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ong before Ray Nagin spent his final, feckless days in the mayor’s office, most New Orleanians realized that his administration was one of the most ineffective and incompetent in the city’s history. Now, almost three months after he left office, the extent of Nagin’s mismanagement is only beginning to come into focus. It is not a pretty picture. Almost daily, citizens learn of flawed contracts, fiscal excesses and official ineptitude under Nagin — all of which cements his place as New Orleans’ Worst Mayor Ever. The case against Nagin is not just a litany of less-than-perfect policy decisions; it is, in our opinion, a case of official indifference and intentional mismanagement — all at citizens’ expense. In fact, we think Nagin’s mismanagement was so egregious that it might even rise to the level of malfeasance. We urge District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro to investigate further. Consider the facts: • Nagin left the city in a $67 million budget hole. This from a man who takes credit for keeping the city out of bankruptcy after Hurricane Katrina. Ironically, bankruptcy — or the brink of insolvency — is now the cornerstone of Nagin’s legacy. The blame falls squarely on the former mayor. He had an express duty under the City Charter not to overspend. Moreover, you can’t leave a $67 million budget hole by accident; it can only happen intentionally — as if the wildly unpopular Nagin were giving a final “Up yours!” to the people of New Orleans on his way out. • Nagin left the New Orleans Police Department in shambles. Fiscally, he allowed overtime spending to so exceed the city budget that NOPD was literally on pace to run out of money by Oct. 1. Elsewhere at NOPD, a report by former Houston Police Chief Lee Brown (commissioned by Nagin’s administration) detailed systematic weaknesses and concluded that NOPD needed to improve nearly every aspect of policing. New Mayor Mitch Landrieu and new Police Chief Ronal Serpas have invited the U.S. Department of Justice to effectively take over NOPD and get it back on track. • Nagin completely bungled postKatrina recovery. From his appointment of the bloviating Ed Blakely as the city’s recovery director to his failure to manage billing by MWH (an outside firm hired to manage recovery projects), from his failure to bring back a hospital in eastern New Orleans to his failure to restore NORD playgrounds, Nagin has consistently promised large and delivered small — or not at all. Lest we forget, he and his family also flew first class to Jamaica just 81 days after Katrina — on the dime of a city contractor. More recently, an audit by the city’s inspector general concluded

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DEAR CYNTHIA, There probably were several buildings in New Orleans called House of the Rising Sun over the years, but it’s likely most would have been named after the song, not served as the inspiration for it. Back in the 1980s, Record Ron, whose Record Ron’s Good & Plenty Records regularly won “best used record store” honors in reader polls, said he was told his record shop at 1129 Decatur St. occupied the original House of the Rising Sun. Ron, who died in 1996, never could authenticate that claim. A Jan. 29, 1821, issue of the Louisiana Gazette ran an advertisement announcing L.S. Hotchkiss and Co. had bought John Hull and Co.’s interests in the Rising Sun Hotel at 535 Conti St. That hotel opened in 1801 and was destroyed by fire in 1822. Another story proffers the famed house was at 826-830 St. Louis St. and was a brothel originally run by Madam Marianne LeSoleil Levant, whose surname is French for “rising sun.” Today, the three-story white building on St. Louis Street is owned by attorney Darlene Jacobs Levy and houses her Home Finders International real estate company. She inherited the building when her husband died in the late 1980s, and she began renovating the front apartment of the derelict building as a place for her father to live. Workmen at the site discovered risque postcards of half-dressed women from the 1800s behind a wall and uncovered fancy fluted columns and a ceiling mural of a golden rising sun surrounded by three cherubs. Levy says the house was a bordello operated by a succession of different madams for many years before her husband bought the building. Eric Burdon, the vocalist for The Animals, which scored a huge hit with “House of the Rising Sun” in 1964, wrote

in his book Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood about meeting Levy and touring the St. Louis Street house. “It was all I’d dreamt it would be,” Burdon wrote. “A palace in the New Orleans heat. It was a wondrous feeling learning that the place I’d fantasized about for thirty years wasn’t some rundown shack but was in fact a place of beauty.” Levy says she has no legal documents to prove the building’s history. “It has been passed down in history and folklore

The three-story white building in the French Quarter is rumored to be the House of the Rising Sun made famous in a song by The Animals in 1964. as being the House of the Rising Sun,” she says. “It doesn’t really matter to me whether it is or not. It’s not open to the public.” Levy restored the house out of a duty to conserve historic structures, she says. “What you see now is what we feel is the original house as it was in the 1800s.” As for the author of “House of the Rising Sun,” that is unknown. Musicologists have traced the song’s origins back as far as the 18th century to a traditional English ballad. Like many ballads and folk songs, the lyrics have changed over the years to suit the singer and the audience. No one can claim rights to the song, so anyone can alter it, record it or sell it royalty-free.

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“This is a very sad day for me personally. Whether it is fair or unfair is not the point. I became the public face [of the disaster] and was demonized and vilified. BP cannot move on in the U.S. with me as its leader. … Life isn’t fair. Sometimes you step off the pavement and get hit by a bus.” — Tony Hayward’s parting words to reporters in London.

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“I think he should donate it for coastal relief fund and restoration.” — Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, reacting to news that Hayward will receive an annual pension of £600,000 ($930,000).

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Reporter Jeffrey Kofman’s ABC News report from Buras, La., on July 26 asked “Where did all the crude go?” Agence France-Presse (AFP) followed on July 27, asking “Where is all the oil?” An Associated Press headline that day asked “Gulf Flow Has Stopped, But Where Is the Oil?” By July 29, Time’s Michael Grunwald went even further, penning a story headlined “The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?,” in which he wrote, “But so far — while it’s important to acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for an underwater event that took place just three months ago — it does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage.” The media stampede ignored a few salient facts. Coastal paGe 12

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relationship. I’m able to playfully joke around with him. It’s not very formal at all.” Cao says he also was invited to the president’s Super Bowl party this year, but inclement weather kept him from being the only Republican in the room. For the record, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania was also among the only R’s at last year’s White House Super

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of the Louisiana Supreme Court has won the Distinguished Civil Rights Advocate Award from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In 1984, Johnson became the first woman elected to New Orleans’ Civil District Court, and since then has worked with the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women to reintegrate offenders back into society. Johnson will be presented with her award during the National Bar Association’s 85th annual convention in New Orleans Aug. 11.

Jonathan Bush

held a “Pelican Aid Lemonade” fundraiser at Fortier Park July 24 to raise funds for Louisiana State University’s Wildlife Hospital, which is caring for animals impacted by the BP oil disaster. Jonathan, age 4, had some help from the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association, which spread the word about his lemonade stand. Friends and neighbors answered the call, and Jonathan raised $634.68 in two hours.

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in Portland held a benefit for Louisiana coastal residents Aug. 1, cosponsored by LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails). Guests listened to jazz, and Louisiana specialties were catered by chef Adam Higgs of Acadia, the city’s Creole-Cajun restaurant. All proceeds from the event went to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund set up by the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter

on July 28 blasted a Food & Drug Administration advisory panel for its negative recommendation on the breast cancer drug Avastin. The FDA still recommends Avastin for colon, lung and kidney cancer patients. Vitter made a thinly veiled allusion to false claims that the Obama health care plan included “death panels” by saying, “I shudder at the thought of a government panel assigning a value to a day of a person’s life.” Protecting people’s lives is what the FDA does — in stark contrast to Vitter.

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resident Barack Obama looked pretty happy during a bill-signing ceremony two weeks ago for his financial regulatory reform bill. The occasion sparked quite a few grins, but none were as warm as the smile the president gave Louisiana Rep. Anh Joseph Cao. After thanking the few Republicans who bucked their party to vote with him, Obama beamed at Cao: “Good to see you, Joe!” The greeting came from the belly and bore a touch of bromance. You got the sense that these two men knew each other personally. Cao’s mere presence at the White House — among the nation’s top financial pros and analysts — signaled to everyone that the freshman from New Orleans is firmly in the president’s good graces. In fact, some of Wall Street’s most powerful tycoons are still reeling from not being invited to the ceremony. A few weeks earlier, Cao and his wife, Kate, along with their daughters, Sophia and Betsy, volunteered for a community service project in D.C. alongside First Lady Michelle Obama, making packages of healthy food. Media coverage of the event yielded images of the first lady carrying Sophia and Betsy in her arms. They all know each other, too; both families participated in this year’s White House Easter egg hunt. “We have an excellent relationship,” Cao said in a phone interview just moments before a town hall meeting at the Cut Off Recreation Center July 26. “Obviously, there are a number of issues we don’t agree with one another on, but it’s still just a tremendous

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Jefferson led a crowded field in the Democratic primary and then beat nowstate Rep. Helena Moreno by 10 points in the Democratic runoff. Democrats had at least five alternatives to Jefferson, which split his opposition and helped him face Cao and two lesser-known independents in a hurricane-delayed December general election. The late general election produced a highly skewed voter turnout. AfricanAmerican voters literally stayed home in droves, while whites and Republicans embraced Cao enthusiastically. Thanks to key endorsements and an electorate that was less than 50 percent black on

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Election Day, Cao squeaked into office with a 49.5 percent plurality, beating Jefferson by some 1,800 votes — a political miracle for a man who almost became a Roman Catholic priest. Richmond dismisses the Obama friendship factor as pie in the sky and an attempt by Cao to cling to power. Richmond says while Obama has often reached out to Cao, the GOP freshman has consistently stood with his Republican colleagues and opposed the president on key agenda items such as health care reform, equal pay for women, the stimulus package, and other Democratic reforms. Cao also is unabashedly pro-life, a position that’s earned him encomiums from Catholic groups and statewide Republicans, but may not play as well in a heavily Democratic district. LaFonta weighed in as well and questioned the validity of Cao’s polling. “This is the same guy who said he had the support of the Catholic Church and then had to issue a retraction,” LaFonta says, referring to a fundraising letter Cao sent out last month. Archbishop Gregory Aymond

sought and received a correction and apology from Cao. “You pay a pollster to make your poll look however you want,” LaFonta adds. “That doesn’t scare me. People are looking to the Democratic Party for leadership in this election.” In addition, sources close to the National Democratic Committee say “the president fully expects a Democrat to win the district.” Despite his friendship with Obama, Cao doesn’t shy away from criticizing the president. He recently issued a press release expressing his “profound disappointment” at the administration’s decision to strengthen bilateral relations with Vietnam’s communist government. Cao, the first and only Vietnamese-American to serve in Congress, says Hanoi’s record on human rights and religious freedom is “atrocious.” He says the Vietnamese government doesn’t deserve better U.S. ties until it demonstrates greater respect for the freedom and dignity of its own people. “Rather than building stronger ties, the administration should be holding Hanoi’s feet to the fire on its human rights record,” Cao says. At the same time, Cao has established himself as the most socially aware member of Louisiana’s delegation in the last two years, which could give him a boost among moderates and liberals back home. He’s a member of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a congressional caucus that advocates human rights issues, and once met with the Dalai Lama. Last year on the House floor, he commemorated the lives of eight Jesuit priests who were executed in San Salvador 20 years ago. “The issue of human rights is an issue that affects all of humanity,” Cao says. “The moral aspects of life, the ability to promote equality and justice, these are things that are important to me, and I will continue to focus on and fight for religious freedoms. For me, it is a very basic issue.” Could this be one of the reasons Cao’s internal polling shows an uptick in support among Democrats? “I believe people are seeing the strong leadership,” he says. “They are seeing the hard work and my focus on serving the needs of the people. I believe they are supporting me because of all the work we have done. It’s not about party politics or the president. It’s about dedication and commitment. … “Would a Democratic president ever campaign for a Republican congressman?” Cao asks with a chuckle. “I can always hope it would happen. But at the same time, I don’t think it will be a reality.”

