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Reef madness .........................................................16 The fight to save idle offshore oil platforms — and their marine ecosystems.

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7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Book of Mormon, the Lumineers, festivals and more

NEWS + VIEWS News.............................................................................7 The Whole Gritty City documentary Bouquets & Brickbats ...........................................7 This week’s heroes and zeroes C’est What? ................................................................7 Gambit’s Web poll Scuttlebutt...............................................................10 From their lips to your ears Commentary............................................................12 Gambit’s election recommendations for Orleans and Jefferson Clancy.........................................................................15 Tulane’s legislative scholarships

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Feature .....................................................................25 Vegetarianism in New Orleans Fork + Center ...........................................................25 All the news that’s fit to eat 3-Course Interview ............................................. 27 Tess Monaghan of Good Eggs Drinks ........................................................................28 Beer Buzz and Wine of the Week Last Bites .................................................................29 Foodie calendar, 5 in Five, Off the Menu

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT A&E News ................................................................. 37 Possum Kingdom Music .........................................................................38 PREVIEW: Jessie Ware

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Book of Mormon

In the Broadway hit musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), two idealistic but naive missionaries arrive in war- and poverty-torn Uganda and try to win converts.

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The Lumineers with Dr. Dog

Wed. Oct. 16 | Few new bands have seen a better first yearand-a-half than Denver folkies the Lumineers, who issued a winsome, winning eponymous debut in April 2012, played the Circle Bar the next month and return this week as a stadium headliner. Pennsylvania rockers Dr. Dog opens at 7:30 p.m. at UNO Lakefront Arena.

Vox and the Hound

Fri. Oct. 18 | Vox and the Hound returns from a sleepy summer with campfire anthems and spaghetti Westerninspired stompers crammed with big, belting choruses and psychedelic pop hooks from the band’s 2012 debut LP Courage. Americana slice Gold & The Rush and Baton Rouge alt-rockers West Without open at One Eyed Jacks. 10 p.m.

Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival

Fri.-Sun. Oct. 18-20 | Headliners include James Cotton, Jonny Lang, Shemekia Copeland, Sonny Landreth, The Lee Boys, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton and many others on two stages in Lafayette Square. There’s also barbecue prepared in regional styles from across the South. PAGE 25.

New Orleans Irish Film Festival

Fri.-Sun. Oct. 18-20 | The festival features the 1991 hit The Commitments, about an attempt to launch an Irish soul band, and the recent, critically acclaimed What Richard Did about privileged Dublin teens, as well as other dramas. At Prytania Theatre.

Miss Gulch Returns!

Fri.-Sun. Oct. 18-27 | The cranky old bat who threatens to have Toto killed in the opening scenes of The Wizard of Oz tells her side of the story. Bob Edes Jr. stars in Running With Scissors’ production of Fred Barton’s (Forbidden Broadway) one-man musical. At Mid-City Theatre.

Moon Honey album release with Sun Hotel, Julie Odell and Natural Blonde

Sat. Oct. 19 | Changing your band name on the eve of your breakthrough album sounds like the advice of a soon-to-befired manager. For Baton Rouge’s Twin Killers — now Moon Honey — it’s a way to take authorship of Hand-Painted Dream Photographs, painted with appropriately surrealistic strokes.

Sun Hotel, Julie Odell and Natural Blonde open at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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True grit

The new documentary The Whole Gritty City goes inside New Orleans’ school marching bands.

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Filming took place during a dozen trips between December 2007 and May 2010. Barber, an editor and producer for the CBS program 48 Hours returned to New Orleans after working on an episode of the program that looked at post-Katrina murders in New Orleans, particularly murders that catalyzed a citywide antiviolence march at City Hall, including those of filmmaker Helen Hill and Dinerral Shavers, a drummer for Hot 8 Brass Band and band director at L.E. Rabouin High School, one of the first schools to reopen after the levee failures. Shavers helped create the school’s marching band, which did not exist before Katrina. At 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 28, 2006, a week before the instruments arrived for the school’s marching band, Shavers, 25, was shot to death.

“I was working on that show, watching these interviews with these high school kids talking about their struggles and their

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lives and what he meant to them and what his band meant to Jaron “Bear” Williams them,” Barber says. “It was such a instructs fellow powerful thing in their lives. I was musicians in the always interested in New Orleans trumpet line of the music and this was a whole other Roots of Music. side of it I haven’t seen before — P H OTO C O U RT ES Y T H E that it’s deeply rooted in the comWHOLE GRIT T Y CIT Y munity, such a force in these kids’ lives. I just thought there was something there. There’s a story there that needs to be told.”

Before his death, Shavers appointed Lee a drum major.

Violence weaves throughout the film, from Shavers’ death to gunfire interrupting an O. Perry Walker football game to a scuffle between rival schools after parading.

To Be Continued Brass Band member (and O. Perry Walker drum major) Brandon Franklin, who Rawlins groomed to eventually replace him as band director, was killed in May 2010 at age 22. As Mardi Gras mobilizes band members in the film for their

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a former state representative from Harvey, pleaded guilty to three counts of tax fraud in U.S. District Court Oct. 10. Jackson resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in August, after the charges were filed. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 9, 2014, and could face up to three years in prison.

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As the sun sets and the sky goes black, O. Perry Walker band director Wilbert Rawlins Jr., nearing the end of a grueling afterschool rehearsal (what he calls “the relentless pursuit of perfection”), gives an impassioned speech to his musicians: “I’m the only one of my friends [I grew up with] still living. It was eight of us.

Four of us got killed at different times. Three of them overdosed on heroin. I’m the last one living.”

“As we kept learning, we kept filming, and we saw a way to tell the larger story — basically, kids struggling with so much, and this phenomenon of bands and band directors passing on so much to them,” Barber tells Gambit.

In an opening montage of the film, Rawlins says playing music in a marching band is a means of escape, a way to forget troubles at home or on the streets and find camaraderie through performance: “It must be nice to actually live like that, with no actual cares in the world, you know?”

head coach of the New Orleans Saints, raised nearly $1 million at his third Black and Gold Gala, with proceeds benefiting his Play It Forward Foundation, which awards grants to organizations for children and families in need.

This year the funds will benefit Feed the Children, the John Besh Foundation and the New Orleans Saints Courage House at the Rickey Jackson Community Hope Center.

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irector Richard Barber’s The Whole Gritty City made its world premiere Oct. 12 at the 24th annual New Orleans Film Festival. The film follows three marching bands from local schools — O. Perry Walker High School, L.E. Rabouin High School and the Roots of Music — from 2007 to 2010, as the bands emerge after Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, face violence in the streets and triumph on Carnival parade routes.

The film also gives an intimate glimpse inside the lives of several band members.

There’s 11-year-old Jaron “Bear” Williams, a prodigy mourning the shooting death of his older brother. There’s 18-year-old drum major Chris “Skully” Lee, who is taking the reins of his school’s new band following the death of its director. Then there are the band directors dedicated to putting on the best show ever while helping their students build a better future.

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citywide debut on parade routes, Franklin’s funeral unites bands throughout the city in the film’s profound climax.

Barber makes the streets a looming presence. They’re either a potential distraction to band members or are used as a warning from band directors. Rebirth Brass Band drummer and Roots of Music founder Derrick Tabb says that distraction is a real danger.

“Marching bands kept me away from the negative vibes going on in the streets,” Tabb tells Gambit.

“I was surrounded by it. Having to march in parades, having to march at different functions. That time to 5, 6, 7 o’clock, when children are most vulnerable to be in that kind of trouble, I had to do my homework and march in a parade with the band. I didn’t have time to do anything else.”

In the film, Barber introduces Williams as the young man sternly supervises the other young trumpet players in his line with the Roots of Music program.

Barber gave band members handheld cameras to record video diaries of sorts. In the film, Williams brings his camera home and records his neighborhood on his walk from the school bus stop. “This is the neighborhood I don’t like,” he says.

“This is the street I don’t like, ’cause it has guns.”

What initially was a film about the role and importance of marching bands in New Orleans unwittingly became Roots of Music’s origin story. Roots of Music’s first class began in June 2008. Barber began filming O. Perry Walker and Rabouin in 2007, and it wasn’t until a year after filming began that he discovered the Roots of Music.

Tabb, who was named one of CNN’s “Heroes” in 2009, co-founded the free after-school program that provides band instruction, tutoring, transportation and meals to at-risk elementary and middle-school students. At its heart, the program is anti-crime and focuses on education. Since 2008, more than 500 children from more than 40 schools throughout New Orleans have been in Roots of Music. The program partners with Tulane University, which provides students for tutoring sessions and homework help. The program has a semi-permanent home for rehearsing at the Louisiana State Museum’s Cabildo. StubHub has signed on to provide corporate sponsorship for its second year.

Williams now performs with L.B. Landry-O. Perry Walker College and Career Preparatory High School’s band (the schools merged this school year) and that school’s brass band, The Chosen Ones. Jazz Henry,

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One of the film’s unique perspectives comes from handheld cameras given to several band members. In one scene, Lee gives shout-outs to several of his friends and family members, many of whom have died, including Shavers.

“I was just hoping something would work with that,” Barber says. “I think it did.

Each one used it differently. Skully, we had such a hard time pinning him down to do any filming with him. It was a constant problem on this project to meet up with people. We gave him the camera and thought, ‘Well, we’ll see what happens.’ I was just blown over when we started looking at this shout-out that turns into this shoutout to all his friends and family he lost — including this guy he reveres — and starting the band.”

Those self-directed clips give a firsthand glimpse into their points of view, Barber says. “It shows you something in a way that someone shooting from the outside isn’t going to show you.”

In Williams’ clips, he introduces his family. Henry uses her clips to show off her instruments. “When I grow up, I want to be a musician and follow in my dad’s footsteps,” she says.

“It’s not just a music thing or a sports thing, it’s about caring about the kids and putting them first with everything we do — and giving them a positive role model,” Tabb says. “When they see the negativity, they understand to tell the difference between the negative and positive and decide where they’re going to go.”

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daughter of musician Corey Henry and a subject of the film, graduated Trumpet prodigy Jaron “Bear” Williams from the Roots of Music and now practices his horn. performs with the Pinettes Brass P H OTO C O U RT ES Y T H E W H O L E G R I T T Y C I T Y Band. Bear and Jazz also had roles in the HBO series Treme.

This year, there are more than 120 children enrolled in the Roots of Music.

The Whole Gritty City captures Roots of Music in its infancy: its first parades, its first black-and-gold uniforms and its first musicians.

“At the beginning of the program we didn’t know what to expect,” Tabb says. “We had a lot of kids coming to us in our first year. We didn’t even think the program had more of a chance than it did. Before long, we had a film company right there filming and watching our every move. It was kind of awkward, but it became like a sense of (Barber) being a part of Roots of Music. The filming crew was family.”

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SCUTTLEBUTT Quote of the week

“Biggest mistake I’ve ever made. … Not that I would have won, but I probably would have and he wouldn’t be in the White House.” — former New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka, who, during a ribbon cutting ceremony for Canary energy company’s new building in Watford City, N.D., said he regretted not running against Barack Obama for the Illinois Senate seat. He also said he had “no clue” why he was asked to speak, according to The Dickinson Press.

Magnolia Marketplace OK’d in council Shopping center will have 1 percent tax

The New Orleans City Council passed a measure Oct. 10 that creates a special tax district for the anticipated Magnolia Marketplace development along South Claiborne Avenue. The ordinance imposes an additional 1 percent tax on purchases at the shopping center, set to open in spring 2015.

At the City Council’s Economic Development Committee meeting Oct. 8, developers from Stirling Properties and JCH Development introduced the “penny tax,” as Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s adviser for economic development Aimee Quirk called it, to fund ongoing construction costs at the location.

The property will be a “large-box retail center,” according to developers, and all proposed storefronts have been pre-leased. Retailers on the 97,820-square-foot site include Michaels, PetSmart, Ulta, Carnival, T.J. Maxx, Ross and Raising Cane’s. Constrution is set to begin next summer on the $24 million development, which is funded by a combination of cash equity from developers ($5.5 million), bank loans and tax credits ($14.9 million), Community Development Block Grants ($1.5 million) and an anticipated $2.3 million from the district’s new tax.

Stirling Properties vice president Townsend Underhill said the companies are committed to hiring from the immediate local area. — ALEX WOODWARD

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If there were ever any doubt about the city’s stance on the new Pizza Domenica restaurant John Besh is proposing for Magazine Street, the New Orleans City Council dispelled it Oct. 10 with a unanimous vote in favor of the pizzeria — including the use of go-cups.

District B City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell praised the John Besh Group for its outreach to the neighborhood around 4933 Magazine St. and called the idea for a more family-oriented version of Domenica wonderful.

“We appreciate the love that the Besh Group showed the community on the front end,” Cantrell said. “You make us all better.”

Cynthia Hedge-Morrell announced last week that she will run for the at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council being vacated by termlimited Council President Jackie Clarkson.

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Besh made a quick appearance before the council, noting that his group of restaurants now employs 1,000 people around the city. Pizza Domenica will fit into Magazine Street and Uptown as well as his other restaurants have fit into the French Quarter and Central Business Districts, he said: “We intend to be lifelong neighbors and good stewards of the neighborhood.”

Pizza Domenica previously had received a mostly favorable but technically split vote from the City Planning Commission amid concerns about parking and a tangential discussion of go-cups. Cantrell’s Oct. 10 motion in favor of the restaurant deleted the provision prohibiting go-cups, noting that neighbors were fine with the souvenir-style cups the Besh Group uses. The proposal passed the full council by a 7-0 vote. Domenica Chef Alon Shaya has said he hopes the new restaurant can open next spring.

— ROBERT MORRIS | UPTOWN MESSENGER

La. Supreme Court says ‘no’ to tiger suit Tony the Tiger owner denied an appeal

In the latest update in the case of Tony the Tiger — the Big Cat attraction at Grosse Tete’s Tiger Truck Stop — the

Louisiana Supreme Court on Oct. 4 denied a request by owner Michael Sandlin to review the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling that Tony, a 550-pound Siberian-Bengal tiger, cannot live at the truck stop.

In 2011, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) for unlawfully issuing a permit to Sandlin to keep Tony. In April, the 1st Circuit Court of Court of Appeal held that Sandlin cannot keep Tony, nor can he keep a big cat permit issued by LDWF. Sandlin appealed to the state Supreme Court, which denied his application.

“We are relieved to see this case reach its end,” Matthew Liebman, senior attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, said in an Oct. 7 statement. “Nearly three years after we asked the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries not to issue a permit to the Tiger Truck Stop, the highest court in the state has declined to prolong this case further. We call upon the [LDWF] to do the right thing and send Tony to a reputable sanctuary, before we face another tiger tragedy.”

Meanwhile, Sandlin said he will try to appeal the state’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also has a separate suit pending against the state, arguing that its ban of exotic animals from private ownership is unconstitutional.

— ALEX WOODWARD

Hedge-Morrell to run for At-Large seat She’ll face Charbonnet in February

Before the New Orleans City Council met for its regular meeting Oct. 10, District D Councilwoman Cynthia HedgeMorrell announced via press release that she’ll seek Council President Jackie Clarkson’s soon-to-be vacated council-atlarge seat in February. Hedge-Morrell called the seat “open” in her announcement.

Clarkson will vacate her seat next May because of term limits. Hedge-Morrell has served District D since 2005 after winning a special election; she won the District D seat again in 2006 and 2010. In her announcement, Hedge-Morrell said her platform is based on job creation, education, and crime prevention.

Hedge-Morrell’s only opponent thus far in the at-large battle is Ernest “Freddie” Charbonnet, who launched his campaign in August. Charbonnet was appointed to the interim District E seat in 2012 after former District E Councilman Jon Johnson resigned and pleaded guilty to conspiring to use federal grants (awarded to the nonprofit organization he managed) to fund his 2007 state Senate campaign.

The at-large election is Feb. 1. Qualifying is Dec. 11-13.

— ALEX WOODWARD

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Election recommendations oters in New Orleans and Jefferson parishes go to the polls on Saturday, Oct. 19, to decide a handful of quiet but important elections and propositions. In New Orleans, the ballot contains races for judge and two proposed City Charter amendments.

In Jefferson, voters will elect a Juvenile Court judge and decide the fate of millage renewals for public education, as well as water and sewerage operations. We urge all our readers in Orleans and Jefferson to vote on Saturday, and we make the following recommendations:

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New Orleans Proposition 1: FOR

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Proposition 1 would amend the City Charter to abolish the Board of Electrical Examiners, the Board of Examiners of Operating Engineers and the Board of Mechanical Examiners. All three boards have been dormant for more than a decade. According to the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), these boards previously administered contractor exams and issued licenses. Contractors seeking to work in New Orleans now take exams administered by the state or a nonprofit industry organization, so these boards are no longer needed. “Eliminating the examiner boards is part of the mayor’s plan to streamline government by eliminating defunct boards and combining others that have overlapping or related responsibilities,” says BGR, which supports the amendment. We agree, and we urge our readers in New Orleans to vote FOR Proposition 1.

New Orleans Proposition 2: FOR

Proposition 2 would amend the City Charter to change the composition of the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB). Among other things, the proposed amendment would reduce the number of board members from 13 to 11 by removing the three City Council members who presently sit on the board, and add one citizen member.

The amendment also calls for a nominating process for potential board members, shortens members’ terms, imposes term limits and requires relevant experience and qualifications for board membership.

The S&WB was established more than a century ago by the state Legislature and was charged with constructing, maintaining and operating the city’s water, sewerage and drainage systems. It presently has 13 members, including the mayor, three City Council members, two members from the Board of Liquidation, City Debt and seven appointed citizens. Although enshrined in state law, the board is also a city agency; significant changes to its governance often require state legislation as well as amendments to the City Charter.

The proposed amendment on Saturday’s ballot will trigger implementation of state legislation already passed by lawmakers. If

approved by voters, the proposed changes will take effect Jan. 1.

Among the most significant changes is the idea of removing the three City Council members from the board. Because the board sometimes has to ask the council for a rate increase, council members who sit on the board have an inherent conflict of interest. It thus makes sense to remove council members from the board. At the same time, it seems reasonable to reduce the size of the board and to establish criteria for selecting board members with appropriate professional experience and expertise. We urge our readers in New Orleans to vote FOR Proposition 2.

Jefferson Parish School Millage: FOR

Last May, when voters in Jefferson resoundingly voted against extending tolls on the Crescent City Connection, they also narrowly rejected a proposition to renew a 7-mill property tax for public education.

We urge all our readers in Orleans and Jefferson to vote on Saturday.

Many believe the school millage proposition — along with two millage renewals for parish sewerage and water services — were overshadowed by the more controversial toll referendum and suffered from a general “vote no” mood among voters. All three millage renewals were defeated. On Saturday, all three are back on the ballot.

Two weeks ago, we endorsed renewal of the parish water and sewerage millages. Both would merely extend the taxes at their present rate and not raise taxes at all. The same is true of the school board millage. We support all three renewals.

The school board millage originally was set at 12 mills when voters approved it decades ago. It gradually has been “rolled back” to its present level of 7 mills, which the board seeks to renew for another 10 years, starting in 2015. The millage would not raise property taxes. Equally important, it generates more than $23 million a year and accounts for more than 5 percent of the board’s annual budget, which has seen significant cutbacks in recent years. Failure to renew the millage would impose even deeper cuts and put the education of thousands of schoolchildren at risk. We urge Jefferson voters to vote FOR the school board millage renewal.

The ballot in both Orleans and Jefferson parishes also includes judicial elections.

Because Gambit has long favored an appointed judiciary, we make no endorsements in those races.

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Don’t punish the kids now-private university gave each state lawmaker authority to award an annual, one-year scholarship to Tulane. It served (and still serves) as a reminder of Tulane’s public roots and historic commitment to Louisiana citizens. Nowadays, considering Tulane’s enviable national rankings, it’s also a great way to give deserving Louisiana kids a chance to attend a top-tier private university.

And that’s where the focus should be — on the kids. Unfortunately, because a few legislators aren’t particularly careful about how they go about awarding the scholarships, the focus has remained on lawmakers. Rather than scrapping the program, why not fix it?

We need not look far for a model. In New Orleans, a similar deal from years gone by gives the mayor five four-year scholarships to award each year. The 1990s scandal came to light when

Rather than scrapping the program, why not fix it?

We need not look far for a model. then-Mayor Sidney Barthelemy gave his son one of those scholarships. Duh. Since then, the city has adopted several reforms that go a long way toward eliminating the potential for abuse. A committee of high school principals and counselors recommends three candidates from each council district (conveniently, there are five districts), and the mayor gets to pick one winner from each district. Mayor Mitch Landrieu takes it a step further; he asks the committee to rank the finalists, and he picks the one ranked highest.

State Rep. Pat Connick, R-Marrero, also sets a good example. He lets Jefferson Dollars for Scholars, a local educational nonprofit that raises scholarship money on its own, recommend a deserving student from his district.

