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News.......................................................................7 a slidell man opens a New orleans-themed restaurant — in Beijing, China Bouquets + Brickbats....................................7 Heroes and zeroes C’est What? ........................................................7 Gambit’s Web poll Scuttlebutt ........................................................11 News in brief Commentary .....................................................12 of saints and sinners Jeremy Alford ...................................................13 Bobby’s buddy, Buddy

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Louisi-asian Two years ago, a restless young chef from Slidell gambled on opening his own New Orleans-themed restaurant – in Beijing.

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“I’d worked in kitchens since I was 16 or 17. I’d never had to Brandon Trowbridge watch my language. The normal inside NOLA, his work hours were ‘til midnight or New Orleanslater, and the only place you could themed restaurant in go after was straight to the bar. Beijing, China. Here I was, getting off at three PHOTO BY NICK COMPTON or four in the afternoon. I had to watch my words. I didn’t know what to do with myself.” That job lasted a week and a half. Then Trowbridge heard of a man who was opening a Western restaurant — a pizza joint — and looking for a consultant. Trowbridge helped the Beijing native write the menu for Hutong Pizza, which served big, square pizzas from a traditional courtyard home. By then, Trowbridge was beginning to pick up simple Chinese. When writing the menu, he listened as every item was translated into Chinese. He learned the words for bread, cheese, tomatoes and sausage. page 8

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hen Brandon Trowbridge arrived in Beijing, in August 2008 during the Olympic Games, he didn’t speak a word of Mandarin, knew no one and wasn’t sure where he’d be sleeping. But the city was flush with energy, and so was the 25-year-old Trowbridge, a native of Slidell. Six months earlier, he’d received a call in the kitchen of the wine house in Napa Valley, Calif., where he was working. A headhunter asked him if he’d like to fly to Beijing and work as the chef de cuisine at the Beijing Hilton. After a second call convinced him his leg wasn’t being pulled, Trowbridge, then 25, packed his bags. Today, not even four years later, he’s running his own eatery, NOLA: a Louisiana-themed restaurant in China, bringing the taste of the bayou to Beijing. Trowbridge says his mother, who was transplanted to Louisiana from New York when Trowbridge was young, cooked mostly Italian dishes throughout his childhood. But his Arabi-born father, an Entergy employee, wanted red beans and rice on Mondays and the occasional etouffee. It didn’t take long for his mom to learn how to brown a roux and put together decent jambalaya. “Growing up, my mom made inside meals and my dad [made] outside meals,” Trowbridge says. “I definitely grew up eating the stuff I make now all the time at my house.” Through high school, he worked in the kitchen of the Windsor Court Hotel, which exposed him to the rhythm and quirks of fine dining. After stints at Southeastern Louisiana University, Delgado College and Nicholls State University, he headed to California wine country to look for a job. “I didn’t know exactly what I was doing,” Trowbridge says. “I just get a little uneasy sometimes. Restless. I wanted a change.” Mesmerized by the Chinese characters everywhere but unable to read even the simplest street signs, Trowbridge relied on a guide to help him deal with necessities. He remembers his first three dining experiences in China. “First, there was the buffet in the Hilton. It was great, everything very well done,” he says. “Then there was the cafe for the restaurant workers — like thin corn gruel. Basic. Then, out back, in an alleyway, I remember going after work with another chef who led me to a group of guys drinking baijiu (rice liquor). They had a Crock-Pot going and they reached in it and gave me a duck head,” Trowbridge says, laughing. “I had a cup of baijiu in one hand and a duck head in the other. I looked at one hand and then the other. Which was worse? I don’t know.” Soon the Olympics ended, management changed and the global economic crunch meant Beijing restaurants weren’t hiring. Trowbridge had been in China less than a year and resorted to drastic measures. He taught English. “I hated it,” he says.

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“To this day, 80 percent of the Chinese i can speak is food,” Trowbridge says. “Food is my Chinese.” with Hutong Pizza running smoothly, Trowbridge grew restless again, and decided it was time to try something new. with the backing of a group of investors that included the owner of Hutong Pizza, a television sitcom writer, a Google employee and a venture capitalist, Trowbridge secured backing for a new restaurant — and this one was going to be New Orleans-themed. “i wasn’t going to lose anything,” he says. “i was slightly homesick anyway. i thought i might as well try to attract some New Orleans people.” There was some precedent. Beijing once had a live music and light food venue, The Big easy, that introduced the locals to some simple Louisiana food and music. KFC had also just launched a successful campaign to introduce chicken wings to the Chinese. “it’s weird, they automatically think Louisiana when they think KFC chicken wings,” Trowbridge says. “i kind of hate it, because coming from Louisiana i’m a Popeye’s guy, but the association was there.” Finding the ideal location was the next trick. Trowbridge knew he needed to be near expats, but also a place frequented by Chinese diners. He found a shipping warehouse in the Ritan embassy district, an area crowded with diplomats, foreign businessmen and expatriate families. The transformation began in February 2009, and by september, the place was unrecognizable. A second floor and balcony were added. The interior was designed with big, sunny windows that opened to the breeze in the daytime and soft lighting that reflected off the dark wood tables and hardwood flooring at night. An intricate brick and wood bar anchored the first floor. And the sound system streamed Louis Armstrong and Fats Domino. For the first month, NOLA only served po-boys — andouille sausage, roast beef and shredded pork — on baguettes they sourced from a bakery a few doors down. Business was sparse, almost entirely expats who wandered in from nearby embassies. The difficulty, Trowbridge says, was training the inexperienced crew to cook nuanced New Orleans dishes: “They were car mechanics, air conditioning repairmen and guys who didn’t feel like finishing high school,” he says. “we just had a really shady crew. They rolled into Beijing from

news + vIeWS the countryside; probably hadn’t seen a foreigner before. They spoke their own dialect and couldn’t understand what I said in Chinese.” Trowbridge says he struggled to teach the first batch of Chinese cooks to slow-cook a roux — “we burned gallons of the stuff at first” — but experimentation taught him that the best way to make a roux in China is to cook a whole roasting pan batch in the oven at a steady temperature for four hours; it’s nearly impossible not to scorch a roux on the intensely hot Chinese stoves. Surprisingly, he never had a big problem finding New Orleans ingredients. Trowbridge was able to blend most of his own spices (with the exception of file, which he still can’t find), make boudin and andouille sausage in house, and piece together a storehouse of staples like grits, red beans and hot peppers. The major exception, he says, is seafood. “No one does seafood like in New Orleans. You just can’t replace that quality,” Trowbridge says. “I’d love to be able to buy oysters and crab, but it’s just too expensive.” Ask Trowbridge about Chinese crab, and he’ll fume about the exorbitantly priced, bad-tasting, hairy crabs that Chinese connoisseurs pay big money to eat. “Trash,” he says. He refuses to serve it. Soon Trowbridge fired the original cooks and started adding main courses to the menu. He tried to strike a balance between favorites like chicken and andouille gumbo, jambalaya, red beans and rice, barbecued shrimp, macaroni and cheese and fried chicken, along with more localized dishes like braised short ribs and a catfish courtbouillon served whole and bone-in, the way Chinese consumers preferred. The Chinese diners were eager to try New Orleans food and devoured everything, especially the braised lamb and lunchtime po-boys, Trowbridge says. The expats and embassy crowd favored po-boys, pork tenderloins and a behemoth four-cheese grilled sandwich. Today, Trowbridge will get a table of New Orleans visitors, and inevitably get an earful if the food is not spot on, he says.

Trowbridge admits he doesn’t know what his future will bring — and doesn’t like to sit still long enough to contemplate it. But on Mardi Gras night, with his corner of Beijing decked out in beads, a long buffet anchored by homemade king cake stretching the length of NOLA’s ground-floor wall and nearly every table in the house filled (with at least three spots claimed by Louisiana natives), he paused a moment. The Randy Able Stable, a fiddle band, was playing upstairs. Though the band members were Westerners, Trowbridge had called them just the night before, and none of them were Louisiana natives. They’d rushed to learn a little Professor Longhair and Dr. John before the gig. As they tore through “Iko Iko,” a group of young Tulane grads danced and sang along. Trowbridge watched, and a smile slowly washed over his face. “Might as well make home come to us, right?” he said. — Nick Compton lived and taught in New Orleans from 2009 to 2011. He is now a master’s student in global business journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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Trying to develop regulars is one of his favorite parts of the job. But with the transitory expat population in Beijing, he says nearly every one of his regulars has moved on. So Trowbridge has made a point of courting Chinese regulars. On a typical weeknight, he bounces from kitchen to bar to table, ensuring that the cooks are on their marks, the barbacks are quick and the customers are happy. His Chinese has improved significantly. He can spout a steady stream of directives and his food vocabulary is extensive. When a table of Chinese customers complains about a dish, he is quick to shrug his shoulders and offer an apology. Outside the restaurant, though, his communication skills are limited. With Chinese natives giving NOLA good reviews on the Internet, and the menus and kitchen tasks becoming more streamlined and efficient, Trowbridge is branching out again. In the fall of 2011, he and an American business partner started “Beijing’s only granola delivery service,” which he calls Greatwall Granola. Once a month, he uses the ovens at NOLA to toast a huge batch of granola studded with pecans and coated in maple syrup. Customers, nearly all expats, order online, and Trowbridge delivers them just over two pounds of granola for about $15. “There was a demand for fresh granola out there,” Trowbridge explains. “It’s tough to get in China, and I had the ovens already, so I figured I should put them to use.”

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SERPAS: MAN SHOT, KILLED IN DRUG RAID WAS UNARMED The day after 20-year-old Wendell Allen was killed by police in his mother’s Gentilly home during a drug raid last week, New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas told reporters Allen was unarmed when an officer shot and killed him. NOPD confirmed Officer Josh Colclough fired his gun once, fatally wounding Allen, a high school student who was one of three adults in the house. Citing an ongoing investigation, serpas declined to say what, if anything, prompted the officer’s fire. “we still have many questions to answer,” he said. For example: “if he didn’t have a gun, what was the purpose of shooting him?” said Chrystal Butler, who identified herself as Allen’s aunt. Butler, along with several other people who identified themselves as Allen’s relatives, stood outside NOPD headquarters during the March 8 press conference, holding signs reading. “The police killed our loved one.” They returned the next day for a press conference in which they demanded Colclough be arrested and indicted. At a meeting in his office earlier that day, Mayor Mitch Landrieu promised the investigation into the shooting would be thorough and fair. “The full investigation is ongoing now, and my commitment to the parents and to the people of New Orleans: There will be a full and open investigation. it will be transparent,” Landrieu said, adding he met with members of Allen’s family, in-

cluding his mother, that morning. “she was upset. she lost her baby boy,” he said. “Neither she nor i really knows the facts and circumstances.” As Landrieu spoke, protesters marched outside City Hall, calling for serpas’ firing following the second fatal officer-involved shooting in eight days. An early morning traffic stop in Mid-City on March 1 led to a gunfight between police and Justin Sipp, leaving sipp dead, two officers seriously injured and sipp’s brother, Earl Sipp, shot in the leg. Police said Justin sipp began shooting first. — CHARLes MALDONADO

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et used to it, Saints fans: Fallout from the so-called “Bountygate” scandal that has gripped the entire Saints organization will be felt for a long, long time. That the Saints will be “made an example” for the rest of the NFL is inevitable; the only things not yet known are who will be penalized and how severely. By the end of the month, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who says player safety is a top concern, is expected to announce a series of fines, suspensions and forfeited draft picks. Most expect Goodell to treat this scandal as one of the most egregious violations in NFL history. Many say the penalties, which are not appealable, will be so harsh that other teams will be scared straight. That’s as it should be. What should not be is a whitewash that ignores evidence of similar programs at other teams. Any system that rewards players for deliberately injuring key opponents is reprehensible, grossly unsportsmanlike and an affront to the game itself. The very idea that players, who consider themselves part of a professional fraternity, would seek to cripple fellow athletes is anathema to the idea of healthy competition. That a coach would not only encourage such a system but also participate directly in it, as former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams admits to doing, makes the scandal even more sickening. Football is a violent game, but it’s supposed to be controlled violence. That’s why there are rules. And referees. Athletes are already paid very highly. Paying them extra to deliberately harm opponents, especially under a clandestine system of “side bets” (as one former player put it), warrants severe penalties. The scandal could not have come at a worse time for the Saints. The team was in the final stages of trying to negotiate a contract with star quarterback Drew Brees and other key players when news of the bounty system broke. The team quickly put “the franchise tag” on Brees, who reportedly is none too happy about it. Now, as the Saints try to reach deals with other stars, the entire organization has become distracted by the scandal — and hampered by the specter of yet-to-be-announced fines that may cost the team money it needs for salaries and signing bonuses. The scandal also comes on the heels of the Saints’ relatively newfound respect in the league — and hard-won goodwill in the hearts and minds of fans everywhere. After decades as one of the NFL’s punching bags, the 2010 Super Bowl winners became heroes. They symbolized not only the triumph of an underdog team but also the comeback of an entire city that had been brought to its knees by Hurricane Katrina. They weren’t just winners on the

field; they also were good guys off the field — role models who gave back to their communities and inspired others to do likewise. Now they have gone from saints to sinners, and it will take a while to regain the admiration and respect of fans outside New Orleans. All that said, there’s a bigger picture that the NFL should not ignore: the fact that many retired players have said that locker room-based bonus systems are common practice throughout the league. “Every single team does that,” says ESPN analyst Darren Woodson, a former player. Former defensive lineman Trevor Pryce, who never played under Williams, called it “pretty much standard operating procedure.” If that’s true, then fairness dictates that the NFL thoroughly investigate all teams for any evidence of illegal rewards for on-field performance. To limit the investigation — and the penalties — to the Saints makes them not so much an example as a scapegoat.

Nothing less than a league-wide investigation of bounties and similar reward systems will do. So far, the NFL appears to be treating this as a “Gregg Williams problem” by investigating only teams that once employed the Saints former defensive coordinator. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello says the league will look into “any relevant info regarding rules being broken.” By now dozens of former players have said other teams ran some kind of illegal bonus system. If that’s not “relevant info,” then there’s something seriously wrong at NFL headquarters. Could it be that Goodell, who wants to avoid potential liability from retired players’ lawsuits over allegations that the league turned a blind eye to player safety for years, also wants to tamp down any “evidence” that could help the plaintiffs? Goodell reportedly wants the Saints’ penalties to make a statement about player safety and the integrity of the game. If that’s true, then nothing less than a league-wide investigation of bounties and similar reward systems will do. Anything else is just PR.

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Buddy and Bobby From remaking education to presidential politics, Bobby Jindal’s playbook owes a lot to Buddy Roemer.

governor’s stakeholders. Several other major issues remain: • a move to give local superintendents more control over personnel decisions (and more independence from local board members). • Expanding louisiana’s fledgling voucher program by giving parents with kids in poorly performing public schools the option of sending their children to private schools. • Making it easier for charter operators that perform well to open new charter schools. • Expanding the list of “authorizers” that can grant charters to potentially include faith-based groups (read: fundamentalist churches, which are big Jindal backers). The battle is just beginning — and we may be saying that even after the session adjourns. Johnson recounts how teacher unions unsuccessfully challenged roemer’s programs in court before making their case with voters. Jindal may face the same fate, but not necessarily the same results.

Jindal may also be learning what not to do if he decides to jump into the presidential fray. roemer probably isn’t watching this as he runs for president. Jindal, however, is most certainly watching the aftereffects of Super Tuesday. Jindal was on the campaign trail for a while — until his horse, Texas Gov. rick Perry, pulled up lame. Now he’s mentioned (with others) as a possible candidate in a brokered convention. as comedian Stephen Colbert passes roemer to become the sixth-most popular draft candidate of americans Elect, Jindal may also be learning what not to do if he decides to jump into the presidential fray. for now, Jindal is taking cues from roemer’s education reform crusade — and making his own way down that ivy-covered road of promise. Jeremy Alford is a freelancer in Baton Rouge. He can be reached at jeremy@ jeremyalford.com.

