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Lost in the Trees Fri. Nov. 2 | Will the daintily arranged folk/ pop of Lost in the Trees get lost in One Eyed Jacks’ noisy schedule (Heartless Bastards, Dum Dum Girls, King Tuff) and cavernous interior? The North Carolina collective’s third LP, A Church That Fits Our Needs (Anti-), is an intimate song cycle based on the suicide of bandleader Ari Picker’s mother. Midtown Dickens opens. PAGE 55.

Louisiana Swamp Festival Sat.-Sun. Nov. 3-4 | The Audubon Institute’s annual celebration of swamp life and the culture of Acadiana features Cajun food, crafts, alligator feedings and live music. At Audubon Zoo. PAGE 74.

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Gleason Gras Sun. Nov. 4 | Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready headlines Gleason Gras, an event to support the Gleason Family Trust and raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which afflicts former New Orleans Saint Steve Gleason. The music lineup also includes MyNameIsJohnMichael, Supagroup, The Revivalists and others. At Champions Square.

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Earth Sun. Nov. 4 | With Earth, guitar charmer Dylan Carlson uses the quicksand tempos and hourglass dread of drone doom as a vehicle for some of the spookiest ambient music on the planet. His Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light diptych (Southern Lord) is either the heaviest jazz or mellowest metal ever made. Stebmo and Woozy open at One Eyed Jacks. PAGE 55.

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Mirliton Festival Sat. Nov. 3 | The Bywater Neighborhood Association’s annual festival moves to the Brickyard at Montegut Steet along the Mississippi River levee this year. The musical lineup includes Kermit Ruffins, Charmaine Neville, the Hot 8 Brass Band, Luke Winslow King, Kristin Diable and others. There also are New Orleans Fringe Festival previews, an art market, food vendors and more. PAGE 74.

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The Transparent Trap A 2009 change in Louisiana’s public records law has become the Jindal Administration’s favorite excuse for ignoring requests for public documents.

Scott S. Cowen,

Tulane University’s president, recently was elected chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU).

Cowen will serve as a spokesman and will represent AAU in meetings with policymakers to draft national policies for higher education. Founded in 1900, AAU represents 59 U.S. and two Canadian universities and focuses on national and institutional issues that are important to research-intensive institutions.

Tulane joined AAU in 1958.

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newspapers. White claimed in his letter that the privilege, which DOE Supt. John critics say applies only to the gover- White invoked nor’s office, “protects documents the ‘deliberative reflecting advisory opinions, recprocess’ exempommendations and deliberations tion to the state’s comprising part of a process by public records law which governmental decisions and to avoid supplying policies are formulated.” documents regardThe Louisiana Public Records ing how schools Law requires a response to all were selected document requests within three for the state’s business days. It further requires voucher program. immediate disclosure if records are PhOTO BY ROBIN MAY readily available. If the records are not readily available, the law gives a public body three days to make it available. If a response to a request is not received within five business days, the requestor is allowed to sue — and potentially recover attorneys’ fees.

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n article in the Monroe News-Star last May about a controversial faith-based school getting approved for hundreds of taxpayer-financed vouchers has ignited a legal conflagration over Louisiana’s Public Records Act and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s ongoing efforts to keep the public’s business under wraps. The dispute began as a public records squabble between the News-Star and the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE), but it has since escalated to include major media outlets across the state, the LSU Board of Supervisors (which has refused to turn over documents relating to draconian cuts to LSU-run hospitals) and the governor’s office.

The article that started it all was published on May 26. NewsStar education writer Barbara Leader reported that the New Living Word School, a small Christian school founded by Pastor Jerry Baldwin in Ruston, had been approved for 315 slots under the state’s new Louisiana Scholarship program, more commonly known as Jindal’s voucher program. The 315 vouchers approved for New Living Word were the most awarded to any school in the state and represented a potential for $2.7 million in public dollars. The vouchers were awarded even though New Living Word lacked the facilities as well as the equipment to accommodate that many students. After a public outcry, the total number of vouchers approved for New Living Word dropped to 165 — still an extraordinarily high number for a small, little-known school.

“A classroom Baldwin presented as typical had a video monitor, no computers and long desks to accommodate about 11 students,” Leader wrote. What troubled voucher critics even more was the News-Star uncovered all this before the state did — because DOE officials were not required to conduct a site visit before approving a school for the voucher program. Four days after Leader’s article appeared, in response to critical questions from the state Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee, state Education Supt. John White testified that approvals for voucher schools were preliminary — that in fact there was a second “due diligence” phase to determine final approvals.

The News-Star attempted to confirm White’s remarks by filing a public records request for internal DOE emails, specifically those “regarding phases included in the process for school approval for the Louisiana Scholarship program.”

A copy of the request was provided to Gambit by News-Star attorney William McNew. The department did not hand over the requested emails.

After the paper published an editorial excoriating the state for its lack of transparency, White responded, claiming DOE was not obligated to produce the records because of something called the “deliberative process privilege,” an exemption to the Louisiana Public Records Law that Jindal rammed through the Legislature in 2009 over the objections of the state’s largest

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consent decree appeal CuC wants to proteCt against Corruption The citizens’ advocacy group Community United for Change (CUC) last week served notice of its intention to appeal U.s. District Judge Susie Morgan’s late august decision denying its motion to intervene in the proposed consent decree between the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) and the U.s.

Department of Justice (DOJ). in that ruling, Morgan denied three other groups the right to be added as parties to the consent decree. Those groups are the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the Police association of New

Orleans (PaNO) and the Office of the independent Police Monitor.

CUC is now the second group to appeal Morgan’s decision. FOP filed for an appeal on sept. 19. The U.s. 5th Circuit Court of appeals has yet to schedule a hearing on the FOP appeal. “as many of you know, CUC filed intervention petitions to insure the rights and protection of the only injured and abridged parties to the ‘Crisis of Corruption’ perpetrated by the NOPD, that being the citizens of New Orleans,” reads an email statement from the group. “it is important to note that CUC was among other community organizations that petition the federal government for relief from the murder, corruption, deprivation of rights, and organized terror the NOPD has been dispensing upon the City of New Orleans for at least 50 years.”

Morgan conducted an evidentiary hearing on the consent decree in september. as of press time, she had not given final approval to the proposed agreement. — CHaRLes MaLDONaDO

scuttlebits all the news that Doesn’t fit • On the road again: Gov. Bobby Jindal hit the campaign trail — yet again — last week, to make a presidential pit stop in iowa for a Mitt Romney event and to deliver a speech at the scott County Republican Party’s Ronald Reagan Dinner. Jindal also appeared at Florida’s First Coast women’s services Pro-Life Dinner and Fundraiser before returning to Louisiana on Oct. 25. ...

• Gutted: Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced plans last week to abolish 11 city boards and commissions, with plans to downsize or restructure several others, including the sewerage & water Board. New Orleans affordable Home Ownership (NOaH) is the highest profile board to be eliminated. NOaH was subject of a post-Katrina scandal when contractors paid by the Nagin administration reportedly never did the work.

Landrieu’s cuts amount to a 17 percent cut in the 66 city-created boards. ...

• Taxi tantrums: Following the city’s press conference preceding the 100-days-out marker for the 2013 super Bowl, dozens of taxis descended on Poydras street to protest the city’s required upgrades of all city-licensed cabs. The upgrades include replacing older fleets and installing credit card machines and GPs devices. Taxi drivers say compliance with the new rules takes more time than the city is allowing. “we are well on our way to being 100 percent ready for the super Bowl as it comes,” said Mayor Mitch Landrieu. “i’m sorry you feel disgruntled,” the mayor told the cabbies at the press conference, adding the upgrades are to bring New Orleans cabs up to what’s standard in other cities. Cab drivers demanded an extension period to fully implement the changes.

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The Committee to save southeast Louisiana Hospital held another meeting last week at the Mandeville Community Center, where state sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, said he supports Thibodaux state Rep. Jerome “Dee” Richard’s call for a special legislative session on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent cuts to health care.

One of the meeting attendees repeatedly questioned Donahue, asking whether he had ever voted for the closure or privatization of state-run mental health facilities. Donahue said he hadn’t.

During the 2010 legislative session, Donahue sponsored sB 295, which “authorizes the Department of Health and Hospitals to contract for the operation of state inpatient mental health facilities and certain services provided at such facilities.”

That bill came as a result of recommendation No. 96 from the Commission on streamlining Government, which Donahue chairs. The recommendation reads, “The Department of Health and Hospitals establish a competitive procurement process for operation of inpatient mental health institutions and/or certain services provided at the institutions, and include in the solicitations a requirement for constructing new facilities without using any state debt.”

Donahue’s claim that he never voted for privatizing mental health facilities is true. sB 295 never came to a vote, as noted in a November 2011 status report on the commission’s recommendations. The report also acknowledges that the executive budget for 2010-2011 “contained provisions associated with this recommendation.” Donahue did vote for the budget bill that year, along with almost all his colleagues. However, there were no provisions in that budget bill that privatized state mental hospitals. instead, Jindal has made cuts to inpatient beds at public hospitals and redirected money to community outpatient services. — CHaRLes MaLDONaDO

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was filed. In August, the News-Star filed suit. DOE agreed to release the emails early this month, according to News-Star executive editor Kathy Spurlock. “The department is doing, actually probably right as we speak, they’re doing an email dump into our drop box account,” Spurlock told Gambit last week.

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It took a lawsuit — and more than four months — for DOE to comply with the News-Star’s public records request. But the battle over public records in Louisiana is far from over. As written into state law, the deliberative process privilege applies to “the process by which decisions and policies are formulated” by the governor.

Critics of its broadened application say it applies only to the governor and his staff. Ironically (some would say typically), Jindal pushed the exemption in the name of increased “transparency,” claiming his proposed change would remove what previously was known as the governor’s privilege from state public records law.

That privilege has appeared in the law since 1940 and shielded all the governor’s records from the public — but it did not extend to state departments and agencies.

Former Baton Rouge Advocate reporter Kevin Blanchard, who is now an attorney, last year penned an article about Jindal’s “privilege” in the Louisiana Law Review, titled “From Sunshine to Moonshine: How the Louisiana Legislature Hid the Governor’s Records in the Name of Transparency.”

“Here’s the way it happened,” Blanchard said.. “[Then-executive counsel Jimmy Faircloth] went to the Legislature and said, ‘Hey, we’re going to open up the governor’s office to the public records law.’ Before it just didn’t exist.

Everything the governor touched was exempt from public records.” Faircloth, who also represented DOE in the News-Star case, did not respond to repeated calls seeking comment.

Now, it seems almost everything Jindal wants kept from public view is declared to be covered by the deliberative process exemption — and various state agencies and departments are getting in on the act.

The concept of a deliberative process privilege comes from Exemption 5 to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a 1966 federal law that opened public agency records to public scrutiny. The rationale for the federal exemption, Blanchard said, is “you don’t want the people who are making recommendations on policy to the ultimate decision maker to be gun shy. You don’t want to hamper creativity or new ideas that way.”

In his law review article, Blanchard argues that the privilege granted Louisiana’s governor is poorly defined. The statutory exemption includes all records “having been used, being in use, possessed, or retained for use by the governor in the usual course of the duties and business of his office relating to the deliberative process of the governor.” Further, Blanchard argues, there is no substantive Louisiana

case law dealing with the privilege, either as it’s written in state statute or, as some have contended, whether it’s a constitutional right of the executive branch.

Consequently, it’s open to interpretation by state courts.

Until a definitive ruling on the law — or at least some clarification — by the state Supreme Court, the Jindal administration is free to assert the privilege as it pleases, far outside the governor’s fourth-floor offices in the Capitol.

“They have pushed it way beyond the limits of the big pointy building and out into the agencies,” said Advocate executive editor Carl Redman, who covered the state Capitol for years before becoming the paper’s editor.

Indeed, agencies in the executive branch of state government have repeatedly claimed the privilege: • In the Monroe News-Star case seeking records relating to DOE’s voucher approval process.

• In response to two public records requests in July and August by the Associated Press (AP). One request sought Department of Education records relating to the voucher school approval process; the other sought records from the Division of Revenue related to the state’s alternative fuel tax credit.

• In response to Willis-Knighton Health System’s (WKHS) June request for records pertaining to the extension of Louisiana Highway 3132 near Shreveport.

• And again in response to a September request by The Advocate for communications among LSU officials prior to the announcement of more than $150 million in cuts to seven LSU-run hospitals in south Louisiana.

Earlier this month, The Advocate reported that a letter from LSU-contracted attorney Shelby McKenzie to university president William Jenkins credits Jindal’s then-executive counsel Liz Murrill with the idea of invoking the privilege to deny a similar records request by Tom Aswell, an independent journalist who runs the news website Louisiana Voice. A week earlier, Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin claimed the governor’s office played no role in LSU’s decision to assert the privilege.

The Advocate’s story on McKenzie’s letter was published Oct. 15. Later that day, Jindal replaced Murrill as his top lawyer, moving her into the Division of Administration.

“We don’t think the privilege applies anyplace,” Advocate editor Redman says.

“There’s one reference in the revised statutes that mentions deliberative process … which applies to the governor. Nobody at LSU was ever elected governor of the state of Louisiana. And this is what was so damning, if you will, in the correspondence we got between the LSU attorney and the LSU president.”

McKenzie disagrees. He says the deliberative process privilege, as applies to the executive branch, is a constitutional right. The statute, he adds, has nothing to do with it.

“It reflects the separation of powers

between the executive and the legislative branches, and it also respects the rights of individuals’ freedom of expression to engage in the deliberative process without it being too invasive,” he says. “The concept being that the individual administrators … within the executive branch of government — which would include universities — anybody within the executive branch should be able to brainstorm ideas without the fear of being embarrassed by expressions of their ideas while they’re half-baked.”

In other words, advisors and administrators should not have to be intimidated by external forces — politics or public opinion — while formulating policy.

“So the right of the public to know should occur when the ideas have gelled at least into a preliminary recommendation of a particular course of action,” McKenzie said.

As to McKenzie’s separation of power argument, Redman points out that the legislative branch has a “limited” constitutional privilege in Article 3, Section 8 of the state constitution. That section exempts some internal legislative deliberations from disclosure under the Public Records Law, and it has been affirmed in court decisions citing the separation of powers.

But, he says, no similar privilege has been extended to the executive branch.

Attorney and blogger C.B. Forgotston, who formerly worked as the chief counsel for the House Appropriations Committee, says McKenzie’s separation of powers argument, if valid, would mean that the executive branch is effectively beyond the reach of Louisiana’s Public Records Law. “If he’s correct, then we don’t have a public records law,” Forgotston said. He added that McKenzie neglects another section of the state constitution — Article 12, Section 3 — which states, “No person shall be denied the right to observe the deliberations of public bodies and examine public documents, except in cases established by law.”

“I shall not be denied the right, except in cases established by the law,” Forgotston said, quoting the specific constitutional provision. “You don’t need to go into some broad generalization about the separation of powers. … In constitutional law, the specific overrules the general.” Neither the state constitution nor the federal constitution mentions “deliberative process.” If the statutory exemption doesn’t apply to agencies, as McKenzie concedes, where is it established by law? It appears in federal law and related case law, but that doesn’t necessarily apply to Louisiana law.

Louisiana courts have only cited the privilege in passing, in two cases, both of which involved the Legislative Auditor’s authority to obtain documents from state agencies. Neither case involved public records requests. In the first case, Kyle v. the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC), the ruling was procedural. The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal sided with the LPSC, finding that the auditor should have subpoenaed the records

it sought rather than attempted to compel them through a writ of mandamus. After reviewing FOIA case law, the court noted that the LPSC had the right to assert the deliberative process privilege to shield records. However, the court did not rule on the merits of that assertion at the time.

The second case, Donelon v. the Louisiana Department of Insurance, in which the First Circuit Court again ruled against the auditor, turned on the attorney-client privilege, though it also recognized deliberative process privilege.

“The question is not that this court ruled specifically that it existed. What the court does do in its discussion is recognize that the privilege can exist,” McKenzie said.

“There has been no definitive decision in Louisiana on the issue.”

So, for now, the executive branch may claim the privilege until a court says otherwise — and that may not be for some time.

AP hasn’t filed suit to enforce its request, for example. White, who through a spokesperson initially told AP reporter Melinda Deslatte he would comply after voucher enrollment was complete in early September, has now changed course, asserting the deliberative process privilege and alleging that her request was “overly broad.”

The Advocate likewise doesn’t plan to sue, Redman says. The News-Star filed suit, but the DOE agreed to hand over the records the paper sought before the suit was served.

“I think that [going to court] is not a risk that the administration wants to take in terms of establishing more stringent authority or rules,” News-Star editor Spurlock said. “I think that it’s a tactic that will continue to be employed until there’s some kind of legislative action or case law. And quite frankly, I think that it’s being deployed pretty broadly.”

WKHS filed suit over the Highway 3132 records it sought, but the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) agreed to turn over the requested information. “DOTD has released all of the records sought by Willis-Knighton to the best of our knowledge, information and belief,” WKHS attorney William Pesnell wrote in an email.

Redman said that until a definitive ruling by the courts in favor of transparency, the public’s right to know is in jeopardy.

“What the public needs to know is this isn’t just the media versus government,” Redman said. “This is at the heart of what individuals want to know. [Public officials] need to be forced to explain their actions.

That’s kind of at the heart of government accountability. If the government cares about accountability, as this administration says they do, they ought to welcome the scrutiny and they ought to turn the records over so that everybody can know they’ve been acting in good faith.

“But right now, we don’t know that. And all you can do is guess or trust them, and that’s not the best way to have it. Even the great conservative Ronald Reagan said, ‘Trust but verify.’ Well, we ought to be able to verify.”

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The loss of $22 million in annual toll revenue will place our vitally important bridge under the limited care of a state that is already challenged by dramatic budget cuts. Toll opponents want to put the bridge under the bureaucracy of the Department of Transportation and Development, which, with a seven year backlog of $12.1 billion in road projects, is already gasping from its own budget chokehold. Plans for renewing the tolls include keeping bridge management local under the Regional Planning Commission with regular state audits to ensure toll funds are spent on bridge maintenance and improvements.

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candidate endorsements e continue this week with our endorsements in the Nov. 6 elections. We note that Gambit historically does not endorse in judicial races. We therefore make no recommendations in the elections for judge at Criminal District Court or the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal. In prior weeks, we announced our recommendations in the Orleans Parish School Board races and for the nine proposed constitutional amendments. Following are our recommendations for Congress and the New Orleans City Council. A full ballot of recommendations will appear in next week’s Gambit.

For Congress: Cedric Richmond and Steve Scalise — No, they’re not running as a team, but they often serve as one for the benefit of southeast Louisiana. Richmond, a New Orleans Democrat, and Scalise, a Jefferson Republican, rarely vote alike on issues of national significance. However, the two men — whose friendship dates to their days in the Louisiana House of Representatives — could teach their colleagues a lot about building bipartisan coalitions.

On at least three recent occasions, Richmond, who represents solidly Democratic District 2, and Scalise, who represents thoroughly Republican District 1, put aside party differences to forge consensus on issues of vital importance to the region. In July 2011, they joined forces to direct $6.8 million to increase dredging in the Mississippi River to keep shipping lanes open. The very next day they added $1 million for coastal restoration, which took it out of the “non-starter” category of federal projects and put it in the pipeline for future allocations.

Perhaps their biggest success was helping pass the RESTORE Act, which they coordinated with U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu in the Senate. The act ultimately will send billions to Louisiana for coastal restoration. “We built a very big coalition,” Scalise says. “It was very important to the five Gulf Coast states, but we were all on very different pages. It took lots of juggling, but at the end of the day, it all worked out for Louisiana. We will get the most money by anybody’s estimate.”

There was a time when such crossparty coordination was routine in the Louisiana delegation — and at the highest levels of Congress. Sadly, such bipartisanship is rare these days. In fact, both parties seem to punish members who reach across the aisle. Fortunately, Louisiana has two members of Congress who get the notion that bipartisanship moves the region — and the country — forward. We recommend both men be re-elected.

For City Council, District B: Dana Kaplan — Voters in District B

are blessed to have three very strong candidates seeking to succeed Stacy Head as their council member. We found lots to like about LaToya Cantrell, Dana Kaplan and Eric Strachan. In the end, we give the nod to Kaplan. Her experience as head of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana put her on the front lines of the fight against crime, in terms of both intervention and policymaking. A leader in the Safe Streets movement, Kaplan played a key role in establishing the city’s Independent Police Monitor. No other candidate we interviewed articulated as deep an understanding of the complex causes and potential solutions to our city’s endemic crime problem as did Kaplan. She has a knack for consensus building and grassroots organizing (she qualified to run by getting more than 1,000 voters to sign a petition supporting her candidacy, rather than just plopping down cash to qualify), and she displays a rare combination of energy, independence, maturity and temperament that will serve her diverse district — and the city — very well.

For City Council, District E: James Gray — This is another race that has attracted a strong field of candidates.

That’s especially important in this district, which has been underserved on the council for too long. District E faces the same problems as the rest of the city, only more so — crime, blight, infrastructure, economic development and more. In our view, no candidate is better prepared to lead the effort to bring back eastern New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward than James Gray. An attorney and Vietnam veteran, Gray has the maturity and training to lead as well as the humility to serve. He currently serves as chair of the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee, teaches trial practice at Tulane Law School, chairs the prestigious Louisiana Law Institute (whose members are the state’s most respected legal scholars), and serves on the boards of the National Urban League, the Boy Scouts of America and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Gray promises to focus on crime, economic development, youth programs and parks and playgrounds. We think he will serve District E well.

On Nov. 6, voters across America will cast ballots for president, Congress, U.S. Senate and a host of local and statewide contests. While Louisiana does not have a U.S. Senate race on the ballot, there are lots of important local elections to be decided. Regardless of whether our readers agree with our recommendations, we hope all of them will vote next Tuesday, Nov. 6.

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Local Referenda This makes for some strange math — and even stranger politics. In other parishes, and in each council district, candidates run for separate, specific seats. This amendment would make that the rule for New Orleans’ two at-large seats as well, establishing them as At-Large Division 1 and At-Large Division 2. It makes sense — and it’s fair.

Regional Business Park, Millage Renewal: Yes — If renewed, the 20-mill property tax would continue to be levied only on commercial properties within the 7,000-acre New Orleans Regional Business Park in eastern New Orleans, but voters citywide will decide its fate.

The tax would generate slightly less than $220,000 a year for the business park’s management. The park offers New Orleans its best hope for significant light or heavy industrial activity.

Orleans Levee District, Millage Renewal: Yes — Voters on the East Bank of Orleans Parish will consider whether to renew for 30 years a 6.07-mill property tax for flood protection. A small portion of the millage (0.61 mill) would be dedicated to the so-called non-flood assets of the Orleans Levee District. The massive flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac and the memory of Hurricane Katrina should make this an easy sell.

