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fear the mental health toll has yet to register. Meanwhile, the ecological, financial, cultural and emotional catastrophe continues. Despite attempts to halt new oil entering the Gulf, the damage already has been done, O’Connell said last week.

In a television ad in June, BP CEO Tony Hayward famously promised, “We will get this done. We will make this right.”

Ask any resident of Prince William Sound, and they’ll tell you oil still stains the sands there and life still is not back to normal.

Some locals’ claims against Exxon were finally settled in June 2009 — more than 20 years after the damage was done.

BP’s commitment to “make it right” no doubt will wane in direct proportion to media attention. The media and the public therefore must keep the heat — and the light — on both the oil giant and the federal government. It was good to hear President Barack Obama acknowledge this

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in his July 16 press conference, when he said, “One of the problems with having this camera down there is, is that when the oil stops gushing, everybody feels like we’re done — and we’re not.”

Scott Walker of WDSU-TV spent a week anchoring the news from Grand Isle.

Walker told Gambit last week, “One person I talked to said, ‘What I’m concerned about is three months from now, four months from now, when the story’s not as big and there’s no one here, then we’re going to have a bunch of problems.’”

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he fourth-most destructive hurricane in U.S. history came ashore in Louisiana fewer than two years ago — and most Americans probably don’t even remember its name.

Hurricane Ike barreled into Cameron Parish in 2008 and wiped out entire towns, including Hack-berry and Cameron. Ike unleashed flooding from Texas to the Florida Panhandle and all the way inland to Ohio. Many communities are still trying to recover from what the National Hurricane Center estimates is $18 billion worth of damage.

Heard much about Ike lately? Of course you haven’t. Without images like the ones of New Orleans engulfed in floodwaters after the federal floodwall failures, disasters such as Ike all too often disappear from the radar screens of everyone who wasn’t directly affected by it. Newspapers and TV news crews move on to the next disaster, the next scandal, the next distraction long before the real story is over. So with the possibility of a cap or a relief well stanching the Deepwater Horizon underwater oil gusher, there’s a very real chance that Americans may mistake that for the end of the story — and turn their attention elsewhere.

It’s not, and they shouldn’t. As Gov. Bobby Jindal told the press on July 20, “We were the first state to be oiled, and we’ll be the last state to be oiled.” Long after media and public attention have moved on to something else, coastal communities will still be grappling with this catastrophe.

We cannot afford to let the spotlight dim on recovery efforts.

“Something like this happens, and people say, ‘Oh, it’ll be back,’” warned Dr. Martin O’Connell, director of the University of New Orleans’ Nekton Research Laboratory. “There are significant declines in certain species that you don’t see overnight because they’re so resilient. You can drop a nuclear device in Lake [Pontchartrain, and] next year pretty much all the species are going to be back. It’s this long-term decline. … This is just going to put us back 10, 20 years at a minimum.”

O’Connell said that in May, when the disaster was days, not months, old. Since then, the hole at the bottom of the sea has pumped at least eight times more oil into the Gulf of Mexico than the Exxon Valdez spilled into Prince William Sound in March 1989. Oyster beds have been wrecked for years and marine life killed in numbers we can’t even approximate. A previously self-sufficient population has seen its heritage torn apart and its jobs ripped away. Food banks and animal shelters are feeling the stress, and doctors

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Dear Jeremy, Not only will I tell you who Stallings was, but I’ll throw in information about who St. Claude was just because it’s interesting. The New Orleans Recreations Depart- ment’s Stallings St. Claude Community Center and playground was named for Olive A. Stallings (1860-1940), who became known as the “playground mother” for donating money for playgrounds all over New Orleans.

The Stallings center was built in 1948 to give residents of the 9th Ward a place to congregate, play sports, take classes and swim.

The main building, which sat on the corner of St. Claude Avenue and Lesseps Street, was demolished earlier this year because of damage it sustained during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The community center was a staging point for rescuers to pick up residents stranded by floods from the floodwall breaks and take them to safety. Last fall, FEMA declared the building eligible for demolition and rebuilding.

It was torn down earlier this year, and the mayor’s office says the community center will be replaced and the pool repaired by late next year.

As for St. Claude, he may not be able to answer your prayers like a canonized saint, but he was beloved for the mark he left on the city. The area near St. Bernard Avenue and North Rampart Street was once partof the plantation of Claude Treme. According to John Chase’s book Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans, the city purchased the land for $40,000, then divided it into squares and lots. There was a practice in New Orleans at the time to attach the saintly prefix to the names of mere mortals when naming things after them. So the major thoroughfare, which was named in honor of Claude Treme, became St. Claude Avenue.

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Dear krystle, During the mid-19th century, a division developed between the French, who lived in the French Quarter, and the Americans who lived on the “Uptown” side of Canal Street. Separate municipalities were even established: the French populated the 1st District (the Vieux Carre); the Americans peopled the 2nd District (Faubourg St. Mary, between Canal and Felicity streets); and a combination of Frenchmen, Germans and people of mixed black-and-white ances-

try lived in the This pool and its 3 r d D i s t r i c t padlocked enclosure ( F a u b o u r g are all that’s left of Marigny). the Stallings community center, but the Animosities city plans to replace between the the main building French and Am- and repair the pool. ericans made phoTo BY KANDACE Canal Street’s poWER GRAVES median, which s e p a r a t e d the two groups, akin to a neutral area between two armies but controlled by neither. In the book A Short History of New Orleans, author Mel Leavitt, whose knowledge of New Orleans rivals Old Blake’s, says the neutral ground “symbolized the city’s plight. It was, for some time, an untended mass of weeds and debris. A few itinerant hawkers set up stands to peddle fruit and coffee. George Washington Cable called it a ‘place of tethered horses, roaming goats and fluttering lines of drying shirts and petticoats.’”

Although French Quarter residents no longer need a “neutral” barrier to protect them from those living and working on the other side of Canal Street, New Orleanians still use the term to describe any street median.

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“The Gulf Coast is an American treasure, and its deterioration affects us all. The solution begins with each American demanding the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico, its coastlines and its wetlands for ourselves and for future generations.” — Sandra Bullock, one of the stars of the Restore the Gulf video, which premiered July 20 at the now-shuttered P&J Oyster Company. Women of the Storm, which organized the video, is seeking more than a million signatories for an online petition.

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The online video and petition launched last week by Women of the Storm to promote national efforts to restore the Gulf Coast drew 25 signatures every 60 seconds on the morning of its launch — and temporarily crashed at one point because of the online rush to sign up. The digital petition (www.restorethegulf.com) had grown to more than 80,000 signatures by Friday afternoon (July 23).

James Carville joined the city’s female City Council members at the launch July 20 at the recently shuttered P&J Oyster Company, which closed as a result of BP’s Gulf oil disaster. The video promoting the petition was produced by local advertising agency Peter Mayer and features prominent celebrities with strong Louisiana connections, including Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Bryan Batt, Lenny Kravitz and Dr. John.

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The closed primary system worked well for Ravi Sangisetty of Houma, who was the only democrat to quality for the 3rd Congressional seat being vacated by Charlie Melancon. Sangisetty goes straight to the Nov. 2 general election. tions will be fought in open primaries once again. In 2012, we’ll see a cattle call for November non-partisan primaries, with the two top finishers going nose-to-

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the children’s entertainment company, provided 500 tickets to families affected by the Gulf oil disaster to see its Storytime Live! show July 23-25 at Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans. Dora the Explorer, a popular Nick Jr. television character, distributed 150 free tickets to Vietnamese-American families in eastern New Orleans and more than 350 tickets in Plaquemines Parish. Storytime Live! is a theatrical tour featuring characters from four top-rated preschool television shows.

New Orleans Schweitzer Fellows,

10 university students who each won a $2,500 grant to develop programs to help New Orleans residents, initiated their programs this month. The grants will fund school-based gardens; music, poetry and drum therapy projects for youth; disease prevention among homeless veterans and more. The fellows include graduate students at LSU, Loyola, Tulane, and Xavier universities. The New Orleans Schweitzer Fellowship seeks to provide service programs in the city while cultivating community leadership skills among its fellows.

Lutheran youths

from all over the United States worked on more than 100 service projects in New Orleans last week, including cleaning up neighborhoods, schools, churches and parks, scraping peeling paint from homes and helping service organizations. About 23,000 young people attended the 11th triennial Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod’s National Youth Gathering at the Louisiana Superdome. A goal of the convention is to teach young people the value of community service.

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continued their pattern of arrogance last week when supervisors for the companies were noshows at the federal panel looking into the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. An entire day of planned testimony on July 21 was canceled when it was clear that higher-ups from BP and Transocean would not appear voluntarily. Such obstructionism is a slap in the face to Gulf Coast residents — particularly the families of the 11 men who died aboard the rig. Their families deserve answers.

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olitical folks used to like to refer to Louisiana’s open primary elections for federal offices as “jungle primaries” because candidates of all stripes were packed together on a single ballot and forced to fight it out. Republicans against Libertarians, Democrats against Green Party members, socialists against no-party hopefuls. You name it, our ballots have probably played host to it at one point or another.

Then came The Big Change.

State lawmakers shuttered Louisiana’s open primary system for federal offices in time for the 2006 elections. It represented a sea change in local and state politics.

In response to the new rules, Republican mullahs ruled that only registered Republicans could vote in that party’s federal primaries. Democrats opened theirs up to non-Democrats — as long as participants did not belong to a party that was holding its own primary at the same time. For voters accustomed to the old “open” primary system, it was a tad confusing. Different rules for local and federal elections seemed to underscore Louisiana’s cultural and political break from the rest of the country.

Now, just four years later, the Legislature has reversed course — effective right after this year’s round of elections. It seems state lawmakers prefer the old way of making politics to the new one.

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I want you to know, a month ago I thought it was a disease, but now they tell me it’s a good thing,” said Anne Milling, founder of the organization. “We’re launching a 21st century, high-tech campaign.

“We’re going to Tweet … we’re going to YouTube, blog, email and Facebook, we’re going to do it all. We’re going to use social media to harness and garner hundreds of thousands, possibly a million signatures for a petition that demands funding for coastal restoration.”

Carville, who is Milling’s cousin, added: “On the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson said that England expects every man to do his duty. Well, this is our Trafalgar, and south Louisiana expects every one of us to do our duty, and our duty is to save this land and this culture and this way of life for our children and our friends.

“There’s an old expression, you want to talk about doing something, go to a man. You actually want to do something, go to a woman,” Carville noted, praising the effort by Women of the Storm to get the video and petition together. “It’s the signatures, but it’s also how much hell we raise.” — Matt Davis

the Los Angeles urban area.”

It’s also worth mentioning that since ProPublica last relayed statistics on oil spill-related illnesses, both BP and states released new numbers: • The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reported last week that 290 illnesses were believed to be related to chemical exposure from the oil spill — 216 of which affected workers, while 74 affected the general public.

• According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, at least 105 people were treated for health complaints believed to be related to the oil spill, the Mobile PressRegister reported on July 21. The Alabama numbers reflect cases reported since May 14, however — almost a month into the spill.

Alabama doesn’t break these statistics down into workers versus the general public.

• BP’s latest count, which spans from April 22 to July 12, recorded 647 illnesses and 955 Actor Bryan Batt appears in a viral campaign Women of the Storm launched last week to promote national efforts to restore the Gulf Coast. A petition is part of the campaign.

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Monitoring by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that the air along parts of the Gulf Coast may be unhealthy for people “who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.” The numbers reflected by the real-time air monitoring maps tend to fluctuate, but as of July 22, about half of the 29 sampling sites showed “moderate” levels of particulate matter pollution — down from the day before, when most air sampling sites were “moderate” rather than “good.”

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental health and justice organization, says that while the EPA’s monitoring program does “represent progress,” it “falls short in many ways.”

“The EPA continues to use a limited number of monitoring sites to extrapolate to a broad region,” the Bucket Brigade said in an analysis of the agency’s air monitoring. “If the EPA does not have the data, then they should simply state that fact.”

The EPA did not respond to a request for comment.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also released air-sampling results last week, which it said were “consistent” with the EPA’s findings. The agency said most of the pollution levels were comparable to a bad day in an urban area such as Los Angeles, but nearer the Deepwater Horizon site, the air “was polluted with organics from the spill” and levels of benzene and toluene — some of the most carcinogenic constituents of crude oil — were “well above maximum concentrations measured recently over

injuries from Gulf cleanup workers.

• The illness and injury numbers for workers on the spill may see a decline if the surface cleanup efforts continue to wind down. The company last week announced that it has reduced the number of skimmers working in the Gulf by more than a quarter, now that the cap on the well is holding in most of the oil. (The decision to cut down on the number of boats skimming oil comes just as OSHA rolls out its new and improved safety training, a few weeks later than promised.) — Marian Wang, ProPublica

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In early April, dozens of national GOP poohbahs came to New Orleans for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SLRC), a bellwether event for the 2012 presidential election. The big star at the SLRC, though, was former Alaska

Sarah Palin spent $2,100 while in New Orleans for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in April, according to a quarterly finance report submitted by SarahPAC. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

Gov. and current Fox News analyst Sarah Palin, whose minions placed little gifts on the seat of every attendee: a shrinkwrapped chunk of caribou jerky, with a jaunty note attached: “An Alaskan Snack from SarahPAC!”. At a convention where most of the swag ran toward cheapie ballpoint pens, Palin’s cari-boudin made an impression.

The jerky showed up again last week in SarahPAC’s quarterly finance report submitted to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), which had a $3,800

line item for “gift bag items” from Indian Valley Meats, located in the small town of Indian, Alaska (“where the mighty Chugach mountains meet Cook Inlet”).

The other mail-order cured meats from Indian Valley could almost be described as Northern Exposure meets Cajun cuisine: teriyaki jerky with Arctic ox, salmon jerky, and hot and spicy summer sausage with reindeer.

According to the FEC filing, SarahPAC raised more than $850,000 in contributions and spent most of it on typical campaign expenses, including airfare, mailings and donations to other political candidates (Nevada senatorial candidate and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle — a sort of Palin manque — received $2,500).

As for how Palin spent her dough in New Orleans, there was a $1,500 expense for “Dinner/Meeting” at Mother’s Restaurant on April 8, and two separate filings for unspecified “Meals” at the Windsor Court Hotel on April 8 and April 12, totaling $162.49, and “Business Center, Printer Rental, Printing” at the Windsor Court totaled $259.

Though Palin was famous on her book tour for signing her biography at populist spots like Walmart and Sam’s Club, she didn’t go the Motel 6 route while in New Orleans, but stayed at the Windsor Court, one of the city’s poshest hotels. One night’s lodging there on April 12 came to $205.57. All told, SarahPAC contributed more than $2,100 to the New Orleans economy — and that’s not counting the caribou jerky. — Kevin Allman

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If that weren’t enough, Traylor is telling reporters he’s running because of vitter’s past sins, including connections to a D.c. prostitution ring and a more recent controversy involving a former aide who stabbed a woman and built up a substantial criminal history while on the senator’s staff. As a Monroe resident and former assistant district attorney in Franklin Parish, Traylor could cut into vitter’s critical base in north Louisiana.

On the Democratic side of the Senate race, all eyes and ears have been tuned to the campaign of U.S. Rep. charlie Melancon of Napoleonville, who faces a different set of challenges. While Melancon drew only token opposition in the Aug. 28 Democratic primary, there’s a wildcard on the November general election ballot in the form of state Rep.

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THeRe ARe SeveRAL HITcHeS TO THe current system. As mentioned above, current law allows state-recognized political parties to decide who can vote in their respective primaries. Republicans and Democrats, to no one’s surprise, play by different rules. Only Republicans can vote in GOP primaries, while Dems and non-party voters can cast ballots in Democratic primaries. That autonomy has been upheld by the courts, no matter how much it confuses voters.

“The public doesn’t understand why they’re told they can vote in one and not vote in the other,” Dardenne says.

Which leads to another hitch: The separate party primaries for federal offices sometimes fall on the same dates as “open” primaries for state and local offices. This year, for example, party runoffs for congress and U.S. Senate will be on Oct. 2 — the same date as the open primaries for lieutenant governor and a host of local and regional offices across the state. On their way into voting booths that day, voters may have to be sorted into GOP and non-GOP herds, depending on whether there are runoffs for any of the Republican seats in congress or for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by David vitter.

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other states in reverting to jungle primaries for federal elections, there will be some interesting political theater between now and the Nov. 2 general election.

For starters, the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate was not expected to be much of a fight. Then along came former state Supreme court Justice chet Traylor of Monroe, who jumped in to challenge Sen. David vitter at the last minute.

Traylor is getting lots of buzz across the state. He’s got solid conservative credentials and made a quick grab for portions of vitter’s christian-conservative base.

He’s an Army veteran, a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association and the author of the Supreme court’s 2000 opinion upholding the state’s sodomy laws. “Simply put, commission of what the Legislature determines as an immoral act, even if consensual and pri-

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nose in December runoffs (in cases where no one gets a majority in the November primaries).

That change flies in the face of Louisiana’s federal lawmakers, who argue that open primaries often send congressmen and senators to the Hill after all of the choice committee assignments have been doled out — and during a time when only makeshift closets are available for office space. It was all about the perks. But, as with redistricting, state lawmakers have the last say on the matter.

And for them, it was all about the money.

Rep. Hunter Greene, R-Baton Rouge, author of the enabling Act 570 of 2010, says the swap will save taxpayers $6.5 million every two years. He adds that it also will decrease voter confusion. “I think running on your merit, rather than putting a letter behind your name, is the best way to do it,” Greene says.

To be sure, the current system is more complicated than an open primary system, and voters still haven’t mastered the learning curve. This year, for example, Louisiana will see party-specific primaries on Aug. 28, with party runoffs (if needed) on Oct. 2. Party nominees will then square off with each other and any independents and minor party nominees in a November general election.

“We have a semi-closed situation,” says Secretary of State Jay Dardenne.

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NORD Deserves Better e have an obligation to provide quality recreation and enrichment programs for all of our young people. It’s an integral component of both making our streets safe and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

That’s why I’ve been working closely with the City Council on a public-private partnership that will manage and provide new resources for our recreation efforts.

First, we must put in place a board of commissioners to oversee this public-private partnership. We looked at best practices, including our neighbors in Baton Rouge, to come up with our current proposal. Orleans Parish residents from each council district with subject-area expertise in arts and culture, sports, law, accounting or finance, and those who use recreation programs or facilities, will be included. Additionally, we will include representatives of the Recovery School District, the Orleans Parish School Board and the City Planning Commission.

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tive of the wide-ranging interests and subject-matter experts needed to make the city’s recreation department work.

Second, we must adequately fund recreation and put in place a steady funding stream. If NORD is a priority, as we all agree it is, then we must fund it accordingly. A proposed millage to fund NORD never made it to my desk for signature this year. To raise private dollars, we have proposed a fundraising foundation to compliment the new board, just like our neighbors in Baton Rouge. The foundation would be steered by community leaders, including representatives of the Saints and Hornets. In the next several years, we will also spend tens of millions of federal recovery dollars re-creating our parks and playgrounds.

With the public’s support for this charter change on Oct. 2, we can create a recreation department worthy of our children’s promise.

Mitch Landrieu is the mayor of New Orleans.

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in a press release. “I entered this race last September, and today I am one step closer to having the privilege of representing this district in Washington,” he says. That honor would not have befallen the political rookie were it not for the closed primary system.

Even though Sangisetty has a cool half-million bucks in his campaign kitty, the GOP primary will probably yield the early favorite for November’s general election. Former House Speaker Hunt Downer of Houma and New Iberia attorney Jeff Landry lead the pack, with oil field manager Kristian Magar joining them in the GOP primary.

Depending on how the closed primary races go in August, a runoff in any of the races could end up on the same October ballot as the lieutenant governor’s election and many other open primaries. In theory, a slew of high-profile races could draw voters to the polls — only to have them find out some elections are open while others are closed.

And just to make it really confusing, it will all change — again — in just a few months.

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Ernest Wooton of Belle Chasse.

Wooton, a former Plaquemines Parish sheriff who has a reputation in the Legislature for saying whatever might be on his mind, could cut into Melancon’s geographic base in coastal parishes.

In the absence of any other sideshow, like the will-she-or-won’t-she campaign tease of Baton Rouge-born adult film star Stormy Daniels, Wooton could draw some attention. It all depends on how far he takes his bid. He says he’s running to address the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wooton’s House district once encompassed portions of Lafourche Parish, which puts him squarely in competition with Melancon for votes there.

Philosophically, however, his conservative stripes make him just as much a threat to Vitter.

Meanwhile, in the 3rd Congressional District, which includes portions of Acadiana and is the seat Melancon will vacate, the closed primary system has already produced a winner of sorts.

Houma attorney Ravi Sangisetty, a prolife Democrat, was the only Dem to qualify. He thus goes right to the Nov. 2 general election.

Sangisetty accepted the nomination

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Reconciled hink you know New Orleans?

Think again. No matter how long you’ve lived here, no matter how many generations back your family might go, if you haven’t sat and listened to the young trainees at Cafe Reconcile tell their stories, you don’t really know this city.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu, several of his top aides, Criminal Court Judge Keva Landrum-Johnson, NOPD 6th District Capt. Bob Bardy and a handful of NOPD cops got an earful Thursday night (July 22) at a round table discussion with about a dozen Reconcile students — “a listening opportunity,” Landrieu called it.

