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Professor Longhair 100th Birthday Tribute

Lifting spirits

WED. DEC. 19 | Born Henry Roeland Byrd in Bogalusa, Professor Longhair would have marked his 100th birthday Wednesday. It’s celebrated by an allstar lineup including Ivan Neville, Jon Cleary, David Torkanowsky, Johnny Vidacovich, Deacon John, Kermit Ruffins, Herlin Riley, Alfred “Uganda” Roberts and others. Harry Shearer hosts. At 8 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

‘Balloonacy’ is a light-hearted show for young audiences BY WILL COVIELLO UNINVITED PARTY GUESTS AREN’T ALWAYS AMUSING. Particularly persistent ones. But in Barry Kornhauser’s awardwinning children’s comedy “Balloonacy,” a friendly red balloon is an entertaining party crasher. The Old Man does little more than grumble in the wordless show. He flips through his newspaper and checks his calendar, only to discover it’s his birthday. He’s content to celebrate the occasion by himself but mysterious company comes calling. A red balloon tries the window, door and other clever entrances. The Old Man pushes the balloon away, but (with the help of a little static electricity) it returns to his side. Jon Greene, who plays the Old Man, has written, directed and acted in many local productions, and this role is a return to his training in commedia dell’arte. The comedy here is less madcap circus clowning and more expressive theatricality, using movement to tell a story. The show allows children to respond to its humor, and young attendees can draw with sidewalk chalk before the show, which is staged in a whimsical environment inside the Lighthouse Building on Camp Street. The co-starring role in “Balloonacy” is filled by seven red balloons with varying amounts of helium, allowing some to hover and others to rise. But the balloons function more like puppets than props, giving the show some of its whimsy. “A little puppetry goes a long way,” Greene says. Greene is accompanied by Brian Coogan, who plays keyboards, drums and melodica and adds other effects with a slide whistle and other noisemakers. Coogan created music for the show, and this production expands its use in telling the story. A veteran musician who’s a past member of Big Sam’s Funky Nation and Galactic spinoff Good Enough for Good times, Coogan also has provided music for productions by the

WED. DEC. 19 | Comedians Lane Lonion and Marcus Bond host the championship round of their 2018 comic insult battles. Finalists include Laura Sanders, Sean Murphy, Paul Joseph, Mary-Devon Dupuy, Brandon Philly and others. At 8 p.m. at Hi-Ho Lounge.

Home for the Holidays FRI. DEC. 21 | Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, John Boutte, Jon Batiste, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ivan Neville and others perform at the annual benefit for the Daniel Price Memorial Fund for Aspiring Artists, which supports scholarships at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Irma Thomas sings at the patron party. At 6:30 p.m. at House of Blues.

Poguetry FRI. DEC. 21 | With Poguetry, Spider Stacy has continued to sing the music of The Pogues, and he’s joined for this holiday show by former bandmate Cait O’Riordan and the “masked Cajun band” Los Rambleros del Bayou Perdido (while the Lost Bayou Rambers are on hiatus). The Rayo Brothers open at 8 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

now defunct Cripple Creek Theatre Company, including “Sueno” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” He also performed on tour with The Imagination Movers. With this production, Greene launches children’s programming via his company, The Radical Buffoon(s). For Le Petit Theatre, Greene produced two holiday pantos, a British style of family entertainment that often retells fairy tales for children and slips in jokes for adults. Among the feedback he received from those shows was a request to extend runs to between the week of Christmas and New Year’s. He’d like to target that time period for children’s shows, but he’s not producing works focused on the holidays. Greene was inspired to create quality works aimed at kids by The New Victory Theater in New York. It’s

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SAT. DEC. 22 | Cloaked in an ethereal fog, the New Orleans post-punk band revives black-shrouded gothic romance on its 2018 “Honey Insulation” EP, an impenetrable six-track trek through a sizzling gloom. The band opens for dark-and-dreamy Texas outfits Twin Tribes and Tearful Moon — dropping a few coals into your holiday stocking. Death Stair opens at 9 p.m. at Poor Boys Bar.

located just off Times Square, but the company produces a year-round calendar of kids shows. “We’re not talking down to kids,” Green says during a break in rehearsal. “We’re putting in the same level of effort as we did for (Harold Pinter’s) ‘The Dumb Waiter’ and ‘Mr. Burns (A Post Electric Play).’ ”

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school serving children in grades 6 through 8, was named a “National ESEA Distinguished School” for its students’ academic achievement. Formerly the National Title I Distinguished Schools Program, the ESEA award is given to schools with at least a 35 percent poverty rate. One other Louisiana school — Eastside Elementary in Livingston Parish — also received a Distinguished School award.

A new report from the New Orleans nonprofit The Data Center finds servers receive the federally mandated $2.13 per hour tipped employee wage, as well as $7.44 per hour in tips. “Fully 93 percent of workers in New Orleans’ full-service restaurants are in occupations that pay less than a median wage of $15 per hour,” the report said.

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COUNCIL TO CONSIDER NEW SHORT-TERM RENTAL RULES PJ Morton, Christian Scott, Cha Wa and Jon Batiste were among the New Orleans musicians nominated for 2019 Grammy Awards. Morton scored three nominations for his album “Gumbo Unplugged (Live)” and Scott was nominated for Best Instrumental Album. Cha Wa’s “Spyboy” was nominated for Best Regional Roots Music Album, while Batiste (bandleader on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”) was nominated for Best American Roots Performance. The awards ceremony will be held Feb. 10.

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clickbait piece titled “What’s Wrong With Drew Brees?” in which columnist Doug Farrar acknowledged the New Orleans Saints QB as “obviously one of the best at his position in NFL history and a lead-pipe lock as a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer” — but adding, “Brees continued to struggle in a relative sense” against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (a game the Saints won 28-14). Maybe the real question is: What’s wrong with USA TODAY?

THE PROLIFERATION OF ENTIRE HOMES USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR TOURIST HOUSING could effectively end with a proposal to prohibit opera-

tors from renting them out on platforms such as Airbnb. A motion from New Orleans District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, to be introduced this week, proposes prohibiting whole- home rentals in residential areas without a homestead exemption. Property owners with a homestead exemption will be able to apply for a “residential license” to operate STRs that requires the owner live on the property. There would be a limit of three residential licenses per property. Short-term rental operators in larger commercially zoned buildings also would be required to match each STR unit with one unit for affordable long-term housing, a “one-to-one” match that echoes proposals from short-term rental critics and affordable housing proponents. Palmer’s proposal also continues a ban on STRs in the French Quarter and extends that ban to the Garden District. The motion would remove the current classes of STRs from the city’s ordinances and replace them with a residential license and three types of rentals for commercially zoned buildings. Large-scale commercial properties would have an STR limit of 30 percent of a building’s units, and each STR would have to be matched with an affordable housing unit. Commercial properties that are licensed before the new law goes into effect would be grandfathered in. Smaller commercial properties in predominantly residential neighborhoods, such as former corner stores, would be capped at four STRs. Individual condo owners with homestead exemptions also could apply for STR licenses. “We’re trying to be simple and consistent,” Palmer told Gambit. “We want something that works for citizens, for business owners and for the platforms.” Palmer also wants stronger platform accountability tools — such as licensing the platforms — and to increase booking fees per night into PAGE 8

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the city’s Neighborhood Housing Improvement Fund (NHIF), up from the current $1 a night to $10 a night for licensed residential properties and $20-$25 per night for commercial units. The motion directs the City Planning Commission (CPC) to draft a report on proposed changes, due in February. City Council action would follow in April. There will be at least five public hearings on the motion and CPC report. (For more, see Clancy DuBos’ column, p. 11.)

High Court sides with patients in Planned Parenthood case The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Louisiana’s request to stop Medicaid patients from accessing Planned Parenthood for health care. On Dec. 10, the court rejected appeals from Louisiana and Kansas to block patients from using Medicaid to pay for health services at Planned Parenthood centers in those states. The decision maintains access to care for more than 5,000 patients in Louisiana. Public money to fund abortions remains illegal in Louisiana. From 2016-2017, more than 11,400 patients visited Louisiana’s two Planned Parenthood health centers — one in Baton Rouge and another on Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans. The centers provided more than 3,100 cancer screenings and more than 31,000 screenings for sexually transmitted infections and HIV. New conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s liberal justices to deny a hearing in the case. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented — one vote short of accepting the case. “All people deserve to have their health come before political agendas,” said Petrice Sams-Abiodun, vice president of strategic partnerships-Louisiana, for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. “Communities of color already face too many systemic barriers to care — and blocking care at Planned Parenthood would make it even worse. For all our patients, this isn’t about politics — it’s about access to fundamental health care.”

Planners suggest new rules for ‘small box’ stores New Orleans city planners recommend city officials adopt new rules for so-called “small box stores” and dollar discount shops, including prohibiting more than one store within a mile of another through most of the city. The City Council directed the City Planning Commission (CPC) to study the impacts of the proliferation of small box stores (such as Dollar General or Dollar Tree), and whether there should be a cap placed on the

number of those stores in areas that lack grocery stores or other fresh food retailers or adequate transportation to get to them in other neighborhoods. District E Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen, whose district encompasses New Orleans East, authored the measure. The neighborhood has 12 of the city’s 36 small box stores. On Dec. 11, CPC staff presented its report, which found that the proliferation of small box discount stores “can be one factor” for deterring grocery stores but the lower construction and opening costs (compared to full-service grocery stores) make small box stores more attractive for developers. The report also dispelled the notion that New Orleans East is unattractive to grocery store operators because of “perceptions of crime.” The report stated, “Crime data reflects that the violent and property crime rates per 100,000 residents is actually lower in New Orleans East than in Orleans Parish as a whole.” Planners also argued “no causal link has been found between childhood obesity” and small box stores. It would be “unnecessarily prejudicial” to single out certain areas from building small box stores, staff argued, but planners recommended the city expand its Fresh Food Retailer Initiative and Healthy Corner Store program by funding those programs with an additional $100,000, with the possibility of extending funding beyond five years. In “food desert areas,” the CPC staff recommends allowing an additional 5,000 square feet of floor area in grocery stores on major streets. Commercial zoning typically restricts that space to 5,000, 10,000 or 25,000 square feet. Planners also suggested the New Orleans City Council reintroduce an ordinance that requires retailers to charge for plastic and paper bags, a measure that stalled during previous administrations.

