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TUE. JAN. 29 | On 2017’s “Forced Witness” (Secretly Canadian), Australia’s gleefully greasy would-be pop icon builds his songs around whimsical ’80s-inspired soft rock trash, his halfway ironic template for sexual demons and darker themes. He’s joined by saxophonist Roy Molloy; Holiday Sidewinder opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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WED. JAN. 30 | Mississippi bluesman and longtime Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus is backed by Durrty Crooks Alvin Youngblood Hart and Neilson Bernard III at 8 p.m. at Chickie Wah Wah.

Dina Martina brings her new show, “Creme de la Dregs,” to Cafe Istanbul

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BY WILL COVIELLO DINA MARTINA’S NOT-CONVENTIONALLY-GOOD SINGING , dancing and

fashion choices may make her performances an acquired taste. But her fans include Dinosaur Jr. guitarist J Mascis, who asked Martina to appear in the recently released video for the title track of his latest solo album, “Elastic Days” (Sub Pop). In the video, Martina lip syncs the plaintive ballad as a camera pans through a nighttime cityscape in the background. Martina appears in her signature makeup — heavy blue eyeliner and bright red lipstick applied off-kilter and well beyond her lips — and a series of wigs with retro hairstyles. Martina’s own singing is not as subdued as Mascis’ ballad, and locals can catch her live show “Creme de la Dregs” Saturday, Feb. 2 at Cafe Istanbul. “Elastic Days” is not Martina’s first rock video. There’s another lip-syncing gem in the 2013 cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Puscifer, the side project of Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Martina and Keenan’s heads are conspicuously superimposed on the heads of characters in black-and-white B-movie film scenes, including a medical exam and a tawdry hotel encounter. And there’s also a scene of Martina in a bright red sweater dress throwing herself into an emotional interpretation of the song. Martina chose a similar outfit for her appearance at 2018’s Wigstock, a New York drag performance festival resurrected by actor Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother,” Broadway’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) after a few off years. Martina originally was scheduled to sing a couple of songs. New Orleans’ own Bianca del Rio introduced Martina, who started to deliver what initially sounded like an inspirational message. “I know a lot of us are down in the dumps these days,” she said. “Things are pretty crazy in this country, but when the chips are getting you down

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FRI. FEB. 1 | Math professor and pianist Tom Lehrer crafted catchy melodies and sharp lyrics and is best known for his satirical humor in tunes such as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Vatican Rag” and “Who’s Next,” in which the state of Alabama gets nuclear weapons. This tribute features Sarah Quintana, Ratty Scurvics, Harry Mayronne, Chirs Wecklein and many others. At 7:30 p.m. at AllWays Lounge & Theatre.

Robyn Hitchcock SAT. FEB. 2 | The singer-songwriter and former Soft Boy released his 22nd studio LP in 2017, a self-titled and reliably surreal psychedelic experience from an artist who has experienced many. At 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

DeVotchKa with Neyla Pekarek and you find yourself depressed and you find yourself in a deep dark valley, it’s really, really important to remember that I am coming out with a new album.” Promising a tune from the album “Dina Martina — Mysteries of the Thyroid,” she began a familiar tune — after the repeated plunking of a single note on piano — “Some say love / becomes the rose.” After that six-word version of “The Rose,” she exited. Many of her announced albums have yet to materialize: “Dina Martina — Chariots of Failure,” “Dina Martina — My Eyes Are Down Here,” “Dina Martina — Anthem of a Fur Trader’s Wife,” “Dina Martina — Blunt Force Trauma” and others. Up Records released one album — a holiday album with a song about President’s Day and several original tunes — and a couple singles by Martina. After she emerged from the drag

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MON. FEB. 4 | Given that the band provided musical scores for TV and film, it’s not surprising that DeVotchKa’s sound is described as theatrical. Its August 2018 release “This Night Falls Forever” is mellow indie rock with orchestral flourishes, lilting vocals and charming melodies. Former Lumineer Neyla Pekarek, who just released her solo debut “Rattlesnake,” opens at 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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MON. FEB. 4 | Aging New Orleans goths are thawing themselves from their frozen crypts to worship in the house of Bauhaus, Peter Murphy’s magna carta for a generation of moody post-punk bands wishing they thought of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” first. To celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary, Murphy performs the band’s 1980 debut “In the Flat Field” in its entirety. Desert Mountain Tribe and New Orleans drag performer Vinsantos open at 8 p.m. at Civic Theatre.

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21.52 The number of gun deaths per 100,000 residents in Louisiana in 2017, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

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was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on Spike Lee’s movie “BlacKkKlansman.” The New Orleans-born composer and trumpeter has scored dozens of films, including Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” “Get on the Bus” and “Malcolm X,” as well as “Eve’s Bayou,” “Talk to Me” and the cable series “ChiRaq.” Blanchard has won five Grammy Awards, but this is his first Academy Award nomination. The Oscars will be held in Hollywood Feb. 24.

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Louisiana has the fourth-highest number of per capita gun deaths in the United States, behind Alaska, Montana and Alabama. The total number of Americans killed by guns was up in 2017, increasing from 38,658 to 39,773, according to CDC data.

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donated $5 million to Tulane University to establish the Phyllis M. Taylor Presidential Chair Endowed Fund, which will fund a chair in academic studies. Taylor, a graduate of Tulane Law School, is president of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, which in 2014 contributed $15 million to the university for a center for social innovation and design thinking.

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donated 1,000 hours of community service in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. last week on MLK Day. The employees worked at food banks around the state, as well as at the Martin Luther King March in New Orleans.

penalties in the blemished NFC Championship game,” the New Orleans City Council unanimously agreed to demand the National Football League (NFL) “ignite a thorough review” of its rules and officiating after an unforgettable, unforgivable no-call pass interference that would have set up a first down and a chance for the Saints to run down the clock with fewer than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. In a resolution passed Jan. 24, the City Council said, “It is clear that the New Orleans Saints did not receive fair and equitable treatment by the NFL referees assigned to the NFC Championship game this past Sunday. This egregious lapse in professionalism and integrity has left Saints coaches, players, employees, and fans unable to compete in Super Bowl LIII.” The resolution passed moments before the body honored New Orleans rapper Choppa, whose 2001 hit “Choppa Style” has served as the 2018-2019 Saints’ anthem. The City Council’s resolution demands a review of the NFL’s replay rules for penalties and for the NFL Officiating Department to be subject to an assessment of potential conflicts of interest. A copy of the resolution will be sent to NFL officials, the NFL Players Association, Saints owner Gayle Benson and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — who, at the time of the resolution, had yet to say a word about the controversy. “If we would’ve lost this game fair and square, we would’ve been upset, we all know that, but we wouldn’t be as outraged as we are today,” said City Council Vice President Helena Moreno, who authored the measure. “Mr. Goodell, we are not a little city meek and mild that can be walked all over. We are the Who Dat Nation.” Later that afternoon, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she sent a letter to Goodell on behalf of the city, “expressing our deep dismay, encouraging him to break his silence and step up for what’s right.”

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Council pushes ‘smart housing mix’ ideas Last week, the New Orleans City Council took the latest step to mandate the construction of affordable housing in tandem with new developments. On Jan. 24, the Council unanimously voted to send a three-idea plan for a so-called “smart housing mix” to the New Orleans City Planning Commission, which will draft legislation around the recommendations. The City Council will consider an inclusionary zoning ordinance this spring. The plan calls for the consideration of three types of affordable housing construction. One would establish an inclusionary zoning overlay district where the city has found disparities in affordable and workforce housing; developers seeking a zoning change to permit higher-density development would be required to add a certain number of affordable units. A second proposal would create a citywide mandatory inclusionary base zoning district to require affordable and workforce housing for all developments in areas where those disparities exist. A third option would create a “planned development” classification that allows some flexibility in zoning in exchange for affordable units in certain areas. Housing advocates argue the second “mandatory” option is the only viable plan for creating affordable units. Housing NOLA’s 10-year vision for affordable housing creation in New Orleans argues the need for 33,000 units in the city. Andreanecia Morris, director of the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance, says the exacerbation of the housing crisis with too-few units has likely increased that figure. “What we need in this city is an affirmation of a recognition of this problem,” Morris said. “We say ‘put housing first’ because we need you all to take every opportunity to put housing first … That is about meeting

the needs of the people of this city and making sure they can stay here and contribute.” Representatives from the Homeowners Association and Apartment Association of Greater New Orleans said they don’t necessarily disagree that there is an affordability issue, but a mandate for those units would create a “regulatory burden” and push construction into neighboring parishes, ultimately making housing in New Orleans worse. “If you put restrictions on developers to build market rate housing, the impact you will have is units will not get built,” said Apartment Association president Mark Madderra. Cashauna Hill, director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, said if the city had activated the second option as part of the comprehensive zoning ordinance, the city could have created 1,000 affordable units “in exactly the neighborhoods where people are being displaced.” “Developers can afford to include affordable and workforce housing in their projects,” said Amy Scully, “and they can afford to furnish those units in the same way they furnish market rate. …. The don’t have to do a ‘less than.’ They can do an ‘equal to.’ ”

consent decree instructs NOPD to use appropriate language and pronouns, and prohibits profiling people against orientation or gender identity. A survey isn’t required by the consent decree, but NOPD wants “consistent, frank feedback from communities to ensure we have best-practice policy and are living up to it,” NOPD compliance director Danny Murphy told Gambit. Some members of the city’s LGBTQ+ Task Force, operating under City Hall’s Human Relations Commission, say the survey “missed the mark.” NOPD worked with the task force to craft the questionnaire, which asks for gender identities and sexual orientations, among other questions. But the survey excludes race; task force members argued its results won’t show racial disparities among LGBTQ+ people. Vincenzo Pasquantonio, the commission’s executive director, said the task force wants to continue to work closely with NOPD but is aiming to “ensure we get what we need to protect our people,” he said at a Jan. 22 task force meeting. Roughly 400 people have responded to the LGBTQ+ survey. NOPD also crafted a survey aimed at the city’s Spanish-speaking population.

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Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu appeared last week on MSNBC’s “Hardball With Chris Matthews” to discuss the partial federal shutdown, which at press time was continuing in its second month with no end in sight. “Gen. [Russel] Honore, one of the great generals that helped us ... rescue from [Hurricane] Katrina, he said, ‘Let’s not get stuck on stupid,” Landrieu told Matthews. “And the president, he’s way stuck on stupid right now. There is no mayor in America in his right mind, or her right mind, that would ever think about shutting down the government.” Landrieu went on to outline what he called “a radical proposal”: “Every House member and every Senate member ought to go sit their butts in their seats” and hold a public vote,” he said. “Then if the president wishes to veto it, they can go back and do it again.” “I hope you make a big show of running for president some point,” Matthews told Landrieu.