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omparing the two is easy. But first we need to recognize a bold reality and put it aside. Buddy roemer took office as governor as a democrat in 1988 and then switched to the GoP before losing a second term. Now he has no party affiliation as part of his — cough! — strategy to become the 45th president of the United States. Gov. Bobby Jindal, who assumed office in 2008, is a dyed-in-the-wool republican. Though he’ll likely run for president someday, Jindal is not running right now. Not in the traditional sense, at least. That aside, Jindal and roemer are like the doublemint Twins of louisiana politics. Both are intensely serious, Ivy league-educated reformers who attracted large coteries of devoted followers on their way into office. In fact, Jindal heard many “you’re-just-like-him” comments when he ran for governor. as the current presidential cycle and Jindal’s push for education reform near their respective peaks, the governor is retracing steps originally trod, with considerably less finesse, by roemer. In the long run, Jindal may end up accomplishing, on more than one level, what roemer once sought. In “Great Expectations but Politics as Usual: The rise and fall of a State-level Evaluation Initiative,” an article printed in the Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, Bob l. Johnson recounts how roemer initially succeeded in passing reforms for accountability and teacher evaluations, only to see them eroded in subsequent years. “The problems and politics associated with (roemer’s) louisiana Teacher Evaluation Program worked against roemer and his bid for re-election,” Johnson writes. “Teachers played a key role in his defeat.” The grassroots teacher movement to reverse roemer’s policies was impressive. Tens of thousands of teachers organized. lawmakers repealed roemer’s landmark reforms, and he lost re-election. Maybe that’s why Jindal waited until a second term to tackle this controversial topic, that third rail of grown-up politics. He has had four years to build his national name recognition, raise record-breaking amounts of money and influence legislative races across the state. as all this was playing out, louisiana voters became more conservative. according to some involved with ongoing education reform discussions, Jindal is poised to get what he wants in tenure changes and enhancements for early childhood education. “Everything else is going to be tough,” said one of the

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Science vs. Politics, Round 2 he Louisiana Legislature convenes this week for its annual session, and that means another showdown looms between science and politics. So far, politics is winning. But that doesn’t deter Zack Kopplin, the college freshman who, as a high school student last year, took on Gov. Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) and others promoting the teaching of creationism in Louisiana public schools. Kopplin is once again leading a charge to repeal the grossly misnamed Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA). The act was passed in 2008 and signed into law by Jindal, who majored in biology at Brown University and once dreamed of becoming a doctor. It’s telling that Jindal’s genetics professor urged him to veto the law in 2008, arguing it would harm Louisiana students who, like Jindal did at one time, aspire to become doctors. Jindal, who is the darling of right-wing religious fundamentalists in the GOP, happily signed the bill into law and continues to defend it as a tool of “critical thinking.” Kopplin has deftly pointed out that the essence of scientific

thought is, um, critical thinking. The essence of creationism is faith. I’m not knocking faith. I consider myself a spiritual person. I also aspire to be a critical thinker, which long ago led me to conclude that faith and critical thinking are intellectual bookends. It’s possible, even desirable, to have both — but it’s folly to think you can blend them — or wield one to defeat the other. Of course, folly is the playground of politicians. Which brings me to the LFF, a right wing nonprofit with stated religious goals, but which functions chiefly as a lobbying firm for fundamentalist causes. Most state lawmakers kowtow to LFF rather than risk being labeled “anti-family” or “anti-God.” More folly. Kopplin, the son of New Orleans Chief Administrative Officer Andy Kopplin, now has 75 Nobel laureates supporting the move to repeal the LSEA. State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, is once again authoring a repeal measure (Senate Bill 374). Peterson filed a similar bill last year, but it died in committee. The Senate Education Committee likely will hear the bill again. After last year’s state-

Most state lawmakers kowtow to LFF rather than risk being labeled “anti-family” or “anti-God.” wide elections, the committee has a new chair and several new members, but the repeal effort still faces an uphill fight. Critics of the LSEA maintain it is just a ruse for teaching creationism in public schools. Supporters of the law — chiefly LFF and similar groups — point to seemingly innocuous language in the bill calling for “supplemental materials” to be used in science classes that will allow students to engage in “critical thinking” about scientific topics, including evolution. Although Kopplin and Peterson failed to repeal the law last year, Kopplin suc-

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overtaxed mental health system. What may lie ahead: more mentally ill people on the streets; others going to prison to get help; and drastically shorter life spans for untreated patients.

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“The layoff plan for the Interim LSU Public Hospital and the other 6 LSU Health Care Services Division Hospitals was approved by the Civil Service Commission and it went into effect March 5th (today). — best, Marvin” —Marvin McGraw, spokesmann for the LSU Health Care Services Division, in an email to gambit last week

ith that, a series of major cuts to Interim lsU public hospital (Ilh) — decried as an impending public health crisis for the city of new orleans — are no longer “impending” — not that they ever were for very long. In late 2011, the state diverted millions in federal money typically allocated to lsU’s hospital system to the louisiana department of health and hospitals instead. that meant a $30 million midyear reduction to the louisiana state University public hospital system. of that, $15 million in cuts would come from Ilh. the layoffs notice

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went out in mid-January. The plan was released in detail in early February. The cuts to the city’s public hospital include more than 100 active employees (including 12 emergency room nurses) plus the elimination of more than 100 more inactive positions, for a savings of nearly $5 million; the closure of 24 medical inpatient beds as well as four general emergency beds; and $2 million in reductions to medical services to prisoners. And all this would be to a hospital whose emergency department had been operating at capacity, if not over capacity, says Dr. Peter DeBlieux, director of emergency services for LSU Interim, who spoke to Gambit March 1. “Eighty percent of the time, from Nov. 1 until last week, there was a greater than one hour delay in offloading a paramedic stretcher,” he says. “It’s not just the beds were full. We were promising you it would be more than an hour if you showed up with an ambulance patient.” Then there are the losses to mental health services: the elimination of the hospital’s 20-bed chemical detox unit, closure of nine out of 38 inpatient beds at its Depaul Unit, 10 emergency mental health beds and 23 emergency mental health technicians and nursing assistants. “As we’re having this conversation, I am down to 15 [emergency mental health beds],” DeBlieux says. “You know this is a misnomer. I’ve got a room with six chairs and I call them beds. So, just so that we’re talking about the same thing, I have nine true beds, like you could sleep in them beds. And that’s what I have right now. And that’s what I will have going forward.” What the cuts amount to, DeBlieux believes, is a loss of the city’s safety net. ILH is the only inpatient public mental health provider in the metropolitan area, serving a population of more than 1 million people. It’s also the city’s only level 1 trauma center. According to DeBlieux, mentally ill patients are bumped ahead of other (non-trauma) patients for treatment when separate mental health emergency facilities have reached capacity. Between mental health and general emergency, capacity has been reduced 20 percent in the emergency department. On top of that, the cuts in staff will mean patients will take longer to treat. DeBlieux fears incoming patients will face even longer wait times to receive treatment and quicker stays when they do. Worse is what could happen to trauma care for severely wounded patients. As it stands, the hospital always keeps at least one operating room open for incoming trauma patients and can get them into treatment, typically, within five minutes. “You have to understand, a system that’s operating at capacity 80 percent of the time typically isn’t cut,” DeBlieux says. “When I talked to my colleagues nationally, cutting emergency department beds is one of the final things that you do. It’s not one of the first things that you do,” he says. “We’ve had focused behavioral health cuts before. We’ve had focused inpatient cuts before. There have been generalized salary cuts before … I’ve never, in my experience here for 25 years, seen them eliminate emergency department beds. “The more it’s delayed, the worse that result is,” he adds. “If our capacity is so hampered that we discontinue trauma services and have to go to trauma diversion, that impacts our region. That impacts the health of our region, profoundly.”

“I’ve got a room with six chairs and I call them beds. So, just so that we’re talking about the same

thing, I have nine true beds, like you could sleep in them beds. And that’s what I have right now. And that’s what I will have going forward.” — DR. PETER DEBLIEUX, Director of Emergency Services for LSU Interim Hospital, describing the hospital’s current mental health ward.

News of the cuts came as a shock to city government as well. In a city that saw 199 murders in 2011 — a murder rate of nearly 60 per 100,000 population — the cuts, particularly to mental health would be “devastating as we fight an epidemic of violence,” wrote Mayor Mitch Landrieu in a Feb. 4 letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal and LSU President John Lombardi. “They are all the more nonsensical, as we struggle to meet the mental health and substance abuse needs of a community still recovering from the blows of Hurricane Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike as well as the BP oil spill,” Landrieu’s letter continues. “The closure of behavioral health services is a step backwards in what was to become a restored and enhanced mental health and substance abuse system.” “I would say that prior to these cuts, we were still inadequate in our inpatient bed care,” says Cecile Tebo, former head of the New Orleans Police Department’s Mobile Crisis Unit and a mental health expert. “I know firsthand that families are constantly trying to get their loved ones into a psychiatric bed. And it’s nearimpossible to do.” In 2010, the city released an analysis of psychiatric bed capacity in New Orleans compared to five other similarly sized and situated U.S. cities: Atlanta, Cleveland, Memphis, Tenn., St. Louis and Washington, DC. At that time, the report found, there were 165 inpatient psych beds in New Orleans, a rate of 46.5 per 100,000 population — down from 364 total and 78.9 per 100,000 pre-Katrina. Of those, 60 were adult inpatient beds — fewer than the 77 at Charity Hospital alone prior to August 2005 — 16.9 per 100,000 population. Of course, these numbers were based on a slightly inflated pre-Census estimate population of about 354,000. Based on the actual 2010 population of 343,000, the rate is about 17.5 adult beds per 100,000. The disparity was huge, the report found, compared to those other cities. Atlanta had 100 total beds per 100,000 population, 57.1 adult. Memphis: 74.7 total/ 63.5 adult. St. Louis: 59.1 total/46.3 adult. Washington: 62.5 total/52.4 adult. “We’re at a huge deficit,” says Tebo. The only city that even came close to New Orleans was Cleveland. That city had a rate of 47.7 total beds and 25.1 adult beds per 100,000 people. Cleveland may be a bellwether for what’s about to happen in New Orleans. As William Denihan, CEO of Cleveland’s publicly funded Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services of Cuyahoga County (ADAMSHCC), explains,

Dr. Peter DeBlieux at ILH says reducing the emergency department by 20 percent could have a large effect on health services across the region.

that city has recently experienced its own closure of publicly funded mental health beds, with the shuttering of NorthCoast Behavioral Healthcare’s Cleveland campus, which moved its services to another campus in adjacent Summit County. “The previous administration — city administration — had agreed to build a brand-new state mental health hospital in Cleveland. The new administration, which came in about a year and a half ago, shelved it, said there will be no new mental health hospital in Cleveland. They closed the old one, and they’re moving all mental health inpatient facilities into the next county south. We’re not very happy about that,” Denihan says. The results in Cleveland have been clogged emergency rooms and a reluctance on the part of local judges to order mental health evaluations for defendants, which now take longer without a facility inside the city. Still, says Denihan, even without that hospital, the city — with a population of 396,000, very similar to New Orleans — has 124 adult inpatient beds, more than twice New Orleans pre-reduction number of 60. In 2010, the state of Missouri announced that it would close the Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center (MPC), which at the time had 50 inpatient beds. “MPC — they still have mental health services in their building. The trick is they shut down their acute PAGE 20

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“It was not uncommon for a family member to say to me, you know, we’re not

going to do this revolving door thing any more.

USA Today article — are dying at services. They’re still using that about 51 years of age. That’s an building for long-term forensic average of 25 years earlier than patients,” says Robert Fruend, the general population. CEO of the St. Louis Regional “It’s not because of their Health Commission. “We don’t mental illness,” Fruend says. have money in our state to build — CECILE TEBO, former head of the New Orleans Police Department’s “They’re dying from diabetes. new facilities. … The state deThey’re dying from diabetes cided that the less-than-10-day Mobile Crisis Unit and a mental health expert. [and] chronic conditions that stay, folks who needed a psych are going untreated because of the underlying men[evaluation] would get picked up somewhere else. The tion at a pre-Census estimate of about 591,000. tal illness.” thought was that community hospitals would just step According to Steve Baron, who directs Washup and do that — like, ‘They’re coming your way, so ington D.C.’s Department of Mental Health, Saint When these medical needs are unmet elsewhere, here they come.’” Elizabeths now has about 110 nonforensic beds. Take Tebo says, the local criminal justice system is forced to Bed capacity was tight — not crisis-level tight, but into account that reduction and a current population meet them. still tight — in the St. Louis region, Fruend says. His orestimate of about 618,000, and if Washington had no NOPD procedure for a potential mental health ganization put up $1.5 million in startup funds to open other inpatient facilities other than Saint Elizabeths, it service call demands five officers, two two-man cars the St. Louis Regional Psychiatric Stabilization Center, would still have nearly 17.8 nonforensic adult beds per and a ranking officer, she says. That could mean which has an emergency room and 16 inpatient beds. 100,000 population. dispatching half, or sometimes, all available officers in Fruend says the center did a “soft opening” last month, That one hospital by itself would make for a better a district for a single call. Often those patients will end treating about six patients per day. Asked whether it per capita rate than the rate for all New Orleans hosup seeking treatment at what is now the city’s largest had a positive effect on the overall capacity problem in pitals combined —16.9 in the report and 17.5 in reality single mental health facility. the region, he says, “Not yet.” — even before the LSU cuts. “It’s the 10th floor of the [House of Detention] In September 2011, the state of Louisiana contractbuilding,” says Dr. Sam Gore, chief psychiatrist for But there’s one more statistic which makes things in ed with Magellan Health Services, Inc. to coordinate the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (OPSO), describNew Orleans even worse. Neither Northcoast’s nor mental health care for Medicaid recipients and ing the jail system’s acute mental health inpatient unit, MPC’s closure figures into the inpatient rates shown uninsured residents, groups that account for a large HOD-10. “It has the mental health clinic where the in the 2010 New Orleans report, because they were proportion of LSU’s patients. The contract became physicians sit and the nurses have their nurses’ station, state-run facilities. In fact, no state-run hospitals in active March 1. Tebo believes, and state officials have right there on the tier. So that is the central medical other cities were counted in the per capita rates in the suggested, that Magellan’s goal will be to get more hub, and then there’s four tiers.” report, even though ILH was. That’s because those patients into outpatient programs — which isn’t necesEach tier has 15 beds, for a total of 60 — 22 more state-run hospitals “tend to be regional hospitals that sarily a bad thing, DeBlieux says. than LSU’s DePaul unit had before the cuts, 31 more attract residents from other areas of the state” and We’ve had a number of patients who frequently than it has now. they often include a number of forensic beds used for present to the emergency department seeking behavGore doesn’t have data, but he estimates about state-ordered commitments. (The Louisiana equivaioral health services … in excess of 100 visits in the 45 percent of the inmates at Orleans Parish Prison lent is the state forensic hospital in the East Feliciana past six months. Specific individuals, super-users of (OPP), of an average daily population of 3,200, have Parish town of Jackson.) And that means that the true the emergency department, if you will,” who drive up indicated during an entrance screening that they may deficit is even greater. costs, he says. have some form of mental illness, albeit not medically In Washington D.C., for example, the report shows The hospital already has been working with the diagnosed in many cases and not severe in most. 370 total beds, of which 310 are adult beds. However, Metropolitan Human Services District to get some counting the 200 nonforensic beds at the district-run of those patients into outpatient programs when outpa- He can’t say how many acute cases he has, but says psychiatric hospital Saint Elizabeths, that number goes tient services would be appropriate for them. DeBlieux between seven and nine percent of OPP inmates have a prescription for psychotropic drugs. up to 570 — more than 96 beds per 100,000 populahopes Magellan will provide additional support. “The Gore and Tebo both say they’re aware of patients, ray of hope is that the connectivity of outpatient serunable to receive treatment elsewhere, who turn to vices should be enhanced through the emergency OPP for medication and daily inpatient care. Though department,” DeBlieux says. police will deliver very obvious mental health patients to Some, including Tebo, however, don’t beILH, “borderline” cases often end up in OPP, in Gore’s lieve that the city’s outpatient programs will care. He says he believes the population of mentally ill be nearly enough to compensate for the inmates has increased in the years after Katrina. With loss of hospital beds. Even if outpatient the cuts to ILH, he thinks it will increase even more in services improve, Tebo says, that doesn’t borderline cases. “Because it’s a scarce resource we accomplish very much for patients with need to prioritize who’s going to be hospitalized,” Gore severe mental illness, who often resist says. “So he’s going to be coming to the jail,” Gore says. treatment. A higher population of unstable people in the crimi“I liken it to kidney disease. Kidney nal justice system presents a number of risks. disease may be able to be treated with The first is that patients will start to rely on the criminal pills. But for others, there is an acute justice system for care, which both Tebo and Gore say level where they need dialysis as well,” is happening already. Tebo says. “I know firsthand that families are constantly trying The result, she says, is often early to get their loved ones into a psychiatric bed. And it’s death for mentally ill people — and renear-impossible to do. It was not uncommon for a search backs up that contention. family member to say to me, you know, we’re not going A 2006 national report, led by Dr. to do this revolving door thing anymore, we want our Joe Parks of the Missouri Department loved one arrested,” Tebo says. of Mental Health found that mentally ill Mentally ill inmates are eventually released from patients treated in public facilities — 90 OPP. Without proper care, they tend to cycle back into percent of whom receive outpatient care, the system. In recent testimony before City Council, Parks was quoted as saying in a 2006 New Orleans Municipal Court Judge Paul Sens said

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The potential that mental health service cuts presents for increases in violence in jails and throughout an already violent city is what has city government and community leaders most concerned. Tebo points to published studies by Tulane University professor of psychiatry Mordecai Potash on the consequences of poor inpatient care directly after Katrina, when the city’s capacity was even lower, down to 17 acute psychiatric beds in 2006. A 2008 article by Potash, “The Struggle for Mental Healthcare in New Orleans —One Case at a Time,” details specific criminal cases involving mentally ill defendants, including Bernel Johnson, a paranoid schizophrenic charged with killing NOPD officer Nicola Brown in 2008 — just after he was released from Southeast Louisiana Hospital in Mandeville. In 2010, Johnson was ruled incompetent to stand trial and was committed to state psychiatric care indefinitely, The Times-Picayune reported. “We’re dealing with very combative — and you don’t want to stigmatize mental illness — but the reality is that there is a group that is so chronically mentally ill that they’re non-compliant with their medication; they’re not going to engage in a community based program,” Tebo says. As to whether the ongoing situation will resemble the crisis levels of 2005-2008, Tebo says she’s not sure. She says she wants to be optimistic about the managed care partnership with Magellan, but the city will simply have to wait and watch. DeBlieux agrees. “It’s impossible for me to tell you with 100 percent assurance that these cuts are idiotic, foolish, dangerous, because you have to see what the evidence shows,” he says. “We’re all going to be reacting and waiting for the evidence.”