Unfortunately, a small group of wellintentioned but misguided “reformers” opposes the renewal because they want the Levee District to sell off its nonflood assets. Those non-flood assets include Lakeshore Drive and five miles of parkway (which doubles as a buttress for the lakefront levee), two marinas (which will generate money for flood protection when fully restored), and the Lakefront Airport (which is an important economic engine). We think the better option is to renew the millage for flood protection and dedicate a small portion — less than 40 cents a month for a home assessed at $150,000 in fair market value — to the non-flood assets, which provide recreation to thousands of New Orleanians and bolster flood protection to all of the East Bank. Meanwhile, the non-flood asset management board should continue its work to restore those assets — then recommend how best to manage them in the future.

Neighborhood Improvement/ Crime Prevention Districts: Yes — Voters in three New Orleans neighborhoods will decide whether to impose flat fees on parcels of land to support security and improvement efforts.

Those neighborhoods include Lake Vista, North Kenilworth and Gentilly Terrace and Gardens. Neighborhood leaders in all three areas have worked with local lawmakers to draft legislation authorizing the fees, subject to voter approval in those neighborhoods. We support their efforts.

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oters across New Orleans will decide the fates of several ballot propositions next Tuesday, Nov. 6. One of those propositions — to extend the tolls on the Crescent City Connection — also will appear on the ballot in Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes. In addition, voters of some New Orleans precincts will vote on neighborhood improvement and crime abatement fees.

Following are our recommendations on those referenda.

School Board Term Limits: Yes — Voters in most Louisiana parishes, including Orleans, will decide whether to impose term limits on local school board members. The proposition will be decided on a parish-by-parish basis, not statewide. If approved, board members would be limited to three consecutive four-year terms beginning in January 2014. Jefferson Parish already imposes term limits on school board members, so the issue will not be on the ballot there. While we don’t think term limits are a cure-all for what ails government, we think the arguments in favor of term limits — especially as applied to school boards — outweigh those against. One valid criticism of term limits is that they diminish the institutional memory of public bodies. However, we think a limit of 12 years offers ample opportunity for school boards to overcome that problem.

On balance, we think school board term limits will be good for public education.

Bridge Tolls Extension: Yes — This issue is on the ballot in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes. A majority of the total votes cast in those parishes is needed to extend the tolls on the Crescent City Connection (CCC) for another 20 years. State Rep. Patrick Connick, R-Marrero, has waged a valiant campaign to clean up past abuses by the commission that oversees the CCC. We support Connick’s reform efforts, but we respectfully disagree with his proposed solution of letting tolls expire at the end of this year. If the tolls expire, bridge traffic will likely be more congested (as it was before tolls were reimposed years ago) and less safe. Louisiana State Police, which has seen severe budget cuts in recent years, would be stretched to cover the bridge, one of America’s busiest. In addition, the loss of toll revenue would adversely affect important construction projects along the bridge and expressway. Extending the tolls will provide for safety, traffic flow, maintenance, construction and landscaping — and tighter controls over where the money goes in the future.

City Charter Amendment, Separate At-Large Council Elections: Yes — The City Charter currently makes candidates for the council’s two at-large seats all run against each other in a political free-for-all. To win, a candidate must get more than 25 percent of the vote.

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School Reforms Working he latest Louisiana public school performance scores, released oct. 26, show continued — and dramatic — improvements in local public schools. Those improvements have occurred in schools run by the orleans Parish school Board (oPsB) as well as the Recovery school District (RsD). That’s significant for a lot of reasons.

Institutionally, it means that the RsD and the oPsB are doing their jobs. overall, the oPsB scores are significantly higher, but there’s a reason for that. After Hurricane Katrina, the RsD took over the worst public schools in the state — more than 100 of them — and left the oPsB with only the best schools in town (about a dozen now).

To its credit, the current oPsB took the city’s best schools and made them even better. oPsB schools now rank second highest in the state. Their overall letter grade is an “A” and their 2012 district performance score of 133.8 is less than one point behind the tiny (and relatively wealthy) Zachary Community school District, which scored a 134.7.

Jefferson Parish schools, by comparison, earned an overall grade of “C” and

a score of 99.2. That’s still a significant improvement over the 2011 score of 88.2 and a dramatic improvement over its 2008 score of 73.5. st. Tammany, which has long had highperforming public schools, continues to excel. Its system posted a letter grade of “A” and a 2012 score of 122.8 — 11 points behind New orleans’ schools but still up more than 11 points from its 2011 score.

The RsD-run schools in New orleans continue to trail in letter grades and overall scores, but these were some of the worst schools in the country in 2005. The good news is they continue to improve. The reality is they were so far down the scale that even dramatic improvement only moves them from “F” to “D.” The numbers tell the tale of improvement for local RsD schools: • The 2012 score of 76.7 is up almost 11 percent from the 2011 score of 69.2 — and up more than 49 percent from the 2008 score of 51.4.

• Thirteen local RsD-run schools are eligible to return to local governance by the oPsB. • Local RsD schools continue to show

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schools into even “average” schools is the toughest assignment of all. That’s the RsD’s task. That task is far from finished, but the RsD is on the right track.

Politically, the scores are important because the city is in the final stretches of some hotly contested school board elections. No doubt incumbents will point to the improvements as evidence that they all deserve to be re-elected.

In one contest in particular — the race for District 3 — challenger sarah usdin has been attacked for backing schools that failed. The latest scores actually tell a story of dramatic improvement. of the 13 RsD schools that are eligible for return to oPsB governance, usdin started two and helped start eight others. (Disclosure: usdin is endorsed by Gambit.)

Voters should pay close attention to the six contested school board seats, because not all incumbents have been big supporters of the RsD, charter schools, or the reforms that made the improved test scores possible — although they will all claim to be reformers at election time.

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Dear Curious, Archbishop Joseph Huber Blenk was promoted to the seventh Archbishop of New Orleans on April 20, 1906. He was formally welcomed by the Catholic laity at a public gathering at the French Opera House on July 3 of that year. New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman, Gov. Newton Crain Blanchard and an array of dignitaries gathered. Catholics and nonCatholics alike were present for the ceremony, which included music and lots of speeches.

Born in Germany on July 28, 1856, Blenk was the youngest of 17 children. In 1866, his Protestant family emigrated from Germany to New Orleans. Blenk’s parents died when he was 12 years old, and he was raised by a Catholic family. After converting to Catholicism, Blenk was baptized, confirmed and eventually became a priest in 1885.

For a while he served as professor at his alma mater, Jefferson College (now the Manresa House of Retreats in Convent, La.), and was promoted to president of the school. And for a time he was rector of the Church of the Holy Name of Mary in Algiers.

On June 12, 1899, Blenk was appointed bishop of Puerto Rico. Before he left for that post, however, the island was struck by a terrible hurricane and Blenk raised $30,000 to take with him to aid members of his new congregation who were victims of the storm. While he was there, Blenk founded a college, several schools and convents.

During his time as archbishop of New Orleans, Blenk was influential in improving Catholic education in the area. While he insisted that a parochial school should be established in each parish, he also continued segregation in Catholic schools.

Blenk worked for the restoration of St. Louis Cathedral, pledging an insurance policy worth $5,000 to the campaign to raise money for this purpose. He also organized the Louisiana State Federation of Catholic Societies in 1908, The Catholic Societies of Women of Louisiana in 1911, the Knights of Peter Claver at Opelousas in 1912 and the Catholic Women’s Club in 1916.

Two events clouded Blenk’s final years: the 1915 hurricane that caused widespread devastation to south Louisiana, and the outbreak of World War I. Blenk wanted to leave bequests to many charitable institutions, but when he died on April 21, 1917, he was almost penniless. His estate amounted to about $500 after funeral expenses. His funeral

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at St. Joseph’s Church on Tulane Avenue, however, was one of the largest ever held in the city. Like other archbishops before him, Blenk was buried under the main altar in St. Louis Cathedral.

Upon his death, The Times-Picayune wrote, “Catholics will mourn the great churchman and prelate; Protestants will mourn the great champion of truths which all Christians hold in common; agnostics will deplore the passing of a model citizen.”

In 1962, a school honoring Archbishop Blenk opened on Gretna Boulevard on the West Bank. Forty-six years later and after much protest, the all-girls school merged with Immaculata High School (in Harvey) to form a new West Bank Catholic high school for girls called Academy of Our Lady.

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“There are those times where you are out on the field and you’re sweating and you might hate him for making you repeat nine reps in a row, but in the end you appreciate him because he is trying to get the best out of you, and you know that if you’re going in a foxhole you want that guy with you.”

The Saints are trying to become the second team in NFL history to reach the postseason following a 0-4 start. The San Diego Chargers pulled it off in 1992. Vitt inherits a team that appears to play better football and, perhaps as a side effect of the suspension, with a fresh perspective on things.

“Stepping away and then coming back, you see things from a different perspective,” Brees says. “I have heard him on a couple of occasions make comments to me and others, (saying) ‘Hey, I saw some things on TV or just from afar that I probably wouldn’t have noticed otherwise, and here they are and I think this can help us.

That’s interesting when you get that perspective that you only would have gotten had you stepped away for a little while.”

Vitt, just like Saints fans, likely saw a team that struggled on defense, had trouble getting the running game going, looked lost on offense early on, and at times lacked their signature passion. The Saints are improving, and one can only hope that Vitt’s return will provide the missing piece that turns the Saints into the contender we all expected to see this season.

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he moment the stadium clock at Raymond James Stadium showed zeros, it was over. The New Orleans Saints beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 3528 Oct. 21, but what the game clock really signified was completion of the six-game, seven-week suspension of Saints assistant head coach Joe Vitt.

Vitt wasted no time getting back in the swing. He went to Tampa, Fla., so he could fly home with his team. It’s that kind of dedication that has earned him respect not only inside the locker room, but also among his peers and the media.

His 30-plus years of coaching experience are what the Saints have desperately lacked this season. A 0-4 start is plausible proof that the Black and Gold really missed Vitt, who commands a room and runs media sessions with a mixture of comedy improv and football 101.

“We know there are things we can do better from a coaching, player and schematic standpoint,” Vitt told reporters last week in his first press conference since training camp. The statement referred to a chat Vitt had with defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.

“It’s good to have coach Vitt back,” Saints running back Pierre Thomas tweeted Oct. 24 in reply to an official Saints tweet that showed Thomas and Vitt sharing a laugh at practice.

It wasn’t that offensive line coach and running game coordinator Aaron Kromer did a bad job as acting head coach. What is key is what Vitt brings to the team.

“I love Joe,” Saints quarterback Drew Brees says. “His experience level, his intensity, his fire, his passion, I think those are the things that you immediately notice whether you know Joe Vitt or not and you appreciate and you love (about him). He is one of those guys that loves his players.

He is hard on you at times; he expects a lot out of you, but it’s because I think he sees the potential in everyone and the good in everybody. He wants to get the best out of you so he is going to push you hard.

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Here is our 15th annual 40 Under 40.

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Born at Touro Hospital and educated at Charity Hospital, Murtuza “Zee” Ali returned to New Orleans in the summer of 2008, after completing his medical residency at Stanford University and a fellowship at Boston University. He planned to rebuild the LSU Interventional Cardiology Training Program, which educates medical students about the branch of cardiology that treats structural heart diseases using catheters in order to avoid scars, pain and long recovery periods.

Since then, the LSU School of Medicine faculty member has won nine awards from peers, residents and students and has served as the associate program director for the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program in the LSU Department of Medicine and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at the Interim LSU Public Hospital.

Ali also is chairman of the Louisiana Emergency Response Network (LERN), where he directs the creation of a statewide network of hospitals that will provide coordinated and timely care for heart attack victims. Ali has garnered assistance from emergency medical services, primary care and specialty practices, patient advocacy groups and public health officials.

“To be able to participate in the design of a system that hopefully will improve the care and increase the access to great quality care for all residents of the state regardless of where they live is a very cool thing,” he says.

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A.J. Allegra acts, directs, writes, produces, is stage manager, builds sets and is the artistic director of theater company The NOLA Project, and he’s working hard to build New Orleans’ vibrant theater community on a national scale.

“Theater arts in New Orleans have grown tremendously, with help from our theater company,” he says. “We hope it has inspired others to do the same.”

Founded in the spring of 2005, The NOLA Project has produced two dozen shows, including recent acclaimed runs of Shakespeare classics and the ambitious Balm In Gilead, staged in collaboration with Cripple Creek Theatre Company.

Allegra wants to showcase New Orleans as a national venue for theater, and its sprawling community of smaller companies that don’t have permanent theater homes — groups like The NOLA Project have only a limited number of venues for theater, so they’ve come up with creative options, like staging performances at the New Orleans Museum of Art. “We want to work to raise the bar for producing theater in the city and work to make it really great,” he says. “New Orleans has a tendency to be lackadaisical, to say, ‘That’s good enough.’ One thing we do is say, ‘That’s not enough. How do we fine-tune and make it better?’

The NOLA Project is producing a one-woman show, She Remembers, for Fringe Fest, November’s citywide theater event. In March 2013, the company premieres the full-scale production Catch the Wall, which chronicles students’ relationships to the charter school system and bounce music.

Allegra also teaches theater at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where he gives students their first taste of national ambitions.

“What we try to do as a company is create an environment [in which students say], ‘Hey, my hometown is a great place to work,’” he says. “I have an obligation to my students to develop that.” — ALEX WOODWARD

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Dr. Kellie Axelrad will do anything to fire up the public about the importance of dental health.

She even has the New Orleans Saints in on it.

Axelrad, a New Orleans native who graduated from Loyola University and LSU Dental School, contacted the Saints and NFL Play 60 to partner with the New Orleans Dental Association to present a dental screening at the LSU School of Dentistry in January 2013. “[The Saints] are going to run a basic training camp on the fields and we are going to host a traditional event inside,” says Axelrad, who will open a private dental practice in Lakeview next fall.

The event, which aims to educate the public about the importance of healthy teeth and gums, is for children from St. John the Baptist and Plaquemines Parishes because of the number of families affected by Hurricane Isaac. The dental association has held the annual event for the past 10 years, targeting groups of children based on need, but it is the first time the group has partnered with the Saints and NFL Play 60.

During Children’s Dental Health Month in February 2013, Axelrad will visit young patients at Children’s Hospital, handing out toothbrushes and teaching them how to take care of their teeth. She also volunteers for a range of other organizations focusing on pediatric care.

Axelrad says she has wanted to be a dentist since she was in the fifth grade, when her brother got braces and she learned that teeth could be moved. She was inspired to specialize in pediatric dentistry after working with someone who showed her the ropes of caring for kids.

“It is my passion, my craft, and it doesn’t feel like much work when you love what you do.” — MARTA JEWSON

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Andrea BourgeoisCalvin, 37 WATER-QUALITY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN FOUNDATION Andrea Bourgeois-Calvin knew from an early age that she wanted to be in science, and she considered a career in medicine.

“But I realized that I wanted to do something outdoors, do something that was good for the environment,” she says.

As water-quality program director for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, BourgeoisCalvin has realized that dream. The nonprofit organization has proved critical in engineering the energies, strategies, funds and policies that have returned the lake’s southern shore to a safe place to swim. On the Northshore, where Bourgeois-Calvin says our vital watershed’s environmental health now faces its biggest challenge, her duties regularly take her “out in the field, out on the water.”

Typically working the Bogue Falaya, Amite and Tangipahoa rivers in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes, Bourgeois-Calvin — who earned a doctorate in geochemistry from the University of New Orleans (UNO) — surveys the waterways that collectively contain more than 700 individual water and sewage systems.

“It’s a piecemeal system, “ says Bourgeois-Calvin, who earned a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Loyola University and a master’s degree from UNO. “And because it’s piecemeal, we have a harder time keeping track of it all.

“On the south shore, a big key to running around the water quality has been working with the parishes and concerned citizens in a regional approach.”

Bourgeois-Calvin, who also is key in securing funds and analyzing field reports, says digital mapping advances are vital to the foundation’s mission: “We’ve been finding sources of pollution since 2002, but the last few years of comprehensive mapping has really brought it to the next level.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE

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Nicholas Braden, 34

McKenzie Coco, 37

VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL HUNTER SECURITIES

PRESIDENT, FSC INTERACTIVE

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Investment banker Nicholas Braden explains his transition from Wall Street to Poydras Street as he steps out of a meeting in New York City to take the call on his cellphone. “Daunting.

It’s swimming without a life preserver” is how Braden describes his initial impressions of Wall Street, where the Newcomb graduate worked following his matriculation at the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned Wharton School of Business. At Wharton he earned a Master of Business Administration with triple concentrations in finance, public policy and entrepreneurial management.

He last worked on Wall Street as a vice president at Citigroup. “There’s a lot of type-A types,” Braden says. “Not a lot of Southern hospitality, so it takes a lot of adjustment for someone born and bred in New Orleans (to get accustomed to New York). It requires an extraordinary amount of discipline.”

At Wharton, Braden met his wife, Shirin, a U Penn graduate from Austin, Texas.

After school, Braden returned to New Orleans to raise his family — and for what he describes as “an amazing opportunity.” He joined the energy-focused investment bank Global Hunter Securities where he raises capital and advises companies on mergers and acquisitions.

“New Orleans is an usual place to do something similar to what’s done on Wall Street,” says Braden, who lives in the Warehouse District. “And when people think of an energy-focused bank, they think it would be based in Houston.”

“We’re bringing Wall Street to Poydras Street,” he says. “We’re attracting the talent down here that typically works on Wall Street. We’re making New York-type deals and they’re earning New York-type compensation, but we’re doing it all from New Orleans.”

— FRANK ETHERIDGE

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Upon returning to New Orleans after a stint on the West Coast, McKenzie Coco realized there was a void here that she could fill. “(On the West Coast there was) a lot more innovative online marketing than I had seen in New Orleans,” she says. “I saw there was a real need for people to be able to market outside the New Orleans community, because the New Orleans community had really dwindled after the storm.”

In 2009, Coco founded FSC Interactive, an online marketing firm which this year surpassed $1 million in annual sales revenue. The firm provides social media management, search engine optimization, email marketing and other services.

Some of FSC’s clients include the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau and Loyola University.

Aside from her duties as founder and president, Coco stays involved in the outside community. She currently is chairwoman of the Junior Achievement Rising Stars Soiree and, as a self-proclaimed “bleeding heart” animal lover, she volunteers as a foster parent to rescue dogs.

She attributes her success and that of her company to the staff and clients with whom she works.

“One thing I’ve been very smart about is you always hire people who are smarter than yourself,” Coco says. “There’s such great talent at FSC, and I feel lucky that I get to work with the people [who] are in my office every day and lucky we have the clients that allow us the freedom and ability to really be partners with them.”

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Eliana de Las Casas, 12 CHEF PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

CO-FOUNDER, SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRISES PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

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Stacey James Danner decided he would do anything he could to help New Orleanians after Hurricane Katrina, so the Minnesota native headed south and co-founded Sustainable Environmental Enterprises (SEE), which helps low-income individuals access sustainable energy systems.

“Our real goal is to make sure all people, regardless of their income or where they live, can access renewable energy at a price affordable for their family,” he says.

Danner received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 2008 and the next year received a Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Fund award.

He has participated in White House round tables on domestic policy and green and sustainable industry.

Louisiana has one of the country’s best state credit programs for financing solar energy systems, offering a 50 percent credit for installing panels, Danner says. He also hopes SEE can help people on fixed incomes convert to sustainable energy. “It’s much cleaner and cheaper to do it this way (use solar energy) than worry about whether or not the utilities are going to cut off your lights,” he says.

Making energy more affordable for New Orleanians while employing local installers is a win-win for Danner and the community. “I’m really proud of our innovative financing, which allows anybody to have renewable energy,” he says. — MARTA JEWSON

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While in New York City for an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, 12-year-old Eliana de Las Casas got a taste of celebrity treatment.

“Even though the studio was four blocks away from the apartment (where we were staying), they would have a car service for us,” she says.

De Las Casas, aka Kid Chef Eliana, made jambalaya and pralines on the talk show. At her age, de Las Casas already has hit some of the milestones coveted by much older chefs: With the help of her mother, children’s author and storyteller Dianne de Las Casas, Eliana has written two cookbooks, Eliana Cooks! Recipes for Creative Kids and Cool Kids Cook: Louisiana, and has a budding line of spice blends called Sabor.

She was also featured among 13 local Latinos in an exhibit at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and she hosts a weekly web radio show called Cool Kids Cook on VoiceAmerica Kids.

Coming from a home that’s frequently host to large family gatherings, Eliana started cooking at age 4. “I always just loved to be in the kitchen and experiment with food,” she says. “Every birthday and Christmas, I always asked for something related to cooking or a kitchen utensil.”

The seventh-grader, who says she always puts school first, plans to write more cookbooks in the Cool Kids Cook series, expand her line of spices and create cookware for children. Eventually she wants to attend the Culinary Institute of America in New York. — LAUREN LABORDE

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LaToya Devezin smashes the librarian stereotype of being quiet, meek and bookish. Passionate, multitalented and energetic, Devezin aims to make the New Orleans Public Library the most high-tech, inclusive, essential public resource it can be.

“People think the library isn’t necessary anymore,” she says. “They say ‘Why bother, when you can Google everything?’”

A bilingual opera singer with degrees in music, library science and museum studies, Devezin is pursuing another in archival management.

“People think I sit behind a desk all day and check out books; they’d be surprised at what I actually do,” she says. “I’m writing grants; I’m working on new programs.”

Not only has Devezin helped improve the library’s computer technology resources and created zones for children and teens, but she also has landed grants from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, among other sources. Through the library, those grants have brought music and arts programs to hundreds of kids.

The library associate has built up other resources, too, including assistance for residents applying for federal loans and college admissions. “It’s crucial for our library to be awesome for the community,” says Devezin, who wants to expand services even further. She’s thinking about a public garden, a tech education lab and multilingual collections and resources.

An American Library Association Spectrum Scholar, Devezin is committed to bringing more diversity into the profession. “We don’t have that many librarians of color,” she says.

“We provide so many different things to people on so many levels, and we want librarians to reflect the community they serve.” — EILEEN LOH

Sarah Devlin, 18 FILMMAKER Photo by Cheryl Gerber In March, then-NOCCA student Sarah Devlin earned a $10,000 scholarship for her student film portfolio. The prestigious 2012 Scholastic Arts and Writing Award, administered by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, is just one of 15 in the country. Past recipients include Sylvia Plath and Truman Capote.

“I’m not used to having that much exposure,” says Devlin, who accepted the award in front of a packed house during a ceremony at New York’s Carnegie Hall. “I’m not sure if that was the best or worst thing, to be in front of that many people.”

Devlin’s eight-film portfolio included the one-minute film Strophe, Antistrophe, Catastrophe (dans le clair du temps) — she’s fluent in French — and the films were screened on a loop at Parsons School of Design. They now are among items in an exhibit touring the country.

Devlin started making films in grammar school, and in 2009 her class assignment — a two-minute film called Writer’s Block — earned three awards at the Louisiana Film Festival; it also was named the best film from a student.