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Bowl Party — right before he switched to the Democratic Party. It makes one wonder if Obama has broached the subject with Cao. “Actually, he did mention it once,” Cao says, laughing. “I was joking with him about campaigning for me in the coming election. He told me, ‘Well, I might do it if you change parties.’ But that was the extent of it.” So, would Cao ever consider changing teams? It makes political sense on paper, considering that 65 percent of the 2nd Congressional District’s electorate is Democratic. “I have not even considered it,” Cao responds, this time more seriously. “It’s irrelevant.” But Cao has surely considered what benefits, if any, he might get from his relationship with Obama before the Nov. 2 general election — even if he denies it. “My focus on having a relationship with the president does not concern my reelection. But my good relationship with the president does serve people down here,” Cao says. “That has always been my focus, and my re-election does not come into play.” Nonetheless, the Republican freshman is going to need all the Democratic juice he can get if he wants to return to the Hill and hang out with his new pal, the Prez. According to Cao’s campaign polling, conducted by Florida consultant Verne Kennedy, Cao led state Rep. Cedric Richmond, the presumed Democrat frontrunner, by 25 points in late May — weeks before Richmond’s formal announcement on June 14. No doubt Democratic pollsters get a different result, but Cao’s showing in his own poll is still amazing in light of the fact that Obama got 75 percent of the 2nd District less than two years ago. The Cao poll was based on African-Americans casting 57 percent of the ballots (black registration in the district is more than 61 percent) — and it showed Cao leading Richmond among African-American voters by three percentage points. Dr. Silas Lee, a Democratic consultant with offices in New Orleans and D.C., says his 2009 polling showed Cao “strong among Democrats,” but that was before voters started learning more about his main Democratic opponents, Richmond and state Rep. Juan LaFonta. The thing to remember about any poll is that it’s just a snapshot of voter opinions and attitudes at a particular moment in time. Polls are not predictions. In fact, campaigns often change poll results. “The campaign really hasn’t started yet,” Lee says. “Once messages are delivered and platforms are compared, we’ll see if [Cao’s claimed lead] remains static.” Can Cao pull it off? “I would not be surprised,” Lee adds. “Look how he got there.” In 2008, facing federal bribery charges, ex-Rep. William

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some marine scientists’ greatest fears — that once oil is embedded in the water column, affecting marine life in its most basic forms, it sets off a chain reaction in the food web. — Alex Woodward

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Film star and New Orleans native Patricia Clarkson came home in mid-June to tour Barataria Bay with Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, City Council President Arnie Fielkow, and her mother, City Council Vice President Jackie Clarkson, as C-SPAN cameras recorded the visit. Last week, Clarkson became a spokesperson for the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), calling on Americans to contact Congress and urge passage of clean-energy legislation. The Academy Award-nominated actress made a powerful short video for the NRDC, using footage from the Clarkson family’s vintage home movies of swimming in Lake Pontchartrain and vacationing on the Gulf Coast, beginning with a shot of Patricia as a toddler in a blue dress, dancing on the levee with her mother, and ending with a plea for donations to the NRDC’s Gulf Recovery Fund. In an accompanying essay, Patricia likens the boom around the marshes to “Band-Aids on gunshot wounds.” She writes, “I remember the Bay as a place filled with wildlife — birds, alligators, sea turtles, and of course abundant oyster, shrimp and crab beds. But since the BP explosion, the Bay has become an industrial zone. Oil sheen covered the water as far as we could see, and in every single marsh we passed, it was as if someone had taken a giant brush, dipped it in a big bucket of paint and painted the grass black. We went over to Cat Island, where the pelicans gather. There was no place for them to land that was oil-free, so they touched down in oily water, and their bellies were covered with the stuff.” She states flat-out that “BP has ruined the Gulf of Mexico,” and adds, “We need to strengthen the regulations for offshore drilling so a disaster like this never happens again.” Such sentiments are, of course, easier expressed by an entertainer than a Bayou State politician. Several days before the Barataria Bay trip, Fielkow introduced a council resolution supporting the efforts of President Barack Obama and the federal government in combating the disaster. The resolution ended with a subtle rebuke of Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling, urging the feds to “put all available expert resources on each rig subject to the moratorium, to evaluate its safety, and as a rig is deemed safe, to immediately remove the drilling ban on that rig.” The council resolution passed 7-0. — Kevin Allman

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on our shoulder, a swagger in our walk, a Vince Lombardi Trophy on our shelf and a collective sense that we’ve got it going on around here. A collective sense — and this is just so damned annoying to some folks — that after the Bless You Boys’ love dust settled on everything and everyone around the region like so much confetti, we see that — for all its superficiality, dogged immaturity, Gatorade douches and Terrell Owens — we see that pro sports is still one thing that can, however fleetingly, bridge the divides, be they racial, economic, gender, gender preference, or most any other kind of wall we have learned how to build between ourselves. So. I don’t know about you, but that’s kinda how I felt in February/March 2010, at four-and-a-half. So close to 5. So close. And then ... Then it all exploded. Like, well — like a gusher of crude. (It needs a name, like hurricanes have. I dunno. Tony?) So, yeah: There had been a time, such a short moment ago, when I would’ve marched Anderson, Rachel, Rush, Bono and the rest of ’em down every Main Street in south Louisiana and told ’em: Look at what we are, look at what we did as a people. Ain’t we something special? Damn right, we are. And then; and now … I dunno. For me, personally, not so much. I think I need some time to get my mojo back. I guess I just don’t really feel like answering a whole bunch of questions about it right now. Am I alone on this one, when I say I just don’t feel like being examined right now? This fifth anniversary thing, they’re all gonna come back to town and ask us a lot of questions and stare at us like halfexposed treasures at an archaeological dig. And they’ll take it all in, mull it all over, consume it, digest it, report it to the world. And then go back home. Never to return. Until the 10th anniversary. There’s just something about this whole process that makes me feel like we’re getting emotionally pantsed; that the whole dang town — knickers, moles, stretch marks and tramp stamps — are hanging out for the world to see. Again. So we will tell ’em: Folks, this is what it looks like five years later. Five years stronger? Five years more better? That’s for y’all to decide. For us, it’s five years later and covered in oil. But how ’bout dem Saints, man? How ’bout dem Saints! Ay-eee!

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o here we are: August 2010. New Orleans is on America’s dance card again. Collectively now, everybody: “Hoo boy!” Or make that “Ay-eee!” for those not-from-here media folk who will be parachuting in this month and would no doubt appreciate a little, y’know, indigenous cultcha, to send to their editors and producers back home, wherever that may be. Or is it “indigent culture” they’re looking for? Well, we got dat, too, cher! And gumbo parties every Sunday afternoon. Yep, here we are: August 2010. I’ve had ambivalence about this moment for, well, let’s see — oh, I’d say for just about four years. Yeah, four years. Precisely that, in fact. August 2006, the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, brought the expected and predictable legions of journalists, documentarians, authors, prognosticators, denouncers and defenders to town. And Anderson Cooper. And they swarmed over every pile of sidewalk debris in the city — and up and down the River Roads, to where the sidewalk ends — reading “the meaning of it all” like it was tea leaves. Or, this being New Orleans, more likely coffee grinds. Then they all left — for Galveston or Haiti or someplace in California that was burning — and all they left us were the coffee grinds. And Anderson Cooper, bless the sweet little premature gray on that boy’s head. You gotta love tenacity, and you gotta be tenacious about love. And Anderson Cooper found both right here in New Orleans, like so many before him and so many yet to come — but he showed up just when we needed a guy like that: a microphone, light stands, a makeup kit — and a prime time TV show. Now, don’t get me wrong. That first anniversary had its high notes, to be sure. Thousands of stories portraying a region and a populace of astounding resilience and pride. And a whole bunch of fleur de lis tattoos. And it had its low notes. I’m thinking along the lines of Ray Nagin’s proposed comedy festival and masquerade ball to commemorate the anniversary of the obliteration of a great American city. Ray. Admit it. You miss him. Then there were the second, third and fourth anniversaries — seems like only yesterday. Each one laying claim to increasingly diminished import, interest and resonance as defined by the national

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FIVE YEARS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS STILL HAS NO DNA LAB, THOUGH IT HAS STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS TO BUILD ONE — AND HAS BEEN LEASING SPACE FOR A LAB SINCE 2007. “RAPE KITS” COLLECTED FROM CRIME VICTIMS ARE ROUTINELY SENT OUT OF STATE FOR ANALYSIS, WHERE THE RESULTS CAN TAKE SIX MONTHS TO BE RETURNED.

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efore Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, the New Orleans Police Department’s DNA laboratory inside the crime lab at Tulane Avenue and South Gayoso Street was the most successful in the state. Technical leader Anne Montgomery opened the DNA lab for the city in 2001, had it accredited, and began screening DNA against the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database in 2003. “We had three analysts in there, and we served as a training ground for other laboratories,” Montgomery says. “Once we trained analysts, they would be hired away fairly rapidly by other laboratories across the state.” Using federal grant money, the DNA laboratory in New Orleans was

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successful in obtaining DNA profiles from hundreds of sexual assault cases in the city, dating back as far as 1987, resulting in convictions in cases that had long gone cold. Now, the lab itself has gone cold. Orleans Parish has been functioning without a working DNA laboratory ever since the crime lab building took 4 1/2 feet of water during Katrina. The Tulane and Gayoso location is now a vacant lot, and the NOPD sends samples to Baton Rouge for analysis by the Louisiana State Police, where they’re then outsourced again to a private company at taxpayers’ expense. The inability to rebuild a DNA lab isn’t for lack of money — funds have been provided by both the state and the federal government but have languished due to red tape and bureaucratic torpor. In June, Anna Duggar, director of the NOPD crime lab, resigned to take a teaching position at Loyola University. “What’s been most frustrating over the last three years is that there are a multitude of stakeholders involved — the state, the city, FEMA, the NOPD — and they’ve seemed consistently unable to get on the same page and move forward with productive decisions,” Duggar says. District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro agrees. “It’s obviously hampered us and reduced our ability to be more effective in prosecuting cases,” he says. Cannizzaro adds he is optimistic about the new mayoral administration of Mitch Landrieu, but even now he doesn’t see a new DNA laboratory on the horizon for New Orleans. Five years of bureaucratic and political delay means investigations and prosecutions of rape and murder cases have been delayed, leaving some of New Orleans’ most dangerous criminals — including possible serial rapists — out on the streets. Meanwhile, Landrieu and Police Chief Ronal Serpas are facing both the highest per capita murder rate in the country and a $67 million hole in the city’s budget — and they still cannot set a date for when Orleans Parish might have a DNA laboratory up and running. “They’re having to pick and choose which cases to do DNA on,” says Cate Bartholomew, a former assistant district attorney in the sex crimes unit. “And there’s an extensive delay in getting DNA back of at least six months.” FORTUNATELY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND prosecutors, the lab had entered the existing DNA samples into the CODIS database before Hurricane Katrina struck. “If we hadn’t have done that, then that evidence would have been lost forever during the flooding after Hurricane Katrina,” Montgomery says. “It’s those profiles that contributed to the New Orleans DNA lab generating more cold CODIS hits than any other DNA lab in the state

in 2005.” A “cold CODIS hit” is when the DNA evidence from a case with an unknown perpetrator matches up to DNA swabbed from arrestees or other previously convicted individuals whose DNA is entered into CODIS, a national database of DNA profiles connected with criminal cases. A cold CODIS hit puts a name and a face to the perpetrator in a rape case, so the DA’s office and law enforcement can then carry out an investigation. “Some of the CODIS hits were single hits, but some were clearly serial rapists, because you would have six, eight, 11 hits to one guy,” says Bartholomew, , who prosecuted the first cold CODIS case in Orleans Parish in 2007. DNA in that 1996 case had been uploaded to CODIS, and the defendant, Rudolph Wade, had been arrested in Maryland for holding a knife over a woman and demanding her car. With a DNA match to Wade, the NOPD persuaded the victim in the case to come forward and testify. Wade was found guilty of forcible rape — his second felony conviction involving violence against a woman — and Criminal District Court Judge Frank Marullo sentenced Wade to 80 years in prison. THE CRIME LABORATORY BUILDING, WHICH housed the old DNA laboratory, was demolished in 2009, after sitting vacant for four years. The lot on the corner of Tulane and South Gayoso is now overgrown with grass. An orphaned parking lot still has a sign that gives the only hint of the property’s former use. It still reads: “NOPD. PARKING RESERVED FOR CRIME LAB PERSONNEL AND AUTHORIZED VISITORS ONLY.” Much of the evidence housed in the old laboratory was destroyed in the aftermath of the storm. In the meantime, of the roughly 500 cold CODIS hits gathered by the Orleans Parish DNA lab before the storm, the NOPD’s Sex Crimes Unit can’t even be sure how many of those cases have been investigated since then. Lt. Paul Noel, who recently took over as commander of the NOPD’s Sex Crimes Unit, estimates that at most, 350 of the 500 cold CODIS hits have been investigated since 2005 — potentially leaving 150 known rapists out on the streets. “The problem we had before was that we had numerous lists floating around,” Noel said at a recent meeting of COMSTAT, the weekly meeting where NOPD commanders discuss crime statistics. “We need to reconcile all these lists so we can get one list that’s true and correct.” THE NOPD HAS BEEN LEASING THE LAB from the University of New Orleans (UNO) since 2007, but has been working without DNA equipment in the space ever since. In the space

Still, Barnum’s lab outsources the majority of the NOPD’s DNA to private laboratories using federal grants from the National Institute of Justice. “We end up outsourcing the bulk of the cases from the NOPD,” he says. “And I know we’ve been doing that for several years.” A WORKING DNA LABORATORY IS essential to fight crime in a major American city, says Emily Maw, executive director of the Innocence Project New Orleans, an organization that has worked with the city to properly catalog evidence and DNA samples since the old crime laboratory was destroyed.

