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TUE.-SUN. DEC. 17-22 | In the touring Broadway musical based on the 1983 movie and full of nostalgia for childhood dreaming and scheming, young Ralphie Parker is determined to land the greatest gift of all: an air rifle. Showtimes vary at Saenger Theatre.

Snoop Dogg TUE. DEC. 17 | While receiving a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame last year, Snoop Dogg took a little time to thank himself. It wasn’t meant as a boast (although there was some). It was self-love, a recognition of putting in the hard work over a nearly 30-year career. That theme carries over on his new album, “I Wanna Thank Me.” At 7 p.m. at The Fillmore New Orleans.

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Judith Owen sings a diverse array of tunes, from the songbook classic “Dream a Little Dream of Me” to Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” Owens is married to comedian and actor Harry Shearer, star of “This is Spinal Tap” and voice of many characters on “The Simpsons.” It may have seemed like she was aiming for a humor album by covering Wild Cherry’s “Play that Funky Music,” Donna Summer’s disco classic “Hot Stuff” and Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.” But she was serious, and her jazzy renditions gave fresh insight to several of those tunes. Owens and Shearer have it both ways at their annual holiday singalong, which they typically perform in several cities. They host two shows (Dec. 17-18) at Le Petit Theatre as a benefit for both the theater and the New Orleans Musicians Clinic & Assistance Foundation. They’re among a handful of benefit concerts for good causes in New Orleans this week. Shearer has focused more on music in recent years. Last year, his “Spinal Tap” alter ego, bassist Derek Smalls, released a solo album, “Smalls Change (Meditations on Ageing).” In November, a Smalls West Coast tour featured musical guests Steve Vai, Dweezil Zappa, former Steely Dan keyboardist Donald Fagan and the horn section of jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy. Owens and Shearer’s “Christmas Without Tears” shows grew out of holiday house parties at their home in Southern California. Owens’ missed the holiday weather and traditions of her native Wales. In 2005, they moved the show to a theater as a benefit for people affected by Hurricane Katrina. The shows feature traditional and nontraditional holiday songs and some comedic interludes. This year’s shows features actor and singer Bryan Batt, burlesque dancer Trixie Minx and musicians including vocalists Solid Harmony,

Booker Birthday Bash WED. DEC. 18 | The Maple Leaf Bar celebrates the birthday of its patron saint, James Booker, with performances by keyboardists Tom Worrell, Tom McDermott, David Torkanowsky, CR Gruver, Joe Krown and Bill Malchow and there is a screening of Lily Keber’s documentary about Booker, “Bayou Maharajah.” At 7 p.m.

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Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Tonya Boyd-Cannon, Eric Bloom, Dayna Kurtz, Tom McDermott, Larry Sieberth and Phil DeGruy. (7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., 504-5222081; www.lepetittheatre.com. Tickets $50-$75.) Home for the Holidays is an annual benefit for scholarships for students at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The event is the main fundraiser for the Daniel Price Memorial Fund (www.danielpricememorial. org), named for a former NOCCA student who was killed in San Francisco while trying to protect his wife from an assault in 2003. Price was a talented painter, and the concerts have typically included musicians he knew or of whom he was a fan. The concert features Trombone Shorty and Friends, Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, the Preservation Hall Band, Alexis and the Samurai, James Andrews, New Breed Brass Band and Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. Irma Thomas and John Boutte perform at the patron party. (Patron party: 6:30 p.m. Friday; concert: 8 p.m. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., 504-3104999; www.houseofblues.com/

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FRI. DEC. 20 | If you missed The B-52s show at the Saenger Theatre in August, this is your second chance. The dance-rock band is still on its 40th anniversary tour with Berlin, a new wave staple of the early ’80s. The bands kick off activities around the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. At 7:30 p.m. at Champions Square.

En Minor neworleans. Tickets $45 for the concert, $145-$290 for patron party). Troy Andrews’ Trombone Shorty Foundation was created to offer musical mentorship to area youth. The foundation’s Tunes for Toys concert is Thursday at Tipitina’s. There are performances by Andrews, Trombone Shorty Academy students, Hot 8 Brass Band and New Breed Brass Band. The foundation presented toys to 500 children last year and has donated a total of $25,000 worth of toys in the last three years, a foundation spokesperson says. Admission is free with the donation of a new toy. The foundation will deliver toys 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Andrews’ alma mater, Warren Easton Charter High School, where there will be live music, face painting, a visit from Santa Claus and more. (Concert: 8 p.m. Thursday. Tiptina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., 504-895-8477; www.tipitinas.com.)

FRI. DEC. 20 | Philip Anselmo’s En Minor project is the sound of a bleak, unyielding Southern funeral march. The singer leans into the low, gravelly end of his vocal range, grinding over atmospheric gothic Americana all the way to the grave. En Minor played its first live show in August at One Eyed Jacks. It’s back at the venue at 10 p.m.

Mark Rapp and Wess Anderson’s Boogaloo Christmas SAT. DEC. 21 | Longtime Wynton Marsalis Septet member and saxophonist Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson and trumpeter Mark Rapp have found common ground in traditional styles and boogaloo. They celebrate a boogaloo Christmas at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro.

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letter to Republican legislators in the Louisiana House advocating their choice of a conservative House speaker without input from Democrats or Independents. They claimed a conservative mandate, though Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards was re-elected in November. Until Edwards’ first gubernatorial win, the governor had a strong say in the selection of the speaker.

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made headlines when he went on one of his frequent tirades on the Senate floor, once again spouting blatant falsehoods about vaccines. A few years earlier in 2016, Baton Rouge rapper Kevin Gates told Rolling Stone that his children were “advanced” for their age because they weren’t vaccinated. But according to a survey by Louisiana polling firm JMC Analytics, the vast majority of Louisianans aren’t buying it. Instead they side with the overwhelming research that shows vaccines are safe and effective in preventing outbreaks of disease. Of those surveyed, 95% of people either strongly agreed or agreed that vaccines were important to protect children from serious diseases. Nearly as many (92%) said the same for adults. Nearly three-fourths (73%) said they agreed with the statement: “Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are making a bad choice.” Additionally, 91% of respondents said children should be immunized in order to attend school. Only 5% said they disagreed or strongly disagreed. “While vaccine hesitancy has gained momentum nationally as a consequence of misinformation, Louisiana families understand and appreciate the role vaccines play in keeping their children safe and healthy,” said Dr. John Vanchiere, a Shreveport pediatric infectious disease specialist and representative of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which commissioned the poll. Respondents were more split over whether laws “to reduce the number of reasons for not getting vaccinations are a good idea,” with 54% agreeing, 28% disagreeing and 17% saying they did not know. And 60% said they did not agree that parents should be allowed to refuse to get their children vaccinated “for any reason,” while 28% thought they should. Another 12% said they did not know. The survey results come after the United States saw a resurgence of PAGE 9

That’s a median usual weekly earnings of $698 for Louisiana women compared to $918 for men in the state. That wage gap was 1.4% larger than it was in 2017, when women earned $686 a week and men earned $886. Nationally, women earned 81 cents for every dollar men did. The survey only included full-time wage and salary workers.

