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Andrew Duhon slows life down on fourth album ‘Emerald Blue’ ANDREW DUHON IS TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE RAT RACE . Or, at least, he’s just

trying to find a better balance in life.

The New Orleans singer-songwriter’s new full-length album, “Emerald Blue,” is filled with songs about slowing down, living intentionally and using our time well before it finally runs out. There’s a cabin in Duhon’s mind. It’s a goal for a new, more peaceful home as well as a resting place for his thoughts — but, he confesses on the song “Down from the Mountain,” he isn’t quite yet ready for the cabin.

“I think the ultimate goal will be a certain balance,” says Duhon from a van on his way to a tour gig in Colorado. “Now, I hope when I find that cabin, it inspires me to stay more than I planned on, but it remains that I have ambition and it’s all wrapped around with trying to share these songs with more people.”

“Emerald Blue,” Duhon’s fourth solo record, is an outing of wandering Americana heavily inspired by the native New Orleanian’s trips in the Pacific Northwest and the pandemic-forced pause that hit musicians in 2020. Duhon and his band are on tour ahead of the album’s release on Friday, and they’ll be back in New Orleans on Saturday to play a release show at One Eyed Jacks.

Duhon has been busy for years.

Open mics and weekly gigs in the French Quarter led to his first album, “Songs I Wrote Before I Knew You,” in 2009, and his second full-length, “The Moorings,” was nominated for the 2014 Grammy for best engineered album. His third record, “False River,” was released in 2018. Amid it all, he toured regularly as a trio with bassist Myles Weeks and drummer Jim Kolacek.

In recent years, an urge to ease back had been scratching at the back of Duhon’s mind — a feeling that was only encouraged by his girlfriend’s move to Moses Lake, Washington, to take a health care job. Duhon flew up to see her for about a week every month and camped and explored the region’s lakes and forests. He’s also been searching for a place to call a second home, where he could split his time with New Orleans.

“That was about following a girl with blue-green eyes up to Washington, and what I found was a blue-green landscape that was

enchanting,” Duhon says. The “emerald” in the album title alludes to the Pacific Northwest landscape, Duhon adds, but the “blue” is for New Orleans — the hometown influences are always there.

Then the pandemic hit, forcing Duhon, like musicians all over the world, to suddenly stop. “It put into perspective what the hustle and the speed had been,” he says, “because it was probably the first time that I had done without it since getting in the van.”

Stuck at home, Duhon started writing. He ended up writing more than 30 new tunes and began recording videos of stripped-down performances in his home he would publish to Patreon and YouTube. Before he knew it, the world had started to re-open, and he took most of those songs to Dockside Studio in Maurice last fall, recording 18 songs for the ultimately 11-track “Emerald Blue.”

The album features Weeks on bass, drummer Jano Rix and keyboardist and accordionist Dan Walker. Tif Lamson sings on the track “Diggin’ Deep Down,” and violinist Rurik Nunan appears on the song “Down from the Mountain.”

Trina Shoemaker, who has worked with Duhon on his past albums, produced “Emerald Blue.”

Duhon didn’t necessarily set out to write an album about finding a new pace in life — the condensed writing time of the early pandemic months just pulled out his thoughts — but the touching “Slow Down” finds Duhon asking his partner to be “right here, right now.” The track “Plans” reflects on all those trips and activities he wants to take but never quite finds the time. On “Down From the Mountain,” Duhon plays the prophet who has seen a better way to live.

Similarly, songs like “Promised Land” and “Emerald Blue” paint a picture of the Pacific Northwest. As the album plays out, you can hear

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HIP-HOP FANS WILL ARGUE about the greatest emcees of all time until Hell freezes over, and there will never, ever be a consensus. But those debates will almost always at least include Kendrick Lamar.

The Compton-born rapper is critically acclaimed, has chart hits and his songs, like “Alright,” have become chants at Black Lives Matter protests and marches.

Plus, he not only has 14 Grammy Awards but his 2017 album, “Damn.,” won the Pulitzer Price for Music. Lamar’s latest album is “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.” He performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the Smoothie King Center.

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Andrew Duhon’s new ‘Emerald Blue’ is out Friday, July 29. the influence the cold, misty mornings and some solo hiking had on Duhon. It’s easy to imagine Duhon and his guitar and rich voice working out “Emerald Blue” over a campfire.

Still, New Orleans isn’t far away.

Rhythm and blues influences work their way in, and on the song “Castle on Irish Bayou,” Duhon imagines the opportunity to ditch the city’s rising rent and set up camp in the local landmark Irish Bayou Castle (which did recently go on the market for $500,000).

The song “Everybody Colored Their Own Jesus” would sound familiar to anyone who grew up as a Catholic school kid.

“There’s a reason this idea of a cabin in my mind, it has to be a bilocation. It’s because I can’t all together leave New Orleans. I’m still tied to that place. I don’t think it’s just a sense of home, I think it’s what New Orleans gives me personally and creatives more broadly,” Duhon says.

“Emerald Blue” will be released Friday, July 29. Find the album at andrewduhon.com. Duhon plays One Eyed Jacks at 9 p.m. Saturday, July 30. Tickets are $15 at oneeyedjacks.net.

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Kendrick Lamar will perform at Smoothie King Center on Friday, July 29.

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more than 1 million gallons of crude oil from the Gulf since March 2019. The Belle Chassebased business designed and built a containment system to capture and remove oil leaking from a Taylor Energy platform (see Gambit’s July 19 Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down) that collapsed during Hurricane Ivan, creating the longest-running spill in U.S. history just 20 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. Tim Couvillion, an engineer and former fishing boat captain, was hired by the Coast Guard to clean up the spill — and has had a lot of success.

New Orleans Public Library is cur-

rently offering local youths free RTA passes to get to the library.

Kids ages 11 to 18 can pick up a free RTA pass at any library location, and passes can be used for 24 hours. The Teen Read and Ride program is funded by the United Way, Baptist Community Ministries and the Friends of the New Orleans Public Library. The initiative is for a limited time, and passes are given on a firstcome, first-served basis while supplies last.

AttorneyGeneralJeffLandry is

trying to withhold state funds for New Orleans projects because of the city’s decision to not pursue or arrest people accused of violating Louisiana’s retrograde abortion ban. Landry last week sent a letter to state Treasurer John Schroder asking him not to approve financing for construction projects in the city. Mayor LaToya Cantrell responded by saying, “I will not be baited into politics, but I will stand for women.”

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THE NUMBER OF DETECTED CASES OF MONKEY POX IN LOUISIANA AS OF JULY 21.

But as cases surge across the United States and around the world, there are likely more undiagnosed infections in the state. The virus is spread through skin to skin contact and is characterized by flu-like symptoms, swollen lymph nodes and a rash of bumps that are often filled with fluid before scabbing over.

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The former the former Six Flags theme park.

Six Flags talks dragging; developer warns delays could jeopardize New Orleans East project CITY OFFICIALS FOR MONTHS HAVE FAILED TO AGREE on long-term

responsibility for the former Six Flags amusement park, and the head of the firm chosen to redevelop it warned Wednesday that the delays could scuttle the ambitious proposal.