He also refuses to accept campaign donations from the families of scholarship awardees.

Hopefully, lawmakers will enact those practices (and more) as law next spring.

It would be a shame to punish deserving kids for the excesses of a few of our public officials.

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omebody needs to save Louisiana lawmakers from themselves before they ruin a program that gives deserving kids from all corners of the state a chance to attend Tulane University on scholarship. I’m talking, of course, about the infamous Tulane legislative scholarship program.

Let me say from the get-go that I have no problem with the scholarship program per se. I actually think it’s great that Tulane has a scholarship program that focuses on students from Louisiana. Unfortunately, letting lawmakers dole out the scholarships tends to shift the focus away from the kids and onto the politicians, and therein lies the problem.

Two weeks ago, The New Orleans Advocate and WWL-TV revealed that a handful of scholarship recipients — all of whom were excellent students — were the children of politically connected parents. A few awardees had parents who donated to the political campaign funds of their legislative benefactors — and at least one scholarship recipient’s parents received a solicitation from the senator who had just awarded the scholarship. Ouch.

A follow-up report turned up even more disturbing news: A surprising percentage of Tulane’s baseball team had legislative scholarships. Clearly, there’s room for improvement in the scholarship program.

That there have been some abuses in the Tulane legislative scholarship program is no surprise. Nearly 20 years ago, the program was a full-blown scandal. Lawmakers were giving scholarships to their own and each other’s kids — one even gave it to himself. The revelations triggered howls of protest and calls for reform. Tulane offered some very good suggestions at the time, which legislators promptly ignored on their way to making a few improvements.

Let me be clear: The changes put in place after that scandal helped, but they didn’t go far enough, particularly when a lawmaker can legally send a fundraising letter to the parents of a kid who just got a scholarship worth more than 10 times the legal campaign contribution limit.

This time around, the public reaction has been somewhat muted by comparison, although I’ve heard the predictable calls for dismantling the program altogether. A history lesson is in order.

Tulane University evolved from an institution that was once public. In the late 1800s, when that public institution was privatized, the university struck a deal with the state. (Surprise!) In return for a valuable public asset, the

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MADNESS Offshore oil and gas production hasn’t been all bad for the environment. Lush ecosystems of coral, turtles, fishes and more have made oil drilling platforms home, but federal law says the structures must be removed after wells are capped — all in the name of ecology.

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he men gathered in a Kenner garage for their monthly meeting look more like Marines on leave than environmental activists. But when the talk turns from catching large cobia, snapper, sheepshead and spadefish to removing idle offshore oil and gas production platforms, members of the Hell Divers’ Spearfishing Club become passionate — about saving the platforms and the prolific ecosystems that have developed around them.

Members of the Hell Divers, a local club that promotes sport diving and underwater spearfishing, travel around the world. Some of the best fishing anywhere, they say, is around platforms that have stood in the Gulf of Mexico for several decades. In the last few years, however, an increasing number of their favorite fishing grounds have disappeared because of what they call “outdated” legislation and bureaucracy that requires platforms no longer in use to be removed and the ocean floor returned to its pre-drilling state.

When the legislation was drafted in 1970, no one foresaw that those abandoned platforms would become the backbone of not only coral reefs but an entire marine biosphere.

“I saw more tropical fish in 10 minutes at a rig (in the Gulf of Mexico) than in 10 days in Honduras,” Hell Diver Stan Smith says.

Paul Cozic, president of the Metairie-based Hell Divers, says the U.S. government should issue a moratorium on removing platforms until the law catches up with science. The extraction of the decommissioned platforms, however, continues because of a complex set of circumstances including liability, financial gain, public perception and a lack of awareness.

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having some of the best sport fishing in the country, Cozic says. There is evidence to back up his claim. In an interview in 2012, Bob Shipp, a member of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, said that during the first 100 years that red snapper were harvested from the Gulf, all of the fish originated east of Mobile Bay, Ala. Now, 70 percent of the annual snapper harvest comes from west of Mobile Bay, closer to Louisiana.

“The only thing that changed was that they put the (oil and gas) rigs in,” Cozic says. Hell Divers say they believe the snapper already are moving toward Florida as more platforms are removed, because recently they have caught more snapper in Florida than in Louisiana’s offshore waters.

And the pace of removal is picking up.

“The Gulf of Mexico will lose a third of its 3,600 offshore oil and gas platforms in the next 5 years,” according to an analysis published in 2011 by EcoRigs, a nonprofit organization based in Baton Rouge that seeks to change policies concerning platform removals.

“They create one of the most prolific ecosystems, by area, on the planet. It is estimated that the removal of 1,250 platforms will destroy 1,875 acres of coral reef habitat and 7 billion invertebrates, many of which are federally protected.”

The analysis was written by Paul W. Sammarco, a professor at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) who has researched coral reef ecology for 30 years and is a member of EcoRigs; Steve Kolian, a marine researcher and founder of EcoRigs; and Scott Porter, a marine biologist at LUMCON and scuba diver who studies reef habitats around oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the analysis, “49 species of federally managed fish and 25 species of protected invertebrates utilize, to varying degrees, the platform substrate for feeding, spawning (and) mating, and grow to maturity.”

Platforms are simply being removed as stipulated in laws that have been

on the books for more than 40 years, according to the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

Regulations require that oil and gas production companies remove or topple platforms no more than five years after a well ceases production or one year after a lease has ended.

As of May, there were about 2,900 platforms on the Outer Continental Shelf, according to BSEE. Of those, 356 qualify for immediate removal and another 273 are on expired or terminated leases. Last year, 148 platforms were taken down (compared to 74 in 2008). 2009 saw a marked increase in removal, likely due to a backlog of decommissioned rigs, lax enforcement and a rash of hurricanes and tropical storms that damaged platforms, EcoRigs says.

Jumping off the boat and into the Gulf’s murky waters, Hell Divers say that once they descend through the top layer of chocolate milk-colored water, the undersea world quickly opens up into a wonderland of black coral, spiny oysters, sponges, sea turtles, stone crabs, grouper, amberjacks, red snapper and an array of brightly colored tropical fish.

The Hell Divers choose platforms for their expeditions because of the wealth and variety of sea life that latches onto and swims among the trellises of the colossal metal towers. Some members have been diving around platforms for half a century — a culture they want to preserve for their children and grandchildren. Cozic says he has noticed a number of the locations where he once dived for fish are now gone, the reef destroyed and the marine life dead or displaced.

“It’s sad when you go out there and your favorite rig is gone,” he says.

Still designated on their GPS as what they knew for years as an oft-dived underwater oasis of fish and coral, Hell Divers are saddened to find an empty spot of open water. The last time he went out for a dive, Cozic noticed four or five platforms had vanished.

There are many arguments for

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There also are reasons against dismantling platforms: destruction of ecosystems dependent on the structures; a decline in the biodiversity that attracts sports fishermen; and the ensuing decline in profitability for businesses focused on that industry.

At the heart of the issue is liability.

Unless platforms are outfitted with lights and horns, they are navigational hazards and the owners are liable for damages that might occur. The law currently doesn’t allow oil and gas production companies to sell a platform

and transfer liability to a new owner; there’s a cradle-to-grave liability that makes removal attractive — unless a platform enters Louisiana’s Rigs to Reefs program, which was started in 1986 as an incentive for companies to donate their platforms to the state, which then assumes liability. Platforms accepted into the program are toppled where they stand, partially removed and then toppled or moved to a designated area before being toppled.

While it sounds good, veteran Hell Diver Terry “Papa Smurf” Migaud says it’s not the win-win situation it appears to be. To comply with Coast Guard regulations, the top of the platforms must be cut off to at least 85 feet under the surface of the water to avoid being a hazard to seagoing craft. The Hell Divers and scientists at EcoRigs, however, argue that one of the most unique aspects of the vertical reef structure of

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tarted in 1963 by a dozen Metairie mailmen with a passion for spearfishing, the Hell Divers Spearfishing Club (www.helldivers.org) is one of the oldest in the nation.

The club limits its membership to 33, and membership requirements include being “proficient divers, the ability to stay out of trouble, helpful on the dive trip, and display a commitment to the club.” They also must be scuba certified and a member of the Louisiana Council of Underwater Dive Clubs (LCUDC). The Hell Divers’ mission is to build knowledge about diving by using it for sports and scientific exploration to determine safe depth limits for divers and to help preserve sea life habitats, and to increase interest in the sport through education programs.

The Hell Divers meet twice a month, go on regular dive trips in the Gulf of Mexico and other locales, and compete in an annual rodeo for the largest amberjack, barracuda, cobia, grouper and red snapper, among other fish.

The inaugural rodeo was held at the Lake Pontchartrain lakefront in 1963 and had a competition for sheepshead. Today, sportsmen come from across the nation to compete in the rodeo, which celebrated its 50th anniversary June 2 with a weigh-in and celebration at Kenner City Park.

In addition to promoting and preserving the sports of diving and spearfishing, the club, along with the LCUDC, has partnered with the University of New Orleans, the University of Southern Mississippi and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Association to conduct research, including studies of the invasive lionfish and the tarpon.

ABOVE: Hell Divers (l-r) Rafe Antill, Paul Cozic and Wil Demuth spearfish under an oil platform. Cozic says the club has become as much an advocacy group for preserving oil platform ecosystems as a sports fishing and diving group.

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a platform is that it supports a diversity of species at all levels: shallow, mid and deepwater, and those top feet support the most life.

“You have to have the complete vertical ecosystem,” Migaud says.

“The food chain is not complete (without the top feet of the platform),” Smith adds.

The toppled platforms also are not the same as the standing structures. Hell Divers Vincent LeBlanc and Ryan Saucier say they’ve tried fishing at the toppled platforms but found it wasn’t worth the trip. The fish just aren’t there, they say.

A study conducted from 2003 to 2009 by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) backs up their assertion. The study compared reefs developed in four situations: a platform in place, a platform partially removed and toppled, a platform toppled in place and a natural reef. The study concluded that there were significantly more fish around the standing platform — about 12,000 compared to 2,500 at a toppled platform: “Overall, we found that fish biomass and density around the standing oil and gas platform were higher than the artificial reefs or natural reef.”

The MMS study also recorded a substantial loss of marine life as a result of toppling. “We estimate a loss of approximately 50-80 percent of the fish population when a standing platform is converted (toppled or partially removed) into an artificial reef site in 100 m of water,” the report said.

The EcoRigs brief concurs: “Reefing a structure is not adequate mitigation, because 90 percent of the organisms will either perish or move from the site due to a change of location in the water column.”

The BSEE revised the Rigs to Reefs guidelines in June, removing a requirement that there be a 5-mile buffer zone between designated reefing areas, eliminating storm-toppled platforms from consideration for the program and providing deadline extensions for companies pursuing the program.

That’s a major victory and clears the path for “reefing” to become not just an option for a production company,

but a preferred option, according to Jeff Angers, president of the Center for Coastal Conservation.

Sammarco also supports Rigs to Reefs, but characterizes it as a “really good system that needs to be tweaked,” particularly when it comes to preserving the valuable upper parts of the platforms. One proposed solution would create a fund using money saved by not removing the platforms — one removal can cost as much as $3 million — and form an oversight foundation responsible for maintaining lights and horns on the platforms and conducting routine checks to make sure they are working.

“I think it’s quite possible to do it,” Sammarco says. “I’m not saying it’s simple, and all stakeholders need to be heard.”

The tourism industry also has a financial stake in the issue, and removing the platforms could have a negative impact. A study by the MMS in 2002 showed platforms generate $324 million annually and create 5,560 fulltime jobs in the marine sport fishing and diving industries.

“It’s going to be economically painful regardless of the ecology,” says oncologist-turned-marine biologist Will Stein of the University of New Orleans’ Nekton Research Laboratory.

“What we do know is that the rigs are an economic boon to the state of Louisiana. Sport fishermen spend a lot of money and support the coastal communities. When the rigs go, with it [comes] a loss of jobs, loss of revenue and loss of coastal heritage.”

Migaud says he has reached out to big environmental groups, but has gotten little support from them.

There is willingness to compromise among some, however, especially groups conversant about the Gulf of Mexico.

The New Orleans-based Gulf Restoration Network, for example, states that it “supports the development of a plan by stakeholder groups ... for retaining concentrated groups of rigs as artificial reefs in designated areas.”

There’s also a catch-22 in federal laws that developed because lawmakers didn’t foresee the symbiosis that

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developed between the submerged Colorful coral and other structures and the marine life thrive around drilling platforms in the ocean’s biosphere. The Gulf of Mexico.

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act prohibits removal of protected coral, hydrozoans, octocorals and gorgonians, creatures commonly found on platforms.

If destruction can’t be avoided, the government is required to consider alternatives, such as using the platform for renewable energy or sustainable fisheries. If there are not reasonable alternatives to removal and the destruction of a reef, the National Environmental Policy “We are basically asking for a Act requires the responsible party to pay moratorium in order to do some for building or restoring a habitat equal science to determine if the structures to the one destroyed. are essential fish habitats,” he says.

“The federal government is bound “Once we yank them out and find out by law to protect coral reef organisms that it hurts the fisheries — we are all and reef communities,” the EcoRigs brief says. If environmental regulations screwed. It will affect the recreational fishermen, the commercial fishermen, are enforced, it continues, “the oil the restaurants, the Louisiana economy and gas industry would likely have to as a whole, and our culture. Even though scrape organisms off the structures the structures were not put there for before removal and spend billions of dollars to mitigate the loss of the coral that reason, it may be a benefit.”

Meanwhile, other states, countries reef habitat.” and conservation organizations spend “You have to choose which law millions building and maintaining reefs to respect,” Sammarco says, and to accomplish what platforms in the “99 percent of the platform owners Gulf have achieved over decades: forget about the coral.” It’s not an support thriving populations of fish and insurmountable challenge, he says, other sea creatures. because not every platform spawns The Nature Conservancy estimates a vibrant reef. Based on his own 70 percent of the world’s coral reef surveillance, Sammarco estimates that could be lost by 2050 if current rates 25 percent or fewer platforms are highly productive reefs. “You’d still be taking out hold. To slow that decline, the group is spearheading an effort to protect and about 75 percent of them,” he says. build reefs in many areas, particularly According to Decomworld.com, a website that provides information for the the Coral Triangle, a band of coral in the Pacific Ocean that stretches between platform decommissioning business, the the southern tip of Asia and northern rate of removal is somewhat dependent Australia. Efforts are underway to on the mood of the industry. “The Gulf of Mexico oil and gas industry is clearly in a reduce overfishing, stem pollution and proactive mood for the decommissioning in some cases exclude humans from the areas. The Nature Conservancy of shelf assets,” reads a statement estimates that reefs in this triangle on the website. “Previous years have house 40 percent of the fish species been more reactive, principally due to in the world and provide livelihoods to hurricane activity, which had caused more than 126 million people. extensive damage to platforms and Closer to home, volunteers of the associated infrastructure.”

Coral Restoration Foundation in Florida, There’s big money to be made in the with funding from the NOAA, have grown platform removal business. “2011 was a about 30,000 staghorn and elkhorn record year for the number of platforms corals in underwater nurseries over the decommissioned, and has exceeded all past few years, and the program has predictions,” Decomworld says in its spread to the Caribbean. All over the “decommissioning market opportunities” world, nonprofits, science-based groups section. “2012 is already the second and government entities are coming largest market for structure removal.”

The Hell Divers, which Cozic says are together with a common goal to save focusing on changing the legislation as the earth’s reefs. much as spearfishing these days, want “While everyone else is losing reefs, the removals to stop until all the issues ours are growing,” Sammarco says. “Why are resolved. would we want to lose that?”

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Orleans Film Mark Brink has Festival, and operated his he’s an active auto repair shop member of since 1984. the Holy Cross P H OTO BY Neighborhood C H ER Y L G ER B ER Association, helping with its Christmas festivities. He received a “living legend” award alongside Fats Domino for being the first business to reopen in the 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

After work, Brink tinkers with one of five classic cars he keeps at home, including a 1968 Dodge Charger and three Plymouth Barracudas. He also loves to dine at local restaurants. He’s a regular at Satsuma and Port of Call.

In the future, Brink doesn’t want much more than to keep his good business and to stay small and local. He mentions adding an attic to store some of his excess inventory, which is stacked to the ceiling in precarious towers in his shop.

Otherwise, he says he’s content.

Brink has pulled his family into the business: His wife comes in once a day to look over the books. His son, Mark Jr., helps work the desk during his interval between college and graduate school. But even with the help of these assistants, Brink retains his custom of closing the shop on Thursdays. On those days, he heads out to the recycling center and takes care of other errands.

“It’s just a good day to drive,” he says, a twinkle in his eye.

SHOPPING NEWS

All books at Maple Street Book Shop Used and Rare (7523 Maple St., 504-866-7059; www. maplestreetbookshop.com) are 30 percent off through October.

Nancy Blouin of Beau Bijou showcases her jewelry designs at Judy at the Rink (The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 504-891-7018; www.judyattherink.com) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 and Saturday, Oct. 19.

Magazine Street merchants host Moonlight on Magazine from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday,

By Leslie Lazard

Oct. 17. Participants can shop at more than 25 Magazine Street retailers and enjoy drinks, treats, specials and giveaways. Ten percent of proceeds will benefit the Ochsner Cancer Institute.

B.E.E. Galleries (319 Chartres St., 504-5877117; www.beegalleries.com) hosts “You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Pound Dog” silent auction from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17. There will be hor d’oeuvres and cocktails. All proceeds benefit the Animal Rescue of New Orleans.

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ust past the St. Claude Avenue bridge in the Lower 9th Ward, there’s an unassuming auto repair shop with a faded sign that reads Mark’s Muffler Shop (5229 St. Claude Ave., 504-944-7733). The glass door to its office swings open and shut as customers bring their cars to be examined by owner Mark Brink’s practiced eye.

“I’m a very low-tech, old-school mechanic,” he says. “You might take [your car] somewhere else and it’d take two days; you bring it here and I’ll have it done in a half-hour.”

Brink purchased the shop from a friend in 1984. He fell in love with cars before he was legally able to drive, buying a 1962 Ford Falcon he hand-painted green. Soon he began learning about the muffler and exhaust systems that became his area of expertise. When other repair shops face challenging problems, they send their clients to Brink, who is nationally known for his work with Flowmaster exhaust systems.

Clients tout Mark’s Muffler’s reasonable prices and straightforward estimates. Brink says he has “regulars from forever.”

“Pretty much all my customers would recommend me,” he says. “Everybody seems to think I do good work. ... They’ll go to [a competing shop] and they’ll say [a repair is] a thousand bucks, and I’ll say two, two-fifty. They say, ‘You just saved me a bunch of money.”

Brink reinforces this positive impression through his community activities. His walls bear posters for “Night Out for Crime” events and the New

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Pescatarian: the seafood-eating New Orleans vegetarian.

By Missy Wilkinson

Blues and barbecue

Phong Nguyen presents a Vietnamese crepe at August Moon.

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ture. He brought out an August Moon original: crispy shrimp seasoned with sweet onions and lemongrass.

I couldn’t say no to this meal, and I didn’t want to. The shrimp were delicious. Afterwards, I felt almost high, sated in a way I hadn’t felt in years. I thanked Nguyen and told him how much I’d enjoyed the food, though I didn’t share the specifics of why it was so memorable. He was very gracious and said it was a customer favorite, but he preferred a different dish.

Which dish was that, I wanted to know.

“Gumbo,” he said, laughing.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival (www.jazzandheritage.org/ blues-fest) typically presents an impressive array of veteran and younger blues musicians on two stages in Lafayette Square (545 St. Charles Ave.). This year, it also features revamped and expanded barbecue offerings.

“We got some feedback asking ‘Where’s the barbecue?’” says foundation Director of Programs, Marketing and Communications Scott Aiges. “We used to try hard to avoid duplication and we had a lot of grilled and smoked foods from Louisiana. We’ve reorganized it around regional barbecue styles.”

Vendors at this year’s festival (Oct. 1820) offer everything from brisket to ribs and barbecue styles from the Carolinas, Kansas City and Texas, as well as some items from beyond the U.S. There’s Carolina-style pulled pork sandwiches from The Joint (701 Mazant St., 504-949-3232; www.alwayssmokin.com) and St. Louis ribs from Rouses (citywide; https://shop. rouses.com), which is sending its mobile smoking rig to the festival. Louisiana foods are still well represented with cochon de lait po-boys from Walker’s BBQ (10828 Hayne Blvd., 504-241-8227; www. cochondelaitpoboys.com), which sells the same sandwich at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; smoked hot sausage from Crescent Pie & Sausage Company (4400 Banks St., 504-482-2426; www.crescentpieandsausage.com); and boudin balls from Squeal BBQ (8400 Oak St., 504-302-7370; www.squeal-nola. com). Seafood options include barbecue oyster po-boys from Brocato’s Eat Dat (8480 Morrison Road, 504-309-3465) and barbecue shrimp po-boys from T.J. Gourmet (601 Poydras St., 504-473-9273).