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that in a recent 16-month period, he and other Municipal Court judges had ordered 246 mental health evaluations for defendants. 160 of them were found incompetent to stand trial. Of those, Sens said, 23 had cycled back into the court a total of 75 times. Then there’s the risk inside jail. As first reported by the nonprofit journalism organization The Lens, OPSO alleges that in late December, inmate Edwin K. Lee broke out of his cell and attacked a guard with a broken broomstick, chipping the guard’s tooth and possibly breaking his jaw. According to OPSO’s online records, Lee had previously been released to Northwestern Human Services — a mental health provider that works with the Metropolitan Human Services District — after a 2010 charge of battering a correctional officer. Records show that last month a judge ordered Lee to undergo a state mental health evaluation in East Feliciana before facing trial. Gore says he’s unaware of Lee’s case and could not comment as to whether mental illness played a role in the alleged incident, but he said OPP staff will have to be more wary of their own safety, and the safety of inmates, should jails have to accept additional unstable patients. “I think with our experience, if we could identify statistical trends and increased numbers, then that’s something we could say ‘Yes, we’re getting more of these types of inmates. We need to be on our guard. We need to be careful. We need to make sure we do a good, thorough intake screening,’” he says. Gore stipulates that personal security has never been much of a concern for medical staff because inmates see doctors and nurses as their advocates: “So usually we have a very good relationship. “But if someone’s psychotic, logic goes out the window, of course.”

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I think it’s a chance to move us away from the stereotypes you always see around St. Patrick’s Day.” The ACIS is the annual meeting of a multidisciplinary scholarly organization of the same name, and it’s shaping up to be a one-of-a-kind event for New Orleans. The conference, which runs from March 14-17 and is held at the Hotel Monteleone and the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, takes in history, literature, film, theater, anthropology, politics, economics and other topics related to Ireland and that nation’s global diaspora. About 475 presenters are on the schedule, and they’re coming from all points of the compass, representing 46 states and 16 foreign countries. More than 80 of the presenters are coming directly from Ireland (see “Conference Details,” page 27). Plans for the conference have been in the works since 2009, when Tulane University history professor Laura Kelley presented some of her own work on the Irish presence in New Orleans at an earlier ACIS event. The group’s leadership took a shine to holding a future conference in New Orleans, and Kelley eagerly agreed to coordinate the effort. “It was this desire to show New Orleans to as many

people as possible and to Tulane history tell the story of the Irish in professor Laura Kelley New Orleans,” Kelley says. was a catalyst in getting “As a historian, I’m always the ACIS to hold its studying Irish identity and convention in New Irish history, and of course Orleans. it’s in the past. But what I’ve found is this resurgence of PHOTO By PBUrCH/TULANe UNIverSITy PUBLICATIONS Irish here, people born on that tiny green island coming to New Orleans. It’s not just in the past, it’s in the present and it’s continuing.” Kelley began working with Tulane dean and fellow Irish studies researcher Terrence Fitzmorris and Tulane provost Michael Bernstein, and the call went out for prospective presenters. Kelley says the invitation to come to New Orleans proved magnetic, and this year’s conference is the largest in the 50-year history of the ACIS. Normally, the conference is held later in the spring, but with the NCAA’s Final Four tournament beginning in New

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s St. Patrick’s Day approaches and the annual bloom of shamrocks and emerald emblems materializes around town, Aidan Gill finds more occasions to dispense a favorite motto. “It’s 365, not just 3/17,” he says, explaining that the seasonal upwelling of Irish pride around St. Patrick’s Day (or 3/17) should be something people embrace year-round. “There’s a lot of good energy and good feeling about the Irish in March, when all the flags are out and the parades are rolling, but then by tax season people seem to forget about it,” says Gill, a Dublin native and owner of two Aidan Gill barbershops in New Orleans. “The point is to galvanize that energy and put it to good use throughout the year.” That point will be in focus as the countdown to St. Patrick’s Day brings attention to Irish heritage in ways that go far beyond the traditional parades and block parties. This week, New Orleans welcomes a landmark conference on Irish cultural matters that is drawing Irish scholars, experts and cultural ambassadors from around the globe. At the same time, a new grassroots Irish cultural organization is using the conference and the upcoming holiday to introduce itself to the broader community. Organizers of that conference, the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), and leaders of the new organization, Irish Network-New Orleans (IN-NOLA), are working together to raise awareness of the city’s strong Irish heritage, to tap that heritage as a hook to promote the city and to unite the local Irish community and those interested in it for networking and common causes. “It’s a new way of thinking about Ireland,” says Pauline Patterson, a Belfast native and IN-NOLA board member who owns Finn McCool’s Irish Pub in Mid-City. “This conference is just such a massive assembly of Irish scholars, of people who are interested in Ireland and what it means to be Irish across the world, and combined with what we’re doing with Irish Network,

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Registration for all events is $168.50 ($118.50 for students). For details, visit www.acisnola2012.org. Members of Irish Network-New Orleans may register at the discounted rate of $50. Individual memberships cost $50 ($30 for students and seniors). For details, see www. irishnetworkneworleans.org.

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• Jimmy Deenihan, the Irish government’s Minister for Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht Affairs (or Irish language-speaking regions), will address an opening reception for ACIS members and Irish Network members. March 14, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. • Dan Barry, New York Times columnist and author, gives a talk titled “The Unquiet Man: a Homeric Struggle for One Irish American Soul.” March 16, 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. • Irish scholars Cormac O Grada of the University of Dublin and Christine Kinealy of Drew University in New Jersey discuss the legacy of the 19th-century Irish famine. March 15, 6 p.m.-8p.m. • Acclaimed Dublin-based theater group Ouroboros presents a reading of Brian Friel’s Making History, a play about Ireland’s greatest hero, Hugh O’Neill, the chieftain who led the resistance to English conquest in the late 16th century. March 14, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

The Fitzmorrises of New Orleans In 1847, Martin and Thomas Fitzmaurice of County Kildare, Ireland sailed for New York from Liverpool aboard the famine ship Liverpool, recruited by the Southern Pacific Railroad to work as wranglers on the building of the southern transcontinental line. The brothers came from the area of the villages of Kilmeague and Rathangan in Kildare, Ireland, Some of the men of the Fitzmorris Family pose for a photograph and Church records docu- over the Christmas holidays. From left to right, John D. Fitzmorris ment the baptisms of Mar- Jr., Patrick J. Fitzmorris, John D. Fitzmorris III, Aaron Alexander, Ryan R. Fitzmorris, and James M. Fitzmorris. tin and Thomas and several other children of Martin Edward. Martin married Catherine CoFitzmaurice and Margaret O’Neill. Their gan, the daughter of Jane Brabazon of descendants still reside in the Kildare area, Mullingar County Westmeath and John where they work in the race P. Cogan of County Cavan , who horse industry. was a Confederate soldier in the The brothers obtained their Army of Northern Virginia. Tocitizenship in 1851 in New Orgether, they had five children: leans and then obtained propJohn Berchman (former Assiserty in St. Tammany Parish tant Postmaster for the City of to cut timber for use in their New Orleans ), Martin Jr., Genfurniture business and the evieve, Catherine (Katey) and building of two chapels: ChinJames Edward. chuba and Cill Dara Martin Among the many in this famthen married Mary Finnan, ily line who have contributed and Thomas married Mary’s to the New Orleans Area include sister Margaret, both of County Longford. The sisters were the daughters the Honorable James E. Fitzmorris Jr., forof Edward Finnan and Catherine Clinch mer N.O. City Councilman and Lieutenant of Granard, BallyMcCormick in Longford. Governor and his brother, the late Norris The sisters’ brother, Christopher Finnan, Fitzmorris, a Vice-President at Pan-Amerihas numerous descendants in the New can Life and the voice of Mardi Gras; John Orleans area, who were prominent ath- D. Fitzmorris Jr., former U.S. Army Judge letes and medical doctors. Advocate’s Office, former Senior Counsel Thomas and Margaret died before the for Texaco, and current Assistant District Civil War, and their only known child Attorney for Jefferson Parish; his wife William was sent to live with his aunt Katherine McKay Fitzmorris, a teacher in Mary Fitzmaurice Keating in Covington. the Archdiocesan schools for more than That branch of the name is well-known in St. Tammany and has contributed to forty years; the late Michael F. Fitzmorris, the social and political life of that area of U.S. Navy Corpsman awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star for heroism in VietLouisiana. Martin and Mary had several children, but nam; Dr. Terrence W. Fitzmorris, Professor only two are known to have had descen- of History and Assistant Dean of Tulane’s dants: Martin Fitzmaurice (born 1853) and University College; Ryan R. Fitzmorris, Anne Fitzmaurice (circa 1857.) Anne mar- owner of RetroFitz Insulation and Home ried Hugh Flynn, who became a business Weatherization and a French Quarter Bar partner with Martin in their mattress and Owner; the late William McCrossen, forcabinet factory on Dryades Street. Some- mer Superintendant of the N.O. Fire Detime around 1870, the family changed the partment; Katherine Fitzmorris Alexanspelling of the name from “Fitzmaurice” to der, veteran teacher of the Archdiocesan “Fitzmorris” so that the French would stop schools; noted N.O. playwright James M. pronouncing the name “Fitz-Mohr-REESE”. Fitzmorris; Patrick J. Fitzmorris, former U.S. Martin married Catherine Cogan, the Air Marshal and Department of Homedaughter of Jane Brabazon of Mullingar land Security; and John D. Fitzmorris III, County Westmeath and John P. Cogan of seventeen-year veteran of the Catholic County Cavan, who was a Confederate schools and current Instructor of History soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia. at Our Lady of Holy Cross College. Together, they had five children: John Berchman (former Assistant Postmaster In the true tradition of their ancestors for the City of New Orleans), Martin Jr., Thomas and Martin, the Fitzmorrises of Genevieve, Catherine (Katey) and James New Orleans proudly claim themselves to be “Americans first and Irish always.”

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Orleans at the end of the month and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival kicking off in April, Kelley says the schedule was moved to mid-March. That it happened to fall on the week leading to St. Patrick’s Day was a coincidence, she says, and a happy one at that. For Adrian D’Arcy, however, it was more like a sign from above. Raised in Ireland’s County Kerry, D’Arcy emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1990s, put himself through law school and is now a partner with the New Orleans firm of Shields Mott Lund LLP. Last year, he took the lead in forming IN-NOLA as the local chapter of Irish Network USA. When he learned ACIS was coming to town, he knew his new organization had to get involved. “I was just blown away, it’s the most important Irish cultural event to ever be held in New Orleans, and it’s happening the week of St. Patrick’s,” D’Arcy says. “I just thought, what an incredible opportunity. When everyone is focused on Ireland and talking about Ireland, you can come and learn about Ireland right here at home.” IN-NOLA has been actively promoting the conference, along with sponsors that include the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, the Murphy Institute and the Lurcy Fund. Anyone who joins IN-NOLA gets a deep discount on registration to attend any of its events, including an opening reception with Jimmy Deenihan, the Irish government’s Minister for Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht Affairs (or Irish language-speaking regions). The working relationship between ACIS and IN-NOLA leaders has already sown the seeds for future cultural happenings. For instance, based on the number of film projects submitted for the conference, IN-NOLA is planning an Irish film festival for September, and Kelley says an art exhibit is in the works too. IN-NOLA also is establishing a scholarship to send a New Orleans student to an Irish university, and plans are under way for a culinary exchange program to swap chefs between New Orleans and Ireland. The city has long fostered a number of Irish cultural groups, like the Irish Channel St. Patrick’s Day Club, the Downtown Irish Club and the local chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic organization started in New York in 1836. But IN-NOLA leaders say their group represents a new approach to Irish culture, one that’s more diverse and more accurately reflects modern Irish society. “It’s Irish people, Irish-born, Irish Americans and friends of Ireland. It’s like what you see along the parade route,” says Gill, an IN-NOLA board member. The group has grown to more than 300 members since its official launch five months ago, and Patterson says that’s a credit to its inclusive nature and the generosity of people who associate themselves with Irish culture. “Irish people are just very, very social, they’re always getting together, interacting, they want to help each other,” she says. “If you harness that with an organization you can accomplish a lot. The Irish Network has consolidated the Irish community in New Orleans and expanded it, actually, by inviting everyone in.”

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Finn McCool’s Finn McCool’s Irish Pub is a neighborhood bar, in the Mid-City area, which opened its doors in the summer of 2002. Owners Stephen and Pauline Patterson arrived in New Orleans from their native Belfast in 1990 and quickly fell in love with the uniqueness of New Orleans as an American city.

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Although Finn’s is a neighborhood place, out of towners will not feel a chill when they walk inside, as the friendly staff and owners go out of their way to make sure everyone is welcomed as a returning old friend.

founding members Pauline Patterson is a great ambassador for Finn McCool’s and New Orleans in general. In 2011 Pauline was nominated as one of New Orleans’ top business women by City Business magazine.

Being a typical Irish Pub, Finn’s hosts various events such as fundraising nights for many different charities. It has also hosted literary nights for the book launches of local Authors Stephen Rea and Ian McNulty. It continues to promote the Irish language with weekly classes as well as being a formative member of Irish Network New Orleans. As the Secretary of Irish Network New Orleans and one of the local chapter’s

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Located at 331 Decatur Street for over 18 years, The Kerry Irish Pub has been known as one of the few truly neighborhood bars in the French Quarter. On any given night you’ll find friendly regulars sitting at the Bar, as well as new “old friends” who happily stumbled upon it. The Kerry Irish Pub not only boasts the best pint of Guinness in the French Quarter, but also serves up an exciting, eclectic assortment of musical talent seven nights a week with no cover charge. The Kerry is presently the only Pub in the Quarter supporting live Irish Music on a weekly basis, and the sounds of Irish, Country, Folk and Roots Rock can be heard drifting through its’ doors nightly. In fact if our walls could talk, I think they would sing! So if you’re just pasing through New Orleans, please come on by and have a Pint while listening to some great music with a few new “old friends”. 33 1 D E C AT U R S T R E E T

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Coach Kenneth Farrell is the Head Coach/ GM of the New Orleans Jesters minor league soccer team. He also serves as Coaching Director for the Jesters’ new non-profit youth club NOLA Soccer Academy. Farrell grew up in Dublin and played in the League of Ireland for Shelbourne Football Club. He moved to the US, where he led Salem State College to an NCAA Final Four. Farrell later moved to New Orleans and became Coaching Director for Lafreniere Soccer Club, leading them to national prominence and 25 State Championships. He co-founded the New Orleans Shell Shockers in 2003 and was named PDL “Coach of the Year”. In 2009, he became Head Coach of New Orleans Jesters led the team to an undefeated season. He currently serves as Vice President for the Louisiana Ancient Order of Hibernians. He served as a founding board member for US Club Soccer, a USYSA Region III Olympic

Development Program coach. Farrell helped found the NOLA Soccer Academy in 2011, which is dedicated to providing local families an option for quality, affordable soccer programming and development. The Jesters and NOL A Soccer Academy of fer youth camps, clinics and competitive teams. The Jesters minor league team will begin its 2012 season in May. Information on tickets and on youth programming can be found at NolaJesters.com.