Proposed Marigny hotel gains approval After three years of planning and design review, the first big-box hotel in Faubourg Marigny is a step closer to breaking ground on Elysian Fields Avenue. The City Planning Commission (CPC) voted Dec. 11 to support another appeal from Hampton Inn Marigny developers after design plans were approved by neighborhood groups, developers and TrapolinPeer Architects, which recently was brought into the planning process to redraft the project’s look after it failed to pass neighborhood scrutiny. In June, the CPC approved the hotel’s request for a conditional use to permit the four-story, 133-room hotel at 501 Elysian Fields Ave., but plans stalled as developers worked with

the Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association (FMIA) on the project’s design and draft a compromise. Commissioner Kyle Wedberg said the introduction of “commercial hotels” in the neighborhood “to take some pressure off some of the other things going on in the neighborhood is completely appropriate,” referencing the abundance of short-term rentals in the Marigny.

New Orleans officials stand against Trump’s ‘ugly’ policy for Vietnamese immigrants New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell says the city stands behind its large Vietnamese population, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for decades, following reports that President Donald Trump’s administration is revisiting protections for Vietnamese immigrants “In the face of this ugly effort to target our Vietnamese neighbors — I would like to make it clear that the entire City of New Orleans stands in solidarity with our Vietnamese community, which has contributed so much to our social and cultural fabric,” Cantrell said. “I would also strongly encourage all naturalized residents who are eligible to apply for citizenship, to do so now.” According to “The Atlantic,” the Trump administration is reneging on agreements that have allowed people from Vietnam, Cambodia and other counties who arrived in the country before diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Vietnam were established in 1995 to remain here. Last year, Trump’s administration said it might reverse course on that agreement and threatened to deport people with criminal convictions who arrived in the U.S. before 1995. More than 1.2 million people, many left stateless after the dissolution of South Vietnam, fled to the U.S. in the mid- and late-1970s. Many Vietnamese immigrants settled in New Orleans. Those residents include current District E Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen, the City Council’s first-ever Vietnamese member, who was elected in 2017. “I am very disappointed with the direction of the Trump Administration on immigration laws,” Nguyen said in a statement. “Our country is made of immigrants of every ethnicity. I want to encourage the administration to carefully evaluate the immigration policy and focus on the people. It should be a fair policy that the United States can sustain.” In September, Cantrell partnered with Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA), a New Orleans East-based community group, for a Citizenship Day campaign to encourage residents to begin the naturalization process.

COMMENTARY

LOUISIANA’S ELECTION SEASON LASTED LONGER than

those of most other states, thanks to our unusual jungle-primary system. Now that the Dec. 8 runoffs are over, a recap of the political season is in order. Turnout was the big story on Nov. 6. Unlike most other states, Louisiana did not have hotly contested congressional races, and neither of our U.S. senators faced re-election. Still, voters turned out in large numbers for the midterms — almost 51 percent statewide. That’s a higher turnout than the hard-fought 2015 runoff for governor, which barely topped 40 percent. We agree with most analysts who said Louisiana voters of all political persuasions viewed the midterms as a referendum on President Donald Trump and turned out in higher-than-expected numbers. Unfortunately, voters’ interest faded quickly. The Dec. 8 ballot, A DVO C AT E S TA F F P H OTO B Y B I L L F E I G which had only one statewide Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin. contest, generated a paltry 17.2 percent turnout. The marquee race this year was tions from both ends of the political the special election for secretary of spectrum garnered overwhelming state, who serves as Louisiana’s chief voter support for the change, which elections officer. Given the clear eviwas long overdue. dence of Russian interference in the In parish-by-parish “local option” 2016 presidential race, this contest referenda on fantasy sports betting, took on added significance. Interim voters in 47 of Louisiana’s 64 parishincumbent Kyle Ardoin, a Republican es opted to approve such wagering, whose campaign rhetoric tracked a clear signal there’s widespread supthat of President Donald Trump, held port for full-on sports betting in most onto his job by garnering 59 percent of the state, particularly parishes that of the statewide vote, almost exactly already allow casino gaming. the margin by which Trump carried Locally, the big election story was Louisiana in 2016. the turnover on the Jefferson Parish Historically, the secretary of state’s School Board. In recent election office has been highly regarded for cycles, parish business leaders have conducting elections without controsparred with the local teachers union versy and for maintaining business for control of the board. Starting in records — a key function of the office 2010, both sides took turns garner— in a professional and consumering 5-4 majorities, but this year the friendly manner. Now that Ardoin business community helped elect has won the job, we hope he will park seven candidates to the nine-memhis rhetoric at the door and focus on ber board. That’s especially good preserving the office’s reputation for news for new parish School Superfairness, competence and integrity. intendent Cade Brumley, who was In statewide referenda, voters apappointed last March and likewise proved all six proposed constitutional enjoys staunch support from the amendments, most notably Amendbusiness community. ment 2, which eliminated Louisiana’s As we noted after the Nov. 6 shameful relic from the Jim Crow era: primary, voters deserve a rest from a rule that allows nonunanimous jury the divisive political rhetoric and verdicts to convict people charged vitriol that have marked national and with major felonies. A bipartisan coastate politics in recent years. They lition that included law enforcement, won’t get much of a break, as the civil libertarians, prosecutors, reli2019 race for governor already is gious and civic leaders, and organiza- heating up.

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A MAJORITY OF CURRENT NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS campaigned on

a platform of reining in the city’s short-term rental (STR) industry. They appear ready to make good on that promise. A proposed ordinance introduced Dec. 13 by District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer would drastically reduce the number of STRs allowed under city law. Critics of the existing law (and of STRs in general) are cheering. STR operators and online booking platforms are crying foul. When then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu championed the city’s first STR ordinance in 2016, he called it a breakthrough. New Orleans became one of the first cities to develop a means of tracking — and taxing — shortterm rentals because platforms such as Airbnb promised to share information with regulators.

The ordinance brought another kind of breakthrough. It allowed “whole-home” STRs to be rented for a total of 90 days a year each — which has proved difficult to regulate. STR licenses were not tied to homestead exemptions, although some council members pushed for that. The local STR market exploded as out-of-town speculators bought up large swaths of homes in some of the city’s most historic and vulnerable neighborhoods. In short order, home prices — and property assessments — skyrocketed in those neighborhoods. Then there’s the noise, trash and other complaints about visitors lodged by long-term residents who say their neighborhoods lost their character almost overnight. STR owners, many of whom are local residents, say they couldn’t afford to live in the city without the income from

their STRs. They make a good argument, but studies have shown that a disproportionate number of STRs are owned by absentee investors who rent out entire homes, not just a spare bedroom or two with the owner on site. Which brings us to Gisleson Palmer’s proposed new ordinance. Among other features, it would limit STRs in residential areas to owner-occupied homes. The license would be tied to homestead exemptions, with a limit of three licenses for multi-family residences. It also would require large commercial buildings that include STRs to match each rental unit with an affordable housing unit, one-for-one — and cap such STRs at 30

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by nonresidents — which comprise most STRs in New Orleans — would be prohibited. This is unquestionably the most far-reaching provision of Gisleson Palmer’s proposal. Gisleson Palmer says she’s digging in for a fight and vows not to compromise, but there will be concerted attempts to tweak her proposal. The full council is expected to initiate a four-month review process at its Dec. 20 meeting. That process will include votes and public hearings by the City Planning Commission and the council. The target date for final council action is early April, but if the past is any indication, it could take much longer. Meanwhile, state lawmakers (at the urging of STR operators and online platforms) could move to pre-empt local regulation. This is going to be one helluva fight.

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My dad was born at Sara Mayo Hospital. Where was it and when was it in existence?

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When Sara Mayo Hospital opened in 1905, it was known as the New Orleans Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children. It was founded by physician Sara Tew Mayo, who joined with six other women physicians to establish the hospital to offer free medical care to indigent women and children. It also provided a place for female doctors to practice medicine, since they were prohibited from practicing in other hospitals in the city at the time. Mayo was a native of Harrisonburg, Louisiana, near Alexandria, and came to New Orleans shortly after graduating from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. In a 1911 article awarding her The Daily Picayune Loving Cup, the newspaper reported that the hospital had served 4,300 patients in the previous year, “irrespective of sect, creed or color. … During the entire life of this institution, Dr. Mayo has labored zealously,

without remuneration whatsoever, except the consciousness of having aided those sick and in distress.” The hospital opened in a small, four-room cottage in the 1800 block of Annunciation Street. It relocated to 810 Felicity St. and in December 1940 opened in the 600 block of Jackson Avenue in a building that once had been the Trinity Episcopal Children’s Home. In May 1948, the hospital was renamed for Mayo, who died in March 1930. In a 1958 article, The Times-Picayune reported the hospital had “never lost its feminine touch — its administrator today is

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The Sara Mayo hospital in 2016, before it was replaced by an apartment complex.

a woman and its board of directors is composed entirely of women,” though most of the physicians on staff by that time were men. The hospital filed for bankruptcy and closed in 1979. In 2016, the New Orleans City Council approved plans to redevelop the Jackson Avenue site into an apartment complex.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK , New Orleanians watched in disbelief as a seven-alarm fire destroyed a local landmark — the Fair Grounds Race Course, which opened in 1872. Many people still remember seeing the flames or smelling the smoke that filled the air above the race track on Dec. 17, 1993. No people or horses were hurt, but the fire caused more than $26 million in damage, claiming the grandstand, clubhouse, several other structures and mementos from the third-oldest race track in the country. An investigation showed the fire, which apparently began in the jockeys’ locker room, was caused by a faulty electrical system. According to Bob Roesler’s book “The Fair Grounds: Big Shots & Long Shots,” this was the second time a fire destroyed the Fair Grounds. After a Dec. 28, 1918 fire, it took just four days for racing to resume at the track. It would take 19 days for the Fair Grounds to come back to life after the 1993 fire. It reopened Jan. 5, 1994. A newly constructed grandstand and clubhouse opened in 1997.

