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Sebadoh FRI. JUNE 14 | Sebadoh hit the 1990s alt-rock scene with albums including 1991’s “Sebadoh III” and 1994’s “Bakesale.” The band is back with its first studio album in six years, “Act Surprised,” with hints of shoegaze and an agitated approach to the new millennium, as on “Raging River.” Waveless opens at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Standup comic and “Gentefied” star Felipe Esparza performs at Joy Theater BY WILL COVIELLO FELIPE ESPARZA WAS A FRESH FACE

to many when he won NBC’s 2010 “Last Comic Standing” competition. It wasn’t overnight success. He’d been doing open-mic standup comedy since 1994, when he was fresh out of drug rehabilitation and a father working two jobs, including food service at Los Angeles Dodgers games. What kept him going? “They give you a little taste every once in a while,” Esparza says from his home in Southern California. “They never let you have the whole steak.” Every few years he landed a spot on a TV show, including an English language comedy special broadcast by the Spanish-language Galavision network and a subsequent tour that also featured Gabriel Iglesias, Mike Robles and others. A performance at the Montreal Comedy Festival in 2005 enabled him to sign an agent. Now a cleaner-living vegan, Esparza is preparing to tape his third hourlong comedy special in August and will star in Netflix’s fall series “Gentefied,” a bilingual comedy about three Mexican-American cousins. He performs standup at The Joy Theater Saturday, June 15. In his 2017 HBO special “Translate This,” Esparza talks about growing up with his family in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 5 when he and a few siblings, including a brother wearing girl’s clothes to match a fake passport, finally succeeded in crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. As the oldest child and best English speaker in the family, he became the translator. He filled out government forms for his parents and accompanied them on doctor visits. “The doctor said, ‘Tell your father he has back spasms.’ ” he says on the video. “I never heard that word in English or Spanish. … So I translated like I saw white people do. I just added an “O” to every word. “Papi, you have backo spasm-o.” The family was poor, so his parents took the kids to McDonald’s one at a

THU. JUNE 13 | Parodying pop hits provides an endless stream of new material, but “Weird Al” Yankovic has made his own mark, winning Grammy awards (some in comedy categories) and having an album debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. For this tour, he’s backed by an orchestra and backup singers. At 8 p.m. at Saenger Theatre.

“Much Ado About Nothing” FRI.-SUN. JUNE 14-30 | The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane University opens its season with the Bard’s comedy about rumors and intrigue, in which Benedick, a lord in Padua, and Beatrice each are told the other harbors a secret love for them. At 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Tulane University’s Lupin Theater.

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time, which Esparza describes like a jailbreak scene in which he was careful not to wake up siblings in order to escape unnoticed — and he wolfed down food to avoid sharing when they returned. His every-man-for-himself attitude endured into parenthood. “My kids wake me up and say, ‘We’re late for school,’ ” Esparza says. “I said, ‘No. You’re late for school. That’s your problem.’ … When was the last time we all pitched in for gas?” His current “Bad Hambre” tour features all new material, though some of it also is about his family, drug use and couples getting married versus living together, he says. Esparza also relates jokes about interfamily jealousies to the classic Smothers Brothers bit about which child their parents liked more. While growing up in Los Angeles, Esparza listened to old comedy bits by the Smothers Brothers and Abbott and Costello on the “Dr. Demento” radio show. He also listened to Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor records and Eddie Murphy cassette tapes.

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FRI.-SUN. JUNE 14-30 | Jefferson Performing Arts Society ran a popular production of the comic whodunit set in a hair salon at its theater in Westwego. A cast including Janet Shea, Casey Groves, John Detty is back for a run that opens Friday and runs through June 30. At 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Le Petit Theatre.

Louisiana Bicycle Festival SAT. JUNE 15 | There are art bikes, vintage bikes, a bicycle parade, a ride, bike accessory and food vendors and more at the annual festival in Abita Springs. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Level Street.

A Kingdom, A Car Wash His new medium is podcasting, and he’s a frequent guest on Joe Rogan and other comedians’ podcasts. Since 2014, Esparza has produced “What’s Up Fool?” a weekly podcast in which he interviews comedians and people he meets who he finds interesting, such as a Midwesterner who made his way to Los Angeles and spends his days walking around Hollywood dressed as the Incredible Hulk. Also on Esparza’s schedule this year is doing his first comedy set in Spanish.

SUN. JUNE 16 | As a fundraiser for a tour of its abstract theatrical piece, “A Kingdom, A Chasm,” Vagabond Inventions presents photo exhibits, a junk garden, a kiddie pool, performances by Jenny Sargent, dance artist Shannon Stewart, Owen Ever, Khiry Armstead, Lisa Shattuck, Adam Tourek and others. Performances are 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the AllWays Lounge & Theatre. Car washes by formally attired performers are available 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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ees into the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame. Bush, a Heisman Trophy winner, played five seasons for the Black and Gold, while Colston led the Saints in receptions in five separate years and holds many franchise records. The induction is Oct. 25.

Yashar Ali, a freelance journalist who organized an online campaign to help rebuild the three historically black Louisiana churches that were targeted by an arsonist, raised a total of $2.6 million for the effort. St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, both in Opelousas, each received a check for $866,000 from the fundraiser, which went viral due to Ali’s efforts.

U.S. Reps. Mike Johnson and Clay Higgins both voted

“no” on a federal disaster bill that passed the House of Representatives last week — a bill that also contained an extension of the National Flood Insurance Program through Sept. 30. The bill passed, so their votes were mainly symbolic, but there’s little doubt that Johnson and Higgins would want to avail their districts of federal disaster aid in response to floods that are currently threatening much of Louisiana. Even worse, U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, who is running for governor, skipped the vote altogether.

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THE DOCTOR HAS LEFT US MALCOLM JOHN REBENNACK JR., BETTER KNOWN AS DR. JOHN , initially aspired to be a professional songwriter, producer, session musician and sideman, like the utilitarian New Orleanians who forged his creative worldview in the 1950s. He wanted to work behind the scenes, not out front. But after assuming the persona of Dr. John the Night Tripper in the late 1960s, Rebennack was behind the scenes no more. His idiosyncratic style and sound — the gravelly growl, the sly, deceptively leisurely phrasing, the hipster patois, the hybrid Big Easy piano — embodied both New Orleans and its music. Rebennack, an icon of the city who remained an active creative force and a voice for his hometown until he abruptly disappeared from public view 18 months ago, died June 6 of a heart attack after years of declining health, a family member confirmed. He was 77. He was a prominent member of the pantheon of New Orleans piano legends, part of a direct lineage that included Fats Domino, Huey “Piano” Smith, Allen Toussaint and Art Neville. His band, the Lower 9-11, especially when powered by the late drummer Herman Ernest, trafficked in stone-cold New Orleans funk. In 2011, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Leon Russell and ’60s girl group singer Darlene Love. He joined fellow New Orleanians Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint, Lloyd Price, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair, Louis Armstrong and Mahalia Jackson in rock’s official shrine. PAGE 8

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Dr. John’s last public appearance was in November 2017, on the stoop of Fats Domino’s old house in the Lower 9th Ward at the conclusion of a memorial parade in honor of the recently departed Domino, a friend and inspiration. He reportedly spent the past year and a half living quietly on the Northshore, even as his team maintained his Twitter account with a steady stream of vintage photos, footage and milestones. “What goes around slides around, and what slides around slips around,” Rebennack said in 2011, just before his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. “As long as it’s slippin’ and slidin’ around, we ain’t got to trip through the shortcuts of life. We can take the long way around. It’s the shortcuts that kill you. “The best thing you can be ‘like’ in music is yourself.” — This is an abbreviated version of the obituary written by Keith Spera. To read the entire story, visit www.theneworleansadvocate.com.

House passes medical marijuana law that allows for ‘inhaling’ pot — but not smoking it The Louisiana House last week voted 82-0 to allow medical marijuana patients to inhale cannabis, sending the bill to the governor’s desk for final approval. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, does not allow smoking, but patients can inhale medical marijuana through a device similar to an asthma inhaler. Present law permits patients to consume medical marijuana through edibles, oils and extracts. The bill initially stalled in the Senate as lawmakers sought to expand the number of licenses to prescribe medical cannabis, but legislators revived the measure after including “metered-dose inhaler” in the definition of acceptable devices. James also added an amendment to allow doctors who live outside the state to suggest therapeutic medical marijuana treatment. The current law only permits in-state physicians to recommend medical cannabis usage. In order to legally receive medical marijuana, patients must have “debilitating medical conditions,” such as cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, intractable pain and/or HIV. No medical cannabis has been delivered to patients yet because of an ongoing feud between the state’s agriculture commissioner, Mike Strain, and the LSU AgCenter

over growing methods. Therapeutic marijuana is expected to be available later this year. — HUNTER LOVELL | LSU MANSHIP SCHOOL NEWS SERVICE

Constitutional amendment outlawing right to abortion headed to 2020 ballot House and Senate lawmakers passed several more abortion-related bills last week, less than a week after Louisiana’s governor signed the strict “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban into law. This legislative session, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have proposed and lobbied anti-abortion laws. Both chambers approved the bid for a constitutional amendment, which was sponsored by Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe. This measure potentially would amend Louisiana’s constitution to say that it does not protect the legal right to have an abortion or to secure public funding for the procedure. The House voted 78-21 on the measure, sending it to the Senate, which approved it with a 33-5 vote. It is now up to Louisiana voters to decide. Jackson’s constitutional amendment will be placed on the statewide ballot for the 2020 presidential election, held in November. This was changed from the original proposal, which would have scheduled the amendment for this year’s October gubernatorial primary. — HUNTER LOVELL | LSU MANSHIP SCHOOL NEWS SERVICE

City announces late fee amnesty program through Labor Day New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced last week the start of a three-month late fee forgiveness program aimed at encouraging residents who owe the city money to settle their debts at a reduced amount through Sept. 3. The program applies to parking and camera tickets, sales and hotel and motel taxes, code enforcement violations and library fines. Money owed can be paid online, by phone or in person, depending on the type of fee or fine. Those who pay parking fines and camera tickets during the allotted time won’t have to pay any late fees. In addition, individuals who owe the city money won’t get their vehicles booted while parking around town during the amnesty period. Those with library fines up to $100 can return their overdue items with all late fees waived — but only once.

Code enforcement violations upon correction may be reduced by $100 per violation. Business owners also stand to benefit from the program with reduced interest on outstanding sales, hotel/motel, parking and other select taxes and permits — without penalty. “Whatever circumstances they’ve found themselves in and they owe the city, this is an opportunity to hit reset,” Cantrell said. The program would save residents money on fines and the city money on hiring a collection agency to track down unpaid tickets, fees and fines. According to the city’s website, the Cantrell administration anticipates the “recovery of millions of dollars of unpaid back taxes and fees” — based on studies in other cities. “What we’ve seen is it does bring in some much needed cash flow while at the same time just eliminating or alleviating that burden that’s carried by your residents and by your business owners,” Cantrell said. Cantrell said the program originally was only going to involve waiving late fees for parking tickets, but that her administration pushed for a more “comprehensive” approach “to meet our residents truly where they are.” — KAYLEE POCHE

‘Leah’s Circle’? An online petition advocates for Chase memorial An online petition to erect a memorial to the late chef Leah Chase at Lee Circle — and to rename it “Leah’s Circle” — received more than 3,000 signatures in less than 24 hours after it was posted last week. The petition was created by Brent Rosen, President and CEO of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum (SoFAB), and says SoFAB would cover the costs of creation and installation. “We have an empty space at Lee’s Circle in New Orleans,” the petition reads. “There is no better New Orleanian to honor at the circle than Leah Chase. We should honor Mrs. Chase and her legacy by making it ‘Leah Chase’s Circle.’ A statue of Leah Chase would bring all New Orleanians together in honor of one of our greatest culture bearers.” At a City Council meeting that day, council Vice President Jason Williams said he could get on board with that. Online, others suggested a memorial to Chase would more properly be located in her Treme neighborhood. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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Leah Chase’s impact on New Orleans to that of Louis Armstrong. In her 96 years with us, from her days growing up one of 13 children in Madisonville to her crowning as the Queen of Creole cuisine, her accomplishments stretched far beyond the kitchen at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant into the realms of civil rights, neighborhood improvement, entrepreneurship, the arts and much more. (For more about her remarkable life, read the reprint of our 2012 cover story on p. 31.) Because Armstrong left New Orleans (for good reasons) early in his career, we knew him mostly from concerts, records, TV appearances and movies. Not so for “Ms. Leah.” New Orleanians knew her because she was a constant presence in our lives — at her wonderful restaurant and all over town in her baseball cap and chef’s jacket. And always with a smile on her face. Chase was lauded after her death by dozens of luminaries, including former President Barack Obama, but some of the best memories we read were from Gambit readers: “One of the last times that I saw her was at Dorignac’s grocery. She was with her daughter Stella looking for fresh white asparagus to make a soup. She had to resort to the can variety. As we all walked to aisle two, she told me how she was going to prepare it.” — Deb Kohler “A few years ago at the voting precinct in the 7th Ward, I was waiting to vote. She was beside me in a wheelchair. At first, I didn’t realize it was her until we started to chat about the importance of voting. I left

feeling ecstatic that I had just voted with Leah Chase.” — Jennifer Batiste “Such a loss. I was always humbled when Mrs. Leah would bring the food to my table during my many lunches there. She was always so kind, with friendly conversation. She would remember that I taught and would always ask about my students.” — Adele Clark Cadard “I met her back when I was in high school. She came for our career day. She was so sweet to us. I remember she talked to me about how much she loved cooking and to find something you have a passion about doing.” — Rodney Tapp Sr. “She was a very close friend of ‘Momma Deedy,’ the late Mrs. Dolores T. Aaron. Momma Deedy said that Mrs. Chase brought food to her house every day as she became elderly and was unable to cook for herself.” — Pedronia Elice Burrell-Turner ”I met her on Holy Thursday 2017. Dooky (Chase’s husband) had died just a few months prior and I’d lost my husband barely a month previously. She and I spoke of great loss and life after that loss and what we needed to continue in spite of that loss.” — Michele Darce Lyman “I came in late to a dinner one night and the kitchen was closed. She pulled me into the kitchen and fed me.” — Wendy Chisholm “She fed me.” What greater tribute could there be? For 70 years, she fed us all — with her gumbo, with her kindness, with her wit, and with her deep spirit. We will not see her like again. Rest well, Ms. Leah.