The students were asked to tell their guests what it’s really like growing up in the city’s rougher neighborhoods, and they didn’t hold back. They spoke of attending pre-Hurricane Katrina schools where it was easier to get drugs and guns than take-home textbooks, of feeling so unsafe in their neighborhoods that they dared not even sit on their porches, and of not having New Orleans Recreation Department programs and playgrounds to keep their younger siblings and cousins out of trouble.

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Two young men said they had been shot — one of them three times — just trying to walk home. Several spoke of going to schools in other towns after Katrina and realizing for the first time what a good school was, and each voiced a preference for such schools.

They weren’t complaining; they were just being honest. In fact, these same young people were filled with hope, thanks to Reconcile.

“Each one of you makes me feel small,” Landrieu told them after more than an hour of listening under the direction of Reconcile’s program director Donna Bowie and executive director Sister Mary Lou Specha. “Some of you may have come from a bad place, but you have all made a decision to change where you’re going.”

Cafe Reconcile (1631 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.) in Central City, operates as a nonprofit restaurant that serves as a training academy for students ages 16-22 who are seeking to acquire life skills as well as experience in the food service industry.

Its graduates work in some of the best eateries in town.

Co-founded in 2000 by the late Rev.

Harry Thompson and several community leaders, Reconcile serves local dishes at some of the city’s lowest prices. It has become a favorite lunch spot for socially conscious entrepreneurs and professionals. Landrieu, who ranks among Cafe Reconcile’s most avid fans, has taken many visiting dignitaries there to show that hope is not dead even in some of the city’s roughest neighborhoods.

‘We have always believed that we’re not going to arrest our way out of this problem.’

— Capt. Robert Bardy Commander, NOPD 6th District

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At last Thursday’s meeting, the mayor urged the students to continue to “find a way to give light to goodness” — a favorite admonition of the late Fr. Thompson, who as president of Jesuit High School was a mentor to Landrieu during the mayor’s teenage years.

Several students spoke of not having good experiences with cops after having been victims of crime — mostly that police officers seemed preoccupied with asking them questions after someone had been shot and was in need of medical attention.

Landrum-Johnson, who served briefly as district attorney before winning a Criminal Court judgeship, reminded them that police officers “ask questions because they want to help solve the crime.” She urged them not to be afraid to work with cops.

Bardy, who described himself as a regular diner at Reconcile, urged the trainees to visit the nearby 6th District station to get better acquainted with area cops. “We have always believed that we’re not going to arrest our way out of this problem,” Bardy said. “We want to be more user friendly and have more meetings like this.”

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the LABB compares notes with EPA data collected from the beginning of the disaster to July 10. The review says the EPA isn’t catching the reports that appear on the LABB map. According to the review, the EPA’s monitors aren’t positioned at the best spots for monitoring public health concerns such as elevated levels of the carcinogens benzene and hydrogen sulfide, which the EPA found are high throughout the region. The LABB’s review recommends the EPA set up more stationary and mobile monitors and train locals — particularly out-of-work fishermen — to take samples so the IPA can get a more accurate picture of public health in more populated areas.

“The EPA is doing sampling; the citizen reports are saying, ‘It’s smelly here,’ or ‘We don’t feel well.’ It’s really different from each other, but the great thing is one can inform the other,” Rolfes says.

“Policymakers will look at it and say, ‘We need to drive our response here.’ Certainly we’re hoping the EPA will use the information to refine its sampling.”

Tulane University students Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow helped develop the map, which utilizes an

open-source Ushahidi platform, software first used by Kenyan bloggers to map reports of violence following that country’s 2007 presidential election. The platform also has been used to aid disaster and emergency response efforts following the earthquake in Haiti and blizzards in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.

Rolfes says the map will remain active, even as BP slows the gusher at the Deepwater Horizon well.

“I think there’s going to be a huge temptation, now that it’s controlled a little bit, to pretend like ‘Oh, it’s done. The spill’s over,’ when of course it’s just begun,” she says. “I think this map will illustrate that. (It will) continue to be out in the fields, out in the communities, encouraging reporting. Documenting the problems is the only way we’re going to solve the problems.”

THE LABB ALSO IS HELPING MAP from a different point of view — 1,500 feet off the ground. LABB volunteers are assisting Jeff Warren, whose Grassroots Mapping project sends up kites and helium-filled balloons equipped with special paGe 18

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ver the past few months, as oil from the Gulf of Mexico has poured into the coast, more than 1,300 text and Twitter messages, emails, phone calls and iPhone apps have alerted the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) to facilitate one of the largest publicly available, citizen-driven oil response efforts: a map.

In May, the LABB launched its Oil Spill Crisis Map project, which collects data from residents along the Gulf Coast — whether they’re reporting oil on shores, suspicious odors, oiled wildlife, threatened livelihoods or health problems. The reports are added to a map, giving the LABB an idea where complaints are coming from relative to where monitors are set up by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

“What we’re finding is that people have health complaints and they have exposure complaints, but the EPA monitors aren’t there,” says LABB director Anne Rolfes. “So the map is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, which is inform response — inform the federal agencies where something more should be happening.”

In a July 20 review of the EPA’s air monitoring reports from the Gulf,

One New Orleanian is going the distance — 1,600 miles on a bicycle — to raise awareness of the need to restore the wetlands. Sixty-two-year-old Malik Rahim, director of the Meg Perry Center for Environmental Peace and Justice, started pedaling from Houma, La., to Washington, D.C., July 6, heading east along the Gulf Coast. He hopes to average 35 miles per day so he can make it to D.C. on Aug. 22, where he will meet with members of the Progressive Caucus and representatives assigned to the Gulf oil disaster and coastal restoration issues.

Rahim hopes his journey will result in an environmental summit in late 2010 or early 2011.

“We are at a critical moment in human existence,” Rahim says. “We lose about a football field size of land every 37 minutes, and this oil spill has only made matters worse.”

During the trip, Rahim will visit universities, state capitals and community centers, particularly in cities hit hardest by the Gulf oil disaster, including Biloxi, Miss., Mobile, Ala., and Tallahassee, Fla. “I want to see what each state has lost, what each state’s efforts are and how we can build a collaboration,” Rahim says. “It’s all about creating awareness.

“Imagine if everyone just took one day and said, ‘I’m going to use the least amount of petroleum today than any other day by walking or biking to work. If I can do it at 62, so can everyone else.”

The problem with the wetlands will continue long after his ride is completed and even after oil from the Gulf disaster is cleaned up, he says.

“Every year we lose as much wetlands as are being damaged by BP,” Rahim says. “This way of life, unique to only our certain area of the nation, is at risk. Not because of BP, but because of apathy. We have to talk about saving the wetlands right now.”

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anielle Dinner with the New Orleans Food and Farm Network (NOFFN) says the group’s Growing Back to Our Roots Directory project serves two functions: “To connect different growers with the neighborhoods they’re in, and to [show] people that you don’t need a lot of money or a lot of resources or space to grow (plants),” she says. “We’re trying to show you can grow whether it’s in pots, in the ground, wherever.”

NOFFN has collected information about 100 community and private gardens from its online survey, and by this fall it plans to release a printed guide, sorted by neighborhood, that shows what is available and where.

“We have community gardens as large as a yard, then there are people on roofs with pots, so there’s no real standard,” Dinner says. Most gardens are in Uptown, Mid-City and Bywater, and cucumbers, eggplants and tomatoes are prominent plants. Dinner says there’s also a number of fruit trees cropping up.

Helping to design the database and gather information is environmental design firm Thalweg Studio. Jakob Rosenzweig, who created the Prospect.1 map, explains what his company is bringing to the project.

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The grassroots mapping project of the Gulf oil disaster took a series of photos of the Chandeleur Islands as oil approached May 8, then stitched them together. The project aims to collect images of the oil with camera-equipped kites and balloons for a comprehensive, high-resolution oil impact map.

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cameras that photograph the coast from high in the sky.

With Gulf accessibility an issue for the public and the media, Warren set out to create high-resolution images of oil impacting the coast and make them available in the public domain. Fundraising for the endeavor began through www.kickstarter.com, a website that helps project coordinators gather financial backing through pledges. The campaign sought pledges to help pay for kites and cameras as well as protective gear and gas. (It met its fundraising goal on June 21.)

To develop the images, Warren partnered with Stewart Long of Gonzo Earth, a photo mapping company, and Oliver Yeh of 1337arts, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-based art and science project that takes photos from the sky and also sends out webcamequipped and Internet-controlled cars to collect video.

The first images were collected in May and sent to MIT, where they were stitched together, pixel-by-pixel. The images and digitally stitched maps are available for download at www.grassrootsmapping.com/gulf-oil-spill.

Project organizers hope to continue mapping through January 2011 and enlist local fishing boats and crews to send out volunteers to document oil off the coast.

To add to the LABB’s Oil Spill Crisis Map and report oil issues in your area, text or call 272-7OIL; send a Twitter message with the hashtag #BPspillmap; or send an email to bpspillmap@gmail.com.

You also can fill out a form or download iPhone and Android apps on the LABB website, www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org.

How did tHe company get involved?

I met with NOFFN and told them about this idea. … At first I just wanted to make a set of maps. They knew about my mapmaking “hobby.” We started off on that foot. I jumped into the local food growing scene working with Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, and made a garden, and met so many people in the food world. I kept discovering there were so many growers who actually didn’t know other growers — they would actually meet other people through us.

I thought it was interesting and also a little frustrating, so I pitched the idea to NOFFN: “Maybe we should try to make something that makes everybody realize they’re all a part of the same movement.”

One thing we’re finding with this is people grow for a lot of different

reasons. One of the questions we ask (in the survey) is, “What do you find most rewarding about gardening?” and we get a huge variety of responses to that.

At first the directory was supposed to be a book of maps, like an atlas. Then it evolved into a larger thing. It’s three chapters.

The New Orleans Food and Farm Network’s Growing Back to Our Roots database will include backyard and community gardens, like the Wise Words Community Garden in Mid-City.

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How are tHose cHapters divided?

The first is introductory essays. People can use our book for reference, like a yearbook, I like to call it. The essays set a tone, describing the history of the movement and what the NOFFN hopes to see in New Orleans in the next 10, 14 years.

This is only the beginning.

The second chapter is the maps. There are a few different maps — from food to just straight-up environmentalism.

I’m still not sure if those maps are going to be out of place, but I think they come with the territory: people who are already aware of growing food locally, those people are usually conscious of other environmental things.

The third chapter is the directory.

We’ve divided the city into 13 districts.

We list each district and list the growers that fill out our survey.

I’m not labeling any streets or the garden (names) themselves. It’s more of getting a reading of the city in terms of how dense is our local growing culture. We’re not just listing the growers, we’re actually (grouping) the growers — things like school gardening, commercial gardens, and making distinctions with growers growing for food and personal consumption and those that actually grow, sow and make money.

We’re also mapping garden centers, (and) we’re mapping additional resources: coffee shops, breweries, stables — places that produce waste that’s compostable. Within each district, there are a lot of resources growers can use.

wHat are on tHe maps?

We have a map of all the different growers. To protect peoples’ privacy,

Visit www.noffn.org for more information on the survey, or to enter your garden in the database.

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omething is wrong in the backyard at Longue Vue House and Gardens. Fifty-three oil barrels creep across the lawn, leaving brown stains and mottled grass in their wake. The plant carnage is Deepwater Horizon Response, an installation by artist Mitchell Gaudet.

“This is my first quasi-political, environmental statement other than the Katrina piece,” says Gaudet, whose portfolio also includes Watermarks, a series of steel and glass poles marking post-Hurricane Katrina flood levels along Elysian Fields Avenue.

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“I wanted to do something like a physical manifestation of the possible amount. I wanted to do something with barrels because everyone thinks of oil being in barrels, but it kept getting bigger and bigger, and I kept running out of room where I was going to put the installation.”

The 53 barrels represent the amount of oil entering the Gulf every minute for 88 days, according to BP’s worst-case scenario estimate (100,000 gallons per day).

Gaudet compares the stains the barrels leave behind to an oil slick.

The piece has raised eyebrows among Longue Vue visitors unprepared for a view of the “sinister black line” of barrels with their tea. Gaudet welcomes the reaction. “That’s probably the best response to get,” he says. “Down in the saltwater marshes, I’m sure people are horrified by this.”

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do this and to reconnect with nature,” Cipes says. “We need to change the way we look at the world or pretty soon we won’t have one.” — Eddington

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Owner Erica Normand opened the stand next to the boat rentals on City Park’s Big Lake beside the New Orleans Museum of Art. Rentals cost $8 an hour, which includes a one-speed bike, helmet and lock. Bikes are available in men’s or women’s styles, different sizes and are made by Carmel’s Globe.

For families who want to bike together, child-size bikes and trailers for babies also are available.

There are numerous bike trails crisscrossing the park (one goes right past the rental stand). Normand recommends the 4-mile path that runs toward the Pan-American Stadium, along Wisner Boulevard down to Robert E. Lee Boulevard as an exceptionally smooth and shady ride. Other trails provide views of the Equest Farm horse stables, Couturie Forest and Arboretum, the City Bark dog park and more.

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bulrush plant — to soak up oil.

Stass and Cipes say cattail fluff soaks up 20 times its own weight in oil, floats and is impermeable to water. “Cattail is nature’s way of cleaning waterways all over the world,” Cipes says. The soaked-up oil can then be salvaged from the cattail by press or centrifuge, and each cattail can be reused as many as 10 times. Stass and Cipes also say the cattail can be harvested sustainably without destroying future plant growth. “With 100 kilograms of cattail, we believe we can absorb 20 tons of oil,” Cipes says.

The goal is to harvest the cattail — which commonly grows in marshes, swamps and other ecosystems with stagnant water — on a global level.

“What I’d like is to involve every continent,” Cipes says. He proposes that other countries ship their cattail to the United States to be used in the Gulf and get the costs reimbursed by BP. “Everyone can increase their quality of life from this,” he says.

Stass and Cipes tested their theory by using small amounts of cattail to soak up tractor oil in buckets of salt water.

“We found it to be really effective,” Cipes says. “We know crude oil is a different consistency (than tractor oil), but we’re pretty confident it’s going to work.”

The two will test the effect of bulk amounts of cattail in the Gulf during an August demonstration with the National Wildlife Federation.

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CAN THE BLACK AND GOLD GO TWO FOR TWO? THE SAINTS WANT TO JOIN THE PATRIOTS, BRONCOS AND COWBOYS AS THE ONLY NFL TEAMS TO WIN BACK-TOBACK SUPER BOWLS IN THE PAST 20 YEARS.

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How confidently could anyone have predicted that as little as a year ago? The Saints were a lot of things before 2009 and “winners” was far from the first thing to come to mind. Sure, Drew Brees and Sean Payton had inspired confidence in this team’s ability since their 2007 run to the NFC championship, but the Saints had never made it to, let alone won, the Big Game.

So … where do we go from here?

History is not kind to teams looking for multiple Super Bowls. Consider: All but four franchises have played in the Super Bowl and 18 teams have held the Lombardi Trophy — but of those winners, only 10 have multiple championships, with seven of those winning back-to-back titles.

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Therein lies the dilemma for the upcoming Saints season: just how the hell do you top the last one? Last year’s Saints didn’t lose a game until December, and the contests weren’t all cakewalks.

New Orleans trailed Miami by two touchdowns before storming back and winning in week six. Just two weeks later, if wide receiver Robert Meachem hadn’t turned an interception into a fumble return for a touchdown, the Black and Gold could have lost to the lowly Redskins. Aside from the last three games of the season — and really, who even remembers those? — the Saints seemed to have gotten every bounce and break all year.

Nothing could go wrong.

Bill Barnwell, of the website FootballOutsiders.com, is an expert at finding statistical trends that define the quality of teams and players in the NFL. But when it comes to detecting whether a team has the ability to build a dynasty of championships, there’s not much to go on, he says.

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THERE’S ALWAYS MORE THAN A football team to celebrate in New Orleans, and the mood of the city doesn’t fall when its team doesn’t do well. For years, the pain of not making it to the Super Bowl was masked by the simple fact that the big game usually takes place around Mardi Gras. But last year, when Tracy Porter intercepted Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to seal the Saints’ championship flooded and people to the streets

“Stand Up and Get Crunk”, the party seemed like it was never going to end.

The city hosted parades on 11 of 13 days around the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras. When the popular sports blog Deadspin found a picture of Brees whipping the reins on his Mardi Gras float dressed as King Bacchus, they ran the headline “Drew Brees has gone mad with power,” highlighting the rest of the country’s bemusement at the over-the-top revelry in the Crescent City.

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“Leave us alone and let us enjoy our party, let us enjoy our team,” Louis says. “It’s not going to change the unique things that happen, the music that’s created around the team — none of that generic manufactured NFL stuff is going to catch on here.”

That was evident when the NFL tried — ultimately unsuccessfully — to claim a copyright on the term

“Who Dat,” and Saints fans across the city reacted by creating and buying as much non-NFL “Who Dat” merchandise as possible. The Saints may be a corporate entity, and the players may have earned the championship on the field, but the Super Bowl, the championship and the Lombardi Trophy — that belongs to the entire city of New Orleans.

The Saints have displayed the Lombardi Trophy across the Gulf Coast. In the midst of all the fanfare, Payton and Brees found time to pen best-selling books, and Reggie Bush snapped some pictures with

U.S. soccer players in South Africa at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Brees even tempted fate by appearing on the cover of the popular Madden NFL video game franchise (being on the cover has notoriously spelled bad luck for players).

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signs of waning. Louis says that unlike past years, he’s barely been concerned about the 2010 season.

“The team did so much and we just want to sit back and enjoy it a little bit,” he says. “With the memory of Bourbon Street after the Super Bowl and the NFC Championship game, it’s hard to get stressed about the upcoming season.”

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That seems to be the biggest post-championship factor: less stress. Lifelong Who Dat Shaneika Dabney said she looks forward to watching games without experiencing “sweaty palms, skyrocketing blood pressure and heart palpitations.”

But the same national spotlight that has helped the city’s visibility also has highlighted some lessthan-favorable qualities about the Saints. First ESPN took the images of Brees as Bacchus and suggested the team was celebrating its victory too much. Then former Saints security director Geoffrey Santini claimed Payton had stolen the prescription pain medication Vicodin. A lawsuit filed by Santini against the team has been withdrawn, but the case is in arbitration.

Bush, meanwhile, has been at the center of NCAA violations that have rocked his alma mater, the University of Southern California, stemming from cash and favors he received during his playing days. The football program has been placed on a two-year bowl ban, among other sanctions. In response, the school’s president announced July 20 that the Trojans returned Bush’s Heisman Trophy on the grounds that the school “honors USC sporting careers of those persons whose actions did not compromise their athletic program or the opportunities of future USC student-athletes.” Ouch. His on-again, off-again (currently it’s off) relationship with reality TV figure Kim Kardashian has also kept Bush in the celebrity watchers’ spotlight.

Then there is Tom Benson. Just five years ago, he risked becoming the most hated man in Louisiana when rumors circulated that he would move the Saints to San Antonio, Texas. Since then, Benson has kept the Saints as the only NFL team that’s

subsidized by the state where it resides. He even squeezed an additional $85 million out of the state to upgrade the Louisiana Superdome when budget deficits are forcing the reduction of public programs across the state.

It’s likely Benson will be forgiven any transgressions as long as the Saints continue to play in New Orleans and he doesn’t directly insult fans. He did come close to losing some supporters such as Louis, who found out in the middle of his post-Super Bowl celebrations that the season tickets he has owned since 2006 were being eliminated as part of renovations to the Superdome. In the place where he watched the 2009 winning season would be a new press box. For a while it seemed Louis and his friends in section 641 would lose their seats. In a stadium where sections are treated like neighborhoods, the Saints faced a growing backlash from “The Missing 1,200” — season ticket holders who lost their usual seats to upgrades and renovations — until the team offered relocation packages.

“To my knowledge everyone was offered a chance to relocate,” Louis says. “Some folks couldn’t afford it, and I’m not sure that everyone actually kept their season tickets. I’m looking forward to moving to different part of the Dome and having different tailgating parties.”

The move points to the Saints’ growing identity as a major corporate player both on the Gulf Coast and the national stage. The press box is being moved so luxury boxes can be built in their place. Other renovations include expanding the lower terrace, adding more high-priced, high-demand seats to a stadium that already can seat more than 80,000 people.

Both moves attract big-businesses and high-income fans, but it comes at the expense of cheaper seats for fans with lower incomes.

On her blog ChicksintheHuddle.com, Dabney, aka

NOLAChick, has written about accepting the higher ticket prices as part of the experience of rooting for a championship team. Despite joking that she’ll need Lenny Kravitz to hold a benefit to help her pay for her tickets. Living in Atlanta, Dabney says she’s still going to make it to as many games as she can. But unlike Louis, she isn’t content with just celebrating one championship.

“I don’t really believe in Super Bowl grace periods,” she says. “I’ve been following this team since I was a little girl, sitting on my dad’s lap, and yelling at the TV during the games despite having no clue what was happening on the field. Success for them always has been and always will be the primary objective.”

ANY CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM WILL TELL YOU ONE OF the hardest aspects to deal with is deciding how to shape a post-championship roster to ensure more wins. The “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” argument has real weight, but when every other team in the league presumably got better in the offseason, how can you afford not to do the same?