There also are vegetarian items, such as The Praline Connection’s (542 Frenchmen St., 504-943-3934; www. pralineconnection.com) red beans and rice and Cafe Carmo’s (527 Julia St., 504875-4132; www.cafecarmo.com) legumes azi desi, or grilled vegetables with chili-tomato-peanut sauce. Side items range from corn pudding and baked beans to blue cheese slaw. The number of food vendors grew to 14 plus three offering sweets.

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still remember the first meal I ate as a brand-new vegetarian — or rather, the dish I didn’t eat: fried rice at Five Happiness. I’d ordered it not knowing little fetal curls of plump pink shrimp would be nestled among the grains. I wanted nothing more than to devour them. But I’d given up seafood, the last remaining bastion between me and fullfledged vegetarianism, for Lent. And here seafood had arrived, unbidden, to tempt me on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2003.

I didn’t eat shrimp then or for the next 40 days. In fact, I wouldn’t eat seafood again for eight years.

During that time, I had variants of the following conversation numerous times: “Does your menu have any vegetarian items?” “Sure. We have a shrimp quesadilla/grilled salmon fillet/seafood gumbo.” After countless servings of limp grilled vegetables and baked potatoes, I wondered why this culinary epicenter couldn’t make a decent meatless meal. I asked my other vegetarian friends if they’d encountered the same problem.

“No, I just order seafood,” they said.

It’s a phenomenon I’ve come to dub the “New Orleans vegetarian” — known as pescatarian in other parts of the country.

Several of my friends consider themselves vegetarian but suck down raw oysters with relish and practically dive into pots of seafood jambalaya. The thinking is anything that’s not meat is fair game for a vegetarian to consume.

I wouldn’t bother to correct the New Orleans vegetarian, and neither would the Catholic Church. This spring, a New Orleans archbishop wrote that alligator is seafood. His letter to a parishioner ended up going viral and contains this charming, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”-tinged sentence: “Yes, the alligator’s considered in the fish family, and I agree with you — God has created a magnificent creature that is important to the state of Louisiana, and it is considered seafood.”

It’s not quite the same blurred line as the pescatarian/ vegetarian collusion, but it’s not far off, either. I suspect there’s a similar impulse lurking just beneath the surface in both instances, which shapes our lives as invisibly and as indelibly as New Orleans’ high water tables: the urge to engage fully with this region — its wetlands, lakes, Gulf, estuaries — and all its weird, delicious little swamp critters.

When I stopped eating seafood, I stopped participating in parts of Louisiana’s culture. I’d sip a Coke at crawfish boils, spurning even the potatoes and corn because what if they’d absorbed fish juice? I nibbled pasta at holiday dinners instead of eating my grandmother’s seafood gumbo. I was never tempted by meat, but even closing in on a decade of vegetarianism, I missed seafood.

In April 2011, I was assigned a story about August Moon, a restaurant serving Vietnamese and Chinese food. Owner Phong Nguyen, a smiling man wearing a white polo tucked neatly into slacks, told me the story of his restaurant. He spoke in a soft voice about how he’d grown up in communist Vietnam during the 1970s. He tried to escape at age 12 and failed. He made a total of 13 attempts. Each time, the government captured him. At age 18, Nguyen was sentenced to a year and a half in a labor camp. He attempted escape again and this time he succeeded. He made it to New Orleans and opened the restaurant in 1991.

After the interview, Nguyen offered me a meal. I accepted, thinking it would be nice to include a description of the food in the fea-

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The musical lineup includes harmonica master James Cotton and the Iguanas Friday night. Saturday features guitarists Jonny Lang, John Mooney, Sonny Landreth and Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton and bluesbelter Shemekia Copeland. On Sunday, there’s north Louisiana native and soul and blues singer “Mighty” Sam McClain, soul and blues singer Mel Waiters, former subdude Tommy Malone, Cedric Burnside Project, the Miami-based funk and gospel sacred steel band The Lee Boys and others.

Some of the festival will be broadcast on WWOZ FM. The festival also features an interview stage and an arts and crafts market, The event is one of several annual Jazz & Heritage Foundation festivals, which are funded by proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Before Hurricane Katrina, there was a series of neighborhood festivals, but after the floods, they were revamped to focus on musical genres and expanded to include more local and visiting bands, Aiges says.

The next festival is the Treme Creole Gumbo Festival (Nov. 8-9) in Louis Armstrong Park. — WILL COVIELLO

Laurel Street Bakery opens second location

Laurel Street Bakery (5433 Laurel St., 504-897-0576; www. laurelstreetbakery.com) opened its second location (2701 S. Broad St., 504-897-0576; www. facebook.com/laurelstreetbakery) Oct. 7, adding another new restaurant to an area that for years offered primarily corner store fare such as boiled seafood and po-boys. Laurel Street Bakery proprietor Hillary Guttman says that in addition to opening the Broad Street location, she’s giving the original location a facelift so that it can “go back to where [it] started from” and use its commercial kitchen, “Big Mama Bakery,” solely for specialty orders such as wedding cakes and bake everything sold at the bakeries. The Broad Street location also serves as a place for Guttman to debut new dishes before offering them at the Laurel Street location.

“Broad has a lot more bagels, and we highlight them, our spreads and our breakfast sandwiches there, as well as our espresso,” Guttman says. “The other store is more focused on pastries and it only offers two breakfast sandwiches.” The Broad Street location is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday through Friday. If there is sufficient demand, Guttman will open on Saturdays. — MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY

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The Roosevelt New Orleans (123 Baronne St., 504-648-1200; www. therooseveltneworleans.com) reopened its Fountain Lounge this week with a raw bar and four different menus offered at different times of day.

Breakfast features conventional dishes (two eggs any style) and fancier items, such as the croque madame, featuring a sunny side up egg, Gruyere Mornay and country ham on sourdough. Brunch and snack menus include debris fries and burgers. Chef Justin Ferguson, formerly of Superior Seafood, created more upscale lunch and dinner menus with dishes such as seared Gulf fish with cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes and Louisiana crawfish, and crispy oysters with Cajun vichyssoise.

The original Fountain Lounge opened in 1938 and closed in 1965. It served as the more relaxed, Parisian-inspired counterpart to the Sazerac Bar and the hotel’s entertainment venue, The Blue Room. The Fountain Lounge offers a menu of craft cocktails and two are revived classics. The Bayou Swizzle is a run and lime juice concoction served in the Fountain Lounge in the 1940s. The Jambalaya cocktail combines Southern Comfort, peach schnapps, lime and grenadine.

The Fountain Lounge is open for breakfast daily, lunch weekdays and drinks and dinner Monday through Saturday. Brunch is served Saturday and Sunday. There is live entertainment Thursday and Friday evenings.

— JEANIE RIESS

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Tess Monaghan

Director of Good Eggs, New Orleans Founded in San Francisco two years ago, Good Eggs (www. goodeggs.com/nola) is an online farmers market that connects local producers to customers.

Good Eggs takes orders, collects items from local producers on the day of distribution and either delivers groceries or bundles them for pickup. Tess Monaghan directs the New Orleans operation, which began its pilot phase in June. It served nearly 100 customers last week, and expects to find a larger location, double its pool of producers and offer more pickup spots when it opens officially later this year.

How does Good Eggs work for customers?

How does Good Eggs choose the food producers it works with?

M: [In New Orleans], we have an emerging system as far as local food economy goes. People reach out to us, and we look for farms that are growing sustainably, without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. People raising animals for meat, eggs or dairy can’t use hormones or antibiotics — ever, and the animals have to be able to range free in an outdoor space.

How is this different than traditional grocery stores?

M: Our primary goal is around transparency. We think the problem with the industrial agricultural system is that you have no idea where food comes from. You have no idea what soil produced it, or who grew it, or how much they were paid, or what pesticides were used. Even the organic designation is such a commercial thing. The biggest companies that sell organic foods are almost all owned by the Nestles and Krafts of the world. You can go into Whole Foods and find organic snack crackers. They are organic; they are produced without certain ingredients, but they are produced by companies owned by the same Nestles and Unilevers as the nonorganic chemical-filled stuff next to it. …

Our primary goal is to work with producers that are very transparent in their sourcing. On our website, you can see a lot of information about them.

If you have a question, you can email them or us.

Good Eggs’ mission is to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide.

We hope [our software] is a technology tool that’s applicable. It’s a way to change our relationship to food in this post-industrial age. How can we make it as convenient to buy from your local farmer as it is from a grocery store, where food is maybe being trucked in from Mexico or California. We believe in more dollars staying local. We believe in local employment and local businesses.

—WILL COVIELLO

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Monaghan: We have a “webstand,” and we work with producers to set up an online storefront. We’re a conduit to connect farmers to customers. We don’t buy eggs; the customer goes online and buys from the egg person.

The way our software is set up, when you go online, you’re buying food directly. If you buy a steak, a dozen eggs and broccoli, you’re paying [the producers] directly.

Customers have to order on Sunday by midnight for Tuesday, and Tuesday by midnight for Thursday. All food is grown, made and harvested to order — nothing is sitting on a shelf. If you order butternut squash on Sunday, Tim picks it on Monday or Tuesday morning and brings it to us Tuesday, and you’re eating it that night.

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The brew pub Crescent City Brewhouse (527 Decatur St., 504-522-0571; www. crescentcitybrewhouse.com) has served craft beer in the French Quarter since certified German Brewmaster Wolfram “Wolf” Koehler opened it in 1991. Back then, “A lack of good beer in New Orleans seemed to be a perfect invitation for a German brewmaster looking for a place to put a brewery,” Koehler says.

Koehler grew up in the Bavarian region of Germany and began working at a brewery at Wolfram Koehler brews Ger16. He “hated every minute of it,” he says. man-style beers at Crescent City But the following year, he apprenticed Brewhouse. at another brewery, and after two more years he became eligible to go to Berlin to study the science behind brewing and become a Brewmaster.

After a six-year stint in Belize and working in breweries throughout Europe, Koehler arrived in New Orleans in August 1989. He opened Crescent City Brewhouse in a historic French Quarter building in January 1991 after convincing the Vieux Carre Commission that his plan for a European-style brewhouse would have a low environmental impact on the area, he says. “I had no idea it was going to be this kind of monster,” he says. “I thought it would be more like, I brew during the day, I sell beer at night, and in between I grill sausages.”

Koehler’s Pilsner is the brewpub’s most popular beer and his personal favorite.

The regular selection also includes a marzen style red/amber ale, a dark lager and a wheat beer. Crescent City also has a full bar, and the restaurant is open for lunch and dinner daily. There’s a live jazz band in the evening and Crescent City often showcases work by local artists.

Koehler’s passion for beer and the craft of brewing is rooted in respect for tradition. “Beer is a very sacred and simple concoction of four ingredients,” Koehler says. “What I’m doing is what people have been drinking for the last 500 years.” — NORA MCGUNNIGLE

WINE of the week 2012 Santa Carolina Pinot Noir Reserva CASABLANCA, CHILE $10 RETAIL

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Grapes for this wine were sourced from estate vineyards in the Casablanca Valley on Chile’s coast. Bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Andes mountains, the cooling Humboldt current flowing up the South American coast and ocean breezes create an ideal climate for growing grapes. At the winery, 25 percent of the harvest is fermented in open tanks and the remainder in stainless steel tanks.

Ten percent of this blend is aged for six to nine months in French oak barrels. The wine offers aromas of red and black cherries, strawberry and hints of earth and oak. On the palate, taste ripe cherries, currants, plum, some spice, raspberry and black tea notes and a well-defined acid finish. Decant 20 minutes before serving to aerate. Drink it with tuna nicoise, pate, cured meats, roasted chicken, grilled pork chops, beef bourguignon and root vegetables.

Buy it at: Whole Foods Market in Metairie. Drink it at: Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar, 801 Royal and Westin New Orleans Canal Place.

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1 Cochon

930 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-588-2123 www.cochonrestaurant.com

The Boucherie Plate typically includes items such as rillettes, house-made sausage, country bologna, cured pork shoulder or loin, dry beef sticks, hog’s head cheese or terrine and toast points, mustard and two types of pickles.

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7 p.m. Friday Smilie’s, Plantation Room, 5725 Jefferson Highway, Harahan, 504-451-6258 www.smiliesrestaurant.com Murder a la Carte presents an interactive murder mystery play with a four-course dinner to benefit Stepsisters NOLA. Tickets are $40. Costumes are encouraged.

Food and Fitness Fair

9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday Sankofa Farmers Market, Frederick Douglass High School, 3820 St. Claude Ave., 504-827-9214

www.sankofanola.org Sankofa CDC and Healthy Heart Community Prevention Project host a food fair featuring student smoothie contests, a demonstration on cooking with fresh herbs by chef Dominique Macquet and introductions to tea brewing and herb gardening.

2 The Mixed Grill includes little smokies (miniature pork sausages in barbecue sauce), two types of links from the rotating selection (bratwursts, smoked hot sausage, spiced lamb), smoked coppa (cured pork shoulder), house-made pickles and mustard or aioli.

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Satsuma Festival

noon to 4 p.m. Sunday French Market, North Peters and Gov. Nicholls streets, 504-596-3429

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www.frenchmarket.org There are satsuma peeling contests, a satsuma cocktail and mocktail demonstration and an Edible Schoolyard presentation

www.domenicarestaurant.com

Diners can choose from house-made duck pate, prosciutto, lardo, salami gentile (not spicy), lonza (cured pork shoulder), bresaola and other items for a platter with accoutrements such as olives, spiced figs and pickled fennel.

4 Root

200 Julia St. 504-252-9480 www.rootnola.com

The Sausage Fest features the chef’s selection of six house-made sausages such as cervelat (Swiss-style sausage of pork and sweetbreads), morcilla (boudin-like Spanish blood sausage) and spicy lamb merguez, plus pickled watermelon rinds and vegetables (squash, zucchini), fennel-bacon marmalade, mustard and a pretzel bun.

5 Toups’ Meatery

845 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-252-4999 www.toupsmeatery.com

The Meatery Board is a grazing platter featuring items such as boudin, Steen’s syrup chaurice, pickled jalapeno sausage, pate, spicy cured pork shoulder, rillons (candied pork belly), chicken liver mousse, hog’s head cheese, two kinds of pickles, olives and red onion marmalade.

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On hold, not tap “I’ve been working so hard, and I find all these great investors. And now I can’t get started because people are fighting over this or that in Washington. ... This is something people don’t mess around with. Even in a bad economy, people drink beer.”

— Craft brewer Mike Brenner, founder of Brenner Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wis., in an Associated Press story about how the federal government shutdown has prevented the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (an arm of the Treasury Department) from approving permits for breweries, labels and recipes, which affects craft brewers trying to get seasonal releases to market.

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Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more.

To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

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BAR & GRILL Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 302-9357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun and disco fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The

BARBECUE Boo Koo BBQ — 3701 Banks St., (504) 202-4741; www.bookoobbq.com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ Hickory Prime BBQ — 6001 France Road, (757) 277-8507; www.hickoryprimebbq.com — Proprietors Billy Rhodes and Karen Martin have won several barbecue competitions and serve serve Texas-style brisket, smoked chicken, ribs and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Saucy’s — 4200 Magazine St., (504) 301-2755; www.saucysnola.com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled chicken. The cochon blue is a sandwich of pulled pork, blue cheese and melted mozzerella on a bun. Reservations accepted.

Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

COFFEE/DESSERT BURGERS CHARCOAL’S GOURMET BURGER BAR — 2200 Magazine St., (504) 644-4311; www.charcoalgourmetburgerbar. com — This burger specialist’s patty options include beef, bison, shrimp and veggie. The Cobb salad features romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, blue cheese, croutons and dressing. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno.com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak. com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. No reservations. Breakfast Thu.-Sun., lunch Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast items like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted bread or an English muffin. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www. cafenoma.com — The cafe serves chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and pastries and desserts baked in house, plus sandwiches and salads.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large

Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop and serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www.facebook. comruedelacourse — The coffeeshop offers a selection of bagels from Artz Bagelz. The Lakeview sandwich features chicken or tuna salad on a bagel dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayo and comes with a side. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Cash only. $ Pinkberry — Citywide; www.pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, chocolate, nuts and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites at chef Susan Spicer’s restaurant include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce.

Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ One Restaurant & Lounge — 8132 Hampson St., (504) 301-9061; www. one-sl.com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes inlcuding char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and red wine vinaigrette and cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines. com — The city’s oldest restaurant serves a range of dishes including its signature oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/ cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery. com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, PAGE 32

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Huh! A Restaurant & Bar — 3401 N. Hullen St., Metairie, (504) 2292484; www.huhrestaurant.com — This restaurant serves salads, sandwiches, burgers, entrees and crepes . Reservations accepted.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Open during New Orleans Saints games. Credit cards. $$ Knuckleheads Eatery — 3535 Severn Ave., Suite 10, Metairie, (504) 888-5858; www.knuckleheadsnola. com — This casual eatery serves burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads and bar noshes. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ O’Henry’s Food & Spirits — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 866-9741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, (504) 461-9840; www.ohenrys.com — The menu at the family-friendly restaurants includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe. com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else’s menu includes shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs, burgers, po-boys and sandwiches.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites such as seafood, salad and and items from other cuisines. No reservations.

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

house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sun-dried tomato pesto.

Delivery available. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ Jigger’s Bar & Grill — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 828-3555 — The sports bar serves sandwiches including toasted muffulettas filled with Italian ham, Genoa salami, provolone cheese and house-made olive salad. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Rendon Inn’s Dugout Sports Bar — 4501 Eve St., (504) 826-5605; www.therendoninn.com — The Boudreaux burger combines lean ground beef, hot sausage and applewood-smoked bacon on a ciabatta bun and adds cheese, onions and remoulade. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www. therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Shamrock Bar & Grill — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 301-0938 — Shamrock serves Angus rib-eye steak, burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, grilled chicken, spinach and artichoke dip and more. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

menu offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Jung’s Golden Dragon — 3009 Magazine St., (504) 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

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brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes and seafood. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.mamommashouse.com — Home-style Creole dishes offered here include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant serves contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, gumbo, redfish couvillion and catfish and shrimp dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Saints & Sinners — 627 Bourbon St., (504) 528-9307; www.saintsandsinnersnola. com — The restaurant serves Creole and Cajun dishes, raw oysters, seafood, steaks, po-boys, burgers and more.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This popular neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www. koshercajun.com — The New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches including corned beef and pastrami straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www. mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 8967350; www.martinwine.com — The dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demiglaze and smothered greens.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu in-

cludes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

ETHIOPIAN Cafe Abyssinia — 3511 Magazine St., (504) 894-6238 — There are a variety of wots, traditional stews served over injera bread, and tibs, sauteed meats or vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

FRENCH Baie Rouge — 4128 Magazine St., (504) 304-3667; www. baierougenola.com — Pig Dip features pork debris, caramelized onions and garlic aioli on French bread with a side of smoked pork jus. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Martinique Bistro — 5908 Magazine St., (504) 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has seating in a cozy dining room or a courtyard. New Zealand lamb loin is served with cucumber and sweet onion pickles, Israeli couscous, Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 737-8146; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” and weekday specials.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Julie’s Little India Kitchen At Schiro’s — 2483 Royal St., (504) 944-6666; www.schiroscafe. com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — 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, (504) 836-6859 — The menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served a variety of ways, including tandoori and in curries Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner

Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www.amicinola. com — Amici serves coalfired pizza and Italian dishes.

The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana pie is topped with marinara, mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian greens and Italian sausage. Pasta carbonara features pancetta and green peas in white sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 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. $$$ Maximo’s Italian Grill — 1117 Decatur St., (504) 586-8883; www.maximosgrill.com — Osso buco is a braised veal shank served with garlic, thyme and white wine demi-glace, herb-roasted Parmesan potatoes and grilled asparagus. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www. redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves breakfast items including pancakes, waffles and pastries. At lunch, try handmade meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Thu.-Fri., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $

OUT to EAT from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 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. $$ Yuki Izakaya — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www. facebook.com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch.

Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties.

Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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La Macarena Pupseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www. pupsasneworleans.com — This cafe serves Latin and Caribbean dishes, tapas and appetizers like guacamole and chips. Spanish garlic shrimp is served with refried black beans, saffron rice and tropical salad. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$

Asuka Sushi & Hibachi — 7912 Earhart Blvd., (504) 862-5555; www.asukaneworleans.com — Asuka serves sushi and grilled items from the hibachi.

The Shaggy Dog roll features tempura-fried shrimp, snow crab and avocado topped with crabstick and eel sauce and spicy sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Kakkoii Japanese Bistreaux — 7537 Maple St., (504) 5706440; www.kakkoii-nola.com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls.