This fall, Devlin taught filmmaking and animation to students at Lusher Charter School. While taking a break from Loyola University, where she’s a freshman majoring in French, Devlin is working on several small films and music videos, including a stop-motion project and a full-length feature.

“Now that I’m out of school, I’m working on a lot of my own projects,” she says. Several of Devlin’s films are screening at the Contemporary Arts Center’s Cinema Reset through Dec. 2. — ALEX WOODWARD PAGE 24

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Katherine Erny Gaar, 39

Kathleen Gasparian, 39

FOUNDER, FRENCHMEN ART MARKET

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With its clusters of chairs illuminated by table lamps and holiday lights, the Frenchmen Art Market resembles an intimate courtyard party more than a retail hotspot. That’s exactly what Katherine Erny Gaar envisioned when she launched it in April.

“I make it very homey and inviting,” she says. “I have it lit and pretty so people act like bugs and just naturally come in.”

The market is open from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Thursday through Sunday.

By tapping into the vibrant Frenchmen Street nightlife, Gaar puts artists directly in the path of people looking to have fun and spend money.

“Most tourists now want to go to down to Frenchmen,” says Gaar, a former jewelry designer. “The entire area is growing that way. It’s not like other art markets where the artists have to decide, ‘Are the people going to be there or not?’ I’m bringing the artists to the people.”

Gaar also saw a need to bridge a gap between the established Royal Street art scene and the emerging arts district on St. Claude Avenue in order to provide a platform for new artists as well as to offer everyone a fun way to experience art.

“It’s just a lot of people hanging out, and the artists do really well,” Gaar says.

“Every day we redesign the layouts. People ask, ‘Why don’t you have premarked spots?’ But I don’t want this to be a normal market. I want it to be an art event.”

— MISSY WILKINSON

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Anyone who wants proof of the power of a mentor need look no further than Kevin Griffin.

A producer at WBOK Radio and founding member of 2-Cent Entertainment, Griffin is also the product of a horrific childhood spent in the youth prison at Tallulah. Behind bars from the ages of 10 to 15, “I grew up fast,” Griffin says. “I experienced a lot of stuff no kid should experience.”

Upon his release, Griffin was angry and bitter. Two mentors — teacher Troy Moore and Moore’s friend Sean Varnado — helped the teenager change his life. Now, through his media outlets, Griffin produces positive content by and for at-risk youth. That means giving them a voice: their 2 cents.

“They’re kids,” Griffin says. “They have feelings, and they know what people say about them. Don’t underestimate them, because they’re smart.”

Griffin credits reliable role models for the man he’s become. “Sean was there for me through thick and thin,” he says. “He made me want to be in the lives of young people and do something different and positive. He was in his 30s, making six figures, single, no kids. He could’ve been doing a hell of a lot different with his time and money.”

Now Griffin is trying to get more adults to step up. “When you see these young kids who are hurting, especially young black boys, please don’t sit on the sidelines,” he says. “Dealing with them is like doing heart surgery. It’s a sensitive process. You can’t hold them so tight you hurt them, but you can’t be too loose or they’ll get away.” — EILEEN LOH

IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY AND PARTNER, WARE|GASPARIAN A grandchild of Armenian refugees who immigrated to the U.S., Kathleen Gasparian had always believed in the American dream. In her 20s, she was working at Loyola University with international scholars who wanted to move here — and it occurred to her that she could help immigrants realize their dreams.

“I thought, ‘This is what I’ve got to do,’” she says. “I’ve got to help people get here.” A firm push from a colleague led Gasparian to enter law school.

Now a partner at Ware|Gasparian, she’s active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Association of International Educators. She spends most of her time, however, helping people pursue citizenship.

It’s not easy, due to the public’s increasing hostility toward undocumented residents. “A lot of times when people hear I’m an immigration attorney, they say, ‘I hope you’re the one kicking them out,’” she says. “But that is a great opportunity to educate them and break down the mythology.

“The myths of the undocumented are very harsh: They are all using our health care system and costing us money and committing crimes. That always frustrates me.”

The victories make it all worthwhile. Gasparian recalls certain asylum cases — a priest who faced harm upon return to his native Rwanda; Soviet nationals whose homosexuality made their country a hostile environment; immigrant women afraid to leave their abusive husbands — as reasons to keep going.

“I keep families together, and I help people find their future here in the U.S.,” she says. “I have the best job in the world.” — EILEEN LOH

Stephen Benjamin “Ben” Hales, 38 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS AND NEW ORLEANS HORNETS Ben Hales is a busy man.

In addition to life at home with wife Dr. Kendall Goodier Hales and daughters Madison, 9, and Caroline, 4, Ben Hales is in the midst of a most unusual New Orleans Saints season, his 13th with the NFL organization, as he prepares for his inaugural campaign with the NBA Hornets, acquired earlier in the year by his boss, Tom Benson.

Hales has performed duties for the Saints ranging from broadcasting to stadium operations to game entertainment to community affairs and youth programs. He played a vital role in inking the Superdome sponsorship deal with MercedesBenz. In an email, he characterized that deal as “a tremendous benefit to our city” in creating a partnership that now “hosts the many highly rated televised sporting events we host in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome that function as an advertisement for our city and region.”

Considering all the Saints’ successes in recent years, as a brand and as a team, Hales predicts similar results with the Hornets. That franchise has been one of the NBA’s worst teams in recent years, but it now holds great promise thanks to Tom Benson’s purchase of the team and the addition of budding stars Anthony Davis and Austin Rivers during this year’s draft.

“Our teams’ long-term success is directly tied to the growth and success of New Orleans and the Gulf South region,” Hales says. “It only makes sense for us to be invested in, and be an active participant, in that growth.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE PAGE 26

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Rox’E Homstad, 38

ATTORNEY, ADAMS AND REESE LLP

INSTRUCTOR, LIGHTHOUSE LOUISIANA

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When Marshall Hevron went to his first meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post in New Orleans in 2005, he was surprised to be the youngest person in the room. After meetings where the number of members continued to shrink, Hevron and a few others joined together to revive the post, making it relevant for younger veterans like themselves. Where once a group of eight was a good showing, Hevron’s recruitment efforts have brought together more than 100 veterans.

“For those who joined the military at a young age, went to war and saw combat and are now back home, it’s hard when no one in their peer group knows where they’re coming from,” he says. “ [The post] provides a space where everyone knows who you are and where you’re coming from.”

The New Orleans native spent six months in Iraq in 2003; he worked for U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu both in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans before attending Tulane Law School and joining the legal team at Adams and Reese. He says the VFW post not only provides a space for veterans to talk freely among themselves, but also offers services for returning vets such as job placement, job preparation and legal advice.

“One thing we realized after we recruited members was that there was a community of veterans in New Orleans and no one had done anything to link them together,” Hevron says.

“I hope to develop projects that impact not only the veteran population, but all of New Orleans. If anyone has the spirit to revive the city, it’s our veteran population.”

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Rox’E Homstad says the best way for someone to get her to do something is to tell her she can’t.

And because she’s deaf and blind, she says people are always telling her what she can and cannot do.

“One of my goals is to really educate people about what a person with a disability, or a deaf/ blind person can do,” Homstad says. “I feel like I’ve made quite a bit of progress since moving here, but we have a long way to go yet.”

Homstad has always been blind, but after returning to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, she suffered health complications from mold growth that left her profoundly deafened. She recalls how difficult it was to navigate the city after the hurricane and flooding. “I remember how afraid I was, how it was a struggle every day to just get out of bed and face the world,” she says. Instead she honed her skills in teaching blind and deaf individuals how to use assistive technology and to read Braille.

Raised in Idaho, Homstad was drawn to New Orleans after reading about the city in novels. She first became involved with the Lighthouse for the Blind New Orleans (now called Lighthouse Louisiana) in 2004, when she taught Braille at a summer camp for blind children, Homstad later designed a program to teach Braille to adults. She also helps clients use assistive technology, centered on telecommunication such as an iPhone paired with a Braille display.

“Historically, people who are deaf/blind have been very isolated and cut off from the rest of the world,” Homstad says. “I love helping people who are deaf/blind to access the wide array of information out there ... teaching people to use these devices and letting them drink in the world.” — MARGUERITE LUCAS

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Anna Hrybyk, 38

Sara Hudson, 29

DISASTER PLANNING PROGRAMS DIRECTOR, LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE

WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR, NEW ORLEANS OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

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To Anna Hrybyk, disaster planning isn’t limited to covering windows and sandbagging, and being a champion of the environment isn’t limited to picking up trash and recycling. Hrybyk believes one disaster begets another, and that was proved true by Murphy Oil’s million-gallon oil spill following Hurricane Katrina, Chalmette Refinery’s 11 million-gallon release of polluted water after Hurricane Gustav and Stolthaven Chemical Plant’s release of 191,000 gallons of chemicals in the wake of Hurricane Isaac.

“People will tell me, ‘Oh, I’m used to the smell because I live right next to the refinery,’ but I tell them that they’re not supposed to smell that,” Hrybyk says. “Part of the problem is that so many of us just think you’re supposed to smell bad smells all the time that no one thinks to report it.”

She is working to change that mindset and have companies be held responsible for polluting. “If it doesn’t get reported, no one gets penalized for it and that’s why reporting is so important,” Hrybyk says. “If you smell something like oil, rotten eggs, cabbage or any other weird smell, you should first report it to us at 504-484-3433 and then call the state police’s hazmat hotline at 877-925-6595.”

Through Louisiana Bucket Brigade, residents who live next door to industrial plants can use an EPA-approved bucket to take air samples and learn whether the air they breathe has high concentrations of known irritants and carcinogens including benzene, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. Results of such bucket samples, along with reports of pollution, are listed on the Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s iWitness Pollution map at www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org.

— MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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Sara Hudson’s one directive was to help prepare every New Orleanian for a hurricane. “We are the hurricane capital of the world, but there was no one place for people to get information before hurricanes happen and during and after,” she says.

When she began working for the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in 2011, she proposed, designed and advocated for the Ready. nola.gov website and @NOLAready Twitter handle to keep citizens informed about the storm, damage and government response.

Hudson proved her dedication during Hurricane Isaac, staying in City Hall and keeping residents updated through the website and Twitter, even when her contract with the city expired during the storm.

“There was no way I was going anywhere,” Hudson says. “When there’s a job to do, you do it.”

She partnered with local volunteers, Evacuteer and the Red Cross to mobilize hundreds of volunteers attending a Lutheran conference in June to hand out more than 50,000 hurricane preparedness brochures in one day.

When her friend Rafael Delgadillo was injured in a shooting last year, Hudson helped create Respond Against Fear And Violence and organized RAFApalazooza, an event that raised more than $17,000 to help with Delgadillo’s medical bills. Hudson also is a member of the Young Leadership Council and 504ward, and is a graduate of Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans.

“Everything I’ve accomplished, I’ve accomplished working with extraordinary people,” she says.

The NOLA Ready team has been invited to speak at a conference in California next year. When Hudson’s boss told the organizer that NOLA Ready, which sent about 2,000 tweets during Hurricane Isaac, was a one-woman operation, they were surprised.

“When you meet Sara Hudson you will see, she is a small army,” her boss replied.

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Mark LeBlanc, 27

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS COLLEGE OF LAW

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Before she even passed the bar, Johanna Kalb was a student member of the litigation team that successfully challenged the use of military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

“Now I’m lucky to live in a city that’s full of incredible social justice lawyers who are at the forefront of the movement to bring human rights home to the U.S.,” Kalb says. “Loyola has also been a great fit for me as a university that’s deeply engaged with the community, where commitment to social change is part of the

educational mission.”

The 2011 Loyola Professor of the Year and author of a forthcoming casebook on human rights advocacy, Kalb decided to concentrate on human rights law because she felt discouraged by the human condition: “Law school can be frustrating for students who care about the problems of poverty and inequality in the U.S.,” she says. “I became interested in human rights law while I was in school because it offered a way through the impasse, since federal and state law often doesn’t offer very satisfying solutions to these issues.”

Kalb is helping pilot a human rights clinic at the Loyola College of Law to assist law students who feel the same frustration she did — and as a vehicle to campaign for human rights.

“This kind of partnership epitomizes Loyola’s commitment to learning through service,” Kalb says. “Students can apply what they’re learning in the classroom to increase the impact of the work of social justice advocates in practice, creating an amazing synergy.”

— MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

Angela Massey, 18

Max Materne, 25

STUDENT, BOSTON UNIVERSITY

GENERAL MANAGER OF AFTER-SALES, THE TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION

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As an elite competitive sailor, Mark LeBlanc finds it interesting that he still trains with the same drills he learned growing up.

“They’re just a little more complicated, but it always comes down to the basics,” says LeBlanc, who competed in the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

LeBlanc, who was born without a left forearm, grew up on the water, learning sailing from his dad and grandfather. As a kid he loved team racing, and in his teen years he taught sailing to disadvantaged children.

Though it was late in the game, LeBlanc decided in 2007 to compete for a spot in the 2008 Paralympics in the 2.4-meter category. He considered it a precursor for the 2012 trials, but LeBlanc ended up coming so close to winning — losing on a tiebreaker — that he was crushed.

He shifted his focus to the 2012 games: raising funds, training hard and getting organized. His persistence paid off when he placed first in the trials for the games in London.

Though at a disadvantage as an American in a European-dominated sport (“In the U.S., sailing is seen more as a hobby, but over there, some of the sailors have salaries,” he says.) — LeBlanc competed well. He raced in 10 events, recording five top-5 finishes and placing sixth overall. “It was a three-week adrenaline rush,” he says.

LeBlanc has put sailing on the back burner for now as he searches for a job in civil engineering. “The guys in the boats ahead of me (in the London games) were in their 40s,” he says, “so I have plenty of time to go back.” — EILEEN LOH

Angela Massey’s galactic research was published in a scholarly journal before she had even received her diploma from Lusher High School.

A six-week research internship in science and engineering at Boston University (BU) in 2011, the summer before her senior year in high school, led to the paper “Refined Metallicity Indices for M Dwarfs Using the SLoWPoKES Catalog of Wide, Lowmass Binaries,” in which Massey was listed as a co-author. The paper was published in the March issue of The Astronomical Journal.

“I looked at binary pairs in our Milky Way which are stars close enough together that their gravity causes them to orbit around each other,” says Massey, who wrote computer code to sort through a large database and establish which stars really were pairs and which were just “perceived” pairs. “These stars make up 70 percent of the star population of our galaxy, so they hold a lot of information about the makings of our galaxy.”

Currently a freshman at BU, Massey is studying astronomy and physics and is again working with researcher Andrew West, her mentor last summer. “He made my first experience with astronomy amazing,” Massey says. She also is working alongside graduate and post-doctorate students in West’s lab and says one of the best things about college is seeing the research applied.

Massey had never studied astronomy before she applied for the BU internship, but stated she was “very interested and would work hard.”

She now plans to earn a doctorate in physics or astronomy and eventually become a professor. — MARTA JEWSON

Zachary Materne, 30 GENERAL MANAGER OF SALES, THE TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

The Materne brothers both began riding motorcycles in 2002, the same year their family became involved in the industry by opening a Vespa dealership along Bayou St. John. Younger by five years, Max was 15 at the time and used a provision in his state-issued motorcycle endorsement that allowed him to ride within a 1-mile distance of his home in the Gentilly subdivision of Lake Oaks.

“It was closed off, a pretty easy, safe place to ride,” Max says.

Today he enjoys pushing his Daytona 675 bike to speeds more than 155 mph while riding at The NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, a new attraction that promises to transform local interest in the Maternes’ passion and profession. NOLA Motorsports, with Zachary’s help, already has brought the first professionally sanctioned motorcycle race to Louisiana — the AMA pro racing finale, The Triumph Big Kahuna — fostering a huge surge in local exposure to a sport that’s as big as NASCAR in Europe but little-known in America. It’s also brought an expansion of the Maternes’ family-owned and operated business, The Transportation Revolution in the Central Business District, with the recent opening of their Speed Shop at NOLA Motorsports Park. “[The new park is] not only for the guys who want to do track days and spectator racing, but it’s given us a location for a business that really works out there,” Zachary says. “It’s not only a garage, but we have a 400-square-foot lounge with a bar, couches and a TV. We offer a valet service to keep and maintain your bike for you. Some marinas do this, as do some horse stables, but no one had yet been doing this here.”

He credits the success of their business — which was initially the venture of their parents, Gayle and Stephen — to Max’s stellar reputation for servicing bikes using the dynamometer technology novel to New Orleans — and both brothers’ passion for the sport.

“Really,” Zachary says, “we’re trying to engage you in the whole bike culture.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE PAGE 30

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Allen C. Miller, 39 ATTORNEY, PHELPS DUNBAR LLP PRESIDENT, NEW ORLEANS CHAPTER OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES

CHILDREN’S AUTHOR, FOUNDER OF W.R.I.T.E. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

As a native New Orleanian, Alexander McConduit wanted to see more books with characters to which children in the Crescent City could relate easily. While working his day job, the muse hit him: “I was working at Harrah’s for two years doing social media marketing when one day the words ‘The Little Who Dat’ just popped into my head, so I thought it would be a good idea for a book, and then I just wrote it,” McConduit says.

Following the success of his books, The Little Who Dat Who Didn’t and Snowballs for All, McConduit founded a children’s publishing program called Write, Read & Illustrate to Educate (W.R.I.T.E.), which he operated at SciTech Academy with 80 second-graders. Through W.R.I.T.E., McConduit helps children foster their creativity by teaching them the basics of writing, illustrating and publishing over a three-week period, and inviting guest presenters such as 2009 40 Under 40 honoree Brandan Odums and local children’s author Denise McConduit, Alexander’s aunt.

Alexander is still involved in freelance social media marketing, and he used fundraising site IndieGoGo to raise almost enough money to cover the cost of publishing all the students’ books using Amazon.com and CreateSpace.

He is eager to bring W.R.I.T.E. to another school and perhaps another grade.

He currently is working on his third book, Buddy Goes to the Bowl, a sequel to The Little Who Dat Who Didn’t and the second in a series Alexander plans to continue.

— MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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When he’s not winning court cases, Allen C. Miller is volunteering with the New Orleans Chapter of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, the Young Leadership Council (YLC), the Metropolitan Area Committee and Odyssey House Louisiana.

“CASA is an organization that deals with abused and neglected children, ensuring that those individuals who typically don’t have a voice, do have a voice,” Miller says. “I’ve been the president for the last three years.

Our job is to ensure that the child has an independent third-party [who] makes a recommendation to the court considering the child’s well-being and what’s in his best interest.”

Miller also is involved with several legal organizations and has been commended by the Children’s Defense Fund. Yet, he originally had no desire to become a lawyer: “I took a strange journey toward being a lawyer,” he say. “The reality was just that I was really good with the liberal arts in school. I was an English major who loved the English language, so I found that the best use of what I believed to be my strong points was to be a lawyer.

“I love being a litigator because it’s like theater to me. You get to wear many different hats, so solving your clients’ problems is always fun. And I do both sides, plaintiff and defense work, so I see a variety of things, and my life is never dull. I really enjoy being an advocate, whether for children or my clients.” — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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Nicolas Nevares, 31

Erin Reho Pelias, 32

EVENT EXPERIENCES DIRECTOR, SOLOMON GROUP

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Born on Christmas, event planner Nicolas Nevares was perhaps destined to grow up to create dazzling, delightful celebrations. In fact, he centers each event on one goal: to make guests happy.

“The first question I ask a client is, ‘What do you want your guests to remember?

What is the experience you want them to take away?’ Then we backtrack and build the event to create that feeling. We start with the big picture, then design the puzzle.”

Nevares started his career as a Loyola student, helming a fundraising gala for the Geoffrey Scholarship — the first endowed scholarship at a Jesuit university created for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. That event caught the eye of Tony Leggio at Blaine Kern Productions, who eventually hired Nevares.

Nevares later moved to BBC Destination Management and became a certified meeting professional. In 2009, the Association of Destination Management Executives named him “Rising Star of the Year.” Now at Solomon Group, Nevares serves as education chairman for the International Special Events Society. He’s known internationally as an industry expert on technology trends.

Despite all the accolades, it still boils down to the excitement of creating a thrilling event. Nevares recalls attending the Lazarus House fundraiser on Halloween in New Orleans, while still at Loyola.

“It was so over-the-top and such a great party; it made me realize that this is what I wanted to do,” says Nevares, who has organized the successful Lazarus Ball for the nonprofit. “It’s always had a special place in my heart.” — EILEEN LOH

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When Erin Reho Pelias couldn’t find cloth diapers or other natural products she wanted locally, she opened a store so other parents in New Orleans wouldn’t face the same issue.

“These are products that are hard to buy online if you’ve never seen them and you don’t know what size you need,” Pelias says.

She opened ZukaBaby, a natural parenting boutique, on Magazine Street three years ago. It offers cloth diapers, baby clothes, breastfeeding supplies, eco-friendly feeding items and more. The store also hosts natural parenting classes.

Pelias is a founding member of the Green Light District, a group of ecoconscious businesses in the Lower Garden District.

She became interested in a holistic view of the body when a chiropractor told her that diet was an important part of recovering from a back injury. She received training in nutrition and holistic diets, which influenced her parenting style.

“Having a baby swayed me over to natural parenting,” Pelias says. “I wanted to be able to bring my daughter to work.” She recently completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. “It has really helped me grow my business,” she says.

Pelias helps coordinate a community garden near her home as well as organizing ecology awareness events through the Green Light District.

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Josh Perry, 35

Jolene Pinder, 34

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JUVENILE REGIONAL SERVICES

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEW ORLEANS FILM SOCIETY

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“Our clients have been denied so much, and need so much,” Josh Perry says. “Our clients have not been educated well; they have been denied the mental health care they need; they don’t have the physical health care they need.

They do not have family support.”

Perry is a juvenile public defender and his clients are the at-risk, impoverished youth of the New Orleans area and, to an extent, all of Louisiana. Not only has Perry steered the youth division of the Orleans Public Defender’s Office into a holistic model — connecting clients with social, educational and health services they lack — but he travels around Louisiana teaching public defenders how to effectively represent juveniles.

“We fight for the dignity and rights of our clients,” he says, “and not just strong case outcomes, but strong life outcomes.” That involves providing clients with a rehabilitative “holistic model of defense” plus “zealous advocates and strong, passionate defenders,” Perry says.

“People presume I work for guilty kids trying to get them off, and they don’t know how many of our clients are factually innocent of what they’re accused of … but they also don’t realize that doesn’t matter,” he says.

“Our clients, when they come into the justice system, learn how people in power are prepared to treat them. If we show them they can’t trust us, we show them they can’t trust their government. If we show them their rights won’t be respected, we show them that nobody’s rights should be respected,” Perry says. “We’re part of the solution. We’re part of fixing this.” — EILEEN LOH

“Tired? Yeah, I guess I’m a little tired,” Jolene Pinder says with a laugh a few days after the close of the successful New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF). She is a huge part of why the local festival has grown so tremendously, with Pinder working hard to obtain sponsorships, expand the breadth of programming and increase the number and quality of submissions.