Businessman Troy Henry, the public face of Bayou Phoenix, said his group has already spent $500,000 on the project, which is seen as a linchpin for the future of New Orleans East.

Plans call for a logistics center, water park, hotel, athletic fields, retail shops and possibly a film studio. Feasibility studies have returned encouraging results and garnered significant interest from potential operators and tenants, Henry said.

But he said the interest could wane if authorities do not soon turn over the keys to the 227acre site, currently dotted with defunct roller coasters and other rides that were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

“The timing is now somewhat imminent to get an agreement,” Henry said Tuesday to members of the Industrial Development Board, an independent city agency that owns the site.

“Because as you all know, time kills deals.”

Henry said predevelopment work would conclude in the next six to eight weeks, and Bayou Phoenix needs site control by then to secure financing. He pegged the total project cost at as much as $500 million.

In an interview, Henry said that deadline is not a firm one, but the risk of losing interest from the businesses that Bayou Phoenix is recruiting will mount if much more time passes with no agreement.

“If this thing drags on, you know, three months, four months, five months or something like that, they’ll probably think this isn’t a real opportunity, and they will move into other markets,” Henry said.

Another flop?

Generations of city officials have failed in repeated attempts to rejuvenate the property, the largest of several critical New Orleans East redevelopment priorities. One complication is that the liability associated with nearly two decades of inaction has turned the site into a hot potato, with various government agencies haggling over longterm ownership.

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For the last 13 years, the property has belonged to the IDB, an agency with a single staff member that accepted ownership while City Hall pursued redevelopment. Several efforts collapsed under former Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration spent nearly a year choosing a developer, eventually picking Bayou Phoenix in October 2021.

The IDB, whose primary function is to award development incentives, has always been a reluctant owner, and relations between the board and City Hall have been tense over the years as plans repeatedly failed to materialize. With the selection of Bayou Phoenix, city officials agreed to negotiate for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority – which spearheads projects across the city with dozens of staff members – to receive the title and work out a lease with the developer.

But NORA has thus far not agreed to terms with the IDB, and negotiations have gone on far longer than expected.

Officials initially hoped a deal would be complete by the end of last year. With that timeline blown, the city’s economic development director, Jeff Schwartz, told IDB members in the spring that he expected it to be done by June.Signp Schwartz was again empty-handed when addressing the IDB on Tuesday, and could only repeat earlier assurances that a deal is imminent. Schwartz was hesitant to offer a new timeframe, but relented when pressed by fed-up board members.

“I genuinely believe this is not going to go another board meeting,” Schwartz said, meaning he expected a deal before the IDB’s next meeting on Aug. 9, acknowledging that he shared the board’s frustration.

Residents doubtful The repeated delays are stirring familiar doubts among New Orleans East residents who have time and again been led to believe that the former amusement park would again be turned into a major attraction, said Eva Washington of the New Orleans East Matters Coalition, who regularly attends the IDB meetings to get information about Six Flags.

“The community people out here, the churches and businesses and the people that we engage with, are wondering what’s going on,” Washington

said. “We try to get the information, we try to push forward, we try to see what they’re saying, and we come back with the same ‘nothing happened.’ And so people are out here thinking, ‘Oh, it’s not going to happen, that was just a smoke screen.’”

Washington said she remains hopeful, but that it was hard to stomach hearing Schwartz say yet again that more time was needed.

“I was really a bit taken aback with that,” Washington said. “No one has the right answers.”

Schwartz would not share particulars about the negotiations with NORA, but he said

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Businessman Troy Henry is part of Bayou Phoenix, which was selected to redevelop the site. liability concerns are one of the sticking points.

“They would like the city to represent very clearly that they won’t end up being hamstrung as the IDB has been in years past,” Schwartz said.

NORA’s executive director, Brenda Breaux, declined an interview request. She said in an email that “all parties want to see the successful redevelopment of the site,” adding that she could not comment further.

Complicating matters is the upcoming expiration of the agreement between the city and the IDB for custody of the site, which forced Schwartz to ask for a yearlong extension. The board agreed to a three-month extension, through the end of November. One member, Eric Jones, voted against the extension, calling it “insane.”

Other board members said they shared Jones’s frustration, but said refusing an extension would only put a deal further out of reach. — BEN MEYERS / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

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an ordinance to curb non-essential travel by the city’s top officials in an effort to use the council’s “power of the purse” to keep the mayor and council members at home while the city navigates a series of escalating crises. The ordinance is an unfortunate but necessary step. We hope the council passes it swiftly.

By targeting “non-essential” trips via a $1,000 limit on travel expenditures, the proposed ordinance doesn’t preclude city officials from making important trips, provided they find a way to pay for it.

There are many reasons why mayors should travel. Flying to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress and federal policymakers for funding or other needs is a key part of any big-city mayor’s job. Travel to other communities, including those overseas, can provide valuable insights into how they handle problems New Orleans faces. And it presents opportunities to broker deals for new investment and job creation.

When things are fine here at home, such trips don’t generate much attention, negative or otherwise. In such times, even the occasional “brand ambassador” trip to a music festival or ceremonial sister city agreement garners little note.

But, as we noted earlier this month, when the city’s infrastructure lies in shambles, broken traffic lights turn major intersections into bumper-car arenas, the murder rate spikes and vast swaths of the city find themselves under water after moderate summer rainstorms, the bar for leaving town rises astronomically.

As Gambit’s Sarah Ravits reported last week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her aides have taken at least nine trips this year. These trips have cost $80,000 — most of it on taxpayers’ dime. That figure doesn’t include the cost of back-to-back trips to Europe in the past month to sign “sister city” agreements and to attend music

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festivals in Switzerland and on the French Riviera.

The mayor’s office says her European trips helped promote the city’s brand and encourage tourism. “Mayor Cantrell believes it’s important to continue to forge and formalize these international partnerships to facilitate a greater sense of understanding and cooperation between continents,” her spokesperson told Gambit.

That’s a stretch. Even if our roads were paved, our flood mitigation system state-of-the-art and operating at peak condition and crime near an all-time low, that argument would be hard to swallow. Travelers the world over already know New Orleans’ reputation as the birthplace of jazz and one of the world’s greatest cultural destinations.

With so many crises facing our city — and the ever-present danger of hurricanes this time of year — it strains credulity to say signing a symbolic agreement with the posh city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins will benefit the citizens of New Orleans.

Let us be clear: Our leaders being absent from town during a crisis is always a problem. It was in 2017 when then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu opted to stay in Aspen, Colorado as intense thunderstorms inundated parts of the city. Landrieu was rightly criticized for that.

Cantrell likewise deserves criticism for her recent spate of junkets — and the proposed fiscal guard rails going forward.

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Facial recognition vote a win for Cantrell, but not for everybody IT TOOK MORE THAN SIX MONTHS, BUT THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL finally gave Mayor

LaToya Cantrell a win. By a 4-2 vote on July 21, the council passed an ordinance allowing the New Orleans Police Department to use facial recognition evidence and other surveillance tools that Cantrell has touted for months in response to the city’s surge in violent crime.

The council’s action also dealt at least a temporary setback to at-large Council Members JP Morrell and Helena Moreno, who have led a council majority that has pushed back against many of Cantrell’s initiatives — and even investigated some of her top aides — since the mayor began her second term in January.

