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FEATURES 34
Beach Bound New things to see and do along the Coast
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The Grass is Always Greener New Orleans and climate change
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THE DISH
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Best Bars, Drinks & More
News from NOLA Kitchens STYLE
Flower Power
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PERSONA
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MODINE
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VINTAGE
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Reeves Price Bringing up Baby
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Tracing the Past GROWING PAINS
Rebirth and Rebuilding HOME ADVICE
Terri Hogan Dreyer TABLE TALK
Sandwiched Style CHEERS
All in the Family
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DINING GUIDE
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Top Things to Do, Read & Try BAR TAB
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The highly anticipated Season 2 of MASTERPIECE “Sanditon” continues with its high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, returning to the picturesque coastal resort of Sanditon. Watch the premiere on Sunday, March 20 at 8pm on WYES-TV. Be the first to see the premiere at a screening at WYES on Wednesday, March 16. To keep up to date on all WYES programs and events, go to wyes.org.
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Gulf Coast Dreaming
Friday Feast
Listings from Around the City STREETCAR
100 Years and 50,000 Watts
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pring is here and now, before the heat of the summer sun is upon us, is the perfect time to plan a getaway to our beachy neighbors along the coast. I grew up on the Gulf Coast, and so a beach day or weekend trip was always part of life. Whether it was searching for sand dollars while visiting grandparents in Panama City, marveling at the incandescent jellyfish in Waveland, or planning a girls’ getaway on Dauphin Island for our high school graduation celebration, fun in the sun and sand has always been part of some of my favorite memories. Our spring beach planner has all the best new hot spots to celebrate with friends and family. From live music to a spa weekend to exploring deep sea adventures, there’s always plenty to see and do. From seafood to sailing and more, we are all so fortunate to live close to all of the treasures of the Gulf, and yet with that we also have the added responsibility to be good stewards of the land and sea. Climate change is now Have something you want a seasonal reality that is altering the way we look at to share with us? Email everyday life and business. From recycling to water ashley@myneworleans.com. management, New Orleanians are at the forefront to make sure current and future generations can enjoy the communities in the city and along the coast for years to come. We profile some of those eco-warriors who are leading the way. You’ll also want to check out our spring guide to “greening” your home, a style guide that’s in full bloom, a Gulf shrimp and quinoa dish perfect for a light Lenten feast, and so much more. The days are getting longer, festival season is right around the corner and the Gulf water is warm and inviting. We have so much to celebrate. I hope you can get out and enjoy all that living along the Coast has to offer.
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Hey Julia, Since St. Joseph’s Day is this month, I was wondering if it was true that New Orleans had the largest Italian immigration in the nation. We certainly have a large Italian influence here. - Boz Josephson (Marrero)
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Well, the short answer to your question Boz is “no.” New Orleans did not have the overall largest Italian immigration, but it did have a large Sicilian immigration. (For those who may have forgotten, Sicily is the out island off the toe of Italy.) The more accurate statement is that Sicilians were the largest immigrant group into New Orleans, although New York had the most Sicilians. New York was first; New Orleans was second. Other Italians from the mainland were dispersed primarily along the east coast, including Boston, Providence and New Jersey, and some who took the long route and settled in San Francisco. Poydras reminds me to add that among the Sicilians who settled here was a subgroup known as the Aberesh. Their descendants were from Albania and had escaped to Sicily to avoid persecution from the Turks. Aberesh Sicilians are most often identified with last names that end with “O” such as former mayor Vic Schiro. All are part of the SicilanAmerican mainstream.
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Dear Julia, Was Sean Payton the only Saints head coach to win a Superbowl? - Fred Sarratt (Westwego) He was the only one to win a Superbowl with the Saints, Fred. Two previous Saints bosses won Superbowls with other teams: Hank Stram with the Kansas City Chiefs (1970) and Mike Ditka (1986) with the Chicago Bears. Both found a new job with the Saints, but neither could repeat the magic. Both were eventually fired. Ditka’s 1999 Saints was one of the worst teams ever, finishing the season with a 3-13 record. As Poydras always says, “if you’re going to move to a new tree, you had better know which way the wind is blowing.”
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NEWS+NOTES
BY FR ITZ E SKE R
SEE THIS
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The beloved outdoor concert series YLC Wednesday at the Square returns to Lafayette Square in the CBD, 5-8 p.m. on Wednesdays for 10 weeks starting on March 16. ylcnola.org THREE COLORS TRILOGY
NEW ORLEANS BOOK FESTIVAL AT TULANE
NEW ORLEANS FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
The New Orleans Film Society is presenting the 25th annual New Orleans French Film Festival at the historic Prytania Theater, March 11-17, with additional films available to watch virtually. Highlighting the festival will be director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s acclaimed “Three Colors Trilogy,” featuring the films “Red,” “Blue” and “White.” The color choices were intentional, as they represent the three colors of the French flag. There will also be approximately 20 other French-language films screening as part of the festival. The complete festival lineup and schedule is available at NewOrleansFilmSociety.org. New Orleans Film Society members will receive discounts on all festival passes and individual tickets. The festival also helps usher in the return of the Prytania Theatre. New Orleans’ oldest functioning movie theater sustained serious roof damage during Hurricane Ida that took several months to repair. Support your local movie theaters in what has been a tremendously difficult two years for them.
HOGS FOR THE CAUSE
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Hogs for the Cause is back, taking place April 1-2 at the Lakefront Arena Festival Grounds. Aside from the mouth-watering array of pork products available, there will also be a strong musical lineup including Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, Galactic and Glen David Andrews. Proceeds from the event benefit pediatric cancer patients. hogsfest.org
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IRISH CHANNEL ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
Because of print deadlines, there is of course the possibility this could get canceled, but we will cross our fingers and pray the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Parade returns on March 12 after last parading in 2019. m.facebook.com/events/ 206100878109208
March 10-12, at Tulane University, authors will converge Uptown for the New Orleans Book Festival. There will be fiction and non-fiction readings, panel discussions, symposia and keynote speeches. Bookfest.tulane.edu
3 “THE PRICE IS RIGHT LIVE”
If you have ever dreamed of playing on hit TV game show “The Price Is Right,” now is your chance! On March 20, the Saenger will host the interactive live version of the show. It will not be televised, but it will be exciting! saengernola.com
4 “SHREK THE MUSICAL”
In what is sure to be fun for the whole family, the Jefferson Performing Arts Society is putting on a production of “Shrek the Musical,” adapted from the blockbuster 2001 film. Shows will be at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center from March 11-20. jpas.org
THE NEW ORLEANS BUCKET LIST: 100 OFFBEAT ADVENTURES IN THE CRESCENT CITY”
When you live in a city, you tend to take certain things for granted and you miss things a visitor might make a top priority (for example, I’ve still never eaten at Commander’s Palace). In the book “The New Orleans Bucket List: 100 Offbeat Adventures in the Crescent City” by L.M. Adkins, there are a wide variety of choices for a local to pursue whenever they feel like being a tourist in their hometown. Some of the adventures are things any local will have already done (like eat a snoball or a po-boy), but there are others that even lifelong locals may have missed (visiting America’s first licensed pharmacy, take a class in glitterology, listen to music at Preservation Hall, drink at the Carousel Bar or listen to the Singing Oak.)
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On March 19, legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan is coming to the Saenger Theater as part of his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” worldwide tour. saengernola.com
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, please check all event websites for the most up-to-date information.
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The Florida Coast Beckons Travelers
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n easy drive from New Orleans, the Florida coast beckons travelers with attractions that delight the senses, from the feel of emerald waters lapping at your toes and the sounds of seagulls to the taste and smell of seafood fresh off the grill and the sight of sunsets bursting with color. Beyond its beaches, Florida has so much to offer guests – historical and cultural museums, award-winning restaurants, eclectic shops, nature preserves, and endless opportunities to create lasting memories with loved ones at the abundant vacation rentals, expansive resorts, luxury hotels, and picture-perfect camp sites along the water. Visit Florida this spring, and experience true coastal bliss.
FLORIDA’S FORGOTTEN COAST Florida’s Forgotten Coast is calling you back to the Florida you remember. This quiet Northwest Florida region features sparkling beaches, tranquil bay waters, and scenic rivers. The area supports a seafood and eco-tourism industry in the coastal communities of Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Eastpoint, Alligator Point, and St. George Island. Visitors here enjoy nature’s salty bounty via fishing, kayaking, swimming, hiking, and camping. Boat ramps and canoe/kayak launches abound for easy access to hundreds of miles of rivers and coastal shallows. Accommodations range from luxurious beachfront vacation rentals to primitive camping facilities.
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Explore a quiet shoreline or hike, fish, or relax on family and pet-friendly beaches. Discover maritime history blended with a laid-back scene of local art, shopping, music, and restaurants serving fresh Apalachicola Bay seafood. Check out local insider tips through a new web video series and download the app to stay up to date on events and specials at FloridasForgottenCoast.com. HISTORIC PENSACOLA Experiencing Historic Pensacola is a must-do for any spring getaway to America’s first multi-year European settlement. Located downtown, just minutes from Pensacola’s world famous sugar-white beaches and emerald-green waters, the Historic Pensacola site is nestled within the footprints of the original Spanish and British forts as well as in the heart of today’s waterfront dining, shopping, and entertainment scene. The walkable complex shares the stories of Pensacola’s rich heritage through museum exhibits, guided home tours, and engaging, period-dressed living history interpreters. This nine-acre site includes the Pensacola Museum of History, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola Children’s Museum and much, much more. You can enjoy seven days of Historic Pensacola experiences through the “One Ticket, Seven Days to Explore” ticketing plan. For hours and ticket information, visit HistoricPensacola.org. HOMEOWNER’S COLLECTION VACATION RENTALS Exclusive to Seaside, Florida properties, Homeowner’s Collection Vacation Rentals is now the largest rental company in Seaside, representing over 150 private vacation homes. Homeowner’s Collection now represents The Court, just out of an extensive 18 month renovation, a boutique hotel in Seaside that’s unlike anything else in the area. We connect visitors with cottage rentals that turn your Florida vacation into a dream come true. We offer properties ranging from one bedroom condos to six bedroom cottages, all in the heart of Florida’s scenic Highway 30A. To view properties and plan your Seaside vacation, visit homeownerscollection.com or call 1-855-411-1557. HOTEL EFFIE You’ll find an extraordinary treasure nestled between the white sandy beaches and emerald-green water of the Gulf of Mexico and the living shorelines of Choctawhatchee Bay in Northwest Florida. Vibrant and elegant, comfortable, and refined—a beautiful, new luxury 250-room hotel invites you to experience southern elegance with thoughtful design and exquisite detail. It’s a fresh take on a coastal Florida hotel featuring smart solutions for the modern traveler. Taking inspiration from the locale, the fully appointed 18
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rooms and suites of Hotel Effie will welcome guests with a complement of amenities. The vibrant community of Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort and its 2,400 acres of lush landscape and coastal beauty is the perfect backdrop for the southern luxury of Hotel Effie. With more than 45 years of tradition, the deeply rooted community has so much to offer as the picture-perfect vacation destination. Hotel Effie is a new and exciting part of it all. And so are you. Learn more at HotelEffie.com. PARADISE BEACH HOMES For six years in a row, Paradise Beach Homes has been voted the Best Vacation Rental Company by readers of the Pensacola News Journal in the annual Best of the Bay awards. Pensacola owners and guests have benefitted from over thirty years of experience and professionalism that has earned the company a five-star guest and owner rating. With an increase in demand, Paradise Beach Homes now offers two beautiful locations with vacation rentals on both Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach. Whether you seek a condo, townhome, classic beach cottage, or luxury gulf front home, Paradise Beach Homes offers the perfect vacation option for every budget. While specializing in vacation rentals, Paradise Beach Homes also offers event-friendly homes that have been used for making unforgettable family memories through weddings, family reunions, company retreats, and other events. Your vacation should be relaxing from the start, and guests checking in at Paradise Beach Homes’ convenient and centrally located offices are met with a personal touch that has become the exception rather than the norm in today’s increasingly corporate rental environment. Plan your vacation today at ParadiseBeachHomes.com. VISIT SOUTH WALTON With 26 miles of stunning sugar-white sand beaches and 16 unique beach neighborhoods, each with its own personality and style, South Walton offers endless opportunities for visitors to find their perfect beach. Nestled in Northwest Florida along the Gulf of Mexico, South Walton is easily accessible from New Orleans, making it the ideal destination for a weekend getaway or an extended stay. South Walton is set apart by its unmatched natural beauty. Vast nature preserves create a relaxed respite not often found in similar destinations, offering adventure-seekers more than 200 miles of hiking and biking trails, four state parks, a 15,000-acre state forest and 15 rare coastal dune lakes. Unique landscapes, eclectic shops, luxury accommodations and an abundance of award-winning dining options (200-plus restaurants) are all part of South Walton’s distinctive character and relaxing atmosphere. Learn more at VisitSouthWalton.com. •
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Booze-Free Beverages
COCKTAIL CULTURE
For those looking for a zero-alcohol way to quench their thirst, look no further than New Orleans’ newest booze-free beverage— dubbed Mockly. Founded by New Orleans native Aimée Sedky and her husband Tarik, and crafted by New Orleans mixologist Jesse Carr, Mockly is a cocktail in a can—minus the booze. Flavors include Baron von Blue (mint-spiked blueberry and rose), Eye Opener (effervescent peach and citrus) Love Bite (rosemary-finished pomegranate and ginger). They also make great mixers for those who want to add alcohol. Available at local grocery stores, restaurants and bars, drinkmockly.com
KENTUCKY KICKS
The Bower, located in the Lower Garden District, has opened The Bower Bar in the space formerly occupied by Claret Wine Bar. The interior has the same lush look as The Bower thanks to living green walls and plants from locally owned landscape architects, Luna Botanicals. Enjoy cocktails from Beverage Director Mickey Mullins focused on field-to-glass libations with seasonal herbs, flowers and produce from Sugar Roots Farm. Zero-proof drinks also are available, including the Sugar Roots Spritz (house-made hibiscus syrup, lime and soda) and the Pear-Ly There (spiced pear puree and tonic). Small plates from Executive Chef Marcus Woodham include a charred broccoli salad and fried calamari. Happy hour takes place Monday through Saturday from 4-6 p.m. with discounted drinks and bites. 1320 Magazine St., 582-9738, thebowernola.com
Frankfort, Kentucky-based Castle & Key Distillery recently expanded distribution of its portfolio, including its Sacred Spring Vodka, Roots of Ruin Gin and Restoration Rye into Louisiana. The vodka is made with limestone-rich water and highquality grains; the gin features eight botanicals that are native to Kentucky; and the rye whiskey is made from pods of barrels in order to produce a specific taste profile. Not only are each of these tasty spirits, but the stylish bottles will look great on your bar cart. Available at Dorignac’s, 710 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, 834-8216, dorignacs.com, castleandkey.com
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SELF-SERVE SPIRITS
Stained Glass Wine House is a new bar in Gretna offering self-serve wine, liquor, beer and cocktails. Choose from 24 self-serve wine taps, four self-serve spirits taps, and eight self-serve taps showcasing local beer and handcrafted cocktails. Be sure to pair your drink with a charcuterie or dessert board. 201 Huey P. Long Ave., Ste. A, 812-0930, stainedglasswinehouse.com
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BRUNCH PLANS
Sushi, Please! Executive Chef Than “Lin” Regules, who opened Laksa with her husband Alex Regules at St. Roch Market, has now added Lin Sushi and Poke to the market. In addition to poke bowls and sushi rolls, the restaurant features tonkotsu ramen and sushiritos (a burrito-sized sushi wrap). 2381 St. Claude Ave., 267-0388, strochmarket.com
BENEVOLENT BITES
Dragonfly Café, a casual daytime café, has opened in the Raphael Village Town Center in the Irish Channel. A partnership between Raphael Village and Sheaux Fresh Sustainable Foods, the café furthers Raphael Village’s aim to aid differentlyabled individuals in leading purposeful and enriching lives. The menu features a mix of comfort food and options for those with limiting dietary restrictions, such as the “Hashtag“ (Louisiana sweet potatoes roasted with seasonal veggies) and the “Rancheros Bowl” (a crisp tortilla shell, seasoned beans, three fresh salsas and two poached eggs). Menu specials are available, as well as Thirst-Quenching Thursdays for specially priced mimosas. 518 Jackson Ave., 544-9530, dragonflynola.com
TASTY TOME
Mason Hereford, the James Beard Award-nominated chef/owner of Turkey and the Wolf, is releasing a cookbook dubbed “Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin’ in New Orleans” ($30, Ten Speed Press). The cookbook features 95 recipes that put a playful spin on Southern food, such as chicken pot-hand-pies with buttermilk dip and decadent bologna sandwiches. Available for pre-order at Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania St., Ste. 14, 895-2266, gardendistrictbookshop.com
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Kimpton Hotel Fontenot has expanded its Sunday weekend brunch at The Peacock Room to Saturday from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m. The weekend brunch menu features specialty dishes and cocktails that are not available during the week, such as the Peacock Tower filled with deviled eggs, lobster toast, shrimp, pimento cheese and crostini. Another favorite is the chicken biscuit with American cheese and jalapeño cane syrup. For cocktails, try the “Squawk of Shame” (made with tart passion fruit, citrus and basil) or the “Siren of the Tropics” (made with house-made banana rum, roasted pecans and bananas). 501 Tchoupitoulas St., 324-3073, peacockroomnola.com
LIGHT LUNCH
The Elysian Bar is now serving a special lunch menu created by Executive Chef Jonathan Klaskala. Served Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the menu features light bites like the “Little Gem” salad (tossed in avocado dressing with heirloom cherry tomatoes and crunchy seeds), snapper tartar (served with coconut, cilantro and tomatillo broth) and baked Gulf oysters (served with garlic herb butter and country ham breadcrumbs). 2317 Burgundy St., 356-6769, theelysianbar.com
OF THE SEA
Seafood Sally’s is a family-friendly seafood restaurant with Pensacola Beach-vibes located within an historic building on Oak Street. Be sure to try the onion rings and the boiled crab tossed in a signature chili butter sauce. On Wednesday nights, Seafood Sally’s offers all-you-can-eat crab. There’s also a daily “Buck a Shuck Oyster Happy Hour” from 4 to 6 p.m. The catch of the day and whole fish options change out daily, depending on what comes in from local fishermen, and the bar program features cocktails with rotating ingredients depending on the seasons. Meanwhile, the wine program offers unique seafood pairings, with small producers and limited-production wines. 8400 Oak St., 766-8736, seafoodsallys.com
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Style
BY ANDY MY E R
Usher in spring with Show Me Your Mumu’s belted shirtdress in this swinging 60’s floral pattern that just might teleport you straight to Austin Power’s dance floor. This easy-to-throw-on piece is a must for any Bond Girl in the making. Available at Hemline, shophemline. com.