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After raids, law enforcement made no arrests for human trafficking in Bourbon Street strip clubs. But the grip is tightening on the street, and dancers are fighting back. BY ALEX WOODWARD ON A COLD SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL IN BATON ROUGE, strippers from across south Louisiana gathered to protest the state’s ban on women under 21 dancing in clubs. A white poster with green letters reading “I do not need saving” flapped in the wind alongside dozens of posters and signs: “My Body, My Right,” “Save Our Strippers,” “Let us dance.” Among the women protesting on the Capitol steps was Stormy Daniels, a Baton Rouge native and now world-famous stripper and sex worker, giving the Louisiana law international headlines. Daniels was paid hush money from now-President Donald Trump after their affair in 2006; in 2018, Daniels filed a lawsuit against Trump that later was dismissed. “We need to stand up for the rights of women in Louisiana and across this great country,” Daniels said. “This is a huge step backwards for equal rights for women and it needs to be changed.” On the Capitol steps, dancer after dancer — many of whom marched in the streets of the French Quarter in January and February to keep club doors open on Bourbon Street — called for the repeal of the law that prevents 18- to 20-year-old women from dancing in bars. State lawmakers passed the measure in 2016, and after several legal challenges, a three-judge panel at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month reversed its own ruling and decided the state can enforce the law. But club workers argue the law could put young dancers at risk of ending up in the exact circum-

stances law enforcement warns the clubs promote: as victims of human trafficking. “Many women who work this legal occupation will be forced out of their jobs, unable to support their children, unable to afford their student loan payments,” Daniels said. “They have their careers and futures planned, and if they’re unable to make their payments because they have to leave their lucrative jobs and work minimum wage jobs, some will be forced into other ways of making money.” A dancer named Rocky said she started stripping at 18. She had her first of three children at 17. She just turned 25. “If they want to change opportunities like that for young moms that really need to make a living and a 9-to-5 (job) is not gonna cut it, why cut that off?” she said, holding back tears. “Every year they throw something at us. … What’s the point of calling it a strip club if you don’t want us to take off anything?”

The 21-and-over law isn’t the last straw for adult dancers but another obstacle, they say, in a year full of them. In January, law enforcement officers raided eight Bourbon Street strip clubs, an effort “aimed at addressing human trafficking,” according to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), but one that didn’t produce any arrests. In the months following the raids, Bourbon Street dancers and club workers endured the closures of two clubs and the transformation of another into a country and western

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bar. Another turned into a dance club. Dancers challenged proposed zoning laws that would permanently cap the number of clubs on the street and braced for increased surveillance and restrictive working conditions inside the clubs as a result of the raids. They also crashed the city’s “open for business” press conference on Bourbon Street, held a massive “Unemployment March” through the French Quarter and in front of the clubs where they work, formed labor advocacy groups and campaigned inside City Hall as they felt a tightening grip on their livelihoods. In interviews with Gambit over the last several months, dancers and club workers reported a growing sense of paranoia in clubs, where dancers not only are frustrated with new rules imposed by law enforcement — including cameras in clubs and “mystery shoppers” — but also with their lack of a voice in drafting new policies to protect workers, straining an already contentious relationship with law enforcement and ensuring their livelihoods remain in limbo. Dancers also have criticized salacious media reports they say ig-

nore the working conditions in clubs and the needs of the people inside. They’ve worked on edge, they say, unsure whether their dancing would constitute a violation and assuming that any customer could be a cop or a “mystery shopper” taking notes. Now dancers fear the criminalization of their own bodies. Touching oneself while dancing, for example, could be construed as a “lewd act,” a broad description of illegal actions that could jeopardize a club. “There’s so much stigma surrounding dancing and nightlife that this just seems like another way for our jobs to be attacked,” Bourbon Street dancer Devin told Gambit, “rather than a way to protect us, which they claim to be wanting.” Meanwhile, statewide anti-human trafficking programs increasingly are finding traffickers targeting children and laborers, from farming and construction to restaurants. How did strip clubs end up in the crosshairs, branded as cesspools of human trafficking? Following the protest at the Capitol, Louisiana Alcohol and Tobacco Control Deputy Commissioner Ernest P. Legier Jr. said the agency

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“respects every citizen’s right to express alternative opinions regarding legislation” but is “duty bound to uphold all the laws of the State of Louisiana.” “The agency will not deviate from that course unless directed by the Legislature or a court of proper jurisdiction,” Legier told Gambit.

Dancers speculate a series from The Times-Picayune (“The Track: How Sex Trafficking Has Taken Hold of Bourbon Street”) helped fuel a narrative — Bourbon Street strip clubs as playgrounds for pimps, “a bull market for sex traffickers,” it said — that dovetailed with former Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s plans to “rebrand” the French Quarter into a “family-friendly” destination, as his administration presented in a citywide public safety plan in 2017. In 2015, Covenant House New Orleans received a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to support an array of local, state and federal law enforcement efforts to combat human trafficking. The organization urged the New Orleans City Council to strengthen laws preventing women under 21 from dancing in clubs; strippers under 21, Covenant House argued, are more likely to be exploited by pimps. In its proposal to limit the number of clubs on the street, the New Orleans City Council cited the Times-Picayune series’ uncovering of “unfettered sex trafficking” — without noting that it didn’t actually identify any trafficking arrests in Bourbon Street clubs. Federal guidelines define sex trafficking as commercial sex “induced by force, fraud or coercion.” But state law broadly defines trafficking as any “commercial sex activity” — conflating consensual sex work with forced human trafficking. The man behind the city’s legislative push was Scott Bergthold, a Tennessee-based attorney who has developed a blueprint for strict strip club laws in more than 20 states. Bergthold has worked to curb “sexual oriented business” for at least two decades and formerly served as the director of the Christian law firm National Family Legal Foundation. (In 1999, Bergthold told “Christianity Today” that the group’s mission is not addressing “the moral decay in America” but “the tangible effects of the moral decay, which local governments are quick to recognize — an increase in crimes, lower property values leading to lower tax revenues, and health and safety issues

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Top: Bourbon Street strip club Temptations before law enforcement raids forced its closure earlier this year and (bottom) the club today.

like the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.”) In October 2017, Landrieu’s administration hired Bergthold for $15,000, according to city records, to “review existing provisions” related to the “zoning, licensing and regulation” of strip clubs and to draft ordinances to replace them. When the New Orleans City Planning Commission (CPC) was expected to discuss the City Council-requested study on strip club regulations in January, the commission decided instead to put it on hold while the soon-to-be-outgoing Landrieu administration worked to “possibly formulate a broader package of regulations for Adult Live

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Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club on Bourbon Street.

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Boot Scootin Rodeo, previously Rick’s Sporting Saloon, changed from a strip club to a dance club after the NOPD crackdown on strip clubs.

Performance Venues.” A few weeks later, on Jan. 19, NOPD and the state’s Alcohol and Tobacco Control agents entered eight Bourbon Street clubs, rounded up dancers in their work attire and hit clubs with liquor license suspensions and a series of charges, including “lewd acts” and solicitation for prostitution — those “lewd acts” include dancers revealing “the nipple of their breast, genitals and/or both,” despite being in the context of a strip club. Solicitation charges don’t require sex; dancers claim agents distorted dancers’ conversations to advance law enforcement’s charge that the clubs merely act as a front for prostitution. Bourbon Street dancer Elle Camino told Gambit the raids “dehuman-

In 2016, as the New Orleans City Council prepared to study whether Bourbon Street should limit the number of clubs on its blocks, District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer cited prior Times-Picayune reports on “Operation Trick or Treat” raids that alleged “drug dealing and prostitution” in nine of 14 Bourbon Street clubs in 2015. “We have a problem in this country that permeates our society and our city. It is the objectification of women that leads to their exploitation,” Palmer wrote in a statement on Facebook. “It is most egregious amongst those who are marginalized, who have no voice and no resources. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in New Orleans Adult Entertainment/Strip Club industry. … These establishments create a culture of abuse against young women. Young women who lack the capacity and the resources are systematically abused.” Attached to her statement was a petition to the City Planning Commission (CPC) stating that “the existing number of strip clubs leads to an increase in overall French Quarter crime including violence, prostitution, lewd/improper acts, petty crime and drug dealing — and therefore does not promote the public health, welfare and safety of the City.” Palmer declined an interview with Gambit for this story. Two years later, more than 200 dancers and club workers packed a CPC hearing to oppose a proposal to limit the number of clubs on Bourbon Street. In a report recommending the city adopt a “soft cap” of 14 clubs — which then was the number of clubs on the street — rather than limit the number of clubs to one per block, city planners did not find “a direct causality between the number of [Adult Live Performance Venues, or ALPVs] in the [Vieux Carre Entertainment District] and crime” — directly contradicting city officials and law enforcement anecdotal reports over the last several years.