The Tallahassee, Fla., native landed her position as executive director of the New Orleans Film Society, the organization which has presented NOFF for the past 23 years, during the 2010 festival, which Pinder had been invited to participate in as a juror in the documentary division.

At the time, she was living in New York City, where she produced documentaries and orchestrated the city’s Media that Matters film festival.

Pinder, whose University of Florida Documentary Institute thesis evolved into the Emmy-winning Bismillah, a profile of a Muslim woman in Minneapolis leading a Girl Scout troop and running for mayor, wanted to return to the South, “but it had to be at the right time and the right job,” she says. Clearly, she found both.

“The film industry here wanted to be engaged in [NOFF],” she says. “They just needed someone to make the connection. It just makes sense to have a major film festival and also promote the work of local, independent filmmakers. We’re very pleased with this year’s results, but also really working to expand.”

— FRANK ETHERIDGE

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AUTHOR; TRANSPORTATION PLANNER, REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST, ADAMS AND REESE LLP

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Whether writing poetry or screenplays, painting from imagination or memory, planning transportation or communities, Nik Richard keeps one motivation in mind: his hometown, New Orleans. In 2008, Richard won an NAACP Award, AFI Silverdocs Award and a PBS P.O.V. Award for the short film about disaster tourism, New Orleans For Sale. Also in 2008, he wrote, illustrated and published Love and Water, a book of poetry about his feelings for and frustration with New Orleans.

“Man, that’s so old!” Richard says. “I’m writing another book, A Dream for Sale, which should be out soon, but separate from that and my work for the Regional Planning Commission, I’ve been working on urban planning.” Richard’s latest project is a study on the land use of the Milne Boys Home, including an architect’s blueprint of what the land could look like with recreational space, taking into consideration historical use.

Richard, appointed to the Alcohol Beverage Control Board by former City Council President Arnie Fielkow, will upload his study onto www.shopgentilly.com/reportsstudies so citizens can learn about development realities. “I’ve been trying to educate people on the history of [Milne Boys Home] because there are so many restrictions with what you can do with the property,” Richard says. “My plan focuses on bringing all those documents [to] one place, educating people on who’s in charge of it, what the purpose of it was and then doing land use studies.

“They’re printing stories in the paper, which get people excited but really aren’t about anything because all they’re saying is that they’re cutting the grass and fixing the windows.” — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

Tommy Santora likes to stay busy. Head of communications at Adams and Reese LLP, he also works as a freelance journalist, plays sports or exercises most nights and volunteers. That’s a full plate by most standards, but Santora faces an extra challenge: He has myasthenia gravis (MG), a rare muscular dystrophy disease that causes chronic fatigue, muscle weakness and a host of other intermittent symptoms.

Diagnosed at age 12, Santora underwent thymus removal surgery and manages the disease with medication, diet and exercise.

When he began experiencing double vision in 2011, he looked for a support group but found there wasn’t one in New Orleans.

“I called the national foundation in New York and they said ‘If you want to start one, we’re more than willing to have you go ahead,’” Santora says. He used his marketing background to publicize the new group. “Thirty people showed up at the first meeting,” he says. “The Muscular Dystrophy Association says there are about 60 people diagnosed in New Orleans.”

Encouraged by the feedback, Santora organized a fundraiser MG walk with a $25,000 goal. New Orleans was the first and only city to achieve its fundraising goal.

“I used every trick from my marketing and journalism background, and it all came together,” Santora says. “I’ve got to use my talents in the professional field to create interest for the support group and raise funds to research this disease, because there’s a long way to go.” — MISSY WILKINSON PAGE 35

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Shaun Walker, 28 Reid Stone, 29 CO-OWNERS, HERO|FARM PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

Reid Stone and Shaun Walker owe the success of their marketing strategy and design company, in part, to two disasters: Hurricane Katrina and the economic collapse of 2008.

Katrina gave them the impetus to return to New Orleans: “I wanted to be part of a defining generation that didn’t give up on a city and was here in its darkest hours,” Walker says. A series of layoffs at the large advertising agency where Stone and Walker met led them to strike out on their own. “After the first round of layoffs, we were thinking, ‘What would happen if we did our own thing?’” Stone says. “The axe fell, and we hit the ground running. Four years later, we’re still here.”

The business they created, HERO|farm, has doubled its revenue every year while racking up a series of accolades, including being named Business of the Year by the International Association of Business Communicators. Stone and Walker are members of Tulane University’s Public Board of Advisors, and they were among YFS Magazine’s Top 20 Young Entrepreneurs of 2011.

Their mission is a humble one: “With everything we do, we want to give back in some way or do something that benefits someone,” says Walker, a New Orleans native.

“Do great work for good people is our motto,” Stone says. “If we’re going to interrupt someone’s day with a message, we want it to benefit them somehow. That’s the filter we put on all our marketing.”

HERO|farm does at least one pro bono campaign per year for a nonprofit. Past pro bono clients include New Orleans Mission, March of Dimes, Green Light New Orleans and Boy Scouts of America. Stone says that’s one way he and Walker create opportunities to do meaningful work.

“When we started this company, we wanted it to be more than just advertising,” Stone says.

“Having made ads for people who were a flash in the pan — that’s not a legacy. But leaving messages that make somebody smile or fixing things in our community, that’s the guts of what we try to do.” — MISSY WILKINSON

Kelly Schulz, 38

DRILLING ENGINEER, CHEVRON NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION COMPANY CO-FOUNDER, VERIUS PROPERTY GROUP

VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS, NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

Michael Merideth, 26 CO-FOUNDER/VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, VERIUS PROPERTY GROUP PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

Montgomery, Ala., native Andre Lewis moved to New Orleans to accept a lucrative position with Chevron after graduating from Tuskegee University with a degree in mechanical engineering.

He settled in Kenner and while traveling around the metro area, he noticed a troubling amount of blighted property and sub-standard housing.

Lewis partnered with his longtime friend, Tuskegee Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity brother Michael Merideth and founded Verius Property Group to provide housing solutions for lowincome families. The company already has established 20 units and amassed $1 million in assets. It partners with the City of New Orleans’ affordable housing initiative and is active in the Jefferson and St. Bernard Parish markets.

“Seeing these units before and after, it’s amazing,” Lewis says.

Merideth also came to New Orleans to work for Chevron on offshore rigs. While at Tuskegee, he played short-stop and second-base before playing in the minor leagues, first for the Milwaukee Brewers, then in Arizona and New Jersey.

“Work brought me to New Orleans,” Merideth says. “From there, I transitioned in my entrepreneurial endeavor. I always wanted to be a business owner, and … I took a leap of faith and it has taken off from there.

“Our mission (at Verius) from the very beginning is to provide high-quality, financially affordable housing for people regardless of their physical condition or economic situation.”

The two friends now are working to expand the Verius model to Alabama and New York.

“What I’ve learned,” Merideth says, “is that you can be successful at anything that you have passion for.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE

When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Kelly Schulz was living and working in Texas. The storm and ensuing levee failures flooded the region and destroyed her family’s home in St. Bernard Parish.

“I’m from New Orleans and went to LSU, but I lived in Dallas for 10 years and loved my job as a publicist,” she says, “But then the offer came [to work as the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau’s vice president of communications and public relations]. People in Dallas thought I was crazy (to move to a devastated city). But it was such a great opportunity — an opportunity to come home and help rebuild the city by helping promote tourism.”

Saying the success of tourism is largely “based on perception and impression,” Schulz and her team have succeeded in countering misinformed perceptions like those she encountered in Dallas following Katrina, as well as those that surfaced after the BP oil disaster in April 2010.

“Even in 2007, when we had the Convention Center back open, the Superdome back open, we got calls asking, ‘Do your hotels have electricity?’ After the oil spill, we had to inform people it was 100 miles away.

“Basically, we’ve gone from 3 million visitors, and these were mosly FEMA workers and emergency contractors, in 2006 to 8.75 million in 2011, which is better than a typical year pre-Katrina,” Schulz says. “For the past six years, it’s been incredible to be a part of the tourism industry, which has been key to the city’s recovery.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE

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CAO, DURR HEAVY CONSTRUCTION PRESIDENT, GENTILLY LANDFILL FOUNDER, SAMSON LLC Dana Stumpf believes soccer is the sport of the next generation in New Orleans, a belief that led her to found Samson LLC, a program to facilitate soccer camps and community programs for local youth in 2008.

“Soccer is the world’s sport,” she says.

“It was so fascinating to me that it is popular everywhere else but the U.S. However, that is steadily changing.”

Shortly after founding Samson, Stumpf’s family’s business, Durr Heavy Construction, purchased the minor league soccer team, the New Orleans Jesters. Stumpf says she wanted the team to be “a uniquely New Orleans brand focused on the NOLA family regardless of their background, race or culture.”

In 2012, she gave the team to NOLA Soccer Academy (NSA), the nonprofit community/youth affiliate of the Jesters that works with organizations such as the Carrollton Boosters and Big Easy Sports. Stumpf stresses that the Jesters and NSA are focused on quality development and players’ overall experience rather than massproducing average players.

“We want kids and families to truly learn about the beautiful game and become fans for life,” Stumpf says. “We focus on development both on and off the field.”

Besides her passion for youth and soccer, Stumpf spends her time as the Chief Administrative Officer at Durr Heavy Construction, as well as president of Gentilly Landfill.

Stumpf says her passion for New Orleans has inspired her involvement in the city.

“I only have the right to expect certain things of my community if I am willing to contribute and work hard to get them,” she says. — MARGUERITE LUCAS

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Ashley Thomas founded Creative Vibe because she believes small businesses should be able to market themselves as well as large corporations do. The New Orleans native and Xavier University graduate’s idea for a company providing graphic design, T-shirt design and photography services won her an $18,000 start-up fund from the Allan Houston Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit that supports entrepreneurship.

“My mission is to provide affordable, accessible and quality graphic design services to all business owners,” says Thomas, a graphic designer and photographer.

Thomas is the outreach and communications specialist at Total Community Action (TCA), a nonprofit that provides a range of services to families in need; she also has performed design work for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Roots of Music. Through TCA, Thomas conducts a summer program to teach young people graphic design, which they can develop into marketable skills. Her work with the TCA prompted the National Community Action Agency to invite her to make a presentation at the group’s annual conference.

Creative Vibe has done design work for New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Roots of Music, and Thomas also finds time to maintain the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship’s website as a volunteer.

She plans to continue working in the community and hopes to become a wellrecognized name in New Orleans, all while helping business owners help themselves.

— MARTA JEWSON

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Whether she’s working undercover as a police officer, or running an engineering company responsible for some of New Orleans’ most critical public projects, Iam Tucker says she just wants to give back to the community.

Growing up in an engineering family, “I didn’t have dolls, I had IBMs,” says Tucker, whose father Robert founded Integrated Logistical Support Inc. (ILSI). Tucker went in her own direction at first, majoring in criminal justice at Louisiana State University and becoming a Baton Rouge police officer. Worried about police work putting his daughter in harm’s way, Tucker’s father lured her back into the business in 2008.

“It was so hard to leave being a police officer,” Tucker says, “but once I got back to New Orleans, I loved it.”

The skills she learned as a police officer — self-reliance, leadership and an ability to handle the unexpected — helped Tucker transition into her role heading up a minority woman-owned civil engineering company.

“Being a leader is the same in any field,” she says.

Under her leadership, ILSI landed contracts with the Army Corps of Engineers for levee fortification, the Sewerage and Water Board for street improvements, as well as other large projects important to area residents.

“It is a lot of pressure to get it right,” she says. “Working on the levees — I care about them so much. I trust in our work so much that I just bought a lot right there on Bellaire Drive (just steps from the 17th Street Canal). Our expertise is pretty damn good.”

— EILEEN LOH

COMMERCIAL UNDERWRITER, GULF COAST BANK AND TRUST New Orleans native Allen Villarubia’s short career path has already yielded huge benefits not only for himself, but also for his hometown and professional and personal passions.

As an undergraduate at the University of New Orleans, Villarubia was a triple major in finance, economics and business administration while also working full-time for the Louisiana Small Business Development Center (SBDC). During an 18-month period, his work with the center raised more than $10 million in capital for local businesses, earning Villarubia the 2010 Louisiana Startup

Superstar award.

“It was a lot of Main Street, places you and I go in,” Villarubia says of the enterprises he worked with at SBDC. “But they represent a wide variety of industries.”

He returned to UNO to earn his Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in finance. His responsibilities at SBDC primarily involved connecting entrepreneurs with loan officers at banks and the federal Small Business Administration program.

“I spent a lot of my focusing on loans, so I became [SBDC] office’s loan expert,” Villarubia says. “That’s what led me to my current position [as commercial underwriter for Gulf Coast Bank and Trust].”

Now, the Lower Garden District resident looks to parlay this professional experience to help boost his passion: volleyball, a sport without a facility in post-Katrina Orleans Parish. “We’re trying to raise the capital to secure a location and launch [NOLA Beach Volleyball],” Villarubia says. “It’s an exciting process.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE

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In compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, the Orleans Parish School Board will hold a Surplus property Auction on Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM at the offices of the OPSB, 3520 General De Gaulle Drive.

The properties to be auctioned include the following: New Orleans Free School - 3601 Camp Street • (25,006 SF 3 Story Building; .071 Acres) Pierre Capdeau School - 3821 Franklin Avenue • (42,925 SF Building; 1.86 Acres) Morris FX Jeff School - 800 N. Rendon • (26,348 SF Main Building, 3,306 SF Cafeteria 1.39 Acres) Algiers Bus Barn - 801 Patterson • (14,400 SF Building; 3.0975 Acres) Lake Forest Montessori Site - 8258 Lake Forest Blvd. • (218,305 SF; 5.0116 Acres) Seabrook Site - 2717 Athis • (7 lots: 25,440 SF) Timbers Buildings I & II - 3500 General DeGaulle • (172,000 SF Building- 8.75 Acres) To view each property and to get a complete description, visit www.latterblum.com and click on the “auction” link.

For additional information or questions concerning the properties, contact:

Paul Richard at 504-569-9329 or via e-mail - Prichard@latterblum.com Drew Morock at 504-569-9321 or via e-mail - jmorock@latterblum.com This auction will be conducted by Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing Co., Inc. For more information on the auction company, contact David E. Gilmore at 504-468-6800 ext.202 or via e-mail - david.gilmore@svn.com

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Jumbo shrimp get an artistic treatment at Redemption, which is housed in a former Lutheran church.

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replicas at Redemption, there are nods to these items on the menu.

“As a tribute to Mr. Ansel [Christian Ansel, original owner of Christian’s], I brought back the cold-smoked soft-shell crab, smoked with different woods, serving it with the green onion mayonnaise he had on a fish dish,” Picolo says. “I’ve taken two dishes that were synonymous with the past restaurant and brought it forward as an homage, but by no means am I trying to recreate Christian’s.” Picolo is honored to have been able to debut the crab dish with Ansel.

Construction is almost complete on Redemption’s patio, and a new wine tasting series to complement its corkage-fee free Thursdays is coming soon. There also are unlimited mimosa and Bloody Mary refills at Sunday brunch and 25-cent martinis at lunch.

“Our mission statement is about being more than just a restaurant,” Picolo says.

“We’re about being a part of Mid-City and a part of this community. It’s a really beautiful new dining experience for MidCity, and we’re very excited about it.”

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wners Tom and Maria Delaune describe Redemption’s (3835 Iberville St., 504-3093570; www.redemption-nola.com) fare as “New Orleans revival cuisine,” but executive chef and partner Greg Picolo says the food’s essence is better conveyed by a phrase he coined years ago: “upscale ya Mama ’n’ em.”

“I got tired of saying ‘contemporary Creole’ and this and that,” Picolo says.

“The dirty rice I’m doing is with duck liver and foie gras. We all grew up in New Orleans with dirty rice, but the difference is this inclusion of a $50-a-pound, high-end ingredient, not just because I wanted to put a high-end ingredient in it, but because the flavor becomes distinctly different and very synonymous with my style.”

During his 20 years at the nowdefunct The Bistro at Maison de Ville, Picolo familiarized diners with his culinary trademarks. To Picolo’s delight, several former patrons followed him to Redemption: “They know … how I think of food, how I layer flavor, how I put it together,” he says. “People I brought to this restaurant, that’s how they know me.”

Redemption has its own colorful history. The former Lutheran church housed a restaurant named Christian’s prior to Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures. The Delaunes opened Redemption in February 2011, and while Christian’s mourners won’t find dish

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I didn’t know what to expect before the lamb heart hit the table at Coquette (2800 Magazine St., 504-265-0421; www.coquette-nola.com). I didn’t think it would arrive in a valentine shape, but would it look like an organ? Would I need a steak knife? And, silly as it seems in retrospect, I also wondered if it would be bloody, and by that I don’t mean rare.

We know the heart is made of muscle, and so is a pork chop, a chicken wing and a hamburger. But the prospect of dining on an organ I’d not tasted before was intriguing. In an interview with Coquette chef Michael Stoltzfus the following day, I learned that’s why it’s on his menu.

“When you order a New York strip, it’s delicious but you know what you’re going to get. You order heart and you’re getting something a little more exciting and unexpected,” he says. “When we first got them in, I didn’t know how it would go over, but we went through that first supply in two hours. People are really curious about it.”

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an upscale lounge serves drinks and small plates

An urbane eatery puts drinks and light bites first.

SoBou’s exotic small plates include a foie gras burger with a foie gras float.

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By Ian McNulty

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he name SoBou is a portmanteau for “south of Bourbon,” and it is the latest venture from the Commander’s Palace branch of the Brennan family. But while the name is novel, SoBou itself isn’t blazing new ground so much as combining several dining trends in one very sleek package.

Small plates and upscale comfort food intertwine for a menu that’s usually whimsical, sometimes quizzical and never uses the word entree. Diners can fetch their own wine from selfserve dispensers and a clutch of tables are equipped with their own beer taps in the style of sports bars and man caves. Craft cocktails with specific pedigrees — and sometimes their own narratives — are a centerpiece of the concept and an essential part of any visit.

From the start, SoBou has been pitched as a “Creole saloon” and this is useful guidance for how to approach the place. The mood is retro-modern cool, with a design that’s more Vegas than Vieux Carre, the kitchen’s approach is playful and it all seems more apt as a stop for snacks and drinks during a spin through the Quarter than as a straight-ahead dining destination.

Chef Juan Carlos Gonzalez has steak and redfish on the menu, but these seem like hedges for those determined to assemble a normal meal. The main attractions, beyond drinks, are dishes that weigh in like shareable appetizers and eat like cocktail party nibbles. Shrimp are stretched across skewers and

stuck into a sticky, jelly-painted base of grilled pineapple. Airy cracklings come with pimento cheese dip, which also is good with the hand-cut fries. Boudin balls are straight forward and andouille and tasso meatballs are delicious but fall apart so readily they require a spoon. Then there are the “tuna cones” — waffle cone bundles of yellowfin tartare topped with micro-scoops of avocado ice cream. They’re tasty, but you’ll probably spend more time gawking at these two-bite wonders than eating them.

I struggled to find the advertised duck “debris” in the plain, doughy beignets. Not so with the star ingredient of the foie gras burger, however. This is a slim, palm-sized burger topped with a jiggly egg, shards of duck bacon, a pad of seared foie gras and a whip of foie gras mayonnaise. A tiny root beer float with foie gras ice cream rides shotgun, just to make sure every conceivable bell and whistle is represented. You don’t chew this burger so much as slurp at it, trying your best to keep up with its surfeit of succulence. Once you pick it up, there’s no setting it down, lest the fatty construction tumble apart.

If SoBou eschews conventional meal courses, it does make the case that dessert can be a bar snack too, which sets up SoBou as a unique after-dinner destination. The rum cake — buried under lavish layers of chocolate meringue and shaved hazelnut — is boozy enough to count as its own cocktail.

2011 Craggy Range Sauvignon Blanc MARTINBOROUGH, NEW ZEALAND $19-$20 RETAIL

Grapes for this delicious bottling were sourced from the winery’s Te Muna Road single vineyard property in the Wairarapa wine region’s Martinborough district on the southern tip of New Zealand’s north island. Only 1 percent of the country’s wines are produced in Martinborough.

An excellent expression of the varietal, this wine exhibits aromas of grapefruit, lime zest, green apple, stone fruit and lemon grass. On the palate, the wine offers guava, pear, mango, citrus, passionfruit herbal notes and a burst of minerality. Drink it with soft cheeses, nuts, raw oysters, artichokes, salads, fish, grilled scallops, poultry and fried mushrooms and vegetables. Buy it at: Swirl Wine Market and Rouses in Uptown.

Drink it at: Commander’s Palace, Le Petit Grocery, GW Fins, Antoine’s, Bourbon House, Cafe Amelie, Muriel’s Jackson Square, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Ruth’s Chris Steak House and Lola in Covington.

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interview Curiosity drew me in, and I was not disappointed. Naturally, it tasted like lamb, though a little chewier and grassier than lamb tenderloin. It also tasted lean, and it was a little smoky from the grill. It was sliced thin, leaving no suggestion of its original form — and it was not bloody or rare.

Heart is a common ingredient in many cuisines, though it’s a novelty here. Still, you may be seeing similar dishes more often around town as chefs find better access to exotic ingredients. Stoltzfus credits his meat supplier, Two Run Farm, a ranch in Vaughan, Miss. that produces pasture-raised cattle and sheep and has been doing a lot of business with New Orleans restaurants lately.

“They’re breaking down the whole animal and making all the parts accessible to us,” Stoltzfus says. “I wouldn’t want to buy a 20-pound box of hearts from a supplier, but when you can get a few of them and other things, you get to play around with them.”

Another kitchen exploring ingredients is Dante’s Kitchen (736 Dante St., 504861-3121; www.danteskitchen.com), which currently lists grilled beef heart on its dinner menu, serving it with red wine reduction and blue cheese vinaigrette.

— IAN MCNULTY

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elanie Long, 17, is a senior at De La Salle High School and an intern at Grow Dat Youth Farm (150 Zachary Taylor Drive, City Park; www.growdatyouthfarm.org), a nonprofit farm and youth development organization. The program hires high school students as team members and teaches them about farming, nutrition, teamwork and leadership. Grow Dat donates a portion of its harvest to hunger relief charities, and the rest is sold at farmers markets or brought home by Grow Dat students to share with their families and neighbors.

On Nov. 3, Grow Dat holds its first plant and produce sale (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and a fundraiser party (noon to 5 p.m.) with food trucks, music and harvest games (think sack races).

What did you think about farming when you first started here?

