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part of local life as ever, if not more so. The newly restored Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts likewise has brought life back to Armstrong Park. On the literary front, poets, historians and authors have produced an entire genre of postKatrina works, and the city’s struggle to recover continues to inspire artists across all disciplines.

As we look back at how far New Orleans has come since Aug. 29, 2005, we also look forward to our city’s ongoing journey of rebuilding and renewal. We do so not only to make our city better than ever, but also to honor those whose lives were lost or forever changed for the worse by Katrina and the federal flood that accompanied the storm.

Despite all the progress New Orleans has made since Katrina, our city lags in two critical areas: public infrastructure and

New Orleanians have pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps on many fronts. all-inclusive neighborhood redevelopment.

The two are closely related. Neighborhoods that were poor and underserved before the storm remain even more so today. The Lower Ninth Ward, for example, remains world-renowned for the slow pace of recovery there. Wealthier and middle-class neighborhoods with higher percentages of insured homeowners recovered faster, thanks to private-sector investments.

If New Orleans is truly to recover from Katrina, the recovery must include all neighborhoods. Where private capital is lacking, public infrastructure should lead recovery efforts. This includes stepped-up enforcement of blight laws, as Mayor Landrieu recently noted in town hall meetings.

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early five years ago, in our first post-Katrina issue, we called New Orleanians to action in the rebuilding of our historic and unique city (“By Our Own Bootstraps,” Nov. 1, 2005).

We noted the various local planning committees that were competing for political relevance against a backdrop of citizens and businesses going it alone. “This is a time of tremendous challenge — and virtually unlimited opportunity,” we wrote.

“Let’s not squander it.” We noted that then-Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu took the lead in forging a team to bring back the local hospitality industry — with the ambitious goal of seeing it operate at full capacity

by Mardi Gras 2006. That goal was met in spectacular fashion. Today, Landrieu is our city’s new mayor, and he’s setting equally ambitious goals for himself and New Orleans in the years to come.

While we look forward to a better New Orleans, it’s appropriate to reflect on how far we’ve come since Katrina. Indeed, New Orleanians have pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps on many fronts: • Politically, we threw off the shackles of old-style leadership and dissolved longstanding political fiefdoms. Thanks to citizen-led initiatives, New Orleans now has one assessor instead of seven, one sheriff instead of two, and soon it will have one court system as well. Citizens also pushed to reform local levee boards and to demand higher ethical standards from elected officials. Most of all, New Orleanians finally took charge of their city’s political future after decades of complacency and a sense that nothing could ever change. “Enraged and engaged” best described the post-Katrina electorate, and that spirit has given New Orleans a very different political landscape.

• Local public education has undergone a radical transformation. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, lawmakers authorized a state takeover of failing public schools in New Orleans. Since then, New Orleans has been the epicenter of education reform in America. Dozens of charter schools (each with its own board) have replaced once-failed traditional schools, and test scores are steadily climbing. Elementary and high schools operated by the Orleans Parish School Board likewise have improved dramatically, and the school district recently refinanced $97 million in bonds after receiving clean audits four years in a row — and finishing with a surplus for the last two years.

• Artistically and culturally, New Orleans is undergoing a renaissance. The city has more restaurants today than it had before the storm, and the explosion of local artistic expression that followed the hurricane was one of Katrina’s silver linings. Galleries, theaters, filmmaking, and musical and cultural festivals are as much a

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DEAR SUSAN, New Orleans has been divided into wards since 1805, but the boundaries changed many times before 1880. The area from Almonaster Avenue to the St. Bernard Parish line, and the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain was first designated as Ward 9 in 1852. Today, the 9th Ward can be broadly divided into three sections: The Industrial Canal divides it north to south. The area east of the Industrial Canal is divided east to west by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, which opened in 1963 and closed in 2008 after being blamed for many of the levee failures following Hurricane Katrina.

The smallest of the areas south and east of the canals is known as the Lower 9th Ward, and the larger section above the Industrial Canal is sometimes called the Upper 9th Ward. The area to the east of this canal is eastern New Orleans.

Until the 1800s, the area now known as the 9th Ward was a swampy marshland not suitable for habitation. When hordes of Americans moved to the city after the Louisiana Purchase, many settled upriver away from the French Quarter, while the areas downriver remained largely unpopulated. But as the parts of the city located on higher ground began to fill, workingclass African Americans and Irish, German and Italian immigrants looked to the 9th Ward for affordable housing. Many of them settled in what today is known as the Holy Cross neighborhood, named after the Catholic middle and high school for boys that located there in 1859 along Reynes Street. Thus was created the interracial, working-class neighborhood that became the 9th Ward.

The 9th Ward experienced major change when the Industrial Canal connecting the Mississippi River with Lake Pontchartrain was dug between 1918 and 1923. Those in charge claimed the area was uninhabited, conveniently ignoring the blacks and immigrant workers who lived there. Before construction of the canal, A. Baldwin Wood’s wonderful pumps were keeping the French Quarter and Uptown dry during heavy rainfalls, and they were turned on to help dry out the area in order to dig the canal. It was a temporary measure, however; drainage continued to be a

serious problem in the 9th Ward.

In the early 1900s, there were cows grazing in the 9th Ward. Sugar was the dominant crop, and truck farming and gardening were common. There were only a few stores and restaurants in the 9th Ward itself. Instead, salesmen went door to door and peddlers sold their wares from horse-drawn carts.

Because the city was ignoring the residents of the 9th Ward, benevolent and mutual-aid societies were formed, as well

A 9th Ward scene taken in December 2005, months after the flood.

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as the Ninth Ward Improvement and Protective Association. This group worked to get the city to provide services such as street paving, sidewalks, transportation, police protection, schools and playgrounds.

World War II brought another major change to the 9th Ward. The shipbuilding industry created jobs that brought thousands of workers to the plants located there, and city officials chose to construct low-income housing in two areas. The city also began to provide residents with regular sewerage, drainage and water services.

The 9th Ward became the center of attention in 1960 when the New Orleans Public Schools officially desegregated and Ruby Bridges entered Frantz Elementary School in the Upper 9th Ward. The desegregation caused another significant change in the ward when white residents began moving to eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish.

The 9th Ward suffered a serious blow from Hurricane Betsy in 1965, when 80 percent of the area was flooded and more than 80 people died. Then came Katrina and Rita, which flooded the entire Lower 9, just about all of eastern New Orleans and much of the Upper 9.

Today, the resilient residents of the 9th Ward are working harder than ever to bring back their historic and proud neighborhood.

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“There’s no earthly answer that anyone can understand why these people, after six days, are still in this filthy, filthy, miserable convention center! … You cannot deny that it’s six days since this natural disaster befell New Orleans. … It is not a question of objectivity. It is a question of reality!” — Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Sept. 2, 2005

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE STORM, NEW ORLEANS’ MEDICAL SYSTEM IS STILL IN FLUX — BUT NEW MODELS OF DELIVERING CARE MAY BE AN UNEXPECTED BOON TO PATIENTS.

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“But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us ‘Sin City,’ and turned your backs.

Well, we are a lot more than all that. And though we may seem the most exotic, the most atmospheric and, at times, the most downtrodden part of this land, we are still part of it. We are Americans. We are you.” — Anne Rice in The New York Times, Sept. 5, 2005

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at the time, their outpatient training was all hospitalbased,” Price says. Then Katrina hit and the levees failed, and everything was turned upside down — or so it seemed. With hospitals flooded, street-corner clinics were set up. Price opened shop on Rampart Street, basing a clinic at Covenant House, a shelter for homeless youth, but seeing patients from all over the city.

Within the first month, Price says, she began to see the long-term opportunities. Five years later, she sees the transformation: Patients are keeping appointments.

They expect to see the same doctor they had before.

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the nonprofit whose “Fifty for Five” program has rebuilt almost 800 homes in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, will renovate 50 more homes in Gentilly Aug. 24 through 28 in recognition of the fifth anniversary of the hurricane. More than 1,000 volunteers will be on hand, and the organization says its goal of rebuilding 1,000 homes in the city is “well within sight.”

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which has contributed $5.5 million to New Orleans’ recovery effort, will have more than 350 of its associates in town Aug. 27 and 28 to build a Habitat for Humanity home and a KaBOOM! playground. Marriott’s 1,800 employees in the metro area will also be given $50 gift cards to be redeemed on classroom projects in the public schools of their choice.

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raised $8,045 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) during its semiannual “Pennies for Patients” school and youth program, and this week LLS will present the all-boys middle and high school with a plaque recognizing it as the top fundraising school in the Mississippi/Louisiana chapter. LLS is the largest voluntary health agency dedicated to fighting blood cancer.

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dubbed the ongoing Gulf oil disaster “a phony catastrophe that never happened in the first place” on his Aug. 17 radio show, blaming reports of environmental disaster on “the media and science, two of the four corners of deceit.” We know Limbaugh — the No. 1 talk-radio host in the country — doesn’t see himself as the media for whatever reason … but what does he have against science? And if he wants to see deceit, he should look in the mirror.

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boni Price was born at Charity Hospital. Her parents met there.

She drove her mother to work there. The Tulane Avenue landmark, where many of Louisiana’s doctors were trained and countless New Orleanians — particularly the uninsured and underinsured — were treated, is very much a part of Price’s history.

Today, Price — now Dr. Eboni Price — sees patients in a small clinic on Rampart Street sandwiched between the French Quarter and Treme.

Like po-boy shops and sno-ball stands, more than 85 community health clinics dot the metro area’s landscape. The centers, understated compared with Charity, are taking in some of the same types of patients: construction workers, waitresses, shrimpers, the unemployed.

Yet there is a stark difference in the type of medicine practiced, according to local health care advocates.

With the expansion of primary care into neighborhoods following Hurricane Katrina, there has been a greater focus, from both doctors and patients, on preventing and managing disease.

“The bottom line is that if you don’t have timely access to care, then your default is going to be to use the emergency room,” Price says.

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Evans, founder of the website www.savecharityhospital.com, which advocates gutting and rebuilding the existing Charity Hospital. “The cooperation doesn’t seem to be there for them to pull this off.”

IN THE AFTErMATH OF KATrINA, ALL nine Orleans Parish hospitals with emergency departments, including Charity and its sister campus University Hospital — now Interim LSU Public Hospital — were shut down due to flooding or lack of utilities. Children’s Hospital and Touro Infirmary, which suffered minimal damage, were able to reopen quickly, but were the only two hospitals in the parish for about a year. Next Tulane Medical Center opened. The emergency room at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center on Napoleon Avenue reopened last year, though the hospital is a much smaller version of what it once was.

Meanwhile, Lindy Boggs Hospital in Mid-City was purchased with plans to turn it into a nursing home with other medical services. Construction has begun on the new VA hospital, and this summer the city agreed to purchase Methodist Hospital in eastern New Orleans for $16.25 million. Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration wants an emergency room open there in the next year. And in St. Bernard Parish, site preparation has begun to replace Chalmette Medical Center.

The metro area had too many hospital beds before Katrina, according to Dr. Karen DeSalvo, vice dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at Tulane’s School of Medicine and co-chair of Landrieu’s transition team on health care. Now the focus on hospitals needs to be on balancing distribution of beds and services, she says.

“New Orleans East is a great example of where we don’t have any hospitals for a huge land mass that is getting rapidly repopulated,” DeSalvo says. “We have only one hospital in New Orleans that is delivering babies, and that’s Touro.”

Hospitals and clinics play only a part in improving New Orleans’ health, says Joe Kimbrell, chief executive officer of the Louisiana Public Health Institute. “You’re not going to create a healthy population simply by more medical care,” he says.

“So how do you have a neighborhood that’s peaceful and welcoming and livable, sort of the idea of livable communities, healthy communities, walkable, bikeable?” Kimbrell asks. “Where do you locate your schools, where do you locate your health facilities, your grocery stores, any kind of renewal in terms of housing, and how is that done?”

TO BE SUrE, MANY CHALLENGES rEMAIN. Doctors and patients alike see neighbor-

hood clinics as a success, but for uninsured patients at the clinics, there remains a gap between primary and specialty care, Kimbrell says. “It’s available in a very limited supply only after appointments that might be anywhere from a few months to six or eight months or a year,” he says.

Funding is also an issue. Some 43 percent of patients seen at the community clinics have no private or public health insurance, so the various providers have relied heavily on a $100 million federal grant administered through Kimbrell’s organization. That money is about to run out. The state is seeking a waiver to use federal money typically reserved for hospital-based care on the clinics. The three-year waiver would bridge a gap until Medicaid expansion takes place in 2014, although it would require a local match and there would be limitations.

Certain services, including dental and optometry, would not be covered.

Hollier suggests it might be harder for the clinics to survive if they have to rely on per-patient reimbursements instead of grant money.

Looking ahead, Hollier says he expects a shortage of doctors nationwide to continue to present challenges, and the system to be strained further as health care reform expands the number of people on Medicaid. He envisions relying more on people like nurse practitioners and physician assistants to keep up. The state of mental health care remains a “significant issue” for the city as well, Hollier says: “We lost a large number of the psychiatrists, many of whom have not come back.”

All five outpatient behavioral health clinics operated by the Metropolitan Human Services District were destroyed or damaged in Katrina. The clinics in Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes have mostly been rebuilt or temporary locations are in place.

Tulane screens patients for mental health issues at each of its clinics. The Covenant House location is staffed with an internist who is board certified in psychiatry, along with a licensed clinical social worker. The two add to the holistic medical approach taken at the clinic, where a bulletin board in the lobby publicizes free legal help, a church-based produce market and drum lessons.