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Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma on Nov. 29. Ramirez, a construction worker who was injured by the collapse, spoke out about the unsafe conditions he’d witnessed to local Spanish-language publication Jambalaya News. Ramirez is a Honduran national who had lived in the New Orleans area for nearly two decades. He was arrested by Border Patrol two days after the collapse. An ICE official told The Times Picayune | New Orleans Advocate that Ramirez’s comments after the collapse had nothing to do with his deportation. Ramirez was ordered to be deported in 2016, and nine days before the collapse he was denied a request that would have delayed his deportation. Frank Curiel, organizing coordinator for LIUNA and a Slidell construction worker, said Ramirez’s deportation has scared other construction workers in the area and continues to deter them from speaking to those investigating the collapse out of fear the same could happen to them. “This young man (Ramirez) was in that building when it collapsed,” Curiel said. “There was other folks in that building when it collapsed, and some of those folks didn’t come forward. They didn’t come forward because of the fact that you’re going to show up, you’re going to give them your name, you’re going to give them your address and you’re going to say you work there. I mean, that doesn’t work.” Curiel has been advocating for workers’ rights for decades and said his mission is still the same: “safety for all workers over corporate greed.” In his union work, he has fought for job training and licensing and against employers intentionally misclassifying workers as independent contractors. Misclassifying workers can cause them to lose workplace protections such as unemployment insurance and disability compensation, and many misclassified workers are immigrants, he said. “As you can tell, I’ve been working with immigrants for 47 years, all over the country, Mexico, Canada, United States,” he said. “To be the year 2019, and we still got these issues… “(In New Orleans) it started during Katrina,” he added. “Immigrant workers came from all over the country to help, and then what do they do afterwards? They put the immigration on them. They put ICE on them.” The rally will take place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Speakers will include Curiel and Ramirez’s wife, Tania Bueso. — KAYLEE POCHE

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IT’S ALWAYS NICE to get a positive review from an inspector general’s report, but it’s especially welcome when the good news relates to one of the city’s most intractable problems — drainage. The latest audit report from the New Orleans Office of Inspector General (OIG) examines the emergency catch basin cleaning and repair project authorized by the previous City Council after the Aug. 5, 2017 floods that followed an unusually heavy (and concentrated) downpour in several parts of town. The floods triggered even more outrage than usual among citizens and led to a series of reforms at City Hall, at the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB) and even by state lawmakers. (S&WB was created by the Legislature more than a century ago.) In addition to the reforms, the floods precipitated (pardon the pun) a change of leadership across the top tier at S&WB. Perhaps more than anything else, they revealed just how daunting S&WB’s challenges remain. Simply put, New Orleans’ drainage system is old and crumbling in almost every corner of town. It’s going to take a long time, and many millions (if not more than $1 billion) to fix it. That’s the bad news. The good news, at least for now, is that the initial response came in on time, under budget, and in some ways exceeded expectations. High fives to the city’s Department of Public Works (DPW) for that. The OIG sampled 400 catch basins among the 15,000 slated for emergency cleaning and repair in the wake of the 2017 floods. That’s a small sample, but that’s how random audits work. What’s important are the OIG’s findings: Contractors completed their inspections, cleanings, and/or repairs according to the scope of work required and billed for services according to contractual rates. Equally if not more important, the four contractors collectively billed the city $1.6 million LESS than the budgeted amount. The scope of the emergency contract was enormous. The contractors — Royal Engineers & Consultants (Royal), RamJ Construction (RAMJ), Compliance EnviroSystems (CES), and Hard Rock Construction — inspected more than 26,000 catch basins across New Orleans. According to the OIG report, RAMJ and CES exceeded the contract estimate and cleaned 15,643 catch basins, while Hard Rock repaired 3,408. Additionally, CES and Hard

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Rock completed all catch basin cleanings and repairs, respectively, within established deadlines. Along with the good news, the OIG report included a cautionary note: “Despite the successful project, the underlying drainage infrastructure may be clogged and/or broken, which may prevent proper drainage through the cleaned and/or repaired catch basins. The impaired drainage infrastructure could contribute to localized flooding. To recognize the full benefits of the catch basin cleanings and repairs, the drainage collection lines also need to be cleaned and/or repaired.” Put another way, a lot of work remains to be done. This is not new information, but it’s an important reminder. DPW attributed the positive review to new technology that it will continue to use. We congratulate the contractors and the staff at DPW, but we remain mindful that, for the foreseeable future, New Orleans will remain one thunderstorm (and one tropical event) away from disaster.

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for generations before that, Louisiana lawmakers took a nonpartisan approach to governance. For most of that time, Democrats held solid majorities in both the House and Senate. They worked with Republicans to elect the leaders of both chambers and, equally important, they gave GOP legislators a share of committee chairmanships. That’s how, for example, New Orleans state Rep. Peppi Bruneau, one of few Republican legislators in the early 1980s, played an outsized role in the decennial redistricting process, once even chairing the House and Governmental Affairs Committee (which writes redistricting plans). Bruneau, a staunch conservative who now serves on the state Ethics Commission, later served as House parliamentarian and speaker pro tempore under Democratic House speakers. Bruneau earned those roles in the House because he knew the law and the legislative process — and because he was trusted and respected by his Democratic colleagues. Legislating back then was based on relationships, trust and mutual respect, even when there were sharp differences of opinion. Those days are gone now that Republicans have a supermajority in the Senate and a near-supermajority in the House. Today, led by two of Louisiana’s biggest political grandstanders — U.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy and Attorney General Jeff Landry — House Republicans are urged to ignore Democrats in the election of a Speaker and in the assignment of committee chairs. Kennedy and Landry, who ran a PAC that helped elect several members of the state House, even put it in writing. In a recent letter to the House’s 68 GOP members, they wrote: “The people of Louisiana have spoken. With their votes for senators and representatives, they have sent a clear message on conservative representation. Honoring those votes by ensuring we have a conservative speaker backed by the majority of our majority party in the state House is extremely important.” In an interview with the Associated Press, Landry made it clear: “I was hearing that there were a number of Republicans who just said, ‘If we don’t have our way, we’re going to negotiate with the Democrats.’ If

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you’re going to run as a Republican, if you’re going to get up on the ballot and wear the party label, you have to be able to act like a Republican.” In other words, to hell with bipartisanship. To hell with building trust and relationships to get things done. Kennedy and Landry apparently have already forgotten that Louisiana voters rejected the hyper-partisan pitch of Eddie Rispone and President Donald Trump just four weeks ago when they re-elected Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards to a second term. The governor campaigned on a platform of bipartisanship, touting landmark legislation that he helped enact by reaching across the aisle to work with the GOP majorities in the House and Senate. That doesn’t work for Kennedy, Landry and the uber-right-wingers of the House. They want to institutionalize Washington, D.C.-style governance (read: gridlock) in Louisiana, regardless of voters’ feelings to the contrary. They also seem to have forgotten how to count. The GOP is two votes shy of a veto-proof majority in the House — and gridlock is not a strategy. It’s a cop-out.

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Hey Blake, I remember visiting a large Nativity scene near Pontchartrain Beach in the 1960s. Am I dreaming this or can you help jog my childhood Christmas memories?