NOPD wants to hear from LGBTQ+ folks The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) wants the city’s LGBTQ+ population to respond to an online survey, part of its compliance efforts with the U.S. Department of Justice. The federal

Patricia Clarkson has been named the Krewe of Muses’ Honorary Muse for 2019 and will ride in the krewe’s signature shoe float. The Krewe of Orpheus also announced guests, including 2019 monarch Mario Lopez, host of “Extra,” and that Prince’s band New Power Generation will perform at the Orpheuscapade. Clarkson is a returning Honorary Muse. She was honored in 2012 and recently won a Golden Globe Award for her role in HBO’s “Sharp Objects.” She is the daughter of former City Council member Jackie Clarkson. The Krewe of Muses parade is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 on the Uptown route. The Krewe of Orpheus announced details for its parade at 6 p.m. Monday, March 4. Lopez will ride in the parade as monarch. Lopez starred on multiple versions of “Saved by the Bell,” as well as on “NCIS: New Orleans.” Other guests include country music star Trace Adkins. Entertainment at the Orpheuscapade ball at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center also includes performances by Adkins, 610 Stompers, the Victory Belles, Party Crashers and Mixed Nuts. The krewe’s parade theme is “Orpheus Imaginarium.” The Krewe of Bacchus announced that actor Jensen Ackles from “Supernatural” will reign as Bacchus LI. Bacchus parades at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, March 3.

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The race for Jeff Parish president already is heating up JEFFERSON PARISH POLITICS IS NEVER DULL , and the

October primary for parish president promises to be an intra-parish war. Things are heating up already after atlarge Councilmember Cynthia Lee Sheng confirmed she is running. Lee Sheng, the daughter of the late, beloved Sheriff Harry Lee, will officially kick off her campaign on Feb. 12. Her candidacy had been rumored for months. She begins the race an early co-favorite against scandalized incumbent Mike Yenni, who has not yet declared his intentions. Former parish president John Young, who served from 2012 to 2016, also says he will run. I’m told he and A DVO C AT E P H OTO B Y S H AW N F I N K Lee Sheng run virtually even Cynthia Lee Sheng announced her campaign in early polls. for Jefferson Parish president last week. Yenni remains toxic among Jefferson voters more than get’s being cut. It’s about delivering two years after he got caught services and maximizing delivery sexting a 17-year-old high school with taxpayers’ money — and being boy. Proof of his vulnerability came diplomatic in the process.” in last spring’s special election Lee Sheng says she has about for sheriff when frontrunner John $150,000 in her campaign account. Fortunato’s campaign imploded Young served a single term as after he said in a TV debate that he parish president after a stint on would support Yenni for re-electhe parish council. Before that he tion. When asked about running, served as an assistant district attorYenni says voters like his record of ney. He ran for lieutenant governor accomplishment. in 2015, finishing third. In confirming her candidacy, Lee “No one can match the breadth Sheng says she “always wanted to and depth of my experience and be on the operational side” of govmy record of proven and indepenernment. She began her career as dent leadership,” Young told me. “I an agent in the federal Immigration have worked in all branches of local and Naturalization Service (INS), government — judicial, legislative where she worked in enforcement and executive. I came into office as well as management. in the aftermath of the [Aaron] Lee Sheng began her political Broussard scandal and restored career by winning a special election voters’ trust, and I worked with our for the District 5 council seat 10 state and federal delegations to get years ago. In 2015 she won her curmoney to rebuild the parish.” rent council at-large seat. “I have Young adds that Jefferson is loved the council side, but I like “an aging parish” that needs to rolling up my sleeves to work with continue investing in its infrastrucpeople to make things happen,” ture “by doing some transformative Lee Sheng told me. “I love this parprojects. Examples that I initiated ish and I have a record of putting include covering the canal on Canal the parish first. Street in Metairie and making it a “I am able to put people together linear park, which has been a catareally well, and I’m more experilyst for remodeling in that area.” enced on the operational side than Young says he has roughly any other recent parish president. $260,000 in his campaign account. My time with the federal government has served me well. You have With or without Yenni, this race to deliver numbers while your budwill be one to watch.

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The Schoen Funeral Home on Canal Street was renovated into its current Spanish Revival style in the 1930s.

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The Schoen family can trace its roots in the local funeral business to 1874. That’s when Jacob Schoen and his partner Henry Frantz, German immigrants who operated a carriage and livery business, opened a funeral home at 155 N. Peters Street. In 1879, the business moved to Elysian Fields Avenue. In 1898, Schoen bought out Frantz and went into partnership with his son Philip, resulting in the Jacob Schoen and Son company name. Jacob Schoen and Son moved into its current location at 3827 Canal Street in 1936. According to the Preservation Resource Center, the building, which dates to the 1870s,

was originally an ornate woodframe Queen Anne style residence, owned by the Tanneret family. In 1906, it was sold to Mary Ellen Rehm Virgin and Uriah J. Virgin, a well-known local florist. Newspaper ads from the 1920s list the address of his floral nursery as 3827 Canal Street, the same as the residence. In 1931, the Virgins sold the property to National Undertakers Inc., which established a mortuary business on the site. The building

was renovated into the Spanish Revival-style stucco mansion we see today. Another funeral home business, E.J. Ranson & Sons, Inc., purchased the property before selling it to the Schoens in 1936. The business is now run by Patrick Schoen, a member of the family’s fifth generation. In 2016, the funeral home built a 5,000-squarefoot chapel on the property to accommodate Masses and other religious services.

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FEBRUARY MARKS THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY of the opening of New Orleans’

Lakefront Airport. The airport, which was dedicated on February 9, 1934, was originally named Shushan Airport to honor the then-president of the Orleans Parish Levee Board, Abraham Shushan, an ally of Gov. Huey P. Long, who pushed for construction of the airport. The airport’s impressive Art Deco style terminal was designed by the same architects who created Long’s 34-story State Capitol building in Baton Rouge. The 1946 opening of Moisant Field (now Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport) ended Lakefront Airport’s run as the area’s commercial airline hub. A 1960s renovation covered up some of the terminal’s architectural features, including murals by artist Xavier Gonzalez. Most of the murals were restored when the airport underwent $17 million in repairs following Hurricane Katrina, whose storm surge sent more than four feet of water into the building. The airport’s Walnut Room, a venue for dances and private parties, also was restored. The airport is also home to friezes by Enrique Alferez, who also created the Fountain of the Four Winds in front of the building.

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Polymnia Quartet’s “Ode to NOLA” is nominated for Best Chamber Music Performance.

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Co-choreographers Jon Greene and Jarrell Hamilton’s “Stories Without Words” is nominated for Outstanding Choreography (Full Length).

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for performances of dance, opera and classical music in 2018. Winners will be announced at the Tribute to the Classical Arts luncheon Friday, Feb. 22 at the Hotel Monteleone. Two special awards will be presented at the event. Tulane University professor of dance Barbara Hayley will receive a Lifetime Achievement award. Hayley joined the Newcomb Dance Program in 1985 and served as Coordinator of Dance from 1989 to 2006 and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance from 2001 to 2007. She directed the modern dance company New Orleans Dance, and she is a 1999 recipient of the New Orleans Mayor’s Arts Award. The New Orleans Piano Institute, run by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans (MASNO), will receive the Education Award. The institute offers programs for solo performance for various skill levels of students in junior high school through college. It also presents an annual concerto competition and the winner gets an opportunity to perform with the New Orleans Civic Symphony. The Tribute to the Classical Arts luncheon is 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22 at the Hotel Monteleone. The awards are sponsored by Gambit, The Advocate, Anne Burr, Hotel Monteleone, Hall Piano Company and WWNO 89.9 F.M. Tickets are $51. For tickets and information, call Jon Broder at (504) 483-3129.

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KM Dance Project is nominated for Outstanding Dance Ensemble.

Special Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Barbara Hayley Education Award MASNO’s New Orleans Piano Institute

NOMINEES FOR PERFORMANCES IN 2018 Outstanding Dance Presentation (Full Length) “FEAST” Polanco Jones, Jr. Ashe Cultural Arts Center “La Resistance” Melange Dance Company Contemporary Arts Center “It’s All About New Orleans” Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre Jefferson Performing Arts Center Outstanding Dance Presentation (Short) “Raw Fruit” “Southern Crossings” KM Dance Project Contemporary Arts Center “Jitterbug and the Aftermath” Definitive Figures Donna Costello and Jennifer Sargent Catapult

“hymn + them” BODYART Hotel Peter & Paul Outstanding Choreography (Full Length) “Follies of 1915” Kellis McSparrin-Oldenburg Marigny Opera Ballet Marigny Opera House “Voices of Congo Square” Michelle N. Gibson, Lead Choreographer Chief Shaka Zulu and Na’imah Zulu, Producers Orpheum Theater “Stories Without Words” Jarrell Hamilton and Jon Greene Radical Buffoon(s) Fortress of Lushington Outstanding Choreography (Short) “Silk and Smoke” Gretchen Erickson “Jazz Ballets” Marigny Opera House “Tells” Kellis McSparrin-Oldenburg “Jazz Ballets” Marigny Opera House “The Gathering: Calinda of New Orleans” Michelle N. Gibson

“Voices of Congo Square” Orpheum Theater “Relatives” Shannon Stewart Definitive Figures Catapult Outstanding Dance Ensemble Marigny Opera Ballet Dave Hurlbert, Artistic Director KM Dance Project Kesha McKey, Artistic Director Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre Lula Elzy, Artistic Director Melange Dance Company Monica Ordonez, Artistic Director Best Classical Music Performance “From the Big Easy to the Big Apple” Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor Orpheum Theater “Pictures at an Exhibition” LPO Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor Orpheum Theater “Shostakovich Symphony No. 10” LPO Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor Orpheum Theater PAGE 13

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Best New Classical Music Performance “New Orleans Concerto for Orchestra” by Jay Weigel LPO Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor Orpheum Theater

“Antropolis” by Gabriela Ortiz LPO Carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor Orpheum Theater “Giselle Deslondes” by Tucker Fuller New Resonance Chamber Orchestra Francis Scully, Conductor Marigny Opera House “Viva NOLA: Composition in New Orleans at 300” Versipel New Music Marigny Opera House Best Opera Production (Grand Scale) 75th Anniversary Celebration New Orleans Opera Association Robert Lyall, Conductor Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts

“Turandot” New Orleans Opera Association E. Loren Meeker, Director Robert Lyall, Conductor Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts Best Opera Production (Mixed Scale) “Dialogues of the Carmelites” Loyola Opera Theater Cara Consilvio, Director Carol Rausch, Conductor St. George’s Episcopal Church

“Mad Scene” by Marisol Montalvo Broadway @ NOCCA New Orleans Center for Creative Arts “The Old Maid and the Thief” Tulane University Opera Workshop Amy Pfrimmer, Director Dixon Annex Recital Hall, Tulane University “Pygmalion” New Orleans Opera Association Brenna Corner, Director Robert Lyall, Conductor Le Petit Theatre

Best Chamber Music Performance “Baroque and Beyond” Lyrica Baroque Esplanade Studios

“Creation du Monde” Musaica Chamber Ensemble Marigny Opera House “Ode to NOLA” Polymnia Quartet The Music Box Village Sunday Musical Meditation Benjamin Thacher, Kurt Munstedt and Tyler Sieh Marigny Opera House

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BODYART’s inaugural performance “hymn + them” is nominated for Best Dance Presentation (Short).