The result is a painful one for players and fans.

Scott Fujita, the Black and Gold’s longtime linchpin took the money and ran, pursuing a more lucrative contract to play for the perennially bad Cleveland Browns. The Saints let go of Mike Bell and dawdled when it came to re-signing Pierre Thomas, all the while paying Reggie Bush $8 million to be a backup.

Darren Sharper also got an ego check when, after realizing that no other team would pay what he was demanding, New Orleans was his only real option in free agency (not that the Saints were falling over themselves to sign the 34-year-old interception machine).

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efforts, endeared this team to people all across the United States (with ESPN dubbing the Saints the new “America’s Team”).

“Certainly, the huge majority of people watching the Super Bowl were rooting for the Saints,” Barnwell says. “Since then, I think it’s safe to say that they’ve made some new fans nationwide that they would never have otherwise reached.”

Benson and Payton have to do a little more than displace some fans or be accused of stealing pills to lose their standing in the community.

But there’s no telling how feeling they can do no wrong will affect their competitive mentality. Will all the success and outpouring of affection lead to confident determination moving forward, or will this team get too complacent and satisfied when it needs to stay hungry?

“I won’t be one of the schmucks booing them in week four in the Superdome if they happen to not be undefeated by that point or have a bad game,” Dabney says. “I’m so grateful to them for what they did for our city, but I know they’ve got so much more gas left in the tank.”

Having something in the tank and winning a race are two different things. The modern NFL game is designed for parity. Because of the salary cap, injuries and the setup of the draft, teams can go from last to first in a year. Just look at the NFC South, where no team has repeated as division champion and this year’s bottom feeders continually become next year’s top dogs. But there are teams that find the right mix of veteran leadership, young talent and role players that get the job done. Barnwell says the Saints have that crucial core in place.

“The Saints strike me as a similar sort of team to the Colts over the next few years. As long as they have Drew Brees around, they’ve got a steady date with nine wins,” Dabney says.

It’s nice to have a potential Hall of Famer playing your team’s most important position; once again, the fate of the team will rest on Brees’ shoulders.

Last year at this time, we wrote that Saints players, coaches and fans don’t even want to think of

a world without Brees. Well, that’s still the reality. Backing up Brees are Chase Daniel and Sean Canfield, who combined have zero NFL starts.

Brees’ supporting cast appears airtight. Last season, Brees made a habit of hooking up with as many targets as possible. In Pierre Thomas, the quarterback has an every-down back that can pound the ball and open up possibilities. Bush is a less productive back who serves as a valuable decoy and can still break games wide open.

The list goes on: tight ends Jeremy Shockey and David Thomas and wide receivers Marques Colston, Robert Meachem and Devery Henderson all are capable of catching the ball anywhere on the field.

In the past two seasons, the Saints were often just

one long pass away from scoring a touchdown; now the team has a stable of talented players who are proven winners.

In the NFL, where people measure advantages in inches, just knowing what it takes to win is a giant advantage. Even through last season, no one knew if this team really had what it takes to become Super Bowl champions. The question going into last season was how Payton was going to manage all the team’s talent and if he could effectively use all the tools he had. In the two seasons between the Saints’ NFC Championship loss to the Chicago Bears and the Super Bowl win, the team was 15-17 and there was no guarantee Payton would remain at the helm if the team faltered again.

Last season quashed those doubts. In addition to being an offensive mastermind, Payton also showed

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confidence and determination when he started the second half of the Super Bowl with an onside kick. It’s been hailed as one of the gutsiest moves in football history and likely will go down as one of the most memorable championship plays ever.

Payton and his players are now in unfamiliar territory. Known for his

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There may not be any hard statistics that link those teams, but they all had the common denominator of a great coach and a great quarterback playing at the height of their prowess. Payton and Brees share an unquenchable desire to win, along with the youth and exuberance required for sustained excellence in the NFL. The only difference is that now there is no more weight of expec-

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he only name that may have been more unpopular than Barack Obama at the Rally for Economic Survival in the Cajundome in Lafayette on July 21 was that of Ken Salazar.

When Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph mentioned meeting with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, boos cascaded down from the nearly 11,000 Louisiana residents in the arena.

But the 44th president was the persona non grata during the 90-minute rally. The clarion call from the stage was consistent and persistent: The federal moratorium will wreck the Bayou State’s economy, Obama doesn’t get it, and it must be lifted. The president was invoked repeatedly in rhetorical flourishes that were juicy red meat for a largely conservative crowd stippled by Tea Party members and “Drill, Baby, Drill” T-shirts.

Several southwestern Louisiana oil and oil-service companies allowed their employees — rumor had it some were required — to attend the event while on the clock, and dozens of rough-hewn, whiskered attendees donned coveralls embroidered with the logos of prominent players in the energy industry, Halliburton and Baker Hughes among them. But not everyone had direct ties to the industry. Gary Ostroske, executive director of United Way for the Greater New Orleans area, drove west from the Crescent City to attend the rally. The UW is nonpolitical, but as the head of an agency that serves the needy, especially in a metro area still climbing out of the morass of Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, Ostroske can’t help but view the moratorium as a threat. “Obviously what we need to do now is get people back on the rigs,” he said.

Ostroske’s agency has experienced a precipitous drop in donations since Katrina, and the prospect of thousands thrown out of work in the New Orleans metro area — not just from the rigs but laid off from restaurants and other businesses that benefit when the energy sector is booming — is a worst-case scenario. “We provide services,” Ostroske said, “and as a result of the hurricane, the spill and now the moratorium, it becomes incredibly difficult for people to maintain a quality of life. This makes it even harder.”

In a red parish in a red state where oil is big king, the moratorium is a fat, stationary target, and the speakers — Gov. “ Bobby Jindal, Lt. Gov. Scott Angelle, Louisiana Oil & Gas Association President Don Briggs and a host of other politicos and trade group leaders — took easy aim.

Billy Nungesser, the Plaquemines Parish president who has spun quite a bit in the news cycle since May, told the crowd: “Mr. President, this moratorium will turn Louisiana into a state of bankrupt businesses. It will increase the nation’s dependency on foreign oil by 30 percent. It will raise the price of gasoline in all places across the country. It will cripple the economy of a state that has come back after Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike, and we can’t afford to be crippled again because of you!” The grateful audience roared its endorsement.

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DRILL, CHER, DRILL Gov. Bobby Jindal was the ranking elected official to speak. He was greeted warmly by the partisan crowd, and he returned the favor with pithy bromides: “Let our people work, that is what we’re telling Washington, D.C.,” he said to a round of applause. “We’re in a war to defend our way of life. We will win this war,” he added later to more vigorous ovation.

But it was Angelle, a St. Martin Parish Democrat flirting with a switch to the GOP, who stole the show. Serving as master of ceremonies, Angelle repeatedly whipped the crowd into a froth as he took the podium between speakers.

“Mr. President, Mr. President,” he intoned in sing-song oration that recalled both populist Louisiana politicians of yore and black preachers of today, “I’ll forget the fact that you don’t like oil and gas companies. But this moratorium is not hurting the stockholders of BP or Exxon or Chevron. This moratorium is hurting the Cheramies and Callaises and the Dupuises and the Robins and the Boudreauxs and the Thibodeauxs!”

Outside the arena, in the swelter and traffic exhaust, a small gaggle of about 20 protesters gathered with signs that read “Moratorium Today Means Safe Jobs Tomorrow” and “We Support Environmental Safety,” among others.

“We’re standing up to these big oil interests that are killing our world and killing us,” said Nell, a Lafayette woman who declined to give her last name.

“It’s important for people to know that you can stand up and say it’s not acceptable. These people are putting profit before our life.”

But inside the Cajundome, it was all Kumbayah for oil.

As the crowd shuffled out into the stifling Louisiana summer after the rally, members of the Southwest Louisiana Tea Party from Lake Charles passed out tan business cards inspired by Wild West iconography: “Wanted for Apathy: American Citizens.”

“I’m worried about everything that’s going on in this country,” said a sympathetic Richard Mouton of Lafayette, owner of a car repair shop, as he queued up for a shuttle bus. “I never thought I’d see this day.”

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ne theme. Six playwrights. And a week to write an original 10-minute play. That’s the formula behind 6x6, a monthly evening of entertainment that made its debut July 21 at Le Chat Noir and what show producer Mark Routhier calls “a relatively low-stakes evening of entertainment.”

Routhier, a veteran of San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, came to town in April to direct The Piano Teacher at Southern Repertory Theater, and began work as the Southern Rep’s associate artistic director in May. Routhier is one of the leaders of Southern Rep’s new partnership with Le Chat Noir, and led a brainstorming session about what the St. Charles Avenue cabaret could do to attract audiences on Wednesday nights. 6x6 was the result.

“It’s a format I borrowed — or stole — from San Francisco,” Routhier says, laughing. “There we had 36 playwrights. You would get a topic on Friday and turn in a play on Tuesday, from which they would choose six to perform.” Things are a bit more lenient in 6x6; the playwrights aren’t in competition with each other, and they have a week to complete their plays. “It’s got to be economical,” Routhier points out, “because you’ve only got 10 pages.”

The first repertory group of playwrights

Lisa Shattuck, Brian Sands, Pat Bourgeois, James Bartelle and Madison Curry are five of the playwrights who will be writing in repertory for 6x6 (not pictured: Gabrielle Reisman).

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soap operaâ&#x20AC;? set Uptown and written by 6x6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bourgeois. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like The Carol Burnett Show, if the writers were all on hard drugs,â&#x20AC;? Bourgeois says.) Fourth Wednesdays are reserved for â&#x20AC;&#x153;theater slamsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; open-mic, spoken-word, evenings of poetry, monologues and other performance.

All three Wednesday attractions are homemade New Orleans theater, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no accident. In San Francisco, Routhier had worked with the Magic Theatre, a nonprofit that only presents new works â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by budding and established playwrights alike. Sam Shepard was the Magicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playwrightin-residence for eight years, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also debuted works by the likes of David Mamet and Paula Vogel.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a formula that seems tailor-made for theatergoers like New Orleanians, who have always reacted well to original works by local playwrights about locals (Ricky Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;ŚAnd the Ball and All and Carl Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Native Tongues series being two of the most durable examples). Routhier, who says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;steep learning curveâ&#x20AC;? when it comes to the city, seems to have grasped that fact; he says the themes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll assign local playwrights will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;very New Orleans-related,â&#x20AC;? and the motif at the July 21 reading was the Animalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; song â&#x20AC;&#x153;House of the Rising Sun.â&#x20AC;?

The result? Six very different short plays, some with direct allusion to the theme and others that approached it more obliquely. The biggest audience response of the night seemed to be for Shattuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ham Dance,â&#x20AC;? a goofy, surrealist piece in which three prostitutes in their golden years defended their profession (and their proficiency in â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ham danceâ&#x20AC;?) for an unseen judge and jury as a ham swung above their heads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;1614 Esplanade,â&#x20AC;? by Reisman, involved two weary hookers and a talking dog, while Bourgeoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Turnabout is Fair Playâ&#x20AC;? opened with the ghost of a Storyville madam haunting a modernday man before going off in an inspired and entirely different direction.

Madison Curry used the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s line â&#x20AC;&#x153;a house in New Orleansâ&#x20AC;? as a jumping-off point for a short drama about a New Yorker coming back to New Orleans to sell the family house. Both â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Foot On, One Foot Offâ&#x20AC;? by Sands and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top Hatâ&#x20AC;? by James Bartelle followed the theme loosely. A couple of the 6x6 plays seemed to be the seeds for a more polished production, while others fell in the category of a noble attempt â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but each of them garnered some laughs in the right places.

That thirst for new New Orleans theater? With minimal publicity, about 80 people turned out on a weeknight for the first 6x6 and gave the cast and playwrights an ovation, which left them beaming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and relieved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the angst of it,â&#x20AC;? said Bourgeois, relaxing at the theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bar after the show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not knowing how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to come together.â&#x20AC;?

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All show times p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday 27 Bacchanal — Mark Weliky, 7:30

Banks sTreeT Bar — Andrew Duhon, 9 Bayou Park Bar — Cortland Burke, 9

Beach house — Candy RiedlLowe, 7

Blue nile — Dana Jessen, Jeff Albert, Nobu Ozaki, Charles Kohlmayer, 10 BMc — Wendy Darling, 7; Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias, 9:30

cafe negril — Glen David Andrews, 9:30

circle Bar — Tom Paines, 6; Luperci, I Have Two Wolves Inside of Me, Proud Father, 10

coluMns hoTel — John Rankin & Friends, 8 d.B.a. — New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 9

dos Jefes uPTown cigar Bar — Tom Hook, 9:30

The faMous door — Big Soul Band, 3 funky PiraTe — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30

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gennaro’s — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 8

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hosTel new orleans — Soul School feat. Elliot Luv & the Abney Effect, 8

howlin’ wolf — Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads, 9

howlin’ wolf (The den) — The Big Busk: A Night of Burlesque & Live Music, 9 irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Ed “Sweetbread” Petersen, 8 kerry irish PuB — Mark Hessler, 9

lafiTTe’s BlacksMiTh shoP — Mike Hood, 9 liTTle TroPical isle — Marc Kaul, 4:30; Rain Makers, 9

The Maison — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; No Name Trio, 10

MaPle leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10 My Bar — Danny T, 8

old PoinT Bar — West Bank Mike, 6:30 oz new orleans — SissyBouncing, 11

ralPh’s on The Park — Tom Worrell, 5

rock ’n’ Bowl — Joe Clay & the Crackerjacks feat. Johnny J, 8:30

stick this in yoUr ear saTurn Bar — Coathangers, Predator, Nervous Juvenile, 10 snug harBor Jazz BisTro — Matt Lemmler Trio, 8 & 10

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sPoTTed caT — Brett Richardson, 4; Jumbo Shrimp, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 10 TroPical isle Bayou cluB — Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 5; T’Canaille, 9 TroPical isle BourBon — Frank Fairbanks, 5; Damien Louviere, 9

TroPical isle original — Rainmakers, 1; Cruz Missiles, 5; Radio Active, 9 windsor courT hoTel (Polo cluB lounge) — Zaza, 7

yuki izakaya — Norbert Slama Trio, 8

wednesday 28 61 Blues highway — Blues Highway Jam feat. Lefty Keith, 8

allways lounge — Caddywhompus, Summer Blondes, Twin Killers, 10

Bacchanal — Jazz Lab feat.

Jesse Morrow, 7:30 Banks sTreeT Bar — Micah McKee, 10

Bayou Park Bar — Lynn Drury & Friends, 10 Beach house — Poppa Stoppa Oldies Band, 8

Big al’s saloon — Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone Blues Party, 7

Blue nile — United Postal Project, 8; Gravity A (upstairs), 10; Khris Royal & Dark Matter, 10 BMc — Domenic, 7; Benny Turner & Real Blues, 9:30 cafe negril — World Jazz Project, 9:30

candlelighT lounge — Treme Brass Band, 9

carousel Piano Bar & lounge — John Autin, 9 circle Bar — Jim O. & the No Shows feat. Mama Go-Go, 6; Spitzer Space Telescope, MRGO, 10 coluMns hoTel — Ricardo Crespo, 8

d.B.a. — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 deckBar & grille — John Lisi & Delta Funk, 8; Dr. Porkchop Blues Band, 10 dos Jefes uPTown cigar Bar — Bob Andrews, 9:30

dry dock cafe — Wednesdays at the Point feat. Capt. Josh Jimmy Buffet tribute, 6 The faMous door — Big Soul Band, 3 funky PiraTe — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30

BooMTown casino — Foret Tradition, 8:30

Jazzy Gulf Aid Eating local seafood and enjoying area musicians may be as self-serving as relief work gets, but thanks to events like this second Gulf Aid (www.gulfaid.org) benefit, they’re two of the easiest ways residents can make effective contributions out of everyday indulgences. The nonprofit organization’s May 22 gala, with an all-star pop lineup strewn with past and present New Orleans part-timers (Allen Toussaint, Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, Ani DiFranco), netted $300,000 for wetlands preservation and fisherman support. This follow-up is headlined by native heavyweights Ellis Marsalis (pictured), Leah Chase and Charmaine Neville, and it marks One Eyed Jacks’ second significant trad-jazz concert in as many months, after Harold Battiste Jr.’s blowout book release party in June. It’s another move in the 2010 crosspollination of Crescent City music venues, a yearlong genre mashup that’s resulted in Preservation Hall hosting Louisville, Ky., rockers My Morning Jacket and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art becoming a home base for bounce. It’s also a fitting analogy for the kind of cultural unity needed to combat this latest, potentially greatest threat to the forever-imperiled Gulf Coast. Tickets $25.

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Brass Band, 9

irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Sasha Masakowski, 5; Irvin Mayfield’s NOJO Jam, 8

kerry irish PuB — Chip Wilson, 9 lacava’s sPorTs Bar — Crossfire, 9

liTTle TroPical isle — Frank Fairbanks, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9

The Maison — Teddy Bear Elvis, 7; Cat’s Pajamas, 10

MoJo sTaTion — Ed Wills, Blues for Sale, 8

old fireMen’s hall — Two Piece & a Biscuit feat. Brandon Foret, Allan Maxwell & Brian Melancon, 7:30 one eyed Jacks — Lydia, Deas Veil, Rocketboys, 9

PalM courT Jazz cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman feat. Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 ralPh’s on The Park — Larry Seibert, 5

gennaro’s — Olga, 8

rock ’n’ Bowl — Johnny Angel, 8:30

howlin’ wolf — Booty Trove

The sainT — Microshards, Catacombz, Proud Father, 10

hi-ho lounge — Ratty Scurvics, 7

BMc — Low-Stress Quintet, 7; Big Pearl, 10

rusTy nail — Jenn Howard, 8

snug harBor Jazz BisTro — Delfeayo Marsalis & Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10

sPoTTed caT — Brett Richardson, 4; Loose Marbles, 6; St. Louis Slim & the Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10 TroPical isle Bayou cluB — Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 5; T’Canaille, 9 TroPical isle BourBon — Damien Louvier, 5; Jason Bishop & the Garlic Truck Band, 9

TroPical isle original — John Lisi, 1; Debbie & the Deacons, 5; Late As Usual, 9 windsor courT hoTel (Polo cluB lounge) — Zaza, 7 yuki izakaya — By and By, 8

Thursday 29 Bacchanal — Courtyard Kings, 7; Vincent Marini, 9:30 Banks sTreeT Bar — Dave Jordan & the Neighborhood Improvement Association, 10 Bayou Park Bar — Ron Hotstream, 9

Beach house — Beach House All-Stars, 8 Big al’s saloon — Danny Alexander’s Blues Jam, 8

cafe negril — John Lisi & the Delta Funk, 9

carousel Piano Bar & lounge — John Autin, 9 carrollTon sTaTion — Cortland Burke, 9

circle Bar — Sam and Boone, 6; Easy Company, Mandrake Project, Wee Trio, 10 coluMns hoTel — Freddy Omar, 8

davenPorT lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.B.a. — Colin Lake, 7; Will Bernard Trio feat. Brian Coogan & Simon Lott, 10

dos Jefes uPTown cigar Bar — Chuck Chaplin Trio, 9:30

The faMous door — Big Soul Band, 3 french QuarTer Pizzeria — Big Joe Kennedy, 9

funky PiraTe — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30 harrah’s casino (MasQuerade) — Ceasar Elloie, 6

hi-ho lounge — Stooges Brass Band, 9:30 high ground — Have Nots, 7

howlin’ wolf norThshore — Black Magnolia, 10 howlin’ wolf (The den) — Ballyhoo!, Mike Pinto, 10

irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Roman Skakun, 5; Johnaye Kendrick, 8 JiMMy BuffeTT’s MargariTaville cafe — Eddie Parrino, 7

kerry irish PuB — Dave Stover Project, 9 lafiTTe’s BlacksMiTh shoP — Mike Hood, 9 le Bon TeMPs roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11

liTTle TroPical isle — Al Hebert, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9 MaPle leaf Bar — The Trio, 10 MiMi’s in The Marigny — Grand Daddy Slank, My Graveyard Jaw, 9:30

TroPical isle Bayou cluB — Waylon Thibodeaux, 5; T’Canaille, 9

TroPical isle BourBon — Mark Barrett, 4; Debbie & the Deacons, 9

TroPical isle original — John Lisi, 1; Cruz Missiles, 5; Late As Usual, 9

vaughan’s — Kermit Ruffins & Barbecue Swingers, 8:30 windsor courT hoTel (Polo cluB lounge) — Michael Pellera, 7 yuki izakaya — Wazozo, 8

friday 30 12 Bar — John Mooney, 10

61 Blues highway — Jack Yoder & Li’l G Delta Blues, 8 andrea’s caPri Blu lounge — Philip Melancon, 7 ausTin’s resTauranT — Scott Kyser, 6:30 Banks sTreeT Bar — Silent Cinema, 10

The Bar — Shotgun Silhouette, Crotchbreaker, Devil’s Rain, 10 Bayou Park Bar — Crystal Rivers, 10

Beach house — Bobby Cure & the Summertime Blues, 9 Big al’s saloon — Thunderheads, 8

Blue nile — Mykia Jovan & Jason Butler, 8; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 BMc — Sasha Masakowski, 7; Fredy Omar Con Su Banda, 10:30; Medianoche International, 1 a.m.