Cantrell didn’t win this one on her own, however. She got a significant boost from the recently formed NOLA Coalition of civic, religious, neighborhood and business organizations and individuals representing a cross-section of the city. On July 12, the coalition presented a crime reduction plan that includes expanded use of surveillance technologies as well as increased recruitment, higher pay and other steps to improve morale and replenish NOPD’s depleted ranks.

While the NOLA Coalition created the buzz, what sealed Heronner’s win was Council Member Joe Giarrusso III’s decision to support the ordinance, which Council Member Eugene Green introduced at the mayor’s request.

Council Members Oliver Thomas and Freddie King III co-sponsored the measure, but it appeared doomed until two days before the council’s July 21 meeting.

That’s when Giarrusso offered to support Green’s measure — if Green would accept some amendments. For example, Green’s proposal listed about two dozen violent crimes that could trigger the use of facial recognition.

Giarrusso wanted to include “attempted” violent crimes and several other felonies, plus language limiting city use of facial recognition to NOPD. Green accepted Giarrusso’s changes, which locked in the ordinance’s crucial fourth vote. Cantrell

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Mayor LaToya Cantrell listens as City Council Member Freddie King III speaks during a Public Safety Town Hall Meeting. King and Council Member Oliver Thomas co-sponsored an ordinance allowing NOPD to use facial recognition technology. praised the council’s action, calling it “a win for everybody” and “a tremendous stride towards greater public safety.”

Well, not quite a win for everybody — and many doubt facial recognition will have the impact that Cantrell promises. There also are studies showing the technology is biased against Black people.

Morrell and Moreno wanted to amend the ordinance to add layers of review before its use and to require regular reports on its use to the council. That effort failed on a 3-3 vote, with Morrell, Giarrusso and Council Member Lesli Harris voting for the amendment but the others voting against.

Moreno missed the meeting because she had Covid symptoms.

When she returns, the issue may well come up again in the form of an ordinance containing those provisions. It will be interesting to see how many votes that ordinance garners — and if Cantrell signs or vetoes it.

In the longer term, it will be even more interesting to see if Cantrell shows the same enthusiasm for the more difficult items on the NOLA Coalition’s to-do list. Improving NOPD’s flagging recruitment and retention rates and boosting cops’ pay and morale will require a lot more than exhortations and promises.

But making that happen would truly be a win for everybody.

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Gretna engineer Jacob Huber, then-commander of the local American Legion post, formed a group in 1918 to raise money to build the memorial to local military heroes.

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M AY O R Howie Kaplan connects the dots between city nightlife and city hall

BY JAKE CL A P P

New Orleans nightlife is complicated.

It’s a layered, disparate web of bars, restaurants, music venues and innumerable street corners and special spaces. And the performers, artists, bartenders, business owners, barflies and other patrons make up a rich community with its own set of unspoken rules and traditions.

It’s hard to fully describe, but everyone has a picture of “New Orleans nightlife.” It’s the reason millions of people come to the city every year.

But New Orleans government hasn’t always understood — or respected — how the city’s nightlife moves and works or why tourists come from around the world to see a brass band on Frenchmen Street.

There’s been a gap — and Howie Kaplan wants to help bridge that disconnect between the nightlife community and City Hall.

Kaplan is the owner of The Howlin’ Wolf, manager of the Rebirth Brass Band and a music industry advocate. Now, he’s also the first director of the Office of Nighttime Economy, a new department in Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office focusing specifically on the parts of New Orleans life that pick up after dark.

“When we talk about nighttime cultural economy, it’s a whole host of things,” Kaplan says. “It’s not any one thing. A lot of people think its music and venues or Bourbon Street or the French Quarter. The way I view it … it’s about the totality of it all. It’s bars, restaurants, hotels, it’s all the

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Howie Kaplan is the director of the new Office of Nighttime Economy

50-some-odd-thousand people that are part of the hospitality industry. This was a chance to get a seat at the table for that industry and for those people.”

Kaplan’s mission is simple: “To advocate for the nighttime cultural economy of the city of New Orleans and culture bearers, and that can take on a whole host of things.”

With the Office of Nighttime Economy, New Orleans is joining a growing number of cities around the world creating positions colloquially called “night mayors” or “night managers.” Cities are taking different approaches to the position — the term “night mayor” is rarely used as an official title — but more and more city governments are realizing their nightlife isn’t some nuisance to be managed. It’s an integral part of the city and its economy.

“It’s connecting dots and making relationships,” Kaplan says.

“Making business and community organizations want to be here.

We all live in the same city. We all have the same love and passion for the city.”

In December, the City Council approved $500,000 in the city’s budget to create the Office of Nighttime Economy. The effort had been in the works for several years: Former Council Member Kristin Gisleson Palmer had pressed for the position for some time, along with OffBeat publisher

Jan Ramsey, who wrote the 2017 column, “Does New Orleans Need a Night Mayor?”

The city hasn’t yet officially announced Kaplan’s position, and the operation of the office is still coming together — Kaplan jokes about needing to learn the minutia of working in local government. Along with Kaplan as director, a civil service position that reports to the mayor, the new office will include three other staff members, including two “culture liaisons,” Kaplan says.

“The fact it’s independent is key, too,” Kaplan says. “It’s not under any one office. It works in conjunction with those offices and liaisons with other city agencies that have a direct impact on the cultural economy.”

Kaplan says he is still finding the office’s “lane” — which most likely will be broad — and he’s meeting with stakeholders to find where his position can fit in. Recently, Kaplan has been sitting in on meetings about changes to the rules governing live outdoor entertainment, with the expectation his office will help both venues and city enforcement navigate those changes.

“I think the goal at this point is to find things we can do out of the gate,” Kaplan says, like loading zones for musicians, advocating to have the alcoholic beverage outlet permit process match with the state, or educating businesses

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“It’s looking at [problems] from a different lens,” he says.

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The “night mayor” moniker is a

misnomer, says Allison Harnden, the Nighttime Economy Manager for the City of Pittsburgh.

“There’s a misperception about what the role is, and part of that is because it’s kind of different for every city,” she says.

Dozens of cities around the world now have an office dedicated to nighttime economy — and there is no one-size-fits-all practice. There are fully staffed, independent offices, and instances where it’s one or two people within another department. Many positions act as liaisons between city hall and the nightlife industry, while some focus more on sound ordinances and code enforcement. Others extend the nighttime economy role to also include industries outside of nightlife.

“There’s no end of work that can be done in nighttime economy,” Harnden says, “because nobody’s ever paid attention to it.”

Twenty years ago, San Francisco created the Entertainment Commission, the country’s first city government office dedicated to local entertainment and nightlife culture. In 2018, then-New Orleans City Council Members Palmer and Jay Banks visited San Francisco to learn more about the commission.

The commission was created out of strife, says Executive

Director Maggie Weiland. At the time, police in San Francisco were shutting down music venues without due process.

A member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors proposed a ballot initiative to charter the commission. Its first director was Jocelyn Kane, a San Francisco music advocate who had herself been hassled by police.

“I would say the first 10 years of our existence as a commission were probably pretty challenging because we were trying to get our sea legs,” Weiland says.