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ized” dancers and have left many workers traumatized. “Allowing clubs to regulate themselves and ensure the safety of all those contracted just makes sense and personally makes me feel more secure in my places of work versus at the whim of external forces which have little insight into our work environments and even less care for our well-being as people,” she said. “Ensuring our safety and well-being and upholding our humanity is at the core of these efforts after all, or at least it should be.”

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The staff attributed crime on Bourbon Street to a “concentration of entertainment uses beyond ALPVs alone,” not because of them. “Staff does not believe that capping ALPV’s to one venue per blockface would have significant impacts on crime,” the report says. A month later, the City Council failed to support the cap on strip clubs, eliciting a sigh of relief from workers less than two months after the raids that shuttered two clubs and caused fears of other closures. “It’s horrible, misogynistic,” said City Council President Jason Williams. “I don’t think I can support this measure given that it skipped over the whole issue of massage parlors, if we’re talking about human trafficking.” In August, seven months after the Bourbon Street raids, NOPD and ATC agents raided Passions, She-She’s and Visions strip clubs in New Orleans East, resulting in liquor license suspensions and closures for up to two weeks. Meanwhile, the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board continued to delay hearings on the clubs’ city-level charges, deferring hearings and drafting settlements with clubs over several months. In November, the board approved judgments drawn up by the city attorney’s office, which levied fines and imposed judgments that mirror the ones imposed by the ATC. Board members often giggled throughout the November hearing, asking whether “mystery shoppers” should be required in the nonstrip clubs to make sure “there’s no tangential activities.” Following the raids, Rick’s Sporting Saloon turned into Boot Scootin Rodeo, a line-dancing bar. One commissioner asked why Rick’s Cabaret didn’t also “get religion and move to country and western dancing.” Among Bergthold’s recommendations was requiring dancers to hold a municipal license, an idea the board and at least one strip club attorney also supports, and a tool that City Hall could consider in 2019. Fred Herman, an attorney for Bourbon Vibezz and Scores, told the board that “a responsible vendor license for dancers” would “clean up the so-called noise about sex trafficking and kidnapping” and shift responsibility from the clubs to the dancers. “The tone of contempt in the ABO hearing and every meeting with law enforcement we had shows that these consent judgments are part of a series of wedge tactics,” Bourbon Street dancer and organizer Lyn

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Archer told Gambit. “Peak season police-raiding, trolling by undercovers … blowing the dust off generations-old ‘nuisance laws’ to impose dress codes and contact-and-distance rules, installing surveillance cameras without permission or accountability as to who views the footage ... all of these tactics serve to shut down clubs, and none of these tactics protect strippers.” New Orleans dancer Sable Mongold started dancing at 19 years old, using the money she earned to pay her way through college. “There’s a lot more humanity behind the clear heels and the glitter,” she said in Baton Rouge. “Taking away a woman’s bodily autonomy under the guise of human trafficking takes away the actual experience of those who are actually being trafficked.” In Bourbon Street raids, law enforcement linked dancers to prostitution, which often has been conflated with trafficking, despite no sex taking place. In a joint press conference following the raids, NOPD Superintendent Mi-

chael Harrison and ATC Commissioner Juana Marine-Lombard offered conflicting views on trafficking and sex work. Harrison said the police “understand they’re not one in the same,” while Lombard said “prostitution in and of itself is sex trafficking.” Harrison said the raids followed reports of “multiple instances of prostitution on premises,” and the raids aimed to “put the pimps who profit from these crimes out of business,” later adding, “We don’t want to target the victims of human trafficking.” The raids produced 30 reports of prostitution in the clubs — but no trafficking arrests were made. “The goal was to stop [clubs] from being used to foster and facilitate criminal activity,” Lombard said. “We have no issues with the dancers.” In emails obtained by Gambit, ATC Deputy Commissioner Legier objects to claims that deny trafficking is a problem “occurring within the clubs despite the fact that we have found pimps operating in and around” them. But the ATC also is open to suggestions that “would help us to curtail the illegal activities within permitted locations ... without effecting

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Strippers from New Orleans and Baton Rouge protest at the state Capitol Dec. 9 against a law hanging the minimum age for dancers from 18 to 21 years old. Stripper and porn star Stormy Daniels (right) joined the protest, calling the new law “a huge step backwards for equal rights for women.”

[sic] the dancers,” according to Legier’s email. Amnesty International has called for governments around the world to “decriminalize consensual sex work” and “include sex workers in the development of laws that affect their lives and safety.” The Greater New Orleans Human Trafficking Task Force — supported by a U.S. Department of Justice grant — was founded informally a decade ago after its partners found evidence of the forced labor of construction workers post-Hurricane Katrina and people forced into sex work in order to survive in the storm’s aftermath. Among its 85 member organizations are health providers, community groups and law enforcement. The DOJ’s Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking grant mandates a “victim-centered, trauma-informed approach” to providing services to trafficking survivors or people at risk of being trafficked. Its grant was renewed through 2021. Task force partners did identify strip club workers who met the definition of being trafficked, according to its 2017 report, which said 12 percent of sex trafficking survivors engaged with the task force experienced exploitation in strip clubs, and 30 percent of labor trafficking survivors were in strip clubs, according to the report.

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“We acknowledge not all sex work is trafficking,” Task Force coordinator Leanne McCallum told Gambit. “We acknowledge some of those nuances that can sometimes get confusing. … The federal definition clearly demonstrates there’s a difference there.” But because of the broad membership of its collective, groups are “all over the spectrum in relation to some of these issues” and in understanding that definition. The organization, then, focuses solely on linking people to services without criminalizing them. Services included transportation, emotional support and mental health treatment. “We try to emphasize recognizing vulnerabilities associated with trafficking, such as immigration status, being a member of LGBTQ community, things that can isolate them from other services,” McCallum says. “We just focus on the need.”

In the wake of the raids, dancers organized the Bourbon Alliance of Responsible Entertainers, or BARE, a coalition of strip club workers and their advocates. “It’s been a challenging year for dancers in New Orleans,” BARE organizer and dancer Allie told Gambit. “From Bourbon Street to the East, we are still rattling from the trauma of experiencing raids, increased police presence and decreased income due

to club closures. The ABO’s ruling last month mandating high-tech cameras and more mystery shoppers makes us more vulnerable to violence.” Allie said those “mystery shoppers” can be “some of the most aggressive and dangerous customers we have as they attempt to coerce dancers into breaking the law.” “They are fraudulent customers who are being paid to entrap us,” she told Gambit. “Fraud and coercion are two important tenets of Louisiana’s human trafficking law. Who’s trafficking who here? By echoing the ATC’s rulings on our clubs and workers, the ABO is demonstrating a reckless disregard for our safety.” Dancers say they don’t need “protection” by city or state officials. They just want to work. “We have all come into this work through the conditions of our lives — we all need to work to live — and no amount of stigma or punishment will keep us from jobs with total schedule flexibility and a real living wage,” Archer said in a statement to Gambit. “What we wear, where we work, what we show and what we tell, who we work with, should all be up to us. We all know enough to decide for ourselves.” “If it weren’t for dancers,” one stripper told Gambit, “they’d just be really expensive bars.”

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For the dinner party guest who usually contributes a seasonal salad. The Roux Collection wooden salad servers, $30 at the shop at New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, 504-658-4100; www. noma.org/shop). For your uncle who loves to reminisce aloud (and often) about his adventures in the Caribbean. Macanudo Montego y Cia Cafe ascot cigars (10-pack in collectible tin), $19.99 at Ra Shop (Citywide; www.rashop.us).

For the globetrotting souvenir collector who sips Darjeeling every afternoon. Ceramic teapot, $2.92 at Thrift City USA (601 Terry Parkway, Gretna, 504-363-0006).

For the man whose silk tie collection belongs in a museum. Hand printed silk ties, $85 each at AlQuimie (938 Royal St.; www.alquimiestudio.com).

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at St. Roch Market (2381 St. Claude Ave., 504-609-3813; www.neworleans.strochmarket.com) and the Auction House Market (801 Magazine St., 504-372-4321; www. auctionhousemarket.com) in the Warehouse District. Chef Deven Dawson opened Doily at St. Roch Market in Faubourg Marigny, and it serves sandwiches, salads and desserts. The sweet and savory selection is a reflection of

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humble dish that requires little more than a squeeze of lemon and a group of friends with which to share it. In the Northwest, diners gather over beer-battered halibut fillets served with bowls of clam chowder. Along the Eastern seaboard, fat pieces of cod or haddock are served with fried clam bellies and ramekins of briny tartar sauce. In the South, cornmeal-battered catfish is king. South Louisiana is home to some excellent renditions of the dish, and in New Orleans, Barrow’s Shady Inn was a destination for catfish fans for many years. Dating back to 1943, the restaurant was among the city’s oldest black-owned eateries and attracted a loyal clientele who visited for fried catfish platters, neighborhood company and the jukebox. The family-run restaurant was forced to close after Hurricane Katrina, and its successor, Barrow’s Catfish, opened on Earhart Boulevard in July. Inside the small dining room surrounded by brick walls, tables are filled with diners digging into giant platters of the flaky fried fish and bowls of creamy potato salad. Like its predecessor, the restaurant’s focus is catfish, and the short menu includes several platters to suit a varying appetites, but none of them can really be considered petite. On the smaller end, the Classic ($19) and Lil Billy ($20) platters

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include five to seven pieces of fish, generally enough for two diners to share. For another dollar, the Catfish King ($21) has eight pieces of the golden-fried fish. The fish is cut thick and the fillets are coated with a thin, cayenne-laced crust. The cornmeal-dusted exterior imparts a soft, lingering heat but doesn’t overpower the juicy, flavorful fish. Fried shrimp get similar treatment, and the seafood combo platter ($24) includes an ample amount of fish and shrimp to share, plus fries or creamy potato salad as a side. The menu also includes catfish and shrimp po-boys, gumbo and crawfish bisque. The gumbo combines shrimp, thick coins of smoked sausage and a good amount of spice. The crawfish bisque is as thick as a stew, chock full of crawfish tails and corn, and though it is flavorful, it needs more spice. Without question, catfish is the star of this operation, but the banana bourbon cake is a strong runner-up. Layers of moist cake

