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WaterWorld, The Musical WED.-FRI. AUG. 22-24 | The comedic adaptation of Kevin Costner’s 1995 movie about a post-apocalyptic world features puppets, projections, synchronized swimming and a live score.

It’s performed in a pool, and attendees can swim before the production.

There’s music by MC Tracheotomy, MC sweet Tea or Rusty Lazer. Pool opens at 6 p.m., show at 8 p.m. at Maison de Macarty (3820 Burgundy st.).

Frank Perez and Howard Philips Smith’s history of South hern Decadence

BY WILL COVIELLO GRAND MA ARSHAL FRANK PEREZ WIL LL LEAD THE 2018 SOUTHERN DECADENC CE PARADE ON SUNDAY AY, sept.

2, dressed as Louis XIV, for wh hom Louisiana is named. Mo ore participantts than ever before hav ve registered to walk in tthe parade, wh hich typically features atures revelers in anything from drag to barely-there outfits. But Perez knows that’s not important to many Decadence attendees.

“Decadence has outgrown its humble origins,” Perez says. “The core is the parade, that’s the [historical] continuity. Most of the 250,000 people who are coming to town for Decadence don’t even know there’s a parade.”

For the past 20 years, since southern Decadence websites were created, the annual Labor Day weekend festival has grown from attracting a few thousand to a couple hundred thousand visitors for a week of parties and events at LGBT bars and businesses, mostly in the French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny.

Perez notes that there have been many changes since the original party thrown by the so-called southern Decadents. He and Howard Philips smith, author of Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans, co-wrote Southern Decadence in New Orleans (Lsu Press) to document the event’s history. Perez is the founder and president of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana.

“In many ways, the LGBT history of New Orleans is not unlike other cities — in visibility, the closet, police harassment,” Perez says. “But there

WED. AUG. 22 | The documentary about restaurateur Ella Brennan kicks off the Friends of the Cabildo film series. Leslie Iwerks’ film chronicles Brennan’s career from her start as a teenager at the original Brennan’s to her leadership at Commander’s Palace.

At 5:30 p.m.and 7 p.m. at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

Growing Up — New Orleans Style FRI.-SUN. AUG.24-26 | Ricky Graham presents a musical tour of “ain’t dere no more” landmarks — Pontchartrain Beach, Maison Blanche, McKenzie’s — and celebrates natural born Y’athood, with musical accompaniment

by Jefferson Turner on piano and Brian Albus on drums. At 8 p.m. Friday and saturday and 2 p.m and 6 p.m. sunday at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts.

Hausu are a couple of things that make it different. (southern Decadence) has gotten so huge, there’s so much misunderstanding. We did not want the core — the grand marshal tradition — to be lost. We felt writing the book was important to preserve that history.”

Southern Decadence in New Orleans is out this month, and it follows the history of Decadence from a costume party held among friends living in Treme in 1972 to the current nationally known festival.

The original party was a farewell party for David Randolph, who was leaving town. The group printed an invitation for the event, which was held at a home in Treme that they referred to as Belle Reve (the name of the plantation Blanche Dubois loses in A Streetcar Named Desire). In following years, the event repeated itself, with the addition of a French Quarter pre-party bar crawl.

The social group at Decadence’s core changed over time, and by the early 1980s, the event had become a costumed bar crawl without the house party. New leaders ushered in an era of drag, which marked the

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Grand Marshal Princess Stephaney leads the 2017 Southern Decadence parade.

Decadence parade through the 1990s. smith and Perez’s book documents the year-to-year evolution, much of it through interviews with the founders and parade grand marshals. Decadence has resisted centralized control and organization, and it follows a succession of grand marshals choosing their successors. The event has changed with the personalities and whims of the people who’ve planned its annual installments. It was born in friendship and hedonism in the same way New Orleanians embrace the excesses of Carnival in costuming and laissez-faire attitudes. since the early 1980s, it has been an LGBT event, Perez says.

“As a historian, it’s thrilling for me to walk in parade and to have so much community support and have a police escort,” Perez says. “When it started, police raids on gay bars were still common.”

FRI.-SAT. AUG. 24-25 | Leading up to next month’s New Orleans Horror Film Festival, the festival’s summertime Kill-O-Rama series of cult horror films closes with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 psychedelic scooby-Doo nightmare. At midnight at the Prytania Theatre.

Tony Bennett SAT. AUG. 25 | The master of the Great American songbook recently recorded “Fascinating Rhythm” with Diana Krall, who paired up with Bennett for an album due in september. After celebrating his 92nd birthday, Bennett performs with his daughter Antonia Bennett, who opens at 8 p.m. at the saenger Theatre.

Sasha Masakowski SAT. AUG. 25 | The New Orleans artist’s versatile voice has guided projects dipping into electronic pop, experimental art rock, bossa nova and colorful, classic jazz sounds. she returns home for two sets leading a jazz quartet with drummer Peter Varnado, pianist shea Pierre and bassist Jasen Weaver at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Prime Example.

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$64,500 in college scholarships at its annual Junior Golf Tour Awards Banquet last week. The organization — originally called “Feed the Relief” — was founded by pro golfer Kelly Gibson and his wife Elizabeth shortly after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. The foundation has grown to encompass support for New Orleans and Gulf Coast students and military personnel.

The revised cost of President Donald Trump’s proposed military parade in Washington D.C. While initial Pentagon estimates pegged the cost at $12 million, CNBC reported last week that the real cost is $80 million higher. After the revised amount was known, the parade was postponed to 2019.

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states in which to have a baby, according to a study released last week by the site WalletHub. The survey involved 26 key measures related to health outcomes and costs, and Louisiana scored near the bottom of several metrics, including infant mortality rate, fewest midwives and OB-GYNs per capita, and fewest pediatricians per capita.

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Imani Jacqueline Brown, a board member of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, holding a sign in support of restrictions on short term rentals at a New Orleans City Council meeting in May 2018.

SHORT-TERM RENTALS HEAT UP AGAIN

AS DEBATE OVER THE FUTURE OF SHORT-TERM RENTALS is set to re-

WWL radio ran a social media item last week asking, “should you beat someone to death for stealing your wallet?” That eye-popping question was in relation to a tragic local story in which a local man chased an alleged pickpocket and allegedly beat the thief to death. The station later changed the question to “Can retrieving a stolen wallet be a reasonable defense against manslaughter?” — a less inflammatory but more responsible take on the situation.

turn to City Hall next month, short-term rental companies (sTRs) and their supporters are hosting a series of community meetings to pitch their compromise proposal. Following the New Orleans City Council’s citywide moratorium on most whole-home rentals, sTR platform HomeAway has pitched a “Whole-Home, Whole Community” compromise for a “comprehensive and enforceable policy that works for all.”

The pitch follows the City Council’s unanimous approval of a “ban” on temporary sTRs, which allow a property to be rented on platforms like Airbnb for up to 90 days a year. The City Council also tasked the City Planning Commission to study sTR policies in similarly sized cities and whether additional restrictions need to be in place.

HomeAway wants to limit sTRs to two per block, raise sTRs’ fees into the Neighborhood Housing Improvement Fund, lift the ban in the French Quarter, place a citywide cap on rentals to 6,000 (there are roughly 4,300 now), exempt blighted properties from sTR rules for development, and allow “residents” to seek an unlimited number of licenses.

Housing advocates have pushed for a “one host, one home” policy that would limit sTRs to rooms and housing on the operators’ property. The council also is mulling whether to introduce a homestead

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In a letter to the CPC, HomeAway says the “one host” plan would be “tantamount to a ban and would have significant consequences.”

HomeAway and New Orleans sTR group Alliance for Neighborhood Prosperity will discuss the plans at several meetings this week (all meetings start at 5:30 p.m.): Tuesday, Aug. 22 at the George Wein Center; Wednesday, Aug. 23 at KIPP Leadership Academy; Thursday Aug. 24 at the Rosa F. Keller Memorial Library; and Thursday, Aug. 30 at the Algiers Library.

The short-Term Rental Committee — a community group that has spoken against the proliferation of sTRs — also will host a meeting this week to discuss City Hall’s legislation.

The group hosts a meeting from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22 at Lake Vista Community Center (6500 spanish Fort Blvd.)

The CPC’s public comment period has been extended through this week. The CPC staff will likely present its findings to the full commission on sept. 25.

Quote of the week “Our friendship spans 50 years and it progressed to me being deemed her spiritual counselor. ... One of the highlights of my singing career was performing with her on the main stage at the Essence Music Festival. May the Lord bless and comfort the Franklin family in this time of grief. she’s gone, but will never be forgotten.”

— Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr., co-pastor of Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church in New Orleans, memorializing Aretha Franklin, who died last week at 76. Morton performed with Franklin at the 2012 Essence Music Festival.

Connecting Crescent Park to Spanish Plaza? It may happen In the next few months, the Audubon Commission will host community meetings for its vision of the wharves-turned-park project along the Mississippi River — a link between spanish Plaza and Crescent Park to turn the riverfront into a 3-mile linear park. Ahead of those meetings, there are questions among residents and the New Orleans City Council about the park’s future, based on a plan drawn up by former Mayor Mitch Landrieu that hands the Public Belt Railroad to the Port of New Orleans, with the Audubon Commission as the steward for a park sprawl from Wold-

enberg Park into the Marigny.

“This all happened before [Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s] administration and this council and we would like to just put on public record what’s going on,” District C Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer said at the Council’s Governmental Affairs Committee Aug. 14. “It’s best if we go in and have an open process.”

A recent article in TIME from author and Tulane university professor Walter Isaacson stirred some controversy after he suggested a live music venue could land on the wharves. Isaacson told Gambit he was speaking more broadly to the kinds of amenities in other public park projects, rather than a specific plan here.

But live performance venues aren’t necessarily off the table. The two park districts governing each wharf — Gov. Nicholls in the Vieux Carre Park District, and Esplanade in the Regional Open space District — have markedly different permissions under the city’s comprehensive zoning ordinance, the governing document for land use in New Orleans. under a Vieux Carre Park District, only playgrounds are permitted uses, and a museum would be a conditional use. But in a Regional Open space District, such as the one on Esplanade, live performance venues and outdoor amphitheaters are considered permitted uses. The Esplanade Avenue end of the park would be within a few blocks of several venues along Frenchmen street.

Meg Lousteau, director of Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates (VCPORA), said she was “alarmed” to hear rumors of a venue and is concerned that a more-intense use of the park space could overwhelm “what is basically a dead end.”

Audubon will discuss plans with VCPORA at its Aug. 28 meeting at the Omni Royal Orleans.

Nora Navra library sets grand reopening The New Orleans Public Library’s (NOPL) Nora Navra branch, which has been shuttered since Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee collapses destroyed it in 2005, will have its grand reopening Aug. 24-25.

It was one of six NOPL branches damaged beyond repair following the storm, and the last to reopen.

The new 7,800-square-foot branch at 1902 st. Bernard Avenue is three times the size of the original library, which opened in 1950. After a soft opening earlier this month, it now is open Monday through saturday.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell and other officials will be on hand for a ribbon cutting and official ceremonies, which will take place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24.

Ferry terminal plan on hold; Palmer suggests renovation, rather than demolition After several years of planning and $4 million spent on designs, current plans for the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority’s Canal street ferry terminal project are off the table — for now.

After putting the project out to bid for construction in June, the RTA received four bids last month and rejected all of them. The lowest bid was $26 million, nearly double the RTA’s anticipated budget of $14 million.

RTA executive director Jared Munster says the RTA now is working with the Louisiana Department of

District C Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer has suggested renovating, rather than replacing, the Canal Street Ferry Terminal.

Transportation and Development to find additional funds on a state level and to find other sources of funding, outside of the federal grants it received for the project.

At a New Orleans City Council Transportation Committee meeting Aug. 14, District C Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who represents the French Quarter and Algiers on either side of the ferry crossing, asked whether the RTA can go for a more “fiscally prudent” option by revisiting the design and renovating what’s there rather than building an entirely new terminal and bridge. Palmer also asked whether RTA could negotiate those terms of the federal grants, which stipulate that the structures be demolished.