“But I think what’s great is we’ve proved our chops and we were able to say we were doing the job because we were able to bring folks into compliance and work on regulation in a supportive way.”

The Entertainment Commission also pushed for an entertainment economic impact study in 2012, which showed that $4.2 billion was spent every year in the city’s restaurants, bars and clubs. The city, recognizing the industry’s importance, also created a position in its Office of Economic and Workforce Development specifically for the nightlife and entertainment sector.

Jump ahead to 2012 and Amsterdam designated a “nachtburgemeester” or “night mayor.”

That led to the successful use of social workers to help address noise complaints and advocating for the city’s first 24-hour night club licenses.

Since then, similar roles have taken off in cities like London, Paris, New York City, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Detroit, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Iowa

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A brass band plays Frenchmen Street on New Year’s Eve 2018.

City. Along with New Orleans, both Atlanta and Philadelphia also have created nighttime economy offices this year.

“Nighttime economy, nightlife, live music — the things that happen at night in nightlife districts aren’t necessarily planned for or managed the way daytime is. I think they have different needs, and that perspective is important to have for a city,” says Brian Block, Entertainment Services Manager for the City of Austin and board president for the NITECAP (Nighttime Economy Culture and Policy) Alliance, a nonprofit group made up of nighttime economy managers.

Harnden and Weiland also sit on the board with similar government workers from Orlando, Seattle and Iowa City. Part of the group’s mission is to connect and support new nightlife offices, and Kaplan has gotten to know several of those managers.

Scott Plusquellec sees his role as

Nightlife Business Advocate for the City of Seattle has having three legs: He acts as a liaison to the nightlife community, including venues, bars and cabarets; he helps develop policy and programs that impact the nighttime economy; and he supports tourism efforts. Since starting the position in 2017, he’s worked on a range of projects, like training clubs on how to administer NARCAN, and a program that takes hotel concierge workers to local businesses to give them a better idea of where to direct tourists.

“We had a club where our City

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Light (Seattle’s electric utility) was doing some work, and they were going to shut the power off on a Saturday night at 10 o’clock,” Plusquellec says with a laugh. “So that wasn’t gonna work. Those are the things where clubs can reach out to me and be like, ‘Hey, wait a minute, what’s going on here?’”

In his position, Plusquellec can coordinate with other city services when a construction project is going to negatively impact a club’s business, or he can help a bar navigate the permitting process. And he can be the voice in city government for the nightlife community when a new funding program is coming together or a policy is being considered. Plusquellec also works closely with Kate Becker, who serves in a similar role as the Creative Economy & Recovery Director for King County, which includes Seattle.

“The community sees me as a resource, and they know there’s a direct person for them to contact and talk to and not to be daunted by this bureaucracy that they don’t know how to handle,” Plusquellec says. “Especially during the pandemic, serving as this conduit for resources and information and pushing out information … I think it really showed value to having a dedicated person to this sector.”

Last December, The Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans

(MaCCNO) dedicated its monthly Antigravity column to ways a stronger economic safety net

could be built for the cultural community in 2022. On the list was creating the Office of Nighttime Economy — with the important point that it be used to support cultural activity, not enforcement.

“Our idea has been this should be an office with a focus on equity and opportunity,” MaCCNO Executive Director Ethan Ellestad recently told Gambit.

MaCCNO hasn’t directly advocated for a nighttime economy office, but they’ve kept a close eye on the development.

Many New Orleans musicians, artists and culture bearers have long lived without any kind of strong safety nets, and the pandemic shutdowns only made that clearer. Ellestad says he hopes the Office of Nighttime Economy can help build those safety nets and make opportunities easier to access for everyone.

“There’s equity problems within the cultural space of who has access to resources, how is enforcement done, who can get permits,” Ellestad adds. “How do we support individuals, businesses, organizations in a way that’s really equitable? There’s an opportunity there.”

Ashlye Keaton, a New Orleans attorney who specializes in entertainment law, has followed the development of “night mayor” positions around the country.

She says nightlife management teams can be better set up for success when a city’s policies are clear. She worries the ways various agencies interpret and fight over New Orleans’ more ambiguous regulations — like the noise ordinance or the use of umbrellas

and tarps by artists in Jackson Square — will cause problems for the Office of Nighttime Economy.

“The job should be the point person to coordinate and educate folks on the rules and to help them come to some sort of resolution when there’s conflict.

To do things that are proactive and empowering,” Keaton says.

“And that’s much easier to do when you have rules that are universally recognized. That’s not happening here, and that needs to change. We don’t have rules that are universally recognized by multitudes of enforcement agencies when it comes to culture.”

Bridging the gap between city

government and New Orleans nightlife will be messy, but Howie Kaplan does have a leg up. He’s not a bureaucrat or a politician.

He’s already a respected part of New Orleans nightlife.

Kaplan has owned the Howlin’ Wolf for more than 20 years. He’s managed bands. And in 2020, Kaplan turned his Warehouse District venue into a food hub, making meals for culture bearers hurt by the pandemic shutdowns.

He also worked with the National Independent Venue Association to secure financial help for shuttered music venues.

The network he’s built will be important as the Office of Nighttime Economy finds its lane, he says. “I think we’re already making relationships that will be crucial to moving things forward.

I love this city. These are the people I’m advocating for.”

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A taste of Mexico City A family-run Mexican restaurant THERE ARE TWO INGREDIENTS IN LOYA’S “SPECIAL” ELOTES that make it so good.

The street-food-style grilled corn is especially popular in Mexico City, where owners Perla Sanchez Loya and Maria “Coco” del Socorro Loya are from. They take the dish to a new level thanks to a roll in crushed Takis chili pepper and lime tortilla chips and a drizzle of El Chilerito Chamoy sauce, a tangy fruit-based sauce bright with citrus. The flavor combo adds sweet, savory and spicy umami flavors, making something simple downright impressive.

“We recognized that in this area, there is not a lot of authentic Mexican food,” Perla Loya says.

“There are American-style taquerias, of course. But we wanted to devote this space to a little taste of Mexico. There are many small, family-owned restaurants in Mexico.

That’s us. And we bring our own seasoning to each dish. You’re not going to find these flavors anywhere else in town.”

That’s the case with many dishes on Loya’s menu. Opened by Perla Loya with the help of her aunt Coco in February 2021, Loya’s brings traditional Mexican flavors to Fern Street, just off a busy stretch of Earhart Boulevard. The two women are self-taught cooks with a deep knowledge of Mexican ingredients and traditional dishes.

Coco worked in restaurants in Mexico City, and Perla started her career in New Orleans, working with her aunt for Hugo Montero at Casa Borrega, where the duo were the restaurant’s main cooks for five years.

Perla also dipped into fine dining for a year and a half, working with chef Akhtar Nawab at Otra Vez. “I learned so much from that chef,” she says.

The pandemic halted work for both women. “I have five kids, I needed to make money,” says Perla, 38, whose pluck and ambition drive the business.

Brimming with energy, committed to quality and dug into the community, Perla is a force of nature. She saw a real estate listing for a space that had housed a sandwich shop and thought it would

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be perfect. Her husband Renan Frias, who has 26 years of construction experience, helped her build out the compact space, with its rear kitchen, prep and bar area and sunny dining room awash in sunset colors.