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Family members and owners (l. to r.) Destyn Johnson, Kenneth Johnson Jr., Deirdre Barrow Johnson and Kenneth Johnson III serve fried catfish platters at Barrow’s Catfish. P H OTO C O U R T E S Y S T. R O C H M A R K E T

studded with fresh bananas and dates are covered with butterscotch frosting and a drizzle of praline banana cream glaze. Come for the catfish, but leave room for a slice of cake. In the corner of the dining room hangs a black-and-white photograph of the the late William “Billy” Barrow Jr. He leans over with one foot propped up on a chair and a wide grin on his face. It’s a smile often mirrored in the faces of diners here, all eagerly digging into shared platters of fried fish, catching up over shared memories with old friends while making new ones. Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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Dawson’s resume, which includes making wedding cakes and pastries as well as working as an executive chef for Nordstrom. Dawson also owned the now-closed sandwich shops Royal Street Deli and Delta Angel. The menu at Doily includes a grilled cheese sandwich ($11) made with provolone, pimiento cheese, tomato, spinach, caramelized onions and avocado on sourdough or multigrain bread or a croissant. Chicken salad made with grapes, toasted coconut, walnuts, cream cheese, celery, red onion, spinach and tomatoes is available on a sandwich ($11). Seared ahi tuna salad ($14) includes roasted red peppers, spring greens, bean salad, pepper Jack cheese, avocado, tortilla crisps and cilantro-lime dressing. For sweets, there are cherry or apple hand pies ($5), chocolate cake with butter cream icing and PAGE 30

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sprinkles ($7) and peanut butter pie ($7) with whipped cream and dark chocolate syrup. At Auction House Market, which is owned by the same operators as St. Roch Market, a new Thai restaurant will open soon. Local Thai street food pop-up Long Chim is helmed by May Mananya, who was born and raised in Bangkok, and Kirk Cohen. The two met in Los Angeles and moved to New Orleans. For the past few months, Long Chim has been popping up across the city, including at the Catahoula Hotel, The Drifter Hotel and Courtyard Brewery. The menu features Thai salads, curries, soups, dumplings and desserts. The menu will change seasonally, and dishes may include pork and shrimp dumplings ($8), roasted cauliflower larb ($12), chicken khao soi ($13), green curry ($12) and mango sticky rice ($7). — HELEN FREUND

Network down CENTRAL CITY FOOD COURT Roux Carre will close Dec. 21. The organizers behind the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard restaurant incubator made the announcement Dec. 11 on Facebook and its website. Roux Carre opened in late 2015 and served as an incubator for up-

Just in time JUSTINE (225 Chartres St.), a French brasserie from Justin Devillier and Mia Freiberger-Devillier of La Petite Grocery (4238 Magazine St., 504891-3377; www.lapetitegrocery. com), will open in January. Local diners can get a preview of the French Quarter restaurant at its New Year’s Eve celebration. The restaurant offers two ticketed op-

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an open bar, a midnight Champagne toast, late-night snacks and musical entertainment. Justine’s full menu has not been released, but the owners say it will feature classic French brasserie fare. Fans of Devillier’s burgers at La Petite Grocery and Balise will be happy to hear that there will be an iteration of them at the new spot. — HELEN FREUND

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tions. For $130, the “All Night Affair” begins at 8 p.m. and includes a reception with appetizers, food stations, an open bar, burlesque performances by Trixie Minx’s company and DJ sets, as well as a Champagne toast and late-night snacks. The second option ($80) starts at 10:30 p.m. and includes

and-coming food entrepreneurs. The court was a project of the Good Work Network (www.goodworknetwork.org), a local nonprofit that supports small business ventures by women and minorities. A statement from Good Work Network Executive Director Hermoine Malone said the decision to close Roux Carre came in part because the food court “like many restaurant ventures … failed to grow revenue to a level that would keep it financially stable.” The statement said the organization plans to restructure operations for 2019 to focus on people of color. “While we’ve done much, we realize we can do far more to increase opportunity, wealth and business stability for minority entrepreneurs,” the statement said. “When African-Americans own roughly one-third of all businesses, but earn only 2 percent of all business revenue, a new approach is in order.” The incubator project tried different models and vendors, including the “Launch Pod” series in January 2018, a four-month culinary accelerator program that featured several pop-ups that were vetted for a potential full-time residency at the market. — HELEN FREUND

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SAEKI: I’m from Chiba, which is close to Tokyo — it’s like the Slidell of New Orleans. In Japan, it’s normal that you start eating sushi and raw fish very young — I was 3 or 4 years old. Every family makes hand rolls at home, with seasoned rice and a slice of fish. We put whatever we want in there. It’s like the Asian version of a taco with seasoned rice and seaweed instead of a tortilla. Japanese people really love seafood, especially sushi.

What are some of the different and new raw dishes you make? S: The shima-style sushi we serve is a traditional approach to quick-curing fish that comes from the Japanese tropical islands. Shima means island, and in a lot of these tropical islands, preservation was a big thing. Quick-curing fish was a common method they used. We make a sauce with mirin, soy sauce and sake, which is like a marinating sauce. That’s a normal seasoning for shima-style sushi, but I also use Thai chilies, garlic and hot mustard, because people here love spice. I like to use a fatty fish like a salmon or an amberjack. We also get almaco jack, which is like kampachi. There’s a Vietnamese ceviche called ca tai chanh that’s made with fish sauce, lime, ginger, mint, cilantro, red onions, cucum-

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What’s the best thing about your job? S: I like making people happy, and eating is a fundamental thing. I used to work as a computer engineer. I liked it but I didn’t think that all of my life would be spent in front of a computer. It wasn’t good for me mentally. But this job is a natural thing and it’s different every time. Even just the cooking time or temperature makes a dish different. I don’t know what’s going on sometimes and that’s why I like it. Even in a hundred years, I could never know everything there is to know. I like people who never eat raw fish and then get used to it little by little, and then finally, they love it. — HELEN FREUND

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BYWATER Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; www.jackdempseys.net — Reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Fri, D Wed-Sat. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. D WedSun, late Wed-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

CBD Public Service Restaurant — NOPSI Hotel, 311 Baronne St., (504) 962-6527; www. publicservicenola.com — Reservations recommended. B & D daily, L Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Catalino’s — 7724 Maple St., (504) 6186735; www.facebook.com/catalinosllc — Reservations accepted. L and D daily. $$ Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise.com — Reservations accepted. L Sat-Sun, D daily, late Fri-Sat. $$ 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. $$

CITYWIDE Breaux Mart — Citywide; www.breauxmart.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ La Carreta — Citywide; www.carretarestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for larger parties. Lunch and dinner daily. $$

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Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. L, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. B, L. D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans. com — Reservations recommended. B, L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $$$ Copper Monkey Bar & Grill — 725 Conti St., (504) 527-0869; www.coppermonkeygrill.com — No reservations. L, D and late daily. $$ 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. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$

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NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$

Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; www.kebabnola.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D WedMon, late Fri-Sat. $

Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 947-8787 — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. $

Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$

FRENCH QUARTER

Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$

Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $

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OUT TO EAT bonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$

Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon. com — Reservations accepted. D TueSun, brunch Fri-Sun. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant. com — 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. $$ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

LAKEVIEW 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. $$

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R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www. riccobonospeppermill.com — Reservations accepted. B and L daily, D Wed-Sun. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat, D daily. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www. shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. B, L, D Mon-Sat. $ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

MID-CITY/TREME 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. $

Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www. bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D Mon-Sat. $

Cupcake Fairies — 2511 Bayou Road, (504) 333-9356; www.cupcakefairies.com — B and L Tue-Sat. $

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$

Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola. com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$

Fullblast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800 — No reservations. Brunch Thu-Mon. $$

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. $

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Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $

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. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. $$

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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. $

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Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L, D, late daily. $

UPTOWN Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; 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. $$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ 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;

St. James Cheese Company — 5004 Prytania St., (504) 8994737; www.stjamescheese.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L daily, early D Thu-Sat. $

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Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 5257437; 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 Mon-Sat. $$

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The Jazz Playhouse — Joe Krown, 4; Cyril Neville & Swamp Funk, 7:30; Tease of the Season Burlesque Ballroom feat. Trixie Minx & Anais St. John, 11 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Damn Hippies, 7; Joshua Diggs, 9; Daniel Thompson, 10 Oak — Lynn Drury, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Rebel Roadside, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Poguetry feat. Spider Casey, Cait O’Riordan, Los Rambleros Del Bayou Perdido, 9 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — D Play Band, 9 Santos Bar — A Void Christmas with Big Worm, Blue Dream, Modivibe, 10 SideBar — Papa Mali, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 The Standard — Philip Melancon, 8 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5:30; Doro Wat, 9 Tipitina’s — Flow Tribe’s Christmas Crunktacular, 10

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MONDAY 24 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Firebird — A Soulful Christmas feat. Robins Barnes and guests Bruce Sunpie Barnes, Renard Slangston Hughes, Derrick Freeman as Bad Santa and others, 7 BMC — Zoe K, 5; Alicia Blue Eyes Renee, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bamboula’s — St. Louis Slim Blues Trio, noon; Bann-Bua’s Hot Jazz 4, 3; G & The Swinging Gypsies, 6:30; Gentilly Stompers Band, 10 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Trio, 8 Circle Bar — Dem Roach Boyz, 7; Gene Black & Friends, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman, 9 House of Blues — Sean Riley (Restaurant & Bar), 6 The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Patrick Pearson, 8; Bongos, 9; The Genial Orleanians, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Poor Boys Bar — Catacombs & Orphanage Goth Night, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 The Starlight — Free Jambalaya Jam feat. Joshua Benitez Band, 8