“I think the future is community health centers,” Tulane’s Price says. “And community health centers that provide not just medical services but other types of services the person needs to be empowered to just take care of themselves in general.

“It’s already happening. I can’t imagine that we’re going to go backwards.”

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knew their diabetes, for instance, was poorly controlled or that their blood pressure wasn’t controlled, and they skipped medications or did not take medications because they prioritized other things, but once they had a consistent provider to tell them why it was important and to help them pay for their medications. … It was a whole different view of chronic disease management, from the patient’s standpoint.”

Earlier this year, weeks before Louisiana State University medical students were due to submit their top picks for residency programs, Gov. Bobby Jindal reaffirmed the state’s commitment to building a teaching hospital to replace LSUowned Charity.

The commitment appears to be the catalyst for keeping LSU’s up-and-coming doctors at home, says Dr. Larry Hollier, chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans.

“As Charity Hospital declined over the last 15 years, we saw a decrease in the number of students choosing to stay and train here,” Hollier says. “Student residents who train tend to stay within proximity of the place in which they train. So it was very important to us (that) we get a teaching place that was adequate, that was attractive to them.”

The quality of medicine at Charity was good, Hollier says, but a squeeze on patient volume and the dated facility were turnoffs. “If you’re training to be a urologist, would you really want to train in an institution that didn’t have robotics?” he asks.

The plan is to build the $1.2 billion University Medical Center next to a new Veterans Administration (VA) hospital between Canal Street and Tulane Avenue in lower Mid-City. Ground has yet to be broken, yet it has attracted much attention and controversy. Preservationists have decried abandoning Charity in favor of neighborhood encroachment, there have been clashes between LSU and Tulane over UMC’s management, and complete funding has yet to be secured.

The state has set aside nearly $475 million from FEMA and another $300 million in capital outlay funds for the project. It expects a newly formed UMC medical corporation to issue almost $425 million in bonds for the rest. The hospital, which will be owned by LSU, is expected to be open in 2014 with 424 beds, according to the state There are no plans right now for the existing Charity building, which has been shuttered since 2005.

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after touring the Katrina aid camp in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005 “New Orleans puts the ‘D’ into dysfunctional. Only a sadist would insist on resurrecting this concentration of poverty, crime and deplorable schools. Yet that’s what New Orleans cheerleaders — both natives and beignet-eating tourists — are advocating. They predict that once they drain the water and scrub the city clean, they’ll restore New Orleans to its former ‘glory.’” — Jack Shafer, press critic for Slate.com, Sept. 7, 2005 “The left is happy. They’re energized.

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Katrina V, Part ii

While the city prepares an official series of events from Aug. 25-31 as an official commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a parallel event has been organized by local and national African-American officials. Titled “Care for Community,” the event is hosted by former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, the Rev. Al Sharpton and radio hosts Warren Ballentine and Cedric Bailey.

On Aug. 31, the “Love Louisiana Festival,” a gospel concert, will take place at Life Center Cathedral in Algiers, but the major event is a black-tie cocktail fundraiser, “Hailing the Heroes of the Gulf Coast,” with a varied group of honorees including musician Lenny Kravitz, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, former New Orleans City Councilman Oliver Thomas, filmmaker Spike Lee, local political consultant Vincent Sylvain, actor Brad Pitt and many more. The beneficiary of the fundraiser is not listed on the invitation, and as of press time, spokeswoman ChiQ Simms had not responded to Gambit’s query.

For more information, visit the website www.5thkatrinaanniversary.info. The city’s schedule of events can be found at www.katrinafive.com. — Kevin Allman

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this fall. The statewide survey, taken Aug. 15-16 by Washington-based Clarus Research Group for WWL-TV, has Vitter leading Congressman Charlie Melancon by a margin of 48-36 percent. That lead is not nearly as big as Vitter’s margin in GOP polls, but it’s larger than the margin shown in Democratic surveys.

In the lieutenant governor’s race, Dardenne leads the pack with 20 percent of the vote, followed by country music singer Sammy Kershaw with 15 percent. Trailing them are St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis, 7 percent; GOP state chair Roger Villere, 4 percent; Democrats Caroline Fayard, state Sen. Butch Gautreaux and Jim Crowley, 2 percent each; and Republican Melanie McKnight, 1 percent.

The margin of error in the state- wide survey is plus-or-minus 4.9 per- cent, according to Clarus president Dr. Ron Faucheux.

In the GOP Senate primary, the Clarus poll mirrors other recent surveys that have Vitter leading his main Republican opponent, Chet Traylor, by a huge margin — 74 percent to 5 percent. Likewise, Melancon leads his token Democratic rivals with 43 percent of the vote to a combined 5 percent for his two opponents.

“Vitter posts a solid 12-point lead over Melancon,” Faucheux says of the anticipated Nov. 2 showdown between the two major candidates. “He has the high negatives of President Barack Obama and the national Democrats working in his favor.” On the other hand, Faucheux also noted that Vitter is polling below 50 percent — “something an incumbent needs to watch. Because Melancon is not as well known as Vitter, Melancon’s support has room to grow as he gets better known.”

Faucheux says the “key target group” for both candidates is white women.

Vitter gets 51 percent of white female votes in the poll, compared to 67 percent of white men. Melancon gets only 29 percent among white women. Faucheux noted that white women have a substantially higher “undecided” factor (18 percent) than white men (7 percent).

Melancon’s recent TV ads have targeted women voters by pointing out Vitter’s prostitution scandal and his decision to promote an aide who has a history of domestic violence.

Geographically, Melancon leads Vitter in metro New Orleans, but Vitter leads in the Cajun areas by a slight margin (45-39 percent). — Clancy DuBos Correction Gambit’s preview of The New Century (“Day Camp,” Aug. 17) incorrectly identified the director of Le Petit Theatre’s Children’s Corner production of Cinderella.

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now; too proud to say it out loud — but you can hear their gears grinding and you can see it in the eyes they try to hide, pretending they’re reading a book or something, anything other than what they’re really doing, which is: wondering.

Is there going to be another hurricane?

Well?

Is there?

So many questions.

Did you find Jesus? Or did you lose religion, convinced by the devastation wrought upon this land that no just and benevolent God would allow such a thing to happen to so many innocents — would allow such things to happen to you?

What would you do over? What would you do different? You’d empty your fridge this time, wouldn’t you?

So many questions.

Would the Saints still suck?

He was talking about something completely different, of course, but do you remember when Ronald Reagan once asked America: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

If he only knew the half of it.

On Thanksgiving 2006, I wrote a story for The Times-Picayune wondering how it is we’re supposed to thank the tens of thousands — probably hundreds of thousands — of people who came down here and helped us rebuild, or who sent money or who said prayers or did something, anything, to help us get better.

I think you could randomly pick a number out of any phone book in any town and dial it to say “thank you” and likely they’d say “you’re welcome” because it’s likely they did something. It’s a great place, this old U.S.A. But we really can’t pick up the phone and make all those calls. I don’t care how many rollover minutes you have from last month; that’s just way too much time.

In that Thanksgiving story, I suggested that the only way we could properly thank all those anonymous people who helped us was to get it right. To get the recovery right. To make this place better than it was before.

To not have wasted all their time and money by doing this half-assed.

And I honestly don’t know the answer to the question: Did we?

Have we held up our part of the bargain?

Have you held up yours?

So many questions.

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ere’s a parlor game for you and your intimates. The next time the dinner plates are cleared away and you’ve popped the cork on the last bottle of wine and everyone is fat and happy, a moment of contented reflection settles over the table; ask them.

Ask yourself.

What if it never happened?

Does it ever occur to you? What would you be doing? Where would you be? Who would you be with? What would have become of you, your life, your job, your dreams, your handicap?

I was just getting good at golf; had finally turned the corner on my short game. But I’ve only picked up the clubs four or five times since. Shame, that.

Most of the questions are more vexing, of course.

I haven’t had a job interview in a long, long time, but back in the days when I had them all the time, they always — always — asked me: Where do you see yourself in five years?

Do they still ask that? Or do they just want a urine sample and proof that you’re not a registered sex offender?

I never really knew the right answer to that question. I just knew the wrong answer, which was, of course, usually the true answer, which was along the lines of: “I just want this gig to hold me over until I can find a real job somewhere else, anywhere but this crummy little company of yours, so, like — in five years, I’ll probably have forgotten your name.”

I’ve forgotten everyone’s name.

It didn’t really unfold the way you might have guessed it would — five years ago — when this place was just a damn mess, everything busted, broken and what was left standing was pointed in the wrong direction.

For instance, you didn’t have to lose your house and your job and your grandmother to undergo enormous changes. This I know to be true. As we have learned, the damage around here was much more than physical. And nothing didn’t change.

Did you ever go back and look at your desk calendar to see what appointments you had coming up that September?

Did you ever get your deposit back from the beach house you had reserved in Gulf Shores for that Labor Day weekend — that three-day weekend that turned into the rest of your life?

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The Storm That Changed Everything urricane Katrina exposed a lot of ugly truths about our city and state, but the storm also brought a lot of things into focus. For all the damage, for all the heartbreak, for all the pain and death and loss that Katrina inflicted, she also left in her wake a profound sense of urgency among south Louisiana voters. And that changed everything on the local political landscape.

Consider the following: • The storm ended the career of Gov. Kathleen Blanco and catapulted current Gov. Bobby Jindal into office. Before Katrina, Blanco was well positioned for a second term.

• It exposed Ray Nagin’s incompetence and narcissism and forced him to become the “Chocolate City” mayor to get reelected; but, ultimately, Nagin’s monumental ego, pathological insecurity and political fecklessness prevented him from succeeding as a mayor.

• It laid bare the inability of the former Orleans Parish School Board to manage a broken system and spurred lawmakers and Gov. Blanco to take over more than 100 failing local schools. As a result, New

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• A group of business and civic leaders convinced utterly incompetent District Attorney Eddie Jordan to resign in October 2007. Jordan’s elected successor, former Judge Leon Cannizzaro, is now rebuilding the office.

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• It inspired a citywide coalition of citizens to demand radical changes in the state’s balkanized system of levee boards.

A push to combine all levee boards failed to achieve that goal, but several did merge in southeast Louisiana.

• The single levee board movement spawned drives to merge the seven New Orleans assessors’ offices into one and to combine the city’s bifurcated judicial systems. As a result, New Orleans now has one sheriff and soon will have one clerk of court and one set of district court judges.

• With a lot of help from the U.S. Justice Department, voters threw out Congressman Bill Jefferson in 2008.

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Fast forward three-and-a-half years or so, and Shearer is in London watching President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting in New Orleans on television. The president refers to Katrina as a “natural disaster” while making a larger point. “A firebomb went off in my head,” Shearer recalls with a laugh. He realized the “messaging war” about what happened in the days and weeks after the storm was being lost. “At that moment I decided: What’s a more effective way of getting this across than a documentary? And who here in the room with me could do that? Oh, nobody. Must be me, then. A couple of minutes later, I realized it had to be done for the fifth anniversary of the storm.”

The result of those epiphanies is The Big Uneasy, Harry Shearer’s harrowing featurelength exploration of what really caused the catastrophic federal levee failures in New Orleans. The local premiere will take place on Aug. 26 at the Ogden Museum of Southern

Art. The film debuts nationwide in some 200 theaters on Aug. 30, including a screening at the Prytania Theatre in the Garden District and another at The Theatres at Canal Place.

After the Prytania screening, Shearer will participate in a Q&A session.

Shearer is probably best known for his stillactive career in comedy. Some remember him from his two stints on Saturday Night Live during the show’s early heyday. Others know him mainly through his ongoing work as the voice of many characters on The Simpsons, including world-class villain Mr. Burns. For some of us he’ll always be Derek Smalls, the hilarious-yetsomehow-poignant bass player from This is Spinal Tap, the brilliant satire (and fake documentary) Shearer co-created and co-wrote.

But Shearer began his career as a journalist.

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and the place was Tulane University. The university was holding a three-day conference called “Rebirth: People, Places and Culture in New Orleans.” A keynote address by Brian Williams, managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News — which bills itself as “the largest single daily source of news in America” — had just ended and the scheduled Q&A session had begun. Harry Shearer, noted satirist, writer, actor, radio host, part-time resident and full-time defender of all things New Orleans, stepped up to the mic to ask a question he had “rehearsed all night,” as he tells it.

“I know Brian a little, and I wanted the question to be the appropriate blend of challenging and nonantagonistic,” Shearer says.

“So I got up and I said, ‘We know you’re smart, and we know you care because you were in the Superdome for two nights during the worst of it. So please, can you explain why a regular viewer of your broadcast, now nine months later, still doesn’t know why New Orleans flooded?’ He did a little introductory stuff, most of which was complimentary, and then he said, ‘Honestly, we just feel that REVIEW: the emotional stories are more compelling for The Big Uneasy our audience.’” A look of bewilderment flashes (Page 30) across Shearer’s face. “The ‘Information Age’ is a misnomer,” he says. “These people are trafficking in video emoticons. That’s what ‘the news’ is.”

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led to his latest career shift to serious documentarian.

“That was my head start,” Shearer says of Le Show. Several lead investigators into the levee failures had already appeared on Le Show and figure prominently in The Big Uneasy, especially Dr. Ivor van Heerden, former deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, and Dr. Robert Bea, professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. “I’d interviewed all these people on the radio, read all their books and sort of steeped myself in this stuff,” Shearer says. But he never saw himself as any kind of investigative journalist. “All the work had been done. The modern word for my role is ‘aggregator’ — someone who’s followed this closely enough, and has enough of it stuck in his head to make connections, draw a coherent thread, and organize the material for a moviegoing audience without trivializing it, dumbing it down, or making an educational film.”