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Blaine Kern Sr. is known as “Mr. Mardi Gras” and for founding the Carnival float-building empire of Kern Studios, but in the 1960s the company also helped decorate the city for Christmas. For about a decade, beginning in 1965, Kern created a life-sized Nativity scene that was on display near Pontchartrain Beach. “Carnival float builders are moving into the outdoor Christmas display field and one of the most spectacular in town is a graphically life-sized representation of the nativity in the Pontchartrain Beach parking area to the west of Elysian Fields Avenue,” Times-Picayune columnist Howard Jacobs wrote in December 1965. The Nativity scene was sponsored by New Orleans Public Service Inc. (NOPSI), the city’s utility, bus and streetcar company. According to a 1966 article, Kern approached NOPSI and the Orleans Levee Board with the idea for the Nativity. The original display included more than a dozen life-sized figures and animals in a traditional manger setting. “The display extends for some 40

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feet against a background of palms and other natural foliage,” Jacobs wrote. “The Holy Family and shepherds are simply clad, while the Three Kings are ornately gowned and jeweled.” By the second year, 1966, the display had grown to 30 figures. “They were modeled in clay, cast in plaster, then executed in papier mache. The same craft which produces the make-believe characters of Mardi Gras yields the worship figures commemorating Christmas night in Bethlehem,” wrote The Times-Picayune. The last mention in print of the Nativity scene was in 1972. “A visit to the nativity scene has become a tradition with many New Orleans families, particularly those entertaining out of town guests,” The Times-Picayune wrote in December 1972.

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The city delivered big-time for Gov. John Bel Edwards in his close re-election win. Now, what do local leaders want from him?

CAN’T BE UNDERSTATED HOW IMPORTANT NEW ORLEANS WAS TO GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS’ RE-ELECTION. Orleans Parish voted 90% for the governor on Nov. 16, giving him a 101,000-vote margin in the city over Republican challenger Eddie Rispone. Edwards also carried Jefferson Parish, historically a Republican stronghold, with 57% of the vote. Wins in Baton Rouge and Shreveport likewise helped him secure his relatively narrow, 40,000-vote statewide margin. Now that Edwards has won re-election, what should New Orleans expect from him in his second term? Gambit posed that question to a cross-section of local leaders.

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On the wish list: Support for infrastructure works; champion New Orleans initiatives.

In September, all seven members of the New Orleans City Council, along

with Mayor LaToya Cantrell and many other local officials, endorsed Edwards in his re-election bid. Now that he has won a second term, councilmembers are hoping for new investments in the city and more local control. “We have significant issues, particularly with our infrastructure, that we will continue to need the governor’s help and support with,” says City Council President Helena Moreno. “Overall, re-electing Gov. Edwards was critical to New Orleans’ future: from infrastructure, to public safety, to equal pay and a livable wage, to increasing funding for higher education, to coastal restoration and climate action, and to early child-

hood education.” “I’ve started conversations with members of the New Orleans delegation about using capital outlay for [the city’s] most pressing infrastructure needs,” says District A Councilmember Joseph I. Giarrusso III, chair of the council’s Public Works, Sanitation and Environmental Committee. “The bottom line is our streets and Sewerage and Water Board systems need all the money they can get from sources outside the city. The potential of using the state capital outlay process needs to be explored.” “I’m hoping we can get more money out of the capital outlay process for infrastructure and for community-based projects,” says District B Councilmember Jay Banks, also a member of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. “There’s a desperate need to take advantage of the state’s resources for healthcare. I also hope [Edwards] will be a champion for untying New Orleans’ hands so that we can have our own property assessment structure, our own minimum wage laws and our own gun control laws. Nobody else has the pressure we have.”

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On the wish list: Focused appointments to boards that affect the tourism industry; support of affordable housing in New Orleans. While Edwards’ accomplishments in his first four years (particularly Medicaid expansion) mattered greatly to people in New Orleans’ cultural industry, his first term wasn’t necessarily culturally specific, says Ethan Ellestad, executive director of The Music & Culture Coalition of New Orleans, an advocacy group for the city’s musicians, artists and traditional culture bearers. That’s partly because statewide policies that deal with Louisiana’s cultural assets and tourism are set PAGE 19

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19 by the lieutenant governor’s office. “It’s also segmented to the tourism industry, which essentially runs the cultural policy of the state,” Ellestad says. Ellestad adds that Edwards could have more of an impact by appointing people with stronger ties to the cultural community to the boards of directors that influence New Orleans’ tourism industry. Two examples: The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority, where Edwards can appoint nine members; and the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District Board, commonly known as the Superdome Commission. Another point: More support for affordable housing in New Orleans. “For the culture,” Ellestad says, “it is investing in making sure people can stay in the communities where they’re from, because they are not just the creators of the culture, which comes from working class black communities, but also they are part of the service industry, which is the backbone of the tourism industry.”

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tion of the state’s Coastal Master Plan for protecting and restoring Louisiana’s disappearing coastline. “We see the Coastal Master Plan and stabilization of the coast as a defensive imperative,” Hecht says. “We need to be able to still live and work near the coast, but it’s also an opportunity because as we continue to work here in Louisiana, we’re going to create thousands of jobs and develop an expertise that we can then sell around the world. The Dutch and the Netherlands drive about 4% of their GDP by selling their water technology around the world. We think we can become the Dutch of North America.”

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On the wish list: Continued reinvestment in higher education; continued implementation of the Coastal Master Plan; investment in early childhood education. Louisiana’s economic and financial turnaround during his first term was something Edwards strongly campaigned on during his re-election bid. Tax compromises and a $500 million surplus gave Louisiana fiscal stability, which in turn fostered New Orleans’ own economic development, says Michael Hecht, president and CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc., a regional economic development alliance. That new stability “created the conditions where people felt comfortable investing in the state,” Hecht says. Edwards has already addressed two of his second-term agenda items that GNO, Inc., considers priorities: more money for higher education, which the governor promised earlier this month; and more funding for early childhood education. Another item on the GNO, Inc., wish list is continued implementa-

In 2018, Edwards vetoed a bill that would have blocked local governments from passing inclusionary zoning policies requiring housing developers to mix in affordable units in new housing projects. The bill, which was backed by the state’s homebuilder lobby, would have reversed a provision in the state’s law, changing localities’ authority from requiring affordable units to only encouraging them through incentives. That veto cleared the way for New Orleans to pass an inclusionary zoning ordinance earlier this year, requiring affordable housing units in new or rehabilitated housing construction downtown and in adjacent areas. Edwards has been an “ally in protecting our local governments from preemption efforts,” says Cashauna Hill, executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. “We are definitely going to need that continued support for our local leaders to be able to craft locally based solutions to housing issues in communities across the state.” The center also hopes Edwards will lead in efforts to develop codified protections for renters, Hill says. Such protections include making rent collectable over a 10-day period and removing the common “waiver of notice” provision in

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On the wish list: Leadership in protecting transgender rights. Early in his administration, Edwards signed an executive order protecting LGBTQ state employees and employees of state contractors from discrimination. The Louisiana Supreme Court struck down that order in 2018. Still, the executive order was a “powerful climate-setting work,” says Dylan Waguespack, Louisiana Trans Advocates president, “just for people to know this administration has their backs.” Considering the more conservative legislature that will take office next month, “any sort of policy agenda that we have, a lot of the focus will be on defense,” Waguespack says. He adds that the governor can still promote transgender rights by addressing inconsistencies in healthcare access, so that vulnerable people seeking medically necessary care through Medicaid don’t have to move through multiple appeal processes. Another is to focus more on LGBTQ youth in the state’s foster care system and investing in affirming placements for those young people. Foster care systems across the country have a distinct disparity in the number of LGBTQ-identifying children as compared to the general population. “Our state has done an amazing job of turning things around as far as how well [The Department of Children and Family Services] is being funded to recruit placements in general,” Waguespack says. “For there to be some intention set to specifically look at LGBTQ youth and children and how they’re served by the system would be a big deal.”

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On the wish list: Funding for early childhood education; minimum wage increase; protections for survivors of domestic abuse.