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Advent Lessons & Carols. Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church, 146 Fourth St. — Biblical readings are interspersed with choral music with performances by choirs from Immaculate Conception Church and School, Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church and School and St. Joseph Catholic Church. 6:30 p.m. Friday. Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — The organist’s Organ & Labyrinth performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock played by candlelight with music for Christmas. www.albinas.org. Free admission. 6 p.m. Tuesday. “Baroque Christmas”. First Baptist New Orleans, 5290 Canal Blvd. — The LPO performs works by Handel, Bach, Arcangelo Corelli and Ralph Vaughan Williams. 7:30 p.m. Thursday; also First Baptist Church Covington, 16333 LA1085, Covington, 7:30 p.m. Friday. “Christmas Belles Are Ringing!”. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — The Victory Belles vocal ensemble presents a smorgasboard of holiday music. Various dates and times through Dec. 29; www.nationalww2museum.org. Tickets $24.89-$64. The Clarinet Quacks. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — The saxophone-only group performs holiday tunes. www.jplibrary.net. 7 p.m. Thursday. “A Lyrical Christmas”. Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Ave. — Lyrica Baroque presents an evening of music on a variety of instruments playing festive works by Bach, Mendelssohn and more. www.lyricabaroque.com $20. 7 p.m. Friday. “Messiah” Holiday Concert. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — Church organist and choirmaster Paul Weber leads a program of excerpts from Handel’s oratorio with solo instrumental and vocal works. www. trinityartistseries.org. Free admission. 5 p.m. Sunday. New Orleans Concert Band Clarinet Choir. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — This holiday concert features the band’s reed section. www.jplibrary.net. 7 p.m. Tuesday. New Aurora Saxophone Ensemble. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — The saxophone-only group performs holiday tunes. www.jplibrary. net 7 p.m. Wednesday. “Tunes for Toys” Concert and Toy Drive. George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 N. Rampart St. — Trombone Shorty, MainLine, Lil’ Glenn & Backatown and the Trombone Shorty Academy students provide holiday music. A new toy is requested for for admission. The toys will be distributed Friday. Free admission. 7 p.m. Thursday.

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TUESDAY 18 Audubon Zoo Lights. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St. — The zoo has lighted holiday and animal decorations and is open for walking tours, entertainment, crafts and more on select nights through December. $10-$15. 5:30 p.m. Celebration in the Oaks. City Park, 5 Victory Ave. — Holiday light displays dot 25 acres of New Orleans City Park, including Storyland, the Botanical Garden and Carousel Gardens. Visitors can ride a train to view displays around the park and take photos with Santa Claus. www.neworleanscitypark.com. Tickets $10-$28. 6 p.m. Through Jan. 1, 2019. Christmas in Lafreniere Park. Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie — The park is filled with holiday lights and characters and there are carousel rides for kids and activities. $5 per vehicle. 5 p.m. Through Dec. 30. Holiday Tea at Longue Vue. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road — Children and families are invited to join Longue Vue House and Gardens for an afternoon tea, cookies, sandwiches and sweets. Holiday crafts and photos with Santa Claus are an additional $15. Reservations are required and seating is limited. www.longuevue.com $50-$60. 1 p.m. Miracle on Fulton. Fulton Street at Poydras Street — The pedestrian corridor is turned into a winter wonderland with

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PREVIEW NOLA ChristmasFest BY WILL COVIELLO NOLA CHRISTMASFEST CREATES A WINTER WONDERLAND inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Hall H is decked out in holiday decor and attractions include ice skating, slides, snowball fights, amusement rides, a climbing wall, photos with Santa Claus, a display of gingerbread houses, giant inflatables, crafts, cookie decorating and more. New this year are “Snowzilla,” on which participants can slide down a 90-foot ramp, a giant snowman, curling on artificial ice, a padded “polar” golf course and a giant snowglobe for taking selfies. Many activities, such as ice skating and rides, are included with general admission. Tickets $20. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Dec. 20-23 and 26-31; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24; 2 p.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 25. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hall H, 900 Convention Center Blvd.; www. nolachristmasfest.com.

snow flurries on the hour, lights and live entertainment on some nights. www. miracleonfulton.com. Free admission. 10 a.m. Through Dec. 27. Reveillon on the Ridge Tree Lighting. Bayou Metairie Park, 2713 Metairie Road, Metairie — Two-week long Festival of Lights throughout Old Metairie begins with a lighting of The Honorary Christmas Tree of Louisiana at dusk, decorated with a star on top and lighted fleur-de-lis ornaments. www.oldmetairiegardenclub. com. 5 p.m. Santa Visits the Library. St. Tammany Parish Library, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell — Sing songs, enjoy candy canes and bring a camera to take photos with Santa Claus. 10:30 a.m. Save Our Cemeteries Annual Meeting and Tour. St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, Claiborne Avenue between St. Louis and Iberville streets — Membership meeting begins with a tour of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, followed by a meeting and presentation of awards with food and cocktails at Seven Three Distilling Co. and a cemetery

quiz. (504) 525-3377. www.saveourcemeteries.org. Admission $10. 4 p.m. Teddy Bear Program. Arnaud’s Restaurant, 813 Bienville St. — The restaurant and New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation collect new teddy bears for officers to use when they encounter children while on duty. Bins are located at the restaurant, Energy Centre on Poydras Street and New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau on St. Charles Avenue. Donations accepted through Dec. 31. Teddy Bear Tea. Roosevelt Hotel, 123 Baronne St. — Santa and Mrs. Claus welcome families for holiday food, specialty teas and pastries. There are sparkling wine and mimosas for adults. A portion of proceeds benefits Bastion Community of Resilience, a local veteran community. (504) 335-3129. www.therooseveltneworleans. com. Tickets $52-$99. 1 p.m., also various seatings Thursday through Monday.

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NOLA ChristmasFest. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This winter wonderland includes an ice skating rink, ice slides, holiday characters, amusement rides and more inside Hall H of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center through Dec. 31. www.nolachristmasfest.com. Tickets $20. 11 a.m.. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polar Expressâ&#x20AC;? Family Storytime. St. Tammany Parish Library, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The holiday evening includes a North Pole obstacle course, crafts, a special reading of Chris Van Allsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. Snacks are served. Also at the Causeway library in Mandeville at 6:30 p.m. www. sttammanylibrary.org/kids 6 p.m. Teddy Bear Tea. Royal Sonesta, 300 Bourbon St. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The hotel becomes the Royal Snownesta for this seasonal celebration featuring Santa and Mrs. Claus, photos, the Sugarplum Fairy and more. www. sonesta.com. Tickets $41.14-$90.75. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. through Sunday.

FRIDAY 21 Home for the Holidays. House of Blues, 225 Decatur Street â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The fundraiser for the Daniel Price Memorial Fund features music by Irma Thomas, John Boutte, Kermit Ruffins and others. www.danielpricememorial. org. Tickets $45. 6:30 p.m. Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toys from Troy.â&#x20AC;? Warren Easton Charter High School, 3019 Canal St. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Troy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trombone Shortyâ&#x20AC;? Andrews and Santa give toys to children and there are holiday treats and a performance by Trombone Shorty Academy Students plus special guests. One gift per child can be picked up by a parent or guardian on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org. 1 p.m. Friday. Wetland Winter Solstice. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 6588 Barataria Blvd., Marrero â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On the longest night of the year there is a ranger-guided trail walk and astronomy program. Reser-

vations required. (504) 689-3690 ext. 10 or www.nps.gov/jela. Free admission. 6 p.m. Friday.

SATURDAY 22 Cajun Holiday Tea with Papa Noel. Creole Queen Paddlewheel Boat, Spanish Plaza â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Papa and Mrs. Noel and a host of Cajun characters enliven this family classic tea with activities. www.creolequeen.com. Tickets $10-$59. 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., also Sunday. Rara Tou Limen Master Classes. Andrew â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peteâ&#x20AC;? Sanchez Community Center, 1616 Caffin Ave. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Portsha Jefferson leads a Haitian Folkloric workshop. Tickets $15. Noon Saturday

SUNDAY 23 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ringalong Singalongâ&#x20AC;? Christmas Carols. Bayou Metairie Park, 2713 Metairie Road â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be snow, Santa, Mr. Bingle, live music, food, a train and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser proclaiming an Honorary Christmas Tree of Louisiana. www.oldmetairiegardenclub.com. 6 p.m. Sunday. Santa Claus Brunch. Dickie Brennanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tableau, 616 St. Peter St. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mr. Claus visits the French Quarter eatery to take wish lists and more. A special kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menu is available. 11 a.m. Sunday.

MONDAY 24 Bonfires Along the Levee. River Road from Convent to LaPlace â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Along the Mississippi River levee, from Convent to the Lutcher-Gramercy area to LaPlace, bonfires light the night on Christmas Eve, a tradition meant to light the way for Papa Noel and guide the people home from midnight Mass. 7 p.m.

SPORTS New Orleans Saints vs. Pittsburgh Steelers. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Saints play the Pittsburgh Steelers. 3:25 p.m. Sunday.

FILM FILM FESTIVAL Black Film Festival of New Orleans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha castle Haley Blvd. The festival screens features, documentaries and short films including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olympiaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bigger Than Me: My Fight with ALSâ&#x20AC;? at Dec. 21-23. www.facebook. com/blackfilmfestivalofneworleans.