While Shearer says he felt no pressure to try to bring humor into The Big Uneasy — “I just didn’t know how to do that,” he says — he was well aware that this was his one shot at correcting what he calls “four-and-a-half years of media misinformation. I had to make sure there wasn’t a spare frame. I was determined not to leave anything valuable on the floor. The stuff that you see in lots of documentaries that’s meant to tart them up — the eye candy that distracts you momentarily — I didn’t have time for that. Yet I still had to make it attractive and somewhat pleasurable.”

Shearer says he’d seen a lot of great documentaries over the years, and he recently made his own series of five documentary-style pieces, Crescent City Stories, for the website My Damn Channel. But he had to go back to a time that preceded today’s entrenched media malaise to find inspiration for The Big Uneasy. “I think everybody

has a template they follow as they do something like this. In my mind I thought — pretentiously enough — what if CBS were still doing CBS Reports, like they used to do in the early days of television? They did great documentaries, and they’d spend a year on a subject. God forbid I should be doing it as well as that.”

Making The Big Uneasy is, in itself, an act of media criticism. But the film is necessarily about the Army Corps of Engineers. Funded and therefore controlled by Congress almost entirely through “earmarks” — commonly referred to as “pork barrel” projects when someone else is getting the funds — the Corps’ decades of willful mismanagement and neglect lie at the center of The Big Uneasy. Shearer is proud to point out, though, that there are no politicians in his film. “Why would you go to a politician to find out what the facts of the story are? My basic M.O. was that I didn’t want anything said on film by anyone who didn’t provably know what they were talking about. There’s no narrator telling you what to think. I make a few appearances just for connective tissue, but I don’t describe what happened.”

But what can anyone reasonably expect to achieve with a documentary in 2010?

“In the documentary world there’s a phrase: ‘call to action.’ You’ve got them angry, so what do you want them to do? But I can’t tell the audience what to do,” Shearer says. “It would trivialize things to put a call to action in there.” Instead, he has focused on simply getting out the word. “I think about one thing, and that’s getting the maximum number of eyeballs in front of the screen as possible. That’s been my mantra from the start. The point is to impact the national conversation, to change the nation’s awareness of what happened here and why.”

Even arranging a one-night nationwide debut for The Big Uneasy proved a significant challenge. The first distribution company Shearer worked with decided very late in the game that the oil disaster in the gulf — not the flooding of New Orleans — should be the focus of an associated live event then planned for the night of the film’s debut. Shearer chose to scrap those plans and work with another distribution company instead. “It’s been like pushing a very big rock up a very big hill,” Shearer says, but the technical and logistical details for the debut are finally in place.

THE INFORMATION AGE IS A MISNOMER. THESE PEOPLE ARE TRAFFICKING IN VIDEO EMOTICONS. THAT'S WHAT THE NEWS IS. — HARRY SHEARER If Shearer has his way, the nationwide debut will only mark the beginning for The Big Uneasy. “Hopefully we can drive enough people to theaters to get wordof-mouth going, and then we’ll start going to colleges, film festivals — wherever we can show it.” Shearer financed the film himself because he didn’t have time to enlist outside investors if he was going meet his self-imposed deadline of the fifth anniversary of the storm. But this arrangement also gives Shearer the chance to set his own priorities for the entire project. “I don’t care how much money it takes in. If it comes to that, we’ll give it away,” Shearer says. “Ultimately we have to get people to see the film.”

Holding to that fifth-anniversary deadline was not just a matter of commemorating the disaster in New Orleans. Shearer fervently believes the milestone constitutes a one-time chance to change the accepted narrative of what happened in the storm while the media is finally paying attention again. “Doing everything possible to get the film seen means enlisting the media,” Shearer says. “But if they had told the story in the first place, I wouldn’t have had to make the film. There’s your irony.”

So how might Fox News, for example, frame its coverage of The Big Uneasy? “Mr. Burns unloads on the Corps,” Shearer says with a laugh. “But I’m not knocking that.

I’d be an idiot to say, ‘Don’t use my celebrity connections in other fields to bring attention to this.’

“If Mr. Burns can lure people into seeing the film, then that’s the way it will be.”

• The Big Uneasy will be shown simultaneously around the country in dozens of theaters on Monday, Aug. 30, including New Orleans’ Prytania Theater and The Theatres at Canal Place. Shearer will appear at a Q&A after the 7:30 p.m. screening at the Prytania. For more information, visit the film’s website at www.thebiguneasy.com.

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ike the heirloom rings restored within its walls, Fisher and Sons Jewelers (5101 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite 1, Metairie, 885-4956; www.fisherandsonsjewelers.com) is a family affair that spans and unites generations. Started in 1977 by Tom Fisher, who has been a jeweler for more than 60 years, today Fisher and Sons is run by Tom, his wife Chloe, son Craig (the shop’s main jeweler), daughter Chloe Fisher-Bares and son-in-law Barry Bares. The tenacity of the familial bond extends to the customers, many of whom go on to patronize the store for years.

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Gambit: How did it feel, asking Ray Nagin how he thinks he’ll be judged by history?

Lee: For me that wasn’t the hardest question. The hardest question to ask him was to ask what he thinks about the most. And I think it was his best, when he talked about the eight-hour window to call the mandatory evacuation, and he waited until the eighth hour, and I know … well, he didn’t talk about it, I didn’t ask him, I think that’s something that’s going to haunt him the rest of his life. It would haunt anybody. Because he knows, we all know that by waiting till the eighth hour, people are no longer here. That decision meant the difference between living and dying, and I give him, you know, respect, because he didn’t have to answer that, but he did.

When he got elected, he didn’t know the city was going to be 80 percent under water. There was no playbook, but I feel people’s problem with Nagin was really what he did in his second term, or what he didn’t do in the second term versus something that happens that he had nothing to do with.

This is the economic development plan that ignored

some of the city’s poorest people?

Yeah, that was one of them. A whole bunch of stuff.

What did you think of Nagin’s response to your questions? You said you gave him credit for answering.

Oh, I mean, I think that was a great answer, I mean, he really told something that’s deep and personal, that he thinks about often, and that’s a big what if. How many more people would have been alive today if I’d have called that mandatory evacuation right away? Instead of consulting with lawyers and stuff like that, just call it. And he didn’t do it, he waited until the eighth hour.

Someone you’ve been critical of in the past was Larry Bird. Now Mitch is the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father Moon Landrieu left office in 1978. Is Mitch Landrieu the Larry Bird of New Orleans mayors?

He can’t shoot like Larry. Or I’ve never seen him. I don’t know if he even plays basketball. But look, I like Mitch, I like his sister, but as he says in the film, he’s got a hard job. Right now New Orleans is on pace to have 203 murders this year, which by use of the population makes it the murder capital of the United States of America.

Think about this: Greater New Orleans has 700,000, New York has 8 million people — 8 million. They’re going to have more murders than New York City here, and New York City has 8 million people! That’s, you’re talking about like, Iraq odds, I mean, crazy.

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences are DIY brain trusts in which participants share new ideas and creative innovation through short presentations.

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cademy Award nominated director Spike Lee was in New Orleans for the premiere of his new documentary, If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise, at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. Gambit caught up with Lee at the W Hotel on Chartres Street before the screening.

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I know you interviewed [Tulane University homicide expert] Peter Scharf for the film.

Yes. He was very, very informative. He’s the go-to guy for homicide. His figures he has are chilling, and it’s young black men killing young black men, and it’s not something that’s just owned by New Orleans. It happens everywhere.

I understand that, but New Orleans is richer and whiter since Katrina. Is that somebody’s fault? Is someone to blame for that?

Well that’s another thing that Peter said ... only about two out of 50 murders get solved, so people are literally getting away with murder. There’s no fear of getting caught. You shoot in New York, [New York Police Department chief] Ray Kelly’s going to get your ass. They’re gonna track your ass down. And also these people doing the killing, it’s not like they probably just killed one guy and stopped, they’ve probably got multiple bodies on them, too. They’re like, “I don’t care, no one’s caught me yet, and no one’s going to catch me.”

What made you angriest, filming, this time around?

BP. Your people. (Reporter Matt Davis is British.)

Sorry about that.

You related to Tony Hayward?

Er, no. I am not related to Tony Hawyard.

You’re not claiming him?

Yes. There are significant concerns raised around Corexit because it’s illegal in the U.K.

Was it difficult for you to know how to respond to the BP catastrophe, because you’d been in town since February?

Our first day of shooting was the Super Bowl. But we were making trips back and forth. What was hard was we had stopped shooting; we were done. April 20 happened and we had to change everything. The problem with the BP thing was that the story was changing every day, it’s a very fluid story, still is, and it’s going to be for many years to come, so we had to keep pace, and we were shooting as late as two weeks ago.

It’s kind of dynamic, obviously quite stressful, when you have a film in the can, to reopen it, but then again?

We had to. That’s our job, as filmmakers. As documentary filmmakers. This is the biggest oil spill in the history of the world, and it’s not going to be in this?

Doug Brinkley was in the film, and he said that New Orleans has this “kneejerk boosterism.” It’s the result of schizophrenia in the city between this confidence elsewhere and slight insecurity. What do you think of that?

I think that schizophrenia he’s talking about is the highs and lows that people go through, which is ... just the way we roll here, the highs and the lows, the good and the bad, the joy and the pain.

And as I’m telling people, let’s start from the beginning. From the get-go, New Orleans is below sea level, let’s just start there. And then it’s in hurricane alley.

So forget about anything else that happens, you’ve got that. Then you add the eradication of the wetlands, the marshlands, shoddy work of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which many people still question how safe it is. So, you live down here, it’s not boring.

Do you feel like there’s a lesson that New Orleans needed to learn, since Katrina, that it’s failed to learn?

That was really the premise of this film, to see what’s been done, what hasn’t been done, what lessons have been learned, what hasn’t been learned, and then it’s left up to the audience to decide based upon what they’ve seen in the four hours.

So you’re not going to spoil the surprise by expressing your own opinion?

Well, we know what the issues are: Education, affordable housing, health care, crime, employment, but those issues I just named, what city doesn’t have those issues? But the United States unemployment is 9.5 percent if I’m correct. I don’t know what it is down here, it’s bigger than the national average though. (Ed note: As of June 2010, the

New Orleans unemployment rate was 8.2 percent — below the national average.)

And for me, this demonstrates, people are hurting all over, they’ve lost their jobs, lost their homes, and things like this oil spill make it that much harder.

Do you like Brad Pitt’s houses?

Love ’em. And Brad’s a great guy, and I really can’t understand what are peoples’ motives to criticize what he’s doing.

He’s doing stuff that the local, state and federal governments should be doing, and he’s not the government. Same thing with Sean Penn ... he’s picked up and moved to Haiti, Port-au-Prince.

I think some of the criticism for Brad Pitt’s houses is perhaps he should have built them like they were before. I mean, why build these Frank Gehry designed houses?

First of all, the houses that were built before did not last. The houses before didn’t have escape hatches in the roof so that people could climb out and not drown. The houses before were not green, they didn’t have the monthly utility bills for $30. And I spend a lot of time there, and homeowners are happy. So who can dictate to them what their homes should look like? These people had homes, their homes were destroyed.

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right homes, the people who inhabit those homes are former homeowners in the Lower 9th .

It’s not like they moved from some place else. They lived there.

Landrieu is talking openly now about when is the right time to repossess Lower 9th Ward properties, and raising race as an issue. But he seems to have support of those in the Lower 9. On this issue, does he have yours?

I’m just hearing about this for the first time, so I can’t answer that question.

Do you think the show Treme has lived up to its promise?

I enjoyed it. I’m a big David Simon fan, and it was great to see Wendell [Pierce], as one of the leads. It’s was great to see some of the people in When The Levees Broke get a few speaking lines. And he was using all local musicians, too.

You wouldn’t ever consider moving to New Orleans, would you?

No, I’ve got enough homes. I like it here, though.

You’re pretty well loved here. Is it difficult for you to speak truth to the city, to hold up a mirror to the city and reflect its shortcomings?

Is it difficult? No. I mean, to some degree, we’re giving the microphone and letting people tell their own story. Of course there’s editing, and we choose who speaks, but I think ... that’s what made

the first one so successful, because it was the people New Orleans saying what they felt. There’s no narration. It’s people just talking, expressing themselves, telling stories.

I noticed that the last film was a “Spike Lee Film” rather than a “Spike Lee Joint.” I wanted to ask you about that.

Well, [HBO’s president of documentary and family programming] Sheila Nevins doesn’t like “joint.” But we had a come to Jesus. No big thing. I said, “Look, all my films (are Spike Lee Joints),” and so she was more than gracious.

Okay, so this time?

Joint.

Great. What do you want your last film to be, in your old age?

Subject matter? I don’t know. I just want it to be good. I want to go out on a winner.

Very few Louisiana politicians have brought up America’s dependence on oil in the response to the BP disaster. Is that a lost opportunity?

See how much money has been contributed to their campaigns by the oil and gas lobbies. That’ll answer your question.

You’ve been critical of efforts to build mixed-income projects in place of some of the demolished federal housing projects here in New Orleans.

What’s happening to the residents of those former projects?

As it says in the film, 37 percent of the African-American community is still in exile, those are words in the film. Now some have found a better way of life in Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio. Others want to come back, but when they came back after the mandatory evacuation, their housing projects were surrounded by barbed wire and (the projects) were knocked down, and now the rents have quadrupled.

So, if America is to learn anything from New Orleans, what is it?

Well, that’s the $64 million question.

And it’s the last one.

I don’t have the answer for that, but there’s a lot we can learn. You know, I think that we cannot turn our backs on our American brothers and sisters.