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Adrian is a partner with Shields Mott Lund LLP. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and attended University College Dublin. After graduating, Adrian moved to New York with his college sweetheart, Karen, whom he married in 1997. They moved to New Orleans in 1998 and he enrolled in law school two years later. Adrian and Karen have two wonderful children; Grainne and Conor. Adrian is the president of IN-NOLA. He is committed to harnessing the goodwill and energy of the diverse Irish community in the city to promote Irish cultural awareness and to promote New Orleans to the Irish American community and to the country of Ireland. Adrian would like to congratulate ACIS on its 50th anniversary and is delighted that it choose to have its celebration in his adopted home of New Orleans. Adrian also welcomes Irish minister and legendary Gaelic footballer, Jimmy Deenihan, to New Orleans.

Being the first dancer from Louisiana ever to compete at the World Championships in Ireland, Joni Muggivan is a first generation Irish American, whose father immigrated from County Claire Ireland. She has been an icon of Irish dance in New Orleans since a very young age. Having danced since the age of 4 and taught since the age of 13, Joni completed her certification for competitive dancing in 2003 and later founded The Muggivan School of Irish Dance in 2007. Since then, she has trained many young New Orleanians in competitive style Irish dancing at her studio at 901 Veterans Blvd. (across from the famous Dorignac’s!). Her dancers have competed successfully on local, national, and international stages, and performing all over this city, including the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Muggivan School is happy to welcome the ACIS to our city this year! MUGGI VA N S CH O O L O F IRISH DA N CE W W W. IRISHDA N CEL A .COM

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easy to lose track of time. Mid City is touted as the new, unofficial “Irish Neighborhood” of New Orleans, and MCYC is proud to be part of this extended “family,” in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. MCYC is IN-NOLA, are you?

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In 1949 the original Irish settlers opened their doors at Tracey’s to the community for St. Patrick’s Day. Ever since then, the New Orleans area has been drawn to the Irish Channel for this annual event with its friendly atmosphere, cold beer, and fantastic food. Tracey’s is the original Irish Channel bar, established in 1949. It was always seen as an Irish Channel Oasis, with cool air conditioning, the first color TVs in the neighborhood, cold beer and fantastic food. Tracey’s has been lucky to have re-captured that original old-fashioned feeling by maintaining its great staff and fantastic customers and friends. Tracey’s has recently been featured on the food Networks “Food Feuds”, The Wall Street Journal’s & the New York Post’s entertainment sections, and on local food

critic Tom Fitzmorris’ list of “Most Interesting Restaurants”. Please join us in celebrating this great Irish Heritage and Tradition. For more information please go to our Web site at: http://www.traceysnola.com

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The number of places to get late-night food in the Faubourg Marigny has been growing lately, and now a new breakfast option is on the way. Owners of the Ruby Slipper Cafe have bought the historic former bank space at 2001 Burgundy St. in the Marigny Triangle area, and they plan to open the third location of their breakfast-lunch-and-brunch concept there by the summer. Jennifer and Erich Weishaupt opened their first Ruby Slipper (139 S. Cortez St., 309-5531; www.therubyslippercafe. net) on a Mid-City side street in 2008, converting what had been a rundown corner store before Hurricane Katrina into a neighborhood spot. In late 2010, they opened a second, and much larger, Ruby Slipper (200 Magazine St., 525-9355) in the Central Business District. Erich Weishaupt says the third Ruby Slipper will follow the same script, with a similar menu of diner-style breakfast and lunch dishes punched up with local seafood, fresh produce and some creative specials. “We’ll probably add a separate dining room here because we get so many requests for bridal showers and private events of that type that we don’t really have PAGE 37

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Frescobaldi’s Remole is a young, versatile wine. The medium-bodied blend of 85 percent Sangiovese and 15 percent Cabernet Sauvignon was aged five months in stainless steel followed by several months of bottle aging prior to release. It exudes aromas of dried plum, cherry and blackberry with spice and leather notes. On the palate, it offers hints of black raspberry, currants, herbs, anise and black pepper with well-integrated tannins. Decant an hour before serving. Drink it with pasta marinara, chicken cacciatore, cured meats, sausages, pizza and panini. Buy it at: Breaux Mart and Whole Foods Market in Uptown, Rouses in Mid-City, Zuppardo’s Family Supermarket, Dorignac’s, Martin Wine Cellar in Metairie and Acquistapace’s Covington Supermarket. Drink it at: Fausto’s Bistro. — BRENDA MAITLAND

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hefs are busy finding specialty suppliers for everything from eggs to herbs these days. But Phillip Lopez foraged for something a little different before opening Root in the Warehouse District. He needed 50 empty cigar boxes, just for starters. They are used with his scallops, which he crusts with atomized chorizo, sears and rests in one of the cigar boxes before hitting them with a waft of smoke from a Cohiba cigar. When the waiter opens the box at the table, the distinct wet-leathery aroma of tobacco rises in a cloud. The smoke’s faint essence lingers over the sweet-tasting scallops, and the novelty of the dish makes a lasting impression — as the chef no doubt intended. Root is refreshingly different, and even if it can seem provocative or a touch gimmicky, it’s fun. The edgy approach is undercut by a playfulness that makes it more food geeky than food snobby. It also seemed to come out of nowhere. In November, Lopez and business partner Maximilian Ortiz opened the restaurant, their first in the space Feast had vacated a few months earlier. They quickly cooked up a place where highly conceptual dishes relying on specialized kitchen technology (dehydrators, sous vide cookers) share the card with others based on deep-running traditions from around the globe. The same kitchen that spins foie gras into cotton candy produces a long roster of charcuterie and pickles, including everything from leeks to strawberries. Then there’s a thick, perfectly cooked chunk of lemonfish with udon noodles fashioned in part from bonito flakes. The Chinese-style steamed buns wrapped around duck and herbs are made black with otherwise undetectable squid ink, and the manchego foam over fried oysters is almost too ephemeral to handle but draws you in nose first to try. Desserts are just as dramatic, and maybe more so. Milk is ladled over a bowl of house-made cocoa puffs, a peppermint patty and ice cream, or it’s made into foam and roped around sweet corn flan. Root is located in a very old warehouse with exposed timbers and weathered brick, and that’s about the end of its obvious New Orleans reference points. The design is unambiguously modern, with furnishings that could have come from a Stanley Kubrick set. Waiters sometimes seem a little breathless as they explain the menu, but you can hardly blame them. There’s a lot here, and everything has some twist or detail worth explaining.

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interview the space to handle in our other places,” he says. Weishaupt says renovations will begin soon, though he won’t have to make too many changes because the building has been converted into a restaurant space by previous occupants. Constructed in the 1920s as a branch of the Canal Commercial Trust and Savings Bank, it was later used as a doctor’s office, a local baker’s union hall and as an events venue. In 2004, Alex Kelly turned it into Bank Cafe, an upscale contemporary Creole restaurant. It closed in 2006 and the property has been empty since.

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OWNeR, ANGeLO BROCATO’S ICe CReAM AND CONFeCTIONeRy Arthur Brocato’s grandfather, Angelo Brocato, opened a gelato shop in the French Quarter in 1905, modeling it after the gelaterias where he’d learned the trade in his hometown of Palermo, Sicily. In 1979, the family moved the shop, Angelo Brocato’s Ice Cream and Confectionery (214 N. Carrollton Ave., 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com), to its present MidCity location. With St. Joseph’s Day approaching, the shop’s staff is busy preparing biscotti and other treats, especially cuccidati, the Italian fig cookie. Is there a seasonal ebb and flow to your products? Brocato: In the Sicilian tradition, you made gelato from easter Sunday until it started to get cool in October or so. Then you switched to cookies and confections, and the last day for those was easter Sunday. That’s exactly the way we did things too, until probably close to 1950 when people’s habits started to change. Today, we get busy for Christmas, and then there’s a lull when everyone is dealing with king cakes. That’s when we start gearing up for St. Joseph’s Day, for the big cookie season. everything is handmade, so you start early in the year just for that holiday. Is the gelato side of the business seasonal too? B: We’ve always been very traditional. We didn’t get our first freon freezer until 1951; before that we were still packing barrels of gelato with ice and salt. The original shop was close to the French Market, and whatever was seasonal at the market then was what we used. We still do that today with our seasonal flavors, so we have sanguinello (blood orange) now, by April or May you get blackberry and in the summer you’re seeing peach, cantaloupe, watermelon. What makes your Italian cookies special? B: They’re not really too sweet, and they’re very durable. Butter was a luxury back in Sicily, so most Sicilian desserts didn’t usually have butter or a lot of lard, and that gives them some of their character today. They weren’t intended to be eaten just on their own. you dip them in coffee or wine. After dinner, you have a couple of biscotti and a glass of Marsala and you’re set for the night. — IAN MCNULTy

will supply pasta Milanese at the market’s event, and Italian wines will be available. Oran B. Hesterman, a Michigan-based leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, will sign copies of his new book Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All. The party is from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are available online in advance for $30 or at the door for $35 and include pasta and two drinks. Kids under 12 get in free.

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A diverse collection of well-known local chefs will host the Chefs’ Charity for Children, a luncheon and fundraiser for St. Michael Special School for developmentally disabled children. The chefs will conduct cooking demonstrations, and the list of participants includes New Orleans empire-builders Emeril Lagasse and John Besh, legend Leah Chase, and a veteran of one of the

area’s lost restaurants, Goffredo Fraccaro of Metairie’s La Riviera, which did not reopen after Hurricane Katrina. The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 10 at the Hilton Riverside Hotel, and it usually sells out ahead of time. Tickets cost $65 and include a banquet lunch and a cookbook featuring 35 recipes from the participating chefs. For tickets, call 524-7285. In addition to the chefs named above, the event features chefs Andrea Apuzzo of Andrea’s; Frank Brigtsen of Brigtsen’s and Charlie’s Seafood; John Folse of Chef John Folse & Company, and the forthcoming Restaurant R’evolution; Gunter Preuss of Broussard’s; Lazone Randolph of Brennan’s Restaurant; Frank and Tommy Wong of Trey Yuen; and David Woodward of the Hilton Riverside Hotel. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Chefs’ Charity for Children, which was originally conceived by the late New Orleans culinary icon Warren Leruth and the late journalist Phil Johnson of WWL-TV.

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Baru 3700 Magazine St., 895-2225 www.barutapas.com Patacones are long, crisp planks of green plantain topped with meats.

Bennachin 1212 Royal St., 522-1230 www.bennachinrestaurant.com Fried plantains with coconut rice is this African restaurant’s go-to side.

Cafe Carmo 527 Julia St., 875-4132 www.cafecarmo.com The Rico sandwich is a plantain pancake topped with pork or mock meat.

La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe 8120 Hampson St., 862-5252 www.pupusasneworleans.com Golden-fried plantain slices come with house crema for dipping.

Mayas Restaurant & Bar 2027 Magazine St., 309-3401 www.mojitoland.com Shrimp, crab and coconut milk sauce top green plantains.

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Trends, notes, quirks and quotes from the world of food. “America’s ongoing cocktail revival isn’t a single, monolithic scene, but rather a theme park composed of many small villages inhabited by historic reenactors. Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies. you can sip daiquiris to a rumba beat in an ersatz Cuban bar, or martinis served by Brylcreemed waiters at a Mad Men-styled lounge.” — New Orleans-based drinks writer Wayne Curtis, writing on cocktail trends in The Atlantic.

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St. Joseph Day altars, those Sicilian spiritual emblems of faith and thanksgiving, are customarily built by families and church communities. Family and community are two words often used to describe the good feelings around the Crescent City Farmers Market (www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.com), so it seems fitting that the market is joining the long-running New Orleans tradition with its own altar. It’s not your orthodox St. Joseph’s Day altar, but rather a locavore rendition on display in a space attached to Bittersweet Confections (725 Magazine St., 523-2626; www.bittersweetconfections.com), a former market vendor with a new storefront across the street from the market. The unveiling of the altar is a ticketed event that doubles as a party and fundraiser for the market, and it will be held Sunday, March 18, the day before St. Joseph’s Day. It serves as a primer for those unfamiliar with the tradition to learn about what was once a far more common custom in New Orleans. At the event, visitors can pick up a list of altars that will be open to the public on St. Joseph’s Day. “It’s a wonderful thing to do. It really brings people together to celebrate, and at the market we have a lot to celebrate and be thankful for,” says market vendor Kathleen Cooper, who runs her Forte Grove Bakery in Plaquemine, La. Cooper is one of several bakers contributing to the altar, which also will feature fruits and vegetables from market vendors. She has experience helping build them for her church and for many years with her family, so the market tapped her to help plan its own. “It’s all about what your family could provide and what sacrifices they were making,” she says. “As many different Italians as you talk to around here, you’ll hear that many different stories about what goes into them.” Traditional elements include breads shaped into Christian symbols, artichokes, fennel, fig cookies, cakes, fava beans and pasta Milanese, with that dish’s breadcrumb topping representing wood shavings from the work of St. Joseph the carpenter. Domenica (123 Baronne St., 6486020; www.domenicarestaurant.com)

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TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun St., 861-3615 — The Lotto burger is a 6-oz. patty served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and Frostop’s secret sauce and cheese is optional. There are waffle fries and house-made root beer. No reservations. Breakfast,

SHAMROCK BAR & GRILL — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 301-0938 — Shamrock serves burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, Reuben sandwiches, cheese sticks and fries with cheese or gravy. Other options include corned beef and cabbage, and fish and chips. No reservations. Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $ ZADDIE’S TAVERN — 1200 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson, 8320830 — Zaddie’s serves burgers, alligator sausage, boudin, tamales and meat or crawfish pies. Thursday’s steak night special features a filet mignon, buttergarlic potatoes, salad, grilled French bread and a soft drink for $15. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

BARBECUE BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks St., 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., latenight Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ SAUCY’S BBQ GRILL — 3244 Severn Ave., Metairie, 322-2544; www.saucysbbqgrill.com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled or jerk chicken. Side items include smoked beans, mac and cheese, coleslaw and Caribbean rice. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE CAFE — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.Sat. Credit cards. $$

THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449 River Road, 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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PRAVDA — 1113 Decatur St., 581-1112; www.pravdaofnola. com — Pravda is known for its Soviet kitsch and selection of absinthes, and the kitchen offers pierogies, beef empanadas, curry shrimp salad and a petit steak served with truffle aioli. No reservations. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ VINE & DINE — 141 Delaronde St., 361-1402; www.vine-dine. com — The cafe serves cheese boards and charcuterie plates with pate and cured meats. There also is a menu of sandwiches, quesadillas, bruschettas, salads and dips. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ CHINESE CHINA ORCHID — 704 S. Carrollton Ave., 865-1428; www.chinaorchidneworleans.com — This longtime Riverbend restaurant offers a wide array of Chinese dishes. Sizzling black pepper beef or chicken is prepared with onions, red and green peppers and brown sauce and served on a hot plate with steamed rice on the side. Other options include fried rice, noodle and egg foo young dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009 Magazine St., 891-8280; www.jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ TREY YUEN CUISINE OF CHINA — 600 N. Causeway Approach., Mandeville, (985) 6264476; 2100 N. Morrison Blvd., Hammond, (985) 345-6789; www.tryyuen.com — House specialties include fried softshell crab topped with Tong Cho sauce, and Cantonese-style stirfried alligator and mushrooms in oyster sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/DESSERT ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St., 581-4422; www.

antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Royal Street salad features baby spinach and mixed lettuces with carrots, red onion, red peppers, grapes, olives, walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ KUPCAKE FACTORY — 800 Metairie Road, Metairie, 267-4990; 819 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 464-8884; 6233 S. Claiborne Ave., 267-3328; www.thekupcakefactory.com — Choose from a large selection of gourmet cupcakes. The Fat Elvis is made with banana cake and topped with peanut butter frosting. The Strawberry Fields tops strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream frosting. Other options include white chocolate raspberry and a banana cupcake. No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $ MAURICE FRENCH PASTRIES — 3501 Hessmer Ave., Metairie, 885-1526; 4949 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 455-0830; www.mauricefrenchpastries. com — Maurice French Pastries offers an array of continental and French baked goods as well as specialty cakes, cheesecakes and pies. No reservations. Hessmer Avenue: breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. West Napoleon: breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PINKBERRY — 300 Canal St.; 5601 Magazine St., 899-4260; www.pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. There also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY 5 FIFTY 5 — 555 Canal St., 553-5638; www.555canal. com — New Orleans dishes and Americana favorites take an elegant turn in dishes such as the lobster mac and cheese, combining lobster meat, elbow macaroni and mascarpone, boursin and white cheddar cheeses. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 525-4455; www.bayona. com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ OAK — 8118 Oak St., 3021485; www.oaknola.com — This wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. The hanger steak bruschetta is topped with Point Reyes blue cheese and smoked red onion marmalade. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl. com — Chef Scott Snodgrass

prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

CREOLE ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St. Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ MELANGE — 2106 Chartres St., 309-7335; www.melangenola.com — Dine on FrenchCreole cuisine in a restaurant and bar themed to resemble a lush 1920s speakeasy. Lapin au vin is a farm raised rabbit cooked served with demi-glace, oven-roasted shallots, tomatoes, potatoes and pancetta. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Toulouse Street Wharf, 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — The Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Bread pudding is topped with candied pecans and bourbon sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

CUBAN/ CARIBBEAN MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — 437 Esplanade Ave., 2524800; www.mojitosnola.com — Mojitos serves a mix of Caribbean, Cuban and Creole dishes. Aruba scallops are seared and served with white chocolate chipotle sauce with jalapeno grits and seasonal vegetables. Warm walnut goat cheese is served with yuca chips. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

DELI CG’S CAFE AT THE RUSTY NAIL — 1100 Constance St., 722-3168; www.therustynail. biz — Inside the Rusty Nail, CG’s offers a menu of sandwiches. The Piggly Wiggly features pulled pork on a sesame seed bun with coleslaw and pickle chips on the side. The Wild Tur-

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

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

MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 896-7350; www.martinwine. com — The wine emporium offers gourmet sandwiches and deli items. The Reuben combines corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread. The Sena salad features chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, toasted pecans and pepper jelly vinaigrette over field greens. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., 895-0900; www. flamingtorchnola.com — Chef Nathan Gile’s menu includes panseared Maine diver scallops with chimichurri sauce and smoked bacon and corn hash. Coffeeand coriander-spiced rack of lamb is oven roasted and served with buerre rouge and chevre mashed potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

GOURMET TO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-8146; www.breauxmart. com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308 Magazine St., 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s exten-

ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., 529-2154; www. cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ RED GRAVY — 125 Camp St., 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — The cafe serves breakfast items including pancakes, waffles and pastries. At lunch, try meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Open Sundays before New Orleans Saints home games. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ RICCOBONO’S PEPPERMILL RESTAURANT — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, 455-2266 — This Italian-style eatery serves New Orleans favorites like stuffed crabs with jumbo lump crabmeat with spaghetti bordelaise and trout meuniere with brabant potatoes. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni. Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$

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MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave., 410-9997; www.japanesebistro. com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

WASABI SUSHI — 900 Frenchmen St., 943-9433; 8550 Pontchartrain Blvd., 267-3263; www.wasabinola. com — The Assassin roll bundles tuna, snow crab and avocado in seaweed and tops it with barbecued eel, tuna, eel sauce and wasabi tobiko. No reservations. Frenchmen Street: Lunch Mon.Sat., dinner daily. Pontchartrain Boulevard: lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY BOUCHE — 840 Tchoupitoulas St., 267-7485; www. bouchenola.com — This wine bar and restaurant serves creative dishes like tasso truffle mac and cheese with three cheeses and Mornay sauce. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

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MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. Try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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MILA — 817 Common St., 412-2580; www.milaneworleans.com — try New orleans barbecue lobster with lemon confit and fresh thyme. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri. dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

HOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/ neworleans — the buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph and turtle soup . Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ TOMAS BISTRO — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., 527-0942 — the duck cassoulet combines duck confit and Creole Country andouille in a white bean casserole. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., 525-4790 — tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese, charcuterie plates, appetizers, salads and more. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MeDIteRRaNeaN/ MIDDLe eaSteRN ATTIKI BAR & GRILL — 230 Decatur St., 587-3756; www.attikineworleans. com — Attiki features Mediterranean cuisine including beef kebabs and chicken shawarma. Reservations recommended. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$ BABYLON CAFE — 7724 Maple St., 314-0010; www.babyloncafe.biz — Chicken shawarma salad is topped with olives, feta and chicken breast cooked on a rotisserie. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PYRAMIDS CAFE — 3151 Calhoun St., 861-9602 — Diners will find authentic, healthy and fresh Mediterranean cuisine. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St., 522-1138 — Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickory-smoked pork and charbroiled steaks or pork chops. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS’ BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — this surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 948-0077 — Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguese-style fish cakes made with dried, salted codfish, mashed potatoes, cilantro, lemon juice, green onions and egg. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC aND FOOD BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 586-0972; www.thebombayclub. com — the duck duet pairs confit leg with pepper-seared breast with black currant reduction. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — the New orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo, salads and more. No reserva-

SIBERIA — 2227 St. Claude Ave., 265-8855 — this music clubs serves dishes like fish and chips, spicy hot wings, tacos and more. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — 626 Frenchmen St., 949-0696; www.snugjazz.com — traditional Creole and Cajun fare pepper the menu along with newer creations. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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PIZZa MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza. com — the Italian pizza has salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch tue.-Sat., dinner tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NEW YORK PIZZA — 4418 Magazine St., 891-2376; www.newyorkpizzanola.com — Choose from pizza by the slice or whole pie, calzones, pasta, sandwiches, salads and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., 894-8554;

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SaNDWICHeS & PO-BOYS DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., 5717561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. topping choices include everything from sprouts to black bean and corn salsa to peanut butter. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — the Peacemaker po-boy is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARKWAY BAKERY AND TAVERN — 538 N. Hagen Ave., 482-3047 — Parkway serves roast beef, hot sausage and fried seafood po-boys and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $ PARRAN’S PO-BOYS — 3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-3416; www.parranspoboy.com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and Creole-Italian entrees. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ THE STORE — 814 Gravier St., 3222446; www.thestoreneworleans.com — the Store serves sandwiches, salads and hot plates, and there is a taco bar. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ TRACEY’S — 2604 Magazine St., 899-2054; www.traceysnola.com — the roast beef po-boy dripping with garlicky gravy is the highlight of the menu. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $

SeaFOOD GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, 8320955 — Galley’s popular soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ GRAND ISLE RESTAURANT — 575 Convention Center Blvd., 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant.com — Baked Gulf fish are served with compound chili butter, potatoes and a vegetable. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ JACK DEMPSEY’S — 738 Poland Ave., 943-9914 — the Jack Dempsey seafood platter is a feast of gumbo, shrimp, oysters, catfish, redfish, crawfish pies and two sides. No reservations. Lunch tue.-Sat. and dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ LA COTE BRASSERIE — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2350; www.

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drums, and tempos.” There was no “Mississippi scene” to shape K.R.I.T.’s sound — dense with the clap-happy snare hits of Southern bangers but dotted with live funk-bass, horns and his signature flow, which swims from an internal monologue to a prayer to a party. His boasts aren’t cutthroat, but sly. On his coming-of-age tale “Dreamin’,” K.R.I.T. raps “Don’t be alarmed if you don’t make it. It’s just part of the game. Besides, I don’t rap about dope nor do I sell it. I guess the story of a country boy ain’t compelling.” “Everybody raps about where they’re from,” he says. “A lot of people that lost their lives or are still traumatized about the situations they grew up with within the civil rights movement, and before that. I don’t think we should forget, nor stop talking about it in music. It’s the newest generation now that needs to know how hard people worked.” On Return of 4Eva closer “The Vent,” he raps over a stark bass pulse, “Most people stop for signs but I’ve driven through it. If it don’t touch my soul, then I can’t listen to it. The radio don’t play the shit I used to love, but maybe I’m just growing up.” “(I was) part of a golden era, especially of hip-hop, where it was mad political,” he says. “It became single-minded and monetary at some point. (I thought), ‘All right, I’m just gonna go back and listen to (Outkast’s) Aquemini all day.’ We know what that does for us. But there’s a lot of new generations that can’t. … I want to put them on, ‘Hey, listen to this soul music, listen to this old school music, and understand the roots of what you came from.’” At Buku, K.R.I.T. joins another headliner, rapper Yelawolf — both were named two of XXL magazine’s “top freshmen” of 2011. (Khalifa made the class in 2010.) Those artists are celebrated for their production — and they join a roster of up-and-coming electronic musicians (like Toronto’s Holy F—k and

Sweden’s Avicii) who Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. perform far outside headlines this week’s Buku Music + Art Project festival. the world of hip-hop. The festival, produced Buku Music + Art Project by Winter Circle ProMAR ductions, aims to blur 4 p.m.-until Sat.-Sun. 17-18 those lines. Mardi Gras World “I’ve always been 1380 Port of New Orleans open, as far as blendPlace ing and working with other genres,” says 361-7821 K.R.I.T., who puts both www.thebukuproject.com Bobby Womack and Bon Iver on his dream collaboration list. “I love all music. Soul music, bluegrass, trip hop — if I get the opportunity to work with artists that aren’t in my genre, ain’t no telling what kind of song we might make.”

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he crowned prince of Southern hip-hop is a 25-year-old Meridian, Miss. native named Justin Scott. He was knighted last year by rap critics nationwide after his two 2011 free-to-download “mixtapes” went toe to toe with that year’s blockbuster rap releases. Scott is Big K.R.I.T., whose mixtapes are misnomers — they’re full albums, with impeccable self-produced beats, live instrumentation (and careful sampling) and K.R.I.T.’s signature flow, a laser-focused, Mississippi-accented voice carrying political and social weight. This weekend, he’s one of the headliners at the inaugural Buku Music + Art Project, a two-day event with electronic and hip-hop artists including K.R.I.T., chart-topping MC Wiz Khalifa, Grammy Award-winning dubstep musician Skrillex and manic producer/ globetrotter Diplo. K.R.I.T.’s acclaim followed the 2010 mixtape K.R.I.T. Wuz Here, which grabbed the attention of not only his now kindred spirit New Orleans MC Curren$y, but also Def Jam, the venerable rap label that signed K.R.I.T. that year. But he didn’t jump on the hype. “From that point on, I was like, OK, I can’t just treat this like I’m going to do some freestyles over other peoples’ beats and just drop it,” he says. “I want to do whole songs. I want it to be conceptual. I want to try and compete with a major label album with my mixtapes. … There’s so much I want to say, and there’s so much you can do with 3:20 of a song.” Or 43 of them — his acclaimed 2011 mixtapes Return of 4Eva and Last King 2 (God’s Machine) feature more than 20 songs, all released for free, without major label support, and both landed on several “best of” lists. This week, K.R.I.T. releases 4evaNaDay. In June, he makes his Def Jam debut with Live From the Underground, his first “album” album. Meridian is one of Mississippi’s largest cities — but, “compared to other metropolitan cities, it’s not crazy big,” K.R.I.T. says. “It gave me the opportunity to be in a city atmosphere, but be raised around a lot of my family. Where I’m from it takes a village to raise a child — your neighbor, all y’all grew up together. They’re watching out for you.” K.R.I.T.’s home was full of his grandmother’s music — soul, gospel and rhythm and blues. But he also was exposed to rap radio, from ’90s kings Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac to Southern rap royalty Scarface, UGK and 8Ball. “Just being able to get a wide variety of music growing up is what really helped me create my sound,” he says. “Even drum samples, sampling and understanding (drum machine Roland TR-808) kick

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OPENING FRIDAY IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (R) — Angelina Jolie makes her directorial debut with a love story set amid the Bosnian War. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (R) — In the adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s gripping novel, Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play the parents of a teenager whose behavior becomes increasingly vicious.

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BULLHEAD (R) — The Belgium film, which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, follows a steroids- and hormones-addicted cattle farmer who initiates a dangerous deal with a mafioso meat trader. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 6:30 p.m. Friday-Monday, then nightly through March 20 and 8 p.m. March 23-28, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net CLAUDINE (PG) — The 1974 film follows a single mother on welfare living in Harlem who begins a romance with a cheerful garbage man. The screening is part of the gallery’s Loving You Loving Me film series curated by Donna Duplantier. Free admission. 8 p.m. Wednesday, Antenna Gallery, 3161 Burgundy St., 298-3161; www.pressstreet.com MICHAEL (NR) — In Markus Schleinzer’s drama, an ostensibly mousy insur-

MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (NR) — In Frank Capra’s 1936 screwball comedy, a simple man has to deal with opportunists after inheriting a sizable fortune. Tickets $5.50. Noon Saturday-Sunday and March 21, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com PUBLIC DOMAIN — Visiting filmmakers from the Ottawa-based SAW Video Media Art Centre present a touring screening of six films made using public domain materials found in the film, video and audio collection at Library and Archives Canada. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 8:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net THE ROOM (NR) — This “comedy” has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” Tickets $8. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com SCANDINAVIAN FILM FESTIVAL — The church screens a different Scandinavian movie every third Thursday of each month at an event that also features refreshments and Scandinavian offerings. Admission $5 church members, $7 general admission. 7 p.m. Thursday, Norwegian Seamen’s Church, 1772 Prytania St., 525-5570 TOMBOY (NR) — In Celine Sciamma’s coming-of-age story, a 10-year-old girl with tomboy looks decides to pass herself off as a boy, and she catches the attention of a popular girl at her new school. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net YEELEN (NR) — Souleymane Cisse directed the Malian film that won the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Af-

Why make a movie based on a lame ’80s TV show remembered mainly for giving Johnny Depp his first starring role? 21 Jump Street doesn’t answer that question directly, but it comes awfully close. In an introductory scene, a police captain explains that he’s reassigning two bumbling rookie cops © 2012 COLUMBIA TRI-STAR (Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum) to an undercover squad working in a local high 21 Jump Street school in hopes of improving the squad’s Directed by Phil Lord performance. “They recycle shit from the and Chris Miller past and expect us not to notice,” he says. The line goes by quickly but the reference Starring Jonah Hill, is clear: Co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Channing Tatum and Miller are well aware that bad television is Ice Cube not the ideal source for a good film. They’re Wide release confident enough to make fun of the movie’s humble beginnings because they know they’re about to beat the odds. Shot last year in New Orleans, 21 Jump Street is far smarter and more engaging than it has any right to be. It’s virtually guaranteed to become the first authentic hit movie of 2012. So assured is this film of its own success, it finds a way to announce the premise of the first sequel before the credits roll. And it’s serving as the main attraction at this week’s SXSW Film festival in Austin, Texas an event not known as a safe harbor for mindless entertainment. Make no mistake — this is not highbrow stuff. If you got a dime for every penis joke in this movie, you could take the whole family out for dinner afterwards. But just as the best children’s movies manage to sneak in some substance for the adults, 21 Jump Street functions pretty well on a number of levels. The main idea behind sending two cops in their mid-20s back to high school is to suggest we grown-ups may not have come as far as we think. Everything at school has changed, but old issues and insecurities come roaring back with renewed vigor. Somehow 21 Jump Street makes this work easily alongside car chases and frat-boy humor. Having your cake and eating it too may not be the ultimate success for a mainstream movie, but it sure beats a whole bunch of lesser alternatives. Directors Lord and Miller pack their movie full of one-liners and sight gags like it was designed for repeat viewings. They maintain a playful tone by not taking themselves too seriously, or worrying much about making significant mistakes. Proof can be found in an uncredited cameo by none other than Depp. Without spoiling the surprise, Depp’s scene is just weird enough to be unsettling. It’s a far cry from the self-aggrandizing star turns often found in films like this. And it’s a fitting moment for a movie that seems to find its calling in defying expectations. We’ll take that over bad TV anytime. — KEN KORMAN

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BACKLASH: RACE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM (NR) — Bess Carrick and Chris Wiltz’s film documents former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke’s controversial 1990 race for the United States Senate. A panel discussion follows the screening. Free admission. 6 p.m. Tuesday, Louisiana Humanities Center, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, 523-4352; www.leh.org

ance agent has a dark secret — he is a child molester who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 8 p.m. TuesdayWednesday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net

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OPENING ANTIEAU GALLERY. 927 Royal St., 304-0849; www. antieaugallery.com — “Black White & Blue,” portraits by John Pappas; works by Bryan Cunningham, John Whipple and Chris Roberts-Antieau; both through April 21. Opening 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www. byrdiesgallery.com — A group exhibition of artists from the Community Print Shop, through April 10. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Your Planet Has Not Seen its Golden Age,” printmaking by Jesse Shaw and Erin Zona in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council International convention, through April 8. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. THE GRILL ROOM AT THE WINDSOR COURT. 300 Gravier St., 522-1994; www. windsorcourthotel.com — Woodworks by Tom Dunne. Artist’s reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.Tuesday. JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — Reception for Southern Graphics Council International Conference featuring works by Tony Fitzpatrick, Michael Pajon and Catherine Brooks, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday. NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum.org — “September 11, 2001: A Global Moment,” through May 20. Opening Thursday.