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“Balloonacy.” The Lighthouse, 743 Camp St. — The Radical Buffoons present a comedic play for kids about a grumpy old man in need of a friend in a story told through physical comedy and musical accompaniment. The show is part of the theater’s Young Audiences Program. Tickets $10-$20. 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. “A Christmas Carol.” Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St. — Bob Edes Jr. stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in the adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic, supported by performers in Le Petit Theatre’s Young Conservatory Program. Tickets $15-$55. 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. “Christmas Without Tears (Does This Tree Make Me Look Fat?)” Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St — Harry Shearer and Judith Owen’s holiday concert with musical guests benefits Le Petit and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic. www. lepetittheatre.com. Tickets $45-$70. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday “Elf.” Saenger Theater, 1111 Canal St. — The touring Broadway musical tells the story of a child who returns with Santa Claus to the North Pole, where he is mistaken for an elf. He later sets out to find his father in New York City. www.saengernola.com 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

“Hurricane on the Bayou” — This film explores Hurricane Katrina and the effect of Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands on hurricane protection. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “Mary Poppins Returns” (PG) — A magical nanny returns to help a family through a difficult time in this pseudo-sequel to the live-action Disney classic. Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep star. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Broad Theater, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Oceans — Our Blue Planet 3D” — This BBC Earth film transports audiences to the depths of the earth’s waters. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (PG) — This animated Spider-Man story focuses on Miles Morales, a biracial teen who gets Spidey senses and travels into different dimensions, where he meets other heroes with similar powers. AMC Elmwood Palace 20. “Wild Africa 3D” — Journey across one of the world’s wildest continents in this BBC Earth documentary. Entergy Giant Screen Theater.

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transforms into a prince in this production of the classic ballet with Tchaikovsky’s score and choreography from Yuri Grigorovich. 11:55 a.m. Sunday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20. “Elf” (PG) — Buddy the elf is sent to the U.S. to discover his true identity in this holiday comedy starring Will Ferrell and James Caan. Noon Saturday at Regal Covington Stadium 14; 10 a.m. Sunday and Wednesday at Prytania Theatre. “It’s a Wonderful Life” (PG) — An angel helps a frustrated businessman (James Stewart) realize the good in his life. Directed by Frank Capra. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday at Movie Tavern Northshore. “Prytania’s Very Merry Christmas” — A children’s friendly screening of animated holiday classics includes “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Friday, Saturday and Monday at Prytania Theatre. Doors open at 9 a.m. Screenings start at 10 a.m. “They Shall Not Grow Old” (R) — Peter Jackson (the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy) directs this documentary about World War I, released to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, at AMC Elmwood Palace; 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, at AMC Westbank Palace 16. “When Harry Met Sally...” (R) — Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan star as best friends who fear that a more serious relationship might ruin their friendship. 7 p.m. Wednesday at Flamingo-A-Go-Go, 869 Magazine St. Free. “While You Were Sleeping” (PG) — Sandra Bullock is mistaken for the fiancee of a coma patient in this 1995 romantic comedy. Bill Pullman and Peter Gallagher co-star. 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at Flamingo-A-Go-Go, 869 Magazine St. Free.

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“Border” (R) — A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual relationship with a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation. Opens Tuesday at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. “Bumblebee” (PG-13) — Hailee Steinfeld stars in this “Transformers” prequel about a young girl who discovers a battle-scarred robot. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Holmes & Watson” (PG-13) — Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly reunite in this parody about the famous detective and his partner. Opening Tuesday at AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Mary Queen of Scots” (R) — Mary Stuart attempts to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I in this historical drama starring Saorise Ronan and Margot Robbie. Prytania Theatre. “Postcards from London” — A young man descends into an unusual form of escort work in this drama from writer/director Steve McLean. Opens Tuesday at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. “Second Act” (PG-13) — Jennifer Lopez stars in this romantic comedy about a woman who reinvents her life. Vanessa Hudgens and Milo Ventimiglia co-star. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell. “Welcome to Marwen” (PG-13) — Based on the documentary “Marwencol,” Steve Carell stars as a man who, after being brutally attacked, builds his own miniature world. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell.

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BY WILL COVIELLO ALEX MARTINEZ WALLACE, who once worked as an elf in a New York Macy’s department store during the holidays, stars as Crumpet in the adaptation of David Sedaris’ essay about such work. The elves engage shoppers who wait in long lines to visit with Santa Claus, and they deal with the joys and stresses of the holidays. Tickets $30. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2123. Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave., (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org.

“The Ho Ho Ho Show.” The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — Singer Kate Fagan stars in a Christmas cabaret bringing naughty and nice together with a band, burlesque by Perse Fanny, a drinking game, prizes and emcee Valerie Grubb as Mistress of Merriment. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Tuesday. “Let It Snow! A Big Easy Boys Christmas.” Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St. — Rivertown Theaters unveils a holiday show by Rich Arnold, featuring The Big Easy Boys & Babes with a mix of holiday standards and hits from the ’50s and ’60s. www.rivertowntheatres.com. Tickets $41.31-$45.68. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. “Mandatory Merriment — An New Holiday Musical.” Southern Rep Theatre, 2541 Bayou Road — A new holiday musical looks at what happens when six strangers are stranded in a French Quarter bar because of a blizzard days before Christmas. www.southernrep.com. Tickets $25-$40. 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. “The Mutilated.” Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans presents the drama about Celeste and Trinket, an odd couple of friends who can’t live with or without one another. 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday. “The Santaland Diaries.” Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave. — Alex Martinez Wallace stars in the one-man show based on David Sedaris’ essay about an underemployed writer hired to play Crumpet the Elf in a Macy’s department store holiday wonderland, where he encounters New Yorkers caught up in the best and worst of holiday spirits. Tickets $30. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. XXXMas with Brent Ray Fraser. Cafe Instanbul, 2372 St. Claude Ave. — The performance artist and penis painter will use various body parts to craft a work of art. www.dworldnola.com. Tickets $20-$30. 8 p.m. Tuesday

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Kate Mason host an open-mic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday. Beefin’. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Lane Lonion and Marcus Bond host the finals of the comedy roast insult competition. 8 p.m. Wednesday. 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 Red Bean Plunkett hosts an open-mic stand-up show. 8 p.m. Thursday. Comic Strip. Siberia Lounge, 2227 St. Claude Ave. — Chris Lane hosts the standup 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. Jeff D Comedy Cabaret. Oz, 800 Bourbon St. — This weekly showcase features comedy and drag with Geneva Joy, Carl Cahlua and guests. 10 p.m. Thursday. 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 PAGE 50

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REVIEW ‘Zarouhie Abdalian: Production’ BY D. ERIC BOOKHARDT HOW DID WE GET HERE? We are at a point where a weird alchemy of digital and financial technology has created a massive identity crisis for much of America as resilient cities adapt to rapid change while some rural and industrial areas seem left behind due to challenges posed by automation and robotics. Traditional notions of work, self-worth and wealth are explored in this “Production” exhibit of New Orleans native Zarouhie Abdalian’s sculpture inspired by hand tools in particular and labor in general. She celebrates humble objects by reducing them to their essence, as in “Joint IX,” where a drafting compass, box wrench and industrial shears appear in a conical, zenlike arrangement held in place by gravity. Their mirror finishes radiate an ethereal quality of light that evokes the aura of self-worth that once ennobled workers who now often feel sidelined by widespread workplace changes. The sheer weight of material objects lent gravitas to the labor required to work with them and the imprint of that labor is seen in a series of bas reliefs reflecting the force of the sharp extraction tools used at a Mississippi chalk mine. Each is a contemplative aesthetic object as well as a mini-monument to the miners whose labor subjected them to dire respiratory health hazards. In “Hull” (pictured), a ballast stone used to stabilize the weight distribution of merchant sailing ships is ensconced on a gold-plated square of sheet metal with upthrust corners that suggest delicate lotus petals as well as the impact of collisions involving heavy objects. Nearby, barely visible stitching on a wall-size “Banner” reads, “Let living labor live/ Let dead labor die,” an oddly poetic quote from Karl Marx who never anticipated the zombie labor of modern digital robotics. A low-key yet widely exhibited local artist whose work has appeared in the Whitney, Berlin, Shanghai, Moscow and Istanbul biennials, Abdalian brings a subtly expansive perspective to the paradoxes of our time as we try to cope with rapidly evolving technologies that often appear mired in unintended consequences. Through Feb. 10, 2019. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org.

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open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Sunday. Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave. — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday. 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 at 8 p.m. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

DANCE “Der Nussknacker.” Gretna Cultural Center for the Arts, 740 Fourth St., Gretna — Jefferson Ballet Theatre and the German-American Cultural Center present the Nutcracker ballet written by German E.T.A. Hoffman, with more than 65 dancers set to Tchaikovsky’s score. www.gretnacca.com. Tickets $27. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday “Nutcracker 2018.” Orpheum Theater,

129 Roosevelt Way — New Orleans Ballet Theatre presents the classic two-act ballet with Tchaikovsky’s classic score. www. neworleansballettheatre.com. Tickets $38-$78. 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday “The Nutcracker.” Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St. — Delta Festival Ballet and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra present two performances of the classic holiday story. www.deltafestivalballet.com. Tickets $35$85. 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday

ART OPENINGS Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St. — “CISLANDERUS: Canary Islanders in the U.S.” exhibit highlights Islenos heritage in St. Bernard Parish; opening reception, 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

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holidays for hourly tours. www.hnoc.org. Tickets $5. 10 a.m. Tuesday to Sunday. Holiday Paper Crafts. St. Tammany Parish Public Library, Mandeville Branch, 844 Girod St., Mandeville — Holiday gift tags are made with crafter Kaki DiCarlo. Registration encouraged. (985) 626-4293. www. stpl.us. 10 a.m. Tuesday.

