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Chromeo FRI. SEPT. 21 | The funk band’s fifth album, 2018’s Head Over Heels, arrived with a complimentary sweat sheen, dripping with the group’s slick electronics, roger Troutman-riffing vocoders and juicy production.

Steven A. Clark opens at 9 p.m. at The Joy Theater.

Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs release True Orleans Sept. 22

Diavolo | Architecture in Motion

BY WILL COVIeLLO

SAT. SEPT. 22 | The Los Angeles dance company known for performing with architectural-scale props reached the final 10 finalists on America’s Got Talent in summer 2017.

The company performs three pieces, including Trajecture, featuring a large boatlike structure used in the finals of the TV competition. At 8 p.m. at Mahalia Jackson Theater for the performing Arts.

MANY NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS BLEND JAZZ AND BRASS BAND MUSIC

with bounce, hip-hop, funk, soul, r&B and more. Shamarr Allen has a name for his blend: True Orleans.

“True Orleans is about everything New Orleans: jazz, funk, hip-hop, r&B, soul, so many different styles,” Allen says. “When I think about New Orleans music, it’s hard to describe it to a person in words. For me, it’s a feeling. The objective of True Orleans is to create that feeling.”

True Orleans is the name Allen gave to the foundation he created in 2013 to provide music clinics for kids. He’s building it as a brand with T-shirts and gear. And it’s also the name of his latest album with his band the Underdawgs, which will be released Saturday. Allen and the Underdawgs celebrate with Big Freedia at a release party Saturday at House of Blues.

Freedia’s unmistakable deep voice backs Allen’s vocals over a bounce beat on the opening track of the album, “The Greatest place in the World.” The song is an upbeat celebration of all things New Orleans, including music, Mardi Gras Indian culture, boiled crawfish, New Orleans Saints fans and just hanging out and greeting neighbors on street corners.

Most of the album bursts with local pride, but Allen’s tell-it-like-it-is candor ranges from humorous laments about parking tickets to addressing New Orleans’ racial tensions, as on “Colorblind.”

Allen is best known as a trumpeter, and he performed with the rebirth Brass Band before forming his own band, the Underdawgs, which mixed jazz, rock, hip-hop and more. True Orleans is the first album on which he’s played trumpet on every track, Allen says. He also wrote all of the songs, and he sings and raps over hip-hop beats throughout, with the exception of the closing track,

THU.-SUN. SEPT. 20-OCT. 7 | A response to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming, Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater project created this documentary theater piece exploring the reaction to the hate crime. The Storyville Collective and the Delgado Community College theater department present the show at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Delgado.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner! Festival “Momma’s Boy,” an instrumental piece dedicated to his mother.

There are local guests on several songs. Bounce rappers partners-NCrime appear on “Love and Happiness,” which works in a reggae beat. erica Falls grounds the soul and r&B sound of “Feel Good Music.”

Falls and Allen both perform with Galactic, including at recent West Coast tour stops.

“This whole CD was based off musical relationships,” Allen says.

“New Orleans is about taking care of each other.”

The album’s 13 tracks were culled from more than 100 songs recorded over the course of three years, Allen says. He took full control of the project. His trumpet solos are found throughout, and “ruin My Day” blends a brass band feel from a full horn section and soulful harmonies, but Allen also plays drums, keyboards and trombone on some tracks. He produced the album and even sampled beats from his past albums.

He’s also shooting videos to release with the album. On Sept. 7, days before the New Orleans Saints opened their season, Allen gathered fans clad in black and gold and team jerseys in Jackson Square to do a video for “Sean payton.” He’ll release

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the video this week, and he hopes for a repeat of the success of “Hit the Sean payton” (or “Do the Sean payton”), a song about New Orleans Saints coach Sean payton dancing in the locker room after the Saints beat the Carolina panthers in the playoffs in January. payton may not have the best dance moves on the team or in the city, but the video for the track, cut with JD DNA504, went viral locally.

Allen is recording videos for more songs, and though he loves the local connections, he’s clear about his goals for the album.

“The objective is to not be home,” he says. The band will play several festivals in fall, and Allen hopes to put together a tour afterward.

SAT.-TUE. SEPT. 22-25 | The pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society literary festival kicks off with talks by Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson and Ingrid rojas Contreras, whose novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree is based on growing up in Colombia during the heyday of pablo escobar’s drug cartel. Visit www. faulknersociety.org for a schedule.

Contreras speaks at 3 p.m. Saturday at The Cabildo.

FIDLAR SUN. SEPT. 23 | After making waves with its self-titled 2013 ep and 2015 album Too, the anti-groove punk band has teased its return with Nirvana and pink Floyd covers and “Too real,” the band’s dunk on electoral politics and the end of the world. Dilly Dally and NOBrO open at 8 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

Future Islands SUN. SEPT. 23 | Seeing Samuel T. Herring’s full-body ecstasy as frontman for the Baltimore electronic pop band is worth the price of admission alone. Its unimpeachable string of releases, most recently capped by 2017’s gorgeous The Far Field, is a close No. 2. ed Schrader’s Music Beat opens at 8 p.m. at The Joy Theater.

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grant to Southern University in Baton rouge last week to support classroom and lab improvements for the college’s engineering program. It also will provide internship and mentoring programs for students at the utility.

In April, the company opened on the New York Stock exchange at a market value of $29.5 billion. p H OTO B Y A L e X W O O DWA r D

Kenner mayor Ben Zahn

ignited a firestorm by issuing a memo banning the city’s booster clubs from buying Nike gear, joining those who are boycotting the company for its support of Colin Kaepernick.

At least one member of the Kenner City Council objected, and Zahn had to back down in embarrassment after the story went national.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry continued

his ongoing self-promotion tour with a particularly rancid move last week when he used 9/11 as a pretext to tweet “remember Benghazi” — a tragedy that had nothing to do with the 2001 attack on America. The loss of four lives at the American consulate in Libya in 2012 has been used as a cudgel by the far right to attack then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was cleared of culpability in a months-long House Select Committee investigation. Landry managed to dishonor the memory of both 9/11 and Benghazi — but most of all he embarrassed himself.

District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer announces support for a “ban the box” ordinance to a crowd outside City Hall Sept. 12 alongside Council President Jason Williams, right.

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AN ORDINANCE INTRODUCED BY DISTRICT C COUNCILMEMBER KRISTIN GISLESON PALMER would prevent applications for city positions from

asking applicants about their criminal history, and criminal background checks wouldn’t be performed until after an interview is conducted.

Applicants would be “considered for employment opportunities based on the merits of their skills and experience,” not weighed against their criminal history, according to the ordinance.

It updates rules from 2013 by extending them to employers receiving grants or under city contracts or cooperative endeavor agreements, and establishes “fair chance” hiring practices throughout city government.

“When it comes to ban the box, you only have to pay once,” she told a crowd outside City Hall Sept. 12. “We have to make sure after people have already paid their debt to society, they can come out and get a job and be a citizen in every sense of that word.”

Council president Jason Williams said the “box” inclusion on job applications is “adding insult to injury, adding another obstacle to you having been gone, from being able to provide for your family and be an asset to your community.

“That is bad for the growth of the New Orleans economy, the growth of the economy of the state, and frankly, it’s immoral,” he said. “It’s immoral you pay what you are told to pay yet you still have to wear the scarlet letter F on your chest when all you’re trying to do is make a day’s work.”

The New Orleans City Council’s Governmental Affairs Committee is scheduled to take up palmer’s “ban the box” ordinance Sept. 27. Several councilmembers said they anticipate it passing unanimously.

But workers argue that “banning the box” doesn’t guarantee that a formerly incarcerated person is able to earn enough to support themselves or a family once they return to work in a city with a growing cost of living. “I fight every day, week to week, to make ends meet,” said Department of Sanitation worker Barry Smith. “They’re not meeting.”

The state still is tied to the federal minimum wage of $7.25, and Louisiana law prevents individual municipalities from setting their own minimum wages. Several attempts by state legislators to raise

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OPENING GAMBIT the statewide minimum wage have failed. During the 2018 legislative session, New Orleans state rep. Joe Bouie pitched a $15 minimum wage, which was rejected in committee, and even a modest raise up to $8 (up to $8.50 in 2020) was rejected by the state Senate after it squeaked out of committee.

City officials passed an hourly “living wage” ordinance in 2015. It applies to employees of city contractors, but workers have argued there are loopholes and outright failures to honor those wages.

Quote of the week “Acting upon advice of the City Attorney, I have rescinded my memorandum of September 5, 2018. That memorandum divided the City and placed Kenner in a false and unflattering light on the national stage.”

— Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn, at a terse press conference Sept. 12, addressing his memo that would have banned Kenner booster clubs from using funds to buy Nike products. That memo received strong condemnation from many across the country, including New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the entire New Orleans City Council.

‘Small-box stores’ face moratorium by City Council New Orleans officials could impose a moratorium on “small box” stores, discount and dollar-store retailers that the City Council has tasked the City planning Commission (CpC) with studying over the next two months.

The CpC will look at stores between 5,000 and 10,000 square feet that don’t offer fresh food — excluding gas station stores and pharmacies that sell groceries, which puts the study’s focus squarely on discount stores, many of which have populated the New Orleans area over the last decade. District e Councilmember Cyndi Nguyen has questioned whether those are the kinds of retail projects the Lower 9th Ward and New Orleans east should be attracting, particularly in areas where lower-income families don’t have better access to fresh food retailers, grocery stores and transportation. residents also have complained about the optics of those kinds of stores, which east New Orleans Neighborhood Advisory Commission president Sylvia Scineaux-richard said drive away wouldbe residents. “We don’t want to be branded as a discount community,” she said at the CpC’s Sept. 11 meeting. elisa Munoz, director of the New Orleans Food policy Advisory Committee, supports more full-service grocery stores in areas saturated with small-box stores and suggested officials also consider requiring discount stores to stock fresh food. The CpC is

accepting public comment through 5 p.m. Nov. 5. CpC staff will release its report and recommendations Nov. 6, and the CpC will consider them Nov. 13.

Short-term rental legislation heats up again After short-term rental companies and operators released their pitch for revising STr regulations, a coalition of residents, business owners and community groups proposed its own ordinance tracking enforcement and regulation efforts in other cities.

Among other ideas, the coalition’s proposal would mandate that STr operators show proof of residency at properties they let out.

The proposal from residents for ethical and Sustainable Tourism (reST) also would require platforms to register as businesses with the city, and each booking would impose a $20 fee per night, tied to affordable housing funds.

Breonne DeDecker, program manager with community land trust and housing advocacy group Jane place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, which is leading the reST charge, says fallout from the 2016 ordinance “prioritized tourists over residents who make our city run.”

DeDecker added that homes were pulled from the rental market to the more-lucrative STr platforms, and lower-income homeowners suddenly were competing with speculative real estate developers flipping housing into STrs. “It’s high time for the city to step up and tamp down on speculation,” she told Gambit.

The homestead exemption requirement was considered by the City Council in 2016 but dropped from the final rules.

After a round of community meetings last month, STr platform HomeAway and proponent group the Alliance for Neighborhood prosperity (ANp) revised its previous pitch, which exempts formerly blighted properties from STr restrictions for up to five years, lifts the current ban on STrs in the French Quarter, and imposes some density restrictions but not on existing permits. ANp’s new draft proposes that operators who also build affordable housing units be allowed additional STr permits.

Before city planners release a report on the state of short-term rentals in New Orleans, community groups will host a public forum on the issue this week. The Short-Term rental Committee, a resident group critical of STr proliferation, hosts a meeting at 6 p.m. Sept. 20 at Corpus Christi epiphany Community resource Center (2022 St. Bernard Ave.). The New Orleans City planning Commission will consider the study at its Sept. 25 meeting and must send it to the City Council by Oct. 5.

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Junior Chirinos rides Blue Bikes, the New Orleans bike rental program, on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 6, 2018.

Cantrell’s Human Relations Commission addresses ‘low-hanging fruit’ at City Hall Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the Human relations Commission are identifying “low-hanging fruit” to expand access at City Hall, including creating some gender-neutral bathrooms and better accommodating non-english speakers and people with disabilities.

At the Sept. 11 inaugural meeting of the commission’s recently appointed advisory committee, the commission’s executive director Vincenzo pasquantonio said the administration is working to identify bathrooms and other facilities at City Hall to earmark for renovations to support all genders and people with disabilities.

The commission also is reviewing documents at the Department of Safety & permits that could be made available in Spanish and Vietnamese, and assessing a larger language access report to track those kinds of improvements at City Hall.

“The way to eat a big elephant is one bite at a time,” pasquantonio told the committee. “We want to do the real serious stuff in addition to the low-hanging fruit.” pasquantonio said he hopes to be able to move the equity New Orleans

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Try out Blue Bikes for free this month If you haven’t tried out Blue Bikes, the municipal bike rental program, the company is offering an incentive: New Orleans residents can get one free hour of blue biking per day this month, which they’re calling “Free September.”

New users are advised to visit the Blue Bikes website or download the Social Bicycles smartphone app to begin. existing users will receive a credit depending on whether they have a regular, university or reduced fare account.

Those using the bikes longer than an hour will be charged at the regular rate of 13 cents per minute.