The United Way of Southeast Louisiana sees Edwards’ push to fund early childhood education as a priority, says Chief Operating Officer Charmaine Caccioppi. The initiative has bipartisan support, and $18.8 million in new funding came during Edwards’ first term. In January, the Early Childhood Care and Education Commission called for a minimum annual investment of $86 million to fund the state’s plan to expand early development and education access for children from ages 0-3. According to the commission, those funds should be used first to address a waiting list of about 5,500 children in the state’s Child Care and Assistance Program, and then grow education opportunities for 114,000 Louisiana children in need. “It’s going to pay off for New Orleans first more than likely,” says Kim Sport, chair of the organization’s public policy committee. That’s because the city has already started to invest in early childhood education, including $3 million toward public day care included in the recently approved city budget. City leaders are anticipating those funds to be matched next year through a state fund. Also on the local United Way’s wish list: passing a minimum wage bill, closing the gender pay gap and maintaining protections for victims of domestic violence. In his first term, Edwards signed numerous bills that extended and strengthened those protections. “Even though we didn’t get an equal pay bill passed,” Sport says, “he’s at the table every single year, saying that if we’re going to have equality in the state, if we’re going to raise families out of poverty, if we’re going to make sure that women don’t make 76 cents on the dollar compared to men, we need to change the law.”

On the wish list: Tackling “Cancer Alley” and developing a racial equity committee.

“You’ve got to take risks when you deal with racism,” says Ron Chisom, co-founder of The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. “And you’re going to upset some people who got you into office. But to deal with racism and go after equity, you’re going to upset some people. That’s the strategic risk that I’d like to see the governor do.” Chisom says he believes Edwards is aware of the persistent issues of systemic racism in Louisiana. Edwards has developed close relationships with black leaders in New Orleans and in the Legislature. But Chisom is unsure how Edwards has been addressing those issues. He has two recommendations: Deal with “Cancer Alley,” the stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where industrial pollution has been linked to higher cancer rates in predominantly black and poor communities; and develop an effective racial equity committee. “There’s got to be something deeper,” Chisom says, “to make an impact in the state of Louisiana. Something that gives people some hope.”

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On the wish list: Addressing the maternal mortality crisis; minimum wage increase; required sex education classes in schools.

Over the course of his first term, Edwards signed several strict an-

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ti-abortion measures — a 2016 bill mandating a 72-hour waiting period between a doctor’s consultation and when an abortion could be performed, and bans on abortion at 15 weeks (signed in 2018) and, later, a ban after just six weeks of pregnancy, commonly called a “heartbeat bill.” All of those laws are currently in litigation and are not in effect in Louisiana. Edwards’ anti-abortion record (which has been consistent throughout his public career) drew anger among abortion rights supporters and fierce opposition from a lot of New Orleanians. The City Council unanimously passed a resolution condemning the six-week ban, calling it extreme, draconian and dangerous. Lift Louisiana, an advocacy group for women’s health and wellbeing, is disappointed by Edwards’ anti-abortion views and actions, says Executive Director Michelle Erenberg. Lift will “continue to encourage his thinking when it comes to reproductive rights,” Erenberg says, and support his efforts that would improve the lives of Louisiana women and families. Edwards’ initiatives to increase the minimum wage, reduce the gender pay gap and invest in early childhood education are solid goals for his next term, Erenberg says. According to the National Women’s Law Center, women comprise nearly two-thirds of minimum-wage workers in Louisiana, where the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour (the federal rate) or $2.13 for tipped employees. “In an economy like New Orleans, where we’re a service-based economy, increasing the minimum wage would have a huge impact on people’s pocketbooks,” Erenberg says. So far, Edwards’ minimum wage efforts — his push in early 2019 was for $9 — have been stymied by the Legislature. Another priority Lift wants Edwards to address is the state’s high maternal mortality rate. The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and according to the United Health Foundation, Louisiana ranks second in maternal mortality. In March, USA Today reported that Touro Infirmary was the most dangerous New Orleans area hospital for new mothers — but not the worst in the state; Our Lady of the Angels Hospital in Bogalusa holds that title. A 2018 report by the Louisiana Department of Health found that black women were four times more

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Louisiana, once the undisputed incarceration capital of the U.S., made progress in criminal justice reform after Edwards in 2017 signed a package of bills that strengthened alternatives to imprisonment, steered less serious offenders away from prison, reduced prison terms and reinvested in communities to help reduce recidivism. The state’s prison population has fallen from a peak of 39,867 people at the end of 2012 to 32,397 at the end of 2018. Oklahoma has had to claim the “capital” title — although, as Julia O’Donoghue wrote in April for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, that may be contested given how Oklahoma counts its prison population. It was a good start, says Will Snowden, director of the Vera Institute of Justice’s New Orleans office. Still, there are ways to continue to reduce Louisiana’s large jailed population — as the ACLU of Louisiana outlined in a report in April — as well as other reforms that could benefit New Orleans. “It would be encouraging if the governor wanted to continue his leadership in criminal justice reform to talk about money bail as an extraction of wealth from poor communities in this state,” Snowden says, “and really think about how we can replace money bail with a system that considers a person’s threat to public safety, with that being the focus to decide to detain somebody or release someone.” In March, a new law restored

voting rights to people with felony convictions who haven’t been in prison for at least the previous five years. That same month, state Rep. Ted James of Baton Rouge filed a bill that would restore the right of those with a felony conviction to serve on a jury. James’ bill was rejected in the House. Snowden would like to see the issue taken up again. “If we’re focused on reentry,” he says, “and making sure that our fellow Louisianans that are returning home from prison get their rights restored so they can fully reintegrate back into our communities and neighborhoods, they should be able to serve on a jury.”

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On the wish list: Community engagement with the Coastal Master Plan; urban representation in conservation efforts. Arthur Johnson, CEO of the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development, says one way Edwards can help New Orleans during a time of rapid climate change is by including more representation from urban areas in conversations about environmental protection. “What we’ve found,” Johnson says, “is that many of our local legislators and even legislators of vulnerable communities have not really been allowed a stake in our Coastal Master Plan arena.” The Lower 9th Ward CSED focuses on grassroots, sustainable efforts of “coastal rehabilitation, greening the built environment and increasing food security” in the Lower 9th Ward. Johnson says conversations about coastal restoration work and climate change’s impact on the state often don’t include poor communities and communities of color, both rural and urban. For example, he sees a need to talk more about flooding and water management within neighborhoods in coastal areas as well as deeper ways for neighborhoods to learn about and connect with the Coastal Master Plan. “It’s important to make the community, all communities, aware of how they can prepare and be inclusive in this Master Plan,” Johnson says. “It is going to impact urban, rural and suburban. All of us.”

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the signature Creole-Italian flavors he developed over 26 years at Cafe Giovanni on Decatur Street to a pocket of Metairie that always seems to welcome homestyle fare. Dab’s Bistro occupies the former Cello’s space on a side street near Lakeside Shopping Center, down the block from neighborhood stalwart Impastato’s. Dab’s has a casual feel, with a bar, televisions and several sections for dining. For appetizers, the seafood cake ($12) had a nicely crusted exterior filled with tender shrimp, crabmeat and crawfish. Meuniere and lemon butter sauce and a ramekin of remoulade added flavor. The namesake eggplant LoCicero ($13) featured fried slices of eggplant drizzled with vodka dill cream sauce and a scattering of shrimp and crawfish. Flatbreads also make a satisfying and sharable starter. The margherita ($15) is topped with plenty of gooey mozzarella and has a crust thick enough to support it. French fries and waffle-cut sweet potato fries both were outstanding. Among the entrees, the Voodoo shrimp and grits ($18) lived up to the menu’s “four-time-gold-medalwinning” hype. The competition is not named, but the dish would be a strong contender in any contest — the grits flavorful and buttery beneath perfectly cooked shrimp. The grilled fish of the day ($20) is served with meuniere, and it’s worth the extra $8 to add the delectable lump crabmeat topping.

