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High spirits

Tales of the Cocktail marks its 20th bartender and spirits event in New Orleans WINE AND LIQUOR STORE SHELVES ARE FULL OF TAGS and signs not-

ing numerical grades and medals for some bottles. The scores and awards come from spirit competitions from many other cities, but not New Orleans.

Local spirits writer Wayne Curtis and partners Andrew Faulkner and Matt Sharpe are about to change that. They’re introducing the first New Orleans Spirits Competition as part of Tales of the Cocktail this week. The winners will be announced at the Meet the Distillers event on July 29, the final day of the conference.

“There are a lot of competitions,” says Curtis, who serves as a judge at a couple of them every year. “If you go to a liquor store, you see the neck tags, and shelf talkers tell you, ‘It got a 96 in San Francisco’ or ‘91 in Chicago.’ But there’s never a New Orleans one. Why isn’t there a New Orleans one? We have automatic credibility in the drinking world. We’ve always been a spirits-heavy city. We felt that we should be represented on the shelves around the country and around the world. We’re hoping to build that over the next few years — something that is significant and respected.”

The judging runs July 22-24, just before the start of the 20th anniversary of Tales of the Cocktail.

The annual cocktail conference draws global liquor companies, craft distillers, bartenders, spirits writers, cocktail enthusiasts and more to New Orleans. This year’s events run July 25-29 at venues around the city.

The spirits competition will make the most of the bartenders, spirits writers and tastemakers who have frequented Tales of the Cocktail over the years. Judges include Dale DeGroff, one of the founders of the craft cocktail movement, spirits writer Dave Wondrich, bartenders Alex Day of Death & Co. and Tiffanie Barriere and more.

The competition has received more than 500 spirits, ranging from vodka and whiskey to Chinesemade baijiu, Korean soju and exotic liqueurs. Judging panels are organized to include at least one bartender and one distiller each.

The competition will be the first to draw heavily on bartenders and not just distillers, Curtis says. It also is rare in that it puts major liquor

brands and craft distillers in the same competition.

It’s a way for some of the smaller distillers to have a bigger voice at Tales, Curtis says.

Tales has already had an impact on distillers. Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, the tiki expert behind Latitude 29 in the French Quarter, will participate on a panel talking about spirits that were devised at the conference. His input helped create Plantation Rum’s overproof O.F.T.D. rum. Plantation’s Stiggins Pineapple Rum also was inspired at Tales, Berry says.

Berry is a regular speaker at Tales, and for more than 10 years, he and Wondrich have hosted their Nixology seminar, in which they hash out the principles of good and bad drinks. They also puzzle out “what makes some bad drinks good, and some good drinks bad,” Berry says.

Some positive principles include making sure a drink has a dominant spirit as a spine to hang other flavors on. They also have looked skeptically at trends, such as tiki enthusiasts packing too many ingredients into a cocktail, or “salad” drinks such as carrot martinis and whiskey beet cocktails.

But they marvel at oddities that do and don’t work. Berry was surprised when a Willard Hotel — a mix of apricot and peach brandies and lime — wasn’t bad. He also doubted the Gene Ahern’s Gloom Chaser, named for the cartoonist.

“The recipe is a proto-Long Island Iced Tea,” Berry says. “If you look at it on paper, it shouldn’t work.”

Berry actually liked the mix of light rum, Haitian rum, Cointreau, cognac, cola and lemon juice, and they’ll serve it at the seminar. He also wanted to serve a Shalom Cooler — a blend of Manischewitz and Mogen David wine garnished with a matzoh ball — but Wondrich nixed the idea.

Tales started as a cocktail festival, drawing locals and tourists to New Orleans for walking tours, seminars on local drinking lore and dinners with chefs and bartenders matching

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THE 10TH ANNUAL NOLA RIVERFEST BRINGS LIVE MUSIC AND MORE to

the New Orleans Jazz Museum on Saturday, July 23. The music lineup includes Jason Neville Funky Soul Band, Detroit Brooks, Keiko Komaki, GreyHawk Perkins & Friends, Caesar Brothers Funk Box and the Treme Lafitte Brass Band with Baby Dolls and Mardi Gras Indian guests. The festival has explored the Mississippi River’s impact on local culture and the environment with entertainment, speakers and more.

There are food and drink vendors on the museum grounds. Music runs from noon to 7:30 p.m. Visit nolariverfest.org for details.

The liqueur Ancho Reyes Verde was introduced at an event at Tales of the Cocktail. drinks and courses. As it grew, it found a niche bridging the worlds of bartenders and distillers.

Tales now features a wide range of events, including big parties thrown by the world’s largest liquor companies, some of which are by invitation only. They also host tasting rooms and events open to conference participants. There are spirited dinners with liquor brands and bartenders or brand ambassadors collaborating with local restaurants. There also are bar takeovers by high-end bars and bartenders from other cities.

Seminars cover a wide range of topics, from the history of distillation to Indigenous identity and cocktail creation (see Gambit’s interview with Chockie Tom on page 17).

The conference also offers professional development, training and business seminars for bartenders and bar owners. In recent years, the festival added programs on physical and mental health for hospitality industry workers.

Local cocktail tours are still part of the mix. Curtis will lead a jaunt down Bourbon Street and talk about how the entertainment strip came to be what it is. There also is a bike tour to Marigny and Bywater bars. Frank Perez will lead a tour on gay bar history, and local bartender and cocktail expert Rhiannon Enlil will lead a tour of Sazerac history.

There is virtual access to some events as well as some free events.

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INFLUENTIAL LOS ANGELES PUNK BAND CIRCLE JERKS is on its first

North American tour in 15 years and says it’s the last one as well. The group formed in the late 1970s and recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its landmark album, “Wild in the Streets.” The group broke up and reuninted over the years and is still led by original vocalist Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson.

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unanimously approved a measure asking local law enforcement entities, like NOPD, the Sheriff’s Office and the District Attorney, not to use city money to enforce Louisiana’s trigger laws banning abortion. Some of those agencies, however, receive state funds and must follow state law, but they have some discretion over how they spend such funds. The non-binding resolution was co-authored by all seven council members.

Efforts of Grace and Junebug Productions received grants

from regional arts organization South Arts as part of its $6 million Southern Cultural Treasures initiative. The program supports Black, Indigenous and People of Color-led arts organizations in the Southeast, and the two New Orleans-based groups were among 17 awardees.

Efforts of Grace, which founded the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, and Junebug will each receive up to $300,000 in general operating grants distributed over three years, along with additional grants, consulting services and more.

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Wade, in New Orleans, Friday, June 24, 2022.

Setting up an abortion clinic in the Gulf won’t be easy IN THE WAKE OF THE SUPREME COURT’S REVERSAL OF ROE V. WADE a

proposal to put an abortion clinic on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico has been making waves as abortion rights activists look for ways to get around state bans.

The theoretical plan would create floating clinics in federal waters, so those on board would only have to follow federal laws rather than state laws. Though states could pass laws attempting to restrict traveling outside their borders to get an abortion, or helping someone else do so, it could in theory provide access to care for millions of pregnant people in the Gulf Coast region.

Whether or not such a workaround would be financially possible or even legal, however, remains very much up in the air.

“We are very concerned about legal issues at all parts of this project,” Dr. Meg Autry, who first floated the idea, told Gambit this week, which is to be expected with high startup costs for the operation.