Reservations recommended for parties of six or more.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www. mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www. japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties

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LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton. com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale. Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys.com — The menu combines contemporary Creole dishes and Italian items from Christiano’s pop-up. Pork loin roulade is stuffed with goat cheese and pine nuts and served with spinach, stone-ground grits and balsamic-infused pork jus.

Pappardelle is served with pulled duck confit, charred pepper and mustard greens.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.

com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and pan-fried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 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 skilletfried 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.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes like semi-boneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewoodsmoked 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. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 5254790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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Ristorante Filippo — 1917 Ridgelake Drive, Metairie (504) 835-4008 — The Creole-Italian menu includes a crabmeat salad featuring half of a tomato filled with jumbo lump crabmeat over romaine lettuce dressed with remoulade and balsamic vinaigrette.

Veal Sorrentina is sauted veal layered with prosciutto and eggplant, topped with marinara and mozzarella and served with spaghetti marinara. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine. com — Try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni. Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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ranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations.

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Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 2923705; www.facebook.com/ casaborrega — The barroom and cantina is decorated with folk art, and there’s seating in the back courtyard.

Tamales de rajas poblano con queso features two tamales with poblano peppers and asadera cheese served with Mexican crema and white rice.

Taco plates include a choice of three tacos (lamb, beef tongue, carne asada, black drum or pork), Spanish rice, refried beans and guacamole.

No reservations. Lunch Wed.Sun., dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders. com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD Bombay Club — 830 Conti St., (504) 586-0972; www.thebombayclub.com — This elegant French Quarter hideaway is styled like an English manor and is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www. gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and 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.

Lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob. com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread.

The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Little Gem Saloon — 445 S. Rampart St., (504) 267-4863; www.littlegemsaloon.com — Little Gem offers creative contemporary and Creole dishes and live jazz. Louisiana black drum is topped with jumbo lump crabmeat and served with spinach, blackeyed peas and sherry cream.

Rabbit and cauliflower gratin is served with apple-cabbage preserves. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www. marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or poboys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole.

Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros in pita bread. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Siberia — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www. siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. Potato and cheese pierogies are served with fried onions and sour cream. No reservations.

Dinner and late-night daily.

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NEIGHBORHOOD Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www. cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksres-

taurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 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.

No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www. marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations.

Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.Sun. Credit cards. $ Mellow Mushroom — 1645 Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 3275407; 3131 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 644-4155; 8827 Oak St., (504) 345-8229; www.mellowmushroom.com — The Holy Shiitake pie tops an olive oil and garlic brushed crust with shiitake, button and portobello mushrooms, carmelized onions, mozzarella, montamore and Parmesan cheeses and black truffle oil. The Enlightened Spinach salad is topped with dried cherries, apples, candied pecans and feta cheese. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than twodozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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SEAFOOD Acme Oyster House — 724 Iberville St., (504) 522-5973; 1202 N. Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 246-6155; 3000 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504)

includes a grilled petit filet mignon, pork loin, gallo pinto, fried plantains, fried cream cheese and cabbage salad.

Center-cut beef tenderloin is topped with chimichurri and served with a baked potato.

Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno. com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood.

Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side.

Reservations recommended.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here.

Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Paella de la Vega combines shrimp, mussels, chorizo, calamari, scallops, chicken and vegetables in saffron rice. Pollo en papel features chicken, mushrooms, leeks and feta in phyllo pastry. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE Doson Noodle House —135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 3097283 — Traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlights 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. $$ Pho Tau Bay Restaurant — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, (504) 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls and more.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Rolls-N-Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.facebook.com/rollsnbowlsnola — The casual Vietnamese eatery serves spring rolls, pho, rice and vermicelli bowls, banh mi, stir fry entrees and bubble tea. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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Bear’s at the Bottomline — 3309 Division St., Metairie, (504) 455-6613 — Bear’s po-boys feature Gendusa loaves filled with its signature roast beef, fried shrimp and other standards. Burgers are char-broiled. No reservations.

Lunch daily, dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Bear’s Poboys at Gennaros — 3206 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 833-9226 — The roast beef po-boy features beef slow-cooked in house, sliced thin, soaked in gravy and dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on toasted Leidenheimer bread. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Dress It — 535 Gravier St., (504) 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. $ Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.Sun. Cash only. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 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. Credit cards. $ Wilma’s Cheesesteaks — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 304-5411; www.jugheadsneworleans. com — Wilma’s specializes in cheese steaks on toasted Dong Phuong bread. The regular cheese steak features thin-sliced rib-eye, sauteed mushrooms, onions, peppers and garlic and melted provolone and mozzarella. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

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309-4056; www.acmeoyster. com — The original Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter has served raw oysters for more than a century. The full menu includes char-grilled oysters, cooked seafood dishes and New Orleans staples. The Peace Maker po-boy combines fried shrimp and oysters. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Chad’s Bistro — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-9935; www.chadsbistro. com — The seafood Napoleon features fried eggplant medallions topped with crabmeat on a bed of angel hair pasta topped with shrimp au gratin sauce. The seafood boat is a bread loaf filled with fried shrimp, oysters and catfish and stuffed shimp. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri. dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 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 soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Grand Isle — 575 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant. com — The Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; housemade bacon, white cheddar and caramelized onions. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www. mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www. redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickorygrilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Sergio’s Seafood — 533 Toulouse St., (504) 227-3808; www. facebook.com/sergiosseafoodnola — The Fritanga plate

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Swamp creatures Cripple Creek Theatre Company opens its season with an original drama.

By Will Coviello

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While they struggle with the falling value of Brosia, or their inability to demand a better price from remote buyers, they compete with possums to collect the raw material. Far from small, harmless marsupials, these possums are large and menacing.

Like Vaught’s other works produced by Cripple Creek, it’s full of offbeat characters, its own absurd wisdom and vernacular, and strains of darkness and humor.

But Possum Kingdom also echoes recent events.

“I wrote the first draft after the BP spill,” Vaught says. “There was this feeling of separation from everything that was going on in the rest of the country; this feeling of bewilderment of who was in charge of what exactly — fallout from people we had never seen and who we would never see and how that affected us so badly.”

The distant forces at work in Possum Kingdom remain obscure. The drama focuses on the little band of Brosia hunters and their efforts both competing and cooperating with each other. It’s not an allegory, even if it invokes familiar issues, and it’s also not realistic in terms of some of the swamp creatures and the Brosia economy.

Since its founding eight years ago, many of Cripple Creek’s productions have reflected timely issues, sometimes fortuitously. When the company produced Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector General in 2008, New Orleans created an Inspector General position, and Robert Cerasoli, the first Inspector General, made cameos in Thursday productions of the show and participated in audience talkbacks. Other productions have touched on environmental issues (The Shaker Chair), social issues and gentrification (Clybourne Park) and labor issues (Waiting for Lefty). Vaught notes that it has been easier to draw audiences to comedies than some serious dramas.

“In our second year, we opened with Bury the Dead,” Vaught says. “I think that would be more popular now with the zombie craze. But it’s about soldiers who come back to life and refuse to be buried until the war is over. It didn’t really gel with a lot of people.”

Cripple Creek also has presented absurd and riotous Andrew Vaught wrote and shows, including Carnival performs in Possum Kingdom. time presentations of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu series, about a foolish, amoral king. It also Possum Kingdom OCT cooperated with South8 p.m. Fri.-Sun. ern Rep and other theater companies to produce The The Truck Farm THRU Lily’s Revenge, a five-hour NOV 3020 St. Claude Ave. spectacle of theater, dance, film and art about a flower’s www.cripplecreekattempt to become human players.org and win a bride.

Cripple Creek has presented works at a wide array of venues, including many nontheater spaces. It will coordinate with Alex McMurray and the Valparaiso Men’s Chorus on a production of Dylan Thomas’ radio drama Under Milk Wood at the Saturn Bar in December. The company had not originally intended to present Possum Kingdom outdoors, and in fact, the first location it settled on was for a second run at Bayou Playhouse in Lockport, La. That is the first step in the company’s next phase of development — beginning to take productions on tour.

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hen Cripple Creek Theatre Company coproduced the original work The Future is a Fancyland Place, members moved enough dirt and sod into the theater space at the AllWays Lounge and Theatre to create a farmhouse’s front yard and backyard in a long configuration that left the audience watching the play from two sides, like bleachers at a football game. As the company prepared the outdoor space at the Truck Farm, where it’s presenting the original work Possum Kingdom, it had to move earth again.

“We like going into a new space and cleaning it up and making it a performable venue,” says Cripple Creek co-founder Andrew Vaught. “That’s a skill we’ve developed. We’re marketing ourselves as landscapers. … But (AllWays manager) Dennis (Monn) was not happy about the dirt.”

The Truck Farm is a large clearing within a residential block bordering St. Claude Avenue, and it’s the home of the annual Chaz Fest music festival. For Possum Kingdom, Cripple Creek has cleared out a grove that has a small shack, which serves as a character’s home in the play, and there’s a run of trees that shapes a narrow but deep performance space. They hauled out bags and bags of leaves and branches to use the space, but it’s a perfect setting for a play about swamp dwellers who live detached from the forces that control their livelihood.

“It’s exponentially harder to do an outdoor show,” Vaught says. “It fits so well in this space, because you have a long and narrow playing area. You have a house there and a secluded grove. You have a feeling of apart. These people exist apart from what’s happening above them.”

Possum Kingdom was written by Vaught, who also plays Inman, an intermediary who travels between the swamp and “upriver.” The motley and eccentric bayou dwellers eke out an existence by collecting a barely described substance called Brosia from trees, creatures and other natural elements of their environment. Inman carts their scrapings up the river and returns with payment, but always on the nebulous other side’s rates and terms.

With their meager and ever-more-scarce earnings, they pursue their interests and dreams. Alder (Dylan Hunter) accepts some of his payment in nails, which he uses to finish building his home. Marjorie (Kate Kuen) wants some of her payments made in notebooks, which she uses to record a diary, which also is a brief history of their existence. Many of them accept canned food and beer as well.

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on the Bone, 7:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Jason Marsalis & Trad Vibes, 7; Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman feat Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Prime Example — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 7&9

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Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9 The Sandbar at UNO — Dmitry Mospan, 7 Siberia — Voodoo Glow Skulls, Toasters, Left Alone, Joystick, 8 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; The Orleans 6, 6; St. Louis Slim & the Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10 Three Muses — Schatzy, 7

All show times p.m. unless otherwise noted.

TUESDAY 15 Banks Street Bar — Last New Beginning, 9 Blue Nile — Timaeus: Douglas Bradford, Aryeh Kobrinsky, Cody Brown, 10 Bombay Club — Lucas Davenport, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Nigel Hall Band, 8

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AllWays Lounge — Night Janitor, 10

Buffa’s Lounge — Gardenia Moon, 7

Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 6

Cafe Negril — Gettin’ It, 7; Sam Cammarata & Dominick Grillo, 7:30; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30

Bombay Club — Tony Seville, 7

Chickie Wah Wah — Tom McDermott & Antoine Diel, 8; Andreux & the See of Sounds, 10

Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 One Eyed Jacks — Johnny Dilks & the Highway Kind, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8

Tropical Isle Original — Way Too Early, 1 Tulane University — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 7

Yuki Izakaya — Kanako Fuwa’s Moshi Moshi feat. Detroit Brooks, 8

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8 & 9

Gasa Gasa — Progression hosted by Sasha Masakowski, 8

Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 11

UNO Lakefront Arena — Lumineers, 7:30

THURSDAY 17

The Civic Theatre — JJ Grey & Mofro, Honey Island Swamp Band, 8

Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 9

Trinity Episcopal Church — Eric Rodriguez, 6:30

Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9:30

Spotted Cat — Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

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Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 7; The Nigel Hall Band, 10

Circle Bar — Mirror Travel, Sundog, 10

Hi-Ho Lounge — Songwriters Gumbo, 8

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Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10

d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9

Hard Rock Cafe — Rock Star Karaoke feat Chad Gilmore, Jack Miele & Phil Wang, 9

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Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7 Deanie’s Seafood — Mia Borders, 6 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Leah Rucker, 9:30 Hard Rock Cafe — Josh Garrett Band, 9 House of Blues — Raheem Devaughn, Iris P, 8; Jet Lounge, 11 House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Domenic, 6 Howlin’ Wolf — Too Short, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — NOJO Jam, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Andre Bohren, 5; Chris Mule´ & the Perpetrators, 11 Maple Leaf Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 10 Old Opera House — Chicken

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Eudora Evans, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Glen David Andrews, 7:30 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Carl LeBlanc Trio, 5; George French Quartet, 8:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Jamie McLaughlin, 8 Circle Bar — Colleen Green, White Fang, The Memories, Stoop Kids, 10 Columns Hotel — Kristina Morales, 8 Covington Trailhead — Y’at Pack, 5 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — King James & the Special Men, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Douglas Bradford, 9:30 Freret Street Publiq House — Brass-A-Holics, 9:30 Hard Rock Cafe — Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Soundclash, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Bass Drum of Death, HiGH, Blackfoot Gypsies, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — James Rivers Movement, 8

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English singer/songwriter Jack Penate has 8 p.m. Monday released two well-received albums on the XL label, The Parish at but his greatest contribution to the pop-music House of Blues canon thus far has been his choice in backup singers. For the cascading duet “My Yvonne,” from 229 Decatur St. his 2007 debut Matinee, Penate tabbed a longtime 504-310-4999 friend with a then-unrecognizable, now-unmiswww.hob.com takable voice — Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, who one year later issued her own XL debut, 19. Adele appeared again on Penate’s follow-up Everything is New, and from that album’s tour cycle emerged a new female foil: Jessie Ware, another sultry Londoner whose delivery cuts Adele’s whiskeyed bluster with Sade’s wine-stained yearning. As did her predecessor, Ware took the spotlight with her, sexing up records by SBTRKT and Florence and the Machine before issuing 2012’s Devotion (PMR), the first album to bear her name. A standout among the crowded field of recent excellent R&B LPs, Devotion made an instant star out of the former supporting player, thanks largely to Ware’s commanding performance on three endlessly playable singles, which prop up the album like a tripod: the thorax-lodging power ballad “Wildest Moments,” perpetual-emotion “Running” and, best of all, effervescent sampler “If You’re Never Gonna Move,” whose Big Pun-referencing original title (“110%”) and recurring clip (“Carvin’ my initials in your forehead”) had to be altered after the late rapper’s estate filed suit. If Ware needs a new backup singer, she knows whom to ask. Mikky Ekko opens. Tickets $27.50 in advance, $30 day of show. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Little Gem Saloon — Paul Sanchez, 5

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Guthrie & Johnny Irion, 9

Maple Leaf Bar — Johnny Vidacovich, Mark Mullins, Charlie Wooton, 10:30

DMac’s — Vincent Marini, 7

Circle Bar — The Couch, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz, 10

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

Harrah’s Casino — Marc Broussard, 8

Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9

Le Bon Temps Roule — Dave Reis, 7

d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; Rebirth Brass Band, 11

Little Gem Saloon — Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, 9

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Peter Harris, 10

Maple Leaf Bar — Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 10:30

Gasa Gasa — Mission South feat. Brian Hyken & the Wanderlust, Yelephants, 9

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola feat.

Crescent City Joy Maker, 8 Prime Example — Delfeayo Marsalis, 7 & 9 Rivershack Tavern — Two Pieces & a Biscuit, 8 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Kirk Duplantis Trio, 9 Siberia — Acrassicauda, Donkey Puncher, Six Pack, 10; Guitar Wolf, Coathangers, Coward, King Louie’s Missing Monuments, 10 Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Luke Winslow King, 7:30 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11

FRIDAY 18 8 Block Kitchen & Bar — Anais St. John, 9

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Banks Street Bar — Max & her Trail Mix, Johnny Angel & Hellorado, 9

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Bayou Beer Garden — Lynn Drury, 9 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & BBQ Swingers, 6; The Mumbles, 9; Stooges Brass Band, 10 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 6

Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5 One Eyed Jacks — Vox & the Hound, Gold, The Rush, West Withou, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Palm Court Jazz Band feat. James Evans & Kevin Lewis, 8 Rivershack Tavern — Big Al & the Heavyweights, 10 Spotted Cat — Bart Ramsey, 4; Dr. Sick & the Late Greats, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10

Tipitina’s — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Billy Franklin’s Smoke ‘n Bones, 10

Ritz-Carlton — Catherine Anderson, 1

Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Shannon Powell Trio, 5

Rivershack Tavern — Russell Batiste & Friends, 10

Yuki Izakaya — Monika Heidemann, 8

Siberia — Vibrators, Split ( ) Lips, Mea Culpa, DJ Chrischarge, 9; Pallbearers. Classhole, Room 101, Fat Stupid Ugly People, Betty White T-t F-k, 9

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Abita Springs Town Hall — Petty Bones, Drunken Catfish Ramblers, Reverend Charlie’s Patient Medicine Show, Jockey Etienne & the Creole Zydeco Farmers, 7

Columns Hotel — Ted Long, 6 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole, 10 Dillard University — Ledisi, Delfeayo Marsalis & the Up-

Prytania Bar — Norcolapalco, HiGH, Call Girls, 9

Treasure Chest Casino — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7

Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30

Circle Bar — Left of the Dial, 10

Maple Leaf Bar — Mia Borders, 10:30

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lionel Ferbos feat. Palm Court Jazz Band, 8

8 Block Kitchen & Bar — Anais St. John, 9

Chickie Wah Wah — Nikki Hill, 9

Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7

Three Muses — Royal Roses, 6; Glen David Andrews, 9

Buffa’s Lounge — HONOR, 5; Shotgun Jazz Band, 8

Carrollton Station — Andrew Duhon, 8

Joy Theater — Tedeschi Trucks Band, 8:30

One Eyed Jacks — Moon Honey, Sun Hotel, Julie Odell, Natural Blonde, 9

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Eudora Evans, 9

Capri Blue Bar at Andrea’s Restaurant — Phil Melancon, 8

House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Cody Blaine, 1

St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & the Lonely Nights Band, 8

21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, Adam Arredondo, Russell Ramirez, Joseph Faison, 8

Cafe Negril — El DeOrazio, 7

Hangar 13 — Chaos, Overtone, Fin Fox & Amigo the Devil, 8

Ampersand — DJ SliiNK, 10

Spotted Cat — Carolyn Broussard & the Scotch Hounds, 3; Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; The Mumbles, 9 Tipitina’s — George Porter Jr. & the Lee Boys, 10 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Montegut, 11

SUNDAY 20

Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6

Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; To Be Continued Brass Band, 10

Bombay Club — Lucas Davenport, 6

Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like It Hot, 11 a.m.

Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8 & 9

Chickie Wah Wah — Ray Wiley Hubbard, 8

Buffa’s Lounge — Royal Rounders, 8; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 11:30

Circle Bar — Guantanamo Baywatch, Birthstone, The Bills, 10

Capri Blue Bar at Andrea’s Restaurant — Phil Melancon, 8 Carrollton Station — Pigeon Town, 10 Chickie Wah Wah — Sarah Lee

Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m.

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Marc Stone & Friends, 10

MUSIC LISTINGS

Harmonica master James Cotton performs at the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival in Lafayette Square at 7 p.m. Friday.

DMac’s — Michael Pearce, 11 a.m; Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 6 Freret Street Publiq House — Mia Borders, 9:30

Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Tyler’s Revisited feat.

Germain Bazzle, 8

Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 8 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Circle Bar — Ghost Box Orchestra, 10

Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home — Banu Gibson, 3

Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8

The Maison — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 4

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

New Orleans Public Library, Rosa Keller Branch — Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, noon

d.b.a. — Glen David Andrews, 11

One Eyed Jacks — Kristy Lee, Reno Roberts, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tom Fischer feat. Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Ritz-Carlton — Armand St. Martin, 10:30 a.m.; Catherine Anderson, 2

Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Living Legends feat.

Maynard Chatters, 8 The Roosevelt Hotel Bar — Jazz Factory Night with the James Partridge Septet, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville & Friends, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Joe Cabral, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8

Dmac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8

CALL FOR MUSIC

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9:30

French Quarter Festival.

French Quarter Festivals Inc. is accepting applications for local musicians interested in performing at the French Quarter Festival in April. For details & to apply, visit www. fqfi.org or call Greg at (504) 227-3121. Deadline Nov. 1.

Hard Rock Cafe — Right Hand Road, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8 House of Blues — All Time Low, Wonder Years, 7

Spotted Cat — Rights of Swing, 3; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sounds, 10

House of Blues (The Parish) — Jessie Ware, Mikky Ekko, 8

Three Muses — Raphael & Norbert, 5:30; 5:30; Hellen Gillet, 8

Maple Leaf Bar — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10

Warehouse Grille — Ponyspace, 7

Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30

Yuki Izakaya — Morella & the Wheels of If, 8

One Eyed Jacks — J Roddy & the Business, Gringo Star, 10

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Treme Brass Band, 8

Threadhead Cultural Foundation. Threadhead Cultural Foundation seeks applications for its grants to fund artistic projects that preserve, promote and disseminate the cultural heritage of New Orleans. Visit www.thcfnola. org/grants for details. Deadline Monday.