No one has still explained to me, or I haven’t read anywhere the explanation why it took five days for the United States government to show up here? … Have you ever found out why it took five days?

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He’s British, what can I say?

He was lying from the beginning, he was lying from the get go, there’ll be negligible damage to the gulf, it’s only 1,000 barrels come out, it’s only 5,000 barrels, then the court orders him to make that camera public, and a 2-year-old can see that was more than 5,000 barrels coming out. And then the “I want my life back” comment, the other BP guy talking about little people, and now they’re spinning this great lie, this is the biggest lie of all: 75 percent of the oil, they collected. Now I want to know, 75 percent of what? Of the oil on the surface, or all the oil in the gulf? Also, I’d like someone to ask BP, because no one’s really done this I don’t think, how much of the dispersant Corexit was put into the gulf, because I think that was millions of gallons. Their goal was to make that stuff sink to the bottom so it’s out of sight, out of mind. And who knows, some day in the future, we might look at it and say that the dispersant Corexit did more damage to the ecosystem than the oil.

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Posted on Facebook in May, the photograph depicted a makeover for the former Tavern on the Levee, located at the bottom of the Bywater on the corner of Chartres and Desire streets. “Euclid Records coming soon,” announced a crude, black hand-painted message, which leapt off its electric background of fresh canary and Pepto Bismol-pink paint. In the foreground, parked in the grass out front, stood a lone tombstone.

If the recording industry isn’t quite ready for its last rites, big-box music retail in Orleans Parish surely is. The last vestiges likely died in 2006, when Virgin Megastore and Tower Records, the iron giants of Decatur Street, each fled town five months apart. The prevalent feeling then was betrayal, a vote of no confidence in the city’s prospects by two corporations that registered several million dollars in combined annual sales locally.

Hurricane Katrina wasn’t the fatal blow for Virgin and Tower — the latter filed for its second round of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2006, shuttering 90 stores nationwide; by March 2009, all Virgin Megastores in the U.S. had followed suit — but their death signaled a sea change for record buying and selling here. In other cities, the 50,000-squarefoot carcasses were picked clean by shapeshifting vulture capitalists like Trans World Entertainment (F.Y.E., nee Camelot). New Orleans, as it often does, took a different route: returning its focus to neighborhood staples like the Mushroom on Broadway Street and the French Quarter Louisiana Music Factory, both of which benefited from ramped-up sales despite the smaller post-K population.

The February 2007 opening of Domino Sound Record Shack, next to the Community Book Center on a culture-rich strip of Bayou Road in the 7th Ward, solidified the trend. Matt Knowles’ wedge-shaped shop is as far from the anonymous, cavernous environs of Virgin and Tower as it could be: an exorcism of cookie-cutter category killers and a return to the time when record stores, like book-

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sellers, functioned Euclid Records as gathering places is adding to not just for purthe Bywater’s chasing art but for community of talking about and musicians and appreciating it. clubs.

Euclid is cut from the same cloth, copartners James Weber and Brian Bromberg say. An extension of Joe Schwab’s St. Louis institution, the 3,000-square-foot space will concentrate on popular and obscure used vinyl; a perusal of the opening stock, numbering more than 25,000, unearthed rare jazz platters like Serge Chaloff’s Blue Serge (1956) as well as Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (1968) and Cybill Does It … to Cole Porter (1978). But there will also be CDs, consignment works, gear and a steady stream of in-store performances starting on day one: a Labor Day weekend blowout (noon-6 p.m. SaturdaySunday, Sept. 4-5) honoring 9th Ward neighbors (Guitar Lightnin’ Lee, Happy Talk Band, Rough Seven) and area favorites (Tom McDermott, Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, Susan Cowsill and Russ Broussard). Special guests include the Bottle Rockets’ Brian Henneman, another St. Louis institution who will accompany Cowsill and Broussard on guitar; and Jay Poggi, aka MC Trachiotomy, whose downthe-road Desire Market served as an incubator for Euclid from January until June.

“He invited us to put our records on the shelves next to the food,” says Weber, who immediately reconsiders the thought. “Records are food.”

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TAKE THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME

FEATURE

Why the levees Broke Harry SHearer’S documentary premiereS nationally.

By KEVIN ALLMAN

n an era when Jon Stewart is an integral part of the news scene, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a satirist like Harry Shearer is the person who turns out a seminal documentary about the circumstances surrounding Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. Judging from the images of the city in the trailer for The Big Uneasy, one might assume it was another film about Katrina. It’s not. What Shearer has produced is a documentary about … engineering.

Opening with shots of street signs — Abundance, Arts, Humanity, Piety — Shearer segues into near-stock-footage of Carnival. “We all know what Mardi Gras is like,” he says over shots of Bourbon Street boobs, beads and beer, before dissolving to the real Mardi Gras: the Society of St. Ann, Indians, families on St. Charles Avenue.

It’s a neat metaphor for the central misunderstanding of “Katrina” itself — “Katrina,” in the American mind, being a hurricane that destroyed New Orleans, rather than a Category 1 storm that overwhelmed shoddy defenses erected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Shearer then goes on to show how Katrina left New Orleans largely unscathed, but through a series of animations, he offers a timeline and explanation of the levee breaches, failures and collapses.

Using documents and some previously unseen footage, as well as new interviews with people like the now-controversial Dr. Ivor van Heerden, former deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center, and Maria Garzino, a whistleblower at the Army Corps of Engineers, Shearer pieces together a damning report on the Corps, its disastrous civil engineering and the sad outcome for the New Orleans metro area. (A Corps spokesperson, Karen Durham-Aguilera, appears in the documentary on the condition Shearer only discuss what the Corps is doing now and not bring up the past. “A disaster had occurred,” she intones blandly while recounting the catastrophe.)

This is neither light nor funny stuff, and Shearer doesn’t Michael Moore-it-up with theatrics, nor does he neglect the other factors that led to the federal flood. He introduces the country to the MR-GO, “a 75-mile ditch” and “the one cut that led to a thousand deaths.” He points out Hurricane Betsy flooded 20 percent of the city, while

I

Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city 40 years later despite improved bulwarks, and explains why (answer: the disappearance of the wetlands).

The few lighter moments are provided

by John Goodman in segments called “Ask a New Orleanian,” where he poses questions like “Why don’t they just pick up New Orleans and move it somewhere else?” and “Why are the New Orleanians sitting on their asses waiting for the government

Harry Shearer examines U.S. Army Corps of Engineers levee protections in The Big Uneasy. to bail them out?” Those questions are answered by a roundtable of locals that includes musician Phillip Manuel, Gentilly activist and counselor Vera Triplett and Gambit’s own Clancy DuBos, who admits “It pisses me off.”

By the end of The Big Uneasy, Shearer has answered a lot of questions about the levee failures, and raised others. Can Americans understand (or will they care) about the difference between Option 1 and Option 2 levees? And what of the American cities protected by the more than 100 other levees maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers? How safe are other places, and how will we know?

Shearer presents all this straightforwardly, but as a near-full-time resident of New Orleans, it’s clear where his sympathies lie. Late in the movie, St. Bernard Parish president Craig Taffaro says, “We are members of this nation,” and in Shearer’s lens, it’s not a statement of pride, but of rebuke.

The Big Uneasy will be shown simultaneously in theaters around the country on Monday, Aug. 30, including New Orleans’ Prytania Theater and The Theatres at Canal Place. Shearer will appear at a Q&A after the 7:30 p.m. screening at the Prytania.

FILM

LISTINGS

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

Listings editor: Lauren LaBorde listingsedit@gambitweekly.com FAX:483-3116 Deadline: noon Monday Submissions edited for space

NOW SHOWING CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG-13) — Zac Efron plays an accom-

plished sailor whose dreams are derailed after tragedy strikes. AMC Palace 16, Grand

COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY (R) — An

intense love affair develops between the French fashion designer and Russian composer. Canal Place DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (PG-13) — Steve Carell, Zach

Galifianakis and Paul Rudd star in the comedy about a dinner awarding bragging rights to the guest who brings the biggest idiot. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG-13) — Julia Roberts starts in the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir about finding herself through a journey around the world. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 9, Prytania THE EXPENDABLES (R) — A

INCEPTION (PG-13) — A thief (Leonardo DiCaprio) skilled at extracting secrets from deep within the subconscious gets a chance at redemption. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Hollywood 14 THE KARATE KID (PG) — A

12-year-old who moves to China with his family seeks the mentorship of a kung fu master after becoming the target of bullying. Chalmette Movies

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R) —

A lesbian couple’s lives are turned upside down when their children successfully find their biological father.

AMC Palace 20, Canal Place RESTREPO (R) — Tim

Hetherington and Sebastian Junger’s documentary is an unvarnished account from the front lines of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Canal Place

STEP UP 3-D (PG-13) — Highstakes street-dance showdowns come alive with 3-D in this sequel. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace

THE SWITCH (PG-13) — A single

woman (Jennifer Aniston) conceives via artificial insemination and seven years later, she discovers her neurotic best friend (Jason Bateman) may have switched in his sperm at the last minute.

AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14

VAMPIRES SUCK (PG-13) —

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer’s spoof movie franchise takes on the Twilight movies. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 WINTER’S BONE (R) — A 17 year old must track down her drug-dealing father to keep her family from losing their home.

AMC Palace 20, Canal Place

OPENING FRIDAY THE LAST EXORCISM (PG-13) —

In Eli Roth’s horror film, true evil awaits a reverend on a Louisiana farm where he will conduct and document his final exorcism.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 5 YEARS TODAY — NOVAC pres-

ents an evening of local films commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, including the premier of Tim Ryan and Matt Wisdom’s documentary The Drive. Free admission. 6 p.m. Sunday, New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 6584100; www.noma.org BELOW SEA LEVEL: THE LAND INHABITED — The museum

hosts a daylong screening of films and videos related to the 2005 hurricane season on Gulf Coast. Call museum for screening times and details. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org THE BIG UNEASY (NR) — Harry Shearer gets the inside story on the Hurricane Katrina levee failures by speaking to investigators and a whistleblower from the Army Corps of Engineers. Tickets $15 general admission, $5 Ogden members. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org NEW ORLEANS CONTEMPORARY ART: POST KATRINA (NR) — Terrence

Sanders’ film documents the New Orleans contemporary art scene and features artists Andy Antippas, Willie Birch, Dan Cameron and others.

Free admission, but donations are accepted. 7 p.m. Monday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.

zeitgeistinc.net THE RISING TIDE: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART (NR) — Robert Adanto’s

film showcases China’s most talented emerging artists, whose work reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members.

7 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net

THE SEARCHERS (NR) — John

Ford’s 1956 Western stars John Wayne as a Civil War veteran looking for his abducted niece. Free admission. 8 p.m. Monday, La Divina Cafe e Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com

SOME LIKE IT HOT (NR)— In

the comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, two musicians witness a mob hit and flee the state disguised as women in an all-female band. Tickets $5.50. Noon Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com

THIS IS SPINAL TAP (R) —

Christoper Guest’s mockmentary follows a fictional heavy metal band on their unsuccessful U.S. tour. Tickets $8. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com VIEUX CARRE MATINEES —

The Historic New Orleans Collection screens short films on Louisiana history and culture. Visit www.hnoc.org for details. Free admission.

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St., 5222081; www.lepetittheatre.com THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) — A

young girl swept away to a magical land in a tornado embarks on a quest to find her way home. Tickets $5.50.

Noon Saturday-Sunday and Sept. 1, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com AMC Palace 10 (Hammond), 429-9090; AMC Palace 12 (Clearview), 734-2020; AMC Palace 16 (Westbank), 734-2020; AMC Palace 20 (Elmwood), 734-2020; Canal Place, 363-1117; Chalmette Movies, 277-4778; Entergy IMAX, 581-IMAX; Grand (Slidell), (985) 6411889; Hollywood 9 (Kenner), 464-0990; Hollywood 14 (Covington), (985) 893-3044; Kenner MegaDome, 468-7231; Prytania, 891-2787; Solomon Victory Theater, National World War II Museum, 527-6012.

For complete listings, visit www.bestofneworleans.com.

SCREEN GEMS PRESENTS A RAINFOREST FILMS PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH GRAND HUSTLE FILMS “TAKERS” MATT DILLON PAUL WALKER IDRIS ELBA JAY HERNANDEZ MICHAEL EALY MUSIC TIP EXECUTIVE “T.I.” HARRIS WITH CHRIS BROWN AND HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN BY PAUL HASLINGER PRODUCERS GLENN S. GAINOR GABRI EL CASSEUS CHRIS BROWN MORRIS CHESTNUT PRODUCED

BY WILL PACKER TIP “T.I.” HARRIS AND JASON GETER WRITTEN

BY PETER ALLEN & GABRI EL CASSEUS AND JOHN LUESSENHOP & AVERY DUFF DIRECTED

BY JOHN LUESSENHOP

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ART

LISTINGS

Listings editor: Lauren LaBorde listingsedit@gambitweekly.com FAX:483-3116 Deadline: noon Monday Submissions edited for space

OPENING 1022 GALLERY. 1022 Lowerline St., 301-0679; www.1022gallery.blogspot.com — “Vanishing Acts,” mixed media and oil paintings

by Dana Beuhler, Caroline Thomas and Alexandra Adduci, through Oct. 9. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

ASHÉ CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org —

“Those Who Fell Through the Cracks,” a traveling mobile exhibition of mural photographs depicting Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, through Sept. 3.

Opening Friday.