Best Choral Arts Presentation “Annelies” Symphony Chorus of New Orleans Touro Synagogue

“Approaching Solstice” New Orleans Vocals Arts (NOVA) Chorale Holy Name of Jesus Church Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” LPO & NOVA Masterworks Orpheum Theater “Carmina Burana” LPO and NOVA Masterworks Orpheum Theater

Musaica chamber ensemble’s performance of “Creation du Monde” is nominated for Best Chamber Music Performance.

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“Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4” LPO Ryan McAdams, Conductor Orpheum Theater

“Champion: An Opera in Jazz” New Orleans Opera Association James Robinson, Director George Manahan, Conductor Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts

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Act One: Superdrew One of the most interesting things about these Saints was the way they evolved into different versions of themselves over the course of the season. The first version? That one told a story Saints fans are way too familiar with, but with a fortunate twist. These Saints scored 40 points in their season opener — and lost, 48-40, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Quarterback Drew Brees was brilliant, maybe better than ever. But the defense? Once again, the defense was bad. Over their first five games, the Saints gave up an average of 28 points per game, the sort of number that, in previous years, might have put New Orleans on the road to a 7-9 record. But all along, Brees was lighting NFL defenses on fire. He averaged 331 yards per game, threw 11 touchdowns and no interceptions, completed nearly 80 percent of his passes, and produced a preternatural passer rating of 122.3. He was so good that, even with their struggling defense, the Saints won the four games following their opening loss. And on Monday, Oct. 8, Brees broke Peyton Manning’s career record for passing yards, staking a claim as the greatest passer in football history. During the first chapter of 2018-2019, Breesus became a superhero greater than any in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and kept the Saints rolling while the rest of the team caught up with him and started writing their season’s next chapter.

Act Two: Lucky Bounces

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It takes good fortune to have as much fun as the Saints had this year. Even during chapter one, these Saints experienced it. The only time they scored fewer than 33 points over their first five games was in week two, against the Cleveland Browns, when they won 21-18 and secured the win after Browns kicker Zane Gonzalez missed a game-tying field goal. That exception turned into the rule during the two weeks after the Saints returned from their regular season bye. Against the Baltimore Ravens, the defense squandered a 24-17 lead, nearly ruining a comeback victory, giving up a touchdown with 24 seconds remaining that seemed to ensure overtime. But Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, who had made 222 consecutive extra points, missed his kick, so the Saints won. A week later, the Saints were in danger of falling behind the Minnesota Vikings when linebacker Alex Anzalone and cornerback Marshon Lattimore grabbed a Vikings fumble

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HE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS’ MARCH TO ATLANTA could have ended one of two ways, and so this piece had two possible introductions at first. The first would have reflected the NFC Championship Game win we dreamed about, and the second would have reflected the loss we dreaded. This introduction is neither. If sports is storytelling, then the story of the 2018-2019 Saints ended with a horror movie twist: A demon that Saints fans thought they had exorcised reached out of the grave and dragged the team to hell. That demon? The incompetent, malignant power structure of the National Football League itself. What follows is the story of these Saints divided into chapters, with the epilogue demanded by the events of the NFC Championship Game’s horrible last few minutes.

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Between Nov. 4 and Nov. 22, the Saints evolved into an invincible monster. They trashed the Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons by an average score of 44-19. Their offense was great. Their defense was good. No other team in the league would have had a chance. Few chapters of a sports story are more fun for fans than the ones that go like this. Games turn into parties. As the points stack up, so does good cheer. By the time Drew Brees had thrown his fourth touchdown to dispatch the Falcons on Thanksgiving night, everything was right with the world. This, of course, was when things had to get kind of strange.

Act Four: Dome Patrol 2.0 For the year, the Saints’ offense averaged nearly 32 points per game. Between Nov. 29 and Dec. 17, it was held under 17 per game. The game against the Dallas Cowboys ended with a Brees interception and just 10 New Orleans points on the scoreboard. Against the Carolina Panthers, the Saints scored only 12 points. Things were not good. Except, you know, for the fact the wins still were coming. These Saints won the game in which they only scored 12. Their defense, long the anchor dragging behind the franchise, suddenly became its soul in a role-reversal particularly stunning because of its suddenness. Saints fans are accustomed to being let down by their defense, but this one refused to do that, securing wins when the team needed them to lock down home

New Orleans Saints kicker Wil Lutz, right, kicks for an extra point alongside holder Thomas Morstead (6) in the first half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, in Cincinnati.

field advantage and picking up the slack when the offense kept handing the ball over to punter Thomas Morstead instead of delivering it into the end zone. This Saints defense, allowing just 12 points per game during this chapter, was putting up numbers unseen since 1992, when the Dome Patrol linebacking unit of Rickey Jackson, Vaughan Johnson, Pat Swilling, and Sam Mills terrorized the offenses of the old NFC West. Thanks to the likes of Lattimore, defensive end Cam Jordan, and linebacker Demario Davis, among others, the Saints’ defense led New Orleans into the playoffs.

Epilogue: The Big Easy Burglary, or: That Moment When the Slain But Pitiless Monster Reached Out From the Grave to Drag the Saints and Their Fans to Hell Two referees stood within a few yards of Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis when Los Angeles Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman tackled him well before Brees’ pass arrived. Two referees watched Robey-Coleman commit what he readily admitted was a desperation pass interference penalty to stop a sure Saints touchdown. Neither referee threw a penalty flag, and so they stole from the Saints a chance to run the clock down to a handful of seconds before attempting an easy game-winning field goal. The robbery happened before the eyes of referees, coaches, fans, and television cameras. The Saints, at every level, from the fans to owner Gayle Benson, never will forget what they saw. As of midweek following the game, and despite a letter from Benson that NFL news site Pro Football Talk described as “a knife in the gut administered with a smile on the face,” the National

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Football League has yet to issue any official response. The Saints, at every level, are not surprised. Understand something: Fans remember. Coaches remember. Players remember. Because of the nature of their work, sportswriters and reporters generally respond to events in isolation: Bad calls are part of the game, they happen to everyone, fans should move on. But sports is storytelling, and teams, especially teams as embedded in the culture that surrounds them as the Saints are, don’t respond that way. Saints fans remember what happened in 2012 during the “Bountygate” scandal, when the NFL launched an incompetent investigation into an alleged bounty program. When he vacated the suspensions issued against Saints players by the league office, former commissioner Paul Tagliabue was careful to note that the players, like linebacker Jonathan Vilma, had been “disciplined for ‘talk’ at a team meeting” and “none of the discipline of any player here relates to on-field conduct.” Essentially, Tagliabue confirmed what Saints fans already knew: The NFL had caught New Orleans speeding; it engaged in a campaign PAGE 21

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PORTS, AT ITS BEST, PROVIDES AN ESCAPE FROM EVERYDAY LIFE. For a few hours, fans can forget their personal worries about work and family, about the staggering dysfunction among our political leaders, and about all the things that divide us — money, race, class — and come together for a bit of solidarity and joy before going back to their lives. One team wins; one team loses. Unlike so many things in life, a game has a definite result — and closure. Not last Sunday’s NFC Championship game that pitted the New Orleans Saints against the Los Angeles Rams. We’ll never have closure from that one. January 20, 2019 will go down in New Orleans Saints history, just as surely as Feb. 7, 2010, when the Black and Gold won the Lombardi Trophy. Just as surely as Sept. 25, 2006, when a hurricane-weary city fixed its eyes on the reopening of the Superdome and saw Steve Gleason block that kick against the Atlanta Falcons. Some critics have said the Saints made errors during the last quarter, that there was no guarantee our team

would have won had the Rams defender’s painfully obvious pass interference and head butt drawn a referee’s flag (or better yet, several refs’ flags). But that’s the very point: we’ll never know. Nor will the Rams. Had the Rams won fair and square, it would have been an incredible comeback victory. Instead, Los Angeles goes to the Super Bowl with a giant asterisk behind their NFC championship — and, if the Rams win the big game, there aren’t enough asterisks in the world to qualify their title. Others have called Saints fans sore losers. We reject that categorically. First of all, consider what didn’t happen after the game. No one rioted, no one committed vandalism. Instead, Who Dats just filed out, stunned and trying to process what they’d just witnessed — as did coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees, neither of whom could disguise his shock at an after-game press conference. They nonetheless showed restraint in their comments. On a team of class acts, few are classier than tight end Benjamin Watson and punter Thomas Morstead. Watson issued a statement saying, “Thoughts of what could have been will haunt us for some time. Indeed we had our chances to seize victory but as with any injustice, in life or on the field, systems must be corrected, remedies provided and affected individuals must not let the past inhibit their zeal for the future.” Morstead said, “Obviously the result is not what we all hoped for but that isn’t the focus here. I just wanted to say Thank You to the city of New Orleans and to Saints fans everywhere. The love and support shown year after year is second to none.” Those aren’t the words of sore losers. Nor is fan enthusiasm for a parade honoring the team a “participation trophy,” as some have suggested. Rather, those reactions prove how little our critics know us. We have parades when we’re happy; we have PAGE 19

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parades when we grieve. We have parades just because we feel like it, when we feel the need to gather with our friends and neighbors. The Saints have made it clear the team is looking to the future, so any civic celebration will have to be put together by the people in whatever form they choose. Meanwhile, the National Football League’s (NFL’s) silence on the “no-call” abomination is stunning,

We’ll absorb the emotional and economic impact of this travesty — and we’ll do it in any way we choose. Above all, we’ll be back next season. and must be addressed. The same day the refs blew the call against the Rams, someone seemed to have directed a green laser pointer into the face of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during the AFC Championship game. The NFL immediately launched an investigation, as it should. After the blown call in New Orleans? Radio silence from the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell. NFL senior vice president of officiating Alberto Riveron called Coach Payton immediately after the game to admit the refs “blew the call.” Even Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman, who committed the blatant infractions, knew he had done the wrong thing, telling The Washington Post, “Oh, hell yeah, that was PI [pass interference]. I just know I got there before the ball got there. And I whacked his ass.”

In stark contrast to his silence since the no-call, Goodell wasted no time reacting — overreacting, in our view — to the Saints’ “bountygate” scandal in 2012. He suspended Payton for a year and delivered high-minded lectures about the sanctity of the game, lectures that ring hollow today. Simply put, Goodell is a coward — and a biased one at that. He owes Saints owner Gayle Benson, the Saints and the city of New Orleans an apology and a swift plan of action to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. More important, if Goodell can’t muster the courage to do his job in the face of evidence as clear as this, he should step down — or the owners should fire him. Here at home, the loss isn’t just emotional. It’s financial. Greater New Orleans Inc. President Michael Hecht provided Gambit with 10 years of general fund sales tax figures, which showed that sales tax revenue in 2010 — when the Saints were in the Super Bowl — increased more than 10 percent compared to an average year’s growth of 5 percent. Using those metrics, Hecht figures, had the Saints advanced to the 2019 Super Bowl, New Orleans would have collected more than $11 million in additional sales tax. That doesn’t count hotel/motel taxes and increased state sales and income taxes. All that said, New Orleans is moving on. We’ll absorb the emotional and economic impact of this travesty — and we’ll do it in any way we choose. Above all, we’ll be back next season. Yes we’ll move on. But we’ll never forget.