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The New Orleans Taster ($17) is a solid option for those days when one just can’t decide among shrimp and crawfish etouffee, red beans and rice, jambalaya, blackened chicken or smoked sausage. The platter offers solid versions of all those dishes, particularly the red beans, and there’s plenty to take home for another meal. Chicken and pesto pasta ($14) was enjoyable, with a generous portion of penne served with grilled thigh meat and mushrooms. Also good is the Duke burger ($11), featuring a 6-ounce patty and served with thick-cut fries. A lighter choice is the seafood-stuffed avocado with grilled shrimp — half an avocado stuffed with well-seasoned shrimp and crabmeat salad. It is served with sliced tomato topped with two grilled shrimp, a scoop of olive tapenade, mixed greens and an assortment of dressings that included a pesto and a balsamic vinaigrette. The roasted Cajun duck breast ($23) with raspberry chipotle sauce fell short, due to an overly sweet sauce and chewy meat. Desserts at Dab’s, most of which are made in house, merit special mention. The ice cream po-boy featured vanilla ice cream in a chocolate cookie sandwich, dipped in a crackly chocolate coating and smothered in whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Key lime pie shone beneath a raspberry drizzle, and cannoli (served two to an order) combined crisp

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Hanukkontroversial THE DIETARY OBSERVANCE of Hanukkah in New Orleans sparked controversy online last week, after Food and Wine published an article about “8 Ways to Make the Best Potato Latkes of Your Life,” featuring chef Marcus Jacobs of Marjie’s Grill. Jacobs’ use of non-kosher

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shells with creamy filling and more chocolate sauce. The wine list is small but sufficient, with well-priced options by the glass. The bar also makes a good, old fashioned for $8. Staff members were welcoming and helpful. With its relaxed atmosphere and well-made Creole-Italian comfort food, Dab’s Bistro is an ideal respite during the hectic holiday season, or anytime at all.

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ingredients like shrimp prompted some commenters to complain that it tampered with a religiously symbolic food. Hanukkah commemorates a successful Jewish uprising around 165 B.C. and the story of one day’s worth of oil lighting the lamp of the temple in Jerusalem for eight days. Hanukkah celebrations traditionally feature foods fried in oil such as latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts). Here are several upcoming local observances in New Orleans. • Marjie’s Grill (320 S. Broad Ave., 504-603-2234; www.marjiesgrill. com) continues its custom of offering twists on traditional latkes. Flavors include a Korean seafood latke, a sweet potato latke and a classic version served with chopped liver. Because Hanukkah overlaps with Christmas this year, Marjie’s will serve latkes and Peking duck on Christmas Eve, honoring the age-old Jewish custom of eating Chinese food on Christmas. Latkes are available on the nights of Dec. 23-24 and Dec. 26-28. • Saba (5757 Magazine St., 504324-7770; www.eatwithsaba.com) is inaugurating a L’Chaim Lounge, a pop-up Hanukkah bar with Hanukkah-themed decorations, latke boards with traditional accompaniments, sufganiyot filled with roasted pumpkin, date or pomegranate and holiday cocktails. Visitors can spin a PAGE 25

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Filip station FILIPINOLA , a Filipino food pop-up created by Aljhon Galino, Tien Nguyen, Henry Lam and Cynthia Castejon, opened a stall at Auction House

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Market (801 Magazine St.; www. auctionhousemarket.com) Dec. 5. The menu includes small plates of Filipino spring rolls called lumpia ($12), here filled with pork, crawfish or vegetables. Main dishes include chicken adobo with a fried egg, garlic fried rice, pickled onions, green onions and lime for $15, and pancit, a dish of stir-fried noodles, for $12. Bulalo, a bone marrow soup, and sweets such as halo-halo, a Filipino shaved ice, round out the menu. “We want to elevate these home-cooked, nostalgic meals,” Nguyen says. FilipiNola is open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. — REBECCA FRIEDMAN

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What drew you to New Orleans and the cocktail industry? TAYLOR: I’m originally from L.A., then I moved to New York. I got to thinking, “Where else do you go within the U.S. after you’ve lived in L.A. and New York?” I visited New Orleans, and three months later I moved. I fell in love with it. It was just so unique. I had never experienced bar culture like in New Orleans. It’s literally a part of your everyday life. You can have a great meal; you meet your neighbors. It goes beyond drinking. When I got here three years ago, I started in a dive-y hole-inthe-wall and made my way into helping start The Drifter and then Loa in the International House Hotel. It was like cocktail boot camp.

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Where did POP Syrups come in? T: The business sort of blew up. I couldn’t be in every place at once, and clients wanted certain things. We recently did an event at the W Hotel in Atlanta, and by the end, all the syrups were gone. I had gotten so many emails. I knew it was time to bottle this. I decided to make a syrup, only in small batches, something that would last long — not only for people who make cocktails but also people who don’t drink. The syrups are made in New Orleans. Customers can contact us through our website, and we will send over an updated menu of flavors. Syrups are $14.99 per bottle, and you can customize a trio as well. The syrups and inspirations are from ingredients we’ve used in the past and also inspired by pop culture — our Puft syrup is named after the marshmallow man from “Ghostbusters.” It has marshmallow and caramel flavors and is a good holiday syrup, as is Bonita, which is sort of an pple-cinnamon-anise. We’ve got plans for retail coming soon. My ultimate goal is Whole Foods. —REBECCA FRIEDMAN

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WEDNESDAY 18 30/90 — Justin Donovan, 5; Big Mike & The R&B Kings, 9 BMC — Ron Hacker Blues, 5; R&R Smokin’ Foundation, 8; Keva Holiday Soul, 11 Bamboula’s — Eight Dice Cloth, noon; Bamboula Hot Jazz Quartet, 3; Mem Shannon, 6:30 The Bayou Bar — Zack Knewstub Trio, 7 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 7:30; New Breed Brass Band, 11 Columns Hotel — Kathleen Moore, 8 Carnaval Lounge — Kelcy Mae Merry Revue, 7

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Santos Bar — Swamp Moves & The Russell Welch Quartet, 10:30; Alessondra Karaoke Shakedown, 11:59 SideBar — Jason Marsalis’ Percussion Jungle, 7; DeeDee Bridgewater and James Singleton, 9 Sidney’s Saloon — Tavo Carbonne, 9 Smoothie King Center — Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 7:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Delfeayo Marsalis & Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 Southport Hall & Deck — Upon A Burning Body, Cane Hill, Contingent and Event Horizon, 7 The Starlight — Davis Rogan, 5; Tuba Skinny, 8; Hot, 11 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Schatzy, 8 Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge — Big Dummy, aka The Vulgarians, 7