GEORGE & LEAH MCKENNA MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART. 2003 Carondelet St., 5867432; www.themckennamuseum. com — “Synesthesia: A Blend-

ing of the Senses,” new works

by Carl Joe Williams, through Oct. 9. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Voices Inside: The Form

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and Function of Baskets,” more than 200 baskets from around the world; “Creative Environs: Art of the Newcomb Pottery”; both through Oct. 17. Opening Tuesday.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org —

“One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds,” photographs by Dave Anderson, through Jan. 2, 2011. Opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

GALLERIES 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — “Disturbance,”

paintings and drawings by Kathy Rodriguez, through Saturday.

ANTON HAARDT FOLK GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.antonart.com — Works

by Anton Haardt, Christopher Moses and others.

432 Julia St., 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — New sculpture by Lin Emery; “Opera Houses,” photographs by David Leventi; both through Sept. 11.

BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www. barristersgallery.com — “Los

Invisibles,” photographs depicting the post-Katrina Latino immigrant presence, through Sept. 4.

CANARY GALLERY. 329 Julia St., 388-7746; www.thecanarycollective.com — “Let Them Eat

Crude,” acrylic paintings by Tony Nozero, through Sept. 29.

COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium. com — “In Proportion to Obses-

sion,” drawings and paintings

by Patrick Sart and sculpture

by Michele Basta, through Saturday.

D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 — “Singing Over the Bones,”

ceramics by Beverly Morris, through September.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Art Chaud,” a sum-

mer group exhibition featuring new work by 17 local artists, through Sept. 4.

ESOM GALLERY. 3935 Magazine St., (225) 202-6405 — Works by Tony Mose, Alex Harvie, Dennis Hargroder and Lou DeAngelo, through Sept. 21.

THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront.org — “Un-

derstory,” a group exhibition featuring works inspired by plant life, through Sept. 5.

GALLERY BIENVENU. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.gallerybienvenu. com — “The Wrench Series,” incised paintings by Mitchell Lonas, through Sept. 25.

THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery. com — “Treasures of the Gulf,”

a group exhibition featuring more than 12 artists, through Sept. 26.

GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY. 4037 St. Claude Ave., 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com —“Strange Birds,” a group

exhibition featuring works on paper, through Sunday.

HENRY HOOD GALLERY. 325 E. Lockwood St., Covington, (985) 789-1832 — “Louisiana’s

Endangered Coast,” a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photographs, mixed media and ceramics, through Saturday.

Fence,” installation by Jennifer Odem, through December.

HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www.heriardcimino.com — “Broken Time,” new paintings and pastel drawings by Pinkney Herbert, through Sept. 18.

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

HIGHWATER GALLERY. 7800 Oak St., 309-5535 — Global Gala

AORTA PROJECTS. Poland Avenue and North Miro Street; www.aortaprojects.blogspot.com — “Blue

Williamson-Wirtz; jewelry by Belle Bijoux; wood works by Paul Troyano; “Alley-Gator,” paintings by chef Daniel Bonnot; all through Monday.

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2010, a collection of folk art from six continents, through Monday.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com

REINA GALLERY. 4132 Magazine St., 895-0022; www.reinaart. com — “Vintage New Orleans

retrospective

Artists,” watercolors, etchings and folk art; “Patrons Saints,” works by Shelley Barberot; both ongoing.

The Art of Rebuilding

Like much of the city in the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, the most pressing questions facing the New Orleans art scene had to do with survival.

With the population scattered, how many artists and galleries would return?

It had taken 200 years for the art community to attain the vital and cohesive level of activity it enjoyed before the storm, so the burning question was: How much would remain? No one dared dream the scene would be bigger and more dynamic than before. Yet by 2008, the New Orleans art community had grown to a point where Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, could pose the question: Can art save a city? It was quite a turnaround from the dark days after the storm, when many urban planners urged rebuilding only on higher ground along the river — an approach that would have eliminated much of the affordable housing preferred by artists.

New Orleanians reacted with fury to any attempt to limit the size or scope of the place they called home, reflecting the militant attitude that emerged as residents trickled back after weeks of forced exile. Art galleries were among the first businesses to reopen. The Arthur Roger and Cole Pratt galleries sat on relatively high ground, but Barrister’s Gallery, then located in storm-ravaged Central City, held its first post-storm opening on Oct. 8, 2005, even before electricity had been restored. Also hitting the ground running was the late Cole Pratt, whose eponymous gallery reopened around the same time. “The best way to recover is for everyone to get to work,” he said, but it seemed only a matter of time before the demographics of a smaller and less touristed city imposed a gallery shakeout. A few did close but were quickly replaced by others, and by 2008, a new gallery district catering to younger and more

— “Calling Out the Wards,” a group exhibition featuring Diego Larguia, through August.

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

paintings and sculpture by Kathleen Ariatti Banton; “Nothing is Nothing,” new works on paper by Kyle Bravo; both through Saturday.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries. com — “Anting,” paintings and

pastels by Jesse Poimboeuf, through Sept. 25.

MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., 427-4759; www. martinechaissongallery.com —

“Fanciful Fauna,” oil on canvas

by Hunt Slonem, through Sept. 25.

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

Butler, Greg Little, Tress Turner and other New Orleans artists, ongoing.

experimental artists emerged along St. Claude Avenue.

The resilient, fighting spirit exhibited

by New Orleans arts activists was aided by volunteers and innovators from all over America who saw an opportunity to test their vision and make a difference. A symposium at Arthur Roger Gallery famously led to Dan Cameron’s proposal for an international art expo that became the Prospect.1 New Orleans International Biennial. (Pictured: Paul Villinsky’s Prospect.1 installation Emergency Response Art Studio.)

Organizations with roots all over the country such as Transforma, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Creative Time, the Andy Warhol Foundation, Sculpture for New Orleans and others helped fund and implement a variety of art-based rebuilding projects. World-class artists such as Mel Chin (whose Operation Paydirt aims to remediate the lead in our poorer neighborhoods) and Paul Chan contributed time and energy to art with a goal of social justice, and all of them built on the work of existing local groups such as YA/YA, KIDsmART and the Creative Alliance of New Orleans to place this city in the forefront of “community based art,” a global movement that employs visual art as an agent of social change. The challenge for the future will be to maintain the momentum and fulfill the promise of so many auspicious new beginnings. — D. Eric Bookhardt

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

Culinary Extravaganza: The Sweet Sounds of Satchmo and the Sugarfoot Stomp,” works by Chad Gilchrist, Lisa Liggett, Melissa Clark and Cathy DeYoung, through Sept. 30.

NEW ORLEANS PHOTO ALLIANCE. 1111 St. Mary St., 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance. blogspot.com — “GULF,” a group

exhibition of photographs exploring the Gulf of Mexico, through Sept. 18.

OAK STREET GALLERY. 8219 Oak St., 912-3304 — “Industry Zoo,” sculptural paintings by Sherry Francalancia, through August.

OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “Simul-

taneous Horizons,” mixed-me-

dia and acrylic works by Edith Moseley and Brad Robertson, through Sept. 28.

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.

PHOTO WORKS NEW ORLEANS. 521 St. Ann St., 593-9090; www. photoworksneworleans.com — Photography by Louis Sahuc, ongoing.

POET’S GALLERY. 3113 Magazine St., 899-4100 — “Southern Life

After Death,” a group exhibition featuring five artists depicting afterlife in various mediums, through September.

RIVERSTONE GALLERIES. 719 Royal St., 412-9882; 729 Royal St., 581-3688; Riverwalk, 1 Poydras St., Suite 36, 566-0588; 733 Royal St., 525-9988; www.riverstonegalleries.net — Multimedia works by

Ricardo Lozano, Michael Flohr, Henry Ascencio, Jaline Pol and others, ongoing.

RODRIGUE STUDIO. 721 Royal St., 581-4244; www.georgerodrigue. com — Works by George Rodrigue, ongoing.

ROSETREE GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY. 446 Vallette St., Algiers Point, 366-3602; www.rosetreeglass.com — Hand-blown

glasswork, ongoing.

RUSTY PELICAN ART. 4031 St. Claude Ave., 218-5727; www. rustypelicanart.com — Works by

Travis and Lexi Linde, ongoing.

SALONE DELL’ARTES ARTEMISIA. 3000 Royal St., 481-5113 — “I

Genti H2O,” works by Shmuela Padnos, ongoing.

SHEILA’S FINE ART STUDIO. 1427 N. Johnson St., 473-3363; www. sheilaart.com — Works by Sheila

Phipps, ongoing.

SIBLEY GALLERY. 3427 Magazine St., 899-8182 — “Beginning the

Journey,” bronze, paper and wax sculpture; serigraphs and digital prints by R.G. Brown and Karen Eustis, through August.

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.

SOREN CHRISTENSEN GALLERY. 400 Julia St., 569-9501; www. sorengallery.com — “A Decade ... ,” works on paper and encaustic works on panel by Tony Hernandez; “Walkes & Waltzes,” ceramic works by Dana Chapman; both through August.

ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyart.org — “Scenes of

Covington,” a group exhibition featuring plein air paintings, through Sept. 1. “Members Gallery Group Exhibition,” works from six artists, through Sept. 6.

STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 568-9050 — “Melting

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sculpture and paintings by Steve Martin and other Louisiana artists, ongoing.

Sports Hall of Fame and a research library with genealogy records.

TAYLOR BERCIER FINE ART. 233 Chartres St., 527-0072 — “Fever Dreams,” drawings and paintings by Thomas Woodruff, through Oct. 22.

AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER. Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 865-5535 — “Tom Dent: A Heavy Trip

THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., 581-2113; www.thomasmann.com — “Where’s the Money?” group exhibit interpreting the economy, ongoing.

CALL FOR ARTISTS CLARENCE JOHN LAUGHLIN AWARD. The New Orleans

Photo Alliance awards $5,000 to recognize a fine art photographer who is creating, or has completed, a significant body of work. Visit www.neworleansphotoalliance.org for details. Submission deadline is Sept. 15.

MIDDLE EAST FILM FESTIVAL. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net — The festival

seeks film submissions, as well as Arab, Persian or Middle Eastern musicians, multi-media installations and performance pieces for the November event. Visit www. nolamideastfilmfest.blogspot. com for details. Submission deadline is Sept. 30.

THE MULTISPECIES SALON 3: SWARM. Works from artists

fitting within the themes “Life in the Age of Biotechnology,” “Edible Companions” and “Hope in Blasted Landscapes” are invited to submit works for art shows to coincide with the American Anthropological Association convention in November. Email multispecies. salon@gmail.com for details.

Submission deadline is Sept. 1.

VAMPIRE FILM FESTIVAL. Filmmakers and musicians are encouraged to submit vampire or gothic-themed short films, feature films, music videos and experimental films for the October festival. Visit www. vampirefilmfestival.com for details. Submission deadline is Sept. 17.

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AMERICAN-ITALIAN MUSEUM & RESEARCH LIBRARY. 537 S. Peters St., 522-7294 — Perma-

nent exhibits of jazz artists, a St. Joseph’s altar replica, the Louisiana Italian-American

Through the South,” an exhibition highlighting the New Orleans poet, playwright and historian, through September.

BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM. 1116 St. Claude Ave., 5224806; www.backstreetmuseum. org — Permanent exhibits

of Mardi Gras Indian suits, jazz funeral memorabilia and social aid and pleasure club artifacts, ongoing.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Freak Parade,” works by Thomas Woodruff, through Oct. 24. “As We See It: Youth Vision Quilt,” studentcreated quilt with more than 400 patches, ongoing.

GREAT AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MUSEUM. 2051 Magazine St., 523-5525 — The museum

features fossils, taxidermy, folk art, kitsch, Americana and more.

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

5: Documenting Disaster,” an oral history and photography project with historical maps, documents and a multimedia presentation, through Sept.

12. Early Louisiana furniture from the Magnolia Mound Plantation collection, through Dec. 11.

LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, 4885488; www.longuevue.com —

“Untitled No. 6029,” sculpture

by Eric Dallimore, through December. “Deepwater Horizon Response,” a conceptual installation about the BP oil disaster by Mitchell Gaudet, through September.

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,” handson exhibit designed to teach kids how to make healthy choices; all ongoing.

LOUISIANA FILM MUSEUM. Montrel’s Bistro, 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747; www.louisianafilmmuseum.org — The muse-

um features props, costumes, video clips, still photographs, posters and other exhibits from major films produced in Louisiana.

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 SUPREME COURT MUSEUM. Louisiana Supreme

Court, 400 Royal St., 3102149; www.lasc.org — The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society sponsors the museum’s exhibitions of the people and institutions that have contributed to the development of Louisiana law for 300 years.

MAIN LIBRARY. 219 Loyola Ave., 529-7323; www.nutrias. org — “Hidden from History: Unknown New Orleanians,” photographs of the city’s working poor, ongoing.

MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN COCKTAIL. 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www. museumoftheamericancocktail. org — “Absinthe Visions,” pho-

tographs by Damian Hevia, ongoing.

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.

NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; 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 Monday. “Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century,” photographs, artifacts and archival research from Tulane University’s George Hubbard Pepper Native American Archive; “Scents and Sensibility,” 125 objects covering the history of perfume bottles; both through Oct. 24, and more.

NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM. 514 Chartres St., 5658027; www.pharmacymuseum. org — Exhibits on 19th-cen-

tury pharmacy, medicine and health care, all ongoing.

SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood. org — “Laissez Faire — Savoir

Fare,” the cuisine of Louisiana and New Orleans, 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.