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THESE 2018 HIT MOVIES HELP US UNDERSTAND THE SAINTS IF SPORTS ARE STORYTELLING, ONE WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE STORY IS TO COMPARE IT TO OTHER STORIES. Take the movies, since the Oscars are approaching. Which 2018 movies can help us more fully appreciate the story of the 2018 Saints?

Alvin Kamara is ‘Black Panther’ The year’s biggest blockbuster was also maybe the most critically acclaimed films in the Marvel cinematic universe. Carried by the beauty of the African cultures it celebrates, “Panther” retained the zoom-bam-boom comic book movie wildness of its Marvel Cinematic Universe peers but added a surprising dose of heart. Sounds like Kamara, the mercurial, fascinating, acrobatic running back whose number 41 jersey is so pervasive among Saints fans that it’s a blockbuster in itself.

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Drew Brees is ‘Mission Impossible: Fallout’

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When the first entry in the “Mission: Impossible” series was released, star Tom Cruise was in his early 30s, in the prime of his career. It was absolutely unsurprising that he would headline an action franchise about a superspy. More than two decades later, Cruise is 56, approaching the time many other actors start taking roles as grandpas, and yet here he is, with “Fallout,” the franchise’s sixth entry, which has received almost universal acclaim. Now, imagine the “Mission Impossible” movies are the New Orleans Saints, Fallout’s 97 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes is a league-leading passer rating and Tom Cruise is Drew Brees. I nailed that one, right?

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Tom Cruise in ‘Mission:Impossible — Fallout.’ He’s no Drew Brees. But close.

Taysom Hill is ‘A Star Is Born’ The latest remake of “A Star Is Born” is a big melodrama that carries a boatload of noise and hype and which, at its Lady Gaga-centered best, is fun and riveting. It’s also probably not that good in the end, even if it does win you a game or two with a well-timed blocked punt or faked punt or bone-rattling short yardage run — wait, what was I talking about here?

Let’s say great post-Dome Patrol linebacker play is the surface of the moon. That makes Demario Davis the Saints equivalent of Neil Armstrong.

Sean Payton is ‘Vice’ A mastermind who doesn’t care what people think of him. An aggressive, reckless man who might shoot a friend in the face or call a fake punt from his own 30-yard line in a playoff game. A guy who definitely seems to think he’s the smartest one in the room, and often is right. The way they dressed Christian Bale up as former Vice President Dick Cheney, the way Bale moves, gestures, speaks in the role — you know, I could see him wearing a visor, standing behind a podium, upsetting a Philadelphia reporter. Bale as Payton. Fast-track that movie into production. Call it “Ambush.” You know you’d watch it; you couldn’t look away.

The NFL is ‘Bird Box’ In “Bird Box” — spoiler alert — mysterious creatures cause people to kill themselves immediately after they see the creatures. As a result, survivors live blindfolded and afraid. The easy thing here would be to say the referees who screwed up the Saints’ second Super Bowl shot are wearing the blindfolds, but really it’s the National Football League that wants us, scared and unseeing, to turn away from the stupid stuff it does so it can move on to its next big event. Saints fans are tired of the blindfolds.

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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in ‘A Star is Born’ — a title that could just as well apply to Taysom Hill.

Michael Thomas is ‘A Quiet Place’ Receiver Michael Thomas used to tag his tweets #shhhh. His approach was to beat his opponents with silence. In “A Quiet Place,” that’s how humans survive — with silence, hiding from the creatures that hunt them by tracking their sounds. But somewhere in here, probably about the time Thomas pulled a flip phone out from under a Superdome goal post a la 2003 Joe Horn, Thomas switched from the role of silent human to marauding monster. It’s more likely to find him trouncing a trash-talking opponent, while talking some trash himself, than it is to see him living up to his old hashtag. #shhh indeed.

Teddy Bridgewater is ‘You Were Never Really Here’ I’ll be real with you: I haven’t seen this movie and don’t know a whole lot about it. But consider its title and consider that — assuming backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater signs a big free agent deal elsewhere during the offseason — we could apply the title to his Saints tenure. He threw some meaningless passes in the season finale, sure, but his biggest contribution has been his locker room dance moves. Was Teddy ever really here?

against the Saints to make the world see the speeding as homicide; and it administered capital punishment. Already accustomed to the NFL’s unjust tactics, their relationship to the sport forever altered by “Bountygate,” Saints fans on Jan. 20 flashed right back to 2012 when the supposed expert officiating crew failed to administer league rules on the Superdome field. They knew what to expect next. Yes, bad calls are a part of sports, and yes, sports teams can play well enough to overcome those bad calls. But few such screw-ups so clearly make the difference between victory and defeat, and so few bad calls rise to the level of injustice. Rather than confront the issue, the NFL, its power structure still headed by the same Roger Goodell who made such an unnecessary mess in 2012, among other self-made scandals, predictably chose to ignore the situation as long as possible, relying on its shield of access reporters to re-contextualize an injustice as a silly mistake. That

A billboard outside of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome gives commentary on Sunday’s NFC Championship game between the New Orleans Saints and the Los Angeles Rams in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019.

way, the league could make its latest attack on New Orleans a footnote rather than a real part of the story. Powerless once again, the Saints — players, coaches, fans — an only control what they do next. And on that score, who knows. This may have been these Saints’ last best chance at Super Bowl glory. Only one thing is certain: What happened in the Superdome will settle into that hardened layer of our emotional makeup that New Orleanians have developed in recent years, thanks to events both on and off the field of its beloved football team. It’s not something we’ll forget, and it’s not something we can accept as an isolated event. It’s part of our story now, and it will shade every new chapter. We only can hope what comes next offers the catharsis we need.

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Pete Spadoni, aka Dat Gawdfather, shows off his Saints Super Bowl ring as he is filmed for a Boycott Bowl video on Canal Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

STILL SALTY? US TOO. But we all need closure. Here are some places you can gather with the Black and Gold and do anything but watch Super Bowl LIIIE. • THE BOYCOTT BOWL may be the closest thing we get to a municipal parade. Come gather Feb. 3 at a central downtown location that will be announced very shortly and join Choppa, Shamarr Allen and the Underdogs, Partners N Crime and the Big EZ Band, the Vettes and others. Don’t be surprised if city officials show up — and maybe a Saint or two? Tickets are $10 (or more if you feel like it) and revenues benefit the New Orleans Recreation Department. • THE ANTI-LIE BOWL PARTY (which bills itself as “petty af”) gets underway at Dat Dog on Magazine Street at 11 a.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, with games and drink specials. The 2010 Super Bowl will be replayed at 11:30 a.m., and a Choppa-style dance-off will be held at 1 p.m. King Cake Hub will be selling king cake by the slice. Organizers ask everyone to bring nonperishables for Second Harvest Food Bank. • MID-CITY LANES ROCK ‘N’ BOWL will host ”The Anti-Goodell Protest Bowl” starting at 3 p.m., and John Blancher and company will be showing — you guessed it — the 2010 Super Bowl. Bag Of Donuts, The Mixed Nuts, Dr. Rock, Tin Star and Abdul D. Tentmaker will provide music. $10 admission.

• SPORTS HUB TRACEY’S ORIGINAL IRISH CHANNEL BAR will show the 2010 Super Bowl, as well as ... the Puppy Bowl. (Oh, the shade.) “Working on crawfish, too,” says the bar. • VAUGHAN’S LOUNGE in Bywater, normally a hub for Saints games, has announced it will not show what the bar calls the “Stupid Bowl.” There’s more delicious, delicious salt on the event’s Facebook page. • THE CROWN & ANCHOR PUB in Algiers also will be showing the good Super Bowl (2010) and not this year’s fake one. It’s a potluck. • LA CASITA TAQUERIA will not show the 2019 Super Bowl, but will “celebrate the Saints with happy hour prices all day.” No doubt there will be many other places not to watch the not-so-big game. Alternatively, you could curl up at home with the Puppy Bowl, or a book, or just Netflix and chill. There are plenty of ways to be salty.

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“Datadors” Cindy Wood, center, owner of Vaughan’s Lounge, and Carol Kolinchak, left, stand in the back of a truck nicknamed “Bianca” preparing to watch the Saints game last month.

Full boil

Justine time JUSTINE , (225 Chartres St., 504-

218-8533; www.justinenola.com), the French Quarter restaurant from Justin Devillier and Mia FreibergerDevillier, opened Jan. 25. The restaurant opened inside the May & Ellis apartment building, formerly the Hurwitz Mintz furniture store. The restaurant was designed by local firm Farouki Farouki and modeled after a French brasserie. The couple also own La Petite Grocery (4238 Magazine St., 504891-3377; www.lapetitegrocery. com) and Balise (640 Carondelet

James Clesi’s Mid-City restaurant serves boiled crawfish and more BY H E L EN F REUN D @helenfreund FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS,

the scent of boiling crawfish has perfumed air near the corner of Banks and South Alexander streets in Mid-City in early spring. Neighbors know those first wafts of citrus and spice mean only one thing: James Clesi is boiling. Clesi has built a local following among boiled crawfish aficionados, first from bringing his custom rig to bars and later to more fixed spots next to Banks Street Bar and Tulane Avenue cocktail hub Treo. Designs for his standalone shop had been in the works for a while, and late last summer, Clesi and siblings Sonya DiCarlo and Carlo Clesi opened a restaurant and bar on the corner of Bienville and North Alexander streets, blocks from his former spot on Banks Street. James’ seafood boils are the main focus, which pack in a hefty but not overpowering level of spice. Crawfish arrive glistening and juicy, and addons include spicy potatoes and quarter-ears of buttery corn on the cob. The restaurant is open year-round, so when crawfish season ends the operation focuses on Louisiana blue crabs. Louisiana shrimp are available most of the year. The rest of the menu is a mix of seafood shack and bar fare and tailgating fodder. Fried broccoli florets are served with tangy remoulade, and fried boudin links are accompanied by Creole mustard. Thick cheeseburgers are served with crinkle-cut fries. Other hallmarks of Clesi’s cooking are here as well. His jambalaya alone is worth the trip. It’s studded with sausage rounds and available

WHERE

4323 Bienville St., (504) 909-0108; www. clesicatering.com

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Mia Freiberger-Devillier and Justin Devillier have opened Justine, their new French brasserie at 225 Chartres St.