Flower Power
Bea Bongiasca’s two-tone “Flower Power” earrings are handmade in Italy from 9-karat yellow gold, silver and enamel. The mod design adds a perfect touch of subtle-yet-sculptural interest. Available at Joseph, josephstores.com.
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Plant your favorite greenery inside the Janis flowerpot and brighten up any room. The whimsical handpainted face should make even the biggest curmudgeons smile quick as a wink. Available at Eclectic Home, eclectichome.net.
Villa Vici’s “Poppy” chandelier is a sputnik-style orb with open glass discs resembling the flower’s petals. Made from steel in a natural brass finish, this round luminescent retro fixture makes an impact. Available at Villa Vici, villavici.com.
Mamberg Studio’s new “Magnolia Wild” print celebrates the beauty of Louisiana’s state flower. The repeating photographic images follow the magnolia’s natural life cycle in a vibrant tribute. Available at Spruce, sprucenola.com.
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BY KE L L Y MASSIC O T
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ccording to the Louisiana Office of Tourism, Louisiana hosts over 400 festivals a year. In 2021, the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau - now New Orleans & Co. – said that more than 130 of the about 400 festivals were located in the Crescent City. New Orleans is known for its music, food, history and celebration culture, so it’s no wonder we hold events more than four months out of the year. One festival celebrating a big anniversary this year is BUKU Music + Art Project. BUKU is a two-day festival, founded in 2012 by Dante DiPasquale and Reeves Price, that celebrates music and art with a heavy presence of local entertainers. After 10 years of BUKU fest, I asked co-founder Reeves Price to let us know more about the festival, its commitment to the community and the return of festivals in New Orleans. Q: How did BUKU get started? [Dante DiPasquale and I] had been producing and promoting smaller concerts for a few years but always loved festivals and had dreamed of having our own. Festivals offer so much more from a creative standpoint than a concert in a club or theater and we were anxious to have a larger and more flexible canvas to bring our vision to life. Why is it important for BUKU to highlight local talent? The
local community is who supports our event and it’s important that we support it back. There are so many great local artists working hard, waiting to catch a break and we just want to do our best to help them. People that attend BUKU also want to discover new music and artists and showcasing the local talent is a great way to show them some new stuff that’s fresh. It’s a no-brainer.
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How has BUKU adapted, evolved and/or changed with the changing social climate and pandemic restrictions? Well, BUKU was
one of the first events to get cancelled when the pandemic first started. We were already loading-in the production. Since then, we’ve spent a lot of time assessing everything we do but have spent a lot of time particularly on community engagement, inclusivity, and health and safety. On the community engagement front we launched the “Take Action Project,” which is a series that called upon the BUKU fans to engage with their community by “taking action” and in turn BUKU then did the same whether it be through donations or volunteering. Regarding inclusivity we took deep dives into our hiring and vendor procurement procedures and pledged to open those processes more. On health and safety, we spent a ton of time obviously learning about COVID-19 and how it spreads and how we can minimize that spread at our events, but we also looked at our emergency procedures and general safety protocols. What is Upbeat Academy and how is it helping the local community? Upbeat Academy is an
after-school music education program for New Orleans middle and high-school students with a focus on hip-hop and electronic music production and performance. Upbeat is free to attend for all the student-artists and is a registered 501c(3) organization. Every year at BUKU we invite out the student-artists to experience the festival, perform, meet artists and just soak it all in. Do you have a favorite fest moment or story from the 10 years? A favorite is tough… there’s
been so many from watching Upbeat StudentArtist BluShakurx perform with Jay Electronica to drinking Hennessy out of the bottle during Louis the Child with my partners and best friends to close the 2019 BUKU (the last one that happened) to watching Zhu absolutely tear the roof off the Float Den. BUT if I have to pick one moment, I suppose I would pick speaking with Avicii before he took the stage and watching his sunset performance at the very first BUKU. His career was just beginning to explode, and it was just a magical moment in time that I will never forget.
LAGNIAPPE
Favorite local band: Lost Bayou Ramblers Favorite place to listen to live music: Toulouse Theatre
Your one essential, can’t fest without it item: Sunglasses
TRUE CONFESSION
Before working in music, I coached the Tulane Sailing team and lead sailing expeditions in Baja Mexico.
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Bringing up Baby Holding on to the plastic Jesus
If you have a car that looks silver, but the manufacturer calls “titanium,” and you order a pick-up meal, and they ask you what color is your car, you should say “silver.” Because if you say “titanium,” whoever takes the order writes down “tit” and when you park at the curb, the young man who comes out with orders will yell, “TIT!” And if you look like my sister-in-law Gloriosa, with Dolly Parton boobs, when you step out your car, that young man may never recover from embarrassment. Also, he won’t get no tip. I showed up just after Gloriosa and her little daughter Flambeau got home with that order, and Gloriosa is still sputtering about it while she serves me Mandarin chicken. I poke in my chopsticks, and I find a plastic king cake baby. Gloriosa has to explain. She realized Flambeau will eat anything if it has a plastic baby in it. She loves them. If you ain’t from around here, you may not know that a king cake baby is a tiny plastic baby baked into a king cake, and if you get it in your piece, you got to buy the next king cake for your office or class or whoever you’re eating it with. Now, like a lot of people, Gloriosa assumes the plastic baby represents Baby Jesus. I been told it represents when the owner of McKenzie’s Pastry Shoppes (which used to sell most of the king cakes in town) got a sweet deal on a shipment of plastic babies from Japan, back in the ‘50s. Before that they used fava beans. Or unshelled pecans. Or something else you would have to spit out. Gloriosa says next I will be saying that St. Joseph ain’t Italian. I let that go. Anyway, Flambeau is so obsessed, she even stopped begging for a kitten. Whenever they had a king cake in the house, she snatched the baby, brought it to her room, put it to bed in a egg carton nursery she set up, tucked it into an egg compartment and covered it with a tiny blanket she cut out of a Kleenex.
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So Gloriosa started putting babies in stuff like mashed potatoes, broccoli soup, even take-out Mandarin chicken. Somehow, it did not occur to Gloriosa that you could order king cake babies over the Internet. Maybe she thought they miraculously grew inside of king cakes. So she called everybody in the family and asked us to please save the babies out of our cakes for her. So we did. She had to explain to Flambeau that Mardi Gras is over, and the baby supply will dry up. Anyway, Flambeau has already built a entire castle of baby-occupied egg cartons in her bedroom. Just before I got there, Flambeau left with her Grandma Larda to spend the night. Naturally, I want to see this amazing castle, so after we eat, Gloriosa brings me up to Flambeau’s room. First thing I notice is that the room is extremely tidy. Second thing is here’s no egg carton castle. Gloriosa had a cleaning service in that morning. We race outside to the garbage can. But for once the trash has been collected on time. Flambeau’s babies are gone. And she will be home tomorrow morning. Gloriosa rushes to the Costco’s and buys five dozen eggs, which she will put in a bucket or something and use the cartons, while I call bakeries to see if they got leftover babies. There ain’t no babies. Try next year, honey. Gloriosa feels so terrible, she decides to give in on the kitten. She phones her friend Lisa, whose cat had a litter, and gets a little silver-and-brown tabby. Next morning, Flambeau is ecstatic. While they watch her cuddling the kitten, Gloriosa notices Ms. Larda is holding a big trash bag. “Her baby castle,” says Ms. Larda. “I got it when you were hugging Flambeau goodbye yesterday. I knew she couldn’t spend a night without her babies.” “Can we name the kitty ‘TIT’ after your car?” pipes up Flambeau. (Little pitchers…) “We are naming her ‘Fava Bean,’” says Gloriosa. “May they return to king cakes.”
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een in this 1905 photograph is the city’s famed Napoleon House, a historic French Quarter landmark and bar located at 500 Chartres St. In the early 20th century, however, the Napoleon House was anything but a popular local watering hole. It was a neighborhood grocery. According to New Orleans city directories, Joseph Labourdette operated this grocery store on the ground floor from about 1904 to about 1908, after which he moved to N. Alexander St. Later in 1914 Joseph Impastato rented the building where he continued the grocery business while his family resided upstairs. Six years later, he purchased the building and, despite Prohibition, opened a small bar next door, but that was New Orleans. After World War II, Joe gave the business to his brother Peter. After Peter died in 1971, his son Sal took over the business. In 2015 Ralph Brennan purchased the bar and building.
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The Napoleon House is one of the city’s oldest examples of late 18th and early 19th century French architecture. Constructed in 1794 and expanded in 1814 as a private residence for New Orleans mayor Nicolas Girod, the three-story, stucco building with its well-known rooftop cupola takes its name from a local legend that claims the house was offered as a sanctuary for Napoleon Bonaparte then living in exile after the Battle of Waterloo. As the story goes, Napoleon’s local admirers abandoned the plan when they learned Napoleon had died in 1821 on the Island of St. Helena. The name Napoleon House stuck, however, and for much of the 20th century, the Napoleon House bar, with its soft classical music playing in the background and dimly lighted rooms with the warm patina that only age, and the city’s sultry air, can bestow, was a favorite haunt for French Quarter writers, poets and artists who lived “la vie Bohème.”
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BEACH BOUND WHAT’S NOUVEAU ON THE COAST By Cheré Coen
W hen the beach sirens call, the sun worshipers answer. It’s an annual pilgrimage that no world event can halter. “Last year was extremely successful,” said Lacee Rudd, public relations manager of Visit Panama City Beach. “Our drive markets were hot because people were so ready to get out and go on vacation. It’s super easy to get in the car and get here.” The Gulf Coast, with its crystal blue waters and quartz sandy beaches is only a few hours away and remains an ideal vacation destination for those who still prefer social distancing and wide open spaces provided by the great outdoors. But even better — many of the coastal communities have been hard at work creating new attractions, opening hotels and restaurants and bringing back festivals and special events. We’re compiled a collection of what’s new on the Coast. Time to get packing.
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Hunt & Gather Raw Bar and Pub
Sea View Tours
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You know the famous Ground Zero Blues Club of Clarksdale, co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman and the late Bill Luckett. Now, Biloxi is fortunate to acquire its second location. Coastal developers Jeff and Lee Young have refurnished the old Kress building in downtown Biloxi for their new venture, which follows much of the same format as the Clarksdale blues club. But the majority of the menu items will be unique to Biloxi, said Allison Borders, food and beverage manager. “We call it Gulf Coast eats with a Delta edge,” she said. The club opened mid-February and will offer live music nightly Wednesdays through Saturdays, with musicians visiting from the Clarksdale club. Larger acts are in the planning stages, Borders explained, but every evening, regardless, will include a blues performer. Future phases include a second-floor VIP section with its own bar, wait staff and menu, and the third floor may be transformed into short term rental, Borders added. groundzerobiloxi.com
And there’s more… Jesse’s Restaurant, a landmark of Magnolia Springs, Ala., will open its second location at Fort Morgan, said Kay Maghan, public relations manager of Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism. It will be a fine dining experience to the peninsula west of Gulf Shores, she said. Debris Po Boys & Drinks opened in downtown Mobile, serving up the classic New Orleans icon as well as muffulettas and other specialty sandwiches. Patrons may also enjoy the brew from the city’s newly opened Oyster City Brewing Company. Pensacola has several new culinary experiences to enjoy, including Pearl & Horn, a combination of land and sea, and Boarders with its curated charcuterie boards. Over in Panama City Beach, Hunt & Gather Raw Bar and Pub specializes in Gulf seafood, such as local and regional oysters, plus unique “wild-game meals,” such as elk burgers, bison ribeye and wild boar Bolognese.