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The Innocence Project has exonerated 255 wrongfully convicted people across the country based on DNA evidence, 10 of whom were in Louisiana, says Maw. “For serious cases, rapes and homicides, and crimes of violence, we’re increasingly able to identify perpetrators from minute amounts of DNA,” Maw says. “And in a city that has a justified fear of random violent crime it does seem to be a very high priority that we would develop the best and most state-of-the-art facilities and technology to solve those crimes, or to utilize the resources and testing abilities that other labs have. “And if in the past we have not done that, it is really only the safety of the

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reserved for a DNA laboratory, two technicians now screen sexual assault kits — otherwise known as rape kits — for viable semen samples, which they then send on to the Louisiana State Police laboratory in Baton Rouge for DNA analysis. “But the state police do not have the capacity to handle the workload of a major metropolitan department,” Lt. Noel said. “Our kits make up 80 percent of their intake, and they have been outsourcing those, and it’s killing them.” “I wouldn’t say that it’s killing us,” says Capt. Layne Barnum, who runs the Baton Rouge crime lab for the Louisiana

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people in New Orleans that has suffered,” she continues. “It’s also very important to have an organized system of evidence so that we can go back and look at old cases, as the technology develops.” Since Katrina, Maw’s organization has focused on maintaining an organized list of evidence associated with cases that have been tried in Orleans Parish. She would also like to see a fully functioning DNA laboratory in the city. The impact of a hamstrung DNA system is threefold. First, for people like Maw, there’s a possibility that innocent people remain incarcerated because DNA evidence that might exonerate them remains uninvestigated. Or in the case of one of Maw’s clients, Willie Cross, who was imprisoned for rape in Jefferson Parish in 1979, for example, DNA evidence that might have exonerated Smith has since been destroyed. Second, from the

prosecution’s perspective, and from the perspective of victims, it means cases against sex and violent criminals aren’t being made. Third, it means investigations aren’t as thorough as they might be. NeW OrleANS’ lACK OF A DNA lAbOrATOry IS NOT for lack of money or resources. The city could easily have paid for the DNA equipment with $200,000 the state allocated in 2008, or with a $1.4 million federal grant secured in November 2009. yet as far as Gambit has been able to ascertain, both sources of funds remain untouched. The state allocated $200,000 to the NOPD for crime lab equipment in 2008. That money expired on June 31 and was about to go back to the state, unspent, until Capt. barnum from the State Police lab petitioned for an extension of the deadline until December 2010.

“I’ve done everything I can to keep that money alive,” he says. Furthermore, Maw’s organization worked with the NOPD to secure a $1.4 million federal grant last November to catalog inventory materials from the city’s evidence facilities, as well as carry out DNA testing on evidence from closed homicide and rape cases in which defendants had been convicted. That money for DNA testing, too, remains unspent, even though it could pay for the necessary equipment to establish a new laboratory, several times over. Meanwhile, the city has also been spending money leasing space for a DNA lab inside the crime lab at UNO — without filling it with the laboratory equipment required. The city signed a 36-month contract with UNO in February 2007, for a total cost of $713,000. The DNA lab takes up 1,200 of the 18,000 total square feet, meaning the city spent roughly $50,000 on the un-equipped DNA lab over three years. That money was reimbursable by the Federal emergency Management Agency, but the city has continued to pay rent on the UNO space since February 2010. Duggar continues to act as an unpaid consultant to the laboratory. “I’m optimistic that we’re seeing a new focus on multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional cooperation,” Duggar says. “That should benefit the Crime lab and its DNA section, but it will take a serious, sustained refocusing on effective problem solving to address the longstanding shortcomings.” records obtained by Gambit show that the city finally sought bids on new DNA equipment for the crime lab in April 2010. Just one company bid on the contract: California-based Applied biosystems, listing a total price of $189,579.06 to supply one AbI 3130 Genetic Analyzer, one HID 750 real-Time DNA computer, and one Silver 96-Well GeneAmp amplifier system. On July 12, the landrieu Administration rejected the Applied biosystems bid, deeming it “nonresponsive.” The reason? Applied biosystems had included a line item for estimated shipping and handling of the machinery, totaling $2,753. “The invitation to bid will be reissued shortly,” wrote Nat Celestine, assistant purchasing administrator for the city. As of last week — nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina — the city has rented space and secured state and federal funds for a DNA lab, but has no equipment. SerPAS DeClINeD COMMeNT ON THIS STOry, reFerring Gambit to the mayor’s office. landrieu’s office issued a written statement from lt. Col. Jerry Sneed,

DNA in Prosecution ewer than 10 percent of women who are raped in New Orleans end up going to the police, estimates Dale Standifer, executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Women and Children, which runs a 24-hour crisis hotline for victims of rape and sexual assault. “It’s very difficult for rape victims to go to the police,” Standifer says. “you’ve got the humiliation of the rape in the first place, and then I’ve sat through many rape exams with victims, and it’s a humiliating experi-

ence — and then in many cases you have police officers who don’t believe you. “There’s all these things going against people to even go forward to begin with,” she says. “And then the other thing is, OK, so they don’t catch the rapist. If they don’t even get the ones that are walking around, then for the rest of your life, any time the victim goes anywhere, she’s wondering if he’s out to get me again. So your whole life view changes, and the world is no longer a safe place to be. you don’t trust your judgment.” On the other hand, successfully prosecuting a rapist allows victims to move on with their lives, says former Assistant District Attorney Cate bartholomew. “The ability to get back on your feet and stand up for yourself and get your voice back can be really positive and significant for a lot of women,” she says. “That’s been my experience as a prosecutor. And in the CODIS cases, there’s a significant closure factor that lets a lot of women move on with their lives, because the CODIS cases are all stranger cases. It’s not someone they knew. Women don’t have to look over their shoulder all the time and wonder if he’s still out there.”

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deputy mayor of public safety and homeland security, who also responded to follow-up questions via email. While the State Police lab may be delaying certain cases, it also has been turning around “certain priority cases in no longer than it would have taken a local lab to test,” Sneed wrote. He could give no deadline for having a DNA laboratory open in Orleans Parish, saying only that the city is “doing everything in our power to have a fully operational crime lab with accredited DNA testing capabilities as soon as possible.” Asked about the 150 uninvestigated CODIS hits, Sneed responded that “such a scenario is unacceptable, and the mayor and Chief Serpas have been working diligently to restore the public’s trust in our Police Department.” He wrote that the administration will do “everything in our power to reduce crime and to increase coordination in the criminal justice system so that victims get the justice they deserve.” Regarding the unspent federal and state grants for DNA equipment, Sneed wrote: “When Chief Serpas learned that the funds were not being used because the previous administration did not authorize it, he immediately directed the chiefs who oversee the crime lab, property room and budget operations to put in place the necessary structure to spend those funds to complete the work. “Unfortunately, the last bid for new DNA testing equipment was deemed non-responsive in the last several weeks,” Sneed continued. “Equipment is a priority; however, the bid was rejected because of the ‘alteration’ of the bid, which is a legal rather than financial matter.” “We are all committed to doing everything possible to combat crime,” Sneed added. “We have been working for the last 80-plus days to correct mistakes made in the past.” Maw, of the Innocence Project, continues to catalog and preserve evidence in hopes that New Orleans will have a model DNA lab again. “It sort of reminds me of when the Germans invaded Poland, and the Germans had all this incredible 20th-century artillery, and all the Polish had were these horses,” she says. “If we’ve got this very serious violent crime problem in New Orleans, then we should be equipping ourselves to fight it with new technology.”

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a bottle of plum brandy Armstrong had brought back from Yugoslavia during a tour in Eastern Europe during the height of the Cold War. “We managed to kill that bottle over the course of the afternoon, so it was a great interview,” he says. “It was a very memorable afternoon, but every time you saw Louis it was memorable.” As the keynote speaker at the Satchmo conference, Morgenstern will address the state of Armstrong scholarship. “It certainly has blossomed,” he says, referring to the flurry of biographies and jazz histories released since Armstrong’s centennial birthday. Authors presenting new research at the festival have included Penny Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World, which details how the U.S. State Department deployed Armstrong as a cultural ambassador during the Cold War, and Thomas Brothers, who wrote Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans. Morgenstern also notes the work of local researchers, including Dr. Jack Stewart and Don Marcus. Satchmo fans can also savor never-beforeseen film clips and footage of the legend. Archivist Ricky Riccardi and director Michael page 26

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Cogswell of the Louis Armstrong House Museum (www.louisarmstronghouse. org) in Queens, N.Y., where Armstrong lived for 30 years, will co-present artifacts from the Jack Bradley Collection, the premier repository of Armstrong memorabilia. Riccardi will show rare footage of Armstrong in his seminar “Cinematic Satch Part 1: Behind the Iron Curtain” (3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday) and shed light on the musician’s complicated relationship with his hometown in “Cinematic Satch Part 2: Louis Armstrong and New Orleans” (3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday). “I’ll be screening some footage that a lot of hardcore Armstrong aficionados have never seen before, but it’s also going be enjoyable for newbies,” Riccardi says. Riccardi focused his attention on Armstrong after a musical epiphany. “There’s a nine-minute recording of ‘St. Louis Blues’ and at right about minute eight-and-a-half I felt something snap in my brain, and I realized I’d never been moved before so much by music,” he says. “So at that point I pretty much made a vow to get every Armstrong CD and book and movie and pretty much everything else I could, and I was actually able to turn that into a career.” In addition to his work at the Armstrong House, he publishes the blog, “The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong” (dippermouth. blogspot.com), and his book What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years is slated for release in May 2011. At Armstrong House, Riccardi presides over the voluminous Jack Bradley Collection. “Jack was very close to Louis in the last years of his life,” Riccardi says. “He collected everything he could. My first seven or eight months on the job was just trying to make sense of that collection, going through Jack’s scrapbooks, going through news clippings, reading … and going through Jack’s photo collection and looking at his contact sheets, his negatives, photos of Louis on stage, photos of Louis at home. It was after that that I felt like I had a better grasp on Louis than I ever had before,” Riccardi says. Of course, Armstrong’s true legacy is musical. The festival features two days of free live music by Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, Wendell Brunious, Shamarr Allen, Delfeayo Marsalis, Tim Laughlin, Leroy Jones, Jeremy Davenport, Wanda Rouzan, Clive Wilson, the Rebirth, Treme and Hot 8 brass bands and many others. There’s plenty of traditional New Orleans jazz, and Armstrong’s influence is not hard to find among local musicians. “[Leroy Jones] has Louis in his soul,” Morgenstern says. Complete schedule at www.fqfi.com.