THURSDAY 19 30/90 — Andy J, Forest, 5; Raw Deal, 9; DJ Trill Skill, 10 BMC — Mikey Duran, 5; Kim Turk Band, 8; Big Mike & R&B Kings, 11 Bamboula’s — Barry Bremer Jazz Ensemble, noon; Rancho Tee Motel, 3; Marty Peters & The Party Meters, 6:30 The Bayou Bar — Joe Ashlar Trio, 7 Blue Nile — Where Yat Brass Band, 7:30; DJ T-Roy, 11 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Fess Birthday, Tom Worrell & Friends, 5; Tom McDermott and Aurora Nealand, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6 Circle Bar — The AntiGravity Xmas Party featuring Rik Slave’s Dark Lounge Ministries Xmas Special, 8 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Leo Keegan’s Rock ‘n Roll Jam, 8 Fountain Lounge — Leslie Martin, 5:30; Ron Jones, 7:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — John Paul Carmody: Unpluggery, 6; Sankofa featuring Anthony Coleman, 10 House of Blues— Neurotic Diction (Foundation Room) , 6; Jake Landry & The Right Lane Bandits (Restaurant & Bar), 6:30 The Jazz Playhouse — Brass-AHolics, 8:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — The Soul Rebels, 11 Old Point Bar — Baby Boy Bartels, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger &

Crescent City Joymakers, 7 Preservation Hall — All Stars with Lucien Barbarin, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Chubby Carrier & Bayou Swamp Band, 8 SideBar — James Singleton Rough Babies featuring James Evans & Justin Peake, 7; Brad Walker, Martin Masakowski and Kevin O’Day, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Masakowski Family Christmas Show, 8 & 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Arsene DeLay, 8 Tipitina’s — Hot 8 Brass Band, New Breed Brass Band, Trombone Short Academy Students & Trombone Shorty, 8 Treme Art and Music Lounge — Hot 8 Brass Band, 8

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SATURDAY 21 30/90 — Jonathan Bauer Project, 11 a.m.; A Very Otis Christmas with Chris Klein, 2; Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires, 5; Big Mike & The R&B Kings, 8; DJ Torch, 10; Deltaphonic, 11 BMC — Mojo Shakers, noon; Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 3; Les Getrex ’n’ Creole Cookin’, 6; Vance Orange, 9; Jason Neville FunkySoul Band, 11:59 Bamboula’s — Sabertooth Swing, 11 a.m.; G & the Swinging Gypsies, 3:30; Johnny Mastro, 7; Crawdaddy T’s Cajun & Zydeco Review, 11:30 Bar Redux — Cumbia Calling Dance Party & DJ Malaria Sound Machine, 10 The Bayou Bar — Jordan Anderson, 9 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Merry Christmas Baby & Tonya Boyd Cannon, 10; Marigny Street Brass Band (upstairs), 10; DJ Black Pearl (upstairs), 1; DJ Raj Smoove, 1 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — HG Breland, 6; Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 9 Casa Borrega — Manny & Carmelo, 7 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Lynn Drury, 9 Fountain Lounge — Leslie Martin, 5:30; Sam Kuslan, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Lil Jodeci, 11 House of Blues— Gina Leslie (Restaurant &

Bar) , 12:30; Michael Liuzza, 4; Jake Landry and the Right Lane Bandits (Foundation Room), 7; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7:30; Bustout Burlesque, 7:30; DJ Matt Scott, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — The Nayo Jones Experience, 8 Live Oak Cafe — Sassyfras, 10:30 Old Point Bar — Rebel Roadside, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Motel Radio & Pet Fangs, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Will Smith & Palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation All-Stars, 1, 2:30; with Wendell Brunious, 5; Legacy Band with Kevin Louis, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Topcats, 9:30 Santos Bar — He’ll Yeah! Fest with Kristeen Young, Spookey Ruben, A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, The Three Brained Robot & Supplicate, 6 SideBar — Papa Mali, 7 Sidney’s Saloon — Cream City Dance Party, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Mark Rapp & Wess Anderson’s Boogaloo Christmas, 8 & 10 Three Muses — Eric Merchant, 5; Kris Tokarski, 6; Shotgun, 9 Tipitina’s — Anders Osborne with Steve Earle, Helen Gillet, Leyla McCalla & Alvin Youngblood Hart, 10

SUNDAY 22 30/90 — Truman Holland and The Back Porch Review, 2; Carolyn Broussard, 5; T’Canaille, 9; Brandi Dobney, 11 The AllWays Lounge & Theater — Sabertooth, 8 BMC — Retrospex, 7; Moments of Truth, 10; Dauphine Street Stompers, 12 Bamboula’s — Barry Bremer Jazz Ensemble, 11; NOLA Ragweeds Jazz, 2; Carl LeBlanc, 6:30; Ed Wills Blues4Sale, 10 Bar Redux — DJ Shane Love’s Holiday Redux, 8 Blue Nile — The Asylum Chorus Holiday Show, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 10:30 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Some Like It Hot, 11 a.m.; Christmas Sports and Singing with Andre Bohren, 4; Steve Pistorius Jazz Quartet, 7 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8; Chip Wilson, 11 Circle Bar — Kate Baxter, 5; Micah McKee & friends & Blind Texas Marlin, 7 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Black Suit Brigade, 8 Fountain Lounge — Ron Jones, 5:30 Fuhrmann Auditorium — Swinging Into Christmas, 3 House of Blues — John Paul Carmody, 6:30

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MONDAY 23 30/90 — The Dapper Dandies, 5; Gene Harding’s New Orleans Super Jam, 9 BMC — Zoe K., 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bamboula’s — St. Louis Slim Trio, noon; Perdido Jazz Band, 3; G & the Swinging Gypsies, 6:30; Les Getrex ’n’ Creole Cooking, 10 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene DeLay & Charlie Wooton, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Circle Bar — Joe Kile, 7; Champagne Girl & more, 9:30 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander’s Blues Jam, 8 Fountain Lounge — Sam Kuslan, 5:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — No Frets featuring Amine Boucetta, 6; Rebecca Jed, 10; Bluegrass Pickin’ Party featuring Tucker Baker, 10 House of Blues — Sean Riley, 6:30 The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8:30 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Preservation Hall — Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound, 5; All Stars with Charlie Gabriel, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Nola Swing Dance Connection & DJ Twiggs, 7 SideBar — Anna Joy with Sam Kohler, Jamie Koffler and Charles Pagano, 7; David Anderson, Susanne Ortner and Ronan Cowan, 9 Sidney’s Saloon — Lundi Karaoke with Sunshine Edae, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Southport Hall & Deck — Marc Broussard, 7 The Starlight — Bremner Duthie, 4; Single Malt Please 7; Jambalaya Jam featuring Joshua Benitez Band, 8; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Monty Banks, 5

MUSIC CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Christmas Choral Prayer Concert. St. Peter Catholic Church, 125 E. 19th Ave., Covington — The St. Peter Teen Choir performs holiday music. www.stpeterparish.com. 4 p.m. Monday. Holidays New Orleans Style Concert Series. St. Augustine Church, 1210 Gov. Nicholls St. — Loose Cattle perform music of Americana for the holiday season at 4 p.m. Saturday; the cathedral’s Concert Choir performs holiday music at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. www.fqfi.org. Free admission. Holidays New Orleans Style Concert Series. St. Louis Cathedral 615 Pere Antoine Alley — The Zulu Gospel Choir performs holiday music at 6 p.m. Wednesday; Loriae Llorca is featured during the cathedral’s organ spectacular at 6 p.m. Thursday. www.fqfi.org. Free admission. Krewe de Voix Chamber Choir Christmas Concert. Marigny Opera House, 725 St Ferdinand St. — Krewe de Voix Chamber Choir performs Victoria’s Missa O Manum Mysterium; a reception follows. www. krewedevoix.com. 7 p.m. Saturday. Solstice — The Light Set with Megan Diana. Marigny Opera House, 725 St Ferdinand St. — For the winter solstice, the chamber folk-pop ensemble explores the turning of the seasons. Tickets $10-$15. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Trinity Artist Series. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave — Roque Baroque features Ben Fox on viola de Gamba, Seth Scott on lute, Albinas Pizgintas on harpsichord and soprano Lauren Oglesby performing works by Bach and traditional carols. www.albinas.org. 5 p.m. Sunday. Trombone Choir of New Orleans Concert Band. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie — More than a dozen tromboneits perform a holiday program. www.jplibrary.net. 7 p.m. Thursday. Winterreise. Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Ave. — Lyrica Baroque chamber ensemble featuring pianist Orion Weiss, violinist Yun-Ting Lee and cellist Daniel Lelchuk perform Beethoven’s Archduke Trio. www.lyricabaroque.com. Tickets $20. 7 p.m. Thursday.