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THE SOMEWHAT TRUE HISTORY OF ST. BERNARD (ABRIDGED): A LOVE STORY. Nunez Commu-

nity College Auditorium, 3710 Paris Road, Chalmette, 2787497; www.nunez.edu â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Barry Lemoineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play pays tribute to the characters and events that have shaped the parish. Tickets $12. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

A TASTE OF HONEY. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 523-7469; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A workingclass teenager sets up house with a closeted gay friend after being confronted with an unexpected pregnancy.

Tickets $15. 8 p.m. ThursdaySaturday through Sept. 4.

ZOMBIE TOWN: A DOCUMENTARY PLAY. Le Chat Noir, 715 St.

Charles Ave., 581-5812; www. cabaretlechatnoir.com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The mockumentary follows a San Francisco theater troupe that travels to the site of a zombie attack to interview survivors.

Tickets $10. 11 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 25.

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Mayfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., 553-2270; www. sonesta.com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Trixie Minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of Leon â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kid Chocolateâ&#x20AC;? Brown.

Call 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

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Toulouse St., 522-5226; www. ralphandkacoos.com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New Orleans chefs and personalities share food stories. Ticket $30 (includes dinner buffet, dessert and coffee). Cocktails and dinner begin at 6:30 p.m., show begins at 7:45 p.m.

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THE MIDNIGHT REVUE. Starlight by the Park, 834 N. Rampart St., 561-8939; www.starlightbythepark.com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marcy Marcell directs a weekly femaleimpersonation jazz cabaret.

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AUDITIONS BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY. Christ the King Lutheran

Church, 1001 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 469-4740; www. ctk-nola.org â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Greater New Orleans Chapter holds new member auditions for its Mardi Gras Chorus. Call 3639001 or visit www.mardigraschorus.org for details. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

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RUS. Delgado Community Col-

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Call 453-0858 or visit www. crescentcitysound.com for details. 7 p.m. Monday.

SYMPHONY CHORUS OF NEW ORLEANS. Communications/

Music Complex, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. Charles Ave., www.loyno. edu â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The chorus seeks singers for its upcoming season.

Auditions are by appointment only. Call 525-2111 or email admin@symphonychorus. com for details. 7 p.m. Tuesday and Aug. 31. at Loyola (room CM230), 10 a.m. Saturday at Delgado Community College (building 1, room 312W, 615 City Park Ave.).

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THE FANTASTICKS. Teatro Wego, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, 885-2000; www.jpas.org â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The parents of two neighboring teens build a wall between them, but the two nonetheless meet and fall in love.

Tickets $30 general admission, $27 seniors and military, $20 students, $15 children 12 and under. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

THE FOUR OF US. Le Chat Noir, 715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812; www.cabaretlechatnoir.com â&#x20AC;&#x201D; In the comedy, a writer sells his first novel for a large advance and his best friend is simultaneously happy and jealous. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

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Theater was knocked for a loop by Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. For months, stages were dark, and many actors were displaced and scattered. Le Petit Theatre, Southern Rep, the Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Anthony Bean Community Theater, the Contemporary Arts Center and others closed for a time. Ryan Rilette, the artistic director of Southern Rep at the time, estimated a quarter of his audience lost their homes. Le Petit’s then-artistic director Sonny Borey gazed on a newly constructed orchestra pit transformed into a bayou. True Brew was looted and never recovered.

Naturally, the greatest man-made disaster in U. S. history got attention on stage. Eminent Crescent City writer John Biguenet (pictured) penned Shotgun which premiered at Southern Rep. A study of dislocation after the storm, the play featured a newly homeless white man and his son renting an apartment from a black woman, and racial tensions confront interracial attraction. The Classical Theatre of Harlem produced a version of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which was performed outdoors amid the devastation of the Lower 9th Ward. Beckett’s grim existential humor seemed right at home, partly due to a starring performance by NOCCA graduate Wendell Pierce (one of the stars of David Simon’s Treme). More recently, Go Ye Therefore … by Kathy Randels’ ArtSpot Productions, was another outdoor performance. A flood-damaged house in Lakeview served a sprawling set for Randels and collaborator Rebecca Mwase.

Among the positive developments since Katrina are the opening of new theaters and realignments of established ones. Young actors and writers, including the NOLA Project’s members, moved here and expanded the city’s professional theater offerings. Perry Martin produced The Kingfish, starring John “Spud” McConnell at the Roosevelt Hotel, Long’s former hangout and headquarters. Martin took the show to the prestigious Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Ky. He also opened the Bayou Playhouse on Bayou Lafourche in Lockport. Actor’s Theater of New Orleans opened and is marking its fifth anniversary.

After years of gypsy-like wandering, Cripple Creek Theater has taken up residence at the AllWays Lounge and Theater. This cabaret spot has improved its decor and features challenging shows. Le Chat Noir and Southern Rep have entered a partnership that has Southern Rep scheduling shows at the cabaret.

Another promising new addition is the New Orleans Fringe Festival. This potpourri of alternative works got its start in 2008 and has grown steadily. It makes use of conventional and unconventional performance spaces in the Bywater/St. Claude Avenue area for five days in November. Co-founder Kristen Evans says applications from national and international groups poured in for the 2010 festival.

The state passed theater tax credits similar to the program for film. Projects taking advantage of the program have included the pre-Broadway run of White Noise in 2009, and construction of theater spaceat the National World War II Museum.

In 2007, ground was broken next to Zephyr field on Airline Highway for the Jefferson Performing Arts Center, which will include a 1,000-seat auditorium. It will be run by SMG, the company that manages the Louisiana Superdome.

The revitalization of the theater scene leaves too many names and projects to mention here, but offers much for theatergoers to explore and enjoy.

— Dalt Wonk

com — Kristen Becker hosts a weekly comedy show. Admission $5. 9 p.m. Friday.

GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — Actors improvise a comedy. Tickets $10. 10 p.m.

Friday.

GROUND ZERO COMEDY. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 309-7137 — Local stand-up comedy. Sign-up is 7:30 p.m.

Show is 8 p.m.

IVAN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT.

Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., 525-5515 — Weekly open-mic comedy and music night. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

LAUGH OUT LOUD. Tarantula Arms, 209 Decatur St., 525-5525 — Simple Play presents a weekly comedy show. 10 p.m.

Thursday.

NATIONAL COMEDY COMPANY.

Yo Mama’s Bar & Grill, 727 St. Peter St., 522-1125 — Interactive improv comedy featuring B97 radio personality Stevie G, Lynae LeBlanc, Jay Tombstone, Richard Mayer and others.

Call 523-7469 or visit www. nationalcomedycompany.com for details. 10 p.m. Saturdays.

ROUNDHOUSE. La Nuit Com-

edy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy. com — Comedians perform a barefoot, long-form improv.

Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Fridays.

STAND UP NOLA PRESENTS MIKE TOOMEY. Boomtown

Casino, Boomers Saloon, 4132 Peters Road, Harvey, 366-7711; www.boomtownneworleans. com — Stand-up comedy. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

LA NUIT OPEN MIC. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — Stand-up comedy open mic following the God’s Been Drinking show. 11 p.m.

Fridays.

SIDNEY’S OPEN MIC. Sidney’s,

1674 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 341-0103 — Professional and amateur 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 — Weekly improv 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 comedy show. Show starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

FEATURE woRdS

Pages from the Storm By lauren laBorde

he story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath has been told in just about every way — through essays dispatched from depths of depression, comic book characters, nonfiction that feels like fiction, fiction that feels like nonfiction, and photographs of junked refrigerators with often-humorous messages written on them. And though they may conjure some painful memories, local writers’ post-Katrina books generally got it right.

We asked local booksellers* to tell us which books they think most adequately captured the truth of post-Katrina New Orleans in the last five years.

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FOUR VOTES: • 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose (essays) • Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza (nonfiction) THREE VOTES: • City of Refuge by Tom Piazza (fiction) • Nine Lives by Dan Baum (nonfiction) • Zeitoun by David Eggers (nonfiction)

ALSO RECOMMENDED: • A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

by Josh Neufeld (graphic novel) • After the Flood by Ivor van Heerden (photo book) • The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans by David Lummis (fiction) • The Dogs Who Found Me by Ken Foster (nonfiction) • The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous by Ken Wells (nonfiction) • Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer by David G. Spielman • Murder in the Garden District by Greg Herren (fiction) • One Block by Dave Anderson (photo book) • Putting it Back Together by Rhonda Lawson (fiction) • Spoiled by Tom Varisco (photo book) • Storm by Pamela Leigh Starr (fiction) • Voices Rising: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project: Vols. I & II edited by Rebeca Antoine (compilation)

*Participating booksellers: The Afro-American Book Stop (7056 Read Blvd., 243-2436) Faubourg Marigny Art & Books (600 Frenchmen St., 947-3700; www.fabonfrenchmen.com) Faulkner House Books (624 Pirates Alley, 524-2940; www.faulknerhouse.net) Garden District Book Shop (The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com)

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family Tuesday 24 GET OUTSIDE AND PLAY. Pavilion of

the Two Sisters, City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 482-4888 — The event featuring outdoor activities celebrates the national “America Is Your Park” campaign. Pre-registration recommended. Call 897-6152 for details.

Free admission. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wednesday 25 START WITH ART. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — Parents and children 18 months to 5 years old experience music and art in a museum setting to nurture rhythm, movement and self-expression. Call 539-9608, or email kbarron@ogdenmuseum.org for details. Admission $45 for the three-week session, $15 for each additional child; free for members.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Saturday 28 MUSIC FOR ALL AGES WITH THE STORYVILLE STOMPERS BRASS BAND. New Orleans Jazz National

Sunday 29 KATRINA REMEMBRANCE DAY ART ACTIVITY. New Orleans Museum

of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — The museum honors the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a family art activity based on the concept of rebuilding. Free with museum admission. 1 p.m.

events Tuesday 24 NORA GUIDED BUS TOURS. The New

Orleans Redevelopment Authority gives tours showcasing the revival of New Orleans neighborhoods and highlighting new projects involving the city’s recovery. Call 558-7195 or email theneworleansjourney@ gmail.com for details. 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

Wednesday 25 CUTTING EDGE MUSIC CONFERENCE & ROOTS MUSIC GATHERING .

Photographer Dave Anderson chronicled the post-Katrina rebuilding of a single block in the Lower 9th Ward over the course of four years. One Block is a solemn but beautifully photographed tribute to neighbors who slowly but surely rebuilt their homes.

Aperture, a New York-based nonprofit that specializes in photography, is publishing the book, which includes an introductory essay by Gambit columnist Chris Rose. Photos from the project will be unveiled at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art on Thursday. Sponsored by the Oxford American, the block party is near the book’s subject, and entertainment includes music by the Rebirth Brass Band and Little Freddie King. Free admission. — Will Coviello

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One Block Release 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Saturday 500 Caffin St.; www.aperture.org or www.oxfordamerican.org

Westin New Orleans Canal Place, 100 Iberville St., 566-7006; www. starwoodhotels.com — The conference includes panels, showcases, networking parties and seminars featuring industry heavy-hitters, local artists and others. Visit www. cuttingedgemusicbusiness.com for details. Wednesday-Sunday.

EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH: SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY. New

Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — Museum curator John Keefe leads guests through the exhibit of 125 perfume bottles. Free admission. 6 p.m.

EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH: SWAMP TOURS. New Orleans

Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — Miranda Lash and Bill Fagaly leads guests through the exhibition of works by Louisiana artists. Free admission. 7 p.m.

KATRINA 5.0. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere, 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — Speakers at the symposium and reception discuss how social media can help in a disaster. 5:30 p.m.

LA FETE CULTURAL . Contemporary

Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 5283800; www.cacno.org — The Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation’s event features a patron party with food and auctions, followed by a concert emceed by Sex and the City’s Mario Cantone. Call 895-2800 or visit www.culturaleconomy.org for details. Admission $150 patron party and concert, $35 concert in advance, $50 concert on the night of the event. 6 p.m. patron party, 7:30 p.m. concert.

ONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS KICKOFF. George & Leah McKenna

Museum of African American Art,

2003 Carondelet St., 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — The Young Leadership Council hosts a celebration for the citywide book program. Email onebookonenola@ gmail.com for details. 6 p.m.

TALENT SHOWCASE . Le Roux, 1700 Louisiana Ave. — Mass 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.

Thursday 26 LEVEES.ORG 5TH ANNUAL OBSERVANCE. Touro Synagogue,

4238 St. Charles Ave. — A cocktail party is followed by an hour long presentation. Email sandy@levees. org for details. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 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.

Friday 27 CRESCENT CITY SEC KICKOFF PARTY.

The Chicory, 610 S. Peters St. — Local fans and alumni kick off the college football season with drink specials, light food, auctions, raffles and entertainment by BandCamp.

The event benefits Playworks New Orleans. Visit www.crescentcityseckickoff.org for details. Admission $30, $20 in advance. 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

LGBT PROM . Zeitgeist Multi-

Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618

Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net — The NO/AIDS Task Force, re:Vision Project and PFLAG’s annual event features a DJ, light food and a cash bar, and is open to all members and allies of the LGBT community.

Free admission. Call 945-4000 or visit www.noaidstaskforce.org for details. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

TEDXNOLA . Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St., 5222081; www.lepetittheatre.com — A varied array of speakers explores the pivotal role crisis plays in the development of groundbreaking ideas. Admission $35. Visit www. tedxnola.com for details. 9 a.m.

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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HOPE GALA . Shops at Canal Place, 333

Canal St., 522-9200; www.theshopsatcanalplace.com — WWL-TV anchor Angela Hill hosts the gala featuring entertainment by the Bucktown Allstars, auctions and food from New Orleans restaurants. Call 833-4024 or visit www. neworleanshopegala.org for details. Admission $300 patron party, $150 general admission. 6:30 p.m. patron party, 8 p.m. general admission.