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Our annual post-session assessment of the legislative carnage lists the victors and the vanquished THE 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION DEFIED EARLY PREDICTIONS that it

would be devoid of controversy (as most election-year sessions tend to be). Lawmakers debated plenty of hot-button issues — minimum wage, abortion, marijuana, the death penalty and more. Ultimately, this session ended much like any other — the final frenzied minutes left some victorious and others vanquished. Which brings us to our annual assessment of the legislative carnage: Da Winnas & Da Loozas, starting with …

DA WINNAS 1. Gov. John Bel Edwards — The guv convinced lawmakers to approve his proposed teacher pay raise and additional discretionary funding for local school boards (a tall order in the GOP-dominated House). He also brokered Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s deal with the hospitality industry. Those victories help constituencies crucial to his re-election bid in October. The governor also cemented his pro-life bona fides by signing strict anti-abortion measures. While that displeases liberal Democrats, it removes an oft-used GOP attack trope. Edwards’ legislative allies also killed House GOP attempts to phase out last year’s hard-won sales tax compromise. 2. Public school teachers and school boards — Teachers got a $1,000 pay hike ($500 for support personnel) and school boards got $39 million more in discretionary funding. Most important, the increases are permanent, not one-offs. 3. Uber and Lyft — The third time was the charm for the ride-sharing companies, which now can offer their services statewide. This year they dropped some of the most objectionable provisions of their previous bills — those skirting public records laws — and moved oversight from the Department of Agriculture (a laughable idea) to the state Department of Transportation and Development. It helped that Uber and Lyft hired practically every available lobbyist in the Capitol. 4. Mayor LaToya Cantrell — Heronner got three crucial infrastructure bills passed after reaching a compromise with tourism and hospitality leaders. The city will get $50 million in one-time money and potentially another $27 million or more annually. Cantrell also made valuable friendships among upstate lawmakers,

efforts to raise the minimum wage in Louisiana. Lawmakers snuffed out two minimum wage bills — one that would let parishes set local minimums and another proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a $9 hourly minimum.

which bodes well for future sessions. 5. Harrah’s Casino — After rolling snake-eyes on the final day of last year’s session, Harrah’s convinced lawmakers to extend its exclusive land-based casino license for 30 years (until 2054). Harrah’s will pay millions more in taxes to the city and state in return for a 340-room hotel and more restaurants — but not more gaming space. 6. Local tourism moguls — As part of the infrastructure deal with Cantrell, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center gave up some of its surplus cash but gained legal and fiscal certainty in its bid to build (and own) a hotel next to the convention center. Meanwhile, New Orleans & Co. (formerly the Convention and Visitors Bureau) will absorb the city’s Tourism Marketing Commission and get a cut of the tax on short-term rentals — if voters approve the proposed levy. 7. Right-to-lifers — Several anti-abortion bills passed by lopsided margins and were signed into law by Edwards. Louisiana thus maintains its place among (mostly Southern) states with the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion laws. 8. Trial lawyers — Lawmakers killed a bill aimed at curbing personal injury attorney billboard ads and shelved Rep. Kirk Talbot’s “tort reform” bill, which was touted as a way to reduce auto insurance rates. In truth, Talbot’s measure never guaranteed rates would go down. Plaintiff lawyers also helped kill a pair of bills that would allow juries in automobile-related personal injury cases to hear evidence that plaintiffs were not wearing their seatbelts. 9. Early childhood education — After 10 years of cuts (thanks, Bobby Jindal), kids up to age 4 will finally see renewed state support for early childhood education programs. A decade ago, the state served 40,000 poor kids under age 4. Today it serves only 15,000 — all via federal funding. With renewed state funding, Louisiana will serve almost 1,500 more. Lawmakers also increased state support for programs serving 4-year-olds. 10. CBD and hemp suppliers — Lawmakers passed several bills to legalize, regulate and tax industrial hemp and cannabidiol-based (CBD) products used to treat a variety of ailments, bringing relief to pain sufferers but not to those who favor recreational marijuana.

11. Louisiana’s seafood industry — Henceforth, restaurants across the state must inform diners if they’re eating imported shrimp or crawfish. This is a victory for locavores as well as local seafood producers and sellers. 12. Judges and sheriffs — Judges and sheriffs will get annual 2.5 percent raises for the next five years. Last year’s sales tax compromise provided the money, while the push for teacher pay hikes no doubt gave them political cover. 13. New Orleans bail bondsmen — Lawmakers approved a bill that gets local bail bondsmen off the hook from having to refund an extra 1 percent fee they have charged clients since 2005. That extra percent has generated millions of dollars and triggered a legal challenge by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Nothing impoverished about bail bondsmen; they’re politically active as well, which explains lawmakers’ willingness to bail them out this election year. Which brings us to …

DA LOOZAS 1. LABI — The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry used to be the Big Dog of the Legislature. No longer. LABI declared Rep. Kirk Talbot’s omnibus “tort reform” bill the “most important bill of the session.” Trial lawyers and other doubters took that as a gauntlet, which they happily picked up and stomped. Lawmakers also killed a pair of LABI-backed “seatbelt” bills that likewise were part of the business group’s ongoing tort reform efforts. Elsewhere, business interests once again lost a bid to centralize sales tax collections in Louisiana. 2. Pro-choicers — Fighting for abortion rights in the Louisiana Legislature has always been an impossible task, and this year was no exception. Lawmakers passed virtually every possible abortion restriction, leaving pro-choice advocates no choice but to seek relief in the courts. 3. Poor people — Only the rich can afford lobbyists, which explains why the working poor consistently lose

4. Women — Once again, the House killed several bills that would require equal pay for women. The House also killed a proposed sales tax exemption on diapers and feminine hygiene products. Lawmakers likewise quashed an attempt to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment. Many (though certainly not all) women also oppose abortion restrictions. 5. Death Penalty Opponents — These folks are truly “pro-life,” but they seldom get credit for caring about people whose lives are deemed expendable by so many God-fearing Christians. Several bills to end the death penalty died this session, though the tide appears to be turning in favor of abolishing it — particularly among voters. 6. Louisiana drivers — A proposed gasoline tax hike (to be phased in over several years) would have generated more than $500 million a year for road and bridge repairs, but it died quietly in the face of intractable opposition. Louisiana has a $14 billion backlog of road and bridge needs. 7. Pot smokers — Lawmakers remain opposed to legalizing recreational marijuana, though bills proposing it appear to gain ground every year. Smoke ’em (or vape ’em) if you got ’em, dude, but it still ain’t legal. 8. Plant-based food lovers — Lawmakers passed several bills outlawing soy milk and almond milk being “falsely” labeled as “milk,” cauliflower rice as “rice,” and likewise a long list of alternative meat and dairy products. The bills ostensibly protect consumers. On the bright side, the new law will be difficult to enforce and likely won’t affect products made outside Louisiana. 9. Sports Bettors — Every gaming interest in the state either wanted a piece of sports betting or wanted to kill it for fear of competition. In the end, those who wanted to kill it won the day. Worse yet, fantasy sports betting likewise died in the final minutes of the session. The big winner was Mississippi, which will continue to rake in millions from Louisiana sports bettors. If you counted more winnas than loozas, you’re not imagining things. Lawmakers prefer to make powerful friends in election years.

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BLAKEVIEW SUMMER BRINGS MEMORIES of a favorite way to spend a night in New Orleans during the 1950s and ’60s: seeing a movie at a drive-in theater. According to the book “There’s One In Your Neighborhood: The Lost Movie Theaters of New Orleans,” the city’s first drive-in movie theater was in Lakeview, at the corner of Robert E. Lee and Canal boulevards. Authors Rene Brunet Jr. and Jack Stewart write that the theater opened in 1940 and was called simply the “Drive-In.” The only other Orleans Parish drive-in was the Skyvue, located at Downman and Gentilly Roads, which operated from 1951 to 1979. The growing Jefferson Parish suburbs were home to more drive-in theaters, including the Jeff Drive-In, which opened in 1948 at 4000 Jefferson Highway. Airline Highway was home to the Airline Drive-In, with room for 900 cars, and the Crescent, which opened in 1950. The Do Drive-In opened in 1953 at 805 Metairie Road, with space for 1,200 cars. It closed in 1980, and the space now is the DeLimon Place condominium complex and the Old Metairie Village shopping center. The Westgate Drive-In was the largest in the metro area. Located in Metairie near Veterans Memorial Boulevard and David Drive, it opened in 1965 and closed in 1978. West Bankers could enjoy the Algiers Drive-In on Gen. Meyer Avenue, the Gretna Greens Drive-In at 21st and Lafayette streets and the Marrero Drive-In on Fourth Street. The drive-in with the shortest life span was the Kenner Drive-In on Airline Highway. It opened in March 1955 and was destroyed by Hurricane Flossy 18 months later.

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“OVERCOMING RACISM WAS FOUNDED OUT OF NECESSITY,” Matthew Kincaid says. He’s been leading anti-racism workshops since he was 14, but it wasn’t until he started applying those lessons to his classroom at KIPP Believe

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KRYSTAL HARDY ALLEN GREW UP WANTING TO BE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER BUT ENDED UP WORKING IN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. Now, she works as a community and policy advocate for programs aimed at making schools more equitable. “As an educator, African-American woman and a first-generation college graduate, I am committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure that we build life-changing, equitable and liberating school environments where all of our children can thrive,” she says. “Ensuring that the perspectives of children and families are honored and centered in the process is deeply important to me.” Allen first came to New Orleans in 2011, working as an assistant principal for KIPP New Orleans schools. She also built a consulting practice, coaching principals and training teachers in 196 schools across the country on building schools that serve all races equally — increasing family and community engagement, data-driven instruction and teacher leadership. Propeller, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses, was a client of hers. The relationship evolved into a position as the organization’s senior director of programs, policy and strategy. “I’m really in love with their mission to support social entrepreneurs who are addressing social and environmental disparities,” Allen says. — HOLLY HOBBS

College Prep that he realized a need to integrate anti-racism training in school systems. Now, KIPP’s suspensions are down 75 percent, he says. “It was apparent to me that even though we were espousing to our kids ... what I call the myth of meritocracy — the pathway to success is just through hard work — the systemic barriers that my students were experiencing, both inside and outside of school, were extremely prohibitive,” he says. Since 2016, Overcoming

Racism has worked with more than 15 schools in New Orleans and across the country, including Harvard and Princeton universities, hosting intentionally “uncomfortable” workshops addressing racism. “I want to work with people who want to do the work, people who want to move forward and people who want to make change,” Kincaid says. “From there, the ripple effect will impact everybody.” — KAYLEE POCHE PAGE 16

JON ATKINSON WANTS TO SEE A NEW ORLEANS WHERE LOCAL EMPLOYERS ARE DYNAMIC AND COMMITTED TO GROWTH. As CEO of the Idea Village, he leads an organization that supports high-growth entrepreneurship by building a “village” of people who are passionate about innovation, the city and building industry-leading companies. He began his career in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina by financing start-ups and small businesses. Working for a number of companies in various industries has given him the ability to bring together “so many experts in their respective fields and (to) facilitate opportunities” for them to learn from each other. Future goals include cultivating local expertise and specialized networks he believes are “necessary to help companies scale rapidly and win in national and global markets.” — SARAH RAVITS

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WHILE WORKING IN SAUDI ARABIA, SHANTAY BOLTON WAS RECRUITED BY TULANE UNIVERSITY TO PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. She brought to New Orleans her deep collection of international experiences to incorporate into human resources programs and services. Bolton now is Tulane’s vice president for Human Resources and Institutional Equity, as well as a member of the New Orleans Workforce Leadership Academy and an Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Fellow. She participates in business planning at Tulane and works on institutional policies to enhance benefits, oversee equity strategies, and organize development and oversight for human resources programs and operations management. She and her team have transitioned the university to a self-insured health plan which “positioned us to better leverage our clinical footprint, diversify and expand benefit offerings,” she says. Bolton also promotes inclusion in the workplace, casting a wide net when hiring without inadvertently excluding underrepresented groups from jobs. — SARAH RAVITS