TAYLOR/BERCIER FINE ART. 233 Chartres St., 5270072 — “Blood Relatives,” works by Fred Stonehouse; “Drips, Drops and Ink Blots,” works by Mark Hosford; both through April 30. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

GallErIEs 1239 CONGRESS. 1239 Congress St. — Photographs by Christian Hardy, Andy Cook, Jordan Cabot, Durado Brooks and Michelle Nicolette Kowalski, through April 1. A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Photogravures by Josephine Sacabo, through March. ACADEMY GALLERY. 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 — Self-Portrait Invitational, through March 24. ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 298-3161; www.press-street.com — “Object Play,” prints and sculpture by Katie Murken, Christopher Michlig, Tricia Treacy and Ashley John Pigford, through April 8. ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Paintings by Anne McLeod, sculpture by Hernan Caro, jewelry by Belle Bijoux, ceramic crafts by Reenie Esteb and works by Terri Brasher, through March. ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 5221999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “200: Art Inspired by 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood,” paintings by Francis X. Pavy; “Keepsakes,” mixedmedia works by Mary Jane

BIG BUNNY FINE ART. 332 Exchange Alley, 309-2444; www.lineartgallery.com — “Broken Crayons,” paintings and mixed media by Traeger Di Pietro, through Sunday. CALLAN CONTEMPORARY. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Immersion,” paintings by Adrian Deckbar, through March 24. CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Artists of Faith,” works by Jack Bartlett, Sonia Kouyoumdjian, Nell Tilton, David Goodman and Jean Geraci, through April 14.

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COLLINS C. DIBOLL ART GALLERY. Loyola University, Monroe Library, 6363 St. Charles Ave., fourth floor, 861-5456 — Southern Graphics Council International juried membership show; “Texted Haiku Broadsides,” works by Dirk Hanger; both through March 29. Reception 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.

NEW ORLEANS ARTWORKS. 727 Magazine St., 529-7279 — “Running the Gamut,” original prints and hand-bound books by Loujon Press and works by other printmakers and book artists, through March. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

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LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries. com — “Primordial and Sacred,” works by Deedra Ludwig, through April 14. MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — Paintings by Shay Kun, through March. OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Reflections in the South,” oil paintings by Edward Bear Miller, through March. SCOTT EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY. 2109 Decatur St., 610-0581 — “Barry Kaiser: A Photographic Restrospective”; “Sex&Death&Rock&Roll,” photographs by Sean Yseult; both through April 7. ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — “Engagement,” works by Gerald Cannon, Jessica Danby, Laura Gipson and Kathy Rodriguez, through April 7. STAPLE GOODS. 1340 St. Roch Ave., 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/ staplegoods — “Symbiosis,” prints and mixed-media drawings by Laura Richens, through April 8.

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STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 568-9050 — Prints and sculpture by Elizabeth Catlett; a group exhibition of works inspired by Romare Bearden; both through March. THREE RIVERS GALLERY. 333 E. Boston St., (985) 892-2811; www. threeriversgallery.com — Works by Gail Glassman, through May 10.

call for artists MICHAEL P. SMITH FUND FOR DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY. the New Orleans Photo Alliance awards a $5,000 grant to a photographer residing in Gulf Coast states. Visit www. neworleansphotoalliance.org for details. Application deadline is March 30. ST. TAMMANY ART ASSOCIATION. the organization seeks entries for its annual National Juried Artists Exhibition, which opens July 14 and is judged by New Orleans Museum of Art modern and contemporary art curator Miranda Lash. Email info@sttammanyartassociation.org or visit www.sttammanyartassociation. org for details. Submissions deadline is March.

museums CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno. org — “NOLA NOW, Part II: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape (1986 & 2012),” through June 10. “Spaces,” works from artist co-ops Antenna, the Front and Good Children Gallery, through June 10, and more. HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COL-

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St. Claude artists at the Contemporary Arts Center In the months following Hurricane Katrina, it was not unusual to see New Orleanians with new fleur-de-lis tattoos. Having nothing to do with football, this reflected militant support for the city and what it stood for, which was seriously threatened at the time. Another post-Katrina pheSpaces: Antenna, tHRu nomenon was the rise of artist-run the Front and Good JUNE co-op galleries along the St. Claude Children Gallery Avenue corridor. What both phenomena had in common was a sense that Contemporary Arts creative and personal freedom are Center what this city is really all about. the 900 Camp St. militant, do-it-yourself spirit of the 528-3805 recovery inspired artists to create their own gallery scene in the city’s www.cacno.org Bohemian epicenter — which this Spaces show at the Contemporary Arts Center celebrates, and inferentially documents, with work from three of the leading co-op galleries. true to the spirit of St. Claude, the art was curated by the galleries themselves, resulting in a very miscellaneous expo with a mingling of new and old, outstanding and routine work. this also reflects a scene that favors experimentation over sales. Some of the highlights include Dave Greber’s three-panel video display of artists affiliated with the Front delivering their own personal, self-parodying and hilarious artist statements. there’s also a kind of lounge/library where gallery catalogs share space with wall posters and a chalkboard timeline history of local co-op galleries. A poster for Antenna Gallery featuring a giant busty female space alien flipping cars on I-10 by the Superdome is a minor masterpiece in its own right. And Monopoly (St. Claude) by Good Children Gallery artists tony Campbell and Mat Vis is a large Monopoly game with Champagne glasses and top hats symbolizing the nascent “gentrification” of St. Claude Avenue epitomized by a proposed CVS pharmacy on the site of the defunct Frankie and Johnny’s furniture store. the real stars of the show are the galleries themselves and what they represent: the only artist-run arts district in America, and a vital example of participatory democracy in the service of urban community building. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDt

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “New Orleans Bound 1812: the Steamboat that Changed America,” through January 2013. LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — “the Louisiana Plantation Photos of Robert tebbs,” 60 gelatin silver

prints by the architecture photographer, through November, and more.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, through April 8. “Self-taught Artists from NOMA’s Permanent Collection,” an exhibition curated by Alice Yelen, through April 15. “Hard truths: the Art of thornton Dial,” through May 20, and more. NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “tamarind touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty,” a retrospective exhibition of lithographs from the tamarind Institute,

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OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “the Created World of Enrique Alferez,” sculpture and works on paper by the artist, through April 2. “the Past Still Present,” photographs by David Halliday; “the Shape of Louisiana Commenting on the Shape of Louisiana,” assemblages by Jimmy Descant, through April 8. TULANE UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ROOM. Jones Hall, room 205, Tulane University, 6801 Freret St., 865-5000; www.tulane.edu — “the Art of Proteus,” an exhibition showcasing the krewe’s costume and float designs from 1882-1907, through May 30.

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LECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — “Goddess Fortuna and Her Dunces in an Effort to Make Sense of it All,” outdoor installation by Dawn Dedeaux, through March 30. “Furnishing Louisiana, 1735–1835,” exploring early Louisiana furniture and woodworking, through June 17.

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ESOTEROTICA. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.com — local writers present readings of erotic poetry, monologues, performance pieces, novel excerpts and songs. email sanssavant@ gmail.com for details. admission is “pay what you can.” 8 p.m. wednesday. FLANAGAN’S WAKE. Teatro Wego, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, 885-2000; www. jpas.org — a. J. allegra directs the interactive, partially improvised comedy that’s set at the wake of a local in a fictitious irish village. tickets $30 general admission, $27 seniors and military, $20 students. 7:30 p.m. saturday-sunday and 2 p.m. sunday. THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA. Dixon Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 865-5000 — Jpas produces the musical about a young woman who gets swept up in an intense romance while touring the tuscan countryside, much to the dismay of her protective mother. Call 885-2000 or visit www.jpas. org for reservations. tickets $30 general admission, $27 seniors and military, $20 students. 7:30 p.m. fridaysaturday, 2 p.m. sunday. THE LION KING. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — animals are brought to life in the tony award-winning stage production based on the animated Disney film. tickets $40-$153 (plus fees). 8 p.m. tuesdaysaturday, 6:30 p.m. sunday (except april 15), 2 p.m. saturday and march 15, and 1 p.m. sunday, march 15-april 15. MOON OVER BUFFALO. Playmakers Theater, 19106 Playmakers Road (off Lee

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ON THE AIR. Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — the musical pays tribute to the heyday of radio broadcasts. 8 p.m. friday-saturday, 11 a.m. sunday. SNARK AFTER DARK. Backyard Ballroom, 3519 St. Claude Ave., 945-9936; www.frontmanshow.com — skin Horse theater presents a rowdier, more adult version of its family-friendly stage adaptation of lewis Carroll’s epic nonsense poem “the Hunting of the snark,” followed by an after-party with local musicians. tickets $5. 10:30 p.m. saturday. TICK, TICK... BOOM! Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave.; www.neworleanshealingcenter. org — frannie rosenberg buchtel directs p.J. mcKinnie, Janie Heck and Jeffrey springmann in Jonathan larson’s (rent) autobiographical musical about an aspiring composer living in new York City in 1990. tickets $20. 7 p.m. friday-saturday and 2:30 p.m. sunday. WELCOME TO DESIRE. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.com — nari tomassetti reimagines tennessee williams’ a streetcar named Desire as a ribald original work. tickets $13. 8 p.m. friday, sunday and march 22 and 10 p.m. saturday, through march 24.

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“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” this is the theme of many blood-curdling tales from Medea to Salome, which the New Orleans Opera Association recently presented to a full house at the Mahalia Jackson theater. Salome is an archetypal figure who emerged over the course of centuries. Her stepfather, King Herod, and his wife, Herodias, formerly the wife of Herod’s brother, are prominent in the brief biblical account. John the Baptist railed against this “incestuous” marriage, so Herod imprisoned John (or Jochanaan) and eventually executed him. Oscar Wilde created the basis for what became Richard Strauss’ opera. Wilde essentially invented the Salome we think of, as well as “the dance of the seven veils” that we associate with her. Salome (soprano Mlada Khudoley) bolts onstage, fleeing a banquet given by the lecherous Herod. She enters a palace terrace where several Roman soldiers stand guard over Jochanaan (Ryan McKinny), who is imprisoned in a cistern. Salome is intrigued by Jochanaan’s imprecations against her mother and insists the prophet be taken out so she can see him. “Seeing” in this drama almost always has a sexual subtext — whether it’s Herod ogling his stepdaughter or Salome devouring Jochanaan with her eyes. When she sees the frail man, she falls madly in love with him. She praises his body and asks to touch it. When he refuses, she reviles him, but praises his hair, his eyes and finally his lips. Jochanaan is tempted by her desire, but Jochanaan rejects and curses her as a whore and a daughter of Sodom. He entreats her to seek Jesus, who is preaching in the wilderness. then he’s put back in his cistern dungeon. Unable to watch Salome throw herself at the prophet, her suitor Narraboth (Sean Panikkar) takes out a dagger and kills himself. Herod (John Mac Master) and Herodias (Gwendolyn Jones) come onto the terrace. From his cistern, Jochanaan continues to curse the queen. She wants him killed, but Herod is afraid to mess with a man of God. the king is distracted by Salome and begs her to dance for him. She agrees, but only after he promises to reward her with whatever she requests. Kudoley contrives a lovely dance (choreographed by Gregory Schramel), dropping the occasional veil. She casts off all her clothes in the end and prostrates herself before his highness. As her reward, she demands the head of Jochanaan. the king tries to wriggle out of his vow, but his stepdaughter will accept nothing less. A horrifying climax follows as Salome kisses Jochanaan’s lips as his head lies on a silver platter. the enraged king orders Salome’s execution, and his wife stabs him from behind as the Roman soldiers rush toward the doomed Salome. Katrin Hilbe’s stage direction was effective, and the one-act opera held the audience’s attention. the singing and the playing of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Robert Lyall, were splendid. Bravo to a daring and well-done production. — DALt WONK

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CREATING YOUR DREAM HOME ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET. Preservation Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St., 581-7032; www.prcno.org — the prC and 504ward present the program. 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. FREEDOM RIDERS REMEMBERED. Xavier University, Administration Building Auditorium, 520-7525; www. xula.edu — the program includes a conversation with civil rights activists and scenes from Dan shore’s Freedom Ride opera. Call 520-7462 for details. free admission. 7 p.m.

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FRENCH QUARTER WINE FESTIVAL. Le Meritage, 1001 Toulouse St., 5228800; www.lemeritagerestaurant.com/ — the festival pairs food by chef michael farrell with wines from a variety of vineyards. Dinners range from $97-$175, plus tax and tip. Visit www.frenchquarterwinefestival.com for details. tuesdays, wednesdays. through april 25. NEW ORLEANS ENTREPRENEUR WEEK. I.P. Building, 643 Magazine St. — the event features free seminars and workshops covering topics geared toward entrepreneurs, startups and developing businesses. preregistration recommended. Visit www.ideavillage.org/programs/noew/noew_2012 for details. URBAN LAND INSTITUTE LOUISIANA PROGRAM.

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WEdNEsday 14 ART IN BLOOM. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — the five-day event features more than 75 exhibitors showcasing floral designs, sculptures and sceneries, and there are lectures, demonstrations and more. a patron and preview party kicks off the event. patron party 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., preview party 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. wednesday. exhibition, lectures and other events wednesday-sunday.

THUrsday 15 BFT AND THE WOLFBAT RAILWAY. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., 908-4741 — the three-day event includes the construction of a wooden train and an opening reception and parade through the marigny and bywater. the event also includes an art market and fashion show. email bftwolfbat@gmail.com for details. train construction 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. thursday-friday, fashion show 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. thursday, art market 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. saturday, reception/ parade 6 p.m. saturday. ELLEN BLUE. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — blue, associate professor of the History of Christianity and United methodist studies at phillips theological seminary, discusses “st. mark’s on rampart street: methodist women, the social gospel and Civil rights in new orleans” and signs St. Mark’s and the Social

VOICES OF INNOCENCE. Resurrection After Exoneration Building, 1212 St. Bernard Ave., 943-1902; www.ra-e.org — exonerated convicts share their stories in the resurrection after exoneration program. Call 302-1940, email voi_booking@r-a-e.org or visit www.voicesofinnocence.org for details. free admission. 6 p.m. VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Broadway Activities Center, Room 202, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 501 Pine St., 861-5550; www. law.loyno.edu — loyola University’s College of law provides free tax preparation assistance to people with low to moderate incomes. Call 861-5668 or apiacun@loyno.edu for details. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. saturday, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. monday and thursday through april 12 (except april 7 and april 9).

Friday 16 CLASSIC CHEFS OF JEFFERSON. East Jefferson General Hospital, Conference Center, 454-4000; www.ejgh. org — the fundraiser for the Jefferson Community school features an auction with a football autographed by new orleans saints coach sean payton, season tickets for Jpas, art, gift baskets, restaurant gift certificates and other items. Call 836-0808 or email freddiel@ celebrationhopecenter.org for details. 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. SACRE COEUR TOUR DE MAISONS. the tour benefiting the academy of the sacred Heart’s sister shirley miller scholarship fund features six homes on st. Charles avenue and state street. Call 2691242 or visit www.ashrosary. org for details. tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. STARLIGHT RACING. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., 943-1415; www.fairgroundsracecourse. com — the fair grounds hosts a nighttime racing event with live music, DJs and cuisine from local food trucks. general admission is $5; clubhouse and beer garden admission is an additional $5. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. STRAWBERRY JAM’N TOAST TO THE ARTS. Louisiana Renaissance Festival, 46468 River Road, Hammond, www.larf.org — northshore regional endowment for the arts’ event features more than 80 bands, dance and theater performances, rides, arts and crafts, food and more. Visit

EVEnt LISTINGS www.strawberryjam.org for details. Admission $5 per day or $10 for a weekend pass, free for children 14 or under. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. VINO ON THE BAYOU. Pitot House, 1440 Moss St. — The Courtyard Kings perform at the event that also features a wine tasting and a book signing with New Orleans Classic Brunches author Kit Wohl. Admission $5 Louisiana Landmarks Society members, $10 nonmembers. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Saturday 17 B.A.D. (BOLD, AWESOME, DYNAMIC) GIRLZ CONFERENCE. Second Zion Baptist Church, 6520 Second Zion Blvd., 348-7799 — The Awesome Ladies of Distinction’s conference aims to promote positive self image and self esteem among girls ages 7-17 with motivational speakers, giveaways, a fashion show and other events. Call 348-3992 or email awesomeladies@ aol.com for details. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. DOUGLAS REDD CULTURAL SUMMIT. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The summit, named for the late New Orleans artist, features panel discussions on health and entrepreneurship, a creative tribute to Redd, networking opportunities, a health fair and more. Call 495-0463 for details. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

SWEETARTS. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org — The Contemporary Art Center’s annual fundraiser features speciality cocktails, food from local restaurants, one-night-only art installations and more. A reception before the main event at the Lambert & Nelson law office (701 Magazine St.) honors leaders in the New Orleans cultural community. General admission $100 CAC members, $150 nonmembers. Honoree reception $250 CAC members, $300 general admission. Reception 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., party 9 p.m. to midnight.