Hang out with chimps at ‘Chimpanzee Discovery Days’ Now’s your chance to get up close with more than 250 chimpanzees, as Chimp Haven, a national chimpanzee sanctuary near Shreveport, will open to the public for three Saturdays this fall. “Chimpanzee Discovery Days” began Sept. 15 and also will be held Oct. 20 and Nov. 17 on Chimp Haven’s 200-acre refuge, which normally is closed to the public.

According to a press release about the event, “Staff members will be there to lead educational talks and answer questions about the chimpanzees, their personalities and pref-

erences, what they eat and how the veterinarians provide each individual personalized veterinary care.”

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for kids (children under 5 are free). For more information, visit www.chimphaven.org.

MaCCNO turns six The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans celebrates its sixth anniversary Sept. 21 — six years after it formed in the wake of music club closures in 2012 — at one of the venues that was targeted in enforcement sweeps that forced several venues to temporarily pull the plug on live music.

MaCCNO hosts a party at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Siberia Lounge (2227 St. Claude Ave.) with music from the Original pinettes Brass Band, Chapter SOUL, DJ rQ Away and BLK with host DC paul. proceeds benefit the organization.

The organization now publishes free guides to street performance and a “Good Visitors Guide to New Orleans” and is working on a Grassroots Cultural Master plan. It is a vocal advocate at City Hall for musicians, hospitality workers and other people in the cultural economy, pushing for a sustainable and equitable tourism industry.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Call for nominations: Gambit’s

It’s time for Gambit’s annual 40 Under 40 issue, which spotlights local overachievers who are under the age of 40. We look to the most knowledgeable people we know — our readers — to help us find people who deserve the award.

Nominate your favorite movers and shakers, business geniuses, do-gooders, people with talent and those doing exceptional things.

Include the nominee’s name, phone number, email address, date of birth and what makes him or her a good candidate.

Email your nominations to kandaceg@gambitweekly. com. Nominees must be 39 or younger on Nov. 6. Elected officials are not eligible.

The deadline for nominations is Oct. 9.

Winners will be announced in the Nov. 5 edition of Gambit.

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initiative — which former Mayor Mitch Landrieu revealed in 2017 with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Foundation for Louisiana — under the commission’s wing, effectively building an office for more equitable systems in city government and elsewhere.

In June, Cantrell announced that the commission would enlist an LGBT Task Force to generate policy recommendations from the city’s LGBT community, but that task force has not yet been formed. Members of the advisory committee, representing a broad spectrum of local social justice and civil rights groups, were appointed later that month.

Among the advisory committee’s 17 members are former American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana director Marjorie esman, Nathalie Faulk with BreakOUT! and Deon Haywood with Women with a Vision.

“The Human relations Commission will have a meaningful role in my administration, and the Advisory Committee will be a vital part of that work,” Cantrell said in an August statement announcing the committee’s lineup. “The committee includes people who have actively served the commission in the past and new voices who have been in the trenches getting results for our people.”

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COMMENTARY

Welcome to The Music Issue WE’VE ALL HEARD ABOUT the “brain drain”

of Louisiana scholars — bright and talented young people who have to leave the state to make a living — but what about our homegrown musicians who have to do the same? This week brings our annual Music Issue, where we spotlight up-and-coming New Orleans musicians from across the spectrum. These are the people who entertain us, who draw tourists from around the world and who pass along their knowledge to the next generation of musical talents.

New Orleans hasn’t done right by them — for a long time. It’s time for that to change.

Despite talk of the “cultural economy,” precious little of that economy filters down to the men and women who hustle with their brass instruments and their guitars, whether it’s inside a tony club or on a street corner. Musicians get trotted out for

Despite talk of the “cultural economy,” precious little of that economy filters down to the men and women who hustle with their brass instruments and their guitars, whether it’s inside a tony club or on a street corner. tourist commercials, visiting conventions and political rallies, but they are largely on their own when it comes to eking out a living.

Any city or state that can offer millions of dollars in tax breaks to attract industries that may not stay once they’ve exhausted our natural resources should be able to help the men and women who grind out the soundtrack for our unique city.

Instead, musicians have to hunt for practice spaces, scuffle just to find room to unload their instruments on Decatur or Frenchmen streets and depend on tips to survive. Why does New Orleans — the home of America’s only indigenous musical form — not have an infrastructure for treating music as valuable, important work?

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Cosimo Matassa at his recording studio in the 1950s.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the City Council should see this as an opportunity — and a potential legacy. One small but meaningful step would be to designate a “night mayor,” an independent body, individual, or non-governmental organization that works with officialdom to make sure the city functions optimally after dark, particularly as respects nightlife.

The concept started several years ago in Amsterdam and has spread to London, New York and other cities.

In a 24-hour town like New Orleans, a night mayor could be a powerful advocate for local entertainers.

That’s just a start. Given our titanic contribution to American music as a whole, it’s embarrassing that we don’t have anything like the rock ’n’ roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee or the experience Music project (now the Museum of pop Culture) in Seattle, each of which brings in thousands of tourists and millions of dollars while saluting and supporting their cities’ music communities.

Imagine an institution like the National World War II Museum, but for Louisiana and Southern music.

Or a major recording studio in the city that birthed Cosimo Matassa, Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew and Allen Toussaint.

Whatever form it takes, and whoever does it, we have to find a way to properly honor our musicians — not with lip service, statues and memorials, but with real opportunities to make a living in the city of their birth.

It’s time for New Orleans to do right by its musicians. Who will take the lead?

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Ben Zahn, Nike and the Tea Party A DVO C AT e S TA F F p H OTO B Y S C OT T T H r e L K e L D

Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn rescinded a controversial policy last week that forbade booster clubs at the city’s parks from purchasing Nike gear.

THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON I LEARNED AS A HISTORY MAJOR

is that history repeats itself, mostly because we human beings haven’t changed much in the past 3,500 years. As Shakespeare put it, “What’s past is prologue.”

I got to thinking about that as I watched the ongoing political drama of Colin Kaepernick, Nike, and Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn. So much sound and fury, signifying — what?

Mostly, I suspect, history repeating itself.

Consider another outlandish act of protest from America’s past: the much-mythologized Boston Tea party. In its day, and for half a century afterward, it wasn’t even known by that name. In fact, many patriots considered it a shameful act of vandalism.

Let’s start with the mythologizing.

It had nothing to do with tea, or higher taxes — parliament had recently reduced the tax on tea. It was about self-governance.

So why dump 340 chests of minimally taxed east India Company tea (a popular item) into Boston Harbor?

Because tea was a convenient target.

Then, as now, targeting something popular as a means of protest got people’s attention — but it had serious consequences.

The reaction among many on both sides of the Atlantic was not favorable — and it divided rather than united Americans. George Washington condemned it, and Ben Franklin argued that the east India Company should be compensated. On the other hand, John Adams called the protest “the grandest event, which has ever yet happened Since the Controversy, with Britain, opened.”

Britain was not divided. parliament passed the Coercive Acts (called “Intolerable Acts” over here) — and it was those acts, says historian ray raphael, not the protest in Bos-

ton Harbor, that rallied colonists behind the cause of independence.

“The destruction of tea had been a catalyst for events leading to independence,” wrote raphael in American History magazine, “but its belligerent tone ran counter to the favored patriotic story line: The British were the aggressors, causing peace-loving Americans to act in self-defense.” put another way, the protest itself, and the immediate reaction to it, overshadowed the object of protest.

Sound familiar?

Now let’s consider Kaepernick, Nike and Zahn. Kaepernick and other NFL players kneel during the national anthem at NFL games, which many consider unpatriotic and disrespectful. Never mind that kneeling is actually an act of supreme respect, even reverence; to many, it’s enough that it defies the traditional act of standing. Many others, including Nike, support the kneelers, and so we are divided.

Lost amid the din is the object of protest: the fact that so many unarmed black men are killed during encounters with law enforcement.

What does The Star-Spangled Banner have to do with cops shooting unarmed black men? probably about as much as tea had to do with self-governance in 1773 — but, then again, it’s not really about the anthem, just as it was never about the tea.

When Zahn tried to ban Nike products at Kenner playgrounds, he furthered the divisions and raised the volume of the din. A week later, he walked back his executive order, but his retraction said nothing about the killing of unarmed black men.

Instead, Zahn vowed, “My patriotism will not waiver.”

As the mythologizing continues, history again repeats itself.

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BLAKE pONTCHArTrAIN™ @GambitBlake | askblake@gambitweekly.com

Hey Blake,

In the 1980s and ’90s, I remember a large outdoor mural where Metairie Road meets City Park Avenue under the Pontchartrain Expressway.

It depicted an outdoor farm scene of some sort. Who was the artist and when was the artwork removed?

Dear Reader,

The mural you remember was one of many public art projects around town created by inmates in former Orleans parish Sheriff Charles Foti’s prison art program. The program began in 1984 when Foti’s deputies worked with inmates to paint a Christmas message on an outer wall of the old Orleans parish prison.

Many other public art projects followed, and in 1990 inmates painted the mural you remember on the 500-foot-long concrete retaining wall along pontchartrain Boulevard and under Interstate 10.

The mural was inspired by the works of American painter Thomas Hart Benton. Foti told The Times-Picayune he discovered Benton in an article in the Smithsonian Institution’s

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Detail of Achelous and Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton inspired a mural prisoners painted on the retention wall at Metairie Road and City Park Avenue.

monthly magazine. Born in Missouri in 1889, Benton is known for painting fluid, sculpted figures and depicting scenes of everyday American life, particularly in the South and Midwest. One of the murals featured a collection of various images from Benton’s paintings, including cows, sheep and farmers harvesting wheat.

Another wall reproduced Benton’s mural Achelous and Hercules. In it, Benton “uses Greek mythology to depict the struggle of American settlers to harness nature’s energies in the service of agriculture,” art critic roger Green wrote in a July 1990 Times-Picayune article.

The walls bearing the murals were removed in 2002 as part of a project to widen and floodproof that stretch of Interstate 10. “It’s sad to see it go,” Foti told the newspaper. “We turned a wall that didn’t look worth a damn … into a thing of beauty. You hope that public art produces some type of emotion and feeling, that it touches you and leaves a message or instills the hunger to explore more, to encourage a general appreciation for the world of art.”

BLAKEVIeW IN HONOR OF NEXT WEEKEND’S FRIED CHICKEN FESTIVAL at Woldenberg park,

we remember New Orleans’ fried chicken king Al Copeland. Born in 1944, Copeland never finished high school and for a time lived with his family in public housing. At 18, he bought a Tastee Donuts franchise from his brother. After watching the success of fast food fried chicken outlets like Kentucky Fried Chicken, Copeland opened a restaurant in Arabi called Chicken on the run. Business was slow until he started using a spicy fried chicken batter. With the new recipe came a name change to popeyes Mighty Good Fried Chicken. Copeland said he named it after “popeye” Doyle, a character in the movie The French Connection.

Copeland later added the word “famous” to the restaurant’s name and soon his business lived up to the billing. In 1977, he began franchising, and within a decade popeyes was the country’s third-largest fast food fried chicken chain with more than 700 outlets around the world, making Copeland a multimillionaire.

The Christmas display he set up outside his Metairie mansion was legendary, as was his penchant for fast cars and boats. He went bankrupt after purchasing the Church’s Fried Chicken chain in 1988, but retained control over the spice recipe used by popeyes after that company was sold to new owners. Copeland was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the salivary gland and died in 2008.

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”NO CULTURE FOR THE VULTURE.” The words pop from a wide canvas under two turntables in the middle of the floor of the Hi-Ho Lounge, growing and pulsing by the hour. By 1 a.m. a lost-looking bachelorette party has succumbed to a lush house remix of Change’s “The Glow of Love” and is absorbed into the crowd.

The words frame Set De Flo’, the weekly dance party from music collective pink room project with host DJ and producer Keith Cavalier, aka Lil Jodeci, holding court from below stage and letting crowds swarm around him.

Before his set in a small room backstage near the hum of an ice machine, Cavalier says he chooses the floor for the energy.

“On the stage, they can’t feel you,” he says. “And honestly, for the look.”

That “look” is less about a gimmick setting Set De Flo’ apart from the city’s nightlife and more about being capital S seen — the kind of visibility that shows pink room’s artists want you to know who they are and that they demand your attention. Think of DJs appearing in hip-hop music

videos during its golden age.

“You had to see them. That’s important,” Cavalier says. “people can be doing it, but if people don’t know you’re doing it, especially in the social media age, they don’t see it. If you don’t tell them? It’s here today and gone tomorrow. … There’s so much of us and so many talented artists, it’s like the curse of plenty. We got to respect ourselves, and then show people to get the respect the DJs deserve.”

Within the last year, pink room project’s intimate collective of producers, rap artists and DJs has caught worldwide press attention, part of an underground, internationally connected exchange of hip-hop and dance music bridged by the internet. pink room and Set De Flo’ filled the vacuum for an alternative, black youth-driven dance music culture in New Orleans by doing what they love.

“We weren’t looking for attention, we weren’t looking for notoriety,” Cavalier says. “We were trying to fill a void and fill a pocket in the city that we felt was missing. … As far as filling the void, it was just weird kids doing

weird shit. Kids turning of age made this shit possible. people who was 14, 15, 16, five or six years ago, seeing everything happen on the internet, when they turn 18, 19, 20, 21? ‘Oh now I can come out to these parties.’ everything just happened on the right time.”