on its own or heaped over fries with a cap of melted cheddar cheese. The whopping fried seafood platter arrives on a half sheet-tray loaded with thick-cut strips of catfish, fried oysters, lightly battered and fried head-on shrimp, remoulade and a light and snappy cocktail sauce. There is seating indoors and out, and construction continues on the space. A screened-in boiling setup will allow guests to watch Clesi work. The restaurant is a welcome addition to Mid-City in more ways than one. This is a neighborhood joint that is as welcoming to families with children as it is to bar regulars. On warmer days, a spacious wooden deck with

WHEN

HOW MUCH

lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun.

moderate

WHAT WORKS

boiled crawfish, fried boudin, jambalaya

P H OTO B Y C H ERY L G ER B ER

Carlo Clesi (left), Sonya DiCarlo and James Clesi serve boiled crawfish, an andouille po-boy and fried oyster and mirliton “tacos” at Clesi’s Restaurant & Catering.

plenty of seating underneath hanging pendant lights creates the illusion of an endless spring — a special time in New Orleans when all diners really need is a pound or two of spicy boiled crawfish, a couple of beers and the company of friends or family. Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

WHAT DOESN’T

limited seating inside

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family-friendly Mid-City restaurant specializes in boiled seafood

St., 504-459-4449; www.balisenola. com). For Justine, they were inspired by New Orleans’ ties to France and spent two years researching French cuisine and Parisian restaurant culture to create a brasserie feel, according to a release. The 200-seat restaurant has multiple dining rooms, including a cafe, a bar and an outdoor dining area, which features an absinthe decanter-inspired fountain. The menu highlights classic French fare with dishes like onion soup topped with melted Gruyere and Emmenthal cheese and dish of raclette cheese melted over potatoes with Parisian ham and cornichons. The beef-heavy menu is a nod to the French boucherie, and spiced beef rib pays homage to Moroccan influences on Parisian cuisine. Daily specials include dishes like coq au vin, bouillabaisse, prime rib and king crab. Bar director Jesse Carr, who has helmed the bar programs at Devillier’s other restaurants, has created a French-inspired program featuring

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spirits like eau-de-vie, Armagnacs, cognacs and French brandies. Cocktails include classic and signature drinks, such as the Calvadoserac, made with absinthe, and the Silent Fizz, a twist on the Chartreuse fizz. The restaurant’s wine list features French bottlings, with an emphasis on lesser-known regions and winemakers. Justine serves dinner 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily and late-night from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Lunch service eventually will be added. — HELEN FREUND

Cuban outpost QUE PASTA , a new Cuban-inspired

food concept, is now occupying the kitchen at Mid-City bar Twelve Mile Limit (500 S. Telemachus St., 504488-8114; www.twelvemilelimit.com). Que Pasta founders Amanda Alard and Zahara Dimassi’s menu combines handmade pastas and a Cuban-themed dishes. Alard and Dimassi moved to New Orleans from Florida. Alard grew up in Miami and Dimassi hails from St. Petersburg. The two met while working in New Orleans and bonded over

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Que Pasta, a new Cuban-themed food concept, has taken over the kitchen at Mid-City bar Twelve Mile Limit.

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their love of Cuban food. At Twelve Mile Limit, they serve empanadas, croquetas, citrus-marinated roasted meats and handmade pastas. Before landing at the bar, the duo held pop-ups at Carrollton Market, where they served dishes such as smoked chicken empanadas, stewed oxtail with yuca puree, and cilantro pasta topped with braised pork shoulder. The Mid-City bar, which owner T. Cole Newton opened in 2010, has built a following for its casual, stickto-your ribs brunch menus and free food on Mondays, both of which will now feature Que Pasta dishes. New brunch items could include churro waffles with fried chicken, Cuban coffee chia seed pudding and guava or picadillo pastelitos. Que Pasta will serve brunch Saturdays and Sundays and dinner daily with late-night options on weekends. — HELEN FREUND

3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Kelly Mayhew AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED IN IRAQ during his third tour of

duty with the U.S. Army, Kelly Mayhew decided he needed a change of pace and enrolled in culinary school. Now, the veteran runs Mayhew Bakery (131 Nursery Ave., 843-814-3020; www. facebook.com/mayhewbakery), a small business with a walk-up window in Old Metairie. Mayhew spoke with Gambit about baking.

What got you interested in baking? MAYHEW: I was in the infantry when I got shot in Iraq and I spent some time in the hospital. When I got out, I went to culinary school at The Art Institute of Charleston (South Carolina). My grandparents started the first Krispy Kreme franchise, so I grew up around baking and I worked at some really good restaurants in Charleston, not as a baker but as a sous chef. I moved to New Orleans to be the sous chef at Brennan’s when it reopened. Since I had a baking background, Ralph (Brennan) made me the corporate baker for the restaurant. Then I opened my own little bakery about three years ago. My first year and a half I was selling at the (Crescent City) Farmers Market and that’s what built the bakery. That’s what enabled us to buy all of the equipment. I was doing a market out of my house one day and I met the owner of the building where we are now. There was a cake decorator in (the space) and they were leaving, so they offered it to me right there. It’s in Old Metairie, kind of behind Nor-Joe (Imports). We sell out of a window like a snowball stand because of the residential zoning. We were just wholesale, and about six months ago (Jefferson Parish) gave me the permit to sell retail.

What do you specialize in and where can people find your products? M: We do a lot of sourdough breads and we also do pastries, scones, cookies, biscotti, all sorts of goodies, and king cakes during

king cake season. We create our own menu. The night before we create the menu, it’s like, “What did we get from the farmers market that we can cook?” For king cakes, the icing is white chocolate poured fondant — it’s good white chocolate, vanilla and honey and I can’t tell you what the bread is made of because it’s my secret. But it’s soft and we do different fillings. We do a cream cheese filling that we bake in, which makes it more decadent. We do a traditional (style) and we do a fruit and cream cheese with fruit we get from the market, whether it’s strawberries or whatever is available. I also do the galette des rois with puff pastry and frangipane. Every day I open, lines get bigger and bigger. Today, we made 20 more than we ever have and I sold out in two hours, so it’s getting busier. I do (wholesale) accounts for Three B’s (Burger & Wine Bar), Piece of Meat, Carrollton Market, Red Gravy, Andy’s Bistro, Conola (Grill & Sushi) and Marjie’s Grill when they do specials.

What draws you to baking over other types of cooking? M: I just like it better. I really like doing baguettes and some harder (artisan) breads. It’s not easy. I think it’s more of a challenge than hot-line cooking, because I can fix anything on the line, quickly. But if I mess up bread — when I figure out that I’ve messed it up, it’s six hours later and it’s too late. So, it’s more of a challenge, but in a fun way. — 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. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. D Wed-Sun, late Wed-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

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. $$

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; www.kebabnola.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D WedMon, late Fri-Sat. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 947-8787 — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. $

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

B — breakfast L — lunch D — dinner late — late 24H — 24 hours

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11 to $20 $$$ — $21 or more

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. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$

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. $

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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. $$

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www. bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D Mon-Sat. $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola. com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-2022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ PAGE 27

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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) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — No reservations. B, L and D Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Cupcake Fairies — 2511 Bayou Road, (504) 333-9356; www.cupcakefairies.com — B and L Tue-Sat. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Fullblast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800 — No reservations. Brunch ThuMon. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. L, D, late daily. $ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St.,

Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria.com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ St. James Cheese Company — 5004 Prytania St., (504) 899-4737; www.stjamescheese.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L daily, early D Thu-Sat. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Reservations accepted. D Mon-Sat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Bourbon House (144 Bourbon St., 504-522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com) serves seafood, Creole dishes and a large selection of bourbon and American whiskies.

(504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat. $$ 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) 8948881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D MonThu, brunch Sun. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave.,

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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 MonSat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. L, D Tue-Sun. $$

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El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ St. James Cheese Company — 641 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 304-1485; www. stjamescheese.com — See Uptown section for restaurant description. Delivery available. No reservations. L Mon-Sat, early D Thu-Sat., brunch Sun. $ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. D Tue-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www.desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www. specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook.com/ tavolinolounge — Reservations accepted for large parties. D daily. $$

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Monkey Hill Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Agent 86, 7; Slow Coyote, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jesse Trippe & the NightBreed, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — DJ Soul Sister presents Soulful Takeover, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 The Standard — Philip Melancon, 8 The Starlight — Shaye Cohn and Dr. Michael White, 5; Michael Watson & the Alchemy, 8; Valerie Sassyfras, 10 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5:30; Esther Rose, 9

SATURDAY 2 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Cha Wa, 9; Soul Sister, 11 BMC — Orphans of Storyville, noon; Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 3; Retrospex, 6; Vance Orange, 9; Creole Funk, 11:59 Bamboula — Sabertooth Swing, 11; Swinging Gypsies, 2:30; Smoky Greenwell, 7; Crawdaddy T’s Cajun/Zydeco Review, 11:30 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Red Hot Brass Band, 11; Ukelele School of New Orleans, 4; Marc Stone, 6; Soul O’Sam with Sam Price, 9

Circle Bar — Dick Deluxe, 5; The O-Pines, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Betty Shirley Band, 10 Gasa Gasa — Robyn Hitchcock, 10 House of Blues — Geovane Santos (Restaurant & Bar), noon; Baby Boy Bartels and the Boys (duo), 3:30; Sevendust, 6; Pet Fangs (The Parish), 8; Baby Boy Bartels and the Boys (band), 7; Three Rivers Trio (Foundation Room), 7; Matt Scott, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — Big Sam’s Crescent City Connection, 8:30 The Maison — MainLine, 10 Monkey Hill Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Rob Duquette, 7; Crazy Whisky, 8; Elisa Sun, 11 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jason Marsalis & BGQ Exploration, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Misled, Tomb of Nick Cage, A Hanging, Jak Locke, Lucy Fears Goats, Dustin Cole and the Deadmen, 6; Fighting for Frequency, 7 The Starlight — Glenn Hartman, 5 Gal Holiday, 7; Siren Series with Liz DeVito and Alex Bosworth, 10 Lauren Stefanski, 11 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Russell Welch, 6; Shotgun jazz band, 9

SUNDAY 3 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Ben Step, 9 BMC — Dickerson & Darvill, noon; Hub Cap Kings, 3; Alicia Renee aka Blue Eyes, 7; Moments of Truth, 10 Bamboula — Eh La Bas Ensemble, 11; NOLA Ragweeds Jazz, 2; Carl leBlanc, 6:30; Ed Willis Blues 4 Sale, 10 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Some Like It Hot, 11; Pfirst Sunday Pfister Sisters, 3; Steve Pistorius Quartet, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Kelcy Mae & Ever More Nest, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & friends and Blind Texas Marlin, 7; Champagne Girl, Aunt Vicki, 9:30 House of Blues — Jason Bishop, 6 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Old Point Bar — Romy Kay, Jeanne Marie Harris, 7 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Josh Paxton solo piano, 9 & 10 The Starlight — Dile Que Nola (Latin night), 7; Gabrielle Cavassa Sessions, 10 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Clementines, 8