Long: I was miserable. It was horrible. It was dirty, and I had to clip my fingernails because of all the dirt getting under them. But after a while, I’d be out here early on those Saturday mornings seeing the sun rise and seeing the cypress trees glowing, and you remember that you have this sense of purpose, that you’re part of something bigger than yourself. It’s giving back to the community but in a different way than normal community service. What would any society be without food?

What have you learned here beyond food and farming?

L: I’ve become a lot more self-directed and learned how to push through something tough. At school, I had a really hard physics class, and I thought I’d have to go to summer school for the first time because of it. But I got up early to work on it, got extra help and I passed. I was used to getting up early and working through things anyway because of the farm. If it was a year earlier, I probably would have just slacked off.

What’s it like providing others with food you helped produce?

L: It’s gratifying to see it being used and being appreciated. I usually give (produce) to my grandma, and then I’ll go over to see her the next day and it’s all in this soup on the table and it turns out really good. That’s the fruit of your labors, literally. — IAN MCNULTY

Reservations are required.

— IAN MCNULTY

Boudin and Beer

Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali and Donald Link headline a collection of 50 chefs from around the nation and city at Boudin and Beer (www.boudinandbeer.com). Each chef provides his or her own take on the Cajun sausage, and the event features Abita beers, Buffalo Trace bourbons, specialty cocktails, wine and music by Drake White, Red Stick Ramblers and Feufollet.

All chefs make their own boudin for the event, whether it’s Cajun-style boudin or French boudin noir or some other version, and then present it in a dish. Among the visiting chefs are John Currence of City Grocery in Oxford, Miss., Mike Lata of Fig in Charleston, S.C., Dan Drohan of Otto in New York, Chris Hastings of Hot & Hot Fish Fish Club in Birmingham, Ala., Josh Laurano of Babbo in New York, Ed Lee of 610 Magnolia in Louisville, Ky., and Mitch and Steven Rosenthal of Town Hall in San Francisco. Local participants include Leah Chase of Dooky Chase, Susan Spicer of Bayona and Mondo, Tory McPhail

of Commander’s Palace, Scott Boswell of Stella! and Stanley, Frank Brigtsen of Brigtsen’s, Alon Shaya of Domenica and many others.

Rouses is providing stations with vegetables and side dishes. Rock star Sammy Hagar will present his Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum in a special cocktail.

Boudin and Beer is the hearty and rustic prelude to Lagasse’s Carnivale du Vin (www.carnivaleduvin.com), which is highlighted by a $1,000 per plate multicourse dinner and wine auction. Both events benefit the Emeril Lagasse Foundation, which has supported the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans and other outdoor classroom projects, St. Michael Special School, culinary programs at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and other programs. Since 2005, the foundation has raised $6 million for children’s education programs.

Boudin and Beer takes place Friday, Nov. 2, at the Foundry (333 St. Joseph St., 504-586-1309; www.thefoundryvenue.com). Tickets $85. Carnivale du Vin is Saturday, Nov. 3. Visit the websites or www.emerils.com for more information.

—WILL COVIELLO

Baru Bistro & Tapas 3700 Magazine St., (504) 895-2225 www.barutapas.com Colombian-style means fried oysters come with cilantro aioli and caramelized onions.

Dick and Jenny’s 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880 www.dickandjennys.com Fried oysters are served with white remoulade and slaw.

Grand Isle 575 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 520-8530 www.grandislerestaurant.com Garlicky aioli complements oysters that are smoked and fried.

Red Fish Grill 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200 www.redfishgrill.com “BBQ oysters” are fried oysters coated with Crystal hot sauce and topped with blue cheese.

Rue 127 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571 www.rue127.com Cornmeal fried oysters are served with green apple, jicama, chili sauce and cider vinegar.

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“A lot of people, including me, have griped about the recent inevitability of these small-plates menus, but if you look at it a certain way, we have entered the culinary equivalent of the album era in rock ’n’ roll, the point when the basic unit of consumption started to become not the course, but the meal. Meet the Beatles! had become The Dark Side of the Moon.”

— Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, from a recent review of a restaurant serving only a chef’s tasting menu and allowing no substitutions.

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Hang around restaurants in the hours between lunch and dinner and you’ll occasionally spot wine reps and their “magical black bags,” as chef Chris DeBarr calls them. These bags carry wine samples the salesmen want restaurant wine buyers to try, and in addition to a taste they sometimes come with a story about the winemaker, area of origin and such.

DeBarr says he’s always cherished those tasting visits and the exchange between restaurants and wine purveyors.

He’s launched a new series to recreate the experience for diners at Serendipity (3700 Orleans Ave., 504-407-0818; www.serendipitynola.com), the restaurant he opened in September.

“Drink Like a Pro Mondays” is a weekly wine seminar in which DeBarr and representatives from various wine importers or distributors discuss a particular region or theme. They guide guests through at least six wines, serving 2-ounce pours of each, and Serendipity’s kitchen provides small plates of food paired with the wine.

DeBarr says the idea is to give people “a backstage pass at how we wine professionals evaluate wine,” describing the format as a “show and tell” about the grapes and the winemakers. The seminars begin at 5:45 p.m. Monday and sessions are scheduled to last an hour. The first event lasted more than two hours, however, so results may vary.

Upcoming seminars showcase white wines to pair with heartier, cold-weather cooking on Nov. 5, and wine pairings for holiday meals on Nov. 12. The cost is $25, which includes wines and light food.

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aMeRICaN CAFE BEIGNET — 311 Bourbon St., 525-2611; 334B Royal St., 524-5530; www.cafebeignet.com — The Western omelet combines ham, bell peppers, red onion and white cheddar, and is served with grits and French bread.

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TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun St., 861-3615 — The Lotto burger is a 6-oz. patty served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and Frostop’s secret sauce and cheese is optional. There are waffle fries and house-made root beer. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ TREASURE ISLAND BUFFET — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations.

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DOWN THE HATCH — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sundried tomato pesto. Delivery available.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449 River Road, 834-4938; www. therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SHAMROCK BAR & GRILL — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 301-0938 — Shamrock serves an Angus rib-eye steak with a side item, burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, grilled chicken, spinach and artichoke dip and more.

No reservations. Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $

BaRBeCUe BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks St., 202-4741; www.bookoobbq.com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli.

The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ SAUCY’S — 4200 Magazine St., 301-2755; www.saucysnola. com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled chicken. The cochon blue is a sandwich of pulled pork, blue cheese and melted mozzerella on a bun. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $

BURGeRS BEACHCORNER BAR & GRILL — 4905 Canal St., 488-7357; www. beachcornerbarandgrill.com — Top a 10-oz. Beach burger with cheddar, blue, Swiss or pepper Jack cheese, sauteed mushrooms or house-made hickory sauce. Other options include a grilled chicken sandwich. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CaFe ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St., 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads

and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ BREADS ON OAK — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes.

No reservations. Breakfast Thu.-Sun., lunch Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFE FRERET — 7329 Freret St., 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ GOTT GOURMET CAFE — 3100 Magazine St., 373-6579; www. gottgourmetcafe.com — This cafe serves a variety of gourmet salads, sandwiches, wraps, Chicago-style hot dogs, burgers and more. The cochon de lait panini includes slow-braised pork, baked ham, pickles, Swiss, ancho-honey slaw, honey mustard and chili mayo. No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE — 5606 Canal Blvd., 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.

Breakfast is available all day on weekends. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK — City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474 — Located in the old Casino Building, the cafe serves gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream till early evening. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PRAVDA — 1113 Decatur St., 5811112; www.pravdaofnola.com — Pravda is known for its Soviet kitsch and selection of absinthes, and the kitchen offers pierogies, beef empanadas, curry shrimp salad and a petit steak served with truffle aioli. No reservations. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CHINeSe FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available.

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

PINKBERRY — 300 Canal St.; 5601 Magazine St., 899-4260; www. pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. There also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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CONteMPORaRY BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 5254455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce.

Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ OAK — 8118 Oak St., 302-1485; www. oaknola.com — This wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. The hanger steak bruschetta is topped with Point Reyes blue cheese and smoked red onion marmalade. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $$ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www. one-sl.com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended.

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CReOLe ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St. Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines. com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms.

Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ MELANGE — 2106 Chartres St., 3097335; www.melangenola.com — Dine on French-Creole cuisine in a restaurant and bar themed to resemble a lush 1920s speakeasy. Lapin au vin is a farm raised rabbit cooked served with demiglace, oven-roasted shallots, tomatoes, potatoes and pancetta. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sunday.

Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., 309-3570; www.redemption-nola.com page 47

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE CAFE — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DMAC’S BAR & GRILL — 542 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy., 304-5757; www.dmacsbarandgrill.com — Stop in for daily lunch specials or regular items such as gumbo, seafood-stuffed po-boys, burgers or salads. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009 Magazine St., 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

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— Chef Greg Piccolo’s menu includes dishes such as the crispy avocado cup filled with Louisiana crawfish remoulade.

Roasted duck breast is served with red onion and yam hash, andouille, sauteed spinach and grilled Kadota fig jus. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Toulouse Street Wharf, 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — The Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Bread pudding is topped with candied pecans and bourbon sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — Try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stoneground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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

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Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ RED GRAVY — 125 Camp St., 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — At lunch, try meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Open Sundays before New Orleans Saints home games. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted.

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MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — 437 Esplanade Ave., 252-4800; www.mojitosnola. com — Aruba scallops are seared and served with white chocolate chipotle sauce with jalapeno grits and seasonal vegetables. Warm walnut goat cheese is served with yuca chips. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-6666; www.schiroscafe.com — Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Reservations accepted.

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

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NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308 Magazine St., 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

KAKKOII JAPANESE BISTREAUX — 7537 Maple St., 570-6440; www.kakkoii-nola. com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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MARDI GRAS ZONE — 2706 Royal St., 947-8787; www. mardigraszone.com — The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 8967350; www.martinwine.com — The Sena salad features chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, toasted pecans and pepper jelly vinaigrette over field greens. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ QUARTER MASTER DELI — 1100 Bourbon St., 529-1416; www.quartermasterdeli.com — Slow-cooked pork ribs are coated in house barbecue sauce and served with two sides.

Slow-roasted beef is sliced thin, doused in gravy and served on 10-inch French loaves. No reservations. 24 hours daily.

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FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., 895-0900; www. flamingtorchnola.com — Coffeeand coriander-spiced rack of lamb is oven roasted and served with buerre rouge and chevre mashed potatoes. Reservations

TAJ MAHAL INDIAN CUISINE — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., 529-2154; www. cafegiovanni.com — Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tassomushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge.

Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ ITALIAN PIE — 3706 Prytania St., 266-2523; www.italianpie. com — Seared tuna comes over a spinach salad with Thai peanut dressing. Baked tilapia is topped with crabmeat and creamy bordelaise and served over angel hair pasta with glazed baby carrots. No reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, 436-8950; www.-moscasrestaurant.com — Popular dishes include shrimp

KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., 488-1881; www. mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave., 410-9997; www.japanesebistro. com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ORIGAMI — 5130 Freret St., 899-6532 — Nabeyaki udon is a soup brimming with thick noodles, chicken and vegetables. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily.

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Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ WASABI SUSHI — 900 Frenchmen St., 943-9433; 8550 Pontchartrain Blvd., 267-3263; www.wasabinola.com — The Assassin roll bundles tuna, snow crab and avocado in seaweed and tops it with barbecued eel, tuna, eel sauce and wasabi tobiko. No reservations. Frenchmen Street: Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Pontchartrain Boulevard: lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ YUKI IZAKAYA — 525 Frenchmen St., 943-1122; www.facebook.com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Reservations accepted.

Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY K-PAUL’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN — 416 Chartres St., 596-2530; www.chefpaul. com — At chef Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant, signature dishes include blackened Louisiana drum, Cajun jambalaya and the blackened stuffed pork chop.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MANNING’S — 519 Fulton St., 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

RESTAURANT R’EvOLUTION — 777 Bienville St., 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ TOMAS BISTRO — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes like semi-boneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewood-smoked bacon dirty popcorn rice, Swiss chard and Madeira sauce. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads.

No reservations. Lite dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ ZACHARY’S RESTAURANT — 902 Coffee St., Mandeville, (985) 626-7008 — Chef Zachary Watters prepares dishes like redfish Zachary, crabmeat au gratin and Gulf seafood specials.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

BABYLON CAFE — 7724 Maple St., 314-0010; www.babyloncafe.biz —Chicken shawarma salad is a salad topped with olives, feta and chicken breast cooked on a rotisserie. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PYRAMIDS CAFE — 3151 Calhoun St., 861-9602 — Diners will find authentic, healthy and fresh Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St., 522-1138 — Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickorysmoked pork and char-broiled steaks or pork chops. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE GREEN BURRITO NOLA — 3046 St. Claude Ave., 949-2889; www.facebook.com/ the-green-burrito-nola — The steak burrito features Cajunspiced beef slow-cooked with bell peppers, banana peppers, onion and squash and rolled in a flour, spinach, whole wheat or tomato-basil tortilla with basmati rice and beans. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Cash only. $ JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Magazine St., 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., 4869950; www.juansflyingburrito. com — Red chile chicken and goat cheese quesadilla features grilled Creole chicken breast, salsa fresca, chile-lime adobo sauce, and Jack, cheddar and goat cheeses pressed in a flour tortilla. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS’ BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 948-0077 — Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguese-style fish cakes made with dried, salted codfish, mashed potatoes, cilantro, lemon juice, green onions and egg and served with smoked paprika aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 586-0972; www.thebombayclub.com — The duck duet pairs confit leg with pepper-seared breast with black currant reduction. Reservations recommended.

Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ THE COLUMNS — 3811 St. Charles Ave., 899-9308; www. thecolumns.com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., 525-8899; www. gazebocafenola.com — The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ HOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www. hob.com/neworleans — The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ THE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur St., 527-5000; www. marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SIBERIA — 2227 St. Claude Ave., 265-8855; www. siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $. $

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTZ BAGELZ — 3138 Magzine St., 309-7557; www. artzbagelz.com — Artz bakes its bagels in house and options include onion, garlic, honey whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin, salt and others. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — 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.

Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ OLIvE BRANCH CAFE — 1995 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 348-2008; 5145 Gen. de Gaulle Drive, 393-1107; www.olivebranchcafe.com — Shrimp Carnival features smoked sausage, shrimp, onion and peppers in roasted garlic cream sauce over pasta. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA DON FORTUNATO’S PIZZERIA — 3517 20th St., Metairie, 302-2674 — The chicken portobello calzone is filled with grilled chicken breast, tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, portobello mushrooms and sun-dried tomato mayo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No page 51

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RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph, turtle soup and the Niman Ranch New York strip.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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Credit cards. $ NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Gourmet pizzas are topped with ingredients like pancetta, roasted eggplant, portobello mushrooms and prosciutto. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies or build your own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., 571-7561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. For dessert, try a chocolate chip cookie served with ice cream and chocolate sauce.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of poboys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $ MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original po-boys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARRAN’S PO-BOYS — 3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-3416; www.parranspoboy.com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and Creole-Italian entrees. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SLICE — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria. com — Slice is known for pizza

THE STORE — 814 Gravier St., 322-2446; www.thestoreneworleans.com — The Store serves sandwiches, salads and hot plates, and there is a taco bar where patrons can choose their own toppings. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

SEAFOOD GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-0955 — Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $$ GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention Center Blvd., 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant.com — The Isle sampler is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and carmelized onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and garlic. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ NEW ORLEANS HAMBURGER & SEAFOOD CO. — citywide; www.nohsc.com — Menus vary by location but generally include burgers, salads, po-boys, fried seafood and New Orleans favorites. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., 598-1200; www. redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted.

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STEAKHOUSE CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — 322 Magazine St., 522-7902; www.chophousenola. com — This traditional steakhouse serves USDA prime beef, and features seafood options and a la carte side items. Reservations recommended. Diner daily. Credit cards. $$$ CRESCENT CITY STEAKS — 1001 N. Broad St., 821-3271; www.crescentcitysteaks. com — Order USDA prime beef dry-aged and hand-cut in house.

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TAPAS/SPANISH MIMI’S IN THE MARIGNY — 2601 Royal St., 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Reservations accepted for large parties.

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tion convention, which includes peer professionals from Disney and Universal Studios. Most haunted houses don’t delve so deeply into satanic themes and imagery, Karpelman says, but the prop shop for House of Shock creates pieces for many haunted houses around the nation.

Those who don’t want to brave the dark thrills can still enjoy the festivities at House of Shock. To entertain people in line or just gathering outside, there are nightly concerts.

Tuesday features the Grunge Factory playing ’90s music, and Halloween is headlined by Jason and the Kruegers, a Halloween-inspired hardcore band from Alexandria. There’s also an Arachno-ride, a mechanical bull in the form of a spider. Those not brave enough to mount it can watch a monitor of the videocam on the spider’s head, which captures the expressions of the rider.

Karpelman is a fan of haunted houses and says that south Louisiana is fortunate to have three very good ones, listing The Mortuary and Baton Rouge’s 13th Gate as the other two.

The Mortuary (4800 Canal St., 483-2350; www.themortuary.net) occupies a former mortuary, uses more high- tech effects and is open year-round. It’s open Halloween night, and it holds its Flash Light Fear Fest Friday and Saturday (Nov. 2-3). The path through The Mortuary is kept dark except for a few small flashlights given to each group.

There also are events for those with more reverence for the spirits of the dead. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmusiem.org) explores Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when people honor and pray for deceased ancestors. Artist Cynthia Ramirez created a Day of

the Dead altar for “Uncle” Lionel A satanic minion Batiste on the museum’s first floor. welcomes visitors to the At 2 p.m. Saturday, Ramirez joins House of Shock. a panel discussion on the MexiPHOTO COURTESY OF can holiday, which also includes HOUSE OF SHOCK scholars from Tulane University’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and folklorist and musician Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, who is a member of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang.

Voodoo Authentica (612 Dumaine St., 522-2111; www.voodooshop.com) holds its annual Voodoofest (www.voodoofest.com) from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Wednesday. Visiting and local voodoo priests and priestesses discuss the religion, and there’s a healing ceremony. There’s also music and drumming.

Admission is free.

Halloween brings other celebrations as well. For those costuming in the French Quarter, the annual Halloween parade started by Jim Monaghan at Molly’s on the Market (1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net) is one way to start the evening. The procession includes the Kazoozie Floozies, Bearded Oysters, Muff-A-Lottas and Storyville Stompers. It departs at 6:30 p.m., circles around the French Quarter and stops at the Erin Rose bar for a costume contest.

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ursts of flame and bloody occult figures bellowing warnings of death and damnation loom from a castle precipice over the entrance to the House of Shock. Before people enter the maze of darkened corridors, dungeon rooms and unholy sights, the scene is intense. It’s what the founders like about heavy metal concerts.

“We’re performance-driven,” says founder Ross Karpelman. “We’ve all been in (metal) bands. We don’t do, ‘Put your hand in the brains’ and it’s a bowl of Jell-O.” The House of Shock (319 Butterworth St., Jefferson; www.houseofshock.com) marks its 20th anniversary this year. The spectacle of horror, gore and demonic characters is renowned in the subculture of haunted house fans and a local Halloween highlight.

But even when the original founders — Karpelman, Pantera’s Phil Anselmo and Jay Gracinette — created their first haunted house in Gracinette’s backyard in Metairie, they were hardcore.

“You would have thought the devil had moved into your backyard,” Karpelman says.

The House of Shock closes out its season with a final two-day blowout at its Jefferson complex, and it’s one of many Halloween night events for locals in search of fear or fun.

Originally, Karpelman and his partners were in metal bands and loved horror films like The Exorcist. They wanted to create an intensely horrifying experience. As they moved from one backyard to a bigger backyard to a building to a warehouse and ultimately their current location, their haunted house got bigger and more elaborate. A staff and a crew of 400 volunteers orchestrate the frights, and Karpelman performs as a gruesome satanic figure bearing pentagrams and scars. The fire displays are created by Steve Joseph, who handles pyrotechnics for rock concert tours. (The House of Shock team also handled pyrotechnic displays for the 2010 New Orleans Saints NFC championship game in the Superdome.)

The House of Shock is well known in the world of haunted houses, both for its intensity and its style.

“We’re the ‘outlaws’ of haunted houses,” Karpelman says. “I don’t use the term, but some call us the ‘black sheep’ of the community.”

The preference for occult themes sets it apart even in the industry of haunted attractions, but that hasn’t diminished its reputation. The House of Shock team earned the Board of Directors’ Award at TransWorld, the annual haunted attrac-

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TUeSDAY 30 AllWays Lounge — modern eldorados, square Dance, 9 Banks Street Bar — frogs gone fishin’, 10 Blue Nile — open ears music series five-year anniversary, 10 BMC — Carolyn broussard & the scotch Hounds, 5; eudora evans & Deep soul, 8; mojo Combo, 11 Bombay Club — monty banks, 6 Checkpoint Charlie — bones, Chinese Drywall band, 10 Chickie Wah Wah — tommy malone, 7 Circle Bar — Cheap girls, front bottoms, Donovan wolfington, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — tom Hook & wendell brunious, 9:30 House of Blues — streetlight manifesto, Chicharones, 8 House of Shock — grunge factory, 8 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — ed petersen’s tribute to stevie wonder, 8 The Maison — gregory agid, 6; magnitude, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — rebirth brass band, 10 Old Point Bar — Josh garrett & the bottom line, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Dum Dum girls, Devin, 9 Preservation Hall — preservation Hall-stars feat. shannon powell, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — black shades, 8:30 The Saint — Cold Cave, whom Do You work for?, shannen Doherty eyes, 8 Saturn Bar — lonely lonely Knights, bipolaroid, 10:30

Spotted Cat — andy J. forest, 4; meschiya lake & the little big Horns, 6; smoking time Jazz Club, 10 United Bakery — fight amp, Classhole, Christ puncher, edhochuli, itto, Caddywhompus, 7

WeDneSDAY 31 Banks Street Bar — major bacon & the nola goulies, 10 Blue Nile — soundman presents, 8; gravity a, 10 BMC — the business, 5; blues4sale, 8; Deja Vu brass band, 11 Bombay Club — monty banks, 6 Buffa’s Lounge — Chris peters, 7 Cafe Negril — sam Cammarata & Dominick grillo, 7:30; another Day in paradise, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — gold magnolias, 9 Chickie Wah Wah — meschiya lake & tom mcDermott, 7 Circle Bar — Jim o. & the no shows, 6; Jezabels, Yukon blonde, 10 The Cove at University of New Orleans — Joanne brackeen & Uno Jazz Combos, 7 d.b.a. — matt perrine trio, 7; walter “wolfman” washington & the roadmasters, 10 Green Room — eternal abscence, 9 House of Blues — Delta spirit, 9 House of Shock — Jason & the Kruegers, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — frogs gone fishin’ present the music of back to the future, ivory Vinyl sessions, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — Kermit ruffins DJ session, 6; brass-a-Holics, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Kipori woods, 5; irvin mayfield’s noJo Jam, 8

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THURSDAY 1 Armstrong Park — leroy Jones Quintet, 5; los Hombres Calientes feat. irvin mayfield & bill summers, 6:15 Banks Street Bar — bills, nick name & the Valmonts, 9 Bayou Beer Garden — walter “wolfman” washington, 8 Blue Nile — micah mcKee & little maker, 7 Buffa’s Lounge — aurora nealand, 8 Cafe Istanbul — michaela Harrison, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Kirk Joseph’s backyard groove, 10 Circle Bar — Diamond rings, gold fields, 10 d.b.a. — tuba skinny, 6; los po-boy-citos, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — todd Duke, 9:30 House of Blues (Parish) — rubblebucket, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — winter sounds, gashcat, 11 Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — glen David andrews, 8 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — roman skakun, 5; James rivers movement, 8 Maple Leaf Bar — the trio, 10 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — mariachi Jalisco, 6 Old Point Bar — forest & sweetwater, 9 One Eyed Jacks — King tuff, the intelligence, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — tim laughlin, eddie bayard & palm Court Jazz band, 7 Preservation Hall — tornado brass band feat. Darryl adams, 8 Republic New Orleans — big freedia, sissy nobby, DJ Jubilee, walt wiggity, magnolia rhome & lil man, 11 Rock ’N’ Bowl — rosie ledet, page 57

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There’s one problem with a high-concept Circle Bar album teaser — the resulting record has 1032 St. Charles Ave. to deliver. The electropop outfit Diamond Rings, aka gender-pretzeling Torontoan 588-2616 John O’Regan, hyped its second LP Free Dimensional (Astralwerks) with a lead-up befitting a Hollywood blockbuster’s sequel: cliffhanging 30-second instrumental clips of O’Regan, former singer/guitarist of the post-punk band D’Urbervilles, here solo, peroxide-coiffed and Krueger-nailed, skulking like a pre-apocalyptic Mad Maxine through windswept 70 mm widescreen desertscapes. As it was with prior fans who had no clue of O’Regan’s inner Robyn, lovers of Diamond Rings’ 2010 debut, Special Affections, had to be scratching their thunderdomes. What happened to the bedroom pop star hunched over keyboards and drum pads, flatlining back-flashing new wave and fair-skinned R&B miniatures with dramatically simple arrangements and a throat-catching, Adam’s apple-bobbing baritone? On Free Dimensional, he’s been replaced by a preening peacock with all his colors on display: androgynous android, dancehall diva, hi-fi tightrope walker and (lamentably) flow-choked rapper.