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ax Riggs is the best frontman in Louisiana. That he’s no longer in Louisiana, having recently relocated to Austin, is beside the point. Riggs’ output since disbanding the 1990s sludge-metal forebear Acid Bath and short-lived spinoff Agents of Oblivion — which includes two albums as Deadboy & the Elephantmen and, with this week’s release of Say Goodnight to the World (Fat Possum), two albums under his own name — leaves little doubt as to its birthplace. Haunted songs baptizing swampy blues riffs, full-moon howls drowning blasphemous, God-smearing lyrics — Riggs may write in Texas, but he remains the bayou’s lone rock star. Christianity isn’t the only sacred cow slaughtered on Say Goodnight. While the Houma-bred singer still hears Satan and sleeps with witches, he also has grave dirt on his blue suede shoes and a druggy cover of “Heartbreak Hotel” that could’ve come from the darkest corner of the Doors. Stoning Elvis? Is Riggs insane? “That would be correct,” he answers. But Riggs is not insane, and his graveyard jawing is no put-on or residual metal patina. It’s a rebuke of his pious upbringing in Evansville, Ind., where his mother took him door-to-door as a Jehovah’s Witness. “My whole life, I’ve kind of believed that the world is about to end,” he says. “I don’t really believe it anymore as far as a religious scenario goes. I used to think, ‘What does a little religion hurt?’ The reality of it is, the only gods anybody wants to worship are war gods. … I believe we should worship what actually gives us life. Starting with the sun is not a bad idea. Creative energy, what you can see — that is a good thing.” His post-Acid Bath musical direction is fed by a more tangible influence: a move to south Louisiana with his father at age 12. Its origins reach back even farther, he says. “I actually, as a very young child, played a lot of hillbilly music. Sang along with my grandfather. I believe there’s a thread of Appalachian vibe in my genetic makeup … All this roots music of different kinds, not to mention a big dose of heavy metal and punk rock.” Say Goodnight is both a continuation and a clean break for Riggs. Guitarstenciled advance singles “No One Will Be a Stranger” and “Gravedirt on My Blue

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chickie Wah Wah — John Mooney, 8 circle Bar — Tom Paines, 6; Sweet Jones, 10

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It’s tough to look at and listen to Cyndi Lauper today — hair teased into a girlish tangle of spun sugar, voice still both squeaking and booming — and not see and hear the adorably squinty, harmlessly anarchic MTV spitfire who skipped through the streets in 1984, imploring anyone within earshot to join in on her fun. Few current recording artists with multigenerational fan bases are so tied to a specific time. Lauper turned 57 in June, which makes her equidistant in age between 42-year-old Molly Ringwald, 1984’s other ginger pop-culture touchstone, and 72-year-old Allen Toussaint, one of several legends to appear on Lauper’s 11th studio album, the June release Memphis Blues (Downtown). The LP, which debuted atop the Billboard blues chart, follows 2008’s Bring Ya to the Brink, and substitutes that record’s dancehall vibe and guests (Basement Jaxx, Kleerup) with a suite of passable Delta duets and less probable cameos: Charlie Musselwhite, Ann Peebles and B.B. King, who with Toussaint backs Lauper on the first single “Early in the Mornin’” as she wheezes about dropping into Dooky Chase for a bite to eat. It’s a shamelessly regional thrill, hearing this pop icon emulate area sounds and namedrop local haunts, but it’s a thrill all the same. David Rhodes opens. Tickets $40. — Noah Bonaparte Pais

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rock ’n’ BoWl — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8:30

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Shows feat. Mama Go-Go, 6; My Empty Phantom, 10

d.B.a. — Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10

deckBar & grille — John Lisi & the Delta Funk, 7:30; Dr. Porkchop Blues Band, 10 dos Jefes uPToWn cigar Bar — Bob Andrews, 9:30 gennaro’s — Arrivals, 8

hoWlin’ Wolf (The den) — Booty Trove Brass Band, 9 huddle sPorTs Bar — Band of Brothers, 9

Bacchanal — Jazz Lab feat. Jesse Morrow, 7:30

irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Sasha Masakowski, 5; Irvin Mayfield’s NOJO Jam, 8

Beach house — Poppa Stoppa Oldies Band, 8

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Bayou Park Bar — Cary Hudson, 9

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Big al’s saloon — Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone Blues Party, 7

MoJo sTaTion — Ed Wills, Blues for Sale, 8

BMc — Domenic, 7; Rue Fiya, 9:30

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BaCChanaL — Gypsy Swing Club, 8

BaILey’s on The fRonT — Danny O’Flaherty, 6

The BaR — 24 Miles, City Below, Slave to the Day, 10

Banks sTReeT BaR — Kevin O’Day & James Andrews All-Star Band, 10

Bayou BaR aT The ponTChaRTRaIn hoTeL — Armand St. Martin, 7 Bayou paRk BaR — Smashing Blonde, 10

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BoomTown CasIno — Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 9:30 Cafe neGRIL — Smoky Greenwell & the Blues Gnus, 10:30

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Bmc â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New Orleans Music Series, 1; Joe Kennedy Project, 5:30; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 9; George Sartin & Jack Cruz

Donnaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & griLL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jesse McBride & the Next Generation Jazz Band, 9

Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Den â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fell Voices, Ash Borer, Thou, Streights, 7

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sT. rocH Tavern â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Washboard Lissa Orchestra, 7

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snug HarBor Jazz BisTro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10

one eyeD Jacks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ty Segall, Royal Baths, Dives, Bellys, 9

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CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (PG) — Kitty

Galore, a former cat agent, goes rogue to try and take down canines as well as her kitten comrades. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG-13) — Zac Efron plays an accom-

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CYRUS (R) — A down-and-out divorcee meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has a 21-year-old son with whom she shares an unconventional relationship. Canal Place

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HIGH NOON (NR) — The 1952

western film directed by Fred Zinneman stars Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Free admission. 8 p.m. Monday, La Divina Cafe e Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com MARY POPPINS (G)— In the Disney musical, a magical nanny (Julie Andrews) injects whimsy into a banker’s unhappy family life. Tickets $5.50. Noon Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com NEW ORLEANS (NR) — The

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Director Steven Soderbergh has pursued a radically eclectic array of projects, from sex, lies, and videotape (1989) and the blockbusting Ocean’s franchise to the epic Che and the small-budget project The Girlfriend Experience with porn star Sasha Grey. He first worked with the enigmatic writer/monologuist Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia) when he created a role for him in his third film, King of the Hill (1993). Gray later solicited him to film his monologue project Gray’s Anatomy (1996). Gray died in 2004, presumably a suicide, and eventually his wife offered Soderbergh access to years of filmed monologues and home movies. He’s created a documentary biopic from that material, largely letting Gray tell his own story. Soderbergh will attend this screening and participate in a Q&A afterward. Tickets $15 general admission, $12 New Orleans Film Society members. — Will Coviello

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FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL — Film screenings include Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1, Mademoiselle Chambon, Beauty and the Beast, Father of My Children and Let it Rain. Screening times vary. Visit www. neworleansfilmsociety.org for details. Tickets $8.50 general admission, $6.50 New Orleans Film Society members. FridayMonday and Aug. 10, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com

across five countries in South America, exploring movements and misperceptions while interviewing seven elected presidents. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students/seniors, $5 members. 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net

THE TROTSKY — A high school

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VIEUX CARRE MATINEES —

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OPENING ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Paintings

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ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — New sculptures by Lin Emery; “Opera Houses,” photographs by David Leventi; both through Sept. 11. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. CAFE MINH. 4139 Canal St., 4826266 — Photographs by Jim

Thorns, through December. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. CANARY GALLERY. 329 Julia St., 388-7746; www.thecanarycollective.com — “Let Them Eat Crude,” acrylic paintings by Tony Nozero, through Sept. 29. Opening reception 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Freak Parade,” works by Thomas Woodruff, through Oct. 24. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

to Obsession,” drawings and paintings by Patrick Sart and sculptures by Michele Basta, through Aug. 28. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 — “Singing Over the Bones,” ceramics by Beverly Morris, through September. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. GALLERY BIENVENU. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.gallerybienvenu.com — “The Wrench Series,” incised paintings by Mitchell Lonas, through Sept. 25. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www. heriardcimino.com — “Broken Time,” new paintings and pastel drawings by Pinkney Herbert, through Sept. 18. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

ITALY DIRECT. 709 Tchoupitoulas St., 566-4933; www. fashionsofitaly.com — Mixedmedia works by Mike Kilgore, through Aug. 30. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — “The River of Forget,”

new paintings and sculptures by Kathleen Ariatti Banton; “Nothing is Nothing,” new works on paper by Kyle Bravo; both through Aug. 28. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Anting,” paintings and pastels by Jesse Poimboeuf, through Sept. 25. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “Simultaneous Horizons,” mixed-media and acrylic works by Edith Moseley and Brad Robertson, through Sept. 28. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “The Art of Tennessee,”

works from the collection of Gertrude and Ben Caldwell; “Place Meets Time,” photographs by Tom Rankin; “Flight Lab,” a multi-media piece by Jenny K. Hager; “Art Speaks,” video by YA/YA; all through Sept. 19. “The Art of Country Music,” items from the Marty Stuart Collection, through October. All opening Saturday. SIBLEY GALLERY. 3427 Magazine St., 899-8182 — “Beginning the Journey,” bronze, paper and wax sculptures; serigraphs and digital prints by R.G. Brown and Karen Eustis, through August. Opening reception 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 568-9050 — “Melting Lines,” works by Murielle White, through Sept. 27. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. TAYLOR BERCIER FINE ART. 233 Chartres St., 527-0072 — “Fever Dreams,” drawings and paintings by Thomas Woodruff, through Oct. 22. Opening reception 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

GALLERIES AORTA PROJECTS. Poland Avenue and North Miro Street; www.aortaprojects.blogspot. com — “Blue Fence,” installation by Jennifer Odem, through December. BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Gulf Spray,” oil

spill-inspired spray paint art, through Aug. 10. COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “Details: Works on Paper,” paperworks by Robert Berguson, Robert Lansden and Dale Newkirk, through Aug. 15.

D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 — Annual group exhibition

featuring sculptures, paintings and mixed-media works by gallery artists, through Tuesday. DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Art Chaud,” a summer group exhibition featuring new work by 17 local artists, through Sept. 4.

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Expanded listings at bestofneworleans.com PAGE 35 ISABELLA’S GALLERY. 3331 Severn Ave., Suite 105, Metairie, 779-3202; www. isabellasgallery.com — Hand-blown

works by Marc Rosenbaum; raku by Kate Tonguis and John Davis; all ongoing. JUPITER ARTPROJECTS. 1901 Royal St., 281-4230; www.jupiterartprojects. com — “The New Black,” works by Paige Valente, through Aug. 18. LE PETIT SALON DE NEW ORLEANS. 906 Royal St., 524-5700 — New

paintings by Holly Sarre, ongoing. LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD. 608 Julia St., 558-6198; www.louisianacrafts. org — Group show featuring works from guild members, ongoing. METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL. 300 Park Road, Metairie, 837-5204; www.mpcds.com — “The

Unconventional Portrait,” works by Mark Bercier, David Halliday, Gina Phillips and Alexander Stolin, ongoing. MICHALOPOULOS GALLERY. 617 Bienville St., 558-0505; www.michalopoulos.com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing. MICHELLE Y WILLIAMS GALLERY. 835 Julia St., 585-1945; www.michelleywilliams.com — Works by Michelle Y. Williams, ongoing.

NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS & PRINTMAKING STUDIO. 727 Magazine St., 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — “A Culinary

RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS COMPANY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Works by

Teri Walker, Chad Ridgeway, Tamra Carboni, Caren Nowak and others, ongoing RIVERSTONE GALLERIES. 719 Royal St., 412-9882; 729 Royal St., 581-3688; Riverwalk, 1 Poydras St., Suite 36, 5660588; 733 Royal St., 525-9988; www. riverstonegalleries.net — Multimedia works by Ricardo Lozano, Michael Flohr, Henry Ascencio, Jaline Pol and others, ongoing. ROSETREE GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY. 446 Vallette St., Algiers Point, 366-3602; www.rosetreeglass.com —

Hand-blown glasswork, ongoing. SLIDELL ART LEAGUE GALLERY. Historic Slidell Train Depot, 1827 Front St., Suite 201, (985) 847-9458 — “Out of the Blue,” a group exhibition and competition, through Feb. 3. ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — “Summer Show,” a

group exhibition of juried works by artists across the country, through Aug. 15.

High Art

What a difference a year and a half makes. In the winter of 20082009, the Louisiana State Museum’s Old U.S. Mint facility was resplendently decked out with work by some of the international art world’s best-known luminaries. The event was the Prospect.1 New Orleans International Biennial, and the Mint never looked so good. Today it houses a free and oddly retro Drug Enforcement Administration expo highlighting the perils of illegal substance abuse. Featuring detailed re-creations of jungle coke labs and crack houses, it even describes how easy it is to set up a meth lab in a hotel room. But what really makes it worth seeing is the adjunct exhibition produced by the Louisiana State Museum. Beyond exploring Louisiana’s long legacy of smuggling, it serendipitously doubles as a history of the New Orleans underground and the artistic and criminal subcultures that commingled therein. Exhibits range from traditional criminality — for instance, a boat used by rum runners to ferry booze from offshore schooners to docks in Vermilion Bay — to William Burroughs’ New Orleans experiences writing his pseudonymous dope novel, Junkie (pictured), complete with a blowup of the original Ace paperback cover and the NOPD ledger recording his arrest. (Anyone who read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road will recall the section set in Algiers, in which Burroughs appears under a pseudonym.) Other items include an ornate vintage opium pipe from the opium dens of our bygone local Chinatown that stretched from around Tulane Avenue and South Rampart Street to the plaza where City Hall and the New Orleans Public Library now stand, as well as an old 78 rpm record of the jazz classic “Junker Blues” performed by Champion Jack Dupree. Also on display is the thematically related vinyl LP, Junco Partner, by the late, great James Booker, a tortured genius and piano virtuoso par excellence. Jazz, blues and drugs shared a long local history and while many went down that road, some, like Booker, tragically became martyrs along the way. — D. Eric Bookhardt THRU NOV

TARGET AMERICA: OPENING EYES TO THE DAMAGE DRUGS CAUSE Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., 568-6968; http://lsm.crt.state.la.us

CALL FOR ARTISTS PROTECT OUR WETLANDS, PROTECT OURSELVES VIDEO CAMPAIGN. The

Charitable Film Network invites participants to make videos about environmental issues facing Gulf Coast communities for a chance to win cash and prizes. Visit www. charitablefilmnetwork.org for details. Submission deadline is Friday.