The clinic would cost at least $20 million to build. Autry said they had seed money to start looking at the possibility of putting a clinic in federal waters and have received both small and large donations. But she acknowledged the group does not have “what we need at this moment.”

Since the AP broke the story earlier this week, “We have had overwhelming support from across the country both monetarily and from volunteers particularly in affected states which is heartwarming,” Autry said.

Martin Davies, a professor of maritime law at Tulane University, said putting a boat clinic a few miles further, in international waters, and flying the flag of a nation with protections for abortion rights would be a better bet. By setting up in federal waters, “you then really are sort of buying a fight between the feds and the state,” he said.

Davies pointed to the Biden Administration not supporting proposals putting abortion clinics on federal lands as evidence it’s unclear to what extent the federal government might intervene.

Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said setting up clinics on federal lands would have “dangerous ramifications” because not all patients and providers would be federal employees.

“Now, the federal government might be quite happy to sort of fight that fight,” Davies said. “But the White House has already said that it’s reluctant to, for example, make federal enclaves within states available for this.”

While creative, this idea is actually not without precedent.

Her non-local engagements as far-flung as Europe at taxpayers’ expense have raised eyebrows, as she often touts her “boots on the ground” approach to governing. The city has in the meantime faced a slew of ongoing and worsening problems like crime and stalled infrastructure projects. As of press time, Cantrell was in France attending a jazz festival and signing a sister city deal with the mayor of Antibes Juan-les-Pins.

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For decades, Dutch nonprofit Women on Waves has sailed around various countries with abortion restrictions, offering medication abortion on a ship in international waters. But as currently outlined, Autry’s group, fundraising under “Protecting Reproductive Rights Of Women Endangered by State Statutes,” would also provide surgical abortion up to 14 weeks, contraception and STI care.

A Women on Waves spokesperson told Gambit the nonprofit looked at bringing a ship to the Gulf of Mexico but said they found doing so would be “challenging.” Patients would still need to travel to get to the clinic, and it would take a significant amount of finances to pull off. They also cited hurricane season as a logistical issue.

The group said instead they are focusing on crowdfunding money to study using mifepristone, one of two drugs taken during a medication abortion, as a contraceptive.

“Our efforts are now focusing on mifepristone for all its different indications as we believe that will be the future solution,” the spokesperson said. “However, we think every action is needed and applaud any effort to do whatever it takes to get

women much-needed, time-sensitive medical care.”

But even in international waters, Women on Waves have dealt with warships from countries trying to stop them from sailing in international waters. Davies said he could foresee this happening with an operation in the Gulf of Mexico and that it could present complicated legal questions.

“There would be some difficult questions there about whether the act of preventing you from leaving the state by sea would be unlawful,” he says. “I can’t offhand think of any law that would say that it would be.”

Autry said their legal team believes federal waters is the right move.

Regardless of whether the ship is in federal or international waters, conservative state legislatures, like Louisiana’s, could try to close this loophole by restricting travel outside of the state to get an abortion or help someone get an abortion in a state where it’s legal.

The Washington Post reported last month that The National Association of Christian Lawmakers is already working with Texas legislators on model legislation to do just that.

“Certainly, if you did it on a Dutch flag vessel in international waters,

it would be permitted to perform the operation … but it may not be permitted to help people get there,” Davies said. “That’s the biggest ‘if,’ and there’d be nothing you could do about that.”

Keith Werhan, a constitutional law professor at Tulane Law School, said he could see the Supreme Court ruling either way on whether a law restricting travel across state lines to get abortion care would be constitutional.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion on last month’s abortion case that he believed states couldn’t stop people from traveling to another state to get an abortion because of “the constitutional right to interstate travel.”

But while the Supreme Court has recognized the right to travel between states for years, that right is not explicitly written in the Constitution, leaving it up to the courts to recognize that right and decide if there are limitations to it.

Werhan said states could argue that restricting that right is necessary “to protect a compelling government interest,” and that the current Supreme Court, with

its conservative majority, could be open to such arguments.

“For this Supreme Court, I suspect that they would believe that a law preventing someone to leave the state to get an abortion might very well serve the state’s interest in protecting what I think they would regard clearly as fetal life,” he said. “And then the court question would become whether or not the law is necessary, whether it’s sufficiently narrowly tailored to protect that right.”

“Honestly, I think you’d have to say after this term, who knows?” he added.

States don’t typically do this with other laws, like gambling or purchasing alcohol, but Werhan said the court may see abortion as a “special case.”

“Certainly, in the eyes of people who support abortion restrictions, it’s a far more serious matter than gambling or buying alcohol,” he said. “But it would be a major departure from the way in which interstate federalism has worked to date. But this is a court that is redrawing all of these lines in real time.” — KAYLEE POCHE

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Celebrating New Orleans cultural icons and storytellers Sylvester Francis and Polo Silk NEW ORLEANS ALWAYS FACES MANY PRESSING POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES, but

the last week gave New Orleanians some bright spots worth celebrating: the re-opening of the Backstreet Cultural Museum; and the opening of Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell’s photography show at the New Orleans Museum of Art. For more than two decades, Backstreet has been something of a hidden gem of New Orleans culture and history. Sylvester Francis opened the museum in 1999. A member of the Gentlemen of Leisure Social Aid & Pleasure Club, he spent years documenting second lines, Black Masking Indians, Baby Dolls, Skull and Bones and other aspects of Black New Orleans culture.

Over time, Francis amassed an unparalleled collection of Black Masking Indian suits, social aid & pleasure club canes, apparel and other items, along with an encyclopedic knowledge of the city’s various subcultures. In another place, such treasures might be considered “artifacts” or “pieces” of art.

But Francis understood they are part of a living, breathing tradition and culture — and designed to be lived in and experienced. Francis often sat outside the museum, urging all who happened by to explore the collection and learn more about the culture that helped make Treme and New Orleans what they are today.

The pandemic has been hard on Backstreet. Francis died in 2020, and Hurricane Ida destroyed much of the museum’s original home on Henriette Delille Street. Thankfully, under the watchful eye of Francis’ daughter Dominique DillingFrancis, the museum re-opened July 12 in its new space at 1531 St. Phillip St. For much of last year volunteers worked tirelessly, and carefully, to move the museum, catalogue and preserve Francis’ vast collection and preserve the magic of Backstreet.

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Cultural ambassadors Voodoo Queen Kalindah Laveaux, left, and drummer Wesley Phillips check out exhibits in the new Backstreet Cultural Museum in the Treme and career, which Gambit’s Jake Clapp chronicled in last week’s cover story. For decades his photos have provided generations of New Orleanians with mementos of nights out and second lines. He also provided a first-hand account of an important part of Black New Orleans — the culture that gave birth to Juvenile, Lil Wayne, Big Freedia, Mia X and Mystikal. Sadly, most of the mainstream media either ignored this world entirely or treated it as a vaguely foreign — and all too often threatening — phenomenon.

Long before tourists and amateur photographers crowded along LaSalle Street with expensive camera rigs to capture the “authentic” New Orleans on Super Sundays, and before white writers felt “safe” to go to bounce shows, Terrell made portraits of Indians proudly displaying their suits and of young New Orleanians dancing the night away.

To its credit, the New Orleans Museum of the Art opened a show of Terrell’s work on July 16. It’s a fitting tribute to a remarkable career and the culture Terrell has documented — and become an integral part of — over more than 30 years.