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American novelist Ernest Hemingway was an avid sportsman who dabbled in many life experiences. “He was also a bit of a reprobate,” said Joe Cloyd. Cloyd and his wife, Jessica, have renovated a 1910 bank building in the heart of Ocean Springs with an homage to the author and journalist. The Hemingway opened April 1, 2021. “It was natural to embrace him and his life experiences in the development,” Cloyd said of the mixed-used space with retail on the first floor and the hotel above. “Hemingway had four wives and we have four rooms, each named for each wife.” Cloyd insists that the boutique hotel “fits into the fabric of Ocean Springs,” marrying original brick walls and wooden floors with calming artwork and furnishings. “It’s a place to wrap a guest around a natural experience but also a calming experience with art,” he said, adding a pun, “It’s relaxing but guests can write their own story.” The Hemingway is within walking distance to Ocean Springs’ restaurants and bars, locally owned shops and galleries and beaches. oceanspringsinn.com/ the-hemingway
And there’s more… A resort-style Embassy Suites by Hilton will open near Pier Park this year, offering the first rooftop bar in Panama City Beach. The Kukla RV Resort is another first for the city, an RV park to be built between Hutchinson Boulevard and Front Beach Road that features a walking trail, clubhouse, pool and concierge.
Attractions OWA, Foley OWA Parks and Resorts in Foley keeps expanding every year. In addition to the amusement rides, Downtown OWA with its shops and restaurants, Marriott TownPlace Suites and yearly special events will be an 80,000-square-foot indoor waterpark, perfect for those rainy days that keep folks off the beach.
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The waterpark will feature two slide towers, a lazy river, cabanas, restaurant and arcade. A retractable roof and wall (only one of its kind in the U.S.) will open to outdoor tropical features such as the wave pool and tiki bar. The indoor waterpark is set to open soon and be attached to the existing theme park with multiple ticket options available for purchase starting this month. In addition, OWA is constructing the new luxury RV Resort located in a wooded area on the north side of the property, set in open in the fall. The RV Resort will feature 120-plus camping spaces, clubhouse and pool. visitowa.com
you to see things clearly — even at night. They rent clear kayaks for use during the day or with their Night Glow Party Tours. A great horned owl nesting at the Pascagoula River Audubon Center in Moss Point, Miss., is having babies and spring visitors can watch their growth. The center’s River Room exhibit space changes every eight weeks and this month showcases the work of the Coastal Bird Stewardship Team. Panama City Beach will open an artificial reef off the coast this year, creating an ideal ecosystem for divers and fishermen.
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And there’s more…
Duplin Winery
Clotilda, the last known ship to carry enslaved people into the United States, sunk in the Mobile River. The ship was discovered at the bottom of the river in 2019 and will be part of a major exhibition at the Africatown Heritage House Museum outside Mobile. Plans are for the museum to open in June, telling the story of the ship and the descendants of the enslaved people who founded Africatown, Ala.
The oldest winery in North Carolina and the South’s largest is opening a tasting room and event space in Panama City Beach. Duplin Winery is building a 35,000-square-foot complex on 70 acres at the previous Hombre Golf Club to serve up its sweet wines, specialty drinks, food and live entertainment. Duplin is known for “sweet and easy” sipping wines made from muscadine grapes, with names such as Cotton Candy and Sweet Rosé. Guests will be able to sample the wines while learning more about the South’s winemaking industry and Duplin family history. Families are welcome, since Duplin’s Sweetzer frozen drinks can be made in non-alcoholic versions. duplinwinery.com
Outdoors Ship Island, Gulfport, Mississippi Hurricanes take their toll on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as we all know, and Ship Island off the coast of Gulfport has seen some of the worst. Hurricane Camille took a bite out of the barrier island in 1969, followed by a host of nasty storms, Katrina topping them all in 2005. Here’s the good news. The “Camille Gap” created in 1969 has been filled in and the concession stand and dock repaired from the brunt of the most recent storms. Ferry rides to the island through Ship Island Excursions are now sailing again, beginning this month. According to Ronnie Wentzell, who runs the ferry business with his family, the dredging used to fill the Camille Gap, along with lack of tourists in 2021, created a bounty of seashells waiting to be discovered. Time to grab those pails! msshipisland.com
And there’s more… Sea View Tours in Orange Beach wants
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Jesse’s Restaurant
And there’s more… So many new breweries to report. Think it may be time for a Deep South Coastal Beer Trail! Oyster City Brewing Company opened its Alabama location in December in downtown Mobile with beers brewed on site. Other locations are in Apalachicola and Tallahassee, Florida. Lost Spring Brewing Co. opened in November in Ocean Springs and serves up craft cocktails as well. Pensacola welcomes Alga Beer Co., named for the owners’ home locations of Alabama and Georgia. And what’s a trip to the Gulf Coast without a bushwacker, that frozen combination resembling a milk shake but with a fun boozy kick. Doc’s Seafood in Orange Beach is now serving up a salted caramel bushwacker.
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hen the words green and Nola are connected in a sentence, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Whether a person is from here, or has moved to New Orleans from somewhere else, it can be downright disheartening to live in a city where environmental best practices are as rare as an accessible Port-A-Potty during Mardi Gras parades. When something as basic as recycling is still MIA five months after Hurricane Ida, when littering is an accepted practice throughout the city and catch basins are constantly overflowing with building debris and trash, it ain't that easy bein’ green, to quote an existential stuffed frog. According to the finance company WalletHub, Louisiana ranks 49th in a recent survey on states rated for their positive environmental policies. The only place we scored high was energy consumption per capita. But, and thankfully there is a but, there are grassroots leaders making a difference every day in the city. Passionate environmentalists, trained scientists, climate change watchdogs - all hard at work and making incremental and impressive progress. It’s enough to give a person hope. Or at least it’s a start.
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When Mark Kulp started teaching at UNO in 2000, he was a professor in the “Geology and Geo-Physics” department. Over the next few years, universities around the country, including UNO in 2005, switched the department’s name and focus to “Earth and Environmental Sciences,” with the hope that “UNO-EES will provide the next generation of geoscience stewards for Louisiana’s coast and natural resources.” As to how passionate his students are and continue to be about environmental science, climate change and coastal erosion, Kulp offers anecdotal information he’s observed over his 22-year science career. “We changed the name right before Katrina, then of course everything was a mess for a few years. When we got going again, where we’d been averaging about 50 undergraduate students, we were up to 140 students. I don’t have qualitative evidence to support this, but my sense is that the spike in enrollment was driven by observing the firsthand effects that Katrina had on our environment,” he recalled. “Students really saw the effect of climate change firsthand, the disruption in everybody’s lives. They saw what happened to the Louisiana coast. That pulled all the tree huggers out of the audience.” The wave of students continued to come; students intent on figuring out solutions to a host of problems facing the planet. Although numbers dropped off when there was a major downturn in the economy, they are still higher than preKatrina, he added. He’s also seeing older students, who may have tried college once and left to work instead. “Now they’re seeing the need for a college degree and have focused on an area that matters to them, in their late 20s.” The jobs are out there, working for state or federal governmental agencies that deal with storm frequency, coastal change, geological shifts in the environment or invasive species that are overrunning waterways. Kulp noted an eye-opening map devised by Mike Blum and Harry Roberts, geologists at Louisiana State University, who projected what the Louisiana coastline would 44
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look like in the year 2100. Although scientists have studied the delta for decades, no one had quantified how much sediment pours into the delta - one of the most essential dynamics of the ecosystem - until Blum and Roberts took that on, according to an article about the project in Earth Magazine. The geologists came to one conclusion. “No matter the scenario, not enough sediment flows down the Mississippi and into the delta to prevent much of it from slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico,” the 2012 article stated. Ten years later, the news remains grim. According to the United State Geological Survey (USGS) Louisiana’s barrier islands are eroding at a rate of up to 20 meters per year; so fast that, according to recent USGS estimates, several will disappear by the end of the century, leaving a vast system of once-sheltered wetlands exposed. The effect this has on the people of the state, many of whom rely on the more than $1 billion seafood industry, cannot be underestimated. “We work at the intersection of society and science,” said Kulp. “There is real relevance to the science we are developing in this area. I see some students who are really starting to realize that their fears for the future, for the Louisiana coast, for the earth in general, are very real. And they are passionate about change.”
A MASTER PLAN FOR THE COAST
“One wants to be optimistic, right?” posits Denise Reed, a former UNO professor who now works extensively with other scientists to prepare a master plan for the Louisiana coast, a plan legislated after Katrina. Reed, who is originally from the U.K. but has lived in Louisiana since 1986, has a front row view of the action from her home in Terrebonne Parish. “We’ve made enormous strides in our efforts to do something about coastal land loss and protection since the mid-90s,” she said. “When I started in the 80s, there really wasn’t a happening on the advocacy side or governmental side.” The first big breakthrough came in 1990, when Louisiana Senators
J. Bennett Johnston and John Breaux presented their case to help save the vanishing wetlands by successfully persuading Congress to enact the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA). Often referred to as simply “The Breaux Act,” CWPPRA was the first federally mandated restoration effort to take place along Louisiana’s coast and the first program to provide a stable source of federal funds dedicated specifically to coastal restoration. That legislation generated $40 million a year. “We were over the moon that we had this money and could start doing something,” she recalled. But the more data were gathered, scientists quickly realized this was not a $40 million a year problem. Reed was one of a group of people in the room spit-balling just how much money they really did need. “We came up with this number, $14 billion, flipping heck! But that’s the number that was going to get us there. We never thought we’d get the money.” Dialing forward to now and there is an entire state agency, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) focused on the coast, protecting people from flooding and coastal restoration. “That has put huge numbers of projects on the ground and we are starting to see a difference.” While most are fairly small, they are getting bigger, with a team now in the process of designing and getting engineering together for individual restoration projects that cost $2 billion and up. “People have to realize that while we use the word restoration, there’s no turning the clock back on this. It’s not like restoring an old rocking chair, just strip off the paint and make it look like new again,” she said. “The coast is broken. We’ve messed it up. What we are restoring are the processes that keep the coast going and sustainable.” As a member of the work-
ing coastal community of scientists, modelers, agency staff, advocates, nature conservancies and researchers, Reed has faith. “Of course, I worry that we’re not doing enough, soon enough. But there is a lot to celebrate. We’re training students that are motivated to work on this and keep the work going.” She’s never thought of doing anything but this work, with current research including sediment dynamics and restoration in Louisiana, the Columbia River estuary and the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. “Sometimes I say to people, you can’t work on coastal Louisiana and not be optimistic," Reed said. "You’d never get out of bed in the morning. We are restoring the processes that keep the coast going and are sustainable.”
BRINGING NEIGHBORS TO THE CONVERSATION
Julia Kumari Drapkin believes that every resident in this town is an expert in their own backyard when it comes to how their neighborhood is affected by climate. It’s one big reason the multimedia news producer founded the social impact company ISeeChange, an outgrowth of a career spent covering natural disasters tied to climate change. ISeeChange is a community data and dialogue program designed to give local neighbors the tools and the platform to tell their stories about how extreme heat and flooding is affecting them in their own backyard. “There’s no better scientist then a homeowner who has seen what’s been going on in their neighborhood for years,” she said. These community stories are then sold to subscribers, the engineers and agencies who use them to make a better levee, flood plan or whatever it is they are working on. Kumari Drapkin, a Gulf Coast and Gentilly resident, calls ISeeChange a global platform with local initiatives. A lot of the work the group is doing relates to the Gentilly Resilience District, created when the city of New Orleans got $141.2 million in funding through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) to look at Hurricane Isaac damage in 2012.
The project’s goals include storing storm water, relieving extreme heat in underserved neighborhoods and creating recreational spaces and other improvements to social wellbeing. Folks were taught how to use the same rain gauges used by the National Weather Service to measure rainfall, which came in very handy when more than nine inches of rain fell on August 5, 2017. “This ground level research provides much more granularity than the city’s initiatives on climate impact. You really need community members involved to provide critical details to planning for the long term.” Data made a difference, revealing that water models were underestimating flooding in some lower income neighborhoods and overestimating it in higher income areas. “The engineers redid the models and $4.8 million was reallocated to lower income neighborhoods,” she said. Kumari Drapkin is also doing similar flood reporting work for the city of Miami and Ocean City, New Jersey. “We want the Sewerage and Water Board to have this data,” she said. Heat tracking using sensors on utility poles and sensors mounted on cars revealed that low-income residents suffered disproportionately from the heat. “They were more at risk, especially as low-income renters sometimes at the mercy of negligent landlords who wouldn’t service the AC or evicted them when they complained. We saw holes in roofs, mold. “The home is the first defense against climate change. How can we help these most vulnerable deal with climate change?” The easy-to-use platform - think of it as Nextdoor for climate or Waze for weather – allows people to tell their own stories without having to show up at a meeting. “The people who have the most to add to the conversation, are the least heard,” she said. “That isn’t right and it hurts us all.”
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TREES FOR ONE AND ALL
Acres of concrete and a dearth of trees increase the risk of flooding and amplify the effects of heat in the poorest urban neighborhoods, problems that are directly connected to decades of race-based housing segregation and the current and predicted impacts of climate change. Susannah Burley believes that the solution lies, at least in part, in trees. Burley, who has a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from LSU, oversaw the ReLeaf tree planting program at Parkway Partners for four years, a New Orleansbased non-profit. In 2016 she founded SOUL in order to reforest New Orleans at a meaningful scale strategically. SOUL, a.k.a. Sustaining Our Urban Landscape, is driving a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans by reforesting the urban landscape. After hearing over
and over again that New Orleans was the most deforested city in America because of Katrina, she didn’t see an over-arching strategic plan in place to change that. “There’s a great inequity in tree distribution. The last thing somebody who can barely pay rent will spend money on is a tree.” Rather than expecting people to opt into the program by applying online, SOUL targets one street and neighborhood after another, with the neighbors given the option of opting out of having scrappy native trees planted by volunteers, free of charge. Clusters of tough, native to Louisiana trees serve to better stave off flooding, reduce pollution, improve community health, and provide beauty and shade. “Scattered plantings don’t do anything for storm water,” she said. “Now whole blocks, that really makes a difference when it comes to absorbing noticeable volumes of water and improving the air qual-
ity. Trees contribute to neighborhood resilience in a real way.” Burley is hyper focused on reforesting new Orleans with a goal of 100,000 trees on public property. “The city doesn’t have a master plan or a heritage tree plan. We put a lot of emphasis on architectural preservation, but we don’t have a plan to protect our tree canopy. Although there is a goal in place for a 50 percent tree canopy by 2030, there was no baseline.” SOUL did an accounting which showed that New Orleans has less than a 20 percent tree canopy now. “My first priority is making people realize that if we don’t fundamentally change how we are living, there’s not going to be a New Orleans as we know it in 100 years. Politics need to be put aside to focus on the reality and science of climate change.” New Orleanians are known for taking a laissez-faire attitude towards the many things that are broken about the city, from the flooding and drainage to the potholes to the lack of tree canopy in urban neighborhoods. “We can only plant 1500 trees a year. It’ll take more than that to fix the problem,” said Burley.