MUSEUMS AMERICAN-ITALIAN MUSEUM & RESEARCH LIBRARY. 537 S. Peters St., 522-7294 — Permanent exhibits and

a research library with genealogy records. AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER. Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 865-5535 — “Tom Dent: A Heavy Trip Through the South,” an exhibition highlighting the New Orleans poet, playwright and oral

historian, through September.

ASHÉ CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Ashe in Retrospect: 1998-2008,” photographs by Morris Jones Jr., Eric Waters, Jeffrey Cook and others, ongoing.

BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM. 1116 St. Claude Ave., 522-4806; www. backstreetmuseum.org — Permanent exhibits of Mardi Gras Indian suits, jazz funeral memorabilia and social aid and pleasure club artifacts, ongoing.

HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Katrina + 5: Document-

ing Disaster,” an oral history and photography project with historical maps, documents and a multimedia presentation, through Sept. 12.

LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “Deepwater

Horizon Response,” a conceptual installation about the BP oil disaster by Mitchell Gaudet, through September. “Untitled No. 6029,” sculpture by Eric Dallimore, through December.

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LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM. 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm.org — “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: A

Hands-On Exhibit”; “Fetch,” a scavenger hunt designed to develop problem-solving skills; “Team Turtle Training Camp,” hands-on exhibit designed to teach kids how to make healthy choices; all ongoing. LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., 568-6968 — “Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause,” an interactive exhibit exploring the damaging effects of illegal drugs, through Nov. 24.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Unsung Heroes: The Secret History of Louisiana Rock & Roll,” through May. “The Cabildo: 200 Years of Louisiana History,” ongoing. MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN COCKTAIL. 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.museumoftheamericancocktail.org — “Absinthe

“WHERE THE UNUSUAL IS COMMONPLACE.”

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum.org — “Loyal Forces: The Animals of World War II,” artifacts focusing on animals employed and encountered in the war, through Oct. 17.

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NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 5661136; www.noaam.com — “Sumpt’n

to See, Native Son Comes Home,” paintings by Ted Ellis; “Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom,” a collection of artifacts by Derrick Joshua Beard; both through November. NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Swamp Tours,” a group exhibition featuring contemporary Louisiana artists, through Aug. 29, and more.

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NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM. 514 Chartres St., 565-8027; www.pharmacymuseum.org — Exhibits on

19th-century pharmacy, medicine and healthcare, all ongoing.

PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER. 923 Tchoupitoulas St., 581-7032; www. prcno.org — “American Memories,” postcards from Geoffrey Snodgrass’s collection depicting American cityscapes, buildings and monuments, through Aug. 15. SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — “Aca-

dian to Cajun: Forced Migration to Commercialization,” a multimedia exhibit, and more.

TEKREMA CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE. 5640 Burgundy St., 247-2612 — “Healing Waters: Reflections of

the Gulf,” an exhibition and meditation site centering around “Healing Waters” by Niko Ciglio, through August. For complete listings, visit www. bestofneworleans.com.

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Extravaganza: The Sweet Sounds of Satchmo and the Sugarfoot Stomp,” works by Chad Gilchrist, Lisa Liggett, Melissa Clark and Cathy DeYoung, through September. OAK STREET GALLERY. 8219 Oak St., 912-3304 — “Industry Zoo,” sculptural paintings by Sherry Francalancia, through August. ONE SUN GALLERY. 616 Royal St., (800) 501-1151 — Works by local and national artists, ongoing. PEARL ART GALLERY. 4421 Magazine St., 228-5840 — Works by Cindy and Drue Hardegree, Erica Dewey, John Womack, Sontina, Lorraine Jones and S. Lee, ongoing.

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THEATER BLACKBIRD. Elm Theatre, 220 Julia

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St., 218-0055; www.elmtheatre. org — A Gulf War veteran and a drug-addicted former stripper cling to each other in hopes of escaping their grim lives. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 14. CHEF’S SURPRISE. Luke’s Brisket and Broadway Dinner Theatre, 1540 Lindberg Drive, Slidell, (985) 781-6565; www.brisketandbroadway.com — James Hartman directs Rebecca Howell, Derrick Mittelstaedt, Paul Page and Patrick Rouse. Tickets $40 (includes dinner). 7 p.m. FridaySaturday. DEBAUCHERY. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812; www. cabaretlechatnoir.com — Mark Routhier directs Pat Bourgeois’ soap opera featuring Matthew Mickal, Sean Patterson, Jessica Podewell, Gary Rucker and Mandy Zirkenbach. Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. LAUGH, CRY, SCREAM & SHOUT.

Marigny Theatre, 1030 Marigny St., 218-8559; www.marignytheatre. org — Two female actors take on 36 characters from different walks of life. Tickets $20 at the door, $15 in advance. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

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THE REALLY DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES OF STEPFORD PARISH. Le Chat Noir,

715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812; www. cabaretlechatnoir.com — Something is amiss among the housewives of Stepford Parish in the Running With Scissors farce. Tickets $26 Friday-Saturday, $21 Sunday (both include $5 drink credit); 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday. RITUAL MURDER. Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — The one-act play deals with the problem of black-on-black violence. Tickets $15 at the door, $10 in advance. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. SPOKEN WORD. NOCCA|Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., 940-2787; www. nocca.com — In Edward Buckles’ play, five teenagers hold a poetry slam to prevent their theater shutting down. Free admission. 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday. STAGE DOOR IDOL. Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944 — Contestants in the museum’s 1940s-themed singing contest vie to star in a show with the Victory Six Swing Band. Free admission. 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

BURLESQUE & CABARET BURLESQUE BALLROOM. Irvin

Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., 553-2270; www.sonesta. com — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring

GET IN ON THE ACT androids improvise a space voyage based on audience suggestions. Tickets $6. 8:30 p.m. Thursdays.

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BLUE MONDAY STAND-UP COMEDY.

Low Rent

Adam Rapp’s Blackbird is set in a tenement on Canal Street, but this Canal is hundreds of miles from the Gulf — at the worm-eaten core of the Big Apple. On the brighter side, Elm Theater is a new and pleasant, small auditorium on Julia Street. The seats are on risers, so the sight lines are excellent. The chairs are padded, which is good, because Blackbird runs longer than two hours. The grim drama is set in a squalid apartment with graffiticovered walls. There’s a dirty mattress on the floor and a desk with a bottle of liquor prominent amid the clutter. Two lovers share the space in a sort of heavy metal, low-life version of Romeo and Juliet. Froggy (Becca Chapman) is a teenage heroin addict who has worked as a stripper and turned an occasional trick. She has contracted hepatitis, and her skin is taking on a yellow hue. Baylis (Garrett Prejean) sometimes provides Froggy with her fix. He’s a veteran from Desert Storm (the 1991 Iraq war), and returned from combat a ghost of his former self. He’s hooked on drugs and is incontinent, perhaps impotent (Froggy calls him “Dickless”). The language is a roller coaster ride between extremes of down-and-dirty vernacular, like “f—king hepatitis, that’s like cancer and shit” to celestial heights of forced lyricism: “I could be snow. If I was snow, I’d yell at you, because snow has a voice.” This world is more the creation of Sam Shepard than Dante. Its in-your-face realism provokes more disgust than empathy. By the second act, we’re treated to shitting and pissing. Excretion is a natural human function, but is it necessary on stage? Shock value has its limits. But sentimentalists need not entirely despair — Blackbird takes place on Christmas Eve. Under Laura Hope’s direction, Prejean (artistic director of the Elm) maintains the psychotic energy of the wounded Baylis throughout the show. And Chapman gives us an enigmatically winning little devil of a Froggy. Blackbird will not be everyone’s cup of tea. A half-hour could and should be lopped off the script, and you’d still be left with some pretty unappealing situations. Nonetheless, the Elm Theatre clearly intends to take risks. — Dalt Wonk THRU AUG

BLACKBIRD 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat. Elm Theatre, 220 Julia St., 218-0055; www.elmtheatre.org

the music of Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown. Call 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday. THE MIDNIGHT REVUE. Starlight by the Park, 834 N. Rampart St., 561-8939; www.starlightbythepark. com — Marcy Marcell directs a weekly female-impersonation jazz cabaret. Call for ticket information. Midnight Friday.

AUDITIONS BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY.

Christ the King Lutheran Church, 1001 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 469-4740; www.ctk-nola.org — The Greater New Orleans Chapter holds new member auditions for its Mardi Gras Chorus. Call 363-9001 or visit www.mardigraschorus.org for details. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. CRESCENT CITY SOUND CHORUS. Del-

gado Community College, City Park campus, Orleans Avenue, between City Park Avenue and Navarre Street; www.dcc.edu — The chorus holds weekly auditions for women ages 16 and older for its original show A Streetcar Named Who Dat to be performed in October. Call 453-0858 or visit www.crescentcitysound.com for details. 7 p.m. Monday.

THE MADWOMAN OF THE CHAILLOT.

AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.marignytheatre.org — Cripple Creek Theatre Company holds auditions for the upcoming production. Email whelan@cripplecreekplayers.org for details. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

COMEDY A.S.S.TRONOTS. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — Four

Bullets Sports Bar, 2441 A.P. Tureaud Ave., 948-4003 — Tony Frederick hosts the weekly open mic. 9 p.m. Monday. BROWN! IMPROV COMEDY. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net — The comedy troupe stars Johnathan Christiansen, Gant Laborde, Ken Lafrance, Bob Murrell and Kelli Rosher. 10 p.m. Saturday. COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 4006145 — The bar hosts a free weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 p.m. Tuesday. COMEDY GUMBEAUX. Howlin’ Wolf (The Den), 828 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.howlin-wolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open mic portion. Tickets $5. 8 p.m. Thursday. DYKES OF HAZARD. Rubyfruit Jungle, 1135 Decatur St., 571-1863; www. rubyfruit-jungle.com — Kristen Becker hosts a weekly comedy show with live music, sketch comedy, burlesque and more. Admission $5. 9 p.m. Friday. GROUND ZERO COMEDY. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 309-7137 — The show features local stand-up comedians. Sign-up is 7:30 p.m. Show is 8 p.m. IVAN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., 525-5515 — The Rusty Nail hosts a weekly open-mic comedy and music night. 9 p.m. Tuesday. NATIONAL COMEDY COMPANY. Yo Mama’s Bar & Grill, 727 St. Peter St., 522-1125 — The interactive improv comedy show features B97 personality Stevie G and others. Call 523-7469 or visit www.nationalcomedycompany.com for details. 10 p.m. Saturdays. ROUNDHOUSE. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — Comedians perform a barefoot, long-form improvisation show. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Fridays. STAND UP NOLA PRESENTS SLIM BLOODWORTH. Boomtown Casino,

Boomers Saloon, 4132 Peters Road, Harvey, 366-7711; www.boomtownneworleans.com — The comedian performs. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. STAND-UP OPEN MIC. Sidney’s, 1674 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 341-0103 — The show features professional, amateur and first-time comics. Free admission. Sign-up is 8 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m. Thursday. STUPID TIME MACHINE. Avenue Pub, 1732 St. Charles Ave., 586-9243 — The improv group performs a weekly comedy show. Tickets $1-$6. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — Weekly open-mic is open to all comics. Sign-up 8:30 p.m. Show 9 p.m. Wednesday. For complete listings, visit www. bestofneworleans.com.

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family Saturday 7 FAIRY GODMOTHER GRAB-BAG .

Children’s Castle, 501 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 468-7231 — The Fairy Godmother’s show combines stories and comedy. Admission $5. 11:30 a.m.

MASTER GARDENERS.

Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., 483-7037; www. hollygrovemarket.com — Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans teaches young gardeners to plant, paint, identify good and bad bugs and feed the chickens. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHAT’S UP DOC? KIDS HEALTH FAIR . Children’s Hospital, 200

Henry Clay Ave., Room 3302 — The event offers free immunizations, hearing screenings, healthy snacking tips and activities for children 4 to 11 years old. Call 896-9373 for details. 9 a.m to 3 p.m.

events Tuesday 3 CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Broadway Street

DEALING WITH LOSS. West Jefferson Behavioral Medicine Center, 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Gretna, 391-2440 — The center offers a weekly support group. Call Doreen Fowler for details. 6 p.m. DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE . Tulane-

Lakeside Hospital, 4700 South I-10 Service Road West, Metairie — The peer support group meets the first and third Tuesdays of every month. Visit www.dbsaneworleans.org for details. 7:30 p.m. DIVORCE AND BEYOND. Counseling Solutions of Catholic Charities, 921 Aris Ave., Metairie, 835-5007 — A licensed clinical social worker helps group participants going through divorce. Call 835-5007 for details. ROAD HOME ASSISTANCE . Community Center of St. Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St., Arabi, 281-2512 — Representatives are available at the center to assist homeowners with questions

and concerns. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS LUNCHEON .

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — Gen. George Casey, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, lectures on the role of the army in the 21st century. Visit www.wacno.org for details. Admission $65, $50 WACNO members. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesday 4 COVINGTON FARMERS MARKET.

Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873 — The market offers fresh local goods every week. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

FRENCH MARKET FARMERS MARKET. French Market, French

Market Place, between Decatur and N. Peters streets, 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The weekly market offers seasonal produce, seafood, prepared foods, smoothies and more. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. GET TO KNOW GOD. Lost & Found Center, 901 Independence St., 344-1234; www.lostandfoundcenter.org — The group meets every week to discuss Bible scripture. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. East

Jefferson General Hospital, 4200 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 454-4000; www.ejgh.org — The American Cancer Society sponsors a group for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. Call 456-5000 for details. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

INFANCY TO INDEPENDENCE .

St. Matthew/Central United Church of Christ, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 861-8196; www.stmatthew-nola.org — The parent-child education and support group uses enriching activities in music, art and play. Visit www.infancytoindependence.org for details. 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday-Thursday.

LGBT YOUTH PEER SUPPORT GROUP. LGBT Community

Center of New Orleans, 2114 Decatur St., www.lgbtccno.org — The center provides a support group for 18- to 24- yearolds dealing with the struggles of coming out, sexuality, family and relationships. Email programs@lgbtccno.org for details. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

LUNCHBOX LECTURE . National

World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum.org — The semi-monthly lecture series focuses on an array of World War II-related topics. Call 528-1944 ext. 229 for details. 12 p.m.

MEET THE ARTIST: PEG MARTINEZ . New Orleans

Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100;

www.noma.org — The museum features the woodwork artist. Free admission. 6 p.m. MODEL GREEN HOUSE . 409

Andry St., between Douglass Street and the levee; www. globalgreen.org/neworleans — Global Green provides tours of its model green house, which uses renewable energy from solar panels and other sources. Call 525-2121 or visit the website for details. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB MONTHLY MEETING . Harahan Senior

Center, 100 Elodie St., 737-3810 — The monthly meeting’s topic is “60 Sites in 90 Minutes.” Visit www.nopc.org for details. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. QUILTING 101 . St. Tammany

Parish Library, Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 893-6280; www.stpl.us — The library hosts a seven-week series of quilting classes tailored for beginners. Call 768-6294 for details. 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

SAVE OUR CEMETERIES CEMETERY TOURS. The group

conducts tours of New Orleans cemeteries. Call 525-3377 for details.

SEALEBRATION . Audubon

Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St., (800) 774-7394; www.auduboninstitute.org — The event offers members a behind-the-scenes look at the aquarium, as well as activities and a free screening of The Princess and the Frog at the Entergy IMAX Theater. Free admission for aquarium members. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. TALENT SHOWCASE . Le Roux, 1700 Louisiana Ave. — Masse Media Consulting, KMP and Men of Business host a weekly “You’ve Got Talent” showcase open to all poets, singers, dancers and others. Call 899-4512 for details. General admission $10, performers $5. 9 p.m. to midnight. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT JW MARRIOTT. JW Marriott New

Orleans, 614 Canal St., Suite 4, 525-6500; www.marriott.com — The hotel showcases local music and art with spirit tastings and hors d’oeuvres. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. 484 Sala

Ave., Sala Avenue and Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art and more, with live music and pony rides. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

Thursday 5 CHANGES. Hey! Cafe, 4332

Magazine St., 891-8682; www. heycafe.biz — The weekly meetings teach focusing, a

method of directing attention outside one’s body to effect change. Call 232-9787 for details. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. DRINKING LIBERALLY NEW ORLEANS. Pravda, 1113 Decatur

St. — The progressive drinking club allows members to share ideas while enjoying libations. 7 p.m. EATVENTFUL . Capdeville, 520 Capdeville St., 371-5161; www. capdevillenola.com — The event provides an opportunity to network and socialize while enjoying food and drink specials. Visit www.eatventful. com for details. Admission $15 (includes food and gift bag). 6 p.m. FRESH MARKET. Circle Food

Store, 1522 St. Bernard Ave. — The Downtown Neighborhood Market Consortium market features fresh produce, dairy, seafood, baked goods and more. EBT and WIC accepted. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

IRON RAIL LADIES’ NIGHT. The

Iron Rail, 511 Marigny St., 9480963; www.ironrail.org — Iron Rail offers a weekly creative space for women. Email ladiesnight.ironrail@gmail.com for details. 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. SATCHMO SUMMERFEST. Palm

Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St., 525-0200; www.palmcourtcafe.com — The kick-off party and fundraiser for French Quarter Festivals Inc. celebrates Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong with performances by Yoshio Toyama, the Dixie Saints and others. Admission $65. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

SISTAHS MAKING A CHANGE . Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The group offers lessons in African dance and more, along with nutrition, health and wellness seminars. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Monday. WARGAMES. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — The museum hosts WWII board and miniatures gaming on the first Thursday of every month. Preregistration required. 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday 6 EASTSIDE ART MARKET. Eastside Studios, 107 S. Orange St., Hammond, (985) 542-7113 or (985) 543-0403 — Eastside Studios holds a juried art market for professional artists on the first Friday of each month. Artists pay a $15 application fee and, if accepted, a $20 booth fee. The sale is open to the public. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. NERD NITE NOLA . BSI Comics, 3030 Severn Ave., 885-5250; www.bsicomics.com — The group brings together nerds for beer and informative presentations on esoteric topics. Visit

www.nola.nerdnite.com for details. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. SATCHMO CLUB STRUT. Frenchmen Street, various venues, visit website for details — The annual New Orleans Jazz Celebration fundraiser is a pub crawl down Frenchmen Street that features live music, specialty cocktails and food from local restaurants. Visit www. nojc.org/satchmo-club-strut for details. Admission $80 VIP, $30 general admission. 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. WENNY KELLY MEMORIAL BENEFIT. Zeitgeist Multi-

Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc. net — The benefit concert also features a silent auction and food from local restaurants. Admission $10 suggested donation. 9:30 p.m.

Saturday 7 ART AT THE MARKET. Griffith

Park, 333 Erlanger St., Slidell — The Slidell Art League hosts a monthly art market at the Camellia City Farmers Market. Visit www.slidellartleague.info for details. 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

BACK TO THE 80’S BENEFIT FOR IRVING “SKIP” BISHOP, JR. Sidney’s, 1674 Barataria

Blvd., Marrero, 341-0103 — The fundraiser features a costume contest with prizes. Admission $10. 8 p.m.

BACK-TO-SCHOOL BASH . The

Esplanade, 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 465-2161; www. shoptheesplanade.com — The event provides information on uniforms, school supplies, nutrition, after-school activities and more. There will also be children’s activities and a fashion show. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

BAYOU BASH AND BARBECUE WITH BAYOU 95.7. Southport

Hall, 200 Monticello Ave., 8352903 — Radio personalities Walton and Johnson host the barbecue which features live music. Visit www.bayou957. com for details. Admission $9.57. 5 p.m.

CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Magazine Street

Market, Magazine and Girod streets, 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon. E-WASTE AND PAINT DROP-OFF. Whole Foods Market Arabella Station, 5600 Magazine St., 899-9119 — Whole Foods and the Green Project offer a monthly electronic waste and paint drop-off event. Visit www.greenproject.org for details. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EAGLE WATCH . Fontainebleau

State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — A park ranger leads a viewing of the park’s eagle nest. 3 p.m.

ERACE NEW ORLEANS MEETING .

J. Singleton School, 1924 Philip St., 581-2388 — ERACE meets for its weekly discussion group. Call 866-1163 for details. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

EXPLORE THE SHORE . Fairview-

Riverside State Park, 119 Fairview Drive, Madisonville — Participants and the site ranger explore the lakefront to discover the biodiversity of plant and animal life. 1 p.m.

FRERET MARKET. Freret Market,

corner of Freret Street and Napoleon Avenue, 638-2589; www.freretmarket.org — The market offers food, arts, live music and goods from local exhibitors on the first Saturday of each month. Noon to 5 p.m.

GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET. Ormond Plantation,

13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon. GREAT AMERICAN SEAFOOD COOK-OFF. Morial Convention

Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd., 582-3000; www.mccno. com — Conservationist Jeff Corwin and chef John Folse cohost the culinary competition, in which contestants vie to be the King of American Seafood. Visit www.greatamericanseafoodcookoff.com for details. Admission $5. 11 a.m.

GRETNA FARMERS MARKET.

Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, 362-8661 — The weekly rainor-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. Free admission. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

GULF COAST STRATEGIC PLANNING CONFERENCE: HELPING ANIMALS IN NEED.

Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal St., 595-5511; www. sheratonneworleans.com — The Humane Society of Louisiana’s two-day event includes speakers and representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, British Petroleum and others, as well as a charter boat tour of affected areas. Call (888) 6-HUMANE or visit www. humanela.org for details. Saturday-Sunday. THE HISTORY OF ABSINTHE . Southern Food & Beverage Museum, Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — Ted Breaux, the person credited with ending the American absinthe ban, leads a discussion and demonstration/tasting. Admission $10, $5 members. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. JAMMIN’ FOR FULLER . Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., 5229653; www.howlin-wolf.com — The fundraiser featuring free

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Market, 200 Broadway St., 8615898; www.marketumbrella. org — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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food and performances from Rebirth Brass Band, Charmaine Neville, Germaine Bazzle and others benefits the Fuller Center for Housing. Call (770) 428-3048 or visit www. fullercenter.org for details. Admission $15. 8 p.m. NATIVE NOW: THE LATE SUMMER GARDEN . Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Participants learn which plants are in bloom during the hottest months. Call 488-5488 ext. 401 or email hschackai@ longuevue.com for details. 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. NATURE: A CLOSER LOOK . Fontainebleau

State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — Park rangers lead a weekly nature hike. 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

OFF-WHITE LINEN NIGHT. Will Smith Gallery, 1061 Camp St. (at Calliope Street), 299-9455 — The event features local artists, fashion shows, bands, a DJ, food and drink. An after party at Circle Bar (1032 St. Charles Ave.) follows. Call 299-9455 for details. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. UPPER NINTH WARD MARKET. Frederick Douglass Senior High School, 3820 St. Claude Ave. — The weekly Upper Ninth Ward Farmers Market offers fresh local produce, seafood, bread, cheese and plants. Sponsored by the Downtown Neighborhood Market Consortium. Call 482-5722 or email ggladney@therenaissanceproject.la for details. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHITE LINEN NIGHT. Warehouse Distrct, various galleries on the 300 to 800 blocks of Julia Street surrounding blocks; www. cacno.org — Galleries open their doors at this art event that also features food and live music. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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DIMENSIONS OF LIFE DIALOGUE . New

Orleans Lyceum, 618 City Park Ave., 4609049; www.lyceumproject.com — The nonreligious, holistic discussion group focuses on human behavior with the goal of finding fulfillment and enlightenment. Call 368-9770 for details. Free. 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

DRINK ’N’ DRAW. Circle Bar, 1032 St. Charles Ave., 588-2616 — The weekly event features a live model, happy hour drink specials and art instruction upon request. Call 299-9455 for details. Admission $20. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. EAT! DRINK! SOFAB! TAILGATING . Southern

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LOCKS OF LOVE CUT-A-THON . Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 835-8000 — Hair cut at the event is donated to the charity that provides wigs for children experiencing illness-related hair loss. Call 491-0342 or email lboudreaux3@cox.net for details. Noon to 5 p.m. NEEDLE JUNKIES. 3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top

Gallery, 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp. com — The knitting group meets every Sunday. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

PRIMITIVE WOODWORKING . Fontainebleau State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — Park rangers host a weekly demonstration of woodworking

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techniques. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. SUNDAY SWING WITH LINNZI ZAORSKI . National World War

II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — Professional swing dancers provide coaching for dancers of all levels while musicians play World War II-era hits. Lessons 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., live music 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday 9 CBT GROUP. Counseling Solutions of Catholic Charities, 921 Aris Ave., Metairie, 835-5007 — A licensed clinical social worker facilitates a 12-week Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) group for depression. Call for details.