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age of 18 in 1988, she had everything going for her. The daughter of then-Assessor and BOLD political organization leader Ken Carter, she was the youngest delegate to the Democratic National Convention that year. Even at that young age, she seemed destined for a storied career in politics.

She soon won election to the state House of Representatives, then captured a state Senate seat. She chaired the Louisiana Democratic Party for eight years (2012-2020) and served as a vice chair of the Democratic National Party. Along the way, Peterson made herself a force in local, state and national politics as a passionate champion of women’s rights and other liberal causes.

Today, 34 years after her auspicious debut, Peterson leaves the political stage in disgrace.

She resigned her Senate seat last April, citing her long battle against gambling addiction and depression. Her resignation speech was a courageous acknowledgement of a debilitating affliction, but it quickly gave way to news that she was under federal investigation.

On July 14, the feds charged her with a single count of wire fraud, accusing her of diverting tens of thousands of dollars from her campaign account and the state Democratic Party’s coffers — with the help of several unnamed associates — for her personal use.

Though the federal bill of information charges her with only one count, it outlines a years-long pattern of deception and fraud.

Peterson’s attorney, Brian Capitelli, confirmed that she has cut a deal with the feds to plead guilty and is cooperating with at least one ongoing investigation. Peterson also repaid the state Democratic party $53,000, which a party official said made them whole.

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Meanwhile, Peterson’s fall from grace has left former colleagues and allies with mixed emotions.

“I have been struggling with feelings of compassion for her addiction along with anger and disappointment in Karen,” said Stephen Handwerk, who served as executive director of the state Democratic party under Peterson.

Handwerk told the T-P he had been contacted by the FBI and informed that he was “either a victim of or witness to at least one felony.”

Handwerk added that he “cooperated with them completely.”

Eric Holl, another party operative, tweeted: “Assuming reports are true, I’m furious. I can’t stop thinking about all the people who worked so hard, all the people who sacrificed so much, all the people who donated their time and money to the 2019 effort because they knew how important it was for our state.”

Those reactions are not uncommon among folks whose colleagues or loved ones struggle with addiction. Depending on the course of the ongoing federal investigation, Peterson may soon be angering other former allies.

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Instead, it was named for the country’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, who would die the following year.

The boundaries of Jefferson Parish changed over time.

Originally, the East Bank of the parish stretched from Felicity Street in New Orleans to the St. Charles Parish line. For much of the 19th century, most of what is now Uptown New Orleans belonged to Jefferson Parish. However, as the city of New Orleans grew, it annexed several areas, redefining the boundaries of both parishes.

In 1834, the state Legislature created a police jury form of government for Jefferson Parish, dividing it into 10 wards. Political squabbles led to the formation of two juries in 1858 — one for the East Bank of the parish and one for the West Bank.

That lasted until 1884, when the Legislature again brought the parish under the control of one (large) police jury.

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A native of Monroe, he was a businessman and owner of a janitorial service supply company who had never held political office. He was recruited to run on a ticket which included Sheriff William Coci.

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The Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island

NARRAGANSETT, RHODE ISLAND — Last month some 50 south Louisianans gathered in this small, New England port town, preparing for a breezy day trip through the Atlantic waters. The mood was light and there was an air of excitement — with some jokes about the “chilly” 70-degree weather compared to the triple digits back home as they ferried toward the Block Island Wind Farm.

This wasn’t just a joyride, however.

It was a chance to show off America’s first commercial offshore wind farm, largely built and assembled by several Louisiana companies.

“We wanted to go to Rhode Island to allow people to see, touch and feel how Louisiana could create jobs building wind farms for the nation,” says Michael Hecht, president and CEO of the New Orleans economic development agency GNO, Inc. “When we were informed that the wind farm in Block Island was largely engineered, assembled, con-

structed and serviced by Louisiana companies, it was an aha moment.”

Hecht also organized the trip to build enthusiasm and connect more industry leaders working toward getting offshore wind farms into the Gulf of Mexico.

As a growing number of academics, industry leaders and policymakers have been pushing to get these underway, Hecht views it as a brilliant opportunity. It’s a natural fit for Louisiana’s workforce, which is already primed for offshore activity.

“There is economic opportunity for Louisiana to become the supply chain for offshore wind in the entire nation,” Hecht says. “What’s exciting about that is that instead of looking for gold, we’re selling the shovels to the gold miners.”

He and other local experts are particularly enthused about the process, because it’s a way to mitigate climate change while improving the state’s economy.

“When we see an opportunity where industry, government and

environmental organizations all agree on an opportunity, that’s something we should pursue,” Hecht says.

Logan Atkinson Burke, executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, says she also is pleased with the widespread support the notion of offshore wind is receiving locally.

“This is one of the first times I’ve seen leaders on either side of the aisle leaning into real solutions, so that’s particularly exciting to see,” she says.

LOUISIANA AND RHODE ISLAND AREN’T OFTEN COMPARED to one another, aside from perhaps an affinity for seafood and their respective world-famous jazz festivals.

But both coastal states — along with the rest of the country — are dealing with accelerating climate change and the need to diversi-

fy power grids to accommodate renewable energy mandates and guidelines.

For some Louisiana workers, the Block Island wind farm was a practice run for what’s to come.

The five-turbine wind farm began fully operating in 2016 and supplies renewable energy to the 7-mile Block Island and other parts of Rhode Island. Its success has also paved the way for similar projects currently in development along the East Coast and in Louisiana in the coming years — and on a much larger scale.

It wasn’t an easy process to get the New England pilot project underway. But it eventually solved an annoying problem for residents of the island, in addition to creating more than 300 jobs, says Stacy Tingley, deputy head of market affairs at Orsted, the Danish company that owns the wind farm.

Block Island, which she fondly calls “the jewel of New England,” has about 1,500 full-time residents,

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The surging demand for electricity had caused rolling blackouts, and residents were fed up with their unreliable power grid.

On top of that, their power was supplied the dirty way, says Tinsley: by burning millions of gallons of diesel annually and churning out carbon emissions.

In the face of climate change worsening, she says, “People were like, we have to do something.”

In 2006, Rhode Island’s then-Gov. Donald Carcieri first introduced the concept of harnessing the state’s coastal winds to generate clean, renewable energy.

He established the RIWINDS program and announced a goal to get the state to generate 15% of its electrical supply from wind power. “[Carcieri] was like, ‘I want offshore wind energy for Rhode Island. I want it for climate change, but I also want it for economic development,” says Jennifer McCann, director of the U.S. Coastal Programs at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus in Narragansett.

Carcieri had the university conduct a multi-year, comprehensive study on the best practices and ways to get offshore wind farms developed.

This involved years of outreach, research and constantly surveying Rhode Island residents about their attitudes surrounding the project.

While residents were largely supportive of it, they did have concerns.

For one, the waters are a popular spot for sailing and fishing, so it was necessary to get feedback on setting up the rigs in areas that that would minimally impede on this.

“This area (of water) is really crowded,” McCann says. “This is the fishing industry. There are navigational channels, ordinances, transportation — all sorts of things … People were concerned about how this is going to affect their environment? Will there be collisions with our commercial and recreational fishing?”

