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News ................................................................7 How Louisiana is reacting to the “pink slime” controversy Bouquets + Brickbats .............................7 Heroes and zeroes C’est What? ..................................................7 Gambit’s Web poll Scuttlebutt .................................................10 News in brief Commentary ............................................. 12 a trio of bills supporting mental health services Jeremy Alford ...........................................13 The “legacy lawsuit” debate gets personal

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Katdelic Sat. April 28 | San Francisco’s Boom Boom Room organizes an annual slate of late night jazz and funk jams during Jazz Fest. Among the concerts is an all-star funk night featuring Ian and Ivan Neville, Adam Deitch, Monophonics Horns and members of P-Funk Allstars, the funky Meters, the Pimps of Joytime, Lettuce and others. At the Blue Nile. PAGE 76.

International Jazz Day Mon. April 30 | International Jazz Day begins with a free concert at Congo Square at sunrise (7 a.m.). UNESCO cultural ambassador Herbie Hancock will lead an all-star ensemble and then fly to New York. Participants include Terence Blanchard, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Kermit Ruffins, the Treme Brass Band and others. PAGE 76.

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Funky Meat-ers How Louisiana is reacting to the nationwide hubbub over “pink slime.”

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was honored by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) for his commitment to higher education at the group’s April 17 meeting. As the head of Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) for 44 years, Francis is the longest-sitting college president in the U.S. NAFEO also created a new grant, the AT&T-NAFEO Francis Fellows Award, in his name. Corey Arnold and Cristal Wright, two XULA students, became its first recipients.

and whose clients have included McDonald’s and Burger King — anYou won’t find nounced that it would temporarily “finely textured shutter operations at three of its four beef additive” (aka meat processing plants in response pink slime) on any to what it described as media-manu- butcher’s chart, but factured alarmism. federal guidelines “If the media is able to bring a allow it to comprise company like us down, you’re going up to 15 percent to disincentivize anybody to try to of the ground beef create a safe, wholesome prodyou purchase at the uct,” BPI owner Regina Roth said. grocery store.

“We’ve got to attack this the way it was generated, and that is through that social media world. It’s not a world I’m particularly familiar with. I never thought I was going to have to, but it is out there, it’s how it’s spread. There’s so much misinformation.”

BPI claims that as a result of the closures, 600 jobs have been lost. Other slime-slinging companies have felt the aftershocks as well. AFA Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month, citing negative media coverage. Fast food giants McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell all announced they would no longer use the product, and Wendy’s took out ads saying it never had. In Louisiana, supermarket chains Rouses and Winn-Dixie, among others, announced their beef would henceforth be slime-free. (“Because LFTB is not required to be labeled on products, we took our time and worked very hard to verify that all of our ground beef is free of any traces of LFTB,” Rouses said in a letter to consumers several weeks ago. “We have stressed to our suppliers that Rouses will not accept any ground beef product with traces of LFTB.”) The slime backlash didn’t stop there. A Change.org petition that netted 258,632 digital signatures prompted the USDA to page 9

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was honored by the Advocacy Center, which put his name on its new building on Oak Street. Tubre has been one of the nonprofit’s longstanding advocates for seniors and people with disabilities. The Advocacy Center is headquartered in New Orleans and has offices around the state. Among its services: supplying legal assistance and representation to residents of nursing and group homes, outreach and training.

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was sentenced to two years’ probation and fined $10,000 by U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval April 18 for misappropriating funds during his tenure as general manager of the city-owned Public Belt Railroad. Bridger had pleaded guilty to the charge in federal court last year. Bridger will be sentenced in state court on related charges next month, but that sentence is expected to be concurrent with his federal sentence.

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In the current media landscape carved by ABC News and others, Oliver’s was the rallying cry that launched a thousand digital ships. Anti-slimers achieved a victory last month when South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. (BPI) — responsible for roughly 75 percent of the nation’s hamburger patties in 2012,

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n Ghostbusters II, as Sigourney Weaver’s character draws a bath for her newborn son, an opaque bubble gum-pink liquid stealthily oozes from the steaming faucet until it gathers into a sentient, blob-like mass at the bottom of the tub — where it attempts, unsuccessfully, to devour her.

On the other side of the screen, we’re the ones devouring the slime. It’s called lean finely textured beef (LFTB ) or finely textured beef additive — otherwise known as “pink slime.” Minus the ectoplasm, it’s likely in a hamburger near (or in) you.

Pink slime was approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2001 as a means to reconstitute otherwise inedible and e. Coli-laden bovine connective tissue. It’s an icky process that requires placing beef scraps in a centrifuge to separate the meat from the chaff — and applying ammonia to eliminate harmful bacteria.

The purpose of pink slime is twofold: to stretch the supply of industrial meats to meet the appetites of American consumers, and ostensibly to make that food safer for them in the process.

Under current federal guidelines, pink slime cannot comprise more than 15 percent of ground beef without additional labeling.

Yet years after its implementation, with no reports of related health hazards, pink slime has become the food-industry bogeyman of the moment.

On March 7, ABC News launched a series of reports warning consumers that 70 percent of all beef sold in the United States contains the substance. After landing in the 24-hour news zeitgeist for the better part of a month, pink slime soon earned its own panic button in the mainstream media’s pantheon of epidemiological worries. All of a sudden, our children were in danger.

In the original ABC News story, George Zirnstein, the former USDA scientist who coined the term, accused the USDA of “economic fraud” by green-lighting pink slime to appease officials with close ties to the beef industry — all at the expense of American consumers.

Dozens upon dozens of news outlets fell in line. Amid the fallout, industry backers and food safety advocates have engaged in a war of words over the controversial mixture, drawing familiar culture-war battle lines that have pitted liberal foodies against supposed pro-business Mr. Burns types.

The brouhaha resurrected a 2011 clip from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s television show, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

In it, the eponymous host horrifies a room full of parents and children by throwing a slab of beef carcass into a washing machine, before waxing poetic on the visually repulsive substance.

“When you’ve broken down a whole beast, you’re left with trimmings,” Oliver tells his audience. “In my industry, we call those trimmings ‘shit.’”

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Some of the outrage against lean finely textured beef has been stoked by chef Jamie Oliver, who has led a charge against “pink slime” on his television show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

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children have eaten millions of pounds of this processed meat product, which is basically what it is” without any adverse effects, says schaffner, who said he does not speak as a shill for Big Cow. “There’s an old expression: enjoy the sausage, but don’t look at how it’s made, and this is a product that is a consequence of our now highly industrialized processed food industry, and it was given an unfortunate moniker.” while pink slime in itself poses no scientifically credible threat to the public, schaffner says, it does present a different problem: overconsumption. “we can certainly make the arguBut if the federal government and beef ment, and we’ve heard it many times companies contend that the additive is over, in terms of our general health, we safe, then why would supermarkets and have a growing obesity crisis in this state agencies attack what appears to be country,” he says. “we ought to eat a non-problem? Could there be scientific less, we ought to eat more pure, less truth to the claims of Oliver et al.? processed food, and we ought to eat Dr. william schaffner, who chairs more whole grains and vegetables. vanderbilt University’s Department of And if we all did that, we would have a Preventative Medicine, says there isn’t. distinctly healthier society.”

He laments what he perceives to be acquiescence to a media-manufactured — Jonathan Meador is a reporter for public issue, saying “there isn’t any scithe Nashville scene, where a version ence behind the concern.” of this story originally appeared. Kevin “There have been no health hazards identified [with pink slime], and millions of Allman contributed reporting.

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allow school districts across the nation to decide whether they want to feed students beef containing the additive.

Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Mike strain told Gambit last week that the controversy began around the time the department was placing orders with the federal government for one year’s school meat allotment. “we ordered it without the product (LFTB) in it,” he said. (Michael st. Romain of the LDAF told a north Louisiana website, www.ArkLaTex.com, that the school meat supply would be LFTB-free as of July 1.) strain added the initial controversy stemmed from a private email from a UsDA biologist, who used the term “pink slime” to refer to the rendered meat product, and from there the term went viral, capturing the public (and media) imagination. “There’s 12 to 15 pounds of protein product per animal that is usable” due to the use of beef scraps, he said.

“The product (LFTB) itself is safe,” strain said, adding, “it’s been used for a long time with no health problems whatsoever.”

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Smith’s bill was inspired by statewide and national reports of bullying and bullying-provoked suicides — including the recent deaths of high school students Tesa Middlebrook of Pointe Coupee Parish and Savannah Robinson of Slidell, among others (see “Bullied to Death,” March 27). It’s the second year in a row the measure has failed. Last year, State Rep. Austin Badon’s anti-bullying bill was rejected in the House, after which he told Gambit, “For us to sit here and say that the conservative, religious right is going to dictate to us how we’re going to vote, I’m embarrassed by that.”

The bill’s opponents this year — notably Gov. Bobby Jindal and the evangelical organization Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) — said Smith’s bill would infringe on free speech rights, and its “categories of protection,” namely in protecting students’ sexual

news + views identities or gender identification, “creates winners and losers.” Last month, LFF director Gene Mills told Gambit, “when you introduce a category of protection that doesn’t have a clear legal definition, how do you administer that law in equitable fashion?” Mills said it’s better to have no bill at all. He got his wish. schroder, meanwhile, introduced HB 1101, which would expand the definitions and applications of the state’s present anti-bullying law but exempt “religious, philosophical or political views” that do not cause “actual, material disruption to the work of any school.” schroder’s bill also was sent to the House education Committee, but he told Gambit late last week that he is pulling his bill. He did not offer a reason why.

A senate version of smith’s bill, filed

by Baton Rouge sen. Yvonne DorseyLacombe and Pointe Coupee sen. Rick Ward, remains in committee as of press time. — ALex woodwARd

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Task force supporTs exTending ccc fees Unless Louisiana lawmakers say otherwise, Crescent City Connection (CCC) tolls are set to expire at the end of this year, which could mean funding aimed for roads and dozens of other projects would dry up.

The Task Force on the Crescent City Connection and the Crescent City Connection Advisory Panel (created by a 2011 legislative resolution) released a report in February evaluating the CCC’s future — and the future of its ferries — without the tolls. its members represent business, civic and neighborhood associations and chambers of commerce. The current bridge tolls were imposed in 1989 to retire bonds financing construction of a second span, to help maintain the bridge and to support the ferries.

The task force report, which covers an array of toll-related subjects and generally supports keeping the tolls, has garnered little support from legislators. Last week the senate Transportation, Highways and Public works Committee approved senate Bill 599 by sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton. Adley’s bill would divert 50 percent of toll fees to a “transportation trust fund” and transfer CCC division authority to the department of Transportation, which has an option to privatize ferry service. despite thousands of signatures on petitions opposing that idea, the committee voted to support the bill.

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hundreds of cab drivers, who filled the City Council Chamber to oppose the new laws, which are backed by Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the local tourism industry.

The Landrieu Administration withdrew a number of controversial proposals that were in its original package, including one that would have increased the fee for transferring or selling a certificate of public necessity and convenience (CPNC) — a taxi license — from $350 to $2,000 or 20 percent of the sale price, whichever was higher. Malachi Hull, who oversees the city’s Taxicab Bureau, described that and several other changes as “concessions to the industry.” overall, the administration got most of the changes it sought, despite drivers’ concerns that the new rules would be costly for cab companies. Refurbished salvage or “junk” cars no longer will be granted CPNCs, for example. Come August, cars that are more than 11 years old will not pass inspection.

Cabs also will be required to install safety equipment such as GPs systems, passenger information monitors and security cameras. Under the law, cameras will run whenever the cab is operating, even when the driver is off duty, and police will have access to the footage in the event of a criminal complaint. Council members Jon Johnson and Cynthia HedgeMorrell expressed concerns that cops would get access to footage any time the camera was running, even when someone is driving the car for personal use. HedgeMorrell called for language limiting police access to the time a crime occurred. “when you pass a law, you need to put the intent into it,” she said. “You need to put something in there saying that when a cab is being used for personal use, those pictures can’t be viewed.”

The proposal passed unanimously without that change, but with the administration promising to include such language in the Taxicab Bureau’s policies.

Responding to tourism industry complaints of poor cab service, Sheree Kerner, president of United Cabs, the city’s largest taxi company, showed a video of drivers waiting, often for the better part of a day, at the city’s lone cab inspection station in eastern New orleans, which, she said, frequently has only one inspector working.

“Hospitality industry, now you see what we go through,” Kerner said after the video concluded.

Asked to respond to the complaints, Hull said the city could not promise improvements before August, when many of the new inspection requirements go into effect. district B Councilwoman Stacy Head said that was unfair to drivers. “it seems to be inequitable to regulate them when we’re not fixing it within ourselves,” Head said. — CHARLes MALdoNAdo

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Making things worse: Orleans Parish Prison’s acute mental health inpatient unit, which used to be on the 10th floor of the House of Detention, closed when Sheriff Marlin Gusman shut down the “House of D” on April 10. Mentally ill inmates now will be shipped out of New Orleans or put up elsewhere within the sprawling local prison — probably in temporary facilities — further decentralizing what should be the mental health facility of last resort.

Meanwhile, things are not much better for those outside of jail as cities and parishes face some grim statistics. For example, St. Tammany Parish saw 500 attempted suicides in 2011 — one-quarter of them among minors. That’s one of the highest suicide rates in the state. If the mental health picture is that bleak in relatively affluent St. Tammany, we can only imagine how ugly things must look in poorer parishes.

There is hope. Several area legislators are sponsoring bills to prevent the fragile safety net from deteriorating further. State Rep. Jared Brossett, D-New Orleans, has authored House Bill 952, the Mental Health Services Preservation Act, which he calls a “policy statement” affirming the state’s commitment to “vital state funding and ensuring access to quality health care.” Brossett’s bill, though not an appropriation, would require the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) to establish funding priorities with an eye toward maximizing federal matching funds and eliminating duplicative systems. It also would require DHH to evaluate spending and establish best-practices rules.

The New Orleans City Council has endorsed Brossett’s bill, which passed the House Health & Welfare Committee April 11 by a vote of 13-2. The bill comes up for a vote by the full House on April 23. Brossett’s bill comes just weeks after the state revamped administration of its mental health coordination and billing practices under the new Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership (LBHP), which privatizes some services. The privatization initiative, a priority of Jindal, was rolled out amid some speed bumps, according to mental health clinics (see “Louisiana’s Medicaid Billing Snafu,” March 20).

Brossett told Gambit last week that he’s not trying to control or criticize the LBHP.

“It’s only been in existence a month,” he said, noting that he just wants the state to affirm its commitment to strong mental health care. Despite this, the Jindal Administration opposes Brossett’s bill, saying it might not allow DHH the flexibility it needs when it comes to allocating funds. If “flexibility” means closing down mental health facilities, reducing the number of hospital beds, cutting back on clinical services and similar draconian measures — all of which have occurred in New Orleans under Jindal — then we say it’s high time lawmakers disallowed some of DHH’s “flexibility.”

Two other bills under consideration also seek to strengthen mental health services in Louisiana. State Rep. Scott Simon, R-Abita Springs, has authored House Bill 846, which has been hailed as a bill of rights for mentally ill patients.

HB 846 emphasizes a patient’s “selfdetermination” and states, “Persons with mental illness are generally best able to

Mental health services have been gutted while Jindal’s travel and personal security budgets have mushroomed. determine their own needs, rather than their needs being determined by others.”

Simon’s bill, like Brossett’s, won approval from the Health & Welfare Committee, which Simon chairs. Both bills await action by the full House.

Meanwhile, State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, has authored Senate Bill 446, which would prohibit discrimination against mentally ill patients by primary care physicians and medical providers. “With increasingly limited mental health care dollars causing statewide shortages, we must prevent any barriers to access for those who need help,” Peterson wrote to her supporters. Her bill has passed the Senate and is now before Simon’s committee.

Collectively, these three measures make an important statement about mental health as a budgetary priority.

Unfortunately, our governor doesn’t share that priority. Under Jindal, mental health services — especially in New Orleans — have been gutted while Jindal’s travel and personal security budgets have mushroomed. No doubt he sleeps well knowing his “safety net” is secure. Too bad the same can’t be said for so many of his constituents.

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For hardcore politics, look no further than the Legislature’s “legacy” lawsuit debate.

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a “firestorm” if he moved forward with his legacy bill, which is backed by Big oil.

Sure enough, last week — the night before a committee vote on abramson’s bill — New orleans political consultant Cheron Brylski issued a statement accusing abramson of having a “conflict of interest” because his law firm represents oil companies. The next day, don Carmouche, an attorney for several landowners, filed a complaint against abramson with the louisiana Ethics Board, stating the same charge. abramson practices law at the New orleans firm of liskow & lewis. according to the firm’s website, he represents “oil and gas companies in legacy suits involving claims of property and groundwater contamination.” abramson says he has handled only a “few matters” involving legacy cases. The conflict of interest claim is a lie, he says, adding that lawmakers file bills in regard to their professions all the time. “That’s how the

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Legacy lawsuits arise from old — sometimes decades old — contamination of land by oil and gas drillers. process works,” he said, calling the attacks “totally out of bounds and inappropriate.”

Part of the criticism was based on abramson’s decision to move forward on the bill while negotiations continued between landowners and Big oil. opponents of the bills felt betrayed because they believed no bills would move forward while the two sides were trying to forge a compromise. abramson’s House Bill 618 won committee approval last week. It allows the courts to admit as evidence cleanup plans submitted by dNr. The provision was backed by the oil industry and opposed by landowners, who claim Big oil virtually owns dNr. The bill has a long way to go, but already it’s clear that both sides of this fight have money and political muscle to spare.

Jeremy Alford is a freelance journalist in Baton Rouge. Email him at jeremy@ jeremyalford.com. Follow him on Twitter: @alfordwrites.

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he last few years have seen state Sen. robert adley, r-Benton, introduce one measure after another to smother the flames created by so-called legacy lawsuits in louisiana. legacy lawsuits arise from old — sometimes decades-old — contamination of land by oil and gas drillers. The litigation gets its name because subsequent drillers on contaminated lands “inherit” the liability created by previous, often defunct companies. as adley has carried the legislative ball for Big oil, which constantly seeks to limit its exposure to environmental litigation, landowners and environmentalists have likewise ramped up their opposition campaigns. as the legislature begins the latest incarnation of the ongoing debate, adley, a licensed Christian minister, is serving as the Upper Chamber’s Jeremiah, telling all what’s to come. “You need to be prepared,” he says. “I’m telling you, they’ll start running TV. They’ll run radio.” a high-dollar political consultant — roy fletcher of Baton rouge — was perhaps too effective in attacking adley’s message in a previous battle. “I ended up hiring him for my next campaign,” adley recalls.

The legacy issue is complicated.

Contaminated lands require mitigation, and lawsuits have led to huge judgments — which may or may not lead to cleanups.

This issue is not your typical businessversus-trial lawyers scrap. In many lawsuits, both sides are millionaires.

That makes it tough for lawmakers to choose sides. landowners argue that the current system gives too much leverage to Big oil. Big oil argues that trial lawyers are milking the issue to line their pockets. Environmentalists say the state department of Natural resources (dNr) inevitably backs Big oil.

How should liability be addressed? Who should mediate? How should the fields be restored? There are no easy answers. during last year’s legislative debate, opponents unleashed robocalls in the districts of lawmakers on a key House committee. The calls stirred up voters and prompted them to press “1” to be connected directly to their lawmaker. rep. Truck Gisclair, d-larose, who has a bill this year to regulate robocalls, says his office was “swamped with hundreds of calls, about 400 to 500 in a three-hour period.” last year. for those who can’t afford robocalls, there’s always email blasts and ethics complaints. House Civil law Chairman Neil abramson, d-New orleans, said someone recently threatened him with

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Jindal crows for ‘Discrimination’ Bill ov. Bobby Jindal has finally taken a stand on the controversial “discrimination” bill filed by sen.

A.G. Crowe of st. Tammany — but his late support for the measure proved too little, too late. Crowe’s sB 217 would bar state agencies from protecting classes of people who are not already specifically protected under state law. The bill’s many critics say it’s an embarrassing throwback to the days of segregation.

During the senate debate of Crowe’s bill April 17, aides to the governor passed out notes asking senators to support the measure. “Please support sB 217,” the note from “office of the Governor” read.

“This bill provides relative to discrimination regarding certain public contracts including the limitation of categories for nondiscrimination purposes.”

After an hour of debate, senators voted instead to return the bill to the “Involuntary Calendar” — over Crowe’s objections — which means the measure likely won’t be taken up again. Calling a bill from the Involuntary Calendar requires a majority vote of the members present; since Crowe

and Jindal could muster only nine votes to keep the bill under active consideration, its chances of revival appear slim.

“This is a rare happening,” one senator told me afterward. “senators generally give one another the courtesy of not returning things to the calendar involuntarily — unless the bill is something they just don’t want to have to vote on. That was the case here.”

Returning Crowe’s bill to the Involuntary Calendar also marked one of the few times this session that Jindal did not get his way with lawmakers.

Current state law bars discrimination against people based on six factors: race, religion, national ancestry, age, sex or disability. Crowe’s bill would have barred state agencies from protecting other classes of persons (gays, e.g.) — even though billions in federal dollars are tied to expanded protections, according to conservative sen.

Robert Adley, R-Benton, who expressed concerns echoed by many senators.

Crowe told his colleagues that his bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents. He said he never intended to

It will be interesting to see if Jindal tries to help Crowe revive the controversial bill. discriminate against school kids. Recent history proves otherwise.

When the bill was presented to the committee Crowe chairs, his legal “expert” used state contracts with charter schools as a prime example of the kind of “rogue” lawmaking the bill purportedly seeks to end. The only other witness to testify for the measure was a woman who presides over a local charter school board. Her entire testimony was couched in terms of charter schools and gay students. Crowe made no attempt at that time to say the bill was not aimed at charters and school kids.

The real architect of the bill is the Louisiana Family Forum, but for some reason LFF leader Gene Mills has remained closeted on this one. During the senate floor debate Crowe dodged questions from sen. Ed Murray, D-New orleans, about who helped draft the bill and several amendments offered by Crowe.

It will be interesting to see if Jindal tries to help Crowe revive the controversial bill.

If he does, he will cement his good standing with the Evangelical wing of the GoP — but probably also cement his shoes when it comes to his national ambitions.

Former u.s. sen. Rick santorum of Pennsylvania was the darling of the evangelical right this election year. santorum is much more polished, better looking and more articulate than Jindal, but his campaign still collapsed under the weight of his extreme right-wing views. Even conservative Republicans regard him as unelectable in a race for president.

Jindal, who bombed in his only star turn on national TV, may have an even more difficult time trying to sell himself to a national audience after openly supporting Crowe’s bill.

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I own the Campus Connection on the corner of Broadway and Maple Streets. I know that for many years my store was the location of Broadway Pharmacy. Can you please tell me everything you know about the old Broadway Pharmacy?

Dave Cariello Dear Dave, It’s hard for folks to remember when there were lots of old-fashioned neighborhood drugstores in New Orleans. Broadway Pharmacy was one of them — until late November 1974.

The pharmacy looked very different from the drugstores of today. The decor consisted of green plants, two whirring ceiling fans, merchandise displayed in rosewood cabinets, a phone box and four booths in which to sit.

Henry Richards and his wife Alma bought the pharmacy in 1914, the same year they married. The first thing they did was to throw away the sign that read “No Credit for Students.” Under the Richards’ ownership, many students had “charge accounts.” The Richardses kept a record of what was spent, and the students would

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pay what they owed when they received money from their parents.

The Richardses made the store a haven for students from Tulane University, Newcomb College and Loyola University.

They offered them credit, sympathy — and sometimes financial assistance.

Shortly after they bought the store, Alma went to school to become a registered pharmacist like her husband. She then worked side by side with Henry, who was a part-time teacher at Tulane’s school of pharmacology.

During that time, there weren’t too many places for college students to hang out, and the Broadway Pharmacy was popular because it was open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. “Doc” Richards and “Mrs. Doc,” as the students called them, got to know the young people personally. The Tulane football coach and his players held regular meetings in the store, and one of Tulane’s presidents, Albert Bledsoe Dinwiddie, used to come in regularly for a Coke and to talk with students. Another regular customer and friend was U.S. Rep. F. Edward Hebert, who first went to the store when he was sports editor for The Tulane Hullabaloo, the university’s student newspaper.

Many of the city’s leading doctors, lawyers, government officials, business executives and society women reminisce about happy hours spent in the Broadway Pharmacy.

Inlaid mosaic tiles spell out “Broadway Pharmacy” in the entryway of Campus Connection. The pharmacy opened in 1914 and was operated there by the same family until it closed in 1974.

Students from that time probably remember the annual parade and mock Carnival ball staged at the nearby saloon — Bruno’s — with Leo Bruno as the king.

A party in the patio at Broadway Pharmacy awaited the arrival of the parade, which happened around midnight, and a toast to the royalty.

Henry died in 1963, and his wife resolved to keep the drugstore open and

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operating. She had help from fellow pharmacist Charles “Jeff” Wooten, who had started out as a delivery boy for the store.

The Richardses were robbed 15 times during the six decades the drugstore was in business, but in the five months before it closed for good, there were three robberies, which weighed heavily in Alma’s decision to close the pharmacy. Alma died on Aug. 10, 1988.

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Hail to the Chief The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival kicks off seven days of food, music and culture.

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he 43rd annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell features headliners including Bruce Springsteen and Tom petty and the Heartbreakers, rising stars like Troy andrews and Theresa andersson, International visitors, performers from all genres of indigenous Louisiana music and a special cultural pavilion honoring Mardi gras Indians.

In addition to the wide array of musical offerings, the fest also offers local cuisine, art and craft vendors, cooking demonstrations and more. Count Basin™ looks forward to two long weekends full of his favorite things. The following pages include previews for every performer, a map of the Fair grounds, schedules and my critic’s picks. See you stage side. enjoy!

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parades 12:15 p.m. Black Mohawk and Black Foot Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 1:40 p.m. Young Pinstripe Brass Band with Keep N It Real and We Are One Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs 2:40 p.m. Geronimo Hunters and Creole Osceolas Mardi Gras Indians 4:15 p.m. Real Untouchables Brass Band with Zulu and Big Nine Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

native american pow Wow Folklife Stage in Louisiana Folklife Village 12:25 p.m., 1:40 p.m. and 4:50 p.m. The Boyz Singers and Dancers

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performances Electrifying Crown Seekers 11:15 a.m., Gospel Stage Founded in 1965, the Electrifying Crown Seekers’ ecstatic brand of gospel has been featured at the Fest more than 20 times.

The New Orleans Suspects 11:20 a.m., Acura Stage The New Orleans Suspects features members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Radiators and other veteran players, born from a 2009 jam session at the Maple Leaf.

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phone- and piano-fed funk, with organ riffs and a sharp rhythm section.

The Revivalists 11:20 a.m., Gentilly Stage Named Best Emerging Artist at the 2011 Big Easy Music Awards, The Revivalists released its latest album, City of Sound, earlier this year. The band blends roots rock and pedal steel guitars with amped-up funk and bright brass.

Fredy Omar con su Banda 11:20 a.m., Congo Square Stage Fredy Omar’s Latin music ensemble has been a mainstay in New Orleans clubs and at the festival — he’s logged stage time at Jazz Fest every year since 1998. The Honduran native’s career spans tropical and Latin jazz, salsa and merengue.

Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble 11:20 a.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent The Chicago university’s student ensemble is led

by New Orleans clarinetist and saxophonist Victor Goines.

Henry Gray & the Cats 11:20 a.m., Blues Tent The 87-year-old Louisiana bluesman remained Howlin’ Wolf’s piano man for more than a decade and shared stages with a who’s who of musicians, from Lazy Lester to Mick Jagger. Times Are Getting’ Hard was released in 2009.

Louis Ford & His New Orleans Flairs 11:20 a.m., Economy Hall Tent This traditional New Orleans jazz band is led by tenor sax man and clarinetist Louis Ford.

Semolian Warriors Mardi Gras Indians 11:20 a.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Big Chief James Harris formerly masked with the Wild Magnolias and now leads this Uptown Mardi Gras Indian gang.

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usicians and vendors aren’t the only people working at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. For the past five years, the Jazz & Heritage Foundation has hosted a music business conference focusing on issues including getting music licensed in film and TV and other new media opportunities.

One of this year’s featured speakers is Tim Westergren, founder of the online music service Pandora. The conference also is expanding to include film screenings in the Sync Up Cinema portion.

Sync Up Cinema features two days of screenings. Monday, April 30, is devoted to Mardi Gras Indian films, including Aaron Walker’s 2011 documentary Bury the Hatchet. Tuesday, May 1 offers a diverse array of movies, including the Oscar-winning animated short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by Louisiana filmmakers William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. There also is a screening of excerpts from Beasts of the Southern Wild, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was scooped up by Fox Searchlight. Also on the bill is rock photographer Danny Clinch’s documentary Live from Preservation Hall: A Louisiana Fairytale about the collaboration between My Morning Jacket and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Screenings are free.