Munster suggested the project could be contracted out to be done in phases, rather than all at once.

The RTA is still aiming for construction in late 2019 with “substantial completion” by 2021. In the mean-

time, Munster says RTA is “committed” to bring the project back to public meetings to “show the changes we’re making.”

Palmer argued that while discussion around the project has often brought up the “barrier” between the Moonwalk and the Riverwalk, there hasn’t been significant discussion about ensuring residents are able to use the ferry to get to other transportation at the foot of Canal street.

“I’m not so concerned about tourists having a pretty vista,” Palmer said. “I’m frankly more concerned that people get to work.”

Entergy planning three solar plants as CEO Rice prepares to step down Entergy New Orleans plans to construct three solar power facilities to generate 90 megawatts of power, with a New Orleans plant coming online as early as 2020.

The 20-megawatt New Orleans solar station is planned on 133 acres on the NAsA facility in New Orleans East, and the company also will oversee a 50-megawatt facility outside the parish at its “Iris” plant and another 20-megawatt plant in st. James Parish. Entergy also will roll out a pilot program to help 100 homeowners install solar panels on their rooftops, to be financed through bill credits.

Entergy officials presented the company’s portfolio plans to the New Orleans City Council’s utilities committee Aug. 16 following intense scrutiny from the City Council, the utility’s regulatory body, for its failure to put renewable energy production “on the front burner,” as Council President Jason Williams said. The announcement also came amid council investigations over the use of paid actors to support construction of a controversial gas-fired plant, which the council approved in May. The City Council also applauded Entergy’s withdrawal of a proposed 21 percent rate hike for Algiers ratepayers. Entergy will offer up a new rate proposal next month.

The solar plans and the promises of better cooperation with City Hall came from Entergy President Rod West, who made a rare appearance before the City Council to “renew the company’s commitment to be a stronger partner.” His appearance also intensified rumors that Entergy New Orleans CEO Charles Rice will be stepping down from the company, which The New Orleans Advocate confirmed after the council committee meeting.

“I know we have not made your job easy in recent months,” West said. “We are here to tell you we plan to fix and address that.” (For more, see Clancy DuBos’ “Politics” column, p. 11.)

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Board would really like to build a hotel attached to the Convention Center — so badly it wants taxpayers to pay for much of it. Last month, the nonpartisan Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) looked into a proposal to build the hotel and concluded it would require nearly $330 million in tax breaks and subsidies. While BGR neither recommended nor opposed the project, the watchdog group concluded, “The proposed deal would involve, by far, the largest public contribution to an economic development project involving a private entity in recent memory in New Orleans.”

Convention Center Board President Melvin Rodrigue disputes BGR’s cost estimates of the requested tax breaks and subsidies ($329.5 million in present value), but there’s no disputing other numbers. The proposed hotel is budgeted at $557.5 million, of which private developers would receive $41 million in cash, up front, from the Convention Center — a public entity. Developers also seek a free lease of the Convention Center’s 8-acre hotel site (appraised value: $28.9 million), a 100 percent proper-

If New Orleans truly needs more first-class hotels, why should citizens foot so much of the bill? ty tax exemption, a 40-year rebate on hotel/motel taxes, and a 40-year sales tax rebate on food and beverages.

That’s a very big “ask” by any developer.

If New Orleans truly needs more first-class hotel rooms — and New Orleans & Co. (formerly the New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau) says it does — why should citizens foot so much of the bill? The developers and the Convention Center characterize the proposal as a “public-private partnership.” sounds to us like the public is having to pay more than its fair share.

It sounds that way to Mayor LaToya Cantrell, too. In a recent letter to Rodrigue, the mayor said, “under the current proposal: the developers will be able to build the hotel on free land, pay no property taxes — and will be able to enjoy a direct subsidy of over $40 million directly from the Convention Center. On top of that, there is a call to waive sales and occupancy taxes worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the life of the hotel.”

It’s also ironic that one of the local developers behind the proposal is businessman and hotelier Joe Jaeger. During this year’s regular legislative session, when Harrah’s New Orleans casino sought to build a high-rise hotel entirely with private money — and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to boot — in exchange for extending its license for 30 more years, Jaeger led the charge to kill the proposal, arguing it was being rushed through to passage. Now Jaeger and fellow developer Darryl Berger seek approval for a much sweeter deal, though the mayor’s letter and media scrutiny seem to have slowed this project’s timetable. Rodrigue says the Convention Center board is waiting for an outside analysis of the proposed project (due later this month or in september) before taking a vote.

“Before approving public contributions to the hotel project,” BGR wrote in its report, “the Convention Center should clearly explain why the private market cannot build the hotel at this location without the public’s assistance.”

We agree — because the current proposal is indeed a very big “ask.”

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Hey Blake, Lots of people know Fat City in Metairie, but I bet not too many know about Skinny City, also in Metairie. What can you tell us about the history of both places?

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Dear Joe,

Fat City was established in March 1973 when the Fat City Businessmen’s Association was formed.

Its 40 members represented bars and restaurants, as well as “boutiques, clothiers and service agencies,” according to a Times-Picayune article headlined “Fat City to be East Jeff’s Vieux Carre-type area.”

David Levy was elected president.

The district was defined as 104 blocks bounded by Veterans Memorial Boulevard, West Esplanade Avenue, Division street and Causeway Boulevard.

The origin of the name Fat City was said to be a snowball stand that operated in the area, though there

also were a 1969 novel and 1972 film by the same name. Apartment complexes sprang up, followed by dozens of nightclubs and bars, establishing the area as an alternative to Bourbon street. Among them were the Back Door, Act IV, the Playboy Club, Don Quixote, sancho Panza, the Court Jester, Poets and the spanish Galleon. strip clubs and massage parlors later tarnished the area’s image and brought crime and drugs. Recent zoning changes initiated by Jefferson Parish Councilwoman Cynthia Leesheng have tried to clean up the district and bring in new businesses.

In 1974, a group of businessmen introduced skinny City, a threeblock area of Metairie Road between Beverly Garden Drive and Bonnabel Boulevard. According to an October 1974 article in The Times-Picayune, it consisted of 19 businesses. “We figured that with Fat City getting all of this publicity, it’s time our part of Metairie got some recognition,” founder Tracey Bordes said. “We’re not going to be like Fat City, with nightclubs … but we have an area with very little crime that offers the shopper every-

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Fat City was established in 1973 by a business association to promote shopping, dining and nightlife in the area.

thing.” Louie Blanchard was elected “mayor” of skinny City during an election at Pat Gillen’s Bar No. 2 on Metairie Road. He said the goal would be to offer shoppers “skinny prices and fat values.”

we’ll take the next few weeks to look at the history of the mascots and symbols of some local universities.

First, we look at the city’s oldest institution of higher learning: Tulane. According to the university, its earliest athletic teams were called The Olive and Blue, referring to the school’s colors. In 1919, The Tulane Weekly student newspaper began calling the football team the Greenbacks. The Green Wave name came about in 1920 after a football song called “The Rolling Green Wave” was published in The Hullabaloo.

The earliest mascot was depicted as a pelican riding a surfboard. In 1955, cartoonist John Chase created “Greenie,” a mischievous boy in a football helmet. In 1964, the so-called “Angry Wave” mascot was adopted.

A block letter T with blue and green waves became the logo in 1986. In 1998, a new logo was introduced with a pelican, a cresting wave and the letter T. The “Angry Wave” returned in 2016.

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Entergy’s rolling political outages THE DEMOTION OF CHARLES RICE from Entergy New Orle-

ans (ENO) president into a new role as legal adviser came as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the local utility’s foibles in recent years. That change may not be the only one among ENO brass.

The utility’s political and PR problems peaked when The Lens revealed in May that an ENO subcontractor paid scores of actors to show up at two City Hall hearings in a fake show of community support for a proposed power plant in New Orleans East. Hiring actors to pack public hearings is lowbrow enough, but doing it when the council’s vote in favor of the plant was already a foregone conclusion was just plain dumb.

The so-called “astroturfing” debacle was just the latest ENO

misstep. There have been others, all of which badly tarnished the company’s credibility among council members, who regulate the utility.

When The Lens first broke the astroturfing story, ENO claimed it knew nothing of the practice and blamed a PR subcontractor. A council investigation quickly uncovered ENO emails that showed Rice had signed off on plans to pack the Council Chamber — and approved buying T-shirts for the “supporters” and giving them specific talking points.

It was a ham-fisted case of political and PR overkill. The council approved Entergy’s request to build a “peaking” power plant in New Orleans East earlier this year by a vote of 6-1, although the plant the council approved was about half the size of the one ENO initially proposed. The smaller plant

was endorsed by the council’s own utility advisers, who rank among the best in the nation — and who have a long history of holding Entergy’s feet to the fire on regulatory matters.

That should have been a clear signal that there was no need to fabricate community support, but ENO apparently didn’t get the memo.

In fact, a look back at ENO’s campaign for the new plant reveals a series of illadvised moves: • The utility’s initial request for a grossly oversized 250-megawatt plant — and its entire approach to community outreach — smacked of corporate arrogance.

• ENO promised to improve its distribution system (which

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Rod West is the new interim CEO of Entergy.

delivers power to homes and businesses) and generate 100 megawatts from renewable energy sources, particularly solar power. Instead of honoring those commitments, ENO slow walked the renewables and distribution improvements — another unforced error that cast the utility as tone wdeaf to the community and the council.

• As if to make sure it had stepped on every possible grenade, ENO then proposed to hit Algiers residents with a

21 percent rate increase — after the astroturfing scandal broke.

These are not the actions of a well-run utility.

Rod West, Entergy Corp.’s group president for utility operations — and Rice’s predecessor at ENO — personally promised the council on Aug. 16 that ENO will honor its commitments on renewables, distribution improvements, and reliability upgrades. Entergy announced Aug. 17 that West will serve as ENO’s interim president and CEO. The only question remaining is how many other heads will roll at ENO? In the long run, it will take more than a visit from the boss and an executive housecleaning for the company to overcome its rolling political outages.

It will take time, money and many megawatts of hardearned goodwill.

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T H E S T R E E T T H AT LO CA L S L OV E T O H AT E

There’s residential Bourbon. There’s gay Bourbon — whatever of its remains can be glimpsed beneath the screeching flocks of bachelorette vultures. There are subjective Bourbons: beggar’s Bourbon, burlesque Bourbon, barker’s Bourbon, busker’s Bourbon. There’s tender, poignant, instructively Hogarthian dawn Bourbon, morning Bourbon’s busy trucks cleaning and restocking, the fetid siesta of afternoon Bourbon.

There’s the intriguingly liminal demographic overlap of dusk Bourbon, followed, of course, by evening Bourbon, night Bourbon and the unpredictable, paranoid but exhilaratingly raw Real Bourbon Hours Bourbon, where the lone stroller experiences relentless evaluation of their potential role in a binary of predator and prey. PAGE 14

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It would be hard to do justice to any of these without outrageous generalization — one could go block by block, hour by hour, forever. There is, however, a coherent shorthand Bourbon of the collective imagination: Bourbon street’s upriver blocks, at night, lit by dream-like neon and crowded with revelers.

Those revelers overwhelmingly are tourists, which shapes Bourbon’s reputation in the eyes of locals. Tourists can be frustrating, can ruin your life, kill your neighborhood and despoil your city like locusts, but one of the nice things about Bourbon street is that spending time on it lets you be around tourists without having to hate them. They’re having fun, they’re spending money, and for once, they’re where they belong. Bourbon is a specialized environment constructed expressly for them, shaped by decades of their desires and entrepreneurial trial-and-error into a smoothly running financeextraction machine. In the ideal New Orleans tourist experience, the tourist at each stage of their visit — from airport to restaurant to hotel to bar — is given the privilege of contributing materially to the enrichment of their surroundings. Bourbon’s where the gears mesh tightest.