Cavalier grew up in the 7th Ward bootlegging CDs and tooling with music before he picked up DJing in 2010 after catching reggae DJ T-roy at Blue Nile and Dragon’s Den. “The majority of time you don’t know the words of the songs he’s playing, but you feel the music,” Cavalier says. “That’s with any kind of world music — reggaeton, Latin, dance, house. You don’t know the song being played but you feel it.

I’ve always tried to fuse hip-hop and dance music. That’s nothing new. I was naturally drawn to it.”

With pink room, named after their colorful house in Gentilly, Cavalier and collaborator and hip-hop artist Brandon Ares developed a dance-forward sound alternating sinister and ethereal production, initially influenced by the Neptunes’ four-on-

the-floor beats and dance-minded arrangements before plunging into their unique vision of deep house and hip-hop. prior to pink room, Cavalier hosted events “where all the weird kids come out and vibe out to some weird shit I was doing.” earlier this year, Set De Flo’ picked up Hi-Ho’s Saturday slot formerly held by DJ Soul Sister.

“What Soul Sister did, I wanted to develop that, with that hip-hop flavor, that agelessness to it,” Cavalier says.

“A hip-hop element to it but keeping it traditional.” pink room is in some ways a link to the city’s ’90s rave and house scene but bridges those infamous parties and sounds to hip-hop’s pop cultural dominance, carving out a DIY space for young black New Orleans artists outside the city’s post-Hurricane Katrina cultural norm. (“It’s like a New Age rave scene right now,” Cavalier says, laughing. “You flip it and make something new out of it.”)

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“This is for the world stage,” he says. “New Orleans is heavily and deeply rooted in tradition. We want to show New Orleans has more to offer — which I think people know, but they haven’t seen. … You got to show it. That’s just the grind. And honestly, people like cool shit and they like to see cool people do it. How do you make it cool? House music has been around. It’s not like I’m necessarily banging my head against the wall. ...

We found a fun way to do what we want to do and really not give a f-.”

On his album Good Love 2017, Ares spans the kind of deep house Cavalier spins at Set De Flo’ and warps industrial and ambient electronic nosedives through his mantra-like raps.

“The majority of our music and our parties is infused by the dance scene, about house music and dance music, but it still has the rawness of New Orleans and street rap, just because that’s what we grew up to,” Cavalier says.

The collective’s deep well of artists reflects that seemingly broad interest — there’s photographer Yves, rapper riq50, WTUL-FM house DJ Free Trial, and DJ xcarlisax, who hosts Dreamscapes at 11 p.m. Fridays at The Quisby hotel, while Set De Flo’ co-producer Quick Weave is the bigger “house head,” and frequent host and New Orleans rapper Lord Chilla

emcees. At a recent edition of Set De Flo’, Ares climbed into a casket with a snake.

“The way the pink room is set up, it’s like the Wu-Tang [Clan],” Cavalier says. “Brandon got his shit, I got my shit, other DJs have their shit.

But we’re all under this envelope as a collective.”

Speaking of Wu-Tang: rZA dropped into Set De Flo’ one night after artist Brandan “B-Mike” Odums gave Cavalier a heads up that he was bringing some unannounced guests to the show. rZA showed up, grabbed the mic for a few minutes, “said some New York shit and no one knew it was him,” Cavalier says.

Later this year, pink room plans to host in-store performances at the recently opened Man ray records on Decatur Street, and the collective will “pummel people with music” with a string of releases planned for fall and winter, Cavalier says.

“I want it for the city, not for me,” he says. “I want the city to have something consistently every week where they know it’s an event, it’s a spectacle. I don’t want it to be just another night. We need something with a positive energy, where everybody can come through.

That’s what I’m working for. And I’m not too old.”

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his quintet and Congo Nation. Moran later attended Berklee College of Music, returning to New Orleans between semesters to put his band together, learning to adapt from his comfortable spot as a bassist outside the spotlight and into the role of a bandleader.

“I’m still getting used to it,” he says. “Generally what we do is lay a foundation. We groove. … As long as the rhythm section is locked in and it feels good, whatever happens on top can all go in crazy directions.”

After graduating from Berklee, Moran moved to New York briefly with the hope of becoming “The jazz bass player, the most ‘killing it’ jazz bass player,” he says. “Then I realized that’s not what I really wanted to do.

That was a big part of moving back home. I’d rather be doing a lot more original stuff and being a part of bands that are collectively growing together instead of picking up gigs here and there and struggling.”

As a member of the Bridge Trio alongside drummer Dyson and pianist pappas, Moran helps spin the nimble outfit’s nouveau swing into futuristic jazz. That band also plans to release an album later this year.

Moran also performs with hip-hop and funk band The GrID, led by drummer AJ Hall and fronted by rapper Nesby phips. “I want all of my gigs to be with great people I like pushing creatively or who allow me creative freedom,” Moran says.

A 2016 Bubble Bath records ep from Neospectric glimpsed that versatility. With Neospectric, Moran flexes throughout his far-out instru-

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WHAT STARTED AS A JAM SESSION at guitarist Cliff Hines’ house inspired Max Moran — a prolific, versatile jazz bassist and sideman for countless New Orleans artists — to build a band around the idea of “a way of playing where you just let things happen.”

“We had this chemistry and we all trust each other,” Moran says. “That was part of the process. Collective improvisation. Letting things happen, not knowing where it will start or end.”

With longtime friends and collaborators Hines, Khris royal, Joe Dyson and Concun pappas, Moran loosely assembled a long-running ensemble, Neospectric, to give Moran the space to play his own compositions, “bringing my own ideas to the table but also letting everyone else speak freely,” he says. The band’s debut full-length album Neospectric — mastered by veteran engineer Bob power (D’Angelo, erykah Badu, MeShell Ndegeocello) — will be released in October “It feels like a new start,” he says. “even if I don’t continue to be a band leader forever, or even if being a band leader isn’t my primary focus, it’s marking the fact that I’m not just a sideman, that I’m an artist, I have my own ideas and I have something I want to present, and I can say I’ve done that now.”

In 2010, Moran graduated from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, studying under Alvin Batiste and bassist Chris Severin, and was brought under the wing of Donald Harrison, who has enlisted Moran in

mental meditations, neo-psychedelic funk, massive riffs and energetic walls of sound (“Chest”) and neo-soul and r&B (“Summer”), but Moran gives each song the space for his band to share impressive, emotional solos and rich, liquid grooves.

The album opens with an explosive, parliament-esque introduction with Nicholas payton and Fiend, then closes with James Baldwin’s voice emerging from a deep well of ambient jazz on “Freedom,” Moran’s parting message delivered with his sensitive, celestial composition.

His rotating Neospectric cast all appears on the album, a reflection

of his world-building performance philosophy, along with contributions from Weedie Braimah and Donald Harrison.

“The biggest concept with it, even with the artwork, is this idea we’re all interconnected, we’re all one, inseparable from each other and our environments and the universe, a concept that’s special to me and on my mind a lot lately,” he says. “Maybe it’s the start of me being seen in a different light, not just the guy who can make the gig, like, ‘Oh, he’s got his own ideas and shit.’ It’s a step toward carving out your own identity and finding out what that is.”

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BY ALe X WOODWArD LAWN IS A MESS of contradictions.

Wrestling with self-doubt, getting over themselves, breaking out of their bubbles, realizing they’re part of the problem, and turning to nostalgia for comfort, “then realizing it’s making you feel shittier,” says bassist and vocalist rui De Magalhaes. But the band’s sweet spots are in the tiny wars waging between both sides.

On the band’s 2018 debut album Blood on the Tracks, the trio — now made up of De Magalhaes, guitarist Mac Folger and drummer Jamie Joyce — balance clever Kinks-inspired pop with Minutemen-like austerity, reflecting Folger’s pop ear and De Magalhaes’ punk aspirations, all sung in threepart harmony.

The album also is a testament to a life in New Orleans (“It’s so shitty and so amazing,” De Magalhaes says), a city of contradictions the band distills into 12 songs of both offbeat poetry and matter-offact lyrics.

De Magalhaes, who grew up in Nicaragua and Venezuela listening to his dad’s SST and Creation records albums, now is more in tune with Folger’s ear, despite thinking he’d never soften up to pop music outside a punk bubble.

“When you’re 14 and never listened to the Beatles and someone shows you Sonic Youth or My Bloody Valentine?” he says. “I just hated it with no basis whatsoever. … It culminated with me listening to Wings making this album.”

De Magalhaes moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University, largely based on the growing rep-

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utation of bands coming out of the university, like Caddywhompus and Habitat. “I really wanted to be in a band,” he says. “I didn’t care if your band was bad, I just thought it was cool. Then I f—ing move here and all the bands at Loyola at the time were so good.”

Folger also moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola from his native Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived a handful of streets away from Joyce, who also records music under his own name.

“My biggest internal struggles that translate into songwriting are making sense and clearing up what it is worth trying hard at, and devoting time to it,” Folger says.

“Now I spend more time sitting there, thinking about a concept — the more thought into it is in itself a demonstration. That’s cathartic.”

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BY ALe X WOODWArD DANNY CLIFTON TURNED HIS FASCINATION with organs and canned beats from tinny Casio keyboards into his moniker Danny, his bizarre oasis under a tiki drink influence. It later became room Thirteen, in its current iteration with vocalist and visual artist Abigail Clark, vocalist Heather Lee Smith and drummer pete Leonard.

With 2017 debut album Roccopulco, room Thirteen is Clifton’s melting Martin Denny exotica with ghostly, doo-wop harmonies.

“I always thought about writing this album as a vacation that lasts too long so it’s not fun,” Clifton says, pointing to a childhood visit to a friend’s mom’s beach house in his native Florida. “I grew up there my whole life like, ‘This place sucks.’

Then reading people in the guest book like, ‘This is the most magnificent place I’d ever laid my eyes on.’”

The album revealed room Thirteen as an aspirationally background music experiment, a an immersive listen into the depth hs of its room-filling reimagining of tropical gloom.

Its live iteration has emerged as a full-sounding, taut rre-enactment of that atmospheric lounge — nearly the opposite of wha at the band set out to be, replacing the empty space between sounds witth Stereolabesque krautrock.

“One of challenge es for the project is that it’s ideally a m more loungey type music, but we play almost exclusively tradition nal rock shows

where people maybe want to stand or dance or give you attention, which is fine, but it screws with that dynamic,” Clark says. “In our dream world we’d be in some creepy red-lit basement where people are almost not paying attention to you.”

Clark, who feels like she’s “on Mars in the music world,” says the band’s forthcoming album Daytona Beach View will take on a “spookier and more dark tropical” tone, a sort of backwards boardwalk to the ominous lounge of Clifton’s earlier work.

“Hi “His mind i d comes outt a h happy-cheesy tropical, and I’m more dark-spooky-haunted sad,” she says. “It balances well.”

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1818 Veterans Blvd, Metairie, LA | 504.888.2300 | nordickitchens.com

In the House

Place St. Nica

UNTIL NOW, FINDING NICARAGUAN FOOD in the area meant driving past

Finding food inside New Orleans music venues

the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to NolaNica (16 W. Airline Drive, Kenner, 504405-0375; www.nolanica.com). The restaurant opened a second location Sept. 10 in the Central Business District on the second floor of the food court at place St. Charles (201 Charles Ave.) The new spot from owner Gean Carlos reyes and his family serves an

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to bounce performers or dancing up a fever during a DJ set, it’s not hard to work up an appetite at local music clubs. Though New Orleans has its share of food trucks, the options for late-night grub can be limited. A number of music venues have food operations built in, either in the form of a full restaurant or a pop-up. Here are a few best bets for late-night eats inside the city’s music haunts.

Kukhnya at Siberia 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberialounge.com The music lineup at this Faubourg Marigny nightclub varies from bounce rappers to heavy metal and punk bands, but the tasty eastern european fare at Kukhnya is a constant. Blini are crepes filled with everything from ham and cheese with caramelized onions to kielbasa with braised cabbage and spicy mustard to sweet versions stuffed with spiced apples, almonds and goat cheese. Heartier fare features a heavy dose of Slavic soul with borscht, beef stroganoff and Ukrainian meatballs.

There also are sandwiches, including kielbasa po-boys.

Fry and Pie at Hi-Ho Lounge 2239 St. Claude Ave.; www.fryandpie.com Whether you’re starving after a night of shaking your booty or simply trying to do damage control before a hangover sets in, nothing does the job quite like a plate of cheese-coated fries. Head to the Fry and pie takeout window, grab a seat in the courtyard and dig into fries covered with strips of hanger steak, blue cheese, caramelized onions and brown butter mushrooms.

For a New Orleans twist, the Muffryletta features fries topped with mortadella, salami, ham and olive salad under a blanket of melted provolone and mozzarella cheeses.

The Maison 508 Frenchmen St., (504) 371-5543; www.maisonfrenchmen.com The Frenchmen Street club gets wild later in the evening, and the spot’s dinner and late-night menus provide revelers a chance to fuel up while taking in a mix of local bands. Guests can expect hearty New Orleans fare including deep-fried alligator bites, cochon de lait po-boys, shrimp and grits

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with andouille and pork chop Creole served with sweet potato fries. During jazz brunches on Sunday, patrons can swing dance to a live band and dine on chicken and waffle sliders or buttermilk pancakes.