The business conference takes place on Friday and Saturday of each weekend at the New

Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys 11:25 a.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Accordionist Goldman Thibodeaux fronts this Cajun and zydeco outfit, previously led by the late Calvin Carriere.

Beth Patterson & Potent Bathers 11:30 a.m., Lagniappe Stage Grammy nominee and Lafayette native Beth Patterson and her band (an anagram of her name) perform an eclectic mix of traditional Irish folkinfluenced pop, driven by Patterson’s bazouki.

Wimberly Family Gospel Singers Noon, Gospel Tent Otis Wimberly leads this gospel ensemble, now in its 38th year.

Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band 12:25 p.m., Blues Tent New Orleans sideman

Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal has lent his axe to performers like Clifton Chenier and Slim Harpo.

He’s also a Louisiana Music Hall of Famer and a respected solo act — from his ’60s deep funk instrumentals to swampy and Chicago-influenced blues.

Young Pinstripe Brass Band 12:25 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Formed in 2009, this New Orleans brass band is led

by Herbert A. McCarver IV, a fourth generation musician. The band updates the traditional brass band format with modern funk arrangements.

Sammy Rimington International Band 12:30 p.m., Economy Hall Tent English saxophonist and clarinetist Sammy Rimington has been a presence among the New Orleans jazz circuit for decades.

Orleans Museum Aaron Walker’s of Art. Topics documentary about include how marMardi Gras Indians, keters find songs Bury the Hatchet, to put in ads, the will be screened in merits of artists the new Sync Up giving away free program focusing music, advice on local films. from tour booking PHOTO COUrTeSy OF agents, and isAArON WALker sues in electronic distribution and reaching new audiences. Speakers include Mack Maine, president of Lil Wayne’s imprint label for Universal/Motown, Daniel Glass of the indie label Glassnote records (Mumford & Sons, GIVerS), booking agency heads Ted kurland and Wom Windlish, and others.

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His recent collaborations have been alongside Michael and David Doucet, Lars Edegran and the Treme Brass Band.

Cindy Scott 12:30 p.m., Jazz Tent Tupelo, Miss., native and jazz vocalist Cindy Scott is the director of the University of New Orleans’ Jazz Voices. In 2010 she released Let the Devil Take Tomorrow, which spans Brazilian jazz, R&B and Southern sounds.

Classic New Orleans Revue feat. Frankie Ford, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and Robert “Barefootin’” Parker with Blue Eyed Soul 12:35 p.m., Acura Stage The trio of inimitable New Orleans R&B legends includes “Sea Cruise” hit man Frankie Ford, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, and Robert Parker, who sang the 1965 classic “Barefootin’.”

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PICK Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie 12:40 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Eunice, La., zydeco singer and accordionist Geno Delafose is a Grammynominated “nouveau zydeco” artist who formerly played with in his father’s band (famed accordionist John Delafose) before setting off on his own in 1994.

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Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes 12:40 p.m., Gentilly Stage Since 2001, this brassheavy New Orleans funk outfit has been a frequent festival favorite and has released three studio albums and Live at the Spleaf, recorded at band haunt The Maple Leaf.

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Golden Voices Community Choir 12:50 p.m., Gospel Tent St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church embraces gospel music in its 30-member choir, which this year celebrates its 40th year. It performs both traditional and contemporary gospel under Henry Washington’s direction.

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Kim Carson & the Enablers 12:55 p.m., Lagniappe Stage Texas’ roots-rocking roadhouse singer/songwriter Kim Carson is dubbed the “Queen of Louisiana Honky Tonk,” performing her country and western rock in her adopted home state and around the globe.

Leah Chase 1:40 p.m., Jazz Tent Juilliard-trained jazz vocalist Leah Chase — daughter of legendary restaurateur Leah Chase and bandleader Dooky Chase — performs jazz standards.

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PICK James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars 1:40 p.m., Blues Tent Singer-trumpeter James Andrews, of the prolific Andrews musical family, released The Big Time Stuff last year, featuring Monk Boudreaux and Cyril Neville, among others. The Treme musician’s super-sized Crescent City Allstars performs jazz and brass band funk.

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PICK Ivoire Spectacle feat. Seguenon Kone 1:45 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Hailing from the Ivory Coast, Seguenon Kone plays the balafon, a West African wooden xylophone, and djembe drums. He’s joined by dance company L’ivoire Spectacle.

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Betty Winn & One A-Chord 1:45 p.m., Gospel Tent The vocal ensemble was formed in 1995 and its members represent various churches and gospel choirs in the New Orleans area.

Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove 1:50 p.m., Congo Square Stage Kirk Joseph gained acclaim holding down sousaphone duties with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. His Backyard Groove offers an eclectic, high-energy mix of jazz, funk and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.

Tim Laughlin 1:50 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Last year, Laughlin released If Dreams Come True last year, the jazz clarinetist’s collaboration with veteran cornet player Connie Jones.

Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band 2:05 p.m., Fais Do-Do Longtime zydeco accordionist Chubby Carrier earned the 2010 Grammy Award for Zydeco/Cajun, the last award for the category, which was phased out. The album, Zydeco Junkie, features his brand of bayou party music and his take on The Jeffersons theme.

Gomez 2:10 p.m., Gentilly Stage U.K. five-piece, offbeat pop-rock outfit Gomez released Whatever’s On Your Mind last year, the band’s seventh studio album since its acclaimed, best-selling debut, 1998’s Bring It On. The Dixie Cups 2:15 p.m., Acura Stage The New Orleans R&B

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peaking by phone from his Los Angeles home, percussionist and bandleader Pancho Sanchez is clearly enthusiastic about his latest project Chano y Dizzy: a Dizzy Gillespie/Chano Pozo tribute record with New Orleans trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

“This record and the live gigs with Terence are a joy,” Sanchez says. “It’s a groove and we get to play!” Such sentiments are evident on the recording as well. It exudes an energy and tightness that highlight not only how much the two men enjoy the collaboration but also how much they are influenced by Gillespie and Pozo.

“Dizzy and Chano created Latin jazz in the early 1940s. They were the arrangers and creators. Nobody had been doing this stuff,” Sanchez says. “I loved the way Dizzy played trumpet. I loved the way he looked. He used to wear a beret, and I used to wear a beret in high school after I saw Dizzy. I thought he was the coolest dude. And the bent trumpet? Wow.” Chano also was an influence.

“Chano was only on the scene for three years or so, but he was famous as a dancer and rumbero (drummer) in Cuba. Those guys were pioneers. They stuck their neck out. For that alone, they are big men,” Sanchez says.

The rhythms and arrangements they wrote of standards “Con Alma,” “Manteca” and “Tin Tin Deo” are now jazz classics.

Sanchez and his manager Ivory Daniels came up with the idea for this project.

“We had to figure out, if I was playing the part of Chano, who was going to play Dizzy?

We went through all the great trumpeters and Terence’s name came up. We had done ‘Stella

By Starlight’ before, and he had sat in with the band at Jazz Fest years before.”

Just by playing in the Crescent City, Blanchard was familiar with Latin music, including the rhythms of Cuba and places farther south, but he also delved into Latin sounds more deliberately. In 1996, Blanchard recorded The Heart Speaks, a project with guitarist/ composer Ivan Lins featuring Brazilian music.

Sanchez and Blanchard’s “Nocturna” is recreated from a ballad on that record.

The two have found an easy harmony.

“I dig Terence,” Sanchez says. “He’s a good cat … and we speak the same language.

When we get to play, there’s no wading. We dive right in.”

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legends and vintage girl-group stars issued the revered classics “Iko Iko” and “Chapel of Love” (which outperformed The Beatles on American charts). They perform with a brass section, and the trio’s current lineup includes Athelgra Neville.

Leyla McCalla 2:20 p.m., Lagniappe Stage New York-to-New Orleans cellist Leyla McCalla performs as a teaching artist with the youth music education program New Orleans String Project and also plays banjo and blues guitar.

The Bester Singers & the Dynamic Smooth Family Gospel Singers of Slidell 2:40 p.m., Gospel Tent Rose Bester leads this Slidell-based gospel group that was founded more than 20 years ago.

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Eric Lindell 3 p.m., Blues Tent The San Mateo, Calif.born singer/songwriter plays blues-inflected roots rock, and on his 2011 album West County Drifter, he reaches into rough-edged retro soul and R&B with his slick, crooning vocals.

Comanche Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 3:05 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Big Chief “Ke Ke” Gibson leads this 9th Ward Mardi Gras Indian band.

Butch Thompson’s Homage to Jelly Roll Morton 3:10 p.m., Economy Hall Tent The former A Prairie Home Companion bandleader and accomplished ragtime pianist and clarinetist pays tribute to his hero, the pivotal jazz composer and player Jelly Roll Morton.

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 3:25 p.m., Congo Square Stage Son of iconic Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti and his Egypt 80 released From Africa

With Fury: Rise in 2008, produced by Brian Eno and Kuti, who explores Afrobeat and beyond with breakneck rhythms and protest anthems.

Shades of Praise: New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir 3:35 p.m., Gospel Tent Founded in 2000, the citywide gospel choir incorporates people from diverse religious traditions, neighborhoods and countries.

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PICK BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet 3:40 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage The Cajun music outfit’s 2010 album Alligator Purse earned a Grammy nomination, the band’s 11th in its more than 30 year career. It’s the band’s 29th release and it explores Cajun roots, bluegrass and bayou blues.

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Me What You Want.” The band reunited in 1997 and released Zebra IV in 2003. During its 35th anniversary performance in 2010, it was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

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PICK GIVERS 3:45 p.m., Gentilly Stage The upbeat Lafayette indie-pop ensemble released its debut fulllength album In Light last year to critical acclaim, and the band performed at California’s Coachella music festival earlier this month. The hit single “Up,

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PICK Sasha Masakowski 3:45 p.m., Lagniappe Stage Acrobatic, chameleonlike jazz vocalist Sasha Masakowski recently returned from a globetrotting tour and four-month performance residency in Beijing. Her band Musical Playground explores Brazilian rhythms and progressive jazz.

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PICK Stephanie Jordan Big Band 4:05 p.m., Jazz Tent New Orleans chanteuse Stephanie Jordan (daughter of saxophonist Edward “Kidd” Jordan) recently released Stephanie Jordan Sings a Tribute to the Fabulous Lena Horne: Yesterday When I Was Young, an album inspired by the late singer.

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electronic and Latin influences and is set to release New York Underground Tapes this month.

Chuck Leavell & Friends plus special guest Bonnie Bramlett 4:25 p.m., Blue Tent Studio piano man Chuck Leavell has tickled ivories for Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones and other artists. His solo output includes Back to the Woods, his blues tribute released this year.

Original Tuxedo Jazz Band 4:40 p.m., Economy Hall Tent One of the longest running jazz bands, the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band was founded in 1910 and has performed in some arrangement ever since. The traditional outfit is directed by Bob French.

Irma Thomas’ Tribute to Mahalia Jackson 4:40 p.m., Gospel Tent New Orleans’ Queen of Soul takes the gospel stage once again to honor the Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson.

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PICK Bon Iver 5:25 p.m., Gentilly Stage Singer/songwriter Justin Vernon is Bon Iver, and Vernon’s haunting soulfolk ensemble is sparse but the stadium-sized self-titled LP caught the Grammy’s eye for Best New Artist.

The Texas Tornados feat. Flaco Jimenez, Augie Myers and Shawn Sahm 5:30 p.m.,

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PICK Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Band feat. Terence Blanchard 5:30 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent Grammy Award-winning conguero Poncho Sanchez joins bandleader and composer Terence Blanchard to explore AfroCuban music and jazz.

The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary 5:30 p.m., Acura Stage Shortly after releasing the prized Smile album, a holy grail for bootleg collectors originally conceived in studio sessions in the late 1960s but not released until last year, American pop figureheads the Beach Boys announced plans for a reunion and tour. The tour brings together original members Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine.

Steel Pulse 5:30 p.m., Congo Square Stage U.K. roots reggae outfit Steel Pulse has performed over four decades, from a leading Rock Against Racism presence in Birmingham’s punk clubs to headlining world tours. Since its debut, 1978’s Handsworth Revolution, its style has been emulated worldwide. The band won the Grammy for Best Reggae in 1987 for Babylon the Bandit.

Rev. Jermaine Landrum & Abundant Praise Revival Choir 5:45 p.m., Gospel Tent Since age 9, Rev. Jermaine Landrum has had a hand in directing gospel choirs, and has directed dozens statewide. He began preaching at 15 and was ordained at 21.

Alex Chilton Tribute

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Susan Cowsill sings in the tribute to Alex Chilton.

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he late alex Chilton was one of the most enigmatic figures in pop music. From his gruff, teenage vocals on the hit “The Letter” to the pop masterpieces of Big Star to his production work with The Cramps and Panther Burns and subsequent solo records, Chilton played his music and pursued his career however he saw fit. Between that attitude and his music, Chilton became one of the cult personalities of rock ’n’ roll. His music affected millions and influenced everyone from The Replacements to R.E.M. He is often associated with his hometown of Memphis, Tenn., but in the early 1980s Chilton moved to new Orleans, where he recorded several records and worked with local musicians.

Some of those musicians are performing in a tribute to him at the new Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Bassist Rene Coman, best known for his work in the iguanas, is the mastermind behind the project. Coman played with Chilton intermittently, including gigs opening for the Clash and a very short run on Bourbon Street.

The lineup for the tribute includes drummer Doug Garrison (iguanas), guitarists Dave Pirner (Soul asylum) and alex McMurray (Tin Men/valparaiso Men’s Chorus) and singer Susan Cowsill.

“We’re going to draw from the core of the live set that alex would do: Big Star songs he liked, solo act stuff that he would do,” Coman says. “Like alex, we’re not being pedantic about it. i don’t want to do anything he would make a face at.”

Chilton’s music varied greatly over his career, and they’ll draw from different aspects.

“He had a lot of different bags,” McMurray says. “The Big Star thing with the shimmering pop and triplet fill drums. and then he went totally off the deep end and went into the rockabilly thing. Then he’s got that record Cliches where he does standards playing by himself. … The choic-

es in his music are really right. you can tell he knows a lot of music. He’s a listener; he’s got great taste.”

Coman believes Chilton’s passion for music clinched his appeal. “alex had a real emotionalism about him and his performances,” he says. “He was committed to whatever was there — to the essence of what he was trying to get at (musically). That speaks to people.”

Tribute to Alex Chilton featuring Dave Pirner, Alex McMurray, Susan Cowsill, Rene Coman and Doug Garrison 12:45 p.m. Sunday, April 29 Gentilly Stage

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Guitar Lightnin’ Lee & his Thunder Band 5:15 p.m., Lagniappe Stage The longtime sideman, guitar slinger and rugged rhythm and bluesman joined members of punk band Die Rotzz for his Thunder Band, a raucous outfit that released N.O.L.A. Rhythum and Booze this year.

Fais Do-Do Stage Popular Tejano band The Texas Tornadoes features “father of Conjunto” Flaco Jimenez and Sir Douglas Quintet member Augie Meyers. The band performs rock-influenced Mexican pop, and it released Esta Bueno! in 2010.

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Real Untouchables Brass Band 5:55 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Wali Abdel Ra’off Jr. fronts this brass band that performs a blend of modern and traditional brass sounds.

Buckwheat Zydeco 6 p.m., Blues Tent With his signature quaff, Stanley Dural Jr. — aka Buckwheat Zydeco — has earned crossover success with his propulsive, accordion-led zydeco rave-ups showcased on more than 20 albums.

Jamil Sharif 6:10 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Son of renowned trumpeter Emery Humphrey Thompson, trumpeter and actor Jamil Sharif is a NOCCA alum and a versatile jazz player whose career spans traditional New Orleans jazz, classical, funk and gospel.

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Tonia & the Left Field Band 11:15 a.m., Congo Square Stage Tonia Powell and her three-piece Left Field band perform contemporary R&B, hip-hop and jazz.

Loyola University Jazz Ensemble 11:15 a.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent Scott Burns leads the university’s jazz band specializing in the big band era music of Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

Cameron Dupuy & the Cajun Troubadours 11:15 a.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Cameron Dupuy started playing the Cajun accordion at age 11. Now 14, he leads the band that plays traditional Cajun music.

The Heavenly Melodies Gospel Singers 11:15 a.m., Gospel Tent The family-based, all-female quartet sings soulful New Orleans gospel.

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PICK Empress Hotel 11:20 a.m., Acura Stage The ensemble draws influences from dream pop and ’70s one-hit wonders and just completed a U.S. tour. The group released an eponymous debut on local label Park the Van last year.

Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders 11:20 a.m., Blues Tent Tyrone Pollard leads the band specializing in soulful funk and R&B. The group’s 2008 release

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by Thompson. They also have dug up old to the Carolina Chocolate Drops. its oldsongs and learned music from old LPs. timey fiddle and banjo music has lively energy “On the new record, there’s some 19thand bright musicality. There’s an understated century minstrel music that Rhiannon picked funk/swing to “Boodle-De-Bum-Bum” and up off sheet music,” Flemons says. “‘negro desperate emotion and almost punk-rock drive Jig’ and ‘Briggs Corn Shucking Jig/Campon “Ruby, are you Mad at your Man?” Founding town Hornpipe’ have interesting melodies member Dom Flemons got into this music as that haven’t been played in 150 years. We put many have: by digging Bob Dylan and The that onstage and talk about that and blackface Beatles, tracing their contemporaries and going minstrelsy. There’s more to it than white-guysback from there. making-fun-of-black-guys that was popular for “From Dylan you can get to Jimmie Rodg100 years. There’s a musical culture within this ers or back to Muddy Waters, and then Son very popular form of theater, music and dance.”

House and Charlie Patton, and that’s how The Chocolate Drops start with the banjo, i got into the music of the 1920s,” Flefiddle and bones of minstrel music and then add mons says. guitar, mandolin, jug, harmonica, snare drum, He and Rhiannon Giddens attended the kazoo and at times cello. Besides the musiBlack Banjo and Fiddle Gathering and started cal elements, songs feature other cultural and working with the legendary Joe Thompson, historic aspects. a black fiddle player from the Carolinas. The “There’s a number called ‘Read ’Em, John,’” two started playing gigs together and took up Flemons says. “i was drawn to it due to the the revival of black string-band music. melody and the phrasing. Then i learned more The banjo and fiddle often are associated about the song. it talks about emancipation and with bluegrass and country music and typihow learning to read and write was an important cally white musicians.

“The music is more diverse than given cred- thing for people of color so they could tell their it for,” Flemons says. “Black and white people people in their own communities about the have always played music together. it’s one of freedom they got from the Emancipation Proclamation. The song was interesting, but there is a the well-kept secrets that’s not really a secret whole other dimension to it that was brought out in american culture. People by its history.” talk about white folk playing The band also is interested in and sound like black music, Carolina both entertaining and building a but never black folk who sound Chocolate Drops community around the music. like white people. There’s 4:20 p.m. “(The music) is accessible,” Charlie Pride and Solomon Saturday, April 28 Flemons says. “Folk and oldBurke and Deford Bailey. it’s time music has an inclusive music that’s now associated Fais Do-Do Stage quality to it. and now we need with white culture, but it comes from a communal culture.” this more than ever.”

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Javier Tobar and Elegant Gypsy 11:20 a.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage This Jazz Fest fixture blends Flamenco with Latin-influenced and AfroCuban sounds. Tobar is a songwriter with the Nashville-based music publisher Ash Street Music, but he lives and plays in New Orleans.

Delgado Community College Jazz Ensemble 11:20 a.m., Lagniappe Stage Students from the community college perform big band and modern jazz tunes.

Josh Kagler & the Harmonistic Praise Crusade 12:05 p.m., Gospel Tent The more than 20-member group comprised of young adults ages 17 to 30 favors gospel contemporary sounds.

D.L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces 12:15 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage In his five-decade career playing traditional Cajun and Cajun-inflected country music, guitarist

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Congo Square Stage A product of both the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and the Berklee College of Music, saxophonist Khris Royal adds electronic elements to his progressive combination of funk and jazz.

Peter Martin 12:20 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent As musical director for jazz singer Dianne Reeves, the St. Louis-based jazz pianist arranged music for her soundtrack to the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, in addition to appearing in the film. Martin tours and is serves on the faculties of Southern Illinois and Northwestern universities and is an artist-in-residence with Jazz St. Louis’ JazzU program.

Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars 12:25 p.m., Acura Stage The Cajun roots rockers known for their high-energy sets earned a Grammy nod for their 2007 double album La Louisianne Sessions.

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PICK Evan Christopher & Clarinet Road 1:25 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent The virtuoso clarinetist specializes in what he calls “contemporary early jazz.” Besides being a musician, he is an educator and advocate for the local cultural workforce and music education.

Savoy Music Center of Eunice Cajun Jam 1:25 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Ann Savoy leads regulars of the weekly jam session held at her family’s music store in Eunice, La. The show typically features an orchestra-size collection of various stringed instruments and musicians of all ages.

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PICK Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs 1:30 p.m., Gentilly Stage The trumpeter and vocalist rose through the ranks of local brass bands and now leads his own funk group. He released Meet Me on Frenchmen Street in 2008, and he has toured with Willie Nelson and played for President Barack Obama.

Paulin Brothers Brass Band 12:30 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Originally formed by the late Ernest “Doc” Paulin, the traditional brass band is continued by his sons.

The group plays frequent gigs at Preservation Hall.

Luther Kent 1:35 p.m., Blues Tent A former member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, the blues and R&B singer is known for his big voice. His most recent release is 2008’s Bobby Bland Songbook.

Marc Stone 12:30 p.m., Lagniappe Stage The singer and guitar player performs gritty Delta blues. He released Trickeration & Rascality on Threadhead Records in 2010.

Storyville Stompers Brass Band 1:35 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Woody Penouilh leads the brass band that has been playing since 1981. They received the Big Easy Award for Best Traditional Brass Band in 2010.

Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir 12:50, Gospel Tent The group includes mem-

Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen 1:40 p.m., Acura Stage

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re we walking dead now?” Monae asked Voodoo Music experience audiences two years ago before crescendoing into an operatic wail and a zombie-like gyration. she’s not your average soul singer.

The audience was equally enthralled and stunned. Monae has performed everywhere from new Orleans’ City Park to the White House. Her combination of raw talent and a concise vision, unsparingly delivered with seemingly effortless artistry, borders on overwhelming. Monae’s voice houses an opera singer, a ’60s ingenue, a full-throttle blues shouter and a Brill Building-worthy soul, and like fashion plates, she interchanges as many musical styles as required to communicate her vision for any particular song.

Despite a regular preference for a tuxedo and immaculately coifed hair, she’s got a lot of fashion plates. and for all the high-art, Monae even manages to make them dance-worthy.

“Tightrope,” her most popular song, is also the most straightforward — and even then she integrates ’60s soul and an extended jam as a reference point, not a sampled hook. “Tightrope” is merely a taste of the full album’s balance between complexity and

accessibility. More recent collaborations with estelle and pop group Fun. keep her in public view as a followup to her freshman release nears completion.

It’s for the best. It’s two years later and The ArchAndroid still requires time to digest. The 18-track opus is actually two parts of a fourpart concept album inspired by a 1927 silent film, casting Monae as a messianic figure for a group of segregated machines fighting for independence. yet for all the high concepts, each song works as a composition and not a wannabe book chapter.

This is mostly from the strength of Monae’s voice and her band, pulling heavily from ’60s kitsch and pop but also Latin, classic Motown, Broadway and orchestra motifs. The ArchAndroid, much like her performances, is very much alive, and is built to dazzle.

Janelle Monae 5:35 p.m. Sunday, April 29 Gentilly Stage

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The England-born pianist plays solo gigs and those under a few different band names, and this latest formation is a trio of piano, bass and drums. Cleary’s acoustic piano drives the band’s combination of New Orleans funk, R&B and tropical rhythms. He recently released Occapella!.

Tonia Scott & the Anointed Voices 2:40 p.m., Gospel Tent Tonia Monique Scott’s gospel group has appeared in films including Ray, The Last Holiday and The Skeleton Key.

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Cheikh Lo 1:40 p.m., Congo Square Stage The Senegalese musician is influenced by reggae and different genres of African dance music. His most recent release is 2010’s Jamm.

Pine Leaf Boys 2:50 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage The four-time Grammynominated band from Lafayette injects exuberance into traditional and new Cajun music. Their most recent release is 2010’s Back Home.

Lars Edegran & the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra 1:40 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Originally from Sweden, the multi-instrumentalist Edegran performs frequently at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe. His New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra revives classic ragtime songs and infuses them with New Orleans sounds.

Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters 2:55 p.m., Blues Tent This throaty singer has mixed R&B, funk and blues since the 1970s.

He is also known for his 20-year role as sideman for the late legendary Louisiana vocalist Johnny Adams.

Andrew Duhon 1:45 p.m., Lagniappe Stage The singer/songwriter sings gentle, guitar-centered alt-country inflected with blues and soul. He released Dreaming When You Leave in 2010.

Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys 2:40 p.m., Gentilly Stage The Trombone Shorty of Cajun music, the 20-year-old fiddler adds a pop flavor to traditional Louisiana sounds. She released Good Southern Girl in 2010.

Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra 2:40 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent The trumpeter leads the 19-piece big band. It received a 2010 Grammy for Book One.

Kevin Bryan 3 p.m., Economy Hall Tent The lead trumpet player for Harry Connick Jr. and the Duke Ellington Orchestra also has a solo career. He is based in New York.

101 Runners 3 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and War Chief Juan Pardo lead an ensemble that combines traditional Mardi Gras Indians chants with modern instrumental street funk.

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PICK Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns 3:05 p.m., Lagniappe Stage Lake, the tattooed belter

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hen Bruce Springsteen took the Acura Stage at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, he was joined by his Seeger Sessions Band, named after his folk album released that year in tribute to genre pioneer Pete Seeger.

The crowds and critics looked to Springsteen at that moment — a socially conscious music world heavyweight stripping away E Street Band theatrics during the first Jazz Fest following Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods — for some kind of hope in the storm’s wake. The band closed with a solemn, hymn-like rendering of “When the Saints Go Marching In.” It was his bow to the city, and it’s a pledge that anchors Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball, released earlier this year. In opening salvo “We Take Care of Our Own,” Springsteen pledges his allegiance, and name checks a particular heartland, well beyond working class New Jersey: “We take care of our own, wherever this flag is flown. … From Chicago to New Orleans from the muscle to the bone, from the shotgun shack to the Superdome.”

Wrecking Ball, Springsteen’s 17th studio LP, is the Boss in the middle of rage. He simmered on stories of loss and decay, like on 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town and 1980’s The River. Now he’s boiling. Forever the optimist, Springsteen is never bitter or cynical, but he’s not shy about unleashing an indictment of corporate greed and its impact on the people he long has championed, whether in ironic pop in 1982’s Born in the U.S.A., 2002’s post-9/11 The Rising, or now

of Depression-era tunes, leads the band specializing in contemporary takes on jazz and swing. The band, often found playing in Frenchmen Street barrooms, released Lucky Devil in 2010.

Voices of the Wetlands All-Stars 3:15 p.m., Acura Stage The supergroup featuring Tab Benoit, Dr. John, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, Big Chief Monk Bou-

dreaux, Johnny Vidacovich, Johnny Sansone and Waylon Thibodeaux doubles as an education and advocacy group calling attention to coastal erosion and the threat to both Louisiana’s wetlands and culture.

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on Wrecking Ball. It spans bombastic E Street guitars, Irish folk-punk, Seeger Session folk and street gospel.

It’s also an album marred by death — not just his American dream, but also longtime saxophone sideman Clarence Clemons, who died last year from complications of a stroke.

The death dealt a massive blow to Springsteen, whose camaraderie with Clemons extended from their very first meeting in 1971.

The E Street Band is not merely Springsteen’s backing band, but an extension of him, on and offstage. It’s fitting that Clemons’ replacement is family, his nephew Jake Clemons.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 29 Acura Stage

Congo Square Stage You can currently see Green (real name: Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) dishing advice to amateur vocalists on NBC’s The Voice. Before that, he was in the Southern hip-hop group Goodie Mob. While in Gnarls Barkley he gained radio fame for “Crazy” and again as a solo artist for the gospel break-up anthem “F—k You” (or, the radio-edit version “Forget You”).

Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Mass Choir 3:35 p.m., Gospel Tent The choir based out of the Garden District church has performed at Jazz Fest for more than 20 years.

The New Orleans Bingo! Show 4:05 p.m., Gentilly Stage Drawing from vaudevillian entertainments, circus sideshows and cabaret,

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Pastor Jai Reed 1:45 p.m., Gospel Tent The New Beginnings Christian Center pastor has sung in the groups Endurance and Nu-Beginnings.