The sweet family-owned spot seats about 30, with some outside seating as well. In the kitchen, the Loyas are supported by a team from Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, and the result is a winning addition to the local Latin dining scene.

The menu has plenty to offer.

There is a succulent nopales plate, with a sauteed prickly pear cactus paddle — a meaty vegetable that tastes a little like okra — topped with beans, lettuce, sour cream, queso fresco, cilantro, salsa verde and a fan of sliced avocado. A trio of house-made empanadas are stuffed with shiitakes and drizzled with crema. A large portion of citrus-kissed shrimp ceviche spiked with red onion and bits of chili nests on green lettuce leaves.

Pozole, which has been curing hangovers for centuries, is a house specialty. The hearty bowl of chili-fueled broth swims with hominy, fresh herbs and bits of roasted pork, and thinly sliced radishes float on top. Enchiladas poblanos are house-made corn tortillas stuffed with shredded chicken, sauteed onion, poblano peppers and Cotija cheese and topped with poblano cream sauce — served with rice and beans on the side.

For dessert, choices include homemade family recipes of flan and tres leches.

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Owning a restaurant with her aunt is certainly a realization of the American dream, Perla Loya says. And they have plans to grow the business.

“We are opening a food truck where I live in Slidell, called Valentina’s Taqueria, for my youngest daughter, who is 7.”

The truck is still in the permitting process but should be on the road soon.

“It’s a hard thing, to learn by doing, when you’ve never run a business,” she says. “I want to show my children that there’s nothing you can’t do.

Don’t let anything hold you back. We are so proud of our restaurant.”

Rachel Taber and Alfredo Salazar Simon assisted with translation for this article.

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Traditional Mexican flavors and creative twists at a casual eatery

a taste of different tropical influences, from her native Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost islands of the Caribbean, to her adopted home in New Orleans, known as the northernmost port of the Caribbean.

Now, her Mid-City restaurant is better able to cope with some of the hazards of life in this region and provide neighbors with a dose of critical, potentially life-saving, assistance in the aftermath of the next severe storm.

On a blistering hot recent morning, a crew arrived to install an array of solar panels on the roof and a state-of-the-art battery storage system inside. Thus equipped, Queen Trini Lisa will be able to keep its refrigerators cool, its ice machine cranking and its electrical outlets

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Lisa Nelson at her restaurant Queen Trini Lisa in Mid-City. available the next time the neighborhood loses power.

“This can be a little hub of support, and that’s what I want to provide,” says Nelson, while cooking a batch of jerk chicken for the installation crew from local provider Solar Alternatives.

“This is a community restaurant — I’m surrounded by my customers here,” she says. “They’re the foundation of my business, so I want to take care of them.”

Queen Trini Lisa is the first example of a new program that is out to make neighborhood restaurants around New Orleans into independent nodes for community support in times of crisis.

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restaurant for people to charge phones and plug in medical devices, get ice or hot food or perhaps just cool off for a bit.

“I depend on insulin and I need my medication refrigerated so I’m just imagining how many people out there need that too,” she says.

The solar and battery equipment was provided free of charge to the restaurant by a new initiative called Get Lit Stay Lit, which is out to show the potential for neighborhood businesses in neighborhood support roles after a disaster.

The program came together swiftly after the experience of Hurricane Ida, when some of the first grassroots disaster response in New Orleans came through small independent restaurants.

With the electricity out and the city sweltering, these small businesses spontaneously provided a respite, with some giving away their perishable inventory and others simply offering a plug to charge a phone by generator power.

Get Lit Stay Lit was conceived to harness this impulse for a more organized, better-equipped response in the future.

It is a collaboration between two groups that have proven themselves through the pandemic.

One is Glass Half Full, a nonprofit started last year to fill the gap for glass recycling in the city.

The other is Feed the Second Line, the nonprofit behind a host of programs to preserve New Orleans culture and create jobs.

Through the pandemic, these have included paying restaurants to feed frontline health care workers and paying unemployed artists to construct house floats for Mardi Gras.

The solar and battery systems are not cheap. The one now in place at Queen Trini Lisa cost $83,000, which Get Lit Stay Lit covered fully. Plans for systems at three more restaurants are now underway.

Since announcing the program last fall, fresh from the Ida experience, the initiative has brought in $93,000 in individual contributions, mainly through its website, and also drawn grant funding totaling $300,000, said Feed the Second Line founder Devin De Wulf.

De Wulf’s vision for where the program can go is broad.

“The goal for us is that every neighborhood in New Orleans is better prepared, and that would

require hundreds of restaurants having this kind of system,” he says.

One aim of these early projects is to demonstrate value in potential of the approach and spur further investment.

“I think it would be a great investment in our city’s infrastructure to do this. By launching it and getting as many done as we can, we’re hoping the state or local government will fund the concept and take it further,” he says.

De Wulf saw the impact his own battery-stored solar power system made in his Bywater neighborhood, from charging friends’ phones to keeping one neighbor’s oxygen machine running.

He sees Get Lit Stay Lit as a way to help “storm-harden” individual businesses, so that they don’t lose as much inventory after a power failure, and also to strengthen the mutual aid that emerged between restaurants and among neighborhoods.

“A lot of people just can’t evacuate because it’s expensive; even in a major hurricane, you’ll have a lot of people who just won’t leave and that’s for economic reasons,” De Wulf says. “So we wanted to focus on restaurants in working-class neighborhoods. We saw through Covid how chefs and restaurants can step up for their community, and there are lots of restaurants that fit the bill for this.”

The government funds disaster response in different ways.

De Wulf argues for using it to support better resiliency in the community before a crisis.

“Is a smart use of money paying outside people to come in here to cook after a disaster, or is a smarter use outfitting local people to cook for each other and provide for each other?” he says.

Personal safety comes first in this program, and restaurant participants are not required to stay during a storm. Nelson‘s plan is to evacuate if the storm threat to the city looks severe, and then return as soon as possible to make the restaurant available.

“Queen Trini can’t swim, so I’ll leave if it looks bad, but I’ll be back,” Nelson says. “You need to stay safe, but then when we come back, we’ll be ready to help.” — IAN McNULTY / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

Emma Janzen Spirits writer

by Will Coviello SPIRITS WRITER EMMA JANZEN IS VISITING NEW ORLEANS this week to

attend Tales of the Cocktail, where she’ll sign books and participate in panel discussions. Two of those panels focus on topics related to her books. Because of her book “Mezcal: The History, Craft & Cocktails of the World’s Ultimate Artisanal Spirit” and more recent magazine reporting, she’ll speak on a panel about Mexican spirits. Her book about Japanese cocktail bars, “The Way of the Cocktail,” written with bar owner Julia Momose, won a James Beard Foundation Award earlier this year. Her latest book is “The Bartender’s Manifesto,” written with veteran craft bartender Toby Maloney. For more information visit emmajanzen.com and talesofthecocktail.org.

Whatdoyoumakeofmezcal’s recentriseinpopularity?