BoMBay cluB — Lisa Lynn, 9:30

BooMTown casino — Brandon Foret, 9:30 carousel Piano Bar & lounge — John Autin, 9 carrollTon sTaTion — Spencer Bohren, Iguanas, 9:30 circle Bar — Jim O. & Sporadic Fanatics, 6; Lonnie Walker, Dinosaur Feather, 10 clever wine Bar — Cindy Scott, 8; Courtyard Kings, 8

cluB 7140 — Michael Ward, 8 coluMns hoTel — Alex Bachari, 5

old PoinT Bar — KC Robinson Band, 9

davenPorT lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9

PreservaTion hall — New Birth Brass Band, 8

dos Jefes uPTown cigar Bar — Swing Cats’ Ball feat. Tom Hook, 10

PalM courT Jazz cafe — Tim Laughlin, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8

d.B.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Eric Deaton, 10

ralPh’s on The Park — Tom Worrell, 5

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rock ’n’ Bowl — Same Ol’ 2-Step, 8:30 sing sing cluB — Big Soul Band, 9

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funky PiraTe — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30 green rooM — ’Bout It Brass Band, 10

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Now ShowiNg BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES (NR) — The museum screens a 4-D

film, bringing audiences into battle using archival footage and special effects. National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater

CYRUS (R) — A down-and-out divorcee meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has a 21-year-old son with whom she shares an unconventional relationship. AMC Palace 20, Canal Place DEEP SEA (NR) — Audiences experience the depths of the ocean. Entergy IMAX DESPICABLE ME (PG) — Steve

Carell, Kristen Wiig, Jason Segel and others provide the voices in this animated comedy about orphans who see dad potential in a diabolical supervillan. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14

DINOSAURS ALIVE! (NR) —

David Clark helms a CGI jaunt in a Jurassic park. Entergy IMAX, Kenner MegaDome THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (R) — In the second film

installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy, computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is on the run after being framed for murder. Canal Place narrates a 15-day river-rafting trip that highlights the beauty of the Colorado River. Entergy IMAX

GROWN UPS (PG-13) —

Childhood best friends get together during Fourth of July weekend to meet each other’s families for the first time. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14

HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU (NR) — Greg MacGillivray

directs a film about Louisiana’s eroding wetlands and the natural protection they provide against hurricanes. Includes performances

by Tab Benoit, Amanda Shaw, Allen Toussaint, Chubby Carrier and Marva Wright.

Narrated by Meryl Streep.

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INCEPTION (PG-13) — A thief

(Leonardo DiCaprio) skilled at extracting secrets from deep within the subconscious gets a chance at redemption.

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GRAND CANYON: RIVER AT RISK (NR) — Robert Redford

Leon Trotsky helped lead the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution. He rethought the tenets of Marxism. He opposed the rise of Stalin. But could he have rallied high school students to care about anything?

That’s the great question in Jacob Tierney’s The Trotsky, a clever comedy about a Canadian high school student who is not just inspired by Trotsky but believes he’s the reincarnation of the Communist visionary. He’s both vigorously historical and invincible to resistance because he believes his life is fated to play out exactly as his namesake.

Everywhere Leon Bronstein (also Trotsky’s namesake’s actual name) looks, he sees the call for revolution. The movement, however, is continually dragged down by the establishment.

His father isn’t receptive to the labor organizing he undertakes several hours into his first day on a summer job in the family business. Leon soon finds himself relegated to public school, which he accepts as an opportunity to meet the masses and start instigating social change. He wastes no time confronting the principal, but it’s at the student union meeting where he finally faces his true nemesis: student apathy.

Leon is very amusing when brushing aside resistance. It’s charming when he pursues Alexandra, a woman he identifies as his future wife based simply on her name and their 10-year gap in age (just like Trotsky). But the film is funniest when he straightforwardly dismisses the principal, school board members, lawyers and others in his way. These pawns of state power simply do not understand he is just humoring them while the grand arc of sweeping historical change propels him forward. Every confrontation is of epic and dialectical importance to him. And as nerdy as he is (dropping Terry Eagleton quotes), his idealism is infectious, at least to viewers.

The Trotsky lacks the quirkiness and pathos that made Wes Anderson’s Rushmore brilliant. But it’s a very pleasing comedy about wanting to make a difference and never giving in to cynicism. And it’s insightful and witty throughout when comparing the struggles of social classes, teen angst and what it takes to organize the disaffected.

Tierney will attend screenings on opening weekend. He’ll do a Q&A Friday at a reception with food after the screening. Friday tickets are $10 general admission, $9 students/seniors, $8 Zeitgeist members; other shows are $7 general admission, $6 students/seniors, $5 Zeitgeist members. — Will Coviello

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KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13) — A wholesome woman

(Cameron Diaz) accidentally gets involved with an international super spy (Tom Cruise).

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THE LAST AIRBENDER (PG) — In

M. Night Shyamalan’s fantasy film, the Fire nation launches a centuries-long war against the Earth, Water and Air nations. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 PREDATORS (R) — Mercenary

warriors try to stay alive while being hunted by alien trackers called predators. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14

RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) —

Beverly Cleary’s book series comes alive in the big-screen adaptation. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14, Grand SALT (PG-13) — A CIA agent

(Angelina Jolie) goes rogue when superiors think she is out to assassinate the president. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14

SOLITARY MAN (R) — A once

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THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (PG) — Nicholas Cage stars in

TOY STORY 3 (G) — Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toys return to the big screen when Andy prepares to go to college. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG-13) — Bella continues to

be torn between choosing the vampire or the werewolf.

AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 WILD SAFARI: A SOUTH AFRICAN ADVENTURE (NR) —

Ben Stassen takes viewers on a journey to find Africa’s “Big Five” animals. Kenner Megadome

WINTER’S BONE (R) — A 17 year old must track down her drug-dealing father to keep her family from losing their home. Canal Place

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If it’s possible to say this in a flattering way, Winter’s Bone (opening at The Theatres at Canal Place) seems like a mix between Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes and The Godfather.

Set in the Ozarks, Ree Dolly’s extended family and backwoods neighbors are warped not by nuclear test radiation but by crystal meth addiction.

Many rely on its risky production and trade as a source of income, which makes their relationships an organized crime family of sorts. The network of kin is loose and heated, but they clearly share their own set of moral codes — twisted and violent, but honor-bound nonetheless.

Debra Granik’s award-winning film, adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s novel, has the tension of a good crime drama, but it digs hard to find what people will do to survive and what principles even the most desperate folks will stand for, or at least not betray, whether out of fear or stubborn pride.

Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Ree Dolly, a 17-year-old forced to care for her mentally ill mother and two younger siblings. Their crystal meth-cooking father has not just been missing from their home but also skipping court dates. Ree finds out that he’s put up their property as jailbond collateral.

As if shooting squirrels to make stew and begging her neighbors for help weren’t humbling enough, Ree must head into the backwoods to track down her father’s meth connections and kin.

But getting him to a court date looks like a betrayal of family, even before considering whether she could inadvertently be drawing police to their doorsteps. Moonshining may conjure romanticized notions of off-the-grid independence and resistance to tax collectors, but the same backwoods world binging on meth is simply menacing and self-destructive.

The film ranges from gritty to brutal, but under it all is Ree’s fierce determination to care for her mother and siblings, and at surprising times she finds compassion from others who have faced desperate straits. — Will Coviello

opening FRiDAY DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (PG-13) — Steve Carell, Zach

Galifianakis and Paul Rudd star in the comedy about a dinner awarding bragging rights to the guest who brings the biggest idiot.

speciAl scReenings AMC SUMMER MOVIE CAMP — AMC Theaters screen

kid-friendly movies every week, with admission and concession proceeds benefiting charities. Films vary. Visit www.amcentertainment. com/smc for details. Tickets $1. 10 a.m. Tuesday.

BRIT WIT — The Big Top

screens British comedies every week. 7 p.m. Tuesday, 3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF THE AMERICAS FILM SCREENING — Screenings include the full-

length animated feature Sita Sings the Blues and the 1919 silent short The Garage. Visit www.caota.org or call (985) 635-4977 for details. Tickets $10. 7 p.m Saturday, Studio 525, 525 E. Boston St., Covington; www.studio525covington.com

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FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (PG-13) — The park hosts a

screening of John Hughes’ 1986 film about a high school wise guy determined to have a day off. Free admission. 7 p.m. Saturday, St. Patrick’s Park, corner of St. Patrick and Baudin streets

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Listings MARY POPPINS (G)— In the Disney musical, a magical nanny (Julie Andrews) injects whimsy into a banker’s unhappy family life. Tickets $5.50. Noon Saturday-Sunday and Aug. 4, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com MY FRIEND, OSCAR (NR) — A mentally chal-

lenged man befriends a 12-year-old girl in this locally produced film. Reserve tickets at www.myfriendoscar.com. 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com

NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL — The festival features

more than 90 animated, live-action and documentary short films made for children and teens, as well as animation workshops. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.com for details. Free admission.

10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org

THE SHINING (R) — A frustrated writer (Jack Nicholson) slowly unravels in a remote hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s horror film. Tickets $8. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com SOUTH OF THE BORDER (NR) — Oliver Stone

travels across five countries in South America, exploring their movements and misperceptions while interviewing seven of their elected presidents. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students/seniors, $5 members. 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 5:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday and 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Monday through Aug. 5., Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net

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THE TROTSKY — A high school student

claiming to be the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky is sent to public school after causing a hunger strike in his father’s factory.

A Q&A and reception with writer, director and actor Jacob Tierney and actress Emily Hampshire follows Friday’s screening.

Friday tickets $10 general admission, $9 students/seniors, $8 members, regular screenings $7 general admission, $6 students/seniors, $5 members. 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Monday, then nightly though Aug. 11, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net

VIEUX CARRE MATINEES — The Historic New Orleans Collection screens short films on Louisiana history and culture.

Visit www.hnoc.org for details. Free admission. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (G) — A poor boy wins the oppur-

tunity to tour Willy Wonka’s eccentric, and sometimes dangerous, candy factory.

Tickets $5.50. Noon Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com AMC Palace 10 (Hammond), 429-9090; AMC Palace 12 (Clearview), 734-2020; AMC Palace 16 (Westbank), 734-2020; AMC Palace 20 (Elmwood), 734-2020; Canal Place, 363-1117; Entergy IMAX, 581-IMAX; Grand (Slidell), (985) 641-1889; Hollywood 9 (Kenner), 464-0990; Hollywood 14 (Covington), (985) 893-3044; Kenner MegaDome, 468-7231; Prytania, 891-2787; Solomon Victory Theater, National World War II Museum, 527-6012 Compiled by Lauren LaBorde

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Opening JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — “The River of Forget,”

new paintings and sculptures

by Kathleen Ariatti Banton, through Aug. 28. Opening Monday.

NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS & PRINTMAKING STUDIO. 727 Magazine St., 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com —

“A Culinary Extravaganza: The Sweet Sounds of Satchmo and the Sugarfoot Stomp,” works

by Chad Gilchrist, Lisa Liggett, Melissa Clark and Cathy DeYoung, through Sept. 30.

Opening Sunday.

OAK STREET GALLERY. 8219 Oak St., 912-3304 — “Industry Zoo,” sculptural paintings by Sherry Francalancia, through August.

Opening reception 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

galleries AG WAGNER STUDIO & GALLERY. 813 Royal St., 561-7440 —

Works by gallery artists; 504 Toys, locally handcrafted toys; both ongoing.

ALL IN THE FRAME GALLERY. 2596 Front St., Slidell, (985) 2901395 — “Serene Waters, Clear

Horizons,” paintings by Annie Strack, ongoing.

by Anton Haardt, Christopher Moses and others.

AORTA PROJECTS. Poland Avenue and North Miro Street; www.aortaprojects.blogspot. com — “Blue Fence,” installation by Jennifer Odem, through December.

ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Group exhibi-

tion of gallery artists, through Saturday.

ART GALLERY 818. 818 Royal St., 524-6918 — Paint-

ings, sculpture and jewelry by local artists Noel Rockmore, Michael Fedor, Xavier de Callatay, Charles Bazzell, Bambi deVille and Ritchie Fitzgerald, ongoing.

ARTICHOKE GALLERY. 912 Decatur St., 636-2004 — Artists work on site in all media; watercolors and limitededition prints by Peter Briant, ongoing.

BERGERON STUDIO & GALLERY. 406 Magazine St., 522-7503; www.bergeronstudio.com —

Photographs by Michael P. Smith, Jack Beech, Harriet

Blum, Kevin Roberts and others, ongoing.

BERTA’S AND MINA’S ANTIQUITIES GALLERY. 4138 Magazine St., 895-6201 — “Second Line:

Lifting Our Souls Up Into Heaven,” works by Nilo and Mina Lanzas; works by Clementine Hunter, Noel Rockmore and others; all ongoing.

BRYANT GALLERIES. 316 Royal St., 525-5584; www.bryantgalleries.com — Paintings by Dean Mitchell, ongoing.

BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Gulf Spray,” oil

spill-inspired spray paint art, through Aug. 10.

CALICHE & PAO GALLERY. 312 Royal St., 588-2846 — Oil paintings by Caliche and Pao, ongoing.

CALLAN FINE ART. 240 Chartres St., 524-0025; www. callanfineart.com — Works

by Eugene de Blass, Louis Valtat and other artists of the Barbizon, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist schools, ongoing.

CANARY GALLERY. 329 Julia St., 388-7746; www.thecanarycollective.com — “Images

from the End of the Earth,” photographs of Grand Isle by Zack Smith.

CARDINAL GALLERY. 541 Bourbon St., 522-3227 — Exhibition

of Italian artists featuring works by Bruno Paoli and Andrea Stella, ongoing.

CARIBBEAN ARTS LTD. 720 Franklin Ave., 943-3858 — The gallery showcases contemporary Haitian and Jamaican art.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “30 Year Anniversary Exhibition,” works by David Goodman, John Oles, Christina Goodman and Jere Allen, through Saturday.

CASELL GALLERY. 818 Royal St., 524-0671; www.casellartgallery. com — Pastels by Joaquim

Casell; etchings by Sage; oils

by Charles Ward; all ongoing.

COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com —

“Details: Works on Paper,” paperworks by Robert Berguson, Robert Lansden and Dale Newkirk, through Aug. 15.

COLLECTIVE WORLD ART COMMUNITY. Poydras Center, 650 Poydras St., 339-5237 — Paint-

GALLERY. 912 N. Peters St., 4129220; www.dutchalleyonline. com — Works by New Orleans artists, ongoing.

ELLIOTT GALLERY. 540 Royal St., 523-3554; www.elliottgallery. com — Works by gallery artists Coignard, Engel, Papart, Petra, Tobiasse, Schneuer and Yrondi, ongoing.

FRAMIN’ PLACE & GALLERY. 3535 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-3311; www.nolaframing.com —

Prints by Tommy Thompson, Phillip Sage, James Michalopoulos and others, ongoing.

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FREDRICK GUESS STUDIO. 910 Royal St., 581-4596; www. fredrickguessstudio.com —

Paintings by Fredrick Guess, ongoing.

THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront.org —

“SPORTS,” an interactive multi-media experience by Dave Greber, Adam Montegut, Roel Miranda and others, through Aug. 8.

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GALERIE D’ART FRANCAIS. 541 Royal St., 581-6925 — Works by

Todd White, ongoing.

GALERIE PORCHE WEST. 3201 Burgundy St., 947-3880 —

Photography by Christopher Porche West, ongoing.

GALLERIA BELLA. 319 Royal St., 581-5881 — Works by gallery artists, ongoing.

GALLERY 421. 421 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8985858 — “A Summer Place,” photographs and beach glass mosaics by Sylvia Langlinais; “The Journey: Abstract Landscapes,” paintings by Al Champagne; both through Saturday. More than 500 pieces of art by more than 50 artists, ongoing.

GALLERY BIENVENU. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.gallerybienvenu.com — Young Artists Young Aspirations (YA/YA) group exhibition, through Saturday.

THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery. com — “Treasures of the Gulf,”

a group exhibition featuring more than 12 artists, through Saturday.

GEORGE SCHMIDT GALLERY. 626 Julia St., 592-0206; www. georgeschmidt.com — Paintings by George Schmidt, ongoing.

GRAPHITE GALLERIES. 936 Royal St., 565-3739 — “Sinners and

ings from the Blue Series by Joseph Pearson, ongoing.

Saints,” works by Joe Hobbs, ongoing.

D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 — Annual group exhibition featuring sculptures, paintings and mixed-media works by gallery artists, through Aug. 3.

GUTHRIE CONTEMPORARY. 3815 Magazine St., 897-2688; www. guthriecontemporary.com — “Schemata,” works by Susan Dory, ongoing.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Art Chaud,”

HAROUNI GALLERY. 829 Royal St., 299-8900 — Paintings by

a summer group exhibition featuring new work by 17 local artists, through Sept. 4.

David Harouni, ongoing.

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ISABELLA’S GALLERY. 3331 Severn Ave., Suite 105, Metairie, 779-3202; www.isabellasgallery. com — Hand-blown works by Marc Rosenbaum; raku by Kate Tonguis and John Davis; all ongoing.

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

“Dog Star,” a group exhibition featuring Oscar Quesada, through Saturday.

JON SCHOOLER GALLERY. 8526 Oak St., 865-7032; www. jonschooler.com — “Sublimi-

nal WOWs,” paintings by Jon Schooler, ongoing.

JULIE NEILL DESIGNS. 3908 Magazine St., 899-4201; www. julieneill.com — “Facade,”

photographs by Lesley Wells, ongoing.

KAKO GALLERY. 536 Royal St., 565-5445; www.kakogallery.com — New paintings by Don Picou

and Stan Fontaine; “Raku” by Joy Gauss; 3-D wood sculpture

by Joe Derr; all ongoing.

KKPROJECTS. 2448 N. Villere St., 415-9880; www.kkprojects.org — “Knead,” works by Kristian

Hansen, Tora Lopez, John Oles and William Murphy, ongoing.

KURT E SCHON. 510-520 St. Louis St., 524-5462 — The gallery

specializes in 18th and 19th century European oil paintings by artists from the French Salon and Royal Academy as well as French Impressionists

L9 CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 539 Caffin Ave., 948-0056 — “Faces

of Treme,” works by Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, ongoing.

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LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD. 608 Julia St., 558-6198; www.louisianacrafts.org — Group show

octaviaartgallery.com — “The Colors of Summer,” a group show of gallery and invited artists featuring mixed-media paintings, drawings and photographs, through Saturday.

and national artists, ongoing.

PEARL ART GALLERY. 4421 Magazine St., 228-5840 — Works

by Cindy and Drue Hardegree, Erica Dewey, John Womack, Sontina, Lorraine Jones and S. Lee, ongoing.

PHOTO WORKS NEW ORLEANS. 521 St. Ann St., 593-9090; www. photoworksneworleans.com —

Photography by Louis Sahuc, ongoing.

REINA GALLERY. 4132 Magazine St., 895-0022; www.reinaart. com — “Vintage New Orleans

Artists,” watercolors, etchings and folk art; “Patrons Saints,” works by Shelley Barberot; both ongoing.

RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS COMPANY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts. com — Works by Teri Walker,

Chad Ridgeway, Tamra Carboni, Caren Nowak and others, ongoing

RIVERSTONE GALLERIES. 719 Royal St., 412-9882; 729 Royal St., 581-3688; Riverwalk, 1 Poydras St., Suite 36, 566-0588; 733 Royal St., 525-9988; www.riverstonegalleries.net — Multimedia works by

Ricardo Lozano, Michael Flohr, Henry Ascencio, Jaline Pol and others, ongoing.

RODRIGUE STUDIO. 721 Royal St., 581-4244; www.georgerodrigue. com — Works by George Rodri-

gue, ongoing.

ROSETREE GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY. 446 Vallette St., Algiers Point, 366-3602; www.rosetreeglass.com — Hand-blown

glasswork, ongoing.

RUSTY PELICAN ART. 4031 St. Claude Ave., 218-5727; www. rustypelicanart.com — Works by

Travis and Lexi Linde, ongoing.

METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL. 300 Park Road, Metairie, 837-5204; www.mpcds. com — “The Unconventional

Genti H2O,” works by Shmuela Padnos, ongoing.

SHEILA’S FINE ART STUDIO. 1427 N. Johnson St., 473-3363; www. sheilaart.com — Works by Sheila

MICHALOPOULOS GALLERY. 617 Bienville St., 558-0505; www. michalopoulos.com — Paint-

SIBLEY GALLERY. 3427 Magazine St., 899-8182 — “Works on

Michelle Y. Williams, ongoing.

NEW ORLEANS ARTWORKS. 727 Magazine St., 529-7279 —

“Glisten With Glass, Print and Metal,” works by Michelle Knox, David Lindsley, Melissa Clark and Carrie Quandt, through Saturday.

OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.

In the wake of the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf came a gusher of art shows and artistic responses to the BP blowout. That is not surprising because art is almost always part of the collective process of working through widespread trauma.

Rajko Radovanovic’s Last Line of Defense at Good Children Gallery is a visualization of what is ordinarily a verbal concept. In his photographs, many American flags appear on marsh grasses, on Grand Isle beaches and along the water south of Venice.