DJ Soul Sister 3 p.m., Congo Square Stage The “queen of rare groove” spins obscure funk records alongside more familiar jams at her popular music club dance parties. She has hosted her WWOZ Soul Power show for more than 16 years.

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JAZZ FEST 2012 the uniquely New Orleans variety show incorporates burlesque, mimes, short films, slapstick comedy and a requisite bingo game into its performances. Through the antics, show creator Clint Maedgen’s vocals are the highlight.

Dave Koz 4:20 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent The Grammy-nominated smooth saxophonist’s 2010 release Hello Tomorrow topped Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. Koz also is a syndicated radio and television host.

Israel Houghton and New Breed 4:50 p.m., Gospel Tent Houghton, a worship leader at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, sings Christian music that incorporates elements of gospel, jazz and rock.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops 4:20 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage The Durham, N.C. string band recently appeared on the soundtrack for the blockbuster The Hunger Games. Influenced by African-American jug band music of the 1920s and ’30s, its latest release is February’s Leaving Eden.

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Bobby Rush 4:25 p.m., Blues Tent The blues and R&B musician and showman has been playing for more than five decades, and his sets are known for comedic bits and costume changes. His album Hoochie Mama was nominated for a Grammy in 2009.

Soul Rebels 5:20 p.m., Congo Square Stage The brass band plays weekly late-night gigs at venues from Uptown to Frenchmen Street, showcasing a blend of traditional brass band music with contemporary R&B, funk and hip-hop.

The group’s most recent album is 2009’s No Place Like Home.

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Kristin Diable & the City 4:40 p.m., Lagniappe Stage In March singer Kristin Diable and her backing band released a self-titled record, which was recorded in Diable’s Pontalba apartment. Diable’s sultry, alt-country vocals evoke Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt.

Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Thais Clark 4:20 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Versatile vocalist Thais Clark, best known for interpreting 1920s blues, accompanies the New Orleans clarinetist.

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ith frontman Justin Vernon’s lumberjack-meets-Brooklyn ratty beard and gentle falsetto voice, it’s easy to dismiss Bon Iver as wussy indie-pop — or just boring. Saturday Night Live recently satirized this perception with a sketch in which cast members playing Beyonce and Jay-Z host a series of celebrity friends; Justin Timberlake plays Vernon, whose lullaby for new baby Blue Ivy ends up putting the artist himself to sleep.

The sparse instrumentation of some of Vernon’s music and his faint, sometimes difficult-to-understand vocals can be lulling, but a closer listen reveals the complexities of his music, sometimes fraught with haunting moments. He wrote songs for his 2008 debut For Emma, Forever Ago in an isolated Wisconsin cabin following a breakup with a girl and a band. The record is marked by an eerie solitude. Some songs start spare but give way to big emotional climaxes; in a New York Times Magazine profile of Vernon, Jon Caramanica says those parts “sound like crying, deep primal purging.” “Wolves” begins quietly with Vernon’s gentle lilt and swells into a cacophony of clattering percussion and discordant vocals. (For another example of Vernon’s brand of devastating heartbreak, see his recent cover of Bonnie raitt’s “I Can’t Make you Love Me.”) While most tracks are stripped to guitar and vocals, drums and horns fill others. The album also is distinguished by Vernon’s use of auto-Tune, which isn’t often employed outside

pop and hip-hop (he reunited with the audio processor again on his 2009 eP Blood Bank, particularly in the album closer “Woods”).

The album led to an unexpected collaboration with more high-profile auto-Tune user Kanye West, who sampled “Woods” in a track on his 2010 opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. on West’s album, Vernon also has a verse on the track “Monster” alongside rap heavyweights nicki Minaj, JayZ and rick ross.

Vernon’s self-titled follow up still has the same level of intimacy but with a fuller, more stadium-friendly sound coming from a bigger band that includes pedal-steel guitar and saxophone. Guitar-driven songs like “Holocene” recall the debut record, but the strange ’80s electro-pop intro of the divisive album closer “Beth/rest” is an extreme example of the musician’s new direction.

It was that album that helped earn him the Best new artist Grammy, which came with the requisite “Who is he?” Internet backlash (people mishearing his name as “Bonny Bear” became an Internet meme). But if being parodied on SNL is any indication of cultural potency, people certainly know who Bon Iver is now.

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Jewel Brown and the Heritage Hall Jazz Band 5:50 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Gregg Stafford directs the band featuring Jewel Brown, a jazz singer who is a veteran of Louis Armstrong’s band.

Bamboula 2000 5:50 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage The music and dance ensemble plays African beats based on the bamboula, brought to Louisiana and Congo Square by slaves. The group incorporates reggae, jazz

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The Dixie Cups, Robert “Barefootin’” Parker, and Tony Owens 5:55 p.m., Blues Tent A slate of New Orleans R&B artists performs a tribute to the legendary late music arranger and bandleader who earned the nickname “The Creole Beethoven.” He was behind hits like Jean Knight’s “Mr. Big Stuff,” Robert Parker’s “Barefootin’” and King Floyd’s “Groove Me.”

The Gospel According to Jazz featuring BJ Crosby, Danon Smith, Yolanda Windsay, and Judy Davis 6 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent The female gospel vocalists perform.

Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas 6 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Nathan Williams grew up studying the work of zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. For two decades, Williams and his band have performed fast, up-tempo zydeco grooves with roots in soul, the Caribbean and blues.

City of Love Music & Worship Arts 6:05 p.m., Gospel Tent This large choir features a diverse membership.

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PICK High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band 6:05 p.m., Lagniappe Stage The group of bluegrass pickers and singers emphasizes harmony singing and energetic tempos.

They released a self-titled album in 2010.

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native american pow Wow Folklife Stage in Louisiana Folklife Village 12:20 p.m., 1:45 p.m. and 3:05 p.m. The Boyz Singers and Dancers

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performances The Pfister Sisters 11:10 a.m., Economy Hall Tent

Erika Flowers 11:15 a.m., Congo Square Stage A product of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Loyola University, this local R&B singer also has performed with The New Orleans Opera Association.

NOCCA Jazz Ensemble 11:15 a.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent This performance highlights students from the jazz program at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).

Golden Star Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 11:15 a.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Big Chief Larry Bannock of the Golden Star Hunters Tribe — based out of the Gert Town neighborhood — is also president of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council.

Expect chanting and dancing to strong Indian rhythms peppered with musical stories.

New Orleans Spiritualettes 11:15 a.m., Gospel Tent Founded by Ruby Ray more than 40 years ago, this all-female group creates original arrangements of traditional gospel songs.

Los Po-Boy-Citos 11:20 a.m., Gentilly Stage Along with a host of original tunes, this Latin funk brass band meshes traditional New Orleans R&B, Mardi Gras songs and other local standards with Latin boogaloo rhythms.

Ernie Vincent & the Top Notes 11:20 a.m., Blues Tent Backed by a version of his classic band, Ernie Vincent is best known for his signature “wah wah” guitar and his 1972 funk anthem “Dap Walk.” Having dabbled in blues, R&B and even disco, Vincent

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eople might have gotten tired of the catchy song “1234” — which in 2007 could have been heard anywhere from an iPod commercial to Sesame Street. But by the end of the surprise whirlwind success of that song, singer Leslie Feist was tired, too. The Canadian singer, who before her solo career played with several bands including Broken Social Scene, achieved critical acclaim from her second album, 2004’s Let it Die, a mix of originals and inspired covers. Standouts from the former category include “Mushaboom,” a poppy paean to small-town life that’s peppered with soft handclaps, and a sultry take on the Bee Gees “Inside and out.” But 2007’s The Reminder thrust her into the mainstream, mostly because of the wild popularity of “1234” — which packs in handclaps, horn and piano flourishes, banjo strums and sing-along backup vocals, but sounds effortless — following its placement in the iPod ad. She sang a version of the song with elmo for a Sesame Street counting lesson, and in a rare feat for indie artists, the song reached no. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. That year, she earned four Grammy nominations.

But the touring and media blitz that came with success exhausted Feist and put her on the brink of a breakdown, leading to a two-year hiatus. In a 2011 New York Times profile, she commented on that time, saying “I was playing to bigger audiences than I had ever fathomed, and I had gone a little deaf, I mean emotionally deaf.”

She returned with 2011’s Metals, which perhaps inspired by that near-collapse, is quiet, introspective and at times foreboding. recorded in a makeshift studio in Big Sur,

perfected his blues-funk working with Ernie K-Doe, King Floyd, Eddie Bo and Solomon Burke, not to mention Monk Boudreaux and Mardi Gras Indian tribes.

Hadley J. Castille Family & the Sharecroppers Cajun Band 11:20 a.m., Fais Do-Do Stage The Sharecroppers play authentic south Louisiana Cajun fiddle, interpreting turn-of-the-century songs with a swing feel that can drive a fast two-step or an old waltz. Along with playing Western swing songs of the ’40s by the

likes of Harry Choates, Castille also co-writes tunes with his son and bandmate, Blake.

Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone 11:30 a.m., Acura Stage Like his hero Jimmy Reed, Sansone plays guitar and harmonica, but he also was inspired by the death of the late Clifton Chenier to also take up accordion and help preserve the Louisiana zydeco tradition. Sansone’s original songs also channel Chicago blues and swamp boogie. He recently released The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too.

Calif., the album expresses both the aching solitude and overwhelming beauty of such a setting. “The Circle Married the Line” speaks to this beauty: “Then I’ll head out to horizon lines/ get some clarity ocean-side.” Conversely, “Comfort Me” is an unsettling meditation on a relationship (“When you comfort me/doesn’t bring me comfort actually”) that turns almost angry with thudding percussion and shouty backup vocals. unlike The Reminder, it’s difficult to mine Metals for hits — you won’t see any of its tracks pushing apple products or inspiring a choreographed dance routine in a music video, as in the case of “1234” (there, Feist leads a pack of colorfully outfitted dancers/ad hoc backup singers while wearing a blue sequined jumpsuit). Metals isn’t obvious; similar to a terrain like Big Sur, it’s an album best appreciated upon repeated exploration.

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Heritage School of Music Band 11:30 a.m., Lagniappe Stage The Heritage music education program has offered free, weekly afterschool jazz band training for local teenagers since 1990, mostly under the leadership of revered New Orleans saxophonist Edward “Kidd” Jordan.

E’Dana & Company noon, Gospel Tent This Oakland-born singer started at the age of 3 and by 15 had begun touring as a lead vocalist with the Avondale Community Choir. She has sung with everyone from Dolly

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By Myself and Be Careful What You Pray For. The Batiste Brothers 12:25 p.m. Congo Square Stage This famous New Orleans funk, soul, rock, jazz and R & B group is best known for original hits, “Louisiana” and “(Gon’ be Dat) New Orleans Music.” Having led this family band since 1976, Paul Batiste is also the founder of the Batiste Family International School of Fine and Performing Arts, PAGE 43

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Brice Miller & the Mahogany Brass Band 12:15 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Inspired by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the Mahogany Brass Band, trumpeter Brice Miller covers genres from gospel to classic jazz, dirges and brass band standards like “St. James Infirmary Blues.”

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Phil Wiggins & Corey Harris 12:30 p.m., Blues Tent A blues and reggae guitarist and singer, Harris was featured on Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed 2003 PBS television mini-series The Blues, and helped Billy Bragg and Wilco write music for newly discovered lyrics by the late Woody Guthrie.

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PICK Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys 12:40 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Fresh off another Grammy nomination for the album Grand Isle (which features a cover of Quintron and Miss

Pussycat’s “Chatterbox”), fiddle player Riley pioneers new Cajun sounds with his band harmonizing in Cajun French.

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PICK Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue 12:45 p.m., Acura Stage One of New Orleans’ rising international stars, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews hails from the Treme neighborhood. Trombone Shorty has since gone on to create a funk-rock hybrid that has drawn fans and mainstream pop collaborators from Lenny Kravitz to Kid Rock. He recently released Backatown and For True.

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PICK Tribute to Alex Chilton feat. Dave Pirner, Alex McMurray, Susan Cowsill, Doug Garrison

and Rene Coman 12:45 p.m., Gentilly Stage Pop music icon Alex Chilton spent his last years in New Orleans before he died of a heart attack in 2010. A host of eclectic New Orleans pop and rock musicians – including Soul Asylum frontman and Truck Farm recording studio owner Dave Pirner — cover songs by the influential rock musician, from his group The Box Tops and Big Star.

Lois Dejean Gospel Diva and Friends 12:50 p.m., Gospel Tent For almost 25 years, under the leadership of Reverand Lois Dejean, the Johnson Extension family band has sung traditional and contemporary gospel. Along with her work advocating for children’s causes in New Orleans, Dejean was the first local female gospel music promoter. She also produced the choir for the animated film Hunchback of Notre Dame, and is featured in the Ray Charles biopic Ray.

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PICK Panorama Jazz Band 12:55 p.m., Lagniappe Stage Led by clarinetist Ben Schenck, Panorama mixes together standards

by Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet, often adding Eastern European, Caribbean and Latin American sounds.

Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders with Butch Thompson 1:30 p.m., Economy Hall Tent British trumpeter and band leader Clive Wilson completed his physics degree at Newcastle University, but after moving to New Orleans in the ’60s, he set science aside to make music with pianist

Butch Thompson, whom he met at Preservation Hall. Together they cover the music of jazz pioneers like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.

Ellis Marsalis 1:30 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage A staple on Friday nights at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro, Ellis Marsalis is the patriarch of New Orleans’ Marsalis family. The pianist also is well known as an educator at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and the University of New Orleans.

Bill Summers & Jazalsa 1:30 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Bill Summers is an accomplished jazz musician and master percussionist who has played with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and infuses

Los Hombres Calientes’ sound with Afro-Cuban and world beats.

Ironing Board Sam 1:50 p.m., Blues Tent With his custom “button board” portable keyboard mounted to an ironing board simulating the Hammond B3 organ sound, Sam performed regularly on the landmark R&B television show Night Train. On the heels of singles “Non Support” and “Original Funky Bell Bottoms,” Sam moved to New Orleans and fell under the influence of artists such as James Booker and Professor Longhair.

Bishop Sean Elder & the Mount Hermon Baptist Church Mass Choir 1:50 p.m., Gospel Tent This large choir from Avondale is known for its pop sensibility.

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Lindigo of Reunion Island feat. Fixi of France 1:55 p.m., Congo Square Stage A music scene is brewing on France’s Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar.

Since 1999, Lindigo has combined and experimented with Maloya’s instrumental tradition and Madagascarian polyphonies. Lyricist Olivier Arsate draws from the Creole culture common to Madagascar and Reunion, backed by tribal singing, dancing and wild percussion.

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C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band 2:05 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage The son of Louisiana zydeco legend Clifton Chenier continues the tradition, pumping a full-swing keyboard accordion while leading his R&B-influenced zydeco band and its ripping horn section.

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Papa Grows Funk 2:20 p.m., Gentilly Stage Known primarily for its Monday night jam sessions at Maple Leaf bar starting in 2000, the band quickly became a permanent unit featuring keyboardist John “Papa” Gros and guitarist June Yamagishi. The band explores the softer side of funk with Hammond B-3 ballads such as “House of Love” from the band’s 2003 album Shakin’.

Spencer Bohren 2:20 p.m., Lagniappe Stage Over the course of 14 albums, Louisiana musician Spencer Bohren has played guitar, banjo and percussion while exploring the roots of American traditional blues, country, gospel and folk music.

Dr. John & the Lower 911 2:30 p.m., Acura Stage The funky pianist and growler Dr. John achieved national fame beyond what many other talented and colorful local keyboardists realized. Those who thought the good doctor’s best years were behind him will find him back in the saddle with his

new album Locked Down, beautifully produced with maximum funk and soul

by Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach. Expect his Lower 911 band to back him on everything from R&B to Mardi Gras Indian song jams.

Victor Goines 2:45 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent Currently Northwestern University’s Artistic Director for its Jazz Studies program, and Education Consultant for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Goines has collaborated with everyone from Dylan to Dizzy. In New Orleans, he is an Adjunct Professor at Xavier University, and a faculty member at Loyola University and the University of New Orleans.

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PICK Leo Jackson & the Melody Clouds 2:45 p.m., Gospel Tent Specializing in “oldschool, Holy Ghost, testifying gospel music,” this family band, established in 1965 by Leo and Mabel Jackson, is now led by their son Leo Jr. and includes four family members and four new additions.

Treme Brass Band 2:50 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Led by snare drummer Benny Jones Sr. and featuring “Uncle” Lionel Batiste on bass drum, this traditional second-line band also features saxophonist Elliot “Stackman” Callier and Kenneth Terry on trumpet and vocals.

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PICK Debo Band: Ethiopian Groove Collective 3 p.m., Jazz and Heritage Stage Hailing from Jamaica Plain, Mass., this ninepiece Ethiopian-influenced dance music collective blends traditional East African polyrhythms and pentatonic scales, American soul and funk music, and the instrumen-

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or too long, Cee Lo Green and his outsized talents always seemed to hit a ceiling. The 1995 debut album Soul Food by his Atlanta posse Goodie Mob is considered one of the best Southern rap albums of all time. Why had Goodie Mob — bolstered by Green, its undeniable star — never attained the multi-platinum status of Atlanta peers OutKast? The two groups embellish each other’s albums. The Dungeon Family provided production for both. To some, Andre 3000’s Grammy-winning The Love Below — an experimental mix of wild production and unpolished but cool singing – was ground Cee Lo had covered effortlessly for years.

Still, even after watering down their low-slung Southern black-power rhymes and training their considerable talents on the ostensible party raps of World Party, Goodie Mob never got rich.

But fans knew Green had too much talent to fade away. And then suddenly there was “Crazy,” by Gnarls Barkley, Green’s side project with DJ Danger Mouse. “Crazy” was the hit of 2006 — a true modern soul anthem that prompted singing along by everyone from

tation of Eastern European brass bands. Debo Band performs original compositions and new classics by contemporary Ethiopian musicians.

Sonny Landreth 3:05 p.m., Blues Tent A Mississippi native, blues king and slide guitar innovator known for incorporating finger-pickin and fretboard tapping into his unique playing, Landreth has served as sideman to

Jimmy Buffett, John Hiatt and Eric Johnson.

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PICK Iron & Wine 3:35 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Actually a single musician named Samuel Beam, Iron & Wine plays modern acoustic folk music that has been compared to Nick Drake, Neil Young

grandkids to grandparents. Green always had been quick to delineate his own singing from that of professionals; he’d taught himself to sing by imitating his mother at church and only used it to embellish his rapping. Eventually it would be his “sangin’” on the YouTube single “F—k You” that would cement him as a national star. Those who revered Soul Food missed Green’s rapping, but his greater fame was, one way or another, inevitable.

No one saw the rest coming, though. All at once, Green got a prime time television show, The Voice, sitting beside Christina Aguilera, judging people’s talents. Saturday Night Live impersonates him.

He was Madonna’s Cee Lo hype man at the Green Super Bowl. When 3:35 p.m. the game went to Saturday, commercial, he was April 28 a Sprite spokesman.

After 20 years of Congo struggle, Green is Square Stage suddenly ubiquitous.

and John Fahey. Beam’s last album was 2011’s more pop-oriented Kiss Each Other Clean.

Yolanda Adams 3:40 p.m., Congo Square Stage This Grammy-winning singer from Houston was named Gospel Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine. When not traveling the world and drawing comparisons to everyone from gospel

legend James Cleveland to Stevie Wonder, Williams hosts the Yolanda Williams Morning Show web program.

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all ages singing traditional gospel.

New Orleans Klezmer Allstars 3:45 p.m., Lagniappe Stage For more than 20 years this musical conglomerate has practiced what members call “Yiddish impressionism” in the form of funkified Klezmer music.

Alumni include members of Panorama Jazz Band and Galactic.

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Cowboy Mouth 3:55 p.m., Gentilly Stage Loud, raucous and thoroughly local, this rock band’s manic drummer Fred LeBlanc is part singer, part rock preacher.

Over the course of a dozen albums, Cowboy Mouth issued a Saints anthem, “I Believe (A Tribute to The Saints)” during the 2009 championship season, and has a song called “Kelly Rippa,” designed to win them a spot on Live with Regis and Kelly. Which it did.

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Dianne Reeves 4:05 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent This four-time Grammywinning jazz vocalist appeared in the Academy Award nominated George Clooney film Good Night, and Good Luck, and provided its soundtrack. Reeves has recorded and performed with Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic among other legendary institutions.

Pete Fountain 4:20 p.m., Economy Hall Tent Now 82 years old, clarinetist Pete Fountain legendarily quit Lawrence Welk’s band on The Lawrence Welk Show to return to New Orleans, where he became the most high-profile torchbearer for what he calls “swinging Dixie”-style of New Orleans jazz.

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PICK Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 4:30 p.m., Acura Stage New Jersey’s champion

of working man’s rock ’n’ roll continues after 40 years to not only be loved but relevant. Rolling Stone magazine called his newest album Wrecking Ball the “most … confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made.” At The Boss’ Jazz Fest set, he’ll be backed by his joyous E Street Band, with Jake Clemons, nephew of recentlydeparted Clarence Clemons, on saxophone.

Gary Clark Jr. 4:30 p.m., Blues Tent At just 26 years old, singer/guitarist Gary Clark Jr. was the only newcomer invited to Eric Clapton’s 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, despite the bluesman’s incorporation of classic hip-hop and contemporary soul into his music. Clark has won an Austin Music Award for Best Blues and Electric Guitarist on three separate occasions. He is currently working on his debut album for Warner Brothers.

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians 4:30 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage Monk Boudreaux, 70, has been part of Mardi Gras Indian walking/masking tradition since he was 12, most notably with tribe/ band the Golden Eagles, and collaborated with the Wild Magnolias on the seminal Indian album They Call Us Wild. Boudreaux is advising the Jazz & Heritage Festival on its Mardi Gras Indian exhibit.

Evelyn Turrentine-Agee 4:50 p.m., Gospel Tent Evelyn Turrentine-Agee began her career recording with her father and three cousins and went on to form her own gospel group, The Warriors, in 1972. She reunited the group in 2000 to record God Did It. At home in Detroit, she is also known as the host of the Reel Talk show on Motor City Television. Known as the “Queen of the Quartet,” Turrentine-Agee returns to her gospel roots for this performance.

Kirk Joseph’s Tuba Tuba is an all-tuba ensemble.

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Washboard Rodeo 5:25 p.m., Lagniappe Stage This Western swing band is led by Washboard Chaz. Western swing combines fiddles, steel guitars and horns and influenced many early country artists.

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PICK Janelle Monae 5:35 p.m., Gentilly Stage Atlanta soul singer Janelle Monae, puts into her fiercely whirring blender funk, soul, rock ’n’ roll and even a little Disney-esque choral singing. Monae is brave and not-quite-readyfor-radio mashup — best displayed on her album The ArchAndroid. But she has made fans and supporters from OutKast’s Big Boi to P. Diddy.

Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots’ International Accordion Summit 5:35 p.m., Fais Do-Do Stage Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes is known for his blues, Creole, zydeco and Afro-Louisiana music. He’s also a park ranger, actor, former

high school teacher and former player for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs.

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PICK Al Green 5:40 p.m., Congo Square Stage The Reverend Al Green’s sets at recent New Orleans festivals have featured some preaching between 1970s mega soul ballads such as “I’m Still In Love With You,” “Love and Happiness,” and “Let’s Stay Together.”

Green’s 2008’s Grammywinning album Lay It Down was produced by longtime fan and Roots drummer, ?uestlove. His large band includes his three daughters singing backup.

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PICK Nicholas Payton XXX with Vicente Archer and Jeff “Tain” Watts 5:45 p.m., WWOZ Jazz Tent The virtuosic and outspoken New Orleans trumpeter posts blog en-

tries about why jazz died in 1959. He recorded his first album From This Moment for Verve in 1994 and named his last release Bitches. Payton’s “BAM” (“Black American Music”) eschews genre in favor of self-expression, and Payton has little patience for others who don’t. He is joined for this set by bassist Vincente Archer and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts.

Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders 5:45 p.m., Economy Hall Tent This classic jazz orchestra plays early jazz plus classics from Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. The Serenaders were chosen to perform the world premiere of Jelly Roll Morton’s lost manuscripts.

Tab Benoit 5:55 p.m., Blues Tent A roots blues guitarist and singer who has worked with Junior Wells, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and James Cotton among others, Tab Benoit has also recorded more than 15 solo albums, earning him three Grammy nominations. His latest

work was Box of Pictures with the Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars project, which raises money and awareness for the cause of Louisiana’s diminishing natural coastal protections.

Kirk Joseph’s Tuba Tuba 5:55 p.m., Jazz & Heritage Stage The former Dirty Dozen Brass Band tuba player and self-proclaimed inventor of “sousafunk” has taken the tuba and sousaphone places they were perhaps never intended to go. At Jazz Fest, Joseph leads this all-star lineup of local sousaphone players including Matt Perrine (Tin Men), Edward Lee (Soul Rebels Brass Band) and Jon Gross (Panorama Jazz Band).

Franklin Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir 6:05 p.m., Gospel Tent This performance ensemble includes members of many New Orleans choirs coming together to form one massive, joyously loud super-choir that sings traditional and contemporary gospel styles.

April 27–May 6, 2012

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PARADES :

7:00pm

6:30pm

6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

4:00pm

3:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

2:00pm

1:30pm

1:00pm

12:00pm

3:45pm-4:45pm

Gomez

2:10pm-3:20pm

Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes

12:40pm-1:40pm

The Revivalists

11:20am-12:20pm

Gentilly Stage

12:15 pm 1:40 pm 2:40 pm 4:15 pm

Bon Iver

5:25pm-6:55pm

Steel Pulse

5:30pm-7pm

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

3:25pm-4:50pm

Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove

1:50pm-2:50pm

Dee-1

12:40pm-1:30pm

Fredy Omar con su Banda

11:20am-12:20pm

Congo Square Stage

Terence Blanchard

featuring

Cubano Be Cubano Bop: Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Jazz Band

5:30pm-6:55pm

Stephanie Jordan Big Band

4:05pm-5:05pm

James River Movement

2:50pm-3:45pm

Leah Chase

1:40pm-2:30pm

Cindy Scott

Buckwheat Zydeco

6pm-7pm

Bonnie Bramlett

with special guest

Chuck Leavell & Friends

4:25pm-5:35pm

Eric Lindell

3pm-4pm

James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars

1:40pm-2:40pm

Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band

12:25pm-1:20pm

Flaco Jiménez, Augie Myers, and Shawn Sahm

featuring

The Texas Tornados

5:30pm-6:55pm

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

3:40pm-4:50pm

Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band

2:05pm-3:10pm

Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie

12:40pm-1:40pm

Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys

11:25am-12:25pm

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Real Untouchables Brass Band

5:55pm-6:55pm

Slavic Soul Party!

4:25pm-5:35pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Comanche Hunters

3:05pm-3:50pm

Seguenon Kone

featuring

Ivoire Spectacle

1:45pm-2:45pm

Young Pinstripe Brass Band

12:25pm-1:25pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Semolian Warriors

11:20am-12:05pm

Jazz & Heritage Stage Gospel Tent

Guitar Lightnin’ Lee & the Thunder Band

5:15pm-6:25pm

Sasha Masakowski

3:45pm-4:55pm

Leyla McCalla

2:20pm-3:20pm

Kim Carson & the Enablers

12:55pm-1:55pm

Beth Patterson and Potent Bathers

11:30am-12:30pm

Lagniappe Stage

Asociacion de Peruanos en Louisiana & Pasache Music Tribute

5:15pm-6pm

New Orleans School of Circus Arts & I.S.L.

4:10pm-4:55pm

Gray Hawk

presents Native American Lore & Tales

3pm-3:45pm

Miss Claudia & her Biergartners

1:50pm-2:35pm

Ms. Vee with Stories for You and Me

12:40pm-1:25pm

Fischer Academy, Behrman Charter, Kate Middleton, & McDonogh No. 32

The Brass Band Throwdown feat.

11:30am-12:15pm

Kids Tent

Interviewer: Tom Piazza

Members of the Texas Tornados

3:30pm-4:15pm

Interviewer: Ben Sandmel

Guitar Lightnin’ Lee

2:30pm-3:15pm

Seun Kuti

Interviewer: Jason Berry

1:30pm-2:15pm

Interviewer: Grant Morris

Members of Zebra

12:30pm-1:15pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

schedule subject to change .