BASKET WEAVING DEMONSTRATION .

Fairview-Riverside State Park, 119 Fairview Drive, Madisonville — The program discusses a variety of baskets and techniques, as well as how to decorate and dye baskets and where to purchase supplies. 2 p.m.

CEMETERY CLEAN-UP. Save Our

Cemeteries and Hands On New Orleans lead clean-ups at various cemeteries. Call 525-3377 or visit www.handsonneworleans.org for details. 9 a.m. to noon.

CHAIR CANING DEMONSTRATION .

Fairview-Riverside State Park, 119 Fairview Drive, Madisonville — A skilled demonstrator restores a piece of furniture while discussing why caned seats and backs gained popularity during the 1800s. 2:30 p.m.

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COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE: FIVE YEARS AFTER KATRINA . Community

Book Center, 2523 Bayou Road, 948-7323; www.communitybookcenter.com — The event is a commemoration of social justice organizing in New Orleans and a celebration of Jordan Flaherty’s new book Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. 3 p.m.

HEROES OF THE STORM GALA .

Roosevelt Hotel, 123 Baronne St., 648-1200 — The Southeast Louisiana chapter of the American Red Cross’ fundraiser honors Hurricane Katrina first responders and retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore. Call 620-3176 or visit www. arcno.org for details. Admission $250. 8 p.m.

KATRINA ANNIVERSARY NATURE WALK . Audubon Louisiana Nature

Center, Joe Brown Park, 5601 Read Blvd., 246-5672 — The nature walk with New Orleans citizens and elected officials commemorates the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Email friendsofjbpark@

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THE LONG LEGAL HISTORY OF THE GREEN FAIRY. Southern

New Salem Baptist Church, 1530 Alvar St., 944-2657; www.nsbcf.com — The party features live music, free health screenings, a community drum circle, free food, children’s activities and more.

4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Food & Beverage Museum, Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 5690405; www.southernfood. org — Museum founder Liz Williams discusses the legal history of absinthe — how it became banned, and how the ban was eventually lifted. A tasting and demonstration follows the lecture. Admission $10, $5 members. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

MYSTERY MARATHON SCAVENGER HUNT. Cafe du

Monde, 800 Decatur St., 5254544; www.cafedumonde. com — The scavenger hunt starting and ending at the cafe benefits the Blessing in the Sky Foundation’s Strike Hunger program, as well as other charities. Email tlittleramos@gmail.com for details.

Admission $20, $15 students and employees of benefiting organizations. Noon to 5 p.m.

“NEW ORLEANS CON SABOR LATINO” OPENING PARTY.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum, Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — The museum celebrates its new exhibit with food from chef Adolfo Garcia. Free admission.

4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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block of Caffin Street — In conjunction with the release of Dave Anderson’s One Block and the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the magazine hosts a party featuring performances by the Rebirth Brass Band and Little Freddie King, as well as local food and special guests. Visit www.oxfordamerican.org for details. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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907 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.howlin-wolf.com — The daylong program of speakers and presentations discussing New Orleans’ recovery features journalist Mac McClelland, Gambit’s Clancy Dubos and others. Visit www. risingtidenola.com for details.

Admission $25. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

SUMMER OF BEER . Martin Wine Cellar, 3500 Magazine St., 894-7420 — The tasting features more than 35 imports and domestics, as well as food from chef Dave Bockstruck.

Admission $17 (includes beer, food, a beer glass and a door prize drawing ticket). 6:30

UPPER NINE BLOCK PARTY.

Sunday 29 IKATRINA COMMEMORATION MARCH & SECOND LINE .

second line, the corner of Jourdan Avenue and N. Galvez Street — The Katrina Commemoration Foundation leads a march and second line to honor the fifth anniversary of the hurricane. Visit www. wix.com/katrinacommemoration/katrina-commemoration for details. 10 a.m.

KATRINA REMEMBRANCE CELEBRATION . Bethany United

Methodist Church, 4533 Mendez St., 324-5057; www. bethanyumcneworleans.org — The church hosts a special service to remember members and others who died in the storm. 9:30 a.m.

THE PIRATE’S ALLEY FAULKNER SOCIETY RECEPTION . Faulkner

House Books, 624 Pirate’s Alley, 524-2940 — The reception commemorates the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and honors authors of new storm-related literature and presents readings from their works. Pre-registration is required. Email faulkhouse@ aol.com for details. Free admission. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

PROTECT OUR COASTLINE BENEFIT. Gold Mine Saloon,

705 Dauphine St., 568-0745; www.goldminesaloon.net — The fundraiser features the Sainsations, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters with Cyrill Neville, celebrity bartender Juan Kincaid from WWL-TV, a silent auction, food and more. Admission $15 suggested donation. 5 p.m.

RICHARD MISRACH LECTURE .

New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma. org — The photographer speaks about Untitled, his NOMA exhibition and book.

Free with museum admission.

2 p.m. Sunday.

Monday 30 DEEPWATER HORIZON BLOWOUT LECTURE SERIES.

Tulane Law School, Weinmann Hall, Room 110, TLS Moot Court Room, 6329 Freret St. — The law school’s lecture series about the technical, scientific and policy issues related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion is open to students and the general public. Email fwootten@tulane.edu for details. 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

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.

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Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — John Biguenet and other contributors sign the book. 1 p.m. Saturday.

CHRISTINE EWY. A Tisket A Tasket New Orleans Books & Gifts, 910 Decatur St., 5248482 — The author signs Why People Live in New Orleans. 2 p.m. Sunday.

DAVE EGGERS. Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium, 529-3000; www. tulane.edu — Eggers discusses Zeitoun. 7 p.m. Thursday.

A HOWLING IN THE WIRES. Mimi’s in the Marigny, 2601 Royal St., 872-9868 — Contributors to the book present a reading. 7 p.m. Thursday.

JOHN WOODIN . Octavia

Books, 513 Octavia St., 8997323 — The photographer signs City of Memory: New Orleans Before and After Katrina. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

JOSH NEUFELD. Octavia Books,

513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — The author signs A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge. 2 p.m. Saturday. The author also appears at Crescent City Comics (4916 Freret St., 8913796; www.crescentcitycomics.com) 6 p.m. Saturday.

LEE BARCLAY & CHRISTOPHER PORCHE WEST. Garden District

Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — The authors sign and discuss New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost. 1 p.m. Sunday.

“NEW ORLEANS: WHAT CAN’T BE LOST”. 3 Ring Circus’ The

Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — Book contributors host a signing with a performance by the Pussyfooters. 8:30 p.m.

Thursday.

REMEMBERING KATRINA: A RENEE WATSON & SHADRA STRICKLAND. Maple Street

Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The author and illustrator sign A Place Where Hurricanes Happen. 4 p.m. Tuesday.

RICHARD MISRACH . New

Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — The author signs Untitled. 4 p.m. Sunday.

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PUTTING EVERYTHING ON THE TABLE < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <The Three Muses (536 Frenchmen St., 298-8746; www.thethreemuses.com) was opened by partners Sophie Lee, Christopher Starnes and Dan Esses, the former chef at Marigny Brasserie. Esses prepares an eclectic, tapas-style menu with dishes like ceviche, lobster eggrolls and rabbit empanadas. The kitchen is open for dinner Wednesday through Monday.

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Oak (8118 Oak St., 302-1485), a new Uptown wine bar, has stylish, contemporary decor, an ambitious wine list, original cocktails and small plates like grilled octopus and fried goat cheese.

Katie Winters and Shawn Haddad opened the bar along the resurgent Oak Street commercial district in a newly renovated storefront. Michelle Gueydan, former sommelier at Restaurant August, is in charge of Oak’s wine, and Aaron Burgau, chef at Patois, runs the kitchen. There’s lounge seating and a small stage for live music.

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Creole Recall THE LOST RESTAURANTS OF 2005.

Barrow’s Shady Inn never reopened after Hurricane Katrina.

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B Y I A N M C N U LT Y fish? Bruning’s, a lakefront legend dating to 1859, is now a memory too. The same goes for La Cuisine, a holdover of 1960s-era Lakeview, and Christian’s, where smoked soft-shell crabs and oyster-stuffed steaks were served beneath stained glass windows inside a retired church.

Other casualties were not so epic but made unforgettable contributions to the restaurant scene, from the edgy, global cuisine at Marisol and the romance with a view at Bella Luna to the huge “moon” sandwiches at Charlie’s Delicatessen and the burgers at Michael’s Mid-City Grill. There were the decadent Friday lunches at Gabrielle, the steaks at Chateaubriand, the promising New Southern cooking at Cobalt and Lulu’s and the island flavors at Mango House. There was Barrister’s in Chalmette, Rene Bistrot, Indigo on Bayou Road, Landry’s and Plantation Coffeehouse in Lakeview and Nick’s on Carrollton. There are many others, and the ones you miss the most probably speak to your personal history with them.

People around south Louisiana know better than most how the feeling of a special place can endure even after it’s been wiped from the map, like family homes plowed under or churches and schools erased from the landscape. The intimacy of the past always informs the present in New Orleans, and through the Katrina experience our notion of the past was abruptly reset.

I think that helps explain our tighter embrace of local food traditions during these past five years. We all had to struggle to make our city possible again, and our restaurants were part of the fight and the reward. That’s why now, no matter who happens to be at the table, eating at our distinctive New Orleans restaurants feels like dining with family.

PUPUSERIA LA MACARENA 8120 HAMPSON ST., 862-5252

Smooth-as-gravy refried black beans are great for dipping.

BAYONA

430 DAUPHINE ST., 525-4455 www.bayona.com

Grilled shrimp atop black bean cakes is a signature dish.

LOUISIANA PIZZA KITCHEN

95 FRENCH MARKET PLACE, 522-9500; 615 S. CARROLLTON AVE., 866-5900

Black beans top a pizza with chicken, jalapenos and sour cream.

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This crisp, medium-boded wine from southern Italy is produced primarily from indigenous white Falanghina grapes. It is one of many lesser-known Italian whites often more interesting than popular Pinot Grigios. It offers aromas of white blossoms, peach, melon and citrus, followed by more stone fruit on the palate, with apricots, almond flavors, tart apple, lemon rind, a touch of honey and a stony minerality. It has great acidity and a long, clean finish. Serve well chilled as an aperitif or with mussels, antipasto, fish, shellfish, roasted vegetables, lemon roasted chicken, pork and Italian dishes. Buy it at: Cork & Bottle. Drink it at: A Mano, Domenica and Emeril’s. — Brenda Maitland

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heard plenty about places like LeRuth’s, Chez Helene, Kolb’s and Buster Holmes when I first began exploring New Orleans restaurants.

Never mind that they all had closed years before I moved here in 1999.

People shared stories about their meals and experiences at these and other long-gone restaurants so often, they still seemed to be in play. It was a valuable early lesson as I tried to familiarize myself with this city’s unique and exceptionally self-aware culinary culture. People here have personal New Orleans food histories, and the context of the past remains meaningful for whatever comes next.

Even as a newcomer, I felt I was building my own personal food history here, and I assumed that one day I too would look back through its chapters. I did not imagine that day would come so soon, but then I also did not imagine Hurricane Katrina, an experience through which New Orleans witnessed a generation’s worth of change overnight.

The local restaurant industry came back with valiant speed and resolve, and the late returns of Katie’s and Sid-Mar’s this year prove it’s hard to count a restaurant out for good. But at this fifth anniversary of Katrina, it seems clear many places have slipped into the annals of lost New Orleans restaurants. Some were among the city’s most quirky and charismatic, meaning they were also among the least likely to be duplicated in any convincing fashion.

It takes just a whiff of garlic sliced over darkly fried oysters to recall Restaurant Mandich, a pinkpainted time capsule of Creole cooking, a place once described in the Zagat Survey as “the Galatoire’s of the Ninth Ward.” Could there ever be another Barrow’s Shady Inn, that wood-paneled Hollygrove den where Al Green crooned forever from the jukebox and the only dish served was wild-caught cat-

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AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY 5 Fifty 5 — 555 Canal St., 553-5638;

www.555canal.com — New Orleans dishes and Americana favorites take an elegant turn in dishes such as the lobster mac and cheese, combining lobster meat, elbow macaroni and mascarpone, boursin and white cheddar cheeses. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St.,

525-4455; www.bayona.com — A house favorite on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

THE GREEN GODDESS — 307 Ex-

change Alley, 301-3347; www. greengoddessnola.com — Chef Chris DeBarr’s contemporary cooking combines classic techniques, exotic ingredients and culinary wit. No reservations.

Lunch daily, dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl.com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

BAR & GRILL THE CLUBHOUSE BAR & GRILL —

4617 Sanford St., Metairie, 8835905 — The black and blue burger is stuffed with blue cheese and blackened on the grill. Or try the blackened chicken Caesar wrap.

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

DINO’S BAR & GRILL — 1128

Tchoupitoulas St., 558-0900 — Dino’s kitchen serves burgers, chicken tenders, salads and wraps. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards and checks. $

JIGGERS — 1645 Veterans Memori-

al Blvd., Metaire, 828-3555 — Enjoy daily specials like red and beans rice with a pork chop on Mondays. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

RENDON INN BAR & GRILL — 4501 Eve St., 826-5605 — Try appetizers such as spinach and artichoke dip, hot wings or fried pickles. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449 River Road, 834-4938; www. therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No

reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

ZACHARY’S BY THE LAKE — 7224 Pontchartrain Blvd., 872-9832; www.zacharysbythelake.com — Zachary’s serves seafood platters, po-boys, salads, barbecue shrimp and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

BARBECUE ABITA BAR-B-Q — 69399 Hwy.