THEIR MISSION IS CRYSTAL
It seemed like especially during the pandemic lockdown, those empty wine bottles really started to add up. Although New Orleans, like so many municipalities, doesn’t offer glass recycling, Glass Half Full is on the job. Launched in February 2020 by Tulane graduates Max Steitz and Franziska Trautmann, Glass Half Full collects household bottles to make usable commercial products and materials to help stave coastal erosion. The service is working so well that it recently won the 2021 seventh annual Start-up St. Bernard pitch competition, earning nearly $100,000 in prize money from the Meraux Foundation and St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation. It’s easy to get involved. Bottles are collected at various drop off points around the city, with the central location at 3935 Louisa St. For a small fee, they’ll even pick up at your door. Glass is then sorted by color, pulverized and processed into sand, cullet – broken pieces and labels. Sandbags full of the glass sand are donated to flood emergencies, used for coastal restoration research or sold to terrazzo flooring manufacturers, landscapers and gardeners, explained Trautmann. Glass Half Full has done incredible work in the short amount of time they have been in operation, collecting glass not only from individuals but from a short list of restaurants and bars. At this time, about 100,000 pounds of glass is recycled every moth, about 70,000 pounds dropped off, and 30,000 pounds from the pickup program. What started as a what-if conversation over a bottle of wine between friends is now a full-time business, with six employees and a team of volunteers at the ready. Intent on making a difference in coastal restoration and levee maintenance, providing disaster relief and chipping away at landfills, Glass Half Full also uses its recycled product for something everybody identifies with, Mardi Gras beads. With plans for a large-scale recycling plant in St. Bernard Parish down the road, Glass Half Full will be making a difference for years to come. Bottom line, pulverizing recycled glass into sand adds up to a more than $70 billion a year industry, a forward-thinking field that can bring the color of money to the region. And chip away at the notion that green doesn’t matter in New Orleans.
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but the bar closes at 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday so as to not disturb guests. “We do that for privacy of the rooms,” McMeans said. “We’re not a high-volume bar. We’re a low-key establishment.” DINE
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Tracing the Past
Adventure along the Devil’s Backbone It began as a Native American pathway, but soon European settlers in the mid-South would sail down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to sell their wares in Natchez and New Orleans, then take the 444-mile Natchez Trace to return home. Because they headed north with coins in their pockets, Trace bandits robbed these “Kaintucks” of their wealth, sometimes murdering the unlucky souls. For a time, the Natchez Trace became known as the “Devil’s Backbone,” not only for the thievery, but for its rugged terrain. “I have this day swam my horse five times, bridged one creek, forded several others beside the swamp we had to wade through,” the Rev. John Johnson noted in 1812 when he stopped at the Twentymile Bottom Overlook at the Trace’s milepost 278.4. Today, leisurely road trippers and
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bicyclists ride the Natchez Trace from Natchez to Nashville without the fear of criminals and swamps. The speed is slower — 50 mph — and there are numerous historical markers and roadside attractions to enjoy. Visitors may spot wildlife along the roadway or stop for picnics, hiking, and exploring history. And at milepost 394, north of the Tennessee-Alabama border, there’s the Devil’s Backbone State Natural Area. STAY
The Natchez Trace runs near the towns of Florence and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, as it makes it way toward Nashville. The Gunrunner Hotel in Florence is not your typical boutique hotel: nine luxury suites named for different aspects of the region, from the Muscle Shoals Sound to Frank Lloyd Wright, named for the famed architect’s home he designed and built
in Florence. The handicapped accessible room on the Gunrunner’s first floor is named the Devil’s Backbone, with a nod to Alabama outlaw Tom Clark, known to have murdered many along the Trace. DRINK
It’s only natural that the Gunrunner Hotel named a cocktail for the Devil’s Backbone, as well, served inside the 3,200-square-foot common area upstairs that doubles as a public bar. “We wanted to name our cocktails to tie in with the specific rooms,” said Chris McMeans, Gunrunner general manager. The Gunrunner Lounge offers unique artwork — most of which spotlights the Shoals’ music heritage, — comfortable seating areas, and a large wooden bar inlaid with honeycomb onyx at its epicenter. The nine suites surround the open area
Located in the heart of downtown Florence, only a short walk from the Gunrunner, Chef Josh Quick serves up innovative farm-to-table fare at Odette. The restaurant’s cozy but eclectic atmosphere includes a full-service bar, so craft cocktails may be enjoyed here as well. But don’t miss a meal, which combines both southern and international culinary styles while incorporating local Alabama ingredients. Folks in Florence claim there’s a woman’s voice to the Tennessee River. To get a full view of the town and its “singing river,” take a ride to the top of the Renaissance Hotel tower and its 360 Grille where diners enjoy choice steaks and seafood with a different view every hour. The best time to visit is sunset, and if you’re lucky, you might hear tunes coming off the water. LAGNIAPPE
Regardless of its infamous history, the Devil’s Backbone cocktail at the Gunrunner offers a silky combination of bourbon, Cocchi Americano, tangy St. Germain, and Luxardo with its cherry finish. A dash of grapefruit bitters rounds it out but what’s left goes down smooth and easy. The Devil’s Backbone
1 1/2 ounces Old Forester
1 ounce Cocchi Americano 1/2 ounce St. Germain 1/4 ounce Luxardo
1 dash grapefruit bitters
Directions: Chill a coupe glass. Add ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and stir. Strain into the coupe glass.
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GROWING PAINS
It shou ld be the time of year when I feel most hopeful. The days are getting longer. The weather is getting warmer. It’s almost festival season, and the scents of crawfish boils and sweet olive are already in the air. Snowball stands are reopening. Abita Strawberry is available everywhere you go. There are adorable fluffy ducklings in Audubon Park, and it’s almost time to break out the seersucker. And yet and yet and yet. I can’t seem to summon my usual enthusiasm for my favorite season. Heading into our third COVID-era springtime, I don’t feel the hope I felt this time last year, freshly vaccinated and ready to re-enter the world … or even the hope I felt in March 2020, fraught with anxiety but eager to stay home and do my part to flatten the curve. I don’t know if it’s the monotony of the pandemic or continuing grief over the sudden loss of my mother or … you know … basically everything, but I am struggling to want to do much of anything right now. I am still doing things – going to work and shuttling my kids around the city to orthodontist appointments and picking up prescriptions and folding laundry and walking the dog and taking the trash out. I’m doing the stuff that needs to be done. I’m even still doing fun things on occasion, like parades and porch drinks with friends and outdoor concerts. I’m just doing it all in a kind of fog and not taking as much joy in it as I probably should.
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BY E VE C R AWFO R D PEYTON
you will, but there are still FEMA trailers everywhere and sadness is very close to the surface. But I remember things got better here. Not all at once and sometimes so gradually you didn’t even notice, but eventually, all of the loss and devastation of Katrina became part of our story and not our entire story. We integrated the grief, and we moved past it while still honoring its role in our history. While it wasn’t relegated to trivia or minimized, it stopped being the first thing people talked about. I hope to get to that point in my personal life, too, where I can make small talk with the grocery cashier without tearing up when she casually mentions that she is looking forward to the weekend because she is having dinner with her mom. I’m no stranger to grief, having lost both siblings, a second trimester pregnancy, and one of my best friends over the years, so I know it will continue to lessen as the days go by. The things that got us through the aftermath of Katrina, that sustained us through the rebuilding while things slowly improved around us, are undoubtedly the things that will get me through right now, get me to the point where all of the trauma of the past couple of years isn’t always at the when things were definitely not forefront of my mind: good friends, back to normal but we had moved good food, good music, abundant past the shellshock of sunshine … and yes, if late 2005 and 2006, and we’re being honest, a notFor more Eve, that’s kind of where I am check out her blog insignificant amount of emotionally right now, “Joie d’Eve” on alcohol. Tuesday mornings at Luckily, there is no I think. myneworleans.com Like, there is no longer better place for all of a three-story-tall pile of debris on those things than New Orleans in my emotional neutral ground, if the springtime.
Rebirth and Rebuilding Coming back from tragedy is a slow and painful process.
But spring is a season of rebirth, and this is a city that definitely understands rebirth. I knew that long before Katrina, having attended my fair share of jazz funerals as a kid, but Katrina made it unmistakable that there is no city that celebrates and embodies resilience quite like New Orleans. I moved back here in January 2008,
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HOME ADVICE
BY L E E CUTR O NE
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
With degrees in architecture, interior design and environmental design, Terri Hogan Dreyer brings 35 years of experience to NANO, the firm she leads with her husband and business partner Ian Dreyer. As 2020 president of AIA New Orleans, she increased the number of New Orleans architectural firms signed up for the 2030 challenge (an initiative to make new buildings and renovations carbon-neutral by 2030) by more than 300 percent. NANO was the recipient of the European Cultural Centre’s (ECC) Best Architecture Exhibit at the 2021 Venice Biennale.
TERRI HOGAN DREYER Going green at home
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he term “Green Space” refers to areas of plants, grass and other vegetation used for aesthetic or recreational purposes. Yet using environmentally friendly materials and design practices can make your home itself a “green space,” and that, said architect Terri Hogan Dreyer of the award-winning NANO architecture firm is an important goal for all to embrace. While countries like Italy and France are leaders in the mission of saving the planet through green practices (“they’ve invested in their architecture for climate change,” she noted), Dreyer advised that there are myriad ways that New Orleanians can move toward sustainability. To begin, she recommends using widely available, environmentally friendly materials such as no-VOC paints (two options are Benjamin Moor’s Aura line and Sherwin Williams’ Harmony line) and LED light bulbs. Though more expensive up front,
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their long-term value outweighs the cost. “It’s worth it; it’s better for your family and for the environment,” Dreyer said. Dreyer recommends sourcing things locally (reducing the carbon footprint) and opting for natural materials when possible such as wood flooring. If you can’t use a real wood floor and are using a veneer on plywood product, for example, she advises requesting an environmentally friendly glue. “A contractor is going to use what’s readily available unless you request it,” she said. Other basics include installing a rain barrel for watering outdoor areas, adding solar panels to your home (“we should have solar panels on every home,” she said), and recycling architectural elements and other salvaged goods. Dreyer’s firm has re-used structural wood from old buildings to create everything from furniture to cabinets and has recycled metal gating as railings. “Creating your own systems lessens the
1 Create your own systems at home. Decentralization lessens the load on centralized systems.
2 Install a rain barrel.
3 Recycle, recycle, recycle.
load on centralized systems,” she said. “We have to think about this as an economic driver.” Just as aging in place has become a motivating force in building practices, Dreyer said global warming and catastrophic weather events have meant a greater emphasis on ideas and practices that help us to shelter in place. Metal roofs, she said, offer a better alternative for hurricanes, and thereby reduce post-hurricane waste – not to mention dollars. In recent years, recycled plastic has gained a foothold in the world of green materials and Dreyer says there are a host of other materials as well. Today’s market offers permeable pavers made from recycled concrete, natural, plant-based oils for wood floor finishes (such as Monocoat), and zero-waste porcelain and tile products (such as Fireclay, a California company looking at creating local subsidiaries to reduce the carbon footprint of distribution). “It’s not just about depositing recyclables, it’s about proactively using them,” she said.
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TABLE TALK
BY JAY FO R MAN
BANG BANG SHRIMP BANH MI AND SPICY BRISKET BANH MI
Sandwiched Style Banh Mi Boys
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or most of us, the po-boy checks the box as the New Orleans definitive s a n d wi ch. T h e Muffuletta? A one-hit-wonder. Pimento Cheese? Not in my backyard. Yet in recent years another sandwich has steadily been closing the gap – the Vietnamese banh mi. The compelling assemblages on French pistolette-style bread has been encroaching on turf long held by the po-boy. And with good reason – such sandwiches pop with a vibrancy unmatched by our reigning heavyweight champ. The crunch of brightly dressed daikon and carrot, fresh herbs and undercurrent of savory Maggi sauce makes a forceful counter to staid “dressed” components of a typical po-boy. Can’t decide? Then head to Banh Mi Boys
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on Magazine Street, where you can compare them head-to-head and make up your own mind. There are no losers here, just opinion. Mine now breaks in favor of the banh mi. Helmed by chef and owner Peter Nguyen, Banh Mi Boys hatched as a little sandwich shop next to a gas station on Airline Drive not far from the Saints and Pelicans headquarters. “At first I focused on traditional Banh Mi and poor boys side-by-side,” Nguyen said. “Along the way I slowly introduced some fusion items, ran specials and built up the menu from there.” Bread for po-boys comes from Leidenheimer’s, and for banh mi from Golden Bakery, a wholesale operation specializing in the distinctively Vietnamese/French pistolettes. Nguyen’s model proved a good one – not reinventing the wheel
while folding in incrementally creative choices. Banh Mi Boys avoided the fate of most restaurants through quarantine; he saw business increase even as they scaled back to focus on an exclusively “to-go” model. He has now parleyed this success into a brand-new store on a prime stretch of Magazine Street, bringing his fare into the heart of Uptown. The most popular item is the “Bang Bang Shrimp,” fried then tossed in a Thai chili glaze and served with the definitive accoutrements of pickled carrot, cucumber and daikon, raw jalapeno and buttery house spread. Here is a sandwich that reaches notes that a po-boy cannot, thanks to the crunch of fresh veg, herbs and raw chili. Larger appetites might want to tackle the spicy Asian BBQ brisket, a personal favorite that is cooked for 12
hours and topped with a housemade spicy Asian BBQ sauce. “It is a hoisin-based sauce but we add a little chili oil and sriracha,” Nguyen said. Those seeking a taste of the Viet-Cajun craze currently sweeping the nation might want to take on the Cajun garlic butter shrimp. “This one is a play on the traditional fried shrimp poor boy,” he said. “We do it as a banh mi and make a compound butter we use to sauté the shrimp.” While banh mi originated in Vietnam, the culinary outcome of fading French influence coinciding with the increased availability of bread for the general population, Banh Mi Boys casts a wider net. Influences from Korea (bulgogi beef) and Japan (chicken katsu) appear on Nguyen’s menu. Even Hawaii (Loco Moko with spam and eggs) is represented. Vegetarians will find options here too, such as a tofu version underscored with a lemongrass sauce as well as one built around portobello mushrooms. Banh Mi Boys, 3244 Magazine St., 354-8502. banhmiboysuptown.com.
ABOUT THE CHEF
Originally from Bridge City, Peter Nguyen is a self-taught restauranteur who learned his trade watching his mother cook along with a slew of cooking shows on TV. “I’m a visual learner and I picked up a lot just by watching Food Network and The Cooking Channel,” he explained. Following his success at a start-up spot on Airline Highway, Nguyen leveraged his achievement into his brand new flagship store on Magazine Street. Picking up Banh Mi for gettogethers has never been more convenient, at least for Uptown – an assorted parcel of them will brighten any event where easily munched to-go meals are called for.
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CHEERS
B Y E L IZ ABE TH P E AR CE
All in the Family
A Sicilian tradition Making limoncello is a family tradition for Liz Williams, founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and host of the Tip of the Tongue podcast. During our interview, she said, “I am sitting at my kitchen counter looking at a container of lemon peels soaking in grappa.” Liz learned this recipe, as well as many others, from her Sicilian grandmother. They are featured in her new cookbook coming out this month, “Nonna’s Creole Italian Table,” a collection of Sicilian New Orleans family recipes. While growing up in New Orleans, Liz’s table differed from that of other New Orleans friends. “We grew our own vegetables like cardoons, arugula, radicchio, fennel. We ate capers regularly…I didn’t know everybody didn’t eat them!” Another Sicilian tradition that many New Orleans embrace now is the Saint Joseph’s altar, one of which remains on display at the museum. All of these traditions are celebrated in her cookbook. Her grandmother would be proud.
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LIMONCELLO
10 lemons 1 bottle neutral flavored vodka or grappa 3 cups filtered water 2 ½ cups sugar Bottles with caps for storing
1. Wash and dry lemons to
remove any dirt or residue. Peel zest as thin as possible to avoid the bitter pith. Lemons can be saved for another use.