ANTOINE BRANTLEY HAD AN INTEREST IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK FROM AN EARLY AGE. He grew up in Detroit, and during his freshman year at the University of Michigan, he studied infectious diseases. Over time, his focus shifted to the social and historical factors that contribute to the HIV epidemic in African-American communities. “It’s a value of mine that regardless of your race or sexual orientation or poverty level you are born into, everyone should have access to positive health outcomes,” Brantley says. He completed a master’s degree in public health at Tulane University and currently works at the Louisiana Department of Health, serving as program evaluation supervisor in the office of STD/HIV Programs. “We’re trying to create programs that address barriers to access to health care, stigma about HIV/[sexually transmitted diseases] and LGTBQ issues,” Brantley says. “I’ve seen people living with HIV get into medical care, stay in treatment and stay in medical care longer, and it’s really important to me to be a part of that change.” — HOLLY HOBBS

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@phillipmyoumans PHILLIP YOUMANS STOCKPILED THE CASH HE EARNED FROM WORKING MORNING CALL SHIFTS AS A HIGH SCHOOLER TO PAY FOR PRODUCTION OF HIS DEBUT FEATURE-LENGTH FILM, “Burning Cane,” which won top accolades at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Youmans made history as the youngest filmmaker to compete in Tribeca and the first black director to win the festival’s best U.S. narrative feature award. He describes the film as a “thesis” of conversations about religion in the black rural South, addiction, toxic masculinity, jealousy and family. Drawing from his own experience growing up in a church, Youmans wanted to humanize — not caricature — the religious community. “There’s still things about the church experience that I appreciate,” he says. In his next film, Youmans hopes to provide the same nuanced portrayal of New Orleans’ Black Panthers chapter. “They were these teenagers who were fighting to self-govern their community,” he says. “But they were still human beings, and they still made mistakes. ... Everyone, especially within our community, deserves to be shown in a multi-dimensional light.” — KAYLEE POCHE

SINCE MOVING BACK TO HER HOMETOWN OF NEW ORLEANS THREE YEARS ago, after working in New York City for more than a decade, Lorey Flick has focused on energy policy and educating the commercial building communities about energy. She has given training sessions and talks through the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability and soon will serve as president of the New Orleans chapter of the American Society of Heating & Ventilation Engineering. As principal of Flick Engineering Professionals, she provides sustainability consulting, energy modeling, building commissioning, LEED administration and peer review and quality control for mechanical, electrical and plumbing trades. Having always been a “lover of science and math,” pursuing engineering was a no-brainer, Flick says. “I really fell in love with the building industry during my time in New York City. There’s no better feeling professionally than seeing a design you’ve worked on be constructed and part of the city skyline. ... A ton of pride and satisfaction goes into every project.” — SARAH RAVITS

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BRANDON DAVIS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A LAWYER. After he earned degrees from Loyola University New Orleans and Tulane University School of Law, he joined Phelps Dunbar as a labor and employment attorney with a focus on immigration and international business. “For the most part, my practice focuses on the American dream, helping business persons from across the globe grow and expand their business in the United States and create opportunity here,” Davis says.

His pro bono immigration work also has been widely recognized. “We just helped three children avoid deportation after years of litigation,” he says. The three siblings traveled from El Salvador to the U.S. and were jailed for six to eight months. “We were able to reunite them with their parents here in New Orleans,” he says. “Now we’re working toward legal status for them.” — HOLLY HOBBS PAGE 18

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SIX YEARS AGO, GRAISON GILL STARTED BELLEGARDE BAKERY, which provides bread made using fresh flour ground on a stone mill in the bakery to more than 100 restaurants and markets throughout Louisiana. The name is a nod to Louisiana’s first bakery, which opened in 1722. Gill recently expanded his focus to become more active on the political and policy levels of food, touting the “importance of small food producers” to the “health of Louisiana’s economy.” “The potential economic and ecological impact of small food producers for our state is huge,” he says. “Politicians must be made to understand the viability of local food made with local ingredients.” He adds that while food is “about pleasure and fulfillment, it is also a tool for social change.” Gill also is working on a book he plans to complete by the end of the year. — SARAH RAVITS

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BY THE TIME HE WAS 20, CHRIS HANEY ALREADY HAD STARTED TWO BUSINESSES — Haney Realty and film company The Greenhouse Collective. When his film company got an email from Big Freedia’s management last year asking it to produce a music video for Freedia’s song “Rent,” Haney’s worlds of film and real estate collided. He wrote the first script — featuring a house full of noisy, messy tenants — for the video within 45 minutes of receiving the email. As a landlord, Haney works to provide affordable housing, renting select buildings for $1 to $1.50 per square foot. He’s also working on “Bloodthicker,” a documentary about the sons of New Orleans rappers Juvenile, B.G. and Soulja Slim, who are pursuing musical careers amid their fathers’ varying legacies. “Lots of people try to exploit New Orleans,” Haney says, “but being born and raised here, I’m definitely very sensitive to that and want to represent the city in a way that feels real to me.” — KAYLEE POCHE

helps develop protocols for screening traumatized kids and connecting them with services. “Most of the kids we work with are between the ages of 13 and 17,” she says. “A lot of these are kids that have unmet needs at home or in foster care or have normal developmental vulnerabilities. Traffickers are able to identify whatever need a child has and meet that need in order to manipulate them.” Sahl, a licensed social worker, worked with child victims of human trafficking at New Orleans Children’s Advocacy Center and with children and families in crisis at Children’s Hospital New Orleans before moving to Juvenile Court. The court is partnering with the New Orleans Family Justice Center to develop a support and education group for caregivers of exploited children to help families heal and to give them tools to help their children. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES

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www.fatriverflowers.com @sproutnola | @SPROUTNOLA GREEN NOT ONLY IS MARGUERITE “MARGEE” GREEN’S NAME, IT IS HOW SHE LIVES. AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SPROUT NOLA, SHE WORKS TOWARD “FOOD SOVEREIGNTY” — making food accessible to all communities, producing it in an environmentally responsible way and supporting growers with technical assistance and finding markets for their goods. Sprout Nola runs educational programming, a community garden and farmers market. Green also owns Fat River Flowers, which grows florals and uses them in designs for weddings and parties. Green also teaches at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, where she instructs students how to grow, harvest and cook vegetables, as well as curing, fermenting and brining techniques and cheesemaking. In her free time she’s a standup comedian. Green is looking to add one more job to her resume: Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Qualifying for the election is in August, and Green says her platform is food, farms, climate and cannabis. “My overall goal,” she says, “is to leave Louisiana a better place for small- and mid-sized farmers to make a living and try to care for their communities by growing things … and really trying to boost our economy based on food production.” She also supports allowing farmers to grow recreational cannabis and hemp. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES

AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TULANE UNIVERSITY’S COWEN INSTITUTE, Amanda Hill has made her goals improving education and helping young people succeed. Under her leadership, the institute gathers and analyzes data about how New Orleans public schools are operating, using the research to develop programs. It also has a college preparation program and provides employment skills training to nonstudents ages 16 to 24. “I have a picture of what’s possible within public education and also for young people to live full, thriving lives,” she says. “I aim to bring that vision, along with the talented team at Cowen I get to work with every day.” Hill drew early inspiration from her mother, an educator in the San Francisco Bay area of California. After earning master’s degrees in teaching and education, Hill helped found a school in California and worked as a teacher counselor and principal there before relocating to New Orleans in 2013. She worked for New Schools for New Orleans, was on the design team for Harmony High and served in a variety of capacities at several schools, signing on as executive director at the Cowen Institute in 2015. Hill currently is completing a doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. — HOLLY HOBBS PAGE 20

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“I LOVE MAKING DOCUMENTARIES BECAUSE IT’S A WAY TO BRING LIGHT to stories and people who might not otherwise be seen or heard,” says Lily Keber. “People are endlessly fascinating … and inspiring, especially with the elevated and dense understanding of life that I feel like New Orleanians have.” Keber has lived in New Orleans since 2006, but her passion for depicting life in Louisiana befits a lifelong resident. Her first feature film, “Bayou Maharajah,” was a biopic about pianist James Booker and won plenty of critical acclaim, especially for an admittedly self-taught filmmaker. She followed it up with 2018’s “Buckjumping,” a film about the city’s second line and street dancing cultures, which she calls “the high arts of New Orleans.” Though she keeps swearing to herself that she won’t make another film about local cultural iconography, her next project also will be a love letter to her adopted home. She’s currently filming “I APPEAR TO BE A PROBLEM,” about trumpeter Nicholas Payton and his #BAM (Black American Music) movement, which delves into the life of “a legend who’s walking among us” and the contemporary music industry. “Filmmaking is a challenge — artistically, logistically, financially,” she says, “and yet, it’s a drug I keep coming back to because it’s so complex.” — KATHERINE M. JOHNSON

JESSICA MALLINDINE GREW UP RUNNING TRACK AND PLAYING BASKETBALL AND SOCCER, but she found a true avocation when she volunteered to coach a women’s rugby team at Tulane University. “I don’t think there’s any other sport like rugby in that the culture has a major influence on how the game is played,” she says. “There’s a heightened emphasis on respect, particularly for your opposition and the referee. … Being dedicated to that philosophy is massive and important in this day and age.” Mallindine began coaching in 2014 after students decided to revive Tulane’s women’s rugby team, which had been inactive for a decade. The team joined the competitive division a year later and has made four Final 4 appearances, were Division II Spring National Champions in 2016 and 2018 and a runner up in 2017. She started coaching the men’s start-up team Rougaroux in 2017 and has seen that group develop into competitors who came in third place in their first tournament last month. As a marine biologist at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Mallindine is responsible for managing federal sediment resources used in barrier island restoration along the coast and ensuring that the best environmental safeguards are used. “All of the work we’ve helped facilitate has been dedicated to coastal restoration activities specifically,” she says. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES

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@matt_willard4 @FluenceTech FLUENCE ANALYTICS PROVIDES REAL-TIME MONITORING SOLUTIONS FOR CHEMICAL COMPANIES PRODUCING POLYMERS, and it uses sustainable production processes, improves product quality and reduces the use of raw materials and energy. As senior manager of marketing and communications, Matt Willard is responsible for the overall development and implementation of the company’s marketing plan, including strategies and tactics that drive success: branding; organizing webinars; public, media and investor relations; business development; overseeing the company’s social media presence and more. He says he’s most proud of leading a comprehensive company rebrand for Fluence Analytics, formerly known as Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologies. This included the new company name, branding, website, and company’s mission statement. He also launched a media campaign after the company secured Series A venture capital financing, patenting products and services with over $20 million in competitive grants and funding from investors and consumers. “Working in a startup forced me to become baptized by fire,” he says. “I asked for help when I needed it, I read a good deal of content from trade publications, and I asked questions.” — SARAH RAVITS

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RAY LOPEZ PUT HIS HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING CAREER IN NEW JERSEY behind him until the age of 29. “I had no intentions of becoming a professional fighter, I just found my passion in teaching and training again,” he says. Lopez and his wife relocated from New York to New Orleans three years ago and opened NOLA Mixed Martial Arts. They take casual students as well as people who want to fight professionally, and they hold womenonly seminars and private selfdefense courses for women. “I think we’re giving people a healthy physical outlet while trying to stay as affordable as we can (for) anyone who wants to learn how to eat better, move better,” Lopez says. “This is not just for people who want to fight; this is for people who want to get in touch with their bodies. If I’m able to offer things to the New Orleans community that benefited me so much personally and be a positive thing in their lives, that makes me happy.” — HOLLY HOBBS

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@unitedbakeryrecords IN A FEW SHORT YEARS, UNITED BAKERY RECORDS HAS BECOME A PILLAR OF NEW ORLEANS’ DIY COMMUNITY. Founded in 2015, the label grew out of the United Bakery Gallery, a mixed-use space on St. Bernard Avenue in the 7th Ward that served as an intimate performance venue before it closed in September 2016. Its spirit lives on in the record label, run by Liam Conway, Daniel Grey, Lauren Miller, Galen Cassidy Peria and Sean Sayers. United Bakery Records was built by and for musicians. “[W]e the founders of United Bakery Records can imagine few things as gratifying as to be offered the resources, the trust and support, and the artistic

freedom to realize our own creative visions,” the label’s mission statement reads. “[W]e hope to fulfill this wish for others and seek to enable the creative ones to create, the free spirits to be free, and the inspired ones to inspire.” Since 2017, United Bakery has held an annual “revue” at Marigny Studios during the week between New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival weekends. Twelve artists perform and are recorded live, and one song picked from each set is included in a compilation album released by the label. A ceremonial gong, a tradition left over from the fondly remembered performances at the gallery, serves as a 13th track to round out the baker’s dozen on the album. Running the label and holding the annual revue is a lot of work for five people, but through collaborative effort, United Bakery gets by. “We run things with a fairly egalitarian spirit,” Peria says. “Everything is pretty grass roots and with a DIY spirit, so any one of us will pick up the slack to do whatever task needs to be done, whether it’s emailing venues or sponsors, or running across town to get booze for an event.” Each team member has a niche that helps the label function smoothly. Conway, a photographer, does much of the label’s photo work. He also does most of the bookkeeping and maintains the website and social media. Miller, a painter and visual artist, helps artists book shows and co-hosts the label’s weekly radio program Friday nights on WHIV. Grey, a photographer and co-host of the radio show, also does photo work for the label and promotional work with venues. Peria, a musician, songwriter and filmmaker, released a debut album on United Bakery Records as Duke Aeroplane and currently is working on a feature film, “The Heartbeat, The Hammer.” Sayers, a singer-songwriter, is the label’s spiritual talent scout and also is working on a debut album. Together they’ve created a thriving creative community. — RAPHAEL HELFAND