Aside from what-the-funk misstep “(I Know) What I’m Made Of” (he doesn’t always), it’s an impressive transformation, if not an altogether satisfying one. Sometimes the caterpillar outshines the butterfly. Gold Fields opens. Admission $8.

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BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES (NR) — the museum screens a 4-D film, bringing audiences into battle using archival footage and special effects. National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater BORN TO BE WILD 3-D (PG) — morgan freeman narrates the documentary about two animal preservationists: Daphne sheldrick, who created an elephant sanctuary in Kenya, and Dr. birute mary galdikas, who set up an orphanage for orangutans in borneo. Entergy IMAX CHASING MAVERICKS (PG) — gerard butler stars as surfer Jay moriarity in the biopic. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 CLOUD ATLAS (R) — the ambitious sci-fi epic based on the David mitchell novel follows connecting storylines from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Hol-

END OF WATCH (R) — after confiscating money and firearms from the members of a cartel, two officers are marked for death. AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20 FRANKENWEENIE (PG) — tim burton’s animated film follows a boy who uses a science experiment to bring his beloved dog back to life, but he experiences some unintended consequences.

AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 FUN SIZE (PG-13) — a teen’s plan to attend a Halloween party thrown by her crush is ruined when she loses her younger brother, who she was tasked with watching. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 14 HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) — Kevin James plays a biology teacher who becomes a mixed martial arts fighter to raise money for his failing high school’s music program.

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FILM LISTINGS REVIEW

Liquid Land THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (R) — In the martial arts film directed

by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, a blacksmith in feudal China must defend his village.

WRECK-IT RALPH (PG) — A forgotten video game character (voiced by John C. Reilly) goes on a journey across generations of arcade games to prove he can be a hero.

spEcIaL scREEnIngs BATTLE ROYALE (NR) — As a punishment for truancy, the Japanese government institutes an act where classes of students are captured and forced to kill each other.

The screening is part of the New Orleans Japanese Cinema Series. Admission $5 suggested donation.

7 p.m. Tuesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com CHARLIE IS MY DARLING (NR) — The film is a restored version of Peter Whitehead’s behind-the-

scenes documentary of the Rolling Stones while on a 1965 tour of Ireland.

Tickets $8 general admission, $7 students and seniors, $6 members.

7:30 p.m. Monday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc. net THE DARK CRYSTAL (PG) — In Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s dark fantasy, an elflike creature seeks a missing shard of a magical crystal to restore order to the world. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com LIQUID LAND (NR) — Michelle Ettlin’s film documents the 10-night artist residency hosted by Swiss musician Simon Berz and Dutch artist Kaspar Koenig at Zeitgeist, in which they built instruments from trash and invited local musicians to improvise with them. Tickets $8 general admission, $7 students

and seniors, $6 members.

9:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc. net MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (NR) — Sundance Best Director winner Ava DuVernay’s drama follows a woman who must learn to live a new life while her husband serves an eight-year prison sentence. Tickets $8 general admission, $7 students and seniors, $6 members.

7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Nov. 6-11, 9:30 p.m.

Monday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (R) — Tim Curry stars in the rock movie-musical that lends itself to audience participation. Midnight Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com

Swiss director Michelle Ettlin’s Liquid Land presents itself as a documentary about an art project: Dutch artist Kaspar Koenig and Swiss musician Simon Berz visited New Orleans in 2010, fashioned musical instruments from trash and random objects found on the streets, and invited local, experimentally minded musicians to play them in a 10-night series of free-form jam sessions at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center in Central City. All the chatter among participants about the “spirit of discovery” at the heart of improvised music rings true, but the Liquid Land nOV music that emanates from all those found objects falls 9:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun. short of greatness. Sparks only begin to fly when brilliant musicians like cellist Helen Gillet pull traditional instruTHRu Zeitgeist Multiments out of their cases and bring less spontaneous but Disciplinary Arts nOV far more expressive sounds into the mix.

Center, 1618 Oretha Not surprisingly, this hourlong film (which debuted Castle Haley Blvd., locally at the New Orleans Film Festival) quickly develops 352-1150; www.an agenda beyond experimental music. Liquid Land finds its purpose in the offhand musings of musicians reflecting on the zeitgeistinc.net transformation of their creative lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This is cinematic territory farmed by many but successfully harvested by few. It’s impossible to resist the sincerity and insight of local artists like Aurora Nealand, who tells the story of going to music school in Austin, Texas only to return home to New Orleans four weeks later needing to “make sound for people in my community.” It’s ironic that Liquid Land’s musicians bring life to the film mainly while on break from their primary activity. But if there’s one thing the people of New Orleans do even better than making music, it’s talking a good game. — KEN KORMAN

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FILM LISTINGS REVIEW SHADOW OF A DOUBT (NR) — Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film noir stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten and Macdonald Carey.

10 a.m. Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (NR) — Gene Kelly’s 1952 moviemusical follows a silent film production company as they make a difficult transition to talkies. 10 a.m. Sunday and Nov. 7, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com WAKE IN FRIGHT (R) — Ted Kotcheff’s disturbing 1971 film, which is credited with starting a boom in Australian cinema, has been restored and re-released.

Tickets $8 general admission, $7 students and seniors, $6 members. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net

FILM FESTIVALS PONTCHARTRAIN FILM FESTIVAL — The festival features screenings of narrative, documentary, short and animat-

ed films, as well as a filmmaker forum and student filmmaker showcase. Films include Belizaire the Cajun, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Visit www.pontchartrainfilmfestival. com for details. Admission $5 per film, $10 for a festival pass.

Friday-Sunday, Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org

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Middle of Nowhere

Winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and the recent recipient of a glowing recommendation from Oprah Winfrey via Twitter, Middle of Nowhere is a completely character-driven drama that asks a question found far more frequently in life than in the movies: What do you do when your spouse unexpectedly goes to prison? That question arrives disproportionately at the door of African-Americans in this country, a fact not lost on filmmaker Ava DuVernay (the first African-American woman to win the Sundance director award). Against the odds, NOV DuVernay chooses to soft peddle her story’s sociopolitical underpinnings, instead focusing on small moments of genuine emotion easily THRu recognized from real life.

NOV Middle of Nowhere’s deliberate pacing will put off many viewers, and others will barely sample the film’s decidedly female perspective before crying “Chick flick!” But in its finest moments, the movie captures something of the way in which real people gradually move toward meaningful change. It tells its tale through everyday characters seldom found on the big screen — even in low-budget independent movies like this.

Sometimes modesty really does seem a virtue. — KEN KORMAN

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ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Paintings by Lynn Wessell, jewelry by Chester Allen, found object lighting and furniture by Abe Geasland and works by Kathy Schorr, through November. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

BIG BUNNY FINE ART. 332 Exchange Alley, 309-2444; www.lineartgallery.com — “Old Enough For Ghosts,” works by Greg Gieguez, Steve Lohman, Sarah Nelson and Hanneke Relyea, ongoing. Opening reception 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “People and Places/New Orleans,” pastels

by Sandra Burshell, through Nov. 28. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “Broken Star,” oil paintings

by Aaron Collier; “The New World,” pastels and oil paintings by Thuan Vu; both through Nov. 24. Opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — Works

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M. FRANCIS GALLERY. 604 S. Julia St., 875-4888; www.mfrancisgallery.com — “Rejuvenate, Reanimate, Recycle,” works by Jerome Ford, through November.

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

MID-CITY STUDIOS. 4436 Toulouse St.; www.midcitystudios.org — Open house and art sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS & PRINTMAKING STUDIO. 727 Magazine St., 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — “Scorpio,” glass sculpture by James Mongrain and Jason Christian, through November. Opening Saturday.

OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 3094249; www.octaviaartgallery. com — “Endangered,” works

by David Kidd, Nall, Jeffrey Pitt, Betsy Stewart and Joe Zammit-Lucia, through Nov. 24. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.

TEN GALLERY IN THE SALON STUDIO. 4432 Magazine St., 333-1414 — “Falling Down,” works by Jeff Rinehart, through Dec. 1.

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

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GALERIE ROYALE. 3648 Magazine St., 894-1588; www.galerieroyale.net — “Before Day,” oil on canvas

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A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www. agallery.com — “Moonshine & Stratum Lucidum,” photographs by Louviere + Vanessa; “Salt and Time,” photographs

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ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Works by William Rainey, Ginger Kelly, Shea Yetta and Erin Gafill, through Wednesday.

ART HOUSE ON THE LEVEE. 4725 Dauphine St., 2478894 — “Hanging P-Aintings” and “No More Sycamore” by Robert Tannen. By appointment only through Nov. 13.

BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 5252767; www.barristersgallery. com — “Spirit Realm,” a group show curated by Pat Jolly; mixed media by Keith Duncan, through Saturday.

BENEITO’S ART. 3618 Magazine St., 891-9170; www. bernardbeneito.com — Oil paintings, prints, postcards and license plates by Bernard Beneito, ongoing.

BERTA’S AND MINA’S ANTIQUITIES GALLERY. 4138 Magazine St., 895-6201 — “New Orleans Loves to Second Line All the Time,” works

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BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422 A St. Claude Ave., www. byrdiesgallery.com — “A New Hankering,” works by w.a.s.h., through Nov. 6.

BYWATER ART LOFTS II. 3726 Dauphine St., 945-1881; www.bywaterartlofts.com — A group show featuring Bywater Art Lofts residents. By appointment only, through Saturday.

CALLAN CONTEMPORARY. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Rouville,” works by George Dunbar, through Nov. 23.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Autumn Meditations,” clay sculpture by Tinka Jordy, through Tuesday.

COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “At Play Amongst the Pines,” paintings

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COURTYARD GALLERY. 1129 Decatur St., 330-0134; www.woodartandmarketing.com — Hand-carved works in wood

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ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 5221999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “Against the Tide,” paintings and mixed media by Jacqueline Bishop; “Send it On Down,” photographs by Deborah Luster; both through Dec. 22. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

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THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www. gardendistrictgallery.com — “The Times-Picayune: An Iconic Presence in Our Daily Lives,” work from 14 artists, including former or current members of the newspaper’s art staff, through Sunday.

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ISAAC DELGADO FINE ARTS GALLERY. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, third floor, 615 City Park Ave., 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/departments/artgallery — Faculty art exhibition, through thursday.

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JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 5225471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Body Shop,” multimedia paintings by Maximilian toth; “Blessing in Da’ Skies,” paintings by Justin Forbes; all through Wednesday.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “Children’s Garden,” paintings by Alan Gerson, through Nov. 10.

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MAY GALLERY AND RESIDENCY. 2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105; www.themayspace.com — “tantric Wealth,” multimedia installation by Derek Larson. Open by appointment only, through Nov. 23.

STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 5689050; www.stellajonesgallery. com — “Justified: Silent Harmony,” works by Moe Brooker, Mr. Imagination and Bill Sirmon, through November.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “the Louisiana Plantation Photos of Robert tebbs,” 60 gelatin silver prints by the architecture photographer, through November. “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond”; “It’s Carnival time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

NEVER RECORDS POP-UP. 841 Carondelet St.; www. secretshape.com/neverrecords — Never Records, an installation/pop-up record store by ted Riederer, through Sunday.

NEW ORLEANS PHOTO ALLIANCE. 1111 St. Mary St., 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.blogspot. com — “And the Winners Are ...” an exhibit of New Orleans Photo Alliance grant recipients, through Nov. 17.

NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity,” multimedia works depicting experiences of multicultural populations, through Dec. 16.

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UNO-ST. CLAUDE GALLERY. 2429 St. Claude Ave. — “Iconic Choice,” works by Ina Hsu and Wolfgang Wirth, through Saturday.

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CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 5283800; www.cacno.org — “time travelling tales,” a group show of mixed media, through Nov. 25. “Cinema Reset: New Media Works,” a film exhibit curated

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HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Something Old, Something New: Collecting in the 21st Century,” an exhibition of the collection’s significant acquisitions since 2000, through Feb. 8.

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NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www.noaam.com — “Bambara: From Africa to New Orleans, From the Gambia River to the Mississippi,” through Dec. 29.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — “Mass Produced: technology in 19th-Century English Design,” through Nov. 11. “Photography, Sequence and time,” photographs from the 19th century to the present, through Dec. 2. “19th Century Louisiana Landscapes,” paintings by Richard Clague, Marshall Smith Jr. and William Buck, through Jan. 6. “Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights,” through Feb. 10. “Make Yourself at Home,” paintings by Jim Richard, through Feb. 24.

“Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through Oct. 7, 2013.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — Jewelry by Lauren Eckstein Schonekas of Construct Jewelry, ongoing.

SOUTHEASTERN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., 865-5699; seaa. tulane.edu — “Following Wright,” an exhibit highlighting Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence with drawings by architects Edward Sporl, Albert C. Ledner, Philip Roach Jr. and Leonard Reese Spangenberg, through Dec. 7.

SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — “the Da Vino Code,” paintings by LeonARto da VINO (Chuck Gray), through Dec. 30. “Lena Richard: Pioneer in Food tV,” an exhibit curated by Ashley Young; “then and Now: the Story of Coffee”; both ongoing.

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ThEaTER THE ART OF UNBEARABLE SENSATIONS. Michael’s on the Park, 834 N. Rampart St., 2673615; www.michaelsonthepark. com — Four humours theater presents Shawn Reddy’s play, which consists of monologues delivered by members of P.t. barnum’s traveling sideshow. tickets $10 in advance and students and seniors, $12 at the door. thursday is “pay what you can” night. Call 948-4167 or visit www.unbearablesensations.brownpapertickets.com for reservations. 7:30 p.m. thursday, then Friday-Saturday through nov. 17. 7:30 p.m. monday and 3 p.m. nov. 11 and 18.

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. Mid-City Theater, 3540 Toulouse St., 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — a.J. allegra directs the rollicking musical that traces the founding of the democratic party and repaints andrew Jackson as a rock star. tickets $35 general admission, $40 reserved seating. 8 p.m. thursday-Saturday.

BOEING BOEING. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, 4619475 ; www.rivertowntheaters. com — Ricky Graham directs the comedy about a lothario whose three airline hostess fiances end up in the same place at once due to unexpected schedule changes. tickets $35 general admission, $33 seniors, $30 student/military. Friday-Sunday through nov. 18.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St.,

JUMP, JIVE & WAIL: THE MUSIC OF LOUIS PRIMA. Stage Door Canteen, National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — the show brings to life Prima classics with local musicians and swing dancers.

8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday through nov. 24. no shows nov. 11 and nov. 17.

LES MISERABLES. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — the 25th anniversary production re-imagines the staging and scenery of the Claude-michel Schonberg and alain boublil musical based on Victor hugo’s novel. tickets $56.95-$140.10 (includes fees). 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

SLUT (R)EVOLUTION. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 298-8676; www. theshadowboxtheatre.com — boston-based playwright, performer and sex activist Cameryn moore shares stories from her sexual life. tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

SMUDGE. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — in Rachel axler’s dark comedy, a young couple’s family life is tested when their firstborn turns out to be a terrifying creature. tickets $15. 7:30 p.m. Wednesdaymonday and nov. 6-7.

BURLESQUE & CaBaRET BURLESQUE BALLROOM. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300

Bourbon St., 553-2270; www. sonesta.com — trixie minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of leon “Kid Chocolate” brown. Call 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

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COmEDy ALLSTAR COMEDY REVUE. House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St. — leon blanda hosts the stand-up comedy show with special guests and a band.

Free admission. 8 p.m. thursday.

BROWN IMPROV COMEDY. Rendon Inn, 4501 Eve St., 8265605 — the local improv troupe

performs its long-running show.

Visit www.brownimprovcomedy. com for details. tickets $10 general admission, $7 students.

9:30 p.m. Saturday.

COMEDY BEAST. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., 5229653; www.thehowlinwolf.com — the new movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. tickets $5. 8:30 p.m. tuesday.

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BELL BOOK AND CANDLE. Playmakers Theater, 19106 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 8931671; www.playmakersinc. com — in John Van druten’s play that served as inspiration for Bewitched, a witch casts a spell on her neighbor to prevent him from marrying her college enemy, only to fall in love with him herself. tickets $15 general admission, $10 students. 8 p.m.

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528-3800; www.cacno.org — Skin horse theater, known for its out-of-the-box productions often staged in nontraditional venues, presents a production of the oscar Wilde comedy.

Visit www.skinhorsetheater.org for reservations. tickets $20 general admission, $15 CaC members, two tickets for $20 on thursdays. 8 p.m. thursdaySunday through nov. 11 and Sunday nov. 18.

The Lily’s Revenge started with a joke about its five-hour duration. time, or Stepmother time (emilie Whelan), with her head peering out of the window of a birdcage that made her look like a giant cuckoo clock, said in a deep and emphatically slow voice, “this is a long play.” but five hours later when the climactic scene burst into an orgy of chaos, characters on stage openly joked about ways to draw out the ending, and i was game for just about anything they wanted to try. new york playwright taylor mac’s opus is explicitly gratuitous, in spirit as well as size, with more than 40 actors, raunchy humor, some nudity, a live band, a team of directors, different seating arrangements and stages for each of the five acts and interactive intermissions. it’s an incredible challenge to make such a busy and flamboyant scheme work, and the collaboration of directors — spearheaded by Southern Rep and including andrew Vaught, Pamela davis-noland, Jeffrey Gunshol, nick Slie and aimee hayes — took an inspired approach that made Lily wonderfully dramatic, funny and poignant. the den of muses with its mardi Gras floats and props was a perfect setting for the event. the play invokes, toys with and defies conventions, especially those relating to theater and weddings. in the opening scene, a potted plant, lily (evan Spigelman) sits in a front row seat. he wants to see a play, and he quickly hops on stage and becomes part of it. the master of the theater, the Great longing (todd d’amour), who appears as a talking red velvet curtain, discourages him and commands other players not to look at or talk to the audience. the Great longing’s mother is time, and they have a philosophical difference about what theater should be. She prefers to live in the moment, embrace what is real and celebrate ephemeral things — such as a flower. the Great longing revels in luring audiences with conventional stories, falling back on traditional roles and appealing to sentimentality, especially via a play that ends with a wedding. a bride appears first as a puppet and then in the flesh, and lily professes his love for her. bride deity (Pandora Gastelum) has great hopes for her “perfect day,” but her expectations of fulfillment rest on ritual and delusion, or narrative, or contrivance, like a play with a happy ending. lily bids to marry her, and she likes that he is more passionate than her groom (ian hoch), but lily is a flower. bride deity says if he can become a man in four hours, then she will marry him. the lily’s quest to become a man takes him to act 2’s Garden of earthly delights, where he meets other fauna who have their own vision of the life of a flower and the contrivances of weddings, especially the bouquet. the flowers send lily on a journey that will suit his attempt at transformation and also help liberate them. the first and final acts were very strong, and also the most theatrically conventional. the Garden incorporated dance and poetry, and the surreal third act delved into the dreams and nightmares of the betrothed. those visions created an alter ego bride and groom who became part of the wedding. it also relied heavily on dance and featured one of the most visually stunning scenes as the Great longing was stripped (literally) of his power before regaining it and reviving the promise of wedded bliss. act 4 featured a song from incurable disease (thugsy da Clown), who also would be a guest at the wedding, and a mostly silent movie account of the lily’s journey. the climactic nuptial scene included most of the ensemble, and its wildly indulgent resolution was an effort to both subvert and restore marriage as an institution. there is no reception, but mac’s play tries to have its wedding cake and eat it too. throughout the work, there were many fine performances and contributions, including the live band, costumes and many of the sets. among the notable performers were Spigelman (lily), Whelan (Stepmother time), d’amour (the incredible longing), Gastelum (bride deity), hoch (Groom deity) and Sherri marina (master Sunflower).

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COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 944-0099; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission.

9 p.m. Tuesday.

COMEDY FUSION REVIVAL TOUR. Irish House, 1432 Saint Charles Ave., 595-6755; www. theirishhouseneworleans.com — Bill Dykes, Adel Alizadeh and J.D. Sledge perform. Tickets $10.

9 p.m. Friday.

COMEDY GUMBEAUX. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf. com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open-mic portion. 8 p.m. Thursday.

COMEDY SPORTZ. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

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FEAR & LOATHING WITH GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — The double bill includes Fear and Loathing, the sketch comedy show, and God’s Been Drinking, the improv comedy troupe. Tickets $10, $5 with drink purchase.