2. Place the peels into a
clean half gallon glass jar. Pour the spirits into the jar and replace the lid. Store at room temperature out of direct sunlight for 7 days or up to 30 days.
3. Heat water in a pot
until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. When the syrup reaches room temperature pour into the jar of vodka. Let steep together for 24 hours.
4. Strain the mixture and
discard the peels. If the mixture is cloudy, pour through a coffee filter sitting in a sieve.
5. Fill bottles with the
limoncello and cap. Allow limoncello to age out of the light at least 2 weeks, then store in the freezer. Serve very cold in shot glasses.
1 Liz often replaces half of the lemons with other citrus like kumquats. It’s the same recipe but offers a slightly different flavor.
2 You can use different spirits, like bourbon or rum in place of grappa.
3 Liz often uses limoncello in cocktails in place of orange liqueurs like Cointreau.
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Friday Feast
A new Lenten classic from GW Fins For Catholics, the practice of forgoing the consumption of meat during Lent (Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday) has its roots in the early days of the church and the “Black Fast,” when the righteous were expected to partake of no more than one meal each day throughout the season, with that one repast being devoid of meat, dairy, oil, or wine. Over the ages church law evolved to view the seasonal avoidance of meat on Fridays-only to be sufficient to fulfill the Lenten obligation for penance. In Louisiana, the absence of meat is replaced by an abundance of seafood, which starts to hit its annual stride in early spring—fortuitously right about the time when Lent hits. Crawfish season is underway, both brown and white shrimp are available, finfish are plentiful, crabs are just coming in, and oysters are still going strong. Yes, truly, in a region so rich in delicious seafood this penance seems less of a sacrifice and more an indulgence. Regardless of your religious affiliation, which would you rather have, another pot roast or this vibrant shrimp-based meal? Thought so. Because I am not ashamed to ask favors of friends in high places, I asked Michael Nelson, executive chef at GW Fins, to create a custom, Lent-appropriate, seasonal recipe for our NOSH readers. This easy, healthy, flavorful meal is the result. Enjoy.
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Take the time to pick through beets in the grocery or farmer’s market. Acquiring small to medium-sized beets that are all about the same size will ensure even cooking and a nicer final presentation.
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If buying shell-on shrimp that you will peel and devein yourself, start with two pounds as you will lose half the weight to shells (use them to make a quick stock for the freezer). If buying shrimp that are pre-peeled and deveined, they will most likely be frozen. You will need one pound. Factor in time for them to defrost before starting the recipe.
3 With a deep red hue, a glossy appearance, and trademark citrusy tartness, sumac is a common spice in Middle Eastern cooking and lauded worldwide for its bold flavor and health-giving properties. Its culinary history dates back beyond the Roman empire. It is inexpensive and available locally at Mediterranean markets such as Mona’s Café & Deli, 3901 Banks St., 482-7743, monascafeanddeli.com; and the International Market, 3940 Barron St., 888-8832.
GULF SHRIMP WITH QUINOA TABBOULEH AND ROASTED BEETS
Created by Executive Chef Michael Nelson, GW Fins
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Serves 4 1-pound small, fresh beets (yellow, red, or Chioggia (the red and white swirled ones) or any combination) 1-2 tablespoons vegetable oil kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons drained capers 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, in all 1 cup traditional white quinoa 1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley 1/4 cup thinly sliced chives 1 large lemon, juiced (about 5 tablespoons), in all 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 pound large (at least16/20 count) peeled and deveined Gulf Shrimp 1 tablespoon diced shallot 1 tablespoon sumac (see NOTES) 1. Preheat an oven to 350ºF.
Rub the beets with vegetable oil then wrap each individually in foil. Bake until just softened, 30-60 minutes depending on the size of the beets. In 30 minutes, test the beets with a wooden skewer. If it can be pushed through the center without too much force, the beet is cooked. Check each beet for doneness. 2. Allow the beets to cool inside the foil for 20 minutes. Slip off the foil and gently rub the skins off using a paper towel (use gloves if handling red beets). For the best visual impact kept the beets separated by color. Place the beets in the fridge to cool. Beets can be prepared one day in advance and kept refrigerated. 3. Cut beets into quarters. If the beets are large cut them in a 1/2-inch dice. Place the beets in a bowl and add the capers, red wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon olive oil and a pinch each of salt and pepper. Return to the refrigerator. 4. In a small sauce pot combine 1 cup of quinoa and 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. Adjust the heat to a low simmer, cover, and cook until the water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. When done, the grain will appear soft and translucent and the germ ring will be visible along the outside edge of the grain. Transfer the quinoa to a bowl and allow it to cool uncovered in the fridge for 30 minutes. This can be done one day in advance. When cool, add the parsley, chives, two tablespoons olive oil, a pinch each of salt and pepper and half of the lemon juice (about 2½ tablespoons). 5. Divide the Quinoa Tabbouleh among four plates, top with the beet mixture. Set aside. 6. Pre-heat a large, preferably non-stick, skillet over high heat. Add the butter and carefully add the shrimp. Season with a few pinches of salt and pepper. When brown on one side, about three minutes, flip the shrimp over and continue cooking until fully opaque, about one minute more. 7. Arrange the shrimp on the plates with the quinoa and beets, reserving the leftover butter in the pan. Return the pan to the heat, add the shallots, sumac and remaining lemon juice. Use a spatula to scrape the pan to remove stuck on bits (the fond). Gently spoon the mixture over the shrimp.
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DINING GUIDE The Dining Guide is comprised of restaurants recently reviewed and visited by New Orleans Magazine. The list will change regularly to provide information on others that are also worth noting and acknowledging. Please check restaurant websites for up-to-date hours and locations. If you feel that a restaurant has been misplaced, please email Editor Ashley McLellan at Ashley@MyNewOrleans.com. $ = AVERAGE ENTRÉE PRICE
AMERICAN
Acorn City Park, $ AcornNola.com
$ = $5-10
$$ = $11-15
$$$ = $16-20
$$$$ = $21-25
Zea’s Rotisserie and Grill Multiple Locations, $$$ ZeaRestaurants.com
Port of Call French Quarter, $$ PortOfCallNola.com
ASIAN FUSION/PAN ASIAN
The Company Burger Uptown, $ TheCompanyBurger.com
$$$$$ = $25 & UP
ITALIAN
Arnaud’s Remoulade French Quarter, $$ Remoulade.com Chartres House French Quarter, $$$ ChartresHouse.com
Audubon Clubhouse Uptown, $$ AudubonInstitute.org
Blue Giant Lower Garden District, $$ BlueGiantNOLA.com
Boulevard American Bistro Multiple Locations, $$$ BoulevardBistro.com
Hoshun Restaurant Uptown, $$ HoshunRestaurant.com
Broussard’s French Quarter, $$$$ Broussards.com
Caffe! Caffe! Metairie, $ CaffeCaffe.com
Little Tokyo Multiple Locations, $$ LittleTokyoNola.com
Café Degas Faubourg St. John, $$ CafeDegas.com
Café NOMA City Park, $ CafeNoma.com
Lotus Bistro Lakeview, $$ LotusBistroNOLA.com
Coquette Uptown, $$$ CoquetteNola.com
Camellia Grill Riverbend, $ 309-2679
Magasin Uptown, $ MagasinCafe.com
Justine French Quarter, $$$ JustineNola.com
District Donuts Sliders Brew Multiple Locations, $ DonutsAndSliders.com
MoPho Mid-City, $$$ MoPhoNola.com
La Crêpe Nanou Uptown, $$$ LaCrepeNanou.com
Five Happiness Mid-City, $$ FiveHappiness.com
Rock-N-Sake Multiple Locations, $$$ RockNSake.com
La Petite Grocery Uptown, $$$ LaPetiteGrocery.com
Martin Wine Cellar Multiple Locations, $ MartinWineCellar.com
Union Ramen Bar Lower Garden District, $$ UnionRamen.com
Lilette Uptown, $$$$$ LiletteRestaurant.com
New Orleans Social House CBD/Warehouse District, $$ NOSocialHouse.com
BAKERY/BREAKFAST
GASTROPUB
Breads on Oak Carrollton, $ BreadsOnOak.com.
Bouligny Tavern Uptown, $$ BoulignyTavern.com
Pascal’s Manale Uptown, $$$$ PascalsManale.com
Café du Monde Multiple Locations, $ CafeDuMonde.com
Cane & Table French Quarter, $$ CaneAndTableNola.com
Red Gravy Uptown, $$ RedGravy.com
CC’s Coffee House Multiple Locations, $ CCsCoffee.com
Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar and Bistro French Quarter, $$$ OrleansGrapevine.com
Restaurant R’evolution French Quarter, $$$$$ RevolutionNola.com
Parkway Bakery and Tavern Mid-City, $ ParkwayPoorBoys.com Restaurant August CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ RestaurantAugust.com Rib Room French Quarter, $$$ RibRoomNewOrleans.com
Gracious Bakery + Café Multiple Locations, $ GraciousBakery.com
The Grill Room CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ GrillRoomNewOrleans.com
Ruby Slipper Café Multiple Locations, $$ TheRubySlipperCafe.net
The Pelican Club French Quarter, $$$$$ PelicanClub.com Ye Olde College Inn Carrollton, $$$ CollegeInn1933.com
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BURGERS
Bayou Burger French Quarter, $$ 5SportsBarNewOrleans.com
FRENCH
Domenica CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ DomenicaRestaurant.com Gianna Restaurant CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ GiannaRestaurant.com Irene’s Cuisine French Quarter, $$$$ IrenesNola.com Josephine Estelle CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ JosephineEstelle.com Liuzza’s Mid-City, $$ Liuzzas.com
French Quarter newcomer Bijou is helmed by Chef Eason Barksdale, who spent his last 12 years at Bayona alongside Susan Spicer. This pedigree shows in his menu, which cherrypicks global influences and sets them firmly in approachable compositions. A shrimp roll appetizer takes the New England lobster roll as a starting point and one-ups it with butterpoached Gulf shrimp and pickled onions. Indian, Vietnamese and Italian flourishes pepper his confident menu. Save room for the café au lait pot a crème for dessert.
Muriel’s Jackson Square French Quarter, $$$$ Muriels.com Napoleon House French Quarter, $ NapoleonHouse.com
Patrick’s Bar Vin French Quarter, $$ PatricksBarVin.com
Tommy’s Cuisine CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ TommysNewOrleans.com
Sylvain French Quarter, $$$ SylvainNOLA.com
Vincent’s Italian Cuisine Multiple Locations, $$$ VicentsItalianCuisine.com
The Delachaise Uptown, $$ TheDelaichaise.com
BIJOU RESTAURANT AND BAR
LOUISIANA FARE
Acme Oyster House Multiple Locations, $$ AcmeOyster.com
BRENNAN’S
The institution that elevated breakfast into the realm of fine dining, Brennan’s warren of elegant dining rooms and verdant patio are a distillate of the New Orleans fine dining experience. Eggs sardou, bananas Foster and the definitive turtle soup are just some of the highlights. Sharing space with one of the city’s finest wine collections are splurgeworthy cocktails like the “Founder’s Sazerac,” featuring Thomas H. Handy Sazerac rye and Jade Nouvelle Orleans Absinthe Supérieure. This one is best enjoyed with an expense account.