Bourbon street’s recent repaving is nice and slippery, so the herds sluiced in from Canal street can slide along slickly with minimal friction, slotting into the open doorways of the bars, clubs and restaurants for processing p and value extraction. It’s beautiful to see — beautiful the way watching birth is beautiful. sure, a little messy at tim mes, but it’s such a natural, timeless process you can’t help but feel moved.

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ormer Mayor Mitch Landrieu liked highfalutin committees that partnered with expensive consultancies to release ambitious, glossy plans. Celebrate Our History, Invest in Our Future: Reinvigorating Tourism in New Orleans, a 24-page report from the “New Orleans strategic Hospitality Task Force,” opens with a giant picture of a Bourbon street crowd beneath its table of contents — and yet not once in all the report’s sections, not in “Tourism: It’s Our Future,” or “Key Goals: More Younger Visitors; Brand as Authentic and Fun,” not even in “The Master Plan: 13.7 Million Annual Visitors by 2018” is Bourbon street mentioned or named.

“For hundreds of years,” the report says, “New Orleans has been the gateway to Louisiana. New Orleans plays a major role in Louisiana’s image, and it is a significant factor in potential visitors’ decision to visit.” It strikes me this could be as fairly said of Bourbon street relative to New Orleans. “The French Quarter is New Orleans’ most visited attraction,” the task force tells us. OK, and what’s the French Quarter’s most visited attraction?

The only clue is the page’s bottom-most graphic, a jauntily-an-

gled fragment of a “Rue Bourbon” street sign.

In his book Bourbon Street, journalist and geographer Richard Campanella’s comprehensive and thoroughly-researched history of the street, Campanella writes, “There is no Bourbon street logo, no headquarters, no board of directors, no visitors’ center, not even a website.”

And yet what a juggernaut Bourbon street is, generating millions of dollars year after year without focus groups, formal governance or expensive branding consultancies!

It seems possible that, just as some of Louisiana’s state-level leadership resents its most famous city, certain forces within New Orleans resent their city’s most famous street. Perhaps the honchos of tourism hate Bourbon because they cannot own or control it; perhaps they fear the extent to which Bourbon street’s brand has blanketed New Orleans as a whole.

While Campanella’s book is worthwhile and top of the reading list for anyone interested in Bourbon street, those interested in the subjects of gender, race and economics may find Mr. Campanella’s priorities don’t mesh with their own. Campanella is preoccupied with whether modern-day Bourbon street is “authentic” or “cool,” designations he seeks to quantify via the sort of social-science methodologies whose chief and perhaps only virtue is their power to antagonize sTEM nerds.

15 to ticket everyone they see for jaywalking, open container and public intoxication.

There always have been at least a few good bars on Bourbon — and plenty of secrets. I hate to spoil any, but the correct passphrase (and for non-members, a cash payment) will

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A brass band in the 100 block of Bourbon Street.

induce the staff of a certain Bourbon street establishment to escort you back through a “NO ACCEss” door to a fragrant stairway, from which you may ascend to a private vampire-themed speakeasy club with its own balcony and a high-priced menu of lurid signature cocktails. Can you find that on Frenchmen or Freret?

Bourbon has layers, like the rest of New Orleans. Ms. Rosie, whose bright blue hair and motley dress make her a recognizable French Quarter figure, has been collecting cans

from individuals and businesses throughout the Quarter since 1995. she assures me there are more residents of Bourbon street than one might think, even in the primarily commercial blocks close to Canal.

“They’re still there,” she says, “upstairs. Maybe you don’t see them ... some are very private. They’ve been there a long time.”

NOLA.com arts-and-humanities stalwart Doug MacCash, who lived on Bourbon from 1978-84, described Bourbon street as “the neighborhood bar of the whole region — the whole middle of the country.” This feels true; Bourbon has a leveling, democratic quality.

Few first-world communities have street life. For those who don’t ride public transit and for most of their adulthoods travel via automobile between a few tightly curated

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Cool is a Zen-riddle word functioning mostly as a cosmic floodgate for its own plentiful inverse.

The older the participants debating something’s “coolness,” the wider gapes the cloaca through which pressurized uncoolness erupts.

As regards authenticity, a term towards which Campanella evinces avuncular skepticism, I defer to another author, C.B. George, who calls authenticity “the child of that colonial pastime exotification ... sibling to the bigotry of essentialism.” so I shan’t weigh in on whether Bourbon street’s authentic or cool — but I’ll tell you it’s beautiful. It looks like something from a video game, although no video game smells like this. No digital experience can bring you the heavy, damp air, redolent with pheromones, or the gauntlet of arctic blasts from open doorways that chill your sweat-soaked top against your nips. some on Bourbon street are dressed as if for a glamorous photoshoot; some are barefoot and in rags; some are in rapid transition from the former to the latter. The crowd surges and swirls, teeming around you and then opening suddenly into sinister, unexpected lacunae of space and silence.

People of all ages are out, even after nightfall. You see pairs and clumps of the elderly, and even that most sacrosanct unit, the nuclear family: tense patriarchs grimly stewarding their variously bored or titillated wife-and-kids through the moral mire.

Because Bourbon street is a place people come to from everywhere, seeking everything, supply-and-demand ensures everything is available — at a price, and at a risk. This infinite bazaar is presided over by countless cameras that may or may not work, bemused New Orleans police officers who may or may not work, and now the fanatical, fascistic state troopers who sullenly long

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16 situations — home, work, and whatever sad normie weekend rituals — Bourbon street’s sempiternal carnival gives them unmediated contact with all sorts of people they might not otherwise encounter. It’s thrilling, and creates dense branching fractals of opportunity. You can feel it when you’re around it: the vibrant pulse of possibility thumping within the heavy flesh of Bourbon’s clamor. ’ve developed a taste for walking Bourbon alone, but Bourbon with even one friend is a kick in the pants.

Whatever you might think of what’s happening around you, you’re sure to be entertained by your friends’ reactions, and on Bourbon, there’s always something happening.

Bourbon street is a social occasion. If you can’t bring your own friends, you can make some — generous friends who will bankroll a rarified debauch, or false friends who will set you up for a mugging.

In my experience, these friendships are ephemeral; I’ve never kept in touch with any of the visitors I’ve gotten to know on Bourbon, even when we were lucid enough to exchange phone numbers or make future plans. People are lonely and bored. They come to Bourbon street wanting excitement, hoping to try something new. You can, without undue effort, be that for the night.

I think, even more so than the rest of New Orleans, Bourbon is to its visitors a backdrop. The twist is that those making Bourbon street what it is are the tourists themselves. some of my favorite parts of Campanella’s book concern the history and development of this phenomenon, the evolution of Bourbon street’s street life into its main attraction.

I think that’s key to its beauty: a tourist spectacle where the tourists are the spectacle.

Not everyone who lives here likes Bourbon street as much as I do. One friend, a New Orleans native who uses a pedicab to supplement her teacher’s income, describes Bourbon as “a dirty tourist trap.” When trawling Bourbon for customers, she says, “My catchphrase is ‘Let me get you the hell off Bourbon street.’”

I talked to Kat and Megan, a pair of 21-year-old twins undertaking a night out together on Bourbon. Kat, who lives elsewhere, never had been on Bourbon street before; Megan, a senior at Tulane university, had been once or twice. Her introduction to Bourbon came the first Friday night of her freshman year: “My friends wanted to take me to Frenchmen street, but they said, ‘We have to

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make our uber drive down Bourbon, so you can see how terrible it is.’”

It was, Megan said, “the trashiest place I’d ever seen.” A few years later, her outlook has softened. “It can be fun. There’s a time and a place for it — if it’s someone’s birthday, or you want to go out dancing and not pay a cover.”

Many locals I talked to for this article described Bourbon as dirty, disgusting and gross. “We’d all be bankrupt without it,” a club employee told me, “but there’s probably a disease brewing in those rancid puddles that’ll cause the zombie apocalypse.”

I don’t find Bourbon much dirtier than a lot of the places my friends like, but I sense in many of these critiques a disdain for the crowdedness of Bourbon; it can be very crowded.

I wonder whether another element in the rejection of Bourbon street might be that one can’t feel possession of it: Bourbon’s too huge, too open, too broadly popular to claim for oneself.

Back in 2009-10, I occasionally attended a Bourbon street picket line outside the restaurant Tony Moran’s.

Trying to do any form of protest on Bourbon street, unless you have big numbers or a big gimmick, is challenging. Nearly everything done on Bourbon becomes just seasoning for the larger Bourbon street scene, subsumed into the pervasive sloppy silliness.

Notable exceptions were this year’s historic BARE-organized rallies against the church-and-statebacked police harassment of exotic dancers, including a Bourbon street protest that made international headlines for drowning out a press conference of city officials. The setting was key; the whole world understands Bourbon street is a place for strippers, and the rallies functioned as reclamation, embarrassing the

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A drinks vendor makes a point with his tip jar on Bourbon Street.

One video of Mamie Marie dancing has been viewed 11 million times; by my reckoning, that makes her among New Orleans’ most famous residents. she’s got many other viral hits, which she collects on her Facebook: one video with 41,000 comments, another with 25,000.

Mamie Marie’s even in the opening of Beyonce’s “Formation” tour video — and yet, in the egalitarian spirit of New Orleans, she’s still working on Bourbon with the hoi polloi.

Mamie Marie came to New Orleans in 2012, and was homeless for five months. “I used to come out to Bourbon street and hang out,” she told me. “I didn’t have any of this back then — but I got a boom box. I like my oldie-but-goodie music, and people would take pictures. They started tipping me, and then the next thing you know...” she gestured at her lit-up custom trike, bulging with a state-of-the-art sound system she controls from her phone.

While I interviewed Mamie Marie, she was continually approached by fans. “I had to come see you,” one excited young woman told her. “I couldn’t come to New Orleans and not get a picture with you.”

To all these people, Mamie Marie, a Bourbon street success story, is New Orleans. she is its smiling face, its exemplar, and the fun that people from around the world come here to seek. Bourbon street is many things, including all the things its detractors don’t like about it, but to me, Bourbon street is the mythos with which visitors imbue it, the excitement it promises and the millions of dollars that change hands on that promise.

It’s the place where Mamie Marie could show up with nothing but a joyful spirit and a boombox and make a living for herself.

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malefactors who’d been conspiring to deny dancers their livelihood. stripping, one of the best-paying entry-level jobs in New Orleans, has been associated with Bourbon for decades. A dancer who’s worked all over the country told me, “In other places, people are ashamed to go to the strip club, but do it anyway because they hate their lives.” This means the dancer has to mend the customer’s gloom to get him in a celebratory spending mood. On Bourbon street, by contrast, “You don’t have to try to cheer people up, because they’re already having a blast. On Bourbon, there’s nothing shameful about buying a lap dance ... it’s part of the indulgent extravagance people come for.”

Because New Orleans is a tourist economy, and because so many millions of tourists come to see Bourbon street, Bourbon street is important. We are lucky, then, to be graced with the best ambassador any street or city could hope for: Marie Francois, aka Mamie Marie, aka silver Foxx, aka a few other things, the 71-year old street dancer who travels in a tricked-out tricycle with a big loudspeaker system and a fringed canopy adorned with biblical admonitions. sometimes Mamie Marie plays her beloved “oldies-but-goodies” music, but when she’s working, she plays Juvenile’s “Back That Azz up” on a loop, for an hour or more at a time, and dances energetically. People love it. On many weekends she is the center of a street party, ringed with other dancers inspired by her example and those filming the fun.

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DREAM ON Help your teen get more sleep

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teens to get an adequate amount of sleep.

Perhaps someday local schools will act on that advice, but in the meantime, Layne recommends a few steps that parents can take to help their teens get more sleep.

“You want to have a fairly stable sleep pattern, in that you’re going to bed roughly around the same time and waking up roughly around the same time,” Layne says. “A lot of times what happens is that

Signs that your teen needs more sleep • Excessive sleepiness • Difficulty waking up in the morning • Lack of concentration, forgetfulness or a drop in school grades • Irritability or aggressiveness • Overeating or binging on unhealthy foods, which may lead to weight gain

on weekends people will go out, stay up later and then they’ll sleep in. Then when it comes to Monday and it’s time for them to get up to go to school, their sleep pattern has shifted. About the time they finally get everything shifted back into place towards the midto end of the week, it happens all over again.”