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BY ALEX WOODWARD ON 2018’S “COLOR THE WEATHER,” James Prudhomme brings his expansive sonic world back to its beginnings, a nostalgia for the sounds that shaped him, viewed from thousands of miles away. The album, named after a children’s coloring competition on Baton Rouge’s WAFB-TV, follows his acclaimed string of electronic releases as Suicideyear. It’s his most personal and vulnerable project yet — 808 drum snaps echo into infinity and ripple into an ambient hiss, short piano riffs try to grip the stark beats around them, lush keyboards emulate familiar pop phrases pulled into the black hole in which he’s standing. He thrives on that tension and release, on sweeping gestures he rips away to reveal the melancholy underneath, never settling for the nostalgia he invokes but drawn to the comfort inside. Prudhomme grew up under the influence of Louisiana’s subterranean rap scenes, bubbles of oil-slicked production from Lil Boosie, Trill Entertainment and producer Mouse On Tha Track thriving outside the ruling houses of Cash Money and No Limit records in New Orleans. As P H OTO B YN I C K V ERNE T a teenager, he studied Lex Luger beats on YouTube and competed in Champion Sound beat battles, tried to fit in with “shitty” hardcore bands and immersed himself in the gauzy mid-2000s bedroom pop that flooded the internet in its blog heyday, primed for his prolific and self-described “shut-in” status glued to social media music scenes in the early 2010s, wrapped up on the couch with headphones and FL Studio. When his house in Baton Rouge burned down in 2013, he stayed up all night making beats in his parents’ trailer. He did production for Little Pain, Lil Ugly Mane and Yung Lean and was picked up by Oneohtrix Point Never for his Software label (for 2014’s “Remembrance”) and by LuckyMe (for 2017’s “Hate Songs”). He moved to New Orleans in 2015, connecting missing links in the city’s revived underground dance culture — no bottle service, no barriers, a virtual DIY space not because it’s cheap but because it’s human, performing on the floor and surrounded by both the crowd and the live-mixed video collages moving to the sounds at his fingers. Slug Christ, Blu Shakur, Freedoom, BlaaqInfamy and Pussyrot also perform at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at Banks Street Bar, 4401 Banks St., (504) 486-0258; www.facebook.com/banksbar. Tickets $10.

Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bamboula — St. Louis Slim, noon; BannBau’s Hot 4l G & the Swinging Gypsies, 6:30; Les Getrez N Creole Cooking, 10 Bombay Club — David Boeddinghaus, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene DeLay, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Papa Mali, 8 Circle Bar — Dem Roach Boyz, 7; Gene Black & friends, 9:30 Civic Theatre — Peter Murphy: 40 Years of Bauhaus featuring David J, 8

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 House of Blues — Sean Riley (Restaurant & Bar), 6; Like a Storm (The Parish), 7 The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Westley Horner, 9; Andrew Benham, 10 One Eyed Jacks — DeVotchKa with Neyla Pekarek, 9; Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10

Southport Hall — Flaw, Farewell to Fear and The Absence Project, 7 The Starlight — Joe Krown, 5:30; Shindig with Allison McConell and Ted Hefko, 8:30; Keith Burnstein and Amanda Walker, 9:30 Three Muses — Bart Ramsey, 5; Joe Cabral, 8

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — The

organist’s Organ & Labyrinth performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock. www.albinas. org. Free admission. 6 p.m. Tuesday. “Angels in Flight”. St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1545 State St. — Musaica Chamber Ensemble presents a concert of celestial music including “Angels in Flight” by Marjan Mozetich and “Piano Quartet” in A major by Brahms. $10-$20. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Also, Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, University of New Orleans, Lakefront Campus. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Jazz and Pop Harp Concert. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — The performance includes Robbin Gordon Cartier, Patrice Fisher, Luke Brechtelsbauer, Rebecca Babin and Cassie Watson. www.jplibrary.net. Free admission. 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Music at Midday. Tulane University, Rogers Memorial Chapel, 1229 Broadway St. — The Newcomb Department of Music presents violinist Zorica Dimova. Noon. Free admission. 12 p.m. Wednesday. Opera On Tap. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St. — New Orleans Opera presents local and regional vocalists singing opera, Broadway tunes and previews “The Abduction from the Seraglio.” www.newolreansopera.org. 6 p.m. Wednesday. Sung Chang. Dragon’s Den, 435 Esplanade Ave. — The Korean-born 2018 silver medalist of the New Orleans International Piano Competition plays Bach, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Liszt. www.masno.org. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Save Our Sponge Concert. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — Woodlands Conservancy marks World Wetlands Day work to preserve forested wetlands with a silent auction and performances by Tom McDermott and Joe Krown. www.eventbrite.com, Tickets $30-$125. 7 p.m. Thursday.

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TUESDAY 29 Bayou St. John Walking Tour. The Pitot House, 1440 Moss St. — The tour of one of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhoods includes Pitot House, a mile walk around the Bayou St. John neighborhood, also known as the Faubourg Pontchartrain, and a visit to St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 on Esplanade Avenue. www.louisianalandmarks.org. Tickets $30. 1 p.m.. Digital Expo. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — The expo explains the library’s free digital content, a

growing, internet-based multimedia collection that complements the library’s physical collection, including eBooks, audiobooks, music, movies, magazines and comics delivered directly to a patron’s device. www. jplibrary.net. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. Sheriff’s Community Meeting. Dillard University, Professional Science Building, 2601 Gentilly Blvd. — Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman and Compliance Director Darnley Hodge discuss events, accomplishments, challenges and jail operations of the fourth quarter of 2018. The meeting includes a question-and-answer period. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 30 “Eyes on the Prize”. Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave. — The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of Repairers of the Breach and national co-chair of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign leads the discussion as part of Conversations in Color. Reservations required. www.eventbrite.com. 6 p.m. #MPowered Parade. Jax Brewery, 600 Decatur St. — “Love & Hip Hop” creator Mona Scott-Young leads a parade with Greatest Show on Earth, Treme SideWalk Steppers, Versatile Ladies of style, Zulu Tramps, Big 6 Band and more through the French Quarter on Decatur, Canal and Royal streets. 6 p.m. LPO Musicians Lunch Series. Red’s Chinese, 3048 St. Claude Ave. — Patrons can meet musicians while dining together at the series at local restaurants. www.lpomusic.com. Tickets $50. 12:30 p.m. Mia X Remix Wednesdays. Overflow Market & Cafe, 432 N. Galvez St. — Rapper and chef Mia X hosts cooking classes on health-conscious versions of favorite recipes. www. facebook.com Free admission. 11 a.m.

THURSDAY 31 Singing For Spenser: A Benefit to Support Spencer Bohren’s Cancer Recovery.

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FILMMAKER ARTHUR BRESSAN JR. made everything from documentaries about abused children (“Abuse”) and Anita Bryant and the conservative backlash against the LGBT rights movement (“Gay USA”) to erotic films about gay characters (“Forbidden Letters”). Bressan also made the first commercially released drama involving AIDS (“Buddies”), which premiered September 1985, days before President Ronald Reagan said the word “AIDS” in public for the first time. In “Buddies,” David (David Schachter) becomes a “buddy,” or volunteer friend, to Robert (Geoff Edholm), a gay activist who is dying of complications from AIDS, and a real friendship develops as Robert’s health wanes. Opens Friday at Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com.

Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave. — The benefit concert features Anders Osborne, George Porter Jr., Raw Oyster Cult, Johnny Vidacovich, Tommy Malone, Darcy Malone, Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers and more. Tickets $25-$30. 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 1 Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park. — There’s music, movies, kids’ activities and more, including the Arts and Letters Series with Edmund White in conversation with Thomas Beller. www.noma.org. 5 p.m. Starlight Racing. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The evening of racing includes music and danc-

ing to The Mixed Nuts in the clubhouse (7 p.m.) and John Guidroz in the beer garden (6 p.m.). www.fgno.com/tickets. Tickets $5-$10. 5 p.m. Friday. Starry Night. New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — The benefit for the Waldorf School features a performance by Nicholas Payton, food, live and silent auctions and more. www. waldorfnola.org. Tickets $25-$350. 7 p.m. Vince Vance & The Valiants: New Orleans Mardi Gras Legends. Harrah’s New Orleans, The Theatre , 8 Canal St. — Harrah’s presents the entertainer’s 39th birthday party with Rockin’ Dopsie, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Lisa Layne and The Topcats. www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets $28-$63. 8 p.m. PAGE 40

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SATURDAY 2 BrickUniverse LEGO Fan Expo. Pontchartrain Convention & Civic Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner — The LEGO fan experience includes hands-on attractions and activities to educate and entertain. www.brickuniverse.com/neworleans. Admission $15-$18. 10 a.m., also Sunday. Foster Social. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. — Pets in the foster program will be in attendance as counselors answer questions about fostering and the animals. www.la-spca.org. 10 a.m. Kids in the Kitchen. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — Soft pretzels and cheesy sauce are on the menu for this course for young chefs ages 7-11. www.natfab.org. Tickets $20-$25. 10 a.m. Mandeville Releaf Tree Giveway. Mandeville Trailhead, 675 Lafitte St., Mandeville — Mandeville’s Parks and Parkways Commission distributes free seedlings on Arbor Day. LSU AgCenter county agents will answer questions, with focus on wildlife and fruiting trees. www.cityofmandeville.com. 9 a.m. Pet Adoption. Clearview Mall, 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie — There are counselors and pets at the event, and a bake sale to benefit the Special Needs Fund. www.la-spca.org. 10 a.m. Youth Service Days. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. — Kids ages 7-12 can participate in age-specific tours, work with animals and more. Register at www. la-spca.org/youthserviceday. $25. 10 a.m.

MONDAY 4 Creole Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature. St. Tammany Parish Library, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell — The RELIC program is presented in conjunction with the Endowment for the Humanities to explore issues related to Creoles. Books provided. www.sttammanylibrary.org. 6 p.m.

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Ace Hotel, 3 Keys, 600 Carondelet St. — The author discusses and signs “We Cast A Shadow” with music and an interview by editor Victory Matsui. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Marian D. Moore. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St. — The poet signs and discusses “Louisiana Midrash.” www.octaviabooks. com 6 p.m. Tuesday. Latrina R. Graves McCarty. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1601 Westbank Expwy., Harvey — The author signs and discusses “Olivia’s Journey.” www.barnesandnoble. com. 1 p.m. Saturday. David Lee Campbell. Christ Episcopal Church, 120 S. New Hampshire St., Covington — The poet presents his work from “Nature All Around Us — 50 Years of Life with Creatures and Native Plants in Louisiana.” www.northshoreliterarysociety.com $10. 2 p.m. Sunday. Anthony J. Rockweiler Sr. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — The author discusses “The Power of Life — Tragedy to Triumph” about rebuilding his life after a debilitating accident. www. jplibrary.net. 7 p.m. Monday.

SPORTS New Orleans Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Dave Dixon Drive — The Pelicans face the Denver Nuggets at 7 p.m. Wednesday and the Indiana Pacers at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4.

FILM Some national chains do not announce their opening weekend lineups in time for Gambit’s print deadline. This is a partial list of films running in the New Orleans area this weekend.