EMMA JANZEN: Some sales numbers have raised eyebrows. For the first time, this year, the sales of tequila and mezcal together are outpacing whiskey sales in the U.S. And they’re on pace to beat vodka next year to be the No. 1 selling spirit in America, which is pretty crazy.

They share that DNA of being agave spirits, but historically, mezcal sales have been much smaller than tequila. I think there’s more interest. There are more (mezcal) brands coming out in the U.S. every year, but the growth is exponential.

From a commercial market standpoint, in the late ’90s, Ron Cooper from Del Maguey Mezcal was traveling around Mexico saying, hey, these spirits are super cool and so much more diverse and interesting in flavor and technique than what we know of tequila. He started bringing that brand in and that caught the attention of all these bartenders.

The version of mezcal that was available in the states for so long was poor quality stuff. It was industrially made. It had a worm. It wasn’t the more craft-driven spirit that existed in Mexico — that we just didn’t have access to yet. It’s been nice to see people’s understanding expand as we’re being introduced to more varieties.

The industry is at this precarious moment where there are all these traditional producers and because there is so much demand, there

is pressure to streamline production to be more efficient and fill this demand. That’s threatening a lot of the traditions. When made traditionally, mezcal is a gorgeous spirit that takes time to make. When you speed up those processes, you lose a lot of the character of the spirit. My impression is that there is a perception that mezcal is only smoky and that’s what Americans want to drink. Smoky is just one aspect. They can taste herbaceous, they can taste vegetal. The best ones for me are the ones where you are tasting more of the agave and less of the smoke.

What are we seeing with the rise of Japanese cocktail bars?

J: I think the most interesting Japanese-style or Japaneseinspired cocktail bars come from people who are from Japan or of Japanese heritage. They have that interesting challenge of operating a bar with those sensibilities in a different country. You have to adapt a little bit for the American market and what they’re used to and what they want to see, while also trying to expand their understanding of what that (Japanese) culture is.

Julia (Momose) says (her bar Kumiko) is not a Japanese cocktail bar, because we’re not in Japan.

It’s not Japanese-inspired because (she is) Japanese. She is from Japan originally and moved here when she was 18. For her, the bar exists in a space between those things. It’s the experience of a Japanese women who came up through the bartending ranks in America.

There are several pillars (that define a Japanese cocktail bar).

There are obvious things like the tools and ingredients, and I don’t mean only using Japanese ingredients like sake or shochu or shiso leaf or cherry blossoms. Those things naturally come into play, but a Japanese cocktail is about picking the right ingredient for the drink.

It’s easier to talk about what a Japanese cocktail is not. It’s not just cocktails invented in Japan, though those things exist, like the Million Dollar or the Bamboo. It

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What’s the idea behind “The Bartender’s Manifesto”?

J: Toby Maloney is an industry vet.

He’s worked in the bar world for 25 years. He came up in the Sasha Petraske school. He worked (in New York) at Milk & Honey, worked for Audrey Saunders at Pegu Club and Julie Reiner at Flatiron. He was on the ground when the whole cocktail movement started to stir.

For this book, what he wanted to do was put the Violet Hour’s training program in a kind of manual for people who want to make drinks at home. It’s fun. It’s entertaining because Toby is an incredible character, and it has so many stories. It’s a guide to understanding cocktails and bartending in a way that’s more than you can pull up a recipe, mix it up at home and have it taste good.

The whole thing is that after you read it you should be able to go forth and evaluate your ingredients and put them together in a way that’s going to taste good. There’s innovation and invention on the fly.

We were inspired by Samin Nosrat’s “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” in the beginning of our book. We’re talking about cocktails through the lens of texture, temperature, aroma and balance. It’s another way of thinking about drinks I haven’t seen presented before in books.

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C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S A T W W W. B E S T O F N E W O R L E A N S . C O M Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans and all accept credit cards. Updates: Email willc@gambitweekly.com or call (504) 483-3106.

7TH WARD/MARIGNY

Froot Orleans — 2438 Bell St., Suite B, (504) 233-3346; frootorleans.com — The shop serves fresh fruit in platters, smoothie bowls such as a strawberry shortcake smoothie and more using pineapple, various berries, citrus and more. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ Nonno’s Cajun Cuisine and Pastries — 1940 Dauphine St., (504) 354-1364; nonnoscajuncuisineandpastries.com — The menu includes home-style Cajun and Creole dishes with some vegan options. Sauteed shrimp are topped with cheese and served with two eggs and toast. Reservations accepted. Delivery available. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$

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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. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; juansflyingburrito.com — See Uptown section for restaurant description. Outdoor dining available.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Mother’s Restaurant — 401 Poydras St., (504) 523-9656; mothersrestaurant. net —The counter-service spot is known for po-boys dressed with cabbage and Creole favorites, such as jambalaya, crawfish etouffee and red beans and rice. No reservations. Delivery available.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Tacklebox — 817 Common St., (504) 8271651; legacykitchen.com — The seafood restaurant serves raw and char-grilled oysters, seafood, burgers, salads and more. Redfish St. Charles is served with garlic herb butter, asparagus, mushrooms and crawfish cornbread.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$

CARROLLTON

Mid City Pizza — 6307 S. Miro St., (504) 509-6224; midcitypizza.com — See MidCity section for restaurant description.

Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Thu.-Sun., dinner Thu.-Mon. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. The menu also has sushi, sashimi, rolls, noodle dishes, teriyaki and more. Takeout and delivery available. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. $$ Nice Guys Bar & Grill — 7910 Earhart Blvd., (504) 302-2404; niceguysbarandgrillnola. com — Char-grilled oysters are topped with cheese. The menu also includes wings, quesadillas, burgers, sandwiches, salads, seafood pasta and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$

FRENCH QUARTER

Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 581-3866; broussards.com — The menu includes Creole and creative

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11-$20 $$$ — $20-up

contemporary dishes. Rainbow trout amandine is served with tasso and corn macque choux, Creole meuniere sauce and fried almonds. Reservations recommended. Outdoor seating available.

Dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ Curio — 301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198; curionola.com — The creative Creole menu includes blackened Gulf shrimp served with chicken and andouille jambalaya. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The menu features Gulf seafood and shellfish in traditional and contemporary Creole dishes. Char-grilled oysters are topped with Parmesan, herbs and butter.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 739 Iberville St., (504) 522-4440; 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. $$ Zhang Bistro — 1141 Decatur St., (504) 826-8888; zhangbistronola. com — The menu includes Chinese and Thai dishes. The Szechuan Hot Wok offers chicken, beef, shrimp or tofu with onions, bell peppers, cauliflower, jalapenos, garlic and Szechuan sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$

JEFFERSON/RIVER RIDGE

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and toppings to build your own pizza. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches.

Takeout and delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW

The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 2842898; thebluecrabnola.com — The menu includes sandwiches, fried seafood platters, boiled seafood and more. Basin barbecue shrimp and grits features jumbo shrimp over cheese grits and a cheese biscuit. Outdoor seating available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 7400 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 304-4125; felixs. com — See French Quarter section for restaurant description. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. $$

METAIRIE

Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; andreasrestaurant.com — Chef Andrea Apuzzo’s speckled trout royale is topped with crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce.

Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in cream sauce. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; martinwine. com — See Uptown section for restaurant description. No reservations.