59, Abita Springs, (985) 892-0205 — Slow-cooked brisket and pork are specialties at this Northshore smokehouse. No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

WALKER’S BAR-B-QUE — 10828 Hayne Blvd., 281-8227; www.cochondelaitpoboys.com — The makers of the Jazz Fest cochon de lait po-boy serve pork, ribs, chicken and more. No reservations.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Saturday.

Cash only. $

BREWPUB CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — 527

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

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CAFE FRERET — 7329 Freret St.,

861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The Freret Egg Sandwich piles scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage on toast or an English muffin.No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ELIZABETH’S RESTAURANT — 601

Gallier St., 944-9272; www.elizabeths-restaurant.com — Dinner options include fish and scallop specials and homemade desserts. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

LAFITTE’S CAFE — 6325 Elysian Fields Ave., 284-7878; www.lafittescafe.com — Lafitte’s serves wraps, burgers and sandwiches, salads and baked potatoes. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE —

5606 Canal Blvd., 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus sandwiches and salads. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK —

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474

— Located in the old Casino Building, the cafe serves gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ RICCOBONO’S PANOLA STREET CAFE — 7801 Panola St., 314-1810

— Crabcakes Benedict is two crabcakes and poached eggs topped with hollandaise sauce and potatoes. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $

THE RUBY SLIPPER CAFE — 139

N. Cortez St., 309-5531; www. therubyslippercafe.net — Lunch options include burgers, sandwiches, salads and changing specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

ST. JAMES CHEESE — 5004 Prytania St., 899-4737; www.stjamescheese.com — The cheese shop offers more than 100 varieties of cheese from around the world and a small menu. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun St., 861-3615 — Fried seafood, plate lunches, sandwiches and salads provide square meals. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

TERRAZU — 201 St. Charles Ave.,

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. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

CHINESE CHINA ORCHID — 702 S. Carroll-

ton Ave., 865-1428; wwww.chinaorchidneworleans.com — Empress chow mein, mango shrimp or chicken, and triple dragon with shrimp, chicken and beef are specialties. Delivery available. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CHINA ROSE — 3501 N. Arnoult Road., Metairie, 887-3295 — The Lomi Lomi combines jumbo shrimp, pineapple and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, fries them and serves them on a bed of sauteed vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carroll-

ton Ave., 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations. Delivery available. Res-

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ette St., Suite 4, Gretna, 368-1355; www.threehappiness.com — Three Happiness serves Chinese and Vietnames dishes and dim sum specials on weekends. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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

Mandeville, (985) 626-4476; 2100 N. Morrison Blvd., Hammond, (985) 345-6789; www.tryyuen. com — House specialties include fried soft-shell crab topped with Tong Cho sauce, and Cantonese-style stir-fried alligator and mushrooms in oyster sauce.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/ DESSERT ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal

St., 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Royal Street salad features baby spinach and mixed lettuces with carrots, red onion, red peppers, grapes, olives, walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

BEN ’N JERRY’S — 3500 Veterans

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

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CREOLE ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713

AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT — 5101 W.

Esplanade Ave., Metairie, 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s cooks hearty Creole and Italian dishes like stuffed soft-shell crab and veal Austin, which is crowned with crabmeat. No reservations.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

GUMBO SHOP — 640 St. Peter

St., 525-1486; www.gumboshop. com — Gumbo and New Orleans classics such as crawfish etouffee dominate the menu. Their spicy flavors meld into a dish that represents the city’s best and redefines comfort food. No res-

MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N.

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

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

Metairie, 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714

Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — Sandwiches piled high with cold cuts, salads, hot sandwiches, soups and lunch specials are available at the deli counter. The Cedric features chicken breast, spinach, Swiss, tomatoes and red onions on seven-grain bread. No reservations. Lunch daily. Credit cards. $

DINER DOT’S DINER — 2239 Willliams

Blvd., Kenner, 441-5600; 4150 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson, 833-9349; 6633 Airline Drive, Metairie, 7340301; 10701 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 738-9678; 12179 Hwy. 90, Luling, (985) 785-6836 — Burgers, eggs with bacon, grits and biscuits, fruit pies and daily specials are the pillars of Dot’s menu.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served all day long. No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Credit cards. $

STEVE’S DINER — 201 St. Charles Ave., 522-8198 — Located in the Place St. Charles food court, Steve’s serves hot breakfasts until 10 a.m. Lunch features sandwiches, salads and hot plate lunches such as fried catfish and baked chicken Parmesan. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

FRENCH MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Mag-

azine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining

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BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge

Perez, Chalmette, 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 8855565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-8146; www.breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

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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 or shrimp curry or vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

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

Mon-Thur 10am-7pm Fri.& Sun. 10am-3pm www.koshercajun.com

888-2010

923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Vegetarian options are available.

Reservations recommended.

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

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SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chefowner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties of the house include Trota Bayou la Fourche — speckled trout served with lump crabmeat in a lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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BACCO — 310 Chartres St., 522-

2426; www.bacco.com — Bacco blends Italian and contemporary Creole cuisine. Chef Chris Montero artfully prepares homemade pastas and fresh seafood, including lobster and shrimp ravioli. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

CAFE DIBLASI — 1801 Stumpf Blvd.,

Gretna, 361-3106; www.cafediblasi.com — For casual Italian dining, head to Cafe DiBlasi for pan-fried veal topped with lump crabmeat and lemon cream sauce or a traditional veal shank osso buco served with rich brown sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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

Reservations recommended.

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

Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 889-7992; www.mredsno.com — Mr. Ed’s offers seafood dishes and some Italian accents. Try shrimp beignets with sweet chili glaze or creamy blue crab dip.

Eggplant Vincent is a fried eggplant cup filled with crawfish and shrimp and served with pasta.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Metairie Road, Metairie, 666-1823 — Enjoy something cold and sweet from this 50-year-old business, which offers an assortment of flavored sno-balls, soft-serve ice cream, malts, banana splits or ice cream cones dipped in chocolate. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $

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LE CITRON BISTRO — 1539 Religious St., 566-9051; www.le-citronbistro.com — Located in a historic building, the quaint bistro serves starters like chicken and andouille gumbo and fried frogs legs.

Entrees include choices like fried chicken, Gulf fish and burgers.

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

room and a pretty courtyard. Try dishes such as 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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JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009 Magazine St., 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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OUT2EAT page 45 style eatery serves New Orleans favorites like stuffed crabs with jumbo lump crabmeat with spaghetti bordelaise and trout meuniere with brabant potatoes. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ TONY MANDINA’S RESTAURANT — 1915 Pratt St., Gretna, 362-2010;

www.tonymandinas.com — Tony Mandina’s serves Italian and Creole cuisine. Dishes include pasta, veal parmigiana, veal Bordelasie and specialties like shrimp Mandina and battered eggplant topped with shrimp and crabmeat in cream sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 891-

3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked.

The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$

MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave.,

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410-9997; www.japanesebistro. com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

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ROCK-N-SAKE — 823 Fulton St., 5817253; www.rocknsake.com — Rockn-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists.

There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.Sun. Credit cards. $$

LATIN AMERICAN LA MACARENA PUPSERIA & LATIN CAFE — 8120 Hampson St., 862-

5252 — Enjoy Latin home cooking in a quaint and festive cafe. Try the namesake Salvadoran pupusas, stuffed cornmeal disks, as well as a wide selection of tapas dishes and vegan options. Latin-style brunch is served on weekends. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Cash only. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY ATCHAFALAYA RESTAURANT — 901

Louisiana Ave., 891-9626; www. cafeatchafalaya.com — Atchafalaya serves creative contemporary Creole cooking. Shrimp and grits feature head-on Gulf shrimp in a smoked tomato and andouille broth over creamy grits. There’s a Bloody Mary bar at brunch. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 5860972; www.thebombayclub.com — Mull the menu at this French

Quarter hideaway while sipping a well made martini. The duck duet pairs confit leg with pepper-seared breast with black currant reduction. Reservations recommended.

Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MILA — 817 Common St., 412-2580;

www.milaneworleans.com — MiLA takes a fresh approach to Southern and New Orleans cooking, focusing on local produce and refined techniques. Try New Orleans barbecue lobster with lemon confit and fresh thyme. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri. dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$

RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900

City Park Ave., 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph, turtle soup and the Niman Ranch New York strip. There also are brunch specials. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupi-

toulas St., 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN ATTIKI BAR & GRILL — 230 Decatur

St., 587-3756; www.attikineworleans.com — Attiki features a range of Mediterranean cuisine including entrees of beef kebabs and chicken shawarma. Reservations recommended. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$

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

garitas on weekdays and daily drink specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SANTE FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave.,

948-0077 — 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.,

945-9997 — Enjoy combinations like Tomatillo’s Fiesta, which includes a taco, tamale and enchilada served with rice and beans. There are many margarita options. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St.,

525-8899; www.gazebocafenola. com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood poboys and burgers. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ HOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St.,

310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread.

The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups.

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

THE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur

St., 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or poboys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros in pita bread. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — 626

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN CARLOS MENCIA’S MAGGIE RITAS MEXICAN BAR & GRILL — 200 Maga-

zine St., 595-3211; www.maggieritas. com — Mexican favorites include sizzling fajita platters, quesdillas, enchiladas and a menu of margaritas. There also are Latin American dishes, paella and fried ice cream for dessert. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St.,

522-1138 — Country Flame serves a mix of popular Mexican and Cuban dishes. Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickory-smoked pork and char-broiled steaks or pork chops. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018

Magazine St., 569-0000; 4724 S.Carrollton Ave. 486-9550; www. juansflyingburrito.com — This wallet-friendly restaurant offers new takes on Mexican-inspired cooking.

It’s known for its meal-and-a-halfsize 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, 7361188; www.nachomamasmexicangrill.com — These taquerias serve Mexican favorites such as portobello mushroom fajitas and chile rellenos. There are happy hour mar-

Frenchmen St., 949-0696; www. snugjazz.com — Traditional Creole and Cajun fare pepper the menu along with newer creations such as the fish Marigny, topped with Gulf shrimp in a Creole cream sauce.

Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD GOTT GOURMET CAFE — 3100

Magazine St., 373-6579; www.gottgourmetcafe.com — Gott Gourmet’s menu of creative dishes and sandwiches includes a cochon de lait po-boy made with pulled pork, homecooked Dr. Pepperhoney-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. $

LIUZZA’S RESTAURANT 7 BAR — 3636 Bienville St., 482-9120; www.liuzzas. com — This neighborhood favorite serves casual Creole and Italian fare. The Frenchuletta is a muffuletta on French bread served hot.

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 — Popular dishes include seafoodstuffed bell peppers loaded with shrimp, crawfish and crabmeat, topped with buttered breadcrumbs. No reservations. Lunch and

dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

RAJUN CAJUN CAFE — 5209 W. Na-

poleon Ave., Metairie, 883-5513; www.rajuncajuncafe.com — The cafe serves soups, salads, po-boys, muffulettas, seafood plates and a few entree platters. Daily specials include items such as breaded pork chops on Wednesdays and seafood options on Friday. No reservations.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie,

832-8032; www.marktwainspizza. com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No 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. $ R&O’S RESTAURANT — 216 Old Ham-

mond Hwy., 831-1248 — R&O’s offers a mix of pizza and Creole and Italian seafood dishes. There’s everything from seafood gumbo and stuffed artichokes to po-boys and muffulettas. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $

SLICE PIZZERIA — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 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., 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS 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 po-boys 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. $ WALL STREET DISCOUNT MEAT MARKET — 445 Wall Blvd., 393-1800

— The deli section at this meat market includes a variety of sandwiches and po-boys with fillings of seafood, cold cuts or hot sausage, plus hot wings, fried chicken platters and seafood platters. There are egg sandwiches or platters for breakfast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SEAFOOD JACK DEMPSEY’S — 738 Poland Ave.,

943-9914 — The Jack Dempsey seafood platter serves a trainingtable 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. $$ 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. $$$ LA

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.,

598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood creations by Executive Chef Gregg Collier dominate a menu peppered with favorites like hickory-grilled redfish, pecancrusted 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.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $$

STEAKHOUSE RUTH’S CHRIS STEAKHOUSE — 3633

Veterans 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. Pe-

ters St., 595-3400; www.galvezrestaurant.com — Galvez offers tapas, paella and a Spanish-accented bouillabaisse as well as 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 latenight 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 — August Moon serves a mix of Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine.

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 Westbank 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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Ten Hi Gin, Loop, TX, has 5 postions for cotton. 3 mths exp req w/references; valid & clean driver’s license; tools & equipment provided; housing and trans provided; Trans & subsistence expenses reimb; $9.78/hr; 3/4 work guarantee from 10/1/0-2/1/11.

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TEACHERS/INSTRUCTORS Abramson Science & Technology Charter School in New Orleans, LA seeks Assistant Principal to plan, direct, and coordinate the academic, clerical, and auxiliary activities of charter middle and high school. Mail resumes to: Pelican Educational Foundation, 5552 Read Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70127, Attn: Mr. Bayhan. Refer to Ad#YB

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PHOTOGRAPHERS NEEDED Regional photography company based out of New Orleans. We primarily do school photography, mostly college graduations and senior fair portraits.

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Tim is 5-month-old, neutered, DSH tuxedo with his nose dipped in “ink.” He’s all kitten, play, play, play, nap, play, play, play… To meet Tim or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

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Jonah is a 4 ½-year-old, neutered, Aussie mix who enjoys playing with toys and knows how to “sit.” He’s love to go to an obedience class with his new family! To meet Jonah or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

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