OPENINGS “Buddies” — This 1985 drama follows a gay man in New York City who becomes a volunteer friend to a man dying of AIDS. Chalmette Movies. “Burning” — Director Chang-dong Lee’s drama focuses on a young man who bumps into an old friend who gets involved with a mysterious suitor (Steven Yeun). Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. “Genesis 2.0” — The documentary profiles tusk hunters who find a woolly mammoth carcass they plan on using to resurrect the extinct species. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. “Miss Bala” (PG-13) — Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”) stars as a woman who is drawn into a world of crime to save her family. Anthony Mackie co-stars. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, The Grand 16 Slidell.

NOW SHOWING “Antarctica: On the Edge 3D” — The documentary has the first-ever 3-D footage of the ever-changing, ice-covered continent. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “Aquaman” (PG-13) — Arthur Curry learns his true calling is under the sea as the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis in this DC Comics superhero movie starring Jason Momoa and Amber Heard. Chalmette Movies. “At Eternity’s Gate” (PG-13) — Willem Dafoe stars as painter Vincent van Gogh in this biographical drama from director Julian Schnabel. Chalmette Movies. “Escape Room” (PG-13) — A group of strangers must find a way out of an escape room in this horror movie. Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine and Taylor Russell star. Chalmette Movies. “The Favourite” (R) — In early 18th century England, an ill Queen Anne depends on a friend, whose new attendant, Abigail, sees an opportunity for herself. Broad Theater. “Glass” (PG-13) — The worlds of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s “Unbreakable” and “Split” collide in this mystery about humans with supernatural abilities. James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson star. Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies. “If Beale Street Could Talk” (R) — Writer-director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s novel about a pregnant woman fighting for her fiance’s innocence. Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies. “The Kid Who Would Be King” (PG) — A kid discovers he could be the heir to Excalibur in this family-friendly fantasy from writer-director Joe Cornish. AMC El-

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Beth Malone BY WILL COVIELLO ACTRESS AND SINGER BETH MALONE starred as an angel in a 2018 Broadway production of “Angels in America,” and she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her role in the debut of “Fun Home,” comic artist Alison Bechdel’s biopic musical about discovering her sexuality and her relationship with her father. Malone also produced her own autobiographical show about growing up in the rural Midwest and coming out as a lesbian. In this cabaret show, she’s accompanied on piano and interviewed by Seth Rudetsky, director of Broadway at NOCCA. 7:30 p.m. Thursday at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. 2800 Chartres St. Tickets $50-$100, call (800) 838-3006; www.broadwaynola.com.

mwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies. “Oceans — Our Blue Planet 3D” — This BBC Earth film transports audiences to the depths of the globe’s waters. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “The Upside” (PG-13) — Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston star in this remake of the 2011 French film “The Intouchables,” in which a wealthy quadriplegic man hires an assistant with a criminal record. Chalmette Movies. “Vice” (R) — Christian Bale and Steve Carell star in the biopic of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Broad Theater.

SPECIAL SHOWINGS “12 Angry Men” — Henry Fonda stars in director Sidney Lumet’s 1957 drama about a jury holdout that forces his colleagues to reconsider the evidence in a trial. At 10 a.m. Sunday and Wednesday at Prytania Theatre. “Closeup: Tank & the Bangas” — The new documentary profiles the New Orleans-based band and its mix of funk, soul, hip-hop and more. Followed by a Q&A with the band and film director Charlie Steiner. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tuesday, screening at 7:30 p.m. at Freda Lupin Memorial Hall at NOCCA. Free for New Orleans Film Society members, $10 for general admission. “How to Train Your Dragon” (PG) — A young viking becomes the unlikely friends of a dragon in this 2010 cartoon featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel and Gerard Butler. At 3 p.m. Saturday at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “I Want to Eat Your Pancreas” — The dramatic animated movie features a girl who finds a fellow high student’s journal that contains entries about her battle with pancreatic disease. At 7 p.m. Thursday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20. “Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration” — The star-studded concert special celebrated the birthday of iconic singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Featuring performances from Norah Jones, Brandi Carlile and Kris Kristofferson. At 7 p.m. Thursday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, Regal Covington Stadium 14.

“MetLive: Carmen” — Clementine Margaine stars in the title role of Bizet’s opera, conducted by Louis Langrée. At 11:55 a.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20; 11:55 a.m. Saturday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cinebarre Canal Place 9; 11:55 a.m. Saturday at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Oklahoma!” — Cowboys and farmers try to find love in the Rodgers and Hammerstien musical from 1955. At 12:45 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday at The Grand 16 Slidell. “Shoplifters” — In Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film, a family bonds around petty theft and scams. Broad Theater. “What Men Want” (R) — Taraji P. Henson stars as a sports agent who starts to hear men’s inner thoughts. Tracy Morgan and Kellan Lutz co-star. At 7 p.m. Wednesday at AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX.

ON STAGE “Bad Girls of Burlesque.” House of Blues, The Parish, 225 Decatur St. — The show features femme fatale and bad-girl themes. 8 p.m. Saturday. Beth Malone. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, 2800 Chartres St — The Broadway star of “Angels in America” and Tony nominee for 2016’s “Fun Home” sings, accompanied on piano by Seth Rudetsky. www.broadwaynola.com. Tickets $50-$100. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. “The Color Purple.” Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell — The adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel tells the story of Miss Celie and the experience of African-Americans in the South in the early part of the 20th century. www. cuttingedgetheater.com. Tickets $25-$35. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. “Creme de la Dregs.” Cafe Instanbul, 2372 St Claude Ave. — Dina Martina presents musical cabaret show with song, dance, costumes and video. www.dworldnola. com. Tickets $30-$40. 8 p.m. Saturday. Dr. Sketchy’s Date Night. Mudlark Public Theatre, 1200 Port St. — Burlesque danc-

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ers give short performances and pose for life drawing. Suggested donation $8. 10 p.m. Saturday. “An Evening Without Tom Lehrer.” The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — The musical cabaret tribute to satirist Tom Lehrer features Sarah Quintana, Ratty Scurvics, Harry Mayronne, Chris Wecklein, Stoo Odom, Madame d’Cammelteau (Michael Martin) with Miles Hendler, Honey Tangerine, Kathleen Halm, Rochelle the Comic, Neal Todten and host Reecy Pontiff. Tickets $15-$25. 7 p.m. Friday. “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St — Ricky Graham plays all members of the D’Ysquith family in the musical comedy about Monty, who learns that not only is he part of a wealthy family, but he’s eighth in line to become the Earl of Highhurst. Tickets $15-$55. 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. “Landscape with Figures.” Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St. — Writer, director and producer Andrew Ondrejcak presents a surrealist work with 20 performers and artisans blending theater, dance, installation art, painting and literature. www.cacno.org. Tickets $25-$30. 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday. “Next To Normal.” Playmakers, Inc., 19106 Playmakers Road, Covington — Playmakers of Covington presents the musical exploreing how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. www. playmakersinc.com. Tickets $15-$30. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. “Shear Madness.” Teatro Wego!, 177 Sala Ave — Jefferson Performing Arts Society reprises the audience-participation comedic murder mystery whodunit set in a salon. www.jpas.org. Tickets $20-$35. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. “Single Black Female.” Carver Theater, 2101 Orleans Ave. — Soulful Productions presents a two-woman show of comic vignettes that explore the lives of an English literature professor and an attorney as they search for love, clothes and dignity. www. carvertheater.com. Tickets $20-$30. 7 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday. “Stockholm Syndrome.” Little Gem Saloon, 445 S. Rampart St. — The NOLA Project stages the premiere of an immersive musical comedy in which the employees and patrons of Jimmy’s All-American Beefsteak Place find themselves in the midst of a hostage crisis. www.nolaproject.com. Tickets $35. 8 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday. Trixie Minx’s Burgundy Burlesque. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Room, 931 Canal St. — The show includes burlesque, live jazz and a comic host. www.trixieminx.com. Tickets $25. 9 p.m. Friday. Trixie Minx’s Burlesque Ballroom. The Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta, 300 Bourbon St. — The modern twist on a classic burlesque show features live music in an immersive speakeasy environment with Trixie Minx co-staring with a rotating cast of guests and Romy Kaye and the Mercy Buckets. www.sonesta.com/jazzplayhouse. Tickets $20. 11 p.m. Friday. “Valentine Revue.” One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St — Fleur De Tease’s Matchmaker host will introduce aerialists, variety performers and burlesque dancers. www. fleurdetease.com. Tickets $20-$35. 8 p.m. Saturday. “The Wolves.” Southern Rep Theatre, 2541 Bayou Road — As a soccer team of

nine young women gears up for battle each week, their individual stories emerge, creating a portrait of adolescent fear and fury. www.southernrep.com. Tickets $25$40. 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St. — Laura Sanders and Kate Mason host an open-mic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m. Show at 9 p.m. Monday. Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Close Me Out. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Local storytellers recount inebriated adventures. Andrew Healan hosts. 8 p.m. Saturday. 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, 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, 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. — The 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 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 Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — Young Funny comedians present the stand-up comedy show and open mic. 8 p.m. Tuesday. TNM Mainstage. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — Improv comedy groups perform. 8 p.m. Saturday 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. Show at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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PREVIEW ‘Landscape with Figures’ BY WILL COVIELLO ANDREW ONDREJCAK’S “LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES” is a performance piece inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1559 painting of the same name. The image captures the bustle of activity in the center of a village, and its characters illustrate Dutch proverbs through their chores and distractions. The performance features the stories of 20 characters, some of them mundane and others more poignant, but each inspired by part of the painting. Born in Mississippi, Ondrejcak studied fashion and architecture and became interested in alternative theater. This production incorporates a slate of his interests. Costumes were constructed locally from handmade textiles and pieces acquired from around the world through the United Nations’ Ethical Fashion Initiative, which Ondrejcak also sees as emphasizing commonality of the creators and their communities. Ondrejcak and five other writers created the 20 characters’ stories. The work also features an original score. Tickets $25-$30. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday at Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org.

AUDITIONS Auditions for “Me and My Girl” and “Mamma Mia!” Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St — Directors Peter Webb and Ricky Graham and choreographer Adam Gilbert are looking for dancers (including tappers), singers, actors and character actors, ages 16 and older. For information and to signup, visit www.rivertowntheaters.com. Musical Theater Audition Workshop. Dillard University, Samuel DuBois Cook Theatre, 2601 Gentilly Blvd. — Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane, the New Orleans Theatre Network and Dillard University offer age-specific workshops for tryouts. Ages 15 and up Feb. 2; ages 8-14 and ages 15 and up Feb. 9. www.syummerlyric.tulane.edu. Free admission. 10 a.m. Saturday. “Rollin’ on the River.” Conservatory Studio, Jefferson Performing Arts Society, 5005 Bloomfield St., Elmwood — The Leading Ladies Guild of Jefferson Performing Arts Society are looking for performers, vocalists, musicians and dancers for their annual Follies production slated for June. www.jpas.org. Tickets $25. Wednesday.