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Battle Of The Year (PG-13) — Young people with hot bodies compete to win a dance competion that America has lost for the past 15 years. Westbank Beyond All Boundaries (NR) — The museum screens a 4-D film, bringing audiences into battle using archival footage and special effects. World War II Museum Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (PG-13) — The documentary tells the story of cult pop band Big Star. Chalmette Captain Phillips (PG-13) — Tom Hanks plays Captain Richard Phillips in the film retelling of the 2009 Somali pirate hijacking of the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama. Canal Place, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (PG) — The 2009 animated feature’s sequel has wacky inventor Flint Lockwood returning home to stop his creation from making food-animal hybrids. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Don Jon (R) — Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes his feature-length directorial and writing debut in a film about a kindhearted ladies’ man who believes porn imitates life. Canal Place, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Ender’s Game (PG-13) — The sci-fi movie about based on the Orson Scott Card book of the same name is a child prodigy sent to military school to prepare for martian invasion decades after an alien war. Westbank

Enough Said (PG-13) — A divorcee (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) goes after the man she wants (James Gandolfini). Canal Place, Elmwood The Family (R) — The witness protection program takes a mafia family to France. Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal Grace Unplugged (PG) — When a talented young singer-songwriter turns 18, she’s forced to choose between Christianity and secular fame.

Elmwood, Grand, Regal Gravity (PG-13) — Marooned in space following a disaster, a veteran astronaut (George Clooney) and a medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) combine forces for survival. Canal Place, Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Great White Shark 3D (NR) — Shark encounters are shared in the documentary.

Entergy IMAX Haunted Castle 3D (PG) — After much exploration, a man discovers the house he recently inherited is haunted.

Entergy IMAX 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.

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(PG-13) — Forest Whitaker stars in the historical drama based on the life of Eugene Allen.

Elmwood, Westbank Machete Kills (R) — In this follow-up to 2010’s Machete and prequel to Machete Kills Again...In Space!, Danny Trejo is recruited keep a person in Mexico from starting a nuclear war. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Prisoners (R) — Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis star in the crime thriller about a man searching for his daughter and her friend.

Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Romeo & Juliet (PG-13) — The Shakespeare tragedy about star-crossed lovers from dueling families in Verona is retold for the 21st century. Elmwood Runner Runner (R) — After thinking he has been cheated in an online poker game he played to make tuition money, a down-on-his-luck college student (Justin Timberlake) travels to Costa Rica to meet the man allegedly responsible (Ben Affleck). Canal Place, Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Rush (R) — The 1970s-set sports drama from director Ron Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan recreates the rivalry between two Formula One racers. Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank Salinger (PG-13) — Director Shane Salerno takes a look inside author J. D. Salinger’s private life. Chalmette To The Arctic 3D (G) — Meryl Streep narrates the documentary that follows a polar bear and her two 7-month-old cubs as they navigate the Arctic wilderness. Entergy IMAX We’re The Millers (R) — Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts and Ed Helms pretend to be a family to get a large shipment of weed across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Regal

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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (R) — Jennifer Hudson and Anthony Mackie star in the coming-of-age story about two inner city kids making it alone after their mothers are taken away.

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Carrie (R) — Stephen King’s 1974 novel about the naive teenage daughter of a religious fanatic mother is modernized with references to social media and cellphones. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Insidious: Chapter 2 (PG-13) — The 2010 horror’s sequel has the Lambert family going into “The Further” once again.

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Escape Plan (R) — A wrongfully imprisoned man (Sylvester Stallone) recruits a fellow jailbird (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help him flee and learn who framed him. Chalmette, Clearview, Elmwood, Grand, Regal, Westbank

Instructions Not Included (PG-13) — The mother of a little girl found on man’s doorstep returns. Elmwood Lee Daniels’ The Butler

The Fifth Estate (R) — Based on factual events, the thriller tells the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, his colleague

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Bayou Maharajah

OCT Of all the world-class musi7 p.m. & 10:15 p.m. Thursday cians to come out of New Orleans over the last 100 years The Civic Theatre or so, James Carroll Booker III 510 O’Keefe Ave. may be the one who remains most shrouded in mystery. His 504-272-0865 musical genius is the stuff of www.civicnola.com local legend, and his flamboyant personality still makes those www.neworleansfilmsociety.org who knew Booker light up with the chance to tell an outrageous yet (potentially) true story about him. Probably bipolar, possibly schizophrenic, he was a handful even for those who loved him unconditionally. Booker was a difficult character to pin down when he was alive, often disappearing for weeks without warning or explanation. His best records have been out of print for years. How can we finally get a handle on a mythical figure like this 30 years after his untimely death at the age of 43?

New Orleans filmmaker Lily Keber’s documentary Bayou Maharajah retrieves Booker from relative obscurity by placing his life and work squarely in the context of the only city capable of producing him. Keber located reams of previously unknown performance and interview footage, audio clips, photographs and other materials, and she found no shortage of friends and colleagues eager to shed light on the musician. But the film doesn’t aim to uncover every possible factual detail, and it won’t sensationalize a figure famously described by longtime collaborator Dr. John as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.”

Like its subject, Bayou Maharajah follows its own muse, loosely tracing the arc of Booker’s life story but quickly disappearing down whatever rabbit hole it deems appropriate. The result is not only a uniquely creative music documentary, but also the best film about New Orleans in years.

Booker made his first record (“Doin’ the Hambone”) at age 14, and the list of all-time greats Booker accompanied on tour in the 1950s and ’60s includes Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and many others. But the film necessarily focuses on the 1970s, when Booker came into his own as an artist and eventually found a wildly receptive audience in Europe. Defying music-doc convention, the film leaves room for Booker’s music to breathe. A full five-minute clip of his version of New Orleans R&B classic “True” from the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival captures a moment of surprisingly delicate artistry. By contrast, a sequence in which famous friends share a range of unlikely stories about how Booker lost an eye is nothing short of hilarious.

Illuminating Booker’s technique on the piano is his former pre-teen student, Harry Connick Jr., who elegantly demonstrates what set Booker apart as a musician. “It’s insanity,” Connick concludes, still in awe of his mentor’s magic.

Balancing the music and the tall tales is a treasure trove of rare archival footage that vividly depicts life in New Orleans in days gone by. Integrated with the rest of the film, this material helps generate a timeless quality that bridges eras and reminds us who we are and what still makes this city great. “Why leave New Orleans?”

Booker asks rhetorically near the end of Bayou Maharajah. Keber’s film finds its true voice by making his story our own. The documentary is the closing film in the New Orleans Film Festival. — KEN KORMAN

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A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas

A Warehouse on OCT Director Jessy Williamson and his crew Tchoupitoulas spent several years rounding up fans and 8:45 p.m. Wednesday staff from the decade-defining music venue The Warehouse, the rock venue on TchoupiContemporary toulas Street that hosted The Grateful Dead Arts Center and Fleetwood Mac on opening night in 1970 900 Camp St. and was the place in New Orleans to see live music until its closing in 1982.

504-528-3800 Williamson’s documentary A Warehouse www.cacno.org on Tchoupitoulas is a nostalgic, if overly sentimental, look back at the forgotten www.neworleanslandmark. What it lacks in style and editing filmsociety.org it almost makes up for in photographs, memorabilia and tall tales from the film’s talking heads, though most of their stories have a “you had to be there” quality. Although it’s about music and the people who performed at the space, the film has no interviews with musicians other than Deacon John Moore (whose psychedelic blues band often made appearances), nor is there any music — in place of a soundtrack it uses generic, royalty-free music clips that add nothing to the movie. Long-winded stories from former staff members, including founder Bill Johnston (who died earlier this year before the film’s release) are left to capture The Warehouse. While the film includes dozens of interview clips, the stories are broken into clunky chapters (one of which spends too much time early in the film discussing construction of the bathrooms) rather than a chronological timeline of The Warehouse’s history, which began with a bang and closed with a whimper.

A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas captures, though not elegantly, an important decade in the New Orleans music scene, and the film will satisfy fans of the venue who want to reminisce about its heyday. This screening is part of the New Orleans Film Festival. — ALEX WOODWARD

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Daniel Domscheit-Berg and the controversy surrounding the two. Elmwood, Westbank Generation Iron (PG-13) — Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White star in Vlad Yudin’s documentary about bodybuilders training for the Mr. Olympia competition. Chalmette I’m In Love With a Church Girl (PG) — A thug (Ja Rule) turns saint, thanks to the woman he loves (Adrienne Bailon).

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24th Annual New Orleans Film Festival (NR) — The New Orleans Film Society hosts an eight-day film festival. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org for details. Tuesday through Thursday

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (NR) — Richard Lowenstein and Lynn-Maree Milburn explore the life of the Australian musician. 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Zeitgeist Breakin’ (PG) — DJ Soul Sister hosts a BYOB screeing of the 1984 movie about breakdancing. Midnight FridaySaturday, Prytania CBGB (NR) — Randall Miller’s film follows the story of Hilly Kristal’s New York club from its origins as a country, bluegrass and blues club through its becoming a birthplace of punk. Tuesday-Thursday, 10 p.m. Saturday, Zeitgeist Chinatown (NR) — A private investigator (Jack Nicholson) hired to expose an adulterer (Faye Dunaway) finds himself in danger in Roman Polanski’s 1974 crime drama. 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Prytania Evil Dead II (R) — The screen-

ing of Sam Raimi’s cult horror classic is BYOB. 10 p.m. Monday, Prytania Irish Film Festival (NR) — Irish Network New Orleans hosts an Irish film festival and gala.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (R) — Jack Nicholson stars in Milos Forman’s 1975 drama about mental patients planning to overcome their head nurse (Louise Fletcher). 10 a.m.

Sunday, Prytania Re-Animator (NR) — Stuart Gordon’s 1985 sci-fi horror based upon H.P. Lovecraft’s story about a mad scientist pre-med student and his girlfriend is presented on 35 mm film. 10 p.m. Sunday, Prytania The Short Game (NR) — Josh Greenbaum’s documentary

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The Theatres at Canal Place, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 363-1117; www.thetheatres. com; Chalmette Movies,

8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies,com; AMC Clearview Palace 12, Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 887-1257; www.amctheatres. com; AMC Elmwood Palace 20, 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan, (504) 733-2029; www. amctheatres.com; Entergy IMAX Theatre, 1 Canal St., (504)

581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org; The Grand 16 Slidell, 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell, (985) 641-1889; www.thegrandtheatre.com; AMC Westbank Palace 16, 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 263-2298; www.amctheatres.com; Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net

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OCT Director Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely would 7:30 p.m. Thursday have been more aptly titled Out of Touch.

Almost all of its characters suffer some Prytania Theatre form of estrangement, and the most central 5339 Prytania St. one, Abby (Rosemarie DeWitt), is a massage therapist who suddenly finds herself 504-891-2787 disgusted by the prospect of touching www.theprytania.com her clients’ skin. Though she counsels her brother, the meek dentist Paul (Josh Pais), www.neworleansand his daughter Jenny (Ellen Page, Juno) filmfestival.org about how to improve their lives, she makes dubious choices for herself.

Abby’s strange new phobia is induced by anxiety over moving in with her boyfriend (Scoot McNairy, Argo). It’s surprising since he’s a very welcome and familiar figure among her family. She seeks the advice of an all-purpose new age-y counselor (Allison Janney, The West Wing, American Beauty), and eventually she steers Paul to her for a reiki cleanse and spiritual reading. As predictably awkward as that encounter is, it’s funny in an understated way and, like most of the things that are enjoyable about the film, it has little to do with Abby.

The film is set in Seattle, and the cinematography goes from panoramas with lush green forests and cloudy skied backgrounds to mesmerizing closeups of skin that almost seem like micro-panoramas of the tiny wrinkles and creases of flesh.

Paul speaks to his patients with a droning faux cheer, and his practice is in decline, with an appointment calendar that’s half empty. Still, he doesn’t want Jenny to leave the nest or her work as his dental hygienist. He’s not expressive, but Jenny understands and acquiesces to his wishes. Abby, Paul and Jenny all share one obstacle: They refuse to address their problems directly. Paul seems the most unlikely to make a bold step in any direction, but he reaches out and enjoys the wildest transformation this film could afford him, resulting in its biggest surprises and funniest moments. Page is saddled with a relatively smaller role, but she outshines everyone when she’s hinting at Jenny’s bottled up emotions and is even more impressive when Jenny opens up about her feelings.

Though sure of herself when tying to help others get in touch with their feelings, Abby seems oblivious to some of her most obvious hang ups, which starts to strain credulity. DeWitt does a fine job in this role, but Abby is a frustrating character.

It’s much more entertaining and satisfying to watch Paul, Jenny and some of the minor characters. The solid cast makes the light drama engaging, even if it’s unclear whether anyone will make an emotional breakthrough before their 90 minutes are up. Touchy Feely screens as part of the New Orleans Film Festival. — WILL COVIELLO

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OPENINGS BEE Galleries. 319 Chartres St., (504) 587-7117; www.beegalleries.com — “You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Pound Dog,” exhibition, silent auction and social benefiting Animal Rescue New Orleans.

6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans. 433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www.martinlawrence.com — Art by Francois Fressinier, Artist reception is 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

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A Gallery For Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery. com — “Beyond Thought: Homage to Clarice Lispector,” photogravures by Josephine Sacabo, through December.

Photographs and photo books from all eras by various photographers, ongoing.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — Pastels by Mary Monk and oil paintings

by Patch Somerville, through Oct. 26.

AFA New Orleans. 809 Royal St., (504) 558-9296; www.afanyc.com — “Phantasmagoria,” oil paintings on paper and canvas by Anne Bachelier, through Oct. 28. “The Art of Joe Sorren,” paintings by the artist, through November.

AKG Presents the Art of Dr. Seuss. 716 Bienville St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com/dr-seuss — Works by Dr. Seuss, ongoing.

Alex Beard Studio. 712 Royal St., (504) 309-0394; www. alexbeardstudio.com — Drawings and paintings by Alex Beard, ongoing.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www. angelakinggallery.com — “Fluid Thoughts,” mixed media exhibition by Paul Tamanian, through Nov. 8.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249;

www.antonart.com — “Juke Joint: Folk Art from the Deep South,” mixed media group exhibition, through October; “Deep Blues,” Southern folk art group exhibition, ongoing.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — Mixed media group exhibition, through October.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “Cultivar,” video installation by Courtney Egan; “New Orleans From Above,” paintings of aerial views of New Orleans

by John Hartman; “Water,” large-scale aerial photographs

by Edward Burtynsky; all through Nov. 23.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Paseos por New Orleans,” bilingual oral history poster exhibit on being Latino in Louisiana, through Oct. 25.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery. com — “Paper Faces,” art by Gary Oaks; “Wheels, Figures, Choices,” ceramic sculpture

by Lisa Osborn; both through Nov. 3.

Beneito’s Art. 3618 Magazine St., (504) 891-9170; www. bernardbeneito.com — Oil paintings by Beneito Bernard, ongoing.

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Look What I Did!” janzhi and kirigami (ancient Japanese paper crafts) by Huggy Behr, through Nov. 18.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Recent Sculpture,” bronze sculpture by David Borgerding, through October.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Musicians,” oil on linen

by Jere Allen, through October.

Chester Allen’s Oasis of Energy. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 292-8365; www.chesterallenoasisofenergy.tumblr.com — “Universal Groove,” silversmithing by Chester Allen, ongoing.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “Crossing the Tiber,” abstract paintings by Evert Witte, through Oct. 26.

Coup D’oeil Art Consortium.

2033 Magazine St., (504) 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Anatomy Lesson in a Time of Conflict,” mixed media exhibition by Jessica Goldfinch, through Nov. 9.

Courtyard Gallery. 1129 Decatur St., (504) 330-0134; www.woodartandmarketing. com — New Orleans-themed reclaimed wood carvings by Daniel Garcia, ongoing. d.o.c.s. 709 Camp St., (504) 5243936; www.docsgallery.com — “Burn Again,” metal and mixed media sculptures by Adam Farrington, through Dec. 5.

Du Mois Gallery. 4609 Freret St., (504) 818-6032; www. dumoisgallery.com — “Bathworks,” mixed media exhibition

by Brett Reif and Arlyn Jimenez, through Oct. 26.

The Foundation Gallery.

608 Julia St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola. com — “Forms of Abstraction,” photographs by Daniel J. Victor to benefit Stomp the Violence, through November.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront. org — “Tokyo Art Lab,” art on multiculturalism by Japanese artists, through Nov. 3 Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres.com — Mixed media

by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

The Garden District Gallery.

1332 Washington Ave., (504) 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery.com — “The Poetry of Place,” group exhibition of sculptures, paintings and pastel work, through Nov. 10.

Graphite Galleries. 936 Royal St., (504) 565-3739; www.graphitenola.com — Group mixed media exhibition, ongoing.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Third floor, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/ departments/art-gallery — “PixelPops 2013: ReGeneration,” digital art group exhibition, through Oct. 24.

J & S Gallery. 3801 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 952-9163 — Wood carvings and paintings by local artists, ongoing.

Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St.,

ART LISTINGS (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Abode,” oil paintings of interiors by David Lloyd, through October.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “The Almighty Dollar,” folded dollar bill art by Dan Tague; “Cut,” cut map portraits and sculpture

by Nikki Rosato; both through October.

Lemieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries. com — “The Immortal Charles Peale,” paintings by Kate Samworth, through Nov. 16.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “The River Between Us,” mixed media group exhibition about the river, through Dec. 1.

M. Francis Gallery. 1938 Burgundy St., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery. com — Acrylic on canvas by Myesha, ongoing.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Continuum,” photomontages by Tim Hope, through Nov. 23.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos.com — “Down and Dirty,” paintings

by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

Morrison. 1507 Magazine St., (504) 451-3303; www.morrisonsculpture.com — Sculpture and drawings by Thomas Randolph Morrison, ongoing.

NOCCA Riverfront. 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — “On the Edge,” NOCCA alumni art exhibition, through Oct. 25.

Objets Trouves. 3944 Magazine St., (504) 812-4660 — “Louisiana Wetlands,” pastels by Frank Giovingo, through Oct. 26.

Octavia Art Gallery. 4532 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — Kiln-formed glass sculpture

by Laurel Porcari; Mixed media on canvas, graphite on paper and sculpture by Caio Fonseca and Gustavo Bonevardi; both through Oct. 26.

Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery.

The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., Second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — Contemporary crafts by Sean Dixson, Cathy CooperStratton, Margo Manning and Nellrea Simpson and others.

Sheila Phipps Studio & Gallery. 8237 Oak St., (504) 596-6031 — Oil and acrylic portraits and abstracts, ongoing.

Sibley Gallery. 3427 Magazine St., (504) 899-8182; www.sibleygallery.com — “Crescent City Vignettes,” mixed media drawing, collage and sculpture by Jimmy Block, through October.

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New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Metal sculpture by Chad Ridgeway, glass sculpture by Jeffrey P’an and hand-pulled prints by Cora Lautze, through October.

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ART LISTINGS Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org — “Apparitions,” mixed media group exhibition, through Nov. 2.

Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www. sorengallery.com — “Binate,” paintings by Saskia Ozols Eubanks, through October.

St. Tammany Art Association.

320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — “Bookmarks,” selections from the New Orleans Museum of Art, through Oct. 26.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “All the Things That Go,” mixed media group exhibition curated

by Anne Nelson, through Nov. 3.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www. stellajonesgallery.com — “Trailblazers: 20th Century Works on Paper,” radical art by black artists, through October.

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Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann.com — “Celebrating 25 Years of Insight-full Objects with Coincidence, Collision, Assembly: The Art of Uniting the Unusual,” group metal and sculpture exhibition, through Nov. 16.

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Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.carrollgallery.tulane.edu — “Interpretations: House and Universe,” mixed media sculpture and drawings by Jennifer Oden; “Le Moment Present: Collaboration Lyon-Nouvelle Orleans,” paintings by U.S. artists and compositions by French musicians; both through Oct. 25.

Tulane University, Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise,” group exhibition of pottery, through March 9.

University of New Orleans.

Fine Arts Gallery, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6493; www.uno.edu — “Ecologue,” nature-themed photos, videos, drawings and sculpture by Lee Deigaard, through Oct. 19.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2806493; www.finearts.uno.edu — “*OSMOSIS_identity quest*” art about osmosis by Daniela Maria Span and Charlotte Simon, through Nov. 3.

Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery.com — “A Tribute to Louisiana Wetlands,” art by Sarah Stiehl, through Thursday.