It also required studying everything from underwater geological structures to the ecosystem of the waters to current wind blade technologies. “Believe it or not,” she jokes, “We made scientists talk to stakeholders.”

Tracey Dalton, director of the Rhode Island Sea Grant and a professor of marine affairs at URI, says there were technical challenges but also human ones.

“When you have a 600-foot structure, putting it in the middle of this busy ocean, you’ve got fishing, marine mammals, endangered species seeding and spawning. And

you have to think about people and how they are going to relate to it,” Dalton says.

One study she conducted showed recreational fishers reacted more positively to the wind farm’s development because the underwater structure attracted more diverse species of marine life.“They said there were increases in fish abundance and they were seeing different types of species at the site. On the other hand, the commercial fishermen were concerned that it was increasing recreational activity at the site.”

Louisiana will have to face similar issues and conversations, though industry leaders are confident that support for it, like in Rhode Island, will be abundant.

That there is already infrastructure in the Gulf waters doesn’t hurt — people are already accustomed to offshore activity.

And many of the potential wind farms could be several miles offshore, where there is not as much recreational boat traffic to worry about.

Though it was a time-consuming process, the Rhode Island professors say their outreach paid off, and construction began in earnest in 2015.

That’s when Louisiana companies, like Keystone Engineering, Edison Chouest and others brought their “Cajun ingenuity” up north, Hecht says.

Where Rhode Island had the academic and economic support, what they lacked was a significant workforce to actually fabricate the parts and coordinate logistics of building the rigs.

Hecht compares some of the innovations made by south Louisianans to the Higgins boat, the amphibious vessel used in World War II that was famously developed

by New Orleanian Andrew Higgins.

“The boat saved the free world,” Hecht says. “We will no doubt see that happen in offshore wind.”

DIFFERENT ISSUES FOR LOUISIANA ALTHOUGH LOUISIANA HAS NOT TRADITIONALLY BEEN KNOWN for leading the way in solutions to climate change, Gov. John Bel Edwards, in line with the Biden administration, released a state climate plan earlier this year with help from a bipartisan task force.

The plan sets a goal of generating 5 gigawatts of offshore wind en-

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ergy by 2035, with the potential to supply millions of homes with clean wind energy.

The goal is also part of a larger recommendation to reduce greenhouse gases and reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

“Greenhouse gas reduction is one reason (to implement offshore wind),” says Don Pierson, secretary of Louisiana Economic Development. “But as we proceed, potential corporations that will want to grow or relocate to our state will ask us, what is your blend of power vs. fossil fuels? We don’t want to say we’re 100% fossil fuels. We need to move as the world is moving.”

The guidelines, as well as other state legislation that allows for offshore development, solidify the Gulf region as a hospitable place to do business in the renewable energy sector. But the state will certainly have some different issues than the ones faced by Rhode Island.

Rhode Island’s farm, for example, is in shallower state waters, so dealing with the federal regulations wasn’t necessary. At least some of Louisiana’s windmills, which will be far larger than the ones powering Block Island, will need to be in federal waters.

Louisiana is working with the federal government to figure out which areas in the Gulf could be developed for offshore wind. And that’s likely to be a lengthy permitting process because it would be the first projects in the country of that size and scope. Plus, the rigs will be much bigger to accommodate hurricane-force winds.

Leaders are hoping to make Louisiana a national hub — not just capable of powering a small vacation spot like Block Island, but for

millions of homes across the state and country.

And Hecht also points out that the state will be additionally able to sell green hydrogen generated from wind power, which could curb carbon emissions while still feeding the industrial corridor.

“They’re very new to permitting wind farms and wind activities, so there’s no established rules, regulations and guidelines to follow, per se,” Pierson says. “They’re now being developed. It’s a slower process and that’s one of the challenges we might face beyond three miles out (in federal waters).”

However, Hecht of GNO, Inc. doesn’t necessarily think offshore wind farms will take as long as Rhode Island’s project, in part because the workforce is already here, the support is already widespread and technology has significantly improved over the last decade, which could help make the process more efficient. “(Offshore wind) is an evolution, not a revolution,” Hecht says.

Neither does James Martin, CEO of Gulf Wind Technologies, think the process needs to be dragged out too long. His company is in the planning stages of developing massive blades that dwarf the ones in Rhode Island, to accommodate hurricane-force winds.

“In [Rhode Island] they said their process took a long time,” he says.

“Louisiana can say, ‘OK we haven’t done wind before, but we have done thousands of drilling assets.’

There’s no reason why Louisiana can’t leverage its experience in oil and gas.”

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“So what we need to do in the Gulf is choose the right time of year — not during hurricane season,” says Martin.

“We’ve got a little lead time to get everything ready,” he adds.

“It’s almost like building a house —if you think about a developer, you have to secure the land, you have to do the surveys, (identify) the shrimping areas, the fishing areas. Then you plan the house, so to speak, buy the pieces and then you install it.”

BRINGING IT HOME A NEW LAW IN NEW ORLEANS also sets a clear and strict path forward for the region’s transition into renewables.

A City Council ordinance last year, authored by Council President and Climate Chair Helena Moreno, forces Entergy New Orleans to shift away from its heavy reliance on oil and gas and use renewable and clean energy instead over the next several years.

The policy requires 100% net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

While the state’s climate plan is more of a set of recommendations that has not been enacted into law, the city’s legislation entices growth in the wind sector.

And the council has been working closely with business leaders like Hecht to help solidify the city

as a hospitable place for offshore wind businesses.

Additionally, the American Clean Power Association released a study earlier this year that said as many as 17,500 new jobs could be created if two proposed wind farms take shape in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas and Louisiana. According to the Times-Picayune, the industry group estimated that it could create more up to 14,700 construction jobs and about 2,800 permanent positions for wind farm operations and maintenance.

Andrew Tuozzolo, chief of staff for Moreno, says the council will continue incentivizing businesses to set up shop here.

“We will need hundreds of megawatts of new renewables over the next decade, and wind will play an important role here,” Tuozzolo says. “This (legislation) is the true catalyst.”

Reflecting on the boat ride to Block Island, Hecht says the diversity of those aboard the ferry to the wind farm was an especially good sign for the state’s future as a wind hub.

“We had the bayou regions, Lafayette, New Orleans, Baton Rouge — a large part of south Louisiana,” he says. “All who understand they can be a part of it ...

The two points were to inform and to inspire. Without question, both those goals were met.”

Tuozzolo also felt that the trip hammered in how capable and well-positioned the state is to bring these projects to the Gulf.

“South Louisiana already does the work,” he says. “Now let’s bring it home in a big way.”

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Kingston for a day Jamaican Jerk House is open on St. Claude Avenue LIFE AND BUSINESS PARTNERS JACKIE DIAZ AND RICHARD ROSE have traveled

a long and bumpy road to open the doors of their restaurant, Jamaican Jerk House, on St. Claude Avenue.

Housed where Sneaky Pickle got its start, the eatery is inspired

by Rose’s culinary roots. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and is a wizard at making jerk seasoning, which he uses on everything from chicken to shrimp and even turkey come Thanksgiving. His wife is a self-taught cook, and she’s a first generation Cuban American with an innate sense of hospitality.

They’ve been married for 13 years and have worked hard to get to where they are with their new business. Parental drug abuse, problems in the foster care system and a bout of homelessness could have landed Diaz in a very different place, she says.

“Both of us have had hard times.