He says if teens normally wake up at 6 a.m., it’s OK for them to sleep until 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. on weekends, but they shouldn’t spend all day in bed. Teens also should minimize potential distractions before bedtime.

“Put the phone and iPad away, because light tells your brain that you are supposed to be awake,” Layne says. “If you’re lying there on the phone, your brain is going to be getting a mixed signal as far as what you’re supposed to be doing.”

Teens also should avoid exercise within a few hours of their bedtime and try to get their homework and chores wrapped up early, so they can wind down.

“You want to have a set routine, so your body knows you’re now getting in the mode to go to sleep,” he says. “Don’t try to race around, do 50 different things and then jump into bed without having time to decompress.”

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The results showed 46 percent of the 1,602 adolescents surveyed for the study had a low depressive mood score, 37 percent had a moderate depressive mood score and 17 percent had a high depressive mood score. Kids in the last group take longer to fall asleep on school nights and are excessively sleepy during the day.

“It’s always a question with depression and insomnia or lack of sleep: Which came first?” Layne says. “Some people feel like depression may trigger insomnia or decreased sleep, or vice versa.”

Sleeplessness also may lead to skin conditions such as acne and an increased consumption of caffeine, and the resultant lack of concentration may cause teens’ grades to drop.

The American Academy of Pediatrics considers insufficient sleep a public health issue that affects the health, safety and academic success of middle and high school students. The Academy believes early start times (before 8:30 a.m.) for school contribute to inadequate sleep and circadian rhythm disruption, and later start times can counteract chronic sleep loss. They encourage high schools and middle schools to aim for later start times that allow

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ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION (NSF), teens need about eight to 10 hours of sleep every day, but only 15 percent of them get more than eight hours a night.

However, Dr. Stephen Layne of East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH) stresses that there “isn’t a magic number.” Layne is board certified in pulmonary and sleep medicine, and he’s also the medical director of EJGH’s Sleep Disorders Center.

“Everybody’s sleep needs are different,” he says. “We say you need eight hours, which is a typical amount, but there are some people who can get by with a little bit less.

Some people actually need more.”

But sleep is especially crucial for teenagers, since they’re experiencing hormonal changes and facing a full day of studies, extracurricular activities and a heap of homework — not to mention the emotional hurdles they face along the way.

Those hormonal changes can have a negative impact on a teenager’s sleep pattern, as can a burgeoning social life, whether that includes staying out late or tapping on a cellphone while lying in bed.

“There is less sleep being obtained by teenagers just because of that,” Layne says.

“There’s a shift in circadian rhythm where they tend to sleep a little bit later and stay up later.”

Teens who are not catching enough zzzs may become irritable and have trouble concentrating, or even show signs of depression.

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VOCATION, VOCATION, VOCATION A focus on nontraditional post-secondary programs is on the rise

BY KATHERINE M. JOHNSON

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Students work on a simulator in the Emergency Medical Technician program at Delgado Community College.

so our instructors carefully advise students and really look at their grades and expose them to other professions if they’re struggling or on the borderline.”

While the popularity of vocational programs has surged, public opinion of them hasn’t kept up with the trend.

“Vocational programs are a tough sell sometimes,” Gaspard says. “Most kids are on a college track and that’s what they’ve been indoctrinated to do. But there are so many students that don’t want that route … and many of our students continue on. Most of [Delgado’s] credits will transfer to other institutions. We’ve had a lot of physicians come through our allied health programs. It’s really not a stigma [to attend vocational school], especially in health care.

It’s a good start.”

Delgado actively recruits students for its Workforce Development and Technical Education programs by hosting a few annual functions on campus for high school juniors and seniors. The on-campus recruitment events are very hands-on, especially for the allied health fields. Many departments have their own dedicat-

ed labs and simulators, which are open for exploration during these events.

“The surgical technician program, the funeral service program — they all have labs on campus,” Gaspard says. “The labs are really first-class. Most of them are really state-of-the-art. Hospitals would love to have [our] ultrasound lab.”

Another advantage of vocational training is that job placement is virtually guaranteed. The programs offer close contact with the industries into which they feed and many networking opportunities, and graduates of these programs often need little or no orientation or on-the-job training upon hiring. Because of the clinical component of their courses, students in the allied health fields are at 100 percent placement within months of course completion, Gaspard says. “[Vocational training] works,” he says. “It’s a lot of students — the need is there, both for the education and the workforce. … I had a sonogram (recently) and it was one of our students performing the exam.”

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now are college-credit-based, which means vocational students are eligible for federal student aid, including loans and grants.

“We have a large percent of students on Pell grants,” he says, “as well as some merit-based scholarships. As long as they’re credit-based (classes), they qualify.

Seventy percent of our students are on financial aid.”

A typical vocational program will take about 60 to 65 hours to complete, and federal aid for these programs maxes out at 95 credit hours.

If a student has used federal aid for college courses before beginning an eligible vocational program, it’s possible to appeal funding used for dropped courses and have that aid reinstated, especially if the student is close to completing the program.

Gaspard says many students come into vocational programs knowing what career they’d like to pursue. Some of Delgado’s programs are more popular than others, such as nursing, X-ray technology, physical therapy and polysomnography, or sleep studies.

“For a while, medical coding was really hot,” he says. “But these programs have a limited number [of students] that they can accept,

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COLLEGE ISN’T FOR EVERYONE. It’s a hard truth to swallow, especially for students who find themselves disinterested or disheartened during their tenure at a four-year university and those who’ve been preached to their entire academic lives about the absolute necessity of a college degree. But there are alternatives to a traditional university route.

The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act defines post-secondary vocational education as “organized educational programs offering sequences of courses directly related to preparing individuals … [for] emerging occupations requiring other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree.” While the ’90s saw a general decrease in the number of high school graduates enrolled in these courses, enrollment is on the rise — The National Center for Education Statistics published a report in fall 2016 that shows 38 percent of all undergraduates are enrolled at two-year or less-than-two-year institutions. In fact, 49 U.S. states enacted nearly 250 policies to support vocational programming in 2017, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Harold Gaspard, dean of Delgado Community College’s Allied Health Division, a unit of Delgado’s Workforce Development and Technical Education department, touts the school’s extensive catalog of vocational programs.

“There are 28 different professions and three levels of nursing just in our health care programs, and three of those programs are unique to the state,” Gaspard says.

Delgado’s offerings also include studies in business, pre-electrical engineering, pre-architectural engineering, drafting, arts and humanities, sociology, psychology, criminal justice and culinary arts, and attract students from an array of educational backgrounds.

“We have lots of older, nontraditional students, who maybe tried college and now want to try something else,” he says. “We also have lots of returning students and even (doctorate) holders.”

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How parents can create healthy technology plans for their families THE FIRST COMPUTER THAT CAN BE CALLED A “PERSONAL” COMPUTER was the minicomputer, developed in the mid-1960s. It was large (about the size of a refrigerator) and expensive (tens of thousands of dollars). Its inventors likely could never have imagined that just 60 years later, nearly everyone would be walking around with one in their pocket.

Screens are everywhere. Smartphones, tablets, televisions, laptops and desktops are an integral part of our lives, whether for work, school or play, and Lisa Phillips, social worker and parent educator at the Parenting Center at Children’s Hospital, works with parents and their children to establish beneficial, realistic relationships with tech.

“Now, we can’t live without technology,” Phillips says. “So, it’s not realistic when you talk to parents and just say, ‘Get rid of that phone … or Xbox or TV.’ We’re not going to go back to the way things were 20 years ago, so we have to figure out some healthy ways that we can all live with it.”

The allure of digital devices goes beyond habit and convenience.

“It’s immediate gratification,” she says. “It activates those reward centers of the brain, so it is very hard for kids to stop and transition (to other activities).”

The complaint that Phillips hears most frequently from parents is about their kids’ behavior when they’re forced to unplug. “There does seem to be an intensity to letting go of this that takes parents back,” she says.

up your hands and saying, ‘Oh, whatever, kids these days are just addicted to their phones.’”

Phillips stresses that our own role modeling is a key piece of the tech puzzle. If parents are constantly distracted from interacting with their kids because of their own devices, it sends the message that screen time is the priority, not the child.

“We know with very young kids, such as toddlers, preschoolers and babies, that they’re learning about relationships from (adults),” Phillips says. “They’re learning empathy from your face and from their emotional connections with you. If you’re constantly distracted when they’re searching your face and listening to you, it’s very detrimental to their development, even with older kids.”

Setting boundaries — and respecting those boundaries yourself — reprioritizes screen time, and shows kids that technology is a part of life, not its entirety, Phillips says.

“We can’t expect our kids to be better and to have more self-control than we do,” she says.

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• www.screenagersmovie.com — Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston created the 2016 documentary Screenagers about teenagers and the way screens dominate their daily lives. You can’t view the film through the website, but Ruston’s blog “Tech Talk Tuesdays” provides conversation starters and advice for talking with adolescents about technology.

• www.zerotothree.org — The site offers plenty of toddler-specific resources and services for new parents, including guidance on setting limits and discipline.

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Signs that a child is overexposed to screens include tantrums that seem beyond what’s expected of the child’s age or coping skills, withdrawal and loss of interest in once-preferred activities. Phillips offers general guidelines for monitoring and restricting children’s technology usage, but she stresses that these guidelines will change depending on a child’s age, personality and developmental stage.

She acknowledges the difficulty parents may face as they try to implement limits, especially if kids previously had no boundaries. Many parents admit to letting children play on smart phones and tablets to give themselves a break or to take care of other tasks — something Phillips (a mother of two) says she’s done herself.

“Honestly, most of us aren’t using screen time to interact with our child,” Phillips says. “We’re using it so we can take a shower! That’s the reality of it. It’s a balancing act.

We don’t want to make people feel guilty about this, because all parents need some time to get things done. On the other hand, it’s very easy for that to snowball, so then parents can feel like they’ve lost control of it.”

When setting tech use boundaries, parents must first decide what kind of rules they want to have in their homes. Do they want to restrict usage to a certain time of day or a set amount of time?

Do they want to establish control over the content to which kids are exposed? Parents may want to designate days of the week or rooms in the house that are screen-free.

Some research (such as studies by the National Sleep Foundation) suggests a connection between exposure to screens immediately before bed time and poor sleep quality — do parents want to prohibit screen time in the hour (or longer) before kids go to sleep? Are mom and dad tech savvy enough to set parental controls on tablets and phones — especially once kids have their own personal devices? Do they want to involve older children in the conversation that establishes these rules?

The sooner parents start the limit-setting process, the better.

Kids will get used to their parents being in control. But, that’s not to say they’ll never push those boundaries.

“As children get older, it gets much more difficult,” Phillips says.

“They use screens for school and a lot of times, they are 1,000 times better at it than we are. But there has to be a middle ground between trying to block all access, which is unrealistic, and just throwing

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Alon Shaya’s Saba expands his vision of modern Israeli cuisine

BY H E L E N F R E u N D @helenfreund WHEN CHEF ALON SHAYA OPENED

shaya on Magazine street in 2015, it felt like the country was having a moment with modern Israeli cuisine.

Philadelphia chef Michael solomonov’s Zahav garnered widespread praise, and since then he has won several James Beard Foundation awards.

Books focused on Israeli cooking and baking from Yotam Ottolenghi, sami Tamini and uri scheft were flying off the shelves. But for Alon, the moment was interrupted by a a very public parting with co-owner John Besh, whose restaurant group owns shaya.

Alon opened his new restaurant, saba, in spring, and it’s following a broader vision of modern Israeli cuisine. At saba, he delves deeper into the myriad of cultural influences on Israel’s culinary landscape, imparted by generations of immigrants from Yemen, Bulgaria, spain, Turkey, France, Morocco, Greece and elsewhere.

Doughy rounds of warm pita arrive as expected, accompanied by ramekins of sesame-studded za’atar in olive oil. But here, the bread seems more like a precursor to the rest of the menu, rather than an anchoring concept.