Lunch daily. $$

Nephew’s Ristorante — 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 533-9998; nephewsristorante.com — Chef Frank Catalanotto is the namesake “nephew” who ran the kitchen at Tony Angello’s restaurant. The Creole-Italian menu features dishes like veal, eggplant or chicken parmigiana.

Reservations required. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

MID-CITY/TREME

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. $ 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. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; juansflyingburrito.com — See Uptown section for restaurant description. Outdoor dining available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 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 and red onions. Takeout and delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; midcitypizza.com — The pizza joint serves New York-style pies, calzones, sandwiches and salads. Shrimp remoulade pizza includes spinach, red onion and basil on an olive oil brushed curst. Takeout and delivery available.

Lunch Thu.-Sun., dinner Thu.-Mon. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes New Orleans favorites such as red beans with fried chicken or pork chops, seafood platters, po-boys, char-grilled oysters, pasta, salads and more. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

NORTHSHORE

The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985) 315-7001; thebluecrabnola.com — See Lakeview section for restaurant description. No reservations. Lunch Fri.Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 234-9420; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

UPTOWN

Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; joeyksrestaurant.com — The menu includes fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and red beans and rice.

Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat. Delivery

available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; juansflyingburrito. com — The Flying Burrito includes grilled steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar-jack cheese, black beans, yellow rice, guacamole and salsa. The menu also has tacos, quesadillas, nachos and more. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 894-7444; martinwine.com — The deli at the wine and spirit shop serves sandwiches, salads and more. The Sena salad includes roasted chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, pecans and greens with Tabasco pepperjelly vinaigrette. No reservations. Lunch daily. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; titoscevichepisco. com — Peruvian lomo saltado features beef sauteed with onions, tomatoes, soy sauce and pisco, and served with potatoes and rice. Outdoor seating and delivery available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT 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. $$$ Legacy Kitchen’s Craft Tavern — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 613-2350; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes oysters, flatbreads, burgers, sandwiches, salads and more. A NOLA Style Grits Bowl is topped with bacon, cheddar and a poached egg. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner 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. $$

WEST BANK Legacy Kitchen Steak & Chop — 91 Westbank Expressway, Gretna, (504) 5132606; legacykitchen.com — There steaks such as filets mignons, rib-eyes and top sirloins, as well as burgers, salads, seafood and more. Reservations accepted.

Outdoor seating available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves Italian dishes. Baked oysters Mosca is made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Curbside pickup available. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; tavolinonola.com — The menu features thin-crust pizzas as well as salads, pepperoni chips, meatballs and more. A Behrman Hwy. pizza is topped with pork belly, caramel, marinated carrots and radishes and jalapeno. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$

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GASA GASA — Standards with Glacier Veins, 9 pm KITCHEN TABLE CAFÉ — Dr. Mark St. Cyr Traditional Jazz Band, 7 pm MADAME VIC'S — Walter "Wolfman" Washington, 8 pm PAVILION OF THE TWO SISTERS — Lena Prima, 6 pm; Thursdays at Twilight, 6 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Gerald Gruenig and Gentilly Zydeco, 8 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Betty Shirley Tribute to Bessie Smith and Nina Simone, 8 & 10 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Brass-AHolics, 7:30 pm

FRIDAY 29 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 — Meryl and Her Zimmermen, 7 & 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Dash Rip Rock + Dinola, 10 pm DOS JEFES — Joe Krown Trio, 9 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard "Piano" Scott, 12:30 pm; Sam Friend Band, 2:30 pm; Lee Floyd and Thunderbolt Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm HOWLIN' WOLF — Polyphia, Unprocessed, Death Tour, 7 pm JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Sequenon Kone, 12 pm KERRY IRISH PUB — Patrick Cooper, 9 pm NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE — P.H. Fred and the Round Pegs, 9 pm NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE — Daniel Thompson, 7:30 pm OLD POINT BAR — Old Barstools Record Release Party, 8 pm ONE EYED JACKS — Reverend Horton Heat, 10 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — The Bad Sandys, 9 pm REPUBLIC NOLA — August Burns Red, We Came As Romans, Hollow Front, Void Of Vision, 7 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Clay Cormier and the Highway Boys, 8:30 pm SANTOS — Pocket Chocolate, Joey Houck, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band, 8 & 10 pm TIPITINA'S — Water Seed, Dominic Minix, 9 pm

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BLUE NILE — George Brown Band, 7 pm; New Breed Brass Band, 11 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — The Marigny Street Brass Band, 10 pm BUFFA'S — Davis Rogan, 7 & 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — The Iceman Special, 9 pm DOS JEFES — Sunpie & The Louisiana Sunspots, 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 JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Drum Circle with Mariama Curry, 10:30 am; Ranger Jon Beebe Duo, 2 pm KITCHEN TABLE CAFÉ — Freddie Lonzo Jazz Ensemble, 7 pm LOUIS J. ROUSSEL PERFORMANCE HALL AT LOYOLA UNIVERSITY — Harmony University Showcase, 8 pm NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEE HOUSE — Ghosting Marat and friends, 7:30 pm; Ukulele Jake, 9 pm ONE EYED JACKS — Andrew Duhon, 9 pm POUR HOUSE SALOON — Tiffany Pollack & Co., 8 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Sugar Shaker, 8:30 pm SANTOS — Burris Emo Night, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Astral Project, 8 & 10 pm THE BOMBAY CLUB — Anais St. John, 8 pm THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — The Nayo Jones Experience, 7:30 pm ZEITGEIST THEATRE — Danny Kamins, Thomas Milovac, Will Thompson, Charles Pagano, 8 pm ZONY MASH BEER PROJECT — The Rumble, 8 pm

SUNDAY 31 BLUE NILE — The Baked Potatoes, 7 pm; Street Legends Brass Band, 10 pm BUFFA'S — Some Like It Hot, 11 am & 1 pm; Dapper Dandies, 7 & 9 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Sam Friend Band, 12:30 pm; Joe Kennedy Band, 2:30 pm; Marla Dixon Band, 6 pm; Fritzel’s All Star Band, 8 pm GASA GASA — Macy Rodman with Glen Parks, 9 pm PEACOCK ROOM, HOTEL FONTENOT — Jelani Akil Bauman, 11 am ROCK 'N' BOWL — Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition, 4:30 pm SANTOS — Brain Freeze Fest, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Don Vappie and Jazz Creole, 8 & 10 pm TIPITINA'S — Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band, 5:15 pm

MONDAY 1 GASA GASA — Danny Goo with The Ineffective, Astrophobia, Rosecoloredworld, Shipwrecked, 8 pm SIDNEY'S SALOON — The Amazing Henrietta, 6 pm

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TUNE INTO THE LIVESTREAM ON RADIOISAFOREIGNCOUNTRY.ORG and you’ll

still hear some of the crackle of radio static over music from wildly divergent and remote locales. You’ll hear psychedelic guitar grooves from Azerbaijan, the rhythms of Haitian rara from countryside parades, and the wailing of public markets alternating with drumming and crude synthesizers from Zanzibar, Ethiopia and Somalia.