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36 SKIN CANCER IS THE MOST COMMON FORM OF CANCER, but sunscreen isn’t always available onthe-go at outdoor locations — and sometimes people forget to bring some from home. To address this concern, Sean McCloskey developed Stop & Block, an automated dispenser that provides single applications of sunscreen. McCloskey’s role has been to oversee development of the dispensers, raise funds from investors, secure locations to place the dispensers and, of course, let people know they exist. Stop & Block has been featured at popular events such as Hogs for the Cause, the Crescent City Classic and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Additionally, 15 dispensers will be placed at various locations around the city including the Steamboat Natchez dock, New Orleans City Park golf course, The Fly behind Audubon Park, Lafreniere Park and the Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel pool deck. McCloskey plans to expand distribution nationally and hopes that “Eventually, people can stop bringing sunscreen bottles with them, because they’ll know they can just get sunscreen out where they are.” — SARAH RAVITS

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@o.g.blakeowens NICK REED AND BLAKE OWENS HAD NO IDEA THAT THE HASHTAG “GETUPNRIDE” would become a thing when a participant in their weekly Tuesday bike rides first blurted it out. The men, who’ve known each other since high school, founded their bike tour company Bike Rite in 2015, but Owens admits that when they started, “We weren’t thinking ‘Bike Rite’ when we did it.” Bike Rite and its weekly Get Up N Ride social rides have evolved to what Reed and Owens say is the next step in the progression of their success. In 2017, Bike Rite held its first Community Bike Festival on Bayou Road. There were bike repair stations and information sessions, but the festival was sandwiched between French Quarter Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. “This year, we’re really trying to

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@livfastdiefly facebook.com/getupnridenola establish our own identity and do what we do best,” Reed says. The 2019 festival was held June 1 along the Lafitte Greenway. In addition to live music, local food vendors, artists and demos of upcoming infrastructure changes spearheaded by Bike Easy and the Complete Streets Coalition, it culminated in a bike ride, complete with music and a police escort (a departure from the weekly rides). What’s next for the accidental entrepreneurs? Reed hopes to attract corporate sponsorships for merchandise like branded bicycles and athletic wear. Owens wants to franchise the business to other cities in the U.S. “I would love to have a Tuesday night where you see on social media people all doing Get Up N Ride in different cities,” he says. — KATHERINE M. JOHNSON

butter alternatives, and Supreme Specialty Foods, which manufactures and sells superfood seeds and their derivatives from his farm in Bolivia. “Our products incorporate some of the healthiest seeds in the world and allow consumers to improve their diets without sacrificing taste for added nutrition,” he says. Bratcher grows “superfoods” including chia seeds throughout South America. His goal is to grow Beyond the Equator into a national brand by creating and marketing healthier versions of products that consumers know and love. “As society moves toward healthier alternatives,” he says, “we were excited to create products from some of the healthiest foods on the planet.” — SARAH RAVITS

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RENTCHECK IS A NATIONWIDE APP DEVELOPED LAST YEAR BY MARCO NELSON AND LYDIA WINKLER, who met at Tulane University as graduate students. Independent landlords and tenants use the app to streamline and standardize move-in and moveout inspections and determine security deposit reimbursements. The two recently won a grand prize of $50,000 from the Idea Village’s New Orleans Entrepreneur Week pitch competition. Nelson, who just completed a Master of Business Administration degree at Tulane, says the RentCheck app provides a “guided walkthrough for renters to properly document” a rental property and shares the finalized report between renters and landlords, including photographs and notes on the status of appliances, outlets and room conditions. Nelson says the mission is to “to eliminate unjust deductions from security deposits and make the rental process fair and transparent.” Winkler, who also earned a law degree along with her MBA, also founded Relief Effort for Earning Parole (REEP) Now, a nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for people eligible for parole in Louisiana. — SARAH RAVITS PAGE 26

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Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Some medicines interact with DOVATO. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. • You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that interact with DOVATO. • Do not start taking a new medicine without telling your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take DOVATO with other medicines. What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO? DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Those in the “What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO?” section. • Allergic reactions. Call your healthcare provider right away if you develop a rash with DOVATO. Stop taking DOVATO and get medical help right away if you develop a rash with any of the following signs or symptoms: fever; generally ill feeling; tiredness; muscle or joint aches; blisters or sores in mouth; blisters or peeling of the skin; redness or swelling of the eyes; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; problems breathing. • Liver problems. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus may have an increased risk of developing new or worsening changes in certain liver tests during treatment with DOVATO. Liver problems, including liver failure, have also happened in people without a history of liver disease or other risk factors. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your liver. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice); dark or “tea-colored” urine; light-colored stools (bowel movements); nausea or vomiting; loss of appetite; and/or pain, aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach area. • Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms that could be signs of lactic acidosis: feel very weak or tired; unusual (not normal) muscle pain; trouble breathing; stomach pain with nausea and vomiting; feel cold, especially in your arms and legs; feel dizzy or lightheaded; and/or a fast or irregular heartbeat. • Lactic acidosis can also lead to severe liver problems, which can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis). Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the signs or symptoms of liver problems which are listed above under “Liver problems.” You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female or very overweight (obese).

SO MUCH GOES INTO WHO I AM HIV MEDICINE SHOULD BE THE LEAST OF IT. Reasons to ask your doctor about DOVATO: DOVATO can help you reach and then stay undetectable* with just 2 medicines in 1 pill. That means fewer medicines† in your body while taking DOVATO You can take it any time of day with or without food (around the same time each day)—giving you flexibility DOVATO is a once-a-day complete treatment for adults who are new to HIV-1 medicine. Results may vary. *Undetectable means reducing the HIV in your blood to very low levels (less than 50 copies per mL). † As compared with 3-drug regimens.

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This is only a brief summary of important information about DOVATO and does not replace talking to your healthcare provider about your condition and treatment. What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO? If you have both human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Resistant HBV infection. Your healthcare provider will test you for HBV infection before you start treatment with DOVATO. If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B, the hepatitis B virus can change (mutate) during your treatment with DOVATO and become harder to treat (resistant). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in people who have HIV-1 and HBV infection. • Worsening of HBV infection. If you have HIV-1 and HBV infection, your HBV may get worse (flare-up) if you stop taking DOVATO. A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. Worsening liver disease can be serious and may lead to death. ° Do not run out of DOVATO. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your DOVATO is all gone. ° Do not stop DOVATO without first talking to your healthcare provider. If you stop taking DOVATO, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your liver. What is DOVATO? DOVATO is a prescription medicine that is used without other antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV-1 infection in adults: who have not received antiretroviral medicines in the past, and without known resistance to the medicines dolutegravir or lamivudine. HIV-1 is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in children. Who should not take DOVATO? Do Not Take DOVATO if You: • have ever had an allergic reaction to a medicine that contains dolutegravir or lamivudine. • take dofetilide. What should I tell my healthcare provider before using DOVATO? Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: • have or have had liver problems, including hepatitis B or C infection. • have kidney problems. • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. One of the medicines in DOVATO (dolutegravir) may harm your unborn baby. ° You should not take DOVATO if you are planning to become pregnant or during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Your healthcare provider may prescribe a different medicine if you are planning to become pregnant or become pregnant during treatment with DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, your healthcare provider will perform a pregnancy test before you start treatment with DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, you should consistently use effective birth control (contraception) during treatment with DOVATO. ° Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are planning to become pregnant, you become pregnant, or think you may be pregnant during treatment with DOVATO. • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take DOVATO. ° You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of passing HIV-1 to your baby. ° One of the medicines in DOVATO (lamivudine) passes into your breastmilk. ° Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

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What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO (cont’d)? • Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having new symptoms after you start taking DOVATO. • The most common side effects of DOVATO include: headache; diarrhea; nausea; trouble sleeping; and tiredness. These are not all the possible side effects of DOVATO. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. Where Can I Find More Information? • Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist. • Go to DOVATO.com or call 1-877-844-8872, where you can also get FDA-approved labeling. Trademark is owned by or licensed to the ViiV Healthcare group of companies.

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IN 2016, MARK RAYMOND SUFFERED A SPINAL CORD INJURY THAT LEFT HIM A QUADRIPLEGIC. A year later, he visited an exercise facility in California designed to help people with severely limited motility walk and crawl. Louisiana offers few resources for people living with paralysis, so in 2018, Raymond founded the Split Second Foundation (SSF), a nonprofit dedicated to breaking barriers to health for the physically disabled. He has widened his mission to include people with other disabilities. “I was diving into the numbers, and I realized that I can’t leave out people with strokes,” Raymond says. “I can’t leave out people who’ve lost a limb because of diabetes — you’re talking about four people a day.” Raymond and SSF hope to open their first exercise facility by the end of the year, using donations from events such as SSF’s second annual Dependence Day Gala on June 28 (www.splitsecondfoundation. org/dependence-day). He plans to expand geographically and add mental health and case management resources. “Going back to the hospital and talking to people with injuries like mine and helping them through the darkness [was crucial],” he says. “It can be really gloomy in there, especially when you’re hearing ‘never’ from doctors. That was where I transformed hope into action.” — KATHERINE M. JOHNSON

PHYSICAL THERAPIST SARA REARDON SAYS MOST OF HER PATIENTS AT NOLA PELVIC HEALTH know her before they even walk inside her clinic because of her Instagram account, which has more than 55,000 followers. Her feed is filled with tips about navigating pregnancy and postpartum life and covers topics from mental health to constipation. “These are really common experiences that, because we don’t talk about them, we think we’re alone in that journey,” she says. “That’s not the case.” Reardon started New Orleans’ only pelvic floor health specialty clinic in 2018, working out of a yoga studio once a week. “It grew so quickly that within four months, I had my own space,” she says, referencing her Baronne Street office now operating Monday through Thursday. Reardon aims to tackle the longstanding taboo associated with these issues, while also informing women of how to treat them. “So much care is given to the baby after childbirth and very little is given to the mother,” she says. “Often these pelvic health conditions persist because they go unaddressed for so long.” — KAYLEE POCHE

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@jamison_ross JAMISON ROSS GREW UP GOING TO CHURCH WITH HIS GRANDFATHER IN JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. The gospel music he heard there stuck with him and by high school, he was studying jazz drumming. Ross continued his jazz studies as an undergraduate at Florida State University and as a master’s candidate at the University of New Orleans. He settled here, and in 2012, he won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for drumming and signed with the storied Concord Jazz label. “At the time, people knew me for my drumming,” he recalls. “They didn’t know I could sing.” That changed in 2015, when Ross’ debut album, “Jamison,” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal album. In 2018, he released a follow-up, “All For One.” The album takes Ross’ audience further into his sonic world and explores themes of empathy and compassion. It’s a strong step forward for one of New Orleans’ most promising musicians. — RAPHAEL HELFAND

JARED SAMPSON IS THE BEST KIND OF BUSYBODY. NOT ONLY DOES HE TEACH AT DELGADO COMMUNITY College and work as a Realtor at an up-and-coming brokerage, but he’s also a freelance marketing advisor for the Carver Theater in Treme, a volunteer with the Son of a Saint mentorship program, an instructor for free entrepreneurship workshops and a member of the extended cast of reality TV show “Southern Charm New Orleans.” But it’s the latter occupation that has led him to his most fulfilling job yet. In a 2018 episode of “Southern Charm,” Sampson, a gay man, delivers an emotional and heartfelt repudiation of another character’s use of a homophobic slur. His speech — and his declaration that “silence is not an option” when it comes to living your truth — caught the notice of LGBTQ crusaders Human Rights Campaign, which bestowed on him its Equality Award. Sampson’s advocacy also landed him a job with the group Campuspeak, which arranges for speakers to travel to college campuses all over the country to give seminars on topics ranging from self-empowerment to racial bias. Sampson says he’s proud to use his ever-expanding platform to encourage all youth — especially those who “look like me, walk like me and talk like me” — to advocate for themselves. “I’m a teacher of life,” he says, “of how to live your best life, not someone else’s. … Don’t be afraid of trying and investing in you.” — KATHERINE M. JOHNSON PAGE 28

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SOPHIE HARRIS VORHOFF

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AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF LAFITTE GREENWAY, SOPHIE HARRIS VORHOFF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT for the area, which she refers to as “the backbone of New Orleans’ growing network.” She also works on the organization’s fitness programs and arts and cultural events. She believes that public spaces such as the one she oversees, which is used by more than 300,000 people each year, can “enable us to live fully and vigorously in our environment, our community and our bodies.” An outdoor enthusiast, Vorhoff enjoys that her work connects her to people with a shared passion for the environment. After narrowly surviving a bicycle crash that killed two of her friends, Sharee Walls and David Hynes, Vorhoff is focused on enhancing safety and connecting the community that she relied on for support during her recovery. Her goals also include completing the final half-mile stretch of the Lafitte Greenway’s trail and invigorating the Greenway with public art and additional cultural events. — SARAH RAVITS

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MACHERIE WARD BECAME INTERESTED IN HOLISTIC HEALING AND THE BENEFITS OF MASSAGE THERAPY WHEN HER GRANDFATHER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. Now she customizes treatment plans for individual clients at Amore Therapeutics Holistic Care Center. She has treated patients facing issues ranging from minor aches and pains to severe emotional and physical abuse. She also developed a line of massage oils, body butters and scrubs. Her future plans include expanding into a certified massage therapy school. “I want to educate others in the art of healing, self-awareness and spreading the message of wholeness of the mind, body and spirit,” Ward says. “I am making my community a better place because I am laying down a foundation of clinics that will never turn a customer away regardless of income level [and] embraces a hurting country.” Over the next few years, Ward also wants to start a nonprofit and open a shelter that feeds the homeless and provides clothing and books to impoverished families. — SARAH RAVITS PAGE 30

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ALLISON WALKER

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MANY NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLCHILDREN END THEIR ACADEMIC DAY AT 3 P.M., but working parents often can’t pick them up until two to three hours later. Allison Walker, a mother of three, decided these children would benefit from STEM-based after-school enrichment programs. She founded Crescent City STEM and acquired the New Orleans franchise for Challenge Island, a series of pre-packaged activities, or challenges, that meet state standards for STEM education. Plus, each activity takes an hour, whether it’s making rockets or building a foosball game. “Programs like this allow [students] to have extra enrichment and they still get their playground time,” says Walker, who has 15 years’ experience in marketing and sales. “We’re giving kids a creative space to do these projects that involve critical thinking, teamwork and collaboration.” Since offering the program in November 2018, Walker has signed up 20 schools for after-school programs, field trips and summer camps and has worked with the New Orleans Jewish Community Center and the Girl Scouts of the USA. Walker says she plans to expand programming to areas including life skills, writing and more. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES

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LAMAR WHITE JR.

