S, on april 12, 1934, a copy whereof is annexed to an act of mortgage in favor of Home Owners Loan Corporation, passed before Joseph F. Blasi, Jr., Notary Public, dated June 29, 1934, said lot measures thirty one feet, seven inches front on Derbigny Street by one hundred feet in depth, the said lot commencing at a distance of ninety four feet, nine inches from the corner of North Derbigny Street and LaHarpe Street.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 1552-54 North Derbigny Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Being the same property acquired by Wilheamina Poche, wife of/and Joseph Barris by Act passed before Warren E. Mouledoux, Notary Public, dated May 17, 1957 and recorded in Orleans Parish, Louisiana in COB 614 folio 333.

authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order of judgment may be issued after expiration of ten (10) days, from the date wherein the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF COURT, Dale N. Atkins

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 734-482 DIVISION: “I” SUCCESSION OF KIM JOSEPH CALEGAN

Attorney: Carol A. Newman Address: 813 South Carrollton Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Telephone: (504) 861-0008 Gambit: 12/02/14

TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

DOCKET NO. 738-181 DIVISION: “D” SUCCESSION OF E. RALPH LUPIN NOTICE OF FILING OF SECOND TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is given that the Executrix of the Succession has filed a Petition on November 25, 2014 for authority to pay estate debts, and in accordance with the Second Tableau of Distribution filed with the Petition, the Petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven days from the date of this publication.

Any opposition to the Petition must be filed prior to homologation. November 25, 2014.

Attornies: Wade P. Webster, Jon W. Wise Address: 400 Poydras Street, 30th Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: 504-523-2600 Gambit: 12/02/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of one certain promissory note dates May 7, 1987, in the principal amount of $75,750.00 payable to the order of First Federal Savings Bank of New York, payable monthly, executed by Cynthia Hoffman Wingfield and William Doyne Wingfield, please contact Mark C. Garrison, Attorney at Law, Seale, Smith, Zuber & Barnette, 8550 United Plaza Blvd., Suite 200, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, phone (225) 924-1600.

NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all heirs and creditors and to all who have or may have a claim against the Succession of Kim Joseph Calegan and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication hereof why the Petition For Authority To Compromise Claim filed on November 25, 2014 by Harold E. Molaison, Administrator for the Succession of Kim Joseph Calegan should not be approved.

BY COURT ORDER Deputy Clerk of Court Attorney: Harold E. Molaison Address: 111 Veterans Blvd. Suite 1810 Metairie, Louisiana Telephone: (504) 834-3788 Gambit: 12/02/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of PAMELA CAUSEY GRAY and/or her spouse, children, heirs, legatees, assigns, relatives or successors in interest, please contact attorney Julien F. Jurgens at (504) 722-7716 IMMEDIATELY. Property rights are involved in 24th JDC Jefferson Parish Court, Case # 742-901.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Toneyell B. Ricard, l/k/a 1875-77 North Rocheblave St., New Orleans, La please call P. Hamilton, 504-940-1883.

I, Jon Schindler, DOC #628247, have applied for clemency for my conviction of manslaughter. If you have any comments, contact the Board of Pardons (225) 342-5421 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Thao Thanh Tran and/or Lien Thi Ngoc Bui, please contact Attorney John J. Buckman at (504) 837-4950 Irving Lapoint, aka Irving F. Lapoint and/or Diedre Lapoint, aka Diedre Adams Lapoint or anyone knowing their whereabouts, call Barbara Volk Madere Attorney, 504-362-5000

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: (a) The purchase price will be paid Forty Thousand and 00/100 ($40,000) Dollars in cash to the Succession but the buyer will withhold from the purchase price a sum sufficient to discharge all encumbrances on the property; and (b) To satisfy the claim in the amount of $8,881.99 to SHIRLEY BARRAS ELLSWORTH who has filed against the estate herein for reimbursement of out of pocket estate expenses. (c) The succession will pay the pro rata share of taxes for the current year, and the cost of the revenue stamps and of all proper certificates; and (d) The Succession will pay Attorney Carol A. Newman her attorney fees for handling the succession and any out of pocket fees and costs incurred in obtaining a court order from sale proceeds, and (e) The property is to be sold in an “As Is” condition with the purchasers waiving their Right of Redhibition. (f) The Succession will reimburse the Administratrix and any other parties who have incurred any and all administravtive expenses incurred up to the date of the Act of Sale.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent’s herein, and of these estates, be ordered to make any opposition which they have for or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment

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