Whisnant Galleries. 343 Royal St., (504) 524-9766; www.whisnantgalleries.com — Ethnic, religious and antique art, sculpture, textile and porcelain, ongoing.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Big Top Gallery. Artists working in any medium can submit their ready-to-hang, non-freestanding art to be considered for inclusion in Big Top Gallery’s benefit show. Visit www.facebook.com/ thebigtopnola/events for details.

There is a $10 entry fee per piece and an Oct. 27 deadline.

Fringe Festival Yard Art Tour.

The New Orleans Fringe Festival seeks submissions for its third annual Yard Art Tour (YAT-3). Artists must make art that’s visible from the sidewalk and submit its location, description and a photo of it on www.nofringe.org

by Tuesday.

Magdalena. International House Hotel and PhotoNOLA invite photographers and mixedmedia artist whose work incorporates photography to submit images imagining or reimagining Mary Magdelene.

Entries must be submitted via www.whoismagdalena.com and are due Nov. 10. Entry fee for up to three images $20.

SPARE SPACES The Country Club. 634 Louisa St., (504) 945-0742; www.thecountryclubneworleans.com — “All Amzie All the Time,” group exhibition of art celebrating Amzie Adams, ongoing.

East Bank Regional Library.

4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — “Farming on the Farm,” photos from Angola State Prison, through October.

Gasa Gasa. 4920 Freret St., (504) 304-7110; www.gasagasa. com — “Between,” a transitional solo-exhibition of works by Ayo Scott, Tuesday through October.

Hey! Cafe. 4332 Magazine St., (504) 891-8682; www.heycafe.biz — Cartoons from Feast Yer Eyes magazine, ongoing.

La Divina Gelateria. 621 St. Peter St., (504) 302-2692; www. ladivinagelateria.com — Art and photographs by Thom Bennett, Mary Moring and Rita Posselt, ongoing.

Old Florida Project. between Florida Avenue, Mazant Street, Gallier Street and North Dorgenois Street — #ProjectBe features tributes, remembrances and social statements spray painted in the long blighted Florida project by local artist and Gambit 40 Under 40 honoree Brandan “B-Mike” Odums, ongoing.

REVIEW

Recent Sculpture by David Borgerding and Interpretations: House and Universe by Jennifer Odem

Always highly regarded for his fluid imagination and polished craftsmanship, David Borgerding brings his sculptural vision more clearly into focus in this show at Callan Contemporary. Maybe it’s those silky bronze surfaces, but these works seem more self explanatory than ever before, even if those explanations do not exist in words. Visual art speaks directly to the inner world of the psyche, and the forms that comprise these sculptures may evoke bones, stones or biological forms, but no specific associations are necessary because the pieces all sing in tune. Emblematic Recent Sculpture: Bronze THRU works like Pume (pictured front left) or Varudur, a more vertisculpture by David Borgerding OCT cal work with similar free-form rectangles and rods, articulate Callan Contemporary a fluid progression of silent music that resonates in the secret recesses of the mind even if we have no idea why. It’s a brilliant, 518 Julia St., 504-525-0518 breakthrough exhibition. www.callancontemporary.com Jennifer Odem’s works at Tulane Univerity’s Carroll Gallery explore universal forms, but here the details of their construction sometimes resonate tensions having to do with gender or technolInterpretations: House and ogy. Inspired by geological formations and domestic handicrafts, THRU Universe: Mixed-media sculpture many of her sculptures evoke white lace somehow calcified OCT and drawings by Jennifer Odem into stone over the ages. Flora Pearlinious suggests a hut on stilts encrusted with barnacle-like filigree, a home, perhaps, for Tulane University, Carroll Gallery wayward sea sprites. Continental Riser, is far darker. Inspired by 504-314-2228 a deep sea-dwelling worm, it sprouts flowers from its black lace www.carrollgallery.tulane.edu/ surfaces while suggesting a flirtatious mutant life form, perhaps exhibitions.htm a legacy of the BP oil disaster. But Sister, which suggests an elaborate lacy, white-on-white crater, resonates contradictory notions of hard and soft, a strategy replicated in reverse by the similarly geological looking, but bulbously rounded Bounce, which evokes an oversized Victorian bustle with a zipper down the middle. Here Odem puts high and pop culture, ancient and contemporary forms, through a blender in a show that improbably, yet slyly, spans time and space.

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REpurposingNOLA. 604 Julia St., (504) 261-3275; www.repurposingnola-piece-by-peace.com — “Rhythm,” repurposed bags by Sharika Mahdi, through October.

Top Drawer Antiques. 4310 Magazine St., (504) 897-1004; www.topdrawerantiques. net — Mixed media Halloweenthemed black light art by Mario Ortiz, ongoing.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Water,” large-scale aerial photographs by Edward Burtynsky, through Jan. 19; “Cinema Reset,” video group exhibition, through Feb. 2; “SubMERGE,” art by Lee Deigaard, through Feb. 20.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamu-

seum.com — “ART-leans,” paintings by Bryan Brown, Ceaux Young and Jessica Strahan, through Nov. 1.

Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org — “Occupy New Orleans! Voices from the Civil War,” collection of items conveying New Orleanians’ feelings during the Civil War, through March 9.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 4885488; www.longuevue.com — “A Year and One Day,” sculpture by Andy Behrle, through Dec. 20.

568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “They Call Me Baby Doll: A Carnival Tradition,” an exhibit about the Baby Dolls, and other black women’s Carnival groups, through January. “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond”; both ongoing.

Madame John’s Legacy.

632 Dumaine St., (504) 568-6968; www.crt.state.la.us — “The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb College Pottery of New Orleans,” ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 5686968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — “Images and Instruments: Medical History,” artifacts and images of 19th and 20th century medical eqipment, ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “The Making of an Argument,” photography by Gordon Parks, through Jan. 5. “Cities of Ys,” art by Camille Henrot, through Feb. 23.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504)

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-

9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Into the Light,” photographs by various artists, through Jan. 5. Works by Walter Inglis Anderson from the museum’s permanent collection; an exhibition of southern regionalists from the museum’s permanent collection; paintings by Will Henry Stevens; all ongoing.

Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 8655699; seaa.tulane.edu — “The Dome,” an exhibition anticipating the 40th anniversary of the Superdome, through Nov. 1.

Southern Food & Beverage Museum. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, (504) 569-0405; www.southernfood. org — “Lena Richard: Pioneer in Food TV,” an exhibit curated

by Ashley Young; “Then and Now: The Story of Coffee”; both ongoing.

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Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life is the basis of John Grimsley’s opera. Admission $20. 8 p.m.

Thursday.

BURLESQUE, CABARET & VARIETY Bits & Jiggles. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855 — The show mixes comedy and burlesque. Free admission. 9 p.m. Monday.

Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www.sonesta.com — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. Call (504) 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

Slow Burn Burlesque: Slow Ghouls. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Halloween-themed burlesque and live striptease are backed up by a live band. Tickets $20.

10 p.m. Saturday.

The Victory Belles: Spirit of America. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — The Victory Belles perform patriotic tunes from the American canon and from the songbooks of George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin.

Cuisine from chef John Besh’s American Sector is provided. Brunch show $55.

11 a.m. Wednesday.

DANCE Taken. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — The issue of absentee fathers in the black community is explored through dance, theater, film and spoken word. The show is presented by Crescent City Choreographers, and discussions follow the performances. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

Crescent City Sound Chorus.

Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, (504) 616-6066; www. dcc.edu — The Crescent City Sound Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, holds auditions for its holiday chorale. For details, visit www.crescentcitysound.com.

7 p.m. Monday.

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Female playwrights of color are invited to submit scripts for a chance to win the 2014 Ruby Prize, which consists of $10,000, workshopping, a writing residency at Hedgebook and a trip to New York. For details, visit www.bit.ly/rubyprize.

Deadline Tuesday.

COMEDY Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge.com — J. Alfred Potter and Jonah Bascle do stand-up shows on a rotating basis. 11:55 p.m. Friday.

Allstar Comedy Revue. House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the stand-up comedy show with special guests and a band. Free admission. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf. com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 944-0099; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open-mic portion. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comedy Sportz. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy. com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show.

Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

Fear & Loathing with God’s Been Drinking. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 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.

Give ’Em The Light Open-Mic Comedy Show. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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13. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www. rivertowntheaters.com — A teenage cast stars in a musical about the dramas teens face regularly. Tickets $15. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Book of Mormon.

Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The religious satire musical tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries sent to evangelize to people in Uganda. The musical was written by the creators of South Park. Tickets start at $50. 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Evil Dead: The Musical.

Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre. com — Christopher Bentivegna directs an interactive stage adaptation of Sam Raimi’s gory cult horror films. General admission $25, splash zone $30. 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.

Little Shop of Horrors.

St. Martin’s Episcopal School Solomon Theater, 225 Green Acres Road, Metairie, (504) 736-9930; www.stmsaints.com — Members of the school’s Performing Arts Club star in their production of a musical about a hapless flower shop owner’s carnivorous plant. Tickets $10. 7 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

The Park Bench Plays. Clouet Gardens, 707 Clouet St., (504) 237-6969; www.clouetgardens. com — Four Humours Theater’s second new works showcase features plays by Angela Jo Strohm, Stacie Lejeune and Adam Webster directed by Rebecca Meyers, Kathryn Talbot and Tim Caldwell.

Screenings are outdoors, so bringing bug spray, chairs and/ or blankets is suggested. Free admission. 6 p.m. Monday, Saturday & Sunday.

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REVIEW Mauritius

When a rare and valuable stamp collection is left to a grieving young woman, everyone around her sheds their sympathies and maneuvers to take it off her hands in Mauritius, which ran recently at the Mid-City Theatre.

Tension between estranged half sisters Jackie (Leslie Boles) and Mary (Andrea Carlin) is palpable from the start. Upon their mother’s death, Jackie, the brooding younger sibling, is left with unpaid medical bills and a stamp collection. Mary, who has been away for years, believes the stamps are rightfully hers, but she does not feel obliged to share any of the financial burden.

The show’s emotional tension comes from the relationship between the sisters. In an intense and well-acted scene, Jackie goes from inconsolable crying over feelings of abandonment to throttling Mary. They fight about money and old wounds, and both seem bereft of love and understanding.

Jackie takes the stamp collection to Phillip (James Howard Wright), a gruff man who is knowledgeable about stamps but neither compassionate nor diplomatic. Initially, Phillip wants nothing to do with the stamps, claiming he’s tired of appraising peoples’ “treasures.” Dennis (Joe Seibert), who for an unexplained reason hangs out in Phillip’s shop, looks at the collection and spots rare stamps from Mauritius.

In 1847, the island nation of Mauritius (near Madagascar) issued its first stamps. The sisters’ collection contains both the Mauritian “one penny” and “two penny” stamps, now possibly worth millions of dollars. “It’s the errors that make them valuable,” says Dennis, who sets up a deal with Sterling (Marc E. Belloni), a foul-mouthed and angry version of Newman on Seinfeld, who is a shady businessman and stamp lover.

Much of the action focuses on verifying the stamps’ authenticity, which only Phillip has the knowledge to determine. If the stamps are fake, they are obviously worthless. As the wrangling over their value and ownership progresses, all the characters’ selfish desires are exposed, and ultimately none of the characters are sympathetic. But that works in this drama, as it does in many film noir crime stories. The sisters and collectors all get close to what they want, quickly switching allegiances when necessary. Sterling, the least likable figure, is the most clear about his motives and offers no excuses for his hard-driving manner.

A couple of early scenes lagged, but Act 2 hit a good stride, and the drama reached its volatile emotional peak in the final scene at the stamp shop. Written by Theresa Rebeck, Mauritius is gripping and smart. It’s hard to decide who to root for, but the show is suspenseful all the way to the last line. — TYLER GILLESPIE

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Johnny Rock. C. Beever’s Bar of Music, 2507 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8879401; www.cbeevers.com — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts an open-mic comedy night.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Laugh & Sip. The Wine Bistro, 1011 Gravier St.; www.facebook.com/TheWineBistroNO — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians. Call (504) 6066408 for details. Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Lights Up. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www.tnmcomedy.com — The theater showcases new improv troupes.

Tickets $5. 9 p.m. Thursday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www. tnmcomedy.com — Each show features a guest sharing favorite true stories, the details of which inspire improv comedy. Tickets $8. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic & Showcase.

Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the open-mic series that features a booked showcase. Free admission. 8 p.m. sign-up, 9 p.m. show. Sunday.

One Funny Mother: I’m Not Crazy!. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www. thejoytheater.com — Dena Blizzard performs a one-woman comedy show about marriage and motherhood. Tickets $40. 8 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Rookie of the Year. Little Gem Saloon, 445 S. Rampart St., (504) 267-4863; www.littlegemsaloon.com — The New Movement hosts a show of improv and stand-up to fund Hell Yes Fest. Visit www.tnmcomedy.com for details.

Admission $10. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Saturday Night Laugh Track. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a stand-up comedy showcase. Tickets $5.

11 p.m. Saturday.

Sit-Down Stand-Up. Prytania Bar, 3445 Prytania St., (504) 891-5773; www.prytaniabar.com — Jonah Bascle hosts the stand-up comedy show presented by Accessible Comedy. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Monday.

Think You’re Funny? Comedy Showcase.

Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune

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through a summer of firings, protests, hapless decision-making by the T-P solons and the eventual purchase of Baton Rouge’s The Advocate by New Orleans businessman John Georges, who not only launched a second New Orleans paper but staffed it with dozens of former T-P employees.

Hell and High Water takes the story up to the summer of 2013, but the saga continues to unfold as an old-fashioned newspaper war, although one with diminishing returns. Last fall, New Orleans was America’s largest city without a daily newspaper. This fall, New Orleans is one of the country’s smallest cities with two daily papers — and both are competing for the same rapidly draining pools of print advertising and subscribers.

How long that can last is anyone’s guess — and has a lot to do with the patience and the pockets of the Newhouses and Georges. But if newspapers are black and white and dead all over, in New Orleans they’re the walking dead, and Theim’s tale of how print still lives will be of interest to New Orleanians and the newspaper industry at large.

— KEVIN ALLMAN

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t was a year ago this month that The Times-Picayune completed its “digital transition” — going to three times-weekly publication — effectively whacking what was, by all appearances, a reasonably healthy newspaper. (In the print business these days, “healthy” is a relative term.) Nearly 200 people were fired; the “transition” fell apart when it became public earlier than management had planned; and the paper’s owners and local executives made a series of embarrassing missteps and public relations disasters.

How that happened, and why, is the subject of Rebecca Theim’s new book Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune, which traces the tumultous year for The T-P in extreme detail, set against a larger story but smaller subplot, about the plight of American newspapers in general.

Theim is hardly a disinterested (or uninterested) observer; she’s an ex-T-P reporter now living in Las Vegas, a former journalist who had gone through layoffs herself at more than one company. Shortly after the changeover, she created dashTHIRTYdash, a fund that raised tens of thousands of dollars for fired T-P workers. She’s also been an active participant in a private Facebook group that was set up as “Friends of The Times-Picayune” (though at times it reads more like “Pick on The Times-Picayune”).

“I viewed it,” she writes, “as a fierce and remarkable grassroots battle that America’s most unique city would wage against a multinational media company and its billionaire controlling family-in-transition, and a romantic, yet battered, industry struggling to pull itself out of free fall.”

It’s clear where Theim’s sympathies lie, but if there’s a lack of balance here, it’s due to The Times-Picayune itself, which has, even a year later, failed to tell its own story. The management of Advance Publications, which owns The Times-Picayune, went to ground almost immediately after word leaked out about the paper’s cutback plans, and the only current T-P staffer who would go on the record in Hell and High Water is the respected veteran environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein, who mounts as good a defense as can be mounted. Longtime Editor Jim Amoss, who oversaw the transition, comes off patrician, aloof and a bit of an enigma, while newly installed Publisher Ricky Mathews, brought in from another Newhouse paper, is portrayed as a vainglorious middlemanagement type rather than a visionary; he could just as easily be a Coca-Cola regional manager. (Or, given the T-P’s rocky transition, the guy who came to town to sell New Coke.)

Theim traces the shock in the newsroom and the outrage in the community

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Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion of entrepreneurship, family, love, dreams and more. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Celebrity Waiters VII. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., (504) 561-1234; www. neworleans.hyatt.com — Local celebrities serve diners, with proceeds benefiting Bridge House and Grace House. Visit www.bridgehouse.org for reservations. Reservations $75. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Eatmoor in Broadmoor.

New Orleans Public Library, Rosa Keller Branch, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www.nutrias.org — My House NOLA, in partnership with the Broadmoor Improvement Association, presents a gathering of food trucks. Visit www. myhousenola.com for details on participating vendors. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Free Environmental Job Training. Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 2838822; www.dillard.edu — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University and the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences offer free job training in hazardous waste cleanup, green construction, mold remediation and lead and asbestos abatement. Call (504) 816-4005 to sign up.

Training Session on Working with Media. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — Media professionals Randy Savioe and Havilah Malone teach a seminar on working with media. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 16 Arrivals: Colonial Period-Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana Humanities Center, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, (504) 5234352; www.leh.org — Raphael Cassimere, Emily Clark, Larry Powell and David Johnson discuss the social, economic and cultural consequences of people moving to New Orleans during the colonial

Cole Brothers Circus.

Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd., Slidell, (985) 781-3650 — “The largest circus under the big top” showcases performers and exotic animals. Visit www. colebrotherscircus.com or call Northshore Harbor Center for tickets. Ticket prices vary.

4:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. through Thursday.

Gathering of the Silverbacks. Le Musee de F.P.C., 2336 Esplanade Ave., (504) 233-0384; www.facebook. com/lemuseedefpc — The men-only mentorship group holds its annual meeting and membership drive. 6 p.m.

Genealogy Series. Jane O’Brien Chatelain West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www.jplibrary. net — Curator of the Jefferson Parish Library’s American Italian Research Center, Sal Serio, conducts genealogical seminars. Visit www.jplibrary. net or call (504) 838-1100 ext.

2505 for details. 1 p.m. & 2 p.m., through Nov. 6.

Harvest the Music. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place; www.lafayette-square.org — There are musical performances and food and art booths. 5 p.m.

Hidden Treasures: Jazz Edition. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt.state.la.us/museum/ properties/usmint — Louisiana State Museum director of collections Greg Lambousy discusses and guides a tour through the museum’s jazz collection. Visit www.friendsofthecabildo.org for details.

Tickets $25. 6 p.m. & 7 p.m.

THURSDAY 17 Alvar Arts. Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 596-2667; www. nutrias.org — Alvar Library hosts an evening of music, art, writing and performance. Visit www.alvararts.org for details.

7 p.m to 9 p.m..

Jazz in the Park. Armstrong Park, North Rampart and St. Ann streets — The cultural heritage of New Orleans is spotlighted in this concert series, sponsored by People United for Armstrong Park. There’s live music from jazz and brass bands, an arts and crafts area, food and a children’s play area.

Noon to 8 p.m.

NOLA TimeBanking, DyverseCity Etsy Training. DyverseCity, 3932 Fourth St., (504) 439-4530 — Attendees can set up TimeBank accounts, learn how to run Etsy shops or get computer coaching. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

FRIDAY 18 19th Century Mourning and Internment Customs Tour.

Pitot House, 1440 Moss St., (504) 482-0312; www.louisianalandmarks.org — Participants tour St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 and learn about burial customs and historic residents before exploring Pitot House to view mourning attire and assorted other necro-artifacts. Visit www.saveourcemeteries.org to RSVP. Tour $25. 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Ask-a-Lawyer Day. Orleans Parish Civil Court, 421 Loyola Ave., (504) 407-0000; www.orleanscdc.com — The Louisiana State Bar Association hosts an event where volunteer attorneys answer legal questions for free. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Boo at the Zoo. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 5814629; www.auduboninstitute. org — The annual Halloween celebration is for children up to age 12 and features trick-ortreat houses and more. Admission $17, children under 1 free. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. through Saturday.

Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place; www. lafayette-square.org — There’s free live music and barbecue vendors. Visit www.jazzandheritage.org/blues-fest for details. Through Sunday.

Festival of the Lake. Festival of the Lake, 316 Lafitte St. Mandeville; www.festivalofthelake. com — There’s food, music, a lottery, arts & crafts, pony rides, a petting zoo, a pumpkin patch and a race. Visit www. festivalofthelake.com for details. Through Saturday.

Festival on the 90. Mt. Hermon Baptist Church, 3512 Hwy. 90 W., (504) 436-8062 — Mt.

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Anba Dlo

The annual Halloween festival features live music, costumes, a parade and more.

The term Anba Dlo means “beneath the waters” in Haitian Creole patois, and has both literal and spiritual meanings. The festival’s Anba Dlo Water Symposium features panel discussions about the Mississippi River, the levees and water issues.