Call for appliCations CENTER FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE . The center

seeks families to host foreign exchange students during the upcoming school year. Email ayp@cci-exchange.com or visit www.cci-exchange. com/host.htm for details. Application deadline is Aug. 31.

INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING CONTEST. Open

to amateurs and professionals, the competition is judged by music industry stars and awards more than $150,000 in cash and prizes. Visit www. songwritingcompetition.com for details. Submission deadline is Oct. 6.

The contest winner wins a two-day writing session with songwriter Jim McCormick. Visit www.nosongfest.com/ song+contest for details. Application deadline is Oct. 15. PROJECT HOMECOMING . The

faith-based nonprofit seeks homes still damaged (50 percent or more) by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt. Call 9420444 ext. 244 for details.

words 17 POETS! LITERARY SERIES.

Gold Mine Saloon, 705 Dauphine St., 568-0745; www. goldminesaloon.net — The 17 Poets! series hosts a weekly poetry reading. An open mic follows. Free admission. 8 p.m. Thursday.

AL KENNEDY. Stella Jones Gallery, Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 5689050 — The author signs Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians. 6 p.m. Saturday. BARNES & NOBLE JR . Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The bookstore hosts regular free

COOKBOOKS & COCKTAILS SERIES. Kitchen Witch Cook

Books Shop, 631 Toulouse St., 528-8382 — The group meets weekly to discuss classic New Orleans cookbooks. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday.

DAVID LUMMIS. Faubourg

Marigny Art & Books, 600 Frenchmen St., 947-3700 — The author signs and reads from The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans. 7 p.m. Friday.

DINKY TAO POETRY. Molly’s

at the Market, 1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net — The bar hosts a weekly free poetry reading with open mic. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

DONALD W. DAVIS. Octavia

Books, 513 Octavia St., 8997323 — The author signs Washed Away? The Invisible Peoples of Louisiana’s Wetlands. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

FAIR GRINDS POETRY EVENT.

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon Ave., 913-9073; www.fairgrinds.com — Jenna Mae hosts poets and spoken word readers on the second, fourth and fifth Sunday of each month. 8 p.m.

KATHLEEN KOCH . Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — The CNN correspondent signs and discusses Rising from Katrina. 5:30 p.m. Friday. LATTER LIBRARY BOOK SALE . Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., 596-2625; www.nutrias.org — Friends of New Orleans Public Library holds its regular book sale. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL WRITERS’ GROUP.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing. All genres welcome. 7:30 p.m. Monday.

MAPLE LEAF READING SERIES. Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., 866-9359; www.mapleleafbar.com — The weekly reading series presents featured writers followed by an open mic. Free admission. 3 p.m. Sunday. MAPLE STREET BOOK SHOP BOOK CLUB. Maple Street

Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The group discusses Steig Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 6 p.m. Tuesday. MID-CITY WRITERS GROUP.

Prose writers meet to read and critique original work. Email midcity.writers@gmail. com for details. Tuesday.

NEVADA BARR . Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — The author signs and reads from

Burn. 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The author aslo appears at Octavia Books (513 Octavia St., 8997323) 6 p.m. Thursday. OPEN MIC POETRY & SPOKEN WORD. Yellow Moon Bar, 800

France St., 944-0441; www. yellowmoonbar.com — Loren Murrell hosts a weekly poetry and spoken-word night with free food. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

OPEN MIC POETRY JAM . La

Divina Cafe e Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www. ladivinagelateria.com — The cafe invites writers to read their work. All styles welcome. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday.

OUTLOUD! Rubyfruit Jungle,

1135 Decatur St., 571-1863; www.rubyfruit-jungle.com — AR Productions presents a weekly spoken-word and music event. Admission $5. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

PASS IT ON . Red Star Gallery, 2513 Bayou Road — The gallery hosts a weekly spoken word and music event. Admission $5. 9 p.m. Saturday. PLATO’S “SYMPOSIUM”.

Milton H. Latter Memorial Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave. — The New Orleans Lyceum hosts a reading of Plato’s Symposium the first and third Wednesdays of the month. Call 473-7194 for details. 6:30 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.

POETRY MEETING . New Orleans Poetry Forum, 257 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie, 835-8472 — The forum holds workshops every Wednesday. 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ROSEMARY SMITH . Maple

Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — The author and illustrator signs Lizzie Walks on the Wild Side. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

SPOKEN WORD. Ebony Square, 4215 Magazine St., 343-2406 — The center hosts a weekly spoken-word, music and open-mic event. Tickets $7 general admission, $5 students. 11 p.m. Friday. TAO POETRY. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381; www.neutralground.org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m. Wednesday. UNIVERSES. Craige Cultural Center, 1800 Newton St., Algiers — The center hosts a weekly spoken-word, music and open-mic event. Tickets $5. 8 p.m. Sunday. WALLACE STEVENS GROUP. New Orleans Lyceum, 618 City Park Ave., 460-9049; www. lyceumproject.com — The group meets every other Sunday to discuss the poet’s works. Call 460-9049 for details. 10 a.m. For complete listings, visit www.bestofneworleans.com.

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Hello Friends, Amazing but true! It’s our first anniversary at Mellow Mushroom in Covington! We are proud to be an integral part of the North Shore and New Orleans area business community. We appreciate each and every one of our guests who have made our first year such a wonderful success and invite our loyal guests and any new individuals who have not made it to our restaurant to join us for our first Mellow Mushroom Fest featuring pizza, refreshments, music, and a whole lot of fun! To express our thanks, we would like our celebration to be meaningful as well as fun and to “give back” to our community; so, we have decided that our first Mellow Fest will focus on helping to raise money for Saints Coach Sean Payton’s “Play It Forward Foundation.”

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Mellow Fest August 14, 2010 beginning at 3 p.m. Mellow Mushroom Parking Lot 1645 Highway 190 Covington, Louisiana 70433 985-327-5407 Cost of Admission:

$10 donation. Advance tickets go on sale on August 1st.

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3:00 p.m. 4:15 p.m 5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m.

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How Can You Help? Join Blue Moon, Allstate Insurance/ The Ray Ohler Agency and Select Properties in becoming Sponsors of the Fest! Join us and participate in all that the Fest offers! Please contact us at the Restaurant at 985-327-5407 or stop in to see us for details on becoming a member of the Fest Team. Remember, all proceeds go to the “Play it Forward Foundation.”

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Executive chef Christopher Lynch and sous chef Baruch Rabasa prepare seared scallops at Meson 923. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

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career at high-profile restaurants in New York and New Orleans before taking over as executive chef at Emeril’s Restaurant after Hurricane Katrina. Meson is Spanish for inn, but Lynch’s wide-ranging menu is more in tune with the progressive spirit of contemporary Spanish cuisine than traditional dishes. The fundamental flavors are assertive, but they’re transformed by nuanced touches and unexpected combinations. For an appetizer of calamari, Lynch coats a whole squid with plantains, stuffs it with sausage and pine nuts and fries it, so the result is like kibbeh with a marine tinge. A tuna tartare special was cooled with the arresting addition of a scoop of tomato-flavored sorbet. For duck confit pappardelle, soft, thin noodles were glazed with luscious, brandyspiked cream and cut through by ribbons of warm peaches and pistachio bits. Perfectly cooked halibut had a dark dusting of chorizo ground into ultra-fine particles and applied like spice. Chanterelles clung to the seared surface of meaty, mild fish (the increasingly common tripletail), plated with Vietnamese-style rice noodles bright with citrus and mint. Seafood is clearly Lynch’s focus, but the steak here is special, too. His kitchen is equipped for sousvide cooking, a preparation using vacuum packs and very low heat. A filet mignon treated this way was extraordinarily tender, as expected, but also intensely flavored. Lynch uses the same method on some of his vegetables, pushing their erstwhile commonplace flavors to the center of more dishes. His menu changes frequently, but it’s already clear Meson 923 is serious about new cuisine.

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Spicy coppa, fat “smokies” and dense andouille deck the meat plates here.

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A mix of imports and house-made salumi go great with fried bread.

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California’s Central Coast is producing increasingly better Pinot Noirs. This bottling is a second label from Kenneth Volk Vineyards. This medium-bodied wine has aromas of ripe cherry, red berries and a hint of cinnamon. Raspberry and cherry charm the palate along with silky tannins, balanced acidity and a long ﬁnish. Decant an hour before serving. Drink it with grilled salmon, tuna, herbed veal chops, garlic roasted chicken and any dish with mushrooms. Buy it at: Bacchanal, Dorignac’s, Cellars of River Ridge and Acquistapace’s Covington Supermarket. Drink it at: Crescent City Steak House, Le Meritage and Crescent City Brewhouse. — Brenda Maitland

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ne of the accurate stereotypes about New Orleans diners is that we’re no sooner done with one meal before we begin discussing the next. This scenario played out around our table at Meson 923, though at this promising new restaurant the talk was about planning our next meal under the same roof. Meson 923 is the type of place people plan to visit well in advance. Elegant and expensive, it’s a luxury restaurant for special occasions. But the food here is so exciting, and at times so dazzlingly good, that I can imagine any old pretense being stretched to justify dinner. Certainly, I’ll be thinking up reasons to reprise a meal including lavishly garnished crudo — the Italian answer to sashimi — stiffly crusted scallops, an excellent dish of rare tuna paired with grilled knuckles of sweetbreads and a cheese plate for dessert. It’s one of the best restaurant meals I have had in recent memory. Managing partner Astrid LaVenia and Jerry Fertel, son of the late Ruth Fertel, founder of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, opened Meson 923 in March, and it still has some important issues to address. I ordered the cheese plate mentioned above because previous desserts were disappointing, including a panna cotta washed out by syrupy fruit and gummy, braised dates in dry pastry. Service also falls short. Servers seemed earnest but awkwardly stiff, and too often they confused who ordered which dish. What has set this restaurant apart is the imaginative and precise work of executive chef Christopher Lynch. Originally from Philadelphia, he built his

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ZACHARY’S BY THE LAKE — 7224 Pontchartrain Blvd., 872-9832; www.zacharysbythelake.com — Zachary’s serves seafood plat-

ters, po-boys, salads, barbecue shrimp and more. Jumbo Gulf shrimp with cane sNo reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

BARBECUE ABITA BAR-B-Q — 69399 Hwy.

59, Abita Springs, (985) 892-0205 — Fresh Louisiana boudin made with pork, rice and seasonings is a specialty at this smokehouse. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

WALKER’S BAR-B-QUE — 10828 Hayne Blvd., 281-8227; www.cochondelaitpoboys.com — Walker’s is the maker of the Jazz Fest cochon de lait po-boy. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Saturday. Cash only. $

Decatur St., 522-0571; www.crescentcitybrewhouse.com — This French Quarter brewhouse serves baked oysters, salads, crabcakes, steaks and more. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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5606 Canal Blvd., 483-7001 — Try gourmet coffee with a choice of pastries and desserts baked in house. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK —

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474 — Gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream are available till early evening. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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287-0877 — Terrazu serves coffee drinks and a menu of soups, salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

VINE & DINE — 141 Delaronde St., 361-1402; www.vine-dine.com — The cafe serves cheese boards and charcuterie plates with pate and cured meats, and other dishes. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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CHINA ROSE — 3501 N. Arnoult Road., Metairie, 887-3295 — The Lomi Lomi combines shrimp, pineapple and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, fries them golden brown and serves them on a bed of sautéed vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., 482-3935 — There is a range of dishes from wonton soup to seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. 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, Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THREE HAPPINESS — 1900 Lafay-

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TREY YUEN CUISINE OF CHINA — 600 N. Causeway Approach.,

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Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 8875656 — Ben ’n Jerry’s offers rich ice creams, ice cream cakes, frozen drinks, fruit smoothies and sundaes. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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FRENCH MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908

Metairie Road, Metairie, 666-1823 — Sal’s offers an assortment of flavored sno-balls, soft-serve ice cream, malts, banana splits and ice cream cones dipped in chocolate. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $

Magazine St., 891-8495; www. martiniquebistro.com — Try the Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT — 5101

W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, 8885533; www.austinsno.com — The veal Austin is crowned with crabmeat. No reservations. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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LE CITRON BISTRO — 1539 Religious

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Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 889-7992; www.mredsno.com — Try shrimp beignets with sweet chili glaze or creamy blue crab dip. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N.