We’ve come from nothing and have made a life together,” Diaz says. “I’m so thankful we have each other.”

Rose came to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to help rebuild the city, but the program he signed on with had him working in industrial settings far from the city.

Eventually he wound up working at an oil refinery in Reserve, a job that at least paid the bills. While he was there, he sold jars of his homemade jerk sauce to his co-workers.

In fact, he couldn’t keep up with the demand.

“I made more money selling my sauce than working,” he says.

After Rose was laid off in 2020, the couple started cooking jerk and selling plates from their home in Kenner. “We started just on weekends, and there’d be lines out the door,” Diaz says. “It was because of our daughter that we started cooking every day.”

Now 2 years old, their youngest was diagnosed with plagiocephaly, a congenital defect that can create head and facial deformities without treatment. They sold plates of jerk and stewed oxtail as fast as they could make it to get money for treatment.

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“We weren’t going to wait on Medicaid or wait on anything to get treatment. We worked to make the money ourselves,” Diaz says. “People would be waiting every day, and our neighbors started making jokes. We knew we had to get a place.”

Fortunately, they saw the spot on St. Claude. “When I saw this place, it was full of light,” Diaz says.

“I knew it was the right move.”

After doing considerable renovations themselves, they opened their restaurant at the end of 2021. Diaz handles most of the cooking, following Rose’s family recipes.

Painted in the colors of the Jamaican flag, the 32-seat restaurant is inviting, with flatscreen TVs streaming Jamaican videos and a soundtrack of reggae music.

Orders are placed at the counter in back, where there’s a digital menu board overhead.

There’s a small bar that includes a house rum punch. “I’m still learning to make tropical drinks,” Diaz says. “We call Ben (Tabor) from Sneaky Pickle a lot when we have questions. He’s been such a big help to us.”

The menu’s top seller is the slow-stewed oxtail, a tender and deeply flavored ragu served over pasta or with rice and pigeon peas. Customers in the know order a side of oxtail gravy with the other big seller, Rose’s jerk chicken, which is perfectly spiced and crispy. There’s also jerk pork or beef ribs, wings, pork chops, a burger and jumbo shrimp.

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Specials might include grilled salmon served over rice or pasta and vegan “wings,” which is marinated soy protein threaded onto sugar cane. There’s also a jerk impossible burger for vegetarians.

Curried chicken, shrimp and brown stewed chicken round out the menu.

The restaurant opens at 11:30 a.m. and is open until 6 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and till 4 p.m. on Sundays.

The restaurant has been busy and is becoming part of the neighborhood. “We both came from nothing, which is why we are so motivated to work hard,” says Diaz. “We’re a family and we treat our customers like family too.”

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The new food hall will open with six vendors serving Southern, Mexican, Italian, Asian and Mediterranean dishes and more.

It will offer both table service and walk-up service at food stalls.

“We’re full service,” says owner Jamal Wilson. “You walk in, you’re greeted by a host, you sit at the table and you can order from any one of our six restaurants off a comprehensive menu.”

Wilson opened his original food hall in Tampa, Florida, in 2017.

“It turns out that 90% of the people who come want to be served,” he says. “We added the food service, because people like food halls for lunch, but when it comes to dinner, you want to have a reservation. We let you experience the space how you want.”

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Jamal Wilson will open The Hall on Mag after completing renovations on the former Auction House Market space.

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Wilson has a background playing professional basketball in the U.S. and overseas. After he retired from basketball, he went into real estate.

In 2017, he got into the hospitality business by opening his food hall in Tampa. It was shuttered during the pandemic, and he’s looking for a new location there.

Wilson also opened The Hall on Yard in Orlando. The Magazine Street location will be his second current food hall. On top of that, he is working on two locations in Atlanta. He says he jumped at the opportunity to open a location in New Orleans.

“I have been here for Essence Festival,” he says. “I’ve visited numerous times, I have been here for Mardi Gras and just like the area and the architecture. And the people, everyone has been so kind.”

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Tommy Tusa, one of the family owners of Central Grocery, said working with these other businesses has been instrumental in keeping his staff employed during the rebuilding process.

They now work at a commissary kitchen in Kenner, producing muffulettas for these outposts, as well as for Goldbelly, the national shipping service that handled Central Grocery orders even before the hurricane.

Goldbelly charges a premium for shipping, with a pair of whole muffulettas listed at $114.95.

The local resellers have them for between $24.95 (at Sidney’s) and $25.99 (at Zuppardo’s). Sidney’s also stocks a half muffuletta for $13.95.

At Zuppardo’s, in the middle of Metairie, the packaged Central Grocery muffuletta has proved

(917 Decatur St.) in the French Quarter for a can of beer or maybe a bottle of wine. Lately, plenty have been coming in for muffulettas from the most famous maker of the classic New Orleans Italian sandwich.

Central Grocery, the historic Italian market right next door to Sidney’s, suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ida last summer, and rebuilding has been slow going.

The building still has no roof.

But Central Grocery is still in the muffuletta business, and that business is growing thanks to an expanding circuit of other local stores that have become distribution points for the sandwich.

Zuppardo’s supermarket in Metairie (5010 Veterans Memorial Blvd.) was the first among them.

It sells packaged Central Grocery muffulettas right alongside its own house-made muffulettas at the deli. Zuppardo’s even offers to heat the Central Grocery muffuletta, a step that was not available at the French Quarter original.

Sidney’s started selling Central Grocery muffulettas about a month ago, stocking premade sandwiches sealed in plastic and ready for travel.

On the Northshore, Acquistapace’s supermarket has begun stocking them this month at both its Covington (125 E. 21st Ave.) and Mandeville (631 N. Causeway Blvd.) locations.

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Joseph Zuppardo serves a Central Grocery muffuletta at Zuppardo’s supermarket in Metairie. exceptionally popular, says manager Joseph Zuppardo.

The sandwiches arrive in cases of 12. Sometimes the store will go through eight cases in a day.

Zuppardo’s has long stocked Central Grocery’s brand of olive salad. Adding the sandwiches to its deli case seemed like a natural fit once the long road ahead for Central Grocery became clear.

Still, Zuppardo says he wondered if stocking the famous sandwich would hurt sales of the store’s version. The opposite has played out.

“We’re selling even more of our own than before, even though we keep selling all of theirs right next to them,” he says.

Chalk it up to the power of suggestion, or perhaps a cheaper price. The Zuppardo’s in-house muffuletta is significantly less costly at $15.99 for a whole.

As for the future of Central Grocery, Tusa could give no firm timeline for reopening but says he is hoping for late fall.

“We’re coming back. It’s just a matter of time,” he says.

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Chockie Tom

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Bartender, writer and Indigenous advocate

by Will Coviello

CHOCKIE TOM IS THE FOUNDER OF DOOMMERSIVE, A COCKTAIL POP-UP that

combines tiki-style drinks, heavy metal and satanic imagery. She’s currently based in New York and has done the pop-up there, around the country and in London. Tom has Walker River Paiute and Pomo ancestry and writes about issues involving visibility and representations of Indigenous people, including tiki culture and the hospitality industry. She put together a panel about visibility of Indigenous people in the spirits industry at Tales of the Cocktail last year. This year, she organized a panel on Indigenous identity and cocktails. For more about her work, visit linktr.ee/ doomchockie. Her seminar, “Indigenous Intent and Identity in Cocktail Creation,” is Tuesday, July 26, at Tales of the Cocktail.