Many recordings come from small radio station broadcasts from across the globe, including folk and locally popular music that rarely is heard beyond its home region. Some music comes from tapes made by anthropologists and other cultural explorers, and there are some naturalist field recordings with ambient allure, such as the night sounds of forests or frogs in western Sumatra.

The content on the site is curated, but it comes at listeners in an unpredictable stream of songs and other snippets. Lo-fi aesthetics aren’t the goal, but can be the result of playing old tapes, unsophisticated recording instruments or radio distortions, adding to its feel of exotica. The randomized approach and granular focus combine for an effect dubbed ‘ethnographic surrealism.’

Radio is a Foreign Country was launched by Kenneth Routon, a cultural anthropologist who came to New Orleans to teach at the University of New Orleans. When his teaching contract ran out, he and his family stayed in the city. Since then, he’s built up the internet radio project.

The website’s stream of songs and recordings draws randomly from its archive, but there also is a backlog of mixtapes. A few of the tapes recently linked from the homepage include “Jaipongan,” featuring music from a red-light district in Java, Indonesia, and “Mantra Machine,” which mixes Indian music from Mumbai, Mapusa and Western Ghats captured by Italian sound explorer Francesco Fonassi.

Radio is a Foreign Country launched four years ago with broadcasts of its mixtapes, which are built around themes or specific regions. “Joged Bumbung Kepyak Blege” is a collection devoted to the bamboo gamelan instruments used to provide music for one of

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Bali’s few secular and flirtatious traditional dances. There are more than 90 mixtapes posted on the project’s Soundcloud page.

Routon started making his own mixtapes while living outside Mexico City after college. A few years ago, his wife gave him a shortwave radio, and he started thinking about this project as he was able to pick up signals from Cuba and Nigeria and unidentified Arabic music. He also was listening to ethnographic and rare recordings put out by Smithsonian Folkways, UNESCO, France’s Ocora label, Barenreiter and more. But he was excited by Alan Bishop’s recordings for the Sublime Frequencies label, he says.

“Bishop’s radio collages are full of wild, head-spinning cut-ups of obscure folk and pop styles, DJ banter, commercials, radio plays, sound anomalies, crossed signals that he had recorded off the radio while traveling in places like Morocco, India, Sumatra, Cambodia, North Korea, etc.” Routon says. “It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I was enthralled. His radio collages were inspired by a DIY punk ethos and, to me, a perfect illustration of what is known in anthropology as ‘ethnographic surrealism,’ which not only values fragments, curious collections, and unexpected juxtapositions but also seeks to bring out the revolutionary energies of outmoded things.”

The station has attracted fans and other contributors, including music bloggers, record labels, academics, travelers and other enthusiasts. Weekly shows include “Aural Archipelago,” from ethnomusicologist Palmer Keen in Java, and “Maghreb Tapes” with cassette recordings from Algeria and Morocco. “A Curiosity Cabinet of Cumbias” is in the works.

As the network expands and support broadens, Routon would like to introduce live broadcasts from contributors all over the world.

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ning of improvisation featuring Houston saxophonist and clarinetist Danny Kamins, who directs Rice University’s jazz band. He’s joined by Florida bassist Thomas Milovac of the Cosmo Sonic Collective and New Orleans keyboardist Will Thompson and drummer Charles Pagano. At 8 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge. Find information at scatterjazz.com.

Sasquatch

LOS ANGELES STONER METAL BAND

Sasquatch released its sixth fulllength album, “Fever Fantasy,” in June. The group is just back from Europe and starting a tour with Oregon’s Hippie Death Cult.

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CHVRCHES has a knack for largerthan-life, danceable pop songs, but on its latest record, “Screen Violence,” the band leans into a horror concept. CHVRCHES doesn’t turn away from its pop sensibilities on the album, but listeners can feel the anxieties and fears of the last three years lurking just around the corner. The band is on a North American tour with a stop at the Orpheum Theater at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 26. Cafune opens. Tickets start at $28.50 at orpheumnola.com.

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last year by Tami Nelson and is booked by comedian Chris Trew, together the founders of the now defunct New Movement. Comedy House marks its first anniversary with a four-night festival of more than 45 comics, including Trew, Matt Owens, Carin Chapman, Ryan Rogers, DC Paul, Samantha Bednarz and many more.

Each showcase has a different lineup, and there are shows at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 27, and Thursday, July 28, and 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, July 29, and Saturday, July 30. Tickets $20 on eventbrite.com.

Rev. Horton Heat

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Standards

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DURING A VOLCANIC ERUPTION, lava reaches temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Even as the surface of the newly formed black rock takes shape, it’s far from cool. That’s captured in “Fire of Love” as volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft explore eruptions.

For the cameras, Katia walks on the rock and flames flare as the soles of her shoes make contact. Eggs sizzle in a skillet when Maurice places it on a rippled stretch of black rock.

Volcanology isn’t the biggest field of geology, but in that small pool, the two French scientists found each other. They forged a partnership between her expertise in geochemistry and his background in geology. For decades, they rushed to volcanic eruptions around the globe, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo to Indonesia’s Krakatoa and Mount St. Helens in Washington. Films and books full of their photos of volcanic eruptions helped fund their work and left ample documentation of their bond as well.

Director Sara Dosa’s documentary “Fire of Love” is a portrait of the Kraffts’ work and relationship. Given the ample footage of spewing magma, rushing lava and towering plumes of volcanic ash, it’s full of mesmerizing footage and may be as close to a summer thriller as National Geographic films get.

It’s also a story of moths drawn to the flame.

The Kraffts were both from Alsace and grew up under the bleak shadow of the destruction of World War II. They were drawn into the field of volcanology and had a similar desire to climb to volcanos’ edges and peer into molten fury.

The film shows the Kraffts donning spacesuit-like heat-resistant silver gear and helmets and walking on otherworldly terrains of black rock and ash, sometimes set against rivers of lava or bubbling and bursting sprays of it from craters. Both were aware of the profession’s hazards, and Maurice glibly describes a dream of building a heat-resistant canoe to ride a lava flow down a mountain.

The film has a globe-trotting appeal as the Kraffts travel to Italy, Iceland, Hawaii and Japan. The narration is often poetic, as it romanticizes the Kraffts’ partnership and the novelty of their work. But ultimately it strains the

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comparison of two people’s relationship and relatively short time on Earth vis-à-vis the geological time of shifting tectonic plates and eruptions that have no intent or consciousness.

There are hazards in many areas of scientific endeavor, but the Kraffts’ niche in geology has one obvious danger. Everyone knows Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii, and this type of destruction is still a threat. Fires, mudslides and floods left 57 people dead, including a volcanologist, when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980. In Colombia, the eruption of Mount Ruiz resulted in more than 23,000 deaths in 1985.

In the early 1980s, the Kraffts switched their study from “red” volcanoes to the more dangerous “gray” ones. The red ones generally are driven by tectonic plates pulling apart. Gray ones, marked by spewing of ash, are caused by plates colliding. The buildup of pressure leads to powerful explosions, as at Mount St. Helens. The Kraffts thought it was necessary to study the more dangerous type.

Maurice says that the simple and safest choice is not to go near an active volcano. But the allure of their story and the film is about their decision to follow their bliss, regardless of how close to the edge it took them.

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