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THE FRANCHISE. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — The weekly showcase rotates TNM house improv troupes, including Claws with Fangs, Stupid Time Machine, Super Computer, Chris and Tami and The Language. Tickets $5. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

GIVE ‘EM THE LIGHT OPENMIC COMEDY SHOW. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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Tickets $7. 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

LAUGH & SIP. Therapy Wine Lounge, 3001 Tulane Ave., 7840054; www.therapynola.com — PissYoPants Comedy presents the weekly event featuring Louisiana comedians and live music.

Visit www.pissyopants.com for details. Tickets $7.

8 p.m. Thursday.

MACHINE A. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www. newmovementtheater.com — The improv duo consisting of Chris Kaminstein and Cecile Monteyne performs. Tickets $5.

9 p.m. Saturday.

THE MEGAPHONE SHOW. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — Each show features a guest sharing favorite true stories, the details of which are turned into improv comedy.

Tickets $5. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

SATURDAY NIGHT LAUGH TRACK. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 2317011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a stand-up comedy showcase. Tickets $5.

11 p.m. Saturday.

THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? COMEDY SHOWCASE. Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up is 8:30 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

TNM STUDENT UNION. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater. com — The show features up-andcoming performers, new student troupes and improv class recitals.

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Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson

Old Hickory was one of Andrew Jackson’s nicknames, but in Harms Way Theatre company’s Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, currently at Mid-City Theatre, he seems more like Old Blow His Stack. The musical (book by Alex Timbers, music by Michael Friedman) follows a nonlinear storyline. Kevin Griffith’s intriguing junk store set captures the mood. We are everywhere and nowhere, both in time and place, an ambiguity emphasized by Katie Gelfand’s costumes.

The story covers some of the tempestuous seventh U.S. president’s biography.

Jackson (Lucas Harms) grew up in frontier Tennessee, and his parents died of cholera while he was a child.

Jackson espouses frontier resentment of the federal government, and at one point he says Bloody Bloody NOV. he hates “the Spanish, the British, the Washington aristocrats and the Andrew Jackson Indians.” That’s a lot of hate and Jackson seems to be bursting at the seams. Speaking of seams, there is much admiration for Jackson’s THRU 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat. tight jeans. He packs a pistol and hunting knife, but as macho as that Mid-City Theatre is, there are many little bits of camp humor.

3540 Toulouse St. New Orleans honors Jackson for repelling a British invasion in 1815 with a small contingent of soldiers, pirates and free men of color.

(504) 488-1460 Also, ironically, a band of Choctaw Indians joined Jackson. As president, www.midcitytheatre.com however, Jackson ruthlessly forced Native Americans from their lands in the east to reservations west of the Mississippi River in a deadly exodus known as the Trail of Tears.

The play deals with all these themes in swirling segues of song and dance. It’s sort of Bertolt Brecht with heavy metal and disco instead of Kurt Weill. There’s an excellent four-piece band on stage, under the musical direction of Natalie True.

A.J. Allegra directs the talented and energetic cast of 14. Anachronisms abound with calls for pizza, and when Jackson and his wife Rachel (Leslie Limberg) cut and scar each other, they sing a paean to Susan Sontag. Vulgar slang is tossed around with gusto, as when Jackson says, “I’m your F-in’ president and we’re into some shit.”

Well, Old Hickory achieved many of his goals. Populism is what Jackson called his appeals to “the people,” and there has been no turning back. “The Great American People” are now to be continually flattered and groveled to by everyone running for office.

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HALLOWEEN EVENTS BERNIE BAXTER’S HAUNTED HOUSE. Bernie Baxter’s Traveling Sideshow, 44 Vivian Ct.; www.berniebaxter. com — The haunted house this year has the theme “Peter’s Puppets,” centering around a mad puppeteer and his diabolical performance.

There also is trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Free admission. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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BOO AT THE VIEW. Clearview Shopping Center, 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 482-1890 — The mall hosts a night of free entertainment, games, prizes, including mall-wide trick-or-treating and costume contests for kids and pets. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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HOUSE OF SHOCK. House of Shock, 319 Butterworth St., Jefferson; www.houseofshock. com — Besides a haunted house, Phil Anselmo’s legendary attraction also features an outdoor moss maze, live music from local and national acts, a bar, food and a multimedia stage with live actors, stunts and pyrotechnics. Visit www. houseofshock.com for details.

Haunted house admission is $25, VIP tickets $40 online, $50 at the gate. 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

JIM MONAGHAN’S HALLOWEEN PARADE. Molly’s at the Market, 1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net — Costumed riders in horse-drawn carriages parade through the French Quarter along with marching organizations and bands including Storyville Stompers, Kazoozie Floozies, Bearded Oysters and Muffulettas. The parade starts at Molly’s and ends at Erin Rose (811 Conti St.). 6 p.m. Wednesday.

JUST TREATS, BABY. Dijon, 1379 Annunciation St, 5224712; www.dijonnola.com — The restaurant’s Halloween bash includes festive food and drink offerings and a costume contest. Admission $35 in advance, $40 at the door (in-

cludes food or drink). 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

THE MORTUARY. Haunted Mortuary, 4800 Canal St., (877) 669-3327; www. hauntedmortuary.com — The haunted house located in the former P.J. McMahon funeral home this year has a “Cirque du Fear” theme. Visit www. themortuary.net for details. Admission starts at $25. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

PUMPKIN PATCH BASH. Life Center Cathedral, 1 Life Center Drive, 362-7034; www. lccnola.org — Children’s activities include “trunk-or-treating,” a petting zoo, face painting and magicians. There also is food and a raffle. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

VOODOOFEST. Voodoo Authentica of New Orleans, 612 Dumaine St., 522-2111; www. voodooshop.com — The annual festival celebrates Voodoo’s contributions to New Orleans traditions with presentations, book signings, art, healing rituals and more. Visit www. voodoofest.com for details.

Free admission. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

EVENTS TUESDAY 30 GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR FOR SOCIAL IMPACT CAREERS. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick Center, second floor ballroom, 29 McAlister Drive, 865-5000; www.tulane. edu — Prospective students can meet with representatives from several graduate programs, and there also is a panel discussion on the application process, financial aid and transitioning back to school. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 31 EAT, DRINK & BE ARTSY FUNDRAISER. Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 862-7529; www.anthonybeantheater. com — Irma Thomas and Kermit Ruffins perform at the party benefiting the theater’s

Slow food advocate and author Poppy Tooker revives the work of one of New Orleans’ first famous chefs in Mme. Begue’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery (Pelican). The cookbook was first published in 1900 and has been out of print since 1937. Tooker’s new edition will shed light on the legendary Madame Begue and make her recipes more accessible Poppy Tooker signs to contemporary OCT. Mme. Begue’s Recipes home cooks.

Madame Beof Old New Orleans gue came to Creole Cookery New Orleans in 6 p.m. Tuesday 1853 as Elizabeth Octavia Books Kettenring. She opened Dutrey’s 513 Octavia St. coffee shop in (504) 899-7323 1863 with her first husband Louis www.octaviabooks.com Dutreuil, a French Market butcher. When Dutreuil died, she married bartender Hippolyte Begue, and they renamed the French Quarter restaurant Begue’s. The restaurant’s popularity and her fame rose dramatically during the 1884 Cotton Exhibition, which brought an influx of tourists to New Orleans.

“At that time she became the No. 1 tourist attraction in this city,” Tooker says. “[Visitors] could actually see her in her kitchen at her coal-burning stove surrounded by her copper pots.”

Begue’s served an elaborate “second breakfast,” which evolved into New Orleans’ brunch tradition. The menu included classic dishes such as shrimp jambalaya, crawfish bisque and Creole gumbo. In the book, Tooker’s updated recipes appear alongside Begue’s original recipes.

Tooker says Begue’s recipes are “some of the purest records of the original Creole cuisine that put New Orleans on the map.” — BRAD RHINES

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post-Hurricane Isaac recovery. Costumes are encouraged. Admission $100. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

FRIDAY 2 BOUDIN & BEER. The Foundry, 333 St. Joseph St., 586-1309 — Emeril Lagasse,

Mario Batali and Donald Link host the Emeril Lagasse Foundation fundraiser where more than 50 chefs present their take on artisanal sausages, which are paired with Abita beers. Visit www. boudinandbeer.com for details. Admission $75 before Aug. 31, $85 after Aug. 31. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

HARVEST MOON DANCE. Pelican Park, 63350 Pelican Drive, Mandeville — Covington Food Bank’s fundraiser features a live auction, music by 90 Degree West and food. Call (985) 893-3003 for details. Admission $65. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

HELLUVA HULLABALOO. Tulane University, LavinBernick University Center, McAlister Drive, 247-1507 — The fundraiser benefits Tulane Empowers and features an auction, live music and food and drinks.

Visit www.tulanehullabalooauction.com for details.

Admission $75 in advance,

$100 day of event. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

LA FETE LOUISIANE. Joan Mitchell Center, 2275 Bayou Road — Original Pinettes Brass Band, Clint Maedgen, Reese Johanson Performance Collaborative and others perform at the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation’s fundraiser honoring Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Visit www.culturaleconomy.org/la-fete-louisiane for details. Admission $75. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

MARCH OF DIMES SIGNATURE CHEFS AUCTION. Marriott Hotel, 555 Canal St., 581-1000; www.marriott.com — Executive chefs from New Orleans restaurants prepare food for the annual fundraiser.

Visit www.marchofdimes. com/louisiana for details.

Admission $250. 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

POYDRAS HOME ART SHOW. Poydras Home, 5354 Magazine St., 8970535; www.poydrashome. com — Local and regional artists sell their works to benefit the nonprofit home for seniors. There is a patron party at the home Friday featuring food and entertainment. Patron party admission $100, sale ad-

mission free. Patron party 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

SAVE OUR LAKE & COAST’S LET’S MAKE WAVES. Pontchartrain Yacht Club, 1501 Lakeshore Drive, Mandeville — The annual fundraiser benefiting the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation offers food from local restaurants, live music, an auction and more.

Visit www.saveourlake.org for details. Admission $65 in advance, $75 at the door.

7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL. The Norwegian Church in New Orleans, 1772 Prytania St., 5253602 — Jazz musicians including Paul Longstreth, Christian Winther, Lars Edegran and others perform at the festival that includes Scandinavian children’s activities and food. Admission $12 for the Fleur de Lis Chamber Orchestra concert 7:30 p.m. Friday; free admission for all other events. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

SATURDAY 3 ART HOME NEW ORLEANS. The event features self-guided

home tours showcasing owners’ art collections. Call 2184807 or visit www.cano-la.org for details. Admission $15 day pass, $10 students and artists, $25 weekend pass. Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

BAYOU BACCHANAL. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place; www.lafayette-square. org — Friends of Culture’s Caribbean-themed festival offers Caribbean cuisine, island drinks, a display of Caribbean costumes, entertainment and a steel pan workshop. Visit www.bayoubacchanal.org for details. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

CARNIVALE DU VIN. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd. — Renowned names in food and wine prepare a five-course wine pairings dinner at the gala and auction benefiting the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.

Visit www.carnivaleduvin.com for details. 6 p.m.

DAY OF THE DEAD TRADITIONS: FROM MEXICO TO NEW ORLEANS. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The forum discusses the links and differences between Day of the Dead traditions in Mexico and New Orleans. Free with museum admission. 2 p.m.

EVENT LISTINGS GROW DAT YOUTH FARM PLANT SALE & PARTY. City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 482-4888; www.neworleanscitypark.com — The event includes a sale of edible and ornamental plants cultivated by Grow Dat staff and youth interns followed by a party with food trucks, music and information about the program. Visit www.growdatyouthfarm.org for details. Free admission. Plant sale 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., party noon to 5 p.m.

LOUISIANA CUSTOM CRUISERS CAR SHOW. NOLA Motorsports Park, 11075 Nicolle Blvd., Avondale, 3024875; www.nolamotor.com — The show features almost anything on wheels — cars, trucks, bikes, custom bikes, race cars and more. The event also includes live music, door prizes and awards. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

LOUISIANA SWAMP FESTIVAL. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., 581-4629; www. auduboninstitute.org — The festival celebrates Cajun culture and swamp creatures with Cajun and zydeco music, special food vendors, crafts, animal feedings and more. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

MIRLITON FESTIVAL. The Brick Yard, Chartres Street at Montegut Street — Local eateries offer dishes prepared with mirliton at the festival featuring live music by Kermit Ruffins, Kristin Diable, Charmaine Neville and others. Visit www.bywatermirlitonfestival.com for details.

Admission $5, free for children 12 and under. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

RALLY FOR DEVON. Republic New Orleans, 828 S. Peters St., 528-8282; www.republicnola. com — The fundraiser for Devon Walker, the recently injured Tulane University football player, features food from local restaurants and a silent auction. Tickets $20 general admission, $10 students. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

RETURNING TO THE TABLE: REAL-WORLD, FUN AND EASY WAYS TO BETTER FAMILY HEALTH. Southern Food & Beverage Museum, Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — PBS personality/author Christy Rost, along with museum founder Liz Williams, present the program.

Free admission. 2 p.m.

STEP OUT: WALK TO STOP

DIABETES. Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St. — The walk benefits the American Diabetes Association. Visit www.stepout.diabetes.org for details. 8:30 a.m.

SUNDAY 4 GLEASON GRAS. MercedesBenz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., 587-3663; www. superdome.com — The event

aims to raise awareness for ALS and to support the Gleason Family Trust, and it features live music by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, The Revivalists, MyNameIsJohnMichael, Rotary Downs and more. Visit www.gleasongras.org for details. Admission $20. Noon to 8 p.m.

MOUNT CARMEL ACADEMY FALL FESTIVAL. Mount Carmel Academy, 7027 Milne Blvd., 288-7630; www. mtcarmelcubs.org — The high school hosts its annual fall festival with games, local food vendors, live music and other entertainment. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS KIDNEY WALK. Audubon Park, Shelter 10, 6500 Magazine St. — The walk benefits the

National Kidney Foundaiton of Louisiana. Call 861-4500 or visit www.kidneywalk.org for details. 8 a.m.

TOUR DE JEFFERSON. Bayou Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expwy., Westwego, 736-7140 — The 25-, 35- and 50-mile bike rides go through Jefferson Parish, finishing at Bayou Segnette State Park. Call 835-3880 or visit www. tourdejefferson.org for details. Tickets $35 general admission, $20 ages 17 and under. Registration 7:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m. bike ride.

SPORTS HORNETS. New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., 5873663; www.neworleansarena. com — The Hornets play the San Antonio Spurs. 7 p.m.

There’s a pregame Halloween Bash at Champions Square.

Visit www.nba.com/hornets for details. Wednesday.

HORNETS. New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., 5873663; www.neworleansarena. com — The Hornets play the Utah Jazz. 7 p.m. Friday.

SAINTS. Mercedes-Benz Super-

dome, 1500 Poydras St., 5873663; www.superdome.com — The Saints play the Philadelphia Eagles. 7:30 p.m. Monday.

WORDS JOY FUQUA & MICHELE WHITE. Antenna Gallery, 3817 St. Claude Ave., 298-3161; www.press-street.com — The event celebrates the release of Fuqua’s Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home and White’s Buy It Now: Lessons From eBay. 6 p.m. Friday.

KATHERINE SONIAT. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 8997323 — The poet signs and reads from A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge. 6 p.m. Thursday.

KEN FOSTER. Maple Street Book Shop, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., 304-7115; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The store celebrates the release of Foster’s I’m a Good Dog . 2 p.m. Sunday.

MICHAEL ALLEN ZELL. Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, 600 Frenchmen St., 947-3700; www. fabonfrenchmen.com — The author signs and reads Errata. 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday.

PEGGY SWEENEY-MCDONALD. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — SweeneyMcDonald and contributors, discuss and sign Meanwhile at Cafe Du Monde: Life Stories About Food. 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.

POPPY TOOKER. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 8997323 — The author and radio host discusses and signs Mme. Begue’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

TOM DENT FESTIVAL. The festival pays tribute to the New Orleans-born writer with readings from others. Events are at the New Orleans Public Library (219 Loyola Ave.) and Dillard University (2601 Gentilly Blvd.). Visit www. neworleanspubliclibrary.org for details. Thursday-Saturday.

UNDER THE STARS: A CONTRIBUTOR’S READING. Il Posto Italian Cafe, 4607 Dryades St., (504)895-2620; www.ilpostocafe-nola.com — Editors and writers of Bayou Magazine, a New Orleans based literary magazine, present a reading. 6 p.m. Friday.

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LAKEVIEW OFFICE OR RETAIL

815 Rosedale Freestanding 2,280 sf w/ exc parking. All custom woodwork.

Lg open rm w/ cath ceil for studio, retail area or 4th off. Wright Com’l Realty Corp. Call Lucy 504-578-1777

LAW OFFICE FOR LEASE

Walking distance to all Gretna Courts. $750 per month includes utilities, office machines & Jeffnet. Call 504366-3551

JEFFERSON PARISH 2537 RIVER RD OR 315 S. ROCHEBLAVE

2537 River Road; 2 brm/1ba, water pd $850/mo OR 315 S. Rocheblave, studio apt, wtr piad, $555/mo includes fridge, range, w/d hkkps. No pets/ pool/smoking. 504-887-1814

SPARKLING POOL Bike Path & Sunset Deck

MOBILE HOMES

Condo w/ Private Patio #106, 1 BR,/1 1/2 BA, 837 SF, Melissa Groetsch, Latter & Blum Realtors, (504) 231-1140.

504-866-2785. Latter & Blum, ERA Powered, is Independently Owned and Operated

2 OFFICE SPACES. $2200 and $1200/mo. Excellent location. Street car access. Convenient to downtown & CBD. Wood & ceramic floors. Lots of windows. New central a/c & heat units, plumbing & electrical.. Security system & surveillance cameras. Parking. $2200 unit has kitchen. Call Sylvia, 504-415-6501

OLD METAIRIE

1201 CANAL ST.

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE

New Orleans Area (Metairie) 10 Min to Downtown N.O.

3300 CANAL STREET

333 Julia #418

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY (Krause Bldg) 2 Bdrm/2Bath Condo.

French Quarter view. Parking available. $320,000 Call (504) 450-7215

CORPORATE RENTALS

COMMERCIAL RENTALS

Walking distance to beach & Olde Town. High elevation 100x115 custom priv. fnce & reg’d oak $69,900 100x240x150 Lshaped multiple oaks $80,000 neg.

Call Michael 228-342-6750

8 DUCKHOOK DRIVE

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

1 & 2 Br Apts, 1 Ba, furn. Qn bed, fully equipped kit. WiFi, Cbl. Parking & Util Incl. Lndry Fac. Sec Cameras.

From $1300/mth. 1 mth min. 2200 Pasadena, Met. 504-491-1591.

INVESTOR SPECIAL

2-4-1 INVESTOR SPECIAL 2-4-1, 2 Lots, 2 houses each w/2Br/1ba, 1000sf. ea. On the River Road.

BARGAIN, FLEXIBLE! $79K obo. 504 656 4289.

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Renovated, 1 BR apts with 12 x 24’ liv room. furn kit, laundry on premises, offst pkg. NO PETS. Avail now. Owner/ agent $699 & $749. 504-236-5776.

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

CARROLLTON

DOWNTOWN

FOLSOM

930 JACKSON AVE.

1329 FRENCHMAN

Living room, 1 BR, kitchen, tile bath.

No pets. $500/mo.

Call 504-494-0970.

2BR, furn kitchen, $850/MO. Also Studio, Hrdwd Flrs. $550/mo util included. Both have cent a/h, washer/ dryer on site. No pets. 504-250-9010.

Furn Riverbend Efficiency

Eff/studio. Lg liv/sleep area Spac kit & ba, wlk-in closet. Grt n’bhd, nr st car, shops, rests, schools. 8016 Burthe St #D. $650 + dep. 1 yr min lse.

891-6675.

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY 941 ROYAL

2 BR, 1 BA, $1500/mo/dep. Fully furn, pool, w/d onsite, shared balc, elevator, no pets. 504-236-5757, 2367060. FQRental.com

LOWER GARDEN DIST./ IRISH CHANNEL

ACADIAN HOME

3 BR home, 2BA, Jacuzzi, screened porch, stainless steel appl, cathedral ceiling in living area, laundry room, wooden floors, located on a two acre lot surrounded by mature trees.

Workshop & carport for two cars. The setting is private and safe. (Ten miles north of I-12 off Hwy.1077/ Turnpike Rd.) 50241 Huckleberry Lane , One year minimum lease.

Avail now. $1,500/month.

985.796.9130. www.LaPoloFarms.com

2 BEDROOMS

941 ROYAL

Fully furn, 1 br, 1 ba, shared pool & balc, w/d on site. $1100/mo/dep. No Pets. 504-236-5757. 504-236-7060 FQRental.com

LR, Kit & Bath. Hdwd flrs. Totally electric & stove is in apt. $450 Deposit & Rent $700 monthly. 504-416-5923 To Advertise in

HEART OF FRENCH QTR

Large 1 Bedroom with Loft, 1 Bath, washer & dryer, central air & heat, $1475/mo. 985-630-6686

EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

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1430 Jackson Ave.

GENTILLY

2 bedrooms, 2 baths Rent: $1300.

Gated secured parking for one car. Elevator.

Living room, dining nook, furnished kitchen, central a/h, patio, water paid.

GENTILLY TERRACE

3 BR, 2 BA. 2482 Dreux Ave. $1040/ mo. Showing Saturdays @ 10am and Tuesdays @ 6pm until it rents. No sec 8, small pets ok. j.lee1943@yahoo. com

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1 BR EFF. CLOSE TO UNIV

Furn efficiency with liv rm, a/h unit, ceil fans, wood/tile floors, w/d onsite.

Clara by Nashville. Avail Now. $575/ mo. 504-895-0016.

1205 St Charles Ave

1 BR furnished, $1095. Wifi, secure, pool, gym, laundry room on site, gated parking, available October 1.

985-373-1025

Snappy Jacobs 525-0190

Snappy Jacobs, CCIM Real Estate Management, LLC

1205 ST CHARLES/$1075

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry. Avail Now! 985-871-4324, 504-442-0573.

1510 CARONDELET

LARGE EFFICIENCY - $800 Util included. Upper unit has kit, bath & 1 large bdrm. A/C & ceiling fan. 1 blk to St. Charles. Close to everything. Easy access to !-10,, CBD & French Qtr. On site laundry facilities. Avail 11/1. No smokers/pets. Call 1-888-239-6566 or email mballier@yahoo.com

3219A PRYTANIA

Perfect for prof’, Renov Vict hse, 2br/,1 full + 1/2 ba, LR, DR, kit, wd flrs, hi ceils, w/i balc., appls, ca&h, sec, pool privileges. $1500/mo. 813-8186 274-8075.

DORIAN M. BENNETT • 504-236-7688 dorian.bennett@sothebysrealty.com

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 407 Baronne - 1 bd/ 1 ba .............. $2495 1301 N. Rampart - 1 bd/ 1 1/2 ba ...... $2000 317 Royal - 1 bd/ 1 ba ...... $1550 5224 Sandhurst - 3 bd/ 2 ba ...... $1300 2133 Chippewa - 2 bd/ 1 ba ...... $900 CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS!