“America’s Wetlands” is an abstraction when written, but here the flag literally appears on shifting sands and in places where delicate estuaries form the frontier between our best hopes and our worst fears. The view is stark and repetitive, but the point is well taken.

Robert Hannant’s Is the Oil Here? is a three-panel video with an acrobatic female model enacting a kind of psychodrama performance, dancing and contorting on cars in a parking garage and on the deck of the ferry, among other places. Oil is everywhere in the form of plastic and fuel if we look for it, but recognizing that ubiquity becomes unsettling as we realize the true price we pay for our conveniences.

The rapidly shifting, quick-cut video editing lends a semi-hypnotic cohesion to imagery that might otherwise seem overwrought.

Very different are the raw folk-pop paintings by the artist named Juna at the Yellow Moon. Oil Soup, which actually predates the spill, is a play on Warhol’s iconic soup can, but with a bowl of crude oil on the label. A visual blunt instrument, its gag-inducing message works well with her other equally pithy images — and a recently uncovered Mike Frolich mural — amid all the other colorful exotica on view at the convivial 9th Ward oasis. — D. Eric Bookhardt

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SALONE DELL’ARTES ARTEMISIA. 3000 Royal St., 481-5113 — “I

Portrait,” works by Mark Bercier, David Halliday, Gina Phillips and Alexander Stolin, ongoing.

MICHELLE Y WILLIAMS GALLERY. 835 Julia St., 585-1945; www.michelleywilliams.com — Works by

oil on Canvas

ONE SUN GALLERY. 616 Royal St., (800) 501-1151 — Works by local

featuring works from guild members, ongoing.

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Paper,” works by Stephanie Hierholzer and Amanda Sibley, through Saturday.

SLIDELL ART LEAGUE GALLERY. Historic Slidell Train Depot, 1827 Front St., Suite 201, (985) 847-9458 — “Out of the Blue,” a

group exhibition and competition, through Feb. 3.

ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyart.org — “Summer

Show,” a group exhibition of juried works by artists across the country, through Aug. 15.

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is the oil Here? A snapshot: Video and pictures by rob— ert Hannant Last Line of Defense: Docu— mentation of interventions by rajko radovanovic Good Children Gallery, 4037 St. Claude Ave., 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com no oil paintings: recent Work by Juna Yellow Moon Bar, 800 France St., 9440441; www.yellowmoonbar.com

STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 568-9050 — “The Talented

STUDIO 525. 525 E. Boston St., Covington; www.studio525covington.com — Works by Sarah

Tenth: African American Artists and Musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, the W.P.A. and Beyond,” through Saturday.

Dunn, through Saturday.

STEVE MARTIN STUDIO. 624 Julia St., 566-1390; www.stevemartinfineart.com — Contemporary

ment,” works by Tina Stanley, ongoing.

sculpture and paintings by Steve Martin and other Louisiana artists, ongoing.

STUDIO BFG. 2627 Desoto St., 942-0200; www.studiobfg.com — “Peel Sessions: First Install-

STUDIO GALLERY. 338 Baronne St., third floor, 529-3306 — Works by YA/YA artists, ongoing.

THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., 581-2113; www. thomasmann.com — “Where’s the Money?” group exhibit interpreting the economy, ongoing.

VENUSIAN GARDENS ART GALLERY. 2601 Chartres St., 943-7446; www.venusiangardens.com —

“Luminous Sculpture,” works by Eric Ehlenberger, ongoing.

WMSJR. 1061 Camp St., 299-9455; www.wmsjr.com — Works by Will Smith, ongoing.

A WORK OF ART GALLERY. 8212 Oak St., 862-5244 — Glass works

by Juli Juneau; works from the New Orleans Photo Alliance; both ongoing.

spAre spACes ALVAR LIBRARY. 913 Alvar St., 5962667 — “Youth,” sculpture by Betty Petri; “The Solitary Chair,” sculpture by Michael Moreau; both ongoing.

BACCHANAL. 600 Poland Ave., 948-9111 — “Coming Home:

2005-2009,” photographs by Lee Celano, ongoing.

BELLA NOLA. 4236 Magazine St., 897-9499; www.bellanola. net — Paintings by Mario Ortiz,

ongoing.

BUD’S BROILER. 500 City Park Ave., 486-2559 — Works by

Andrew Bascle, Evelyn Menge and others, ongoing.

CAFE GAMBINO. 4821 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 8359717 — Works by Gerry Claude

and Doris Cowan, through Aug. 3.

CAMPBELL’S COFFEE & TEA. 516 S. Tyler St., Covington, (985) 2466992; www.campbellscoffee. com — Multimedia works by

HI-HO LOUNGE. 2239 St. Claude Ave., 945-4446 — Works by Robin Durand, Brad Edelman, Tara Eden, Eden Gass and others, ongoing.

INTERIORS AND IMPORTS. 813 Florida St., Mandeville, (985) 624-7903 — Paintings by Annie Strack, ongoing.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE. 221 Camp St., 553-9550; www.ihhotel. com — Paintings by YA/YA se-

nior guild and alumni, ongoing.

JAX BREWERY. 600 Decatur St., 299-7163 — Works by YA/YA

youth artists, ongoing.

JW MARRIOTT NEW ORLEANS. 614 Canal St., Suite 4, 525-6500; www.marriott.com — Works by

Charlene Insley, ongoing.

LIBERTY’S KITCHEN. 422 1/2 S. Broad St., 822-4011 — Paintings on canvas by YA/YA artists, ongoing.

LIZANO’S GLASS HAUS. 3400 Cleary Ave., Suite B, Metairie, 4541144 — Fused-glass works by Paulette Lizano, ongoing.

MCKEOWN’S BOOKS AND DIFFICULT MUSIC. 4737 Tchoupitoulas St., 895-1954 — “The Book

of Kells, Revisited,” encaustic paintings by Patricia Kaschalk, ongoing.

MOJO COFFEE HOUSE. 1500 Magazine St., 525-2244; www. myspace.com/mojoco — Photographs by Marc Pagani, ongoing.

NEOPHOBIA. 2855 Magazine St., 899-2444; www.neophobianola.com — Works by Tanner, ongoing.

NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE. 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381; www.neutralground. org — Works by local artists,

ongoing.

Margaux Hymel, ongoing.

NEW ORLEANS CAKE CAFE & BAKERY. 2440 Chartres St., 9430010 — Oil landscapes of the

CC’S COFFEEHOUSE. 941 Royal St., 581-6996; www.communitycoffee.com — Plein air paintings of

PEACHES RECORDS. 408 N. Peters St., 282-3322 — “Gospel and

the French Quarter and other neighborhoods by Al Champagne, through Saturday.

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR. 5535 Tchoupitoulas St., 891-8500; www.dosjefescigarbar.com —

Works by Mario Ortiz, ongoing.

DRISCOLL ANTIQUES. 8500 Oak St., 866-7795; www.driscollantiques.com — Works by Sandra

Horstman Roberts, ongoing.

FAIR GRINDS COFFEEHOUSE. 3133 Ponce de Leon Ave., 913-9073; www.fairgrinds.com — “The

Ustabes by Will Smith, ongoing.

Blues,” photographs by Rita Posselt, ongoing.

SOUND CAFÉ. 2700 Chartres St., 947-4477 — Mixed-media paint-

ings by YA/YA alumnus Gerard Caliste, ongoing.

SURREY’S CAFE & JUICE BAR. 1418 Magazine St., 524-3828; www. surreyscafeandjuicebar.com — Watercolor, pen and ink series of New Orleans landmarks by Will Smith, ongoing.

Dog Days,” a group exhibition featuring canine-themed works by 12 artists, through Oct. 1.

SWIRL. 3143 Ponce de Leon St., 304-0635 — “In NOLA Words,” works by Paulette M. Lizano and David C. Porretto, through Saturday.

FUEL. 4807 Magazine St., 8955757; www.fuelcoffeehouse. net — Watercolors laminated

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HAZELNUT NEW ORLEANS. 5515 Magazine St., 891-2424; www. hazelnutneworleans.com — Photography by Roy Barloga, ongoing.

CLARENCE JOHN LAUGHLIN AWARD. The New Orleans

Photo Alliance awards $5,000 to recognize a fine art photographer who is creating, or has completed, a significant body of work. Visit www.newor-

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leansphotoalliance.org for details. Submission deadline is Sept. 15.

LOS INVISIBLES. Documentary photos of the Latino immigrant workers who aided in the reconstruction of postKatrina New Orleans are sought for a juried exhibition at Barrister’s Gallery. Email jose@torrestama.com for details. Submission deadline is Friday.

MIDDLE EAST FILM FESTIVAL. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net — The festival

seeks film submissions, as well as Arab, Persian or Middle Eastern musicians, multi-media installations and performance pieces for the November event. Visit www. nolamideastfilmfest.blogspot. com for details. Submission deadline is Sept. 30.

PROTECT OUR WETLANDS, PROTECT OURSELVES VIDEO CAMPAIGN. The Charitable

Film Network invites participants to make videos about environmental issues facing Gulf Coast communities for a chance to win cash and prizes.

Visit www.charitablefilmnetwork.org for details. Submission deadline is Aug. 6.

museums AMERICAN-ITALIAN MUSEUM & RESEARCH LIBRARY. 537 S. Peters St., 522-7294 — Perma-

nent exhibits of jazz artists, a St. Joseph’s altar replica, the Louisiana Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and a research library with genealogy records.

Through the South,” an exhibition highlighting the New Orleans poet, playwright and oral historian, through September.

ASHÉ CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Ashe in Retrospect: 19982008,” photographs by Morris Jones Jr., Eric Waters, Jeffrey Cook and others, ongoing.

BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM. 1116 St. Claude Ave., 5224806; www.backstreetmuseum. org — Permanent exhibits

of Mardi Gras Indian suits, jazz funeral memorabilia and social aid and pleasure club artifacts, ongoing.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “As We See It: Youth Vision Quilt,” studentcreated quilt with more than 400 patches, ongoing.

GREAT AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MUSEUM. 2051 Magazine St., 5235525 — The museum features

fossils, taxidermy, folk art, kitsch, Americana and more.

5: Documenting Disaster,” an oral history and photography project with historical maps, documents and a multimedia presentation, through Sept. 12.

LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, 4885488; www.longuevue.com —

“Untitled No. 6029,” sculpture

by Eric Dallimore, through December. “Deepwater Horizon Response,” a conceptual installation about the BP oil disaster by Mitchell Gaudet, through September.

LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM. 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm.org — “Mr. Rogers’

Neighborhood: A Hands-On Exhibit”; “Fetch,” a scavenger hunt designed to develop problem-solving skills; “Team Turtle Training Camp,” handson exhibit designed to teach kids how to make healthy choices; all ongoing.

LOUISIANA FILM MUSEUM. Montrel’s Bistro, 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747; www.louisianafilmmuseum.org — The muse-

um features props, costumes, video clips, still photographs, posters and other exhibits from major films produced in Louisiana.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., 568-6968 — “Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause,” an interactive exhibit exploring the damaging effects of illegal drugs, through Nov. 24.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 5686968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — “Unsung Heroes: The Secret

History of Louisiana Rock & Roll,” through May. “The Cabildo: 200 Years of Louisiana History,” ongoing.

LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT MUSEUM. Louisiana Supreme Court, 400 Royal St., 3102149; www.lasc.org — The

Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society sponsors the museum’s exhibitions of the people and institutions that have contributed to the development of Louisiana law for 300 years.

MAIN LIBRARY. 219 Loyola Ave., 529-7323; www.nutrias. org — “Hidden from History: Unknown New Orleanians,” photographs of the city’s working poor, ongoing.

MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN COCKTAIL. 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www. museumoftheamericancocktail. org — “Absinthe Visions,” pho-

tographs by Damian Hevia, ongoing.

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — “Loyal Forces:

The Animals of World War II,” artifacts focusing on animals employed and encountered in

the war, through Oct. 17.

NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www. noaam.com — “Sumpt’n

to See, Native Son Comes Home,” paintings by Ted Ellis; “Drapetomania: A Disease Called Freedom,” a collection of artifacts by Derrick Joshua Beard; both through November.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma. org — “Swamp Tours,” a group

exhibition featuring contemporary Louisiana artists, through Aug. 29. “Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century,” photographs, artifacts and archival research from Tulane University’s George Hubbard Pepper Native American Archive; “Scents and Sensibility,” 125 objects covering the history of perfume bottles; both through Oct. 24.

“Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965–2010,” an exhibition featuring female artists who have lived or worked in New Orleans, through Sept. 12.

“Peter Carl Faberge and Other Russian Masters,” “Six Shooters,” photographs from the New Orleans Photo Alliance; both ongoing.

NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM. 514 Chartres St., 5658027; www.pharmacymuseum. org — Exhibits on 19th-cen-

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Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures,” by Aubrey Edwards and Alison Fensterstock, through Aug. 1.

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Forced Migration to Commercialization,” a multimedia exhibit, ongoing. “Laissez Faire — Savoir Fare,” the cuisine of Louisiana and New Orleans, and more.

TEKREMA CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE. 5640 Burgundy St., 247-2612 — “Healing Waters:

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HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Katrina +

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TheaTeR BETTER NOW/I WANT SEX ALL THE TIME. AllWays Lounge,

2240 St. Claude Ave., 2185778; www.marignytheatre. org — The theater and Clove Productions hosts a double bill of short plays by two up-andcoming playwrights. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday.

BLACKBIRD. Elm Theatre,

220 Julia St., 218-0055; www. elmtheatre.org — A Gulf War veteran and a drug-addicted former stripper cling to each other in hopes of escaping their grim lives. Tickets $15.

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 14.

CHEF’S SURPRISE. Luke’s Brisket and Broadway Dinner Theatre, 1540 Lindberg Drive, Slidell, (985) 781-6565; www.brisketandbroadway.com — James Hartman directs Rebecca Howell, Derrick Mittelstaedt, Paul Page and Patrick Rouse. Tickets $40 (includes dinner). 7 p.m. FridaySaturday through Aug. 7.

DIFFICULT DEATH. John Paul’s,

940 Elysian Fields Ave., 9481888 — The cast of the upcoming film to be shot in New Orleans performs a reading of selected scenes. Tickets free, with donations suggested. 2 p.m. Sunday.

RITUAL MURDER. Ashé Cultural

JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. St.

Martin’s Episcopal School, 2216 Metairie Road — Theatre 13 and Encore Dance Studio present their youth production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Call 421-0744 or visit www.encoredancing.com for details. Tickets $10. 11 a.m.

Friday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

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Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944 — Contestants in the museum’s 1940s-themed singing contest vie to star in a show with the Victory Six Swing Band. Free admission.

5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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munity Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 862-7529; www. anthonybeantheater.com — Irma Thomas appears as Glinda the Good Witch in the theater’s youth production of the musical. Tickets $20 general admission, $15 children.

7:15 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:15 p.m. Sunday.

ZOMBIE TOWN: A DOCUMENTARY PLAY. Le Chat Noir, 715 St.

Charles Ave., 581-5812; www. cabaretlechatnoir.com — The mockumentary follows aSan Francisco theater troupe that travels to the site of a zombie attack to interview survivors.

Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Thursday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

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Charles Ave., 581-5812; www. cabaretlechatnoir.com — Poets and actors compete in the open mic monologue and poetry slam. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Samuel Beckett gave his characters abstract names like Vladimir, Pozzo and Estragon to emphasize the abstract nature of his plays. Local writer Gabrielle Reisman took a different approach in her entertaining conundrum of a play I Want Sex All the Time, recently produced at AllWays Lounge.

The title is clearly provocative, but the subject matter is restrained. The set (by Michael Martin and Jennifer Growden) is a sandy beach with three reclining beach chairs. Everything seems simple until the characters enter: Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen (Raphaelle O’Neil), accompanied by her lady-in-waiting Charmian (Britain Valenti). The ancient Egyptians do not seem like ordinary sunbathers, but Cleopatra qualifies as a hedonist of the highest order. One can imagine her bragging about her carnal appetites. Both Egyptians spring from the pages of Shakespeare, and both have a sardonic disdain for the ways of the world.

The three other characters spring from Shakespeare as well: Regan (Growden), Goneril (Jane McNulty) and Cordelia (Meredith Mullins), King Lear’s daughters.

Beckett can be puzzling, but that’s because he’s puzzled by the world and by human nature. One doesn’t need special knowledge of the classics to follow the tragicomic narrative of Waiting for Godot. With Reisman, the existential absurdity is complicated by references to the Bard.

Beckett’s influence is noticeable in the weird, abstract nature of this particular beach — a nowhere land in time and space. Here, Shakespeare’s characters drink pina coladas through curled plastic straws and spray sunblock on their arms.

The women seem to remember being on the beach before, but not quite. They also think a ship will come to take them away, but to where?

The past? A different dimension? We never find out. The beach is a surreal purgatory. Part of the expiation suffered here is the helplessness of not remembering.

Now we’re getting closer to what unites the characters. Cleopatra, Regan and Goneril have much for which to atone. And maybe even the virtuous Cordelia was a bit of a Goody Two-Shoes when she denied her vain father the words of adoration he demanded.

The enigmatic nature of I Want Sex, however, doesn’t diminish its entertainment value. The dialogue is well written and, under Kristen Gremillion’s direction, the actors keep it alive and cooking. It’s especially pleasing to see the talented O’Neil back on the stage after a two-year absence.

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Ways Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.marignytheatre.org — The cabaret revue features a rotating slate of women performing poetry, comedy, dance, music and storytelling. Tickets $7 (includes one drink). 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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by the Park, 834 N. Rampart St., 561-8939; www.starlightbythepark.com — Marcy Marcell directs a weekly femaleimpersonation jazz cabaret.

Call for ticket information.

Midnight Friday.

aUditions BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY. Christ the King Lutheran

Church, 1001 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 469-4740; www. ctk-nola.org — The Greater New Orleans Chapter holds new member auditions for its Mardi Gras Chorus. Call 3639001 or visit www.mardigraschorus.org for details. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

CRESCENT CITY SOUND CHORUS. Delgado Community Col-

lege, City Park campus, Orleans Avenue, between City Park Avenue and Navarre Street; www. dcc.edu — The chorus holds weekly auditions for women ages 16 and older for its original show A Streetcar Named Who Dat to be performed in October. Call 453-0858 or visit www.crescentcitysound.com for details. 7 p.m. Monday.

THE MADWOMAN OF THE CHAILLOT. AllWays Lounge,

2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.marignytheatre.org — Cripple Creek Theatre Company holds auditions for the upcoming production. Email

whelan@cripplecreekplayers. org for details. 8 p.m. Monday and Aug. 3.

ComEdy A.S.S.TRONOTS. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy. com — Four androids improvise a space voyage based on audience suggestions. Tickets $6. 8:30 p.m. Thursdays.

BLUE MONDAY STAND-UP COMEDY. Bullets Sports Bar,

2441 A.P. Tureaud Ave., 9484003 — Tony Frederick hosts the weekly open mic. 9 p.m.

Monday.

BROWN! IMPROV COMEDY.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net — The comedy troupe stars Johnathan Christiansen, Gant Laborde, Ken Lafrance, Bob Murrell and Kelli Rosher. Visit www.brownimprovcomedy.com for details.

10 p.m. Saturday.

COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost

Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 400-6145 — The bar hosts a free weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

COMEDY GUMBEAUX. Howlin’ Wolf (The Den), 828 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.howlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open mic portion. Tickets $5. 8 p.m.

Thursday.

COMEDY LIVES. La Nuit Comedy

Theater, 5039 Freret St., 6444300; www.nolacomedy. com — Comedy teams Dr. Awkward and Men Not Mars perform weekly improvisational comedy. Admission $10.

9 p.m. Thursday.

COMEDY OPEN-MIC. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a weekly open-mic comedy night. (Sign-up time is 10:45 p.m.) Tickets $8. 11 p.m. Friday.

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Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www. nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a safe-for-all-ages comedy competition between two teams. Tickets $10. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

DYKES OF HAZARD. Rubyfruit Jungle, 1135 Decatur St., 5711863; www.rubyfruit-jungle. com — Kristen Becker hosts a weekly comedy show with live music, sketch comedy, burlesque and more. Admission $5. 9 p.m. Friday.

local stand-up comedians.

Sign-up is 7:30 p.m. Show is 8 p.m.

IVAN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., 5255515 — The Rusty Nail hosts a weekly open-mic comedy and music night. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

KILOWATT RISING LOST IN THE MULTIVERSE. Shadowbox

Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 523-7469; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — The science farce about a band traveling through time combines sketch comedy, puppetry and music.

Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Friday.

LAUGH OUT LOUD. Tarantula Arms, 209 Decatur St., 525-5525 — Simple Play presents a weekly comedy show. 10 p.m.

Thursday.

NATIONAL COMEDY COMPANY.

Yo Mama’s Bar & Grill, 727 St. Peter St., 522-1125 — The interactive improv comedy show features WEZB B.97 FM personality Stevie G, Lynae LeBlanc, Jay Tombstone, Richard Mayer and others.

Call 523-7469 or visit www. nationalcomedycompany.com for details. 10 p.m. Saturdays.

ROUNDHOUSE. La Nuit Com-

edy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy. com — Comedians perform a barefoot, long-form improvisation show. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Fridays.