How did you get interested in bartending and tiki?

CHOCKIE TOM: I have been bartending for 21 years now. I am from southern California, which is where tiki was invented. It was always around. There is a lot of crossover with subcultures — people into vintage, rockabilly or just old punk rockers who needed something else to do. They were fun bars to be around, but there was always something that bothered me a little about it.

My dad was Indigenous. He was always active in our community.

Both of my parents were very supportive of when things were unfair or wrong or inaccurate historically to go change it. At a certain point in my career, especially when I was doing work with people from a Pasifika background, I tried to figure out what I wanted to do differently.

I was like, this isn’t cool. There’s got to be a way to approach this that isn’t just homogenizing a bunch of really beautiful and unique cultures and doing some imperialistic, colonizer cosplay for your drinks. The idea of paradise shouldn’t include the women or the people — paradise shouldn’t exist for the outsiders at the expense of those who are from those lands.

Let’s think about the power dynamic. Instead of going with other people’s idols and elements from people’s religious beliefs — that missionaries and outsiders literally killed them for preserving

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— we thought we should go with a metal aesthetic. The California wine industry was started using slave labor by the Spanish in order to make sacramental wine. They enslaved a bunch of us up and down the coast. We were like, we’re going to go with something fun and satanic. It really upset a lot of people. They were like “You can’t use these images.” We were like, “Why can they use ours?”

If you look at tiki, it was started by a set designer who created the aesthetic with stuff he had lying around — without any thought about where it’s from, if we should mix this together, if this culture wants liquor around their deities, because some places have that separate. On top of that, you have available island maiden tropes. When you portray women as some gift you get when you are in paradise, it dehumanizes them and makes them more prone to be attacked and not valued. You don’t have to put a half-naked hula girl on something. Let’s replace it with something cool, like a black cat or some devil thing.

How can the industry and consumers embrace change?

TOM: You cannot tell somebody how you’re going to honor their culture if you do not have their consent. It’s just theft. You can have all the best intents, but if you’re not working with the people that you’re trying to celebrate, then you’re being harmful.

There are a ton of other options for mugs out there. We can make something look tropical without mocking someone’s religious iconography. We can create different immersive experiences and do storytelling through cocktails and do it differently. It doesn’t have to take from somebody. Your bar is only as good as everybody who feels welcome there. If you’re going to have racist mugs and sexist things and everyone isn’t

comfortable, then you’re failing because everyone isn’t included.

The most important thing I can say about the tiki thing is to point to the Pasifika Project, which is run

by Mariah Kunkel, who is CHamoru, and Samuel Jimenez. I can say what I can from an Indigenous perspective, but it’s really their culture — the islands affected by this. Check out the Pasifika Project and listen to people from those communities. Those are the people whose voices need to be centered in these discussions.

What will you focus on at the seminar at Tales?

TOM: The seminar is Indigenous identity in cocktail creation. I have some cool bartenders. I put it together, but I am going to participate on the panel. The moderator is Charlotte Big Canoe, who is First Nations from Canada. Danielle Goldtooth is Dine and Lakota and lives in Arizona. She is working on farm-to-table restaurant concepts and has been using Indigenous ingredients and working on cocktail creation and foraging forever. I have Lucas Herrera, who has been working with Owamni, which just won a James Beard Award (for Best New Restaurant). He worked in their zero-proof cocktail program. I also have Julio Gutierrez.

He’s from L.A. He’s Chicano and he does cocktails that tell things from Chicano and Mexican history.

I think there is going to be a lively discussion about how Indigenous identity shapes how you do things, and how that shapes a cocktail program. It’s pushing collaboration, empowerment and cultural exchange over appropriation, or saying you’re appreciating when you’re using that as a band-aid over a gaping bullet hole. It’s giving people ideas on how to work with us and getting more visibility out there.

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Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in cream sauce. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, biscotti, fig cookies, tiramisu, macaroons and other treats. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $ Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant.com — The menu highlights Gulf seafood in Creole, Cajun and Southern dishes. Gulf Drum Yvonne is served with brown butter sauce with mushrooms and artichoke hearts. Reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Mon. $$$ The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985) 315-7001; 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 284-2898; thebluecrabnola.com — Basin barbecue shrimp and grits features jumbo shrimp over cheese grits and a cheese biscuit. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lakeview: Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Slidell: Lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 581-3866; broussards.com — The menu of Creole and creative contemporary dishes includes Rainbow trout amandine with tasso and corn macque choux and Creole meuniere sauce. Reservations recommended. Outdoor seating available. Dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ Common Interest — Hotel Indigo, 705 Common St., (504) 595-5605; commoninterestnola.com — Shrimp remoulade Cobb salad comes with avocado, blue cheese, tomatoes, bacon, egg and corn relish. Debris grits features slow-roasted, beef served over goat cheese and thyme grits. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night daily. $$ Curio — 301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198; curionola.com — The creative Creole menu includes blackened Gulf shrimp served with chicken and andouille jambalaya. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 5860300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The Creole menu features Gulf seafood, shellfish and car-grilled oysters topped with Parmesan, herbs and butter.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 739 Iberville St., (504) 522-4440; 7400 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 304-4125; felixs. com — The oyster bar serves raw Louisiana oysters, and char-grilled oysters are topped with butter, garlic, Parmesan and breadcrumbs. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Frey Smoked Meat Co. — 4141 Bienville St., Suite 110, (504) 488-7427; freysmokedmeat.com — The barbecue restaurant serves pulled pork, St. Louis ribs, brisket, sausages and more. Fried pork belly poppers are tossed in pepper jelly glaze. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. $$

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Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; joeyksrestaurant.com — Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat and served with vegetables and potatoes. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; juansflyingburrito.com — The Flying Burrito includes grilled steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar-jack cheese, black beans, yellow rice, salsa la fonda, guacamole and sour cream.

Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Katie’s Restaurant & Bar — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity. com — A Cajun Cuban has roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic and scallions. Takeout and delivery available.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Legacy Kitchen’s Craft Tavern — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 613-2350; legacykitchen.com — A NOLA Style Grits Bowl is topped with bacon, cheddar and a poached egg. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Legacy Kitchen Steak & Chop — 91 Westbank Expressway, Gretna, (504) 513-2606; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes filets mignons, rib-eyes, bone-in rib-eyes and top sirloins, as well as burgers and seafood dishes.

Reservations accepted. Outdoor seating available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 894-7444; martinwine.com — The Sena salad includes pulled roasted chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, pecans and field greens tossed with Tabasco pepperjelly vinaigrette. No reservations. Lunch daily. $$ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; 6307 S. Miro St., (504) 5096224; midcitypizza.com — The pizza joint serves New York-style pies, calzones, sandwiches and salads. Shrimp remoulade pizza includes spinach, red onion, garlic, basil and green onions.

Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Thu.-Sun., dinner Thu.-Mon. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. The menu also has sushi, sashimi, noodle dishes, teriyaki and more. Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. $$ Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and more. Baked oysters Mosca is made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Mother’s Restaurant — 401 Poydras St., (504) 523-9656; mothersrestaurant. net —The counter-service spot is known for po-boys and Creole favorites, such as jambalaya, crawfish etouffee and red beans and rice. No reservations.