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LAMAR WHITE JR., PUBLISHER AND FOUNDER OF THE BAYOU BRIEF WEBSITE, chronicles the people and events that define his home state of Louisiana. “I’ve learned that writing can be the most powerful way to empower the marginalized, to affirm our shared humanity and to effectuate meaningful change,” he says. “Writers must risk vulnerability in order to cultivate empathy and practice humility.” Born with cerebral palsy, which has affected his physical mobility, White also was challenged by the death of his father when White was a teenager. In coping with the aftermath, he says he was inspired by his mother. “From her, I learned how to stand up to bullies and always be guided by what is right, not merely what is convenient,” he says. White is focused on using his platform to shed light on the people and communities in the state that are “too often neglected and exploited,” he says. His ultimate goal is for the Bayou Brief to become self-sustaining. “I am proudest of all of our readers who have built this publication together with me through their generosity and deeply meaningful words of encouragement and praise,” he says. — SARAH RAVITS

MIKE WOODWARD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE TRACK NEW ORLEANS, is responsible for fundraising and overseeing performance to ensure students are on track to matriculate and graduate from college. He also seeks to build a culture that focuses on student achievement, operational efficiency and general excellence. Shortly after moving to New Orleans in 2011, he enrolled in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where he learned about College Track and its mission to empower students from underserved communities to graduate from college. He joined the organization in 2015 and was promoted to his current leadership role in September. “Equity is my life’s work,” he says. His goals include working toward “a world where opportunity is distributed in the way that talent is: evenly.” He says he aims to strengthen the organization by serving more students and building the alumni association to ensure participants remain connected to one another and the organization. “Ultimately, we are working to make college graduation the expectation, not the exception, for first-generation college-bound students in New Orleans,” he says. — SARAH RAVITS

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Remembering Leah Chase The beloved chef died June 1 at 96 BY I A N M C NU LT Y Leah Chase, who died June 1 at the age of 96, was perhaps New Orleans’ most beloved chef — but her life encompassed so much more than cooking. In her honor, we’re reprinting a 2012 Gambit cover story about “Ms. Leah.” IT’S AN ARTICLE OF FAITH IN NEW ORLEANS that you’ll always find Leah

Chase at work at her Dooky Chase Restaurant, either in the kitchen — chopping trinity and stewing chicken before lunch service — or in the dining room, greeting cufflink-clad bankers at one table and guidebook-toting tourists at the next. These days though, there’s also a good chance you’ll find the 89-yearold icon of Creole cuisine speaking from a podium or seated at a head table, accepting the latest in a stream of awards and honors. Some of this recognition reflects her culinary legacy. The Southern Food & Beverage Museum named a permanent gallery in her honor in 2009, and earlier this year she received the National Restaurant Association’s Faces of Diversity Award. But other honors from outside the restaurant industry show just how far this extraordinary woman’s impact and influence have carried. Last year, for instance, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana presented Chase with its Ben Smith Award, its highest honor, for her work promoting racial equality. In April, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) honored her at a gala which simultaneously served as the debut for an exhibit of paintings of Chase by Gustave Blache III, a New Orleans-born artist now living in Brooklyn, N.Y., and as a fundraiser for NOMA’s new Leah Chase Art Purchase Fund, which will help the museum acquire more works by African-American artists. The museum was packed for the gala, which Chase insisted be held on a Monday night to accommodate the work schedules of her restaurant industry friends. Chase draws a crowd wherever she goes. Well-wishers flock for handshakes, hugs and cellphone snapshots with the chef who hosts U.S. presidents, inspired a landmark

Disney animation character — Tiana from “The Princess and the Frog,” the studio’s first African-American princess — and operates a family restaurant that famously served as a hub for activists and organizers at the height of the civil rights struggle. The attention is nothing new for Chase; official honors have been rolling in for decades. She greets it all with gratitude, but also with a dash of the characteristic feistiness that keeps the people around her on their toes. “It’s been wonderful and just beautiful, and I’m so appreciative, but it bothers me a little too,” she says. “If I’m getting all of this attention, does it mean other people need to step up more? Does it mean somebody else isn’t doing their work?” Work is a compulsion for Chase, and her tenacity, combined with the courage to pursue unconventional and sometimes controversial decisions, has charted the course of her life and left her mark on the worlds of New Orleans food, culture, art and politics. “She is of a generation of African-American women who set their faces against the wind without looking back,” says Jessica Harris, an author and expert on food of the African diaspora, and one of Chase’s longtime friends. “It’s a work ethic, yes, but it’s also seeing how you want things to be and then being relentless about getting there. It’s about making sure it gets done and making sure that your hand is doing its part.” Chase can bring down the house with jokes and she can make people blush with compliments that they suddenly believe about themselves thanks to her convincing sincerity. Still, she isn’t all sugar and honey. She’s known to holler in the kitchen and bawl out employees who aren’t performing to her standards. In her words, she’s “always calling people stupid jackasses.” “When I first met her, she told me her personal hero was General Patton,” says John Musker, the director of “The Princess and the Frog.” “She became our General Patton because she worked so hard and inspired so

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Leah Chase was known as the queen of Creole cuisine for her mastery of New Orleans flavors.

many people.” The World War II army commander may have inspired his troops, but he also famously slapped a shell-shocked G.I. and called him a coward — a tale Chase retells with evident admiration. But to understand Chase’s story, one has to put aside today’s familiar visage of the accomplished and indefatigable lady, seemingly always clad in her red chef’s coat beneath her halo of white hair. Instead, try conjuring the image of an 18-year-old beauty who arrived in New Orleans in 1941, eager to get her start in the world, equipped with a high school education and strong values but hardly a cent to her name.

Born on Jan. 6 — Twelfth Night — in 1923, the oldest of Hortensia and Charles Lange’s 11 children, she was raised across Lake Pontchartrain in Madisonville, then a small shipping and boat-building town along the Tchefuncte River. Her father, initially a ship caulker, later had a Works Progress Administration job during the Great Depression, working for 50 cents a day. “Father told us to pray for work every day,” Chase recalls. “We’d go fishing in the mornings so we could have perch and grits for breakfast — but a lot of times, man, it was just grits.” There was no high school nearby for black students, so at age 13 Chase

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EAT+DRINK took a steamer across the lake to New Orleans to live with an aunt and attend St. Mary’s Academy, a Catholic school for black girls in the city. She returned home after graduating at age 16, but two years later departed for New Orleans for good. “Creole girls like me were expected to work at the sewing factory, a good job,” Chase says, but she took a different route. In the early 1940s, men were being drafted for the expanding American war effort and suddenly black and white women were getting jobs they previously couldn’t. Chase says that’s how she started waiting tables at the longsince-closed Colonial Restaurant in the French Quarter, a job she credits as “one of the best things that could have happened.” “I saw just how wonderful the restaurant business was, how you could sit down and enjoy a meal and have someone serve you,” Chase says. “Oh, I thought, that was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.” She would try out different jobs during her first years in New Orleans, including stints working for a bookie and even managing a few local boxers. But the allure of restaurants captivated her, and her big break in the business came with her marriage in 1946 to Edgar “Dooky” Chase II, then a trumpet player, whose family had started Dooky Chase Restaurant on Orleans Avenue five years earlier. This Dooky Chase Restaurant was at that time a far cry from the elegant destination of upholstered chairs, chandeliers and contemporary art that goes by the name today. Housed in a double shotgun house, it was a tavern serving poboys and selling lottery tickets, a family business that was first bankrolled on a $600 loan from a local brewery (a common startup practice for bars of the day). It was open practically around the clock, closing as late as 5 a.m. and opening for early lunch a few hours later. “My mother-in-law (Emily Chase) was a great cook, but being a black woman of that time she did not have any experience in restaurants like I had seen it from working in the Quarter,” Chase says. “So I said, ‘You know, we’re going to have it here like other people have it.’ ” Her changes came gradually — first by upgrading the menu with more Creole dishes, then by sprucing up the tavern decor. The renovations that would so greatly expand the restaurant, add a brick exterior and create its variously themed dining rooms didn’t start until 1984. But long before that, Dooky Chase Restaurant earned its landmark status for providing history-making hospitality. Dr. Norman Francis, the former president of Xavier University, re-

members that Dooky Chase Restaurant “was already a legend” when he arrived in New Orleans in 1948. “It was the food and the atmosphere. When you heard someone was taking his girlfriend to Dooky Chase, you’d say that was high cotton,” he says. Francis was the first black student admitted to Loyola University Law School. He says the welcome the Chase family provided at their restaurant was a balm when many other doors were barred. “There was the pain of not being able to walk through the front door of a restaurant or a hotel, which was of course insulting to the human persona,” he says. “But Leah kept the bright light on for all of us. When you couldn’t go to some places, you could always go to Dooky Chase and the food would be better there anyway.” For the same reason, the restaurant became the go-to spot for black notables in the arts, sports and politics whenever they came through segregated New Orleans. Ray Charles even added a reference to eating at Dooky Chase in his 1961 single “Early in the Morning.” The restaurant also soon became a hotbed for civil rights activists, both black and white, who crammed into a small second-floor dining room in a camelback portion of the building for planning sessions, their mixedrace meals there breaking segregation laws in the process. Chase herself is low-key about the history that transpired under her roof and over her food. “People would just come,” she says. “I didn’t feel like I was doing anything special. It was just an easy place to meet.” But for others who participated in some of these gatherings, the haven she provided and the contributions she made were vital. “If you’re looking for a place that advanced integration and racial understanding, nothing stands out for me more than that restaurant and that lady,” says Rudy Lombard, a civil rights activist who staged one of the city’s first sit-ins at a Canal Street lunch counter. “It was the only place where people knew blacks and whites could get together in a civil rights context without being hassled. (The police) knew what was going on; they were following us, but nothing ever happened to us there.” Still, the Chase family did receive threatening notes in those days, and once someone hurled a pipe bomb at the restaurant, which damaged the building but drew no blood. Moon Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978, says that even after segregation laws were overturned and tensions began to cool, the restaurant continued to serve the role of neutral ground. “It took a long time for the law to be

followed and for customs to change, but people found it welcoming to eat together at Dooky Chase,” Landrieu says. “If you reversed the situation, and think about black people going to a white restaurant at that time — well, it was one thing then to say you have the right and it was another to say you felt comfortable. But at Leah’s place, you wanted to be there because of the food, the hospitality and just her personality.” The Leah Chase personality — the determination to do what she feels is right and the work ethic to make it happen — has remained the constant of Dooky Chase Restaurant, guiding how it developed over the decades and how it operates today. She insisted the restaurant expand and upgrade in the 1980s, even as