Three Muses 536 Frenchmen St., (504) 252-4801; www.3musesnola.com Compared to some neighboring Frenchmen Street clubs, Three Muses’s ambience is more relaxed and the music a few decibels lower. The kitchen serves a globally influenced selection of small and shared plates.

Dishes include beer-braised pork belly over scallion pancakes with apple chutney, and crostini topped with duck rillette served with pickles and a seasonal mostarda. There also are many options for vegetarians, from simple cheese plates and fries topped with feta and gremolata to a tofu rice bowl topped with housemade kimchi.

Portside Lounge 3000 Dryades St., (504) 503-0990; www.portsidenola.com portside Lounge in Central City is a tiki-themed dive that doesn’t have a permanent food operation, but the bar and music club hosts pop-ups every night. The Joie de Vivre frequently occupies the kitchen and other pop-ups have served everything from tacos, burgers and po-boys to Filipino fare.

Okay Bar 1700 Port St., 504-457-7212; www.okaybar.com people can dance to a raucous DJ set and work up an appetite at the 9th Ward watering hole Okay Bar, which serves tacos until 2 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends. The rotating selection of tacos includes a ground beef version with charred tomato and red pepper aioli, grilled chili-lime chicken topped with pico de gallo and

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Patrons eat Kukhnya’s “Slavic soul food” at the bar of Faubourg Marigny music club Siberia.

roasted chipotle crema, and chorizo with green pico de gallo and a roasted poblano crema.

Bar Redux 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.tumblr.com Whether it’s live bands performing in the backyard, a DJ set or live comedy, Bar redux offers an array of attractions. Tucked deep in the Bywater, the spot also is a popular destination for late-night plates of fried chicken, jambalaya, rib-eye sandwiches and hummus and pita plates. For those trying to soak up some booze, look no further than the redux burger, a behemoth topped with Creole mustard, horseradish, pepper Jack cheese and jalapenos.

Bacchanal Wine 600 Poland Ave., (504) 948-9111; www.bacchanalwine.com Bacchanal Wine is still the best bet in town to enjoy a charcuterie and cheese plate under strings of lights and a canopy of trees while listening to a local jazz band. The Bywater wine garden-cum-live music playground continues to deliver an ever-changing menu of creative Mediterranean-inspired fare. Dishes include charred octopus with ceci beans and grilled lemon, sardine escabeche with green garlic and grilled bread, linguine with green beans, fingerling potatoes, pesto and pecorino, and braised pork shoulder served with a caponata and garlic jus.

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Gean Carlos (left), Giselle and Randy Reyes run NolaNica, which on Monday opened a second location inside the Place St. Charles building in the CBD.

abbreviated version of the Kenner flagship’s menu. reyes says the expansion to the downtown office tower came at the request of one of the building’s managers.

“We were getting a lot of customers from (New Orleans) and they were asking, ‘Can we get closer to the city?’,” reyes says. “It all lined up together.” reyes continues to run the Kenner location while his two brothers and sister handle operations at the CBD spot.

Guests can expect to find some of the popular dishes served at the Kenner location, reyes says. Those include the NolaNica burger, with a beef and pork patty on coconut bread with fried cheese, sweet plantains and creamy carrot and cabbage slaw. Chanco frito is a fried pork sandwich with caramelized onions and refried beans. Pollo al carbon carbon is a grilled chicken platter served with rice, creamed Creole corn, sweet plantains and a fried corn tortilla with melted cheese. The fritanga platter includes carne asada (grilled steak) and Nicaraguan side items. pAGe 22

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NolaNica at Place St. Charles is open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. — HeLeN FreUND

Birds of a feather

THE NATIONAL FRIED CHICKEN FESTIVAL (www.friedchickenfes-

tival.com) features plenty of fried chicken, live music and more Sept.

22-23 in Woldenberg park.

There is food from more than 30 local and visiting restaurants and food trucks. Vendors offering fried chicken plates with various sides include McHardy’s Chicken N’ Fixins, The Original Fiorella’s Cafe, rouses, Max’s Wine Dive from Austin, Texas, and Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken of Memphis, Tennessee.

Bayou Hot Wings serves fried wings with chipotle barbecue sauce and ranch dressing. Belle’s Diner offers chicken with bacon-stuffed waffles.

Diva Dawg food truck serves fried chicken etouffee-topped fries and seafood options. Dunbar’s Creole Cuisine’s honey-bourbon wings come with fries or jalapeno hush puppies. Felipe’s Taqueria tops fried chicken tacos with jicama slaw and chipotle aioli. Theaudric’s real Clever Cuisine serves fried jerk chicken.

Fried chicken po-boys are offered

by Tiger’s Creole Cuisine. Atlas Monroe of San Francisco, California

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Vendors serve fried chicken at the Fried Chicken Festival in Woldenberg Park.

offers vegan dishes. There also are sweet items from Crepes a la Cart, Sucre, Sweet Legacy and Orleagian Snowballs.

The festival has two live music stages and a DJ stage. Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, Amanda Shaw, the Big easy Brawlers, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra with Naydja CoJoe, DJs Lil Jodeci and Stormy and others perform Saturday. Mannie Fresh, pine Leaf Boys, Flow Tribe, Original pinettes Brass Band, DJ raj Smoove and others perform Sunday.

The festival has a kids’ pavilion, cooking demonstrations, TVs for viewing football, a beer garden, a mist tent and more. Free admission.

11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23.

Woldenberg Park, 1 Canal St. — WILL COVIeLLO

Hair of the dog

NOLA ON TAP (www.nolaontap.org)

features hundreds of craft beers and is a dog-friendly fundraiser for

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Shannon Kelly with Lakes Charles’ Crying Eagle Ready to Mingle beer at NOLA on Tap.

the Louisiana SpCA Sept.

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Beers is served in sample and full pours. participating breweries include Abita Brewing Company, Bayou Teche Brewery, Bell’s Brewery, Dixie Brewing Company, Dogfish Head Brewery, Gnarly Barley Brewing Company, Lagunitas Brewing Company, New Belgium Brewing Company, NOLA Brewing Company, Brewery Ommegang, Oskar Blues Brewery, port Orleans Brewing Co., Second Line Brewing, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Southern prohibition Brewing, Urban South Brewery, Wayward Owl Brewing Company and others. There also are homebrewed beers, wine and margaritas.

The music lineup features GIVerS, Sexual Thunder and Cha Wa. There are 15 food vendors including The Big Cheezy, Bratz Y’all!, Curly Q Fry Company, Dat Dog, Miss Linda the Ya-Ka-Mein Lady, reginelli’s pizza and more.

There’s a Barktoberfest tent, a dog costume contest, pet merchandise vendors and app-based pupular Speed Dating (for pets). Festival proceeds, as always, benefit the Louisiana SpCA. Admission is $5, children under 13 years of age get in free. Friendly dogs are welcome. Noon to 7 p.m.

Saturday. New Orleans City Park Festival Grounds, Friedrichs Avenue. — WILL COVIeLLO

3-COURSE INTerVIeW

John Calhoun

MANAGER, NEW ORLEANS FOOD CO-OP

IN THE SIX MONTHS since John Cal-

houn became the general manager of the New Orleans Food Cooperative (New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., 504-2645579; www.nolafood.coop), much has changed. With the closing of Hollygrove Market & Farm, the St. Claude Avenue co-op inside the New Orleans Healing Center has revamped its look and started working with more farmers and vendors to expand local offerings.

The Co-op is holding a fundraiser Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Cafe Istanbul featuring food from local restaurants, a live auction (Calhoun is an auctioneer) and music from Little Freddie King, Amanda Shaw and Margie perez. Calhoun spoke with Gambit about the co-op.

How did you get involved with the co-op?

CALHOUN: It goes back to 2002.

It was an effort that took nine years to get from the initial idea to a storefront, with Hurricane Katrina in the middle of all that. I was heavily involved for almost 10 years, (then) did other things for about four years. For the last two years, I was on the board of directors and I left the board because I wanted to help the co-op. We had a major grocery store open three blocks away and I made a proposal to step in as the general manager on a volunteer basis, so we could save some money on a GM salary, and I had some ideas of how to turn things around.

How has the co-op changed since you took over?

C: “Local” is what everything has been hinging on, and I think it’s working. This isn’t something all grocery stores are doing.

We’re going out of our way to stock as much local produce, seafood, milk, dairy, rice [as we can]… and we have a pretty impressive number of local growers, farmers and producers and vendors. I think that’s going to keep the co-op open, serve our mission and support our local economy and local farmers and producers. We have more local

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John Calhoun, manager of the New Orleans Food Co-Op.

producers now than we’ve ever had before.

We lost a great place when Hollygrove Market closed. We started doing a local produce box. It was something that Hollygrove did that was really popular, and that’s now a need that we’ve met.

Over the last few months, it’s been (about) building relationships with growers, farmers, fishermen and ranchers. Some of the other changes are about doing more community events at the store.

We have weekly live music inside the store and there are days that we have local vendors do demos. every Wednesday afternoon we have a knife sharpener set up so people can bring their knives in to get sharpened. We’re (doing) things beyond just selling groceries. It starts to feel more like a gathering place. Our mission is to help support the community, making healthy foods accessible and to have a great wellness center.

Is the approach to healthy, affordable food in New Orleans changing?

C: There seems to be a lot of movement in response to Hollygrove Market closing. There are a few groups doing some type or version of a pre-order box or finding ways to connect people to local products. I’m hoping that the local food economy grows.

We have some plans, too. The more people that are shopping here means there are going to be more dollars supporting local farmers and growers. As time goes on, we’ll have to put in bigger orders and people will have to expand their farms. Or it might inspire new farmers and new growers to start farms. I hope there is a shift toward eating local.

It’s a way we can support each other. — HeLeN FreUND

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BYWATER Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; Www. jackdempseys.net — The Jack Dempsey platter for two features gumbo, shrimp, catfish, crab balls, redfish, crawfish pies and two sides. The menu includes a variety of fried or broiled seafood, steaks, poboys and more. reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Fri, D Wed-Sat. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The constantly changing menu features dishes such as pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, crispy Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. House-made leek, ricotta and pumpkin seed ravioli are served with butternut squash cream sauce and grilled asparagus. reservations accepted for large parties. D WedSun, late Wed-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

CBD Public Service Restaurant — NOPSI Hotel, 311 Baronne St., (504) 962-6527; www. publicservicenola.com — The restaurant offers a raw bar, rotisserie and contemporary menu. Jumbo Louisiana shrimp are served with whole roasted garlic and crab boil nage. reservations recommended. B & D daily, L Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — The eclectic menu includes bouillabaisse, grilled Caribbean lobster, jerk shrimp and more. New York strip steak is served au poivre or with chimichurri sauce and comes with fries. reservations accepted. L Sat-Sun, D daily, late Fri-Sat. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Delivery available. reservations accepted for large parties. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as shawarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. L, D daily. $$

B — breakfast L — lunch D — dinner late — late 24H — 24 hours

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11 to $20 $$$ — $21 or more

vincentsitaliancuisine.com — See Metairie section for restaurant description.

ans.com — Brennan’s features innovative takes on Creole dishes from chef Slade rushing as well as classics such as its signature bananas Foster. eggs Sardou features poached eggs over crispy artichokes with parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce. reservations recommended. B, L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $$$

Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — The shrimp, blue crab and avocado appetizer features chilled shrimp, crab, guacamole and spicy tomato coulis.

Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust, angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam. reservations recommended. B, L, D daily. $$

Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — The deli counter’s changing specials include dishes such as baked catfish and red beans and rice. No reservations. L, D daily. $

Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with fried oysters and pontalba potatoes. popular starters include the jumbo lump crabcake with aioli. reservations recommended. D daily. $$$

La Carreta — Citywide; www.carretarestaurant.com — Barbacoa tacos are corn tortillas filled with Mexican-style barbecued beef, red onions and cilantro and served with rice and beans. reservations accepted for larger parties.

Lunch and dinner daily. $$

El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola. com — Ceviche Cabo San Lucas features yellowfin tuna, avocados, tomatoes, onion, jalapenos, cilantro, lime and sea salt, and cucumber is an optional addition.

No reservations. L, D daily. $$

CITYWIDE

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 383-4328; www.kebabnola.com — The sandwich shop offers doner kebabs and Belgian fries. A falafel sandwich comes with pickled cucumbers, arugula, spinach, red onions, beets, hummus and Spanish garlic sauce. Delivery available.

No reservations. L and D Wed-Mon, late Fri-Sat. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 947-8787 — The grocery and deli has a counter offering po-boys, sides such as macaroni and cheese and vegan and vegetarian dishes. Wood-oven baked pizza is available by the pie or slice. No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. $

FRENCH QUARTER 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.

B, L, D daily. $ Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines. com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. reservations recommended. L, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$$

Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe — 7801 Panola St., (504) 314-1810; www. panolastreetcafe.com — A Sausalito omelet includes sautéed spinach, mushrooms, oysters, green onions, garlic and mozzarella cheese. No reservations. B and L daily. $

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. reservations accepted. B, L. D daily, brunch Sun. $$$

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.

Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworle-

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. L, early D daily. $$ Green Goddess — 307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347; www.greengoddessrestaurant.com — Swedish meatloaf is made with Two run Farms grass-fed beef and served with lingonberrry pepper jelly, creamed mushroom potatoes and Creole kale. There are many vegetarian and vegan options. No reservations. L, D Wed-Sun. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — panseared jumbo shrimp top a grit cake and are served with chipotle-garlic cream sauce and tomatoes. The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — 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. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. roasted garlic pizza is topped with roasted whole garlic cloves, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, feta and mozzarella. reservations accepted.

L, D daily. $$ 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. B, L, D daily. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — A 14-ounce grilled Niman ranch pork chop is served with brown sugar-glazed sweet potatoes, toasted pecans and a caramelized onion reduction sauce. Garlic-crusted drum is served with brabant potatoes, crimini mushrooms, bacon, haricots verts and beurre rouge. reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouillecrusted fish is served with Crystal beurre blanc. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding. reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$ 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, housemade 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. D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish courtbouillon, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes. reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Croque Benedict features a soft-boiled egg, raclette cheese, Mornay sauce and Crystal hollandaise over applewood-smoked ham, poached chicken or heirloom tomatoes and a chive biscuit.

Happy hour small plates include sliders, flatbread and spiced butter shrimp on baguette. reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Tableau’s contemporary Creole cuisine includes marinated crab claws in white truffle vinaigrette and pan-roasted redfish Bienville with frisee, fingerling potato salad and blue crab butter sauce. Balcony and courtyard dining available. reservations accepted. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant. com — Blackened or sauteed redfish pontchartrain is served with crabmeat, mashed potatoes and lemon beurre blanc. No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ 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.

L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-

3803; 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. L, D daily. $

KENNER The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4675611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. Louisiana crab cakes are popular. No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — Ted’s special combination includes choices of three meats (sliced brisket, pulled pork, sausage, pork ribs) and two sides (baked beans, corn, coleslaw, potato salad).

Stuffed potatoes are available with pulled pork or chopped beef. No reservations.

L, D daily. $$

LAKEVIEW El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola. com — See French Quarter section for restaurant description.

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. No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — The organic Argonne turkey sandwich features organic avocado, tomatoes, sprouts and Havarti cheese on choice of bread. Spanish Fort salad is made with romaine, avocado, grilled chicken, pico de gallo, corn, black beans and avocado ranch dressing.

No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $$ Sala Restaurant & Bar — 124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 513-2670; www.salanola.com — Broiled Gulf fish is served with beurre blanc, grilled asparagus and new potatoes. There’s a large selection of small plates. reservations accepted.

L and D Tue-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun, late Thu-Sat. $$

METAIRIE 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.

L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$

P H O T O B Y I A N M C N U LT Y

Red Fish Grill (115 Bourbon St., 504-598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com) serves raw oysters and New Orleans seafood dishes.

charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — House-made couscous can be topped with Moroccan-style chicken, lamb or beef and is served with vegetables. Tanzia fassi features lamb slow cooked with onions, prunes, saffron and Moroccan spices in a clay pot. reservations accepted. L SunFri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-2022; www.gumbostop.com — Stuffed gumbo features a hand-battered and fried catfish fillet atop chicken, sausage, shrimp and crabmeat gumbo. Fried chicken is cooked to order. No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come from the Bronx. No reservations. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.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. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $

Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www.bmbmetairie.com — The BMB combination banh mi features Vietnamese-style ham, pork belly, pork meatballs, pork pate and headcheese on a baguette. Delivery available.

No reservations. L and D Mon-Sat. $

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. No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash,

R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — The roast beef po-boy is dressed with cheese and brown or red gravy and served on a toasted sesame loaf. The menu includes seafood,

pizza, salads and Italian dishes. No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www. riccobonospeppermill.com — The menu includes Creole and Italian dishes. Veal Josephine is sauteed veal topped with lump crabmeat and shrimp and served with brabant potatoes. reservations accepted.

B and L daily, D Wed-Sun. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — Chicken pho includes rice noodles, cilantro and onions. Banh mi include roasted pork dressed with carrots, cucumber, jalapenos and cilantro on French bread. No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — The Flickaletta is the muffuletta made with ham, salami, Swiss cheese and olive salad on French bread. The menu also includes chicken and andouille gumbo, salads, roast beef, fried seafood po-boys, wraps and more. No reservations. L Mon-Sat, D daily. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www. shortstoppoboysno.com — popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. Short Stop’s gumbo combines smoked andouille sausage and chicken. No reservations. B, L, D Mon-Sat. $ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — The menu features tandoori dishes with chicken, lamb, fish or shrimp; mild and spicy curries

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OUT TO EAT and spicy hot vindaloo dishes; chicken, lamb or shrimp biryani; and vegetarian dishes including palak paneer (spinach and cheese) and bhindi masala with okra.

No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Corn and crab bisque is served in a toasted bread cup. Osso buco features a veal shank with angel hair pasta and veal demi-glace. reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

MID-CITY/TREME 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. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Smoked brisket is served with smoked apple barbecue sauce, Alabama white barbecue sauce, smoked heirloom beans and vinegar slaw. The Brunch burger features a brisket and short rib patty topped with bacon, brie, a fried egg, onion jam and arugula on a brioche bun. reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — A pair of roasted golden beet sliders is topped with herb goat cheese, arugula and citrus marmalade on multi-grain bread. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — The casual cafe serves sandwiches, burgers, salads and more. Capricciosa pizza topped with pepperoni, prosciutto, tomatoes, mushrooms, artichoke, olives, oregano, garlic and basil. No reservations.

B, L and D Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Cupcake Fairies — 2511 Bayou Road, (504) 333-9356; www.cupcakefairies.com — The sweet shop serves lunch as well as creative cupcakes in flavors such as chocolate, almond, lemon, pineapple and red velvet, plus mini-pies, pastries, frappes, coffee and tea. B and L Tue-Sat. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquet facilities available. reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Fullblast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800 — pan-seared crab cakes feature Gulf crabmeat and are served over angel hair pasta with citrus aioli and vegetables. No reservations. Brunch Thu-Mon. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 483-6464; www.gspizzas.com — Margherita pizza features house-made dough topped with garlic-butter sauce, mozzarella, parmesan, oregano and tomatoes. The NOLA Green roots pie features house-made sauce, mozzarella, black olives, mushrooms, onions, organic spinach, bell peppers, roasted red pep-

pers, artichokes and roasted garlic. No reservations. L, D, late daily. $

cakes. reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$

melized onions. Full bar. No reservations.

L, D daily. $

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. L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers wines by the glass and full restaurant menu including mussels steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf.

Twice cooked pork is served over plantains. No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www. theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 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. L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Shaken pho features bone marrow broth, flat noodles and a choice of protein (filet mignon, short rib, brisket, seafood, chicken, tofu) stir-fried with onions, garlic and bone marrow oil. reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Grilled Gulf fish is seasoned with tandoori spices and served over Brussels sprouts, smoked potato puree and apple and fennel slaw.

A char-grilled double-cut pork chop is served with bourbon-maple glaze, black-eyed pea hoppin’ John and hominy spoon bread. reservations recommended. D Tue-Sat. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert.

No reservations. L Mon-Sat. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — The neighborhood bar and restaurant offers a menu of pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Creole Italian pizza is topped with red sauce, spicy shrimp, roma tomatoes, feta, mozzarella, red onions and pesto sauce. reservations accepted for large parties. L, D, late daily. $

NORTHSHORE Martin Wine Cellar — 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; www.martinwine.com — See Metairie section for restaurant description.

UPTOWN Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Stuffed quail is served with cornbread dressing, haricots verts, cherry tomatoes and rum-honey glaze. For brunch, grilled hanger steak is served with fried eggs and potato hash. reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$ 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 features Creole dishes such as gumbo and crab

Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys.com — Located in a renovated Creole cottage, the restaurant serves contemporary Creole dishes. Braised Niman ranch pork cheeks are served with sauteed Southern greens, grit cakes, sweet potatoes and country gravy. reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — paneed veal bordelaise is served with linguine, jumbo lump crabmeat, artichoke, mushrooms and charred tomatoes. pecan-glazed Colorado lamb loin is served with bourbon and lamb bacon-braised kale, black-eyed peas and pecan gremolata. reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www.gskitchenspot.com — Brick-oven Margherita pizza includes mozzarella, basil and housemade garlic-butter sauce. G’s grilled philly steak sandwich is topped with red onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and Muenster and mozzarella cheeses on grilled bread.

No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D, late daily. $ 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. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — See Mid-City section for restaurant description.

Le’s Baguette Banh Mi Cafe — 4607 Dryades St., (504) 895-2620; www.facebook.com/lesbaguettenola — The menu includes pho, banh mi, noodle bowls and more. A lemon grass pork banh mi is topped with cucumber, pickled carrots, daikon radish, cilantro, jalapenos and Sriracha aioli. No reservations. B Sat-Sun, L and D daily. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine. com — See Metairie section for restaurant description.

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. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. reservations accepted for five or more. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria.com — The cafe offers 18 rotating flavors of small-batch Italian-style gelatos and sorbettos. The menu also includes flatbreads on piadina, crepes and espresso drinks.

No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 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 cara-

Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Daily ceviche selections feature seafood such as tuna, snapper or other Gulf fish. Lomo saltado is a traditional dish of sauteed beef and onions served with potatoes. reservations accepted. D Mon-Sat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St. (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola. com — See French Quarter section for restaurant description.

Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Castiron baked escargot are served with angel hair pasta tossed with garlic-chili oil, bottarga fish roe and parmesan. A tamarind-glazed double-cut pork chop is topped with green chili mole and served with sweet potatoes. reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito.com — See Mid-City section for restaurant description.

Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — emeril Lagasse’s small-plates restaurant offers an array of internationally inspired dishes. Sofrito-marinated turkey necks are tossed in Crystal hot sauce. esses fettuccine is tossed with olive oil, garlic, Calabrian chilis, jumbo lump crabmeat, arugula and almonds. reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — The French and Louisiana-inspired menu includes French onion soup and New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp. Coq au vin is boneless chicken cooked with red wine and root vegetables. reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

WEST BANK 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. D Tue-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — The menu of Cajun and Creole favorites includes gumbo, turtle soup, seafood platters and New Orleans barbecue shrimp, as well as salads, pasta and more. Alligator-stuffed mushrooms are served with alligator sauce piquante. reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines Old World Italian favorites and pizza. Chicken piccata is a paneed chicken breast topped with lemon-caper piccata sauce served with angel hair pasta, salad and garlic cheese bread.

No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook.com/ tavolinolounge — The menu includes thincrust pizza, salads, pasta and antipasti. ping olives are fried Castelvetrano olives stuffed with beef and pork or Gorgonzola cheese. reservations accepted for large parties. D daily, brunch Sun. $$

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TUESDAY 18 BMC — Dapper Dandies, 8 Barrel Wine Bar — Jayne Morgan Jazz Duo, 6 Bombay Club — Matt Lemmler, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — You Got This presents Taco Tuesday, 5; Vanessa Carr, 8 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 8; Sarah Quintana, John Fohl, 8 Circle Bar — Jean Bertrand, 7; ritual Talk, Jack Sledge, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Alex McMurray and John rankin, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman & Todd Duke, 9 Gasa Gasa — The Denial party feat. Colorblock, The Canarys Goblin Marquette, 9 House of Blues — Micahel Liuzza, 6; Social Distortion, Valley Queen, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — richard Scott, noon; Down on their Luck Orchestra, 2 The Jazz Playhouse — The James rivers Movement, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Jeanne Marie Harris, 7:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Dorian Greys, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Grace Gibson, 8 Poor Boys — Well Worded Tour feat. Landon Wordswell, Leon The God, Quality A, Knox Ketchum, Frank Marcelino, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Latin Night, 7 Santos Bar — Drunken Dragons of Decatur Street, 8; ritual Talk, Jack Sledge, Guts Club, 9 SideBar — Justin peake’s polyphasic feat. Matt Booth, Gary Washington, Chris Alford, Craig Flory, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Titanic Trio — Torkanowsky, pellera, Vidacovich, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Ne Obliviscaris Cultum Nocte, 7 The Starlight — ryan Hanseler, 7; DJ Fayard, 10

WEDNESDAY 19 BMC — The Tempted, 12 Carousel Bar & Lounge — James Martin Band, 8:30 Check Point Charlie — T Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Mark Carroll & Friends, 6; Darcy Malone, Tom McDermott, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 Columns Hotel — Andy rogers, 8

Radar Upcoming concerts » LYDIA LUNCH, Oct. 4, SANTOS BAR » TONY ALLEN, HASIZZLE & DJ LIL MAN, RHYTHMS OF CONGO SQUARE FEATURING BILL SUMMERS AND LUTHER GRAY AND OTHERS, OCT. 12-13, MUSIC BOX VILLAGE » KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS PLUS THE SADIES, March 10, 2019, CIVIC THEATRE » AMOS LEE AND ETHAN GRUSKA, March 19, 2019, ORPHEUM THEATER » PAUL MCCARTNEY, May 23, 2019, SMOOTHIE KING CENTER