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION: 1:30 pm — Indian Practice 3 pm — Geronimo Hunters and Creole Osceolas MGI 4:50 pm — Comanche Hunters Mardi Gras Indians

Rev. Jermaine Landrum & the Abundant Prais Revival Choir

5:45pm-6:35pm

Tribute To Mahalia Jackson

Irma Thomas’

4:40pm-5:30pm

Shades of Praise: New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir

3:35pm-4:25pm

The Bester Singers & the Dynamic Smooth Family Gospel Singers of Slidell

2:40pm-3:25pm

Betty Winn & One A-Chord

1:45pm-2:30pm

Golden Voices Community Choir

12:50pm-1:35pm

Wimberly Family Gospel Singers

Noon-12:40pm

The Electrifying Crown Seekers

11:15am-11:50am

NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: Folklife Stage in La. Folklife Village 12:25, 1:40 and 4:50 pm — The Boyz Singers and Dancers

Jamil Sharif

6pm-6:55pm

Original Tuxedo Jazz Band

4:35pm-5:40pm

Butch Thompson’s Homage to Jelly Roll Morton

3:10pm-4:15pm

Tim Laughlin

1:50pm-2:50pm

The Sammy Rimington International Band

12:30pm-1:30pm

Louis Ford & his New Orleans Flairs

Henry Gray & the Cats

Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble

12:30pm-1:20pm

11:20am-12:10pm

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

11:20am-12:05pm

Blues Tent

11:20am-12:10pm

Zatarain’s WWOZ Jazz Tent

— Black Mohawk and Black Foot Hunters Mardi Gras Indians — Young Pinstripe Brass Band with Keep N It Real and We Are One Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs — Geronimo Hunters and Creole Osceolas Mardi Gras Indians — Real Untouchables Brass Band with Zulu and Big Nine Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, & David Marks

featuring

The Beach Boys reunion

5:30pm-7pm

Zebra GIVERS

3:40pm-4:45pm

The Dixie Cups

2:15pm-3:05pm

The New Orleans Classic Review feat. Frankie Ford, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, and Robert “Barefootin” Parker with Blue Eyed Soul Revue

12:35pm-1:50pm

The New Orleans Suspects

12:30pm

11:20am-12:10pm

11:30am

Acura Stage

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

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& the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty

5:10pm-7pm

feat. Tab Benoit, Dr. John, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johnny Vidacovic, Johnny Sansone & Waylon Thibodeaux

Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars

3:15pm-4:25pm

Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen

1:40pm-2:40pm

Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars

12:25pm-1:15pm

11:15am-Noon

11:15am-Noon

Feist

5:40pm-7pm

The New Orleans Bingo! Show

4:05pm-5:05pm

Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys

2:40pm-3:40pm

Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs

Soul Rebels

5:20pm-6:40pm

Cee Lo Green

3:35pm-4:50pm

DJ Soul Sister

3pm-3:15pm

of Senegal

Cheikh Lô

1:40pm-2:50pm

Khris Royal & Dark Matter

Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue

1:30pm-2:20pm

12:20pm-1:10pm

12:20pm-1:10pm

Southern & the Left University Jazzy Tonia Field Band Jags

Congo Square Stage

Gentilly Stage

feat. BJ Crosby, Danon Smith, Yolanda Windsay & Judy Davis

The Gospel According to Jazz

6pm-7pm

Dave Koz

4:20pm-5:40pm

Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

2:40pm-3:50pm

Evan Christopher & Clarinet Road

1:25pm-2:15pm

Peter Martin

12:20pm-1:10pm

Loyola University Jazz Ensemble

11:15am-Noon

Zatarain’s WWOZ Jazz Tent

feat. The Dixie Cups, Robert “Barefootin’” Parker and Tony Owens

Tribute to Wardell Quezergue

5:55pm-7pm

Bobby Rush

4:25pm-5:30pm

Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters

2:55pm-3:55pm

Luther Kent

1:35pm-2:30pm

Jewel Brown & the Heritage Hall Jazz Band

5:50pm-7pm

Thais Clark

featuring

Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band

4:20pm-5:25pm

Kevin Bryan

3pm-4pm

Lars Edegran & the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra

1:40pm-2:40pm

Jeremy Paulin Lyons and members of Brothers Morphine Brass Band

12:30pm-1:20pm

The Courtyard Kings

Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders 12:25pm-1:15pm

11:20am-12:10pm

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

11:20am-12:10pm

Blues Tent

Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas

6pm-7pm

Carolina Chocolate Drops

4:20pm-5:35pm

Pine Leaf Boys

2:50pm-3:50pm

Savoy Music Center of Eunice Saturday Cajun Jam

1:25pm-2:25pm

D.L. Menard & the Lousiana Aces

12:15pm-1:05pm

Cameron Dupuy & the Cajun Troubadours

11:15am-Noon

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

Bamboula 2000

5:50pm-6:50pm

Midnite Disturbers

4:25pm-5:25pm

101 Runners

3pm-4pm

Storyville Stompers Brass Band

1:35pm-2:35pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Creole Wild West

Walter Cook &

12:30pm-1:15pm

Javier Tobar & Elegant Gypsy

11:20am-12:10pm

Jazz & Heritage Stage

City of Love Music and Worship Arts

6:05pm-6:50pm

Israel Houghton and New Breed

4:50pm-5:50pm

Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries Mass Choir

3:35pm-4:25pm

12:10 pm 1:25 pm 2:55 pm 4:10 pm 5:30 pm

Janelle Monáe

5:35pm-6:55pm

Cowboy Mouth

3:55pm-5:05pm

Papa Grows Funk

2:20pm-3:30pm

NOCCA

Erika Flowers

Al Green

5:40pm-7pm

Yolanda Adams

3:40pm-4:55pm

of France

Fixi

of Reunion Island w/special guest

Lindigo

1:55pm-3:05pm

The Batiste Brothers

12:25pm-1:30pm

11:15am-Noon 11:15am-Noon

with Vicente Archer and Jeff “Tain” Watts

Nicholas Payton XXX

5:45pm-7pm

Dianne Reeves

4:05pm-5:25pm

Victor Goines

2:45pm-3:40pm

Ellis Marsalis

1:30pm-2:30pm

Pat Casey & the New Sound

12:15pm-1:05pm

Jazz Ensemble

Zatarain’s WWOZ Jazz Tent Congo Square Stage

Tab Benoit

5:55pm-7pm

Gary Clark Jr.

4:30pm-5:35pm

Sonny Landreth

3:05pm-4:05pm

Ironing Board Sam

1:50pm-2:45pm

Corey Harris and Phil Wiggins

12:30pm-1:30pm

Ernie Vincent & the Top Notes

11:20am-12:10pm

Blues Tent

Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders

5:45pm-7pm

Pete Fountain

4:20pm-5:25pm

Treme Brass Band

2:50pm-3:50pm

Butch Thompson

with guest

Clive Wilson & the New Orleans Serenaders

1:30pm-2:30pm

Lionel Ferbos & the Palm Court Jazz Band

12:20pm-1:10pm

The Pfister Sisters

11:10am-Noon

Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent

— Ninth Ward Hunters and Ninth Ward Navajo Mardi Gras Indians — Mahogany Brass band with Big Steppers, Untouchables, and Furious Five Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs — Black Eagles and Shawee Mardi Gras Indians — Darryl Adams’ Tornado Brass Band with Olympia, New Look, and First Division Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs — Carrollton Hunters and Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians

E Street Band

and the

Bruce Springteen

4:30pm-7pm

& the Lower 911

Dr. John

2:30pm-3:45pm

Tribute to Alex Chilton

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

featuring Dave Pirner, Alex McMurray, Susan Cowsill, René Coman and Doug Garrison

12:45pm-1:55pm

Los Po-Boy-Citos

12:45pm-1:50pm

Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone

11:30am-12:20pm

11:20am-12:20pm

Gentilly Stage

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PARADES :

7:00pm

6:30pm

6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

4:00pm

3:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

2:00pm

1:30pm

1:00pm

12:30pm

12:00pm

11:30am

Acura Stage

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

Kirk Joseph’s Tuba Tuba

5:55pm-6:55pm

Mardi Gras Indians

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles

4:30pm-5:30pm

Ethiopian Groove Collective

Debo Band

3pm-4:10pm

Bill Summers & Jazalsa

1:30pm-2:30pm

Brice Miller & the Mahogany Brass Band

12:15pm-1:05pm

Young Band Nation Blues Project

5:15pm-6pm

Ashé Cultural Arts Center Kuumba Institute

4:10pm-4:55pm

The Jones Sisters

3pm-3:45pm

in Carnival of the Animals

Puppet Arts Theatre

1:50pm-2:35pm

RRAAMMS Drum and Dance

12:40pm-1:25pm

Muggivan School of Irish Dance

11:30am-12:15pm

Kids Tent

presents

Franklin Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir

6:05pm-6:50pm

Evelyn TurrentineAgee

4:50pm-5:50pm

Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir

3:40pm-4:25pm

Leo Jackson & the Melody Clouds

N’Fungola Sibo West African Dance & Drum Company

5:15pm-6pm

Adella Adella the Storyteller

4:10pm-4:55pm

Ayla Miller Band

3pm-3:45pm

Interviewer: DJ Soul Sister

Multiethnic Institute of Arts

Bill Summers

5pm-5:45pm

Interviewer: Rick Coleman

Ironing Board Sam

4pm-4:45pm

Interviewer: Joyce Jackson

Evelyn Turrentine-Agee

2pm-2:45pm

Interviewer: Karen Celestan

Dianne Reeves

1pm-1:45pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

schedule subject to change .

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILLION: 1:30 pm — Carrollton Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 3:15 pm — Black Eagles and Shawee MGI 4:55 pm — Indian Practice

Washboard Rodeo

5:25pm-6:25pm

New Orleans Klezmer Allstars

3:45pm-5pm

Spencer Bohren

Kai Knight’s Silhouette Dance Ensemble 2:45pm-3:30pm

1:50pm-2:35pm

Louisiana Creole Music

Sunpie Barnes

12:40pm-1:25pm

Johnette Downing

11:30am-12:15pm

Kids Tent

Bishop Sean Elder & the Mount Hermon Baptist Church Mass Choir

2:20pm-3:20pm

Panorama Jazz Band

12:55pm-2pm

Hertiage School of Music Band

11:30am-12:30pm

Lagniappe Stage

2 Generations of Cajun Music Interviewer: Kevin Fontentot

4pm-4:45pm

Cameron and Michael Dupuy

Interviewer: Nick Spitzer

Chuck Leavell

3pm-3:45pm

Interviewer: Scott Jordan

Bobby Rush

2pm-2:45pm

Interviewer: Sally Young

Meschiya Lake

1pm-1:45pm

Millisia White’s Babydoll Ladies & DJ Hektik Celebrating 100 Years Interviewer: Maurice Martinez

Noon-12:45pm

Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage

schedule subject to change .

1:50pm-2:35pm

Lois Dejean Gospel Diva and Friends

12:50pm-1:40pm

E’Dana & Company

Noon-12:40pm

New Orleans Spiritualettes

Golden Star Hunters

Mardi Gras Indians

11:15am-11:50am

Gospel Tent 11:15am-noon

Jazz & Heritage Stage

NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: Folklife Stage in the La. Folklife Village 12:20 pm, 1:45 pm, and 3:05 pm — The Boyz Singers and Dancers

& the Louisiana Sunspots’ International Accordian Summit

Sunpie

5:35pm-6:55pm

Iron & Wine

3:35pm-5:05pm

C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band

2:05pm-3:05pm

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys

12:40pm-1:40pm

Hadley J. Castille Family & the Sharecroppers Cajun Band

11:20am-12:20pm

Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage

The High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band

6pm-6:55pm

Kristin Diable & The City

4:40pm-5:40pm

Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns

3:05pm-4:20pm

Andrew Duhon

1:45pm-2:45pm

Marc Stone

12:30pm-1:25pm

Delgado Community College Jazz Ensemble

11:20am-12:10pm

Lagniappe Stage

CUTLURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION: 1:15 pm — Indian Practice 3 pm — Golden Comanche and Seminoles MGI 5:05 pm — Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians

Tonia Scott & the Anointed Voices

2:40pm-3:25pm

Minister Jai Reed

1:45pm-2:30pm

Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir

12:50pm-1:35pm

Josh Kagler & Harmonistic Praise Crusade

12:05pm-12:40pm

The Heavenly Melodies Gospel Singers

11:15am-11:55am

Gospel Tent

PARADES: 12:25 pm — Storyville Stompers Brass Band with Dumaine Gang, Divine Ladies, and Family Ties Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: 12:35 pm — (in Economy Hall Tent) Men of Class Social Aid & Pleasure Club Folklife Stage in the La. Folklife Village 1:30 pm — Red, White, and Blue and Wild Mohicans Mardi Gras Indians noon, 1:05 pm and 2:30 pm — The Boyz Singers and Dancers 2:40 pm — Golden Comanche and Seminoles Mardi Gras Indians 4:10 pm — New Wave Brass Band with Nine Times Men, Single Men, and Single Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

7:00pm

6:30pm

6:00pm

5:30pm

5:00pm

4:30pm

4:00pm

3:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

2:00pm

1:30pm

1:00pm

12:30pm

12:00pm

Empress Hotel

11:20am-12:05pm

Acura Stage

SATURDAY, APRIL 28

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WEEK ONE

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Information Tickets: • Single-day tickets cost $50 in advance, $65 at the gate.

• Child’s ticket $5 (available at the gate only; ages 2-10; adult must be present with child).

• Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, and by calling (800) 745-3000. Tickets can be purchased in person at the New Orleans Arena Box Office (1501 Girod St.). All Jazz Fest tickets are subject to additional service fees and handling charges.

• VIP ticket information is available at www.nojazzfest.com.

• Re-entry to the Fair Grounds is allowed only with WWOZ Brass Pass, Foundation Gala Pass or Big Chief VIP Pass.

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• There are taxi stands at Stallings Playground (1600 block of Gentilly Boulevard) and Fortier Park (3200 block of Esplanade Avenue).

• Gray Line operates continuous roundtrip transportation to the festival from the Sheraton Hotel (500 Canal St.), Steamboat Natchez dock (Toulouse Street at the Mississippi River) and City Park (Marconi Meadows) from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for $18 from downtown, $14 from City Park. A one-way ticket from the festival to downtown is $10. For more information call 569-1401 or (800) 233-2628 or visit www.graylineneworleans.com.

Jazz Fest Prohibits: • Large or hard coolers and thermoses • Wagons and carts • Pets • Glass • Personal tents • Metal poles • Shade canopies or beach- or pole-style umbrellas • Athletic games • Large chairs with rockers, foot rests, side tables, etc.

• Bicycles or other wheeled personal transport devices (e.g. skateboards)

Congo Square Poster The 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Congo Square poster features trumpeter Shamarr Allen, who played in several New Orleans brass bands before forming Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs. The image is by Carl M. Crawford, a painter from Columbia, S.C., who has sold his work at the Congo Square Marketplace at previous festivals. It is printed by Art4Now.

• Video and audio recording equipment • Unauthorized vending • Weapons, illegal drugs and other contraband • Outside beverages except factorysealed water (up to 1 liter) • Inserting stakes, poles or any other objects into the ground, or use of ropes, cords, tape, etc. to reserve space • Setting up chairs and ground tarps in dense audience areas

On the Grounds: • Jazz Fest is cash only. ATMs are available on the grounds.

• Jazz Fest is handicapped accessible. Call 410-6104 for information.

• There are two medical tents on festival grounds. One is near the edge of the track between the Gentilly and Fais Do-Do stages.

The other is on the edge of the track near the Acura display tent.

Jazz Fest Permits: • Small bags and backpacks (17-by-12-by-10 inches) and 12-pack soft coolers • Single, collapsible chairs • Wheelchairs and medical scooters • Push-strollers for children • Blankets not exceeding 6-by-8 feet • Factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter)

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

April 27-29, May 3-6 Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. www.nojazzfest.com

JAZZ FEST 2012

WEEK ONE

Cooking Demonstrations

Locations: Food Heritage Stage (Grandstands, first floor) Cajun Cabin (tent outside Grandstands) PHOTO By GARy LOVERDE

Friday, April 27

Dark chocolate pecan roca Cheryl Scripter, Bittersweet Confections 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Food Heritage Stage Louisiana seafood boil Dudley Passman, Zatarain’s noon-1:15 p.m., Cajun Cabin Pecan pesto gnocchi and crawfish Michael Gottlieb, Red Fish Grill 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage Classic Creole salads: remoulade and ravigote, Juan Johnson, Papa Ninety Catering 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage Louisiana tuna-stuffed Creole tomato and deviled eggs Tenney Flynn, GW Fins 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m., Cajun Cabin Breaux Bridge crawfish pot pie, Chris Montero, Cafe B, Cafe NOMA 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage

Saturday, April 28

Louisiana strawberry delights Lucy Mike, Louisiana Strawberry Ambassador 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Food Heritage Stage Chicken and andouille Bryan Gowland, Abita Springs noon-1:15 p.m., Cajun Cabin Bitte ballen: Dutch beef croquettes Susan Spicer, Bayona & Mondo 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage Catfish and grits, Frank Brigtsen Brigtsen’s Restaurant & NOCCA Culinary Arts 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage

Cultural Exchange Pavilion Mardi Gras Indian Culture

While Mardi Gras Indians are featured in parades and on stages throughout the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, there is a special emphasis on Mardi Gras Indian culture this year. The Cultural Exchange Pavilion, located at the back of the Congo Square Stage field, will feature Indians demonstrating various techniques used in sewing suits and each day there will be an “Indian practice” singing session. Individual chiefs will discuss their designs, and more than 30 tribes will visit the pavilion during the festival. Panel discussions about Mardi Gras Indian culture will be held between noon and 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, April 27-29, at the Cultural Crossroads tent in the Louisiana Folklife Village.

Shrimp and corn stew, Richard Heyd, St. Bernard Fire Department 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Cajun Cabin

Balinese beignets with local seafood, slaw and pecan sauce, Anne Churchill, Karma Kitchen 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage

Sunday, April 29

Barbecue pit shrimp with cornbread and andouille pancake, Ben Thibodeaux, Palace Cafe 1:30p.m.-2:45 p.m., Cajun Cabin

Louisiana jumbo lump crabcakes Michelle McRaney, Mr. B’s Bistro 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Food Heritage Stage

Frog leg grillades with bacon cheddar grits, Greg Piccolo, Redemption 1:30p.m.-2:45 p.m., Cajun Cabin

Grilled redfish with marinated crawfish salad Steve Marsella, Heritage Grill noon-1:15 p.m., Cajun Cabin

Crawfish etouffee, Jerry Amato, Mother’s 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage

Crawfish bisque, Donald Link, Herbsaint, Cochon 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage

Stewed chicken with mustard greens and spoon bread, Herry Wolgamott, High Hat Cafe 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m., Food Heritage Stage Gumbo z’herbes with shrimp and grilled rice cakes Matthew Kopfler and Tess Monaghan PPX Dinner Club 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Cajun Cabin

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Wild duck gumbo, Lee Richardson, Ashley’s at Capitol Hotel 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Cajun Cabin

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THE OFFICIAL BEER April 27–May 6, 2012

©2012 MILLER BREWING CO., MILWAUKEE, WI © 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

WHAT’S

in store

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waxing, massage and yoga classes.

Hair products include Paul Mitchell and Pureology; nails are painted with OPI, Essie and Spa Rituals products, and Cuccio and Obagi are the featured skin care lines. A boutique area near the front desk displays products from these lines, as well as candles, nightgowns and other gifts. “We wanted the boutique area to have a European-type feel,” Callia says of the ceramic-tiled My Spa By The space. “There’s Park is a calm one tile in the oasis adjacent entrance way to bustling Harthat has a fleur rison Avenue. de lis. Just a little PHOTO BY touch, but it’s CHERYL GERBER amazing how many people notice that one tile.”

The spa initially was marketed toward individuals in the Lakeview area, but it pulls customers from as far away as Luling and Covington. “The folks of the region have been very supportive of us,” Callia says. “I heard one of our guests tell us they love our place because they aren’t just a number, they’re a person. Another guest said, ‘It’s like the Cheers bar. Everyone knows your name, and people genuinely care about each other.’”

Mother’s Day packages are available, as is a special that offers a mini-facial and massage for $60.

“We want you to come and relax,” Callia says. “You can go with your mom and have your massage or facial. ...

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y Spa By The Park (6312 Argonne Blvd., 482-2219; www.myspabythepark.com) is a neat, two-story structure blocks from City Park and the Orleans Avenue canal.

Its stucco storefront is emblazoned with the company’s motto: “relax, renew, reconnect.” Situated near the end of a bustling, landscaped avenue lined with new drugstores, restaurants and banks, the spa seems a logical endpoint, its slogan an invitation to rest from the responsibilities of everyday life. However, when owner Katie Callia opened her business in August 2007, the contrast between the spa and the surrounding area was marked, and the slogan held a different implication: It was an impetus for a neighborhood on the brink of recovery.

“When I first opened, (Lakeview) was very desolate. There were very few places here,” Callia says. “Now, the neighborhood is really growing, and our biggest challenge is parking. It’s amazing. You go down that street, and sometimes it’s hard to remember that there was a Katrina.”

Formerly a vice president of marketing and account management living in Los Angeles, Callia returned to New Orleans to help her family deal with the hurricane’s aftermath. She decided to stay for the long haul, and with the help of her sister Susan, she opened My Spa

By The Park. “(Susan) was a spa director at the Ritz-Carlton,” Callia says. “She’d go around the world opening up spas and training local people. I asked if she’d help me, and she said yes.”

The 4,800-square-foot facility now boasts 15 employees, a full-service hair salon and nail spa, and it offers facials,

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Toups’ Meatery (845 N. Carrollton Ave., 252-4999; www.toupsmeatery. com) has opened in Mid-City, serving platters of house-made meats and butcher shop specialties beside dishes like lamb neck with mint chow chow and black-eyed pea salad.

It’s the first restaurant from Amanda and Isaac Toups, who thoroughly renovated the former Mediterranean Cafe, a long-time neighborhood restaurant.

Amanda Toups says their approach is to “take rustic ingredients and finish them beautifully,” combining her husband’s Cajun country roots with his extensive finedining experience.

Originally from the small town of Rayne, La., Isaac Toups has worked at Emeril’s and Emeril’s Delmonico. He was later chef at the now-closed Cuvee and had a short stint as the first chef at Ste. Marie.

The Toups’ Meatery menu is arranged as small plates ($7-$18) and large plates ($10-$23) and is designed to encourage sharing around the table.

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or the music-obsessed, keeping up with who is playing when and where at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival can be a high-stakes proposition. I know some particularly organized fans who produce spreadsheets to chart out their days of shuttling between stages.

For the food fanatic, things at Jazz Fest are a little different but no less intense. These are the people who, when asked what they enjoyed at the fest on a particular day, will go on about crawfish Monica, catfish amandine, alligator pie and mango freeze before getting around to a performer like Tom Petty or Cee Lo Green.

For this type of festivalgoer — and let’s just admit there are a lot of us out there — it pays to get organized too. Clock management is just as important for us as it is for the music-obsessed — you don’t want to face a “sold out” sign because you waited too long to get the cochon de lait po-boy (Food Area I) from Love at First Bite (aka Walker’s Southern Style BBQ). We also have to contend with the constraints of the all-too-finite human appetite.

But unlike those scouring cube schedules, we know the lineup we’re after tends to stay much the same from year to year. One of my headliners is always Sharon and Guilherme Wegner’s fried alligator with fried jalapeno and onion rings (Food Area I), a choice that’s as predictable and traditional for me as closing out the fest with the Neville Brothers’ set would be for others. I know going into the festival grounds that the deep, dark pheasant, quail and andouille gumbo (Food Area II) from Prejean’s of Lafayette will be a curtain raiser. And there is no surprise when the crabmeat-topped trout Baquet gets together on my plate

as a combo with crawfish bisque from Lil’ Dizzy’s Restaurant (Heritage Square). That’s not some spontaneous duo, but rather a pairing I know will come along at every fest.

The foodies’ set list this year has a few new numbers, and one blast from the recent past. Papa Ninety Catering (Food Area I), the same vendor who does the uniquely refreshing crawfish remoulade, is also serving a shrimp and crab ravigote, a cool, creamy, classically Creole seafood salad. Taqueria Corona (Food Area II ) is adding to the lineup what is arguably the most popular item on its restaurant menu: fish tacos, fried in a puffy batter. And after a hiatus occasioned by the BP oil disaster, the oyster bar (Grandstand) is staging a comeback this year. A half-dozen salty, cold, raw oysters, a draft from the Fair Grounds-run beer carts around the Grandstand, plus the shade of the paddock patios have long made the adjacent Lagniappe Stage a cool oasis. That return deserves an ovation.

Given the endemic late hours we keep this time of year, some people inevitably arrive at Jazz Fest hungry for something more like breakfast than lunch. In this case, I recommend seeking out the sweet potato turnovers, with crusts as moist and rich as brownies from Marie’s Sugar Dumplings (Congo Square). Add some cafe au lait from the nearby Cafe du Monde (Food Area II) and the day can properly begin.

It’ll be a full day, too. As the music-obsessed race between performances, we tireless Jazz Fest food fanatics must juggle bowls and plates, keep our hands clean and always save a little room in the tank for the possibility of an irresistible entree encore.

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interview cornbread dressing, and fried oysters with bacon and slaw. Large plates include a slider trio (with crab cake, rabbit pate and lamb belly), chicken thighs with gizzard gravy and smoked duck with satsuma and duck jus.

The menu also includes an a la carte section of country specialties from boudin to rabbit pate to deviled eggs. Desserts feature mini-doberge cakes from local baker Debbie Does Doberge. There’s a full bar, and outdoor seating is available.

Toups’ Meatery serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday, and reservations are accepted. The restaurant will serve dinner on the two Sundays during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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ichelle Nugent is in charge of a year-round operation that transforms the infield of a horse track into a sprawling outdoor food court full of Louisiana dishes, with some 66 vendors serving hundreds of thousands of visitors over the course of seven festival days. Raised in New Orleans, Nugent got started in the food business in the late 1980s with an apprenticeship under chef Susan Spicer at the Bistro at the Maison de Ville. She became Spicer’s first sous chef at Bayona and later was executive chef at Spice Inc., the specialty food market Spicer ran in the Warehouse District. Nugent joined Jazz Fest staff as food director in 1999.

Food has become a big part of the Jazz Fest experience. What’s your approach to planning all this?

Nugent: Because this is the Jazz & Heritage Festival we want to feature foods that represent the heritage of Louisiana. The menu is absolutely curated. We want variety. We have two jambalayas because one is red and one is brown. We have three gumbos because there are so many different gumbos out there. If (a vendor) resigns, we think very hard about what to replace it with. Not only do we look at the deliciousness of the food, but (a prospective vendor’s) ability to do it at this scale.

What goes into quality control that might not be obvious to the average festival visitor?

N: The major thing is that we have the (state) board of health on site and no other festival does that. It’s not a requirement but we do it, because on top of being delicious we want to be sure all of our food is safe. It allows us to sleep at night.

You must be running around a lot when the festival is on, but do you get to enjoy the food out there too?

N: I do my best to sample all the food every year, but with 210 items now, that’s really not possible. My staff helps a lot, and everyone here is eating and checking on things and will report what they find. I do have a few favorites that I know I have to have every year, but I’m not saying which ones.— IAN MCNULTY

Pho-Noi-Viet is a family-run restaurant from Kim and Vinh Vu. In 2010, Vu helped open Pho King, a Vietnamese restaurant inside the Lost Love Lounge and run by Ariana Ybarra. It later was taken over by the Lost Love Lounge owners, who now run it and simply call it “the Vietnamese Kitchen at the Lost Love Lounge.” Vinh Vu explains that the plan for Pho Noi Viet came about after he and his wife saw how popular Vietnamese food had become around New Orleans. They serve a traditional Vietnamese noodle-shop menu, with pho and other soups, spring rolls, banh mi and rice noodle salads.

The new eatery is the fourth Vietnamese restaurant to open Uptown in recent months, following Le Viet Cafe (2135 St. Charles Ave., 304-1339), Magasin Cafe (4201 Magazine St., 896-7611; www.magasincafe.com) and Lilly’s Cafe (1813 Magazine St., 599-9999).

Pho-Noi-Viet is BYOB if you want to drink anything stronger than the potent French-drip coffee. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner every day except Monday.

Fast foodies

An eclectic little cafe called Foodies (634 Julia St., 586-0534) opened recently

in the Warehouse District, and it’s targeting people after healthier options than your standard po-boys and plate lunches.

Tucked into the landmark Julia Row of townhouses, Foodies specializes in build-your-own salads and burritos, smoothies, sandwiches and a mix of other light items, from black bean hummus to vegetarian pho.

“The idea started as a coffee shop with smoothies and wraps and that sort of thing, and we just added things I’d want to see on a healthy menu,” says John Michael Wade, a partner in the restaurant.

There’s no connection between this Foodies and Foodies Kitchen, the deli and specialty food market once operated in Metairie by the Commander’s Palace branch of the Brennan family.