Delivery available. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$

Nephew’s Ristorante — 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 533-9998; nephewsristorante.com — The Creole-Italian menu features dishes like veal, eggplant or chicken parmigiana. Reservations required. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes New Orleans favorites such as red beans with fried chicken or pork chops, as well as seafood plates, po-boys, char-grilled oysters, pasta, salads and more. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Nice Guys Bar & Grill — 7910 Earhart Blvd., (504) 302-2404; niceguysbarandgrillnola.com — The menu includes chargrilled oysters, wings, quesadillas, burgers, sandwiches, salads, seafood pasta and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$ Nonno’s Cajun Cuisine and Pastries — 1940 Dauphine St., (504) 354-1364; nonnoscajuncuisineandpastries.com — The menu includes home-style Cajun and Creole dishes. Shrimp is sauteed with onion and bell pepper, topped with cheese and served with two eggs and toast. Reservations accepted. Delivery available. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ Peacock Room — Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, 501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 324-3073; peacockroomnola.com — Black lentil vadouvan curry comes with roasted tomatoes, forest mushrooms and basmati rice. Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Mon., brunch Sun. $$ Tacklebox — 817 Common St., (504) 827-1651; legacykitchen.com — The seafood restaurant serves raw and chargrilled oysters, seafood, burgers, salads and more. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; tavolinonola.com — The menu features signature thin-crust pizzas as well as salads, pepperoni chips, meatballs and more. A Behrman Hwy. pizza is topped with pork belly, caramel, nuoc cham-marinated carrots and radishes, jalapeno and herbs. No reservations.

Outdoor seating available. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 234-9420; theospizza. com — A Marilynn’s Pota Supreme pie is topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, mushrooms, bell peppers and onions. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. Takeout and delivery available.

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with the show “Picture Man” at the New Orleans Museum of Art and “NOLA Hip Hop & Bounce Party” at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint.

The Jazz Museum’s exhibit opened earlier this year and focuses on Polo Silk’s photos of New Orleans hip-hop and bounce performers. The show closes on Thursday, July 21, so catch it while you can.

Find more information at nolajazzmuseum.org.

‘Have a Great Day’

NEW ORLEANS MUSICIAN — AND OWNER OF THE CITY’S MOST INFECTIOUS SMILE — Joshua Starkman

has for the last few years hosted “Have a Great Day” on social media. The lighthearted webseries features music breaks and talk show-style interviews with New Orleans musicians and recognizable people. This summer, Starkman is hosting a monthly live version of “Have a Great Day” at the Peacock Room at Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, with each edition featuring two up-and-coming singers, games and rapid-fire questions. Starkman hosts the next showcase at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, with folk singer Maddy Kirgo and gospel singer Josh Kagler.

The last Peacock Room showcase is Aug. 10, and Starkman will return with “The Have a Great Night Show” at the Ace Hotel in October. Find more information at peacockroomnola.com and on Instagram, @joshuastarkman.

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The Godfather of Funk decided his announced 2019 retirement wasn’t a good fit, and he’s back on tour. There’s also a DJ set

by DJ Soul Sister. At 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 19, at House of Blues. Tickets $55-$119.50 via ticketmaster.com.

Joystick

NEW ORLEANS SKA-PUNKS JOYSTICK RELEASED ITS LATEST ALBUM, “I

Can’t Take It Anymore,” last year, and the band is now hitting the road. They play a tour kick

off show with Bad Operation, Eichlers, Dynastic and Wasted Potency at 9 p.m. Friday, July 22, at Bank Street Bar. Tickets are $10 at the door. Find the band at facebook.com/joystickska.

The Glass Key Trio

SANTE FE’S EXPERIMENTAL JAZZ OUTFIT THE GLASS KEY TRIO may

have captured the zeitgeist with its latest album, “Apocalypse Fatigue,” released last week.

Composer and guitarist Jeremy Bleich leads the group’s mix of jazz and prog rock and says its alchemy is also influenced by film noir and other entertainment niches — the band dubs its music “folk jazz noir.” The band performs with Trapper Keaper featuring guest Sam Dickey at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge, and at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 21, it’s at Carnaval Lounge with Trapper Keaper and guest Josh Smith, and Tristan Gianola.

Charlie Gabriel and Friends

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND SAXOPHONIST CHARLIE GABRIEL’S ALBUM “Eighty Nine” was

released on digital platforms in February, and put out on vinyl and CD earlier this month. He celebrated his 90th birthday last week. Catch him and his band at Preservation Hall on Wednesday, July 20. Sets begin at 5 p.m. Tickets are available at preservationhall.com.

UgLi

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young and scruffy post-punk/ power pop band. It put out its first full length album, “Fuck,” last year. Absolu Non and Lisbon Girls also perform at 9 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at Gasa Gasa. Tickets $10 via ticketweb.com.

Reina del Cid

RACHELLE CORDOVA TOOK THE STAGE NAME REINA DEL CID, and it

also works as the band name for the folk outfit now based in Los Angeles. The band had built a following through social media, and her gentle voice and strumming lend an easy charm to the album “Candy Apple Red,” released in April. At 7 p.m.

Friday, July 22, at Cafe Istanbul.

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TUESDAY 19 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Quartet, 7 pm DOS JEFES — Wendell Brunious, 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Jazz on Bourbon, 12:30 pm; Colin Myers Band, 5 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 8 pm GASA GASA — Shawn James with Gravedancer, 9 pm HOUSE OF BLUES — George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, 7 pm KITCHEN TABLE CAFÉ — Belinda Moody's Kitchen Table Cafe Trio, 7 pm SANTOS — The Obsessed, Heavy Temple, Green Gasoline, 8 pm SOUTHPORT HALL LIVE MUSIC & PARTY HALL — Doll Skin, 7:30 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Rebirth Brass Band, 8 pm

WEDNESDAY 20 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Trio, 7 pm BLUE NILE — New Breed Brass Band, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Tin Men, 6 pm; Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters, 9 pm DOS JEFES — Joe Krown, 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard "Piano" Scott, 12:30 pm; Bourbon Street All Stars, 5 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 8 pm GASA GASA — UgLi with Absolu Non, 9 pm JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Jon Beebe, 12 pm; Darianna Videaux Capitel, 2 pm NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM — Yusa, 2 pm PEACOCK ROOM, HOTEL FONTENOT — Joshua Starkman, 7 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — Open Jam Night, 8 pm SANTOS — DarkLounge Ministries, 7 pm; Russell Welch Swamp Moves Trio , 9 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Funkin' It Up with Big Sam, 7:30 pm ZEITGEIST THEATRE — Glass Key Trio, Trapper Keaper with Sam Dickey, 8 pm

THURSDAY 21 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Quartet, 8 pm BLUE NILE — Where Y'at Brass Band, 9 pm BUFFA'S — Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake, 7 & 9 pm CAFE NEGRIL — Sierra Green and the Soul Machine, 10 pm CARNAVAL LOUNGE — Glass Key Trio, Trapper Keeper, Joshua Smith, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Secret 6 Jazz Band, 6 pm DOS JEFES — Kauka Kikuchi and The Shake 'Em Up Trio , 8:30 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Doyle Cooper Trio, 2:30 pm; John Saavadra Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 8 pm