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Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Carl Leblanc, 9:30 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Ace rosewell, 1 Gasa Gasa — Frankie Cosmos, Lomelda, Stef Chura, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 House of Blues — Jon roniger, Micahel Liuzza, 6 Kerry Irish Pub — patrick Cooper, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Anais St. John Naydja CoJoe, 7:30 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — Grayson Brockamp & the New Orleans Wildlife Band, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Brendan Carmichael, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Vixens & Vinyl, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars edegran,

Topsy Chapman, palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Poor Boys — Lester’s Birthday with Bouffant Bouffant, rusty Lazer, Bubl Trubl, 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — The Yat pack, 8 Santos Bar — Swamp Moves, russell Welch Quartet, 10 SideBar — Marc Stone, Lilli Lewis, Daniel Lelchuck, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 The Starlight — Gal Holiday, 7 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Shatzy, 7

THURSDAY 20 BMC — Ainsley Matich & Broken Blues, 5; Andre Lovett Band, 8 Bar Redux — Toby O’Brien Justin Dye, 9 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Greg Schatz, 6; Tom McDermott, Darcy Malone, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit ruffins, 6 Checkpoint Charlie’s — The Damn Frontier, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — phil DeGruy, 6; The excelleauxs Lazy Lester Tribute, 8 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge with rik Slave, 7; Hex, U.S. Nero, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Loren pickford Quartet, 9:30 House of Blues — Jake Landry, 6 The Jazz Playhouse — Brass-AHolics, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Jeanne Marie Harris, 7:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Sauveterre, 7; Nattie, 8, Nikki Vly, 9;Justin reuther, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Leroy Jones, Katja Toivola with Crescent City Joymakers, 7 Poor Boys — BLINGI: Dirty South Night with DJs Tony Skratchere and KNDrCKS, 10 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — Kennedy Kuntz & the Men of the Hour, 5:30 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Chubby Carrier, 8:30 Santos Bar — Abigail Williams, Ghost Bath, Wolvhammer Kavyk, 8 SideBar — Joey Van Leeuwen, Jesse Morrow, Alexander Geddes, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Shannon powell Trio, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Shindig hosted by Ash O, Carolyn Broussard, Amanda Walker, 7 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5 Arsene deLay, 8 Tipitina’s — roadside Glorious, Sam price & The True Believers, Marc Stone, 9 The Willow — rebirth Brass Band, 9 pAGe 28

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FRIDAY 21 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Bobby Ohler, 8 BMC — Lifesavers, 3 Bar Redux — Synthwave Apocalypse, 10 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Father ron and Friends, 5; Dayna Kurtz and robert Mache, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The pinettes Brass Band, 9 Casa Borrega — Javier Gutierrez Duo, 8 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Important Gravy, 8; Sandra Love and the reason, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael pearce, 6 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 7; rockabilly Fridays with Louisiana Hellbenders, 9:30 Covington Landing — Jimmy robinson, Lily Kiara, Chris Talley, Three rivers Cooperative, 6 Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — Larry Garner, 6:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Braud, 10 Gasa Gasa — Music for Mental Health feat. LeBaron Ahmon, Arsene Delay, Mike Doussan, Mykia Jovan, Julie Odell and Kathryn rose Wood, 7:30 House of Blues — Big Al and the Heavyweights, 3:30; Captain Buckles Band, 11; Dick Deluxe, 12

Joy Theater — CHrOMeO, Stephen A. Clark, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Jeanne Marie Harris, 7:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Damn Hippies, 7; The Mia Kylie Band, 9 Oak — Miles Cabecerious, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Soulful Takeover with DJ Soul Sister, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis, Lucien Barbarin, palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Pearl Wine Co. — Jasper Brothers, 8 Poor Boys — Gimmee A reason with Babygirl, DJs Bouffant Bouffant, Johnny 5, 10 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — No Idea, 9:30 Santos Bar — Heavy Lids, Benni Bottomfeeders, Vile Bodies, 9 Siberia Lounge — Music & Culture Coalition Anniversary with Original pinettes Brass Band, Chapter Soul, rQ Away, BLK, 7:30 SideBar — Cyrille Aimee & Friends, 7; reggie Scanlan, Tom Worrel are Gettin’ Fess’tive, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — ellis Marsalis Trio Christien Bold, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Sledgehammer, powershrine, 8 The Starlight — epic proportions, 8:30;

Lost Then Found at Our House, 12 Three Muses — royal roses, 5:30; Doro Wat Jazz, 9 Tipitina’s — Brass-A-Holics, 10

SATURDAY 22 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Margherita, 8 BMC — Willie Lockett & Blues Krewe, 6 Bar Redux — TV pole Shine Salvatore Geloso, 9 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Ukelele School of New Orleans, 4; Chicken and Waffles, 6; Tom Worrell, reggie Scanlon, Lionel Batiste Jr., 9 Casa Borrega — Javels Jazz Band, 7 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Hubcap Kings, 8; Sheiks of Arabi, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — The Fortifiers, 8 Circle Bar — regulus, Landlocked Seas, epic reflexes, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Gasa Gasa — Where Y’acht Shark Attack, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — pink room project, 11 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Bridgette Bruno, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — Shamarr Allen plus Big Freedia, 8 House of Blues — Geovane Santos, 12

Little Gem Saloon — Little Freddie King, 7:30 Mandeville Trailhead — Witness, 6:30 Mercedes-Benz Superdome — Taylor Swift, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Chris robinson, 7; rene Duplantier, 8 Oak — Jordan Anderson Band, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Charli XCS Dorian electra, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Will Smith palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Poor Boys — Harlan T. Bobo and the psychotic Lovers Fr planchettes DJs Vivi and the Inspektor, 10 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Category 6, 9:30 Santos Bar — MDC elected Officials Totally possessed The Sickness, 9 SideBar — Jimmy robinson Lily Kiara Michael Skinkus, 9 Sidney’s Saloon — HeATWAVe! (dance party), 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Donald Harrison John Coltrane Birthday Celebration, 8 Southport Hall (Deck Room) — Zombies eating Sheep, Black Market Suitor, Navigators of the red Nebulous, 8 The Starlight — Shawan rice, 7; Lulu & The Broadsides feat. Dayna Kurtz, James Singleton, 10:30 pAGe 30

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PREVIEW Frankie Cosmos

BY ALeX WOODWArD THROUGH GRETA KLINE’S DOZENS OF SONGS as Frankie Cosmos, she’s created a personal archaeology, digging beneath the material and the moments and the skin and the guts to get to the complicated emotions buried underneath it all. She speaks to “you,” the listener, and to the countless “you’s” buried with the bones of her life.

Kline amassed a pile of bedroom recordings as a teenager, earning acclaim for her candor and heart-wrenching poetry. On 2018’s Vessel, her debut for Sub pop, Kline’s full band arrangements propel her honest, exhaustive vignettes to stitch together a complicated human barely approaching her mid-20s.

Whether gripping with loneliness and anxiety or the enormous pain in the smallest of moments and memories, she dissolves her wounds through the cathartic release of softly singing a song that weighs a million pounds. Her lyrics frequently offer contradictions — “Being alive matters quite a bit / even when you feel like shit” (“Being Alive”) and “I wasn’t built for this world / I had sex once, now I’m dead” (“Cafeteria”) — or are quiet, boundary-building triumphs with a grounding caveat: “You are a word I made up when I’m high,” she tells another “you” on the closing title track. “I gave you meaning but I don’t know why / and you can make me cry / only you can make me cry.”

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(it’s likely to a someone), but she climbed so deep into herself that her “I” has turned to us.

Tickets $12 in advance, $14 at the door. Lomelda and Stef Chura open at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Gasa Gasa, 4920 Freret St., (504) 338-3567; www.gasagasa.com.

Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Debbie Davis, 6; Shotgun Jazz, 9 Tipitina’s — Claude Bryant & The Allstars Bruce Tyner Trio, 10 Twist of Lime — eve Minor, Art of the process, Fighting for Frequency, Akadia Unplugged, 9

SUNDAY 23 BMC — Moments of Truth, 10 Bar Redux — West King String Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Tim paco with Ukulele School of New Orleans showcase, 4; Steve pistorius Quartet, 7; Some Like It Hot, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Alice Wallace with Natalie Mae, 8 Circle Bar — Micah & Marlin, 7 d.b.a. — The palmetto Bug Stompers, 6 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Miss Anna Q, 9 House of Blues — Jason Bishop, 6 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Joy Theater — Future Islands, ed Schrader’s Music Beat, 9 Maison Dupuy Hotel — Carmella rappazo, 11 One Eyed Jacks — Marina Orchestra, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Mark Braud,

Sunday Nigh Swingsters, 7 Poor Boys — Jacuzzi Boys Dummy Dumpster Gools, 9 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 11 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Bruce Daigrepont, 5:30 Santos Bar — 1476 rudy, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Clarence Johnson birthday tribute to Coltrane, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Dile Que Nola (latin night), 7; Gabrielle Cavassa & Friends, 10 Three Muses — raphael et pascal, Clementines, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Tipitina’s — FIDLAr, Dilly Dall, NOBrO, 8

MONDAY 24 BMC — Lil red & Big Bad, 7 BMC — paggy prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bombay Club — David Doucet, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — A2D2 feat.

Arsene DeLay & Antoine Diel, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Jamey St. pierre, 6; papa Mali, 8 Circle Bar — Dem roach Boyz, 7; The Yawpers, Deepakalyse, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass pickin’ party, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Bongos,

9; The Genial Orleanians, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — NOLA Swing Dance Connection, 7 Santos Bar — Casket robbery, H1Z1, Orifist, 9 SideBar — Instant Opus improvised, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 The Starlight — Free Jambalaya Jam feat.

Joshua Benitez Band, 8 Three Muses — Bart ramsey, 5; Joe Cabral, 7

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — The organist’s Organ & Labyrinth performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock, played by candlelight. Free.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Annual Harp Extravaganza. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — Kimberly Snaufer Derosa performs with 20 professional and student members of the New Orleans Chapter of the American Harp Society. Free admission. Free admission. 2 p.m. Saturday.

Creation du Monde. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St. — Musaica Chamber ensemble begins its season with a focus on Jewish composers including Mendelssohn, Milhaud, Spohr and Bruch.

recommended donation $10-$20. musaica.org. Free admission.

7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Loyola Presents — Coltrane Legacy.

Loyola University New Orleans, Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium~, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — A tribute to saxophonist Coltrane is the opening concert in Loyola’s Jazz Underground series, featuring Tony Dagradi, Khari Allen Lee, roderick paulin, Vitor Atkins, Herlin riley and James Singleton. For tickets, call (504) 865-2074 or email tickets@loyno.edu. $5-$15.

7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Opera On Tap. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St. — New Orleans Opera presents small ensembles singing opera, Broadway tunes and more. neworleansopera.org/ opera-on-tap. Free admission.

6 p.m. Wednesday.

Solo Harp Concert. Tulane University, Dixon Hall — Kimberly Snaufer Derosa performs. Free admission. Free admission.

5 p.m. Sunday.

Trinity Artist Series. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — Cassandra Watson, harpist, plays 17th Century Irish, Haitian Creole Folk and works by Haydn.

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EVENTS TUESDAY 18 High Tea on the Turf. Ochsner Sports Performance Center, 5800 Airline Drive, Metairie — Ochsner and Brees Dream Foundation’s high tea benefits the Women’s Wellness and Survivorship Center.

Tickets $100. www.ochsner.org/hightea $100. 4 p.m.

Universoul Circus. Old Lake Forest Plaza, 5700 Read Blvd. — The circus features clowns, acrobats, stunts, music and more.

Tickets $18-$35 and up. $18-$35. Showtimes vary through Sunday.

WEDNESDAY 19 End-of-Summer Vegan Block Party.

Vegan Block Party, 1300 Prytania St. — Celebrate the change in season with an all-vegan street party, with pet adoptions from the Humane Society of Louisiana and more. (901) 268-4432. 11 a.m.

“Clueless” Trivia Night. American Sports Saloon, 1200 Decatur St. — Clueless trivia is free to play for teams of up to six, with prizes, drink specials food and more.

Age 21 and over. Signup 7:30 p.m. quiz at 8 p.m. Free admission. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY 20 Jefferson Chamber Golf Classic. TPC Louisiana, 11001 Lapalco Blvd., Avondale — Annual 72 par, 18-hole golf tournament offers networking, food and beverages.

For information, contact Alex Zarookian at (504) 835-3880. 8:30 a.m.

Duncan Plaza Happy Hour, Screening.

Duncan Plaza, 343-349 Loyola Ave — Downtown Development District and Arts Council team up for a happy hour screening of Black Panther, with Urban South Brewery, La Cocinita, popcorn Bistro and plum Street Snoballs. www.downtownnola.com. 6 p.m.

Diversity in Scouting Gala. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave. — Southeast Louisiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America holds its dinner and awards program. (504) 889-0388. Tickets $250. 6 p.m.

Harry Connick Jr. and Jill Connick. House of Blues, 225 Decatur Street — The hosts an educational event advocating colon cancer screenings. Free admission. registration required. www.new50.com/ NewOrleans. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Sustainable Seafood Dinner Series. Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St. — Local chefs prepare multi-course meals served in the aquarium’s Gulf of Mexico exhibit area to benefit Gulf United for Lasting Fisheries. Tickets $150. 6:30 p.m.