“People have been asking about that left and right as soon as our sign went up,” Wade says. A native of Biloxi, Miss., who moved here in 2011, he says he wasn’t familiar with this earlier Foodies venture.

Look for panini and wraps like Thai chicken salad, breakfast burritos and a kale/citrus/mango smoothie called the Green Me Up Scotty. Foodies serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

8312 oak st., 826-9119 www.chiba-nola.com Sliced strawberries top a sushi roll with scallop, yellowtail, mango and satsuma ponzu.

Elizabeth’s Restaurant 601 gallier st., 944-9272 www.elizabeths-restaurant.com Cream cheese and strawberries are stuffed into French toast.

La Divina Gelateria 3005 Magazine st., 342-2634; 621 st. Peter st., 302-2692; loyola University, carrollton residence hall, 258-2115 www.ladivinagelateria.com Balsamic vinegar and strawberries make a unique sorbet.

Lola’s Restaurant 3312 esplanade ave., 488-6946 www.lolasneworleans.com Strawberry gazpacho is cool, thick and tart.

Sucre 3025 Magazine st., 520-8311; lakeside shopping center, 3301 veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 834-2277 www.shopsucre.com A chocolate-dipped strawberry tops a mini cake with layers of the fruit.

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The Blancher family has built something of an entertainment compound along South Carrollton Avenue between owning Rock ’N’ Bowl (3000 S. Carrollton Ave., 861-1700; www.rocknbowl.com) music venue/bowling alley and Ye Olde College Inn (3000 S. Carrollton Ave., 866-3683; www.collegeinn1933.com) restaurant. The latest addition is a walk-up burger stand attached to Rock ’N’ Bowl called the Straight Stick Ranch Burger Co. (3016 S. Carrollton Ave., 861-1700).

“It’s really simple. We’re doing burgers, beer and beignets,” says Johnny Blancher, who runs the new business.

“This is stuff I always thought Rock ’N’ Bowl should be doing.”

You find the Straight Stick Ranch Burger Co. adjacent to the main entrance of Rock ’N’ Bowl, where there are now a few long picnic tables for outdoor meals.

The menu centers on a burger made from grass-fed beef. That beef — and the stand’s name — comes from a ranch that Blancher’s family has run for more than a century in Louisiana cattle country south of Abbeville.

The standard burger from Straight Stick is a char-grilled 6-ounce patty served on a bun supplied by nearby Maple Street Patisserie. The “naked” burger replaces the bun with red lettuce. Other items include meat pies, thick-cut fries with queso-style cheese sauce, and beignets.

The stand serves beer and wine and brews Mello Joy coffee, a Lafayette-based brand with a long history in Acadiana.

“We’re doing the Louisiana thing but just trying to make it a little different from what other people are doing,” Blancher says.

The burger joint follows the operating hours of Rock ‘N’ Bowl, serving from 4 p.m.-until most nights. After Jazz Fest, Blancher says, hours will expand to include lunch. The menu for Straight Stick Ranch Burger Co. also is served inside Rock ’N’ Bowl, joining the venue’s regular bar food menu.

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aMeRICaN CaFe Beignet — 311 Bourbon St., 525-2611; 334B Royal St., 524-5530; www.cafebeignet.com — the western omelet combines ham, bell peppers, red onion and white cheddar, and is served with grits and french bread. the cajun hash browns are made with andouille sausage, potatoes, bell peppers and red onions and served with a scrambled egg and french bread. no reservations. bourbon street: breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. royal street: breakfast and lunch daily. credit cards. $

sometHin’ else CaFe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — combining cajun flavors and comfort food, somthin’ else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. there are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. no reservations. breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night thu.-sat. credit cards. $$ teD’s FRostop — 3100 Calhoun St., 861-3615 — the lotto burger is a 6-oz. patty served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and frostop’s secret sauce and cheese is optional. there are waffle fries and house-made root beer. no reservations. breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. credit cards. $

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tHe RiVeRsHaCK taVeRn — 3449 River Road, 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — this bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. no reservations. lunch and dinner daily. credit cards. $ sHamRoCK BaR & gRill — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 3010938 — shamrock serves burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, reuben sandwiches, cheese sticks and fries with cheese or gravy. other options include corned beef and cabbage, and fish and chips. no reservations.

Dinner and late night daily. credit cards. $ ZaDDie’s taVeRn — 1200 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson, 832-0830 — Zaddie’s serves burgers, alligator sausage, boudin, tamales and meat or crawfish pies. thursday’s steak night special features a filet mignon, butter-garlic potatoes, salad, grilled french bread and a soft drink for $15. no reservations. lunch, dinner and late-night daily. credit cards. $

BaRBeCUe Boo Koo BBQ — 3701 Banks St., 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — the boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. the cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. no reservations. lunch and dinner mon.-sat., late-night fri.sat. cash only. $ saUCY’s BBQ gRill — 3244 Severn Ave., Metairie, 322-2544; www.saucysbbqgrill.com — saucy’s serves slow-smoked st. louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled or jerk chicken. side items include smoked beans, mac and cheese, coleslaw and caribbean rice. no reservations. lunch and dinner mon.-sat. credit cards. $

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o’HenRY’s FooD & spiRits — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., 8669741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, 461-9840; www. ohenrys.com — complimentary peanuts are the calling card of these casual, family friendly restaurants. the menu includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. no reservations. lunch and dinner daily. credit cards. $$

DmaC’s BaR & gRill — 542 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy., 3045757; www.dmacsbarandgrill. com — stop in for daily lunch specials or regular items such as gumbo, seafood-stuffed po-boys or pulled-pork sliders topped with barbecue sauce. bar noshing items include seafood beignets with white remoulade. no reservations. lunch and dinner daily. credit cards. $$

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out to eat ON — 3009 Magazine St., 891-8280; www.jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

COFFee/DeSSeRt ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St., 581-4422; www. antoines.com — the Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. the Caprese panino combines mozzarella, pesto, Creole tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. the honey and ham panino is dressed with feta and watercress. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PINKBERRY — 300 Canal St.; 5601 Magazine St., 899-4260; www.pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. there also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

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OAK — 8118 Oak St., 3021485; www.oaknola.com — this wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. the hanger steak bruschetta is topped with Point Reyes blue cheese and smoked red onion marmalade. No reservations. Dinner and late-night tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl. com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St. Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines.com — the city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters

Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ MELANGE — 2106 Chartres St., 309-7335; www.melangenola.com — Dine on French-Creole cuisine in a restaurant and bar themed to resemble a lush 1920s speakeasy. Lapin au vin is a farm raised rabbit cooked served with demi-glace, ovenroasted shallots, tomatoes, potatoes and pancetta. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747 — this casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. the menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., 309-3570; www. redemption-nola.com — Chef Greg Piccolo’s menu includes dishes such as the crispy avocado cup filled with Louisiana crawfish remoulade. Roasted duck breast is served with red onion and yam hash, andouille, sauteed spinach and grilled Kadota fig jus. Reservations recommended. Lunch tue.-Fri., dinner tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

7350; www.martinwine.com — the wine emporium offers gourmet sandwiches and deli items. the Reuben combines corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread. the Sena salad features chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, toasted pecans and pepper jelly vinaigrette over field greens. No reservations.

Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

FReNCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., 895-0900; www. flamingtorchnola.com — Chef Nathan Gile’s menu includes pan-seared Maine diver scallops with chimichurri sauce and smoked bacon and corn hash.

Coffee- and coriander-spiced rack of lamb is oven roasted and served with buerre rouge and chevre mashed potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — this French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Toulouse Street Wharf, 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — the Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Bread pudding is topped with candied pecans and bourbon sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-6666; www. schiroscafe.com — the cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New orleans cuisine.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — 437 Esplanade Ave., 2524800; www.mojitosnola.com — Mojitos serves a mix of Caribbean, Cuban and Creole dishes.

Aruba scallops are seared and served with white chocolate chipotle sauce with jalapeno grits and seasonal vegetables. Warm walnut goat cheese is served with yuca chips. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

DeLI KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, 888-2010; www.koshercajun. com — this New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-thu., dinner Mon.-thu.

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NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308 Magazine St., 8949797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes.

Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner tue.Sun. Credit cards. $$ TAJ MAHAL INDIAN CUISINE — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, 836-6859 — the traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

out to eat ItaLIaN ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce.

Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., 529-2154; www. cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge.

Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ ITALIAN PIE — 3706 Prytania St., 266-2523; www.italianpie. com — In addition to regular Italian pie pizzas, pastas, salads and sandwiches, this location offers a selection of entrees.

Seared tuna comes over a spinach salad with thai peanut dressing. Baked tilapia is topped with crabmeat and creamy bordelaise and served over angel hair pasta with glazed baby carrots. No reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

RED GRAVY — 125 Camp St., 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — the cafe serves breakfast items including pancakes, waffles and pastries. At lunch, try meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. open Sundays before New orleans Saints home games. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni.

Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch tue.-Fri., dinner tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

JaPaNeSe KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a

MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. the South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave., 410-9997; www.japanesebistro. com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ORIGAMI — 5130 Freret St., 899-6532 — Nabeyaki udon is a soup brimming with thick noodles, chicken and vegetables. the long list of special rolls includes the Big Easy, which combines tuna, salmon, white fish, snow crab, asparagus and crunchy bits in soy paper with eel sauce on top. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ROCK-N-SAKE — 823 Fulton St., 581-7253; www.rocknsake. com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. there’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ WASABI SUSHI — 900 Frenchmen St., 943-9433; 8550 Pontchartrain Blvd., 2673263; www.wasabinola.com — Wasabi serves a wide array of Japanese dishes. Wasabi honey shrimp are served with cream sauce. the Assassin roll bundles tuna, snow crab and avocado in seaweed and tops it with barbecued eel, tuna, eel sauce and wasabi tobiko. No reservations. Frenchmen Street: Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily.

Pontchartrain Boulevard: lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LOUISIaNa CONteMPORaRY BOUCHE — 840 Tchoupitoulas St., 267-7485; www. bouchenola.com — this wine bar and restaurant serves creative dishes like tasso truffle mac and cheese with three cheeses and Mornay sauce, baby spinach salad with Maytag blue cheese and bacon lardons, and crispy duck breast with Grand Marnier sweet potatoes and vanillabalsamic extract. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ K-PAUL’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN — 416 Chartres St., 596-2530; www.chefpaul.com — At chef Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant, signature dishes

include blackened Louisiana drum, Cajun jambalaya and the blackened stuffed pork chop.

Lunch service is deli style and changing options include po-boys and dishes like tropial fruit salad with bronzed shrimp.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MANNING’S — 519 Fulton St., 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. the fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted.

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RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph, turtle soup and the Niman Ranch New York strip. there also are brunch specials.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ TOMAS BISTRO — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., 527-0942 — tomas serves dishes like semiboneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewood-smoked bacon dirty popcorn rice, Swiss chard and Madeira sauce. the duck cassoulet combines duck confit and Creole Country andouille in a white bean casserole. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., 525-4790 — tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ lUnch & dinner 7 days a week

MeDIteRRaNeaN/ MIDDLe eaSteRN ATTIKI BAR & GRILL — 230 Decatur St., 587-3756; www.attikineworleans.com — Attiki features a range of Mediterranean cuisine including entrees of beef kebabs and chicken shawarma.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch, dinner and latenight daily.

Credit cards. $$ BABYLON CAFE — 7724 Maple St., 314-0010; www. babyloncafe.biz —the Babylon platter includes stuffed grape leaves, hummus, kibbeh, rice and one choice of meat: lamb, chicken or beef kebabs, chicken or beef shawarma, gyro or kufta.

Chicken shawarma salad is a salad topped with olives, feta and chicken breast cooked on a rotisserie. Reservations accepted for large parties.

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MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — this family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946.

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JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Magazine St., 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., 486-9950; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Mardi Gras Indian tacos are stuffed with roasted corn, pinto beans, grilled summer squash, Jack cheese and spicy slaw. Red chile chicken and goat cheese quesadilla features grilled Creole chicken breast, salsa fresca, chile-lime adobo sauce, and Jack, cheddar and goat cheeses pressed in a flour tortilla. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS’ BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., 523-8995; www. lucysretiredsurders.com — this surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 948-0077 — this casual cafe serves creative takes on Southwestern cuisine. Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguese-style fish cakes made with dried, salted codfish, mashed potatoes, cilantro, lemon juice, green onions and egg and served with smoked paprika aioli. outdoor seating is available.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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ice cream daquiris. the New orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers. No reservations.

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COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St., 522-1138 — Country Flame serves a mix of popular Mexican and Cuban dishes. Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickory-smoked pork and char-broiled steaks or pork chops. Reservations accepted.

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Chef Paul Miller prepares contemporary Louisiana cuisine at K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen (416 Chartres St., 596-2530; www.chefpaul.com).

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NeIGHBORHOOD ARTZ BAGELZ — 3138 Magzine St., 309-7557; www.artzbagelz.com — Artz bakes its bagels in house and options include onion, garlic, honey whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin, salt and others. Get one with a schmear or as a sandwich. Salads also are available. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ BRAXTON’S RESTAURANT — 636 Franklin St., Gretna, 301-3166; www. braxtonsnola.com — Braxton’s serves a mix of salads, po-boys, deli sandwiches and entrees. Start a meal with oysters Louise, featuring fried oysters on a bed of spinach and cheese. the seafood platter includes fried shrimp, oysters, catfish strips, french fries, potato salad and vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. the Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. there also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, Dinner tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ OLIVE BRANCH CAFE — 1995 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 348-2008; 3700 Orleans Ave., 302-1220; 5145 Gen. de Gaulle Drive, 393-1107; www.olivebranchcafe. com — these cafes serve soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and entrees. Chicken and artichoke pasta is tossed with penne in garlic and olive oil. Shrimp Carnival features smoked sausage, shrimp, onion and peppers in roasted garlic cream sauce over pasta. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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NEW YORK PIZZA — 4418 Magazine St., 891-2376; www.newyorkpizzanola. com — Choose from pizza by the slice or whole pie, calzones, pasta, sandwiches, salads and more. the Big Apple pie is loaded with pepperoni, Canadian bacon, onions, mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, Italian sausage and minced garlic and anchovies and jalapenos are optional.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Gourmet pies are topped with ingredients like pancetta, roasted eggplant, portobello mushrooms and prosciutto. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — there is a wide variety of specialty pies or build your own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. Also serving salads and sandwiches. No reservations.

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out to eat restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SaNDWICHeS & PO-BOYS DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., 571-7561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. original topping choices include everything from sprouts to black bean and corn salsa to peanut butter. For dessert, try a chocolate chip cookie served with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. there are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., 8993374; www.mahonyspoboys. com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original poboys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. there are daily lunch specials as well. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

SLICE — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria. com — Slice is known for pizza on thin crusts made from 100 percent wheat flour. other options include the barbecue shrimp po-boy made with Abita Amber and the shrimp Portofino, a pasta dish with white garlic cream sauce, shrimp and broccoli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE STORE — 814 Gravier St., 322-2446; www.thestoreneworleans.com — the Store serves sandwiches, salads and hot plates, and there is a taco bar where patrons can choose their own toppings. Red beans and rice comes with grilled andouille and a corn bread muffin. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

SeaFOOD GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes.

Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s popular softshell crab po-boy is the same

GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention Center Blvd., 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant.com — the Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and carmelized onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and garlic. the baked Gulf fish is topped with compound chili butter and served with local seasonal vegetables and herbroasted potatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo.

Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ VILLAGE INN — 9201 Jefferson Hwy., 737-4610 — Check into Village Inn for seasonal boiled seafood or raw oysters. other options include fried seafood platters, po-boys, pasta and pizza. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

SOUL FOOD BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd., 241-2548; www. bigmommaschickenandwaffles. com — Big Momma’s serves hearty combinations like the sixpiece which includes a waffle and six fried wings served crispy or dipped in sauce. Breakfast is served all day. All items are cooked to order. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

SteaKHOUSe CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — 322 Magazine St., 522-7902; www.centraarchy. com — this traditional steakhouse serves uSDA prime beef, and a selection of super-sized cuts includes a 40-oz. Porterhouse for two. the menu also features seafood options and a la carte side items. Reservations recommended. Diner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ CRESCENT CITY STEAKS — 1001 N. Broad St., 821-3271; www.crescentcitysteaks. com — order uSDA prime beef dry-aged and hand-cut in house. there are porterhouse steaks large enough for two or three diners to share. Bread pudding with raisins and peaches is topped with brandy sauce.

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Dinner and late-night tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ SANTA FE TAPAS — 1327 St. Charles Ave., 304-9915 — the menu includes both tapas dishes and entrees. Seared jumbo scallops are served with mango and green tomato pico de gallo. Gambas al ajillo are jumbo shrimp with garlic, shallots, chilis and cognac. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ VEGA TAPAS CAFE — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, 8362007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Paella de la Vega combines shrimp, mussels, chorizo, calamari, scallops, chicken and vegetables in saffron rice.

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Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFE MINH — 4139 Canal St., 482-6266; www.cafeminh. com — the watermelon crabmeat martini is made with diced watermelon, Louisiana jumbo lump crabmeat, avocado, jalapenos and cilantro and served with crispy shrimp chips. Beef short ribs are braised with lemon grass and five spices and served with garlic mashed potatoes and Asian slaw. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ DOSON NOODLE HOUSE —135 N. Carrollton Ave., 3097283 — traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlight the menu. the vegetarian hot pot comes with mixed vegetables, tofu and vermicelli rice noodles.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ LE VIET CAFE — 2135 St. Charles Ave., 304-1339 — the cafe offers pho, banh mi, spring rolls and rice and noodle dishes.

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PARRAN’S PO-BOYS — 3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-3416; www. parranspoboy.com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and Creole-Italian entrees. the veal supreme po-boy features a cutlet topped with Swiss cheese and brown gravy. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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includes the Rebirth Brass Band with Big Sam Williams, Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, Jeremy Davenport, the Baby Boyz Brass Band, Yojimbo and others.

Sweet Home New Orleans is sponsoring Corrigan’s visit, which includes one day with the Roots of Music band, one day open to community school students and then he moves on to the Instruments event.

The timing of the benefits does help call attention to the city’s music culture, education and the plight of local musicians, but there’s another timely benefit to the horn doctor’s visit, says Sweet Home director Sue Mobley.

“We want those horns to sound their best when the musicians are out there on stage or on parade this week.”

But both foundations also support musicians when they are not on stage. Sweet Home works with musicians on legal and business issues, helping them secure copyright to original work, recover unpaid royalties and talk with lawyers about dealing with contracts. Both the organizations have evolved over time. Tipitina’s grew from benefit concerts to its current array of foundation activities. It has a co-op office (4040 Tulane Ave., 891-0580) that provides assistance and training on business, marketing and recording issues, and there are similar co-op offices in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport.

Sweet Home was founded in response to the levee failures, and its original mission was to bring musicians back to the city by helping them find housing and through gig support.

“Sweet Home is no longer recovery,” Mobley says. “It’s time to build infrastructure so people who want to play music can build their lives around that.”

The organization is supported by donations and grants from institutions like the Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, Greater New Orleans Foundation and others. It recently benefited from the third annual My Darlin’ New Orleans event, organized by the producers of HBO’s Treme, which has raised approximately $100,000 in each of the last two years, says Robin Borne, who coordinates the event.

The transition from recovery to self-sufficiency also is on display at the horn clinic. While Corrigan has made several trips to the city in recent years, he also has spent the last two years training an apprentice: The Rebirth Brass Band’s Stafford Agee has been learning to repair horns.

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ike Corrigan is a one-man pit crew for brass bands. He repairs and maintains horn instruments, and he’s in town in conjunction with two musical benefits this weekend: Tipitina’s Foundation’s Instruments A Comin’ and Sweet Home New Orleans, which holds a fundraising concert Sunday night.

“When we roll into town, we’re happy to not only get instruments playing again that were not playable, and help improve how horns play, but we’re happy to pretty up what most musicians refer to as their ‘baby,’” says Corrigan, who runs a horn repair shop near Kansas City, Kan. “It’s very rewarding for me and anyone who has accompanied me over the years.”

Corrigan’s visit is one of many services provided to local musicians by support organizations like the Tipitina’s Foundation and Sweet Home New Orleans, which was founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. The programs they offer and/or support include everything from providing instruments to students in area schools to business and legal training and medical assistance. The support for musicians helps explain why so many sign on to perform at the benefits.

Tipitina’s Instruments A Comin’ is much more than a concert.

There’s a large and diverse roster of local favorites playing in the club.

But there’s also a big pre-concert — dubbed a “battle of the bands,” though no winner is announced — which features five schools that have received instrument donations from the foundation. St. Augustine High School Marching 100 and O. Perry Walker High School are the heavyweights at the top of the card, and also performing are Pierre A. Capdau Charter School, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office’s Band of Excellence and Miller-McCoy Academy.

Instruments A Comin’ evolved out of what used to be the WWOZ Piano Night, held on the Monday between New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival weekends, and Injuns A Comin’, which helped Mardi Gras Indians buy supplies to build suits. In its 11 years, Instruments has donated $2.5 million worth of new and refurbished instruments to more than 4,000 students in 75 area schools, says Tipitina’s Foundation director Kim Katner. They support both high schools and elementary schools so young students can benefit from music education.

During Instruments A Comin’, Corrigan will work on refurbishing 40 instruments recovered from a closed charter school. And there will be a silent auction and other fundraising to buy new instruments as well.

One unique item is the Louisiana Legends Art Piano, a flood-damaged stand-up piano decorated in a folk art scheme and featuring keys signed

by Fats Domino, Dr. John and many others.

The musical lineup is worthy of a small festival: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Galactic, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, Johnny Vidacovich, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Anders Osborne, Henry Butler, Big Sam’s Funky Nation with Jean Knight (who sang “Mr. Big Stuff” and will be inducted to Tipitina’s Walk of Fame) and many more. Donald Harrison will perform with the T.I.P. interns.

On Sunday, “The Doctor Is In” at The Howlin’ Wolf benefits the Roots of Music program, Sweet Home New Orleans and Trombone Shorty’s Horns for Schools program. The entertainment lineup

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The episode ended with Ward singling out the most and least embarrassing of the women in one of those semi-formal, end-of-the-show reality TV ceremonies.

The contestant on the hot seat this episode was a compulsive liar who was the one who outed the virgin at the boat party.

Her excuse? “Wine.” I get that.

Besides the beads, some French Quarter B-roll and Ward saying things like “New Orleans is a city that’s all about having a good time,” there wasn’t too much New Orleans-y stuff, but a preview for the upcoming episodes indicates sloppy Bourbon Street escapades are still to come.

If you can deal with how the show emphasizes the ways in which these women are terrible at attracting quality partners, as well as Ward’s dating rules — which include such non-advice as “superficial is super-lame” — interspersed throughout the show, the show succeeds in sating a trash TV craving. And there’s always the possibility of spotting your ex-boyfriend Mike, who has neck tattoos now, in the crowd of one of those mixers. It is a small city.

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unday night’s television schedule has plenty to offer in terms of challenging entertainment, most notably Mad Men and Lena Dunham’s excellent new HBO series Girls. But over on VH1, you’ll find the opposite end of the spectrum: the latest season of Tough Love — a mix of The Millionaire Matchmaker, Bad Girls Club and the sales rack of a Rainbow store — which is set this time around in New Orleans.

Unlike its New Orleans predecessor Bad Girls Club, a show with no detectable purpose other than to destroy so many hair extensions, Tough Love has an objective: dating guru Steve Ward, along with his mother JoAnne, aims to reform a group of women burdened with a variety of dating dysfunctions in a “relationship boot camp.”

The show’s contestants all represent the most repugnant stereotypes of women: there’s the golddigger (Elizabeth), the overly made-up plastic surgery fanatic (Stephanie), the slutty one (Tiffany), the one who wants a baby really bad (Donna), the bitch (Despina) and the prude (Melissa). There’s also a woman with a penchant for dating convicts (Danielle) and a single mom (Shalana, the only New Orleans native in the cast, and so far the most sympathetic of the bunch).But even though the contestants are exploited for one-dimensional characterizations, I don’t feel too sorry for them: Reality TV has emerged as a way for talentless people to achieve the fame and/or notoriety of actors and other celebrities, and I’m sure most of these women have designs on fame (or at least getting paid to show up at a nightclub for a few hours) and consider televised humiliation a small price to pay.

In the April 15 premiere — following the typical format for season premieres of residential-based reality shows — there was extra emphasis on exploring the contestants’ new digs, which in this case is a house on the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Chartres Street. The exterior is lovely, but it has been modified with a garish interior of bold pinks, purples and reds and touristy regional artwork. There is, however, an enviable backyard setup.

The episode’s main challenge involved a mixer aboard the Creole Queen riverboat, during which the women would give Mardi Gras beads — beads must figure prominently into every reality show set

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The work of Allen Toussaint spans decades and countless singers, bands and settings. on his latest record Occapella!, Jon cleary takes some of the most famous and rare Toussaint tunes and puts his own distinctive sound on them. Toussaint wrote songs for a range of vocalists, and an even larger group has done versions of his songs, from Benny spellman and Lee dorsey to Glen campbell and elvis costello. cleary uses the adaptability of Toussaint’s work to his advantage. some tunes feature conventional arrangements, such as the funk of “everything i do Gonh Be Funky” and the pop/rhythm and blues feel of “what do You want The Girl to do.” But most, such as his mysterious, ethereal version of “southern Nights,” take Toussaint’s songs to places they have rarely been. cleary’s vocal and piano work here have their usual warmth, and he captures the idiosyncrasies of Toussaint’s voice and keyboards without sounding derivative. Touches such as the subtle cuban rhythm of “when The Party’s over,” country-style guitar of “wrong Number” and the contrasting falsetto background vocals that abound on the record add depth and a sense of surprise to both familiar and obscure tunes. No matter how cleary does it, he adds his impeccable taste and smoothness to Toussaint’s standards. And cleary shows that he has learned well from his years listening to the rhythm and blues of the crescent city. The daring final track is a quick instrumental version of “Fortune Teller” that starts off latenight slow-and-soulful but turns into a New orleans piano burner that sears cleary’s name into the pantheon of crescent city piano greats. — dAvid KuNiAN

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Debbie Davis It’s Not the Years, It’s the Miles After years of singing with everyone from All That to the Pfister sisters, debbie davis has partnered with Threadhead records to release her first solo album. The project offers great diversity in song choices and contributions from local musicians. davis’ background is in opera and musical theater, but she can belt out brassy blues like “Mama Goes where Papa Goes” and slink to low-register coyness on the Beatles’ “Things we said Today.” But she excels when she sings tunes composed by local songwriters. she delivers deadpan ruefulness in the humorous couplets of Alex McMurray’s title track and quiet longing in the ’60s pop of Paul sanchez’s “don’t Be sure.” Mark Bingham’s “Two crested caracaras” features an emotional tone with subtle restraint in an atmospheric arrangement. Just as the tracks veer toward the too tasteful, davis takes on the self-loathing regret of Amy winehouse’s “You Know i’m No Good,” complete with sousaphone, Latin percussion and acid-tinged guitar. she stashes that tune near the end where it segues into a piano duet with Bobby Lounge on the old blues/ gospel standard “Trouble in Mind.” Lounge’s over-the-top stylings push davis, which raises the energy level and results in a stirring rendition. Bassist Matt Perrine, drummer carlo Nuccio and percussionist Anthony cuccia lay down a variety of supple grooves and swinging rhythms. violinist Matt rhody, trumpeters duke Heitger and david Boswell, and pianists Jon cleary and Tom Mcdermott also add polished and passionate support. This is undoubtedly debbie davis’ show, however, and her wide stylistic range and fine vocals make it a good show indeed. — dAvid KuNiAN

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Funky Pirate — blues masters feat. big al Carson, 8:30

Circle Bar — winter sounds, seedy seeds, 10

Hi-Ho Lounge — my graveyard Jaw, franz nicolay, 10

Columns Hotel — riccardo Crespo, 8

House of Blues — nesby phips, fijah, paasky, lyriqs, Corey money and others, 10

Crescent City Brewhouse — new orleans streetbeat, 6

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Jason marsalis, 8 The Maison — gregory agid Quartet, 6; magnitude, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — rebirth brass band, 10

DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS

Spotted Cat — andy J. forest, 4; aurora nealand & the royal roses, 6; meschiya lake & the little big Horns, 10

Bistreaux — aaron lopezbarrantes, 7

Circle Bar — eleanor friedberger, Hospitality, 10

First jazz fest weekend!!