ART HAPPENINGS Champagne & Art Tours. The Jung Hotel & Residences, 1500 Canal St. — Free Champagne accompanies a weekly tour of the hotel’s commissioned artworks. 5 p.m. Friday Julia Street Art Walk. Julia Street, 300 to 600 blocks — Warehouse District galleries hold show opening receptions on the first Saturday of every month. 6 p.m. Saturday Role of Journalism. Xavier University,

Library Resource Center, 1 Drexel Drive — A panel discussion features Shearon Roberts, Renette Dejoie-Hall and Anitra Brown in conjunction with Xavier’s exhibit “Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865,” developed by the Historic New Orleans Collection. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Teacher Night. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St. — A free evening for area educators in conjunction with Ogden After Hours includes a guided tour, an art activity, lesson plans, resources and ideas to incorporate art into curricula. Registration required. www.ogdenmuseum.org. 6 p.m. Friday

OPENINGS Ariodante Gallery, 535 Julia St. — The group exhibition features work by artist Duane Spencer, jeweler Brandi Couvillon, craftsman Kim Kreppin, lagniappe artist John Duplantis, through Feb. 28; opening reception, 6 p.m. Saturday. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St. — “Familiar Cast,” an exhibition of works by Ryan Leitner, features disparate materials and techniques, through March 1; opening reception, 2 p.m. Saturday. Claire Elizabeth Gallery, 131 Decatur St. — “Gleam” features works by Dan Tague, Logan Ledford, Jennifer Gibbs and Carlee Arnold, and looks at contemporary art through the lens of currency and tones of gold and green, through March 18; opening reception, 6 p.m. Saturday. LeMieux Galleries, 332 Julia St. — This “Introducing” exhibition of eight new artists features Pippin Frisbie-Calder, Miro Hoffmann, Kathryn Keller, Bernard Mattox, Andrew Catanese, Jason Lott, Tobin Karicher and Eva Maier, through Feb. 23; opening reception, 6 p.m. Saturday. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bam-

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REVIEW ‘NO/JXN’ D. ERIC BOOKHARDT WHEN AND WHERE IS RANDOMNESS NOT REALLY RANDOM? One answer might be modern Jackson, Mississippi. This quirky expo suggests that times have changed in a place once associated with fading Southern belles and aging politicians spouting platitudes steeped in molasses and cigar smoke. Those days are long gone. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba won by a landslide in 2017 on a platform of making Jackson “the most radical city on the planet.” Today, Jackson’s new homegrown radical chic amounts to a kind of cultural grab bag of most anything that isn’t mint juleps or whistling Dixie, as we see in this “NO/JXN” exhibition curated by Doyle Gertjejansen. At first, these works seem to have little in common, but look again and a distinctly Jacksonian sensibility emerges — a kind of stream-of-consciousness visual sensibility articulated in international, or maybe intergalactic, riffs of aesthetic nihilism, a tendency epitomized in Allan Innman’s paintings. Innman’s “Hell Hounds” (pictured) is emblematic. A series of glossy jade-green Asian hell-realm figures set against infernal waves of fire and elongated red tubes of something like confectionery dragon’s blood, “Hell Hounds” suggests an Asian pop vision of fire and brimstone catering to a doomsday cult of severely depressed Japanese art collectors. Its overall oddness is perfectly complemented by a series of Ellen Rodgers’ photos of science fiction-inflected bondage scenes paired with views of suggestive rock formations. But the king of randomness here is Ke Francis, whose sculptural assemblages look like something blown in by an ironic gust of wind, but whose etchings and woodcut prints display a manic precision that radiates a distinctly unhinged charisma. Compared to these artists, Gertjejensen, in paintings that evoke the parallels between brush strokes and tornadoes, comes across like the straight man in a Monty Python movie. Charles Carraway’s minimal views of blank walls punctuated by windows flooded with the luminosity of mystically bland landscapes suggests something a painterly Brian Eno might have done — “Music for Airports” transformed into fragments of sublime ordinariness. Through Feb. 2 at Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.barristersgallery.com.

boo Road — This “Give While You Live” exhibition showcases artists who received Rosenwald Fund grants, through July 28; opening Feb. 1. The Pauline Street Garden & Sweet Shop Gallery, 1124 Pauline St. — “It’s All Love: A Valentine Exhibition”; gala opening, 5 p.m. Friday. Gallery 600 Julia, 600 Julia St. — “Revelry” features paintings by Cheryl Anne Grace of quirky New Orleans celebrations, through Feb. 28; opening reception, 6 p.m. Saturday.

MUSEUMS 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. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St. — “Rites, Rituals and Revelry: The History of Mardi Gras in New Orleans,” a special themed tour, through March 1. 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, Baroness Micaela Pontalba, through October. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere751 Chartres St., — “It’s Carnival Time in

Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; “Living With Hurricanes — Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts, 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. 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, though March 17. 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. Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St. “New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City” explores diverse influences, cultures and musicians coexisting across history, through Aug. 4.

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The annual return of CommCare Corporation, a non-profit corporation, for the twelve months ending June 30, 2018 is available for inspection during normal business hours at the address noted below by any citizen who so requests within 180 days after publication of this notice. CommCare Corporation, 950 West Causeway Approach, Mandeville, LA 70471. The principal manager John A. Stassi II, President, Telephone (504) 324-8950. The annual return of CommCare Avoyelles, a non-profit corporation, for the twelve months ending June 30, 2018 is available for inspection during normal business hours at the address noted below by any citizen who so requests within 180 days after publication of this notice. CommCare Avoyelles, 950 West Causeway Approach, Mandeville, LA 70471. The principal manager John A. Stassi II, President, Telephone (504) 324-8950. The annual return of CommCare Tangipahoa, a non-profit corporation, for the twelve months ending June 30, 2018 is available for inspection during normal business hours at the address noted below by any citizen who so requests within 180 days after publication of this notice. CommCare Tangipahoa, 950 West Causeway Approach, Mandeville, LA 70471. The principal manager John A. Stassi II, President, Telephone (504) 324-8950.

Weekly Tails

2401 Prytania - 3bd/3ba .................... $3700 1140 Decatur #3 - 1bd/1ba ................. $2300 4220 Jena - 1bd/1ba ........................... $1475 4025 S Derbigny St - 2bd/1ba ........... $950

CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS! All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, NOTICE: familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718.

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT CBD RETAIL/GALLERY SHARE SPACE/In CBD

Prime retail/gallery share space in highly visible location less than 1/3 block to FQ, across from historic hotel. Half of space occupied by long time local retailer. Other half becoming vacant over next 30-45 days. Looking for one or more compatible tenants to fill in space. Call 401-996-1524 for location/details.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT

Upper in fourplex. High ceilings, hardwood floors central a/c heat $1200. Call Henry 504-296-3343.

FOR SALE SMALL SPACE CALL 483-3100

Cristina’s

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OTTER

Kennel #40605625

Otter is 3-year-old, DMH female cat. She is full of a

Upgraded Irish Channel cottage with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths & a large office loft. High Ceilings, wood floors and a cute rear yard in an excellent Irish Channel location. $439,000

Two (2) separate renovated cottages on a large 48 x 127 Lot in an excellent Marigny location. Main house is a 2 bedroom camelback and 2nd cottage is a 2 bedroom rental. Off street parking for several cars and room for a pool in the rear. $829,900

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playful attitude and loves to make new friends. True to her namesake, Otter is ready to mate for life with her perfect pet parent.

Residential & Commercial Licensed & Bonded

To meet these or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun., call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

504-232-5554 504-831-0606

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

Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 35 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, L.L.C. REGARDING APPLICATION FOR A CHANGE IN ELECTRIC AND GAS RATES PURSUANT TO COUNCIL RESOLUTION R-15-194 AND R-17-504 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, L.L.C. (“ENO”) WILL HOST PUBLIC MEETINGS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND ANSWER QUESTIONS SURROUNDING ENO’S APPLICATION FOR A CHANGE IN ELECTRIC AND GAS RATES PURSUANT TO COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS R-15-194 AND R-17-504 (“2018 RATE CASE”). ENO FILED THE 2018 RATE CASE ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 WITH THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (“COUNCIL”). THE 2018 RATE CASE INCLUDES ENO’S REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN ELECTRIC AND GAS SERVICE RATES AND NEW/REVISED RATE SCHEDULES. THE COMPANY PROPOSES TO REDUCE THE OVERALL ELECTRIC REVENUE REQUIREMENT BY APPROXIMATELY $20 MILLION. THE COMPANY ALSO PROPOSES TO REDUCE THE OVERALL GAS REVENUE REQUIREMENT BY APPROXIMATELY $142,000. ENO WILL ADDRESS VARIOUS TOPICS RELATED TO THE RATE CASE. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE MEETING. THE PUBLIC MEETINGS WILL BE HELD FROM 6:00 P.M. UNTIL 7:30 P.M. (REGISTRATION 5:45-6PM) AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: • Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 Rosa B. Keller Broadmoor Library 4300 South Broad Street New Orleans, LA 70125

• Monday, Feb. 4, 2019 NORD Algiers Cutoff Recreation Center 6600 Belgrade Street New Orleans, LA 70114

• Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 New Orleans Mid City Library 4140 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70119

• Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. NORD Andrew Pete Sanchez Center 1616 Caffin Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117

• Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 Corpus Christi Epiphany Community Resource Center 2022 St. Bernard Avenue, Bldg. C (Cafeteria) New Orleans, LA 70116

• Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 NORD Stallings Recreation Center 4300 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117

• Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center 1225 N. Rampart Street New Orleans, LA 70116

• Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. East New Orleans Regional Library 5641 Read Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70127

EMPLOYMENT / REAL ESTATE

FAUBOURG 2 BDRM APT

sits to be leashed and loves going for walks and sightseeing. He is a smart boy, although a bit of a goof. He appears to be house trained, knows the command “sit,” enjoys playing tag, getting back scratches and being with people.

High-quality new construction with an open floor plan, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, high ceilings and the energy efficiency that only New Construction can offer. Incredible value at $ 264,000

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 921 RACE ST Unit #C - 3bd/2ba ...... $3750

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Kennel #40272503

2460 BURGUNDY STREET

2340 Dauphine Street (504) 944-3605

1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

Charlie Day is a 5-year-old male Boxer mix. He

3021 ANNUNCIATION ST.

propertymanagement@dbsir.com

1 & 2 bedrooms available in ideal location and ROOMS BY THE MONTH with PRIVATE BATH. All utilities included monthly. Call 504-202-0381 for appointment.

CHARLIE DAY

4519 NEW ORLEANS ST.

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The annual return of CommCare Louisiana, a non-profit corporation, for the twelve months ending June 30, 2018 is available for inspection during normal business hours at the address noted below by any citizen who so requests within 180 days after publication of this notice. CommCare Louisiana, 950 West Causeway Approach, Mandeville, LA 70471. The principal manager John A. Stassi II, President, Telephone (504) 324-8950.

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