‘It was the food and the atmosphere. When you heard someone was taking his girlfriend to Dooky Chase, you’d say that was high cotton.’ — Dr. Norman Francis the housing project across the street and the surrounding neighborhood deteriorated. Throughout that time, Chase cultivated what has become a renowned collection of African-American art inside her dining rooms, driven mainly by the desire to encourage others to succeed. “I didn’t know anything about collecting art as an investment,” Chase says. “Some of (the artists), they’d just send me pieces, sometimes we’d swap them for gumbo. Artists are always hungry and I fed them when they needed it and they took care of me.” Though the restaurant flooded badly after the levee failures following Hurricane Katrina, one of Chase’s grandsons was able to extract the art collection, which was reinstalled in time for the restaurant’s reopening in 2007. During the interim, Chase and her husband lived in a FEMA trailer beside the restaurant. They now live in a renovated shotgun house just next door. “I walk out my door every day and into the restaurant,” she says. Her family isn’t surprised at her work ethic. That doesn’t mean they don’t worry. “At first I had a guilt complex. We all did,” says her son, Edgar Chase III,

a retired dean of business at Dillard University. “I felt like, ‘Why can’t we just pay someone to run the kitchen?’ But then you realize even if you did, it wouldn’t stop my mother from going in every day. “I always knew from being a little boy that my mother could outwork anybody,” Edgar Chase III adds. “The stamina is just incredible. She feels unloved, unneeded, unwanted, un-something if she’s not doing anything, and she truly loves to serve people. I think she gets the artistic satisfaction from it that someone else might get from a book or a painting.” Emily Chase Haydel, the first-born of Leah’s four children, was for many years her mother’s right hand in the restaurant and her heir apparent to take over the kitchen. But she died during childbirth in 1990 at age 42. Leah’s second-born, Stella Reese Chase, a former teacher, now plays a key role in the restaurant’s management, and Leah’s grandson, Edgar Chase IV, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, is being groomed to one day run the family business. Leah Chase is at her restaurant five days a week, starting as early as 7 a.m., talking with suppliers, prepping food and working her dining room at peak lunch hours. She recognizes her family’s concerns for her, but she does little to mollify them. “People say, ‘Why do you go to work every day?’ I say, ‘Well, what else do you want me to do?’ That’s all I know how to do is cook,” she says. “So as long as I can do it, I do it.” Blache, the artist whose paintings of Leah Chase are on exhibit at NOMA, has seen how the Dooky Chase experience can connect a community. His own grandparents had their first date in the restaurant — a very common thread among African-American couples of a certain generation. Blache dined there with his parents frequently as he grew up, and when he visits now he sees plenty of his peers at the tables. “So when younger people come in and make it part of their tradition now, Mrs. Chase makes her rounds in the dining room and can tell them all about their families and the history they share through the restaurant,” Blache says. Making those rounds might take Chase an hour or more these days. Her pace is slower, that’s one reason. But also, after all these years, there’s just so much more to talk about. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at noon on Monday, June 10 at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church (1923 St. Philip St.), Visitation will be held from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., with the rosary recited immediately after the visitation. Seating at St. Peter Claver will be limited.

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Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $

METAIRIE Akira Sushi + Hibachi — 3326 N. Arnoult Road, Metairie, (504) 304-8820; www. akirametairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D daily. $$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. L Sun-Thu, D MonThu. $ Mark 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. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ FullBlast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800; www.fullblastbrunch. com — No reservations. Brunch ThuMon. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. L, D, late daily. $ Ikura Sushi + Hibachi — 301 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 485-5658; www.ikuranola.net — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D daily. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. L daily, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.

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Emeril Lagasse Emeril’s Delmonico (1300 St. Charles Ave., 504-525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurant.com) serves desserts like coconut cream pie.

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

Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. L, D TueSun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria. com — No reservations. L, D TueSun. $ 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. $

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Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ 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

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

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. D TueSat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook. com/tavolinolounge — Reservations accepted for large parties. D daily. $$

MUSIC TUESDAY 11 BMC — Sweet Magnolia, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 11 Bamboula’s — Christopher Johnson, noon; Rancho Tee Motel, 3; Chance Bushmen & the Rhythm Stomper, 6:30 Banks Street Bar — Ether Coven, 8 Bombay Club — Matt Lemmler, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Talking to New Orleans, 7 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Alex Pianovich & Tom Marron, 6; Andrew Duhon, 8 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — 19th Street Red, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Mark Coleman Trio, 9 Fountain Lounge inside The Roosevelt Hotel — Paul Longstreth, 5:30 House of Blues (Restaurant & Bar) — Michael Liuzza, 6:30 Jazz National Historical Park — Oscar Rossignoli Hour, 11 a.m.; Richard Scott, noon The Jazz Playhouse — The James Rivers Movement, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Prime Example Jazz Club — The Spectrum 6, Quintet, 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Latin Night, 7 SideBar — Brad Walker, Rick Nelson & Michael Ward-Bergeman, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 Spotted Cat — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30 St. Tammany Parish Library, Madisonville branch — Bruce Daigrepont, 6 The Starlight — Tom McDermott, 6; Biglemoi, 9; Goodnight Starlight with Asher Danziger, 10 Three Muses — Sam Cammarata, 5; Josh Gouzy, 8

WEDNESDAY 12 BMC — Ron Harper Blues, 5; Retrospex, 8; Natalie Cris Band, 11 Bamboula’s — Eight Dice Cloth, noon; Bamboulas Hot Jazz Quartet, 3; Mem Shannon, 6:30; Crawdaddy T’s, 10 Bar Redux — Byron Broussard & James Germain host “I Got a Bit About That,” 7 The Bayou Bar — Peter Harris Trio, 7 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7 Bombay Club — Josh Paxton, 8 Check Point Charlie — T Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 8

Radar Upcoming concerts »» THE STEEL WOODS, July 11, House of Blues »» MAC SABBATH, OKILLY DOKILLY AND PLAYBOY MANBABY, Aug. 14, Santos Bar »» TASH SULTANA AND THE TESKEY BROTHERS, Sept. 13, Orpheum Theater »» AESTHETIC PERFECTION AND EMPATHY TEST, Sept. 17, The Goat »» MELVINS, REDD KROSS AND SHITKID, Oct. 26, One Eyed Jacks »» GUS DAPPERTON, Oct. 29, Republic NOLA

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran, Topsy Chapman with Palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride presents the Next Generation, 7 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Band of Gold, 8 Santos Bar — Karaoke Shakedown with Alesondra, 10; Swamp Moves with The Russell Welch Quartet, 10:30 SideBar — Cyrille Aimee & Sam Dickey, 7; Aurora Nealand & James Singleton, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra with Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Dr. Rock, 8 The Starlight — Heidijo, 5; Tuba Skinny, 8; Nahum Zdybel’s Hot Jazz band, 11 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Hot Club of New Orleans, 8

Melvins performs Oct. 26 at One Eyed Jacks.

Chickie Wah Wah — Mark Carroll, 6; Dave Jordan & Cary Hudson, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 Columns Hotel — Kathleen Moore, 8 d.b.a. — Tin Men, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Neurotic Diction, 8 Fountain Lounge inside The Roosevelt Hotel — Richard Scott, 5:30 House of Blues— Jeremy Joyce, (Foundation Room) 6; Cary Hudson, (Restaurant & Bar) 6:30 Jazz National Historical Park — Oscar Rossignoli Hour, 11 a.m. The Jazz Playhouse — Big Sam’s Crescent City Connection, 8:30 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — Grayson Brockamp & the New Orleans Wildlife Band, 7 Old U.S. Mint (New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park) — Oscar Rossignoli, 2

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PREVIEW The Spirit of the Beehive BY RAPHAEL HELFAND THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (TSOTB) is a singularity. Like its 1973 Spanish movie namesake, the Philadelphia-based band’s music is eerie and psychedelic, melding complex harmonies, shifting meters and mind-bending effects with catchy melodies and engaging lyrics. The five-piece outfit, fronted by singer/guitarist Zack Schwartz, also includes drummer Pat Conaboy, guitarist/knob twister Kyle Laganella, multi-instrumentalist Corey Wichlin and bassist/vocalist Rivka Ravede. Together, they’ve created a sound that’s as restless as it is intriguing, turning on a dime from post-punk to psych-pop to ambient shoegaze. They’ll showcase their strangeness at Gasa Gasa on Friday, June 14, with support from Portland’s Strange Ranger, Houston’s Overo and New Orleans’ own Pope. TSOTB released its fourth album, “Hypnic Jerks,” in September. It’s the band’s most accessible project yet but also its most complex. It comprises 10 tracks — and each lives in a sonic world all its own. The connective tissue comes from field recordings made by Ravede’s father in the 1960s and ’70s, carefully curated from hundreds of hours of tape and interspersed throughout the album. They lend the tracks a strange sense of solidarity, like distinct alien life forms all arriving confused and lonesome on Earth. At 9 p.m. Friday, June 14, at Gasa Gasa (4920 Freret St., 504-338-3567; www.gasagasa.com.) Strange Ranger, Pope and Overo open.

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One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin & Crescent City Joymakers, 7:30 Rock n’ Bowl — Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys, 8 Saturn Bar — Alex McMurray and His Band, 8 SideBar — Will Thompson & Jeff Albert’s Orkestra Laptoppia, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jasen Weaver Band, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Gorgasm, Kraanium, Cognitive & Alukah, 8 The Starlight — Jonathan Freilich, 5; John Fohl and Tiffany Pollock, 8; Old Riley’s Juke Joint, Ghalia Volt & Shawan Rice, 10

Three Muses — Tom Mcdermott, 5; Arsene deLay, 8

FRIDAY 14 BMC — Lifesavers, 3; The Tempted, 6; Jason Neville Band, 9; Righteous Wrong, 11:59 Bamboula’s — Jeremy Joyce Jazz Adventure, 11 a.m.; Kala Chandra, 2; Smoky Greenwell, 6:30; ACE Brass Band, 10 Bar Redux — De Lune Deluge & Ramshackle Rebellion, 9 The Bayou Bar — Andre Lovett Band, 9 Bombay Club — Steve Detroy Organ Trio, 8:30

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Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Tiffany Pollack with John Fohl, 6; Greg Schatz, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 9 Casa Borrega — Javier Nunez, 7 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Rainey Vixen and the Bandoliers, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Mia Borders & Jesse Morrow, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Friends, 7 d.b.a. — Hot Club, 6; Jack Oblivion & the Redondo Beat, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Metanoia, 6; Carson Station, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point, 10 Fountain Lounge inside The Roosevelt Hotel — Richard Scott, 5:30; Antoine Dielo, 9 Gasa Gasa— The Spirit of the Beehive, Strange Ranger, Pope, Overo, 9 House of Blues— Dick Deluxe, (Restaurant & Bar) 12:30; Captain Buckles, 4; Jake Landry & the Right Lane Bandits, (Foundation Room) 7; Inferno Burlesque, (The Parish) 8; The Prince Experience, 8; Otto Orellana, 10; Jazz National Historical Park — Oscar Rossignoli Hour, 11 a.m. The Jazz Playhouse — Chucky C & Clearly Blue, 7:30; Burlesque Ballroom featuring Trixie Minx & Jazz Vocals by Romy Kaye, 11 The Lazy Jack — Patrick Cooper & Mark Carroll, 6 Le Bon Temps Roule — Tom Worrell, 7 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie & The HoneyCreepers, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Sebadoh with Waveless, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis & Palm Court Jazz Band, 7:30 Rock n’ Bowl — Groovy 7, 9:30 Santos Bar — DJ Otto late night dance party, 11:59 SideBar — Johnny Sansone, 7; Jimmy Robinson & Michael Skinkus, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jason Marsalis & the GBQ Expedition, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Shaye Cohn, 5; Ingrid Lucia Trio, 8; John Zarsky Trio, 11 Three Muses — Matt Johnson, 5:30; Doro Wat, 9 Tipitina’s — Stooges Brass Band & Brass Lightning, 10

SATURDAY 15 BMC — Legends Brass Band, noon; Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 3; Les Getrex & Creole Cookin’, 6; Jam Brass Band, 9; 32 Nola, 11:59 Bamboula’s — Sabertooth Swing, 11 a.m.; G & The Swinging Gypsies, 3:30; City of Trees Brass Band, 11:30 Bar Redux — Tiny Dinosaur, The Gravity Wells & Dusky Waters, 9 Bar Redux — Unity Redux, The Somerton Suitcase, M Tezzy Project & Toby O’Brien, 9 The Bayou Bar — Jordan Anderson, 9 The Bombay Club — Tap Room Four, 8:30

Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — The Royal Rounders, 6; Cricket and the 2:19, 9 Casa Borrega — Olivya Lee, 7 Checkpoint Charlie’s — The Hubcap Kings, 8; Slapface & Bad Moonlander, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake, 8 Circle Bar — Dick Deluxe, 5; Kia Cavallaro & friends, 7; Carter & more, 9:30 d.b.a. — Steve DeTroy and the Swing Revue, 4:30; Tuba Skinny, 7; Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet, 11 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Lynn Drury, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz, 10 Fountain Lounge inside The Roosevelt Hotel — Paul Longstregth, 5:30; Mark Anthony Thomas & Daniel Meinecke, 9 House of Blues— Geovane Santos, (Restaurant & Bar) 12:30; Baby Boy Bartels & the Boys, 4; Kennedy Kuntz & the Men of the Hour (Foundation Room) 7; Big Al and the Heavyweights, 7:30; Nita Strauss (The Parish) 8; Matt Scott, 10 Jazz National Historical Park — West African Drumming and Dance, noon The Jazz Playhouse — The Nayo Jones Experience, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5 The Lazy Jack — Rhino and the Safari Men, 4 Old Point Bar — Martha & The GoodTime Gang, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Fleur De Tease Burlesque, 8 & 10:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Will Smith & Palm Court Jazz Band, 7:30 Rock n’ Bowl — The Mixed Nuts, 9:30 Santos Bar — The Guillotines, Liquor Lies, Manatees & Suzi Sirkus, 6; Bass Church Electronic Dance Party, 11:59 SideBar — Papa Mali, 7; Jonathan Freilich Presents, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Quiana Lynell, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Shea Pierre, 5; Anais St. John, 8; Roslyn DeRoos and the Royal Jazzmen, 11 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Debbie Davis, 6; Shotgun, 9 Tipitina’s — Street Music with Kings of Brass, Da Truth Brass Band, Big 6 Brass Band & TBC Brass Band, 10