Of the salatim, a list of spreads and small salads, alliums and spice temper some of the stronger flavors. salty Bulgarian feta is sweetened with soft preserved leeks and coriander, and a dish of tart, vinegar-laced red grapes is served with pickled onions and pine nuts, which add buttery crunch.

There are heavier spreads such as thick, creamy labneh dotted with pink peppercorns and mint, and lighter, vegetable-focused dishes such as tabbouleh salad, a bright, fresh tumble of parsley, Persian lime,

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avocado and walnuts. Also good is wood-roasted okra, served charred and crispy with a thick smear of tahini and a sprinkle of sunflower seeds.

In many dishes, a few simple ingredients are matched with bold flavors from peppercorns, warm spices, citrus and smoke. The latter is most notable in the shishlik section of the menu, where the items pass over hot coals.

The shishlik section also includes lamb kebabs served with roasted onions and sweet, caramelized tomatoes. Though the portion is small for its $16 price, crispy charred octopus is impossibly tender on the inside and comes with cherry tomatoes that burst with acid and warmth. The menu’s prices are varied, but assembling a meal can get steep. some of the nuanced touches are light and floral, accenting the more pronounced flavors in a dish.

Orange-scented olives are served swimming in a harissa-spiked oil, and rose duqqa is sprinkled on hummus topped with charred poblano peppers and a green swirl of pistachio tahini.

In some dishes, a rustic, minimalistic approach lets bold combinations

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Will Mondros and Chantal Reveles prepare modern Israeli dishes at Saba.

speak. Harissa-roasted chicken is coated with a burnt sienna-tinged paste, which gives way to tender hunks of meat. It is presented simply on a bed of laurel leaves with lemon wedges. Carrots roasted with Moroccan spices are cooled by creamy labneh and mint. An excellent lamb’s tongue sandwich features earthy bits of roasted meat in pita with a smoked cherry mustard, cabbage salad and turmeric-scented pickled cauliflower.

Looking back at the accolades shaya garnered over the years, the new restaurant’s quick success shouldn’t surprise anyone. saba, which means grandfather in Hebrew, gives diners a portrait of modern Israeli cuisine with an eye to the generations of immigrants and the influences who helped shape it.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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at his new restaurant, Alon shaya incorporates influences that inspire modern Israeli cuisine

Ruby slipper Cafe are among the food vendors at this year’s Beignet Fest (www.beignetfest.com), which takes place Oct. 6 at New Orleans City Park’s festival grounds.

Festival organizers announced the full list of food vendors and their traditional and creative beignets.

Girls Gone Vegan will serve gluten-free beignets. The Howlin’ Wolf returns with its festival favorite bacon-cheddar beignets served with chipotle crema. Legacy Kitchen will top beignets with crawfish cream sauce, and Loretta’s Authentic Pralines will offer crab beignets. The Vintage will serve cinnamon-sugar beignet bites.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cafe du Monde’s signature beignets will be available only to VIP patrons from 10 a.m. to noon.

The music lineup features Confetti Park Players, The Imagination Movers, soul Project, Eric Lindell and The Original Pinettes Brass Band.

Local couple Amy and sherwood Collins launched the festival in 2016 as part of the Tres Doux Foundation, a nonprofit formed to raise funds to support children with autism spectrum disorder. The foundation has made more than $30,000 in grants to local autism programs. — HELEN FREuND

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beers, live music, burlesque and more at House of Blues at 6 p.m. saturday, Aug. 25. Participating breweries include Abita Brewing Company, Bayou Teche Brewing, Chafunkta Brewing Company, Dixie Beer, Gnarly Barley Brewing Company, Great Raft Brewing, NOLA Brewing Company, Parish Brewing Company, Port Orleans Brewing Company, Royal Brewery, second Line Brewing, southern Prohibition Brewing, Tin Roof Brewing Company, urban south Brewery, Wayward Owl Brewing Company and others.

The music lineup includes Kumasi Afrobeat Orchestra, Valerie sassyfras, Mighty Brother, Nebula Rosa, The Jamey st. Pierre Band and others. Elle Dorado of Bad Girls Burleque also performs. General admission is $10, and a $20 wristband is good for admission and five beer samples. Wristbands good for unlimited beer samples are $45.

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attention for being a multifaceted cuisine with influences from cultures all over the world. san Francisco-based Peruvian food writer, chef and mixologist Nico Vera (www.piscotrail.com) is teaming up with Carmo head chef Dana Honn to host two evenings dedicated to the south American cuisine at Carmo (527 Julia st., 504875-4132; www.cafecarmo.com).

On Aug. 24, Vera leads a Peruvian cooking and cocktail-making course featuring ceviche and pisco drinks. On Aug. 25, a five-course dinner with cocktail pairings explores Peruvian “Criollo” cuisine and the connection to New Orleans foodways. Vera spoke with Gambit about Peruvian cuisine.

How do you describe Peruvian cuisine?

VERA: To describe Peruvian cuisine, it’s important not to try to describe it in a nutshell. It really depends on where you are in Peru — the coast, the mountains or the jungle. Each region is going to have different dishes, or sometimes a similar dish (made) differently. someone in the mountains is going to cook with a lot of potatoes, meat and hot peppers and (make) stews. They cook in a style called pachamanca, which is where they dig a hole in the earth and cook with hot rocks. They layer meats, potatoes and corn, separated by leaves, and everything is slowcooked. That’s in the mountains and the culture of the people in the Andes.

On the coast, we have ceviches because we have a bounty of seafood. But seafood was not always popular in Peru. The Japanese helped Peruvians rediscover the sea in many ways. Now, ceviche is almost a daily ritual.

In the jungle, we have a lot of river fish, for example, and seafood and fruit comes from the Amazon.

We have a dish that is like arroz con pollo, with rice cooked with hot peppers, cilantro and chicken that is wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. That’s very typical from the jungle.

What are the historical influences on the country’s cuisine?

V: In addition to the different geographies, there are ingredients from different cultures. We have a lot of cultures that influenced the cuisine. Historically, you could say it’s been evolving over the past 500 years. The roots were the Inca, the indigenous people. From them we have native ingredients like the hot peppers — aji amarillo — potatoes, quinoa and corn. Ceviche existed with the Inca, but there were no limes or onions (yet), so they used different fruits that took longer to cure the fish.

Then, just like with all of the Americas, we have the spanish colonizers who brought African slaves. so now we have spanish ingredients like limes, onions and other spices from the New World, and then we have African influences in a lot of the dishes. One of Peru’s traditional dishes — anticuchos, or kebabs — are made with beef heart. The spanish did not cook these lesser cuts of meat, but the African slaves would. They would use all these other parts like tripe and heart. After the African slaves got their independence, there was still a need for a labor force, and that’s when the Chinese immigration happened. similar to what happened on the West Coast of the united states, you’d have indentured servants from Asia and a lot of them went to Lima (Peru), where they worked on plantations, but they also started a new

cuisine called chifa. It comes from a Cantonese or Mandarin word that means to eat rice, and the name stuck. It’s a Cantonese-style cuisine. After the Chinese came the Japanese immigrants, and they started combining Peruvian food with Asian ingredients, like transforming the ceviche, adding things like ginger and developing the tiradito (and Nikkei cuisine).

Nikkei cuisine is having a moment for a couple of reasons. We’re pretty fortunate that in Peru we’ve had chefs like Gaston Acurio (Jaramillo), Virgilio Martinez (Veliz) and Maido (Mitsuharu) who have really showcased their respective styles.

In the case of Maido, he’s showcasing Nikkei in a really sophisticated way while still being very true to the origins and the ingredients.

(These) restaurants have gotten a lot of attention all over the world.

Are there similarities between New Orleans and Peruvian cuisines?

V: (There is a) similarity between New Orleans and Lima. That’s why we are calling this dinner Criollo/ Creole. In Lima, we have the Inca, spanish, African, Chinese and Japanese influences, and in New Orleans there are the local, spanish, African and French influences. There also is our shared affinity for spicy dishes and seafood. That’s why a Peruvian dish fits in really nicely in (New Orleans) culinary culture, and vice versa. I often think of Lima and New Orleans as sister cities, with shared culinary history and foodways. — HELEN FREuND

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CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise.com — Reservations accepted. L sat-sun, D daily, late Fri-sat. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted for large parties. L sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe — 7801 Panola St., (504) 314-1810; www.panolastreetcafe.com — No reservations. B and L daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-sat. $$

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Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. B, L. D daily, brunch sun. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans. com — Reservations recommended. B, L Tue-sat, D Tue-sun. $$$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. L, early dinner daily. $$ Green Goddess — 307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347; www.greengoddessrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Wed-sun. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-sat., brunch sun. $$ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti street location. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www. lpkfrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch sat-sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-sun. $$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon. com — Reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com

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Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant. com — No reservations. L, D Mon-sat, brunch sun. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

KENNER The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4675611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$

El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola.com — see No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-sat, brunch sat-sun. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $$ Sala Restaurant & Bar — 124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 513-2670; www.salanola.com — Reservations accepted. L and D Tue-sun, brunch sat-sun, late Thu-sat. $$

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch sun. $$$ Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www. bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D Mon-sat. $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-sat, brunch sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola. com — Reservations accepted. L sun-Fri, D sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-2022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations.

L, D Mon-sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations.

L sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-sat, D Tue-sun. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine. com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-sat, brunch sun. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn

Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. L, D Tue-sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 6093871; www.brownbutterrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-sat, brunch sat.-sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — No reservations. B, L and D Mon-Fri, brunch sat-sun. $ Cupcake Fairies — 2511 Bayou Road, (504) 333-9356; www.cupcakefairies.com — B and L Tue-sat. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Fullblast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800 — No reservations. Brunch Thu-Mon. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. L, D, late daily. $ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — No reservations. L daily, D Mon-sat, brunch sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-sat. $$ Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch sun. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. D Tue-sat. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann

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Pho Michael (3559 18th St., Metairie, 504-304-4301; www.phomichael.com) serves spicy beef bun bo Hue.

St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — No reservations. L Mon-sat. $$

Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L, D, late daily. $

NORTHSHORE Martin Wine Cellar — 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-sat, brunch sun. $$

UPTOWN Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 8948881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-sun. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch sun. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. L Fri-sun, D and late daily. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. D Wed-sun. $$$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — No reservations. L Fri-sun, D, late daily. $ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Le’s Baguette Banh Mi Cafe — 4607 Dryades St., (504) 895-2620; www.facebook. com/lesbaguettenola — No reservations. B sat-sun, L and D daily. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-sat, brunch sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations

accepted. L sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. L, D Tue-sun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria.com — No reservations. L, D Tue-sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco. com — Reservations accepted. D Monsat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-sat, brunch sat-sun. $$$

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. D Tue-sat.

Cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch sun. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook.com/ tavolinolounge — Reservations accepted for large parties. D daily, brunch sun. $$

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TUESDAY 21 BMC — Mojo shakers, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; White Tie Affair, 11 Barrel Wine Bar — Jayna Morgan Jazz Duo, 6 Bombay Club — Matt Lemmler, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Vanessa Carr, 8 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Chip Wilson, 5:30; sarah Quintana & Debbie Davis, 8 Circle Bar — Gene Black & Friends, 7 Columns Hotel — The New Orleans string Kings with Don Vappie, Matt Rhody, John Rankin, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman & Todd Duke, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — The James Rivers Movement, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Joe Goldberg Trio, 7:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gypsy Jazz Tonight!, 7; Dorian Greys, 10 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Poor Boys — Mutliated Judge, Tony Montana, Pussyrot, Peppermint Pont, 9 SideBar — scatterjazz Presents, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Tom McDermott (scott Joplin tribute), 8 & 10 The Starlight — Joe Welnick, 7; DJ Fayard, 10

WEDNESDAY 22 BMC — The Tempted, 5 & 12; Yisrael, 8 Champions Square — Evanescence, Lindsey stirling, 7 Check Point Charlie — T Bone stone & the Happy Monsters, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Ivor simpsonKennedy, 6

Circle Bar — Marc stone & Amanda Walker, 7; Beyond the Darkness XXI, cult and horror soundtracks, 10 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Carl Leblanc, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — T. Hardy Morris, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf (Den) — Grant Terry, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — Mario Abney, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Ingrid Lucia, 7:30 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — Grayson Brockamp & the New Orleans Wildlife Band, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gully Boys, 8 Poor Boys — Beats and Balloons Vol. 3, feat. DJs Wino Willy, FriendKerrek, Elgin Brown, Rapbaum, ET Deaux, T. Bone, 9 Santos Bar — swamp Moves feat. Russell Welch Quartet, 10 SideBar — Aurora Nealand & James singleton, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 The Starlight — Gal Holiday, 7 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5

Upcoming concerts » Darling West and The Prescriptions, sept. 9, Gasa Gasa » Portugal. The Man and Chicano Batman, sept. 14, Sugar Mill » Father John Misty and King Tuff, Oct. 6, Civic Theatre » Houndmouth and Family of the Year, Oct. 13, Republic » Kikagaku Moyo, Oct. 18, Gasa Gasa » Tauk and Funk You, Oct. 18, Tipitina’s » John Hiatt, Oct. 20, House of Blues » Country Smooth Fest, Oct. 20-21, NOLA Motorsports Park » Cloud Nothings and Tiger Hatchery, Oct. 25, Gasa Gasa » Mike Shinoda, Oct. 25, House of Blues » High on Fire, Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust and Haunt, Nov. 4, Southport Hall » Ian Sweet and Young Jesus, Nov. 13, Gasa Gasa » The Internet, Nov. 20, House of Blues » Wolfheart, Carach Angren and Mors Principium Est, Oct. 21, Southport Hall » Mac DeMarco, Nov. 26, The Music Box Village » Born Ruffians, Dec. 3, Gasa Gasa » 6LACK, Dec. 15, Joy Theater » Zebra, Dec. 31, House of Blues

THURSDAY 23 BMC — Ainsley Matich & Broken Blues, 5; Casme, 8; Andre Lovett Band, 11 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — David Roe, 6; Tom McDermott and Aurora Nealand, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge feat. Rik slave, 7; Cutting Edge Music Conference showcase with Wild Rabbit salad, Caleb Paul, Jean Bayou, Ben Hunter, Joe Gammage, 9 d.b.a. — Little Freddie King, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Loren Pickford Quartet, 9:30

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Portugal. The Man performs at Sugar Mill Sept. 14.

FRIDAY 24 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — uncle Wayne, 8 midnight The Bayou Bar — Crossing Canal, 7 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Gordon Towell Trio, 6; songwriter Circle feat. Keith Burnstein, Kei slaughter, Charles Lumar, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 9 Casa Borrega — Javier Gutierrez Duo, 7 Check Point Charlie — Important Gravy, 8; Hard to Be Human, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6 Circle Bar — The Geraniums, 6:30; G’s up XV: Happy Birthday, Lil’ Ya! with DJ Trippingcorpse & WMP, weed-bounce pioneers PMW, International Tee, sTEEZ BROZ, 10 d.b.a. — Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, 6; Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point, 10 Gasa Gasa — Wear Haus showcase with Jaek, James seville, Larixxiegod, Coyote Medicine, 10 House of Blues — Thunderstruck (AC/DC tribute), 8 Howlin’ Wolf (Den) — PYMP plus Vibe Doctors and shah, 10 Howlin’ Wolf — styles P, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Ranger Duo, 2 PAGE 26

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Gasa Gasa — Black Laurel, The Fixers, Dustin Cole and the Deadmen, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Brass-A-Holics, 8:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — The soul Rebels, 11 Monkey Board — Jazzman Band, 5; Jason Neville Funky soul Band, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Joshua Diggs, The Likwidlight Exp, 8 Old Point Bar — Extended Recess, 9 Poor Boys — The Crossroads, feat. DJs Prillio, $scooby McMurda, Krux, AHalo, 10 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Horace Trahan, 8:30 SideBar — Dick Deluxe & Eddie Christmas (Ornette Coleman & Ed Blackwell tribute), 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jason Marsalis & the 21st Century Trad Band, 8 & 10 The Starlight — singer-songwriter shindig feat. Lynn Drury, Amanda Walker, 8 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Mia Borders, 8 The Willow — Rebirth Brass Band, 9

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Lil Wayne performed at Lil WeezyAna Fest at Champions Square Aug. 25 , 2017.

PREVIEW Lil WeezyAna

BY ALEX WOODWARD NOW IN ITS FOURTH YEAR, Lil Wayne’s annual concert in New Orleans is an arena-sized welcome home party, an annual reminder of Wayne as Hollygrove’s beloved prodigal son, among the greatest rappers of all time who promised to put his neighborhood on the map and returns to remind the city that he did.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Wayne’s landmark Tha Carter III, whose arrival marked a turning point in the rapper’s career and signaled a dynamic shift in 2000s hip-hop. Between surprise mixtapes and non-Carter album entries (2010’s unfortunate nu-metallic Rebirth), his Carter albums always have been “event” releases — his third entry in the Carter series followed universal acclaim from its first two editions, his “official” statements amid year-round mixtape releases amassing a towering and unwieldy catalog as if to prove his “greatest rapper alive” title could survive on the mountain of work alone.

Tha Carter III was his biggest commercial hit, but it’s one of his strongest efforts as a lyricist in breathless, three-minute streams of metaphors and similes that double as one-liners (all three minutes of “A Milli”). It also elevated Wayne as a pop icon, with inescapable radio and club anthems “Mrs. Officer” and “Lollipop,” on an album that sounds as if it’s from one improvised riff in the studio. With 2011’s Tha Carter IV, released after he spent eight months at Rikers Island, Wayne returned to the kind of manic lyrical dexterity he set the bar with on Carter III; first single “6 Foot 7” is his crowning achievement, extinguishing any doubt over his “greatest” title with his four-minute explosion on a bass riff that’s still blowing out car speakers.

Rumors of Wayne’s anticipated Tha Carter V have resurfaced closer to his annual love fest, though it’ll be hard to top the event’s 2015 debut, which carried a long list of surprise guests that read like a timeline of rap history — a Hot Boys reunion, Master P, Big Freedia, Curren$y and Drake. This year, Wayne is joined by NBA YoungBoy, a prolific, controversial Baton Rouge rapper and the current face of Louisiana rap who is making his second appearance at the event.

In his New Orleans-shot “In My Feelings” music video, Drake raps in a gold grill and New Orleans saints T-shirt in front of Wayne’s mural in Hollygrove — it’s hard not to see it as a tribute to Wayne the ghost, but his brief vocals on the track are a reminder that Wayne hasn’t left the stage yet.

Tickets start at $65. At 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 at Champions Square, LaSalle and Poydras streets; www.champions-square.com.

The Jazz Playhouse — Professor Craig Adams Band, 7:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Roy Gele, 5; Will Dickerson, 9

Poor Boys — Function Friday with DJs XIVIX, Quickweave, Asics, Vicky, 11 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — The Boogie Men, 9:30

Le Bon Temps Roule — Tom Worrell, 7

SideBar — New Orleans Klezmer All-stars, 9

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jace Labat, Mitch Broussard, 8

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Trio feat. Cristien Bold, 8 & 10

Oak — Keith Burnstein, 9 Old Point Bar — 1 Percent Nation, 9:30

Southport Hall (Deck Room) — Green Jelly, Kawaii AF, Les Turdz, 8

One Eyed Jacks — strange Roux, The Crooked Vines, Roadside Glorious, 8

The Spotted Cat Music Club — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30

The Starlight — Kennedy Kuntz & Vincent Marini, 8 Three Muses — Matt Johnson, 5:30; Doro Wat Jazz, 9 Twist of Lime — Arbre Mort, Art of The Process, Gristnam, severed Mass, 9

SATURDAY 25 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Bobby Ohler, 8 BMC — simple sound, 3; Willie Lockett & Blues Krewe, 6; Epic Funk Brass Band, 9; Canoe 292, midnight Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — ukelele school of New Orleans, 4; Al Farrell & Jerry Jumonville, 6; Dapper Dandies, 9 Champions Square — Lil’ Weezyana Fest, 7 Check Point Charlie — Woodenhead, 8; steve Mignano, 11 d.b.a. — Roamin’ Jasmine, 7; Lost Bayou Ramblers, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — sunpie & the Louisiana sunspots, 10 Dutch Alley Performance Pavilion — The Victory Belles, 1 Gasa Gasa — The Essentials, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — Nayo Jones Experience, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Mike Kerwin & Geoff Coats, 5; Van Hudson, 9 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gallivant Burwell & the Predatory Drifters, 7; Troi Atkinson, 9 Oak — Jordan Anderson Band, 9 Old Point Bar — Jesse Tripp & the Nightbreed, 10:15 Poor Boys — Bounce Night with Rusty Lazare, DJ Q, 10 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Groovy 7, 9:30 Santos Bar — Howling Giant, 9 SideBar — Mia Borders, 9 Sidney’s Saloon — HEATWAVE! (dance party), 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Herlin Riley Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — PelicanPalooza feat.

PaperChase, Weathered, The Jukebox Heroes, 5 Finger Discount, 6 The Starlight — shawan Rice, 7; Margie Perez, 10 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Joshua Gouzy, 6; shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Twist of Lime — Black Market suitor, The Highwinds, Rodrigo Gongora Acoustic, Joshua Robinson Acoustic, 9

SUNDAY 26 BMC — Foot & Friends, 3; Jazmarae, 7; Moments of Truth, 10 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Tim Paco & ukelele school of New Orleans, 4; steve Pistorius Quartet, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Big Frank & Little Frank, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30 Circle Bar — Micah-n-Marlin, 7; Will stewart, Maddy Kirgo, Ever More Nest, 9 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug stompers, 6; Basinola, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Miss Anna Q, 9

The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8 Old Point Bar — John Rankin, 3:30 One Eyed Jacks — Chews (DJ set), 9 Poor Boys — slow Jams feat. DJ Wino Willy, 10 Santos Bar — Royal Thunder, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Joe Dyson Ensemble, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Mushroomhead, Psychostick, The browning, Kissing Candice, unsaid Fate, Voodoo Terror Tribe, Ventruss, slug, 6 The Starlight — Dile Que Nola (latin night), 7 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8

MONDAY 27 BMC — LC smoove, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & southern soul, 8 Bombay Club — David Doucet, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — A2D2 feat.

Arsene DeLay & Antoine Diel, 6 Circle Bar — Dem Roach Boyz, 7; The Human Circuit, tba, 9 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Cha Wa, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Troi Atkinson, 9 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Genial Orleanians, 10 Poor Boys — Take Back Monday, Emo Night, 10 SideBar — Instant Opus Improvised series, 9 Smoothie King Center — Journey & Def Leppard, 7 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 The Starlight — Free Jambalaya Jam feat.

Joshua Benitez Band, 8 Three Muses — sam Cammarata, 5; Keith Burnstein, 7

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

Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Afternoon of Opera. Temple Sinai, 6227 St. Charles Ave. — Irini Kyriakidou, soprano, and Andre Courville, bass-baritone, perform a benefit concert for Amici, the support organization for the Metropolitan Opera National Council New Orleans District and Gulf Coast Region Auditions. $10-$25. 4 p.m. sunday.

Trinity Artist Series. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — Cordell Chambliss & Friends (Jo Cool Davis tribute), 5 p.m. sunday.

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BOOKS .................................. 28 FILM Opening this weekend ........ 29 Now showing......................... 29 Special screenings ............... 29

ON STAGE ............................ 31 COMEDY................................ 31 ART Happenings ...................... 32 Museums ................................ 33

FARMERS MARKETS ... 33

EVENTS TUESDAY 21 Dine & Dance. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — The Victory swing Orchestra performs at the dinner series.

Tickets $29.68-$64.99. 6 p.m.