Antoine’s French Quarter, $$$$$ Antoines.com
Gautreau’s Uptown, $$$$$ GautreausRestaurant.com
The Bombay Club French Quarter, $$$$ TheBombayClub.com
Arnaud’s French Quarter, $$$$$ ArnaudsRestaurant.com
Herbsaint CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ Herbsaint.com
Toups’ Meatery Mid-City, $$$ ToupsMeatery.com
Austin’s Metairie, $$$ AustinsNo.com Boucherie Carrollton, $$ Boucherie-Nola.com Brennan’s French Quarter, $$$$ BrennansNewOrleans.com Brigtsen’s Riverbend, $$$$$ Brigtsens.com Café Reconcile Central City, $$ CafeReconcile.org Casamento’s Uptown, $$ CasamentosRestaurant.com Clancy’s Uptown, $$$ ClancysNewOrleans.com Cochon CBD/Warehouse District, $$ CochonRestaurant.com Copeland’s Multiple Locations, $$ CopelandsofNewOrleans.com Commander’s Palace Garden District, $$$$ CommandersPalace.com Court of Two Sisters French Quarter, $$$$$ CourtOfTwoSisters.com
House of Blues French Quarter, $$ HouseOfBlues.com/ NewOrleans Jack Rose Garden District, $$$$ JackRoseRestaurant.com Katie’s Restaurant and Bar Mid-City, $$ KatiesInMidCity.com Mandina’s Mid-City, $$ MandinasRestaurant.com Mother’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$ MothersRestaurant.net Mr. B’s Bistro French Quarter, $$$$ MrBsBistro.com Mulate’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$ Mulates.com NOLA French Quarter, $$$$$ EmerilsRestaurants.com/NolaRestaurant Palace Café CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ PalaceCafe.com Ralph’s On The Park Mid-City, $$$ RalphsOnThePark.com
Crabby Jack’s Metairie, $ CrabbyJacksNola.com
Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar & Restaurant French Quarter, $$$ RichardFiskes.com
Criollo French Quarter, $$$ CriolloNola.com
Royal House French Quarter, $$$ RoyalHouseRestaurant.com
Dooky Chase Restaurant Treme, $$ DookyChaseRestaurant.com
St. Roch Market Upper 9th Ward, $$ StRochMarket.com
Drago’s Multiple Locations, $$$$ DragosRestaurant.com
SoBou French Quarter, $$ SoBouNola.com Tableau French Quarter, $$$ TableauFrenchQuarter.com
Emeril’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ EmerilsRestaurants.com Galatoire’s French Quarter, $$$$$ Galatoires.com
The Bistreaux French Quarter, $$ MaisonDupuy.com/dining
Tujague’s French Quarter, $$$$$ TujaguesRestaurant.com PIZZA
Pizza Delicious Bywater, $ PizzaDelicious.com Reginelli’s Pizzeria Multiple Locations, $$ Reginellis.com Theo’s Pizza Multiple Locations, $$ TheosPizza.com Pizza Domenica Multiple Locations, $$ PizzaDomenica.com SEAFOOD
Borgne CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ BorgneRestaurant.com Briquette CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ Briquette-Nola.com Deanie’s Seafood Multiple Locations,$$$ Deanies.com Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House French Quarter, $$$$ BourbonHouse.com Don’s Seafood Metairie, $$$ DonsSeafoodOnline.com Grand Isle Restaurant CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ GrandIsleRestaurant.com GW Fins French Quarter, $$$$$ GWFins.com Kingfish French Quarter, $$$ KingfishNewOrleans.com Le Bayou French Quarter, $$$ LeBayouRestaurant.com Mr. Ed’s Seafood and Italian Restaurant Metairie, $$ AustinsNo.com
Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House Multiple Locations, $$$ MrEdsRestaurants.com/ oyster-bar New Orleans Creole Cookery French Quarter, $$$ NewOrleansCreoleCookery. com Oceana Grill French Quarter, $$ OceanaGrill.com Pêche CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ PecheRestaurant.com. Pier 424 French Quarter, $$$ Pier424SeafoodMarket.com Red Fish Grill French Quarter, $$$ RedFishGrill.com SPECIALTY FOODS
Antoine’s Annex French Quarter, $$$ Antoines.com/AntoinesAnnex STEAKHOUSE
Crescent City Steaks Mid-City, $$$$ CrescentCitySteaks.com Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse French Quarter, $$$$ DickieBrennansSteakhouse. com
WORLD
1000 Figs Faubourg St. John, $$ 1000Figs.com Barracuda Uptown, $ EatBarracuda.com Bayona French Quarter, $$$$$ Bayona.com Bywater Brew Pub Bywater, $$$ BywaterBrewPub.com Compére Lapin CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ CompereLapin.com El Gato Negro Multiple Locations, $$ ElGatoNegroNola.com Lucy’s CBD/Warehouse District, $ LucysRetiredSurfers.com Lüke CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ LukeNewOrleans.com Mona’s Café Mid-City, $ MonasCafeAndDeli.com Patois Uptown,$$$ PatoisNola.com Saba Uptown, $$$ EatWithSaba.com
Doris Metropolitan French Quarter, $$$$ DorisMetropolitan.com
Saffron NOLA Uptown, $$$ SaffronNOLA.com
Galatoire’s 33 Bar & Steak French Quarter, $$$ Galatoires33BarAndSteak. com
Seaworthy CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ SeaworthyNola.com
La Boca CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ LaBocaSteaks.com
Shaya Uptown, $$$ ShayaRestaurant.com
Mr. John’s Steakhouse Uptown, $$$ MrJohnsSteakhouse.com Ruth’s Chris Steak House Multiple Locations, $$$$$ RuthsChris.com The Steakhouse at Harrah’s CBD/WarehouseDistrict, $$$$$ HarrahsNewOrleans.com
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Waterfront Park. Those who love boats, fishing, or being on the water will want to visit The Wharf from March 18-20 for The Wharf Boat and Yacht Show. Then, head to Gulf Shores to chow down on fresh crawfish at the Waterway Village Zydeco & Crawfish Festival on April 16. Car enthusiasts won’t want to miss Bama Coast Cruisin’ from April 28-30, where goers can marvel at the dozens of beautiful classic cars that line Main Street at The Wharf. If you’re searching for excitement for the whole family this spring, head to the sugar-white sand beaches of Alabama. Visit GulfShores.com to learn more about the Alabama Gulf Coast and upcoming events. Visit Mobile In Mobile, Alabama, folks like to say they’re “Born to Celebrate.” Plan a trip to Mobile and discover what all they’re celebrating; maybe it’s the combination of flavors and traditions or the full calendar of festive events. Funky, feisty, and festive, historic, hip, and happening, or colorful, cool and cultured—you can call this coastal town a lot of things when you have a vibrant 300-year history with lots of stories to tell and long-standing traditions celebrated on a regular basis. Add America’s original Mardi Gras destination to your bucket
SPONSORED list for Carnival season, enjoy a family “PLAYcation,” tee off into beautiful, rolling fairways, or taste your way around town at celebrated restaurants across the area and along the bay. Whether you’re looking for a weekend getaway or a family vacation, you’ll find there’s nowhere quite like Mobile. For 300 years, this vibrant coastal town has been the gem of the Gulf Coast, and the Port City is excited to host you as a guest. Visit mobile.org to begin planning your trip to join the celebration. The Lodge at Gulf State Park, A Hilton Hotel Unlike regular beachfront hotels cluttered together along the coast, The Lodge at Gulf State Park, A Hilton Hotel is a unique destination on the Alabama Gulf Coast with nature at its doorstep. Located within the beautiful 6,150-acre Gulf State Park, The Lodge at Gulf State Park provides refreshing accommodations with direct beachfront access, four dining options, 40,000 square feet of flexible event space and miles of beach trails with the pristine coastal scenery of this natural wildlife habitat. During your stay, you'll connect with the outdoors on a whole new level. And in doing so, you'll be helping in the hotel’s conservation efforts to restore and maintain the beauty of this truly distinctive property. Each of the 350 non-smoking guest rooms, including 20 suites, weave comfort and sustainability with a contemporary flair. All rooms bring the outdoors in by providing guests views of either The Gulf of Mexico or Lake Shelby/Gulf State Park. At The Lodge at Gulf State Park, doing nothing is really something. Book your spring or summer getaway today by visiting LodgeatGulfStatePark.com.
FUN & SUNNY FLORIDA Berkshire Hathaway Beach Properties of FLORIDA Whether you are looking for a permanent residence, a second home, or an investment property, Steve and Suzy Neal with Berkshire Hathaway Beach Properties of Florida are the agents to call. After vacationing, investing, and now working along the Emerald Coast for the last 30 years, Steve and Suzy offer value-added service through responsive communication, attention to detail, and trusted advice. The BHHS Beach Properties of Florida team has led 30A + Destin in property sales for the last decade and has a distinguished team of sales executives who are experts in the communities of Northwest Florida including Rosemary Beach, Alys Beach, WaterSound Beach, WaterColor, Seagrove Beach, Grayton Beach, Sandestin, Miramar Beach, Destin, Navarre and Gulf Breeze. For more information and to view available properties, visit NealEstateGroup.com or call Steve and Suzy at 504-220-6483 or 504-236-6084. Sandestin Wine Festival From April 7-10, wine enthusiasts from all over the Gulf South and beyond will return to South Walton and The Village of Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort for the 35th Annual Sandestin Wine Festival. Full of grandeur and tradition, this “Kentucky Derby of Wine Festivals” offers a picture-perfect escape with flowing wine, gourmet food, and live music. The event features one-of-a-kind, seminars, wine dinners, and tastings and highlights a variety of both domestic and international wines. Arrive Thursday, April 7, and enjoy a festive, food- and winefilled kickoff party before spending two days strolling the Grand Wine Tastings and meeting vineyard representatives from around the globe. With over 75 tents of wine, attendees will get plenty of opportunities to try all varieties and styles. Meanwhile, Savor South Walton will highlight the talent and flavors of the region’s food purveyors through delicious food pairings. For ticketing and information, visit sandestinwinefestival.com. Premier Island Management Group This spring, treat your family to an island getaway to Pensacola Beach, Florida, and the properties of Premier Island Management Group. Situated just a few hours outside of New Orleans along the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Island National Seashore, this collection of vacation rentals includes beach homes, condos, and the acclaimed
skyhomes of the Portofino Island Resort. Northwest Florida’s premier beach vacation experience, Portofino Island offers families the perfect location to work, learn and play. Step away from your laptop or packed schedule to enjoy a kayak or paddleboard adventure in the sound. At recess surf the emerald green waters, or take a parasail ride. Whether you chose to leave your work behind or bring it with you, there’s a Premier Island property that will be the perfect home away from home for you and your family. More than just another getaway, this will be the one your family remembers for a lifetime. Discover yours at PremierIsland.com or call 866-935-7741.
MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI Visit Vicksburg In Vicksburg, Mississippi, you’ll find Southern hospitality in its most authentic form. A city that harbors U.S. history at some of its most poignant turns, Vicksburg features art at its most creative angles, food at its finest flavors, and outdoor adventure at its most thrilling turns. Vicksburg is a place bursting at the seams with local culture, character, art, entertainment and outdoor adventure. With sweeping views of the Mississippi River, Vicksburg perfectly blends Southern culture and heritage with exciting modern-day attractions. From four world-class casinos and upscale shopping, dining, and spas to some of the most fascinating historic sites, architecture, and homes in the nation, Vicksburg offers an authentic Southern experience you don’t want to miss. Just relax—it all runs on river time in Vicksburg. From restaurants and shops to historical sites and museums, you’ll find destinations, events, and lodging for your next adventure at VisitVicksburg.com. Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort continues to redefine the VIP experience. In addition to over 800 slots and 36 table games, enjoy the Orchid Room where the property has redefined the high-limit gaming experience. The space features private gaming, personal televisions, top of the line slot machines and amenities that you cannot find anywhere else on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Scarlet and E.I.P. members of the Pearl Rewards loyalty program have access to the VIP Lounge, which offers three unique upscale experiences. Sip a deliciously curated cocktail at the gravity-defying, full-service bar and tantalize your taste buds with delectable light fare cuisine and scrumptious desserts in the dining area. E.I.P. guests can take a break from the action in the plush Parlor. Gulf Coast players can book the ultimate staycation at the Scarlet Pearl’s 300-room modern hotel. With breathtaking design, superior service, and bathrooms that feel more like a spa, they have taken the definition of luxury into the clouds. Book your next stay at ScarletPearlCasino.com or call 888-BOOK-SPC. •
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hether it’s time to make a big change or merely spruce things up, local resources can help you achieve the goals you have for your home. Perhaps you’re laying the groundwork for a vacation home outside the city or finally realizing your dream of having your own private courtyard for entertaining and relaxing. Perhaps you’re planning a little maintenance, a restoration of older architectural elements, or signing a contract for termite control to protect your home in the long run. Owning a home requires a fair amount of upkeep and attention, and having a strategic plan for your space with the input of a professional can often make life a little easier down the road. From real estate agents and builders to landscape professionals, designers, and maintenance companies, home experts can help you transform the place where you live into a place that you love. PROPERTIES & REAL ESTATE Big Bay Lake Big Bay Lake is a one-of-a-kind planned community on one of Mississippi’s largest private recreational lakes. Located just outside of Hattiesburg, and only 90 minutes from New Orleans, Big Bay Lake blends seamlessly into its natural surroundings. Waterfront homesites are available for building custom homes and retreats starting at $100,000, and several resale homes are usually available for immediate purchase. Both the homes and homesites within this community provide unique opportunities to create the perfect home or weekend getaway. It’s time to relax, unplug, make memories and create new traditions at Big Bay Lake. Whether you are a boating or fishing enthusiast or just a family who loves to make a big splash, Big Bay Lake is simply about the lure of the water. Come enjoy sun-kissed, fun- filled days at Big Bay Lake, where the little things make life…“Big!” Call for a boat tour today at 877-4BIG-BAY, or visit bigbaylake.com. HOME DESIGN & MAINTENANCE Exterior Designs, Inc. Tranquil and multifunctional outdoor living areas have become the number one feature homeowners seek today, whether for their current home, a second home, or while in search of a new one. “A well-manicured outdoor design with improved drainage, 64
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mature plants and trees, a functional hard surface, and trickling water can provide a quiet meditation space or a calming atmosphere for entertaining,” says Beverly Katz, landscape designer and owner of Exterior Designs Inc. “We can work in phases to help the homeowner create their ideal outdoor living space within their budget.” Exterior Designs, Inc., a comprehensive landscape design and build company, is known locally for increasing resale value of homes with landscaping. Beverly Katz creates New Orleans inspired landscapes by blending timeless Spanish and French influences of the city’s architecture with functional solutions for the homeowner that allow Exterior Designs to help them realize their vision for outdoor living. For a consultation on your property, call 504-866-0276. For design inspiration and additional landscaping tips, visit exteriordesignsbev.com. The Shedlock Group at French Quarter Realty Lisa and Ed Shedlock make up The Shedlock Group at French Quarter Realty. This husband and wife team is known for results – their hard work has launched the couple into the top 1% in the field. “Working as a team allows us to communicate constantly about our clients’ needs and cover more territory,” says Lisa. As longtime French Quarter residents, Lisa and Ed certainly have the expertise to advise clients about those unique properties, but they offer “more than the Quarter.” With a second office on Maple Street, the two provide results for clients Uptown and beyond. Their drive and initiative have made The Shedlock Group successful all over Greater New Orleans, on the Northshore, and even in Mississippi. Reach out to Lisa directly at 504-330-8233 or Ed at 504-419-8892. Southern Refinishing Are you considering replacing your worn or stained old bathtub? Restoring/refinishing is likely a better option. With traditional replacement, the biggest issues often arise in removing the old tub. Parts of the bathroom tile, walls and floor must be torn away, and the location of the old plumbing is often incompatible with the new. The cost of the new tub, new floor and wall materials, tiles, lumber, and labor can run into thousands of dollars and mean dirt, noise, and the hassle of days or weeks of work.
SPONSORED With the refinishing/restoration process from Southern Refinishing, your worn out fixtures and tile can be restored to their original luster—or even a new color—in less than a day, sparing you from the downtime and hassle of replacement. The process can save you up to 80 percent of the cost of replacement and give you the bathroom of your dreams. A local, trusted company, Southern Refinishing has the equipment and expertise to work with any fixture. Get a customized quote today by calling 504-348-1770. Visit SouthernRefinishing.com for a gallery of projects and additional information. J&J Exterminating Termite season is arriving, and Greater New Orleans homeowners can expect swarms late this month and into May. Louisiana is ripe for termites this year thanks to already heavily landscaped swamp areas and recent hurricanes. Now is the time to make sure your property is protected and that your pest control plan is in place. “Most people in south Louisiana know that our climate contributes to a variety of pest control challenges, and termite services are critical for local property protection,” says Robert Lewis John III, Southeastern Regional Supervisor of J&J Exterminating. Along with termites, J&J Exterminating battles a variety of additional pests, including bed bugs, fleas, flies, mosquitoes, beetles and moths. Additionally, the company can treat for rodents and offers a progressive new TAP pest control insulation. From humble beginnings in Crowley, Louisiana, J&J Exterminating is now the largest local exterminating company that is third-generation, Louisiana-owned and operated for more than 60 years. Request a free estimate and learn more at jjext.com or by calling 504-833-6305. Ashley Hall Interiors With today’s supply chain problems, labor shortages, and other complicating factors, home design projects are proving more challenging than expected for ambitious homeowners who want to
renovate or make changes to their homes. Fortunately, experts like Designers Shauna Leftwich and Julie Skiles at Ashley Hall Interiors can help navigate timelines and budgets while also helping realize the dream you have for your space. Experience has proven that creating a master plan together with a design professional can help you avoid wasting time and money, even if you are working within a budget and installing in phases. A full-service design firm and retail showroom, Ashley Hall Interiors has been creating luxury interiors for homes and businesses nationally and internationally since 1967. They provide everything from fabric, furniture, drapery, and rugs to wallpapers, paint selections and accessories to design and installation. Visit Ashley Hall Interiors’ studio and showroom at 832 Howard Avenue for design ideas, décor items, furnishings and lighting. Showroom hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Call 504-524-0196 to schedule a consultation and visit ashleyhallinteriors.com. FINANCING Home Bank For over 113 years, families have trusted Home Bank with one of life’s biggest purchases. With a full line of mortgage and home loan options, Home Bank can help with your home needs, whether you’re a first-time buyer, future home builder, or fixer-upper looking to renovate. Plus, with options like Home Bank’s one-time close construction loan, homeowners can stay focused on getting into “home sweet home” and not on stacks of paperwork. Stop by any Home Bank location and meet their experienced bankers or start a loan application or pre-approval online. Loan approval is subject to Home Bank credit and other criteria. Home Bank is Member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender. (NMLS #483958) Call Home Bank at 504-378-3190, or visit them online at Home24Bank.com. •
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game room, petting farm, archery, riflery, laptop lounge, STEAM lab and much more. Space, Dinosaur and Adventure week are always a hit, while blue and white days, rodeos, theatre productions, and the overnight camp “in” are not to be missed. Language Arts and Math academic enrichments classes are offered as session options. Camp Corral (for ages 3-14) is conveniently located in Gretna, 10 minutes from the GNO Bridge. For more information or to register now, visit Camp Corral online at ArdenCahillAcademy.com. Mount Carmel Academy (MCA) Choose your adventure at Mount Carmel’s Summer Camp. Campers customize their summer fun by picking their favorite classes from a diverse and exciting selection. They will enjoy being artists, scientists, dancers, athletes, cheerleaders, chefs, detectives, designers, actresses, and so much more. Campers will explore their individual interests and uncover new talents as they make friends and have a blast. MCA Summer Camp runs June 6 - July 1. Camp is divided into two sections: girls entering second through fourth grade and girls entering fifth through eighth grade. Morning sessions are 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., and afternoon sessions are 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Camp classes are led by Mount Carmel faculty members with assistance from their students. A lunch program is offered and before and after care are also available. Registration opens March 16.