6021 TCHOUPITOULAS

2, 2br apts. Newly renov’t, ss appls, granite cnttrps, hdwd flrs, CA&H, o/s pkng. No pets. $1650/$1800. Call (504) 610-8677

2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605

455 Phillip Street, $ 225,000

2225-27 Cambronne $ 339,000

3 BR SHOTGUN DOUBLE

Central a/h, wood floors, furn kit, w/d hookups, shed, near streetcar, fenced backyard, no smokers/pets. $850+dep. 504-858-5389, 491-4056

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Large 1 bedroom w/front porch. $825 + deposit. Call (504) 343-8651.

3324 DESOTO

Living room, large bedroom, tile bath, furnished kitchen. Private fenced backyard. Washer & Dryer. No pets. $750/ month + deposit. 504-494-0970

NEAR CITY PARK

3218 Desaix Blvd. Single home, 2 BR/1BA, LR/DR, furn kit, office, W&D hkkps. CA&H. Fenced yard. $1100 per month .+ deposit. Call 504-952-5102

Was gutted to the studs in 2004/05 and underwent a high quality renovation. 3 independent bedrooms, 2 full baths, master with whirlpool plus nice walk-in closet, off street parking in a great close to town location.

Huge Four (4) plex with a large 4 bedroom, 2 bath owners unit, off street parking for multiple cars and revenue from three apartments to pay the note with.

Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226

Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

CLASSIFIEDS AUTOMOTIVE WANTED TO PURCHASE CASH FOR CARS

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MIND, BODY, SPIRIT HEALING ARTS Relieve Stress - Fear - Anxiety NATURALLY with Conscious Connected Breathing.

Call Jack at 504-453-9161. www.jackfontana.com

LICENSED MASSAGE NOTICE

Massage therapists are required to be licensed with the State of Louisiana and must include the license number in their ads.

BYWATER BODYWORKS

Swedish, deep tissue, therapeutic.

Flex appts, in/out calls, OHP/student discounts, gift cert. $65/hr, $75/ 1 1/2hr. LA Lic# 1763 Mark. 259-7278

QUIET WESTBANK LOC

$295 Brand New Iron Queen Bed with mattress set, all new. Can deliver.

504-952-8404 (504) 846-5122 NEW Pub Height Table Set all wood, still boxed. Delivery available. $250. 504-952-8404 (504) 846-5122

Formal Cherrywood DR Set

Formal Cherry wood dining room set.

Table & 6 chairs w/ leaf & china cabinet. Exc. cond. $1000 serious inquiries only. (504) 228-0223 9am-6pm King Pillowtop Mattress, NEW!!!

ONLY $225. Can deliver. 504-9528404 (504) 846-5122

MISC. FOR SALE REDUCE YOUR CABLE BILL

Get a 4-Room All-Digital Satellite system installed for FREE and programming starting at $19.99/mo/ FREE HD/DVR upgrade for new callers. CALL NOW. 1-800-925-7945.

CAT CHAT Meet Precious!

PRECIOUS is an affectionate DECLAWED kitty who was surrendered when her owner became pregnant. Precious is an active, older kitty (about 9-10 years old) who loves to be brushed & pampered. She would do best as an only pet, and must be an inside kitty. Precious is simply adorable & would make a great companion.

Call or email: 504-454-8200, spaymartadopt@gmail.com

MERCHANDISE ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

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30+ N.O. Bottles

Weekly Tails

30+ Antique. Best offer. Call (504) 945-5569

WE BUY

Antiques, Architecture, Military, Art, Advertising Items, Collectibles, Garden & Patio Items.

(985) 373-1857

Dinah is a 10-month-old, spayed, Pit Bull mix. She’s got a playful & active spirit and I will spoil you with love & kisses. She knows “sit,” is food motivated (treats = YUM!), and enjoys sniffing, exploring and belly rubs. To meet Dinah or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

EXERCISE/SPORTS EQUIPMENT NordicTrack treadmill T5.5.

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CARMEN - sweet & loveable

Stunning steel gray fur, white markings.

Loves people. Will follow you just like a dog. Fully vetted. 504-454-8200, spaymartadopt@gmail.com

NordicTrack treadmill T5.5. Ifit live compatible, compatible music port, 1-touch speed and incline controls, 6” backlit display, race track display, cardio grip heart rate monitor, space saver design with easy lift, lifetime warranty on frame, 25 year warranty on motor, 70”x38” cushion base. Only 3 mos old. Bought at $900, will sell for $600. Call (504) 585-4684.

Tennis Racket Stringing

DINAH Kennel #A17343033

Free pick up & delivery, Certified in Tennis Development Call (504) 905-8563, Razooli.com

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES Authentic Handmade Indian Rug

Authentic Handmade Indian Rug 100% Wool • Made in India • Size 7’-11’’ x 10’-2” Purchased at Hurwitz Mintz in 2007 • Original Price $2,700.00 • Selling for $1,700 Please call (504) 458-7904 $125 Full/Double Size Mattress Set, still in original plastic, unopened.

We can deliver. 504-952-8404 (504) 846-5122

MAMA NAYLA Kennel #A17157207

MaMa Nayla is a 3-year-old, spayed, DSH markings. If you want easy going, she is IT! She loves kids and dogs and is the official greeter of friends and strangers alike. MaMa Nayla came to the shelter with her brother (PawPaw Symba—A17157080), because their folks’ landlord said they couldn’t stay. To meet MaMa Mayla or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

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Family dog and big cuddle bug!

Angel is 7 mos old terrier mix. She is housebroken, spayed and utd on shots. cuddle bug. She loves to relax with her head on your lap. wonderful with kids, other dogs and cats.504-975-5971, tbkestler@cox.net

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REWARD- LOST

(Mid City but could be anywhere by now),Ozzie, male, brown/black stripe (brindle), pit mix, sweet, call him & he will come, hold him & call me asap, Traci 504-975-5971.

ANGEL - TERRIER MIX

PSYCHICS/TAROT/ASTROLOGY

NEED A TENANT FOR YOUR

In Marrrero near West Jeff Hospital. He lives on Farrington St. by 15th St. He has a red collar and goes by the name of Ohllie. If you find him please call Isaac at 504-920-8663. Please help us bring him home safe.

PET ADOPTIONS TV/VIDEO

Swedish, Relaxing Massage.

Hours 9am-6pm, M-F. Sat 10-1pm $70. LA Lic #1910.

Sandra, 504-393-0123.

Helps with past, present & future. $5.00 off any type of reading with this ad. Avail for Halloween parties or special events. Miss Rosa, 504-598-4096

LOST/FOUND PETS Lost Chihuahua

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LAB mix, great “take me with you” companion! VERY mild mannered boy. Loves to play w/ other dogs,f riendly toward everyone. Great family pet. Bart does love to play so a home w/ another dog would be good but not manadatory. 504-975-5971, tbkestler@cox.net

GYPSY - ADORABLE KITTEN

Dilute calico baby rescued by SpayMart & bottle fed. Gypsy & her siblings just over 3 mo old, fully vetted. 504-4548200; spaymartadopt@gmail.com

JACK RUSSEL

Great with other dogs and kids! Sarge - few yrs old , has a lot of energy. lives to run. Would also be nice if he can have a playmate to keep him active.

His favorite toy is a tennis ball .Traci tbkestler@cox.net 504-975-5971

PRECIOUS

DECLAWED HIMALAYAN Gorgeous seal point kitty. Affectionate older cat who would make a great companion. 504454-8200; spaymartadopt@gmail.com

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Sweet & beautiful 4 month old kitten.

Mostly white with unique black markings. Spayed, tested, vacs , Can be seen at the Cat Hospital in Metairie M-S. $65 adoption fee, 504 462-1968

SNOWBALL - Total Lovebug

SWEET SHIH TZU

Needs a family, Beignet is an adorably super sweet shih tzu mix. Cute, cute personality! 15 lbs. Would love a family to share his life with. Traci 504-9755971, tbkestler@cox.net

THUMPER - MAINE COON

Thumper is an extraordinarily handsome boy, Fluffy, fluffy brown fur.

About 2 yrs old & very sweet. 504454-8200; spaymartadopt@gmail.com

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24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 639-900 DIVISION P SUCCESSION OF DONALD NOEL DUVIO NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE The administratix of the above estate has made application to the Court for the sale, at private sale of the immovable property described, as follows: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA in what is known as “The Old Homestead” (Bonnabel Place) in BLOCK NO. 21, bounded by Homestead Avenue, Caesar Street, Lot 33 of Square No. 21 and Bonnabel Place, designated as LOT NOS. 22 AND 23 OF SQUARE NO.21. Improvements thereon bear municipal address 1238 Homestead Avenue, Metairie, Louisiana. on the following terms and conditions to wit: : cash sale ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($150,000.00) DOLLARS and under the terms and conditions provided in the agreement to purchase filed in these proceedings.

Notice if now given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with the law.

MASIE COMEAUX DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT CRAIG S. SOSSAMAN 3351 SEVERN AVE SUITE 201 METAIRIE LA 70002 (504) 455-3100 GAMBIT: 10/30 & 11/20/12

24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 712-272 DIVISION N SUCCESSION OF MARK STEVEN TROWBRIDGE

24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 716-997 DIVISION M SUCCESSION OF GLADYS C. AZAR NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DARLENE HERBERT, duly appointed, acting and qualified Administratrix of the Succession of Gladys C. Azar has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, article 3281, petitioned Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of Sixty- Eight Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100 ($68,500.00) Dollars, payable in cash, the following described immovable property belonging to the Succession, to-wit: THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT, together with all improvements, servitudes, rights, ways, privileges, and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, designed as UNIT NO. 1134, including and undivided 4.166% ownership interest in the Common Elements and Limited Common Elements, as more fully set forth in that certain Declaration of Condominium Ownership of Lake Castle Condominium. A Condominium by an Act under private signature, dated 2/28/79, duly acknowledged before Michael O. Read, N.P., registered in COB 951, folio 841, records of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, together with the survey plat and other instruments and documents annexed thereto and incorporated by reference therein, which establishes the Lake Castle Condominium, A Condominium.

Said condominium bears the municipal address 1134 Lake Ave., Metairie, LA 70005.

NOW THERFORE, in accordance with the law made and provided in such cases, notice is hereby given that Darlene Herbert, Administratrix, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property owned by the Succession, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such course within seven (7) days from the date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

BY ORDER OF 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson Atty: Timothy D. Bordenave P.O. Box 750156 New Orleans, LA 70175 GAMBIT: 10/9 & 10/30/12

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to ASI F.C.U. dated August 16, 2011 in the amount of $3,355.71 and signed by a J. Adams; please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Alan J. Green, please contact: Attorney Serena C. Vaughan, 504-352-9582 ANYONE Knowing the Whereabouts of Derek A. Lopez , please contact Norlisha Parker Burke, Atty, 504-444-1943 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of KENNETH J. DRETAR, please contact Justin Reese Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of LLOYD ADDISON or DIANNE GREEN ADDISON, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504-365-1545

NOTICE OF FILING OF SECOND TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION Notice is hereby given to the creditors of this Estate and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication of this notification (if any they have or can) why the Second and final tableau of distribution presented by Densie Trowbridge Bruno the Administratix of the Succession of Mark Steven Trowbridge of this Estate should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance herewith.

By order if the Court J. MYLES Deputy Clerk CARL J. SELENBERG Attorney for the Administratix 3713 Airline Drive Metairie,LA 70001 504-835-1053 Publication: Gambit 10/30/12

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 623-100 DIVISION N SUCCESSION OF FRED M. TROWBRIDGE, SR. NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS the Executor of the above Estate has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property belonging to the decedent, hereinafter described, to-wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining,

situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, in Kenner, in that subdivision formerly known as Highway Park, now known as LISA PARK, and in accordance with survey made by H. E. Sutch, Sur., dated Nov. 11, 1954, approved Dec. 20, 1954, by Ord. No. 337 of the City of Kenner, which said survey has been revised as of Dec. 14, 1955, by H. E. Sutch, Sur., said property is situated in SQUARE 471, which square is bounded by: ILLINOIS AVENUE, THIRD STREET, IDAHO AVENUE AND FOURTH STREET, and in accordance with said survey, said lot is designated by the LETTER U and measures as follows: LOT U commences 150 feet from the corner of Illinois Avenue and Fourth Street and measures thence 50 feet front on Illinois Avenue, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 122.50 feet. In accordance with survey of J. L. Fontcuberta, Surveyor, dated January 30, 1957, said property is situated in the same Parish, Subdivision and Square thereof, which square is bounded by Pine Avenue (formerly Illinois), Irwin Avenue (formerly 3rd Street), Elm Avenue (formerly Idaho) and Clancy Avenue (formerly 4th Street), and said lot has the same designation and measurements as above.

Being the same property acquired by Delcuze Development Co., Inc. from Henry Donald Elichalt by act before Leon F. Davison, N. P., dated November 28, 1956, registered in COB 414, folio 274 of the conveyance records of Jefferson Parish.

Being the same property purchased by Mrs. Ruth Smith, wife of and Fred M. Trowbridge from Delcuze Development Co., Inc., by Act of Sale dated April 4, 1957 before Numa V. Bertel, Jr. Notary Public, and registered in COB 421, folio 607 and MOB 286, folio 539 of the records of Jefferson Parish.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE WHOLE OF SAID PROPERTY, TO-WIT: (a) $133,000.00 sales price; (b) “As is” with Waiver of Redhibition as more fully described in that certain Agreement to Purchase or Sell Real Estate dated October 13, 2012 attached as Exhibit “A” to the Petition for Private Sale of Immovable Property filed by the executor; (c) Seller to pay $4,000.00 towards buyer’s closing costs; (d) Other terms and conditions set forth in that certain Agreement to Purchase or Sell Real Estate dated October 13, 2012 attached as Exhibit “A” to the Petition for Private Sale of Immovable Property filed by the executor.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, that they are hereby ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

Attorney: Ralph R. Alexis, III Address: 704 Carondelet St., New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone No.: (504) 581-3838 Publication: Gambit 10/30 & 11/20/12 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Vincent Salvador D’Antoni and/or any of his heirs or legatees, please contact Attorney Catharine O. Gracia, 639 Loyola Ave., 26th Floor, New Orleans, LA 70113 (504) 576-3750.

ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of PRISCILLA MCMATH PRYOR, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, New Orleans, LA 70125, 504-365-1545

CLASSIFIEDS 24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 718-988

DIVISION F

SUCCESSION OF LESTER JAMES ROSIERE, JR.

STATE OF LOUISIANA CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS NOTICE TO SELL MOVABLE OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

NO.2012-09184

DIVISION H

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

SUCCESSION OF Alex and Nellie Bias Co- Administratrixes

Pursuant to La. C.C.P. art. 3281, et seq., notice is hereby given to everyone the executor of the above succession made an application to the court for the private sale of:

Whereas the Co-Administratrixes of the above Estate, has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the movable or immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit:

A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, means, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in PLOT NO. 4, of MANSON SUBDIVISION, bounded by Cleary Avenue, Mouton Street, Sheridan Avenue, and Wheat Drive, designated as LOT NO. 4-B on a survey, made by Gilbert, Kelly and Couturie, Inc., Surveyors, dated March 31, 1978, a copy of which is annexed to an act before Edmond G. Miranne, Jr., Notary Public, dated April 11, 1978, and according thereto, said Lot commences 108 feet from the corner of Cleary Avenue and Mouton Street, measures thence 80 feet front on Cleary Avenue, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet between equal and parallel lines.

A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the SEVENTH DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in square formerly known as no. 344, now SQUARE NO. 56, said piece or portion of ground is designated as LOT NO. 8 and said lot No. 8 commences at a distance of Sixty feet (60’) from the corner of Commercial Street and measures thence thirty feet (30’) on Adams Street, the same width in the rear by a depth of one hundred and seven feet (107’), six inches (6’’), between parallel lines. Improvements thereon bear the municipal no. 411 Adams Street.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 4728 Cleary Avenue, Metairie, LA. Anyone opposing the application is ordered to file an opposition prior to the issuance of the judgment authorizing the administrators application. The judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of this notice.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with the law.

Rad A. Heroman Attorney for Petitioner Smith And Treuting Law Firm 700 Camp St., New Orleans, LA 70130 504-365-1700

DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk

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Attorney: David W. Birdsong Address: 2750 Lake Villa Dr., #201 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: 504-780-9202

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SUCCESSION OF WILLIAM ALBERT POWE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AND MOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN that WILLIAM ROBERT POWE, the duly appointed and qualified Administrator of the Succession of William Albert Powe has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($38,750.00), plus the assumption of the debt of EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($875,500.00), the Succession’s undivided one -half (1/2) interest in and to the following described property: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in ELMWOOD INDUSTRIAL PARK, PHASE H, J AND K, being composed of Lots 39, 40, and a portion of 41, pursuant to the plan of subdivision approved by the Jefferson Parish Council by Ordinance No. 13598, adopted October 11, 1978, registered in the Parish of Jefferson under Entry No. 848564 in COB 942, folio 522, and portions being resubdivided in accordance with a plan of subdivision by J. J. Krebs and Sons, Inc., C.E.I & S., dated May 8, 1980, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council by Ordinance No. 14379, registered in the Parish of Jefferson under Entry No. 930439 in COB 985, folio 457, and said portion of ground is designated as LOT 39-A, and is more particularly described as follows, to wit: Lot 39-A is in the area bounded by Salmen Avenue, Sam’s Avenue (side), the north boundary of the subdivision and Edwards Avenue, and said lot commences at a distance of 245 feet from the intersection of Edwards Ave. and Salmen Avenue and measures thence in the direction of S 71 degrees 44 minutes 19 seconds W, a distance of 200 feet front on Salmen Avenue to a point; thence N 18 degrees 15 minutes 41 seconds W, a distance of 135 feet to a point on the north boundary of the subdivision, thence N 71 degrees 44 minutes 19 seconds E, a distance of 200 feet to a point; thence S 18 degrees 15 minutes 41 seconds E, a distance of 135 feet to the point of beginning.

Further in accordance with the survey

by R. W. Krebs, L.L.C., dated December 23, 2011.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 5717 SALMEN AVENUE, HARAHAN, LA 70123.

Being the same property acquired by I H CORPORATION, which acquired by act passed before E. Howell Crosby, N.P., dated 11/17/97, registered in COB 2973, folio 306, corrected in COB 2978, folio 149, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

THIS ACT IS MADE AND ACCEPTED SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING: 1. The restrictions created by LaSalle Properties, Inc., by act before Andree Gelpi, N.P., dated 5/8/79, recorded in COB 956, folio 47.

2. The 5 foot utility servitude across the front of the lot, as shown on the plan of subdivision. and to sell the Succession’s one half (1/2) undivided interest in the movable property of fifty percent (50%) ownership of CP2, LLC for the amount of NINETEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($19,875.00).

NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given by WILLIAM ROBERT POWE, Administrator, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property at the private sale for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the moveable property, the one-half (1/2) undivided interest in the movable property of CP2, LLC at the private sale for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from the date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

MALISE PRIETO CLERK OK COURT 22nd JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY ATTORNEY: Keary L. Everitt ADDRESS: 400 Poydras St., Suite 2107 New Orleans, LA 70130 TELEPHONE: 504 571-1901 Publish: Gambit 10/9 and 10/30/12 BRIAN L. LENFANT A/K/A BRIAN J. LENFANT A/K/A BRIAN LOUIS LENFANT or anyone knowing his whereabouts, contact Atty R.L. Saizan, 504-210-4985 Property rights involved.

TASHA NECHELLE BERGERON or anyone knowing her whereabouts, contact Atty R.L. Saizan, 504-210-4985 Property rights involved.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Maurice Williams, please contact: Attorney Serena C. Vaughan, 504352-9582 Anyone related to or knowing relatives of Rebecca Wright a/k/a Rebecca Wright Cousins, please contact Giles J. Duplechin attorney, as soon as possible at 504-368-3051, 1000 4th St., Gretna, LA 70053.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a lost promissory note payable to Athena Construction, LLC dated June 17, 2010 in the amount of $10,000.00 and signed by a R. Vidal; please contact Jules Fontana, Attorney @ 504-581-9545.

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24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 712-190 DIVISION F

SUCCESSIONS OF EMMA BLACKMAN, wife of/and JOHN EDWARD MITCHELL NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Notice is given that Jo Anne Mitchell Michel, Dative Testamentary Executrix of the Successions of Emma Blackman, wife of/and John Edward Mitchell, has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3281, petitioned the Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of $135,000.00, the following described property: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Metairie Heights Subdivision, designated as Lots Nos. 802 and 804 on a certain plat drawn

by Waters and Daniel, Surveyors, annexed to an act of deposit before Gustaf R. Wesfeldt, Jr., Notary Public, in the City of New Orleans under date of May 26, 1913, according to which plat Lots Nos. 802 and 804 measure each 25 feet front on Metairie Heights Avenue, same width in the rear by a depth of 120 feet between equal and parallel lines. And in accordance with survey made by Raymond B. Saucier, C.E., dated January 25, 1964, said property is shown as above described and is located in that portion of Metairie Heights Subdivision bounded

by Metairie Heights Avenue, 17th Street, the West Line of the Subdivision and Caesar Street (side). Lots 802 and 804 adjoin each other, Lot 802 lying nearer to and commencing at a distance of 963.69 feet from the corner of Metairie Heights Avenue and 17th Street. Improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 3508 Metairie Heights Avenue.

Being the same property acquired by John Edward Mitchell, while married to Emma Blackman, from George J. Dargis, by act passed before Raoul P. Sere’, Notary Public, dated February 25, 1964, registered in COB 586, folio 484 of the conveyance records of Jefferson Parish.

Notice is hereby given that an Order authorizing the Executrix to sell the property for the aforesaid sum and on the terms and conditions set forth in the Louisiana Residential Agreement to Buy or Sell, a copy of which was filed with the above mentioned Petition, may be issued after seven (7) days fro the date whereon the last publication of this Notice appears, and the heirs, legatees and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, prior to the issuance of the Order.

JON A. GEGENHEIMER, CLERK Attorney: Charles N. Miller, Jr. 839 St. Charles Ave., Suite 311 New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone (504) 529-4641 Publication: Gambit, 10/9 & 10/30/12 ANYONE Knowing the Whereabouts of Raymond W. Seraile, Sr. and Lois Hill Seraile, please contact Norlisha Parker Burke, Atty, 504-444-1943 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Rhonda Duncan Williams, please contact: Attorney Serena C. Vaughan, 504-352-9582

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BY ORDER OF THE COURT LISA M CHERAMIE DEPUTY CLERK

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Dear Chris, Congratulations on landing your new position and marketing yourself successfully. You’re right, there is a lot of negativity out there in terms of getting hired, but those who do arm themselves with a good résumé, use best practices in job search and interviewing, and are persistent, will always get hired.

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