National Seniors’ Day Celebration. Andrew “Pete” Sanchez Community Center,

1616 Caffin Ave. — There are guest speakers, music and dance performances, info booths and food from sassafras Creole Kitchen at the party. Adults age 55 and older may attend. Free admission. 9 a.m.

Trepwork for Good — Pay It Forward.

Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave. — Back to school happy hour fundraiser for Brothers Empowered to Teach and sTEM NOLA. Part of the trepwork for good philanthropic event series. 6 p.m.

Backyard Chickens and Eggs. River Ridge Library, 8825 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson — Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans President Linda Vinsanau discusses keeping urban chickens. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 22 Cutting Edge CE Conference. InterContinental Hotel, 444 St. Charles Ave. — There are sessions covering entertainment law, the music business, film financing and tax credits. There also are speakers, a showcase of new works in music and film, a products show and more. $35-$250, $20 for showcase. Through saturday.

Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie — A laser display is set to the music of Pink Floyd. Tickets $25-$45.

7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY 23 Blue Door Blues. Audubon Tea Room, 6500 Magazine St. — Boys & Girls Clubs of southeast Louisiana host the gala, which includes a meet-and-greet with New Orleans Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry.

Washboard Chaz and the Tin Men perform. $150. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 24 Ride the Bull Kayak Tournament. ~1618 Highway 1, Grand Isle — The extreme

kayak saltwater fishing tournament is in its ninth year at Bridgeside Marina. There are cash prizes for the 10 largest redfish, best team weigh-ins and women and junior anglers. Registration fees TBA. 3 p.m. Friday, 6 a.m. saturday.

Women’s Power Hour. The Broad Theater, 636 N. Broad St. — Architecture & Design Film Festival event for networking and education, with happy hour, raffle, screenings and panel discussion. Tickets $11. 3 p.m.

Film workshop and “Music in Movies” series. New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, 401 Barracks St. — Two-day event, with Cutting Edge film workshop includes conversations with filmmakers outlining their subject selection, planning and funding. Music series concludes with film on New Orleans jump blues era. $35 and up. 4 p.m. Friday, noon saturday.

Fund 17 Summer Happy Hour. Rose Collaborative, Parish Hall, 2533 Columbus St. — At the networking event and happy hour, participants can preview plans for a forthcoming community business incubator. Food and drinks are sold. Free admission. 5 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — Who knew you could get so much more out of a museum? Weekly after-hours parties at the museum feature lectures, music performances, film screenings and more. Free with museum admission. 5 p.m.

Splash Bash. Ochsner Fitness Center, 1200 S. Clearview Parkway, Harahan — The family-friendly pool party has inflatables, floats, squirt guns, food and a full bar. DJs and bands perform. Tickets $10, kids $5. 7 p.m.

workshops and talks on design, eBooks and working with libraries. Free admission. 9:30 a.m..

Juvenile Justice Awareness Day Backto-School Resource Fair. Joe W. Brown Park, 5601 Read Blvd — Family-friendly event with information from local agencies, supplies while they last, food, music and entertainment. Free admission. 10 a.m.

Navra Library Celebrates Grand Opening. Nora Navra Public Library, 1209 St. Bernard Ave — Historic public library in 7th Ward neighborhood damaged by Katrina reopens with daylong festivities, including book giveaways, storytime, crafts, hot dogs and more. Free admission. 11 a.m.

Huey P. Long Birthday Party. Kingfish, 337 Chartres St. — Kingfish’s birthday celebrated with party, look-alike contest and special menu items. John “spud” McConnell reprises his role as the colorful governor and senator, and there’s an Instagram contest. 11 a.m.

Brewsiana. House of Blues, 225 Decatur Street — The fifth annual craft beer and music festival features specialty beer samples from more than 17 local breweries, gastropub fare and entertainment from Delta Revelry, stone Rabbits, Valerie sassyras and more. There also will be games and a saints game viewing party. 7 p.m.

Charish the Children — Thanks for the Memories. Louisiana Childrens Museum, 420 Julia St — Gala fundraiser for Louisiana Children’s Museum — the last at the museum’s Julia street location — features entertainment, art, auction packages, decorated chairs and more. Tickets $75 and up. 7 p.m.

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Julia Reed. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St. — The author presents South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Self-Publishing Seminar for Authors.

East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — Daylong series of

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FILM OPENING THIS WEEKEND 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (G) — Director stanley Kubrick’s classic sci-fi masterpiece is re-released in select IMAX theaters for its 50th anniversary. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, The Grand 16 Slidell A.X.L. (PG) — A top-secret robotic dog develops a special friendship with a boy in this adventure movie starring Thomas Jane. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN (PG-13) — Drama about how the lives of a refugee, prisoner and a daughter converge through faith and forgiveness. Based on a true story. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Regal Covington Stadium 14 CORNBREAD COSA NOSTRA (NR) — A crime thriller from writer/director Travis Mills based on true events involving the Dixie Mafia. Chalmette Movies THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS (R) — A cast of puppets from a children’s show is murdered one by one in this not-safefor-children comedy starring Melissa McCarthy. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank

Palace 16, Chalmette Movies OPERATION FINALE (PG-13) — A team of secret agents searches for the Nazi officer who created the Holocaust. Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley star. Starting Wednesday, Aug. 29. Chalmette Movies RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE (NR) — Wendell Pierce narrates this documentary about giant swamp rats that have invaded coastal Louisiana. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center

NOW SHOWING ALPHA (PG-13) — Kodi smit-McPhee stars as a teen who is left alone by his tribe and journeys back home with the help of a wolf in this adventure set in the Ice Age. AMC Westbank Palace 16 CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (PG) — Ewan McGregor stars in the title role of this film about a working-class family man who encounters his childhood friend Winnie the Pooh. AMC Westbank Palace 16 HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU (NR) — The story of Hurricane Katrina and the effect of Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands on hurricane protection. Entergy Giant Screen OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D (NR) — BBC Earth film transports audiences to the depths of the world’s oceans. Entergy Giant Screen WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: PREHISTORIC PLANET 3D (NR) — BBC 3-D adventure immerses audiences in Alaska during the Cretaceous period. Entergy Giant Screen Theater

SPECIAL SHOWINGS 12 MONKEYS (R) — Director Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi thriller is set in a future world devastated by disease. A convict (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to get information about the man-made virus. 9 p.m.

Wednesday. The Scrapyard at Bar Redux (801 Poland Ave.) ELLA BRENNAN — COMMANDING THE TABLE (NR) — Documentary focusing on the life of restaurateur and American icon Ella Brennan of Commander’s Palace.

Directed by Leslie Iwerks. 5:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22. Old U.S. Mint (400 Esplanade Ave.) GONE WITH THE WIND (NR) — Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in this epic 1939 romance set against the

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REVIEW Rodents of Unusual Size

BY WILL COVIELLO DELACROIX FISHERMAN Thomas Gonzales would rather collect crabs and hunt alligators, but between seafood seasons, he hunts nutria. Though it’s edible, he doesn’t eat the meat. He C O u R T E s Y T I L A P I A F I L M collects $5 per tail from the Louisiana Delacroix fisherman Thomas Gonzales Department of Wildlife & Fisherhunts nutria in Rodents of Unusual Size. ies’ Nutria Control Program. Many registered participants supplement their income by battling the invasive species for the state. Nutrias’ prolific reproduction rate is the source of both the problem and the work, but Gonzalez would be better off without the swamp rats. Gonzales’ predicament is at the heart of the documentary Rodents of Unusual Size, from filmmakers Chris Metzler, Quinn Costello and Jeff springer.

The film screens Aug. 24-30 at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

Nutria, the orange-toothed creatures that devour vegetation in swamps, marshes and canals, have thrived in Louisiana since their introduction and release into the wild in the 1930s. Their population is believed to have topped 25 million in the 1970s. That the New Orleans Zephyrs (now named the Baby Cakes) minor league baseball team chose the rodent as a mascot suggests locals’ begrudging acceptance if not embrace of the animals’ place in our landscape. The documentary is clear that the species presents a serious problem by accelerating coastal land loss, but the film explores the way people in south Louisiana have come to live with the contradictions of their presence.

By eating vegetation, particularly plant roots, and burrowing in the ground at the waters’ edge, nutria accelerate the loss of wetlands and eat away at canal banks and every environment they inhabit. They have spread elsewhere in North America and now are a nuisance in Asia and Europe. In south Louisiana, they contribute to another serious problem: exposure to hurricanes and storm surge. As fishing communities struggle to survive amid changes in fisheries and loss of coastal land, nutria are one more threat to their homes. Much of the film features beautifully shot views of swamps and bayous. But the film also follows the creatures inland, documenting control efforts in canals in New Orleans and a golf course in Kenner. The swamp rats are so common that they have fans as well — one man who keeps a large nutria as a pet fashioned a plastic container so it can ride on the back of his motorcycle.

For decades, trappers and hunters kept the nutria population in check, but when fur fell out of fashion,numbers ballooned. The Wildlife and Fisheries control program paid hunters for a total of 170,500 nutria tails last year, according to its website. The state also tried to build a market for nutria meat. Chef susan spicer and musician Kermit Ruffins cook nutria in the film, but diners are reluctant to try it. The Righteous Fur group holds periodic nutria fur fashion shows and sells hats and other items.

Rodents of Unusual Size is narrated by Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme) and features music by the Lost Bayou Ramblers. scenes of a second line and Ruffins talking about how Hurricane Katrina affected him seem tenuously connected to the subject but may provide more familiar cultural and geographical links for some viewers. stories shared by fishermen and scenes in coastal Louisiana, however, are worth viewing, even for those familiar with the area or nutria.

Filmmakers and guests participate in Q&A sessions after screenings Friday through sunday. Nooty the Nutria, a “stunt nutria” who appears in the film, will be at the saturday screenings. Tickets $10. At 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Aug. 24-30. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-1150; www.zeitgeistnola.org.

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Three Local Authors. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — Local authors Paul Heingarten, Bruce snow and Vicki salloum present their books from the sci-fi, memoir and romance genres. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Ricardo Pau-Llosa. Mexican Cultural Institute, 901 Convention Center Blvd. — The Cuban-American poet reads and gives a gallery talk about Piki Mendizabal’s Reflection and the Diasporic Epic.

5:30 p.m. Friday.

Anne Boyd Rioux. Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave. — The author presents Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy — The story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. Octavia Books to sell copies. 6 p.m. Friday.

Tiffany Brownlee. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St. — The author presents and signs Wrong In All The Right Ways.

5 p.m. saturday.

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THE EIFFEL TOWER, Britain’s Crystal Palace, Buckminster Fuller’s Biosphere (pictured), a geodesic dome in Montreal, Canada, and many other Buckminster Fuller’s Biosphere was built for the stunning buildings were built 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada. for World’s Fairs. These kinds of dazzling structures are the subject of Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World’s Fair, architect Mina Chow’s film exploring the decline in u.s. interest in the expos. Chow will do Q&A sessions after two screenings of the film at the Louisiana Architecture Foundation’s (LAF) Architecture and Design Film Festival, running Aug. 23-26 at The Broad Theater.

The festival’s slate of 20 films includes short and feature-length documentaries, many of them highlighting some of the world’s most influential living architects, such as Australian Glenn Murcutt, Frenchman Jean Nouvel (creator of museums from Paris to Qatar and many landmark structures), Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf and many others. Unknown New York — The City That Women Built highlights the wealth of notable New York City buildings designed by woman.

The festival’s opening night features a reception and screening of Big Time, about renowned young architect Bjarke Ingels’ work on New York skyscraper W57, at the Contemporary Arts Center. LAF will screen a preview of a documentary it’s producing about modernist architects samuel G. and William B. Wiener, who were based in shreveport. The festival also includes panel discussions, a women architects’ networking event and a book signing and talk by Wendy Lesser, author of You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn.

Chow’s film is a celebration of American architectural achievement at World’s Fairs and a plea for renewed commitment to them. Chow was inspired to become an architect in part because of her parents’ photos of themselves at famous buildings, including the unisphere, a globe built for the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, New York.