SPONSORED Please visit mcacubs.com/camp to register, and get ready for a funfilled summer at MCA. Ecole Bilingue At Ecole Bilingue, the fun continues after the school year with EB Camps, which offers an incredible variety of summer programs for children two (must be potty-trained) through twelve years old. No French background is required. This year, Ecole Bilingue is excited to bring back many of its campers’ favorite activities, all infused with French lessons and the culture the school is known for. With expert counselors and over a decade of day camps under its belt, Ecole Bilingue understands exactly how to provide a safe, fun, and enriching experience for all campers. Located at Ecole Bilingue’s Uptown New Orleans campus with stateof-the-art facilities, EB Camps offer the perfect environment in which children can thrive all through the summer and straight into the school year. Visit Ecole Bilingue’s website for a full list of dates, fees, and the form to enroll your child in EB Camps today. For this information and more, visit ebnola.net or call 504-896-4500. Ursuline Academy Ursuline Academy’s Camp U is truly a camp for every girl. Girls from rising Toddler 3 through rising seventh grade have the opportunity to enjoy activities in both STEM and the arts while building friendships and making memories of a lifetime. Ursuline’s innovative environment inspires girls to explore hands-on projects with their interests in mind and keeps them engaged with challenging concepts. Ursuline believes in every girl—the school always has and always will, giving girls the opportunities to discover who they want to be. The Academy promises to provide a safe, fun environment while following all COVID-related guidelines. Through fun teamwork and immersive, hands-on creative problem-solving, campers will explore innovative STEM projects as well as art, singing, cooking, decorating, baking, sewing, creative writing, music, water play, and much more. Learn more about Ursuline Academy’s Camp U at uanola.org/ camp-u or by emailing summercamp@uanola.org. For more information on Ursuline Academy, visit go.uanola.org. Kehoe-France Get ready for a fun-filled summer at Kehoe-France, where the school is celebrating its 74th summer camp season. Kehoe-France Summer Camp in Metairie offers an amazing opportunity for boys and girls to enjoy a wide variety of enrichment activities. Kehoe-France’s camp program includes swimming instruction each day for campers four years and older, daily toddler water play activities, tennis and tennis lessons, field sports, ceramics, arts and crafts, computer games, in-house field trips including the Bug Mobile, guest performers and waterslides, and much more on the school’s picturesque 14-acre campus. Campers ages 8 weeks to 13 years are welcome. Camp runs from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. with before and after care available (if allowed due to COVID-19 restrictions). Camp is offered for five-week (June 6 -July 8) or nine-week (June 6 – August 5) sessions. To learn more, call 504-7330472 or visit Kehoe-France online on Facebook or at kehoe-france.com. Kehoe-France School is located at 720 Elise Avenue in Metairie. Louisiana Children’s Museum The Louisiana Children’s Museum offers fun educational experiences for children ages 4-8 all summer long. Designed by educators, all camps include engaging learning experiences in literacy, science and nature, math, and the arts with structured and supervised exploration indoors and outdoors on our beautiful 8.5 acres in the heart of City Park. Theme weeks include Studio in the Oaks, Life on the Lagoon, Museum Mysteries, Mississippi Mud Pies, Aspiring Architects, Roots and Shoots, Life on the Lagoon, Music Makers, Backyard Birding, Doodle Bugs and Squirmy Worms, Take A Line for a Walk, and Let’s Get Moving. Camps run May 31 - August 5 Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Before care and aftercare are available for an additional fee and run 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.; 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Camp ages: 4 – 8 years old. For more details and registration visit lcm.org. Registration opens March 7.• MYNEWORLEANS.COM
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BACK PAIN Southern Pain & Neurological For those with degenerative disc disease, back pain is an unfortunate part of everyday life. At Southern Pain & Neurological, Doctors Paul Hubbell and Donald Richardson have introduced new technology that has proven effective in clinical trials at repairing degenerative discs and increasing function. A non-surgical, cutting-edge technology, VIA DISC is an injection that uses allogeneic tissue and micronized disc material to reverse disc damage from the inside out and thereby reduce pain. Until now, there was no way to repair damage caused by degenerative disc disease. The VIA Disc procedure is performed under local anesthesia or sedation, under the guidance of your doctor, via fluoroscopy. Computer images provide live-action visuals during the procedure allowing the doctor to see exact needle placement. The needle is then inserted into the center of the intervertebral disc. To learn more about degenerative disc disease, VIA Disc, and Southern Pain & Neurological, call 1-800-277-1265.
CARDIOVASCULAR CARE Thibodaux Regional Heart & Vascular Center Thibodaux Regional’s Heart & Vascular Center, located in Lafourche Parish, provides comprehensive cardiovascular care, including education, prevention and screening programs, a state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization lab, heart and vascular surgery, cardiac rehabilitation, home health, and WellFit Cardiovascular Care. Combining expertise and the best cardiovascular imaging equipment in the region, the heart team at Thibodaux Regional provides the best possible care in the fight against heart disease and other cardiovascular ailments. Thibodaux Regional is one of only two hospitals in Louisiana to be named one of the nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by IBM Watson Health for high performance in delivering the best quality and most efficient cost-effective heart and vascular care. Call 985-493-4326 for more information, or visit thibodaux.com.
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See the first episode of Season 2 before anyone else on Wednesday, March 16 at WYES. Details at wyes.org.
PREMIERES YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS! SUNDAY, MARCH 20TH 7pm
We're ready to cry and laugh all over again! Following an eventful Christmas special, the series continues with an episode set in Easter 1967. Celebrations are underway for a colorful Easter Bonnet parade outside Nonnatus House. All episodes will be available for streaming at the same time of their broadcast on wyes.org/live.
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The highly anticipated Season 2 of MASTERPIECE “Sanditon” continues with its highspirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, returning to the picturesque coastal resort of Sanditon. What adventures and scandals await?
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The unpredictable crime thriller, BEFORE WE DIE, stars Lesley Sharp, a detective who faces impossible choices in a world where loyalties are tested and lines are blurred.
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Tuesday, March 1 at 7pm & 11:30pm on WYES-TV Since 1872, the Rex Organization has been an integral part of New Orleans Carnival. This year the organization celebrates 150 years. WYES is proud to once again broadcast the Rex Ball and the Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus. Thank you to the following generous sponsors:
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5AM & 3:30PM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM Xavier Riddle, his sister, Yadina, and their friend, Brad, meet heroes from the past — from Eleanor Roosevelt to Leonardo da Vinci.
5:00AM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM 5:30AM ARTHUR 6:00AM MOLLY OF DENALI 6:30AM WILD KRATTS 7:00AM HERO ELEMENTARY 7:30AM ALMA’S WAY 8:00AM CURIOUS GEORGE 8:30AM DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD 9:00AM DONKEY HODIE 9:30AM ELINOR WONDERS WHY 10:00AM SESAME STREET 10:30AM PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC 11:00AM DINOSAUR TRAIN
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12:30PM DONKEY HODIE 1:00PM DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD 1:30PM LET’S GO LUNA! 2:00PM NATURE CAT 2:30PM WILD KRATTS 3:00PM ALMA’S WAY 3:30PM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM 4:00PM ODD SQUAD
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10pm RICK STEVES WHY WE TRAVEL What is the true value of travel? Is it just hedonism...or something more powerful? After a lifetime of exploring Europe, Rick Steves shares his reasons why. This special episode is a sonnet to travel — an introspective love story, set in Europe, that vividly celebrates the rewards of exploring our world and the joy that awaits those who travel. 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
4 FRIDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm INFORMED SOURCES 7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 8pm WASHINGTON WEEK 8:30pm WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE
6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm YOU, HAPPIER WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD The #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen reveals the seven neuroscience secrets to becoming more than 30 percent happier in just 30 days―regardless of your age, upbringing, genetics, or current situation. 9pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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8:30pm FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA Experience the grandeur of some of the most breathtaking places in the USA in this stunning visual portrait.
3 THURSDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm IL VOLO: A TRIBUTE TO ENNIO MORRICONE Join the trio in the beautiful city of Verona as they pay tribute to the great Italian film composer.
9pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMEN, MD offers a balanced and easy-to-follow approach to eating that will help you get, and stay, fit, healthy, focused, and happy— for life. 11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
5 SATURDAY 7am DEEPAK CHOPRA: YOUR PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT
9am THE WORLD OF WISDOM AND WONDER 9:30am KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA 10am KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS
6pm MASTERPIECE “Around the World in 80 Days: Unpacking the Adventure” Celebrates the 150th anniversary of “Around the World in 80 Days,” including highlights from the series with interviews and features from behind-the-scenes.
11:30am SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE Join the acclaimed personal finance expert for essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement.
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5pm LAWRENCE WELK: TV TREASURES 7pm COUNTRY POP LEGENDS Enjoy performances from Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Hank Locklin, Bill Anderson, BJ Thomas, the Bellamy Brothers and the Browns intermixed with with classic full-length vintage archival gems from the vaults.
9pm ROY ORBISON FOREVER is a celebration of the effortlessly cool, five-time Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer. 10:30pm CONCERT FOR GEORGE
6 SUNDAY 10am THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS (Pts. 1-6) This series chronicles the full sweep of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent right up to today when America remains a nation deeply divided by race.
6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm MASTERPIECE “Sanditon, Season 1” (Pts. 1-4/8) Enjoy an encore of MASTERPIECE’s bold and lavish adaptation of Jane Austen’s final work. The fan-favorite drama with its highspirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, returns on March 20th. Watch the remaining episodes of Season 1 next Sunday, March 13th at 7pm.
7pm BUILD A BETTER MEMORY THROUGH SCIENCE Discover workable, weekly strategies and lifestyle suggestions that make improving memory fun and rewarding.
11pm YOU, HAPPIER WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD
11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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7pm ITALY: MADE WITH LOVE Travel through Italy to meet remarkable artisans — from glassblowers to ceramic makers to olive oil makers to chefs. Celebrate the exceptional eye, the discerning palate, the distinct finesse that only they can pass on to the next generation of apprentices.
7pm STEPPIN’ OUT
9pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD
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9pm KEN BURNS: THE CIVIL WAR Get an in-depth overview of the iconic documentary.
10:30am RICK STEVES WHY WE TRAVEL
3:30pm CLASSICAL REWIND
7pm SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. Laurence Fishburne narrates.
8:30pm FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA 10pm RICK STEVES FASCISM IN EUROPE Rick visits poignant sights throughout Europe relating to fascism, and talks with Europeans whose families lived through those times. 11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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7:30pm KENNY ROGERS FAREWELL CONCERT CELEBRATION: ALL IN FOR THE GAMBLER It’s a tear-jerking farewell concert. Watch some of today’s biggest artists, including Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Idina Menzel, Lady A, Lionel Richie, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, Wynonna, The Oak Ridge Boys and Kenny Rogers along with many other special guests. Songs include “The Gambler,” “Lucille,” “Islands in the Stream,” “Lady” and “We Got Tonight.”
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11 FRIDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm INFORMED SOURCES 7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 8pm WASHINGTON WEEK 9:30AM KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA In his fourth public television series, awardwinning Chef Kevin Belton visits locations across the state for a look at the authentic food traditions of Louisiana cuisine. Back in the kitchen, Chef prepares his take on recipes that reflect Louisiana’s complex blending of cultures. Photograph by Denny Culbert. Reprinted by permission of Gibbs Smith.
5:00AM MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD 5:30AM ARTHUR 6:00AM MOLLY OF DENALI 6:30AM WILD KRATTS 7:00AM P. ALLEN SMITH'S GARDEN HOME
11:00AM LIDIA’S KITCHEN 11:30AM AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK’S ILLUSTRATED NOON COOK’S COUNTRY 12:30PM CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL’S MILK STREET
9pm BURT BACHARACH’S BEST (MY MUSIC) Enjoy footage and clips from the 1960s-1970s featuring original artists performing Burt Bacharach’s music. Songs include “Walk on By” by Dionne Warwick, “What’s New Pussycat” by Tom Jones, “The Look of Love” by Dusty Springfield and more.
1:00PM 7:30AM WOODSMITH SHOP PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE 8:00AM 2:00PM AMERICAN SARA’S WOODSHOP WEEKNIGHT MEALS 8:30AM THIS OLD HOUSE 2:30PM TASTEMAKERS 9:00AM ASK THIS OLD 3:00PM HOUSE NATURE 9:30AM KEVIN BELTON’S 4:00PM COOKIN’ LOCAL LOUISIANA PROGRAMMING
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10AM 5:00PM KITCHEN QUEENS: ANTIQUES NEW ORLEANS ROADSHOW
4pm ED SLOTT’S RETIREMENT FREEDOM America’s IRA expert presents a stepby-step prescriptive approach to tax and planning information with regard to retirement.
10:30AM CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME’S ALWAYS COOKING
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11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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7:30pm IRMA: MY LIFE IN MUSIC spotlights the GRAMMY Award-winning artist’s amazing 60-year career. The documentary includes a recently recorded interview with Irma Thomas, as well as archival and new interviews from many of her colleagues. Archival performance footage is also included. The program is produced by Michael Murphy Productions with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Photo Credit: Rick Olivier 9:30pm BUDDY GUY: TRUE TO THE BLUES includes interviews with the legendary blues guitarist and Louisiana native, who talks about his life and rich career. It also features interviews with Tom Hambridge, Buddy’s music producer, and musicians Guy influenced, including Gary Clark, Jr., Eric Clapton and John Mayer. 11:30pm THE ROLLING STONES— A BIGGER BANG: LIVE ON COPACABANA BEACH In 2006, The Rolling Stones played one of the biggest free concerts in rock and roll history at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. With incredible staging and graphics, this fully restored and re-mastered concert from their “A Bigger Bang” world tour now includes four previously unreleased tracks: “Tumbling Dice,” “Oh No, Not You Again,” “This Place Is Empty” and “Sympathy For The Devil.”
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7am AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS (Pts. 1-6) 3pm RICK STEVES WHY WE TRAVEL
6pm LENNON SISTERS: SAME SONG, SEPARATE VOICES
10am IRISH NEW ORLEANS A look beyond the shamrocks and green beer stereotypes to a culturally authentic portrait of the Irish in the Crescent City and their impact on local life.