STAND UP NOLA. Boomtown

Casino, Boomers Saloon, 4132 Peters Road, Harvey, 366-7711; www.boomtownneworleans. com — Olivia Allen-Arrington performs. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

STAND-UP OPEN MIC. La Nuit

Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an open mic following the God’s Been Drinking show. 11 p.m. Fridays.

STAND-UP OPEN MIC. Sidney’s,

1674 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 341-0103 — The show features professional, amateur and first-time comics. Free admission. Sign-up is 8 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m. Thursday.

GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit

STUPID TIME MACHINE. Avenue Pub, 1732 St. Charles Ave., 586-9243 — The improv group performs a weekly comedy show. Tickets $1-$6. 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday.

GROUND ZERO COMEDY. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 309-7137 — The show features

THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up is 8:30 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — Actors improvise a comedy based on audience suggestions. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Friday.

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family Tuesday 27 TODDLER TIME . Louisiana Children’s

Museum, 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm.org — The museum hosts special Tuesday and Thursday activities for children ages 3-under and their parents or caregivers.

Admission $7.50, free for members.

10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Thursday 29 ART ACTIVITIES DURING AFTER HOURS. Ogden Museum of

Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The Ogden offers art activities for kids during the weekly After Hours concerts. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE BUGMOBILE . Fairview-Riverside

State Park, 119 Fairview Drive, Madisonville — The program features live bugs and an educational presentation by BugMobile staff.

10 a.m.

Saturday 31 IF THE SHOE FITS ... Children’s Castle, 501 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 468-7231 — Cinderella shares her enchanting story in the Port-A-Puppet Players show. Admission $5. 11:30 a.m.

events Tuesday 27 CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET.

Broadway Street Market, 200 Broadway St., 861-5898; www. marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

DEALING WITH LOSS. West Jefferson

Behavioral Medicine Center, 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Gretna, 391-2440 — The center offers a weekly support group. Call Doreen Fowler for details. 6 p.m.

DIVORCE AND BEYOND. Counseling

Solutions of Catholic Charities, 921 Aris Ave., Metairie, 835-5007 — A licensed clinical social worker helps group participants going through divorce. Call 835-5007 for details.

GLOBAL GREEN BUILD IT BACK GREEN PROGRAM . Urban League

of Greater New Orleans, 2322 Canal St., 620-2332; www.urban-

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www.ejgh.org — The American Cancer Society sponsors a group for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. Call 456-5000 for details. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Featured works include 2 Fast 2 Furry, a live-action piece about two dogs joyriding in a car and letting the good times roll.

A Flat in B Minor is an animated short about the changing of a tire to a tango rhythm while on a distant planet, and Abridged (pictured) is a romantic comedy set on the Golden Gate Bridge. The films were collected by the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival, which was created in 2005 and began sharing its programming with the New Orleans Film Society in 2008. “These are the greatest hits of the past few years,” says Dan Bennett, director of the Los Angeles festival. “You’re getting the best of the best.”

The filmmakers run the gamut from university students to professional animators. Films are appropriate for children from 2 years old to early teens. The schedule divides films by suggested age groups. Earlier films are aimed at children 7 and under, and the afternoons are suited for audiences 8 and older. Each day ends with an animation workshop. “The idea is to get them thinking about art in a different way,” Bennett says. “Animation and filmmaking are much easier now than ever before, and we hope to inspire children to make good films with good stories.” Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.com for film schedule information. Free admission. — Sarah Eddington J U LY

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PALETTE & PALATE ARTIST SIGNING AND WINE LAUNCH . Swirl, 3143

Ponce de Leon St., 304-0635 — The event features artist Tuna Seither and winemaker James Moises, and a portion of sale proceeds benefit Gulf coast charities. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

ROAD HOME ASSISTANCE .

Community Center of St. Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St., Arabi, 281-2512 — Representatives are available at the center to assist homeowners with questions and concerns. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.

SCRABBLE NIGHT. St. Tammany

Parish Public Library, Mandeville Branch, 844 Girod St., (985) 626-4293; www.sttammany.lib. la.us — The library hosts a night of Scrabble playing for adults and teens. 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

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Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8921873 — The market offers fresh local goods every week. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday.

FRENCH MARKET FARMERS MARKET.

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

FRIENDS’ FEST. City Park, 1 Palm

Drive — The Friends of City Park offers members free admission to Carousel Gardens Amusement Park and Storyland during the event.

Interested members can register at the event. Call 483-9376 for details.

6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

GET TO KNOW GOD. Lost & Found Center, 901 Independence St., 3441234; www.lostandfoundcenter. org — The group meets every week to discuss Bible scripture. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. East

Jefferson General Hospital, 4200 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 454-4000;

INFANCY TO INDEPENDENCE . St.

Matthew/Central United Church of Christ, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 861-8196; www.stmatthew-nola. org — The parent-child education and support group uses enriching activities in music, art and play.

Visit www.infancytoindependence. org for details. 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday-Thursday.

MODEL GREEN HOUSE . 409 Andry

St., between Douglass Street and the levee; www.globalgreen. org/neworleans — Global Green provides tours of its model green house, which uses renewable energy from solar panels and other sources. Call 525-2121 or visit the website for details. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday.

SAVE OUR CEMETERIES CEMETERY TOURS. The group conducts tours

of New Orleans cemeteries. Call 525-3377 for details.

START THE ADVENTURE IN READING SUMMER WORKDAY. St. Charles

Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1545 State St. — Participants prepare materials needed for the next school year, learn more about STAIR and exchange ideas about tutoring.

Call 899-0820 for details. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

TALENT SHOWCASE . Le Roux, 1700 Louisiana Ave. — Masse Media Consulting, KMP and Men of Business host a weekly “You’ve Got Talent” showcase open to all poets, singers, dancers and others. Call 899-4512 for details. General admission $10, performers $5. 9 p.m. to midnight.

TASTINGS AT THE TRACK . Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., 943-1415;; www. fairgroundsracecourse.com — The wine tasting event features more than 25 choices from a variety of producers. Admission $25. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT JW MARRIOTT. JW Marriott New

Orleans, 614 Canal St., Suite 4, 5256500; www.marriott.com — The hotel showcases local music and art with spirit tastings and hors d’oeuvres. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. 484 Sala Ave., Sala Avenue

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and Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art and more, with live music and pony rides.

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

WWII PUB QUIZ . Stage Door

Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944 — The quiz tests knowledge of general trivia as well as WWII questions. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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SHOP ’TIL YOU ROCK . Oakwood Center, 197 Westbank Expwy., 3611550 — The music-inspired mall tour gives teens the rock star treatment with live music, activity stations, special mall offers and giveaways. Visit www.shoptilyourock. com for details. 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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FRESH MARKET. Circle Food

Store, 1522 St. Bernard Ave. — The Downtown Neighborhood Market Consortium market features fresh produce, dairy, seafood, baked goods and more. EBT and WIC accepted. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

FULL THROTTLE FOR THE FISHERMEN . Big Al’s Saloon,

1440B Westbank Expy., Harvey, 376-2090 — Hurricane Harley Davidson’s three days of events benefiting the Friends of the Fisherman Foundation features giveaways, a bike and car show, bike rides and live music. Admission $20 (includes food). Visit www. hurricaneh-d.com for details.

12 p.m. to 9 p.m. ThursdaySaturday.

IRON RAIL LADIES’ NIGHT. The Iron Rail, 511 Marigny St., 948-0963; www.ironrail.org — Iron Rail offers a weekly creative space for women.

Email ladiesnight.ironrail@ gmail.com for details. 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

SISTAHS MAKING A CHANGE .

Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The group offers lessons in African dance and more, with nutrition, health and wellness seminars. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Monday.

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ALL ABOUT LOUISIANA CRAWFISH . Southern Food &

MICHAEL SORK BENEFIT. Harahan Playground, 6601 10th St., Harahan — The benefit for Sork, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, features live music, a silent auction and raffles. Call 301-6911 for details. Admission $25 (includes food and drinks). 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Beverage Museum, Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www. southernfood.org — The Louisiana Agricultural Center’s Richard Johnson discusses the intricacies of the crawfish industry and how it is reacting to the BP oil disaster. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

ARTS MARKET OF NEW ORLEANS. Palmer Park, South

Claiborne and Carrollton avenues, 523-1465; www. artscouncilofneworleans.org — The Arts Council of New Orleans presents the monthly market featuring art and live music. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

CEMETERY SEMINAR & GUIDE TRAINING . Loyola University,

6363 St. Charles Ave., 8652011; www.loyno.edu — Save Our Cemeteries hosts a session for new and aspiring cemetery tour guides. Call 525-3377 for details. Admission $30, $25 SOC members. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Magazine Street

Market, Magazine and Girod streets, 861-5898; www. marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon.

EAGLE WATCH . Fontainebleau

State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — A park ranger leads a viewing of the park’s eagle nest. 3 p.m.

ERACE NEW ORLEANS MEETING . J. Singleton School,

1924 Philip St., 581-2388 — ERACE meets for its weekly discussion group. Call 8661163 for details. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET. Ormond Plantation,

13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon.

ACT NOW FOR THE GULF. The Foundry, 333 St. Joseph St., 586-1309 — The fundraiser and art auction benefits Audubon Nature Institute’s Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue program. Visit www.artistsactnow.org for details.

Admission $30. 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

GRETNA FARMERS MARKET.

WORLD BROMELIAD CONFERENCE SHOW & SALE .

LOUISIANA CARES FOR KIDS RED CARPET FUNDRAISER .

Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 Bourbon St. — The show features thousands of awardwinning tropical plants, and guests can purchase plants from international and local growers. Free admission. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

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

Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www. lcm.org — The fundraiser featuring food, entertainment and a silent auction benefits children and families affected by the BP oil disaster. Call 228-5699 or email daquari@ affcares.org for details.

NATURE: A CLOSER LOOK .

Fontainebleau State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — Park rangers lead a weekly nature hike.

9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

NOLA ROCKS. Generations

Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, 581-4367; www.generationshall.net — The Greater New Orleans Entertainment Foundation’s gala features food, speciality cocktails and music from Kermit Ruffins, Cyril Neville, Al Johnson and others. Call 577-0477 or visit www.nolarocks.org for details.

Admission $100 patron party, $25 general admission. 6 p.m. patron party, 7 p.m. general admission.

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PERFORMANCE PARTY WITH A PURPOSE . George &

October 22 & 23, Mahalia Jackson Theater

Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, 2003 Carondelet St., 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum. com — The fundraiser for the National School of the Arts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti includes music and dance performances, a Haitian art auction, a DJ, food and drinks.

Call 717-7728 or 586-7432 for details. Admission $10. 8 p.m. to midnight.

Alwin Nikolais Centennial

November 19 & 20, Lupin Hall, NOCCA Co-presented with The NOCCA Institute

LINES Ballet

January 21 & 22, Lupin Hall, NOCCA Co-presented with The NOCCA Institute

Trey McIntyre Project with Preservation Hall Jazz Band February 4, Mahalia Jackson Theater

SKULLS & BONES.

Parsons Dance with East Village Opera Company

Fontainebleau State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — The program discusses the bone structure of a variety of animals. 11 a.m.

SULA FOUNDATION VOLUNTEER TRAINING . Canine

Connection/Canine Culture, 4920 Tchoupitoulas St.; www. canineconnectionnola.com — Prospective volunteers learn basic dog handling, dog body language and assessment, and dog fostering. Email volunteer@sulafoundation.org for details. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

SUMMER PSYCHIC FEST. House of Broel, 2220 St. Charles Ave. — National Enquirer columnist and astrologer Maria Shaw’s event features book signings, lectures and special psychic readings. Admission $10. 11 am. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

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TOM DENT RECEPTION .

Amistad Research Center, Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 8655535 — In conjunction with the center’s Tom Dent: A Heavy Trip Through the South exhibit, the reception honors the New Orleans poet, playwright and historian with a variety of speakers. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Downtown Neighborhood Market Consortium. Call 482-5722 or email ggladney@ therenaissanceproject.la for details. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday 1 A CHILD’S WISH FUNDRAISER .

The Ridgeway, 2431 Metairie Road — The cruise and luauthemed fundraiser features murder mystery dinner theater and a silent auction.

Call 367-9474 or visit www. achildswish.org for details.

Admission $50 (includes dinner, show and an open bar). 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

DIMENSIONS OF LIFE DIALOGUE . New Orleans

Lyceum, 618 City Park Ave., 460-9049; www.lyceumproject.com — The nonreligious, holistic discussion group focuses on human behavior with the goal of finding fulfillment and enlightenment. Call 368-9770 for details. Free. 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

DRINK ’N’ DRAW. Circle Bar,

1032 St. Charles Ave., 588-2616 — The weekly event features a live model, happy hour drink specials and art instruction upon request. Call 299-9455 for details. Admission $20. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

LOUISIANA BOOKS 2 PRISONERS WORKNIGHT.

Nowe Miasto, 223 Jane Place; www.myspace.com/nowemiasto — The group sends books and letters to prisoners.

4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

NEEDLE JUNKIES. 3 Ring Circus’

PRIMITIVE WOODWORKING .

Fontainebleau State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — Park rangers host a weekly demonstration of woodworking techniques. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

SUNDAY SWING WITH RICHARD SCOTT & FRIENDS. National

World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum.org — Professional swing dancers provide coaching for dancers of all levels while musicians play World War II-era hits.

Lessons 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., live music 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday 2 CBT GROUP. Counseling

Solutions of Catholic Charities, 921 Aris Ave., Metairie, 835-5007 — A licensed clinical social worker facilitates a 12-week Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) group for depression. Call for details.

TOASTMASTERS MEETING .

Milton H. Latter Memorial

UNITED NONPROFITS OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS.

Nonprofit Central, 1824 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 895-2361; www.nonprofitcentral.org — Nonprofit Central hosts a weekly meeting for all leaders of nonprofit groups. 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Call for appliCations CENTER FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE . The center

seeks families to host foreign exchange students during the upcoming school year.

Email ayp@cci-exchange.com or visit www.cci-exchange. com/host.htm for details.

Application deadline is Aug. 31.

FINS AND GRINS PHOTO CONTEST. The Audubon

Aquarium of the Americas holds a contest to find the best pictures of aquarium exhibits and visitors. Visit www.audubonInstitute.org for details. Submissions deadline is Saturday.

INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING CONTEST. Open

to amateurs and professionals, the competition is judged by music industry stars and awards more than $150,000 in cash and prizes. Visit www. songwritingcompetition.com for details. Submission deadline is Oct. 6.

LOUISIANA YEAR OF THE SONG 2010 SONG CONTEST.

The contest winner wins a two-day writing session with songwriter Jim McCormick.

Visit www.nosongfest.com/ song+contest for details.

Application deadline is Oct. 15.

PROJECT HOMECOMING . The

faith-based nonprofit seeks homes still damaged (50 percent or more) by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt. Call 9420444 ext. 244 for details.

Call for Volunteers AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY.

American Cancer Society, 2605 River Road, Westwego, 833-4024 or (800) ACS-2345; www.cancer.org — The American Cancer Society needs volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient-service programs.

Opportunities are available with Relay for Life, Look Good … Feel Better, Hope Lodge, Man to Man, Road to Recovery, Hope Gala and more. Call for information.

ANOTHER LIFE FOUNDATION

VOLUNTEERS. Another Life

Foundation seeks volunteers recovering from mental illness to help mentor others battling depression and suicidal behaviors. Free training provided.

For details, contact Stephanie Green at (888) 543-3480 or anotherlifefoundation@ hotmail.com or visit www. anotherlifefoundation.org.

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BAYOU REBIRTH WETLANDS EDUCATION. Bayou Rebirth

seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties. Visit www.bayourebirth.org for details.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS VOLUNTEERS. Big Brothers Big

Sisters of Southeast Louisiana, 2626 Canal St., Suite 203, 3097304 or (877) 500-7304; www. bbbssela.org — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana needs volunteers to serve as mentors to area children. A volunteer meets two to three times a month with his or her Little Brother or Sister. You can play games, watch movies, bake cookies, play sports or plan any other outings you both would enjoy.

Call for information.

CASA NEW ORLEANS. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. Thorough training and support is provided. Call Mike Madej at 522-1962 ext.

213 or email mmadej@casaneworleans.org for details.

EDGAR DEGAS FOUNDATION.

The nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to the development of the foundation. Call 821-5009 or email info@degashouse.com for details.

GREATER NEW ORLEANS FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER.

The center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area. Call 717-4257 or email mmorgan@ gnofairhousing.org for information.

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HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS.

Harmony Hospice, 519 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8111 — Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Jo-Ann Moore at 832-8111 for details.

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The Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — The knitting group meets every Sunday. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave. — New Orleans Toastmasters Club hosts an open weekly meeting (excepting holidays) to hone the skills of speaking, listening and thinking.

Call 251-8600 or visit www. notoast234.freetoasthost.org for details. 6 p.m.

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and community space seeks volunteers. Weekly meetings are 8 p.m. Wednesday.

JEFFERSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL. The charter school

that educates at-risk middle school students who have been expelled from Jefferson’s public schools seeks adult mentors for its students. Call 836-0808 for details.

LOUISIANA SPCA VOLUNTEERS.

Dorothy Dorsett Brown LA/ SPCA Campus, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., Algiers, 368-5191; www. la-spca.org — The Louisiana SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and complete a volunteer orientation to work directly with animals. Call or email Ginger Morvant at ginger@la-spca.org for details.

LOWERNINE.ORG VOLUNTEERS.

Lowernine.org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www. lowernine.org or email lauren@ lowernine.org for details.

MEAL DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS.

Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults.

Gas/mileage expenses will be

reimbursed. Call Gail at 8885880 for details.

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. National World War

II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — The museum is accepting applications for volunteers to meet and greet visitors from around the world and familiarize them with its galleries, artifacts and expansion. Call 527-6012 ext. 233 or email janet.mauer@nationalww2museum.org for details.

OPERATION REACH VOLUNTEERS. Operation REACH

and Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps seek college student volunteers from all over the country to assist in providing recreation and education opportunities for New Orleansarea inner-city youth and their families. For information, visit www.thegyac.org and www. operationreach.org.

SENIOR COMPANION VOLUNTEERS. New Orleans

Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St., 821-4121; www.nocoa.org — The council seeks senior volunteers to assist with personal and other daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Call for details.

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holds regular volunteer training sessions to work one-on-one with public school students in reading and language skills. Call 899-0820, email elizabeth@ scapc.org or visit www.stairnola.org for details.

TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION.

The Teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks volunteers to help teach middle- and upperschool New Orleans students.

Call 831-8475 for details.

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17 POETS! LITERARY SERIES. Gold

Mine Saloon, 705 Dauphine St., 568-0745; www.goldminesaloon.net — The 17 Poets! series hosts a weekly poetry reading. An open mic follows. Free admission. 8 p.m. Thursday.

BARNES & NOBLE JR . Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The bookstore hosts regular free reading events for kids. Call for schedule information.

BEFORE DURING AFTER . Octavia

Books, 513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — Authors and photographers, including Elizabeth Kleinveld, Tom Varisco and John Biguenet, sign the photo and essay book.

6 p.m. Saturday.

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COOKBOOKS & COCKTAILS SERIES. Kitchen Witch Cook

Books Shop, 631 Toulouse St., 528-8382 — The group meets weekly to discuss classic New Orleans cookbooks. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday.

DINKY TAO POETRY. Molly’s at

the Market, 1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net — The bar hosts a weekly free poetry reading with open mic. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

HEATHER SOLOMON . Maple Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 866-4916; www. maplestreetbookshop. com — The author signs and reads from Ugly Pie. 11:30 a.m.

Saturday.

LATTER LIBRARY BOOK SALE .

Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., 596-2625; www.nutrias.org — Friends of New Orleans Public Library holds its regular book sale. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

LOCAL WRITERS’ GROUP.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing. All genres welcome.

7:30 p.m. Monday.

MAPLE LEAF READING SERIES.

Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., 866-9359; www.mapleleafbar. com — The weekly reading series presents featured writers followed by an open mic. Free admission. 3 p.m. Sunday.

MID-CITY WRITERS GROUP.

Prose writers meet to read and critique original work. Email midcity.writers@gmail.com for details. Tuesday.

OPEN MIC POETRY & SPOKEN WORD. Yellow Moon Bar, 800

France St., 944-0441; www. yellowmoonbar.com — Loren Murrell hosts a weekly poetry and spoken-word night with free food. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

OPEN MIC POETRY JAM . La

Divina Cafe e Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www. ladivinagelateria.com — The cafe invites writers to read their work. All styles welcome. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday.

OUTLOUD! . Rubyfruit Jungle,

1135 Decatur St., 571-1863; www. rubyfruit-jungle.com — AR Productions presents a weekly spoken-word and music event.

Admission $5. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

PASS IT ON . Red Star Gallery,

2513 Bayou Road — The gallery hosts a weekly spoken word and music event. Admission $5.

9 p.m. Saturday.

POETRY MEETING . New Orleans Poetry Forum, 257 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie, 835-8472 — The forum holds workshops every Wednesday. 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

SEAN PAYTON . Academy of the Sacred Heart, Nims Fine Arts Center, 4301 St. Charles Ave., 899-7323 — The New Orleans Saints coach signs Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life. Advanced registration is required. Call 895-2266 or visit www.gardendistrictbookshop. com for details. Noon to 3 p.m.

Wednesday.