FRI 4/27

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hillbilly Hotel, 10

d.b.a. — tin men, 7; good enough for good times, 10; walter “wolfman” washington & the roadmasters, 10 DMac’s — ernie Vincent & the top notes, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — bob andrews, 9:30

Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — blue trees, 6; eric gordan’s lazy boyz, 9:30

The Famous Door — Darren murphy & big soul, 3

One Eyed Jacks — peelander-Z, one eyed Doll, 9

Funky Pirate — blues masters feat. big al Carson, 8:30

Preservation Hall — preservation Hall-stars feat. shannon powell, 8

Hi-Ho Lounge — Ceux Qui marchent Debout, 10

Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Siberia — bob log iii, mr. free & the satellite freak-

House of Blues — lacuna Coil, Candlelight red, 9 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — songwriter showcase feat. Colin lake, 7

Lafayette Square — wednesday at the square feat. tab benoit’s swampland Jam, amanda shaw & the Cute guys, 5 Louisiana Music Factory — Ceux Qui marchent Debout, 3 The Maison — Chicken & waffles, 6; Upstarts, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Khris royal & Dark matter feat. nigel Hall, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — sly blue, 6; Verzu feat. mayumi shara, 9:30 Old Point Bar — mumbles, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — topsy Chapman & palm Court Jazz band, 7 Preservation Hall — preservation Hall Jazz band feat. mark braud, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Chegadao, 8:30 Siberia — night beats, acid baby Jesus, paint fumes, babes, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Delfeayo marsalis & the Uptown Jazz orchestra, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — ben polcer, 4; orleans 6, 6; st. louis slim & the frenchmen street Jug band, 10 Three Muses — sarah Quintana, 4:30; Jeremy lyons & the Delta billy boys, 7

THURSDAY 26 3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top Gallery — mike Dillon/ James singleton expanding orchestra, 9 AllWays Lounge — slow Danger brass band, panorama Jazz band, 10 Armstrong Park — David batiste & sons, Kermit ruffins, 5 Banks Street Bar — Country fried, 10 Bayou Beer Garden — walter “wolfman” washington, 8 Bistreaux — aaron lopezbarrantes, 7 Blue Nile — stanton moore trio, 10 BMC — andy J. forest, 8; Young pinstripe brass band, 11 Bombay Club — matt lemmler Duo feat. David blask, 7:30 Buffa’s Lounge — tom mcDermott & aurora nealand, 8 Cafe Istanbul — michaela Harrison, 8 Cafe Negril — smoky greenwell & the blues gnus, 10:30

MUSIC LISTINGS PREVIEW

club opens at 8pM

2012 fest lIneup

Carrollton Station — Bohren, Stone, Messa & Fohl, 9:30

apRIl 25-29

Checkpoint Charlie — Woodenhead, 9 Chickie Wah Wah — Charlie Hunter, 6; Jimbo Mathus & Tri-State Coalition, 9 Circle Bar — Pat McLaughlin, 10 Columns Hotel — Fredy Omar, 8 Covington Trailhead — Dixie Cups, 5 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Wednesday 25 Good enough for

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30

10pM

Good times

d.b.a. — By & By String Band, 6:30; Good Enough for Good Times, 10; Marco Benevento, 2 a.m.

THURsday 26 9pM

Jon cleary’s philthy phew

10pM

DMac’s — Friends of Country feat. Kim Carson & Corey Michael, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Loren Pickford, 9:30 The Famous Door — Darren Murphy & Big Soul, 3 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Stooges Brass Band, 11 The Hookah — Vox & the Hound, Jonesbirds, Gold & the Rush, Sports & Leisure, 9 House of Blues (Parish) — Bonerama feat. Dave Malone, 9

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Radio Radio, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — Jon Cleary’s Philthy Phew, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Roman Skakun, 5; Rosh Ha’ayin Music Conservatory Jazz Ensemble, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Damien Louviere & the Ashmen, 9 Louisiana Music Factory — Glen David Andrews, noon; Joe Krown, 1; Sarah Quintana, 2; Little Freddie King, 3; Soul Rebels, 4; Young Pinstripe Brass Band, 5; Royal Southern Brotherhood, 6 The Maison — Erin Demastes, 5; Cindy Scott, 7; Ashton & the Big Easy Brawlers Brass Band, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Alabama Slim Blues Revue, 6; 30x90 Blues Women, 9:30 Oak — Mumbles, 9 Old Point Bar — Blues Frenzy, 6:30; Big Al & the Heavyweights, 9

Eleanor Friedberger with Hospitality

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10 p.m. Tuesday Circle Bar 1032 St. Charles Ave. 588-2616

Eleanor Friedberger last visited New Orleans in October, opening for Wild Flag in front of a packed house at One Eyed Jacks; six months later, she takes center stage in the confines of the ably renovated (but still stageless) Circle Bar. The two shows mirror Friedberger’s recent career moves: tapping out of vested sibling tag team the Fiery Furnaces in 2010 to reveal something closer to the vest. So it was that last summer, while Woody Allen was sleepwalking on the Seine, the task of relating stardust memories of New York stories fell to a rookie solo artist from the Chicago suburbs with a penchant for rambles and a soft spot for east of the East River. Every track on the nostalgia-twisting, detail-obsessed Last Summer (Merge) etches new cracks in the heart of Brooklyn, her adopted home and muse. “My Mistakes” opens in medias res, Friedberger blurting out a radio sing-along: “You know I do my best thinking when I’m flying down the bridge.” From there, she throws all-too-real “Scenes From Bensonhurst” against the wall, falls asleep on the F train out of “Roosevelt Island” and builds a fresh blue bicycle out of black-market Coney Island parts only to get lost, physically and spiritually, en route to “Owl’s Head Park.” When she sings “I imagine Governors Island as Shutter Island,” it’s a whole new New York state of mind. Merge labelmate Hospitality opens. Tickets $10. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders feat. Butch Thompson, 7 Preservation Hall — The New Birth Brass Band feat.

Tanio Hingle, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Ray’s — Bobby Love Band, 6 Rivershack Tavern — Omega 3, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, Lil Nathan & El Sido, Chubby Carrier, Buckwheat Zydeco, 8 Saturn Bar — Alex McMurray, 11 Siberia — Sleepy Sun, White Hills, Dirty Ghosts, Whom Do You Work For?, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Pedrito Martinez, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

St. Roch Tavern — J.D. Hill & the Jammers, 8:30

Banks Street Bar — Juice, 10

Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 4:30; Luke Winslow-King, 6; Washboard Rodeo, 10

Bayou Bar at the Pontchartrain Hotel — Philip Melancon, 8

Tipitina’s — Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 10 Tipitina’s French Quarter — Grandmothers of Invention, 9 Triage — Old School Band, 9 Vaughan’s — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8:30 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6

FRIday 27 Andrea’s Capri Blu Lounge — “Uncle” Wayne Daigrepont, 8 Austin’s Restaurant — Scott Kyser, 7

Bayou Beer Garden — Soul Project, 8 Bistreaux — Aaron LopezBarrantes, 7 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins, 7; Stooges Brass Band, Slavic Soul Party!, Debo Band (upstairs), 10; Soul Rebels Brass Band, Sister Sparrow, 10; Left Coast All-Stars feat. Jay Lane, Eric McFadden, Wil Blades, Reed Mathis, Brian Jordan, Topaz, 2 a.m.

BMC — El DeOrazio & Friends, 3; Dana Abbott Band, 9; Deja Vu Brass Band, 12:30 a.m.

Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 6; Right Rev Soul Revue, 9:30 Buffa’s Lounge — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 8

Cafe Istanbul — Theresa Andersson, Cedric Burnside Project, T-Bird & the Breaks, 10 Carrollton Station — The Help, Fred LeBlanc, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show, 8; Alex McMurray Band, 10:30 Chophouse New Orleans — Mitch Woods, 9 Circle Bar — Egg Yolk Jubilee, 10 Columns Hotel — Alex Bachari Trio, 5 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Honey Island Swamp Band, 10; The Ever Expanding Waste Band feat. members of Morphine, 2 a.m. page 78

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Javier Gutierrez & vivaz

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Howlin’ Wolf — Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, TBC Brass Band, 10

the Meters experience featuring leo nocentelli, bill dickens, Jamal batiste, & david torkanowsky

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DMac’s — Faith & Chaos, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Eric Traub Trio, 10 Emeril’s Delmonico — Bob Andrews, 7 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 Golden Feather — Africa Brass, 10 Hermes Bar — Shannon Powell Trio, 9:30 & 11 Hi-Ho Lounge — Debauche, Little Freddy King, 10 House of Blues — Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Russell Batiste, 10 House of Blues (Parish) — Lil Band O’ Gold, Kristin Diable, 10 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Sol Driven Train, 3 Howlin’ Wolf — Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Papa Grows Funk, Rebirth Brass Band, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Gravity A, Young Hedons, Consider the Source, 11 Hyatt Regency New Orleans — Anais St. John, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — The Meters Experience feat.

Leo Nocentelli, Bill Dickens, Jamal Batiste & David Torkanowsky, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — David Reis, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8

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JuJu Bag Cafe and Barber Salon — Michaela Harrison, Todd Duke, 7:30 Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Bill Malchow, 7 Le Roux — The Bobby Love Band, 7 The Maison — Those Peaches, 5; Gregory Agid Quartet, 7; Earphunk, 10; Swamp Grease feat. Terrence Higgins, Calvin Turner, Nigel Hall, Roosevelt Collier & Danny Abel, 12 a.m; All Star Jam feat. Ian Neville, Nigel Hall, Nick Daniel, Adam Deitch, 2 a.m.

Maple Leaf Bar — Charlie Hunter, Mike Dillon, Sherik & Johnny Vidacovich, Vinyl, 10 Mardi Gras World’s River City Ballroom — STS9, Emancipator, SOJA, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Emily Estrella & the Faux Barrio Billionaires, 4; Fredy Omar con su Banda, 7; Javier Olondo & AsheSon, 10:30 Oak — Reed Alleman Trio, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Thomas Johnson, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — GIVERS,

Habitat, 8; Greyboy Allstars, 10

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Wendell Brunious & Palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Pelican Club — Sanford Hinderlie, 7 Pontchartrain Hotel — Joe Barbara, 6 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat.

Leroy Jones, 8; Tao Seeger & Preservation Hall Jazz Band, midnight Republic New Orleans — Marco Benevento, 10; Anders Osborne, Bill Kreutzmann, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett, 11:30; ALO, 2:30 a.m.

The Reserve of Orleans — Naydja CoJoe & the Jazz Experience, 8 Rivershack Tavern — Gal Holiday, 10 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Eric Lindell, Tab Benoit & Royal Southern Brotherhood, 8:30 Rusty Nail — Mia Borders, 10 Siberia — Katey Red, JC Styles, Magnolia Rhome, Nicky Da B and others, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Dr. Michael White, 9:30 & 11 Spotted Cat — Ben Polcer, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — JD Hill & the Jammers, 8:30 The Temple — Carolina Chocolate Drops, 10; George Porter Jr. & the Runnin Pardners, 1 a.m.

Three Muses — Cynthia Chen, 4; Moonshiners Quartet, 6:30; Glen David Andrews, 10 Tipitina’s — J.J. Grey & Mofro, Revivalists, 9; Galactic, 2 a.m.

Tipitina’s French Quarter — Mickey Hart Band, 10 Triage — Framing the Red, 8 Tulane Lavin-Bernick Center Quad — Walkmen, Gold & the Rush, 4 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Shannon Powell Trio, 5 Windsor Court Hotel (Polo Club Lounge) — Michael Watson Quartet, 9

Saturday 28 12 Bar — Royal Southern Brotherhood, Mia Borders, 10 Andrea’s Capri Blu Lounge — “Uncle” Wayne Daigrepont, 8 Atchafalaya — Atchafalaya All Stars, 11 a.m.

Austin’s Restaurant — Scott Kyser, 7 Banks Street Bar — Egg Yolk Jubilee CD release, 10 Bayou Bar at the Pontchartrain Hotel — Philip Melancon, 8

Bayou Beer Garden — Colin Lake, 8 Big Al’s Deckbar Seafood & Blues — Bryan Lee, 8 Bistreaux — Aaron LopezBarrantes, 7 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Vinyl feat. Eddie Roberts, Corey Glover, Marco Benevento, Ron Johnson, Terrence Higgins, 10; Flow Tribe, Sol Driven Train (upstairs), 10; Katdelic feat. Ronkat Spearman, Ivan Neville, Ian Neville, Adam Deitch, Black Pearl & others, 2 a.m.

BMC — Chris Polacek & the Hubcap Kings, 3; Ashton & the Big Easy Brawlers Brass Band, midnight Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 6; Mat Lemmler Quartet feat. Kevin Clark, 9:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Royal Rounders, 8 Cafe Istanbul — Stanton Moore Trio, 10; Khris Royal & Dark Matter, 1:30 a.m.

Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Carrollton Station — Dash Rip Rock, Psycho Sisters, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary’s Philthy Phew, 9; Charlie Hunter, 11 Chophouse New Orleans — Lindsay Mendez, 9 Circle Bar — Empress Hotel, Mahayla, 10 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 9 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; Andre Williams, Morning 40 Federation, Happy Talk Band, R. Scully & the Rough 7, 11 DMac’s — Big Willy & the AllPurpose Blues Band, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Dry Dock Cafe — Some Like it Hot!, 7 Emeril’s Delmonico — Bob Andrews, 7 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 Hermes Bar — Sasha Masakowski, 9:30 & 11 Hey! Cafe — Glish, New Lands, Woozy, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Honey Island Swamp Band, Monophonics, 10 House of Blues — Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, 9; Beats Antique, Laura Low, midnight House of Blues (Parish) — Gary Clark Jr., Henry & the Invisbles, 10 Howlin’ Wolf — Leftover Salmon, 7 Walkers, Anders Osborne, 10

MUSic LISTINGS Howlin’ Wolf Den — Frogs Gone Fishin’, The Shessh, 11 Hyatt Regency New Orleans — Anais St. John, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — Los Hombres Calientes feat. Irvin Mayfield & Bill Summers, Javier Gutierrez & Vivaz, 8 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Wendell Brunious Quartet, 8; BrassA-Holics, midnight Kerry Irish Pub — Speed the Mule, 5; Allstar Dropouts, 9 The Maison — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Yojimbo, 9:30; Mannie Fresh (upstairs), 10; Stooges Brass Band feat. Mannie Fresh, 11; Shamarr Allen, 12 a.m; Lagniappe Brass Band, 2 a.m.

Maple Leaf Bar — Maple Leaf Super Jam, Will Blades, Freekbass, Scott Amendola & Johnny Vidacovich, 10 Michalopoulos Studio — Gatorators, 11:30 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Mumbles, 12:30; Emily Estrella & the Faux Barrio Billionaires, 4; Eudora Evans & Deep Soul, 7:30; Soulabilly Swamp Boogie Band, 11 Oak — Amanda Walker, 9 Old Point Bar — Lynn Drury & the Mumbles, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Craig Brenner, 2 One Eyed Jacks — Lee Field & the Expressions, 8; Prophylactics, 9

Pelican Club — Sanford Hinderlie, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 8; Theresa Andersson & Preservation Hall Jazz Band, midnight Republic New Orleans — Los Lobos, Iguanas, 10; Rebirth Brass Band, DJ Jubilee, 2 a.m.

Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1 Rivershack Tavern — Austin Sicard, 10 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama, Mike Zito & Friends, 8:30 Siberia — Matt Johnson, 5:30; Honky, Dirty Streets, Suplecs, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Allen Toussaint’s Jazzity Project, 9 & 11 Spotted Cat — Meghan Stewart & the Reboppers, 3; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Dominic Grillo & the Frenchmen St. All Stars, 10

Tequila Blues — Javier Tobar & Elegant Gypsy, 7 Three Muses — Norbert, Shaye & Erika, 6:30; Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10 Tipitina’s — Dr. John, Henry Butler, 9; Greyboy Allstars, 2 a.m.

Tipitina’s French Quarter — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys, 10 Tommy’s Wine Bar — Julio & Caesar, 10 Triage — Uncrowned, Touching the Absolute, 10 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Tim Laughlin & David Boeddinghaus, 5:30 Windsor Court Hotel (Polo Club Lounge) — Shannon Powell Band, 9

SUNDAY 29 3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top Gallery — No Children, Kay Swiss & the Keddz, Rose Cross, Losing Streak, 7 Banks Street Bar — Red Mouth, 6; Ron Hotstream & the F-Holes, 9 Bayou Beer Garden — Soul Project, 8 Blue Nile — Marco Benevento, Skerik, Robert Walter, Adam Deitch, 10; Mainline (upstairs), 10; Karl Denson, Stanton Moore, Wil Blades, 2 a.m.

BMC — Soula Billy Swamp Boogie Band, 3; Marc Joseph’s Mojo Combo, 9 Bombay Club — Don Vappie, 7:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like it Hot!, 11 a.m; Aurora Nealand, 8 Cafe Istanbul — Big Sam Williams, Calvin Turner, Nikki Glaspie,Will Bernard, Topaz, Nigel Hall, 10 Carrollton Station — Eric Lindell, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Charlie Hunter, 9 Chophouse New Orleans — Tom McDermott, 9 Circle Bar — Alex McMurray Band, 10 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m.

Finnegan’s Easy — Keiko Komaki, Robin Clabby, Chris Alford & guests, 2 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Shannon Powell, 10; Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, 1:30 a.m.

House of Blues — Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, 10 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Brint Anderson, 3 Howlin’ Wolf — Roots of Music, Sweet Home New Orleans and Horns for Schools Benefit feat. Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, Jeremy Davenport and others, 8

Siberia — King James, 5:30; Other Planets, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Victor Goines Quartet feat. Ellis Marsalis, 9 & 11 Spotted Cat — Rights of Swing, 3; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Pat Casey, 10 Three Muses — Raphael Bas & Norbert Slama, 5:30; Miss Sophie Lee, 8 Tipitina’s — Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Big Freedia & the Big Easy Bounce Band, The Preservation, 9 Triage — Gypsy Elise & the Royal Blues, 6 Windsor Court Hotel (Polo Club Lounge) — Mario Abney Quartet, 6

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 9

Yuki Izakaya — Morella & the Wheels of If, 8

Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — Cyril Neville feat. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, 8

MoNDAY 30

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Charles Neville & Germaine Bazzle, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson & Mark McGrain, 9 Le Pavillon Hotel — Philip Melancon, 8:30 a.m.

The Maison — Dave Easley, 5; Brad Walker, 7; Brass-A-Holics, 10; Mike Dillon & Freekbass, 12 a.m; Gravy, 2 a.m.

Maple Leaf Bar — Tony Hall, Eddie Roberts, Robert Walter & Johnny Vidacovich, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Tom McDermott & Kevin Clark, 11:30 a.m; Riccardo Crespo, 4; Javier Guitterrez & Vivaz, 8:30 Old Point Bar — Tarrah Reynolds, 3:30 One Eyed Jacks — Honey Island Swamp Band, Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Sunday Night Swingsters, 7 Preservation Hall — Lars Edegran & the St. Peter AllStars, 8; Treme Brass Band, midnight Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 11:30 a.m.

Republic New Orleans — Gypsyphonic Disko, Sissy Nobby, Katey Red, Nicky Da B, Ricky B and others, 10 Rita’s Tequila House — Aaron Lopez-Barrantes, 1

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Ritz-Carlton — Armand St. Martin, 10:30 a.m; Catherine Anderson, 2

d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 5; Jon Cleary’s Philthy Phew, 8; Papa Grows Funk feat. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, 11; Lightnin’ Malcolm Duo, 3 a.m.

Roosevelt Hotel (Blue Room) — James Rivers Movement, 11 a.m.

Rock ’N’ Bowl — Mike Zito, Devon Allman, Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, 8:30

Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8 Banks Street Bar — Sexy Water Spiders, Harvard, 9 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 Blue Nile — Robert Walter, Donald Harrison, Stanton Moore, Will Bernard, Robert Mercurio, California Honey Drops, 9 BMC — Lil Red & Big Bad, 6; Smoky Greenwell’s Blues Jam, 9 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Village Organ Trio, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Spencer Bohren, 6; Jon Cleary, 8; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 10:30 Chophouse New Orleans — Buzzy Beano & Sydney Beaumont, 9 Circle Bar — Bruisers, O.L.D, Bunny & the Playboys, 10 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Congo Square — Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Kermit Ruffins, Treme Brass Band and others, 7 a.m.

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 5; Charlie Hunter, Mike Dillon, Sherik, 8; Glen David Andrews, midnight DMac’s — Danny Alexander, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9:30 The Famous Door — Darren Murphy & Big Soul, 3

Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8; Dayna Kurtz, 11 House of Blues — Piano Night: A Benefit for WWOZ, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Josh Garrett & the Bottom Line, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Kim Carson, 9 Louisiana Music Factory — Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 12; Jon Cleary, 1; Chris Thomas King, 2; Papa Grows Funk, 3; Mia Borders, 4; Trombone Shorty, 5; Shamarr Allen, 6 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Super Jam, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Papa Grows Funk, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Meghan Stewart & the Reboppers, 6; Chris Polacek & the Hubcap Kings, 9:30 Old Point Bar — Josh Garrett & the Bottom Line, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Players feat. Mark Braud, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Eaglin, 8 Siberia — Thomas Johnson, Julie Odell, Micah McKee, Dave Jordan, Denton Hatcher and others, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominic Grillo, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Pfister Sisters, 5; Joe Cabral Trio, 8 Tipitina’s — Instruments AComin’ Benefit feat. Galactic, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. and others, 8:30

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CHIMPANZEE (G) — tim allen narrates the Disney nature documentary is about a young chimpanzee who finds himself alone in the african forests until he is adopted by another chimpanzee. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (PG) — the computeranimated film based on the Dr. seuss book features Zac efron and taylor swift voicing characters. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) — in the film adaptation of suzanne Collins’ popular young adult book, teenagers from the 12 districts of what was once north america must fight to the death in an annual televised event. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU (NR) — the film tells the story of Hurricane Katrina and the impact that louisiana’s disappearing wetlands has on hurricane protection.

Entergy IMAX JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (R) — a man’s (Jason segel) day takes a strange turn while running an errand for his mother in the Duplass brothers comedy. Canal Place LIONS 3-D: THE ROAR OF THE KALAHARI (G) — in botswana’s Kalahari Desert, a life-and-death struggle between a real lion king and a fierce, young contender unfolds. Entergy IMAX LOCKOUT (PG-13) — while leading a mission trip to the planet where the most dangerous criminals are kept, the daughter of the american president faces a rebellion by the planet’s prisoners. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hol-

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Anyone who spends time around kids knows they’re not exactly a tough audience Directed by Alastair Fothergill when it comes to movies. toddlers will and Mark Linfield watch the same DVD on repeat for days if you let them, mostly because they feel Starring tim Allen empowered by knowing what comes next.

Wide release And since slightly older children respond well to funny voices and colorful characters, formula cartoons usually suffice as long as the action doesn’t stop.

No one knows this better than Disney. the company’s lackluster animated output in recent years — apart from the gold-standard work of Pixar, which Disney purchased in 2006 — proves that sometimes a beloved brand is all you need in the marketplace. So it’s hard to imagine why Disney would undermine an otherwise outstanding nature film like Chimpanzee by pandering to the little ones with odd and ill-fitting storybook narration.

Four years in the making, Chimpanzee’s amazing raw footage represents the kind of serendipity seldom enjoyed by documentary filmmakers. British directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, both of whom served as producers on the BBC’s wonderful Planet Earth series, had almost given up on finding a Disney-ready story about primates in the jungles of Africa’s Ivory Coast when they came upon the extended family of chimpanzees that stars in the movie. An adorable baby chimp they named Oscar was instantly ready for his close-up. High drama ensued: Oscar loses his doting mother and is rejected by each member of his group. Survival seems unlikely until Freddy, the group’s massive alpha-male leader, adopts Oscar. this was something scientists had not encountered before. those not enthralled by footage of Freddy giving Oscar piggyback rides over rough terrain or patiently teaching him how to survive in the wild should probably watch a different movie. the film loses steam as its focus turns to war with a rival group of chimps over a life-sustaining grove of nut trees. But the real enemy is actor tim Allen, whose gee-whiz delivery of the film’s nearly information-free narration borders on an act of animal cruelty. Oscar is described as “precious” and the rival band of chimps are dismissed as “thugs.” Extraordinary sights like the fluorescent mushroom-type things that light up the jungle floor at night are left unexplained. Amazingly, the leader of the rival chimps is actually called “Scar,” which is the name of the villain in Disney’s classic animated The Lion King.

Doesn’t Disney know that kids understand what it means when grown-ups roll their eyes? there’s nothing more universal than nonverbal gestures of disdain.

Age barriers just don’t apply.

Chimpanzee appears to have its heart in the right place. twenty cents from every movie ticket sold during the movie’s first week in theaters will be donated to the Jane Goodall Institute, which has spent decades protecting chimpanzees. And Goodall herself legitimized the movie last week by pushing it on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But the film delivers its only real message about conservation at the very end of the closing credits, after everyone has left the theater. Both the kids and the chimps probably deserved better.

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THE RAVEN (R) — A detective in 19th-century Baltimore discovers a string of murders that seem to be inspired by Edgar Allan Poe stories.

SAFE (R) — A young math prodigy becomes the target of Russian gangsters, and an excage fighter whose family was murdered by those gangsters comes to her aid.

sPEcIAl scREENINGs AFTER THE FACTORY (NR) — Focusing on Detroit, Mich. and Lodz, Poland, Philip Lauri’s documentary presents solu-

I’M FREE (NR) — Andrea Roggon’s documentary juxtaposes Cuban’s talking off-screen about their ideas of freedom with images depicting the realities of the country. Tickets $10 general admission, $8 students and members. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net MOVIES IN THE PARK. The New Orleans Recreation Development Commission hosts free outdoor screenings of family movies at greenspaces across the city. Visit www. nola.gov/Residents/NORD/ Movies-in-the-Park for the full schedule and other details.

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SOME LIKE IT HOT (NR) — Marilyn Monroe stars in the 1959 romantic comedy about a pair of musicians who, after witnessing a mob hit, disguise themselves as women to hide from gangsters. Tickets $5.50.

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Dreams of Sushi, Kill List and Attenberg. Visit www. neworleansfilmsociety.org for the screening schedule and other details. Tuesday-Thursday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com PELICAN D’OR FILM FESTIVAL — The theater hosts Nunez Community College’s annual film festival, which features short films and “short short” films in nonfiction/documentary, animation/puppet and music video categories. 7 p.m.

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OPENING MICHALOPOULOS GALLERY. 617 Bienville St., 5580505; www.michalopoulos. com — Artist reception with James Michalopoulos, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

REYNOLDS-RYAN ART GALLERY. Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., 896-6369; www.newmanschool.org — Works by Ron Bechet, through May 16.

Opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

GALLERIES 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — “Our Waters,” works by Jillian Gibson and Henry and Willie Badeaux, through May 7.

A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www. agallery.com — Photogravures

by Josephine Sacabo; “Trees of Life,” photographs by Joyce Tenneson, through Monday.

ACADEMY GALLERY. 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 — Works by Robert Seago and Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux, through May 12.

ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 298-3161; www.press-street.com — “Spaceward-Ho! (Our Disposable Life),” works by gallery artists, through Sunday.

ANTON HAARDT GALLERY. 2858 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.antonart. com — Works by Anton Haardt, Christopher Moses and others, ongoing.

ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Works by the Surrealist Automat, jewelry by Chester Allen and paintings by Louise Guidry, through Monday.

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 5221999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — Video by David Sullivan, through May 5. “Down Highway 23,” paintings by David

Bates; sculpture by Joseph Havel, through May 19.

BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 5252767; www.barristersgallery. com — “Crimes Against Faith and Other Tales of Compulsion,” works by Jessica Goldfinch, through May 5.

THE BEAUTY SHOP. 3828 Dryades St. — Works by Rebecca Rebouche, ongoing.

BEE GALLERIES. 319 Chartres St., 587-7117; www. beegalleries.com — Works by 15 local and regional artists including Martin LaBorde, ongoing.

BENEITO’S ART. 3618 Magazine St., 891-9170; www.bernardbeneito.com — “Geishas and Courtesans,” oil paintings by Bernard Beneito, ongoing.

BIG BUNNY FINE ART. 332 Exchange Alley, 309-2444; www.lineartgallery.com — Drawings and monoprints by Greg Giegucz, through May 7.

BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave.; www. byrdiesgallery.com — “Brick Hands,” clay works by William Murphy, through May 8.

CAFE BABY. 237 Chartres St., 310-4004; www.markbercier.com — Paintings and works on paper by Mark Bercier, ongoing.

CALLAN CONTEMPORARY. 518 Julia St., 5250518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Undercurrents,” works by Mitchell Lonas, through May 25.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “MindScrape,” works by Masahiro Arai, through May 26.

CASELL GALLERY. 818 Royal St., 524-0671; www. casellartgallery.com — Works

by Joachim Casell, Rene Ragi, Phillip Sage and Jack Miller, ongoing.

COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 8916789; www.coleprattgallery.

com — “Open Space,” paintings by Stephen Strickland, through Saturday.

COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Modern Ritual,” photographs by Mark Glaviano, through May 12.

COURTYARD GALLERY. 1129 Decatur St., 330-0134; www.woodartandmarketing.com — Hand-carved woodworks by Daniel Garcia, ongoing.

D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 — “A Murmuration,” mixed-media sculpture by Thor Carlson, through May 3.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032; www. dumoisgallery.com — “epigrammatic,” works by Caroline Hill, Jonathan Mayers and Sam Provenza, through May 6.

THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront. org — Works by Craig Doty, Scott Saunders, Alex Podesta, Lala Rascic and Dick Keaveny, through May 6.

GALLERY 3954. 3954 Magazine St., 400-9032; www. gallery3954.com — Works by Fifi Laughlin, George Marks, Julie Silvers, Kathy Slater and neirmann Weeks, ongoing.

GALLERY VERIDITAS. 3822 Magazine St., 267-5991; www.gvnola.com — “Skin and Bone,” works by Joseph Holmes, Tracy McKay and Francisco Magallan, through Monday. “A Little Old, A Little new,” works by J. Renee and Luis Colmenares, through June.

GUY LYMAN FINE ART. 3645 Magazine St., 8994687; www.guylymanfineart. com — Mixed media with mechanical light sculpture by Jimmy Block, ongoing.

HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 5257300; www.heriardcimino. com — Paintings by Jose Bedia, through May 1.

HOMESPACE GALLERY. 1128 St. Roch Ave., (917) 584-9867 — “A Catalpa Tree, Reality, Resurrection, Revolution and Joshua Reynolds,” works by Robert C. Tannen, through May 6.

ISAAC DELGADO FINE ARTS GALLERY. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., 671-6363; www. dcc.edu — Fine Arts Student exhibition, through May 3.

JACK GALLERY. 900 Royal St., 588-1777 — Paintings, lithographs and other works by Tom everhart, Gordon Parks, Al Hirschfeld, Stanley Mouse, Anja, Patrick McDonnell and other artists, ongoing.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www. jeanbragg.com — “Run up the

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JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 5225471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Game Room,” works

by Michael Combs, through May 19.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “Lithographs,” works by Billy hassell, through Saturday. “Made in Louisiana,” paintings and drawings by Shirley Rabe Masinter, through May 26.

MUSIC BOX. 1027 Piety St., (347) 784-5226; www.dithyrambalina.com — “The Music Box: A Shantytown Sound Laboratory,” an interactive installation, through June 2.

NOCCA RIVERFRONT. 2800 Chartres St., 940-2787; www. nocca.com — “ART.WRiTE. NOW,” a travelling exhibition of student works from the Scholastic Awards, through Friday.

NOUVELLE LUNE. 938 Royal St., 908-1016 — Works using reclaimed, repurposed or salvaged materials by Linda Berman, Georgette Fortino, David Bergeron, kelly Guidry and Tress Turner, ongoing.

OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “invisible Connections,” mixed media by Sheila Mcinerney, through Saturday.

RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS GALLERY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Works

by Cathy Cooper-Stratton, Margo Manning, Chad Ridgeway and Teri Walker and others, ongoing.

SCOTT EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY. 2109 Decatur St., 610-0581 — “Photosmith’s Quintet,” music photographs by Zack Smith, Chris Felver, Barry kaiser, Greg Miles and Bob Compton, through June.

SIBLEY GALLERY. 3427 Magazine St., 899-8182 — “Perceptions,” works by Julie Robinson, through May 9.

SOREN CHRISTENSEN GALLERY. 400 Julia St., 5699501; www.sorengallery.com — “Conversations,” collaborative mixed-media paintings by kollabs (Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey); “A Shallow home,” mixed-media paintings

by Daniel Minter; both through Monday.

STAPLE GOODS. 1340 St. Roch Ave., 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Thresholding,” works by Daniel kelly, through May 6.

TAYLOR/BERCIER FINE ART. 233 Chartres St., 5270072 — “Blood Relatives,” works

by Fred Stonehouse; “Drips, Drops and ink Blots,” works

by Mark hosford; both through Monday.

THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., 5812113; www.thomasmann.com — “Wire World,” wallwork, jewelry and wearable art by Thomas Mann, Cathy Cooper and Steve Lohman, through June.

THREE RIVERS GALLERY. 333 E. Boston St., (985) 8922811; www.threeriversgallery. com — Works by Gail Glassman, through May 10.

UNO-ST. CLAUDE GALLERY. 2429 St. Claude Ave. — MFA exhibitions by Nina Schwanse and Chen Gu, through May 5.

UPTOWN POPUP ART GALLERY. 7835 Maple St. — “Study of Dynamics,” works by kenneth A. McAshan, through May 12.

cAll foR ARtIsts ART MELT. Forum 35 accepts art submissions and marketplace entries for the annual Art Melt, an arts market and juried show to be held at the Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge on July 14. Visit www.artmelt.org or www.forum35.org for details.

Submissions deadline is June 1.

COLD DRINK PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL. Du Mois Gallery, 4921 Freret St., 818-6032; www.dumoisgallery. com — The gallery seeks printmakers for its annual exhibition.

Visit the gallery’s website for details. Submissions deadline is May 15.

MID-CITY BAYOU BOOGALOO. The annual festival (May 18-20) seeks artists to participate in an art market during the event. Email art@ thebayouboogaloo.com or visit www.thebayouboogaloo.com for details.

Despite her own colorfully pictographic epidermal adornments, Jessica Goldfinch thinks tattoos have had it, at least in America. What was once outre is now blase, but Russia is different, especially its prisons, where tats still rule. There tattoos are not just edgy but also vital markers of status and identity, in symbolism that takes on unexpected new twists because of the way the old U.S.S.R. reversed the roles of religious and political icons. A Jesus tattoo symbolizes state persecution more than religious redemption, but Crimes Against Faith and Other a crucifixion scene on an ThRU Tales of Compulsion

by Jessica inmate’s chest indicates MAY Goldfinch a master thief, so Goldfinch’s collage painting of Barrister’s Gallery a crucifixion scene with an 2331 St. Claude Ave. onion-domed structure in the background is titled Prince of 710-4506 Thieves. But a tattoo of Lenin www.barristersgallery.com on the chest, like the one seen in Father Lenin (pictured) offered protection Far Away and Trouble Every Day from being shot in the heart ThRU by Nina Schwanse and Chen Gu by a guard since Lenin was MAY UNO St. Claude Gallery a holy icon in the old sectarian U.S.S.R., where Jesus 2429 St. Claude Ave. was relegated to outlaw 280-6493 status. These mostly smallish www.unostclaudegallery.wordpaintings and sculptures press.com explore the complex range of symbolism found in a staterun alternate reality where Western values are inverted and reflected back at us in reverse. Another highly symbolic series of flowers with hypodermic syringes instead of pistils and stamens — a visual exploration of addiction’s deadly allure — makes this exhibition Goldfinch’s most seductively provocative to date.

At the UNO St. Claude Gallery, Chen Gu’s Far Away series imagines a world where female desires are paramount, and her highly varied visual meanderings are like snippets from a colorful journey. Nina Schwanse’s mostly video subversions of the seductive female pop persona have been so elaborate and thorough that this Trouble Every Day expo can only hint at the remarkable extent of her obsessive oeuvre, perhaps best seen on her website www.ninaschwanse.com. Suffice it to say, she’s really something.

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HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — “Furnishing Louisiana, 1735–1835,” an exhibition exploring early Louisiana furniture and woodworking, through

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LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “New Orleans Bound 1812: The Steamboat That Changed America,” through January 2013.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “The Louisi-

ana Plantation Photos of Robert Tebbs,” 60 gelatin silver prints by the architecture photographer, through November. “Living with hurricanes: katrina and Beyond”; “it’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — “September 11, 2001: A Global Moment,” through May 20. “Turning Point: The Doolittle Raid, Battle of Coral Sea and Battle of Midway,” through July 8.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — “hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” through May 20. “Mass Produced: Technology in 19th-Century English Design,” through June 24. “Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues,” through Sept. 16.

“Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through Oct. 7.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — “Maximalist and Naturalist,” paintings by Merk Messersmith; “Remedies,” oil paintings by Alexa kleinbard; “Duck Blinds: Louisiana,” photographs by Nell Campbell; “Elysium,” photographs by Colleen Mullins; “Field Work,” photograms by Woody Woodroof; photographs by CC Lockwood; “Plastic Gulf,” video by Lee Deigaard; all through July 23.

SOUTHEASTERN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE. Jones Hall, Tulane University, 6801 Freret St., 865-5699; seaa. tulane.edu — “Following Wright,” an exhibit highlighting Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence with drawings by architects Edward Sporl, Albert C. Ledner, Philip Roach Jr. and Leonard Reese Spangenberg, through Dec. 7.

SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — “illuminEATing,” photographs by Meredith Beau, through June 10. “Tanqueray Olive” and “Guinness Pint,” prints by Tom Gianfagna, through Jan. 21, 2013. “Lena Richard: Pioneer in Food TV,” an exhibit curated by Ashley Young; “Then and Now: The Story of Coffee”; both ongoing.

TULANE UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ROOM. Jones Hall, room 205, Tulane University, 6801 Freret St., 865-5000; www.tulane.edu — “The Art of Proteus,” an exhibition showcasing the krewe’s costume and float designs from 1882-1907, through May 30.

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PETER O’NEILL STUDIOS. 721 Royal St., 527-0703; www. oneillgallery.com — Works by Peter O’Neill, ongoing.

ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — “The Basque Syndrome: An impertinent Selection of Work,” works

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ThEATER ANGOLA 3. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — parnell Herbert’s play dramatizes the story of Herman wallace, albert woodfox and robert King, who were imprisoned for murders they didn’t commit. tickets $15. 8 p.m. fridaysaturday and 3 p.m. sunday, through may 6.

BORN YESTERDAY. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, 616-6066; www.dcc.edu — Delgado students perform garson Kanin’s play about the mistress of a corrupt businessman who wises up to his shady ways. tickets $10 general admission, $8 seniors, students and Delgado faculty and staff. 8 p.m. thursday-saturday.

LADY DAY. Emerson’s, 5363 Franklin Ave. — new orleans r&b singer sharon martin plays billie Holiday in the musical dramatizing her final performance. Call 872-0969 for reservations. advance tickets $20 general admission, $16 seniors, $12 students; $25 at the door. 8 p.m. friday-saturday, 5 p.m. sunday, through may 13.

ON THE AIR. Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — bob edes Jr., troi bechet, gary rucker and others star in the musical that pays tribute to the heyday of radio broadcasts. 8 p.m. friday, 11 a.m. sunday.

BURLESQUE BALLROOM. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St., 553-2270; www.sonesta.com — trixie minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of leon “Kid Chocolate” brown.

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FREAKSHEAUX TO GEAUX. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 2185778; www.theallwayslounge. com — the show features juggling, acrobatics, clowning, dance, music and more. Visit www.freaksheaux2geaux.com for details. tickets $10. 10 p.m. saturday.

oPERA “PAGLIACCI” AND “CARMINA BURANA”. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — the doublebill begins with ruggero leoncavallo’s Pagliacci followed

by Carl orff’s Carmina Burana, which features dancers from the new orleans ballet theatre and singers from new orleans opera Chorus, loyola University Chorus and the new orleans Vocal arts Chorale.

Visit www.neworleansopera. org for details. 8 p.m. friday, 2:30 p.m. sunday.

AudITIoNS NEW ORLEANS BURLESQUE FESTIVAL. the festival, held in september, seeks burlesque dancers (men and women), singers, comics, magicians, contortionists, duos, troupes, novelty and other variety acts. email neworleansburlesque@yahoo. com or visit www.neworleansburlesquefest.com for details. there is a $15 application fee. application deadline is may 27.

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CHRIS & TAMI. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater. com — Chris trew and tami nelson perform an hourlong, tag-team style improv comedy set. tickets $5. 9 p.m. saturday.

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FEAR & LOATHING WITH GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — the double bill includes fear and loathing, the sketch comedy show, and god’s been Drinking, the improv comedy show. tickets $10, $5 with drink purchase. 8:30 p.m. friday.

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FRIDAY NIGHT COMEDY SHOWCASE. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 371-5543; www.maisonfrenchmen.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts a stand-up showcase featuring new orleans comedians. free admission. 8 p.m. friday.

LAUGH & SIP. Therapy Wine Lounge, 3001 Tulane Ave., 7840054; www.therapynola.com — pissYopants Comedy presents the weekly event featuring louisiana comedians and live music. Visit www.pissyopants. com for details. tickets $7. 8 p.m. thursday.

LOUISIANA’S FUNNIEST PERSON FINALS. Boomtown Casino, Boomers Saloon, 4132 Peters Road, Harvey, 366-7711; www.boomtownneworleans. com — five comics from the stand-up comedy competition that began in January compete for the ultimate title. free admission. 8 p.m. wednesday.

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CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St. — the weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, green plate specials and flowers. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

LITTLE MASTERS. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Children ages 2-and-a-half to 5 and their parents or caregivers paint, dance, sing and try yoga moves in the gardens. pre-registration is required. Call 293-4721 or email jcohn@longuevue.com for details. admission $12 members, $15 nonmembers (includes one adult and child).

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

fRiDay 27 ZOO TO DO FOR KIDS. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — the kid-friendly version of the zoo’s major benefit event features live entertainment, face painters, inflatables, arcade games, crafts and more. admission $20 members, $25 nonmembers, $40 early admittance (5:30 p.m.). 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

SaTURDay 28 THE FRESH BEAT BAND. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — the preschool music group from the nickelodeon series of the same name performs songs from the show. Visit www. freshbeatbandlive.com for details. tickets start at $35.

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ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS WEEK. American Sector, 945 Magazine St., 528-1940; www.-nationalww2museum.org/americansector — the new orleans chapter of the international association of administrative professionals hosts the event with keynote speaker David Kiviaho, Kiisa Corporation cofounder and vice president. email cathyhock@aol.com for details. admission $50. 6 p.m.

FRENCH QUARTER WINE FESTIVAL. Le Meritage, 1001 Toulouse St., 522-8800; www. lemeritagerestaurant.com — the festival pairs food by chef michael farrell with wines from a variety of vineyards. Dinners range from $97-$175, plus tax and tip. Visit www.frenchquarterwinefestival.com for details. tuesday-wednesday.

GREEN LIGHT SEMINARS: ROADS TO FINANCIAL SUCCESS. University of New Orleans, Homer L. Hitt Alumni Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive — Claire loup, economic and financial education specialist for the federal reserve bank of atlanta, discusses preparing a budget, avoiding credit card debt and saving for the future. free admission. 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

KINGSLEY HOUSE FRIENDRAISING LUNCHEON. Kingsley House, 1600 Constance St., 523-6221; www.kingsleyhouse.org — Donald link and link restaurant group provide lunch for the event that also features theatrical and dance performances by Kingsley House participants. Call 523-6221 ext. 127 or email gjackson@kingsleyhouse.org for details. admission is free, but donations are requested.

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

YAMAUCHI LECTURE. Loyola University, Miller Hall, Room 114 — barbra barnett, visiting religious ethics professor, discusses monroe beachy, a 77-year-old amish man who defrauded his own religious community with a $17 million ponzi scheme. reception 6:15 p.m., lecture 7 p.m.

WEDNESDay 25 COVINGTON FARMERS MARKET. Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St.,

Covington, (985) 892-1873 — the market offers fresh locally produced foods every week.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. saturday.

FRENCH MARKET FARMERS MARKET. French Market, French Market Place, between Decatur and N. Peters streets, 522-2621; www.frenchmarket. org — the weekly market offers seasonal produce, seafood, prepared foods, smoothies and more. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY PROGRAM. Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Ave., 388-0511; www. nojcc.org — the event features a commemoration service for israeli soliders followed by a celebration with middle eastern and new York-style deli food, live music, art activities, a tel aviv-style outdoor art market and film screenings. free admission. 5:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

SAKE TASTING. Whole Foods Market Arabella Station, 5600 Magazine St., 899-9119 — Christopher noyes from winebow leads the free tasting and discussion. seating is limited; call the store for reservations. 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

USED BOOK SALE. Human Performance Center, University Of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, 280-6683‎ — the friends of the Uno library present the sale. Call 2806556 or email dcriswel@uno. edu for details. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. wednesday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. thursday.

WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego — the market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art and more, with live music and pony rides.

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. wednesday and saturday.

WHITE GLOVE WEDNESDAYS. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — Curator eric rivet leads a weekly program on the uniforms and equipment used by american and german soldiers during world war ii, and visitors can pick up and try on original and reproduction helmets, uniforms, boots, packs and other personal equipment. free with museum admission. 9 a.m. to noon.

THURSDay 26 ENERGY SMART PRESENTATION. New Orleans Public Library (Nix Branch), 1401 S. Carrollton Ave. — the program discusses entergy new orleans’ energy efficiency program that provides audits and cash rebates to customers who take steps to increase the efficiency of their homes

EVENT LIStINGS and businesses. Call (866) 721-0249 or email info@ energysmartnola.com for details. 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

FRESH MARKET. Circle Food Store, 1522 St. Bernard Ave. — the Downtown Neighborhood Market Consortium market features fresh produce, dairy, seafood, baked goods and more. EBt and WIC accepted. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

GLASS BASH. New Orleans ArtWorks, 727 Magazine St., 529-7279 — the event offers glassblowing and glass torching demonstrations, hands-on printmaking activities and complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres to benefit A Shared Initiative, a group supporting low-income entrepreneurs. Call 733-1733 ext. 79210 or email kathryn. schuman@asifcu.com for details. Admission $30. 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

GLOBAL GREEN PANEL SERIES. AIA New Orleans Center for Design, 1000 St. Charles Ave., 525-8320; www.aianeworleans.org — Students from University of Louisiana School of Architecture and Design showcase their work for the monthly series on issues of sustainability and environmental responsibility. Visit www.globalgreen.org for details. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF CHILD SOLDIERING. Tulane School of Law, Weinmann Hall, Room 110, 6329 Freret St.; kschlemm@ tulane.edu — American Red Cross, Southeast Louisiana Chapter, hosts the panel and Q&A session, which discusses legal prosecution for perpetrators, famous cases, psychological disarmament and mental health of child soldiers, and processes of reintegration. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS COMMUNITY FAIR AND FORUM. Delgado Community College, Student Life Center, second floor, 615 City Park Ave., 671-5000; www.dcc.edu — the event features local agencies providing resources and free screenings, plus a panel discussion about the concerns of mental health providers.

Friday 27 MARKETPLACE AT ARMSTRONG PARK. Armstrong Park, N. Rampart and St. Ann streets — the weekly market features fresh produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, natural products, art, crafts and entertainment.

2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

SYNC UP CONFERENCE. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — Entertainment industry leaders speak at the annual conference. this year’s speakers include tim Westergren, founder of the online music service Pandora, and Mack Maine, the New Orleans-born rapper and president of Young Money Entertainment. Space is limited; pre-registration is required. Visit www.syncupconference.com for the full schedule and other details. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday through May 5.

WHERE Y’ART. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — the museum’s weekly event features music, performances, lectures, film screenings, family-friendly activities and more. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

SaTurday 28 BOWL-A-THON. Colonial Bowling, 6601 Jefferson Hwy., 737-2400; www. colonialbowling.net — the bowling event benefits Children’s Hospital. Call 837-0670 or email crystal@5minuteoilchange. com for details. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

CHARTER SCHOOLS TEACHER FAIR. Xavier University Center Ballroom, 4980 Dixon St., 486-7411; www.xula.edu — the event provides an opportunity for certified teachers to have interviews with school principals and administrators and to learn more about working at charter schools. Preregistration is recommended.

Call 267-7239 or visit www. eastbankcollaborative.com for details. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

feldt Room for its weekly discussion group. Call 8661163 for details. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

GATOR RUN. Audubon Park, Shelter 10, 6500 Magazine St. — Holy Name of Jesus School’s one-mile and 5K run/walk benefits the Lee Gardemal Scholarship Fund, which provides a tuition scholarship to a current seventh grader. Call 861-1466 or email rtomeny@hnjschool. org for details. Admission $16. 8 a.m.

GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — the market features a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www. germancoastfarmersmarket. org for details. 8 a.m. to noon.

GRETNA FARMERS MARKET. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, 362-8661 — the weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. Free admission. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

JEFFERSON CHORALE USED BOOK SALE. Clearview Shopping Center, 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 482-1890 — the sale benefits the chorale, an affiliate of the Jefferson Performing Arts Society, and features hardcover and paperback books, games, puzzles, audio books and more. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

MARCH OF DIMES. LaSalle Park, 6600 Airline Drive, Metairie — the three-mile walk benefits the group’s work finding causes of and preventing preterm birth.

Call 836-2087 or visit www. marchforbabies.org for details. Registration 8:30 a.m., walk 9 a.m.

RENAISSANCE MARKETPLACE OF EASTERN NEW ORLEANS. Renaissance Marketplace, 5700 Read Blvd. — the market offers cuisine from area restaurants, shopping, arts and crafts, children’s activities and more. 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Magazine Street Market, Magazine and Girod streets, 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — the weekly market features fresh produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon.

SANKOFA FARMERS MARKET. Holy Angels Complex, 3500 St. Claude Ave., 875-4268; www.sankofafarmersmarket.org — the weekly market offers fresh produce and seafood from local farmers and fishermen. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

ERACE NEW ORLEANS MEETING. Christ Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles Ave., 895-6602 — ERACE meets in the church’s West-

ST. BERNARD SEAFOOD & FARMERS MARKET. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi — the market showcases fresh seafood,

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HILTON GARDEN INN GRAND RE-OPENING. Hilton Garden Inn, 1001 S. Peters St. — to celebrate its recent renovations, the hotel hosts a party with live music by Charles Ferrand trio, complimentary hors d’oeuvres and drinks, tours of the hotel, door prizes and a raffle benefiting the Louisiana Children’s Museum. Call 310-1002 for details. 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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TULANE ATHLETICS 5K. Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 862-8000; www.tulane.edu — the run taking place on the Uptown university’s campus benefits the tulane Athletics Fund. Call 865-5356 or visit www.tulaneathletics5k.com for details.

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Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., 895-8477; www.tipitinas. com — the event benefits a program that provides new, high-quality musical instruments for New Orleans area music programs, and it features food, a silent auction and a concert with Galactic, trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, BIGI (Ivan Neville, George Porter Jr., Ian Neville and Russell Batiste) and others. there’s also an outdoor events including the Wall of Fame induction ceremony and a battle of the marching bands. tickets $40 general admission, $200 VIP admission. Outdoor events start at 6 p.m., concert at 8:30 p.m.

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Call foR VoluNTEERS BAYOU REBIRTH WETLANDS EDUCATION. Bayou Rebirth seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties. Visit www.bayourebirth.org for details.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS VOLUNTEERS. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana, 2626 Canal St., Suite 203, 3097304 or (877) 500-7304; www.bbbssela.org — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana needs volunteers to serve as mentors. A volunteer meets two to three times a month with his or her Little Brother or

CASA NEW ORLEANS. the organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. the time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; thorough training and support is provided. Call Brian Opert at 522-1962 ext.

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CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. CCFM and marketumbrella.org seek volunteers to field shopper questions, assist seniors, help with monthly children’s activities and more. Call 495-1459 or email latifia@marketumbrella.org for details.

EDGAR DEGAS FOUNDATION. the nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to the development of the foundation. Call 821-5009 or email info@degashouse.com for details.

GREATER NEW ORLEANS FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER. the center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area. Call 717-4257 or email mmorgan@gnofairhousing.org for information.

GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS. the group that provides free energy efficient light bulbs seeks volunteers to help install the bulbs in homes. Email peter.schamp@ greenlightneworleans.org or visit www.greenlightneworleans.org/volunteerapply.html for details.

HANDSON NEW ORLEANS. the volunteer center for the Greater New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the various opportunities available, how to sign up to attend service projects and general tips on how to be a good volunteer. Call 483-7041 ext.

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HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS. Harmony Hospice, 519 Metairie Road, Metairie, 8328111 — Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities.

Call Jo-Ann Moore at 8328111 for details.

JACKSON BARRACKS MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS. the museum seeks volunteers to work one day a week for the Louisiana National Guard Museum.

Volunteers prepare military aircraft, vehicles and equipment for display. Call David at 837-0175 or email daveharrell@yahoo.com for details.

JEFFERSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL. the charter school that educates at-risk middle school students who have been expelled from Jefferson Parish public schools seeks adult mentors for its students.

Call 836-0808 for details.

LOUISIANA SPCA VOLUNTEERS. Dorothy Dorsett Brown LA/SPCA Campus, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., Algiers, 368-5191; www. la-spca.org — the Louisiana SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more.

Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete a volunteer orientation to work directly with animals. Call or email Dionne Simoneaux at dionne@la-spca.org.

LOWERNINE.ORG VOLUNTEERS. Lowernine.org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward.

Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@lowernine.org for details.

MEAL DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS. Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults. Gas/mileage expenses will be reimbursed.

Call Gail at 888-5880 for details.

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION. the MDA seeks volunteers ages 16 and older for its weeklong summer camps around the country.

Call (800) 572-1717 or visit www.mda.org/summercamp for details.

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum. org — the museum accepts applications for volunteers to meet and greet visitors from around the world and familiarize them with its galleries, artifacts and expansion. Call 527-6012 ext. 243 or email katherine.alpert@nationalww2museum.org for details.

OPERATION REACH VOLUNTEERS. Operation REACH and Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps seek college student volunteers from all over the country to assist in providing recreation and edu-

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ZURICH CLASSIC. TPC Louisiana, 11001 Lapalco Blvd., Avondale, 436-TPC1 (8721); www.tpc.com/daily/ louisiana — PGA professionals compete at the golf tournament which also features food and live music.

Visit www.zurichgolfclassic. com for the full schedule and other details. Admission starts at $25. tuesdaySunday.

Sister. You can play games, watch movies, bake cookies, play sports or plan any other outings you both would enjoy.

Call for information.

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PEOPLE PROGRAM. the nonprofit seeks volunteers to teach active seniors at its campuses in Metairie, New Orleans and the West Bank.

Call 284-7678 for details.

SENIOR COMPANION VOLUNTEER. New Orleans Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St., 821-4121; www.nocoa. org — the council seeks volunteers to assist with personal and other daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Call for details.

START THE ADVENTURE IN READING. the StAIR program holds regular volunteer training sessions to work one-on-one with public school students on reading and language skills. Call 8990820, email elizabeth@scapc. org or visit www.stairnola.org for details.

TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION. the teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks volunteers to help teach middle- and upper-school New Orleans students. Call 831-8475 for details.

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17 POETS! LITERARY & PERFORMANCE SERIES. Gold Mine Saloon, 705 Dauphine St., 568-0745; www.goldminesaloon.net — the group presents a tribute to poet, editor and publisher Maxine Cassin. An open mic follows. Visit www.17poets. com for details. 8 p.m. thursday.

AMERICAN HAIKU WORKSHOP. Sekisui Samurai Sushi, 239 Decatur St., 5259595; www.sekisuisamurai. com — Delia tomino Nakayama hosts the workshop on Mondays through April.

Pre-registration is required.

Call 289-9142 for details.

Admission $50. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

BARNES & NOBLE JR. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — the bookstore regularly hosts free reading events for kids. Call for schedule information.

BEN SANDMEL. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — the author discusses and signs Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans.

5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Sandmel also appears at

Louisiana Music Factory (210 Decatur St., 586-1094; www. louisianamusicfactory.com) 2 p.m. Monday.

COOKBOOKS & COCKTAILS SERIES. Kitchen Witch Cookbooks Shop, 631 Toulouse St., 528-8382 — the group meets weekly to discuss classic New Orleans cookbooks. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday.

DINKY TAO POETRY. Molly’s at the Market, 1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www. mollysatthemarket.net — the bar hosts a free weekly poetry reading with open mic. 9 p.m. tuesday.

FAIR GRINDS POETRY EVENT. Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon Ave., 913-9073; www. fairgrinds.com — Jenna Mae hosts poets and spokenword readers on the second, fourth and fifth Sunday of each month. 8 p.m.

FAULKNER SOCIETY’S MY NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — the event features authors Lawrence N. Powell (The Accidental City), Constance Adler (My Bayou), Moira Crone (The Not Yet), Jon Gegenheimer (The Second Hill), Carol Gelderman (A Free Man of Color and His Hotel), Robert Jeanfreau (The Story Behind the Stone), Peggy Scott Laborde (Lost Restaurants of New Orleans).

5:30 p.m. tuesday.