The documentary showcases impressive pavilions the u.s. built for expos in Brussels in 1958, in Montreal in 1967, in Osaka, Japan in 1970 and others. For decades, under the u.s. Information Agency, building World’s Fair pavilions was a part of u.s. efforts to showcase American artistic and industrial ingenuity during the Cold War. But after the end of the Cold War, the u.s. government stopped funding the efforts. American pavilions became unremarkable at best, and often dominated by promotion of corporate sponsors. At the 2010 shanghai expo, China’s structure — like its structures for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — became a symbol of its economic development.

The u.s. entry (designed by a Canadian) was described as resembling an oil refinery, and it was less about design than a movie house showing corporate promotions and short films featuring American celebrities. The film detours into the funding issues and the worthy question of investing in cultural projects, but mostly it’s a dazzling survey of World’s Fair landmarks and the challenges of making them. Face of a Nation screens at 5:30 p.m. saturday, Aug. 25, and noon sunday, Aug. 26, at The Broad Theater.

Visit www.adfilmfest.com for film details and schedule. Opening night reception costs $50. Most screenings cost $9-$11 and take place at The Broad Theater. 626 N. Broad St., (504) 218-1008; www.thebroadtheater.com.

backdrop of the Civil War. 10 a.m. Sunday & Wednesday. Prytania Theatre HALLOWEEN (R) — Murderer Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital to wreak havoc on a small town in director John Carpenter’s 1978 horror movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Tuesday.

Chalmette Movies HOUSE (NR) — A schoolgirl and her classmates travel to her aunt’s country haunted house in this 1977 Japanese horror movie. 11:59 p.m. Friday & Saturday. Prytania Theatre THE INCREDIBLE HULK (PG-13) — Edward Norton stars as Bruce Banner in this one-off movie based on the popular Marvel Comics character. Tim Roth and Liv Tyler co-star. 3:30 p.m. Thursday. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16

IRON MAN (PG-13) — Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony stark, a billionaire who creates a suit of armor and becomes a superhero named Iron Man. Directed by Jon Favreau. 12:30 p.m. Thursday. AMC DineIn Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16 IRON MAN 2 (PG-13) — Tony stark returns to fight off personal demons and a mad scientist in this sequel to the 2008 mega-hit. Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke star. 6:30 p.m. Thursday. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16 THE LAST MOVIE (R) — Dennis Hopper wrote, directed and starred in this drama about a film shoot gone wrong in Peru.

The Broad Theater LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS SING-ALONG (PG-13) — Rick Moranis stars as

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STAGE Annie. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell — The comic strip about a lovable orphan, the Depression and Daddy Warbucks comes to life in this musical that features loads of kids and a vast array of Broadway staples, like Tomorrow, You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile and It’s the Hard Knock Life. Tickets $17.50-$28. 8 p.m. Friday-saturday, 2 p.m. saturday-sunday.

Bad Girls of Burlesque Go to Hell. Santos Bar, 1135 Decatur St. — GoGo McGregor hosts the burlesque performance. Tickets $15. 10 p.m. Friday.

Growing Up — New Orleans Style!. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner — Ricky Graham’s show reflects on growing up in New Orleans. Jefferson Turner, Brian Albus and su Gonczy provide music. Tickets $25.

8 p.m. Friday-saturday, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. sunday.

Lulu White: Queen of Storyville.

Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego — singer Anais st. John stars in the performance about the storyville madam. Tickets $20-$30. 7:30 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday.

Much Ado About Nothing. 30 by 90 Theatre, 880 Lafayette St., Mandeville — Mistaken identities, double crosses, loathing and love are part of the classic shakespeare comedy about Beatrice, Benedict, Hero, Claudio, dons and princes. Tickets $14. 8 p.m. saturday, 2:30 p.m. sunday.

The Best of Sinatra. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — spencer Racca portrays Frank sinatra in this performance. Tickets $39.99. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.

Vieux Carre. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St. — Tennessee Williams drama about a young writer in a bohemian French Quarter boarding house runs at Marigny Opera House.

7 p.m. Thursday-saturday.

Waterworld: The Musical. Maison de Macarty Bed & Breakfast, 3820 Burgundy St. — There are DJ performances and a pool party at 6 p.m. before a pool-based adaptation of the movie Waterworld. Tickets $15-$20. 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.

Wife After Death. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington — When a comedian and national treasure dies, his kith and kin show up for the elaborate funeral, including an ex-wife from before his glory days. Tickets $15-$20. 8 p.m. Friday-saturday, 2 p.m. sunday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St. — Laura sanders and Kate Mason host an open-mic comedy show. sign-up 8:30 p.m., show 9 p.m. Monday.

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

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Vincent Zambon and Cyrus Cooper host a stand-up comedy show. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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

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

Comedy Gold. House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge), 229 Decatur St. — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m.

Wednesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Frederick RedBean Plunkett hosts an open-mic stand-up show. 8 p.m. Thursday

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a flower shop assistant who discovers an unusual plant in director Frank Oz’s remake of the horror/comedy/musical.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Broad Theater MAKING THE FIVE HEARTBEATS (PG13) — Documentary chronicling writer/ director Robert Townsend’s journey to make the 1991 passion project. Featuring interviews with Townsend, Leon Robinson and Keenen Ivory Wayans. 7 p.m. Monday.

AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Regal Covington Stadium 14 NEW ORLEANS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN FILM FEST (NR) — Featuring screenings of nearly 25 films celebrating the creative spirit that drives architecture and design. Includes the movies The Future of Cities, BIG TIME, and My Architect: A Son’s Journey. Friday to Sunday. The Broad Theater RIFFTRAX LIVE: KRULL (PG-13) — A joke-fueled screening of the sci-fi fantasy film that follows a prince as he saves his princess on a magic planet. 12:55 p.m.

Saturday. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14 RUDY (PG) — small but full of spirit, Rudy Ruettiger overcomes the odds to play football at Notre Dame in this 1993 sports movie that’s based on a true story.

2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Tuesday. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, Regal Covington Stadium 14 THE SANDLOT (PG) — A rowdy baseball team takes a new kid under its wing during the summer of 1962 in this family-friendly comedy. 12:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sunday & Wednesday. The Grand 16 Slidell. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sunday & Wednesday.Movie Tavern Northshore SOUTH PACIFIC (NR) — Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor star in this 1958 romantic musical set during World War II. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Sunday & Wednesday. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Cinebarre Canal Place 9 SUMMER 1993 (NR) — After her mother dies, a young girl is sent to live with relatives and tries to adapt to a new life in this award-winning movie from spain.

2 p.m. Saturday. New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park) THOR (PG-13) — Chris Hemsworth stars in the title role as the arrogant god who is cast out of Asgard and must protect Earth from out-of-this-world sorcery.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16 TOUCH OF ZEN (NR) — A female fugitive is on the run from corrupt government officials in this 1971 action film from Hong Kong. 7 p.m. Thursday. The Broad Theater

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REVIEW Queen Bubblegum Dream — WorldReality D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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WHAT HAPPENS IF an artist encounters her inner child and it turns out to be Barbie?

For susan Bowers, it must have come as a shock when that plastic fantasy of teen perfection began turning up in her dreams sporting scars from abusive relationships.

Bowers long had been more attuned to artsy bohemian icons such as Jane Bowles, the writer wife of hipster favorite Paul Bowles, whose midcentury Tangier, Morocco-based novel The Sheltering Sky was made into a film in 1990 starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich as Jane and Paul Bowles.

In this show, Jane Bowles’ abuse by the men and women in her life seems to have infused Bowers’ dream Barbie, who now appears in her paintings. Loosely rendered in drippy swatches of pastel-colored pigment, Barbie in Tangier, An Ancient Pissed Off Queer Indifference sets the tone as a loner Barbie, who surveys a deserted Moroccan beach while wearing her pert blankness as a shield. In the painting Is It at Least Partially as You Might Wish?, she remains pert but scratched up, as if from a rough night. she looks more ebullient in Nothing Could Dash Her Hopes for Love (pictured), where the side figure is novelist William s. Burroughs, who “accidentally” shot and killed his wife in Mexico.

Oversize lipstick sculptures rendered in lurid red glass or gloppy confectionary ceramics occupy much of the gallery’s floor space. Lip Gloss for a Perpetual Grin with Jagged Rows of Razor Teeth features a protruding pink ceramic shaft incised with the message “stop staring.” The symbolism of lipstick is historically female, but these oversize versions look distinctly phallic, which Bowers says is intentional since the show really is about the interplay of masculine and feminine. Indeed, a gallery alcove is filled with prints including Women in Love (I am the Flame and Glory of Life), depicting beefy naked women fiercely wrestling on a bear rug. As art shows go, most of this stuff is convoluted and challenging yet often colorfully engaging. Jane Bowles probably could relate. Through Sept. 1. Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.barristersgallery.com.

Comic Strip. Siberia Lounge, 2227 St. Claude Ave. — Chris Lane hosts the stand-up comedy open mic with burlesque interludes. 9:30 p.m. Monday Crescent Fresh. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Ted Orphan and Geoffrey Gauchet host the stand-up comedy open mic. sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Thursday.

I Think I Can Do This S%&t. Poor Boys, 1328 St. Bernard Ave. — Comedian JFunny presents an open-mic comedy show.

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

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. sunday.

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

The Rip-Off Show. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Comedians compete in a live pop-culture game show hosted by Geoffrey Gauchet. 8 p.m. saturday.

The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — Young Funny comedians

present the stand-up comedy show and open mic. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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

ART HAPPENINGS 15th Anniversary Celebration. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St. — At a free family-friendly party celebrating its anniversary, the museum offers art activities, food and more. 10 a.m. saturday.

ARTmoor After Hours. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St. — The event celebrates New Orleans culture and the diverse Broadmoor community with poetry, music, visual arts and more. Free admission.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Champagne & Art Tours. The Jung Hotel & Residences, 1500 Canal St. — Free champagne accompanies a weekly tour of the hotel’s commissioned artworks.

5 p.m. Friday.

Clancy Dubos. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — The

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MUSEUMS Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St. — “A Precise Vision: The Architectural Archival Watercolors of Jim Blanchard,” watercolor works by the artist, through sunday. “Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 17851802,” works telling the story of Josef Francisco Xavier de salazar y Mendoza, through sept. 2.

Louisiana State Museum, Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave. — “Big Wheel Keep on Turning: Steamboats in Louisiana,” work exploring the history of steamboats, through Aug. 19.

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — “Carlos Rolon: Outside/ In,” works connecting New Orleans, Latin America and the Caribbean by the artist, through Aug. 26. “Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored,” two paintings by Paolo Veronese, through sept. 3. “Changing Course: Reflecting on New Orleans’ Histories,” contemporary art projects focusing on forgotten or marginalized New Orleans stories, through sept. 18.

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

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

The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St. — “New Orleans: Between Heaven and Hell,” history-based installation by Robin Reynolds, through sept.

15. “The seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter,” model of a 200-year-old French Quarter building and historic site, through December.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — “So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope,” film, photographs and more exploring Bob Hope’s career, through Feb. 10, 2019.

American Italian Cultural Center, 537 S. Peters St. — “The Luke Fontana Collection,” works by the artist, through December.

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

FARMERS MARKETS CRISP Farms Market. 1330 France St.~ — The urban farm offers greens, produce,

herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

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

Wednesday and 8 a.m. to noon saturday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. Citywide~ — The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at locations citywide, including Tulane university square (200 Broadway st.) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday; the French Market (1008 N. Peters st.) 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday; the American Can Apartments (3700 Orleans Ave.) 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and in the CBD (750 Carondelet st.) 8 a.m. to noon saturday. There also is a market in Rivertown (400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner) from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. saturday.

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

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

8 a.m. to noon saturday.

Gretna Farmers Market. Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna~ — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers.

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. saturday.

Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm~, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive~ — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon saturday.

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

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

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

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2 p.m. Wednesday James Linn. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — Curator for the National World War II Museum presents The Pelican State Goes to War — Louisiana in World War II, an exhibit, during the Jefferson parish Historical society meeting. Free admission.

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