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THE JEWISH ROOTS OF JAZZ. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The Jewish Children’s Regional Service presents the program narrated by author and musician Thomas Sancton and features a performance by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.Call 828-6334 or visit www. jcrs.org for details. General admission starts at $40, patron party admission starts at $200. 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. patron party, 8 p.m. general admission.

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MICHAEL FISCHMAN. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — Fischman, president of the Art of Living Foundation, discusses the role breath can play in elevating life and signs Stumbling Into Infinity: An Ordinary Man in the Sphere of Enlightenment. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Call for aPPlICaTIonS SALUTE TO SENIOR SERVICE. Home Instead Senior Care seeks nominations for a senior citizen (65 or older) who does at least 15 hours of volunteer work a month. The winner receives a $5,000 donation to a charity. Email ckoehler@ homeinsteadinc.com or visit www.salutetoseniorservice. com for details. Application deadline is Thursday. YMCA NORTHSHORE HEROES. The West Tammany YMCA seeks nominations of people who represent the values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. They will be recognized at a a luncheon May 4. Call 985-893-9622 or email amandam@ymcaneworleans.org for details. Application deadline is Thursday.

wordS CONSTANCE ADLER. Maple Street Book Shop, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., 304-7115; www. maplestreetbookshop.com — The author reads from and signs My Bayou: New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover. 6 p.m. Thursday. PATRICIA BRIGGS. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — The author discusses and

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Much of the New orleans area will be going green for a long St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The festivities begin Thursday with a block party in the Irish Channel. Parasol’s (2533 Constance St., 302-1543; www. parasolsbarandrestaurant.com) hosts its annual block party from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and at the other end of the block, Tracey’s (2604 Magazine St., 897-5413; www. traceysnola.com) starts its party at 11 a.m. Former governor and convicted felon edwin edwards is the grand marshal of Jim Monaghan’s annual French Quarter St. Patrick’s Day parade Friday. It departs from Molly’s at the Market (1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net) at 6:30 p.m. and loops around the historic distric. Saturday brings the Irish Channel parade (www. irishchannelno.org), which begins at 1 p.m. at the corner of Constance and Josephine streets and skirts around the Garden District. Also marching Saturday is the Downtown Irish Club, which follows a route from the Bywater to the French Quarter. The Louisiana Irish-Italian Parade in Metairie begins at noon Sunday at Martin Behrman Avenue and follows Veterans Memorial Boulevard to the Clearview Shopping Center. Visit www.stpatricksdayneworleans.com for more information about these events. — WILL CoVIeLLo signs Fair Game. 5:30 p.m. Friday. POETRY MEETING. New Orleans Poetry Forum, 257 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie, 835-8472 — The forum holds workshops every Wednesday. 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ROBERT KANIGEL. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 8997323 — The author signs and discusses On an Irish Island. 6 p.m. Wednesday. SOUTHERN LOUISIANA CHAPTER OF ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA.

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YOGA/MEDITATION/PILATES AUDUBON YOGA STUDIO

With paid class $20. 10 years teaching experience. 504-220-5589. www.pilateswithconstance.com

MERCHANDISE

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merchandise for sale valued under $100 (price must be in ad) or ads for pets found/lost. No phone calls. Please fax or email.

• For all Line Ads - Thurs. @ 5 p.m. • For all Display Ads - Wed. @ 5 p.m.

Swedish, deep tissue, therapeutic. Flex appts, in/out calls, OHP/student discounts, gift cert. $65/hr, $75/ 1 1/2hr. LA Lic# 1763 Mark. 259-7278

Massage therapists are required to be licensed with the State of Louisiana and must include the license number in their ads.

A BODY BLISS MASSAGE

Jeannie LMT #3783-01. Flexible appointments. Uptown Studio or Hotel out calls. 504.894.8856 (uptown)

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES $125 Full/Double Size Mattress Set, still in original plastic, unopened. We can deliver. (504) 846-5122 $295 Brand New Iron Queen Bed with mattress set, all new. Can deliver. (504) 952-8403 King Pillowtop Mattress, NEW!!! ONLY $225. Can deliver. (504) 846-5122 NEW Pub Height Table Set all wood, still boxed. Delivery available. $250. (504) 846-5122

ROUX

Little over 1 yr petite side of medium. Female, great with other dogs. LOVES PEOPLE - snuggler. Contact tbkestker@ cox.net

BOGIE – DSH CAT

White w/ blk spots, M, 7 yrs old, fully vetted. Baby Girl’s brother. Easy going. Sweet with Baby Girl, but could go alone. Would love one on one attention and to replace the home he lost. Call 454-8200

Buddy boy Catahoula mix

m all med. done & house broken sweet & good w/ other dogs Loves to play w/ toys. Best in home w/no small kids. contact cindy foxcfox@cox.net 504-451-9335

CARMEN-Steel grey/wh, DSH F, 5 yrs old, fully vetted. Carmen has been sheltered almost all of her life. She is sweet and loving. Gets along with other cats and dogs but would prefer to be an only cat. Call 504-454-8200

COOKIE-DSH CAT

Blk/wt, F,7 yrs old, fully vetted. Cookie has been sheltered for almost 6 years. She has a sweet, friendly nature and has been overlooked too long. She is ready for a home of her own. She has never been around dogs, but would probably be OK. Call 454-8200

HENRY - 4 YRS OLD

Docile & sweet BEAGLE/TERRIER MIX. Shy at first, but then warms right up! Loves attention & being close. Great companion dog, other dogs of al sizes & cats ok! Housebroken. Traci-tbkestler@cox.net

JACK RUSSELL TERRIER

Sweet & laid back, snuggle. JR - male, 16lbs, 4 yrs old, housebroken. Laid back, cuddler, playful, good on leash, good w/kids & dogs. Itraci tbkestler@cox.net

JUNEBUG - DSH CAT

Torti, F, 2yrs old, fully vetted. Owner relinquish due to family problems. This little girl is friendly, outgoing, and full of spirit. Better without dogs. Loves to play. Contact 504-454-8200

I am looking for work taking care of elderly, handicapped, etc. Light meals, sitz bath. Certified CNA+. Refs. (504) 427-1445, leave msg if no answer.

LEGAL NOTICES IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE

ERIC DUANE DENNIS CASE NO: 09-0251DR PETITIONER, VS. SALLY A. DENNIS RESPONDENT. TO: SALLY A. DENNIS Order of Publication It appearing from the bill in this cause, which is sworn to that the residence and current address of the above listed defendant, SALLY A. DENNIS, unknown and cannot be served with process, It is therefore ordered publication be made for four consecutive weeks in THE GAMBIT WEEKLY, a newspaper published in NEW ORLEANS, ORLEANS PARISH, LOUISIANA, requiring the above listed defendant, SALLY A. DENNIS, appear before the clerk of said court on or before thirty days after the last publication hereof and make defense to the bill filed in the above cause, which seeks DIVORCE or otherwise said bill be taken for confesses and cause proceeded with exparte. This the 22nd day of FEBRUARY, 2012 John A.W. Bratcher, Clerk of said Court, By: Lori Finch, Deputy Clerk. Solicitors for Plaintiff: APRIL WATKINS TO BE RUN; 3/6, 3/13, 3/20 & 3/27/2012

hua who loves to sit in your lap to be petted. Pip also gives lots of kisses, prefers a more quiet household and will require TLC during his complimentary heartworm treatment. To meet Pip or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

REWARD- LOST

(Mid City but could be anywhere by now),Ozzie, male, brown/black stripe (brindle), pit mix, sweet, call him & he will come, hold him &call me asap, Traci 504-975-5971.

PET ADOPTIONS PIP Kennel #A15096527

BABY GIRL - DMH

Siamese mix, F, 7 yrs old, fully vetted. Owner could no longer keep. Sweet and loving. This little girl would to replace the home she lost. Good with children and other cats. Call 504454-8200

MAGGIE - GREY CAT

Who loves to hang out! Indoor cat. Sweet w/other cats. Adores the company of people. Traci - tbkestler@ cox.net 504-975-5971

ANNOUNCEMENTS Let Me Work For You

Pip is a 2-year-old, neutered, Chihua-

LOST/FOUND PETS

9 yr old , spayed, gentle, quiet and litter trained. She is de-wormed and has gotten all of her shots including rabies vaccine. No fleas. She MUST be an inside house as she has FIV. The perfect home would be with no children or other pets and in a stable environment. Non-smoking home only. 619-309-0973 or email mwall1000@gmail.com

ADOPTIONS PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293

Weekly Tails

PETS

Special Needs Cat

ANNOUNCEMENTS

RED Kennel #A15111491

Red is a 7-year-old, neutered, DSH, with classic orange tabby markings. He’s quite the social butterfly and enjoys the company of other kitties, toys and especially people. To meet Red or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191. To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

EMPLOYMENT

CLASSIFIEDS LANDSCAPE/HORTICULTURE

SERVICES

BOOK NOW TO SPRAY YOUR OAK TREES

HOME SERVICES Don’t Replace Your Tub REGLAZE IT

Chip/Spot Repair - Colors Available Clawfoot tubs for sale Southern Refinishing LLC Certified Fiberglass Technician Family Owned & Operated 504-348-1770 southernrefinishing.com

For Buckmoth Caterpillars & Termites Natural, non-chemical pesticide ADRIAN’S TREE SERVICE Call Jean, 504-367-1160

DELTA SOD

Certified Grade “A” Turf St. Augustine, Tifway Bermuda Centipede, Zoysia. WE BEAT ALL COMPETITORS! 504-733-0471

JEFFERSON FEED

AIR COND/HEATING SUPERIOR AIRE

Trane 3 Ton Replacement System $3990 Installed Expires 3/31/12 504-465-0688 Air Conditioning Heating

FLOORS/CARPET/TILE GROUT WORKS, LLC

Tile Grout Cleaning, Color Sealing, Grout repair, Shower Restoration, Natural Stone Care, Tile Replacement, Recaulking. Commercial & Residential. Free Estimates. Jay Broadwell, 504-309-2509. www.grout-works.com

Pet & Garden Center GREEN GRASS - REAL FAST The Only Certified Grade A St. Augustine Sod For New Orleans Conditions. Save with our Do-It-Yourself Lawn Maintenance Program. 733-8572.

PEST CONTROL Kills Bedbugs & Roaches

With Harris Bed Bug Killer & Harris Roach Killer. Odorless, non-staining formulas. Will rid your home of bed bugs & kill roaches for up to 1 year. Guaranteed. Makes 2 gallons. Available at: Johnny’s True Value, 2001 Mirabeau Ave & United Hardware, 735 Elysian Fields.

PLUMBING GENERAL CONTRACTORS MIKE’S REMODELING

Small & Big Jobs - We Do It All Custom cabinets, carpentry, painting, sheetrock, ceramic, roofs, kitchen & baths. Call (504) 324-9585

HANDYMAN

ROOTER MAN

Sewer & Drain Cleaning Specialists Plumbing Repair Specialists New Orleans 504-522-9536. Kenner-Jefferson 504-466-8581. Westbank 504-368-4070. Laplace 985-652-0084. Mandeville 985-626-5045. Slidell 985-641-3525. MENTION GAMBIT FOR A DISCOUNT

HARRY’S HOUSE HELPERS

* Small Jobs *Repairs *Carpentry *Painting *Install AND MORE! Insured & Priced-Right Harry’s Helpful Ace Hardware Uptown * 504-896-1500 Metairie * 504-896-1550

LEGAL SERVICES Need Something Notarized?

24hrs/7days Traveling Notaries Melissa Culotta - (504) 473-1215 Isabelle Montelepre (504) 220-2503

TAX SERVICES

EMPLOYMENT

ACCOUNTING/BOOKKEEPING BOOKKEEPER

New Orleans Food Co-op, communityowned grocery store seeks a part to full time Bookkeeper to provide timely & accurate financial infor & analysis to mgmt, to ensure fiscal responsibility in operations and support achievement of co-op objectives. Duties include conducting: —Accounts Payable —Accounts Receivable —Account for owner equity —Financial Reporting —Money-Handling and Banking —Payroll —Technology & Office Coordination —Other duties as determined GM. For a detailed job description and application stop into the store at 2372 St. Claude Avenue, Suite 110, or visit: http://www.nolafood. coop/employment/ To be considered you must submit an application AND resume no later than Friday, 3/16/12.

BEAUTY SALONS/SPAS UPSCALE METAIRIE SALON

Is accepting applications for assistants, stylists, and colourists with 2+ years experience. Please apply in person at 3264 Severn Avenue, Metairie, La 70002.

W-2 SELF-EMPLOYED BUSINESS ETC ...

Tel: 888-644-2467

Email resume hr@neworleans-food.com

Construction Project Engineer (New Orleans): Support construction process through estimating, negotiation, contracting, construction admin & closeout. Coord w/engg depts, contractors/suppliers for prescribed policies/ procedures. Ensure compliance of construction operations/execution w/ federal, state, & local codes, industry stds, co. procedures, & contractual reqmts. Update clients on construction progress. Prep progress reports. Reqs MS in Construction Engg Mgmt w/6 mos relevant exp. Mail resume to HR Burk-Kleinpeter, Inc., 4176 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70119

MISCELLANEOUS Pinelands Preservations

Seeks independent laborers, landscapers and/or handymen to perform property maintenance. Visit www. pinelandspreservations.com, or call Aaron, 831-222-0044 for more info.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY N. O. Health MagazineFor Sale

Only $18,000 with no royalties. Nice profit potential. Call Greg for all the details, (985) 966-7777

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EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR T.G.I. FRIDAYS

Now Hiring Server/Bar. Apply M-Th, 2-4pm WB location.

Become a part of the team! Applications for this exciting opportunity are being accepted for the following positions:

VOLUNTEER

Line cooks (hot and cold line) Prep Cook, Pastry Cook, Captain, Front and Backwaiter, Cocktail Server Food Runners, Stocker/Polishers Host/Hostesses, Maître’d, and Bartender

Offers Volunteer Opportunities. Make a difference in the lives of the terminally ill & their families. Services include: friendly visits to patients & their families, provide rest time to caretaker, bereavement & office assistance. School service hours avail. Call Volunteer Coordinator @ 504-818-2723 #3016

Send your letter of interest and resume or Appy In Person at 700 Conti, NOLA , Mon - Fri - 9am -4pm Email – employment@revolutionnola.com

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Ideal candidate must: • Actively solicit & book all types of in-house parties & catered offsites • Plan, organize, and coordinate all aspects of events • Must have knowledge of local corporate & social market • Is extremely organized, can manage multiple projects, & has a keen sense of style & attention to detail.

ENGINEERING

TAX SERVICE IF YOU HAVE KIDS WE GUARANTEE YOU WILL GET A REFUND

We are searching for an energetic & driven individual to join our fast paced restaurant group as an Outside Sales Manager.

ENGINEER

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WAREHOUSE DISTRICT #208: New renov, beautiful hdwd flrs, granite cntrs & top of the lineapp. Lg 1br/1ba 720 sq ft on atrium! Rooftop pool & cabana. $229,000 #504: Beaut renv 5th fl corner. Chef’s kitc & open bar into lg liv & din w/wall of windows. 1 pkng in int garage. $395,000. E.J. Maysonave (504) 554-6210

SHOWCaSe FRENCH QUARTER

520 St. Phillip #3 399K

FQ Townhouse Building. Fully renovated 1830’s. Spacious 2BR w/private patio. Slate flrs, granite, ss, brick & beams. Elevator access to rooftop terrace.E.J. Maysonave (504) 554-6210

Buying or Selling in the FQ?

922-24 Dauphine St. $875K Four 1 bedroom apartments. Parking for 5+ cars.

938 Royal St. A $215K Great location for this condo. Perfect for your weekend getaways! Quaint & comfortable. 1 br, great kit & bath.