There are two music Oct. 19 stages and the lineup includes OCT Anba Dlo Rotary Downs (pictured), John Mooney, New Orleans Noon Saturday until Suspects, Henry Butler, Africa New Orleans Healing Center, Brass and others. Performers also include acrobats and 2372 St. Claude Ave., 504-940-1130; burlesque dancers, and there www.neworleanshealingcenter.org are interactive art installawww.anbadlofestival.org tions, psychic readings, an art Tickets $20 in advance; market, prizes for costumes and a midnight Voodoo cere$25 at the door, $45 VIP mony. The Halloween costume parade will be led by the Radical Faeries and several marching clubs. It departs at 6 p.m. and returns to the New Orleans Healing Center at 7 p.m.

The Anba Dlo Water Symposium features two panel discussions about regional water issues moderated by Bob Marshall, formerly of The Times-Picayune and currently a reporter for The Lens. At noon Saturday, artist Robert Tannen, Tulane University Law School professor Mark Davis, sustainable design consultant Joe Evans and University of New Orleans biologist Don Blancher discuss water shortages and competition for access to fresh water supplies. At 2:10 p.m., environmental scientist Denise Reed, National Wildlife Foundation Louisiana director David Muth and others discuss the proposal to redirect the Mississippi River below New Orleans and the environmental and social impact of such a diversion. Admission to the symposium is free and free lunch is available while supplies last. — WILL COVIELLO

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Ghosts in the Oaks. Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 259-1509; www.neworleanscitypark.com — Unlimited rides in Carousel Gardens, trick-ortreating in Storyland, arts & crafts, face painting, music and more are part of City Park’s Halloween Celebration.

Admission $20. 6 p.m. through Saturday.

House of Shock Haunted House and Halloween Festival. House of Shock, 319 Butterworth St.,

Jefferson; www.houseofshock. com — Outside of the legendary haunted house is a festival full of music, food and drinks. Visit the website for more information. Free festival admission, $25 general house admission, $50 VIP line-skipping admission. 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. through Sunday.

Irish Film Festival. Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com — Irish Network New Orleans hosts an Irish film festival and gala. Visit www. irishnetworkneworleans.org and check Gambit film listings for details. Through Sunday.

Oktoberfest. Cannes Brulee Native American Museum, 415

Williams Blvd. (inside Wildlife and Fisheries Museum), Kenner, 468-7231; www.rivertownkenner.com — Deutsches Haus presents Oktoberfest in Kenner’s Rivertown with three weekends of German food, music, dancing and children’s activities.

TViolet Oyster Festival. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2621 Colonial Drive, Violet, (504) 682-7070; www. olol-church.com — There’s music, oysters prepared several different ways, gumbo, jambalaya, daiquiris, funnel cakes, rides, games, contests, live music and a fireworks show.

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We All Scream for Halloween.

Smilie’s Restaurant, 5725 Jefferson Hwy, (504) 451-6258; www.smiliesrestaurant.com — Murder a la Carte presents interactive murder mystery play with a four-course dinner to benefit Stepsisters NOLA. Costumes are encouraged.

Tickets $40. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 19 Algiers Point Home Tour.

Mount Olivet Episcopal Church, 530 Pelican St., (504) 366-4650; www.mountolivet.org — The 40th annual Algiers Point Home Tour showcases seven homes and gardens and five historic buildings. Visit www. algierspoint.org for details.

Tickets $15. 11 am. to 5 p.m. through Sunday.

Anba Dlo Halloween Festival.

New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9489961; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — There’s music, art, acrobatics, food, drinks, a water symposium and more at the sixth annual Anba Dlo Halloween festival. Visit www. anbadlofestival.org for details.

Tickets $25, VIP $45. 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Food and Fitness Fair. Sankofa Farmers Market, 3819 St. Claude Ave. — Sankofa CDC and Healthy Heart Community Prevention Project host a food fair featuring student smoothie contests, a demonstration on cooking with fresh herbs by chef Dominique Macquet and an introduction to tea brewing and herb gardening. 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ghoulwill Ball. House of Blues (The Parish), 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.hob. com — Stooges Brass Band performs, there’s food, drinks and a photo booth, all to benefit Goodwill of Southeast Louisiana. Attire is costume or cocktail. Visit www.goodwillno. org/ghoulwillball for details.

General admission $100, young professionals $50. 7:30 p.m.

Hispanic Community Legal Clinic. Hispanic Resource Center, 4312 Florida Ave., (504) 469-2570; www.kenner.la.us — The Pro Bono Project hosts a free walk-in legal advice clinic targeted toward the Latino community. 10 a.m. to noo.

LA Creole Conference: Old World Connections, Creolization in New Orleans. Xavier University, 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula.edu — The Louisiana Creole Research Association’s ninth annual conference features presentations and discussions on genealogy,

Louisiana’s connections to specific foreign countries, music and dance. The conference closes with a jazz brunch. Visit www.lacreole.org for details.

Conference $55, jazz brunch $50. Through Sunday.

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s 24th Annual Beach Sweep. Lake Pontchartrain, Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany Parishes and Baton Rouge — The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation and Toyota host a lake cleanup in conjunction with International Coastal Cleanup sponsored by Ocean Conservancy.

A picnic follows. Contact Kati Kelley at kati@saveourlake.org to register.

Masquerade: Once Bitten. New Orleans Opera Association’s Women Guild Home, 2504 Prytania St., (504) 899-1945; www.neworleansopera.org/ guild-home — The Junior Committee of New Orleans Opera Association’s Women’s Guild hosts a masquerade party with food, drinks, music by the Treblemakers, a Fashion Week NOLA fashion show and a Mudlark Theatre puppet show.

Visit www.nooajuniorscostumebash.eventbrite.com for details. Tickets $100. 8 p.m. to midnight.

Mid-City Neighborhood Association Porch Crawl. Finn McCool’s Irish Pub, 3701 Banks St., (504) 486-9080; www. finnmccools.com — Porch crawl attendees get Old New Orleans Rum cocktails and samples of food from Mid-City bars and restaurants at each stop. A party with costume and cocktail awards follows.

Visit www.mcno.org for details. Registration $45. 5 p.m.

Nightshade: Exploring Natural Spaces. Felicity Church, 1220 Felicity St., (504) 415-1628; www. felicitychurch.com — Photographer Frank Relle showcases photos from his latest project, a collection of photographs taken at night outdoors in New Orleans. There will be music, craft cocktails by Cure and food from Dim Sum & Then Some. The event is presented

by Bayou Tree Service. Visit www.frankrelle.eventbrite.com to RSVP. Free admission. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

New Orleans host 75-minute bootcamps to benefit Bright Pink, the nation’s only nonprofit dedicated to prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer in young women. Attendees get a limited edition shirt and grip socks. Participants are urged to wear pink. Donation $30.

9:15 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Saturday, 8:30 a.m. & 10 a.m. Sunday.

St. Philip Neri Craft Fair. St. Philip Neri School, Parishioners’ Center, 6600 Kawanee Ave., Metairie, 887-5600; www. stphilipneri.org — St. Philip Neri Ladies’ Cooperative Club hosts a craft fair featuring more than 55 crafters, artists and vendors. Jambalaya, hot dogs, nachos and sweets are for sale. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

StoryQuest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Authors, actors and artists read children’s books and send kids on an art quest through the museum afterward. 11:30 a.m.

Studio Classes for Kids: Creative Costuming. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — Kids design and create Halloween costumes. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Trunk-or-Treat. New Orleans Finest Auto Detailing, 9860 Lake Forest Blvd., (504) 2482094; www.nofinest.com — Galleon Music Group hosts a Halloween costume giveaway for kids with free food and drinks. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Visiting Pet Program Volunteer Orientation. Harahan Senior Center, 100 Elodie St., 737-3810 — People interested in becoming pet handlers for Visiting Pet Program’s outreach events for kids, nursing home residents and hospital patients are urged to pre-register by emailing paws4visits@gmail. com. $10. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Vom Fass Fall Cooking Class.

Vom Fass, 5725 Magazine St., (504) 302-1455; www.vomfassusa.com — The Irish House’s chef Matt Murphy teaches a cooking class using Waldburg Balsam apple cider vinegar and Styrian pumpkin oil. Call for reservations. Class $20. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m..

NOLA East Friends Fest. Joe W. Brown Park, 5601 Read Blvd., (504) 355-7175; www.friendsofjoewbrownpark.org — There’s live music, dance, spoken word, food and arts and crafts.

11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Walk to End Alzheimer’s.

Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www. auduboninstitute.org — Visit www.alz.org to register for the walk. 8 a.m.

Plie for Pink. Xtend Barre New Orleans, 140 W. Harrison Ave., (504) 483-8880; www. xtendbarreneworleans.com — NOLA Pilates and Xtend Barre

Yoga. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.

EVENT LISTINGS org — The museum holds yoga classes. Call (504) 456-5000 for details. Free for NOMA and East Jefferson Wellness Center members, $5 general admission. 8 a.m.

SUNDAY 20 Abita Springs Water Festival.

Abita Springs Trailhead, 22049 Main St., Abita Springs, (985) 264-0528; www.townofabita.com — There are Native American performers and crafts, a pie contest, children’s activities, a dunking booth, food and drinks. Abita Opry provides music. Visit www. abitawaterfest.com for details.

Noon to 6 p.m.

Jazzin’ the Drexel Dream.

Private residence, 2623 Esplanade Ave. — There is food, live music and arts & crafts to benefit St. Katharine Drexel Prep. Visit www.drexelprep. com for details. Admission $40.

Noon to 5 p.m.

Satsuma Festival. Crescent City Farmers Market, Corner of Governor Nicholls and French Market Place; www. crescentcityfarmersmarket.org — There are Satsuma peeling contests, a Satsuma cocktail and mocktail demonstration and an Edible Schoolyard presentation. Noon to 4 p.m.

Swing Dance Lesson With Amy & Chance. d.b.a., 618 Frenchmen St., (504) 942-3731; www. dbabars.com/dbano — The bar and music venue offers free swing dance lessons. 4:30 p.m.

Tipitina’s Foundation’s Sunday Youth Music Workshop.

Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-8477; www.tipitinas. com — Kids jam with local musicians. 1 p.m.

Tour de Jefferson. Bayou Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expwy., Westwego, (504) 736-7140; www.bayousegnettestatepark.com — Riders choose either 11-, 25-, 35- or 50-mile routes for exploring West Jefferson Parish by bike.

Visit www.tourdejefferson.org for details Registration $35.

7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

MONDAY 21 Divorce Workshop. Pro Bono Project, 615 Baronne St., (504) 581-4043; www.probono-no.org — The Pro Bono Project and

Senior Clinic. Metairie Senior Center, 265 N. Causeway Blvd., (504) 835-0210; www.jcoa. net — The Pro Bono Project hosts a free walk-in legal clinic targeted toward the elderly. 10 a.m. to noon.

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS PitchNOLA: Community Solutions. Propeller Incubator, 4035 Washington Ave., (504) 564-7816; www.gopropeller. org — PitchNOLA applicants compete to win $5,000 in funding and tech support for their ideas regarding food access, housing, education, public health, environment or crime. Visit www.gopropeller. org and attend an overview session at 6 p.m. Thursday for details. Deadline Thursday.

WORDS Big Book Sale. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985; www. pontchartraincenter.com — Friends of the Jefferson Public Library hold a used book, CD, DVD, record and tape sale to benefit the Jefferson Parish Library System. There are over 65,000 used books for sale. Noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.

Carolyn Kolb. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author signs and discusses New Orleans Memories: One Writer’s City. 6 p.m. Friday.

Catherine Savage Brosman.

Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author discusses and read from Louisiana Creole Literature. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Dean Paschal. McKeown’s Books and Difficult Music, 4737 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 895-1954; www.mckeownsbooks.com — The author reads from and discusses The Frog Surgeon. 7 p.m. Friday.

Kevin J. Bitter Sr., Gideon Hodge, Arlene Marie Muller.

West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, (504) 364-2660; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The authors read from, sign and discuss Gavin’s Caper, Lilith’s Redemption and Destiny. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Laura Kuhn. Bourbon Orleans Hotel, 717 Orleans St., (504) 5232222; www.bourbonorleans.

com — The author signs and discusses Kings and Pawns: The Bloodlines of BourbonOrleans. 5 p.m. Friday.

Mary Jo Bang. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu — The poet holds a reading and discussion. 7:30 p.m. Monday.

Michael Henderson. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., (504) 322-7479; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The author reads from and signs Got Proof! My Genealogical Journey Through the Use of Documentation. 6:30 p.m.

Monday.

New Orleans by Gaslight. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The authors of the steampunk anthology discuss it. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Rebecca Theim. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author signs and discusses Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Robert Heylmun, C. Robert Holloway. Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, 600 Frenchmen St., (504) 947-3700; www. fabonfrenchmen.com — The authors sign and discuss Nets of Wonder and Dangerous Crossing. 7 p.m. Friday through Saturday.

Story Time with Miss Maureen.

Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — The bookstore hosts a children’s book reading. 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Susan Larson. Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Moreau Center, 4123 Woodland Drive, (800) 259-7744 — The author signs and discusses The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans. 2 p.m.

Sunday.

Terri Evert Karsten. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 8952266 — The author reads from and signs Snags and Sawyers: 2000 Miles Down the Arkansas River. 6 p.m. Monday.

Tom Zigal. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author signs and discusses Many Rivers to Cross. 1 p.m.

Sunday.

Wendy Rodrigue. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — The author discusses and signs The Other Side of the Painting. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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St. Paul’s Episcopal School Fall Fest. St. Paul’s Episcopal School & Church, 6249 Canal Blvd., (504) 488-1319; www. stpauls-lakeview.org — The school hosts its second Fall Fest, with Space Walks, hula hoop and sack races, gerbil balls, music, food and shopping. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

volunteer attorneys from the Capital One legal team host a divorce workshop with free counsel on the various stages of divorce pleadings. 9 a.m. to noon.

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PAT’S HOUSEKEEPING

Professional • Dependable • 15+ Yrs Exp • References • Wkly, Bi-Wkly or Monthly. Free Est. Call Pat: (504) 228-5688 or (504) 464-7627.

Send your questions to New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

DRAPERIES/UPHOLSTERERS ROYAL DRAPERIES, LLC

VOLUNTEER

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.

Steering You In the Right Direction for over 40 Yrs! We match any color! We rent Pressure Washers, Spray Guns & Wall Paper Removers (Steamers). Free Delivery.

M-F, 7a-6p, Sat, 8a-5p. Locations on Earhart, Canal, Magazine & Veterans

Quality Custom Drapes, Shades, Blinds, Beddings, Decorator Fabrics & Trim, Rods & Hardware. Installation & Design Services. (504) 398-4943 customdraes@royaldraperies.net

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EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

Offering dazzling holiday decor for any size home, business or event. Let us customize the decorations to fit your home, office or event needs!Choose from decorated trees, holiday lights, distinctive wreaths, fresh poinsettias, &more. Order your prelit Fraser Fir Christmas Tree online today! www. bigeasylawn.com 504.210.7227

MISC. HOME SERVICES SILVER FLATWARE POLISHING

LAMINA STERLING 840 ROYAL ST., NOLA 70116 $3.00 TO $6.00 PER PIECE. Discount for more than 50 Pieces.

Call (504) 324-3423. laminasterling@ gmail.com

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YOUR GUIDE TO: MERCHANDISE • SERVICES • EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS • AND MORE

NOLA MARKETPLACE Camp Swan is a 3day/2night camp for children ages 7-12 who have lost someone significant in their lives. This camp is sponsored by Canon Hospice and the Akula Foundation.

Camp Swan is designed to provide an experience in outdoor living combined with therapeutic activities to facilitate grieving in a fun and naturalistic setting. Camp Swan will be held at Camp Living Waters in Loranger, Louisiana. The camp is staffed by volunteer counselors including bereavement counselors, social workers, doctors, nurses, medical students, and adults from the community. A criminal background check in done on all counselors.

This weekend camp can accommodate approximately 40 children.

November 22, 23, 24

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Campers are organized into four groups:

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Younger Girls 7-9 Older Girls 10-12

Younger Boys 7-9 Older Boys 10-12

All campers will follow a schedule which will include meals, snacks, and small and large group therapeutic and recreational activities.

Therapeutic activities will include art, music, drama and group and individual discussions. These are designed to help the campers to better understand and express their feelings of grief. Recreational activities will include an obstacle course, educational lectures and physical exercise time.

Admission is given on a space available basis. The Camp is free of charge, donations are accepted.

For registration information call Sue at:

504-818-2723 x3012 or 504-729-6920 Big Easy Lawn offers dazzling holiday decor for any size home, business or event. Let us customize the decorations to fit your home, office or event needs.

Choose from decorated trees, holiday lights, distinctive wreaths, fresh poinsettias, and more.

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GAMES 7 DAYS A WEEK • 3PM-8PM-10:30PM WED, THURS, FRI, SAT 12:10 NOON • SAT & SUN 1AM

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Best Western Landmark Hotel 2601 Severn Avenue • Metairie

Friday October 11 10 am - 6 pm Saturday October 12 10 am - 6 pm Sunday October 13 10 am - 4 pm The Gem and Mineral Society of Louisiana’s event features demonstrations, prize giveaways and items for sale.

Call 214-3205 or email gemshow2013@gmail.com for details.

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Picture Perfect Properties PICTURE YOURSELF IN THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS!

N. O. RIVER FRONT UPSCALE & SPACIOUS

Acadian Three Bedroom Home

221 S. Solomon • $310,000

OPEN HOUSE WEDNESDAY 10/16 11-1 PM

2 Bedrm., 2 Bath Residences.

Furnished incl. utilities ($3,600) & unfurn.($1850) Gym, Pool, parking,wifi included!

C SHRI OME EAT M DURINP POBO G OP YS! EN H OUSE

Located at 50260 Huckleberry Lane, on private 1 acre wooded lot.

Ten Min. North of I-12, Exit 57., Goodbee/Madisonville.

3 BR, 2 BA Jacuzzi in master bath, family room, large kitchen. Hardwood floors and ceiling fans throughout.

Full size laundry rm, workshop & carport for 2 cars.

One year min lease. $1,500 per month.

2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, hardwood floors, backyard, walk to Mid City shops and restaurants and City Park.

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3329 Calhoun St. • $335,000

Phone (985) 796-9130

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356 HELIOS ST. • METAIRIE

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$539,000 Charming family home on corner lot framed by majestic oak tree !! Freshly landscaped, four bedrm,3.5 baths,hardwd floors down,granite kitchen, new carpeting up,master suite has sep jacuzzi and shower,whole house generator,storm shutters on rear of house and colonial operable shutters, side and front, 12x20 carport,ample offstrt pking, move-in condition!!!

Sally Bartlett Sanders Cell: (504) 554-8446

rhapartments@aol.com • 781-608-6115

3527 Ridgelake Dr., Metairie.

Associate Broker R. ALAN BARTLETT, INC. 2475 Canal St., Suite 107 New Orleans, LA 70119

Office: (504) 822-8228 Fax: (504) 304-1463 sallybsanders@aol.com

3341 Plaza

$135,000 – 3 bed/2 bath Office Space Metairie Luxury Great Location Approx 1,350 usable sq.ft.

2nd floor of 2 story office building. Parking, efficiency kitchen, storage room, mens and womens restrooms, reception area, conference rooms, private office.

Available immediately. 1 year lease $1,700/mo.

(504) 957-2360.

Immaculate, charming Ranch home, open floor plan for entertaining. Beautiful kitchen w/ Granite countertops, huge master suite that opens to patio & large no maintenance yard. Covered carport located off kitchen is great for outdoor activities. This impeccable Ranch home is ready to move in.

LYNDA DEPANICIS – 504-583-8207 New Orleans Property Shoppe, Inc.

Impeccable 2011 Contemporary Renovation. 3BR/2BA, Designer tile throughout, custom kitchen, oversized cabinets, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, subway tile in baths. Island offered with sale along with all appliances. Ideal floorplan with vaulted ceilings. Spacious corner lot with fenced backyard, walk to neighborhood restaraunts and Tulane University.

Andrew Severino Investment Specialist Sharpe Realty, LLC

1513 St. Charles Ave. #A New Orleans, LA 70130 504-571-9576 • (914) 787-9513

JUDY FISHER INC. REALTORS ® Offering Personalized Real Estate Services Since 2003

504-524-JUDY (5839)

917 Toulouse St. 7 • $810,000 Spacious & serene courtyard condo with luxe amenities in the middle of the Historic French Quarter! 10-yearold construction for peace of mind with ga rage parking & tranquil pool.