GASA GASA — Slim KuttaR with Jay Rick$, $lim Morri$on, 9 pm KITCHEN TABLE CAFÉ — Dr. Mark St. Cyr Traditional Jazz Band, 7 pm MADAME VIC'S — Walter "Wolfman" Washington, 8 pm NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE — Raph, 9 pm OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART — VicJcom, 6 pm PAVILION OF THE TWO SISTERS — Tim Laughlin, 6 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Rusty Metoyer & the Zydeco Krush, 8 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Dave Easley Quartet, 8 & 10 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Brass-AHolics, 7:30 pm WETLANDS SAKE — Mia Borders, 6:30 pm

FRIDAY 22 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Trio, 8 pm BLUE NILE — The Caesar Brothers, 7 pm; Brass Flavor, 10 pm; Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, 11 pm BUFFA'S — Jamie Bernstein's Yakameiniacs, 7 & 9 pm CAFE NEGRIL — Bon Bon Vivant, 6 pm CARROLLTON STATION — Cast Iron Cactus, 6 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Julie Schexnayder Wood Floor Trio, 6 pm; Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, 10 pm DMACS BAR & GRILL — Old Barstools plus Swinging Doors, 8 pm DOS JEFES — Sax & The City with Tom Fitzpatrick, 9 pm GASA GASA — Brooklane with Just 4 Tonight, Inside Voices, Better Late Than Never, 8 pm JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Sequenon Kone, 12 pm MADAME VIC'S — 7th Ward All Stars Jazz Band, 8 am NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE — Bayou Manouche, 7:30 pm; Ian Orr, 9 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — Seventy Eight, 9 pm RIVERSHACK — South , 7 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Three Thirty Seven, 8:30 pm SANTOS — The Chodes, Sunrise: Sunset, D Sablu, Pricked, Quarter Rats, 7 pm; Creepy Fest, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Yusa Cuban Jazz Quintet, 8 & 10 pm SOUTHPORT HALL LIVE MUSIC & PARTY HALL — Rythm Chasers, 8:30 pm TIPITINA'S — The Funky Uncle All-Stars, The Quickening, 9 pm

SATURDAY 23 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Jordan Anderson, 8 pm BLUE NILE — George Brown Band, 7 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — The Marigny Street Brass Band, 10 pm BUFFA'S — Gregg Hill, 7 & 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 6 pm; Little Freddie King, 10 pm DOS JEFES — Vivaz!, 9 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Joe Kennedy Band, 2:30 pm; Lee Floyd and Thunderbolt Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm

GASA GASA — Michael Waves with Danny G, 9 pm GEORGE AND JOYCE WEIN JAZZ & HERITAGE CENTER — Jazz & Heritage Concert Series: Lynn Drury, 8 pm JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Drum Circle with Mariama Curry, 10:30 am; Jon Beebe Duo, 2 pm KITCHEN TABLE CAFÉ — Freddie Lonzo Jazz Ensemble, 7 pm MADAME VIC'S — Gal Holiday & The Honkey Tonk Revue, 8 pm NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE — Palmer Means, 7:30 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — The Aden Paul Trio, 9 pm REPUBLIC NOLA — Bemo Rouge, 10 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Rock Show NOLA Tribute to Journey, 8:30 pm SIDNEY'S SALOON — CreepyFest, 6 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Herlin Riley Quartet, 8 & 10 pm SOUTHPORT HALL LIVE MUSIC & PARTY HALL — The Chee-Weez , 8 pm THE BOMBAY CLUB — Anais St. John, 8 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — The Nayo Jones Experience, 7:30 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — Sean Hobbes and The Hi Res with Lyon, 8 pm

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MONDAY 25 BUFFA'S — Doyle Cooper Trio, 7 pm DOS JEFES — John Fohl, 8:30 pm SANTOS — Bone Church, Mother Iron Horse, Snake Mountain Revival, Sudden Deaf , 8 pm SIDNEY'S SALOON — The Amazing Henrietta, 6 pm; DarkLounge Ministries, 8 pm

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by Jake Clapp

CREEPY FEST IS BACK THIS WEEK FOR ITS 13TH EDITION

with more than 40 punk, hardcore and metal bands playing venues across New Orleans. Hosted by punk label Sheer Terror Records, Creepy Fest 2022 starts Thursday, July 21, at Parisite Skatepark and continues through Sunday, July 24, at venues in the French Quarter, Marigny, Mid-City and on St. Bernard Avenue.

Creepy Fest started in 2009 with just 12 bands over three nights. Festival organizer Bill Heintz and his Sheer Terror label organized the first fest to promote a soundtrack featuring New Orleans punk bands for a film by Terror Optics.

Since then, Creepy Fest has grown, snowballing to around 60 bands at one point before settling back to a more manageable 40 range, Heintz says.

“A lot of it just kind of organically develops through the year, just because I’m constantly playing shows and talking with venue owners and bands. So in a way I kind of let it just happen and just navigate it,” Heintz says.

Jenn Attaway, Heintz’s partner and a musician who plays in The Unnaturals and The Split Lips, also helps organize the festival, and Rob Anderson helped organize the Parisite shows.

Creepy Fest starts at 6 p.m. Thursday with an all-ages show featuring two stages, artists and

vendors set up at the skatepark on Pleasure Street. Haint, Spitfire, Nien, Pure Mutt and Gurotesuku play one stage, and Pussyrot, Shitstorm Trooper, Cocaine Titans, Dungeon Filth, The Lunatics and The Family Sawyer play the second stage.

The second stage’s grindcore lineup also will serve as a tribute to Hollise Murphy. A musician, Murphy was a relentless supporter and unofficial ambassador for New Orleans’ underground music communities. He passed away last year at the age of 36.

“He basically had become almost a spokesperson for Creepy Fest because he was such a huge supporter,” Heintz says.

“I’m always running around making the fest happen, so I needed somebody to sort of emcee the event.

He would always step up and take that spot. It’s just such a huge part missing this year.”

Friday, July 22, will include two shows on Lower Decatur. At One Eyed Jacks’ new location, F.Y.P. will headline its first show in New Orleans in more than 20 years with Dummy Dumpster, Trampoline Team, Brat and Schizos.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and cover is $15.

At the same time, The Chodes, D. Sablu, Sunrise:Sunset, Pricked, The Riffs and Quarter Rats will play across the street at Santos.

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The Bills open for Circle Jerks at Tipitina’s on Sunday, June 24.

On Saturday, The Unnaturals and Trash Night play at 2 p.m. at Breakaway’s R&B. Then starting at 5:30 p.m., bands will play at The Goat, Sidney’s Saloon and Poor Boys. One cover charge will give access to each show on St. Bernard Avenue.

The Pallbearers will play a 25th anniversary show with Future Hate, The Oxys, Genki Genki Panic, Before I Hang, Death Church and Maggot Rave at The Goat. Sidney’s Saloon will host The Guillotines, Killer Hearts, Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, Reagan Era Rejects, Crush Diamond, The Grooxs and Burnout. And at Poor Boys will be Shitload, Dead Centered, Cikada, Witch Burial, Cemetery Frost and Gnashing.

Creepy Fest ends Sunday with a 3 p.m. show at Banks Street Bar with What a Waste and Swamp Hunny. And that night Circle Jerks, Negative Approach and The Bills play Tipitina’s — the show isn’t officially part of Creepy Fest, but Heintz has worked with Tip’s to promote the show.

Find more about Creepy Fest at facebook.com/creepyfest.

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