835 Royal St. $349.5K Great location, secluded hideaway! Spac 2 br, 2 marble tile baths. Small rear balc overlooking garden.

617 Duphine St. $268K Spacious light filled condo. Great floor plan. Fabulous pool and courtyard. Being sold furnished. In the heart of the quarter.

JAX BREWERY French Quarter’s Finest

Paula Bowler, Agent • French Quarter Realty o:504-949-5400 • c:504-952-3131 • www.frenchquarterrealty.com

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

NOTICE:

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY

MARGARITA BERGEN

Call (504) 495-9181 for all your Real Estate needs. Hablo Espanol. margaritabergen@hotmail.com Keller Williams, 8601 Leake Avenue, NOLA Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

KENNER Esplanade Condo - 115K

Two-story renovated townhouse condo with all the amenities. Tasteful kitchen with maple cabinets and stainless appliances, central A/H, pool and dedicated off-street parking spot, & 1 block to the French Quarter. Agents protected. Call 525-3067 O/A

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1012 ST. PETERS

MULTIPLE UNITS AVAILABLE. Breath taking view of St. Louis Cathedral from balcony. Beautiful mster bdrm marble flrs in bath, hi ceilis, hrdwd flrs, courtyard & more. 2 blks to Bourbon St. Call Agent For Details: Delisha Boyd, BA, MBA, DBA(abd) Real Estate Consultant Gardner Realtors 504415-1802 Direct 504-366-4511 Office www.Delishaboyd.com Delishaboyd@aol.com

1100 ROYAL STREET

Great value! On site garage pkng. Great residential unit w/2 Master suites, 1750 sq. ft. $459,000. E.J. Maysonave, (504) 544-6210

214 Chartres #1 $849K

New Listing. Hidden Gem! Lg (2300sf) 2br/2ba, wet bar, spacious living & INTERIOR COURTYARD. E.J. Maysonave (504) 554-6210

CALL JUDY GIGLIO TODAY 504-259-1873. REMAX Real Estate Partners, Inc., 4141 Veterans Blvd., Metairie. 504-888-9900. Each office is independently owned & operated.

1124 Burgundy St

Architectural Palace with unique features and old world elegance. 5,990 sq ft, parking incl. It is a fortunate, sophisticated buyer who will call this home. $2,800,000. Dorian Bennett - Southeby’s International Realty. 504944-3605, 2340 Dauphine St., www. dbsir.com. info@dbsir.com. Each office is independently owned & operated

FQ CREOLE TOWNHOUSE

Over 3000 sqft. Exquisite 2nd fl condo features all the gracious amenities! 3br/3.5ba, 2 gas fp & Chef’s kit & MUCH more! Offered by L. Bryan Francher and Leslie A. Perrin, Gardner Realtors, 504-251-6400, 504-7225820, 504-891-6400.

FRENCH QUARTER STUDIOS

514 DUMAINE , Charming studio wiith courtyard. 1BR w/ coveted street balcony. Starting at $104,000. Judy Fisher, Inc, 504-388-3023. www. JudyFisher.net

N * 1/1 Riverviews $495,000 J * Rare 3/3 1750 sq. ft $695,000 H * Jackson Square 2/2 $795,000 All easy access to River Terrace E.J. Maysonave (504) 554-6210

Luxury French Qtr Condo

1201 Canal St. Unit 257. 1 blk from FQ. Jump on streetcar right outside your front door. 2BR, 2BA. First class! $285K. 24 hr valet Parking, Rooftop pool, More. Theresa Rowe, Mauti, Meredith, Scoggin , 985-502-5055

PRIME FQ COMMERCIAL

301 Decatur St. Rare corner location zoning allows live entertainment. 9,000 sq ft (Approx 3,000 sq ft ea. floor). Beautiful light filled loft style spaces. Possible owner financing. $1,650,000. Judy Fisher REALTORS 504-3883023. www.JudyFisher.net

ST. BERNARD PARISH Old Arabi Nr. Jackson Barracks

523 Angela, 3 miles from Marigny. 10 Min from The Quarter. 110 year old home, fully restored, 1200 sq ft, 12’ ceil, orig hdwd flrs, 2 firepl, 2 BR, 2 BA, granite in kit $145K. 504-554-4800

NORTHSHORE INDEPENDENCE, LA

13109 Brickyard Rd. . 7BR, 3BA, lg den w/ wet bar. Office space. 1 acre+. Fenced backyd. Close to I-55. To see go to latter-blum.com. Paula Distefano, Latter & Blum, ERA powered is independly owned and operated. 888-323-7601

COVINGTON 3 BLEU LAKE DR.

Gorgeous high-end custom renovation Lake-front 3.3 acre Acadian w/pool 4-5BR/4BA, 3812sf liv. Stunning! $585,000. Lynne Mire 504-458-1968 Talbot Realty Group 504-525-9763

Historic Covington District

Stately antebellum home on 1.3 acres w/river access 5 BR, 4.5 BA main house. Guest cottage in rear. Pool. 622 S. America. $1,675,000. Janet Favrot, Coldwell Banker TEC REALTORS, 504-615-0813

MANDEVILLE 144 FRENCHMEN

Beautiful Acadian in Mandeville with curb appeal galore. 3BR, 2 BA, front & back porches, double sided firepl, gar & lg yard. $219K. Lynn Larter, 504-577-6802. Real Estate Resource Group, 985-898-5888

2130 OLVEY DR To Advertise in

EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

4 bedrooms, 3 bath with renovaed kitchen. 2300 sq ft. Reduced to $249,000. Ellen Berry, 504-220-0486. Coldwell Banker Tec Realtors, 985845-2001

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455 Phillip Street $ 239,000

Motivated Sellers: Want to know the value of your property? Call today ... No obligation.

(504) 895-1493 (504) 430-8737

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Was gutted to the studs in 2004/05 and underwent a high quality renovation. 3 independent bedrooms, 2 full baths, master with whirlpool plus nice walk-in closet, off street parking in a great close to town location.

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Building on a real estate heritage since 1905

THE FERNANDEZ HOUSE

927 DAUPHINE STREET $1,895,000 An excellent example of an early creole cottage set in a serene compound. Beautiful courtyard with mature plantings in a classic partere garden. Property consists of the main house, 4 income producing apartments and a large bonus space-- office, workshop, gym, etc. Parking for multiple cars. Great location.

Paula Bowler, Owner/Agent • French Quarter Realty o:504-949-5400 • c:504-952-3131 www.frenchquarterrealty.com

817 Amelia Street $ 239,900 Rustic charm on this unique home fashioned from joining two separate cottages. Great flowing floor plan and with a second front door that’s great for working from home. Off street parking.

Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226 Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

CLASSIFIEDS REAL ESTATE 25 SAVOIE DR - $284K

Enjoy EZ commute and Mandeville schools! Brick one story. 2520 ALA. Jean Hunn, 504-232-3570. www. HunnProperties.com. RE/MAX N O Properties 504-864-2329. Ea Ofc Ind Owned & Oper.

90 CARDINAL LANE

Stunning! Large master with firepl, granite, huge kit, 4 BR, 3 car gar, veranda overlooks pool. 5340 sf. Gated community. $950K. Cindy Saia, 504-577-5713; Latter & Blum, ERA powered is independently owned and operated. 985-246-3505

HOME & 5.7 ACRES

22503 Hwy 1088. 4 BR, 3BA, 3414 sf. $425,000.Thea Gegenheimer, 985-892-7491. Coldwell Banker TEC Realtors, Covington, 985-892-1443. Each office independently owned & operated.

MISSISSIPPI HIDE-AWAY-LAKE

Move-in ready. On the Water. 3 BR, 2 BA, split level, boat launch, great backyard deck. $199,000. Call 504887-4191

HOUSE & 1 ACRE

2 or 3 BRMS/1BA. House liveable but needs work. More acreage availe. 3 miles east of Magnolia & 100 miles from NO. $17,000. (601) 248-0888

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES 1929 Hickory Ave., Harahan.

Two-story office building approx. 2,160sf. REDUCED price of $249,000. Can also be for lease $1,900/mo., triple net. Emily Kramer, Corporate Realty 581-5005

OFFICE BUILDING

For Sale. 1966 N Hwy 190 Covington, excellent location in office park. Reception area and plenty of offices. Beau Box Commercial Real Estate Katherine Eley 504-525-1410

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

CORPORATE RENTALS LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT

3 BR, 3 BA Greek Revival. Totally renovated. Completely furnished incl linens. $250/day (10 day minimum) or $3000/mo. 504-202-0381, 738-2492.

New Orleans Area (Metairie) 10 Min to Downtown N.O. 1 & 2 Br Apts, 1 Ba, furn. Qn bed, WiFi, Cbl. Pkg.Util Incl. Lndry Fac. Sec Cameras From $1200/mth. 1 mth min. 2200 Pasadena, Met. 781608-6115..

NEW ORLEANS RIVERFRONT

2 BR, 2.5 BA. Furn, healthclub, pool, parking. All util incl, wifi. Minimum 1 month. $3000/mo. Also 3 BR Penthouse $3800/mo. 781-608-6115.

COMMERCIAL RENTALS

Kenner Warehouse & Office

6420 sq ft warehouse with office 20 x 60 ft fenced yd 625 Maria. Nr airport. 1 yr lease. $1850/mo. 504-421-3135, jaymclellan@cox.net.

GARDEN DISTRICT

1, 2, 3 & 4 ROOM OFFICES STARTING AT $495 INCLUDING UTILITIES

CALL 899-RENT JEFFERSON OLD JEFFERSON

3BR, 1BA house in Jefferson 1,000 sq. ft., washer dryer, stainless steel appl, granite, wood floors, $1,200/ mo. Contact jmcgavern@gmail.com if interested.

1014 HARMONY

OFF MAGAZINE. COMMERCIAL. $1850 PER MONTH. Call (504) 895-6394 or (504) 289-9977.

MARRERO - WESTBANK

2273 Barataria Blvd. 900 sq ft office + half bath. 2 rms, prof’l mgmt. Easy free parking. Desks avail. $800/month. 781-608-6115

KENNER 3BR/2.5BA TOWNHOUSE

O/S prkng, wtr paid, all kit appls, priv yard, conv. location, cable ready, Pets ok. $950/mo. 504-913-4803.

METAIRIE 1 MONTH FREE RENT!

Modern 1 BR Apt. $775/mo incl free wifi & assigned pkg. 1 yr lease. $400 sec dep & rental application. 2325 Pasadena Ave. (nr Clearview & I-10). 504-366-7374 or 781-608-6115.

212 SEVERN

1 bdrm - $585 OR 315 S. Rocheblave, Studio Apt(Mid City) $535/month. Both include water. No pets. 504887-1814

4509 Lefkoe St.

1 BR near Clearview & W. Esplanade. NO PETS / NO SMKS. $650/mo, $650 dep. 1 yr lse. Quiet triplex unit. Washer/dryer negot. Tenant pays water & elec. (504) 583-9813.

A HIDDEN GEM

Near heart of Metairie, dead end street. 1 bdrm $625, wtr pd., Rsvd pkg, 1 car. No smoking/pet 504-7801706 orrislaneapts.com

FOR RENT OR SALE

2511 Metairie Lawn. 2BR/2BA, w/d, pool, security. No pets. Rent $950/ mo. Sale $149,000. Call 427-1087

FURNISHED 1 BRDM CONDO Great location, w/d, gated, nr Causeway & Veterans. $900/mo incls utils. Call 504-957-6456 or 504-838-9253

OLD METAIRIE 1/2 OFF FIRST MONTH OLD METAIRIE SECRET

1 or 2 BR, Sparkling Pool, Bike Path, 12’ x 24’ Liv.Rm, Sep Din, King Master, No Pets, No Sect 8, $699 & $799 . 504-236-5776

UPR DPLX OFF MET RD

Lrg 3 br, 2 ba, furn kit, din rm, wd flrs, c-fans, w/d, c-a/h, off st pkg. 261 B Elmeer. $1250 • 504/554-3844

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

Grt for prof/med student, 2BR/1.5 BA, LR, DR, furn kit, central air, off st prkg, Univ. area. No smkrs/pets. $1250/mo + 1 yr lse. 504-522-7218

60 NERON PLACE

Grt for prof/med student, 1 BR/1 BA LR, DR, Sitting Rm, furn kit, c-heat/ air units, c-fans, wd flrs, w/d avil, off st prkg, balcony, univ area. No smkrs/pets. $1200/mo+1yr lse. 504-460-2852

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 3324 DESOTO

Living room, large bedroom, tile bath, furnished kitchen. Private fenced backyard. No pets. $800/month + deposit. 504-494-0970

Living room, kit & bath, private balcony, gated. Water included & laundry facilities on property. Gated. $850/mo + dep. Call (504) 615-1716.

1208 N. GAYOSO

Upper 2 BR, LR, DR, 1 BA, KIT, wood/ ceramic flrs, high ceilings, cen a/h, w/d hkups, no pets. $1050 mo. 432-7955.

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY 941 ROYAL

2 BR, 1 BA, $1500/Mo. ALSO 1 br loft , 1ba, $1250/mo. All fully furn, pool, w/d onsite, shared balc, elevator, no pets. 504-236-5757, 236-7060. FQRental.com

CORPORATE FURN APTS

Plan Now: Jazzfest, Spring Fiesta, etc. Residential edge Fr Qtr . Historic, new renov. Courts 10 blks. Security Gate. No Pets. 1) Handsome eff: cypress wdwk- firepl Exposed brick, lovely patio. $850. 2) Elegant 2 Bdrm: 3 marble mantles, hi ceil, chandeliers, 30’ liv rm, frt & rear balconies. $1490. 504-861-3141

Oak Tree Apartments

1615 Governor Nicholls St. Close to the Quarter 1 and 2 bd apts avail, off st parking, laundry room on site. 1 bd $725, 2 bd $850, Move-In Special only $300 deposit required, application fee $25 per person. Call David Schneider w/ Latter & Blum Prop Mgmt 866-7000 or 444-6584

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE 6233 CATINA

3/2, furn kit, w/d hkps, ca/h, carport w/storage in back alley. All renov’t. No pets, no smoking. $1200 + $1200 sec. dep. 1 yr lease, refs. 455-2674

LAKEFRONT Lakefront Condo - 1 BR

Stove, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrig, Pool, Gym, Secure Covered Parking. $975.00/mo $950.00/deposit 504-251-4667 Leave contact info. References

MID CITY SMALL OFFICE SPACE

MID CITY - Offstreet parking for one vehicle. Separate entrance. Available Now. Contact Jane, (504) 482-5292

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1 BR, NEAR MAGAZINE ST

Renov, furnished kitchen, new appliances, hardwood floors, cen a/h, w/d. $750 • 930 Jackson Ave. No Pets. Call 504-250-9010

1205 ST CHARLES/$1075

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry. Avail NOW. 985-871-4324, 504-442-0573.

1508 CARONDELET ST2 APTS

Studio, newly remodeled kit & ba, hdwd flrs. $750 mo. Huge 2 BR Apt. Bright, spacious,, high ceilings, hdwd flrs, $1095. Both have Cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles St Car, easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. 1-888-2396566. mballier@yahoo.com

2 BEDROOM APT

2511 S Carrollton Ave. 2/1 Furn kit, cen a/h, off st pkg. $825/mo, wtr pd. Background ck required. 504-4507450.

BLK FROM AUDUBON PARK

1 br w/spacious living area. All major appls incl w/d. Excellent n’hood. 329 Calhoun. $875/mo, incl water, cable. No pets. Call 504-250-6285

FURN CORP. APT

Beautifully furn 1 BR/1.5 BA apt. w/ hdwd flrs, nice kit, lg patio, pool, pkng & laundry. Avail now! Maselli Properties, (504) 891-2420.

In the Heart of Uptown

701 Marengo St, 1br, 1ba upstairs unit w/dining rm, recently renovated, wd flrs, W/D, off st pking, wtr/gas/elec/ cable/wireless incl. $995/mo, $995 dep, pets nego. (225)802-0610

COVINGTON BREWSTER COMMONS

Brand New 1,2 & 3 bedrooms River Chase in Covington, La 985-867-3332 www.brewstercommons.com

MANDEVILLE GRAND PALMS

Right off the Causeway Offering 1,2, & 3 bedrooms 985-626-3849 www.grandpalms.1stlake.com

Mandeville - $1100.00

Completely updated single family home 3BR/2BA. All new wood flrs. Large yard, new paint, just move right in on dead end st. 2 miles to Causeway. Asking $1100/mo. Wayne Mayberry 985-373-0130 w/ RERG for more info.

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