SUNDAY 16 BMC — Shawn Williams Band, noon; Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 3; Margi Cates, 7; Moments of Truth, 10 Bamboula’s — Eh La Bas, 11 a.m.; NOLA Ragweeds, 2; Carl LeBlanc, 6:30; Ed Wills Blue 4 Sale, 10 The Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Trio feat. Tim Laughlin, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Jazz Brunch with Some Like It Hot, 11 a.m.; Molly Reeves and Nahum Zdybel, 4; Steve Pistorius Jazz Quartet, 7 Circle Bar — Dick Deluxe, 5; Micah McKee & friends & Blind Texas Marlin, PAGE 39

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MUSIC 7; Ant Zelda’s Rock ’n’ Roll Drag Living Room, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m. d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Percy 7 & 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Simple Sound Retreat, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Michael Liuzza & Friends, 9 House of Blues — Jason Bishop (Restaurant & Bar), 6:30; She Wants Revenge (The Parish), 7 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 The Lazy Jack — Cardboard Cowboy, 3 Old Point Bar — Shawan Rice, 3:30; Romy Kay, Jeanne Marie Harris, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Fleur De Tease Burlesque, 6 & 8:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Mark Braud & Sunday Night Swingsters, 7:30 Santos Bar — Crown Magnetar, Kill, Skullsplit & Daemon Grimm, 8; Rewind Dance Party with DJ Unicorn Fukr, 11:59 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Roderick Harper Quintet, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Orphaned in Storyville, 5; Gabrielle Cavassa Band, 8; Gabrielle Cavassa’s Jazz Jam, 10 Three Muses — Ralph Et Pascal, 5; The Clementines, 8

MONDAY 17 BMC — Frenchie Moe, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bamboula’s — Saint Louis Slim, noon; Perdido Jazz Band, 3; G & The Swinging Gypsies, 6:30; Les Getrez N Creole Cooking, 10 Bar Redux — Glow Up Trivia: 80’s Flashback, 9 Bombay Club — David Boeddinghaus, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene DeLay & Charlie Wooton, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Decatur Street Allstars, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — The Cosmic Americans, 6 Circle Bar — Dem Roach Boyz, 7 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Caesar Brothers, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander & the Monday Night Blues Jam Session, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Troi Atkinson, 9 Fountain Lounge inside The Roosevelt Hotel — Sam Kuslan, 5:30 House of Blues (Restaurant & Bar) — Sean Riley, 6:30

The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Rock n’ Bowl — Nola Swing Dance Connection, 7 Siberia Lounge — Comic Strip: Comedy & Burlesque, 9 SideBar — Instant Opus with Alex Canales, Nahum Zdybel & Murphy Smith, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Susanne Ortner, 6; Rupert Wates UK & Arsene Delay, 9; Shindig with Keith Burnstein and Amanda Walker, 10 Three Muses — Andre Bohren, 5; Esther Rose, 8

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — The organist’s Organ & Labyrinth performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock, played by candlelight. www.albinas.org. Free admission. 6 p.m. Tuesday. In His Company. Mandeville Trailhead, 675 Lafitte St., Mandeville — Coalition of Voices for Christ present Food for the Soul concerts. www.ourcvc.com Free admission. 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Opera Fusion. St. Mary’s Church, 1116 Chartres St. — Lyrica Baroque melds chamber music and operatic drama, with Paul Groves, Sarah Jane McMahon, Eric Silberger, Jaren Atherholt, Benjamin Atherholt, Daniel Lelchuk and Bradley Moore performing works by Maurice Ravel and Atherholt. www.lyricabaroque. com $10-$40. 7 p.m. Friday. Four Band Benefit. Vaughan’s Lounge, 4229 Dauphine St. — Corey Henry and the Treme Funktet headline, with Keith Burnstein and Michael Skinkus, Luna Mora and Mia Borders to benefit the NOLA Grannies nonprofit that works with immigrants seeking legal asylum. www.facebook.com/NOLAGrannies/ $20. 3 p.m. Saturday. Trinity Artist Series. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — The New Orleans Concert Band’s Clarinet Choir, directed by Dr. Charles Taylor, performs a variety of music, including Vivaldi, Beethoven and contemporary arrangements. www.ablinas.org. Free admission. 5 p.m. Sunday.

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TUESDAY 11 Trivia Tuesdays. Auction House Market, 801 Magazine St. — Teams compete for Auction House Market gift cards. Free admission. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 12 Audubon Supper Club. Audubon Zoo, Dominion Auditorium, 6500 Magazine St. — The three-course farm-to-table dinner in the zoo’s Swamp Exhibit supports conservation efforts. www.audubonnatureinstitute.org. $115-$125. 6 p.m. Bayou St. John Walking Tour. The Pitot House, 1440 Moss St. — Stroll through one of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood with a walking tour encompassing Pitot House, a mile walk around the Bayou St. John neighborhood and a brief stop in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 on Esplanade Avenue, led by docent Jamie Barker. www.louisianalandmarks.org $30. 1 p.m. Genealogy Vacations. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — Rosa Terracina Boudreaux, travel expert and genealogist, and Sal Serio, curator of the American Italian Research Library, discuss the purpose and value of genealogical vacations. www.jplibrary.net 7 p.m. Healthy Homes Workshop. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — A training session helps participants understand the connection between housing and health and how to take a holistic approach to identifying and resolving problems that threaten the health and well-being of residents. 9 a.m.

Summit on Compassion & Resilience. Xavier University Convocation Center Annex, 7800 Washington Ave. — New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board and its Childhood Trauma Task Force hold an all-day meeting to discuss existing programs and the city plan and to listen to youth opinions. www.noscr2019.eventbrite.com 8:30 a.m.

THURSDAY 13 Beams and Brews. Central Baptist Church, 131 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway — An Art Deco building shuttered since Hurricane Katrina is being converted into a 20-unit apartment complex by the New Orleans Redevelopment Fund, and there’s a celebration with beer and craft cocktails. www. prcno.org $10. 5:30 p.m. Fund the Gumbo Garden. Belle Epoque, 240 Bourbon St. — An absinthe and oyster celebration supports the garden. www. natfab.org $100. 6 p.m.

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PREVIEW ‘Kinky Boots’ BY WILL COVIELLO IN “KINKY BOOTS,” the Broadway musical based on the 2005 British movie, Charlie wants little to do with his family’s shoe factory. He enjoys his life in London, until his father P H OTO B Y M AT T H E W M U R P H Y dies and he must return home to run the family business, which he learns is failing. The factory workers don’t like him, especially when he lays off workers as their expensive men’s shoes go unsold. Enter Lola, a drag performer who’s tired of working in uncomfortable high-heeled boots. The men in the factory have no interest in making sparkly boots, but the women know just what Lola wants. It’s not easy to please everyone, but Charlie tries to unite hearts and soles. The 2013 Broadway production won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score for Cyndi Lauper’s music and lyrics. She is the first woman to win the award. The touring production of “Kinky Boots” is 8 p.m. Friday, June 14, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, June 15, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, June 16, at Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 525-1052; www.saengernola.com. At. Tickets $39.50 and up.

FRIDAY 14 Burgers and Beats. Hard Rock Cafe, 125 Bourbon St. — The restaurant launches a new menu with a free concert, mini food and beverage servings, a second line and prizes. 4 p.m. Dinner and a ZOOvie. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St. — The series of family-friendly flicks and options for food vendors returns, with “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” screened at the Capital One Bank Field. www.audubonnatureinstitute.org 8 p.m. Favorite Fathers Celebration. Ashe Power House Theater, 1731 Baronne St. — The awards event spotlights men who are models for positive fatherhood. www.ashecac. org $5-$10. 6 p.m. Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art of Art, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park — The evening includes music, movies, children’s activities, the documentary film “The Black Museum,” plus a 30-minute panel discussion. $6-$15; members are free. 6 p.m. “Innovative Explorations.” New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave. — Jazz Museum, New Orleans Opera and OperaCreole host a reception with performances to launch a series of community collaborative educational events, performances and exhibitions over the next year. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. Moon Landing Seminar. St. Tammany Parish Library, Madisonville branch, 1123 Main St., Madisonville — A kickoff for a four-week seminar about the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing includes movies, historical novels, articles and discussion. www.sttammanylibrary.org. 10:30 a.m. No-Cook Friday. Christ Episcopal Church, 1534 Seventh St., Slidell — Spaghetti is on the menu for Christ Episcopal Church’s dinner service, with dine-in or takeout offered. www.christchurchslidell.net. $10. 5 p.m.

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Creating Bonsai from Garden Center Stock. Garden Study Center, Botanical Garden, City Park, 1 Palm Drive — The threehour hands-on workshop features bonsai basics. Bring a bonsai pot, sharp scissors, garden gloves and an apron. Soil, wire and a juniper will be provided. www.neworleanscitypark.com $35. 9 a.m. Cruise Night. Brewster’s Restaurant and Lounge, 8751 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette — The Antique Auto Club of St. Bernard presents a show of antique cars and trucks. Free admission. 7 p.m. Heart Ball. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave. — The gala fundraiser for the American Heart Association includes a seated dinner, dancing, live and silent auctions and a cocktail reception. www. neworleansheartball.heart.org $250. 6 p.m. June Plant Sale. City Park Pelican Greenhouse, 2 Celebration Drive — A variety of annuals, perennials, roses, gingers, edibles, succulents and native plants will be on sale. www.neworleanscitypark.com 9 a.m.

Moonlight Hike and Snow and Ice. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville — Bring a flashlight for an evening stroll through the woods — with a sno-ball. Reservations required. www. northlakenature.org $5. 7:55 p.m.

SUNDAY 16 “A Kingdom, A Car Wash.” The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — the Vagabond Invention fundraiser features performances and a car wash conducted in ball gowns. There’s also improvised ballet, music, a gallery and more. www.vagabondinventions.com. $15-$25. 4 p.m. Bloomsday. Crescent City Books, 124 Baronne St. — Annual celebration of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” starts at the bookstore and moves through the French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny and Bywater as the book is read aloud, ending at the Dynamo Boutique on St. Claude Avenue. There will be music and more. 11 a.m.

SPORTS Father’s Day Race. Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St. — The Richard Newcomb Memorial Father’s Day Race includes a 2-mile and kids’ half-mile event with awards for father/son, father/daughter, grandfather/ grandson, and grandfather/granddaughter teams, as well as awards for individual divisions. www.runnotc.org $15 — $35. 7 a.m. Sunday. Tamika Catchings Legacy Tour Basketball Clinic. Xavier University Convocation Center, 1 Drexel Drive — The clinic for ages 8-14, sponsored by Xavier University and the GNO Sports Foundation with four-time Olympic gold medalist Tamika Catchings, is limited to 50 campers. www.catchthestars. org. Free admission. 10 a.m. Friday.

BOOKS Chris Dier. Gallier House Museum, 1132 Royal St. — The author and educator discusses his book, “The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields.” www. hgghh.org $10-$12. 6 p.m. Wednesday. Chris Yandle. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3414 Highway 190, Suite 10, Mandeville — The author signs the book “Lucky Enough: A Year of A Dad’s Daily Notes of Encouragement and Life Lessons to His Daughter,” and there’s a writers’ workshop. www.barnesandnoble.com. Noon Saturday. PAGE 42

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Earl Higgins. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., Algiers — The author presents and signs his book “100 Catholic Things to Do Before You Die.” www.events.nolalibrary. org 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Gary Alipio. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1601 Westbank Expressway, Harvey — The author discusses and signs his children’s book, “The Craziest Fishing Tale on the Bayou.” www.barnesandnoble.com 11 a.m. Saturday. Kristen Arnett. Saturn Bar, 3067 St. Claude Ave. — The author releases her debut novel “Mostly Dead Things,” with readings by Jami Attenberg, Ann Glaviano, Kristina Kay Robinson and Maurice Carlos Ruffin. www. antenna.works 7 p.m. Wednesday. Maple Leaf Poetry Readings. Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St. — Authors read from their works in the 40th anniversary anthology. 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Raymond Manson. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers — The author presents and signs his book “Bamzy Baby/Thinking Cap.” www.events. nolalibrary.org 2 p.m. Saturday. Rob Swoboda. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie — The author and former Mets right fielder discusses and signs “Here’s The Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More.” www.barnesandnoble.com. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Also, Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St. www.gardendistrictbookshop.com 6 p.m. Thursday, and Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St. www. octaviabooks.com 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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 “The Dead Don’t Die” (R) — A peaceful town named Centerville has to battle a zombie horde in this latest comedy/horror from writer-director Jim Jarmusch, and starring Adam Driver and Bill Murray. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, Broad Theater. “The Fireflies are Gone” — In this Canadian drama, a teenager gets away from her mother’s influence and small-town life to find out who she really is. Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge. “Late Night” (R) — Emma Thompson stars in this comedy as a late night talk show host who fears she is losing control of her long-running program. AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Men in Black — International” (PG-13) — New agents with the intergalactic organization (Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth) square off against a mole in the squad. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Shaft” (R) — Three generations of badmotha-shut-yo-mouth investigators seek clues to uncover the truth behind an untimely death. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern

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NOW SHOWING “Aladdin” (PG) — Will Smith stars as The Genie in the live-action update of Disney’s animated tale about a young man who gains the power to make his wishes come true. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “All is True” (PG-13) — Kenneth Branagh directs this biographical drama that looks at the final days of playwright William Shakespeare. AMC Elmwood Palace 20. “Avengers — Endgame” (PG-13) — A team of heroes including Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Thor and others band together to prevent Thanos’ from destroying the universe. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Booksmart” (R) — Academic girlfriends spend their high school graduation eve cramming four years of fun into one night. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “BrightBurn” (R) — A child from another world lands on Earth and becomes a powerful villain in this violent take on the superhero genre starring Elizabeth Banks. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16. “Cuba — Journey to the Heart of the Caribbean” — The film takes an intimate look at Cuban culture, architecture and ecosystems through the eyes of its artists, historians and scientists. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “Dark Phoenix” (PG-13) — The latest installment in the “X-Men” movie franchise finds the superhero team battling its own Jean Grey (played by Sophie Turner), who is corrupted by dark powers after a rescue mission goes wrong. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “A Dog’s Journey” (PG) — A dog finds the meaning of its life in this sequel to “A Dog’s Purpose.” Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Godzilla — King of the Monsters” (PG13) — Godzilla battles massive monsters, including Mothra and the three-headed King Ghidorah, in this latest adaptation starring Millie Bobby Brown and Vera Farmiga. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Hidden Pacific” — This 3-D presentation profiles some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “Hurricane on the Bayou” — Meryl Streep narrates the documentary about areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Entergy Giant Screen Theater. “The Intruder” (PG-13) — Dennis Quaid plays a crazed man who can’t let go of his former house after it is purchased by a young married couple. AMC Westbank Palace 16.