SPOKEN WORD. Ebony Square, 4215 Magazine St., 343-2406 — The center hosts a weekly spoken-word, music and openmic event. Tickets $7 general admission, $5 students. 11 p.m.

Friday.

TAO POETRY. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381; www.neutralground. org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m.

Wednesday.

UNIVERSES. Craige Cultural Center, 1800 Newton St., Algiers — The center hosts a weekly spoken-word, music and open-mic event. Tickets $5.

8 p.m. Sunday.

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SNO FOR THE GULF

Hansen’s Sno-Bliz (4801 Tchoupitoulas St., 891-9788; www. snobliz.com) is serving a new line of snowball and soda flavors.

Proceeds from their sales benefit the Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program (www.supportbtnep.org), an advocacy group for Gulf restoration, which is now also working in oil disaster recovery. Called Swampitoulas, the flavor line includes green vanilla, frothy root beer and lime, which can be made as snowballs or sodas and are served in biodegradable cups.

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Laurentino’s, from Metairie.

Along with Barcelona Tapas, participating restaurants include Brigtsen’s Restaurant (723 Dante St., 861-7610; www.brigtsens.com), Dante’s Kitchen (736 Dante St., 861-3121; www.danteskitchen.com), One Restaurant & Lounge (8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl.com), and Sara’s Restaurant (724 Dublin St., 861-0565; www.sarasrestaurant.com), all of which are located within two blocks of each other.

The “international” reference in the event’s name is meant to steer expectations away from exclusively Spanish flavors, and indeed Barcelona Tapas is the only participating restaurant that normally serves tapas, including a list of those pincho-style nibbles.

Brigtsen’s, Dante’s Kitchen and One each prepare contemporary Creole cuisine, and Sara’s specialty is Indian fusion.

For the Tapas Crawl, you’ll find the same format at each stop: Order at the bar, or at another specified area, hand over $5 and you get a tapa-sized dish — a small nosh ready to eat on the spot — plus a short glass of wine. Bring cash to keep transactions quick and simple, and don’t expect to sit down. There’s no itinerary, so diners are encouraged to wander from place to place, repeating the circuit if desired.

All five restaurants will offer regular dinner service during the event for other patrons, or for any tapas crawlers who decide they want to stay for a more conventional meal.

“This (dining) style has existed for ages back home, but here we’re going to start with baby steps,” Laurentino says. “I want to do this more often if it catches on, and I think it will. We have this cooperative culture between chefs here and the New Orleans people get it, the fun of walking around and making a night of it.”

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hough a raging trend on these shores, tapas are simply part of the lifestyle in Spain.

Sometimes used as snacks to bridge the hungry gap between lunch and the famously late Spanish dinner hour, a smattering of tapas just as neatly stretches into a complete meal of its own, though one with many stages and, often, many stops along the way.

That’s how Xavier Laurentino, the chef and owner of the new Riverbend restaurant Barcelona Tapas (720 Dublin St., 861-9696), says he learned to dine out — through ambling evenings of countless courses. Born in Barcelona, he spent his formative years in a small village called Carcastillo, near Pamplona in Basque country, where the most popular tapas are called pinchos. Slices of baguette are piled with meat, seafood, cheese or vegetables and are held together by extra-long toothpicks. Patrons typically pluck pinchos directly from platters lining the bar and pay by the number of toothpicks littering their plates when finished.

“There was this informal agreement in towns like Carcastillo that you spread your business around and supported your neighbors,” Laurentino says. “So you didn’t eat dinner at one place, you ate at all of them.

My village had about 2,500 people, but we had 29 restaurants and bars that we could walk around to visit and that’s how we did it: a drink and a tapa here, then on to the next place.”

It’s an utterly casual and inherently social form of dining, and Wednesday, July 28, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., New Orleans has an easy way to try it out during the inaugural Riverbend International Tapas Crawl.

Laurentino is organizing the event to demonstrate a tradition of his home country and to promote the dense cluster of Riverbend restaurants he joined this spring after relocating his restaurant, formerly called

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more. Empress chow mein, mango shrimp or chicken, and triple dragon with shrimp, chicken and beef are specialties. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

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CHINA ROSE — 3501 N. Arnoult Road., Metairie, 887-3295 — China Rose offers many Chinese seafood specialties. The Lomi Lomi combines jumbo shrimp, pineapple and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, fries them golden brown and serves them on a bed of sautéed vegetables. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carrollton

AMERICAN CON— TEMPORARY 5 Fifty 5 — 555 Canal St., 553-5638;

www.555canal.com — New Orleans dishes and Americana favorites take an elegant turn in dishes such as the lobster mac and cheese, combining lobster meat, elbow macaroni and mascarpone, boursin and white cheddar cheeses. Reservations recommended.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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

THE GREEN GODDESS — 307 Exchange Alley, 301-3347; www.greengoddessnola. com — Chef Chris DeBarr’s contemporary cooking combines classic techniques, exotic ingredients and culinary wit. At lunch, Big Cactus Chilaquiles feature poached eggs on homemade tortillas with salsa verde, queso fresca and nopalitos. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132

Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl. com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

BAR & GRILL THE CLUBHOUSE BAR & GRILL — 4617

Sanford St., Metairie, 883-5905 — Clubhouse offers burgers and sandwiches.

The black and blue burger is stuffed with blue cheese and blackened on the grill. Or try the blackened chicken Caesar wrap. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

DINO’S BAR & GRILL — 1128 Tchoupitoulas St., 558-0900 — Dino’s kitchen serves burgers, chicken tenders, salads and wraps. Happy hour is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards and checks. $

JIGGERS — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metaire, 828-3555 — Enjoy daily specials like red and beans rice with a pork chop on Mondays or order burgers, salads and wraps from the regular menu. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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RENDON INN BAR & GRILL — 4501 Eve St., 826-5605 — Try appetizers such as spinach and artichoke dip, hot wings or fried pickles. Off the grill there are burgers, chicken sandwiches or cheese quesadillas. Other options include salads. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449 River

Road, 834-4938; www.therivershack-

tavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ZACHARY’S BY THE LAKE — 7224

Pontchartrain Blvd., 872-9832; www. zacharysbythelake.com — Zachary’s serves seafood platters, po-boys, salads, barbecue shrimp and more. Jumbo Gulf shrimp with cane syrup are wrapped in bacon, fried crispy and served with pickled okra salad. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

BARBECUE ABITA BAR-B-Q — 69399 Hwy. 59, Abita

Springs, (985) 892-0205 — Fresh Louisiana boudin made with pork, rice and seasonings is a specialty at this Northshore smokehouse. Also try pulled pork with sides like baked beans and potato salad. No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

WALKER’S BAR-B-QUE — 10828 Hayne

Blvd., 281-8227; www.cochondelaitpoboys.com — The makers of the Jazz Fest cochon de lait po-boy serve pork, ribs, chicken and more. The family feast includes a half-slab of ribs, half a chicken, half a pound of brisket, pork and sausage, two side orders, bread and sauce. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Saturday. Cash only. $

BREWPUB CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — 527 De-

catur St., 522-0571; www.crescentcitybrewhouse.com — This French Quarter brewhouse serves baked oysters, salads and crabcakes stand alongside grilled strip steaks, crispy duck and tender brewhouse ribs. Beers change seasonally. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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CAFE FRERET — 7329 Freret St., 861-7890;

www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ELIZABETH’S RESTAURANT — 601 Gallier

St., 944-9272; www.elizabeths-restaurant.com — Signature praline bacon sweetens brunch at this Bywater spot.

Dinner brings options like fish and scallop specials. Also enjoy homemade desserts. No reservations. Lunch Tue.Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

LAFITTE’S CAFE — 6325 Elysian Fields Ave., 284-7878; www.lafittescafe.com — Lafitte’s serves wraps with a wide selection of fillings, burgers and patty melts, salads, sandwiches and baked potatoes. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE — 5606

Canal Blvd., 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. Breakfast is available all day on weekends. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK — City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474 — Located in the old Casino Building, the cafe serves gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream till early evening.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $ RICCOBONO’S PANOLA STREET CAFE —

7801 Panola St., 314-1810 — Specialties include crabcakes Benedict — two crabcakes and poached eggs topped with hollandaise sauce and potatoes — and the Sausalito omelet with spinach, mushrooms, shallots and mozzarella. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $

THE RUBY SLIPPER CAFE — 139 N. Cortez St., 309-5531; www.therubyslippercafe. net — This casual cafe offers breakfast options such as two eggs with sausage or applewood-smoke bacon or barbecued shrimp and grits. Lunch options include burgers, sandwiches, salads and changing specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

ST. JAMES CHEESE — 5004 Prytania St., 899-4737; www.stjamescheese.com — The cheese shop offers more than 100 varieties of cheese from around the world. A small menu includes creative sandwiches, salads and specials. The Radette cheese sandwich includes house-made pastrami and spicy pickles on rye. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun St., 8613615 — The signature Lot-o-Burger is as good as ever, or try the castle burgers. Fried seafood and plate lunches provide square meals, as do the sandwiches and salads. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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TERRAZU — 201 St. Charles Ave., 287-

0877 — Located in Place St. Charles, Terrazu serves coffee drinks and a menu of soups, salads and sandwiches.

The Terrazu salad is topped with boiled shrimp, hearts of palm and avocado.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

VINE & DINE — 141 Delaronde St., 3611402; www.vine-dine.com — The cafe serves cheese boards and charcuterie plates with pate and cured meats.

There also is a menu of sandwiches, quesadillas, bruschettas, salads and dips. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

CHINESE CHINA ORCHID — 702 S. Carrollton Ave.,

865-1428; wwww.chinaorchidneworleans.com — China Orchid serves a wide array of dishes including soups, fried rice, egg foo young, lo mein and

Ave., 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available.

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

JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009 Magazine St., 891-8280; www.jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine.

Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THREE HAPPINESS — 1900 Lafayette St.,

Suite 4, Gretna, 368-1355; www.threehappiness.com — Three Happiness serves Chinese and Vietnames dishes and dim sum specials on weekends.

Westlake duck features tender duck with snow peas, corn, straw mushrooms and napa cabbage. Vietnamese crepes are served with pork and shrimp. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

TREY YUEN CUISINE OF CHINA — 600 N. Causeway Approach., Mandeville, (985) 626-4476; 2100 N. Morrison Blvd., Hammond, (985) 345-6789; www.tryyuen. com — House specialties include fried soft-shell crab topped with Tong Cho sauce, and Cantonese-style stir-fried alligator and mushrooms in oyster sauce.

Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/DESSERT ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St., 581-

4422; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Royal Street salad features baby spinach and mixed lettuces with carrots, red onion, red peppers, grapes, olives, walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ BEN ’N JERRY’S — 3500 Veterans Me-

morial Blvd., Metairie, 887-5656 — Ben ’n Jerry’s offers rich ice creams in signature flavors, ice cream cakes, frozen drinks, fruit smoothies and sundaes.

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

SAL’S SNO-BALL STAND — 1823 Metai-

rie Road, Metairie, 666-1823 — Enjoy something cold and sweet from this 50-year-old business, which offers an assortment of flavored sno-balls, softserve ice cream, malts, banana splits or ice cream cones dipped in chocolate.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $

CREOLE ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St. Louis

St., 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska.

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AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT — 5101 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s cooks hearty Creole and Italian dishes like stuffed soft-shell crab and veal Austin, which is crowned with crabmeat. No reservations.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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St., 525-1486; www.gumboshop. com — Gumbo and New Orleans classics such as crawfish etouffee dominate the menu. Their spicy flavors meld into a dish that represents the city’s best and redefines comfort food. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 889-7992; www.mredsno.com — Mr. Ed’s offers seafood dishes and some Italian accents. Try shrimp beignets with sweet chili glaze or creamy blue crab dip.

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STEVE’S DINER — 201 St. Charles Ave., 522-8198 — Located in the Place St. Charles food court, Steve’s serves hot breakfasts until 10 a.m. Lunch features sandwiches, salads and hot plate lunches such as fried catfish and baked chicken Parmesan. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — Sandwiches piled high with cold cuts, salads, hot sandwiches, soups and lunch specials are available at the deli counter. The Cedric features chicken breast, spinach, Swiss, tomatoes and red onions on seven-grain bread. No reservations. Lunch daily. Credit cards. $

DINER DOT’S DINER — 2239 Willliams

Blvd., Kenner, 441-5600; 4150 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson, 833-9349; 6633 Airline Drive, Metairie, 7340301; 10701 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 738-9678; 12179 Hwy. 90, Luling, (985) 785-6836 — Burgers, eggs with bacon, grits and biscuits, fruit pies and daily specials are the pillars of Dot’s menu.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served all day long. No reservations. Hours vary by location.

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FRENCH MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Mag-

azine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. Try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GOURMET TO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 8855565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-8146; www.breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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CAFE DIBLASI — 1801 Stumpf Blvd.,

Gretna, 361-3106; www.cafediblasi.com — For casual Italian dining, head to Cafe DiBlasi for pan-fried veal topped with lump crabmeat and lemon cream sauce or a traditional veal shank osso buco served with rich brown sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

RICCOBONO’S PEPPERMILL RESTAURANT — 3524 Severn Ave.,

Metairie, 455-2266 — This Italianstyle eatery serves New Orleans favorites like stuffed crabs with jumbo lump crabmeat with spaghetti bordelaise and trout meuniere with brabant potatoes. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

TONY MANDINA’S RESTAURANT — 1915 Pratt St., Gretna, 362-2010;

www.tonymandinas.com — Tony Mandina’s serves Italian and Creole cuisine. Dishes include pasta, veal parmigiana, veal Bordelasie and specialties like shrimp Mandina and battered eggplant topped with shrimp and crabmeat in cream sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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INDIAN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-

6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices.

Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308

Magazine St., 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, 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Vegetarian options are available.

Reservations recommended.

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

ITALIAN ANDREA’S NORTHERN ITALIAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 3100 N.

19th St., Metairie, 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chefowner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties of the house include Trota Bayou la Fourche — speckled trout served with lump crabmeat in a lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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2426; www.bacco.com — Bacco blends Italian and contemporary Creole cuisine. Chef Chris Montero artfully prepares homemade pastas and fresh seafood, including lobster and shrimp ravioli. Reservations recommended.

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., 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$

MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles

Ave., 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

ROCK-N-SAKE — 823 Fulton St., 581-7253; www.rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

LATIN AMERICAN LA MACARENA PUPSERIA & LATIN CAFE — 8120 Hampson St., 862-

5252 — Enjoy Latin home cooking in a quaint and festive cafe.

Try the namesake Salvadoran pupusas, stuffed cornmeal disks, or Mexican favorites. Latin-style brunch is served on weekends.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Cash only. $$

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MILA — 817 Common St., 412-2580; www.milaneworleans.com — MiLA takes a fresh approach to Southern and New Orleans cooking, focusing on local produce and refined techniques. Try New Orleans barbecue lobster with lemon confit and fresh thyme. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri. dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$

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City Park Ave., 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph, turtle soup and the Niman Ranch New York strip. There also are brunch specials. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Magazine St., 569-0000; 4724 S.Carrollton Ave. 486-9550; www. juansflyingburrito.com — This wallet-friendly restaurant offers new takes on Mexican-inspired cooking. It’s known for its mealand-a-half-size signature burritos. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ NACHO MAMA’S MEXICAN GRILL — 3242 Magazine St., 899-0031;

1000 S. Clearview Pkwy., Harahan, 736-1188; www.nachomamasmexicangrill.com — These taquerias serve Mexican favorites such as portobello mushroom fajitas and chile rellenos. There are happy hour margaritas on weekdays and daily drink specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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SANTE FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 948-0077 — Dine indoors or out at this comfortable Southwestern cafe. Chicken Maximilian is a baked chicken breast roulade with Anaheim peppers, chorizo and Asiago cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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TOMATILLO’S — 437 Esplanade Ave., 945-9997 — Enjoy combinations like Tomatillo’s Fiesta, which includes a taco, tamale and enchilada served with rice and beans.

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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

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THE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur St., 527-5000; www.marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys 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. $$

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — 626 Frenchmen St., 949-0696; www. snugjazz.com — Traditional Creole and Cajun fare pepper the menu along with newer creations such as the fish Marigny, topped with Gulf shrimp in a Creole cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD GOTT GOURMET CAFE — 3100

Magazine St., 373-6579; www. gottgourmetcafe.com — Gott Gourmet’s menu of creative dishes and sandwiches includes a cochon de lait po-boy made with pulled pork, homecooked Dr. Pepper-honey-baked ham, pickles, Gruyere cheese, ancho-honey coleslaw and honey mustard-chile mayo. No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Tue.-Fri. Credit cards. $

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3636 Bienville St., 482-9120; www. liuzzas.com — This neighborhood favorite serves casual Creole and Italian fare. The Frenchuletta is a muffuletta on French bread served hot. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$

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— 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Gourmet pies are topped with ingredients like pancetta, roasted eggplant, portobello mushrooms and prosciutto. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ POMPEII PIZZERIA — 1068 Maga-

zine St., 708-4213; www.pompeiipizzeria.com — The barbecue bacon cheeseburger pizza features ground beef, applewood-smoked bacon, onions and smoky barbecue sauce. The Beaurantula is a Philly cheese steak loaded with vegetables and ranch dressing.

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Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800 — Neapolitan-style pizza rules, but you can buy pizza by the slice and add or subtract toppings as you choose. There are also a full coffee bar, Italian sodas and organic teas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., 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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— 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — Sammy’s offers a wide array of po-boys and wraps. The house-cooked bottom round beef in gravy is a specialty.

The menu also includes salads, seafood platters, a few Italian dishes and daily lunch specials.

No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 888-3600; www.ruthschris.com — Ruth’s top-quality steaks are broiled in 1,800-degree ovens and arrive at the table sizzling.

Reservations recommended.

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TAPAS/SPANISH GALVEZ RESTAURANT — 914 N. Peters St., 595-3400; www.galvezrestaurant.com — Located at the former site of Bella Luna, Galvez offers tapas, paella and a Spanishaccented bouillabaisse. Besides seafood, entrees include grilled Black Angus sirloin and roasted chicken. Reservations accepted.

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LA COTE BRASSERIE — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2350; www. lacotebrasserie.com — This stylish restaurant in the Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel serves an array of raw and cooked seafood. Tabasco and Steen’s Cane Syrup glazed salmon is served with shrimp mirliton ragout. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ MARIGNY BRASSERIE — 640

Frenchmen St., 945-4472; www. marignybrasserie.com — Marigny Brasserie serves breakfast items like Cajun eggs Bendict. The lunch and dinner menus include fried seafood po-boys and a host of Italian dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St.,

598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood creations by Executive Chef Gregg Collier dominate a menu peppered with favorites like hickory-grilled redfish, pecancrusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SOUL WILLIE MAE’S SCOTCH HOUSE —

2401 St. Ann St., 822-9503 — Willie Mae Seaton’s landmark restaurant is run by her granddaughter and serves her renowned fried chicken. There are also changing

Road, 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Vega’s mix of hot and cold tapas dishes includes a salad of lump crabmeat on arugula with blood orange vinaigrette, seared tuna with avocado and tomato relish, braised pork empanadillos, steamed mussels and shrimp with tomatoes and garlic in caper-basil cream. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

VIETNAMESE AUGUST MOON — 3635 Prytania

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No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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PHO TAU BAY RESTAURANT — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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

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Hammond Hwy., 831-1248 — R&O’s offers a mix of pizza and Creole and Italian seafood dishes.

There’s everything from seafood gumbo and stuffed artichokes to po-boys and muffulettas. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Magazine St., 899-3374; www. mahonyspoboys.com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original po-boys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. There are daily lunch specials as well. No reservations.

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Flex appts, in/out calls, OHP/student discounts, gift cert. $65/hr, $75/ 1 1/2hr. LA Lic# 1763 Mark. 259-7278

CASH, CHECK OR MAJOR CREDIT CARD

sherry

Kennel #A10529571

5wk old male and female adorable kittens,thrown from car window and rescued.504 462-1968

Marcello and Giovanni -14 wk old male kittens Most adorable,sociable and sweetest ever. Neutered ,shots,rescue 504 462-1968 NICK, PIT/BEAGLE MIX, 50# Sweetheart. Young, great companion and loves everything,VetCk/Vacs/Neut./ Hsbkn /microchip/Rescue. (504) 460-0136.

NICK, PIT/BEAGLE MIX, 50# Sweetheart. Young, great companion and loves everything,VetCk/Vacs/Neut./ Hsbkn /microchip/Rescue. (504) 460-0136.

Sophia

Sophia- 1 yr old gorgeous sleek and sweet light smokey grey tabby ,spayed,shots ,tested, 504 462-1968

Winky

Winky - Very beautiful and sweet Calico lap cat ,Say ed ,shots ,rescue ,504 462-1968

PETS FOR SALE ACE, BASENJI/WHIPPET MIX. PUP. A love bug and Great Running Partner!

VetCk/Vacs/Neut/Microchip/Rescue/ Hsbkn/Crate Trained (504-460-0136)

Free English Bulldog Puppies 2 FREE ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPPIES PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP morrisphillip200@gmail.com.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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504-782-1452.

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Lollipop and Jellybean

Cupcake is a 2-year-old, spayed, American Bulldog, mix.