Peters St., 524-4747 — The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

DELI KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave.,

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INDIAN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-

6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

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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. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN ANDREA’S NORTHERN ITALIAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 3100 N.

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901 Louisiana Ave., 891-9626; www.cafeatchafalaya.com — Shrimp and grits feature head-on Gulf shrimp in a smoked tomato and andouille broth over creamy grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 586-0972; www.thebombayclub. com — The duck duet pairs confit leg with pepper-seared breast and black currant reduction. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

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COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St.,

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JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Maga-

zine St., 569-0000; 4724 S.Carrollton Ave. 486-9550; www.juansflyingburrito.com — This wallet-friendly restaurant offers new takes on Mexicaninspired cooking. It’s known for its meal-and-a-half-size signature burritos. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

NACHO MAMA’S MEXICAN GRILL —

3242 Magazine St., 899-0031; 1000 S. Clearview Pkwy., Harahan, 736-1188; www.nachomamasmexicangrill.com — These taquerias serve Mexican favorites such as portobello mushroom fajitas and chile rellenos. There are happy hour margaritas on weekdays and daily drink specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SANTE FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 9480077 — Dine indoors or out at this comfortable Southwestern cafe. Chicken Maximilian is a baked chicken breast roulade with Anaheim peppers, chorizo and Asiago cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMATILLO’S — 437 Esplanade Ave.,

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MuSIC aND FOOD GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., 5258899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and

gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

HOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. The buffetstyle 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 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. $$ SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — 626 Frenchmen St., 949-0696; www.snugjazz.com — The fish Marigny is topped with Gulf shrimp in a Creole cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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zine St., 373-6579; www.gottgourmetcafe.com — Try a cochon de lait po-boy made with pulled pork, homecooked Dr. Pepper-honey-baked ham, pickles, Gruyere cheese, ancho-honey coleslaw and honey mustard-chile mayo. No reservations. Breakfast Sat.Sun., lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Tue.-Fri. Credit cards. $

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enville St., 482-9120; www.liuzzas.com — This neighborhood favorite serves casual Creole and Italian fare. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$

MR. ED’S RESTAURANT — 910 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, 838-0022 — Seafoodstuffed bell peppers are loaded with shrimp, crawfish and crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

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2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, 8328032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Gourmet pies are topped with ingredients like pancetta, roasted eggplant, portobello mushrooms and prosciutto. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

POMPEII PIZZERIA — 1068 Magazine St., 708-4213; www.pompeiipizzeria. com — The barbecue bacon cheeseburger pizza features ground beef, applewood-smoked bacon, onions and smoky barbecue sauce. The Beaurantula is a Philly cheese steak loaded with vegetables and ranch dressing. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $ REGINELLI’S — 741 State St., 899-1414;

817 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 7126868; 874 Harrison Ave., 488-0133; 3244 Magazine St. 895-7272; 5608 Citrus Blvd., Harahan, 818-0111; www.reginellis.com — This New Orleans original offers a range of pizzas, sandwiches and salads. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800 — Neapolitan-style pizza rules, but you can buy pizza by the slice and add or subtract toppings as you choose. There are also a full coffee bar, Italian sodas and organic teas. No reservations. 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. Also serving salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., 4861600 — 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 MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., 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. There are daily lunch specials as well. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

PARKWAY BAKERY AND TAVERN — 538 N. Hagen Ave., 482-3047 — Parkway serves juicy roast beef po-boys, hot sausage po-boys, fried seafood and more. No reservations. Kitchen open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $ SAMMY’S PO-BOYS & CATERING — 901

Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — Sammy’s offers a wide array of poboys and wraps. The house-cooked bottom round beef in gravy is a specialty. The menu also includes salads, seafood platters, a few Italian dishes and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SEaFOOD JACK DEMPSEY’S — 738 Poland Ave.,

943-9914 — The Jack Dempsey seafood platter serves a training-table feast of gumbo, shrimp, oysters, catfish, redfish and crawfish pies, plus two side items. Other dishes include broiled redfish and fried soft-shell crab. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat. and dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ LA COTE BRASSERIE — 700

Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2350; www. lacotebrasserie.com — This stylish restaurant in the Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel serves an array of raw and cooked seafood. Tabasco and Steen’s Cane Syrup glazed salmon is served with shrimp mirliton ragout. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

MARIGNY BRASSERIE — 640

Frenchmen St., 945-4472; www. marignybrasserie.com — Marigny Brasserie serves breakfast items like Cajun eggs Bendict. The lunch and dinner menus include fried seafood

po-boys and a host of Italian dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., 5981200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood creations by Executive Chef Gregg Collier dominate a menu peppered with favorites like hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SOuL WILLIE MAE’S SCOTCH HOUSE — 2401 St.

Ann St., 822-9503 — Willie Mae Seaton’s landmark restaurant is run by her granddaughter and serves her renowned fried chicken. There are also changing daily specials. No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Cash only. $$

StEaKHOuSE RUTH’S CHRIS STEAKHOUSE — 3633 Veter-

ans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 888-3600; www.ruthschris.com — Ruth’s top-quality steaks are broiled in 1,800-degree ovens and arrive at the table sizzling. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

taPaS/SPaNISH GALVEZ RESTAURANT — 914 N. Peters St.,

595-3400; www.galvezrestaurant.com — Located at the former site of Bella Luna, Galvez offers tapas, paella and a Spanish-accented bouillabaisse. Besides seafood, entrees include grilled Black Angus sirloin and roasted chicken. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ MIMI’S IN THE MARIGNY — 2601 Royal St.,

872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Or enjoy hot and cold tapas dishes ranging from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

VEGA TAPAS CAFE — 2051 Metarie Road, 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Vega’s mix of hot and cold tapas dishes includes a salad of lump crabmeat on arugula with blood orange vinaigrette, seared tuna with avocado and tomato relish, braised pork empanadillos, steamed mussels and shrimp with tomatoes and garlic in caper-basil cream. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$$

VIEtNaMESE AUGUST MOON — 3635 Prytania St., 899-

5129; www.moonnola.com — There are spring rolls and pho soup as well as many popular Chinese dishes and vegetarian options. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

PHO HOA RESTAURANT — 1308 Manhattan Blvd., 302-2094 — Pho Hoa serves staple Vietnamese dishes including beef broth soups, vermicelli bowls, rice dishes and banh mi sandwiches. Bo kho is a popular beef stew. Appetizers include fried egg rols, crab rangoons and rice paper spring rolls. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

PHO NOLA — 3320 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, 941-7690; www.pho-nola.com — Pho NOLA serves spring rolls and egg rolls, noodle soups, rice and vermicelli dishes and po-boys. Beverages include boba teas, milk teas, coffee drinks and smoothies. No reservations. Lunch Tue.Sun., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PHO TAU BAY RESTAURANT — 113 West-

bank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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Quiet cul-de-sac, walk to levee, new hdwd/cer flrs, recess lighting, srnd snd, sec sys, grt bkyd. Never flooded. Zone X, roof 4 yrs. $1600/ mo or $194,900 For Sale. Call Sylvia 415-6501

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1835 BURGUNDY - LWR Studio Studio, wd/cer flrs, Alcove kit, clst, a/c, fans, w/d on premises, no pets, low cost utils, $575+dep+lse. 504908-5210

2205 DAUPHINE ST

2b/2b, full kit, fenc patio/gard. private prking $1050/mo, wtr & garb pd. w/d hkups, Lse/refs. 985-510-0231.

514 MADISON ST/ $1000

C-a/h, wd flrs, furn kit, hkps, shed, nr st car, fncd bkyd, no smkrs/pets. $850+dep. 504-858-5389, 491-4056

1st flr off Decatur. Two 1 br, 1 ba, liv, din area, kit, wd flrs, coin w/d. Eddie 861-4561. Grady Harper Inc

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Kenner NEAR WMS & W. NAPOLEON

Chic seclusion in the heart of Metairie. All new 1 br fr $675 & 1 br + study fr $795. Furn corp avail. 780-1706 or 388-9972. www.orrislaneapts.com

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Newly renov 4 plx. 2 br, 1 & 1/2 ba, w/d hkps, cen a/h, off st pkg, wtr pd. No pets. Quiet area suits retired person. $725/mo, refs & dep. 504737-2089.

City ParK/Bayou st. JoHn 2 BLKS TO CITY PARK. 1/2 dbl. Liv rm, din rm, 2 br, kit, no frig, w/d hkps, cen a/h, drapes, closets, wd flrs. No dogs. $980/mo. 482-1733.

downtown Furnished 1 Bdrm/1Bath

Furnished Condo in Warehouse District. Secure building, top floor. Rent includes utilities, pool, gym, cable, internet, has W/D, stainless steel appliances, central heat/air. Close to French Quarter, parade route, streetcar. Loft with desk. Ideal for students, professors. Call Bonnie at Soniat Realty 504-488-8988 or 504-220-1022. $1700, negotiable.

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1 bedroom. Newly renovated. Granite cntrtps, hdwd flrs. 550 sq.ft. $750/ mo. 504-301-4411

824 Charters

Lux fully furn 1 br, 1.5 ba, lr w/queen sleeper, kit, mahogany flrs, 2nd flr balc, w/d. $2000/mo + dep. 504-2365757 or 504-236-7060. fqrental.com.

FRENCH QUARTER APTS

Next to Rouses Grocery Store, furn/ unfurn, studio/1 BR, $650-$1200. Call 504-919-3426 or 504-581-6350.

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2 brm,/1 bath in Gentilly. Water pd. Furn kit. Cats Ok, O/S pkng,t Call Bobby. $875. Call 944-5076 or 610-4187.

LARGE 2 BR, 1 BA APT

Single brick home, 3BR, 2 baths, patio, fenced yard, off st prkg,off Chef Menteur Hwy. $950+dep. 504-433-9394

Newly renov, new appls, cen a/h, w/d, alarm, fncd yd, off st prkg, priv entrance, $875+utils • 504-283-8450

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Unit A, 1B/1B, cen A/H, Jacuzzi tub, w/d, water included. Furnished. $1700/month. Call for appt 504952-3131

1103 Royal St.

#B, TH style guest hse. 2b/2b, pat/ bal, CA/H wd/tile fls, water incl, pking, furn/unfurn. $2,000/mo. Appt 504-952-3131

IRISH CHANNEL COTTAGE 816 Ninth St. Beautifully Renovated, Irish Channel Camelback Cottage. 4 Bd/2Ba, cen A/H, wood Flrs, ceiling fans, furn. kitchen. $1800/mo. Louis Lederman • Prudential Gardner 504-874-3195

504-949-5400 FQ,loft bd,great loc,hi ceil,ctyd $975 newly renov singl shotgun hse $650 St. car Line, Pool, Pkng, Gym $800 Hi Ceils,Lg Balc,Prkng,Exc Loc $1995 Hdwd Flrs, Ctyd, Exc Loc $850 Pkng,Pvt Balcs,Ingnd Pool $2200 furnished w/FREE RENT AUG 2010 $950 FREE RENT AUG 2010! $1050 furnished,courtyard w/d on site $850 spacious apt in great area! $900 furn,Utils Cable/WiFi included $1950 recently updated, wtr included $950 carriage house w/ crtyrd $995 Util included, furn., great loc! $950 Commerical, 750 sqft $2000 spacious, hi ceils, 2 small side balcs $800 new kitch&bath,great location $1500 Fully furnished apt.w/d on site $1450 Furn. w/ ALL utilities included! $650 Grndflraptw/beautcommoncrtyrd!$1700 Furnished, fab location $950 nice lay out,great loc,water paid $950 wd flrs, central air, water paid $950 d/w, great loc, water paid $950 street balc,prkng,prime loc $1800

7120 Willow Street, living room, tile bath, furnished kitchen. No pets. $700month+deposit. Call 504/283-7569

1/2 BLOCK ST CHARLES

1629 2nd. Renov, freshly painted, upr rear bright 1 br apt, hdwd flrs, ceil fans, pvt balc, w/d facil. $775/mo, lse/refs. 895-4726 or 261-7611.

1042 SONIAT ST

3 bedrooms, 1.5 ba, lr, dr, furn kit, hdwd flrs, cen a/h, w/d, 1500 sf, 12’ ceils, $1400/mo. 504-952-5102

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