MUSEUMS American Italian Cultural Center, 537 S. Peters St. — “The Luke Fontana Collection,” works by the artist, through Dec. 31. Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St. — “Washed Ashore — Art to Save the Sea” features works by Angela Pozzi crafted from plastic trash collected from Pacific Coast beaches. www.auduboninstitute.org. Through April 2019. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St. — “The Baroness de Pontalba and the Rise of Jackson Square,” a tricentennial exhibition of Don Andres Almonester and his daughter Micaela, the baroness, through October 2019; “We Love You, New Orleans” celebrates the people, places and things that make New Orleans a unique city, through Dec. 31. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere, 751 Chartres St., — “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana” includes Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and more, through Dec. 31; “Living With Hurricanes — Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts, ongoing.

National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — “So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope” includes film, photographs and more exploring Bob Hope’s career, through Feb. 10, 2019. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — “Past, Present, Future — Photography and the New Orleans Museum of Art” celebrates 100 years of photo exhibits at the museum; “Teaching Beyond Doctrine — Painting and Calligraphy by Zen Masters” features Japanese work from the Edo period, 1615-1868, through Jan. 6, 2019. “Mildred Thompson — Against the Grain,” is an exhibition of experimental wood works including three rare early wood pieces from the museum’s collection, through Jan. 6, 2019; “The Orleans Collection,” is an exhibition of selections from the collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1689-1723), through Jan. 27, 2019. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place — “EMPIRE” celebrates New Orleans’ tricentennial using materials from university archives, through Satirday. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St. — “The Laurel Valley Plantation Photographs of Philip M. Denman” exhibit features 40 years of photographic coverage of the Thibodaux plantation, through June 14, 2019.

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. The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at locations citywide, including Tulane University Square (200 Broadway St.) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday; the French Market (1008 N. Peters St.) 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday; the American Can Apartments (3700 Orleans Ave.) 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and in the CBD (750 Carondelet St.) 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. There also is a market in Rivertown (400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner) from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Fat City Farmers Market. 3215 Edenborn Ave., Metairie — Bread, jellies, jams, spices, organic soaps, eggs, clothing, accessories, crafts and drinks are sold. 9 a.m. Sunday. French Market. Corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at two locations: Ormond Plantation (13786 River Road, Destrehan) Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon; Luling market (1313 Paul Maillard Road) Wednesday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org. 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. New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Old Metairie Farmers Market. Bayou Metairie Park, 2700 block of Metairie Road —The rain-or-shine farmers market offers fruit, vegetables, eggs, honey, cheese and art from local vendors. 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. ReFresh Project Community Garden Farmers Market. 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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D&C Warren Farms, Crumrod, AR, has 7 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/ GPS for tilling, cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting of grain & oilseed crops, land leveling, irrigation maintenance, grain bin & auger maintenance; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 1/30/19 – 11/30/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2332966 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Low Doh Farm Partnership, Tichnor, AR, has 3 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/GPS for tilling, cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting of grain & oilseed crops, land leveling, irrigation maintenance, grain bin & auger maintenance, pulling weeds; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/ hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 1/28/19 – 11/15/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2329521 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR Cole Farms & Ranch, Sabinal, TX, has 2 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting hay, vaccinating, supplementing livestock, calving, weaning, & sorting cattle; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX5382343 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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DSB Farms, Danbury, TX, has 6 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment for tilling, cultivating, fertilizing, planting & harvesting rice & oilseed crops, processing, drying, bagging & transporting rice, pulling weeds, cow/calf operation, calving, vaccinating, ear tagging, branding & feeding supplements; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX8692667 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Kodiak Farming Company, Wynne, AR, has 2 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing & planting of rice & soybeans, walking fields to pull weeds, harvesting, processing, drying, bagging & transporting rice & soybeans, irrigation maintenance; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/22/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2334716 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Terry R. Fuller, Poplar Grove, AR, has 8 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equip. w/GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing & planting of grain & oilseed crops, swathing, raking & baling, irrigation system maintenance, vaccinating, ear tagging, feeding, weaning calves & loading for market, install new fence using posts & barb wire; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/30/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2334674 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Reed Honey Company, Montgomery, TX, has 3 positions with 3 mo. exp. required as beekeeper with references; raise honeybees, maintain colony health, caging queens, install queen cells, assemble hives, harvest combs, transport honey; maintain buildings, vehicles & equipment; long periods of standing, bending & must lift 75 pounds; obtain driver’s license within 30 days of hire with clean MVR; no bee, pollen, or honey related allergies; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, may increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 9/30/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply at nearest TX Workforce Office with JO# TX3640144 or call 512-475-2571.

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Stephen & Brent Davis Farms, Cotton Plant, AR, has 5 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/ GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops,; maintain building, vehicles & equip; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/ hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/30/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2334667 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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H Bar H Farms, Hartley, TX, has 8 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating farm equipment, row crop equipment, mulchers, & cotton strippers to cultivate, fertilize, plant, harvest, & transport oilseed crops & cotton; maintain building, vehicles, & equip; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX8694019 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Addison Farms, Plains, TX, has 2 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equip.w/ GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, digging, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting hay, operating cotton harvester, module builders, boll buggies, irrigation maintenance, vaccinating, ear tagging, supplements & feeding of livestock; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/10/19 – 12/10/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX3079853 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Florenden Farms, Luxora, AR, has 15 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting rice & soybeans, maintain irrigation, adding & removing spillways; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/15/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2334963 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Selby Honey, Poplarville, MS, has 4 positions with 3 mo. exp. required as beekeeper with references; raise honeybees & maintain colony health, caging queens, install queen cells, assemble hives, harvest combs, transport honey; maintain & repair buildings & equipment; long periods of standing, bending & must lift 75 pounds; obtain driver’s license within 30 days of hire with clean MVR; no bee, pollen, or honey related allergies; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, may increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays and asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/10/19 – 6/15/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with JO# MS284517 or call 504-838-5678. PAGE 55

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East Half Farms, Marianna, AR, has 15 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equip. for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting, & transporting grain, cotton & oilseed crops; maintain building, vehicles & equip; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with JO# 2334968 or call 504-838-5678.

TEMPORARY FARM LABOR Mark Tomlinson Farms, Rosharon, TX, has 3 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equip. w/GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, vaccinating, branding, ear tagging & feeding calves, swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting hay, walking fields & pulling weeds, irrigation maintenance, drying rice, grain bin maintenance; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX3640124 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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TEMPORARY FARM LABOR Rockin ML, Stephenville, TX, has 1 positions, 3 mo. exp. for swathing, raking, baling, stacking, & transporting hay, foaling, processing, vaccinating, castrating & weaning foals, cleaning stalls, mowing, spraying weeds, pasture maintenance; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 1/15/19 – 4/15/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX6685546 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Two S Farms, Plains, TX, has 3 positions, 3 mo. exp. for operating large farm equipment for harvesting & transporting cotton, cultivating, fertilizing & planting wheat, irrigation maintenance; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holiays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 9/01/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX3639082 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Billy Hinkle Farms Partnership, Aubrey, AR, has 8 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equip. w/ GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting, transporting cotton & soybeans, operating combines, cotton pickers, tractors, module building & boll buggies; maintain building, vehicles & equip; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/30/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with JO# 2336417 or call 504-838-5678. JBR Farms of Hoxie, Hoxie, AR, has 3 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equip. w/GPS for tilling, cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops; building, irrigation maint. of flood, poly pipe & furrow, grain bin maint., auger operation, walking fields pulling weeds, adjusting spillways & land leveling; building, equip & vehicle maint.; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/15/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2336421 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Coffee Creek Farms, Marvell, AR has 8 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/GPS for cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19 Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2332964 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Hart Farms, Luxora, AR has 6 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/GPS for cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, grain bin & auger operation, leveling land, irrigation maintenance; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 12/01/19 Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2336395 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504838-5678.

Hurwitz Mintz Furniture Co. is looking for experienced delivery drivers. Candidates must have a clean driving record and current chauffeur’s license, high school graduate, and at least one year of delivery driving experience. Must be skilled in customer relations, possess good interpersonal and verbal communication skills, and be able to lift 250 lbs with assistance. Must be team-oriented, and willing to ensure customer satisfaction. Benefits available including 401k. Apply in person to Warehouse Manager, 1751 Airline Dr. Metairie, La. 70001.

TEACHERS/INSTRUCTORS Lower School Immersion Teacher (Multiple): Teach all primary subjects in French language to K-5 students. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equiv. in French Language, Education, or related (in lieu of Bachelor’s degree, employer will accept any degree, program of study, or number of years of ed. in the same fields, domestic or foreign, that will permit the incumbent to receive LA teacher cert); 2 yrs. exp. teaching in the French language; native or near native fluency in French & English; excellent teaching ability; LA teacher cert. PK-5 Immersion (French) or eligible. Mail resume to Karianne Chassee, Lycee Francais de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 5951 Patton St. New Orleans, LA 70115. Refer to job #790.

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LVW Farms, Jonesboro, AR has 3 positions, 3 mo. exp. operating large farm equipment w/GPS for cultivating, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, grain bin & auger operation; maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.73/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/21/19 Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# 2336473 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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Bieri & Son, Angleton, TX, has 2 positions, 3 mo. exp. for operating large farm equip. for tilling, cultivating, planting & harvesting of crops, cow/calf operation, ear tagging, branding, feeding supplements to calves, maintain rice irrigation, transporting & stacking of hay, grain drying & transporting rice, milo & corn; maintain building & equip; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/ failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.87/hr, increase based on exp. w/possible bonus, may work nights, weekends, & holidays & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 2/01/19 – 11/05/19. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with JO# TX6685711 at nearest LAWorkforce Office or call 504-838-5678.

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