She’s goofy and affectionate, housetrained and knows how to sit and give a paw. She’ll need TLC during her heartworm treatment. To meet Cupcake or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

Sherry is 7-month-old, spayed, grey tabby and white DSH with stunning green eyes.

She enjoys being held and especially likes chin rubs. She also prefers to be the only kitty in the house. To meet Sherry or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd.

(Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org.

MISC. FOR SALE MEI Travel Backpack $50 504-427-0493

PETS

PET ADOPTIONS Elijah

Elijah -Gorgeous solid white Angora male cat,very sweet and smart neutered,shots ,rescue ,504 462-1968

Kit Kit

KIT KAT, Muted Gray Tabby, appx. 7 mos old, Vet, Ck/Vacs/Spay/ Rescue/Litter Trained Super Sweet Lap Cat, Rescue (504) 460-0136

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ADOPTIONS PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293

SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES HVAC/Spray Foam Insulation Licensed Contractor 504.606.0685

reaL esTaTe

SHOWCaSe UPTOWN

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901 Aline Street $199k Beautiful, renov. 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo in buidling w/ just 2 units!

Private & spacious. this lower unit lives very comfortably! Parking.

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57345 Oak Ave • $125,000 Reduced, 2085 sq ft 3 bedroom home New Carpet, Refreshed kitchen Large rooms, Exposed wood beams Lisa B Simms-Hayles Broker MaRioN B REaL EStatE iNC www.marionb.com • 985-643-4452

FRENCH QUARTER

TCHOUPITOULAS

FRENCH QUARTER CONDOS 929 Dumaine STARTING AT $99,000 G. Geoffrey Lutz Owner/Agent 482-8760

1730 Tchoupitoulas St. • RIVER VIEW 34K sq. ft. of land. 20K sq. ft. of building. Prkg on St. James. Bounded

by Celeste, St. James, Tchoupitoulas & S. Peters Streets. Asking Price:$1,200,000 Call Cassandra Sharpe/Broker Cassandra Sharpe Real Estate, Inc. 504-568-1252 • c: 460-7829

REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIEDS LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

GARDEN DISTRICT

Lakefront Harborview Condo 2br, 2ba w/lake view 139K . . . 2834706 www.datakik.com/423

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

Southern Spirit

1, 2 & 3 ROOM OFFICES STARTING AT $500

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

REALTY, LLC

CONDO FOR SALE

would like to welcome

1 Blk off St. Charles. 2/2, wd flrs, appls & w/d incl., grnite cntrtps & ss appl. OS pkng. $179,900 Darlene, Hera Realty 504-914-6352

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1730 Tchoupitoulas St. 34K sq.ft of land, 20K sq.ft of bldg. Pkng on St. James, Tchoupitoulas & S. Peters.

Asking $1,200,000. Call Cassandra Sharpe Real Estate, Inc. 504-5681252, cell 460-7829. See our ad in todays RE showcase!

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Office space, 460 sf 1/2 bath, renov, CCTV, 24 hr access, parking in front, side & rear. $460/mo. 504-250-7676

Call (504) 483-3100

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701 N. Salcedo Street, $58,000 Renovated 3BR/2BA Granite counters, custom cabinets Offstreet parking Todd Neal Fletcher Ranger Realty 504.329.4343

HARAHAN/RIVER RIDGE 1324 HICKORY

2 BR, 1 BA townhouse, furn kit, w/d hkps, patio, O/A, $700/mo. Call 650-8778

FABULOUS RENOV 4BR/2BA

Quiet cul-de-sac, walk to levee, new hdwd/cer flrs, recess lighting, srnd snd, sec sys, grt bkyd. Never flooded. Zone X, roof 4 yrs. $1600/ mo or $194,900 For Sale. Call Sylvia 415-6501

RIVER RIDGE NR LEVEE

Newly renov 4 plx. 2 br, 1 & 1/2 ba, w/d hkps, cen a/h, off st pkg, wtr pd.

No pets. Quiet area suits retired person. $725/mo, refs & dep. 504-737-2089.

KENNER NEAR WMS & W. NAPOLEON

Private rm w/bath & kit. Utilities paid, $500/mo. & 3 brm/1 bath house, $900. 504-737-2068

METAIRIE A HIDDEN GEM

Chic seclusion in the heart of Metairie.

All new 1 br fr $675 & 1 br + study fr $795. Furn corp avail. 780-1706 or 388-9972. www.orrislaneapts.com

4526 A St. Ann $239K 922-24 Dauphine $900K Great views of City Park & 4 unit French Quarter multiperfect deck in rear to view Endymion Parade. Spacious 1 family. 3457 sqft total. Great Quarter location! Parking. br/1.5 ba totally renov. postKatrina. Wd flrs, hi ceils, stainless steel apps. 1089 square feet.

829 St. Roch Ave. $149K 1 bdrm, 1 ba, furn kit incl dishwasher, w/d, cen a/h, shed, rear yard. Excellent condition.

Motivated seller!

Paula Bowler • French Quarter Realty o:504-949-5400 • c:504-952-3131 • www.frenchquarterrealty.com

GENTILLY

MID-CITY

5542 Charlotte Dr. $99,500 Slab Ranch - 3 BR, 2 BA Partially renov + Guest Cottage 504-568-1359

2904 St Peter Street, $49,000 Renovated 3BR/2BA, wood floors Large kitchen, Granite counters, Ceramic floors Todd Neal Fletcher Ranger Realty 504.329.4343

new price

OLD METAIRIE

FOR RENT OR SALE

2511 Metairie Lawn. 2BR/2BA, w/d, pool, security. Rent $1,000/mo. Sale $149,000. Call 427-1087

LUXURY APTS

2 BR, 1 1/2BA, LR, DR, kit, w&d hkups, faux fireplace, fans, blinds. No pets. $750/mo. 504-443-2280

Quiet Condo

$300 OFF 1ST MONTH’S RENT - OLD METAIRIE SECRET 1 or 2 BR, Sparkling Pool, Bike Path, 12’ x 24’ liv rm sep Din, King Master, no Pets, no Sect 8, $699 & $824 • 504-236-5777

1 BR, 1 ba, liv rm, din rm, w/d, gated comm.,covered parking, water/elec. included! Pool/courtyard. $800/ month. Call 504-982-0759

HOWARD SCHMALZ & ASSOCIATES REAL ESTATE Call Bert: 504-581-2804

1371 Magazine St 3/2 LGD Camelback

$1500

1207 Jackson Ave 1/1 Aquatic Garden

$750

1572 Magazine St 1/1 Lower Garden Dist.

$700

$39,900 - $79,900

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Stunning juxtiposition of architectural integrity & soignee panache.

2000’ 2- 3 bdrms, 2 ba, garden room, steps to river. Offers staring at $299,000. 626 Pauline St. 504-914-5606.

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MEET THE WHO’S WHO IN THE APARTMENT INDUSTRY!

Rent or Lease or Lease to Buy, 1BR, 1-1/2 BA, jacuzzi, Elec & TV incld, prkg. 24 hr Concierge Service. $1050/mo - 914-882-1212

Thursday, July 29th FREE 4:30pm RSVP to Kathy 504-837-2700 HBA- 2424 N Arnoult Rd • Metairie, LA 70001

LIGHTING Check out ANTIQUES & our Mandeville Location FURNITURE 985-249-7145 504-522-9485

Algiers Point 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 931 GALLIER ST

1/2 dbl, 2br, lr, dr, furn kit, w/d, side yd, pets ok/ fee, wtr pd, effct heating/ cooling, sec installed. $950+lse.

504-908-5210

C-a/h, wd flrs, furn kit, hkps, shed, nr st car, fncd bkyd, no smkrs/pets. $850+dep. 504-858-5389, 491-4056

3949 Constance

3bd, 1ba, cen AC/H, new floors, appl., $1300/mo. 452-2356

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eAstern new orleAns 4619 BUNDY RD

Furnished Condo in Warehouse District. Secure building, top floor. Rent includes utilities, pool, gym, cable, internet, has W/D, stainless steel appliances, central heat/air. Close to French Quarter, parade route, streetcar. Loft with desk. Ideal for students, professors. Call Bonnie at Soniat Realty 504-488-8988 or 504-220-1022. $1700, negotiable.

City PArk/BAyou st. John 2 BLKS TO CITY PARK. 1/2 dbl. Liv rm, din rm, 2 br, kit, no frig, w/d hkps, cen a/h, drapes, closets, wd flrs. No dogs. $980/mo. 482-1733.

Next to Rouses Grocery Store, furn/ unfurn, studio/1 BR, $650-$1200. Call 504-919-3426 or 504-581-6350.

1226 Chartres. 1 bdrm apt, $900/mo.

Carpet, pool, laundry room, security gate. No pets. Mike, 919-4583.

NEW RENTAL

Newly renov. 3 rms, kit, bath, washrm, fridge, mw, stove & washer. $600 wk/ neg. 504-905-9086, 504-717-7394.

Single brick home, 3BR, 2 baths, patio, fenced yard, off st prkg,off Chef Menteur Hwy. $950+dep. 504-433-9394

FrenCh QuArter/ FAuBourg MArigny 1103 Royal St

Unit A, 1B/1B, cen A/H, Jacuzzi tub, w/d, water included. Furnished. $1700/month. Call for appt 504952-3131 #B, TH style guest hse. 2b/2b, pat/ bal, CA/H wd/tile fls, water incl, pking, furn/unfurn. $2,000/mo. Appt 504-952-3131

1835 BURGUNDY - LWR Studio Studio, wd/cer flrs, Alcove kit, clst, a/c, fans, w/d on premises, no pets, low cost utils, $575+dep+lse. 504908-5210

2205 DAUPHINE ST

Furnished 1 Bdrm/1Bath

(504) 486-5846

BEECHGROVE & CLAIBORNE HOMES

FRENCH QUARTER CHARM

1103 Royal St.

3 BR SHOTGUN DBL

BEVERLY KATZ | LANDSCAPE DESIGNER 866-0276 www.exteriordesignsbev.com

NEW CONSTRUCTION!

516 David St, 3BR, 2BA, 12” ceils, c-a/h, 1467 sf, new appls incl w/d, granite. 1 blk to bus/st car, walk to City Pk. $1500-$1800. 504-669-7049

CArrollton

Exterior Designs

FRENCH QUARTER APTS

Overlooks City Park. Lg 1 br, furn kit, hi ceil, wd flrs, cen a/h, wtr/gas/trsh pick-up pd. $850/mo, dep. 324-6662.

HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

Wine & Cheese Social:

880 CITY PARK AVE

Walk to Qtr. 2 br, 2 ba, fully equip kit, fenc patio. $1050/mo, wtr & garbage pd. w/d hkups, Lse/refs. 985-5100231.

514 MADISON ST/ $1000

1st flr off Decatur. Two 1 br, 1 ba, liv, din area, kit, wd flrs, coin w/d. Eddie 861-4561. Grady Harper Inc

725 DUMAINE #F

1 bedroom. Newly renovated. Granite cntrtps, hdwd flrs. 550 sq.ft. $750/ mo. 504-301-4411

824 Charters

Lux fully furn 1 br, 1.5 ba, lr w/queen sleeper, kit, mahogany flrs, 2nd flr balc, w/d. $2000/mo + dep. 504-2365757 or 504-236-7060. fqrental.com.

2340 Dauphine Street

(504) 944-3605

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 1201 CHARTRES #16 - 3bd/2.5ba $3000 930 ORLEANS - 2 bd/ 2 ba $2000 3935 MAGAZINE - Comm.

$1500

1139 BURGUNDY - 1 bd/ 1 ba $1500 760 MAGAZINE- 1 bd/ 1 ba $1250 1224 BOURBON - Furn. Studio $1000

CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS! gentilly INCREDIBLE APT

2 brm,/1 bath in Gentilly. Water pd. Furn kit. Cats Ok, O/S pkng,t Call Bobby. $875. Call 944-5076 or 610-4187.

LARGE 2 BR, 1 BA APT

Newly renov, new appls, cen a/h, w/d, alarm, fncd yd, off st prkg, priv entrance, $875+utils • 504-283-8450

irish ChAnnel

French Quarter Realty Wayne • Nicole • Sam • Josh • Jennifer • Brett • Robert • George • Baxter

504-949-5400 1204 Chartres #9 1/1.5 911 N Derbigny 1/1 1131 Bartholomew 1/1 1205 St Charles Studio 830 St Philip “G” 1/1 735 Esplanade “6” 1/1 1022 Toulouse “BC22’ 2/2 829 Ursulines #1 1/1 829 Ursulines #5 1/1 1418 Chartres A1 1/1 2054 Royal 1/1 448 Julia Unit #219 1/1 1908 Pauger 2/1 528 Gov Nicholls 1/1 739 ½ Gov Nicholls 1/1 3607 Magazine 1704 Napoleon 1/1 814 Orleans 1/1 210 Chartres “3E” 2/1 921 Chartres #9 2/1.5 712 St. Philip 1/1 727 Conti B Studio 1028 Kelerec #1 1/1 1028 Kelerec #2 1/1 1028 Kelerec #3 1/1 1229 Royal 2/1.5

FQ,loft bd,great loc,hi ceil,ctyd $975 Newly renov, in nice area $650 Back half of dbl w/pvt yard $450 St. car Line, Pool, Pkng, Gym $800 Hi Ceils,Lg Balc,Prkng,Exc Loc $1995 Hdwd Flrs, Ctyd, Exc Loc $850 Pkng,Pvt Balcs,Ingnd Pool $2200 furnished w/wifi, tile floors $950 Lotsofwindows,newcarpet,crtyrd$1050 furnished,courtyard w/d on site $950 spacious apt in great area! $900 furn,Utils Cable/WiFi included $1950 recently updated, wtr included $950 carriage house w/ crtyrd $995 Util included, furn., great loc! $950 Commerical, 750 sqft $2000 spacious, hi ceils, 2 small side balcs $800 new kitch&bath,great location $1500 Fully furnished apt.w/d on site $1450 condoindesirableblock,HUGEcrtyrd!$1700 Grndflraptw/beautcommoncrtyrd!$1700 Furnished, fab location $950 nice lay out,great loc,water paid $950 wd flrs, central air, water paid $950 d/w, great loc, water paid $950 street balc,prkng,prime loc $1800

IRISH CHANNEL COTTAGE 816 Ninth St. Beautifully Renovated, Irish Channel Camelback Cottage. 4 Bd/2Ba, cen A/H, wood Flrs, ceiling fans, furn. kitchen. $1800/mo.

Louis Lederman • Prudential Gardner 504-874-3195

IRISH CHANNEL lAkeview/lAkeshore 6029 BELLAIRE - $1100

Renov, cute 3 br, 2 ba, liv, eat-in kit,w/ gas appls & granite, alarm, drive.

Grady Harper Inc, 861-4551.

lAkeFront LRG ATTRACTIVE APT

2BR, 2BA w/ appls, beaut crtyd setting w/swimming pool, quiet nb’hood. $975/mo. 504/495-6044

MiD City 121 1/2 N. CLARK ST.

1 BDRM - all appl, w/d hkps, lg clos., wtr pd. Walk to streetcar. 504-3436383 or 985-226-0340. $650 lse +dep.

EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFIEDS

REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIEDS 2 BDRM BRICK DOUBLE

Lg lr, hdwd frs, equip kit incl range, frig, d/w, w/d, cen a/h, off st pkg, dep & refs.1,000 sq ft. No pets. $890.

835-9099

334 S. JEFF DAVIS

Renov 2 br, furn kit, w/d, dw, cen a/h, wd flrs. No pets. $680/mo. Call 4275791 or 298-4802.

AMAZING RENOVATION

226 S Scott. Gutted/total renov upr apt.

2 br,1 ba 1.5 blk fr Canal St. Hdwd flrs, cer tile, w/d, blt-in appl, sec sys. $1200/ mo/dep. Avl 8/1. 504-455-5411.

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1 BDRM - NEAR TULANE

7120 Willow Street, living room, tile bath, furnished kitchen. No pets. $700month+deposit. Call 504/283-7569

1 BDRM CLOSE TO UNIV

4601 S CLAIBORNE AVE

Spac, lwr 3BR, 2BA, all appls+w/d, fncd yd, off st prkg. $1550. Nr univ, hosp, cbd. Marie 504-236-0644, 504-453-5047

4917 S MIRO ST

2 bedrooms, washer/dryer, cen a/h, pool, closet space, water included. $885/mo. Call 452-2319 or 821-5567

521 1/2 LOWERLINE

Lux 3/2, 3600 sqft, 1/2 blk to St Charles. Walk to Loyola Law/Audubon Park, hi ceil, fans, hd flrs, cen A/H, beau wd wk, W/D, furn kit, pkg, sh yd. $2550. Call Steve w/Latter & Blum 650-6770.

5300 FRERET

By Jefferson. Raised cottage, upper.

Deluxe 2br, lux bath/jacuzzi. Furn, W&D, hrdwd flrs, 1400sf, $1300/mo includes gas. 899-3668.

Clara St nr Nashvl. Renov Lg upr, 1 br, dr, lr, furn kit, uti rm w/hkps, cen a/h, wd flrs, ceil fans, w/d avl on site. $900/mo. Avl now. 895-0016.

5327 PRYTANIA ST

1/2 BLOCK ST CHARLES

6126 DELORD

1629 2nd. Renov, freshly painted, upr rear bright 1 br apt, hdwd flrs, ceil fans, pvt balc, w/d facil. $775/mo, lse/refs. 895-4726 or 261-7611.

1042 SONIAT ST

3 bedrooms, 1.5 ba, lr, dr, furn kit, hdwd flrs, cen a/h, w/d, 1500 sf, 12’ ceils, $1400/mo. 504-952-5102

1106 BOURDEAUX ST

Spac 2 BR, 1 BA, frplc, cen a/h, porch, $1000/month w/ sec dep. 4 blks off St Charles. 504-891-7584 lv msg

1629 TOLEDANO #102

2BR, 1.5BA, Great loc! lux apt, furn kit, w/d, cen a/h, wd flrs, 12ft ceils, fans, $1500/mo. 504-444-1030 Between State & Palmer Ave. Renov 2 br half dbl, 1 ba, wd flrs, cen a/h, fully equip kit, w/d, rear yd, porch.

Avl Aug 1. $1195/mo. S. Talbot, O/A. 975-9763.

6237 ANNUNCIATION

Nr Audubon Pk. 3 br, 2 ba, liv rm, furn kit, d/w, w/d, cen a/h, off st pkg, Pets ok. $950/mo. 504-957-1233.

7021 WALMSLEY

Lg, comfortable 2 br, 2 ba, furn kit, cen a/h, hdwd flrs, w/d hkps, bkyd, off st pkg. $950/mo, refs, dep, lease.

No dogs. 861-3992.

1/1, $1100/mo. incl cable, wtr, elec.

Wd flrs, ss appl, stone cntrtps. OS pkng, crtyd. Angela, 504-432-1034 Keller Wiiliams.

7522 BENJAMIN - NR UNIV

1703 S CARROLLTON

7535 JEANNETTE ST

1 br condo w/ pool, prkg, laundry, gated community. $650/mo w/ wtr pd. No pets. 453-8996.

2 br, 1 ba, furn kit, w/d, cen a/h, hdwd flrs, balc, off st pkg. No pets. $1050/mo/dep. 504-865-9848 or 504-236-5757, email FQRental.com

1BR, bath, appls, elec, wtr, int/cbl, incld. Nr Lutcher schl, yr lse, dep rqd.

No smkr/pet. $850/mo. 219-1422

1711 Second St

1 br, furn kit, a/c unit, hdwd flrs, fresh paint, sec gate. Sm pet ok w/dep. $675-$695/mo. Call 899-RENT.

1 blk to St. Charles, Renov’t 3rd fl loft, lots of windows, fur kit, w/d on site $650. 895-4726 or 261-7611.

1726 FOUCHER

1837 PINE

2 br, 1 ba, lr, dr, furn kit, cen a/h, ceil fans, hdwd flrs, w/d hkps. $1100/mo.

899-7657.

2 BDRMS, 1 BATH APT

Henry Clay Ave, nr Aud Pk, ac/ht, furn kit w/ w/d, hi ceils, hdwd flrs, sm patio. $1400/mo. 504/897-3816, 504/940-4831

2023 BROADWAY

Cls to univ/hosp/Lusher, beaut lrg 3 independent BR w/ cntr hall, lr, dr, furn kit, d/w, w/d, 1BA, wd flrs, scrnd prch. $1350 • 504-895-2683

248 Cherokee St.

3rd flr corner unit, 1b/1b furn kit, w/d gated comm. $795/m 504-236-7060 or 504-236-5757 fqrental.com

2840 State St.

UPTOWN/ GARDEN DISTRICT

1, 2 & 3

BEDROOMS AVAILABLE CALL

899-RENT Steps To Audubon Park

1 bd/1ba, double parlor, off st. prk, w/d, hrd flrs, no smoking. $1000/mo.

259-1509

502 Washington, 2BR, 1BA, w/d, c-fans, wd flrs, c-a/h, sec, drvwy, pool, FREE Direct TV, $1095. 813-5822

HEALTH/FITNESS

CHILDCARE FT NANNIES NEEDED

All over the city, including the Northshore. $12 -$16/hr. Call Fleur de Lis Nannies, 504-722-5752.

GREAT EFFICIENCY!

One person studio. Near TU Univ. $590/mo net + dep.

All utilities pd. 866-7837

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