11am IRISH DANCE: STEPS OF FREEDOM 12:30pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE
4pm AN EVENING WITH LERNER AND LOEWE - BROADWAY IN CONCERT Celebrate the iconic songwriting duo with music from "My Fair Lady, Camelot," “Gigi," “Brigadoon" and more. Includes performances from Jenn Colella, Aisha Jackson, Jose Llana, Aaron Lazar, Michael Maliakel, Sean Thompson and Bayla Whitten. 5:30pm IL VOLO: A TRIBUTE TO ENNIO MORRICONE 7pm MASTERPIECE “Sanditon, Season 1” (Pts. 5-8/8) Enjoy an encore of MASTERPIECE’s bold and lavish adaptation of Jane Austen’s final work. The fan-favorite drama with its high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, returns on March 20th. 11pm UNLOCK THE SECRET TO EXTRAORDINARY HEALTH WITH DAVID PERLMUTTER, MD presents the latest science surrounding uric acid and provides the tools to readily bring it under control. Lifestyle choices are fundamental for health, and Dr. Perlmutter explores the fascinating relationships between what we eat, when we eat, how we sleep, and even our choices in nutritional supplements and how they influence uric acid.
11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
15 TUESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm MAGIC MOMENTS: THE BEST OF ‘50s POP Grammy-winner Robert Goulet hosts this nostalgic journey taking viewers back to a time when hit songs reflected romance, hope and humor.
9:30pm IL VOLO: A TRIBUTE TO ENNIO MORRICONE Filmed in 2021 at the Arena Di Verona, the program showcases arrangements from composer Morricone and fan favorites from their most popular albums, accompanied by incredible theatrical and musical performers. Photo Credit: Simone Cecchetti
9:30pm ED SLOTT’S RETIREMENT FREEDOM
11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
18 FRIDAY 16 WEDNESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm NATURE “Pandas: Born to be Wild” 8pm NOVA “Looking for Life on Mars” 9pm EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL: UNPACKED “No Turning Back” (Pt. 1/4) The four-part series takes you closer to the action and drama of Steve Backshall’s 10 world-first expeditions. In the first episode, see the moments that very nearly stopped the teams in their tracks, to the point where they knew if they took one step further, there was no turning back. 10pm NATURE “Pandas: Born to be Wild” 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
14 MONDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm DOO WOP TO POP ROCK: MY MUSIC CELEBRATES 20 YEARS Celebrate the greatest hit songs from the 50s to the 70s featuring legendary performers The Kingston Trio, Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy Collins, Davy Jones, Mel Carter, Patti Page and more.
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2:30pm THE LONGEVITY PARADOX WITH STEVEN GUNDRY, MD Learn informative, lifechanging information that shows a stepby-step easy approach to feeling better and more youthful, no matter your age. Dr. Gundry will teach what is causing faster aging and how and why some people live long active lives well into their 90s. He will also debunk five of the biggest myths about aging.
9:30pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE
17 THURSDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm STEPPIN’ OUT 7:30pm CELTIC WOMAN: POSTCARDS FROM IRELAND Celtic Woman’s newest album and TV special represents the sentiment they would like to share with their fans around the world. One of love, hope and expectation as the world looks towards getting back together again.
7pm INFORMED SOURCES Now in its 37th year, the weekly series hosted by Marcia Kavanaugh and produced by Errol Laborde, gives an in-depth look into the important news of metro New Orleans and Louisiana. Repeats Sunday mornings at 9:30am. 7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 8pm WASHINGTON WEEK 8:30pm WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE 9pm GREAT PERFORMANCES “Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine” This year’s virtual event is hosted by the iconic Hoda Kotb, NBC News’ “TODAY” co-anchor and co-host of “TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.” AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards will continue its tradition of awarding high quality film talent and expand its categories into Television/ Streaming.
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19 SATURDAY 7am UNLOCK THE SECRET TO EXTRAORDINARY HEALTH WITH DAVID PERLMUTTER, MD presents the latest science surrounding uric acid and provides the tools to readily bring it under control. 8:30am ED SLOTT’S RETIREMENT FREEDOM
1PM RICK STEVES’ EUROPE America’s best-selling guidebook author takes viewers to his favorite places in Europe (and beyond), from great cities to off-the-beaten-path discoveries.
5:00AM MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD
9:30AM INFORMED SOURCES
5:30AM ARTHUR
10:00AM VARIOUS PROGRAMMING
6:00AM MOLLY OF DENALI 6:30AM WILD KRATTS 7:00AM HERO ELEMENTARY 7:30AM ALMA'S WAY 8:00AM WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE 8:30AM LOUISIANA THE STATE WE’RE IN 9:00AM FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER
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11:00AM KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA 11:30AM KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS NOON PATI'S MEXICAN TABLE 12:30PM ROADFOOD 1:00PM RICK STEVES' EUROPE
10:30am ITALY: MADE WITH LOVE Travel through Italy to meet remarkable artisans — from glassblowers to ceramic makers to olive oil makers to chefs. Celebrate the exceptional eye, the discerning palate, the distinct finesse that only they can pass on to the next generation of apprentices. 12pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMEN, MD
8pm DOO WOP TO POP ROCK: MY MUSIC CELEBRATES 20 YEARS Celebrate the greatest hit songs from the 50s to the 70s featuring legendary performers The Kingston Trio, The Miracles, Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy Collins, Davy Jones, Mel Carter, Patti Page and more. Pictured: Motown singing group The Miracles perform “Ooo Baby Baby” 10:30pm BEE GEES: ONE NIGHT ONLY
20 SUNDAY 12pm YOU, HAPPIER WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD 2pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE 4pm RICK STEVES EUROPEAN EASTER Explore a rich and fascinating mix of traditions — from its pagan roots to its glorious finale.
2pm RICK STEVES: THE ALPS From Italy to Austria all the way to France, this program is packed with scenic train rides, breathtaking lifts, majestic glaciers and unforgettable hikes.
5:30pm ENDEAVOUR: THE EVOLUTION Celebrate the popular detective’s 10th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes retrospective of the captivating series. Featuring interviews with the cast and creators, the program explores what makes Endeavour such a top-notch mystery.
4pm KENNY ROGERS FAREWELL CONCERT CELEBRATION: ALL IN FOR THE GAMBLER Enjoy performances from Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Idina Menzel, Lady A, Lionel Richie, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, Wynonna, The Oak Ridge Boys and Kenny Rogers along with many other special guests. 5:30pm MAGIC MOMENTS: THE BEST OF ‘50s POP
HIGHLIGHT 7pm CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 11 (Pt. 1/8) The series continues with an episode set in Easter 1967. Celebrations
are underway for a colorful Easter Bonnet parade outside Nonnatus House. Sister Monica Joan and Reggie are excited about the Eurovision song contest and Nancy, having just passed her midwifery examinations, is about to don her red cardigan for the first time.
10pm BRING HER HOME follows three Indigenous women – an artist, an activist, and a politician – as they fight to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to a growing epidemic across Indian country. 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
6pm PBS NEWSHOUR
HIGHLIGHT 8pm MASTERPIECE “Sanditon, Season 2” (Pt. 1/6) The story continues with its high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, returning to the picturesque coastal resort of Sanditon and the companionship of her friend Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else — romance — await Miss Heywood? Photo Credit: ©Red Planet 9pm BEFORE WE DIE (Pt. 1/6) Determined to solve her lover’s murder, Detective Hannah Laing persuades one of his confidential contacts to help her. 10pm BEFORE WE DIE (Pt. 8/8) 11pm SEASIDE HOTEL, SEASON 2 “The Storm” (Pt. 7/7)
21 MONDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Omni Mount Washington Resort” (Hour 3 of 3) 8pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “McNay Art Museum” (Hour 3 of 3) 9pm NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANTS WITH A PAST Chronicles restaurants that are part of the city’s collective memory including Antoine’s, Tujague’s, Arnaud’s, Brennan’s, Commander’s Palace, Toney’s Spaghetti and Pizza House, Houlihan’s, Bruning’s, the original Sid-Mar’s and more.
7pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Hollywood Royalty” 8pm FRONTLINE “Peloski’s Power” 9:30pm IN THEIR OWN WORDS “Angela Merkel” Explore how experiences that began in her childhood shaped her politics and ultimately, the face of modern Europe. 10:30pm ENEMY OF THE REICH: THE NOOR INAYAT KHAN STORY is the story of one woman’s extraordinary courage, tested in the crucible of Nazi-occupied Paris. 11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
7:30pm BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8pm MANSFIELD PARK (Pts. 1-2/6) When Sir Thomas Bertram takes in the 9-year-old daughter of an impoverished relative, his wife has someone to bully. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny’s good nature and fortitude finally win her a valued place in the household and the man of her dreams. Anna Massey heads the cast of Jane Austen’s witty Regency romance. 10pm IN THEIR OWN WORDS “Queen Elizabeth II” 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
25 FRIDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm INFORMED SOURCES 7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN
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7pm STEPPIN’ OUT
8pm WASHINGTON WEEK
23 WEDNESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm NATURE “Sex, Lies and Butterflies” 8pm NOVA “Secret Mind of Slime” 9pm EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL: UNPACKED “Close Encounters” (Pt. 2/4) Examine close encounters with awe-inspiring creatures and with nature herself. 10pm NATURE “Sex, Lies and Butterflies” 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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6pm PBS NEWSHOUR
8:30pm WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE looks at the past week’s market and brings local and national investment professionals to you. Have a question for André? Email andre@ wallstreetwrapup.info. 9pm GREAT PERFORMANCES “The Conductor” tells the story of the first female conductor of a major symphony, Marin Alsop.
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believe are responsible for Sean’s murder. Photo Credit: Sofie Gheysens
11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
10pm MASTERPIECE “Flesh and Blood” (Pts. 1/4)
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26 SATURDAY 6pm LAWRENCE WELK 1832: 200 YEARS OF AMERICAN MUSIC PART I 7pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Hollywood Royalty” 8pm COUNTRY MUSIC “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?” (1973-1983) (Pt. 7/8) 10:30pm AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “Yola” 11:30pm AVETT BROTHERS AT RED ROCKS
27 SUNDAY 5pm MASTERPIECE “Sanditon, Season 2” (Pt. 1/6) Charlotte returns to Sanditon in unexpected circumstances. 6pm CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 11 (Pt. 1/8) 7pm CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 11 (Pt. 2/8) Trixie and Sister Frances put their training into action as they join Dr. Turner at the cytology clinic. 8pm MASTERPIECE “Sanditon, Season 2” (Pt. 2/6) Charlotte starts her new job as a Governess for the mysterious Alexander Colbourne. Alison is determined to be reunited with her knight in shining armour, and Georgiana finds out some bad news from Antigua. Meanwhile, Lady Denham receives an unexpected and unwanted surprise and Tom and Colonel Lennox make plans for Sanditon’s development.
11pm SEASIDE HOTEL, SEASON 3 “Amanda’s Guests” (Pt. 1/7)
7pm NATURE “A Squirrel’s Guide to Success” 8pm NOVA “Secrets in Our DNA”
6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Let’s Celebrate!” 8pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “New Orleans” (Hour 1 of 3) Back in 2018 ROADSHOW came to New Orleans! In this episode, a diamond bracelet and a Van Cleef & Arpels diamond ring; Mistick Krewe of Comus parade float watercolors from 1892; and Keith Haring subway graffiti art circa 1980.
9pm EXPEDITION WITH STEVE BACKSHALL: UNPACKED “Teamwork” (Pt. 3/4) Having the right team members, with the right skills, expertise and thirst for adventure, is key to exploring the unexplored. Hear the story of the incredible teams behind fiveworld-first expeditions.
9pm NEW ORLEANS TV: THE GOLDEN AGE traces the history of local television. Narrated by Angela Hill.
10pm NATURE “A Squirrel’s Guide to Success”
10pm INDEPENDENT LENS “Writing with Fire” 11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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29 TUESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Off the Farm” 8pm AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Zoot Suit Riots” explores the complicated racial tensions and the changing social and political landscape that led up to the explosion on LA’s streets in the summer of 1943.
10pm EYES ON THE PRIZE “Awakenings 1954-1956” (Pt. 1/6) 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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9pm FRONTLINE “Plot to Overturn the Election”
9pm BEFORE WE DIE (Pt. 2/6) Hannah and her new partner, Billy Murdoch, start investigating the Mimica family, who they
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7pm STEPPIN’ OUT Host and producer Peggy Scott Laborde welcomes regular guests Poppy Tooker, Alan Smason, plus new roundtable visitors every week to discuss New Orleans restaurants, arts and entertainment. Missed an episode? Head to WYES’ YouTube channel. 7:30pm BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8pm MANSFIELD PARK (Pts. 3-4/6) 10pm SECRETS OF HENRY VII’S PALACE 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY
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100 Years and 50,000 Watts WWL’S Centennial
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hen my father would take driving trips, he would always pack a portable radio into the trunk of his car. Most days the radio stood on the bed stand, but for a trip, it was always part of the travel accessories. Each evening, he would adjust the radio dials, through static and faint signals from distant radio stations, until he heard the words he cherished. We were all called to attention to hear the announcement, “Live from New Orleans...” as carried through the cosmos by WWL, 870 AM. In those days, radio stations did more than just play music and read news off the telecopiers. They also provided live programs. Several would
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feature big band music, usually from a hotel lounge, as did WWL. The station presented the sound of the Leon Kellner band from the Blue Room in the Roosevelt Hotel. (Conveniently the station was located in the same building.) Meanwhile those of us in a motel room somewhere near Denver could marvel at what home music sounded like from a distance. This month, radio station WWL celebrates its 100th year. (The station was founded by Loyola University though its ownership has changed several times over the century.) In the early days of radio, the Federal Communications Commission was sensitive to there being coverage throughout the land, including rural areas that did not have a station. So, the FCC allowed a few select urban stations to broadcast at 50,000 watts (the maximum) and better yet, to be “clear channel.” That meant that no other station would cause inference by broadcasting on the same channel. Those stations would be recognizable by having three call letters (WWL) rather than the four mandated everyone else. So, the “clear channels” were the big guns in American communications. Through the years to follow, radio would be shaped by outside influences, with the biggest shaper being television. Big Band radio broadcasts gave way to TV variety shows. In the morning, WWL had the “Dawn Busters” with live music, performers and general rowdiness. In the long run, such shows could not compete with the TV networks’ morning news shows. And so, they were gone. During the time of the Cuban missile crisis, WWL’s mighty watts were targeted at night to the Caribbean island. Most of us didn’t know what was being said because the broadcasts were totally in Spanish, but the tone was certainly pro-American. Perhaps that explains why the broadcasts were allegedly linked to the Voice of America. When you have 50,000 watts you can reach further than Cuba. How about every trucker in America? For years Charley Douglas’ late night country music program provided highway condition news and told drivers about the best truck stops for wherever they were headed. If the truckers’ world had an anthem, it might have been “Six Days on the Road” a celebration of a long trip coming to an end by truck song specialist Dave Dudley: There’s a speed zone ahead, but alright I don’t see a cop in sight Six days on the road and I’m gonna make it home tonight In modern times, the station’s niche has been honed to talk, sports (Saints and LSU) and news. The latter is major because the station is the voice of emergencies with the power to go along with it. In this year of celebration, there is one memory that will always stay with me. The date was August 29, 2005. Having evacuated to central Louisiana and tuned in to WWL, we were all feeling good that the early reports about Hurricane Katrina’s damage was less then feared, but then, the moment: news director Dave Cohen cut in to announce that the levees had broken and New Orleans was flooding. That was the beginning of New Orleans’ worst period and WWL’s finest hour. For the months to follow, the station was the informed, around-theclock voice essential for a dispersed population. That is what radio can do best and it did it while still being that voice in the cosmos, “Live from New Orleans.”
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