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TUESDAY 17 A Turning Night of Stars. Hotel Peter & Paul, 2317 Burgundy St. — The participatory event includes music, movement, poetry and prayer celebrating the solistice, season and Sufi poet Jelaluddin Rumi. Admission $5-$15. 7:30 p.m. Celebration in the Oaks. City Park, 5 Victory Drive — The holiday spectacle features more than 1 million lights, in displays and decorating trees in 25 acres of City Park, including the New Orleans Botanical Garden, Storyland and Carousel Gardens and Amusement Park, and there are photos with Santa, rides, and entertainment; closed Christmas and New Year’s Eves. Through Jan. 1, 2020. www.celebrationintheoaks.com. Tickets $10-$28. Christmas Home and Gardens Tour. St. Francis Xavier Parish Center, 444 Metairie Road, Metairie — The tour includes seven Old Metairie homes decorated for the holidays and is a fundraising event for St. Francis Xavier Parish Center. www.stfrancisxavier.com. Tickets $35. 9:30 a.m. Christmas in the Park. Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie — Guests can walk or ride through holiday light displays and there are carousel rides, entertainment, vendors and with holiday characters on weekends. The entrance is on West Napoleon Avenue. www.lafrenierepark. org. Admission $5. Festival of Trees. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 15 Henry Thomas Drive — The museum displays holiday trees created by schools and artists, and there are performances by choirs, dance groups and bands and visits from seasonal characters. Through Dec. 29. www.lcm.org. 9:30 a.m. Miracle on Fulton Street. Fulton Street at Poydras Street — The pedestrian corridor

has been transformed into a winter wonderland, with holiday decor, the Lamplighter interactive lantern, snow fall every hour, entertainment, visits from Santa on weekends and more; through Dec. 28. www.miracleonfulton.com. The Polar Express. Union Passenger Terminal, 1001 Loyola Ave., second floor — Set to the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack, the experience allows guests to relive the story on a one-hour trip, and there is hot chocolate and a cookie served by chefs; trains depart several times daily, except Christmas day. www.nolathepolarexpressride.com. Tickets $38-$68.

WEDNESDAY 18 Festive Round Table Luncheon. The Jung Hotel & Residences, 1500 Canal St. — Margarita Bergen hosts a salute to the holidays with local officials, wine and Champagne tastings, authors, entertainment, a fashion show and meal. RSVP to (504) 5714672 or Judy.LeBlanc@BourbonOrleans. com. Noon. Lagniappe Lunch. Hermann Grima Gallier Historic House, 820 Saint Louis St. — The brown bag lunch series uses an item from the museum’s collection to spark conversation; water and seating provided. www. hgghh.org 11:30 a.m.

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THURSDAY 19 “Tunes for Toys”. Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave. — The Trombone Shorty Foundation and the Gia Maione Prima Foundation hold a toy drive and concert with Academy students, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, Hot 8 Brass Band and New Breed Brass Band; 18 and over only; donate a new, unwrapped toy for admission. www.tromboneshortyfoundation.org. 7 p.m. Thursday. Audubon Zoo Lights. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St. — There are seasonal light displays and holiday activities, including photos with Santa, a twinkle tunnel, a 30foot endangered species holiday tree, an elves workshop and more; schedule varies through Dec. 30. www.audubonzoolights. org. Tickets $10-$18. Professor Longhair Birthday Concert. New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave. — John Papa Gros headlines event celebrating the 101st birthday of Professor Longhair. www.friendsofthecabildo.org. Tickets $20-$25. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 20 Christmas Wassailing. Deutsches Haus, 1700 Moss St. — There is a traditional holiday sing-along with tenor Robert Wagner and his voice students, and there is traditional gluhwein (mulled wine) and hot chocolate available for purchase. www.deutscheshaus.org. 7 p.m. Dashing Through the Dome. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive — The two-mile race follows a course through the Superdome and finsihes on the field. www.gnosports.com. PAGE 37

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PREVIEW NOLA Christmas Fest BY WILL COVIELLO WHETHER NEW ORLEANS’ WEATHER IS CRISP AND COLD or warm and muggy, NOLA Christmas Fest looks like a winter wonderland, with ice skating, slides and Christmas trees. The holiday festival is open Dec. 20-31 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Among the new attractions this year are a 50foot Ferris wheel, 15-foot ice slides and a holiday-themed tavern with a bar. Activities include ice skating, snowball fights, amusement rides and a climbing wall. There are giant inflatables and bounce houses for kids. Children can skate with Santa Claus from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21. There also are gingerbread houses, Christmas trees, a holiday market and photo booths. NOLA Christmas Fest is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 20-23 and Dec. 26-30; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24; 2 p.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 25; and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hall I, 900 Convention Center Blvd.; www.nolachristmasfest.com. Tickets $20-$25.

Registration $10-$50. 6 p.m. Home for the Holidays. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St. — The Daniel Price Memorial Fund for Aspiring Artists scholarships for NOCCA students fundraiser features Irma Thomas, John Boutte, Trombone Shorty and Friends, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Water Seed, James Andrews, New Breed Brass Band, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, Alexis and the Samurai and Jon Roniger, with food and beverages, a silent auction and more. www.houseofblues. com/neworleans. Tickets $45-$290. 8 p.m. Friday. Kenner’s Magical Christmas Village. Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner — There are holiday displays and snow on the weekend. Also Saturday. www.kenner.la.us. 6 p.m. NOLA ChristmasFest. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd — The indoor holiday festival features ice skating, inflatables, entertainment, carnival rides, Santa Claus, a Christmas tree decorator showcase, gingerbread houses and special events. Through Dec. 31, hours vary on Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve. www.nolachristmasfest.com. Admission $20-$25. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Scuba Santa. Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St. — Santa Claus swims with the fishes in the waters of the Great Mayan Reef tunnel for the season. Through Monday. www.auduboninstitute. org. 10:30 a.m.

SATURDAY 21 Christkindle Markt. Deutsches Haus, 1700 Moss St. — The market features Christmas ornaments, steins, artwork, creche and nativity figures, wooden items, sweets, herbs, spices, oils and vinegar and more, and there are visits by Christkind and St. Nicholas throughout the day. www. deutscheshaus.org. 10 a.m. Saturday. Great Southern Gun and Knife Show. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner — The dealer-oriented show features guns and knives for sale or trade. Also Sunday. www.greatsoutherngunshow.com. Tickets $2-$10. Opens at 9 a.m.