College Night at the Library. Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — Admissions representatives from local and out-ofstate colleges and universities discuss and answer questions about their institutions. jplibrary.net. Free admission. 6:30 p.m.

Roux Carre Filmmakers Program. Roux Carre, 2000 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

— Kickoff for Good Work Network’s series of entrepreneurship programs for independent filmmakers, with screening of plaquemines and artist discussion. www. goodworknetwork.org 7 p.m. Thursday.

Almost Fall Bus Crawl Y’all. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St. — The benefit for Louisiana Cultural economy Foundation has stops downtown and in Faubourg Marginy. www.culturaleconomy.org. $100. 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 21 Champions for Health. Bayou Oaks City Park Clubhouse, 1051 Filmore Ave. — The benefit golf tournament for Daughters of Charity Foundation features a four player scramble with shotgun start. (504) 2129544. 8 a.m.

Fall in Love Ladies Luncheon. The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St. — The Legacy Donor Foundation fashion show includes individuals impacted by organ, eye and tissue donation. There are hors d’oeuvres and an auction. Tickets $75 and up. $75 and up. 11:30 a.m.

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PREVIEW New Orleans Horror Film Festival

BY ALeX WOODWArD THE NEW ORLEANS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL (www.nolahorrorfilmfest. com) screens slasher flicks, science fiction, horror comedies and more at The prytania Theatre Sept. 20-23.

The slate includes more than 60 independent feature-length and short films as well as panel discussions, filmmaker events and a closing night awards ceremony rounding out the eighth annual event.

Among the films is locally shot opening night feature The God Inside My Ear, Argentinian horror Luciferina, C O U r T e S Y S M A r T H O U S e C r e AT I V e closing night Spanish film Framed, French-Moroccan Rebecca Ramon stars as Helen in Little Horror Movie. director Jerome Cohen-Olivar’s found-footage concept Little Horror Movie (pictured), and more than 50 shorts screened in six blocks throughout the weekend.

The festival has screened dozens of films over the years, setting up inside the prytania and in bars and other venues to showcase obscure Italian horror, ’80s slashers and gore-filled movies, among other categories in the horror film pantheon.

Festival weekend passes are $85, single screening tickets are $8; day passes also are available. The Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com.

POW/MIA Remembrance Ceremony.

Veterans Medical Center, 2400 Canal St. — Commemoration of National prisoner of War recognition Day at flagpole near main entrance on North Galvez Street.

Free admission. Noon.

Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival. Lamar-Dixon Center, 9039 St. Landry Road, Gonzales — There are hot air balloons, amusement rides, a barbecue competition and more. $5, free for children 6 and younger. 4 p.m. through Saturday.

St. Rosalie Italian Festival. St. Rosalie Church and School, 600 Second Ave. — The church and school festival includes carnival rides, a St. rosalie procession, a fun run, live music and more. Sunday lunch features spaghetti with meatballs, salad and bread for $8. www.strosalieitalianfest. com $20-$100. 5 p.m. through Sunday.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — Weekly after-hours parties at the museum feature lectures, music performances, film screenings and more. Free with museum admission. 5 p.m.

Linen Night in The East. Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, 11000 Lake Forest

Blvd. — The east New Orleans Business Development District hosts, with entertainment, food, cash bar and more. Free admission. 6 p.m. Friday.

Curtain Call Ball. Tableau at Le Petit, 616 St. Peter St. — Le petit Theatre du Vieux Carre kicks off its season with a Celebration of the American musical, featuring Broadway performer Chrstine pedi as host, with performances, food and specialty cocktails. www.leptittheatre.com. $275-$450. 6:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Fair. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 8968 Highway 23, Belle Chasse — The 50th fair for Belle Chasse church and school has live entertainment, food and more. 7 p.m. through Sunday.

Liberty’s Kitchen 8th Annual Come Grow With Us — Chef Showdown. Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet St. — Celebrate the achievements of New Orleans youth with cuisine from 23 restaurants working with Liberty’s Kitchen trainees, as well as a live auction, music and more. 125. 7 p.m.

Martini Madness. New Orleans City Park, Arbor Room at Popp Fountain, 12 Magnolia Drive — The Friends of City park fundrais-

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SATURDAY 23 Museum Day Live!. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St. — Ticket holders through the Smithsonian magazine program can take one of the three tours. Free admission.

Opera Club Dinner. New Orleans Opera Guild Home, 2504 Prytania St. — The catered dinner includes previews from the upcoming production of Turandotand discussion by New Orleans Opera Association director robert Lyall, for members. rSVp required. (504) 267-9534. $150 and up.

Half-price Day at Zoo for Jefferson.

Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St. — residents of Jefferson parish and parish employees get half-price admission at Audubon Nature Institute attractions for the day, including the zoo, Aquarium of the Americas, Butterfly Garden and Insectarium. www.auduboninstitute.org Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner Festival.

— pirates’ Alley Faulkner Society presents four days of events surrounding the author, including literary advice, manuscript critiques, a gala, a keynote event with Walter Isaacson and more. At various French Quarter venues. www.faulknersociety.org.

2 p.m. through Sept. 25.

St. Joseph Abbey Tour. St. Peter Catholic Church, 125 E. 19th Ave., Covington — St. peter Church offers 175 anniversary with tour of abbey church and monk’s refrectory, with Mass, lunch and cemetery tour. register by Sept. 17. $15. 9 a.m.

National Public Lands Day Projects. Chalmette Battlefield of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 8606 W. St. Bernard Highway, Chalmette — Volunteers needed for Chalmette National Cemetery and Barataria preserve in Marrero for cleanup and restoration projects. registration required. Call (504) 589-3882, ext.

120 by Sept. 20. 9 a.m.

Museum Day Live at WWII Museum.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — Free admission for ticket

holders through Smithsonian magazine program. preregistration required. Free admission. 9 a.m.

WYES Mimosas and Masterpiece “Poldark.” WYES Innovation Center for Educational Media, 916 Navarre Ave. — preview party for fourth season of poldark before thee Sept. 20 premiere, with refreshments and mimosa bar. pre-screening party $25. Screening at 11 a.m. Free admission. rSVp required. www.wyes.org. $25. 10 a.m.

Fried Chicken Festival. Woldenberg Riverfront Park, Canal Street at the Mississippi River — The festival features fried chicken, live music and more. Free admission.

11 a.m. through Sunday.

NOLA on Tap. City Park Festival Grounds, 1701 Wisner Blvd. — Sample beers from many regional breweries. $5. Noon.

In the SoFAB Kitchen with Chef Octavio Ycaza. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — The chef for La Cantina prepares gringas al pastor, a taco/quesadilla combination. 3 p.m.

Bridal Crawl. International House, 221 Camp St. — Creativity Collective event in the French Quarter, with prizes for costumes and theme. Tickets $15. $15. 5 p.m.

Northshore Cajun Dance. Abita Springs Town Hall, 22161 Level St., Abita Springs — public dance with Nouveaux Cajun express Band. Less at 7 p.m. (985) 276-0517. $8-$10. 8 p.m.

SUNDAY 23 Kids in the Kitchen. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — Kids learn to grill hamburgers. (504) 569-0504. $20. 10 a.m.

MONDAY 24 Caregivers Retreat. Audubon Tea Room, 6500 Magazine St. — AArp-sponsored gathering with resources, information, inspiration messages, zoo tour, lunch, music and more. (504) 485-2161. Free admission.

9:30 a.m.

Spark Talk: Owning Expertise. Qatar Ballroom, Lavin Bernick Center at Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles — Katie Orenstein’s lecture discusses how women and members of marginalized communities can establish credibility and argue effectively. email taylor@tulane.edu for details.

Free admission. 6 p.m.

BOOKS Andrea LeTard. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — The chef and author offers a cooking demonstration and signs her new book Andrea’s Cooktales — A Keepsake Cookbook. Free admission. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Beth D’Addono. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — The author talks about her book 100 Things to Do in New Orleans Before You Die, and Jyl Benson prepares bananas Foster, one of the things on the author’s list. Free admission. 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Diana Riley. Barnes & Noble Booksellers,

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Cate Blanchett, left, Owen Vaccaro and Jack Black share a scene in The House with a Clock in its Walls, in theaters Friday.

3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie — The author discusses and signs Cooking On Purpose, her cookbook with recipes for life, as well. barnesandnoble.com.

Free admission. 12 p.m. Saturday.

Dytania Johnson. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie — The author discusses and signs Kooshma — The Origin about the Southern folktale. barnesandnoble.com.

12 p.m. Saturday.

Gabriela Alemán. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St. — The author, in conversation with Yuri Herrera, discusses and signs her book Poso Wells. gardendistrictbookshop.com.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Ken Blanchard. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager and editor of Servant Leadership in Action — How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results, discusses and signs his latest book with Gordon H. Nick Mueller, museum president and CeO emeritus. registration requested. (504) 528-1944, ext. 412. Free admission. 5 p.m. Thursday.

Nancy Parker. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1601 Westbank Expwy., Harvey — The television journalist signs her book The Adventures of Yat and Dat: SUPERDOME! barnesandnoble.com 12 p.m. Saturday.

Nancy Reddy and April Blevins Pejic.

Dogfish New Orleans, 2448 N. Villere St. — poet Nancy reddy and essayist April Blevins pejic read followed by an open mic. rSVp facebook.com/dogfishneworleans Free admission. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Shane Bauer. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St. — The author discusses and signs American Prison — A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment about his work at a Louisiana private prison. www.octaviabooks.com.

6 p.m. Monday.

FILM OPENINGS Assassination Nation (R) — A group of female teens join together to survive a crazy night after residents are targeted in a data hack in this black comedy. Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse and Joel McHale star.

Broad Theater, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. Bel Canto — An opera singer is held hostage after being invited to perform in South America in this thrilling drama starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.

Opening Saturday at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

Dream Big, Princess: Princess and the Frog (G) — A waitress is set on turning a frog prince back into a human being in this 2009 Disney animated adventure. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16.

Fahrenheit 11/9 (R) — Writer-director Michael Moore tackles questions about the Trump era in this provocative documentary. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, The Broad Theater, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, Regal Covington Stadium 14.

The House with a Clock in its Walls (PG) — An orphan aids his magical uncle in lo-

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er features more than 25 specialty martinis and cuisine, plus a raffle, photobooth and more. Volunteers needed. www.friendsofcitypark.com/event/martini-madness $75 and up. 7 p.m.

Music & Culture Coalition of New Orleans Anniversary Celebration. Siberia Lounge, 2227 St Claude Ave. — There are performances from the Original pinettes Brass Band, Chapter SOUL, rQ Away and BLK, raffle prizes, the Camel Toe Lady Steppers and more. $15-$20. www.bit.ly/maccno6tix $15-$20. 7:30 p.m.

Music for Mental Health, feat. LeBaron Ahmon, Arsene Delay, Mike Doussan, Mykia Jovan, Julie Odell and Kathryn Rose Wood. Gasa Gasa, 4920 Freret St. — The fundraiser for the Brett Thomas Doussan Foundation is held during National Suicide prevention Awareness Month. $10. 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans Burlesque Festival. — There are performances and competitions by burlesque dancers from around the world.

Shows at House of Blues and Civic Theatre. prices vary. (504) 975-7425. www. neworleansburlesquefest.com Friday through Sunday.

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Olivia Wilde and Oscar Isaac star in ‘Life Itself,’ opening Friday.

cating a clock that can cause destruction to the world. Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. Life Itself (R) — The creator of the hit TV show This Is Us is behind this drama that follows a young New York couple from college romance to marriage. Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde star. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Broad Theater, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. Love Gilda — A look back at the career and life of comedienne Gilda radner with recently discovered interviews and audio.

Prytania Theatre.

Venus Obscura — As a theater director leads a production of Hamletmachine, his troupe faces strange and extreme events.

Opens Saturday. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

NOW SHOWING Hurricane on the Bayou — The story of Hurricane Katrina and the effect of Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands on hurricane protection. Entergy Giant Screen Theater.

Oceans — Our Blue Planet 3D — This BBC earth film transports audiences to the depths of the globe’s waters. Entergy Giant Screen Theater.

Wild Africa 3D — Journey across one of the world’s wildest continents in this BBC earth documentary. Entergy Giant Screen Theater.

SPECIAL SHOWINGS Army of Darkness (R) — Bruce Campbell returns as Ash in the finale to writer-director Sam raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy. This time, Ash is transported to 1300 A.D. and must retrieve the Necronomicon to return home. 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Movie Tavern Northshore.

Bad Reputation (R) — The documentary about rock star Joan Jett features interviews with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Michael J. Fox and Debbie Harry.

7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday at Prytania Theatre.

Corpse Bride (PG) — Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter provide voices in Tim Burton’s cartoon about a shy groom who inadvertently raises a young woman from the dead. Noon Saturday and Sunday at Pyrtania Theatre.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (PG-13) — The wizard and his friends race against time to destroy the Horcruxes and other powerful forces.

Daniel radcliffe and emma Watson star. 2 p.m. Sunday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (PG-13) — The final battle rages

at Hogwarts in this finale to the series directed by David Yates. 6 p.m. Sunday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16.