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“Field of Dreams” (PG) — An Iowa corn farmer (Kevin Costner) hears voices that tell him to build a baseball field among his crops. At 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday, and 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16; at 1 p.m. Sunday, and 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Free Trip to Egypt” — In this feature-length documentary, a man searches and interviews random Americans if they’re concerned about an Islamic threat. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “The Goonies” (PG) — A group of misfits searches for pirate’s treasure in this 1980s adventure/comedy from director Richard Donner. At 11:15 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Wednesday at The Grand 16 Slidell. “The House with a Clock in its Walls” (PG) — A young boy searches for a clock that could bring the apocalypse in this fantasy starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “The Lego Batman Movie” (PG) — Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) must face familiar foes while discovering he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan in this animated comedy. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “The Lego Movie 2” (PG) — Everything is not awesome in this sequel to the animated hit, featuring the voices of Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks. At 10 a.m. Sunday and Monday at Movie Tavern Northshore. “Locked” Antenna Gallery, 3718 St. Claude Ave. — Daneeta Loretta Jackson’s film about urban ecologist Dr. Josh Lewis discussing the history of the Industrial Canal and Lock that dissect the 9th Ward is screened. www. antennaworks.org 7 p.m. Thursday. “The Muppets Take Manhattan” (PG) — Kermit and friends travel to New York City to try and put a musical on Broadway in this 1984 comedy. At 10 a.m. Wednesday at Prytania Theatre. “RiffTrax Live — Star Raiders” (PG-13) — Comedians poke fun and provide commentary on a hokey space opera starring Casper Van Dien as a captain who must save royalty from an evil, alien overlord. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16; 7:25 p.m. Tuesday at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Turbo” (PG) — A garden snail tries to win the Indy 500 in this 2013 animated comedy featuring the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti and Maya Rudolph. At 10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “42nd Street” — A naive newcomer replaces a star in a long-time director’s last Broadway show in this 1933 musical comedy. At 10 a.m. Sunday at Prytania Theatre.

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“John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum” (R) — Keanu Reeves returns as the superassassin with a $14 million price tag on his head. Halle Berry, Anjelica Huston and Laurence Fishburne co-star. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Ma” (R) — Octavia Spencer stars as a lonely woman who befriends a group of teenagers by letting them party at her house. Soon, the teens discover there’s something eerie about their host. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Mouthpiece” — This Canadian drama reveals the voices in a modern woman’s head as she tries to organize affairs for her mother’s funeral. Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge. “Pokemon Detective Pikachu” (PG) — A boy comes across a talking furry monster named Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) in this adventure-comedy based on the popular anime series. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Rocketman” (R) — Taron Egerton stars as Elton John in this musical/fantasy look at at the singer-songwriter’s breakthrough years. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Prytania Theatre, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “The Secret Life of Pets 2” (PG) — An animated sequel follows a dog named Max and his pet friends as they carry on secret lives once their owners leave for work and school. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “The Souvenir” (R) — A young film student becomes romantically involved with an untrustworthy man in this mysterious romantic drama from writer/director Joanna Hogg. AMC Elmwood Palace 20.

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p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Friday and Sunday. “Debauchery.” Southern Rep Theatre, 2541 Bayou Road — New Orleans’ only live soap opera about a family and their hijinks and lowjinks, by Pat Bourgeois. www.southernrep.com Tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” Destrehan Auditorium, Destrehan High School, 1 Wildcat Lane, Destrehan — The River Region Drama Guild presents the play based on the 1988 film about two con men on the Riviera and the comic goings on as they to out con each other. Tickets $20-$25. 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday “Kinky Boots.” Saenger Theater, 1111 Canal St. — The Tony Award-winning musical based on the movie has a book by Harvey Fierstein and music by Cyndi Lauper and tells the story of Charlie Price, a young man taking over his family’s failing shoe business when he meets Lola, who helps turn around the business in a most unusual way. www.saengernola.com. Tickets $40$79+. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 7 p.m. Sunday. “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical.” Southern Rep Theatre, 2541 Bayou Road — A trip to the laundromat takes a turn when “somebunny” is left behind in Southern Rep’s show, based on the award-winning children’s book “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale.” www.southernrep.com/knuffle-bunny. Tickets $10-15. 11 a.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. “Much Ado About Nothing.” Tulane University, Lupin Theatre, 16 Newcomb Place — The Bard’s comedy about the battle of the sexes is set against a backdrop of friends and enemies wreaking havoc in the love lives of two couples. It marks the opening of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane season. www.neworleansshakespeare.org. Tickets $20-$30. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Sunday. “Shear Madness.” Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St. — Jefferson Performing Arts Society and Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre bring back the audience-participation murder mystery whodunit set in a salon and filled with laughs. www.jpas. org. Tickets $15-$55. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. “Stories in the Stars.” East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — Hampstead Stage Co. presents a compilation of Greek myths, exploring the constellations and legends. www.jplibrary. org. Free admission. 10:30 a.m. Thursday. “The Rat Pack Now.” National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — The show is a tribute to the famed casino shows featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., with comedy, style and singing and a dinner option. www.nationalww2museum.org. Tickets $29-$65. 6 p.m. Friday. “The Reluctant Dragon.” Rogers Memorial Chapel, Tulane University — With original musical by Ricky Graham, Fred Palmisano and Jefferson Turner, the show is the tale of a dragon who’d rather sing and write songs than be the monster the villagers assume. A local youngster (with the help of St. George) sets the record straight, with a message of tolerance and acceptance. For ages 5 and up. www.summerlyric.tulane. edu. Tickets $5-10. 11 a.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday. “Trixie Minx’s Burlesque Ballroom.” The Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta, 300 Bourbon St. — This modern twist on a classic burlesque show has a live band in an immersive speakeasy environment with Trixie Minx co-starring with a rotating cast

of special guests and vocals by Romy Kaye and the Mercy Buckets. www.sonesta.com/ jazzplayhouse. Tickets $20. 11 p.m. Friday. The Victory Belles. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — This female vocal trio is reminiscent of The Andrews Sisters and other groups of the war era, with a repertoireof 1940s and patriotic tunes. There are lunch and brunch options. www. nationalww2museum. Tickets $25-$60. 12:45 p.m. Wednesday. Weird Al Yankovic: Strings Attached. Saenger Theater, 1111 Canal St. — The comedy recording satirist plays hits and classics featuring his original band, costumes, props, a video wall, backup singers and a symphony orchestra. www.saengernola. com. Tickets $48-$73. 8 p.m. Thursday.

COMEDY Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Vincent Zambon and Cyrus Cooper host a stand-up comedy show. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St. — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday. Comedy Gold. House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge), 229 Decatur St. — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Frederick RedBean Plunkett hosts an open-mic stand-up show. 8 p.m. Thursday. Comedy Night in New Orleans. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — Comics of The New Movement take the stage. 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Comedy in the Kennel. The Ugly Dog Saloon, 401 Andrew Higgins Blvd. — A stand-up comedy show features some of the funniest people New Orleans has to offer. Free admission. 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Comic Strip. Siberia Lounge, 2227 St. Claude Ave. — Chris Lane hosts the standup comedy open mic with burlesque interludes. 9:30 p.m. Monday. Crescent Fresh. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Ted Orphan and Geoffrey Gauchet host the stand-up comedy open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Thursday. Felipe Esparza: The Bad Hambre Tour. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St. — The standup comedian and podcaster of “What’s Up Fool?” brings his show to the Crescent City. www.thejoytheater.com. Tickets $35$60. 8 p.m. Saturday. Greetings, From Queer Mountain. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — The storytelling show features LGBT speakers. Tickets $8. 7:30 p.m. Friday. Haeg and Butts Presents:. Parleaux Beer Lab, 634 Lesseps St. — The weekly standup, improv and sketch show features local performers. www.parleauxbeerlab.com. 8 p.m. Sunday. Jeff D Comedy Cabaret. Oz, 800 Bourbon St. — This weekly showcase features comedy and drag with Geneva Joy, Carl Cahlua and guests. 10 p.m. Thursday. Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up

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‘Virtual Idylls: Botanical Video Projections by Courtney Egan’ BY D. ERIK BOOKHARDT “A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE.” So said Gertrude Stein. But is it really? The popular contemporary philosopher Eckhart Tolle says we should forget the name and just contemplate the rose as it slowly reveals its magic. Stein presaged conceptual art, and Tolle recalls modern physics and ancient mysticism. Conceptual and mystical notions appear in this “Virtual Idylls” expo of video projection art by Courtney Egan. The magnolia flower in “Repository” might initially recall Gertrude Stein’s rose until we see it slowly, gracefully unfolding to reveal its magical presence. Like a mandala made of moonlight, it is clearly a living thing with a shimmering life of its own. That aura of magic running through Egan’s oeuvre can be unforgettable if encountered in the right circumstances, as some might recall from the claw-foot bathtub filled with night-blooming cereus flowers slowly blossoming in the dusky bathroom of an old house as part of a Prospect.2 satellite exhibition in 2011. The tub was real, but flowers, a time-lapse video projection, were light in motion. A somewhat reminiscent experience appears here in the slow-dancing cereus flowers of her mandala-like “Sleepwalkers” wall projection. A more conceptual approach appears in “Metalfora,” a wall video that dominates the gallery as one enters the exhibit. The flora suggest glowing wallpaper, but when triggered by motion sensors, they blossom quickly, reflecting the random, haphazard way people move around in a world where the need for speed makes true contemplation almost impossible. But another new work, “Self Fulfilling Prophesy” (pictured), takes us to the magical space-time of angel’s trumpet flowers as they slowly unfurl. Here the projection includes a sculptural element in the form of replica human arms that seem to clutch serpentine strands of the glowing blossoms, echoing a scene in French surrealist Jean Cocteau’s landmark film “Beauty and the Beast.” These works reveal how Egan, a New Orleans native whose vision was influenced by her childhood experiences growing up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, transcends genres, boundaries and expectations. Through August. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600, www.ogdenmuseum.org.

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. St. Claude Comedy Hour. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — A standup show hosted by Clark Taylor features local veterans, up-and-comers, touring acts and surprise guests. 9:30 p.m. Friday. Sunday Night Social Club. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — There’s a different show each week, featuring local The New Movement talent and specialty showcase. 7 p.m. Sunday. The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — We Are Young Funny comedians presents the stand-up comedy show and open mic in The Scrapyard. 8 p.m. Tuesday. The Wheel of Improv. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — It’s “American Ninja Warrior” mixed with an episode of “Saturday Night Live” and a dash of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” — a blend of formats randomly jammed together and executed by a team of experienced performers. 8 p.m. Thursday. 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. Thursday Night Special. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — A rotating comedy showcase features innovative

standup, sketch and improv comedy shows. 8 p.m. Thursday.

ART OPENINGS Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St. — “Verve,” an exhibition of works by Rebekah Kay, Neal Novak and Mary Singleton, through July 29; opening reception, 6 p.m. Saturday.

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HAPPENINGS Lucky Art Fair. 2604 Iberville St.— The fair features original exhibitions and installations by 35 local artists. Admission is by donation. www.luckyartfair.com. 4 p.m. Tuesday, noon Saturday and Sunday. Montlaur Monday. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — Guy de Montlaur, a French painter who fought Nazis during World War II and whose work is in the exhibit “In Memory of What I Cannot Say,” would paint to music. Classical music will play outside the gallery to accompany and inspire artwork created by guests. www.nationalww2museum.org. Free admission. 9 a.m. Monday.

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