Laser Holidays. Kenner’s Planetarium & Megadome Cinema, 2020 Fourth St. — The laser-filled presentation includes classic to modern holiday music. www.kenner. la.us. Tickets $5-$6. 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Passing of the Torch. Ashe Power House Theater, 1731 Baronne Ste — The event celebrates the work of Ashe co-founder Carol Bebelle and incoming executive director Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes. RSVP via www.ashecac.org. 7 p.m. Season of Light. Kenner’s Planetarium & Megadome Cinema, 2020 Fourth St., Kenner — The planetarium program explores the history behind many holiday traditions and examines the sky at the time of Jesus Christ’s birth. www.kenner.la.us. Tickets $5-$6. 3 p.m.

SUNDAY 22 Caroling in Jackson Square. Jackson Square, 700 Decatur St. — Candles and song sheets are provided at the annual holiday singalong. www.patioplanters.net. 7 p.m. Christmas Caroling. Mandeville Trailhead, 675 Lafitte St., Mandeville — Song sheets and candles are provided at the singalong. 5 p.m. Sunday. Hanukkah at the Riverwalk. Spanish Plaza, 1 Poydras St. — Chabad-Lubavitch of Louisiana hosts a lighting of the menorah, kosher food, entertainment and more. www.riverwalkneworleans.com. 4:30 p.m. Holiday Home Tour. Creole Delicacies, 533 St. Ann St. — Patio Planters of the Vieux Carre presents French Quarter residences decorated for the season in this self-guided walking tour and fundraiser. Tickets available on www.eventbrite.com. Tickets $20-$25. 1 p.m. Swinging Into Christmas. Fuhrmann Auditorium, 317 N. Jefferson St., Covington — The Swing 101 Big Band performs a multi-media holiday concert with vocalists and video. www.swing101bigband.com. Tickets $10-$25. 3 p.m.

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SPORTS New Orleans Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Dave Dixon Drive — The New Orleans NBA team plays the Brooklyn Nets at 7 p.m. Tuesday. www.nba.com/ pelicans. Tickets $35-$280. R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St. — The Mountaineers of Appalachian State University take on the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers. www. neworleansbowl.org. Tickets $30 and up. 8 p.m. Saturday.

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OPENINGS “Bombshell” (R) — Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie star as a group of anchors who decide to take on Fox News’ toxic atmosphere. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Cats” (PG) — The film adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Idris Elba, James Corden and Taylor Swift. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Star Wars — The Rise of Skywalker” (PG-13) — J.J. Abrams directs the final

chapter of the Skywalker saga revolving around Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, 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. “Uncut Gems” (R) — In this crime drama from the Safdie brothers, Adam Sandler stars as a New York City jeweler who makes a series of high-stakes bets that could change his life for better or worse. Opening Tuesday, Dec. 24, at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Regal Covington Stadium 14.

NOW SHOWING “21 Bridges” (R) — Chadwick Boseman stars as a NYPD detective who is on a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (PG) — Tom Hanks stars as Fred Rogers in this biographical drama based on Rogers and journalist Tom Junod’s friendship. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Black and Blue” (R) — Naomie Harris stars as a New Orleans cop trying to balance her life as a woman and a police officer while corruption runs amok in her unit. AMC Westbank Palace 16. “Black Christmas” (PG-13) — A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break in this horror flick starring Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “By the Grace of God” — Childhood friends question their lives in this French crime drama from writer-director François Ozon. Chalmette Movies. “Dark Waters” (PG-13) — Mark Ruffalo stars as a corporate attorney who takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Ford v. Ferrari” (PG-13) — Car designer Carroll Shelby (played by Matt Damon) and driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) team up to build a Ford race car to challenge Ferrari’s at the 1966 Le Mans. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Frozen II” (PG) — Elsa travels to an enchanted land to find the origins of her powers in this sequel to the 2013 animated hit. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Great White Shark 3D” — Narrated by Bill Nighy, this documentary explores the world of the iconic and nearly extinct

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bank Palace 16, Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Richard Jewell” (R) — Clint Eastwood directs this drama based on the true story of the security guard who saved lives during the bombing at the 1996 Olympics. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Hammond Palace 10, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. “Waves” (R) — Trey Edward Shults directs this drama that takes an up close and personal look at a suburban, African-American family, led by a domineering father (played by Sterling K. Brown). AMC Elmwood Palace 20, Broad Theater. “Winter Flies” — A couple of mischievous boys go on a road trip in this coming-ofage comedy from the Czech Republic. Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge.

SPECIAL SHOWINGS “Elf” — The Downtown Development District and Outlet Collection at Riverwalk present an outdoor showing of the holiday comedy starring Will Farrell. Spanish Plaza. 6:30 p.m. Friday. “The Grinch” — Pharrell Williams narrates the 2018 feature-length version of the Dr. Seuss holiday story. Mandeville Trailhead, 675 Lafitte St., Mandeville. www.experiencemandeville.org. 5 p.m. Friday. “It’s a Wonderful Life” — In this holiday classic from director Frank Capra, James Stewart stars as a frustrated businessman who is shown what would have happened if he had never existed. Movie Tavern Northshore; at 10 a.m. Wednesday and Sunday at Prytania Theatre. “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (PG-13) — The Griswold family’s plan for a fun holiday season turns into a disaster in this 1989 comedy. Movie Tavern Northshore; at 1 p.m. Saturday at Regal Covington Stadium 14. “Prytania’s Very Merry Christmas” — This holiday event features screenings of “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” At 9 a.m. Monday, and Tuesday, Dec. 24, at Prytania Theatre. “The Polar Express” (G) — Tom Hanks stars in this animated adventure about a young boy’s journey to the North Pole, based on Chris Van Allsburg’s children’s book. Movie Tavern Northshore. “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” (PG) — A young woman must confront her past while becoming a princess in this 2013 animated adventure. At 7 p.m. Wednesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Regal Covington Stadium 14. “They Shall Not Grow Old” (R) — Peter Jackson directs this documentary about the soldiers who fought during World War I. At 7 p.m. Wednesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20; 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday at AMC Westbank Palace 16.

ON STAGE “Ahhhh, Christmas Cabaret!”. Monkey Hill Bar, 6100 Magazine St. — Alden Hagardorn, Heidi Melancon, Larry Beron, Hector Ventura and Philip Melancon present holiday merriment and music. Call (504) 202-0986 for reservations. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Friday. Through Sunday. The Amazing Acro-cats Meowy Catmas Special. The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret,

GOING OUT burlesque show with a live band features Trixie Minx and guests, with vocals by Romy Kaye and the Mercy Buckets. www. sonesta.com/jazzplayhouse. 11 p.m. Friday.

DANCE “The Nutcracker”. Orpheum Theater, 129 Roosevelt Way — New Orleans Ballet Theatre presents Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic. www.neworleansballettheatre. com. Tickets $39-$78. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday “The Nutcracker.” Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St. — Delta Festival Ballet’s and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra present the classic holiday tale. www.deltafestivalballet.com. Tickets $35-$75. 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. “The Nutcracker.” Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive — JPAS stages a new production of the holiday classic with a score by Tchaikovsky. www. jpas.org. Tickets $20-$75. 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. “The Nutcracker in New Orleans.” Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St — New Orleans School of Ballet presents the classic, staged with a New Orleans twist, including the Flight of the Pelicans, a Mardi Gras Strut and dancing Who Dats. www.cacno.org. Tickets $20-$25. 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

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ART OPENINGS Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400 Julia St. — “Arrested Symphony” is exhibition of works by Esperanza Cortes, through Feb. 14; opening Wednesday. www.jonathanferrargallery.com.

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