Labyrinth (PG) — David Bowie stars in this fantasy film from director Jim Henson where a 16-year-old girl must solve a puzzle to rescue her baby brother. 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday at The Grand 16 Slidell; and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday at Movie Tavern Northshore.

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes — A hero-in-training goes on a wild ride when villains threaten the artificial city of I-Island in this movie based on the anime hit. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at AMC Elmwood Palace, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, The Grand 16 Slidell.

National Lampoon’s European Vacation (PG-13) — The Griswolds win a vacation across europe in this 1985 sequel starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. Tuesday at The Broad Theater. $2.

National Theatre Live: King Lear — Sir Ian McKellen leads an all-star cast in this production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. 7 p.m. Thursday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, Regal Covington Stadium 14 by the Roux Carre Filmmakers Program, part of the Good Work Network, 2000 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, Rebel Without a Cause (PG-13) — A rebellious young man tries to start his life over in a new town in this 1955 drama starring James Dean and Natalie Wood. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Cinebarre Canal Place 9.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring (R) — A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk on an isolated floating temple in this Korean drama from Ki-duk Kim. 7 p.m. at NOMA, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans. (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org.

The Transformers — Optimus prime and the Autobots prepare to retake their planet from the evil forces of Megatron in this 1986 cartoon. 7 p.m. Thursday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16.

Young Frankenstein (PG) — The grandson of the infamous scientist is invited to Transylvania to prove his worth in this 1974 comedy from Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder and peter Boyle. 10 a.m. Sunday and Wednesday at Prytania Theatre.

STAGE ON STAGE The Best of Sinatra. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — Spencer racca portrays Frank Sinatra in this performance. Tickets $39.99. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday For The Love of STAR — Women With a Vision. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St. — The fundraiser features burlesque performers, comedians, poets and storytellers. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Wednesday Lacuna. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St. — The solo performance by Daniela Marcozzi was inspired by a 1980 terrorist

bombing in Bologna, Italy which killed 85.

The piece explores how political power influences the personal sphere. Tickets $18. 8 p.m. Friday.

The Laramie Project. Delgado Community College (Tim Baker Theater), 615 City Park Ave. — On the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death, Delgado, The Storyville Collective and Michael McKelvey present the theatrical work by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater project about the murder of a young college student and its impact on the Wyoming town. (504) 671-6616. www. dcc.edu. Tickets $30. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Love Letters. Little Gem Saloon, 445 S. Rampart St. — Nell Nolan and Dennis Woltering perform the litany of correspondence between two friends through the years in memory of Carl Walker. The performances benefit the Capital Gazette Newspaper Family Fund. $25. (504) 267-4863. Tickets $25. 7:30 p.m.Wednesday-Thursday.

Murder Among Friends. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell — With plot twists and cynical humor, this dark comedy about show biz, affairs, murder schemes and New Year’s eve is spiced with blackmail and counterfeit corpus delicti among the rich and famous. Tickets $25-$32.50. Tickets $25-$32.50. 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Music Man. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner — The musical about wandering con man Harold Hill is at rivertown Theaters for the performing Arts. Tickets $36-$40. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Shear Madness. Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego — JpAS presents an evening of improvisation and mystery in a hair salon where a murder is committed. The audience spots clues and participates in the action. www. jpas.org. Tickets $35. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

These Shining Lives. Loyola University New Orleans, Lower Depths Theater, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — Based on the story of four women who worked in a watch factory who used radium to paint numbers on clock faces, the work parallels a similar story of the women known as the “radium Girls.” Tickets $10-$12. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St. — Laura Sanders and Kate Mason host an open-mic comedy show.

Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday.

Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Vincent Zambon and Cyrus Cooper host a stand-up comedy show.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St. — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

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PREVIEW New Orleans Burlesque Festival

BY WILL COVIeLLO AS THE POPULARITY OF BURLESQUE has spread around the globe, the New Orleans Burlesque Festival’s Queen of Burlesque competition has become a coveted crown.

“New Orleans was my biggest dream,” says raquel reed, who won the competition last year. “To be honest, it meant more to me than (the Miss exotic World pageant at the) Burlesque Hall of Fame. people think I’m crazy for that because Burlesque Hall of Fame is the big Super Bowl of burlesque. But to me, New Orleans meant more because it has a live band and you wing it. p H OTO B Y DA r r e L L M I L L e r It’s all freestyle.”

Raquel Reed performs in the 2017 New Orleans Since winning the Burlesque Festival Queen of Burlesque competition. crown, reed has moved to Las Vegas, where she is the sole burlesque performer in Absinthe, a circus and variety show at Caesars palace. She is in New Orleans this week to perform at the 2018 festival, which runs Sept. 20-23 with performances at House of Blues and the Civic Theatre.

In last year’s Queen of Burlesque competition, reed performed a nine-and-ahalf-minute improvised routine titled “rockabilly roller,” going from a sparkling green gown to a web of green lingerie, and a fan dance finish with two fronds of long green feathers. Having worked with live bands in New York, she felt she had an advantage in the competition.

“At the festival, you have 10 minutes the day of [the competition] with the band to go over the song you are using, and that’s it,” reed says. “Luckily, I am really good at freestyle, because where I worked in New York, every night was with a live band.

I didn’t know what I was doing until I got to work. I would be like, ‘Let’s do “I put a Spell on You” or “Feeling Good.”’ I would wing it every night.” reed quit her day job and plunged into a burlesque career after seeing a show in New York seven years ago. She had split her time between working at a makeup counter and alt modeling, a niche for models with lots of tattoos and colored hair.

Tattoos used to be a drawback for aspiring dancers, reed says. Las Vegas showgirls were cast with uniformity in mind, and tattoos were disqualifying. The burlesque revival has welcomed tattooed performers. reed began as a go-go dancer at the Webster Hall nightclub, and moved on to doing burlesque at Slipper room, Duane park and other venues.

The New Orleans Burlesque Festival is open to all sorts of acts and draws dancers from europe to Australia. The Queen of Burlesque competition requires performing with a live band. The festival is introducing a Belle of the Ball competition in which contestants can use recorded music. Other showcases include Mondo Burlesque on the large stage at Civic Theatre, and there are shows at the House of Blues, where audiences get close to the stage. The Bad Girls of Burlesque shows feature edgier themes and looks.

The festival lineup of more than 45 dancers includes 2011 Queen of Burlesque Ginger Valentine and Bo Toxique from Los Angeles, Medianoche from New York, Minouche Von Marabou from Switzerland, Holly’s Good from Italy, Violette Coquette from Canada, and Ginger Fox and Ferri Maya from Australia. Local performers include Go Go McGregor, elle Dorado, Miss Stormy Gayle, Juno, Angie Z and Cherry Bombshell. Also performing is Stephanie Blake, a former Miss exotic World winner, actress (who played a nurse in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and a veteran of the New Orleans festival.

There also are appearances by former burlesque queens. rita Alexander, who was known at the Champagne Girl at Bourbon Street clubs in the 1960s, will attend several events. Kitty West, who created her evangeline the Oyster Girl act and toured the country after a publicity stunt helped get her in the pages of LIFe magazine, will make an appearance at the Queen of Burlesque competition.

The festival also features receptions, a pool party and a burlesque workshop led by Valentine. Visit www.neworleansburlesquefest.com for tickets and information.

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Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Frederick red Bean plunkett hosts an open-mic stand-up show.

8 p.m. Thursday.

Crescent Fresh. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Ted Orphan and Geoffrey Gauchet host the stand-up comedy open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Thursday.

Lights Up!. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — The improv comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Friday.

Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up comedy showcase with free food and ice cream. 8 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Duncan pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave. — Benjamin Hoffman and paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

TNM Mainstage. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — Improv comedians, including school faculty and alumni, perform.

8 p.m. Saturday.

The Spontaneous Show with Young Funny. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — Local comedy troupe performs at The Scrapyard

patio space. www.barredux.com 8 p.m.

Tuesday.

Think You’re Funny?. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St. — Brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

ART HAPPENINGS Artist Talk. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place — Monique Verdin speaks about artistic practice as it relates to displacement in conjunction with the tricentennial exhibition EMPIRE. Free admission.6:30 p.m. Thursday Grand opening. Pollack Glass Studio Gallery, 4132 Magazine St. — The grand opening features live music, glassblowing demonstrations and more. 5 p.m. Friday.

MUSEUMS American Italian Cultural Center, 537 S. Peters St. — The Luke Fontana Collection, works by the artist, through Dec. 31.

Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St. — Washed Ashore — Art to Save the Sea exhibit of six works by Angela pozzi crafted from plastic trash collected from pacific Coast beaches. Through April 2019.

Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St. — Constructing the Break, works from 29 regional artists curated by Allison M. Glenn, through Oct. 6.

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BY D. erIC BOOKHArDT BESIDES INSPIRING MAJOR CARNIVAL PARADES from the krewes of Bacchus, proteus and Orpheus, the mythic deities of antiquity remain fascinating today for the way they embody cosmic powers and human foibles. They were a lot like us — even goddesses had to deal with gender issues — which inspired New Orleans-based artist ryn Wilson to create her own mythology that mingles antiquity and futurism, but from an ecofeminist perspective. The result is Mirroria at The Front gallery, depicting a multimedia mirror world replete with its own mythic figures and tribes and the dreams and challenges they embody. The inhabitants of this realm resemble us in the way their lust for power, wealth and glory causes them to lose sight of the natural world until the nourishing waters they have taken for granted run dry. As their environment withers, a heroine goddess named Jun sees that their grandiose hubris is the cause of the drought and uses persuasion, magic and self-sacrifice to restore the natural order.

It is an ambitious project that transforms the gallery into a reliquary of artifacts from a parallel universe, including fashions, furnishings, rituals and lifestyles seen in the digital video Mirroria (still scene pictured). It illustrates how a technologically advanced society nearly destroys itself before transforming into an ecological, femme-centric culture rooted in ancient shamanic and nature-based traditions. Wilson is not the first person to fuse elements of classical mythology and science fiction, but here she brings her cinematic flair to bear on works that illustrate the various tribes of Mirroria, including “Mystic Nomads,” “Tropic Warriors,” “Zodiacs” and a technocratic administrative class known as “Geometrics.” Wilson says Mirroria is a body of work that “uses feminist ideas to transform the current cultural narrative” by challenging “the worldview that war, domination and greed are necessary to run the world.” Although it can be argued that powerful women have historically contributed to making our world the mess that it is today, Wilson’s audacious and cohesive visual counter-narrative gives us something to think about at a time when mindless hubris seems more prevalent than ever.

Through Oct. 7. The Front, 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org.

— EMPIRE, show celebrating New Orleans’ tricentennial using materials from university archives, through Dec. 22.

Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St. — The Laurel Valley Plantation Photographs of Philip M. Denman, exhibit of almost 40 years of photographic coverage of the Thibodaux plantation, through June 14, 2019.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Wild Things Youth Art Contest. U.S. Fish and Wildlife service, 61389 Highway 434 — Artists ages 5-18 are sought for the annual competition in categories of drawing and painting of plants, animals and landscapes of area National Wildlife refuges. Deadline Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. Winners exhibited Oct. 13.

FARMERS MARKETS Art Market. Music Box Village, 4557 N. Rampart St. — Arts, crafts, vintage items, flea market items and more. No dogs allowed. themusicboxmarket@gmail.com Free admission. Noon. Sunday.

CRISP Farms Market. 1330 France St. — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday.

Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at locations citywide, including Tulane University Square (200 Broadway St.) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday; the French Market (1008 N. peters St.) 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday; the American Can Apartments (3700 Orleans Ave.) 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and in the CBD (750 Carondelet St.) 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

There also is a market in rivertown (400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner) from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Fat City Farmers Market. Fat City Farmers Market, 3215 Edenborn Ave., Metairie — Bread, jellies, jams, spices, organic soaps, eggs, clothing, accessories, crafts and drinks are sold at the market, and there’s a puppy kissing booth and pony rides.

9 a.m. Sunday.

French Market. corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

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

Gretna Farmers Market. Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

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Old Metairie Farmers Market. — The rainor-shine farmers market at Bayou Metairie park offers fruit, vegetables, eggs, honey, cheese and art from local vendors. 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

ReFresh Project Community Garden Farmers Market. ReFresh Project, 300 N. Broad St. — The weekly Monday market offers local produce, homemade kimchi, cocoa-fruit leather, pesto and salad dressing. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday.

Sankofa Mobile Market. Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday. The truck also stops at 6322 St. Claude Ave. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Vietnamese Farmers Market. 14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd. — Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early morning market. 5 a.m. Saturday.

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The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St. — The Seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter, model of a 200-year-old French Quarter building and historic site.

Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St. — Historic French Quarter life and architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St. — We Love You, New Orleans exhibit celebrating the people, places and things that make New Orleans of the nation’s most unique cities, through December.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere, 751 Chartres St. — It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana, Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items, through Dec. 31; “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope, film, photographs and more exploring Bob Hope’s career, through Feb. 10.

New Orleans Museum of Art1 Collins C. Diboll Circle — Changing Course: Reflecting on New Orleans’ Histories, contemporary art projects focusing on forgotten or marginalized New Orleans stories, through Tuesday; Teaching Beyond Doctrine Painting and Calligraphy by Zen Masters of the edo period, 1615-1868., through Jan. 20.

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