Beautiful lush garden views from Master Bedroom Suite. Awesome rooftop deck to enjoy the splendid views of the Vieux Carre. Flex floorplan offers 2nd & 3rd bedrooms with private entrances on one floor. Hardwood floors, granite in kitchen and baths, SS appliances.

www.JudyFisher.net

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NOTICE:

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

MISSISSIPPI

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT CONDO

On 2nd floor of beautifully renovated bldg. Exposed bolted beams with high ceilings, gourmet kitchen & wood floors throughout. Outdoor patio & roof top commuinty areas for grilling & entertaining with spectacular view. Call Jennifer Rice, Agent, (985) 892-1478. jennifer@ jenniferrice.net

102 MIMOSA ST. $149,500

FOR SALE/OTHER

Newly rebuilt & renovated home on the water! Cathedral ceilings throughout, ss appl, tile cnttps & backsplash. 100 ft on the water w/ new bulkhead, dock & ramp. Seller will pay $500 towards buyers closing costs. Option to purchase neighboring parcel, for 2 waterfront acres. Call Betsy Balder Montjoy, Realtor, (228) 547-2856. betsy.balder@coldwellbanker.com

128 CARROLL AVENUE

4 BR/3 BA 2,300 sf Old Town BSL. Two Master Suites, fireplace, ceramic tile, huge yard. Vera Mestayer Realty. For Sale by Agent/Broker. $310,000. Call (228) 304-1332 or veramestayer@gmail.com

EVACUATE OR RETIRE

Beautiful Home in town of Greensburg, La. Grocery & Hospital near by.

4BD/2BA $124,900. Bobby Drude And Associates, (985) 345-3344

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3341 PLAZA - $135,000

3BR/2BA. Immaculate, charming Ranch home. Open flr plan for entertaining. Beautiful kitchen w/granite cntertpps. Huge Master suite that opens to patio & large no maintenance yard. Covered carport located off kit is great for outdoor activities. Call Lynne Depanics, (504) 583-8207. New Orleans Property Shoppe, Inc.

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE

Call (504) 483-3100

124 EMERALD LAKE DR $259,900

Beautiful custom home on spring fed lake. Exclusive & private n’borhood.

Relax on your private beach & fish in yiur backyard. Wbfp,. Open floor plan. Split bedroom plan. Master suite with whirlpool tub. New construction & move in ready! House in NOT in a flood zone. Call Betsy Balder Montjoy, Realtor, (228) 547-2856. betsy. balder@coldwellbanker.com

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1129 Burgundy

$1,595,000 • 3 bed/2.5 bath

LYNDA DEPANICIS – 504-583-8207 New Orleans Property Shoppe, Inc.

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Elegant, immaculate creole cottage circa 1830’s w/detached 2 story balcony carriage house restored to it’s original character. Gourmet kit w/ marble cnttps. 18th century chandelier, high end ss appl. Main house has original mantles. Many nice features.

Foyer was designed painted & coordinated by Tara Shaw. $1,595,000. Call Lynne Depanics, (504) 583-8207. New Orleans Property Shoppe, Inc.

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COMMERCIAL RENTALS COMMERCIAL LEASE

Great Mid-City Location 4227 Bienville St. NOLA 70119 Available December 2013 Approx.

7900 square feet for office or light industrial use. Approx. $4,000k monthly Call: 504-897-0191 or Fax 504-8946559

OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE NON-PROFITS ONLY

1466 Magazine St., $539,900

$259,900 Beautiful custom home on spring fed lake. Exclusive and private neighborhood. Relax on your private beach and fish in your backyard. Come in and enjoy the wood burning fireplace in this cozy open floor plan. Split bedroom plan.

Master suite with whirlpool tub. Heated/ cooled garage. Move-in ready. New Construction. Home is not in a flood zone.

L 1129 BURGUNDY 3BR/2.5BA

H2O, Gas, & High Speed Internet Included 1, 2,3 Bedrooms Available. Kenner, Metairie, Metro New Orleans, and the Westbank. Call MetroWide Apartments Today 504-304-4687

On street car line at St. Charles and Broadway. Multiple units from 127 to 4,000 square feet, utilities and alarm included. Elevator. Call (504) 861-9415, www.scabc.org

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CALL TODAY FOR OUR WEEKLY SPECIALS

117 S. Hennessey St., $ 329,900

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5 suites currently used as a Bed and Breakfast with large yard and off street Parking. Real Estate Only $539,900. Owner/Broker

Move in cond, lots of architectural details, 1st block off Canal, off street pkng for several cars, garage. 2 br, 2 dens, encl porch/sun rm & wood flrs. Must see to appreciate.

Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226

Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

Betsy Balder Montjoy Realtor 228-547-2856

betsy.balder@coldwellbanker.com

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Elegant, immaculate creole cottage circa 1830’s with detached two story balcony carriage house restored to its original character. Gourmet kitchen with marble countertops, 18th century chandelier, high end stainless appliances. Main house has original mantles, Bevolo gas lanterns, plaster medallions in double parlor, wide pine floors, custom silk drapes, Foyer was design painted & coordinated by Tara Shaw.

124 Emerald Lake Dr.

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F O R S A L E

102 Mimosa St $149,500 Newly rebuilt and renovated home on the water.

Cathedral ceiling throughout. Stainless steel appliances,tile counter tops and backsplash. 110 feet on the water with new bulkhead,dock and ramp. Seller will pay $500 towards buyers closing costs. Option to purchase neighboring parcel,for 2 waterfront acres.

Betsy Balder Montjoy Realtor 228-547-2856 betsy.balder@coldwellbanker.com

Between Labarre & Rio Vista. 2 brm,1.5 bath, $880/mo includes water, w&d, fridge & stove. NO pets, pool, smoking. OR 1 br/1ba at 212 Severn Ave. $595/mo inlcludes water.Great landlord for great tenants!

504-887-1814

OLD METAIRIE SPARKLING POOL Bike Path & Sunset Deck

1 BR apt with new granite in kit & bath. King Master w/wall of closets.

Kit w/ all built-ins. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg. NO PETS. Avail now. Owner/agent, $724/mo.

504-236-5776.

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

GRETNA / HARVEY 437 PAILET - HARVEY

Renovated! Good n’borhood.

2/1, lg livingroom, stove, fridge, dishwasher. Walk in closets & storage, ceiling fans, ca&h. $750/mo + $750 dep.

Call (504) 373-5594 or (504) 458-3699

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High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750-$1200/mo.

504-362-7487

BYWATER 3009 ROYAL ST

Newly renov’d, 2br/1ba, LR, kit w/ appls, washer/dryer, $1100/mo + $1100 dep. Start showing Sept. 1st.

504-231-0889 or 817-681-0194.

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 1101 N. White St.

Large 1 bedroom, w/front porch, furnished kit & w/d. No pets $850/ month. Call 504-343-8651.

NEAR CITY PARK - DESAIX

Single house, c-a/h, 2br, 1ba, w/d hkps, lrg fncd yd, pets ok. $1100/ mo. 504-952-5102

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE WEST LAKESHORE 3/2

7342 CAMEO. LOVELY 3BR/1BA 2ND FL. APT.EXTRA LG KIT W/ALL APPL. OS PKNG. GREAT AREA! NO SMOKING, NO PETS. $1200 Evelyn Cohn, Agent, (504) 884-3458.

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

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RESIDENTIAL RENTALS

500 Mandeville - 3 bd/ 1 1/2 ba ...... $2800 4721 Magazine - Comm ................... $2000 1020 Esplanade - 2 bd/ 1 ba + pkg ........ $1950 539 Dumaine - 1 bd/ 1 ba ............... $1650 4323 Burgundy - 1 bd/ 1 ba ............... $1400 1016 Burgundy - 1 bd/ 1 ba ............... $1250 CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS!

2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605

1 BEDROOM APT

2511 S Carrollton Ave. 1/1 Furn kit, cen a/h, off st pkg. $750/mo, wtr pd. Background ck required. 504450-7450.

8021 SPRUCE ST 1/2 OFF 1st MO. RENT!

3BR/2BA, fenced. CA&H, w&d, o/s pkng. Landlord pays water. $1600/ mo + deposit. Call (504) 858-2875

NEAR UNIVERSITIES

3/1.5 Dublin near streetcar. Lv, furn kit, w/d hkp, hdwd flrs, ceil fans, scrn porch. $1000 + deposit.

Owner/Agent, 442-2813.

ONE BLOCK OFF ST. CHARLES AVE.

2 BR/1 BA, Garden District location with lots of character. Hardwood floors, washer and dryer, off street parking and great courtyard off the kitchen! $1,500/mo. (504) 450-2948.

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DORIAN M. BENNETT • 504-236-7688 dorian.bennett@sothebysrealty.com

1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

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French Quarter Realty

New FQR Office open! 713 Royal MON-SAT 10-5pm Sun-1-5 Full Service Office with Agents on Duty! 522-4585 Wayne • Nicole • Sam • Jennifer • Brett • Robert • George • Dirk • Billy • Andrew • Eric

1017 Ursulines Space #10 508 Barracks “A” 1 /1.5 1103 Royal “B” 2/2 712 St Philip 1/1 210 Chartres 3E 2/1 816 Nashville P 1 /1 934 Burgundy 2 / 1.5 1205 St Charles #507 Studio 1218 Barracks “A” Studio 1003 St Philip 2/1.5 1020 Esplanade # 101 studio 1025 Dumaine #6 1/1 3922 Prytania 2/1

Motorcycle/Scooter,Gated,OffstPkg,YrLease$100 Hi -end furn w/prvt glry,balc&garage pkng $4,200 2 level rear. crtyrd & balc. Furn or unfurn. $2,000 Ground fl Luxury furn w/ctyd utilities inlc $1950 Furnished spacious apt in upper FQ $1695 updated apt off Mag St. parking included $1100 Lux fully furn.Short term rental.Prvt pool. $5,000 Tons of light, wood flrs, parking, pool, gym $900 Treme just off of crtyrd. Recently updated. $875 Light-filled furnished apt in great loc $1975 grnd-flr w/parking. Lush crtyrd & pool $1050 New renov, w/d, central ac/heat,fireplace $1,200 parking and balcony included $1,800

FOR SALE 421 Burgundy #1 1/1 421 Burgundy #3 1/1 1608 N Broad 2/2 1125 Royal #3 1/1 512 Wilkinson Row #4 1 /1 611 Dauphine B 1/1 823 Burgundy #3 2/2 416 Burgundy #5 1/1 729 Dauphine A 1/1 4420 Barnett 16/8 917 Toulouse #11 3/2.5 816 Aline 2/2 1303 Burgundy #11 2/1

Nice size grnd fl just off crtyd. $180,000 Bamboo flrs. exp wood Central HVAC. $180,000 Sngl fam renov. Near fairgrounds. $82,500 3rd flr,exp beams,storage! Lush crtyrd $269,000 NEWPRICE!LightfilledTotalrenov in‘02$395,000 townhouse w/ common courtyard $169,900 1,600 sqft, brand renov, balcony, $599,000 lovely, crtyrd, no pets/low condo fees $149,000 HeartofFQ.Grtfrntporch.Updatedkit/ba$359,000 Metairieprop-8apts.each2bd/1bth.pkng$685000 Penthouse condo w/pkng & balcony $1,049,000 Uptown single fam house w/offst pkng.$379,500 Morro Castle! Balc w/view of crtyrd&pool $375,000

COMMERICAL 3817 Chartres Huge comm 2200 Royal comm 512 Wilkinson Row Comm 1228-30 N Broad Comm

3k sqft whse&3k sqft office space $6,500/mo 3,760sq/ft. Blue chip loc HMC-2 Zone $4k/mo NEWPRICE!commcondo.quaintFQst$395,000 B-1 comm zoned dbl w/parking $199,500

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$979,000 6 Bedrooms, 3 Full Baths, 1 Half Bath, 4,354 Sq Ft

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$319,000 3 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths 1,823 Sq Ft

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625 LITTLE FARMS 4 Bedrooms 3 Full Baths 3,300 SQ FT

$590,000 4 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths 1 Half Bath 4,060 Sq. Ft.

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$405,000 4 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths 1 Half Bath

1212 MINNESOTA AVE. $189,900 3 Bedroom 2 Bath,1,600 Sq Ft

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Jacque and his brother Pierre were rescued from the Rigolets. Jacque is an outgoing boy, full of fun. He is about 6 months old, fully vetted and just waiting for a family to love.

Visit Jacque at our Thrift Store Adoption Center: 6601 Veterans Blvd, Metairie or contact us: 504-454-8200; adopt@spaymart.org

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Flambeaux loves, loves, loves to snuggle in a lap. He can be a little shy at first, but quickly turns into a complete lovebug. Flambeaux is about 6 months old and would love to join a family with another cat or two. Call 504-454-8200; adopt@spaymart.org

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Piddy’s owner lost her home & job and had to give up her cats.

Piddy is missing a warm lap, gentle strokes, and a best friend. She is sweet, calm and gentle. Piddy is about 5 years old/fully vetted. Call 504-454-8200; adopt@spaymart.org.

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Male Lab/Pit dog in need of a new home b/c moving. Good with other dogs, playful, active, gentle.

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LEGAL NOTICES 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 729-053

DIV. F

SUCCESSION OF TENA LEE, WIFE OF/AND JAMES ARBUTHNOT NOTICE OF PETITION FOR PRIVATE SALE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY Notice is Given that the administratrix of this succession has petitioned this Court for authority to sell immovable property belonging to the Successions of Tena Lee wife of/and James Arbuthnot at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure for a total price of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) to be divided equally between the Succession of Tena Lee and the Succession of James Arbuthnot with the buyer paying all closing costs. The immovable property proposed to be sold at private sale is described as follows: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, priviliges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisianam in KING ESTATES SUBDIVISION, designated as LOT 18-A of SQUARE H, bounded by Coretta Drive, Southern Court the West line of the Subdivision and the 150 foot servitude of Louisiana Power and Light Company, all as more fully described in the rider annexed and made a part of the act before Helen C. Manale, Notary PUblic, dated February 19, 1970, of COB 711 folio 574.

This act is made, executed and accepted subject to the following: a) Servitude in favor of Louisiana Power & Light Company over the rear 5 feet of lots in Square H, as per instrument dated November 14, 1968, COB 688, folio 610. b) Restrictions as contained in act before Gordon K. Konrad, Notary Public, dated January 10, 1969, COB 691, folio, 409.

Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

Lisa M. Cheramie, Clerk of Court Attorney: William G. Cherbonnier Address: 2550 Belle Chasse Hwy, Ste. 215 Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 309-3304 Gambit:10/15/13 & 11/5/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to AEGIS FUNDING CORPORATION, executed by Kevin Callens, Sr., and dated June 1, 2006, in the principal sum of $117,000.00, bearing interest at the rate of 10.500% percent from dated until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same.

Please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

NO.: 730-107

DIV. E

SUCCESSION OF INEZ MARIE GUILLOT WIFE OF/AND CLERFA LUCIEN PERQUE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Jeanette Perque Broussard, the Administratrix of the Succession of Clerfa Lucien Perque has petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell all of the succession’s right, title and interest in and to the following described immovable and movable property in accordance with the provisions of Articles 3191 and 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure: All of the succession’s right title and interest in and to the following described immovable property, to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as LOMONACO SUBDIVISION, IN SQUARE #3 thereof, which said Square is bounded by Oak Street, Division Road, the property now and formerly belonging to Sam Scanio, and an unnamed street, and according to a plan of survey made by Alvin E. Hotard, CE&S, dated March 10, 1947, which plan is registered in the office of the Clerk of Court of the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, said piece or portion of ground is designated as LOT NO. 1, which said lot has a width of Fifty (50’) feet front on Oak Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of Eighty and 93/100 (80.93’) feet along the line of Division Road and a depth of Eighty and 98/100 (80.98’) feet along the line separating it from Lot No. 2. Lot No. 1 forms the corner of Oak Street and the Division Road.

Municipal Number: 501 Oak Street, Marrero, Louisiana 70072.

Being the same property acquired

by Inez Guillot, wife of/and Clerfa Perque from Adeline Ordoyne, wife of/and Oneal Joseph Trosclair, by act passed before Lazard Levy, Notary Public, dated February 21, 1958, registered in COB 442, folio 274, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana.

All of the succession’s right title and interest in and to the following described movable property to wit: Bedroom Set Stove The proposed sale shall be subject to the price, terms and conditions as set forth in the purchase agreement and agreement to purchase, copies of which are filed in these proceedings. Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his or her opposition within seven (7) days from the date on which the last publication of this notice appears.

Kendra Pierre, DEPUTY CLERK JON GEGENHEIMER, CLERK OF COURT Attorney: GEORGE PIVACH II (10798) 8311 Highway 23, Ste. 104 Belle Chasse, LA 70037 Telephone: (504) 394-1870 firm@pivachlaw.com Gambit 10/15 & 11/5/13

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 641-672 DIV. H SUCCESSION OF BEATRICE A. LEVERT, CONSOLIDATED WITH AGATHA LEVERT NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Annette Webre Wolf, Dative Testamentary Executrix of this Succession has applied for authority to sell all the succession’s right, title and interest, in the following property, which is 100%, for $80,000.00 cash consideration, for the entire property, at private cash sale, according to the terms and conditions contained in the Agreement to Purchase, annexed to the Petition for the Authority.

THAT PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known as Westgate Subdivision, being a resubdivision of a portion of Highway Park Subdivision, according to a plan of Westgate Subdivision

by Roessle & Galloway, Consulting Engineers, dated June 30, 1955, recorded in Plan Book 27, folio 29, revised January 17, 1958, recorded in Plan Book 28, folio 45, which portion of ground is designated as follows: Lot 26, of Square “G” of Westgate Subdivision, and said portion of ground has the same designation on a certificate of survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. and Associates, dated April 4, 1956, a copy of which is annexed to an Act of Sale by Lattie Development Co., Inc. to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Forrester passed before John T. Charbonnet, Notary Public, on August 6, 1958; and according to which certificate said lot bears the Municipal No. 2408 Maryland Avenue, Metairie, Louisiana.

Any heir, legatee or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the date of last publication of this notice.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 9th day of October, 2013.

Marilyn Guidry, CLERK OF COURT Attorney: T. Robert Lacour Bar Roll Number 8077 Address: 3220 Williams Blvd.

Kenner, LA 70065 Telephone: (504) 443-1353 Gambit: 10/15/13 & 11/5/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Joseph C. Morreale, call Atty. Marion Floyd 504.467.3010.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Leon Webb, his heirs or agents, please contact Attorney Ralph Bickham, 1515 Poydras Street, 23rd Floor, Suite 2355, New Orleans, LA 70112, or call (504) 584-5730.: Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Lionel Samuel Dabney, Jr., please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.799.2265.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of ROBERT L. LAMBERT, JR., please contact J. Benjamin Avin, atty, 2216 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Ronald Staes, Sr. or any of his heirs, please contact Timothy P. Farrelly, Atty.

(504) 832-4101 or 3445 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste 103, Metairie,LA 70002.

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Being a part of the same property acquired by Tena Lee, wife of/and James Arbuthnot, by act before Helen C. Manale, Notary Public, dated February 19, 1970, registered in COB 711, folio 574.

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

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Jefferson Parish Sewerage And Water Propositions On October 19th most voters in Jefferson Parish will consider a renewal of two important property millages that fund water and sewer operations in the Parish.

These two millages represent continued funding for vital services and major construction projects for water and sewer treatment. These are NOT NEW TAXES. These two millages have been in place for decades. They must be renewed to continue to provide safe drinking water and essential sanitation for Jefferson Parish residents and businesses.

Business leaders, The Bureau of Governmental Research, (BGR), and all the major newspapers carefully reviewed the need to renew the water and sewer propositions.

Here’s what they said in recommending a YES VOTE on both propositions.

“Jefferson Parish has done a good job in maintaining its water and sewer systems and keeping them modernized.

The parish also is known for its quick response to calls for repairs. Those are important to the quality of life for parish residents, and these taxes are vitally important to keep those efforts going.”

The Times-Picayune, October 6, 2013

“Renewal of this millage would allow Jefferson Parish to continue to maintain the present level of service and to make improvements that enhance the safety, economic development, and quality of life that citizens and businesses have come to expect in Jefferson Parish…”

Todd P. Murphy, President Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

“These are not new taxes. Renewal of these low property taxes would continue to provide safe drinking water and basic sanitation for parish residents…. We recommend a YES vote on both propositions.”

Gambit, October 1, 2013

The water millage proposition …“before voters is a long standing component of the funding for the water system in Jefferson Parish Parish and eliminating it would cause serious problems….

BGR supports the millage renewal”…

“These may not be considered glamorous, but there are few services more important…. and in both cases the day-todayoperations will be severely affected if the millages are rejected VOTE YES” The New Orleans Advocate, September 29, 2013

The sewerage millage proposition… “before voters is a long standing component of the funding for the sewerage system in Jefferson Parish and eliminating it would cause serious problems.…

BGR supports the millage renewal…”

BGR Report, October 1, 2013

YES Jefferson Parish Consolidated

Waterworks District No.-1 3.54 Mills

YES Jefferson Parish Consolidated

Sewerage District No.-1 3.58 Mills

Paid for by the Political Action Committee of the Jefferson Chamber

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