FRIENDS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE. Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., 596-2625; www.nutrias.org — the group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

GERSIN. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — the artist discusses and signs New Orleans Sojourn. 6 p.m. tuesday.

KEITH SPERA. Davenport Lounge, Ritz-Carlton, 921 Canal St., 670-2828; www. ritzcarlton.com — the author signs and reads from Groove Interrupted. Jeremy Davenport performs at the event.

5:30 p.m. reading and signing, 7 p.m. performance.

Thursday.

LAWRENCE N. POWELL. Maple Street Book Shop, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., 3047115; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — the author discusses and signs The

Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans. 6 p.m.

Wednesday.

LOCAL WRITERS’ GROUP. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — the weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing. All genres welcome. 7:30 p.m. Monday.

MAPLE LEAF READING SERIES. Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., 866-9359; www.mapleleafbar.com — the weekly reading series presents featured writers followed by an open mic. Free admission. 3 p.m. Sunday.

MOIRA CRONE. Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — the author signs and reads from The Not Yet. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

PASS IT ON. George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, 2003 Carondelet St., 586-7432; www. themckennamuseum.com — Poet Gian “G-Persepect” Smith and Alphonse “Bobby” Smith host a weekly spoken-word and music event. Admission $6. 9 p.m.

Saturdays.

SUZANNE PERRON. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere, 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — the author discusses and signs Designing in Ivory and White. 6 p.m. thursday.

TAO POETRY. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381; www.neutralground.org — the coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m.

Wednesday.

THE WELL: A WOMEN’S POETRY CIRCLE. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., 947-2121; www.stannanola.org — the group for writers of all levels meets at 2 p.m. Mondays.

Call 655-5489 or email hwoodie104@gmail.com for details.

CALL For wrITErs WILLIAM FAULKNER-WILLIAM WISDOM CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION. the competition offers cash prizes in seven categories of unpublished work, as well as a guest spot at the Faulkner Society’s annual Words & Music festival. Email faulkhouse@aol.com for details.

Submissions deadline is May 15.

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4 bd/2.5ba & @2,100 sf., renov’d NOLA East hm in cul de sac. Lg formal liv & sep. din, open kit. w/den, large bkyd for gatherings. Bds have lrg deep closets.

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Immaculate is not enough to describe this gorgeous 3bd/2 ba hm. Generous common space, open flr pln kit/den, wet bar, & easy bck yrd access.

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1418 Chartres D $225,000 2 bd/1 ba condo half block from Esplanade Ave and steps from Frenchmen St! Fully furn w/ lots of historical charm.

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938 Royal St. A $215K Great location for this condo. Perfect for your weekend getaways! Quaint & comfortable.

1 br, great kit & bath.

835 Royal St. $349.5K Great location, secluded hideaway! Spac 2 br, 2 marble tile baths. Small rear balc overlooking garden.

617 Duphine St. $268K Spacious light filled condo. Great floor plan.

Fabulous pool and courtyard. Being sold furnished.

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455 Phillip Street $ 239,000 Was gutted to the studs in 2004/05 and underwent a high quality renovation. 3 independent bedrooms, 2 full baths, master with whirlpool plus nice walk-in closet, off street parking in a great close to town location.

817 Amelia Street $ 239,900 Rustic charm on this unique home fashioned from joining two separate cottages. Great flowing floor plan and with a second front door that’s great for working from home. Off street parking.

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5 BR/5BA. Magnificent white columned historic mansion on 1.3 acres. Built by Covington founder John Wharten Collins. Beautiful pool setting.

Outbuildings include guesthouse, workshop & greenhouse. $1,675,000. Janet Favrot, 504-615-0813. Coldwell Banker TEC Reators, 899-4040. Ea office independently owned & operated.

ELEGANT COUNTRY LIVING

Mins. from downtown Covington. Custom European estate on Bogue Falaya River. Main hse 3500 sf, 3 br, 3.5 ba.

Guest hse 1000 sf, 2 br, 1 ba. On 4.66 acres. $1,050,000. By Appt. 985-5022882. CovingtonRiverEstate.com.

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#10 Greenbriar Rd. Lovely home on large lot. Newly renovated, 4 or 5 BR, 3 BA. Gourmet kit . Whirlpool bath & separate Italian shower in master.

4000+ sf living. $549,000. Suzy McDaniel, 985-640-1836.

Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty, 504.944.3605 Each office Independently owned & operated.

3627 First Street 3 BR/1 BA, 4 years old Driveway & great fenced yard Eligible for Orleans soft second Jana Hatheway 504-343-0641 Keller Williams 455-0100 Independently Owned and Operated

LACOMBE 60010 OAKLAWN AVE

Classic beauty on acre. Meticulously kept with 4 or 5 BR, 3 BA, gameroom, bonus rm above 3 car garage, screened porch. 3000+sf living.

Owner financing avail. $369K. Suzy McDaniel, 985-640-1836. Dorian Bennett Sotheby’s International Realty – 504.944.3605 Each office Independently owned & operated.

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Great Country Living on 9.3 Acres 3100 sq ft, 3BR/3BA, full length porches front and back. 3 attics. Granite in kit. Built-in surround sound & gas firepl in den. Pond stocked with bass & catfish and visited by ducks, deer & birds. Cen alarm, 500 gal undergrnd propane tank. Huge fenced yard. $475K. Call Bill, 504-669-1052. View at www.SharpMLS.com/114799.

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Completely furn 2BR/2.5BA TH on Cardinal Course, 17th green. Diamondhead, MS (45 min to NO) $125,000.

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Move-in ready. On the Water. 3 BR, 2 BA, split level, boat launch, great backyard deck. $199,000. Call 504-887-4191

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2 or 3 BRMS/1BA. House liveable but needs work. More acreage availe. 3 miles east of Magnolia & 100 miles from NO. $17,000. (601) 248-0888

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES 1929 Hickory Ave., Harahan.

Two-story office building approx.

2,160sf. REDUCED price of $249,000.

Can also be for lease $1,900/mo., triple net. Emily Kramer, Corporate Realty 581-5005

New Orleans Office Condo

$100,000 or best offer. Motivated Seller. 1,200 sf. Ample parking. Picturesque office park. Emily Kramer, Corporate Realty 504-581-5005

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Riverfront N.O./ Algiers Pt. Upscale 2 BR, 2.5 BA Nicely furn. Secured pkg. $375 night., Also (two) 2 BR apts with xtra sofa bed 15 min from downtown N.O, 2200 Pasadena Ave, Met. . $200 night. 3 Night Min. on both.

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CORPORATE RENTALS New Orleans Area (Metairie) 10 Min to Downtown N.O. 1 & 2 Br Apts, 1 Ba, furn. Qn bed, WiFi, Cbl. Pkg.Util Incl. Lndry Fac. Sec Cameras From $1200/mth. 1 mth min. 2200 Pasadena, Met. 781608-6115..

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2 BR, 2.5 BA. Furn, healthclub, pool, parking. All util incl, wifi. Minimum 1 month. $3000/mo. Also 3 BR Penthouse $3800/mo. 781-608-6115.

COMMERCIAL RENTALS Professional Office Space

Near Causeway & Vets. Rent includes use of 2 conference rooms, kitchen & reception area. Ground floor space, hardwood floors, crown moldings, drive up parking. Call Albert 504-837-1304.

MID CITY RETAIL, OFFICE & FLEX SPACE

MULTI-USE FACILITY LOCATED 1995 GENTILLY BLVD. AT DESAIX CIRCLE CAN ACCOMMODATE A RETAIL USER & 1 OR MORE OFFICE TENANTS W/WHSE SPACE ADJACENT. TOTAL OF 8,625 SQ. FT. CALL 504-583-5969

GARDEN DISTRICT

1, 2, 3 & 4 ROOM OFFICES STARTING AT $495 INCLUDING UTILITIES

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900 sq ft office + half bath. 2 rms, prof’l mgmt. Easy free parking. Desks avail. $800/month. 781-608-6115

KENNER 3BR/2.5BA TOWNHOUSE

O/S prkng, wtr paid, all kit appls, priv yard, conv. location, cable ready, Pets ok. $950/mo. 504-913-4803.

METAIRIE 1 MONTH FREE RENT!

Modern 1 BR Apt. $775/mo incl free wifi & assigned pkg. 1 yr lease. $400 sec dep & rental application. 2325 Pasadena Ave. (nr Clearview & I-10).

504-366-7374 or 781-608-6115.

A HIDDEN GEM

Near heart of Metairie, dead end street. Wtr pd., Rsvd pkg, 1 car. No smoking/pet 504-780-1706 or visit us at orrislaneapts.com

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2511 Metairie Lawn. 2BR/2BA, w/d, pool, security. No pets. Rent $950/ mo. Sale $149,000. Call 427-1087

FURNISHED 1 BRDM CONDO Great location, w/d, gated, nr Causeway & Veterans. $900/mo incls utils.

Call 504-957-6456 or 504-838-9253

OLD METAIRIE DOG LOVER

Mature female professional to share private home nr Metairie Rd. $550 mo incl util, cable & more. Long-term pref.

Refs & dep. 504-838-6161.

8723 PRITCHARD PLACE

2 BR, living room/den, kitchen, 1 BA. Move-in ready. Hardwood floors, w/d hookups. No pets. $800. 504-8663490. If no answer, please leave msg.

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 3324 DESOTO

Living room, large bedroom, tile bath, furnished kitchen. Private fenced backyard. No pets. $800/month + deposit.

504-494-0970

4012A ORLEANS AVE

1 BR Newly renovated. Hi ceil, granite countertops, wd flrs, w/d on site, , walk to Park or Bayou. On Canal St Car line. $800/mo. 713/204-5342

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY 941 ROYAL

2 BR, 1 BA, $1450/Mo. ALSO 1 br loft , 1ba, $1200/mo. All fully furn, pool, w/d onsite, shared balc, elevator, no pets. 504-236-5757, 236-7060.

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LAKEFRONT Beautiful Marina Living

In a boathouse $1800/mo One bed 1350 sq ft 40 ft slip Jennifer LaNasa Evans HGI Realty 504 207-7575

MID CITY SMALL OFFICE SPACE

MID CITY - Offstreet parking for one vehicle. Separate entrance. Available Now. Contact Jane, (504) 482-5292

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1205 ST CHARLES/$1075

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry. Avail NOW. 985-871-4324, 504-442-0573.

1508 CARONDELET ST- 2 APTS Studio, newly remodeled kit & ba, hdwd flrs. $750 mo.

Huge 2 BR Apt. Bright, spacious,, high ceilings, hdwd flrs, $1095.

Both have Cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles St Car, easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. 1-888-2396566. mballier@yahoo.com

Spacious house, 6 large private bedrooms. Large equipped kitchen, 3 baths, dining room, front porch. Central heat & air. $625 each includes all utilities & internet, cable & laundry facilities. No Pets + Deposit 504-376-4676. Grad students welcome.

8130 JEANETTE

1100 sf, 2 br, 2 ba camelback apt.

Cent air, hi ceilings, newly refinished hardwood floors, appliances. Ceiling fans thruout, w/d in unit, offst pkg.

Small back yard.1 blk to streetcar line.

3 blks to Oak St. $1400/mo. Water pd. Ref required. No pets, no smoking.

Lease. 504-812-4242

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Beautifully furn 1 BR/1.5 BA apt. w/ hdwd flrs, nice kit, lg patio, pool, pkng & laundry. Avail now! Maselli Properties, (504) 891-2420.

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Because of exceptional hospitality artists. Like you.

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As an example, I was paid by the Louisiana Department of Labor to critique résumés at job fairs across the state, and I noticed that those attendees with attractive, well-prepared 2-page résumés usually got most of the attention, even at job fairs recommending that attendees bring a 1-page résumé.

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The reason that 2-page résumés are often more effective is because HR departments with low staffing due to downsizing, simply don’t have the time to interview dozens of candidates. It takes them nearly an hour per interview, and that is precious time to devote to borderline candidates. Back when they were interviewing 15 people for each job, even a short résumé would get you an interview, if you were qualified. Now, since they only interview a half dozen or less people for each position, they review the résumé much more carefully to sort out the best candidates.

In one recent Yahoo! article, the author even suggested that new college graduates “use 1-page résumés unless you have significant experiences, internships, activities, jobs, study abroad, training, extracurricular activities, etc., to justify two pages...”

The question then is, “Which candidate do you think will get first consideration? The one without significant additional experience, or the one with significant additional experience?” So, Marissa, if your brother-in-law offers to hire you, by all means use the 1-page résumé he suggested. If not, I advise that you to expand it to two pages if your relevant background and accomplishments merit it.

New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Resumes®, Grant is currently ranked in the Top 2% of 340 LinkedIn National Resume Writing Experts and has fulfilled contracts for the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, the NFL, the NBA, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and major corporations throughout the nation.

Contact New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

Are you a service oriented food and beverage professional looking for a new opportunity at a top New Orleans restaurant?

Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel Clerk (Reception/Front Desk) Night Auditor Supervisor (Reception/Front Desk) Concierge (Navigator)

Renaissance New Orleans Pere Marquette Hotel Clerk (Reception/Front Desk) Sr. Clerk (Reception/Front Desk) Club Lounge Attendant Explore opportunities and share your art. email ja’net.torrance@renaissancehotels.com

We have the following openings available:

Servers • Cooks

If you are interested, please email your resume to Ja’net Torrance at ja’net.torrance@renaissancehotels.com.

Marriott is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.

EEO/M/F/V/D/AA

FIND YOUR WORLD

EMPLOYMENT

Join the excitement and be part of our historic success with the opening of our new culinary venture,

Criollo Restaurant and Lounge located in the Hotel Monteleone, adjacent to the famous Carousel Bar and Lounge

We are hiring sharp, polished, and charismatic

• Front Servers •

restaurant experience preferred

• Line Cooks •

must have culinary experience

Job Fair

for Servers & Line Cooks Only

Friday April 27th 10am-2pm West Ballroom

located in Hotel Monteleone 214 Rue Royal St.

Apply on-line at www.hotelmonteleone.com/careers for a time set interview.

Professional Dress is Required for an interview.

Email questions to jobs@hotelmontetelone.com EOE/Drug Free Environment

EMPLOYMENT

AGENTS & SALES

BEAUTY SALONS/SPAS Booth Rental

Hairstylist Booth Rental in Harahan. 2 stations available. Call (504) 458-8518

Hershey’s Part-Time Retail Sales Merchandiser Help our company bring sweet moments of Hershey happiness to the world everyday by selling our iconic brands such as Hershey’s Kisses, Reese’s, Jolly Ranchers and Ice Breakers.

Sell and maintain the distribution of Hershey’s products, making multiple sales calls daily.

Merchandise and build displays. 20 hrs/wk, Mon-Thurs 9am to 2pm.

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES will have *Reliable transportation with adequate insurance and valid driver’s license required. *Sales and merchandising experience preferred.

For a detailed job description and to apply online, visit us at: www.thehersheycompany.com/careers EOE M/F/D/V

NEED HELP?

in search of talented

BARBER

TRADE/SKILLS

Who’s able to handle all Barbering skills.

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group Hiring exp maintenance mechanic.

Requirements: Understanding of electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and general maintenance procedures for restaurant equipment and building needs; painting / preventative maintenance ; 2+ yrs relevant work exper.; flexible schedule / on-call nights and weekends vary.

Apply hr@neworleans-food.com

Please Call 722.3584 for interview

VOLUNTEER RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR TWO TONY’S RESTAURANT

Seeks Experienced FRONT OF HOUSE Servers - Host/Hostess - Bussers Line Cook . Apply in person Tue-Sat 10am-noon or 3-5pm 8536 Pontchartrain Bl. Lakeview area

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EMPLOYMENT SECTION

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Offers Volunteer Opportunities.

Make a difference in the lives of the terminally ill & their families.

Services include: friendly visits to patients & their families, provide rest time to caretaker, bereavement & office assistance.

School service hours avail.

Call Volunteer Coordinator @ 504-818-2723 #3016

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY New Orleans Health Magazine-For Sale

Only $18,000 with no royalties. Nice profit potential. Call Greg for all the details, (985) 966-7777

readers need

You can help them find one.

A NEW JOB

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483-3100 • Fax: 483-3153 3923 Bienville St. New Orleans, LA 70119 Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.

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Need A New or Used Car?

Call Seth Holifield at (504) 887-8410 Come On Man! Let Me Help You Out! sholifield_vetsford@contactdealer.com

AUTOS FOR SALE ‘03 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE

Auto, A/C, nice! Financing Available. Call (504)347-7399

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Gambit’s Classifieds it also appears on our website, www.bestofneworleans.com

Free Ads: Private party ads for

merchandise for sale valued under $100 (price must be in ad) or ads for pets found/lost. No phone calls.

Please fax or email.

Deadlines:

• For all Line Ads - Thurs. @ 5 p.m.

• For all Display Ads - Wed. @ 5 p.m.

Note: Ad cancellations and changes for all display ads must be made by Wednesday at 5 pm prior to the next issue date. Ad cancellations and changes for all line ads must be made by Thursday at 5 pm prior to the next issue date.

Please proof your first ad insertion to make sure it is correct. Gambit only takes responsibility for the first incorrect insertion.

Mint Condition! $16,900. Financing available. Call (504) 347-7399

‘06 BMW 325 Ci

Only 30k mi, Like new $15,900 504-368-5640

‘06 LEXUS 300 GS

6 months/6OOO mile warranty. Beautiful car! Financing Available. Call (504) 347-7399

‘08 CHRYS Town & Country Leather, power everything.

Only 22k mi. $21,995 504-368-5640

WANTED TO PURCHASE CASH FOR CARS

Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com

‘10 HONDA ACCORD

CHIROPRACTORS

BYWATER BODYWORKS

ARCHER CHIROPRACTIC CENTER We focus on relief care, to get you out of pain as quickly as possible.

3301 Canal St. 504 - 252 - 9182 WALKS - INS WELCOME

HEALING ARTS BODY & FOOT MASSAGE Open 7 days - 10am-10pm Jasmine Health Spa 614 Causeway, Metairie 504-273-7676 Chnese Health Spa 2424 Williams Blvd Suite S Kenner - 504-305-5177

Swedish, deep tissue, therapeutic.

Flex appts, in/out calls, OHP/student discounts, gift cert. $65/hr, $75/ 1 1/2hr. LA Lic# 1763 Mark. 259-7278

QUIET WESTBANK LOC

Swedish, Relaxing Massage.

Hours 9am-6pm, M-F. Sat 10-1pm $70. LA Lic #1910.

Sandra, 504-393-0123.

RELAX RELAX RELAX

Swedish massage by strong hands.

Call Jack at 453-9161 La lic #0076.

STRESS? PAIN?

Relax with a massage.

Amazing Hands by Patrick.

LMT Lic 4005. 504-717-2577 www.amazinghands.us

CAT CHAT SIMONE is a gorgeous girl with long, silky, orange fur and beautiful eyes. It is quite unusual for a female cat to have orange fur!

Simone is a sweetie who loves petting and attention. She enjoys curling up in a nice cozy spot for a long nap. This precious kitty is waiting for a family to love. She is spayed, vaccinated, combo tested, chipped.

‘10 VW BEETLE $13,995 504-368-5640

‘11 HONDA CRZ EX $19,995 504-368-5640

$15,995 504-368-5640

Massage therapists are required to be licensed with the State of Louisiana and must include the license number in their ads.

Same day appointments available 10am-7pm. Uptown Studio or Hotel out calls. Jeannie LMT #3783-01.

504.894.8856 (uptown)

ARCHER CHIROPRACTIC

$16,995 504-368-5640

‘11 MAZDA 6

NOTICE

A BODY BLISS MASSAGE

MIND, BODY, SPIRIT

‘09 NISSAN ALTIMA

Coupe. Only 24k mi. $21,995 504-368-5640

LICENSED MASSAGE

Meet Simone at SpayMart Thrift Shop 6601 Vets Hwy. Or call 601-749-0268 or email spaymart@hughes.net

‘99 GRAND MARQUIS

Low miles. 6 months/6000 mile warranty. $4850. Financing available.

Call (504) 347-7399

www.spaymart.org

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Extra cab. Nice truck! $6500. Financing available. Call (504)347-7399.

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES 72,000 miles. NICE! Financing available.

Call (504) 347-7399

Chihuahua mix who loves to cuddle and play with toys. She’s housetrained and gets along well with dogs & cats after a proper intro. To meet Olivia or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd.

(Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

‘04 HONDA ELEMENT $9,995 504-368-5640

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OLIVIA Kennel #A15106749

$21,995 Call 504-368-5640

VANS ‘05 KIA SEDONA $5995 504-368-5640

‘10 Town & Country Caravan

Gambit’s weekly guide to Services, Events, Merchandise, Announcements, and more for as little as $60

Stow & Go Package. $12,500. Financing available.

Call (504) 347-7399

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REAL ESTATE Call (504) 483-3100

Ivengar Yoga, Level 1 - 3 Spring classes now in session 511 Octavia St. 504-821-9885 www.audubonyoga.com

MERCHANDISE ART/POSTERS JAZZ FEST POSTERS

Numbered, Signed & Framed.

1981 - $500; 2002 - $500.

1989 Fats Domino, $750.

Excellent cond. Call 504-455-2722

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES $125 Full/Double Size Mattress Set, still in original plastic, unopened.

We can deliver. (504) 846-5122 $295 Brand New Iron Queen Bed with mattress set, all new. Can deliver.

(504) 952-8403

DRESSER

With drawers and top piece. Wood. $100 or best offer. Also wood headboard, light colored wood. $50. Call 504-488-4609 after 11am.

King Pillowtop Mattress, NEW!!!

ONLY $225. Can deliver. (504) 846-5122 NEW Pub Height Table Set all wood, still boxed. Delivery available. $250. (504) 846-5122

GARAGE SALES/FLEA MARKETS Garage-a-Rama Upscale Yard Sale

Newman Parents Association Fundraiser Sat. April 21, 8am-3pm early bird shopping - $10 fee Newman School - Touhy Gym - 5203 Danneel St. Furniture, Collectibles, Kitchen Items, China, Lamps, Clothing, Bicycles, Electronics, Jewelry At, Books CASH & CREDIT CARDS ONLY

SAMPLE SALE Sat April 28th

ONE DAY ONLY! 8am - ??? Toys • Books • Gifts & much more! 2618 St Charles Ave between 3rd & 4th Streets.

Olivia is a 1-year-old, spayed,

‘04 TOYOTA 4-RUNNER

Advertise in

AUDUBON YOGA STUDIO

PETS

‘02 XTERRA

NICE SUV. $7980.

Financing available.

Call (504) 347-7399

YOGA/MEDITATION/PILATES

SAPPHIRE Kennel #A15908220

Sapphire is a 3-year-old, spayed, DSH with Russian Blue markings. Her best kitty friend recently passed away, so she’s quite lonely.

Sapphire CRAVES human attention and is front declawed. To meet Sapphire or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd.

(Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

LOST/FOUND PETS REWARD- LOST

(Mid City but could be anywhere by now),Ozzie, male, brown/black stripe (brindle), pit mix, sweet, call him & he will come, hold him & call me asap, Traci 504-975-5971.

PET ADOPTIONS BELL - PETITE DSH TABBY

Affectionate & playful kitty. Great family pet. 6 yr old female. spayed, vaccinated, combo-tested. Visit SpayMart Thrift Shop 6601 Vets Hwy, 601-749-0268, spaymart@hughes.net

BREES - BLACK LAB

perfect family, take me with yu BLACK LAB. Happy-go-lucky little boy, great with kids & other dogs & strangers!

Neutered & up to date on all shots.

Contact 504-975-5971

Brindle BOXER/PIT MX

Sweete Pie, 2 yr old, vetted, spayed & is up to date on all shots. Housebroken & gets along with everyone! Call Kathleen at (504) 931-6949

COOKIE - CALM/GENTLE DSH Purrs constantly. Perfectly healthy; although tested positive for FIV. 2 yr old female. Visit SpayMart Thrift Shop 6601 Vets Hwy, 601-749-0268, spaymart@hughes.net

CLASSIFIEDS DANNY – RUSSIAN BLUE BOY

This young, handsome boy is super friendly, and gets along with other cats.

He is fully vetted; just waiting for a family to love! 601-749-0268, spaymart@ hughes.net

LUCKY – PLAYFUL & OUTGOING Lucky is a 2 yr old sleek black cat. He is handsome, totally adorable, and likes other cats. neutered, vaccinated, combo tested, chipped. 601-7490268, spaymart@hughes.net

NICKY - CAT

All around perfect best friend - CAT! Cuddly & playful. Lap cat great with everyone & everything. Litter trained.

(504) 975-5971

PERCY – DECLAWED sweetheart

Percy was returned to SpayMart when his owner had a baby. He is a super sweet orange boy with a big personality; fully vetted and chipped.

601-749-0268,

PHANTOM - Sleek Black Kitty

Wweet boy, loves to be petted or snuggle up in a warm lap. 2 yrs old, neutered, vaccinated, combo-tested.

Visit SpayMart Thrift Shop 6601 Vets Hwy, 601-749-0268, spaymart@hughes.net

ROUX

Little over 1 yr petite side of medium.

Female, great with other dogs. LOVES PEOPLE - snuggler. 504-975-5971

SHITZU

Rocky - sweet & friendly, 7 yrs old.

Very gentle, laid back, loves attention, other dogs & cats. Housebroken. Tracitbkestler@cox.net

PETS FOR SALE FREE TO GOOD HOME

Male lab pit mix. 6 years old. All shots.

944-7733

ADOPTIONS PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293

ANNOUNCEMENTS NEED JAZZ FEST TICKETS

Seeking FOUR Jazz Fest Big Chief tickets for first weekend- at or above face value. Not to resell, for family of NOLA music lovers! jliaci@mindspring.com

To Advertise in

EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

HOME SERVICES Don’t Replace Your Tub REGLAZE IT

Chip/Spot Repair - Colors Available Clawfoot tubs for sale Southern Refinishing LLC Certified Fiberglass Technician Family Owned & Operated 504-348-1770 southernrefinishing.com

AIR COND/HEATING GULF STATES AC & HEATING

Service & Sales A/C Condenser & Installed - $3799 10 Year Warranty Service Calls only $70 Gulf States Air (504) 304-0443

SUPERIOR AIRE

Trane 3 Ton Replacement System $3990 Installed Expires 4/30/12 504-465-0688 Air Conditioning Heating

CLEANING/JANITORIAL LAKEVIEW CLEANING SERVICE

Residential & Commerical AFTER CONSTRUCTION CLEANING Light/General Housekeeping Heavy Duty Cleaning Holiday Cleaning Supplies Provided Fully Insured & Bonded Locally owned & service NOLA area for over 20 years.

(504) 250-0884 (504) 286-5868

FLOORS/CARPET/TILE GROUT WORKS, LLC

Tile Grout Cleaning, Color Sealing, Grout repair, Shower Restoration, Natural Stone Care, Tile Replacement, Recaulking. Commercial & Residential.

Free Estimates.

Jay Broadwell, 504-309-2509. www.grout-works.com

GENERAL CONTRACTORS MIKE’S REMODELING

Small & Big Jobs - We Do It All Custom cabinets, carpentry, painting, sheetrock, ceramic, roofs, kitchen & baths. Call (504) 324-9585

HANDYMAN HARRY’S HOUSE HELPERS

* Small Jobs *Repairs *Carpentry *Painting *Install AND MORE! Insured & Priced-Right Harry’s Helpful Ace Hardware Uptown * 504-896-1500 Metairie * 504-896-1550

LAWN/LANDSCAPE DELTA SOD

Certified Grade “A” Turf St. Augustine, Tifway Bermuda Centipede, Zoysia.

WE BEAT ALL COMPETITORS! 504-733-0471

RENTAL PROPERTY?

JEFFERSON FEED PET & GARDEN CENTER

GREEN GRASS - REAL FAST The Only Certified Grade A St. Augustine Sod For New Orleans Conditions.

Save with our Do-It-Yourself Lawn Maintenance Program. 733-8572.

THE CRACKED POT GARDEN CENTER

FREE LANDSCAPE ESTIMATES 2 mi west of Airport on Airline Hwy Mon - Sat, 9-5 504-466-8813

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Warren Raymond Lawn Care Uptown Specialist www.warrenraymond.com 504-831-7411

PEST CONTROL TERMINIX

Home of the $650 Termite Damage Repair Guarantee! WE DO IT ALL...

Termites, Roaches, Rats & Ants Too. New Orleans Metro - 504-834-7330 2329 Edenborn, Metairie www.terminixno.com

PLUMBING ROOTER MAN

Sewer & Drain Cleaning Specialists Plumbing Repair Specialists New Orleans 504-522-9536. KennerJefferson 504-466-8581. Westbank 504-368-4070. Laplace 985-6520084. Mandeville 985-626-5045.

Slidell 985-641-3525.

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HARRY'S

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